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Q: Why can't I redirect url's with "index.html" in it to a php file? I'm stuck in a big problem, but let me start with one part of it.
I am wodering why this works:
RewriteRule ^(.*)index.html $1 [R=301,L]

while this doesn't:
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} index\.html [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*) main.redirect.php [QSA,L]

And this one doesn't work as well:
RewriteRule ^(.*)index.html main.redirect.php [NC,QSA,L]

Any ideas?
I'm using this as part of a main problem, where the customer wants me to only do one redirect for either one or all of the following conditions

*

*www is missing (put it in front)

*index.html is at the end (remove it)

*CAPS are present (convert to lowercase)

To achieve this, I created a php file which does all that in one go, and I need to call that on either one of the conditions above (the php file will do the redirect then):
<?php
$sURL = $_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'] . $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'];
echo '$sURL = ' . $sURL . '<br />';
$sURL = strtolower($sURL);
if (substr($sURL, 0, 4) != 'www.') {
    $sURL = 'www.' . $sURL;
}
if (substr($sURL, -10) == 'index.html') {
    $sURL = substr($sURL, 0, -10);
}
echo 'Location: http://' . $sURL;
#header('Location: http://' . $sURL, true, 301);
?>

(the echo lines are for testing purposes, they will be removed and the header() command activated later)
In the .htaccess file, I now have the following (right after "RewriteEngine On" and "Options +FollowSymlinks":
    # 2014-07-16 RM: Exclude these files from rewriting
    RewriteRule \.(js|ico|gif|jpg|jpeg|png|css|pdf)$ - [NC,QSA,L]

    # 2014-07-16 RM: Check if the url starts with www
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mydomain\.com [NC]
    RewriteRule ^(.*) main.redirect.php [QSA,L]

    # 2014-07-16 RM: Check if the url ends with index.html
#    RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_FILENAME} ^(.*)index\.html$ [NC]
#    RewriteRule ^(.*) main.redirect.php [QSA,L]
    RewriteRule ^(.*)index.html main.redirect.php [NC,QSA,L]

    # 2014-07-16 RM: Check if the url contains upper-case characters
#    RewriteRule [A-Z] - [E=HASCAPS:TRUE,S=1]
#    RewriteRule ![A-Z] - [E=HASCAPS:FALSE,S=1]
#    RewriteCond %{ENV:HASCAPS} TRUE
#    RewriteRule ^(.*) main.redirect.php [QSA,L]

Any help is gladly appreciated!
Kind regards
René
EDIT:
I stripped the .htaccess part down to a few lines, but even in this case only the www-check works as expected:
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^mydomain\.com [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^(.*)/index\.html$ [NC,OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} [A-Z]
RewriteRule ^(.*) main.redirect.php [QSA,L]

A: I haven't tested this, however the first thing I spotted was that in your RewriteRule lines which are like this:
RewriteRule ^(.*) main.redirect.php [QSA,L]

You should try adding a slash before main.redirect.php as that part of the redirect rule should be a URL, so it would become:
RewriteRule ^(.*) /main.redirect.php [QSA,L]

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Q: Includes in ERB for Rails I am trying to follow this guide:  http://css-tricks.com/svg-sprites-use-better-icon-fonts
Chris states to inject the svg just after the opening body tag. In PHP this is simple but i'm using Rails so have an .html.erb file.
How do I include the file using this? I have tried asset helpers, evaluate, render. Nothing seems to work?

A: This belongs to Ruby Racer.
inline_svg_helper.rb
def inline_svg(path)
    File.open("app/assets/images/#{path}", "rb") do |file|
    raw file.read
  end
end

A: <%= image_tag 'file.svg' %> didn't seem to work on Chrome browser, so I tried render to include svg file in following way, and it worked to me.
<%= render inline: (render file: Rails.root.join('app', 'assets', 'images', 'file.svg')) %>

And I have another question, is it a good (or safe) way?


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Madonne-et-Lamerey () is a commune in the Vosges department in Grand Est in northeastern France.

Inhabitants are called Lamadoniens.

Geography
Madonne-et-Lamerey comprises a grouping of hamlets on the eastern edge of Dompaire.   It is crossed by the little River Gitte, a tributary of the Madon.

History
The commune of Madonne-et-Lamerey as currently constituted was created shortly after the Revolution.

In earlier times Madonne was the local capital of a small territory that included Madonne, Lamerey, Naglaincourt, Craincourt and Chenimont, and which was part of the bailiwick of Dompaire.  The bailiwick belonged to the Abbess of Remiremont who had control over the administration of justice here at all levels, although the administration of justice was in practice delegated.   In terms of ecclesiastical administration the commune fell within the parish of Laviéville, having no church of its own:  it remains without its own church to this day, being currently within the parish of Dompaire.

See also
Communes of the Vosges department

References

Communes of Vosges (department)

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Pro Basketball|Knicks Fire Coach Jeff Hornacek
Knicks Fire Coach Jeff Hornacek
Coach Jeff Hornacek was fired by the Knicks shortly after the conclusion of the 2017-18 season.CreditCreditKathy Willens/Associated Press
GREENBURGH, N.Y. — The Knicks have developed an April tradition: While other teams prepare for the playoffs, the Knicks erect a temporary dais at their practice facility here to explain why, after another lackluster season that brought another early summer break, they are making coaching or management changes.
At this year's installment, the team president, Steve Mills, and general manager, Scott Perry, wrung their hands while explaining the latest firing: Jeff Hornacek, the team's 11th head coach in the past 16 years. They informed him of their decision in a conference room at Westchester County Airport at about 2 a.m. Thursday, after the team returned from its season-ending game in Cleveland.
Kurt Rambis, the associate head coach, was also dismissed.
"We thought it was important, and the timing was right, to get a new voice and a new presence in this locker room to lead our vision for this team moving forward," Perry said. "We are in the early stages of the building process for this team and this organization."
Knicks fans might find it difficult to keep track of which stage of which building process the team is in. The Knicks' perpetual state of rebuilding — involving so many people making so many missteps over so many years — makes Boston's Big Dig seem like a simple driveway repaving by comparison.
When Phil Jackson hired Hornacek as coach of the Knicks two years ago, he had visions of pairing Carmelo Anthony and Kristaps Porzingis on a playoff team. But with the Knicks, such visions quickly become delusions as reality sets in. The games are played, the off-court craziness ensues and the playoffs begin without the Knicks.
Indeed, circumstances changed drastically over Hornacek's two turbulent, losing seasons. Jackson, who was the president, has since departed for his Montana home, Anthony was traded to the Oklahoma City Thunder and Porzingis got hurt.
Hornacek's tenure, which produced a record of 60-104, was troubled from the start. Anthony and Porzingis were not a natural pairing, and Jackson's biggest moves — signing Joakim Noah and trading for Derrick Rose — were duds.
Without much talent to work with, the Knicks never established a clear identity, frustrating Hornacek with their defensive inconsistency (they ranked 22nd in defense) and looking a step behind the league's best offenses. Hornacek's dismissal was an expected part of the new regime's efforts to retool the team.
Before coaching his final game on Wednesday night in Cleveland, Hornacek told reporters that he would "love to continue with these guys."
"We didn't think it was going to be a one-year turnaround," Hornacek said.
He added: "You expect a rebuilding situation to go out there and win 50 games? That's why they call it rebuilding. But when you mention rebuilding, you're still trying to win games."
But Hornacek will no longer lead that turnaround. (He had one year left on his three-year, $15 million contract.)
Hornacek, 54, was hired to instill Jackson's coaching philosophies — namely, the triangle offense — and compete for a spot in the playoffs. Perry, who was hired last summer as Jackson's replacement, retained Hornacek at the time to maintain a level of continuity in hopes of retooling around Porzingis, the Knicks' franchise player. Over the course of the season, the Knicks' front office evaluated the team's performance in 10-game increments.
Before Christmas, the Knicks had a 16-14 record, and making the playoffs seemed feasible. Porzingis was averaging 24 points and 6.5 rebounds per game. But the Knicks began to struggle in early January, and Porzingis suffered a season-ending knee injury on Feb. 6 when the team was in the middle of an eight-game losing streak. The Knicks shifted their focus to improving their draft lottery odds.
Hornacek's position suddenly seemed untenable. Since the end of January, the Knicks went 5-26 and Hornacek got into a physical altercation with Noah at a practice.
After the incident, Noah was kept away from the team for the rest of the season, but the tension recalled earlier locker room friction that had contributed to Hornacek's departure as coach of the Phoenix Suns 46 games into the 2016 season.
At the news conference, Mills and Perry stuck to largely the same, diplomatic speech they gave at Perry's introductory news conference: The Knicks are rebuilding. Perry preached that "patience is required" to build a winning team that is sustainable — a change in rhetoric from Knicks managements of the past.
"There are no quick fixes," he said. "I know that has been tried a number of times here in the past, but I think it is important that we as an organization remain disciplined."
The Knicks did not give a timeline for hiring a new coach. Two names that have surfaced as possible successors: Doc Rivers and Mark Jackson. Rivers, who played for the Knicks from 1992 to 1994, is the coach of the Los Angeles Clippers. Jackson, who coached the Golden State Warriors from 2011 to 2014, played for the Knicks from 1987 to 1992 and again in 2001 and 2002.
"All three years I've been here have been losing records," said Tim Hardaway Jr., who signed with the Knicks shortly before Perry became general manager last summer. "This would, career-wise, be going on my fifth coach. It is all up to management what they want to do. I am on board with their decisions, and the new season starts right now."
A new season begins, and the rebuilding process continues.
Follow Malika Andrews on Twitter: @malika_andrews.
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La membrana basilare all'interno della coclea, nell'orecchio interno, è un elemento strutturale rigido che separa due tubi pieni di liquido che corrono lungo la spirale della coclea, nel dotto cocleare e nella scala timpanica (vedi figura).

Struttura
La membrana basilare è una pseudo struttura risonante che, come la corda di uno strumento musicale, varia in larghezza e rigidità. La "corda" della membrana basilare non è un insieme di corde parallele, come in una chitarra, ma una lunga struttura che ha proprietà diverse (larghezza, rigidità, massa, smorzamento e le dimensioni dei condotti ai quali si accoppia) a diversi punti lungo la sua lunghezza. Il movimento della membrana basilare è generalmente descritto come un'onda. I parametri della membrana in un dato punto lungo la sua lunghezza determinano la frequenza caratteristica (CF), la frequenza alla quale è più sensibile alle vibrazioni sonore. La membrana basilare è più ampia (0.42–0.65 mm) e meno rigida all'apice della coclea e stretta (0.08–0.16 mm) e più rigida alla base. I suoni ad alta frequenza si localizzano vicino alla base della coclea (vicino alla finestra rotonda e ovale), mentre i suoni a bassa frequenza si localizzano vicino all'apice.

Funzione

Separazione endolinfa-perilinfa

I fluidi che circolano in questi due tubi, l'endolinfa e la perilinfa, sono molto differenti dal punto di vista chimico, biochimico ed elettrico. Pertanto, sono tenuti rigorosamente separati. Questa separazione è la funzione principale della membrana vestibolare (tra la scala vestibolare e la scala cocleare), ed è anche la funzione del tessuto della membrana basilare come le cellule solco, interne ed esterne, (indicate in giallo) e la lamina reticolare dell'organo del Corti (mostrata in magenta). Per l'organo del Corti la membrana basilare è permeabile alla perilinfa. Qui il confine tra endolinfa e perilinfa avviene nella lamina reticolare, sul lato endolinfa dell'organo del Corti.

Una base per le cellule sensoriali

La membrana basilare è anche la base per le cellule sensoriali dell'udito, le cellule ciliate che sono dotate di stereociglia. Ci sono circa 15.000 cellule ciliate per ogni orecchio umano (vedi figura). Questa funzione di base delle cellule sensoriali dà il suo nome alla membrana basilare ed è presente in tutti i vertebrati terrestri. Grazie alla sua posizione, la membrana basilare pone le cellule ciliate in una posizione in cui sono adiacenti sia all'endolinfa che alla perilinfa, precondizione della funzione delle cellule ciliari.

Dispersione di frequenza

Una terza, evolutivamente più giovane, funzione della membrana basilare è fortemente sviluppata nella coclea della maggior parte delle specie di mammiferi e debolmente sviluppata in alcune specie di uccelli:
la  dispersione delle onde sonore in entrata in frequenze separate spazialmente. In breve, la membrana è rastremata ed è più rigida ad una estremità rispetto all'altra. Inoltre, le onde sonore che viaggiano verso la fine flessibile della membrana basilare devono viaggiare attraverso una colonna di fluido più lunga di quelle che viaggiano verso la parte più vicina, più rigida. Ogni parte della membrana basilare, insieme con il fluido circostante, può quindi essere ritenuta come un sistema di "massa-molla" con diverse proprietà risonanti: elevata rigidità e bassa massa, quindi alle alte frequenze di risonanza nel tratto iniziale, e bassa rigidità e massa elevata alle basse frequenze di risonanza, alla fine. Questo fa sì che l'ingresso di un suono di una certa frequenza faccia vibrare alcune zone della membrana più di altre. Come mostrato in esperimenti del premio Nobel Georg von Békésy, le alte frequenze portano a vibrazioni massime alla fine della spirale cocleare, in cui la membrana è stretta e rigida, mentre le basse frequenze portano a vibrazioni massime all'apice della spirale cocleare, dove la membrana è più ampia e più flessibile. Questo concetto può essere descritto quantitativamente dalla funzione di Greenwood e dalle sue varianti.

Le vibrazioni sonore viaggiano come onde lungo questa membrana, lungo la quale, negli esseri umani, si trovano circa 3.500 cellule ciliate interne per singola fila. Ogni cellula è collegata a una piccola cornice triangolare. Le ciglia sono poco sviluppate alla fine delle cellule, che sono molto sensibili al movimento. Quando la vibrazione della membrana fa  oscillare le cornici triangolari, le ciglia sulle cellule vengono ripetutamente spostate e producono flussi di impulsi corrispondenti nelle fibre nervose, che vengono trasmessi al condotto uditivo.
Le cellule ciliari esterne restituiscono energia per amplificare l'onda viaggiante, fino a 65 dB in alcuni punti.

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Alicia Keys' 'Perfect Way to Die' is a Heartbreaking, Moving Tale of a Mother's Grief
For every moment there is a song and for this moment, Alicia Keys has given us a moving anthem of grief and love that tells the tale of heartbreak too many mothers and fathers know all too well. "Simple walk to the corner store/ Mama never thought she would be gettin' a call from the coroner/ Said her son's been gunned down, been gunned down/ "Can you come now?"/ Tears in her eyes, "Can you calm down?/ Please, ma'am, can you calm down?," begins the hushed piano ballad "Perfect Way to Die," which dropped on Friday (June 19).
The story of a mother's unimaginable grief at the loss of her son — the latest in a long line of young black and brown men and women who've died at the hands of police — unfolds as Keys sings about a hopeful life snuffed out and the marchers that fill the streets demanding justice, only to have their pleas fall on deaf ears.
"Sometimes I don't have the words and music is the only thing that can speak. I hope this speaks to you. I hope one day this song won't be so relevant. Let's NEVER stop fighting for justice," the singer tweeted after the song's release. And though the elegant track's chorus muses on the unimaginable grief of a mother saying her final goodbye — "'Cause this could be our final time/ And you know I'm horrible at saying goodbye/ I'll think of all you coulda done/ At least you'll stay forever young/ I guess you picked the perfect way to die" — the singer said even she doesn't understand what that means.
"Of course, there is NO perfect way to die," she wrote. "That phrase doesn't even make sense.  Just like it doesn't make sense that there are so many innocent lives that should not have been taken from us due to the destructive culture of police violence." Earlier this week, Keys told Trevor Noah that "Perfect Way to Die" was inspired by the killings of Mike Brown and Sandra bland, respectively, by police in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014, and of hanging in her jail cell in Texas in 2015 after police stopped her for a minor traffic violation.
"You hear these stories, and you hear their stories in these lyrics and the devastating thing is that it's never not going to be relevant," Keys told the Daily Show host. "And where we are right now, in the world and in this country, in American particularly, we are in a real, a real place that we can all see that this is the most major pandemic of all. This deeply rooted racism, this police brutality, this treatment of black people that is just completely unacceptable. To the point where daily daily we are seeing lives lost, people murdered for… nothing, nothing. For being black."
Keys is gearing up for her Verzuz battle with John Legend, in which she and friend Legend will pull up to their pianos and throw down in a celebration of Friday's Juneteenth holiday.
See Keys' tweets and listen to "Perfect Way to Die" below.
Of course, there is NO perfect way to die. That phrase doesn't even make sense.
Just like it doesn't make sense that there are so many innocent lives that should not have been taken from us due to the destructive culture of police violence.
— Alicia Keys (@aliciakeys) June 19, 2020
Sometimes I don't have the words and music is the only thing that can speak.
I hope this speaks to you.
I hope one day this song won't be so relevant.
Let's NEVER stop fighting for justice. https://t.co/mhSU1Ju57W
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On flame-turbulence interaction in constant-pressure expanding flames
Swetaprovo Chaudhuri, Abhishek Saha, Chung K. Law
High Meadows Environmental Institute
In this paper we present one of the first high-speed particle image velocimetry measurements to quantify flame-turbulence interaction in centrally-ignited constant-pressure premixed flames expanding in near-isotropic turbulence. Measurements of mean flow velocity and rms of fluctuating flow velocity are provided over a range of conditions both in the presence and absence of the flame. The distributions of stretch rate contributions from different terms such as tangential straining, normal straining and curvature are also provided. It is found that the normal straining displays non-Gaussian pdf tails whereas the tangential straining shows near Gaussian behavior. We have further tracked the motion of the edge points that reside and co-move with the edge of the flame kernel during its evolution in time, and found that within the measurement conditions, on average the persistence time scales of stretch due to pure curvature exceed that due to tangential straining by at least a factor of two.
Proceedings of the Combustion Institute
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.proci.2014.07.038
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Chaudhuri, S., Saha, A., & Law, C. K. (2015). On flame-turbulence interaction in constant-pressure expanding flames. Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 35(2), 1331-1339. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.proci.2014.07.038
Chaudhuri, Swetaprovo ; Saha, Abhishek ; Law, Chung K. / On flame-turbulence interaction in constant-pressure expanding flames. In: Proceedings of the Combustion Institute. 2015 ; Vol. 35, No. 2. pp. 1331-1339.
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N1 - Funding Information: This work was supported by Air Force Office of Scientific Research under the technical monitoring of Dr. Chiping Li. Publisher Copyright: © 2014 The Combustion Institute. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Copyright: Copyright 2015 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
N2 - In this paper we present one of the first high-speed particle image velocimetry measurements to quantify flame-turbulence interaction in centrally-ignited constant-pressure premixed flames expanding in near-isotropic turbulence. Measurements of mean flow velocity and rms of fluctuating flow velocity are provided over a range of conditions both in the presence and absence of the flame. The distributions of stretch rate contributions from different terms such as tangential straining, normal straining and curvature are also provided. It is found that the normal straining displays non-Gaussian pdf tails whereas the tangential straining shows near Gaussian behavior. We have further tracked the motion of the edge points that reside and co-move with the edge of the flame kernel during its evolution in time, and found that within the measurement conditions, on average the persistence time scales of stretch due to pure curvature exceed that due to tangential straining by at least a factor of two.
AB - In this paper we present one of the first high-speed particle image velocimetry measurements to quantify flame-turbulence interaction in centrally-ignited constant-pressure premixed flames expanding in near-isotropic turbulence. Measurements of mean flow velocity and rms of fluctuating flow velocity are provided over a range of conditions both in the presence and absence of the flame. The distributions of stretch rate contributions from different terms such as tangential straining, normal straining and curvature are also provided. It is found that the normal straining displays non-Gaussian pdf tails whereas the tangential straining shows near Gaussian behavior. We have further tracked the motion of the edge points that reside and co-move with the edge of the flame kernel during its evolution in time, and found that within the measurement conditions, on average the persistence time scales of stretch due to pure curvature exceed that due to tangential straining by at least a factor of two.
KW - High-speed PIV
KW - Stretch rate
KW - Turbulent premixed flame
U2 - 10.1016/j.proci.2014.07.038
DO - 10.1016/j.proci.2014.07.038
JO - Proceedings of the Combustion Institute
JF - Proceedings of the Combustion Institute
Chaudhuri S, Saha A, Law CK. On flame-turbulence interaction in constant-pressure expanding flames. Proceedings of the Combustion Institute. 2015;35(2):1331-1339. doi: 10.1016/j.proci.2014.07.038


Image: The Calprolab enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA ALP) test kit for calprotectin estimation (Photo courtesy of Calpro).
Calprotectin is a biomarker of disease activity in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and psoriatic arthritis (PsA) and predicts relapse in juvenile idiopathic arthritis. Higher drug trough serum levels are associated with a good response in patients treated with tumor necrosis factor inhibitors (TNFi).
Biological therapies have dramatically improved the management and prognosis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and psoriatic arthritis (PsA). Remission or low disease activity is possible in an increasing number of patients. Nevertheless, persistent remission is more difficult to achieve since disease relapses are common.
Scientists from the University of Barcelona (Barcelona, Spain) carried out a longitudinal, prospective, one-year single-center study of 103 patients (47 RA, 56 PsA) receiving TNFi in remission or with low disease activity. All patients underwent clinical assessment at baseline and at 4, 8, and 12 months, including 28-joint swollen and tender joint counts (28-SJC and 28-TJC, respectively), physician and patient global assessment with visual analogue scales (0–100 mm), erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR; mm), and C-reactive protein (CRP; mg/dL).
Calprotectin serum levels, TNFi trough serum levels, and antidrug antibodies were determined at baseline (visit 0) and during disease relapse using an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) test kit Calprolab, calprotectin ELISA (ALP), and Promonitor, respectively. To reduce variations in calprotectin determinations, the whole procedure was performed in a Triturus autoanalyzer. Additionally, serum samples were collected at 4, 8, and 12 months of follow-up to assess longitudinal changes in drug trough serum levels.
The scientists reported that 95 patients completed one year of follow-up, of whom 12 experienced a relapse. At baseline, relapsers had higher calprotectin levels, lower TNFi TSL, and higher power Doppler (PD) activity than nonrelapsers. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis showed calprotectin fully predicted relapse (area under the curve (AUC) = 1.00). The cut-off levels determined by ROC analysis for the optimal prediction of relapse for calprotectin, TNFi serum levels, and PD score were 3.7 μg/mL, 1.61 μg/mL, and 4, respectively.
The authors concluded that time-to-remission/low disease activity, calprotectin serum levels, TNFi TSL, and PD score were significantly associated with disease relapse. However, only baseline calprotectin serum levels independently predicted disease relapse in RA and PsA patients under TNFi therapy. The study was published on December 13, 2018 in the journal Arthritis Research and Therapy.


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10/08/2014 | The Venezuelan Sanctions Bill Awaits Senate Action
Luis Fleischman
It has been two months since the House of Representatives version of the Venezuela sanctions bill was passed. Avery similar bill titled the ��Venezuela Defense of Human Rights and Civil Society Act of 2014� now awaits passage in the Senate, after having been voted out of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
The bill itself is limited in scope but would have a significant impact in Venezuela, especially on those individuals responsible for the brutal crackdown on peaceful protestors that took place last February. It imposes "targeted sanctions on persons responsible for violations of human rights of antigovernment protesters in Venezuela, to strengthen civil society in Venezuela and for other purposes".', calls "to support the people of Venezuela in their aspiration to live under conditions of peace"; "to work in concert with the other member states within the Organization of American States, as well as the countries of the European Union, to ensure the peaceful resolution of the current situation in Venezuela"; and "to hold accountable government and security officials in Venezuela responsible for or complicit in the use of force in relation to the antigovernment protests that began on February 12, 2014, and similar future acts of violence"; and" to continue to support the development of democratic political processes and independent civil society in Venezuela".
One might ask why these sanctions are necessary and what impact they would really have on the situation in Venezuela.. The Venezuela of today is a place where citizens often live in fear and are under a cloud of intimidation. Freedom of the press has been severely curtailed. The courts are now controlled by the absolute power of the President. Attacks on unions, demonization of political dissidents, arbitrary disqualification of political candidates, and a general atmosphere of intolerance prevail.
Venezuela has experienced an extreme climate of violence. The government has promoted an atmosphere of fear and intimidation by strengthening armed paramilitaries that carry out systematic repression and also criminal acts that have already placed Venezuela among the countries with the highest rates of violence in the world.
Additionally, Venezuela has prisoners who are being held without due process and has sent many people into exile. There is no democratic nation in the world that maintains such a negative record.
The situation continues to become ever more serious. The ruling party justifies its brutal repression of those who legitimately express their discontent by attributing the protests to external forces or non-existent conspiracies while the Venezuelan president amasses ever greater power.
Although some have argued that the human rights situation in Venezuela should be resolved through the electoral process rather than with the introduction of sanctions, it is the rampant abuse within the Venezuelan electoral system that helped prompt the protests in the first place.
In addition, there is no electoral exit in Venezuela and this is one of the reasons why protests took place. First the population is intimidated and afraid. Therefore, many people vote thinking that somebody may find out whom they voted for. State employees, particularly from the oil giant PDVSA have been intimidated into voting for the ruling party. Furthermore, when the opposition won very often their work was obstructed. Such is the case of the Mayor of Caracas Antonio Ledezma who after taking office, the Central government created a de-facto parallel Caracas City Hall.
Up until July 29th, Senator Corker opposed the sanctions bill on the grounds that it was not part of a larger strategy. He was asking at the time for the Administration to define a strategy and explain how sanctions could advance that strategy.
Corker's rationale for having questioned the value of sanctions at the time seems to have been based on the notion that sanctions cannot work if they cannot achieve the desired results, insofar as sanctions alone may prove to be insufficient and may also backfire by encouraging the Maduro government to increase the intensity of its repression.
Senator Corker was, indeed, right that the U.S. does not have a larger strategy to deal with Venezuela or for that matter with the challenges to democracy in the region or the serious security threats Venezuela poses to the United States.
Venezuela has indeed undertaken dangerous policies that affect the entire hemisphere.
For example, Venezuela is heavily involved in the drug trade. The current flow of children and others to the United States from Central American countries is also the result of a state of anarchy caused by the drug trafficking that weakens state authority and makes the lives of people increasingly unsafe. Venezuela is the only country in Latin America that willingly makes its ports and airports available to drug cartels and harbors their leadership and operatives.
Just last week General Hugo Carvajal, who served as Venezuela's chief of intelligence between 2004 and 2011 and reappointed by Nicolas Maduro for a brief period last year, was arrested in Aruba at the request of the U.S. for his involvement in drug trafficking. Carvajal was allegedly in charge of collecting drug shipments from the Colombian narco-terrorist organization known as the FARC (Revolutioinary Armed Forces of Colombia). Carvajal allegedly controlled the entire distribution of drugs to the U.S. and Europe and was in charge of laundering drug money through the Venezuelan oil giant, PDVSA. Unfortunately, under threats from the Venezuelan government, Aruba sent Carvajal back to Venezuela instead of responding to the U.S. request to have him placed in American custody.
Venezuela has also established connections with terrorist groups such as the FARC, ETA, and Hezbollah. It has established dangerous alliances with Iran that allegedly include supplies of uranium to the Islamic Republic. Additionally, two sources have reported the presence of Iranian missiles in the Paraguana Peninsula; something that puts the U.S. in a situation of vulnerability as failure of U.S.-Iran nuclear negotiations or an Israeli military attack on the latter's nuclear facilities could precipitate greater antagonism between the United States and Iran. Venezuela also cooperates with Hezbollah on money transfers, on training of terrorists, and on provision of passports to Middle Eastern individuals.
Despite Senator Corker's legitimate concerns that sanctions may not have the desired impact, they present an opportunity to raise awareness in our political establishment and develop a larger strategy. In addition, the sanctions bill could be the impetus the Obama Administration needs to more actively and constructively engage in the protection and promotion of democracy in the region. But the idea that we can't do anything because we can't do everything cannot be the rationale through which we address these serious issues.
If we oppose sanctions we will encourage the Maduro Government to further increase its repression and we would be letting down those who look up to the United States as a source of hope in a world increasingly influenced by authoritarianism. It is now up to the full Senate to pass this much needed legislation.
Center for Security Policy (Estados Unidos)
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U.S. Must Recover Its Sphere Of Influence In The Western Hemisphere
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Implications of Russian Presence in Latin America
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A New Opportunity To Reevaluate U.S. Policy In Latin America
Support For Democracy in Latin America Slowly Tilts Towards The Positive
Nicaragua Becomes a One-Party Dictatorship as Countries in The Region And The U.S. Fail to Protect Democracy in Venezuela
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Cuban Troops in Syria: Another Foreign Policy Crisis
Massive Demonstrations Against The Venezuelan Government
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U.S., Western nations must isolate and sanction Argentinean leaders
New Cuba-US Relations Leave Old Security Issues Unreconciled
Sanctions on Venezuelan Human Rights Violators: A New Momentum to be Seized
Upcoming Elections in South America: Some Hope for Change but Great Uncertainty
Hostility Against Israel In Latin America: What Does It Really Mean?
Soccer Politics as Relating to Brazil, Argentina and Other Latin American Countries
Elections in Colombia, The FARC and Obama�s Speech at West Point
The Dialogue Between the Venezuelan Government and the Opposition Must be Accompanied by Sanctions
Sanction the Venezuelan Government Now
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Argentinean Prosecutor Alberto Nisman Challenges Constitutionality of the Argentina-Iran Memorandum of Understanding
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Brazil and the Bolivarian Revolution
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Some Reflections Over Speculations on Venezuela's Future
The Gaza Crisis and the Intellectual Left in Latin America
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The consequences of Colombia's negotiations with FARC
El Salvador - The Salvadorian Constitutional Crisis, Democracy and the International Community
The Lugo case and its discontents: a symptom of regional pathology
The Future of Venezuela:''Chavismo Without Chavez''
The Falkland/Malvinas Islands: Another case of regional chauvinism
Congress Hears Again About Hezbollah�s Role in Latin America
Cuba going the way of China?
Making sense of Argentina's frenzied policy
Qaddafi and Latin America
Correa�s Ecuador: Defending an autocracy
Beyond electoral illusions: the totalitarian regime of Hugo Chavez
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Brazil's tilt towards Chavez and Iran
Argentina's Kirchner - an ally of Chavez


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You Can Now Pre-order The All-Electric Porsche 'Taycan'
Here's what we know so far.
The countdown is on. Porsche's all-electric sedan, previously known as the 'Mission E' has just been opened to pre-orders.
Renamed the 'Taycan' (and pronounced tie-con) on the 70th anniversary of the German automotive brand, the name for the fully electric four-door performance offering derives itself from a Eurasian word that roughly translates to "lively young horse."
Prospective customers are able to register their interest now, which will be followed by contact from a Porsche representative to request an unspecified deposit to proceed.
We can confirm that the first all-electric sedan from the automotive powerhouse is not going to be a re-jig of the popular (and insanely fast) Panamera. The Taycan will be built on a brand new, lithium-ion battery platform known as the 'J1' - a very similar platform to the Tesla and the Jaguar I-PACE. It is said that both Audi's e-Tron & Bentley's upcoming sports sedans will also be to be adopting this J1 platform.
The big man himself, Mark Webber, has confirmed the car sports a solid 600 horsepower, though outputs anywhere between 400 & 700 have been speculated for different variants of the car's battery.
This power is said to come from the Taycan's dual-motor setup that will likely be the same as the one used in the three-time-Le-Mans-winning 919 LMP1 hybrid, with one at the front and one at the rear. Given its nature as an electric performance car, it'll also utilise an energy recovery system from the heat generated when braking. Porsche promised that the Mission E concept hit 60 mph in 3.5 seconds, 124 mph in under 12, and will run a sub-8:00-minute lap at the Nürburgring.
Porsche are also working on an 800-volt fast charging system to boost the two, yet-specified battery options, which will be almost double that of the superchargers used by Tesla. The goal is to deliver 250 km of range in just 15 minutes.
The Porsche Taycan will be priced around the same as a Panamera Turbo, which (in Australia at least) is an absolute mountain of cash. It's likely we'll see it in production form (which is promised to be very similar to the 2015 concept) at the 2019 Frankfurt Motor Show.
We'll keep this updated when we know more.
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Would you want to know your newborn's DNA code? A new study finds that many new parents worry about privacy and negative test results — or just aren't interested.
Parents are far less interested in decoding their newborn's DNA than scientists had thought, according to a new study.
Every year, 4 million newborns in the US already get their blood tested for a few dozen genetic glitches that cause rare diseases. Newer tests — known as whole-genome or whole-exome sequencing — can give much more information about hundreds or even thousands of genes.
These sequencing tests are dropping in price, but still expensive at about $1,000 per person. Few healthy babies have been sequenced to date. But as recently as 2013, it seemed that demand for these tests was sky-high: According to a survey of 514 parents in Boston, more than 80% said they were "extremely," "very," or "somewhat" interested.
But two years later, when those same parents were asked to actually enroll in a genetic-sequencing program, just 7% signed up. That's according to the new, unpublished study, dubbed "BabySeq," presented on Wednesday at the American Society of Human Genetics meeting in Vancouver, Canada.
The huge drop-off rate is likely due to families' lack of interest and concerns about finding out unpleasant information. These aren't irrational fears. For example, one of the babies enrolled in the study tested positive for a mutation in the BRCA2 gene that's linked to increased breast and ovarian cancer risk. The mutation had been passed down from the baby's mother, who was then told the unexpected news about not only her new child's risk, but her own.
Although the study is still in progress, its early results suggest that it may be a long time before newborn sequencing becomes routine — and it won't happen without families having to confront tough choices.
Robert Green, a geneticist at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and one of the BabySeq study's leaders, believes that genomics will eventually be integrated into every aspect of health care. But not just yet. "At this moment in time, should we be using sequencing with newborns? I really don't know," Green told BuzzFeed News.
Green's team invited the families of 345 babies in the intensive care unit and 2,062 healthy newborns to join the sequencing project. The vast majority didn't take the next step of seeing a genetic counselor, with half citing logistical hurdles. These sleep-deprived, harried parents were probably (and understandably) reluctant to make follow-up visits to the hospital, Green said.
But dozens of parents also dropped out after meeting with the genetic counselor. About 26% of this group cited confidentiality and privacy concerns, 26% worried about unfavorable or uncertain results, and 17% feared insurance discrimination. Even among the babies in intensive care — whose parents, you might assume, would be more motivated to understand genetic risks — enrollment rate was just 7%, the same as it was in the group of healthy babies.
Because this type of project hadn't been done before, Green said his group felt compelled to tell parents about every potential harm, even at the risk of exaggerating some of them. So he wasn't completely surprised by the low enrollment rates.
About 50 families so far have received the results of their baby's genetic sequencing. (The study covered the costs; it's debatable whether people would be willing or able to pay for such a test in real life.) Dangerous or "likely" dangerous mutations linked to heart diseases showed up in three babies, and to a vitamin deficiency in another baby. Still, these genetic variants are not guarantees of disease, especially since they showed up in healthy, symptom-free infants.
Laura Hercher, a genetic counselor who teaches at Sarah Lawrence College and was not involved with the BabySeq study, told BuzzFeed News that she was shocked at the number of people who enrolled. "These are tiny numbers," she said.
The results imply that parents are changing their minds after reading the details of "informed consent" documents, which are required in human research studies and spell out the possible consequences and benefits of participating.
"It suggests they're really finding the informed consent information to be things they hadn't thought about beforehand, and so that stresses the value of informed consent," Hercher said.
Some of the test results have already inspired preventative measures. The baby with the vitamin deficiency-linked mutations, for example, is now taking a dietary supplement as a precaution, Green said. And the baby with the BRCA2 mutation led the researchers to rethink part of their study. Originally they had planned to only reveal variants linked with childhood diseases. This did not include BRCA2, since breast and ovarian cancer occur in adulthood.
But because this information meant the mother was also in danger — a "rare" yet not unprecedented finding — they decided to disclose it, Green said.
"Had we not told the mother, we would have been sitting on a finding she was not even aware of — of her own risk of breast and ovarian cancer," Green said. The mother was "grateful" to be told, he said, and the researchers are now adjusting the rules of the study to allow for similar situations in the future.
The project raises another ethical dilemma about gene sequencing: Should a parent's desire to find out their child's DNA override their child's freedom to do so on their own?
That's a question families, bioethicists, and scientists will debate for years to come, said Misha Angrist, a Duke University associate professor who specializes in science policy and was not involved with the BabySeq study.


All the information you should need when deciding where to live in Paris. We have examined the various options available - renting a studio, sharing with French people, flatshare and of course Estudines (the student residence for first years). At the bottom of the page, there are some links to useful housing resources. This page is courtesy of Parlons, the ULIP Newspaper.
This is a popular option even in first year. Though finding an affordable place can be a nightmare, you'll appreciate the independence and (hopefully) pretty central location.
Pros: You will be (just about) completely independent, discover an area of Paris that you can make your own, and can choose your own price range.
Every year, a few people save a little money on rent by staying in familles d'acceuil.
Pros: A potentially fantastic way to pick up and speak a lot of French with real French people. In most cases your dinner is included in your rent. Some families will even be nice enough to drive you to the airport when needs be. Sometimes you can exchange babysitting or teaching for cheaper rent.
A much rarer living solution for freshers, but can be fun nonetheless and is often cheaper than living alone. This is what many students choose to do in second and third year (mostly with other ULIP students).
Pros: This could be a real learning experience: learn to live with other people, live with people from around the world who might be able to teach you a lot about Paris or with other Ulippers.
Split your bills, chores and cooking duties.


We will be sharing and gathering information on the proposed public park that will be constructed on the oceanfront.
We welcome you to visit our booth and take a quick survey, sharing your input and becoming part of the planning process. Look forward to seeing you all out there!


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Biotherapies Institute
I-Stem
Institute of Myology
Genethon
Institut de Myologie
Neuromuscular pathology clinical unit
Description of the management of neuromuscular diseases
The neuromuscular pathology clinical unit is directed by Prof Bruno Eymard
Since 2005, this large clinic is an important part of the Reference centre for neuromuscular disorders of East of Paris. It is a set of clinical competences organized round highly specialized medical teams.
In 2014, 4 100 consultations have been provided and 1 816 day hospitalisations have been counted. We receive an exceptional number of patients from France but several patients are sent to us for a second opinion from Belgium, French-speaking North African countries and all Europe.
The fields of competence of our clinical structure include diagnostic expertise in the disease and its complications, therapeutic management, genetic counselling, patient follow-up for all the above elements and clinical research.
The unit provides pluridisciplinary consultations for adults and children. The patient is seen successively by the coordinating physician, a neurologist for the adults and a paediatrician for the children, then by the cardiologist (echography), pneumologist (functional respiratory tests), physiotherapist, psychologist and social worker. Cardiological and respiratory management advice, genetic counselling, help with familial or psychological difficulties and information about quality of life consequences are offered to both children and adults. For adults, emphasis is placed on the functional physiotherapy consultation. However, the paediatric consultation also has its specificities, for example, the importance of orthopaedic problems due to growth, itself justifying specialised medicosurgical advice for possible vertebral arthrodesis or tenotomy of the lower limbs.
The pathologies under examination are either genetic (dystrophies, congenital myopathies, metabolic myopathies, congenital myasthenic syndromes, neuropathies) or acquired (myasthenia gravis, inflammatory, endocrine, toxic or iatrogenic myopathies, psychogenic affections).
Reference centre for neuromuscular disorders
The decree of the Ministry of Health and Social Protection dated 19 November 2004 concerning the labelling of centres of reference for the management of rare diseases designated the Institute of Myology, Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital, as a Centre for Reference for neuromuscular diseases, along with the specialist departments of the following hospitals: Trousseau (neuropaediatrics department, Dr Mayer and Prof Billette de Vilkemeur) for the management of children affected with chronic neuromuscular diseases, Rothschild for physiotherapy (department of Prof Thoumie) and Tenon (department of Prof Lacau) for the management of pharyngeal-laryngeal disorders. This organisation will open up possibilities of coordinated children-adult management of neuromuscular diseases and their complications.
This labelling will allow the Institute of Myology to develop its clinical management capacities (by shortening the waiting tilmes for pluridisciplinary consultations and emergencies, and recruiting new medical and paramedical personnel) and to consolidate and develop the human and material means devoted to clinical research protocols. The Coordinator at the Institute of Myology is Prof Bruno Eymard, neurologist and Director of the reference centre for neuromuscular disorders. Dr Michèle Mayer, a neuropaediatrician at the Saint-Vincent de Paul Hospital is the Co-coordinator.


Detergents have traditionally provided a solution to the problem of solvating membrane proteins, but in recent years there has been a growing trend for isolating membrane proteins as nanoparticles. Stable bilayer segments, bicelles, were quickly followed by the development of amphipathic polymers (amphipols). Thereafter, amphipathic proteins were used to create self-assembling lipid nanodiscs, in which membrane proteins were reinserted into small discs of lipid bilayers. The most recent innovations, SMALPs and lipodiscs combine these ideas by directly solubilising biological membranes to produce membrane protein/lipid nanoparticles. Together, these methods overcome many of the difficulties faced by membrane protein biochemists and offer enormous opportunities to rapidly deepen and broaden our understanding of these important proteins.
The aim of this meeting is to bring together researchers from academia and industry with interest and expertise in these different methodologies, who are united in the goal of elucidating the structures and functions of membrane proteins.
Talk and poster abstract submission – deadline is 15 May 2017.
Successful talks and posters will be notified by 23 May.


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package com.laytonsmith.core.functions;

import com.laytonsmith.abstraction.MCPlayer;
import com.laytonsmith.abstraction.MCServer;
import com.laytonsmith.commandhelper.CommandHelperPlugin;
import com.laytonsmith.core.MethodScriptCompiler;
import com.laytonsmith.core.Static;
import com.laytonsmith.core.environments.CommandHelperEnvironment;
import static com.laytonsmith.testing.StaticTest.GetFakeServer;
import static com.laytonsmith.testing.StaticTest.GetOnlinePlayer;
import static com.laytonsmith.testing.StaticTest.SRun;
import java.util.Set;
import org.junit.After;
import org.junit.AfterClass;
import static org.junit.Assert.*;
import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.BeforeClass;
import org.junit.Test;
import static org.mockito.Mockito.verify;
import static org.mockito.Mockito.when;

/**
 *
 *
 */
public class MetaTest {

	MCServer fakeServer;
	MCPlayer fakePlayer;
	com.laytonsmith.core.environments.Environment env;
	static Set<Class<? extends com.laytonsmith.core.environments.Environment.EnvironmentImpl>> envs
			= com.laytonsmith.core.environments.Environment.getDefaultEnvClasses();
	static {
		envs.add(CommandHelperEnvironment.class);
	}

	public MetaTest() {
	}

	@BeforeClass
	public static void setUpClass() throws Exception {
	}

	@AfterClass
	public static void tearDownClass() throws Exception {
	}

	@Before
	public void setUp() throws Exception {
		fakePlayer = GetOnlinePlayer();
		fakeServer = GetFakeServer();
		CommandHelperPlugin.myServer = fakeServer;
		env = Static.GenerateStandaloneEnvironment();
		env = env.cloneAndAdd(new CommandHelperEnvironment());
		env.getEnv(CommandHelperEnvironment.class).SetPlayer(fakePlayer);
	}

	@After
	public void tearDown() {
	}

	@Test(timeout = 10000)
	public void testRunas1() throws Exception {
		String script
				= "runas('Player02', '/cmd yay')";
		MCPlayer fakePlayer2 = GetOnlinePlayer("Player02", fakeServer);
		when(fakeServer.getPlayer("Player02")).thenReturn(fakePlayer2);
		when(fakePlayer.isOp()).thenReturn(true);
		MethodScriptCompiler.execute(MethodScriptCompiler.compile(MethodScriptCompiler.lex(script, null, null, true), null, envs), env, null, null);
		//verify(fakePlayer2).performCommand("cmd yay");
		verify(fakeServer).dispatchCommand(fakePlayer2, "cmd yay");
	}

	@Test
	public void testEval() throws Exception {
		String script
				= "eval(dyn('msg(\\'Hello World!\\')'))";
		SRun(script, fakePlayer);
		verify(fakePlayer).sendMessage("Hello World!");
	}

	@Test
	public void testEval2() throws Exception {
		SRun("assign(@e, 'msg(\\'Hello World!\\')') eval(@e)", fakePlayer);
		verify(fakePlayer).sendMessage("Hello World!");
	}

	@Test
	public void testScriptas() throws Exception {
		String script = "scriptas('Player02', 'newlabel', msg(reflect_pull('label'))); msg(reflect_pull('label'))";
		MCPlayer fakePlayer2 = GetOnlinePlayer("Player02", fakeServer);
		when(fakeServer.getPlayer("Player02")).thenReturn(fakePlayer2);
		MethodScriptCompiler.execute(MethodScriptCompiler.compile(MethodScriptCompiler.lex(script, null, null, true), null, envs), env, null, null);
		verify(fakePlayer2).sendMessage("newlabel");
		verify(fakePlayer).sendMessage("*");
	}

	@Test
	public void testNameof() throws Exception {
		assertEquals("@var", SRun("nameof(@var)", null));
		assertEquals("$var", SRun("nameof($var)", null));
		try {
			SRun("nameof('string')", null);
			fail();
		} catch (Exception e) {
			// pass
		}
	}
}

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where dw is the change in energy and dt is the change in time.
Energy is measured in joules (J), time in seconds (s), and power in watts (W).
By definition, one watt is the amount of power generated when on joule of energy is consumed in one second. Thus, the number of joules consumed in one second is always equal to the number of watts. Amounts of power less than one watt are usually expressed in fraction of watts in the field of electronics; viz. milliwatts (mW) and microwatts (μW). In the electrical field, kilowatts (kW) and megawatts (MW) are common units. Radio and television stations also use large amounts of power to transmit signals.


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package com.owera.xaps.web.app.page.unit;

import java.util.List;

import com.owera.xaps.dbi.SyslogEntry;
import com.owera.xaps.web.app.page.report.uidata.RecordUIDataHardware;

/**
 * The Class UnitStatusScore.
 */
public class UnitStatusScore {

	/** The Constant TOP_STATUS. */
	private static final int TOP_STATUS = 10;

	/** The service window effect. */
	private Integer serviceWindowEffect = 0;

	/** The voip line effect. */
	private Integer voipLineEffect = 0;

	/** The total score effect. */
	private Double totalScoreEffect = 0d;

	/** The hardware effect. */
	private Double hardwareEffect = 0d;

	/** The syslog effect. */
	private Double syslogEffect = 0d;

	/** The Constant SYSLOG_SEVERITY_HIGH_WITHIN_SERVICE_WINDOW_PENALTY. */
	private static final double SYSLOG_SEVERITY_HIGH_WITHIN_SERVICE_WINDOW_PENALTY = 0.2d;

	/** The Constant SYSLOG_SEVERITY_HIGH_OUTSIDE_SERVICE_WINDOW_PENALTY. */
	private static final double SYSLOG_SEVERITY_HIGH_OUTSIDE_SERVICE_WINDOW_PENALTY = 0.1d;

	/** The Constant HARDWARE_WITHIN_SERVICE_WINDOW_PENALTY. */
	private static final double HARDWARE_WITHIN_SERVICE_WINDOW_PENALTY = 0.5d;

	/** The Constant HARDWARE_OUTSIDE_SERVICE_WINDOW_PENALTY. */
	private static final double HARDWARE_OUTSIDE_SERVICE_WINDOW_PENALTY = 0.25d;

	/**
	 * Instantiates a new unit status score.
	 *
	 * @param totalScore the total score
	 * @param hardwareReport the hardware report
	 * @param entries the entries
	 * @param isWithinServiceWindow the is within service window
	 * @param is1LinesHasProblems the is1 lines has problems
	 * @param is2LinesHasProblems the is2 lines has problems
	 */
	public UnitStatusScore(Double totalScore,List<RecordUIDataHardware> hardwareReport,List<SyslogEntry> entries,boolean isWithinServiceWindow,boolean is1LinesHasProblems,boolean is2LinesHasProblems){
		if (!isWithinServiceWindow) {
			serviceWindowEffect = 7;
			if (is1LinesHasProblems)
				voipLineEffect = 2;
			else if (is2LinesHasProblems)
				voipLineEffect = 3;
			setSyslogEffect(entries,SYSLOG_SEVERITY_HIGH_OUTSIDE_SERVICE_WINDOW_PENALTY);
		} else {
			if (is1LinesHasProblems)
				voipLineEffect = 4;
			else if (is2LinesHasProblems)
				voipLineEffect = 6;
			else if (totalScore != null) {
				double totalScoreEffect = (double) ((1f - (totalScore / 100f)) * 6);
				this.totalScoreEffect  = totalScoreEffect;
			}
			setSyslogEffect(entries,SYSLOG_SEVERITY_HIGH_WITHIN_SERVICE_WINDOW_PENALTY);
		}

		setHardwareEffect(hardwareReport,isWithinServiceWindow);
	}

	/**
	 * Gets the hardware effect.
	 *
	 * @return the hardware effect
	 */
	public double getHardwareEffect() {
		return this.hardwareEffect;
	}

	/**
	 * Sets the hardware effect.
	 *
	 * @param hardwareReport the hardware report
	 * @param isWithinServiceWindow the is within service window
	 */
	public void setHardwareEffect(List<RecordUIDataHardware> hardwareReport,boolean isWithinServiceWindow) {
		for(RecordUIDataHardware uiDataRecord:hardwareReport){
			if(uiDataRecord.getBootTotal()>0){
				if(uiDataRecord.getBootWatchdogCount().get()>0)
					this.hardwareEffect += (isWithinServiceWindow?HARDWARE_WITHIN_SERVICE_WINDOW_PENALTY:HARDWARE_OUTSIDE_SERVICE_WINDOW_PENALTY);
			}else if(uiDataRecord.isMemoryRelevant()){
					this.hardwareEffect += (isWithinServiceWindow?HARDWARE_WITHIN_SERVICE_WINDOW_PENALTY:HARDWARE_OUTSIDE_SERVICE_WINDOW_PENALTY);
			}
		}
	}

	/**
	 * Gets the syslog effect.
	 *
	 * @return the syslog effect
	 */
	public double getSyslogEffect() {
		return this.syslogEffect;
	}

	/**
	 * Sets the syslog effect.
	 *
	 * @param entries the entries
	 * @param penalty the penalty
	 */
	public void setSyslogEffect(List<SyslogEntry> entries, double penalty) {
		for(SyslogEntry entry:entries){
			if(entry.getSeverity()<=3)
				this.syslogEffect+=penalty;
		}
	}

	/**
	 * Gets the status.
	 *
	 * @return the status
	 */
	public Double getStatus(){
		double status = (double)TOP_STATUS-this.getServiceWindowEffect()-this.getTotalScoreEffect()-this.getVoipLineEffect()-hardwareEffect-syslogEffect;
		if(status<0)
			return 0d;
		return status;
	}

	/**
	 * Gets the service window effect.
	 *
	 * @return the service window effect
	 */
	public Integer getServiceWindowEffect() {
		return serviceWindowEffect;
	}

	/**
	 * Gets the voip line effect.
	 *
	 * @return the voip line effect
	 */
	public Integer getVoipLineEffect() {
		return voipLineEffect;
	}

	/**
	 * Gets the total score effect.
	 *
	 * @return the total score effect
	 */
	public Double getTotalScoreEffect() {
		return totalScoreEffect;
	}
}


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Running a small business is hard work and very time consuming. Whilst you cannot guarantee that your business will not fail, you can do certain things that will increase the chances of it being a success.
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So almost everybody seems to have one, but how will your business actually benefit from having a website? Just because you may already have a website doesn't mean that you are getting any rewards from it.
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A Reading Salon with Laura Kamoie (Laura Kaye)
Oct 15, 2019 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
String Theory 829 State St #2003
On October 15, enjoy an evening with three authors at String Theory for A Reading Salon with Laura Kamoie. Yarn and books go hand in hand and there's something for everyone.
A Wall Street Journal, New York Times and USA Today Bestseller, Laura Kamoie has always been fascinated by the people, stories, and physical presence of the past, which led her to a lifetime of historical and archaeological study and training. She holds a doctoral degree in early American history from The College of William and Mary, published two non-fiction books on early America, and most recently held the position of Associate Professor of History at the U.S. Naval Academy before transitioning to a full-time career writing genre fiction as the New York Times bestselling author, Laura Kaye. Writing historical fiction allows her the exciting opportunity to combine her love of history with her passion for storytelling. Laura lives among the colonial charm of Annapolis, Maryland with her husband, two daughters, and monster German shepherd, Schuyler.
Heather Heyford writes contemporary romance novels set in the wine country, where she visits frequently to sample pinot noir—er, research her works in progress. Heather sold her first romance series in 2014 to Kensington Publishing's then-new digital imprint, Lyrical Press. After gaining a following in digital, her first mass market paperback series launched early 2018 with The Sweet Spot, a contemporary love story set in Oregon's Willamette Valley.
When she was a child, Megan Lavey-Heaton commandeered scrap paper and markers to create family "newspapers." She learned to read at age 3 by reading out loud from the T.V. Guide. When a relative wasn't convinced, she was handed pages from the New York Times to read. Her family is still trying to figure out where she gets her writing ability from. Megan is a 2002 graduate of the University of Alabama, where she was a member of the Million Dollar Band and served on staff at the Crimson White. Upon graduation, she embarked on a newspaper career that took her from Alabama to the border of Tennessee and Virginia, up to Maine, across the country to Arizona and back east to Pennsylvania. To date, Megan has received a number of journalism honors including six Awards of Excellence from the Society of News Design.
Megan is a designer for The Patriot-News and freelance blogger who currently lives in (the real) Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, with her three cats and many books – and has yet to find any malicious clanks lurking in the apartment. She is married to a Scouser who is currently finishing his Ph.D at Liverpool John Moores University.
She is constantly plagued by plotbunnies.
Location String Theory 829 State St #2003
Event Type Art, Literary & Lectures, Market
Date & Time Oct 15, 2019 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM


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iot might be worth hanging on to your flatpack. At a Swedish auction last week, a 62-year-old Ikea Cavelli armchair – described by the design expert Andreas Siesing as "a holy grail for design enthusiasts" – sold for £12,473. It's hardly surprising: vintage Ikea furniture is now big business. Below are 10 of the rarest and most expensive Ikea items currently available. In the meantime, look after your Billy bookcase. It might be your retirement fund.
The Kromvik was an Ikea mainstay, sold in conjunction with the Sultan sprung mattress between 1982 e 1994. It was designed by Knut Hagberg who, along with his sister Marianne, created around 1,600 Ikea products. Only this one, anche se, has a resale value that could give you a nosebleed.
Designed in the 70s by Gillis Lundgren, the fourth original Ikea employee and inventor of the Billy, this easy chair is made with tubular steel and upholstered in vibrant red. At the time of its debut, Ikea's founder, Ingvar Kamprad, was convinced that the Impala was too impractical to sell well. He was wrong. E adesso, if you are richer than God, you can discover why.
It is exceedingly difficult to track down a model name for this set, although they were ubiquitous in the 70s. As strange as this may sound, this set is a snip: previously, the sofa alone has sold for around £4,000.
Designed in the 70s by Tord Björklund, creator of the still-inescapable Karlanda sofa range, il Skye chaise longue is breathtakingly elegant. Fashioned in chrome and leather, it would look good anywhere: in a bachelor pad, in a hipster Airbnb rental, in a New Yorker cartoon about therapists from the 1980s.
Although a lot of the hottest vintage Ikea pieces date from the 70s, the Åke is relatively ancient. Sometimes known as "Muslingestol", this clam chair first entered shops in 1952, and is vanishingly rare. Part of this might be down to its unusual legs, quale, at least these days, look barely able to survive a heavy flop.
Visit a branch of Ikea today and you will still see Pöang lounge chairs for sale. The Bore is a massively upmarket precursor. Designed by Noboru Nakamura, this is a chocolate brown, button-back leather chair and matching stool that, on its release, could have been yours for £80. But you missed the boat then, so now you have to shell out thousands.
As the name suggests, this chair is 60 Anni. There is a chance that if you had Swedish grandparents, they had one, perhaps swayed by the catalogue's description of it as "the centre of homeliness". If they did, they paid £16 for it. The price is now 92 times that, which seems excessive.
The truth is that a lot of these expensive old Ikea items are priced as they are because of novelty. They're gorgeous, but clearly of an age. The same cannot be said for the Ladoga sideboard, designed in the 60s by Erik Wørts. It's a startlingly beautiful contemporary piece. If you were to open the back pages of a Saturday supplement, you'd find dozens of very similar items selling for just as much.
It's easy to see why the Vilbert is now so expensive. It was created by Verner Panton, one of Denmark's most famous designers. Solo 4,000 of them were made, which makes them astonishingly rare. And also, it looks as if it would snap in half as soon as you got your bum anywhere near it, so there can't be many left.
Compared with the other items, the Diana chair is an absolute bargain. Designed in 1972 by Karin Mobring, and based on a chair from the 1930s, it was an immediate success and sold well for 11 years before being discontinued. But it seems to be curiously undervalued. You can buy a set of four for £100 each, but they can go for twice that. Maybe this one really is your retirement fund.
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The Dead Island franchise seems to be as alive and active as ever, as today it was announced that, in addition to the forthcoming Dead Island 2, and MOBA Dead Island: Epidemic, Deep Silver have also been working away on the cel-shaded, survival-mystery game, Escape Dead Island.
As you can see from the trailer and screenshots, the game is set to take a quite radical visual departure from the previous iterations of the franchise, with heavy comic-book style, cel-shaded, almost surreal graphics being employed. In some shots, it almost bears a striking resemblance to Telltale Games' The Walking Dead series, which utilises a similar artistic direction. Whether this departure will have much of a bearing on the overall gameplay is yet to be seen, but it certainly does look like a gorgeous little game!
That being said, the title will not be coming to next-gen consoles, only seeing a release on PS3, Xbox 360, and PC, which could represent some caution on Deep Silver's behalf – perhaps they're unwilling to take a risk on this quite diverse entry in the franchise by developing it for the Xbox One and PS4.
Either way, hitting shelves in Fall 2014, Escape Dead Island looks set to be a fresh and unique take on the Dead Island franchise and will undoubtedly fill the void until Dead Island 2 comes out next year.