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A Red Lobster Franchisee, GMRI, Inc., has been charged in a lawsuit alleging pervasive sexual harassment and discrimination at its Salisbury, MD location, in violation of federal law. The Philadelphia Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ("EEOC") district office in Pennsylvania is bringing the claim. The EEOC is a federal agency charged with handling employment discrimination
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The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has reached a settlement with Toys "R" Us in an employment discrimination lawsuit. Toys "R" Us is one of the world's largest retailers of toys and children's products in the world, and has multiple retail locations in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and all around the United States. The disability discrimination lawsuit filed at the Philadelphia EEOC district office against Toys "R" Us, Inc. has resulted in a $35,000 settlement and payment of significant equitable relief for employment discrimination. The settlement is one in a number of rising employment discrimination lawsuits settling in the EEOC district offices of New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
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A miniature by Hilliard purchased by the Amis du Louvre in London
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10/12/2007 — Acquisition — Paris, Musée du Louvre — The Societé des Amis du Louvre has purchased on 20 November at Christie's, London, a miniature by Nicholas Hilliard representing A Young Lady of 16, probably a member of the Strangways family as suggested by their motto inscribed on the back, Espoier me comforte.
It is unusual for an authenticated work by the greatest English miniature artist of the Elizabethan era to be available on the art market, justifying its high price (£120.500). The Department of Graphic Arts thus acquires for its collections a second woman's portrait by Nicholas Hilliard, following the one bought in Nancy in 1996.
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A function, postResample, can be used obtain the same performance measures as generated by train for regression or classification.
caret also contains several functions that can be used to describe the performance of classification models. The functions sensitivity, specificity, posPredValue and negPredValue can be used to characterize performance where there are two classes. By default, the first level of the outcome factor is used to define the "positive" result (i.e. the event of interest), although this can be changed.
The "no--information rate" is the largest proportion of the observed classes (there were more actives than inactives in this test set). A hypothesis test is also computed to evaluate whether the overall accuracy rate is greater than the rate of the largest class. Also, the prevalence of the "positive event" is computed from the data (unless passed in as an argument), the detection rate (the rate of true events also predicted to be events) and the detection prevalence (the prevalence of predicted events).
When there are three or more classes, confusionMatrix will show the confusion matrix and a set of "one-versus-all" results. For example, in a three class problem, the sensitivity of the first class is calculated against all the samples in the second and third classes (and so on).
Also, a resampled estimate of the training set can also be obtained using confusionMatrix.train. For each resampling iteration, a confusion matrix is created from the hold-out samples and these values can be aggregated to diagnose issues with the model fit.
These values are the percentages that hold-out samples landed in the confusion matrix during resampling. There are several methods for normalizing these values. See ?confusionMatrix.train for details.
The package also contains two functions for class probability predictions for data sets with two classes.
The lift function does the calculations and the corresponding plot function is used to plot the lift curve (although some call this the gain curve). The value argument creates reference lines.
From this we can see that, to find 60 percent of the hits, a little more than 30 percent of the data can be sampled (when ordered by the probability predictions). The LDA model does somewhat worse than the other two models.
For Affymetrix gene chip data, RMA processing (Irizarry, 2003) is a popular method of processing gene expression data. However, for predictive modeling, it has a drawback in that the processing is batch oriented; if an additional sample is collected, the RMA processing must be repeated using all the samples. This is mainly because of two steps in the processing: the quantile normalization process and the calculation of expression. Quantile normalization normalizes the data such that the between--chip distributions have equivalent quantiles and is very effective in improving the quality of the data. It is possible to let the samples in the training set define the reference distribution for normalization. For the expression calculation, a robust method such as a trimmed mean can be used to summarize the probe level data into a single summary metric per sample.


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BMC Psychiatry
Development of mental health first aid guidelines for panic attacks: a Delphi study
Claire M Kelly1,
Anthony F Jorm1 &
Betty A Kitchener1
BMC Psychiatry volume 9, Article number: 49 (2009) Cite this article
Panic attacks are common, and while they are not life-threatening events, they can lead to the development of panic disorder and agoraphobia. Appropriate help at the time that a panic attack occurs may decrease the fear associated with the attack and reduce the risk of developing an anxiety disorder. However, few people have the knowledge and skills required to assist. Simple first aid guidelines may help members of the public to offer help to people who experience panic attacks.
The Delphi method was used to reach consensus in a panel of experts. Experts included 50 professionals and 6 people who had experience of panic attacks and were active in mental health advocacy. Statements about how to assist someone who is having a panic attack were sourced through a systematic search of both professional and lay literature. These statements were rated for importance as first aid guidelines by the expert and consumer panels and guidelines were written using the items most consistently endorsed.
Of 144 statements presented to the panels, 27 were accepted. These statements were used to develop the guidelines appended to this paper.
There are a number of actions which are considered to be useful for members of the public to do if they encounter someone who is having a panic attack. These guidelines will be useful in revision of curricula of mental health first aid programs. They can also be used by members of the public who want immediate information about how to assist someone who is experiencing panic attacks.
Panic attacks are common, with a US survey showing a lifetime prevalence of approximately 28% and 12-month prevalence of approximately 11% [1]. Panic attacks may lead to the development of panic disorder or agoraphobia which have prevalence rates in the range 1–5% [1–5]. Both disorders are associated with a high degree of impairment and co-morbidity with other psychiatric disorders [6–9].
For someone who has experienced a panic attack, there are a number of factors which increase the risk of developing panic disorder or agoraphobia. Catastrophic misinterpretations (for example, fear that one is having a heart attack or other medical emergency) in relation to panic symptoms predict the onset of panic disorder and agoraphobia [10]. Severity of panic attacks, as measured by number of physical symptoms, as well as number of catastrophic cognitions, appears to increase the risk of developing agoraphobia among adolescents [11]. The presence of a specific cognition, 'fear of going crazy or losing control', during the first panic attack predicts the onset of agoraphobia rather than panic disorder [3]. Pre-existing high trait anxiety and the presence of other psychiatric illnesses, particularly depression, predict the onset of either panic disorder or agoraphobia among those who have had a first episode of panic [12]. A focus on the possibility of future panic attacks, hyper-vigilance about physical symptoms and catastrophic cognitions increase the risk of developing panic disorder or agoraphobia [10].
An appropriate response by a member of the public, whether a friend, family member, co-worker or other person, may in some cases decrease the likelihood that an individual who experiences a panic attack will go on to be hyper-vigilant about physical symptoms or fear future panic attacks, thus decreasing the likelihood of developing a panic-related psychiatric disorder.
In this paper, we aim to improve one particular approach to public education – training of members of the public in how to give first aid to someone who is experiencing a panic attack. One existing approach of this sort is the Mental Health First Aid training program [13]. Mental Health First Aid training [14] was developed to train members of the public to assist others who are developing a mental disorder or in a mental health crisis situation. First aid givers can be almost anyone, however, they are most likely to be friends, family members or colleagues, simply because they are the people most likely to be present at the time first aid is needed.
When the program was first in development, the authors used evidence-based information wherever possible, but very little research was found about how members of the public, with no clinical training, could assist in these situations. Where no evidence was available, the authors informally sought the opinions of clinical experts.
In order for these approaches to be effective, it needs to be ensured that the first aid strategies taught are likely to be helpful. Because controlled trials of individual components of first aid strategies are not feasible, an alternative is to use expert consensus to develop a set of guidelines on strategies that are most likely to work. Such guidelines can be used directly as a source of advice by members of the public and they can inform the content of first aid training courses. The aim of this project was to develop such guidelines. These guidelines needed to focus on the immediate response to a discrete panic attack, and not on diagnosing or treating a panic-related psychiatric condition. The first aid giver's role would be to assist the person until the crisis has passed or the person has chosen to seek appropriate professional help.
We chose the Delphi method, a technique used for reaching consensus in a group of experts or across expert groups. Our aim was to get consensus within and between panels of professionals, carers and consumers, so that the guidelines would be respectful of the needs of all three groups. This method is relatively inexpensive and simple to conduct, and can be done on the Internet, making it possible to include participants from English-speaking countries across the world without lengthy postal delays. The Delphi methodology has been used in health research in the past, mainly to reach consensus amongst medical practitioners, but also with consumers of health services in some settings [15, 16]. We have also successfully used this method to develop mental health first aid guidelines for depression, psychosis, eating disorders, suicidal thoughts and behaviours, traumatic events, and non-suicidal self-injury using panels of professionals, consumers and carers [17–21]. No research using the Delphi methodology to determine consensus on panic first aid guidelines has been conducted previously.
This study had two phases: a literature search and questionnaire development, and the Delphi process. Please see Figure 1 for a summary of the steps.
Stages in guideline development.
The aim of the literature search was to cover the full domain of potentially helpful actions to assist someone who is experiencing a panic attack. It was not a literature review and did not include literature outside of the scope of first aid. The focus for the search was to find statements which instruct the reader on how to respond at the time of the attack, and how and when to recommend professional help to someone who has experienced a panic attack. The literature search was conducted across three domains: (1) the medical and research literature, (2) the content of existing crisis intervention guidelines and relevant courses for the public, and (3) lay literature. The lay literature included books written for the general public, particularly consumers' and carers' guides, websites and pamphlets.
The medical and research literature was accessed through searches of PsycInfo and PubMed. The search term was 'panic attack AND intervention OR (first aid)' and all records for the 20 years leading to the search date were reviewed. Papers were excluded first on the basis of their titles and then on the basis of their abstracts.
Papers which described interventions to decrease the severity or duration of a panic attack, or offered suggestions about when to recommend professional help, were reviewed, giving a total of 37 papers. Most of the advice given in these papers was very clinically oriented, or required extensive training to be applicable. For example, some papers described clinical interventions in which a panic attack was induced in vivo and then de-escalated. A small number of papers did include brief advice and simple intervention instructions. Statements were drawn from 12 of the 37 relevant records. All statements felt to be simple enough for lay people to use were included.
To find appropriate websites, we used the search engines Google [22], Google Australia [23], and Google UK [24] using three sets of search terms; 'panic attack' and 'self help', 'panic attack' and 'first aid', and 'panic attack' and (care or carer or caring). The first 50 websites listed by each were reviewed; beyond the first 50 websites, most new records were abstracts from journal papers. Since most websites were listed by more than one search engine, and were retrieved for more than one of the search terms, 178 websites were reviewed. The websites were read thoroughly, once again looking for statements which suggested a potential first aid action (what the first aid giver should do) or relevant awareness statement (what the first aid giver should know). Any external links to other websites were followed and the same process applied to each of them.
The fifty most popular books on the Amazon [25] website which listed the word 'panic' in the title or keywords were selected. This site was chosen because of its extensive coverage of books in and out of print, including works about mental health aimed at the public. Books which were autobiographical in nature and clinical manuals were excluded. The remaining books were read to find useful statements. The majority of these were carers' guides, which do contain advice relevant for first aid, but focussed on general caring for a mentally ill family member.
Any relevant pamphlets were sought and read, and statements were taken from these as well.
Only one training course for members of the public was found to be relevant, as most training in critical incident response is designed for professional responders such as paramedics and the police. Material from the Mental Health First Aid Program [14] was reviewed and statements drawn from it.
The questionnaire was developed by first grouping statements into the following categories: general intervention principles; de-escalating a panic attack; slowing down a person's breathing; things to say during a panic attack; professional help during a panic attack; alternative approaches to stopping a panic attack; seeking professional help, and self-help strategies.
Similar or near-identical statements were frequently derived from multiple sources, and they were not repeated in the questionnaire. A working group comprised of the authors of this paper and colleagues working on similar projects convened at each stage of the process to discuss each item in the questionnaire. The role of the working group was to ensure that the questionnaire did not include ambiguity, repetition, items containing more than one idea or other problems which might impede comprehension. The wording was carefully designed to be as clear, unambiguous and action-oriented as possible. All participants answered the questionnaire via the Internet, using an online survey website, Surveymonkey [26].
The Delphi process
The aim was to recruit participants into one of three panels: professionals (clinicians and researchers), consumers (people who had experienced panic attacks in the past) and carers. The professional panel had 50 experts, the consumer panel 6, but no carers could be recruited. All panel members were from developed English speaking countries (Australia, New Zealand, The United States, Canada, Ireland, England, and the United Kingdom). Participants were recruited in a number of ways. Professionals recruited were those who had publications in the areas of panic disorder or agoraphobia or experience in treating these patients. When letters were sent to professionals asking them to be involved, they were also invited to nominate any colleagues who they felt would be appropriate panel members. Those active in clinical practice were also asked to consider any former patients who might be willing to be involved.
The 50 professional participants belonged to the following (sometimes multiple) groups: 44 academics (researchers, lecturers and professors), 23 clinical psychologists, 21 medical doctors of whom 12 were psychiatrists, 1 nurse (also an academic), 1 clinical social worker and 1 drug and alcohol counsellor working with anxiety patients with tranquilliser addiction.
Consumers were recruited from advocacy organisations and referral by clinicians. They were also identified if they had written websites offering support and information to other consumers. Consumers were difficult to recruit for this study. All six consumers were working in some form of advocacy role. In addition, 1 was an academic researcher, 1 was the convener of a mutual help group, and 1 was a clinical psychologist who chose to participate as a consumer.
Many attempts were made to recruit carers from carers' support organisations and informal sources, but no carers chose to participate in this study. It may be that many carers for people with panic related conditions do not identify themselves as such. They may be a group that is less inclined to be involved with carers' organisations than those who are carers for people with schizophrenia, depression, or eating disorders [19–21]. Similar difficulties were found recruiting carers for people who have been suicidal or engaged in non-suicidal self-injury [17, 18].
Three rounds of questionnaires were distributed as follows, with each statement being rated up to two times. In Round 1 the questionnaire, derived from the process described above, was given to the panel members. The questionnaire included space after each of the sections to add any suggestions for new statements that panel members felt should be included.
In each round of the study, the usefulness of each statement for inclusion in the mental health first aid guidelines was rated as 'essential', 'important', 'don't know or depends', 'unimportant', or 'should not be included'. The options 'don't know and depends' were collapsed into one point on the scale because operationally, they are the same response. Most of the statements were, very reasonably, noted to be useful in some cases and not others, meaning they could not be generalised in guidelines, which is also true of statements participants did not feel confident to rate.
The suggestions made by the panel members in Round 1 were reviewed by the working group and used to construct new items for the Round 2. Suggestions were accepted and added to Round 2 if they represented a truly new idea, could be interpreted unambiguously by the working group, and were actions. Suggestions were rejected if they were near-duplicates of items in the questionnaire, if they were too specific (for example, 'focus on the guided meditation imagery negotiated between myself and my psychologist'), too general ('just be there'), or were more appropriate to therapy than first aid ('remember to avoid using safety behaviours'). Unexpectedly, in Round 1, no items describing techniques to control breathing were endorsed by the professional panel, although many were endorsed by the consumer panel. The working group chose to add any new item about breathing techniques suggested by panel members, in spite of some being close to duplicates of Round 1 items, in case one was felt to be acceptable to the professional panel.
Items rated as 'essential' or 'important' by 80% or more of both the professional panel and the consumer panel were accepted for inclusion in the guidelines. If they were endorsed by 80% or more of one of the panels, or by 70–80% of both panels, they were re-rated in the subsequent round. Items which met neither condition were rejected. Before Round 2 and 3 of the study, each participant was sent a summary of the results of the previous round, listing which items had been accepted, which had been rejected, and which were to be re-rated. When an item was to be re-rated by the panellists, they were provided with their own response and a table outlining how many people in each group had endorsed the item. They were told that they did not have to change their responses when re-rating an item, but that if they wished to, they would have the opportunity to do so.
Table 1 shows the continuity of participation across the three rounds.
Table 1 Study participation in each round
Figure 2 shows the rates of inclusion, exclusion, and re-rating of the items in each round of the questionnaire. From a total of 144 items, 27 were eventually included in the guidelines. (See Table 2 for a categorised list of included items.)
Items accepted, rejected and re-rated at each round.
Table 2 Statements accepted as mental health first aid guidelines
Writing the Guidelines
It was important to the research team to avoid making the guidelines read like a list of 'dos' and 'don'ts'. The accepted items were incorporated into a plain language document. To illustrate, consider the following statements:
The first aider should reassure the person that a panic attack, while very frightening, is not life threatening.
The first aider should reassure the person that a panic attack, while very frightening, is not dangerous.
The first aider should not belittle the person's experience.
The first aider should reassure the person that they are safe.
The first aider should reassure the person that the symptoms will pass.
These statements were incorporated to make the following paragraph:
Do not belittle the person's experience. Acknowledge that the terror feels very real, but reassure them that a panic attack, while very frightening, is not life threatening or dangerous.
When the guidelines were in draft form, they were sent to all the panel members for feedback. Only feedback related to readability and structure was sought and incorporated. The guidelines are appended to this article and can be freely distributed (see additional file 1).
Significant differences between the consumer and professional panels were evident in this study. In particular, de-escalating panic attacks through breathing techniques was seen as important by the consumer panel, but not by the professional panel. In total, 23 items relating to breathing were rated by the panels. Of these, 6 were endorsed by the consumer panel (5 in Round 1), but none were endorsed by the professional panel. This was very interesting to the research team, as much of the lay literature about panic attacks emphasised the importance of controlled breathing.
In Round 1, many of the professional respondents stated that hyperventilation and other breathing difficulties were not common in panic attacks. We thought this may be the reason for the low level of endorsement, and so, in Round 2, we altered the wording of the breathing-related items so that they each read "If the person is having trouble with their breathing, the first aider should..." followed by the breathing technique. This made no difference to the ratings. Professional respondents also stated that a reliance on controlled breathing could cause difficulties later on for people who sought help for their panic attacks, as these could become 'safety behaviours' which interfered with real progress in coping with panic. Alternatively, it may be that the professionals simply didn't think that breathing techniques were important enough to be listed in the guidelines. Our cut-off for inclusion was 80% – a less conservative cut-off would have seen more items included. Only the most essential action are included in the guidelines.
Of great concern to many respondents was the idea that a first aid giver could distinguish a panic attack from a heart attack or other serious medical problem. The attached guidelines do not encourage first aid givers to make any such distinction; rather, they are conservative, encouraging that first aid be given for a panic attack only if the person has experienced a panic attack before, believes they are experiencing one now, and does not have symptoms more indicative of a serious medical problem.
In order to be able to effectively apply the recommended panic first aid strategies, individuals will need to have either recently or consistently been exposed to the messages in the guidelines document. This is a criticism which could be made of all first aid approaches, and is a significant concern. Physical first aid courses are usually accredited and need to be renewed on a regular basis, and ultimately mental health first aid should be similarly regimented.
Finally, there were issues in regards to the items about seeking professional help after a panic attack. Items about encouraging any person who had experienced a panic attack to seek professional help of any kind were not highly endorsed, although it was felt that first aid givers should tell the person that effective treatments are available. Certainly, a large number of people experience a panic attack at some stage in their lives and do not go on to develop panic disorder or agoraphobia. The most significant item included in the guidelines in regards to professional help was one stating that, if the person continued to have panic attacks and felt distressed by them, they should seek help from an appropriate professional. This item should assist those who are most at risk of developing panic disorder or agoraphobia to get professional help early.
A significant limitation of this study is the small number of consumer panel members and the lack of a carers' panel. Ideally, this study would have involved approximately equal numbers of professional, consumer and carer panellists, but recruiting consumers was very difficult and recruiting carers even more so. As only six consumers were involved in the development of these guidelines, it is possible that their opinions are not representative of people with panic disorder and agoraphobia more generally. This project should be conducted again at some stage in the future with a carers panel and a larger consumer panel.
It is important as well to reiterate that all panellists were recruited from developed English-speaking countries, so that the guidelines may not be generalisable to other countries or to minority cultures within those countries. Furthermore, these guidelines cannot stand alone, as they do not address the underlying psychological distress or mental illness which may predispose an individual to begin experiencing panic attacks or go on to suffer from a panic-related psychiatric illness. Other guidelines in this series may be useful in this regard [17–21].
We have succeeded in developing guidelines for first aid for panic attacks which are acceptable to both professionals and people who have experienced panic attacks. Where the guidelines are used as the basis for first aid training, efforts need to be made to evaluate their impact on the first aid givers' helping behaviours and on the recipients of the first aid, as far as this is possible.
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The authors gratefully acknowledge the time and effort of the panel members, without whom this project would not have been possible. Funding was provided by Australian Rotary Health, who awarded CMK with the Hugh Lydiard Postdoctoral Research Fellowship. Additional funding was provided by the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (Program grant 179805), and the Colonial Foundation, who provide infrastructure support to Orygen Youth Health Research Centre. Thanks also to the other members of the working group, Len Kanowski, Amy Morgan, Anna Kingston and Laura Hart, for their assistance with the questionnaire development. Thank you to Dr Kathy Griffiths for helpful discussion about the design of the study.
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CMK and AFJ prepared the manuscript. All authors reviewed the manuscript. AFJ and BAK developed the methodology. CMK did the literature searches and wrote the first draft of the questionnaire. All authors contributed to the development of later versions of the questionnaire. CMK wrote the attached guidelines. All authors reviewed and suggested improvements to the guidelines. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
Claire M Kelly, Anthony F Jorm contributed equally to this work.
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The Orien Group is a privately-owned medical supplies company, with its distribution and head office located in Melbourne, Victoria. First founded in 2008, Orien has rapidly expanded from a seller of latex gloves to a full-fledged health and dental consumables wholesale distributor. Once a purely bricks-and-mortar store, the company now operates nationally with a growing warehouse and sophisticated eCommerce facilities.
Why did this customer choose JCurve ERP?
The Orien Group started out supplying latex medical examination gloves to dental customers. As the business expanded to include more product lines and multiple overseas suppliers, the complexity of the business also increased. The existing software couldn't handle requirements such as foreign currency and landed costs including taxes, duties and wharfage.
"We found that the simple QuickBooks package we started off with was okay for a small business, but once we started carrying and controlling a wider inventory, its functionality was just too limited," explains Erdem Salih, MD and founder, The Orien Group.
It was time to take the gloves off and find a winning technology solution. Recognising that the company was fast outgrowing its basic software, Erdem researched the best business management software options available. Erdem saw that JCurve ERP, an exclusive small business edition of the #1 global cloud ERP system, NetSuite, fitted the bill perfectly. More importantly, JCurve ERP could scale with Orien's future growth plans.
The setup and implementation process was a success, with experienced consultants from NetSuite's #1 partner worldwide, JCurve Solutions (ASX: JCS), assisting each step of the way. Erdem and his team were keen to learn how JCurve ERP could drive business improvements and this motivated them to learn the ERP system quickly. Migration was scheduled over the new year period while the business was quiet. This tactic meant that when operations restarted, staff could process orders immediately, with clean data.
The Orien Group saw immediate benefits from JCurve ERP: "Information is power," as Erdem describes it. Before the changeover, the team at Orien were reliant on seemingly endless spreadsheets which took hours to create, maintain, and analyse. Working with static data also meant relying on potentially outdated reports. JCurve ERP's sophisticated reporting is now delivering crucial information and analysis, as it happens, at the touch of a button.
"With JCurve ERP compared to our previous software, it's just a different level. You can instantly get the information you need to make good business decisions: who are your top customers? What are they ordering? What are your real margins? JCurve ERP gives a real handle on your costs," Erdem says.
More powerful inventory management is now supporting Orien with managing over 4,500 SKUs. "To be able to handle that, you can't do it on the back of an envelope," Erdem points out. The ERP software takes care of inventory costs, landed costs, and stock levels, which are all updated in real-time. Orien can control expiry dates and lot numbers – critical for their industry – much more efficiently. JCurve ERP shows products that are coming up to their expiry dates, letting the Orien team take decisive action on discounting and selling products well before they would be otherwise written-off.
Increased mobility has been another significant advantage. The Orien Group salespeople can log in to JCurve ERP and stay productive when out on the road. Before meetings, they can view a customer's file and see which products a customer purchases regularly, along with the full sales history and correspondence. This data empowers Orien's salesforce to up-sell, cross-sell and stay up-to-date with all customer interactions.
Going forward, The Orien Group plans to further increase efficiency throughout the warehouse by using RF scanning of barcodes that will speed up the pick-pack-ship process, reduce picking errors, and increase stock turn and accuracy.
Orien is also connecting its website with JCurve ERP to create a powerful, integrated eCommerce platform that will reduce manual order entry and double-handling of data.
As Orien continues its impressive growth and reaches the 20-user limit of JCurve ERP, JCurve Solutions can assist with taking the business to the next level. The seamless transition from JCurve ERP to an enterprise-level NetSuite edition is a further expansion step that Erdem is already anticipating.
Accurate, real-time visibility on orders, customers, and profit margins.
Improved stock management to support expansion from a single SKU to 4,500 SKUs.
Mobile sales functionality that empowers up-sell and cross-sell opportunities.
Increased stock turn and a faster pick-pack-ship process.


Living in a house full of males makes laundry days very dull affairs. A serious yawnfest and study in homogeneity.
On laundry days, I peer into my laundry basket and all I see is a sea of black and gray. Mind you, I am eternally grateful for that sea because it actually means that by some extraordinary miracle, the laundry of my children has made its way into the room where laundering takes place. I am assuming for the minute that the laundry didn't crawl there by itself, although anyone who has teenagers would know that is a real possibility, especially when the laundry has aged waiting for the bus to arrive.
Back to the sea. For some unknown mystery male reason, the males in my house only ever wear black or grey underclothes. Colourless socks and undies, all uniform, all designed to drive the laundry lady, aka me, spare. Washing I can cope with, but when it comes folding and matching those little suckers, I'm definitely thinking life is too short. If some person of the male species reading this could enlighten me as to why colours and gasp…a pattern or two are a no-go zone in the male underworld, then I would be forever grateful.
Guys, you need to have pity on those of us who do your laundry!
As if the lack of colour does not increase the degree of laundering difficulty enough, when it comes to matching and folding clean socks I always have less than I started off with. It's almost as if these individual socks have had enough of toeing (get it?…toeing) the shoe line and wait for the minute they can escape to I know not where. Presumably, there is a single sock bar somewhere just waiting for escaped socks or they go and sign up for e-sock harmony or go out to fight at sock club waiting to heel (get it?… heel) or something.
This mystery requires in-depth research and hence my proposed invention…..
That's right, a mini waterproof camera that could be fitted on top of the toe of a sock to track its every adventure sending images back to basecamp. We could witness the spying of the escape route, the brush with natural predators up the pipe and the foraging for a mate and finally acceptance in the sock's natural habitat so that it can ditch its footloose (surly you knew that was coming) status. The footage so exciting that it would be turned into a three episode mini series with David Attenborough commentating.
This has got real legs, a sure winner.
All I need is come capital. Any takers? Any suckers sockers out there? Be a part of this ground-breaking research, amaze your friends at parties and help revolutionise laundry day around the globe.
In the meantime whilst I wait for my venture capitalists to appear, I'll continue running my co-op for disenfranchised socks and hope that I can integrate these single socks back into their drawer societies in the not too distant future.


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Qatar's banking sector maintains resilience, amid evolving regulatory landscape, technological changes: KPMG
July 16 2019 09:11 PM
Qatar's industrial sector forges ahead despite 2-year old blockade
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Mahmood: Valuable insights
KPMG has launched the inaugural edition of its annual 'Qatar banking perspectives' publication, examining key issues and trends in the global banking industry and how they impact banks in the country.
In this first edition, subject matter experts from KPMG's dedicated financial services practice share their views on a range of topics such as: culture and governance, cybersecurity, and banking regulations, the role of artificial intelligence in fraud detection, and the current trends in Islamic finance.
The publication complements KPMG's GCC listed banks' results report, which sets out some of the key financial indicators, issues and expected trends in the future for the banking industry in the region.
Omar Mahmood, head (Financial Services for KPMG in the Middle East & South Asia) and partner at KPMG in Qatar, said, "The banking perspectives looks at some of the key trends we are seeing globally, through the lens of the local banking industry here in Qatar and provides insights that we hope readers will find valuable.
Qatar's banking sector continues to maintain resilience, amidst an evolving regulatory landscape and continued technological change, while also embracing the digital agenda."
KPMG's Qatar banking perspective 2019 raises awareness of the opportunities and challenges in the ever evolving banking sector and provides points of view on how to successfully navigate through this complex environment.
In its overview, the report said local financial institutions will need to increase their focus on international reporting protocols, regulatory compliance, forthcoming VAT implications, digital transformation, mitigating fraud and cybercrime risks and facilitating a highly valued corporate governance culture that will benefit all stakeholders.
In terms of Qatar banking sector's financial performance, KPMG said, "2018 has been a positive year for listed banks in Qatar, with an average 9.5% growth in net profit and 3.2% growth in total assets, which demonstrates strength and opportunities in the sector.
On Basel IV reforms, the KPMG report said, "Qatar is committed to adopting revised Basel IV guidelines and the QCB has already initiated consultative guidelines on the subject. The country has already adopted and implemented the Basel III framework ahead of some of its GCC peers."
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A business owner fears the future of his business could be jeopardised if action is not taken to protect a coastal road from erosion.
Bill James, owner of Bank Mill Visitor Centre at Beckfoot, gets 60 per cent of his trade from customers in West Cumbria.
But, in times of bad weather, they are often prevented from accessing the attraction by road closures on the B5300 at Dubmill Point.
And Mr James fears the whole road could soon be undermined and washed away.
Cumbria County Council has said work is planned to address erosion near the road, but it is unclear what the work will entail or when it will be done.
Two years ago Mr James led a petition for action to be taken to protect the road, which links Maryport to Silloth and villages in between.
Now, however, Mr James says the problem has got far worse, with just an estimated five yards of beach left between the sea and the carriageway at one point.
In recent years, stone-filled gabions have been placed along the coast north of Dubmill Point to help protest the coastline from erosion.
But Mr James said many of them had been washed out of position and damaged by strong waves, rendering them useless.
He is calling for more groynes to be installed along that area of coastline to slow the approaching water and reduce the velocity with which it hits the shore.
And he claims they should be pile driven into the beach, rather than placed in holes and backfilled, to give them the solid grounding they need.
If the work was done, Mr James said, it would protect the road - and businesses along it - in the long term.
And, he said, it would reduce the amount of debris thrown onto the road when high tides and high winds combine, decreasing the frequency of closures on the road.
Mr James said: "We are dependant on traffic coming in from West Cumbria. About 60 per cent of our customers come from the west. When they decide to shut the road we may as well shut shop.
"By the time you go to Aspatria then Silloth and back down to Allonby you're adding 20 minutes to your journey to get to us.
"On Sunday we had staff standing around waiting for the regulars to come in. I went out out of curiosity and found some of our regulars at another restaurant because they couldn't get through.
"It takes time to build up customer and you don't get the money back that you lose on the day.
"It's not just myself. The shops in Silloth are affected as well when people can't get up the coast.
"It's a crying shame when there's nothing being done.
"If the road washes away we may as well shut shop."
A county council spokesman said: "We are aware of the erosion issues at Dubmill point and funding has been allocated for coastal defence work here. We are now awaiting consent from the Marine Management Organisation (MMO) before the works begin. Monitoring will continue until the required MMO consent has been given.


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56. For in the case of those who are seeking first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, i.e. who are preferring this to all other things, so that for its sake they are seeking the other things, there ought not to remain behind the anxiety lest those things should fail which are necessary to this life for the sake of the kingdom of God. For He has said above, "Your Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things." And therefore, when He had said, "Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness," He did not say, Then seek such things (although they are necessary), but He affirms "all these things shall be added unto you,"406406 Nor is it said, "Seek…in order that all these things may be added:" simply, "and all," etc., yet largely inclusive,—sanctity and comfort. The comfort follows naturally. The passage is a rebuke to those who condemn the amenities of life and art, and a caution to those who place these things before themselves as a chief end. The passage justifies the statement that religion (or godliness) is profitable for the life that now is. The Psalmist never saw the righteous forsaken. A traditional saying of Jesus, quoted by Clement, Origen, and Eusebius, runs, "Ask great things, and little things shall be added; ask heavenly things, and earthly things shall be added." i.e. will follow, if ye seek the former, without any hindrance on your part: lest while ye seek such things, ye should be turned away from the other; or lest ye should set up two things to be aimed at, so as to seek both the kingdom of God for its own sake, and such necessaries: but these rather for the sake of that other; so shall they not be wanting to you. For ye cannot serve two masters. But the man is attempting to serve two masters, who seeks both the kingdom of God as a great good, and these temporal things. He will not, however, be able to have a single eye, and to serve the Lord God alone, unless he take all other things, so far as they are necessary, for the sake of this one thing, i.e. for the sake of the kingdom of God. But as all who serve as soldiers receive provisions and pay, so all who preach the gospel receive food and clothing. But all do not serve as soldiers for the welfare of the republic, but some do so for what they get: so also all do not minister to God for the welfare of the Church, but some do so for the sake of these temporal things, which they are to obtain in the shape as it were of provisions and pay; or both for the one thing and for the other. But it has been already said above, "Ye cannot serve two masters." Hence it is with a single heart and only for the sake of the kingdom of God that we ought to do good to all; and we ought not in doing so to think either of the temporal reward alone, or of that along with the kingdom of God: all which temporal things He has placed under the category of to-morrow, saying, "Take no thought for to-morrow."407407 Cogitare in crastino; Vulgate, solliciti esse in crastinum. There is no uniformity in Augustin's or the Vulgate's translation of the Greek μεριμνάω ("take anxious thought") in this passage. For to-morrow is not spoken of except in time, where the future succeeds the past. Therefore, when we do anything good, let us not think of what is temporal, but of what is eternal; then will that be a good and perfect work. "For the morrow," says He, "will be anxious for the things of itself;"408408 The morrow will bring its own vexations and anxieties. The English version entirely misleads as to the meaning of the special clause, "will take care of itself." The Revised Version is a literal translation, and at least gives the true sense by implication. But with each day's temptations and troubles, it is implied, special enablement and deliverance will be provided. i.e., so that, when you ought, you will take food, or drink, or clothing, that is to say, when necessity itself begins to urge you. For these things will be within reach, because our Father knoweth that we have need of all these things. For "sufficient unto the day," says He, "is the evil thereof;"409409 Wiclif, following the Vulgate, translates malice; Tyndale, trouble; the Genevan Bible, grief. i.e. it is sufficient that necessity itself will urge us to take such things. And for this reason, I suppose, it is called evil, because for us it is penal: for it belongs to this frailty and mortality which we have earned by sinning. Do not add, therefore, to this punishment of temporal necessity anything more burdensome, so that you should not only suffer the want of such things, but should also for the purpose of satisfying this want enlist as a soldier for God.
57. In the use of this passage, however, we must be very specially on our guard, lest perchance, when we see any servant of God making provision that such necessaries shall not be wanting either to himself or to those with whose care he has been entrusted, we should decide that he is acting contrary to the Lord's precept, and is anxious for the morrow.410410 Our Lord's precept is not against provident forethought,—of which Augustin goes on to give examples,—but against anxious thought which implies distrust of God's providence. Anxious, fretful, distrustful care for the future, unreliant upon God's bounty, wisdom, and love (as implied in the address, your heavenly Father) is declared to be unnecessary (25, 26), foolish (27–30), and heathenish (32, "After these things do the Gentiles seek"). The passages teach trust in God, who is more interested in His children than in the fowls of the air, and will certainly take care of them. For the Lord Himself also, although angels ministered to Him,411411 Matt. iv. 11. yet for the sake of example, that no one might afterwards be scandalized when he observed any of His servants procuring such necessaries, condescended to have money bags, out of which whatever might be required for necessary uses might be provided; of which bags, as it is written, Judas, who betrayed Him, was the keeper and the thief.412412 John xii. 6. In like manner, the Apostle Paul also may seem to have taken 53thought for the morrow, when he said: "Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given order to the saints of Galatia, even so do ye: upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store413413 Thesaurizans; Vulgate, recondens. what shall seem good unto him, that there be no gatherings when I come. And when I come414414 Advenero; Vulgate, præsens fuero. whomsoever ye shall approve by your letters, them will I send to bring your liberality unto Jerusalem. And if it be meet that I go also, they shall go with me. Now I will come unto you when I shall pass through Macedonia: for I shall pass through Macedonia. And it may be that I will abide, yea, and winter with you, that ye may bring me on my journey whithersoever I go. For I will not see you now by the way; but I trust to tarry a while with you, if the Lord permit. But I will tarry at Ephesus until Pentecost."415415 1 Cor. xvi. 1–8. In the Acts of the Apostles also it is written, that such things as are necessary for food were provided for the future, on account of an impending famine. For we thus read: "And in these days came prophets down from Jerusalem to Antioch,416416 Not in the original Greek or Vulgate, but implied in the preceding context. and there was great rejoicing. And when we were gathered together,417417 Not in the original Greek or Vulgate, but implied in the preceding context. there stood up one of them named Agabus, and signified by the Spirit that there should be great dearth throughout all the world: which came to pass in the days of Claudius Cæsar. Then the disciples, every one according to his ability, determined to send relief to the elders for the brethren which dwelt in Judæa, which also they did by the hands of Barnabas and Saul."418418 Acts xi. 27–30. The clause shows much divergence from the Vulgate in construction. And in the case of the necessaries presented to him, wherewith the same Apostle Paul when setting sail was laden,419419 Acts xxviii. 10. food seems to have been furnished for more than a single day. And when the same apostle writes, "Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working420420 Operans; Vulgate, operando. with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth;"421421 Eph. iv. 28. Unde tribuere cui opus est; Vulgate, unde tribuat necessitatem patienti. to those who misunderstand him he does not seem to keep the Lord's precept, which runs, "Behold the fowls of the air; for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns;" and, "Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin;" while he enjoins the parties in question to labour, working with their hands, that they may have something which they may be able to give to others also. And in what he often says of himself, that he wrought with his hands that he might not be burdensome;422422 1 Thess. ii. 9; 2 Thess. iii. 8. and in what is written of him, that he joined himself to Aquila on account of the similarity of their occupation, in order that they might work together at that from which they might make a living;423423 Acts xviii. 2, 3. he does not seem to have imitated the birds of the air and the lilies of the field. From these and such like passages of Scripture, it is sufficiently apparent that our Lord does not disapprove of it, when one looks after such things in the ordinary way that men do; but only when one enlists as a soldier of God for the sake of such things, so that in what he does he fixes his eye not on the kingdom of God, but on the acquisition of such things.
58. Hence this whole precept is reduced to the following rule, that even in looking after such things we should think of the kingdom of God, but in the service of the kingdom of God we should not think of such things. For in this way, although they should sometimes be wanting (a thing which God often permits for the purpose of exercising us), they not only do not weaken our proposition, but even strengthen it, when it is examined and tested. For, says He, "we glory in tribulations also; knowing that tribulation worketh patience, and patience experience, and experience hope: And hope maketh not ashamed, because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us."424424 Rom. v. 3–5. Now, in the mention of his tribulations and labours, the same apostle mentions that he has had to endure not only prisons and shipwrecks and many such like annoyances, but also hunger and thirst, cold and nakedness.425425 2 Cor. xi. 23–27. But when we read this, let us not imagine that the promises of God have wavered, so that the apostle suffered hunger and thirst and nakedness while seeking the kingdom and righteousness of God, although it is said to us, "Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you:" since that Physician to whom we have once for all entrusted ourselves wholly, and from whom we have the promise of life present and future, knows such things just as helps, when He sets them before us, when He takes them away, just as He judges it expedient for us; whom He rules and directs as parties who require both to be comforted and exercised in this life, and after this life to be established and confirmed in perpetual rest. For man also, when he frequently takes away the fodder from his beast of burden, is not depriving it of his care, but rather does what he is doing in the exercise of care.
406 Nor is it said, "Seek…in order that all these things may be added:" simply, "and all," etc., yet largely inclusive,—sanctity and comfort. The comfort follows naturally. The passage is a rebuke to those who condemn the amenities of life and art, and a caution to those who place these things before themselves as a chief end. The passage justifies the statement that religion (or godliness) is profitable for the life that now is. The Psalmist never saw the righteous forsaken. A traditional saying of Jesus, quoted by Clement, Origen, and Eusebius, runs, "Ask great things, and little things shall be added; ask heavenly things, and earthly things shall be added."
407 Cogitare in crastino; Vulgate, solliciti esse in crastinum. There is no uniformity in Augustin's or the Vulgate's translation of the Greek μεριμνάω ("take anxious thought") in this passage.
408 The morrow will bring its own vexations and anxieties. The English version entirely misleads as to the meaning of the special clause, "will take care of itself." The Revised Version is a literal translation, and at least gives the true sense by implication. But with each day's temptations and troubles, it is implied, special enablement and deliverance will be provided.
409 Wiclif, following the Vulgate, translates malice; Tyndale, trouble; the Genevan Bible, grief.
410 Our Lord's precept is not against provident forethought,—of which Augustin goes on to give examples,—but against anxious thought which implies distrust of God's providence. Anxious, fretful, distrustful care for the future, unreliant upon God's bounty, wisdom, and love (as implied in the address, your heavenly Father) is declared to be unnecessary (25, 26), foolish (27–30), and heathenish (32, "After these things do the Gentiles seek"). The passages teach trust in God, who is more interested in His children than in the fowls of the air, and will certainly take care of them.
411 Matt. iv. 11.
412 John xii. 6.
413 Thesaurizans; Vulgate, recondens.
414 Advenero; Vulgate, præsens fuero.
415 1 Cor. xvi. 1–8.
416 Not in the original Greek or Vulgate, but implied in the preceding context.
418 Acts xi. 27–30. The clause shows much divergence from the Vulgate in construction.
419 Acts xxviii. 10.
420 Operans; Vulgate, operando.
421 Eph. iv. 28. Unde tribuere cui opus est; Vulgate, unde tribuat necessitatem patienti.
422 1 Thess. ii. 9; 2 Thess. iii. 8.
423 Acts xviii. 2, 3.
424 Rom. v. 3–5.
425 2 Cor. xi. 23–27.


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package dao

import (
	"context"
	"fmt"
	"time"

	"go-common/app/service/main/tag/conf"
	"go-common/library/cache/memcache"
	"go-common/library/cache/redis"
	"go-common/library/database/sql"
	"go-common/library/log"
)

const (
	_shard = 200
)

// Dao struct .
type Dao struct {
	conf               *conf.Config
	db                 *sql.DB
	redis              *redis.Pool
	redisExpire        int32
	subExpire          int32
	actionExpire       int32
	operateExpire      int32
	mc                 *memcache.Pool
	tagExpire          int32
	resExpire          int32
	resAllTidExpire    int32
	channelGroupExpire int32
}

// New dao return struct .
func New(c *conf.Config) (d *Dao) {
	d = &Dao{
		conf:               c,
		db:                 sql.NewMySQL(c.MySQL),
		redis:              redis.NewPool(c.Redis.Config),
		redisExpire:        int32(time.Duration(c.Redis.Expire) / time.Second),
		subExpire:          int32(time.Duration(c.Redis.SubExpire) / time.Second),
		actionExpire:       int32(time.Duration(c.Redis.ActionExpire) / time.Second),
		operateExpire:      int32(time.Duration(c.Redis.OperateExpire) / time.Second),
		mc:                 memcache.NewPool(c.Memcache.Config),
		tagExpire:          int32(time.Duration(c.Memcache.TagExpire) / time.Second),
		resExpire:          int32(time.Duration(c.Memcache.ResExpire) / time.Second),
		resAllTidExpire:    int32(time.Duration(c.Memcache.ResAllTidsExpire) / time.Second),
		channelGroupExpire: int32(time.Duration(c.Memcache.ChannelGroupExpire) / time.Second),
	}
	return
}

func (d *Dao) hit(mid int64) string {
	return fmt.Sprintf("%03d", mid%int64(_shard))
}

func (d *Dao) batchKey(oids []int64) (res map[string][]int64) {
	res = make(map[string][]int64, len(oids))
	for _, oid := range oids {
		key := fmt.Sprintf("%03d", oid%int64(_shard))
		res[key] = append(res[key], oid)
	}
	return
}

// BeginTran begin transaction.
func (d *Dao) BeginTran(c context.Context) (tx *sql.Tx, err error) {
	if tx, err = d.db.Begin(c); err != nil {
		log.Error("d.db.Begin error(%v)", err)
	}
	return
}

// Ping ping connection is ok.
func (d *Dao) Ping(c context.Context) (err error) {
	if err = d.db.Ping(c); err != nil {
		return
	}
	if err = d.pingRedis(c); err != nil {
		return
	}
	err = d.pingMC(c)
	return
}

func (d *Dao) pingRedis(c context.Context) (err error) {
	conn := d.redis.Get(c)
	_, err = conn.Do("SET", "PING", "PONG")
	conn.Close()
	return
}

func (d *Dao) pingMC(c context.Context) (err error) {
	conn := d.mc.Get(c)
	item := memcache.Item{Key: "ping", Value: []byte{1}, Expiration: d.tagExpire}
	err = conn.Set(&item)
	conn.Close()
	return
}

// Close close .
func (d *Dao) Close() {
	if d.mc != nil {
		d.mc.Close()
	}
	if d.redis != nil {
		d.redis.Close()
	}
	if d.db != nil {
		d.db.Close()
	}
}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


THE plan was attacked as too risky, but brave rescuers forged ahead to save the first four of 12 boys trapped in a Thai cave as torrential rains hit the region.
The youngsters, aged between 11 and 16, faced a dangerous and frightening journey out of the flooded Tham Luang cave system on Sunday.
Their toughest challenge came near the beginning of the treacherous three-kilometre route, during a terrifying 200m dive.
The boys had to squeeze through a narrow, 38-centimetre hole in the rock known as a "choke point".
Each boy was accompanied by two divers - one in front and one behind. But at this choke point, where an upward slope was followed by a sharp bend downwards, they would have to go it alone, climbing out of the water and over the peak before descending back into its murky depths.
It was hazardous even for the experienced divers with them, who needed to remove their bulky scuba tanks to fit through.
One reporter on the scene described the gap as "barely bigger than a standard school ruler or the size of your head".
Many of the boys trapped in the cave with their soccer coach cannot even swim, and some are weak and exhausted from malnourishment. Rescuers have spent the past few days trying to teach them basic diving and breathing skills.
An Australian doctor's triaging of 12 boys trapped in a cave in northern Thailand may have led to the rescue of four of the weakest children first.
The initial plan was to bring the strongest out first.
But after Adelaide cave diver and anaesthetist Richard Harris, 53, assessed the youngsters and their coach that strategy appears to have been reversed, Thai media has reported.
Thirteen divers entered the cave at 10am Sunday local time (1pm AEST) - some heading straight for the trapped group and others taking up stations along the string of flooded chambers.
The cave has a series of extremely narrow 'choke points' for divers to negotiate.
Each boy had to wear a full scuba mask, wetsuit, boots and a helmet as they made their way through the dark and perilous passageways.
They were strapped to the leading diver by a tether and dragged along by their "buddy", who carried two tanks and shared oxygen with the boy as they followed a submerged rope.
A second diver followed the pair through the cold water and airless chambers that have already claimed one life.
The foreign divers and five Thai divers entered the caves after an Australian doctor gave the all-clear. Locals were required because none of the foreigners speak Thai and communication before and during the dive was key.
The first four boys successfully completed a three-kilomtres journey out of the cave.
Additional rescue personnel, including divers from Thailand, the US, Australia, China and Europe, were stationed between the third chamber and the entrance, where the boys would have to use a rope to traverse challenging terrain.
The first two boys successfully completed their mission at 5.40pm and 5.50pm local time (8.40pm and 8.50pm AEST), with another two following two hours later, ten minutes apart.
There were hopes another two boys might make it out, but the rescue had to be placed on hold for 10-20 hours while oxygen supplies were replenished.
As morning breaks, the remaining eight boys and their 25-year-old soccer coach will be hoping they, too, are as successful as the first four.
And they have the whole world hoping with them.


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Tag Archives: desertstorm
Oh Shut Up
February 16, 2019 desert stormdesertstormBill Genereux
In response to a query about Desert Storm Syndrome in an online veterans group we were all recently treated to this delightful comment:
In one little post, I was reminded of one of the reasons that I decided to leave the service and choose another path. There was always someone around quick with a put-down. Now, this is probably true wherever you go, but it is particularly true in the armed forces.
Now don't get me wrong. I'm very proud of my military service, in fact, it is probably one of the things in my life of which I am most proud. I miss being part of something so much bigger than myself. I miss the camaraderie. I miss the brotherhood. But I don't miss the machismo, the always a tough-guy theme. As much as I am truly thankful for that part of the experience because it helped me to toughen up, in the end, it wasn't where I wanted to be day after day throughout adulthood.
There are more ways to be a man than the hard-exterior tough guy. Much of our culture tells us that this is the only way for a man to be though, and anyone who is made differently doesn't quite measure up. And we wonder why some men are confused about what it means to be a man. The truth is, there are many ways to "correctly" be a man and tough-guy is only one of them.
At first, I laughed at the "fart of a war" comment along with some of my other comrades in arms. After I returned from the gulf war, I had a chance to talk with my grandfather about his wartime experiences as an infantryman and combat medic in the Pacific jungles of WWII. It made me realize that my difficulties aboard ship during a couple of months in Desert Storm were minuscule in comparison to those of an infantryman in the second world war, or any war for that matter.
However, as I think about it, dismissing the misery of an unexplained illness or the trauma of serving in combat really isn't a laughing matter. Undoubtedly, some of us still suffer from mental health issues if not physical issues, but to the macho man, these are unspeakable things.
I don't typically engage in online arguments, particularly one so obviously desirous of stirring up contention. It is like the old saying,
"You shouldn't wrestle with a pig. You'll just get yourself dirty and the pig will enjoy it."
Instead of wrestling with pigs, I'll just have my say in this space. We should support each other better.
January 31, 2019 researchdesertstormBill Genereux
One of the most memorable moments for me during operation desert storm was the night before hostilities began. I had duty as petty officer the watch on the Quarterdeck. I knew something new was happening, something big. This is because I was ordered to place a magazine clip of ammunition into my Colt 45 pistol.
At that point in my career as a United States Navy sailor, I had stood numerous watches as an armed guard. On my previous ship, the US S Cochran, I was a part of the ship security force. That ship was nuclear capable and had specialized training associated with protecting special weapons. We had orders to shoot anyone who attempted to enter the ass rock magazine. I never had to shoot anyone. In fact, even in that situation, I was never given permission to load a clip of magazine of ammunition into my gun. Until desert storm, I had always carried an empty firearm with my ammunition safely tucked away on my belt.
The night before Desert Storm commenced, I was given the order to go ahead and place a chamber of no scratch that I was given an order to place a clip of ammo into my weapon. Even at that point, I wasn't allowed to chamber a round. But it marked the first time in my naval career that I had carried a gun with ammunition in it while on duty.
At that point, rumors were floating about. Rumors that the harbor had been mined. Rumors that something big was going to happen. Everyone was on edge, but excited at the same time.
A lot of news reports from earlier in the year talked about how hot it was in the golf region. Operation desert shield started in August 19 90. I never experienced the heat. That night that I was standing watch outside on the quarterdeck as petty officer of the watch was quite chilly. We were bundled up in our pea coats. The air was cold and damp. Most definitely an eerie feeling about.
I have transferred to the battleship Missouri for a number of reasons. Partly because I was home sick. My previous ship, the Cochrane, was homeported in Japan. My first two years in the Navy were spent in training in Illinois. I got to go home frequently when I was in Illinois. So I experienced a number of bouts of homesickness while I was in Japan. I was ready to come back stateside. The opportunity to join the crew of the battleship Missouri appeal to me.
I couldn't have known that war was looming on the horizon. However, I had had a taste of the danger on the Cochrane. The Cochrane had been deployed to the Middle East in response to the USS Stark being struck by an Iraqi missile. This was during the Iran/Iraq war. At that time the belligerents were shooting missiles at oil tankers.
When the Stark was hit, our ship which was forward deployed out of Japan, had to make haste to the gulf region. However being in the weapons department, we were a little disappointed that our ship was not permitted to enter the Persian Gulf because of its lack of a CIWS anti-missile system. So we were left to do circles in the Gulf of Oman just outside the Persian Gulf off the coast of Iran. Not long after we left the golf, another U.S. Navy ship, the USS Vin sans was involved in a skirmish
Also about that time, our sister ship the USS corral was called into the golf even though it had the same limitations of the Cochran, and was given orders to shell Iranian oil platforms. Oh how we fire control and gun types would've enjoyed we would've enjoyed actual live fire missions.
Little did I know that by transferring to the battleship Missouri I would get my taste of many hours on the ground right.


Why Should Regression Testing and Smoke Testing Be Executed?
Sometimes the software developers have limitations of a budget and time for the entry to the market but they know that the checking of quality requirements conformance is obligatory for the system.
Otherwise, this can lead to the bigger losses. For such situations, when the maintaining of all the range of software testing services, is impossible due to several circumstances, as a rule, a minimal package is offered which includes regression and smoke testing.
Smoke testing has something in common with such type of quality assurance as functional testing because of their purposes uniformity. It is a short test cycle which is conducted for the confirmation that after the code writing (new or updated) the software works in a proper way and performs the main functions.
Regression testing is aimed to check the changes after the detection and fixation of the bugs in the application or the environment, in order to make sure whether the current functional works as earlier and some unexpected negative consequences are discovered.
Manual testing and automated testing – more correctly, some elements of these types of quality assurance – can be engaged in both cases.
Smoke testing does not require huge financial and time expenditures, as the tests are executed only for the basic functional without entering into details. Regression testing also is economic because of it simply rechecks the errors, fixed in the system.
Smoke and regression testing are performed with the usage of the scenarios.
Therefore, software testing should be an obligatory stage for the software product before its release and even if the resources are rather limited, the client always may use the package consisted of smoke and regression testing which will help to make sure that the main functions of the system work correctly.


Schools across the state – and the nation – are increasingly aware of the importance of preparing students for 21st Century academic pursuits and careers, and are establishing goals aimed at developing and strengthening higher level critical thinking skills.
Constellation Schools: Puritas Community Middle is no exception. Key members of the team – Assistant Principal Debbie Piazza, Language Arts Teachers Angela Waggaman and Kim Schwartz, Instructional Coach Vicki DelaCuesta and Technology Integration Coach Mike Feldman – have developed and are implementing an effective tactic toward achieving that lofty goal: project- and problem-based learning.
It's easy to simply recycle and deliver the same content area lesson plans each year, but these committed educators aren't focused on what's easy, but rather on what's effective in terms of student engagement and development.
So, what do the Puritas project- and problem-based learning plans look like?
Seventh-grade students were introduced to the unique challenge of being hired to manage the campaign of a mythical monster running for the highly coveted position of the first president of Olympus after the mythological Greek gods overthrow Zeus and agree to establish a democracy.
Each team of four students was challenged to research and choose a mythological monster and a political issue that would serve as the foundation of the monster's campaign. The campaign teams were then tasked with developing posters, speeches, social media content, websites and commercials promoting their candidates.
Another project involved time travel, with students making decisions on where to go, where to stay, means of travel, activities to engage in, what foods to eat, and the financial resources needed.
One student from each group is selected as the leader, and the various tasks are assigned to individual members.
Beyond standards-based lessons, students are learning to create, analyze and apply – activities that are highly effective in terms of recall. They're also learning how to collaborate and to be respectful of one another in expressing different opinions.