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SafetyNET p is a standard for Ethernet-based fieldbus communication in automation technology. SafetyNET p is suitable as a drive bus due to its real-time behaviour, with cycle times of up to 62.5 µs. In accordance with the standard requirements from EN 61508 and EN 61511, it can be used in safety circuits up to and including Category 3, SIL 3.

Origin
SafetyNET p is a registered trademark of Pilz GmbH & Co. KG and was presented in public for the first time in 2006. Its objective was to enable fieldbus communication on Ethernet in real-time and to simultaneously provide data communication in terms of machinery safety. SafetyNET p combines safety and automation: it is both a safety and an automation fieldbus and as such is the successor to SafetyBUS p.

The SafetyNET p technology is managed through the umbrella organisation Safety Network International e.V.

Application
In addition to its use as an Ethernet-based fieldbus, a key component in the application of SafetyNET p is the communication of data with a safety-related content. SafetyNET p can be used anywhere that communicated data has to be consistent in terms of time and content, in order to safeguard against danger. This danger may concern hazards to life and limb, but may also involve the protection of economic assets.

A second application area is the communication of data in real-time. With bus cycle times of up to 62,5 µs, SafetyNET p can even be used in extremely time-critical areas.

Typical application areas are:
	Factory automation (e. g. car production, presses)
	Transport technology (e. g. cable cars, fairground rides)
	Drive technology (e. g. sensor/actuator control loop in drives or industrial robots)

In general, all automation and process engineering applications are possible.

Technology
SafetyNET p is based on Ethernet. There are two different but compatible versions of SafetyNET p.

RTFN
RTFN (Real time frame network) uses conventional Ethernet IP frames for communication. The mechanisms for security and real-time are located on OSI levels 3 and above. A producer-consumer model is used as the communication principle. A central process controller (PLC) is not required. This enables concepts such as modular engineering, for example.

SafetyNET p RTFN is fully compatible with all IP-based Ethernet protocols and can be combined on the same medium. Conventional switches, routers and wireless access points can also be used.

A system cycle time of around 1 ms can be achieved, depending on potential competing services. If higher performance is required, SafetyNET p RTFL can be used.

RTFL
RTFL (Real time frame line) uses Ethernet MAC frames for communication. A producer-consumer model is also used at logical level on RTFL. In order to achieve the required performance, communication takes place in optimised Ethernet MAC frames. The first subscriber in the logical line sends an Ethernet MAC frame to its logical neighbour, which completes its part of the frame and then passes the frame along the logical line to its nearest neighbour. This way all subscribers fill in the frame in succession. The last subscriber in the line sends the completed frame back to the first subscriber using the same channel (via all the subscribers). In the process, individual subscribers can remove the data they need as the frame passes through.

System cycle times in the area of 62.5 µs can be achieved. SafetyNET p subscribers can pack miscellaneous IP-based traffic within an RTFL frame as part of real-time communication.

Technical details
The SafetyNet p frame data, as determined by the technology, is as follows:
	Compatible with Ethernet IP protocols
	Networks can be designed in a linear, star or tree topology
	Networks with variable subscribers can be used thanks to the continuous topology scan
	The maximum distance between two subscribers corresponds to that of conventional Ethernet (this is 100 m when copper cables are used)
	With RTFN, the number of bus subscribers is limited only by the IP address space
	With RTFL you can have 512 bus subscribers per segment
	Guaranteed system cycle times of up to 62.5 µs can be achieved
	Suitable for applications in accordance with SIL 3 of IEC 61508

SafetyNET p is assigned port number 40000 on IANA's "List of assigned port numbers".

Organisation
The user organisation Safety Bus p Club International e.V. combines manufacturers and users of SafetyBUS p and has been in existence since 1999. In 2006 the organisation was renamed Safety Network International e.V. In addition to the international organisation there are also two other regional organisations: Japan was established in 2000, while the United States was established in 2001.

Literature
 Winfried Gräf: Maschinensicherheit. Hüthig GmbH & Co. KG, Heidelberg 2004,
 Arbeitspapier der BIA: Prüfgrundsätzen für sichere Bussysteme.
 EU Maschinenrichtlinie: 98/37/EG
 Safety Network International: SafetyNET p Systembeschreibung Version 2.0

Industrial Ethernet
Safety


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FOLLOWING HADRIAN
I came, I saw, I photographed… follow me in the footsteps of Hadrian!
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The Gladiator Mosaic at Bad Kreuznach, Germany
May 29, 2013 August 7, 2013 followinghadrian
Last November, I visited the Römerhalle at Bad Kreuznach, Germany. It is a museum that displays finds from a late 2nd century Roman villa as well as other Roman finds from the district of Bad Kreuznach.
Around 58 BC, the Rhineland-Palatinate region became part of the Roman Empire, with a Roman vicus named Cruciniacum, forming a supply station between Mainz (Mogontiacum) and Trier (Augusta Treverorum). During the 2nd century AD, a gigantic palace (81 m × 71 m or 266 ft × 233 ft) was built there, with a peristyle, and 50 rooms on the ground floor alone.
The magnificent Villa Rustica (countryside villa) encompassing a total area of 6000 square metres, was composed of four winged buildings enclosing an inner courtyard garden surrounded with columns. Conforming to its position on a hillside, the Villa incorporated several storeys in some areas. The ground floor alone contained more than 50 rooms beautifully decorated with stucco, marble work and wall paintings. Villas of this size and style are more typically known from England, France and the Mediterranean area.
Model of the Roman Villa, Römerhalle, Bad Kreuznach
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The most important part of the exhibition hall are the two mosaics dating back to the 3rd century AD (no longer in their original location). The first one, depicting gladiators and amphitheatre related scenes, the Gladiator Mosaic, is amazingly well preserved.
Gladiator mosaic floor, 3rd century AD, Römerhalle, Bad Kreuznach
Found during construction work in 1893, the 58 square metre mosaic floor quickly became one of the leading attractions of the health-resort city. The mosaic shows a large area resulting in 13 different images depicting gladiators fighting each other, gladiators fighting animals and animals against each other.
Detail of Gladiator mosaic, a Thraex (left) fighting a Murmillo (right), Römerhalle, Bad Kreuznach
In this scene (photo above), a Thraex (left) is fighting a Murmillo (right). The Thraex wears a broad-rimmed helmet that enclosed the entire head, a small square-shaped shield (parmula), and two thigh-length greaves. His weapon is the Thracian curved sword. Thraeces were introduced as replacements for the Gauls after Gaul made peace with Rome. They commonly fought Murmillones or Hoplomachi. The murmillo wears a helmet with a stylised fish on the crest, as well as an arm guard (manica), a loincloth and belt, a gaiter on his right leg, thick wrappings covering the tops of his feet, and a very short greave. The murmillo carris a gladius and a tall, elongated shield in the legionary style. Murmillones were typically paired with Thraecis, but occasionally with the similar hoplomachi.
Detail of the Gladiator mosaic floor, a Hoplomachus fighting a Thraex, Römerhalle, Bad Kreuznach
In this scene (photo above), a Thraex (left) is fighting a hoplomachus who can be identified by his lance and dagger.
Detail of Gladiator mosaic, a Secutor (left) fighting a Retiarus (right), Römerhalle, Bad Kreuznach
Detail of Gladiator mosaic, two Eques fighting equipped with lance, sword and the traditional small round shield, Römerhalle, Bad Kreuznach
In this scene, two Eques are fighting against each other. Like the provocator, the evidence is that eques only ever fought another eques. They began to fight on horseback and were the first to compete in the day's schedule of gladiatorial games. In pictorial representations they are mostly represented in the final phase of the struggle, after they dismounted and continued to fight on foot with their short sword (gladius), a 27 inch short straight sword.
Detail of the Gladiator mosaic floor, a Venator fighting a bear, Römerhalle, Bad Kreuznach
In this image (photo above), a Venator is fighting a bear. The Venatores fought in Venationes, or hunting shows, which were shown in a variety of different formats. Herds of wild animals were let loose into the arena and were slaughtered by the Venatores. Venationes were scheduled as morning events at the Roman Colosseum and were trained at the Ludus Matutinus (morning school).
Detail of the Gladiator mosaic floor, a Venator fighting a leopard, Römerhalle, Bad Kreuznach
Here a venator is fighting a leopard. The traffic in wild animals for the amphitheatre reduced or exterminated many species within and beyond the empire. Already in 50 B.C., Cicero, in his letters to Marcus Caelius Rufus, reports the scarcity of pantheras Graecas, a creature that Roman appetite seems to have exhausted altogether.
Detail of the Gladiator mosaic floor depicting an animal fight, Römerhalle, Bad Kreuznach
During the games held to celebrate the inauguration of the Colosseum in Rome, the emperor Titus arranged to have 9,000 tame and wild animals of various kinds slaughtered in the arena. The spectacle went on for 100 days. Trajan surpassed this record when, in order to celebrate his victory over the Dacians, he held games lasting 123 days, during which time 5,000 pairs of gladiators fought and some 11,000 animals were killed in the arena, according to Dio Cassius (68.15.1). This was the largest contest of gladiators in Rome.
For Hadrian's forty-third birthday, on 24th January 119, a gladiatorial show was put on which lasted for six successive days, with a thousand wild beasts being slaughtered, among them one hundred lions and one hundred lionesses. (Source: Hadrian: The Restless Emperor by Anthony R Birley). Also Hadrian frequently attended gladiatorial shows (Historia Augusta).
The lively picture of the central panel of the Gladiator mosaic depicts a scene in an amphitheatre with Venatores fighting animals.
Central panel of the Gladiator mosaic floor, 3rd century AD, Römerhalle, Bad Kreuznach
The hypocaust heating system of the villa is completely preserved under the mosaic. A walk through the understructure of the mosaic provides a view of the underside of the floor and reveals the principle and functionality of the Roman hypocaust system.
The underfloor heating system (hypocaust) undernearth the Gladiator mosaic, Römerhalle, Bad Kreuznach
The second mosaic, the Oceanus Mosaic, showing the Sea God Oceanus and ocean scenes, was accidentally discovered in 1966, after which the villa was finally systematically excavated. The Oceanus Mosaic had a fountain in its center, which has been reconstructed. From other finds it has been deducted that this floor was part of the triclinium of the villa.
The Oceanus mosaic, 3rd century AD, Römerhalle, Bad Kreuznach
Discovered in 1968, the 68 square metre Oceanus mosaic was situated in the main presentation room of the Villa. A marble encased water basin with a two-handled bowl and a half round triclinium (couch) in the apse could be reconstructed from the excavation finds. The mosaic is composed of various different scenes: between Mediterranean architecture, harbors and ship depictions and varied sea creatures are splashing about. The apse depicts Oceanus, ruler of all the seas, flanked by two horse-headed fish creatures. The remains of a consular inscription makes possible a dating of the floor to 234 AD.
Further photos of the Römerhalle can be viewed from my image collection on Flickr.
This marvelous little museum can be easily reached by train from Frankfurt am Main and Mainz (trains run every 30 minutes). Bad Kreuznach is also a spa city, located on the Nahe river, and is widely regarded as one of the loveliest spa and health resorts in Germany. The town and surrounding areas are renowned both nationally and internationally for its wines, especially Riesling, Silvaner and Müller-Thurgau grape varieties.
Römerhalle, Bad Kreuznach
Address : Hüffelsheimer Straße 11 D – 55545 Bad Kreuznach
E-mail : info@museen-bad-kreuznach.de
Website : http://www.museen-bad-kreuznach.de
Prices : 3.5 € (child : 2.5 €)
Opening hours: Tuesday to Sunday, 10 to 17 clock (closed in February)
Römerhalle, Bad Kreuznach, Germany
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Thank you! Very nice pictures and write-up.
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Vysokyj (,  – Vysokij) je sídlo městského typu v Charkovské oblasti na Ukrajině.  K roku 2019 měl přes deset tisíc obyvatel.

Poloha a doprava
Zástavba Vysokého bezprostředně navazuje na jihozápadně ležící město Pivdenne. Od Charkova je Vysokyj vzdálený přibližně dvacet kilometrů jihozápadně.

Přes obec prochází dálnice M 18 z Charkova přes Merefu do Záporoží, Melitopolu, Simferopolu a Jalty, po které je také vedena Evropská silnice E105. Také přes ni prochází železnice z Charkova do Merefy, která má na území obce zastávky Naukovyj, Vysokyj a Zelenyj Haj.

Dějiny
Vysokyj byl založený jako osada železničních zaměstnanců v roce 1904. Status sídla městského typu má od roku 1938. V roce 1964 do něj byly začleněny další osady: Zelenyj Haj (založena 1907), Naukovyj (založena 1935), Novyj Vysokyj (založen 1957) a Vidpočynok.

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Proteona is one of the three Asia-based companies that made it to the prestigious list
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Proteona has been selected by the Spinoff Prize as one of the top 44 science-based spinoff companies from around the world. The Spinoff Prize is established by Nature Research in partnership with the Merck Group. The award highlights spinoffs who take top-quality scientific research to the market and make a positive impact.
Proteona is recognized for addressing the clinical need in multiple myeloma, a blood cancer that is difficult to treat. Different patients, or even tumor clones within the same patient, may respond to drug treatment differently. Choosing the right drug is challenging. Proteona uses single-cell proteogenomics and artificial intelligence-assisted algorithms to measure tumor cell diversity in a patient biopsy, which can help clinicians choose the best treatment for individual patients.
"It is a great honor to be recognized by the Spinoff Prize award, issued by Nature research, who represents the top scientific standard, and by Merck, an industry leader well known for its accelerator programs and technology innovation." Said Dr. Andreas Schmidt, CEO of Proteona. "It adds credibility to the science and business we are doing at Proteona, and provides momentum for us to achieve the next milestones. This comes just at the right moment for our upcoming fundraising campaign, which will be launched in a few weeks' time."
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Great Ocean Road Brewhouse Venue
Drinking locally brewed craft beer in the heart of a "paradise by the sea" would be a dream holiday for many people. And, since 2015, it's a dream that's been a reality for the streams of tourists travelling the Great Ocean Road each year.
The Great Ocean Road Brewhouse, situated on the Great Ocean Road highway in the seaside town of Apollo Bay, the self-styled "paradise by the sea", is a home away from home for Prickly Moses, a brewery based in the nearby Otway Ranges.
As such, you'll find its 16 taps pouring the full array of Prickly Moses beers, both core and seasonal, as well as its Forbidden Fruit ciders. The brewery is one of the stalwarts of the Victorian scene and has a range stretching from easy drinking ales and lagers to IPAs – including one blended with Chardonnay – to farmhouse style ales, a popular Blueberry Hefeweizen and even a beer from which profits go towards saving the endangered tiger quoll, the largest remaining marsupial predators left on the mainland that are native to the region.
They're not averse to sharing some of the limelight, however, with the fridges lined with more than 100 local and international offerings covering most styles and tastes. Given there will be more tourists than beer geeks passing through the doors, there's a comprehensive beer menu too, one that groups beers by style and region and comes with a glossary of beer terms at the back, serving as a useful guide for those wanting to delve further into the world of beer.
For those who don't drink beer, there's a large selection of local and regional wines too. And then there's the food.
Winner of the 2016 Regional Golden Plate award for Best Hotel Dining – along with Best Menu Local Wines Beers and Ciders – the meals on offer range from local tasting plates showcasing the region's produce to the popular Brewhouse Angus Beef & Bacon Burger. Throughout the focus is on big flavour from local, fresh ingredients.
Prior to becoming the Great Ocean Road Brewhouse, the building had been home to the Ballarat Hotel, originally opened in 1887 and regularly altered and improved over the years by a number of owners. And a similar process of alterations and improvements has taken place at the adjacent venue, where the brewery's owner, Andrew Noseda, has overseen the repurposing of a bottleshop into Tastes of the Region.
As an Apollo Bay native, this venue gives him another platform upon which to showcase his own business alongside those of local producers. So, accompanying the beer and wine is a huge selection of local produce from The Otways and Great Ocean Road regions: cheeses, meats, chutneys, oils, chocolates, honey and so on.
Completing the picture is the entertainment side of the operation. You'll find local musicians performing at the Brewhouse, while Open Mic Sunday Sessions take place on the first Sunday of each month.
It feels like the culmination of years of hard work for Andrew and his team. Back in the early days of The Crafty Pint, Prickly Moses beers would be pretty much the only independent option at any venue you visited along the Great Ocean Road. Now, alongside a second Brewhouse operating in Queenscliff, the Great Ocean Road Brewhouse – winner of Best Innovative Retail Space at the 2021 AHA Victoria State Awards – is helping make journeys to the Surf Coast ever more appealing for beer lovers.
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Runkle Park – Build it and they will bum
By Michael Collins on July 27, 2009 in Blog, Runkle Canyon
Runkle Canyon goo had heavy metals contamination ignored by both developers and City of Simi Valley.
Just who is in charge of Runkle Canyon? "The Good Reverend John" Southwick had the same question when he saw a July 16 Ventura County Star article about the Rancho Simi Recreation and Park District, which is looking at a $1.5 million shortfall in its upcoming budget yet plans to drop $1.5 million on a "Runkle Park" for, that as the article says, "improvements, to start in 2010-11 that would include a basketball court, restrooms, trailhead parking, picnic facilities and walkways." The exact location of the park is not known.
These Runkle Park plans were news to Reverend John and the rest of the Radiation Rangers, a citizens group formed in 2006 to fight a 461-home development in Runkle Canyon by KB Home/Lennar in the shadow of the nuclear area of the Boeing-owned Santa Susana Field Laboratory, home to the worst nuclear reactor meltdown in the nation's history fifty years ago from July 13-26, 1959. Runkle Canyon's soil has tested high for the radionuclides strontium-90 and cesium-137, as well as the heavy metals arsenic, nickel, vanadium, chromium, barium and cadmium. Runkle Creek has also tested high for some of these heavy metals.
The revelations of pollution in the canyon, possibly a result of decades of nuclear and rocketry work at the old Rocketdyne lab which has an 11-acre drainage into the canyon, is one of the reasons that the developer signed a voluntary cleanup agreement with the Department of Toxic Substances Control on April 14, 2008. As part of that agreement, DTSC has instructed KB Home to remove some of these contaminants from the canyon:
"Tar material encountered at the site poses a potential threat to human health because benzo(a)anthracene concentrations exceed the [Preliminary Remediation Goal]," wrote DTSC to the developer. "The tar material should be removed from the site and either properly recycled or disposed."
In part of its response to this direction, KB Home's 37-page Response Plan says, "Other areas of the channel walls within the vicinity of the seeps have been reported to contain similar material," but assures that "Development plans for the Site include the mass grading and removal of the aggregate piles in the 'Fish Tail' area. If additional tar material is discovered during future grading activities it will be managed appropriately."
So how can the Simi Valley Rec and Parks drop $1.5 million that it doesn't have in Runkle Canyon before the cleanup has even begun, a cleanup that would involve massive grading and hauling of toxic debris away? This is what was on Southwick's mind when he went to address the Simi Valley City Council last week. He shared his written comments with EnviroReporter.com:
"Now this is news to us. Just where are these facilities to be built? There are no plans that we are aware. There are no plans for this in KB Home's Runkle Canyon EIR. Would these facilities be way up in the canyon or down by Sequioa or somewhere in between? Do you folks know?
And do you folks remember that KB Home has a cleanup agreement with the Department of Toxic Substances Control where DTSC has ordered KB Home to remove a toxic tar called "benzo(a)anthracene" from the site? This is the same gunk we all saw when I guided you up Runkle Canyon to take samples two summers ago.
Are you aware that KB Home has told DTSC that it plans to "mass grade" away the two mountainous slag piles, over 100 feet high — that's over 10 stories high of this rubble — to get rid of this toxic tar?
Now common sense says you don't build a park where there is going to be clean up demolition and removal like this, whether KB Home gets to build its houses or not. This clean up is being ordered by Norm Riley and his toxics department and KB says it will take down those slag heaps.
So save yourselves, and us residents, the $1.5 million before you go build a park on land still waiting to be cleaned up."
Southwick said it appeared that this was the first that council members had heard of this park plan. Mayor Paul Miller made it clear that it was not their bailiwick as the Rec department is separate from the city. End of story, for the city council that is.
Fair enough. But their response suggests that this council, and mayor, may not be up to speed when it comes to who is actually in charge of Runkle Canyon – they are. In 2006, the city took the unprecedented step of annexing the pristine (save for all the contamination) 1,595-acre canyon so it's now in city limits meaning the council is ultimately responsible for this property that KB Home/Lennar bought for around $38 million and from which they are hoping to make much more.
And, say the Radiation Rangers, if Rec and Park and/or the city council, allow a park to open in this yet-to-be-built-in canyon before the state-identified pollution is removed and remediated, then the city will expose itself to future lawsuits from people who visit this "park" and manage to get that tar-like benzo(a)anthracene on them, a nasty substance that is suspected of causing cancer in animals and humans. And the city's taxpayers, including Southwick and the Radiation Rangers, will have to foot that bill. Bottom line – if Runkle Park is built, many people will bum.
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Great job Michael.
I will not be visiting this park!


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Now when i try running my loop of angularForEach only the first collection entry(i.e. one with id=1 is getting removed but the one with id=2 stays). Ideally expected output should only be an object with id=3. Following is the code:-
angular.forEach($scope.obj, function(content, index){
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However when I run this, it works perfectly fine:-
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I am not getting a clear picture of why splice is not working.
Some help please?

A: So the angular forEach loop starts at the beginning of the array, while your second example with the for loop starts at the end and goes back through.  Since you're removing an element when 'collections' is found as the content_type_name, that will shift the index of every other item in the array down 1.
In the Angular forEach loop, it starts on index 0, removes it, then moves on to index 1, which is now the final element in the array since one was just removed.  Basically it's skipping over the second element.
Your second example, using the for loop, doesn't have this problem since it's moving backwards through the array.  So it checks index 2, doesn't do anything, checks index 1, removes it, and moves on to index 0, which it also removes.  Hope I worded this well enough...

A: Maybe you are looking for a filter
$scope.obj = $scope.obj.filter(function(e){
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Then you don't have to remove every single element


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"We're not expecting to win, but just to learn because after the World Cup, the Copa America is the biggest competition in the world", Ali said.
To the delight of Sanchez, former Barcelona midfielder Xavier Hernández Creus (Xavi) correctly predicted that the 2022 World Cup hosts would win the 2019 Asian Cup.
In an interview, Sanchez shared: "In the first half, we played very well".
According to media reports, the players in question are striker Almoez Ali, who is a 22-year old of Sudanese descent and has scored a record-equalling eight goals at the tournament, and 21-year old defender Bassam Al-Rawi, who was born in Iraq.
The two wingers Abdelkarim Hassan and Pedro Correia also played their part with the latter hard to get past on the right side. "We get along very well together too".
The Spaniard has known and worked with the majority of the squad for several years, many of them of since they were children. Qatar are in the same group as Lionel Messi's Argentina for the June-July tournament in Brazil.


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UJJEEVANAM is a conceited and prominent program of Amal College, which supports and services the Tribal community. The college is delimited with many tribal colonies with very basic facilities, and the members are not educated to hack it with present social situations. The Malayalam word "UJJEEVANAM" in English means elevate which means to lift or move to a higher position or level. Exactly as the name of the scheme our aim is to elevate the inhabitants of Palakkayam colony.
UJJEEVANAM envisions a bright future for the tribes of Palakkayam in Chaliyar Grama Panchayat, by providing them with a good education, health, mental status. which can elevate the current status of the tribe. The project intends to nurture the coming generation of the Palakkayam tribe through specific objectives.
Education - To empower women, and youth to ensure education.
Employability - To train the people to enhance employability skills and technological skills.
Palakkayam Colony consists of 34 families (100 members) of Muthuvan Caste and 16 families (54members off Kattunaikkan Caste, Total 154 members. Name of Colony Mooppan is Krishnan Kutty (58 years) and Mooppathi Mani (76 Years). Mooppan of Kaattunaikkan Caste is Karian and Mooppathi Karikka.
The 'Muthuvan' people were loyal subjects of the dynasty of Madurai, according to tribal legend. When the dynasty was deposed, the surviving royal members migrated to Travancore, central Kerala. Kattunayakan is one of the five ancient tribal groups in Kerala. They live very much in tune with Nature. Hunting and collecting forest produce are the two main means of living for the Kattunayakan tribe.


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Sustaining the Fight against Malaria
Marie Onakomaiya · April 25, 2015
~ Written by Randall Kramer, PhD, M.E. (Professor of Environmental Economics and Global Health, Duke University) & Leonard Mboera, PhD, MSc (Chief Scientist, Tanzania National Institute for Medical Research)
*Also published on the Duke Global Health Institute Website
On World Malaria Day, April 25, there's much to celebrate and acknowledge when it comes to the fight against malaria. Over the past 15 years, we've seen a huge ramp-up of international funding, and the latest statistics show impressive progress—a 46% decrease in malaria infections among children in sub-Saharan Africa and an estimated 4.3 million deaths averted globally over time.
One of the most effective malaria control measures has been the free distribution of several hundred million insecticide-treated mosquito nets that protect people from mosquitoes while sleeping. In 2004, only 3% of at-risk people in sub-Saharan Africa had an insecticide-treated mosquito net available to them, compared to 49% in 2014 after an international campaign.
The U.S. government is among the major funders of malaria control, and it's one of the few international assistance programs that has garnered bipartisan support through the Bush and Obama terms. But despite the upsurge in spending and the laudable success of these programs, malaria remains one of the leading causes of death in poorer and tropical parts of the world.
The need for continued support is critical; it's estimated that eliminating malaria as a major global disease threat would require double the current $3 billion invested annually in malaria control. But in the face of so many other pressing needs, why should we continue to invest in malaria?
In the last year, nearly 200 million people suffered from malaria, and its death toll—more than 500,000—was 50 times greater than that of the widely publicized outbreak of Ebola in West Africa. And malaria takes a particularly devastating toll on the young. More than 80% of the deaths from malaria are in children under five, and those who manage to survive the illness often suffer lasting effects on development, school performance and lifetime earnings.
Because malaria is such a resilient killer, we can expect to see these malaria losses continue and potentially rise in the absence of continued financial support. In fact, with temperatures steadily increasing throughout the world as a result of global warming, malaria-transmitting mosquitoes have begun to take residence in new regions, raising the specter of malaria spreading far beyond its current boundaries.
In addition to the physical suffering malaria causes, the disease stunts national economic progress.
Studies by Columbia University economist Jeffrey Sachs suggest that, if not for malaria keeping children out of school and agricultural workers out of the fields, the rate of economic development in sub-Saharan Africa would have been much higher in the past few decades.
And lastly, we can't underestimate the goodwill generated by our investments in mosquito nets and other malaria-defeating approaches in recipient countries. As one community member told our research team in rural Tanzania, "Mosquito nets have been a great help to us. The day when mosquito nets were distributed, people were very happy, because many people in our community could not afford to buy the mosquito nets."
The malaria parasite, a resilient and opportunistic pest, has successfully co-inhabited with humans for thousands of years, and it continues to adapt and evolve, damaging populations and economies across the globe. We now have the knowledge, technology and health systems to significantly reduce its devastating human impacts. But putting these assets into action will require renewed political will and financial commitment from rich and poor countries around the globe—including the U.S.
Tags: Malaria, Sub-saharan Africa, Public Health, Mosquitos, Infectious diseases, International Aid
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This could mean that students are getting smarter, but GPAs only reflect the work students turned in. Alternatively, higher GPAs could be due to grade inflation (i.e. teachers scoring higher for lower quality work). If grade inflation is the cause for the shift, students aren't getting smarter; school is getting easier.
Parents who want to help their teenagers get better grades should show a strong interest in their children's education.
If parents want to help their teenagers improve their grades, the first thing they should do is identify how their child is not meeting expectations. There are many reasons their grades could be unsatisfactory, but you must listen to them to know how to help them.
If you see your children doing their homework, asking for help on assignments, and telling you about their classes, chances are they aren't having much trouble in school. After all, they are showing (and sharing) their interest and motivation.
If their grades are still below average, you may want to consider helping them study or (if you can't help them) signing them up for tutoring. However, lacking the knowledge isn't always the problem.
School is an entirely different environment than the one you build at home. Aside from academics, teenagers are preoccupied with sports, clubs, and maintaining a social presence.
Teens could be easily overwhelmed by all their commitments, especially if they also have jobs or are applying for colleges. All these things can serve as distractions from academic performance. Friends (or lack of friends) are perhaps the most prevalent distractions.
However, not everyone is a social butterfly. Some teenagers find it difficult to bond with others, especially those with interested in getting good grades. The stereotype that teenagers can't be cool and smart hinders a lot of potentially successful students.
And let's not forget that kids can be cruel. Bullying has been an issue in school since its establishment, and the mediums kids use to bully nowadays go beyond being picked on at school.
Social media networks provides bullies the opportunity to publicly humiliate their peers beyond the classroom. Situations like this could be particularly stressful and even damaging mentally or emotionally for the bullies and the bullied.
Parents who want to help their teenagers improve their grades should be attentive to their behavior and stay informed on what's happening in their social lives.
Parents and teachers work hard to teach children to prioritize their educations. However, sometime near the beginning of middle school, most children start to become far more concerned with their own social networks than their parents' approval.
By the time they are teenagers in high school, their habits are well-established. Most often, if you don't bring up the subjects of school and grades, your teenagers aren't going to.
Wait for the right time. Having a formal discussion on your teenager's report card could do more harm than good; teenagers see this as a time for them to get scolded for doing poorly. However, if parents catch their children off-guard, they can have a cool conversation with their teens. Parents should just remember to stay calm and practice active listening.
Start with the obvious. If there has been a drop in grades or a lack of motivation in other areas (like sports and clubs), this could be a great way to open the conversation. Let your teenagers explain their side of the story. During this discussion, make sure that you help your children realize the importance of taking responsibility for their grades.
Find a solution together. Talk to your teenagers about how they can improve their grades and the way they feel about school. (After all, finding internal motivation is the long-term solution for good academic performance.) You should help them schedule time for completing homework. If your teenagers are really struggling, they should ask their teachers for extra-credit assignments.
Above all else, don't get emotional over your teenager's grades; this will only cause an emotional upset for the both of you. Be calm so that your teenager knows he can come to you with future problems.
Visit the school. A great way to identify how to help your teenagers is to be aware of where they spend over a third of their day. If visiting the school is inconvenient, parents could start by browsing the school's website.
Attend school functions. Being present for school functions like parent-teacher conferences and open houses is a great way to remain informed about teacher expectations and student performance.
Support their teacher's expectations. Being on the same page as your children's teachers (and reinforcing their expectations) is one of the best things you can do to help your teenagers stay on track.
Help them get ready for school. Getting an adequate amount of sleep and a healthy breakfast is detrimental to cognitive performance. In addition, one of the best ways to do well in class is to show up. Make sure your teenagers are going to school prepared and attending all their classes.
Help them study. Parents should help their teenagers review information and take practice tests. Implementing different methods of learning (e.g. writing, reading, speaking, listening) will help them better retain information.
Teach them to organize. Sometimes grades suffer because students lack organizational skills (e.g. they don't turn in assignments because they misplace them). Helping them learn to organize their schoolwork could help them greatly in the future.
Talk to them frequently. Ask your teens questions about school and ask them to share in their experiences outside of the home. This way you will know the moment problems arise.
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Adolescence is a difficult time for children, one for making (a lot of) mistakes and (hopefully) learning from them. It's a difficult time full of raging hormones and conflicting interests between the home and social environments.
While they're trying to understand who they are and who they want to be, most would rather have lots of friends than get better grades. Since the average grade for teenagers is a B, the teen grade range doesn't go far beyond Bs and Cs.
Although teenagers are more likely to be distracted from their schoolwork, problems with grades can start as early as elementary school. Easy access to technology, extracurricular activities, and social networks are common distractions, but low grades could be the result of problems further from the surface.
Parents who pay attention and help motivate their children to do well will likely have an easier time helping them make and reach their academic goals.


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Q: Create NEWS.md from github commits with RStudio is there a proper way to create NOT by hand a NEWS file for a package in R/RStudio?
Is it ok if i find a way to use the description of commits from the github repo to create this file?
Thank you

A: You have to interact with the GitHub API using R(REST API v3) to read the commits
You can use R Bindings for the Github v3 API
I'm not sure if it cover all API needed to read the commits (or you can deploy it)
You should take into account that you should standard all changes/bug fixes and version number to get meaningful commits in the NEWS file.
My advice Do it manually (by hand) :)

A: BTW - anyone who is looking here, look at the fledge package: https://github.com/krlmlr/fledge.  It seems to do what you want.


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Most current treatments for depression target the serotonin system, a chemical messenger that plays a role in mood (though it also plays a role in many, many other things).
Most current treatments for depression target the serotonin system, a chemical messenger that plays a role in mood (though it also plays a role in many, many other things). Most of the antidepressant drugs on the market (such as Prozac, Celexa, and Zoloft) that target serotonin do it by blocking the recycling of serotonin, keeping it in the spaces between neurons and allowing it to be active for far longer than it might otherwise.
The problem is, these drugs take a long time to work. Often many weeks. In that time, patients may grow frustrated as side effects happen and the needed effects don't. Patients may be in very desperate straights when they first go on medication, and any extra time before the drugs work becomes that much more dangerous. The drugs may not work at all, causing doctors and patients to have to go through the entire, weeks long process over and over again.
Scientists are looking for new antidepressant mechanisms, and trying to create more effective drugs. But there are various ways to go about it. You can go looking for an entirely new way of working, but you can also look at ways to make the current drugs work faster.
One target that might help antidepressant drugs work faster is one of the many receptors for serotonin, the 5-HT1A receptor. Receptors are proteins that sit on cell surfaces, and bind chemicals. When they bind a chemical, they cause change, maybe by opening a channel, or starting a signal to make a neuron fire more, or less. What a receptor does depends on its type, but also where in the brain it is located and on what type of cell.
The 5-HT1A receptor is a case in point. It's found throughout the brain, sometimes as an autoreceptor on a serotonin neuron (such as in the dorsal raphe region of the brain) to provide feedback to the cell. Sometimes it's on other neurons in the cortex, where it has different effects. But its role as an autoreceptor could be an important one for antidepressants.
Most antidepressants increase levels of serotonin available in the brain. That means it hits receptors more often. In the dorsal raphe, which produces a lot of the serotonin in the brain, 5-HT1A receptors are there to provide feedback. When serotonin hits them, they signal that there is enough serotonin and the raphe them lighten up a bit on the release. That's great in a normal state, but in a depressed brain being treated with antidepressants, it fights against the antidepressants. More serotonin stays around, yes, but less is released as well, as the 5-HT1A receptors provide feedback. This makes the antidepressant less effective than it could be. Over the long run, the 5-HT1A receptors, hit too hard by all the extra serotonin around due to the antidepressants, will desensitize, and the raphe serotonin cells will fire at more normal rates. This further increases the serotonin levels, once the 5-HT1A receptors are no longer "working against" the antidepressant. So if you could artificially desensitize 5-HT1A receptors immediately, in theory it could help antidepressants work faster, increasing the levels of serotonin even further by stopping the usually feedback from taking place.
There are a couple of drugs on the market that hit 5-HT1A receptors (such as buspirone and vilazodone). But these aren't 5-HT1A drugs alone, they have many other effects. Could hitting 5-HT1A alone, and only in the raphe, be enough to create antidepressant like effects? It's hard to say. In a traditional knockout mouse, you have to knockout the receptor all over the brain. You can't narrow it down to a brain region.
But there's more than one way to get things done. And if you use a small interfering RNA, you can limiting the brain region, and find out just what 5-HT1A in the raphe will do.
responses and serotonin release in stressful conditions" Psychopharmacology, 2013.
The authors of this study wanted to look specifically at the role of the 5-HT1A receptor in the raphe, to see if knocking just the raphe 5-HT1A receptors down might produce antidepressant effects. To do this, they used something called a small interfering RNA. These short RNA sequences can stop the expression of genes, including genes for things like receptor proteins. If you give them locally to a mouse, say, in a viral vector aimed at a specific region of the brain, you could restrict the effects of the interference to a small area, allowing only the receptors in that area to be knocked down.
You can see the effects in the photo above. On the top two rows are the vehicle injection, and the injection with random RNA. The 5-HT1A receptor expression (shown in the color plot), looked the same for both. But for the bottom row, you can see a blank spot (with the arrow pointing to it). That is the group that got the small interfering RNA. You can see that in the tiny area where the virus was spread, the dorsal raphe, there is a big decrease in "glow", indicating a decrease in 5-HT1A receptors. And it occurs quickly, about a day after the injection.
But what effects does it have? In theory, if the 5-HT1A receptors in this area control serotonin release, the mice shouldn't response to 5-HT1A drugs. There will be no receptors to hit. No feedback to give.
It does appear to the work that way. Above (Figure 4 A from the paper), you can see levels of serotonin in normal mice (white circles), mice that got nonsense RNA (white squares), mice that got small interfering RNA (black squares), and mice that have 5-HT1A receptors knocked out all over (black circles). You can see that when control mice get a 5-HT1A agonist, their serotonin levels decrease, the 5-HT1A agonist is promoting feedback and the raphe is ceasing serotonin production. But in the 5-HT1A knockout and the ones getting the small interfering RNA, serotonin levels stayed normal. There's no feedback to give, no 5-HT1A receptors to give it.
But does this impact behavior? To find this out, the authors looked at anxiety tests and antidepressant tests. While the small interfering RNA had no effect on anxiety tests, in antidepressant tests (including the forced swim and tail suspension), the small interfering RNA made a big difference.
Above you can see the tail suspension test for antidepressant efficacy. You can see that both the 5-HT1A knockout all over and the one specific for the raphe (with the small interfering RNA) spent less time immobile than the control, which indicates that decreasing 5-HT1A expression in the raphe produces antidepressant-like effects in mice. They also had a stronger serotonin response to antidepressants. Without feedback, the antidepressants let serotonin reign.
And this happened FAST. The 5-HT1A receptor expression was down in 1 day! If we can get the small interfering RNA mechanisms ready to be used in humans, they could be a way to help make antidepressants work faster and better than they currently do. It'd be using an RNA, knocking a receptor down, to bring mood up.
Obviously this is a long way from the clinic, but it's an interesting angle, a direct attack on the 5-HT1A receptor to get the current antidepressants to work. And when looking for a good antidepressants, we will take whatever we can get.


We all love a good face mask. Not least of all because they are a great – maybe even the best – way to unwind. For a long time those goopy clay varieties were the face mask of choice, because they are great at sucking up excess oil and grime from your skin to keep you imperfection-free. These days, hydration is all the hype, and sheet masks are here to deliver.
…but also their vast range of skin-beautifying properties. They come drenched in a mega-dose of serum that targets specific skin concerns and, in most cases, leaving them on for the recommended 10 minutes to half an hour is all that you need to reap some serious benefits. Whether you struggle with acne, pigmentation or wrinkles, there's a sheet mask for that.
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So because they are so great, many people thought that leaving them on until they had dried would be a good idea. Because if it's dry it means all the product has absorbed into your skin which is a good thing, right? Not so.
Dermatologists have said that we should always follow the instructions because some of the ingredients in sheet masks are good for your skin but only in moderation, or within a certain timeframe. Leaving sheet masks on longer can cause ingredients, which are good for your skin over a 20-minute period, to irritate the skin, which is the opposite of what you want to achieve.
Using a sheet mask is not a time to be rebellious, so proceed with caution. You have been warned.
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