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A: For those who are still facing this issue, I found another answer which saved my day.
https://stackoverflow.com/a/32240747/8550847

A: First check your OS X version, because Xcode 6.4 works only in later versions of 10.10.
Second if you have copied Xcode from a DMG file then it should be copied in the Applications folder.

A: For me, I had to delete and recreate my simulators to fix the problem. I followed this and did fastlane snapshot reset_simulators to do it using Fastlane.

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Cepheid Variable
Cepheid Variable Stars
Cepheid Variable Star Special Effect
Version I
This is the simplest option. For a portable planetarium, make a paper mask that will block all the stars except for Sirius (the brightest star) on the star projector. Sirius becomes the variable star whose brightness is controlled by the main star bulb brightness knob. For Cepheid variable star A, vary the brightness between "maximum brightness" and "very dim" in a cycle about once every 5 seconds. For Cepheid variable star B, vary the brightness between "half-maximum brightness" and "very dim" about once per second. Cepheid variable star C varies between "very dim" and "half-maximum brightness" once every 5 seconds (same brightness as B, but same pulse rate as A).
A single variable star projector can be used to simulate all three types of variable stars needed in the program. However, it is better to have the capability of showing simultaneously variable stars with different brightnesses and pulsing rates. If you do not happen to own two STARLAB projectors, the following versions are fairly easy to implement.
Version II
This is a simple variable brightness dot projector design. You can make two or three of them very inexpensively.
At an electronics store, purchase:
• Two switches (On/off—not momentary contact)
• Two potentiometers (under 20-30 ohms maximum resistance)
• A meter or two of light weight electrical wire (about 24 gauge—more wire is required if you plan to put one light in the dome.)
• Two integrated circuit sockets to serve as sockets for the Mini-Mag Lite® bulbs (8 or 14 pin sockets are common)
• 2 "D" cells and battery holder, or a 3V "battery eliminator" power supply
You also need
• Two small hand lenses (Longer focal lengths give better pinpoint appearance of star; larger diameter makes brighter star.)
• Two small cardboard boxes with removable lids (such as a box for storing slides, at least 3 cm tall), or two cardboard tubes
• Two Mini-Mag Lite® bulbs
Assemble the parts as shown in Fig. 1 (p. 6). Each projector can be manually operated (by varying the potentiometer) for the effect needed to produce Cepheid variable stars A, B, or C.
You will need practice to make a Cepheid variable A that is brighter and slower than a Cepheid variable B (as described in version I). For Cepheid variable C, you need to operate one projector so that it is as fast as A, but as dim as B.
The projector box or tube may point straight up at the zenith or can be mounted to point in any direction by:
a. Punching a hole in the side of the box; and
b. Attaching it to a somewhat larger box with a paper fastener or nut and bolt (Fig. 2, p. 6).
Cepheid Variable Star Special Effect Version III
For this version you need to be able to solder and to put together a simple digital circuit on a breadboard. You will need the following parts from an electronics parts store (such as Radio Shack):
• A breadboard (#350 Experimenter works well)
• A meter or two of speaker wire, two-conductor, stranded, insulated, about 20 gauge (More wire is required if you plan to put one light in the dome.)
• Parts for the circuit shown in Fig. 3:
(3) 555 integrated circuit chips
(3) Capacitors, electrolytic, 47 microfarad
(3) Resistors, 1000 ohm, 1/4 watt
(2) Resistors, 18 kilohms, 1/4 watt
(2) Resistors, 10 ohms, 1/4 watt
(1) Resistor, 6800 ohms, 1/4 watt
(1) Resistor, 3.9 ohm, 1/2 watt
(15) jumper wires, about an inch long, 22 gauge, solid, insulated, ends stripped
(3) Switches, single pole, single throw (On/off—not momentary contact)
(1) 5–6 volt power supply, battery eliminator, or a 4-cell battery holder and four D-cells
• A soldering iron and solder
• Three Mini-Mag Lite® flashlight lamps (3V; available from stores that sell Mag Lite® flashlights such as hardware or camping supply stores, or from Mag Instrument, Inc., 1635 S. Sacramento Ave., Ontario, CA 91716)
• Two thin short dowels, 0.5 cm. (1/4") thick (or less) x 15 cm. (6") long, or two standard size pencils
• One long dowel, same thickness as dowels above, 1–2 meters (3'-6') long
• Three blocks of wood or Styrofoam, about 8 cm. x 8 cm. x 3 cm.
(3" x 3" x 1")
• A drill and a drill bit the same diameter as the above dowels if you use wood blocks
• A small box of cardboard or very thin wood on which to mount the circuit board and switches.
To make three Cepheid variable stars with the required brightnesses and pulsing rates, construct the three simple flasher circuits (Fig. 3). For Cepheid variable star A, that is a bright light flashing about once every two or three seconds, use the following values of resistors and capacitors:
C1 = 47 microfarad C2 = 25,000 microfarad
R1 = 1,000 ohm R2 = 18,000 ohm
R3 = 10 ohm R4 = 10 ohm
For Cepheid variable star B, that is a dimmer light flashing about once every second, use the following values of resistors and capacitors:
C1 = 47 microfarad C2 = 5,000 microfarad
R1 = 1,000 ohm R2 = 6,800 ohm
These two flashing lights are placed within several centimeters of each other and represent two different Cepheid variables at a standard distance for comparison of their absolute magnitudes.
For Variable star C, that is as dim as B, but flashing at the rate of A, using the following values:
Cepheid variable C is placed in the dome much higher than the other two lights. This represents a Cepheid variable that the audience can conclude has absolute brightness the same as that of A (since it flashes at the same rate as A), but has a fainter apparent brightness, indicating it must be farther away
than A.
To build the projectors,
a. Construct the three circuits (Figure 3) using the component values given above. All three circuits can be built using only one breadboard
(Figure 2).
b. Cut three lengths of speaker wire. Two of them should be about 10 cm longer than the short dowels and the third should be about 10 cm longer than the long dowel.
c. Strip the ends of speaker wires and solder a Mini-Mag Lite® onto one end of each wire. Solder jumper wires to the other ends (6 jumper wires total) to allow easy insertion into the breadboard.
d. Tie each speaker wire onto its respective dowel and connect the jumper wire ends to the appropriate points in the circuit.
e. Stick the dowels into the blocks of Styrofoam. If you use wood blocks, which are sturdier, drill a hole in each block that the dowels can fit into snugly.
f. Attach the circuit and the three switches to the box.
Figure 2 shows what the result might look like. Of course, your construction will bear your own personal touches.
A complete list of the slides is on page 8.
8. Slide Projector(s)
Image 12, Zenith Angle Circles must be projected at the zenith. This can be accomplished by putting a mirror (about 8 cm x 14 cm) at a 45° angle in front of the slide projector lens. The image must also be adjusted so that it measures degrees. Adjustment can be by changing the projection distance or with a zoom lens. Compare with a meridian scale to adjust properly.
Images 1-9 and 13-22 are best projected at the zenith, while images 10-12 have a "right-side-up" orientation to them which makes it best to project them nearer the horizon. You may have separate projector(s) for those slides, or keep all slides in one projector and remove the zenith mirror when you want to project near the horizon.
We can measure apparent brightness of a star and still not know how far away the star is. Remember that the farther away a star is, the dimmer it looks. If we had a set of "standard 20 watt light bulbs" scattered around the universe, we could tell how far away they were by seeing how dim they appeared. The dimmest would be farthest away.
But how do we know if a star is bright because it is close, or bright because it really is a "40 watt star?" Some stars are inherently brighter than others. The inherent brightness of a star is called its absolute brightness (or absolute magnitude).
The absolute brightness of a star is what its brightness would be if it was viewed at a standard distance.
Of course stars, like the Sun, are much brighter than 20 watt light bulbs. But it just so happens that there are certain kinds of stars that are especially useful in determining brightness in an absolute sense. There are many stars that pulsate in brightness over periods of time. They are called variable stars.
In the early part of this century, astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt discovered a characteristic of a very special kind of variable star that has become a crucial "yardstick" for measuring distances to very distant stars. The type of variable star whose behavior she studied is called a Cepheid variable star, because the first one was found in the constellation Cepheus. It is a kind of star that tells us how much light it puts out (sort of like how many watts it is).
Optional: point out Cepheus.
Let's look at two Cepheid variable stars to see how they are special. To make things simpler, let's say that these two Cepheid variable stars are very nearby, and exactly the same distance away from us.
Create the effect of Cepheid variable A and Cepheid variable B, preferably going side by side. A should appear at least twice as bright and twice as slow as B.
Cepheid A should peak at magnitude 1, about the brightness of Vega..
What is the difference between these two Cepheid variable stars? [Call the brighter one Cepheid variable A and the dimmer one Cepheid variable B. The dimmer one is pulsing faster than the other.]
The standard distance of a star to see its absolute magnitude is 32.5 light-years = 10 parsecs. The unit, parsec, derives from the idea of parallax measurements: a parsec is the distance at which a star would exhibit one arc-second of parallax.
Optional: for Older Students
Quantitative Measurements of Cepheid Variables
Let's measure the pulsing rate of Cepheid variable A. Its period is how long it takes to go from maximum brightness to maximum brightness. We are observing the variable star in accelerated time: each second in our planetarium is about 10 days of real time.
Please count silently how many pulses occur while I time 100 days of real time. Ready? Set. Count.
Wait until the fifth flash.
Stop! How many pulses were there? [5.] If there were five pulses in 100 days, how long did each pulse last? [20 days.]
So the period of this Cepheid variable star is 20 days.
Now let's look at Cepheid variable star B.
Please count how many pulses occur while I again time 100 days of real time. Ready? Set. Count.
Wait until the tenth flash.
Stop! How many pulses were there? [10.] If there were ten pulses in 100 days, how long did each pulse last? [10 days.]
So the period of this Cepheid variable star is 10 days. As you can see, the period is related to the brightness.


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Ngo Cho Kun in Socio-Cultural Perspective
"Without 'letters,' the effort to spread the martial arts across the nation is bound to fail." −Cai Yangwu, a slogan of the Jingwu (Pure Martial) Association.
By Ben Judkins, Kung-fu Tea
It may seem odd or inauthentic to label a manual as "the Bible" of a given martial arts style. Certain students have taken issue with McCarthy's use of the term in his translation of the Bubishi (often referred to as the "Bible of Karate.") Beyond obscuring a complex textual tradition with cliché, such an idiom seems too closely linked with western popular culture.
While certain Chinese masters may have published manuals, these are largely seen as peripheral to the actual teaching and comprehension of their styles. That remains a stubbornly oral and embodied process. Everyone knows that "you cannot learn Kung Fu from a book." The idea of a martial arts "Bible," while romantically harkening back to stories of secret techniques, wandering monks and lost manuscripts, seems overdone.
Yet this is exactly how Yeng Tzi Wan described Yu Chiok Sam's 1917 Five Ancestors Fist manual (The Chinese Gentle Art Complete) in his preface to the work (page XVII). His description is quite apt.
This book appeared at a time when the future of the Chinese martial arts was a subject of public debate. Many May 4th reformers saw little value in the continuation of traditions as feudal and superstitious as the traditional Chinese martial arts. They looked to "scientific" western sports, gymnastics and physical training programs as the key to strengthening the Chinese people.
Reformers within the traditional martial arts community took issue with this claim. But even they were forced to concede that these fighting systems would need to evolve if they wished to find a place in China's newly emerging social order. Some saw books and publishing as the key to success. The martial arts could only be saved as quickly as they could be purified, recorded, and their techniques openly published for the consumption of a new type of urban middle-class student.
Given this ongoing (and at times quite heated) public discourse, it is not surprising that Yu Choik Sam's manual seems to be so conscious of its own textuality. The work's very existence as a physical object was meant to be a powerful sign of the system's cultural value and modern outlook. Prior to the Republic period very few books had been published that dealt exclusively with the practice of traditional boxing. After the opening years of the 1920s such manuals became commonplace.
The call had gone out to the martial arts community. Books were to be the way. They demonstrated in solid, undeniable terms, that the martial arts could escape the taint of their largely illiterate, rural and secretive past. It is no coincidence that the 1920-1930s was the first golden age of the publishing within the modern Chinese martial arts community. In many ways this burst of media creativity has continued to shape our practice of these fighting systems to the present day.
The following post reviews Alexander Lim Co, Russ L. Smith and Mark V. Wiley's (ed.) new bilingual translation of Yu Chiok Sam's classic manual, the Chinese Gentle Art: The Bible of Ngo Cho Kun (Tambuli Media, 2014). I had been meaning to take a look at this book since it came out last year, and when the publisher offered to send me a review copy I jumped at the chance. While I have never studied this particular system (which remains popular in Fujian, Taiwan and South East Asia) I was nevertheless very interested in the text. After all, there simply are not that many examples of Republic era martial arts manuals that deal explicitly with the arts of Fujian and Guangdong.
This is not to the say that the area has not produced important literature of its own. It certainly has. Lam Sai Wing's works on Hung Gar is an obvious example. A century earlier Guangdong and Fujian also produced a number of hand-written "Cotton Boxing" manuals, as well as the previously noted manuscript collection now referred to as the Bubishi. Still, compared to the more numerous publications dealing with the internal and northern Shaolin styles, the martial arts of the south seem to be somewhat underrepresented in the existing literature.
The following discussion proceeds in two sections. In the first I offer a brief review of Tambuli Media's recent republication of this manual. Following that I would like to go back and take a more detailed look at the process by which this book has come down to us and what it reveals to us about the public discussion of the TCMA in the first two decades of the twentieth century… (more at Kung-Fu Tea)
Grab your copy of Chinese Gentle Art Complete: The Bible of Ngo Cho Kun today!


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It looks like 'Y2K all over again' for stocks. The choppy six-month recovery from the February correction has eerily mirrored the five-month upswing that followed the stock-market meltdown of March-April 2000 — which led to the bursting of the dot-com bubble.
Saudi Arabia is talking to an electric-car maker about a deal — and it's not Tesla. Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund, the Public Investment Fund, is in talks with the privately held Lucid Motors for an investment worth more than $1 billion that would give it a majority stake, Reuters says.
Pepsi is buying SodaStream. The deal pays SodaStream shareholders $3.2 billion in cash, or $144 a share — a 32% premium to Friday's closing price.
Former Lehman Brothers staff members are hosting a secret party on the 10th anniversary of the bank's collapse. Hundreds of former Lehman employees are set to attend an event in London on September 15 commemorating the 10th anniversary of the bank's demise, Financial News reports.
Stock markets around the world are higher. Hong Kong's Hang Seng (+1.41%) led the gains in Asia, and Germany's DAX (+1.11%) is out front in Europe. The S&P 500 is set to open up 0.22% near 2,857.
Earnings reports trickle out. Estée Lauder reports ahead of the opening bell.


I presented a working paper at the Strategic Management Society Annual Meeting in Paris. In this paper, my co-authors and I review the performance feedback literature and examine how firms react when they do not achieve their goals. The paper was part of the "Performance Feedback" session in which three other co-author teams presented their papers as well.
Although performance feedback theory provides one of the primary explanations of organizational adaptation, the findings of studies that have examined the effect of performance below aspiration levels on problemistic search and strategic change are inconsistent. This paper uses meta-analytic techniques to synthesize the empirical evidence of 54 studies and test the theory's primary predictions. We find that organizations that perform below the aspiration level devote more resources to problemistic search but are less likely to initiate strategic change in order to restore firm performance. In addition, we show that strategic change is primarily driven by organizational experience. We discuss the implications for performance feedback theory and threat-rigidity theory.
Co-Authors: Professor Pursey Heugens & Professor Anna Nadolska.


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Perspective from Amesh A. Adalja, MD, FACP
Chen L, et al. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2017;doi:10.15585/mmwr.mm6506a5.
Nevada woman dies of pan-resistant CRE infection
A Nevada woman died recently from an infection that was resistant to every antibiotic available to treat it, health officials said.
The woman, a Washoe County resident in her 70s, was hospitalized in Reno last Aug. 18 for systematic inflammatory response syndrome after returning from an extended stay in India, where she had a history of hospitalizations over the prior 2 years related to a right femur fracture, most recently in June.
The next day, doctors isolated carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) — specifically, Klebsiella pneumoniae — from a right hip seroma and the woman was isolated in a single room under contact precautions.
The infection was resistant to all 14 available antibiotics at the hospital, according to Lei Chen, PhD, epidemiology program manager for the Washoe County Health District. CDC testing later showed that the infection was resistant to all 26 antibiotics that could be used to treat it.
The woman died in September. Her death certificate listed three causes of death: cardiac arrest, respiratory failure and septic shock, Chen said.
"It's scary to everyone because we're out of treatment options," Chen told Infectious Disease News. "Truly, it's scary."
Thomas R. Frieden
CDC Director Thomas R. Frieden, MD, MPH, has called CRE "nightmare bacteria" and has urged the health care community to work together to stop the infections from spreading. In the Nevada case, the health department worked with the hospital to screen every patient in the same unit and no further cases of CRE were identified. Luckily, Chen said, the patient did not have a roommate while she was hospitalized.
The type of CRE was identified by the CDC as New Delhi metallo-beta-lactamase (NDM) — the first time it has been reported in Nevada, according to Chen and Randall Todd, DrPH, director of epidemiology and public health preparedness at the Washoe County Health District.
Randall Todd
Todd said the woman likely acquired the infection in India, which has a high prevalence of CRE.
"We live in an ever-shrinking world because of international travel, so being alert to the possibility that a patient who presents with a drug-resistant infection may have been in another part of the world is important," Todd told Infectious Disease News. "Somebody can come into your hospital who has traveled in other parts of the world and acquired infections there that can turn your whole system upside-down, so it's important to be open to those possibilities and to inquire about them so that appropriate isolation and treatment options can be implemented quickly. We feel the hospital here did that."
CDC testing showed that the woman's infection did not carry the colistin-resistant mcr-1 gene. The testing showed the infection was mildly susceptible to fosfomycin, an antibiotic approved in the United States only for uncomplicated urinary tract infections. However, Todd said there was no way to know after the fact if the drug would have worked on her infection.
"It would have needed to be administered intravenously, which would not be an on-label use of that drug," Todd said. "Sometimes doctors will go ahead and use a drug off-label, although by the time they got to that point, there wasn't time to do that."
Chen and Todd both stressed the need for active surveillance and quick response in the battle against drug resistance. Washoe County has been testing for CRE since 2010.
"It's scary, but we are not panicked because we are prepared. We expect it," Chen said. – by Gerard Gallagher
Disclosure: The researchers report no relevant financial disclosures.
Amesh A. Adalja, MD, FACP
The report of the isolation of a totally drug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae from a fatal infection in Nevada is extremely alarming. This virtually impervious bacteria exhibited resistance to the entire armamentarium of antibiotics available in the U.S. and is a harbinger of what is in store for the human race if the spread of antibiotic resistance is not taken seriously. The specifics of this case included hospitalization in India, where the NDM-1 resistance mechanism that this bacterium possessed is prevalent, highlighting the capacity of infectious diseases to exploit travel networks to reach distant continents and emphasizing the global nature of this problem.
Thankfully, no secondary spread of this infection occurred at the health facility, but it is only a matter of time, if existing trends are not reversed and antibiotic stewardship and infection control not given the stature required by hospital administrators, before microbes with these types of resistance patterns become more common and place more patients at risk. Antibiotic resistance is arguably the most pressing public health challenge the world faces and, if not solved, threatens to destroy much of modern medicine and drag humans back to the pre-penicillin era in which routine surgery, let alone organ transplantation or chemotherapy, was a highly risky proposition.
Infectious disease physician at the University of Pittsburgh
Disclosures: Adalja reports no relevant financial disclosures.


The Major League Baseball streak for former South Dakota State standout Caleb Thielbar is over. On Monday night, Thielbar allowed his first MLB run in his 18th appearance as a Minnesota Twins' pitcher. Tampa Bay second baseman Ben Zobrist hit a homer off Thielbar to help the Rays beat the Twins 7-4. In his first 17 appearances since his debut May 20, Thielbar did not allow a run and pitched 20 scoreless innings. That was a Twins' record and a feat only six other Major Leaguers have accomplished since 1921. The Randolph, Minn., native had not yielded a hit in almost a month, retiring 33 consecutive batters since June 9. In 2008, Oakland pitcher Brad Ziegler set the MLB record with 39.1 consecutive scoreless innings.


Being spiritually-minded will produce joy and peace in the life of a believer. Emotional stability is a result of our relationship with Jesus and understanding God's Word.
Emotions are given by God for our enjoyment. They can be influenced positively or negatively by the circumstances of life. Every day we have an opportunity to operate in positive emotions or be ruled by negative emotions.


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Fireball car crash victim 'on drugs'
A WOMAN affected by drink and cannabis had been driving at 80mph seconds before a "fireball" crash which killed her and her sister, an inquest at Wolverhampton heard.
Birmingham Live
Karen Wood, aged 37, of Sampson Road, Leytonstone, London, a delivery driver, died instantly after suffering multiple injuries.
Her 25-year-old Metro conductor sister and front seat passenger, Rachel Walters, of Vale Street, Parkfields, Wolverhampton, died of extensive lung and chest injuries.
Both had been out drinking and were on their way to Bilston to meet friends on February 3 when the Renault Megane car ploughed into a wall at the Hartwell Toyota car showroom, in Bilston Road, and burst into flames, Wolverhampton Coroner Richard Allen was told.
Karen's 19-year-old daughter, Tara Clayton, who was helped to safety from the back seat by Toyota security consultant Robert Heydon moments before the car exploded, said her mother had drunk alcohol on the night and was a regular cannabis smoker.
Mr Heydon, who raced to the crash scene after hearing a loud bang from his office, said he helped Tara out but could not open the doors to reach the other women.
He realised both sisters were dead and ran to get an extinguisher.
Mr Heydon said he started to tackle the smouldering car but it flared up.
"I asked everybody to move away from the vehicle, then it blew up," he said.
Benjamin Tonks, who had been driving in front of the Megane before the crash, said he looked in his mirror and saw the car veer to the left after reaching a humped bridge.
PC Andrew Salt said tyre marks on the road indicated the driver had steered too vigorously to the left to correct the car after it had strayed.
He estimated the vehicle had built up a speed of between 80 and 100mph.
Pathologist Dr William Fuggle said toxicology tests revealed Karen's blood contained 87 milligrams of alcohol per 100 millilitres, the legal driving limit being 80, and that traces of cannabis were in her system.
Wolverhampton Coroner Richard Allen recorded verdicts of accidental death on the sisters.
"I am satisfied that both the excessive speed of the car and the driver's use of alcohol and cannabis played an important role," he said.


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Q: Are syntax errors in Python found at 'compile time' or 'runtime'? This is straight out of a question I had in a school exam. The question goes:

In the Python Programming Language, syntax error is detected by (a) at (b). (a) and (b) are:

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*(a): interpreter, (b): compile time

*(a): interpreter (b): runtime

Syntax errors are found out before runtime, right? So the answer should be 1?
My teacher's reasoning, I believe, is that Python is an 'interpreted language', so, 1 becomes wrong. But, afaik, Python is compiled to C after which it is run.
I am unable to find any relevant documentation, some pointing in the right direction will be appreciated.


As a young, penniless gentleman, Maxwell Harwick knew he had little to offer Juliet White - the most beautiful debutante of the season - except his love, and one thoroughly scandalous kiss. But when they were discovered in a compromising position, a nearly ruined Juliet fled into the arms of a rich, older lord... taking Max's heart with her.
Now a widow, Lady Juliet Granworth intends to use the fortune she inherited from her odious husband to build a new life in London. Five years have passed, but she's never forgotten Max... or his soul-searing kiss. Yet it's clear the newly-minted Marquess of Thayne has not forgiven her - after all, the infuriating man can barely stand the sight of her. But Juliet has endured far too much to give up without a fight and if it's a battle of wills he wants, it's a battle he'll get.


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BELGIUM: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu can not confirm comments by the Israeli military's top intelligence analyst that Syrian government forces have used chemical weapons
Title: BELGIUM: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu can not confirm comments by the Israeli military's top intelligence analyst that Syrian government forces have used chemical weapons
Date: 23rd April 2013
Summary: BRUSSELS, BELGIUM (APRIL 23, 2013) (REUTERS) CAMERAMEN FILMING KERRY'S NEWS CONFERENCE REPORTERS
Embargoed: 8th May 2013 13:00
Topics: International Relations,Politics
Reuters ID: LVA50RLT7HLP8L1WIZQULPSY3NJQ
Story Text: U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday (April 23) said that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could not confirm comments by the Israeli military's top intelligence analyst that Syrian government forces had used chemical weapons.
Earlier on Tuesday, the Israeli military's top intelligence analyst Brigadier-General Itai Brun at a Tel Aviv security conference said that Syrian forces had used chemical weapons, probably nerve gas, in their fight against rebels.
"I talked to Prime Minister Netanyahu this morning from here, I think it's fair for me to say that he was not in a position to confirm that in the conversation that I had, and so it's up to him and their process as to when and how they do that, not for me to make any other announcements except to say to you that I don't know yet what the facts are and I don't think anybody knows what they are and I'm sure you've heard the old saying 'don't always believe what you read in the newspapers," Kerry told a news conference at NATO headquarters in Brussels.
"I just think that the information that I have at this point does not confirm it to me in a way that I would be comfortable commenting on it as a fact, but obviously whatever allegations are made have to be thoroughly investigated and it is appropriate to chase this one down and find out what's going on, no question about it," he added.
Earlier in the day, Kerry said that NATO needed to consider its role in the Syrian crisis, including how it would respond to a potential chemical weapons threat.
"It was a very clear statement about the threat of chemical weapons and the potential for chemical weapons generically to fall into bad hands and what I did suggest to everybody was we therefore need to all be thinking about how we can get to the negotiating table to avoid an implosion of Syria which would be the worst consequence," he said, adding that the planning that the alliance had already done was appropriate.
Also in Brussels, Kerry will host talks between Afghan President Hamid Karzai and senior Pakistan officials on Wednesday with the aim of calming tensions over border disputes and a flagging peace process.
The meeting is part of a series of on-off discussions between Afghanistan and Pakistan at the behest of the United States, a senior State Department official said on Monday, confirming that Kerry had offered to host the gathering.


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Well-Being | October 2016
Well-being assessment considers more than physical health
Health and well-being are entwined concepts, part of a comprehensive model of health that measures medical, physical, psychological, functional, and sensory aspects. When this more comprehensive model is applied, more patients can be found to have significant vulnerabilities that could affect chances of death or incapacitation within the next 5 years.
By Leah Lawrence
Historically, physicians have been tasked with looking after their patients' physical health, diagnosing disease, applying treatments, or healing injuries. As medicine has evolved, so has the idea of what it meant to be "healthy."
"Health and well-being are not the same thing, but they are closely related to each other," said William Dale, MD, PhD, chief of the section of geriatrics and palliative medicine at the University of Chicago. "As doctors we think of health in terms of disease—does a patient have this disease or that disease?—but well-being encompasses a lot more than just physical health alone."
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Commission to Build a Healthier America has recommended expanding the definition of vital signs to include not only things like heart rate and temperature but also other key factors like employment and housing. Photo by Design Pics
In 1946, the World Health Organization defined health as "a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity." Dr. Dale and colleagues applied this definition in a study published on May 15 by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
They sought to create a comprehensive model of health that measured multiple health domains, including medical, physical, psychological, functional, and sensory measures, and compared it with a medical model that focused only on diseases. Using the medical model, two-thirds of the older U.S. population was considered to be generally healthy, but using the comprehensive model, one-half of this "healthy" population was reclassified as less healthy and was considered to have significant vulnerabilities that could affect the chances of death or incapacitation within the next 5 years.
Social and economic indicators have also been found to affect health outcomes. A project in St. Louis, "For the Sake of All," found a strong link between such factors as education and neighborhood and disease, disability, and death in African-American communities. For example, ZIP codes only a few miles away from each other had an 18-year difference in life expectancy, with residents in poorer areas lacking in healthy food options, safe outdoor spaces, and access to medical care. To help change these disparities, the project investigators recommended systemic fixes, such as investment in education and mental health awareness and treatment.
The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Commission to Build a Healthier America has recommended expanding the definition of vital signs to include not only things like heart rate, blood pressure, and temperature but also key factors that influence health like employment, education, and housing. However, Dr. Dale noted that the health care system is still not well-equipped for assessing a patient's overall well-being, so internists often need to forge their own path.
Rebecca J. Kurth, MD, FACP, an internist in New York City, focuses on 4 domains: diet, exercise, sleep, and mood. Are patients getting 150 minutes of aerobic exercise a week? Are they getting 3 meals a day? Are they within a calorie amount appropriate for their height, weight, gender, and age? Are they getting 7 hours of sleep? Do they feel safe in bed? Do they feel down or depressed? Do they do activities that give them pleasure?
"I use basic, open-ended questions and try to make patients feel safe," Dr. Kurth said. "If a patient feels safe, they are more likely to be open and give information."
Although her practice does use screening forms, especially for things like depression, Dr. Kurth said she has found in her 20 years of practice that patients may be less likely to put information about well-being on a form because they feel that certain things, for example, admitting that they have had thoughts of hurting themselves, can be embarrassing.
Dr. Dale agreed. "Especially given the current time restraints, assessments of well-being are often not done formally with a standard questionnaire but are done by talking with a patient and getting an open-ended history," he said.
Dr. Dale typically starts visits by asking patients to rate their health as excellent, very good, good, fair, or poor and will ask follow-up questions based on the response. In his experience, patients are honest, but their responses can be limited by their ability to accurately assess themselves.
"I have been in clinic with an older patient and asked them if they are able to do housework, and they respond, 'Yes!'" Dr. Dale said. "Meanwhile a family member or spouse at the appointment with them is shaking their head side to side, signaling a silent 'No!'. Sometimes older patients do not recognize how much help they are getting from others or do not realize that they are finding ways to compensate for things they can no longer do."
Patients may also feel a social pressure to say that everything is OK, Dr. Dale added. He recommended asking patients questions that are specific and allowing them to open up. Instead of asking patients how they are feeling, ask how they feel that day compared with how they usually feel.
In contrast, Jason Q. Purnell, PhD, MPH, assistant professor at Washington University in St. Louis and the lead investigator on the "For the Sake of All" project, does not believe these assessments are entirely intuitive for physicians. Instead, physicians should take advantage of the variety of standardized well-being assessments that are available, he said.
For example, the CDC's National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) uses a Quality of Well-being scale, which measures general health and well-being over the previous 3 days, and asks questions related to satisfaction with emotional and social support and whether participants felt happy in the past 30 days, Dr. Purnell said. He also mentioned several questionnaires to screen for depression, including the 9-item Patient Health Questionnaire or the 21-item Beck Depression Inventory.
In addition, Health Leads, a nonprofit organization based in Boston, recently released a screening toolkit (available free online) to help clinicians assess patients' unmet social needs. The toolkit takes a patient-centered, multiquestion approach to screening that is based on well-researched, clinically validated guidelines from the Institute of Medicine, CMS, CDC, and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, according to Rocco Perla, EdD, president of Health Leads.
The toolkit defines social need domains that are essential (food insecurity, housing instability, and transportation) or optional (child care, employment, and education) and provides a sample screening tool that can be tailored to each practice's patient population. Sample questions include, "Are you worried that in the next 2 months you may not have stable housing?" and "Are you afraid you might be hurt in your apartment building or house?"
"While providers collect an immense amount of patient data every day, when it comes to social needs—which we know impact both outcomes and cost—many are flying blind and don't know where to start," Dr. Perla said. "Our goal is to help move the health system towards standards for successful social needs screening, give providers a reliable starting point, and spark discussion around standards in social needs interventions."
Assessing well-being is not the only challenge facing internists. It can be difficult to know how to help a patient once a problem is identified, Dr. Dale admitted.
"If you find these problems, you have to have something you can do about it," he said. "I try not to unearth too many problems that I do not have adequate follow-up available for addressing."
This dilemma is likely very common, Dr. Purnell said. "Problems related to well-being are often outside the scope of a provider's practice and expertise. Even if they know about some of these challenges, they might not be equipped or have the right information to help the patient."
Clinicians who are actively screening for issues related to well-being need to have a structured plan in place, Dr. Purnell said. They should have a set of relationships within the community that they are able to use for referring patients, and, ideally, facilitate a "warm handoff" by introducing the patient and the community-based service provider personally.
Dr. Dale said that he familiarizes himself with community services available to patients and noted that in some cases an online search can find patients help in the area where they live, rather than referring them somewhere within the medical center, where a long commute might discourage them from following up.
In addition to its screening toolkit and other similar free resources, Health Leads offers fee-based training programs, consulting support, and a social needs technology platform to health care organizations or physician practices to help them address patients' basic resource needs by establishing and integrating a successful social needs intervention, Dr. Perla said.
"A growing number of clinicians and health systems are recognizing that unless they address patient social needs directly, they simply can't practice patient-centered and equitable care," he noted.
Often the first step to helping a patient might be as simple as acknowledging the problem, Dr. Kurth said.
"You can then begin to brainstorm with the patient about how the problem can be fixed or improved," she said. "The first part of treatment involves acknowledging and discussing what is going on."
Dr. Purnell said that physicians should be aware of the challenges patients face that affect mental and physical health but cannot be expected to expand the scope of their practice to deal with all of these issues.
"A full complement of tools for well-being would include mental health professionals, social workers, community health works, and more," Dr. Purnell said. "The pressing issue right now is how do we change the model of medical care so that it is more integrated. And we are working on teams to address these issues."
An important first step toward this type of change, Dr. Purnell said, is for physicians to play a large role in advocating for changes at the systemic level to make it easier for patients to support their own well-being.
"The medical community must use its considerable influence to change the conversation," he said.
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Millennials, the same doctors in a changed environment
Managing food poisoning's aftermath in ambulatory care


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AP sources: Wheeler, Phillies agree to $118M, 5-year deal
PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Right-hander Zack Wheeler and the Philadelphia Phillies have agreed to a $118 million, five-year contract, two people familiar with the deal told The Associated Press on Wednesday.
Both people spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the agreement, which is subject to a successful physical, had not been announced.
The 29-year-old Wheeler stays in the NL East after spending his first seven seasons with the New York Mets. He was 11-8 with a 3.96 ERA last season after going 12-7 with a 3.31 ERA in 2018. Wheeler missed the 2015 and 2016 seasons following Tommy John surgery.
He will join a rotation led by Aaron Nola that also includes Jake Arrieta. The Phillies may pursue another starter to join a staff that has Zach Eflin, Vince Velasquez and Nick Pivetta.
Wheeler is 44-38 with a 3.77 ERA in 126 starts. He has 726 strikeouts in 749 1/3 innings.


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Q: HTML 5 Canvas - Grid Block Fill-In I've created a Canvas and have written out a grid(resembles graph paper) with the X & Y coordinates successfully.  What I'm looking to do now is the following:
-When someone clicks with a mouse a square in the grid will change to a different color
-Once a block is selected that data will not change

A: You need a separate 2D array that maintains the state for each (x, y) grid position.
When a click happens, check that state array to see if the cell was clicked before, and update the canvas as appropriate.
I created a little demo to show you: http://jsfiddle.net/alnitak/xN45K/


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By Sunday Times Driving
Letters of the week: November 8
Ask airlines about autopilot
Without trying hard you found problems with Autopilot on the Tesla ("Switch to autopilot: at the wheel of a self-driving Tesla Model S", last week). Airbus software is subjected to repeated, intensive testing and still errors are found — and pilots are used. The car industry and testing regulators are sleepwalking into a much bigger crisis than VW. The Department for Transport needs to do more than draw up legislation; it needs to convince itself these cars are safe. It should start by talking to the airline industry.
Bob Swindle, Kendal, Cumbria
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Danger sign
Driverless systems may have been tested to deal with smooth-flowing motorway traffic in good weather with clear lane markings, perfect lane discipline by other drivers and no roadworks or lane closures. However, I question whether they can take appropriate split-second action in the many hazardous situations that occur.
John Westmoreland, Wesham, Lancashire
Harry Barker conveniently ignores the fact that cyclists, pedestrians and horses are on the road by right ("Licence to misbehave", Points, last week), whereas motorists are there only by licence.
James Tolson, Amberley, West Sussex
Taxing time
The DVLA's web developer must have been an IT student on work placement ("DVLA's double tax", Points, last week). Just try to renew your tax if you have only the V5C document for a vehicle you've owned for years but not the V11 reminder letter or a Sorn, or if you are not a new keeper (V5C/2) or have not received a "last chance" letter. Chocolate, teapot, useful.
Colin Russell, Girton, Cambridge
Direct approach
It's easy to make it impossible to "forget" to pay. When this system was introduced last year and my tax became due, I set up a direct debit with the DVLA for me and my partner so the payment is taken from our accounts every month.
George Ody, West Somerset
DVLA fan
Last week my grandson, having just passed his test, bought a car at an auction. He wanted to drive it home and so needed to tax it. He rang me at home and in less than five minutes it was taxed. The DVLA has a good website.
Sheila Jefferson, York
Old hands
Dave Craggs is not thinking clearly ("Test the over-70s", Points, last week). I personally know many 70 and 80-year-olds who are much fitter, stronger and brighter than many of today's 30-year-olds. The only thing that should affect a person's driving licence is their medical condition.
J Horrocks, Southport
Fatal inexperience
Last month thousands of drivers under 70 were involved in road accidents, some of them fatal. Surely drivers under 70 should be retested every five years.
Robin Goodwin, Sutton Coldfield
I am in partial agreement with Dave Craggs. However, I suggest the test be carried out every year. It could be called the MOT — "Monitoring Old Timers" — test.
Jeff Kagan, East Finchley, north London
David Pearson says his flight from Spain used enough fuel to power a car for 75,000 miles ("Sky's the limit", Points, last week). But the fuel used should be divided by the number of passengers. If there were 200, each would have used about 375 miles worth of fuel. Not bad compared with the 1,250-mile journey.
Carl Wright, Forres, Moray
Dim design
Ultra-bright high-intensity discharge (HID) bulbs were developed as safety features ("Hard on the eye", Points, last week) but car makers have idiotically decided to use them as garish "design features", allowing a vehicle's make to be recognised from afar by the headlight pattern. The result of this is that each evening, motorists have stamped on their retinas the white-hot glare of HIDs (not to mention the brightness of the large number of fog lights that seem to be permanently switched on).
Felix Radmall, East Grinstead, West Sussex
Making a name
What has happened to car names? When I was a child, it was always the ones with exotic names such as Diablo, Stingray, Zagato and even Mustang that fired our imaginations and made us yearn to be old (and rich) enough to own one. Will today's children really have their attention grabbed by the 570S from McLaren or its 675LT for that matter?
Please, McLaren, call the next one something evocative. A McLaren StarFighter would be remembered for years to come, but who will recall the MP4-12C?
Andrew Tillman, Kirby Overblow, North Yorkshire
High gas bill
I am not directly affected by the VW emissions scandal but I am affected by its submission of false figures, as the cars are subject to tax rates lower than they deserve. To make up for the shortfall, the DVLA has imposed higher charges on the rest of us.
Ed Dowling, New Buckenham, Norfolk
Slow the flow
How about a 20mph statutory speed limit on roundabouts to give everyone a chance to join the flow of traffic, reducing the queues on minor roads of cars prevented from entering by the excessive speed of traffic on the main route?
Paul Verdier, Welwyn, Hertfordshire
Snow trip home
I too remember air-compressed wipers ("Wiped out", Points, last week). Driving from technical college in Peterborough to Stamford in a Ford Anglia (my first car) on a dark, snowy evening, I had to stay at 30mph on the A47 to keep my wipers going and prevent a build-up of snow on the screen. Happy days.
Trevor Wissen, Stamford, Lincolnshire
Odd Anglia
I wrote to The Times 15 years ago on this subject. I am 93 and have been a Times reader all my adult life. My letter described the idiosyncrasies of the Ford Anglia of the postwar period, the cheapest car available at the time.
Dr Jules Alterman, North Finchley, north London
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10 electric cars with 248 miles or more range
Electric cars that can go at least 200 miles per charge are becoming the norm rather than the exception. Here's the current top 10 for range.
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Buying a car on finance is an appealing proposition. You don't have to save up to afford a car, or spend what savings you may already have, leavi
Why is my car covered in dusty deposits?
The warmest Easter Monday on record brought not only temperatures reaching 25C (77F) but also mysterious deposits of dust that covered cars.
Published 23 April 2019


Sleep problems can affect anyone regardless of age, gender or ethnicity. It is estimated that about 45% of the global population experiences sleep issues, but less than a third of those affected will actually try to obtain help from a sleep professional.
Poor sleep impacts us all, either directly or indirectly. Untreated sleep issues can yield negative consequences such as: diabetes, hypertension, heart attack, stroke, anxiety, depression, cognitive impairment, increased sick time, work-related & motor vehicle accidents, and failed relationships.
There are nearly 100 sleep disorders classified to date, however most are preventable or treatable with the aid of sleep specialists. Proper sleep is paramount for maintaining optimal physical and mental well-being. If you sleep poorly, get help!
Please join us in spreading the word! Sleep problems are a serious matter. This needs to be broadcast around the world.
The images seen here, have been provided by our colleagues from the World Sleep Society.


Everyone has a Pine Street. We are here to share ours.
Born in a small apartment kitchen on Pine St. in San Francisco, Pine Street Brewery has been celebrating through ales and togetherness since 2009. Find us in San Francisco and East Bay bars and restaurants.
Menagerie is fruity, musty and naturally unfiltered.


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Liberty Announces Investigation into Falwell's Tenure
The Associated Press's Sarah Rankin and Elana Schor report, "Liberty University is opening an independent investigation into Jerry Falwell Jr.'s tenure as president, a wide-ranging inquiry that will include financial, real estate and legal matters, the evangelical school's board announced Monday." They write, "He officially resigned on Tuesday, after a confusing day of back-and-forths about whether he would be leaving." Falwell was already on leave, but his resignation came after a Reuters report in which a young man alleged he had an affair with Becki Falwell, and that "Jerry Falwell participated in some of the liaisons as a voyeur."
Read at The Associated Press


Close on the heels of its impressive data on new triple combos for cystic fibrosis, Vertex reported out today that the FDA has approved its double using tezacaftor/ivacaftor.
In a drive to continually expand on its revenue, Vertex announced that it will price the combo at $292,000 a year, putting it in line for steadily swelling revenue numbers for the year ahead.
The combo will be marketed as Symdeko to anyone 12 and over with at least one mutation that is responsive to the double.
In anticipation of the approval, Leerink recently boosted its estimated revenue at Vertex to $2.84 billion this year — up from $2.17 billion in 2017. And they are betting Vertex hits a cool $3.75 billion in 2019.
More notably VRTX announced: (1) gross pricing of $292k which is slightly lower than Kalydeco gross of $311k but above Orkambi's gross of $259k….so this means pts swapping from Orkambi to Smydeko would have a slightly accretive benefit (modest given we don't see that much 'swapping') but because of the added efficacy and less side effects (chest tightness) the improved drug does have a slightly higher gross price so pts who have an option and came off Orkambi in the last 1-2 years can now benefit from Symdeko and this is all accretive as they're not getting revenues from those pts (we est $100-500M benefit in 2018-2020). (2) 2018 CF guidance of $2.6-2.8B – this is right in-line w/ our and consensus $2.7B….we do think Symdeko could contribute $100-200M+ this year based on identified pts who came off Orkambi in the last 2 years (see our VRTX-CF-APP model).
Looking to hedge its bets on a big gamble that it can greatly expand the number of CF patients it can help, Vertex is taking two triples into pivotal trials. The 445 triple actually just barely edged out 659 for the high-dose response, with a 13.8% improvement in FEV1. But the second highest dose only came in at a single-digit improvement rate, with a lower rate of reduction for sweat chloride as well as two troubling discontinuations in one of the drug arms.
I am not an economist or something remotely related; but, I see that more and more of the new treatments are priced in the six figures or even higher. Can the health care system survive that expense? How the prices in the US compare to Europe, Canada or Australia? While these questions must break the rule of not mentioning the rope in the hanged man house, I believe that sooner than later it will become an issue that industry should be ready to justify.


Carried out a detailed accessibility services review to assess compliance with national legislation and international best practice in relation to accessible service delivery.
Development of a detailed action/implementation plan in line with the requirements of the Disability Act 2005.
Facilitated the Council to carry out user testing of their website.
Facilitated a number of workshops with the Disability Act Steering Group.
Provision of staff training in the area of access to the built environment.
Provided guidance and support to a number of staff to ensure accessibility was implemented within the organisation.


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CELEBRATING 14 YEARS WITH THE FIRM TODAY!
Congratulations to Fran Greenhalgh who celebrates 14 years at Garratts today!
Fran started as an assistant solicitor in the family department on the 11th of September 2006. In recognition of her hard work and commitment to the firm Fran was invited to be an associate solicitor.
Fran's background was in Public Law proceedings and Fran was given the opportunity to develop the care department which at that time did not exist within the firm.
Fran has worked tirelessly over the years to build the department up to become a great success. The Department employs 6 solicitors 5 of whom are children panel members and 4 legal assistants. It is the largest Care department in Oldham and Tameside and also works with families from across the Greater Manchester area from our offices in Oldham, Ashton, Stalybridge, Newton Heath, Radcliffe and Worsley.
Fran became a partner in the firm in 2011. Fran is extremely proud of her department as it involves working with families to safeguard children and wherever possible keeping families together. Fran is a robust advocate who assists families throughout the whole pre-proceedings and court process, which gives her an enormous amount of job satisfaction.
The pinnacle of her career was when Fran was Oldham Law Association's President in 2018 which was a very proud moment both for her and for the firm
Fran's meteoric rise to the top of her career is an excellent example of how Garratts are committed to developing people and encouraging them to reach their full potential.
Fran recently became a grandmother and loves spending time when she can in the current climate with her family she also loves travelling which is difficult at the moment!
Garratts Solicitors1 week ago