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It is of the utmost importance to highlight at this point that in functions such as lithotripsy and the like, the application of ultrasound becomes a highly sensitive matter and is applied with respect to the degree of sustenance of the patient. In cases where anesthesia is not an available option because of any reason, the patient cannot be subjected to a high degree of pulse. In the event that the patient is subjected to a degree of pulse of the ultrasound waves that is more than the patient’s actual degree of bearing, there may be implications such as the detection of blood in the urine or the sensation of a hard blow being delivered to the region where the intensity of the ultrasound was over applied.

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More people are asking Google about bitcoin than are seeking information on the president of the United States, according to Google Trends data.
It’s one anecdote that shows how interest in bitcoin and buying have driven its parabolic 1,000% rally this year.
Another is the growing number of top Wall Streeters — from bank CEOs to equity strategists— who have been asked or have offered takes on bitcoin. On Thursday, Carl Icahn told CNBC bitcoin was similar to the Mississippi Bubble of the early 1700s.
Bitcoin searches on Google surpassed Trump searches late in November.
Throughout last month, speculation mounted that US regulators would give the green light to futures trading. The confirmation came Friday when the Commodity Futures Trading Commission said it would permit futures on three exchanges…

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Peter Josheff (clarinet), a founding member of Sonic Harvest and Earplay, is also a member of the Empyrean Ensemble, the Eco Ensemble, and the Paul Dresher Ensemble. He has toured with Melody of China, and has performed on many recordings, concert series and festivals, both nationally and internationally. A prolific composer, he has been locally commissioned, premiered, and recorded by groups including the Bernal Hill Players, Sonic Harvest, San Francisco Cabaret Opera, the Empyrean Ensemble, and Earplay. Peter has worked extensively with young composers, bringing his perspective as a composer/clarinetist to graduate and undergraduate students at UC Berkeley and UC Davis, Stanford University, San Francisco State University, and Sacramento State University, as well as for the American Composers Forum Composer in the Schools Program. His workshop, Clarinet for Composers, has been presented at the UC Davis Clarinet Festival and at an American Composers Forum seminar in San Francisco. Peter joined SFCMP in 2012.


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By Megan Card, Forum staff writer, Published June 04 2012
New Davies pool makes a splash
Located at Davies High School, 7150 25th St. S., the
$2.4 million Davies Recreational Pool includes two large waterslides, both of which descend from a 27-foot platform. It opened for the summer on Saturday.
For 10-year-old Alyssa Timmerman, who was at the opening, the must-see attraction is the climbing wall, which is featured along a side of the pool.
“I love being able to climb all the way to the top, and then just let go,” Timmerman said. “Just as long as no one is below me.”
Roger Gress, executive director of the Fargo Park District, said the pool was a direct result of a survey conducted in collaboration with Fargo schools, Fargo parks, Moorhead parks, West Fargo parks and the YMCA. The survey showed a resounding need for pools.
“The No. 1 request was recreational pools and water features,” Gress said. “When the kids get out of school, the summer is a main window for us, so it made sense to pursue this.”
Gress said attendance on its opening day was nearly 300 people. The Davies pool has been a welcome addition for babysitter Tatiana Hasbargen.
“It keeps them busy and active, which is what I like,” Hasbargen said. “I can watch both of them while taking in some sun, so we all win.”
As Hasbargen sunbathes on the deck, she might be joined by bikini-clad Heather Grovum and Cassidy St. Germain, who both said their summer goal is to get a tan.
“I might go down the plunging slide once or twice, but I’m here for the sun,” Grovum said.
Other patrons can also attempt the zero-depth swim area, which includes a water playground, or head over to concessions for a bite to eat.
The Davies Recreational Pool joins Fargo’s four other public pools, all of which opened Saturday: Island Park Pool, Madison Pool and Splash Pad, Northside Recreational Pool and Southwest Recreational Pool.
Moorhead’s wading pools and municipal pool open Wednesday.
Clay Whittlesey, Fargo Park District’s director of recreation, said after 22 years on the job, when it comes to a pool’s success, people just want more recreational amenities.
“Zero depth, waterslides, spray guns and mushrooms that spray water,” Whittlesey said. “We just want to offer the fun amenities to get kids involved and where they can play with their parents.”
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There are some island cultures in the world with only three words for colors. These generally correspond to black, white, and red. The people of these cultures have no trouble identifying a new color, like green, if a word to label it is introduced. But until such a label is introduced, they essentially see the world in only the three colors for which they have words.
Saudade is a Portuguese word. It was once described as “a vague and constant desire for something that does not and probably cannot exist, for something other than the present, a turning towards the past or towards the future.” It is a feeling similar to nostalgia, but not precisely the same. It is the feeling of love that remains after the object of that love is gone. There is no single word in English that describes this exact feeling. As a result, those of us who do not speak Portuguese struggle to identify our experience of saudade. The very act of naming something – a feeling, a color – allows us to perceive it.
Please bear this in mind.
As a child, I started each morning with the funny pages. My favorite strip was Calvin and Hobbes. I was drawn to Bill Watterson’s gorgeous illustrations, to Hobbes’ straight-faced hilarity, and to the rich worlds conjured by Calvin’s imagination. Today, though I am an adult, the strip has lost none of its meaning to me. Indeed, I think that I pick up on jokes, references, and artistic choices now that I didn’t appreciate when I was younger. The strip has become MORE interesting and poignant as I’ve aged, not less.
One of my favorite movies of all time is Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. From Gene Wilder’s iconic performance as the mad genius Wonka, to the fantastical art direction, to the undercurrent of danger running through the whole thing, there’s really nothing about the film I don’t like.
Calvin and Hobbes and Willy Wonka are separated by around twenty years. They do not explicitly reference each other. But in my mind, there is some connecting aesthetic tissue between these two works of art. They are both funny, and yet there are moments of dark seriousness. They both deal with children and their relationships to adults. And they both are paeans to the power of imagination.
These works share a particular artistic perspective, and it is one I value highly. It is a way of looking at the world through a child’s eyes, with an adult intellect. Calvin is preternaturally intelligent, with a vocabulary far beyond that of an ordinary six year old, but he goes to school, plays games, and gets in trouble like any other child. Willy Wonka is an adult who references O’Shaughnessy, Wilde, and Shakespeare, but he lives in a fantasy world of his own creation, and clearly relates better to children (and oompa loompas) than adults. I find this shared artistic perspective tremendously interesting, and yet I cannot for the life of me come up with a word to describe it.
The closest words I’ve come up with so far are “innocence” and “whimsy,” but neither one seems quite right. Innocence is often taken to mean naiveté, or even ignorance. However, the real root of the word innocence is not the Latin noscere, meaning “knowing,” but nocere, meaning “evil or guilty”. Innocence actually means to be without evil. It is interesting to note that there does not seem to be evil in either the world of Willy Wonka or Calvin and Hobbes. No matter how badly Calvin misbehaves, or how twisted Wonka’s tests are, they are not done with malice. In fact, Mr. Slugworth, the only real villain in the Wonka film, turns out to be an employee of Wonka, who was simply testing Charlie’s morals! So innocence is a characteristic of the works of art in question, but it is not precisely the one that I’m trying to focus on.
I like whimsy more – the word just sounds fun, the way it breezes off of the tongue. Many of the fanciful ideas in Calvin and Hobbes and Willy Wonka could certainly be called whimsical. But I think that whimsy connotes not just a lack of seriousness, but also a lack of meaningfulness. Something described as whimsical is rarely thought to be of real value. This is the exact opposite of the artistic characteristic I recognize in these works. They are filled with meaning because of their child-like perspective.
I’ve deliberately left music out of this discussion up to this point, because I’ve had a difficult time pinpointing this artistic perspective in musical works. More often music is deliberately adult – dealing with themes of romance, mortality, and fate. Perhaps it is too literary of an idea to find in music, but I think there are a few musicians who manage to capture the characteristic I’m attempting to define. I think one of the strongest contenders has to be Wayne Shorter. I’m reminded of a passage from Michelle Mercer’s excellent biography:
“In the inner sanctum of the Shorter household, Wayne’s imagination flourished until it took on flamboyant forms and an almost absurd magnitude. By the time Wayne was seven, he and [his brother] Alan presumed they could conjure up the entire planet with their bare hands. ‘One time we had a whole bunch of clay on the kitchen table,’ Wayne said. ‘We said, ‘Let’s make the whole world!’”
Calvin and Hobbes and Willy Wonka are united by a shared belief in the immense power of imagination. Imagination is not something just for the play of children; it is a primal force. It can create and destroy worlds. Hobbes is alive because in the world that Calvin has created, he is a living, breathing tiger. Willy Wonka’s factory is a world he has created for himself, where little orange men mix chocolate, bubbles can make you fly, and children can be miniaturized by television or blown up like blueberries. And Wayne Shorter continues to re-imagine his compositions, creating vast new worlds of sonic possibilities each evening. This is art where the subject is not love, or death, or triumph over adversity. This is art about imagination itself.
Now why isn’t there a single word to describe that? It took me about 1000. Any suggestions?

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What is aphasia?
Aphasia, a disturbance in the formulation and comprehension of language, is due to damage to brain tissue areas responsible for language; aphasia may occur suddenly or develop over time, depending on the type and location of brain tissue damage.
- Strokes are a common cause of aphasia.
- Causes of aphasia are mainly due to strokes, severe head trauma, brain tumors, and brain infections; however, any brain tissue damage for whatever reason that occurs in the language centers of the brain may cause aphasia.
- Two broad categories of aphasia are fluent and non-fluent (also termed Broca's aphasia), but there are subtypes of these categories.
- Aphasia, especially a subtype, is diagnosed by tests given to people to determine the individual's ability to communicate and understand, using language skills; neurologists most frequently diagnose the type of aphasia.
- Aphasia is mainly treated by speech and language therapy and therapy methods are based on the extent and locale of the brain damage.
- Aphasia research is ongoing; studies include revealing underlying problems of brain tissue damage, the links between comprehension and expression, rehabilitation methods, drug therapy, speech therapy, and other ways to understand and treat aspects of aphasia.
What is aphasia?
Aphasia is a neurological disorder caused by damage to the portions of the brain that are responsible for language. Primary signs of the disorder include difficulty in expressing oneself when speaking, trouble understanding speech, and difficulty with reading and writing. Aphasia is not a disease, but a symptom of brain damage.
Who has aphasia?
Most commonly seen in adults who have suffered a stroke, aphasia can also result from a brain tumor, infection, head injury, or dementia that damages the brain. It is estimated that about 1 million people in the United States today suffer from aphasia. The type and severity of language dysfunction depends on the precise location and extent of the damaged brain tissue.
What are the types of aphasia?
Generally, aphasia can be divided into four broad categories: (1) Expressive aphasia involves difficulty in conveying thoughts through speech or writing. The patient knows what he wants to say, but cannot find the words he needs. (2) Receptive aphasia involves difficulty understanding spoken or written language. The patient hears the voice or sees the print but cannot make sense of the words. (3) Patients with anomic or amnesia aphasia, the least severe form of aphasia, have difficulty in using the correct names for particular objects, people, places, or events. (4) Global aphasia results from severe and extensive damage to the language areas of the brain. Patients lose almost all language function, both comprehension and expression. They cannot speak or understand speech, nor can they read or write.
What are the symptoms for aphasia?
Aphasia is a sign of some other condition, such as a stroke or a brain tumor.
A person with aphasia may:
- Speak in short or incomplete sentences
- Speak in sentences that don't make sense
- Substitute one word for another or one sound for another
- Speak unrecognizable words
- Not understand other people's conversation
- Write sentences that don't make sense
The severity and scope of the problems depend on the extent of damage and the area of the brain affected.
Types of aphasia
Your doctor may refer to aphasia as nonfluent, fluent or global:
Nonfluent aphasia. Damage to the language network near the left frontal area of the brain usually results in Broca aphasia, which is also called nonfluent aphasia. People with this disorder struggle to get words out, speak in very short sentences and omit words. A person might say "Want food" or "Walk park today." A listener can usually understand the meaning.
People with Broca aphasia may understand what other people say better than they can speak. They're often aware of their difficulty communicating and may get frustrated. People with Broca aphasia may also have right-sided paralysis or weakness.
- Fluent aphasia. People with this form of aphasia may speak easily and fluently in long, complex sentences that don't make sense or include unrecognizable, incorrect or unnecessary words. They usually don't understand spoken language well and often don't realize that others can't understand them. Also known as Wernicke aphasia, this type of aphasia is the result of damage to the language network in the middle left side of the brain.
- Global aphasia. Global aphasia results from extensive damage to the brain's language networks. People with global aphasia have severe disabilities with expression and comprehension.
When to see a doctor
Because aphasia is often a sign of a serious problem, such as a stroke, seek emergency medical care if you suddenly develop:
- Difficulty speaking
- Trouble understanding speech
- Difficulty with word recall
- Problems with reading or writing
What are the causes for aphasia?
The most common cause of aphasia is brain damage resulting from a stroke — the blockage or rupture of a blood vessel in the brain. Loss of blood to the brain leads to brain cell death or damage in areas that control language.
Brain damage caused by a severe head injury, a tumor, an infection or a degenerative process also can cause aphasia. In these cases, the aphasia usually occurs with other types of cognitive problems, such as memory problems or confusion.
Primary progressive aphasia is the term used for language difficulty that develops gradually. This is due to the gradual degeneration of brain cells located in the language networks. Sometimes this type of aphasia will progress to a more generalized dementia.
Sometimes temporary episodes of aphasia can occur. These can be due to migraines, seizures or a transient ischemic attack (TIA). A TIA occurs when blood flow is temporarily blocked to an area of the brain. People who've had a TIA are at an increased risk of having a stroke in the near future.
What are the treatments for aphasia?
If the brain damage is mild, it's possible to recover language skills without treatment. However, most people undergo speech and language therapy to rehabilitate their language skills and supplement their communication experiences. Researchers are investigating the use of medications, alone or in combination with speech therapy, to help people with aphasia.
Speech and language rehabilitation
Recovery of language skills is usually a slow process. Although most people make significant progress, few people regain full pre-injury communication levels.
Speech and language therapy aims to improve the ability to communicate. The therapy helps by restoring as much language as possible, teaching how to make up for lost language skills and finding other methods of communicating.
- Starts early. Some studies have found that therapy is most effective when it begins soon after the brain injury.
- Often works in groups. In a group setting, people with aphasia can try out their communication skills in a safe environment. Participants can practice starting conversations, speaking in turn, clearing up confusion and fixing conversations that have completely broken down.
- May include use of computers. Using computer-assisted therapy can be especially helpful for relearning verbs and word sounds (phonemes).
Brain stimulation is being studied for aphasia treatment and may help improve the ability to name things. But no long-term research has been done yet. One treatment is called transcranial magnetic stimulation and another is transcranial direct current stimulation.
These treatments aim to stimulate damaged brain cells. Both are noninvasive. One uses magnetic fields and the other uses a low current through electrodes placed on the head.
What are the risk factors for aphasia?
Risk factors for primary progressive aphasia include:
- Having learning disabilities. A learning disability might put you at somewhat higher risk of primary progressive aphasia.
- Having certain gene mutations. Rare gene mutations have been linked to the disorder. If several other members of your family have had primary progressive aphasia, you might be more likely to develop it.
Is there a cure/medications for aphasia?
Certain drugs are being studied for the treatment of aphasia. These include drugs that may improve blood flow to the brain, enhance the brain's recovery ability or help replace depleted chemicals in the brain (neurotransmitters). Several medications, such as memantine (Namenda), donepezil (Aricept, Adlarity), galantamine (Razadyne ER) and piracetam, have shown promise in small studies. But more research is needed before these treatments can be recommended.

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No one in the charming river town of New Hope, Pennsylvania, needs to know that Vince Amato plans on flipping The Hideaway Inn to the highest bidder and returning to his luxury lifestyle in New York City. He needs to make his last remaining investment turn a profit…even if that means temporarily relocating to the quirky small town where he endured growing up. He’s spent years reinventing himself and won’t let his past dictate his future.
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NEW YORK, February 19. /TASS corr. Natalya Slavina/. The showing of a military war drama by director Alexey Sidorov "T-34" was cancelled in the US city of San Francisco due to a radical reaction by a group of individuals who allegedly detected propagandistic content in the film, head of the company distributing the film on North American territory Alexander Belyakov told TASS.
"The showing, which was set to take place on February 21 at a San Francisco movie theater, was cancelled due to an unhealthy reaction of separate radicals, who detected propaganda in the film," he noted. "At the same time, the activists state that they haven’t seen the film, but only watched the trailer. So I don’t really understand what the problem is. I suppose that the radicals are only protesting because the film is Russian - perhaps, for the last three years they haven’t heard that we distribute Russian movies, and now they have and will continue to stand in our way in the future."
Belyakov added that earlier, activists tried to sabotage the showing of the film in Boston. "Unfortunately, they managed to intimidate the owner of a small independent theater in Boston by multiple phone calls and emails, who got scared for his own business. But we immediately contacted our partners - the second largest cinema network in the world, and they offered us a cinema hall in Boston on the same day, because they [the activists] are unable to intimidate a network," he said.
"In order to distribute the film in North American theaters, we go through a special film commission in Canada, which is very strict on checking any film offered for distribution," Belyakov said, adding that the commission did not find any violations in the film.
"Both the cinema and us are outside of politics," he stated. "We just want as many people as possible seeing different and the best Russian films, and the rest is a matter of taste." "Every person in the US has a right to choose, and the viewers can decide for themselves whether to watch the film or not," he concluded.
The T-34 film is a Russian military drama, which is currently the second top grossing film of all time in Russia. It is shown in several US theaters in Russian with English subtitles. "I think the film will be a success, even despite someone trying to sabotage the showings. We are just sorry that the people of San Francisco will not be able to see it," Belyakov said.


May 3, 2019
In Philadelphia, a Small Living Prototype Aims to Go Where Other Developers Won’t
Designed by Interface Studio Architects and developed by Callahan Ward Companies, the “Tiny Tower” is a 12-foot-wide test-case for small sites that many might consider unusable.
Nearly 50 years ago, artist Gordon Matta-Clark purchased and photographed an assortment of improbably tiny and untenable parcels of land across Queens, New York. Dubbed Reality Properties: Fake Estates, the series was an exploration of real estate, architecture, economics, and the idea that some spaces can be owned but not inhabited. Now that series seems prescient as a growing small-living trend restores demand for inconveniently-sized properties—in dense urban cores and edge neighborhoods alike. While many such properties are regarded by developers as not lucrative enough—as well as posing bureaucratic hurdles—“leftover lots” have become somewhat of a speciality for the Philadelphia-based real estate developer Callahan Ward Companies and its regular collaborator Interface Studio Architects (ISA).
In 2016, Callahan Ward commissioned ISA to build a single-family home on a 12-foot-by-29-foot lot in Philadelphia’s Brewerytown neighborhood. At 1,250 square-feet, the so-called Tiny Tower makes the most of its modest lot, maximizing its height and including a basement level. With construction costs totaling approximately $250,000, Tiny Tower poses vertical living as an economically viable form of urban dwelling. (Currently, Callahan Ward is using the tower as a temporary office space, but eventually intends to sell it to residents.)
In many ways, says ISA principal Brian Phillips, the slender, five-story building takes after the city’s traditional trinity row houses that once occupied this same strip of land along Harper Street. However, with an unpaved parking lot to its immediate left and a series of driveways to the right, the freestanding tower more closely resembles a miniature skyscraper. In fact, ISA describes the building as being “organized like a full-scale skyscraper,” with four open plan levels (plus a basement kitchen and roof deck) linked by a vertical circulation core. The folded plate steel staircase, a prominent feature visible through the front facade, is the defining characteristic of vertical living, wherein “the stair becomes a delightful experience, almost a kind of gallery with views of the street,” says Phillips.
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According to Phillips, the innovative architecture of kyosho jutaku, Japanese micro homes, served as an additional source of inspiration for Tiny Tower. Such design movements resonate with a new generation of homeowners, faced with land’s scarcity and rising price, who prioritize urban location over square-footage. But in response to the downsizing movement, Phillips cautions against the urge to trade 3,000-square-foot McMansions for 300-square-foot micro apartments. “I think what we should all be focused on is not the extreme side of things, but just the right size that works,” he says. “What about 1,000-square-foot single family homes that still allow for some social programming and flexibility?”
[Editor’s note 5/6/19: This article was amended to include mention of this project’s AIA 2019 Housing Awards selection.]
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ADOM 1.2.0p9 is - as usual - downloadable via the links provided in the ADOM self service portal.
The amount of changes is again sweeping - p9 has been a very active development phase. Among dozens of minor and medium adjustments the biggest new addition to the game itself is the new set of boss monsters. These boss monsters have been defined by donors from the crowd funding campaign and provide special names, descriptions and a set of extra abilities. They can be generated in place of "normal" wandering monsters and IMHO are a splendid and very colorful addition to the game. Some of them probably need a little more balancing but for now I'm very curious about feedback :-)
Here we go with the complete list of changes:
- Feature 722 - Invisible Monsters
- Feature 1188 - 'l'ooking at an altar should tell you its color.
- Feature 1212 - Kicking certain items should hurt you like with anvils
- Feature 1278 - Shields balancing
- Feature 1300 - Add 45 new items (in progress)
- Feature 1301 - Add 46 new artifacts (in progress)
- Feature 1409 - RFE: Make Detect traps faster to use on doors
- Feature 1410 - Tone down spiked armor of chaos and terror a bit?
- Feature 1413 - Assasins and daggers
- Feature 1418 - [Balance] Easing the start a little
- Feature 1419 - Remove hunger penalty from burden statuses
- Feature 1431 - Add 4 new monsters (in progress)
- Feature 1434 - Tell new players which R/C combos are easiest
- Feature 1460 - Slighty more hp for mist elves?
- Feature 1462 - Balance "room smelling of carrots" Pe increase
- Feature 1464 - [Balance] Make thieves guild easier to access
- Feature 1467 - Rarity limit for Thrundarr's first quest
- Feature 1479 - [Balance] sickness is impossible to survive as mist elf
- Feature 1480 - Make all heir gifts more or less useful
- Feature 1483 - werewolves and dire wolves should see in darkness
- Feature 1489 - Improve worthless possible crowning gifts
- Feature 1490 - More feedback on "very close" message.
- Feature 1495 - [Suggestion] Make Greater Vaults more common, more varied
- Feature 1507 - Minotaur maze made a little easier?
- Feature 1522 - Make surges of power more frequent
- Feature 1591 - Change Dwarf Chaos Knight Starting Weapon To Great Axe
- Feature 1613 - higher strength bonus for 2-handed weapons
- Feature 1641 - [suggestion] Make elven duelists start with racial armour
- Feature 1648 - Reducing the frustration caused by rivers
- Feature 1651 - Slaying sling bullets
- Feature 1683 - Implement special boss monsters
- Feature 1693 - Crystals of power
- Bug 759 - Dungeon generation bugs
- Bug 900 - Some monsters are illogically (un)affected by mindcraft
- Bug 929 - Carpenter quest becomes unwinnable if Yrrigs transforms into a WMoPC
- Bug 1171 - Applying unusable skills consumes time
- Bug 1302 - visible invisible stalker is "someone" or "something"
- Bug 1385 - @ command doesn't work on Windows
- Bug 1399 - [Balance] The transition between Hunger --> Starvation is too quick
- Bug 1449 - Charges on wands in shops are not displayed.
- Bug 1469 - Trying to eat mist wolf corpse crashes the game
- Bug 1472 - Mist Elves Wearing a Single Metal Ring Suffer Damage in Wilderness
- Bug 1473 - Ratling shopkeepers sell things for 1gp?
- Bug 1478 - Gauntlets (10s) do not deal damage to mist elves
- Bug 1486 - tiny quarrels are not affixable, except with heir
- Bug 1505 - Fix monsters squeezing past one another (and cut down on message spam)
- Bug 1506 - Monks can't kick down walls any more.
- Bug 1519 - Staff of creation - guaranteed?
- Bug 1520 - Tone down the Animated Forest, somehow
- Bug 1526 - All Scrolls in Shop run by Ratling shopkeeper cost 1gp
- Bug 1544 - Mist elf hunger rate too low
- Bug 1573 - No turn advance when confusion prevents casting
- Bug 1586 - Slow shadows can be pickpocketed
- Bug 1593 - More meaningful loot
- Bug 1604 - Your equipment suddenly seems to weigh less.
- Bug 1636 - Bouncing rays display with wrong symbol
- Bug 1637 - Washed away by Fairy Dragon
- Bug 1640 - Monsters Randomly Becoming Neutral, Lots of Prompting
- Bug 1642 - Thrundarr still doesn't give potion of literacy to low literacy characters
- Bug 1643 - incorrect ^x description of duelist 6th level class power
- Bug 1653 - Crash when generating mist elf chaos knight
- Bug 1667 - Close door asks for direction when standing on door and there's only one adjacent door open
- Bug 1682 - Undead can pray
- Bug 1690 - Level 18+ duelists can't give elemental gauntlets to the demented ratling
- Bug 1697 - Wrong theft counter increase when picking pockets
I was always curious about mist elves. If "common" metals hurt them so much, wouldn't iron weapon wound meant instant death?ReplyDelete
Think of it as if the iron item feels very hot, like 70-75ºC or so. If you're being in contact with it (holding or wearing it) you'll be continually burned, and such a situation could lead to eventual death even in real life. If, however, you're stricken by a weapon heated to this same temperature, you won't have enough time to get burned. With a contact so short temperature wouldn't matter much, if at all.Delete
How long do you prefer that people wait after donating before following up regarding the prerelease buy-in?ReplyDelete

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Although we all enjoy the classic albums fueled by political ideology such as Bob Dylan’s Time Times They Are A-Changin’ or The Doors’ self-titled album, the lyrics may seem a bit outdated for today’s rapidly changing political climate. While both the 60’s and today’s politics are polarizing and dividing within the public, the issues are very different, and in this age of liberal resistance against the Trump administration, activists need their own modern playlist of songs that are a testament to their times. This list is the five best politically-charged albums from and for the modern era of politics and social change.
5. Solange – ‘A Seat at the Table‘
In her first full-length release since 2012, the 2016 album ‘A Seat at the Table‘ is beautiful in both an artistic sense and through the message. Solange explores different political and social messages throughout the album on tracks such as ‘Don’t Touch My Hair‘, ‘Weary‘ and ‘Borderline (An Ode to Self-Care).‘ Using classic R&B sounds, Solange makes this album modern with her use of collaborations with artists such as Kelly Rowland, The-Dream, and Lil’ Wayne to help her bring the themes of peace, black pride and political unrest to her listener in a gorgeous, timeless way.
4. Green Day – ‘Revolution Radio‘
With the release of ‘Revolution Radio‘, Green Day adds one more political album to their discography, along with previous releases such as ‘American Idiot‘ and ‘21st Century Breakdown.’ Though it’s no surprise that Green Day is so political, since punk music has always been heavily influenced by politics, Green Day is refreshingly current in terms of the message throughout the record. ‘Bang Bang‘ is a sarcastic mocking of the U.S.’s gun-obsessed culture and on media violence, ‘Say Goodbye‘ is a comment on the rise of police violence, and ‘Troubled Times‘ is a plea to work together before our polarizing political climate causes more divisions within our nation.
3. Alicia Keys – ‘HERE‘
During the recording of ‘HERE’, Alicia Keys went through a personal revolution of her own. She stopped wearing makeup, embraced her natural beauty and adopted a political voice of her own, which became the theme of her 2016 album. The record starts off with spoken word, where Keys proudly proclaims, “I feel like history on the turntables”, and later says, “I feel like Nina Simone”, exclaiming her newly found connection to the late singer, both artistically and politically. The album carries political tracks such as ‘Kill Your Mama‘, ‘The Gospel‘ and ‘Holy War’, broken up by interludes of poetry, street sounds, and recordings of Keys herself.
2. Raury – ‘All We Need‘
On the second track of this record, Raury starts out the song by exclaiming, “Lord, save this burning earth.” That theme of revolution in the face of polarizing times is carried throughout the album. Raury explores R&B sounds and acoustic melodies as a means to translate his message of the need for an urgent revolution carried out through peace and a change in one’s inner self. The album deals with themes of political, social and spiritual change through tracks like, ‘Revolution‘, ‘Forbidden Knowledge‘ and ‘Kingdom Come’, while emphasizing the need to first change oneself in order to change the world around us.
1. Kendrick Lamar – ‘To Pimp a Butterfly‘
‘To Pimp a Butterfly’ is one of Kendrick’s most critically acclaimed albums and a fan favorite among his loyal audience for good reason. This politically-charged concept album explores themes of black pride, violence, and finance in the form of hip-hop while Kendrick keeps the topics’ complexities in tack. Tracks like ‘The Blacker The Berry‘ and ‘Institutionalized‘ are strong statements on the black community and racism in the United States, while ‘How Much a Dollar Cost‘ is a comment on finance and poverty in the U.S., and was President Obama’s favorite song of 2015. The storyline, complexity of topics and depth of emotions, and Kendrick’s lyrical genius and delivery makes this album one of the strongest statements from him as an artist so far.


Golden Era Still Good at 12 Metre North Americans:
Nine 12 Metre teams competed in their North American Championship, hosted by Ida Lewis Yacht Club on September 23-25 in Newport, RI. Sailing on sloops best known as the America’s Cup boats during that event’s so-called “Golden Era” (1958-1987), the teams competed in three divisions – Grand Prix, Modern and Traditional – and completed eight races in 13-17 knot breezes that held for courses both on Rhode Island Sound (where the America’s Cup was held from 1930-1983) and upper Narragansett Bay. Full report and photos.
Full Article: Scuttlebutt Sailing News – Golden Era Still Good at 12 Metre North Americans, Editor
Fall Begins in Long Island Sound:
The 2016 Fall Series hosted by American Yacht Club got started September 24-25 with the first part of the two weekend event. Eighty-five teams competed in divisions for IRC, PHRF, J/44, J/109, J/88, J/105, and J/70. Racing in each division will continue on October 1-2. Event details.
Full Article: Scuttlebutt Sailing News – Fall Begins in Long Island Sound, Editor


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The Board of Directors shall elect the Committee members from amongst themselves, comprising exclusively of Non-Executive Directors, a majority of whom are Independent and number at least 3 in total.
The Chairman of the Committee shall be Non-Executive Director appointed by the Board. In the absence of the Chairman, the members present shall elect a Chairman for the meeting from amongst themselves.
The Company Secretary shall be the Secretary of the Committee and shall be responsible, in conjunction with the Chairman, for drawing up the agenda and circulating it prior to each meeting.
The Secretary shall also be responsible for keeping the minutes of meetings of the Committee and circulating them to the Committee Members.
The Committee may meet together for the despatch of business, adjourn and otherwise regulate the meetings at least once a year or more frequent as deemed necessary. The Chairman may call for additional meetings at any time at the Chairman’s discretion. The quorum for a meeting shall be two (2) members.
The Committee may conduct its meeting to include participation thereat by any member or invitee via video or teleconferencing or any other means of audio or audio – visual communications.
All resolutions of the Committee shall be adopted by a simple majority vote, each member having one vote. In case of equality of votes, the Chairman of the meeting shall have a second or casting vote.
A resolution in writing, signed by all the members of the Committee, shall be as effectual as if it has been passed at a meeting of the Committee duly convened and held. Any such resolution may consist of several documents in like form, each signed by one or more Committee members.
The Remuneration Committee in accordance with a procedure or process to be determined by the Board of Directors and at the expense of the Company:-
(a) shall review, assess and recommend to the Board of Directors, the remuneration packages of the Executive Directors and key management personnel in all forms, with other independent professional advice or outside advice as necessary; and
(b) shall be entitled to the services of the Company Secretary who must ensure that all decisions made on remuneration packages of the Executive Directors and key management personnel be properly recorded and minuted in the minutes book.
The proposed remuneration packages of Non-Executive Directors are to be presented to the Committee for notation only as to be proposed to the Board and the shareholders at Annual General Meeting as relevant. The individuals concerned should abstain from discussing their own remuneration.
There should be a formal and transparent procedure for developing policy on Executive Directors’ and key management personnel’s remuneration and for fixing the remuneration packages of individual directors.
The Committee is authorised by the Board to seek appropriate professional advice inside and outside the Group as and when it considers this necessary, at the expense of the Company.
The Committee shall take into cognisance in its deliberations the ACE Market Listing Requirements of Bursa Securities and the Malaysian Code on Corporate Governance, and any other pertinent regulations and laws, as well as revisions which may come into force from time-to time.
The duties and responsibilities of the Committee are as follows:-
6.1 Establish and recommend the remuneration structure and policy for Executive Directors and key management personnel; the terms of employment or contract of employment/service, any benefit, pension or incentive scheme entitlement; other bonuses, fees and expenses; any compensation payable on the termination of the service contract by the Company and/or the Group and to review for changes to the policy, as necessary. The Executive Directors and key management personnel should play no part in decisions involving their own remuneration.
6.2 Ensure that a strong link is maintained between the level of remuneration and individual performance against agreed targets, the performance-related elements of remuneration forming a significant proportion of the total remuneration package of Executive Directors and key management personnel.
6.3 Review and recommend the entire individual remuneration packages for each of the Executive Directors and key management personnel to ensure the levels of remuneration be sufficiently attractive and be able to retain the Executive Directors and key management personnel needed to run the Company successfully.
6.4 Review with the Chief Executive and the Executive Directors, their performance against these objectives as well as contribution to the corporate strategy.
6.5 Consider and review any renewal of service contracts of the Executive Directors as and when due, as well as any service contracts and remuneration package for newly appointed Executive Director(s) prior to their appointment.
6.6 Review and recommend to the Board regarding any proposed new employees’ share option scheme to be given to the Directors and/or amendments to the existing scheme.
6.7 Consider and examine such other matters as the Committee considers appropriate.
6.8 Consider other matters as referred to the Committee by the Board.


The Undersecretary of Hydrocarbons and Fuels, Maggie Videla, and the presidential advisor Ariel Kogan met with the natural gas marketers, who detailed the high degree of renewal of supply contracts with industrial clients, which ensures the availability of supply.
Official sources explained that in a virtual meeting, the Secretary of Energy, together with 48 representatives of gas marketers that operate with industrial clients and large users from all over the country, reviewed the current situation in the sectorwithin days of the annual expiration of contracts on May 1.
in the meeting, Kogan stated that “this year there will undoubtedly be a greater volume of gas for the industry” by highlighting in the first instance that “the production companies will start in May with maximum production and injection committed to Plan Gas.Ar”, which last year only happened in July.
In this way, as foreseen in the current plan, 30% of that production must be available for the industry, that is, if there is more Plan Gas.Ar volume and there is more gas directly for the contracted productive sector.
Kogan also explained that “the country’s total gas production continues to grow month after month,” and that the latest round of the Gas.Ar Plan added 3 million m3 per day, starting this winter, a volume that last year did not existed, and that ends up saturating the gas pipelines from Neuquén.
For their part, the trading businessmen who spoke during the meeting emphasized that, until last March, they renewed the contracts of all their regular customers for the 22/23 campaign.
In the international context that had already been noted, even prior to the war in Ukraine, the contracting process began to take place in December of last year, with minimal exceptions characterized by the decision of these clients to wait until the last moment.
Videla explained that the Secretary of Energy was holding direct meetings with industrialists, provincial authorities, business organizations and, in this case, marketers, as a tool to analyze the situation of the sector with its direct actors, and then make the necessary decisions.
For its part, it was highlighted during the talk that the production companies have been amply fulfilling their commitments with Plan Gas.Ar, and their sworn declarations of projection of their production for this year, exceed what was verified in 2021.
In this regard, Kogan explained that “producers also reported that they have been closing contracts for this season since the end of last year with the vast majority of their customers, with prices for a million BTUs ranging from US$3.51 to $4.90, with a maximum of $5.50, with few exceptions.”
Finally, the same sources indicated that the marketers endorsed these prices in their interventions, such as those adopted in their purchase and sale operations for approximately 97% of their already contracted clients.
Particularizing the analysis on the small segment of clients not yet contracted, they also expressed that they basically correspond to the north of the country, and that outside of them, only in those marginal cases, due to small volumes, in this final part of the contracting process in the last days, an urgency to close contracts was generated, and then much higher prices appeared.


Q: We are driving to Florida this fall. Can you tell us how Nashville is doing after the flood this spring? We hope to stop by Opryland Hotel and the Grand Ole Opry. Are both up and running?
A: At the moment, those venues are not open, but they will be soon — and perhaps in time for your trip. The record floods in May walloped the city, but most of the tourist attractions recovered quickly. Unfortunately, the two you mention did not. The Gaylord Opryland Resort, which is still recovering from a deluge of 10 feet of water, will reopen Nov. 15. The Grand Ole Opry will reopen for tours Oct. 3 (www.opry.com; 1-615-871-6779). By the way, the Ryman Auditorium is going strong, as is the Country Music Hall of Fame; neither was damaged by the flood.
If you do go late enough for an overnight at the Opryland Hotel, be prepared for a Christmas extravaganza. Decorating for the holiday has already begun, even as restoration of the building continues. The resort's popular "A Country Christmas," features 2 million tea lights, gingerbread houses, visits with Santa and several shows, including "Radio City Christmas Spectacular," starring the Rockettes.


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Boris Kodjoe, Vivica Fox, and Star Jones were at the Soul Kitchen at The Forge in Miami last night. Man, that sure is a lot of surgery stitches Boris is hugging on right there. We know he couldn’t wait to get home to Nicole.
We really wish that Vivica Fox would start dressing her age too.

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You created the earth, and it is Good. You created the universe, and it is Good. At times we blame and curse the universe for the bad things that happen; we blame and curse the earth for the natural disasters we face. God, call us away from cursing into lives of blessing. Help us to share out of our resources with those in need. Call us to use our hands and feet to act in recovery efforts and in arms that reach out. Guide our hearts to remember all who have lost so much.
We are grateful, God, for the first responders who gave up fear and instead gave into hope to rescue others. We are grateful, God, for all those who have rushed to help, to pledge their resources, to bring comfort. We are grateful, God, for churches and schools who have flung open their doors to be homes for the homeless. We are grateful, God, for the hearts that have been broken open.
And we grieve, Holy God, for all those who have been lost. We mourn with the families who have lost loved ones, especially children. Creator God, who loves us like a mother and father, we cannot fathom the grief that is being experienced in this time. Call us away from the simple answers and responses that cannot heal wounds so deep. Keep us instead to the hope that is in You, the hope of resurrection, the hope of new life.
In the name of Christ, the one who brings us healing, the one who brings us hope, the one who leads us into life, we pray. Amen.
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Photo: Matt Tennyson will begin his 2013-14 season in Worcester, but the big, skilled blueliner could be among the first call-ups to the Sharks (courtesy of Derek Leung/Getty Images)
For a while now, the San Jose Sharks prospect pool has been deeply submerged under water. It has consisted of a lot of unknowns and was written off as one of the worst pools in the NHL. In 2013-14, the fins of the future have risen to the surface and everyone’s screaming “Sharks.”
Photo: The Sharks have two of their top forward prospects turning pro in 2013-14: Tomas Hertl (pictured) and Matt Nieto (courtesy of Rocky Widner/Getty Images)
The San Jose Sharks have notoriously been known as having one of the worst prospect pools in all of hockey. Yet season after season new faces from the farm make waves and the depth charts are refreshed and they remain in the hunt.
Photo: Chris Tierney scored 21 points in 21 OHL playoff games to help the London Knights capture their second consecutive J. Ross Robertson Cup (courtesy of Terry Wilson/OHL Images)
The players in the San Jose Sharks prospect pool endured plenty of post-season successes and failures. The 2013 playoffs featured multiple first round exits, a few long runs in the CHL, and considerable amounts of golfing as a number of players did not even get a taste of the post-season. The prospect pool was a microcosm for the playoffs in general; you win some, you lose some, and that is just the nature of the game.
Photo: Sean Kuraly had an up-and-down freshman season for Miami, but the 6’2 center’s physical tools keep him among the Sharks top college prospects (courtesy of Tim G. Zechar/Icon SMI)
Built almost entirely out of the later rounds of the draft, the San Jose Sharks NCAA prospect pool features a good mix of size and a small handful of potential NHL regulars. Of the 10 Sharks prospects who played college hockey during the 2012-13 season, eight were selected in the fifth round or later.
Photo: Following another productive season at Boston University, Matt Nieto has mad a strong first impression in his AHL debut with Worcester (courtesy of Michael Tureski/Icon SMI)
The San Jose Sharks prospect pool continues to get better and better. The 2012-13 season has been a strong one for development, and while there looks to be a gap in high-end skill after top prospect Tomas Hertl, a number of prospects have really played themselves into the limelight and have shown at times an ability to possibly fill that gap.


Since Gossip Cop launched in 2009, weâ€™ve spent quite literally years debunking stories about Jennifer Aniston being pregnant. In each case, time has proven our reporting was correct. But with so many busts on this topic, Gossip Cop decided to look back at five wrong pregnancy rumors from the past nine months.
Last November, New Idea published a cover story that falsely announced on the front of the issue, â€śJenâ€™s Baby Joy: Iâ€™m A Mum At Last!â€ť That wasnâ€™t a real quote, and even if it was, Aniston wouldâ€™ve used the word â€śmom,â€ť not â€śmum.â€ť The article alleged she and Justin Theroux were â€śfinally expecting a baby of their own.â€ť But that wasnâ€™t all. It was further claimed that Anistonâ€™s purported pregnancy could â€śturn to double joyâ€ť as she and Theroux were supposedly already in the process of adopting. If this sounds suspicious, thatâ€™s because it was all made-up. Or, as Anistonâ€™s spokesperson told Gossip Cop on the record, â€śItâ€™s all a fabrication.â€ť
Aniston and Theroux ended up splitting in February, which led Womanâ€™s Day in April to exclaim on a cover, â€śYes! Jenâ€™s Pregnant!â€ť Promoting a storyline that other tabloids would soon copy, the magazine maintained she was expecting a baby with ex-husband Brad Pitt. To sell this bogus narrative, the outlet used a picture of the actress in which her stomach appeared to be protruding slightly. What readers werenâ€™t told, and what Gossip Cop pointed out, was that this was a photo of Aniston at the 2013 premiere of Weâ€™re The Millers. She wasnâ€™t pregnant back then, and it certainly wasnâ€™t proof of a pregnancy now.
In early May, New Idea pretended it never claimed Aniston was expecting with Theroux last fall to allege she was â€śpregnant and in hidingâ€ť this spring. Here, Pitt was said to be the father. To substantiate the cover story, the publication purported to have â€śphotos that will shock the world.â€ť In actuality, all it had was fuzzy paparazzi shots of Aniston stepping off a private jet in California. These pictures circulated online a good week before the tabloid tried to pass them off as evidence that she was â€śstruggling to hide what looked like a pregnancy.â€ť But as Gossip Cop confirmed, she was neither hiding nor pregnant.
At the end of May, OK! ran its own cover that declared, â€śJen: Yes, Iâ€™m Pregnant â€” With Bradâ€™s Baby!â€ť It was alleged â€śsources are buzzingâ€ť that Aniston and Pitt are â€śfinally on their way to becoming a family.â€ť Tellingly, though, the actual article itself never said the â€śFriendsâ€ť star was already pregnant, despite the (fake) quote on the cover. In other words, this was a bit of a bait and switch, as Gossip Cop noted in our bust. Whatâ€™s more, though, is that just days later, the magazine ended up debunking its own Aniston pregnancy rumor with an online piece that essentially called out all of the bogus baby claims sheâ€™s faced over the years. At no point, though, did the outlet acknowledge its own culpability, or even take responsibility for its most recent falsehood.
Most recently, its sister tabloid Star speculated Aniston was pregnant just this past week. With an article claiming sheâ€™s secretly dating a Hollywood director, the publication quoted a supposed insider as saying, â€śHer friends are buzzing that she could actually already be hiding a baby.â€ť It was further alleged that best friend Courteney Cox had â€śtold her if the time comes, sheâ€™ll throw her the best baby shower ever.â€ť In addition to not naming this purported boyfriend, there was no mention of Aniston being pregnant in February of 2017, which is what this same magazine claimed last year. Now a rep once more confirmed sheâ€™s not actually expecting. And, as has been reported, Aniston is single.
On top of all of this, Gossip Cop recently observed that nine months had passed since OK! had claimed Aniston was pregnant with a â€śmiracle babyâ€ť last August. Time is often not the gossip mediaâ€™s friend, but particularly when it comes to pregnancy stories like these. It only takes the passage of time to show without a doubt how wrong these claims are. But as we explained above with these recent examples, thereâ€™s also typically other proof to help debunk these allegations when theyâ€™re originally made. And if and when Aniston ever does have a baby, there will be real evidence, not the nonsense these tabloids peddle.


In recent years, with the rapid development of modern industry, the micro holes have received more attention in the manufacture of high-end equipment in aerospace, automobile and medical industries , such as aero-engine turbines , combustion chambers , diesel fuel injectors  etc. At present, micro-holes can be machined by adopting various micro-machining methods, such as abrasive water jet drilling, laser drilling, electrochemical drilling, and micro-electrical discharge machining (micro-EDM)[5, 6]. Among them, micro-EDM has an obvious advantage in the fabrication of micro-holes on difficult-to-machine conductive materials with different hardnesses, especially titanium alloy [7, 8]. However, a continuing problem during the micro-EDM process is that a large amount of machining debris in the inter-electrode gap cannot be evacuated timely, resulting in severe tool electrode wear and decreasing the machining accuracy of micro-holes .
Researchers have been developing various methods to improve debris evacuation and increase the machining accuracy. Wang et al.  improve debris evacuation and decreased the tool electrode wear by using a helical tool electrode. Jacob et al.  successfully fabricated a double helical grooved tool electrode and found that the double helical grooved tool electrode performed better in debris removal than the single helical grooved tool electrode. Moreover, Kumar et al.  fabricated a series of micro-inclined slots on the surface of a solid cylindrical tool electrode. The results showed that the proposed tool electrode can effectively evacuate the debris existing in the inter-electrode gap and hence reduce the taper of a blind micro-hole . In another study, Kumar et al.  drilled a series of inclined through-holes in the solid cylindrical electrode. Their experimental results indicated that the debris could be evacuated via the through-holes, which eliminated the formation of secondary sparking and resulted in a lower value of the taper angle . Except for shaped electrode geometries, other methods are also used to improve the debris evacuation, i.e. ultrasonic vibration, planetary motion of tool electrode plus ultrasonic vibration and magnetic field assistance. Hirao et al.  applied ultrasonic vibration assistance to the tool electrode, and the debris in the machining zone was removed under the condition of high-frequency vibration. Zhao et al.  drilled micro-holes by using a notched tool electrode assisted by ultrasonic vibrations during the micro-EDM process. Their results indicated that both debris evacuation and machining accuracy were effectively improved. Yu et al.  proposed a new approach of the combination of ultrasonic vibrations and planetary motion of tool electrode in micro-EDM and found that the process of micro-EDM drilling had a tremendous improvement in the process performance, which was benefit from the debris evacuation timely. In addition, Bains et al.  introduced magnetic field assistance in EDM and promoted the flow of debris from the machining zone. Baseri et al.  used a constant magnetic field in EDM process and added TiO2 powder to the dielectric. Their experimental results showed that debris was easy to evacuate from the machining zone under the action of a magnetic field force and the powder. Although there are many methods favorable to increasing the debris evacuation during the micro-EDM process, the fabrication of a shaped tool electrode and multi-field assistance are complex and difficult to control. So, tool electrode wear is still inevitable.
The actual machined micro-hole depth is difficult to equal its expected depth due to the tool electrode wear. Therefore, micro-hole depth error is one of the important indicators of machine accuracy. Various tool electrode wear compensation methods have been proposed. Muralidhara et al.  developed an in-situ axial tool wear and machining depth measurement system to investigate the axial wear ratio variations with machining depth, and realized tool electrode wear compensation. A maximum machining depth error of 6% was observed using the proposed tool electrode wear compensation method. Ganesh et al.  proposed a new tool wear compensation method that integrated the micro-EDM machine to an image processing module and computer-controlled tool wear prediction algorithm. Deviation of less than 1% between the actual depth and the expected depth of the micro-hole can be obtained by the proposed novel method. Aligiri et al.  developed a real-time material removal volume estimator based on a theoretical electro-thermal model. The experimental and estimated results were found to be in satisfactory agreement with an average error less than 14.3% for titanium alloy workpeice material. Moreover, Nirala et al.  applied a modified volume removal per discharge approach in real-time. This approach realized tool electrode wear compensation by estimating real-time volume removal from the workpiece. The expected depth of the micro-hole in a brass workpeice material were successfully fabricated with an error of less than 4%. Although these tool electrode compensation methods can effectively improve the machining accuracy of micro-holes, these compensation systems are very complicated.
In our study, a novel machining method of tool electrode spiral motion feed mode combined with FRAC is proposed to improve the machining accuracy of micro-holes, with the processing parameters optimized by means of response-surface experiments. The effects of tool electrode feed mode and compensation method on the machining accuracy of micro-holes were investigated. Besides, the effects of voltage, current, frequency and tool speed on the depth error and machining time of micro-holes are also studied. Finally, high accuracy and high efficiency micro-holes are fabricated by using the optimum processing parameters.


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Many IT managers would like to switch to enterprise Linux, but balk at having to port existing applications to a new platform. Fear not, for porting existing apps to Linux doesn't have to be a head-banging activity, says application development ...
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Deloitte consultants have found 10 challenges and opportunities that are most pressing for CIOs in 2005. They've also found one undeniable fact - that the CIO has become an essential part of the executive suite.
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Oracle executive John Wookey, who is expected to take over the reins of Oracle's restructured applications division, speaks about the future of Oracle CRM products and the E-Business Suite in a recent interview with SearchOracle.com.
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Oracle is making changes to its applications division as part of its merger with rival PeopleSoft. Oracle executive Ron Wohl is expected to step down as head of the applications software division.
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Oracle has named its top executives Charles E. Phillips Jr. and Safra Catz as co-presidents of the newly merged company with PeopleSoft, according to papers filed last week with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
- January 03, 2005
The battle to acquire PeopleSoft took 18 months, but Oracle plans to have the combined companies running together immediately. Here's what analysts think of those prospects.
- December 29, 2004
TechTarget group publisher Paul Gillin offers up his annual predictions for the year ahead, and forecasts a pay hike for IT pros, a potential new owner for Apple and the rise of Linux, spyware and searching on the desktop.
- December 23, 2004
IT departments struggled with vague rules, lurking auditors and eager vendors on the road to becoming compliant. Too bad this is just the beginning.
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If you're a Linux supporter, this was the year to be here. While open source databases lack the functionality of Oracle and SQL Server, they've still caused a uproar in 2004.
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Marc Hebert, executive vice president of Indian outsourcing firm Sierra Atlantic isn't afraid of controversy. In fact, Hebert said he craves it.
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A look at some of the newsworthy moments of 2004, as told from those in the trenches and ripped from the headlines.
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IT workers looking to improve their standing in the job market should look to open source, Web services and security-related skill and certification sets, according to recent research.
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As more IT jobs get outsourced to offshore locations, employees are lucky to get additional training paid by their employer. But when they do receive free training, how much time do they owe their employer?
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Talk about shaking things up. VH1 Replaces Production Companies for Basketball Wives + Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood.
Read on to find out what is going on with VH1 hit series Basketball Wives + Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood, the word is Viacom has new shows in the works…
CelebNReality247.com has learned that two of VH1’s longest running franchises – Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood and Basketball Wives are losing their original production companies.
When it comes to Love & Hip Hop Hollywood, Viacom-owned cable network has removed Eastern TV. As for, Basketball Wives, they just lost Shed Media USA.
According to Deadline, Viacom is replacing them with other production outfits as it looks to take these shows in a new direction.
Basketball Wives, which follows the wives of NBA stars including Shaunie O’Neal, who created the show and was married to Shaquille O’Neal. It has run to over 150 episodes on VH1 across the original series and an LA-based spin-off. It is thought that VH1 hopes the move to revitalize the format will lead to further spin-offs. Shed Media, however, will remain to continue to receive an exec producer credit on the show and will have its production company logo on the show going forward.
Meanwhile, Eastern TV, which is run by CEO Toby Barraud and President Stefan Springman, will no longer be involved in producing Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood but will still be responsible for producing Love & Hip Hop: New York, Love & Hip Hop: Miami and Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta.
The franchise, which has over 300 episodes, has been one of the network’s biggest hits, helping make it the number one non-sports cable network on Monday primetime and with four of the top five unscripted spots in 2018. Mona Scott-Young and her company Monami Entertainment will remain on all versions of the franchise.
VH1 has already invited new producers to come and pitch for these shows as it looks to take them in a new direction.
We have heard that the changeup has nothing to do with the launch of the new MTV Studios.
The nascent production unit was officially launched earlier this summer with MTV President Chris McCarthy and head of programming Nina L. Diaz. Last week, it scored a deal with Facebook to reboot The Real World with Bunim-Murray and is in talks on a number of other titles.


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06 November 2013 : Case report
Unusual clinical courseVincent Bryan SalvadorBEF, Pushkinder SamraoBF, Anatoly LeytinDE, Mohammed BasithBE
Am J Case Rep 2013; 14:462-466
Background: Cholangiocarcinoma remains to be a challenging case to diagnose and manage as it usually presents in advanced stage and survival rate remains dismal despite the medical breakthroughs. It is usually classified as intrahepatic, perihilar or distal tumor which can lead to bile duct obstruction causing sluggish flow of bile through the biliary tract and promoting increased absorption of bilirubin, bile acids and bile salts into systemic circulation accounting for the occurrence of jaundice, dark-colored urine and generalized pruritus. It usually becomes symptomatic when the tumor has significantly obstructed the biliary drainage causing painless jaundice and deranged liver function with cholestatic pattern. Jaundice occurs in 90% of the cases when the tumor has obstructed the biliary drainage system. A markedly dilated gallbladder as initial presenting feature in the absence of other typical obstructive clinical manifestations of an advanced stage of the cholangiocarcinoma is rare.
Case Report: This case report presents an atypical case of an elderly woman who presented with advanced metastatic ductal cholangiocarcinoma with markedly dilated gallbladder and liver mass without other clinical manifestations and laboratory evidence of cholestatic jaundice.
Conclusions: The mere presence of Courvoisier’s sign, even in the absence of other signs of biliary obstruction, could be suggestive of advanced neoplastic process along the biliary tract. Laboratory evidence of cholestasis might lag behind the clinical severity of the biliary obstruction in cholangiocarcinoma.
Keywords: obstructive jaundice, Courvoisier's sign, Cholangiocarcinoma, Adenocarcinoma
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The Dean Hope Center for Educational and Psychological Services (DHCEPS) is an integral part of the teaching and training programs in Clinical, Counseling, School Psychology, Learning Disability and Reading Specialist. The Center works in a two-folded way; first it offers students the opportunity to integrate theoretical coursework with practicum experience within a multidisciplinary setting. This training is foreseen by highly qualified supervisors. Simultaneously, the DHCEPS offers affordable psychological and educational services to individuals, couples, and families residing in the nearby neighborhood of the New York City area. The emphasis is on respecting and working with clients from diverse, multicultural contexts regardless of age, racial and ethnic background, socio-economic status, sexual orientation, and religious or cultural affiliations. Additionally, DHCEPS is committed to maintaining a liaison with community-based agencies and organizations such as schools, hospitals, and mental health clinics, among others.
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Graeme Lempriere, CEO of Clean Seed Capital with the company's Bluetooth-enabled CX-6 crossover drill at the Canada Farm Progress Show on Thursday.
Photograph by: Bryan Schlosser, Regina Leader-Post , Leader-Post
Midale farmer Colin Rosengren has been seeding crop in southern Saskatchewan his entire life, prompting a curiosity to find a way to seed more efficiently.
Rosengren is now vice-president of agronomic practices and protocols at Clean Seed Capital Group, which introduced the first high-precision wireless seeding drill at Canada's Farm Progress Show (CFPS) in Regina this week.
Rosengren, who holds a bachelor's of science degree in mechanized agriculture from the University of Saskatchewan, said he was "basically looking for a new way to achieve higher resolution in seeding ... it's something I've always wanted to do, and to be involved with this level of technology is really exciting."
For the first time ever, Saskatchewan farmers and visitors are viewing and buying the bluetooth-technology equipped seed cleaner at CFPS.
Rosengren developed it with Graeme Lempriere, CEO of Clean Seed Capital Group. The product was first tested on a farm in Weyburn last fall.
Lempriere said he wanted to showcase it for the first time in Regina because CFPS is the biggest event of its kind in the industry and the country.
"We couldn't be happier here, we've had great feedback (and) a lot of interested farmers," said Lempriere.
Lempriere said the machine "precisely meters and limits waste and input (and) refines the inputs, saving on input costs - including overlap protection."
The innovative machinery can separate and handle a variety of six different seeds while fertilizing.
The drill spans 60 feet or more, depending upon field size.
"This is a huge step in precision of our applications, so it's really the next generation of seeding machine where (farmers) can have exact precise resolution in every square foot of the field," said Rosengren.
Rosengren believes "the future of the product is the next wave of seeder for the entire Prairies."
Using the wireless drill means there is no more overlap and no misapplication issues. For example, turning has a high error probability - a common problem in existing seeding machinery.
"We feel really blessed to be here today (at CFPS). Our team has worked very hard for a long time to be here and we're proud to be in Regina," said Lempriere.
Lempriere is hoping to win the people's choice innovation award on Friday, the last day of CFPS.
Agriculture Minister Lyle Stewart said Saskatchewan is an ideal place to develop and use new agricultural technology.
Saskatchewan is home to 40 per cent of Canada's arable farm land, and agriculture employs more than 50,000 Saskatchewanians, twice as many as the oil and gas sector, he said.
"This province is a leader in agricultural resources, bio-technology, crop genetics and a pioneer in technology that helps us to produce more with less," said Stewart.
By 2020 Saskatchewan is aiming to increase crop production by 10 million pounds and agri-food exports by 50 per cent from $10 billion up to $15 billion.


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Seattle City Council members were served more data and opinions Wednesday as they continued to chew over a tax on large corporations and a plan to borrow money for coronavirus emergency assistance.
The tax on companies with annual payrolls over $7 million would apply not only to traditional employers but also to gig-economy businesses, such as Uber, a council central staff analyst said during a budget committee meeting held remotely. Compensation paid to independent contractors, like Uber drivers, would, for the purposes of the tax, be treated like wages paid to employees, analyst Tom Mikesell said.
But franchises, such as McDonald’s, could avoid the 1.3% payroll tax championed by Councilmembers Kshama Sawant and Tammy Morales, because each location would be treated as a separate business, Mikesell said during the council’s second committee meeting on the proposal.
The central staff, which provides nonpartisan analysis for all nine council members, has estimated the tax could raise $500 million a year. Under the Sawant-Morales plan, the money would initially be used for emergency relief, then to build affordable housing and carry out green-building upgrades.
Mayor Jenny Durkan has criticized Sawant and Morales for selling their proposal as a coronavirus measure, because the tax could take effect immediately but wouldn’t be collected right away. Their plan to send $200 million in cash assistance to 100,000 households this year would require Seattle to initially borrow that money from existing sources, such as funds associated with the city’s housing, education, transportation and library property-tax levies and its parks property-tax district.
The city would use the big-business tax to repay those funds later on, with interest, after putting together a system to collect the money. The mayor has described the move as risky and, in an interview with KING 5 last week, she said about the Sawant-Morales plan: “There is no scenario under which people would receive checks this year. That never is going to happen, and I think it’s irresponsible for anyone to say that that’s even possible.”
The loans could be made without eliminating or delaying projects the property-tax funds are earmarked for, another council central staff analyst said Wednesday.
Not all the money that flows into the funds gets spent right away; the city expects the funds to close out this year with a collective balance of more than $300 million, analyst Dan Eder said. The city regularly loans money between its funds, though $200 million would be an unusually large sum, Eder said.
The economic crisis brought on by coronavirus-related business closures is carving a hole in the city’s budget, which relies on existing business and sales taxes. Seattle could collect $300 million less revenue than expected this year, and the levy funds that Sawant and Morales want to borrow from could be needed to help plug that gap, Durkan’s budget director said last week.
Proponents and opponents are organizing to lobby the council. “When somebody says it will not happen … that’s our cue to make it happen,” the Rev. Angela Ying, pastor at Bethany United Church of Christ, said during an online rally with Sawant before the meeting, referring to Durkan’s remarks.
Ying and a number of other religious leaders have signed a letter backing the tax, contending Seattle’s largest companies can afford to help working people, while many business leaders and other opponents have signed a letter against the proposal, arguing the measure could discourage hiring and drive companies away. Both sides are circulating petitions online.
Sawant has called her proposal an “Amazon tax,” though the tax could apply to about 800 companies. Foes have labeled the measure a “tax on jobs.”
“Large and small businesses coexist as part of the same ecosystem,” restaurant owner Taylor Hoang said during the council’s public comment session Wednesday, arguing a “ripple effect” caused by the new tax would hurt small businesses already hit hard by the coronavirus crisis.
“This isn’t a tax on jobs. It’s a tax that creates green jobs,” North Seattle resident Brent McFarlane said in response. Some of the money would be spent to install solar panels and electric heat.
The council won’t discuss the tax again until May 13, but less-public conversations are bound to continue, likely with Durkan and Councilmember Teresa Mosqueda in leading roles. Because the Sawant-Morales proposal is emergency legislation, the mayor has absolute veto power. Mosqueda chairs the council’s budget committee and has signaled interest in negotiating some changes in order to secure coronavirus relief.
She invited several panelists to share perspectives on the coronavirus crisis Wednesday, including a supermarket worker, a homeless services worker and an immigrant-rights advocate. They said people who were marginalized and struggling before the pandemic are even more desperate now.
The proposed tax also got a boost from Molly Moon, whose popular ice cream shops have been shuttered along with other businesses. She described the measure as a “a pretty good” start, while urging proponents to stop using “divisive language” that could alienate people who work for tech giants.
Moon’s payroll is under $7 million, so her business wouldn’t be taxed. “I have always believed that businesses and folks who make a lot of money need to pay to help our community be a wonderful place,” she said. “We also want our customers not to leave Seattle, but I think there’s a way to do all of this.”
Editor’s note: While The Seattle Times as a corporation likely would be affected by the proposed tax, and its editorial board has commented on it, The Times’ news coverage remains independent.


Chris Sutton has today been discussing the selection headache Ange Postecoglou will be enduring in the lead up to Sunday’s Scottish Cup Semi-Final, stating there are a few crucial decisions that the Australian will need to get correct if the Celtic manager is to continue his quest to claim the treble in his first season in Scottish football.
Early news from today’s Celtic media conference seems to indicate that in-form striker Giorgos Giakoumakis is going to miss out on Sunday after what seemed like a hamstring injury sustained last weekend against St Johnstone, another game the Greek marksman managed to score in before having to be substituted off due to his injury. Ange Postecoglou however had better news on David Turnbull, his other injury concern from last weekend who has apparently been declared fit and available for Sunday’s Hampden showdown, according to the Glasgow is Green podcast, presumably representing The Celtic fan media today.
GG is ruled out of the game on Sunday.
Turnbull is fine for it, however.
Confirmed by Ange.
— Glasgow is Green Podcast🟢⚪ (@gigpod) April 15, 2022
There is no doubt Giakoumakis will be missed but fortunately for Celtic as we lose one of our best goalscorers through injury, we are also getting one back, with Kyogo making his long awaited return last Saturday. It’s doubtful whether Ange Postecoglou will want to risk the Japanese star from the start, but we are more than likely to see the fan favourite take to the field at some stage of the contest.
The Celtic manager also has Daizen Maeda to call upon if he doesn’t think Kyogo is quite ready to start such a crucial match. Maeda has worked hard over the last few weeks to win the hearts of the Celtic fans, putting in unbelievable shifts as Celtic have increased their lead at the top of the Premiership.
Whoever starts up front for Celtic in Sunday will no doubt give theRangers backline problems, with plenty of options available on the bench to change things around if required.
The only other area up for debate is in midfield. Here Sutton feels like Tom Rogic done enough in his last outing against Sundays opposition to retain his place ahead of Matt O’Riley who scored two excellent goals against St Johnstone last weekend. The former Celtic striker also predicts we could see Liel Abada coming in from the start after being used less frequently recently.
In his weekly column in Daily Record, Sutton said: “There are selection issues for both managers. Postecoglou might have a decision to make up front, with Giorgos Giakoumakis looking like he’ll miss out (now confirmed).
“The Greek will be a big loss as he’s been a massive player since coming back from the winter break. Does he go with Daizen Maeda through the middle or hand Kyogo Furuhashi a dramatic first start since the turn of the year? I can’t provide the answer as I’ve not seen Kyogo in training.
“For all we know he’s been flying behind the scenes and is ready to go straight back in. You would have to think he’ll need a bit of time to get his sharpness up though. And at least there wouldn’t be any concerns over Maeda getting the nod. It’s amazing to think he had his critics just a few weeks ago.
“However, now he has turned in to a cult hero among most of the Celtic supporters. I can see why. His work-rate is phenomenal and the ability to make sprint after sprint in behind the Rangers backline played a huge part in their crucial Ibrox victory just under two weeks ago.
“Maeda is a different kind of player to Kyogo but you can see what he brings to the team and the Rangers central defensive
partnership won’t fancy having him breathing down their necks for 90 minutes.
“Elsewhere you’d think Tom Rogic will be given the chance to torment (the)Rangers further and the only other question would be if Liel Abada comes back in from the start after being given a bit of a break.
“No matter what, Celtic have the attacking options to trouble (the)Rangers again”.
With theRangers having to play 120 minutes last night at Ibrox against Braga, no matter who starts at Hampden I imagine Ange Postecoglou will be demanding that his players set a high intensity from the start as the vast majority of theRangers players may still be feeling yesterday’s endeavours in their legs.
Their players must be dreading having to face the likes of Maeda so soon after such an exhausting midweek encounter. Let’s put their powers of recovery to the test Celtic.
David Potter’s latest Celtic book is a biography Willie Fernie and is out on 6 May 2022, with pre-orders now being purchased from the link below…