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MIA signs new concession agreement with Dufry for the operation of reconceived duty free store
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Malta International Airport recently signed a new concession agreement with Dufry, the world's leading travel retailer, for the operation of the terminal's duty free store on Level 1 covering the period between January 2019 and December 2026.
The signing of this agreement set in motion works in preparation for the embellishment and extension of the area which hosts the duty free store, with the aim of upgrading travellers' shopping experience and giving them an authentic taste of Malta.
The reconceived main departures store, whose design will draw inspiration from typical Maltese colours and textures and incorporate some of the most recognisable elements from local culture to create a sense of place, will occupy around 1,400 square metres.
"In recent years, we have been putting more effort in transforming the airport journey into an experience that delights travellers and gives guests a good first and last impression of our islands. We are confident that a revamped duty free store having a strong Maltese identity will continue to enhance the passenger experience," said Malta International Airport CEO Alan Borg.
Pedro Castro, Division CEO Southern Europe & Africa, Dufry added "We are delighted to have signed this agreement and to have the opportunity to continue working with this great airport partner. We thank them for their confidence in Dufry to be part of the airport's development. We are positive that our joint collaboration and planning will offer passengers a happy and memorable experience when travelling through Malta International Airport."
The reconceived store will incorporate sections, such as the fragrance aisles, the tobacco and spirits area, and the souvenir shop, with which travellers have become familiar. However, these sections will be introducing new concepts, such as a Beauty Studio where passengers can try on some of the most iconic make-up brands and a Tasting Bar where guests can have a sip of the store's featured products.
An important addition to the duty free store will be the Spirit of Malta shop, a showcase of the finest local products and delicacies, which are an ideal take-home gift for travellers wanting a lingering taste of the islands after their holiday.
Dufry, which is a Swiss-based company, operates in around 2,200 duty-free and duty-paid shops in airports, cruise lines, seaports, railway stations and central tourist areas.
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CITY can confirm that defender Leon Barnett has been recalled from his loan spell at recently confirmed npower Championship Champions Cardiff City.
Barnett, who was set to stay at Cardiff City Stadium until the end of the season, returns to Carrow Road as cover following Michael Turner's injury, picked up in the Canaries' 2-1 win over Reading on Saturday.
Barnett will be available for selection for the Canaries' clash with Stoke City at the Britannia Stadium this weekend.
The City defender has enjoyed an excellent spell with the Bluebirds, making eight appearances for Malky Mackay's side as he helped them to promotion to the Barclays Premier League, confirming themselves as Championship Champions with their 1-1 draw with Burnley at Turf Moor last time out.
It's a second promotion from the Championship in two years for Barnett, having played a major part in the Canaries rise to the top tier in 2010-11.


Dolphins pass rushers got to Brady four times in New England's 27-24 Christmas Eve victory against Miami last season. But the Patriots have allowed only 15 sacks in 11 games this year — the second-fewest sacks per play in the league behind only the Giants.
Cameron Wake said the reason Brady needs to be pressured up the middle is simple: "I don't know how many scramble yards he has this season, but I'm going to go out on a limb and say it's probably not that many." But as Philbin noted, he has a quick release.
The Patriots listed three starters as out — tight end Rob Gronkowski, linebacker Chandler Jones and guard Logan Mankins. They also listed 15 players as questionable, including receiver Julian Edelman and eight starters: tight end Aaron Hernandez, receivers Wes Welker and Brandon Lloyd, linebackers Brandon Spikes and Dont'a Hightower, safety Patrick Chung and offensive linemen Sebastian Vollmer and Dan Connolly.
are among the Dolphins who said Bess would match Welker's production if he played in the Patriots' offense. Bess and Welker weren't sure. "Who knows?" Bess said.


There are many dentists that still use silver and mercury fillings to treat dental caries. Silver and mercury fillings are highly outdated and known to weaken the structure of the teeth, potentially causing breakage or a weaker tooth foundation. Most concerning of all, the safety of mercury fillings has been questioned, with some dentists and patients speculating about potential leakage. Not only can they be toxic to the body, they are also aesthetically unnatural which usually leads to an undesirable look.
As a Cosmetic practice, Santa Monica Esthetic Dentistry believes that fillings should be discreet, undetectable and most importantly, safe. An individual's well being is the number one priority, and is why Santa Monica Esthetic only uses porcelain fillings.
We strive to provide our patients with the very best in dental technology, and we believe that tooth-colored restorations fit the bill. If you are interested in replacing your existing silver or mercury fillings with tooth-colored restorations, or if you have dental decay that needs repair, contact our office at (310) 458-4000 to schedule a consultation with Dr. Ganesh at your earliest convenience.


On the endjin blog this week, Alice Waddicor discusses creating a PowerBI report with DirectQuery and multiple SQL Database sources using Elastic Query.
On the Azure blog, Christian Wade talks about automated partition management with Azure Analysis Services, whilst Jose Miguel Parrella announces the availability of Clear Linux OS in the Azure Marketplace.
Clemens Vasters discusses Azure Service Bus messaging on-premises futures, and Andres Juarez reveals Azure Automation is available in UK and West Central US regions.
On TechNet, Sam McNeill describes how to keep your data fresh with PowerBI gateways.
John Savill (@NTFAQGuy) blogs about monitoring enterprise agreement Azure spend with Power BI.
On Channel 9, Josh Caplan (@JoshCaplan1984) talks about Azure Analysis Services and Christian Wade talks about Azure Analysis Services programmability and automation.
On the Azure blog, Christian Wade (@_christianWade) talks about automated partition management with Azure Analysis Services.
On Channel 9, Corey Sanders (@CoreySandersWA) reveals Cloud Foundry is generally available on Azure.
John Savill (@NTFAQGuy) explains how to understand default metrics for Azure IaaS VMs.
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Praveen Kumar Sreeram (@PrawinSreeram) blogs about configuring static IP addresses in VMs.
On MSDN, Sudhir Rawat (@rawatsudhir) walks through building chat assistance using Q&A Maker and Xamarin.
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Vincent-Philippe Lauzon covers joining an ARM Linux VM to AAD Domain Services.
On the Planet Geek blog, Daniel Marbach (@danielmarbach) introduces the MultiProducerConcurrentConsumer for Azure Service Bus message completion.
On MSDN, Zhong Chen covers processing configurable threshold based rules in Azure Stream Analytics.
On Channel 9, Luis Valencia (@levalencia) asks how cold is it, right now?
On the Catapult Systems blog, Cameron Fuller talks about visualizing Azure Automation job information in Microsoft OMS, and Mick Monk walks through deploying to Azure with ARM templates.
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I am a 30-year-old man in a professional job. My career is going well, but the one thing in my life I am not enjoying is my relationship. My girlfriend, 25, has a beautiful five-year-old daughter, who I adore, and a job, but is restricted due to being a single mother. I am no longer in love with her, but when I try to finish the relationship she cries, and it breaks my heart. I end up taking it back and telling her I'm just stressed by work.
She is a very anxious woman, and clingy, which I hate. If I don't text her back she sends me messages which appear normal, but I can sense the panic in them. She constantly needs reassurance and it's now becoming very annoying. What do I do?
This letter appeared last week in the Guardian.
Interesting introduction (possibly edited by the Guardian, but I'll treat it as if it wasn't). "A professional job" is an odd thing to say, but I think it means you feel you are doing well for you age, since your age is in the same sentence. You state that life's going well in general, but your relationship is not going well. That's striking because relationships are the most important part of our lives.
The message is – if I could just get out of this relationship then things would be perfect. So, already there's a big red flag waving. Perhaps you need to be in a bad relationship so you can provide yourself with an explicable reason as to why you feel so guilty and hounded (the real reasons being much earlier)? Is the relationship a defence against thinking about things that are really going on for you? Have you been in this kind of relationship before? (Probably).
You say your girlfriend is "restricted" and I wonder what that means here. Perhaps you mean it's hard to go out in the evenings or on holiday? Presumably, however, you knew she had a child when you got into the relationship, so these restrictions are unconsciously self-imposed. You chose someone whose personal freedom is limited and who perhaps feels very trapped. I wonder why?
Perhaps (taking the hint from your intro about being successful) having a girlfriend who very much needs you feeds a kind of omnipotent fantasy – if you are the powerful, successful one without needs then you don't have to acknowledge the very frightened, needy side of yourself? Maybe, at least initially, it made you feel powerful to be with someone who has less freedom, money and power than you have? Interestingly, her daughter is described as beautiful and adored. [Were you brought up by a single mum, I wonder?] Probably the child is able to like you without needing you?
You go on to say that you "try to finish the relationship", rather than that you do finish it. You are quickly manipulated by her need and your own guilt (about what, fundamentally?) keeps you in. Her love for you breaks your heart, particularly as you have none for her. I'm slightly tempted to leap to your mother here – was she very vulnerable, did she/does she need you, use you as a tool to meet her emotional needs while ignoring yours? But I think you are really in touch with a desperately needy side of yourself that has never been allowed out.
Perhaps your needs were never met – the people you wanted to stay did not stay? Something in you imagines that you know how your girlfriend feels – you know what terrible loss feels like. You also know (or are in some way in touch with the fact) that you are inflicting it, this pain, as a way of avoiding being that one, the left one, the lost one, the unwanted one. I think you have been in this position, or felt yourself to be in this position, in early life and it's so unbearable that you must make sure you're never in it again. An effective way of doing this is to do it to someone else, but because you know how it feels you are tortured by what you do. (In fact, of course, you do not know how your girlfriend feels – her loss may feel very different to yours, or to what you imagine).
It's also important to point out that she probably would not want to stay with you if she knew what you really thought of her. So, in some ways, you are staying with her in order to protect yourself and her from the knowledge of what you are really like. You find it too difficult to admit your true feelings for fear of….? Being hated? Retaliation? Shame? You are, in fact, protecting yourself by staying with her and not protecting her at all. If she had all the information she would almost certainly leave you very quickly. But you continue to lie to her.
You say you hate anxious and clingy women (real loathing there – for all women excepting powerful newspaper columnists?), yet you chose one. You may hate them (again, seeing an unwanted part of yourself in them), but you are drawn to them. This might be you trying to rescue your mum as well as a projection of uknown/unwanted sides of yourself.
I'm fascinated by the messages that "appear normal" but in which you sense the panic. How, if they appear normal? The panic is yours. You are sensing panic. You want to believe it's hers but, in fact, the messages are normal. And you then panic. I think this is probably because being needed is so absolutely unbearable. And yet it's also so necessary to you, so that you don't have to feel needy yourself. Again, if your mother was terribly needy and anxious then perhaps your own needs weren't met so you ended up desperate too. Wild guess, obviously.
You say this woman's need for reassurance is annoying and of course it is because you can't offer it sincerely. If you did love her you'd be able to reassure her. But if you did love her then she wouldn't sense that you didn't and need reassurance. What do you do? Well, obviously, you leave in a clear and clean way and don't get cowed by her manipulation. In an ideal world. But then what?
Then you have to look at what magnetic pull the very needy have on you, why you need to be in that position of power and how to allow yourself to be needy and thereby to allow others to need you. Easier said than done, of course….
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Along the Kentucky Music Trail
Country music and more in the Appalachian Mountains
By Susan McKee
From Berea, through the Renfro Valley, on to Prestonburg and Ashland, I found music everywhere on the Kentucky Music Trail. Last summer I spent five days checking out the options on the Bluegrass State's newly designated tourist route, and returned impressed.
You will be, too, because (in its second year) the trail includes even more performances by names you'll recognize. This weekend, for example, you can hear both Ricky Skaggs and Billy Ray Cyrus. Patty Loveless is on tap for next weekend and Loretta Lynn the weekend after (all are Kentuckians).
Last July, I started at the beginning, just off I-75 at Berea. I'd been there before (if you haven't spent the night or eaten a meal at Boone Tavern — the Berea College-operated country inn —you've missed a real down-home treat). But, that's not all there is to this unbelievably picturesque town. There are more regional arts and crafts than you can shake a stick at. In fact, many are made of wood, from broomsticks and dulcimers to rocking chairs and other furniture.
There's the rustic stuff in the galleries but also the latest in contemporary art. Not every Kentucky artisan is trying to replicate grandmother's quilts (but those who do, do it very well indeed). Don't miss the Upstairs Gallery (114 Main Street). Also, meander over to check out Gastineau Jewelry (135 North Broadway).
Renfro Valley, a ways south of Berea, was a surprise. I was expecting the "aw, shucks!" ambiance of television-style hillbilly music performances at something titled Front Porch Pickin'. Instead, I was treated to extraordinary acoustic musicians who happened to play the fiddle (no, they don't call it the violin down here). This wasn't music as a comedy riff, but some downright serious playing by very talented people.
One of my stops was the Kentucky Music Hall of Fame and Museum (every state, 'cept Indiana, seems to have one these days). It's a lot smaller and quieter than the one I visited in Tennessee, but you've heard about 'most everybody immortalized here, from Rosemary Clooney and the Everly Brothers to Loretta Lynn and her sister Crystal Gayle (more on them later). Kentucky music is more than country (just ask Lionel Hampton, who's also part of the display).
After Renfro Valley, the Kentucky Music Trail heads east from I-75 on U.S. 80 (Daniel Boone Parkway) to U.S. 23 — officially designated as "Country Music Highway," then north to Ashland (a bit east on I-64). You can then return to I-75 by traveling west on I-64.
Part of the fun of following the trail is the astonishing scenery. This is an undeveloped part of the state (now that the coalmines are, for the most part, closed). Endless vistas of green mountains hem in both sides of the road. I found myself daydreaming about returning in the fall, when the colors of the leaves must be dazzling.
I saw Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat at Jenny Wiley Theatre, an outdoor venue in the state park of the same name. I hate to damn with faint praise, but considering that the cast was mostly local, and many of them high school age or younger, it was pretty good. And fun to watch (don't forget the bug spray). You can take both grandma and the kids to any of their productions without worry. Everything's G-rated.
Driving along U.S. 23, I stopped at Mountain HomePlace, a 1850s-era working farm outside Paintsville. It doesn't look a whole lot different than many of the places I'd passed where people still live, but the interpreters here dress in period costumes and perform regular chores including raising crops such as flax, sorghum and vegetables, and animals. I was surprised to learn that green beans were grown in great profusion so they could be dried and hung from the log cabin rafters as a winter food source. Don't miss the video, narrated by Richard Thomas (of "Walton's" fame) — he grew up in these parts.
Where people don't live any more is in the company coal towns, such as Van Lear. Once the mines shut down, the coal miners' daughters (and sons) scattered. That included the Webb family, who moved from Butcher Hollow to northern Indiana, where dad found factory work and the kids grew up. We all know two of the kids better as Loretta Lynn and Crystal Gayle.
Things are slow now here in the hills, and the girls' brother Herman Webb is usually available to give personal tours of the old home place. Just stop at No. 5 Country Store on Kentucky 302 near Miller's Creek just past Van Lear and ask for him. He'll lead you on the narrow roads to the family homestead in Butcher Hollow, take you through the house, then sit on the porch with you and reminisce about growing up dirt poor. (He even gave me a certificate signed by Loretta Lynn herself thanking me for visiting.)
After sitting a spell with Herman, I headed on toward Mountain Arts Center in Prestonburg, which shines on the weekend with headline entertainment (that's where Ricky Skaggs performs this Friday). I saw the Kentucky Opry there early last August. It doesn't have the show biz polish of the one in Nashville, but it has a whole lot more heart.
The final stop on the Kentucky Music Trail is Ashland. You can see Billy Ray Cyrus at the Paramount Arts Center there on Saturday. On my visit, I enjoyed a performance by John Conlee — his biggest hit was Rose Colored Glasses, but I remembered Busted much better. Seems people started throwing money on the stage a few years ago when he sang that Harlan Howard standard ('bout a poor guy with the cow that's gone dry and the hen that won't lay), so he started collecting it on purpose and sending the money to Feed the Children, an Oklahoma City charity (the take thus far — more than $70,000).
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For a complete and up-to-date schedule of who's playing where on the Kentucky Music Trail 2003 Concert Series, check out the link on www.KentuckyTourism.com
Berea College students operate both the restaurant and lodgings at the Boone Tavern. www.berea.edu
There are music performances Wednesdays through Sundays from May through October at Renfro Valley Entertainment Center, 1-800-765-7464. Check the Web site for more performances, including comedy, between March and December. www.renfrovalley.com
When you go to Renfro Valley, stop also at the Kentucky Music Hall of Fame and Museum www.kentuckymusicmuseum.com and look for Bill Monroe. Shucks, he was born in Kentucky but we all know him from his Hoosier home place in Bean Blossom, don't we?
Jenny Wiley State Resort Park and its Theatre, 1-877-225-5598, are outside Paintsville on Dewey Lake. The theater, now in its 39th year, has a rotating repertory scheduled June through August, so it's possible to see as many as four plays in three days when the season is in full swing. www.state.ky.us/agencies/parks/jwiley2.htm
Mountain Arts Center, Prestonburg; 1-888-622-2787, has musical performances at 8 p.m. on Saturdays and Sundays through August. www.macarts.com
There's a busy seasonal schedule, too, in Ashland at Paramount Arts Center, 1-606-324-3175. www.paramountartscenter.com
For more about Appalachian writers, check out Jesse Stuart Foundation, an Ashland-based organization funded by the late author to help others from his region .www.jsfbooks.com
Kentucky Historical Society www.kyhistory.org


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Lessons from Libya: Gaddafi's tactics – and NATO's Response
10/25/2011 Richard de Silva - defenceiq.com
This past summer, Defence IQ spoke with Lieutenant General Friedrich Wilhelm Ploeger, the Deputy Commander of NATO's Allied Air Command Ramstein, who joined us on the line direct from Ramstein Airbase in Germany. For some background, Lt Gen Ploeger has a long and coloured history within airpower dating back to his enlistment in the German Air Force in 1967 up to his current position in this senior leadership role. Throughout his career, which has seen him take up numerous command and staff assignments, he's been awarded the Silver and Gold Cross of Honour of the Bundeswehr, the Order of Merit on the Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany, and the Black Eagle Order Third Class of the Republic of Estonia…
Defence IQ A very good afternoon General, it's a pleasure to have you with us today.
FWP Yes.
DIQ I trust you're well?
FWP Pretty well, accustomed to the European Time Zone again after a lengthy stay in the US for very important cause at Maxwell Air Force Base and then ten days of I think at least some leave!
DIQ Excellent, well we're glad to have you back on this side of the Atlantic. For now, thank you very much for making some time for us. I think for those who perhaps need clarification, could you just start by telling us how important a role does the Alliance play in both European defence and in global defence?
FWP Yes. The answer is quite obvious. When we look at the new strategic concept we see that the Alliance is and remains the cornerstone of defence for its member nations and the importance of Article V has been highlighted again. The Alliance started as an alliance of necessity during the Cold War period when we faced a common Russian threat but it changed after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the fall of the Iron Curtain to an alliance of choice. But we again see a change in the Alliance as an alliance of necessity because of the changed financial environment we are moving into and I will come to that field again when I look at Alliance air power and sea power.
When you look at the history of the Alliance, NATO has always been a sea and air power Alliance and these are of course very expensive and critical capabilities that require a lot of financial investment and when we look at the current situation, due to the high costs of state of the art technology, the Alliance, especially in the area of air and sea power, will continue to be an alliance of necessity because otherwise we will not be able to achieve the required capabilities to cope with the current and future challenges in front of us.
DIQ Well looking at these current and future challenge, being that much of the air power focus has been towards irregular warfare of late, what developments have been made in recent years in the way air support actually provides reliable ISR, specifically for counterinsurgency operations.
FWP I think ISR is that field where we see the most dramatic developments, especially technologically both in process and in experience. The most obvious signs of this are through the introduction of new assets with vastly improved capability, whether that's through better product, that is vastly improved sensors, better loiter time, extended loiter time through those unmanned systems like Global Hawk and Predator or survivability by the introduction of stealth capabilities. While overall processes continue to develop, particularly through experience gained in recent and ongoing operations, when we look at Afghanistan and Libya, our ability to exploit this capability has developed in parallel with the technological changes giving us a truly networked capability to exploit in real time. Traditional ISR is the primary role of unmanned area systems, but full motion video capability makes it more than competent in filling, especially for a time sensitive targeting or coined missions, and furthermore changed detection software allows an effective use in any coined scenarios, especially when we look at the threat posed to our forces in Afghanistan by IEDs.
DIQ Okay, what about the use of electronic warfare with modern airborne operations? I think it's known that the ISAF mission has recognised a lack of EW assets to meet the necessary requirements – that's on public record – but do you think the reaction to this should simply be a drive to increase EW assets or are there alternative options open in insuring that we have that required capability?
FWP I think we should be aware of the fact that we will always have a demand for additional assets. So the demand for electronic warfare assets will always outstrip our ability to provide them and looking at the financial situation we are in, there is at the moment no light at the end of the tunnel that we would be able to procure more specialised electronic warfare systems. So we need to look for alternative options and there is one option that looks into the area of increased availability of electronic warfare assets. Because they are getting a bit older we need to look at ways how to make them more available for our operation, we need to look at the way we use those assets, whether we do it really effectively enough or whether there are ways we improve them. And we need to look at a more balanced and effective mix of the systems, that is airborne systems as well as ground systems that are helping our forces in Afghanistan to cope, especially with the IED [threat] and with the threat by the Afghan Taliban forces. So a mix of those measures should help us to overcome that problem. In the end, there is also the way to acquire additional capabilities in the Alliance through cost sharing and common procurement but that is still an area that needs to be debated in Brussels in the political fields.
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DIQ Just curious…does the deficit in the use of EW stem at all from a concern over inadvertently disrupting civilian systems? I mean is it just that there's a need to be as cautious as possible? Is that holding us back at all in terms of either acquiring the technology or knowing when best to use it?
FWP No, definitely not. It needs to be well coordinated with all parties involved in such an operation, but of course we also need to maintain operation security, so there are various fields that need to be observed and the necessity not to overly disrupt civilian communication systems does not really impact on our mission. I think we can cope with the situation.
DIQ Yes, good to know. Just going back to your mentioning earlier of Libya, the operation there is of course primarily an Allied air mission, can I ask what have been the key lessons learned to date on dealing with an adversarial air and ground force from the perspective of the Alliance and are there any gaps that you can point to, either technological or tactical, that have been identified in the needs of the Allied forces?
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FWP When we look at the Libyan operation, the air mission of course is in focus also and especially in the media. We should, I think however, not forget that the operation Unified Protector as it is called in NATO is an operation that also encompasses embargo operations performed by our fellow comrades at sea. When I look at the threat posed by Libyan air forces I can state that they do not pose a real challenge because air superiority and air dominance was quickly achieved already during Operation Odyssey Dawn that proceeded Operation Unified Protector when we started to implement the no-fly zone, thus the Libyan Air Force is no longer a factor of ours. The Libyan ground forces have demonstrated the capability to quickly adapt in tactics. For instance they are copying opposition tactics thus making NATO's air-to-ground operations to protect civilians from attack by Gaddafi forces very demanding and very complex. Operation Unified Protector [brought to light] the importance of the enablers, that is especially to add to our refuelling, ISR, unmanned area systems and last but not least, low CDE weapons, weapons with a very low collateral damage factor. The contribution of the US Air Force in those fields for mission success is essential and is vital because the European NATO nations alone do not possess enough capabilities.
Another lesson learned from Libya operations was that air operations of that type require a robust Air-Sea II organisation that could only be built up in the Libyan case by heavy augmentation from throughout the NATO command structure, thus highlighting the need to adjust personnel feelings for Air-Sea II in our new NATO command structure that was agreed upon by our defence ministers – thank God – in their footprint decision in early June. So an earlier, let's say 'lack of personnel' was properly corrected when our defence ministers decided on the footprint of the NATO command structure in early June, this was already I think the most important lesson identified and then learned and corrected by the Alliance.
DIQ Are there any particular examples that you could possibly give us in terms of the Libyan forces adopting ground tactics from others in order to make the lives of your officers in the air a lot more difficult?
FWP Yes, it is quite obvious when they learned that whenever they used their normal tanks, their normal weapon systems, which the Libyan Gaddafi forces used for attack against Libyan civilians, they were constantly under attack. They quickly changed by applying opposition forces tactics, that is, that they also used pick-up trucks and mounted their howitzers and mortars on those, and rather than running around in uniform, they started running around in civilian clothes, et cetera, et cetera, thus making life for us really difficult.
DIQ Okay, we'll look at that in a moment, but I just wanted to pick up on this topic of air superiority first and I think it's perhaps a given to say that UAVs are still being seen by most as the future of this domain. But can you tell us what the inherent challenges are in actually rolling out an increased unmanned capability and how is this likely to shape the future of the Alliance?
FWP Let me start with some principles. The basic elements of air power still remain the same and they are the key to air power superiority. These are the characteristics: speed, range, flexibility, and with the UAVs now we add a new dimension to those basic three characteristics, and that is persistence – beyond the physical limits of an air crew – so that should be kept in mind. That's the typical areas for unmanned systems are the so-called Dirty, Dull and Dangerous missions, provided that that is at the moment an area that needs to be kept in mind, provided that they are operating in an uncontested environment. Thus, especially when you look at persistence capability of unmanned systems, the concentration on ISR in developing UAV capabilities revolutionised this field, and it will continue to influence the development of tactics, techniques and procedures in the Alliance.
The increased use of unmanned systems of course has impacted on our Air-Sea II processes and especially the training of personnel to start with the simple operation of the UAVs, that is the pilot or the ground crew and the maintenance crew, to employ the UAVs in their operations to exploit the capabilities of the UAVs to their limits and finally to do command and control of UAVs in air operations. The key tasks however will still be the domain of manned systems that is gaining and maintaining air superiority, especially in contested environments.
DIQ And of course UAVs hosting electronic warfare systems are at present primarily being used to disrupt communications as you said, is this likely to mature soon to a more focused attempt to disrupt weapons or IEDs or those types of ordinance? In other words, how long before you see UAVs contributing more than the relatively modest role that they seem to be playing at this time?
FWP I think the main driver will be the demand and the requirement coming from ongoing operations and when ongoing operations continue to require development in these fields there will be more specialisation. When you look at the development in the Israeli Air Force, they also developed their capabilities following the requirement coming from their operations to deal with insurgents, to deal with certain threats and thus they developed their unmanned systems capability to a very tremendous capable air force.
DIQ So I suppose it has to be, from what you're saying, an organic process. We won't know until we know. I am also curious, in going by the recently publicised accounts of successful air operations, such as with Prowlers apparently being used in the elimination of key Al Qaeda targets, the ongoing air operations in Libya as we've been discussing, or the effectiveness of airborne COIN in Afghanistan specifically, does this all suggests the need for a rethink by those defence ministries who are scaling back their air forces as to whether that really is appropriate – and is it possible for us to see these types of achievements that we're witness to today with less varied air capability in terms of, for example, a single platform like the Joint Strike Fighter or indeed a predominantly unmanned fleet?
FWP This is indeed a very interesting question and the answer is not easy. I think most of our defence ministers are fully aware of the needs, but they need to find the middle way between what is required by the mission they give to their defence forces and what is financially available and then there is the second argument that scaling back in numbers does not necessarily mean that it is also a scale back in capability. The capabilities when you look at the new weapons systems are today far more superior than those capabilities that we used during the Kosovo air campaign for instance just over a decade ago in terms for instance of targets destroyed per mission. When you look at those times, eleven years ago in March '99, we were able as a rule to attack one target with one aircraft. Now with more modern aircraft and more modern air to ground weapons we can attack several targets with one sortie, with one mission, so this multiplies the capability of forces.
With regard to new platforms such as the Joint Strike Fighter, they bring enormous capability to our inventory, not least of which is through their ability to network and that is complimented by the versatility of their enhanced technology. An unmanned fleet is not, and I repeat what I said before, is not a stand alone item but complimentary to the very capable platforms we currently have and will acquire in the future with for instance the joint strike fighter and our challenge will be to use these new assets as effectively as we can and again this may require the Alliance look at its members, member states, specialising for instance in particular roles and capabilities and probably working to new areas of role and responsibility sharing.
DIQ It's good to have an authoritative voice on that subject. Just to retread very quickly on an issue you raised earlier with ground forces reportedly exploiting civilian populations and the difficulty that air forces have in perhaps identifying combat adversaries …given the intensity with which civilian casualties are again reported in the press and the huge impact that this can sometimes have on missions overall, particularly when adversaries may seek to exploit these incidents to build up public pressure, is a more focused effort needed do you think to enhance combat identification and situation awareness in general, and how are strikes coordinated from the ground to actually minimise these risks?
FWP You can believe me – and this is a true, honest answer – that especially civilian casualties is an area of greatest concern for us, for the air forces, especially when we look at our Afghanistan mission. Because this field has a huge impact on public opinion and how NATO forces are in total seen in Afghanistan and thus we try and do our best to reduce any collateral damage during incidents and enhance our ability to distinguish between friend and foe. Although this is a highly challenging task we can for instance point to the Libya operation where we achieved the best success rate ever …and the occasional weapon that was going astray because there was a technological problem was quickly identified by us and we came forward with the announcement that this was a weapon going astray due to a technical failure, so that Gaddafi was not able to really exploit this mishap.
DIQ Right.
FWP On the other hand we try to perfect really – we can not say 'to enhance' – we try to perfect our processes to 100% non-failure process so that any weapon that is delivered to a target is under full control, both by the air crew as well as by the ground crew and to achieve this goal we invest a lot in intensive training for especially our forward air controllers and technical air control parties on the ground in Afghanistan to make sure that no unintended collateral damage is really achieved so that there is the risk of civilian casualties reduced to zero if possible and the achievement over the last one and a half years was really immense, immense and we are now, when you look at the bare figures, only responsible for a very, very small fraction of the number of civilian casualties we see in Afghanistan.
However, there is still this challenge and we have to cope with any situation where a 'civ/cas', civilian casualty, even occurred and we will investigate every event to learn from these events and to exclude any mistakes in the future.
DIQ Is there one thing that you would put that success down to?
FWP I think the most important element is our enhanced training of the ground crews, the forward air controllers and of course the enhanced distribution and availability of equipment, modern equipment available to the forward air controller crews like rover equipment so that both the air crew and the controllers on the ground have the same picture.
DIQ Outstanding. Well it does make sense for it to be a priority and we're delighted to hear that it's having such great progress in such a short time. Lieutenant General Ploeger we do have to end there for now, but may I say it's been a privilege sir to hear your thoughts on these issues. Thank you very much indeed for your time and I wish you all the best of luck to you and all of those serving at the Alliance. Thank you.
FWP Yes, thank you very much for the opportunity to speak to you and to answer your questions.
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Analysis - NATO first to blink in Gaddafi's war of nerves
17 June 2011 defenseWeb Reuters
For a man who has been under Western bombardment for more than three months, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has not appeared unduly worried.
His appearance playing chess at the weekend with the Russian head of the World Chess Federation, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, was a piece of psychological theatre worthy of a veteran campaigner.
While Gaddafi has seemed to keep his cool, despite a relentless bombing onslaught launched in March, it is his powerful opponents in NATO who have appeared to lose theirs.
Reflecting frustration at NATO's inability to achieve quick results in a campaign some had forecast would be over in days or weeks, the U.S. defence secretary rounded on European allies last week for failing to back the mission the alliance took over in late March.
"The mightiest military alliance in history is only 11 weeks into an operation against a poorly armed regime in a sparsely populated country," Robert Gates said, "yet many allies are beginning to run short of munitions, requiring the U.S., once more, to make up the difference."
Now it's not only bombs, but the planes to deliver them that NATO risks running short of, with no sign of any new commitments to sustain the mission despite dire warnings from Gates about the very future of NATO and direct appeals to defence ministers from alliance Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen.
While Rasmussen has expressed his hope that the Libya mission can be concluded before the end of a second 90-day operations cycle in late September, many analysts consider this wishful thinking, given Gaddafi's resilience.
A mission that drags on beyond that date could present major problems, with some allies already stretched in their commitment and the United States reluctant to get dragged back into a leading role in the conflict as President Barack Obama faces criticism for the mission in the U.S. Congress.
Only eight of the 28 NATO states have provided planes for strike missions in Libya and pressure by Gates on others with available resources to do so, such as Spain, the Netherlands, Turkey and Germany, appear to have fallen on deaf ears.
Already Norway has announced it will have to scale back its contribution of strike aircraft this month and end their role in August, while European NATO stalwart Britain has said continuing the mission beyond September could be a challenge that could require diversion of resources from elsewhere.
Analysts say this could mean from NATO's war in Afghanistan, still termed the alliance's number-one priority.
Worse looms over the horizon, with France indicating it will need in the autumn to withdraw the Libyan mission's only aircraft carrier, the Charles de Gaulle, on virtually continuous operations since last year -- with no replacement in the offing.
"The elephant in the room is the imminent departure of the French carrier, given it has been flying 30-40 percent of all NATO strike sorties," said Tim Ripley, of Jane's Defence Weekly.
"It's a looming problem, so sustaining this operation, particularly if it's going to grind past September or October, is going to be a problem."
In the absence of other allies coming forward with strike aircraft that could be flown from land bases -- which would necessitate a fleet of refuelling tankers only the United States could provide -- one radical solution would be for Britain to redeploy decommissioned Harrier aircraft to its carrier HMS Illustrious, which was designated for conversion into a helicopter ship in Britain's defence review.
However, even if such a tricky political decision were taken by British Prime Minister David Cameron, it would be up to four months before the ship was ready for action, Ripley said.
A senior NATO commander conceded the extent of the worry on Tuesday. French General Stephane Abrial said the Libyan crisis had come as "a surprise" and if it were to last a long time "the resources issue will become critical."
Douglas Barrie, a military aviation specialist at London's International Institute of Strategic Studies, said that when Western powers launched the war in March, they appeared to be anticipating a quick mission.
"There may have been the view they would be pushing on an open door, but as the campaign has developed, it's become apparent that Gaddafi is not simply going to hang up his hat and leave the country," Barrie said.
"There was this aspiration that the mission would lead to the collapse of the regime and Gaddafi's removal but it wasn't structured to deliver that.
"And one of the things about Gaddafi is that he's stayed in power through thick and thin for four decades plus. He's been bombed before and has a track record of being able to hang in there in difficult circumstances."
Analysts said that in the absence of an unlikely "lucky bomb" that killed Gaddafi, and given the limitations of rebel forces and the West's unwillingness to commit ground forces, a divided Libya appeared an increasingly likely outcome.
"I wouldn't be surprised if NATO had to be there for a year, and I think it's 50-50 whether we end up seeing a frozen conflict and a de facto partition, with Gaddafi controlling part of Libya and the rebels the other," said Chris Schnaubelt of the NATO Defence College in Rome.
"If Gaddafi gets killed, then all bets are off, but if he survives physically, you are not going to get a quick change in the situation."
Marko Papic of political risk consultancy Stratfor said there appeared to be a growing acceptance of such a solution, at least in European capitals.
"It seems that they don't need to see the whole of Libya under rebel control -- this doesn't seem something they need success on for political, domestic purposes and that a split Libya is perfectly fine for the moment.
"Libya is not something that would make or break a government, the euro zone crisis and austerity are much more important politically," Papic said.
"In Libya, there's no political cost to muddling through indecisively."
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Pot Adventure Debut
In the new novel Deadman's Bust, former Humboldt grower Cory Marchese has written what Blogcritics.org calls "a real page-turner" about two brothers growing pot in the Humboldt hills in 1992:
The adventure takes us right into the heart of George H. W. Bush's "War on Drugs," the Medellin cartel, rogue cops, and a huge pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
It's Marchese's first novel. According to his biography on his own site corymarchese.com, Marchese moved from Minnesota to Humboldt in 1991 "to grow pot and learn to surf." Yeah, he's a bit of a cliché, but one many locals no doubt would cotton warmly to. As he writes:
Having been raised solo by a progressive mother in a not-so-progressive place -- a cold, hard, bleak, God forsaken place -- he felt an immediate affinity to Humboldt's people and culture. For years, he spent his time surfing, growing, and generally enjoying life until the DEA, like a drunk angry father, put the leather belt beat down on it. That bust would become a defining moment, having a most acute and lasting impact on the well-being of his psyche.
Marchese spent two and a half years in prison after he was busted. After that, in 1998, he started a construction company in the Bay Area, which he is still running today. And, he notes, these days he is "crime free, drives like a granny, and has a perfectly healthy fear of authority."
He's a novelist, now, too.
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The Mentoring and Counselling committee under the convenorship of Dr. Anubha Mukherji Sen and competent guidance of senior faculty comprising Dr. Pramesh Ratnakar , Dr. Sujata Sinha, Dr. Vandana Gupta, and Dr. Manoj Saxena , initiated a good practice in the college last year by organising a series of group counselling sessions for the staff and students of the college . These counselling sessions were conducted in collaboration with trained experts and psychologists from a wellness company Zyego. The counsellors are experienced in creating awareness and providing tips on emotional well being and conflict resolutions. The response to these interactive group sessions have been very encouraging with the participation of about 50 teachers and about 300 plus students and 25 Non Teaching Staff , in the last 7 sessions. The teachers were also given a participation certificate. The sessions were based on the following topics and were well received .


President Donald Trump, at an event in Phoenix, said that the USA will "end up probably terminating" the North American Free Trade Agreement with Canada and Mexico "at some point".
Our previous worldwide trade brief outlined the Canadian government's objectives for the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) renegotiations and what the implications are for Canadian businesses. In other words, this move would make it voluntary for the NAFTA countries to opt into the investor-state dispute settlement system (ISDS, which functions as an alternative to domestic court systems and lets corporations sue governments if they feel the value of their foreign investments have been diminished by governmental actions), meaning, more or less, that foreign investors would have to take any disputes through the USA court system.
The Trump administration has served notice that it's dealing with the issue outside NAFTA. Trump's top economic policy officials, Gary Cohn and Steve Mnuchin, don't appear to particularly share the president's views on trade policy, and Republican Party congressional leaders certainly don't. Trump campaigned on a pledge to do away with NAFTA, which he blamed for the loss of USA manufacturing jobs.
"Automotive, I think is going to be, without a doubt, one of the most intensely negotiated things", says Dan Ciuriak, fellow in residence at the C.D. Howe Institute and director and principal of Ciuriak Consulting Inc.in Ottawa. An old adage of Canadian political economy holds that "if the United States sneezes, Canada catches a cold" and while the trading relationship is important to both countries, it's clearly more important to Canada.
Last week, Texas Comptroller Glen Hegar said in a radio interview: "The biggest loser in tearing up NAFTA and throwing it in the trash really would be Texas, because we are an export state".
This week, U.S. President Trump said publicly, he's not sure that the U.S. will get what it wants in a renegotiated deal and may just terminate the trade agreement.
Trump's comments came ahead of the second round of NAFTA negotiations, which are scheduled to run from September 1-5 in Mexico City.
"What we've seen over this last week or so in financial markets has been a bit of wiggling around regarding the USA political situation", said Paul Eitelman, multi-asset investment strategist at Russell Investments in Seattle. For the US, farm exports to Canada and Mexico soared from $8.9 billion in 1993, before NAFTA implementation, to $38.1 billion in 2016, according to AFBF.
As negotiators for the three countries signed onto the North American Free Trade Agreement sit down together, we worry.
Republicans in the US have already stated their intention to try and open the land up for drilling which environmentalists and Indigenous people believe would dramatically impact the herd.
It's not the first time Trump has threatened to withdraw from NAFTA. "You have to wait a long time" for the process to play out, he said.
An global economic law professor and former State Department lawyer said he believes it would ultimately end up in court. "Exiting the agreement would be terribly destructive to the US economy".
"I think we would look at those (potential changes) as improving on something that's already quite good", she said. They said they would like to build on the original agreement's success by looking for ways to increase trade volumes. He also said he may shut down the government if he does not get funding to build a wall on the U.S. -Mexico border.


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import vendor from '../lib/vendor';

import { expect } from 'chai';

describe('vendor', () => {

    describe('.prefix()', () => {

        it('returns prefix',() => {
            expect(vendor.prefix('-moz-color')).to.eql('-moz-');
            expect(vendor.prefix('color'     )).to.eql('');
        });

    });

    describe('.unprefixed()', () => {

        it('returns unprefixed version', () => {
            expect(vendor.unprefixed('-moz-color')).to.eql('color');
            expect(vendor.unprefixed('color'     )).to.eql('color');
        });

    });

});

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Q: Sample size calculation for correlated count data I am wondering how I can simulate Poisson data that is correlated. Let's say, I collect data at two time points. At both time points, the data is Poisson distributed, at time point 1 with $\lambda=4$, at time point 2 with $\lambda=3$ and there should be a strong correlation between measurement at time point 1 and 2, i.e. $\rho = 0.8$. Obviously, for time point 1, I can sample data of size $n$ in R with rpois(n=n,lambda=4). But how can I sample the data for time point 2 that is correlated to time point 1?
Some more details on the specific lab problem:
The variable of interest is the number of successful 'catches' of a mouse (it's some kind of coordinative task). We count successes per mouse at time point 1. Then some treatment is applied to the mouse, that is supposed to affect its coordinative ability. We expect a drop in the average number of successes by around 25% in each mouse. Mice that were relatively good at the task before the treatment will probably still be relatively good after the treatment. A statistical comparison between time point 1 and 2 will be performed using the Wilcoxon signed-rank test. We want to know the sample size required to achieve power of 80% (while type I error rate should be 5 %).
Update:
It turns out, the number of successes is limited to discrete values between 0 and 7. Further, based on previous experiments we have the following probabilities for each number of successes before treatment: $p=\{0.02,0.03,0.09,0.17,0.19,0.30,0.15,0.05\}$.
Now, I am considering to sample values between 0 and 8 with the given probabilities and use it as the "true ability" of an individual mouse, similarly to a random effects model. Then, I would sample the actual successes for each mouse from a binomial distribution, with 8 trials and probability $p$ corresponding to the "true ability". For the second time point, I would do the same, just use $p_2=p*0.75$ to represent the 25% drop in ability.
Does that make sense to anyone? Any recommendations?

A: In the end, I came up with the following approach, which is basically a hierarchical model.
The historical data was used as "true" distribution of successful catches in 7 tasks. By sampling from this distribution, I create a set of the true abilities of n mice. Assuming that each mouse has a random component in its coordinative task and won't always perform according to its true ability, I used each mouse's true ability as proportion p in a binomial distribution to sample successes in k=7 trials. Due to the treatment, each mouse's individual p is then lowered by 25% (of course, I could have assumed a random component on the treatment effect, too, but I thought that could be a slight overkill). Finally, a Wilcoxon signed-rank test is used to compare the number of successes before and after treatment.
library(coin) # since this package can handle ties in the data
y <- c(rep(0,2),rep(1,3),rep(2,9),rep(3,17),rep(4,19),rep(5,30),rep(6,15),rep(7,5)) # historical data

nsim=1e4
n=14
power=0
p.value<-c()

while(power<0.8){
  n=n+1
  for(i in 1:nsim){
    smp <- sample(y, n, replace=TRUE)
    before.treat <- rbinom(n=n,size=7,prob=smp/7)
    after.treat <- rbinom(n=n,size=7,prob=(smp/7)*0.7)
    if(all((before.treat-after.treat)==0)){
      p.value[i] <- 1 # if there are no differences at all, we want a non-significant p-value
    } else {
      test <- wilcoxsign_test(before.treat ~ after.treat)
      p.value[i] <- pvalue(test)
    }
  }
  power<-sum(p.value<0.05)/nsim
  print(paste("N=",n,", power=",power))
}

> [1] "N= 15 , power= 0.7182"
> [1] "N= 16 , power= 0.7413"
> [1] "N= 17 , power= 0.7829"
> [1] "N= 18 , power= 0.8077"

I would be happy to take any commments on this approach. Particularly, I noted that the Monte Carlo simulations seem very sensitive to the random seed used and larger simulations do take a lot of time, so I am a bit worried about the validity of the results.

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Q: Could this query be optimized? My goal is to select record by two criterias that depend on each other and group it by other criteria.
I found solution that select record by single criteria and group it
SELECT *
FROM "records"
NATURAL JOIN (
  SELECT "group", min("priority1") AS "priority1"
  FROM "records"
  GROUP BY "group") AS "grouped"

I think I understand concept of this searching - select properties you care about and match them in original table - but when I use this concept with two priorities I get this monster
SELECT *
FROM "records"
  NATURAL JOIN (
    SELECT *
    FROM (
      SELECT "group", "priority1", min("priority2") AS "priority2"
      FROM "records"
      GROUP BY "group", "priority1") AS "grouped2"
    NATURAL JOIN (
      SELECT "group", min("priority1") AS "priority1"
      FROM "records"
      NATURAL JOIN (
        SELECT "group", "priority1", min("priority2") AS "priority2"
        FROM "records"
        GROUP BY "group", "priority1") AS "grouped2'"
      GROUP BY "group") AS "GroupNested") AS "grouped1"

All I am asking is couldn't it be written better (optimalized and looking-better)?
JSFIDDLE
---- Update ----
The goal is that I want select single id for each group by priority1 and priority2 should be selected as first and then priority2).
Example:
When I have table records with id, group, priority1 and priority2
with data:
id , group , priority1 , priority2
56 ,     1 ,         1 ,         2
34 ,     1 ,         1 ,         3
78 ,     1 ,         3 ,         1

the result should be 56,1,1,2. For each group search first for min of priority1 than search for min of priority2.
I tried combine max and min together (in one query`, but it does not find anything (I do not have this query anymore).

A: EXISTS() to the rescue! (I did some renaming to avoid reserved words)

SELECT *
FROM zrecords r
WHERE NOT EXISTS (
    SELECT *
    FROM zrecords nx
    WHERE nx.zgroup = r.zgroup
    AND ( nx.priority1 < r.priority1
        OR nx.priority1 = r.priority1 AND nx.priority2 < r.priority2
        )
    );

Or, to avoid the AND / OR logic, compare the two-tuples directly:

SELECT *
FROM zrecords r
WHERE NOT EXISTS (
    SELECT *
    FROM zrecords nx
    WHERE nx.zgroup = r.zgroup
    AND (nx.priority1, nx.priority2) < (r.priority1 , r.priority2)
    );

A: maybe this is what you expect
 with dat as (
SELECT "group" grp
, priority1, priority2, id
, row_number() over (partition by "group" order by priority1) +
      row_number() over (partition by "group" order by priority2) as lp
FROM "records")

select dt.grp, priority1, priority2, dt.id
from dat dt
join (select min(lp) lpmin, grp from dat group by grp) dt1 on (dt1.lpmin = dt.lp and dt1.grp =dt.grp)

A: Simply use row_number() . . . once:
select r.*
from (select r.*,
             row_number() over (partition by "group" order by priority1, priority2) as seqnum
      from records r
     ) r
where seqnum = 1;

Note:  I would advise you to avoid natural join.  You can use using instead (if you don't want to explicitly include equality comparisons).
Queries with natural join are very hard to debug, because the join keys are not listed.  Worse, "natural" joins do not use properly declared foreign key relationships.  They depend simply on columns that have the same name.
In tables that I design, they would never be useful anyway, because almost all tables have createdAt and createdBy columns.


1re rencontre de la moyenne section de Mme Chasseriau, Ecole Ferdinand Buisson - Site de 123arts !
Durant cette année scolaire madame Chasseriau a proposé à ses élèves un projet conséquent autour des Kapla. Nous avons convenu de prolonger cette expérience et d'utiliser les acquis des élèves en terme de construction et d'équilibre afin de croiser mon approche de la sculpture et plus précisemment ici ses matériaux. J'ai donc proposé aux élèves de réaliser une sculpture dans la classe avec ce qui s'y trouvait, ils m'ont proposé de travailler avec les chaises. Chacun a donc placé une chaise comme il le souhaitait, la seule contrainte étant le contact avec au moins une autre chaise.
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Create your beauty from the inside out by eating antioxidant-packed fruits and veggiesthat nourish your body and make you radiant! Did you know kiwis are rich in potassium, which helps you stay hydrated?
Kiwis, also known as kiwifruits, are tangy and delicious. But did you know that furry little kiwis are also packed with tons of skin-enhancing nutrients? Loaded with 94 percent of your daily vitamin C quota - more than an orange! - these little green cuties increase collagen production and brighten skin. Additionally, kiwis pack a vitamin E punch as well, which acts as an antioxidant in the body to fend off free radicals and smooth skin. The antioxidants in kiwis can help banish blemishes, too.
-Ripe kiwifruits should be unblemished and firm, but should also yield to gentle pressure when touched.
-Be sure to eat kiwis as you slice them; their key nutrients evaporate quickly.
-Need to look fresher and brighter in the morning? Placing slices of kiwi under your eyes can lighten dark circles. Plus, the ascorbic acid (vitamin C) in kiwis - a natural astringent - helps to minimize pores and keep skin looking great.
-Keep your skin buffed and fresh using kiwis, too - the little fruit is an excellent exfoliating facial cleanser.


Hansgrohe minimalistic designed accessories ranging from mixers to valves ae apart from the usual clutter of unsightly bath fittings. The single lever basin mixer with plate by Hansgrohe is suitable for continuous flow water heaters. The handle of basin mixer can be positioned on the right or left, depends on the basic set installation. It comes with non-closing waste set and joystick ceramic cartridge.


Roma people fled their camp on the outskirts of Naples on Wednesday morning after clashing with local residents over an alleged attempted attack on a teenage girl.
A group of Naples residents threw stones and fireworks at the camp in Poggioreale after a 16-year-old girl claimed two Roma men attempted to assault her, La Repubblica reported. They also formed a roadblock in protest.
The girl is reported to have returned home on Tuesday night in an "agitated state" following the alleged attempted assault.
La Repubblica said that two of her cousins went to the camp, which houses about 250 Roma people, in a bid to "punish" the two men, but instead came to blows and ended up with minor injuries.
Police are now monitoring the camp while the president of Poggioreale has called for it to be closed.
An estimated 40,000 Roma people live in camps on the outskirts of Italian cities and are denied access to adequate public housing, education and healthcare.
Italy has often come under attack for its treatment of the community.
In October, Amnesty International accused the Rome authorities of keeping thousands of Roma people on the margins of society through an "assisted housing" system designed to banish the community in "ghettos" beyond the city's periphery.
"Its assisted housing system is designed and implemented in such a way as to condemn thousands of Roma purely on ethnic grounds to live in segregated, substandard accommodation in camps far from services and residential neighbourhoods. This is a blight on the city of Rome," John Dalhuisen, the organization's programme director for Europe and Central Asia, said in a statement at the time.
Amnesty estimates that half of the Roma in Italy are Italian citizens, while others are recognized refugees from former Yugoslavia, migrants mostly from Romania and the Balkans, or are recognized or de facto stateless people.
"Roma are an integral part of Italian society. Yet, they remain among the most severely affected by gravely inadequate housing conditions and widespread discrimination, in Rome and in many other Italian cities," Dalhuisen added.


Do you NEED to Twit…er, Tweet?
If you own a computer or mobile phone with internet access, you can't get through your morning coffee without sensing the urgency of social networking.
Facebook, Stumbleupon, LinkedIn, Twitter—ugh—are all the rage and driving us to increasingly short, frequent, distracted, and interrupted communications. And, you can likely add a half-dozen LinkedIn groups or other networks of interest to your burgeoning list.
Can you keep up with the constant checking and email digests? I can't, and don't try.
Is all of this communicating necessary to our daily lives or business? No. Is it useful? Often. Can it be constructively tamed? Yes.
On June 10th, CNN posted a poll in which over 70% of respondents said they felt overwhelmed by social media. MSNBC reported "social media overload" last summer (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25707391/). I've recently seen many online discussions about how many discussions are about social media…and not much else. Have we reached self-perpetuating babble?
When clients ask if they can—or should—use social media as part of their communications, I guardedly say, "yes," with caveats.
Be realistic about time: join only networks that you can maintain. If you can't tweet and review Twitter postings at least once each day, don't use Twitter. Blog only if you can do so at least once each week. Join social networks only if you have time to scan email digests daily and post once a week.
Be selective: not every social media format is right for you or your business. Try out a couple. If they are productive—in terms of what you learn and what connections you make—pursue them. If your networks aren't growing or the information isn't valuable, drop them and open your schedule to others.
Set a discipline: as with all things that involve time, discipline is crucial. Set a limit (5 minutes, 30 minutes, etc.) and a routine time of day to manage your social networks, including both reviewing and posting.
Set goals: what do you want your social networking to achieve? Increased web traffic? More customers? A broader network for partnering? Have a clear idea of what you hope to gain, and shape your networking efforts to support those goals.
Next time, we'll talk about what ROI to expect from your social networking efforts, followed by a third entry on how to integrate social media into your overall marketing and communications picture.
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Quiz Rules
Tie-Break
Clash of Countries
Henrik Mølgaard
Season 111 - Tie-break !!!
Playable Characters in Mario Kart Wii
With more than 37 million copies sold, Mario Kart Wii (2008) is one of the best selling video games of all time. Before starting a game you have to choose which character you want to be your avatar in the game. From the start you can choose from 12 different characters, but it is possible to unlock more playable characters - 14 additional characters in total. Name as many of the playable characters in Mario Kart Wii as possible. Name as many of the playable characters in Mario Kart Wii as possible. Naming characters that do not appear in Mario Kart Wii or characters that are not playable will deduct a point. You can answer several times until 10 o'clock CET tonight (6 December). You answer by sending a chat message to the page. There will be no continuous update of who has the most correct answers, nor will the quizmaster answer whether or not an answer is correct or incorrect when it has been submitted. Players are allowed to delete submitted answers, if they realize an answer given might be incorrect.
If two or more players finish with the same number of tie-break points, the player who has given the most correct answers (but also more incorrect answers) is the winner. If the players are still tied they will get a new question, where they will be asked for one answer to a question they will not know the exact answer to. The player who comes closest to the correct answer will then be declared the winner.
Everybody can play along of course, but it will not give anybody additional points - the-tie break is only meant to sort out the ranking of the top players.
Player one names the following characters:
A, B, C and D and X, Y and Z
Player two names the following characters:
A, B, and C and X
A, B, C and D are correct answers
X, Y and Z are wrong answers
Player one has a score of 1 (4 correct minus 3 incorrect)
Player two has a score of 2 (3 correct minus 1 incorrect)
Thus Player two wins with a score of 2 even if player one had more correct answers overall.
Season 114 - Tie-Break
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Multi-layered transaction completed on Peterborough warehouse
Logicor, Taylor Wimpey UK Ltd and Dart Products Europe Ltd complete deal on 189,687 sq ft Peterborough warehouse
One of the most multi-layered transactions during the recent COVID-19 lockdown has resulted in Bidwells and Knight Frank brokering a deal involving a surrender and new lease on a 189,687 sq ft warehouse on Kingston Park, Peterborough.
Dart Products Europe Ltd, represented by Bidwells, originally acquired the facility from Logicor in 2017 as its UK distribution hub. However, due to unforeseen headwinds within the plastic and paper cup industry, the decision was taken to close the warehouse along with its manufacturing plant in Huntingdon. With a substantial fit-out including; VNA racking system, new canteen/welfare facilities and modern offices, the unit was offered to the market on a sublet basis with approximately seven years remaining on the current lease.
Due to growing demand and upcoming lease events, Taylor Wimpey UK Ltd, advised by Knight Frank, identified the Peterborough facility as the ideal location from which to provide a national distribution centre for the delivery of building products and materials to its house building sites across the UK. After initially discussing an assignment of the Dart lease, it was decided to involve the landlord, Logicor, and enter negotiations based on a surrender of the existing lease and simultaneous grant of a new lease to Taylor Wimpey UK Ltd.
Due to the bespoke configuration of the VNA racking, this had to be removed and the floor fully reinstated to FM2 (special) standard. This work was undertaken by Bidwells' building surveying team and included not only the removal of all 25,000 pallet locations within two weeks but also the removal of all 4,900 floor bolts and infill of the ground forklift paths. Despite the pressures of the COVID-19 lockdown, this work was completed within four months from instruction.
The result culminated in Dart Products Europe Ltd being released from its ongoing lease liabilities, Taylor Wimpey UK Ltd acquiring a new UK National Distribution Centre and Logicor securing a new occupier.
Patrick Stanton, Head of Industrial and Logistics at Bidwells commented:
"We are very pleased to have advised Dart on this substantial lease disposal. Taking account of all costs, Dart was holding an eight-figure liability sum on this property so we are delighted to have successfully removed this obligation from its balance sheet. All parties worked tirelessly and diligently in identifying a solution that benefited all involved, which was refreshing given the current market circumstances."
Mike Best, Asset Manager at Logicor commented:
"At Logicor we strive to work closely with our customers, listen to their needs and concerns and ensure their property facilities suit their needs, so we were delighted to be able to help in securing the best solution for Dart. And of course, it's great to welcome Taylor Wimpey, a new customer within our UK portfolio. Thanks to the team who worked very hard to provide the best solution for all."
Simon Warren, Partner Logistics and Industrial at Knight Frank commented:
"After a substantial review of Taylor Wimpey's existing properties and business operations, we are delighted to have acquired DC189 in Peterborough to provide a national distribution centre for the delivery of building products and materials to its house building development plots across the UK. Knight Frank will project manage the modification and fit out of the building over the next few months prior to operations commencing in H1 2021."
Nick Wright, Supply Chain Director at Taylor Wimpey UK Ltd added:
"We are pleased to have completed the deal on this warehouse space in Peterborough. This is an important milestone for Taylor Wimpey UK Ltd as we continue to look for ways to streamline our business operations. We look forward to working with Knight Frank over the coming months and launching this new facility early in 2021."
Kingston Park, Peterborough
Bidwells' 2020 logistics successes helps drives the local economy
Bidwells forecasts huge increase in demand for workspace in Oxford-Cambridge Arc as cluster leads the UK's fight against Covid-19
Big box lockdown deals top 1.4m sq ft
INDUSTRIAL UNIT SPECULATIVELY DEVELOPED IN NORWICH HITS MARKET
Two prime Peterborough Gateway logistics assets on market with Bidwells


We had a patient in this week who was celebrating their birthday! Of course, the Boardwalk Dental Team knew it was a "special" birthday for him and decided to celebrate - we think he looked pretty "COOL"!
Thanks for sharing your day with us Terry!
Boardwalk Dental Care is excited to share that we now offer enhanced oral assessments with VELscope® Technology.
The VELscope® Vx Enhanced Oral Assessment System centers on a handheld scope that is used by dentists to help visualize oral tissue abnormalities, including cancer and pre-cancer. While it must be used together with and as a supplement to the traditional intra and extraoral head and neck exams, unlike others it does not require any dyes or prolonged testing procedures. In fact, a VELscope® Vx exam can be performed in the dentist's office in about two minutes during a routine hygiene exam.
So how does it work? The VELscrope Vx emits a harmless, bright blue light which is used to inspect the mouth and tongue. The device is so sensitive to abnormal tissue changes that the distinctive blue-spectrum light causes the soft tissue of the mouth to naturally fluoresce. Healthy tissue is noticed as it tends to fluoresce in distinct patterns that can be visibly disrupted by any trauma or diseases, including fungal, viral or bacterial infections. Dentists are also embracing the use of this device to help visualize abnormal oral tissue such as potential cancerous or pre-cancerous tissues that are not apparent or sometimes not even visible with the naked eye alone.
Because VELscope is now a part of the Boardwalk Dental Care enhanced oral assessments, exams are now more thorough and any suspicious areas can be quickly investigated for confirmation of oral disease. Its use in everyday practice can provide timely information to dentists and hygienists to enable earlier visualization of abnormal tissues and provide better outcomes for patients. Be sure to call Boardwalk Dental to book an enhanced oral assessment today!


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Q: Check Constraint in Oracle I have been struggling to figure out a way to insert check such that it won't allow payment date to be earlier than the invoice date. basically, I have two table: invoice and payment. so I want a check constraint to enter into payment a date that is before the purchase date in invoice table. The invoice_id in Invoice table is a FK in payment table. Any help?

A: A check constraint can only look at columns on the table it is defined on.
You'll need to use a TRIGGER to do this.

A: One approach might be to duplicate the purchase date in the payment table, add a second unique constraint over the combination of invoice_id + purchase date, then modify the FK constraint to include it. Then, you can have your row-level constraint. e.g.
CREATE TABLE invoices
( invoice_id    NUMBER NOT NULL
, purchase_date DATE NOT NULL
, CONSTRAINT invoice_pk PRIMARY KEY (invoice_id)
, CONSTRAINT invoice_uk UNIQUE (invoice_id, purchase_date)
);

CREATE TABLE payments
( payment_id    NUMBER NOT NULL
, invoice_id    NUMBER NOT NULL
, purchase_date DATE NOT NULL
, payment_date  DATE NOT NULL
, CONSTRAINT payment_pk PRIMARY KEY (payment_id)
, CONSTRAINT payment_invoice_fk
    FOREIGN KEY (invoice_id, purchase_date)
    REFERENCES invoices (invoice_id, purchase_date)
, CONSTRAINT payment_date_ck
    CHECK (payment_date >= purchase_date)
);

Downside: updating invoices.purchase_date becomes a bit tricky.


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Middle-Aged and Impaired? More Common Than You Might Think
MONDAY, Nov. 13, 2017 (HealthDay News) -- As early as middle age, many Americans have problems with dressing, grocery shopping and otherwise caring for themselves -- and for some, it leads to a progressive decline, a new study finds.
The study, of nearly 6,900 middle-aged adults, found that roughly 1 in 5 developed a "functional impairment" before age 65. That meant they had difficulty with routine self-care or daily tasks such as bathing themselves and making meals.
Though those types of disabilities are common among elderly people, the new findings show that middle-aged people often have similar issues -- and they do not always recover.
That had been a big question going into the study, according to lead researcher Dr. Rebecca Brown: "Is functional impairment in middle age a temporary phenomenon, or does it have consequences later?" Brown is an assistant professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco.
For many people in the study, their impairment did have consequences. Overall, 16 percent of middle-aged participants with impairments got worse over the next 10 years, and 19 percent died.
The better news, Brown said, was that many people either remained stable or got better. In all, 28 percent regained their function and remained disability-free for the rest of the study period.
The findings are published in the Nov. 14 issue of Annals of Internal Medicine.
The study did not break down the specific causes of people's disabilities, but 43 percent of those who developed a disability had arthritis, and a similar percentage were obese.
Low-income adults also faced higher risks, Brown pointed out. There could be multiple reasons for that, she said -- from higher rates of chronic health conditions to less access to medical care.
For starters, any problems with self-care in middle age should probably be seen as a "red flag," said Dr. Thomas Gill, a professor of geriatrics at the Yale School of Medicine. "It's a sign that a person is potentially vulnerable," said Gill, who wrote an editorial published with the study.
His advice to people who've ever had a functional impairment: Talk to your doctor about whether you can better manage any chronic medical conditions.
"Ask your doctor, 'If I'm having difficulty with these tasks at the age of 60, what will happen when I'm 70?' " Gill said.
Lifestyle is a big issue, he pointed out. Regular exercise and, if needed, weight loss can help manage medical conditions like arthritis -- and possibly cut the risk for future disabilities.
In fact, Gill said, "losing weight is one of the most effective measures for arthritis."
As for exercise, Gill said he and his fellow researchers had found clear benefits in a recent trial of sedentary adults in their 70s and 80s. People who started an exercise program were less likely to develop a disability over the next several years than were those who remained inactive.
When the exercisers did suffer an impairment -- such as trouble walking -- they were a third more likely to recover.
It's not clear whether those findings would apply to middle-aged people, too, according to Gill. But in theory, he noted, they could be "even more responsive" to exercise than elderly adults.
In the new study, Brown said, sedentary people were at greater risk of developing a functional impairment. That hints that exercise would curb the risks, she added, though it's not proof.
Regular exercise is already recommended for most adults, for a variety of health reasons. That doesn't have to mean joining a gym and going all-out, according to Brown.
"Start with small steps," she said. "Go for a 15-minute walk. Do some light resistance exercise at home."
Brown also agreed that a functional impairment can act as a red flag for middle-aged adults.
"You could see it as an opportunity to talk to your doctor, and try some simple strategies, like exercise, to improve your health," she said.
The U.S. National Institute on Aging has advice on exercise and diet.
SOURCES: Rebecca Brown, M.D., M.P.H., assistant professor, medicine, University of California, San Francisco; Thomas Gill, M.D., professor, geriatrics, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn.; Nov. 14, 2017, Annals of Internal Medicine
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Triple Berry Smoothie (Paleo, V, GF): an easy, antioxidant-rich recipe for thick, refreshing smoothies packed with three kinds of berries! Paleo, Vegan, Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free, Healthy.
Yes!!! What grand plans do you have for this summer?
One of my plans involves making All The Frozen Treats! Yep, exclamation marks are also a very quintessential part of my summer plans. As you can see. 😉 I mean, as you can see!!!
Anyway, last summer I really got into the spirit of things. I made milkshakes, popsicles, nice cream, smoothies, and even ice cream bars. Btw, if you'd like to see something specific this summer, speak now or forever hold your peace. J/k! Speak now thru August. Because by then, let's be honest, I'll already be whipping out the pumpkin (because we've got to warm up for Fall by then). But enough of that overly eager season-jumping talk.
This summer, we're gonna warm things up with this Triple Berry Smoothie. Yes, I can see how ironic that phrasing was. 😉 Anywho, Erik specifically requested this berry-packed, berry-awesome treat. He was actually heavily hinting (and, by hinting, I mean loudly throat-clearing, then signature-elbow-nudging, then texting me from across the room) about this smoothie. ???? ????
He announced, in his ever so regal manner, that he loves tart treats—especially if they're full of raspberries, blueberries and strawberries. After I whipped this up for him, he even more regally announced that it tasted a lot like a Berry Lime Sublime. Sans lime, of course. Then, raised his eyebrows in a hint hint way so I'd add lime next time.
He also said that this reminded him of a Razz Matazz. What are the chances I spelled that right? So now I'm thinking about whipping up both of those drinks in popsicle-form for our summer celebrations. What do you think? Does that sound like something you'd be interested in?
totally like a summer afternoon of lazily picking berries, in cup form ????
What summer plans are you looking forward to?
Triple Berry Smoothie (Paleo, V, GF): an easy, antioxidant-rich recipe for thick, refreshing smoothies packed with three kinds of berries! Paleo, Vegan, Gluten-Free, Dairy-Free.
Add bananas into the blender. Blend until the bananas become crumbly. Add almond milk. Blend until smooth and creamy, scraping down the sides of the blender as needed.
Add strawberries, blueberries and raspberries. Blend until smooth, again, scraping down the sides of the blender as needed.
- More smoothie recipes (all vegan + gluten free): mango chia seed smoothie, chocolate peanut butter banana smoothie, strawberry chia seed smoothie.
This is beautiful! I am not a fan of bananas in my smoothies but I generally replace them with cottage cheese with great results. I bet it would work perfect with this. I love love love me some berries!
Thank you so much, Patrick! 🙂 It's always super fun to tinker with a recipe. 🙂 Enjoy!
I am SO looking forward to summer, and I can't wait to see all the summer treats you're gonna make! LOL, don't get me started on pumpkin season, I'm always eager to start way too early!
Yay for summer! I am so excited for the season and I say bring on ALL the frozen treats! I can see why your husband was hinting at this deliciousness…it's just gorgeous! I love how thick and creamy it is, and easy, too. Just what I need to get going in the mornings, or for an afternoon snack! Love this, Demeter! Pinning this beauty. Hope your week is off to a wonderful start!
I remember so well those nice creams of your's I drooled over! They were epic and while I cannot quite get down with Erik's love for lime with berries in a smoothie – I'm so loving what you've got going on here! Berries + nanners are always a win for me – especially in smoothie form!
As for whipping up those Berry Lime Sublime's and Razz Matazz's into popsicle-form – I say heck yeah! And, am betting your version is way way better than the actual Berry Lime Sublime or Razz Matazz!
Great recipe! Have been following your blog for a while. Love the pictures and the lovely posts before each recipe.
I had a question : does this smoothie work well only with frozen bananas n berries?
Won't fresh ones yield the same result?
Smoothies are great for health and especially kids love them. I alwasys search healthy smoothie recipes and thanks for sharing this one.
Yes they are! 🙂 Thanks for stopping by, Amber.
Haha I know, the color in this is so pretty. So glad you enjoy the recipe Natalie!
Yummy smoothie!! Thanks for the recipe. Will you please tell me which brand Almond Milk, Coconut Milk and Soy Milk you use.


Saxo Bank head of commodity strategy Ole Hansen's updates on the most recent Commitment of Traders reports are released every Monday. For the latest COT report on forex, click here. For the latest COT report on bonds and stock indices, click here.
Speculators maintained a near-unchanged dollar exposure against nine IMM currency futures in the week to February 20. Sterling's renewed weakness led to a halving of the net-long; as a result it dropped behind both the CAD and AUD on the leaderboard of most-preferred currencies.
Surprisingly, JPY remains the most shorted currency ahead of the dollar. The rally this month has so far only triggered a relative small amount of short-covering. Last week, a 6% reduction was driven by equal measures of short-covering and new longs.
However, the conviction rate among traders about the short-term direction has been falling for the past three weeks. During this time the gross position, being the sum of long and short positions, has fallen to a six-month low.
Leveraged funds extended short bets in EURUSD as well as two- and five-year bond futures on the back of strong CPI data that saw yields move towards multiyear highs. A reduction of the 10-year net-short and light buying of ultra-long bonds ensured an almost unchanged position on the week when measuring the exposure in dollars per basis point. It moved from -147.1 to -146.6 million USD/basis point.
A second week of heavy selling across the major stock index futures triggered a combined leveraged fund short of almost $27 billion, the second-highest short exposure seen during the past 12 months.


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Somatotyper är en teori som utformades av psykologen William Sheldon på 1940-talet. Enligt Sheldons teori är olika kroppstyper bundna till olika personlighetstyper och han gav kroppstyperna namn efter fosterutvecklingens tre vävnadslager: endodermet, mesodermet och ektodermet.

Sheldons ursprungliga teori
Teorin kan kort sammanfattas som följer:

 Den mesomorfa kroppstypen är centrerad kring muskulaturen och cirkulationssystemet (hjärta och blodådror). En mesomorf människa är ofta muskulös. Den mesomorfa människan har ett somatotont temperament, och är modig, energisk, aktiv, dynamisk, självsäker, och tar gärna risker.

 Den ektomorfa kroppstypen är centrerad kring nervsystemet och hjärnan (ektodermt). Den ektomorfa människan har ett cerebrotont temperament (cerebral är något som har med hjärnan att göra), och är konstnärlig, känslig, snabbtänkt och inåtvänd.

 Den endomorfa kroppstypen är centrerad kring matspjälkningssystemet, särskilt tarmarna (endodermt). Den endomorfa människan har ett visceratont temperament (viscera är latin för tarm). Han har en tendens till övervikt, älskar bekvämlighet och lyx, och är utåtriktad.

Om man jämför med den klassiska teorin om de fyra kroppsvätskorna förefaller sangvinikern motsvara den endomorfa typen, kolerikern den mesomofra, och den spinkiga melankolikern den ektomorfa. Flegmatikern har ingen självskriven plats i Sheldons karaktäristik, fast beskrivningen av själva kroppstypen passar bra in på den endomorfe.

Sheldon gav ut boken Atlas of Men där han delade in kroppar i kroppstyper på en sjugradig skala. Med hjälp av kroppstyperna menade han att man bland annat borde kunna förutsäga tendenser till kriminalitet.

Externa länkar
 Dr William Sheldon's Somatotypes (engelska)
 Dr. William Sheldon human personality traits/human temperament types (engelska)
 Introduktion till Sheldons teorier, ur Tracking the Elusive Human (engelska)
 Somatotypes at kheper.net
 Fitness-Web.com - Choosing the right exercise for your body type
 ChangingMinds.org - Wiliam Sheldon's body types
 FemaleMuscle.com
 Heath-Carter Manual (en metod för att utröna vilken somatotyp en viss person har med hjälp av kroppsmätningar eller från ett foto)

Ektomorf
 About.com - Ectomorphs
 Britannica.com - Ectomorph
 VistaMagOnline.com - The enigma of the ectomorph

Mesomorf
 About.com - Mesomorph, article: "Body shapes what do they mean?"
 Britannica.com - Mesomorph

Böcker
 J. E. Lindsay Carter, Barbara Honeyman Heath: Somatotyping Development and Applications, Cambridge Studies in Biological and Evolutionary Anthropology (No. 5).

Artiklar
 Should female gymnasts lift weights? Individual responses in the degree of hypertrophy appear to be related to an individual's sex and somatotype .... (see page 2 in the article). (belägg för att somatotyp påverkar resultat inom styrketräning)

Personlighet
Styrketräning
Kroppskonstitution
Pseudovetenskap
Teorier inom psykologi

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