In our digitally interconnected world, networks have become the backbone of modern life, supporting everything from business operations to personal communication. The uninterrupted flow of data is vital, making network reliability and performance a priority. To ensure the health and efficiency of networks, heartbeat monitoring has emerged as a crucial tool. This blog post aims to demystify heartbeat monitoring, shedding light on what it is, how it works, and why it’s indispensable.
What is Heartbeat Monitoring?
Heartbeat monitoring (cron-job monitoring), often referred to as network monitoring or network health monitoring, is a systematic process of observing and evaluating the status and performance of network components, services, and connections. The term “heartbeat” is aptly used to describe the periodic signals sent to check the “pulse” of these network elements. These components can range from routers and switches to servers, applications, and more.
How Does Heartbeat Monitoring Work?
At its core, heartbeat monitoring involves the continuous tracking of network components through a series of tests and checks. Here’s a breakdown of how it works:
- Periodic Testing: Heartbeat monitoring tools, often software-based, send regular test signals, or “heartbeats,” to specific network components. These components can include servers, databases, switches, and other infrastructure elements.
- Response Evaluation: The monitoring system waits for a response from the targeted components. The response indicates whether the component is operational and responsive or if there is an issue.
- Alerts and Notifications: If a network component fails to respond or exhibits abnormal behavior, the monitoring system generates alerts or notifications. These alerts are sent to network administrators or IT teams responsible for maintaining the network.
- Data Collection: Data is collected and stored over time, enabling administrators to analyze network performance, identify trends, and make informed decisions about network management, upgrades, and optimizations.
Why is It Essential?
- Early Issue Detection: Cron-job monitoring excels at early issue detection. By continuously monitoring network components and assessing their performance, administrators can detect potential problems before they escalate into major disruptions. Early detection allows for timely intervention, reducing downtime and minimizing user frustration.
- Preventing Downtime: Network downtime can be costly, leading to financial losses and damage to an organization’s reputation. It helps prevent downtime by identifying and addressing issues such as hardware failures, bandwidth overloads, or software glitches promptly.
- Enhanced Security: In a world where network security is a top priority, heartbeat monitoring plays a pivotal role. It identifies unusual patterns and activities that may signal a security breach, such as unauthorized access or data transfers. Rapid detection of these anomalies strengthens your network’s security defenses.
- Performance Optimization: It allows for data-driven decisions to optimize network performance. By tracking performance metrics, administrators can allocate resources effectively, balance loads, and reduce latency, ultimately enhancing the user experience.
- Meeting Compliance Requirements: Many industries have stringent regulatory and compliance requirements regarding network security and monitoring. Heartbeat monitoring ensures compliance with these standards, helping to avoid legal consequences.
Heartbeat monitoring is the vigilant guardian of network health, offering early issue detection, prevention of downtime, enhanced security, performance optimization, compliance adherence, and scalability for expanding networks. By implementing heartbeat monitoring practices, you not only safeguard your network’s reliability but also empower your organization to thrive in our interconnected digital world. The heartbeat of your network is its lifeline, and heartbeat monitoring ensures that it beats strong and steady.


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The Lee Miller Archives formed shortly after Lee’s death in 1977. Her work as a trail-blazing photographer had been hidden there and buried under the post war celebrity cook persona she had re-invented for herself.
Based in Lee Miller and Roland Penrose's home, Farleys, we are dedicated to conserving and cataloguing the lifestyle and holding of their work and that of their associates. Promoting scholarship and dissemination of Lee Miller’s work, we publish, curate, contribute to and exhibit internationally, preserving her legacy for future generations.
We have been selling Fine Archival Gelatin Silver prints, hand printed in Lee Miller’s home, mostly from original negatives, by our estate printer Carole Callow since the early 80s and platinum editions made by 31 Studio since the 90s. We were represented by other galleries and our print room was only open by appointment. Today we represent Lee Miller’s work more personally.

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My main dislike with this finished piece is that it’s so similar to one of the published covers for the book, seen here. Other than that, though, I’m pretty happy with this overall. I wanted to show a pretty pivotal scene from the book, but one that also wouldn’t be really obvious and wouldn’t spoil anything down the line. Hopefully if you’ve read the book, you’ll remember the scene: Mary Malone is up in a tree, looking into the night sky through the amber spyglass she mad, and makes an important discovery.
Also, I’m so excited to have finished 10 illustrations in just over a month! I’ll be putting together a high/low sort of post in the next few days, so stay tuned for that.


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If material lumps are blocking the feed or the crusher jaw due to their size, they are called blockers. Usually such blockers cause production interruptions because the following material is no longer conveyed into the crusher. Frequently the plant has to be shut down to eliminate the malfunction. The supply of downstream production units could be endangered and the profitability of the entire plant is reduced.
By using the disintegrator from Leiblein Mining blockers can be eliminated within a few minutes and the risk of injury can be reduced to a minimum. The kinematics and the operating range of the jib of the disintegrators are individually adjusted to the crushing plant and, depending on the structural conditions, can also be equipped with a telescopic arm and rotary actuators (Fig.). Depending on the material to be processed, hammers of different weight and the appropriate chisels are used. Disintegrators are used not only for the processing of natural stone, but also for concrete recycling. The unit is hydraulically controlled by means of radio control or cable remote control, or from a stationary desk. If necessary, an additional walkway can be installed to enable the operator to inspect the plant. The operator is at a safe location with an optimum view of the point of trouble and can control all functions of the disintegrator alone. Thus, blockers in the operating range from the crusher jaw to the material feed can be eliminated quickly and safely. Due to the time saved and the largely safe control by only one operator, the installation of a disintegrator from Leiblein Mining can already pay off for the entrepreneur within one year.


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The identification of sulphide minerals by infra-red spectroscopy
Synopses The value of infra-red spectra in identifying sulphide minerals has been assessed by surveying the spectra of some forty specimens. Spectra of finely ground samples dispersed in polyethylene discs were obtained in the region 420-90 cm−1 with a resolution of 3–4 cm−1, using a Beckman-RIIC Fourier-Transform Interferometer. Except for minerals whose metallic conductivity obliterated vibrational features, the spectra permitted rapid recognition of sulphide minerals either alone or in
... r alone or in mixtures. Spectra of the following twenty-five pure, or nearly pure specimens are presented: cinnabar, galena, pyrrhotine, alabandine, sphalerite, wurtzite, realgar, orpiment, stibnite, bismuthinite, arsenopyrite, tetrahedrite, pyrargyrite, proustite, enargite, bournonite, boulangerite, jamesonite, and plagionite. Sulphides whose metallic conductivity led to featureless, almost total, absorption of infra-red radiation included chalcosine, troilite, millerite, covelline, bornite, and pyrrhotine: only the spectrum of the last is illustrated as a typical example. Comparison of the spectra reproduced here with those previously published show a fair measure of agreement, although there are discrepancies. Povarennykh and co-workers, for example, have reported a common sequence of broad absorption bands at 370, 280, and 180 cm−1 for minerals that were found here to exhibit featureless metal-like absorption. The sources of these and other discrepancies are briefly discussed.

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This weekly meme was created by the team over at The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s theme is fictional book nerds. These include characters who love reading, work at/own a bookstore, are writers, etc.
1. William Herondale (The Infernal Devices by Cassandra Clare):
Will Herondale… my book boyfriend. One of the reasons why I love him so much is because of his love for books. He’s always talking about books with Tessa (who I could also include on this list) and he’s just perfect.
2. Celaena Sardothien (Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas):
I love that even though she’s totally fierce and kickass, she still loves spending time in the library and reading books, especially smutty romance novels. Throne of Glass review.
3. Sam Roth (The Wolves of Mercy Falls by Maggie Stiefvater):
Sam works at a bookstore when he’s not busy being a wolf. He loves reading and quoting poetry and, for me, the scenes with him and Grace in the bookstore were the best of scenes of the whole trilogy. I’ve done a review of the whole trilogy here.
4. A.J. Fikry (The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin):
A.J. Fikry is the owner of a bookstore, who’s been a little unlucky in life. But one day, he gets a surprise package left in his bookstore, which changes his life forever.
5. Hermione Granger (Harry Potter by J.K. Rowling):
I couldn’t compile a list of book nerds and leave Hermione Granger off the list. I was a bookworm when I was young and reading the Harry Potter series, and I wanted to be just like Hermione.
6. Marie-Laure LeBlanc (All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr):
Marie-Laure is a blind French girl who spends most of her time reading books in Braille. She doesn’t own very many books but she treasures all of the ones she has. She just loves reading and learning about new things and I love her so so much. This is my favourite book of all time, so of course I’ve written a review.
7. Cath Avery (Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell):
Cath is so in love with the Simon Snow series that she writes fan fiction about it. Fangirl also has adorable scenes where Cath reads aloud to Levi.
8. Liesel Meminger (The Book Thief by Markus Zusak):
The Book Thief was a required reading at my high school when it first came out. I was going through a phase where I wasn’t reading very much but this book made me want to read again. It was probably the best required reading ever. Liesel lives in a world where books are banned, which forces her to steal books and read them in secret.
9. Matilda Wormwood (Matilda by Roald Dahl):
Matilda was probably the first book nerd I ever encountered in fiction. When I first read this book as an 8 or 9 year old, I just wanted to be her. I wanted to be as smart and clever as her, and she also had telekinesis as a superpower…so who wouldn’t want to be her?
10. Delilah McPhee (Between the Lines by Jodi Picoult & Samantha van Leer):
Delilah is a girl who is obsessed with this one fairytale and the prince from the fairytale. One day, the prince from the story talks to her. They then devise ways of getting the prince out of the fairytale and into the real world. Review here.

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A court hearing in Calgary, Alberta on the application by DDMI is scheduled on 30 October
Global miner Rio Tinto is reportedly seeking approval from a Canadian court to sell its partner’s share of diamonds from the Diavik mine located in Northwest Territories.
The move comes as Rio Tinto intends to recover around C$120m ($91.3m) as well as C$2.4m ($1.82m) legal fees and other costs owed by junior partner Dominion Diamond, Reuters reported, citing a filing.
Rio Tinto has 60% stake in Diavik Diamond Mines (DDMI), which operates the Diavik deposit, while Dominion Diamond owns the remaining 40% interest.
Dominion Diamond filed for insolvency protection in April 2020
In April 2020, Dominion filed for insolvency protection, disclosing its inability to meet cash calls made by Rio Tinto due to Covid-19-related disruptions in the diamond industry.
As a result, DDMI stopped making payments to DDMI, according to IDEX Online.
Earlier this month, Dominion’s proposed a deal to divest its nearby Ekati mine to an affiliate of its parent company The Washington Companies for $126m collapsed, reported Reuters.
In the court filings, DDMI claimed it has not received payments from Dominion and “has no intention of doing so”.
A spokesman for Diavik was quoted by the news agency as saying: “We remain focused on ensuring Diavik diamond mine continues to operate safely, maintaining the mine’s significant contribution to the Northwest Territories and local communities through payments to government, employees and suppliers.”
A court hearing in Calgary, Alberta on the application by DDMI is scheduled on 30 October 2020.
The Diavik mine site is located in Canada’s remote wilderness at Lac de Gras, Northwest Territories, approximately 300km from Yellowknife, and just 220km south of the Arctic Circle.

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The Supreme Court is being asked to decide whether the government can be barred from using churches for public events.
The case began in 2009, when two Wisconsin schools were sued by Americans United for Separation of Church and State for using a church, which was the best location, for graduation. That was in spite of the fact that no prayer or religious references were included in the ceremonies.
Attorney Luke Goodrich of The Becket Fund for Religious Liberty now tells OneNewsNow the Seventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled the schools' use of the church unconstitutional. So the case is now under the consideration of the nation's high court.
"This case would have a huge impact nationwide. Public schools across the country hold graduations and other events in churches all the time," he notes. "It also implicates other government uses of church property, whether for using churches as polling places, as food distribution centers, or even just places of public meeting."
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The Ramble Run is back for 2022! We'll be offering the Doggy Dash (about a mile, bring your pup!), the 5k, and the 10k options, to race through Biltmore Forest. All participants will receive an awesome shirt and finisher medal!
We're returning to downtown Asheville and the amazing RAD greenway for 2023! These races start in the heart of downtown Asheville (Pack Square Park) and weave their way down to the French Broad River, where runners will remain for the duration of the race. The greenway is scenic and flat, and we'll have planned entertainment along the way to keep you revved up (think live music, buskers, cheer zones and festive water stations). With a net elevation loss, this course is primed and ready for your next PR!
This race is a point-to-point course, ending at the beer, art, and entertainment mecca, the Wedge at Foundation. Post-race shuttles to both Pack Square Park and the DoubleTree Hotel (Biltmore Village) are free for all race participants.
The Asheville Marathon & Half is USATF certified and will remain a Boston Qualifier.
The 2nd Annual RAD Half Marathon & 10k are fast, incredibly scenic races that start in the heart of Downtown Asheville, North Carolina. Both races whiz downhill to the River Arts District, and wind along the peaceful French Broad River. You’ll be greeted with a complimentary beer, a one-of-a-kind finisher medal, live music, and a free shuttle back to the start line after the race.

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Hurricanes hoops moves up to 12 in AP poll
Miami preparing for home game Tuesday
CORAL GABLES, Fla. – The Miami Hurricanes basketball team is moving up in the polls.
The 'Canes (18-4) are now ranked No. 12 in the Associated Press poll.
Miami was ranked No. 17 last week.
Miami hosts Pittsburgh on Tuesday night before heading to Tallahassee to face Florida State next Sunday.
The 'Canes beat Georgia Tech this past Sunday.
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Palm Beach County public school teachers could avoid unpaid furloughs next year if they accept a deal without any raises, according to a proposal released on Wednesday.
But school district negotiators also told the Classroom Teachers Association leaders they could go with an alternative offer on the table since April: raises for teachers in the first 10 years of employment only, but also one furlough day during the 2011-12 school year for all teachers. Most other district employees also would have the furlough.
"It is what it is," district Labor Relations Director Van Ludy said. "It is within the budgetary constraints the district faces."
So the choice boils down to this: no furloughs for any district employees and no raises for any teachers; or a one-day furlough for most employees and raises for about 6,500 of the district's 12,050 teachers.
Union President Kathi Gundlach said the district proposals — covering teacher salaries for both the just-completed 2010-11 school year and the upcoming year — were "disheartening" and not conducive to attempts at better relations between the union and district.
"So the honeymoon's over?" she asked, citing a recent period of goodwill between the parties following the election of four new board members last fall and the late February departure of former Superintendent Art Johnson.
Bill Malone, Johnson's successor as schools chief, said the district negotiating team was following the School Board's direction. That is, to increase salaries for the younger teachers even though other employees were losing their jobs and no one else was getting raises because of a monumental budget crisis.
"The whole money thing is very difficult," Malone said.
Other employee unions that represent district workers are monitoring the outcome of the teacher contract negotiations, and the uncertainty concerning the furloughs.
Alphonso Mayfield, president of SEIU-Florida Public Services Union, said he hopes the School Board "treats all employees fairly."
"If money is going to be on the table for teachers, we will approach bargaining that the same offer would be extended to our bargaining unit also," said Mayfield, whose union membership includes 4,200 bus drivers, mechanics, custodians and other workers.
The School Board has said it supports a one-day, unpaid furlough for most of the school district's 21,000 employees, including teachers, to save nearly $5 million. The district would be closed on a day that students are off, such as a teacher planning day.
The average teacher would lose $250 in pay with the furlough, if it stands, Chief Financial Officer Michael Burke said.
The employee furloughs would help the district address a projected $35.2 million shortfall in the district's $1.2 billion operating budget, based on state funding cuts and rising costs. Officials say even with the furloughs, 485 employees already have been told they may not have a job after the fiscal year ends on June 30.
But on Wednesday, district administrators announced the School Board is willing to spare teachers and all employees of the furloughs — but then the teacher raises would have to be dropped.
The proposed budget — which goes to the School Board for tentative approval in late July — includes $8 million to provide for 2.3 percent to 3.2 percent raises for about 6,500 of the district's teachers. The raises would be retroactive to May 1, if the union and district reach agreement before the end of this month.
"It's what we can afford," Ludy said of the two offers. "There isn't any wiggle room."
Officials say their goal is to make starting teacher salaries more competitive with Broward and Miami-Dade counties and other urban school systems in Florida. The district's proposal would raise a beginning teacher's salary from $36,822 to $38,000. That's closer to the $39,000 starting salary in Broward and $38,500 in Miami-Dade.
Last month, the Palm Beach County Classroom Teachers Association rejected the offer, insisting that all teachers receive pay increases, not just some of them.
The union then presented a counteroffer of salary increases for all teachers, retroactive to Jan. 1, and more rounds of raises for most teachers on July 1, and Jan. 1, 2012. These would be pay increases based on years of experience, called steps, which have not been provided since the 2007-08 school year.
The administration put a price tag of nearly $52 million on the increases sought by the union.
On Wednesday, Tony Hernández, the union's interim executive director, said his team would make a new counter-offer at a future bargaining session.
County teachers have not received a pay increase since a 2 percent, across-the-board raise at the start of the 2008-09 school year. All teachers received one-time, $500 bonuses for the 2009-10 school year.
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It may seem like Taylor Swift‘s life is all sunshine and sparkles and Kennedys, but don’t let that fool you! In the latest issue of Glamour, the pop star opens up about her love life, calling ex John Mayer “presumptuous” for claiming that Dear John is about him, admits that she has “never developed that thick a skin,” and answers critics who paint her as perhaps more happy-go-lucky than she really is:
“I think some people think it’s just apple pie and sunshine and sprinkles and ponies. Which is just funny. But I never feel the need to go out and make some grand statement that I’m dark and twisty and complicated, because I’m not that either. It’s just not as simple as ponies and rainbows, though I do love ponies and rainbows.”
We kind of wish the glossy had gone with “ponies and rainbows” as a theme for the shoot, but as it stands, the Ellen Von Unwerth-lensed cover shows Swift pulling her best wide-eyed “Oh golly!” face in a glitzy, gorgeous Burberry tank and Dior skirt, while inside, she hops aboard a Nashville train in a series of characteristically femme ensembles.
A behind-the-scenes look at the shoot, the interview, and the Glamour offices will be on ABC Nightline tonight at 11:35PM, but for now check out the cover and spread below:
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text: ||The flower sector in Kenya accounted for over 65 per cent of new jobs created in the agricultural sector between 2010 and 2015 and remains a major employer in the country. The floriculture value chain involves a variety of players involved in activities, such as plant development and growing, providing necessary inputs, transport and handling – each of them generating a part of the direct or indirect employment. The quality of this employment is, however, less clear.In 1978, the flowers’ export volume was 3,000 tons. Since then, the sector has grown by an average of 16 per cent per year in terms of volume and 25 per cent in terms of value of production. Foreign investors and partners played a critical role in launching and expanding the floriculture industry in Kenya. Dutch companies started flower export businesses, and Dutch and Israeli advisors have been important sources of technical support. Initially, large and medium flower farms were mostly owned by foreigners, Kenyans of foreign descent or members of the Kenyan (political) elite. Kenyan smallholders were also involved in flower growing at that stage. In 2016, approximately 190 flower farms and 5,000 smallholder farmers were involved in the flower production. Today, flower growing is done predominantly by Kenyan-owned farms, while Dutch companies dominate the breeding and propagation activities. Growers provide the highest employment opportunities in the entire chain, predominantly for women, due to the labour intensive character of their operations. Breeders, propagators and other companies in the chain hire less people directly but create important indirect employment in the sector.The support of the Kenyan government in promoting the floriculture sector was mixed through the years and was not the decisive factor in the sector development. The success of the industry is, to an extent, a result of the capacity of the private sector to develop independently from the state and the capacity to quickly adapt to changing circumstances. Following the rapid development of the sector in the mid-1990s, flower companies have been criticized for poor labour standards and a number of other abusive practices. In response to this criticism, the companies have adapted a range of international and national social and environmental standards that should lead to improved labour conditions.This working paper’s primary objective is to assess to the extent to which the flower sector and the jobs created have been sustainable, inclusive and productive; and whether there are any differences between practices and quality of employment created by the international players, particularly Dutch companies in comparison to the non-Dutch counterparts. The secondary objective is to assess and understand what are the main challenges for the companies in the flower sector to create and maintain (productive) employment, as well as other pitfalls in their day-to-day operations. For this purpose, a mixed methods approach to data collection was implemented, including a sector-wide standardized questionnaire, case studies and a number of key informant interviews. This report concludes with a set of policy recommendations targeting the Kenyan government and the international community.

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Haemoglobinopathies in tribal populations of India
Kanjaksha Ghosh1, Roshan B Colah2, Malay B Mukherjee2
1 National Institute of Immunohaematology (ICMR), Mumbai; Honorary Professor, Department of Haematology Seth GS Medical College & KEM Hospital, Mumbai 400 012, Maharashtra, India
2 National Institute of Immunohaematology (ICMR), Mumbai, India
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Dr Kanjaksha Ghosh, Honorary Professor, Department of Haematology, Seth GS Medical College & KEM Hospital, Mumbai 400 012, Maharashtra
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Haemoglobinopathies particularly haemoglobin S and E (HbS, HbE) and β-thalassaemia are important challenges for tribal populations in India. The HbS, HbE and β-thalassaemia genes are variably distributed across various tribal populations of India. HbE is mainly restricted in tribals of North-East, West Bengal, Odisha and those in Andaman and Nicobar islands. HbS has more extensive distribution in the country (10-40% trait frequency) and the homozygotes and double heterozygotes present with a wide array of morbidities. The morbidity varies greatly in different areas of the country due to differential co-inheritance of α-thalassaemia gene and interaction of various epistatic and environmental factors. Though substantial data on prevalence of these disorders exist, there is an urgent need to develop integrated hierarchical core facilities to manage the disease. Such centres will generate more data and will also explore areas of management which need more local attention. Newborn screening, genetic counselling, carrier detection, prenatal diagnosis along with management of cases should form the basic infrastructure of haemoglobinopathy management. Research in this areas should continue focusing on various challenges in care delivery, prevention and basic sciences on interaction of haemoglobinopathies with various other infections.
Keywords: β-thalassaemia - haemoglobin E - HbS - thalassaemia - tribals
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Ghosh K, Colah RB, Mukherjee MB. Haemoglobinopathies in tribal populations of India. Indian J Med Res 2015;141:505-8
Tribal population of India constitutes approximately 8.5 per cent of the total population of India  . Tribal population in India is not a homogenous group. Further, because of their isolated existence and endogamy over centuries, different tribal populations have distinctive genetic identities. With industrialization and availability of jobs in different areas of India many of these tribal populations have migrated from their homelands to cities in search of jobs. Although these migrations are relatively in small proportions (5-10%) but the absolute number of tribal persons living in big cities and industrialized areas of the country is substantial  .
Why is this information important when we discuss haemoglobinopathies in tribal populations of India? The answer lies in deciding whether to provide haemoglobinopathy care only in the tribal belts of India or whether it should be broad-based across the length and breadth of the country. These tribals can be broadly divided into several groups (i) Tribal populations in the North-East, (ii) Tea Garden tribal populations, (iii) Tribal populations in central India, (iv) Tribal populations in western India, (v) Tribal population in eastern parts of Odisha and Andhara Pradesh, and (vi) Tribal populations in south India. This distinction is important because there are some variations in the nature, composition and clinical severity of various haemoglobinopathies in different tribal areas of the country. Tribal populations of North- East predominantly show haemoglobin E (HbE) a structural haemoglobin disorder with variable combination of β-thalassaemia and α-thalassaemia genes,,,, . Tribals working in tea gardens in the North- East show sickle cell haemoglobin (HbS) as the predominant haemoglobinopathy  . In the tribal populations of central India and eastern parts of Odisha and Jharkhand HbS emerges out as the predominant haemoglobinopathy . Interacting α-and β-thalassaemia genes amongst tribals are more frequent in Odisha where haemoglobin E is also infrequent. Hence in Odisha one can see interaction of HbS, HbE, β-thalassaemia with varying combination of deletional α-thalassaemia and hereditary persistance of foetal haemoglobin (HPFH) genes,. Unusual α chain structural variants like HbJ Paris, HbJ Meerut have also been detected in these tribal populations. Unusual haemoglobin variants like structural α chain variants Hb Koya Dora have also been described in certain tribes of Andhra Pradesh. In the western part of Rajasthan, Gujarat and Maharashtra haemoglobinopathies in tribal populations are largely restricted to HbS and interacting deletional α-thalassaemia is present in various proportions in these different States ,, e.g. 97 per cent of HbS carrying tribal population in south Gujarat carried the α-thalassaemia gene while this proportion falls drastically in tribals of Maharashtra and those from central India. Rare haemoglobin variants like Hb Fontainebleau , HbM Ratnagiri  have also been reported from Maharashtra. From south India, tribes in Nilgiri Hills area  and from Wayanad district of Kerala  have been shown to have largely sickle cell anaemia as the major haemoglobinopathy.
HbD has not been reported on a large scale in any of the tribal populations from India. Hence it can be argued that haemoglobinopathies with sickle cell haemoglobin is the major challenge in tribal populations. Small scale studies on haplotypic association of HbS in tribals of India suggest a unicentric origin of HbS in India  as majority of HbS across the country is linked to the Arab-India haplotype  . However, there could be an alternative explanation of this phenomenon as historically and geographically the tribal populations of India have been found to be highly heterogenous and the clinical severity of sickle homozygous or compound heterozygous cases is extremely heterogenous and the two important contributors of severity of the disease being the haplotype (Arab-Indian type) of the β-globin gene cluster and co-inheritance of α-thalassaemia. Foetal haemoglobin levels  modulate the severity of HbS disease and these levels are extremely variable across various tribal populations in India. Tribal populations in Wayanad district of Kerala show highest levels of foetal haemoglobin in association with homozygous HbS disease  .
One of the arguments after describing this broad spectrum of haemoglobinopathies in India is that we still have a long way to go as we have not micro-mapped the prevalence of HbS across the country and this is needed to develop a clear picture of HbS prevalence in each of the >400 tribal populations of India. However, we have done these prevalence studies from late 1950s and a reasonable amount of data show that sickle haemoglobin is a major problem in the country and the recent migration of tribals across the metropolis to 1-and 2-tier cities in search of livelihood also suggests that geography of haemoglobinopathy in both tribal and non-tribal populations in this country is changing. Though α-thalassaemia gene is prevalent across the country and on the average 14 per cent of the Indian population carry this gene . Deletional α-thalassaemia in India in general does not produce a large number of HbH disease cases and this condition is largely asymptomatic or mild except for producing microcytosis. This microcytosis is important in the differential diagnosis of β-thalassaemia syndromes and sickle cell disease, hence directly α-thalassaemias are not really a clinical challenge.
One of the major deficits in the studies of haemoglobinopathies in India among tribal populations is (i) lack of integrated hierarchical management and diagnostic facilities for haemoglobinopathies in remote areas where majority of the tribal populations reside, and (ii) lack of a haemoglobinopathy registry for the country as this would be a major tool for the State and central governments to concentrate efforts to develop facilities for care and diagnosis where they are needed most.
The primary health centres, rural hospitals and Taluka hospitals located in tribal areas of the country need additional strengthening for immediate management of sickle cell related clinical conditions through intravenous fluid therapy, pain relief, regular supply of folic acid tablets and referring more complicated patients (chest syndrome, pregnancy, strokes and other complications) to district hospitals, and finally to other tertiary care centres where facilities for management of such cases are available. These facilities need extra manpower, space, instruments which should be urgently provided.
Genetic counselling forms an important component in the management of such disorders  . Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) with patient groups can take over some of the burden of counselling.
Apart from adequate hydration, pain relief, folic acid supplementation, adequate nutrition, personal protection from extreme weather conditions, prompt treatment for infection and diarrhoeal disorders, low dose hydroxyurea therapy [ ] have been shown to be safe and significantly reduce pain and improve quality of life in sickle cell anaemia patients ,. Hydroxyurea has also been shown to be effective in <30 per cent patients with β-thalassaemia major and >70 per cent of patients of thalassaemia intermedia .
Several centres in India are engaged in haemoglobinopathy research in tribal areas. Certain key areas are being looked at or need to be looked at in future with a view to better understand the disease in the Indian context. These areas are: (i) Newborn screening for haemoglobinopathies in tribal areas; (ii) Follow up of newborn cohorts in a multicentric fashion for atleast five years to understand the nature of early mortality and morbidity in these populations; (iii) Developing a registry on haemoglobinopathies for tribal populations; (iv) Study the interaction of gastrointestinal parasitism, iron deficiency, nutritional intake with haemoglobinopathies and finally deciding whether these components should be routinely assessed and what remedial measures should be undertaken; (v) Evaluation of various ethno- pharmacological products for management of the condition; (vi) Prevalence and cause of hypersplenism in sickle cell anaemia patients in tribals; (vii) Interaction of various genetic factors for epistatic interaction in modulation of the disease; (viii) Interaction of malarial infection with haemoglobinopathy; and (ix) Prenatal diagnosis for severe haemoglobinopathies.
As the centres managing haemoglobinopathies in tribals increase their experience, more and more families with this condition will come forward and cascade screening and counselling of these families will provide additional cases and carriers, and this will also provide newer area for research.
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I am very surprised of the great quality of the Mp3tag program.
I have been looking for a program that allows me to create M3U files of folders with a complete Albun. I would like to be able to create M3U files automatically for each folder in my music library.
I do not want to generate the M3U as an albun that has checked the Mp3tag program, I want the Mp3tag to scan the folders in my library and make an M3U file of the MP3s in that folder and continue to the next one.
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War drama “Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl,” starring Janhvi Kapoor, comedy-drama “Ludo,” starring Abhishek Bachchan and Rajkummar Rao, and suicide bomber tale “Torbaaz,” starring Sanjay Dutt, are among Bollywood titles that will bow directly on Netflix India, as cinemas across the country remain shuttered due to the coronavirus pandemic.
On Thursday, the giant streamer announced a raft of titles that will make their India debut on the service, including Mira Nair’s BBC series “A Suitable Boy,” based on Vikram Seth’s bestselling novel; and young adult romance “Mismatched,” an adaptation of Sandhya Menon’s book ‘When Dimple Met Rishi.’
The slate includes Gitanjali Rao’s festival favorite “Bombay Rose,” the first Indian animation to open Venice Critics’ Week; and Alankrita Shrivastava’s feminist drama “Dolly Kitty Aur Woh Chamakte Sitare,” starring Konkona Sen Sharma and Bhumi Pednekar, that premiered at Busan last year.
Crime thriller “Raat Akeli Hai,” starring Radhika Apte and Nawazuddin Siddiqui; romantic comedy “Ginny Weds Sunny,” with Yami Gautam and Vikrant Massey; dysfunctional family drama “Tribhanga – Tedhi Medhi Crazy,” featuring Kajol; horror story “Kaali Khuhi,” featuring Shabana Azmi; satire “Serious Men,” based on Manu Joseph’s novel, also starring Siddiqui; police drama “Class Of ’83,” starring featuring Bobby Deol; and dark comedy “AK vs AK,” starring Anil Kapoor and Anurag Kashyap, complete the new film lineup.
Upcoming series include “Masaba Masaba,” starring Masaba Gupta and Neena Gupta as themselves; contemporary drama “Bombay Begums,” featuring Shahana Goswami and Amruta Subhash; and dramedy “Bhaag Beanie Bhaag,” starring Swara Bhaskar and Ravi Patel.
“We know our members have unique tastes, moods and needs — sometimes, they want to lean back and watch a delightful comedy, and at other times, they want a pulse-pounding thriller that brings them to the edge of their seats,” said Monika Shergill, vice president of content at Netflix India. “We are so proud to bring these diverse stories created by acclaimed and emerging storytellers and producing partners.”


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Washington, DC (PRWEB) October 8, 2008
Rather than another copycat site allowing people to buy and sell music (iTunes, Amazon's download service, emusic, Napster,etc.), Austin Washington has built a better mousetrap. ShareMusic.com allows people to share music for charity.
ShareMusic provides the tools, and a forum, for everyone, from major label artists to those artists too cool to be major label artists, to share music for charity.
"No one wants to steal from their favourite artist," says Austin. "And everyone wants to help others. But no one really feels guilty stealing from Sony, or big music corporations. This is the real reason so many people, guiltlessly, download music. But what if they were, instead, stealing from starving children in Africa? Or, what if, they were stealing directly from their favourite artists? Radiohead proved people happily give money, even to millionaire artists, who give them music they value. And what kind of kid cracks open their UNICEF charity box, or would steal from a starving child?"
ShareMusic is in preview mode for now, and will integrate tools more fully over the coming months.
How it happened:
Last summer, Austin received an offer of $25,000 for the domain ShareMusic.com, from Silicon Valley types wanting to "monetize communities centered around sharing music".
Singing in the shower the next morning, while thinking of the monetary value of ShareMusic.com, and of the emotional and spiritual value of music, which saved Austin's life during a very dark period, Austin started thinking about how many other people sing, not just in the shower, and make music, and record it.
Musicians around the world pay services such as SongCast.com, TuneCore.com, Nimbit.com and others 5-20 dollars a month to maintain their songs on iTunes. Some services upload 5,000 new songs a week. Almost none of these musicians make up their hosting fees from sales -- they do it for their pride -- they feel if people give them a few dollars for their music, their music has value.
On the other side of the coin, many people don't like to pay for music downloads, as they feel they are supporting Sony et al, and not the musicians themselves -- people who wouldn't dream of stealing from a starving baby, or even from their favourite artist, think nothing of stealing from Sony/Apple.
But ShareMusic.com offers a better way.
ShareMusic.com provides the tools for musicians around the world to satisfy their pride, and music lovers a way to reward musicians, with a clear conscience. ShareMusic.com is a site where people share music with the world -- and raise money for charity.
The musicians will end up financially better off, as at least they won't be blowing their money on iTunes intermediaries. Also, many many more people will actually pay to download these songs, as people who would not consider paying one dollar for an mp3 will gladly give five or ten dollars to a charity.
Everyone is better off.
Long-tail like -- 5,000 songs a week on just some services -- it's a huge number of people -- huge. When these musicians are searching for things to do with their music, they will discover ShareMusic.com, and it will encourage them to promote charities, and even to give to charity themselves, as well as encouraging their listeners to give, too.
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Harper’s Wish Blog Tour: A Christmas Visit from Krista Ames #Giveaway #Romance
Merry Christmas, folks. So glad to have you all here. Sorry this post is a bit late — not sure what happened with my amazing scheduling skills, but better late than never, right?
Today, I have a special treat for you all. I have fenagled a visit from the author of Roane Publishing’s latest release, Harper’s Wish, Krista Ames. She has gracefully agreed to come by and share her favorite Christmas gift with us all.
Take it away, Krista!
Well, there’s one Christmas and one gift that stands out above all others for me and it’s been years ago now.
It was Christmas Morning and my boyfriend and I went to my mom & dad’s house at the lake for Christmas with my family. Everyone was there, step family, my sisters, all the nieces and nephews. We had gone through a whole room full of presents and cleaned up every stitch of wrapping paper when my boyfriend came into the room while I was on the floor playing with the kids. He sat a huge wrapped giftbox on the floor in front of me. Of course that got everyone’s attention. 🙂
I got nervous right away. Confused too because it was a huge box and of course, what girl doesn’t want a ring at Christmas so I guess I was a little disappointed too. He urged me to unwrap so I unwrapped the box and opened it to find another big box inside, wrapped as well. He was quite the joker so it shouldn’t have surprised me lol.
I bet I got through five boxes, all wrapped and varying sizes before I got to a tiny box. The kind of box a ring does come in. I started to get nervous again and fought a little at the tears. I unwrapped the box with shaky hands to find a velvet jewelry box inside. I looked up at my boyfriend and he was just smiling at me. So focusing again, I opened the velvet box and where a ring SHOULD have been tucked, was a note instead.
I seriously had a range of emotions all in about ten minutes so I played along and opened the note. He had written me a long letter talking about the 4 years we had dated and all the ups and downs we’d gone through and how much he loved me and at the very end he’d asked me to marry him. When I looked up at him, he was holding the ring that had been missing from the box. Of course, I said yes. 🙂
Pretty hard to top a Christmas like that !
Nice! Sounds like a great guy — certainly a romantic one!
Since we are all here talking romantic men — let’s have a look at Krista’s story, Harper’s Wish. I hear her leading man, Fin, is quite a cowboy romantic, himself.
Publisher: Roane Publishing
Release Date: December 20, 2013
Key Words: Adult, Romance, Contemporary, Sweet, Novella
Blurb: Christmas is supposed to be a joyous time of year, but for Harper Donaldson it’s just another day. Orphaned at an early age, she doesn’t have a single good memory of Christmas.
But, when a Santa’s Mailbox mysteriously appears in the lobby of the post office where she works as postmistress, Harper wonders what it could hurt to send her own letter to Santa.
Could he bring her the family she’d always wanted?
Now, in the spirit of Christmas giving, and of, course, to promote the release, Roane Publishing is offering a giveaway to celebrate the release. To get in on that, just hit the link below and enter for your chance at a free copy of Harper’s Wish or a $10 Amazon gift card.
About Krista Ames:
Born and raised in Northern Indiana, Krista now resides in Northern Lower Michigan. She is married to a very supportive man who allows her to follow her true passion of writing and never complains when she is pirated away on her computer for hours. He is excellent at bouncing ideas around with and even helps the occasional writers block. He’s also a terrific “in house” editor. Krista is also a mother of 4 ornery children who keep her plenty busy. With an addition of 2 beautiful chocolate lab sisters and a playful kitty, there is never a dull or spare moment in her household.
Krista has always loved to read and would often sit up for hours into the night not able to put down a book until she was finished. She still reads when she can but her main focus is creating her own stories to share with the world.
She loves to communicate with her readers so please feel free to drop her a line anytime.
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In most fantasy worlds, where worldbuilding is at least something considered by the author, there is a weird thing with the literature of that world. Where there even is a literature of that world, which is hardly a given. Obviously, this applies more to traditional fantasy than those kids what write weird shit. First of all, it's usually oral, or stuck in the "only monasteries have books" mode of the medieval monomania we fantasy authors sometimes slip into. No publishing apparatus. Second, practioners are usually bards, or bards that are called something not bardic, but are totally bards. Third, they tend to write
Which, in a world which has dragons and magic and kings and such, makes them realists.
What is the literature of the fantastic in a fantastic world? I am not accepting "stories about our world" as an acceptable answer. What do they dream is possible in a world full of mojo? Is it science ficiton for a fantasy world, fantasy for a science fiction world? I don't know, but it tickles me to think about the SFF author in a tower surrounded by a fiery moat full of rabid salamanders sucking her pen while griffin soar overhead and thinking...
"But what if...?"
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The convenient location of this place makes it easy to reach even in rush hours. A lot of reviewers highlight that the staff is accommodating here. Fabulous service is something that people note in their comments. You can get most dishes from the menu for attractive prices. The divine decor and pretty atmosphere let clients feel relaxed here. On TripAdvisor, guests say that this spot deserves the 4.5 star rating.


Advanced infrastructure solutions for historic bourbon-making practices
Frost Engineering & Consulting collaborated with structural engineering researchers at the University of Notre Dame to solve a lingering problem that the bourbon distilling industry faces:
- How do we construct rickhouses more quickly and inexpensively to meet growing demands for bourbon inventory?
- How do we reduce our exposure to growing insurance costs and hazards such as fire and wind-storms?
While rack supported structures have seen widespread acceptance in the general material handling/distribution center industry, the unique challenges of storing 25,000 – 50,000 oak barrels have until now kept them out of long-term spirits storage facilities. In response, the Frost-ND team, working in collaboration with metal racking industry partners, accelerated the optimization of the design, fabrication, and installation of light-gauge steel storage rack products for use in constructing rack-supported barreled spirits rickhouses by experimentally validating the performance of semi-rigid “moment frame” connections to quantify the range of rotational stiffnesses, strengths, and reliabilities of these components. Semi-rigid “moment frame” connections have historically been used in various other materials, such as hot-rolled steel and reinforced concrete, to solve one of the most fundamental challenges of structural framing, which is to provide lateral stability and stiffness while avoiding clashes with access paths, utilities, and architectural features.
Reverse cyclic testing and subsequent statistical reliability analysis was performed in accordance with the standards that govern light-gauge steel rack design and testing, including RMI/ANSI MH16.1 Section 9.6, AISI S100 Commentary Chapter K, and FEMA 460 Appendix A. Historical testing of similar products by others using these standards was largely targeted to seismic performance. However, the Frost-ND team understood that a likely governing condition in Central Kentucky would be the initial unloaded condition of the rickhouses under lateral wind forces when frame connections would be more flexible – and potentially weaker – absent the load of barrels. Therefore, the Frost-ND team modified the test procedures to better represent the unique conditions faced by rickhouse owners in Kentucky.


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Sharing this pic because how exciting is it to be posing like a dweeb only to discover that the picture was being taken to present me with a birthday gift? My birthday isn’t until Monday, but my boyfriend went ahead and got me a freaking PSP! So exciting! Almost like having a smartphone, but with Little Big Planet included, ha.
So anyway, I’m off to Flow Festival until Monday! My first festival ever and I’m super excited because there’ll be bands I actually want to see! Omar Souleyman, Konono n°1, M.I.A and a bunch of badass Finnish acts that I’m psyched to catch in one arena! Also, I created a profile on 8tracks (thanks to the lovely Hannah!) and I made a special mix in honor of FlowFest! So here, guys! Listen and enjoy!


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WATCH: Karim Benzema misses sitter for Real Madrid
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Karim Benzema spurned a golden opportunity to score the winner for Real Madrid against Valencia.
With the game poised at 2-2, Benzema fired wide from six yards out with the goal gaping, much to the frustration of Real boss Zinedine Zidane.
That came after Marco Asensio rescued the reigning La Liga champions to make it 2-2 with his second goal of the game.
Asensio's opener was cancelled out by Carlos Soler and Geoffrey Kondogbia stunned the Bernabeu when he put the visitors ahead in the second half.
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) – Army veteran William Thomas made a compelling case on Wednesday, based on his own research, that city-native Daniel Griffin was the first victim killed in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor 80 years ago.
“It may seem difficult to prove because a lot is in history,” he said. “It’s a little known fact, probably because with over 2,400 casualties out there, no one thought to focus on who was the first to die. But it’s something everyone should. know, that he was from Colorado Springs. So we go with the evidence We have. In this case, we have the statements of several key people who were at Pearl Harbor. “
Thomas said Griffin, 30, was stationed at Naval Air Station Kane’ohe, several miles east of Pearl Harbor, where a squadron of PBY planes was being held.
“The Japanese planes came in from the north and hit Kaneohe minutes before Pearl because they considered these planes a high priority,” Thomas said. “If these planes had taken off, they could have alerted the US command to the location of the Japanese forces.”
Ironically, Thomas says, Griffin was supposed to be on leave that day, but was replacing a comrade who had drunk too much the day before.
Thomas said when Griffin saw the planes approaching and realized they were not American, he attempted to take off in a PBY he was assigned to as an aircraft mechanic.
“But he was shot immediately,” Thomas said. “When he tried to swim to safety, Japanese planes strafed the area with machine guns and he was shot in the head and killed.”
Griffin was buried at Kaneohe and has an escort destroyer named after him in 1943. The ship was decommissioned in 1966.
However, his body was exhumed and reburied at Evergreen Cemetery in Colorado Springs.
It was then that photos of the ceremony with full military honors caught Thomas’s attention while working in the Pikes Peal Library District’s Special Collections Department in 2015.
“I was wondering why, two years after the war, this would happen,” he said. “I spent the next year doing research.
Thomas said a move to rename Memorial Park after Griffin had failed. A 1948 article in the then Colorado Springs Gazette-Telegraph mentioned that citizens opposed to the idea had contacted KRDO Radio to voice their opinions.
“I think people realized his rightful place in history back then, but have since forgotten about him,” he said.
Comments immediately after the Pearl Harbor attack – from Navy officials and then Colorado Governor Ralph Carr – said Griffin was Colorado’s first casualty and later America’s first casualty.
The 1948 article mentioned above included a sentence stating that Griffin was “recognized as the first American killed in WWII”, although then President Franklin Roosevelt did not officially declare war until the next day. of the attack.
Thomas said he plans to write a book about Griffin and will get involved to ensure the local hero gets the proper recognition.
“He deserves a street, a statue, something named after him,” Thomas said.
Griffin and his wife had two children, including a son who later joined the Navy and now lives in California.
Griffin’s grave at Evergreen is marked by a white, military-style headstone that contrasts sharply with the surrounding cemetery.
He also lived in a house on Bijou Street, just east of the city center; the house is still standing.

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Distance from Medellin to Kotturu
Distance from Medellín to Kottūru is 16,135 kilometers. This air travel distance is equal to 10,026 miles.
The air travel (bird fly) shortest distance between Medellín and Kottūru is 16,135 km= 10,026 miles.
If you travel with an airplane (which has average speed of 560 miles) from Medellin to Kotturu, It takes 17.9 hours to arrive.
Medellin is located in Colombia.
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|Distance from Medellin to Kotturu||16,135 km|
|Distance from Medellin to Kosigi||16,156 km|
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The NYT reports that the largest and most expensive digital billboard in Times Square stands eight stories tall and is nearly as long as a football field, spanning the entire block from 45th Street to 46th Street on Broadway and contains nearly 24 million LED pixels, each containing tiny red, blue and green lights. At a going rate of more than $2.5 million for four weeks, the megascreen ranks as one of the most expensive pieces of outdoor ad real estate on the market. A digital art exhibition by the critically acclaimed Universal Everything studio collective will animate the screen until November 24, when Google will take over as the exclusive, debut advertiser with a campaign that runs through the New Year. Size matters in Times Square,” said Harry Coghlan. “Sometimes it just comes down to wanting to stand out, and it comes down to ego.”
One of the oldest forms of advertising, billboards are attracting new attention as digital displays allow for new levels of real-time interactivity. Each day, more than 300,000 pedestrians are estimated to enter the Times Square “bow tie,” where Seventh Avenue intersects with Broadway between 42nd and 47th Streets. “People go to the Grand Canyon to see the most visually stunning natural canyon in the world” says Tim Tompkins. “They come to Times Square to see the most digitally striking canyon in the world.”
GOOGLE SEZ "CONSUME"LISTEN, AND OBEY!
Maybe I'm a curmudgeon, but...what is it with Times Square? It's not a square, it's just an awkwardly shaped intersection. There's not really any sort of plaza, it's just an unpleasantly skinny triangle of space where a road forks.
From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Town_square#United_States [wikipedia.org]
In some cities, especially in New England, the term "square" (as its Spanish equivalent, Plaza) is applied to a commercial area (like Central Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts), usually formed around the intersection of three or more streets, and which originally consisted of some open area (many of which have been filled in with traffic islands and other traffic calming features). Many of these intersections are irregular rather than square.
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A 4K screen has roughly 8 million pixels. So the times square wall has about as many pixels as three 4K screens.
When it gets hacked, that's gonna be one heck of a Goatse.
1) is that European football fields or USA handegg fields?2) How many Libraries of Congress are in those pixels?3) What's the car analogy?
BTW, hot from a Google page,an open (typically four-sided) area surrounded by buildings in a town, village, or city."a market square"synonyms: market square, marketplace, plaza, piazza"a shop in the square"an open area at the meeting of streets.[for those who are whining that it's not a geometric square piece of land]
Hyphens exist for a reason, use them please. As a non-USA person, it took me 3 goes to parse that title.


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Before Lent begins, many Orthodox Christians and Eastern Catholics celebrate “Forgiveness Sunday” — an observance in which believers seek God’s mercy, and aim to forgive those who have wronged them.
For Ukrainian Greek Catholic parishes, “Forgiveness Sunday” could hardly have come at a more difficult time — the day was observed in many parishes February 27, three days after Russian President Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Forgiving a national invasion doesn’t happen easily. And at Denver’s Transfiguration Ukrainian Catholic Parish, Fr. Valeriy Kandyuk said forgiveness isn’t something easy to preach right now, either.
But with a heavy sigh, Kandyuk told The Pillar that “we have to forgive everybody, just as God forgives us all of our sins.”
After he was ordained in Ukraine, Kandyuk came nearly two decades ago to serve as a missionary in the eparchy of Chicago, leading parishes in California, Detroit, and Colorado. But he’s still most comfortable speaking through a translator, and, these days, his thoughts and his heart are in Ukraine.
As Ukrainian forces repelled the Russian army from taking Kyiv on Sunday, Kandyuk told The Pillar that “we feel a protection from God, and from Mother Mary. We have a lot of places [in Ukraine] where Mary appeared. So we feel that God is helping us and protecting us.”
Still, “what’s happening in Ukraine is terrible,” he told The Pillar. “Truly terrible.”
Kandyuk’s friends, priests in western Ukraine, “are keeping their churches open. The people are allowed to come,” the priest explained. And in the eastern parts of Ukraine, pastors are keeping churches open even as villages are torn apart in battles with Russian soldiers. In cities, some priests are offering Divine Liturgies in bomb shelters and subways.
With an invasion underway, Kandyuk said, the call to forgiveness is personal — not forgiveness of an abstract enemy, but of those right now causing harm to people he loves.
Fr. Alexander Laschuk, a Ukrainian Catholic priest ministering in Toronto, told The Pillar that on Forgiveness Sunday - which his family, observing the Julian calendar, will celebrate March 6 - he’ll talk with parishioners, and with his children, about loving their enemies.
“I can say that loving your enemy is the hardest thing we are called as Christians to do. Absolutely the hardest,” Laschuk told The Pillar Sunday.
“And I tell people that loving your enemies means if you get to heaven and see Putin sitting there, you think ‘Wow, God is so great!’ And not ‘What the heck are YOU doing here?’”
“Forgiving doesn’t mean being a pushover. It means loving [adversaries] and desiring their salvation and seeing they too are created in the image of God,” Laschuk said.
“And in the specific case of Mr. Putin - this is something a lot of people obviously struggle with, even before this most recent move. But he says he is a Christian. I believe he thinks about his faith. And for me, that is something the Holy Spirit can work with. I tell people to pray for him.”
“The Holy Spirit can do incredible things and maybe, just maybe, he can speak to [Putin’s] heart and bring about that conversion that we seek — to see the dignity of the human person,” the priest added.
Another Ukrainian Catholic priest, Fr. Oleh Katchour, of St. Nicholas Catholic Parish in Toronto, told The Pillar that “forgiveness is that battlefield in a human heart that will always give advantage to that which is good over that which is evil.”
Forgiveness can be, he said, “the light with you, which will never be consumed by darkness.”
In Denver, nearly 100 worshippers came to Transfiguration Parish’s Ukrainian Sunday liturgy Feb. 27 — a much bigger crowd than the parish often draws. Many of them came in the brightly embroidered traditional garb of Ukraine.
As the Sunday liturgy concluded, Fr. Kandyuk led parishioners in a rite of forgiveness.
“From the bottom of my heart, I truly and sincerely forgive those who hate me, who have offended or hurt me, and against whom I carry a grudge or ill-feelings,” the parish prayed.
After the liturgy, parishioners said those prayers came at an unusual time.
Daria McKay of Westminster, Colorado, is of Ukrainian ancestry — her maiden name is Maksimowich, she told The Pillar.
Watching the war unfold has been an experience of “complete devastation,” she said Sunday, after Divine Liturgy at Transfiguration Parish.
“It’s really hard to think about my grandparents, who fought for our freedom…to see this happening in the 21st century is mind-boggling.”
McKay said she wanted to forgive the Russian military for its invasion of Ukraine.
“I think about the Russians, and the military…and I don’t even know what would convince them to attack. And so giving forgiveness to those [Russian] soldiers, who are really misguided…it’s not easy.”
She said she also saw forgiveness in a broader lens.
“I was thinking [during the liturgy] about how much other countries are supporting Ukraine. And how much that represents forgiveness,” she said.
McKay told The Pillar that during the Polish-Ukrainian War of 1918 and 1919, her Ukrainian grandfather’s sister was killed by Polish partisans.
Today, to see Poland assisting the Ukrainian people represents a kind of cultural healing, she said — forgiveness and reconciliation, after historical wounds.
Michael Wynar of Denver, is a first-generation American. His wife and parents are from Ukraine, he speaks Ukrainian with his children.
Wynar’s in-laws, living in Ukraine, are now “hiding in the mountains, because Putin said he might use nuclear weapons,” he told The Pillar.
“We have a long tradition of trusting in Mary to protect Ukraine,” Wynar said Sunday, as he watched his sons play outside Transfiguration Parish.
“I think that people have a lot of hope that Mary and Jesus will intervene. Even though we have such a small army, it’s kind of like David and Goliath.”
“And this is everyone’s war. Because if Ukraine falls, then Europe is next. Or if it spills into Estonia or Latvia, then all of the sudden America is involved. So this is everyone’s war. And prayer is the most important thing right now,” he added.
Forgiveness, Wynar told The Pillar, “is hard.”
“We actually are just now praying that God forgives even the Russian soldiers for attacking. It’s hard to be Christian in times of war. And as weird as it sounds, it’s not the soldiers’ fault, they’re following their orders — it is whoever is in charge at fault.”
“We say in the Church that there is no enemy except the Enemy — Satan, the devil. Every person can come back to God and be forgiven. And during a time of war it’s really black and white,” he said.
“It’s just a really hard time, but it is Forgiveness Sunday. And — and we’re praying for both sides right now, because we really want peace.”
Olga Odom emigrated from eastern Ukraine in 2009; her hometown, where her family still lives, is “two hours from the Russian border. And they are all so terrified.”
Odom emphasized that people in her region, many of them Russian-speaking, are loyal Ukrainians — despite Moscow’s claims that most eastern Ukrainians identify more strongly with Russia than with Kyiv.
That claim “is absolutely a lie,” Odom said. “We are one country, and we believe in democracy. It’s a lie, just another excuse to attack.”
She emphasized pride in Ukrainian defense forces.
“We are very proud of our boys. They are heroes of our country,” Odom said.
On Forgiveness Sunday, Odom said she is “praying for Ukraine, and for our family and friends, and for all Ukrainians’ safety.”
Odom said that Forgiveness Sunday came at a challenging time.
“But, I mean, we have to be strong to forgive, right? And we are a strong people.”


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Europe’s Carbon Scheme Goes Up in Smoke
Posted on Jan 27, 2013
By Paul Brown, Climate News Network
This article originally appeared at Climate News Network.
LONDON—Carbon trading, one of the major European Union policies designed to combat climate change, is failing. A combination of successful lobbying by industry bodies, political interference and lack of economic growth has wrecked the scheme.
It is now cheaper to pollute the atmosphere than to invest in becoming energy-efficient.
Another blow came on Thursday (25 January) when a committee of European MPs voted down a scheme to rescue the carbon trading scheme. But there may still be a slim chance to save it.
The Environment Committee of the European Parliament is likely to be more sympathetic to a rescue package when it votes on 19 February, and with so much depending on the outcome there is potential for the whole Parliament to discuss support for the scheme in March.
The original idea of the EU emissions trading system (or scheme), the ETS, was to set a maximum cap on carbon emissions from each factory or power station. This would force industry to become more efficient or to pay a high price for every extra tonne of carbon over the limit.
Industries would gain credits for reducing their emissions below the set limit and then sell them on the open market to polluters who had failed to act. The plan was to reward those who spent the money they earned on new technology or other efficiency measures.
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The whole system depended on the price of the units of carbon being high enough to give polluters an incentive to reduce their emissions – but the price has now collapsed to an all-time low.
The scheme was launched on 1 January 2005 with caps on 11,500 plants across the 25 EU countries, amid high hopes that the market for carbon would help the European Union towards a 20% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020.
Carbon markets were set up to trade these notional units of tonnes of carbon saved. Analysts believed that the price needed to be between 20 and 50 euros a tonne to provide sufficient incentive for industry to become more efficient.
Despite early signs of success – when the price peaked at 30 euros a tonne in the summer of 2008 – the price of carbon never held up to the required level. In April 2010 the price had dropped to 15.30 euros a tonne when Germany sold 300,000 carbon permits. From there it continued to drift down and earlier this month dropped below five euros for the first time. It had become decidedly cheaper to pollute than to become efficient.
On Thursday the price briefly plunged further, to 2.81 euros, after a vote by the European Parliament Energy and Industry committee to support prices by withdrawing permits from the market and reintroducing them later. Members of the committee had been intensively lobbied by the European Steel Association (Eurofer).
This combination of successful lobbying by industry bodies and subsequent political interference has undermined the scheme. Special pleading that EU companies would be made uncompetitive if they had to pay too much for carbon credits, or spend too much on efficiency, meant that many industries were set emission caps that were too lenient.
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