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#include "../matrix.h"
#include "optimization_trust_region.h"
#include "optimization_least_squares_abstract.h"

namespace dlib
{

// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    template <
        typename column_vector_type,
        typename funct_type,
        typename funct_der_type,
        typename vector_type
        >
    class least_squares_function_model
    {
    public:
        least_squares_function_model (
            const funct_type& f_,
            const funct_der_type& der_,
            const vector_type& list_
        ) : f(f_), der(der_), list(list_)
        {
            S = 0;
            last_f = 0;
            last_f2 = 0;

            r.set_size(list.size(),1);
        }

        const funct_type& f;
        const funct_der_type& der;
        const vector_type& list;

        typedef typename column_vector_type::type type;
        typedef typename column_vector_type::mem_manager_type mem_manager_type;
        typedef typename column_vector_type::layout_type layout_type;
        const static long NR = column_vector_type::NR;

        typedef column_vector_type column_vector;
        typedef matrix<type,NR,NR,mem_manager_type,layout_type> general_matrix;

        type operator() (
            const column_vector& x
        ) const
        {
            type result = 0;
            for (long i = 0; i < list.size(); ++i)
            {
                const type temp = f(list(i), x);
                // save the residual for later
                r(i) = temp;
                result += temp*temp;
            }

            last_f = 0.5*result;
            return 0.5*result;
        }

        void get_derivative_and_hessian (
            const column_vector& x,
            column_vector& d,
            general_matrix& h
        ) const
        {
            J.set_size(list.size(), x.size());

            // compute the Jacobian
            for (long i = 0; i < list.size(); ++i)
            {
                set_rowm(J,i) = trans(der(list(i), x));
            }

            // Compute the Levenberg-Marquardt gradient and hessian
            d = trans(J)*r;
            h = trans(J)*J;

            if (S.size() == 0)
            {
                S.set_size(x.size(), x.size());
                S = 0;
            }

            // If this isn't the first iteration then check if using
            // a quasi-newton update helps things.
            if (last_r.size() != 0)
            {

                s = x - last_x;
                y = d - last_d;
                yy = d - trans(last_J)*r;

                const type ys = trans(y)*s;
                vtemp = yy - S*s;
                const type temp2 = std::abs(trans(s)*S*s);
                type scale = (temp2 != 0) ? std::min<type>(1, std::abs(dot(s,yy))/temp2)  :  1;

                if (ys != 0)
                    S = scale*S + (vtemp*trans(y) + y*trans(vtemp))/(ys) - dot(vtemp,s)/ys/ys*y*trans(y);
                else
                    S *= scale;

                // check how well both the models fit the last change we saw in f()
                const type measured_delta = last_f2 - last_f;
                s = -s;
                const type h_predicted_delta = 0.5*trans(s)*h*s + trans(d)*s;
                const type s_predicted_delta = 0.5*trans(s)*(h+S)*s + trans(d)*s;

                const type h_error = std::abs((h_predicted_delta/measured_delta) - 1);
                const type s_error = std::abs((s_predicted_delta/measured_delta) - 1);

                if (s_error < h_error && h_error > 0.01)
                {
                    h += make_symmetric(S);
                }
                else if (s_error > 10)
                {
                    S = 0;
                }

                // put r into last_r
                r.swap(last_r);
            }
            else
            {
                // put r into last_r
                last_r = r;
            }

            J.swap(last_J);
            last_x = x;
            last_d = d;

            last_f2 = last_f;
        }

        mutable type last_f;   // value of function we saw in last operator()
        mutable type last_f2;  // value of last_f we saw in get_derivative_and_hessian()
        mutable matrix<type,0,1,mem_manager_type,layout_type> r;
        mutable column_vector vtemp;
        mutable column_vector s, y, yy;

        mutable general_matrix S;
        mutable column_vector last_x;
        mutable column_vector last_d;
        mutable matrix<type,0,1,mem_manager_type,layout_type> last_r;
        mutable matrix<type,0,NR,mem_manager_type,layout_type> last_J;
        mutable matrix<type,0,NR,mem_manager_type,layout_type> J;
    };

// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    template <
        typename column_vector_type,
        typename funct_type,
        typename funct_der_type,
        typename vector_type
        >
    least_squares_function_model<column_vector_type,funct_type,funct_der_type,vector_type> least_squares_model (
        const funct_type& f,
        const funct_der_type& der,
        const vector_type& list
    )
    {
        return least_squares_function_model<column_vector_type,funct_type,funct_der_type,vector_type>(f,der,list);
    }

// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    template <
        typename stop_strategy_type,
        typename funct_type,
        typename funct_der_type,
        typename vector_type,
        typename T
        >
    double solve_least_squares (
        stop_strategy_type stop_strategy,
        const funct_type& f,
        const funct_der_type& der,
        const vector_type& list,
        T& x,
        double radius = 1
    )
    {
        // The starting point (i.e. x) must be a column vector.
        COMPILE_TIME_ASSERT(T::NC <= 1);

        // make sure requires clause is not broken
        DLIB_ASSERT(is_vector(mat(list)) && list.size() > 0 &&
                    is_col_vector(x) && radius > 0,
            "\t double solve_least_squares()"
            << "\n\t invalid arguments were given to this function"
            << "\n\t is_vector(list):  " << is_vector(mat(list))
            << "\n\t list.size():      " << list.size()
            << "\n\t is_col_vector(x): " << is_col_vector(x)
            << "\n\t radius:           " << radius
            );

        return find_min_trust_region(stop_strategy,
                                     least_squares_model<T>(f, der, mat(list)),
                                     x,
                                     radius);
    }

// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    template <
        typename column_vector_type,
        typename funct_type,
        typename funct_der_type,
        typename vector_type
        >
    class least_squares_lm_function_model
    {
    public:
        least_squares_lm_function_model (
            const funct_type& f_,
            const funct_der_type& der_,
            const vector_type& list_
        ) : f(f_), der(der_), list(list_)
        {
            r.set_size(list.size(),1);
        }

        const funct_type& f;
        const funct_der_type& der;
        const vector_type& list;

        typedef typename column_vector_type::type type;
        typedef typename column_vector_type::mem_manager_type mem_manager_type;
        typedef typename column_vector_type::layout_type layout_type;
        const static long NR = column_vector_type::NR;

        typedef column_vector_type column_vector;
        typedef matrix<type,NR,NR,mem_manager_type,layout_type> general_matrix;

        mutable matrix<type,0,1,mem_manager_type,layout_type> r;
        mutable column_vector vtemp;

        type operator() (
            const column_vector& x
        ) const
        {
            type result = 0;
            for (long i = 0; i < list.size(); ++i)
            {
                const type temp = f(list(i), x);
                // save the residual for later
                r(i) = temp;
                result += temp*temp;
            }

            return 0.5*result;
        }

        void get_derivative_and_hessian (
            const column_vector& x,
            column_vector& d,
            general_matrix& h
        ) const
        {
            d = 0;
            h = 0;
            for (long i = 0; i < list.size(); ++i)
            {
                vtemp = der(list(i), x);
                d += r(i)*vtemp;
                h += vtemp*trans(vtemp);
            }
        }

    };

// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    template <
        typename column_vector_type,
        typename funct_type,
        typename funct_der_type,
        typename vector_type
        >
    least_squares_lm_function_model<column_vector_type,funct_type,funct_der_type,vector_type> least_squares_lm_model (
        const funct_type& f,
        const funct_der_type& der,
        const vector_type& list
    )
    {
        return least_squares_lm_function_model<column_vector_type,funct_type,funct_der_type,vector_type>(f,der,list);
    }

// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

    template <
        typename stop_strategy_type,
        typename funct_type,
        typename funct_der_type,
        typename vector_type,
        typename T
        >
    double solve_least_squares_lm (
        stop_strategy_type stop_strategy,
        const funct_type& f,
        const funct_der_type& der,
        const vector_type& list,
        T& x,
        double radius = 1
    )
    {
        // The starting point (i.e. x) must be a column vector.
        COMPILE_TIME_ASSERT(T::NC <= 1);

        // make sure requires clause is not broken
        DLIB_ASSERT(is_vector(mat(list)) && list.size() > 0 &&
                    is_col_vector(x) && radius > 0,
            "\t double solve_least_squares_lm()"
            << "\n\t invalid arguments were given to this function"
            << "\n\t is_vector(list):  " << is_vector(mat(list))
            << "\n\t list.size():      " << list.size()
            << "\n\t is_col_vector(x): " << is_col_vector(x)
            << "\n\t radius:           " << radius
            );

        return find_min_trust_region(stop_strategy,
                                     least_squares_lm_model<T>(f, der, mat(list)),
                                     x,
                                     radius);
    }

// ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

}

#endif // DLIB_OPTIMIZATION_LEAST_SQuARES_H_h_


Cuomo, 61, lauded a bill he signed this week that allows non-doctors to conduct abortions and the procedure to be done until the mother's due date if the woman's health is endangered or if the fetus is not viable.
The prominent Roman Catholic received almost immediate backlash among some of the faithful, and calls that he be excommunicated, given the church's firm stance in favor of life.
Farther south, Northam made controversial remarks on WTOP radio, as he waded into the fight over a controversial abortion bill that one sponsor said could allow women to terminate a pregnancy up until the moment before birth -- with critics saying Northam indicated a child could be killed after birth.
Northam, 59, later responded to critics by saying that he spent his life as a pediatrician, and that it was "shameful and disgusting" to characterize his comments as they were.
"It's uncivilized behavior," Huckabee said of the belief that life can be snuffed in the third trimester or later.
"To have a fully developed baby, then take the baby's life," he exclaimed, adding that if this is the new normal in America, the country will "go to Hell in a handbasket."
"We're either going to respect human life or we're going to go back to the horrible days in our history where some people were more equal than others," he said.
Huckabee also reacted to Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo (D), who is now considering a late-term abortion bill in her state.
He said that if the trend continues, it may no longer be "God Bless America," but "God Forgive America."


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Why Do We Only Worry About Measles?
Anti-vaccine folks often claim that health officials only worry about measles and measles outbreaks.
They can't understand why anyone gets concerned by a few measles cases here and there, not understanding that a lot of work goes into containing measles outbreaks and making sure that they don't grow beyond a few cases.
And health officials don't just worry about measles. They work to control outbreaks of mumps, pertussis, hepatitis A, and all other diseases too.
We do get concerned about measles outbreaks though.
"Whenever measles strikes, it's more than just an outbreak of a single disease, or an indication that children aren't receiving their measles shots; it's also a warning that immunization coverage in general, for all vaccine-preventable diseases, is lower than it should be.
The measles vaccine is among the most effective vaccines we have, so if we are seeing outbreaks, even though measles is very contagious, it means there is a problem.
In the late 1980s, when we had large outbreaks between 1989 to 1991, with 55,622 cases and 123 deaths, it meant that we weren't vaccinating enough kids because Federal support for vaccine programs had dropped.
As much as anti-vaccine folks like to try and minimize how serious measles can be, it is easy to see that measles is indeed a serious, life-threatening disease. We had good nutrition, proper sanitation, and modern health care in 1990, and still, a lot of people died with measles. Rates of subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE), a late complication of measles, went up too, in the years after these outbreaks.
Those outbreaks were fixed, as we improved access to help kids get vaccinated and protected. Unfortunately, the issue with outbreaks today isn't about access to vaccines, at least not in the developed world. It is about parents intentionally skipping or delaying vaccines.
Did you know that after the measles outbreaks of 1989, we also saw outbreaks of rubella and congenital rubella syndrome?
Did you know that because they have overall lower vaccination rates, measles outbreaks in Europe grow far larger, into the tens of thousands of cases, with dozens of deaths?
We worry about measles outbreaks, because we don't want to go back to anti-vaccine folks push us back to pre-vaccine era levels of disease and deaths.
We know what happens when vaccine levels drop too low.
A measles epidemic hit New York City in 1951, as this NY Times article reports.
We know that vaccines are safe and necessary.
You should know that anti-vaccine propaganda that scares parents away from vaccinating and protecting their kids is rooted in myths and misinformation. They often get away with it because most parents today ahve never seen how devastating measles and other diseases can really be, so they believe stories about the Brady Bunch, instead of the advice of real experts.
You hopefully understand that's a mistake.
Misled and confused? Telling the public about MMR vaccine safety. Measles, mumps, and rubella.
Study – Dangers of vaccine refusal near the herd immunity threshold: a modelling study.


Let's talk for a second about stories, shall we? More specifically, let's talk about YOUR story. Although I don't know what it is, I know it's incredibly personal. Depending on your age, it may be a long story ... Or maybe it's been pretty short. Many might know your story. Or you may have kept it hidden and only shared it with a few. I also know that your story has involved strength. That's right. I guarantee it's taken some amount of strength to get to where you're at. (And you're here, so it's not over yet!) But have you identified that strength and used it to share your story with others? If not… Where do we start?
We have to own our story.
Before we can do anything with it, we have to first own our story. You might have been doing this for a while now. For others, this could be a fairly new concept. Or maybe you haven't attempted it at all yet. Regardless of where you find yourself, you have to learn to accept your story as your own. Stop running from your truth. Stop distancing yourself from your past. Stop being afraid of looking in the mirror. Owning it means claiming it as your own, and that's so much more difficult for some of us than others. This step may require that you seek out a therapist or counselor to help you walk through some of this. It's important we do the work and begin to make peace with our stories as our own.
We have to remove shame from our story.
Everyone has parts of their life they are ashamed of, I'm sure. If we didn't, why wouldn't we all be sharing our stories freely all the time? Once we own our story, we can begin to identify the parts that cause us shame and start eliminating that shame from the narrative. Again, this may require professional help. That's okay. Do the work. Take shame out of the equation. You won't be able to move forward in your story if you don't distance yourself from that negativity.
We have to find strength in our story.
As I mentioned before, it's going to be important for you to single out the moments of strength in your story as it begins to unravel. Celebrate those times as you find them. Figure out how you can replicate them. Investigate what it took to get you to that point and how you can get it going again. We often sell ourselves short when it comes to our own strength. But when we recognize how it has played out in our lives and when we name it, we can use it again and again.
We have to tell our story.
This is the culmination point. You may be ready to start here. You may have already done the hard work of owning your story and distancing yourself from shame and recognizing your own strength. But this step – telling others your own story – this is the icing on the cake. We don't go through this process for others. We go through this process for ourselves. But when we've done this hard work, it's time to share it. Because in sharing our story, we gain more strength, and we give others strength too. We give them the strength to begin their own process of figuring out their story and how to talk about it.
So get out there. Find the strength of your story. And never stop sharing it. Because the world needs you.
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Cross Park Entrance
The Cross Park site is looking to the future. The parish council are investigating how to best maintain and improve the facilities for the villagers.
1) Access
There are discussions underway to create a 'permissive' footpath between Cross Park and the Recreation Ground - this would create shortcuts between the central and middle parts of the village to Cross Park, British Pilot and the seawall as well as opening up circular walks.
2) Pavilion
The pavilion is open for business and holds regular events during the day and ad-hoc events during the evening. Contact Pat Huntley-Chipper for bookings 01634 271789
3) Recreation
The local football team has been unable to use the pitch due to lack of changing rooms. They have placed a modular building behind the pavilion to act as a temporary changing rooms and will be connected to water and electricity soon following a grant from Medway Green Spaces (S106 contributions). Longer term it is planned to build an extension to the pavilion.
4) Country Park
The wildlife area of the park has recently undergone some tender loving care (TLC) and the pathways cleared. There has been new planting and management by a volunteer and friends and a recent meeting with the Kent Wildlife Trust and Medway Greenspaces to consider future options for the site and put together a management plan to pull all the activities together and improve the site.
Following the meeting the parish council have been approached about a project to infill part of the site and create a new woodland. This is still at the feasibility stage and the council is waiting for details of the woodland and how the operations will be carried out. There will also be wide consultation with local residents when the details are available and before any full commitment to the project. Following some concerns from residents, the Chair of the Parish Council has published a letter to explain the current council position 8/11/2017. Resident's Survey results have now been published.
Land Logical are running a drop-in session to get resident's views. Thursday 8th February 1pm to 3pm, 5pm to 7pm
The parish council have also been approached by the owners of the Kingsmead Park (Allhallows Park) about their plans to extend the park by 81 units. As part of this they will provide the permissive footpath (see 1 above) and will look to partner with the parish council to provide shared facilities for the use of their residents and the residents of Allhallows, at their cost. Suggested facilities are :
a) Bowling Green or Tennis Courts (on the plateau)
b) the permissive path
c) extensions to the current pavilion to provide a new community centre, including permanent changing rooms, indoor sports and social facilities.
A public exhibition was held on Thursday 30th November 2017 and Turner's have submitted a planning application. The parish council is continuing to discuss the benefits and issues of the s106 facilities and there will be further details soon.
The Planning Application for Allhallows Park (Kingsmead) was approved by the Medway Council Planning Committee 20th March 2019.
Keep in contact for more information about the site.

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Home » Lifestyle » Fiona Apple's 'Fetch the Bolt Cutters' review: Back in fine form after 8-year 'quarantine'
Fiona Apple's 'Fetch the Bolt Cutters' review: Back in fine form after 8-year 'quarantine'
It feels like Fiona Apple really got a big head start on us with this whole quarantining thing. Fans do not need to be reminded that it's been eight years since her previous album, "The Idler Wheel…" (though they probably will require a refresher on its full 23-word title, which once might have been committed to memory). Anybody else who disappeared as a recording artist for that long would have been out flogging the catalog, something that is assuredly not her bag; even the intermittent cameos she used to do at L.A.'s Largo club halted as she retreated ever inward. That seemed just as it should be, up to a point: In four scant previous albums over a quarter-century, Apple had become pop music's queen of extremely interior designs.
But reading the recent 10,000-word New Yorker profile, you could wonder, as you would of anyone who spent years making an album, if it might end up feeling hermetically sealed inside Apple's head. "I'm so anxious about this album," an acquaintance tweeted last week. Maybe he meant "eager," but if he intended to convey actual album-eve anxiety, well, he wouldn't have been alone in that.
So it feels good to take "Fetch the Bolt Cutters" off our plate of concerns and move it over to the mantle of things that will bring us joy while we're locked down. Indulgent only in the right ways, it might even be Apple's best album. But as she says in one of the songs, "No love is like any other love, so it would be insane to make a comparison," so maybe we'll forget about rankings and just affirm that it is album-of-the-year contender material. Which is not to guarantee that it'll be, like, popular; much of the material is challenging on first listen, and smoothness is a quality Apple consigns to criminals, not her own middle-period work. But damn, it's good, in a rich and deep way that'll have you reaching for headphones and a lyric sheet to rediscover different choice morsels in the coming weeks or months of this shared lockdown. It's a musical food bank unto itself.
"Bedroom pop" has somehow become an accepted genre in recent years, and Apple's album is the most sophisticated possible version of that: "Fetch the Bolt Cutters" was made largely at home, with the same core of three other musicians (Amy Aileen Wood, Sebastian Steinberg, David Garza) sharing production credit and doing virtually all of the playing. An additional credit does go to a couple of dogs for "collar jangles and thrashing," and this is the kind of album where songs might begin or end with the casual sound of shuffling, humming, strumming or, yes, barking. And so much of the percussion on the album consists of Tom Waits-ian use of possibly random surfaces for syncopation (Steinberg gets a "lighter on Wulitzer" credit on one tune) that you'd tend to call it an everything-but-the-kitchen-sink approach… except that it's hard to be certain that that churning sound at the end of "Shameika" isn't a garbage disposal. But emphasizing these sound effects, odd intros and outros and drum clutter risks making the record sound low-fi, which is hardly the case. The luxuriant-feeling production design, usually based around turning nothing more than piano, acoustic bass and drumsticks into something deeply spacious, is a happy thing to get lost and found in.
But the question everyone will look to have answered with "Fetch the Bolt Cutters" isn't a musical puzzle — it's "How're you feeling, Fiona?" Because what fans have always appreciated about Apple is that in one sense she's all raw, exposed nerves, and in another, she's as cerebral as singer-songwriters get, possibly to a mind-racing fault. Each of the 13 songs here is about a very specific experience or emotion, and they're almost (almost) conventional in how coherent, if not laser-focused, they all are — although it doesn't hurt to have that recent New Yorker piece by the bedside as a decoder ring for some of what she's writing about.
The opening "I Want You to Love Me" is the album's purest and perhaps only expression of unfiltered desire, taking place over a cascade of 6/8 thunder on the lower end of the piano keys that threatens to become discordant until it pulls back into furious beauty. "I know none of this will matter in the long run," she sings, facing the perils of mortality and impermanence as all us Netflix addicts are right now — but "while I'm in this body, I want somebody to want," she further declares, singing herself hoarse over the intricately played riffs. (All this lust for love crescendos in some vocal gymnastics that sound like an homage to Yoko — early Yoko, mind you — which might be the exact moment when you decide whether this is the album for you.)
But much of the rest of the album is concerned with variations on a theme: bullying. In the second number, an even more frantically played 6/8 workout called "Shameika," Apple recalls a nervous childhood in which the mean girl of the title told her that she "had potential," a strange mixed message that she took to heart somehow. In a beautiful illustration of the fine line between obsessive-compulsive disorder and music, she describes walking to and from the schoolyard "grinding my teeth to a rhythm invisible" and stomping on fallen leaves to make them into crash cymbals.
It's a short trip from that to several songs that have her bullied by an adult male significant other. "Under the Table" has a man tapping her on the shin, unseen, trying to hush her at a dinner party she didn't want to attend: "That fancy wine won't put this fire out… Kick me under the table all you want, I won't shut up," she repeats, melodically but firmly, in the great sing-along refrain of what feels like this generation's update of Til Tuesday's "Voices Carry."
Apple certainly knows how to train her attention on a bad, bad guy, and sometimes for a mordant laugh, as in "Rack of His," which is as funny as you'd hope from the promising title. Yes, it's about a musician. "Check out that rack of his, look at that row of guitar necks / Lined up like eager fillies, outstretched like legs of Rockettes," she sings. "I thought you would wail on me like you wail on them." These are obvious, and wonderful, laugh lines, but she also has a way of bringing a song back from the land of similes and smiles to something a little bit spookier by the time it's all over.
Even more interesting than some of the songs about men are the ones about women — specifically, her fascination with the ones who hooked up with her partner after her. She sometimes pairs thematically aligned songs together in the running order of the album, and "Newspaper" and "Ladies" are two psychologically savvy and self-searching numbers in a row in which Apple admits either a voyeuristic interest in or misplaced desire to rescue her ex-lover's new beau ("I watch him walk over, talk over, be mean to you, and it makes me feel close to you").
Also grouped together are "Heavy Balloons" and "Cosmonauts," two successive tunes that use similar metaphors about ballast and feeling weighted down to completely different moods and effect. There's no companion piece, though, for the lyrically heaviest song, "For Her." It's surely not by accident that this is the one number on the album in which Fiona sings and plays everything herself, given the personal nature of the subject matter. The brilliance of "For Her" is that it feels completely improvised, with its stream of consciousness and unpredictable tempo changes — except that it also sounds completely precise, in the way Apple has overdubbed her own voice. It's hard to tell where exactly she's going with this tale of a coke-snorting demon lover, until she sort of quotes a song from "Singin' in the Rain," followed by a shock line: "Good mornin', good mornin' / You raped me in the same bed your daughter was born in."
That number obviously gets at just how sober and bracing "Bolt Cutters" can get, in moments, but it doesn't spend so much time there that it's anything but a wickedly pleasurable sit, playful in its gonzo expansiveness and eager to perk up your ears with an unexpected melodic shift or hip-hop-influenced way of witty speak-singing. It's the kind of work where you come away thinking Apple is just like you and also 10 times more brilliant than you — and a little exhausting, sure, but with a creative ingenuity that's inexhaustible in the way it draws you back in to hit "play" every time the last notes sound.
The closing song, which dispenses with her gift for quirky melodic turns to surrender itself to pure rhythm, could practically have been written as an anthem for a sheltering-at-home generation that's now wondering what its big hurry ever was. "Up until now in a rush to prove / But now, I only move to move," she chants in the closing moments.
Our quarantine companion did still have something to prove, whether she liked it or not —that she hadn't been squandering her ability to move us. Rather than sounding as labored over as it obviously was, "Fetch the Bolt Cutters" sounds as fresh as something that crossed Apple's fertile mind 10 minutes ago. It may be way early to say it's the most satisfying album of the year, but if there are any more to come along this good, 2020 is not going to feel like such a waste of time after all.
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Thank you for visiting PhilipMeade.com. This brief bio will let you know a little more about me and my family. I hope you enjoy the site and please feel free to contact me with any questions or comments.
I live in Frankfort, KY where I am pastor of Graefenburg Baptist Church and serve alongside some wonderful folks. I completed the Master of Divinity degree from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in 2009. I am married to Andi, father of Callie Grace, Justus Gary, and Eli Andrew.
It is hard to believe that I am in my 16th year of ministry; it has been a pleasure to serve in pastor and associate pastor roles at some wonderful churches. I also formed and toured with the Christian rock group Judah First – we recorded two albums and toured extensively from 2002-2005. Somewhere in there I managed to invent the legendary dance move known as "the lowman." You can learn more about my interests and hobbies by clicking the "My Websites" link at the top of this website.
My life verses are Colossians 3:3 and 3:17.


Mary Lou (Visconti) Ricci, 72, of Reading, peacefully, November 24, 2009, with her family at her side.
Beloved wife of Louis A. Ricci, devoted mother of Donna Crosby & her husband Robert of Wilmington, Linda Conroy & her husband Mark of Londonderry, NH, Louis A.Ricci, Jr. & his wife Laura of Westford, Susan Gray & her husband Charles of Lynnfield, Jeanne Grimes & her husband John of Londonderry, NH, and Michael Ricci & his wife Mary of Tewksbury, loving grandmother of Kelly,Christopher, & Kristin Crosby, Kyle,Lindsay, & Jenna Conroy, Ryan & Matthew Ricci, Mary & Alyssa Gray, Nicholas Ricci, and Madison Grimes, dear daughter of the late Anthony and Anna (Lazzara) Visconti, sister of Anna Marie Visconti and Annette & Robert E.Shelley all of Wilmington, Anthony Visconti of Connecticut, and the late Andrew & Joseph Visconti, daughter in law of Mary & the late Anthony Ricci of East Boston, sister-in-law of Ann Albano of Revere, Jennie Visconti of Reading, and the late Joan Visconti, Mary Lou is also survived by many nieces & nephews.
Family & friends will gather in the Nichols Funeral Home, Inc., 187 Middlesex Ave. (Rte. 62), Wilmington on Saturday, November 28th at 9:00 a.m. followed by a Mass of Christian Burial in St. Thomas of Villanova Church, 126 Middlesex Ave., Wilmington, at 10:00 a.m. Interment Wildwood Cemetery, Wilmington. Visiting hours Friday, November 27th from 4-8 p.m.
Memorial donations in Mary Lou's name may be made to the American Cancer Society,Pancreatic Cancer Research, 30 Speen St., Framingham, MA 01701.
May you rest in peace,you will be missed.
Our thoughts and prayers are you in your time of sorrow. May your memories comfort you. We are so sorry we are unable to be with you.
Mary was a loving and caring person and everyone at Sons of Italy will miss her. We had great times at meetings, social functions, and especially marching in the Columbus Day Parades. She was a great cook and we all loved her cookies and recipies in our Cookbook.
I cant tell you How Sorry I am at the Passing of Mary, Mary was always a sweet caring loving person, who was so supportive and caring for Rosemary when she was Ill. She was alway happy and just a simple Joy to be with.
As she so often repeated in the Peace prayer of St Francis at the Closing of our Meeting In dying we are born to eternal Life I know that right know she is safe in our fathers house free from pain basking in His Love.


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Drones gather environmental data
Roddy Scheer and Doug Moss
Dear EarthTalk: How are environmentalists putting drones to use to help further their causes?
Joe Martin,
Conservationists are utilizing drone or "unmanned aerial systems" (UAS) technology to gather highly detailed imagery and other environmental data that is traditionally challenging to obtain. Wildlife biologist John Takekawa and his team at the U.S. Geological Survey's Western Ecological Research Center (WERC), for example, are using drones to obtain aerial images of San Francisco Bay marshlands.
"It's very hard to get some of the data sets in some of these areas that are remote or hard to reach in the marshes," Takekawa explains. "If you have something that can fly over and get sensors that can report back to your computer, that's what we're looking for in exploring these types of technologies."
Dr. Amy Woodget, a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Worcester in the UK, uses her small Draganflyer X6 UAS to collect high-resolution imagery of river channels. The images map the physical conditions within the rivers, including the channel topography, water depth and surface flow patterns, data all crucial for gauging river health and habitat conditions essential to the survival of local wildlife.
"The results obtained using UAS technologies provide unprecedented levels of detail concerning these physical river habitat parameters, with high levels of accuracy and precision," Woodget says.
Drones are also helping preserve the Peruvian Amazon forest, where illegal gold mining and logging has cleared mahogany, Spanish cedar and other old-growth trees. Carlos Castaneda, coordinator of the Amazon Basin Conservation Association's Los Amigos Conservation Concession, monitors the 550-square-mile Los Amigos reserve in southeastern Peru, home to a large diversity of plant and animal species, including palm swamps, bamboo thickets, giant otters, harpy eagles, spider monkeys and jaguars. Small drones weighing less than five pounds enable detection of any deforestation within the area.
Considering that more and more drones are being launched for conservation research, Linda Rothschild, an evolutionary biologist at NASA's Ames Research Center, was concerned when she found out that UAVs sometimes get lost in coral reefs or other sensitive habitats. "As I started to hear about this, I thought, 'Well, wouldn't it be useful if the UAV was biodegradable, so if it crashed somewhere that was sensitive, it wouldn't matter if it dissolved,'" Rothschild says.
So Rothschild created a biodegradable drone with a team of students in the 2014 International Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) competition. The team's prototype took its first short flight in November 2014 at the iGEM competition in Boston. The drone, which resembles a cardboard cup holder, is made primarily of mycelium grown by New York-based Ecovative Design. The team grew cellulose leather-like sheets to coat the mycelium body and then covered the sheets with proteins sourced from the saliva of paper wasps—a water resistant material that the insects use to cover their nests. The biodegradable drone body is certainly a step forward, though the drone still uses a standard battery, motor and propellers.
Rothschild's dream is to make a UAV where every part is made with something biodegradable, but for now, she says, "realistically, this is going to be much more of a hybrid vehicle."
Contacts: WERC, www.werc.usgs.gov; Los Amigos Conservation Concession, www.amazonconservation.org/ourwork/conservation.html; iGEM, www.igem.org.
EarthTalk® is produced by Doug Moss & Roddy Scheer and is a registered trademark of Earth Action Network Inc. View past columns at: www.earthtalk.org. Or e-mail us your question: earthtalk@emagazine.com.


Having received immense appreciation from eminent programmers all across the globe in its inaugural edition, Codefest has been a programmers' delight and has added more feathers to its cap with each successive edition. Following the trail, Codefest'18 received the best ever response with 24,654 participants from 98 countries participating across its nine events. Building on the motivation received from the success of Codefest'18, we aim to step further and present before you a bigger and better Codefest'19.
This year, we are introducing an Onsite Hackathon, HaXplore to the wide range of events we organize through Codefest. The idea of HaXplore began with drawing inspiration from the way technology has revolutionized the world. From reminding us for a class to taking a spaceship on another planet, software has transformed almost every sphere of our life. The idea that a few lines of code could do such tasks is almost inconceivable.
HaXplore aims to provide a venue where creative heads assemble together to express their world-changing ideas and compete in their endeavour for excellence.
We at HaXplore, promote people from every domain irrespective of their field of study, experience, gender, sexual orientation, background or ethnicity. To foster this spirit of inclusivity and diversity, HaXplore also has special prizes for all-girls teams participating in the hackathon.
In essence, HaXplore strives to be the commemoration of the creative attempts by developers across history in order to make a better and a more accessible world; it is the celebration of the spirit of developers who imagine the unimaginable.


1. How can I contact you and when can I meet with you?
Normally, your call or e-mail will be received by my office receptionist and/or my legal staff. Initial information about your case should be taken in a telephone or office conference and either of these conferences are free as your initial consultation. Normally, an office conference is scheduled the day of your contact or within a few days thereafter.
2. What effect does a DUI conviction have on my record?
In Mississippi, a DUI conviction stays on your driving record for five (5) years, during which time any additional DUI convictions will increase the punishment. The charge itself will be on your record (rap sheet) for life. The DUI charge can have an adverse effect on your employment, especially if driving is a major part of your work duties. In addition, the DUI conviction will cause you to obtain SR-22 insurance (also known as high risk insurance) for three years. Only high risk insurance companies write SR-22 insurance. Should you drop the insurance, your driving license in Mississippi wll once again be suspended. Should you be charged with driving while your license is suspended in Mississippi, the fine is $500; there is a ten-day to six-month jail term, and your license is suspended for an additional six months. The DUI charge on your record could also cause you problems with your credit report and with rental car companies.
These problems occur when DUIs appear on your record. You always have the opportunity to contest DUIs, to take the matter to court, and in almost every case DUIs should be fought to obtain an outright acquittal or a non-DUI disposition. These are some of the reasons that I fight for an acquittal in your case.
3. What does a plea in a DUI trial mean?
There are basically three types of pleas in DUI cases. The first plea is taken on a date called an "arraignment" date, usually your first court appearance. At the arraignment, the court will ask how you plead. Should you plead guilty, then the court will proceed to make a finding of guilty and assess fines, court costs, and the appropriate jail sentence. Should you plead not guilty, the court will assign you a trial date. You will appear in court later, where you may change your plea from not guilty to guilty, or you may plead nolo, which means "nolo contendere" or no contest. In any of these pleas: a plea of not guilty, a plea of guilty, or a plea of no contest, the judge must still make a finding. It is only in a plea of not guilty, however, that a trial will ensue. At the end of the trial, the judge makes a finding of guilty or not guilty at the Municipal or Justice Court level. If there is a no contest (nolo contendere) or guilty plea made, then the court proceeds to make a finding of guilt and impose a fine and jail term consistent with the law on DUIs.
4. If I had a drunk driving (or impaired driving) conviction in another state, will it show up in Mississippi?
Drunk driving convictions from other states can show up in Mississippi in any number of ways. Most states are now linked together through computer systems run by law enforcement agencies for the purposes of sharing information one state to another. This information can be accessed by either the court, or the prosecutor, or the Highway Patrol. Should this information become available under certain circumstances, these previous convictions can be used to enhance or increase the punishment for a subsequent DUI arrest here in the state of Mississippi if said convictions are within the last five (5) years of the date of the current charge in the state of Mississippi. Sometimes these convictions do not show up, and our job as your attorney would be to fight any convictions that happen out of state.
5. I now have your questionnaire to prepare and I'm having a difficult time remembering each and every detail. Why is the questionnaire needed and what is its purpose?
The information that I request in your questionnaire is considered to be part of the attorney work product. That is to say, it is privileged information between you and me. The information is further requested so that I may understand the facts and circumstances in your case, which would give me the ability to question the officer at trial about certain aspects that we think are important in your defense. It also assists me in any sort of DUI litigation and with the government in any negotiations concerning your case.
6. How do you decide if my case should go to trial?
When we receive the questionnaire, we review it to determine which court of action would be the best for your case. I review every questionnaire personally. This enables me to compare your answers with information we receive from law enforcement reports. This comparison of answers and reports forms the basis of my preparation for trial in the Municipal or Justice courts.
We also evaluate which court will decide your case. We also take into account how many alcohol-related or drug-related offenses you may have had in your lifetime. Lastly, we look to see if there are any extenuating circumstances that would require any special defense. Considering the information provided, I can make the best recommendation to you either at your free consultation, or as the ongoing court process unfolds.
7. How will a DUI arrest affect my out-of-state license?
Mississippi cannot suspend an out-of-state license; only your home state can suspend your license. Mississippi can only suspend your privilege to drive in this state. A refusal to submit to an officer's request for a breath, blood, or urine test MAY result in a suspension in Mississippi (if we are unsuccessful at the administrative hearing), but MAY or MAY NOT cause you to be suspended in your home state. The rules for handling a refusal report from Mississippi vary in each state. Some states do nothing in the non-resident driver's home state for a "refusal" to be tested in Mississippi.
8. The officer took my license. When can I get it back?
Mississippi law permits an officer to confiscate the license of any motorist who is arrested for DUI. Do not just apply for a new license because you can create even more problems for yourself. At your free consultation, ask us about how and when you may seek to have your license returned, or possibly retrieved from the prosecutor so that you can have your plastic license prior to trial.
9. Do I need a lawyer?
Every person can represent himself or herself in court. Because DUI is such a critical matter, however, it is not generally a wise choice to go to court unrepresented. Your right to drive, your freedom and your future employment options may hang in the balance. The choice is yours. We advise taking advantage of our free consultation to see whether you want to hire an attorney.
10. What is the "10-day" rule applicable to administrative license suspension matters?
In Mississippi, if you either refused to submit to a breath, blood, or urine test, the state will attempt to suspend your license or privilege to drive for 90 days to one year. This attempt to take away your right to drive will occur PRIOR to any criminal trial for DUI (in most cases) and will be automatically entered against you unless you file a test refusal petition within 10 calendar days after the mailing of a notice of letter of intent to suspend. Filing an test refusal petition does not postpone the suspension. In a significant percentage of cases, we are able to prevent any suspension. The license you receive when there has been a refusal to take a state-administered test is valid for only forty-five (45) days from the date of the arrest. This license cannot be renewed or extended for any period of time. The test refusal hearing is an informal hearing. There will not be a jury. This is an additional proceeding that we handle for you. The decision will be announced at the administrative hearing to agree with the State to suspend your license or to return it to you. The hearing is needed to determine if you wll be able to retain your driving privileges until the end of your DUI case or if you will lose the right to drive in Mississippi prior to your trial. In additional, this hearing offers us a great opportunity to cross-examine the officer under oath about the facts of your case.
11. Why should I hire you as my attorney?
I have the best staffed office in Mississippi, which limits its cases to defense of DUI charges. I am a former police lieutenant and have been trained and certified in breath testing drivers and field sobriety exercises. I am certified in advanced training courses on police arrest procedures and on criminal trial practice. I have been board certified by the National College of DUI Defense. In addition, I am a member of a national network of other DUI practitioners who exchange and share information about new DUI laws, national and local trends in the law, and trial tactics. In short, I strive to give my clients the best representation possible.
12. Why am I receiving mail from attorneys seeking to represent me?
The United States Supreme Court has ruled that "commercial free speech" is protected under the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. Hence, some attorneys choose to hire companies to go to each police station and look up the names and addresses of everyone arrested in a given period. Then a mass mailing is sent, hoping to "attract" potential clients. Many of our clients come to this office with a number of letters, including my own. Some of the letters focus on pleading guilty, a resolution which I rarely consider until all other viable options are explored.
13. If I am convicted, what is the worst thing that can happen to me?
The "minimum" punishment information is published elsewhere in this Web site. You should read this carefully, paying special attention to increased punishment requirements if you have prior offenses. Beyond these "guidelines," we have to evaluate your case based upon the facts, the prosecutor, your record, and propensity of the judge in his/her sentencing for DUI cases. We will review these details at your free consultation.
14. Will I get a harsher sentence if I fight the case than if I plead guilty?
That depends on many factors. This question is one that is case-specific and judge-specific. Some judges may punish a person more after a jury trial than in a bench trial (a trial in front of the judge only). Judges in Mississippi have the discretion to allow a jury or a bench trial. Your case may have a fantastic legal issue that needs to be appealed to a higher court, and this may require some sort of trial to be able to obtain the right of appeal. Be sure to discuss any concerns you may have about these issues at your free consultation.
15. Do I need to see an alcohol (or drug) counselor?
Maybe. I always encourage anyone facing alcohol-related or drug-related offenses to get an ASSESSMENT for any potential problem that may exist. If this offense is not your first alcohol-related offense, our free consultation with you will likely result in a recommendation that a private assessment be conducted. There are many reasons that this is a wise thing to do, not the least of which is correcting a costly and potentially dangerous health problem. We will discuss how this assessment (and treatment, if recommended by your counselor) can be a "silver lining" for even a very bad case. We have lists of counselors if you need names and phone numbers.
16. Should I go to driving school (MASEP) now?
No. MASEP (Mississippi Alcohol Safety Education Program) is a course given over the course of a month in four (4) three hour sessions. The MASEP course will lower your license suspension from one (1) year to ninety (90) days. The course is available to those convicted of a DUI first offense.
17. If I fight the case and lose, do I get any money refunded on legal fees?
No. Unlike personal injury cases in which an attorney can agree to accept a percentage of any financial recovery in a CIVIL case, the State Bar of Mississippi prohibits "contingency" fees in criminal cases. With a surgeon, not every operation is a success. Yet, would you go back and ask for a refund of fees paid? No, because an attorney (like a surgeon) is compensated for his/her time, knowledge, expertise, and legal acumen. This is our "product." In addition, I set a "fixed" fee, not hourly, so you will know how much you will pay for legal services.
18. Beyond legal fees, what other costs or expenses will I have in this case if I fight it?
Disregarding fines (which are covered in the Web site), there are some costs in the typical DUI case. I use court reporters to prepare transcripts of City and Justice Court trials for use in later hearings. This cost is usually in the Two Hundred Dollar ($200) range. In addition, there is a cost for an appeal bond from lower courts to higher courts for additional trials. And on occasion, expenses for expert witnesses will be incurred should the case require their testimony. These costs will be explained at your free consultation.
19. Do we have any control over which judge or prosecutor I get for my case?
As a general rule, no. Computer assignments or rotation of judges makes most court assignments for each case random. We have very little input about how a case is assigned, or which prosecutor will handle it.
20. Does the fact that Mr. Carmody is so well known hurt my chances to get a favorable disposition without trial?
Not that we can tell, based upon our results and the results that we see other attorneys obtain. We strive to project an image of being fully prepared whenever we come to court, and we want every prosecutor, judge, and police officer to know that. We don't "attack" police officers unless there is a good cause to do so, yet we thoroughly cross-examine them about every important aspect of an arrest. Many times, the very fact that the prosecutor knows we are there in court to fight helps us get "deals" that some other attorneys might not be offered. We want the prosecutors, police officers, and the courts to know that we are "ready," and will represent our client to the fullest extent permitted by law.


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Home - SICC series 2020
SICC Conference Program
DAY 1 - 22 April 2020
T.1. Biological, Chemical and explosive (BCe) Events
T.2. Epidemics, Medical Managment and First Aid, Psychology
T.3. Cybersecurity, Critical Infrastructure, IoT and AI Investigation
T.4. Radioactive and Nuclear threats
T.5. CBRNe crisis and emergency managment, Communication, Investigation and Forensic, Education and Training
T.6. CBRNe-related geopolitical issues, Safety and security Legal and Economic aspects, New frontiers of science
Call for abstract 2020
Topics 2020
Local Organizing Commitee SICC2020
OLD Conference - (SICC2017)
OPCW 20th Anniversary
Session 1 EMERG SYS
Session 2 MODEL DIFF
Session 3 EDUC TRAIN
Session 4 LEGAL ECON
Session 5 MEDICAL
Session 6 DSS
Session 7 CYB FOR CRI
Session 8 COMMUN PSY
Session 9 GEO-POLIT
Session 10 COE
Session 11 PROT DECON
Session 12 DET IDENT - PART 1
Presentations+Poster
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POSTER SESSION 1 - 22 May (12:30 p.m - 02:00 p.m)
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The poster boards are suitable for portrait oriented A0 posters (size A0: 841x1189 mm, 33.1x46.8 in) that will be numbered according to the program. Fixing material will be available in the Posters Area. Conference staff will be available to assist you. Also, we can print the poster for you for EUR 45. Please choose this option upon registration. Poster will be given to you at the registration desk.
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Last but not least, the LOC invite students to take part in the Student Poster Competition. The LOC will nominate experts from the Scientific Committees to select three best posters, based on content, design, and presentation. The presenting authors will be awarded 100 EUR each. In order to take part to the contest, students are required to send the PDF version of their poster to sicc2017@sicc2017.com (maximum 10 MB) by the 12th May 2017.
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Monday, 22 May 2017 (12:30 a.m-02:00 p.m)
Presenter and Co-Authors
Paolo Castelli (1)
(1) Ministry of Interior, Department of Fire Brigades (Italy)
(P1.1) Some of the major issues to be addressed for the detection of the environmental presence of CBRNe agents
Raffaella Giovinazzo (1), L. Caradonna (1), G. Giaquinta(1), E. Guerrera(1), M. Mameli(1), A. Mansi(1), G. Marena(1), T. Mastromartino(1), D. Sarto(1), P. Tomao(2)
(1) INAIL - Consulenza Tecnica Accertamento Rischi e Prevenzione
(1) INAIL - Dipartimento di Medicina, Epidemiologia, Igiene del Lavoro e Ambientale
(P1.2) Proposal of benchmark guidance values in surface microbiological monitoring: a literature review
Roberto Paoletti (1)
(1) Senior engineer (Executive – Deputy Manager) of the Ministry of the Interior - Fire Department (Italy)
(P1.3) Earthquakes could be generated by nuclear fusion of the hydrogen present in the ground
L. Di Giamberardino (1), A. Mattoccia (1), J. Zoppi (2), P. Gaudio (1), A. Malizia (1), M. Richetta (1), Mauro Caciolai (2), Bruno Petrulli (2) P.G. Medaglia (1)
(1) Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Rome, (Italy)
(2) Center for Prevention and Technical Security, Office for Passive Protection, Active protection, Industry and laboratories (Italy)
(3) Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Rome, (Italy)
(P1.4) Mechanical characterization of textilesbased on Nanostructured Layered Double Hydroxide for potential use in CBRN protective suits for firefighters
Min-jeong Kim (1) and Gyu-Cheol Lee (1)
(1) Water Quality Research center, K-water, (Republic of Korea)
(P1.5) Duplex Real-time PCR assay for Simultaneous Detection of Acanthamoeba spp. and Naegleria fowleri in Raw Water
Ken'ichi Tsuchiya (1), K. Kurosawa (1), N. Akiba (1), H. Kakuda (1), D. Imoto (1), M. Hirabayashi (1), K. Kuroki (1)
(1) National Research Institute of Police Science, Physics section, 6-3-1 Kashiwanoha, CHIBA, (Japan)
(P1.6) Development of radiation detection methods against radiological or nuclear threat
Stefano Venturini (1)
(P1.7) The potential of Italian Fire Brigade for the immediate securing of the environment, which is essential for the containment of environmental damage as a result of CBRNE incidents.
Vito Volpetti(1), F. Barcio (1)
(1) TEKNE s.r.l. - Defence & Security Division, via E.Mattei 20, 66100 Chieti, (Italy)
(P1.8) A novel concept for integrated environmental surveillance and protection
Yasmin Himid (1), R. Rossi (1) and A. Malizia (2)
(1) Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Rome, (Italy)
(2) Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Rome, (Italy)
(P1.9) The e-factor in Industrial Risk: Predict and Prevent through Experiments
Tzu-Yun Huang (1), Yu-Ju Lin(1), Yi-Chien Chih(1), Shu-Mei Chou(1), Chang-Hsun Chen(1)
(1) Centers for Disease Control, No.6, Linsen S. Rd., Jhongjheng District, Taipei, Taiwan (R.O.C). (Taiwan)
(P1.10) Applying Incident Command System (ICS) to the Command and Control of Bioterrorist Attack Response in Taiwan
Lea Fellner (1), F. Gebert (1), A. Walter (1), K. Gruenewald (1), F. Duschek (1)
German Aerospace Center, Institute of Technical
Physics, Langer Grund, Lampoldshausen, 74239 Hardthausen, (Germany)
(P1.11) Variations in fluorescence spectra of a bacterial population during different growth phases
Marian Kraus (1), Lea Fellner (1), Florian Gebert (1), Karin Grünewald (1), Carsten Pargmann (1), Arne Walter (1), Frank Duschek (1)
German Aerospace Center, Institute of Technical Physics, Langer Grund, Lampoldshausen, 74239 Hardthausen, (Germany)
(P1.12) Comparison of classification models for spectral data of laser-induced fluorescence
Patrick Wengler (1), Cenciarelli O. (2) , (3) Ludovici G.M.
(1) Luxemburg Grand-Ducale Police, UCPA /SGA, L-1110 Findel (Luxemburg)
Phd candidate, London Metropolitan University
(2) University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Department of Industrial Engineering, Via del Politecnico 1, Rome, Italy
(3) International Master Courses in Protection Against CBRNe events (Italy)
(P1.13) First Responders Pocket-Card, 9 liner
Francesco Rosiello (1), Monti M. (2), Modini C. (1), Russo L. (1), Zelinotti L.(3), Vinci A. (1)
(1) Sapienza-University of Rome, Via del Policlinico 155, Rome, Italy
(2) USL Umbria 1, Via G. Guerra 21, Perugia, Italy
(3) Istituto Zooprofilattico Lazio, Via Appia Nuova, 1411, Roma, Italy
(P1.14) How would Rome react to a NCBR attack?
Tania Martín-Pérez (1), F. J. Llerena-Aguilar (1) , J. Pérez-Serrano (2), J.L. Copa-Patiño(2), J. Soliveri de Carranza (2), J.M. Orellana-Muriana (3), J.L. Pérez-Díaz (1)
(1) Escuela Politécnica Superior, Universidad de Alcalá, (Spain)
(2) Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad de Alcalá, (Spain)
(3) Centro de Experimentación Animal, Universidad de Alcalá, (Spain)
(P1.15) Eco-friendly air decontamination of biological warfare agents using "Counterfog" system
Juan Sánchez-García-Casarrubios (1), F. J. Llerena-Aguilar (1) and J.L. Pérez-Díaz (1)
(1) Escuela Politécnica Superior, Universidad de Alcalá, Spain
(P1.16) FOG DYNAMICS
Riccardo Rossi (1), J. F. Ciparisse (1), A. Malizia (2) and P. Gaudio (3),
(1) Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Rome Tor Vergata (Italy)
(2) Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, University of Rome Tor Vergata (Italy)
(P1.17) Identification of dangerous chemical gas in atmosphere by means of miniDial CO2 based apparatus
Alba Iannotti (1), R. Rossi (2), P. Gaudio (2) and A. Malizia (3)
(1) Hesar, Via del Politecnico 1 (Italy)
(P1.18) Game Theory as Decision Making Tool in Conventional and Non-Conventional Events
Riccardo Rossi (1), J. F. Ciparisse (1), P. Gaudio (1) And A. Malizia (4)
(P1.19) Explosion risks inside pharmaceutical, agro-alimentary and energetic industries as a consequence of critical dust conditions: numerical models to prevent these accidents
Alessandro Puleio (1), O. Cenciarelli (2) , A. Malizia (1) and J.F. Ciparisse (2)
(1)Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, University of Rome Tor Vergata (Italy)
(P1.20) Numerical analysis of natural and intentional releases of emergent and re-emergent pathogens: an idea to merge medicine, biology and engineering disciplines
Milos S. Tosic (1), Z. M. Nikolic(1), T. P. Brdaric (1,2), G. S. Tasic (1,2), D. S. Milovanovic (1), Lj. Sutulovic (1,2), M. P. M. Kaninski (1)
(1) University of Belgrade, Vinča Institute of Nuclear Sciences, Mike Petrovića Alasa 12-14, P.O.Box 522, 11001 Belgrade, (Serbia)
(2) Hotzone Solutions, Prinsessegracht 6, 2514 AN, The Hague, (Netherlands)
(P1.21) Organophosphate pesticides and bis(2-chloroethyl) sulfide referred to organic pollutants in environmental sample matrices
Elisa Michelini (1,2), L. Cevenini (1), A. Lopreside (1), M. M. Calabretta (1), M. D'Elia (3), A. Roda (1,2)
(1) Department of Chemistry "G. Ciamician", University of Bologna Via Selmi, 2, Bologna, Italy
(2) INBB, Istituto Nazionale di Biostrutture e Biosistemi, Viale Medaglie d'Oro 305, Roma, Italy
(3) Gabinetto Regionale di Polizia Scientifica per l'Emilia Romagna, Polizia di Stato, Bologna, Italy
(P1.22) Smartphone-based cell biosensors: a new tool for rapid on-site detection of chemical agents
G.M. Ludovici (1), Orlando Cenciarelli (2), A. Malizia (3)
(1) International Master Courses in Protection Against CBRNe Events, University of Rome Tor Vergata (Italy);
(2) Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Rome Tor Vergata (Italy);
(P1.23) Could fungal toxins constitute a concern for biosecurity?
Valeria Villa (1), G. Reniers (2), V. Cozzani (3)
(1) LISES – DICAM, Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna, via Terracini 28, 40131 Bologna, Italy
(2) Safety and Security Science Group, TPM Faculty, Delft University of Technology, Jaffalaan 5, 2628 BX Delft, The Netherlands
(P1.24) Application of economic analysis to the selection of security measures against environmental accidents in a chemical installation
Min-jeong Kim (1), Hyunwook Cha (2), Minsu Ko (2) and Gyu-Cheol Lee (1)
(2) R&D Center, NanoHelix Co., Ltd (Republic of Korea)
(P1.25) Development of MIC Real Time PCR for Detecting Four Major Biological Weapons
A. Rizzo(1), C. Telloli (1), P. Bartolomei (1), F. Manassero (2), G. Ottaviano (1), Donato Maurizio Castelluccio (1)
(1) ENEA, Bologna Research Center, Fusion and Technology for Nuclear Safety and Security Department, Nuclear Safety Security and Sustainability Division, via Martiri di Monte Sole 4, 40129, Bologna, Italy
(2) ETG risorse e tecnologia srl, Montiglio M.to (At), Italy
(P1.26) Design of integrated isotopic laser spectroscopy system for the characterization of explosion products
Giovanna Fotia (1), M. Palestrino (1), R. Grande (1), D. Mileto (2), A. Mancon (2), N. G. Kozan Manguel (1). M. R. Gismondo (2)
(1) ASST Fatebenefratelli Sacco, L. Sacco University Hospital, via G.B. Grassi 174, 20157, Milan, (Italy)
(2) University of Milan, Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, via G.B. Grassi 174, 20157, Milan, (Italy)
(P1.27) Needs Assessment and Training Effectiveness: Building Sustainable Capacities for Epidemic Preparedness and Response in Northern Uganda.
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I would suggest that this shirt is in good condition, however the material and collars are showing signs of wear.
In arguably Umbro's finest offering as the kit supplier of Rangers; the clubs last season to date in which they were in the Champions League, and crowned as Scottish champions. Opting for a vintage and minimal design, the 2010/11 season simply utilises a white collar against an ocean blue back drop, in addition this was also the first Rangers shirt to sponsored by Tennant's.


Softcover version released in 1991, at the same time that Warhammer Fantasy Battles Third Edition and Warhammer 40,000 Rogue Trader were the latest releases in Games Workshop's main line of miniature wargames. This supplement supports both those systems. It provides rules for fortress design and conducting long-term sieges and final assaults.
Last 4 pages are pull-out cardstock of counters for use in the game.


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Q: Time Javascript not compitible in firefox I have problem with my website lately... i cant find the solution how to fix...
Lately my website using chrome to run.. but after flash issue most of my web not responding... and i after switch to firefox.. but my time and month not working properly... it come out undefined and NaN NaN... upper code is TIME and below is Month...i manage to solve month by doing doing short month... but time.. idk what wrong
time
 objData.forEach(function (entry) {
                        var dateSplitStartTime = entry.StartTime.split(" ");
                        var dateSplitEndTime = entry.EndTime.split(" ");
                        var currDateTimeStart = new Date(dateSplitStartTime[1] + ' ' + dateSplitStartTime[0] + ', ' + dateSplitStartTime[2] + ' ' + dateSplitStartTime[3]);
                        var currDateTimeEnd = new Date(dateSplitEndTime[1] + ' ' + dateSplitEndTime[0] + ', ' + dateSplitEndTime[2] + ' ' + dateSplitEndTime[3]);

                        var strDisplyTime;

                        if (currDateTimeStart.getDate() == currDateTimeEnd.getDate() && currDateTimeStart.getMonth() == currDateTimeEnd.getMonth()
                            && currDateTimeStart.getFullYear() == currDateTimeEnd.getFullYear()) {
                            if (entry.IsAllDay == true) {
                                strDisplyTime = "All Day";
                            } else {
                                if (entry.Type == 'SCHEDULER') {
                                    strDisplyTime = currDateTimeStart.getTimeFormat();
                                } else {
                                    strDisplyTime = currDateTimeStart.getTimeFormat() + ' - ' + currDateTimeEnd.getTimeFormat()
                                }
                            }
                        } else {
                            strDisplyTime = currDateTimeStart.getShortDate() + ' ' + currDateTimeStart.getTimeFormat() + ' - ' +
                                currDateTimeEnd.getShortDate() + ' ' + currDateTimeEnd.getTimeFormat();
                        }

Month is below
function convertStringToDate(dateStr) {
var a = dateStr.split(" ");
var d = a[0].split("-");
var t = a[1].split(":");
var date = new Date(d[0], (d[1] - 1), d[2], t[0], t[1], t[2]);
return date;
}

Date.locale = {
en: {
    month_names_short: ['Jan', 'Feb', 'Mar', 'Apr', 'May', 'Jun', 'Jul', 'Aug', 'Sep', 'Oct', 'Nov', 'Dec'],
    month_names: ['January', 'February', 'March', 'April', 'May', 'June', 'July', 'August', 'September', 'October', 'November', 'December'],
    day_names: ["Sunday", "Monday", "Tuesday", "Wednesday", "Thursday", "Friday", "Saturday"],
    extensions: ["th", "st", "nd", "rd", "th", "th", "th", "tn", "th", "th", "th", "th", "th", "th", "th", "th", "th", "tn", "th", "th", "th", "st", "nd", "rd", "th", "th", "th", "tn", "th", "th",
        "th", "st"]
}
};

//Date.prototype.getShortDate = function (lang) {
//    lang = lang && (lang in Date.locale) ? lang : 'en';
//    return this.getDate() + ' ' +           Date.locale[lang].month_names[this.getMonth()].substr(0, 3) + ' ' +
//        this.getFullYear();
//}; - not compitable with firefox - added short month_names_short

Date.prototype.getShortDate = function (lang) {
lang = lang && (lang in Date.locale) ? lang : 'en';
return this.getDate() + ' ' + Date.locale[lang].month_names_short[this.getMonth()] + ' ' +
    this.getFullYear();
};

Date.prototype.getTimeFormat = function (lang) {
lang = lang && (lang in Date.locale) ? lang : 'en';
return (this.getHours() === 0) ? 12 : ((this.getHours() > 12) ? this.getHours() - 12 : this.getHours()) + ':' + ((this.getMinutes() > 9) ? this.getMinutes() : '0' + this.getMinutes()) + ' ' + ((this.getHours() > 11) ? 'pm' : 'am');

};

A: My answer is , in sql i date varchar as (120)
and convert them to
   var dateSplitStartTime = entry.StartTime.split(" ");
                        var dateSplitEndTime = entry.EndTime.split(" ");

                        var d = dateSplitStartTime[0].split("-");
                        var d1 = dateSplitEndTime[0].split("-");

                        var t = dateSplitStartTime[1].split(":");
                        var t1 = dateSplitEndTime[1].split(":");

                        var currDateTimeStart = new Date(d[0], (d[1] - 1), d[2], t[0], t[1], t[2]);
                        var currDateTimeEnd = new Date(d1[0], (d1[1] - 1), d1[2], t1[0], t1[1], t1[2]);

and it work both browser now... thanks for some of u helping

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Calpurnia Pisonis (77 v.Chr.) was de dochter van Lucius Calpurnius Piso Caesoninus, die consul was in 58 v.Chr. en de laatste vrouw van Gaius Julius Caesar, met wie zij in 59 v.Chr. op achttienjarige leeftijd trouwde.

Huwelijk
Calpurnia schijnt zich niet bemoeid te hebben met de politiek en in stilte de vernedering hebben verdragen van het huwelijk met een dochter van Marcus Antonius dat Caesar overwoog in 53 v.Chr. en van de gunsten die haar echtgenoot aan Cleopatra VII verleende, toen deze in 46 v.Chr. naar Rome kwam. De geruchten die de ronde deden over een samenzwering tegen het leven van Caesar deden Calpurnia het ergste vrezen. Zij werd erdoor achtervolgd in haar dromen en smeekte haar echtgenoot - tevergeefs - om thuis te blijven op de fatale Iden van maart 44 v.Chr. Na de dood van haar echtgenoot zou ze diens papieren samen met een groot som geld afstaan aan Marcus Antonius. Ze zou niet hertrouwen.

In populaire cultuur
In het toneelstuk "Julius Caesar" van Shakespeare heeft Calpurnia een droom dat uit een standbeeld van Caesar bloed vloeide terwijl vele Romeinen hun handen in het bloed wassen.

Voetnoten

Antieke bronnen
 , Bell. Civ. II 14, 115.
 , Bell. Gall. I 12.
 , XLIV 17.
 , Caes. 14, 63, Pomp. 47, Cat. min. 33.
 , Caes. 21, 81.
 , II 57.

Referenties
, art. Calpurnia (2), in  (ed.), A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology, Londen, 1873, p. 582.
, art. Calpurnia (1), in  (edd.), Biographical Dictionary of Ancient Greek and Roman Women: Notable Women from Sappho to Helena, New York, 2000, pp. 49-50.

Gens Calpurnia
Persoon in de 1e eeuw v.Chr.


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We previously talked about one of the biggest benefits of farm management software, improved recordkeeping. Farm management software allows your data to be accurate, accessible remotely and to multiple users, updated and accessed in real time, and easily viewed and analyzed for future decisions. It's a benefit you can't overstate.
Today, we're talking about a more specific benefit, one that's not any less valuable: tracking your loads during harvest.
Accurate harvest tracking for growers
Farm management software allows you to track what's happening on your operation with much more accuracy. One of the biggest changes is the ability to accurately track the hauling of your crops during harvest.
No matter your set up, harvest is the prime time for work on the farm, when you clearly see the results of all your efforts. And it's busy: many things are happening at once, and lots of people are involved. Having software to track the activity is something both permanent and row crop growers really value, especially as the software catches loads that would have been missed.
"Things move so quickly, both in the spring with our input inventories, but then certainly in the fall as things are coming in and going out," said Aaron Lee of Cornerstone Family Farms in Salem, IN. "There are times when we're harvesting and bringing to the bin and then we're also selling and taking to the end user. Being able to stay on top of that has gone far beyond what you can keep track of in a notebook in your front pocket."
With farm management software, accounting for all of your loads is made simple. You can be sure you know what's happened with every single hauler that drives off your operation and whether you've seen the money or not.
Catching mistakes in load tracking
With trucks going every which way and crops belonging to different growers, mistakes during harvest happen, whether intentional or unintentional. Farm management software allows you to easily see when something isn't lining up. Here are a few customers sharing instances on their operations where having farm managment software allowed them to easily catch and correct mistakes.
"Even the first year we used it, it was around 40 loads of grain that we had lost in the process. Some of those loads would not have been recorded at all if we had not caught them on the system," said Curtis Neely of Lone Star Family Farms in Sunray, TX.
"There are times that we've missed a load of corn and we can go back and find it. We do a lot of shipping to distilleries, so there are truck drivers that take our grain that we don't know. They're all great guys, but it's just another layer of vulnerability," said Aaron Lee of Cornerstone. He appreciates that his farm management system tracks each grain load, whether it's hauled by a Cornerstone truck or a hired hauler, and stores the exact date and time each truck went out.
"I would say probably over the last six years that we've used Conservis on the harvest side, [it's] probably saved us 30 loads of corn that went to the co-op that they didn't have any record of. It either got mistakenly linked to another farmer or another field," said Michael Kitchen of Lone Star Family Farms. "We've also had a couple loads that disappeared—they went somewhere we don't know. We were able to approach the truck driver and find out that he didn't deliver it where he said he delivered it. So yeah, it's very instrumental."
Catching mistakes in harvest load tracking is often a significant financial gain. "The canola is a high value crop, and we lost a load and caught it, so that was worth probably $20,000," said Justin Crownover of Lone Star. "Then we had two loads of wheat that we'd lost out of 100-150 and it [Conservis] more than paid for itself."
"Having the information readily available to say we have been paid for this load or not, really made a difference for us in tracking all of our grain."
-Kerri Mehmen, MBS Family Farms
Accounting support
Farm management software companies that value ongoing relationships and communication with their customers offer an added layer of support and security with regard to harvest load tracking.
Conservis customer Carla Vigen, of Sproule Farms in Grand Forks, North Dakota, spoke about how Conservis proactively supports them in catching missing loads. She recalled a specific instance: "We figured somebody had entered [the load] twice instead of once, and then when the elevator's numbers came out a little different than ours, we talked to someone at Conservis and they were able to look back and figure out what happened," she said.
Carla noted she really appreciates having the Conservis team watching, serving as another set of eyes on their farm."They've called me sometimes, too to say, 'You have a load out there that's sitting unattached," she said.
Farm management software raises the bar around load tracking. Crop growers are often surprised and grateful for the couple of times they catch an error, but it soon becomes the standard way of doing business.
"At the beginning, it was like an 'aha moment' that we saved that $20,000 or $40,000," explained Crownover of Lone Star Farms. "Today it's more like it's just standard operating [procedure]. One thing is that the elevators know that we're using it [Conservis], and so they make an extra effort to do a good job for you."
Diverse farm crops see value
The value of harvest load tracking goes beyond the grains of the Midwest. Permanent crop growers, such as those in the hops business, see the Conservis difference when it comes to ease of tracking.
"We're tracing from the fields all the way to when the hops leave the farm," states VP of Gooding Farms, Diane Gooding. With Conservis, Gooding Farms knows every input that went into producing each 200 pound bale of hops, where each bale came from, and where every single one is headed.
"With our GLOBALG.A.P. certification, it's required to have high traceability as well as [to] our customer bases, it's important to them. It's almost a requirement as an agricultural producer that you can trace from farm to fork, essentially."
"It used to be a total nightmare to dig up delivery slips, so it's really streamlined my response time."
Diane Gooding, VP Gooding Farms, Parma, ID
With farm management software, every crop load you harvest is accurately tracked. FMS makes sure you're being paid for your work, but not only that, it gives you peace of mind. That's real value.
Conservis is the leading independent farm management software. Wondering what we could do for your operation?