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7 months ago I created my own company here in England called Glamorous Butterfly and I have never looked back since!
I have been wearing wigs from the day I lost all my hair. Some have been good some have been not so good. It's all trial and error when you are a wig wearer and this is why I want to pass my knowledge onto my clients. I was first introduced to Jon Renau wigs about 5 months ago by the lovely Melissa (International Account Manager at Jon Renau). Once I received the wigs I knew straight away that they were the wigs I wanted to wear and I wanted my clients to wear as well.
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One of the most basic needs we have in many emergency situations is clean water. Water to drink, cook with, and clean with. It is hard to imagine life without clean water coming out of our tap, but it really wouldn't take much to disrupt or contaminate a water supply. A quality water filter is one of the more important pieces of survival equipment, and as part of our National Preparedness Month celebration, LPC Survival (aka The Berkey Guy) has generously donated a Royal Berkey water filtration system for me to give to one of my amazing readers.
The Royal Berkey holds an impressive 3.25 gallons of filtered water–perfect for a family or small group. This is a gravity fed filter, which means you can fill the top at night, go to bed, and have plenty of filtered water in the morning without having to manually pump it through the filter (of course it can filter any time of the day–while you're doing something else). It measures 9.5″ in diameter and 23″ high, and isn't that stainless finish on the Berkey filters just so nice to look at (and clean)? Besides being lovely, Berkey also has one of the best filtration systems in the industry.
The Royal Berkey® system removes pathogenic bacteria, cysts and parasites entirely and extracts harmful chemicals such as herbicides, pesticides, VOCs, organic solvents, radon 222 and trihalomethanes. It also reduces nitrates, nitrites and unhealthy minerals such as lead and mercury. This system is so powerful it can remove red food coloring from water without removing the beneficial minerals your body needs. Virtually no other system can duplicate this performance.
For more detailed information on exactly what these filters remove, see this page.
The black Berkey filters are self-sterilizing and they can be cleaned when they the filtration rate begins to slow down. A set of two filters (each system uses two at once) will last for 6,000 gallons! That's approximately 4 years of use (at a rate of 4 gallons/day) from one set of filters.
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I'd love Berkey! But their site also has Tattler lids which would be great.
Pretty sweet giveaway, I entered all the ways so hopefully I win! Fingers crossed!
What an awesome give a way. I've wanted to add a Berkey to our supplies for years now, even more so since we recently found out our well is over 400 feet deep!
I would LOVE to a Berkey Water Filter. In fact I've wanted one for years, but I'm a poor student so I can't afford one yet.
I visited their website, and like the Berkey water bottle. Our water here is nasty tasting, and has to be filtered to be drinkable. The water bottle would be convenient for on the go.
My hubby is dying to get one! This would be awesome to win!
A Berkey would be great! :-) I would also like either the Tattler lids or a survival kit from LPC.
I would love to win a Berkey!!!!
Would love to win this Berkey system and I will also purchase the Berkey travel cup. Thanks for a great giveaway!
My hubby wants one so bad!!! His bday is in October!
Great giveaway! I have wanted a Berkey for a few years.
I would like a grab and go kit.
I would love this! What a great give away!
What a great giveaway! I have been wanting a Berkey for a long time, but it seems to never be in the budget.
the medic bags look really great too!
I'd really like to have a Berkey but also need some of the tattler canning lids.
Tattler lids! I've been wanting to try them (and also a big berkey)!
This is a fantastic giveaway. Thanks for the chance to win!!!
Thanks for the chance to win! I've wanted one of these for a long time!
Great idea for a giveaway!
I am so excited about this! I want a Burkey so bad!!
ive been looking for a good water purifier…and i have landed on a berkey! would be awesome to win!!!
I subscribe to the newsletter and I already like on facebook. I would love to win one of these!
I'd also like a grain mill from their site.
I like the straw one. Maybe even a bladder for my shower.
I'd like to see some video reviews over there.
i would so love one of these!
I'd love to have a collection of tattler lids.
It would be spectacular to win this! Thanks to LPC for offering this as a prize and thanks to FS&S for sponsoring an awesome giveaway!
I love, love, love Heirloom Seeds!
Have been pining over this system, but we can't afford it. Would be awesome to win it! I also really love the seed bank.
I like the berkey pf-2 flouride and arsenic reduction elements.
Need a flouride/chlorine shower filter….
I'd love to get a Sport Berkey…thanks for the contest.
I'd like the Go Berkley Kit too.
Wow! What a generous offer!
I would love a Sport Water Bottle too, so I can have good water when traveling and visiting friends and family.
Great site! Personaly, The food and grain mill would be my wish!
I'd love to win a Berkey! There is lots of cool stuff on their website, but I'd have to say i'd like the heirloom seed bank.
I would love to have one of their grain mills! I've been drooling over one of those for ages.
I would love products bundled for camping with kids!
I've wanted one of these for some time. I also visited the website, and would like the Emergency Seed Bank. Thanks so much!
I love the Berkeley system. I hope I win!
It's great to see an emergency food option that's organic…I just ordered the 40 days/nights pail last week! I've had an AuquRain (similar water filter)for a couple years, but it's starting to fall apart….I wish I had gotten the Berkey.
Filtration system looks great! I love your page on quick tips preparedness! great stuff.
I'd love to get the Berkley water filter system. Their site also has a grain mill, which I'd love to have.
I'd like to see the grain mill.
The seeds would be fantastic also!
We've only be at this for about seven months. What an addition a water filtration system would make. Thanks for doing this giveaway.
What a fabulous item to give and my family and I would put it to good use!
I would like the Herb seed bank, and many other things also.
Any and all in this give away would be awesome!
This is a great giveaway that I hope I win! There is so much stuff on their site that is awesome. That NukeAlert key chain is pretty cool. I also really like their Country Living Grain Mill, the Emergency Seed Bank, and the Organic Food Storage Bucket!
This Berkey is on my wishlist. Its an amazing product!
My husband and I continually argue about our water supply which filtered from a lake through municiple lines. It tastes horrible and I can smell the chlorine in it all the time. What I wouldn't give to drink from the berkley water system. I have being contiplating the purchase of tattler lids as I am paying 4.00/ 12 for throwaways. I love the organic seeds and the fact that they are good for ten years but the grain mill rocks!!!
I love my Berkey Lite and want another to use for bottling and cooking purposes! Love your website and your blog! Keep up the great work.
Awesome giveaway! Would love to win!!!
Definitely the Tattler lids, every year I put off buying them because of the price.
Thanks for the giveaway, I want to win this so bad!
Oops, I forgot to mention that I think their seed banks would be great to have on hand.
I would love to get the Survive2Thrive Preparedness Pail!
I would love to have the country living grain mill! I have been saving up for over a year now for a new grain mill and this one looks like a cadillac!!
We've really been wanting a Berkey for a while now. We need a fluoride and chlorine shower filter, too.
Great giveaway. I would love a Royal Berkey filtration system. In visiting LPC Survival site, I would also be interested in the emergency seed bank.
Tattle Lids would be on my list!
I'd like the water bottle filter.
I would LOVE to win the Berkley water filter i have wanted one forever but finances dont allow me to purchase one.Thanks for the chance to possibly win one .
I would like to have wise deluxe survival kit.
I have a friend with a Berkey who is very happy with it and has mentioned on more than one occassion how I should get one. Thanks for the chance to win it in your giveaway!
I really want the Go Berkey kit.
I guess I gave a "random" blog comment so let me try this again after reading the fine print (Ok, it is BOLD and I should have known better!) :) If I could afford it, I would like a grain mill. I am gluten free and it would nice to grind my own grains right from the whole food.
I' love a set of the rotation shelves! What a great idea!
The Berkey is what's in my sights… we really need to get on water filtration. But the Tattler lids and seed banks are next on our list.
I would so love to have a seed bank! I haven't gotten to that part of my prep yet. I really need that water filter though and I didn't win the last round…….
I would like the Country Living Grain Mill in addition the the Berkey Water Filter and the Sport Water Bottle. I signed up for the newletter, but it does not show up on the little scorecard above.
PP, after you click "do it" for each option, you should be able to click the green button at the bottom of that section and it will record your entry. It's a little confusing sometimes. I'm not sure I love this rafflecopter form, but it sure is easy to use and moderate–much easier than my other forms I used for giveaways in the past.
Wow, a Berkey is a fabulous prize – one anyone would love to own, including me!
I would also like to have the Sport Berkey water bottle.
I'd like the travel cup as well, but all are cool products.
I would like one of the seed banks or the food storage options. GMOs are destroying our food supply.
I want a Berkley Water Filtration System and the fluoride filter too.
What a great give-a-away! I also like the Doom and Bloom mini trauma bag.
I want the Black Berkey elements!
I would love to have their sport Berkey water bottle!
I would really love to win, I've been wanting one of these for a while! Thanks!
Would love to have a Berkey and the Tattler lids.
I also want a country living grain mill!
I had no idea they carried so many things. I'm saving up for a Global Sun Oven!
I SO want one of these!! Thanks for the chance!!
Tattler lids would be nice.
I would enjoy the solar oven!
We have been preparing for emergencies. Starting supplies, canned goods, dehydrated foods, seeds etc. We haven't yet gotten to water storage or purification.
Love your seed storage & canning supplies!
So many great things on the site! I think the sports bottle is my favorite.
I would love to have the grain and seed mill!
Great giveaway! I need one of these!
I would love a seed bank, or a trauma kit.
Would love a Berkey water filter.
It's hard to choose a favorite with so many great options, but I probably would choose the water bottle.
Thank you, it would be great to have one of these!
We have terrible tasting water where we live. I hope using a berkey would help the taste.
I love that the Berkey removes fluoride from water! So important to.avoid as much fluoride as possible to be healthy.
I'd love the Berkey. I'd also love to start getting some of the Wise foods to stock up for that unknown emergency.
I really need one of these, it's the gaping hole in my prepping!
I would love to have one of the lpc trauma kits or the tattler lids.
It's hard to find anything on the LPC site that I don't want! I would especially like the seed banks and tattler canning lids.
I would love a Berkey! They have a lot of great things on the LPC site, other things I'd like are the Volcano grill or Grab & Go Kit. I did sign up for their newsletter.
Love the Trauma Medic Bags! Also the tattler lids! What a great site.
I would love a Country Living grain mill!
I'd love to try some heirloom seeds and learn how to harvest my own seeds.
Thanks for this giveaway, I didn't know a filter with these capabilities existed. Incredible!
I would LOVE the Country Living Grain Mill.
I think the Safe Harvest Seed Bank would be great, and would make a great gift.
Would love some Preparedness Books. Most of the books I have come across with the most comprehensive info is on cd or dvd format, which won't help if we have to bug out or lose electricity! Also, seed banks and food storage are vital too!
I would love the flouride and chlorine shower filter too!
I could just the "poke with a pin" method because I WANT IT ALL. I particularly want a Berkley filtration system large enought to handle large groups.
I have been wanting a berkey filtration system for the last 6 months or so, for emergency needs and everyday use. Another item on their site that I've had my eye on is the country living grain mill. I have a small hand mill that takes an incredible amount of effort so someday I'd like to give this grain mill and try. Thanks for the giveaway!
I'd like a water safety test kit!
Love the heritage seed storage and the tater lids but also have my eye on the 'city water tester' and the books on preparedness…this site is like the Christmas Catalogue for preppers.
I would LOVE to have the grain mill!!
The Grain & Seed Mill. It would be great to have my own.
I didn't see the grain mill. Where is everyone seeing that? That was interesting reading as to why they can't ship to California. Looks like a real bureaucratic mess with lots of lawyers involved.
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The celebration of May as Asian Heritage Month begins this week. Officially recognized in Canada since 2002, this is a time to prayerfully reflect on the contributions of Asian Canadians to Canadian society.
A worship service for Asian Heritage Month that encourages harmonious living.
The year 2019 marks the 100th anniversary of the March 1st Independence Movement of the Korean people, who rose against colonial occupation by Japan in 1919. This worship resource can be used in Sunday service in May, Asian Heritage Month, or anytime in 2019.
A worship service for Asian Heritage Month worship service this year that focuses on the United Churches of Japanese-Canadian background and reminds us that no matter where we go and whatever the future holds, we need not fear, for God goes with us and before us.
A worship service for Asian Heritage Month that uses rice as a symbol of life and harmony.
A worship service focused on Stateless and Trafficked People: Our Co-Pilgrims. A PDF and Word file can be downloaded from this webpage.
A liturgy honouring an intercultural ministry, suitable for Asian Heritage Month.
The CCA issues annual Asia Sunday resources for thematic worship.
A worship service for Asian Heritage Month that awakens the senses and celebrates diversity while seeking harmony.
David Kim-Cragg tells the story of his parents struggling as Christians in Korea before and after the Korean war.
This litany is used at Tsurukawa Church located in the city of Machida, a part of Tokyo Prefecture and of the West Tokyo District of the United Church of Christ in Japan. Translation by Rob Witmer.
This prayer is used at the Mizonokuchi Church in the city of Kawasaki, a part of Kanagawa Prefecture and of the Kanagawa District of the United Church of Christ in Japan. Translation by Rob Witmer.
A unison worship song (includes optional descant) with piano accompaniment for use during Asian Heritage Month. Written by Amy Yea Kyong Lee.
Our gifts for Mission & Service support the international ecumenical movement.
Our gifts to Mission & Service support ministers in overseas positions to preach, teach, and heal.
Through our partner, the Asian Rural Institute, Mission & Service offers an opportunity to learn what it means to lead and serve.
This video celebrates Asian cultures within the United Church today. Asian leaders speak of their experiences in the church.
Our gifts for Mission & Service support intercultural programs.
Our gifts for Mission & Service have supported many overseas personnel.
Our gifts for Mission & Service support programs for migrant workers.
After the experience of war and forced relocation, the author's Japanese Canadian family is welcomed by the United Church.
During May, The United Church of Canada celebrates the contributions of many Asian-Canadian members.
What Is at Stake in Celebrating Asian Heritage Month?
Incense is used in most Abrahamic and non-Abrahamic religions and Indigenous spiritual practices but missionaries banned it as superstition.


Scalable theory have led to many advances. Data flow is constantly growing and systems are expanding. Theoretical principles of red-black trees can help to build a scalable system, where data easily can expand and in the end energy is saved. We propose a novel solution, an organizational platform, an algorithm for the analysis of agents, which we call Mop. With experimental results we show, that Mop is faster than the Apriori or any other algorithm concerning scalable theory. Mop is even faster than the ADFD-growth algorithm, especially when tested in a very low key RAM environment.
© 2018 Christian Schreibaumer, Isabella Stein and Eberhard Dobermann. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.


African Blockhead Tropical Fish Learn all about the African Blockhead's feeding habits and food types, its behaviour, its origins, its natural habitats, is it male or female, breeding advice and information, suitable tank mates, its sizing and growth range, minimum tank size, water PH and more. Use our fish community creator tool to plan your tank set up and ensure that the African Blockhead is the right fish for your aquarium.
Picture By Mike Lavery The African Blockhead is an interesting fish due to its markings and distinctive humped head. The fish forms strong pairs and has plenty of character preffering to stay at the bottom of the aquarium and take residence in caves and other hiding spots. Whilst behaivour varies between individuals, some are territorial and aggressive so only robust, sizeable tankmates are recommended. Otherwise easy to care for and an interesting, robust aquarium fish.
If you have a question about keeping African Blockhead's then please use our African Blockhead help forum. Join 100's of other fish enthusiasts with 1000's of years experience between them caring for and keeping fish like these.
You are in the thinkfish community creator for the African Blockhead fish species, you can learn all about how the tool works in assessing fish tank mate compatibility at the link provided or use the tool tips provided to guide you. Create a test fish community that includes the African Blockhead species and any other types of fish or crustacean you'd like to introduce - You can assess the best companions, tank size suitability, stocking levels based on filter type and volume and possible negative interactions and warnings as you build up your aquarium.
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My blog has sported the Disabled-Access Friendly Logo for quite some time now. But I have been feeling that, apart from that, I haven't been doing much about the problems of disabled people.
My own culture has a short tradition of being friendly to people with disabilities of all kinds, physical or mental.
Watch this video reporting the current situation in Greece.
This blog challenge hopes to stimulate language teachers- whether they are teaching English as a Foreign Language or not – to produce activities and lessons aiming to raise disability awareness in their learners.
We do need to students to create a society which is more disabled friendly, does not hide its disabled children in sheds or basements and allows them to lead a full life where moving around and accessing services, employment or education opportunities are not considered something special, but natural givens.
The blog challenge aims to encourage bloggers to contribute lesson ideas for the foreign language classroom which will be aimed at younger learners and teens and which will promote the concept of a disabled-friendly world where people who have mobility issues can have easy access to services, places of learning, public and private spaces easily and safely.
Raise awareness in your students. The pupils and teens of today may be the decision makers of tomorrow!
To launch this challenge, I have invited Dr.Luke Prodromou to write a blog post which he has agreed to do with great eagerness as he is very much involved in promoting this cause and is already working with Paul Shaw and others who started to group on Facebook.
There are already many teachers who are trying to create a bank of materials to this end.
Your posts will be listed and presented both on this blog as well as on the website. More details about this will be announced later.
Put this Challenge on your front burner!
… and make your students imagine and see how the world would be different and how they can be a part of this too.
My Contribution to a Disabled-Access Friendly World – contributed by Eva Buyuksimkesian – @evab2001 0n Twitter.
Excellent idea, both to touch upon this subject and to think of a blog challenge on the topic of disability. Once more, we can see your sensitivity as a person and educator.
I will be very happy to read Luke's blog post – he is one of the many educators I amdire and love reading. When I was in Greece, I had attended some of his talks and he was great (that goes without saying, of course!).
I have already started thinking how to contribute to this blog challenge – it is so important and educators should touch upon this topic regularly. It needs to be brought up more often – and I think you have succeeded in doing this!
Bravo Marisa. We are very lucky to know you and learn from you.
Thank you for commenting and helping promote this on Twitter, too.
I really look forward to your contribution; your posts are always concerned not with the practical aspects of teaching foreign languages but with many of the larger issues, so I'm not surprised you were the first to respond.
Great stuff and I'll see what I can do to contribute!
I got my start in "educational" technology by a fascination at how so much of existing technology was derived originally to help the disabled – be that be blind, deaf, physical, mental. I wondered why there was a very non acknowledgement of this fact in education and further, why there weren't more people interested in taking what exists to help the disabled and use that for the benefit of learners (especially ELLs). I think communication tablets (used for the severely physically challenged) have huge potential in the language classroom. So many more ideas too….
What I'm saying in a nutshell is that we who use educational technology are indebted to the disabled community. Let's pay it forward.
You are so right about paying it forward! I am guessing that most teachers who use technology so happily don't know how much of it was originally developed for this purpose.
Thank you for taking part in this.
This looks just like the kind of material useful for lesson plans in this blog challenge.
3 cheers for bringing up this important topic!
As a teacher of deaf and hard of hearing students I would like to point that teachers of special ed classes must also discuss this issue with their students. The fact that my students don't hear well deosn't make them sensitive to the issue of disabilities. In fact, since some view deafness as a culture and not a disability, they can have the same prejudices as anyone else!
Thanks for stopping by and sharing your insights from your own teaching context. Was somewhat surprised at your comment, but I guess kids are kids, they all need lessons in empathy and understanding.
Many thanks for contributing to this Blog Challenge, Naomi. Your post was fascinating given your current teaching situation and your student audience.
This is a really interesting area to explore – it can be overlooked in some sectors.
They are links to different parts of a document that explores the issues which differing conditions can have in the classroom, and describes problems that may be faced at different stages of the curriculum.
Though I was thinking more about sight, speech, hearing and sense disabilities rather than mobility. But I had another idea on the walk to work this morning, so stay tuned for something more relevant!
Great write up and lesson ideas, David, thanks very much for taking part in the challenge.
I love your idea of giving the students a taste of what it feels to be disabled. In fact, my own blog post which I plan to contribute to the challenge runs on a very similar theme, but I will keep the rest on hold until it's done!
Basically, it's all about the resources you can find via the Leonard Cheshire Disability websites and how to use some these resources with learners.
Thanks ever so much, David, for not forgetting.
May I encourage you to visit the new website below and see if you could upload or link your material to that in some way?
Thank you all so much for participating in this challenge.
It saddens me that it was not a very popular one.
But I do want to persevere because disability is not something to sweep under the carpet and pretend it's not happening all around us.
Thank you all so much – you are stars!
The Disabled Access Friendly campaign uses EFL to raise awareness about issues affecting people with mobility disability. On behalf of the campaign, I would like to thank Marisa Constantinides for her valuable support. Inviting her blog readers to contribute relevant teaching material to the campaign has produced some stimulating ideas for use in the classroom.
Thank you to all of you who responded to Marisa's invitation by thinking about mobility disability issues and posting a contribution. All these contributions have already been gratefully received by the campaign and will be considered for publication online (we don't actually offer the possibility to link to or upload directly to our site). Thank you in advance to anyone still planning to prepare something but who hasn't got round to it yet – it is never too late!
I would encourage everyone to visit our site http://www.disabled-accessfriendly.com, where you can find free EFL teaching material raising awareness about mobility disability, graded reading texts, information on how to support the Disabled Access Friendly campaign, guidelines on preparing teaching material and other useful information and material.
"The best schools have always done more than just prepare students for tests. They raise awareness of the world in which we live and try to make it a better place." Dr. Luke Prodromou.
I'm incredibly late on this, but suddenly remembered I used two differing accounts from a BBC travel page on whether Japan is or isn't disabled access friendly with a one-to-one student – good for working out the bias in people's writing. The article doesn't seem to be on the site anymore, but I'm sure you could find similar differing views on that or other countries.
Please let me know if you have or know of any more.


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President Obama Doubles Down on the Fight against Superbugs
By Greg Pond, January 30, 2015
Calling antibiotic resistance "one of the most pressing public health issues facing the world today," the President's FY 2016 Budget, announced Tuesday, proposes an historic investment – almost doubling the current budget to an unprecedented $1.2 billion – to combat antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
A meeting of PCAST members with President Obama, 2014
The Budget is Obama's effort to pay for the game plan on antibiotic resistance, announced in September, drawn up by his eminently qualified President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST).
Eric Lander, PhD, founding director of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, and co-chair of PCAST, assessed the state of play at the time: "There is no permanent victory against microbes. If you use antibiotics, whether in human health care or in agriculture, you will over time see resistance. If we fail, if we fall behind in our stewardship, in our creation [of new antibiotics or equivalent therapies], or if we fail to surveil to understand what's going on, it's a very real risk to see a resurgence of what life looked like a century ago when we had bugs we could not treat. It's a terrifying prospect. Now … it doesn't help to do scare tactics around these things but it's just plain scary."
Since then, there have been two notable events.
One, the announcement in December by UK Prime Minister David Cameron's working group on antimicrobial resistance that deaths caused by untreatable infection will overtake deaths caused by cancer by the year 2050.
Two, the report in the New York Times that India's infants are born with bacterial infections that are resistant to most known antibiotics, and more than 58,000 died last year as a result. That if these "resistant infections keep growing … it would be a disaster for not only India but the entire world."
Quoting health officials, the Times reports that the infections are in fact growing rapidly: "Five years ago, we almost never saw these kinds of infections. Now, close to 100 percent of the babies referred to us have multidrug resistant infections. It's scary … And these resistant infections have already begun to migrate elsewhere … reaching just about every country in the world … including … the United States."
Migrate here? The recent Ebola scare in the US is a useful reminder of a bedrock principle of infectious disease: "A disease outbreak anywhere is a disease risk everywhere," says Tom Frieden, MD, Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Of course, there is a crucial difference between Ebola and antibiotic- resistant infections: Ebola is transferred only from the very sick through their body fluids. Most ABR infections, on the other hand, travel through the air and are therefore as easy to catch as the common cold. So imagine then, if Thomas Eric Duncan, the only person to die in the US from Ebola, was left wandering Dallas for 5 days with an undiagnosed case of MRSA, say, as he was with Ebola. What then?
That is just one scenario that would constitute Dr. Landers' "terrifying prospect." And that is why President Obama rightly calls antibiotic resistance one of the most pressing public health issues facing the world today.
The Day the Earth Stood Still
Last week we wrote about the new British report that said drug resistant infections will cause more deaths than cancer by 2050.
We focused on how untreatable infections will fundamentally change how we practice medicine, citing 3 examples: an increased inability to treat cancer; an increase in deaths during child birth – to mother and child; and how surgery will become too dangerous to perform in most cases.
There is, crucially, a whole other aspect to the global rise of drug resistant infection that is stressed in the report. It is summed up in one sentence by the lead author, former Goldman Sachs economist Jim Nill, in the video below, where he says:
"Something like this which is going to affect everybody; you know it could have a devastating impact on international trade and travel and globalization."
A devastating economic and social impact – what does he mean?
Remember the great American Ebola freakout of 2014? The one where, in the US, 1 person died and a half a dozen or so were sick but recovered. Well, what if the number of deaths in the US and Canada was not 1, but, as the report predicts concerning drug resistant infection, over 300,000? What if the number of infected people were several multiples of that? And what if these infections, unlike Ebola, are airborne – meaning you catch them easily, the way you catch the cold or the flu?
Deaths attributable to drug resistant infections every year, by 2050
A partial answer to these questions has been before our eyes for the past 6 months or so with Ebola virus disease in West Africa. As of yesterday, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported more than 8,000 deaths and over 21,000 cases.
As a consequence, life over there has stood comparatively still. Take just 2 brief examples.
The World Bank reported this month that in Liberia "The Ebola virus has tempered our economy. It has hurt our economic investments. Our businesses have been closed down and our country has been abandoned."
And from the Financial Times in October: "Airlines, hotels, tour operators and cruise businesses are resigned to a period of crisis management as investors retreat from their stocks on fears that the Ebola threat will blunt people's willingness to travel."
Now imagine that scenario playing out over here and in Europe and you have the kind of "devastating impact," from the rise of drug resistant infections "which is going to affect everybody," that the conservative, experienced, elite economist Jim Nill is warning us about.
In other words, closed businesses, truncated trade and travel, investment crises, and other globalization effects will be such that the world could virtually end up at a stand still — and don't forget the fear that will accompany it all.
Here's the brief video where Mr. Nill and a few others voice these stark concerns:
Drug-resistant infections are going to cause more deaths than cancer
By Greg Pond, January 6, 2015
Deaths caused by untreatable infection will overtake deaths caused by cancer by the year 2050. So says the first report produced by UK Prime Minister David Cameron's working group on antimicrobial resistance, formed last July. As you look over the graphic keep this warning from the Cameron group in mind: "Despite the staggering size of the figures set out … they do not capture the full picture of what a world without antimicrobials would look like."
The "full picture" of a world without these drugs means we will be forced to stop practicing medicine the way we do now. Stuff we have long taken for granted will be taken from us. The report gives us 3 concrete examples: surgery, cancer treatment, and child birth.
On surgery: "When most surgery is undertaken, patients are given prophylactic antibiotics to reduce the risk of bacterial infections. In a world where antibiotics do not work, this measure would become largely useless and surgery would become far more dangerous."
On cancer treatment: "Modern cancer treatments often suppress patients' immune systems, making them more susceptible to infections. Therefore without effective antibiotics to prevent or treat infection, chemotherapy would become a much riskier proposition."
On childbirth: "Rising drug resistance would also have alarming secondary effects in terms of the safety of childbirth, including caesarean sections, with consequential increases in maternal and infant mortality. The 20th century saw childbirth in high income countries move from being something that carried significant risk to something that we take for granted as being safe: the world witnessed a 50-fold decrease in maternal deaths over the course of that century. Much of this progress could risk being undermined if AMR is allowed to continue rising significantly."
Here's the most important point: You and I have a role to play. We are are not meant to be mere bystanders. Since the problem is driven by the overuse of antibiotics our job is to lessen the demand. How so? Stop asking for antibiotics. That's the message that people such as the Harvard School of Public Health are trying to get across. It's well worth watching their presentation – meant for the public – by clicking on the preceding link.

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Asakusa Hanayashiki (浅草花やしき) is a small amusement park located in Tokyo. Opened in 1853 at the end of the Edo period, Hanayashiki is the oldest theme park in Japan.
You wouldn't guess it from visiting the park, but these days Hanayashiki is operated by a subsidiary of Namco, the video game company that also runs the J-World and Namja Town theme parks in Ikebukuro.
One of Hanayashiki's main attractions is its Ninja school. It's a one hour Ninja training course in which they teach swordplay, escape techniques and martial arts. It's not a serious training course, so you'll need to have a sense of humour about it. You can find more information here.
Above: We thought this ride looked rather tame and quaint with its star-shaped cars, until they started spinning!
Above: For 100 Yen, I had my fortune read and printed on a little paper ticket from a palm reading machine. It's mostly in Japanese, but there is English at the bottom of the graph. Apparently I'm set to make a lot of money, but if I don't, it only cost me 100 Yen for this bit of kitschy fun.
Above: A small theatre sometimes hosts performances. Nothing was on when we visited, and due to the gloomy, drizzly weather, the park was all but abandoned (I felt that this made it extra interesting).
Hanayashiki's mascot is a panda. We saw a few of these large furry pandas which people were using as seats whilst waiting for friends to use the restrooms. Turns out they're actually go-carts known as Panda Cars.
Above: A Panda Car – this is the first time I have ever seen a furry go cart! The term, "only in Japan" comes to mind.
Above: Like any good old fashioned amusement park, there is a ghost train.
Once you wander further into the park, you'll start to find things that you won't find at most other theme parks (along with the furry Panda Cars).
For 300 Yen, you can spend 10 minutes fishing for baby lobsters with a miniature fishing rod. There is no bait, so you have to quickly learn the art of coaxing them to grab two little knots on the end of the rope with their claws so that you can fish them out of the water.
Above: Any baby lobsters that you manage to catch go into a bucket. Locals can take them home as pets in a bag (as you might do with a goldfish). For tourists, prizes such a little packets of retro lollies are given instead, and the lobsters poured back into the pond.
Above: More old-school amusement park games.
Above: Like most theme parks, there is a shooting gallery at Hanayashiki. These guns shoot little corks at the shelves in the back.
Above: If you're successful at the shooting gallery, you'll get a little prize.
Above: If you're not much of a people person, this three-person merry-go-round would be an ideal ride for you. I like to joke that it's still two people too many!
Above: The right poking up above the trees is called Bee Tower. You can't see them in this photo, but the seats are inside little house shaped gondolas.
Above: There is a little red bridge over the pond, called the Bridge of Happiness. You can walk over the bridge, and up into the area above it (beware, though, when I tried this, I ended up racing back out when I saw all the mosquitoes in there!).
When Hanayashiki opened in 1853, it was a flower park. There are still many signs of its heritage around the park which is part of its charm. That, and the almost surreal feeling you get from walking around a small, kitschy, retro amusement park surrounded by high-rise buildings in the middle of modern-day Tokyo.
For the most part, the rides are quite tame compared to many modern theme parks. Then again, considering that some of them – such as one of the roller-coasters – were built in the 1950s, you'd want them to be fairly tame.
Above: This is the main entrance to the park. The building has that more traditional Japanese style, much like the little shops that run along the nearby streets of Asakusa.
Would I recommend Asakusa Hanayashiki?
This amusement park is not so much for thrill-seekers or fans of big-budget modern theme parks as it is for people who are looking for something a little different. It's quite unique, and the kitschy retro feel to it is kind of fun. I didn't mind it, and I was surprised to find that my partner enjoyed it even more than I did. If you're planning a trip to Asakusa Shrine and Sensō-ji Temple, and/or to see the Asahi Flame, then you should consider visiting Hanayashiki. It's just a couple of minutes' walk from Asakusa Shrine, and unlike Tokyo Disneyland, you won't need all day to visit.
Note: Due to the stagnant water in the pond and many pot plants, there are a lot of mosquitoes at Hanayashiki, particularly around the pond area. I recommend dressing appropriately for this and/or wearing repellent.
Last admission is 30 minutes prior to park closure.
Note that the above covers admission to the park only; rides can either be paid for individually, or ride passes can be purchased upon entry to the park.
Here is a map that I've created (thanks to Google Maps) to show you how to get from Asakusa station to Hanayashiki Amusement Park. When you exit Asakusa Station, follow the blue dotted line. When you turn that first corner, you'll enter Nakamise Street, which is a long street (for pedestrians only) lined with little shops aimed at tourists. You'll know when you've entered Nakamise Street because it will be packed full of people including plenty of other tourists. Keep walking the whole way until you reach Sensō-ji Temple, and then turn left. Keep following the blue dotted line until you reach the entrance to Hanayashiki (see my photo above for reference, and also look up every so often to see the rides poking up above the other buildings).
Having explored Japan's oldest amusement part, it seems fitting that the next thing we'll look at is the retro lollies and games at Decks Tokyo Beach in Odaiba.


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Footballer's Wife Steps Up For Variety Club
By Delinda Lombardo on February 11, 2009
The Variety Club's Have A Heart program has received a little help from Coleen Rooney – wife of England football star Wayne Rooney – who's urging the public to buy a Gold Heart pin badge for Valentine's Day to help raise money for sick and disadvantaged youth.
Rooney, whose younger sister suffers from Rett Syndrome, purchased a badge she designed herself.
"The Variety Club is now in its 60th year, and amazingly in that time, the charity has helped almost a million children and young people who are sick, disabled or disadvantaged – and the work goes on!" she said. "That's why I'm really happy to support the Variety Club and be a part of Gold Hearts this year…Every penny raised from Gold Hearts gives vital help and support to so many children and their families."
The £1 badge is on sale from Thursday at retailers WH Smith, Wallis, H Samuel, Ernest Jones, Village Hotels, and Odeon Cinemas or directly from the Variety Club.
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32-bit or 64-bit JVM? How about a Hybrid? Tuesday, Oct 14 2008
jvm 32-bit, 64-bit, Compressed Oops, hotspot, jvm, memory usage	Ismael Juma 7:07 am
Before x86-64 came along, the decision on whether to use 32-bit or 64-bit mode for architectures that supported both was relatively simple: use 64-bit mode if the application requires the larger address space, 32-bit mode otherwise. After all, no point in reducing the amount of data that fits into the processor cache while increasing memory usage and bandwidth if the application doesn't need the extra addressing space.
When it comes to x86-64, however, there's also the fact that the number of named general-purpose registers has doubled from 8 to 16 in 64-bit mode. For CPU intensive apps, this may mean performance at the cost of extra memory usage. On the other hand, for memory intensive apps 32-bit mode might be better in if you manage to fit your application within the address space provided. Wouldn't it be nice if there was a single JVM that would cover the common cases?
It turns out that the HotSpot engineers have been working on doing just that through a feature called Compressed oops. The benefits:
Heaps up to 32GB (instead of the theoretical 4GB in 32-bit that in practice is closer to 3GB)
64-bit mode so we get to use the extra registers
Managed pointers (including Java references) are 32-bit so we don't waste memory or cache space
The main disadvantage is that encoding and decoding is required to translate from/to native addresses. HotSpot tries to avoid these operations as much as possible and they are relatively cheap. The hope is that the extra registers give enough of a boost to offset the extra cost introduced by the encoding/decoding.
Compressed Oops have been included (but disabled by default) in the performance release JDK6u6p (requires you to fill a survey), so I decided to try it in an internal application and compare it with 64-bit mode and 32-bit mode.
The tested application has two phases, a single threaded one followed by a multi-threaded one. Both phases do a large amount of allocation so memory bandwidth is very important. All tests were done on a dual quad-core Xeon 5400 series with 10GB of RAM. I should note that a different JDK version had to be used for 32-bit mode (JDK6u10rc2) because there is no Linux x86 build of JDK6u6p. I chose the largest heap size that would allow the 32-bit JVM to run the benchmark to completion without crashing.
I started by running the application with a smaller dataset:
JDK6u10rc2 32-bit
Single-threaded phase: 6298ms
Multi-threaded phase (8 threads on 8 cores): 17043ms
Used Heap after full GC: 430MB
JVM Args: -XX:MaxPermSize=256m -Xms3328m -Xmx3328m -server -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC
JDK6u6p 64-bit with Compressed Oops
Single-threaded phase: 6345
Multi-threaded phase (8 threads on 8 cores): 16348
JVM Args: -XX:MaxPermSize=256m -Xms3328m -Xmx3328m -server -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -XX:+UseCompressedOops
The performance numbers are similar and the memory usage of the 64-bit JVM with Compressed Oops is 16% larger.
JDK6u6p 64-bit
The performance is again similar, but the memory usage of the 64-bit JVM is much higher, over 60% higher than the 32-bit JVM one.
Let's try the larger dataset now:
Single-threaded phase: 14188ms
Used Heap after full GC: 1.25GB
JDK6u6p 64-bit with CompressedOops
Single-threaded phase: 13742
The performance difference and memory overhead are the same as with the smaller dataset. The benefit of Compressed Oops here is that we still have plenty of headroom while the 32-bit JVM is getting closer to its limits. This may not be apparent from the heap size after a full GC, but during the multi-threaded phase the peak memory usage is quite a bit larger and the fact that the allocation rate is high does not help. This becomes more obvious when we look at the results for the 64-bit JVM.
Multi-threaded phase (8 threads on 8 cores): 104992
Used Heap after full GC: 2GB
I had to increase the Xms/Xmx to 4224m for the application to run to completion. Even so, the performance of the multi-threaded phase took a substantial performance hit when compared to the other two JVM configurations. All in all, the 64-bit JVM without compressed oops does not do well here.
In conclusion, it seems that compressed oops is a feature with a lot of promise and it allows the 64-bit JVM to be competitive even in cases that favour the 32-bit JVM. It might be interesting to test applications with different characteristics to compare the results. It's also worth mentioning that since this is a new feature, it's possible that performance will improve further before it's integrated into the normal JDK releases. As it is though, it already hits a sweet spot and if it weren't for the potential for instability, I would be ready to ditch my 32-bit JVM.
Update: The early access release of JDK 6 Update 14 also contains this feature.
Update 2: This feature is enabled by default since JDK 6 Update 23.


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За разлику од кријумчарења и класичне проституције, трговину белим робљем одликује недостатак добровољности. Трговина белим робљем вишеструко крши конвенције Уједињених нација о људским правима, као и законодавства земаља порекла, транзита и дестинације жртве. У новије време, развијају се посебни национални координациони тимови, специјализоване НВО и услуге прихвата и третмана жртава трафикинга, са циљем успешне репатријације и реинтеграције у матично друштво.

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Recently, web components have been gaining and increasing amount of momentum for web app development. It is easy to see why as the inclusion of web components in a project allow the building of faster, smaller, and smarter HTML. If this is the kind of code you would like to build into your project then web components will help you achieve this.
The simplest explanation for a web component is that it is a way to create and use customized and modular comments in web applications. Importing web components quickly adds functionality by making use of a larger library of prefabricated HTML elements. This is done in a way that seamlessly blends with HTML. A custom web component can be used like any other HTML tag, likeGitHub's <relative-time> that allows for the display of commit timings.
The concept of libraries providing packaged widgets is not new. jQuery and Bootstrap are great examples that have been around for over a decade. However, these examples have only succeeded because they fit in well with native HTML, CSS, and JS. Otherwise, they do not lend themselves well to modular adaptions.
The HTML5 Specification had a new set of features which made this modular approach a viable option. Web components allow for fully functional HTML elements. The success of what is available today has depended greatly on adaption – Bootstrap and jQuery show the development community were open to widespread use.
The concept of web components for use in web application development takes inspiration from the wider realms of software development. Component driven development can be seen in concepts such as encapsulation, separation of concerns, and loose coupling. Web components attempt to bring to the web these same benefits to developers.
A key benefit to this approach has always been less code: a benefit that generally translates into an easier to maintain application and taking less time to bug test and upgrade. This is all thanks to a code structure that is easier to understand and navigate through. Fewer conflicts can be expected with web components too as proper scoping is taken advantage of in situations when multiple libraries are used.
Web Components are compromised by four main W3C standards. these standards are HTML Templates, HTML Imports, Shadow DOM, and custom elements. Each of these standards has a part to play in the new world Web Components but not all are as readily supported by the major browsers.
HTML templates are the most widely used and supported of the web components and a fairly easy concept to grasp. Templating allows something to be recreated as required over and over again. It's minimum effort with maximum output.
Using templating is as simple as wrapping the HTML up in <template> tags. A copy of this is then created and added to the main document DOM. What is wrapped up inside the <template> tag is not rendered.
This standard is frequently used in conjunction with templating. While templating allows of the fetching of resources and scripts which may not be needed right that moment, importing solves this problem by enabling it to be activated only when it is needed.
Additionally, HTML Imports are a straightforward way to load HTML across pages. Despite the wide support of templating, HTML imports are frustratingly limited in their support so making the best use is not always possible.
I find this the most exciting of all since HTML in its vanilla form is limited. Custom elements allow for the creation of completely new HTML tags or even tweak what is already available.
They can be created for any purpose, and the tag will be useable throughout the document. The idea is not new, but the delivery of the implementation reduces the limitations seen in earlier attempts to bring this technology to developers. Unfortunately, this is another area where support is lacking.
If you're looking to get started with components using these standards or if you're looking to make use of existing components libraries in your own projects, then I recommend webcomponents.org.
The popularity of web components comes down to browser support. Browser support generally is improving as users are updating more frequently. However, not all browsers fully support the use of components, but they are seeing great support from the major players.
As a rule, templates are generally well-implemented but HTML Imports, Shadow DOM, and Custom Elements lack the support needed for widespread use. Google Chrome has led the way with support followed by Opera browser that has kept up to date.
There is great potential for web components, and while they have their own challenges, with the ready adoption of Google Chrome, I see support growing with developer demand. After all, what developer doesn't want to make use of a tool that will make their lives as easier?


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Above are examples of poems about quetzal. This list of poems is composed of the works of modern international poet members of PoetrySoup. Read short, long, best, famous, and modern examples of quetzal poetry. This list of works is an excellent resource for examples of these types of poems.
in hills and canyons and in ancient tombs.
echoes a sound, much like a chirping bird.
their spirits spoke in echoes, they believed.
their hands and hear the echo of a chirp.
upon the lengthy set of stairs above.
in echo-voice of their most sacred bird.
Unknown if this is nature's sound-wave play.
Written in Blank Verse which is Iambic Pentameter with no set rhyme scheme but has 10 syllables and 5 feet per line.


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the use of laryngeal mask airway during transesophageal
The Use of the Laryngeal Mask Airway in Children with
Dec 01 2001· The laryngeal mask airway may be superior to tracheal intubation or use of a face mask during anaesthesia management in severe subglottic stenosis. Ventilation may be improved and the use of a laryngeal mask airway can reduce or eliminate some of the problems associated with the other methods of airway management such as further damage to
Background: Transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) in the cardiac lab is usually performed in pediatric patients under general anesthesia with an endotracheal intubation (ET). This study was performed to investigate the safety and efficacy of using the laryngeal mask airway (LMA) as an alternative to ET to maintain pediatric airway during the general anesthesia for TEE.
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The Laryngeal Mask Airway: Expanding Use Beyond Routine
Table 2. Summary of Non-Standard Uses of the Laryngeal Mask Airway (LMA) LMA Placement and Size Selection. The LMA may be easily placed following induction of general anesthesia with or without a muscle relaxant. 10 In a study by Hemmerling et al. the success rate of first attempt insertion was 92% with the use of muscle relaxant versus 89% without muscle relaxant. 10 If …
Laryngeal Mask Airway | Anesthesia Key
Apr 12 2017· Figure 22-8 Use of the laryngeal mask airway (LMA) during transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) at the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston. The LMA is inserted after TEE placement.
Evaluation of Flexible Laryngeal Mask Airway ® in Tongue
Results: The use of flexible laryngeal mask airway instead of endotracheal tube significantly decreased the extubation time to 7.47 ± 2.74 min (P < 0.0001) and the recovery time to 52.67 ± 11.16 min (P = 0.001) while no significant differences were observed in the intubation time (P = 0.874) surgical time (P = 0.411) and total anesthesia
THE USE OF LARYNGEAL MASK AIRWAY
vent il ati on of the lun gs by bag and mask was ina dequate and tracheal intubation proved impossible. Other case reports have shown the successful use of the LMA in resuscitation of newborns with congenital airway abn ormality und er t he ina deq uat e ven tilation and difficult intubation scenario56789. Vincenzo Z Alphose et al.
The Laryngeal Mask Airway (LMA) | SpringerLink
Salvi L Pepi M. Pressure-assisted breathing through a laryngeal mask airway during transesophageal echocardiography. Anesth Analg. 1999;89:1585. Google Scholar. 98. Hamaguchi S et al. Use of a fiberscope and closed-circuit television for …
Can Transesophageal Echocardiography Be Performed …
Abstract. Objective: To investigate the feasibility and safety of using a laryngeal mask airway (LMA) compared with a cuffed oral endotracheal tube (COETT) for atrial fibrillation (AF) ablation with transesophageal echocardiography (TEE). Design: Prospective cohort study. Setting: A single-center inner-city hospital.
Impossible Insertion of the Laryngeal Mask Airway and
THE laryngeal mask airway (LMA) has been used widely for airway management during general anesthesia in the last decade. There have been reports in which the LMA successfully secured the airway as an alternative and as an aid to anticipated difficult tracheal intubation in patients with ankylosing spondylosis of the cervical spine or atlantoocc This controversy …
SAFETY OF LARYNGEAL MASK AIRWAY USE WITH GENERAL
Oct 01 2020· PURPOSE: General anesthesia can be used with more advanced bronchoscopy procedures to help with patient tolerance and outcomes for procedures that may be more prolonged . The use of endotracheal tubes prevents complete evaluation of the trachea and upper airway for some procedures while a laryngeal mask airway (LMA) can help provide a …
The use of laryngeal mask airway during transesophageal echocardiography in pediatric patients By Mohammed A Shafi Ahmed Abdulmohsin A Al-Ghamdi Hany A Mowafi Roshdy R Al-Metwalli Wesam F Mousa and Amer A Lardhi
Laryngeal Mask Airway Use in Morbidly Obese Patients
The use of laryngeal mask airways with morbidly obese patients remains controversial. A recent legal case involving the use of a laryngeal mask airway with a morbidly obese patient who aspirated during the anes-thetic found the anesthesia providers negligent. We sought evidence examining the use of laryngeal mask
Transesophageal Doppler Probe and Proseal Laryngeal Mask
To the Editor: Several studies have shown that the pediatric Proseal laryngeal mask airway (PLMA) has a higher oropharyngeal leak pressure compared with the classic LMA and may be used as an alternative to a tracheal tube. 1–5 We studied the concurrent use of both PLMA and esophageal Doppler probe in 102 pediatric patients undergoing genitourinary and abdominal …
US20140007868A1 Endoscopic and Transesophageal
An oropharyngeal airway for use during diagnostic and surgical procedures comprising a body with a proximal and a distal end. The distal end is sized for insertion through a protective bite block disposed in a patient''s mouth. Both sides of the distal end are tapered to a curved distal edge. A flange is transversely opposed at the proximal end preventing the proximal end from …
EVALUATION OF A LARYNGEAL MASK AIRWAY AS AN …
Apr 01 2021· In this context supraglottic airway devices such as the human laryngeal mask airway (LMA) may provide an easier and faster way of establishing a patent airway in comparison to the placement of an ET tube. 3 The LMA originally developed for human use as an alternative to the ET tube for maintaining airway patency during general anesthesia
How To Insert a Laryngeal Mask Airway Critical Care
The laryngeal mask airway (LMA) is a commonly used supraglottic airway. The LMA is an orally introduced supraglottic airway tube with a cuffed mask at one end that forms a low-pressure seal around the laryngeal inlet. LMA ventilation has several advantages over other methods.
Severe Dysphonia after the Use of a Laryngeal Mask Airway
To the Editor:-We read the article by Cros et al. [] regarding the case reports of recurrent laryngeal nerve palsy and arytenoid dislocation after the use of a laryngeal mask airway (LMA) and would like to make the following observations.The authors state that in cases 1 and 2 a misplacement of the LMA could be excluded because there was no obstruction to the …
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It all starts with a thought and the evolution of that idea.
A few times a year the Galoshes change their dramatic play areas. This is an important decision made by the classroom community. The children and teachers brainstorm and throw out various ideas on what they would like to experience.
The children vote and agree a castle is what they would like in the dramatic play area. The teachers work with the children on the design and what will go into the castle. There are several art projects that will eventually become the castle itself.
The class hops into a "time machine" and learn about medieval times. They learn about kings, queens, princes, princesses, and knights. The kids learn about what they wore, what tools they used, archery, jousting, sword fighting, coats of arms and how they traveled etc. Parents bring in books about various middle ages subjects. A wonderful book called The Princess Knight is brought to the classroom. The class decides they want to do a play based on the book. The children adapt a play from the book. The teachers use the kids' words and ideas to write the play. The children also design the tickets to be given at the performance and the backdrops. Parents help with the costumes. There are rehearsals, dress rehearsals, and eventually a play. Parents, Grandparents, Aunts, Uncles and friends attend The Princess Knight play at BCC High School. The children are proud of their performance and have learned what you can do with just an idea!


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Q: python сгенерировать 5-ти секундное mp4 видео из одного фото как при помощи python сгенерировать из одного фото (jpg) видео (mp4) длиной 5 секунд?
Я пробовал movepy и FFmpeg, но на выходе получается серое видео
from moviepy.editor import *
files = ['1.jpg', '1.jpg']
clip = ImageSequenceClip(files, fps = 4)
clip.write_videofile("video.mp4", fps = 24)

A: Попробуйте сделать вот так:
from moviepy.editor import *

def clip_from_image(image, name_clip, s_duration):
    """
    :param image: путь к изображению
    :param name_clip: имя результирующего видео mp4
    :param s_duration: время длительности клипа в секундах
    :return: выход из функции
    """
    try:
        dur = float(s_duration)
    except ValueError:
        print('[-] Неверное значение длительности кадра')
        return

    print('[+] Создание видео')
    clips = ImageClip(image).set_duration(dur)
    clips.write_videofile(f'{name_clip}.mp4', fps=25)
    return

clip_from_image(image='test.jpg', name_clip='123', s_duration=5)

А так можно с помощью OpenCV:
import cv2
import numpy as np
from PIL import Image

def img_to_mp4(path_img: str, vid_name: str, dur: int):
    """
    :param path_img: путь к изображению
    :param vid_name: имя результирующего видео mp4
    :param dur: время длительности клипа в секундах
    """
    img = Image.open(path_img)

    f_rate = 30.0
    fourcc = cv2.VideoWriter_fourcc(*'mp4v')
    out_scr = cv2.VideoWriter(f"{vid_name}.mp4", fourcc, f_rate, (img.width, img.height))

    for im in range(0, dur*int(f_rate)):
        frame = np.array(img)
        frame = cv2.cvtColor(frame, cv2.COLOR_BGR2RGB)
        out_scr.write(frame)

img_to_mp4(path_img='X2Q6dQuRLw4.jpg', vid_name='123', dur=5)

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Take a lap around the Loket circuit for the 2017 MXGP of the Czech Republic with Thomas Kjer Olsen....while the Rockstar Husqvarna rider talks a bit about the track and his breakout season.
Check out the racing the racing highlights from round 13 of the FIM Motocross World Championship in Loket, Czech Republic.
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First GoPro lap in Loket with Nathan Watson, MXGP of Czech Republic 2015.
Check out the highlights from the 14th round of the Motocross World Championship from the Czech Republic.
Watch the highlights of qualifying from the MX2 class in the Czech Republic.
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Shootin' the Shit
Pink Tank Records is a newer DIY label located in The Netherlands who has begun releasing a stream of quality, limited vinyl albums from up and coming bands such as Libido Fuzz, Babylon Sweethearts and Bone Man. This time around, I get a shot at the sophomore full-length outing by German heavy psych slingers, Bone Man, entitled Plastic Wasteland.
This album has a distinctive Graveyard flavor to it, and most fans of stoner rock will appreciate that. But, while the flavor is familiar, the guitar and drumming really start separating this album apart about the time track four, Dry Habit, kicks in. The vocals are deep and droning- almost melancholy, and they serve as a fitting icing atop the masterful guitar and drum work. And, believe me, the guitar and drums on this album are hauntingly impressive.
The back 4 tracks are all Mayan gold, honestly. Graveyards gave me visions of a young John Densmore and Robby Krieger, sans the Manzarek organ, jamming their asses off at the Hollywood Bowl and the tracks, Flesh Land and Undergrowth simply kick that retro fueled jam down into a heavy, blistering fire of crackling guitar and swamp gas groove. The album builds nicely throughout and finishes amazingly strong like a fine, agave tequila. It's one that, I think, deserves a few spins and a place in your valued music collections. The release is slated for XXX in a limited version of 100 on white 100 on clear (tour only) and 350 black vinyl.
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@Oldfatbroke is a Nashville based vinyl ambassador that can usually be found sifting through mountains of used vinyl or leaning on the stage at any of a hundred raucous venues. You can find his stoner/doom/americana musings at Riding Easy Records, Planet Doom, The Ripple Effect Blog, or follow him on Instagram, Facebook or Twitter.


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Migration in the Western Balkans
Nermin Oruc
Published November 20, 2019 by Routledge
Migration in the Western Balkans: What do we know?
Book Description Table of Contents Editor(s) Instructor Resources Support Material
Migration in the Western Balkans rectifies the under-investigation by migration scholars of the Western Balkans region, by bringing together recent research at a time when migration is a hot topic for the future of Europe.
The book explores issues such as the complex geopolitics of the region, the relationship between migration and development, diasporas, and refugees and humanitarianism. Expert contributors present new research on economic migration, forced migration, diaspora formation and return migration at a time when migration is of crucial relevance for the future of Europe. The chapters shed new light on the multiple migration dynamics of a region which has had a troubled past yet stands on the threshold of EU membership.
As a theatre of multiple migration processes Migration in the Western Balkans reveals new information on the region, and will be of great interest to scholars of migration, the Balkans and geopolitics. The chapters were originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies.
1. Migration in the Western Balkans – Trends and Challenges
Russell King and Nermin Oruc
2. From Source to Corridor: Changing Geopolitical Narratives about Migration and EU-Western Balkans Relations
Ferruccio Pastore
3. Balkans and Baltics: On Migration as a Factor of Regional Peripheralization
Aija Lulle
4. Refugees at the Gates of the EU: Civic Initiatives and Grassroots Responses to the Refugee Crisis along the Western Balkans Route
Chiara Milan
5. The Floating Pumpkin Syndrome: Forced Migration, Humanitarian Aid, and the Culture of Learned Helplessness
Nina Bosankic, Enisa Mešic and Bojan Šošic
6. The Serbian Diaspora's Political Views: A Study on the 2017 Serbian Presidential Election
Tena Prelec
7. The Effects of Remittances on Education in a Post-Conflict Society: Evidence from Bosnia-Herzegovina
Nermin Oruc, Ian Jackson and Geoffrey Pugh
8. The Greek Debt Crisis and Albanian Return Migration
Kalie Kerpaci and Martin Kuka
Russell King is Professor of Geography at the University of Sussex and Visiting Professor in Migration Studies at Malmö University. He is President of the Western Balkans Migration Network, WB-MIGNET.
Nermin Oruc is Director of the Centre for Development Evaluation and Social Science Research (CDESS), Sarajevo, and Visiting Atlantic Fellow at the International Inequalities Network, London School of Economics and Political Science. He is chair of WB-MIGNET.
Central Asian, Russian & Eastern European Studies
Development Geography
Population Geography


MUMBAI: The state government has run over significant anomalies in protection claims made by agriculturists in 2015. The vast majority of these peculiarities were accounted for from Marathwada, which was the most noticeably bad influenced area in the 26 locale hit by dry spell that year. The state government had dispensed a record Rs 4,205 crore as protection.
The state agribusiness office is researching all protection claims made by ranchers for the kharif and rabi seasons after it became visible that in Beed region alone, Rs 58 crore protection cash that was authorized for agriculturists was guaranteed wrongfully and banks needed to invert that add up to the state exchequer.
As indicated by a write about the episode, more than 15,000 agriculturists from the region had deceitfully asserted protection for a bigger territory of development, or for premium paid for yields they hadn't sowed. The scene was researched by Beed gatherer Naval Kishore Ram when it developed that the developed land appeared as guaranteed was considerably higher than the region accessible for development in the area.
At times, the rancher would get a product sowing endorsement from the land income officer. A couple days after the fact, he would backpedal to the officer saying he had altered his opinion and would sow another harvest and subsequently would require another authentication. The agriculturist would take these two authentications (the prior one wasn't scratched off) to two distinct banks and pay the protection premium for both the yields, yet sow just a single product. In these cases, protection cases were conceded for both the products.


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Q: AutoComplete using JQuery in GridView AutoComplete using JQuery in GridView. I want to autocomplete functionality in gridview which is required for bulk update

A: You can use something like:
jQuery("*[@id$=theGridId] input[@id$=textBoxId]").autocomplete(list)

to attach the jquery autocomplete to all textboxes (input html controls) with the id  textBoxId inside your grid.
The elem[@id$=someID] means all tags named 'elem' with the id atribute ending in 'someID'.
This is required because asp.net will change the client id of tags so if you use something like:
<asp:TextBox id="myTextBox" />

the page will contain something like:
<input type="textbox" id="ctl00_otherName_myTextBox" />

You need to be aware that using the grid view for bulk update has some serious limitations; most likely the page size will just be too big if you add a couple of validations to the grid input...