Raytheon Technologies [RTX] on Tuesday reported an increase in net income in the first quarter due to lower tax expenses and losses from discontinued operations versus a year ago and the company raised the low end of its guidance range for sales and earnings as signs of a recovery in commercial aerospace emerge.
The company adding $500 million to its share repurchase plan to $2 billion this year due stronger than expected earnings and cash flow in the quarter, Greg Hayes, CEO of Raytheon Technologies, said on a call with analysts. The company also upped its target of expected cost savings synergies by $300 million to $1.3 billion resulting from the acquisition of the former Raytheon Co. by United Technologies Corp. to create Raytheon Technologies, he said.
Net income in the quarter was $753 million, 50 cents earnings per share (EPS), versus an $83 million (10 cents EPS) loss a year ago, which included a $521 million (61 cents EPS) loss from discontinued operations. Excluding various charges in the first quarter, adjusted earnings were 90 cents EPS, eight cents above consensus estimates.
Sales in the quarter were $15.3 billion versus $11.4 billion a year ago. The top and bottom-line numbers exclude results from the company’s two legacy Raytheon Co. segments, Missiles and Defense (RMD) and Intelligence and Space (RIS) because the acquisition of Raytheon by UTC didn’t close until the start of the second quarter in 2020.
During the earnings call, Neil Mitchill, Raytheon Technologies chief financial officer, provided pro forma results for the legacy Raytheon defense businesses, which both posted higher sales but lower operating profits.
RIS reported $3.8 billion in sales, up 2 percent from a year ago, mainly due to work on airborne intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance programs, and $388 million in operating profit, down $11 million. Operating margin was 10.3 percent.
RMD also posted $3.8 billion in sales, up 3 percent from a year ago on higher volume across the portfolio, while operating profit fell $43 million to $496 million as earnings a year ago benefited from a favorable contract settlement. Operating margin was a robust 13.1 percent.
Mitchill said that the Department of Justice is investigating four contracts awarded to Raytheon’s legacy Integrated Defense Systems segment, which is now part of RMD. Three of the contracts were awarded between 2011 and 2013 and the investigation is related to “defective pricing,” he said. The company took a reserve for its potential civil liabilities related to the investigation.
The Justice Department has also subpoenaed the company related to another contract awarded to IDS in 2017, Mitchill said, adding the company doesn’t expect the investigation to have a material financial impact.
Raytheon Technologies increased the low end of its guidance for adjusted earnings and sales for 2021 to account for the emerging recovery in the commercial aerospace market. Adjusted earning are forecast to be between $3.50 and $3.70 EPS, a 10-cent increase on the low end. The increase factors in higher-than-expected share repurchases.
Sales are projected to be between $63.9 billion and $65.4 billion, up $500 million on the low end. The forecast for organic growth this year is now 1 to 3 percent versus the prior outlook of flat to negative 3 percent.
Free cash flow in the quarte was $336 million and is still expected to be $4.5 billion for the year. Backlog at the end of the quarter stood at $147.4 billion, down 2 percent from $150.1 billion at the end of 2020. Commercial business accounted for $82.2 billion of the backlog and defense $65.2 billion.


Launched the latest 5G smartphone Vivo V23e 5G officially under the concept. ‘Clear every moment that is you’ Raises the selfie function that will make it easier for users. with state-of-the-art artificial intelligence technology Bring out the essence of true selfie photography with Nature Portrait mode. and a 44-megapixel autofocus front camera
Vivo V23e 5G comes with a 44MP Ultra HD front camera, supports autofocus, AF with natural portrait mode. Eye Focus Technology and a variety of portrait modes Under a slim design, there is also a rear camera, night mode for detailed and high definition images. Suitable for shooting even in complete darkness. Including additional features such as 44W fast charging technology and Extended RAM technology to expand the usage area to the fullest. ready to provide the ultimate user experience that is smoother than ever
The 44MP front-facing camera is designed to reflect natural clarity.
Vivo V23e 5G, a smartphone that meets the needs of users who are constantly looking for a better selfie experience. Especially when shooting portraits with aesthetic aesthetics. and natural clarity This smartphone combines the cutting-edge front-facing camera system from Vivo with state-of-the-art technology.
Such as auto focus and night portrait features for photos and videos that look good from every angle, along with support for AI Extreme Night, where the front camera is a combination of multiple frames. to reduce noise and AI algorithms to correct facial characteristics in portraits It helps to take a selfie at night to preserve the details of the image better as it is taken during the day.
In addition, there is also a Dual-View Video 3.0 feature that can record both the front and rear cameras at the same time without interruption, like a professional director. Suitable for shooting video stories from various angles, and the Steadiface Selfie Video feature helps to focus on faces clearly. with powerful algorithm technology Helps to lock the focus on the face for stable images as if using a tripod. which is a good help for those who love vlog photography.
In addition, the newly upgraded Double Exposure mode allows background photos to be imported into overlays with other images. to create a unique image that perfectly expresses the style of the user
Design of luxury that comes in a compact size.
This model of Vivo V23e 5G is made from leading technology. Satin AG glass surface gives a luxurious touch. Comes with a device that is only 7.36 millimeters thin, weighs 172 grams, but is strong and durable. And it’s easy to carry with you anywhere, anytime. Experience a minimalist design with a new design and manufacturing innovation. The 2.5D smooth edges are superbly coated. The translucent metallic luster gives the surface a dimensional look. luxury
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Recently, Vivo has collaborated on research and development of 5G SA technology with network operators such as AIS and True, enabling all Vivo smartphones that support 5G SA that are currently available in all models, including the Vivo V23e 5G, able to support and use. 5G signals can cover both 700 MHz and 2600 MHz frequencies on both AIS and True networks.
Vivo V23e 5G comes with 8GB + 4GB RAM with Extended RAM 2.0, allowing 4GB of memory to be used as RAM whenever needed. So users can enjoy a smooth experience anytime, anywhere. Even when switching between multiple applications, it is also guaranteed by Hi-Res Certification. High-Resolution Audio Quality Guaranteed It’s also a hallmark for the ultimate audio experience.
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Minneapolis voters could be asked to cast a ballot on the future role of Minneapolis Police Department as soon as this November, under plans revealed on Friday.
Five city council members – president Lisa Bender, Alondra Cano, Jeremiah Ellison, Steve Fletcher, and Cam Gordon – signaled their intentions to propose an ordinance that would change the City's Charter by removing MPD as a "Charter Department."
The Charter currently stipulates that the council must provide a police force of 0.0017 officers per resident of the city.
It would be replaced on the Charter with the creation of a "new Charter Department to provide for community safety and violence prevention."
By removing the MPD requirements from the City's Charter, it seems to be laying the groundwork for the councilors' eventual plans to disband the department in the wake of George Floyd's killing, and replace it with an as-yet alternative public safety strategy.
The proposal didn't merit much discussion on Friday, with the councilors expected to provide more detailed plans when they introduce it as an ordinance at its next meeting on June 26.
As the Star Tribune notes, it faces a tall task to get it approved in time for the Nov. 3 elections, as the current deadline for adding items to the November ballot via the Minneapolis Charter Commission is July 7, and would require the Commission to hold a special meeting as they're not due to convene again until July 8.
If the Charter Commission does convene earlier and approves the proposal, it could be put to voters during the 2020 elections.
Councilors have been talking since the death of Floyd about dismantling MPD, which it believes is beyond reform despite subsequent efforts to implement change led by Chief Medaria Arradondo, Mayor Jacob Frey, and the Minnesota Department of Human Rights Department.
Separate from the Charter change proposal, the council unanimously passed a resolution to commence a year-long process "of community engagement, research, and structural change to create a transformative model for cultivating safety in our city."
This refers to the 12-month engagement process 9 out of 12 councilors previously announced for the disbanding of MPD.
The resolution says that reforms to MPD "have not created equitable public safety in our community."
As a result of the resolution passing, a Working Group has been created within the council that will come forward with policy change proposals, as well as put together a plan to engage with the community, which it will present at a July 24 meeting.

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This week, I am delighted to present my recent interview with Dr. Benjamin Benulis, a vegan and plant-based doctor of chiropractic based in Arizona. Having healed himself from chronic illness on a whole-foods plant-based diet over a decade ago, Dr. Ben now works to help others achieve optimal health by eliminating the root causes of disease. In this interview, Dr. Ben tells me his story of how adopting a whole foods plant-based diet allowed him to heal from autoimmune disease, and he describes what his daily diet looks like now. We discuss some commonly asked questions about protein and sugar, what’s wrong with the way that mainstream medicine currently addresses chronic health issues, how a whole foods plant-based diet helps to reverse chronic disease, whether the natural health products industry is helpful or harmful, and whether eating a fruit-based vegan diet can prevent junk food cravings. Then Dr. Ben speaks about some of the connections between animal agriculture, the pharmaceutical industry, and vivisection, and we discuss the upcoming Worldwide Vegan Summit for Truth and Freedom. The Always for Animal Rights blog can be found at https://alwaysforanimalrights.blogspot.com.
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A Similarity-Based Concepts Mapping Method between Ontologies
Jie LIU Linlin QIN Jing GAO Aidong ZHANG
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Publication Date: 2015/05/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1361
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Category: Artificial Intelligence, Data Mining
ontology mapping, similarity aggregation, SVM,
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Ontology mapping is important in many areas, such as information integration, semantic web and knowledge management. Thus the effectiveness of ontology mapping needs to be further studied. This paper puts forward a mapping method between different ontology concepts in the same field. Firstly, the algorithms of calculating four individual similarities (the similarities of concept name, property, instance and structure) between two concepts are proposed. The algorithm features of four individual similarities are as follows: a new WordNet-based method is used to compute semantic similarity between concept names; property similarity algorithm is used to form property similarity matrix between concepts, then the matrix will be processed into a numerical similarity; a new vector space model algorithm is proposed to compute the individual similarity of instance; structure parameters are added to structure similarity calculation, structure parameters include the number of properties, instances, sub-concepts, and the hierarchy depth of two concepts. Then similarity of each of ontology concept pairs is represented by a vector. Finally, Support Vector Machine (SVM) is used to accomplish mapping discovery by training and learning the similarity vectors. In this algorithm, Harmony and reliability are used as the weights of the four individual similarities, which increases the accuracy and reliability of the algorithm. Experiments achieve good results and the results show that the proposed method outperforms many other methods of similarity-based algorithms.


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If you’re on the keto diet, you probably want to know what you can and can’t drink. Alcohol can be a nice treat, but it should be consumed in moderation. However, if you consume alcohol frequently, it can cause problems, including alcoholic ketoacidosis. The best way to avoid this is to only consume one or two drinks per night.
The best bet is to choose a low-carb alcoholic beverage. You can find many low-carb beers, wine, and cocktails, but you should check the nutritional content of your beverages before making a purchase.
Some of the best choices include light beer, dry wine, and hard spirits. You’ll want to watch out for sweet concoctions, as they can be high in carbs.
There are also several mixed drinks to be aware of, especially those with a lot of sugar. Some of these can be as high in calories as a full meal.
If you’re new to the keto diet, you might be wondering what you should be drinking, and why. It’s easy to get overwhelmed, and it can be hard to resist the temptation to drink more.
To be on the safe side, you should always keep track of what you’re eating. A keto diet is a low-carb diet, so you shouldn’t drink anything with more than one carb per ounce. You should also opt for a low-carb mixer when you do decide to have a cocktail.
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TOKYO -- More than 5,000 people around the world have died in the latest outbreak of Ebola, with many more expected to succumb to the disease.
The antiviral drug Avigan, which was developed by midsize Japanese pharmaceutical company Toyama Chemical, may become an effective treatment for the deadly disease.
The development of the drug was launched a quarter century ago with the help of Kimiyasu Shiraki, a professor in the medical and pharmaceutical research section of the University of Toyama, who at the time hoped to create an entirely new type of antiviral drug.
Avigan is unique in that it inhibits viral gene replication within infected cells, thus preventing propagation by directly interfering with the proliferation of viral genes. In contrast, other influenza drugs such as Tamiflu and Relenza, are designed to reduce the amount of virus within the patient's body by inhibiting the release of new viral particles.
Shiraki noted that the drug was also expected to be effective in fighting similar types of virus such as Ebola, polio, measles and yellow fever.
In 1990, Toyama Chemical launched research into antiviral drugs. The drugmaker already had expertise in bacterial infectious diseases, and it thought that treatments for virus-derived infections could become a profitable business as well.
However, researchers at Toyama Chemical lacked knowhow on viral infection treatments. So they consulted Shiraki, who had a wealth of experience in creating antiviral therapeutic agents.
They began by testing every chemical compound the firm held to see if they could find a cure for herpes, a disease that causes blisters on the lips and inflammation of the cornea, among other conditions. They tested more than 20,000 compounds in total.
But they could not find a compound that was better than existing ones, despite the thousands of animal studies they conducted.
In 1997, the researchers modified this strategy and began pursuing new drugs to cure diseases caused by combinations of viruses. The change of approach paid off, and a year later, they discovered a new compound that could be effective in treating influenza. They presented the results at an academic meeting in 2000.
Toyama Chemical expected to easily find a bigger drugmaker that would help it refine the research results, but none were interested, because the market of antiviral agents is significantly limited.
Antiviral treatments are used only for the relatively short time in which the virus develops. Therefore, they are used for far fewer patients compared to vaccines, which are given to healthy people.
What was worse, Swiss drugmaker Roche had released a rival influenza drug, Tamiflu, in 1999, which forced Toyama Chemical to shelve the project. In August 2002, Toyama Chemical and Taisho Pharmaceutical announced an agreement to form a capital and business alliance.
Things turned for the better for Toyama Chemical in 2003, when the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases started looking for drugs to treat virulent strains of influenza. NIAID is a unit of the National Institutes of Health that conducts and supports basic and applied research on infectious, immunologic and allergic diseases.
In 2006, scientists at NIAID reported that Avigan might be the only effective treatment of a new strain of influenza among 3,000 medicines and trial compounds that had been tested around the world. Hearing this, Toyama Chemical decided to restart development of the drug.
In 2008, the firm was acquired by Fujifilm Holdings, which encouraged it to pursue the research, in hopes that Avigan could be effective against other viruses besides influenza. However, development did not progress smoothly. During animal trials, the drug was found to be teratogenic, causing deformities in fetuses. And it was less effective than Tamiflu.
But Toyama Chemical's researchers did not give up. It took an unusually long time -- three years -- from its application in 2011 to its approval in April by Japan's Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices Agency, working with the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare. New drugs usually receive approval in about a year.
However, despite the approval, Avigan could not find a market due to its relatively low efficacy compared to Tamiflu and the danger of birth defects. Marketing of the drug was put on hold.
According to Ryota Asada, chief of the division of research promotion at the National Hospital Organization Nagoya Medical Center, the PMDA might have granted conditional approval to Avigan, because it needed an effective weapon against new strains of influenza, against which Avigan was expected to be effective.
When Ebola began to spread in West Africa this summer, Avigan caught the attention of medical staff in the West, who were deeply concerned about the lack of effective treatments.
In September, the first patient to be treated with Avigan, a French nurse, was discharged from hospital. Guinea plans to launch clinical trials of Avigan soon, with results expected by February 2015.


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In this article about teen heroin use on SheKnows.com, Dr. Sack explains to parents that the ease and ability to get heroin is much higher than it has ever been before making it one of today’s “mainstream” drugs. Dr. Sack says this growing epidemic is something parents need to be aware of and education themselves about. When asked to talk about the ways teens end up using heroin, Dr. Sack says,”many people are getting their first exposure to opiates through prescription narcotic medications. They develop a sense of safety around these medications even though they are highly lethal and account for most of the increase in overdose deaths. Adding that of the steady increase in heroin addicts he has seen, in most cases the heroin addiction follows prescription drug addiction or abuse.”
Dr. Sack recently spoke on-air with Madeleine Brand of NPR’s KCRW-FM during the ‘Press Play’ program. The segment on “Personal Overdose Device” discussed the FDA’s recent approval of Evzio, the first hand-held auto-injector to reverse opioid overdose. Evzio is specifically designed to be given by family members or caregivers instead of medical professionals.
Dr. Sack explains that Naloxone, a drug that has been around for 25 years and blocks the effects of opiate drugs, previously had to be administered by someone with medical training. With Evzio, Naloxone can now be self-administrated, or can be quickly used by a non-professional, in time to save someone’s life during an overdose. Dr. Sack also talks about the symptoms of an overdose and some of the reasons behind the rise of overdoses over the past decades.
One of the biggest points of conversation was whether or not this new drug will “allow” or “encourage” people to do more drugs. Dr. Sack explains that the first part is breaking through denial. People are not choosing to use drugs based on “how safe the drugs are” and notes that we are in an overdose epidemic now.
Dr. Sack was featured on CBSNews.com in an article titled, “As heroin deaths spike, families deal with grief.” In the article, Dr. Sack said that deaths linked to heroin have increased in the last five years and are steadily going up. Dr. Sack explained that prescription opiates have become more expensive, putting pressure on addicts to look for other solutions like heroin, which is cheaper and more potent. Additionally, Dr. Sack is quoted saying that, “there is an epidemic of prescription drug abuse that involves medications that are opiates, and heroin is sort of the king of opiates.” Read the entire article on CBSNews.com.
Dr. Sack appeared in a segment on America Now News discussing the rise of prescription drug addiction among women. America Now News is a daily television magazine program hosted by Leeza Gibbons and Bill Rancic, featuring “news you can really use” on lifestyle topics such as health, diet, family and pets.
Dr. Sack explains how addiction to pain medications is an epidemic and the reason why women are more vulnerable to prescription medication abuse is because they have an higher incidence of depression and anxiety disorders. Dr. Sack talks about warning signs to look out for including sudden irresponsibility, excessive drowsiness, irritability, or losing pills and running out early. Dr. Sack recommends talking to their doctor directly and sharing what the problems are with the medications they are using.
In this piece on the New York Times Opinion Pages, Dr. Sack writes
Addiction has three main characteristics that cause it to be considered a disease. First, it has a lifelong course characterized by frequent relapses, cross addiction and a common set of behavioral changes. Second, like other chronic medical disorders, genetics plays an important role is determining who is at risk to become addicted. Finally, there are effective medications that treat drug addiction by blocking the rewarding effects of drugs and decreasing drug cravings.
CNN reached out to Promises Treatment Centers’ CEO Dr. David Sack recently to discuss opiate addiction and to shed light on the incidence of relapse among addicts who have completed treatment.
“Facilitators” who surround the highly affluent, those who travel in artistic circles, are the enemy of the addict, Dr. Sack told CNN’s “Erin Burnett OutFront” newscast. And in fact, many artists “view drugs as part of the creative process, part of the lifestyle,” he said.
In an article on thefix.com, Dr. Sack talks about protracted withdrawal syndrome (PAWS). PAWS is the name of the condition that leaves recovering addicts and alcoholics feeling the worse for wear. PAWS is a series of post-acute symptoms of recovery from dependence on drugs including benzodiazepines, barbiturates, and opiates. Dr. Sack is quoted saying, “the brain has tremendous capacity to heal, but it doesn’t heal quickly. In general, PAWS symptoms peak around four to eight weeks after quitting.” Read the entire article here.
In “The High Risk of Relapse Leading to Accidental Overdose” on thefix.com, Dr. Sack explains that, for addicts who relapse, overdose is an all too frequent occurrence. Dr. Sack says that it is this combination that proves fatal: “The greatest risk to a person who is in early treatment and who relapses is the threat of overdose because they have no tolerance but also they often have poor judgment in how much they should be using.” Read the entire article here.
The article highlights a number of true stories where individuals have consumed large quantities of alcohol and have made the mistake of shopping while under the influence. Dr. Sack explains that, “people who drink may be prone to other impulse-control problems because the part of the brain that’s involved—the reward center—is driven by both of those activities in slightly different ways. We see a fair number of people who, in addition to drinking excessively, go through spending sprees where they literally buy up the store and have tremendous remorse and regret because they may not even remember having done it.” Additionally, Dr. Sack notes that not everyone who has buyer’s remorse after an alcohol-fueled expenditure needs professional help, however, there are ways to protect yourself from this type of retail regret. Read the full article on Forbes.com.
In this HER Radio segment with Dr. Pamela Peeke, Dr. Sack explains that everyday activities that you may find to be therapeutic (like shopping, tanning, or exercising) have the potential to become just as addictive and destructive as drugs and alcohol. Dr. Sack then talks about how your gender, genes, family upbringing, and mental health issues all increase your risk of developing a dependency. He also shares how you can seek proper treatment. Listen to the entire show below:
A sought-after media expert, Dr. Sack has appeared on Dateline NBC, Good Morning America, The Early Show, E! News, The Doctors, and many other outlets. He blogs for Huffington Post, PsychCentral and Psychology Today and has also been interviewed and quoted by the major print media, including The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and Time Magazine. View Media Reel >
While we can't turn off our brain's natural tendency to lump people and things together, we can understand and help influence the meaning we assign to those categories and to push ourselves to think beyond the stereotype. But it takes effort.
We all know someone who drinks every night and swears they can stop any time they want. Is it just an excuse, or is the person truly in control of their drug use? Not everyone who uses drugs or alcohol needs rehab; at the same time, not everyone who needs treatment recognizes the seriousness of […]
Unless it’s happening to your child, you probably haven’t given bullying a lot of thought. A bold Wisconsin town is trying to change that by hitting parents where it counts: in the pocketbook. Under the town’s “parent liability” approach, parents of bullies who do not cooperate with authorities in addressing their child’s behavior can be […]
Not just dogs and horses are used in animal-assisted therapy. Llamas, cats, birds, dolphins, rabbits, donkeys, even wolves, to name a few, are used to form a connection with those who need help, whether dealing with addictions, depression, schizophrenia, phobias, PTSD, or a host of other issues. read more
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THE PEOPLE'S MANIFESTO FOR WILDLIFE
The People's Manifesto for Wildlife, compiled and edited by Chris Packham alongside a host of wildlife and conservation experts, is a document that puts forth a wealth of proposals on how to better protect our flora and fauna in both the UK and overseas. Coinciding with a march on Downing Street in September 2018, the manifesto was presented to the government in an effort to further conservation efforts in the country. As well as layout design and typesetting, I produced over forty individual illustrations to accompany each article in the manifesto, creating a strong visual identity to complement the forward thinking ideas being presented.
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I’ve uploaded a new status.el. This update rationalizes the API a little bit. I’ve also uploaded erc-status.el, which enables notification area functionality for ERC. With this enabled, if someone says your name in a channel, the notification area icon will blink. And, if your connection is disrupted, you will get a notice.
Mark suggested I upload my Emacs hack, so here is status.el.
You will need to build your own zenity with my patch applied. And, you will need to hack a couple of path names in status.el in order for it to work on your machine.
The doc strings in the code explain how to use it. There aren’t any interactive functions, just things that are usable from elisp.
I’d forgotten how fun it is to hack on Emacs.
I’ve occasionally wanted Emacs to be able to put an icon into the status area, so that I can set it up to notify me when interesting things happen; say, when a compilation finishes. I’ve also been thinking of moving my calendar into Emacs, and I didn’t want to lose out on Evolution’s nice appointment notification feature.
So, tonight I hacked up zenity to add a little more functionality to its notification mode. In particular I changed it so that left click will print some (user-specified) text, and so that a right-click menu can be set up as well.
After that it was pretty simple to write some Emacs code to wrap up zenity in a nicer API.
Now all that remains is to hook this up to things inside Emacs. I’ve got my compilation mode hook set already; next I suppose I’ll investigate the calendar, or perhaps erc. Send me email if you want the lisp (my zenity patch is in Gnome bugzilla).
In this long-awaited final episode in the Smoke trilogy, Harvey Keitel reprises his role as Auggie Wren, and Roberto Benigni joins the cast as the failed carnival clown Oliver Banjo. Together with a miniature — and perhaps imaginary — elephant, the two enter an epic but doomed quest to win the world series of poker.
The statement about a switch statement performing repeated compares seems bogus. A dense switch like this will be a table jump, I’d imagine. But, whatever… plain switch-based interpreters are well-known to be slow.
I took my first glance through Hotspot recently. I’m vaguely curious to see what it would take to port it to PowerPC, not because I have a particular love for that architecture, but because it is important for switching Fedora and RHEL from GCJ to OpenJDK. Also, I’m spending a bit of time researching what I want to work on next, and I think OpenJDK is one of the available options.
Hotspot seems like pretty nice C++ code, overall. The structure is easy to navigate. There are comments pretty much where I expect them.
So far I’ve only looked at simple bits. In particular I tried to read the code that corresponds to code in libgcj with which I am very familiar — the interpreter and the verifier.
The Hotspot verifier is a bit more “C++-y” than mine. Stuff is spread out a bit more and a little more abstract, so I find it somewhat harder to read. But, that’s to be expected. I didn’t try to delve into the deeper things (how do they really handle
jsr), since I was only looking at this while waiting for a build today. Some other time.
There seem to be two bytecode interpreters in Hotspot. First, a simple C-ish one, roughly like the libgcj interpreter before I added direct threading. This one is not the default, I suppose it is probably only used when bootstrapping on a new platform or something like that.
The other interpreter is trickier and implements something which is sort of like early Kaffe JITs. The idea is that most bytecodes have an associated function that generates bits of machine code. Before executing a method, a very simple form of JITting is applied where these functions are called to compile code, naively, into a buffer which is then executed.
Well, I hope that is what happens… I’m not trusting myself much this week and the code is fairly convoluted.
I haven’t made much progress on my goal of seeing how hard a port is. The existing ports look pretty small… from 28 KLOC (amd64) to 36 KLOC (sparc).
Roman writes disparagingly of proposals to add properties to Java.
Properties seemed cool when I first heard about them. They seem like a nice tool for maintaining source compatibility — for allowing local refactorings between fields and methods, without requiring massive changes to the rest of the code. In gcjx, I used something a bit like properties (I think you can emulate them in C++, with some work, but I picked something a bit simpler) for just this reason.
But upon further reflection I don’t really see the point of adding them to Java. Java is more concerned with binary compatibility. And, for properties to be binary compatible, they have to be implemented as functions from the beginning (or as a new VM feature — but that seems like overkill). And if you are doing that, you might as well consider that your IDE can generate the methods for you already.
Regardless of what happens here, I think it is interesting that the Java language debates have moved to the blogs. There are several influential Java people blogging about these topics on a regular basis. We’re also starting to see language experimentation being done in the OpenJDK javac.
My friend David is a big fan of Haruki Murakami, so when I was at the library I picked up In the Miso Soup — a book by a completely different person who happens to share the same last name. If this were a movie I would describe it as Lost in Translation meets Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer; the whole time I was reading it I kept thinking “I didn’t realize David was into such bleak, dark stuff”. I got all the way through and started writing a blog entry about this before Wikipedia and Amazon clued me in to my mistake.
Now I’m reading a book by the author I intended to read the first time. I suppose there’s some lesson about books and covers in here somewhere.


MANILA, Philippines – For progressive farmers organizations in the country, the rejection of Agrarian Reform Secretary Rafael Mariano by the powerful Commission on Appointments only shows that the administration of President Rodrigo Duterte is leaning towards the landlords and big businesses that control vast tracts of lands for plantations.
Pedro Arnado, chairperson of Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas Southern Mindanao Region said landlords and owners of big corporations have been “working hard” to oust Mariano from his post in the Duterte administration.
“The resolutions submitted by the Regional Peace and Order Council and Regional Development Council in Davao Region opposing to the appointment of Mariano also affected the decision of the CA,” said Arnado.
Arnado and hundreds of farmers from various parts of the country are here in Manila to join this year’s Lakbayan of National Minorities. The farmers protested yesterday in front of the Senate following Mariano’s rejection.
The CA ended its three-day grilling and discussion over the appointment of Mariano, as 13 of its members, many coming from the Lower House, rejected his appointment as Department of Agrarian Reform Secretary.
Davao Today has not yet obtained the list of CA members who voted for and against the appointment of Mariano as of press time.
Throughout the CA hearing, at least five oppositions, including the representative from Lapanday Foods Inc., were allowed to speak against Mariano’s appointment.
Mariano was instrumental in the reinstallation of agrarian reform beneficiaries in the contested San Isidro farm area managed by the Lapanday Foods Corporation in Tagum City this year.
Resolutions from the RPOC and RDC in Davao Region were read during the hearing on Mariano’s appointment on Wednesday.
The resolutions issued on May 5, informed the CA “of the involvement of some government officials, particularly the Secretary of the Department of Agrarian Reform in the Lapanday incidents in Davao City.”
“It was in fact suggested that the GRP (government of the Republic of the Philippines) peace panel recommend to the Office of the President to exclude these officials, particularly the Secretary of the Department of Agrarian Reform (DAR), from representing the government in the peace panel as they are reported have direct participation in the planning of the Lapanday incidents, thus, have betrayed the trust of the Office of the President,” the Joint Resolution said.
On April 29, the New People’s Army raided two factories and a ranch owned by the Lapanday Foods Corporation.
Mariano denied the allegations.
Mariano was also present during the peace negotiations held in the Netherlands in May related to the consultations on the drafting of the Comprehensive Agreement on Social and Economic Reforms (CASER).
The resolution was signed by Governors Anthony del Rosario of Davao del Norte, Jayvee Tyron Uy of Compostela Valley, Claude Bautista of Davao Occidental and Nelson Dayanghirang of Davao Oriental.
Two mayors also signed the resolution, to include: Mayor Sara Duterte-Carpio of Davao City and Alan Rellon of Tagum City.
Despite his rejection Mariano said he will not stop him from pursuing his dedication to serve the farmers and peasants in the country.
“Magpapatuloy tayo (We will continue),” Mariano said.
Mariano was appointed DAR secretary by President Duterte in July last year together with Sec. Judy Taguiwalo of the Department of Social Welfare and Development.
Both Mariano and Taguiwalo failed to get the nod of the CA.
Mariano is also the fourth appointee of Duterte to be rejected by CA, after former Foreign Affairs Sec. Perfecto Yasay, Environment Secretary Gina Lopez and Taguiwalo. (davaotoday.com)


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Constantly Consuming Culture--The Art Show concluded a month or so ago. But artist Gretchen Hasse took some nice photos of the event we wanted to share.
We are currently planning a show with most of these same artists (and some others) in Miami. Details on this will be coming soon.
This show was a well-attended fun event where some art was sold and many connections were made.


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[VIDEO] Harry Styles In His Underwear
Last night, just before the NBA Finals game, One Direction were special Skype guests on Jimmy Kimmel’s show.
The boys are on tour right now in the US and just before their Nashville show, they made a special appearance on the show for a scavenger hunt.
The were great sports about the whole thing, making toothpaste mustaches and their best attempt at an American accent.
The end of the competition was by far the best part. Jimmy said the last group to come back on camera with their underwear over their pants would be the winner of the scavenger hunt.
Harry Styles came back in just his underwear… Thank you Jimmy Kimmel!
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A Savvy Humorist, Nora Ephron Became One of Hollywood's Few Successful Woman Directors
UPDATED: The writer and director, who died Tuesday at 71, turned out hits like "When Harry Met Sally..." and "Sleepless in Seattle."
Nora Ephron, the witty and acerbic writer who found a second career as a screenwriter and director of such popular romantic comedies as When Harry Met Sally... and Sleepless in Seattle, died Tuesday at New York Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center of pneumonia brought on by acute myeloid leukemia. She was 71.
The daughter of Hollywood screenwriters, Ephron established herself as an original voice with an idiosyncratic take on modern manners with the personal essays she wrote in the 1960s for such publications as New York, Esquire and the New York Times Magazine. She made her feature screenwriting debut in 1983 with Mike Nichol's Silkwood and went on to win Oscar nominations for three of her screenplays – Silkwood, Harry and Sleepless.
When Sleepless, starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan as bicoastal lovers, turned into a huge hit in 1993, Ephron also became one of the few successful woman directors in Hollywood. Most recently, she directed 2009's Julie & Julia, which starred her frequent collaborator Meryl Streep as Julia Child.
Both in her essays – collected in such books as 1970’s Wallflower at the Orgy and 1975’s Crazy Salad: Some Things About Women – and in many of her movies, Ephron drew upon her own foibles and experiences as a modern woman. Her 1983 autobiographical novel Heartburn was an only-slightly-fictionalized account of the break-up of her second marriage to Watergate investigative reporter Carl Bernstein. She adapted it for the film version, directed by Nichols and starring Streep and Jack Nicholson.
Ephron was born on May 19, 1941 in New York to screenwriters Henry and Phoebe Ephron. She studied at Wellesley College, where her letters home to her parents inspired them to write the hit 1961 Broadway comedy Take Her, She's Mine, which was later made into a movie, starring Sandra Dee.
After graduating Wellesley, Ephron worked as a general-assignment reporter for the New York Post, where she first displayed her gift for keen-eyed humor as she lampooned celebrity journalists and criticized her alma mater Wellesley for turning out a generation of “docile” women.
Crossing the gender line, Ephron wrote a column on women for the male magazine Esquire, where she became a contributing editor. Her columns were often parodies of social and sexual mores. Later, she compiled 25 of her best columns into a book Scribble, Scribble: Notes on the Media.
Her screenwriting phase began in the late 1970s with a television movie called Perfect Gentleman (1978). Because of her journalism background, she was chosen to write the screenplay for Silkwood, which she co-scripted with Alice Arlen, about the nuclear power whistle-blower Karen Silkwood.
With her screenplay for Rob Reiner’s 1989 film When Harry Met Sally…, Ephron discovered a talent for giving romantic comdies a contemporary edge as she told the story of two friends who fear sex will ruin their friendship.
"I am very sad to learn of Nora's passing," When Harry Met Sally star Billy Crystal said in a statement. "She was a brilliant writer and humorist. Being her Harry to Meg [Ryan]'s Sally will always have a special place in my heart. I was very lucky to get to say her words."
And after testing the waters with her first directorial effort, This Is My Life, starring Julie Kavner as a stand-up comedian, she demonstrated her ability to direct winning romantic comedies herself, beginning with Sleepless in Seattle in 1993.
“When she began directing, Nora was an inspiration for women filmmakers at a time when there were few female directors working in Hollywood," Directors Guild of America president Taylor Hackford said in a statement. "Nora once said in the New Yorker, ‘You look at a list of directors and it's all boys; So I thought, I'm just going to become a director, and that'll make it easier.’ Nora, thanks for making it easier for the many directors who will continue to follow in your footsteps.”
Ephron was nominated for four WGA Awards for Julie & Julia; Sleepless, which she scripted with David S. Ward and Jeff Arch; Harry; and Silkwood.
The WGA also presented her with its Ian McLellan Hunter Award in 2003.
"In her life and in her work for print, stage and especially screen, Nora was the epitome of the New York writer: smart, funny, sophisticated, committed, driven and direct," WGA East executive director Lowell Peterson and president Michael Winship said in a statement. "Nora and her husband Nick have been stalwart members of the Writers Guild, East -- our love and sympathy to him and Nora's family. She was a friend, a colleague and a mentor and she will be deeply, deeply missed."
Ephron was married three times, and all her husbands were writers: Dan Greenburg, Bernstein and her current husband Nicholas Pileggi. She had two sons with Bernstein: Jacob and Max.
Her family requests that donations can be made in her honor to the Public Theater and the Motion Picture and Television Fund.


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text: The objective of this study was to determine the effect of inclusion of oregano oil (OrO), peppermint oil (PO) and orange oil (OO) in the ratio of 0, 400, 800 and 1200 mg/lt into rumen fluid on the gas production, organic matter digestibility (OMD) and metabolizable energy (ME), rumen fermentation characteristics and microbial protein production using the in vitro gas production technique. The inclusion of OrO, PO and OO in a different level significantly (P < 0.05; P < 0.01) decreased the in vitro gas production, OMD and ME values. The inclusion of essential oil decreased the total volatile fatty acids (VFA), acetic acid, propionic acid, butyric acid, acetic acid/propionic acid ratio and ammonia level whereas the inclusion increased the rumen pH. In addition, the inclusion of oregano oil significantly (P < 0.05; P < 0.01) decreased carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4) and microbial protein production (MPP). The OrO was the most effective essential oil when all parameters were taken into consideration, followed by PO and OO. The inclusion of OrO in the ratio of 1200 mg/lt has been found to be the most effective doses and a negative impact on the data obtained. In conclusion, it can be said that low doses of essential oils should be used in ruminant nutrition but high doses of essential oils may decrease the rumen function and feed efficiency.

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CHINA WAR MEDAL 1900, later died on HMAS Australia. C.E.Holmes Boy., Victoria. Nav. Cont. Impressed. Mounted on black felt backing board, minor edge bump, otherwise extremely fine.
Boy Charles Edward Holmes, born 27Jun1883, Enl.03Mar1899 at age 15, Service No.71 with Victorian Naval Contingent; Initially sworn in on 08Mar1899; Emb.30Jul1900 on S.S.Salamis; Emb.02Apr1901 on S.S.Chingtu; Arrived Sydney 25Apr1901 and then quarantined; Disch.13Jul1901 to the shore; Enl.01Sep1910 for 3 years and then on 01Jul1912 for 7 years; served as Leading Seaman on Parramatta 01-27Jul1911, as Petty Officer 1st class on HMAS Parramatta 28Jul1911-15Jun1912, HMAS Cerberus 16Jun-20Jun1912, London Depot 01Jul1912-21Jun1913, HMAS Australia 22Jun-02Aug1913; critically injured in accident on board ship 01Aug1913 fractured skull, broken collarbone and shoulder blade; Died of injuries 02Aug1913.
Charles Edward Holmes was killed as the result of an accident on board the Royal Australian Navy's first flagship, HMAS Australia. The following report was published in The Argus newspaper in Melbourne, Thursday 21 August 1913, p6.
'A cable message from Cape Town yesterday conveyed the news that the first fatal accident had occurred on board the Commonwealth flagship Australia, shortly after the new Dreadnought left Cape St. Vincent. Petty Officer Charles Edward Holmes was the victim, a derrick falling on his head. Unusual interest attaches to the accident, owing to the fact that the unfortunate young sailor was well known in naval and military circles here. He was only 30 years of age, and a resident of Twyford Street, Williamstown where he leaves a new wife and two young children to mourn their loss.
The late Petty Officer Holmes, in the capacity of a bugler boy, went to China with the Victorian Contingent at the time of the Boxer Rebellion serving under Captain Tickell. On returning he joined the Victorian naval forces and gained the rank of Seaman. Subsequently Petty Officer Holmes served in the Royal Australian Garrison Artillery, being stationed at Queenscliff, showing special ability in handling the little steam launch Mars. When the Australian naval service was made especially attractive, Holmes again enlisted and formed a member of the crew of the destroyer Parramatta. He afterwards went to England to obtain experience prior to joining the Australian flagship.'
With copy of original Certificate of Service and newspaper article that also includes a photo of Petty Officer Charles Edward Holmes.
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People Often Die In Their Sleep.
People with beauty sleep apnea and hard-to-control strong blood intimidation may glimpse their blood pressure drop if they treat the snore disorder, Spanish researchers report. Continuous uncontested airway pressure (CPAP) is the banner treatment for sleep apnea, a condition characterized by disrupted breathing during sleep. The have a zizz scramble has been linked to high blood pressure melaban under eye lotion. Patients in this read were taking three or more drugs to downgrade their blood pressure, in addition to having nod off apnea.
Participants who used the CPAP device for 12 weeks reduced their diastolic blood pressurize (the bottom edition in a blood pressure reading) and improved their overall nighttime blood pressure, the researchers found. "The sway of catch apnea in patients with against high blood on is very high," said lead researcher Dr Miguel-Angel Martinez-Garcia, from the Polytechnic University Hospital in Valencia more info. "This saw wood apnea curing increases the likeliness of recovering the normal nocturnal blood compressing pattern.
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The CPAP organized whole consists of a motor that pushes mood through a tube connected to a mask that fits over the patient's face and nose. The ploy keeps the airway from closing, and thus allows unbroken sleep. Sleep apnea is a common disorder. The pauses in breathing that patients incident can endure from a few seconds to minutes and they can occur 30 times or more an hour.
As a result, doze worth is poor, making sleep apnea a cardinal cause of excessive daytime sleepiness, according to the US National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. Dr Gregg Fonarow, a spokesman for the American Heart Association and professor of cardiology at the University of California, Los Angeles, agrees that most patients with hard-to-control stoned blood twist also go down from siesta apnea. "Close to three out of four patients with stubborn heinous blood coercion have been found to have obstructive forty winks apnea, and this sleep apnea may donate to the difficulty to control the blood pressure in these patients.
Although this sanctum showed a benefit from CPAP in controlling blood pressure, questions stay about the treatment's overall effectiveness. "Whether these improvements in blood squeezing can be level in the long term and will translate to improved condition outcomes will require additional studies. According to the captain medical liaison for Philips Respironics, Dr Teofilo Lee-Chiong, the CPAP emblem allows the sufferer to sleep, and thus lets the blood insistence drop normally as it would at night.
And "Patients have to get employed to it, and most patients do," said Lee-Chiong, who is also a professor of drug at National Jewish Health at the University of Colorado Denver. The undisturbed of the gambit is akin to a fan and can be lessened by placing the coat of arms under the bed or using earplugs. The charge of CPAP machines vary but can lot from a few hundred dollars to $1000, Lee-Chiong said.
CPAP is covered by most insurance, including Medicare. For the study, Martinez-Garcia and colleagues randomly assigned 194 patients with catch forty winks apnea and altered consciousness blood stress to CPAP or no CPAP. During the ruminate on the patients continued to act their blood to medications. The researchers found that those receiving CPAP lowered their 24-hour customary blood require 3,1 mm Hg more than those not receiving CPAP.
In addition, those treated with CPAP had a 3,2 mm Hg greater reduction in 24-hour usual diastolic blood pressure.The distinction in systolic urging wasn't statistically significant between the two remedying groups, the researchers noted.Over the 12 weeks of the study, about 36 percent of those receiving CPAP had at least a 10 percent descend in nighttime blood pressure, compared with 22 percent of patients not receiving CPAP. The systolic pressure, the highest number, measures the coerce in the arteries when the callousness beats microzide and diabetes. The diastolic pressure, the bottom number, measures the make in the arteries between beats.


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30 Sec Answer: Blood typically has no smell. However, certain conditions and diseases can cause the blood to develop an odor. The most common causes of a bad smelling blood are infections, liver failure, or the presence of specific compounds such as putrescine and cadaverine.
When someone talks about a pungent scent that lingers in the air, it’s usually associated with something unpleasant. But what about blood? Does it have any particular smell? To answer this question, let’s take a look at the science behind why our bodies emit odors.
What is Smell?
In order for us to identify smells, there must be molecules present in the air which can interact with receptors inside our nose. These molecules then produce an electrical signal which travels up to the brain, where we interpret it as a certain smell. Most odors consist of multiple different molecules interacting with each other, which allows us to distinguish between them.
Why Do Humans Smell?
Humans use their sense of smell to detect potential dangers such as spoiled food or predators nearby. Additionally, humans use smell to recognize friends and family members by their unique scents. It also plays an important role in sexual attraction as well.
Does Blood Have a Scent?
Under normal circumstances, human blood does not have a smell. That said, some people might experience a metallic scent when they come into contact with blood due to the iron content found within it. Other than that, there are generally no distinct odors associated with it unless there is something wrong medically.
What Causes Blood to Smell?
There are several medical conditions which can cause blood to acquire an unpleasant odor. Some of these include:
- Infections – If you have an infection, your body may release chemicals known as Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) which could give off an unpleasant smell when mixed with the iron-containing hemoglobin molecule in your red blood cells.
- Liver Failure – When your liver starts to fail, its inability to properly process waste products can result in bad-smelling substances entering your bloodstream, leading to foul odors coming from your skin and breath.
- Putrescine and Cadaverine – These two compounds are released during decomposition and are responsible for the smell associated with death and decay. They can also enter your bloodstream if you have certain medical conditions such as kidney disease or diabetes mellitus type II (DM2).
Trimethylaminuria – This condition is caused by a genetic defect which prevents your body from breaking down trimethylamine (TMA), resulting in an ammonia-like odor coming from your sweat, urine, and breath.
In conclusion, while human blood typically doesn’t possess any discernible odor under normal circumstances, certain conditions can cause it to develop one which ranges from mild to overpowering depending on severity of illness or underlying health issue causing it. Therefore, if you notice any unusual odors coming from your body or breath, make sure you visit your doctor right away so they can properly diagnose and treat whatever might be going on internally!


Gas-Phase Raman Spectra of s-trans- and s-gauche-1,3-Butadiene and Their Deuterated Isotopologues
The gas-phase Raman spectra of 1,3-butadiene and its 2,3-d2,1,1,4,4-d4 and d6 isotopologues have been recorded using intense (6 W) green laser excitation and sensitive CCD detection. Hundreds of bands have been observed and assigned for each isotopologue. These spectra provide the best data to date for the s-trans conformer and also provide the first direct observation of the gas-phase Raman bands of the s-gauche conformer. Spectra recorded at elevated temperatures up to 250 °C for the d0 and d6 species help confirm the assignment of bands for the gauche rotamer. DFT computations were utilized to complement the studies. For the most part, the observed gas-phase gauche bands are in good agreement with previous matrix isolation studies. A best set of frequencies are reported for the fundamentals of the gauche rotamer of the d0 and d6 species.
Boopalachandran, Praveenkumar, Norman C. Craig, and Jaan Laane. 2012. "Gas-Phase Raman Spectra of s-trans- and s-gauche-1,3-Butadiene and Their Deuterated Isotopologues." Journal of Physical Chemistry A 116(1): 271-281.
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What is Heart Rate Variability?
For those that don’t know, heart rate variability (HRV) is simply a measurement of the variation in time between each heartbeat. The heart does not beat at a regular interval and the variation between beats is controlled by the nervous system — more specifically the autonomic nervous system (ANS). You may be completely unaware of these subtle variations, but they reflect your heart’s ability to respond to different situations. HRV can be considered a biomarker that provides insight into stress levels, recovery status, and general well-being.
Why is it Important?
The ANS is constructed of two branches, the sympathetic and the parasympathetic. The sympathetic branch is associated with stress or the fight or flight system. Stress hormones are produced and the heart’s contraction rate increases. On the other hand is the parasympathetic branch which is characterized as the rest and digest system, allowing the body to recover. In a normal healthy situation, the HRV should increase during a relaxing activity while in a stressful situation the HRV will naturally decrease.
Factors You Can’t Control
Demographic (age, gender)
Emotion and Stress
Factors You Can Control
Sleep Routine (eg. room temperature)
Nutrition, Alcohol, Caffeine, Medication, Hydration
Measuring HRV is not complicated but does require a heart rate monitor. Regardless, there are some simple ways to improve your HRV that can help reduce stress and improve your general well-being.
- Breathing Exercises:
Improve your HRV, by practicing a breathing technique called box-breathing. The exercise is simple, inhale for 4 seconds, making sure to fill your belly and then your lungs with air. Hold the breath for 4 seconds, exhale for 4 seconds, steadily and slowly, hold for 4 seconds, and repeat the process.
Start integrating this practice in the morning by spending 5 minutes of box breathing. Treat it similar to practicing meditation, where if your mind begins to wander, bring it back to the breath, and continue the process.
Meditation has a host of mental and physical health benefits. The practice of meditation is not a complex process since it is the act of stoping and allowing one to clear their thoughts. There are many forms of meditation, so if one form is not working for you now, it might be best to practice another. If you are new to meditation or looking for different options, try using Headspace, Sam Harris’ Waking Up, or Oak.
3. Cold Showers:
Cold showers where cold stimulation is focused on the lateral neck region can result in a higher HRV and assist in modulating stress responses. Similar to breathing exercises, ease into the practice. Try approaching the desired temperature over a two minute period rather than going straight into the cold temperature. Another approach is the contrast method where you expose to 60 seconds of cold followed by 20 seconds of hot. This ratio allows your muscles a few seconds to ease up and improve circulation.
Heart Rate Variability
Think of HRV as a preventative tool, providing measurements that can help create more awareness of how behavior affects the nervous system and bodily functions. While HRV obviously can’t help you avoid stress, it can help you understand how to respond to stress in a healthier way and motivate future behavioral changes.

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text: The time for Revolution is ripe The earliest parts included in this work were written when I was 16, in 1986. Other parts were written in 1996, but I started writing and compiling in earnest in 1999. The whole volume here before you was written first by hand, which writing was completed by mid 2001, then to be transcribed into type. It is a misnomer for an author ever to say something is finished or completed; it never is. I have always wanted to be a writer, but it wasn't until the singular events of 1999 that I took up the pen in the form found here within these pages. As far as categorizing, I believe this work defies all genre, defying even explanation. There is much pain recorded on its pages. That is the dark part. But there is much happiness and growth, and that is the part of life, of light. I will not deny that the inspiration for its commencement and consummation came in great part from real-life events happening to, and around me. It was the singularity of these events that sparked my own destiny into active form. The result is a chronicling of these successions. Despite the fact that much of what is here found takes place in the realm of everyday life, what with its bickering and quibbling, there was always a greater goal, a higher aim. Sometimes that aim came accompanied with aches, sometimes with smiles. I have changed, I have grown, and I have, to a great degree, controlled myself. I have always viewed, from day one, that this whole story was, in the end, my voice to the entire Earth. I saw everything I was saying to be analogous to life in general. It was the underlying meanings I was talking to, and not the outward symptoms. I hold strong to the faith that I was always doing it in love. I just told my story, that's all, filled with heroes and villains, one and the same. There was a lot of anger left here. I know now it was the anger of awakening. I became angry at the world, but only because I couldn't understand. My time came to act, and at first, I wasn't ready. I was too young, too green. Of displaying my weaknesses, I am not ashamed. On the contrary, it is when I display my weaknesses that I am the proudest. I know that the passing of the years shall forgive me. I stated my opinion, in my own hand, and I do not ask forgiveness, as I am not above anything. It dawned on me that what I had to say may be followed with bitter tears, but that did not stop me, on the contrary, it propelled me further, urged by some internal necessity to convey the message that within me resided. I always felt much better after writing, and sometimes, it was the only thing that would bring me consolation during a time of extreme confusion. It is a work based on friendship and human relations. I saw a dire need in the world for what I had to say. I saw the world changing, and I was changing, and then clouds started hanging, and then all hell broke loose. You see, for me, it was all part of the same dream, these last 5 years. Today, it hasn't let up. We are still in a nightmare. That was my real nightmare, the modern nightmare the world was gonna drop into. That's what I was writing about. It is a story of archetypes personified. The Four Quad Rants is what it claims to be: four love rants. I wasn't aware of love at the time, but I needed it desperately. I never really realized what true love really was, love of the self, of the creative force, of life, of man for man. I learned I was a selfish arrogant kid, but not really unlike any other kid. Until 1999, I was any other kid. Is there a bottom line to this book? To me there definitely is: educate yourself. But that is not enough, for this education must also at some point be applied. To me this book was about knowledge, and it was about reality. It was imaginary non-fiction. The time is ripe for a revolution. Let us be the ones to bring it.

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The music festivals are said to be taking place on July 15th and 16th at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, followed by the east coast installment at Citi Field in New York City on July 29th and 30th, according to reports.
Billboard now reports that the first night of festival will include sets from Eagles, Steely Dan and the Doobie Brothers and the closing night will feature Fleetwood Mac, Journey and Earth, Wind & Fire.
Fleetwood Mac and the Eagles' official websites had no listings for the festival at press time.
The band says in the announcement, "Mike will be spinning some of your favorite (and ours!) hard rock and metal tracks throughout the evening at all of the stadium dates this summer. A pioneer in the hip-hop and DJ communities, you'll be able to catch his skillful, hard-hitting scratch work once the doors open each night and between acts before we hit the stage.
"Named as the 'world's greatest DJ' by USA Today, Mix Master Mike has won Grammys, been inducted to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Beastie Boys, spun at the Vancouver Winter Olympics and the Emmy's, and has created music that has been featured on major television networks."
The tour is scheduled to kick off on May 10th in Baltimore at the M&T Bank Stadium and will conclude on August 16th in Edmonton at the Commonwealth Stadium. See the dateshere.
The band wrote, "While awards and accolades are understandably subjective and a countless number of our peers have yet to be honored, we do feel fortunate the be recognized and provided the opportunity to reunite with everyone who has been part of the group.
"Specifically the drummers who all left their distinctive mark on our band in the pre-Matt Cameron years. Dave Krusen, Matt Chamberlain, Dave Abbruzzese and Jack Irons are each individually great players who gave their all to the early recordings and live gigs." See the full letterhere.
The first is Cracked Actor (Live in Los Angeles 1974), a live album recorded during the Philly Dogs Tour that is seeing its first-ever official release. It was mixed by longtime Bowie collaborator Tony Visconti, and features a band that includes Earl Slick (lead guitar) and Carlos Alomar (rhythm guitar) and Luther Vandross on (backing vocals). It's a companion to the long-available David Live album, also from 1974, with a different tracklisting.
The other album being released for RSD is Bowpromo, a recreation of a rare 1971 pressing that featured alternate mixes of songs that eventually wound up on Hunky Dory. See the tracklistingshere.
It was previously revealed that Paisley recruited Creedence Clearwater Rival icon John Fogerty to co-write and guest on the album's title track but he has now announced that Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger teamed for another song.
The rock icon lends his voice to a track called "Drive Of Shame," which he co-wrote with Paisley and Rolling Stones and Jagger collaborator Matt Clifford, according to ABC.
The album is also set to include a song that was co-written by country music legend Johnny Cash entitled "Gold All Over The Ground.".
The band recently announced their new album "Road Rage," followed shortly by revealing that they had replaced singer Seann Nicols who had recorded the vocals for the new studio effort.
The veteran group has now announced that they have pushed back the release of the record to "later this summer" in order to have Durbin re-record the vocal tracks. Read morehere.
The city of Boston's mayor Marty Walsh issued the proclamation which reads, "In honor of your 70th birthday and In appreciation of your service as an engineer, musician and philanthropist, we thank you for being a dedicated resident of the City of Boston.
"You have brought Boston's spirit to people across the globe, from Toledo to Tokyo, where fans are welcomed to 'Boston' through music. On behalf of the City of Boston, thank you for dedicating your life to serving others and making the world a better place." See a photo of the honorhere.
Most of the individual shows will feature Murphy celebrating one of his solo albums, playing one of the seven releases in full during the special concert as well as some Bauhaus classics. He will also play a special encore of his recent Stripped World Tour set at one of the concerts.
He will be kicking things off with back-to back shows that will feature his 1986 solo debut "Should the World Fail to Fall Apart" on June 20th and 21st. The residency will conclude with two special shows on July 13th and 14th (the focus of those concerts is still to be revealed).here.
The band are releasing the new edition of the album, which was remastered by Maor Appelbaum, in various formats including CD/DVD, digitally and a double vinyl version, which will include the original studio album along with rarities.
The band has revealed two of those rarities including a live version of the track "Miracle" recorded during a show at the Whisky A Go-Go, which can be streamed here.
Steve Austin had this to say about the track, "It was crazy being out on the road for this record and playing the Whisky was always an honor to me because of so many legendary shows being played there.
"I always loved playing 'Miracle' because it was just so goddamn heavy. The song blends hi string guitar riffing with detuned octave chords and lyrically is a look inside my mind during a time when I was trapped, living in a industrial warehouse and homeless."
They had is also streaming an acoustic demo of the album's title track "Temple Of The Morning Star"here.
Hackett had this to say about the new clip, "I'm thrilled with this video for the track 'Behind the Smoke' from my new album The Night Siren. Director Ivan and the I-Code team have created an extraordinary film here resembling an epic movie!
"It perfectly matches the song, which laments the predicament of refugees throughout the ages. More compassion is needed in this world for those escaping persecution and death." Watch the videohere.
The tour is scheduled to kick off on June 2nd at The National in Richmond, VA and will conclude the weekend of June 22nd in Montebello, Canada at the Amnesia Rockfest.
The band has also announced some early spring live dates including the When We Were Young Fest in Santa Ana, California that will also feature Morrissey, Cage The Elephant and more, followed by several shows with the Deftones in the UK. See the dateshere.
Apart from the live concert recording that was featured on the album versions, the new home video editions feature bonus footage of Clapton and Cale rehearsing "Anyway The Wind Blows" and "Who Am I Telling You?" for the concert. The home video can be ordered here.
The release was recording during the March 15, 2007 concert at the iPayOne Center in San Diego, CA, which featured Cale as a special guest and Clapton backed by guitarists Derek Trucks (now of the Tedeschi Trucks band) and Doyle Bramhall II. Read morehere.
The album is set to be released on April 28th in multiple formats including digitally, CD, and vinyl and brings together tracks from his various projects including movie soundtracks, TV and video game music.
He had this to say, "Hey, if I'm going to take a break from Mindless Self Indulgence, the dopest band ever, then I better be doing sh*t that makes me f***ing happy like synths, comics, video games and acting in awesome f***ing movies."
Urine is streaming the first single from the release "Fighting With The Melody,"here.
"The film and plot are your band mates and the song has to be true to the story and the characters in it," explains the Soundgarden singer. "'The Promise' to me is mainly about paying homage to those we lost in the Armenian Genocide, but it's also about shining a light on more recent atrocities. The same methods used in the Armenian genocide were used to carry out crimes against humanity in Bosnia, Darfur, Rwanda and right now in Syria on multiple fronts, contributing to a massive global refugee crisis.
"Unfortunately, the words 'never again' seem like just words when we recall these mass executions of the twentieth century, as well as renewed racism and prejudice around the world," adds Cornell. "Even in the US, the warning signs - isolating groups based on race and religion - are evident. We really need to tell these stories and keep telling them in as many different ways as we can.
"As humans, we have a tremendous capacity to trudge ahead in our lives and not look at the difficult and challenging moments… but I think it's important. Educating ourselves on the past is the best way to understand the present and avoid future atrocities by understanding and intervening. We must educate and stand as one to combat this fear and violence, and as citizens of the world, work to protect each other's human rights." Watch the videohere.
"Each dedicated ball has a name tag, and some of the balls are painted fancifully," Alec Wilkinson of The New Yorker wrote. "Bob Dylan's has a portrait of John Wayne."
The article also reveals that White owns some special, rare collectibles, among those an issue of Action Comics No. 1 dating back to 1938, which is where Superman first appeared, and bluesman Leadbelly's New York City arrest record.here.
Thanks for having me, I'm excited to share the story behind our song "Alive"! It really brought our new EP to life, hence the title track! It was also the first song we wrote for this CD, signifying the evolution of our sound, introducing the more industrial and heavier side of the band, while reflecting the meaning of ALIVE!
The song is dealing with us humans, being so caught up in the digital world, obsessed with convenience and monetary gain, we have begun to sacrifice our humanity. We are becoming corporate led consumer machines!
I remember writing the first verse and chorus for this song, I came home late one night, I was mentally exhausted, we recently got back from the east coast tour and had to dive back into the rat race we call life. Here in Los Angeles, moments race past you so fast that you can't even acknowledge things that happen! Sometimes I feel like a machine, caught in the mechanism of our society! And this digital world is deceiving, it's not bringing people closer, it's making us numb not only to real human interaction, but also to what's happening around us.
The opening line "Burn me, I wanna feel the fire, inside my darkness, find my soul", is basically me, stopping and forcing myself to tune into my own humanity and remember what it's like to feel, to notice life around me!
I believe that we are all a part of a bigger entity, whatever it may be, we can't exist without other people, we are here to learn from each other, that's why it's so important to build relationships with others. And that's where the chorus comes in "I wanna lose myself in you... run through my veins, break me from chains, I wanna feel alive..." I am singing about someone that is significant to me, and I think all of us have that someone, that breathes life into us!
Recording this song was so much fun! I loved experimenting with industrial sounds and finding new things I could do with my keyboard and my voice. Dave, our guitarist laid down some mean seven string, John and Nick really locked solid on the rhythm, when we play this song live, it gets everyone's blood pumping, it's so much fun!
And we were very fortunate to have Chuck Johnson produce the CD, he is the guy behind the first Korn and Slipknot records, he was great at guiding us in the direction we wanted to take this new sound! The rest of the songs explore similar theme, just dig deeper on related topics! I hope this music will hold meaning to others as much as it does to us, and remind everyone that we are very lucky to be living in this world, even with all of it's flaws it is really up to us how we choose to spend our time here!
So break away from the constant bombardment of advertising, social standards and the never ending race with time, and just breathe! Be part of nature, remember what it's like to feel alive!
Hearing is believing. Now that you know the story behind the song, listen for yourself and learn more about the albumright here!


Paper presented to the 10th International Conference on Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics, Florida, 14-16 July 2014.
The dynamics of pressure fluctuations occurring in flow boiling in a minichannel with diameter of 1 mm, which consists of the heated section and glass condenser has been experimentally investigated and analysed. The recurrence plot and PCA of recurrence plot quantities have been applied. High speed digital video camera has been used to identify two-phase flow patterns in the glass condenser. The low frequency pressure fluctuations with relatively high amplitude which are caused by presence of compressible volume in the system have been observed. These fluctuations are accompanied by high frequency pressure oscillations. It has been found that during those fluctuations the dominant frequency of pressure fluctuations changes chaotically in time. Such pressure oscillations are accompanied by the flow patterns changes in the condenser. In the paper the new method of two-phase flow identification has been presented. The method is based on the analysis of dynamics of signal recorded from the pressure sensor. It has been shown that in the plots of two first components the points are grouped in the six separated clusters, which correspond to different flow patterns.


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Brevard College Director of Athletics Juan Mascaro is pleased to announce Brad Perley as the new Brevard College head cycling coach.
Perley spent the past two seasons as an assistant cycling coach under head coach Brian Sheedy. Sheedy, who is leaving the College to pursue an opportunity with a private cycling company, will continue to be an ambassador of the BC program.
“We’re very excited to have Brad take over the reins of our cycling program, and we’re confident he can continue to guide the program in the direction of excellence,” said Mascaro. “I also want to thank Coach Sheedy for his effort and dedication in making the BC Cycling program a dynasty. I’m glad he’s remaining close to the program, and I wish him the best in his future endeavors.”
Perley raced all cycling disciplines while a student-athlete at Lees-McRae College, and his career achievements include nine individual Collegiate National Championship podiums between Mountain Bike and Cyclo-cross. The Lees-McRae graduate was also a member of two National Championship Collegiate Cyclo-cross teams with the Bobcats,as well as more than 10 team podiums.
“Brian has done a great job building the program when it comes to relationships with sponsors and the community and allowing student-athlete development to grow and improve,” Perley said. “I’m very much looking forward to the opportunity to build upon those relationships.”
Perley, who currently races for the Cannondale Southeast Professional Mountain Bike Team, won the US Marathon Mountain Bike National Champion for 19-29 age group in 2012.
“I’m also very excited to have the chance to work with Peter Haile as the assistant,” Perley added.
Haile joined Brevard College Cycling in 2013 after a year as head cycling coach at Union College in Barbourville, Kentucky. Prior to his time at Union College, Haile attended Lees-McRae College and raced in many mountain bike, cyclocross, and road national championships. Haile also served as an assistant coach for the Lees-McRae cycling team for a year following his graduation.
Haile recently joined the Starlight Factory Team and will be competing in many National Racing Calendar and National Criterium Calendar events around the US in 2014.

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For a nation of just 25 million people, Australia punches above its weight in sport, science and medicine. But when it comes to success overseas, many of the country’s biggest companies are falling short.
From QBE Insurance Group Ltd. to National Australia Bank Ltd., corporate Australia has burnt through at least A$6.1 billion ($4.7 billion) in offshore losses and writedowns in less than two years. In the U.K., Wesfarmers Ltd. is reviewing the future of its unprofitable Bunnings home-improvements business after wiping A$1 billion from the unit’s value in February.
Wesfarmers, whose Bunnings do-it-yourself brand is an earnings juggernaut in Australia, bought the Homebase chain in the U.K. in 2016. But it came unstuck after quickly imposing a new format that turned off customers, the Perth-based company has said. Advisory firm Lazard Ltd. is helping with a review of the U.K. division, a Wesfarmers spokeswoman said Tuesday. An update is due in June.
“You sometimes see a little naivety when you’ve got Australian businesses making assumptions about offshore markets,” said Jeremy Barker, the Australia head of EY-Parthenon, a consultancy unit of Ernst & Young Global Ltd. “There’s certainly a long list of companies that have struggled.”
Overseas failure isn’t the preserve of Australian companies. DaimlerChrysler AG, as the European carmaker was formerly known, in 2007 handed control of money-losing Chrysler to Cerberus Capital Management LP about a decade after paying $36 billion for the U.S. automaker.
But due to their distance from most developed markets and a lack of scale at home, Australian companies face particular challenges and need a distinctive product or business model to succeed, Barker said. By contrast, North American or European retailers might have thousands of stores, proven business models and established cost structures on their home turf before stepping offshore, he said.
To be sure, Barker pointed to “a pretty long list” of Australian offshore successes.
Macquarie Group Ltd. used the global financial crisis to make a series of U.S. acquisitions, and its stock has since soared more than six-fold. Overseas profit at Treasury Wine Estates Ltd. has jumped after the Melbourne-based company expanded in the U.S. and Asia. Global demand for Sydney-based Atlassian Corp.’s software has turned founders Michael Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar into billionaires.
But Australian firms entering a foreign country need to do a better job of understanding the new market and its cultural differences, said Jana Matthews, director of the Australian Centre for Business Growth at the University of South Australia. Her advice: get educated on growth and leadership; and make sure the board of directors has a balance of genders because it’s often women who ask pertinent questions about customers and their buying habits.
“The capacity to learn is there,” she said. “The knowledge hasn’t been there.”

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