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Gieorgij Wiaczesławowicz Kurdiumow (ros. Георгий Вячеславович Курдюмов, ur. 14 lutego 1902 w Rylsku, zm. 6 lipca 1996 w Moskwie) – radziecki fizyk i metaloznawca.

Życiorys
W 1919 roku ukończył gimnazjum w Rylsku, pracował jako nauczyciel w szkole wiejskiej i gminny inspektor szkolny. W 1926 roku ukończył Państwowy Fizyko-Techniczny Instytut Rentgenologiczny w Leningradzie, gdzie później kierował laboratorium. Od 1932 roku kierował katedrą fizyki metali Dniepropietrowskiego Instytutu Fizyko-Technicznego, w latach 1937-1944 był dyrektorem tego instytutu, po ataku Niemiec na ZSRR był ewakuowany do Magnitogorska wraz z Instytutem. W latach 1944-1978 był dyrektorem Instytutu Metaloznawstwa Centralnego Instytutu Naukowo-Badawczego Czarnej Metalurgii, w 1945 roku zorganizował w Kijowie laboratorium fizyki metali Akademii Nauk Ukraińskiej SRR, przemianowane później na Instytut Fizyki Metali. Akademia Nauk ZSRR wybrała go członkiem korespondentem w 1946 roku, członkiem rzeczywistym w 1953 roku. Od 1962 roku był dyrektorem Instytutu Fizyki Ciała Stałego Akademii Nauk ZSRR. Był autorem 3 monografii naukowych, członkiem Akademii Nauk NRD, Narodowej Akademii Inżynieryjnej USA, Japońskiego Instytutu Metali, doktorem honoris causa Akademii Górniczo-Hutniczej w Krakowie. Wypromował ponad 20 doktorów nauk i 100 kandydatów nauk.

Odznaczenia
 Order Czerwonego Sztandaru Pracy (1945, 1958)
 Order Lenina (1954, 1962, 1969, 1975, 1982)
 Złoty Medal "Sierp i Młot" Bohatera Pracy Socjalistycznej (1969)
 Order Rewolucji Październikowej (1972)

Bibliografia
 Biogram na stronie warheroes.ru (ros.) [dostęp 2019-02-12]

Bohaterowie Pracy Socjalistycznej
Odznaczeni Orderem Czerwonego Sztandaru Pracy
Odznaczeni Orderem Lenina
Odznaczeni Orderem Rewolucji Październikowej
Radzieccy fizycy
Rosyjscy fizycy XX wieku
Urodzeni w 1902
Zmarli w 1996

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Q: How to check Oracle internal process? I want to know what oracle internal process is running for the below session details.
How to check what process is being carried out by "ora_j001" ?
Please provide me query to find out the process ?
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1          1303 13000    APPS   orafin  ARG-FIN1A-DC    3842124 3842124 224905256   ACTIVE  57661   oracle@ARG-FIN1A-DC (J001)

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ARG-FIN1A-DC

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Home > Blog-Podcast > Digital Health > Patient Centric Software Design
Patient Centric Software Design
In our previous podcast, we interviewed human factors expert Christina Mendat. Christina worked with us in some of the software design for Spencer. I thought you would also enjoy hearing more about the development team at Spencer Health Solutions. So we invited our software product owner Mary Wrenn to join the podcast and tell us how she works with spencer and our engineering team. I'm Tom Rhodes, CEO of Spencer Health Solutions and I hope you enjoy this episode of "People Always, Patients Sometimes."
You're listening to "People Always, Patients Sometimes" podcast production of Spencer Health Solutions. I'm your host and my name is Janet Kennedy. I am really looking forward to learning something new during the conversation today I have Mary Wrenn who's our software product owner at Spencer Health Solutions with me. Welcome to "People Always, Patients Sometimes."
Mary Wrenn (00:54):
it is wonderful to be here. I am so excited to talk to you.
Thanks Mary. You know, this is one of the interesting things about a work environment where you see somebody every day, you talk to them every day, but sometimes the actual process of what they do is a mystery. So I'm really looking forward to having a conversation with you.
Absolutely. I think we know each other well from meeting in the kitchen, but I'm excited to chat a little bit more about what I do.
So you are officially titled a software product owner. Do we have more than one software?
Nope. There's just one software platform across the suite of products, the mobile app, the web portal, and the device itself. I am the product owner for all three of those.
So what does that mean? Are you the engineer on the train? Are you the conductor on the train? Are you the caboose on the train? What is your role and how do you keep things moving forward?
Yeah, so I would say I'm kind of like the conductor/cat herder. So I essentially help to keep things moving in the right direction. Sometimes I'll be picking the way the tracks go or sometimes we'll be talking about the best design for the train. So it's a little bit of everything. But for the most part it's executing and kind of getting into the tactical details of how we do what we do.
I imagine when you joined us you really felt like you've jumped off a cliff and now you're in the deep end of the pond as it were. Was it overwhelming or is there something about software product ownership that you can apply skills from your previous experience to here and settle in fairly quickly?
I actually came from another kind of software product owner, product manager role. I was originally at United Health Group working within Optum, so I consciously decided to go from a really large company to a smaller company. I was really enticed by the fact that I could wear a lot of different hats and I've definitely gotten to do that here. I really enjoy getting to do a lot of different across the product suite, whether that's design, technical implementation, or really just getting into the details of how things are going to work and how people are going to use them. Definitely felt like I was kind of going from walking to running a marathon, but I really enjoy it and I liked that the software product ownership really has a lot of different facets to it.
In a sense, we've gotten virtual. We've been able to see a sneak peek into everybody's homes and I was very impressed that you actually had in your home a giant whiteboard that was filled with all kinds of information. So you're a very organized person, Mary.
Thank you. Yeah, the whiteboard is a key. Pretty much anything from any conversation we have is going to get thrown up there. I'm trying to do color coding, but I think that was an ambitious idea that probably got thrown away after meeting number 10.
Well, I can relate to that. So I'm curious, you've been in healthcare then for a while. Is there anything unique or different about software product management in a healthcare realm versus a traditional B2B or B to C business?
Definitely. I think so. I feel like healthcare is really the most intimate industry of any of them. You touch people's lives and really personal places and you really get to see people at their most vulnerable. But that's really what enticed me to healthcare in general. I really liked that you can make an impact on people's lives, whether that's directly or indirectly. So I liked that you can use software as a tool to really help better people's lives, even if you're not directly with them, say like a nurse. So I think healthcare is really special. It comes with a lot of responsibility, but it's, it's really exciting how much change you can drive.
Well, let's talk about change a little bit. The one thing that I know about software is you're always working on something. It is never done and there's always more to do. So when you look at plans for Spencer, for instance, how far ahead are you looking? Is it just trying to get to Friday or is it three weeks, six weeks, six months, five years? How does the planning work for something like that?
It depends on which aspect of the product in general you'll be looking at. So there are some things that when we're designing product features, we're trying to look really far out five, 10 years in the future, even just to make sure that we're making a really flexible design. That's a lot of the architecture decisions, like how we're setting up things in terms of how we'll read bar codes or how we'll add different countries, things like that. Then there are other shorter term goals, like how are we going to wrap up this project to make sure we get this to the right patients at the right time. So our roadmaps, really a mix, we usually are organizing things kind of by release and customer need. So that'll prioritize it in the next few weeks, the next few months. But within that we're trying to make flexible decisions so that way anything we're doing now can be iterated on in the next few years. So our roadmap is weekly, quarterly, and yearly.
And when you're designing something, you need to look out to the future because when you get to two years from now and you want to add this significant element, but oops, if you didn't do something two years ago, does that mean it's impossible or you're just going to have to do all kinds of workarounds to make it happen?
So it really depends. Right now, for instance, we're in the process of really standing up a brand new product software wise. So when I came in we were really in the process of redesigning and rebuilding things from the ground up. So there were a lot of those decisions that were kind of baked in in terms of, well if we change it this way we'll have to go back and completely reconfigure things. Or if we do something this way now then it's going to be set that way, the future. So really we try to make the most flexible decisions we can, but try to align that with some of the goals or needs we know are coming. So for instance, previously we were very much aligned to care management and sort of this thought that every patient is going to have one caregiver and it's going to be a very linear relationship. Now we're trying to make that a flexible architecture where it won't work just for care management but for clinical trials also. And those are very different use cases. So what we're trying to circle back, we're trying to make sure that we don't have to go back and say, Oh well if we had just done this, you know, two months ago, this would be so much easier. We're really trying to make things so they're modular and can fit together.
Oh, that makes a lot of sense. Now you mentioned a cat herding and I do know what that's like because I'm on the marketing side and there's a certain amount of cat herding there as well. I'm curious about how people interact together. Is it a domino effect where if you're flipping the Domino's over and they're running forward, but then a domino is missing, everything comes to a stop or have you got parallel paths and somebody can catch up if they're a little behind but it doesn't stop the whole workflow?
Yeah, so we're currently trying to make the team as cross functional as possible so everyone can do a little bit of everything. Obviously within that there are people who are more embedded in their specialties. For instance, we have some people who are really good at the embedded software or we have some people who were really good with Bluetooth or others who are really good with the UI. So we try to make sure that we can have these parallel paths running, but there will always be some dependencies. So a lot of that comes into how our planning, so we'll use a basically an agile process to go and plan out our sprints. We'll do story points and within that we like to get the workload on people so we can ensure that not everything is just running towards one person and then it's bottleneck did and that person just feels of pressure. So we try to spread the dependencies as much as we can.
I had a great conversation earlier with Christina Mendat, who has a company called human factors MD. And her role is to come in and help put together the relationship between psychology and engineering. So understanding how people as people work, look at things, interact, and then how engineering designs the things to work best with people. So I'm curious, is this an ongoing thing? Do you use human factors in a lot of the decision making you're doing or is it literally just for the interface between the user and Spencer?
So it's really across a lot of the product in general. You know, granted most of that focus is on the interface itself, which is mostly the device, but it also comes into play on the web portal, Spencer care and on the mobile apps, but psoriasis. So we really try to look at the ways that people will use that and the different use cases fair. But even into things like our API is we have some customers who aren't going to be sending us information directly through the API. We want to make sure that those are easy to use as well. So there might not be a graphical interface there who we want to make sure that it's logical and it doesn't need pages of explanation just to use a simple function.
I tried to give Christina credit for the personality of Spencer and she said, Nope, no, that wasn't her. So who came up with and how do you manage the personality? Because I honestly feel like Spencer is a person. He has a fun way of speaking, he's very relaxed, he's very engaging, he's very easy to use. So is there something that you do that your team does that gives Spencer personality?
So we really made sure to work closely with marketing in general. Gail was a huge help in terms of really imparting that personality. I was really lucky when I first got here that I had a lot of time to sit with her and really go over all the wording on the screens and say, you know, how did these look? Even things as simple as error messages saying, does this really fit his personality? And I was really able to get a strong sense of who he is and how he talks to our patients. So we were able to really incorporate that into the design of the screens and all of the logic within that. So anything from the error screens to how he's telling you to take your medication? We really just sat down and went through it step by step on how we want him to communicate with patients.
Speaking of communicating, we're very excited that Spencer has headed across the pond to Europe and that the first country Spencer has been in that doesn't speak English, is the Netherlands and so Spencer's now Dutch speaking, what was it like to take our existing product and redo everything in the Dutch language and then now I guess we're going to be looking at French and German and Spanish, et cetera. What is that like translating a complete platform to another language
in a word difficult, but it was a really great challenge actually, I think for most of us on the team, this was the first time we had done something in another language, so there were a lot of decision points and things that you don't even think about that we really had to consider. So even things like the word, okay, is that going to fit on a button to the colors mean the same thing to the symbols mean the same thing and how do we make that really universal? So we really had to think about how we were architecting the platform and even how the text and the colors and the voice prompts would all interface with each other. There's some important things about the voice prompts as well. You want to make sure that he's actually telling people to take their medication and not to say, well, if you want to do, maybe go take it.
So it was a lot of things like that. The process itself actually I felt like went pretty well. It was a learning experience at first for sure. We realized for instance, that Dutch has a lot of really long words which don't necessarily fit on buttons and the current font size that we have. So we actually had to reconfigure the UI a little bit to accommodate that. We also had to adjust how we were displaying questions when we were trying those out with some French examples just to see how those would look. So it actually informed a lot of our design, the sizing, the display. There were a lot of things we had to account for that we didn't initially in English.
What do you consider some of the biggest challenges that you have to deal with in trying to make Spencer work in multiple types of business environments?
The overall architecture, because if you're taking care of your grandma, you would kind of need a different machine and you would look to it for different uses than you would if you were a clinical trial trying to give a drug to hundreds of patients. But fundamentally it's all the same platform that's going to be used. So you really have to design that very flexibly so that way you can accommodate all of those different things within the same platform. So it's really important to keep in mind the personas of who's going to be using what and making sure that everything will work to align with those use cases and work in their best interest. I think the most challenging piece is just making sure that you are staying flexible enough that the product is usable for all the different personas.
So as a marketer, I haven't been as involved as my boss. She's been very involved in getting Spencer launched over in Europe. But one of the things that I did get to participate in was selecting voices for the Spencer voice. So Spencer is sometimes female and sometimes male, which I think is interesting, but I love the reaction to the voice we chose for Dutch. And I wonder if you had heard the story and can tell everybody a little bit about what we found out once we pick the special voice.
Absolutely. That was definitely one of my favorite parts of the translation. So initially we got to just all sit around and listen to these lovely Dutch voices, read us things we could not understand. We finally landed on this really nice, soft sounding female voice and everybody was like, Oh, I really like her, chose that, didn't think much of it. And as she was reading out the video tutorials, we got a feedback from our Dutch partners that apparently this woman had narrated animated shows for kids in the Netherlands and it was really popular. And so one of our business partners would say, Oh, it's so soothing. You can feel like I'm watching cartoons. It reminds me of childhood.
That's awesome. We found the Mary Poppins of the Netherlands to be the voice of spencer. That's pretty serendipitous. I think
that was my favorite. I think she has a lovely voice. I love that she explains how to use Spencer in Dutch. You're like, I don't know what you're saying, but I love it.
Well, Mary, it sounds like you actually enjoy your job.
I do. I really like a challenge and this always keeps me on my toes. I love that. At a small company like this you can wear a ton of different hats and do a lot of different things, so I think it's been a great growth opportunity.
Well, I look forward to the time when we can all be face to face again in person as opposed to virtually, hopefully covert 19 will be resolving itself in the not too distant future so we can get back to working together a little more closely.
Absolutely. But in the meantime it has been wonderful to speak with you at least virtually.
Thanks, Mary and thank you for downloading this episode of "People Always, Patients Sometimes." if you enjoy the conversation, a review and a rating on iTunes will help us find more listeners. This podcast is a production of Spencer health solutions.
I had a great conversation earlier with Christina Mendez, who has a company called human factors MD. And her role is to come in and help put together the relationship between psychology and engineering. So understanding how people as people work, look at things, interact, and then how engineering designs the things to work best with people. So I'm curious, is this an ongoing thing? Do you use human factors in a lot of the decision making you're doing or is it literally just for the interface between the user and Spencer?

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The Faces Of Resistance At Washington D.C.'s Women's March
"I'd never been so inspired, motivated, fired up, and empowered. This isn't something that is just going to fade away in a week."
By Lakin Starling
Photographer Amanda Hakan
On January 21, a day after the presidential inauguration of Donald Trump, impassioned women gathered across seven continents to fight for their rights. At one of the biggest marches in Washington D.C., an estimated 500,000 women came out to protest a range of issues — from reproductive rights and election reform to racial justice. Here, in her own words and images, photographer Amanda Hakan recounts her journey among the undaunted crowd at the historic 2016 Women's March in D.C.
AMANDA HAKAN: This was the first time I'd ever partaken in any sort of activism on this scale. I did a couple tiny protests in college but nothing even remotely close to this. I'd never even been around this many people in my life.
Being around that many women, was overwhelming, empowering, and surprising. I kept getting stuck because there were so many people in every direction. I arrived to the event site at 8 a.m., so I was there two hours before the program started and it was already packed. On earlier side of the march, I was towards the center of it all but then over the course of the next few hours there were miles of people that I couldn't even comprehend. There were people as far as the eye could see and beyond. The overall feeling was like you couldn't even stretch out your arm.
It wasn't just young white women. It was every race and every religion, women, children and elderly people. Apparently it was the largest turnout of disabled people that the ADA has had to accommodate. If there was a wheelchair it was like the seas parted without question.
No one was really in political discourse outside of the commentary in relation to the speakers and the programs. I saw women who were from the same time that had never spoken before and they were like, "Oh my Gosh do you live in this city?" It was this tiny town in Ohio. People were communicating and talking to each other in ways that they probably would have never had otherwise. There was this lack of fear and feeling of safety and support from this community of women there. There was nothing holding them back from extending themselves and that feeling of wanting to participate and be involved with each other and understanding that the way to make a difference is to support each other in that space.
For over a [half a million] people in D.C. there was reportedly not a single arrest. You could feel that and everyone was supportive and there was a camaraderie that was unexplainable. It felt unified, and not just with the women but the men who were there. There was this sense of pride in the men who were there and standing up for the people they believe in. It's inexpressible to be around such a massive amount of people who are there fighting for the same thing.
I think there was an overwhelming feeling of safety and support in one another, so that feeling of threat wasn't present. There was no hostility present. For every moment that I felt tired, that I need to sit down, or closed in and claustrophobic, there were 10 moments where I had a woman holding me up or offering me a snack from a Ziploc baggy that she had. Or a smile after I accidentally stepped on someone's foot. That wasn't just from one kind of person, that was from every kind of person. The program itself was ran overtime so people had been standing on their feet since 10 a.m. — they traveled far, hadn't slept, and were standing for 4 hours. People were anxious to march. But that didn't last long. In any small moment of discomfort or irritation, the positivity was that much greater.
"It's inexpressible to be around such a massive amount of people who are there fighting for the same thing."
It's interesting because the intersectionality was there but I don't think it was touched on as deeply, but the sentiments were there as much as the feeling was. I do think that it was interesting because there were only a handful of the panel that actually spoke about needing election reform, how to fight against Congress, and steps that we need to take politically outside of just fighting for women's rights and defending Planned Parenthood. There's room for everything that everyone's fighting for.
The panel was extensive — women of all backgrounds, trans women, black women, indigenous women, and everyone was on the panel. Everyone was represented.
I'd never been so inspired, motivated, fired up, and empowered. This isn't something that is just going to fade away in a week. This is something that we all have to hold each other accountable for. This is just day one and think that inspired everyone across the world, not just New York and not just L.A. This was in over 7 continents, in 30 countries. This shit is real.
There was this constant excitement of we understand, we feel empowered, we're energized, we are fighting against Trump, and the congress and injustices that women have had to face until now. It's not about to just end. It's that feeling of fire—that fire is lit.
Photography, Politics, women's march


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Pumice: Works at fighting plaque, the hard film that can cause bad breath. This natural abrasive is the same kind found in human toothpaste.
Natural Zeolites: Stops plaque from forming and sticking to teeth.
Zinc: Attacks the plaque, penetrating it. The result is less plaque.
Cranberry: Supports gum tissue health with its rich antioxidants.
Taurine: Works with zinc to also keep gums healthy and strengthen them – both needed to stop gross bacteria from staying in your dog's mouth.
Coenzyme Q10: Strengthens gum tissue. Coenzyme Q10 is a naturally-forming antioxidant that lives inside dogs. As pups age, CoQ10 decrease, which has been associated with gum tissue not functioning correctly.
Probiotics: Balances out the healthy bacteria in your dog's mouth that helps fight off the plaque-causing bacteria.
Yucca: Stops certain enzymes from breaking down gum tissue.
Champignon Mushroom Extract: Blocks odor-causing chemicals in the intestine, stopping bad breath at the source.
Cinnamon: Balances out the healthy bacteria in the mouth.
Inactive Ingredients: anise oil, brewers yeast, calcium carbonate, calcium sulfate, canola oil, chicken liver flavor, citric acid, citrus pectin, dried aspergillus niger fermentation extract, dried aspergillus oryzae fermentation extract, fenugreek seed extract, glycerin, hydrolyzed vegetable protein, maltodextrin, mixed tocopherols, oat flour, propionic acid, pumice, rosemary extract, silicon dioxide, sodium alginate, sorbic acid, soy lecithin, vegetable fat, vegetable oil, water, whey, yeast fermentation solubles.
Helps support healthy gums with its antioxidant powers, while hindering the bacteria that causes plaque buildup and destroys tissue.
Balances out the healthy bacteria in the mouth to freshen breath.
Champignon mushroom extract suppress odor-causing chemicals in the intestines and prevents foul breath at the source.
This powerful herb interferes with enzymes that break down gum tissue.
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It's been spotted on major celebs over the past years like Beyonce, Gigi Hadid and Blake Lively, and now, Instagrammers are taking it up a notch.
Ditch your boring ponytail and add a twist to it – literally. A braided high tail is the latest 'do trending, and you have to try it if you haven't already. Our fav Instagram influencers have been spotted wearing the look to glamorous events, as well as low key days in their sweats. Whether you wear it dressed up or down, it creates a focal point and effortlessly takes your outfit up a notch and gives you an edgy style we are all dreaming of.
The popular look is just in time for music festival season, and we can guarantee it'll be spotted all over some of our favorites like Lollapooloza. If you don't have enough hair to create the look, we totally recommend grabbing some extensions so you can shock the style world with your locks that trendsetters everywhere are slicking back and up.
Ready for the look? Here's how to do it.
Slick all your hair back into a high ponytail and secure with an rubber band.
If you want to hide your band, wrap a small piece of hair around and secure with bobby pin.
Split your pony into two and twist each section to the right.
Cross the right section of hair over the left section to begin forming the rope twist braid.
Keep twisting the sections to the right and wrapping them to the left then secure the end with an rubber band.
Finally, slick it back with oil or hairspray and get to IG ASAP!


A core system of the Monolith Soft's newest JRPG, Xenoblade Chronicles 2, is the Blade System. In Xenoblade 2, there are warriors, called Drivers who, fight alongside artificial beings called, Blades, in order to boost their power. Blades take on a huge role in the actual combat and story in Xenoblade Chronicles 2 and one of these systems gives birth to the saddest story Xenoblade 2 has to tell.
Every Blade is created from a core crystal when a driver resonates with it by holding it. This is something that players will do in Xenoblade Chronicles 2, a lot. Drivers can have multiple Blades and there is a great incentive in resonating with every core crystal you get and they aren't super rare. Some Blades are better than others and it's all a matter of chance with which one you get, kind of a no-brainer, right? You have to make it a game of numbers.
Here's the rub, Blades all have full inner lives like any of the sentient species in the world. Arguably the most important system in the game revolves around drivers cultivating their relationships with their Blades in order for them to gain access to powerful upgrades. Power is very much linked to friendship and each of the Blades, including ones outside of the main cast, gets their own personality, likes, and progression arc. And, though you can store quite a few Blades in your inventory, storage can run out fast. So, what do you do with the Blades you don't need anymore?
In one of the management tabs in the menu, you can "release" Blades that you no longer need. The released Blades give you items to boost your chance of getting even better Blades the next time you resonate. As you go through releasing them each individual blade reacts with a voice line before leaving. There's a shocking variety of these reactions ranging from, "Guess I wasn't strong enough," to, "I'll treasure the time we spent together." At first, this seemed like just an odd, melodramatic, JRPG detail but, then it got sad.
Midway through the game it's explained to the player that if a Blade is killed, their Driver is killer, or they are otherwise released, they revert back to their core form, this doesn't kill Blades, and they can be resonated with again but, they will reincarnate, so to speak, as someone completely different, with no memories of who they were before. In other words, they die and reincarnate.
The central theme of Xenoblade Chronicles 2 is that the band of characters the player controls thinks of Blades as people worthy of living and making their own decisions. In the context of that, releasing Blades becomes as much as an ethical dilemma as it is necessary to gameplay. I can't help but feel guilty when the Blades I release say they've cherished the time they spent with me when I didn't even really invest in them in the first place. The implications are sobering in a game which has yet to engage me fully on an emotional level in its primary storytelling. For a game which, at times, feels very free in loose this meta storytelling is pretty well thought out.


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Q: What key should I use to sign an intermediate SSL certificate for a reversed proxied HTTPS connection? I have an Apache server hosting a couple webpages, and an express server running on another machine that connects via a reverse proxy to the apache server, providing an endpoint to the webpage. The webpage is already running on HTTPS with valid certificates, but now I have to configure the express server to do the same with the intermediate certificates, I believe Which private key should I use to setup this service? Or are the intermediate certs signed by the apache head? I don't think that is the case since the configuration dones't work without a key, but I still cannot get my head around how this works if the certificates are issued at the same time the private key of the server is generated. How is it possible to cofigure intermediate connections with intermediate certs if the intermediate servers didn't exist when the certificates where issued?
This is the express server configuration so far:
  const options = {
    // The same certificate apache uses. Is this right?
    cert: fs.readFileSync(config.ssl.dir + config.ssl.cert)
    // The three sections of the bundle the issuer provided
    ca: [],
    // The private key I don't have (its in the other server)
    key: fs.readFileSync(config.ssl.dir + config.ssl.key),
  };
  config.ssl.ca.forEach((value) => {
    if (value) options.ca.push(fs.readFileSync(config.ssl.dir + value));
  });
  server = https.createServer(options, app);

Some more information, I have three files:

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*certificate.csr, the one the apache server uses and works, so I think it is the root certificate

*certificate.pem, with the exact same contents as certificate.csr

*a_bundle.csr, with three sections. I believe those are the intermediate certs.

These files were provided by GoDaddy.com when buying the ssl certificates, but with meaningless names.


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Manager Ian Evatt encouraged by Barrow AFC's first-half performance in pre-season friendly against Blackburn Rovers
Ian Evatt looks on during the second half of the match against Blackburn at Holker Street
Barrow AFC manager Ian Evatt was pleased to see his players give a good account of themselves in their pre-season friendly against Blackburn Rovers after putting them through a gruelling first week of training.
The Bluebirds were eventually beaten 2-1 by the Championship side at Holker Street, but they had a very good spell in the latter stages of the first half, during which they deservedly drew level from Scott Quigley's header.
Rovers' extra quality was more apparent in the second half, as was their extra fitness – they'd actually been back in training for a week longer than AFC.
Nonetheless, Evatt was able to give every player in his squad – apart from the injured Bradley Barry – their first 45 minutes of the summer and was able to test them against a team three divisions above them.
Evatt said: "I think we have to be realistic in terms of the lads having a really tough first week back, while Blackburn have been back a hell of a lot longer than us.
"I thought in the first half we were very competitive and had probably the better chances – we should have been winning at half-time, really, but I was really pleased with that and there were a lot of positives.
"In the second half, I thought when I changed it the other lads looked a bit tired and leggy for whatever reason.
"Sometimes it's just not easy to be sitting around and then having a quick warm-up and then starting again in the second half."
Evatt was bemused as to why he wasn't able to bring Connor Brown back on for the injured Brian Wilson with 14 minutes to go.
"I think it's a really silly rule and I'm not hear to criticise officials, but I just think sometimes a bit of common sense should prevail," he said.
Barrow AFC impress in second half to defeat Morecambe


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Myanmar police sought secrets act probe of Reuters reporters an hour after their arrest
Myanmar police officers escort detained Reuters journalists Kyaw Soe Oo (second from left) and Wa Lone (fourth from left in back row) from a court after a hearing in Yangon, Myanmar, on Tuesday. | AP
YANGON, MYANMAR – Myanmar police sought permission from the nation's president to go ahead with an investigation into whether two Reuters journalists had breached the Official Secrets Act only an hour after arresting them last month, a Yangon court heard on Tuesday.
The two reporters, Wa Lone, 31, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 27, had worked on Reuters coverage of a crisis in Rakhine state, where an army crackdown on insurgents since the end of August has triggered the flight of 688,000 Rohingya Muslims, according to the United Nations.
They were detained on Dec. 12 after they had been invited to meet police officers over dinner in Yangon. The reporters have told relatives they were arrested almost immediately after being handed some documents at a restaurant by two policemen they had not met before.
The prosecution's first witness in the case, Lt. Col. Yu Naing, police captain of Yangon's northern district, told the court that authorization was sought that evening from President Htin Kyaw's office to proceed with a case under the Official Secrets Act.
"The accused were arrested around 9 o'clock on the 12th, and … the letter to ask permission from the president's office was ready at 10 o'clock," said defense lawyer Than Zaw Aung, referring to the court testimony of Yu Naing.
The authorization from the president's office came through the next day, Dec. 13.
Another defense lawyer, Khin Maung Zaw, said after the hearing that it was unusual that the permission was received from the president level rather than a minister at a lower level of the government, and typically such authorizations are sought about a week into a probe, not an hour.
Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo last appeared in court on Jan. 10, when prosecutors sought charges against them under the Official Secrets Act, which dates back to 1923 — when Myanmar, then known as Burma, was under British rule — and carries a maximum prison sentence of 14 years.
They have been accused under Section 3.1 (c) of the act, which covers entering prohibited places, taking images or obtaining secret official documents that "might be or is intended to be, directly or indirectly, useful to an enemy."
The Ministry of Information has cited police as saying the two journalists were "arrested for possessing important and secret government documents related to Rakhine State and security forces." It has said they "illegally acquired information with the intention to share it with foreign media."
Yu Naing repeatedly told the court "I don't know" when asked about the circumstances of the arrest because it was only reported to him by subordinates.
He could not point to evidence that the defendants were acting for the enemy or hostile forces, the defense told reporters after the hearing.
He has previously said that the prosecution has 24 other witnesses in the case, more than half of whom are police.
A ruling on an application for bail posted by the journalists will be announced at the court's next hearing, on Feb. 1, Khin Maung Zaw said.
The prosecution has objected to the request for bail.
In a statement, Reuters said: "We await the court's ruling on bail. Time is of the essence and we continue to call for Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo's prompt release. They are innocent of any wrongdoing and should be allowed to return to their jobs reporting on events in Myanmar."
The two journalists were handcuffed as they were led into the court by police officers on either side of them.
Wa Lone smiled and gave a thumbs-up sign to the crowd there, which included relatives, reporters and diplomats from at least six countries and the United Nations and the European Union.
During a break, the reporters received fruit from family members and spoke with them. Kyaw Soe Oo briefly held his 2-year-old daughter.
Government officials from some of the world's major nations, including the United States, Britain and Canada, as well as top U.N. officials, have called for the reporters to be freed.
Former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson said last week that he would work toward securing the release of the two journalists in his capacity as a member of an international advisory board on the crisis in Rakhine state.
He was hoping to raise their case with Minister of Home Affairs, Lieutenant General Kyaw Swe, during a visit to Myanmar's capital, Naypyitaw, this week. Asked about his efforts, he told Reuters in Naypyitaw on Tuesday: "I am working on it."
media, Myanmar, rights, journalism, police


Have you ever wondered how satellites can track birds, fish and other animals?
They use dedicated satellite systems and tiny lightweight transmitters that send signals to polar orbiting satellites. The high speed of the satellites causes a Doppler shift as the satellite passes overhead in its low polar orbit.
Here are some websites to help your research.
A satellite system company. This site has great diagrams of orbits and telemetry coverage.
Rutland Ospreys track their birds from Rutland to Africa and back every year.
Image from Microwave Telemetry Inc.


People canoeing in the streets of Saskatoon on Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2017.
After a wild start to the work week with torrential rain slamming the city with flooding, calmer conditions move in for the rest of the Saskatoon Ex!
Up to 57 millimetres of rain was reported in parts of Saskatoon on Tuesday as heavy rain caused flash flooding across the city.
The culprit – slow moving thunderstorms on the north side of a low pressure system that tracked just south of the city.
Heavy rain drenched the Nutana district of Saskatoon with over 50 mm in a one-hour period at an unofficial station near Taylor Street and Preston Avenue.
Heaviest rain was reported in the Nutana area of Saskatoon.
There were numerous reports of flooded streets and basements.
Streets were turned into rivers in parts of Saskatoon on Tuesday, Aug. 8, 2017.
Funnel clouds were also reported as the thunderstorms first developed.
Up to 44 mm of rain was also reported at Last Mountain, 35 mm in Wynyard and 22 mm in North Battleford.
After a wild start to the work week, calmer conditions moved in on Wednesday.
Temperatures started out a bit cool, around 7 degrees, but quickly warmed up into the low 20s by late morning under mostly sunny skies.
Predominantly sunny skies will stick around for the rest of the day with an afternoon high a few more degrees into the 20s.
Clear skies will stick around tonight as we cool down into single digits by a degree or so.
High pressure moving out will keep skies clear to start the day Thursday, but we'll see some cloud cover building in later on as we warm up to a high in the mid 20s.
UV index will be high, especially to start, so be sure to slap on some sunscreen if heading out to Canada 150 Day at the Saskatoon Ex.
High pressure helps keep skies clear into Thursday.
A weak upper low swinging through Friday will bring in mostly cloudy skies with a chance of showers, particularly early in the day.
Despite the rain, we're hoping to make it up to a high in the mid 20s once again by afternoon.
A chance of more rain moves into the forecast on Friday.
A few clouds are likely to stick around on Saturday before we clear out and get back into sunshine for Sunday as a short-lived upper ridge pokes in with daytime highs around 27 degree both days.
Ryan Wunsch took this Aug. 9 Your Saskatchewan photo west of Stoughton.


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Nicole A. Saharsky is co-head of Mayer Brown's Supreme Court & Appellate Practice. She focuses her practice on briefing and arguing cases in the US Supreme Court and in the federal and state appellate courts and on developing legal strategy for the trial courts and agency proceedings. She has been identified by the Legal 500 as a "Leading Lawyer" in the Dispute Resolution (Appellate) practice area and ranked in Chambers USA for Appellate Law. She also has been recognized by Washingtonian as one of Washington DC's best lawyers for Supreme Court practice and as one of Washington DC's most powerful women.
In the US Supreme Court, Nicole has argued 30 cases, briefed 46 cases on the merits, and filed hundreds of certiorari-stage briefs and motions. Her cases involved a broad range of business issues, including securities fraud, intellectual property, labor and employment, bankruptcy, personal jurisdiction, and corporate criminal liability. Most recently, she argued Taggart v. Lorenzen, a bankruptcy case about contempt of court. Nicole frequently provides commentary on the Supreme Court for C-SPAN, Law360, Reuters, and other national media outlets. She recently was featured in a Law360 article and video series on the topic, "Will the Future of the Supreme Court Bar Be Female?"
Nicole also has briefed and argued federal and state appeals and trial-level motions for clients across a wide variety of industries. Her cases have involved administrative law, antitrust, banking, bankruptcy, constitutional law, environmental law, ERISA, intellectual property, labor and employment law, personal jurisdiction, and tax issues. She currently serves as lead appellate counsel for the US Women's National Soccer Team in their equal-pay lawsuit against the US Soccer Federation.
Nicole previously served for ten years as an Assistant to the Solicitor General in the United States Department of Justice, where she was responsible for briefing and arguing cases in the US Supreme Court and overseeing government appeals in the federal courts of appeals. She also served as a Bristow Fellow in the Office of the Solicitor General and clerked for Judge Carolyn Dineen King of the Fifth Circuit. She received her law degree summa cum laude from University of Minnesota Law School, where she served as Lead Articles Editor of the Minnesota Law Review. Before law school, she worked at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture). She earned her undergraduate degree in chemical engineering from Northwestern University.
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Scarlett Johansson tells about Russia, her lifestyle and Woody Allen. Read the full interview where Scarlett makes her point on feminism and tells who she would like to be reborn in "Cosmo Life" May. You will also find new ideas in fashion and make-up, and smart business tips how to beat your concurents by Malcolm MacNeil, celebrating 30 successful years in the hair industry.


I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that I'm making a career change. I briefly mentioned FreeCodeCamp, but thought I'd tell you a bit more.
Sounds like any coding boot camp, right? Wrong. FreeCodeCamp has some very important differences.
To start with, it's completely online and completely self-paced. That means you can do it from anywhere in the world. Campers connect with each other in the various regional and general chat rooms on Gitter to help each other out, find people with whom to pair program, and just hang out and make friends. At the time of writing there are 106 080 of us, and the site hasn't even been running for a full year yet.
It's also free. All it will cost you is the cost of connecting to the internet. Most coding boot camps on this level can run into thousands of dollars to complete, including living costs.
It's open-source. The entire 800-hour curriculum is in a public repository on GitHub, so anyone can copy, modify, and even contribute to it.
And it helps people. Not just the people getting a valuable education in our tech-centric world for free, but the 800 hours of practical full-stack projects are spent building real-life web-apps for non-profits that don't have the funds to pay experienced web developers to do it. FreeCodeCamp students have saved various non-profits almost half a million dollars already.
And the bonus? It's simple enough that you can do it even if you know nothing yet about coding.
So, I decided to use the most quotable person in the English language instead: the immortal bard, ole' Billy Shakespeare. You can view my quote generator on CodePen.
It doesn't yet work right on mobile browsers – still figuring that out – but I'm pretty happy with how it turned out thus far. The wife made the button, by the way, but I made it move.
If you have ever wanted to learn more about coding, even if only to use a little HTML or CSS to tweak how things look on your blog, give FreeCodeCamp a try. You might find coding becoming your new obsession like it did for me.
Disclaimer: This post is in no way endorsed, sponsored or requested by FreeCodeCamp.com. I wrote this because I think this site is great and want to make others aware of it. Please follow the various links provided in the text for more information.
Hmmm. I am so very clueless. But I really would like to be able to do this … Do you come away from it able to design actual websites? Because I can write the copy but it's frustrating not to be able to make the whole thing happen the way I want it to.
If you want a basic primer in HTML and CSS, especially as you can use them on WordPress.com, I can also recommend Lorelle's WordPress School, starting with the post linked.
Thanks, Herman. I'm going to come back to this in a couple months, I think. Lots to do to prepare for winter … but during those long, cold, dark months I'll have plenty of time to learn something new.


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Roger Federer warns that he is 'not ready' for Australian Open as he looks to find his groove quickly
Roger Federer says he is 'not ready' to play at the Australian Open and is worried he will be caught cold in the first round unless he is very careful.
Federer has not played since the ATP Finals in November after opting to sit out the ATP Cup and other warm-up tournaments this month.
That is in stark contrast to other players on the tour, including Federer's first round opponent Steve Johnson, and he is worried that may make him vulnerable.
"Look, it's exactly the tricky situation right now, playing somebody who has just played a lot this week," Federer told reporters.
"He's ready to go. He's match-ready and I'm not.
"I got to really make sure I get out of the gates quick.
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"Practice has been going well. Had plenty of time to pace myself and do all the things I had to do to get ready. I hope it's enough.
"I know it's a super long road to victory. That's why I got to take it one match at a time. My expectations are quite low."


This year the Serbian broadcaster RTS has hosted a national final, called "Beosong" including two semi finals. Out of 15 entries, the majority of televotes and jury have picked out the Serbian girl group Moje 3 to represent Serbia in Malmö at the ESC.
The three girls who form Moje 3 are Mirna Radulović (20), Nevena Božović (18) and Sara Jovanović (19). They all have participated in the casting show Prvi Glas Serbjie (The First Voice Of Serbia) and reached all top three ranks. A dream came true when they realized that they are going to sing at Eurovision this year.
The song "Ljubav Je Svuda" (Love Is Everywhere) is a Balkan-Pop song with a unique choreography, judged by the stage show in the national final. The three girls have been dressed differently, one as devil one as angel and a neutral one. Normally the Serbian ESC entries belong to the strongest contenders, but this year it looks not that good. Moje 3 have very good voices, the song is a bit too ordinary, even if the arrangement is made in a modern way. The chorus sounds like a warm up in a choir lesson. A qualification for the final seems to be hard to achieve this year.
For the 7th time Serbia takes part in the Eurovision Song Contest as an independent country since 2007. The two years before it has been Serbia & Montenegro. Montenegro also takes part independently. And of course the former Yugoslavia took part 27 times since 1961 with one victory "Rock me" by Riva in 1989.
In 2007 Serbia took part independently it also win the ESC with the overwhelming ballad "Molitva" by Marija Šerifović in Helsinki. The year after Serbia proudly hosted the contest in Belgrade. It was a terrific show with one of the most beautiful ESC stages ever. The whole Balkan area was proud that the ESC was held in the region and Belgrade has shown its best side.
The Serbian entries were always quite strong songs and the majority qualified for the final, beside of one time in 2009. The most outstanding songs were: "Oro" by Jelena Tomašević feat. Bora Dugic in 2008 (6th), "Ovo Je Balkan" by Milan Stanković in 2010 (13th) and "Caroban" by Nina in 2011 (14th). Maybe Željko Joksimović has put the most effort in the Serbian success in the recent years. He composed, sang his entries and also hosted the ESC in Belgrade 2008.


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This tooth colored filling is made of a plastic and glass mixture placed on the cavity layer by layer. Each layer is cured by using a specific light before the next layers are put on to give the filling durability and strength. After the placement of this filling, our dentists will polish the composite in order to make it look natural, and allow it to fit your bite without causing any kind of obstruction. The obvious and main advantage of composite fillings is its aesthetic appeal. This composite filling can also be customized using different shades to most closely match the color of your teeth.
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The Drop in Teen Pregnancy is a Mystery
Teen pregnancy rates have hit a record low in the US, according to new research. Access to birth control and better sex education have clearly contributed to the trend—but that's not the whole story.
by Grace Wyler
May 9, 2014, 8:09pm
Photo via Wikimedia Commons
Here's some very good news: After two decades of steady decline, teen pregnancy rates have hit a record low in the US, plummeting in every state and across ethnic groups, according to new research from the Guttmacher Insitute. The study, released this week, found that just six percent of women between the ages of 15 and 19 got pregnant in 2010, which means that there were 57 pregnancies for every 1,000 teenage girls. That's a stunning 51 percent drop from the peak rate in 1990, and a 15 percent decrease from 2008 alone.
Teen abortion and birth rates have similarly declined from their respective peaks, although the drop off has been less dramatic.
Image courtesy of the Guttmacher Institute
"We've known that birth rates were falling, but this is something different—now we know that it's because fewer teens are actually becoming pregnant in the first place," said lead author Kathryn Kost, a Guttmacher researcher. "The takeaway is that it appears teens are taking control of their sexual and reproductive lives."
"I think we're probably seeing the wider impact of efforts to ensure teens can access the information and contraceptive services they need to prevent pregnancies," Kost added. But she conceded that the report doesn't offer much to explain the trend. "This is basically a statistical report to put on the table, and look at what we have," she said. "Really the next step is asking why? What can we do to figure out what is causing these declines?"
It's easy to see the numbers as proof that progressive sexual health policies, like expanding health care coverage for birth control and cutting off funding for abstinence-only education, are working—and that conservative opposition to said policies is just backwards paternalism and vagina fear-mongering. But while birth control and comprehensive sex ed obviously play a role in lowering the teen pregnancy rate, that's not the whole story. A deeper look at the data on teen sexuality reveals a much more nuanced picture, raising big questions about what is actually behind the dramatic drop in teen pregnancies, births, and abortions. Clearly some teenage girls have figured out a way to avoid getting pregnant. But what exactly it is that they are doing—and why—remains a mystery.
Of course, it's not all good news. Despite the downward trends, the US still has more teen births than any other industrialized nation. According to the report, there were still some 614,000 teen pregnancies in 2010—a huge number that doesn't include 11,000 pregnancies among girls aged 14 and below. The study also found that while teen pregnancy declined nationally, progress from state to state has been uneven, and pregnancy rates among black and Hispanic teens remain twice as high as rates for white teens.
"One of the nation's great national success stories over the past two decades has been the truly stunning declines in teen pregnancy and childbearing," said Bill Albert, the chief program officer for The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancies. "But when we talk about all of this good news, we do have to temper it a bit with a glass half-empty interpretation."
The most obvious, albeit slightly surprising, explanation for the decline in pregnancy rates is that teens are actually having less sex than they used to. According to federal data, 57 percent of teen girls reported that they were virgins in 2010, up from 49 percent in 1995. That timeline closely corresponds to the heyday of abstinence-only sex ed, which started getting federal funding as part of the 1996 Welfare Reform Act and turned into a billion industry under the George W. Bush administration before the Obama administration slashed abstinence spending in 2009. Interestingly, CDC studies have found that since 2002, the number one reason most teens, male or female, give for not having had sex is that it is "against their religion or morals." All of which suggests that telling kids they should wait to have sex—or alternatively, warning them that premarital sex will turn you into a prostitute and/or junkie, as the Las Vegas Police Department did at a "Choose Purity" event last weekend—might actually be working, at least for some teens.
"The Guttmacher report doesn't really address the fact that there is an increase in the number of high-school students who are waiting to have sex," said Valerie Huber, president of the National Abstinence Education Association. "Anyone who wants to have an honest dialogue about this has to acknowledge the fact that in the midst of a highly sexualized cultures, teens are holding off on having sex."
Abstinence-only or otherwise, sex ed is horrifying, so it's not totally surprising that it has scared kids out of having sex. Add to that the Teen Mom tabloid horror show and crying-toddler PSAs, and it's safe to say teen girls are getting the message that having a baby is really fucking terrible.
But while the overall teen pregnancy rate includes a substantial number of young women who have never had intercourse, the Guttmacher report also found that pregnancy has also declined among teens who are having sex, dropping 43 percent from its 1990 peak to a rate of about 127 pregnancies per 1,000 women. It's worth noting, too, that most girls haven't had any sex education by the time they lose their virginity, according to a recent CDC report, which calls the mistiming a "missed opportunity to introduce medically accurate information on abstinence and effective contraceptive use."
It is true that kids are using contraception way more than they did back in the days before AIDS and the Moral Majority, when bras were optional and everyone was having cowboy sex. But just because teen pregnancy rates are falling doesn't mean that teens are practicing safe sex. About half of new STD infections in the US are contracted by people under age 25, and girls ages 15-19 have the largest number of reported cases of gonorrhea and chlamydia, according to the most recent CDC statistics. Moreover, data shows that rates of contraception use among teens didn't change much between 2002 and 2010, although teen pregnancy rates fell by about 18 percent during that period.
"There seems to be an unsolvable mystery here," said Bill Albert. "Teen sex has gone down, but it has leveled off, contraceptive use continues to creep up a little bit. But pregnancy rates have fallen off the charts. And yet the STD rates remain quite high."
So what exactly is it that teen girls are doing to avoid getting knocked up? Maybe it's as simple as taking Plan B, which wasn't available at pharmacies until 2006 (and even then, only with a prescription for women under age 17.) Or maybe teen girls are just telling their boyfriends to pull the fuck out. Maybe it's some combination of factors, and teen girl magic. Whatever it is, finding the answer could unlock the secret to helping the too-high number of teen girls that are still getting pregnant.
"As with all things, the more targeted you can get, the narrower you can refine the message, the more successful you can be," said Albert. "The wrong message to take from the new data is that we can pack up our tents and go home. It's not like we found a vaccination."
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Mrs. Doris Eller Roberts, age 72, passed away Tuesday, February 2, 2021. Funeral services for Mrs. Roberts will be conducted at 2 PM, Friday, February 5, 2021 in the Williams Funeral Home Chapel. Interment will follow in Westview Cemetery. The family will receive friends at Williams Funeral Home, Friday from 1 until the service hour. Mrs. Roberts was a lifelong resident of Milledgeville and was the daughter of the late Joe Eller and the late Helen Porter Eller. She had retired after 34 years of service from Central State Hospital as a HST. Mrs. Roberts was a member of Mosleyville Baptist Church. Survivors include her daughter, Angela (Albert) Cooler; son Michael (Connie) Roberts; sister, Elaine Johnson; grandchildren, Sylvia Annette Cooler and Scotty Ray Cooler, all of Milledgeville.
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Cnemaspis kandambyi is a species of diurnal gecko endemic to island of Sri Lanka, described in 2017 from Knuckles Mountain Range.

Taxonomy
The species is closely related to Cnemaspis podihuna and found sympatric to C. kallima, C. phillipsi and C. punctata in Knuckles.

Description
The species can be identified due to three enlarged postmentals, four precloacal pores, and dark brown coloration with diamond shaped dark markings. Adult is known to ranges from 23.6 mm in length from snout to vent.

Etymology
The specific name kandambyi is named in honor of Dharma Sri Kandamby, who is a former curator of the vertebrate section of the National Museum of Colombo spanned from 1982-2012.

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Reptiles of Sri Lanka
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Reptiles described in 2017


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>>>>>>Jazz Institute honoring Stan Kenton.
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The impact of expected HIV transmission rates on the effectiveness and cost of ruling out HIV infection in infants
Joseph M. Mrus, Michael S. Yi, Mark H. Eckman, Joel Tsevat
Objective. To quantify the costs and effectiveness of different strategies for ruling out HIV infection in infants born to HIV-infected mothers in the United States. Methods. The authors assessed 4 different testing strategies that incorporated serial HIV DNA polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing with or without enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) antibody testing. Testing costs, false reassurance rates, and incremental cost-effectiveness ratios were compared for the 4 strategies. Results. In HIV-exposed infants, HIV DNA PCR testing at birth, 1 month, and 4 months of age results in a false reassurance rate of 21 per million (at a 2% transmission rate). Adding an ELISA test lowers the false reassurance rate to 0.052 per million at a cost of $570,000 per additional case detected; adding another PCR lowers the false reassurance rate to 1.49 per million at a cost of $720,000 per additional case detected compared with the 3-PCR strategy. At a high transmission rate (20%), there would be substantially more erroneously negative results (false reassurance rate is 256 per million with PCR testing at birth, 1 month, and 4 months) and consequently more favorable cost-effectiveness ratios with additional testing: $47,000 per additional case detected by adding 1 ELISA test and $59,000 per additional case detected by adding another PCR test. Conclusions. False-negative HIV results after serial testing in exposed infants are rare, and the incremental cost-effectiveness ratios of additional tests are substantial at low transmission rates. However, the false reassurance rate increases considerably with a 3-PCR strategy and additional testing becomes more cost-effective at greater transmission rates; therefore, additional testing may be warranted in infants at greater risk of infection.
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Mrus, J. M., Yi, M. S., Eckman, M. H., & Tsevat, J. (2002). The impact of expected HIV transmission rates on the effectiveness and cost of ruling out HIV infection in infants. Medical Decision Making, 22(5 SUPPL.).
The impact of expected HIV transmission rates on the effectiveness and cost of ruling out HIV infection in infants. / Mrus, Joseph M.; Yi, Michael S.; Eckman, Mark H.; Tsevat, Joel.
In: Medical Decision Making, Vol. 22, No. 5 SUPPL., 01.09.2002.
Mrus, JM, Yi, MS, Eckman, MH & Tsevat, J 2002, 'The impact of expected HIV transmission rates on the effectiveness and cost of ruling out HIV infection in infants', Medical Decision Making, vol. 22, no. 5 SUPPL..
Mrus JM, Yi MS, Eckman MH, Tsevat J. The impact of expected HIV transmission rates on the effectiveness and cost of ruling out HIV infection in infants. Medical Decision Making. 2002 Sep 1;22(5 SUPPL.).
Mrus, Joseph M. ; Yi, Michael S. ; Eckman, Mark H. ; Tsevat, Joel. / The impact of expected HIV transmission rates on the effectiveness and cost of ruling out HIV infection in infants. In: Medical Decision Making. 2002 ; Vol. 22, No. 5 SUPPL.
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