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Home Clinical feature Clinical areas Cancer A GP guide to advance decisions to refuse treatment
A GP guide to advance decisions to refuse treatment
Dr Janet Page and Dr Richard Brittain look at the practical aspects of advance decisions
The use of advance decisions is likely to grow as people become more aware of the concept and personal electronic records inform doctors of their existence.
A properly constructed advance decision should bring clarity to the treatment of patients who lack capacity and reassure patients and doctors that care provided is not going beyond that which is desired.
There are two legal mechanisms by which individuals can direct future treatment choices if they lose their capacity to make such decisions. These mechanisms under the Mental Capacity Act 2005 are 'advance decisions to refuse treatment' and 'lasting powers of attorney' (LPA).
LPAs involve a formal nomination by a 'donor' of one or more 'attorneys' who will make health and financial decisions on behalf of the donor if they lose capacity at some point in the future. These arrangements need to be registered with the Office of the Public Guardian to be enforceable.
Advance decisions to refuse treatment are also known as 'advance directives' or 'living wills'. By making an advance decision an adult (aged over 18) can specify treatment that they would decline, or wish to be stopped, in particular circumstances when they do not have the capacity to make such a decision.
'Advance statement' is a term usually used for documents which are not legally binding, but which set out broad principles regarding how an individual would wish to be treated.
Making an advance decision
If patients wish to discuss making an advance decision, consider the following:
• An individual must have capacity to make an advance decision. Under the Mental Capacity Act, an individual is presumed to have capacity unless otherwise established. If there is doubt, the statutory test is:
– does he or she understand the nature, purpose and effect of an advance decision, can he or she retain this information for as long as is necessary to consider the information and can he or she then communicate a decision? Documentation of this is useful if the advance decision were to be challenged.
• The reasons for making the decision need to be clear. Treatment cannot be declined for disorders which are compulsorily treatable under mental health legislation, so consider carefully whether a treatable psychiatric disorder underlies the desire to create an advance decision.
A discussion about disease prognosis and end-of-life care can help make patients aware that, in the absence of an advance decision, treatment will be based on their best interests with input from relatives and friends.
The potential for undue influence from family or friends to create an advance decision should also be addressed, and the following should be established:
• The limits – an advance decision cannot demand specific treatment nor request that an illegal act be carried out, such as assisting suicide.
• The wording – an advance decision that declines the use of life-sustaining treatment must be written, signed (or acknowledged), witnessed and explicitly state that it applies even where life is at risk. Other advance decisions can be made verbally and the treatment and circumstances covered by the decision may not be clear. Legal input will help ensure that advance decisions are as clear and unambiguous as possible.
• How it will be communicated – a prominent up-to-date entry in GP records may suffice for primary care, but secondary care professionals may need to be provided with a current version of the decision at each admission. It should be regularly reviewed by the patient while they maintain capacity.
• Whether an LPA might be more appropriate – the patient's disease and concerns may mean that an LPA is the better option, such as where future circumstances are not clear but the patient is able and willing to nominate an individual who can make specific treatment decisions when necessary. See www.publicguardian.gov.uk for more information.
Using an advance decision
Several questions need to be asked before an advance decision can be relied on:
• Has anything happened which alters it? An LPA which has been created after an advance decision and covers the same issues 'trumps' a previous advance decision. Alterations can be made to an advance decision, or it can be completely withdrawn, if the individual has capacity to make these changes. Amendments can be made verbally unless it relates to life-sustaining treatment, in which case they must be written.
• Where a patient has taken action which contradicts a previous advance decision, this can alter whether it is followed. An advance decision can also be affected if new circumstances would have influenced it had they been anticipated by the patient – for example, pregnancy.
• Is it interpretable? An advance decision must relate to specific treatment and circumstances. Where it is not possible to apply the advance decision to a treatment decision or to particular circumstances it should not be used, nor adapted to fit the situation. Where there is a lack of clarity regarding the existence, validity or interpretation of an advance decision, treatment which sustains life or prevents a serious deterioration can be undertaken while a court decision is sought regarding the unclear issues. A judge cannot overturn a valid and applicable advance decision.
• Is it able to be implemented? If a patient maintains capacity clearly, an advance decision cannot be used. Certain basic types of nursing care cannot be declined, but artificial nutrition and hydration can. If a refused treatment is given by someone who is satisfied that a valid and applicable advance decision exists, they may be sued or prosecuted for providing the treatment.
Dr Janet Page is medicolegal adviser and Dr Richard Brittain is medicolegal assistant at the Medical Protection Society
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Ivano Fossati (* 21. September 1951 in Genua) ist ein italienischer Cantautore (Liedermacher) und Rockmusiker. Er ist sechsmaliger Preisträger der Targa Tenco und konnte sich auch als Songwriter für bekannte italienische Musiker und Komponist von Filmmusik einen Namen machen.

Im Lauf seiner Karriere arbeitete Fossati mit internationalen und italienischen Musikern aus verschiedenen Genres wie Trilok Gurtu, Tony Levin, Enrico Rava, Uña Ramos, Guy Barker, Nguyên Lê, Tiziano Ferro oder Francesco De Gregori zusammen und übersetzte Liedtexte von Chico Buarque, Silvio Rodríguez, Djavan oder Supertramp.

Karriere
Als Kind kam Fossati früh mit Musik in Berührung, im Alter von acht Jahren begann er mit dem Klavierspiel. Seine ersten Erfahrungen in der musikalischen Öffentlichkeit machte er mit italienischen Beatbands, die sich zu der Zeit vermehrt dem Progressive Rock zuwandten. 1971 nahm er mit seiner eigenen Band Delirium das Debütalbum Dolce acqua auf. Mit dem Lied Jesahel nahm die Gruppe am Sanremo-Festival 1972 teil und erreichte den sechsten Platz; in der Folge wurde das Lied ein Nummer-eins-Hit und auch das Album ein großer Erfolg. Doch Fossati war an einer Solokarriere interessiert und stieg rasch wieder aus der Band aus.

Er startete seine Solokarriere 1973 mit dem Album Il grande mare che avremmo traversato, dem rasch Poco prima dell'aurora (1974) und Good-Bye Indiana (1975) folgten. Danach wechselte er vom Label Fonit-Cetra zu RCA, wo er 1977 mit La casa del serpente debütierte. Daneben begann er, Musik für Theaterstücke und später auch vereinzelt für Filme zu schreiben. Der Durchbruch gelang Fossati 1979 mit dem noch sehr vom Rock geprägten Album La mia banda suona il rock, aus dem auch die erfolgreiche gleichnamige Single stammte. Mia Martini gewann mit dem von Fossati geschriebenen Lied E non finisce mica il cielo beim Sanremo-Festival 1982 den Kritikerpreis, woraufhin er auch als Songwriter und Musikproduzent gefragter wurde: Er schrieb Lieder für Mina, Patty Pravo, Fiorella Mannoia, Gianni Morandi, Ornella Vanoni, Anna Oxa, Loredana Bertè und viele weitere.

Mit seinen folgenden Alben begab der Musiker sich auf eine Genresuche und wandte sich zunehmend vom Rock ab. 1981 erschien Panama e dintorni, das letzte Album bei RCA. Nach einem Wechsel zu CBS setzte Fossati seine Produktion mit den Alben Le città di frontiera (1983) und Ventilazione (1984) fort. Für den Nachfolger 700 giorni wurde er 1986 mit der Targa Tenco für das Album des Jahres ausgezeichnet. La pianta del tè (mit dem Targa-Tenco-prämierten Lied Questi posti davanti al mare) leitete 1988 eine besonders erfolgreiche Schaffensphase ein, sowohl in künstlerischer als auch in kommerzieller Hinsicht: Es waren dies die Studioalben Discanto (1990), Lindbergh (1992) und Macramè (1996), alle drei mit der Targa Tenco ausgezeichnet. 1991 erschien Fossatis erstes Buch Il giullare, 1993 ein zweiteiliges Livealbum.

1996 arbeitete Fossati auch eng mit Fabrizio De André auf dessen Album Anime salve zusammen, das ebenso wie das Lied Prinçesa eine Targa Tenco gewann. 2000 meldete er sich mit dem Album La disciplina della terra zurück. Im Jahr darauf veröffentlichte er bei Sony Classical das Instrumentalalbum Not One Word, außerdem erschien das Buch Carte da decifrare. Das nächste gesungenen Studioalbum Lampo viaggiatore verfehlte 2003 nur knapp die Chartspitze, die folgende Tournee mündete 2004 in einem weiteren Livealbum. 2004 veröffentlichte er außerdem die Charitysingle Mio fratello che guardi il mondo zugunsten von Amnesty International. Mit dem Album L'arcangelo erreichte Fossati 2006 erstmals Platz eins der italienischen Albumcharts.

Nach einem Wechsel zu EMI konnte er die Erfolgsserie mit dem Album Musica moderna (2008) direkt fortsetzen. Im selben Jahr steuerte er das Lied L'amore trasparente zum Film Stilles Chaos von Antonello Grimaldi bei, das sowohl einen David di Donatello als auch einen Nastro d'Argento für den besten Filmsong gewann. Das nächste Studioalbum Decadancing erreichte 2011 erneut die Chartspitze. Zugleich mit dem Erscheinen des Albums und der Autobiografie Tutto questo futuro kündigte Fossati seinen Rückzug aus der Öffentlichkeit an. 2012 erschien noch ein letztes Livealbum, 2014 der Roman Tretrecinque. Mit der Kompilation Contemporaneo gab der Musiker 2016 nach langer Pause wieder ein musikalisches Lebenszeichen; erst 2019 kehrte er auch ins Studio zurück und nahm zusammen mit Mina das Album Mina/Fossati auf.

Diskografie

Studioalben

Weitere Alben
 1973 – Il grande mare che avremmo traversato (Fonit, LPX 21)
 1974 – Poco prima dell'aurora (mit Oscar Prudente; Fonit, LPX 24)
 1975 – Good-Bye Indiana (Fonit, LPX 38)
 1977 – La casa del serpente (RCA, PL 31301)
 1981 – Panama e dintorni (RCA, PL 31570)
 1984 – Ventilazione (CBS)
 1986 – 700 giorni (CBS)

Livealben

Kompilationen

Singles

Weitere Singles
 1971 – Canto di Osanna / Deliriana (mit Delirium)
 1972 – Dolce acqua / Favola o storia del lago di Kriss (mit Delirium)
 1972 – Treno / È l'ora (mit Delirium)
 1973 – Il grande mare che avremmo traversato / All'ultimo amico
 1973 – È l'aurora / L'Africa (mit Oscar Prudente)
 1974 – Tema del lupo / Apri le braccia (mit Oscar Prudente)
 1974 – Cane di strada / Concerto di plenilunio in un castello di Stoccarda
 1975 – Goodbye Indiana
 1977 – Matto / La casa del serpente
 1981 – Panama / J'adore Venise
 1981 – La signora cantava il blues / Stazione
 1983 – La musica che gira intorno / I ragazzi cattivi
 1983 – Tico Palabra / Quante estati, quanti inverni
 1988 – Questi posti davanti al mare (mit Fabrizio De André und Francesco De Gregori)
 1988 – Terra dove andare / L'uomo coi capelli da ragazzo
 1990 – Lusitania / Panama / La musica che gira intorno
 1992 – La canzone popolare / Italiani d'Argentina / Terra dove andare / Una notte in Italia

Weblinks
 Offizielle Website (italienisch)
 Ivano Fossati bei Rockol.it (italienisch)
 Ivano Fossati bei Treccani.it (italienisch)

Belege

Liedermacher
Rockmusiker
Songwriter
Italiener
Geboren 1951
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Housing affordability is clearly improving in Sydney although the outlook for first home buyers remains bleak.
Sydney's property owners have enjoyed another positive year overall for prices growth although results have been typically mixed between regions, price ranges and dwelling types.
The key driver of the surge in Sydney house prices over recent years has been the steep decline in mortgage rates that has provided home buyers with historically favourable borrowing conditions.
Since the beginning of the current easing cycle in official interest rates in November 2011, the Sydney property market has clearly outperformed the other capitals with the median house price now over $1.1 million.
Despite nation-leading prices growth, housing affordability for home buyers has improved recently as underlying prices growth in the Sydney market has declined.
The latest data from the ABS reports that the average loan for a home purchaser in New South Wales increased by 4.5 percent over October to $474,647.
October's result however remained 0.4 percent below that recorded over October 2015 and well below the peak average loan of $484,571 recorded over November 2015.
The Sydney Home Loan Affordability Index that measures the proportion of income required for the average home loan repayment has also improved lately with the index falling to 91.5 over the September quarter.
This was the lowest measure since June 2015 and well below the recent peak of 102.6 recorded over the December quarter 2015.
The Index results reflect the relationship between the proportion of the average home buyer loan to the Sydney median house price which has also fallen sharply recently with the September quarter result now at just 41 percent – the third lowest result over the past decade.
The Sydney median house price has surged by 69.3 percent since the December quarter 2011 fuelled by the lowest interest rates on record.
Despite boom-time market conditions, the average NSW loan for home buyers has increased by just 32.7 percent over the same period.
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The ABS reports that just 1327 NSW first home buyer loans were approved in October which was the lowest number on record for that month.
The September result was also the lowest recorded for that month in the series.
The number of first home buyer loans approved over the first 10 months of 2016 was 9.2 percent lower than that recorded over the same period in 2015.
And the average NSW first home buyer loan now stands at $396,500 – the highest monthly result ever recorded and $20,000 higher than borrowed over October the year before.


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Таширевы — дворянский род.

Предки фамилии Таширевых, по Галицким писцовым книгам 1627-го и последующих годов, владели поместьями, переходившими наследственно к потомкам. Многие из членов рода служили России в военной службе и были награждены чинами и орденами.

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Portugal has passed a decree to resume its so-called "golden visa" scheme — a program that issues residence permits to wealthy foreign investors — after it was suspended a few days earlier following a corruption scandal.
The decree to bring back the Residence Permits for Investment Activity (ARI), commonly known as "golden visas," will go into effect once it has been approved by President Aníbal Cavaco Silva.
"It would be a shame for Portugal to miss out on investments from other countries," government spokesman Luis Marques Guedes said Thursday, referring to the 1.46 billion euros ($1.58 billion) in investments the country has received since the scheme was introduced in October 2012.
In order to qualify for the visa, foreign candidates must either buy property in Portugal worth at least 500,000 euros ($542,000), make a capital investment of 1 million euros, or create 30 jobs.
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Introduced by the center-right government of Pedro Passos Coelho in 2012, the program was intended to minimize capital flight and attract investment in the years following the 2008 financial crisis. Eligibility for the visa is checked by the Portuguese Immigration and Borders Service (SEF).
The scheme was suspended last week by SEF head, António Beça Pereira, after a new immigration law passed on July 1 repealed — but didn't replace — some of the visa's provisions, creating a legal vacuum for applicants. The law had been modified in the wake of a major golden visa corruption scandal involving several Portuguese government officials.
A controversial visaIn March 2014, Portuguese authorities arrested a Chinese man whose name was on an Interpol wanted list for tax evasion. The man had been granted entry into the region after obtaining a golden visa through a property purchase in Cascais, a coastal town near Portugal's capital of Lisbon. The incident revealed the lack of safety nets to catch those who would take advantage of the scheme.
In November 2014, Portuguese police launched a nationwide investigation, codenamed Operation Labyrinth, to crack down on corruption linked to the granting of golden visas. Authorities arrested 11 people during a series of raids, including former SEF director Jarmela Palos, who was accused of fast-tracking applications in exchange for bribes. Three other government officials were sentenced in the case, and former interior minister Miguel Macedo was also forced to step down.
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Upon returning from handing in his letter of resignation ZM73 {for want of a better name} returns home. He collects a ready packed suitcase, his passport and airline ticket. On a side table under the window is a brown attaché case into which he places two travel brochures. Outside in the hallway an undertaker puts a gas gun to the keyhole of the study door and pumps nerve gas into the room rendering ZM73 unconscious, if not paralyzed!
We can only speculate about the contents of the attaché case, whether or not they are files containing sensitive information, private papers, or something entirely different.
Eventually the Prisoner wakes up in what he thinks is his own home, and when he gets up to look out of the window. The brown attaché case can be seen on the side table beneath the window, because the room has to be exactly the same when he wakes up to what it was when he was rendered unconscious. However, after the Prisoner has been out and about in The Village, at the café, attempting to make a telephone call, taking a scenic taxi ride, and finds out about maps of the area, he leaves the General Store. If he had gone straight back to his cottage instead of going round the other side of the General Store and along the road, he would have encountered the housemaid in his cottage. Instead he sees from the road, a housemaid standing on the balcony flicking a yellow duster.
The Prisoner then rushes back to his cottage not only to find his cottage now has a number, but the housemaid gone. He looks out of the window to see her hurrying away down a set of steps, and the brown attaché case which had lain upon the side table beneath the window has gone. The housemaid didn't take the attaché case, she's not even carrying that yellow duster, which she later goes back for.
It might well be that when the Prisoner had been brought to The Village, both his suitcase and the attaché case had already been searched before they had been placed in the cottage, and anything of importance removed. As for the non-presence of the attaché case, I can only suggest that in having dusted and tidied the cottage the housemaid placed the attaché case, along with his suitcase in the wardrobe in the bedroom. But just a minute, the Prisoner had only just moved in, the cottage didn't need dusting let alone tiding up. More than that, at that time there was a dividing wall between the study and the rest of the cottage, making it impossible for the housemaid to gain access to the rest of the cottage! So both the suitcase and attaché case had to have been removed after the Prisoner had left his cottage to take his first tentative steps in The Village by person or persons unknown. After all he wouldn't be needing either the clothes in the suitcase, or the items in the attaché case, any important papers or files removed and carefully filed away.
Karen 1 July 2016 at 05:15
The maid that Number 6 saw going down the stairs did NOT look like the same maid that he found in the flat later...as her hair was much shorter.
When Number 6 later looked into his wardrobe, it was empty...no brief case.
Have you noticed that from episode to episode that the large picture on the wall behind the divan changes? The 2 small pictures are the same, but the large picture changes....and that detail is too much to blame on the continuity people! There must have been a reason to change the picture...or Patrick McGoohan approved the changes.
Number 6 asked why his clothes were destroyed in the hospital, but we are never shown that he asked about the briefcase...so perhaps it contained only the travel books and brochures? Surely if it had contained important papers, he would have been angry and wanting to know where it was????
David Stimpson 7 July 2016 at 15:13
That's perfectly correct. The maid standing on the balcony of the Prisoner's cottage, and later seen hurrying away, was a stand in for the maid {played by Stephanie Randall} the Prisoner later meets in his cottage, because Stephanie Randall didn't go to Portmeirion.
No briefcase in the wardrobe, then other than the maid, person or persons unknown removed it!
It's not only the pictures and carvings hanging on the walls in Number 6's cottage that change, they also change in the study in his London home in later episodes from what they were in 'Arrival.' While Mrs. Butterworth is living there it's understandable that slight changes would be made. But when Number 6 wakes up back in his house in London in 'Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling' the study should be identical to what it was on the day of his abduction, but it isn't.
Have you noticed that there is one thing missing from the Prisoner's study on the day he was abducted? But perhaps that is because it was added later!
I think that at the time the Prisoner's cloths were more important to him than an attaché case and its possible contents. After all the taking away of his cloths was the first step in taking away his identity!
Citizen No.118
Citizen No.8!
Tell Me Now, Who Am I?
Citizen No. 14
Breaking Curfew!
Flags!
What Was It Number 6 Said?
A Right Pair of Six's!
Citizens of The Village!
Citizen No.2
Symbolism!
A Favourite Brand of Cigar!
Hooked on The Prisoner
The Pri50ner - SCREENSIX Productions
Fantastic Stories Part Two
Fantastic Stories Part One
Cause And Effect!
Curtis – Two Times 6!


Google Classroom gives you four options for the types of content to post: an Announcement, Assignment, Question, or Reuse a Post. In this post, I'll discuss Announcements and Assignments with examples. In my next post, I'll cover posting a Question and Reusing a post.
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Use this to announce to your class any important or pertinent information, reminders, supplemental materials to help them, etc. You can use this feature right away to welcome students to your online classroom and give them any class news, instructions, advice, or whatever. Share a link to a vocabulary list in Quizlet or No Red Ink assignment (more on that below). I also used "Announcement" to share funny memes or videos related to our unit of study.
You have several decisions to make: Decide if you want to share it with just the one class or multiple classes. If you want it to be shared with multiple classes, click on the drop-down menu for the class and you can check off the other classes you want to share with.
TIP: You can also create "Topics" for your announcements or assignments. These are like tags that will allow you to click on the tag and find all the other posts under that topic. Example topics you could use might be for different units of study (a specific novel, short stories, argument writing, poetry, etc.), or for general topics of study (reading, writing, vocabulary, grammar, etc.), types of work in class (bell ringer, homework, essay, reading assignment, etc.), or for time periods (1st quarter, 2nd quarter, or September, October, etc.). Whatever you choose, just remember that you can only choose ONE topic per posting, so make it something that will make sense for your students (or you) to use as a tag.
*TIP: To mark a document with a star so it is easy to find when attaching to posts, select that file in Google Drive™, then go up to the document settings and select the three dots that indicate more options. In the drop down, you'll see the option to "Add a star." Select that and then it will appear in your "Starred" options.
Finally, you can either "Post" the announcement, "Schedule" it to be posted later, or "Save" your draft and edit and post later. I often used either the "Schedule" or "Save" feature when I created a post late at night and did not want to wake my students with a notification. Be aware that unless students have turned off those notifications, they will get them on their device when you post something.
Once you post it, it will appear in the class "Stream."
ASSIGNMENTS: Use the assignment feature to post something that you want to distribute and collect from students for a grade. This should be something that also has a due date. If there isn't a due date or work to collect, consider just using the announcement feature instead.
1. Who do you want to assign this to? All classes? Just this class?
2. All students? Just certain students?
3. What do you want to title your assignment?
4. Would you like to file this under one of your topics?
6. Would you like to assign immediately, schedule it, or save the draft?
7. Due date: You can select a day and a specific time by clicking on the drop-down menus.
8. Attachments: Do you want to share a document that all students can view, or do you want each student to be able to collaborate and edit the same document, or allow each individual to have their own copy?
TIP: I mentioned this in my last blog post, but it is worth mentioning again: If you make a copy for each student and you have a co-teacher, it does NOT make a copy for the co-teacher. Therefore, if your co-teacher opens the document, any edits she/he makes happen on your template and appear on every student copy. Several times I had an aide typing the answers onto what she thought was her own copy as I was lecturing. Instead, she was typing the answers on every single student's copy. And do you think those students told us right away? Of course not!
The only fix for this is to make sure your co-teacher makes her/his own copy manually. She/He can open the file, then select File > Make a copy. Right now, this is the only way to ensure your original template remains intact. The students DO NOT have to do this; only a co-teacher if you have one in your Google Classroom™ class.
she/he will need to make a copy of the file in order to make changes to it.
Thanks for stopping by for this tutorial. I will post next time on using the "Ask a question" and "Reuse post" options.


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Q: Compiling: //lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6: error adding symbols: DSO missing I am having trouble compiling code intended for 32bit unix system on my 64bit Ubuntu, Linux. Does anyone have any ideas what may be the problem?
gcc main.o test.o render.o transform.o model.o vector.o color.o -o the_thing -lSDL
/usr/bin/ld: transform.o: undefined reference to symbol 'cos@@GLIBC_2.2.5'
//lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libm.so.6: error adding symbols: DSO missing from command line
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

A: You should link libm as well when you are dealing with code that uses mathematical functions.
From this answer:

If your code includes mathematical functions (like exp, cos, etc.),
  you need to link to the mathematics library libm.so. This is done,
  just like for serial compiling, by adding -lm to the end of your
  compile command, that is,
mpicc -o sample sample.c -lm

A plus
I saw in your compile line that you are using -lSDL. SDL works with C and C++, so, if you are using pure C you should include the default math C header, which is:
#include <math.h>
I think that you made something like this:
#include <cmath>
If you are working with C++ you should not compile using the C compiler, use g++ instead.

A: You can compile your code using -lm argument.
gcc file.c -lm

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The 2015 Mets, of course, made it all the way to the World Series where they lost in five games to the Royals. Cespedes joined the club at the trade deadline when the Mets sent Michael Fulmer and Luis Cessa to the Tigers. Cespedes hit 17 home runs and knocked in 44 runs in his two months with the Mets through the end of the regular season. But that club not only had Cespedes, but a healthy and elite Matt Harvey. Jacob deGrom followed up his Rookie of the Year Award-winning 2014 campaign with an even better 2015. Noah Syndergaard impressed as a rookie. Closer Jeurys Familia had the best season of his career. Lucas Duda had another terrific offensive season. Michael Conforto was highly productive as a rookie.
Overall, the 2015 squad scored 683 runs and allowed 613. Baseball Prospectus is projecting the 2018 Mets to score 722 runs and allow 727. While the 2015 squad had some weaknesses, they were few and far between. The Mets are notably weak at first base this year with Adrian Gonzalez, potentially in the final year of his career. Amed Rosario is still an unknown after a weak debut last season. The catching unit of Travis d'Arnaud and Kevin Plawecki is below average. The starting rotation is among the most fragile in baseball.
I appreciate the motivation behind Cespedes saying what he said. He wants to energize his teammates, give them confidence going into a new season. But objectively, this team has far more negatives than the 2015 team did. That's why in my 2018 preview I predicted them to go 79-83 and finish in third place. Baseball Prospectus is expecting an 80-82 finish while FanGraphs is putting them at 81-81.


It's time for our viral post of the month and the winner this month is FODAC! A video for their FODAC delivery truck campaign reached over 22,ooo people and received over 11,000 views and the number continues to grow!
Check out what you are missing if you haven't sent someone from your team to the GRM / UGA Social Media Bootcamps. Yep, they are back and the dates are already set January, March and April. Our Social Media Marketing Bootcamp is a full-day, hands-on seminar that includes case-studies and interactive exercises to reinforce the information you will learn. Be sure to sign up today!


The BIA's eight advisory committees are crucial mechanisms for highlighting the most relevant issues facing bioscience companies. We are delighted to invite you to the fifth Committee Summit where our committees will present and update on their 2018 objectives and explain key issues for 2019. Steve Bates OBE, Chief Executive Officer, BIA will provide an update on BIA activities and plans. We welcome existing committee members and the wider BIA community to join us at Simmons and Simmons in London.
13.30 -15.00: Plenary session: The 2019 Comprehensive Spending Review – what can the sector expect?
The Government will conduct a Spending Review this year, which will set out public spending for the anticipated time period of 2019 – 2023. In this session, we will hear from the key civil servants responsible for the different areas of government spending that support UK bioscience and have an opportunity to discuss our sector's priorities with them.
This event is open to BIA members only. You have the option of registering for 2 committee meetings, one in the morning session and one in the afternoon session. Please email rdhillon@bioindustry.org to reserve your place.
If you are not a BIA member but would be interested in attending this event, please contact Michael McGivern.
Michael is a BSc Biology graduate with four years' experience in Business Development and Sales roles covering the pharmaceutical and Higher Education sectors. Following University, he worked for a multi-national raw material distributor in the north-west, supplying API's and excipients to pharmaceutical manufacturers and then moved on to the University of London. Here he managed the tender process for their SaaS products as well as various account management duties for their Not-For-Profit, HE institution and Charity customers.
Having joined the BIA in April 2017, his role is to bring new companies into membership, while developing engagement with current members.


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Violence erupts on 'Trump 2020' supporter
'I've never seen something like this before'
Gus Klein displays the "Trump 2020" flag vandalized outside his Burlington, Vermont, house (Screenshot from WCAX-TV, Burlington)
A veteran of the Afghanistan War woke up Sunday morning to find someone had burned the "Trump 2020" flag that had flown outside his house.
Gus Klein of Burlington, Vermont, told local WCAX-TV a burned piece of fabric was on his front porch, and he noticed that the "flagpole was laying on the ground," McClatchy.com reported.
"It does make me sad," Klein said, according to New England Cable News. "I'm going to be 58 years old, and I've never seen something like this before. I've always lived in this area."
His wife, Annmarie Klein, told NBC5 in Burlington the vandalism is symptomatic of the nation's tense political discourse.
"It's not good," she said. "It's crazy. To me, that's violent. That's bullying. It's scary."
NBC5 reported the Vermont Democratic Party released a statement condemning the incident.
"It's the level of respect with which we treat that difference that makes us Vermonters – that makes us unique," the party said.
Meanwhile, a Denver man said he was wearing a red "Make America Great Again" hat when someone attacked him while he was crossing a street downtown, KDVR.com reported Monday.
Patrick Phillips said the man, whom he had never met, walked up, knocked his legs out from under him and began to beat him.
The Washington Post reported in October someone burned the pickup of a Washington state man because it had a bumper sticker that read "TRUMP 2020."
In July, McClatchy.com noted, the Washington Examiner reported a group of interns for congressional Republicans were rejected by an Uber driver because two of the interns wore "Make America Great Again" hats.
New 'terms' for customers at restaurant that refused to serve Sarah Sanders
Again? Professor of 'psychiatry' claims Trump 'a danger'
Student suspended for MAGA attire back in class
Leftists bark, growl like dogs on Trump's Hollywood star
'It's a good day for you to die, b**ch'
Ex-N.Y. Times editor scorches paper's Trump Derangement Syndrome
Trump Christmas portrait enrages left
Establishment objective: 'Get rid of Donald Trump'
Rush Limbaugh: Dems' goal all along to stop Trump
Analysis: Trump right about 'Obama judges'


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Winter's Bane é uma banda norte-americana de Heavy/Power metal formada em 1990 no Akron, Ohio. Surgiu na cena do Metal com seu álbum Heart of a Killer em 1993, projetando o vocalista Tim "Ripper" Owens, onde se coloca em uma alta posição no cenário metálico mundial.

Discografia
Demo '91 (1991)
Heart of a Killer Demo (1991)
Heart of a Killer (1993)
Season of Brutality (álbum não lançado) (1995)
Girth (1997)
Demo 2003 (2003)
Redivivus (2006)

Bandas de heavy metal dos Estados Unidos
Bandas de power metal
Bandas de Ohio


Global Day 2017 was a great success with people raising their glasses and raising awareness about ALS/MND. Read about the events that shaped the 21st June this year and the latest news from around Australia.
Updated edaravone frequently asked questions (FAQs) are now available for download.
A position paper outlining the Australian Productivity Commission's early thinking on the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) costs was released on 14 June 2017. You are invited to examine the paper and write a submission or comment.
MND Australia has a Communications and Information Manager position available for an experienced, highly motivated individual with a communications or marketing degree and strong oral and written communication skills.
Applications are now open for the MND Research Institute of Australia 2017 funding round for research grants commencing in 2018. Apply now.
The latest issue of the International Research Update features snippets on recent research into the involvement of motor neurones with other types of cells and environmental factors in MND. Also read about researchers who have developed new imaging and biochemical tests for diagnosis and disease stage assessment, and a new tool to help in working out a way to stop the spread of MND through the body.
Senior Queensland Australian of the Year and now Queensland Great, Professor Perry Bartlett is delighted to share his award with the Queensland Brain Institute (QBI).
The MND Research Institute of Australia's Advance newsletter has a new look and is now easier to read. Catch up on recent MND research advances that have been supported by our generous donors, bequestors and State MND Associations.
What does Budget 2017 – 2018 mean to people living with MND in Australia? MND Australia has prepared this response to the national Budget, which was handed down by the Treasurer on 9 May 2017.


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The latitude and longitude of Portugal is:
39° 30' 0" N
/ 8° 0' 0" W
Portuguese Republic
Abbreviation: PT
ISO 3166-1 alpha-3 code: PRT
Longitude: -8
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Q: Want to get the dataframe of values that are deviations from the mean based on a factor column Example:
So lets say I have this data frame.
x = data.frame(factor = as.factor(c('a','a','b','b','c','c')),value1 = c(1,3,2,4,5,3), value2 = c(7,9,3,4,9,3))

    factor value1 value2
1      a      1      7
2      a      3      9
3      b      2      3
4      b      4      4
5      c      5      9
6      c      3      3

I know how to get the mean per factor, I use this method:
aggregate(x[,c(2,3)], list(x$factor), mean, na.rm = T )

This give me the following output:
  Group.1 value1 value2
1       a      2    8.0
2       b      3    3.5
3       c      4    6.0

How do I now go about subtracting from each value in the original dataframe the corresponding mean of its factor. The actual dataset I am using is big so need to have a nice way, I have managed to do it but I used complicated for loops.
So the output that I want would be:
  factor value1 value2
1      a     -1   -1.0
2      a      1    1.0
3      b     -1   -0.5
4      b      1    0.5
5      c      1    3.0
6      c     -1   -3.0

Any help would be great. Thanks.

A: A dplyr solution
library(dplyr)
x %>% group_by(factor) %>% mutate(across(c(value1, value2), ~. - mean(.)))

Output
# A tibble: 6 x 3
# Groups:   factor [3]
  factor value1 value2
  <fct>   <dbl>  <dbl>
1 a          -1   -1
2 a           1    1
3 b          -1   -0.5
4 b           1    0.5
5 c           1    3
6 c          -1   -3

A: You can try this dplyr approach:
library(dplyr)
#Data
x = data.frame(factor = as.factor(c('a','a','b','b','c','c')),value1 = c(1,3,2,4,5,3), value2 = c(7,9,3,4,9,3))
#Code
x <- x %>% group_by(factor) %>%
  mutate(Mv1=mean(value1),
         Mv2=mean(value2),
         value1=value1-Mv1,
         value2=value2-Mv2) %>% select(-c(Mv1,Mv2))

Output:
# A tibble: 6 x 3
# Groups:   factor [3]
  factor value1 value2
  <fct>   <dbl>  <dbl>
1 a          -1   -1
2 a           1    1
3 b          -1   -0.5
4 b           1    0.5
5 c           1    3
6 c          -1   -3

A: Here is a solution with data.table
library("data.table")
setDT(x)
cols <- paste0("value", 1:2)
x[, lapply(.SD, function(x) x - mean(x)), .SDcols=cols, by=factor]

or
library("data.table")
setDT(x)
x[, sweep(.SD, 2, STATS=colMeans(.SD)), by=factor, .SDcols=2:3]


This spooky, vintage-horror film-themed music video, edited by local artist Gus Cutty, is part of an ongoing project by hip-hop artist Grand Killa Con.
A four-person crew containing some of Asheville's most notable muralists and painters recently took to the walls of Cullowhee. But those artists — Gus Cutty, Hannah Dansie, Alli Good and Ian Wilkinson — haven't scaled the exteriors of Cullowhee's restaurants, overpasses or collegiate edifices, as one might expect.
Local artist Gus Cutty is finishing up a new mural of Lou Reed in front of Static Records in downtown Asheville.
Gus Cutty opens a new collection of works in aerosol at The Satellite Gallery on Nov. 1.
Local artist Gus Gutty gives an insider look at his new show, a collection of works in aerosol, which opens at PUSH Skateshop and Gallery tonight. Click through for the video.
The two Asheville-based mural artists have finished two new pieces on the side of the old Penland Auction house, which will be torn down in four to six weeks.


With Preset Schedules, you can assign sessions to your Users. When your Users log in on the app, they will see their pre-assigned agenda in their My Schedule menu item.
To learn how to create Preset Schedules manually, please click here.
In this article, we will show you how to import a special template spreadsheet to create Preset Schedules for many Users at once.
Make sure you have added sessions to your schedule.
Make sure you have invited Users to your guide.
Note: When uploading the list of Users, you can choose to send the invites later. Then you can create the preset schedules and send those without a prior invitation email. This method will combine two emails (invitation to guide, and invitation to preset schedule) into one prompting them to download your guide and log in to access their Schedule.
Note: Each user can only be assigned to one preset schedule. Please see FAQ's for more details.
In the Guidebook Builder, open the guide you are working on. From the guide dashboard, click on "Users and Groups".
Then click on the "Preset Schedules" tab.
Click the "CSV/Excel Import" button. Under the "Templates" heading, download a Preset Schedule template spreadsheet.
Note: Please do not change any of the column headers in Row 1. Builder will not be able to read the data properly if these column headers have been modified.
Schedule Name: Only you will see this in Builder.
Email: Input the email address(es) of each User who should be assigned this schedule. If you have multiple email addresses in one cell, separate each email address with a comma.
Session IDs: Provide the Session IDs for the sessions you want to assign here. If you have multiple Session IDs to add to a schedule, separate each Session ID with a comma.
After filling out your spreadsheet, be sure to save! Then return to the Preset Schedule Import screen in Builder.
Click "Select file" to locate the document on your computer, then upload it.
If you want Builder to publish these schedules upon upload, click the toggle button to enable "Publish when done". If you prefer to set up your Preset Schedules and then publish them out to Users yourself later, leave this toggle disabled.
Click "Import data" and refresh the Preset Schedules page in Builder to view / edit your Preset Schedules.
If you have any questions, please reach out to us at Support@guidebook.com.


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Audi, What's Gone Wrong and What's Next
The Only Way is Up…
Under-investment, indecision, Dieselgate jail time – challenging times for Audi, as Georg Kacher explains
AT THE TIME of writing, Audi chairman Rupert Stadler is in Augsburg prison, Bavaria. He hasn't been tried or charged with anything; he's being investigated over allegations that he didn't intervene when he heard about the use of defeat devices in 2015. The German authorities thought justice would be best served by having him out of the loop and unable to intervene in their ongoing investigations.
Around 20 other executives are under investigation by the German public prosecutor. In the US, former VW Group CEO Martin Winterkorn has been indicted with fraud and conspiracy.
As far as the VW Group is concerned, Stadler is 'inactive' but presumed innocent. For now, Abraham Schot's in charge.
Stadler led Audi in its hugely profitable decade up to 2015, and helped it consolidate its position as a premium brand on a par with BMW and Mercedes. He is extremely well-connected within the company: he was chief of staff to Ferdinand Piëch when he was VW chairman and CEO. The group is owned by the Porsche and Piëch families and the state of Lower Saxony, represented respectively by Wolfgang Porsche, Michel Piëch and Stephan Weil. Union leader Bernd Osterloh is also influential.
How does Audi fit into the Dieselgate scandal?
Dieselgate relates to the discovery in 2015 by US investigators of software designed to fool diesel emissions tests, which investigators said had been going on since 2007, and involved some 11 million vehicles. Although the diesel engines in question were used by various VW Group brands, it's believed the cheat software originated within Audi. The brand is under particularly keen scrutiny with the new WLTP emissions tests, resulting in some engines being unavailable to order.
And yet Audi's hugely successful, isn't it?
Yes – Audi's the most profitable part of the VW Group, with sales at twice the volume they were in 2006. But the worry is that in today's fast-moving market, you need to be running just to stand still. And Audi's not running, so it's storing up problems.
Critics argue that Stadler and his team have been too slow and too conservative for too long. The Q1 baby SUV, for instance, is still a couple of years away.
There's uncertainty about the future of the open-top line-up (A3, A5, TT, R8), and there was too much dithering about the engineering to replace the current A4.
The other big problem, at least according to the more pessimistic observers, is that Audi's future development is increasingly dependent on other parts of the VW Group – Audi has lost control of its engineering in exchange for efficiency- boosting synergies. That may make financial sense but it's potentially detrimental to a brand with the tagline Vorsprung durch Technik . Audi's treading water while Group rivals VW and Porsche explore new territories.
In addition to no fewer than 10 VWbadged EVs on the shared MEB platform due by 2025, Wolfsburg will also furnish Audi, Skoda and Seat with zero-emission know-how and hardware. By outsourcing engineering and assembly, all that's left for Audi to do is design the bodies.
Audi has traditionally been free to go its own way with its biggest, most expensive cars. But within the group it's now Porsche taking the lead; thus Audi will have to use Porsche architectures.
There's always motorsport…
Well, there was. Audi had a brilliant run in endurance racing, dominating Le Mans with 13 wins over 17 years from 1999. But it's no longer in the World Endurance Championship, having switched to Formula E as a symbolic and practical shift of priorities: it's a less expensive, more directly relevant series.
While it's involved in DTM, World
Rallycross and World Touring Cars, with mixed results, Audi Sport looks increasingly irrelevant as a sub-brand, lacking the innovation and excitement of BMW's M division or AMG.
Will Audi's electric cars fix all this?
Maybe, but loyal customers are having to wait for their electric Audi: innovative possibilities have been around within its R&D centres for years but production was repeatedly rejected, and the arrival of the Jaguar i-Pace has left Audi looking tardy.
This lack of fresh thinking is a shame because the guys from Ingolstadt used to lead the tech pack with their natural gas engines, C02-neutral hydrogen and synthetic fuels. Audi ran fuel cell prototypes around the same time as BMW and Merc, the A1 e-tron concept with Wankel range extender preceded the i3 by three years, while e-quattro (an electrically-powered rear axle) has been ready for production for years but remains undeployed.
Only now is the first e-tron Audi upon us. It, like the wider company, has its work cut out.
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Q: How to invoke/model binding validation upon record property assignment in F# Please let me know a suitable way to invoke the validation attribute at the time of property assignment of a record type.
I have created a custom validation attribute as follows.
namespace FloAppCore

module CatalogueAttributes =
   open System
   open Newtonsoft.Json.Serialization
   open Newtonsoft.Json
   open System.Runtime.Serialization
   open System.ComponentModel.DataAnnotations
   open System.Text.RegularExpressions

[<AttributeUsage(AttributeTargets.Field, AllowMultiple = true, Inherited = false)>]
type IsNameValidAttribute() =
    inherit ValidationAttribute()
    override this.IsValid(value: obj) =
        let mutable result = true
        if(not(isNull(value)) && (value.ToString() <> "")) then
            result <- true

        let fnSpecialCharacter value =
            let pattern = Regex("[@#$%^&*()_+!~:;./?><]$")
            let matches = pattern.Match value
            not(matches.Success)

        if result then
            result <- (fnSpecialCharacter (value.ToString()))

        result

    override this.FormatErrorMessage(name:string) =
        String.Format(this.ErrorMessageString,name)

And I have assigned the attribute to a record type like this.
   type Item = {
    mutable Id:string
    [<IsNameValid(ErrorMessage = "{0} value is not valid.")>]
    Brand:string
    ProductName:string
    Description:string
    ItemSizeId:string
    ColourItemId:string
    SpecialCharacteristics:string
   }

Unlike ASP.NET MVC I am using Suave with asp.net core and serializing/deserializing json object using Newtonsoft JsonConvert. Like ASP.NET MVC core how can I invoke model binding upon the F# record type in Suave so that the validation attribute gets invoked and restricts the property assignment based upon the validation.


…he's going to be living with us for the next Month.
He's our Christmas pudding. And that bottle behind him is his medicine.
Its not very often that anything you cook hangs around your house for a whole month but since he's going to be with us for a while, he's my first Christmas pudding, and I have to feed him once a week… I'm already quite attached. It seemed only fitting to give him a name (and it had to be something grand of course).
Because you have to store your pudding somewhere cool and every room in our house is now almost constantly warmed by central heating, he's living in a large tub at the top of the stairs to the front door which is the only cool part of the whole house. So I pass him every morning and evening as I am heading for the door. I'll probably start saying hello soon.
You also have to look after your pudding. He needs fed once a week with brandy. It may seem like a lot of alcohol for one pudding but if I was sitting in the cold for four weeks, I would also need a fortifying spoon of liquor every now and then to keep me going.
So if you like the idea of a pet for Christmas, its not too late to make your own. Here's a recipe with a bit of a twist if you like your pudding a little less traditional.
I've used cherries and berries instead of the plain mix of raisins, currants and mixed peel and cherry brandy instead of plain. As long as you have 350g fruit in total you can make your own combination. Of course I havent had a chance to taste it yet but going on smell alone, I think I'm going to enjoy eating Tarquin just as much as I like looking after him.
Butter a 3pint pudding basin and lid. The plastic ones are cheap and definitely less fuss than a bowl and foil top so although I normally don't like having to find specialised cooking contraptions, in this case I make an exception (once you realise how easy it is to make a pudding you will use it every year too). Put the fruit and brandy in a pan, bring to the boil and simmer for 10 min. slice the butter over the fruit, put a lid on and leave to sit for another 10 min. Combine the dry ingredients in a large bowl, add the grated apple and then the fruit. Mix together the eggs, sour cream and vanilla and beat into the fruit mixture. If like me you allow yourself to get ridiculously over excited about Christmas and follow every daft tradition with an inane sense of glee then this is the point when you take your bowl around the house and get everyone to take a turn at stirring the pud (in my case that meant one bemused husband).
Once you have returned to the kitchen, spoon the pudding batter into the prepared basin and put on the lid. Place the basin in a large pot, pour water up to about half way up the sides and put on the pot lid. If you are not using a plastic basin that floats then you will need to place an upside down side plate in the bottom of the pot. You will also need to make sure you securely fasten a lid of kitchen foil and dont let any water get in which is not a problem with the plastic kind. Now bring the water to a gentle boil and steam the pudding for 4 hours, topping up the water as necessary. After 4 hours take the pudding out and leave it to cool before wrapping the basin in cling film and storing it somewhere cool and dark. Once a week, take your pudding out off his hiding place (its at this point that your pudding starts to develop a personality) and give him a tablespoon of cherry brandy before putting him back to bed.
When its time to serve, steam him for another 3-4 hours and turn out onto a serving dish. Warm the vodka, light it and pour the flaming liquid over the pudding (seems a little violent now that he's a pet but what a way to go).
If you'd like to submit your own mince pie reinventions I will be doing a round up and there will be a little prize for the best one so please let me know if you are joining the challenge by leaving a comment/message, either on here or my facebook page, with a link to your post by the 31st December 2011 .
I'm finally off to get married in Gozo and then use my honeymoon to eat my way around Sicily. So because I might not be able to post anything for a month I decided to write one final bumper post – a collage of pictures and recipes from the last two weeks of last minute chaos which have stopped me writing all the things I wanted to post on their own.
Roseleaf – Ruby red risotto and a Madhatter!
Great little restaurant down near the docks in Edinburgh which has hats all over the walls, serves cocktails in teapots and produces some seriously good food. The Madhatter cocktail is brilliant!
Preheat the oven to 180°C. Combine flour, 1/2 tsp salt and bicarb and rub in the butter until it resembles breadcrumbs. Put half this mixture in another bowl.
For the cheese ones, add the rest of the salt, cheese and paprika. For the cherry ones, add the cherries, sugar and vanilla. Now mix in half the buttermilk and milk into each one and bring together to form a soft dough. Press out on a lightly floured surface to about 2cm thick and cut out with cookie cutters to form rounds. Place on a floured baking tray, brush the tops with milk and bake for 12-15min until golden and risen.
A very generous gift of Puyricard Delicacies in return for the cakes I bring in to work when I'm in the mood bake.
Preheat the oven to 180°C. Butter a 12 hole muffin tin. Cream the butter and sugar and beat in the eggs one at a time. add the vanilla. Fold in the flour and chopped cherries and pour into the muffin tin. Bake for 20-25 minutes until golden and cooked through. Remove and turn out on to a wire rack to cool. Dip the tops into the warmed jam and then the coconut.
Fry the onions and mushrooms together until soft. Add a splash of balsamic vinegar and continue to fry gently until the liquid has evapourated. Season and fry the steak until medium rare (usually a couple of minutes each side, depending on how thick your steak is). Combine the mustards and mayonnaise and spread on both halves of the warmed rolls. Add the steak and top with mushrooms and onions. Ta da!
Speak to you all in a month, wish me luck!


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Feedback from couple near Chichester I performed magic for at their wedding party.
Magician for a dinner party?
What to expect from a magician at your private party in Sussex.
Looking for entertainment for a summer party?


Brushing the cobwebs away I can state the facts, the Casa Del Mar is now a luxury hotel, prior to that it was a rec center for enlisted men in WWII, the headquarters of Synanon (a bogus drug rehab program and later a disbanded "church"). Prior to it's latest incarnation it was a Pritikin Longevity Center.
Here are a few — lifeguards training outside the Renaissance Revival building under construction designed by architect, Charles F. Plummer; sometime in the 1920s.
Now would we be wondering about the cigarette girl or the customers?
Former in L'Aimant, later in Shalimar would be my punt.
L'Aimant powdery and floral and young? Shalimar – sophisticated and formulated in the memory of an empress and her favorite garden?
Great photos! I especially love the hat? crown? headpiece? in the top photo.
I think it was her uniform – very spangly!
Dig the chick sitting next to mobster man, with her deep red triangle blush application situation!


How to Pick Books and More for Collection Marketing – Super Library Marketing: All kinds of marketing ideas for all kinds of libraries.
I am not a librarian but sometimes I play one at work sometimes.
One of my favorite parts of the marketing my public library is choosing books, eBooks, audiobooks, movies, and magazines to promote to our cardholders. Collection marketing is a successful part of the marketing strategy at our library. About three years ago, we started to do these targeted emails and social media posts to drive circulation numbers. And it worked! Collection marketing is something every library should do.
How do I actually choose the items we promote? It's not as easy as it sounds. Most people who work in library marketing are not librarians. My degree is in communication, not library science. But I've been picking items to promote for four years and, after picking a few duds, I've got a system figured out. So let me share my tips with you.
Pick new stuff. Several years of promotional data tell me that cardholders want the new items entering your collection. We may want to promote older items for re-circulation, but that's not what our users want to check out. And your biggest competitors are not other libraries. You are competing with Amazon and your local bookstore, where your cardholders can get their hands on the latest books. Most people don't even think about the library when their favorite author releases a new book. A concentrated collection marketing effort will change that attitude over time. Your cardholders will learn that they can come to you for new books when they are released.
My library sends an email once a month to several cardholder clusters-lovers of print books, lover of eBooks, lovers of audiobooks, lovers of kids' books, and lovers of downloadable magazines. I pick three new items to promote in each email. It takes me about 20 minutes total to create each message from start to finish. The emails drive a circulation increase for those titles on average anywhere from 125 percent to 375 percent.
The question I get from most libraries when we talk about our new items strategy is this: "Don't you worry that you'll create a long holds list. You'll make people angry because they have to wait." I was worried about this when I began collection marketing. But the data tells me it doesn't matter how long the holds list is. Truly. People will wait for a new book for a couple of weeks, at least. Most public libraries have a system for putting a new book or item into the online catalog a few weeks before the item is actually available in the building. That's the perfect moment to start promoting it, particularly if you include a line in your promotion telling your cardholders that they are getting a jump on the holds list. Your most avid cardholders will pounce at the chance to get in line for holds on a new item.
Pay attention to book pop culture and promote items getting media or critical buzz. I listen to podcasts to learn new books headed to shelves, including the New York Public Library's podcast The Librarian is In and Overdrive's Professional Book Nerds Podcast. There are YouTube channels where librarians review advanced reader copies. You can also find advance reviews on Goodreads. And publishing houses like Penguin will often do Facebook live streams with reviewers who talk about their latest releases. If an avid reader of any kind is super excited about an upcoming book release, it's a title you should promote.
Pick books with interesting covers. This sounds super vain but I swear to you it works. Whenever I send an email to my cardholders, I try to pick good books that meet the previous two guidelines but that also have a bright, colorful, or interesting cover. The better the cover, the higher the circulation numbers will be. Publishers understand the psychological impact of a good book cover. They spend a ton of money and research to pick the most engaging cover and we can use that to our advantage when we choose items to promote.
Pick something for everyone. The decision to market three items in each email is very intentional. I don't have a lot of data about the exact reading preferences of the cardholders in each cluster I target with my collection emails, due to library privacy concerns. I don't know exactly what kinds of books each of those cardholders like (mysteries, literary fiction, memoirs, etc.), so I try to pick something for everyone. I usually choose one literary fiction title, one nonfiction, and one thriller/mystery title. I make sure that I don't pick three female or three male authors. I try to make sure there is something to interest as many people as possible in each email.
Don't actually pick the items. That's right! The easiest thing to do is to delegate the selection of items to the people who know what they're doing–your collection or materials selection department. Contact the department. Set some guidelines for the kind of books you think your cardholders will love. And let them do the work.
I also periodically ask the general staff of my library for recommendations. Librarians love it when you ask them for their recommendations! At this moment, I'm scrolling through a list of more than 50 eBook suggestions from librarians all over my system for National Read an eBook Day. If you ask for recommendations from staff, I guarantee your biggest problem will be whittling down the answers!


Introduction: The earliest Greek speculations concerning the identity of Rome's founder provide no evidence of an indigenous (i.e. Etrusco-Italic) foundation legend before the middle of the 4th century B.C., when the historian Alcimus spoke of 'Rhomylos' and 'Alba' (the latter as a person rather than as a place). The 'Hellenocentric' character of the Greek tradition gave rise to a variety of founders- all Greek in origin or association- of Rome and the Latin race, and explanations of their genealogies which for the most part took no cognizance of any local legend. Yet, in view of Rome's importance before the middle of the 4th century, it is difficult to believe that the Etruscan and Latin influences on the city's development failed to produce some sort of indigenous tradition relating to the city's origins.
While the available evidence suggests that the 'twin' motif, with its consequent influence on the shape of the foundation legend (e.g. the themes of fraternal rivalry and fratricide) did not develop until the end of the 4th century B. C., and while it is clear that Greek influences were predominant in the development of the canonical version, there is reason to believe that certain features of the legend were both early and indigenous in origin rather than mere Greek imports.
The fact that the earliest mention of 'Rhomylos' and 'Alba' appears in a Greek source of the mid-4th century B.C. must not be assumed to provide a reliable basis for dating the emergence of a local tradition: the highly subjective nature of the Greek tradition required nothing more than a suitable eponym of its own devising (sc. 'Rhome') in order to facilitate the myth of Rome's direct connections with the Greek world; and early Greek writers could exercise their inventiveness outside, or perhaps more accurately, in ignorance of the framework of the local (oral) tradition while it was in its formative stages in the latter part of the 5th and early 4th centuries B.C.


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Healthy grasslands, healthy communities.
In 1999 a group of organizations and individuals formed the Grasslands Conservation Council of British Columbia in response to increasing pressure on native grasslands, such as:
Urban sprawl and subdivision.
Poorly planned pipelines, power lines, and industrial development.
Thoughtless and abusive recreation.
Weeds and invasive species.
Forest encroachment.
Inappropriate grazing.
Together, these land use practices and activities were reducing and fragmenting the province's grasslands: damaging landscapes and sensitive ecology. They were ruining hillsides; and harming plant life, animal habitat, and waterways. They were disrupting natural cycles and systems. In short, they were breaking up and destroying the remaining 1% of BC's native grasslands.
Even though, by the mid-1990s, scientists and governments had recognized that grasslands were unique, important, and threatened, grasslands were underrepresented in British Columbia's and Canada's protected areas networks. Much of this critical habitat was located on private land, and there was no strategy to protect and conserve its values.
In a province known for its grand and plentiful forests, grasslands were being overlooked. And then…
In 1996, the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS-BC) planned and organized a meeting at the Big Bar Ranch in the Cariboo. The attendance at this meeting surpassed everyone's expectations, and the outcome was the seed that blossomed into the Grasslands Conservation Council of British Columbia.
An initial workshop was held in Merritt in September 1997, and Bob Peart, a founding director for the GCC, explained why the GCC was so important: "There is concern that the agenda in BC is forest-dominated" and that grasslands were being ignored. He noted that in 1995, the CPAWS board decided to make grasslands one of its five key priorities. He also recognized that some of the challenges in building the GCC would include developing trust and respect, and that "getting to know each other has been one of the best things; developing common interest, trust, and respect is what the GCC is all about." When it came to the GCC, "Our diversity is our strength."
At the same workshop, rancher Laurie Guichon recounted how he had received an invitation from Michael Kennedy (fifth generation rural Lillooet resident and retired geography teacher) in the spring of 1996 to attend the grassland meeting in Big Bar. Laurie was worried initially about meeting with all these people who were "against everything!" He explained how ranchers were concerned about the Forest Practices Code, the Protected Areas Strategy, and other planning and regulations that were making their work difficult. But ultimately, Laurie felt that the Big Bar meeting was an opportunity to make people understand "how ranchers saw things."
Although Laurie's concerns were not immediately alleviated, over the following two years of meetings he gradually became more impressed by the sincerity of GCC members. He noted that the "environmental side showed a willingness to learn … and that is what the GCC is all about: getting to know the other side."
By July 1998, a strategic vision had been crafted based on the 1997 Merritt workshop. The meeting solidified the general mission of the GCC to be "a network of individuals and organizations working together to ensure healthy, life-sustaining grassland ecosystems throughout BC by fostering greater understanding and appreciation for BC's grasslands and recognizing their ecological, social, economic, and cultural importance to current and future generations." This statement remains core to the GCC's values, vision, and mission and continues to be the foundation of the GCC's unique role in grassland conservation in British Columbia. (GCC Strategic Plan 2009-2014)
Since it was founded, the organization has carried out a wide range of projects to ensure that native grasslands are given the attention and care they need to survive in a quickly changing world.
The GCC has remained connected to its roots in both the ranching and conservation communities, as well as nurturing strong ties with government agencies, universities, and other sectors that have strong interests in the sustainability of BC grasslands.
The GCC became a registered charity in 2001.


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General Electric Company,
5 Necco Street,
Tel: +001 877 394 9775
(Customer services: +001 800 435 4448)
UNGC (United Nations Global Compact) – Signatory
Jérôme Pécresse
GE's 2018 Environmental, Social, and Governance Results
GE's Climate Change Statement
GE's ESG concerns
GE's ESG results
GE's main Sustainability page
Other GE's reports
Fast Company – How GE invested in fossil fuels
GE decided to stop building new coal plants
GE's stance on Coal in countries other than the United States
Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis
United States Global Compact
Report created by Aravind Samala
GE is a multinational conglomerate which operates through the following segments: aviation, healthcare, power, renewable energy, digital industry, additive manufacturing and venture capital and finance.
General Electric Co. is a technology and financial services company. It operates through the following segments: Power, Renewable Energy, Aviation, Healthcare, and Capital.
The Power segment offers technologies, solutions, and services related to energy production, which includes gas and steam turbines, generators, and power generation services.
The Renewable Energy segment provides wind turbine platforms, hardware & software, offshore wind turbines, solutions, products & services to the hydropower industry, blades for onshore & offshore wind turbines, and high voltage equipment.
The Aviation segment provides jet engines & turboprops for commercial airframes, maintenance, component repair, and overhaul services, as well as replacement parts, additive machines & materials, and engineering services.
The Healthcare segment provides healthcare technologies in medical imaging, digital solutions, patient monitoring, and diagnostics, drug discovery, biopharmaceutical manufacturing technologies and performance enhancement solutions. T
he Capital segment leases & finances aircraft, aircraft engines and helicopters, and also provides financial and underwriting solutions.
In the words of GE they: "believe that GE is uniquely positioned to contribute to efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. As the company that has led the way in innovation for over a century, GE can deliver technology for the world to meet the emissions reduction targets called for by the 2015 Paris Agreement and achieve the long-term goal of sustainable development."
Through 2019, GE has reduced Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Emissions from their operations by 21% from adjusted 2011 baseline.
Through 2019, GE's overall freshwater use was reduced 26% from their adjusted 2011 baseline.
With a global installed base of more than 60,000 aircraft engines, more than 7,000 gas turbines, nearly 45,000 onshore wind turbines and more than four million healthcare systems,
Approximately 800,000 EHS courses are completed annually, covering regulatory and non-regulatory topics, and translated into appropriate languages.
GE is committed to being carbon neutral in its facilities and operations by 2030
26% reduction of freshwater use between 2011 and 2019
GE exceeded its 2020 greenhouse gas emissions goal early, delivering a 21% reduction between 2011 to 2019
Through 2018, GE has reduced greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from its operations by 23% from their adjusted 2011 baseline. With these results, GE has surpassed 20% by 2020 GHG goal.
ISO 14001 – 107 sites with Certification
GE provides clean, energy-efficient, cost-effective, technology solutions for customers
GE offers zero-emission renewable and nuclear energy options to reduce carbon emissions, while also promoting the integration of the world's most efficient natural gas technologies
GE is a fossil fuel enabler with its GE Power – the biggest fossil fuel power plant builder. The company's Power and Oil & Gas segments represent 46% (up from 43% in 2014) of industrial segment revenues.
GE continues to support coal-fired power plants despite their announcement of stopping to build new coal plants. GE announced that they will not build new coal plants, however, it is unclear whether they continue building their planned coal plants in other countries like Kenya, Kosovo, Bosnia, Vietnam.
GE neither possesses any certifications nor listed on any prominent indices. They comply with only one of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
As a multinational conglomerate, GE does not have a chief sustainability officer and progressed very little in terms of sustainability. GE is rated as F.
Despite GE's engagement with fossil fuels, they acknowledge their role in shaping a sustainable future. The company seems to be dedicated to addressing sustainability and is trying to reduce its environmental footprint and is incorporating sustainability within their business model.
GE's continued support to coal and other fossil fuels.
GE supports policies that reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions and promote sustainable development
GE supports goals expressed in the Paris Agreement and the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.
GE is committed to Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) excellence to protect their people, communities and the GE brand. The company's site, project and service managers are accountable for the EHS performance of the operations, employees, and contractors they supervise, and we monitor this performance through indicators such as injury rates and global greenhouse gas emissions. GE continues to have decreasing injuries, and days away from work each year, since 2016.
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An algorithm for decomposing tally data in Monte Carlo simulations using servers has recently been proposed and analyzed. In the present work, we make a number of refinements to a theoretical performance model of the tally server algorithm to better predict the performance of a realistic reactor simulation using Monte Carlo. The impact of subdividing fuel into annular segments on parameters of the performance model is evaluated and shown to result in a predicted overhead of less than 20% for a PWR benchmark on the Mira Blue Gene/Q supercomputer. Additionally, a parameter space study is performed comparing tally server implementations using blocking and non-blocking communication. Non-blocking communication is shown to reduce the communication overhead relative to blocking communication, in some cases resulting in negative overhead.