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The perfect gift for Christmas, this celebration of grandparents is a follow-up to bestsellers Mums and Dads
Grandparents. – what would we do without them? They come in all shapes and sizes but with their wise words and kind ways they can be a source of inspiration and encouragement like no other.
Here Britain's national treasures share their personal anecdotes about grandparents. Some recollect fond childhood memories of their Granny or Granddad, while others share with us their own experiences of what it is like to be a grandparent.
Both hugely entertaining and heart warming, this wonderful celebration is the perfect gift for a much-loved grandparent.
Pub date: 15 October 2009
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Sarah Brown, wife of Gordon Brown, is President of the charity PiggyBankKids, which she founded in 2002. PiggyBankKids has launched the Jennifer Brown Research Fund to seek solutions to pregnancy difficulties and help save newborn lives, and supports a wide range of charitable projects which create opportunities for children and young people. Sarah and Gordon live in Fife and London with their sons.
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So far I've read 36 of the poems and have run into only one that was, for me, a clunker. For any anthology, that's a stupendous battering average.
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Coronavirus: Vaccine researchers looking for trial volunteers
Professor Robin Shattock, who heads Imperial College London's vaccine team, said volunteers are 'critically important' to the research.
By Sara Rigby, PA Science
Published: 17th June, 2020 at 14:12
A scientist heading the human trials for a possible COVID-19 vaccine has said volunteers are "critically important" to their research.
Speaking on the BBC's Radio4 programme, Professor Robin Shattock, who heads Imperial College London's vaccine team, said researchers are looking for more healthy participants to take part in their clinical trials.
Prof Shattock, who is head of mucosal infection and immunity at Imperial, said: "We are starting with a very few number of volunteers so we don't want people to be disappointed if they are not immediately engaged in clinical trial. But we are looking for those volunteers and they are critically important."
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The first phase of the clinical trials is set to begin this week with 300 people, and a further trial involving involving 6,000 people is planned for October. If these prove successful, Imperial hopes the coronavirus vaccine could be distributed in the UK and abroad early next year.
Their RNA vaccine works by delivering genetic instructions to muscle cells to make the "spike" protein on the surface of coronavirus. The presence of this protein provokes an immune response, offering protection against COVID-19.
Prof Shattock told Radio 4: "The first part of the clinical development is to check that it is really safe because it is going to be used in the general population."
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He added that checks would also be made to ensure that the vaccine candidate "induces the right kind of immune response that we would predict would be protective".
Prof Shattock continued: "We will move into large-scale efficacy trials in October. Then it's a numbers game. It depends on how many infections are ongoing in the community.
"If we see a lot of infection, we may get a result fairly quickly. If there are very few infections, obviously it will take a lot longer to get enough data to be able to prove that the vaccine works or not."
Healthy people can sign up to volunteer for the Imperial College trial at imperial.crf.nihr.ac.uk.
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The only way the press eventually ascertained his whereabouts was after a Bloomberg reporter, who happened to be dining at the 21 Club, tweeted a photo of Trump and some of his transition team in the Midtown steakhouse.
Trump spokeswoman Hope Hicks later told NBC News. "He is having dinner with his family."
Wife Melania, daughter Ivanka Trump, her husband Jared Kushner, sons Donald Jr. and Eric Trump were all at the restaurant.
This came after Hicks had told his press pool the day had ended, and the only indication of his departure was an unannounced motorcade. Trump's communications team did not respond to emails from the pooler requesting guidance.
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And until recently, Trump's staff weren't releasing readouts of his calls with foreign leaders, leaving the press — and the public — to receive their guidance from foreign governments.


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Q: bindService from other app but same userid/process This is about memory-based IPC (like to LocalService example) but for two apps running in the same process:
I have two apps (App1, App2) and a shared project (Shared) which defines some interfaces and abstract classes for both apps:
Shared (regular Java project, references android.jar)
    - abstract myAbstractService
    - Binder myBinder
App1 (Android Project, references Shared)
    - MainActivity
App2 (Android Project, references Shared)
    - myService extends myAbstractService

Both apps run within the same process (my.process, defined in <application>),
App2 publishes com.www.app2.myService:
<-- Both Apps run in the same process -->
<manifest <!-- *snip* --> android:sharedUserId="my.shareduser">
    <!--  ... -->
    <application <!-- *snip* --> android:process="my.process">
        <-- App2 exports the service -->
        <service android:name="com.www.app2.myService" android:exported="true">
            <intent-filter>
                <action android:name="com.www.app2.myService" />
            </intent-filter>
       </service>

This is the abstract myAbstractService (myService doesn't add anything new yet):
abstract public class GameClient extends Service
{
    private static final String LOGTAG = "GameClient";

    private myBinder binder = new myBinder();

    public IBinder onBind(Intent intent)
    {
        Log.d(LOGTAG, "onBind()");

        return this.binder;
    }

    public class myBinder extends Binder
    {
        public void sendMessage()
        {
            Log.d(LOGTAG, "sendMessage()");
        }
    }
 }

When I try to bind to myService (App2) from my MainActivity (App1):
public void onServiceConnected(ComponentName name, IBinder service)
{
    Log.d("MS", service.getClass().toString());
    main.this.t = (myBinder) service; // Exception in this line of course
}

I get an exception:

DEBUG/MS(5464): class com.www.shared.myBinder
  ERROR/AndroidRuntime(5464): java.lang.ClassCastException: com.www.shared.myBinder

As both apps run in the same process, memory-coupled communication should work (at least I thought). I really don't want to use the message-based or broadcast-based communication as I'll send quite some messages around.
I suspect this exception happens due two different classloaders being used for the same class? Is this approach simply not possible/wrong or am I missing something?
Update:
My aim is to write a very modular application, where App1 is used as a delegating and starting application of other modules (apps). As I don't want to ship App1 with every app depending on it, I made it it's own app.
Let's say I have a third app (App3, Android project). App2 & App3 are both started by App1 (responsible for setting up connections while App2 & App3 provide different application logic (but having the same interface).
On a second thought I think this could be solved with an android library as well (App1 & Shared merged as the library with App2 and App3 starting an Activity of this library and waiting for the result)? However the data is not parcelable (network connections) and I have no idea how this library could be distributed independently over the android market (like App2 and App3 are published there but ask for the library to be installed too). Would this resolve that problem at all?

A: You are correct, you receive this exception because there are two class loaders involved.
I've added next two lines of code:
@Override
public void onServiceConnected(ComponentName name, IBinder service)
{
    ...
    Log.e(TAG, "Expected class loader: "+myBinder.class.getClass().getClassLoader());
    Log.e(TAG, "Class loader: "+service.getClass().getClassLoader());
    ...
}

And received these logs:
Expected class loader: java.lang.BootClassLoader@4001bdb0
Class loader: dalvik.system.PathClassLoader[/data/app/com.inazaruk.shared.service-2.apk]

From logs its clear that another class loader was used. This actually makes sense, as you could've installed App1 application one week later with different version of myBinder class (or any other class that is passed via myBinder interface directly or indirectly).

Updated:
You should stick with Android Libraries in your scenario. Note that Android Libraries are directly embedded in the application that references them. They are not distributed separately. Here is my post explaining how Android Libraries are different from simple jars, and other relevant nuances.
You still have a high degree of modularity in Android Library, as final Android Application only includes modules it uses. But this is compile-time modularity, not runtime modularity.
There are some issues with Android Libraries though:

*

*You need to copy all components' declarations in library's AndroidManifest.xml into Android Application's AndroidManifest.xml.

*Currently libraries do not support custom xml attributes (see my posts here and here).

*Currently libraries do not support assets (see my post here).

The #1 is planned to be fixed soon (according to Build Support roadmap ). The #2 and #3 might get fixed in next release of SDK platform tools.

A: Tried this myself a while back: similar questions were previously asked at ClassCastException when binding to local service from another Activity and https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3162538/2-apks-running-in-1-process-sharing-code-and-data. The end result is pretty much the same: sharing process is NOT the same as sharing code because of the nature of the class loader hierarchy (similar to how J2EE class loaders are split).
The classes are coming from different DEX files so technically speaking the classes are different, even if the interfaces are the same. I don't believe what you want to do is possible: I see AIDL in your future.

A: Do you have a class called "myBinder" in the namespace "com.www.shared"? Because that is what it is looking for and saying isn't there. I see you have the class but what namespace is it in?

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Election Commission asks revenue department to explain response to its advisory on maintaining neutrality.
EC's field officers 'may also, if they deem fit, pass on the information confidentially' to I-T department for 'taking further necessary action'.
NEW DELHI: The Election Commission of India is learnt to have conveyed its displeasure to CBDT chairman PC Mody and revenue secretary AB Pandey that the poll panel machinery was not informed about the recently conducted income tax raids in good time.
Further, it has also expressed disappointment over the revenue department's official response to the poll panel's advisory to enforcement agencies on maintaining neutrality.
The revenue department's response to the EC advisory on Monday is learnt to have raised eyebrows because its tone and tenor suggests it did not seem to adequately acknowledge the seriousness of the concerns flagged by a constitutional body like the EC.
ET has learnt that the commission has asked the revenue department to explain a paragraph in its letter which had "urged" the EC to "advise" its own officials "to take immediate enforcement action", where necessary.
As first reported by ET in its edition dated April 9, the poll panel had called the two officials on Tuesday to discuss the recent I-T raids and its advisory urging the tax authorities to act with neutrality.
"Since it is the responsibility of the Election Commission as also of the revenue agencies to check and eventually eliminate the use of unaccounted money in election, we would also like to urge EC to advise its field officers involved in the enforcement of the model code of conduct to take immediate enforcement action at their end under the election and other appropriate laws, if they come across any specific information about use of illicit money in electoral process," the revenue department had said.
It added that EC's field officers 'may also, if they deem fit, pass on the information confidentially' to I-T department for 'taking further necessary action'.
The EC advisory, incidentally, had asked enforcement agencies to keep the chief electoral officers (CEOs) informed of any action against suspected use of illicit money in general election.
The chief electoral officer of Madhya Pradesh had told EC in his report that he was apprised of the Bhopal and Indore raids several hours after they were conducted.
The EC in its letter dated on April 7 had 'strongly advised' that the action taken by enforcement agencies against suspected use of illicit money in election should "be absolutely neutral, impartial and non-discriminatory".
MoF sources claimed that the poll watchdog had raised concerns over not being informed about the I-T raids in time. In response, the revenue department officials said the enforcement agencies usually give full information after completing their findings.
In an official statement, the EC said that the meeting discussed "issues arising out of the advisory of the Election Commission of India dated April 7, 2019 regarding all enforcement actions being neutral, impartial and nondiscriminatory and its implementation, in detail".
Meanwhile, the I-T department is also learnt to have shared some of its findings on the alleged model code violation in the MP case with EC. The CBDT had said it has traced a trail of ?20 crore of alleged illegal money being shifted from the house of an important person on Delhi's Tughalq Road to the "headquarters of a major political party in Delhi" . The details of this event have been shared with EC, which will examine it.


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Joan Swift may be in her 80s, but age isn't about to slow this passionate volunteer. Swift started working with the Cancer Society in 1978, after experiencing the loss of several family members, and has been immersed in the organisation ever since. Since the early '90s, Swift has been involved with Look Good, Feel Better – the international charity dedicated to boosting the self-esteem of people undergoing treatment for cancer – and has amassed a number of honours for her work. In 2005, Swift was awarded a Queen's Service Medal for her voluntary work; more recently, she received recognition at the Pride of NZ awards in the lifetime achievement category.
"When I was advised I had been nominated, it was such a surprise. I don't do what I do for reward or recognition," Swift says. "To win the Upper North Island Lifetime Achievement Award with so many excellent finalists was an amazing feeling and then to be asked if I would accept nomination for the national shortlist was incredible."
While Swift says receiving recognition for her volunteer work is a huge honour, her focus is always firmly on the charity and the people she's helping. "My nomination and award has really helped the profile of the charity, and it's wonderful to be part of such an amazing organisation," Swift adds. Contributing to the growth and success of Look Good, Feel Better is one of Swift's volunteering highlights. "We now have the facilities to reach so many more people and enable them to enjoy a morning of pampering and one-on-one attention by a caring volunteer," Swift explains. "Our first year we had 140 ladies on the programme and now we're over the 3000 mark, which also includes teenagers and men's workshops."
As for what has motivated Swift's unwavering support over the past 25 years, she explains that it's the confidence Look Good, Feel Better is able to instil in cancer patients that keeps her going."A great start to the day is receiving a letter from someone we've worked with saying that we've given her back her confidence, enabling her to go to the supermarket – whereas prior, when she got to the door she felt everyone was looking at her and knew she had cancer, so she could not go into the store and shop.
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The Modern Woman According to Léa Augereau
Taking from the past and present, Paris-based artist and designer Léa Augereau highlights commanding and confident female figures in her work.
Posed in front of a canvas next to an ashtray and coffee mug sat on the nearby table with the calming sound of Egyptian jazz faintly playing in the background, Léa Augereau finds her happy place.
The prolific Parisian artist is just 27 years old, but she's already made a name for herself as a painter. Through her use of block colours, design cues and vibrant patterning, Léa's work has a signature calming effect that draws from past and present life. With a hint of Matisse and maybe a bit of Rousseau, her figurative portraiture has come to be known for the depictions a commanding female figure that mix strong women, societal expectations and individuality.
"For me, a strong woman is a female who made her life how she wanted and not by following the rules of patriarchy," Augereau explains. "They're the kind of women who inspire me."
For Léa, however, it goes far beyond a relatable cause. She highlights what she calls the "modern woman," sometimes depicted posing next to a bong, drinking alcohol or in other leisure situations.
"I think in the future we should be free of all stereotypes," she continues. "I have grown up surrounded by women like that and they're my example, my inspiration. I'm a feminist, but firstly a humanist."
From the subtle cues throughout the interior design to the personality of her depicted heroines, Léa also concedes that classic European cinema is a driving influence in her visual form. Between old French, Italian and Spanish films, Léa channels her own feelings and experiences into visual depictions and colours across the canvas.
Elsewhere the seaside views and natural beauty of her hometown La Rochelle play an important role in the back of her mind, while the lively nature of human society and interaction found in Paris has its own place. While she certainly strives to inspire and shatter stereotypes through her art, Léa's images contain an essence of uniqueness and urgency.
"In France, we are late when it comes to a lot of social subjects," she admits. "That tempts you to make things move for yourself, even if sometimes it's demotivating."
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After carving out her own career in the art world, Léa perhaps herself is a shining example of the women she strives to depict in her painting. In addition to painting, she's also a designer with her own fashion label. On the surface, it's a logical step for somebody with a background in painting, art and design as Augereau, but she admits it was more of a natural progression, rather than a conscious decision.
She's begun to intertwine her painting into fashion. After working a few years in clothing production, she began experimenting with different techniques of manufacturing and painting the clothing. Ethereal "It seems me that it can be beautiful, and also mix my two passions," she says. Most recently, Léa has taken her expressions and conveying them onto blankets as another way of mixing art and fabric.
Whatever the medium may be, Léa strives to mix her passions to create a form of expression that depicts the modern woman confident and alive.
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Release: Oct. 19th, 2006
Runtime: 2 hours, 12 minutes
There were five Marines and one Navy Corpsman photographed raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi by Joe Rosenthal on February 23, 1945. This is the story of three of the six surviving servicemen – John 'Doc' Bradley, Pvt. Rene Gagnon and Pvt. Ira Hayes, who fought in the battle to take Iwo Jima from the Japanese.
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This does get a little confusing as the film takes most of its running time to establish the person looking to collect the stories of what happened, which does make it feel underweight when it reaches a conclusion in the most recent time period where these heroes have aged out of their supposedly glorious youths.
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Flags of Our Fathers has plenty to recommend seeing it, but it is flawed and simply isn't one of Eastwood's best works nor does it rank with the greatest War films.
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Q: How to mock File in javascript? I'm developing some small project to exercise my TDD skills. The project consists of an audio player which has the ability to drag'n'drop files in a playlist. I'm using Jasmine as a testing framework. The problem I faced is that I can't mock javascript files to test my file upload functionality. I tried to create a File like this:
new File(new Blob(), "name");

but Chrome does not allow creating files manually. File's constructor is illegal to use. I found a solution with grunt.js which consists of returning some files from grunt, but I don't really wanna use server-side for such a small test project. Is there any workaround for this problem?

A: Here's how I create a dummy pdf file to use with pdf.js

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*Create a base64 string of your file. I use base64 command in my shell.
base64 < src/mockData/dummy.pdf
#outputs something like: VEhJUyBJUyBUSEUgQU5TV0VSCg==

*Copy this string into your source code.
const dataBase64 = "VEhJUyBJUyBUSEUgQU5TV0VSCg==";
//note this not a pdf, but for demo purposes because a pdf file is too big

*Decode the base64 and create a file
const arrayBuffer = Uint8Array.from(window.atob(dataBase64), c => c.charCodeAt(0));
const file = new File([arrayBuffer], "dummy.pdf", {type: 'application/pdf'});

A: Chrome will let you create a new file:
var f = new File([""], "filename", { type: 'text/html' });

However IE11 (and other browsers?) will not.
Here's is my (poor?) fake File:
var blob = new Blob([""], { type: 'text/html' });
blob["lastModifiedDate"] = "";
blob["name"] = "filename";
var fakeF = blob;

You can fill in the values as you see fit. You can fill the blob with whatever you need. (See the other answer for how to use an image).
I've tested this in IE11, Chrome and Firefox. So far I seems to work, at least for my unit testing purposes.
Bonus:
Here it is in typescript:
let blob = new Blob([""], { type: 'text/html' });
blob["lastModifiedDate"] = "";
blob["name"] = "filename";

let fakeF = <File>blob;

A: You don't need to create a blob, you can do this which applies the genuine image string directly (I used this converter), or you can do follow the example below (if you don't actually care about having a valid image]):
<img id="test" />

const img = window.btoa("I don't care about a broken image");
document.getElementById('test').src = 'data:image/png;base64,' + img;

The btoa function is just to create base64 from a string.

A: In order to get the arrayBuffer working, I faked it this way in my tests:

class File extends Blob {
  name: string
  constructor(a: any, name: string) {
    super(a)
    this.name = name
  }
}

// @ts-ignore
globalThis.File = File


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During the hearing before the Central Information Commission (CIC) the respondent submitted that partial information has been provided to the appellant.
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Hi, this is a Flutter plugin that allows communication with a Parse Server, (https://parseplatform.org) either hosted on your own server or another, like (http://Back4App.com).
This is a work in project and we are consistently updating it. Please let us know if you think anything needs changing/adding, and more than ever, please do join in on this project (Even if it is just to improve our documentation.
or clone this repository and add to your project. As this is an early development with multiple contributors, it is probably best to download/clone and keep updating as an when a new feature is added.
This tool allows you to subscribe to a QueryBuilder you are interested in. Once subscribed, the server will notify clients whenever a ParseObject that matches the QueryBuilder is created or updated, in real-time.
The Parse Server configuration guide on the server is found here https://docs.parseplatform.org/parse-server/guide/#live-queries and is not part of this documentation.
Create a subscription You'll get the LiveQuery events through this subscription. The first time you call subscribe, we'll try to open the WebSocket connection to the LiveQuery server for you.
Create event When a new ParseObject is created and it fulfills the QueryBuilder you subscribe, you'll get this event. The object is the ParseObject which was created.
Update event When an existing ParseObject which fulfills the QueryBuilder you subscribe is updated (The ParseObject fulfills the QueryBuilder before and after changes), you'll get this event. The object is the ParseObject which was updated. Its content is the latest value of the ParseObject.
Enter event When an existing ParseObject's old value does not fulfill the QueryBuilder but its new value fulfills the QueryBuilder, you'll get this event. The object is the ParseObject which enters the QueryBuilder. Its content is the latest value of the ParseObject.
Leave event When an existing ParseObject's old value fulfills the QueryBuilder but its new value doesn't fulfill the QueryBuilder, you'll get this event. The object is the ParseObject which leaves the QueryBuilder. Its content is the latest value of the ParseObject.
Unsubscribe If you would like to stop receiving events from a QueryBuilder, you can just unsubscribe the subscription. After that, you won't get any events from the subscription object and will close the WebSocket connection to the LiveQuery server.
You can create and control users just as normal using this SDK.
Also, once logged in you can manage sessions tokens. This feature can be called after Parse().init() on startup to check for a logged in user.
For any object, you can specify which users are allowed to read the object, and which users are allowed to modify an object. To support this type of security, each object has an access control list, implemented by the ParseACL class.
If ParseACL is not specified (with the exception of the ParseUser class) all objects are set to Public for read and write. The simplest way to use a ParseACL is to specify that an object may only be read or written by a single user. To create such an object, there must first be a logged in ParseUser. Then, new ParseACL(user) generates a ParseACL that limits access to that user. An object's ACL is updated when the object is saved, like any other property.
You can also grant permissions to all users at once using setPublicReadAccess and setPublicWriteAccess.
Operations that are forbidden, such as deleting an object that you do not have write access to, result in a ParseError with code 101: 'ObjectNotFound'. For security purposes, this prevents clients from distinguishing which object ids exist but are secured, versus which object ids do not exist at all.
The SDK supports call Cloud Functions.
Added persistent storage. When a logged in user closes the app, then reopens, the data will now be persistent. Best practice would be to Parse.init, then Parse.currentUser. This will return the current user session and allow auto login. Can also pin data in storage.
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Relationship Marketing Report
The telemarketing industry is huge, and tracking all of its software is a task to make Sisyphus weep. Just describing the basic technologies could easily fill a column of this size: you would need to cover predictive dialing (computers that dial the phone and pass to agents only calls that have been answered by a human); scripting (presenting agents with a list of things to say), automated call distribution (sending an inbound call to an agent who is available and, in some cases, has a relevant set of skills), interactive voice response (allowing the caller to provide and receive information without talking to a human), and computer telephone integration (managing phone calls and accessing call-related data with a computer). Then you'd want to describe specific applications, such as fax-back, trouble ticket management, knowledge-base access, order processing, contact management, campaign analysis, call center management, and agent monitoring. And you still wouldn't have touched on integration of new technologies, such as e-mail, Web pages, kiosks, video, speech recognition, and remote access by work-at-home agents.
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One area that is almost surprising in its absence is video. Although business-to-business videoconferencing is a well established market, call center software providers don't talk much about it. Some work has been done in two-way kiosks, particularly for remote bank locations that replace conventional bank branches. But widespead adoption has been held back by the lack of common standards, incompatibility with most existing networks, and the poor quality of low-cost solutions. While Internet-based video may some day provide a viable communications medium, today it is mostly limited to jerky images dancing inside postage stamp-sized frames. This is not useful enough to justify incorporating it into a call center infrastructure.
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It's easy to forget, but not everything is related to the Internet. Telemarketers are making increasing use of speech-related technology, which includes speech recognition, speech generated from text, and text generated from speech. Much of the development is going into improving interactive voice response (IVR) systems so a user can speak rather then press a touch tone button to communicate with the system. Periphonics, InterVoice (972-454-8862; www.intervoice.com) and Applied Lanaguage Technologies (617-428-4444, www.altech.com) have extended the usual menu-based approach to allow natural language spoken queries. IntelliSystems offers an interesting combination of technologies, allowing knowledge base searches through an IVR interface.
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Q: Flex4: Fade in/out items in list when filtering In Flex 4 I have a list where every product in it is rendered through an ItemRenderer. Now, when I filter the list I want to fadeout the products that are removed. I can't add the fadeout effect to the hideEffect of the item renderer since renderers are being reused. Anyone a valid (easy) solution on how the fadeout the products correctly.

A: In Flex 3, you used an itemChange effect.  Flex 4 doesn't have that, though.
Does this question help?
My first impulse is to bake the effects into the itemRenderer, you just have to start the fade out effect in the dataChange event; when it is complete, change the data and do a fade in effect.


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What River City Ransom's Famous "BARF!" Quote Said in Japanese
Posted on March 13, 2018 by Clyde Mandelin ‧ 19 Comments
Fans of the NES classic River City Ransom have fond memories of a certain line in the game: enemies will occasionally shout "BARF!" when they get hit. In fact, if you ever see someone mention the game online, you'll almost certainly see a "BARF!" reference in there somewhere:
But why do all these characters in the game say "BARF"? And what do they say in the original Japanese release? Let's start by taking a look at both versions of the line:
Downtown Nekketsu Monogatari (Famicom, 1989) River City Ransom (NES, 1990)
Japanese Version English Version
Gehh! BARF!
In the Japanese version, characters shout "Gehh!", which is more of a sound effect word than an actual word. It can have different meanings in different situations – in this particular case it's a sound effect that indicates choking, gagging, or violently coughing something up. Based on this, I believe "Gehh!" in the Japanese game suggests coughing up blood rather than vomiting up food or stomach contents.
With this in mind, the "BARF!" line in the English version makes a little more sense. By itself, "barf" isn't really an English sound effect word – unless there are rare people who shout "barf!" as they're actually barfing – so something like "Argh!" or "Blergh!" would've been a closer translation to the originally intended line.
Even so, "BARF!" is a great example of how a translated line can unintentionally surpass its original version. I doubt Japanese fans have fond memories – or any memories at all – of the generic "Gehh!" line from the original game, but English-speaking fans still quote River City Ransom 's "BARF!" line to this day. In fact, the line is so iconic that it was kept in the script in later games in the series:
River City: Tokyo Rumble (3DS, 2016)
River City Ransom: Underground (PC, 2017)
River City: Knights of Justice (3DS, 2017)
I briefly looked into River City: Rival Showdown for the 3DS but couldn't tell if they include a "BARF!" line or not. There are also lots of other games in the series I probably haven't even heard of, so if you know of any other instances of "BARF!" please let me know!
I never really thought about it until now, but the continued life of "BARF!" almost makes it like a proto-Spoony Bard. I wonder what other long-living translation gems exist out there in the same way.
Still, just think – whoever came up with the "BARF" translation for the very first game probably never imagined it would become a key part of the series for the next 30 years. At the very least, hopefully they know that it still lives in fans' hearts to this day.
If you enjoyed this post and know any fellow River City Ransom / Kunio-kun fans, let them know about this article. I appreciate it!
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Darien May 31, 2013 at 9:47 pm
It's not a line per se, but the character in Ni no Kuni who gives out the "find my diary" quests looks *exactly* like Hercule Poirot ( http://www.agathachristie.com/attachments/uploaded-images/thumbs/DAVID__jpg_235x611_q95.jpg ) — there's nothing in the localised version to indicate that this is an intentional reference (he just speaks in a garbage dialect), but I was curious if something in the Japanese made it clear whether this was pure coincidence or not.
Mato June 1, 2013 at 12:34 am
Haven't not played Ni no Kuni I can't say much, but a quick search on Japanese sites shows that Japanese players strongly see the same connection too.
Here's an example – check for quest "81": http://ps3avfunc.blog29.fc2.com/blog-entry-1220.html First they blog writer calls him Great Detective Poirot, then crosses it out and just writes "gentleman" 😛
Darien June 3, 2013 at 4:57 pm
Ah, interesting. The first time you meet the character, he has a bit of dialogue (in the English, anyway) about his "maiden aunt," which, combined with his appearance, made me very suspicious — the "maiden aunt" bit seemed like it might be an oblique reference to Agatha Christie's other famous detective, Miss Marple.
A bit of research turns up an anime series based on Poirot and Miss Marple that ran in Japan a few years back: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agatha_Christie's_Great_Detectives_Poirot_and_Marple — perhaps what planted the seeds for Level 5's character.
Ed June 4, 2013 at 11:33 pm
I was curious if you could use your expertise to shed some light on a debated legend from Pokemon Diamond/Pearl. In the game there are many folk tales mentioned in the library and the one most cited is The 3rd Sinnoh folk story that says:
There once were Pokémon that
became very close to humans.
There once were humans and Pokémon
that ate together at the same table.
It was a time when there existed no
differences to distinguish the two.
It is said that the literal translation of the myth originally referred to Pokémon and people marrying each other. I was curious if this was the case or some fan just screwed up the translation and it became widely accepted as truth. Here's the text that appears in Japanese version of the game.
ひとと けっこんした ポケモンがいた
ポケモンと けっこんした ひとがいた
むかしは ひとも ポケモンも
おなじだったから ふつうのことだった
Thank you very much in advance. I love reading your articles and have been a fan of your work long before I ever even knew your name.
Mato June 5, 2013 at 5:43 pm
Well, if the Japanese text you posted there is legitimately from the Japanese game, then yeah, it says they used to marry each other. Here's a quick translation:
There were Pokemon that married people.
There were people who married Pokemon.
It was an ordinary thing because long ago people and Pokemon were the same.
Ed June 5, 2013 at 9:29 pm
Thank you very much for the quick reply! Most of Sinnoh's legends deal with the cosmology of the pokemon world and the 3 folk stories seem to all vaguely imply humans evolved from pokemon without actually stating it. This kinda makes sense as localizing them literally would make some parents complain that pokemon is teaching kids evolutionary theory and bestiality, despite it being a legend in a fictional universe.
Actually, if you have any screenshots of this, I'd love to make this into a post of its own, as it sounds like a pretty big and interesting change. Unfortunately I'm not that well-versed in anything past the first generation of games so I can't offer much more insight into it than what I have, but I think it deserves a post of its own 😛
Arthur June 10, 2013 at 1:25 am
I'm curious if you could do a quick comparison of "Jill sandwich" line from the 1st Resident Evil.
Hyper Emerson September 4, 2013 at 8:06 pm
The GBA remake also adds "BIZARF!" to the list of defeat quotes.
Dan December 16, 2013 at 8:09 pm
When I saw げー I thought of ゲップー from Earthbound (Blecch.) I don't know what the Onomatopaeia for throwing up is,but the two words seem so similar to e, it makes me think there's a connection and the translators mistook that sound effect for BARF.
Elizabeth June 17, 2015 at 7:28 pm
Do you guys remember that scene in FF6 where Locke gets seasick? In the SNES it said "I think I'm gonna…" whereas in the GBA it said "Blergh", impliying that Locke indeed does throw up.
jal11180 April 4, 2019 at 4:58 pm
I think that both lines together should have been said in the game, as, apart from one another, they do not make sense.
Philippe April 26, 2016 at 4:13 pm
I am a French Canadian and as we were younger, we used to say «barf» all the time. We even «verbed» it up and say something like «Je viens de barfer» (translated «I just barfed up») which literally means «I just vomited».
That was just schoolyard kid slang we used when fooling around and we would never say it in front of our parents of course. Also, it's not a proper word in French which we knew at the time but we always assumed it was an anglicism which made the whole thing edgier. Well, it was the early 90s after all and we were pretty young after all 🙂
I also played RCR back in the days with a couple of friend and no one ever questioned that particular line… we always thought the enemy vomited from being punched in the stomach too much… like in SF2 where you see the character vomit after being hit by some heavy blow.
Long story short, it seems to corroborate the vomiting onomatopoeia theory. I find it perplexing that what an anglicism that we used quite often back then seems to be almost meaningless (at least from reading this post) to anglophones while still retaining it's original meaning in french. Finally, I'm not sure kids these days still use that word, I'll have to check out with my nephew one day or another 🙂
Darien March 13, 2018 at 10:58 pm
Wow, my comment from five years ago seems wildly off-topic divorced from context, hey? 😉
More to the point, I'd like to mention that Natsume tweeted out "Ye Olde Barfe?" right before the release of River City Knights of Justice: https://twitter.com/Natsume_Inc/status/868844317179207682
ReyVGM March 14, 2018 at 11:51 am
"I briefly looked into River City: Tokyo Rumble for the 3DS but couldn't tell if they include a "BARF!" line or not."
The line BARF is said in Tokyo Rumble right at the beginning and then never again.
When the thugs beat your friend Hiroshi, Kunio comes out, the thugs leave and Hiroshi says BARF at the end.
Clyde Mandelin March 14, 2018 at 12:39 pm
Cool, I just updated the article with a pic from Tokyo Rumble. Thanks for the tip!
ReyVGM March 14, 2018 at 12:53 pm
No prob!
Jonny2x4 March 14, 2018 at 1:30 pm
The catchphrase mostly associated with the Kunio series in Japan is なめんなよ この野郎!, which means something like "Don't mess with me, punk!" It was originally spoken by Riki in Nekketsu Kouha Kunio-kun, but somewhere along the lines it became Kunio's catchphrase.
To be honest, I'm not really a fan of how the recent Kunio games had been translated under the River City branding, since the make very little effort to tie it to the actual River City Ransom (the settings and characters in Downtown Nekketsu Monogatari were obviously very different). The only exception is River City Ransom: Underground, since that's actually a direct sequel to the River City Ransom as it was localized. But oh well, I guess brand recognition is more important than proper continuity.
Matt March 15, 2018 at 1:04 am
Legends foretold of a day when secret alt text would return to Legends of Localizations. And I never stopped believing. Thank you, Mato. 🙂
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You know how the news media (and general audiences) get games, science, and technology stuff wrong all the time? I feel the same way when it comes to entertainment and video game translation, so I decided to use my professional experience to shed light on this mysterious topic.


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Ute sales jump but new cars sales in reverse in September
Simon EvansSenior reporter
Updated Oct 4, 2017 – 7.02pm, first published at 11.39am
High-end utes are still accelerating but passenger car sales have softened significantly in an overall new vehicle market in Australia which went into reverse during September, 2017.
New vehicle sales were down 2.4 per cent to 100,200 compared with the same month a year ago.
The Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries, the over-arching body that oversees the interests of the automotive industry in Australia, said on Wednesday that its VFACTS figures showed that passenger car sales were 9.3 per cent down on the same month a year ago.
The Ford Ranger is Australia's biggest selling vehicle across the entire market. Ute sales are strong but passenger car sales continue to fall and even SUVs dropped. Mark Bean
Sales of Sports Utility Vehicles were 1.3 per cent lower, but the light commercial market was up 8.1 per cent.
The Ford Ranger ute was Australia's top selling vehicle in September, 2017 with 4,318 purchased by buyers, with Toyota's Hilux ute the second biggest seller across the entire market at 3,822.
FCAI chief executive Tony Weber said while there had been a fall compared with September, 2016 it was important to keep the sales figures in context, with the overall market for the nine months to the end of September, 2017 still marginally ahead of the 2016 record for the same time.
"Any month over 100,000 total sales has to be seen as a strong outcome," he said.
Ford Ranger sales are 49 per cent higher than they were a year ago, while Toyota Hi-Lux sales are up 19 per cent over the same month a year ago.
The Toyota Corolla sedan is the third largest selling vehicle on the market, followed by the Mazda3 and then the Holden Commodore.
Toyota, which on October 3 officially shut down its Melbourne manufacturing factory in the western suburb of Altona, had the biggest market share in Australia with 17.3 per cent of all vehicles solid in September. Mazda was second with 10.3 per cent and Hyundai third at 8.1 per cent.
Holden, which will end almost 60 years of car manufacturing at its Elizabeth factory in northern Adelaide on October 20, had a total market share of 6.9 per cent in September.
Mr Weber said there had been lower sales across the market in September in every state and territory, although New South Wales had been the healthiest, with the drop in that state just 0.7 per cent, while in Victoria it was 2.3 per cent.
The biggest falls were in the Australian Capital Territory where sales were down 8.4 per cent, and in South Australia where the slide was 8.0 per cent. The Western Australian economy is showing increasing signs of life after a savage mining downturn, with the decline in that state limited to 3.1 per cent.
Simon Evans writes on business specialising in retail, manufacturing, beverages, mining and M&A. He is based in Adelaide. Connect with Simon on Twitter. Email Simon at simon.evans@afr.com
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Carbon dating plants. How is carbon dating done?
The reason is because you would have to know when the fossil was alive to know how much carbon 14 was in the atmosphere at that time. It is unstable, and it radioactively decays by electron emission to Nitrogen 14. Then after digging lower on the site, another bone is found and taken to be studied. Uranium 234, a radioactive element present in the environment, slowly decays to form thorium 230. We have certainly been to a Natural History museum and saw exhibits of dinosaur or mammoth skeletons weather they are real or replicas. While it is Carbon 14 it is floating around in the atmosphere and latches onto oxygen becoming carbon dioxide. We have devices to measure the radioactivity of a sample, and the ratio described above translates into a rate of 15.
Carbon dating is a brilliant way for archaeologists to take advantage of the natural ways that atoms decay. Because it is radioactive, carbon 14 steadily decays into other substances. Carbon dating had not even been thought of yet. So their entire dating method for dating rocks and fossils is based off of circular reasoning. Sure enough, it showed that plant material in the southern Levant showed an average carbon offset of about 19 years compared with the current northern hemisphere standard calibration curve. Infrequently, one of these neutrons manages to penetrate deep into the nitrogen nucleus and converts it to carbon-14.
Do you remember when they found the famous tomb of Tutankhamun in Egypt? It is stated on an autobiography by Emilio Segre that the concept was suggested to Libby by Enrico Fermi at a seminar in Chicago. While it was alive it should have had. Fairbanks, a member of the Lamont-Doherty group, said that if the dates of glaciation were determined using the uranium-thorium method, the delay - and the puzzle - disappeared. Using a mass spectrometer, an instrument that accelerates streams of atoms and uses magnets to sort them out according to mass and electric charge, the group has learned to measure the ratio of uranium to thorium very precisely. So what they do is compare the amount of carbon 14 in the fossil to the amount of carbon 14 in the atmosphere. Therefore they have sought ways to calibrate and correct the carbon dating method. Please send reports of such problems to May 31, 1990, Page 00021 The New York Times Archives Since 1947, scientists have reckoned the ages of many old objects by measuring the amounts of radioactive carbon they contain.
In essence, sunlight strikes the atmosphere, slaps the nitrogen around, and turns it into carbon 14. According to carbon dating of fossil animals and plants, the spreading and receding of great ice sheets lagged behind orbital changes by several thousand years, a delay that scientists found hard to explain. Any addition of carbon to a sample would change the results of the measured date dramatically. This would have prevented most of the carbon 14 from even forming. Carbon 14 is created in the atmosphere, and every living organism is exposed to it and will acquire a certain amount after receiving it continuously through his life.
No dating method cited by evolutionists is unbiased. This also means that plants and animals that lived in the past had less C-14 in them than do plants and animals today. If the fossil only contains half as much carbon 14 as the atmosphere, it is assumed to have been dead for one half-life, or 5,730 years. The carbon dating assumptions need to be pointed out. Animals eat plants and make it part of their bodies as well.
One of the most famous examples of carbon-dating has been the , purported to be the burial shroud of , and shown below in a negative image from 1898. It is unstable, and scientists know that it radioactively decays by electron emission to Nitrogen 14, with a half life of 5730 years. This may be tied in to the declining strength of the magnetic field. This radioactive carbon 14 is different from regular carbon. During its lifetime, a plant is constantly taking in carbon from the atmosphere through photosynthesis. One Scientist May Have an Easy Fix If only there were such an easy fix for climate change Radiocarbon dating has been used to determine of the ages of ancient mummies, in some cases going back more than 9000 years. Again it is obvious that they are not millions of years old.
It is also losing carbon 14 through decay. His videos and materials are not copyrighted. Carbon-14 is produced every day when cosmic rays enter the earth's atmosphere. A living organism takes in both carbon-12 and carbon-14 from the environment in the same relative proportion that they existed naturally. Also diamonds, which they say formed millions and millions of years ago, still have carbon 14 in them. A sample that causes 8 clicks per minute would be 5,730 years old the sample has gone through one half-life and so on.
Does carbon dating prove the earth is millions of years old?
When the animal, human or plant dies, there is no more absorption of Carbon 14, and the amount it already contains begins to decrease as it undergoes radioactive decay. The possible reason for this, the team believes, could be due to climatic conditions in our distant past. If you look at a periodic table you will notice that Carbon and Nitrogen are right next to each other. It still weighs as much as nitrogen, but it is now considered carbon. Similarly, scientists do not know that the carbon-14 decay rate has been constant.
Hovind explains Carbon Dating in this video. Although Carbon-13 comprises just over 1 percent of Earth's atmosphere, plants take up its larger, heavier atoms at a much lower rate than Carbon-12 during photosynthesis. It has allowed a more accurate dating of archaeological sites than previous methods, and it has also allowed comparing dates of events across great distances. Since physics can't predict exactly when a given atom will decay, we rely on statistical methods in dealing with radioactivity, and while this is an excellent method for a bazillion atoms, it fails when we don't have good sample sizes. Here are some things to consider about carbon dating.
To illustrate: If you were trying to fill a barrel with water but there were holes drilled up the side of the barrel, as you filled the barrel it would begin leaking out the holes. Fossils are dated by their geological position. So how do you get carbon 14 in diamonds? A very small percentage of the carbon plants take in is radioactive C-14. This is how Carbon 14 gets into the living world. New research shows, however, that some estimates based on carbon may have erred by thousands of years. In , Imperial College London physicist Heather Graven pointed out how these extra carbon emissions will skew radiocarbon dating.


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Lavorò a negli Stati Uniti dove, negli anni dieci, diresse oltre una ventina di pellicole, tra cortometraggi e lungometraggi. La sua carriera di attore, iniziata nel 1913, durò fino al 1949.

Filmografia

Attore
 The False Gems, regia di Rupert Julian - cortometraggio (1911)
 Through Strife, regia di Phillips Smalley e Lois Weber - cortometraggio (1913)
 Maid of the Mountains, regia di David Horsley - cortometraggio (1913)
 Suspense, regia di Lois Weber e Phillips Smalley (1913)
 The Merchant of Venice, regia di Phillips Smalley e Lois Weber (1914)
 The Quicksands, regia di W. Christy Cabanne - cortometraggio (1914)
 The Quicksands, regia di George Melford - cortometraggio (1914)
 Shannon of the Sixth, regia di George Melford (1914)
 The Chief of Police, regia di George Melford - cortometraggio (1914)
 The Rajah's Vow, regia di George Melford - cortometraggio (1914)
 The Bond Eternal, regia di George H. Melford - cortometraggio (1914)
 The Primitive Instinct, regia di George H. Melford - cortometraggio (1914)
 The King of Chance - cortometraggio (1914)
 The Potter and the Clay, regia di George H. Melford - cortometraggio (1914)
 Micky Flynn's Escapade, regia di George Melford - cortometraggio (1914)
 The Smugglers of Lone Isle, regia di George Melford - cortometraggio (1914)
 The Fatal Opal, regia di George Melford - cortometraggio (1914)
 The Derelict, regia di George Melford - cortometraggio (1914)
 The Light in a Woman's Eyes, regia Harry Harvey - cortometraggio (1915)
 The Tragedy of Bear Mountain - cortometraggio (1915)
 The Dumb Girl of Portici, regia di Phillips Smalley, Lois Weber (1916)
 Naked Hearts, regia di Rupert Julian (1916)
 The Fur Trimmed Coat, regia di Rupert Julian - cortometraggio (1916)
 The Human Cactus, regia di Rupert Julian - cortometraggio (1916)
 Bettina Loved a Soldier, regia di Rupert Julian (1916)
 The Evil Women Do, regia di Rupert Julian (1916)
 Eternal Love, regia di Douglas Gerrard (1917)
 The Phantom Melody, regia di Douglas Gerrard (1920)
 Omar the Tentmaker, regia di James Young (1922)
 On Time, regia di Henry Lehrman (1924)
 Julius Sees Her, regia di Malcolm St. Clair - cortometraggio (1924)
 In Fast Company, regia di James W. Horne (1924)
 The Square Sex, regia di Malcolm St. Clair - cortometraggio (1924)
 The Lighthouse by the Sea, regia di Malcolm St. Clair (1924)
 Le tre moschettiere (Wings of Youth), regia di Emmett J. Flynn (1925)
 My Neighbor's Wife, regia di Clarence Geldart (1925)
 The Gosh-Darn Mortgage, regia di Edward F. Cline (1926) - cortometraggio
 Footloose Widows, regia di Roy Del Ruth (1926)
 Doubling with Danger, regia di Scott R. Dunlap (1926)
 Private Izzy Murphy, regia di Lloyd Bacon (1926)
 Notte di Capodanno a New-York (Wolf's Clothing), regia di Roy Del Ruth (1927)
 A Million Bid, regia di Michael Curtiz (1927)
 La vedova del collegio (The College Widow), regia di Archie Mayo (1927)
 Gioco di bambole (Glad Rag Doll), regia di Michael Curtiz (1929)
 La preda azzurra (Madonna of Avenue A), regia di Michael Curtiz (1929)
 The Hottentot, regia di Roy Del Ruth (1929)
 La favorita di Broadway (The Painted Angel), regia di Millard Webb (1929)
 Il generale Crack (General Crack), regia di Alan Crosland (1929)
 Sweet Kitty Bellairs, regia di Alfred E. Green (1930)
 Man Wanted, regia di William Dieterle (1932)
 Un'ombra nella nebbia (Bulldog Drummond Strikes Back), regia di Roy Del Ruth (1934)
 Gli occhi dell'anima (Pursued), regia di Louis King (1934)
 Quel meraviglioso desiderio (That Wonderful Urge), regia di Robert B. Sinclair (1945)

Regista
 The Price of Victory - cortometraggio (1916)
 Her Wedding Day - cortometraggio (1916)
 The Penalty of Treason
 In the Dead o' Night
 Polly Put the Kettle On (1917)
 The Moral Right
 The Bubble of Love - cortometraggio
 The Melody of Death
 The Keeper of the Gate
 Mary from America
 Eternal Love (1917)
 Money's Mockery - cortometraggio (1917)
 Madame Spy (1918)
 A Mother's Secret (1918)
 Cinquemila dollari di ricompensa ($5,000 Reward) (1918)
 L'automobile vuota (The Empty Cab)
 Giocattoli (Playthings) (1918)
 The Velvet Hand (1918)
 The Cabaret Girl (1918)
 The Sealed Envelope
 L'eterno triangolo (His Divorced Wife) (1919)
 The Phantom Melody (1920)
 The Forged Bride (1920)

Note

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

Cinema muto statunitense

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I don't have a lot of time because it's almost Shabbos (the Jewish Sabbath), but I did meet with the neurologist today. He had a fair bit to say, most of which boiled down to the fact that I have limited options. He agreed that even though migraines aren't life-threatening that the risk/benefit ratio still plays out that I need some kind of prophylactic treatment even during pregnancy. He acknowledged that my pain-relief options were limited, particularly since I've stopped responding to codeine (he said it's easy to build a quick tolerance to codeine). He did not like the idea of calcium channel blockers because they don't do me much good. He in particular said that nifedipine is a very not-good choice for migraine treatment. I didn't ask why.
Anyway, the long and the short of it is that he's recommended I take Topomax, which surprised me, but he said that the greatest risk with Topomax is neural tube defects in the first trimester. Since the neural tube has already been formed, this is no longer a risk. He put a call into my perinatologist, and in the meantime gave me samples and a script for Topomax, but said not to take it until I'd heard from them that it was okayed by the perinatologist. If the perinatologist didn't agree, they'd work out another option and he'd call it in for me. Much to my surprise, Dr. G said he was fine with me trying it.
Neither doctor wants me to get to a truly therapeutic dose while I'm pregnant, so the neurologist made sure to note that I'm not likely to have full relief. That's okay. If I get 20% relief until September, I'll be thrilled. After that, I can work on more complete relief. So I start it tonight. I took Topomax years ago with a fair bit of success (admittedly at a much higher dose). It wasn't perfect, which is why I changed, but in retrospect, the Depakote that I switched to was somewhat better but with far more unbearable side effects. So hopefully this will at least take the edge off.
I have tried both chiropractic care and accupuncture, with little success. Accupuncture in particular was not only not useful, it left me feeling worse than I started. Chiropractic care was fine for other reasons, but had little effect on my migraines. As for the vinegar trick… I've heard that one before, but have never tried it, because the smell of vinegar (except balsamic) makes me very ill. I imagine in pregnancy it would be far worse!
I find your blog so interesting with all the migraine info since I also suffer from them…not that I'm glad you have them but it's just interesting to see what treatments others get.I tried Topamax a few years ago and remember it very well. I lost about 15 pounds on that stuff but, unfortunately, it didn't do much for the migraines. The only drug that I have found to work is Frova. I'm curious about what they'd say about taking that in the 3rd trimester…I'll ask tomorrow!


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AlphaPoint and Elevated Returns to Develop Secondary Market
Joshua Stoner
Secondary Markets
'Making Illiquid Assets Liquid' – That is the guiding sentiment behind AlphaPoint, a young company which utilizes blockchain to facilitate tokenization.
This idea is one step closer to becoming a reality, as AlphaPoint has just announced a partnership with Elevated Returns – A forward thinking company which specializes in real-estate.
In this announcement, the pair has indicated that they will be developing a secondary market for trading digital securities backed by real-estate. It is through secondary markets that traditionally illiquid assets, such as real-estate, will become easily tradable – all the while opening up fractionalized ownership, and opportunity for exposure to retail investors.
Elevated Returns will focus these efforts on Asian markets, following their expansion into the region roughly one month ago. At the time, the company acquired a large share in a Thai broker-dealer – a move allowing for them to commence operations through previously attained licensure.
In their press release, Stephane De Baets, President of Elevated Returns, commented on this development. The following is what he had to say on the matter.
"Elevated Returns prides itself on our reputation as a pioneer in the digital securities space. To that effect, we have a policy to partner with the best in class companies across industry verticals; AlphaPoint's technology solutions for unlocking digital asset liquidity are unparalleled. Having already demonstrated the capability to integrate with the token standard that we are developing on the Tezos blockchain, AlphaPoint was the clear choice to facilitate the adoption of our tokenized real estate initiatives."
AlphaPoint is a United States based company that was founded in 2013. With their sights set on 'making illiquid assets liquid', AlphaPoint has successfully serviced global customer through their various service offerings.
Since opening their doors, AlphaPoint has seen their diligent work towards growth land them customers in 5 continents, to date.
Company operations are overseen by CEO, Salil Donde.
Elevated Returns
Elevated Returns is a United States based company, which specializes in investments surrounding real-estate. Recognizing the potential of digital securities, Elevated Returns operates with a goal of acquiring assets viable for tokenization.
One such example was the noteworthy tokenization of the St. Regis Resort; A high-end ski resort that successfully sold digital securities representing ownership within the resort, becoming one of the first to do so.
Company operations are overseen by President, Stephane De Baets.
We have detailed developments pertaining to both AlphaPoint and Elevated Returns in the past few months. Check out the following articles to learn a bit more about what each of these companies has been up to in this time.
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