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Q: Adjoining two primitive n-th roots Let $\omega_n$ denote a primitive $n^{th}$ root of unity. If $m$ and $n$ are positive integers with $lcm(m,n)=k$, show that $\mathbb{Q}(\omega_n,\omega_m)=\mathbb{Q}(\omega_k)$. To start, I am aware that $(\omega_n\omega_m)^k=1$, and so $o(\omega_n\omega_m)|k$, I am working towards showing that $o(\omega_n\omega_m)$ is in fact equal to $l$ (although I don't know this to be true at this point). This would show that $\mathbb{Q}(\omega_n,\omega_m)$ contains a primitive $k-th$ root of unity and thus all of $\mathbb{Q}(\omega_k)$. Any help would be appreciated, I think I am over thinking things (especially regarding the other direction of the inclusion). A: This may become obvious if you write everything additively instead of multiplicatively. That is, you know the $k$-th roots of unity are a cyclic group under multiplication of order $k$, and so it is isomorphic to the integers modulo $k$ under addition. Use the isomorphism to translate the original problem into a question about integers modulo $k$.

import React from 'react'; import createHistory from 'history/createBrowserHistory'; import { Router } from 'react-router'; import { storiesOf } from '@storybook/react'; import Login from 'shared/components/login/login'; const history = createHistory(); storiesOf('shared/components/login', module) .add('Basic', () => ( <Router history={history}> <Login /> </Router> ));

Q: Express session authentification and assigning variables I am facing weird issue. I believe its very simple to experienced people. Making local web server on Node.js+Express+NeDB Client on login makes POST request to /login form and is redirected on successful login. {"id":1,"created":1568146217901,"username":"sprice","name":"Steve Price","email":"email@gmail.com","password":"Password","level":"1","_id":"3JDE7p6tAl1vD11k"} Login post // POST services app.post('/login', (req, res) => { const loginData = req.body; db.users.findOne({ username: loginData.uname }, function (err, doc) { req.session.userId = doc.id; if(doc.id === 1) console.log("True"); // < Output: True console.log(req.session.userId); // < Output: 1 }); req.session.userId = 1; // < Just for test res.redirect('/plan'); }); Before going into /plan page there is an auth check: const redirectLogin = (req, res, next) => { const { userId } = req.session; console.log(userId); // < Output: undefined if (!userId) { res.render('pages/index'); } else { next() } } So my weird question, if i assign value from DB which is integer and to test that i have if statement i get req.session.userId = 1, but when client is redirected its req.session.userId = undefined. But if i assign value manually with that test line it works and server issues cookie and i can visit my site with no problems... Am i doing something wrong? A: You are missing the fact that the callback to .findOne() is asynchronous and non-blocking. That means that your request handler returns first and THEN, sometime later (after the res.redirect() has already been sent), the callback gets called. So, the callback is too late for the redirect. Instead, you need to do the res.redirect() inside the callback: // POST services app.post('/login', (req, res) => { const loginData = req.body; db.users.findOne({ username: loginData.uname }, function (err, doc) { if (err) { console.log(err); res.sendStatus(500); return; } req.session.userId = doc.id; if(doc.id === 1) console.log("True"); // < Output: True console.log(req.session.userId); // < Output: 1 res.redirect('/plan'); }); }); Depending upon what session store you're using, you may also have to save any changes to your session before you redirect.

Lewis Acid-Activated Reactions of Silyl Ketenes for the Preparation of α-Silyl Carbonyl Compounds. Silyl-substituted ketenes are attractive molecular building blocks due to their stability and ease of storage, as opposed to unstable alkyl and aryl ketenes. To better understand the reactivity of silyl ketenes and, in turn, their use in the preparation of highly functionalized small molecules, the reaction of silyl ketenes with different nucleophiles was studied. The addition of alcohol, amine, or thiol nucleophiles to the central carbon of silyl ketene, followed by proton transfer afforded α-silyl ester, amide, or thio-ester, respectively. Catalytic amounts of Lewis acid greatly increase the rate of the reaction, and the impact of nucleophile, Lewis acid, and silyl substituent are evaluated. The small molecules produced from these reactions give insight into the use of silyl ketenes as building blocks for complex molecular structures.

Methylphenidate has positive hypocholesterolemic and hypotriglyceridemic effects: new data. Many psychotropic drugs may affect plasma lipids profile and their metabolism, with carbamazepine being the best known among them. Methylphenidate is a piperidine derivative structurally related to amphetamines and acts as a central nervous system stimulant. Its effect on lipid metabolism has not been investigated. The authors evaluated how methylphenidate affects the lipid profile in the plasma of patients diagnosed as having attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). All consecutive patients undergoing treatment for ADHD at the Adolescent Psychiatric Clinic (2003-2007) were enrolled. Blood samples for total cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C), high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDL-C), triglycerides, apolipoprotein A, apolipoprotein B, and lipoprotein (a) (Lp(a)) were collected before starting treatment and after 3 months of continuous treatment. Forty-two patients (22 men), median age 16, participated. The median total cholesterol count decreased by 9 mg/dL (P<.0002), LDL-C decreased by 5.0 mg/dL (P<.016), and triglycerides decreased by 8.0 mg/dL (P<.016). Changes in the levels of HDL-C, apolipoprotein A, and apolipoprotein B were nonsignificant, and Lp(a) levels decreased by 2.0 mg/dL (P<.0007). Methylphenidate improves the lipid profile by decreasing total cholesterol, triglycerides, LDL-C, and Lp(a).

280 S.E.2d 288 (1981) STATE of West Virginia v. Robert W. CRITZER. No. 14674. Supreme Court of Appeals of West Virginia. July 17, 1981. *290 Marvin L. Downing and Jerry D. Moore, Frankling, for Critzer. Chauncey H. Browning, Atty. Gen., Charles G. Brown, Deputy Atty. Gen., Charleston, for State. *289 PER CURIAM: Robert Wilson Critzer appeals from an April 16, 1979 final order of the Circuit Court of Pendleton County, overruling his post-trial motions and sentencing him to confinement in the penitentiary upon a jury verdict finding him guilty of obtaining money by false pretenses in violation of W.Va.Code, 61-3-24. Critzer contends the trial court erred in: (1) admitting an in-court identification of the defendant in view of the unduly suggestive pretrial identification procedures employed by law enforcement authorities; (2) refusing to grant his motion for a mistrial predicated on the inflammatory and prejudicial statements by the prosecuting attorney to the jury during closing argument; and, (3) overruling his motion for a judgment of acquittal based on the insufficiency of the evidence. We reverse the conviction and grant a new trial because of prosecutorial misconduct in closing argument. We affirm the trial court's rulings on the identification issue and do not address the question of the sufficiency of the evidence. On the afternoon of January 12, 1979, Masel Byrd, the victim of the false pretense, received a telephone call at his residence from an individual who identified himself as Mr. Wilson, a private investigator employed by the Pendleton County Bank. Mr. Byrd was advised that money was being embezzled from his savings account by an employee of the bank, and it was requested that he assist the bank in apprehending the embezzler by immediately withdrawing $2,400.00 in particular denominations, which was to be promptly picked up at Mr. Byrd's residence by one of the bank's investigators who had been called in from out of state to assist in the investigation. Mr. Byrd agreed to cooperate, immediately went to the bank, withdrew the money as requested, and returned home. A short time later, Mr. Byrd received a second telephone call from the man identifying himself as Mr. Wilson and shortly thereafter a man posing as a bank investigator came to the Byrd home, obtained the $2,400.00 from Mr. Byrd and left. On the afternoon in question Jed Sponaugle, an eighteen-year-old Pendleton County youth, was working in his father's store. Sponaugle testified that a light blue, late model Cadillac pulled into the church lot, turned around, and drove off. Immediately thereafter he saw a man walking up the street in the direction of the Byrd residence. Because it was very unusual to see a new Cadillac in this rural community, Sponaugle testified that he was led to pay particular attention to its movements. The Cadillac, with Virginia license plates, passed by the store at least a half dozen times, twice parking in the church lot next to the store. The second time the Cadillac stopped in the church parking lot Sponaugle spotted a man getting into the car. A short time later Sponaugle saw the car for the last time, heading east with three occupants. Fifteen days later on January 17, 1979, Sponaugle was shown photographs of several persons. He selected the photograph of the defendant as possibly being the driver of the Cadillac but was unable to make a positive identification. He also identified the man he saw entering the car in the church parking lot as one Albert Kanney, who was a resident of Virginia. *291 Eleven days later on February 6, 1979, Sponaugle was brought to a Pendleton County Magistrate's Office to determine if he could identify Critzer as the driver. The defendant was handcuffed and was accompanied by three or four police officers at this "showup." Sponaugle positively identified Critzer as the driver. He testified that his identification was independent of the photographs and the prior confrontation. The defendant's motion to suppress was overruled, and Sponaugle made an in-court identification of the defendant. Critzer's defense at trial was alibi. He was a resident of Winchester, Virginia when the crime was committed. He and his wife, and two other witnesses, a Mr. and Mrs. Finch, testified that he was in West Agusta, Virginia, assisting the Finch family in moving their residence on the day the crime was committed. On cross-examination the defendant admitted being an acquaintance of Albert Kanney, the man who was identified by Mr. Byrd as being the individual who received the $2,400.00, and who was also identified by Sponaugle as being the individual who was picked up in the church parking lot. He also admitted knowing of an individual who owned a late model Cadillac. The prosecution's theory of the case was that Critzer was the man who drove the car and telephoned Mr. Byrd identifying himself as an investigator by the name of Mr. Wilson. The prosecution argued that the defendant selected the surname Wilson because that was his middle name which he could easily remember. We first consider the issue that requires us to reverse and remand for a new trial: the remarks of the prosecuting attorney during closing argument. Critzer contends that the prosecutor's remarks were not kept within the evidence and were made to inflame the jury and to induce a guilty verdict warped by prejudice. For its part, the State relies on the long and well-established rule that prosecutors are entitled to great latitude in closing arguments and it is only where improper remarks are clearly prejudicial or result in manifest injustice that reversal is proper. Syl. pt. 2, State v. Brewster, W.Va., 261 S.E.2d 77 (1979), quoting in part, Syl. pt. 1, State v. Dunn, W.Va., 246 S.E.2d 245 (1978); see also, Syl. pt. 8, State v. Reppert, 132 W.Va. 675, 52 S.E.2d 820 (1949), quoting, Syl. pt. 6, State v. Allen, 45 W.Va. 65, 30 S.E. 209 (1898); Syl. pt. 7, State v. Lewis, 133 W.Va. 584, 57 S.E.2d 513 (1949). In State v. Boyd, W.Va., 233 S.E.2d 710 (1977), we discussed the role of a prosecuting attorney in a criminal case and emphasized that: "The prosecuting attorney occupies a quasi-judicial position in the trial of a criminal case. In keeping with this position, he is required to avoid the role of a partisan, eager to convict, and must deal fairly with the accused as well as the other participants in the trial. It is the prosecutor's duty to set a tone of fairness and impartiality, and while he may and should vigorously pursue the State's case, in so doing he must not abandon the quasi-judicial role with which he is cloaked under the law." Syl. pt. 3, State v. Boyd, W.Va., 233 S.E.2d 710 (1977). A prosecuting attorney has a duty not to make statements concerning facts not in evidence or not inferable from the evidence. As early as 1931, in State v. Moose, 110 W.Va. 476, 158 S.E. 715 (1931), this Court reversed a robbery conviction because the prosecutor's closing argument was not based on the evidence. The Court found the prosecuting attorney engaged in "palpable misconduct" rather than mere intemperance of speech. Id. at 477, 158 S.E. at 716. In the sole Syllabus, we held: "An attorney for the state may prosecute vigorously as long as he deals fairly with the accused; but he should not become a partisan, intent only on conviction. And, it is a flagrant abuse of his position to refer, in his argument to the jury, to material facts outside the record, or not fairly deducible therefrom." Similarly, in State v. Bragg, 140 W.Va. 585, 87 S.E.2d 689 (1955), this Court recognized its duty to caution prosecuting attorneys of this State against the use of their *292 positions in the trial of criminal cases, where the prosecutor in argument to the jury had given his opinion as to how the killing occurred without evidence of record on the issue justifying the remarks. The Court concluded the prosecutor's actions, even if no other error had occurred in the case, would have constituted reversible error. See also, Syl. pt. 2, State v. Kennedy, W.Va., 249 S.E.2d 188 (1978); T.C.R. VI (1963). Closely related to the rule forbidding argument not based upon the evidence is the strict prohibition against a prosecuting attorney interjecting his personal opinion in the trial of a case. At the very least since this Court adopted the American Bar Association's Code of Professional Responsibility,[*] effective July 1, 1970, it has been improper for a prosecutor in this State to assert his personal opinion as to the justness of a cause, as to the credibility of a witness, or as to the guilt or innocence of an accused. This rule does not, however, prevent a prosecutor from arguing any position based on his analysis of the evidence. In Syllabus Point 3 of State v. Brown, 104 W.Va. 93, 138 S.E. 664 (1927), we held that counsel for the State ordinarily should not characterize an accused as a criminal. In Syllabus Point 3 of State v. Vineyard, 108 W.Va. 5, 150 S.E. 144 (1929), we held it was error for the prosecutor to express his belief in the veracity of a defense witness. Upon careful consideration of all the facts and circumstances presented in this case, we are of the opinion that the prosecuting attorney's closing argument violated the basic principles just discussed, and that the defendant was prejudiced by the remarks and denied a fair trial. The prosecutor injected his personal opinion as to the guilt of the defendant, asserted his belief in the honesty, sincerity, truthfulness, and good motives of his witnesses, while attacking the honesty and veracity of the defendant's witnesses. He compared the defendant to a vulture and appealed to local prejudice by indicating the defendant came to West Virginia to victimize dumb hillbillies. On several occasions during the course of the argument he pointed to and directly addressed the defendant. He also argued facts not in evidence. For example, he suggested that Mrs. Finch used some of the money obtained by the false pretense to take ski trips to Showshoe, and he argued that defendant had never worked a day in his life. Defendant's testimony on this latter point was to the contrary. The prosecutor's manifest purpose could only have been to inflame the minds of the jury in order to gain a conviction based on emotions rather than evidence. The defendant made objection throughout the course of closing argument and requested the trial court to grant a mistrial based on the prosecutor's remarks. This was sufficient to preserve the point for appeal. The trial court denied the motion for a mistrial and either overruled or failed to rule on any of the defendant's objections made during the course of the argument. No instructions were given to the jury telling them the prosecutor's comments were improper and that they should disregard them. While we do not wish to characterize the State's evidence in support of a conviction, it is fair to say that it was not overwhelming. Critzer also contends that the trial court erred in not suppressing Sponaugle's in-court identification. The standard of law applicable here is set forth in Syllabus Point 3 of State v. Casdorph, W.Va., 230 S.E.2d 476 (1976): "In determining whether an out-of-court identification of a defendant is so tainted as to require suppression of an in-court identification a court must look to the totality of the circumstances and determine whether the identification was reliable, even though the confrontation procedure was suggestive, with due regard given to such factors as the opportunity *293 of the witness to view the criminal at the time of the crime, the witness' degree of attention, the accuracy of the witness' prior description of the criminal, the level of certainty demonstrated by the witness at the confrontation, and the length of time between the crime and the confrontation." Although it is clear that the pretrial show-up procedure employed in this case was unnecessarily suggestive given the fact that there was no emergency, we conclude, under the totality of the circumstances, that the pretrial identification procedures were not so impermissibly suggestive as to give rise to a very substantial likelihood of irreparable misidentification. Neil v. Biggers, 409 U.S. 188, 93 S.Ct. 375, 34 L.Ed.2d 401 (1973). The evidence adduced in the in camera hearing on the motion to suppress the in-court identification shows that Sponaugle had an ample opportunity to observe the defendant and that his attention was drawn to the defendant because it was unusual for a new Cadillac with out-of-state license plates to drive up and down the street in Franklin, West Virginia. The witness was certain of his identification upon the confrontation in the magistrate's office, and the length of time between the crime and the confrontation was only approximately thirty days. The witness testified that his in-court identification was based on his observation of the defendant near the scene of the crime, independent of his pretrial identification. While it is a fact that the witness gave no prior description of the driver of the car prior to the photographic array and the confrontation, thus affording no basis for a comparison to gauge the reliability of the identification, we are not persuaded that a due process violation has occurred in view of the other factors present in the case establishing the reliability of the identification. The witness, through a photographic array, was able to identify Albert Kanney, an acquaintance of the defendant who also resided in Virginia, as the man who got out and back in the Cadillac in the church parking lot. The victim, Mr. Byrd, corroborated the witness' identification of Kanney by identifying him as the man who came to his house representing himself as an investigator to whom he gave the $2,400.00. Certainly the fact that the witness could identify Kanney indicates his identification of the defendant was reliable. In sum, under all the circumstances, we find no substantial likelihood of misidentification and thus the trial court did not abuse its discretion in admitting the testimony. For the foregoing reasons, we reverse and remand for a new trial. Reversed and remanded; new trial awarded. NOTES [*] DR 7-106(C)(4) provides that a lawyer shall not: "Assert his personal opinion as to the justness of a cause, as to the credibility of a witness,... or as to the guilt or innocence of an accused; but he may argue, on his analysis of the evidence, for any position or conclusion with respect to the matters stated herein."

Kalachakra traditional Tibetan incense is purely hand prepared from highly flavored medicinal herbs and other precious substances. The combination of genuine scented substances makes the Kalachara Incense richer and superior quality then other incenses. Their incense is totally absent of choking and camphor smell and is also no-habit forming. Generally the Tibetan incense is used for Puja offering and purification, but it is also use as an airfreshner which keeps one's surrounding flavored with good scent.

Introduction ============ Tuberculosis (TB) is one of the deadly infectious diseases that have claimed millions of lives worldwide. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), globally, there were 10.4 million new TB cases causing approximately 1.2 million deaths in 2016 \[[@ref1],[@ref2]\]. The mortality rate of TB is disproportionately higher in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Over 95% of TB deaths occurred in these countries, and 7 LMICs (India, Indonesia, China, Philippines, Pakistan, Nigeria, and South Africa) accounted for 64% of the total burden \[[@ref3]\]. In fact, previous studies have shown that there is empirical evidence of positive associations between poverty indicators and TB incidence both at the macro and individual levels \[[@ref4]\]. Considering the vicious cycle of poverty and TB, alleviating the burden of TB is more challenging for the LMICs because it requires adequate resources for "prolonged treatment with multiple drugs \[[@ref5]\]." The 6-month course of first-line therapy can be burdensome with the possibility of adverse reactions and the treatment of multidrug-resistant (MDR)-TB requires more toxic and expensive drugs \[[@ref6]\]. For example, the cost of bedaquiline, a second-line medication to treat MDR-TB, was US \$3000 per treatment in middle-income countries and US \$900 in low-income countries \[[@ref7]\]. In fact, premature discontinuation of the treatment, which can lead to MDR-TB, is common among TB patients not only for its toxicity but also for socioeconomic costs associated with it \[[@ref8]\]. Therefore, the management of TB is notoriously difficult especially in LMICs. In this context, using mobile devices for TB treatment has been recognized as an innovative approach for LMICs where mobile subscription rates have dramatically increased over the past decade. Mobile health (mHealth) interventions involving mobile devices in the management of TB have the potential for reducing costs of information delivery and improving the quality of communication \[[@ref9]\]. mHealth can be useful for TB treatment adherence support such as short message service (SMS) for medication reminders or mobile apps for remote directly observed treatment (DOT) strategy \[[@ref10],[@ref11]\]. Despite the potential of mHealth interventions for improving TB management, the empirical evidence on its effectiveness is mixed. Some studies have demonstrated the effectiveness and feasibility of the mHealth interventions for TB \[[@ref12],[@ref13]\], whereas others have shown no significant impact \[[@ref14],[@ref15]\]. Moreover, no study has attempted to synthesize the results quantitatively to rigorously evaluate the effectiveness of mHealth in TB management. Presumably, one of the reasons for such difficulty in synthesizing and evaluating the findings comes from wide variations in the outcomes reported from the mHealth studies for TB. To respond to this knowledge gap, this study aimed to systematically review previous mHealth studies for TB management and critically evaluate and categorize the outcome measures for different mobile technologies and study designs. The goal of this study was to provide researchers insights into the development of a core set of outcome measures for mHealth interventions intended to improve TB treatment adherence. In doing so, the study can facilitate the evidence synthesis of mHealth interventions for TB. Methods ======= Search Strategy and Review Process ---------------------------------- Electronic databases (MEDLINE, EMBASE, and Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews) were searched to identify peer-reviewed studies of mHealth interventions for TB. The systematic search was supplemented by reviewing relevant review papers identified from the initial search. The search strategy for the study population includes key terms describing LMICs such as "resource poor" or "developing country." The search strategy for the mHealth intervention combined multiple keywords such as "mHealth" and "text-messaging." As for the target disease, "tuberculosis," "TB," "multi-drug resistant tuberculosis," and "MDR-TB" were used as search terms. No restrictions were applied to the publication type or publication date, but the language filter was applied to identify studies published in English. The search included articles published up to May 2018. The full search strategy is available in [Multimedia Appendix 1](#app1){ref-type="supplementary-material"}. Furthermore, 3 authors (ShL, YL, and SmL) independently reviewed the retrieved studies throughout the selection process. Each study identified from the databases was screened by 2 reviewers and then a full-text review was conducted for the potentially eligible studies. The disagreement on the selection process was resolved by the other authors who were not involved in the review of the specific study under discussion. Eligibility for Review ---------------------- The inclusion criteria for this systematic review were as follows: First, studies conducted in the context of LMICs, as defined by the World Bank's income cutoffs \[[@ref16]\]; second, studies involving an intervention using mobile devices (ie, mHealth intervention); third, the target disease of the study should be TB or MDR-TB; fourth, studies designed to evaluate the effectiveness or benefits of mHealth interventions for TB (eg, observational study, mixed-methods study or implementation project, randomized controlled trial \[RCT\]); fifth, studies reporting more than one type of outcome; finally, only full-text studies published in English were considered eligible. In addition, the authors attempted to identify individual studies from reviews or systematic reviews, which were included in this study. Data Extraction and Analysis ---------------------------- The qualitative synthesis of evidence focused on the outcome measures reported in each type of mHealth intervention. Information about the study setting, mHealth technologies used, target populations, and types of outcome measures was extracted. To classify the diverse types of detailed outcome measures, the following categories were used: (1) treatment outcome; (2) treatment outcome as defined by WHO; (3) adherence; (4) process measure; (5) perception; (6) technical outcome; (7) health outcome; (8) quality of life; (9) knowledge; (10) cost-effectiveness; (11) cost; (12) psychosocial outcome; and (13) mortality. Some explanations about these measures are provided in the next few paragraphs. The treatment outcome includes any outcome measure that deals with the result of TB treatment, such as sputum smear conversion or microscopy test result. The treatment outcome following the WHO definition was separately categorized \[[@ref17]\]. The WHO definition was developed to make a distinction for treatment outcomes between the drug-susceptible TB and drug-resistant TB, which are mutually exclusive groups. According to the WHO definition, any patient with TB should belong to either group and then 1 of the 7 treatment outcome cohorts: (1) cured; (2) treatment completed; (3) treatment failed; (4) died; (5) lost to follow-up; (6) not evaluated; and (7) treatment success. The WHO definitions for each of these 7 categories differ between the drug-susceptible TB and drug-resistant TB as described in [Multimedia Appendix 2](#app2){ref-type="supplementary-material"}. The adherence outcome includes medication adherence or treatment adherence. The process measure is any outcome measure related to treatment process, including the receipt of diagnostic test, attendance to appointments, or reporting of adverse events. The perception indicates any outcome measure that captures the user's thoughts on mHealth for TB management. The technical outcome relates to the outcome measures that investigate the technical feasibility such as processing times or system installation. Health outcome, quality of life, knowledge (eg, patients' understanding of the disease or the technology), cost-effectiveness (ie, the extent to which an alternative provides value for money), cost (ie, costs associated with an intervention from different perspectives), psychosocial outcome, and mortality outcomes are additional categories which are self-explanatory. Risk of Bias: Quality Assessment -------------------------------- To evaluate the quality of individual studies included for our review, risk of bias was assessed with the existing tools. As this systematic review includes various types of studies, it is important to have a coherent set of quality assessment tools for different study designs. Therefore, we used the modified version of the Critical Appraisal Skills Program (CASP) that provides the checklists specific to various types of studies ranging from RCTs and qualitative studies to economic evaluation \[[@ref18]\]. In case of mixed-methods studies whose CASP tool has not been developed yet, the quality assessment criteria for mixed-methods studies from the previous study were employed \[[@ref19]\]. The quality assessment of studies is presented in [Multimedia Appendix 3](#app3){ref-type="supplementary-material"}. Results ======= Overview of Included Studies ---------------------------- Among the 312 studies identified after removing duplicates, 260 articles were excluded during the screening process based on the titles and abstracts. Therefore, 52 articles were assessed for eligibility through a full-text review. Of those, 27 studies were included for the qualitative synthesis of evidence. A flow diagram for the selection process, based on the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines, is provided in [Figure 1](#figure1){ref-type="fig"} \[[@ref20]\]. Qualitative Synthesis of Evidence --------------------------------- [Table 1](#table1){ref-type="table"} presents the results of qualitative synthesis of the mHealth studies for TB management. Approximately, half (15 out of 27) of the studies were conducted in African countries. The study designs were diverse, including 6 RCTs, 5 mixed-methods studies, 1 cohort study, 3 qualitative studies, 4 observational studies, 6 implementation projects, and 2 economic evaluation studies. The types of mHealth technologies utilized were diverse as well: 12 studies employed SMS, 6 studies used mobile app, 5 studies used SMS plus other technology, 3 studies utilized phone calls, and only 1 study applied mHealth for mobile data collection. With regard to the study population, a majority (20 out of 27) of the studies were targeted for TB patients or TB/HIV patients, but there were a few studies that examined the experience of health care workers or general patients at the clinic for TB test results notification. In terms of the outcome measures, there was a wide range of variants in their definitions even within each category of the outcomes. For instance, both Mohammed et al and Bediang et al defined treatment success as the primary outcome measure of SMS intervention for TB medication adherence in their RCT, but they defined treatment success differently \[[@ref15],[@ref22]\]. Mohammed et al defined it as "the sum of patients clinically reported as cured (ie, a patient whose sputum smear or culture was positive at the beginning of treatment but who was smear- or culture-negative in the last month of treatment and on at least one previous occasion) or treatment completed (ie, a patient who completed treatment but who does not have a negative sputum smear or culture result in the last month of treatment and on at least one previous occasion)" \[[@ref22]\]. On the contrary, Bediang et al defined treatment success as "having completed 6 months treatment and having negative sputum smears at 5 months" \[[@ref15]\]. Summary of Outcome Measures --------------------------- [Table 2](#table2){ref-type="table"} summarizes the types of outcome measures reported in the included studies, using the categories defined in this review. The most frequently reported outcome type was treatment success. Approximately half of the studies reviewed (14 out of 27) included treatment outcome but only 6 studies among them followed the WHO definition for the treatment outcome ([Multimedia Appendix 2](#app2){ref-type="supplementary-material"}). The second most frequently reported category was perception on the mHealth intervention (13 out of 27). Other categories reported were diverse and included technical outcome, medication or treatment adherence, process measure, etc. However, there was substantial variability within each category of outcome, as shown in [Table 1](#table1){ref-type="table"}. For example, acceptability and satisfaction within the perception category were defined differently from one study to another \[[@ref15],[@ref28]-[@ref30],[@ref32],[@ref35],[@ref36],[@ref40],[@ref44]\]. Also, SMS-only intervention studies did not focus on technical outcome \[[@ref12],[@ref15],[@ref22],[@ref29],[@ref30],[@ref32],[@ref35], [@ref36],[@ref42],[@ref43],[@ref45],[@ref46]\] whereas studies involving other mHealth technologies such as an app or mobile data collection did so \[[@ref21],[@ref28],[@ref33],[@ref37],[@ref39]-[@ref41]\]. On the contrary, outcomes related to cost or cost-effectiveness were reported only via studies involving SMS \[[@ref29],[@ref45],[@ref46]\]. {#figure1} ###### Summary of included studies. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Source Country Study design Mobile health technology Population Outcome measures Outcome category Purpose -------------------------------------------------------- ------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Blaya, 2009 \[[@ref21]\] Peru RCT^a^ Mobile data collection Health centers Processing times, frequency of errors, the number of work-hours expended by data collectors Technical outcome For laboratory data collection Mohammed, 2016 \[[@ref22]\] Pakistan RCT SMS^b^ TB^c^ patients Primary: clinically recorded treatment success based upon intention-to-treat; Secondary: treatment outcomes (WHO definitions^d^), self-reported medication adherence, self-reported psychological and physical health measures Treatment outcome, adherence, health outcome For medication adherence Bassett, 2013 \[[@ref23]\]; Bassett, 2016 \[[@ref24]\] South Africa RCT protocol (2013); RCT (2016) SMS and phone calls Patients at clinic Primary: treatment completion; Secondary: mortality, receipt of CD4 count and TB test results, and repeat CD4 counts for those not antiretroviral therapy (ART)--eligible at baseline Treatment outcome, mortality, process measure For appointment and test result reminder and psychosocial support Huang, 2017 \[[@ref25]\] China Cluster RCT protocol Mobile app TB patients Primary: TB treatment result (WHO definitions^d^); Secondary: treatment adherence (the percentage of patients receiving TB treatment who missed fewer than 5% of doses), self-reported adherence, knowledge about TB, quality of life (QoL) Treatment outcome, adherence, knowledge, QoL For Bracelet- and self-directed observational therapy Bediang, 2014 \[[@ref26]\]; Bediang, 2018 \[[@ref15]\] Cameroon RCT protocol (2014); RCT (2018) SMS TB patients Primary: cure rate (absence of Koch's bacilli in the sputum), treatment success (having completed 6 months\' treatment and having negative sputum smears at 5 months); Secondary: treatment adherence (drug prescriptions collected and doses taken), attendance to appointments, punctuality of appointments, treatment outcome (WHO definitions^d^), the number of participants who develop resistance, satisfaction Treatment outcome, adherence, process measure, perception For medication adherence Khachadourian, 2015 \[[@ref27]\] Armenia RCT protocol SMS and phone calls TB patients Primary: physician-reported treatment outcome (WHO definitions^d^); Secondary: patients' knowledge, depression, QoL, within-family TB-related stigma, family social support, self-reported treatment adherence Treatment outcome, knowledge, psychosocial outcome, QoL, adherence For medication adherence Chaiyachati, 2013 \[[@ref28]\] South Africa Mixed-methods study Mobile app Health care workers Primary: proportion of weekly adverse events forms submitted vs expected by mobile health care workers; Secondary: acceptability (perceived comfort levels with using mobile phone technology), quality of adverse events monitoring, proportion of reportable adverse events being captured; Technical outcomes: phone usage patterns, technical problems experienced Process measure, perception, technical outcome For adverse events reporting Howard, 2016 \[[@ref29]\] Lesotho Mixed-methods, cluster-randomized trial protocol SMS TB/HIV patients, health care workers Primary: ART initiation, retention, and TB treatment success; Secondary: time to ART initiation, adherence, change in cluster of differentiation 4 (CD4) count, sputum smear conversion, cost-effectiveness, acceptability Process measure, treatment outcome, adherence, cost-effectiveness, perception For treatment adherence Iribarren, 2013 \[[@ref30]\] Argentina Mixed-methods study (including RCT) SMS TB patients Primary: feasibility (access to mobile phones, familiarity with texting, rate of participant refusal, suboptimal TB understanding), and acceptability (feeling cared for patient's treatment, self-reporting adherence); Secondary: initial efficacy (microscopy test result from positive to negative, treatment outcome) Process measure, perception, adherence, treatment outcome For treatment adherence Hirsch-Moverman, 2017a \[[@ref31]\] Lesotho, Ethiopia Mixed-methods; implementation science study Phone calls TB/HIV patients,\ The number of call attempts per participant for each month, completeness of monthly calls, success rates, challenges Process measure For medication adherence TB patients Hirsch-Moverman, 2017b \[[@ref32]\] Lesotho Mixed-methods implementation science study, cluster-randomized trial protocol SMS TB patients, health care workers, caregivers Primary: the number of child contacts Isoniazid preventive therapy (IPT) initiation, IPT completion; Secondary: HIV testing, yield of active prevalent TB among child contacts, acceptability, and utilization of community-based intervention components Treatment outcome, perception, process measure For medication adherence and appointment reminders Nguyen, 2017 \[[@ref33]\] Vietnam Cohort study SMS and mobile app TB patients Primary: proportion of patients completing all doses of self-administered treatment; Secondary: proportion of videos uploaded as scheduled, proportion of patients discontinuing using Video DOT (VDOT) Treatment outcome, technical outcome, process measure For medication adherence Daftary, 2017 \[[@ref34]\] Ethiopia Qualitative study Interactive voice response (IVR) HIV patients Perceptions and attitude, perceived benefits and challenges Perception For preventive therapy adherence Albino, 2014 \[[@ref35]\] Peru Qualitative study SMS TB patients Perceptions and acceptability Perception For treatment adherence Nhavoto, 2017 \[[@ref36]\] Mozambique Qualitative study SMS TB patients, Health care workers Usefulness, perceived benefits, ease of use, satisfaction, risks of the SMS system Perception For treatment adherence Hoffman, 2010 \[[@ref37]\] Kenya Observational study Mobile app TB patients Primary: technical feasibility (patient and health provider receptivity to remote directly observed treatment \[DOT\]); Secondary: patient preferences and receptivity to receiving TB health message on a mobile phone Technical outcome, perception For Mobile Direct Observation of Treatment de Sumari-de Boer, 2016 \[[@ref12]\] Tanzania Observational pilot study SMS HIV patients, TB patients Quantitative: percentage of doses taken on time, percentage of sent reminders (divided by total intake prescription), percentage of correct reminders (after missed doses), percentage of incorrect reminders (after opening the pillbox but the signal was not sent), percentage of extra openings, percentage of missed doses, percentage of adherence with the exclusion of doses that were taken after a reminder; Qualitative: general experience with using the device Process measure, adherence, perception For medication adherence Garfein, 2015 \[[@ref38]\] Mexico, USA Observational pilot study Mobile app TB patients Primary: adherence rate (the number of medication doses observed in videos divided by the number of doses expected during the treatment period); Secondary: perceptions of VDOT Adherence, perception For VDOT Dwolatzky, 2006 \[[@ref39]\] South Africa Observational pilot study Mobile app Patients at clinic Time taken to locate the households Technical outcome For locating patients' homes by global positioning system and personal digital assistant Ha, 2016 \[[@ref40]\] Botswana Implementation project Mobile app TB patients Cases screened for contact tracing, time required to complete TB contact tracing per contact, quality of data collected, user satisfaction with usability, operational considerations Technical outcome, perception For contact tracing Cowan, 2016 \[[@ref41]\] Mozambique Implementation project SMS and mobile app Health facility System installation on computers, development of Web-based interface and automated SMS and email messages, test results uploaded to the system, SMS notifications sent to key personnel, the number of users Technical outcome For remote monitoring solution Kunawararak, 2011 \[[@ref14]\] Thailand Implementation project Phone calls TB patients Cure rates, completion rates, failure rates and success rates, conversion rates Treatment outcome For medication adherence Lorent, 2014 \[[@ref42]\] Cambodia Implementation project SMS General population TB case detection- smear-positivity, clinical TB treatment uptake--time to treatment initiation outcome--treatment outcomes (WHO definitions^d^), delay in linkage to care Process measure, treatment outcome For test result notification Mahmud, 2010 \[[@ref43]\] Malawi Implementation project SMS Health care workers Operational net savings, worker time gained, patient enrollment Process measure For continuity of care Narasimhan, 2014 \[[@ref44]\] India Implementation project SMS and phone calls TB patients Treatment completion and cure rates (WHO definitions^d^), treatment adherence rates, adverse drug reaction rates, stigma associated with TB, patient satisfaction, usage of the mHealth initiative Treatment outcome, adherence, perception For medication adherence Broomhead, 2012 \[[@ref45]\] South Africa Cost minimization analysis SMS TB patients Smear conversion rate, TB cure rate, reduced average cost per patient Treatment outcome, cost For treatment adherence Hunchangsith, 2012 \[[@ref46]\] Thailand Cost-effective-ness analysis SMS TB patients Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) averted, costs (health care perspective), effects of interventions, success rate, failure rate, transfer out rate, death rate Health outcome, treatment outcome, cost, cost-effective-ness For medication adherence -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ^a^RCT: randomized controlled trial. ^b^SMS: short message service. ^c^TB: tuberculosis. ^d^World Health Organization definitions: presented in [Multimedia Appendix 2](#app2){ref-type="supplementary-material"}. ###### Reported outcomes by mHealth intervention type. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Intervention type (number of studies) and reference Categories of outcome measure ----------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------- ------ ----- ----- -------- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- ----- **Short message service (SMS; 12 studies)** \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \[[@ref22]\] ✓^c^ ✓ ✓ ---^d^ --- --- ✓ --- --- --- --- --- --- \ \[[@ref15]\] ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- \ \[[@ref29]\] ✓ --- ✓ ✓ ✓ --- --- --- --- ✓ --- --- --- \ \[[@ref30]\] ✓ --- ✓ ✓ ✓ --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- \ \[[@ref32]\] ✓ --- --- ✓ ✓ --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- \ \[[@ref35]\] --- --- --- --- ✓ --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- \ \[[@ref36]\] --- --- --- --- ✓ --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- \ \[[@ref12]\] --- --- ✓ ✓ ✓ --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- \ \[[@ref42]\] ✓ ✓ --- ✓ --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- \ \[[@ref43]\] --- --- --- ✓ --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- \ \[[@ref45]\] ✓ --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- ✓ --- --- \ \[[@ref46]\] ✓ --- --- --- --- --- ✓ --- --- ✓ ✓ --- --- **SMS plus others (5 studies)** \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \[[@ref24]\] ✓ --- --- ✓ --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- ✓ \ \[[@ref27]\] ✓ ✓ ✓ --- --- --- --- ✓ ✓ --- --- ✓ --- \ \[[@ref33]\] ✓ --- --- ✓ --- ✓ --- --- --- --- --- --- --- \ \[[@ref41]\] --- --- --- --- --- ✓ --- --- --- --- --- --- --- \ \[[@ref44]\] ✓ ✓ ✓ --- ✓ --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- **Mobile app (6 studies)** \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \[[@ref25]\] ✓ ✓ ✓ --- --- --- --- ✓ ✓ --- --- --- --- \ \[[@ref28]\] --- --- --- ✓ ✓ ✓ --- --- --- --- --- --- --- \ \[[@ref37]\] --- --- --- --- ✓ ✓ --- --- --- --- --- --- --- \ \[[@ref38]\] --- --- ✓ --- ✓ --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- \ \[[@ref39]\] --- --- --- --- --- ✓ --- --- --- --- --- --- --- \ \[[@ref40]\] --- --- --- --- ✓ ✓ --- --- --- --- --- --- --- **Phone calls or interactive voice response (3 studies)** \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \[[@ref31]\] --- --- --- ✓ --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- \ \[[@ref34]\] --- --- --- --- ✓ --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- \ \[[@ref14]\] ✓ --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- **Mobile data collection (1 study)** \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \[[@ref21]\] --- --- --- --- --- ✓ --- --- --- --- --- --- --- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ^a^WHO: World Health Organization. ^b^QoL: quality of life. ^c^Tick marks indicate that the specific category of outcome measure was reported. ^d^Outcome measure was not reported. Discussion ========== Principal Findings ------------------ This systematic review critically evaluated the outcomes reported in mHealth studies for TB management in LMICs. The reason why rigorous evidence synthesis is warranted is that recent literature for TB reports mixed results despite the rapid implementation of mHealth technology for TB management. The fragmented pieces of evidence on the effectiveness partly resulted from the wide variations in the definitions of outcome measures in TB mHealth interventions. Even though treatment outcome has been reported by many studies, they often did not adopt the standard definition recommended by the WHO \[[@ref17]\]. The WHO definition of TB treatment outcome is part of an effort to standardize outcome measures for TB at the global level. To promote the use of standardized sets of outcome measures for TB, WHO provided the standard definitions and classifications of TB in terms of diagnosis or treatment outcomes \[[@ref17]\]. The intention for this standardization effort was to coordinate international comparison of TB treatment outcomes through health information systems. However, the findings of our review revealed that mHealth studies for TB have not comprehensively adopted this standardized approach for TB treatment. Only 6 out of 27 interventions chose to report the treatment outcome according to the WHO definition. Interventions involving phone calls, interactive voice response, or mobile data collection did not consider the WHO definition. Our findings also suggest that, to rigorously evaluate the effectiveness of mHealth interventions for TB, future studies should be carefully designed with regard to the selection of outcome measures. Indeed, using standard definitions for outcome measures within some commonly reported categories can improve comparability across different studies. As assessed in this study, examples of such categories include treatment outcome (preferably using the WHO definition), perception, process measure, adherence, and technical outcome. The value of this systematic review can be found in its potential to motivate and facilitate consensus on standard definitions of outcome measures used in mHealth interventions for TB so that such effort can guide more effective mHealth intervention designs for improving TB management. Although current literature shows considerable variability in the definition of outcome measures, discussion and coordination among researchers can promote standardized methods in measuring outcomes. Specifically, the outcomes should be comparable, promote transparent communication, and maintain consistency in terminology. Coordination at the global level is necessary to develop a core set of outcome measures for TB mHealth interventions by study design and technology type utilized. When choosing a core set of outcome measures with standard definitions, there are additional issues to consider. First, the time point for reporting outcome measures should be clinically meaningful and feasible \[[@ref47]\]. Second, a detailed description of the measure should be provided, such as calculation method or definitions. Third, a clear explanation on the target population for each outcome measure can be useful. For example, some outcome measures may be more appropriate for MDR-TB patients rather than TB patients on their first-line therapy course. Finally, long-term outcome measures should be considered to establish fundamental evidence for TB mHealth interventions. The long-term outcomes can be related to physical, psychosocial, or mental health. Despite its importance, our review showed that only 2 out of 27 studies reported long-term health outcomes; Mohammed et al, reported self-reported psychological and physical health measures \[[@ref22]\] and Hunchangsith et al, reported DALYs averted \[[@ref46]\]. Another issue to consider is related to evidence for cost. As this study suggested, insufficient evidence exists in terms of cost-effectiveness or cost of mHealth interventions for TB management. Those previous studies that have evaluated the cost-effectiveness or cost of mHealth interventions only considered SMS as mHealth channels and did not consider or evaluate other mHealth channels and technologies. However, other mHealth channels and technologies such as mobile apps or global positioning system are now available for TB patients \[[@ref48]\]. Therefore, future studies need to assess the cost-effectiveness of such channels and technologies for improving TB management in LMICs. This study has some limitations. First, the database used for identifying relevant studies is limited to the 3 most frequently cited sources, namely MEDLINE, EMBASE, and Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. Grey literature or other sources of information can supplement our findings. To complement this limitation, we attempted to identify additional related studies from relevant systematic reviews searched from our study. Second, the effectiveness of the mHealth interventions for TB was not quantitatively evaluated because of the heterogeneity of the outcomes reported. Despite these limitations, this study provides an overview of the currently reported outcome measures for mHealth interventions intended to improve TB management in the context of LMICs. The results from this review can be used as a starting point for discussion to adopt standardized definitions within different categories of outcome measures for future mHealth interventions for TB management in LMICs. Conclusions ----------- This systematic review of mHealth studies for TB suggests that substantial variability exists with regard to the definitions of outcome measures across studies. Our review highlights that a standardized method for measuring the different outcomes is warranted to improve comparability of outcome measures across studies for a more rigorous and reliable evaluation of the effectiveness of mHealth interventions for TB. In doing so, the coordination among researchers and the development of a core set of outcome measures based on standardized methods would be necessary. Our study provides useful information for researchers to better assess the effectiveness of mHealth interventions for TB. In addition, the study provides insights into the possibility of developing a core set of outcome measures by intervention type and study design based on a standardized or coordinated set of methods. ShL was involved in the conceptualization of the study and drafted the manuscript. ShL, YL, and SmL developed the search strategy, collected data, and reviewed the identified studies. SMSI critically reviewed the manuscript. SYK critically reviewed the manuscript and interpreted the findings. All authors reviewed and approved the final version of the manuscript. This work was supported by the National Research Foundation of Korea Grant funded by the Korean Government (\#21B20151213037). Conflicts of Interest: None declared. Search strategy. Definitions of TB treatment outcome by the WHO \[[@ref17]\]. Risk of bias assessment. DALY : disability-adjusted life years DOT : directly observed treatment IPT : isoniazid preventive therapy IVR : interactive voice response LMICs : low- and middle-income countries MDR-TB : multidrug resistant-TB mHealth : mobile health RCT : randomized controlled trial SMS : short message service TB : tuberculosis WHO : World Health Organization

Efficient use of patient-derived organoids as a preclinical model for gynecologic tumors. The relevance of patient-derived cancer cells has been recently increasing, particularly in terms of drug discovery and precision medicine. Whereas Matrigel-based organoid culture is a promising technique that enables infinite proliferation of cells from many types of organs in a physiological condition, its validity in gynecologic tumors remains to be established. To address this issue, we aimed at developing an efficient method for organoid culture of both ovarian and endometrial tumors. We conducted 3D culture of 21 gynecologic tumors following our original and modified protocol for Matrigel bilayer organoid culture. We investigated whether propagated organoids retained various features of the original tumors by histopathological examination and targeted genome sequencing. We customized the protocol we previously optimized for murine normal and cancer tissues, so as to circumvent the digestion-resistant nature inherent to gynecologic tumors. Indeed, this modified protocol improved the success rate from 45 to 90%, for robust propagation of organoids from tumors with various stages and subtypes. Finally, 14 patient-derived organoids were established. The recovered organoids were enriched for cancer cells that retained many aspects of the original tumors, including histological features, mutation profiles, and intra-tumoral heterogeneity. A subset of the expanded organoids could develop xenografts in immunodeficient mice, potentially paving the way to drug screening in vivo. Drug response assay in vitro for paclitaxel and cisplatin was feasible using organoid-derived spheroids. We showed that patient-derived organoids closely resembled the original gynecologic tumors, and thereby would serve as a promising resource for preclinical studies.

Q: Why can't I create a database in a 107GB dbspace I created for my instance? 11.70.FC6 Developer Edition on Windows 7 Pro 64-bit: Downloaded via IIUG link and installed it. I created a custom DSS instance named "server" with a 128GB dbspace named "datadbs". Install wizard created a Windows user "informix". I connected to instance "server", logging in as "informix". Executed an SQL script "CREATE DATABASE voters IN datadbs NLSCASE INSENSITIVE;" This failed (see first image), then tried creating the db via dbaccess menu. In dbaccess, dbspaces options did not show "datadbs", only root, phys, log & sbs dbs', but when I do a dir of the dbspaces it shows "datadbs" with 107GB (see second image). I set the following values in "onconfig.server" (see third image), but still no dice! A: Since the datadbs file is not anywhere near 128 MiB, I wonder if you were successful in adding that dbspace. One might be forgiven for thinking that in fact you were unsuccessful since the database server doesn't think it exists. Use 'oncheck' or 'onstat' (or both) to check whether the dbspace exists and is intact. If not, arrange to drop it, or simply remove the datadbs file and try again with the onspaces command.

BOCHAROV RUCHEI, Russia (Reuters) - Russia increased economic pressure on Ukraine on Saturday by drawing a link between disbursement of the next tranche of its $15 billion aid package to Kiev with repayment of a hefty gas bill owed to Russian firms. The linkage, made in comments by Russia’s finance minister, came as the Kremlin confirmed President Vladimir Putin had held private talks with Ukraine’s leader Viktor Yanukovich in Sochi on Friday before the opening of the Winter Olympics. No details of the leaders’ talks were disclosed. Moscow agreed on credits and cheaper gas for Kiev in December to help it meet huge debt payments, gaining the edge over the European Union in a tug-of-war for influence in Ukraine, a former Soviet republic of 46 million people. Ukraine, whose ailing economy and hryvnia currency have been further battered by months of anti-government protests, sorely needs the next tranche of Russian loans, worth $2 billion. Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said Russia would follow through on its loan commitment, but also pointedly highlighted Ukraine’s outstanding gas debt of $2.7 billion. “We will fulfil what we have promised to Ukraine, but we would like the Ukrainian side to comply with the obligations that it has committed to,” Siluanov told reporters at Putin’s Black Sea residence of Bocharov Ruchei. The gas debt was due for repayment in late January, but Ukraine has not paid up, he added. CRISIS “We did not link the (aid) tranches with the transactions between Naftogaz and Gazprom, but they both are state entities. We always agree that our (obligations) between the states and (state) companies should be complied with,” Siluanov said. Moscow has used gas before as a tool to exert pressure on countries such as Ukraine which are heavily dependent on Russian gas imports. Ukraine’s political crisis blew up last November when Yanukovich turned his back on a trade pact with the European Union in favour of closer economic ties with Russia, the country’s Soviet-era overlord. But despite the aid package agreed with Moscow, Yanukovich’s position has become much weaker in the face of sustained and sometimes violent street protests. Last week, his pro-Russian prime minister quit in an abortive attempt to defuse the protests. Moscow has accused the Western-backed opposition leaders in Kiev of fomenting the unrest in order to topple a democratically elected president. The political crisis has also badly strained relations between Russia and Western powers, with both sides accusing the other of interfering in Ukraine’s affairs. Siluanov expressed uncertainty over who to speak to in Kiev, with parliament yet to decide on a new prime minister. “We would also like to have more understanding of who among our (Ukrainian) colleagues we should be talking to,” he said. While the details of Friday’s meeting between Putin and Yanukovich are unclear, a similar tete-a-tete between the two leaders late last year is thought to have led to Yanukovich’s last-minute decision to spurn the trade deal with the EU. The Sochi meeting is likely to have placed the ball firmly in Yanukovich’s court. It follows talks on Wednesday in Kiev between the Ukrainian leader and the EU’s foreign policy chief. Catherine Ashton told him the EU was ready to help Ukraine in many ways, both financially and with expertise, to improve its long-term economic development.

Shah and Anchor Kutchhi Engineering College organized the 6th edition of SAKEC MUN in association with Maharashtra United Nations Association (MUNA) and United Nations Information Center for India and Bhutan (UNIC) on the 21st and 22nd of March, 2015.. Maharashtra United Nations Association (MUNA) joined hands with Rotaract District Organization, R.I.D. 3140, Rotary Club of Bombay Pier and Rotaract club of SIES Sion (West) to host and organize the Model United Nations Assembly at Amulakh Amichand Bhimji Vividhlakshi Vidyalaya at Matunga on 8th February ,2015 from 9:30 am to 6.00 pm.. The Maharashtra United Nations Association, member of the Indian Federation of UN Associations, collaborated with the United Nations Information Centre for India and Bhutan (UNIC) and the Indo Arab Society in Mumbai, to host the observance of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. Maharashtra United Nations Association observed the World Health Day 2014 in association with Saifee Hospital, Indian Federation of United Nations Association and United Nations Information Centre (UNIC) for India and Bhutan on Moday the 7th April at 5:30 pm. Street play training, tailoring lessons, skills training workshops, senior citizens’ outings, road traffic camp for children, NGO fairs for youth, celebrating different United Nations Days – these are just some of the activities of the Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA). The Indian federation of United Nations Associations (IFUNA), New Delhi, Maharashtra United Nations Association (MUNA) and United Nations Information centre (UNIC) for India and Bhutan joined hands to celebrate the UN Day 2013 at Mumbai. Maharashtra United Nations Association (MUNA) in association with Rotract Club of Mumbai Shivaji Park (RC-MSP) organized the Model United Nations Assembly, a zealous event at Amulakh Amichand Bhimji Vividhlakshi Vidyalaya, from 9:30 am to 4:30 pm on Sunday 25th August 2013. The resolution being debated at the Model UN Assembly was “Protecting Human Rights in the Syrian Conflict”. Maharashtra United Nations Association (MUNA) in collaboration with Indian Federation of United Nations Associations (IFUNA), New Delhi, United Nations Information Centre (UNIC) for India and Bhutan, New Delhi and Kohinoor Hospital, ‘de-stresses’ on ‘Prevention of Hypertension’ on World Health Day 2013 at Mumbai. Organised by The Maharashtra United Nations Association (MUNA), The Simon Wiesenthal Centre, an NGO at the United Nations, Israel Consulate in Mumbai, and St. Xavier’s College encouraged by The United Nations Information Centre (UNIC) for India and Bhutan, New Delhi Maharashtra United Nations Youth Association (MUNYA) Under the guidance of MUNA in association with Rotract Club of Mumbai Shivaji Park (RC-MSP) organized the Model United Nations Assembly, an ardent event at Amulakh Amichand Bhimji Vividhlakshi Vidyalaya, at Matunga Mumbai An extremely innovative, informative and interesting event was organized by The MUNA in collaboration with the Indian Coastal Guard (Ministry of Defence – Govt. of India) to celebrate and observe World Environment Day aboard the Coast Guard ships

OOIDA petition for reconsideration of final medical examiner integration rule By Jami Jones, managing editor A recent final rule that rolled out a new medical history form and requires medical examiners to transmit the results of DOT physicals within 24 hours of the exam has drawn fire from the Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association. OOIDA filed a petition for reconsideration with the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration in late May. The petition requests that the agency reconsider the final rule and calls for the agency to withdraw the final rule and to proceed with a notice and comment period. On April 23, FMCSA published a final rule that adopted new standards for issuing medical certificates and amended the reporting requirements of the results of DOT physicals. In the final rule, the agency expanded the medical history criteria and incorporated those criteria into the regulations. A new medical form included in the final rule now has 32 health conditions listed under the medical history portion of the rule. Of those conditions, 13 are new to the form. New conditions to the form include high cholesterol; chronic cough, shortness of breath or other breathing problems; unexplained weight loss; bone, muscle, joint or nerve problems; blood clots or bleeding problems; chronic infection or other chronic diseases; problems staying awake; loud snoring; sleep apnea; have you ever had a sleep test; have you ever spent a night in the hospital; have you ever been treated for a mental health problem; and have you ever had a broken bone. OOIDA’s petition states that the final rule does not contain any definition of the listed conditions, nor any guidelines for determining the degree to which any sign of the listed condition reaches a level serious enough to warrant reporting. “More significantly, FMCSA has not provided any connection between the numerous conditions required to be reported and any risk to highway safety,” the petition states. The agency also modified the duration of the history to be reported from five years to lifetime. The form now states: “Do you have or have you ever had ...” “Those plain words can only mean ‘even in your whole life.’ Aside from the obvious problem of a 50-year-old remembering conditions from his teenage years or earlier, what possible relevance would teen acne (a chronic skin disease) or a broken arm at age 5 have on a driver’s ability to operate his vehicle,” the petition states. “The complete failure of FMCSA to develop any record in support of the changes adopted renders the rule ‘arbitrary, capricious, an abuse of discretion, or otherwise not in accordance with law,’” the petition states. OOIDA also takes aim at FMCSA’s attempt to regulate sleep apnea through the final rule. Congress previously passed legislation that was signed into law preventing FMCSA from implementing any sleep apnea requirements without going through the rulemaking process. OOIDA’s petition contends that although FMCSA has added sleep apnea to the health history reporting requirements, the agency failed to develop any record regarding standards for sleep apnea or the need to include sleep apnea as reportable, as a disqualifying condition. “The final rule is invalid regarding its attempt to regulate sleep disorders for the agency’s failure to act in accordance with the statutory mandate that it address sleep disorders only through formal notice and comment rulemaking. FMCSA has not done so. For this reason alone, FMCSA’s final rule is invalid,” OOIDA’s petition states. The petition also tackles the new reporting requirement on medical examiners to transmit the results of DOT physicals to the agency within 24 hours of the exam. The requirement, according to the OOIDA petition deprives drivers of the right to challenge a denial of certification. As written, the final rule mandates that drivers, even with a valid medical card, who fail their DOT physical are immediately deemed not physically fit to drive and their driving privileges are revoked. So in a scenario where a driver goes in for a physical a couple of months before his or her current card expires, the driver would not have that additional two months to try to rectify the denial of medical certification. LL

SPRINGFIELD — A new plan to raise the state’s minimum wage to $15 an hour is expected to be introduced in the Illinois Senate as early as next week. Sen. Kimberly Lightford, D-Maywood, said that while negotiations are continuing with business interests and others with a stake in the minimum wage, she expects to introduce something “early next week.” “We’re still working on (details),” she said. “We’re very committed to keeping everyone at the table, providing an opportunity to express how a minimum wage increase will work with their entity.” The last increase in the state’s minimum wage went into effect in 2010 when it was increased to $8.25 an hour. It was the last of a series of increases approved in 2006. The federal minimum wage continues to be $7.25 an hour. Lightford said the plan would be to get the Illinois minimum wage to $15 an hour and to phase it in over several years. Just how long of a phase-in is still being discussed, she said. “We all know that to get from $8.25 to $15 an hour it can’t be a significant jump,” she said. “It has to be over a period of time to allow business to adjust.” In 2017, Illinois lawmakers approved legislation to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour. However, then-Gov. Bruce Rauner vetoed the bill saying it would result in job losses at the low end of the wage scale and hurt the people the minimum wage is supposed to help. Gov. JB Pritzker supports raising the minimum wage to $15 an hour. Pritzker senior adviser Nikki Budzinski testified in favor of the increase at a Senate Labor Committee hearing Wednesday. Business interests offered different views of the increase. The National Federation of Independent Business, which represents smaller employers, said something less than a $15-an-hour rate and a minimum wage that varied across the state would be preferable. “As it stands now, it is a job killer and a business killer,” said Mark Grant, NFIB state director. Lightford, though, said businesses have said the same thing for years about increasing the minimum wage, and there’s been no documentation of ill effects. “There’s been no data that told me businesses shut down because of the minimum wage,” she said. Rob Karr, president and CEO of the Illinois Retail Merchants Association, also endorsed the idea of different rates for different areas of the state. Both Oregon and New York have adopted that idea where a higher minimum wage is in effect for large urban areas and an lower rate is set for less populated parts of those states. “The suburbs and downstate simply don’t enjoy the same (economic activity) as the city of Chicago,” Karr said. Lightford said the idea of a regional minimum wage will be considered, but said there are potentially legal issues that would prevent Illinois from doing that. She also questioned if it is fair to pay workers in some portions of the state a lower minimum wage than in other areas. Concerns about the effect of a minimum wage increase weren’t limited to the business community. Chris Boyster of the Illinois Collaboration on Youth said more than 12,000 people are employed by the organization’s member agencies. Many of them are working at or near minimum wage, he said. “These human service organizations will not be able to accommodate an increase in the minimum wage without increased financial support from the state,” he said. “Providers want to pay their workforce better. They just need the means to do so.” The Illinois Association of Park Districts also said increasing the minimum wage would put pressure on park districts that employ teens as life guards, camp counselors and other jobs that pay the minimum wage. Likewise, the state’s nursing homes that serve large numbers of Medicaid patients would be squeezed between paying higher wages with stagnant Medicaid reimbursements, said Pat Comstock of the Health Care Council of Illinois. Twenty-six states and the District of Columbia have a higher minimum wage than Illinois.

2018 U.S. Open Cup Final The 2018 Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup Final was played on September 26, 2018, at BBVA Compass Stadium in Houston, Texas. The match determined the winner of the 2018 U.S. Open Cup, a tournament open to amateur and professional soccer teams affiliated with the United States Soccer Federation. It was the 105th edition of the oldest competition in United States soccer. This edition of the final was contested between Houston Dynamo and the Philadelphia Union, both of Major League Soccer. The match was broadcast in English on ESPN2 and in Spanish on Univision Deportes, making it the fourth straight time the cup final was aired on one of the ESPN networks. Houston Dynamo won the match 3–0 for their first U.S. Open Cup title. Match Details References Category:2018 U.S. Open Cup Category:U.S. Open Cup Finals U.S. Open Cup Final 2018 U.S. Open Cup Final 2018

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CNN host Don Lemon and conservative commentator Ben Ferguson got into a heated debate on Wednesday night over NFL players kneeling during the national anthem in protest of racial injustice in the United States. Lemon opened up the segment by playing a clip from Fox News host Sean Hannity's interview with President Donald Trump earlier that night. Trump said the NFL should have suspended former San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick for one game after he kneeled during the national anthem last season, two games for the second time, and the full season if he kneeled a third time. Liberal CNN commentator Van Jones pushed back against Trump's comments and said no athlete disrespects the military. "We have been trying to get this point made over and over again; they are not protesting the flag. They are not protesting the anthem. No athlete has ever said one bad thing about a soldier. They are concerned about the neighborhoods they left behind where there is still so much injustice and poverty," Jones said. Ferguson disagreed and said people are not going to have a consensus about the proper way to protest or handle racial injustice because of their "flat-out disrespect" to the American flag, prompting Lemon to say nobody saw it as a protest of the flag, or being disrespectful toward the flag until Trump "made it into an issue." Ferguson disagreed and said the protest had also become much more about protesting Trump than anything else. "A lot of the players also didn't protest until they started to protest Donald Trump. You had whole teams stay in the lock room. You had whole teams that had never come out before," Ferguson said. Lemon followed up by asking Ferguson why he and others are "forcing patriotism" on Americans, prompting Ferguson to say no one is forcing patriotism on anyone, but as the president, Trump has an obligation to protect and defend the honor and integrity of the flag and anthem. He then emphasized that no one is arguing against people having the right to protest. As the exchange progressed, it grew increasingly heated, with the two often talking over one another. One topic they disagreed on was what behavior is appropriate when when watching a football game and the national anthem is being played. "I am in a bar almost every weekend during football season having wings and beer and everybody is chugging beers, and I look around and all these people who are screaming about people not standing," Lemon said. Ferguson countered Lemon's argument by saying that is different when people are at the game and that the players need to stand to "honor America." Lemon responded by saying that each game consists of two American teams and that it's not as if "we’re playing some international country." Ferguson said his comments are why so many Americans disagree with him, citing his "arrogance" and the "lack of respect" for the American flag. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell sent an email to all NFL executives on Tuesday, praising them for their willingness to engage in dialogue, but said their anthem protests were becoming barriers to conversation. "Like many of our fans, we believe that everyone should stand for the National Anthem," Goodell wrote. "It is an important moment in our game. We want to honor our flag and our country, and our fans expect that of us." The NFL sent out a message the next day clarifying that Goodell was not "demanding" all players stand, but that the topic would be addressed at the league's upcoming owners meeting. Cameron CawthorneEmail Cameron | Full Bio | RSSCameron Cawthorne is a Media Analyst for the Washington Free Beacon. He graduated from the University of Virginia in 2013. Prior to joining Free Beacon, Cameron was a Legislative Assistant in the Virginia General Assembly and a War Room Analyst at America Rising.

Q: Trouble in retrieving contact information I want to get the contact name from a number i had tried retrieving it through a query But i am not getting the result..It is returning the number itself.....I had already saved that number to the contacts. The code i tried is... public class MainActivity extends Activity { @Override protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.activity_main); String x = getContactNameFromNumber("+918281306132"); System.out.println(x); } private String getContactNameFromNumber(String number) { // define the columns I want the query to return System.out.println("Entering into getContactNameFromNumber"); String[] projection = new String[] { Contacts.Phones.DISPLAY_NAME, Contacts.Phones.NUMBER }; // encode the phone number and build the filter URI Uri contactUri = Uri.withAppendedPath(Contacts.Phones.CONTENT_FILTER_URL, Uri.encode(number)); // query time Cursor c = getContentResolver().query(contactUri, projection, null, null, null); // if the query returns 1 or more results // return the first result if (c.moveToFirst()) { String name = c.getString(c .getColumnIndex(Contacts.Phones.DISPLAY_NAME)); return name; } // return the original number if no match was found return number; } } I also added a read phone state permission too. Somebody please help me to retrieve the contact name. A: You can try my snippet : public static String findContactByNumber(String phoneNumber, ContentResolver cr) { Uri lookupUri = Uri.withAppendedPath(PhoneLookup.CONTENT_FILTER_URI, Uri.encode(phoneNumber)); String[] phoneNoProjections = { PhoneLookup._ID, PhoneLookup.DISPLAY_NAME }; Cursor cursor = cr.query(lookupUri, phoneNoProjections, null, null, null); try { if (cursor.moveToFirst()) { return cursor.getString(1); //1 is the display name index. 0 is id. } } finally { if (cursor != null) cursor.close(); } return null; }

So . . . I saw the rheumatologist yesterday and he said he is confused . . . basically my blood work indicates SLE, Sjogrens and other connective tissue disorders, but no positive ANA (have never had a positive ANA) . . . he said that he has never really seen my combination of blood work results, has never seen positive cytoplasmic staining without a positive ANA . . . good news is, its not fibro or CFS . . . bad news is he can't nail down anything definitive right now . . . He ordered all new bloodwork again . . . just had that done 2 months ago! He started me on plaquenil - i have always been pretty resistant to start on meds as long as i could cope, but its been really hard lately . . . so achey, so tired - bone crushing fatigue, nausea every single stinking morning . . . i decided i had to do something . . . sick & tired of being sick & tired. He said that if my latest issues are lupus related, the plaquenil will help. If it isn't, the plaquenil won't help and we are back to square one. He said all we can do at this point is approach it through a "diagnosis via treatment" method . . . I feel like i'm on "House"!! Anyway . . . hoping the plaquenil helps . . . hoping something helps. AnneAlienWife There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. I have the opposite problem....no indicators in the bloodwork other than a high positive ANA, but all the symptoms of a variety of AI problems. Lupus seems the most likely. Liver enzymes are occasionally high - and CRP, and white count is occasionally low - usually during a flare. Never had the AI markers run while in an acute flare - always wonder if something would show then. Anyway - have been on Plaquenil 6 mos. - treatment witnout firm diagnosis. I feel it has helped somewhat. Having fibro complicates the results. Will see what rheumie says next week at my 6 mos. visit. I really feel ya on the "sick and tired of being sick and tired feeling"! I waited too long to try medication. Even if it doesn't help you siginificantly - you have another answer of sorts and you're one step further along in the process. I hope the Plaquenil provides you with relief though, and you start feeling better soon! The rheumy said that if it were Fibro or CFS, I would have predictable pain trigger points at certain locations . . . when he was "testing" the pain trigger points, it actually felt good (he could have kept at it for a while and saved me the money of going to see my massage therapist)! Also, CFS and Fibro are not considered autoimmune disorders and I have ai markers in my bloodwork along with chronically elevated liver enzymes, low potassium levels, low rdw levels . . . I suppose that it really doesn't mean that I couldn't have CFS, but he doesn't seem to think that CFS is my issue . . . really got no answers yet as to what really IS my problem, but at this point I really don't have much of a choice but to do the plaquenil thing and see if it works . . . I should have bloodwork results back next week and a follow up with the rheumy in July . . . hopefully by then the plaquenil will have had some results! Good luck with your rheumy visit next week! let us know how it goes? AnneAlienWife There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. Anne It's good he put you on plaquenil you might start feeling better, it takes about 6 months to start kicking in, hope you can get your answers soon. Take Care. DebbieAsthma,Lupus,H.B.P.,Dermatomyostis,Gastrparsis,Acid Reflux I hope the plaquenil helps . . . but it does take months to fully build in the system. Some patients feel relief quickly and others don't. It often takes a combination of meds to quiet things down if you are in a flare. Most of us aren't aware that it is working until we go off of it (because we think it isn't working) and then find out that it was actually doing a lot. Have you gone for your baseline eye exam??? I hope the plaquenil helps you LOTS. Keep us posted. Blessings! In His Grip AlwaysRosie "We can't control the waves, but we can learn how to surf!!" I have the baseline eye exam scheduled, although not until the end of june - the opthalmologist was booked until then. The nurse seemed to think that it would be ok to wait that long. I am hoping the plaquenil works . . . i was on fairly high doses of chloraquine (same family as plaquenil) last year when i went to china (prophylactic for malaria since we were going to some pretty remote areas with less than desireable sanitation in the factories) . . . and, while it gave me the most bizarre dreams, i remember that my skin issues were practically cleared up by the time i got back after 3 1/2 weeks - i contributed it to the fact that it rained the entire time i was there and that the humidity was good for my skin . . . i dunno . . . maybe it wasnt the humidity? we will see . . . Thanks for the replies :) AnneAlienWife There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. LOL. The humidity wasn't what did it, I live in very high humidity and that doesn't help my skin in the slightest! It was the malaria treatment that helped you out -- chloroquine is often used if/when plaquenil is not tolerated. I found the dreams went away after a few weeks, so I hope you feel better soon,

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1. Introduction {#s0005} =============== An accessory cavitated uterine mass (ACUM) is a rare congenital Mullerian anomaly where an accessory cavity with normal endometrial lining lies within a normally shaped and normally functioning uterus. This uterine malformation is different from the common Mullerian uterine malformation described in the ESHRE/ESGE consensus statement \[[@bb0005]\]. It occurs due to the duplication or persistence of ductal Mullerian tissue, which is believed to have originated from gubernaculum dysfunction, leading to accessory uterine tissue formation. ACUM is frequently observed in young, nulliparous women presenting with severe dysmenorrhea and recurrent pelvic pain despite taking analgesics or oral contraceptive pills (OCP). Some present with infertility. It is rare among women under 30 years of age. ACUM is a diagnostic challenge and is often under-diagnosed. Differential diagnoses include rudimentary and cavitated uterine horns, adenomyosis with cystic or degenerated areas, and degenerating fibroids. Ultrasound scan, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and hysteroscopy are helpful in the diagnosis. Here, we present two cases of ACUM diagnosed in line with the proposed ACUM criteria \[[@bb0010],[@bb0015]\]. The first case was a 22-year-old woman who presented with severe dysmenorrhea and was initially misdiagnosed with non-communicating rudimentary horn. The second was a 36-year-old woman who presented with primary infertility and dysmenorrhea. Laparoscopic excision of the ACUM was performed in both patients. 2. Cases {#s0010} ======== 2.1. Case 1 {#s0015} ----------- A 22-year-old, single, virgo intacta (VI) woman presented with a 3-month history of severe pain after menses. She had attained menarche at the age of 15 and had not suffered from dysmenorrhea. Her menstrual flow was regular and normal. Being a VI, we could not perform a transvaginal ultrasound scan (TVUS) and she refused a transrectal ultrasound scan (TRUS). Transabdominal ultrasound scan (TAUS) showed a retroverted normal-sized uterus with normal endometrial cavity. The ovaries were not clearly seen. There was a cystic mass measuring 2.65 × 3.62 cm on the right side of the uterus, which appeared like a right endometrioma ([Fig. 1](#f0005){ref-type="fig"}A).Fig. 1(A): TAUS shows a cystic lesion on the right side of the uterus. (B): Laparoscopy shows a nodular lesion on the right side of the uterine fundus.Fig. 1 With a diagnosis of a right endometrioma, we proceeded to perform a laparoscopic cystectomy. Laparoscopy showed a uterus with a globular swelling in the right fundal area, next to the right fallopian tube insertion ([Fig. 1](#f0005){ref-type="fig"}B). Minimal endometriotic nodules were found on the right uterosacral ligament and the posterior aspect of the uterus. Both ovaries and Fallopian tubes were normal. A needle was used to aspirate the mass. Brownish fluid resembling endometriosis was obtained. The mass was thought to be a non-communicating uterine horn. Since no consent was obtained to excise the lesion, this was not performed. The findings were discussed with the patient. We also advised her to undergo a TRUS and hysteroscopy. 3D TRUS showed a cystic lesion in the right side of the uterus measuring 2.65 × 3.62 cm ([Fig. 2](#f0010){ref-type="fig"}A). MRI scan showed a unicornuate uterus with a non-communicating rudimentary horn ([Fig. 2](#f0010){ref-type="fig"}B).Fig. 2(A): TRUS shows a cystic lesion on the right cornual part of the uterus. (B) MRI shows a cystic lesion on the right side of the uterus. There was no communication between the endometrial cavity and the cystic lesion. (C) Showing hysteroscopic cannulation of the right tubal ostium and chromopertubation showing that the right tube is patent.Fig. 2 Just before the second laparoscopy, a hysteroscopy was performed (without injuring the hymen). The right tubal ostium was directly cannulated and chromopertubation was performed. Dye was seen coming out of the right fallopian tube ([Fig. 2](#f0010){ref-type="fig"}C). This indicated that the right fallopian tube arose directly from the uterus and not from the cystic lesion, thus eliminating the diagnosis of a rudimentary horn. Diluted vasopressin was injected into the myometrium of the nodule and excision of the uterine mass was performed with monopolar diathermy. This was done easily without entering the uterine cavity. The defect was sutured with interrupted polyglactin 1 sutures. The specimen was removed in an *endo*-bag after cutting it into smaller pieces. Post-operatively, the patient had an uneventful recovery and was discharged 48 h later. During her follow-up, she was asymptomatic and an ultrasound scan showed no abnormal findings. Histopathological examination confirmed a cystic hemorrhagic mass. The cavity was lined with endometrial tissue with glandular atrophy. These results along with the operative findings confirmed the diagnosis of ACUM. 2.2. Case 2 {#s0020} ----------- A 36-year-old married nulligravida woman presented with a history of chronic pelvic pain and severe dysmenorrhea. She had attained menarche at 12 years of age and had been having dysmenorrhea since then. She experienced intermittent severe colicky pain during the first 3 days of menses every month. For the last 4 years she had been trying to conceive but had been unsuccessful. Her husband\'s semen analysis was normal. No abnormalities were detected on abdominal and pelvic examination. TVUS and TAUS revealed a normal-sized uterus with a cavitated right-sided intramural mass measuring 3.29 × 3.28 cm ([Fig. 3](#f0015){ref-type="fig"}). The cavitated mass contained echogenic homogenous material resembling an endometrioma measuring 1.01 × 1.77 cm. The uterus, endometrial layer and ovaries were normal. The antral follicle count was 2 in the right ovary and 1 in the left ovary. The mass was thought to be either an ACUM or a degenerating fibroid. Anti-Mullerian hormone (AMH) was 0.91 ng/ml.Fig. 3TVUS shows a cystic mass on the right side of the uterine fundus.Fig. 3 Since her AMH level was low, we discussed several treatment options. Her main concern was preservation of fertility. Since the cystic lesion did not involve the endometrial cavity, we discussed the option of performing in-vitro fertilization (IVF) first, with embryo transfer and surgery later. Due to time constraints, she decided to do a cycle of IVF, freeze the embryos and then undergo a laparoscopic excision of the ACUM. We thought that frozen embryo transfer after the surgery may give her a better chance of implantation. She was started on an antagonist protocol. Unfortunately, we only collected 2 oocytes, which resulted in a single embryo, which was frozen. We suggested a second IVF cycle to collect more embryos before surgery but she chose to undergo the surgery without this. Hysteroscopy revealed a normal uterine cavity and both ostia were seen. On laparoscopy, a nodular lesion attached to the right anterior uterine wall close to the round ligament insertion was seen ([Fig. 4](#f0020){ref-type="fig"}A).Fig. 4(A): Nodule seen on the right side of the anterior wall of the uterus. (B): As the nodule was incised, a chocolate-colored material spilled out.Fig. 4 Endometriotic lesions were found on the posterior peritoneum of the broad ligaments, uterosacral ligaments, rectum and over the ureters. The rectum was adherent to the uterus posteriorly. The uterus, both fallopian tubes and ovaries were otherwise normal. Chromopertubation with methylene blue injection confirmed that both tubes were patent. Laparoscopic adhesiolysis was performed. The ureters were dissected out. The rectum was released from the adhesions in the rectovaginal septum. Nodules on the uterosacral ligaments, rectum, posterior wall of the uterus and peritoneum were excised. Vasopressin 20 IU diluted in 200 ml of saline was injected into the myometrium at the junction of the uterus and the ACUM nodule to achieve hemostasis. An oblique incision was made on the mass. Approximately 20 ml of thick, chocolate-colored material spilled out of the mass ([Fig. 4](#f0020){ref-type="fig"}B). Circumferential incision of the mass was done using monopolar diathermy. The nodule was excised without entering the true endometrial cavity. The defect was then sutured with interrupted polyglactin 1 sutures. The specimen was placed in an *endo*-bag, cut into smaller pieces and retrieved from the peritoneal cavity through a 10 mm trocar site. Anti-adhesion barrier agent was applied to all areas where the surgery was performed. Post-operatively, the patient did well. She was discharged the following day. The endometriotic nodules and the uterine nodule (ACUM) were sent for histopathological analysis. The first specimen was consistent with endometriotic nodules. The histopathology of the second specimen showed the presence of tubular and mildly dilated endometrial glands with stroma between bundles of smooth muscle fibers. Areas of myxohyaline changes were found adjacent to the stroma with no adenomyotic foci. A significant cellular atypia surrounding the myometrial tissue in the specimen was noted. The histopathological findings were consistent with the diagnosis of ACUM. After surgery, the patient had no further dysmenorrhea. She was advised not to conceive for 6 months and to undergo frozen embryo transfer after that. However, she conceived successfully on her first attempt. At the time of writing she was 33 weeks pregnant without any maternal or fetal problems. 3. Discussion {#s0025} ============= ACUM has been documented in the literature, but using different terminologies, such as juvenile cystic adenomyosis, non-communicating accessory uterine cavities and isolated cystic adenomyoma. It can be confused with several other gynecological diseases. [Table 1](#t0005){ref-type="table"} summarizes the characteristics of ACUM and its differential diagnoses.Table 1Characteristics of ACUM and its differential diagnoses.Table 1Accessory cavitated uterine massNon-communicating rudimentary uterine hornTrue cavitated adenomyomaDegenerating fibroid[Pathophysiology]{.ul}Mullerian anomaly without uterine malformation caused by duplication and persistence of the ductal Mullerian tissue at the insertion of the round ligament, believed to be due to the gubernaculum dysfunction.Mullerian anomaly with uterine malformation due to the failure of one of the Mullerian duct to elongate towards the urogenital sinus while the contralateral Mullerian duct develops normally \[[@bb0045]\].Invagination of the endometrial basalis layer into the myometrium \[[@bb0035]\].\ Misplaced pluripotent Mullerian remnants \[[@bb0040]\].Benign monoclonal tumor mainly composed of smooth muscle cells and fibrous connective tissue.[Definition]{.ul}Isolated cavitated mass consistent with the normal myometrium resembling the normal uterus.\ It is found at the level of round ligament insertion.\ It is associated with a normal shaped and functional true uterus.Usually associated with uterine malformation (unicornuate uterus, bicornuate uterus).\ 74--90% of unicornuate uterus associates with rudimentary uterine horn \[[@bb0025],[@bb0030]\].\ An isolated cavity with a horn and fallopian tube attaching on it without communicating with the true cavity.A focal adenomyosis which is not in direct continuity with the junctional zone.\ Has central degeneration and endometriotic fluid accumulation.\ Common among elderly women.\ Often associated with fibroids.Benign tumor of myometrial origin with cystic lesions in the middle of the tumor.\ Fibroids can undergo various forms of degeneration like hyaline, cystic, myoxoid and red degeneration.[HPE findings]{.ul}Endometrioid epithelium line the cavity.\ Epithelial glands and stroma lined the cavity, surrounded by smooth muscle cells.\ Myometrium adjacent to the ACUM may develop adenomyosis but do not present in the rest of the uterus (small foci).Thick myometrial wall.\ Cavity lined by endometrial epithelium.\ No evidence of adenomyosis.Absence of internal epithelial lining of the cystic cavity.\ Lack of uterus like smooth muscle organization.\ Diffusely spread adenomyotic foci in the uterus corpus.It is well circumscribed with solid rubbery firm texture \[[@bb0050]\].\ The color and texture may be different based on the types of degeneration.\ Composed of fascicles of elongated smooth muscle cells with eosinophilic cytoplasm and centrally located cigar-shaped nucleus.\ It is rich in vasculature of various calibers and types including muscle-rich arteries, arterioles and veins.[Fallopian tubes]{.ul}Normal ostia.\ Normal fallopian tubes.\ The uterine horn is attached to the true uterus cavity.The fallopian tube arises from the accessory uterine horn.\ The true uterine cavity only has one fallopian tube.\ Hysteroscopy shows a single tubal ostium.Fallopian tubes arise from the uterus.Fallopian tubes arise from the uterus.[MRI findings]{.ul}A nodular uterine lesion with central cavity containing cystic component and hemorrhagic content within it.\ Hyperintense signal on T1-weighted images.\ Hypointense signal on T2-weighted images and clearly independent from the normal endometrial cavity.The unicornuate uterus is displaced off the midline with normal myometrial zonal anatomy and normal endometrial-to-myometrial width and ratio \[[@bb0020]\].\ If the non-communicating rudimentary horn contains endometrial tissue, the zonal anatomy is preserved while the rudimentary horn may become distended with blood products.\ In an empty non-communicating rudimentary horn, the zonal anatomy is absent with a diffuse low signal intensity shown on the uterine horn.Hypointense mass on T2-weighted images.\ Ill-defined borders, minimal mass effect, multiple bright foci.Cystic degeneration shows isointense relative to myometrium on T1; hyperintensity with lack of contrast enhancement of the internal areas on T2 \[[@bb0050]\].\ Hemorrhagic degeneration shows hyperintensity on T1 and moderate-to-high intensity on T2.\ Hyaline degeneration appears isointense on T1, hypointense on T2; similar to non-degenerated fibroids.\ Fatty degeneration appears consistent with fat on MRI. Based on the criteria \[[@bb0010],[@bb0015]\], ACUM diagnosis can only be suspected preoperatively and confirmed only after histopathological examination. However, accurate preoperative diagnosis is important to determine the need for and type of surgery, as this will differ in different conditions. The 2 cases reported here demonstrate that ACUM is readily managed with surgery, as the endometrial cavity is not entered. There are several lessons that can be learnt from these 2 cases. In the first case, a diagnosis of right endometrioma was made only with a TAUS. Endometrioma can usually be diagnosed confidently with only a TVUS, with no need for MRI. Since this patient was VI, TVUS could not be performed. TRUS will give an equally clear picture of the pelvis and could have distinguished an endometrioma from a uterine cystic lesion. So, if a VI patient refuses TRUS, then MRI is mandatory to exclude ACUM. An office hysteroscopy and/or hysterosalpingography is another way of differentiating an ACUM from a rudimentary uterine horn ([Table 1](#t0005){ref-type="table"}). These tests were not done in this patient, as she was VI. In the second case, ACUM was the provisional diagnosis from the beginning. Excision of the ACUM was done after 1 cycle of IVF. Fortunately, the patient conceived spontaneously after the excision of the ACUM and endometriotic nodules in the pelvis. It is difficult to postulate whether the excision of the ACUM and/or the endometriotic nodules in the pelvis was the reason she conceived spontaneously. 4. Conclusion {#s0030} ============= ACUM is a difficult condition to diagnose. One needs a high index of suspicion. Since most patients with ACUM suffer from dysmenorrhea, surgical excision is necessary and can be easily done by laparoscopy. When a cystic lesion seen in the myometrium is asymptomatic, it is difficult to distinguish ACUM from its differential diagnoses ([Table 1](#t0005){ref-type="table"}) and a correct diagnosis can be made only after excision and histopathological evaluation. Contributors {#s0035} ============ Sevellaraja Supermaniam is the corresponding author and was the surgeon in charge. Wei Lin Thye was in charge of collecting and assembling the data. Both authors participated in the writing and critical revision of the manuscript and both read and approved the final version. Conflict of Interest {#s0040} ==================== The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest regarding the publication of this case report. Funding {#s0045} ======= This case report did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors. Patient Consent {#s0050} =============== Written informed consent was obtained from both patients for the publication of this case report and the accompanying images. Provenance and Peer Review {#s0055} ========================== This case report was peer reviewed.

Visualization of [3H]docosahexaenoic acid trafficking through photoreceptors and retinal pigment epithelium by electron microscopic autoradiography. [3H]docosahexaenoic (DHA) acid was followed through the retinal pigment epithelial cells and photoreceptors for up to 5 days after injection to specifically determine which membrane systems of the retinal pigment epithelial cells are used in the handling of [3H]DHA after shedding and phagocytosis of rod tips. Frogs (Rana pipiens) were injected with [3H]DHA in the dorsal lymph sacs, and maintained for up to 5 days. Retinas were processed for electron microscopic autoradiography, stored for various periods of time, and then analyzed by transmission electron microscopy. After 1 day, [3H]DHA had accumulated within photoreceptor ellipsoids, and had begun to appear as dense label in newly formed discs. By day 5, the basal region of dense label had expanded apically. Newly shed rod outer segment tips were diffusely labeled; but occasionally after several hours, they acquired additional label as they moved near Bruch's membrane. Retinal pigment epithelial cytoplasm maintained a constant level of label, with myeloid bodies sometimes slightly labeled. Oil droplets of the retinal pigment epithelium accumulated dense label throughout this study. When [3H]DHA enters the retinal pigment epithelium, some is retained within oil droplets, whereas the rest is passed on to the photoreceptors. [3H]DHA is initially taken up by inner segments and then dispersed to photoreceptor synaptic terminals as well as to ellipsoids where discs are assembled. Phagosomal labeling exactly matches rod outer segment tips, but occasionally increases as degradation occurs near Bruch's membrane. Normally, density of label remains constant throughout the degradation process.

Q: Difference between System.getProperty("line.separator"); and "\n" ? While developing GUI with Java FX , I seem to get different results with System.getProperty("line.separator"); and "\n" during writing to a file or getting data from internet. What basically is the difference ? A: System.getProperty("line.separator") returns the OS dependent line separator. On Windows it returns "\r\n", on Unix "\n". So if you want to generate a file with line endings for the current operating systems use System.getProperty("line.separator") or write using a PrintWriter. A: on the Windows platform, System.getProperty("line.separator") is "\r\n", "\n" (Linux and MacOS X), "\r" (MacOS 9 and older) A: System.getProperty("line.separator") is platform dependent: "\n" on UNIX style machines "\r\n" on Windows machines Whereas "\n" is only "\n".

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Q: Does $P^{-1} A P = P P^{-1} A$? I hung up on the following step in a derivation I'm following and could use some guidance as to why it's true. I'm trying to show that the trace of a matrix is invariant under any similarity transformation, and I'm not sure why this step is legal. \begin{align} \text{Tr} (\mathbf{B}) = \text{Tr} (\mathbf{P}^{-1}\mathbf{AP}) =\text{Tr} (\mathbf{PP}^{-1}\mathbf{A}) \end{align} From there, it's simply the identity matrix and therefore the matrix $\mathbf A$ is invariant under similarity transformations. But, matricies are not commutative. So, I'm not sure the right hand side is true. A: It is true because, for any two $n\times n$ matrices $A$ and $B$, $\operatorname{tr}(AB)=\operatorname{tr}(BA)$. A: With Einstein's notation, we have that $$\text{Tr}(AB)=A_{ij}B_{ji}=B_{ji}A_{ij}=\text{Tr}(BA)$$ And for 3 matrices: $$\text{Tr}(ABC)=A_{ij}B_{jk}C_{ki}=C_{ki}A_{ij}B_{jk}=\text{Tr}(CAB)$$

668 N.E.2d 77 (1996) 282 Ill. App.3d 322 217 Ill.Dec. 892 Patricia T. KRANTZ, executor of the will of Quentin R. Krantz, and Jay S. Bleecker, Petitioners-Appellees, and Cross-Appellants, v. Kenneth C. CHESSICK, Respondent-Appellant and Cross-Appellee. No. 1-95-0455. Appellate Court of Illinois, First District, Third Division. June 26, 1996. *78 John W. Fisk, Schaumburg, for Appellant; John W. Fisk, of Counsel. Paul E. Peldyak, James R. Madler, Chicago, for Appellees and Cross-Appellants; Paul E. Peldyak, of Counsel. Justice CERDA delivered the opinion of the court: Respondent, Kenneth C. Chessick, appeals from a judgment order of the circuit court of Cook County finding in favor of petitioners, Patricia T. Krantz, executor of the will of Quentin R. Krantz, and Jay S. Bleecker, in a dispute over the amount of attorney fees owed to respondent. Petitioners cross-appeal. We affirm. I. Facts Quentin R. Krantz ("Krantz") and Bleecker hired respondent, an attorney, to prosecute their claims, and each executed a retainer contract, which stated in part: "I agree to pay KENNETH C. CHESSICK for services to be rendered pursuant to this retainer and employment, a sum equal to thirty-three and one-third percent (331/3%) of any sum which may be received on my said claim and cause of action on trial in Court, or which I receive in settlement thereof * * * together with all reasonable and necessary advances, costs and expenses, if any, paid or incurred by the law office." Respondent represented Krantz and Bleecker, who were plaintiffs in a lawsuit in federal court. A jury awarded Krantz $160,000 ($60,000 were punitive damages) and awarded Bleecker $20,000 ($10,000 were punitive damages), but no judgment was entered. Respondent filed a motion seeking an award of costs and attorney fees for Bleecker pursuant to the federal civil rights law (42 U.S.C.A. § 1988 (West 1994) ("section 1988")). The motion was never ruled upon. The federal case was settled for $195,000. There was one settlement check for the entire amount, and the release form did not allocate the funds between Krantz and Bleecker. Krantz and Bleecker signed over the settlement check to respondent, who tendered a $71,532.50 check to Krantz ($73,668 minus $2,135.50 in unpaid costs) and a $19,531.50 check to Bleecker ($21,667 minus $2,135.50 in unpaid costs). Based on their belief that they were entitled to more settlement money, Krantz and Bleecker refused the checks, one of which was marked "Final Settlement Krantz" and the other "Final Settlement *79 Bleecker." Respondent placed the funds in a trust account with interest paid to the Lawyers Trust Fund of Illinois, apparently pursuant to Rule of Professional Conduct 1.15(d) (134 Ill.2d R. 1.15(d)). Krantz died and his widow initiated proceedings in the probate court to recover his settlement proceeds from respondent. Bleecker intervened in the case to pursue his claim against respondent. The trial court made an interim order for respondent to pay to Krantz's estate and to Bleecker the amounts of the checks previously tendered by respondent. Petitioners moved for summary judgment. Respondent swore to the following in an affidavit in opposition: In a settlement conference in the federal case, the judge indicated that he would reduce Krantz's punitive damages award to $40,000 and Bleecker's punitive damages award to $5,000, he would recommend a total $205,000 settlement in which Krantz would receive $120,000 (subject to the contingency agreement), Bleecker would receive $20,000 (not subject to the contingency agreement), and respondent would receive $65,000 in section 1988 attorney fees. Respondent discussed the judge's recommendation with Krantz and Bleecker, who agreed to the judge's recommended $205,000 settlement and allocation of the settlement, but the federal defendants would settle only for $195,000. Respondent prepared a file memorandum that stated that Bleecker and Krantz agreed to settle for $195,000, with Bleecker, Krantz, and respondent each reducing their recovery by $3333.33 (one-third of the $10,000 difference between the $205,000 and the $195,000), and with the expenses to be divided equally by Bleecker and Krantz. According to respondent's calculations, Krantz would receive $73,668, Bleecker would receive $21,667, and respondent would receive $99,665. A trial was held in the probate court after the motion for summary judgment was denied. Respondent Chessick testified at the trial that in a meeting in October 1988 he informed Bleecker of the possibility of the federal court making an award of section 1988 attorney fees. He told Bleecker that if the court awarded attorney fees, his firm would be entitled to them. They had several discussions about the section 1988 attorney fees, after which Bleecker signed the retainer contact. Jay Bleecker testified at the trial that there was no discussion about the fee agreement before he signed the retainer contract. Respondent only mentioned section 1988 attorney fees once, after the fee agreement was signed. He and Krantz refused to accept the checks Chessick tendered because the amounts were incorrect. On December 2, 1994, the trial court entered a judgment order, which stated in part: (1) petitioners Krantz and Bleecker were entitled to $125,729, which represented the settlement amount less a one-third contingency fee payable to respondent and less expenses; (2) petitioners were entitled to judgment against respondent for $9,891.78 in interest on $125,729 for the period from February 11, 1991, through January 25, 1993, plus $34,665 of the funds that were previously sequestered by the court, together with any accrued interest; and (3) petitioners were entitled to their costs of litigation but not attorney fees. Respondent filed a motion to reconsider and vacate. The motion was denied on January 6, 1995. Respondent appealed, and petitioners cross-appealed. II. Respondent's Appeal Respondent Chessick argues that the contingency-fee agreement did not address the allocation of section 1988 attorney fees because they were covered by an oral agreement providing that if they were awarded to Bleecker, respondent would be entitled to only the section 1988 fees and not to the one-third contingency fee. Respondent argues that he was entitled to $65,000 in section 1988 attorney fees for Bleecker's case and to $34,665 as the contingency fee for Krantz's case. Petitioners argue that the only fee agreement was the written agreement and that respondent was not entitled to $65,000 in section 1988 attorney fees. The parties disagree over the application of the parol evidence rule, over whether the *80 alleged section 1988 agreement was a modification of the original fee agreement, and over the existence of consideration for the alleged section 1988 agreement, but we do not reach these issues because the trial court heard the evidence and entered judgment in favor of petitioners. The trial court determined that the parties did not enter into an oral agreement concerning section 1988 attorney fees. Bleecker testified that there never was an agreement that respondent was to get any section 1988 attorney fees. Respondent testified that there were several discussions about section 1988 attorney fees and that there was an oral agreement followed by the execution of the retainer contract. The trial court held that any oral agreement regarding attorney fees that preceded the written retainer contract merged into the retainer contract. The retainer contract governed the terms of the attorney-client relationship in the federal lawsuit. Respondent argues that he properly testified about an agreement concerning a matter that was not part of the original contingency-fee agreement, but the fact remains that the trier of fact made the determination, after weighing the credibility of the witnesses, that the only fee agreement with Bleecker was the written contingency-fee agreement. A trial court's findings of fact will not be overturned unless they are against the manifest weight of the evidence. Cosmopolitan National Bank v. Cook County, 103 Ill.2d 302, 318, 82 Ill.Dec. 649, 469 N.E.2d 183 (1984). We hold that the trial court's findings of fact were not against the manifest weight of the evidence. The trial court correctly calculated the amounts of the attorney fees and the settlement proceeds due to petitioners. Respondent next argues in his appeal that the award of prejudgment interest to petitioners was erroneous primarily because the funds were unliquidated and because he acted in good faith. The interest statute provides for interest on money, including money that becomes "due on any bond, bill, promissory note, or other instrument of writing." 815 ILCS Ann. 205/2 (West 1993). A reviewing court may reverse a determination of prejudgment interest only if it is against the manifest weight of the evidence. Boyd v. United Farm Mutual Reinsurance Co., 231 Ill.App.3d 992, 1000, 173 Ill.Dec. 465, 596 N.E.2d 1344 (1992). An instrument in writing within the meaning of the statute is one that sets up a creditor-debtor relationship. Wilder Binding Co. v. Oak Park Trust and Savings Bank, 173 Ill.App.3d 34, 42-43, 122 Ill.Dec. 856, 527 N.E.2d 354 (1988), rev'd on other grounds, 135 Ill.2d 121, 142 Ill.Dec. 192, 552 N.E.2d 783 (1990). Prejudgment interest will be awarded for amounts due on an instrument in writing if the amount was liquidated or was easily computed. Oldenburg v. Hagemann, 207 Ill.App.3d 315, 327, 152 Ill. Dec. 339, 565 N.E.2d 1021 (1991). If the amount is determinable, interest can be awarded on money payable even when the claimed right and the amount due require legal ascertainment. Martin v. Orvis Brothers & Co., 25 Ill.App.3d 238, 251, 323 N.E.2d 73 (1974). A good-faith dispute would preclude an award for prejudgment interest in claims brought for unreasonable refusal to pay but would not preclude an award in a claim brought under a written instrument. Michigan Avenue National Bank of Chicago v. Evans, Inc., 176 Ill.App.3d 1047, 1061-62, 126 Ill.Dec. 245, 531 N.E.2d 872 (1988). We find that the contingency-fee agreement was an instrument in writing within the meaning of the interest statute, that the amounts due to petitioners were easily calculable, and that an award of prejudgment interest was appropriate under the circumstances of this case. As there was no agreement that respondent would be entitled to section 1988 attorney fees in lieu of the one-third contingency amount, there was no justification for respondent to retain more than what was owed under the contingency-fee agreement. This was not the case where opposing parties in a dispute over a claim to money had different legal positions on the division of the money. Here there were conflicting accounts on whether there was in existence an agreement that would provide the basis for only one party's claim to the *81 money at issue. Only the credibility of the parties was at issue. Respondent argues that he tendered the undisputed amounts in compliance with Rule of Professional Conduct 1.15(b), which requires that an attorney is to promptly deliver to his client any funds that the client is entitled to receive. 134 Ill.2d R. 1.15(b). Respondent tendered the undisputed amounts to his clients on more than one occasion. We note that these checks were marked "for final settlement" or similar language, which indicated that the checks were probably meant to be full payment. The clients' acceptance of these checks as labeled might have discharged their claims for additional money from respondent. See A.F.P. Enterprises, Inc. v. Crescent Pork, Inc., 243 Ill.App.3d 905, 911, 183 Ill.Dec. 356, 611 N.E.2d 619 (1993) (when there is an honest dispute of the amount due and the debtor tenders a check with the explicit understanding of both parties that it is full payment of all demands, acceptance and negotiation of a check with notice of the condition is an accord and satisfaction). Respondent's tender of the undisputed funds was not unrestricted, and petitioners were deprived of the use of all their funds. We hold that petitioners are entitled to an equitable award of prejudgment interest on the entire balance owed to them and not just on the amount tendered by respondent in the checks. See In re Marriage of Pitulla, 202 Ill.App.3d 103, 119, 147 Ill.Dec. 479, 559 N.E.2d 819 (1990) (prejudgment interest was awarded for client for excessive attorney fees to compensate client for time that she was deprived of the use of those funds). III. Petitioners' Cross-Appeal Petitioners argue that the trial court erred in not deducting expenses before computing the contingency fees owing to respondent. Rule of Professional Conduct 1.5(c) provides in part: "A contingent fee agreement shall be in writing and shall state the method by which the fee is to be determined, including the percentage or percentages that shall accrue to the lawyer in the event of settlement, trial or appeal, litigation and other expenses to be deducted from the recovery, and whether such expenses are to be deducted before or after the contingent fee is calculated." (Emphasis added.) 134 Ill.2d R. 1.5(c). Respondent's contingency-fee agreement stated in relevant part that the clients agreed to pay one-third of any sum received on their claims "together with all reasonable and necessary advances, costs and expenses" paid by respondent. Although the agreement could have clearly stated that expenses would be deducted "after" the contingency fee was calculated, we interpret the word "together" as having the same meaning. A writing is ambiguous if the language is susceptible to more than one meaning or if the meaning is obscure. Meyer v. Marilyn Miglin, Inc., 273 Ill.App.3d 882, 888, 210 Ill.Dec. 257, 652 N.E.2d 1233 (1995). This agreement is not ambiguous because it is not an equally plausible interpretation that the expenses were to be deducted before the contingency fee was calculated. Petitioners next argue that the trial court erred in not awarding them the fees they paid to an attorney to recover the settlement money from respondent. Under the general "American" rule, a successful litigant may not recover his attorney fees unless authorized by statute or by agreement. Dreyfuss Metal Co. v. Berg, 210 Ill.App.3d 189, 199, 155 Ill.Dec. 19, 569 N.E.2d 19 (1990). Petitioners argue that one who commits a wrongful act is liable for all the ordinary and natural consequences of his act, including attorney fees in bringing a lawsuit against the wrongdoer. Petitioners cite in support Nalivaika v. Murphy, 120 Ill.App.3d 773, 76 Ill.Dec. 341, 458 N.E.2d 995 (1983), in which the court held that attorney fees were recoverable if they were incurred in litigation with third parties and if they were necessitated by defendant's wrongful act. Petitioners also cite Sorenson v. Fio Rito, 90 Ill.App.3d 368, 371, 45 Ill.Dec. 714, 413 N.E.2d 47 (1980), in which the court found to be recoverable the attorney fees of a second attorney hired by plaintiff to attempt to obtain refunds of tax penalties that were *82 assessed solely as a result of a former attorney's negligence. The Illinois Supreme Court in Ritter v. Ritter, 381 Ill. 549, 554, 46 N.E.2d 41 (1943), noted the general rule that "where the wrongful acts of a defendant involve the plaintiff in litigation with third parties or place him in such relation with others as to make it necessary to incur expenses to protect his interest, the plaintiff can then recover damages against such wrongdoer, measured by the reasonable expenses of such litigation, including attorney fees." Petitioners in the underlying action have not been involved in litigation with third parties as a result of respondent's conduct. Nor were petitioners compelled to incur expenses to protect their interests. Petitioners had to file suit to recover their money because of respondent's conduct, but the American rule bars successful plaintiffs from recovering attorney fees. Petitioners also rely on Chambers v. NASCO, Inc., 501 U.S. 32, 45-46, 111 S.Ct. 2123, 2133, 115 L.Ed.2d 27, 45 (1991), which held that attorney fees can be awarded by federal courts when the party "acted in bad faith, vexatiously, wantonly, or for oppressive reasons." Chambers discussed the federal courts' inherent power to assess attorney fees for fraud committed on a court, for a party's bad faith in delaying or disrupting litigation, or for the hampering of enforcement of a court order. None of these types of conduct—engaged in after commencement of litigation—are involved in the underlying action. Furthermore, in Illinois there is no bad-faith exception to the American rule on attorney fees. Cummings v. Beaton & Associates, Inc., 249 Ill.App.3d 287, 320, 187 Ill. Dec. 701, 618 N.E.2d 292 (1992). The judgment of the trial court is affirmed. Affirmed. TULLY, P.J., and GREIMAN, J., concur.

Imagine my happiness when I found out that they planned to do a series of movies about the book with the author directly involved in the project. Well, today they published a short film called "Devil at the Door" just as a preview for the things to come... And things to come are fucking depressing, see it for yourself. Tactically this is a joke, both the attackers and the defense had no fucking clue what they were doing. The defense should have used better defensive positions, being holed up in the ground and being distributed in the area, not in a fucking line 30 cm apart from each other!! It seems they don't know the difference between cover and concealment, wood pallets won't stop rifle bullets, they won't stop even handgun bullets! The attackers where playing around with their motorcycles while they where getting shot, and the ones on foot didn't even use the trees as cover. Fuck is so frustrating I have seen better tactics in Hollywood movies, people filming Lights out supposedly are preppers they should know better... The acting sucked so fucking bad I can't believe it and the FX are non existent. Damn, I'm so disappointed... EDIT: Travis Fox the Executive Producer of the project replied to some comments similar to mine with this: In the movies themselves, we'll dig trenches, fortify fighting positions, have interlocking fields offire, etc. The barricade here was meant to deny movement more than provide cover (although therewere sandbags and items like a backhoe bucket). This was a two day film shoot intended to share theconcepts of the story on a very limited budget. Your points are very valid, though. Sorry for not explaining this trailer better.  This wasn't cherry picking scenes - this is a short film thatcaptures the concept of the movie series. The movies have NOT started filming yet. We have nomovie footage to use, and this footage will not be used in the movies. This was a two day film projectintended to get your attention. We couldn't dig trenches and do a lot of things we WILL do in theactual movies here.

Register with email Login Increase your reputation by posting useful answers to people's questions and earning positive votes from trusted members of the community. 10 Superstitious Beliefs of Filipinos That Influence Their Life Filipinos are very superstitious. Added to that, the beliefs have great influence in their day to day life. Many people still believe that these superstitious beliefs can help them cope with life; although many new generations aren't affected by the beli Many Filipinos still cling to the traditional practices, beliefs and traditions. They are still strongly rooted to the superstitious beliefs that they believe could help them deal with day to day occurrences and events. This trait was influenced by the Hindus who have been part of the past colonization of the Philippines. Despite the computer age that has changed the lifestyles of most Filipinos, many Filipinos still spice their life with superstitious beliefs that they strongly believe could help them cope with day to day activities especially the most important events in life such as marriage, finding a job and moving to a new house. To a lot of Filipinos, superstitious beliefs are very crucial in making decisions and planning an important event. The superstitious beliefs of Filipinos are often consulted especially during important occasions such as weddings, trips, moving to a new house, opening a business, finding a job and many more major events in life. Here are 10 superstitious beliefs that many Filipinos believe can help them deal with life: The phase of the moon is very important when planning very important events. According to Filipino beliefs, the phase of the moon is crucial when planning something. Thus, it is better to find a job during the waxing period of the moon rather than during the waning period. A black cat crossing your path means bad luck. Many people in the Philippines believe that when a cat crosses their path they should go back to their house and postpone their plan or errand for the day because pushing with the plan may produce bad results. To some, the black cat means a warning that something dangerous maybe waiting to happen. In order to be safe, people prefer to stay at home first. The bride should never try on the wedding dress. It is believed that if the bride tries on the wedding dress before the wedding takes place, the wedding will not pursue or something negative will occur. A single woman who sings while cooking will marry a widower. Single women are often advised not to sing while cooking because they will marry a widower. Combing hair at night means you are inviting the early death of your parents. The old people forbid combing hair at night because of the belief. Black ants inside the house means good luck. When black ants are parading inside the house, you should be happy because it means that there is something good brewing. It could mean money coming or a job promotion. Taking pictures with your boyfriend or girlfriend means engagement will be broken. If you want to marry your boyfriend or girlfriend then avoid taking pictures with him or her. In some instances, young men and women who are just playing around with their girlfriend or boyfriend would invite their sweetheart to take pictures with them in the hope that their relationship will end. Some surprisingly achieve their wish but others end up marching to the altar. Before moving to a new house; you should bring the following to the house first: salt, rice, water and a religious image. According to Filipino beliefs, these things will help bring positive energy to the house which will help the occupants become successful. You should not sit on a pillow because it will mean slow recovery from an illness. According to beliefs, a person who sits on his pillow will undergo a slow recovery process when he gets sick. A child becomes smarter if you trim his hair when he is exactly one year old then insert his cut hair between books. According to beliefs of some Filipinos; children are supposed to have their hair trimmed only if they are already one year old. Some strongly forbid trimming the kids hair if they are not yet one year old. According to some, it is best if you trim the child's hair and insert the cut hair in books. These are only superstitious beliefs but many Filipinos make these beliefs part of their day to day life. Whether they are advantageous or disadvantageous depends on how the person involved sees the situation. The modern age has made many Filipinos changed their lifestyle including the traditions. Most of the younger generations do not anymore believe in superstitious beliefs.

[ Master Post ]Title: Rhapsody in Ass Major – Chapter 251Co-Conspirator:MaverikLokiFandom: Dragon AgeCharacters: Cormac Hawke ♂, Anders ♂Rating:M (L2N3S3V0D0)Warnings: Black humour, something that could have been angst if it wasn’t these two, mild smuttingNotes: Late-night, semi-serious conversation, in bed. Revelations, confessions, everything’s not all right, and it never will be, and that’s just fine. When Anders slept in Cormac’s bed, it was his choice, the same as when he slept in his own bed, or really when Cormac slept in his bed. They weren’t together every night. A lot of nights, but not every night. Anders didn’t even sleep, every night, which Cormac gave him a lot less trouble about than he’d been expecting, but then, Cormac slept the strangest hours, in the oddest places, left to himself. But, Anders was free to come and go as he chose, with heavy doors to keep out intruders — to keep out templars. It was still a lightless hole he lived in, maybe less so since Varric had gotten him the fungus lamps, but it was his lightless hole. His home, his decision to stay in it, his choice to be with Cormac. And he had no doubt that Cormac would let him stay, even if they never shared a bed again. And somehow, as much as it hurt to imagine anyone doing that for him, it made him want to stay with Cormac all the more. Sometimes, they’d tease — the errant ‘you owe me’ — but it was never serious, never more than a promise that when the terror of the moment was over, there would be that dance of hands and flesh and reassurance they were both still alive after whatever idiot decision that had been. Sometimes, Anders cried, and if he said he wasn’t, Cormac would say only one tart thing, and then pretend that was true, just telling stories and making terrible jokes, while Anders kneaded Cormac’s chest hair like a cat, making the occasional squeaky choked-up laugh. Cormac said he sounded just like a kitten, and Anders would mutter something about dirty secrets. Sometimes, Cormac cried, great heaving sobs, but very rarely, when he didn’t have some immediate and obvious reason, like Anders’s tongue buried in some fresh, deep gash in his flesh. And Cormac screamed for more, howled for Anders to tear him apart and wept to be made whole. And Anders trusted him, completely, trusted that Cormac would never ask him to break something he couldn’t fix, knowing Cormac was already in so many ways irreparable. They both were. "Cormac?" Anders breathed, the name barely a sound in his mouth, but Cormac heard, anyway. He always did. "Mmm?" Cormac had learnt to pretend he hadn’t woken up like a shot, brain fully engaged, and ready to lay down death on anything that came near his family in the night, or any other time of day. It had been discomfiting to Artie, when they were young, so he taught himself to sound half-awake. "Just… hold my hand." Anders’s voice was tight, like he’d woken from a nightmare, or maybe hadn’t slept at all. "So, we’ll go. Anton can keep the city from burning down for a couple of weeks. I promise you, Anders, you say the word, and we’ll go. I’ll have to come back, of course, eventually, but I can go on holiday with you. I can take you home." And that was the thing — Cormac couldn’t stay away from Kirkwall. Even going for a few weeks made him nervous, but he had no doubt that Fenris could take care of Artemis for that long. Especially now, with Danarius dead. All he had to do was keep Artemis out of the Gallows. "There’s nothing to go back to." Anders shook his head. "I was twelve, Cormac. Twelve. No one wants me there. I’m a mage. I don’t belong there. If there’s even a there still there." "From Kassel, aren’t you? It’s still there." Cormac sounded a little confused — not about the mage part, that much was obvious, but the idea of there no longer being a ‘there’. "Sort of. I’m said to be from Kassel. It’s where we could have letters sent. But, Kassel’s a city," Anders explained. "And we’re from the other side of the river, where the farms were. The river had the docks along one side, to both sides of the city, but the other side was the lakes. Lake, when the floods came. It’s good land, but it’s dangerous. So close to the city, it wasn’t as bad for darkspawn, but, you know, it’s the Anderfels. There’s a reason all of Thedas uses our words for them. There’s always stories of little farming villages disappearing — lost to the floods, the wind, or the darkspawn. I never saw it, but there were a lot of things I never saw." "Just glad I wasn’t your first Rivaini, or you’d have a terrible opinion of all of us," Cormac teased. "You’re not even Rivaini, Cormac, you’re as Fereldan as dogs and dogshit." Anders tried to laugh and wound up coughing, instead. "Arf." Cormac bit Anders’s shoulder. "Grr." Anders cackled, quietly. "Bloody doglord." "Maybe a little. I’m not Anton, though." "Thank the Maker. I don’t know what I’d do." Anders shook his head. "Probably not get naked and cuddly," Cormac pointed out. "Have I mentioned how much I appreciate it when you’re naked? That you give me that incredible view of every sharp line of you, every jagged scar, the way that little bit of hair on your chest turns the light gold along the edge of this one right here…" Cormac moved his hand to run a finger down one of Anders’s scars without letting go of Anders’s hand. "That one was Howe’s favourite, too. Well, kind of. There was more of it then. It was straighter." Anders didn’t make the obvious point — that he’d been lacking the most obvious scar, then, the one that interrupted most of the others on his chest. "So, I’m not the only one?" Cormac teased running his fingertips down to trace swirls on Anders’s belly. Anders looked over his shoulder. "Your entire family. Cullen. It must be the worst kept secret in Kirkwall, by now." "Yeah. I’m not really big on explaining how I walked away from that. The others, magic would have been enough. That one… Justice wanted to live, so we did. I’m not saying I didn’t, but what I wanted had nothing to do with what happened. No man should have survived that. No man, no mage, no magister. But, here we are." Anders curled around Cormac’s arm. "Justice," Cormac whispered against Anders’s back, "thank you." "We killed them all. They thought they knew what we were, but we killed them all. Do you know what metal smells like when it catches fire? Because I do. The fire took everything. Looked like a dragon had gotten us all." The words spilled out of Anders on distant, dizzy breaths. "I worked at it, but the flesh wasn’t mine any more, and he fought me. For years, I’ve been working on my heart. It’s mine, again. Another few years and maybe I’ll trust it without his help. The scars set too long. I’m not what I used to be." "You’re all I’ve ever known you to be. Kind and strong and gorgeous. So fucking patient with me. You telling me you’d have been any less of that before?" Cormac teased, nibbling at Anders’s back. "Yes." The word hung between them for a long moment, before Anders spoke again. "I was stronger, prettier, healthier. But, I wasn’t kind, and I wasn’t patient. Not then. Maybe, before that, but you’d have to ask—" He laughed bitterly. "No, I don’t even know if he’s still alive — not that he’d admit it if he was. I don’t know if they made him Tranquil. I was determined, maybe. But, I wasn’t kind. I may still not be kind, but I suspect I am just." "You are the sweetest thing ever to crawl out of the wreckage of Andraste’s word, and I am including my brother in that assessment, because he is such a damnable asshole," Cormac insisted, rubbing Anders’s belly. "So am I, Cormac. Just not as much to you." Anders buried his face in the pillow. "What about the at least three times I called you ‘Karl’ and then stole all the blankets and kicked you onto the floor, naked?" Cormac shrugged, hooking his knee over Anders’s hip. "Grief. Also, it was seven times. It’s not like you covered me in rashvine, while I was sleeping, like Artemis did." "Yet, you still sleep with both of us. I openly dispute that I am the patient one of us, at this point." "I may be patient with you, but who’s patient with me? Who doesn’t do things like put fucking nettles in my bed when I fuck up?" Cormac rested his head against the back of Anders’s shoulder again. "To be fair, he is my brother, and brothers are supposed to do shit like that." "Why would I put nettles in your bed? For one, I sleep in it." Anders looked over his shoulder again and swallowed before he spoke again. "And you’re good to me." "I’m decent to you," Cormac corrected. "I don’t treat you so differently to the way I treat Isabela or Anton. You’re part of my family, Anders. Other people don’t get to talk shit about you, in front of me, unless they are equally related, and there’s really no one related to us with anything shite to say, at this point, except maybe Carver, and he’s just looking for an excuse to punch me. I make sure you have what you need. I drag you out on stupid expeditions where we all almost get killed." "You found me in a sewer and bought me breakfast. I threatened you, I hit you, I cried all over you, and you just kept showing up with food and keeping me warm. You gave me a home, a real home that’s actually mine, where I can be alone if I want to be. You don’t just give me what I need, you look after me — you remind me to eat, you make me sleep, you make Justice sleep. You let me get ink stains all over your good robes, because I forgot what I had on my hands." Anders finally rolled over, so he could see Cormac’s face, instead of just his ear. "You deserve so much better…" "I really prefer you not dead. Let’s start there. I found you in a sewer and bought you breakfast, because I was kind of worried about you being dead, if I didn’t. And as I recall, it was a pretty good guess. Eating and sleeping are also part of this not dead thing. Threatening me, hitting me, and crying all over me? I have four siblings, Anders. This is just another day with the Hawkes. A home? You’ll remember we made an offer to Fenris, too. The two of you didn’t really have anywhere else to go, but he’s a stubborn prick and you actually like me, for some reason." Leaning in, Cormac kissed Anders under the chin. "I deserve better? Where exactly am I going to find better than what I have? I have a family that I love, I have the money to care for them, and I’m a nobleman in one of the most important ports in all Thedas. On top of that, I’m the apostate son of the infamous Rivaini apostate-mercenary Malcolm Hawke, and I look exactly like him. Everyone knows who I am, and they all have suspicions about what I am. It’s… there is no ‘better’ from here. This is more than I have any right to hope for, and I’d really like it if you stuck around, while it lasts. While I still have something to give." "Cormac Hawke, you ignorant shit, you will have something to give until you’re good and dead, and we both know it. You just— I don’t even know how you do it. I’d say magic, but I’m a mage and you don’t see me doing it." Anders took a breath and Cormac cut him off. "Yes, I do. Every day." Cormac tucked his head under Anders’s chin. "One of these days, I’m not going to be there to catch you, and you’re going to work yourself to death. Don’t even tell me it’s not possible. I watched you almost succeed." "That’s not what’s going to kill me, Cormac, I promise." "Please don’t die, Anders. Please don’t make me choose." Cormac curled tighter around Anders, knowing that when it came down to it, he’d always put Artemis before any of them, himself included. Himself, especially. But, Carver… "There’s no choice for you." The smile was clear in Anders’s voice. "I know what you have to do, and so do you. My point, you breathtakingly sexy fool, is that I’m not going to work myself to death, with or without you." "Am I going to regret taking you at your word?" Cormac grumbled, tipping his head back to nibble at Anders’s neck. "I hope not! After all this, to think of you being disappointed in my survival!" Anders pulled back just enough to look Cormac in the eyes. "Sounds terribly familiar, really." "Sodding queynt." Cormac shoved Anders back far enough to get a good look at him. "I’m not going to be disappointed if you live. There are things you could do that would make me regret not stopping you, but I’m not going to regret your continued survival." "Even if?" Anders asked, not finishing the thought. "Yeah. Yeah, even if you make me—" Cormac studied Anders’s face. "Can you please not do that? Or the other that?" "I can’t imagine why I would do either one." Anders’s eyebrows lifted. "I’m— I’m not… It’s not going to be like that. I’m not going to do that to you." Cormac touched Anders’s cheek, brushing back a wisp of hair caught in the stubble along his jaw. A thousand things he could say, points he could make, flashed across his eyes, but he settled on, "Weren’t we trying to sleep?" He pressed his lips to Anders’s, feeling that long, lean body relax against him, after a moment. Slowly, Cormac nibbled along Anders’s lower lip, tongue occasionally flicking against the chewed-ragged edges, until Anders responded, catching him in a long, demanding kiss that left them both panting. "In a minute, tomcat. I need that hand for a bit, yet," Cormac reminded Anders, pressing his knob against Anders’s very, very nice ass. That was something Cormac had noticed, over the years — that old coat fit Anders better and better, as time passed, and the suggestion of a shapely bottom became much more of a factual statement. As tired and ragged as Anders had looked lately, it was still an improvement over when they’d met. Huffing like he’d been greatly inconvenienced, Anders let go, letting himself relax as Cormac eased into him. "Cormac?" The name slipped out in a long, slow breath. "Hmm?" "I need you." "I’m so sorry." Cormac laughed against the back of Anders’s shoulder, hand finally splayed across Anders’s belly, tracing the faint lines of muscle. "Asshole," Anders scoffed, reaching back to swat Cormac sharply across the ass. "I do." Anders pressed his face against the pillow, laughing, as he reached out to pull another pillow to his chest. "I still think you could fit your fist," Cormac muttered, nibbling at the edge of Anders’s shoulderblade. "That’s have, not are," Anders pointed out. "And you’re crazy." Cormac snorted. "Tell me something I don’t know." He picked up a slow, gentle rhythm, barely moving, rocking his hips in time to the lazy circling of his hand, as he listened to the soft sounds Anders made, relaxing against him. It wasn’t what either of them usually meant by ‘fucked into unconsciousness’, but it would do, for now. Cormac couldn’t find it in him to complain, as Anders drifted off, in his arms. Profile Ywain Penbrydd writes mountains of crappy fic. These stories are now written here, where he has the ability to filter them for suck before releasing them into the wild. Occasionally, he also makes icons, banners, and other art-garbage. Feel free to link to anything here, but don’t republish or translate, without leaving a comment on the original work with a link to your copy. Saving my stuff for private use, in any format you like, is totally cool with me. All characters are the property of their creators, and, yes, some of them do belong to me. 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Q: (Only) YouTube Videos automatically fast forward I recently updated my Ubuntu from 11.10 to 12.04 lts and there seems to be a problem while I'm playing YouTube videos they, for no reason, start to fastforward (audio and video). This does not happen with other programs or websites only in YouTube videos. It does not matter if they are in flash or in HTML 5 player this problem persists throughout A: In my case I solved it this way; First install "PulseAudio Volume Control" if it is not installed yet; sudo apt-get install pavucontrol Now start "PulseAudio Volume Control" and go to the Configuration tab. Under "High definition Audio Controller" I had "Digital stereo (HDMI) Output" selected. I had to change that to "Off". I also had to change the build in audio profile from digital to analogue, otherwise I didn't hear anything. edit: after the change above, it still happens sometimes. But I can use pulseaudio -k to restart pulseaudio. (-k will kill it, but it will restart automatically). A: For a very brief time, Youtube recently exposed an experimental player on their site with fast and slow play capabilities, and this may be affecting the current player. If this is the case, it would help to clear your browser cookies.

UNPUBLISHED UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FOURTH CIRCUIT JOANN W. HARRIS,  Plaintiff-Appellant, v. DONALD L. EVANS, Secretary; GRANT ALDONAS, Under Secretary; TIMOTHY HAUSER, Deputy Under Secretary; FARYAR SHIRZAD, Assistant  No. 02-2250 Secretary; BERNARD CARREAU, Deputy Assistant Secretary; RICHARD MORELAND, Deputy Assistant Secretary; SUSAN KUHBACH, Office Director; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE, Defendants-Appellees.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Maryland, at Baltimore. J. Frederick Motz, District Judge. (CA-01-3808-JFM) Submitted: March 26, 2003 Decided: May 30, 2003 Before MICHAEL, TRAXLER, and SHEDD, Circuit Judges. Affirmed and remanded by unpublished per curiam opinion. 2 HARRIS v. EVANS COUNSEL Joann W. Harris, Appellant Pro Se. Tarra R. DeShields-Minnis, OFFICE OF THE UNITED STATES ATTORNEY, Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellees. Unpublished opinions are not binding precedent in this circuit. See Local Rule 36(c). OPINION PER CURIAM: Joann W. Harris appeals the district court’s order granting sum- mary judgment in favor of the Appellees. Harris filed this complaint pursuant to the Whistleblower Protection Act of 1989 ("WPA"), 5 U.S.C. § 1201 (2000), and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, 42 U.S.C. §§ 2000 et seq. (2000), alleging race discrimi- nation and retaliation by Appellees. We review an award of summary judgment de novo. See Higgins v. E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Co., 863 F.2d 1162, 1167 (4th Cir. 1988). Summary judgment is appropriate only if there are no genuine issues of material fact and the moving party is entitled to judgment as a matter of law. See Fed. R. Civ. P. 56(c); see also Celotex Corp. v. Catrett, 477 U.S. 317, 322-23 (1986). The evidence is viewed in the light most favorable to the non-moving party. See Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc., 477 U.S. 242, 255 (1986). Judicial review of a WPA claim occurs only after the Merit Sys- tems Protection Board ("MSPB") has issued a final decision on the claim. See 5 U.S.C. § 1214(c)(1)(2000); 5 U.S.C. § 7703 (2000). Dis- missal of a claim is appropriate when a plaintiff fails to exhaust his or her administrative remedies. See McKinney v. Reich, 1996 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 21925 (S.D.W. Va. Mar. 25, 1996), aff’d without opin- ion, 208 F.3d 208 (4th Cir. 2000). Harris failed to exhaust her admin-  HARRIS v. EVANS 3 istrative remedies by not submitting her claim to the MSPB. Furthermore, because the district court lacked jurisdiction to hear Harris’s whistleblower claim in the first instance, it also lacked the power to excuse her failure to exhaust her administrative remedies. See Stella v. Mineta, 284 F.3d 135, 144 (D.C. Cir. 2002). Therefore, the district court properly granted summary judgment in Appellees’ favor on Harris’s WPA claim. Likewise, Title VII requires federal employees to exhaust their administrative remedies before bringing an employment discrimina- tion complaint to federal court. See 42 U.S.C. §§ 2000e-16(c) (2000); 29 C.F.R. § 1614.407; see also Brown v. Gen. Serv. Admin., 425 U.S. 820, 832 (1976); Zografov v. Veterans Admin. Med. Ctr., 779 F.2d 967, 968-69 (4th Cir. 1985). The record reveals that Harris did not exhaust her administrative remedies with regard to either her removal claim or her non-selection claim. Furthermore, equitable principles do not weigh against the dismissal of the claims on this basis because she demonstrates no "affirmative misconduct" on Appellees’ part that pre- vented her from pursuing her administrative remedies. See id. There- fore, the district court properly granted summary judgment in Appellees’ favor on these claims. Harris also alleges that she was denied services under the Depart- ment of Commerce’s Career Transition Assistance Plan ("CTAP"). In order to qualify for such services, an employee must be considered "displaced" or "surplus." To show that she was a "displaced" employee, Harris must show that she "has received a specific reduc- tion in force (RIF) separation notice or notice of proposed removal for declining a directed reassignment or transfer of function outside of the local commuting area." 5 C.F.R. § 330.604(c)(1) (2002). To show that she was a "surplus" employee, she must show that she "has received a certificate of expected separation or other official certification issued by the agency indicating that the position is surplus." 5 C.F.R. § 330.604(i)(1) (2002). Because Harris did not satisfy these require- ments, she was not eligible for CTAP services. Thus, her claim pursu- ant to these regulations is not legally cognizable, and the district court properly granted summary judgment in favor of the Appellees. Harris also advances a hostile work environment claim. In order to state such a claim, a plaintiff must identify conduct "‘severe or perva- 4 HARRIS v. EVANS sive enough’ to create ‘an environment that a reasonable person would find hostile or abusive.’" Von Gunten v. Maryland, 243 F.3d 858, 870 (4th Cir. 2001) (quoting Harris v. Forklift Sys., Inc., 510 U.S. 17, 21 (1993)). Furthermore, a plaintiff must show that she sub- jectively found the environment hostile and abusive and that a reason- able person would have found the environment to be so. Id. There is no dispute that Harris subjectively found her work environment to be hostile and abusive. Nonetheless, she failed to demonstrate that a rea- sonable person would so find. In particular, Harris is unable to show that the conduct of which she complains is severe and pervasive enough to sustain a hostile work environment claim. Thus, we find that the district court properly granted summary judgment in favor of Appellees on this claim. Lastly, Harris alleged discrimination and retaliation as evidenced by reassignments, temporary detail, decreased job duties, the lack of a performance evaluation for fiscal year 1996, and various other actions. In order to make a prima facie discrimination case, a plaintiff must show: (1) membership in a protected class; (2) subjection to an adverse job action; and (3) circumstances surrounding the adverse job action that support a reasonable inference of discrimination. See Hal- perin v. Abacus Tech. Corp., 128 F.3d 191, 201 (4th Cir. 1997). Simi- larly, in order to make a prima facie retaliation case, a plaintiff must show: (1) participation in a protected activity; (2) subjection to an adverse job action; and (3) a causal connection between the activity and the adverse action. See Matvia v. Bald Head Island Mgmt., Inc., 259 F.3d 261, 271 (4th Cir. 2001). While Harris is able to meet the first element on both claims, she does not demonstrate the requisite adverse job action because none of the alleged conduct affected the "terms, conditions, or benefits of employment." See Page v. Bolger, 645 F.2d 227, 233 (4th Cir. 1981); see also Von Gunten, 243 F.3d at 865. Thus, the district court properly granted summary judgment in favor of the Appellees on these claims. Accordingly, we affirm the order of the district court granting sum- mary judgment in favor of the Appellees on all claims. We further decline to rule upon motions filed by the Department of Commerce asking this court to seal certain documents allegedly protected by the Privacy Act, 5 U.S.C. § 552a (2000), to order the return of these doc- uments, and to prohibit Harris from making any disclosures of the  HARRIS v. EVANS 5 allegedly protected information. Because we find that these motions are more properly dealt with in the first instance by the district court, we remand the case and direct the district court to consider them. To facilitate the district court’s consideration of DOC’s motions, we direct the Clerk to return the record to the district court and to enter forthwith a partial mandate as to this aspect of the case. We dispense with oral argument because the facts and legal conten- tions are adequately presented in the materials before the court and argument would not aid the decisional process. AFFIRMED AND REMANDED 

Survival after lung transplantation in systemic sclerosis. A systematic review. Lung transplantation is a life-saving option for systemic sclerosis (SSc)-associated pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) and interstitial lung disease (SSc-ILD) patients. However, some programs may be concerned about the possibility of excess post-transplantation mortality related to the extra-pulmonary manifestations of SSc. The objective of this study was to evaluate survival of SSc patients post-lung transplantation. We secondarily evaluated SSc lung transplant recipient characteristics (age, sex, and type of SSc lung disease), and discussed post-lung transplantation survival of SSc patients and non-SSc patients (idiopathic PAH, and ILD). A systematic review of MEDLINE, EMBASE, Cochrane Central Registry of Controlled Trials and CINAHL (all inception to 2012) was performed to identify studies evaluating post-lung transplant survival in SSc compared to PAH and ILD patients. Two reviewers independently abstracted study and survival data. Two hundred twenty-six citations were screened to identify 7 observational studies reporting SSc patients who underwent single lung, double lung, or heart-lung transplantation. Mean age at transplantation ranged 46-53 years. SSc post-transplantation survival ranged 69%-91% at 30-days, 69%-85% at 6-months, 59%-93% at 1-year, 49%-80% at 2-years, and 46%-79% at 3-years. Causes of death included graft failure, infection, cardiac events, hemorrhagic stroke, respiratory failure, malignancy, pulmonary hypertension, complications of bronchiolitis obliterans syndrome, anesthetic complication, and scleroderma renal crisis. There were no reports of recurrence of SSc in the lung allograft. The short-term and intermediate-term survival post-lung transplantation are similar to IPAH and ILD patients requiring lung transplantation.

After IFR1 update i have noticed that our AV calls take something 10 seconds to initialize when started. I get the video screen with only black in it and the hang up button immediately. Then it takes that 10 seconds to initialize and then i sound and video comes online and the control buttons.

Designing and evaluating an episodic, problem-based geriatric curriculum. Medical school geriatric training has been directed primarily at improving students' attitudes and knowledge about elderly patients. This study evaluated a clinical problem-based geriatric course for medical students. The two-semester geriatric course was presented to 136 second-year medical students. Faculty taught students about clinical reasoning in ambulatory geriatrics using written cases, patient-actors, literature reviews, lectures, and discussions. At the end of the course, students' clinical activity was evaluated using audiotaped interviews with standardized geriatric patients. A questionnaire examined students' knowledge, attitudes, and their evaluation of the course. All 136 students completed the post-course standardized patient interview, and 105 (77%) completed questionnaires. Students rated the course favorably and had high confidence scores for ability to assess geriatric problems. Students' knowledge increased during the course compared to a precourse examination (P less than .05). Evaluation of post-course standardized patient interviews revealed that students who scored higher on the knowledge test tended to ask more psychosocial questions during the interview (r = 0.38). Students who scored higher on the attitude test spent more time eliciting patients' feelings during the interview (r = 0.38). Those with lower scores on the attitude test spent more time asking factual, nonpsychosocial questions (r = 0.28). A clinical problem-based geriatric course for preclinical medical students can be successful in improving students' knowledge. Attitudes and knowledge effect the questions a student asks during the medical interview.

Recent Comments About Owner of PageF30.com. Translator of Demian by Hermann Hesse into English - an interlinear translation for German students and those who want to see the original text. http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/mithradates Fluent in Japanese, Korean. Proficient in Mandarin, Turkish, German, French, Portuguese, others. Tuesday, October 27, 2009 Edit: looks like this was a hoax. Impressive! I'll leave the original post as-is though for posterity. --- Yet another meteorite impact - this one hit Latvia and ended up creating a fiery crater about 5 metres in depth. That link has a video of the crater while it was burning so definitely check it out. And all this only a day after NASA released a report on another meteorite impact in Indonesia earlier this month. These meteor strikes are actually quite timely as the Arecibo Observatory can point to them as reason enough to keep the observatory well funded since it's our best way to detect these objects before they strike. We obviously need more capability than what we have at present though since fairly large meteors continue to slip past us before we have a chance to spot them. Just one country to the north we have a good example of what a much larger meteorite strike looks like - Kaali Järv, a small lake in Estonia formed from an ancient meteorite impact. That crater was certainly an inferno after it first fell and a disaster zone for years after, but now it's a nice lake with beautiful trees surrounding it and a school nearby. I went there in 1998.

578 S.W.2d 456 (1979) FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF JEFFERSON, Texas, Appellant, v. TRI-STATE GENERAL AGENCY, INC., Appellee. No. 8625. Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Texarkana. February 20, 1979. Rehearing Denied April 24, 1979. *457 J. R. Cornelius, The Cornelius Law Firm, Jefferson, for appellant. Otto A. Ritter, Roberts, Harbour, Smith, Harris, French & Ritter, Longview, for appellee. RAY, Justice. This is a negligence case. Appellant (plaintiff), First National Bank, Jefferson, Texas (Bank), brought suit against appellee (defendant), Tri-State General Agency, Inc. (Tri-State), seeking damages in the sum of $5,109.73, together with costs, twelve percent (12%) penalty and reasonable attorney's fees. The jury verdict was favorable to Tri-State and the trial court entered its judgment accordingly. Appellant Bank has perfected its appeal and submits twelve points of error for our consideration. The judgment of the trial court will be affirmed. The evidence in this case shows that Donald Van Huss purchased a mobile home which was financed through the First National Bank in Jefferson, Texas. The mobile home was destroyed by fire on March 4, 1975. Van Huss was not carrying fire insurance. Mrs. Helen Jones Hayles, an employee of Tri-State, testified that Mrs. Pat Starkey, an employee of the Bank, called her on the morning of March 7, 1975, about 8:30 a. m. asking Mrs. Hayles if she had received the Bank's application for single interest insurance on the Van Huss mobile home. Mrs. Hayles stated that she had not yet opened her mail and did not know whether the application had been received. Mrs. Hayles then said that Mrs. Starkey told her that the mobile home had burned on March 4th; that the application had been made out after the fire, but that it had been back-dated to February 28th. Mrs. Starkey denied making the phone call and stated that she mailed the application on March 3, 1975. Mrs. Hayles testified that she told Mrs. Starkey on March 7, 1975, *458 during the telephone conversation that Tri-State could not accept a back-dated application and that the company could not write a policy because the fire had occurred before the application was received. It was further stated by Mrs. Hayles that she later opened her mail on March 7, 1975, found the application after learning of the fire, and nevertheless, mailed the application to Tri-State's office in Longview because that office handled all applications for coverage on mobile homes. She informed the Longview office of the fire and therefore no policy was ever issued covering the Van Huss mobile home. The evidence shows that the application was for single interest insurance which would pay the balance of the note at the Bank in the event of the loss of the mobile home from hazards covered by a policy. The application was on a form bearing the name of "Bank Services Agency" with a Fort Worth address. The application was apparently mailed by Mrs. Starkey to Bank Services Agency and was thereafter received from Bank Services Agency by Tri-State on March 7th. The procedure was to send applications to Bank Services Agency, a local recording agent, which in turn forwarded the application to Tri-State's office in Fort Worth. Tri-State would then send the application to its branch office in Longview and that office would issue an insurance policy through Dixie Auto Insurance Company, a non-admitted surplus line insurer, if coverage could be provided. Mr. Bob Libby, a vice president for Tri-State, testified that Tri-State was a surplus line managing general agency that provided coverage for hard-to-place and difficult risks that are not normally covered by local recording agents. A surplus line general agency has contracts with various companies so that the agency can accept applications and issue policies for the companies that it represents. In 1975, Tri-State was writing policies covering mobile homes through Dixie Auto Insurance Company. The Longview office of Tri-State had been designated as the office to represent Dixie as the surplus line managing general agency in Texas and therefore all mobile home insurance applications were handled through that office. Tri-State was not authorized to transact its surplus lines insurance directly with an applicant, but had to deal through a regular licensed recording agent. In response to special issues, the jury found that the application for single interest insurance was mailed on or before March 3, 1975. Tri-State had a known procedure for rejecting applications when payments to the financing institution were more than thirty (30) days past-due. The jury found that the note on the Van Huss mobile home was more than thirty (30) days past-due on the date the application was mailed. The jury also found that Tri-State did not fail to present the Bank's application to an insurance company for the issuance of an insurance policy. Conditional issues related to the alleged negligence of Tri-State in failing to present the application to an insurance company for coverage were not answered because the jury in effect found that Tri-State had presented the application to an insurance company for coverage. The evidence supports the jury findings. Mrs. Starkey testified that she mailed the application on March 3, 1975, which supports the jury's answer to Special Issue No. 1. Pat Starkey admitted that the note was more than thirty (30) days past-due and the Bank records so indicated, all of which supported the jury's answer to Special Issue No. 2. Mrs. Hayles testified that she mailed the application to Tri-State's office in Longview on the same date that she received it, that is, March 7, 1975, and that Tri-State's office in Longview was in charge of issuing policies on mobile homes through companies for which it was an agent. This testimony substantiates the jury's finding in response to Special Issue No. 3, that the Bank's application for insurance was presented to an insurance company for coverage because the testimony shows that Tri-State General Agency was an agent for Dixie Auto Insurance Company through whom the policies were ordinarily written. *459 This case was tried on the theory that the application blanks of Bank Services Agency which were left at the Bank constituted an offer to provide insurance coverage and that when the application was mailed by Mrs. Starkey on March 3, 1975, that such mailing constituted an acceptance of the offer to provide coverage. However, the Bank employees could not testify that Tri-State had left the applications with the Bank or that Tri-State had offered to provide insurance coverage when an application was mailed to Bank Services Agency. There is no proof in the record that Tri-State had in any way made an offer to the Bank to provide single interest insurance coverage on property financed by the Bank. Further, there is no proof in the record which shows that Tri-State was obligated to furnish the Bank insurance upon the receipt of an application for coverage. Since there was no proof that Tri-State owed a duty to the Bank, to provide insurance coverage, its failure to issue the requested policy did not constitute negligence. The usual negligence case is based on a fact situation in which the insurance company unreasonably delays in passing on the application to a potential carrier, thereby depriving the claimant of the opportunity of getting other insurance. See 43 Am.Jur.2d, Insurance, Sec. 215. It cannot be said that Tri-State has been guilty of unreasonable delay in this case since the fire occurred before it received the application. As a general rule, an insurance company is not bound to accept an application or proposal for insurance, but may reject it for any reason or arbitrarily. 43 Am.Jur.2d, Insurance, Sec. 213, p. 269. For an analogy, see Texas Life Insurance Company v. Shuford, 131 S.W.2d 118 (Tex.Civ.App. San Antonio 1939, no writ). Since Tri-State learned of the loss before receiving the application for coverage, it could not issue the policy under the circumstances of this case, even though the application may have been mailed by Mrs. Starkey to Bank Services Agency in good faith. It is contrary to public policy for an insurance company, the business of which is affected with a public interest, knowingly to assume the burden of a loss that occurred prior to making the contract to provide insurance coverage. Burch v. Commonwealth County Mutual Insurance Company, 450 S.W.2d 838 (Tex.1970). In the present case, the loss had already occurred when the application for coverage was received by Tri-State from Bank Services Agency and Tri-State as agent for the carrier had already learned of the loss. No policy could have been issued in good faith and Tri-State would have violated public policy by doing so. Estoppel is not applicable to this case, as asserted by appellant, for the reason that estoppel cannot be used to create a contract. It is defensive in character and cannot be used to create a cause of action. Snow v. Gibraltar Life Insurance Company of America, 326 S.W.2d 501 (Tex.Civ.App. Dallas 1959, writ ref'd n. r. e.); 22 Tex. Jur.2d, Estoppel, Sec. 20. The testimony of Milton Jones was properly excluded as being immaterial. His testimony was to have been offered for the purpose of showing that Tri-State was negligent in handling the application, but the Bank never proved that Tri-State owed it any duty to provide insurance coverage. Further, the jury found that Tri-State presented the application to an insurance company for coverage and the testimony of Mr. Jones, as an expert witness, would not have refuted this finding. Appellant's points of error are overruled. The judgment of the trial court is affirmed. CORNELIUS, C. J., not participating.

Details Buckle fastening Butterfly embroidery to heel Heel height: 10cm Upper, lining and sole: Leather Presented in a Sophia Webster box Overview A statement design that will turn heads on special occasions, the Chiara pumps by Sophia Webster boast a dramatic, intricately embroidered butterfly to the heel, with opulent hues cascading down the slim-line heel. Elsewhere the silhouette is pared-down with dainty straps in an opulent metallic tone, working perfectly when shown off with high hemlines.

Canada's Private Sector Union Toronto – April 5, 2018 – On April 10, UFCW Canada activists from across the country will join in observing Equal Pay Day – a day that represents how far into the next year a woman must work to earn the same amount made by a man in the previous year. Nationally, women in Canada make 74 cents for every dollar earned by a man per year. According to Statistics Canada, the gap is even wider for women belonging to minority groups. For example, Indigenous women face a 57% gender pay gap; women with disabilities face a 46% gap; immigrant women face a 39% gap; and racialized women face a 32% gap. UFCW Canada sees closing the gender wage gap as a national priority and continues to push all levels of government to address this urgent issue. Accordingly, we stand in solidarity with organizations like the Ontario Equal Pay Coalition to advocate for a future where women workers are paid what they are owed. You can help close the gender wage gap by supporting UFCW Canada’s Closing the Gap campaign today. You can also print our Equal Pay Day 2018 poster and post it in your workplace, or post pictures on social media showing your support for closing the gender wage gap using the hashtag #EqualPayDay. Be sure to tag UFCW Canada (@UFCWCanada) when posting your pics! UFCW Canada’s participation in Equal Pay Day actions across Canada is a part of our union’s ongoing effort to close the gender wage gap and achieve equity for women workers in Canada. For more information on UFCW Canada’s advocacy efforts for women, visit our Women and Gender Equity Committee webpage.

package com.github.megatronking.svg.sample.extend; import android.os.Bundle; import android.support.annotation.Nullable; import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity; import com.github.megatronking.svg.sample.R; import com.github.megatronking.svg.support.extend.SVGView; public class SVGViewColorSampleActivity extends AppCompatActivity { @Override protected void onCreate(@Nullable Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.activity_extend_view_color_sample); setTitle(getIntent().getStringExtra("title")); // set in code SVGView view1 = (SVGView) findViewById(R.id.extend_view1); view1.setSvgColor(getResources().getColorStateList(R.color.selector_image_color)); SVGView view2 = (SVGView) findViewById(R.id.extend_view2); view2.setSvgColor(getResources().getColorStateList(R.color.selector_image_color)); view2.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.ic_android_red); } }

<?php namespace Drupal\image\Tests; use Drupal\image\Entity\ImageStyle; use Drupal\simpletest\WebTestBase; /** * Tests the functions for generating paths and URLs for image styles. * * @group image */ class ImageStylesPathAndUrlTest extends WebTestBase { /** * Modules to enable. * * @var array */ public static $modules = ['image', 'image_module_test']; /** * @var \Drupal\image\ImageStyleInterface */ protected $style; protected function setUp() { parent::setUp(); $this->style = ImageStyle::create(['name' => 'style_foo', 'label' => $this->randomString()]); $this->style->save(); } /** * Tests \Drupal\image\ImageStyleInterface::buildUri(). */ public function testImageStylePath() { $scheme = 'public'; $actual = $this->style->buildUri("$scheme://foo/bar.gif"); $expected = "$scheme://styles/" . $this->style->id() . "/$scheme/foo/bar.gif"; $this->assertEqual($actual, $expected, 'Got the path for a file URI.'); $actual = $this->style->buildUri('foo/bar.gif'); $expected = "$scheme://styles/" . $this->style->id() . "/$scheme/foo/bar.gif"; $this->assertEqual($actual, $expected, 'Got the path for a relative file path.'); } /** * Tests an image style URL using the "public://" scheme. */ public function testImageStyleUrlAndPathPublic() { $this->doImageStyleUrlAndPathTests('public'); } /** * Tests an image style URL using the "private://" scheme. */ public function testImageStyleUrlAndPathPrivate() { $this->doImageStyleUrlAndPathTests('private'); } /** * Tests an image style URL with the "public://" scheme and unclean URLs. */ public function testImageStyleUrlAndPathPublicUnclean() { $this->doImageStyleUrlAndPathTests('public', FALSE); } /** * Tests an image style URL with the "private://" schema and unclean URLs. */ public function testImageStyleUrlAndPathPrivateUnclean() { $this->doImageStyleUrlAndPathTests('private', FALSE); } /** * Tests an image style URL with a file URL that has an extra slash in it. */ public function testImageStyleUrlExtraSlash() { $this->doImageStyleUrlAndPathTests('public', TRUE, TRUE); } /** * Tests that an invalid source image returns a 404. */ public function testImageStyleUrlForMissingSourceImage() { $non_existent_uri = 'public://foo.png'; $generated_url = $this->style->buildUrl($non_existent_uri); $this->drupalGet($generated_url); $this->assertResponse(404, 'Accessing an image style URL with a source image that does not exist provides a 404 error response.'); } /** * Tests building an image style URL. */ public function doImageStyleUrlAndPathTests($scheme, $clean_url = TRUE, $extra_slash = FALSE) { $this->prepareRequestForGenerator($clean_url); // Make the default scheme neither "public" nor "private" to verify the // functions work for other than the default scheme. $this->config('system.file')->set('default_scheme', 'temporary')->save(); // Create the directories for the styles. $directory = $scheme . '://styles/' . $this->style->id(); $status = file_prepare_directory($directory, FILE_CREATE_DIRECTORY); $this->assertNotIdentical(FALSE, $status, 'Created the directory for the generated images for the test style.'); // Create a working copy of the file. $files = $this->drupalGetTestFiles('image'); $file = array_shift($files); $original_uri = file_unmanaged_copy($file->uri, $scheme . '://', FILE_EXISTS_RENAME); // Let the image_module_test module know about this file, so it can claim // ownership in hook_file_download(). \Drupal::state()->set('image.test_file_download', $original_uri); $this->assertNotIdentical(FALSE, $original_uri, 'Created the generated image file.'); // Get the URL of a file that has not been generated and try to create it. $generated_uri = $this->style->buildUri($original_uri); $this->assertFalse(file_exists($generated_uri), 'Generated file does not exist.'); $generate_url = $this->style->buildUrl($original_uri, $clean_url); // Ensure that the tests still pass when the file is generated by accessing // a poorly constructed (but still valid) file URL that has an extra slash // in it. if ($extra_slash) { $modified_uri = str_replace('://', ':///', $original_uri); $this->assertNotEqual($original_uri, $modified_uri, 'An extra slash was added to the generated file URI.'); $generate_url = $this->style->buildUrl($modified_uri, $clean_url); } if (!$clean_url) { $this->assertTrue(strpos($generate_url, 'index.php/') !== FALSE, 'When using non-clean URLS, the system path contains the script name.'); } // Add some extra chars to the token. $this->drupalGet(str_replace(IMAGE_DERIVATIVE_TOKEN . '=', IMAGE_DERIVATIVE_TOKEN . '=Zo', $generate_url)); $this->assertResponse(403, 'Image was inaccessible at the URL with an invalid token.'); // Change the parameter name so the token is missing. $this->drupalGet(str_replace(IMAGE_DERIVATIVE_TOKEN . '=', 'wrongparam=', $generate_url)); $this->assertResponse(403, 'Image was inaccessible at the URL with a missing token.'); // Check that the generated URL is the same when we pass in a relative path // rather than a URI. We need to temporarily switch the default scheme to // match the desired scheme before testing this, then switch it back to the // "temporary" scheme used throughout this test afterwards. $this->config('system.file')->set('default_scheme', $scheme)->save(); $relative_path = file_uri_target($original_uri); $generate_url_from_relative_path = $this->style->buildUrl($relative_path, $clean_url); $this->assertEqual($generate_url, $generate_url_from_relative_path); $this->config('system.file')->set('default_scheme', 'temporary')->save(); // Fetch the URL that generates the file. $this->drupalGet($generate_url); $this->assertResponse(200, 'Image was generated at the URL.'); $this->assertTrue(file_exists($generated_uri), 'Generated file does exist after we accessed it.'); $this->assertRaw(file_get_contents($generated_uri), 'URL returns expected file.'); $image = $this->container->get('image.factory')->get($generated_uri); $this->assertEqual($this->drupalGetHeader('Content-Type'), $image->getMimeType(), 'Expected Content-Type was reported.'); $this->assertEqual($this->drupalGetHeader('Content-Length'), $image->getFileSize(), 'Expected Content-Length was reported.'); // Check that we did not download the original file. $original_image = $this->container->get('image.factory')->get($original_uri); $this->assertNotEqual($this->drupalGetHeader('Content-Length'), $original_image->getFileSize()); if ($scheme == 'private') { $this->assertEqual($this->drupalGetHeader('Expires'), 'Sun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT', 'Expires header was sent.'); $this->assertNotEqual(strpos($this->drupalGetHeader('Cache-Control'), 'no-cache'), FALSE, 'Cache-Control header contains \'no-cache\' to prevent caching.'); $this->assertEqual($this->drupalGetHeader('X-Image-Owned-By'), 'image_module_test', 'Expected custom header has been added.'); // Make sure that a second request to the already existing derivative // works too. $this->drupalGet($generate_url); $this->assertResponse(200, 'Image was generated at the URL.'); // Check that the second request also returned the generated image. $this->assertEqual($this->drupalGetHeader('Content-Length'), $image->getFileSize()); // Check that we did not download the original file. $this->assertNotEqual($this->drupalGetHeader('Content-Length'), $original_image->getFileSize()); // Make sure that access is denied for existing style files if we do not // have access. \Drupal::state()->delete('image.test_file_download'); $this->drupalGet($generate_url); $this->assertResponse(403, 'Confirmed that access is denied for the private image style.'); // Repeat this with a different file that we do not have access to and // make sure that access is denied. $file_noaccess = array_shift($files); $original_uri_noaccess = file_unmanaged_copy($file_noaccess->uri, $scheme . '://', FILE_EXISTS_RENAME); $generated_uri_noaccess = $scheme . '://styles/' . $this->style->id() . '/' . $scheme . '/' . drupal_basename($original_uri_noaccess); $this->assertFalse(file_exists($generated_uri_noaccess), 'Generated file does not exist.'); $generate_url_noaccess = $this->style->buildUrl($original_uri_noaccess); $this->drupalGet($generate_url_noaccess); $this->assertResponse(403, 'Confirmed that access is denied for the private image style.'); // Verify that images are not appended to the response. Currently this test only uses PNG images. if (strpos($generate_url, '.png') === FALSE ) { $this->fail('Confirming that private image styles are not appended require PNG file.'); } else { // Check for PNG-Signature (cf. http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/book/chapter08.html#png.ch08.div.2) in the // response body. $this->assertNoRaw( chr(137) . chr(80) . chr(78) . chr(71) . chr(13) . chr(10) . chr(26) . chr(10), 'No PNG signature found in the response body.'); } } else { $this->assertEqual($this->drupalGetHeader('Expires'), 'Sun, 19 Nov 1978 05:00:00 GMT', 'Expires header was sent.'); $this->assertEqual(strpos($this->drupalGetHeader('Cache-Control'), 'no-cache'), FALSE, 'Cache-Control header contains \'no-cache\' to prevent caching.'); if ($clean_url) { // Add some extra chars to the token. $this->drupalGet(str_replace(IMAGE_DERIVATIVE_TOKEN . '=', IMAGE_DERIVATIVE_TOKEN . '=Zo', $generate_url)); $this->assertResponse(200, 'Existing image was accessible at the URL with an invalid token.'); } } // Allow insecure image derivatives to be created for the remainder of this // test. $this->config('image.settings')->set('allow_insecure_derivatives', TRUE)->save(); // Create another working copy of the file. $files = $this->drupalGetTestFiles('image'); $file = array_shift($files); $original_uri = file_unmanaged_copy($file->uri, $scheme . '://', FILE_EXISTS_RENAME); // Let the image_module_test module know about this file, so it can claim // ownership in hook_file_download(). \Drupal::state()->set('image.test_file_download', $original_uri); // Suppress the security token in the URL, then get the URL of a file that // has not been created and try to create it. Check that the security token // is not present in the URL but that the image is still accessible. $this->config('image.settings')->set('suppress_itok_output', TRUE)->save(); $generated_uri = $this->style->buildUri($original_uri); $this->assertFalse(file_exists($generated_uri), 'Generated file does not exist.'); $generate_url = $this->style->buildUrl($original_uri, $clean_url); $this->assertIdentical(strpos($generate_url, IMAGE_DERIVATIVE_TOKEN . '='), FALSE, 'The security token does not appear in the image style URL.'); $this->drupalGet($generate_url); $this->assertResponse(200, 'Image was accessible at the URL with a missing token.'); // Stop supressing the security token in the URL. $this->config('image.settings')->set('suppress_itok_output', FALSE)->save(); // Ensure allow_insecure_derivatives is enabled. $this->assertEqual($this->config('image.settings')->get('allow_insecure_derivatives'), TRUE); // Check that a security token is still required when generating a second // image derivative using the first one as a source. $nested_url = $this->style->buildUrl($generated_uri, $clean_url); $matches_expected_url_format = (boolean) preg_match('/styles\/' . $this->style->id() . '\/' . $scheme . '\/styles\/' . $this->style->id() . '\/' . $scheme . '/', $nested_url); $this->assertTrue($matches_expected_url_format, "URL for a derivative of an image style matches expected format."); $nested_url_with_wrong_token = str_replace(IMAGE_DERIVATIVE_TOKEN . '=', 'wrongparam=', $nested_url); $this->drupalGet($nested_url_with_wrong_token); $this->assertResponse(403, 'Image generated from an earlier derivative was inaccessible at the URL with a missing token.'); // Check that this restriction cannot be bypassed by adding extra slashes // to the URL. $this->drupalGet(substr_replace($nested_url_with_wrong_token, '//styles/', strrpos($nested_url_with_wrong_token, '/styles/'), strlen('/styles/'))); $this->assertResponse(403, 'Image generated from an earlier derivative was inaccessible at the URL with a missing token, even with an extra forward slash in the URL.'); $this->drupalGet(substr_replace($nested_url_with_wrong_token, '////styles/', strrpos($nested_url_with_wrong_token, '/styles/'), strlen('/styles/'))); $this->assertResponse(403, 'Image generated from an earlier derivative was inaccessible at the URL with a missing token, even with multiple forward slashes in the URL.'); // Make sure the image can still be generated if a correct token is used. $this->drupalGet($nested_url); $this->assertResponse(200, 'Image was accessible when a correct token was provided in the URL.'); // Check that requesting a nonexistent image does not create any new // directories in the file system. $directory = $scheme . '://styles/' . $this->style->id() . '/' . $scheme . '/' . $this->randomMachineName(); $this->drupalGet(file_create_url($directory . '/' . $this->randomString())); $this->assertFalse(file_exists($directory), 'New directory was not created in the filesystem when requesting an unauthorized image.'); } }

Photo: Enceladus and Epimetheus Dwarfed by The Immensity of Saturn's Rings A pair of Saturn's moons appear insignificant compared to the immensity of the planet in this Cassini spacecraft view along the terminator where day transitions to night. The larger moon Enceladus (313 miles, or 504 kilometers across) is also on the left, just a bit closer to the center of the image. Epimetheus (70 miles, or 113 kilometers across) appears as a tiny black speck on the far left of the image, left of Enceladus, just below the thin line of the rings. The rings cast wide shadows on the southern hemisphere of the planet. This view looks toward the northern, sunlit side of the rings from just above the ringplane. The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on Nov. 4, 2011 using a spectral filter sensitive to wavelengths of near-infrared light centered at 752 nanometers. The view was acquired at a distance of approximately 746,000 miles (1.2 million kilometers) from Saturn and roughly 600,000 miles (1 million kilometers) from Enceladus and Epimetheus. Image scale is about 47 miles (75 kilometers) per pixel on Saturn, 37 miles (60 kilometers) per pixel on Enceladus and 41 miles (66 kilometers) per pixel Epimetheus. The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The Cassini orbiter and its two onboard cameras were designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The imaging team is based at the Space Science Institute, Boulder, Colo.

using Senparc.Core.Models; using Senparc.Scf.Core.Enums; using Senparc.Scf.Core.Models; namespace Senparc.Areas.Admin.Models.VD { public class Feedback_BaseVD : BaseAdminVD { } public class Feedback_IndexVD : Feedback_BaseVD { public string Kw { get; set; } public PagedList<FeedBack> FeedbackList { get; set; } } }

Congratulations, America, you managed to avoid a military takeover of the United States and the dictatorial imposition of martial law. The military exercise Jade Helm 15 generated enough conspiracy theories this year that it garnered mockery on late-night television, commentary from presidential candidates and reaction from the Texas governor. The basic thrust of the concerns: The military was laying the groundwork for martial law – if not now, then sometime in the future. The exercise will end quietly Tuesday, however. Carried out in parts of Texas, Mississippi, Louisiana and Florida, it will conclude after two months of operations, said Suzanne Nagl, a spokeswoman for Army Special Operations Command, which oversaw it. The Washington Post’s report added that Nagl does not yet have details on the lessons of the training exercise, but she added that officials at the Army Special Operations Command “believe the exercise overall was a success.” Remarkably, “success” in this case did not mean the confiscation of Americans’ guns, as part of some kind of military takeover. If you were away over the summer, you may not know what I’m talking about, so let’s recap . From July 15 to today, the military organized some training exercises for about 1,200 people in areas spanning from Texas to California. Somehow, right-wing activists got it in their heads that the exercises, labeled “Jade Helm 15,” were part of an elaborate conspiracy theory involving the Obama administration, the U.S. military, Walmart, and some “secret underground tunnels.” It sounded ridiculous because it was ridiculous. Nevertheless, as far-right hysteria grew louder, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) felt the need to order the Texas Guard to “monitor” the military exercises – just in case. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) stoked the same fires, and even Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn (R-Texas) arranged a meeting with Pentagon officials and a three-star Air Force general, just to make sure American officials weren’t planning a takeover of America, or something. As recently as mid-May – just four months ago – Public Policy Polling found that one-third of Republicans believed the conspiracy theory that “the government is trying to take over Texas.” I suppose technically, the Jade Helm 15 exercises won’t end until later today, so far-right activists still have a few more hours to worry about the end of American freedom as we know it, but I’m reasonably optimistic that their hysteria was misplaced.

Transgenerational effects of chemotherapy: Both male and female children born to women exposed to chemotherapy have fewer children. There is little known about the transgenerational effect of chemotherapy. For example, chemotherapy is known to decrease fecundity in women. But if women are able to have offspring after chemotherapy exposure, do these children also have decreased fecundity? This study is a retrospective cohort study utilizing the Utah Population Database (UPDB), a comprehensive resource that links birth, medical, death and cancer records for individuals in the state of Utah. The male and female children (F1 generation) of chemotherapy-exposed women (F0 generation) were identified. The number of live births (F2 generation) to this F1 generation was compared to two sets of chemotherapy-unexposed, matched controls using conditional Poisson regression models (regression coefficient, 95% confidence interval, P-value). The first unexposed was established using the general population and the second unexposed was established using first cousins to the F1 generation. The exposed F1 individuals had 77.2% fewer children (-1.48; -2.51 to -0.70; p = 0.001) relative to the unexposed general population. F1 males had 86.9% fewer children (-2.03; -4.91 to -0.51; p = 0.005) and F1 females had 70.5% fewer children (-1.22; -2.40 to -0.36; p = 0.016). When comparing to their unexposed cousins, the F1 generation (both sexes combined) had 74.3% (-1.36; -2.82 to -0.29; p = 0.029) fewer children. The sons and daughters (F1 generation) of chemotherapy-exposed women have fewer live births when compared to both matched, unexposed general population and cousin controls. Chemotherapy may have a transgenerational effect in exposed women which needs further investigation.

Month: January 2017 Up at 4 am doing some research for my assignment when I decided to take a break and scroll through Facebook ( like I did four minutes ago.Shh). I quickly go through my timeline, trying to resist the urge to NOT take another Buzzfeed test and then I come across a certain post. Let me just say that recently, I was writing another article to post up on the blog about how we ought to understand one another better and not hate the other person for having a different opinion – whether or not that opinion is them supporting Trump or thinking women need to stay at home. I said in the post that if we all learned to respect what someone else had to say no matter how much we hated it or how offensive it was, that maybe we could change their minds for the better someday. But that is so so difficult to do when you come across people on your very own friendlist who blatantly post things they know will hurt you. And trust me, I only keep family and close friends on my Facebook, so this person belonged somewhere in between. He isn’t just some stranger, we are technically family. I’m not saying you need to refrain yourself from having an opinion with the fear of offending someone (in which case we would have to stop saying anything altogether), but I think you can do it with a little more tact and respect. I like being blunt, but I stop short when I know it will hurt or discriminate someone else. I’m not one who gets offended easily. In fact, I make fun of people who do and most of the time, I’m at the receiving end of my own jokes. But heck, every once in a while like right now, it gets a little too much. I’m tired of seeing stereotypical posts about Muslims and Muslim women on Facebook. I’m tired of seeing people confuse an entire culture as a representation of an entire religion – they are two very different things. Tired of all the political hate and everything else. I want a week where the worst thing we will see on the news is a puppy being rescued from a tree, or a cat. Whatever. I don’t understand. You criticize Muslims and Muslim women and you view them from this little peeping hole. I would get it if you don’t know any Muslims at all, but you do. You know me and you know I don’t fit into that stupid stereotype you group us all in. But you refuse to believe in that because it’s not what you want to see. I’m still adjusting to the new reality that is 2017. 2016 was an awful year, but not because of all the celebrity deaths. People die everyday and in worse conditions. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not downplaying their deaths – it is equally saddening. But, being as active on social media as I am, I cannot help but feel numb towards deaths by heart attacks, suicide or accidents anymore. It’s sad isn’t it? To be exposed to so many horrible things that certain atrocities no longer bother you. It shouldn’t be that way but I would be lying if I said otherwise. Besides that, last year started of with three deaths of those close to me, one of whom was a childhood friend. The rest of the year slowly fell into place in many ways, with one obstacle after another. P.S: Does anyone ever feel like every time you’re about to score, something holds you back? Yeah, that was 2016 in a gist for me. After a while, you can’t help but lose hope and feel a wee bit negative. I always hear about people saying that we can take charge of our own happiness. I scoffed at that more than once because I always believed that things/people/events were what made happy moments. It took me awhile to realize that that idea only resonated with me because I din’t want to be responsible for myself. For those of you who don’t know me ( and for those of you who do), I’m careful to avoid being put in a position in which I can be blamed. So I usually end my sentences with “I think”, just so you can’t put the blame on me completely. It’s a habit I’m trying to work on changing. Anyway, back to what I was saying. I don’t know anyone who would describe me as an optimistic individual – heck, I wouldn’t call this optimism to begin with. However, choosing to let go of some of the anger, grief and overall unhappiness little by little that have accumulated in me in the past four years have been liberating. I don’t know how else to describe it. I’m not saying that I’m an overall negative person ( truly, I’m not), but there were instances in which I couldn’t help but feel less than happy about how certain things worked out. And because I’m not the kind of person who let’s go or even talks about how I feel, it just piles up over time. The most difficult one of all to let go of was the grief. After four years, I still deeply feel the loss of my grandfather. On some days, it feels so raw that I am suddenly back at the hospital room he passed away in. If I’m being completely honest with myself, I think that a part of me felt that getting over his death meant forgetting about him, like he was just another person. At certain points throughout the past four years, I felt guilty for being happy or enjoying Christmases even. There is a part of me that still feels those things, even now as I’m writing this. Then again, I don’t think we completely get over the people who were a part of us, but we can choose to channel it in a different way. For what has felt like forever, I’m finally starting to feel the way I used to. A lecturer once told me I have to want to feel happy again and not wait for it to waltz its way into my life – that was probably the wisest thing she ever said to me. So now, I’m choosing to stop dwelling on that fateful week in December 2012, but to use all my time and energy to appreciate every living second with those I still have with me. Because when my grandfather passed away, all I could think about was how I wished he could’ve seen me do all that he wished for.. Never stopping to think for a second that I still have important people here who can see it for themselves. I don’t want to ever be in a position where I have to wonder “what if”.. I never had that problem with my grandpa because we had a beautiful relationship and yet, I was still very distraught when he passed away. With that being said, I have turned over a new leaf and I’ve been working on feeling better ever since. I have decided to forgive and look past certain things too. Feels great so far. But let me tell you this. Being positive and choosing to feel better or be a better person is not as easy as everyone makes it out to be. It is so, so hard. It will be worth it though. Even though this resolution started out late last year, I’m determined to make 2017 a year I can be proud of. A year for self growth. Now excuse me while I struggle to get back into a normal sleep pattern. By that I mean, not sleeping at 7.30 in the morning watching re-runs of The Flash again.

David Dontoh resigns as Chairman of Ghana Movie Awards David Dontoh Legendary actor who used to hold the position as Chairman/ Head of the Ghana Movie Awards has taken a swipe at the organizers of the Ghana Movie Awards for relegating him to the background during the awards ceremony last year and has therefore resigned from that position until further notice. Mr. Dontoh was noticeably absent in major activities of the awards from the categorization stages to the main event, a situation that was direct opposite of what transpired in the previous editions where he took center-stage in the organization of the awards. In a chat with Razz, he revealed that the awards scheme is an insult, and that he has decided to stay away from it till he gets some sound explanations by the organizers on the organization of the awards. He explained that he was not informed about the 2013 GMA before its launch so he was not involved. He actually read about the launch in the newspapers. “If I am the President of the Ghana Movie Awards and I had no idea about the award’s launch, no idea about the movie screening and if any media house questions me on any platform, what answers do you expect me to give?” he quipped. “It doesn’t speak well of me, doesn’t speak well of the awards and I find it highly disrespectful,” Mr. Dontoh continued. According to him, Fred Nuamah and his team stabbed him in the back, therefore, he has decided to stay away from the awards scheme, and that he’s no longer going to be the President of the awards. As to whether he has approached the Founder of the awards, Fred Nuamah on the issue: he said that he called the Founder but the explanations given didn’t make sense. “I once heard him (Fred Nuamah) talking on Peace 104.3FM and giving some baseless reasons on why I was visibly absent from the Launch.” “I contacted him later but I think all indications showed that he doesn’t want me to be part of it. When someone doesn’t want you, or when someone doesn’t like you, you will know and see it,” he asserted. When we asked him if he might have had any depraved encounter with the organizers in recent times, he said he doesn’t have any problem with Fred Nuamah, and that since they started working together, they have been in good working terms. When the paper contacted Fred Nuamah, he simply retorted, “If that’s what David Dontoh is saying then, I hear, let me ask him and get back to you.”

Modern computing devices or computer systems commonly permit a user to view a displayed three-dimensional object from nearly any viewpoint. For example, an architect can design a new house or building using a computer aided design package, and then display that house from any of a variety of angles, such as from the top and sides of the house. To that end, many widely available computer design packages display toolbars and pallets that enable user control of the object. Among other things, the toolbar can have buttons, sliders, or other visual indicia that, when selected or otherwise manipulated by a user, causes the object or viewpoint to move in a desired manner. This type of user interface/display control has been effective for many years, especially in the desktop computer space and high performance computing space. Undesirably, however, with the accelerating trend toward smaller, portable devices, such as smartphones and tablets, these important toolbars and pallets can take up a great deal of screen space. In fact, they can take up so much space that the ultimate object being displayed may have very little room to maneuver and have significant size limitations.

Victor Arroyo became the latest casualty of the “Big Brother” house Thursday, after being evicted by a vote of 9-1. Although the 25-year-old could have tried to take himself off the block by playing in this week’s “Power Of Veto” competition, Arroyo says he doesn’t blame his supposed ally, Paul Abrahamian, for his eviction. “I’m not sure what he was thinking at the moment,” Arroyo tells ET Canada of Abrahamian’s decision to use the Houseguest’s Choice chip on Zakiyah Everette over him. “But in any case, he was doing what was best for his game, so I can’t blame him for that.” RELATED: ‘Big Brother’ Evictee Jozea Flores Talks Strategy, ‘Battle Back’ Twist Though the Louisiana native counted Abrahamian among his friends in the house, he seemed to rub others the wrong way. In her goodbye video, houseguest Natalie Negrotti told Arroyo she hopes he can “learn to be a little nicer to people, especially women.” Arroyo says the comment “did come off as a shock,” but adds, “If I did come off as disrespectful, I apologize. It was never my intention.” Thanks to the Battle Back competition, a new twist for season 18, Arroyo will have the chance to compete against four other evictees to re-enter the house. If he does get back into the game, though, he says he’ll be employing a very different strategy. RELATED: ‘Big Brother’ Season 18’s First Evictee Opens Up About His Exit: ‘I Have Made Peace With It’ “I would not want to work with anyone,” he declares. “Everyone wanted me out, so I want everybody out. No holding back.” Don’t miss “Big Brother” this Sunday at 8 p.m. ET on Global, where the new Head of Household nominates two fellow Houseguests for possible eviction and the winner of the “Big Brother Road Kill” competition nominates a third nominee.

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Shipping is extremely fast! I am currently a travel nurse and this was my second time attempting to order KN95 or N95 to have for when I go out shopping or in the event that the ONE N95 provided by the hospital becomes soiled or ruined. It is true that in the US medical staff uses the N95 (green/blue masks) however, it is a pandemic and supplies are extremely low and nonexistent so we have had some very generous people donating K95 to doctors and they have given us 1 to add to our 1... KN95 are simply a different brand from the N95s. I am just happy that I have a few more masks to use at work and outdoors day to day. The price, free shipping and speed of shipping is much appreciated during this pandemic! Stay safe. Thank you Webuyblack.com and Argan Afriquia! Bunny Hopson May 16, 2020, 12:51 PM THESE ARE NOT KN95 MASKS! THEY ARE PM 2.5s! PM 2.5 was very clearly stamped on the masks that I received, which is different from the stamp that is pictured in the listing. PM 2.5 filtration level masks do offer some protection, but on average the virus is much smaller than these are capable of filtering alone. This listing is very misleading--but product does arrive very quickly, albeit without a tracking number and in a ziplock bag. If you buy these, double them up or wear with a cloth mask! Here you can provide information as to what products can be returned, how many days your customers have to return their purchase, whether they will receive a refund in the original form of payment, a replacement or a store credit, who pays for the shipping of the previously purchased products to the store, and so on.

Monoclonal antibodies to sweet taste proteins. I. Analysis of antigenic epitopes on thaumatin by competitive inhibition assays. Using a competitive inhibition binding immunoassay, we have examined some of the antigenic epitopes present on thaumatin, an intense sweet tasting protein from the African fruit katemfe. We have developed a library of monoclonal antibodies which react with different surface antigenic epitopes on thaumatin. Some of these monoclonal antibodies also cross-react with monellin, another unrelated sweet tasting protein. The competitive binding immunoassay examines the immunoreactivity of both solid-phase and liquid-phase monoclonal antibodies. At least six major antigenic epitopes on thaumatin were identified by our library of monoclonal antibodies. This type of competitive binding analysis may prove useful in the discovery of "sweet taste determinants" on plant proteins and in the development of tandem immunoassays for quantitation of sweet tasting proteins in plant extracts.

The price of pedigree dogs is at an all-time high, and demand too. 2017 saw a 7% rise in the number of registered puppies in the UK. We visited Crufts, one of the world's largest dog shows, to find out why people spend so much on pedigree dogs. A Tibetan mastiff sold to a businessman for $1.9 million in 2014, yet years later the breed was being abandoned en masse. Why does this happen? Visit BusinessInsider.com for more stories How much do you love dogs? Enough to spend $1.9 million on one? That's how much a Tibetan mastiff was sold for in 2014. For dog breeders and owners, taking care of their pet becomes a lifelong obsession. So why are pedigree dogs so expensive? Every year, over 21,500 dogs from 43 countries compete at Crufts, and it's here that you can see some of the world's most sought-after dogs: Akita, Chow Chows, Löwchens and Samoyeds. Here, you can also buy dog treats, accessories and fashion items, as owners continue to invest money in their pets. The value of the UK pet products and services market is forecast to reach £2.1 billion by 2023. According to Caroline Kisko, Secretary of The Kennel Club UK, people invest in pedigree dogs because of the traits they exhibit. "If you have a dog from a breed that has always rounded up sheep," said Kisko, "you tend to have a dog that will round up the family. So there are some instincts that we have bred into dogs over the generations. Which tend to come out now. So if you have a dog that's always bred to be a good companion, something like a Pekingese or some of the other toy breeds, then they will naturally make good companions." While Best in Show winners at Crufts receive a trophy bowl and a modest £100, other competitions award larger cash prizes. Breeding can also save vulnerable breeds of dog. The Löwchen — a tiny breed worth up to $10,000 — has been around since about 1442. But by 1944, they were extremely rare. Breeder Madame Bennert brought them back from the brink of extinction, and in 1971, the Löwchen Club of America was formed. But while there are responsible breeders, there are also cases of irresponsible breeding. It was reported in 2018 that thousands of Tibetan mastiffs were being abandoned in China. Once the most sought-after dogs in the world — costing up to $1.9 million and sought after for their rarity and status, there was a complete collapse in demand. We spoke to Cat Wood, a Veterinarian at the RSPCA. "If a breed becomes very popular, then breeders can charge a lot more," said Wood. "There are obviously a lot of breeders out there who care a lot about animals and who are breeding them to the best of their abilities. But if they are unable to get enough puppies out there for the demand then that's where the unscrupulous breeders will come in. And they can make an awful lot of money." What's fashionable or photogenic plays a big part. Instagram is flooded with Tibetan mastiffs, huskies, Shiba Inus, chow chows and Akitas. Demand is growing for the pedigree market, with a 7% rise in the number of registered puppies in the UK in 2017. Pictures from Channel 4/ Filming by kind permission of the Kennel Club Ltd. Crufts 2019 will be shown on catch up on All 4.

0.5 c What is the biggest value in -7, -5, 1/30, 5? 5 Which is the fifth smallest value? (a) 2/13 (b) 1/5 (c) 0.4 (d) -0.3 (e) -23.5 c What is the biggest value in -4, -0.3, -5, 0.13? 0.13 Which is the second smallest value? (a) -2/3 (b) 5 (c) -3 (d) 0.0172 a What is the biggest value in 1/2, 1/4, 0.1, 2/3, 21? 21 What is the fourth biggest value in 5/14, -0.3, 0.4, 0.1? -0.3 What is the smallest value in -0.5, 2, 1/11, -13/6? -13/6 What is the smallest value in -4, -1/22, -6/337, 2/9? -4 What is the third biggest value in 2/9, -24/23, -3? -3 What is the smallest value in -0.36, -3, -0.5, 4? -3 What is the third biggest value in 1, -29, 2/7? -29 Which is the smallest value? (a) 1/8 (b) 5/2 (c) 0.01 (d) 4/5 (e) 22 c What is the third biggest value in -3/2, 211, 0? -3/2 What is the third biggest value in 0.1, -11, 10? -11 What is the second smallest value in 0.1, -9, -11, 3, -8? -9 What is the fourth biggest value in 0.5, 1.2, 2/13, 4, -8? 2/13 What is the third biggest value in -2.8, -2/17, -5, 0.2, 5? -2/17 Which is the second smallest value? (a) -1/4 (b) -2/109 (c) 0 b Which is the third smallest value? (a) 0.5 (b) 2/53 (c) -1/7 (d) 3.9 a Which is the fourth smallest value? (a) -1/13 (b) -2 (c) -1/2 (d) 5/8 d Which is the fourth smallest value? (a) -1/4 (b) -0.2 (c) 1/5 (d) -134 c Which is the fourth biggest value? (a) -0.6 (b) 1/2 (c) 3 (d) -0.4 (e) -0.09 d What is the second biggest value in -4.49, -3, 4/7? -3 What is the third smallest value in -0.1, -3, -20? -0.1 Which is the third biggest value? (a) -31 (b) 0.5 (c) 1/5 (d) 3 c What is the second biggest value in -1/7, -4, 2, 15, 4? 4 Which is the third smallest value? (a) -8 (b) -0.12 (c) 0.03 c What is the fourth smallest value in -2, 6/11, 9, 2, 4? 4 Which is the third smallest value? (a) -3 (b) 2/7 (c) -0.2 (d) -0.66 c Which is the biggest value? (a) 2/3 (b) -1/23 (c) 0.1 (d) 1 d What is the second biggest value in 1/53, -1, 1? 1/53 Which is the third smallest value? (a) 0.5 (b) -1/8 (c) 1 (d) 3 (e) -1/4 a Which is the second smallest value? (a) 7 (b) -1 (c) -3/2 (d) 1 b Which is the smallest value? (a) -5 (b) 0 (c) -2/9 (d) 8 (e) 3 a Which is the fourth smallest value? (a) -5 (b) -1 (c) 2/11 (d) -36.5 c What is the smallest value in 1, 3, 1/2, -1, 0.1? -1 What is the second biggest value in -4, 27, 2? 2 What is the second biggest value in -0.5, -2/5, 6? -2/5 What is the second biggest value in -1/5, -0.19, -0.3, 6/5? -0.19 What is the fourth biggest value in 0.5, -6, 0.1, -4, 3/5? -4 What is the fourth smallest value in 1/5, -16, -5, -5/3? 1/5 Which is the second biggest value? (a) -4 (b) -18.88 (c) 2 a What is the third biggest value in 0.17, 25, -1? -1 What is the third smallest value in -2/9, 2/13, 546/23, -4? 2/13 What is the third smallest value in 5.3, 0.5, 1/16? 5.3 What is the second biggest value in 5, 2/7, 0.1, 2/17, -5/6? 2/7 What is the second smallest value in 2/7, 0, 0.04, -2? 0 Which is the second biggest value? (a) 5 (b) 0 (c) -1 (d) 4 d Which is the second biggest value? (a) -204 (b) 4 (c) 22 b What is the second biggest value in -0.3, -1, 2.3? -0.3 Which is the second biggest value? (a) 7 (b) 6 (c) 0.66 b What is the biggest value in 2/21, 3, 1/8, -16? 3 Which is the biggest value? (a) 3 (b) -2251/4 (c) 0.1 a Which is the third smallest value? (a) -2/17 (b) 0.18 (c) 0 (d) -2.36 c What is the fourth biggest value in -92, 1/2, 9, 3? -92 Which is the third smallest value? (a) -0.054 (b) 0 (c) 2/3 c What is the biggest value in 0, -56, -2, 4? 4 What is the fourth biggest value in -2972, 0.2, 0.5, -1? -2972 Which is the third biggest value? (a) 8 (b) -8 (c) 3 b What is the third biggest value in 8, 22, 0.4, 2, -1? 2 What is the fourth biggest value in 0, -35/4, 2/41, 0.5? -35/4 Which is the second smallest value? (a) -0.57 (b) -206 (c) 1 a Which is the fourth smallest value? (a) -5 (b) -0.4 (c) 3 (d) 0.03 (e) 3/7 e What is the third biggest value in 0.18, 0.2, -4/27? -4/27 Which is the third biggest value? (a) -19 (b) -3 (c) 14 (d) -1 (e) 4 d Which is the second smallest value? (a) 1/5 (b) -87 (c) -3/4 c What is the second smallest value in -1/3, -14, 11? -1/3 What is the smallest value in -21, -2/25, 10/9, 1/10? -21 Which is the third biggest value? (a) -9 (b) -2/5 (c) -0.6 (d) 0.5 (e) 9 b Which is the smallest value? (a) -6 (b) 1 (c) 5 a What is the third biggest value in 3/7, 3.7, 1/3? 1/3 Which is the fourth smallest value? (a) 1 (b) -15 (c) -2 (d) 0.1 a Which is the fourth biggest value? (a) -4 (b) 0 (c) -5 (d) -2/29 c What is the fourth biggest value in 3, -0.2, 0, -4, 0.5? -0.2 Which is the third biggest value? (a) 0.66 (b) 0.2 (c) 0 (d) -3 c Which is the third biggest value? (a) 0.1 (b) -1 (c) -178 c Which is the second smallest value? (a) 2 (b) 0.1 (c) 257 a Which is the fourth biggest value? (a) -0.2 (b) -3 (c) -2 (d) 3/5 b What is the biggest value in 0, -2/17, -1/4, 3/2? 3/2 What is the biggest value in 11, -5, 2, 5, -13? 11 What is the smallest value in -0.02, 1/15, -3/5, 0.1? -3/5 Which is the fourth biggest value? (a) 1 (b) -0.3 (c) -5 (d) 130 (e) -0.1 b Which is the fifth smallest value? (a) 0.3 (b) -0.2 (c) -12/65 (d) -5 (e) 0.1 a Which is the second smallest value? (a) -2/9 (b) -11/3 (c) -109 b Which is the biggest value? (a) -6 (b) -5 (c) -2 (d) 7 d What is the second smallest value in 342, -4, 0? 0 Which is the second biggest value? (a) 5.4 (b) -5 (c) -0.04 c Which is the fourth biggest value? (a) 1/8 (b) 0.3 (c) -1/2 (d) -8.9 d What is the biggest value in -3, 4, -1.55? 4 What is the smallest value in 1, 1/4, -2/17? -2/17 What is the third smallest value in 5, 4, 2, -2/29? 4 Which is the second biggest value? (a) 5 (b) -5 (c) 0.4 c What is the second biggest value in 2/2399, -5, 0.2? 2/2399 Which is the second biggest value? (a) 0.17 (b) -0.06 (c) 3 a What is the fourth biggest value in -2, -4/5, -0.5, 1/15? -2 What is the second biggest value in -2/3, -0.4, -1/6, 4/31? -1/6 Which is the second biggest value? (a) -1/2 (b) 0.2 (c) 13.04 b Which is the third biggest value? (a) 0.02 (b) -1/11 (c) -0.06 b Which is the smallest value? (a) -4 (b) 6 (c) -2 a Which is the third smallest value? (a) -1/3 (b) -5/12 (c) 1 c What is the second biggest value in 4, -5, -3/70? -3/70 What is the second smallest value in -10, -4, -2/15, 2? -4 What is the smallest value in 3/25, 3/5, 0, -0.2? -0.2 Which is the fourth smallest value? (a) 1 (b) 3/8 (c) -0.5 (d) -4/11 a Which is the third smallest value? (a) -1/11 (b) 81 (c) 2 b What is the second smallest value in 9/10, 4, -2, -4, 0.5? -2 What is the third biggest value in 1/13, -4, 0.11? -4 What is the third smallest value in 6, -0.2, -2, 2/7? 2/7 Which is the third smallest value? (a) 0.23 (b) 11 (c) 0 b Which is the smallest value? (a) 0.2 (b) -140.8 (c) -0.5 b Which is the second smallest value? (a) 5 (b) -25.38 (c) 0.5 c Which is the second biggest value? (a) 3/2 (b) 24 (c) -27/11 a Which is the third smallest value? (a) -6 (b) -1 (c) 2/11 (d) -2/3 (e) 2/13 d What is the biggest value in 25/3, -4/5, -24, 5? 25/3 What is the second smallest value in 1/6, -5, -1, 0.3? -1 Which is the smallest value? (a) 16 (b) 4 (c) -1/6 c What is the smallest value in 21, 1/2, 2, 0.01? 0.01 Which is the smallest value? (a) 0 (b) -5 (c) -2/15 (d) 66 b Which is the second smallest value? (a) 0.2 (b) 0.02 (c) -0.1 (d) -5 c Which is the second biggest value? (a) -2/13 (b) -0.6 (c) -4 (d) 4 a Which is the third biggest value? (a) 1/6 (b) 3 (c) 2233 (d) 5 b Which is the biggest value? (a) -24 (b) 1/2 (c) -5 (d) -1/2 b What is the third biggest value in 5, -3/5, 2/13? -3/5 What is the second smallest value in 0.3, 0, 14? 0.3 What is the second biggest value in -13.6, 17, -0.3? -0.3 Which is the smallest value? (a) -1/7 (b) 7 (c) -1 c What is the third smallest value in -0.2, -4/7, -3/7, 0.37? -0.2 What is the second biggest value in -5, 4/5, 0.3, 3, -2/7? 4/5 What is the smallest value in 2, -4, -1.4? -4 What is the third smallest value in 1, 4/9, -2, -3/7? 4/9 What is the second biggest value in -3/5, 758, -

Sensitivity of myeloid leukemia cells to calcium influx blockade: application to bone marrow purging. The aim of this study was to assess the potential of store-operated Ca(2+) channel (SOC) antagonists as purging agents for leukemia cells. Clonogenic, limiting dilution, and nuclear condensation assays were used to evaluate SOC antagonist efficacy. SOC activity and endoplasmic reticulum Ca(2+) content were measured by flow cytometry. Murine bone marrow transplantation was used to determine purging efficacy and effects on hemopoietic reconstitution. Econazole (Ec) and ketotifen (Ke) were variably effective against human and murine leukemia cell lines after 24 hours of incubation. However, a 2-hour serum and bovine serum albumin-free treatment protocol with Ec was found to maximize differential sensitivity between leukemic cells and normal hemopoietic progenitors. Primary acute myelogenous leukemia blast cell viability was reduced 4.2 to 5.1 logs by 2-hour Ec treatment as measured by limiting dilution. An inverse relationship between endoplasmic reticulum Ca(2+) content and Ke sensitivity in leukemia and untransformed cells was observed. Nuclear condensation, an index of apoptosis, which occurred after 24-hour treatments with either Ec or Ke, was not observed after 2-hour serum- and bovine serum albumin-free Ec exposures; however, condensed nuclei were observed after an additional 10-hour incubation in growth medium without drug. Using bone marrow deliberately contaminated with 1% P815 cells, we showed that highly effective in vitro purging can be accomplished using Ec with no adverse effects on bone marrow reconstitution in mice. These studies suggest that SOC antagonists have potential as purging agents for residual leukemia cells present in bone marrow in the context of high-dose chemotherapy and autologous transplantation for leukemia.

Q: How to show less than a specific percentage in an Excel pivot table? I have a pivot table made in Excel and I already have all the % collected data there. Now, what I need to do is show only the critical ones which are less than 85%, as I don't need anything above that being shown. Is there a way I can show less than 85% or any other amount in the future? A: Add another column to your raw data. Set formula to [assuming the % is in column A]: =A1<85% Add this column to your pivot table as a filter. Filter for where your new column = TRUE. Edit for new info Per your comments below, the %'s are not actually calculated "within" the pivot table, they are next to the pivot table on the same tab. So, simply add an "if" statement to that formula, like so: = if(('Total Paid'+'Total Contr. Adj.')/('Total Billed Amount'-'Other Adj.'-'Write-Off')<85%,('Total Paid'+'Total Contr. Adj.')/('Total Billed Amount'-'Other Adj.'-'Write-Off'),"") This will check to see if your formula is <85%. If it is, the formula will appear there.

Q: Как в laravel изменить путь на авторизацию и при этом передать параметр? Только начал изучать фреймворк Laravel и столкнулся с задачей, ответ на которую пока нигде не нашёл. Самостоятельно не смог решить. Прошу помочь разобраться. Версия Laravel Framework 6.10.1 Задача Изменить путь на страницы авторизации и добавить в адрес параметр. Описание После выполнения команд composer require laravel/ui php artisan ui vue php artisan ui:auth ... получаем шаблоны, которые расположены в resources/views/auth и в resources/views/layouts Теперь, чтобы попасть на страницу входа в адресной строке вводим адрес localhost/login Это адрес по умолчанию. Как его изменить таким образом, чтобы обеспечить мультиязычность сайта? Адрес должен быть такого вида: localhost/ru/login localhost/en/login ... и т. д. В файле routes\web.php после выполнения команд выше, изначально прописано: Auth::routes(); Для переопределения маршрутов нашёл в интернете вариант, как в листинге ниже. Если сейчас изменить адрес для входа в систему, то получится перейти на страницу. // Login Route::group(['middleware' => ['web']], function() { Route::get('/en/login', ['as' => 'login', 'uses' => 'Auth\LoginController@showLoginForm']); Route::post('/en/login', ['as' => 'login.post', 'uses' => 'Auth\LoginController@login']); Route::post('/en/logout', ['as' => 'logout', 'uses' => 'Auth\LoginController@logout']); }); // Registration Routes... Route::get('register', ['as' => 'register', 'uses' => 'Auth\RegisterController@showRegistrationForm']); Route::post('register', ['as' => 'register.post', 'uses' => 'Auth\RegisterController@register']); // Password Reset Routes... Route::get('password/reset', ['as' => 'password.reset', 'uses' => 'Auth\ForgotPasswordController@showLinkRequestForm']); Route::post('password/email', ['as' => 'password.email', 'uses' => 'Auth\ForgotPasswordController@sendResetLinkEmail']); Route::get('password/reset/{token}', ['as' => 'password.reset.token', 'uses' => 'Auth\ResetPasswordController@showResetForm']); Route::post('password/reset', ['as' => 'password.reset.post', 'uses' => 'Auth\ResetPasswordController@reset']); Но, так как нужно передавать разные значения, то первая часть адреса должна передавать параметром: '/{lang}/login' Но при таком варианте получаю ошибку: LOG.error: Missing required parameters for [Route: login] [URI: {url_lang}/login]. (View: C:\xampp\htdocs\laravel\poligon.local\resources\views\layouts\app.blade.php) {"exception":{}} Какие изменения нужно внести, чтобы решить эту задачу? A: Для описанной задачи меня полностью устроило решение показанное в этом видео: https://youtu.be/_BsHyHc9NqE

The Affordable Care Act has entered its most pivotal year since being signed into law in 2010. About 20 million Americans gained coverage during the ACA’s inaugural open enrollment period, and hospitals and physicians are beginning to reorient how they deliver care to align with new payment models. It’s now more important than ever to stay atop the regulatory environment, as federal agencies provide the guideposts to an emerging new health economy. But that’s just the starting point. As consumers shoulder more of the costs for care, prepare to see dynamic changes as the industry shifts to compete for the newly insured. Learn more about the healthcare regulatory environment through the following resources: HRI regulatory spotlight: Bar raised for handling health information under final HIPAA rule The final version of the HIPAA rule, released by HHS in late January, reflects two growing realities among the US health system. First, the rule takes a decidedly consumer-centric approach, strengthening existing patient protections for personal information and limiting how providers, insurers and others may use it. And second, the rule reflects a changing health system that is becoming more and more digital. HRI regulatory spotlight: Hospitals granted broader role in exchange enrollment New regulations issued by CMS allow hospitals to play an extensive role in helping uninsured or under-insured individuals understand their new health plan options under the ACA. But some hospital staff who aid in the process will be required to disclose potential conflicts of interest, especially if they have financial ties to insurers. HRI regulatory spotlight: IRS: More flexibility, forgiveness on community assessment One of the ACA’s new requirements for charitable hospitals is the completion of a community health needs assessment every three years. At the risk of potentially losing their tax exemption, the provision requires charitable hospitals to study the health needs of the community make those findings public. On April 3, the IRS issued proposed guidance that eases some of industry's concerns by indicating a considerable degree of flexibility and clarifying what would trigger the loss of tax-exempt status. HRI regulatory spotlight: Pharma, providers must disclose financial ties A final rule implementing the Physician Payment Sunshine Act could redefine the relationship between providers and the makers of drugs and devices. That’s the hope of lawmakers who aim to reduce conflicts of interest they believe are created by the undisclosed financial ties between industry and physicians. HRI regulatory spotlight: FDA eyes stricter post-market surveillance for medical devices Manufacturers must confront new rules and procedures around Unique Device Identifiers (UDIs) and greater transparency that could result in increased product liability if safety signals are not properly defined. The collection of more robust product information could improve development and manufacturing capability, as well as speed up product reviews and approval. Health reform re-elected: ACA implementation in tough fiscal times President Barack Obama's re-election reaffirms the future of the Affordable Care Act, the 2010 law which expands coverage and nudges the nation's health system away from fee-for-service medicine. But harsh financial pressures -- a looming $600 billion "fiscal cliff" and a growing long-term debt -- will add to an already challenging implementation plan. What will the impact of the US presidential election be on the cost of providing healthcare for your business? Medicaid expansion: New patients, new challenges Medicaid is expected to absorb more than 11 million new enrollees over the next decade, yet little is known about their health needs. Providers, insurers and drug companies must first understand the demographics behind the expansion before they can tailor their medical and business practices to take advantage of the opportunities they will provide Health Insurance Exchanges: Long on options, short on time In 2013, state exchanges will open for enrollment. Some states are prepared to establish their own exchanges, but many others will look to the federal government to run most-if not all-of their exchange functions. Understanding the nuances of the public and private exchange models and the new members will be critical for businesses to succeed in this new marketplace. Final rules on ACA's employer mandate include new transition relief The IRS issued final regulations providing guidance on the Affordable Care Act's employer shared responsibility provisions, sometimes called the 'employer mandate' or the 'pay or play' rules. The regulations apply for periods after December 31, 2014 to applicable large employers who fail to offer coverage to their full-time employees. The regulations extend earlier transition rules and provide new ones to help employers comply with the requirements. Highlights of the final regulations include: an extended transition period for employers with between 50 and 99 full-time equivalent employees, so they won't be subject to penalties until 2016 a temporary rule for employers with 100 or more full-time employees, so the largest penalty will not apply for 2015 if the employer offers coverage to at least 70% of its full-time employees (rather than 95% as will be required after 2015) final rules for determining full-time employee status reflect the proposed regulations, including the optional look-back measurement period and stability period, with numerous clarifications and new definitions additional guidance for the monthly method of determining full-time status rules for determining full-time status for special categories of employment, including a new definition of seasonal employees an additional year for employers who do not now offer coverage to their employees' dependents to comply, as long as coverage is offered to the children of employees by the 2016 plan year safe harbors for determining if employer-provided coverage is affordable for employees for purposes of the employer penalties The Treasury Department and the IRS plan to issue final regulations soon intended to simplify and streamline the associated employer reporting requirements.

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Welcome Dragoart.com members and visitors! I present to the fan girls and…ahem boys, the most awesome character in the whole manga and anime galaxy, L Lawliet! Duh duh duh…we will be learning how to draw the apathetic and amazing character L Lawliet. He is my personal favorite out of the whole Death Note episodes. I watched the whole season. I don’t really like Near that much since he has a rather girly voice X33. But anyways, I’m sure most of the Death Note fans love this character the most. So I was watching both the movies of Death Note. These movies are real life people in Japan and aren’t anime. The L presented in those two films is pretty awesome too. He almost looked just like the anime L Lawliet. Light Yagami however is…umm…really ugly? He laughs like a duck, and has bad teeth. To be honest when he was screaming (because his girlfriend got shot,) I could see his teeth and all I thought was donkeys. The Light Yagami that is in anime is much better and cool too. Ahem…uh sorry for the cracks folks but it’s just my honest opinion. So anyways, let me discuss more about the awesome and unforgettable L Lawliet. For those who have not seen Death Note let me tell you about who he is and some of his character traits. L is supposed to be a very clever and intelligent being that is able to solve mysteries and unusual cases. He is a detective for supernatural cases and has a Japanese code name, Ryuuzaki or Ryusaki. He eats a lot of sweets and goodies and never gets fat from it. He is popular for his sluggish body movements and his weirdness. When I say weirdness I mean by his very delicate and careful way of holding things and biting on his thumb all the time. He is a very dedicated detective and is smart on a genius level. He believes that by sitting in a special way that he won’t lose 40% of his reasoning skills. Well I guess that’s pretty much it. All I can say is that L is the best weird manga and anime character in the entire universe XD. Ha he owns the whole Death Note series =D. Well, I wanted to share a treat with everyone and make this tutorial on how to draw L Lawliet step by step. I made sure it was easy enough for even the ten year olds. If you find it hard or have any suggestions make sure you leave me a comment. I hope you enjoy and like the tutorial…I know I did =33. Peace out people and have fun on this one. L Lawliet OWNS!!! How to Draw L Lawliet From Death Note STEP 1. In this step we will draw out the basic structure of L Lawliet's body. Right now the hands look like mittens but that's my favorite guideline to make drawing hands easier. The most important thing about drawing faces from scratch is to make a circle along with a triangle bottom. After you make those, draw three basic horizontal lines for the face, nose and mouth. This is an essential way to make faces much easier. All manga artists use this basic frame to make their characters. Anyways, start drawing out shapes for the feet and the torso. After you have done, move on to the next step on how to draw L Lawliet. STEP 2. In this easy step, we will draw the bottom hairlines for L's head. Draw two slightly curved lines for the beginning of the eyes. Add some stater fingers on the right hand. Sketch out some rough ruffles and outlines of the clothes. The lines that extend to the feet area should help you make the clothing easier. Don't forget to draw the beginning lining of the feet. After you have done this, start drawing out the lines for the bench that L is sitting on. You don't have to draw the bench for this image. You can draw him sitting on a couch, table, chair or even the ground. Let's proceed to the next step! L is waiting to be finished =33! STEP 3. OK, now we will start drawing the facial features to L's head. Draw the horizontal direction of his hair. Remember, L doesn't have straight hair. It is spiky and flows horizontally as if the wind were blowing it. Draw the outside lines of the eyes. Later on we will be adding the pupils to these apathetic windows of L XD. Finish off the other ruffles and sides of his clothing. Draw the rest of the fingers on the right hand. Begin making some starting finger lines for the left hand. Finish off the rest of the toes too. And lastly, draw some of the bench too. Try not to lose yourself =P STEP 4. Yes! This is my favorite step because we get to finish off L Lawliet's face. Look how his eyes are so dark and empty. That's the other thing is so awesome about this character. Draw the lasting inside ruffles of the jeans. Close up the ending lines to the left hand as well. Finish off the rest of L's awesome hairdo too. Lastly sketch out the rest of the bench. He owns the bench...it is his lair! He seeks out his prey deadly and silently with his menacing glare XDDD. Hah I'm just kidding. Exaggerating moments, who doesn't have them? =P We is almost done people!! STEP 5. Sweeeeeeet, this is the last step to completing our victory! In this last and awesome step, we will end off the final details of the bench and clothing. Add the finishing ruffles to the jeans and shirt. Don't forget to add the bottom line for the collar of the shirt. Oh and add the neck for L, we don't want him to look like he has two chins! Actually L is considered to be underweight...even though he eats all those sweets. This amuses me, the power of Japanese manga! STEP 6. People, I now announce to you, the final image of L Lawliet! Yeah, give yourself a pat on the back and a piece of chocolate. You have now accomplished the power of drawing L. Every fan girl drops to his knees and worships him. They have altars of him! Lawl...I'm just kidding people XDDD. If you didn't get him to come out like this then restart the tutorial. It's okay if you didn't draw him right the first time. That doesn't necessarily mean your a bad artist. Art takes a lot of practice. If you came out with the perfect L Lawliet then jump around and make some loud sounds. 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/* Работа с XML данными, обертка MsXml, требуется ComLibrary. Примечание: Не производиться проверка аргументов функций на нулевые указатели. */ #pragma once namespace XmlParser { //Data on errors. typedef struct { int line; //Line number. int errorCode; //Error code. LPWSTR reason; //The text of the error. }XMLERRORDATA; /* Инициализация. */ void init(void); /* Деинициализация. */ void uninit(void); /* Открытие XML файла. IN file - имя файла для открытия. OUT error - информация об ошибки, при ее возниконовение. Может быть NULL. В случаи возникновения ошибки, эта структура должна быть освобождена через freeXmlErrorData. Return - в случаи успеха данные XML файла, которые должны быть закрыты через CloseFile. в случаи ошибки NULL. */ IXMLDOMDocument *_openFile(const LPWSTR file, XMLERRORDATA *error); /* Закрытие XML файла. IN doc - указатель на данные файла для закрытия. */ void _closeFile(IXMLDOMDocument *doc); /* Освобождение структуры XMLERRORDATA. IN pError - структура для освобождения. */ void _freeXmlErrorData(XMLERRORDATA *pError); /* Получение содержимого элемента. IN root - элемент отснсителльно которгого происходит поиск node. IN node - элемент для поиск в XPath. Не может быть NULL. Return - текст в случаи успеха (нужно освободить через _freeBstr()), или NULL в случаи ошибки. */ BSTR _getNodeTextOfElement(IXMLDOMElement *root, const BSTR node); /* Получение содержимого элемента. IN root - элемент отснсителльно которгого происходит поиск node. IN node - элемент для поиск в XPath. Не может быть NULL. Return - текст в случаи успеха (нужно освободить через _freeBstr()), или NULL в случаи ошибки. */ BSTR _getNodeTextOfNode(IXMLDOMNode *root, const BSTR node); /*В В В В Exemption BSTR through SysFreeString (). В В В В IN OUT string - string. В В */ void _freeBstr(BSTR string); };

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Pages Wednesday, March 28, 2012 Young Actresses Elizabeth Taylor in 1947, age 15 Eva Marie Saint opens a prop door during a TV shoot at NBC studios in 1947. The Newark, N.J.-born actress started her career as an NBC page. Eva Marie Saint (above, in 1949) got her film break in 1954's Oscar-winning On the Waterfront with Brando and other powerhouse actors, but perhaps her defining role came opposite Cary Grant in Hitchcock's incredibly entertaining thriller-romance, North by Northwest in 1959. Nineteen-year-old Ann-Margret belts out a tune during a screen test for the movie State Fair in 1961. Jane Fonda, 1959. Jane Fonda was a well-regarded actress by the time this shot was taken in 1959, when she was 22, but it took the screwball Western Cat Ballou (1965) to turn her into a movie star. Wisely abandoning the name Tula Ellice Finklea, Cyd Charisse, seen here in 1945, was best known for her dancing roles opposite Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly. The actress Gene Tierney poses in 1941. Best remembered for 1944's Laura, Tierney left New York's socialite life to be an actress. She did become a star, but her own story was scarred by disastrous romances, failed marriages and mental illness. Mickey Rooney kisses co-star Judy Garland at the premiere of Babes in Arms in 1939. The two starred in nine movies together, among them the popular Andy Hardy series. Barbra Streisand sings in the musical that was her Broadway debut, I Can Get It for You Wholesale, in 1962. The Brooklyn-born superstar-to-be began singing in New York nightclubs as a teenager. Shirley MacLaine sings on the TV program Shower of Stars in 1955. The Virginia native took ballet lessons as a kid to compensate for weak ankles. She went to Broadway to try her luck while still in high school. Marilyn Monroe poses in 1947. The next year, she'd get a six-month Columbia Pictures contract, followed by a Marx Brothers movie in 1949, and, eventually, near-mythic status as the quintessential Hollywood "sex goddess. The young Debbie Reynolds is at the center of the action, circa 1950. She'd won a film contract just two years earlier, after winning the Miss Burbank pageant at age 16. Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews run lines in My Fair Lady rehearsals, 1956. Though the stage musical helped launch Andrews' career, she was replaced in the big-screen version by Audrey Hepburn. Margarita Carmen Cansino, soon to be Rita Hayworth, models tennis fashions in 1939. After her small turn in Only Angels Have Wings that year, fan mail started pouring in. She was soon a major star. Actress Jeanne Crain takes a bubble bath for her role in the movie Margie. She probably made her biggest splash as a (secretly) black woman in love with a white doctor in the film, Pinky. Crain, a white actress, was chosen over genuinely African-American actresses Dorothy Dandridge and Lena Horne for the role. The French beauty Catherine Deneuve (seen here at 18 years old in 1961) has been one of the world's most celebrated actresses for five decades. The Puerto Rican-born beauty, seen here in a 1954 photo that ended up on the cover of LIFE, debuted on Broadway at 13 before making it big years later in the film version of West Side Story. Actress Rita Moreno demonstrates the "sexy-sophisticated" type, 1954. The Italian actress poses in 1957, the year she began to make a name for herself in America in such movies as Boy on a Dolphin (her U.S. debut) and Legend of the Lost. Audrey Hepburn in 1951 — two years before her film breakthrough in Roman Holiday — posing under a theater marquee for the stage version of Gigi. Kim Novak, 1954. Kim Novak, 21, poses with crystal figurines in 1954. The Chicagoan started off as Miss Deepfreeze for a local refrigerator company, and was recruited by Columbia Pictures to be a more manageable replacement for Rita Hayworth. Google+ Followers Disclaimer All the pictures shown on this blog are property of their respective owners. We don't hold any copyright about these pictures. These pictures have been collected from different public sources including different websites, considering to be in public domain. If any one has any objection of displaying any picture here, just send us an email and we will remove it immediately, after verification of the claim.

1. Field of the Invention This invention relates to an improved intravaginal contraceptive barrier that permits additional versatile protection against sexually transmitted disease. 2. Description of the Prior Art Cervical caps have been used since 1350 B.C. to prevent pregnacy. Egyptians used hollowed out lemons cut in half for this purpose and squeezed out some of the juice to act as spermicide. Since the invention of latex in the 1920's, vaginal diaphragms have been used for the same purpose. In recent years, "spermicides", such as Nonoxynol-9, have been used as adjuncts to increase the efficiency of diaphragms in preventing pregnancy, as well as sexually transmitted diseases. Nonoxynol-9 (U.S. Pat. No. 2,313,477), in low non-toxic, non-cytocidal concentrations, not only increases the effectiveness of diagragms in preventing pregnancy, but also has been found to prevent cell to cell infection with AIDS viruses carried by migrant lymphocytes in semen and in endocervical secretions. Dunn et al (U.S. Pat. No. 4,589,880) reviews the various diaphragms currently in commercial use and claims a disposable spermicide-releasing diaphragm and cervical cap. The spermicide, Nonoxynol-9, is released in situ by diffusion when a water soluble polymer matrix dissolves. The device consists of a thermoplastic elastomer such as a polyether-polyurethane that has been blended homogeneously with Nonoxynol-9, and a water soluble polymer such as polyethylene glycol. The Nonoxynol-9 and the water soluble polymer migrate to the surface of the device by diffusion and are released into the vagina at a controlled rate upon contact with vaginal fluid. The spermicide is released randomly from the surface of the device and is distributed more or less homogeneously throughout the vagina. It is now known that the most probable place for the AIDS virus (HIV) to enter a femal upon contact with infected semen is in the vicinity of the external OS of the cervix uteri. Only on the endocervix is the epithelium thin enough to permit passage of an infected lymhocyte. Thus, the Dunn device would not concentrate Nonoxynol-9 in the area where it would be the most effective in protecting the woman against infection by HIV. In addition, the device would not be useful for women allergic or sensitive to polyurethane. Finally, the device is expected to be expensive on a per-use basis inasmuch as it is not reusable. Gutnick, in U.S. Pat. No. 4,332,243, teaches the use of a burstable medication-releasing well in the wall of a condom or diaphragm. Gutnick's device depends upon the rupture of a partitioning membrane on the well to release medicament and is, therefore, non-reusable. Moreover, it is unclear how such a well could be refilled by a user even if such a device was reusable. U.S. Pat. Nos. 4,332,243 and 4,393,871 describe methods for dispersing spermicides from receptacles, such as polyethylene sponges, but provide no stable anchoring mechanisms for holding such receptacles in place near the opening of the female cervix. The contraceptive sponge, although molded as if to fit the cervix, seems to wander and often turn upside/down. The concept of Loeb-Perry, using a 1 1/2inch diameter, nonoxynol-impregnated, disposable "Diaphragm Disk" with an adhesive coating on one side sounds attractive, but it is not certain how long as latex diaphragm will be tolerant of repeated applications of the adhesive before developing leaks. There is a clear need for a reusable intravaginal device that is effective as a contraceptive, non-allergenic, easy to insert and remove, easy to clean and, most important, capable of delivering repeated doses of a spermicide such as Nonoxynol-9 or antimicrobial agent in concentrations sufficient to prevent sperm or virus-laden cells that have penetrated the contraceptive barrier from entering the cervix. This invention relates to an improved design for vaginal diaphragms and cervical caps. The improved diaphragm or cervical cap has either an integral pad-retaining member or pouch shaped to hold a foam pad which releases a solution containing various forms of spermostatic/lymphocytostatic chemicals directly over the vaginal opening of the female uterine cervix where their dispersion under the pumping action of sexual intercourse will be optimally effective in preventing pregnancy, as well as sexually transmitted diseases, especially virus infections carried by migrant lymphocytes. Both the pad-retaining members and pouches are designed to hold a foam pad which will gradually dispense chemicals in solution from the saturated foam pad during intercourse. The choice of pad-retainer or pouch molded into the diaphragm or cervical cap is determined by the need to control chemical dispersion from the foam pad housed within the pad-retainer or pounch will, therefor, depend on the medication being dispensed and the size and shape of the foam pad. The specifications are adaptable to standard diaphragms and cervical caps made of latex or silicone.

"Idon't care what it takes, or what it costs, Phil." "I wanna know who Amanda Bedford's father is." "Is that clear?" "Good." "All right, get back to me as quickly as you can." "Bye." " Blake?" " Yes?" "What are you doing up at this hour?" "Oh, I just phoned our office in London." "I've got Phil Barsan contacting a firm of private detectives about Amanda." "Couldn't it wait until tomorrow?" "No." "No, it couldn't." "Why not?" "Well, because it's very important to me." "You took one look at Amanda, and now you're convinced she's your daughter?" "No, that didn't convince me." "It was that little chat I had with Alexis that did that." "Blake, I know how much you miss Fallon." "You're thinking that I would like to have Amanda as a replacement for Fallon, is that right?" " I didn't mean it like that." " That's exactly what you meant." "All I was saying is that you're grieving deeply over Fallon." "It might help if you talk about it instead of keeping it inside." "That's not the way that I am, you know that." "I don't know, someday" "Someday maybe the pain will go away, but right now, I can't talk about it." "You won't share your grief?" " Not even with me?" " I can't." "I can't share it with anyone." "Careful, you'll spill that expensive stuff." "Well, if I do, that's the price I have to pay for not being able to take my eyes off of you." "I've seen pictures of your wife." "She's very beautiful." "Don't you have the same problem with her?" "She's dead." "I'm" " I'm sorry." "Why didn't you tell me about it when we first met?" "Because I don't like to talk about it." "It's still too fresh." "Anyway, she's a closed chapter." "You say that, but it doesn't work." "Jeff, you have to talk about her." "Get her out of your system." "I don't have to do anything." "Oh, he's angry." "Look at that little boy's pout." "You know, in a strange way it makes you even more attractive, if that's possible." "Don't you realise the only thing I'm really interested in right now is just to make you happy?" "Maybe, um, happier than you've ever been." " Good morning." " Good morning." "Coffee please." "Adam, I didn't know we were here to enjoy ourselves." "You're right." "That's Denver-Carrington money, several million of it, we have locked away in the vault." "Unless, of course, you've been shopping for minarets." "Well, I have been shopping." "For answers." " And?" " Rashid Ahmed is here." "Good." "Now what are you going to do?" "Don't you have any ideas, Adam?" "Because if you don't, what are you doing here?" "Miss Deveraux, finding out that a man we expected to be here is in fact here isn't quite enough work to justify sending you off on a month of R and R. Have you talked to Ahmed yet?" " No." " No." "When do you plan to?" "Blake sent you on this trip as his son the watchdog." "So why don't you just keep your mouth shut and watch?" "You're not talking to another piano player." "Your father couldn't do this job, Adam." "If Ahmed even suspected that he was in the area," "Ahmed wouldn't be." "So I agreed to do it, okay?" "If you don't let me attend to the essentials without any interference from you," "I'm getting on the next plane back to the States and Blake Carrington and his problems be damned." "All right." "I'll keep my mouth shut." "But I'll also keep watching you." "You'd better be sure I like what I see." "Because this is important to my father." "It's very important." "Dominique." " How exquisite you look, as ever." " Thank you." "And whatever am I doing in Istanbul?" "Would you believe I'm just passing through?" "I might, I might, if I did not know that you arrived by jet last night and in the company of young Adam Carrington." "News travels very fast." "Yes, Rashid, it's true." "I did come especially to see you." "Would you like to know why?" "That I can guess." "You want me to tell the world that I was untruthful when I implicated Blake Carrington in that arms deal." "Hm?" "And just what are you prepared to offer me for that admission?" "I am prepared to offer you the thing you love most in the whole world, Rashid: money." "How much?" "Alexis gave you 5 million." "Oh, but she offered me more than money." "A lot more." "I'm offering 7 million, period." "Blake Carrington does not seem to be your kind of man, nor oil your kind of business." "Oh, but it is." "When it involves a fortune, you see, that word has never been anathema to me." "Carrington and I both want the South China leases." "Forgive me." "How rude of me." " May I offer you tea?" " Yes, thank you." "Khaled." " Cigarette?" " No, it's not my brand." "Rashid" "This is very important to me." "And you do owe me one." "The Greek tycoon, remember?" "I do, but I will do nothing for Blake Carrington." "Certainly not for only $7 million." "But what are your plans for this evening?" "Surely you'll have dinner with me?" "Of course, I will have dinner with you." "And who knows?" "One of us might change our minds." "Huh?" "Ha-ha-ha." "Would you look these over, Mr. Carrington?" "Fine." "And there's a Miss Amanda Bedford waiting to see you." "Oh, well, ask her to come in, please, Barbara." "Certainly." " This way." "Thank you." "Hello, Mr. Carrington." "Hello, Amanda." "What a lovely office." "Thank you." "It's new." "As a matter of fact, the packing cases went out of here just this morning." "In time for your visit." " Sit down, won't you?" " Thank you." "Now, what brings you here, young lady?" "Well, actually, I've come to apologise for putting you on the spot about using the name Amanda Carrington." "I had no intention of doing it." "Especially since my mother's name is Colby now." "Why did you do it?" "To irritate her." "I know it's childish, but there's something about her that just brings out the worst in me." "Well, don't be concerned." "I've forgotten all about it." "I'm delighted, really delighted to see you again." "It was so nice chatting with you on that street corner the other day." "You know, I don't get much of a chance these days to help young ladies carry their packages after they've been shopping." "If fairy tales did come true..." "Fairy tales?" "I mean, when I found out Alexis was my mother, you should have been my father." "Well, I would have considered myself a very lucky man." "I never really had a father." "It's such a terrible feeling to think you know who you are, and then to find out you're not that person at all." "It's like looking in a mirror, and all at once not seeing your face but somebody else's." "Amanda, how would you like me to help you find him?" " Do you really mean that?" " Yes, of course." "Oh, thank you." "Oh, I knew you'd be my friend." "From the first moment, I knew it." "Well, then, maybe you'll accept a friendly invitation." " Dinner at my house?" " I'd love that." " Good, 8:00 all right?" " Fine." "And wear something kind of fancy." "We'll make it a festive occasion." "All right." "Bye." "Bye." "Yes?" "Mr. Carrington?" "Your son, Adam, is on line one." "Fine." "Yes, put him on, please." "Adam, how's it going?" "Not very well, Father, I'm afraid." "Dominique had a meeting and then dinner with Ahmed." "She offered him the 7 million and he said, "Forget it."" "Well, you tell her to raise the ante." "Make it 10 million." "And put the next phase of the plan into operation." "Phase two?" "You want me to move that fast on it?" "Yes, that fast." "And, meanwhile, keep an eye on Ahmed." "Don't let him get away." "I want that confession." "You know what has to be done, now you do it." "Right away, Father." "Jeff?" "Excuse me." "I thought Jeff might be in here." "I saw his car parked outside." " You're Mr. Carrington." " Yes." "Well, I recognise you from all the photographs in the newspapers." "I'm Nicole Simpson." "I'm Jeff's friend." "Well, Miss Simpson, may I ask why you're here?" "Well, let's just say that Jeff wanted to hide me away while he went upstairs to say good night to his son." "Oh." "I hope you don't mind my being here." "No." "No, not at all." "This is Jeff's home too." "Mr. Carrington, that photograph..." "That beautiful girl, was that your daughter?" "Yes, that's Fallon." "I was so sorry when I heard what happened." "Thank you." "Oh, when Jeff comes down, will you tell him that I'll be in the library and I'd like to see him before he goes?" "Oh, sure." "Thank you." "I wonder, would De vilbis have told you?" "Would you have told Jeff?" "Ah, Jeff." "Jeff, I've been wanting to speak to you for some time." "I haven't been able to catch up with you." "Well, I've been a pretty busy fellow." "Yes, I know that." "And now that the company is back in operation, full operation, don't you think it's time that you got back to work?" "I could use your help." "And apart from that, I've missed you." "I've missed my third son." "Well, I appreciate that, Blake." "That's very nice, but I'm just not interested in getting back to work right now." "I'm just not ready." "I thought you might like to know" "I've deposited 15 percent of Denver-Carrington stock in your account, to compensate for the losses that you took." "Oh, Blake, I don't give a damn about the stock." "I have a whole new world opening up to me now, and I'm enjoying it." "And I intend to keep on enjoying it." "With the help of the young lady that's in the conservatory, no doubt?" "I think I know what the problem is." "You never wanted to see me with anyone else but Fallon." "Well, Fallon is dead, and it's time that I start to make a new life for myself." "Jeff, I'd like you to be married, happily married." "I'd like you to give your son brothers and sisters." "A real family." "Not a family, a dynasty." "Just like the Carringtons." "Well, you call it what you want." "What it translates to is people who care about each other, who, in spite of everything, love each other." "Now, I don't think that's gonna happen to you if you keep on being self-destructive, if you keep on acting the playboy." " I don't want that to happen to you." " Well, why not?" "You tolerated all of that with Fallon." "Anything went." "Look, I'm late." "Nicole's waiting for me." "Blake, it's my life we're talking about here." "There's nothing you nor anyone else can do about it." " Hello." "You're Miss Bedford." "Please come in." "Would you take Miss Bedford's fur, please?" "Good evening, Amanda." "My, don't you look pretty tonight." " You know Krystle, of course." "Yes." " Good evening, Mrs. Carrington." " Hello, Amanda." " Welcome." " Thank you." "That is the most beautiful maternity gown I've ever seen." "Oh." "Thank you." "We'll have drinks with Steven and Claudia in the library before dinner." "Come along." "I'm so glad that you could make it tonight." "It gives us an opportunity to all know each other better." "When I looked at my birth certificate, I couldn't believe my eyes." "Did you ever think that Alexis might be your mother?" "Never." "Rosalind was always more reserved in showing affection, but I thought that was because she was a very different kind of person than Alexis." "It must have been quite a shock." " Or am I putting it too mildly?" " Yes, it was, Mr. Carrington." "I remember going back to my hotel room and sitting there for days, trying to decide what to do." "Then I made up my mind to come to Denver." "To publish the news in the Chronicle." "I didn't decide to do that until after I'd spoken to Alexis." "Steven, she made me so angry, I didn't stop to think." "We are being honest here tonight, aren't we?" "Yes, of course." "Did you ever stop to think how you might have spared our mother a great deal of unnecessary embarrassment?" "Steven, Alexis is used to unfavourable publicity." "She can handle it." "Maybe so." "But there's no excuse for her own children to cause it." "You, of all people." "You're a fine one to lecture me after what you did to her in court." "I don't think you understand some of the circumstances." "All right, all right, no more arguments." "This was planned to be a very pleasant, very special getting-to-know-you kind of dinner, not a family war." "I think, um" "I think some apologies are in order." "I'm sorry, it was my fault." "No, it was only half your fault." "Maybe less." "Well, that's better, much better." "You know, I'm reminded of some of those famous scraps that you used to have with Fallon, remember, Steven?" "Both stubborn, both lethal at the attack and the counterattack, and then making up and declaring an armistice over the ice cream." "Well, I think we'd better get on with the next order of business, that very good vichyssoise." "Oh, it's you." "Your ecstatic greeting is overwhelming." "Well, I was expecting Amanda." "Coming to say goodnight to Mommy?" "No." "Coming to tell me where she's been tonight." "She's obviously out." "Obviously." "It's so late." "It's not that late." "It's very late." "Alexis, you can't be worried about her." "I can, and I am." "She's 20 years old, an adult by law, and, believe me, able to take care of herself." "Yes." "Yes, I know all of that, Dex." "But she doesn't know anybody here in Denver." " Well, maybe she went to a movie." " Mm." "Maybe." "Amanda?" "It's just the wind." "You know something, Alexis," "I am sick and tired of hearing about Amanda." "I want you." "Now." "To hold you, to make love to you." "Dex, Dex, I'm just not in the mood now." "And to be perfectly blunt, I didn't invite you here tonight." "And I would prefer it if you would leave." "And leave you to your maternal concerns?" "Yes." "Your insensitivity astounds me." "Well, Amanda, your mommy's been worried about you." "So worried she kicked you out of her boudoir?" "She made a big mistake." "You know something, Amanda?" "You should have your bottom smacked." "Any time." "What did Ahmed say to the 10 million?" "His answer is still no, Father." "But I've made contact with Colonel Saban." "He was very obliging." "I don't foresee any problems in carrying out phase two." "Well, when this is over you tell Ahmed that he plucked out my eye, now I've plucked out his." "You take care." " Goodbye, Father." " Bye." "Blake, was that Adam?" "Yes." "Well, where is he?" "He left on business, but you never told me where he was going." "Well, he's in Turkey." "Istanbul." "And that's where Rashid Ahmed is." "Yes, if you don't mind, Krystle, I'd rather not talk about this now." " Why not?" " Well, it's, uh" " It's business." "Oh." "And you don't want to upset me with any of the details." "Well, you know what Ahmed did to me." "You know how he double-crossed me on those South China Sea leases." "So now you have to have your revenge?" "No, now I have to have something that's owed to me." "Blake, what's happening to you?" "What are you doing to yourself?" "I don't like what I see." "And what do you see?" "You're not the man I married." "He wouldn't have struck back with such anger because a man cost him some money." "He wouldn't have wanted his pound of flesh this badly." "I mean, how many millions do you need?" "And at what price?" "This has nothing to do with that." "It has to do with what is right." "And I assure you that no one is going to get hurt." "Krystle, you must trust me." "You do trust me, don't you?" "I want to." "But you're not sure, are you?" "You're not, damn it, are you?" "I wish you not to worry, Mr. Carrington," "My men will see to it that Rashid Ahmed will remain in Istanbul until you personally tell us all is finished, he goes." "Thank you, Colonel Saban." "And I remind you my father wants no harm to come to Ahmed." "He's far too valuable." " Come in." "Of course," "I understand thoroughly." " And who was that?" " A friend of my father's." "Adam, what devious plot do you and Blake really have going on here?" "How many times do I have to say it?" "I'm here waiting for you to accomplish what you have to." "Change Rashid's mind." "Well, I tried again, but, no, I have not changed his mind." "Tell me, are you saving the best card for last?" "Or has the Nefertiti of the cabaret circuit lost her touch?" "You arrogant son of" "Blake Carrington." "Adam..." "Why do you dislike me so?" "You hardly know me." "I never said I disliked you, Dominique." "But like some members of my family, my father included, I don't trust you." "Yes, that seems to run in the Carrington family." "All right, I gave Blake my word that I would help him with Ahmed." "And I will keep my word." "But you can't get near him without me, so you had better trust me." "Why did you agree to help?" "This could be very dangerous for you." "You're going to have to ask your father about that one, Adam." "If you want my help, I want to know all about this plot." " I understand that you dined at the Carrington mansion last night." "Who told you?" "Steven?" "Yes, he did mention it." "Amanda, why do you insist on trying to antagonise me?" "Why should my spending a few hours at Blake Carrington's house even begin to upset you?" "Because Blake Carrington is my enemy." "He has betrayed me." "How can you think of being friends with him?" "Oh, what about Steven and Adam?" "I had no choice." "He happens to be their father." "With me, Mommy, you have no choice either." "I see whom I want when I want." "Amanda, if I've made some mistakes that hurt you, they weren't made deliberately." "I've been hurt too." "Losing my children." "Can't you understand that?" "Yes, I can understand." "I just wish you'd be honest with me." "Why can't you tell me who my father is?" "Amanda." "Why does the name of your father matter to you so much?" "He'd be a total stranger to you, I'm not." "Isn't it enough that I love you?" "If you really loved me, you'd tell me the truth." "Do you know how important that is to me?" "Claudia." " Oh, hi, Dean." " How are you?" " Fine." "Would you join me for a drink?" "Sure." "Club soda, twist of lime." "I remember." " It was fun the other night, wasn't it?" " Yes, it was." "I would be delighted if you would join me for dinner again tonight." "I don't think so." "Oh, thanks." "In fact, no." " Why not?" " You know that I'm married." "Yes, you mentioned that." "No, no, please let me finish." "If I gave you any of the wrong signals the other night, well, I was having a problem." "Your husband?" "Other woman?" "Other man?" "You're not laughing, that was a joke." "And I'm sure not the best you've ever heard." "Claudia, you're a very special woman." "very tender. very warm." " A woman- I'm not intruding, am I?" "Oh, Steven, I want you to meet Dean Caldwell." "You know, the Caldwell Gallery?" "Dean, this is my husband." "How do you do?" "Pleasure." " Hi." "I was just inviting Mrs. Carrington here to an opening next Wednesday night." "Hope you can make it too." "Well, till then, goodbye." "Goodbye." "That was a personalised invitation, wasn't it, his hand on yours?" "Oh, darling, he was just being friendly." "very friendly." "I didn't know Dean Caldwell was a friend of yours." "Oh, we met the other night." "We had dinner." "The night that you were called back to the office." "Dinner." "You didn't mention that." "There was nothing to mention." "It's just part of the job." "I meet a lot of people here." "Sometimes I have drinks." "Sometimes lunch, dinner." "That's not really so awful, is it?" "No, I guess not." "Come on, Claudia, let's get some lunch." "Yes?" "I'll take it." "Rashid." "Darling, this is a terrible connection." "Where are you calling from?" "From the city of incredibly good food and leather goods." "Ah, lstanbul." "So that's where you've disappeared to." "You should be safe from Blake there." "Huh." "Exactly what I thought, Alexis, but apparently we are both wrong." "Dominique Deveraux." "Do you know her?" "Yes, what about her?" "She arrived here several days ago and has been trying to get me to sign a paper clearing Blake Carrington." "Now, that is bothersome enough but, your son, Adam, is here with her and is meeting with certain parties who are not exactly fond of me," "let us say." "Rashid, uh, why are you calling me about all this?" "I want help, Alexis." "I am very anxious not to leave Istanbul." "My villa here is as comfortable as my life here, so if you would call Blake, find out what he is planning, there might be a way I could abort their plot." "Would you help me, for good and old time's sake?" "Rashid, I recently paid you $5 million to do a little job for me." "You did it, but it cost me more than 5 million, didn't it?" "What are you talking about?" "When I checked out of our love nest in Hong Kong," "I was presented with a bill." "I found that you had charged all of the beautiful flowers you'd sent me, plus two custom-made suits, about three jeroboams of champagne, tin upon tin of caviar, plus those disgustingly sweet and highly unoriginal fortune cookies." "And the shoes too." "Rashid, you are a disgrace to your sex and your countrymen." "Call Blake yourself." "Dear God, please let this be a happy room for my baby, and for Blake and me." "You've blessed me with so much." "Help me to be a good mother and a loving wife." "You know that's all I've ever really wanted." "Morning, Steven." "Luke, it's awfully early, even for you." "Well, I've been here since 6:00." "I have to get this press release out by noon or it could be my neck." "Your mother's rejected three versions already." "Would you take a look at this for me?" "Sure." "Maybe I need a break and some company." "How about it?" "Join me for a Danish and some fresh coffee?" "Steven?" "Not this morning, Luke." "I've had breakfast." "Thanks." "Well, if you change your mind you know where to find me." "Rashid is there." "He sent the rest of his staff on ahead." "There are only two guards here." "Good, leave the rest to me." " I want to go with you." " No." "You've helped me all you can." " But" " No buts." "Wait for me at the hotel." "Adam, be careful." "Don't worry." "I'll see you as soon as possible." "All right." "Miss Deveraux, the car is waiting for you." "Good." "Thank you." "We will wait for four minutes and then we'll move in." "Position your man and wait for my signal." "Remember, Saban, we don't want him hurt." "Understood, Mr. Carrington." " Deveraux, of course." " That's right." "She also planted a package here in your little palace." "What are you talking about?" "What package?" "The one that contains two kilos of heroin." "What?" "And we both know how the Turkish authorities feel about drugs." "Punishment for a dealer is not..." "Well, it's not very pleasant." "However, you can avoid such unpleasantness by signing this letter my father has prepared." "And if I refuse?" "The police." "But if I leave here within a minute with this letter signed, they can be stopped." "Blake Carrington wants to end our vendetta?" "I assure you, Ahmed, with your signature in place, you'll be free to go." "I agree." "vengeance is sweet, but it does get tiresome." "Don't be a fool." "You'll never get away, Ahmed." "He's heading for the courtyard." "Saban, get your men in position." "Shoot, but do not hit him." "You'll never make it, Ahmed." "Don't let him get to the chopper." "Stop, Ahmed." "Stop." "No!" "No, idiot!" "I'm sorry, Mr. Carrington." "He's dead." "It is expected that the White House will release those figures tomorrow." "Now to recap today's top overseas stories:" "In the Mideast our sources have confirmed that Rashid Ahmed," "last year implicated in the collapse of Denver-Carrington, was killed today while attempting to flee his villa in Istanbul." "Police who arrived on the scene found a cache of heroin hidden in the villa." "It's assumed that Ahmed's killing was drug-related." "Is it?" "Is that what you and Adam were talking about?" "I never meant for it to happen that way." " Believe me." " How was it supposed to happen?" "Everything was planned, carefully planned, to force him into signing that confession." "No more than that." "Killing him was an accident." "Blake, all I know is that a man is dead." "A man I never met." "But a human being is dead because of you." " Krystle, I never" " Don't." "Just leave me alone." "Leave me alone." "Krystle." "Krystle, wait." "Wait." "Gerard." "Oh, no." "Krystle." "Krystle." "Krystle." "Oh, my God." "Jeannette." "Somebody!" "My love."

Celebrity Vegans: From Beyoncé to Natalie Portman Beyoncé While she chooses to refer to herself as plant-based as opposed to vegan, the 'Halo' singer underwent a 22-day vegan challenge with husband Jay-Z in 2013 and is believed to have maintained the diet ever since. Writing in the foreword of The Greenprint: Plant-Based Diet, Best Body, Better World by Marco Borges, the couple say: "We used to think of health as a diet – some worked for us, some didn’t. Once we looked at health as the truth, instead of a diet, it became a mission for us to share that truth and lifestyle with as many people as possible." Getty/Coachella

The Extreme Makeover: Home Edition crew rolled into the Wichita State Campus on Thursday. Everyone was invited to Eck Stadium for the big surprise. It was announced via Ty Pennington’s blow horn that former Shocker baseball player Carl Hall would be receiving a new home. Carl starred on some of the toughest baseball teams in the schools illustrious history. He even was named the Missouri Valley Player of the Year in 1994. All-American honors were also given to him that year for his play in the outfield. This past summer Carl and his family were in a car accident that caused him to be paralyzed from neck down. His wife and four daughters were not injured in the accident. Carl and his family were forced to move out of there bi-level house to live in a two bedroom duplex to suit Carl’s wheelchair. The Family was told Thursday that Carl would be speaking to the baseball team before their season opener against Niagara on Friday. The team met with him inside the indoor practice facility, and the surprise was announced. His family and him were overwhelmed and very gracious as they didn’t apply to be on the show. Carl stated, “Its gonna be great to have more independence in the new home.” He said his family has been living in close quarters, and it will be nice for them to have some room. One can only imagine how tight it was with his 4 girls ranging from 9-16 years old. The new home will be a single story ranch style home. Carl and his family are off to Orlando while the house is being built. Everything is expected to be completed on Thursday. If you live in the area the famous ” Move that bus” moment is set for Thursday at 3pm. Finally Carl stated, “Its gonna be a long road to recovery. You cant change what happened but you can try to determine whats next.” The Big Surprise-video of the Extreme Makeover crew telling the family about being picked for the show.

Q: How to connect multiple BLE devices through android application? I am working on android and BLE device connectivity. I want to connect multiple BLE devices on same time . How to achieve this ? A: You can connect to more than one BLE device from your android application. CONNECTING: Call this code for each BLE device mBluetoothGatt = device.connectGatt(this, false, mGattCallback); Save all the mBluetoothGatt in to list. READING: In mGattCallback methods onCharacteristicChanged(BluetoothGatt gatt, BluetoothGattCharacteristic characteristic) or onCharacteristicRead(BluetoothGatt gatt, BluetoothGattCharacteristic characteristic, int status) has gatt parameter. gatt.getDevice().getAddress() will give you the mac address of the BLE device from where you've received the data. WRITING: Using mBluetoothGatt.getDevice().getAddress() you always know the device you are pointing to. You can write the command to it. In mGattCallback method onCharacteristicWrite(BluetoothGatt gatt, BluetoothGattCharacteristic characteristic, int status), parameter gatt will give you the mac address to confirm the write command. You can have single mGattCallback for all your connections. If you what to differentiate and don't want to always compare mac addresses, go for single callback for each connection. This will tell you how many connections can your android device can support. Feel free to ask if you still have doubts.

12. List the prime factors of r. 2, 3 Let m(q) = 4*q + 2. Let s be m(2). Suppose -2*l - s = -14. Suppose 0 = i, 0 = l*n + i - 13 - 7. List the prime factors of n. 2, 5 Let b(w) = w**2 + 7*w - 13. Let y be b(-13). Let n = -13 + y. What are the prime factors of n? 2, 13 Suppose 3*v = 4*j + v - 5686, 4*j - 5689 = 3*v. What are the prime factors of j? 2, 5, 71 Suppose -2*n + 5 + 31 = 5*m, -2*n = -m. Suppose -11*z - 300 = -80. What are the prime factors of -1 - z/(m + -2)? 2 Let x(j) = -j**2 + 7*j + 3. Suppose -3*z - 5*i - 308 = 0, -2*z - 3*i = -6*i + 180. Let m be 2/3 + z/(-18). What are the prime factors of x(m)? 3 Let d(i) = i - 1. Let g(s) = 18*s - 15. Let a(y) = -15*d(y) + g(y). Let u(q) = q**3 - 8*q**2 + 8*q - 6. Let j be u(7). List the prime factors of a(j). 3 Let u(m) = 2*m**2 - m + 1. Let w(c) = 2*c**2 + 2. Let o(q) = 4*u(q) - 3*w(q). List the prime factors of o(5). 2, 7 Let z(x) = x**2 + 4*x + 1. Let c be z(-5). Let w(q) = -q**3 + 4*q**2 + 10*q + 12. Let i be w(c). Suppose 0*t - 4*t + 208 = i. What are the prime factors of t? 2, 13 Let t(y) = y**2 - 23*y - 16. Let o be t(23). List the prime factors of (-4)/(o/180) - -1. 2, 23 Let z(r) = r**2 + r + 3. Let f be z(-4). Suppose 2*w - f = 5*k, 3*w + w + 4*k = 16. List the prime factors of w. 5 What are the prime factors of (4/10 + (-9905)/75)*-3? 5, 79 Let m = -19 + 19. Suppose 473 = -4*p + 8*p - w, p - 4*w - 107 = m. Let d = p - 71. What are the prime factors of d? 2, 3 Let i(a) = -256*a**2 + 2 - 2*a + 9*a**3 + 3*a + 254*a**2 - 2*a. List the prime factors of i(1). 2 Suppose -i = -4*m - 1569, 4*i - 22*m + 20*m - 6346 = 0. List the prime factors of i. 7, 227 Suppose 1513 = -11*g + 12*g. List the prime factors of g. 17, 89 Suppose 4*p = -p - 40. Let b be p/(-20) + 16/10. Suppose 67 - 5 = b*g. What are the prime factors of g? 31 Let v(d) be the second derivative of -d**3/6 + 6*d**2 + 34*d. What are the prime factors of v(-8)? 2, 5 Let l(a) = 2 + a - 4 - a - 2*a. Let f be l(5). Let q = 17 + f. List the prime factors of q. 5 Let s(j) = -13*j**3 + 7*j**2 + j + 4. What are the prime factors of s(-3)? 5, 83 Let m = -22 - -28. Suppose m*q + 6 = 144. Suppose q = -f + 66. What are the prime factors of f? 43 Let v be -1*(-8)/2 + -1. Let c be 5/v - 14/(-42). List the prime factors of (27/12)/(c/16). 2, 3 Suppose 44 - 8 = -z. List the prime factors of -2 - (z + 2 + 2). 2, 3, 5 Let g(z) = z**2 + z - 1. Let b(a) = 4*a**2 + 3*a - 5. Let o(w) = b(w) - 3*g(w). Suppose -h - 3 + 8 = 0. What are the prime factors of o(h)? 23 Let p be 73/(-1 + 0 - -2). Let v(n) = -4*n + 162. Let r be v(28). Let j = p - r. What are the prime factors of j? 23 Let o(y) = -3*y + 0 - 5 - 2 + 0. Let f be o(-3). Suppose r + 0*j = -5*j + 11, f*j + 66 = 4*r. List the prime factors of r. 2 Let c(y) = -y**3 - 12*y**2 - 6*y - 15. Let l be -1*142/12 - (-2)/(-12). List the prime factors of c(l). 3, 19 Suppose -10*j = 3844 - 15984. List the prime factors of j. 2, 607 Let g be 16*((-46)/(-24) - (-2)/6). Let u = 68 - g. List the prime factors of u. 2 Suppose 13*o - 56758 = -16237. List the prime factors of o. 3, 1039 Suppose 0 = 3*q - 4 - 5. Suppose -5*o + t = -13, q*o + 0*o - 2*t - 5 = 0. Suppose 12 = 4*n, -126 = -o*j - 8*n + 3*n. List the prime factors of j. 37 Let k(l) = -2*l + 5. Let d be k(2). Let c be 3/((4 - 2) + d). What are the prime factors of (14/(-21))/(c/(-6))? 2 Let x(i) = -i**3 - 7*i**2 + 9*i + 18. Let h be x(-8). Suppose h*c - 1572 = 68. List the prime factors of c. 2, 41 Let s = 1293 + -394. What are the prime factors of s? 29, 31 Let m(t) = 10*t - 2. Let v be m(2). Let w be ((-8)/v)/(20/(-90)). Let a = w - -28. List the prime factors of a. 2, 3, 5 Let b be 3/(6 + -3)*(-128 + -2). Let l = 219 + b. What are the prime factors of l? 89 Suppose -1884 + 8556 = 4*y. What are the prime factors of y? 2, 3, 139 Let j be ((-18)/3 - 9/(-3)) + 5. Suppose 0 = z - 2, 2*c + j*c - 2*z - 116 = 0. What are the prime factors of c? 2, 3, 5 Let d(g) = -g**3 + 10*g**2 + g + 1. Let y be d(10). Suppose -13*j + 120 = -y*j. What are the prime factors of j? 2, 3, 5 Let q be ((-8)/(-6))/(2/(-12)). Let l be -3 - (7 + -4 + q). Suppose -4*o = -l*o - 42. What are the prime factors of o? 3, 7 Let g(a) be the third derivative of a**2 - 1/24*a**4 + 0*a + 0 - 1/3*a**3. List the prime factors of g(-7). 5 Let x(c) = 8*c**2 - 11*c - 13. List the prime factors of x(-7). 2, 3, 19 Let z(m) = -51*m - 1. Let r be z(1). Let u = 154 + r. What are the prime factors of u? 2, 3, 17 Suppose -13754 = -17*r - 6*r. List the prime factors of r. 2, 13, 23 Let l = 509 + 1024. List the prime factors of l. 3, 7, 73 What are the prime factors of (-17)/((-1309)/352520) + (-8)/44? 2, 3, 7, 109 Let c = -7 - -16. Let g be (-36)/c*(-2)/4. Suppose -3*x + 3*o = -42, o + 46 = g*x + x. What are the prime factors of x? 2 Let c = -1 - -4. Let y(v) = 4 - 47*v - 4 + c. List the prime factors of y(-1). 2, 5 Suppose 4*b - 6*b - 8 = 0, 4*y - 5*b - 3188 = 0. List the prime factors of y. 2, 3, 11 Let o(l) = 2*l**3 - l**2 - l. Let q be o(-1). List the prime factors of 0 - (-2)/4 - 115/q. 2, 29 Let y = -39 - -39. Suppose 2 = -2*b - y*b, 4*a - 5*b = 681. List the prime factors of a. 13 Suppose 0 = 3*l + 5*t - 553, t + t = -2*l + 362. Let k = l - 76. List the prime factors of k. 2, 5 Let w = 52 - 76. Let k be (w/(-14))/(11/77). What are the prime factors of k/8*(3 + 5)? 2, 3 What are the prime factors of 24/28*7 + -2 - -1073? 3, 359 Let w be 5/3 - 10/15. What are the prime factors of -1 + 198 - 3/w? 2, 97 Let z = -294 - -788. What are the prime factors of z? 2, 13, 19 Suppose -12 = 6*h - 10*h. Suppose -h*z + 0*z = -q + 2, 5*z - 4 = -2*q. Suppose -q*p - 32 = -4*p. What are the prime factors of p? 2 Suppose -7*t - 12 = 44. Let q be 4 - 4/t*-6. Suppose 4*s + q - 89 = 0. List the prime factors of s. 2, 11 Let h(k) = k - 14. Let v be h(5). Let w be (-59)/(-3*(-1)/v). Let u = -121 + w. List the prime factors of u. 2, 7 Suppose 0 = -m + 5*a + 465 - 40, 5*a - 895 = -2*m. List the prime factors of m. 2, 5, 11 Suppose 6*i - 3*i = 735. Suppose -5*t = 5*r - i, 0 = t + 5*r - 40 - 29. List the prime factors of t. 2, 11 Suppose 7*k - 6487 = -6*k. List the prime factors of k. 499 Suppose 175 = -4*n + 35. Let a be (-872)/(-14) - (-10)/n. Suppose 2*t - 2*u = 2 + 30, -2*t - 4*u = -a. List the prime factors of t. 3, 7 Let k be 2 - ((-3 - 1) + -1 + 3). What are the prime factors of 3/k*6/(-9)*-186? 3, 31 Let x(y) = -35*y - 197. What are the prime factors of x(-64)? 3, 227 Let n(u) be the second derivative of u**4/12 + 4*u**3/3 - 12*u**2 - 19*u. What are the prime factors of n(-19)? 5, 37 Let k(h) = -10*h. Let c be k(-3). Let n be (-1)/(0 - -1) - c. Let l = n - -50. What are the prime factors of l? 19 Let f = 1094 - -145. What are the prime factors of f? 3, 7, 59 Let v be ((-24)/16)/(((-3)/(-426))/(-1)). Let j = 353 - v. List the prime factors of j. 2, 5, 7 Let g be (10 + -9)/((-2)/12). Let q(r) = 2*r + 13. Let t be q(g). List the prime factors of 27 + -10 + t*-2. 3, 5 Let x be (-11 - -10)/(1/(-4)). Suppose 36 = -4*a + 4*c, x*a - c = -4*c - 1. List the prime factors of a/(-6) - 37/(-3). 13 Suppose -35*d + 30*d = -270. Suppose -52 = -t + d. What are the prime factors of t? 2, 53 Let y(w) be the third derivative of w**5/30 - w**4/8 + 2*w**2. Let i be y(2). Suppose -5*c - 61 - 39 = -5*t, 0 = -4*t - i*c + 62. List the prime factors of t. 17 Suppose -3*w + 52 = 241. Let i = w - -257. What are the prime factors of i? 2, 97 Let u(f) = -33*f + 2. Let p be u(3). Let i = -66 - p. List the prime factors of i. 31 Let m = 41 + -36. Suppose -3*s - 5*c = -8 - 21, 5*s - m*c + 5 = 0. List the prime factors of s. 3 Let d(a) = 3*a - 8. Let x be d(-5). Let i = x + 28. List the prime factors of i. 5 Let q = 1538 - -430. What are the prime factors of q? 2, 3, 41 Let j = 670 + -56. What are the prime factors of j? 2, 307 Let j = 1545 + -23. List the prime factors of j. 2, 761 Suppose -3*b = -0*b - 348. Let w = b + -65. List the prime factors of w. 3, 17 List the prime factors of 7/140*4 - 19478/(-10). 2, 487 Let x = -19 + 462. What are the prime factors of x? 443 Suppose 0 = -28*o - 39*o + 5561. List the prime factors of o. 83 Suppose 2 = 2*b + 4*l, -5*b + 40 - 13 = -l. Suppose -495 = -5*g + b*y, -3*g + 4*g - 83 = -3*y. List the prime factors of g. 5

Activation of the maternally preset program of apoptosis by microinjection of 5-aza-2'-deoxycytidine and 5-methyl-2'-deoxycytidine-5'-triphosphate in Xenopus laevis embryos. The present study examines the effects on embryogenesis of microinjecting Xenopus laevis fertilized eggs with 5-aza-2'-deoxycytidine (5-Aza-CdR), which induces hypomethylation of DNA, and 5-methyl-2'- deoxycytidine-5'-triphosphate (5-methyl-dCTP), which induces hypermethylation of DNA. Embryos injected with either one of these analogs cleaved normally until the mid-blastula stage, but underwent massive cell dissociation and stopped development at the early gastrula stage. Dissociated cells that appeared here were positive by terminal deoxyribonucleotidyl transferase-mediated deoxyuridine triphosphate-digoxigenin nick end-labeling and contained fragmented nuclei with condensed chromatin. The DNA from these cells formed a "ladder" on electrophoresis. Furthermore, the induction of cell dissociation by 5-Aza-CdR and 5-methyl-dCTP was postponed by 2-3 h by co-injection of Bcl-2 mRNA and the normal metabolite (CdR and dCTP, respectively). Using a specific antibody against 5-methyl-cytosine, we confirmed that 5-Aza-CdR induces hypomethylation, whereas 5-methyl-dCTP induces hypermethylation in X. laevis embryos before the onset of cell dissociation. Incorporation of radioactive precursors revealed that synthesis of DNA, and also RNA, is inhibited significantly in both 5-Aza-CdR-injected and 5-methyl-dCTP-injected embryos. These results show that 5-Aza-CdR and 5-methyl-dCTP are incorporated into DNA and induce apoptosis, probably through alteration of DNA methylation coupled with inhibition of DNA replication and/or transcription.

I thought you shook the dust off your feet...without strawberries no less. Even if he is quiet and well behaved, people will still step in his poop when they barbecue in the yard, and their comments will be known. « Last Edit: August 11, 2010, 10:57:29 PM by Alfred Persson » Logged For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, because what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it to them. (Rom 1:18-19 NKJ) That is why the lack of testimony for icons in the early church is probative. Unlike sola scriptura, there is no lack of testimony for icons in the early church. Where? No icons are mentioned in those fathers directly after the apostles, none, zero. Sola scriptura is taught, but to speak of that now is to change the subject away from the very embarrassing fact (for you) that icon veneration is completely absent in both the Bible AND the earliest church fathers. That it developed centuries later I freely admit, but that apostasy is irrelevant to what the apostles taught. According to your logic if I do not mention that I have a dog, then I must not have a dog. I am sure my wife would be sad to hear that as she is rather attached to our dog that does not exist... Or if I do not mention that I have a computer (though evidence suggest otherwise) then I must not have a computer and these post are here by revisionist history alone. You misstated my reasons. More accurate: If you have a dog then your neighbors hear it barking often, if they never hear barking, its likely you don't have a dog. So also icon veneration, where there is icon veneration, there is "barking" about it, where barking is not heard, there is no icon veneration. Therefore the apostolic church did not venerate icons. But what if I have a bark collar on my dog and have him trained to use a litter box? Then the neighbors do not hear him nor do they even see him out in the yard. If I had the neighbors over and they saw my dog they might pass down the story of my litter box trained dog to their children and so on until not a single eye witness is alive, but the story still remained. This does not make the story false, rather it just means there are no eye witnesses left. And again, the Ethiopian church does not "bark" about their icons being venerated, yet still they do it. Prove to me that there was no text that has become lost to time describing that the Apostles and early Fathers did venerate icons and I would believe you. Just because there is no record of it now does not mean there was no record of it then. I am done for the night. I have to get up and go venerate another deceased Veteran tomorrow (who by the way was made in God's image and is an icon thereof). Nonsense, my dog doesn't poop anywhwere near the BBQ - and Christians who venerated icons were so comon there was no need for anyone to comment about it till the iconoclast neighbors started complaining. Grumpy Mr. Wilson types who hate dogs - er, icons . Logged "Sometimes, you just gotta say, 'OK, I still have nine live, two-headed animals' and move on.'' (owner of Coney Island freak show, upon learning he'd been outbid on a 5-legged puppy) "Doctrine which ye have learned", the action is completed in Paul's time. Therefore doctrines which arose centuries later are not apostolic and all who practice things not taught by the apostles, are not apostolic. Interesting: you remind me of the Jehovah's Witness fellow who came over to my front porch a month ago. Just as dogmatic, close-minded and wrong, but with triple the attitude. I should remind you of James, he says there was only ONE delivery of the truth, not multiple deliveries over the centuries to come: NKJ Jude 1:3 Beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you concerning our common salvation, I found it necessary to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints. (Jud 1:3 NKJ) Contend for the faith that already existed in his day...the ONE delivery was past...not in the novelties that would spring up centuries later by oddly dressed men. « Last Edit: August 11, 2010, 11:03:31 PM by Alfred Persson » Logged For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, because what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it to them. (Rom 1:18-19 NKJ) Nonsense, my dog doesn't poop anywhwere near the BBQ - and Christians who venerated icons were so comon there was no need for anyone to comment about it till the iconoclast neighbors started complaining. Grumpy Mr. Wilson types who hate dogs - er, icons . The female Denis the Menace, somehow that fits. But it was the other way around, the iconoclasts had nothing to complain about at first, the new neighbors seemed to be like them. But as time when on, they began violating the zoning laws with their images...only then did they realize they waited too long. « Last Edit: August 11, 2010, 11:08:36 PM by Alfred Persson » Logged For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, because what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it to them. (Rom 1:18-19 NKJ) "At the time when our Lord preached the Good News and healed every illness and infirmity of men, there lived in the city of Edessa on the shore of the Euphrates Prince Abgar who was completely infected with leprosy. He heard of Christ, the Healer of every pain and disease and sent an artist, Ananias, to Palestine with a letter to Christ in which he begged the Lord to come to Edessa and to cure him of leprosy. In the event that the Lord was unable to come, the prince ordered Ananias to portray His likeness and to bring it to him, believing that this likeness would be able to restore his health. The Lord answered that He was unable to come, for the time of His passion was approaching took a towel, wiped His face and, on the towel, His All-pure face was perfectly pictured. The Lord gave this towel to Ananias with the message that the prince will be healed by it, but not entirely, and later on, He would send him a messenger who would erase the remainder of his disease. Receiving the towel, Prince Abgar kissed it and the leprosy completely fell from his body but a little of it remained on his face. Later, the Apostle Thaddaeus, preaching the Gospel, came to Abgar and secretly healed and baptized him. The prince then destroyed the idols which stood before the gates of the city and above the gates he placed the towel with the likeness of Christ attached to wood, framed in a gold frame and adorned with pearls. Also, the prince wrote beneath the icon on the gates: "O Christ God, no one will be ashamed who hopes in You." For many years after King Abgar's reign, Edessa remained a faithful Christian city. However, when one of Abgar's great grandsons restored idolatry, the bishop of Edessa came by night and secretly walled up the miraculous icon over the gates. Many believed the icon to have been destroyed by the new idolatrous king and the icon was soon forgotten; even though it was to remain safely hidden within the walls for nearly 400 years. In 545 AD, during the reign of Emperor Justinian, the Persian King Chozroes attacked Edessa and the city was in great hardship. It happened that Eulabius, the Bishop of Edessa, had a vision in which was revealed to him the mystery of the sealed wall and the forgotten icon. The icon was discovered and, by its power, the Persian army was defeated. After that it stayed in Edessa for a long time, and many famous people from history came to see it. In the year 944 AD, it was taken to the city of Constantinople and placed in a church, where it remained until 1204 AD, when the Crusaders carried it off. The miraculous icon was never seen again." taken from web page of Christ the Savior Orthodox Church Delmarva. Logged Your idea has been debunked 1000 times already.. Maybe 1001 will be the charm So you admit your icons are of Christ's flesh only, not the whole Christ, for then you must include His transcendent nature. Nestorian error. Ever looked at an icon of Christ, Alfred? Noticed the halo around His head? Noticed the Greek letters O W N in that halo? What do think those letters mean? Exodus 3:14, Luke 22:70, John 8:58, John 13:19, for starters. What is your answer to this, Alfred? You prove icons teach the illiterate lies about God, they won't know what those letters are either...they will assume the whole God is being represented by the one icon, which is monophysite heresy. You still haven't answered the question, Alfred. What does the halo surrounding Christ's head mean, and the letters in that halo mean? Don't be lazy, I've already given several scripture references to help you. Well we can go one step further than icon veneration and find that relic veneration was practiced by the early Christians. In the martyrdom of Polycarp (2nd c.) it is stated that the devil, "...proceeded to do his best to arrainge that at least we should not get possession of his (St. Polycarp's) mortal remains, although numbers of us were anxious to do this and to claim our share in the hallowed relics." Tertullian asserts that St. Polycarp was appointed by the apostle St. John, he was known by St. Ignatius (who was known by St.Paul), and highly revered by St. Irenaeus whose words our inquisitor has used in attemp to undermine holy tradtion. So what does he know from the Bible of what is holy tradition vs. the tradition of man? Only proves we cannot go far from the apostles, if we are to learn what they believed. "Claim our share," neither can the ghoulish practice of dismembering the dead be found in the New Testament. When Jesus died, they no one "claimed their share" of body parts. When James was stoned, same thing. Not once in the NT do we see the ghoulish superstition. That Polycarp is relevant to what the apostles taught is not disputed, someone writing about him in the 2nd century, is. All proper Christian burial would be observed since apostolic Christians administered the rite. since St. Polycarp died in the 2nd c. the authentic eyewitness account was written then & preserved in the apostolic tradition. Your earler claims of us (meaning those who you perceive as being apostolic) are faulty, unsupported by sources, & only relies on how you interpret scripture. Its hearsay, unreliable. What they believed does not prove what Polycarp believed and certainly not what the apostles taught. Lets see you claim to be in apostolic sucession & yet say that someone (me) who finds an apostolic source as evidence of a veneration practice by apostolic Christians of the remains a martyred apsotolic Christian & that I trust these people as observing proper Christian burial rite as relying on unreliable hearsay? The Church is Apostolic (ecclesia apostolica) inasmuch as all its members to the Last Day come to faith in Christ through the Word of the Apostles (John 17:20: πιστεύσοντες διὰ λόγου αὐτῶν εἰς ἐμέ) and cling to the Word of the Apostles (Acts 2:42: προσκαρτεροῦντες τῇ διδαχῇ τῶν ἀποστόλων), and this over against all departures from the truth of Scripture. Rom. 16:17: “Avoid them,” namely, those who “cause divisions and offenses contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned.” "Doctrine which ye have learned", the action is completed in Paul's time. Therefore doctrines which arose centuries later are not apostolic and all who practice things not taught by the apostles, are not apostolic. Relying on a Lutheran theologian's definition of "Apostolic" to tell us Orthodox what "Apostolic" means? Particularly when the St. Irenaeus whom you love to quote gave us this definition: It is within the power of all, therefore, in every Church, who may wish to see the truth, to contemplate clearly the tradition of the apostles manifested throughout the whole world; and we are in a position to reckon up those who were by the apostles instituted bishops in the Churches, and [to demonstrate] the succession of these men to our own times; those who neither taught nor knew of anything like what these [heretics] rave about. For if the apostles had known hidden mysteries, which they were in the habit of imparting to “the perfect” apart and privily from the rest, they would have delivered them especially to those to whom they were also committing the Churches themselves. For they were desirous that these men should be very perfect and blameless in all things, whom also they were leaving behind as their successors, delivering up their own place of government to these men; which men, if they discharged their functions honestly, would be a great boon [to the Church], but if they should fall away, the direst calamity.St. Irenaeus: Against Heresies, Book III, Chapter 3, Paragraph 1 (from http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/anf01.ix.iv.iv.html) I will concede that St. Irenaeus certainly supports Dr. Pieper's and your definition of "Apostolic", since the saint identified doctrine as Apostolic if it was what the Apostles taught, but I would suggest that Dr. Pieper's definition of "Apostolic" is incomplete. To Irenaeus, the visible succession of bishops from the Apostles was just as much a witness to Apostolicity of a doctrine as the fact that the doctrine was learned from the Apostles themselves. And, just as St. Ignatius of Antioch taught his flocks to do everything in union with their bishops lest they fall prey to the heretics, so did Irenaeus declare that the truth of doctrine could be ascertained by the fact that those bishops who taught the doctrine were verifiable successors to the Apostles. If you are not in communion with these bishops, how can you know that your doctrine is Apostolic? Given the absence of icon veneration in Irenaeus, his words are quite damaging your argument. Your exegesis of his words fails, you confuse the mechanism with the operator. Irenaeus extols succession, but only to support his claim apostolic truth is being taught in the Universal ("Catholic") Church). When he says "Thus saith the Catholic church" he does not mean "this is the truth invented by the church," his meaning is "as this teaching is found in all the churches, it must have been planted by the apostles, otherwise, if it were a novelty, then only a few churches would believe it." His argument fails the test of time, scripture and history proves it wrong. If I could read the New Testament, and then go to an Orthodox church without being surprised by anything there, THEN its apostolic. No one reading the New Testament alone, can predict what they will find when they go to either a Catholic or an Orthodox church....these are too different. That proves your churches are not apostolic, even if you have a succession of bishops...which I really doubt, but will concede for the sake of this argument only. « Last Edit: August 11, 2010, 11:19:12 PM by Alfred Persson » Logged For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, because what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it to them. (Rom 1:18-19 NKJ) Problem is, Alfred, the iconoclasts you revere so much showed their disapproval nor only by destroying the icons - but also those who venerated them. Are those your heroes? No, not at all. My heroes are in the Bible, but I will include Athanasius, an exception. Logged For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, because what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it to them. (Rom 1:18-19 NKJ) That there were pictures in the catacombs etc begs the question whether these were worshiped, No, it answers the questions whether the Chrisitans had images in their places of worship (besides the obvious, the inscriptions and literary evidence show worship is what was going on in the catacombs). Your Protestant forebares denied their existence when they were creating the church from whence you come, but then in the 17th century the catacombs were rediscovered, and exposed your forebares' fallacy. Then your Protestant forebares fell back on the waving the veil of Moses, claiming that the Jews don't have images, and so the early Christians didn't either. But now we have unearthed early synagogues, and they are covered in images. So much for that. So now you are left begging the question that the early Christians had no images, with no evidence. Christ said the gates of Hell would not prevail against His Church, the pillar and bulwark of Truth. All those early Churches uncovered have images that cover them. Either call Christ a liar as His Church fell prey to Satan, and hence nothing He said 2,000 years ago has no relevance to us today. Btw, I was talking to someone about the Chapel at Fort Ross, the first Orthodox parish in the lower 48. If you look inside it today, you might conclude that the early Orhtodox in this country had no images:(the icons in the cabinet on the walls are period IIRC, but recently restored)There is almost no description of the Chapel's inside. After all, most at Fort Ross had seen the inside of a Russian Church. THere is more detailed descriptions of the governor and manager's home (which also include the icons that were in the rooms, something different for American and Western European visitors). When the Russians evacuated, they told everything with them to the Cathedral in Sitka, except a lectern, the candlelabra and candle stand. [/quote] I see two icons behind the lectern, on the wall. Logged For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, because what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it to them. (Rom 1:18-19 NKJ) We have, from tradition, the Apostle Luke painting several icons as well. Without proof, you have nothing. The fact copies of Luke's gospel never had icons is an overwhelming mass of irrefutable evidence the autograph didn't have them either. What icon venerating Orthodox Christian would fail to copy Luke's icons perfectly, so that every extent copy had icons? So your argument icon veneration was practiced by Luke fails on many levels, but most importantly, where it matters, you have no proof, therefore you have nothing, only a claim. Logged For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, because what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it to them. (Rom 1:18-19 NKJ) lol ... so what, the NT church resembled a Rick Warren style megachurch? No, most were like a Bible study in a house: NKJ Romans 16:5 Likewise greet the church that is in their house. (Rom 16:5 NKJ) I recall bumming for change in San Diego, so I could get high when a group of Christians offered me shelter and food. I surprisingly went with them. There, this vagabond group, led by a Matriarch, held Bible study and witnessed to the love of Jesus. I recall wanting to put my hands over my ears to not hear...I wanted to run...the conviction of the Holy Spirit was strong...years later I repented and believed. But I remember them, they were precisely like the apostolic church: KJV 2 John 1:1 The elder unto the elect lady and her children, whom I love in the truth; and not I only, but also all they that have known the truth; (2Jo 1:1 KJV) « Last Edit: August 11, 2010, 11:44:31 PM by Alfred Persson » Logged For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, because what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it to them. (Rom 1:18-19 NKJ) So you admit your icons are of Christ's flesh only, not the whole Christ, for then you must include His transcendent nature. Nestorian error. Ever looked at an icon of Christ, Alfred? Noticed the halo around His head? Noticed the Greek letters O W N in that halo? What do think those letters mean? Exodus 3:14, Luke 22:70, John 8:58, John 13:19, for starters. What is your answer to this, Alfred? You prove icons teach the illiterate lies about God, they won't know what those letters are either...they will assume the whole God is being represented by the one icon, which is monophysite heresy. Mr. Persson, you are just further showing that you throw terms around without knowing what they mean. Eutyches taught that Christ's human nature was absorbed and dissolved in the Divine nature as a drop of vinegar in the ocean,http://www.copticchurch.net/topics/theology/nature_of_christ.pdfdespite the teaching of the Church that He is True God and True man in one Person unmingled and undivided, based on the preaching of the Apostles that in Christ "the fullness of Godhead dwellt by the good pleasure of the Father." Col. 1:19, a teaching you also deny. Since we have seen vocabulary problems:fullnessPronunciation:/ˈfʊlnɪs/(also fulness)noun [mass noun] 1 the state of being filled to capacity:scores of tins in different states of fullness; the state of having eaten enough or more than enough and feeling full up; the state of being complete or whole:the honesty and fullness of the information they provide....OED (I don't have my Webster's handy, but Oxford is more useful for your KJV). So the fullness of Godhead dwelling in Him means the whole Godhead dwellt among us, which is why He says "He Who sees Me sees the Father." John 14:9. Eutyches' heresy died out, but if it had survived like Nestorius', it may have come to iconoclasm as you have: icon's can't portray humanity dissolved into divinity. Though of course, the quesiton would be how come Christ wasn't invisible to the Apostles, as the Apostles no doubt could not see a drop of vinegar dissolved in the ocean, let alone a finite man dissovled in the infinite God. So like you, they would deny the Apostles' preaching Christ "the icon of the invisible God." Col. 1:5. As St. John gave voice to the Apostolic teaching: Quote An image is a likeness of the original with a certain difference, for it is not an exact reproduction of the original. Thus, the Son is the living, substantial, unchangeable Image of the invisible God, bearing in Himself the whole Father, being in all things equal to Him, differing only in being begotten by the Father, who is the Begetter ; the Son is begotten. The Father does not proceed from the Son, but the Son from the Father. It is through the Son, though not after Him, that He is what He is, the Father who generates. In God, too, there are representations and images of His future acts,—that is to say, His counsel from all eternity, which is ever unchangeable. That which is divine is immutable; there is no change in Him, nor shadow of change. Logged Question a friend, perhaps he did not do it; but if he did anything so that he may do it no more.A hasty quarrel kindles fire,and urgent strife sheds blood.If you blow on a spark, it will glow;if you spit on it, it will be put out; and both come out of your mouth But, the One, Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church of which you have no part says that it is. Really, you have no argument. If it were only the veneration of icons that you reject, we might be able to have a conversation. But you have shown here that you reject far more than that, so we really have no common ground to start from. Its elementary deduction, as human nature does not allow the Orthodox religion be silent about icon veneration, wherever human religion is silent about icons, they aren't like the Orthodox. The church seen in the pages of the New Testament is silent about icons, therefore it isn't like the Orthodox. Indeed, the silence about icon veneration in the Bible is an overwhelming mass of irrefutable evidence they didn't practice it, given the heat and froth of the Orthodox manifest on this thread. Indeed, the silence about computer usage in the Bible is an overwhelming mass of irrefutable evidence they didn't practice it, given the heat and froth of the Persson manifest on this thread. Computers aren't in the Bible, so why do you use theme? Televisions aren't either, nor are newspapers or radios. How can you use them if they aren't mentioned in the Bible? I hope you don't have any cats or dogs as pets. Where does the Bible discuss having pets? Do you see how silly it is to point to the Bible as a justification for any ol' belief? As Isa said in another thread, you have the car manual, but not the car. You can't get anywhere. Are you familiar with the term prelest? In Christ,Andrew Logged "I will pour out my prayer unto the Lord, and to Him will I proclaim my grief; for with evils my soul is filled, and my life unto hades hath drawn nigh, and like Jonah I will pray: From corruption raise me up, O God." -Ode VI, Irmos of the Supplicatory Canon to the Theotokos lol ... so what, the NT church resembled a Rick Warren style megachurch? No, most were like a Bible study in a house: NKJ Romans 16:5 Likewise greet the church that is in their house. (Rom 16:5 NKJ) I'm trying to picture it. You are saying that people would sit together in a room, with each person having a Bible as we know it today, (in the form of a codex) on their lap, taking turns reading passages and discussing and interpreting the passages? That's a bit different from the early accounts of Christian house church worship. I'm thinking of Hyppolytus. "At the time when our Lord preached the Good News and healed every illness and infirmity of men, there lived in the city of Edessa on the shore of the Euphrates Prince Abgar who was completely infected with leprosy. He heard of Christ, the Healer of every pain and disease and sent an artist, Ananias, to Palestine with a letter to Christ in which he begged the Lord to come to Edessa and to cure him of leprosy. In the event that the Lord was unable to come, the prince ordered Ananias to portray His likeness and to bring it to him, believing that this likeness would be able to restore his health. The Lord answered that He was unable to come, for the time of His passion was approaching took a towel, wiped His face and, on the towel, His All-pure face was perfectly pictured. The Lord gave this towel to Ananias with the message that the prince will be healed by it, but not entirely, and later on, He would send him a messenger who would erase the remainder of his disease. Receiving the towel, Prince Abgar kissed it and the leprosy completely fell from his body but a little of it remained on his face. Later, the Apostle Thaddaeus, preaching the Gospel, came to Abgar and secretly healed and baptized him. The prince then destroyed the idols which stood before the gates of the city and above the gates he placed the towel with the likeness of Christ attached to wood, framed in a gold frame and adorned with pearls. Also, the prince wrote beneath the icon on the gates: "O Christ God, no one will be ashamed who hopes in You." For many years after King Abgar's reign, Edessa remained a faithful Christian city. However, when one of Abgar's great grandsons restored idolatry, the bishop of Edessa came by night and secretly walled up the miraculous icon over the gates. Many believed the icon to have been destroyed by the new idolatrous king and the icon was soon forgotten; even though it was to remain safely hidden within the walls for nearly 400 years. In 545 AD, during the reign of Emperor Justinian, the Persian King Chozroes attacked Edessa and the city was in great hardship. It happened that Eulabius, the Bishop of Edessa, had a vision in which was revealed to him the mystery of the sealed wall and the forgotten icon. The icon was discovered and, by its power, the Persian army was defeated. After that it stayed in Edessa for a long time, and many famous people from history came to see it. In the year 944 AD, it was taken to the city of Constantinople and placed in a church, where it remained until 1204 AD, when the Crusaders carried it off. The miraculous icon was never seen again." taken from web page of Christ the Savior Orthodox Church Delmarva. Why do miracles impress you? Surely you know this text: NKJ Matthew 24:24 "For false christs and false prophets will rise and show great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect. (Mat 24:24 NKJ) You also know that Christian like miracles occur through antichrists: 22 "Many will say to Me in that day,`Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?' 23 "And then I will declare to them,`I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!' (Mat 7:22-23 NKJ) 9 The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, 10 and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. (2Th 2:9-10 NKJ) It is written: NKJ Deuteronomy 13:1 "If there arises among you a prophet or a dreamer of dreams, and he gives you a sign or a wonder, 2 "and the sign or the wonder comes to pass, of which he spoke to you, saying,`Let us go after other gods'-- which you have not known--`and let us serve them,' 3 "you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams, for the LORD your God is testing you to know whether you love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul. 4 "You shall walk after the LORD your God and fear Him, and keep His commandments and obey His voice, and you shall serve Him and hold fast to Him. (Deu 13:1-4 NKJ) Logged For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, because what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it to them. (Rom 1:18-19 NKJ) lol ... so what, the NT church resembled a Rick Warren style megachurch? No, most were like a Bible study in a house: NKJ Romans 16:5 Likewise greet the church that is in their house. (Rom 16:5 NKJ) I'm trying to picture it. You are saying that people would sit together in a room, with each person having a Bible as we know it today, (in the form of a codex) on their lap, taking turns reading passages and discussing and interpreting the passages? That's a bit different from the early accounts of Christian house church worship. I'm thinking of Hyppolytus. This is before him. They would have some scripture, not a Bible because only the rich could afford it. Fragments of a book most likely, that they exchanged with other churches, at first. Of course as time went on, they got bigger and more scripture. BUT we should never forget, Paul often fellowshiped in homes where the church of 10 or so people, met. Logged For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, because what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it to them. (Rom 1:18-19 NKJ) Have you looked at the archeological evidence which shows the layout of early house-churches? They were set up for liturgical worship. If they were sitting around having Bible studies which might resemble what many Protestants do today, how were they understanding the texts they were looking at? Who was guiding them in their exegesis? They certainly were not letting the Scripture interpret itself, as the communities only had some, not all of the later-canonized New Testament writings. They were reading some gospels, some epistles, and what you would likely consider a bunch of superstitious fantasy, like the Acts of Paul and Thecla. I would actually be suspicious of Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicism if they lacked any references in their tradition to such works, as they themselves were a part of the life of the Church. Through its liturgical life, the Church has commemorated and preserved many of these stories within the tradition, at least those which were true and beneficial for the flock. So anyway, the point is that they certainly would have been studying the Septuagint, which we still use in perfect continuity with not only the early Church but also with the LORD Christ, St. Paul and all of the New Testament quotations of the Old Testament. But beyond that they were confined to regional and communal texts, and there was a lot of ambiguity surrounding what were to be considered authoritative writings. Even if every house church had been full of literate Christians (which they were not), who all carried around pocket-sized Septuagints (which they didn't), they still would have looked to their bishop to teach them what they learned from the apostles. They would certainly not have looked to themselves for an authoritative interpretation. Those who did where infamous. They were the heretics. There is no evidence the early church practiced icon veneration, the absence of any mention of it is inexplicable if they practiced icon veneration like the Orthodox, for the latter can hardly restrain themselves from writing about it----therefore the lack of writing about it indicates they did not practice icon veneration. Hasty and anachronistic generalization. You're drawing conclusions about the Early Church from the practice of the Church today without accounting for the differences between the specific circumstances the Early Church faced and the specific circumstances today's Church faces.and do the homework needed to construct a much more cogent argument, then maybe I'll listen to you. Right now, you're just babbling incoherently. Your objection is specious, there is nothing different about human nature, that hasn't changed. You might want to edit this. Why, its a cogent argument. Human nature doesn't allow divine words not be written down, the testimony of history supports that. However, you're assuming that ALL divine words would be written down, that human nature would not allow a single divine word to not be written down. Do you realize how much of an unprovable negative statement this is? All it takes is one example of the contrary to prove you wrong. Do the Hindu sacred writings contain EVERYTHING the Hindus believe? Can ALL the teachings of the Buddha be found complete in the writings of his followers? Did the native tribes of Alaska even bother to commit any of their spiritual tradition to writing? I don't know for certain, but it seems you're making an assertion regarding human nature that reflects a very minuscule understanding of history and cultures. Debate tactic 101, change your opponent's argument to "all" and ridicule it. I never said "all", the point is its impossible the event occur and NOTHING be written down: "Why, its a cogent argument. Human nature doesn't allow divine words not be written down, the testimony of history supports that. What testimony of history do you have for this otherwise unsupported assumption that human nature doesn't allow divine words not be written down? Do you realize that this requires solid evidence from history? Do you also realize that according to the logic of your statements, you need to prove from the historical record that EVERY utterance understood to be of divine origin was written down, that NO utterance of "divine" origin failed to find its way into writing? Are you up to the task of proving that no exceptions exist? For that's what you'll need to do. Its common sense...what prophet do you know keeps his mouth shut and hides in closet, never letting anyone know God spoke to him, never putting the message in writing? BUT your Debate Stratagem #7 "Change the subject to the analogy" won't fly, because I have something better than an analogy...the Orthodox themselves. You gents can't restrain yourselves when it comes to loudly proclaiming your love for images...just review this thread...icons galore!The Orthodox are my proof, if the apostolic church were like the Orthodox church today, the NT would shout about icons from the roof tops! Instead of Orthodox comments about their beloved icons, not even a hint, not one word, not one allusion, not one implication, not one reference, nothing at all. The ONLY likely reason for the complete and total lack of icon veneration in the Bible, is they didn't practice it. The fact that you'll draw such hasty generalizations from the participation on this thread alone shows how low you'll go to win this debate. The total number of Orthodox Christians in the world makes up maybe 5% of the world's population, and the number of Orthodox who post on this thread is maybe not even 1% of the world's population of Orthodox Christians. And you're going to draw hasty generalizations from THAT!!? And you expect people to take you and your logic seriously. I've seen better logic than that in a Chick tract. "Doctrine which ye have learned", the action is completed in Paul's time. Therefore doctrines which arose centuries later are not apostolic and all who practice things not taught by the apostles, are not apostolic. Interesting: you remind me of the Jehovah's Witness fellow who came over to my front porch a month ago. Just as dogmatic, close-minded and wrong, but with triple the attitude. I should remind you of James, he says there was only ONE delivery of the truth, not multiple deliveries over the centuries to come: NKJ Jude 1:3 Beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you concerning our common salvation, I found it necessary to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints. (Jud 1:3 NKJ) Contend for the faith that already existed in his day...the ONE delivery was past...not in the novelties that would spring up centuries later by oddly dressed men. Dude, you're full of anachronisms today. Calling men oddly dressed because they don't dress as we do today. You can't even insult somebody without committing a logical fallacy. Well we can go one step further than icon veneration and find that relic veneration was practiced by the early Christians. In the martyrdom of Polycarp (2nd c.) it is stated that the devil, "...proceeded to do his best to arrainge that at least we should not get possession of his (St. Polycarp's) mortal remains, although numbers of us were anxious to do this and to claim our share in the hallowed relics." Tertullian asserts that St. Polycarp was appointed by the apostle St. John, he was known by St. Ignatius (who was known by St.Paul), and highly revered by St. Irenaeus whose words our inquisitor has used in attemp to undermine holy tradtion. So what does he know from the Bible of what is holy tradition vs. the tradition of man? Only proves we cannot go far from the apostles, if we are to learn what they believed. "Claim our share," neither can the ghoulish practice of dismembering the dead be found in the New Testament. When Jesus died, they no one "claimed their share" of body parts. When James was stoned, same thing. Not once in the NT do we see the ghoulish superstition. That Polycarp is relevant to what the apostles taught is not disputed, someone writing about him in the 2nd century, is. All proper Christian burial would be observed since apostolic Christians administered the rite. since St. Polycarp died in the 2nd c. the authentic eyewitness account was written then & preserved in the apostolic tradition. Your earler claims of us (meaning those who you perceive as being apostolic) are faulty, unsupported by sources, & only relies on how you interpret scripture. Its hearsay, unreliable. What they believed does not prove what Polycarp believed and certainly not what the apostles taught. Lets see you claim to be in apostolic sucession & yet say that someone (me) who finds an apostolic source as evidence of a veneration practice by apostolic Christians of the remains a martyred apsotolic Christian & that I trust these people as observing proper Christian burial rite as relying on unreliable hearsay? The Church is Apostolic (ecclesia apostolica) inasmuch as all its members to the Last Day come to faith in Christ through the Word of the Apostles (John 17:20: πιστεύσοντες διὰ λόγου αὐτῶν εἰς ἐμέ) and cling to the Word of the Apostles (Acts 2:42: προσκαρτεροῦντες τῇ διδαχῇ τῶν ἀποστόλων), and this over against all departures from the truth of Scripture. Rom. 16:17: “Avoid them,” namely, those who “cause divisions and offenses contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned.” "Doctrine which ye have learned", the action is completed in Paul's time. Therefore doctrines which arose centuries later are not apostolic and all who practice things not taught by the apostles, are not apostolic. Relying on a Lutheran theologian's definition of "Apostolic" to tell us Orthodox what "Apostolic" means? Particularly when the St. Irenaeus whom you love to quote gave us this definition: It is within the power of all, therefore, in every Church, who may wish to see the truth, to contemplate clearly the tradition of the apostles manifested throughout the whole world; and we are in a position to reckon up those who were by the apostles instituted bishops in the Churches, and [to demonstrate] the succession of these men to our own times; those who neither taught nor knew of anything like what these [heretics] rave about. For if the apostles had known hidden mysteries, which they were in the habit of imparting to “the perfect” apart and privily from the rest, they would have delivered them especially to those to whom they were also committing the Churches themselves. For they were desirous that these men should be very perfect and blameless in all things, whom also they were leaving behind as their successors, delivering up their own place of government to these men; which men, if they discharged their functions honestly, would be a great boon [to the Church], but if they should fall away, the direst calamity.St. Irenaeus: Against Heresies, Book III, Chapter 3, Paragraph 1 (from http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/anf01.ix.iv.iv.html) I will concede that St. Irenaeus certainly supports Dr. Pieper's and your definition of "Apostolic", since the saint identified doctrine as Apostolic if it was what the Apostles taught, but I would suggest that Dr. Pieper's definition of "Apostolic" is incomplete. To Irenaeus, the visible succession of bishops from the Apostles was just as much a witness to Apostolicity of a doctrine as the fact that the doctrine was learned from the Apostles themselves. And, just as St. Ignatius of Antioch taught his flocks to do everything in union with their bishops lest they fall prey to the heretics, so did Irenaeus declare that the truth of doctrine could be ascertained by the fact that those bishops who taught the doctrine were verifiable successors to the Apostles. If you are not in communion with these bishops, how can you know that your doctrine is Apostolic? Given the absence of icon veneration in Irenaeus, his words are quite damaging your argument. Your exegesis of his words fails, you confuse the mechanism with the operator. Irenaeus extols succession, but only to support his claim apostolic truth is being taught in the Universal ("Catholic") Church). When he says "Thus saith the Catholic church" he does not mean "this is the truth invented by the church," his meaning is "as this teaching is found in all the churches, it must have been planted by the apostles, otherwise, if it were a novelty, then only a few churches would believe it." You have yet to prove that the Apostles didn't venerate icons and didn't teach their followers to do the same. Your argument that "the Orthodox on this board can't help but talk about icons, therefore the Christians of the Early Church would have done the same if they venerated icons, but we can find no evidence that they ever talked about icons, therefore we must conclude that they did in fact NOT venerate icons" is too full of logical fallacies to prove anything. 1. We talk so much about icons on this thread because you force us to defend our veneration of icons by attacking it non-stop. If you weren't attacking us, we'd have no reason to talk so loudly about our veneration of icons. Likewise with the Church before, during, and after the iconclastic crisis.2. Your projection of what you see in Orthodox Christianity of today onto the Early Church ignores the historical circumstances faced by Christians in these totally separate eras.3. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Without your artificial and unproven assumption that human nature demands that EVERY divine teaching be written down, there's no reason to believe that the simple absence of any talk about icons indicates that icons were not venerated.4. Ialmisry has provided a sizable tome of historical evidence that a number of regional churches painted and venerated icons without ever really talking about them for centuries before the iconoclastic controversies hit the Byzantine Empire. I notice that you've said nothing in response to this. Do you even acknowledge the work he did to post all this? I'm not surprised that you haven't, since doing so would require you to recognize that your argument is now dead. We have, from tradition, the Apostle Luke painting several icons as well. Without proof, you have nothing. The fact copies of Luke's gospel never had icons is an overwhelming mass of irrefutable evidence the autograph didn't have them either. The irrefutable evidence is that the autograph of Luke had no attribution to St. Luke on it. The Church put it there. The same Church with the icons. Quote What icon venerating Orthodox Christian would fail to copy Luke's icons perfectly, so that every extent copy had icons? Yes, we have to remember that your faith came into existence after the age of printing, so you are hazzy on the concept of manuscripts. You see, before Mr. Gutenberg, instead of setting one printing press and printing copy after copy, which can be done relatively cheaply, every book had to be written out by hand. Labor intensive, it made books quite expensive, so there were few of them. Illlustrating a book would make it cost prohibitive, so even few were illustrated. So few that only a hand full have survived, among them the Ambrosian Iliad, Vergilius Vaticanus and the Vergilius Romanus, and the Quedlinburg Itala fragment and Cotton Genesis, all of them of the 5th century, the last two being from Bibleshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quedlinburg_Itala_fragmenthttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cotton_Genesisdating nearly as far back of the earliest full Bibles we have (Codex Sinaiticus and Codex Vaticanus) which predate the illuminated Bibles by only a few decades. So I guess you have to admit, as documented by the previous three centuries, that the complete Bible didn't exist until the second half of the 4th century, within the lifetime of the earliest illuminated Biblical (actually, any) manuscript codices that survive-which doesn't say the first ones to be produced. The evidence indicates otherwise. You also should read more carefullly. Shanghaiski said nothing about St. Luke's Gospel being illuminated, nor does the Church. The Tradition states he wrote (the conventional term) several icons, in addition to writing the Gospel and Acts. You have confused the two acts. Even works that you would expect to have illustrations, like Ptolemy and Strabo works on geography and astronomy lack illustrations like maps. Sometimes the most schematic of maps are inserted by later copyists. In the case of the Gospels, why they were neither bound in one volume nor illuminated is not hard to understand why icon venerating and Bible loving Orthodox Christian would fail to copy Luke's icons perfectly, so that every extent copy had icons:Even if the extreme expense could be overcome, they faced the risk of all that expense going up in smoke. Book burning wasn't invented with printing. Several of the Roman persecusions focused specifically on seizing Bibles and consigning them to the flames. And that is before the ravages of time. Do have the slightest idea of the extent of available evidence for anything in antiquity? What the Church tradition teaches is that St. Luke practiced panal painting, which we know was extremely popular in antiquity but of which very, very few examples of any sort have survived. The largest catch of this art form is the Fayyum portraits, which survive because of being buried (and hence not in use where they can be lost, destroyed, worn out, whatever) in the dry climate, and they number under a thousand over nearly half a millenium. Not much. Several panals survive which are venerated as St. Luke's work (I venerated one in Saidnay, Syria. In the neighborhood they still speak Aramaic). Unfortunately, like all panal icons from antiquity, they have suffered from well intentioned but ill executed restorations. I have a Bible in Church Slavonic, reprinted by authroity of the Holy Governing Synod in 1900 on the 1756 edition. Not a single icon in it (the idea was for mass distribution, illustrations still increase the cost of producing a book considerably). So I guess that I can conclude that Orthodox Russia in the 18th and 19th centuries didn't venerate icons. I also have a reprint of the 1688 Bucharest Bible, which also doesn't have a single icon in it (altough it does have the coat of arms of the sponsoring prince and the Romanian principalities on it. So I guess the Romanian Orthodox of the 17th century didn't venerate images either.I guess not. Quote So your argument icon veneration was practiced by Luke fails on many levels, but most importantly, where it matters, you have no proof, therefore you have nothing, only a claim. On the same basis, the same can be said of your claim that St. Luke wrote the Gospel that the Church attributes to him. And your Muslim friends do say that. And oh, btw, to get back to St.John the purported subject of this thread, he doesn't mention the tradition of St. Luke's icon, although it was well know and we have records of it centuries before St. John's time, and the tradition appears from India to Ethiopia to the Netherlands, and Rome, Constantinople, Syria, etc. inbetween. The first glorified saint identified as an iconographer is St. Lazarus of Constantinople: 800?-867, i.e. a century after the rise of the iconoclasts: prior to that, it seems writing icons wasn't seen as significant a cause for canonization, being taken for granted. « Last Edit: August 12, 2010, 02:06:25 AM by ialmisry » Logged Question a friend, perhaps he did not do it; but if he did anything so that he may do it no more.A hasty quarrel kindles fire,and urgent strife sheds blood.If you blow on a spark, it will glow;if you spit on it, it will be put out; and both come out of your mouth Have you looked at the archeological evidence which shows the layout of early house-churches? They were set up for liturgical worship. If they were sitting around having Bible studies which might resemble what many Protestants do today, how were they understanding the texts they were looking at? Who was guiding them in their exegesis? They certainly were not letting the Scripture interpret itself, as the communities only had some, not all of the later-canonized New Testament writings. They were reading some gospels, some epistles, and what you would likely consider a bunch of superstitious fantasy, like the Acts of Paul and Thecla. I would actually be suspicious of Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicism if they lacked any references in their tradition to such works, as they themselves were a part of the life of the Church. Through its liturgical life, the Church has commemorated and preserved many of these stories within the tradition, at least those which were true and beneficial for the flock. So anyway, the point is that they certainly would have been studying the Septuagint, which we still use in perfect continuity with not only the early Church but also with the LORD Christ, St. Paul and all of the New Testament quotations of the Old Testament. But beyond that they were confined to regional and communal texts, and there was a lot of ambiguity surrounding what were to be considered authoritative writings. Even if every house church had been full of literate Christians (which they were not), who all carried around pocket-sized Septuagints (which they didn't), they still would have looked to their bishop to teach them what they learned from the apostles. They would certainly not have looked to themselves for an authoritative interpretation. Those who did where infamous. They were the heretics. The earliest house churches were not set up for liturgy. Peter's house was perhaps the first house church: For all intents and purposes, this house as originally built is indistinguishable from all other houses of ancient Capernaum. Its indoor living area is somewhat larger than usual, but overall it is about the same size as other houses. Its building materials are the usual ones. It was built with no more sophistication than the others in the region. In short, there is nothing to distinguish this house from its neighbors, except perhaps the events that transpired there and what happened to it later.- Editor, H. S. (2004; 2004). BAR 08:06 (Nov/Dec 1982). Biblical Archaeology Society[/b] As for their exegesis, they relied upon God the Holy Spirit and the teachers He provided, and of course the word of the founding apostles and prophets: 26 How is it then, brethren? Whenever you come together, each of you has a psalm, has a teaching, has a tongue, has a revelation, has an interpretation. Let all things be done for edification. 27 If anyone speaks in a tongue, let there be two or at the most three, each in turn, and let one interpret. 28 But if there is no interpreter, let him keep silent in church, and let him speak to himself and to God. 29 Let two or three prophets speak, and let the others judge. 30 But if anything is revealed to another who sits by, let the first keep silent. 31 For you can all prophesy one by one, that all may learn and all may be encouraged. 32 And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets. 33 For God is not the author of confusion but of peace, as in all the churches of the saints. (1Co 14:26-33 NKJ) This shows they could judge doctrine by the scripture: NKJ Acts 17:11 These were more fair-minded than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness, and searched the Scriptures daily to find out whether these things were so. (Act 17:11 NKJ) Old Testament scripture was able to make Timothy wise unto salvation, now that God added the New Testament, how much more can it accomplish that feat?: 16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: 17 That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works. (2Ti 3:16-1 KJV) However you are right there was confusion about which books were inspired, much of the NT was written to combat errors. No doubt the bigger churches had Bishops who were instructed by the apostles, and house churches eventually merged with these "mega churches." But they were a feature throughout apostolic ministry: 19 The churches of Asia salute you. Aquila and Priscilla salute you much in the Lord, with the church that is in their house. 1 Co 16:19 15 Salute the brethren which are in Laodicea, and Nymphas, and the church which is in his house. Col 4:15 2 And to our beloved Apphia, and Archippus our fellowsoldier, and to the church in thy house: Phm 2 While this was somewhat chaotic, and no doubt gave rise to heretical opinions, the founding apostles and prophets shepherded them through it. It is likely the insistence of the early church upon apostolic teaching was born from the chaos of these early home churches. Frankly I prefer one of these house churches where doctrinal disputes occur, than the super religious churches of today that are completely scripted. Chaos can be good. It does appear God like to personally tend to each one individually, and not have a King rule over them: 6 But the thing displeased Samuel when they said, "Give us a king to judge us." So Samuel prayed to the LORD. 7 And the LORD said to Samuel, "Heed the voice of the people in all that they say to you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected Me, that I should not reign over them. 8 "According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt, even to this day-- with which they have forsaken Me and served other gods-- so they are doing to you also. (1Sa 8:6-8 NKJ) The only problem is they didn't remain faithful to the gospel, they added to it rather than accepting it was delivered to them full and complete: Beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you concerning our common salvation, I found it necessary to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints. (Jud 1:3 NKJ) There aren't multiple deliveries down through the ages, it was already "once delivered" when Jude wrote this. That is why sola scriptura is preferable, then you learn the faith once delivered, without novelty that sprang up later. As Paul said scripture can make us complete, fully equipped, which includes knowing true doctrine, we have faith in God it is so. Primitive Christianity is what it could be called, and like the church houses existing in apostolic times, we often disagree with each other...but I accept that chaos, just as the apostles did. Fact remains, sola scripturists agree theologically with each other in far greater percentage (90%+)than those who follow the Bible + their traditions. The late Dr Walter Martin during a Melody-land lecture claimed some students quantified the internal agreement of Christendom, Orthodox Catholic, Protestant, on the major doctrines...and calculated it at about 80% agreement. Given the body of data we have, its ancient nature, that level of agreement could be considered divinely inspired. Contrast the arguments of scientists and philosophers...much greater disagreement among them exists. When you think about it, 80% may well be accurate. So even if an atheist tried to use our disunity against Christ, fact is, we agree with each other much more than scientists, philosophers, and atheists. But alas, this prophecy came true: Another parable He spoke to them: "The kingdom of heaven is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal till it was all leavened." (Mat 13:33 NKJ) « Last Edit: August 12, 2010, 02:18:42 AM by Alfred Persson » Logged For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, because what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it to them. (Rom 1:18-19 NKJ) This shows they could judge doctrine by the scripture:NKJ Acts 17:11 These were more fair-minded than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness, and searched the Scriptures daily to find out whether these things were so. (Act 17:11 NKJ) Some things to note about this account of the Berean Christians, however. When St. Paul visited Berea during his second missionary journey, the only Scriptures in circulation at the time were the Jewish Scriptures we call the Old Testament. St. Paul had just left Thessalonica and would not write his first epistle to the Thessalonians until months later, a significant point since 1 Thessalonians is thought to be the first of the New Testament books ever written. We also know from 1 Corinthians that St. Paul's chief message was the Cross and Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. I know of OT texts that prophesy the death (Psalm 22; Isaiah 53) and resurrection (the Prophecy of Jonah) of Christ, but is there any past tense historical account of Christ's death and resurrection in the OT? Could the Bereans look to the Jewish Scriptures and see historical record of a man named Jesus who died on a cross and rose from the dead? Of course not, because it's not there! So what were they looking for? The correct answer should give you an idea of how to properly read the New Testament. Well, there are usually less than 20 people at the Romanian Catholi mission I sometimes attend ... it is definitely nice to worship Christ in such an intimate setting. I agree. Logged For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, because what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it to them. (Rom 1:18-19 NKJ) Acts 17:11 These were more fair-minded than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness, and searched the Scriptures daily to find out whether these things were so. And Philip ran thither to him, and heard him read the prophet Esaias, and said, Understandest thou what thou readest? And he said, How can I, except some man should guide me? This is off subject...and we both will discuss this and the Septuagint eventually. While it does appear to be quoted often in the NT, there are times when the Massoretic reading is chosen over the Septuagint. AND sometimes the NT doesn't agree with either. I look forward to discussing this, later. Now I will retire, good night. I must hasten to add: KJV Matthew 5:18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. (Mat 5:18 KJV) I believe Christ is 100% right, not one jot or tittle having meaning was lost. As a picture can be precisely described using different words, I don't get upset when one version uses different words to say the same thing. I consider God providentially preserved the text. So I can hold the Septuagint in the highest regard as well as the Masoretic. While I consider the Massoretic the original, and the Septuagint a translation, I find it often explains what the Hebrew meant to the ancients. AND I also like the Peshitto Aramaic version. Just thought I add this lest some think I don't agree with Christ's statement...I certainly do, and see in the Plethora of versions, its fulfillment that nothing be lost. « Last Edit: August 12, 2010, 02:31:25 AM by Alfred Persson » Logged For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, because what may be known of God is manifest in them, for God has shown it to them. (Rom 1:18-19 NKJ) lol ... so what, the NT church resembled a Rick Warren style megachurch? No, most were like a Bible study in a house: NKJ Romans 16:5 Likewise greet the church that is in their house. (Rom 16:5 NKJ) Acts 2:42 And they continued stedfastly in the apostles' doctrine and the communion, the breaking of the bread and in the Prayers.Acts 20:7And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight. 8And there were many lights in the upper chamber, where they were gathered together. 9And there sat in a window a certain young man named Eutychus, being fallen into a deep sleep: and as Paul was long preaching, he sunk down with sleep, and fell down from the third loft, and was taken up dead. 10And Paul went down, and fell on him, and embracing him said, Trouble not yourselves; for his life is in him. 11When he therefore was come up again, and had broken bread, and eaten, and talked a long while, even till break of day, so he departed. Consult I Cor. 11. Quote I recall bumming for change in San Diego, so I could get high when a group of Christians offered me shelter and food. I surprisingly went with them. There, this vagabond group, led by a Matriarch, held Bible study and witnessed to the love of Jesus. I recall wanting to put my hands over my ears to not hear...I wanted to run...the conviction of the Holy Spirit was strong...years later I repented and believed. At least you have made some progress. Quote But I remember them, they were precisely like the apostolic church: LOL. Rmember? You were neither in an Apostle's Church in person, nor by extension. You have to be there first to remember. I've been to several House Churches, for instance the House of St. Ananias in Damascus and in the Decapolis, where the Hebrew Christian fled after the martyrdo of St. James the Brother of God, the first patriarch of Jerusalem. The best preserved in original condition is the Dura Europas House Church, which, like all the house Churches, show that it was renovated to accommodate liturgical worship. And yes, it is covered iin icons. Btw, we still have plenty of house Churches among the Orthodox in this country. I was just at a former one for Transfiguration. Former, because now it has been fully converted into a Church, but you can still see, if you look close, where the walls that used to seperate rooms were removed, etc. My own Church used to be a Lutheran Church, and we had a lot of adaptation to bring it into line with Orthodox worship (like removing the pews). Quote KJV 2 John 1:1 The elder unto the elect lady and her children, whom I love in the truth; and not I only, but also all they that have known the truth; (2Jo 1:1 KJV) The term is presbyter, and it =bishop, as the NT shows. It is significant that St. John the Apostle and Disciple of the Lrod identifies himself with the term, signaling the passage of the Church from the Apostles to their successors the bishops (of course, that depends if you believe the Church's identification of the author with the Apostle John, the Epistle doesn't say: I had thought of starting a thread on Perssonism's teaching on sola scriptura, but decided the thread "Sola Scriptura - A Diversion From the True Word of God" would be an appropriate place to taste test, to spew out as poison, Perssonism's flavor of Sola Scriptura. The episcopacy of the Orthodox Church, keeping which was commtted to it by the Holy Spirit, stirred up the gift of prophecy which it received by the laying on of the hands of the Apostles (and any Orthodox bishop today, by the ontological whole of the episcopate and Apostolic succession, is only an arm's length away from the Apostles), determined the canon of Scripture and its interpretation. In fact, so great is the episcopacy, the presbyters of Acts 15, that St. Peter, introduding himself as "an [note, btw: "a," not "the"] Apostle of Jesus Christ," nonetheless identifies himself as a "fellow presbyter" when he invokes himself as a witness of Christ and a partaker of His glory, to exhort his fellow presbyters, whom he identifies as the bishops (5:1-2), and the Apostle John, the disciple whom Christ loved, doesn't give his autority to his second and third epistles as neither the Disciple nor Apostle, but as "the presbyter." the rest on that more appropriate thread. « Last Edit: August 12, 2010, 02:57:02 AM by ialmisry » Logged Question a friend, perhaps he did not do it; but if he did anything so that he may do it no more.A hasty quarrel kindles fire,and urgent strife sheds blood.If you blow on a spark, it will glow;if you spit on it, it will be put out; and both come out of your mouth The earliest house churches were not set up for liturgy. Peter's house was perhaps the first house church: For all intents and purposes, this house as originally built is indistinguishable from all other houses of ancient Capernaum. Its indoor living area is somewhat larger than usual, but overall it is about the same size as other houses. Its building materials are the usual ones. It was built with no more sophistication than the others in the region. In short, there is nothing to distinguish this house from its neighbors, except perhaps the events that transpired there and what happened to it later.- Editor, H. S. (2004; 2004). BAR 08:06 (Nov/Dec 1982). Biblical Archaeology Society[/b] How does this mean it wasn't set up for liturgy? The Orthodox church I attend in Japan is seriously about the size of my college dorm room and it's quite liturgical. Quote As for their exegesis, they relied upon God the Holy Spirit and the teachers He provided, and of course the word of the founding apostles and prophets: When did God quit providing His Church with teachers? Quote Old Testament scripture was able to make Timothy wise unto salvation, now that God added the New Testament, how much more can it accomplish that feat?: 16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: 17 That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works. (2Ti 3:16-1 KJV) Where does it say here that Scripture is all that's needed? And if it's so easy to get stuff right with just the OT and NT what happen with all those heretics (e.g. Arius, Nestorius, Eutyches, Apollinaris, etc.)? Quote However you are right there was confusion about which books were inspired, much of the NT was written to combat errors. And the Church is the one who selected which books were inspired based upon what she already believed. Quote No doubt the bigger churches had Bishops who were instructed by the apostles, and house churches eventually merged with these "mega churches." But they were a feature throughout apostolic ministry: 19 The churches of Asia salute you. Aquila and Priscilla salute you much in the Lord, with the church that is in their house. 1 Co 16:19 15 Salute the brethren which are in Laodicea, and Nymphas, and the church which is in his house. Col 4:15 2 And to our beloved Apphia, and Archippus our fellowsoldier, and to the church in thy house: Phm 2 If the Apostles visited or sent letters to these house churches and the house churches responded, "No thanks. We're doing our own thing." What then? Would that be ok? Would they be part of the Church that Jesus Christ founded? Quote While this was somewhat chaotic, and no doubt gave rise to heretical opinions, the founding apostles and prophets shepherded them through it. It is likely the insistence of the early church upon apostolic teaching was born from the chaos of these early home churches. No problem there! Quote Frankly I prefer one of these house churches where doctrinal disputes occur, than the super religious churches of today that are completely scripted. Chaos can be good. You've set up a false dichotomy if you think that doctrinal disputes don't occur in those "super religious churches of today that are completely scripted." And where in the Bible does Christ or one of the Apostles condone chaos in the churches? Where do either Christ or the Apostles condone denominationalism and everybody doing their own thing? Quote It does appear God like to personally tend to each one individually, and not have a King rule over them: 6 But the thing displeased Samuel when they said, "Give us a king to judge us." So Samuel prayed to the LORD. 7 And the LORD said to Samuel, "Heed the voice of the people in all that they say to you; for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected Me, that I should not reign over them. 8 "According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt, even to this day-- with which they have forsaken Me and served other gods-- so they are doing to you also. (1Sa 8:6-8 NKJ) Assuming that this could be taken out of its historical context and generalized (which I don't think it necessarily can), it's still problematic for you. Because God is displeased with the people for rebelling against the one who He set up over them (i.e. Samuel). Much like when people rebel against Christ's Church and Her bishops. Quote The only problem is they didn't remain faithful to the gospel, they added to it rather than accepting it was delivered to them full and complete: Beloved, while I was very diligent to write to you concerning our common salvation, I found it necessary to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints. (Jud 1:3 NKJ) There aren't multiple deliveries down through the ages, it was already "once delivered" when Jude wrote this. That is why sola scriptura is preferable, then you learn the faith once delivered, without novelty that sprang up later. As Paul said scripture can make us complete, fully equipped, which includes knowing true doctrine, we have faith in God it is so. And how do you know what you have is the "true doctrine"? We all agree it's been handed down once to the saints. But most here would say that's been preserved only within the Orthodox Church and not added to and then chipped away at and then added to some more as in the various Protestant churches. Quote Primitive Christianity is what it could be called, and like the church houses existing in apostolic times, we often disagree with each other...but I accept that chaos, just as the apostles did. Where did the Apostles ever "accept the chaos"? Did not St. Paul tell them to "be of one mind"? Quote Fact remains, sola scripturists agree theologically with each other in far greater percentage (90%+)than those who follow the Bible + their traditions. lol ... so what, the NT church resembled a Rick Warren style megachurch? No, most were like a Bible study in a house: NKJ Romans 16:5 Likewise greet the church that is in their house. (Rom 16:5 NKJ) I'm trying to picture it. You are saying that people would sit together in a room, with each person having a Bible as we know it today, (in the form of a codex) on their lap, taking turns reading passages and discussing and interpreting the passages? That's a bit different from the early accounts of Christian house church worship. I'm thinking of Hyppolytus. This is before him. They would have some scripture, not a Bible because only the rich could afford it. Fragments of a book most likely, that they exchanged with other churches, at first. Of course as time went on, they got bigger and more scripture. BUT we should never forget, Paul often fellowshiped in homes where the church of 10 or so people, met. What is your evidence for the last statement? And the term is communion. Btw, before St. Hippolytus was St. Justin Martyr, who hailed from Palestine within a century of the Church's founding. His description resembles the DL. It doesn't resemble your Bible study model at all. Logged Question a friend, perhaps he did not do it; but if he did anything so that he may do it no more.A hasty quarrel kindles fire,and urgent strife sheds blood.If you blow on a spark, it will glow;if you spit on it, it will be put out; and both come out of your mouth Nonsense, my dog doesn't poop anywhwere near the BBQ - and Christians who venerated icons were so comon there was no need for anyone to comment about it till the iconoclast neighbors started complaining. Grumpy Mr. Wilson types who hate dogs - er, icons . The female Denis the Menace, somehow that fits. But it was the other way around, the iconoclasts had nothing to complain about at first, the new neighbors seemed to be like them. But as time when on, they began violating the zoning laws with their images...only then did they realize they waited too long. No, they were too late moving into the neighborhood: they were the new neighbors, the Muslim caliphs, whom the Christian iconoclasts imitated (their founder, Leo III, was born and grew up in the caliphate, during the time it turned on images). Logged Question a friend, perhaps he did not do it; but if he did anything so that he may do it no more.A hasty quarrel kindles fire,and urgent strife sheds blood.If you blow on a spark, it will glow;if you spit on it, it will be put out; and both come out of your mouth I thought you shook the dust off your feet...without strawberries no less. Even if he is quiet and well behaved, people will still step in his poop when they barbecue in the yard, and their comments will be known. Well, I have to defer to your knowledge of poop. As for history, theology, logic..... And I used to walk my dogs in the alley. So no evidence for the barbecue. Logged Question a friend, perhaps he did not do it; but if he did anything so that he may do it no more.A hasty quarrel kindles fire,and urgent strife sheds blood.If you blow on a spark, it will glow;if you spit on it, it will be put out; and both come out of your mouth I had thought of starting a thread on Perssonism's teaching on sola scriptura, but decided the thread "Sola Scriptura - A Diversion From the True Word of God" would be an appropriate place to taste test, to spew out as poison, Perssonism's flavor of Sola Scriptura. Quote from the very embarrassing fact (for you) that icon veneration is completely absent in both the Bible AND the earliest church fathers. Icon veneration, much to your obvious embarrasment, appears in both the Bible and the earliest Church Fathers. St. John compiles quite a list of references. If you had read him, you would know that. Quote That it developed centuries later I freely admit, but that apostasy is irrelevant to what the apostles taught. If apostacy developed centuries after the apostles, then Christ's promise to remain with the Church "all the days until the end of the age," and "the gates of Hell will not prevail against her" are lies, and His words irrelevant. As posted above, St. John points that out. So "freely admit"? How early do you "freely admit?" Logged Question a friend, perhaps he did not do it; but if he did anything so that he may do it no more.A hasty quarrel kindles fire,and urgent strife sheds blood.If you blow on a spark, it will glow;if you spit on it, it will be put out; and both come out of your mouth Btw, I was talking to someone about the Chapel at Fort Ross, the first Orthodox parish in the lower 48. If you look inside it today, you might conclude that the early Orhtodox in this country had no images:(the icons in the cabinet on the walls are period IIRC, but recently restored)There is almost no description of the Chapel's inside. After all, most at Fort Ross had seen the inside of a Russian Church. THere is more detailed descriptions of the governor and manager's home (which also include the icons that were in the rooms, something different for American and Western European visitors). When the Russians evacuated, they told everything with them to the Cathedral in Sitka, except a lectern, the candlelabra and candle stand. This is yet more evidence that you ignore what people are saying in their posts. ialmisry did indeed state in this post:the icons in the cabinet on the walls are period IIRC, but recently restoredWe are spoonfeeding you, yet you keep shutting your mouth to the spoon. But let's ignore that for the moment: are you going to tell us that seeing the interior above, that you would conclude that the parishioners left thisin Russia? That's a picture of a Church in Irkutsk, the cathedral city of Fort Ross and Alaska (I'm not sure if you know what that means). The settlers of Fort Ross from Russia would have passed through Irkutsk. But let's say that the icons are original and hadn't been moved (they had been: after Sutter bought the buildings from the evacuating Russians, the Chapel was used as a barn). What is there to tell you that they were venerated? We know that they were, unless the Russian Orthodox at Fort Ross were unlike all other Russian Orthodox, the largest Christian society at the time, on which we have plenty of contemporary sources on RO praxis. If you go to the manager's house, etc. there are icon corners (also restorations) which have vigil lamps before them and icon cloths, grreens from Pentacost/Palm Sunday etc. (I don't know if you know what that means. Trust me, it means that they are being venerated). We know that they were there, as the heterodox visitors to Fort Ross mention them. The Russian visitors, in contrast do not, as far as I have seen: for the Russian Orthodox of the time, as now, an icon corner is too taken for granted to atract attention besides veneration. The icons you see in the Chapel have no vigil lamps, no covering cloths. No icon stand on which to venerate them, but high up on the wall out of reach. The silver on them might make you think they were venerated, but that is also a reason why the originals were taken to Sitka: otherwise they would have been destroyed for the sivler by the non=Orthodox. So, looking just at the icons that are now there, can you explain how you would deduce the veneration, which you so object too, was given to the icons in the Chapel? We know of course, that they were, because of the ample evidence on Russian Orthodox praxis at the time. Now look at the icons on the catacombs, Dura Europos Church, etc.: how do you distinguish them from the evidence of the two small restored icons on Fort Ross' Chapel's walls? « Last Edit: August 12, 2010, 10:57:05 AM by ialmisry » Logged Question a friend, perhaps he did not do it; but if he did anything so that he may do it no more.A hasty quarrel kindles fire,and urgent strife sheds blood.If you blow on a spark, it will glow;if you spit on it, it will be put out; and both come out of your mouth Have you looked at the archeological evidence which shows the layout of early house-churches? They were set up for liturgical worship. If they were sitting around having Bible studies which might resemble what many Protestants do today, how were they understanding the texts they were looking at? Who was guiding them in their exegesis? They certainly were not letting the Scripture interpret itself, as the communities only had some, not all of the later-canonized New Testament writings. They were reading some gospels, some epistles, and what you would likely consider a bunch of superstitious fantasy, like the Acts of Paul and Thecla. I would actually be suspicious of Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicism if they lacked any references in their tradition to such works, as they themselves were a part of the life of the Church. Through its liturgical life, the Church has commemorated and preserved many of these stories within the tradition, at least those which were true and beneficial for the flock. So anyway, the point is that they certainly would have been studying the Septuagint, which we still use in perfect continuity with not only the early Church but also with the LORD Christ, St. Paul and all of the New Testament quotations of the Old Testament. But beyond that they were confined to regional and communal texts, and there was a lot of ambiguity surrounding what were to be considered authoritative writings. Even if every house church had been full of literate Christians (which they were not), who all carried around pocket-sized Septuagints (which they didn't), they still would have looked to their bishop to teach them what they learned from the apostles. They would certainly not have looked to themselves for an authoritative interpretation. Those who did where infamous. They were the heretics. I'll footstomp the last part. We're talking early church. As in pre-bible church. It wasn't until hundreds of years later (the African Synod of Hippo, in 393, approved the New Testament, as it stands today) when councils began to be held that the bible took form. (which might I add, the bible when assembled contained the apocryphal books protestants remove) Therefore, not only were they gathered in 'houses' (of the lord, if I may). But they also weren't having a bible study! There was NO BIBLE.... yet[The had (only) the Old Testament (the Septuagint)]. They were worshiping by sacred tradition alone and being lead by an elder (priest/presbyter/old dude that knew stuff) Have you looked at the archeological evidence which shows the layout of early house-churches? They were set up for liturgical worship. If they were sitting around having Bible studies which might resemble what many Protestants do today, how were they understanding the texts they were looking at? Who was guiding them in their exegesis? They certainly were not letting the Scripture interpret itself, as the communities only had some, not all of the later-canonized New Testament writings. They were reading some gospels, some epistles, and what you would likely consider a bunch of superstitious fantasy, like the Acts of Paul and Thecla. I would actually be suspicious of Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicism if they lacked any references in their tradition to such works, as they themselves were a part of the life of the Church. Through its liturgical life, the Church has commemorated and preserved many of these stories within the tradition, at least those which were true and beneficial for the flock. So anyway, the point is that they certainly would have been studying the Septuagint, which we still use in perfect continuity with not only the early Church but also with the LORD Christ, St. Paul and all of the New Testament quotations of the Old Testament. But beyond that they were confined to regional and communal texts, and there was a lot of ambiguity surrounding what were to be considered authoritative writings. Even if every house church had been full of literate Christians (which they were not), who all carried around pocket-sized Septuagints (which they didn't), they still would have looked to their bishop to teach them what they learned from the apostles. They would certainly not have looked to themselves for an authoritative interpretation. Those who did where infamous. They were the heretics. All are good points, but you forget the obvious. We're talking early church. As in pre-bible church. It wasn't until hundreds of years later when councils began to be held that the bible began to look like it is today. (which might I add, the bible when assembled contained the apocryphal books protestants remove) Therefore, not only were they gathered in 'houses' (of the lord, if I may). But they also weren't having a bible study! There was NO BIBLE.... yet. They were worshiping by sacred tradition alone and being lead by an elder (priest/presbyter/old dude that knew stuff and was sent by the bishop who was sent by an Apostle, sent by Christ, sent by God the Father. Logged Question a friend, perhaps he did not do it; but if he did anything so that he may do it no more.A hasty quarrel kindles fire,and urgent strife sheds blood.If you blow on a spark, it will glow;if you spit on it, it will be put out; and both come out of your mouth I got through 6 pages of this nonsense and it is too difficult to go on. But Mr Persson has repeatedly asserted that Icons are either Nestorian or Monophysic. What Mr Persson fails to grasp is (and if he had read St John's writings he would know this), an icon is an image of a Person, not an image of a Nature. Yes, it would indeed be Monophysitism to say an icon is an image of the Human-Divine Nature that is Jesus Christ. This implies that he has one composite Nature, rather than two separate Natures. It is not Monophysitism to say an icon is an image of the Human-Divine Person that is Jesus Christ. All that it means to be God is contained in the physical body that is Jesus Christ. Since Jesus Christ contains all that is God, and Jesus Christ is a person, and a person can be depicted, God can be depicted. No one says that depiction itself is God, however, which is what Alfred seems to imply. Also, I don't now if everything about Sola Scriptura was resolved in later posts, but I don't think Mr Persson ever proved that God's prohibition of images is universal rather than contextural. He says that "God doesn't change", but that is clearly an ontological statement. God in His own self does not change, but God certainly does change in the way He interacts with us. This, I think, stems from Protestantism's tendency to worship the text of the Bible as if it is the very Essence of God. It's not. Everything in the Bible has a context. The reasons for the prohibition of image-making must be taken into consideration. God prohibited images because the Israelites had severe problems with idolatry. Like their pagan neighbors, they worshipped objects as if the objects were God-in-Essence unto themselves. So, images violated the principle at the root of the iconoclastic law: "have no gods before me." We do not have this problem today. No Christian would ever worship an icon of Christ as if it is God-in-Essence unto itself. Icons help us, who are material creatures with material needs, focus our energies to the actual, existing Person who is Christ. Therefore images are not just not prohibited, they are necessary witnesses to the Incarnation. Mr Persson says that we would never kiss a photograph of a person who was in front of us, as if Orthodox worship a disincarnate Christ. But it is Protestants whose Christ is disincarnate, because they interact with him through their minds only. Mr Persson, by virtue of everything he has said, does not worship a Person who can be known and interacted with physically; rather he worships a Philosophy that can be pondered about. This is not Christianity as the Apostles and Fathers have passed down to us. And as an aside, it's very childish reasoning to say "God says X, and God doesn't change, therefore God still says X." As I said above, God does not change in his Essence and his Will, but his Energies and means of interacting with the world change all the time. And the prohibition on images is one such example. (And whatever laws are in place at the end of Revelation do not remain perpetually in effect merely because the Bible does not contain a repeal of them. God is not dead, nor did he enter an eternal static state when St John wrote the Bible's final "Amen", which Sola Scriptura implies.) Lets see you claim to be in apostolic sucession & yet say that someone (me) who finds an apostolic source as evidence of a veneration practice by apostolic Christians of the remains a martyred apsotolic Christian & that I trust these people as observing proper Christian burial rite as relying on unreliable hearsay? The Church is Apostolic (ecclesia apostolica) inasmuch as all its members to the Last Day come to faith in Christ through the Word of the Apostles (John 17:20: πιστεύσοντες διὰ λόγου αὐτῶν εἰς ἐμέ) and cling to the Word of the Apostles (Acts 2:42: προσκαρτεροῦντες τῇ διδαχῇ τῶν ἀποστόλων), and this over against all departures from the truth of Scripture. Rom. 16:17: “Avoid them,” namely, those who “cause divisions and offenses contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned.”Pieper, F. (1999). Vol. 3: Christian Dogmatics (electronic ed.) (411). St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House. 1999? That's only 1900 years too late to be in contact with an Apostle to receive their teaching. President Pieper also comes nearly 1800 years too late too. Like you, he was sent by no one sent by the Apostles, hence not sent by Christ, therefore not sent by God. btw, that's not an icon. rest of the refutation of your heresiarch Pieper on the more appropriate thread. Click on the top quote link « Last Edit: August 12, 2010, 12:59:05 PM by ialmisry » Logged Question a friend, perhaps he did not do it; but if he did anything so that he may do it no more.A hasty quarrel kindles fire,and urgent strife sheds blood.If you blow on a spark, it will glow;if you spit on it, it will be put out; and both come out of your mouth

All Saints' Church, Collingham All Saints' Church, Collingham is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England in Collingham, Nottinghamshire. History The church dates from the 12th century. It is part of a group of parishes which includes St Bartholomew's Church, Langford St Giles' Church, Holme St Cecilia's Church, Girton All Saints' Church, Harby St George the Martyr's Church, North & South Clifton St John the Baptist's Church, Collingham St Helena's Church, South Scarle Holy Trinity Church, Besthorpe St Helen's Church, Thorney All Saints' Church, Winthorpe Clock In 1867 the church received a new turret clock by Reuben Bosworth of Nottingham. It struck the hours and the quarters. An inscription on the clock read "Presented by Mrs. Lesiter, widow of the Rev. Charles Lesiter, late vicar of this parish, May 1867". References Category:Church of England church buildings in Nottinghamshire Category:Grade I listed churches in Nottinghamshire

Terms with Outsourced development team - pharshavat I am starting a project where I am getting an offshore software company to develop my beta product. Even though I have a technical co-founder, but we are both involved with getting a beta client so thought would outsource the low level programming. We are going to develop the high level workflows and let them code the application. I am looking for advice on how I can come up creative ways to pay the offshore team. Some ideas that I have: 1) Come up with the number of hours/man months its going to take to develop the initial release and put a dollar value to it. So lets say its going to take 100 hours to develop the initial product and we put $10/hr, so makes it $1000 total. Instead of offering equity, I want to offer that once we make money or raise capital, we will give them $1500 back for the risk that they are taking. 2) Offer some sort of equity with a buyback option. Are there any other creative ways that any of you have used? ====== poppysan I know you are outsourcing the low-level coding, but if I were you, I'd look for slightly more senior guys. 10/hr comes with a lot of hiccups in my experience. But maybe you guys are willing to put a little more management time into the project for the discount. Either way its a give and take. Good luck! ------ pharshavat Thanks! Actually I was just using arbitrary numbers to show the calculation and make it easier to understand. I am sure the costs are going to be way higher since we are trying to partner with not a top firm, but a mid-tier company that has done projects in the past.

Post Archive by Month I will be writing updates on how members are effectively utilizing the Custom Goals Training (CGT) program to make progress or reach their goals. Since CGT’s inception, many many goals have been reached or PRs made. Even more members have made progress towards their goals and will achieve it in due time. CGT is an unique CrossFit Portland program where … Read More Hydration is an important but often overlooked part of good nutrition. Drink between .5 to .6 oz of water daily per pound of bodyweight for optimal performance and recovery. Studies have shown that insufficient hydration will lead to a lowered testosterone level, something you definitely don’t want as an athlete or someone looking for health and longevity. Subjects also produced … Read More Next POSE Running Clinic is August 18th. 6 Week POSE workshop also starts August 18th. Registration is open now! In the previous two articles of this series, we imagined an aspiring marathoner, and how she would go from being a run-of-the-mill Crossfit enthusiast to an actual marathon runner. The overall physical training plan was to develop her technique as a … Read More This is the start of a new series focused on what this community and its members are doing. If you have an event or an idea you would like share with everyone at CrossFit Portland, send it to me and I’ll see if it can be included in the next run. 1) Meaghen is moving! Thank goodness it is not … Read More

President Trump Says His 17-Day Trip Is "Not A Vacation" We're currently a few days into President Trump's 17-day trip to his golf course in Bedminster, New Jersey, and Trump has been decidedly less defensive on Twitter, perhaps due to the influence of his new Chief of Staff, John Kelly. Trump did, however, feel the need to assert that the trip is "not a vacation," due to renovations currently underway at the White House, which Trump has recently referred to as a "dump." Working in Bedminster, N.J., as long planned construction is being done at the White House. This is not a vacation - meetings and calls!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 5, 2017 White House Social Media Director Dan Scavino tweeted a few photos of the current renovations:

f be n(z). Solve 2 = f*a - 8 for a. 5 Let u(w) be the first derivative of 4*w**2 - 28*w - 3. Let y be u(4). Solve y*i - 10 = 2 for i. 3 Let u = 1063 + -1038. Suppose 4*z - 3*s - 22 = 0, 0 = 4*z + 3*s - 0*s - 10. Solve r = -z*r + u for r. 5 Suppose -35*i + 23*i + 396 = 0. Solve -6*s + 3 = i for s. -5 Suppose 34*v - 32*v - 10 = 0. Solve v = -3*x + 8 for x. 1 Suppose -6*x = -2*x. Suppose 2 = q + 4*a - 13, x = 5*a - 15. Solve 2*h + 1 = q for h. 1 Let s be ((-9)/2 + 6)/((-2)/72). Let r = 54 + s. Solve 5*u + r*u = -15 for u. -3 Suppose 3*b - 2*b = 54. Suppose 0 = 5*s - 2*g - b, 3*g - 36 + 2 = -4*s. Solve -3*z = 2*z - s for z. 2 Let s(a) be the third derivative of -a**5/20 - 29*a**4/24 - 3*a**3 - 16*a**2. Let p be s(-9). Solve p = -3*m - m + 8 for m. 2 Suppose t = -2*t - 84. Let n = -28 - t. Solve n = 8*y - 3*y + 5 for y. -1 Let d(y) = 3*y**2 - 12*y + 20. Let r be d(6). Let m be (-21)/r - 38/(-16). Solve s - 12 = -m*s for s. 4 Let c be (-6 + 0)*-1 + -2. Let z be -2*((-9)/4 - 3/12). Solve -c - 6 = z*o for o. -2 Let h = -62 - -64. Solve -2*j + h = -j for j. 2 Suppose 3*h - 828 = -h. Let j be (-4)/16 + h/12. Let r be j/(-85) + 72/10. Solve -5*x = -18 - r for x. 5 Let u(p) = -p**2 + 8*p. Let t = -18 - -26. Let q be u(t). Let d = 7 + -5. Solve -d*g + g = q for g. 0 Let d(c) = -c**3 + 8*c**2 - 5*c - 8. Let a be d(7). Suppose 3 = a*o - 5*o. Suppose -o = 4*q - 19. Solve q*z + 16 + 0 = 0 for z. -4 Suppose -2*b = 3*b. Suppose -d - 5*m - 16 = 0, 20 = 2*d - b*d - 3*m. Suppose d*i + i = 10. Solve -i*f + 3 = 9 for f. -3 Let h be (1 - 3 - -9)*(-38)/(-133). Solve -3*g = -h*g + 1 for g. -1 Let f = 79 - 75. Suppose -2*d - 2*w = -10, -f*d - 4*w + 2*w + 10 = 0. Solve g - 5*g + 12 = d for g. 3 Let l(j) = j**2 - 5 - j + 8*j + 4 + j. Let w be l(-9). Solve -4*t + 0 = w for t. -2 Suppose 0 = 13*m - 773 - 98. Solve 71*y - m*y - 20 = 0 for y. 5 Let p(f) = 14*f**2 + 2*f. Let w be p(-1). Solve 0*r - w = 4*r for r. -3 Let b(q) = -2*q**2 + 2*q + 7. Let u be b(0). Solve 6*r - u = -r for r. 1 Let l = 6 + -3. Let x(z) = z - 1 + 3 + 5 + l. Let s be x(-9). Solve -s = -2*g + g for g. 1 Let c = 346 + -339. Solve -d - c = -4 for d. -3 Suppose -489 = 13*k - 788. Solve 24*o - k*o + 3 = 0 for o. -3 Suppose 0 = -11*q + 46 + 20. Solve -12*i = -q*i + 12 for i. -2 Suppose -35*j = -7*j - 28. Solve 75*m = 74*m - j for m. -1 Suppose -6 = 2*q + 4*k - 4, -4*k - 12 = 0. Suppose -q*p = -9 - 31. Solve -5*c = p + 2 for c. -2 Suppose 276 = v + 2*v. Solve -v = 4*t - 76 for t. -4 Suppose -2*f + 4*d + 9 + 15 = 0, -f = 3*d - 17. Let s be 4/(-14) + 172/f. Solve 2*h + s = -h for h. -4 Suppose 0 = -5*g + 1 + 29. Let v(m) = -m + 6. Let w be v(g). Let s be w - 0/(-1) - 0. Solve -u = -1 - s for u. 1 Let q be -2 + 19 + (34 - 40). Solve 9*w - 6 = q*w for w. -3 Let k(b) be the third derivative of b**5/60 + b**4/3 + b**3/3 - 3*b**2. Let r be k(-8). Suppose 2*y - 5 - 1 = 0. Solve y*a = r*a for a. 0 Suppose 2*g - 31*g + 174 = 0. Let p be (-3)/15 + (-12)/(-10). Solve -w = g - p for w. -5 Suppose 4*w + 15 = 35. Suppose -2*l - 4*j = -8, w*j = -l - l + 10. Solve -10 = 5*y - l for y. -2 Suppose -13 = -2*g + 3. Let h(y) = y**3 - 8*y**2 + y - 3. Let w be h(g). Let x be (3/w)/((-11)/(-165)). Solve -4*q = -x*q + 15 for q. 3 Suppose -4*k = -n - 12, 0 = 4*n - 0*k + 2*k + 48. Let g be n/10*10*5/(-15). Solve -1 = -3*s + g*s for s. -1 Let u be (6 - 4) + (-1 - 3). Let y = 6 + u. Let k = -2 + y. Solve -5 = k*r + 3*r for r. -1 Let q be 1/(-4) + (-114)/(-8). Suppose 6 = -3*p + 4*y - q, y - 5 = -p. Solve 12 = 3*v - p for v. 4 Let p = 104 + -93. Let u be (-4)/(-14) + 18/(-14). Let d be u/(-6) - p/(-6). Solve d*f - 3*f + 4 = 0 for f. 4 Suppose 0 = -2*g + 5*g + 45. Let d = g - -19. Solve 12 = c - d*c for c. -4 Let s be ((-75)/18)/(104/(-48) - -2). Solve 0 = 5*c - 15 + s for c. -2 Suppose 5*v = -4*u - 4, 4*u - v - 13 = 7. Let f be (u/(-14))/(12/28)*-6. Solve -5*q + f - 24 = 0 for q. -4 Suppose 8*v = -219 + 915. Let l = 92 - v. Solve 2*a = 3*a + l for a. -5 Let b = -129 + 68. Let o = b - -76. Solve -4*s - s = -o for s. 3 Let d be 1/(-1) + 0 + -3 + 6. Solve -m = -d + 1 for m. 1 Suppose 5*w - 2*w + 81 = 3*s, -3*w + 29 = 2*s. Suppose 2 = -4*q + s. Suppose -q*p = -2 - 3, -z + 7 = 4*p. Solve 0 = -c + z*c + 10 for c. -5 Suppose -2*u + 11 + 5 = 0. Suppose -9*w + 5*w + u = 0. Solve 15 = -w*t - 3*t for t. -3 Suppose 36 = 4*r + 4*g, r + 0*r + 4*g = 24. Suppose -1 = 3*w + w - 3*b, w - 2*b = -r. Solve 3 = 5*h - w for h. 1 Let y(s) be the second derivative of s**5/20 + 17*s**4/12 - 19*s**3/6 - 7*s**2 - 2*s - 9. Let c be y(-18). Solve -3*d = -d + c for d. -2 Let t(b) = 3*b**2 + 20*b - 2. Let v be t(-7). Suppose -3*o + 4*o - 5 = -5*p, 10 = v*p + 2*o. Solve p*r = r - 5 for r. 5 Let p(k) = k**3 - 4*k**2 - 2*k + 5. Let j be p(4). Let r be j + 15 - (2 + -2). Let y be -5*(-2)/(-3)*(-36)/30. Solve -r = -i + y*i for i. -4 Let q = -1 - -1. Suppose -r + 3*a + 3 - 12 = q, -5*a = 4*r - 15. Solve r = -c + 5*c + 20 for c. -5 Suppose -24*n + 23*n + 7 = 0. Let i be (12 + 0)*n/21. Solve 4*c + i + 0 = 0 for c. -1 Let n be 24/(-48) + (-11)/(-2). Solve 5*a = -n*a + 5*a for a. 0 Let z = 12 - 8. Suppose z*s + 14 = 74. Solve -2*i + 5 = s for i. -5 Let r(h) = h + 4. Let k be r(0). Let a = 6936 + -6928. Solve k*z + 12 = a*z for z. 3 Suppose 5*i + 5 = z, 3*z + 2*i = -3*i - 5. Suppose 10*l - 5*l = z. Let q be (0 + (-2)/2)*-1. Solve l = 2*r + q - 3 for r. 1 Let j be (-39)/26 + (-7)/(-2). Suppose -3*v = 16*v - 3*v. Solve j*y = -v*y - 4 for y. -2 Let p = 887 - 885. Let d(k) = -k**3 + 7*k**2 - 7*k + 6. Let o be d(6). Solve o = -0*v - p*v + 2 for v. 1 Suppose 0 = 142*u - 52*u. Solve u = 6*t + t + 35 for t. -5 Let m(a) = a**3 - 4*a**2 - 22. Let h be m(5). Solve -h*j + 0 = -3 for j. 1 Let f(v) = -2*v + 6. Let y be f(4). Let n = 709 + -713. Let q be (n/10)/(y/30). Solve -4*g + 2*g = q for g. -3 Let v(r) = r**2 + 8*r + 2. Let l be v(-8). Solve -2*x + 0 = -l for x. 1 Suppose -69 = -28*a + 15. Solve 0 = -q + a*q + 8 for q. -4 Let m(y) = y**3 + y**2 - 2*y + 4. Let h be m(0). Suppose 0 = h*c - 8 - 8. Solve -3*s = -c*s for s. 0 Let p be 0/(5 - 0 - 0). Solve 3*j - 3 = -p*j for j. 1 Suppose 21*b = 140 - 14. Solve 2*l + 16 = b*l for l. 4 Suppose 0*l + 4 = l - 5*s, 2*l + s = 8. Let g(f) = f**3 + 2*f**3 + 4*f**3 - 6*f - 6*f**3 - 5 + l*f**2. Let h be g(-5). Solve h = -6*c + c for c. 0 Suppose 0 = 4*m + h - 152, 4*h = 3*m + m - 132. Solve 5*t = -12 + m for t. 5 Let v = -384 - -396. Solve -8*l - 12 = v for l. -3 Suppose -78 = -3*z + 3*s, 17*z - 3*s - 102 = 13*z. Solve 10*f - z = 2*f for f. 3 Suppose 19*a = 15*a + 2*q + 8, -15 = -3*a - 3*q. Solve a*t - 5*t = t for t. 0 Let q(v) = v**3 - 26*v**2 + 24*v + 25. Let r be q(25). Solve 17*c - 81 - 4 = r for c. 5 Let n = -587 + 593. Solve 0 = -n*o + 8*o - 8 for o. 4 Let x = 75 - 71. Let t(d) = d**2 + 7*d + 8. Let u be t(-7). Solve u = x*h - 12 for h. 5 Let t = 341 - 339. Solve 2*q - t = -6 for q. -2 Let p = -760 + 772. Solve 6*c - p = -6 for c. 1 Let o be 2/11 - 5040/(-110). Solve o - 42 = -2*p for p. -2 Let x be (-1 - 3/(-27))*-9. Solve x*p = -3*p + 55 for p. 5 Let i(j) = j**3 + 6*j**2 - j - 1. Let t be i(-6). Let c be ((-2)/10)/(11/(-33))*t. Let y = -5 - -8. Solve -4*z = -c*z - y for z. 3 Let n be (-261)/(-54) - 2/(-12). Solve -k + 0*k = n for k. -5 Let d(x) = -4*x - 10. Let n be d(-3). Suppose -2*q + 13 = 3. Suppose 3*t + 2*t + 5*m - 25 = 0, -7 = -n*t - q*m. Solve 3*c = t*c for c. 0 Suppose 0 = -25*n + 53*n - 308. Solve -17*q = -6*q + n for q. -1 Let r be -4*((-3)/(-4) - 2*1). Suppose -s = -7 + r. Solve s*m = -m for m. 0 Let p be (-45)/(-10) - 6/(-4). Let b(o) = o**3 + 8*o**2 + 7*o. Let g be b(-7). Suppose g = -2*j + 4. Solve -j*m = -p*m - 4 for m. -1 Suppose -7 = -5*l + 5*z - 12, -2*l - 5*z = -33. Solve -2*q = 3*q + l*q for q. 0 Let s(l) = -l**3 - 50*l**2 + 4*l + 214. Let g be s(-50). Solve 0 = -5*q + g - 4 for q. 2 Suppose 2806*o - 2810*o = -656. Solve 5 = -169*l + o*l for l. -1 Let u = 25 - 25. Suppose 0 = -k - u*k. Let d be k - (-1)/((-3)/(-15)). Solve -d*v = -3*v for v. 0 Let t(m) = 74*m + 152. Let v be t(-2). Solve 16 = -6*o + v for o. -2 Let h = -55 - -48. Let g be -5 - h - (-4 - 0). Solve -3*f + g*f = -9 for f. -3 Let y(g) = -2*g**3 - 43*g**2 - 24*g - 48. Suppose 4*u - 7*u - 39 = 2*c, 88 = -4*c + 4*u. Let r be y(c). Solve 4*x + r = x for x. -5 Supp

116 B.R. 167 (1989) In re Willis R. GERTH. Bankruptcy No. 89-10062. United States Bankruptcy Court, D. South Dakota. August 2, 1989. *168 David L. Nadolski, and Marsha K. Stacey, Sioux Falls, S.D., for FCBO. Bryan R. Hedman, Brookings, S.D., for Debtor. Kay Cee Hodson, Sioux Falls, S.D., for U.S. Trustee. Todd D. Boyd, Clear Lake, S.D., for Creditor Douglas Gantvoort. Thomas Lloyd, Pierre, S.D., for ASCS. IRVIN N. HOYT, Chief Judge. The Court has before it the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service's (ASCS) motion to dismiss the Chapter 12 petition filed by Willis R. Gerth. Farm Credit Bank of Omaha (FCBO) joined in ASCS' motion. Gerth had earlier filed a Chapter 11 case, which has been confirmed and substantially consummated, but for which a final decree has not yet been entered. ASCS and FCBO claim that the open Chapter 11 case precludes Gerth's filing of a subsequent Chapter 12 petition. Gerth filed a Chapter 11 petition in April of 1985. After an extension, Gerth filed his disclosure statement in November, 1985. FCBO's secured debt was restructured under Gerth's disclosure statement and plan. Gerth's plan, which provided for this Court's retention of jurisdiction until its completion or any modification thereof, was ultimately confirmed in October 1986. A final report and application for a final decree, required by B.R. 2015(A)(6) has not been filed to date. Gerth defaulted on his Chapter 11 payments to FCBO. An agreement after mediation, as contemplated by SDCL Chapter 51-43, was never reached. FCBO thereafter sought foreclosure of its first mortgage lien. Gerth was timely served with FCBO's summons and complaint, but never answered the same, thus positioning FCBO to seek a default judgment. FCBO's attempt at seeking such judgment was stymied by Gerth's filing for protection under Chapter 12 of the Code in late April of 1989. A review of Gerth's Chapter 12 schedules reveals that he has listed many of the same secured and unsecured creditors as were previously being treated in his Chapter 11 case. The question presented is whether Gerth's Chapter 12 petition should be dismissed because he is currently operating under a confirmed Chapter 11 plan. Briefs were submitted by Gerth, FCBO, creditor Douglas Gantvoort, and the United States Trustee. ASCS did not submit a brief, but instead relied upon the cases cited herein. The Court concludes that the dismissal of the Chapter 12 petition is warranted. Gerth may not simultaneously be a debtor in two separate cases under two different chapters of the Bankruptcy Code. Freshman v. Atkins, 269 U.S. 121, 46 S.Ct. 41, 70 L.Ed. 193 (1925). A fortiori, such is the case where, as here, the debtor attempts to inconsistently treat the same debts under two different chapters of the Code. In re Hill, 84 B.R. 623 (Bkrtcy.E.D. Mo.1988); In re Smith, 85 B.R. 872 (Bkrtcy.W.D.Ok.1988); In re Fulks, 93 B.R. 274 (Bkrtcy.M.D.Fla.1988). Smith is particularly instructive. In Smith, the debtor had originally filed under Chapter 11. The court ordered the abandonment of certain property to the mortgagee. Thereafter, the debtor moved to convert the case to one under Chapter 7. The automatic stay was modified in order to transfer title to the property and debtor's Chapter 7 discharge was thereafter granted. A judicial sale of the subject property was held on April 12, 1988, with the required hearing to confirm the sale set for April 25. On April 22, debtor filed a second bankruptcy petition. Chief Judge Bohanon dismissed the second petition, correctly concluding that where one bankruptcy case remains pending, "there cannot be a subsequent one effecting [sic] the same debt." Smith at 873. As in Smith, Gerth still has pending before this Court his Chapter 11 case. His *169 subsequent Chapter 12 petition attempts to affect the same debts as did his previous case. To allow Gerth to proceed under two separate bankruptcy chapters circumvents the "well established notions of orderly administration of justice, the court's inherent right to protect its own jurisdiction, and the court's duty to preclude, where possible, an abuse of the bankruptcy laws." In re Belmore, 68 B.R. 889, 891 (Bkrtcy.N.D.Pa. 1987). See also Prudential Insurance Co. v. Colony Square Co., 40 B.R. 603 (Bkrtcy. N.D.Ga.1984) and In re Stahl, Asano, Shegetomi & Associates, 7 B.R. 181 (Bkrtcy.D. Hi.1980). Fulks, supra, also provides relevant insight into this inquiry. While Fulks deals with simultaneous cases under Chapters 7 and 13 of the Code, Judge Bayne's analysis is nevertheless persuasive: If these debtors are permitted to maintain their second petition while a prior case is pending, an easy avenue for abuse of the bankruptcy system would be sanctioned. It is conceivable that debtors could undertake numerous simultaneous filings when events in one case take a turn to their disliking. There is simply no rule of law which would allow debtors to have two cases pending at the same time. Fulks at 276 citing Smith, supra. Gerth's reliance on In re Culbreth, 87 B.R. 225 (Bkrtcy.M.D.Ga.1988) is misplaced. The debtor in Culbreth sought protection under Chapter 11 in 1984, confirmed a plan which was substantially consummated, and which resulted in the entry of a final decree in 1987. Less than a year after entry of the final decree, the debtor sought protection under Chapter 12. Objections to confirmation of the debtor's Chapter 12 plan, which argued that such relief was barred by Section 727 and that the debtor was in essence attempting to modify his substantially consummated Chapter 11 plan, were overruled and the debtor's Chapter 12 case was allowed to proceed. Culbreth is distinguishable from this case. The debtor in Culbreth had received a final decree from the Bankruptcy Court, rendering such case closed. Here, no such decree has been issued, consequently, this Court retains jurisdiction over Gerth's Chapter 11 plan. The case thus remains open and no subsequent case can be filed under another chapter of the Bankruptcy Code. See Hill and Smith, supra. The U.S. Trustee, relying on In re Baker, 736 F.2d 481 (8th Cir.1984), claims that this Court may not dismiss one bankruptcy petition simply because the debtor has another case pending under a different Chapter of the Code. Baker (which dealt with a Chapter 13 petition filed after the debtor had received a discharge under Chapter 7) relying on § 727(a)(8), held that there is no prohibition to filing under Chapter 13 within six years after a discharge has been granted. This Court agrees with Smith's analysis of Baker, where Judge Bohanon states that Baker does not "stand for the proposition that a person may be a debtor in two cases pending at the same time." Smith at 873. This Court thus finds the holding in Baker to be inapposite. Accordingly, the motion to dismiss Gerth's Chapter 12 petition is granted. This letter constitutes the Court's findings of fact and conclusions of law in this matter. This is a core proceeding under 28 U.S.C. § 157(b). The Court will enter an order dismissing the petition.

Q: Build options changed, rebuilding all exit status 1 [Error] Exit with code=1 MXChip Azure IoT Dev Kit I am just building my Device code of my Azure IoT Dev Kit MXChip and deploying to the device, but I am getting the error as below. Build options changed, rebuilding all GetStarted:9:21: error: utility.h: No such file or directory compilation terminated. exit status 1 [Error] Exit with code=1 It was just working fine and I am not sure what exactly the problem is, anyone else has faced this issue? A: It was really a strange behavior, a simple workaround just fixed the issue. I just run clicked F1 again, type and select IoT Workbench: Device, then select Device Upload. And it was working fine again. If it doesn't work for you, Disconnect MXChip Reopen the Workspace in VSCode Do Azure Provisioning Do device upload Once it is done, you will get the message as below. Programming Finished Verify Started target halted due to breakpoint, current mode: Thread xPSR: 0x61000000 pc: 0x2000002e msp: 0x200073fc [Done] Uploaded the sketch: GetStarted.ino

#!/usr/bin/env python3 ''' pdd test script Author: Arun Prakash Jana Email : engineerarun@gmail.com Home : https://github.com/jarun/pdd NOTES: 1. Before raising a PR, a. add relevant test cases b. run `python3 -m pytest test.py ''' import pytest import subprocess test = [ ('./pdd', '-d', '1983', 'jul', '3', '2014', '1', '15'), # 1 ('./pdd', '-d', '2014', '1', '15', '1983', 'jul', '03'), # 2 ('./pdd', '-t', '45:50', '6:17:33'), # 3 ('./pdd', '-t', '6:17:33', '45:50'), # 4 ('./pdd', '-t', '5:80:75', '6:17:33'), # 5 ('./pdd', '-t', '6:17:33', '5:80:75'), # 6 ('./pdd', '-d', '2000', 'FEB', '28', '3', '2', '1', '--add'), # 7 ('./pdd', '-d', '2000', 'FEB', '28', '1', '2', '3', '--add'), # 8 ('./pdd', '-t', '47:71:37', '1:2:63', '--add'), # 9 ('./pdd', '-d', '2000', 'Mar', '01', '0', '0', '1', '--sub'), # 10 ('./pdd', '-d', '2000', 'Mar', '1', '1', '1', '1', '--sub'), # 11 ('./pdd', '-t', '00:00:00', '0:0:1', '--sub'), # 12 ('./pdd', '-t', '25:61:61', '0:0:0', '--sub'), # 13 ('./pdd', '-t', '0:0:0', '1:1:1', '--sub'), # 14 ('./pdd', '-t', '0:0:0', '25:61:61', '--sub'), # 15 ] res = [ b'30y 6m 12d\n11154d\n', # 1 b'30y 6m 12d\n11154d\n', # 2 b'05:31:43\n19903s\n', # 3 b'05:31:43\n19903s\n', # 4 b'00:03:42\n222s\n', # 5 b'00:03:42\n222s\n', # 6 b'Tue 2003 Apr 29\n', # 7 b'Tue 2001 May 01\n', # 8 b'2 day(s) later, 01:14:40\n177280s\n', # 9 b'Tue 2000 Feb 29\n', # 10 b'Sun 1999 Jan 31\n', # 11 b'1 day(s) earlier, 23:59:59\n-1s\n', # 12 b'02:02:01\n93721s\n', # 13 b'1 day(s) earlier, 22:58:59\n-3661s\n', # 14 b'2 day(s) earlier, 21:57:59\n-93721s\n', # 15 ] @pytest.mark.parametrize('item, res', zip(test, res)) def test_output(item, res): try: out = subprocess.check_output(item, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT) except subprocess.CalledProcessError as e: # print(e.output) assert e.output == res else: assert out == res

A Westport sewer leak Monday near West Parish Road and Wagon Wheel Lane spilled 5,000 gallons of raw sewage into Muddy Brook and required 1,500-gallon pump trucks to work 10 hours straight hauling effluent from one pump station to the next until new pipe was laid, Public Works Director Stephen Edwards said today. All was quiet at the Center Street pump station at mid-afternoon today. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Dave Matlow for WestportNow.com The leak occurred near the Center Street pump station, which had to be shut down, the effluent trucked to the Green’s Farms pump station. “In order to stop the leak, we had to shut the pump station off,” said Edwards, adding that had the effluent not been trucked to the Green’s Farms, raw sewage would have backed up into homes. At peak flow, he said, 500 gallons per minute were coming into the Center Street station.

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Dear brides, hair, makeup and bouquet are key pieces in your bridal look, because these complement and put the finishing touches to the set to becoming the perfect bride. Once you know the shape of the dress, cleavage, volumes, etc… we can start thinking about the hairstyle that you like to wear. For me, it’s very important that the bride has a natural hairstyle. The hairstyle you choose must complement your face resulting in a natural effect. Find a straight or slightly wavy hairstyle that defines or highlights in a subtle way the lines of your face. It is clear that every face has specific needs, so let yourself be guided by them. We will find the right hairstyle for you. Try always to seek a natural balance between hair and face. If you opted to wear your hair in an updo or bun, I recommend something simple, without being too tight or too stiff. A bride represents delicacy and grace, it is therefore important to maintain the harmony of the whole. If you prefer to wear it down or in a half updo, do it in a way that it integrates with the headdress and veil. Do it in a way that it doesn’t seem like you did not have enough time to do your hair and that the veil just fail on top of your head. Bridal makeup should enhance the natural beauty of each of you. In my opinion it should be natural, giving that feeling of freshness and radiance to the face without looking like you’re wearing a mask. The makeup artist works on the makeup based on the style of each of you and takes into account the wedding dress style and time of the event. The makeup artist will pamper your skin and enhance the gaze. A bride that gets married in the morning should wear a more natural makeup. On the other hand, a bride who gets married during the afternoon may opt for a more intense eye makeup. The lips have to have a juicy effect and enhance the natural color of your lip. For example, If your natural color is dull, you should give it more intensity. If you like to wear a bolder lip color, go ahead. However, if you do you will have to lower the intensity of the eye makeup. It is better that the intensity focuses only in one point, either the eyes or the lips. The makeup has to be a mix between your personal taste and what the event and the overall scene requires. Regarding the flowers, I recommend that you take into account the feelings they evoke. For example, if you want to convey the message of a pure bride, look for white flowers. However, if you want to be perceived as a strong and passionate bride, try with more intense flowers such as red or, if you feel that you are pure innocence, blue wildflowers are for you. Keep also in mind, the result of the color test when you look for your flower bouquet. So what about the shape? I recommend you take into account the shape of the dress to balance the effects. What I mean is that the shape and volume of the bouquet and the skirt of the dress must project a harmonious feeling. As a last tip, I would say do not abuse of the jewelry. If you wear a headdress or tiara that is an important piece, please choose a simple and discreet jewelry. I would go for long or small earrings depending on the set, the engagement ring and a bracelet at most. Regarding the bracelet, you should take into account whether you are wearing sleeves or not. I would stay away from necklaces or chokers. The wedding season is here, and some of you brides, will be ready for the big day. However, others are just starting to organize the event and trying to manage all that a wedding details. Therefore, as an image consultant I will be helping you with the most important decision, the choice of dress. Of course I’m going to make it as easy and comfortable for you, so you choose the perfect dress. As consultant I will be of great help in many other aspects of the big day, but for the moment we will be focusing on the dress. First things first, it is essential to have a clear idea of ​​what kind of dress you would like and most importantly, if it is the one that best fits the needs of your body. You need to know which color suits you best. We will figure this out with the color test. In previous post I have already explained what this test is. With the test we can see how neutral colors suit you which are the ones that are mostly used in these kind of dresses, such as white, beige, ecru and ivory. But, if you are a creative and unconventional bride, you can bet on any other color, you can even play with the color black, as it was done in other time. Once the color test is done, we can choose the perfect makeup, color bouquet, jewelry and all the color of wedding. By knowing which are your colors we can choose the color that enhances your beauty the most and chromatically harmonize the event around it.. Once we have the right color, we can go to the next step. This is the morphologic study of your body that I also have explained in previous post. The morphological study will tell us exactly the lines that your dress must follow regarding the neckline, the waist, sleeves and the volume of the skirt. The morphological study will also define the proper placement of the veil, as well as the appropriate length for it. Having clarified these two points, we are very close to achieving perfection in choosing your wedding dress. Now, we need to evaluate which fabric will better fit those lines that the morphologic study has revealed about your body appearance as the ones that are perfect for your wedding dress. The choice of fabric is as important as the previous two points; after all, we are talking about the material that will cover your body, enhancing your strengths and hiding those parts of your body that are less gracious. I’ll give a couple of examples that will show you the importance and relevance of the overall balance of these three fundamental points for your wedding dress: Color, Shape and Material. ~ With broad shoulders, you have to avoid bustier necklines, straps and halter or American necklines. The most appropriate in this case would be covering the neckline a little higher than you usually would. For example, with a bateau or off-the-shoulder neckline, but going a little higher than usual and even better if it covers both shoulders a little. I recommend wearing long sleeves because its optical effect is more balanced. We can make a bolder back, narrow the waist and that should bring volume to the skirt –which should be flared or mermaid fit since this helps balance the optical effect creating an hourglass shape, the most balanced silhouette–. ~ If for example, you have a bulky chest, you cannot wear a body of brocade, lace or damask. These materials will always give you a sense of increased volume to your chest. Look for a smooth, fine and matte material like muslin, gazar or chiffon, which create an effect of softness, cleanliness and harmony. My favorite materials for wedding dress skirts are brocade and damask. Both create skirts with body and volume. This reminds me of the times of the imperial court, with those gorgeous dresses in gold brocade with all the delicacies of that time. Brocade and damask with their drawings and reliefs, are perhaps less common than other materials. In the body I would opt for fine and subtle lace such as Venetian lace, which has different drawings and thicknesses in the drawing or Chantilly lace, which is a much finer and delicate lace and –of course– both natural and wild silk. Regarding the veil, I would recommend that you choose silk tulle; it is smooth, simple and elegant. You do not need an ornate veil, because the focus will be on the wedding dress. Silk tulle is soft, has fall and it is not rigid or bulky. It can also be a very suitable choice of material for the confection other parts of the design, not only for the veil. Another option would be the Spanish mantilla, which is a short piece of lace, like a short veil. Regarding the shoes, obviously you must choose between comfort and design. Ideally, we would combine both. We have seen an increase of conventional brides that opt for a riskier option with shoes, with colors like red, bubblegum pink or golden. Now, dear brides, after going to your image consultant, you are ready to go out and find your wedding dress or go to a designer or a store specializing in confection and sale of wedding dresses. But, if you really want to stand out and shine on your big day, let yourselves be guided and supervised by an expert consultant. This way everything will be perfect because we can accurately analyze your requirements, adapting them to your own taste and –of course– to the trends. In the next post I will be giving you hairstyle, makeup and accessory ideas for the big day. Grooms can find helpful tips on my post of male etiquette. The women invited to the event also have the post on female etiquette. I leave the direct link to each post here below.

Q: Convert Visual Foxpro dbf to dBaseIII EDIT: I found out that this error was being thrown due to the new data file being in Visual Foxpor dbf form, while my master file is dBaseIII. Any suggestions on how to programmatically change VFP to dBaseIII? I am opening two .dbf files. One is a master file and one is a file with new data. I wish to insert the new data into the master file. I am connecting to the directory that holds the files like so: Connection connection = null; String dbString = "jdbc:odbc:Driver={Microsoft dBASE Driver (*.dbf)};DBQ=" + dealerSNS + "\\"; try { System.out.println("Opening Database Directory " + dealerSNS ); Class.forName("sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver"); connection = DriverManager.getConnection(dbString, "", ""); System.out.println("Connection established!"); } catch (ClassNotFoundException cnfEx) { System.out.println("* Unable to load driver! *"); System.exit(1); } catch (SQLException sqlEx) { System.out.println(dbString); System.out.println("* Cannot connect to database! * SQL = " + sqlEx); System.exit(1); } Then I call my prepared statement: try { String update = "INSERT INTO fullSNS SELECT * FROM newSNS"; PreparedStatement ps = connection.prepareStatement(update); ps.executeUpdate(); System.out.println("query: " + ps+ " worked!"); } catch (SQLException se) { se.printStackTrace(); } Both .dbf's have the exact same fields and are in the same directory, so I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong that it won't link them up. Any suggestions/ideas? My stacktrace looks like this: java.sql.SQLException: [Microsoft][ODBC dBase Driver] External table is not in the expected format. at sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbc.createSQLException(JdbcOdbc.java:6964) at sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbc.standardError(JdbcOdbc.java:7121) at sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbc.SQLExecute(JdbcOdbc.java:3156) at sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcPreparedStatement.execute(JdbcOdbcPreparedStatement.java:215) at sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcPreparedStatement.executeUpdate(JdbcOdbcPreparedStatement.java:137) at ads.SmooshNMoveFiles.checkNSmoosh(SmooshNMoveFiles.java:116) at ads.ActiveTimer.reportToWork(ActiveTimer.java:82) at ads.ActiveTimer.run(ActiveTimer.java:28) at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:471) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.runAndReset(FutureTask.java:304) at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.access$301(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:178) at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.run(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:293) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:724) A: It depends on how "dBaseIII" oriented the table really is. Some of the earlier versions going way back have different file header information and that may be the issue. In that case, you might need to do a one-time process of opening and copying the VFP version table to a dBaseIII format, then move that into the production path for your connection. if you use the Microsoft Visual Foxpro OleDb Provider, you can connect to the path where the table is, and execute a script something like USE YourTable COPY to NewVersion TYPE FOXPLUS Disadvantage of older dBASE file formats is it does not recognize the corresponding index files without being explicitly opened and won't optimize queries... but again that is based on very old dBASE file formats. Here's one showing a sample SQL Command for execution

Chapter VI. Flour And Sugar Sacks Description Chapter VI. Flour And Sugar Sacks Flour sacks may be bleached by boiling in soapy water or by using commercial bleaching fluids. When dyed or decorated with crayon they make attractive and useful articles, especially for the home. Pillows may be stuffed with feathers, cotton, cat tail down, kapok or excelsior. Pot holders may be padded with pieces from old blankets, turkish towels or outing flannel. Bean bags may be filled with beans, corn or seeds of any kind. Use ordinary dye for cotton material. Dissolve some of the dye in a little cold water, boil and add to it enough warm water to make desired color strength. Use cloth in natural or light colors. Always try a scrap of the material before dipping into dye so as to be sure of the color that will result. Colors are always more brilliant when wet. Fold the cloth any way desired and wind string firmly around places where design is to occur. Tie with one knot as the water holds string in place. Pillow made from a flour sack, showing steps in the process of tie-dyeing. The cloth should then be wet in water, wrung out and dipped in the dye. The places that are covered with string remain the original color. More strings may be wound on to protect the new color and the material dipped in another color. The first dipping should be in the lightest dye and proceed in succeeding dips to darker colors. Be sure to dip a scrap of material in each bath to know how the next will come out. The process of tying and dyeing may be repeated several times to give the desired number of colors. Small spots may be tied over toothpicks, matches, seeds, pebbles, buttons or other objects or the material may be gathered with needle and thread instead of tying. Desired patterns may be marked in chalk before tying. If colors closely related are used on one piece the colors will be clearer and brighter, for example: yellow, green and blue or yellow, orange and red. Opposite colors will make muddy colors when finished. When all dyeing is done the strings are removed and the piece is waved in the air to dry. Hanging in one place may cause undesired streaks. If the piece is boiled at each dipping it can be washed when soiled by use. Pieces from old silk garments may Tie-dyed wall hanging be dyed in the same manner. Suitable for middle and upper grades. Embroidered Pillows, Pot Holder, Bean Bags And Aprons With white chalk make a design on wrapping paper, using only lines. When design is finished copy to cloth which may be dyed if desired. Using chain stitch, embroider with ordinary string which may also be dyed. The material may be marked off in checks with a lead pencil and a cross stitch design worked with string. Scraps of checked gingham may be used for cross stitch work. Pieces from old duck or denim pants make excellent bean bags. Suitable for middle and upper grades. Make a design on wrapping paper using white chalk. Try crayon on this to get the desired color scheme. Use all-over pattern or other design rather than a realistic picture. Copy the design to flour sack with pencil. Color in parts with crayon rubbing well into the cloth. When finished place the cloth between two pieces of paper and press with a hot iron. If carefully washed when soiled, these articles will retain the color for a long time. Suitable for all grades. A book jacket made of crayon decorated flour sacking. How to make a doll from flour sacks. A bean bag chain stitched with string and a cross stitched pot holder. A pillow decorated with crayon. All made from flour sacks. Dolls Cut a pattern from newspaper for the head, body, arms and legs. Lay each pattern on flour sack and cut the desired number of pieces. Sew up each part and stuff separately with rags or cotton. Embroider features on face with thread or color with crayon before stuffing. Sew parts to the body. Sew on hair of yarn raveled from an old sweater. Sew pieces of black or colored cloth on for shoes. Dress the doll using dyed flour sacks or cloth scraps. Lower grade children can make a simpler doll, all in one piece as shown on page 36 make seam inside however, rather than blanket stitching on outside as shown. Suitable for middle and upper grades.

Beyond antibiotic selection: concordance with the IDSA guidelines for uncomplicated urinary tract infections. The purpose of this report was to evaluate concordance with the most recent guidelines for the treatment of uncomplicated UTI based on antibiotic selection, dosage, frequency, and duration. A historical review of patients' medical records at a university-based internal medicine clinic was conducted. When aggregated across antibiotic type, frequency, and duration, overall concordance was 33.96 %. Prescribing concordance for uncomplicated UTI in the local region is suboptimal.

Lawyer drops charges agains Head, the broadcaster’s south-east Asia reporter, but another Briton still faces prosecution This article is more than 3 years old This article is more than 3 years old A Thai lawyer has dropped his criminal defamation suit against a BBC correspondent who investigated foreigners being scammed of their retirement homes in the country, the broadcaster has said. Jonathan Head, the BBC’s south-east Asia correspondent, faced up to five years in jail after his report exposed how two foreign retirees had Phuket properties stolen from them by a network of criminals and corrupt officials. Rights groups have said the case highlights how Thailand’s broad defamation and computer crime laws scupper investigative journalism and make it difficult to uncover wrongdoing in a country where corruption is endemic. The lawyer who brought the suit – Pratuan Thanarak – decided to drop the charges against Head on the first day of the trial on Wednesday. “The plaintiff has withdrawn his case against BBC journalist Jonathan Head, but as the trial of his co-defendant is continuing we cannot comment further at present,” the BBC said in a short statement. Foreigners cannot own land in Thailand but they often get around it by putting assets in the name of Thais, or by setting up majority Thai-owned shell companies. The 2015 BBC report detailed how a network of Phuket criminals, aided by corrupt officials, stole properties from foreigners by forging land title transfers. One of the victims who featured in the report, British national Ian Rance, is a joint defendant in the prosecution. He still faces a single defamation charge and up to two years in jail if convicted. Rance said he lost $1.2m worth of properties after his then wife and a gang of money-lenders forged property paperwork. According to the report, Pratuan admitted on tape to certifying Rance’s signature without him being present, a move which helped the wife transfer his properties out of his name. She was later convicted and jailed for the scam, but Rance has been hit by a slew of legal cases since going public, a common outcome faced by whistleblowers in Thailand which markets itself as an ideal retirement destination for wealthy foreigners. The criminal complaint filed by Pratuan, which AFP has seen, alleges Rance “defamed” him by talking to the BBC sometime in September 2015 but there are no details of what was said or how it was defamatory. AFP understands the BBC will continue to fund Rance’s defamation defence. Pratuan and Rance both declined to comment when contacted by AFP on Thursday, citing ongoing proceedings. Unlike most countries where defamation is a civil crime, in Thailand it is a criminal offence. Private citizens can also launch their own prosecutions and they are not forced to pay costs if they lose. Similar cases have been brought in recent years. Local news site Phuketwan closed down in 2015 after running out of money in its successful bid to defeat a suit brought by Thailand’s navy. Andrew Drummond, a British crime reporter, left the country the same year because of multiple cases brought by those he exposed, as did British labour rights activist Andy Hall in 2016.

Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant is a 2009 American dark fantasy film adaptation of the Vampire Blood trilogy of the book series The Saga of Darren Shan by author Darren Shan. The film received mixed reviews and was a commercial failure. Plot 16-year-old Darren Shan and his best friend Steve Leonard visit the Cirque du Freak freak show. During the performance, Steve recognizes one of the troupe's members, Larten Crepsley, as a vampire, prompting him to try to find Crepsley after the show. Simultaneously, Darren, fascinated by Crepsley's spider, Madam Octa, impulsively steals her. Before he can leave, he is forced to hide as Crepsley returns to his room. Steve arrives, begging to be made into a vampire, but Crepsley refuses after tasting Steve's blood, which he says "tastes of evil". When Crepsley realizes that Madam Octa has been stolen, Darren flees from the theater with Crepsley hot on his trail. He gets away only when the mysterious Mr. Tiny arrives in his limousine, accompanied by the mad Vampeneze Murlough. The latter is unimpressed with Darren, dismissing him as a "bag of blood", but Tiny is greatly impressed, and promises to "be in touch" after dropping Darren off at home. The next day, while at school Steve discovers Darren heard the conversation between Steve and Crepsley, forcing Darren to admit he overheard what Steve said to Crepsley. Steve makes Darren let him have a closer look at Madam Octa but the bell rings making Steve drop the cage allowing the spider to escape. After a brief struggle in the crowded hallway Madam Octa bites Steve and escapes, leaving Steve to slowly succumb to her deadly venom in the hospital. Becoming desperate, Darren returns to the theater and begs Crepsley for help. Initially annoyed and contemptuous, Crepsley agrees only if Darren becomes a half-vampire and Crepsley's personal assistant. Darren agrees, only to flee as soon as Crepsley administers an antidote to Steve. After nearly attacking his sister out of bloodlust soon after, however, Darren reluctantly agrees to leave with Crepsley, who arranges it so everyone believes Darren has killed himself. After being buried, Darren is dug up by Crepsley, only for the both of them to be ambushed by Murlough. Crepsley fights him off and the two return to Cirque du Freak where Darren meets the snake boy, Evra Von, and Rebecca, the monkey girl. Meanwhile, Steve, contemplating suicide after losing his best friend, is stopped by Tiny who offers him a chance to become a Vampaneze, telling him that Darren has already achieved his dream of being a vampire, and wasn't the loyal friend Steve believed. Steve is turned into a half-Vampeneze, and after learning that Darren has been refusing to feed, Tiny has his family kidnapped, leaving a flyer for the Cirque du Freak at Darren's former home. Darren arrives at the theater, where Murlough and Steve are waiting for him. They fight, but Darren is weak from not feeding. Crepsley arrives to fight Murlough. Rebecca frees herself, while Tiny watches from the balcony. Rebecca offers Darren some of her blood. He eventually agrees and fights with Steve using his new powers. Crepsley stabs Murlough and with his dying words Murlough declares that the truce between the two clans is broken. Steve and Darren continue to fight, but Tiny stops them and turns Murlough into a Little Person. Darren asks Steve to stay, but Steve refuses, saying "I have my destiny and you have yours." Steve then leaves with Tiny. Darren's family are hypnotized to have forgotten what happened to them. Left by themselves, Rebecca and Darren then share a long heartfelt kiss before being interrupted by Crepsley. Crepsley gives Darren his own coffin, and Darren accepts his new life as a member of the Cirque du Freak. Cast Main article: (List of characters from The Saga of Darren Shan) Chris Massoglia as Darren Shan John C. Reilly as Larten Crepsley Josh Hutcherson as Steve "Leopard" Leonard Ray Stevenson as Murlough Salma Hayek as Madame Truska Patrick Fugit as Evra Von Jessica Carlson as Rebecca (Monkey Girl) Michael Cerveris as Desmond Tiny (Mr. Destiny) Willem Dafoe as Gavner Purl Ken Watanabe as Hibernius Tall Jane Krakowski as Corma Limbs Kristen Schaal as Gertha Teeth Orlando Jones as Alexander Ribs Frankie Faison as Rhamus Twobellies Morgan Saylor as Annie Shan Don McManus as Dermot Shan Colleen Camp as Angela Shan Patrick Breen as Mr Kersey Jonathan Nosan as Hans Hands Tom Woodruff, Jr. as The Wolfman Blake Nelson Boyd as Mr. Afraid of the Ground Man Production Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant was shot between February 19-June 1, 2008 in New Orleans, and the villages of Folsom, Louisiana and Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Some of the characters required a great deal of prosthetics and makeup led by Steve Koch, Brian Sipe, and Mark Garbarino. Prosthetics did not quite add the height needed on certain shots for the character of Mr. Tall, played by Academy Award-nominated Ken Watanabe. Although Watanabe is six feet tall, a body double was cast for certain shots. Trevon Flores, a local basketball player who stands 6'10" tall and weighs 210 pounds, was used for certain shots to show the abnormal height of Mr. Tall. Additionally, Watanabe utilized dialogue coaches Kathleen S. Dunn and Francie Brown in pre-production and production to further enhance his performance as the circus barker. The filmmakers took advantage of computer-generated imagery to portray other fantasy elements. John Marshall High School in Los Angeles was used to film some parts of the movie.Sophie B. Wright Charter School in New Orleans was also used to shoot scenes from the film. The film began principal photography on February 8, 2008 in New Orleans and ended on June 3, 2008. The film was distributed by Universal Studios. A portion of The Vampire's Assistant was filmed on a set constructed within New Orleans City Park, approximately 1,000 feet off of the side of the road, along Harrison Avenue. In one of the manga additions of the saga, the director says that the character of Gavner Purl was a hint of the sequel he wanted to make. Music The score to The Vampire's Assistant was composed by Stephen Trask, marking his third feature film with director Paul Weitz. He recorded his score with an 86-piece ensemble of the Hollywood Studio Symphony at the Newman Scoring Stage at 20th Century Fox. The movie also features the songs "Something Is Not Right with Me" by Cold War Kids, "Chelsea Dagger" by The Fratellis, and "Red Right Hand" by Nick Cave. The trailer features the songs Asleep From Day by The Chemical Brothers, Bliss by Syntax, and Superhero by Immediate Music. Release The film was originally set for release on January 15, 2010, but was moved ahead to October 23, 2009. Critical reception Review aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes assigns the film a rating of 38% based on 139 critics with an average rating of 4.87/10. The site's critical consensus reads "This overstuffed, scattershot vampire flick suffers from poor characterization and an unwieldy mix of scares and chuckles." On Metacritic, the film has a score of 43 out of 100, based on 25 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews". Box office The film opened in 2,754 theaters in the United States and made over $14 million, reaching #7 in the charts. In other countries, it made more than $25 million, giving it a worldwide box office total of more than $39 million. On DVD, sales in the United States made more than $5.5 million. Worldwide its chart placings included getting to #1 in Ukraine, #2 in Hungary, #2 in Russia, #2 in the United Arab Emirates, #3 in Mexico, #3 in Portugal, #4 in Egypt, #4 in Venezuela, #5 in Belgium, #5 in Peru, #5 in Singapore, #5 in the United Kingdom, #6 in Lebanon, #6 in the Philippines, #7 in Bulgaria, #7 in Japan, #8 in Chile, #8 in Colombia, #8 in the Netherlands, #9 in Austria, #9 in Romania, #11 in Germany, #11 in Malaysia, #11 in New Zealand. Home media The film debuted on DVD and Blu-ray Disc in Canada, the United Kingdom and United States at the end of February 2010. In Canada, at the end of its first week on sale and rent, it was #1 on the Rogers DVD bestselling chart and #2 on the Blockbuster Canada bestselling chart, and #6 on the rental charts of both. In the United States it was #2 on the Rentrak bestseller chart, and #6 on the Blockbuster, Home Media and IMDb rental charts. In the United Kingdom it reached #5 on the MyMovies bestsellers chart, and #6 on the Yahoo chart. Cancelled sequels In a Reddit AMA in March 2015, Darren Shan stated that three sequels to Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant had been in active development by Universal prior to the film's underperformance, as well as expressing interest in a potential future reboot of the series. See also Vampire films References External links Category:2009 films Category:American films Category:English-language films Category:American fantasy adventure films Category:2000s children's fantasy films Category:Dark fantasy films Category:Circus films Category:Films about sideshow performers Category:Films based on fantasy novels Category:Films based on Irish novels Category:Films directed by Paul Weitz Category:Films produced by Lauren Shuler Donner Category:Films with screenplays by Brian Helgeland Category:Films shot in New Orleans Category:Relativity Media films Category:Universal Pictures films Category:Films with screenplays by Paul Weitz Category:Vampires in film Category:Films scored by Stephen Trask Category:2000s fantasy adventure films ja:ダレン・シャン (小説)#映画版

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122, 2*b - 411*u - 26 = -414*u for b. 10 Solve 0 = -11*c + 13*c + 2, 94*c + 40*c + 129 = -f for f. 5 Solve -7*i + 2*k - 66 = 0, -314802*i + 314804*i = -3*k - 26 for i. -10 Solve 17*b = 17, -4541*v + 4*b = -4536*v - 1 for v. 1 Solve 64 = -4*k + 4*m, -5986*m + 66 = -5980*m for k. -5 Solve 4*p + 480 = 25*z + 460, -3*p - 15 = 8*z for p. -5 Solve -148*j - 15 = -151*j - 4*t, 7*j = 2*t + 1 for j. 1 Solve 3*y - 9 = -d, -5*y - 97*d + 98*d - 15 = -3*y - 1 for y. -1 Solve -13*a + 9*a - 4*r = 18*a + 188, -5*a - 4*r = -199 + 251 for a. -8 Solve 2*y + 6 + 1 = 2*v + 3*v + 3, -36744*y + 36740*y + 12 = 0 for v. 2 Solve b - 2 = 1, -1865*r + 1858*r + 108 = 29*b for r. 3 Solve 6949*d - 6945*d = 12*p + 112, d + 17 = -2*p for p. -9 Solve 13*l = a + 298, -111*l = -4*a - 110*l - 19 for a. 1 Solve -4*m = -2*l - 2, -10*l + 28588 = -5*m + 28628 for l. -5 Solve -b + 4*n = -135 + 83, 3*b + 12*n - 26 = 14*n for b. 0 Solve -26 = -5*j - 19*x - 170, 23 + 5 - 6 = -18*j + 2*x - 74 for j. -6 Solve -6*x + 491*m - 494*m - 33 = -2*x + 1, 13*m = 4*x - 62 for x. -4 Solve -35 = -2*y - f, 106*f + 113*f - 333*f = -111*f - 9 for y. 16 Solve -2*l + 4*g + 32 = 0, 24*l - 15 = 28*l + 5*g + 38 for l. -2 Solve 2*l + 380 - 432 = -20*g, -4*l + 22 = -g for l. 6 Solve 19*m = 4*b + 6*m - 66, 3*m + 6 = 4*b - 0 for b. -3 Solve 0 = -58*q - r + 29 - 310, 0 = -3*q - 23*r + 20*r + 12 for q. -5 Solve 15502*b - 15490*b = -p - 79, 0 = 4*p - 4*b - 48 for p. 5 Solve k + 16*u = 22*u + 113 - 240, -4*k + 5*u = 109 for k. -1 Solve -q - 29 - 1 = 5*u, -2*u - 1432 + 1422 = 0 for q. -5 Solve 158 = -3758*a + 3760*a + 2*k, 44*k - 3380 = 4*a for a. 2 Solve 95528*s + y = 95524*s + 28 - 90, 5*s + 79 = -2*y for s. -15 Solve -5*h + 0 = i - 10, 3*i - 1001 = -13*h - 979 for i. -10 Solve 3*g - 2*v + 5*v = -2112562 + 2112451, g + 0*g + 3*v = -111 for g. 0 Solve 1539*n = 5*j - 3*j + 1533*n - 78, 2*n = 3*j - 82 for j. 24 Solve 133*b - 5*r + 522 = 0, -5*b + 485*r - 12 = -0*b + 490*r + 18 for b. -4 Solve 5*j = -70, -13077 = -5*b + 4891*j - 3958*j for b. 3 Solve 3 = 4*k - 17*a, 19*k - 23*k - 2*a - 23 = -9*k for k. 5 Solve -13*x - 4*a + 13 = 0, 24*x + 8*x + 17*x - 5*a = 46*x + 80 for x. 5 Solve -2*k + 26 = -5*x, -4*x - 20*x + 23*x = 4*k - 30 for k. 8 Solve -4*w - 7*d = 147, 9*w + 63 = 15*w - 929*d + 926*d for w. 0 Solve 119 = 2*m + 3*j, -32*m - 20*j - 19*j + 42*j + 17 = 0 for m. 4 Solve -4*a + 1305299 = -5*l + 1305306, 13*l - 2*a + 7 = 0 for l. -1 Solve 11*m - 4*m - 2*z + 4 = 2*m, 2*z + 36 = -21*m + 4*z for m. -2 Solve 119*a - d + 71 = 56*a, 365 = -4*a + 3*d + 337 for a. -1 Solve -24 = -u + 2*c, -5*u + 137 = -4*c + c + 38 for u. 18 Solve 4*j - 48 = -2*l, 111*j - 30 = 114*j - 19*l + 15*l for j. 6 Solve -2*k - 14 = -4*c, 46*k = 85*k + 4*c + 109 for k. -3 Solve -h - 12 = 26*c - 25*c + 3, -c - 48 = -3*h - 73 for h. -10 Solve -2*p = -3*x + 50 + 58 - 103, 2*x + 3*p + 1 = 0 for x. 1 Solve 6 = -3*x - w - 14, 43*x + 91 = -w - 209 for x. -7 Solve 4*p - 30012*q = -30017*q + 29, 5*p - 64 + 237 = 17*q for p. -4 Solve -p + 17 = 3*t - 2*p, 2*p + 90349 = 5*t + 90317 for t. 2 Solve -1659507*b + 43 = -1659512*b - 3*r, -27 = b - 4*r for b. -11 Solve -3*d - 7*k + 2*k = -525, 0*k - 913 = -181*d + 182*d - 9*k for d. 5 Solve -3*j + 58 = 5*t - 6*j, 59*t - 55*t - 4*j = 48 for t. 11 Solve 0 = 5*h - 26*g + 119, 35*h + 3*g = 33*h + 6 for h. -3 Solve -11*q + 133 = 32660*g - 32661*g, -2*g = 2*q - 22 for g. -1 Solve 13*p + 0*p - 42 = 5*j, -6 = j - 5*p + 3*p for j. 2 Solve -5*f = -2*a + 9537673 - 9537718, 3*a + f + 8 = 0 for a. -5 Solve -3*b = 2*n - 0*b - 50, -425*b + 421*b - 75 = -3*n for n. 25 Solve -3*q - 22 = q - 9*q + g, 14*q - 13*g = 3*q + 16 for q. 5 Solve 2073*z + 19 = 2072*z - x, -z + 2*x = -5*x - 109 for z. -3 Solve 4*v + 5*d - 137 = 0, -5*v + 2496*d = 2500*d - 169 for v. 33 Solve 2*f + 3 = 3*j + 13, 3*j - 3*f + 6717 - 6702 = 0 for j. 0 Solve -t - 7*y = 4*t + 48, 1335 = 2*t + 4*y + 1365 for t. 3 Solve 4*o = -7*d + 313 - 311, 6*d + 4*o = 4 for d. -2 Solve 21 = -u, 508814*a - 508816*a - 6*u = 124 for a. 1 Solve 14*x - 86 = -6*u + 2*u, 7*u = -31*x + u + 4*u + 163 for x. 5 Solve 5*c + 9*h - 157 = -5*h - 135 + 403, 2*c - 4*h = -118 for c. 1 Solve -8*j + 16 = 0, 3*j + 896 = -5*n + 922 for n. 4 Solve 13949*g - 13956*g + 4*y + 62 = 0, -3*g - 2 = 4*y for g. 6 Solve z + 0*p = -7*p + 59 + 36, -2*z + p - 5 = 0 for z. 4 Solve -a - 9*h - 30 = 8*h - 15*h, -2*h - 22 = -a for a. -4 Solve s = 4*u + 15, 14*u = -71*u + 5*s - 335 for u. -4 Solve 41*m + 64 = 10*m + 19*m - n + 92, 0 = -21*m - 3*n + 39 for m. 3 Solve -5*h + 474 = -4*s + 374, 10*h + 17 = -4*s + 51 + 106 for h. 16 Solve -m = -4*o - 345 - 82, 3*m + 13*o + 555 = -0*o + 8*o for m. -5 Solve -3*z - 104 + 134 = -2*r + 4*r, -3*z = 4*r - 66 - 6 for r. 21 Solve 2*v - 5*v - 9*w - 36 = 0, 2*w = 2*v + 16 for v. -9 Solve -p + 13 = 2*x, x + 19*p - 52*p - 2 = -22*p - 10*p for x. 5 Solve -4*w + 19*m - 59 = 16*m, 0 = -6*w + 4*m - 88 for w. -14 Solve -5*n + 5*o = -35, 1123989*n - 20 = 1123984*n + 2*o for n. 2 Solve -14*m = 29*m + 4*l - 141, 3*m - 45 = -12*l for m. 3 Solve -t + 5*k = 4*t - 20, -t + 12*t + k + 10 = 6*t for t. -1 Solve 3*k + 3*l + 6 = -0, 9*l = -k - 12*l + l - 17*l - 182 for k. 3 Solve 15*h - 3533 + 3509 = 5*f + 12*h, 2*h = 4*f + 18 for f. -3 Solve 3*g + 5140*q - 5154*q = -104, 2*g - 252 = -71*q for g. -16 Solve 3*j = -4*b - 532 + 493, -73 = 4*b + 5*j for b. 3 Solve 7936*u - 3*r = 7934*u - 34, -14*u + 5*r = 110 for u. -5 Solve 473*j + 35 = 7*n + 488*j, 0 = -3*n - 3*j + 15 for n. 5 Solve -5*a - 5*x = -20, 4*x + 85813 = a + 85804 for a. 5 Solve -3*p - 19 = 5*h - 38, -40 = -10*p - 3*h + 28 + 50 for p. 13 Solve 5*y + 14*w = 3*y + 100, -6*y - 22 = 69*w - 73*w for y. 1 Solve -154*i + 80*i + 85*i = 3*v + 63, 2*i = -5*v - 166 for i. -3 Solve 1155*p + 1148*p - 3446*p - 4 = 2*t - 1146*p, 4*p - 16 = 8*t for t. -2 Solve 19382*v + 126 = 4*f + 19379*v, 70 = 2*f - 5*v for f. 30 Solve -32*a + 3*x = -64, a - 8*a - 5*x - 27 = -4*a - 33 for a. 2 Solve -45 = -5*c - 6*w, 2874*c + 32*w = 2875*c + 157 for c. 3 Solve 0 = 291*h - a - 1244 + 430 - 655, -h - 2*a - 2*a - 51 = -0*h for h. 5 Solve -2*y + 3 = k, -80*k + 46 - 10 = -4*y - 40 for y. 1 Solve -8*q + 5*k = 3*q - 69, -27428*k = 2*q - 27432*k - 28 for q. 4 Solve 11*k + a = 2*a - 70, 3*k + 5*a - 14 = 2*k - 0*a for k. -6 Solve -2*k = -2*y + 32, 43*y = -3*k + 37*y - 30 for k. -14 Solve -c = 4*n + 10, -c + 33360*n + 2 = 33352*n for c. -6 Solve -f + 71 = 4*o, -83482*f = 5*o - 83480*f - 88 for o. 18 Solve -4*c + 222 = -5*d, 4*c - 34 = d + 3 + 17 for d. -42 Solve -5*g + 3*i - 17 = 0, -254*g + 10 = -252*g + 3*i for g. -1 Solve -2*g + 1526046 = -4*j + 1526074, -5*g = 80 for j. -1 Solve 0 = 4*s + 4*r + 4, -5*s + 21 + 18 = 6*s + r for s. 4 Solve -3*u - 37*x = -19*x - 22*x - 51, 43*u - 2*x = 67 for u. 1 Solve -2*f = 3*s + 2022 - 2004, 0 = -5*f - s - 6 for f. 0 Solve -2*p + 4*p - 5*h + 4*h = -2, 12 = -3387*p + 3415*p - 4*h for p. 1 Solve -4*o + 14 + 22 = b, -10*b - 7*o = b - 56 - 7 for b. 0 Solve -48*w + 77*w = 2*x + 2*w + 318, 4*x + 17*w - 216 = 0 for x. 3 Solve -1433*k + 1442*k = 4*j - 27, 3*j - 7*k + 3*k - 12 = 0 for j. 0 Solve 1091104*n - 20 = 1091099*n, -4*n + 12 = 4*t + 4 for t. -2 Solve 8 = -3*r - 2*b, -3*b - 164 = -170 for r. -4 Solve 7 = -m - 3*x, -285950*m + 285981*m + x = 151 for m. 5 Solve 0 = -76

Comedian Matt Braunger returns this spring to Atlanta aka “Black Portland,” so dubbed at his noteworthy drop-in at the 1AM Secret Show during last year’s weekend run at the Laughing Skull. Braunger had crowds rolling at both venues with his unique and lively brand of storytelling. Since that trip, Braunger returned to his old Oregon stomping grounds to record his third special at the Bridgetown Comedy Festival, recorded another appearance on the late “@Midnight,” and tied the knot. Atliens have four nights to catch the culmination of a very eventful year for our favorite Big Dumb Animal.

Taking Care of Our Own: A Multispecialty Study of Resident and Program Director Perspectives on Contributors to Burnout and Potential Interventions. Rates of resident physician burnout range from 60 to 76 % and are rising. Consequently, there is an urgent need for academic medical centers to develop system-wide initiatives to combat burnout in physicians. Academic psychiatrists who advocate for or treat residents should be familiar with the scope of the problem and the contributors to burnout and potential interventions to mitigate it. We aimed to measure burnout in residents across a range of specialties and to describe resident- and program director-identified contributors and interventions. Residents across all specialties at a tertiary academic hospital completed surveys to assess symptoms of burnout and depression using the Maslach Burnout Inventory and the Patient Health Questionnaire-9, respectively. Residents and program directors identified contributors to burnout and interventions that might mitigate its risk. Residents were asked to identify barriers to treatment. There were 307 residents (response rate of 61 %) who completed at least one question on the survey; however, all residents did not respond to all questions, resulting in varying denominators across survey questions. In total, 190 of 276 residents (69 %) met criteria for burnout and 45 of 263 (17 %) screened positive for depression. Program directors underestimated rates of burnout, with only one program director estimating a rate of 50 % or higher. Overall residents and program directors agreed that lack of work-life balance and feeling unappreciated were major contributors. Forty-two percent of residents reported that inability to take time off from work was a significant barrier to seeking help, and 25 % incorrectly believed that burnout is a reportable condition to the medical board. Resident distress is common and most likely due to work-life imbalance and feeling unappreciated. However, residents are reluctant to seek help. Interventions that address work-life balance and increase access to support are urgently needed in academic medical centers.

Q: Why my listview style change when I loop the javascript twice? I develop an android native application using phonegap and jquery mobile. I've made a function to create a listview style dynamically using looping for... When I run the function for the first time, it works, the listview style is working, and match with the content. but when I press back button and run the function again, the style change (the listview style is gone) but the content still there. is my function wrong? how to solve this problem? the screenshoot for more explanation: this is the result when I press the back button and run the function again the codes for more detail: function detail(kodenegara, koderesult) { $.ajax({ type: "GET", contentType: "application/json; charset=utf-8", url: "http://10.80.3.73/webservice/Service1.svc/json/weeklyflash/"+kodenegara, dataType: "json", success:function(data){ var result = koderesult; maks = -1; for(i = 0; i < data[result].length; i++) { if(data[result][i].bulan > maks) maks = data[result][i].bulan; } var loop_tipe = countTypesForBulan(data[result], maks); var innerHtml = ""; for (i = 0; i < loop_tipe; i++){ a=i+loop_tipe; b=a+loop_tipe; innerHtml += "<div data-role='collapsible' data-collapsed='true'>"+ "<h3>"+data[result][i].type+"</h3>"+ "<table width='100%' border='1'>"+ "<tr>"+ "<td>&nbsp;</td>"+ "<td style='text-align: center'>"+data[result][i].bulan+"/2012</td>"+ "<td style='text-align: center'>"+data[result][a].bulan+"/2012</td>"+ "<td style='text-align: center'>"+data[result][b].bulan+"/2012</td>"+ "</tr>"+ "<tr>"+ "<td>Cash</td>"+ "<td style='text-align: right'>"+data[result][i].uang+"</td>"+ "<td style='text-align: right'>"+data[result][a].uang+"</td>"+ "<td style='text-align: right'>"+data[result][b].uang+"</td>"+ "</tr>"+ "<tr>"+ "<td>Qty</td>"+ "<td style='text-align: right'>"+data[result][i].total+"</td>"+ "<td style='text-align: right'>"+data[result][a].total+"</td>"+ "<td style='text-align: right'>"+data[result][b].total+"</td>"+ "</tr>"+ "</table>"+ "</div>"; } $('#tipe').html(innerHtml); $.mobile.changePage("#detail", "slide", false, true); //show the page }, error: function () { alert("ERROR"); } }); } function countTypesForBulan(resultArray, bulanVal) { var i, types, count = 0; for (i=0, types = {}; i < resultArray.length; i++) if (resultArray[i].bulan === bulanVal && !types[resultArray[i].type]) { types[resultArray[i].type] = true; count++; } return count; } here is for simulation my project with jsfiddle A: I can't see anything wrong with your code in terms of why it gives you different styles. I would however ensure you have a consistent coding standard. For example my coding standards usually include: Always declare variables. Variable maks is never declared here (I'm going to assume it is never declared.) Change it to var maks = -1; Always use { and }. This will ensure you don't screw up a block. if(data[result][i].bulan > maks) maks = data[result][i].bulan; would become: if(data[result][i].bulan > maks) { maks = data[result][i].bulan; } Its just proofing for us who make mistakes from time to time. make local variables where possible if (resultArray[i].bulan === bulanVal && !types[resultArray[i].type]) { types[resultArray[i].type] = true; count++; } could be: var current = resultArray[i]; if (current.bulan === bulanVal && !types[current.type]) { types[current.type] = true; count++; } It means less look ups. Most of the time its easier to read.

Q: The code is required to make a random number then keepon spouting random numbers until it reaches that number, but its always the same Here's the idea of the code: The code is required to make a random number then keepon spouting random numbers until it reaches that number, but its always the same. heres the code: #include <stdio.h> #include <math.h> int rdt () { long long int randomonium; randomonium=rand(); return randomonium; } int main (){ int rd; int no; while(1){ rd=rand(); printf("%d\n", rd); if (rd== rdt()){ break; } } return 0; } A: You can put a srand(time(NULL)); just before the while to change the random seed used by rand(). Don't forget to include time.h in the code.

Put the spring on before you place the cam release on. This allows the shoes to spread further apart making it easier to get the spring on. Then place the cam release over the tube and compress the shoes together with your hands so the cam drops in place. Thanks Eric... I did part of that and ended up putting the spring on first, then using a wide jaw pliers and my fingers, I aligned the holes of the brake pads and pushed them onto their post. It was awkward and required a few tries, but it worked. Then I put on the cam as you suggested. ... Orv D See inside of your appliance - diagrams and part photos for virtually every model.powered by AppliancePartsPros.com The content on this web site is for informational purposes only and is not intended to replace an on-site diagnosis from a qualified appliance service technician. By reading any content on this site you agree to AppliancePartsPros.com , Inc. disclaimer and Terms of Use.

Calculate prob of sequence pwoj when four letters picked without replacement from {w: 1, o: 1, p: 1, j: 1, g: 1}. 1/120 Calculate prob of sequence frf when three letters picked without replacement from {f: 7, r: 1}. 1/8 What is prob of sequence ippn when four letters picked without replacement from tttipptpinpinttni? 3/1190 What is prob of sequence tjn when three letters picked without replacement from tjtjwoonojjj? 1/132 Four letters picked without replacement from ssssssssss. What is prob of sequence ssss? 1 Calculate prob of sequence ai when two letters picked without replacement from {y: 1, q: 6, i: 2, c: 2, a: 4}. 4/105 What is prob of sequence aada when four letters picked without replacement from {d: 4, u: 2, a: 5}? 1/33 Two letters picked without replacement from mmmm. Give prob of sequence mm. 1 Three letters picked without replacement from ziciihilchhch. What is prob of sequence lzi? 1/429 Four letters picked without replacement from {g: 1, s: 5, m: 3, b: 1, d: 2, e: 1}. Give prob of sequence mmbg. 1/2860 Four letters picked without replacement from nzayzmhny. What is prob of sequence ymya? 1/1512 Four letters picked without replacement from vvvvevve. What is prob of sequence vvee? 1/28 Calculate prob of sequence fjd when three letters picked without replacement from jddjdfjdjdd. 4/165 What is prob of sequence aall when four letters picked without replacement from {a: 13, l: 5}? 13/306 Four letters picked without replacement from vxwwwwavwxxxaxa. What is prob of sequence xawa? 5/1092 What is prob of sequence dtd when three letters picked without replacement from gdggddrtta? 1/60 Three letters picked without replacement from qqqqqq. Give prob of sequence qqq. 1 What is prob of sequence heel when four letters picked without replacement from {l: 8, h: 2, e: 4}? 8/1001 What is prob of sequence hhh when three letters picked without replacement from {h: 7, y: 5}? 7/44 Three letters picked without replacement from rrrrr. What is prob of sequence rrr? 1 What is prob of sequence nt when two letters picked without replacement from {j: 1, a: 1, t: 1, n: 1, w: 1, f: 2}? 1/42 Three letters picked without replacement from {w: 2, p: 1, z: 6, t: 4, x: 1, a: 4}. What is prob of sequence awp? 1/612 What is prob of sequence dpdp when four letters picked without replacement from {d: 5, p: 3}? 1/14 Calculate prob of sequence bz when two letters picked without replacement from qbmpqmmbmzzzrzb. 2/35 Four letters picked without replacement from {t: 2, p: 1, d: 1, g: 3, c: 3, k: 3}. Give prob of sequence pckd. 3/5720 Calculate prob of sequence ooo when three letters picked without replacement from oooooosoooooooo. 4/5 Two letters picked without replacement from kcvbxkvbnkbc. What is prob of sequence kk? 1/22 Calculate prob of sequence jrr when three letters picked without replacement from jtthrnnthtjtrhtjj. 1/510 Two letters picked without replacement from ooionnlola. Give prob of sequence na. 1/45 Two letters picked without replacement from ugquguquququ. Give prob of sequence ug. 1/11 Two letters picked without replacement from {w: 2, z: 1, e: 3, i: 1, x: 7, v: 3}. What is prob of sequence ix? 7/272 What is prob of sequence jmm when three letters picked without replacement from {v: 2, g: 1, m: 7, j: 3, p: 5}? 7/272 Two letters picked without replacement from bcaaaljjjlj. Give prob of sequence ja. 6/55 Calculate prob of sequence be when two letters picked without replacement from {e: 5, b: 5}. 5/18 Four letters picked without replacement from {u: 3, p: 1, f: 1, h: 1, b: 1}. What is prob of sequence fhbp? 1/840 What is prob of sequence weee when four letters picked without replacement from {w: 4, e: 14}? 91/765 Calculate prob of sequence ggg when three letters picked without replacement from gggggggegegg. 6/11 Calculate prob of sequence amu when three letters picked without replacement from {w: 6, a: 2, m: 2, u: 1, i: 5}. 1/840 Three letters picked without replacement from {z: 4, c: 1, s: 3}. What is prob of sequence css? 1/56 Four letters picked without replacement from {k: 4, t: 1, y: 7, h: 4, v: 3}. What is prob of sequence yvkt? 7/7752 Two letters picked without replacement from ssyasiaaaaysasaa. Give prob of sequence is. 1/48 What is prob of sequence vc when two letters picked without replacement from cccvqcq? 2/21 Calculate prob of sequence lll when three letters picked without replacement from {l: 7}. 1 Two letters picked without replacement from uigoui. Give prob of sequence ui. 2/15 Two letters picked without replacement from iwkwlklswpklis. Give prob of sequence is. 2/91 Calculate prob of sequence rrr when three letters picked without replacement from {r: 4, v: 2}. 1/5 What is prob of sequence tt when two letters picked without replacement from tttthhh? 2/7 What is prob of sequence hx when two letters picked without replacement from khxkkshxsxxkxxxx? 1/15 What is prob of sequence dv when two letters picked without replacement from {m: 10, j: 5, v: 4, d: 1}? 1/95 Calculate prob of sequence zh when two letters picked without replacement from haptzaz. 1/21 What is prob of sequence ii when two letters picked without replacement from isssssssisssssisss? 1/51 Three letters picked without replacement from ktxmktkxmkdkktkuxu. What is prob of sequence muk? 7/1224 Four letters picked without replacement from jjqjjsojjjjsorjjjqqj. What is prob of sequence qjjr? 11/3230 Calculate prob of sequence jgj when three letters picked without replacement from {g: 1, l: 5, z: 8, j: 4}. 1/408 Calculate prob of sequence gfgf when four letters picked without replacement from {g: 2, f: 4, c: 1, y: 12}. 1/3876 What is prob of sequence qm when two letters picked without replacement from {a: 1, q: 1, m: 1, f: 2}? 1/20 Calculate prob of sequence qaa when three letters picked without replacement from {q: 9, a: 9}. 9/68 Three letters picked without replacement from {o: 3, t: 2}. Give prob of sequence tto. 1/10 Three letters picked without replacement from {m: 5, f: 6, v: 2}. Give prob of sequence fff. 10/143 What is prob of sequence ay when two letters picked without replacement from {n: 2, l: 3, y: 1, u: 1, a: 5}? 5/132 What is prob of sequence oyyo when four letters picked without replacement from {o: 2, y: 11}? 1/78 Three letters picked without replacement from {c: 9}. What is prob of sequence ccc? 1 Two letters picked without replacement from yyggmyydrmm. What is prob of sequence mr? 3/110 What is prob of sequence kxr when three letters picked without replacement from kjvxkjr? 1/105 Calculate prob of sequence xxkx when four letters picked without replacement from {x: 3, k: 15}. 1/816 Four letters picked without replacement from {x: 3, b: 3, y: 7, w: 2}. What is prob of sequence wyxy? 1/130 Two letters picked without replacement from {z: 1, e: 1, q: 1}. What is prob of sequence qz? 1/6 Three letters picked without replacement from lwulggbwgg. What is prob of sequence wuw? 1/360 Calculate prob of sequence ta when two letters picked without replacement from {t: 2, a: 3}. 3/10 Three letters picked without replacement from ncf. Give prob of sequence cnf. 1/6 Two letters picked without replacement from {i: 2, p: 1, d: 2, m: 1, n: 8}. What is prob of sequence mi? 1/91 Calculate prob of sequence nknk when four letters picked without replacement from {n: 10, k: 10}. 45/646 Three letters picked without replacement from {d: 9, g: 10}. What is prob of sequence dgd? 40/323 Calculate prob of sequence aoya when four letters picked without replacement from oyaafyayffffffaa. 1/728 Two letters picked without replacement from ibiiibiiibbiiibiii. Give prob of sequence ib. 65/306 Calculate prob of sequence mmz when three letters picked without replacement from mtmsmsszmzmzzmzsmz. 7/136 Three letters picked without replacement from {x: 2, r: 1, n: 3, i: 1}. Give prob of sequence nir. 1/70 What is prob of sequence jc when two letters picked without replacement from rccccrrhcjcmcrccd? 9/272 Two letters picked without replacement from xxxxxxxxxmxxyxxxxxx. Give prob of sequence xm. 17/342 Two letters picked without replacement from {u: 2, h: 2, d: 2}. What is prob of sequence dd? 1/15 What is prob of sequence cs when two letters picked without replacement from {s: 3, c: 4}? 2/7 Four letters picked

[Clinical application of perforator propeller flaps with anastomosis of superficial veins]. To investigate the clinical effect of anastomosis of superficial veins for improving the drainage of perforator propeller flaps. From Sept. 2011 to Dec. 2012, 11 cases with soft tissue defects and chronic ulcer wound at extremities were treated with adjacent perforator propeller flaps, which were pedicled by the peroneal artery(5 cases), or the lateral supramalleolar artery(3 cases), or the ulnar artery (2 cases), or the posterior interrosseous artery (1 case). The wound size ranged from from 3.0 cm x 2. 5 cm to 11. 0 cm x 4. 0 cm, and the falps size ranged from 6 cm x 3 cm to 21 em x 5 cm. One superficial vein in all the flaps was anastomosed with superficial vein in the recipient area. The blood supply of the flaps were recorded after operation 1 - 3 months after operation, the fluency of anastomosed vein was detected by color Doppler ultrasound. Flap swelling evaluations were performed in early 3 months and later 3 - 6 months, and the results were classified into 4 grading degrees. 6 months later, Questionnaire of the flap aesthetic satisfactory was performed for seven patients during follow-up period. 9 flaps survived completely, two flaps had partial marginal skin necrosis in the distal end, which were both managed with surgical debridement, and both wounds healed in two months. 9 cases were followed up for more than 12 - 19 months. The early rsults of flap swelling evaluations were: I degree 0 case, II degree 8 cases, III degree 3 cases, IV degree 0 case, and the later results were: I degree 7 cases, II degree 4 cases, III degree 0 case, IV degree 0 case. The flaps had ideal appearance, good contour, and high aesthetic satisfactory (100%). The mean flap survival area rate of veins anastomosed was (98. 6 ± 9. 7) %. Perforator propeller flaps with anastomosis of superficial veins can improve the flap venous drainage, avoid transient venous venous congestion, so as to increase the flap survival. It is an effective way for improving the vein drainage.

Q: MouseDown, PreviewMouseDown, etc... and COMMAND Binding in MVVM I'm trying to understand this concept and it's eluding me. What is the general concept behind this? I know it's possible, but I'm not totally following how to do this based on my research/own test projects. I want to avoid code behind at all costs in my View. I want to decouple events such as "PreviewMouseDown" from the View and have them trigger a Command in the ViewModel. Can anyone give me some basic guidance on how to accomplish this? Summary: View (PreviewMouseDown) -> Calls Command in ViewModel (MyPreviewMouseDownCommand) Thank you A: At risk of being downvoted I don't think this is the worst thing in the world public void PreviewMouseDown(Object sender, RoutedEventArgs e) { var viewModel= (MyViewModel)DataContext; if (viewModel.MyCommand.CanExecute(null)) viewModel.MyCommand.Execute(null); } A: This is typically handled via some form of Attached Property or (Blend) Behavior. For example, MVVM Light includes an EventToCommand Behavior which allows you to route any event to an ICommand in XAML, with no code behind added. A: It's all about Commanding and Binding. But I'll encourage you to better use a framework that provides you the plumbing. If you want View first strategy you can you go with MVVM Light as Reed suggested. But, if you want ViewModel first approach (which I personally found to be more simple to understand) then I'll suggest you to use Caliburn Micro. Anyway, you'll end up using Event to Command or the Interactivity Library (from the Blend SDK) if you want to go code-behind clean.

The U.S. State Department has criticized Pakistan’s treatment of Ahmadiyya Muslims in its annual international religious freedom report. During the report launch on Wednesday Deputy Secretary of State, Antony J. Blinken said “When a government denies religious liberty, it turns citizens who have done nothing wrong into criminals, igniting tension that breeds contempt, hopelessness, alienation.” While speaking at the reports’ launch, U.S. Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom David Saperstein said: In Pakistan, the government continued to enforce blasphemy laws, for which a punishment can be death sentence, for a range of charges including defiling the Prophet Muhammad. Christians as well as Muslims were arrested on charges of blasphemy in the last year. In 2016 after a Hindu convert to Islam was accused of blasphemy, two Hindu youths were shot and one died from his wounds in ensuing communal violence. We remain deeply concerned also over authorities targeting and harassment of Ahmadi Muslims for blasphemy, violations of anti-Ahmadi laws, and other crimes. The report said that in Pakistan, 40 people remain on death row for blasphemy, many of them religious minorities. The report also mentioned that U.S. Ambassador, consuls general, and Embassy officers met with Pakistani government officials to discuss reform of the blasphemy law, curriculum reform in the public and madrassah education systems, the treatment of the Ahmadi Muslim, Christian, Hindu, Sikh, and other minority communities.

Supreme Court Rules Against Software Patents SAN FRANCISCO -- A Supreme Court decision today may affect the technology industry for years to come. The justices' unanimous vote in Alice Corporation Pty. Ltd. v. CLS Bank International renders software patents ineligible as abstract ideas. Such ideas, the court said, have always been patent ineligible. The Australian company Alice International had obtained patent protection for software that creates a settlement between two parties and generates instructions to the institutions involved to carry out their agreement. The justices ruled that the software was generic and did not make technical advancements or improve how the computer functioned. "The patents at issue in this case disclose a computer-implemented scheme for mitigating 'settlement risk'… by using a third-party intermediary," Justice Clarence Thomas wrote in the court's opinion. "We hold that the claims at issue are drawn to the abstract idea of intermediated settlement, and that merely requiring generic computer implementation fails to transform that abstract idea into a patent-eligible invention." Open-source advocates such as the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) called the ruling a step in the right direction to curb patent trolls and improve consumer experience. "We think that it will cut down on a lot of the worst patents that are out there, the most ridiculous and overbroad software patents… A lot of patent trolls' patents are now more questionable then they were," EFF staff attorney Daniel Nazer told us. "I think maybe there will be more of a focus on trying to create products people want and putting them in the market place rather than fighting each other with patents." Though patents have been hotly debated as both detrimental instruments and catalysts for innovation, industry analysts said the ruling doesn't change much or provide a rubric for patentability. Those seeking patents will have to figure out what constitutes generic software and what is actual invention. "Those applying for or defending software patents will argue that their inventions are not 'generic' computer implementations of abstract ideas," Florian Mueller, an analyst following patent disputes, wrote in a blog post on the Supreme Court ruling. "Those challenging such patents will try to define 'generic computer implementation' as broadly as possible and argue that every software patent they attack involves previously known computing technology and an abstract idea." Patent attorney Jeffery Frazier told us that whether the ruling will deter patent trolls is up for debate. "People that draft applications are going to think around these lines and include language that sounds like there's an improvement made." Nazer expects "wide and narrow interpretations" of the ruling, as well as the invalidation of many software patents. Still, the ruling "doesn't purport to be a decision invalidating software patents." Trolls will likely continue to operate, but they will try harder to avoid court rulings. Language around the ruling may be cause for concern among hardware engineers. The term "computer-implemented" refers to the mode of invention, rather than the invention itself. Frazier said system elements such as a data storage unit and communications controller were called out in the case as generic, but they were only named at a high level. "It concerns me a little bit. I'm sure it was the right thing to do here," he said. "Don't see it eroding patents on the system side or creating problems for hardware manufacturers. My concern is more trying to figure out where the line is. How far down from the high level that these claims were reciting do these hardware elements become tangible?" The ruling was issued nearly a year after the Patent Litigation and Innovation Act of 2013 was introduced in the House of Representatives. Julie Samuels, then a senior staff attorney for the EFF, wrote in a blog post in December that the bill "gives defendants tools to fight back, makes litigation cheaper and includes an important fee-shifting provision." The bill cleared the House and garnered support from President Obama, but Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) removed the bill from the Senate Judiciary Committee agenda last month. "The full contours of this decision will take some time to work out. The Supreme Court has left a lot of work for the lower courts to do to interpret it," Nazer said. "It's going to be 2-3 years before we have a good understanding of what the decision will mean in practice. But this is promising. There's a lot of good language here." >> Similarly if C was patented then we shouldn't have seen so much of growth in software development. It is the chicken and egg question. The true fact is that the software lawyers are smarter than their hardware equivalents. When you buy Windows and want to build an application on it, you pay Microsoft license on the product. But Intel powers the OS for Windows and they simply pay-out for the hardware. Intel could have also asked for royalty for OS running on their hardware. Oracle gets money from banks running banking applications powered by Oracle. Yet, IBM and co that supply the server do not (only puchase revenue). >> , I totally agree with you. Software is as important as hardware for optimal systems performance.Some times the performance is limited by the software and not hardware. That is why they have valuations in multiples better than IC startups becuase they make all the difference. Hard to see any IC firm at startup phase with $250M valuation. Yet, we see these web startups in the north of billions of dollars. Seems to finally rule out Amazon's "One Click" which is long overdue, along with dozens of other SW implementations of existing HW. Take Apple's slide switch to turn off a phone, slide switches have been in use longer than I've been alive and yet they want to patent that LOL! Per comments, it's important to clarify that the Supreme Court did make a decision *on one case* and not all software patents; though the decision has implications on future patent requests. Several commenters also have taken issue with abstract ideas being patentable, and I think there may have been confusion over the lede in this article. Software has not always been considered an abstract idea, but abstract ideas have long been considered patent ineligible: "A principle, in the abstract, is a fundamental truth; an original cause; a motive; these cannot be patented, as no one can claim in either of them an exclusive right." Le Roy v. Tatham,55 U.S. (14 How.) 156, 175 (1852).