Some suspected it, but now it's official: Wizards of the Coast is dropping the Star Wars license, and with it, the Star Wars: Saga Edition role-playing game and its counterpart, the Star Wars Miniatures Game.
It seemed likely that this would happen sooner or later once D&D 4E was released; I'm sure it's difficult for Wizards of the Coast to justify continued research and development on two rule sets (namely Star Wars and Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition). Saga Edition was a useful testbed for Wizards when they were trying out new ideas for 4E, but its clear that they've decided to go in a very different direction with D&D and future RPGs.
Star Wars just wasn't part of the picture. As a result, Galaxy of Intrigue and The Unknown Regions will be the last two books in the series.
It's a sad day. As a gaming group, we found Star Wars: Saga Edition to be one of the best d20 systems out there, possibly the best one. It played fast, eliminated many of the headaches that D&D 3.5 suffered, and introduced a ton of options without overwhelming us with variant basic and prestige classes. Saga Edition has served us well for the last year, and I expect it will do as well for the next one.
There are positives though. Rodney Thompson, the line developer at Wizards for Star Wars, did a superb job of managing this game. He made sure that we had every product we need to keep playing Saga Edition for the foreseeable future, and then made it even easier by giving us additional tools like adventure seed generators in Scum and Villainy, base and battle station design tools in Galaxy at War and skill challenges in Galaxy of Intrigue.
The game ends on a high note, without any of the end-of-edition crap that we saw with D&D 2E and 3E. We're left with an elegant weapon from a nobler time, and I couldn't ask for much more.
From a strictly gamer economy point of view, this means a lot less of my gaming group's money will be going to Wizards of the Coast. We'd already seen a sizable drop going from D&D 3.x to D&D 4.x, as only one or two players in the group were buying 4E source books, but I'd say most of us picked up at least two or three Star Wars books, and half bought all of them.
Now I expect we'll be buying almost nothing from WotC, aside from hunting down un-purchased Star Wars books and the occasional D&D Insider monthly subscription to support our infrequent Revenge of the Giants one shots.
What will happen to Saga Edition? Like d6 Star Wars, I think it will continue to enjoy a core gamer community who appreciate and support the game. Unlike the previous two d20 iterations of Star Wars, I think Saga Edition has been embraced by fans as something special, and something that — in its own way — is every bit as good as d6.
The saddest part of all of this for me is that the end of Star Wars is truly the end of the 3.x rules published by Wizards of the Coast. Future products, like the recently announced Gamma World boxed set, will use the 4E rule set, which means more exceptions-based power mechanics based around a d20 roll.
It's unfortunate. Wizards is throwing away a decade of development on a product line that many people enjoyed, and still enjoy. Why not keep it going as "D&D Classic" or as a generic "Star Frontiers Reborn" game? I'm not saying it would sell like D&D 4e… but I think it would sell (or at least, I would buy it). I'm sure fears of splitting the brand and a desire for R&D efficiencies will keep this from happening … but a geek can dream.
In the meantime, my Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic campaign will continue on. We're headed into the Mandalorian Wars soon, and then the Jedi Civil War. There's talk that we might run a Dark Times KOTOR game after that, all of which likely gives us two solid years of game play, and that's without rebooting into a new era. In the end, it's possible that Star Wars will be our go-to game for the next five years, and thanks to Rodney Thompson and Wizards, we have the books to make that possible.


Gabathuler, Ernst; Bachmann, Felicitas; Kläy, Andreas; Giger, Markus (November 2011). Reshaping Rural Extension: Emphasising Social Learning Processes And Stakeholder Dialogue (Unpublished). In: Innovations in Extension and Advisory Services: Linking Knowledge to Policy and Action for Food and Livelihoods. Nairobi, Kenya. 15.-18.11.2011.
Gabathuler, Ernst; Bachmann, Felicitas; Kläy, Andreas; Giger, Markus (2010). Reshaping Rural Extension: Learning for Sustainability (LforS): An Integrative and Learning-Based Advisory Approach for Rural Extension (Unpublished). In: First Intercontinental Meeting of the Global Forum for Rural Advisory Services. Viña del Mar, Chile. 02.11.-05.11.2010.
Bachmann, Felicitas; Gabathuler, Ernst; Kläy, Andreas (2007). Simulation Games - A Creative Tool for Capacity Building: Experience from the Learning for Sustainability Approach.


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Siegfried Fischer-Fabian (né le  à Bad Elmen près de Magdebourg et mort à Berg le ) est un historien, journaliste et auteur allemand.

Biographie
Il passe les premières années de sa vie sur les bords de la Spree, avant de faire son  à Königsberg. Il fait ses études à l'Université de Heidelberg et son doctorat à Berlin.

D'abord journaliste international, il se consacre ensuite exclusivement à l'écriture. En 1975 il écrit le livre à succès  (Les premiers Allemands - Exposé sur le peuple mystérieux des Germains). Il écrit également  (Temps glorieux) sur l'Histoire de la Prusse et les règnes des Guillaumes.

Il s'intéresse particulièrement dans ses livres aux personnalités historiques, qu'il essaie de présenter au lecteur à la fois de manière divertissante et compétente. Ses livres sont parus en 12 langues.

Fischer-Fabian vivait dernièrement dans les environs du Lac de Starnberg et travaillait sur son  : .

Œuvres

 Die ersten Deutschen – Über das rätselhafte Volk der Germanen
 Preußens Gloria – Der Aufstieg eines Staates
 Die deutschen Cäsaren – Triumph und Tragödie der Herrscher des Mittelalters (auch Die deutschen Kaiser)
 Preußens Krieg und Frieden – Der Weg ins Deutsche Reich
 Herrliche Zeiten – Die Deutschen und ihr Kaiserreich
 Um Gott und Gold – Columbus entdeckt eine neue Welt
 Karl der Große – Der erste Europäer
 Die Macht des Gewissens – Von Sokrates bis Sophie Scholl
 Ritter, Tod und Teufel – Die Deutschen im späten Mittelalter
 Alexander der Große – Der Traum vom Frieden der Völker
 Christoph Columbus – Entdecker einer neuen Welt
 Deutschland kann lachen – Von Bayern, Berlinern, Sachsen und anderen Germanen
 Vergeßt das Lachen nicht – Der Humor der Deutschen
 Sie veränderten die Welt – Lebensbilder aus der deutschen Geschichte
 Sie verwandelten die Welt – Lebensbilder berühmter deutscher Frauen
 Der Jüngste Tag – Die Deutschen im späten Mittelalter
 Aphrodite ist an allem Schuld
 Ein Hauch von Seligkeit – Die Frauen großer Dichter
 Keine Träne für Apoll

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Historien allemand
Naissance en septembre 1922
Naissance à Schönebeck (Elbe)
Décès en novembre 2011
Décès à Berg (Haute-Bavière)
Décès à 89 ans

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What kind of a web is that?
Ok, nix on the aliens part (it could totally be possibly, though, admit it), but that fake web bird poop being made by spiders is totally real. Scientists decided to look a little closer at some of the bird poop they kept spotting on webs of the silver-colored orb-weaving spider known as Cyclosa ginnaga spiders down in the forests of Southeastern Asia and found something they couldn't quite believe. For spiders there are two main purposes for their coloring and the way they spin their webs: they need to be flashy enough to draw in prey, but also not attract the attention of predators. Scientists observed that the C. ginnaga spider tends to build webs decorated with beautiful spirals and sprinkles of leaf debris, but scientists have had a difficult time figuring out whether they are meant to attract attention or camouflage these silvery spiders from predators.
One scientist from Taiwan noticed something odd about the appearance of their webs one day and decided to look further into it. He noticed that when looking at the web with the naked eye, the actual appearance of the spiders themselves on their web often looks strangely like bird poop. He wondered if maybe it was supposed to look like bird droppings, and this strange sight wasn't an accident at all. Using a computer program that simulated the eyesight of bees, the scientist and his group compared the sight of these spiders sitting on their bird dropping spot and looking like bird droppings with actual bird droppings. When seen through the eyes of a bee or wasp, they found that the two were indistinguishable. It seems like these spiders actually spin a small section to look like bird poop when they are sitting on it, thus protecting them from attacks by predators such as wasps. The mixture of their coloring and the specific web spot made them blend in with their web and simply look like bird poop to any nearby predators. That's pretty freaking clever if you ask me.
Have you ever seen things on a spider's web that looked like one thing, but was actually part of the web when you looked closer? What other things might particular spiders use this tactic to camouflage themselves to look like?
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The  is a large mountain ridge in the Scottish Highlands, marking the northern edge of Glen Coe. It stretches east–west for several miles and includes two Munro summits: Sgùrr nam Fiannaidh at 967 m (3,175 ft) high, and Meall Dearg at 952 m (3,124 ft) high. The ridge is very rocky and the route along it requires scrambling ability. The slopes to each side are extremely dangerous, with steep grass-and-scree slopes hiding even steeper slopes which end in cliffs on both north and south sides of the ridge.

Climbing

The Aonach Eagach is usually regarded as the most difficult horizontal 'scrambling' ridge in mainland Scotland, though it vies with Liathach (and, in winter, An Teallach) for this title. In his book "Scrambles in Lochaber", local climber Noel Williams warns that there are no other ridges in the area that are "so narrow and so difficult to escape from once committed. Some sections are extremely exposed. This makes it a difficult outing to grade, because the technical difficulties are not great". Williams settled on grade 2, implying it is easier than the (optional) grade 2/3 approach scramble up A'Chailleach, but added a further warning (in bold type) that "there are no safe descents on the south side of the ridge".

The Aonach Eagach is normally tackled from the Glen Coe (south) side in an east–west traverse. The best parking for this scrambling route is located just off the A82 at grid reference NN 17335674. From Allt-na-reigh near the head of Glen Coe a good path ascends Am Bodach (a subsidiary Munro top) and continues westwards along the ridge to the first Munro proper, Meall Dearg.

From here the summit of Sgorr nam Fiannaidh lies only two kilometres to the west, but a number of pinnacles must be scrambled over, and it is not uncommon for parties to take more than two hours to cross this short distance. There are a couple of sections where the use of a rope may prove prudent.

In winter, the ridge is a fine expedition, though considerably harder than in summer (Scottish Winter Grade I/II), and many parties will go roped for some sections. Because of the short winter days, benightment on the ridge or its approaches is also not infrequent.

Competent summer scramblers have plenty of time to reverse the ridge and descend Am Bodach, saving a walk back up the glen.

From Sgorr nam Fiannaidh, the most direct descent is to head south by southwest, down a steep zig-zag path leading by the side of Clachaig gully. This 'path' is exceptionally steep and extremely loose in places, and has many small rock steps; it approaches close to the main gully in several places and so is potentially dangerous (fatal accidents have occurred here). A gentler alternative is to continue along the ridge, until reaching the bealach between Sgorr nam Fiannaidh and the Pap of Glencoe. From here a track heads down the hillside, ending on the road just outside Glencoe village. It is also possible to retreat approximately 200 m east from the summit of Sgorr nam Fiannaidh and descend directly down the scree slope to Loch Achtriochtan, taking care to avoid being drawn into gullies further down. This descent also requires care, particularly near the top, but is still far safer than the Clachaig Gully descent.

Alternatively, the two Munros may be climbed individually by simply descending by the route of ascent. However it is for the traverse that the Aonach Eagach is best known.

Devil's Staircase
A path known as the Devil's Staircase crosses the range about 6 km east of Meall Dearg. Today, as part of the West Highland Way, it is used primarily by walkers and mountain bikers travelling between Kinlochleven and Glencoe.

The Devil's Staircase was given its name by the soldiers who were part of the road building programme of General Wade, because of the difficulties of carrying building materials up that stretch of the road. Later, however, the road lived up to its name when workers building the Blackwater Dam chose to travel to the Kings House Hotel after they had been paid, rather than walking down to Kinlochleven. The journey to the pub often proved to be more difficult than they realised and on the return trip, after a few drinks on a cold winter's night, the devil often "claimed his own."

In 1692, the path was the approach route for the (apparently delayed) troops coming from Kinlochleven to provide reinforcements for the Massacre of Glencoe.

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Marilyns of Scotland
Mountains and hills of the Central Highlands
Climbing areas of Scotland
Ridges of Scotland
Mountains and hills of Highland (council area)
Glen Coe


There was this guy, pretty much nondescript in every way you could imagine -- average height, average weight, average build. But the one thing this guy could do that WAS extraordinary was to summon up the dead and, by this supernatural act, tell you exactly what was used to paint on a canvas or paper -- oils, watercolors, pastels, charcoal.
He was a medium medium medium.
They know who's been around.
I expanded this piece out a bit more. I'll probably take one more go at it, taper the base and faux-foot it later today.
Meanwhile, big doin's at the Bauman Pottery. Breeze turns 4 years old today!
Dealing with bad clay has made me timid about making my larger pieces so far this year. I think I've finally got the clay issue ironed out, so I'm leaping (with a bit of faith and my fingers crossed) into some bigger pieces.
The image above is the pre-expanded stage of what I've expanded a little in the next image. Tomorrow I'll finish pushing it.
On the table with the larger piece are a few of the larger bowls I threw this morning. In the distance (on the ware cart beside the wheel) are 14 teapots I just finished.
First in 15" porcelain bowls, then in 10" stoneware plates.
Ever noticed that "nicest" is one of those words that doesn't look like a word? I always have to check my spelling when I type "nicest". Anyway, potters seem to be the nicest folks in the world -- thoughtful, generous, intelligent, inquisitive, and incredibly good looking too. I've given it some thought and I've concluded that we potters are edging our way down the evolutionary path toward becoming a new species. We'll probably still choose to live within earshot of homo sapiens, though. They're not as evolved as we are, but they are, nonetheless, entertaining. And they seem to like our pots.
Anyway, I bring this up -- the part about potters being kind and generous -- to say that while I was down in Chattanooga last weekend, Ron and Susan Sutterer drove six hours -- all the way from Floyd, VA -- to meet me and see the pottery (and, of course, the other potters at the 4 Bridges Art Festival). And, knowing that she may just be my favorite potter in the world, they stopped by their neighbor, Ellen Shankin's place, and bought one of her mugs (in the picture) to bring to me as a gift.
Earlier this year, Ron sent me a video he'd taken while walking the streets of Floyd on a Friday evening. There was music being played on every street corner and every bar. It looked like such fun -- I can't wait to make a trip down there. I'll bring my guitar and mandolin.
Today I'll be working on the couple dozen pie/baking dishes I made yesterday (you can also see them on the cart behind the picture of me holding the Ellen Shankin mug.
"You won't be the first one to have drawn something you don't like. The sun will still come up tomorrow.
But it also doesn't have to be the last thing or the only thing you draw. If, by some strange circumstance, you draw a thing of stunning beauty your first time out, the same sun will come up over the same horizon each day.
Maybe someone will see your drawing and love it as much as you do. Maybe a million people will see your drawing and love it. But the sun will come up and the sun will go down and after enough times of this rising and setting, everyone who loved your drawing, including you, will forget about the drawing.
You'll move on. You can start over. One breath doesn't last a lifetime. One meal doesn't last a lifetime. There's more paper. If you don't like what you did the first time, do something different the second time.
If you don't like what you did the second time, do something different the third time.
If you don't like what you did the third time, do something different the fourth time.
Draw close-to-a-straight-line or close-to-a-circle or close-to-a-square or close-to-nothing-at-all-in-particular. Put the pencil lead to the paper and move it. Move it around. Move it about. Don't lift it up. Shift it. Slide it. Put it on its edge.
Balance your lines on the very finest point of the pencil. Don't erase. Or erase. Wet your thumb and smudge your not-straight lines and make them not-lines.
Make a not-so-round circle and fill it up with not-so-square boxes. Make symbols and then modify them. Checks, tic-tac-toes, letters. Write non-words with imaginary letters. Stick some light in some shadows and block out some bright spots.
Nobody's watching. But the world is waiting. Oh, it doesn't know it is. It doesn't suppose that way. It's simply diminished by any lack of a single blade of grass in a meadow or a single leaf in a forest of trees or lack of a pencil drawn across a blank page. It doesn't hold its breath. But it's waiting nonetheless.
It's what we do. It's how we fill it. Pencils. Paper. Imaginations. Creations."
I just got in from Chattanooga where I participated in the 4 Bridges Art Festival. I saw some very inspirational clay work there -- Shadow May, Shirl & Jim Parmentier, Andy Smith, and Larry Spears, to name a few of the best. I also met a blog reader or two, and had some time away from the studio to do some thinking.
This youtube seems to be making the rounds of the internet of creative people. Mostly folks who don't need the message seem to be the ones inspired by it, but it's sparked some interesting discussion nonetheless.
I was at first inclined to bristle at the oversimplification behind video's thesis. I think I was mistakenly reading into it that all that was needed to make great work was to get off the dime and get started. Upon further reflection, I don't think that's the idea.
Because he introduced the subject by much repetition of the word "great" (great works to make great impressions on great people), what the writer seemed to be referring to was a specific dime on which he was encouraging the reader (or listener) to "get off" -- the dime of expectations too high. And I know what he means. I think. I think that especially people my age have life experiences -- and, maybe more importantly, tastes -- that intimidate them from even attempting creative endeavors.
It is a concept long referred to as "Sacrificing 'good' at the altar of 'best' " -- the crippling notion that unless one can achieve some standard of excellent, one won't even try for good.
I think that's one reason why, though I dabble in music, I don't write lyrics. My standard -- acquired by voracious listening to the best writers EVER (coupled with the number of times I've cringed at the amateur lyrics to which I've been over-exposed) -- intimidates me from even attempting to write lyrics. I can't get it out of my head that what I write should measure up to the standard exhibited by the music to which I listen.
But what I further take from the writer's charge is that if we DO just get off that dime, we will MOST LIKELY be naturally channeled to the next important step in creative endeavors -- problem solving.
In other words, if we never start, we never advance to solving the problems we create for ourselves by our first clumsy attempts. BUT.....if we do but start, we USUALLY find pleasure in the creativity, and that inspires us to move onward. As we solve the problems we create for ourselves by just DOING, we then tend to grow exponentially.
1. A more educated way of looking at what once were our expectations, and we now judge those expectations through the eyes of experience.
2. New expectations and the surprising realization of just how much sidewalk there is between the gate of what we thought we knew, and the door of knowing.
HK? --I don't know where my mom picked that up. I smile just remembering her saying it. I doubt my mom coined the funny little acronym, but I've never heard anyone else use it. "HK?" -- said with a li'l shrug of the shoulders ..... "Who Cares?"
Anyway, Carter asked (in response to my last post) if the folks who buy my pottery really care about my obsession with surface and detail -- do they even notice? Or do I merely make what I like, and hope someone comes along for the ride?
Well, if John ain't happy, ain't nobody happy.
Really. It's such a phenomenon that I've heard it over and over again in discussions among fellow potters at art fairs: When we've got stuff we really, really like -- work we're really excited about -- we emit clayomones that attract people like crazy.
And people gravitate right to the work we're proudest of. I'd call it magic if I wasn't so given to scientific explanations and stuff.
1. Work that cannot be easily dated -- doesn't immediately imply the date of its creation. And for this reason, though it may not be the hottest ticket in town, nevertheless, it will play forever. Some songs are that way. They sound like they were written anywhen and you can live with them anytime.
2. Timelessness at its best means work that will continue to surprise and delight LONG after being first introduced. THAT requires depth, detail, or something that will hang around after first impressions have been long forgotten.
So, yes, I suppose the detail is all about delighting me first. If I'm delighted, it's been my experience that others will be similarly delighted. They may not verbalize what it is exactly about the work that appeals to them, but they always gravitate toward the things that are most successful in the way I intend them to be.


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Q: validation: exists two column same request I have in users table email & phone columns  I need to check in validation exist of both in one request like this:
$request->validate([
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]);

When I request this validation I got this error:
"message": "Undefined array key 1",

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$request->validate([
   'emailOrPhone' => ['required',Rule::exists('users','email')->where('phone',$request->emailOrPhone)]
]);

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Here's The Real Reason You've Got That One Random Chin Hair
We all get it. Now let's talk about it.
Jamie Feldman
04/28/2017 06:01am EDT
Chin hairs are like stars. You don't always see them, but every so often they emerge to surprise you in all their bold glory.
Facial hair, of course, is no big deal, but we have always wondered what the deal is with that one thick, long hair that seems to appear out of nowhere, just begging to be plucked.
We took a break from staring at our faces in magnified mirrors to call on the experts. First and foremost, we wanted to know what makes those individual chin hairs different from our thinner, finer facial hair.
Dr. Heidi Waldorf, director of laser and cosmetic dermatology at The Mount Sinai Hospital, broke it down for HuffPost.
"These are terminal hairs versus the vellus hairs on the rest of the face," she said. "Hair differs in its susceptibility to testosterone. Beard and mustache hair are more susceptible. Since [the chin is] considered a masculine area, when hair appears in that area in women, it is referred to as hirsutism."
Hirstuism is a medical condition that is often caused by polycystic ovary syndrome and certain medications that cause excessive growth. But if you have just one or two terminal hairs that appear in the same place each time they grow, you can usually chalk it up to our unique, complicated bodies.
"Hair follicles have a mind of their own," Angela Lamb, director of the Westside Mount Sinai Dermatology Faculty Practice, director of dermatology at the Institute of Family Health and an assistant dermatology professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, told HuffPost. "Sometimes one or more hairs will grow in thicker or fuller than others. This is the same reason why you may notice different hairs on your scalp that are curlier in some parts more than others."
It's not totally random, though. Like most other things in life, you have genetics to thank for the amount of hair that grows in on your face.
"Many cases are hereditary," Lamb said. "If the women in your family grow facial hair, you may as well. It has to do with how your hair follicles respond to androgens [male sex hormones, like testosterone] that are present in all women's bodies."
And while we would bet money that those individual chin hairs grow in at an exponentially faster rate than the other hair on our bodies, Lamb maintains they come in at the same speed. She also assured us that there is no scientific evidence to back up any claims that plucking these hairs makes them grow in thicker.
Waldorf did say, however, that the reason it may appear longer is thanks to the different ways hair grows on the body.
"Hair growth differs in different areas of the body, as does the growth cycle," she said. "Which is why scalp hair generally grows longer than eyelash hair."
Both Waldorf and Lamb state that there is no danger in plucking these hairs, aside for the potential risk for infection that comes with plucking any hair. And Waldorf explained that while you don't ever develop new follicles, more vellus hairs can be stimulated by hormones to become terminal hairs as you get older. "As women age, estrogen levels go down and natural testosterone goes unopposed."
As far as methods of removal go, both doctors referred to the same three options:
"Laser hair removal, electrolysis, and a topical prescription call Vaniqa that causes hairs to grow in thinner and slower," Lamb said. "These are not true 'preventions' but rather elimination techniques."
Much to our dismay, Lamb offered no scientific explanation for why those hairs are so darn satisfying to pluck. But what she did say is that plucking is "an easy compulsive behavior that can be deeply satisfying."
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COVID-19 can infect pancreatic cells that make insulin, study suggests
By Catherine Park
FOX TV Digital Team
Study found increased risk of death in patients with 'long COVID'
Dr. Ziyad Al-Aly from the St. Louis VA Healthcare System talks about a study that found an increased risk of death in patients who developed so-called 'long COVID.'
Several studies found evidence of COVID-19 impacting the cells that create insulin in the pancreas, resulting in a higher chance for diabetes to worsen or develop in people who were infected with the novel coronavirus.
The method by which pancreatic cells are becoming infected with COVID-19 is through the ACE2 receptor, researchers posited.
The ACE2 receptor is the human host receptor for COVID-19 "which in other tissues has been shown to be a necessary component for infection permissiveness," according to a November 2020 study published in the journal "Frontiers."
The most susceptible cells are called beta cells, which are responsible for making insulin. Earlier studies found that once COVID-19 has infected the beta cells, it can replicate, making more copies of itself and spreading to other cells.
FILE - A woman receives a blood glucose test to check for possible diabetes.
RELATED: Studies suggest serious COVID-19 infection can lead to diabetes
Pancreatic cells that become infected by COVID-19 inhibit them from producing insulin, which is a hormone that helps the human body regulate the amount of glucose that gets absorbed into muscles, fat cells and the liver. That regulation restriction can lead to diabetes.
Diabetes occurs when an individual's blood sugar — or glucose — is too high. Blood glucose is the body's main source of energy and comes from food. Insulin is the important hormone made by the pancreas that helps glucose from food get into cells meant to be used for energy, according to the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases.
Type 1 diabetes occurs when the body doesn't make any insulin, usually caused by the body's immune system attacking and destroying those important cells in the pancreas. Type 2 diabetes, the most common form, is when the body doesn't make enough insulin or doesn't use it well.
A high level of glucose in the body is the hallmark of diabetes, according to the National Institutes of Health.
RELATED: Heart disease, diabetes top killers in 2020, CDC data says
Since the emergence of the novel coronavirus in late 2019, research has shown that people with severe COVID-19 infection can go on to develop other health conditions like pneumonia, blood clots and as more evidence emerges, diabetes.
Two separate studies from the Stanford University School of Medicine and Weill Cornell Medicine suggest that COVID-19 can target and damage the body's cells that produce insulin.
Research done by the Stanford team suggested that the novel coronavirus may be more likely to infect the insulin-producing beta cells. Experts say these particular cells contain the ACE2 receptor and others that the virus uses to enter and infect human cells, perhaps making them more vulnerable.
Furthermore, it appeared to lead directly to the death of some beta cells and transform surviving ones, in a process called "transdifferentiation," according to a post about the research by Dr. Francis Collins, the NIH's director.
RELATED: Diabetes surging in U.S. youth
"The consequences of this transdifferentiation of beta cells aren't yet clear, but would be predicted to worsen insulin deficiency and raise blood glucose levels," Collins wrote. "More study is needed to understand how SARS-CoV-2 reaches the pancreas and what role the immune system might play in the resulting damage."
Last year, diabetes was among the top killers in the U.S. with deaths from the disease increasing by 14% — the largest rise in decades. Experts believe a big reason may be that many people did not seek treatment in an emergency because they feared becoming infected with the novel coronavirus.
Type 2 diabetes incidence has increased in recent years along with obesity rates. A 2001-17 report published online in the Journal of the American Medical Association shows the rate nearly doubled in kids aged 10-19, jumping from 34 cases per 100,000 kids to 67 per 100,000.
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package org.ovirt.engine.ui.common.view.popup;

import org.ovirt.engine.ui.common.CommonApplicationConstants;
import org.ovirt.engine.ui.common.gin.AssetProvider;
import org.ovirt.engine.ui.common.idhandler.ElementIdHandler;
import org.ovirt.engine.ui.common.idhandler.WithElementId;
import org.ovirt.engine.ui.common.presenter.popup.ForceRemoveConfirmationPopupPresenterWidget;
import org.ovirt.engine.ui.common.widget.Align;
import org.ovirt.engine.ui.common.widget.dialog.SimpleDialogPanel;
import org.ovirt.engine.ui.common.widget.editor.generic.EntityModelCheckBoxEditor;
import org.ovirt.engine.ui.uicommonweb.models.ConfirmationModel;
import org.ovirt.engine.ui.uicommonweb.models.EntityModel;
import org.ovirt.engine.ui.uicompat.Event;
import org.ovirt.engine.ui.uicompat.EventArgs;
import org.ovirt.engine.ui.uicompat.IEventListener;
import org.ovirt.engine.ui.uicompat.PropertyChangedEventArgs;
import com.google.gwt.core.client.GWT;
import com.google.gwt.editor.client.SimpleBeanEditorDriver;
import com.google.gwt.event.shared.EventBus;
import com.google.gwt.safehtml.shared.SafeHtmlUtils;
import com.google.gwt.uibinder.client.UiBinder;
import com.google.gwt.uibinder.client.UiField;
import com.google.gwt.user.client.ui.HTML;
import com.google.gwt.user.client.ui.Label;
import com.google.inject.Inject;

public abstract class ForceRemoveConfirmationPopupView extends AbstractModelBoundPopupView<ConfirmationModel>
        implements ForceRemoveConfirmationPopupPresenterWidget.ViewDef {

    interface Driver extends SimpleBeanEditorDriver<ConfirmationModel, ForceRemoveConfirmationPopupView> {
    }

    interface ViewUiBinder extends UiBinder<SimpleDialogPanel, ForceRemoveConfirmationPopupView> {
        ViewUiBinder uiBinder = GWT.create(ViewUiBinder.class);
    }

    interface ViewIdHandler extends ElementIdHandler<ForceRemoveConfirmationPopupView> {
        ViewIdHandler idHandler = GWT.create(ViewIdHandler.class);
    }

    @UiField(provided = true)
    @Path(value = "latch.entity")
    @WithElementId
    EntityModelCheckBoxEditor latch;

    @UiField
    @Ignore
    Label warningLabel;

    @UiField
    @Ignore
    HTML messageLabel;

    private final Driver driver = GWT.create(Driver.class);

    private final static CommonApplicationConstants constants = AssetProvider.getConstants();

    @Inject
    public ForceRemoveConfirmationPopupView(EventBus eventBus) {
        super(eventBus);

        latch = new EntityModelCheckBoxEditor(Align.RIGHT);
        latch.setLabel(constants.approveOperation());

        initWidget(ViewUiBinder.uiBinder.createAndBindUi(this));
        ViewIdHandler.idHandler.generateAndSetIds(this);
        driver.initialize(this);

        updateWarning();
    }

    @Override
    public void edit(final ConfirmationModel object) {
        driver.edit(object);

        // Bind "Latch.IsAvailable"
        object.getLatch().getPropertyChangedEvent().addListener(new IEventListener<PropertyChangedEventArgs>() {

            @Override
            public void eventRaised(Event<? extends PropertyChangedEventArgs> ev, Object sender, PropertyChangedEventArgs args) {
                if ("IsAvailable".equals(args.propertyName)) { //$NON-NLS-1$
                    EntityModel entity = (EntityModel) sender;
                    if (entity.getIsAvailable()) {
                        latch.setVisible(true);
                    }
                }
            }
        });

        object.getItemsChangedEvent().addListener(new IEventListener<EventArgs>() {
            @Override
            public void eventRaised(Event<? extends EventArgs> ev, Object sender, EventArgs args) {
                updateMessage(object);
            }
        });
    }

    protected void updateWarning() {
        warningLabel.setText(getWarning());
    }

    protected void updateMessage(ConfirmationModel object) {
        String itemName = "<b>" + object.getItems().iterator().next() + "</b>"; //$NON-NLS-1$ //$NON-NLS-2$
        messageLabel.setHTML(SafeHtmlUtils.fromTrustedString(getFormattedMessage(itemName)));
    }

    protected abstract String getWarning();

    protected abstract String getFormattedMessage(String itemName);

    @Override
    public ConfirmationModel flush() {
        return driver.flush();
    }

}

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Navracsics: Government intent on signing recovery fund deal by year-end
Written by BT/MTI
The Hungarian government making a concerted effort to get to the point of signing the national plan for disbursing EU recovery funds, and it is hoped a deal can be reached with the European Commission by the end of the year, Tibor Navracsics, the minister for regional development and the uptake of EU funds, said in Luxembourg on Thursday.
3. June 2022 7:13
After a meeting of EU cohesion ministers in Luxembourg, Navracsics told MTI by phone that he had reviewed the process with Elisa Ferreira, the EU commissioner for cohesion and reforms, and in light of this meeting an agreement may be signed later this year.
Endeavours are needed so that Hungary and the EC can get to the stage of signing partnership agreements on the financing of EU operative programmes, he said, adding that talks on the related partnership agreements were well under way.
Meanwhile, commenting on the two-day congress of the European People's Party (EPP) in Rotterdam, Navracsics said his participation as a member of the Christian Democratic People's Party (KDNP) delegation was to strengthen the relationship between the Hungarian government coalition and the EPP.
The departure of former Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk as the EPP's president opens up a new era for the EPP, he said. Hopefully institutional ties can be established between Fidesz and the EPP in the future which could lead to anything from full membership to a cooperation agreement. The KDNP may act as a mediator between the parties, he added.
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This year's marching season was peaceful, but fears are growing about the future.
On July 12, the high point of the protestant marching season, thousands of Orangemen in mandarin-colored sashes, bowler hats and umbrellas gathered to parade through Belfast.
In past years, the "Glorious Twelfth" has often been accompanied by violence, especially near Belfast's corrugated iron "peacewalls" that separate nationalists and unionists. In 2013, several days of rioting took place after the Northern Irish Parades Commission ruled that local Orange lodges could not march past a row of shops in the Catholic Ardoyne neighborhood in north Belfast.
Kelly's party has called for a "border poll" on Irish unification in the wake of Brexit. "The vote has been taken, but the democratic decision was taken in the north to remain," he said.
NI will join Ireland and automatically it will continue to be part of the EU. That's common sense and that's what needs to be done, otherwise a NI civil war would blast again.
Good article. However it references a place which does not exist: "the Irish Republic". There are two internationally recognised political entities on this island: "Northern Ireland" (part of the UK), and "Ireland". The author should correct the article accordingly.
Pardon my ignorance, but does not NI receive a rather substantial economic aid from the government in London? How much is it? And that will of course cease if NI joined IRL. Or not?
The Irish flag is green, white and orange – not gold.
Yes Northern Ireland is highly subsidised by the British Government to the tune of over £4 billion per year .
Spending by government per capita is some £2000 more per person than in England.
Over 28% of the workforce is employed by Government departments the highest in the UK.
What this means to keep the peace in Northern Ireland the rest of the UK has to subsidise Northern Ireland thats why a majority in England would be only to happy for the province to merge with Ireland and let them pay to keep them not fighting.
It would be so very easy for Britain to keep an open border between Ireland and Northern Ireland, and do a passport and customs check between Ireland and the UK.
I don't believe that Britain will let small-minded insistence on "principles" (read: passport-free travel within the entirety of the UK) lead to a re-militarised border. It will gain Britain nothing and it will mean additional hardship for the Irish.
If nothing else I'd like to think that the EU will let the vital interests of its member (Ireland) weigh heavily in the upcoming negotiations. I.e. if Britain willfully insists on closing the border between Ireland and Northern Ireland, it could loose a lot of good will at the negotiation table.
Right now, the general opinion in Europe is to keep the trade negotiations businesslike (i.e. Britain will not be allowed to sell China and India cheap backdoor access into the common market, and it will not undercut EU firms with laissez-faire regulation (think of the London City))) but fair (we bear Britain no ill will and would like it to prosper).
Of course that could change if Britain were to make life needlessly difficult for the Irish, "just because it can".


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Democrat Jon Ossoff delivers a concession speech in Atlanta, Georgia, after his congressional election loss in 2017. Photo: Joe Raedle/Getty Images
Former Democratic congressional candidate Jon Ossoff told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution (AJC) Monday that he intends to challenge Sen. David Perdue (R-Ga.) in the race for the U.S. Senate in Georgia.
Why it matters: With former Fortune 500 chief executive Perdue up for re-election and Republican Sen. Johnny Isakson resigning, Georgia will be home to 2 of the most closely watched Senate races in the country in 2020, the New York Times notes.
Details: Ossoff told the AJC he would "mount a ruthless assault on corruption in our political system" and "raise a grassroots army unlike any this state has ever seen" by expanding the network of supporters who helped him raise roughly $30 million in the 2017 special election.
Background: Ossoff narrowly lost the 2017 Georgia 6th special election — despite millions of dollars the Democratic Party pumped to back him.
The big picture: Per the AJC, the 32-year-old former documentary filmmaker is due to formally announce his candidacy on Tuesday, making him the 4th and arguably best-known Democrat in the race against the first-term Republican Perdue, who has strong ties to President Trump.
What they're saying: Democratic Rep. John Lewis has already endorsed Ossoff.
"Like the many thousands Jon has already organized and inspired, I am ready to work tirelessly to elect him. Georgia and America need Jon."
— Rep. John Lewis' comments to AJC
Editor's note: This article has been updated with new details throughout.
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Q: Reading updated files on the fly in Python I'm writing two Python scripts that both parse files. One is a standard unix logfile and the other is a binary file. I'm trying to figure out the best way to monitor these so I can read data as soon as they're updated. Most of the solutions I've found thus far are linux specific, but I need this to work in FreeBSD.
Obviously one approach would be to just run my script every X amount of time, but this seems gross and inefficient. If I want my Python app running continuously in the background monitoring a file and acting on it once it's changed/updated, what's my best bet?

A: I once did to make a sort of daemon process for a parser built in Python. I needed to watch a series of files and process them in Python, and it had to be a truly multi-OS solution (Windows & Linux in this case). I wrote a program that watches over a list of files by checking their modification time. The program sleeps for a while and then checks the modification time of the files being watched. If the modification time is newer than the one previously registered, then the file has changed and so stuff has to be done with this file.
Something like this:
import os
import time

path = os.path.dirname(__file__)
print "Looking for files in", path, "..."

# get interesting files
files = [{"file" : f} for f in os.listdir(path) if os.path.isfile(f) and os.path.splitext(f)[1].lower() == ".src"]
for f in files:
    f["output"] = os.path.splitext(f["file"])[0] + ".out"
    f["modtime"] = os.path.getmtime(f["file"]) - 10
    print "  watching:", f["file"]

while True:
    # sleep for a while
    time.sleep(0.5)
    # check if anything changed
    for f in files:
        # is mod time of file is newer than the one registered?
        if os.path.getmtime(f["file"]) > f["modtime"]:
            # store new time and...
            f["modtime"] = os.path.getmtime(f["file"])
            print f["file"], "has changed..."
            # do your stuff here

It does not look like top notch code, but it works quite well.
There are other SO questions about this, but I don't know if they'll provide a direct answer to your question:
How to implement a pythonic equivalent of tail -F?
How do I watch a file for changes?
How can I "watch" a file for modification / change?
Hope this helps!

A: Have you tried KQueue events?
http://docs.python.org/library/select.html#kqueue-objects
kqueue is the FreeBSD / OS version of inotify (file change notification service).  I haven't used this, but I think it's what you want.


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Q: Determining Runs per Day I am executing a job every 16 minutes within an hour (3 Runs).  The job will run at 16 past, 32 past and 48 past the hour.  It will not spill over into the next hour.
Here is a sample of the runs for a two hour window:
Run 1:
Thu Jul 04 06:16:00 EDT 2013
Run 2:
Thu Jul 04 06:32:00 EDT 2013
Run 3:
Thu Jul 04 06:48:00 EDT 2013
Run 4:
Thu Jul 04 07:16:00 EDT 2013
Run 5:
Thu Jul 04 07:32:00 EDT 2013
Run 6:
Thu Jul 04 07:48:00 EDT 2013

My problem is that I need to build some targets for each job (not important), but ultimately I decided upon determining how many jobs would run for the day and then setting a target for each job.
I am working on the logic to determine how many times the job will run per day given a variable start time.  I tried doing this with some calculations, but then ultimately relied on the this piece of code that uses a calendar to figure out how many runs are left in the day:
public int getRunsLeftInDay(int runIntervalMinutes, int offset){
    /*
        Offset is when the job starts
        Currently runIntervalMinutes = 16 && offset = 16
        So start 16 minutes after the hour and run on 16 minute interval
    */

    /*
       This method is tested returns proper next run date, basically gives
       the next 16 past || 32 past || 48 past time that will occur
    */
    Date nextRunDt = this.getNextRun(runIntervalMinutes, offset);

    //Determine last run per hour
    int lastRunMinute = (60/runIntervalMinutes) * runIntervalMinutes;
    int runCount = 0;

    Calendar cal = Calendar.getInstance();
    cal.setTime(nextRunDt);
    int currentDay = cal.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_YEAR);

    while(cal.get(Calendar.DAY_OF_YEAR) == currentDay){
        runCount++; //count first run since calendar is set to nextRunDt

        if(cal.get(Calendar.MINUTE) == lastRunMinute){
            cal.add(Calendar.HOUR_OF_DAY, 1);
            cal.set(Calendar.MINUTE, offset);
        }else{
            cal.add(Calendar.MINUTE, runIntervalMinutes);
        }
    }
    return runCount;
}

Currently my code is returning the correct amount of runs, but I would like to explore if there is a better way of determining this value (through some Date calculations).
So basically I have two questions:
1.  Is this method of finding the amount of runs per day sufficient?
2.  How would I do this using a date/time calculations?

A: The number of runs left in the day is the number of runs left in the current hour plus the number of hours left in the day times three. Or, did I misunderstand the question?

A: You should avoid the while loop, otherwise I don't think efficiency matters. In my experience Date objects are more difficult to deal with. (not tested yet)
Calendar now = Calendar.getInstance(),
    soon = Calendar.getInstance(),
    midnight = Calendar.getInstance();
soon.add(Calendar.HOUR, 1);
soon.set(Calendar.MINUTE, 0);
soon.set(Calendar.SECOND, 0);
midnight.add(Calendar.DAY, 1);
midnight.set(Calendar.HOUR, 0);
midnight.set(Calendar.MINUTE, 0);
midnight.set(Calendar.SECOND, 0);

int times_left_this_hour = (soon.getTimeInMillis() - now.getTimeInMillis()) / 1000 / 60 / 16;
int times_left_this_day = (midnight.getTimeInMillis() - soon.getTimeInMillis()) / 1000 / 60 / 60 * 3;


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Q: R: Defining order of multiple linetype styles in legend of a plot I have a sample data.frame xy which I am plotting using the following code:
xy <- structure(list(NAME = structure(c(3L, 3L, 3L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 4L, 4L, 2L, 2L, 2L), .Label = c("EXAMPLE2", "EXAMPLE5", "TEST1", "TEST3"), class = "factor"), ID = c(6L, 6L, 6L, 3367L, 3367L,3367L, 3367L, 3367L, 3366L, 3366L, 3366L), X_START_YEAR = c(1999L, 2000L, 2001L, 2001L, 2002L, 2003L, 2005L, 2006L, 2001L, 2002L,2003L), Y_START_VALUE = c(0L, -570L, -630L, 0L, -140L, -660L,-770L, -1630L, 0L, 20L, -140L), X_END_YEAR = c(2000L, 2001L, 2002L, 2002L, 2003L, 2004L, 2006L, 2007L, 2002L, 2003L, 2004L), Y_END_VALUE = c(-570L, -630L, -1190L, -140L, -660L, -650L, -1630L, -2170L, 20L, -140L, -60L), TITLE_LEGEND = structure(c(3L,  3L, 3L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 4L, 4L, 2L, 2L, 2L), .Label = c("Example 2", "Example 5", "Test 1", "Test 3"), class = "factor"), FILENAME = structure(c(1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L), .Label = "PLOTTEST", class = "factor"), TITLE_PLOT = structure(c(1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L, 1L,1L, 1L, 1L), .Label = "PLOT TEST", class = "factor"), X_AXIS_START = c(1940L,1940L, 1940L, 1940L, 1940L, 1940L, 1940L, 1940L, 1940L, 1940L,1940L), X_AXIS_END = c(2014L, 2014L, 2014L, 2014L, 2014L,2014L, 2014L, 2014L, 2014L, 2014L, 2014L)), .Names = c("NAME", "ID", "X_START_YEAR", "Y_START_VALUE", "X_END_YEAR", "Y_END_VALUE","TITLE_LEGEND", "FILENAME", "TITLE_PLOT", "X_AXIS_START", "X_AXIS_END"), class = "data.frame", row.names = c(NA, -11L))

xy2 <- xy
tt <- as.integer(xy2$TITLE_LEGEND) # define legend parameters

title <- unique(xy[,9])
filename <- xy$FILENAME
my_x_lim <- c(xy$X_AXIS_START, xy$X_AXIS_END)
fname <- paste0(filename, '.png')
png(fname, width=1679, height=1165, res=150)
par(mar=c(6,8,6,5))
plot(c(xy[,3],xy[,5]),c(xy[,4],xy[,6]),type="n",main=title,xlab="Time [Years]", ylab="VALUE [mm]", cex.main=1.5,cex=1, xlim = unique(my_x_lim), font.lab=2, cex.lab=1.3, cex.axis=1.2)
axis(1, at = seq(1000, 2050, 5), cex.axis=1, labels=FALSE, tcl=-0.3)
axis(2, at = seq(-100000, 100000, 500), cex.axis=1, labels=FALSE, tcl=-0.3)
abline(h=0, col = "gray60")
segments(xy[,3], xy[,4], xy[,5], xy[,6], lty=tt)

#insert legend based on options defined before
tt <- unique(tt)
legend("bottomleft",lty=tt,legend=levels(xy2$TITLE_LEGEND)[tt],bty='n')

dev.off()

This all works fine, however I am unsure of how to define the different linetype styles in the legend.
My question: How could I define the different line type styles that the order of linetype style is always defined (e.g. for the first legend item always a bold line is placed, for the second item a dotted line and for the third item a dashed line etc)?
As I understand  in my example at the moment this is not defined clearly. For example if I plot with other data and use this plot code again, the order of linetype style is in a completely different order and sometimes the same style is plotted twice in a legend.

A: That's because your TITLE_LEGEND column is a factor so when you do as.integer(xy2$TITLE_LEGEND), you obtain 1 for the first level, 2 for the second, and so on.
You need to reorder your factors if you want to have first "test 1", then "Example 2", etc.
xy2$TITLE_LEGEND<-factor(xy2$TITLE_LEGEND,levels=c("Test 1","Example 2","Test 3","Example 5"))

then as.integer(xy2$TITLE_LEGEND) should work, with "Example 5" beeing represented by lty=4.


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VASTA 2012: A Voice for Good
Posted on August 4, 2012 by Eric Armstrong	Posted in Announcements, Blog
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I'm off to Washington D.C tomorrow for the 2012 Voice and Speech Trainers Association (VASTA) Conference, entitled A Voice for Good, and I'm really excited. This is a conference theme that I've wanted the association to do for many years—so much of the work that voice trainers do, and have the potential to do, can really change lives.
Many of the presenters are very inspiring to me, so I'm excited for that reason. But there's also the fact that I'm involved with 4 panels! I'm chairing a panel/workshop on Asian Accents on Wednesday with Erik Singer, Marina Tyndall, Jane Guyer Fujita and Steven Eng; I'm doing a presentation on Japanese, which should be easy because I just did a show featuring that accent, Arigato, Tokyo, by Daniel MacIvor at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre. Then I'm participating in Amy Stoller's panel on Accent Stereotypes with such luminaries as DialectDoug.com's Douglas N. Honorof, he of the famous Comma Gets a Cure diagnostic passage, Adrianne Moore from Utah State University, and Kim James Bey from Howard University. Hopefully I will not sound like an idiot compared to my esteemed colleagues on that one!
Then I'm representing my Graduate Program in the brown bag lunch panel on MFA programs in voice training, where David Smukler and I will plug our Voice Teacher Diploma programs up at York. We're flying down together tomorrow morning, and we're sitting next to each other, so we'll get to chat about the whole thing over roasted peanuts. And we have a command performance of the Tech Panel with myself and Michael Barnes for the umpteenth time (regrettably, Phil Thompson is away this year). I think I will plug things I do with my iPad.
I'm also gotten myself involved with the Teaching Philosophy Statement support group, as I do a fair bit of review of these things with my Voice Diploma students. And I've been invited to a luncheon with former board members on Wednesday; I look forward to catching up with old friends and looking ahead to what lies on the horizon for the organization.
I'm very excited about lots of talks, like the Uof A's David Ley's talk on using personal vibrators (yes, that kind) to elicit vibrations in the larynx of people with dysphonia. Unfortunately that's opposite the talk about the Visual Accent & Dialect Archive (VADA) that I really want to go to. I really am looking forward to singing 20th Century Political songs with Joanna Cazden on Monday evening and international songs (with easy harmony) with Judith Shahn and Claudia Anderson on Wednesday night.
So, if I don't manage a post on Thursday for the Voiceguy, you'll understand why! I'll be exhausted!
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Eric Armstrong is the voiceguy. Eric is a dialect, voice, speech and text coach based in Toronto, Canada, where he normally teaches full-time at York University's Dept. of Theatre. Eric has been teaching voice for the actor full-time since 1994, and has taught in Canada and the US, at the University of Windsor, Brandeis University, Roosevelt University, Canada's National Voice Intensive and York University. He has worked for nationally and internationally recognized companies such as Crow's Theatre, Volcano, SoulPepper, & Canadian Stage in Toronto, and The Court Theatre and Steppenwolf in Chicago. Eric holds a BFA from Concordia University (Montreal) in Theatre Performance, and an MFA from York University (Toronto) in Acting. His mentors were David Smukler (York, Canada's National Voice Intensive) and Andrew Wade (Royal Shakespeare Company). He has also studied at the Drama Studio, London, and Il Stage Internazzionale di Commedia dell'Arte in Reggio Emilia, Italy. He's a long time member of the Voice and Speech Trainers Association, where he has served on the board, as a conference planner, photo editor for the Voice and Speech Review, Founding Director of Technology and Internet Services, and has written numerous peer-reviewed articles, essays and reviews for the VASTA Newsletter, the VASTA Voice, and The Voice and Speech Review.
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'They've declared war on New York,' said Gov. Andrew Cuomo.
However you refer to the ploy to change the way New York funds Medicaid, the maneuver has simultaneously provided political cover for a group of Upstate New York Republicans to vote for the House GOP's Obamacare repeal and rattled state politics back home.
As part of the last-minute scramble to ensure the 216 votes needed to pass the measure in a vote planned for Thursday, New York Reps. Chris Collins and John Faso brokered a change to transfer more of the burden of caring for Medicaid beneficiaries from counties to the state of New York — a move that could ensure that the majority of Republicans in New York's nine-member GOP House delegation ultimately back the bill.
But it also served to pull the pin on a grenade that landed in Democratic Gov. Andrew Cuomo's office. During a Tuesday press conference with hospital executives and health care unions, the governor lashed out, asserting that the $2.3 billion shift envisioned by Collins and Faso would amount to a "cut" to Medicaid for New Yorkers — including 100,000 and 150,000 people in their respective districts. He said it would also hurt hospitals.
At the heart of the deal — reminiscent of the so-called "Cornhusker Kickback" for Nebraska that helped grease passage of Obamacare in 2010 — was a targeted change to Medicaid funding that supporters say could lower local property taxes for Upstate New Yorkers. Unlike other states, the cost of funding Medicaid in New York is shared between the state government and its 62 counties — including the five boroughs of New York City.
Since counties outside of the city are funded mostly by property taxes, they've long groused that the "unfunded mandate" from Albany has hurt homeowners and businesses. It's a decades-old complaint, stretching to the days when Gov. Nelson Rockefeller set up the system.
Addressing it has been a talking point for Republicans in Upstate New York for just as long — and unfunded mandates were a major underpinning for Collins, formerly Erie County executive, which includes Buffalo, when he considered a run for governor in 2010.
Now, Collins, a stalwart ally and defender of the president, has more juice than the typical House Republican — he was the first member of Congress to endorse Trump.
Faso, who spent decades as a minority member in the New York State Assembly, likewise railed against the funding issue during his campaign last year. After staying quiet about the American Health Care Act — which he did vote to advance in a committee — Faso cited the amendment as a reason to support the legislation.
The amendment, which excludes large municipalities such as New York City, would bar federal reimbursements for state Medicaid funds raised from local governments, effectively shifting around $2.3 billion in Medicaid spending from the counties to the state.
Republicans including Faso have been under pressure to oppose the AHCA from progressive groups like Citizen Action, who say it will increase the cost of health insurance for senior citizens, lead to eventual reductions in Medicaid spending and eventually result in fewer people having health insurance. And few New York Republicans represent districts conservative enough to easily dismiss such pressure.
While New York is deeply blue in aggregate — Hillary Clinton carried Trump's home state by more than 20 points — the 2012 round of redistricting saw House seats drawn by a federal court rather than subjected to normal partisan gerrymandering, which made several seats politically competitive.
Barack Obama carried Faso's district, which includes the mid-Hudson Valley and Catskills. Its previous occupant, Rep. Chris Gibson, was ranked as the most liberal Republican in the House in 2013. GOP Reps. Claudia Tenney and Elise Stefanik, both of whom have districts occupied by Democrats as recently as 2009, also backed the AHCA as a result of the amendment.
The amendment, which would take effect in the 2020 fiscal year, will squeeze Cuomo's fiscal house. The governor is currently in the final weeks of negotiating a $150 billion-plus budget with the state legislature, and has been quietly lobbying the state's congressional delegation along with its permanent healthcare interests. Cuomo had assumed there would be no major changes in federal Medicaid assistance in the coming fiscal year, which begins on April 1.
But the state would face enormous pressure to pick up the tab from the counties, which in turn would bolster arguments among liberal Democrats who dominate the New York State Assembly to increase income taxes. Cuomo, a centrist who has been laying down markers for a potential presidential run, has resisted those calls along with Republicans who control the New York State Senate.
Both the amendment and the AHCA face a series of hurdles before they become law. Faso's amendment must be accepted by the Senate's parliamentarian as part of reconciliation talks with whatever version of the bill advances in the upper chamber.
In Albany, where the budget-makers have done their best to ignore what is happening in Washington, the rising impacts of the AHCA may no longer be ignored.
Collins, in an interview with POLITICO, was less measured. The congressman said Cuomo's budget was "piggish" and that he should be able to trim it to accommodate the counties' Medicaid share.


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Logging increases fire risk
For those willing to look, the evidence has been available for years: logging increases fire severity. Industry advocates continue to claim that 'logging reduces fire risk'. But it should be obvious to any impartial observer that 'removing large established trees actually increases the amount of flammable fuel, with unshaded stumps and new-grown saplings dried out by the sun and wind serving as 'kindling' for the flames'.
This has been backed up again by range of prominent scientists.
According to reporting by the ABC, a new opinion piece, co-authored by Dr James Watson, a professor of conservation science at University of Queensland and director of the Wildlife Conservation Society shows that "logging increases fire risk dramatically".
"That's clear from the evidence of different scientists who have studied this at sites and landscapes across Australia."
The scale of logging had a "profound" effect on the severity of the summer's fires.
"The evidence is showing that when you log around towns in forest landscapes, which they're doing right now, you're making the entire landscape more fire prone and therefore putting people more at risk," Dr Watson said.
The piece, called Recent Australian wildfires made worse by logging and associated forest management, was authored by David Lindenmayer, Robert Kooyman, Chris Taylor, Michelle Ward and James Watson. (Details here).
They say 'The recent fires in southern Australia were unprecedented in scale and severity. Much commentary has rightly focused on the role of climate change in exacerbating the risk of fire. Here, we contend that policy makers must recognize that historical and contemporary logging of forests has had profound effects on these fires' severity and frequency'.
As a side note, work published in early 2020 showed that climate change drove the ferocity of this summer's fires (story here).
Reporting by Lisa Cox in The Guardian notes that:
The scientists 'highlight this as a concern because land management policy was "well within the control of Australians" and the fires had been used by some sectors of the industry to call for increased logging in some areas.
The paper says industry data showed that some 161m cubic metres of native forest was logged in the period from 1996 to 2018.
"Beyond the direct and immediate impacts on biodiversity of disturbance and proximity to disturbed forest, there is compelling evidence that Australia's historical and contemporary logging regimes have made many Australian forests more fire prone and contributed to increased fire severity and flammability," the scientists write.
This occurs because logging leaves debris at ground level that increases the fuel load in logged forests. It also changes forest composition and leaves these areas of forest both hotter and drier, they say.
The article says during the bushfire season fire had spread from logged areas adjacent to old growth eucalypts and rainforests in the Gondwana world heritage reserves.
In Victoria's East Gippsland region, "extensive areas of logged and regenerated forest have burned repeatedly in the past 25 years".
What should we do?
(The quotes in italics come from The Guardian story).
The scientists make a number of recommendations:
1/ stop logging where it will add to fuel loads
They suggest a number of responses to reduce the risk of further catastrophic fire seasons, including the "removal of logging from areas where it adds considerably to fuel loads and creates forest structures that increase fire severity and risks to human safety".
"Logging causes a rise in fuel loads, increases potential drying of wet forests and causes a decrease in forest height."
2/ restore logged forests and protect them
They also call for restoration of previously logged forests to build resilience to future fire events.
"In the event of wildfires, land managers must avoid practices such as 'salvage' logging – or logging of burnt forests – which severely reduces recovery of a forest," Lindenmayer said.
3/ transition the timber industry out of native forests
'Governments need to confine timber supply to plantations and look at ways to accelerate the industry transition in states such as Victoria, which plans to phase out native forest logging by 2030'.
4/ protect towns in forested areas by stopping logging
David Lindenmayer has previously suggested that, given the fact that logging increases fire risk, it should be banned within '5 or 10' kilometres of towns. This is based on research from the Australian National University (ANU) and Melbourne University after the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires, which found that the increased fire risk began about seven years after an area had been logged and lasted for another 50 years.
Many towns in areas that have experienced recent logging, such as Healesville, Toolangi, Warburton, Noojee and Marysville, must now exist with heightened fire risk as a result of logging. Professor Lindenmayer said there should be no logging within five to 10 kilometres of towns to ensure "that we don't add extra risk through extra logging".
The Victorian government has committed $120 million to assist the timber industry to transition out of native forests (this was announced in November 2019). But no details have yet been announced.
Please tell the Victorian government to get on with implementing the plan by signing this petition.
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I disagree, I'd rather see 120 mil spent on hospitals and community housing. The timber "industry" has had plenty of notice and chances to leave their destructive practices and phase into plantation work but they continued until they no longer have that option. No , no money and revoke the licences end of story. Plenty of people have been put out of work due to gov policies and practices should everyone put out their hand? Maybe they have a case but the timber workers have had over 10 years of notice… I'd argue over 20 actually so really the due care fall on their hands. They should feel luckey for the job openings that will happen in the plantations.


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CHA News Article
Federal District Court Dismisses 340B Lawsuit, Policy Effective as of Jan. 1
January 2, 2018 Alyssa Keefe Jackie Garman
On Dec. 29, a federal district court granted the government's motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought by the American Hospital Association and others seeking to prevent the payment cuts to hospitals participating in the 340B Drug Pricing Program. The payment cuts consequently became effective Jan. 1, reducing Medicare payments by nearly 30 percent, or $1.6 billion, to certain hospitals for outpatient drugs purchased under the 340B program. CHA and 32 other state and regional hospital associations had submitted an amicus (friend of the court) brief supporting the plaintiffs' claims.
The lawsuit argues that the 340B provisions of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' outpatient prospective payment system final rule violate the law and, therefore, should be set aside under the Administrative Procedure Act as unlawful and exceeding the Health and Human Services Secretary's statutory authority. The judge dismissed the case without ruling on the merits and instead held that he lacked jurisdiction because the plaintiffs did not exhaust their administrative remedies by first presenting the Department of Health and Human Services with a concrete claim for reimbursement.
The American Hospital Association, the Association of American Medical Colleges and America's Essential Hospitals said they will continue to pursue the lawsuit following the district court's decision. The court's decision permits the groups to refile the lawsuit once the cuts go into effect.
The court's decision is attached. CHA will continue to support both legislative and regulatory efforts to roll back this policy. In the interim, CHA encourages hospitals to review the recently released frequently asked questions related to the application of the required modifiers that became effective Jan. 1.
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Jackie Garman oversees and coordinates the association's legal representation on litigation critical to the hospital industry and assists with evaluating the legal impact of legislation and regulations on hospitals. She also assists in developing legislative and regulatory language, coordinates external counsel on litigation involving CHA and interacts with member hospitals on a variety of issues.
Jackie most recently served as general counsel for Children's Hospital & Research Center Oakland from 2006-14 (now UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital Oakland), where her duties included providing legal and risk management advice for operations; acting as legal adviser to senior management and the board of directors; overseeing litigation and contract review; and directing the organization's insurance program. Prior to joining Children's Hospital, she was a partner at the San Francisco law firm of Hanson Bridgett, where she specialized in civil litigation with an emphasis on medical staff credentialing and peer review disputes.
Jackie received a juris doctor degree from Stanford Law School after receiving a bachelor's degree in political science and a master's degree in English from Washington State University.
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The European Cross Country Championships in Budapest put the international standard of running in perspective. The trip revealed to me that every minimalistic preparation prior to the race contributes to a wider but fine balance that will in turn affect your performance and position. As always things got off to a brilliant start given the Irish team (amongst many other teams) were diverted to Vienna and had a long wait in the airport and subsequent coach journey into Budapest. This was forgotten within twenty-four hours as we had allowed for an additional rest day prior to the race.
Walking the course the day before racing I understood that conditions appeared daunting; the course was narrow (when you consider 120 people were to run into a hairpin first corner), temperatures were expected to be as low as minus six and the hard-packed snow held promise of a blistering pace regardless of significant climbing. I focused on these things that evening, taking note of the other athletes around me. People were certainly enjoying the experience but they didn't put a toe out of line and were in bed early the night before.
The race itself unfolded pretty much as expected. The pace was unprecedented at the front and stretched the field out early on. I found myself in over 100th place at the mile marker (to my frustration) and knew I had to commit to the race like I had not done previously; it was going to hurt. I subsequently found myself passing people on the climbs and cruising on the descents and was not passed until the sprint for home (six people were around me) to finish in 61st place. The finish re-iterated the level of competition with twenty-four people between myself and the top Irish finisher in 37th (Stephen Kerr, Armagh AC) in a mere seventeen second gap.
The underlying theme from the weekend is to give it everything on the course (I can expect to be carried off again if I want to achieve more) and to leave nothing to chance. It is a game of inches whereby a bottle of water at hand, even an extra hour of sleep, can make all the difference. Perhaps one day, taking this into account, I might finish sixty places higher in future European Championships. Fionnuala Britton (Double European Cross Country champion) is living proof of this. I can only hope to emulate her integrity, focus and determination which has brought success to both herself and her country.