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Bladder infections are known as cystitis or inflammation of the bladder. They are common in women, but very rare in men. More than half of all women get at least one bladder infection at some time in their lives. However, a man's chance of getting cystitis increases as he ages, due to in part to an increase in prostate size.
Doctors aren't sure exactly why women have many more bladder infections than men. They suspect it may be because women have a shorter urethra, the tube that carries urine out of the bladder. This relatively short passageway -- only about an inch and a half long -- makes it easier for bacteria to find their way into the bladder. Also, the opening to a woman's urethra lies close to both the vagina and the anus. That makes it easier for bacteria from those areas to get into the urinary tract.
Bladder infections are not serious if treated right away. But they tend to come back in some people. Rarely, this can lead to kidney infections, which are more serious and may result in permanent kidney damage. So it's very important to treat the underlying causes of a bladder infection and to take preventive steps to keep them from coming back.
In elderly people, bladder infections are often difficult to diagnose. The symptoms are less specific and are frequently blamed on aging. Older people who suddenly become incontinent or who begin acting lethargic or confused should be checked by a doctor for a bladder infection.
What Causes Bladder Infections?
Most bladder infections are caused by various strains of E. coli, bacteria that normally live in the gut.
Women sometimes get bladder infections after sex. Vaginal intercourse makes it easier for bacteria to reach the bladder through the urethra. The risk for bladder infection -- dubbed "honeymoon cystitis" -- increases with frequent sex. Pregnantwomen, whose urinary tracts change in response to hormones and increased kidney function, are also prone to infections. Diaphragms and the use of spermicides alone or with condoms also increase the risk of urinary tract infections.
Bladder infections can be quite uncomfortable and potentially serious. But for most women, they clear up quickly and are relatively harmless if treated.
In men, a bladder infection may be a symptom of an underlying disorder and is generally a cause for concern. It may indicate the presence of an obstruction that is interfering with the urinary tract. Some studies have shown that uncircumcised boys are at risk of contracting a bladder infection during their first five years of life possibly because bacteria may collect under the foreskin.
In recent years, more and more bladder infections come from two sexually transmitted bacteria: chlamydia and mycoplasma.
Home and hospital use of catheters -- tubes inserted into the bladder to empty it -- can also lead to infection.
Some people develop symptoms of a bladder infection when no infection actually exists. Termed painful bladder syndrome or interstitial cystitis, this is usually benign but difficult to treat.
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Happy 2018!! I hope you all had the happiest New Year! I'm so looking forward to a fresh year ahead and excited to share all that I have in store for Erie Nick! Before diving into all things travel and fashion and introducing a brand new component to Erie Nick in 2018, I first wanted to touch on all the incredible sales going on at the moment. Going into a fresh year we all could use a little boost towards our budgets and based off of tips from Elle's fashion editors, January is the prime month in fashion to get the best bang for your buck!
Before the New Year hit I spent my last bits of 2017 soaking up every second in London and doing quite a bit of window shopping + a little bit of sale shopping! One of my all-time favorite sale finds was this Jackie O-esque pink coat! I always try to give myself the three day rule (basically try it on, take a pic, and if you're still thinking about it 3 days later + if it's still there, it's yours!) Safe to say, this coat passed all the tests and I'm absolutely in love with it – from the color, to the fit, to the feminine + timeless touches. It's one of my best finds from all these New Years sales and is currently on sale 40% off!
MAJE: If this pink coat and my favorite pink velvet skirt (30% off!) are any indication, I'm clearly a fan of all things Maje! These two pieces are some of my personal favorites from this year, but if you're in the market for really well made contemporary pieces that are chic, stylish and will last years on end, definitely have a scroll through their entire sale selection! They just had their second markdown and have discounted tons of pieces that will last you multiple seasons. I purchased my go-to black coat (seen here) during a Maje sale years ago and am still wearing it on repeat 4+ years later!
CLUB MONACO: The older I get the more I appreciate Club Monaco but at the end of the day their prices can be quite high. Because they're a retailer I know and love, I always scope out their sales and take full advantage of discounts. This little black jumpsuit, that I've already worn 4+ times this holiday season is now marked down over 50% off! While it's been perfect for date nights, shows and dinners this holiday season, it's also a classic go-to piece to have on hand year round especially because it can be played up or down! Along with my Club Monaco Camel coat, it's definitely gotten the most love this past year, but have a little scroll through their sale selects and see if there aren't any noteworthy pieces you can't live without.
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You Don't Have to Defend Antifa to Denounce Nazis
Posted at 8:30 pm on August 31, 2017 by Ben Howe
In recent years, with the rise of the alt-right, Donald Trump, and a million other people and groups to despise on the political right, "Frankenstein's Monster" is often bandied about to explain why no one has sympathy for, say, a Trump critic like myself. Having spent years engaging in hyper-partisanship, I helped create the monster, so while I'm welcome to participate in undoing the damage, I should never trick myself into believing my hands are clean in his election.
Fair enough. Before the metaphor was ever even used against me, I'd already essentially acknowledged this in writing and interviews.
Part of overcoming a problem you helped either cause or enable is to own it. To say "Yes, I did handle this incorrectly and now I'd like to earnestly help destroy the monster that came, in part, because of my words and actions."
Much of the GOP fails to do this as it relates to white supremacists and Nazis. As seen in Charlottesville, the common response was to concur with President Trump's "all sides" assessment of the situation. One which spreads the blame around to distract from responsibility.
The truth is you can condemn supremacists alone as it relates to Charlottesville and still not defend or lionize Antifa.
I rejected this reasoning. I knew full well what the violent leftist group Antifa did, not only Charlottesville, but across the country in countless protests for years. But after a woman was killed and Charlottesville was thrown into chaos following the purposefully provocative display from supremacist groups comprised of Nazis, KKK and alt-righters, it was clear to me that Antifa's culpability in the chaos was an unnecessary part of the equation. These masked, thuggish, anarchist goons had plenty of blood on their hands that I could point to in any number of other situations. The chaos in Charlottesville did not need to be about them.
Denouncing the supremacists who lit the fuse in this particular situation was the proper, correct, and moral thing to do, and to do otherwise was not those things.
Unfortunately, however, the left did as they often do and took this focus on specific condemnation too far. It wasn't enough to say "Antifa is irrelevant to the point of supremacists being a problem." It wasn't enough to point out that in terrorist attacks, the right is quick to demand specific condemnation of Muslim fundamentalists while suddenly finding the nuance to blame "everyone" in this situation.
No, whether or not they would now like to pretend otherwise, many on the left played footsie with Antifa. Many tried to pretend that these bandana-clad troublemakers and vandals were somehow heroic, bravely combating fascism. Only after intense pressure from the right, albeit in a morally relativistic manner, has the left finally begun to actually call out these scumbags for who and what they are.
But it wasn't always this way. The defensive posts and morally ambiguous baloney pouring out of the mouths of people claiming to be on the side of peace reached a fever-pitch in the direct aftermath of Charlottesville.
Via Dahlia Lithwick at Slate:
Based on what was happening all around, the looks on their faces, the sheer number of them, and the weapons they were wielding, my hypothesis or theory is that had the antifa not stepped in, those of us standing on the steps would definitely have been injured, very likely gravely so. On Democracy Now, Cornel West, who was also in the line with us, said that he felt that the antifa saved his life. I didn't roll my eyes at that statement or see it as an exaggeration—I saw it as a very reasonable hypothesis based on the facts we had.
Rebekah Menning
Charlottesville resident
"No police officers in sight (that I could see from where I stood), and we were prepared to be beaten to a bloody pulp to show that while the state permitted white nationalists to rally in hate, in the many names of God, we did not. But we didn't have to because the anarchists and anti-fascists got to them before they could get to us. I've never felt more grateful and more ashamed at the same time. The antifa were like angels to me in that moment."
Rev. Seth Wispelwey
Directing minister of Restoration Village Arts and consulting organizer for Congregate C'ville
"They have their tools to achieve their purposes, and they are not ones I will personally use, but let me stress that our purposes were the same: block this violent tide and do not let it take the pedestal."
These quotes are from people that were grateful to Antifa for taking on the supremacists. Understandable that a person who would believe their life is in danger at the hands of the modern representation of pure evil would view just about anyone standing between themselves and that evil positively.
But by the time this Slate author puts it all into published words, there's simply no chance she doesn't know that the violence from Antifa did not require any enemy to meet on the field of battle. They bring violence everywhere they go. It just so happened that this time the recipients deserved it. One can be thankful others were kept safe without rewriting who Antifa is and how dangerous they are, but rewriting who Antifa is was exactly the objective.
Robert Creamer at the Huffington Post contributed to this notion that political violence from the likes of Antifa is not comparable to violence from other groups. Essentially positing that while political violence is abhorrent, at least Antifa is using it to combat fascism saying "The notion that there is any moral or empirical equivalency between the political violence of the right and the left in the United States is simply wrong" because "when it comes to the use of violence, there is a massive difference in values between the left and the right."
Mark Bray, author of "The Anti-Fascist Handbook" said on NBC's Meet the Press that "self defense" is a perfectly acceptable form of violence. Unfortunately, his definition (as is the definition of much of Antifa's rank and file) is that merely the ideas or language of white supremacists is violence on its own, and as such all violence perpetrated towards "racists" is self-defense. Pre-emptive self defense it seems.
The left (and the blue-check media) went on to outright glorify Antifa, citing its roots in anti-fascist movements that swept Europe in the 20s & 30s (while paradoxically claiming that Antifa is disorganized and lacking leadership which would make claiming their heritage of near 100 years odd to say the least).
Watching 'Saving Private Ryan,' a movie about a group of very aggressive alt-left protesters invading a beach without a permit.
— Jeffrey Goldberg (@JeffreyGoldberg) August 16, 2017
Also confronted the Nazis without a permit: pic.twitter.com/3c2f3X9slC
— Brian Fallon (@brianefallon) August 16, 2017
Let's not forget pic.twitter.com/q5wjVmZylR
— Christopher C. Cuomo (@ChrisCuomo) August 16, 2017
"Alt-left thugs" who battled Nazis pic.twitter.com/fflvchzGDF
— John Hendrickson (@JohnGHendy) August 15, 2017
But cameras at protests that turned violent were just too much to keep the lie going. The lie being that the perpetration of violence is automatically defensible so long as the target of that violence is more reviled than the perpetrators. And if the target of their violence is misidentified? That's still ok because hey, mistakes happen while thwarting fascism.
But now, at last, the left starts to get on board with this idea as Nancy Pelosi and the Washington Post and a few others have recently begun disavowals of the disgusting violent thugs that call themselves Anti-Fascists but are nothing if not strong believers in "might makes right."
At best, Antifa are anarchists. At worst, they are exactly who they claim to fight.
The left got into bed with them, pretended they weren't there at first, then when forced to, said they "didn't agree with their tactics" but still refused to disavow. And then finally, after a reporter was beaten to a pulp because Antifa decided he was a Nazi and claimed the same pre-emptive self-defense justifcation that Mark Bray championed above, the left had to admit the jig was up.
So a quick word to all those who have suddenly found the gumption to denounce these criminals: you wanted the focus to be on white supremacists in Charlottesville, and I agreed with you. You wanted to prevent deflection and "all sides" talking points from sullying the truth about the dangers that Nazism presents, and I was with you.
But in the end, because you couldn't do the simplest thing, you helped the supremacists and I refused to participate. You gave them their talking points. You proved to people that perhaps could've been on your side, that you approve of violence.
You gave cover to Antifa. You helped legitimize their cause. It is your monster. I'm glad you have disavowed what they've done. But it's time to stop pretending you didn't help them do it.
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Wars of Detainder, Part 5
by Greg Curtis | Feb 25, 2016 | Uncategorized |
As I noted earlier, one of the unfortunate outcomes of World War II, viewed as a war of detainder, was that many important parts of the world were divided into Communist and non-Communist spheres of influence. Vietnam was one of these nations, with the north assigned to the Soviet Union and the south to the allies, specifically France. The Viet Minh – short for the "League for the Independence of Vietnam" – had fought the Japanese occupiers with assistance from the US and China, and after the war the same Viet Minh fought to drive out the French. The First Indochina War began in 1945 with modest guerrilla actions against French occupation troops and concluded in 1954 with the disastrous French defeat at Dienbienphu.
After the French withdrawal and the seizure of power in the south by Ngo Dinh Diem, Vietnam became two countries: North Vietnam, run by Ho Chi Min, and South Vietnam, run by Diem. The US substituted itself for the French, determined to prevent a takeover by the Communist north.(1) The real worry, in fact, was not just South Vietnam falling, but all of Southeast Asia going Communist – Cambodia, Laos, parts of Thailand, the countries that had originally been French Indochina.
Following the partition of the country, one million people left the north and moved to the south. Diem, a corrupt but subtle and competent man, would eventually be assassinated in a US-sanctioned coup, of which Ho Chi Min said, "I can scarcely believe the Americans would be so stupid." But this was merely the first of many stupidities the Americans would commit, both politically and militarily.
Politically, the US intervened in Vietnam without knowing anything at all of Vietnamese history. Just for starters, Vietnam and China had been mortal enemies for nearly 2,000 years and most Vietnamese hated and feared China more than the US. China conquered Vietnam and governed it for more than a thousand years, from roughly 100 BC to roughly 1000 AD. Vietnam earned its freedom from China the same way America earned its freedom from England, via a revolutionary war culminating in the Vietnamese victory at the Battle of Bach Dang River in 939. But Vietnam would eventually be subjugated again during the Ming Dynasty.
US policymakers, however, knew nothing of this. Their understanding of Communism had been cast in stone by watching the brutal subjugation of Eastern Europe after World War II and they viewed Communism as one solid block, a monolith. The mindset in Washington was that Communism had to be stopped everywhere, every time.
Militarily, the US Army stubbornly believed, for a decade, that it was fighting a conventional foe using conventional tactics, when in fact it was fighting a guerrilla insurgency. William Westmoreland and his sub-commanders had cut their teeth on World War II and Korea, and they simply could not understand war in any other way.(2) American grunts were, as a result, sent out on thousands – maybe tens of thousands – of so-called "search and destroy" missions that found nothing and destroyed nothing. Meanwhile, American casualties piled up, fueling anti-war sentiment back home. All this was especially regrettable because the US Marine Corps knew all about fighting – and winning – guerrilla wars, having fought scores of them over the years.(3) The Marines had actually published (in 1940) The Small Wars Manual, which instructed commanders on exactly how to proceed.(4)
The results were predictable – the US "never lost a battle" but somehow lost the war. The combination of political blockheadedness and military imbecility eventually led to virulent anti-war sentiment in the US, reaching fever pitch in early 1968 with the Tet Offensive. Over a period of several weeks 100,000 Viet Cong and North Vietnamese troops attacked dozens of US and South Vietnam installations. The results were catastrophic for Hanoi. Nearly 45,000 of these troops were killed, not a single installation was conquered and held, and, worst of all, the southern population did not arise and join the revolution, as Hanoi firmly expected, but instead fought hard against it. The faction in Hanoi that had backed the offensive was disgraced and isolated. In the long annuls of human warfare a combatant has rarely suffered such a complete debacle.
But that's not how it played out in the US. The anti-war press – that is, the mainstream media – treated Tet as a Communist victory, as yet another obvious reason why the war was lost and the US needed to get out. Granted that journalistic standards of ethical reporting are notoriously low, but this was appalling. In early March of '68, a virtual unknown named Eugene McCarthy nearly defeated President Johnson in the New Hampshire primary, and later that month LBJ announced he wouldn't run for reelection, essentially tossing the Presidency to the Republicans. Richard Nixon was elected, claiming he had a "secret plan" to end the war. We'll see how that worked out next week.
(1) Graham Greene's The Quiet American, a superb but profoundly anti-American novel, took as its subject this period of American involvement in Vietnam. The movie version, written and directed by the usually reliable Joseph L. Mankiewicz (see, e.g., All about Eve and Three Wives and a Letter), flip-flopped Greene's message approximately 180 degrees, partly because of the lingering effects of McCarthyism. A furious (and leftwing) Greene called the movie a "propaganda film for America."
(2) Technically, there were modest attempts to hit the enemy where it hurt, including the marines' remarkably successful Combined Action Patrols (CAPs), in which GI's lived side-by-side with Vietnamese in their villages and patrolled at night, denying the VC sanctuary. As far as can be ascertained, no CAP village was ever captured by the VC. Unfortunately, the CAP program never included more than about 2,500 marines, out of more than 540,000 US soldiers in Vietnam. See Francis J. "Bing" West's extraordinary The Village for an almost hour-by-hour account of one marine CAP, which lost half its members but never lost its village.
(3) As brilliantly laid out in Max Boot's Savage Wars, cited earlier in this series of posts.
(4) You can read the Manual yourself – since Westmoreland couldn't be bothered – at http://www.marines.mil/Portals/59/Publications/FMFRP%2012-15%20%20Small%20Wars%20Manual.pdf. Some of the advice is very un-US Marine-like: "[C]ourtesy, friendliness, justice and firmness should be exhibited. *** [T]olerance, sympathy and kindness should be the keynote of our relationship with the … population." Amazing, really. When I was in the army what we thought about the marines was this: "The marines piss you off and piss you and piss you off, and then one day they show up and save your ass."
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package server

import (
	"context"
	"errors"
	"io/ioutil"
	"net/http"
	"testing"
	_ "time"

	"google.golang.org/grpc/grpclog"

	"pixur.org/pixur/fe/server/config"
)

func init() {
	// silence logspam
	grpclog.SetLoggerV2(grpclog.NewLoggerV2(ioutil.Discard, ioutil.Discard, ioutil.Discard))
}

func TestInit(t *testing.T) {
	s := new(Server)
	c := &config.Config{
		HttpSpec: "localhost:0",
		HttpRoot: "/foo/bar/",
	}
	called := false
	s.Register(func(s *Server) error {
		called = true
		return nil
	})
	if err := s.Init(context.Background(), c); err != nil {
		t.Error(err)
	}
	defer s.channel.Close()
	if s.Now == nil {
		t.Error("nil Now func")
	}
	if have, want := s.httpSpec, c.HttpSpec; have != want {
		t.Error("have", have, "want", want)
	}
	if s.HTTPMux == nil {
		t.Error("nil HTTPMux")
	}
	if s.Random == nil {
		t.Error("nil Random")
	}
	if have, want := s.HTTPRoot.String(), c.HttpRoot; have != want {
		t.Error("have", have, "want", want)
	}
	if have, want := s.Secure, c.Insecure; have == want {
		t.Error("have", have, "want", want)
	}
	if !called {
		t.Error("regfunc not called")
	}
	if s.channel == nil {
		t.Error("no channel")
	}
	if s.Client == nil {
		t.Error("no client")
	}
}

func TestInitStopOnBadHttpRoot(t *testing.T) {
	s := new(Server)
	c := &config.Config{
		HttpSpec: "localhost:0",
		HttpRoot: "&%^^%H^W$Ddd",
	}
	called := false
	s.Register(func(s *Server) error {
		called = true
		return nil
	})
	if err := s.Init(context.Background(), c); err == nil {
		t.Error(err)
	}
	if called {
		t.Error("regfunc called")
	}
}

func TestInitStopOnBadRegFunc(t *testing.T) {
	s := new(Server)
	c := &config.Config{
		HttpSpec: "localhost:0",
		HttpRoot: "/",
	}
	called := false
	s.Register(func(s *Server) error {
		return errors.New("bad")
	})
	s.Register(func(s *Server) error {
		called = true
		return nil
	})
	if err := s.Init(context.Background(), c); err == nil {
		t.Error(err)
	}
	if called {
		t.Error("regfunc called")
	}
}

func TestWorkFlow(t *testing.T) {
	s := new(Server)
	c := &config.Config{
		HttpSpec: "localhost:0",
		HttpRoot: "/",
	}
	s.Register(func(s *Server) error {
		s.HTTPMux.Handle("/foo", http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {}))
		return nil
	})
	if err := s.Init(context.Background(), c); err != nil {
		t.Fatal(err)
	}
	defer s.Shutdown()
	ctx, cancel := context.WithCancel(context.Background())
	defer cancel()
	ready := make(chan struct{})
	go s.ListenAndServe(ctx, ready)
	<-ready

	resp, err := http.Get("http://" + s.Addr().String() + "/foo")
	if err != nil {
		t.Error(err)
	}
	defer resp.Body.Close()
	if resp.StatusCode != 200 {
		t.Error("bad response", resp)
	}

}

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The Netflix Revolution
By DBJ March 18, 2012 November 28, 2015
The latest quarter results for Netflix, a service website that enables its users with access to television shows and movies via online streaming and in the mail, saw its membership increase by 610,000. According to CEO Reed Hastings, this marked the biggest surge in the number of users, a sharp rebound from a debacle last summer when 800,000 members quit the service following an unexpected price hike and Netflix's decision, which has since been reversed, to separate the company's streaming and mail-order DVD rental businesses.
In an industry once dominated by firms like Blockbuster and Hollywood Video, Netflix has since taken over the competition by revolutionizing the video rental process. First, it pioneered the movie-by-mail business that put many video rental stores out of business. Instead of having customers travel to the stores, Netflix essentially reversed this relationship by directly reaching out to the customers themselves.
The company also made highlight in making a smooth transition from "old technology" (delivering movies via mail) to "new technology" (having an online database that streams movies and shows online). Since then, Netflix has transformed the way people watch television shows and films. Currently, it boasts over 75 thousand selections for its 24.4 million subscribers in the US, Canada, and even parts of Central America.
Critics of the company are quick to posit that the success of Netflix is an ephemeral phenomenon. They claim that just as Netflix was able to overtake its competitors in a short span of time, it too will be a victim of technological innovations in the near future. All businesses rise and fall. People believed MySpace would last for a long time, given the great level of innovation in networking it brought to the market at the time… until companies like Facebook emerged. Perhaps there will be a time when a new innovative high- flier shuts down Netflix's business. However, current conditions indicate that it won't happen for any time soon.
In the midst of heightened public sensitivity over Internet piracy due to H.R.3261 (Stop Online Piracy Act) and S.968 (Protect Intellectual Property Act), Netflix is one of the few that is insulated from the consequences of these legislations. Although Representative Lamar Smith (R-TX) has withdrawn the House bill, the Senate legislation is still up for debate. However, regardless of whether PIPA is passed into law or vetoed, Netflix will be in good standing.
If the bill passes, Netflix would become the most financially viable option to watching shows and movies for many consumers. Besides the computer gurus who might be able to work around the regulations and download from illegal websites or networks, most consumers are left to seek legal alternatives. Having to pay ten dollars for a movie ticket versus paying eight dollars for a monthly Netflix membership fee, the consumers would much rather choose the latter because consumers can access many more shows while paying less per shows that they watch. By having a Netflix account, subscribers can view thousands of television shows and movies provided by the website. Rather than being able to watch the one movie from buying the movie ticket, consumers can watch many more shows for the same price.
Furthermore, having the ability to stream for shows online eliminates the implicit costs of time and money to travel to video stores or the movie theaters. Therefore, consumers who may otherwise not have subscribed to Netflix will have even more incentives to subscribe if online piracy regulations are passed into law.
This may give Netflix a near monopoly power over the industry, which they can leverage to hike up membership fees. However as long as they can adjust their monthly charges at a reasonable rate, it seems hard to doubt the continuity of Netflix's high- flying success. Even if the bill is not passed, Netflix can still potentially benefit from this result, as some consumers worried about the legitimacy of their pirated contents may end up switching to the legally viewable sites like Netflix.
Additionally, in a high-piracy environment, Netflix can profit from favorable contracts with media companies. As content owners become more disheartened to see their content being shared without them receiving any revenue, they will offer more favorable negotiating terms to Netflix, which can help them monetize beyond box-office tickets, pay-per-view or DVD sales.
Internet piracy will never completely go away, but the ebb and flow is something that Netflix can capitalize on. Perhaps Netflix is the true winner of this ongoing battle over online piracy.
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Houses with Porches are an integral part of Americana. This feature has been a signature attribute of the American home and the center of a family's social activities almost from the beginning.
Very popular in the mid-1800s until the advent of air-conditioning in the mid-1900s, the front porch served as a connection to the outdoors and an essential characteristic of the social activity in the neighborhood.
Today, house plans with porches remain very popular. This feature is available on homes of almost any architectural style.
Wrap Around Porch: One of the classic design features of many house styles – such as Farmhouse, Southern, Victorian, and Country – the wrap around or two-sided design extends around the home (or at least two sides of it). Wrap around porch house plans are very popular because of the wonderful views they provide and ease of access to the outdoors. They are also great for outdoor entertaining.
Front Porch: This style spans the width of the home but does not encircle the entire structure. It's favored among many homeowners.
Small Porch: This style provides a space for outdoor living but also showcases the other attractive features of a home plan, like arched windows and doorways. A small front porch can offer just as much charm. .
Portico: Described as a small covered walkway or porch with a roof supported by columns or piers, the portico goes a long way in enhancing a home's curb appeal. The portico comes in various styles – from the classic to the modern.
Rear Screened-in Porch: In the 1950s, as Americans wanted more privacy, architects erased the front porch from many floor plan designs and started constructing patios and screened-in spaces. Today, the rear screened-in porch is almost as popular as the front porch. It provides a place to relax and acts as an extension of the home's entertaining space.
If you're building a new home and your family loves spending time outdoors, consider purchasing a house plan with a porch. Whether you're looking for a country house plan with a wrap around porch, or a Craftsman style home with a porch on the front and back, you'll find a wide selection of plans here. Contact our customer support team with any questions.


(HealthDay News) — In many cases, treatments other than hysterectomies could be offered to women with benign gynecologic conditions, according to research published online December 23 in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology.
Lauren E. Corona, of Wayne State University in Detroit, and colleagues analyzed data for 3,397 women who underwent hysterectomies for benign indications, including uterine fibroids, abnormal uterine bleeding (AUB), endometriosis, or pelvic pain, at 52 hospitals in a statewide collaborative.
The researchers found that no alternative treatment was documented prior to hysterectomy for 37.7% of patients. Alternative treatment was significantly more likely to be considered for women <40 years (68%) than for those aged 40–50 years (62%) or those >50 years (56%). Unsupportive pathology for hysterectomy was found in 18.3% of patients. Unsupportive pathology was more frequently found in women <40 years, in those with indications of endometriosis or pelvic pain, and in those with smaller uteri.
"This study provides evidence that alternatives to hysterectomy are underutilized in women undergoing hysterectomy for AUB, uterine fibroids, endometriosis, or pelvic pain," the authors write.


After all these years – five decades to be exact – Shu Uemura is still through and through, a Japanese beauty brand.
Even though it is now owned by a French beauty conglomerate.
Shu Uemura places plenty of emphasis on the basics, the skin, the blank canvas.
Its philosophy: Colours are secondary, and they can only add to one's beauty if the skin looks flawless.
The new Petal Skin Fluid Foundation is not pretentious.
It does not contain too much light-reflecting particles to make you glow like a beacon. It just makes your skin look naturally beautiful.
With a satin-matte finish, it provides medium to high coverage (redness, pores, uneven skin, acne), a soft radiance, and is relatively long-lasting.
Pair it with the Stage Performer Block:Booster for a fresher-looking skin tone, added su protection, and even longer wear.


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<?php

App::uses('AppController', 'Controller');

/**
 * Clients Controller
 *
 * @property Client $Client
 */
class ClientsController extends AppController {

	/**
	 * beforeFilter method
	 */
	function beforeFilter() {
		parent::beforeFilter();
		/**
		 * Stores array of deniable methods, without logging in.
		 */
		$this->_deny = array(
			'admin' => array(
				'admin_inbox',
				'admin_sent',
				'admin_draft',
				'admin_view',
				'admin_add',
				'admin_delete',
				'admin_ajax',
				'admin_delete1',
			),
			'user' => array(
				'dashboard',
				'logout',
			)
		);
		$this->_deny_url($this->_deny);
	}

	/**
	 * index method
	 *
	 * @return void
	 */
	public function admin_index() {

		if (isset($_SESSION['Auth']['User']['group_id']) && $_SESSION['Auth']['User']['group_id'] != 1) {
			$this->redirect(array("controller" => "uploads", "action" => "index"));
		}

		$this->Client->recursive = 0;
		//	$this->Paginator->settings = $this->paginate;

		$con = array(1 => 1);

		if (!empty($this->request->query["client_name"])) {
			$con["Client.name LIKE"] = "%" . $this->request->query["client_name"] . "%";
		}
		if (!empty($this->request->query["file_no"])) {
			$con["Client.fileno LIKE"] = "%" . $this->request->query["file_no"] . "%";
		}
		if (!empty($this->request->query["pancard"])) {
			$con["Client.pancard LIKE"] = "%" . $this->request->query["pancard"] . "%";
		}
		if (!empty($this->request->query["bussiness_name"])) {
			$con["Client.bussiness_name LIKE"] = "%" . $this->request->query["bussiness_name"] . "%";
		}

		if (!empty($this->request->query)) {
			$this->request->data["client"] = $this->request->query;
		}

		$this->paginate["conditions"] = $con;

		$this->Paginator->settings = $this->paginate;
		$this->set('clients', $this->paginate());
	}

	/**
	 * view method
	 *
	 * @param string $id
	 * @return void
	 */
	public function admin_view($id = null) {

		$this->Client->id = $id;
		if (!$this->Client->exists()) {
			throw new NotFoundException(__('Invalid client'));
		}
		$this->set('client', $this->Client->read(null, $id));
	}

	/**
	 * add method
	 *
	 * @return void
	 */
	public function admin_add() {

		if ($this->request->is('post')) {
			$this->Client->create();

			if ($this->Client->saveAll($this->request->data)) {
				$this->Session->setFlash('The client has been saved', "success");
				$this->redirect(array('action' => 'index'));
			} else {
				$this->Session->setFlash('The client could not be saved. Please, try again.', "error");
			}
		}
		$users = $this->Client->User->find('list');
		$this->set(compact('users'));
	}

	/**
	 * edit method
	 *
	 * @param string $id
	 * @return void
	 */
	public function admin_edit($id = null) {

		$this->Client->id = $id;
		if (!$this->Client->exists()) {
			throw new NotFoundException(__('Invalid client'));
		}
		if ($this->request->is('post') || $this->request->is('put')) {
			if ($this->Client->save($this->request->data)) {
				$this->Session->setFlash('The client has been saved', "success");
				$this->redirect(array('action' => 'index'));
			} else {
				$this->Session->setFlash('The client could not be saved. Please, try again.', "error");
			}
		} else {
			$this->request->data = $this->Client->read(null, $id);
		}
		$users = $this->Client->User->find('list');
		$this->set(compact('users'));
	}

	/**
	 * delete method
	 *
	 * @param string $id
	 * @return void
	 */
	public function admin_delete($id = null) {
		if (!$this->request->is('get')) {
			throw new MethodNotAllowedException();
		}
		$this->Client->id = $id;
		if (!$this->Client->exists()) {
			throw new NotFoundException(__('Invalid client'));
		}
		if ($this->Client->delete()) {
			$this->Session->setFlash('Client deleted', "success");
			$this->redirect(array('action' => 'index'));
		}
		$this->Session->setFlash('Client was not deleted', "error");
		$this->redirect(array('action' => 'index'));
	}

	public function search() {
		error_reporting('0');
		$this->layout = '';
		if ($this->RequestHandler->isAjax()) {
			if ($_POST['search_by'] == 'client_name') {
				$this->Client->recursive = 0;
				$this->paginate = array('conditions' => array('name LIKE' => '%' . $_POST['value'] . '%'));
				$this->set('clients', $this->paginate());
			} else if ($_POST['search_by'] == 'panno') {
				$this->Client->recursive = 0;
				$this->paginate = array('conditions' => array('pancard LIKE' => '%' . $_POST['value'] . '%'));
				$this->set('clients', $this->paginate());
			} else if ($_POST['search_by'] == 'fileno') {
				$this->Client->recursive = 0;
				$this->paginate = array('conditions' => array('fileno LIKE' => '%' . $_POST['value'] . '%'));
				$this->set('clients', $this->paginate());
			} else if ($_POST['search_by'] == 'bussiness') {
				$this->Client->recursive = 0;
				$this->paginate = array('conditions' => array('bussiness_name LIKE' => '%' . $_POST['value'] . '%'));
				$this->set('clients', $this->paginate());
			}
		}
	}

}


Multiple regression is a method to build a model described by more than one variable. In many cases, the model you are interested in is linear, so you can think this as an extension of linear regression. But you can include non-linear terms if you want to. In this page, I only explain the procedure of linear multiple regression, but the procedure of the non-linear version is basically the same (well, if you have a term of the multiplication of two factors, things become different. For more details, see the Interaction section of this page).
Y = a + b * Factor1 + c * Factor1 * Factor1 + d * Factor2 + e * Factor2 * Factor2.
In this case, you have quadratic terms for Factor1 and Factor2.
One important thing you need to know in multiple regression is that you need to assume what your model will look like. You don't assume any kind of models and still want to find the best model? Unfortunately, it is impossible. Intuitively, if you don't assume any model, your search space for the model become infinite, and you cannot stop the search. This is like No-free lunch theorem in machine learning and optimization. You need to pay price (i.e., an assumption of the model) to get a lunch (i.e., a good model).
Thus, before starting multiple regression, you don't really know which factors you should use for your model. But you need to know what terms you will have (e.g., linear terms, quadratic terms, logarithmic terms, and interaction terms). In many cases, a linear model (a model with only linear terms) should work well. So, if you don't have any particular model in mind, try a linear model. In the example used in this page, we assume a linear model.
Another thing I should mention is whether you have any random effect. If so, you have to do multi-level linear regression. It is not kinda straightforward to define what a random effect is, but for example, if you factor is a within-subject factor, your grouping factor (e.g., participants) is usually treated as a random effect. I explain this in a separate page.
Once you assume the model, you need to figure out which factors (independent variables) you include in your model. This is called model selection (I think it should be called variable selection though). In some cases, you already know what factors you want to include. In this case, you do not have to do any automatic way to choose the model (described below). In other cases, you want to find the optimal model under your assumption. In this case, there are several ways to do model selection.
One simple question you may have is why we just can't use all of the factors. This is totally fine, and in terms of the goodness of fit, this will be the best model in general. Intuitively, more independent variables or factors you have, more information you get, and more accurate your model becomes (for the data you have). This may be ok if you only have a small number of variables. But if you have many independent variables, your model may become too large and obscure important factors. And a large model (a model with many factors) is generally harder to interpret particularly when it contains many interaction terms. If you want to use the model created by multiple regression for prediction (predicting Y for new data), having too many variables might cause overfitting. Thus, the best model in multiple regression means a model which explains the measurement well with a smaller set of variables.
One subjective metric is whether each of the terms is really meaningful or not. Remember that the objective of multiple regression is to find a model that explains your Y. So, each term more or less should explain what it means in the context of the model. If you use a linear model, this shouldn't be a problem. But if you have other complicated terms, make sure you can explain them.
Comprehensibility should be used with AIC or cross validation explained later.
where L is the likelihood of the model, and k is the number of variables in the model. If your model is far from the measurement (in other words, the goodness of fit is low), L becomes really small (e.g., log(L) becomes negative hundreds) , and AIC becomes large. If you have many variables, AIC becomes large too. The model whose AIC is the minimum among all the possible models is considered as the best model.
In many cases, AIC works well. In R, AIC is automatically calculated in model selection, and the best model will be automatically selected (see below for more details).
Another common way to determine the best model is cross validation. This should be a familiar concept if you have some knowledge about machine learning. k-fold cross validation means that you split the data into k exclusive chunks of data (i.e., one data point only belongs to one chunk). We then build a model with k-1 chunks, and test the model with the rest of the data. We will repeat this until each chunk has been used for testing. In the testing phase, the error (i.e., the difference between the value predicted by the model and the real measurement) is calculated, and we pick up the model which shows the smallest errors as the best model.
Once you figure out the model, you need to examine how much each factor contributes to changes of the dependent variable. You can do this in two ways (both are technically the same though).
Looking at the estimated coefficient for each factor and its t statistics and p value.
Looking at the F statistics and p value for each factor by doing ANOVA.
Here, ANOVA is used to compare two different linear models (one is what you have built, and the other is a model only with the intercept). We will look into how to do these in the example below.
In this example, our goal is to find a linear model explained by multiple variables (i.e., a model which only includes linear terms). The procedure is basically the same even if you want to include quadratic or other kinds of non-linear terms.
You may have a pop-up window. Once you click the window, you will see some graphs. You don't really need to understand what those graphs are for this example. We are going to use the data named "swiss". You can see what swiss looks like by doing this.
I omit the output because it is fairly long, but you will see that you have six values (Fertility, Agriculture, Examination, Education, Catholic, and Infant.Mortality). What we want to do here is to build a linear model for Fertility with using the other five variables. So let's create a linear model with using all of the five variables.
Now we move on to model selection. One way of model selection is backward. The backward model selection means that we are trying to find the best model by starting the model which includes all the variables and removing the least important variable (i.e., the variable which least contribute to explaining the variance of data) one by one. You can use step() function for this.
Let's take a look at the first part (from the line of "Start: AIC=190.69" and before the line of "Step: AIC=189.86"). The first line says that AIC for the model with all of the five variables is 190.69, and this is our starting point of the backward model selection. The line starting with "- Examination" says that if we remove the term of Examination, AIC becomes 189.86, which means the model becomes improved. The other lines also say the same thing: it shows AIC of the model if we remove the terms one by one. So, from this part of the results, we can remove Examination.
Now our model is Fertility ~ Agriculture + Education + Catholic + Infant.Mortality and AIC is 189.86. Let's try to remove one more variable from this new model. The results of this attempt is shown as the second part (from the line of "Step: AIC=189.86"). This time, AIC become increased if we remove any of the four variables, which means our model becomes worse if we remove any of the variables. Thus, we stop here, and the current model is the best model we can find through backward model selection. Now, take a look at more details of our model.
Fertility = 62.1013 - 0.1546 * Agriculture - 0.9803 * Education + 0.1247 * Catholic + 1.0784 * Infant.Mortality.
You can also calculate the confidence interval for the effect size (R-squared) as follows.
N is the sample size, and K is the number of the factor, which is 4 in this case. You get the result like this.
Thus, the effect size is 0.67 with 95% CI = [0.44, 0.78].
If you want to try forward&backward model selection, you can change the option of step() funciton.
Generally, the backward model selection works well. But as you can see above, step() function doesn't really cover all possible models. If you want to look into the goodness of every possible model, you can use functions in wle package.
If you want to do model selection based on AIC, you can do this.
0 and 1 mean whether that term is used in the model. The results are already ordered by AIC, so the first one is the best model. It is Fertility ~ Agriculture + Education + Catholic + Infant.Mortality, which is the same results by step() function.
Or you can do model selection based on cross validation.
In this case, we still have Fertility ~ Agriculture + Education + Catholic + Infant.Mortality as the best model.
Once you figure out what model is the best or you already know what model you want to use, the next step is to interpret the model you built. We use the example above to go through how to do this. First, let's review model2 again.
Or you can visualize this by using coefplot().
This coefplot gives you a very good understanding on how much each factor affects the dependent variable. A think line represents the 1SD range, and a thin line represents the 2SD range. In this example, Infant.Mortality has a positive effect on Fertility, but its effects can vary. On the other hand, Education shows a negative effect. Both Catholic and Agriculture show small effects, but their coefficients would not be likely to be zero (so likely to have some effects).
In a more numeric manner, you can use summary().
Important stats here are: Multiple R-squared (0.6993), Adjusted R-squared (0.6707), Estimate, and p values. The first two indicate the goodness of fit. The other two indicate whether each coefficient would be likely to be non-zero. For example, the above results show that all factors have significant effects (i.e., the coefficients of all factors are not non-zero) with 95% confidence. In this way, you can examine whether each factor has an effect in a more quantitative manner.
library(car) options(contrasts=c("contr.sum", "contr.poly")) Anova(model2, type="III") Anova Table (Type III tests) Response: Fertility Sum Sq Df F value Pr(>F) (Intercept) 2147.99 1 41.8039 8.492e-08 *** Agriculture 264.18 1 5.1413 0.02857 * Education 2249.97 1 43.7886 5.140e-08 *** Catholic 956.57 1 18.6165 9.503e-05 *** Infant.Mortality 409.81 1 7.9757 0.00722 ** Residuals 2158.07 42 --- Signif. codes: 0 '***' 0.001 '**' 0.01 '*' 0.05 '.' 0.
If you are knowledgeable about the relationship between t stats and F stats, you easily notice that this result is pretty much the same as what we got with summary() (the t stats is just the root square of the F stats because the degree of freedom is 1). But remember that ANOVA have different types of sum of squares. For example, you can use anova(model) (without capitalization) or Anova(model2, type="II") to use ANOVA with Type I SS or Type II SS, respectively. But here, I stick with Type III SS.
One important thing you should know before finishing up your analysis is multicollinearity. This means that one of the variables can be explained as a linear model of the other variables. In other words, One of the variables has a strong correlation with other variables. In the case of multicollinearity, when one of the variables increases, the effect by the other variables also get increased. This often causes unnecessary drastic changes on the prediction by the model.
You can calculate VIF (Variance Inflation Factor) to see whether any multicollinearlity exists. In R, calculating VIF is easy, but you need to include car package.
Generally, if VIF is larger than 10, it is considered that the variable has multicollinearity. So, you should consider removing that variable from your model. If VIF is larger than 2.5, you may need to be careful about that variable. If we do the same thing with the model including all the independent variables, the result is like this.
So, Examination is the first candidate to remove, and as we have seen, it doesn't really contribute to the prediction much. Thus, it should be removed.
Another way to examine multicollinearlity is to look at the correlation of the two of the independent variables. I wrote a code to do this quickly.
Copy the code above, and paste it into your R console. Then, run the following code.
You will get the following graph.
It is kinda hard to say which variable we should consider to remove from this, but I would say if you see any significant strong correlation, you probably should be careful about if it may cause multicollinearity. In this case, Agriculture and Examination are variables we may have to be careful about.
Significant effects with the t or F value and p value (if any).
In some cases, it may be acceptable that you only report the direction of each significant effect (positive or negative) if you do not really care about the actual value of the coefficient. But I think you should report at least whether each significant effect contributes to the dependent variable in a positive or negative way.
Y = a + b * Factor1 + c * Factor2 + d * Factor1 * Factor2.
Thanks for this great tutorial! I found one little typo: in the seventh code snippet of "Model selection example" section, "model1" should be "model."


This interactive film is a classic YouTube Home Page Takeover in the style of the famous Tippex "Bear" interactive but executed with eye-popping flair and panache.
Showcasing the directing duo Cokau's sumptuous and inventive visual aesthetic, the collection of filmlets is a headrush of vivid and visceral imagery. That's precisely the effect that Mercedes and their agency Proximity BBDO Paris were looking for.
From American footballers to polo players, flambéed lipsticks to skittish deer, breakdancers to BMX riders you're taken on a breathtaking voyage of discovery. Each element touches on one of the sensations you can experience with the brand new GLA model.
Viewers can jump seamlessly all over the narrative using YouTube's own playing engine or simply let the sensations rush at you in one sustained blast.


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you tried reloading the data for it?
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Servette FC Chênois Féminin  is a women's football club from Geneva, Switzerland. Its first team plays in the top tier in Switzerland and in UEFA Champions League.

History
Servette FC Chênois was founded in 1974 as the women's section of Club Sportif Chênois, named for the Chêne area. In 2012, it was spun off from the original club and rebranded under the name Football Féminin Chênois Genève. In 2017, the team was combined with Servette FC and renamed Servette FC Chênois Féminin.

In 2018, the club was promoted for the first time in National League A and reached the 4th rank. The next season, when the tournament had to be stopped due to COVID-19, Servette was standing at the first rank, and was therefore qualified for 2020–21 Champions League. The club reached the round of 32 and was eliminated by Atlético Madrid.

Servette FC Chênois won their first Super League title in the 2020–21 season.

Titles
 Swiss Women's Super League (1) : 2020–21
 National League B: 2013

Current squad

See also
 Servette FC
 Swiss Women's Super League

References

Women's football clubs in Switzerland
1974 establishments in Switzerland
Association football clubs established in 1974

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Washington State Receives Economic Recovery Grant Targeted to Reduce Greenhouse Gases
U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, speaking at the Smart Growth Conference in Seattle, announced that one of the first grantees for recovery funds targeted to greenhouse gas and energy reduction will be a project involving lithium-ion titanate batteries in Washington State's economically distressed Chelan and Douglas Counties.
Link Transit will receive $2.9 million to replace five diesel-powered circulator buses with five new Lithium-Ion battery electric vehicles, purchase two state-of-the-art "rapid recharge" charging stations and supporting equipment at Link Transit's intermodal transit center, and fund one contracte employee to provide project management and technical oversight. The project is expected to eliminate 688 metric tons of carbon dioxide and equivalents from the air each year, or 8,250 metric tons over the lives of the vehicles.
"The Economic Recovery Act was put in place quickly to rescue the economy from the worst recession since the Great Depression," said Secretary LaHood. "Today we're bringing construction jobs and environmentally clean transit to Chelan and Douglas Counties."
"These funds will create clean-energy jobs and will help Link Transit save on energy costs and reduce pollution in Chelan and Douglas Counties," said Senator Patty Murray. "Investing in mass transit puts people to work today, helps our commuters, and keeps businesses moving to sustain economic growth in the future."
Lithium-ion titanate batteries using fast and automated charging technology allow electric buses to be charged in a few minutes instead of a few hours, thereby overcoming a key limitation of previous battery electric buses, and allowing them to provide continuous all-day service. This promising battery technology is being utilized by Proterra LLC under FTA's National Fuel Cell Bus Program.
The new Link Transit's changing stations will be built in the Wenatchee communities in Chelan County, currently experiencing an unemployment rate of 10.7 percent. East Wenatchee, located in Douglas County, is currently experiencing an unemployment rate of 11.6 percent and has been declared economically distressed by the Governor. Construction spending and employment in both Chelan and Douglas counties are down nearly 40 percent from 2008 levels.
This is the first of 43 Transit Investment in Greenhouse Gas and Energy Reduction grants under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to be awarded. A total of $100 million will be available for the 43 projects.
The President proposed $527 million in his budget for an ambitious new livability initiative at the U.S. Department of Transportation. Its Office of Livable Communities will be a focal point for initiatives such as expanding transit in low-income neighborhoods. It will fund a grant program to help state and local transportation agencies provide more transportation choices that spur economic development.
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From Kakadu National Park south to Alice Springs the distance is about 900 miles.
Alice Springs was a surprise to us. It's surprisingly visitor friendly, perhaps because so many tourists fly in here. If you drive in from the north like us the little town is a bit of an oasis.
For us it was a good place to stock up and get the oil changed. Our mechanic, Dicko, was a font of information about living in the outback, as well as Toyota Hyace rental rigs like ours. Our time in Alice Springs was time well spent.
Parked at the Devil's Marbles, About 245 Miles North of Alice Springs.
A good place to overnight.
We decided to tour West MacDonnell National Park before continuing south to Uluru. This park is west of Alice Springs and easy to access on a nice sealed road. There are a string of waterholes at the foot of the range to the north of the road. Each has it's own ambiance, and several have camping areas.
Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, theNational Park surrounding and including both Uluru (Ayers Rock) and Kata Tjuta (Mt Olga), is probably the top destination in the counrty for foreign tourists.
Most of these people fly in to Alice Springs and then use buses, rental cars, or rental vans to visit the park which is 300 miles to the south.
Although we enjoyed Uluru, we also liked Kata Tjuta, another nearby rock. It had a great hiking route called Valley of the Winds Walk.
Although they are unusual here, you will see a few American style Fifth Wheel RVs in Australia.


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El Internado és una sèrie de televisió produïda per Globomedia per a la cadena espanyola Antena 3, que la va estrenar el 24 de maig de 2007 en prime time i va acabar el 13 d'octubre de 2010.

Argument
Comença un nou curs a l'internat La Laguna Negra, un prestigiós centre educatiu situat enmig d'un bosc on estudien els fills de les famílies més influents del país. Els integrants del centre, alumnes, professors i el personal que treballa allí tornen a trobar-se, disposats a començar el curs amb il·lusió.

Aquest any, arriben dos nous alumnes a l'internat: Marcos Novoa Pazos i la seva germana Paula, que han d'iniciar una nova vida després de la desaparició dels seus pares. També acaba d'arribar una nova noia de la neteja, María, una jove de passat fosc de la que el centre desconeix que s'ha escapat d'un hospital psiquiàtric, i que ha vingut a l'internat buscant el seu fill.

Per altra banda, alguns dels alumnes aniran descobrint, a partir de la desaparició d'un vell professor, un misteri que s'amaga a La Laguna Negra, sense ser conscients del perill que corren degut a una organització que busca uns tresors ocults a l'internat i una altra que, suposadament, trafica amb òrgans infantils. Maten a un dels alumnes i volen acabar amb la resta. Però l'enemic està més a prop del que ells es pensen, ja que, en aquest internat, res és el que sembla i algunes persones no són qui diuen ser.

Premis
 Premi Ones 2007 a la millor sèrie espanyola
 Fotogrames de Plata
 element 1Millor actor de televisió: Luis Merlo
 element 2Millor actriu de televisió: Amparo Baró

 TP d'Or:
 element 12008: Millor Actriu: Amparo Baró
 element 22007: Millor Sèrie Nacional.

 Premis Petxina de pelegrí de Plata 2008
 element 1Millor actor revelació: Martín Rivas

 Premis Glamour 2008
 element 1Premi revelació: Marta Torné

 Nominada als premis Nimfa d'Or(Festival Internacional de televisió de montecarlo) 2009 a Millor Productor Europeu, Millor Productor Nacional, Millor Actor Raúl Fernández i Yon González i Millor Actriu Blanca Suárez i Marta Torné.

Ubicació
L'internat Laguna Negra és un prestigiós centre educatiu situat a la meitat d'un bosc on estudien els fills de les famílies més influents d'Espanya. És un internat de primària i secundària on estudien alumnes de 6 a 18 anys. A l'internat hi resideixen alumnes, professors i altres treballadors.

Els exteriors de la sèrie han estat rodats en el campus de La Berzosa de la Universidad Antonio de Nebrija a Hoyo de Manzanares, Madrid.

Repartiment

Personatges d'El Internado

 Amparo Baró com Jacinta García Aparicio (Governanta i Cap de Personal de l'Internat)
 Blanca Suárez com Julia Medina Jiménez (Alumna de l'Internat) (Temporades 2-7)
 Carlos Leal com Jacques Noiret (Accionista Majoritari i Gestor de l'Internat i pare adoptiu d'Iván) (Temporades 1-6)
 Carlota García com Paula Novoa Pazos/Paula Novoa Espí (Alumna de l'Internat)
 Damián Alcolea com Arturo
 Daniel Retuerta com Roque Sánchez Navas †
 Denisse Peña com Evelyn Pons (Alumna de l'Internat)
 Elena Furiase com Victória Martínez Gonzàlez
 Irene Montalà com Rebeca Benaroch (Temporades 5-7)
 Ismael Martínez com Martín Moreno Rodríguez/Emilio Galvàn/Guillermo Álvarez Pascual (Temporades 3-7)
 Javier Cidoncha com Lucas Moreno Yerena/Lucas Galván Yerena/Lucas Álvarez Yerena  (Temporades 3-7)
 Javier Rios com Hugo † (Temporades 5-7)
 José Hervás com Santiago Pazos/Ritter Wulf † (Temporades 2-6)
 Lola Baldrich com Lucía/Marta Hernández Velasco † (Temporades 5-7)
 Luis Merlo com Héctor de la Vega/Samuel Espí (Temporades 1-5, 7)
 Manuel Jurado com Antonio
 Marta Torné com María Almagro
 Martín Rivas com Marcos Novoa Pazos/Marcos Novoa Espí
 Natalia Lopéz és Clara Sáez de Tejada † (Temporades 6-7)
 Natalia Millán com Elsa Fernández Campos/Elsa von Klaus Campos †
 Raúl Fernández com Fermín de Pablo/Carlos Almansa Olid †
 Sergio Murillo com Javier Holgado
 Yolanda Arestegui com Sandra Pazos/Irene Espí (Temporades 2-7)
 Yon González com Iván Noiret León
 Adam Quintero és Fernando Ugarte Roldán/Fernando Henninger Roldán † (Temporades 4-5)
 Alejandro Botto és Mateo Tabuenca † (Temporades 2-4)
 Alejandro Casaseca és José Antonio Sans † (Temporada 4)
 Ana de Armas com Carolina Leal Solís † (Temporades 1-6)
 Eduardo McGregor és Joaquín Fernández\Martin von Klaus † (Temporades 1-4)
 Eduardo Velasco és Pedro Camacho † (Temporades 1-4)
 Fernando Tielve és Cayetano Montero Ruíz † (Temporades 1,3)
 Francisco Merino és Alfonso Ceballos Parra † (Temporades 1-2)
 Javier Iribarren és Pablo Fernández Campos/Pablo von Klaus Campos † (Temporades 1-2)
 Jonás Beramí és Ignacio García Vallejo † (Temporada 5)
 José Luis Patiño és Mario Torres
 Luis Mottola com Andrés Novoa † (Temporades 2-6)
 Manuel de Blas com Saúl Pérez Sabán "El Viejo" † (Temporades 2-6)
 Mariona Ribas és Nora Díez † (Temporada 3)
 Marta Hazas com Amelia Ugarte Roldán / Amelia Henninger Roldàn †
 Pedro Civera és Camilo Belmonte/Helmuth von Hammer

Capítols i audiències

El Internado: Los Archivos Secretos
El Internado: Los Archivos secretos va sorgir en principi com un spin-off de la sèrie. En ells, apareixien personatges de El Internado entre els anys 2011 i 2012, sent interrogats per una misteriosa inspectora de cognom Martínez. El spin-off es va emetre en access prime time de les temporades 4 i 5, i els episodis duraven uns dinou minuts, la major part d'ells dedicats a rememorar successos de les temporades anteriors a la present. Com se suposa que tot ha acabat en El Internado Laguna Negra, el spin-off permetia saber quins personatges sobrevivivien a l'acció de la sèrie original. Ja a la fi de la cinquena temporada, coincidint amb la presumpta mort d'Hèctor (que sortia en els Arxius i per tant teòricament sobrevivia) es va revelar que en realitat no tenien res a veure amb la trama principal, informació que es va confirmar en l'últim episodi, quan es va veure clarament que tots els episodis anteriors havien estat una al·lucinació de Jacques Noiret, que en el futur es troba ingressat en un hospital psiquiàtric a cura d'una tal doctora Martínez, al que ell confon amb una policia.

Enllaços externs
 Pàgina oficial d'Antena 3
 Fitxa de El Internado de Formula TV


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Q: On the map $E: O\subset TM \to M \times M$ by $E(v)=(\pi(v), \exp(v) )$ Let $\exp$ be the exponential map on the Riemannian manifold M and $O$ is its domain in $TM$. Consider the map $E: O\subset TM \to M \times M$ by $E(v)=(\pi(v), \exp(v) )$, where $\pi$ is the canonical map $TM \to M$. It is easy to show that $dE: T_{0_p}(TM) \to T_{(p,p)}(M\times M)$ is nonsingular and thus the inverse map theorem gives local diffeomorphisms via $E$ of neighborhoods of $0_p \in TM$ onto neighborhoods of $(p,p)$ for every $p\in M$. My question is:

How to show that $E$ can be extended to a diffeomorphism from a neighborhood
  of the zero section of $TM$ onto an open neighborhood of the diagonal in
  $M\times M$ ? (cf. the last paragraph of Page 131 of Riemannian Geometry (GTM171) written by Peter Petersen)

The book has a sketch of proof, but I cannot fully understand. The main difficulty may be how to guarantee this diffeomorphism is injective, thus I cannot simply fit those local diffeomorphisms together to give the desired diffeomorphism.
Please help, thanks!

A: If the map fails to be injective then $(\pi(v),\exp (v))=(\pi(w),\exp(w))$ for some $v\not=w$. But this implies in particular that $\pi(v)=\pi(w)$, i.e., both vectors are over the same point of $M$. Thus you are reduced to a local problem after all, namely that of the exponential map being a local diffeomorphism, which follows from a general fact about ordinary differential equations.

A: For each $x \in M$, let $D_x \subseteq T_x M$ be the largest set on which $\exp_x$ can be defined as a diffeomorphism (its boundary $\partial D_x$ is the cut locus of $x$ in $T_x M$). Notice that $D = \bigcup \limits _{x \in M} D_x$ is contained in $O$. For brevity, I shall denote the restriction $\exp \big| _D$ by $\exp$ again. Notice that $\exp_x D_x$ is an open subset of $M$, diffeomorphic to $D_x$ by construction (its complementary is the cut locus of $x$ in $M$, a closed subset of measure $0$). Clearly, then, $\exp D$ is an open tubular neighbourhood of the diagonal in $M \times M$ (the zero section of $TM$ being transported onto the diagonal itself).
Notice that $\exp$ is injective: if $\exp (u) = \exp (v)$ for some $u, v \in D$, there are two possibilities:

*

*if $\pi (u) \ne \pi (v)$, clearly $\exp (u) = \exp (v)$;

*if $\pi (u) = \pi (v) = x$, and $\exp_x (u) = \exp_x (v)$, then since $\exp_x$ is a diffeomorphism on $D_x$ (by construction of $D_x$) you get that $u=v$.

Notice that $\exp : D \to \exp(D)$ is also trivially surjective; it is, therefore, bijective, and has an inverse $\exp ^{-1}$.
The map $\exp : D \to \exp(D)$ is smooth (this is proved using facts about the dependence of ODEs on their initial conditions). Since $\textrm d (\exp)$ is invertible at the zero section of $TM$, you can restrict yourself to some open $U_x \subseteq D_x$ and $U = \bigcup \limits _{x \in M} U_x$ such that $\exp \big| _U$ is locally invertible, with a smooth local inverse. But on $\exp (U)$ this local inverse must coincide locally with $\exp^{-1} \big| _{\exp (U)}$ constructed above, so $\exp^{-1} \big| _{\exp (U)}$ must then be smooth too (because smoothness is a local property). This implies that $(\exp \big| _U)^{-1} = \exp^{-1} \big| _{\exp (U)}$ is a smooth inverse of $\exp \big| _U$, so $\exp \big| _U : U \to \exp(U)$ is a diffeomorphism as desired.
In fact, I believe that $U=D$ and that the restrictions in the above paragraph are merely pedantic, but I don't feel like trying to prove this (it is too technical and meticulous and I lack the necessary patience).

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Parmatech's manufacturing team has been reinventing their approach to Gemba walks. What is a Gemba walk? It is a process in which team members "go and see" how lean is happening in our facilities. How are we reducing waste? How are we making the process simpler and more effective? How are we promoting learning and engagement?
Using the ATW brand of Genius leadership, in which collaboration and learning are part of how we do business, the Parmatech team has redesigned our Gemba walks to maximize the fun and effectiveness of the process.
How do you see yourself differently over the last year?
What is working well that we can build on?
How would you train someone on this process?
What milestones can we celebrate?
The team completely reinvented the format of the walks, maximizing time in small groups for meaningful discussion and clear takeaways. Look forward to more innovation from this team!


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See also Bill Nichols (disambiguation).

Bill Nichols (born 1942) is an American film critic and theoretician best known for his pioneering work as founder of the contemporary study of documentary film. His 1991 book, Representing Reality: Issues and Concepts in Documentary, applied modern film theory to the study of documentary film for the first time. It has been followed by scores of books by others and by additional books and essays by Nichols. The first volume of his two-volume anthology Movies and Methods (1976, 1985) helped to establish film studies as an academic discipline.
Nichols is Professor Emeritus in the Cinema Department at San Francisco State University and Chair of the Documentary Film Institute advisory board.

Nichols has lectured in numerous countries, served on film festival juries on different continents, consults regularly on a variety of filmmaking projects, and has published over 100 articles.

He is former president of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, a former advisor to the American Film Institute and has served as Department Chair in Canada and the United States. Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film describes his place within film studies as "the most significant documentary scholar in the world". His early work shared with other film scholars a degree of difficulty as it tried to apply elaborate theories to popular films but, as with the field generally, the intensity of theoretical investigation diminishes in his later work as the emotional impact of specific works takes on greater importance. Not a film historian in the traditional sense, Nichols has offered fresh views of historical assumptions but his main contribution has been to offer a conceptual framework for the study and production of documentary film.

Writings
Author

Newsreel: Documentary Filmmaking on the American Left, New York : Arno Press, 1980.
Ideology and the Image: Social Representation in the Cinema and Other Media, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1981.
Blurred Boundaries: Questions of Meaning in Contemporary Culture, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994.
Representing Reality: Issues and Concepts in Documentary, Bloomington:  Indiana University Press, 1991.
Introduction to Documentary, 3rd edition. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 2017.
Engaging Cinema: An Introduction to Film Studies. W. W. Norton & Company, 2010.
The Cinema's Alchemist: The Films of Péter Forgács (co-editor Michael Renov). University of Minnesota Press, 2011.
Speaking Truths with Film: Evidence, Ethics, Politics in Documentary, University Of California Press, 2016

Editor

Movies and Methods: An Anthology, University of California Press, 1985. Vol. 1 , Vol 2
Maya Deren and the American Avant-Garde, University of California Press, 2001.

See also
Paul Rotha
Documentary mode

References

External links
 Bill Nichols Bio at personal page

Living people
21st-century American historians
21st-century American male writers
Film theorists
Documentary film people
1942 births
San Francisco State University faculty
American film critics
American male non-fiction writers
Presidents of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies


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Los Angeles Chargers |
Focus on Chargers QB Justin Herbert as…
Focus on Chargers QB Justin Herbert as Sunday's game draws closer
Officially, his participation Thursday was listed as limited for the second practice in a row, but Herbert didn't appear to be in discomfort while delivering on-target passes
It remains to be determined whether Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert will play Sunday against the Jacksonville Jaguars at SoFi Stadium, 10 days after he suffered fractured rib cartilage in a loss to the Kansas City Chiefs. He was listed as a limited participant in practice on Wednesday and Thursday. (AP Photo/Ashley Landis)
By Elliott Teaford | eteaford@scng.com | Orange County Register
PUBLISHED: September 22, 2022 at 5:19 p.m. | UPDATED: September 22, 2022 at 5:19 p.m.
COSTA MESA — Justin Herbert Watch, Day 2.
Herbert warmed up with fellow quarterbacks Chase Daniel and Easton Stick, tossing a few easy passes to start Thursday's practice. He continued throwing during the individual portion of practice, the part reporters were granted access to before they were sent packing.
Herbert didn't throw during the individual portion of Wednesday's practice, so Thursday's action represented a step in the right direction. Officially, his participation was listed as limited for the second day in a row.
It remains to be determined whether Herbert will play Sunday against the Jacksonville Jaguars at SoFi Stadium, 10 days after he suffered fractured rib cartilage while absorbing a hit after completing a fourth-quarter pass in the Chargers' loss to the Kansas City Chiefs on Sept. 15.
Herbert on Thursday looked pretty much as he has usually looked during recent practices, delivering on-target passes with a fluid motion. He didn't appear to be in discomfort while completing passes that were in the 30- to 40-yard range at their longest, featuring typical routes that his receivers run.
Daniel is likely to start if Herbert can't play Sunday, with Stick serving as his backup. Daniel has been Herbert's backup for the Chargers' first two games and Stick has been inactive for a victory over the Las Vegas Raiders in Week 1 and a loss to the Chiefs in Week 2.
"You have your game plan and there's a handful of plays that might be Justin-only," Chargers offensive coordinator Joe Lombardi said. "But you put a plan together and most of it spans whatever quarterback plays. We'll be all right. There might be a handful of plays you scratch out if Justin is not playing.
"But we'll be ready."
Herbert has thrown for 613 yards, the fifth-most in the NFL to start the season, and completed 72% of his passes (59 of 82) with six touchdowns and one interception. He has thrown three touchdown passes in each of the first two games. His passer rating of 112.5 is the seventh-best in the league.
In other words, there would a huge void if Herbert can't play.
"Pretty impressive," Lombardi said of Herbert's ability to return to the game after his injury to lead a 73-yard scoring drive that cut the Chargers' deficit to 27-24 with a little more than a minute to play. "You're certainly concerned, but the three toughest guys I've ever been around are (Drew) Brees, (Matthew Stafford) and Justin. It's pretty impressive that he could do that under those conditions."
BODY SLAM REACTION
Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce and his brother, Jason, a Philadelphia Eagles center, have a popular podcast in which they talk about football in blunt (and funny) fashion. Naturally, the topic of Derwin James Jr.'s body slam of Travis in last week's Chargers-Chiefs game came up on their latest episode.
Jason: "How did it feel when Derwin James body-slammed the (expletive) out of you on national television?"
Chargers GM Tom Telesco: Brandon Staley 'has our full support'
Swanson: Chargers coach Brandon Staley's defense wouldn't sway a jury
Chargers coach Brandon Staley says he never thought job was in jeopardy
Game Day: Chargers, Brandon Staley can win the blame game
Chargers fire offensive coordinator Joe Lombardi
Travis (laughing): "Well, it's not my first time getting power-bombed. But, yeah, no, I turned, I made a cutback and all of a sudden he's on me like lightning. I mean, he surprised the (expletive) out of me. Lower man always wins in football. When I felt him wrap his arms around my legs, I'm chuckling in my mind. 'This is not going to end well for me right now.' I'm going up. What goes up must come down. The body slam was funny, but what was even more comical was the fact that he asked me after the play or after that drive, 'Bro, you good?' What a great guy, man. What a great guy."
Jason: "Solid dude."
BODY SLAM (PART 2)
James confirmed Thursday that he asked Kelce if he was OK.
"I'm just thinking, 'Get him on the ground before he gets in the end zone,'" James said of his highlight-reel tackle of Kelce. "I'm not really thinking about how I'm going to tackle him – just what needed to be done. I was more mad that we didn't get the win. Family and friends texted me (about the play).
"So, it was still cool, though."
STREAMING RATINGS
The Chargers-Chiefs game drew 13 million viewers to Amazon Prime Video's first Thursday Night Football game last week in Kansas City, according to figures compiled by Nielsen. The figures also include over-the-air broadcast numbers for viewers in Los Angeles and Kansas City.
Elliott Teaford | Sports reporter
Elliott Teaford covers the Los Angeles Chargers for the Orange County Register and the Southern California News Group. He covered the Anaheim Ducks for 19 seasons, including eight of the past 10 for SCNG. He covered their Stanley Cup championship team in 2006-07. He also covered the Lakers for five seasons, including their back-to-back NBA championships in 2008-09 and 2009-10, and the Clippers for one. He is a Long Beach State graduate.
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J Environ Qual. 2010 Nov-Dec;39(6):1954-65.
An ecological perspective on nanomaterial impacts in the environment.
Bernhardt ES1, Colman BP, Hochella MF Jr, Cardinale BJ, Nisbet RM, Richardson CJ, Yin L.
Growing concerns over the potential for unintended, adverse consequences of engineered nanoparticles (ENPs) in the environment have generated new research initiatives focused on understanding the ecological effects of ENPs. Almost nothing is currently known about the fate and transport of ENPs in environmental waters, soils, and sediments or about the biological impacts of ENPs in natural environments, and the bulk of modern nanotoxicogical research is focused on highly controlled laboratory studies with single species in simple media. In this paper, we provide an ecological perspective on the current state of knowledge regarding the likely environmental impacts of nanomaterials and propose a strategy for making rapid progress in new research in ecological nanoscience.


Hentzen, J. E. K. R., Rovers, K. P., Kuipers, H., van der Plas, W. Y., Been, L. B., Hoogwater, F. J. H., van Ginkel, R. J., Hemmer, P. H. J., van Dam, G. M., de Hingh, I. H. J. T. & Kruijff, S., 15-Mar-2019, In : Annals of Surgical Oncology. 12 p.
BACKGROUND: Careful selection of patients with colorectal peritoneal metastases (PM) for cytoreductive surgery (CRS) with hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) is crucial. It remains unknown whether the time of onset of colorectal PM (synchronous vs metachronous) influences surgical morbidity and survival outcomes after CRS with HIPEC.
METHODS: Patients with histologically proven colorectal PM who underwent CRS with HIPEC between February 2006 and December 2017 in two Dutch tertiary referral hospitals were retrospectively included from a prospectively maintained database. The onset of colorectal PM was classified as synchronous (PM diagnosed at the initiational presentation with colorectal cancer) or metachronous (PM diagnosed after initial curative colorectal resection). Major postoperative complications (Clavien-Dindo grade ≥ 3), overall survival (OS), and disease-free survival (DFS) were compared between patients with synchronous colorectal PM and those with metachronous colorectal PM using Kaplan-Meier analyses, proportional hazard analyses, and a multivariate Cox regression analysis.
RESULTS: The study enrolled 433 patients, of whom 231 (53%) had synchronous colorectal PM and 202 (47%) had metachronous colorectal PM. The major postoperative complication rate and median OS were similar between the patients with synchronous colorectal PM and those with metachronous colorectal PM (26.8% vs 29.7%; p = 0.693 and 34 vs 33 months, respectively; p = 0.819). The median DFS was significantly decreased for the patients with metachronous colorectal PM and those with synchronous colorectal PM (11 vs 15 months; adjusted hazard ratio, 1.63; 95% confidence interval, 1.18-2.26).
CONCLUSIONS: Metachronous onset of colorectal PM is associated with early recurrence after CRS with HIPEC compared with synchronous colorectal PM, without a difference in OS or major postoperative complications. Time to onset of colorectal PM should be taken into consideration to optimize patient selection for this major procedure.


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Intersection safety is a national, state, and local priority. In 2008, approximately 40 percent of crashes that occurred in the United States were intersection-related. However, current methods for assessing intersection safety require either a long history of crash data or subjective observation of traffic conflicts—both of which have significant drawbacks. Given the infrequent and random nature of crashes, crash-data-based methods are slow to reveal the need for improvement of either roadway design or signal control. Traditional conflict studies utilize trained personnel to identify and record conflicts observed at an intersection, so this method is time-consuming and expensive.
This presentation will highlight a new technique for evaluating intersection safety that requires neither crash history nor manual conflict survey—and overcomes the drawbacks of traditional approaches. The proposed approach utilizes the massive amount of high-resolution traffic signal event records (including both vehicle-detector actuations and signal phase changes) that has recently become available on a number of MnDOT intersections. The presentation will discuss how high-resolution traffic signal data can be used to estimate the number of rear-end and right-angle conflicts and to predict crash rate at an intersection. The proposed approach could be used to rank the safety performance for intersections within a jurisdiction in a proactive manner, thus helping agencies prioritize the intersections that need improvement.
Henry Liu is an associate professor in the Department of Civil Engineering. His primary research areas are traffic network monitoring, modeling, and control. His recent work has focused on traffic flow modeling and simulation, traffic signal control and optimization, traffic management under network disruptions, and equilibrium traffic assignment. In addition, his work on traffic signal data collection and performance measurement has been patented and licensed to a private firm for commercialization.


B. Sheridan singled down the lf line.
H. Huckabee singled up the middle; B. Sheridan advanced to second.
S. Lagle walked; H. Huckabee advanced to second; B. Sheridan advanced to third.
Hutt singled to shortstop; Lewis-Rand advanced to second.
H. Huckabee doubled to left center.
K. Moon singled up the middle.
Melcher singled to third base.
Thomas walked; Melcher advanced to second.
Smith reached on a fielder's choice; Thomas advanced to second; Melcher out at third 3b unassisted.
A. Decker singled to right field.
K. Oakes singled up the middle; A. Decker advanced to second.
Walker walked; McComas advanced to second.
Lewis-Rand singled to right field; Walker advanced to second; McComas advanced to third.
Hutt reached on a fielder's choice; Lewis-Rand advanced to second; Walker advanced to third; McComas out at home 3b to c.
Ringstaff homered, 4 RBI; Hutt scored; Lewis-Rand scored; Walker scored.
Melcher singled through the right side.
A. Armstrong pinch hit for L. Lewis.
B. Sheridan walked; K. Moon advanced to second.
H. Huckabee doubled down the lf line, RBI; B. Sheridan advanced to third, out at second lf to 3b to c; K. Moon scored.


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Gobhi or cabbage paratha is not one of the famous parathas you get at the restaurants. This is my family recipe and I have never seen these parathas being sold anywhere. Shredded cabbage and spices are mixed and roasted with gram flour to make a spicy filling for whole wheat parathas. This is my mom's way of sneaking vegetables into our food. She replaces gobhi with radish (muli) when it is in season and it tastes equally yummy.
Gram flour tends to burn if not sautéed continuously. It is best to make the filling on lowest flame throughout. The gram flour is done when it starts changing color and you can smell the aroma. You can use grated radish instead of cabbage for a variation. In both cases, do not add water to the filling as the both the vegetables have enough water content.
Rolling out a paratha with a filling needs lot of practice. You need to make sure that the dough is of right consistency. If the dough is too hard, the filling will come out, if it is too soft, you will not be able to roll it well. You also need to make sure the filling is spread throughout the paratha. If you do not roll it well, you might end up with filling only on sides or only in centre. Practice is the key.
These parathas are perfect for a rainy day. My mom makes them for breakfast/dinner and they taste yummy even when they are cold. Just roll up the cold paratha and dip it in chai for a filling chai time snack. I like my parathas hot with chilled yogurt and lime pickle.
Combine the flour, carom seeds, salt, and water to make a soft and smooth dough. Cover and keep it aside.
Heat oil in a thick bottomed pan or non-stick pan. Add the gram flour and roast it on a slow flame mixing continuously till it is slightly brownish (2-3 minutes) in color. Do not over roast it. It will taste bitter otherwise. Add green chillies paste and roast again for 1 minute. Add the cabbage, salt, chilli powder, garam masala, turmeric powder, lime juice, and chopped coriander. Mix well and roast for another 3-4 minutes. Remove from heat and let it cool completely.
Divide the dough into equal portions. Roll out a thick small disc (appx 5 inches). Put a portion of the cooled filling (appx 1-11/2 tbsp) in the center and bring the edges together to form a small ball. Flatten it lightly with hand and roll into a paratha. Try not to let the filling out while rolling the paratha.
Heat a griddle and cook the paratha on both sides using little oil just like you would cook a normal paratha. Serve with chilled yogurt and pickle.
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Journalists gather to demand greater freedoms and protection amid escalating drug war.
Similar demonstrations were planned in states hit hardest by drug violence, including Sinaloa, home to the powerful cartel of the same name, and Chihuahua, where Ciudad Juarez, Mexico's most violent city, is located.
Al Jazeera's Franc Contreras, reporting from the protest, said that the demonstrators were demanding the Mexican government take action.
"Many here believe the government is not doing enough to protect their colleagues, as more than 60 journalists have been killed in the last four years," he said.
"While a special prosecutor has been put in place, only three of the crimes committed against reporters have been solved in recent years."
Participants also hoped to open talks with Mexican authorities on security protocols for journalists, some of whom have stopped reporting on drug violence in fear of their lives.
"We should think about how we can guarantee the delivery of information to the public," Baltazar said.
"We're very concerned about the pattern of silence."
The killings have increased this year, although organisations report different numbers.
According to the National Human Rights commission, seven journalists have been killed so far this year, while Reporters Without Borders puts the number at 10.
Local journalists in Mexico have long been under siege from drug traffickers. But the recent kidnapping of four journalists, three of them with national television networks, signaled a new level of attacks on reporters.
Two were let go by their captors and police rescued the other two.