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The European approval marks the first approval for a biosimilar in that region resulting from the companies’ joint portfolio.
Mylan and Biocon have received marketing authorization approval from the European Commission (EC) for Semglee 100 units/mL 3-mL prefilled disposable pen, a biosimilar insulin glargine for treating diabetes, the companies announced on Mar. 27, 2018. Semglee is the first biosimilar resulting from Biocon and Mylan's joint portfolio to be approved in Europe. In addition, the companies received approval for the product in Australia from the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA).
"We are excited to be able to bring Mylan and Biocon's biosimilar insulin glargine to Europe and Australia where millions of people are currently living with diabetes, and we are committed to continuing to bring high quality, more affordable biosimilar products to markets around the world. The investments that we have made to develop and manufacture a leading portfolio of complex products, including Semglee, is one way that we are delivering on our commitment to expand access to high quality medicine," said Mylan President Rajiv Malik in a company press release.
"The approval of Mylan and Biocon's biosimilar insulin glargine by the European Commission and TGA Australia are important milestones in our collaboration. It furthers our mission to provide a high quality, affordable insulin analog for people with diabetes globally. As a credible, global insulins player, we are committed to address the growing healthcare challenges associated with diabetes and have made significant investments in R&D and manufacturing to build scale and make our affordable insulins portfolio available in many markets," added Dr. Arun Chandavarkar, CEO and joint managing director, Biocon.
The EC approval applies to all 28 European Union (EU) member states and the European Economic Area (EEA) member states of Norway, Iceland, and Liechtenstein. In addition, Mylan plans to launch Semglee in Australia later in 2018 and expects to begin launching the product across various markets in Europe in the second half of 2018. The companies have also filed marketing applications in Canada and the United States and plan to file in key emerging markets.
Biocon and Mylan are exclusive partners on a broad portfolio of biosimilars and insulin analogs. Glargine is one of the three insulin analogs being co-developed by the partners for the global marketplace. Mylan has exclusive commercialization rights for insulin glargine in the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the EU and EEA countries. Biocon has exclusive rights for Japan and a few emerging markets and co-exclusive commercialization rights with Mylan in the rest of the world.

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If there’s one book every cyclist should read, it’s The Rider by Tim Krabbé. Just like knowing the basic skill of how to fix a puncture, this should be mandatory reading for every cyclist. I’m ashamed to admit that it’s taken me this long to read it. I’ve never read anything that captures the essence of the pleasure, the suffering and the insanity of a bike race so perfectly. – Cycling Tips
At the start of the 137-kilometre Tour de Mont Aigoual, Tim Krabbé glances up from his bike to assess the crowd of spectators. ‘Non-racers,’ he writes. ‘The emptiness of those lives shocks me.’ Immediate and gripping from the first page, we race with the author as he struggles up the hills and clings on during descents in the unforgiving French mountains. – Amazon
Brilliant book, inexpensive and thoughtful.

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Chatting with BBC Radio DJ Danny Howard, I asked him where he thought the EDM sound would be going next. One thing he mentioned was more hybrids of different genres, citing “Arms Around Me” by Hard Rock Sofa ft Skidka. Listening to the track by the Russian production duo, it’s easy to see why. Mixing disco funk beats and samples over big room festival electro, it sounds completely fresh yet familiar – like two great flavors coming together for a new sensation. (How did I just devolve into a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup commercial?) The track is packed with energy that will hype any club set and has enough of a singalong hook that could cross it over to mainstream radio as well. I have a feeling that we will be hearing this track quite often while down here in Miami.
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The New Mike Hammer (1986) (NTSC)
Bonus Episode-The Return of Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer (90:28)
Bonus Episode-Mike Hammer: Murder Takes it All (90:02)
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The New Mike Hammer ran for 4 seasons and 48 episodes on TV between 1984 and 1987. The full title of this 7 DVD collection from ViaVision is Mickey Spillane’s The New Mike Hammer: The Series which is somewhat misleading. What we actually have in this collection is all 22 episodes of season 3 of the show, which aired between September 1986 and May 1987, each episode of approximately 47 minutes, on 6 DVDs. On the 7th DVD are two full length telemovies: The Return of Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer, shown on 18 April 1986 between season 2 and season 3, and Mike Hammer: Murder Takes it All, shown on 21 May 1989.
The New Mike Hammer stars Stacey Keach, who is still going strong in 2017 with 209 credits listed on the IMDb. He first played Mike Hammer in the TV movie Murder Me, Murder You in 1983; he is to my mind rather too light weight, likeable and charming, not menacing or brutal enough as Spillane’s hard boiled tough guy. However, he has charisma and in the context of a TV series he is pretty good; you could not have too much violence on TV in the 1980s, only shootings without blood and punches which don’t break any bones. Other continuing cast members are Lindsay Bloom as Hammer’s secretary Velda, Don Stroud as Police Captain Pat Chambers and Kent Williams as Special Prosecutor Lawrence D. Barrington. Each episode also adds guest stars; most of whom are not very familiar although exceptions include Cornel Wilde right at the end of his career, singer George Benson, comic Arte Johnson of Laugh-In fame, Bo Hopkins (The Wild Bunch) and Claude Atkins, while the episode “Deadly Collection” showcases the non-acting of Micky Dolenz of The Monkeys.
Each episode is stand alone; there are no continuing story lines (except for a mysterious woman who appears in most episodes, drifting through a scene) and no character development. Some episodes come about when people hire Mike to find somebody but often it is Hammer in the wrong place at an inappropriate time. The quality of the episodes varies due to the different writers and different directors. Some episodes are excellent television, such as “To Kill a Friend” or “Who Killed Sister Lorna?”, others such as “Murder in the Cards” try for funny dialogue and come up sounding silly while “Harlem Nocturne” is almost an extended music video! The episode “A Face in the Night” is different for a couple of reasons; not only does Mike get to meet that mysterious woman from the other episodes, it also features the most ludicrous and irritating “Oostralian” accent and colloquialisms you are ever likely to hear.
Each episode involves a murder and a mystery to be solved mostly, but not always, told from the POV of Hammer complete with his voice-over narration so that in most instances the story develops for the audience as Hammer puts the pieces together, the resolution often involving a twist as the real villain is revealed. Some episodes are a bit different, such as “Kill John Doe” which involves the KGI and US Security, but most are set firmly within the streets and usual denizens of New York; the police, wise guys, the wealthy and elite of New York who mostly are more corrupt and devious than the wise guys, while Mike has more than his fair share of beautiful, often dangerous and devious, women. Indeed, one of the strengths of the series is the location filming on the streets and along the Bay of New York harbour; it is interesting seeing how New York looked in the late 1980s. Occasionally the location changes; in “The Last Laugh” Mike goes the L.A., which is mostly an excuse to show surf and bikinis and have The Beach Boys on the audio track. And of course, it would not be the 1980s without huge gas-guzzling cars and women with big, big hair and massive padded shoulders.
The New Mike Hammer may not be top notch television but it is an entertaining series with wry humour, murder, mystery, shootouts, action during which quite a few cars are destroyed, some interesting stories and excellent New York locations. Big cars, big hair and padded shoulders: welcome to the 1980s!
The New Mike Hammer is presented in the original 1.33:1 aspect ratio, 4x3 in the NTSC format.
The DVD cover notes that “every possible effort has been made to produce the highest quality DVD release. Due to the quality of some of the original elements, some visual imperfections will be experienced”. That said, the series looks pretty good. Detail is on the soft side and colours are rather washed out, and while there are a few flecks and marks here and there including hairs they are not distracting. Contrast and brightness does vary, as do skin tones, and there is minor interlacing, the most prevalent in “Mike Gets Married”. However, the main issue is that the print is often quite dark, so shadow detail in the night scenes can be non-existent. For example, in the episode “Deirdre” when a man wakes up and moves across his apartment to open the door the screen is almost black, “Lady Killer” has a number of indistinct scenes, which is not good when a murder is occurring, while in “Requiem for Billy” in the opening sequence at night in the woods it is almost impossible to see what is happening.
No subtitles are provided.
Audio is English Dolby Digital 2.0 mono at 192 Kbps.
Dialogue is clear. The effects, such as engines, shots and punches, are flattish but acceptable. The series’ jazzy title track, Harlem Nocturne by Earle Hagen is very effective. Music within the episodes is provided by a range of composers including John Davis, Ron Ramin and Doug Timm and is fairly generic.
Lip synchronisation was fine. Pops and hisses were absent.
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There are no extras as such but Disc 7 contains two complete telemovies. Both are in the 1.33:1 aspect ratio, 4x3, NTSC with Dolby Digital 2.0 audio. While there is a little aliasing, the TV movies look pretty good with only minimal marks.
A blonde six year old girl is abducted in New York. The next day Mike is in the right place to prevent the abduction of Megan (Emily Chance), another blonde six year old who is the daughter of movie star Joanna Lake (Lauren Hutton). Joanna, fearful of another attempt, hires Mike to come with them when they return to L.A. However Mike is unable to prevent Megan being kidnapped; attempting to get Megan back leads Mike into something far wider than extortion which has its origins in the Vietnam War.
The Return of Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer was directed by Ray Danton with music by Earle Hagen. In addition to the usual cast from the TV series, Stacey Keach, Lindsay Bloom, Don Stroud and Kent Williams, the film adds Mike Preston (Mad Max 2) in a prominent role while veteran Mickey Rooney has a cameo.
Mike is drugged and abducted in New York and dropped into Las Vegas where an old acquaintance with mob connections Johnny Roman (Ed Winter) is hosting a telethon raising money for the children’s charity run by Dr Carl Durant (John Calvin). Johnny denies that he was responsible for having Mike abducted; Mike is unconvinced but when Johnny is murdered it seems that someone has set up Mike to take the fall. Mike is arrested but is bailed out by Helen Durant (Lynda Carter), Carl Durant’s wife, who needs Mike’s help. As Mike seeks the real killer to clear his name he comes into contact with Helen’s daughter Amy (Stacy Galina) and her boyfriend Brad Peters (Jim Carey), but as the bodies continue to pile up Mike seems no closer to finding out just what is happening.
Mike Hammer: Murder Takes it All was directed by John Nicolella with music by Ron Ramin. The usual cast from the TV series, Stacey Keach, Lindsay Bloom and Don Stroud, appear and there are a number of other familiar faces in the cast including Lynda Carter (who played Wonder Woman on TV between 1975 and 1979), an early appearance by a very young looking Jim Carrey (he plays an accountant but there are a number of jokes in the script about him wanting to be a comedian) and Michelle Phillips (from The Mamas and the Papas).
NOTE: To view non-R4 releases, your equipment needs to be multi-zone compatible and usually also NTSC compatible.
There are various collections of this TV series listed on Amazon.com. None seem to be directly comparable to our release from ViaVision but as it is NTSC and Region Free a similar collection was likely to have been released in the US.
Nostalgic for the time on TV when P.I. shows such as 77 Sunset Strip, The Streets of San Francisco or Hawaii Five-0 reigned? I have no memory of The New Mike Hammer showing on Australian television, but I could have missed it. In any case, it is an entertaining, sometimes exciting series with murders, tough guys, police, wise guys, the corrupt wealthy and elite of New York, beautiful and dangerous women (if you can get past the huge hair styles and bigger padded shoulders) and interesting New York locations. Fans should enjoy this 7 DVD set containing all 22 episodes of season 3 plus two full length telemovies.
The video is reasonable, the audio the original mono. No extras as such but the two full length telemovies are welcome.
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NES30 #22: Metal Gear
Mention Metal Gear these days and people will understandably leap to Hideo Kojima's widely celebrated - and regularly mocked - series of Metal Gear Solid games that have been a mainstay of the PlayStation since the late 1990s. Metal Gear Solid itself (reviewed here) was of course a sequel - the third in the series - and the half-forgotten Metal Gear was the first.
Kojima originally developed Metal Gear for the MSX2 home computer. It was his publisher Konami that, with his knowledge or consent, quietly passed the source code to a separate development team to have them re-develop the game for the Famicom - and, subsequently, for the NES. Due to the unapproved changes made to the storyline and the gameplay, Kojima has understandably disowned the NES iteration. Full disclosure: I've never managed to play the MSX2 original, but the NES version is pretty great.
The game's not perfect: for one thing early sequences when your character is unarmed can be maddeningly tricky to survive. It has also dated quite significantly, although that's hardly surprising for a 28 year-old videogame (the Famicom version was released in 1987, the NES version in 1988). It's an important slice of history, however, and in a countdown of the best NES games it absolutely deserves its place.
This is the 1,500th post on The Angriest. Thanks for continuing to read it.

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Granit Xhaka says it is a “dream” to join Arsenal, now that his transfer from Borussia Monchengladbach has been finalised.
The 23-year-old secured a move to Emirates Stadium this week for a reported fee of close to €40million after an impressive four-year spell in the Bundesliga.
The midfielder, compared to Andrea Pirlo by former Arsenal defender Johan Djourou, is believed to have sealed the move prior to Euro 2016 and is relishing the prospect of his first appearance under Arsene Wenger.
“I feel good, now I’m happy to be a Gunner,” Xhaka told Sky Sports News after Switzerland’s 2-1 friendly defeat to Belgium on Saturday.
“It’s been a big week for me, but now it’s official and I’m very happy. Arsenal is a big club. I’ve seen the pitch, it’s unbelievable. It was a dream for me and I’m happy now.”
Xhaka, captain for much of the season under Andre Schubert, made 36 appearances for Gladbach in all competitions this season.
Djourou, who played for the Gunners until 2014, believes Xhaka has what it takes to be a success in the Premier League.
He told Sky Sports: “He’s got this ability to play very long balls, very precise balls, and I always say he reminds me a bit of Pirlo, the way he plays.
“He’s got the ability to play the Arsenal way. He’s got this aggressiveness about him that will help him in the Premier League, and he’s a great ball player and ball winner as well.”
He added: “He asked me a lot of things about London, the club, and I could only say great things about it because I had a great experience there.
“I think that the people at the club are just amazing, and those who run the club as well. I think he’s going to have a great time.”


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See the lineup for the three-day event, featuring leading figures from the worlds of writing, film, comedy, music, and more.
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On the 10th of December Somerville College Choir will leave for Goa and Mumbai, working in partnership with charities Songbound and the Karta Initiative to teach classical songs and carols to disadvantaged children.
The 30 students will also hold an exclusive performance for local children around the country, as well as performing at the TATA Theatre in Mumbai’s National Centre for Performing Arts, making them the first Oxford University student choir to perform in India.
On their trip, Somerville students and tutors will take part in university-related workshops organised by the Karta Initiative, a charity that aims to encourage disadvantaged students from developing economies to apply to top universities.
Speaking to Cherwell, the chapel’s director of music, William Dawes, said: “We are really looking forward to meeting the children that the Karta Initiative is working with, to give them a glimpse of the Western choral tradition and some insight into life at Oxford.
“By closing the distance between them and our university, I hope that the Karta children will be encouraged in their ambitions: whether that means applying to Oxford – we do offer a range of scholarships for Indian students – or seizing opportunities closer to home.
“I want our singers to return to Oxford mindful of the incredible opportunities that they have had so far and inspired by what outreach work can achieve.”
The Somerville Choir has attempted to raise donations for the trip in a number of ways, for example, organising a “24-Hour Music Marathon” concert from 12th-13th October and setting up a crowdfunding page, with donor rewards including a selection of photos from the India tour, a conducting lesson taught by Dawes and a choir concert exclusively dedicated to anyone pledging £5000 or more. Their efforts succeeded in raising almost £11,700 from 96 backers.
The Choir will perform in three venues in India from 13th-15th December and are set to return on the 18th.
Updated 6/12: The Choir managed to secure the funding from Somerville JCR, so the referendum did not need to take place.


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A property in St Albans linked to cuckooing, has been made subject to a partial closure order by magistrates after reports of drug activity and anti-social behaviour.
The flat in Lycaste Close, which is owned by St Albans City and District Council, will only be accessible to the tenant, the council, relevant support agencies and emergency services for the next three months.
The closure order was granted under the Anti-Social Behaviour Crime and Policing Act 2014 after St Albans Police’s Community Safety Unit received reports about a vulnerable occupant being taken advantage of and anti-social activity at the property.
The closure order is the latest measure taken by the police and the council to tackle cuckooing, a practice where drug dealers take over the homes of vulnerable people to use as a base for their operations.
Sergeant Mike Saunders, from St Albans Community Safety Unit (CSU), said: “We hope this provides some respite from the ongoing issues suffered by neighbours and helps protect the tenant. Anyone who breaches the terms of the order could face arrest, a fine, imprisonment or both.”
Cuckooing can have a devastating impact on victims and their communities, and the police and the council are working together to crack down on this type of crime.
“Our Safer Neighbourhood Team colleagues will continue to regularly patrol the area and we have asked neighbours to report any breaches of the order to us as soon as possible so we can take further action if required.
“If you have information about suspected drug activity, vulnerable occupants and anti-social behaviour in your neighbourhood, please don’t hesitate to report it to us. We will take it seriously and do all we can to prevent it from adversely affecting neighbours’ quality of life.”

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What would you do if someone just shot you? Hide and seek immediate medical attention? Or, stand around taking selfies to share on Snapchat?
Isaac Martinez, a student at East Valley Institute of Technology, Phoenix, AZ, decided to do the latter. Isaac was shot yesterday after bravely refusing to hand over his car keys to an alleged white supremacist who wanted his vehicle as a getaway car. The man had just run amok at the college, killing 1 and injuring 5.
He took to Snapchat to share two photos, one immediately following the attack, and the other whilst he was receiving medical treatment. The pictures were shortly picked up on by local press.
Later that day, Isaac posted details of the ordeal to his friends on Facebook:
“So I’m home and well! I have no complicated injuries and should heal fine. I had a bullet hit me from behind and go through my shoulder and out my collar area. Any higher or lower it coulda hit a artery, or shatter my shoulder blade. It was a miracle hit.…He came in and demanded my keys for a getaway car. Of course I said no, and next was him pulling out a gun and cocking it. Soon as I saw it I started stepping back. And yelled for everyone to step back and get down. Next thing I knew I was hitting the ground, got up as fast as I fell, and ran out the back exit. At the same time the assailant had started taking off in my chef instructor’s car. When I saw he had gone. I noticed the cops and fire trucks down the street and went there.”
Police have arrested a man on suspicion of carrying out the spree.


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Airframe To Be Used For Static Structural Tests
Final assembly of the first A350 XWB is now underway at the brand new final assembly line in Toulouse. This latest step in the A350 XWB’s progress is achieved as Airbus starts joining the 64 foot long center fuselage with the 69 foot long front fuselage. This first A350 XWB airframe will be used for the static structural tests that all new aircraft undergo as part of their certification process. The assembly of the first flying A350 XWB, MSN1, will start during summer.
The center fuselage was delivered to Toulouse on Wednesday 4th April 2012 by Beluga from Airbus in St Nazaire, France. The front fuselage was previously delivered from St Nazaire to the A350 XWB final assembly line on the 23rd December 2011. Delivery and installation of the aft fuselage from Hamburg, Germany will take place in the coming weeks, followed by the wings delivered from Airbus’ wing assembly site in Broughton, UK.
The A350 XWB fuselage is made up of three main sections - front, center and aft. These will be joined together at the first main assembly station, Station 50. The nose landing-gear is also joined here. Once this stage is completed, the fuselage is transferred to Station 40 where the wings and tail sections are joined. In parallel to this, cabin installation will be carried out simultaneously to the wing-fuselage join up, as well as the “power on” of the aircraft systems. In this way, functional tests can start earlier than on previous programs.
Over 70 percent of the A350 XWB’s weight-efficient airframe is made from advanced materials combining composites (53 percent), titanium and advanced aluminum alloys. The aircraft’s innovative all-new Carbon Fiber Reinforced Plastic (CFRP) fuselage results in lower fuel burn as well as easier maintenance. The A350 XWB benefits from Airbus’ high level of expertise in incorporating composite material into its aircraft. (Image provided by Airbus)
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The winner of the 1980 Conn Smythe trophy as NHL Playoff MVP was Bryan Trottier of the New York Islanders. The Islanders won the first of 4 consecutive Stanley Cups in 1980.
The Islanders led by hall of famers Denis Potvin, Billy Smith, Mike Bossy, Bryan Trottier and head coach Al Arbor beat the Philadelphia Flyers 4 games to 2. The Isles clinched the cup in game 6 as Bobby Nystrom scored the cup winner in overtime to give the Islanders a 5-4 win.
Trottier was number 6 in scoring for the regular season with 42 goals and 62 assist for 104 points. Strangely none of the Islanders made the all NHL 1st or 2nd teams for the 1979-80 season.
Here is a link to Bryan Trottier's memories of the 1980 Finals.


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The Conowingo Dam spans the Susquehanna River about 9 miles upstream from Havre de Grace. The area, as per the 1612 John Smith map, was originally known as Smyth's Falls. This hydroelectric dam also serves as a bridge for US-1 across the river. The original US-1 crossing, Conowingo Bridge, would have been submerged after the completion of the dam, so it was demolished in 1928. The dam also has 53 flood control gates, starting at the northeastern end of the powerhouse and spanning the majority of the dam. Just below the dam is the Conowingo Fisherman's Park, which is open to the public.
According to Wikipedia, the Conowingo Dam, and to a lesser extent the Holtwood and Safe Harbor Dams further upstream, severely impacted the migratory fish species, especially the American shad, that would swim up the Susquehanna River to spawn. In 1984 a fish capture feature was added at Conowingo and the shad were trucked upstream above all three dams and released. This program ended in 1999. A fish lift was installed at Conowingo in 1991. All three dams completed installation of fish lifts in time for the 2000 season. During the 2000 migration season, 153,000 American shad passed through the Conowingo fish lift. "However, passage rates of shad from Conowingo to Holtwood have been only 30 to 50 percent, suggesting that fish are having difficulty moving upstream in the waters of the Conowingo pool." This may not be good for the shad but probably explains why the fishing is good in the pool.
Directions: Where US-1 crosses the Susquehanna River near Rolandsville, MD
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There are some great local sports venues to check out such as HHS football, Little League Baseball, etc. Don't scoff at these hometown favorites, the Gracians take their LLBB very seriously, afterall, where do you think Cal got his start? Speaking of Cal, go to Aberdeen's Ripken Stadium and cheer on the local AA Ball team, the Aberdeen Ironbirds.


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“A Medina institution, Café des Épices is all about the ambience on the square. It’s a great place to meet people and to grab a sandwich. I like their vegetarian sandwich, made with avocado and tomato, and a nous nous,...
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As one of the most innovative players on the Marrakech restaurant scene, Kamal Laftimi spearheads projects that are nothing if not showstoppers. This buzzy, green-on-green–tiled riad, bristling with courtyard banana trees, is a case in...
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Everything glitters in this breathtaking shop: antique Berber silver, amber jewelry, inlaid mother-of-pearl furniture, and ceramic bowls full of gleaming beads and stones. 3 Fhal Chidmi, Rue Mouassine, 212/(0) 24-442-2578. This appeared in the...
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I sampled tagines from a half-dozen places in Marrakesh, including fancy restaurants, and the succulent chicken tagine at Bakshish, an unassuming and bohemian-flavored café in the souk, topped them all. It’s a nice spot to take a break from...
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Al Fassia Gueliz -- woman owned and run (a pretty advanced concept in Morocco) -- earns high marks in every review I've consulted. It's pretty, and not especially romantic, despite the white tablecloths and candles. We start with the mixed salad...
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Best Market has leased a 41,442-square-foot store in Syosset last occupied by King Kullen.
The family-owned Best Market chain signed a 10-year lease with renewal options for the store at 217 Jericho Turnpike. Renovations and rebranding of the space are expected to start soon, but it’s not yet known when the new Best Market will open for business there.
King Kullen closed its supermarket at the Syosset location at the end of March.
Headquartered in Bethpage, Best Market now has 24 grocery stores in Nassau and Suffolk counties and a warehouse in Bay Shore.
Kenneth Schuckman of Schuckman Realty represented Best Market, while Jeremy Isaacs of Ripco Real Estate represented landlord Mack-Cali Realty Corp. in the lease negotiations.

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"We want to honor him, make a tribute to the very important work he has been doing".
Following the announcement, Kaci Kullmann Five, Chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, and Olav Njølstad, Secretary of the Norwegian Nobel Committee and Director of the Norwegian Nobel Institute, were interviewed about the 2016 Nobel Peace Prize. Interviewer was Geir Helljesen, freelance journalist.
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GREEN campaigners last night made a fierce attack on attempts by the oil company BP Amoco to "rebrand" itself as a firm committed to saving the planet.
BP Amoco has commissioned a multi-million-pound television and newspaper campaign using the slogan "Beyond Petroleum". It claims that BP Amoco - renamed BP - is "a new company able to offer global energy solutions" and the world's leading producer of solar power.
The logo for the advertisements is a green and yellow sun-like symbol of Helios, the Greek god who drove his chariot across the sky spreading light and energy - a role that BP claims is not dissimilar to its own. However, environmental groups say the campaign, devised by the London-based agency Ogilvy and Mather, is "misleading" and "a victory of style over substance".
Solar energy accounts for less than one per cent of BP's investments and a company spokesman admitted yesterday that solar power was "such a minute part of our business that we don't put a figure on it".
BP - one of the world's three biggest oil companies - is actually committed to a 40 per cent expansion of its oil and gas exploration programme. Critics have focused on the company's building of an offshore oil platform in the Arctic, one of the world's most sensitive environments.
Erwin Jackson, the climate spokesman for Greenpeace International, said the campaign was a cynical attempt to convince the public that the company was environment friendly. He said: "This campaign hides the reality of what BP is about.
"If it was really committed to tackling climate change it would get out of the Arctic, which is in the frontline of the battle against global warming. Huge amounts of ice are melting, leaving polar bears with a diminishing habitat, making it harder for them to find food. If there was an oil spill BP would never be able to clean it up in such hostile conditions."
Other critics said the advertisements were the latest attempt by BP's skilled PR team to cultivate a greener image. BP sponsors conservation awards and regularly trumpets its concern for the environment. BP declined to say how much the "rebranding" would cost but the figure is understood to be about $100 million a year.
Friends of the Earth said BP's "diversification" was "more about selling cigarettes and drinks" than helping the environment. BP denied that the advertisements were misleading. A spokesman said: "We are not claiming to be anything we are not. We are trying to combine old and new technology but we will still be selling petrol and oil."
BP also plans to announce a four-year programme to install "thin-film" solar panels above 100 forecourts in London and America. The panels will provide "some" - the company would not say how much - of the energy needed for lights and cash tills.


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Turkey candidate to replace technology leaders Europe, Japan - Erdoğan
With its young population, Turkey is one of the biggest candidates to take the place of global leaders in science and technology, Japan and Europe, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Sunday.
Turkey has left behind the worst of its economic woes and despite negative expectations, the country will have closed 2019 with positive growth, Bloomberg quoted Erdoğan as saying at the opening ceremony for technology development zone, Teknopark Istanbul.
"Turkey, with its young population, is a candidate to succeed increasingly aging science and technology giants Europe and Japan,’’ he said.
Turkey has one of the youngest populations in Europe with median age at 32, according to the Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) 2019 figures. However, unemployment in the country is at its highest point in 15 years, with the 15-24 age group seeing the largest increase in unemployment at 27.4 percent, according to TÜK figures from November.
Pointing to Turkey’s strong research infrastructure, which includes over 1,200 research and development centres, Erdoğan said, "These centres are home to important companies and entrepreneurs. Every element produced in this system, in which academic and technical knowledge turns into economic value, contributes to our country's long-term goals".
The Turkish president went on to say there were signs of an increased investment climate in the country, pointing to the automotive and housing market.
"Confidence in the economy is increasing ... The domestic demand is strengthening," he said.
The Turkish economy is tentatively recovering from a currency crisis in 2018, which caused the lira to lose nearly 30 percent of its value against the dollar. The Turkish government’ drastic responses to the crisis, including measures included directing its banks to withhold liquidity from the London swap market, has driven foreign investment away from the country, endangering its recovery plans.
The 2018 crisis pushed the economy into recession and sent inflation soaring above 25 percent, prompting aggressive monetary tightening. Even though inflation dropped as low as 9.26 percent in September of last year, the figure rose to 12.15 percent in January.

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A Combination of Empirical Orthogonal Function and Neural Network Approaches for Parameterizing Nonlinear Interactions in Wind Wave Models
Vladimir M. Krasnopolsky, NOAA/NCEP/EMC, Camp Springs, MD; and H. L. Tolman and D. V. Chalikov
The nonlinear interaction parameterization represents the core of a third-generation wind wave model. In principle, an exact formulation of this source term is well known. However, exact calculations are too expensive by several orders of magnitude to be economically feasible in practical wave models. Presently the only feasible parameterization of the nonlinear interactions is the Discrete Interaction Approximation (DIA, Hasselmann et al 1985). This parameterization is very successful, as it allowed for the development of the first operational third generation wave models, but its large errors are generally recognized as being one of the main deficiencies of such models. Moreover, such errors hamper further development of third-generation wave models.
We are presently developing a Neural Network Interaction Approximation (NNIA) for the nonlinear interaction. This approximation considers the interaction source term as a nonlinear mapping of the spectrum on the source term. Both the spectrum and source term are decomposed into basis functions to reduce the number of degrees of freedom, and to make the approximation independent of the actual spectral resolution. The basis functions are derived from empirical orthogonal functions for spectra and nonlinear interaction separately. A NN is used to predict coefficients of the basis functions of the interaction decomposition from the coefficients of the basis functions of the spectrum decomposition.
We have tested the feasibility of the NNIA by constructing large independent training and testing ensembles of realistic spectra and their corresponding exact interactions according to Web-Resio-Tracy (Van Veldder et al 2000). These experiments have shown that an economical NNIA can be constructed with resulting errors less than half those of the DIA, at computing times comparable with that of the DIA. As might have been expected, however, the training dataset was insufficiently divers to result in a generally applicable NNIA.
We are presently expanding our study by: (i) broadening the training datasets by considering modeled and/or observed spectra, (ii) including scaling properties directly into the NNIA. Both activities are aimed at obtaining a more generally applicable (and more economical) NNIA.
Hasselmann, S, and K. Hasselmann, 1985: Computations and parametrizations of the nonlinear energy transfer in a gravity wave spectrum. Part I: a new method for efficient computations of the exact nonlinear transfer integral. J. Phys. Oceanogr., 15, 1369-77
Van Veldder, G.Ph., T.H.C. Herbers, B. Jensen, D.T. Resio, and B. Tracy: Modelling of nonlinear quadruplet wave-wave interactions in operational coastal wave models. Abstract, accepted for presentation at ICCE 2000, Sydney
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I have two green CN coaches made by Athearn. I bought these new last year. Of all my rolling stock, these are the most prone to derail. They are very sensitive to any track imperfections -- if anything is likely to derail at a problem area, it's these coaches! I recently adjusted my track and my rolling stock runs fine on my layout except for these two coaches, which is often the case. One of these CN coaches -- a shorter baggage car -- is worse than the other (which is a passenger car). The gauge of their wheels appears to be accurate. I also recently added some weights to the baggage car. But the baggage car is still giving me some problems at one area, while the passenger car runs OK. I was wondering if anyone else has had these problems, either with Athearn products or similar CN coaches (i.e. similar green 1950s CN coaches, but made by another company)? I suspect that these coaches are quirky because they're relatively short and each have two 6-wheel trucks. Are the problems due to the manufacturer or are these simply difficult coaches to model and run on a model railway? Does anyone have any other suggestions? Thanks in advance! Otherwise, these are fine-looking coaches and look great hauled behind my CN C-liner.


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He's no stockbroker, but after a 1-0 loss to Ohio Dominican on Wednesday night at Ferguson Field, Ashland University women's soccer coach Glenn Francis talked about short- and long-term gains.
Even though the Eagles lost, Francis was adamant that there was a great deal of positives to be pulled from in a contest that -- although both schools are associated with the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference -- was a nonleague game.
"After the goal, our heads didn't go down," Francis said. "Tonight's game was all about playing for each other. That's what we've preached from Day 1. Now they are buying in."
Ashland is now 2-9-0 on the season. The win upped the Panthers' record to 5-4-2.
In the first half, ODU ran up a 9-1 edge in shots. The only goal of the evening came at 39th minute when Lauren Pratt beat keeper Rebecca Plescia. Summer Bourcier picked up the assist on the play.
"It was a bad clearance, we shot ourselves in the foot," said Francis of the goal. "We aren't scoring; we can't afford to spot them one."
This was AU's third consecutive game without a goal and it also was the third straight loss. In the last two games against Saginaw Valley State and Northwood, the Eagles weren't able to mount that many legitimate scoring opportunities. That wasn't the case against ODU.
AU was able to apply pressure throughout the second half. Over the last 45 minutes, Ashland held a 6-5 edge in shots -- two from Kathleen Demaree -- and several times, the Eagles got good, clean looks at the goal. Ohio Dominican keeper Laura Clark had four saves.
"We stuck to the task at hand," said Francis. "We kept on pressing."
Ashland returns to conference action on Friday when it hosts Malone.


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2023 is the year that sees natural and material coatings as protagonists, furniture and surfaces embellished with textures, combinations of matt and glossy surfaces. The accent is placed on the most extreme personalization of the furniture and bathroom fixtures: metal details and transparencies enrich the environment with a modern taste. There is also plenty of room for the introduction of resins and ceramics for accessories and coverings for an interesting total look.
To transform our bathroom according to the latest trends, choosing new colors and combinations is a good starting point. Which bathroom colors suit our style? What materials to choose? How to enhance a smaller bathroom? Let’s see what are the best bathroom colors 2023.
The trendy bathroom sees a particular focus on introducing custom textures on the walls and furniture. Not only tiles, but also resin coatings and synthetic materials.
We can opt for a monochromatic total look and, in contrast, a single protagonist element to be chosen between a piece of furniture, a wall of the room or, even better, a wall inside the shower box. For those who love the retro look, the textures that can be inserted can be decorated tiles for the floor, such as, for example, majolica.
A growing trend for modern, industrial and shabby chic style is the use of exposed materials. Following the motto “Less is more”, all that is superfluous is eliminated: purely aesthetic and non-functional coatings, furnishings and decorations.
The most popular facing materials are concrete, bricks, wood. If combined with neutral colors and taps with a design that follows the chosen style, we are able to recreate an innovative and welcoming environment.
Metals in warm colors are mostly chosen in these new trends. Inserts, decorative elements, perhaps also taken up in the textures on the surfaces, become the protagonists of the bathroom. The most popular metals are gold, bronze, brass and rose gold. However, we do not give up on customizable furnishings : here the taps take on nuances even far from natural colors.
In 2023, great attention is paid to colored tiles. Furniture, wall and floor surfaces, shower stalls and bathroom accessories: everything takes on a coherent and much accentaestethic, to make our bathroom a room to live and admire. Furthermore, the size of the tiles tends to decrease more and more and to thicken. The recommended colors :
- white and gray
- peach pink and white
- black and ocher yellow
- bright white, gold, wood
- blue, beige, white
- bottle green and white
- light blue and wood.
A modern-style bathroom in 2023 also gives a lot of attention to darker colors. In fact, black becomes the new neutral reference color, with which it is possible to combine light contrasting shades.
Darker colors are used in bathrooms with larger dimensions and in the presence of a window or French door. In fact, when we design an environment with dark surfaces and furniture, we have to balance both natural and artificial lighting well. Recommended l ‘ use of polished tiles for rooms total look :
- dark blue
- dark green
- dark violet
- dark brown.
Marble coverings or simply textures with a marble effect are widely recommended to recreate environments with a modern and industrial taste. The veins that the marble presents thus become the motif for decorating the bathroom in the furniture or in the floor.
Be careful not to overdo it : it is necessary to dose the quantity of these textures in a thoughtful way, avoiding creating excessive continuity between the surfaces present. Precious marbles are preferred:
- Pearly of Sicily
- Carrara white
- Black of Marquina
- Sicilian red
- Ivory Cream
- Green Alps
- Pink, black, yellow and gray granite
- Blue jeans
The bathroom is increasingly customizable. Each element can be embellished to recreate a very specific scenography and aesthetics. Elegant and pop or modern and young, the bathroom with colored sanitary ware becomes very aesthetic and captivating, Instagram-proof!
A material that is confirmed as versatile with its many shades and veins, wood is a very popular element in the trends of 2023. The bathroom is a sustainable environment of the house and for this reason it faces natural and environmentally friendly materials. The warmest and lightest shades are recommended to create a welcoming environment:
- Beech tree
- European steel
- Canadese steel
- Ash tree.
If, on the other hand, we do not love the Scandinavian look for the bathroom, but want to give a more severe and modern look, the darker shades are recommended to be alternated with neutral shades such as white and gray.


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Return to paradise in this sweeping 19th century romance about true love and survival…
Kidnapped by pirates. Taken to a deserted island.
Not the future Elaine Rochester had in mind. Wife. Mother. Survivor.
But the man who killed her father is back from the dead. And his thirst for treasure has risen tenfold.
From the streets of New York to the heart of the jungle, Henry Rochester must risk life and limb to rescue his beloved wife from the secret island they once called home.
ISLAND SMILE is the second book in the Stranded in Paradise trilogy about two strangers marooned on a deserted tropical island in the year 1899. This trilogy must be read in order.
One click today if you love historical romance with a twist of island adventure! Perfect for fans of The Blue Lagoon!
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Island Smile by Lindsay Marie Miller is the second book in her Stranded in Paradise series and let me just say what a phenomenal follow up. Island Smile picks up right where Jungle Eyes leaves off, with Henry Rochester as he is setting off on an expedition. But a violent storm takes him off course, running him straight into Elaine Carmichael’s castaway island. Having been casted away on this island, there is a part of her that is happy for company but another part that has more despair that they will never be found. Healing his wounds, Elaine teaches Henry how to fend for himself, the feelings that they have for each other begin to grow, but there is something dark and dangerous lurks in the corners. The relationship between Henry and Elaine was beautiful to see unfold, from meeting to marriage, but the element of danger that lurks in the wings of their joining made this another great read by Miller. I highly recommend that this be read in series order, as the story will make more sense that way. Miller has a way about her writing that pulls you in from the first page until the last sentence. If you are looking for a great author to add to your repartee this is one you really need to look at. This series will keep you on your toes, guessing at what will happen next with Henry and Elaine.
Island Smile: An Action Adventure Romance (Stranded in Paradise Book 2) by Lindsay Marie Miller is the second book in her Stranded in Paradise series. I highly suggest that you read the first book before this one as it provides information that you will need to enrich your enjoyment of this book. This author's writing skills are such that she can make you feel as if you are right there with the characters. Her story is easy flowing and engaging. It took me on an emotional roller coaster ride that just kept giving. There are some twists and turns in this book that I didn't see coming. Henry and Elaine find themselves living in New York when they have their first daughter. They are trying to leave the jungle behind them. When Henry's sister Louisa becomes engaged but unfortunately he is not who he says he is. He has is own agenda, getting Elaine. What will happen when Elaine finds herself back on the island with Louisa and her finance? Their story is full of action, revenge, and heroes These are enjoyable characters that keep the story flowing. I felt bad for Henry and Elaine because they really truly did want to leave the jungle behind them. There are quite a few more characters in this installment then the first. They each have their own agenda for what they want. When evil lurks its ugly head, is safety an issue? Elaine knew some thing was off but just didn't know what. Henry has a heart of gold and it really shines through here. I highly recommend this book. Find out what happens to Wes and Elaine in this next installment.
This is book 2 in the Trilogy and begins right where Book 1 ended. Henry and Elaine have escaped the island and are back in New York starting their family. The dangers they left on the island have followed them back to New York though and they are returned to the island against their will. Joining them is Henry's sister Louisa who was duped by Judas the pirate who wants his treasure back. On the island she finds her own romance with a reformed pirate Frederic. Once again the story is a quick read but all the running around the island got repetitive. The island is rather crowded this time. I did not understand why Henry would steal the treasure and then hide it in such an obvious place. The baby also seems to be an afterthought during the story. Apparently the newborn is fine on her own in New York with no family. It is a quick light read. Once again this book ends on a cliffhanger. These stories do need to be read in order.

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Oracle Advanced Compression
The Oracle Database 11g Advanced Compression Option introduces a comprehensive set of compression capabilities to help customers maximize resource utilization and reduce costs. It allows IT administrators to significantly reduce their overall database storage footprint by enabling compression for all types of data – be it relational (table), unstructured (file), or backup data. Although storage cost savings are often seen as the most tangible benefit of compression, innovative technologies included in the Advanced Compression Option are designed to reduce resource requirements and technology costs for all components of your IT infrastructure, including memory and network bandwidth.
1.Compression for Table Data
Oracle has been a pioneer in database compression technology. Oracle Database 9i introduced Basic Table Compression several years ago that compressed data that was loaded using bulk load operations. Oracle Database 11g Release 1 introduced a new feature called OLTP Table Compression that allows data to be compressed during all types of data manipulation operations, including conventional DML such as INSERT and UPDATE. In addition, OLTP Table Compression reduces the associated compression overhead of write operations making it suitable for transactional or OLTP environments as well. OLTP Table Compression, therefore, extends the benefits of compression to all application workloads.
It should be noted that Basic Table Compression is a base feature of Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition (EE). OLTP Table Compression is a part of the Oracle Advanced Compression option, which requires a license in addition to the Enterprise Edition.
2.OLTP Table Compression
Oracle’s OLTP Table Compression uses a unique compression algorithm specifically designed to work with OLTP applications. The algorithm works by eliminating duplicate values within a database block, even across multiple columns. Compressed blocks contain a structure called a symbol table that maintains compression metadata. When a block is compressed, duplicate values are eliminated by first adding a single copy of the duplicate value to the symbol table. Each duplicate value is then replaced by a short reference to the appropriate entry in the symbol table.
Through this innovative design, compressed data is self-contained within the database block as the metadata used to translate compressed data into its original state is stored in the block. When compared with competing compression algorithms that maintain a global database symbol table, Oracle’s unique approach offers significant performance benefits by not introducing additional I/O when accessing compressed data.
3.Benefits of OLTP Table Compression
The compression ratio achieved in a given environment depends on the nature of the data being compressed; specifically the cardinality of the data. In general, customers can expect to reduce their storage space consumption by a factor of 2x to 4x by using the OLTP Table Compression feature. That is, the amount of space consumed by uncompressed data will be two to four times larger than that of the compressed data.
The benefits of OLTP Table Compression go beyond just on-disk storage savings. One significant advantage is Oracle’s ability to read compressed blocks directly without having to first uncompress the block.（其中一个显着的优点ORACLE是直接读取压缩块，无需先解压压缩块。） Therefore, there is no measurable performance degradation for accessing compressed data. In fact, in many cases performance may improve due to the reduction in I/O
since Oracle will have to access fewer blocks. Further, the buffer cache will become more efficient by storing more data without having to add memory.
3.Minimal Performance Overhead
As stated above, OLTP Table Compression has no adverse impact on read operations. There is additional work performed while writing data, making it impossible to eliminate performance overhead for write operations. However, Oracle has put in a significant amount of work to minimize this overhead for OLTP Table Compression. Oracle compresses blocks in batch mode rather than compressing data every time a write operation takes place. A newly initialized block remains uncompressed until data in the block reaches an internally controlled threshold.（ 新初始化块保持未压缩的，直到块中的数据达到内部控制的阈值。）
When a transaction causes the data in the block to reach this threshold, all contents of the block are compressed. Subsequently, as more data is added to the block and the threshold is again reached, the entire block is recompressed to achieve the highest level of compression.
This process repeats until Oracle determines that the block can no longer benefit from further compression. Only transactions that trigger the compression of the block will experience the slight compression overhead. Therefore, a majority of OLTP transactions on compressed blocks will have the exact same performance as they would with uncompressed blocks.
4.Migration and Best Practices
For new tables and partitions, enabling OLTP Table Compression is as easy as simply CREATEing the table or partition and specifying “COMPRESS FOR OLTP”. See the example below: CREATE TABLE emp (emp_id NUMBER, first_name VARCHAR2(128), last_name VARCHAR2(128)) COMPRESS FOR OLTP; For existing tables and partitions, there are three recommended approaches to enabling OLTP Table Compression:
1. ALTER TABLE … COMPRESS FOR OLTP
§ This approach will enable OLTP Table Compression for all future DML -- however, the existing data in the table will remain uncompressed.
2. Online Redefinition (DBMS_REDEFINITION)
§ This approach will enable OLTP Table Compression for future DML and also compress existing data. Using DBMS_REDEFINITION keeps the table online for both read/write activity during the migration. Run DBMS_REDEFINITION in parallel for best performance.
§ Online redefinition will clone the indexes to the interim （过渡的）table during the operation. All the cloned indexes are incrementally maintained during the sync (refresh) operation so there is no interrupt in the use of the indexes during, or after, the online redefinition. The only exception is when online redefinition is used for redefining a partition -- the global index is invalidated and needs to be rebuilt after the online redefinition.
3. ALTER TABLE … MOVE COMPRESS FOR OLTP
§ This approach will enable OLTP Table Compression for future DML and also compress existing data. While the table is being moved it is online for read activity but has an exclusive (X) lock – so all DML will be blocked until the move command completes. Run ALTER TABLE MOVE in parallel for best performance.
§ The ALTER TABLE...MOVE statement allows you to relocate data of a non-partitioned table, or of a partition of a partitioned table, into a new segment, and optionally into a different tablespace. (alter table ..move可以重定位非分区表的数据或分区表中的一个分区进入到新的段或不同的表空间中)。ALTER TABLE MOVE COMPRESS compresses the data by creating new extents for the compressed data in the tablespace being moved to(ALTER TABLE MOVE COMPRESS数据压缩通过创建新的EXTENTS给压缩的数据转移) -- it is important to note that the positioning of the new segment can be anywhere within the datafile, not necessarily at the tail of the file or head of the file. When the original segment is released, depending on the location of the extents, it may or may not be possible to shrink the datafile.
§ ALTER TABLE MOVE will invalidate any indexes on the partition or table; those indexes will need to be rebuilt after the ALTER TABLE MOVE. Alternatively, the use of ALTER TABLE MOVE with the UPDATE INDEXES clause will maintain indexes (it places an exclusive (X) lock so all DML will be blocked until the move command completes).
Below are some best practices and considerations for the capabilities that are included as part of the Advanced Compression Option:
· The best test environment for each Advanced Compression capability is where you can most closely duplicate the production environment– this will provide the most realistic (pre- and post- compression) performance comparisons.
· Space usage reduction with OLTP Table Compression enabled gives the best results where the most duplicate data is stored (low cardinality). This is especially true for backups -- greater compression will result in less data backed up and hence shorter recovery time. Sorting data (on the columns with the most duplicates) prior to bulk loads may increase the compression ratio.
· Although CPU overhead is typically minimal, implementing Oracle Advanced Compression is ideal on systems with available CPU cycles, as compression will have additional, although minor overhead for some DML operations.
· Oracle Advanced Compression Advisor is a PL/SQL package that is used to estimate potential storage savings for OLTP Table Compression based on analysis of a sample of data. It provides a good estimate of the actual results that may be obtained after implementing Oracle Advanced Compression’s OLTP Table compression feature. Oracle Advanced Compression Advisor, which supports Oracle Database 9i Release 2
through 11g Release 1, is available for free on the Oracle Technology Network website. The Advanced Compression Advisor is built in to Oracle Database 11g Release 2.
· OLTP Table Compression is NOT supported for use with tables that have more than 255 columns or that have LONG data types.
· LOBs are best stored in the Oracle Database as SecureFiles LOBs, and if the customer has licensed the Advanced Compression Option, they can use SecureFiles Compression and Deduplication to potentially reduce the amount of storage required for LOBs.
5.Compression Syntax Examples
The examples below show the ease at which OLTP Table Compression and SecureFiles Compression/Deduplication can be enabled, for more detailed information please see the Oracle? Database SQL Language Reference.
OLTP Table Compression Syntax
CREATE TABLE emp (
, first_name VARCHAR2(128)
, last_name VARCHAR2(128)
) COMPRESS FOR OLTP;
SecureFiles Deduplication Syntax
CREATE TABLE images (
LOB(image) STORE AS SECUREFILE
(TABLESPACE lob_tbs DEDUPLICATE);
SecureFiles Compression Syntax
CREATE TABLE images (
LOB(image)STORE AS SECUREFILE
(TABLESPACE lob_tbs COMPRESS);
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Teaser for Acura Precision concept debuting at 2016 Detroit Auto Show
Acura today provided a glimpse of what it will unveil at 2016 Detroit Auto Show on January 12. It's called the Precision concept, and it's a peek into the future of Acura design, especially that of the brand’s next-generation sedans.
Created by Acura's California design studio, the automaker claims the concept will have bold lines and plenty of attitude. So far, we can only see some seemingly attractive angled lines on a long red sedan with a coupe-like profile.
New Acura boss Jon Ikeda said the company needs to improve its sedan lineup, and this show car could be the first step toward realizing that goal. Of course, the brand would also do well to create a new rear-wheel-drive-based platform and offer its twin-turbocharged 3.5-liter V-6 from the NSX supercar in any car aimed at the established European luxury automakers.
Acura design boss Dave Marek calls the company's core DNA "precision crafted performance," and says that the goal is to more strongly express performance through design.
We will have much more information about Acura's newest concept when it is revealed to the public at the Detroit Auto Show. In the meantime, see what else will be appearing at the show via our dedicated hub.


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Join Che as she plays Netflix Roulette and watches a randomly selected horror film. Will it be awesome? Will it be torture? What horrors await?? Find out every month with Netflix Roulette!
Title: Tucker and Dale VS. Evil
Director: Eli Craig
Starring: Tyler Labine, Alan Tyduck, Katrina Bowden, Jesse Moss
Netflix Rating: 4.5 stars
Seen it before: No
First Impressions: At first I thought I was in DEEP trouble judging by the dumb title. BUT then I saw who it was starring! Tyler Labine!!! He is a long time favorite of mine and tragically underrated. He’s a goddamn national treasure! Alan Tyduck is good too…So I felt assured by the stars and the rating that this will be good. It promises to be a horror comedy, let’s find out if it delivers. Fingers crossed.
The Verdict: Tucker and Dale VS Evil is a fun film that subverts the “killer hillbilly” trope so painfully common to horror films.
Tucker (Tyduk) and his friend Dale (Labine)are on their way to Tucker’s newly purchased dream vacation home. On the way they run into a group of college students who are on their way to get drunk in the woods over the weekend. Dale tries to talk to one of the college girls at a gas station stop but the college kinds, raised on a steady diet of Wrong Turn, flee. Dale and Tucker encounter the college kids again as they’re doing a little night fishing on the lake. One of the kids, Allison (Bowden) falls in the lake and hits her head. Dale jumps in to rescue her but all Allison’s friends see is a hillbilly taking away their friend. And so begins an epic case of misunderstanding and brutal accidental deaths, while a very confused Tucker and Dale think they are caught in a mass suicide pact of college kids.
The fun is both the college students falling into the assumption that any hillbilly must be a killer hillbilly, and Tucker and Dale’s reactions to all the death and mayhem happening around them. There are a number of great deaths, soured by an unfortunate amount of CGI. The CGI is very poor and very obvious. Most of the impalements are done digitally and there are quite a few impalements. The movie makes up for some of it’s worse effects with really good trauma make-up. Especially in the case of poor Tucker who takes most of the damage. But practical gore effects would have elevated the film and been a great parody of older horror hillbilly films like the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
Still, that is a small complaint. The acting is great. The comedic timing of Tyduck and Labine is perfectly on point. The actual villain of the film emerges in the form Chad (Jesse Moss) a preppy college kid who slowly becomes unhinged as his personal demons overtake him. The death scenes are hilarious and there is a lot of great repartee.
This is an older film, but if you haven’t checked it out, I highly recommend it. It’s not the goriest horror comedy, or maybe even the funniest, but it’s an original and subversive take on a classic trope and manages to breathe new life into one of the more obnoxious horror tropes.


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Long-term scientific studies of ADHD treatments have shown that the stimulant medication often given to patients, such as Adderall (an amphetamine) have no benefits to children, and in fact saw a deterioration in the condition after 2-years of use.
More worrying is the claim that children who use ADHD drugs long-term go on to develop bipolar, and possibly other more serious “psychotic symptoms”.
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At the end of six years, medication use was “associated with worse hyperactivity-impulsivity and oppositional defiant disorder symptoms,” and with greater “overall functional impairment.”
In 2003, the Medicine and Healthcare Regulatory Authority Agency (MHRA) in the United Kingdom essentially banned the use of SSRI antidepressants, except for fluoxetine, in patients under 18 years old. It did so because it found that the drugs did not offer a favorable risk-benefit profile in this age group. In this Lancet review of the available trial data, the researchers announced they supported “the conclusions reached by the MHRA.”
The Lancet editors concluded that all SSRIs, other than fluoxetine, “were both ineffective and harmful in children.”
After reviewing the outcomes literature, researchers concluded that clinical trials did not provide evidence that SSRIs, including fluoxetine, were safe and effective in children and adolescents. As such, “recommending (any antidepressant) as a treatment option, let alone as first-line treatment, would be inappropriate.”
Up until the 1990s, bipolar illness was rarely diagnosed in teenagers and virtually never in prepubertal children. But once psychiatrists began prescribing stimulants and antidepressants to children and adolescents, many began experiencing psychotic and manic reactions. These youth were then diagnosed with bipolar disorder.
Within 21 months, 9 of 98 children treated with a stimulant for ADHD developed “psychotic symptoms.” (The abstract says 6 of 98; the text itself lists 9 children who developed such symptoms.)
Two-thirds of the adolescent patients hospitalized for mania at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center had been on stimulants “prior to the onset of an affective episode.” Stimulants, the researchers concluded, may “precipitate depression and/or mania in children who would not have otherwise developed bipolar disorder.”
Eleven percent of children diagnosed with ADHD and treated with stimulants developed bipolar symptoms within four years.
Twenty-five percent of children and adolescents diagnosed with depression and treated with antidepressants convert to bipolar illness within four years. “Antidepressant treatment may well induce switching into mania, rapid cycling or affective instability in the young, as it almost certainly does in adults.”
Nearly half of prepubertal children treated for depression converted to bipolar within 10 years.
In a study of 79 juvenile bipolar patients, 62% had been treated with a stimulant or an antidepressant prior to becoming manic.
Eighty-four percent of the children treated for bipolar illness at a mood disorders clinic in New York City between 1998 and 2000 had been exposed to psychiatric drugs prior to their being diagnosed as bipolar. “Strikingly, in fewer than 10% (of the cases) was diagnosis of bipolar disorder considered initially.”
In adults diagnosed with bipolar illness, the worst outcomes are seen in those with “mixed state” and “rapid cycling symptoms.” Those symptoms were virtually never seen in adults prior to the psychopharmacology era, but rather are associated with exposure to antidepressants. These are the very symptoms that afflict the overwhelming majority of juvenile bipolar patients, which suggests that they will have very poor long-term outcomes.
Two-thirds of the juvenile bipolar patients treated at a mood disorders clinic in New York City were “ultra, ultra rapid-cyclers,” and another 19% suffred from rapid cycling only a little bit less extreme. “In contrast to a biphasic, episodic and relatively slow cycling course in some adults with bipolar disorder, pediatric forms usually involve mixed mood states and a sub-chronic, unstable, and unremitting course.”
In the NIMH’s STEP-BD study, researchers conclude that pre-adult onset (of bipolar illness) is “associated with greater rates of comorbid anxiety disorders and substance abuse, more recurrences, shorter periods of euthymia, and greater likelihood of suicide attempts and violence.”
Early onset bipolar patients are symptomatic about 60% of the time and shift polarity–from depression to mania or vice versa–an astonishing 16 times a year. The prepubertal patients were “two times less likely that those with postpubertal onset bipolar to recover,” and will likely be “poor responders to treatment when they become adults.”
Only 41% of adolescents hospitalized for a first bipolar episode functionally recovered within one year.
In juvenile bipolar patients, functional impairment worsens after the first year (with continued drug treatment.)
Lithium, antidepressants and mood stabilizers all failed to help bipolar youth fare better at the end of two years. Juvenile bipolar patients treated with an antipsychotic medication, which is a standard treatment, “were significantly less likely to recover than those who did not receive a neuroleptic.”


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Longtime Bush Hog president dies
Published 11:24 pm Tuesday, July 26, 2016
Longtime Bush Hog president W. Russell Buster Jr. passed away Tuesday, but the impact he had on Selma will live on much longer.
After a stint in the U.S. Air Force during World War II, Buster started his job at Bush Hog in the early 1950s — right after the company had been founded.
Before joining Bush Hog, he had worked at Southland Mower and then Rawls Machine and Supply, where he began experimenting with a design for a heavy-duty rotary mower that eventually became part of the Bush Hog line.
“He was critical in the formative years of Bush Hog,” said James Bearden, who retired from Bush Hog in 2013. “He helped form that company. We went through a great deal of growth under Russell’s leadership. We had plants in Kansas, Texas, California and Illinois and Russell was very instrumental in growing the business through expansion and other plants.”
Buster became president of Bush Hog in the 1980s and held that position until he retired in 1993 at age 70. According to an archived Times-Journal story, Bush Hog eliminated assigned parking spaces during his time as president.
“If someone beats to my space, that’s fine. The point is everybody is important and makes a difference here,” Buster said at the time.
Friends and family said that’s just the kind of guy he was — everybody in the building was treated the same, whether they were managers or hourly employees.
“Even years after he left, people on the shop floor still asked about Russell and how he was doing,” Bearden said.
Former Dallas County Probate Judge Johnny Jones, one of Buster’s longtime friends, said he was a straight shooter, meaning whatever he said he meant.
“People liked him and respected him,” said Harold Speir, another lifelong friend. “They respected him because of his word. What he said, he would do.”
Buster was a 1941 graduate of Parrish High School and attended Auburn University before World War II. He served in the Air Force in 1943 and spent time in England, France and Germany.
Once he returned to Selma, he not only made a difference at Bush Hog, but in the community as well.
He served on the executive committee of the Paul Grist YMCA, the board of directors of Peoples Bank and Trust Company, director of West Central Alabama Rehabilitation Center and president of the Southern Farm Equipment Manufacturing Association.
He was also a member of First Baptist Church of Selma.
“He was very much interested in what Bush Hog needed to do in the community also,” Bearden said.
Jones said he and Buster would spend a lot of their free time hunting and fishing together.
“He was a real outdoorsman. He loved to shoot dove, that was one of his big things,” Jones said. “He would plan and prepare for the boys and family to hunt and he would enjoy that as much as actually hunting himself. I remember going on dove shoots with him and he’d just as soon sit and talk with you as he would go out and shoot dove.”
Buster, 93, passed away after a short illness at Park Place Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. He is survived by Betty, his wife of 67 years, his sister Virginia, son Rusty, and daughter in law Bonnie.
A memorial service will be held at First Baptist Church Thursday at 1 p.m.


By Dave Bell, Senior Director of Product Management, MIPS
In today’s interconnected world, the advancement of Edge AI has revolutionized the way we process and analyze data. Edge AI brings intelligence closer to the device, enabling real-time decision making and reducing the need for centralized processing. However, one of the often overlooked aspects of Edge AI is the importance of efficient data movement.
Efficient data movement can have a significant impact on being able to achieve the full throughput and efficiency out of systems. Edge devices cannot afford to wait and solve any bottlenecks that could occur from parallel processing. With Edge AI, everything is distributed and deterministic latency becomes critical to process data locally and efficiently.
Effective data movement is critical to edge devices, which have limited computational resources, memory bandwidth, and energy constraints but need instantaneous decision-making capabilities. For example, in autonomous vehicles, processing all the cameras, sensors, lidars at the edge can result in faster responses and possibly preventing an accident.
At Embedded World, MIPS will be highlighting the importance of data movement in order to deliver the freedom to innovate in Edge AI, without constraints and with more flexibility and customization.
MIPS’ architecture enables a tailored solution with tight integration of embedded CPUs and the overall SoC architecture, handling the data movement and memory balancing to eliminate bottlenecks. MIPS cores are designed for simplicity and efficiency, enabling compact code sizes for edge applications, helping to optimize storage and enhance overall system performance, including deterministic latency across end-to-end systems.
The cores can be easily and coherently integrated alongside other processors, accelerators and compute subsystems, while allowing for customization for unique requirements of embedded applications. Tighter integration translates into fewer bottlenecks and lower overhead of sharing and moving data.
At the core of enabling better data movement is MIPS’ unique multi-threading capabilities, which enable multiple software threads to efficiently execute in parallel.
With more modern approaches to multi-threading, hardware can alternate operations from different threads of execution on each processor cycle with no overhead, meaning every CPU cycle can have an operation executing. Additionally, in a superscalar CPU architecture, where multiple concurrent operations are supported even for a single thread, the hardware can be executing multiple instructions for two or more different threads even in the same cycle. This is referred to as simultaneous multi-threading (SMT).
Multi-threading can bring significant cost and power advantages in embedded cores, relative to instantiating additional cores. Overall throughput and compute requirements for the system can be handled with less overall processor resources.
At our booth 4-470, we will showcase these multi-threading capabilities:
- A software model of the multi-threaded MIPS P8700 CPU running on a simulation environment. The MIPS RISC-V P8700 CPU combines a deep pipeline with multi-issue Out-of-Order (OoO) execution and simultaneous multi-threading to deliver outstanding computational throughput, and the simulation environment provides a platform for exploration and early application development.
- A demo of MIPS’ multi-threading capabilities of the MIPS P8700 multiprocessor when used with an embedded application such as an Automotive Telematics Server. The primary application running on the CPU is an automotive telematics server with a MIPS RISC-V P8700 multiprocessor at its heart, aggregating data from various electronic control units (ECUs) distributed throughout the vehicle. With 2-way simultaneous multi-threading, the CPU can efficiently execute multiple application threads concurrently, to maximize the utilization of the CPU resources for optimal performance per silicon area and power consumption.
Effective data movement is a critical enabler of responsiveness, scalability and power efficiency. By optimizing the flow of data between edge devices and CPUs, organizations can unlock the full potential of distributed intelligence, empowering a wide range of applications across automotive EV and software defined vehicles, computer vision-based AI systems, and enterprise compute and networking systems. As Edge AI continues to evolve, so too will the importance of data movement in realizing new innovations.


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- Allowing high school students to take remedial courses or allowing college students to take “co-requisite” courses while also taking college-level classes are two ways to increase the number of credits that students earn by the end of their second year in college, according to a new article based on study published in 2019.
- High school students in Tennessee’s Seamless Alignment and Integrated Learning Support, in which students enroll in an online remedial course if their junior year ACT scores demonstrate a need, earned an additional 4.6 additional college credits by the end of their second year at a higher ed institution, compared to students from schools that didn’t have the program, according to the study led by Thomas Kane at Harvard University.
- But the benefits of the program were “modest’ and did not increase students’ chances of completing a degree in two years. Meanwhile, a 2015 Tennessee policy allowing college students to take a remedial math course at the same time they take a college-level math course was found to be slightly more successful at helping students pass college math.
Tennessee is among states moving in the direction of allowing students to take co-requisite courses along with college-level courses to reduce the “time tax” of remedial courses and the costs associated with taking courses that don’t come with any credit.
Research has shown students who take remedial courses in college are less likely to graduate. Tennessee also stands out for informing students of their remedial status while they're still in high school, which can help families be far more prepared rather than being hit with the unexpected in the midst of the transition to college.
The researchers found both SAILS and the co-requisite policy were successful at “opening the doors to college-level course work.” But they suggested remediation alone is not “a solution for students who emerge from high school with weak math skills.”
Angela Boatman, an associate professor of higher education at Boston College and one of the co-authors of the study, offered one possible explanation for why the co-requisite policy was more effective: “Because co-requisite remediation provides support to students alongside their college-level course, this ‘just-in-time’ remediation may be more effective than asking students to recall content from their high school remedial course.”
In addition, she said, it’s possible there is more “course/instructor alignment” when the remedial course is taken at the same institution and at the same time as the college-level course.
In the paper, the authors also note the SAILS program was a self-paced, online course, which might not be the best format for students struggling in math. Another approach at the K-12 level, the authors note, is to double up on algebra for students who enter high school behind in math.
Overall, the researchers conclude increasing college completion rates will require that students receive more help in “navigating their way toward a degree.” Other programs that provide “comprehensive, integrated and long-lasting student supports” have also been successful at increasing success outcomes.


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Page 1 ï~~Max Mathews Professor of Music Research, Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), Stanford University Keynote Address Thursday, October 15th, 7:30 p.m. Morris Daily Auditorium My View Of The Future Of Real-Time Computer Music It is clear that incredibly fast and inexpensive hardware is just around the corner. Soon, if we want real-time performance, we will have to slow down our computers in order that the computation not get too far ahead of the performance. It is also clear that performing music, whether done at home or on stage, is a great and expressive pleasure. Good performance instruments will be immensely popular. I see three periods in the evolution of hardware. The past and present include MIDI synthesizers with all their powers and limitations. In the present and immediate future DSP chips promise to provide music much more adaptable to the desires of the individual musician than MIDI equipment Now, the difficulty of programming DSP chips limits their use. The future, new chips, perhaps successors to present RISC processors, will provide both power and easy programmability. Obtaining good software remains the biggest (and most interesting) obstacle to real-time performance. At present two kinds of software exist-sequencers, of which there are many examples, and block-diagram compilers, among which Miller Puckette's MAX program is a popular example. Sequencers and sequences provide one way of describing the time-varying aspects of a composition. They can embody much of the information in a traditional score. Real-time block-diagram compilers provide a practical way for non-computer specialists to invent and construct their own instruments. The blockdiagrams contain much of the information that is built into traditional instruments. The division of music into time-varying sequences and time invariant instruments is old. Its usefulness is well established. Most traditional music fits this pattern. Music V included a block-diagram compiler for instruments and a time ordered sequence of notes in a score. But is this division necessary? Perhaps we can create an environment in which the time-varying and instrumental aspects of music are combined in a much more intimate and flexible way than presently exists. Perhaps we can make time-varying instruments whose properties are changed by a score, or perhaps we can make scores in the form of block-diagrams. Or perhaps (and most hopefully) we can create a new music stnucture that is so powerful and so different that is cannot be thought of in terms of instruments and scores. The complete text of this address is available from International Computer Music Association.


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Zachary Miller was a generous soul.
“Zach was very giving,” said his mother, Trilla Miller. “He would always ask to help others. If it was something he had and someone else wanted it, he would give it to them. He wanted everyone to be involved.”
The 10-year-old Gettysburg boy lost his life last May in an all-terrain vehicle accident while vacationing with his family in West Virginia. He loved sports and the outdoors and played football for the Gettysburg Generals. He was a natural leader, playing quarterback for the team, his family said.
Zach’s family, friends and teammates will carry on his giving spirit and his love of sports through Zingers for Zach. The newly formed nonprofit organization provides funding for equipment, registration fees, sports physicals, or any other need, allowing young people in need to stay in the game.
“If we can do it, we’re going to help,” Trilla said this week as she, her husband Scott, and Scott’s parents, Kay and Rick Miller, gathered in the Millers’ living room.
Community support for the family and for the organization has been “amazing,” Trilla said. The first fundraiser for Zingers for Zach, held last fall, was a cornhole tournament and silent auction that raised $15,000. The organization has already been able to assist several local youths in lacrosse and soccer programs, she said.
Zach’s friends and former teammates continue to remember him during sports and school events as well. Participants in James Gettys Elementary School’s Race for Education event this month wore blue t-shirts with Zach’s name printed on the back. In fact, the phrase “Zingers for Zach” comes from his friends and baseball teammates, who encouraged each other to hit home runs, “zingers,” in Zach’s memory at a game after his death.
Moving forward, the Millers said they want to develop partnerships with local coaches and sports organizations to help distribute the funds most effectively.
“A lot of times the teams and coaches know the kids in need,” Scott said. “Anything to funnel the money into the hands of kids.”
There are no financial guidelines or income limits for applying for help, the Millers said; the only requirement is financial need.
As the first anniversary of Zach’s death approaches, the family is still grappling with overwhelming emotions, and they aren’t sure how they will commemorate the date.
But this summer also comes with some happy news for the Millers: Trilla is due to give birth in June to the couple’s second child.


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