What does the coming year hold in store for Lean Six Sigma and process improvement practitioners? Today, the risks are higher and the pace of change is faster than even a couple of years ago, says Gregory North, Vice President of Corporate Lean Six Sigma at Xerox. Here are three key challenges practitioners must confront.
In this interview, Gregory North, who is a member of PEX Network's Process Improvement Visionary Council, discusses key challenges facing businesses in the current economic environment, the impact of the economy on process improvement programs and the role of Lean Six Sigma tools in helping businesses navigate change and risks.
PEX Network: What do you see as the key challenges confronting Process Excellence practitioners in the year ahead?
Gregory North: I think that the year ahead in some respects is no different than the years behind. But in other ways, it's very different. I know that sounds like a consultant's answer, but let me try to support both of those positions.
First, I feel very strongly that Lean Six Sigma is not terribly different from what it was 20 years ago or ten years ago and it will ultimately be the same ten years from now. Process Excellence is about taking care of customers in a way that is cost effective and provides the most value. There are methods and tools that can help you do that and you have to engage employees at all levels of your organisation to achieve change. Those are the basic elements, and those aren't going to change.
However, there are some challenges right now that are happening in the world of business in particular which mean that Lean Six Sigma has to step up to the plate. The Process Excellence "bar" being set higher for all of us across all industries.
The challenge is this: the world is going through a series of very dramatic economic and technological changes, which means that the risk for companies is higher and the pace of change is faster. This means that, ultimately, Process Excellence is more important than ever, because of its ability to facilitate that change. At the same time, there's more cost pressure on organisations to look at non-line business functions, which means that Process Excellence support functions and Process Excellence training enabling capabilities are under pressure as well. So we have a rising challenge to both deliver more value, but to do it in a way that is as lean as possible in support of our enterprise goals.
PEX Network: You say the world is going through a series of very dramatic economic and technological changes, what do you see as the key economic and general trends that are really driving challenges for the Process Excellence practitioners within a business?
Gregory North: There are at least three trends that I would highlight. The first one is how international business is today. Many companies, for instance, have international teams working 24/7; those may be international operations within the same company or outsource partners. In that kind of world, it's important for us as Process Excellence practitioners to understand how we're driving value across the entire global business, and that includes our global partners, global supply chain, etc.
The second element is to make sure that we have an ability to adapt to fast changing situations. In the past we may have put together our three or five-year plans; now those plans may have to be changed within the year as circumstances change. In additional to flexibility, that also means that, if you have improvement initiatives that are supporting manual strategy, for instance, they need to be able to demonstrate value within the year. As a result, we need to package our improvements effort in such a way that they produce a lot of value within shortened time frames.
The final element has to do with cost effectiveness. We need to get to the point where we are able to identify the vital few things that have the most benefit for the company and not work on every single project that we dream up. Rather, we need to thoughtfully select our projects in order for us to ensure that we're getting the best "bang for the buck".
If you combine those three elements: the need to think globally, the importance of doing things well and quickly, and the importance of working on only the most vital programs - it really means that you need to be able to image and manage the entire enterprise effectively from a Process Management standpoint. That means that you must have visibility into all the key aspects of what the enterprise is doing. In the past, in a Six Sigma deployment, for example, it might have been very much about just making sure that you had a certain amount of belt capability in each region. That's no longer going to be good enough because you have to make sure this is really serving some global whole. For a company like Xerox - which is in so many countries and has so many different potential business opportunities - that's a very challenging thing to do.
PEX Network: You've touched on how continuous improvement activities need to evolve to adapt to this changing environment. Can you give an example?
Gregory North: Part of what we need to do - and what we are doing - is making sure that we think about the global business, not just in terms of what our business does, but to go beyond the four walls of our business to include our partners, our alliances, our customers, and our suppliers. That means being able to vision the entire process, end-to-end, outside of Xerox's processes, but also upstream and downstream into our supplier and customer worlds. We need to be able to effectively bring those groups together.
That's a very significant change management challenge because when you go beyond the scope of just what, for example, Xerox is doing, you have to be able to clearly understand the what's in it for your customer and supplier to be part of your strategic shift. I think that takes Lean Six Sigma and Process Excellence to the next level because it requires us to be able to manage change at a global level, and that's something that, in the past, is very different than trying to make sure that one particular project, for example, gets done well.
PEX Network: What role do you see Lean Six Sigma tools having in this type of continuous improvement activity?
Gregory North: It's funny you mention that: I was talking to one of our senior leaders not too long ago about global transformation. One of the things that came up was that some of the rigor that we apply in the early stages of a Lean Six Sigma project - such as making sure you have a good charter, for example - are things that sometimes we can miss when we scale these projects up to the program level. At that point you're going to be talking about tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars where there's an assumption to some extent that we must do something here in this space. And so there's an allocation of resources and a strong push for activity. But if we stop for a moment, applying Lean Six Sigma principles, and make sure we really understood, for example, what the problem statement was and what the root causes were we might, in fact, channel and focus those monies and energies in a slightly different direction. So this is an example of where even very basic Lean Six Sigma tools can be critical at the enterprise level.
PEX Network: So you see Lean Six Sigma as having an important role to play in managing a more complex, more unstable economic environment where the pace of change is quite quick?
Gregory North: Absolutely - I would say that Lean Six Sigma is both critical and ever more useful. If you're trying to look at the value stream of an inter-connective set of business processes that go across suppliers and customers, then where else but Lean Six Sigma can you turn to, in order to be able to quickly pull out where is the constraint? Where is the bottleneck? Where are the key drivers? What are the key data points that, if you make sure are understood, will help you be able to have early process indications of success or failure? Ultimately, these principles have never been more relevant than they are at that level, and more relevant now than ever before.
Editor's note: This is a transcript of a podcast interiew "Lean Six Sigma in 2012 - Interview with Gregory North of Xerox". The transcript has been edited for readability.


Researchers at Thomas Jefferson University and the University of Utah have discovered that antibiotics being studied for the treatment of cystic fibrosis (CF) and muscular dystrophy (MD) have the potential to initiate autoimmunity.
Every gene has a message at the end of its sequence that signals the translational machinery to stop (stop codon). Diseases like cystic fibrosis and muscular dystrophy can result from mutations that insert this stop codon into the middle of a gene causing the the resulting protein to be shortened. There are some antibiotics that have the ability to cause the cell's translational machinery to ignore the stop codons, which means some antibiotics have the potential as a form of therapy for these diseases. The report demonstrates that this approach may come with the price of initiating autoimmunity.
Get more information about Cystic Fibrosis.
Eisenlohr and colleagues looked at a class of antibiotics that includes gentamicin. These antibiotics are unique in that they have the ability to induce cells to read through stop codons producing a longer protein product. This can save the translation of mutated genes that contain aberrant stop codons. However, when the translational machinery reads through normal codons, this may create abnormally elongated proteins. Pieces of these abnormal proteins can be presented to the immune system as a part of normal protein processing, where they could be detected by the immune system.
Eisenlohr's team decided to test this theory by using a gene that they knew would get presented to the immune system and added a stop codon in the middle of it. The modified gene was spliced into a mammalian cell line. Since a stop codon placed in the middle of a gene, shortens the gene, normal cells did not produce the protein. Researchers observed that gentamicin treated cells began expressing the protein on the cell surface.
A very low number of these proteins were produced and in fact too little to be detected by normal biochemical methods. However, T cells of the immune system are sensitive enough to pick up these small amounts. Researchers were able to demonstrate that the immune cells could detect the protein produced by the gentamicin-treated cells.
Eisenlohr notes that antigen presentation to the immune system doesn't guarantee that it will activate the kind of immune response that initiates autoimmunity. However, because gentamicin is used to treat infections, "all of the right conditions are in place to potentially initiate autoimmunity." Inflammation associated with bacterial infections provides a signal to immune cells that the peptides they encounter are dangerous. Thus, as gentamicin fights bacteria, it also causes normal cells to produce abnormal proteins that are presented to the immune system and have a potential of initiating an autoimmune response.
The next step is to look at population data to see if the use of gentamicin correlates with higher rates of autoimmunity. Testing should be done on whether the peptides generated during gentamicin therapy in diseases such as cystic fibrosis or muscular dystrophy actually cause autoimmunity in a mouse model of the disease.
Stay up to date on the latest Cystic Fibrosis news.


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Bitcoin was the maiden cryptocurrency that emerged in 2009 and even after a span of a decade it is still going strong. The amazing thing to note is that bitcoin still remains the undisputed leader among the cluster of over 1500 contemporaries that have emerged after its birth.
Almost all of them have the same basic underpinning: a technological marvel known as "blockchain" which is a shared public record of transactions devised to create and track a new type of digital token. This digital token can only be created and shared according to the agreed-upon rules of the network.
But there are numerous variations visible in the cryptocurrency ecosystem which happened due to the different kinds of purpose they intend to serve address Cryptocurrencies, such as Litecoin or Dogecoin, fulfilled the same purpose as bitcoin i.e. to build a new digital currency with some tweaks as in making transactions faster, for instance, or ensuring a basic level of inflation. Others, such as Ethereum or Bat, utilises the same principle but applies it to distinct purposes other than storing value e.g. in the case of cloud computing or digital advertising.
If bitcoin is not any tangible thing then what you really have when you own a bitcoin is the collective agreement of every other computer on the bitcoin network to the fact that your bitcoin was legitimately created by a bitcoin "miner" and the ownership was passed on to you through a series of legitimate transactions.
If you want to own some bitcoin, there are exactly two options: either become a miner investing a lot of money in computers and electricity bills or simply purchase it from someone else using fiat currencies like through a bitcoin exchange such as Coinbase or bitcoin ATMs or from any real peer to peer exchange.
The most quirky thing about bitcoin is that only the 21 million bitcoin will ever be mined and no more can exist beyond that limit. Another interesting thing that we came across in this ecosystem is that if you disagree with the network's protocol a split from the network can easily be initiated which would creating a different version of bitcoin. This is referred to as a "fork" and it has already happened multiple times in the past.
Building a cryptocurrency involves turning a global network of computers into a decentralised platform for the storage and processing of data. In effect it resembles a giant hive-mind computer system that holds infinite possibilities. E.g. we've already seen proposals for YouTube clones, collectible card games and digital advertising exchanges to be built on top of cryptocurrencies.
In practice, however, the available use cases are rather more limited. Bitcoin can be used as a payment structure for a few online transactions, and even fewer real-world ones. Other cryptocurrencies are even more juvenile in that reference. So the hysteria is focused more on what it could become than what it actually is.
The following infographic on 33 Cryptocurrencies Described in Four Words or Less is developed by our friends at Mrbtc.org, checkout the infographic and let us know your thoughts.
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Creag Bheag to the north of Kingussie, on the edge of the Cairngorms, is a sort of spiritual home for CWC. It was here on our training course that we first learnt to construct upland footpaths and it was here that we first started to discuss the possibilities of setting up our own company.
A frozen Loch Gynack with Creag Bheag on the left.


So I know it's a touchy subject because so many are upset that they didn't get an Epic Reward from Sephora. I completely understand, I would've been disappointed too. I got up at 7am and refreshed my browers (yes plural) until 3pm. I wasn't in the rewards boutique I was on a link provided in one of the community boards on Sephora forums. I will say that for those who didn't get anything, to go check out the community boards for the statement from Sephora where it asks you to email them your acct information and apparently they are giving you more points for the frustration and hassle. I think it's 1000 pts but I'm not sure. So check that out if you're interested.
I save my points all the time I rarely ever redeem them until I actually want something they're offering. Only because there are so many promos that come out with free deluxe products with a $25 or $35 purchase, they rarely have anything in the reward boutique I haven't already got with a purchase. Which is why I don't buy a lot all at once from Sephora unless I need several thigns. I have free shipping always so I only buy what I need and use a promotion offer to get free deluxe samples and wait until another one comes out to place an order for something else I either need or want to try. It saves me money and saves me from using points as well. Not to mention I wait until they do a 2x, 3x, or 4x points promotion to place orders as well cause I get 4x the points that way. I don't place an order just to place one, I wait for the most opportune moment. I might actually do a post about all the recent deluxe samples I've gotten from paying attention to emails and such. It's times like these that I'm so glad I save them!
Moving on, I got the Smashbox 1000 point perk. Which was what I wanted all along. I don't honestly have a ton that is Smashbox so I really wanted to try it. Plus it offered the new #shapematters palette and I wanted to review that. As you can see it came beautifully wrapped in a huge UPS box. It was so pretty I almost didn't want to open it. I was so excited I could hardly stand it. It was quite the presentation.
and #shapematters cards that are activated by your phone it's face, brow, and eye cards. Which provide you with videos once scanned.
The #shapematters palette is awesome.... it has everything you need. Brow powder and wax, contour and highlight powders, 9 eye shadows and a double ended brush. It really is amazing. I can't wait to play with it. A review will be coming up soon when I get to fully play with it.


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How to Get Shares BEFORE The IPO
By Wayne Mulligan, on Thursday, December 11, 2014
When some people hear the words "Private Equity," here's what usually comes to mind:Big risks. Unproven companies. Big potential returns.
But today I'll show you another way to invest in private equity:
It still offers big upside potential...
But without all the risk.
Getting in Early
The earlier you invest in a start-up, the more money you can make.
That's one of the golden rules of private equity.
Here's just one example:
When Facebook went public in 2012, a private investor who'd invested in 2005 made 200,000%.
But some investors don't like waiting that long to make a return.
And others don't like investing in companies that are young and unproven.
Which is why they turn to a different type of private investment opportunity...
Pre-IPO Companies
"Pre-IPO companies" are private businesses...
But they're not considered "start-ups" anymore.
These companies might have hundreds or even thousands of employees, and millions of dollars in revenue. They just haven't gone public yet.
And while they're far less risky than your typical startup investment...
The upside potential can still be very high.
Take Uber For Example...
As we've written about before, our business partner, Howard, invested in Uber very early on – when it was valued at just a few million dollars.
Earlier this year, he sold some of the stock he'd acquired for a gain of 40,000%...
Basically, he turned every $5,000 he invested into $2 million.
The investor that bought Howard's stock from him is a "late-stage" investor...
Late-stage investors might not earn 40,000% returns...
But they're doing just fine:
In fact, with Uber most recently valued at $40 billion, the investor that bought Howard's stock is already sitting on a gain of about 1,200%.
Off-Limits to Most Investors
Maybe you're thinking, "OK, so why doesn't everyone invest in later-stage deals?"
Well, here's the simple answer...
Since these deals tend to offer lower-risk and relatively high returns, they're in extremely high demand.
Which is why, generally, only the very largest institutional investors can get in.
Individual investors like you and me have been shut out.
Until now...
EquityZen
Two weeks ago, I had the pleasure of meeting two fellow New York entrepreneurs:
Atish Davda and Philip Haslett.
They're the founders of a new company called EquityZen.
EquityZen is cracking open the world of later-stage, pre-IPO deals for all investors.
Many start-ups compensate their early employees with stock. This helps to attract and retain top talent.
With start-ups staying private longer nowadays, early employees might look for opportunities to take some money off the table. (Remember: for a fast-growing start-up, a little bit of equity could be worth millions.)
EquityZen works with the employee to sell their stock to other investors – generally, to regular individual investors like you and me.
So the employee gets some cash...
The investor gets access to stock in a fast-growing pre-IPO company...
And hopefully, when the company is acquired or goes public, the investor sees a big return.
EquityZen has already offered investors like us shares in some of the most promising pre-IPO companies in the world... from ZocDoc and Palantir to Cloudera.
Nothing is Guaranteed
But to be clear, pre-IPO investing isn't without risk.
About a year ago, for example, e-commerce juggernaut, Fab.com, seemed to be on a clear path to IPO...
With hundreds of employees around the globe, and an expectation of $250 million in 2013 revenues, they raised money at a $1 billion valuation.
What a difference a year makes...
Today, Fab has just 35 employees. Reportedly, they're struggling to stay alive.
Less Risk, Plenty of Reward
But to be fair, Fab is more of a cautionary tale than business-as-usual...
It's a reminder to keep your guard up, no matter how much of a "sure thing" an investment looks like.
In general, pre-IPO opportunities offer less risk, with plenty of reward.
If you're interested in learning more about the opportunities available on EquityZen, visit their website and request access.
Please note: Crowdability has no financial relationship with EquityZen. We're an independent provider of education, information and research on start-ups and alternative investments.
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In this section, you will set up a new virtual device project from scratch. The full step by step video for the New Project Creation Guide can be viewed below.
Begin by running Virtuoso directly, either by double-clicking the Virtuoso desktop icon or by running Virtuoso in the Programs taskbar. This opens the Project browser, as shown below. Click on the New Project tab and select C# as the Host Plugin and Visual Studio 2013 as the Host Template. The Host Plugin is the extensible component that provides all Virtuoso related functionality specific to a particular host type, in this case C# WPF desktop applications. The Host Template contains the functionality available out of the box when creating a new host and specifies things like IDE version. Specify the folder and name of your host at the bottom and click the Create Project button.
Your host will be created, and you will see an empty schematic editor window.
Click the "Open In IDE" button to view your host in its native IDE.
This results in your MyFirstAppHost Visual Studio solution being opened Visual Studio Community 2013, with its MyFirstAppHost C# project. The project is preconfigured as a WPF desktop application with an MVVM implementation.
Build and run the solution. You will see an empty window with the rotating Virtuoso crystal. Stop the host application and return to the schematic editor. You can leave Visual Studio open if you like.
On the left you will see the host component toolbox, as shown below.
If you have the Embedded Target package installed, you will see a Virtuoso Targets toolbox category, and inside it empty target templates for Visual Studio 2013 and 2015. Drag and drop the target corresponding to the Visual Studio version you have installed onto the schematic editor. You will be prompted to enter the name of the target as shown below. If you plan on only having a single target, using the default "Target" name is suggested, but you can rename it to something more specific to your application if you like. If you plan on hosting multiple virtual microcontrollers, you will need to provide different names.
Click "Create Target". The corresponding C project will be created and added to your host. The host schematic component will be shown on your schematic, initially just a simple component.
Save the host schematic and then push the changes to the IDE by clicking the "Update To IDE" button. This will result in the host C# application being updated with changes made to the host schematic. Open the host in Visual Studio by clicking the "Open In IDE" button and note that you now have a C# project and a C/C++ project in your solution. Open the main.c file in your target project, as shown below.
The host has a filename extensions of .virtuoso, and is shown in the Visual Studio solution explorer. You can double-click on the .virtuoso file in Visual Studio to open the host in Virtuoso, if you only have Visual Studio open but need to make a change to the schematic.
For our new project, we will add an analog input and a digital output and write some application code to use our I/O, to show the basic virtualization concepts. First, expand the Target tree view in the solution explorer, and you will see that there are some files and folders created for you by default.
The HW.h and SIM_HW.c are essentially empty, and provided as a place to start quickly building a driver layer. We will open HW.h and define our hardware abstraction layer for a 10-bit ADC and an LED driver as shown below.
Regardless of whether we are building our application in the virtual device or compiling it to run on the physical target hardware, the application will include this header file. The header file should always be the same. We will assume that the actual C source code file for our virtual driver will be a different file than the physical driver, although they could be the same file. Since SIM_HW.c is available to correspond to HW.h, we'll open that and write our virtual driver.
Open SIM_HW.c and add the virtual drivers as shown below.
All we are doing is declaring variables to hold the virtual ADC value and the LED state. When the driver is called, we're either just returning the internal ADC value or setting the internal LED state variable. We have now written our virtual drivers! Next, open main.c and write the application layer business logic, as shown below. The HW.h header file has already been included in main.c by default.
InitializeVirtuoso();    //This must be the first function called for Virtuoso.
VirtuosoSleep(10);    //Sleep(10) is optional and only needed in computer with low hardware configuration. It can be deleted by user.
We can now build and then run the solution. If we set a breakpoint at main, we will be able to step through the virtual driver and see it accessing the variables, but this will not be a very impressive virtual device. What we need to do is extend the model for our target, and then add view components to bind to the model in the host.
To modify the model for the virtual device, stop the application and then select the target component in the host schematic by left clicking it. NOTE: If you haven't built your solution yet after adding your variables, you need to build your solution first. In the Property window, you will see the properties for your target. Click on the "Target Model Builder" button to run the target model builder, which will modify your target.
A full treatment of the Target Model Builder is behind the scope of this introductory tutorial. For now, we will just add variables to our target model. When we open the Target Model Builder, we will see the Variables tab, as shown below.
Click on the "New" icon in the lower-left corner, or right click in the tab area and click "New", to create a new target binding.
The "Create New Variable" window will appear as shown.
Here, we are creating a variable which will be exposed on the target model in our C# target model class. All statically linked variables in our target will be available to be exposed on the target model, but we can just start typing "SIM" and both of our static variables wlll be auto-filtered.
Select the SIM_ADC variable. After selecting SIM_ADC, the Binding Type will automatically change to UINT16, as shown below.
Click Done. You will now see the SIM_ADC variable added to the Target Model Builder.
Click "New" again to add another variable. This time, select SIM_LEDState. Then change the I/O Direction to Output, and change the Binding Type to BOOLEAN, as shown.
Click "Done". You will now see both variables in the Variables tab of the Target Model Builder. Close the Target Model Builder by clicking the red close button in the top left corner.
For the moment, we will gloss over what happened with those target model changes; however, you will note that the target component in the schematic editor has been updated with a SIM_LEDState output port and a SIM_ADC input port. All we need to do now is drag and drop an LED and a knob component onto the schematic and wire their ports up, as shown.
Configure the properties for the LED and the knob as shown below. This configures the LED as a blue LED, and configures the knob component to produce a value from 0 to 1023, with a mechanical limit from -140° to +140°.
Save the host, click "Update To IDE" to push the updates to the host, and open the host in Visual Studio if it's not open. Expand the C# host project tree view in the solution explorer, and find MainWindow.xaml, as shown below.
Double-click MainWindow.xaml to see the view for the host. If you're not familiar with WPF applications, you should see the design surface for the view in the top region, and then below that you will see the XAML source code for the view, as shown below.
You will see the LED and knob components on the view. The XAML code for these component views was emitted by Virtuoso, along with the corresponding model and view model objects as properties on the MainWindowViewModel. You can make additional changes to the view components, like resizing and repositioning the controls, and those changes will be retained even when updating the host from Virtuoso. Reposition the components as shown below.
Build and run the project. When you vary the knob using the mouse, you should see the LED turn on and off as you cross the 512-count center point. You have now virtualized hardware!
This first hardware virtualization step has been a functional composition using user interface components. Communication oriented components or even just host C# classes could also be used to interact with the target model in order to virtualize the hardware. It all depends on what you are trying to accomplish with your virtual device.
With a functional analog input and digital output, we were able to develop and test our application layer code. The next step for product development might be to reskin the view to be a photorealistic virtual device that looks exactly like the product being designed. Using the Model-View-View Model design pattern (which hasn't been fully discussed), it is easy to re-skin a view, which has a specific logical function but may have many ways of visualization.
To demonstrate this, we will complete the New Project Creation Guide by reskinning the view to be photorealistic. Remove the LED and knob by deleting the components in the schematic editor. The Curiosity Board can be found in the Virtuoso Microchip Control Library, as shown below. If you haven't installed the Curiosity Board library, you can find it here.
Drag and drop the curiosity board onto the host schematic and connect it to the target as shown below. The Curiosity Board's analog potentiometer output connects to the SIM_ADC input, and the SIM_LEDState output from the target connects to LED1 on the Curiosity Board.
Push the changes to the host, and resize and reposition the curiosity board, as shown below.
Build the solution, and then run the host. You should now be able to use the potentiometer on the Curiosity board to control LED 1. The function of the virtual device is the same, we've just reskinned it to look more like a real product.
This New Project Creation Guide should have given you a good feel for the hardware virtualization concepts.


Mental health care providers must meet the licensing requirements found in TRICARE Policy Manual, Chapter 11.
According to federal regulations governing the TRICARE program (32 CFR 199.6), individual providers must currently be licensed in the state where professional health care services are being rendered to TRICARE beneficiaries. When a state does not offer an individual professional license, certification by a qualified accreditation organization, as defined in 32 CFR 199.2, is required.
HNFS can assist patients in finding an alternate provider. We will provide the opportunity for practices to redistribute patients to other providers within the practice, if capacity is available and the patient chooses to stay with the same practice.
If a mental health provider has another license (for example, as an advanced practice nurse) or has recently obtained a mental health licensure at an independent clinical level, HNFS would welcome an application for network provider status or TRICARE certification with updated credentials.


We give details on a different pages of the legal and regulatory situation in a number of countries. In this section, we give details of some of the more important specific exposure limits that have been published. The following table also summarises which countries if any they are used in, and by clicking on the toggle below, you can see a diagram showing which of these limits replaced which other ones..
EU 2013 European Union European Directive on occupational exposures, replaces 2004 Directive and 2011 Draft.
UK Regulations 2016 UK Implements the 2013 European Directive on occupational exposures.
The Bioinitiative Report also proposed exposure limits, but it is principally a review of the science so we deal with it in that section not here.
What frequency ranges do these limits cover?
See more on static field limits and on how limits vary at different frequencies including an interactive graph.
The following diagram tries to show the evolution of limits in the UK - which limits replaced which other ones. It is in two halves - public limits on the left and occupational limits on the right.


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1/10/1883 Milwaukee, WI the Newhall House fire claims the lives of seventy-one of the 300 residences of the six-story wood frame hotel around 4:00 a.m. The original home of the Milwaukee Chess Club was located on the northwest corner of Main (now Broadway) and Michigan Streets. The six-story Newhall House was constructed by merchant Daniel Newhall in 1856, originally design as a hotel with apartment units. It was made of "Milwaukee-brick" but substructures were constructed out of wood. The Newhall had a history of close calls, catching fire two times before its fatal blaze. The hotel was considered a "tinder box" by the fire department. "The fire started on the first floor and managed to spread up an elevator shaft. It quickly reached all six stories. By the time the fire was discovered the flames were out of control, and the staff failed to arouse many of the guests and employees. Many managed to escape, and some Milwaukee citizens rushed to the blaze saving many lives that night as well. The guests that night included P.T. Barnum Circus stars, General and Mrs. Tom Thumb, in a sixth-floor room. A firefighter managed to get a ladder up to them and, holding the tiny couple under one arm and grasping the swaying ladder with the other, made his way cautiously down through the flames to safety. "We saw the flames breaking through the roof as we left the station", recalled a firefighter. "By the time we reached the hotel, the building was like a flaming straw-stack. Men and women could be seen at their windows, shouting for help, screaming in despair". The fire was a hard-fought fire, ladders of some the firefighters got caught in the new-fangled electric lines downtown, and never reached the building. Others could not stretch to the upper floors. Many guests, trapped by the inferno behind them chose to leap to their death in the streets below." "The hotel register was destroyed, so it is not definitely known how many people were in the Newhall House that night. At least seventy-six bodies were pulled from the charred remains over the next several days. Of the bodies that were recovered, 55 in total. They were as followed: Taken to the morgue, 16. Received from the ruins, 26. Injured in the fire and died later, 8. The dead not taken to the morgue, 5. That being a total of 55. This did not include the fragments of bodies found, and or cremated in the fire itself. About 40 people were reported as missing and believed to be in the Newhall on the evening of the fire, and were unaccounted for, which swells the list to 90. It is almost sure that there were over 100 people that lost their lives in that event." "Most of the dead were buried at one of two cemeteries, Calvary Cemetery and Forest Home Cemetery. Memorials were erected at both cemeteries."
1/10/1906 Minneapolis, MN eight lives were lost, including one firefighter, in a fire that destroys the West Hotel. The fire started in the packing room on the first floor and was confined to the elevator shaft and top floor of the building. "The wood, in the elevator shaft, burned like tinder and a sheet of flames, twenty feet wide, mounted to the seventh floor, frightening the guests out of their senses and minds and induced a panic which struck terror to the stoutest of hearts." "The firefighter died in action while attempting to rescue a woman trapped by fire on the seventh-floor of the West Hotel at Hennepin Avenue South and 5th Street. He was carrying her down a pompier ladder when her hysterical struggled threw them from the ladder. The woman was caught as she fell on a third-floor balcony, but he fell seven floors to the street and died instantly."
1/10/1908 two Bronx, NY (FDNY) died at a five-alarm fire originated on the sixth floor of a 12-story commercial building, Box # 55-361, 225-233 4th Avenue. "After being superheated and then struck by fire streams, the steel columns supporting the upper floors suddenly buckled, collapsing eight floors into the cellar." Three members of the Fire Patrol were carried down into the cellar, two were crushed to death under tons of rubble. A total of 50 other firefighters were injured in the collapse, many seriously.
1/10/1913 a Mobile, AL firefighter "lost his life when he was crushed beneath tons of falling brick, shortly after 7:00 p.m., while battling a spectacular fire at the Mobile Theater."
1/10/1965 a San Francisco, CA firefighter "died from injuries he sustained while operating at an apartment fire at 1750 Taylor."
1/10/1967 a Philadelphia, PA firefighter "died from injuries he sustained after he collapsed in the basement of a building while operating at a fire."
1/10/1990 a twenty-year-old firefighter "died at the Carswell Air Force Base, Texas from a Halon related heart attack during an aircraft training incident."
1/10/1999 an Oakland, CA firefighter "was crushed and killed at 3052 Broadway, in a two-story, balloon-frame building of mixed occupancy, with a residential area over the commercial premises, when the second floor of a turn of the century residential structure collapsed into the first floor. The fire eventually went to six-alarms. A total of four firefighters were trapped by the collapse."
1/10/1976 a "natural gas leak in the basement at Pathfinder Hotel in downtown Fremont, NE exploded, and the ensuing fire killed twenty-three people at 9:32 a.m., most of the city block (six adjacent buildings) were destroyed. The hotel used as apartments occupied mostly by senior citizens. The natural gas leak that caused the explosion was believed to have been caused by an underground pipe separation. The "odor of the natural gas" had been detected about four hours before the explosion. The fire was able to spread vertically through inadequately protected elevator shafts, stairways, and pipe chases."
1/10/1962 St. Louis, MO "a grain dust explosion killed three and injured forty-three at the Ralston Purina Company that sent fire "roaring through" the huge industrial complex. The explosion destroyed an old three-story granary and spread to a complex of milling buildings and an 11-story grain elevator."
1/10/1962 Carterville, IL a mine gas explosion killed eleven at the Blue Blaze Coal Co.'s No. 2 mine northeast of Carterville at about 6:30 p.m.
1/10/1952 five stores and four offices were destroyed by fire in Haskell, TX that started in a cotton brokerage office when a porter tried to light a gas stove.
1/10/1940 Bartley, WV a coal mine gas explosion killed ninety-two in the southwestern tip of McDowell County, on of southern West Virginia's busiest and richest coal sections, at Bartley No. 1 mine of the Pond Creek Pocahontas Coal Company.
1/10/1916 three residents were injured in their home when ten pounds of flash powder, used for photography, exploded in the dining room; the explosion destroyed the house.
1/10/1911 six died in Cincinnati, OH at the Chamber of Commerce fire in a building erected in 1884 at the southwest corner of Fourth and Vine. The fire started on the top floor clubroom kitchen as a "grease fire" during a banquet and extended to the timber frame roof. "The floors were suspended on steel trusses that, because of the high heat from the flames, gave way plunging all the floors to the basement. The only thing left standing was the masonry exterior walls."
1/10/1908 Melrose, Iowa conflagration, offices and buildings of 12 small firms were destroyed by the fire; this fire was five days after the Albia, IA conflagration just 16.5 miles away.
1/10/1860 Pemberton Mill a large factory in Lawrence, MA collapsed and killed 145 and injured 166 employees in a five story 280' by 84' structure built in 1853 that the owners "jammed more machinery into their factory attempting to boost its profits". The building contained 2,700 spindles and 700 looms employing more than six hundred workers, many of them women and children who became trapped just before 5:00 p.m. Around 9:30 p.m. while rescue operations were in progress, "someone accidentally knocked over an oil lantern. Flames raced across the cotton waste and splintered wood, some of it soaked with oil" forcing rescuers to retreat.
1/10/1840 Eaton's Neck, Long Island, NY the Steamboat Lexington fire claimed 200 lives in Long Island Sound after leaving New York for Stonington at 3:00 p.m. Around 7:00 p.m. cotton stored on the deck caught fire near a smoke pipe. "The boat was headed, for the shore as soon as the efforts to extinguish the fire proved unsuccessful. She was provided with three boats, yet such was there the panic which took possession of all minds, that they were hoisted out while the boat was still under headway and immediately swamped. The engine a few minutes after gave way, leaving her utterly unmanageable." "In one-hour she was burnt to the water's edge and all but three persons perished."
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Opponents of health care reform were right about at least one thing: the bill is looooong. They tried to use that to scare us by saying that if it's over 2,000 pages, it must be a massive government takeover of health care. But the truth is that health care reform is complicated.
Unlike other industrialized countries, where everyone is pretty much covered under the same system, in the United States you might be covered by Medicare, Medicaid, VA hospitals, SCHIP, Indian Health Service, private insurance you buy yourself, or private coverage through your employer… or you might not have any coverage at all. Then there are the doctors, nurses, hospitals, prescription drugs, and medical devices that we rely on for care. Expanding coverage, reducing costs, and improving the quality of health care in America meant changes throughout the entire system.
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  end

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    expect(validator.included_modules).to include Github::Validations::Required
  end

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Effects of Omega-3 Fatty Acids on Cognitive Function with Aging, Dementia, and Neurological Diseases
U. S. Department Human Services, Agency for and Quality
PaperBackJune 29, 2014
This report is one of several reports focusing on the role of omega-3 fatty acids (FA) in the prevention or treatment of various diseases. This report focuses on the effects of omega-3 FA on cognitive function with aging, dementia, and neurological diseases. Over the past 40 years, an increasing number of physiological functions have been attributed to omega-3 FA, including movement of calcium and other substances into and out of cells; relaxation and contraction of muscles; regulation of clotting and of secretion of substances that include digestive enzymes and hormones; and control of fertility, cell division, and growth. In addition, omega-3 FA may play an important role in brain development and function. Docosahexaneoic acid (DHA; 22:6n-3) is the precursor to a newlydescribed metabolite called 10,17S-docosatriene, which is part of a family of compounds called resolvins. They are released in the brain in response to an ischemic insult and counteract the pro-inflammatory actions of infiltrating leukocytes by blocking interleukin 1-beta-induced NF-kappaB activation and cyclooxygenase-2 expression. DHA also plays a role in retinal rod outer segments by influencing membrane fluidity so as to optimize G protein coupled signaling. The major dietary sources of omega-3 FA in the U.S. population are fish, fish oil, vegetable oils (principally canola and soybean), walnuts, wheat germ, and some dietary supplements. THe following questions are addressed in this study: 1. What is the evidence that omega-3 FA play a role in maintaining cognitive function in normal aging? 2. What is the evidence that omega-3 FA affect the incidence of dementia including Alzheimer's disease? 3. What is the evidence that omega-3 FA are effective in the treatment of dementia including Alzheimer's disease? 4. What is the evidence that omega-3 FA affect the incidence of neurological diseases? 5. What is the evidence that omega-3 FA prevent the progression of multiple sclerosis?
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Ted Ernst whistles the start for 58th Annual Chevron Manhattan Beach Grand Prix Kids
A young cyclist sprints off the starting line at the 58th Annual Manhattan Beach Chevron Grand Prix. Photo
Ted Ernst welcomes another generation of kids to the starting line at 58th annual Manhattan Beach Chevron Grand Prix. Photo
In 1962, Manhattan Beach bike store owner Ted Ernst asked the city council to shut down 1.3 miles of Valley Drive and Ardmore Avenue for a professional road race, known in cycling circles as a criterium. The previous year, the former professional racer had founded South Bay Wheelmen. He said his club would run the race.
"The council wasn't keen on the idea of closing city streets in the middle of town for a bunch of out of area riders," Ernst recalled Sunday, during a break in the 58th Annual Chevron Manhattan Beach Grand Prix. "So I told them, there will be plenty of local involvement because we'll have kids races. That's why the council gave us the okay.' Ernst said.
On Sunday, over 100 kids sprinted down Valley Drive in front of Live Oak Park, cheered on by their parents, many of whom remembered Ernst, now 87, whistling the start for them. ER


After conveying my greetings, I comply with the pleasant duty of presenting to you the following request in relation to Dr. Alejandro Pena-Esclusa, currently detained in SEBIN.
As you may know, Dr. Pena-Esclusa has been in prison since July 12, 2010, charged with "concealment of a weapon of war" and "conspiracy." In spite of this considerable time lapse, his trial has not been scheduled yet.
I have known Dr. Pena-Esclusa for many years now and have always enjoyed an appreciation for him. We are related through our common link to the Catholic Church, a faithful practitioner he is. He has been married 22 years with Indira. Both lead an exemplary family life. They have three daughters who are their greatest joy.
He is an engineering graduate, involved in politics as a lecturer and writer. He has publicly expressed his thoughts, as well as his firm democratic stance, in opposition to the Venezuelan government. He advocates principles and criteria of nonviolent resistance, which reminds us of Gandhi and Luther King.
He decided to face his own imprisonment with strength and profound conviction, knowing in advance that he would be detained. He is confident of his innocence against any allegation of provoking a government change trough unconstitutional means.
I will not go here into political or legal considerations about the grounds of this accusation. My intention is solely to appeal on humanitarian grounds, so that he may be free on parole or on house arrest to await trial, given that Dr. Pena Esclusa is suffering from prostate cancer, a severe recurring disease that requires medical treatment to prevent metastasis, and also needs being in a healthy, quiet and familiar surroundings.
As I mentioned, he has been imprisoned for ten months without medical treatment, which has increased the risk of metastasis.
I formalize this request as a citizen and as pastor of the Church, with experience in humanitarian intervention in cases of detainees, particularly in the one made in favor of the current President, acknowledged by him, after he was taken prisoner in 1992.
With our hopes in God, who is just and good, so that this request will be received, and move you to consider other initiatives of similar cases, as well.


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Westgate, Steven
Brigadier General Steven Westgate is a native of Savannah Georgia. He attended Savannah public schools and Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida culminating with a degree in Business Administration in May 1969. He joined the Georgia Air National Guard in April 1969 and attended US Air Force Basic Military Training. He received a direct commission as a Second Lieutenant and then attended Undergraduate Pilot Training at Williams AFB, Arizona from September 1969 to August 1970. He returned to the 165 Airlift Group, Georgia ANG which later became the 165 Airlift Wing. Gen Westgate is a Command Pilot with 8000 hours in the C-124 Globemaster , C-130 Hercules and other trainer and civilian aircraft. He has flown missions all over the world, to include VietNam, Indonesia, Bosnia, Uganda, Somalia and Iraq. His aircrew qualifications include aircraft commander, instructor and flight examiner. He was employed as an Air Technician with the Georgia National Guard from 1974 to 2005. He served in training, safety, disaster preparedness, plans and stan eval. He attended Air War College in residence completing the course May 1986. He was the Volant Oak Liaison Officer at Howard Air Force Base Panama from January through May 1987. In 2003 he served as the Deputy Director of Mobility Forces at Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar. He held various assignments in the 165 AW to include the Director of Operations, Wing Vice Commander and finally Wing Commander from December 1999 through November 2004. As an Air Technician he served as Instructor Pilot, Air Operations Officer and was the Air Commander for over 18 years. Gen Westgate became the Georgia Air National Guard Chief of Staff in Dec 2004. He has flown mission in or in support of, or deployed to the following exercises/contingencies: Volant Oak, Coronet Oak, REFORGER, Urgent Fury, Restore Hope, Joint Endeavor, Joint Guard, Joint Forge, Dessert Shield, Operations Noble Eagle, Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom. He has served as a Battle Commander and Chief of Combat Operations at the Combined Air and Space Operations Center, First Air Force (AFNORTH), Tyndall AFB, Florida in 2006 and 2007. He served as the Vice Commander of First Air Force from October 2007 through April 2008. In this capacity he was involved in all aspects of Operation Noble Eagle and air defense for North America. This also included coordinating Defense Support of Civil Authorities with Northern Command. He is a Life Member of the Air Force Association, the Reserve Officers Association, the National Guard Association of the United States and the National Guard Association of Georgia. He is a graduate of Leadership Savannah and Leadership Georgia. He has served as President of the Savannah Kiwanis Club and continues as a member. He is an avid boater and maintains a U S Coast Guard Captain's license. He is married to Major (Ret) Elizabeth Westgate and resides in Savannah. They have three children, Rebecca, Sara and Christopher.


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Q: Alternative to List.GetRange without exception? I'm loading data from database using Entity Framework. I have a ASP MVC controller, that should display 10 elements per page, where page number is parameter passed into the controller:
public ActionResult Blog([DefaultValue(0)] int page)
{
    var blogPosts = db.BlogPosts.ToList()
        .OrderByDescending(i => i.PublishTime)
        .ToList()
        .GetRange(page * 10, 10);

    return View(blogPosts);
}

Here, the GetRange(page * 10, 10)  call can throw exception in multiple cases, e.g. when the list has less than 10 elements or when page * 10 index is out of bounds.
This can be solved by a lot of bound checking. I'm wondering, is there a more elegant way of solving this? I'm looking for solution that would return 10 elements if possible, otherwise return as much as it can or null/empty list.
For example, list of 27 elements, first and second page (page == 0 || page == 1) would return list with 10 elements, third page (page == 2) would return 7 elements and fourth page (page == 3) would return null/empty list.

A: You don't want to use .ToList() before paging anyway, as this will pull in all records and do the filtering in code which will hurt performance.
Just use .Skip() and .Take(), which will be translated to the proper SQL by Entity Framework:
int pageSize = 10;
var blogPosts = db.BlogPosts
                  .OrderByDescending(i => i.PublishTime)
                  .Skip(page * pageSize)
                  .Take(pageSize)
                  .ToList();

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Leaked reports show governments were warned EV taxes would hurt uptake
Michael Mazengarb
Leaked reports show that governments were warned that the introduction of new taxes targeted at electric vehicle users will significantly discourage the uptake of zero emissions vehicles and spark strong opposition from environmental and transport industry groups.
The reports, prepared by the Board of Treasurers, an intergovernmental group made up of representatives from each of the Australian states and territories, examined the impacts of the potential 'road user charges' in electric vehicles, as are being considered by Victoria and South Australia, to boost government revenues.
The Board of Treasurers warned governments that such measures were 'likely to discourage [zero emissions electric vehicle] uptake' and 'impede government process on transport sector pledges' to reduce emissions.
The report also warned that the implementation of such charges would face 'strong opposition from industry and environmental stakeholders', a warning that has already proven true in light of the backlash from the industry in response to the proposals.
Several state governments are considering the introduction of road user charges for electric vehicles, to account for a reduction in fuel excise revenues, as electric vehicles owners do not need to pay for fuels, the price of which contain a component of tax.
Governments have argued that some form of tax would be necessary to secure funding for road and infrastructure upkeep, but electric vehicle advocates have responded by saying the proposed road user charges are poorly designed, often impose higher taxes than those that would be paid through equivalent fuel tariffs, and would undermine efforts to support greater electric vehicle uptake.
Advocates have also argued that the introduction of a new tax targeted at electric vehicles also ignores the wider community benefits of zero emissions transport, including reduced emissions and avoided air pollution.
Director of the Australia Institute's climate and energy program, Richie Merzian, said the report showed that there were substantial risks created by the proposed introduction of new taxes on electric vehicles.
"Privacy issues, practical difficulties, constitutional concerns and discouraging the uptake of EVs are just a few of the problems highlighted in this discussion paper," Merzian said.
"EVs are a cleaner, quieter and safer transport alternative. Now is not the time to put a great big new tax on this emerging industry. Governments need to hit pause on this half-baked policy proposal and come back after undertaking proper consultation with industry representatives and the community."
"It is ironic that states with net zero emissions targets are now pulling the handbrake on reducing pollution from one of the highest emitting sections," Merzian added.
The report also warns that the introduction of road user charges in some states, could see electric vehicle owners transfer their registration to states without such charges, creating an issue of registration 'leakage' that could ultimately amplify the issue of reduced government revenues.
Governments are considering a range of ways of monitoring and enforcing such road use taxes, including the use of odometer reporting, through to the installation of GPS tracking devices on vehicles.
The leak reports say that the use of GPS trackers on electric vehicles would enable greater levels of automation in reporting, as well as enabling time-of-use and location based concessions, but would raise substantial privacy and security issues, that may undermine any community acceptance of a road user charge.
Michael Mazengarb is a journalist with RenewEconomy, based in Sydney. Before joining RenewEconomy, Michael worked in the renewable energy sector for more than a decade.
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Q: Why does ffmpeg remove SEI messages when converting FLV to h264? I have an FLV file with h264 video tags. Each video tag that contains an h264 IDR NAL unit also also contains display orientation SEI, ie my NAL access unit for IDR key frames is [SEI, IDR].
For some reason, converting this FLV file to h264 without the stream copy option strips away all the SEI messages from all IDR frames. In its place, right after the SPS and PPS NAL units, there's a single user unregistered data SEI.
i.e using
ffmpeg -i in.flv out.264

gives [SPS, PPS, SEI, IDR, ...] where the SEI is:

x264 - core 155 r2917 0a84d98 - H.264/MPEG-4 AVC codec - Copyleft
2003-2018 - http://www.videolan.org/x264.html - options: cabac=1 ref=3
deblock=1:0:0 analyse=0x3:0x113 me=hex subme=7 psy=1 psy_rd=1.00:0.00
mixed_ref=1 me_range=16 chroma_me=1 trellis=1 8x8dct=1 cqm=0
deadzone=21,11 fast_pskip=1 chroma_qp_offset=-2 threads=11
lookahead_threads=1 sliced_threads=0 nr=0 decimate=1 interlaced=0
bluray_compat=0 constrained_intra=0 bframes=3 b_pyramid=2 b_adapt=1
b_bias=0 direct=1 weightb=1 open_gop=0 weightp=2 keyint=250
keyint_min=25 scenecut=40 intra_refresh=0 rc_lookahead=40 rc=crf
mbtree=1 crf=23.0 qcomp=0.60 qpmin=0 qpmax=69 qpstep=4 ip_ratio=1.40
aq=1:1.00

However
ffmpeg -i in.flv -c:v copy out.264

preserves my SEI messages, and pretty much decodes to the raw h264 I put into the FLV muxer to generate the FLV file in the first place. Why does this happen? Is there a flag to perform encoding but preserve SEI messages?

A: Using -c:copy, ffmpeg does not decode the h264, it simply copies the NALUs from the source to destination without even looking at them. Hence every NALU is preserved.
With a transcode, ffmpeg looses the metadata on the decode. It would need to take the SEI, set it as metadata to the AVFrame then write the SEI to the new frame when it is re encoded. But SEI is a per AU object. Meaning if you change the frame rate, ffmpeg would need to know how to split or merge SEIs into the new frame rate. That is a lot of code that nobody has written yet. It would be possible to copy SEI when not changing the frame rate, of writing merge/split handlers for all know SEI types. But somebody would need to sponsor that work.
Ffmpeg is open source, if you were to develop that code, it's very likely they would accept the patch.


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505 GAMES BRINGS KOJIMA PRODUCTIONS' DEATH STRANDING DIRECTOR'S CUT TO PC IN 2022
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CALABASAS, Calif – January 4, 2022 – 505 Games, global publisher of the PC version of Hideo Kojima's genre-defying DEATH STRANDING in partnership with KOJIMA PRODUCTIONS, revealed today at the CES 2022 trade show it will also publish the DEATH STRANDING DIRECTOR'S CUT. DEATH STRANDING DIRECTOR'S CUT on PC will launch simultaneously on both the Epic Games Store and Steam in spring 2022.
DEATH STRANDING DIRECTOR'S CUT is the definitive DEATH STRANDING experience, expanded for PC, and will, for the first time, incorporate Intel's new Xe Super Sampling (XeSS) graphics technology for an enhanced experience for PC players. XeSS uses machine learning to enable players to explore the unique environment of DEATH STRANDING DIRECTOR'S CUT in high graphical detail along with elevated performance.
Neil Ralley, President of 505 Games said "We're delighted to announce our partnership with Intel for DEATH STRANDING DIRECTOR'S CUT on PC. DEATH STRANDING has been a hugely popular game with PC players and we're excited to see how Intel's new XeSS technology will enhance player experiences for DIRECTOR'S CUT."
DEATH STRANDING DIRECTOR'S CUT on PC includes HIGH FRAME RATE, PHOTO MODE and ULTRA-WIDE MONITOR SUPPORT. DIRECTOR'S CUT also includes cross-over content from Valve Corporation's HALF-LIFE series and CD Projekt Red's Cyberpunk 2077.
Developed by Kojima Productions, DEATH STRANDING was one of the most anticipated projects of the last decade. Starring Norman Reedus as Sam Bridges, the game takes place in the near future, where mysterious explosions have rocked the planet, setting off a series of supernatural events known as the Death Stranding. With spectral creatures plaguing the landscape, and the planet on the verge of a mass extinction, it's up to Sam to journey across the ravaged wasteland to save mankind from impending annihilation.
The groundbreaking experience from legendary game creator Hideo Kojima also features the acting and voice talents of Mads Mikkelsen and Léa Seydoux.
Players can wish-list DEATH STRANDING DIRECTOR'S CUT now for PC from Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1850570/
For more information about DEATH STRANDING DIRECTOR'S CUT on PC, please visit the PC DEATH STRANDING website: https://505games.com/games/death-stranding
About 505 Games
505 Games, a Digital Bros' subsidiary, is a global publisher focused on offering a broad selection of video games for players of all ages and skill levels. The company publishes and distributes premium and free-to-play games on console and PC platforms as well as mobile devices.
Publishing highlights include DEATH STRANDING (PC), Control, Assetto Corsa Competizione, Ghostrunner, Gems of War, Journey to the Savage Planet, Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, and Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons.
505 Games has offices in the United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Australia, China and Japan. For more information on 505 Games and its products please visit 505games.com
About HIDEO KOJIMA / KOJIMA PRODUCTIONS
Hideo Kojima is a world-renowned game creator and auteur known for pushing the boundaries of the video game medium. Widely considered the father of the stealth genre, he is also credited with innovating both story-telling and cinematic presentation in video games at large.
On December 16th, 2015 Hideo Kojima established his own studio called KOJIMA PRODUCTIONS, under the banner of "From Sapiens to Ludens". On November 8th, 2019, the studio released its first title, DEATH STRANDING, starring Norman Reedus, Mads Mikkelsen, Léa Seydoux and Lyndsay Wagner for PlayStation® 4, PC and DEATH STRANDING DIRECTOR'S CUT was released for the PlayStation® 5.
Since its release, DEATH STRANDING has received numerous game awards and achieved worldwide acclaim.
In 2020, Hideo Kojima received the BAFTA® Fellowship, the highest accolade bestowed by BAFTA® upon an individual in recognition of exceptional contribution to film, games or television.
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For any electrical appliance safety features should always be taken care of and if it is using for generating heat to cook food then you should take very careful step. Nowadays induction stoves are coming up with multiple sensors,. It helps to control heat withing permissible safety band, so that it can protect you from over heating or any other electrical hazards. Automatic voltage regulator is also another advanced technological feature what actually ensures gradual heat build up, so that not only it protects your appliance from overheating but also it helps to improve overall efficiency of that appliance too.
This anti magnetic wall is an advanced technology to increase it's efficiency. This anti magnetic wall actually nullifies it's magnetic influence on surroundings. So you should consider this feature in your induction cook top before buying your appliance.
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Could Stalin have fought a two-front war?
Fighting a war on two fronts is the military equivalent of driving a car while texting. It's just a really bad idea, as Germany can attest. One reason Germany lost two world wars is because its forces were split between East and West. America and Britain also fought World War II in Europe and Asia.
In contrast, the Soviet Union could concentrate its forces against Germany, thanks to a 1941 neutrality pact with its long-time rival Japan. This became painfully obvious to Hitler during the 1941–42 Battle of Moscow, when the Red Army's well-trained and well-equipped Siberian divisions reinforced the battered Soviet armies defending Moscow. Trained to operate in the harsh cold of Siberia, these fresh troops shattered the frozen German spearheads and sent them reeling from the gates of Moscow.
But what if the Soviet Union had also faced a two-front war? One of the great what-ifs of the Second World War is what would have happened if Japan had attacked the Soviet Union in 1941, when the Soviet Union seemed at defeat's door as the German panzers drove deep into Russia.
The traditional narrative is that in mid-1941, Japanese leaders were split between the "strike north" faction, championed by the Imperial Army, which wanted to attack Russia. Opposing them was the Navy-backed "strike south" faction pressing for seizing the resources of Southeast Asia from their American and European masters. In the fall of 1941, with the German armies approaching Moscow, Japanese leaders made the fateful decision to declare war against the Western powers. The immediate impetus was a series of American and European embargoes in 1940–41, most importantly of oil, which left Japan facing the prospect of running out of fuel for its factories and ships. However, Stalin learned from Richard Sorge, a well-placed Soviet spy in Tokyo, that Japan would not invade Siberia, which the Soviet dictator to shift his elite Siberian troops from the Far East to Moscow, just in time to save the Soviet capital.
What would have if Japan had struck north after all, attacking Russia from the east while Germany relentlessly advanced from the west? Would it have changed the course of World War II? Like most great what-if questions, the answer depends on the assumptions you make. Consider this: if Japan had not attacked Pearl Harbor, would isolationist America would have declared war on Japan? And if Japan had attacked Russia, which certainly would have compelled the Western powers to tighten their embargo, how would the Japanese economy have fared?
Militarily, the outcome of a 1941 Russo-Japanese war would have been far from certain. Russia had been defeated in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–5, and during its intervention in the Russian Civil War, Japanese troops had advanced all the way to Lake Baikal. But closer to World War II, Russian tanks and artillery won the Khalkin Gol border battle in 1939, while the Red Army's armored blitzkrieg smashed Japan's Manchurian Kwantung Army in 1945. But a 1941 clash would have been interesting. The Japanese Army was not mechanized by Western and Soviet standards, putting them at a disadvantage against Soviet armor, while the logistics of supplying even a lightly equipped Japanese offensive into the Siberian wilderness would have been daunting.
On the other hand, Japan was not one of Germany's satellite armies on the Eastern front. Italy and Romania were like the seven dwarves to the Aryan Snow White, and the Red Army smashed them with ease. But the Imperial Japanese army in 1941 was battle-hardened—but not yet worn down—by the China War. It could move fast, fight just as fanatically as Soviet troops, and was skilled in infiltration tactics and night fighting. It would have enjoyed powerful air and naval support. Spared from battle with the Americans, the Imperial Navy could have employed naval gunfire and its elite, long-range Zero fighter squadrons to ensure air superiority for a drive on the vital port of Vladivostok.
As it bravely but ineptly demonstrated against the Finns and Germans, the Red Army in 1941 had been devastated by Stalin's purges. At least the Siberian troops were good, but in 1941, they were at the end of a long supply line from western Russia that would have been disrupted by the German capture of factories and resources. Given a choice between retaining Moscow or Vladivostok, Stalin would have prioritized defending the Soviet capital, so Japan might have taken Vladivostok and the Siberian coast without too much effort.
But then what? Advance six thousand miles down the Trans-Siberian Railroad to Moscow? Garrison vast Siberia while still attempting to subdue the vast population of China? Incorporate Kazakhstan into the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere? One wonders how much Japan would ultimately have gained from this war.
Ironically, the battlefield results of a Japanese invasion of Siberia would have been relatively minor. The real action was a continent away, in Moscow. The Soviet Union could lose Vladivostok (even though much American Lend-Lease came through that port), but Moscow was a different matter. Thus a 1941 Russo-Japanese War boils down to two questions. First, if the Battle of Moscow was one of the turning points of World War II, then would Japan pinning down the Siberian reinforcements have crippled the Soviet counteroffensive? The German armies in front of Moscow were depleted, exhausted, unsupplied and freezing. Yet many of the Soviet armies at Moscow were hastily thrown together, inexperienced, poorly led and still struggling to regain their balance from the German onslaught. It seems likely the Soviet counteroffensive would have thrown back Hitler's armies without the Siberians, but would have inflicted less damage. If so, the real impact might have been in 1942. Germany came close to capturing Stalingrad and the Caucasus oil fields before the Soviets launched their devastating counteroffensive in November 1942; would sending forces to stop, or at least delay, a Japanese advance have meant no Stalingrad catastrophe for Germany?
The ultimate question for a 1941 Russo-Japanese War may actually be psychological. Stalin suffered a nervous breakdown when Germany, with whom Russia had a nonaggression pact, launched its massive Barbarossa surprise attack. How would he have reacted to the news that Japan was attacking from the other side of the Soviet Union? The Red Army suffered four million casualties in 1941; it had enough problems attempting to build new divisions and control the ones it already had in western Russia, without having to deal with a Siberian front.
The Russo-German War was a war of annihilation. Peace was not possible until one side or the other was conquered. But could Stalin have conceded Siberia to Japan in return for an armistice? Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan (whom the Nazis classified as honorary Aryans) were loose allies at best. A separate peace might have been possible. At the least, a Russo-Japanese war would have diverted Soviet resources away from Germany and thus prolonged the European war, though perhaps America would have found Japan less difficult to subdue.
Had Japan declared war on the Soviet Union in 1941, the East might have been Red, as the Communist Chinese song goes. But it might have been the red of the Rising Sun.


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The US military has temporarily grounded its entire fleet of F-35 stealth fighter jets in the wake of a crash in South Carolina last month of an F-35B aircraft. The pilot ejected safely but the aircraft was totaled. Inspections are to be carried out on faulty fuel tubes and are expected to be completed within the next 24 to 48 hours." Israel and the UK have also grounded their F-35s although they are of different types from the one that crashed. The Lockheed stealth fighter was first used in combat by Israel earlier this year to conduct two air strikes over Syria.


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Canada: The Hemp Laws
Growing industrial hemp in Canada has been permitted since 1998. Since it's now a part of the new legislation known as the Cannabis Act, the laws governing the cultivation of industrial hemp in Canada have also been updated. Health Canada now governs the cultivation of hemp under the Industrial Hemp Regulations, which states that hemp growers in Canada can now harvest the flowering heads, leaves, and branches at home.
This is a major difference since farmers were only allowed to harvest hemp for their seed and fiber according to the previous law. The seed and fiber were then used in supplements and various manufacturing processes.
The new legislation is an attempt by the government to allow farmers and those who are privately growing hemp plants at home to get a better understanding of the hemp plant in regards to its cultivation, harvest, and storage.
The cultivation of industrial hemp has been legalized in Canada as well as the US despite being part of the same plants species as marijuana. This is because hemp doesn't contain the same amount of THC as marijuana, which is known for its psychoactive effects. The amount of THC in hemp is no more than 0.3%, which is not coincidentally the legal limit for hemp oil/CBD and hemp-derived products that's now required. The laws in both Canada and the US state that any hemp product must not contain more than 0.3% of THC.
Hemp In Canada
While cultivating hemp plants has been legalized in Canada, as per the new law, anyone who wishes to cultivate industrial hemp requires a license from Health Canada. This rule also applies to hemp seed and grain importers and exporters, sellers, and processors.
Those who import hemp seeds will need a permit to import industrial hemp that has to be issued by Health Canada. Apart from that, every imported shipment of seed also requires a phytosanitary certificate and a CFIA import permit issued under the Plant Protection Act for any imports that are from outside the US.
Since the new regulations, Canadian farmers have planted more than 140,000 acres of hemp plants mainly because it's financially viable. As one farmer puts it, growing hemp is a no-brainer since it not only uses less water as compared to every other crop, but it is one of the few crops that makes it possible to earn dual revenues, as in, by selling both the seeds and the fiber, which means, no part of the hemp plant goes to waste.
When it comes to purchasing hemp products in Canada, the new law requires that people purchase hemp products only from Canadian distributors. Also, the hemp products need to be CO2 processed, cruelty-free, organic and tested.
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Fifty people were killed and dozens injured when a gunman opened fire on two mosques in Christchurch on Friday (15 March).
Australian Brenton Tarrant, 28, a man with self-confessed white-supremacist views, has been charged with murder.
The Baptist Churches of New Zealand described the events as 'horrific', adding that the prayers of the Baptist movement are with the many victims and their families and friends.
Charles Hewlett, the National Leader, flew to Christchurch to be with the Baptist community as it prayed for the Muslim community and joined in their lament.
'To the many who find themselves unexpectedly confronted with injury and the loss of family and friends following the horrific attack in Christchurch, New Zealand, the Baptist World Alliance grieves with you and will pray for you. I am grateful for the leadership and actions of the Baptist Churches of New Zealand who offer physical solidarity in the days ahead.
The Inter Faith Network (IFN) for the United Kingdom said the attack was a reminder of the need to work together 'with ever greater urgency against ignorance, prejudice and hatred'.
The Baptist Union of Great Britain belongs to IFN through its Inter Faith Working Group.
The IFN statement read: 'Today's appalling terrorist attacks on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, have been responded to here in the UK with prayers, condemnation, and demonstrations of solidarity with the Muslim community, including at the Friday prayer.
'As we said after the murderous attack on the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh USA last year, attacks on churches, gurdwaras, mosques, temples and other places of worship of different faiths here and around the world are a reminder of the need to condemn extremist violence in the strongest terms and to stand together and to continue to work together with ever greater urgency against ignorance, prejudice and hatred.


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July 19, 2016 by Joshua
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I turn 45 tomorrow and I've been saving up writing about two role models for the next few years.
First is Vince Lombardi, according to ESPN and many others the Greatest Coach in NFL history. According to Wikipedia:
He is best known as the head coach of the Green Bay Packers during the 1960s, where he led the team to three straight and five total NFL Championships in seven years, in addition to winning the first two Super Bowls following the 1966 and 1967 NFL seasons. Lombardi is considered by many to be one of the best and most successful coaches in professional football history. The NFL's Super Bowl trophy is named in his honor. He was enshrined in the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1971
Lombardi began coaching as an assistant and later as a head coach at St. Cecilia High School in Englewood, New Jersey. He was an assistant coach at Fordham, at the United States Military Academy, and with the New York Giants before becoming a head coach for the Green Bay Packers from 1959 to 1967 and the Washington Redskins in 1969. He never had a losing season as a head coach in the NFL, compiling a regular season winning percentage of 72.8 (96–34–6), and 90% (9–1) in the postseason for an overall record of 105 wins, 35 losses, and 6 ties in the NFL.
The web has plenty of pages extolling his coaching achievements, though few beat the extended quote in What It Takes To Be Number One.
Lombardi's fame overwhelmingly came from his coaching in Green Bay. Few know it was his first head coaching position besides a high school team in New Jersey almost twenty years earlier.
Lombardi's age when he started coaching the Packers: 45 years.
George Foreman is considered by everyone who knows anything about boxing as one of the greatest boxers of all time. According to Wikipedia, he
was a two-time world heavyweight champion and an Olympic gold medalist. Outside the sport he went on to become an ordained minister, author and entrepreneur.
After a troubled childhood, Foreman took up boxing and was a gold medalist at the 1968 Olympics. He won the world heavyweight title with a second-round knockout of then-undefeated Joe Frazier in Kingston, Jamaica, in 1973.
Why mention Foreman? Because of what he did at age 45. The story from Wikipedia:
Having lost his last fight against Morrison, Foreman was unranked and in no position to demand another title shot. His relatively high profile, however, made a title shot against Moorer, 19 years his junior, a lucrative prospect at seemingly little risk for the champion.
Foreman's title challenge against Moorer took place on November 5 in Las Vegas, Nevada, with Foreman wearing the same red trunks he had worn in his title loss to Ali 20 years earlier. This time, however, Foreman was a substantial underdog. For nine rounds, Moorer easily outboxed him, hitting and moving away, while Foreman chugged forward, seemingly unable to "pull the trigger" on his punches. Entering the tenth round, Foreman was trailing on all scorecards. However, Foreman launched a comeback in the tenth round and hit Moorer with a number of punches. Then a short right hand caught Moorer on the tip of his chin, gashing open his bottom lip and he collapsed to the canvas. He lay flat on his back as the referee counted him out.
In an instant, Foreman had regained the title he had lost to Muhammad Ali two decades before. He went back to his corner and knelt in prayer as the arena erupted in cheers. With this historic victory, Foreman broke three records: he became, at age 45, the oldest fighter ever to win the World Heavyweight Championship; 20 years after losing his title for the first time, he broke the record for the fighter with the longest interval between his first and second world championships; and the age spread of 19 years between the champion and challenger was the largest of any heavyweight boxing championship fight.
Here he is, winning that fight:
And after winning it:
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As if Lombardi's older-than-45 achievements in Green Bay weren't enough, the Washington Redskins hired him later, giving him ownership in the team. He brought them their first winning season in fourteen years.
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Notice the word "entrepreneur" at the end of the first paragraph of Wikipedia's description of him? That refers to the George Foreman Lean Mean Fat-Reducing Grilling Machine, commonly known as the George Foreman Grill, brought to market in 1994, the year Foreman turned 45.
Think of the George Foreman Grill as just a late-night informercial product? Over 100 million units have sold. Foreman sold his naming rights for it in 1999 for $137 million. Combined with his profit-sharing, he earned over $200 million from it, all after his forty-fifth birthday.
Here he is, enjoying his entrepreneurial success:
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Albany, New York [RenewableEnergyAccess.com] Inverters are necessary equipment for any power generation project, and two New York inverter businesses were awarded equity investments from the State to encourage commercial growth for the industry. TransTech Systems and Inverters Unlimited, both of Schenectady, were approved to receive a total of $500,000 in equity investments from the State's Small Business Technology Investment Fund (SBTIF).
The SBTIF was created to provide a source of venture capital to promote job creation and economic growth to early-stage high-tech companies throughout New York State. The Empire State Development (ESD) Board of Directors recently voted to approve the investments. "In today's rapidly changing economy that is increasingly being driven by new technologies, it is critical that we keep New York at the forefront of high-tech innovation and development," Gov. George Pataki said. "By keeping our State one step ahead of the competition through our nationally-acclaimed Centers of Excellence program and other key high-tech initiatives, we will be well-poised to meet our ambitious goal of creating one million new jobs in New York State by the end of the decade." TransTech Systems will receive a $200,000 equity investment from the SBTIF. The company has 28 employees, and provides research and development services to a variety of industrial and governmental clients. TransTech produces a range of technology based proprietary products for the worldwide construction and civil infrastructure market. Thirty-five percent of its current production is sold overseas, primarily in Europe and Asia. Inverters Unlimited (IUI) was approved to receive a $300,000 equity investment from the SBTIF. IUI is commercializing the IUI Sun-AC 3000, which is a 3kW, grid-parallel inverter developed specifically for the solar photovoltaic (PV) generator market. "Solar energy has come of age and the number of residential and light commercial installations is growing at an increasing pace," said Suresh Bhate, president of Inverters Unlimited. "With New York State's Small Business Technology Investment Fund support we believe we will be well positioned to be the inverter supplier of choice." These two SBTIF investments will bolster the State's high-tech efforts in the Capital Region. In his recent State of the State message, Gov. Pataki said that IBM — along with six global giants that include Sony, Toshiba, and Samsung – should be investing $1.9 billion to build the next generation chip plant. The Governor said this investment represents one of the largest of its kind in the world. Since 1981, the Small Business Technology Investment Fund has invested in more than 95 early-stage high technology companies. The Fund's success has allowed it to continue to satisfy the original legislative intent of using its revolving returns to make investments in promising companies at no expense to the taxpayer.


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