WHEN WE THINK OF THE ARTS AND CULTURE OF THE ISLAMIC WORLD, THERE ARE MANY IMAGES THAT COME TO MIND: CALLIGRAPHY, PHILOSOPHY, MATHEMATICS, ARCHITECTURE, ASTRONOMY, POETRY, FURNITURE MAKING, LITERATURE, CERAMICS, METALWORK, TEXTILES, EMBROIDERY, MUSIC, DANCE, CUISINE AND MORE. AS YOU WALK THROUGH THE HOUSE, YOU CAN ENJOY ONE OF THE GREAT CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE DECORATIVE ARTS, AND TO THE CULTURE OF THE MIDDLE EAST AND CENTRAL ASIA, THE MAGIC CARPETS.
THESE CARPETS ARE MADE BY HAND, EITHER ON LARGE LOOMS IN TOWNS OR ON SMALL LOOMS THAT ARE PORTABLE AND CAN BE MOVED FROM PLACE TO PLACE. IT TAKES FROM SEVERAL MONTHS TO SEVERAL YEARS TO MAKE A CARPET OF GOOD QUALITY DEPENDING ON THE SIZE AND THE COMPLEXITY OF THE DESIGN. THE POWER OF A GENIE CAN MAKE IT FLY. THE MOST FAMOUS PLACES WHERE CARPETS ARE MADE ARE IN AND AROUND PERSIA, MODERN DAY IRAN. IRAN HAS A RICH HISTORY THAT DATES BACK MORE THAN 6,000 YEARS. THE ART OF CARPET MAKING IN PERSIA BEGAN ABOUT 2,500 YEARS AGO. CARPETS ARE USUALLY NAMED AFTER THE TOWN, VILLAGE OR REGION WHERE THEY WERE MADE. TODAY, CARPETS ARE HIGHLY VALUED IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND ALL THROUGHOUT THE WORLD. WE IN JAPAN ALSO HAVE A DEEP APPRECIATION FOR CARPETS AND THE CULTURE THAT THEY REPRESENT.


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LMPD Police Reports: "Sextortion" Victim, $15K in Unemployment Benefits Stolen plus Identity Docs Compromised and More
Provided by the Lower Makefield Twp Police Department
Criminal Mischief – 1600 block of Kathy Dr. reported at 11:25AM. Complainant reported unknown person(s) slashed their vehicle's tire.
Fraudulent Documents Arrest – Oxford Valley Rd. & Willow Pond Dr. reported at 11:34AM. Police on patrol stopped a vehicle for violations. Further investigation led to the discovery of fraudulent documents and driving without a license. The 41 year old male from Sicklerville, NJ to be summonsed.
Identity Theft – 1900 block of Quarry Rd. reported at 2:22PM. Complainant reported unknown person(s) filed for unemployment benefits in their name. Unit block of Black Rock Rd. reported at 2:09PM. Complainant reported unknown person(s) filed for unemployment benefits in their name.
Retail Theft – 700 block of Stony Hill Rd. at Giant Food Store reported at 1:37PM. Loss Prevention reported theft of $128.44 worth of crab legs by a known female offender on 8/7. She then returned the crab legs for cash at a different Giant. Charges to be filed on the 32 year old female from LMT.
Public Drunkeness block of Polo Run Dr. reported at 10:22PM. Police responded to the report of an unconscious male at the location. Further investigation led to the 36 year old male from LMT being cited for Public Drunkenness.
200 block of Rock Run Rd., reported at 11:52AM. Complainant reported falling victim to a sextortion scam.
Fraud – Unit block of Fairway Dr. reported at 10:24AM. Complainant reported their bank received a forged check in their name.
Identity Theft:-1400 block of Woodview Rd. reported at 10:49AM. Complainant reported unknown person(s) filed for unemployment benefits in their name. 1000 block of Reading Ave. reported at 10:45AM. Complainant reported their identity was compromised and as a result, $15,000.00 in unemployment compensation was used by someone else. Fraud included changing of their driver's license address and cell phone carrier.
Identity Theft – 1100 block Lily Pond Ln. reported at 9:01AM. Complainant reported unknown person(s) filed for unemployment benefits in their name.
Fraudulent Documents Arrest – 500 block of W. Trenton Ave. reported at 9:57AM. Police on patrol stopped a vehicle for violations. Further investigation led to the discovery of fraudulent documents and the driver driving without a license and insurance. The 38 year old male driver from Trenton, NJ to be summonsed for fraudulent documents and related charges.
Identity theft – 1400 block of Fox Hollow Dr. reported at 1:45PM. Complainant reported unknown person(s) opened a credit card in their name.
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Vol. 15 No. 1 (2019): Regaining Sanity /
Before Hegel: Schiller, Novalis, and the Concept of Aufhebung
Hammam Aldouri
Aufhebung, Schiller, Novals, Aesthetic Education, Fichte Studies
Philosophical explorations of the concept of Aufhebung (sublation, supersession) immediately prior to its formulation in Hegel's work have remained relatively absent within the context of both Hegel scholarship and German Idealism studies. Hegel is often simply represented as the originator of the concept and the latter is understood almost exclusively within his oeuvre. This essay addresses this lack by offering an exposition of the notion as it unfolds in two works from 1795-1796: Friedrich Schiller's Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man and Novalis' Fichte Studies. In these works, we find distinctive examinations of Aufhebung understood as the name of a process in which a subject comprehends itself in relation to its own processual development. My guiding premise is that without an adequate comprehension of the way in which Aufhebung is constructed and comprehended in the last years of the eighteenth century, we cannot establish the vantage point from which to reconstruct Hegel's early conception of the notion, a conception which begins to emerge in his earliest Frankfurt writings in 1797, as a contribution to the constellation of post-Kantian conceptions.
Hammam Aldouri holds a PhD in philosophy from the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Kingston University (London) and a Helena Rubinstein Fellow in Critical Studies from the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program (New York). His research moves across the conjunctural relation of the limits of philosophy, the social function of art and the status of social practices under the conditions of globalized monopoly capital. He is currently teaching at Temple University (Philadelphia) and Moore College of Art and Design (Philadelphia).
Aldouri, H. (2019). Before Hegel: Schiller, Novalis, and the Concept of Aufhebung. Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy, 15(1), 10–30. Retrieved from https://www.cosmosandhistory.org/index.php/journal/article/view/752
Vol. 15 No. 1 (2019): Regaining Sanity


For people who don't celebrate Christmas, December 25 isn't some sad day with nothing to do. Despite the rest of the world essentially shutting down, they find different ways to enjoy the day.
In her personal life, Kostiner says she often does the "stereotypical" thing.
Christmas also provides an opportunity for special family time—even if it's not surrounding a tinseled tree.
Kostiner said depending on where Hanukkah fell, her family sometimes postponed celebrating until Christmas Eve or Christmas Day, when her kids were home from college.
Dr. Syed Haider, vice president of the nonprofit Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC), said while Muslims do celebrate the birth of Jesus, it's on a different day each year based on the moon. But on December 25, he usually spends time with friends.
Patrick Scully, director of food and beverage Panorama on Seven, said he's happy to be open on Christmas as the restaurant caters to a diverse clientele. He also said he's seen an increase in patrons who celebrate Christmas, but prefer to eat out.
"It can be stressful, and we see a lot more people now who are Christian or Catholic joining us because they just don't want to clean up," Scully said.
And for those craving some nightlife on Christmas, Pearl Street Grill & Brewery has thrown a Christmas party on Dec. 25 for more than a decade now. Each year, around 1,000 people attend, according to director of operations Josh Ketry.
The party spans all four floors of the building, with the first floor having a "chill" vibe, and the upper three levels a bit livelier with dance music. The event is staffed on a volunteer basis and tickets can be purchased in advance or at the door.
There's plenty to do throughout Buffalo on Christmas Day, whether it's going out to eat, sledding, attending a party or even finding somewhere to swim indoors, like at the JCC. Also, most movie theaters are open on Christmas (and many would-be blockbusters are released on Christmas Day).
Some businesses that are open on Christmas operate on different hours and many restaurants offer special Christmas menus, so be sure to call ahead and find out specifics before heading out.


Genesys recommends setting up the outbound calling address and outbound calling name.
The outbound calling address is the number that appears on phones as the Caller ID. Setting an address prevents internal company extension numbers from appearing as caller IDs.
The outbound calling name is the name that appears on phones as the Caller ID. Setting a name prevents agent names from appearing as caller IDs.
Note: In PureCloud Voice, the specified Calling Name will always be delivered, but may not always be displayed on the called device. The called party's carrier is solely responsible for determining whether to display Calling Name information provided by PureCloud Voice.
On the External Trunks tab, locate and select your trunk.
In the Address box, type the number that you want to appear as the caller ID for outbound calls.
For example, use the main contact number for your call center.
Note: Use the E.164 format for the calling address, which includes the plus sign (+) and the country code. For the U.S, the E.164 format is +1 before the area code and phone number.
In the Name box, type the name that you want to appear as the caller ID for outbound calls.
For example, use the name of your company.
From the Address Override Method list, select the appropriate option.
Always: Always use this number for the caller ID.
Unassigned DID: Only use this number for the caller ID when no DID number is assigned to the user's phone.
From the Name Override Method list, select the appropriate option.
Always: Always use this name for the caller ID.
Unassigned DID: Only use this name when no name is assigned to the user's phone.


If you arrived at this article, I have to assume you're either a seeker of knowledge, or an unfortunate soul with a 3D printer that is not extruding. In either case, we are here to enlighten you with some techniques for making your 3D printer run like a dream.
The best way to prevent 3D filament jams is to notice them ahead of time. This can be achieved in many ways including, but not limited to: understanding the anatomy of the 3D printer (including understanding the extruder), learning the tolerances of your printers, and properly storing your filament.
We'll start by understanding what causes 3D printer jams in the first place - no matter what kind of printer you have, jams and clogs are usually universal issues.
Proper nozzle height is key to successful 3D extrusion. If your nozzle is too close to the bed when you start printing, it's going to cause retrograde extrusion, which in turn jams the nozzle. If your nozzle is too far, your filament will be printing in the air, which means that your filament will not adhere to the print bed. To make it clearer, we have an illustration that demonstrates this point. Further guidance can be found in our article 3D printing 101 Series - Bed Leveling.
Too High Too much distance will cause the filament to extrude into the air. This is wil not stick to the bed.
Perfect The tip of the nozzle is adding slight pressure to the top of the filament, greatly increasing how much filament is securely sticking to the bed and subsequent layers.
Too Low The filament is not flowing properly, which can cause retrograde extrusion. Layers are predominantly choppy and short. Continued printing in this manner will likely cause a jam.
How nozzle height can affect a print.
Proper temperature is a must, and each filament requires a different printing temperature. For some quick guidance take a look at this Filament Comparison Guide - there are temperature recommendations for each type of filament. This may seem obvious, but it never hurts to check and double check what temperature your filament optimally extrudes. If your hotend is too cold, it can cause two different kinds of jams. I'll call them Jam 1 and Jam 2.
Jam 1 - your hotend is too cold, you filament cannot extrude at the proper speed (or at all). As a result, the hobbed bolt grinds away the filament, leaving nothing behind to pull on. This is one of the easier jams to clear by increasing the extruder temperature. Before raising the temperature of the hotend, take a moment to clear any debris from the extruder motor/hobbed gear.
Jam 2 - your hotend is too cold and just warm enough for the filament to heat and fill the extruder, but not hot enough to extrude quickly, leaving your hotend filled with rapidly cooling plastic. If this goes on long enough it can harden, leaving you with the most difficult kind of jam to clear.
If your hotend is too hot, it typically won't cause a jam as long as you keep it flowing, but it can cause your filament to extrude poorly, i.e. dripping out or leaving bubbles.
If you leave 3D filament in the hot nozzle for a long period without extruding, it can cause a jam similar to Jam 2 above - this is called heat creep.
Heat creep is when 3D filament plastic heats up beyond the 'Melt Zone' and melted plastic 'creeps' into the heat break area (see image below for zone definitions). PLA filament is particularly prone to heat creep because of its low melting temperature and high heat capacity. Remedies for heat creep can be pushing filament though manually, or increasing the temperature for a moment, extruding, and then decreasing temperature. There are different kinds of hot ends (you can read in more detail here) but in all cases, be sure you have an active cooling fan on the Peek or metal heat sink area when the hot end is at temperature.
Make sure that your 3D filament is loading into the printer properly, with minimal tension outside of the extruder. Be sure that the spool of filament is mounted and is able to spin freely - often tension from the filament leading to the extruder can cause a printer to stop extruding. Every printer has a different way to load the filament, so just make sure that you're using yours optimally!
We have written an article on software bed leveling here, but I think we can cover some of the basics.
You want your print bed to be as level as possible, so calibration is a must if you're looking to prevent jams. As we covered already, if your nozzle is too low, you will cause retrograde extrusion which will very likely cause a jam. If it's too high, you probably won't cause a jam, but you will have a big mess of plastic on your hands later.
Hardware calibration varies from printer to printer, so you'll have to check with your manufacturer for tips and tricks. Software bed leveling, however, is available for most printers through our program MatterControl. Though easier than hardware calibration, it is still recommended that you get your printer as calibrated as possible in conjunction with software bed leveling.
There are a few techniques for clearing 3d printer jams and we'll go over them each in turn.
The first thing that you should try in the event of a filament jam is heating your hotend up to a slightly higher temperature than you normally would, for whatever material you were printing with. Typically 5-10°C higher is a good place to start. After it heats up, take your filament and try to push it through the hotend by hand. If your filament is too malleable, it is fine to use a small screwdriver or other such tool to push with. Note - when using a tool, be careful not to damage the hotend by pushing too far.
This technique will clear the vast majority of your jams, if the problem persists, there are two more things to try.
If you find that your filament has been ground away, you can typically check your printer's extruder and find that the teeth on your hobbed bolt are filled with plastic. (If you can, always check with the manufacturer of your 3D printer before any major maintenence - you don't want to accidentally void your warranty.) Take a small pointed tool (something like a toothpick will work), and gently scrape the plastic out of the teeth. Your bolt will have a renewed ability to pull your filament. Tightening your drive block a couple turns may help as well. Once again, you will probably want to review the dynamics of your extruder before attempting this.
If neither of these things are working, there is another method. Depending on the size of your nozzle, you can take a steel high E string (the kind you would find on any standard acoustic guitar) or an acupuncture needle (can be purchased online). Insert the string/needle into the nozzle tip, heating the extruder if need be, and slide it back and forth inside. This can dislodge little pieces of hardened plastic, and hopefully allow your filament to extrude smoothly. Note - though effective, this is somewhat risky. Do not try it unless you're confident that you don't require any outside help.
Full dissasembly of the heating unit is possible for most machines, but as stated earlier, may void warranties. If you are able to get the nozzle free, it is possible to melt out the residual filament using a heat gun or blowtorch (do not do this without taking the proper safety precautions or under supervision). Once the extrusion path is clear, you can reinstall the nozzle.
I've tried everything to fix my clogged nozzle, and my 3D printer is still not extruding. Now what?
Printer manufacturers typically offer support for a time, and they will know their individual printers the best. If they still can't help you, odds are you may have to purchase a new hotend. Don't worry, this isn't the end of the world. They aren't too expensive, and they're fairly easy to replace - sometimes it's even best to upgrade your extruder or hotend right away in attempt to avoid clogging.
Of course, we're always happy to try and assist you in any problems you might be having with your 3D printer, so feel free to send us an email, or stop by the forum. If you're close to us, you can also come by our store! We're open from 9:30am-6:00pm, Monday through Friday, and we'd love for you to drop by!


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Term-time holidays: Isle of Wight parent's legal case thrown out
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-34543101
Image caption Jon Platt insisted his six-year-old daughter's education did not suffer from the week-long family holiday in Florida
Parents who take children on holiday in term time have "nothing to fear", a man at the centre of a legal battle says.
Jon Platt, from the Isle of Wight, was taken to court after refusing to pay a £120 fine for taking his six-year-old daughter to Florida in April, but the case was thrown out by magistrates.
Mr Platt argued the law only requires children to attend school regularly.
Isle of Wight Council said it was following government guidance and was reviewing the outcome of the case.
'No detrimental impact'
Mr Platt took his daughter out of school to go to Florida with 15 other members of their family, despite an absence request being rejected by the school.
"I cannot allow a local education authority to tell me what is right for my kids - I know what is best for my kids," he said.
He insisted his children got "great value and great experiences" from the trip, with "no detrimental impact whatsoever" on their education.
Having refused to pay a £120 penalty, at a magistrates' court earlier this week, he had successfully argued Section 444 of the Education Act required parents ensured their children attended school "regularly", and did not put restrictions on taking them on holidays in term time.
His daughter had a 93.8% attendance rate the previous academic year.
'Head teacher's discretion'
"There is no complex loophole - parents have nothing to fear from LEAs ... if your children have attended school regularly," he said.
"LEAs are trying to use the legislation intended to stop truancy to stop parents taking their kids on holiday."
In a statement, the council said it took legal action based on "appropriate legislation, Department for Education regulations and guidance".
A DfE spokesperson said: "Head teachers have the discretion to grant term time holiday in exceptional circumstances, as they always have.
"But it is a myth that missing school even for a short time is harmless to a child's education."
Video Schools in England to decide term and holiday dates
'Sharp rise' in parental fines for term-time holidays
MPs debate cost of going away during school holidays
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WhatsApp has become a preferred mode of everyday communication for millions of people. People have adopted the messaging chat app in their lives for personal and professional communication. Keeping up with changing preferences and habits, our customers had been asking us to include WhatsApp as a communication channel. This would allow them to receive rich updates about their business directly in the app.
After much waiting, we have completed the integration of WhatsApp inside FeetPort. Now the managers in any organisation can now receive notifications about their field staff directly on their favourite messaging platform – WhatsApp.


As a police officer in Los Angeles's busiest precinct, near downtown Los Angeles, Rafael Antonio Perez was responsible for investigating gang crimes and testifying against suspects in court.
Last month, it was Mr. Perez who entered the courtroom in handcuffs and a blue county jail jumpsuit to hear charges against him: stealing three kilograms (about six and a half pounds) of cocaine from an evidence locker at the Los Angeles Police Department.
Mr. Perez, 31, a nine-year veteran of the force who was arrested by his fellow officers on Aug. 25, pleaded not guilty to charges of drug possession, grand theft and forgery.
The felony complaint against Mr. Perez says he checked the cocaine out of the property room on March 2 by forging on the evidence log the signature of a police officer with the same last name and never returned it. If convicted, Mr. Perez, who is in jail, faces a maximum sentence of more than eight years in prison.
While the brazen nature of the theft, according to the charges, is surprising enough, it is made all the more so by the Los Angeles Police Department's reputation for being intolerant of graft. The department has had no shortage of problems over the years, accused by civil rights advocates and others of poor treatment of minority groups, political spying and use of excessive force, most publicly in the beating of Rodney G. King. But even the department's harshest detractors say it is relatively incorruptible.
''If anything, it's been a consistent theme that the L.A.P.D. has done a good job when it comes to that issue,'' said Paul Hoffman, a civil rights lawyer and former legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union local chapter.
To be sure, the department has had some high-profile corruption cases over the years, including thefts of radios from shops along Hollywood Boulevard in the 1980's and the convictions of three officers in the late 80's in a murder-for-hire scheme. The investigation of Mr. Perez, one police official said, has been driven by the current Chief, Bernard Parks, who took over last year.
In a bail hearing last week, a Deputy District Attorney, Richard Rosenthal, said that in addition to stealing the narcotics, Mr. Perez tried to sell a kilo of cocaine through a confidential informer last December. Mr. Rosenthal also told the judge that Mr. Perez lied in court to obtain leniency for two drug dealers, one of whom he was having a romantic relationship with. The authorities now suspect that that dealer distributed the three kilograms of stolen cocaine, Mr. Rosenthal said.
Mr. Perez's lawyer, Winston McKesson, said that his client denied the charges and that a search of his home revealed no evidence of drug dealing. Mr. McKesson also said that Mr. Perez's fingerprints were not found on the evidence room ledger with the forged signature.
Mr. Perez's case is not the only one proving nettlesome for the department's reputation. Another officer, David Mack, is awaiting trial in Federal court on charges of robbing $722,000 from a Bank of America branch with the help of a girlfriend who worked at the bank. Mr. Mack has pleaded not guilty.
But police officials, who are now investigating ''everything that surrounds'' Mr. Perez, say they believe the cocaine theft is an anomaly.


Discussion in 'iOS Apps' started by tapmyapp, Jun 12, 2009.
- Shake the device to smooth out the sand and start over. Listen to the sound of an ocean wave wash away your doodle.
- Starfish love the beach, and they also love doodles!
- Let a starfish be a part of your doodle - show/hide the starfish and use it as part of your drawings!
looks cool i'll have to check it out sometime!


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Q: Upgrade image in a Deployment's pods I have a Deployment with 3 replicas of a pod running the image 172.20.20.20:5000/my_app, that is located in my private registry.
I want do a rolling-update in the deployment when I push a new latest version of that image to my registry.
I push the new image this way (tag v3.0 to latest):
$ docker tag 172.20.20.20:5000/my_app:3.0 172.20.20.20:5000/my_app
$ docker push 172.20.20.20:5000/my_app

But nothing happens. Pods' images are not upgraded. This is my deployment definition:
apiVersion: extensions/v1beta1
kind: Deployment
metadata:
  name: myapp-deployment
spec:
  replicas: 3
  template:
    metadata:
      labels:
        app: myapp
    spec:
      containers:
      - name: app
        image: 172.20.20.20:5000/my_app:latest
        ports:
        - containerPort: 8080

Is there a way to do that automatically? Should I run a command like rolling-update like in ReplicaControllers?

A: There is no reason to pull latest image from Kubernetes point of view - it's already available on the system and pods are in the declared state. Use proper image tagging and you will be OK.
There are some workarounds based on imagePullPolicy: Always, but IMO I don't like them:
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/33112789/how-do-i-force-kubernetes-to-re-pull-and-image

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Keto diet may increase memory, reduce mortality
Written by Maria Cohut, Ph.D. on September 5, 2017
Two new studies, both conducted in mice, support each other's findings: that the ketogenic, or "keto," diet may improve memory in old age as well as prolong lifespan.
Two independent studies suggest that the keto diet could bring multiple health benefits.
The ketogenic diet, which is more commonly known as the keto diet, aims to reduce carbohydrate intake in favor of consuming more fat and sufficient protein.
Recently, this diet type has started to garner more attention; studies have variously linked it with weight loss benefits, adjuvant cancer therapy, and some epilepsy treatments.
And two new independently conducted studies now suggest that the keto diet might help to improve memory and reduce mortality. One study – led by Drs. Eric Verdin and John Newman, both from the Buck Institute for Research on Aging in Novato, CA – looked at the effect of the keto diet on aging mice.
The second study – led by Dr. Jon Ramsey, from the University of California, Davis School of Veterinary Medicine – looked at adult mice and had similar findings about the impact of the keto diet, with the addition that it may also improve strength and coordination.
Both papers were published today in the journal Cell Metabolism.
Cyclical keto diet has health benefits
Both studies tested the effects of four diet types – ketogenic, low carbohydrate, high fat, or control – in mice. The scientists used tasks involving mazes, balance beams, and running wheels to test the development of the mice's cognitive skills and physical strength as they aged.
The researchers also monitored the mice for alterations in heart function, and any changes in the regulation of gene expression.
What the researchers at the Buck Institute – in collaboration with teams from other institutions – found was that the effects of the ketogenic diet on the body were very similar to those of fasting and other such dietary restrictions. For example, it impacted insulin signaling and gene expression in much the same way that fasting would.
The Buck Institute team found that a keto diet fed to mice on a cyclical basis – that is, alternated with the control diet – prevented obesity, reduced mid-life mortality, and prevented memory loss.
"The older mice on the ketogenic diet had a better memory than the younger mice. That's really remarkable," says Dr. Verdin.
The keto diet can raise the concentration of beta-hydroxybutyrate acid (BHB) in the body, which, the researchers note, improves memory function.
Dr. Verdin says that this is the first time that a study has detailed the beneficial impact of BHB on memory and lifespan in the case of aging mammals. "This opens up a new field in aging research. We think the health benefits of BHB may go beyond memory and could affect tissues and organ systems," he suggests.
Mechanisms call for further investigation
However, when the mice were tested for the impact of the keto diet on memory, they were off the diet and BHB levels had reverted to normal. This, the researchers explain, was in order to test whether or not the impact of a keto diet was long-term.
"We were careful to have all of the mice eating a normal diet during the actual memory testing which suggests the effects of the ketogenic diet were lasting. Something changed in the brains of these mice to make them more resilient to the effects of age. Determining what this is, is the next step in the work," says Dr. Newman.
One explanation for the durability of the effect on memory, he thinks, may be a change in gene expression. "Looking at gene expression," explains Dr. Newman, "the ketogenic diet suppressed the longevity-related TOR [target of rapamycin] pathway and insulin signaling and upregulated the fasting-related transcription factor PPAR-alpha, a master regulator that helps the body more efficiently metabolize fat."
The second study reports similar findings regarding the effect of the keto diet on memory and mortality, as its lead researcher explains.
"We expected some differences [in mice fed the keto diet], but I was impressed by the magnitude we observed – a 13 percent increase in median life span for the mice on a high-fat versus high-carb diet. In humans, that would be 7 to 10 years. But equally important, those mice retained quality of health in later life."
Dr. Jon Ramsey
The authors of this study also note that a keto diet allowed the mice to preserve their motor function and muscle mass.
Researchers involved in both studies are excited that their findings were mutually confirmed to a large extent. In terms of clinical implications, Dr. Verdin and his colleagues hope that further research may unlock the door to novel treatments for age-related cognitive disorders.
His laboratory at the Buck Institute is currently investigating how keto diets might impact Alzheimer's disease.
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Do Recent Acquisitions Put Mobile App Publishers' Interests First?
"The Sell Sider" is a column written by the sell side of the digital media community. Today's column is written by Offer Yehudai, president at Fyber. 2018 has seen a spate of ad networks purchasing supply chain companies. For instance, Criteo acquired Managed, AppLovin bought MAX and Tapjoy joined forces with Tapdaq. At first glance, these acquisitions can be... Continue reading »
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Ad IDs And DSPs: Behind The In-App Programmatic Opportunity
"Data-Driven Thinking" is written by members of the media community and contains fresh ideas on the digital revolution in media. Today's column is written by Janis Zech, co-founder and chief operating officer at Fyber. The growth in mobile programmatic is well documented, with global spending forecasts on the rise, especially in video. These billion-dollar budgets... Continue reading »
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RNTS Media Strikes Again And Snaps Up Mobile Ad Exchange Inneractive
Berlin-based RNTS Media group, which owns a portfolio of mobile technology companies, will acquire Israeli RTB mobile ad exchange Inneractive for an initial payment of $46 million, which could rise to $72 million if Inneractive hits incentivized targets. This is the third in a string of acquisitions RNTS Media and its primary business property, the... Continue reading »
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More Mobile Consolidation: RNTS-Owned Fyber Acquires Heyzap For $45 Million
Berlin-based Fyber is on a tear. On Friday, Fyber, an SSP for mobile app developers, and its parent company RNTS Media announced that they've acquired mobile ad network Heyzap for as much as $45 million. RNTS Media will pay $20 million in cash upfront, with an additional $25 million in cash and shares available down the... Continue reading »
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Fyber Rolls Out Pre-Cache Controls To Help Optimize The Load
Berlin-based mobile ad platform Fyber wants to help developers get a better handle on pre-caching, the practice of pre-loading video ad content to reduce load times and ad-serving latency. The company announced Monday that it'll be releasing a tool within the next few weeks that enables developers to exercise more control over the pre-caching process. App developers... Continue reading »
by Allison Schiff	// August 10th, 2015 //
Fyber Shells Out Around $11 Million To Acquire Programmatic Tech
Berlin-based mobile ad platform Fyber (formerly SponsorPay) wants to become what it calls a full-stack "specialized supply-side platform." "Specialized" refers to its focus on the world of freemium apps, said Janis Zech, CRO and co-founder of Fyber, which announced its acquisition of German ad tech company Falk Realtime on Wednesday for €10.75 million, which translates to... Continue reading »
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Tandem HR, a human resource outsourcing company, turned to SWC when they needed a telephony solution that would help make their employees more productive on the road and in the office. SWC deployed Microsoft Lync.
Tandem HR is a professional employment organization and an outsourced solution for clients in the areas of benefits, payroll, human resources, risk, employee assistance programs and more. The internal IT team at Tandem HR is responsible for making sure employees have seamless communications and seamless network functionality so their resources are always available whether they are at the office or working remote.
The company's aging technology was making it difficult for employees to communicate and collaborate. One of the biggest hurdles was the ability to access voicemail, which required being in the office or dialing into a desk phone. The IT team wanted to make sure employees had the capabilities they needed to effectively do their jobs, so they engaged with SWC to deploy Microsoft Lync across the organization.
In order to not disrupt business, SWC worked over the weekend to install Microsoft Lync over the weekend. When employees walked into the office on Monday morning, everything was working perfectly. The solution now serves as a telephony platform and voice alternative for the organization. Since Tandem HR already uses the Microsoft stack, little training was needed for employees on how to use Lync, as the product fully integrates into solutions like Microsoft SharePoint and Exchange and is very intuitive.
After the transition to Microsoft Lync, the organization feels like they have been significantly more productive with this product installed in their system. Now, all of their voicemails are delivered directly to their email inbox and are easily accessed with the click of a button. Tandem HR also likes the additional tools and capabilities they receive with Microsoft Lync for presentations, white boarding, instant messaging and polling. They use all of it. Tandem HR can now go live instantly using Microsoft Lync's audio and video conferencing functionality.
After deploying Microsoft Lync, Tandem HR also engaged SWC for Microsoft Lync Managed Services, which assumes the responsibility of proactively monitoring, managing and supporting the Microsoft Lync environment on a 24×7 basis. SWC also updates and manage their systems to ensure the stability, security and the functionality their environment.
The partnership SWC built with Tandem HR led to a number of other Managed Services offerings. Through Managed IT Services, SWC complements Tandem HR's internal IT team, enabling them to become more productive and efficient. The internal IT team is able to focus on value-added initiatives knowing SWC has everything else covered with 24/7 monitoring, tracking, and repairing of any IT challenge. Whenever the IT team runs into a problem, there is a SWC resource available to resolve it right away.


Charlotte Rampling attends the Homage Charlotte Rampling Honorary Golden Bear award ceremony during the 69th Berlinale International Film Festival Berlin at Berlinale Palace on February 14, 2019 in Berlin, Germany. Rampling is this years recipient of the Honorary Golden Bear Award of the Berlinale.
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House prices in Fulham hit an all time high in the first three months of 2011, with the average jumping by 20.9% to reach £773,060, compared with £639,597 in the previous quarter.
All sections of the market rose, though the biggest leap was in terraced houses, which were up a spectacular 24.4%, from £1,000,819 between October and December to £1,245,015 from January to March.
Semi-detached houses climbed by a more modest £2,093,000 while flats were up 3.2%, reaching £433,682.
The volume of properties changing hands brought more good news for local estate agents, with a rise of 10% from 235 to 259.
In Hammersmith yields have fallen as capital values have moved up more quickly than rents, with analysts saying this is due to the area moving to full 'gentrification'.


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Women Who Are Denied Abortions More Likely to Suffer Poor Health
In the early 1990s, the pro-life movement introduced a new strategy, and what became known as the "woman-protective anti-abortion argument" emerged, centering on the claim that abortions hurt women.
Until that point, the pro-life argument was largely fetal-focused; internally, pro-life advocates are debated whether or not they were the most effective for their cause.
abortion facilities, released on Monday, shows that in many cases, the opposite of that woman-focused strategy is true: Being denied an abortion actually results in a woman's poorer physical health.
Scientists analyzed data from the Turnaway Study – a longitudinal Examination of the effect unintended pregnancy has on American women's lives – to conduct their research. The study, released in 2014, examined the lives of women who wanted to have an abortion, but in some cases were turned away because they were the most limiting limit.
While previous studies used Turnaway's data showed that having an abortion is safer than childbirth, with respect to women's physical health, there has been less research on how women are affected in the long run.
Dr. Lauren Ralph is an assistant professor at the University of California, San Francisco, and was a co-investigator on the Turnaway Study. She is also the lead investigator of this new study published in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine .
"Overall, our study indicates that having an abortion is not detrimental to women's physical health, but being access to a wanted abortion is likely, "Ralph says.
The new study (titled" Self-reported Physical Health of Women Who Did and Did Not Terminate Pregnancy After Seeking Abortion Services: A Cohort Study ") examined the health of 874 women who sought the services of those 30 US abortion facilities between 2008 and 2010. Within this group, 327 received a first-trimester abortion, 382 received a second-trimester abortion, and 163 gave birth.
Semi-annually about the course of five years, these women self-reported via the state of their health and, in turn, the researchers found that the physical health of women having an abortion was no worse than those who gave birth over the course of those five years.
However, some differences did emerge between the groups. Those who gave birth consistently reported worse than those who did not. For example, five years after being denied a wanted abortion, 27 percent of women rated their overall health as fair or poor. In comparison, about 20 percent of the women who received an abortion reported the same.
Furthermore, women who gave birth reported more chronic headaches, migraines and joint pain compared to those who had an abortion. Two women who gave birth died in the postpartum period. These deaths were due to pregnancy-related causes after being denied a wanted abortion.
Observing the two maternal deaths, Ralph says, was "sobering." She explains that while the maternal mortality rate in the United States is high – compared to other developed nations – maternal deaths are still and uncommon events. On average, one in 1,000 women living in childbirth. But in this study, that percentage was closer to 1.2 percent.
"Now, because it's so rare we can't assess whether this difference is statistically significant," Ralph cautions. "But, at the very least, we can say that these maternal deaths could have been prevented by these women having access to the health care they sought." Pro-choice "/>
Anti-abortion advocates in 1986.
Ralph hopes that her victims find sacrifice "much-needed evidence" about what might happen if the United States continues to restrict women's access to wanted abortions. While the U.S. Supreme Court recognized a constitutional right to abortion with Roe v. Wade more and more states have challenged its protections. In May, Alabama passed a banning abortions, with very limited exceptions, having recently passed billing banning abortions after a fetal heartbeat was detected.
These bills may be unenforceable because of Roe v. Wade and Alabama is currently the process of being sued by the American Civil Liberties Union.
Fetal heartbeats can sometimes be detected as early as six weeks into a pregnancy – often times before women know they are pregnant. According to 2016 analysis, 76 percent of American patients are able to have an abortion within seven days of calling to make an appointment. But the majority of these patients lived in states without a waiting period. For the others, living in states that required counseling before and abortion, or living in states with sparsely available abortion clinics, often they can only access those services after those six weeks.
This study population is limited to women who have sought and abortion – which Ralph sees as one of its strengths. Past research has focused on the differences between women who chose to give birth and those who did not. "Previous research may have underestimated the relative safety of abortion as compared to childbirth."
This study is also unique in examining groups not often examined: Those who receive abortions in the second trimester. Researchers did not find any difference in physical health, chronic pain, and self-rated health between those who received abortions in the first and second trimesters.
The data does not suggest that women who received abortions have worse health than those who do not, but it suggests that women who are denied abortions and carry to term do.
that restriction access to abortion is necessary to protect women's health, is not supported by our data, "Ralph says.
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Results: No significant differences were observed in self-rated health or chronic pain after first trimester versus sec malignant abortion. At 5 years, 27% (95% CI, 21% to 34%) or women who gave birth reported fair or poor health compared to 20% (CI, 16% to 24%) or women who had first-trimester abortion and 21 % (CI, 18% to 25%) who had second trimester abortion. Women who gave birth also reported more chronic headaches or migraines and joint pain, but experienced similar levels of other types of chronic pain and obesity. Gestational hypertension was reported by 9.4% of participants who gave birth. Eight of 1132 participants died during follow-up, 2 in the postpartum period. Maternal mortality did not differ statistically by group. Function (f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {if (f.fbq) return; n = f.fbq = function () {n. callMethod? n.callMethod.apply (n arguments): n.queue.push (arguments)}; if (! f._fbq) f._fbq = n; n.push = n; n.loaded =! 0; a .version = 2.0; n.queue = []; t = b.createElement (e); t.async =! 0; t.src = v s = b.getElementsByTagName (e) [0]; s .parentNode.insertBefore (t, s)} (window, document, 'script', 'https: //connect.facebook.net/en_US/fbevents.js'); fbq ('init', '1455869871397255'); fbq ('track', 'PageView'); fbq ('track', 'ViewContent', '{"content_category": "Science", "content_ids": ["10c89915-e3bc-4f2f-a80e-9003aad211b2″,"Abortion","Data","Health","Public Health","Explainer","Standard"]"content_name": "page_view", "content_type": "article"});
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Erika Mann
Erika Mann (Erika Julia Hedwig Mann, 1905 – 1969) was a German writer and actress.
Born in Munich, she was the eldest daughter of the German novelist Thomas Mann. From 1912 to 1914, she attended the private school Ebermayerschule, followed by almost a year at the Bogenhausen Volksschule. From 1915 to 1920, Erika attended the Höhere Mädchenschule am St. Annaplatz. In 1921, she transferred to the Luisengymnasium in Munich. From April to July 1922, she studied at the Bergschule Hochwaldhausen, a progressive boarding school in Vogelsberg in Oberhessen. She then returned to the Luisengymnasium, and passed her Abitur in 1924. That same year, Erika began her theater studies in Berlin.
Erika and Klaus Mann
Gustaf Gründgens, Erika Mann, Pamela Wedekind, and Klaus Mann (1925)
While in a passionate relationship with Pamela Wedekind, Erika married the actor Gustaf Gründgens in 1926 – whom she divorced in 1929. She would later have love relationships with the actress Therese Giehse, the Swiss writer Annemarie Schwarzenbach, and the American journalist Betty Knox.
Annemarie Schwarzenbach and Erika Mann
Erika Mann and Pamela Wedekind (1927)
Erika Mann and Therese Giehse (1947)
Erika vehemently criticized the Nazis, and became increasingly involved in politics. "I realised that my experience had nothing to do with politics – it was more than politics. It touched at the very foundation of my – of our – of the existence of all" (Source: Time Magazine, 10th October, 1938). Together with her brother Klaus Mann and Therese Giehse, Erika founded the anti-Fascist cabaret Die Pfeffermühle, in Munich, in 1933. When the Nazis forced its close, two months later, the group left to Zürich, where the cabaret opened again for a while.
Erika Mann, Annemarie Schwarzenbach and Klaus Mann
In 1935, Erika married the queer poet W.H. Auden, so she could become a British citizen. Shortly thereafter, she was stripped of her German citizenship by the Nazis. She and Auden never lived together, but they were still married when she died. In 1937, Erika moved to New York, where she lived with Therese, Klaus and Annemarie – and where Die Pfeffermühle opened once again. During WWII, Erika also worked as a journalist, making radio broadcasts for the BBC, and as a war correspondent in France, Belgium and the Netherlands.
After the war, while living in the USA, both Erika and Klaus came under an FBI investigation because of their political views and rumored homosexuality. In 1949, Klaus committed suicided, and, in 1952, upon being branded as communists by the McCarthy Committee, the Mann family moved back to Switzerland.
Erika died in Zürich due to a brain tumour.
School for Barbarians: Education Under the Nazis (1938)
Escape to Life, tr. Mary Hottinger-Mackie (1939)
The Lights go Down, tr. Maurice Samuel (1940)
The Other Germany (with Klaus Mann, 1940)
The Last Year of Thomas Mann – A Revealing Memoir by His Daughter Erika Mann, tr. Richard Graves (1958)
Rundherum (1929, with Klaus Mann)
Das Buch von der Riviera. Was nicht im "Baedeker" steht (1931, with Klaus Mann)
Escape to Life. Deutsche Kultur im Exil (1991, with Klaus Mann)
Zehn Millionen Kinder. Die Erziehung der Jugend im Dritten Reich (1997. Original: School for Barbarians: Education Under the Nazis, 1938)
Mein Vater, der Zauberer (1998)
Briefe und Antworten, edited by Anna Zanco-Prestel (1998)
Blitze überm Ozean, Aufsätze, Reden, Reportagen (2001)
Stoffel fliegt übers Meer. Mit Bildern von Richard Hallgarten, Nachwort von Dirk Heißerer (2005)
Ausgerechnet Ich. Ein Lesebuch (2005)
Das letzte Jahr. Bericht über meinen Vater (2005)
Wenn die Lichter ausgehen. Geschichten aus dem Dritten Reich (2006)
Thomas Mann und die Seinen, by Marcel Reich-Ranicki (1990)
Wir werden es schon zuwege bringen, das Leben: Annemarie Schwarzenbach an Erika und Klaus Mann: Briefe, 1930-1942 (1993)
Erika Mann und ihr politisches Kabarett "Die Pfeffermühle" 1933–1937, by Helga Keiser-Hayne (1995)
Escape to Life: The Erika & Klaus Mann Story (2000, documentary directed by Andrea Weiss und Wieland Speck, IMDb)
Flucht ins Leben. Die Erika und Klaus Mann-Story, by Andrea Weiss (2000)
Klaus Und Erika Mann: Les Enfants Terribles, by Armin Strohmeyr (2000)
Erika Mann. Eine Biographie, by Irmela von der Lühe (2001)
Die Manns – Ein Jahrhundertroman (2001, TV-series, directed by Heinrich Breloer und Horst Königstein, IMDb)
"Wie ich leben soll, weiss ich noch nicht". Erika Mann zwischen "Pfeffermühle" und "Firma Mann". Ein Porträt, by Ute Kröger (2005)
Die Frauen der Familie Mann, by Hildegard Möller (2005)
Erika Mann. Eine jüdische Tochter. Über Erlesenes und Verleugnetes in der Familie Mann-Pringsheim, by Viola Roggenkamp (2005)
Der Wendepunkt. Ein Lebensbericht, by Klaus Mann (2006)
Erika Mann und die 'Pfeffermühle'. Dadaismus und die Anfänge des Cabarets in der Schweiz, by Daniela Chana (2015)
Erika und Therese: Erika Mann und Therese Giehse – Eine Liebe zwischen Kunst und Krieg, by Gunna Wendt (2018)
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JosieHolford says:
16 de December de 2018 at 18:47
In marrying Mann, Auden probably saved her life. And of course Auden dedicated his 1936 collection of poems "Look, Stanger!" to her.
Good to have all these resources in one place. Thank-you.
Thank you, Josie! I am glad you enjoyed 🙂 And yes, definitely: Auden saved Mann's life!


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In this week's episode, Jeremy and Paul talk about Twin City Players' production of "Doubt: A Parable" and the band Foreigner returning to Four Winds Casino Resort's Silver Creek Event Center.


OKLAHOMA CITY – The man suspected of shooting three people in a restaurant in Oklahoma City before he was shot by passers-by had no obvious connection to the victims or the restaurant and was legally authorized to to carry a firearm. Investigators attempt to capture a motive behind Thursday night attack to Oklahoma City Police Capt. To determine Bo Mathews.
3 years old. A police report from this 2003 incident indicates that Tilghman was arrested after his mother told police he had beaten her several times during a dispute about a vacuum cleaner.
The police said Tilghman happened to pick Louie's restaurant, which was full of guests for dinner. "It looked like he knew he would hand in his firearm as soon as he got there," Mathews said during a press conference on Friday.
"It could have been really bad. It's a limited area and nobody really can escape." said Mathews .
He stressed that the investigation continues and confirms that Tilghman's mental health is under investigation.
On a Facebook page, which according to the police belonged to Tilghman, the man posts a video in which he claims that his television is obsessed with the devil. The page uses the same profile photo as a YouTube channel on which a man who looks like Tilghman describes demons that own his TV and are surrounded by computers.
He quietly asks for help from "a real person" and says he is suicidal, lonely and "really loses it". LGBT Group Freedom Oklahoma director Troy Stevenson said Tilghman was the same man who distributed flyers over Oklahoma City earlier this year and warned of demons that would take over human bodies. And a reporter from the LGBT publication The Gayly conducted an interview with Tilghman in January warning of "demons in cloned transsexual (sic) bodies."
Everywhere Tilghman drove, flyers were plastered with similar messages, said Ryan Beaulac, who said he often saw Tilghman in his apartment complex in northwest Oklahoma City.
Beaulac said he saw how Tilghman behaved strangely on Wednesday.
"He was nervous, grabbing his hair and behaving strangely," said 35-year-old Beaulac. "I felt uncomfortable and wanted to get away from him."
A man posing as Tilghman's brother told TV channel KOCO that Tilghman needed mental health treatment and said, "No one joined him, you know. He cried for help."
Tilghman was licensed as an armed security guard, who authorized him to carry a firearm, said Gerald Konkler, general counsel for the Oklahoma Council on Law Enforcement Education and Training. The council certifies law enforcement officials and other armed personnel throughout the state. To obtain such a license, a background examination and at least 72 hours of training is required.
A woman answering the phone at the house allegedly belonging to Tilghman's mother declined to comment when she was contacted by The Associated Press.
The police said Tilghman was armed with a gun when he opened the fire at 6.30 pm in Louies On The Lake. on Thursday. They said the suspect was standing in the door of the restaurant and started firing.
"There was pop, pop, pop," said Ron Benton, one of about 100 patrons who touched the floor and then the door. He ran and hid among the cars.
A 39-year-old woman and two girls were shot and injured while an unarmed man broke his arm while trying to escape. All four victims were in good condition, according to police.
Mathews, the police spokesman, praised the two citizens who took firearms out of their vehicles and shot Tilghman outside the restaurant.
Mathews said it is unlikely that any of the men, Juan Carlos Nazario and Bryan Whittle, will face prosecution. Telephone and text messages left by The Associated Press to receive a comment from the two men were not returned immediately on Friday.
The Hal Smith Restaurant Group, which owns the restaurant, said the restaurant was closed on Friday and the consultants were available to staff and customers.
"We are very grateful that the situation did not escalate further and that injuries were not more widespread, but our hearts are with the wounded during this incident," the statement states.
The National Rifle Association said in a Friday tweet that shooting is an example of "how the best way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun".
In April, a restaurant fan gunned a rifle at a Waffle House in Nashville, Tennessee, an assault rifle. Four people were killed in this shooting. The police said that if the patron did not think fast enough, there would have been many more casualties.


The passenger compartment remained stable in the frontal offset test. Dummy readings showed good protection of the knees and femurs of both driver and passenger. Mercedes-Benz showed that a similar level of protection would be provided for occupants of different sizes and to those sat in different positions. Protection of the passenger was good for all critical body areas. In the full-width rigid barrier test, protection of the driver and rear passenger was good or adequate. In the side barrier test, protection of the dummy was good for all critical body areas and maximum points were scored. However, in the more severe side pole test, dummy readings of rib compression indicated weak protection of the chest. Tests on the front seats and head restraints demonstrated good protection against whiplash injury in the event of a rear-end collision. A geometric assessment indicated weak whiplash protection for occupants of the rear seats. The C-Class Cabriolet has, as standard, an autonomous emergency braking system. Tests showed good performance of the functionality of this system at the low speeds at which many whiplash injuries are caused, with collisions avoided or mitigated.
In the frontal offset test, protection of both the 6 year and 10 year dummy was good or adequate. However, in the side barrier test, the head of the 10 year dummy contacted the metal frame of the folding roof and protection was rated as poor, based on the resulting high decelerations. The C-Class Cabriolet automatically disables the front passenger airbag when a rearward-facing child restraint is positioned there. Mercedes-Benz showed that the system worked robustly and it was rewarded. Care is needed when installing the Group I ISOFIX restraint in the rear seats as the top tether anchorage is obscured. Otherwise all of the seats for which the car is designed could be installed and accommodated without problem.
The C-Class Cabriolet has an 'active' bonnet. Sensors detect when a pedestrian has been struck and actuators raise the bonnet to provide greater clearance to the stiff structures in the engine compartment. Mercedes-Benz showed that the system worked robustly for different pedestrian statures and over a wide range of speeds, so tests were conducted with the bonnet in the raised position. Results were good at almost all test locations. The bumper provided good protection to pedestrians' legs and maximum points were scored in these tests. However, protection of the pelvis was predominantly poor. A pedestrian-detecting autonomous braking system is available. However, as this is an option it was not tested as part of this assessment.
Approaching a stationary car See AEB City Crash avoided up to 45km/h.
Crash speed reduced up to 60km/h.
Approaching a slower moving car Crash speed reduced up to 70km/h. Crash speed reduced up to 80km/h.
A driver-set speed limiter and a seatbelt reminder for the front and rear seats are fitted as standard. Also standard is the autonomous emergency braking system. Tests of this system at highway speeds demonstrated adequate performance. A lane assistance system is available as an option but is not included in this assessment.


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Brexit and Irish tourism – January 2019 update
While recent headlines continue to focus on Britain's inability to agree an "orderly withdrawal", it remains business as usual in Ireland, albeit with a nervous anticipation about what impact Brexit will bring.
The following is an article from a recent edition of Ireland's Hotel and Catering Review written by Mairea Doyle Balfe, a director of our dedicated Hotel, Tourism and Leisure team.
UK visitors down
The UK remains Ireland's largest single geographic source market. At its peak in 2006 almost 4.1m UK tourists visited Ireland. With the impact of the economic downturn this dipped to 2.77m in 2012, but subsequently recovered to 3.9m in 2016.
However, since the Brexit vote UK visitors have declined to 3.7m in 2017. This decline in visitors from the UK over 2017 is further compounded by the fact that outbound travel from the UK was actually up for the year. According to the UK Office for National Statistics, outbound travel increased in 2017 by 3%. Whilst this shows a slowing in growth for their outbound travel sector (2015-2016 grew by over 7%), it highlights the fact that Ireland is losing market share.
Figures for 2018 show stabilisation, with the latest CSO statistics showing a very modest increase of 1% in UK tourists January to October 2018. However, this is in comparison to inbound tourism from all other areas growing by 11% over the same period this year.
Shifting focus to other markets
The consistent growth in the other source markets has lessened the impact of the declines from the UK. The North American market in particular has grown from a previous peak of c. 1.1m visitors in 2007 to 2.1m in 2017. January to October 2018 figures show that the North American market is up 32% from 2016. While demand from the UK has declined and Brexit may mean that there will be no significant growth in UK visitors for a number of years, other source markets are expected to continue to grow.
While Ireland has lost UK visitors, we have gained in other markets significantly and this is what has alleviated some pressure on hotel and tourism businesses. However, it is regional Ireland that has borne the brunt of the impact as demand in Dublin remains strongest.
Sterling devaluation
Border counties, which rely more heavily on the Northern Ireland market, have felt the reduction in both day and overnight visitors more acutely. This is further compounded by the weakness of the British Pound which is making the Republic more expensive.
For example, some hotels are seeing Northern Ireland visitors attending weddings in the south take a taxi back home rather than stay the night as they would previously have done. The border counties in the Republic are the "back garden" for many Northern Ireland visitors, but as the euro becomes more expensive the spend by these neighbours becomes less. This may be further impacted by the increase in the VAT rate which will put increased upward pressure on rooms and food prices.
While Sterling has somewhat stabilised over the last year, it remains close to 15% below 2016 levels with many commentators forecasting further weakness. This keeps the euro more expensive comparative to Sterling for non-European visitors. US holidaymakers, for example, are looking to Scotland rather than Ireland as a destination as both are viewed as similar destinations but now Scotland offers better relative value.
The need for future planning and preparation is more important now than ever – remaining competitive will be central to sustainability and growth for tourism businesses.
Brexit should act as a catalyst for tourism businesses to carry out a robust assessment of their sales and marketing strategy to identify potential risks and opportunities.
It is important for hotels to look at their geographic source markets to understand who their customers are. If there is an over-reliance on UK/NI business, then it is important to look at the other source markets which have grown and are continuing to grow. If there is an opportunity to diversify and target new markets they should create a market entry strategy.
In addition, sensitivity analysis on changes to EBITDAR due to Brexit will allow hotels to plan for the future. By preparing for the worst, tourism businesses will emerge stronger as they review all aspects of their operations, effectively future-proofing the business.
Our specialist hotel tourism and leisure team can also provide support and guidance to help your business assess the current and potential impact of Brexit. We can help you uncover the opportunities and threats facing your business and help you develop a sales and marketing plan that will respond to the unfolding situation.


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Q: Consider the ideal $\langle 1+i \rangle$ in $\mathbb{Z}[i]$. Consider the ideal $\langle 1+i \rangle$ in $\mathbb{Z}[i]$.
$(a)$ Make use of the given description of this ideal,
$\hspace{75pt}$ $\langle 1+i \rangle = \{a+bi:a+b \text{ is even}\}=\{\alpha\in \mathbb{Z}[i]:N(\alpha) \text{ is even}\}$
$\hspace{15pt}$ to show that for all $a+bi\in \mathbb{Z}[i]$, there exists $c\in \mathbb{Z}$, such that
$\hspace{100pt} $ $\langle 1+i \rangle+(a+bi)=\langle 1+i \rangle +c$.
$(b)$ Use part $a$ to prove that $\mathbb{Z}[i]/\langle 1+i \rangle$ has only two elements.

I have no idea how to go about showing part $a$. I know that since $\langle 1+i \rangle$ is the ideal, it is equivalent to $0$, but I'm stuck after that. Any hints?

A: There is an idea in your comment that can be used in the proof, but you should try to be as precise as possible when getting used to making arguments in quotient spaces. For example, here $1 \neq -i$, but what you probably mean is $1 + \langle 1+i\rangle = -i + \langle 1+i\rangle$, which is true.
Here's some scratch work/hints regarding how to proceed. Given $a+bi \in \mathbb{Z}[i]$, you're trying to show that there exists $c \in \mathbb{Z}$ such that $(a+bi)-c = (a-c) + bi \in \langle 1+i\rangle$. The statement $(a-c)+bi \in\langle1+i\rangle$ is true if and only if
$$
    (a-c) + bi = d(1+i) = d + di
$$
for some integer $d$. So what should $c$ be equal to? (Hint: Figure out what $d$ should be equal to first from this last equation.)
Edit: I forgot that you're supposed to make use of the rather unnecessary description of the ideal $\langle 1+i\rangle$ that they've provided. Prahlad provided an answer that uses this, or if you formulate a proof based on my suggestions above the 'right' way, you could just note that $2d$ is even.

A: For (a), if $m+ni$ has even norm, then $m\equiv n\pmod{2}$, so just take
$$
u = \frac{n-m}{2}, \text{ and } v = \frac{n+m}{2}
$$
then $u, v\in \mathbb{Z}$ and $m+ni = (1+i)(u+vi)$
For the second half, use Euclidean division.

A: Just to get you started:
$\langle 1+i \rangle$ is a principal ideal in $\mathbb{Z}[i]$, which consists of all multiples of $1+i$ in $\mathbb{Z}[i]$.
Thus, any element of $\langle 1+i \rangle$ looks like $(1+i)(m+ni)$ where $m,n \in \mathbb{Z}$.
So, an element of $\langle 1+i \rangle$ is of the form $(m-n)+(m+n)i$.
Comparing this with $a+ib$, we see that $a = m-n$ and $b = m+n$, do you now see that $a+b$ must be even?
Can you make any progress from here?

A: For part $(a)$, recall
$$ (a+bi) + \langle 1 + i \rangle = c + \langle 1 + i \rangle $$
if and only if
$$ a+bi-c \in \langle 1 + i \rangle. $$
An example might be helpful here.  Let's say we start with $a+bi = 3 + 4i$.  Then
$$ (3+4i) + \langle 1 + i \rangle = (-1) + \langle 1 + i \rangle $$
because
$$ (3+4i)-(-1) = 4(1+i) \in \langle 1 + i \rangle. $$
In other words, in this example, you can subtract off $4$ of $1 + i$'s because each of the $1+i$'s are in the ideal $\langle 1 + i \rangle$.  Now what might you do for an arbitrary $a + bi$?


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A member of the Criddle family based in Melbourne is planning a series of creative works and a performance inspired by Geraldton and Greenough history.
"I am looking at family and ancestry as a subject," Georgina Criddle said.
Ms Criddle, who grew up in Perth, has just concluded a 10-day visit where she was based at the former Maley Cottage which is now the Greenough Museum.
She said her great-great aunt Mary Criddle was believed to have been the Maley family's maid before she died at the age of 21.
The former maid's room is now the guest room where Ms Criddle slept during her visit.
She said her family were among WA's earliest settlers, as her ancestor William Criddle came to the Swan River Colony in 1829 as an indentured servant.
After a year had passed he was freed from his indenture when his master abandoned a pastoral project.
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I cannot get 'show faces' to work in the like box

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If I place this into the following code generator:
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Unselect stream, but keep 'show faces' selected.
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The free-to-air broadcasting deal announced today makes it unlikely that any New Zealander will miss out on seeing rugby World Cup matches in 2011, tournament chief executive Martin Snedden says.
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"Even with that, we knew there would be people who didn't get access to the rugby World Cup," Snedden said.
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RWCL managing director Mike Miller said the solution reached was good for the tournament, for rugby and for New Zealanders.
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Q: How can I mix a populated ObjectId with a string Actually, in the database I got a job that I request with a GET route:

So when I populate candidates I got this response format :

My problem here is I don't need that "id" object, I just need a "selected_candidates" array with users inside as objects. Actually it's an object, in another object that is in an Array.
Here the code from my controller (the populate is in the jobsService):

If I change the data format of the job like that way:

...It is working great (with a path: "candidates_selected") like expected BUT I don't have that "status" string (Normal because I don't have it anymore in the DataBase. Because of ObjectId):

I would like a solution to have them both, but maybe it's the limit of noSQL?

A solution without populate but with a Loop (I don't think it's a good idea):

A: I think there is no convenience way to achieve it. However you may try the aggregate framework from the native MongoDB driver.
Let your Mongoose schemas be ASchema and BSchema
const result = await ASchema.aggregate([
    {$addFields: {org_doc: '$$ROOT'}}, // save original document to retrieve later
    {$unwind: '$candidates_selected'},
    {
        $lookup: {
            from: BSchema.collection.name,
            let: {
                selected_id: '$candidates_selected.id',
                status: '$candidates_selected.status',
            },
            pipeline: [
                {
                    $match: {$expr: {$eq: ['$$selected_id', '$_id']}}, // find candidate by id
                },
                {
                    $addFields: {status: '$$status'} // attach status
                }
            ],
            as: 'found_candidate'
        }
    },
    {
        $group: { // regroup the very first $unwind stage
            _id: '$_id',
            org_doc: {$first: '$org_doc'},
            found_candidates: {
                $push: {$arrayElemAt: ['$found_candidate', 0]} // result of $lookup is an array, concat them to reform the original array
            }
        }
    },
    {
        $addFields: {'org_doc.candidates_selected': '$found_candidates'} // attach found_candidates to the saved original document
    },
    {
        $replaceRoot: {newRoot: '$org_doc'} // recover the original document
    }
])


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When European Countries Retreat From Democracy, How Should the U.S. Respond?
The question looms large during Pompeo's visit to Central Europe.
By Robbie Gramer
| February 11, 2019, 5:31 PM
U.S. President Donald Trump (left) and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban stand at a NATO summit in Brussels on May 25, 2017. (Danny Gys/AFP/Getty Images)
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's visit to Central Europe this week highlights a long-standing dilemma the United States faces with countries accused of democratic backsliding, including Hungary and Poland.
Actively engaging with these countries, as the Trump administration has chosen to do, could potentially enable their retreat from democracy. But refraining from engagement leaves a vacuum that Russia and China appear eager to fill.
Pompeo addressed the issue head on during a visit Monday to Hungary, where he met with Prime Minister Viktor Orban and Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto at the start of a five-country tour of Europe.
"Too often in the recent past, the United States was absent from Central Europe," Pompeo said during his Monday visit. "That's unacceptable. Our rivals filled those vacuums."
The approach contrasts with the one taken by the Obama administration, which restricted its interactions with Hungary and publicly admonished Orban for curbing political rights and dismantling parts of the country's democratic institutions.
Champions of the engagement policy include outgoing Europe envoy Wess Mitchell, the assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs, who will leave his post this month.
During his visit to Budapest, Pompeo pointed to strides in the U.S.-Hungary relationship, including a new defense cooperation agreement and discussions on arms deals.
Daniel Fried, a retired career diplomat and former assistant secretary of state for Europe and Eurasia, said the United States "tended to fall back to a scolding, finger-wagging mode" in the past. "It didn't do much good." Fried cited Poland, where he said concerns about democratic backsliding had abated somewhat in the past 18 months, thanks in part to Washington's engagement.
Damon Wilson, the executive vice president of the Atlantic Council, pointed to the fact that Budapest joined its Western allies in expelling Russian diplomats following the poisoning of a former Russian spy in the United Kingdom and backing EU sanctions regimes against Moscow—despite being viewed as increasingly close to Moscow.
Pompeo touted increased U.S. engagement in the region as a way to push back on Russian influence. "We've now had 14 senior-level U.S. visits throughout Central Europe in just the first two years of this administration. I won't tell you how many there were in the previous administration, but it starts with a 'Z,'" he said. (Though the last secretary of state visit was, in fact, in 2011.)
Russian President Vladimir Putin visited Hungary twice last year, while the last visit by a U.S. president to Budapest was in 2006.
But others say the Trump administration has little to show for engaging with Orban over the past two years.
"That engagement appears to have led nowhere. … It looks like enabling policy," said Constanze Stelzenmüller, a Europe scholar at the Brookings Institution. "They already are deeply engaged with both Russia and China, and it's not apparent to me that what this administration calls its engagement policy has changed that."
The right-wing governments in Hungary and Poland are embroiled in political fights and disciplinary proceedings with the European Union, as their governments are accused of rolling back democratic institutions and cracking down on free media. The Hungarian government has touted Pompeo's visit as proof of its pro-Western credentials—and a rebuff to its critics.
The organization Freedom House, which scores countries worldwide on political freedom and civil liberties, for the first time downgraded Hungary to "partly free" in its 2019 report, citing the Orban government's "sustained attacks" on democratic institutions and restrictions on opposition parties, academia, the judicial system, and the media. It is the first EU member to receive such a downgrade.
In some cases, when the United States has pressed Budapest on an issue, "the Hungarian government has done the exact opposite repeatedly," said Heather Conley, an expert on the region and a former State Department official now at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
She cited several examples: the Hungarian government's decision to close Central European University—a private university funded by the billionaire George Soros—in the face of U.S. pressure to keep it open; Budapest's ongoing feud with Ukraine over the treatment of its Hungarian-speaking minorities, which has blocked up some NATO-Ukraine cooperation; and Hungary's decision last year to refuse a U.S. request to extradite Russian arms dealers, sending them to Moscow instead.
Mitchell, the senior U.S. diplomat on Europe, expressed frustration over Budapest not working with the United States, according to a Hungarian diplomatic cable leaked to the Hungarian news site Direkt36.hu. "Support is starting to dissipate for those who believe in U.S.-Hungarian relations, we have to show results," he told a senior Hungarian diplomat during a meeting in December 2018, according to the leaked cable.
Meanwhile, Chinese state-backed companies have made inroads in Central Europe, alarming U.S. officials who fear the business ventures could be exploited by Chinese intelligence agencies and used as geopolitical leverage by Beijing.
Senior officials point to Huawei, the Chinese telecommunications giant, currently embroiled in a criminal indictment in the United States over bank fraud and sanctions violations. Last month, Poland arrested a Huawei employee on suspicion of espionage, and the Czech Republic's cybersecurity agency has pushed the government not to use equipment or software from Huawei or ZTE, another Chinese technology company.
Pompeo said he raised "the dangers of allowing China to gain a bridgehead in Hungary" with his Hungarian counterpart during their joint press conference.
His European tour—which includes a stop in Brussels and an expected meeting with the EU's foreign-policy chief, Federica Mogherini—also highlights growing fissures in the trans-Atlantic relationship. While the Trump administration has ramped up military support for NATO (even amid the president's own tirades against the alliance), it has spurned engagement with the European Union following spats over the Iran nuclear deal and trade issues.
In July 2018, Trump called the European Union a "foe," putting it on par with Russia and China. Later in the year, the Trump administration downgraded the diplomatic status of the EU mission in Washington without bothering to tell the EU.
Brussels is still reeling from a speech Pompeo gave during a visit in December, in which he berated Trump's EU critics and panned multilateralism.
The speech had a "serious impact" in Brussels, said Stelzenmüller, the Brookings scholar. "That's one of the worst European speeches a secretary of state has ever given. The reverberations are still being felt."
Robbie Gramer is a diplomacy and national security reporter at Foreign Policy. Twitter: @RobbieGramer
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