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The Sometime Connection
Public Opinion and Social Policy
By Elaine B. Sharp
Subjects: Political Science
Series: SUNY series in Urban Public Policy
Paperback : 9780791442968, 289 pages, September 1999
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1. Public Policy and Public Opinion: The Elusive Connection
2. Imprisonment and Public Opinion: The Broken Thermostat
3. Affirmative Action: A Downsian Sequence
4. The Regulation of Pornography: Policy Change and Non-Attitudes
5. Abortion: Strident Controversy and Policy Responsiveness
6. Welfare: Symbols and Substance of Policy Responsiveness
7. Social Security: Promises They Can't Deliver
8. Public Opinion and Social Policy Change: Sequences and Contingencies
Explores the role that public opinion plays in the development of social policy in the United States.
CHOICE2000 Outstanding Academic Title
The Sometime Connection introduces a variety of theoretical perspectives on the connection between public opinion and policy and applies them to six social policy topics: abortion, affirmative action, welfare, Social Security, corrections, and pornography. The book provides complete policy histories, information on trends in public opinion, and a diagnosis of the role that public opinion has played in the development of policy for each of the six topics discussed.
Elaine B. Sharp is Professor of Political Science at the University of Kansas. She is the author of several books, including Culture Wars and City Politics; The Dilemma of Drug Policy; Urban Politics and Administration; and Citizen Demand-Making in the Urban Context.
"…excellent … The Sometime Connection seems likely to be an agenda-setting work that will provide the basis for innumerable articles and dissertations in the years to come. It is the first component of a continuing conversation, well begun but far from completed." — American Political Science Review
"…excellent … The book is extremely well argued, theoretically engaged, and empirically grounded. Highly recommended for all audiences." — CHOICE
"A key contribution of The Sometime Connection is the recognition of the limitations of contemporary models of representation that blindly assume the empirical validity of either the responsiveness of political elites to public pressures or the manipulation of the mass public by public officials. Sharp argues persuasively that a variety of factors influence the nature of the representational process and hence lead to different outcomes under different contexts and contingencies. She also offers a series of fascinating case studies that illustrate the variations of responsiveness, or lack thereof, of public policy to public preferences. The first chapter, designed to organize these case studies, offers a comprehensive theoretical picture that can overlay the wide variety of inconsistent single policy research findings published in the discipline over the last several decades. As such the book offers a template for past and future policy researchers." — John P. McIver, University of Colorado
"The Sometime Connection sheds light on the dynamic interrelationships between opinion and policy across domains, something that political scientists are only beginning to explore systematically." — Christopher Wlezien, University of Houston
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Another pin is done! Actually, this was an item on my "To- Attempt" list on my blog before I started a Pinterest account... so it's been hanging around my mind for a while. The Embellished Hoodie Towel tutorial I followed is by Tammy over at Not Just a Housewife.
I ran into a few problems due to lack of sewing knowledge and experience and selection of supplies I think. When I cut my towel in half, like a hamburger as Tammy said, my towel was a lot smaller than hers. I am pretty sure it's because I used $4 towels from Walmart and they just run smaller. The other thing that didn't turn out overly good was my pleat, but it still hangs on a hook so I was at least semi-successful. This gift was given to one of Charlotte's friends for his birthday along with some bath toys. Clearly it was a hit because she asked me the very next day how to make it!
I like this hoodie towel better than the other hoodie towels I have made because this seems to envelope them more, if that makes sense.
See this is the other one (with a younger Charlotte), and the top of the main towel hangs below the shoulders because the hood part is longer.
In the new embellished one, the hood is shorter but deeper, and I like that.
That looks so cute! Someday when we have kids I'll have to remember this one for sure!


I finally made it up to Badger Pass for my annual (so far) trip. I drove up Sundaym 2/24 and drove out Wednesday afternoon.
Sunday-Got a late start, drove to Yosemite down 99 from Sacramento, mostly in the rain. Took 140 from Merced into the park at El Portal.
It was snowing in the park and by the time I parked, rented some ski boots (more on that later), got my permit, got my gear out and took off down the road, it was late afternoon. The folks who were leaving the long-term parking were digging out their cars.
After skiing down the road a ways, then turning off to the west a short ways, I set up camp at an undisclosed location as it was getting dark. The snow was so deep that once I turned off the road, I could not see my skis.
The rule is you have to be far enough off the trails so the other skiers can't see your tent. I skied about as far as I could, all things considered, and was far enough off the trail (not the road, the trail itself) so that you could see my tent if you looked for it, but otherwise, you probably wouldn't notice.
It took time to stomp out a platform for my tent and as it was getting dark, I did a quick job and set up the tent. Two days later, I notice the fly was on upside down-it didn't make any difference.
I went to sleep early and didn't really cook much-I was too tired. I realized that I had left my parka in the car, but it really wasn't all that cold. It snowed lightly much of the night, but eased off by morning.
The next morning, it was clear and sunny. However, I realized I should have set up in a different place-the trees blocked the morning sun.
I made a light breakfast and decided to ski back to the car and get my parka. Before doing that, fixed my platform-made it flatter, smoother, dug out the vestibule so I could sit in the tent door with my feet below me and dug out a kitchen a la Mike & Allen's Really Cool Backcountry Ski Book. I didn't move the tent-too much work to cut a new path through the powder.
I skied back to the parking lot, grabbed my parka and an overpriced hotdog and fries at the lodge and then skied back.
I made a light dinner and called it a night early. Surprisingly, it wasn't as cold as I thought it would be. However, it is seriously dark out there, so a good headlamp is a must. A headlamp is a good source of light for reading-frees up both hands to hold a book.
The next day, I just lazed around, made breakfast, went for a ski down the road a ways towards Glacier Point, but didn't ski all that far. I took a few pictures. Nothing exciting.
I came across another skier who was having a boot problem-blister, so I pulled some Second Skin out of my first aid kit and got him going again. I stopped literally in the middle of the road and made myself a hot drink with my little Primus Micron stove. I saw John, the skier on the way back-both his heels were acting up, so his day was pretty well done.
For evening, made some dinner and retired early. Read my book for a while, then off to sleep.
Wednesday morning-light breakfast, then packed up and skied out. As I was loading the car, John came along-he was on snowshoes this time. He offered me a pack of moleskin he had picked up in the valley. Nice of him. We chatted a bit, then off I went back to LA. There was snow down to about 4000ft.
Try to get an early start. My late start was somewhat unavoidable, but I don't recommend it. You tend to forget things-like making sure your car windows are all up before taking off. Fortunately, someone pointed out this to me before I Ieft. That would have been a real bad thing to come back to.
Once you get to where you want to camp, take the time to check where you are with a compass, so your tent faces eastern facing open space. his way everything dries out in the morning. I thought of this later, of course.
Take the time to dig out your platform and kitchen area-the snow was so deep and soft, that not doing it would be a real problem. I had to work harden a path to my latrine area to avoid walking through knee deep snow just to relieve myself.
Everything takes twice as long as you figure it should.
Tent- I have a five pole free-standing tent. I have no idea how I could have set up a non-free-standing tent. The snow was so deep and soft, I couldn't have anchored it without a ton of work hardening.
Stove- I took my Optimus Nova. I am still not sold on this stove-too many moving parts. It clogged up the second time I used it-may have been old fuel. I was able to field strip it the next morning using the tool that comes with it. I dropped the little white fuel filter while doing this-amazingly enough, I found it about an hour later. The stove worked fine without the filter. I suspect the filter iced over. Also, make sure the line connector snaps back all the way into the lock position when you pull the line off, otherwise, it squirts fuel all over the place.
When the Nova jammed, I cooked with my Primus Micron-works every time. I carried it in my pack for day skiing, as I mentioned above.
Skis-Atomic Rainiers with 3 pin Voile bindings on the release kit-not wide enough for powder, but fined for most conditions. I rented Garmont Excursion boots-my next purchase. The bindings are new so one of the boots didn't fit right on the binding-3 pins are a pain if they don't snap in right away. Skins-absolutely needed on the way back-I had no traction without them. A pain to separate, but definitely worth the time to put them on. If I had realized I was going to need them, I would have put them in my bag the night before to warm them up.
Sled-my homemade sled worked great for the most part. I bought the biggest cheap duffle bag I could find and that was a good choice. Made packing out easy-I didn't have to try to jam everything into tiny bags. I did have a bunch of separate bags for clothes and things, but just folded the tent and stuffed it in last. The sled does need runners-next project-it tended to wander on the icy road back.
Shovel-I have the Voile Mini-I love it. I take it everywhere. Don't go winter camping without a shovel, ever.
Blue pads-I have 3 sections of a blue pad in various sizes-the long one makes a good chair back and seat; the medium one is for cooking and the little one is for kneeling on in the footwell or for standing on in down booties.
Sleeping bag-I have a 23F down bag in an overbag-a pain to keep straight, but warm enough. I put them in a Bibler Winter Bivy to stay dry.
Clothes-same stuff I always take, except I left the big parka in the car and used my Nuptse over my fleece jacket at night. That combo with my GoLite pants and I was plenty warm. I also was wearing my Capilene top and bottom with Capilene socks for sleeping. Down booties for padding around, but only on hard snow.
Gloves-my REI ski gloves are worthless-even with DWR sprayed on them, the ywetted out and froze stiff. My OR liners worked fine and so did my Heat Factory Mitts. I had extra wool gloves and mitt shells as spares.
I kept my camera in my bag-seemed to work. My rechargeable batteries worked on only on set, but I didn't take all that many pics-about 60.
Bear canister-I took mine. Makes keeping track of food easy, plus keeps the curious at bay. I had a bird or some little critter get into my trash bag while I was out skiing, but that was about it.
Food-I took a lot, but didn't eat enough. Try to eat a lot-I don't eat when I am tired-bad idea. Drink plenty of liquids, too, especially at altitude.
Reading material-James Ellroy (L.A. Confidential) is not really light reading-what was I thinking? I took White Jazz, the sequel. Carl Hiaassen would have been a better choice, but I think I have read all his stuff already.
I haven't figured out yet how to link from here to my picture site, but I am working on it.
Great trip, Tom! I always enjoy the ski tours out from Badger. I usually take the back trail over the "real" Badger Pass to Bridalveil Campground, then various routes from there, but sometimes go out the Glacier Point Road, cutting off toward Dewey Point at the meadow or the trail south where the road makes its sharp left turn toward the Glacier Point lookout and lodge.
Even after doing this stuff for many trips and many years, we always get reminded of something we forgot, don't we? But, as you note, that's why we take backups. You say you used 3-pins. I quit using them after ripping out the holes (supposedly reinforced) too many times in a very nice pair of leather tele boots. Or rather, I used the cable supplement - sort of like belt plus suspenders, 3-pin plus cable. All my current tele gear is cable (I take a spare cable), and my "off-track" gear is NNN-BC, which seems sturdy enough for what I use it for.
Reading material - yeah, always take very light reading. On one of my trips into the Alaska Range, I took a little book by the Dalai Lama. Most of it was really excellent. However, about the 3rd day sitting out a storm that ended up lasting a full week at 17,000 ft, I got to the section on death and dying - talk about your bad choices of reading material!
Lots of excellent ideas in your TR. Thanks much for posting it.
Bill, my bindings are Voile 3 pins with cables, but I just hook the cables behind the heel piece for the traveling I am doing. I can see why you gave up on them-getting the pins in can be a real pain. They do make "smilie plates" to fix torn pin holes in boots, but a non-pin design seems a better idea. Voile does make a hardwire binding that doesn't require pins, but you have to use the hardwire all the time to keep the boot in it. Adds some resistance for touring.
Yosemite is a great place for beginner snowcampers-you can get the wilderness experience without being more than an a few minutes from the road and less than an hour from your car.
It is a great place for star watching for those into that sort of thing.
Hi Tom, I've been meaning to say thanks for the trip report. It sounds like a beautiful spot in winter (and I'm sure year round). I'll look forward to checking out the pictures.
How do you like colorado?
Guess I'm not the only old fart who still prefers NNN-BC.
I do have a collection of three pin gear - mostly to loan out.
I still use my atomic backcountry skis mostly around here. They handle nice on a hill side and climb well enough to leave the skins at home.
Mostly I downhill at Mt Bachelor. Im on a lift 25 minutes from home.
I told TomD I'd go with him next year.


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Stoughton és un poble de Saskatchewan, Canadà. Segons el cens de 2011 tenia una població de 694 habitants.

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Senator GIETZELT (Minister for Veterans' Affairs)(10.44) —The Government does not accept the second attempt being made by the Opposition to delay this legislation. In the debate that took place on the legislation last Tuesday an attempt was made by the Opposition to delay it. Now we have the assurance of Senator Puplick that that is not the intention. Nevertheless, the motion we are debating today-incidentally, it was moved after the conclusion of the second reading debate, taking advantage of a standing order-seeks to have this legislation referred to the Senate Standing Committee on National Resources. It is a rather hollow tactic on the part of the Opposition to prevent the Senate in a four-day sitting from passing one piece of legislation. This will be due substantially to the tactics the Opposition has adopted during this sitting week.
It is just not true to say that inadequate or unfair consultation has taken place in respect of this legislation. For the past two years the Minister for Transport (Mr Peter Morris), in his inimitable style of seeking views, and compromise where views cannot be accepted, from the States and other interested parties, has brought down a fast track package of legislation which will have the effect of substantially meeting the needs of the industry. The legislation was formulated on the basis of extensive consultation with all the major political parties ensconced in the State parliamentary area. It is a tribute to the Minister that he has been able to reach substantial agreement with National Party, Liberal Party and Labor Party governments because not even within the Labor Party is there necessarily a common position on matters affecting Commonwealth jurisdiction on which there are State views and which involve States' rights. This legislation was debated at length in the House of Representatives some weeks ago. It is wrong to suggest that somehow or other the legislation which has come into this place does not represent the consensus and the compromise approach which has been the objective of the Government in respect of the legislation, knowing full well that the introduction of legislation that does not have the support of the States and cannot, therefore, be portrayed as representing a genuine view in respect of State attitudes means that its passage in the Senate will be rather torrid.
Senator Puplick, who was forced to carry a brief at short notice, spent half his time denigrating or attempting to embarrass the Australian Democrats. He put up a pretty implausible argument as to why the legislation should be put aside. It is clear that the Opposition has no coherence on this matter. In the debate that has taken place on these two pieces of legislation affecting the national attitude to our fast track industry, the important road transport industry, most of the Opposition senators said that they supported the legislation and its general thrust. Yet, when it comes to the nitty gritty of dealing with this matter in a cogent and sensible fashion, Senator Puplick seeks support for a part time amendment to refer the legislation to a committee. This would achieve the same objectives as the amendment that was defeated in the Senate on Tuesday night. That is why Senator Puplick has spent so much of his time, not debating the logic or illogic of the Opposition's policy attitude to the legislation, but rather attempting to make some sort of an impassioned plea to the Democrats to change their view as expressed in the vote on Tuesday night and vote for the amendment which, if accepted by the Senate, would probably mean that no legislation at all would be passed in this sitting week.
Given the constitutional realities, and the complexities of other alternatives Queensland agrees that the Commonwealth Government should implement the type of scheme proposed.
Generally, there has been good co-operation between Commonwealth and State officials working out the administrative details of the scheme.
My Government accepts that the Commonwealth is acting in good faith with this legislation, for the benefit of the States.
My Government has expressed its support for the fast track package . . . and is currently working on means of implementing those recommendations requiring State Government action.
One is therefore entitled to ask what is the Opposition's strategy and what are the problems for the Opposition? Is it that the Opposition, having said in debate that it generally supports the legislation, is taking the delaying, obstructionist tactics which have been a feature not all the time but from time to time of the tactics of the Opposition in the Senate when we have had Federal Labor governments? It is just not true to say that somehow or other the Government is acting improperly or that it is not acting in concert with the States. It is also not true to say that it does not have the substantial support of the industry itself.
Listening to the debate on this legislation one could come to the only conclusion that the Government is faced with an Opposition that is playing an obstructionist role. For example, in the debate on Tuesday the Opposition moved an amendment to the motion for the second readings, and that was defeated. The Opposition then indicated that in the Committee stage it would move 50 amendments which were clearly designed to bog the Senate down and to create difficulties in the passage of this legislation. Will we be confronted with that action, assuming that the Senate does not agree with the new tactic that has obviously been thought out by the Opposition front bench? Will the Senate be put in such a position whereby, the Opposition having taken the opportunity to move an amendment at the second reading stage-I appreciate that that is a definite tactic-it will be bogged down with 50 amendments from the Opposition?
There have been discussions with the Opposition and with the Australian Democrats. A measure of goodwill and co-operation has been extended by the Minister in the way in which he has operated not only in this place but also in discussions that took place with the industry and with State representatives. We concede that it is not always possible to accommodate everything that is asked for when there is a conflict of views, but the Government believes that the legislation is a reasonable compromise. Therefore, any suggestion that some fast track tactic is involved, that we are trying to prevent the Senate from exercising its review responsibilities and that somehow or other we are denying the normal and logical debate processes on this legislation, falls down completely because there is no evidence to suggest that the Government's approach to this matter is not fair and reason- able. It is just an example of the democratic rights of sections of the industry to present another viewpoint.
Who do we accept represents the viewpoint of the industry? One small group that is very vocal has a right to present its view to government, the Opposition and to any other person involved in the debate on the issue. We concede that. Nevertheless, the Government has set itself the responsibility of having this legislation passed so that we can begin the process that Mr Gray suggested, that is, the process of complementary legislation which has to flow from State jurisdictions.
We know that the passage of this legislation does not mean that as from Monday next, for example, all things will fall into place and another area of consultation with the States will take place as they begin the process of bringing in their complementary legislation. That is the way in which governments and Ministers should operate when we have to deal with six States. We should have consultation with not only the States but also the Territories. We are attempting to establish some form of uniformity in road safety standards; we are attempting to establish a package which will protect the interests of the operator, particularly the small operator. He may not see it that way. Nevertheless, that is the strategy of the Government and that is the strategy that everybody associated with the industry accepts is fundamental if we are to bring about a cogent and coherent policy in respect of the road transport industry.


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By Nick Wakeman, Staff Writer
JUNE 12 ? Wang Government Services Inc. of McLean, Va., snared a $20 million contract to provide seat management services to the Defense Logistics Agency.
Wang won the five-year contract through its General Services Administration schedule. Under the terms of the agreement, Wang will provide support for more than 2,200 users, or seats, at the DLA office in Fort Belvoir, Va.
The blanket purchase agreement has the potential for growth to include DLA's global operation of about 27,000 employees. The agreement allows DLA to outsource:
* Help desk support: onsite desktop computing services
* Network monitoring and management: technical services; desktop and server maintenance; asset management of desktop computers and peripherals; installations, moves, additions and changes to the network; standard information assurance services
"DLA's focus is to offer the best value solutions for the warfighter. The seat management concept will allow DLA personnel to better meet that goal," said Joanne Arnette, DLA's chief information officer.
DLA's decision to outsource is another sign that the use of seat management services is becoming more accepted by government agencies, said James Destival, vice president and general manager of defense operations for Wang. The company customized its seat management solution to fit DLA's needs, he said.
"It encompasses Wang Government Services' core competencies in providing seat management solutions and services, [and] illustrates our ability to provide worldwide reach," he said.


The NetFlow V5 (Custom) sensor receives traffic data from a NetFlow V5 compatible device and shows the traffic by type. Please make sure the sensor matches the NetFlow version your device is exporting! In this custom sensor, you can define your own channel definitions to divide traffic into different channels.
You must enable NetFlow export of the respective version on the monitored device for this sensor to work. The device must send the flow data stream to the IP address of the PRTG probe system on which the sensor is set up (either a local or remote probe).
This sensor does not support more than 50 channels officially.
For a general introduction to the technology behind flow monitoring, please see manual section Monitoring Bandwidth via Flows.
Enter the UDP port number on which the flow packets are received. It must match the one you have configured in the NetFlow export options of your hardware router device. Please enter an integer value.
When configuring export, make sure you select the appropriate NetFlow version for this sensor.
Enter the IP address of the sending device you want to receive the NetFlow from. Enter an IP address to receive data from a specific device only, or leave the field empty to receive data from any device on the specified port.
Select the IP address(es) on which PRTG listens to NetFlow packets. The list of IP addresses you see here is specific to your setup. To select an IP address, add a check mark in front of the respective line. You can also select and deselect all items by using the check box in the table head. The IP address you select here must match the one you have configured in the NetFlow export options of your hardware router device.
When configuring export, please make sure you select the appropriate NetFlow version for this sensor.
Enter a time span in minutes after which new flow data must be received. If the timeout is reached and no new data was received during this time, the sensor switches to an Unknown status. Please enter an integer value.
We recommend that you set the timeout one minute longer than the respective timeout configured in your hardware router device. The maximum timeout is 60 minutes.
flow information might be lost!
see this Knowledge Base article: What is the Active Flow Timeout in Flow sensors?
If the target device sends incorrect time information that results in wrong monitoring data, please try to use 0 as active flow timeout. This will ignore the start and stop information of a flow as provided by the device and account all data to the current point in time. It might result in spikes but all data will be captured.
This field is only visible when sampling mode is On above. Enter a number that matches the sampling rate in your device that exports the flows. If the number is different, monitoring results will be incorrect. Please enter an integer value.
see section Channel Definitions for xFlow, IPFIX, and Packet Sniffer Sensors.
Extensive use of many filters can cause load problems on your probe system. We recommend defining specific, well-chosen filters for the data you really want to analyze.
The following filter rules apply to NetFlow V5 sensors only.


A SCHOOLGIRL arrested with a teenage boy involved in a plot to attack police at an Anzac Day parade in Australia has admitted two terror offences.
The 16-year-old, who cannot be named, used her school computers to look up Islamic State (IS) killer Jihadi John.
She was detained by anti-terror police in April along with Britain's youngest convicted Islamist terrorist, a boy of 14 from Blackburn, Lancashire, who admitted encouraging an IS-inspired terror attack on the annual Anzac parade. He pled guilty at the Old Bailey last month to inciting terrorism abroad.
Phone data retrieved by police from her BlackBerry showed the pair exchanged more than 2,000 WhatsApp messages a day before they were arrested.
The girl also used her school's IT system to search for information on Jihadi John, the terror group IS and images of Michael Adebolajo, the killer of Fusilier Lee Rigby in Woolwich in 2013.
Neither of the teenagers can be named due to their age. The girl, who has no previous convictions or cautions, admitted two offences under section 58 of the Terrorism Act 2000.
Wearing a headscarf and striped cardigan, she was excused from sitting in the dock at the Youth Court at Manchester Magistrates' Court and instead sat on a bench in front of the judge, flanked by her mother, an uncle and her solicitor. She spoke only to confirm her name and age and pleaded guilty to two charges of possession of documents on or before 3 April likely to be of use to anyone preparing or committing an act of terrorism. One was a recipe for explosives.
An analysis of her Blackberry found instructions for producing a timed circuit, a document about DIY bomb-making and the Anarchist Cookbook 2000. No evidence was found that she was aware of or played any part in the Anzac Day plot or any plan to harm others or incite terrorism in the UK or elsewhere, the court heard.
She was granted bail by District Judge Khalid Qureshi, who agreed to adjust her bail condition of reporting to police to allow her to attend college.
Her bail conditions include a curfew, reporting to police three times a week, a ban on applying for travel documents or a passport and a ban on travelling outside England and Wales. She will be seen by a youth offending team and a psychologist before she is sentenced on 15 October.
Judge Qureshi warned her his sentencing options include custody, adding: "The youth offending team will want to interview you and your family.
"It is very much in your interests you are open and honest with them about what's happened, if you are able to tell them why you got involved in what you got involved in.


The 6495 Digital Stationary Wheelchair Scale provides increased speed and accuracy for wheelchair-bound patients. The scale has a weight capacity of 400 lbs., and supports metric conversion from pounds to kilograms with the push of a button.
As a digital scale, a tare weight can be entered, allowing an instant readout of patient's actual weight. The weight display is mounted on a tilt mount which permits the indicator to be angled for easy viewing.
A padded handrail is included with this scale, for walk-on patient's safety and comfort. The Digital Stationary Wheelchair Scale now features the all new MedVue Medical Weight Analyzer display. The compact, lightweight analyzer mounts easily with a 350-degree swivel mounting bracket for optimal viewing. Its soft alphanumeric keyboard and simple navigation allow for data input and updates in four different languages - English, Spanish, French, German).
MedVue® is versatile, with options for WiFi and/or wired or wireless Ethernet connectivity (sold separately), standard RS232 serial and USB ports. It can be connected to various devices such as tablets, printers, PCs, networks, EMR/EHR systems, bar code scanners, and even cellular phones. The device may be connected using more than one of the ports simultaneously for efficiency.
The weight analyzer features a large, adjustable, backlit LCD that displays weight, height, and BMI data at the same time. Patients may be assigned 14-digit IDs to save time. MedVue®'s high-capacity memory stores 200 transactions and 99 tare weights. The device boasts made-in-the-USA quality and durability for long life and flawless operation.
Weight display is mounted on a tilt mount for easy viewing.
Platform is designed to accommodate all sizes of wheelchairs.
Ramp is designed for a smooth approach and exit.


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Q: Predicting Future CRC Value The following code shows CRC32 used in a forward-hash (where we hash the same item multiple times with persistent context):
In [1]: from zlib import crc32

In [2]: crc32('aaaa')
Out[2]: -1382488763

In [3]: crc32('aaaa',-1382488763)
Out[3]: -1081835450

In [4]: crc32('aaaa' * 2)
Out[4]: -1081835450

My question is this:
Given the known initial crc of -1382488763, can we predict the value of the forward hash without knowing the original content? To clarify... can I derive -1081835450 from -1382488763 alone?

A: No. crc32() takes an initial CRC, applies the message to it, and gets the resulting CRC. You need the message.
If you could determine crc32('aaaa',-1382488763) without knowing the aaaa, then why would the crc32() function need the first argument at all?
If you want to know if you can compute the CRC of a repetition of a message given only the CRC of the unrepeated message, then no. However if you know the CRC of the message and the length of the message, then yes you can compute the CRC of two or more repetitions of the that message, without knowing the message itself. As you note in the comments, that is what crc32_combine() in zlib does.

A: Yes, you can, in a sense. There is only one 4 byte value: "AAAA" which produces the specific checksum. So it is possible to find this value if you know the output - e.g. by just iterating through all possible byte inputs. Then you can guess the next output by extending the CRC32 calculation by supplying the the previous message again.
Notes:

*

*I'm assuming ASCII encoding here;

*CRC32 is not a one-way hash so you could possibly calculate information about the input message without reverting to brute force;

*It's unclear to me why you would want to repeat the initial input message, I hope you know :)

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In any team-based competition, as in sports, there will likely be both overachievers and underperformers. While the stakes and format are generally much different than in a baseball or basketball game, teams operating in virtually any type of professional environment can often be evaluated in much the same fashion. That's why, just as in athletics, many business owners are constantly trying to discover the secret to turnaround team management: the magic formula which will transform a sub-average squad into a successful one.
As you can imagine, turning on a dime is nearly impossible when it comes to teams of multiple individuals. It's a process which requires honest self-assessment, planning, vision, and of course, plenty of dedicated effort. Just as a sports team needs a strong and knowledgeable coach at the helm to make the transition, a department requires a competent, focused leader who is capable of molding the unit so it can reach its full potential.
Revitalizing an underperforming staff or department isn't easy. It demands changing a cultureï—truly shifting the collective thought process from pessimistic to optimistic. Before engaging in turnaround team management efforts, one must see through the eyes of those within the team. Many have likely become accustomed to mediocre results, even if they are not among the true roots of the problem. Some might specifically be acting as negative influences, serving to bring down the group through low energy, expectations and effort.
The first item of business is to recognize results for what they are. Until your team has an honest understanding of their position, they'll be unlikely to change it. When you start by identifying the specific behaviors or habits which are hindering your team's progress, you'll probably start to get a better idea of who's really on board for positive change and who's more interested in maintaining the status quo. Keep in mind that even the least-engaged employees can still become valuable contributors; your first priority, though, is to make it clear that everyone must be part of the rebuilding process.
After the comparatively trying exercise of honest performance assessment, much of turnaround team management becomes about painting the picture of what you want to be. In other words, don't dwell on missed opportunities; use them as learning experiences in the moment, but stay focused on the future and 1where your team needs to be. Repetition has a way of helping ideas take shape, so by constantly helping y1our team envision a successful future, you'll be more likely to reach your intended destination.
Incentives can be a part of this process, although in many cases, the true incentive should be climbing back to a position of satisfactory performance. Help your staff to understand how their efforts impact the greater company, and how your collective work can help lift everyone to greater heights and give all workers a chance at greater success.
Turnaround team management requires all members of the squad to buy in, and once you've convinced them that a brighter tomorrow is within reach, you must provide a blueprint to make it happen. Through metrics, analytics or whatever pertinent data you have at your disposal, set target goals for individual contributors. For example, generating 10% more leads or 5% more in sales over a specified period, or addressing a specific number of customer calls per day.
It's also important to emphasize the intangiblesï—the elements of success you don't always see on paper. Continuing the example above, it would mean your customer service reps should be focusing not just on call volume but also on performance elements such as phone manner and problem-solving skills to help create a better overall customer experience. Make the mission not just about accomplishing more, but about delivering polished, professional results.
One last point of discussion is about keeping your team on the right track once a turnaround has been achieved. Remember that teams and individuals each have their own tendencies, and a change in behavior or performance is not assured to be lasting or permanent. That's why it's vital to continually redefine success for your team, to continue moving the bar up just a bit in response to new high watermarks.
If your team reaches a stated goal of 90% customer service satisfaction for a specified period, then keep the energy up: offer incentives for hitting 95% next period, with a firm expectation of remaining at or above the 90% threshold. Help your team to understand that true success is not achieved in small bursts, but maintained over a long course through concerted effort and a genuine desire to achieve.
To learn more about turnaround team management and fostering cohesion in your workplace, make use of the many resources here at Mighty Recruiter.


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Q: Scripting in GRASS Can anyone suggest me web-links to learn scripting in GRASS GIS (its utilities, examples etc.) other than those available in GRASS official Wiki/Sites?

A: You can get some Grass shell examples on GRASS lists.
Try to run a search on shell or bash script. Looking at users script online is a good approach to understand how it works.
You will find few snippets on that page and also links to references (on the bottom of the page). See also Appendix 2 of that online ressource by M. Neteler. Some others examples are also available on GRASS book.
From what I know the GRASS wiki is probably one of the best resource to learn GRASS scripting.


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Paramount Marauder
South Africa (2008) MRAP - around 250 built.
About Paramount Group
South African global defence, internal security and peacekeeping industries group Paramount was created back in 1994 by Ivor Ichikowitz, based in Johannesburg. Outside MRAPs and security vehicles like the Maverick, Mbombe and Matador (and the Marauder), this group was the first to create a dedicated Reconnaissance/Counter-insurgency and surveillance plane, the AHRLAC. While the company expanding its selling areas with a partnership in Abu Dhabi (UAE), the Marauder was also made famous in English-speaking countries by one famous Richard Hammond's episode of Top Gear 2011 featuring a red Marauder in South Africa...
Design of the Marauder
Like most MRAPs, the Marauder is a beast, tailored for the challenge of protecting its occupants despite rolling over a mine or being blasted by an IED. It has a Curb weight of 9,900 kg (21,780 lb) and up to 15 tons in combat configuration, ten average touring cars. But it can carry 6 tons and a crew of ten (driver, cdr, 8 infantry) in a perfectly isolated environment and double-skin monocoque, with bulletproof glass, and a STANAG 4569 level III armour meaning proof against 7.62 × 51 mm AP WC Core/30 m range. More importantly, it was tested at the STANAG 4569 3a and 3b meaning proof against a single anti-tank mine (8 kg of TNT) under the belly or roadwheels. The underbelly protection is of course due to a high Ground clearance of 420 mm, V-shaped to deflect the blast.
Marauder showcased in a Baku parad, army day.
The Marauder is propelled by a Cummins ISBe4-300 Diesel which developed 300hp @2500rpm, and 1100Nm @1200-1800rpm, or in alternative a diesel MAN D0836LOH for 240hp @2300rpm (176kW) and 925Nm @1200 to 1800rpm. Depending on the tyre it uses, top speed is around 100 to 120 km/h for a 700 km (435 mi) range. The basic configuration is 4x4. Apparently, a 6x6 was also developed but rarely seen. The Marauder is designed for reconnaissance and peacekeeping missions (especially in urban environments), and armament is optional. However, in most cases it is armed with a remote station or remotely operated cal.50 (12,7 mm) Browning M2HB HMG placed right at the rear of the driving compartment. The payload is very modular as well as the weapon station, which can receive light or heavy MGs, a minigun, and ATGM. The interior can be adapted to carry a mortar but also command and control systems.
Service records
Same. Parade in Baku, army day.
The Marauder was launched officially at the 2007 International Defence Exhibition (IDEX) and Conference in Abu Dhabi, covering all the middle east military market. It was sold first to Jordan, Paramount has a manufacturing agreement with the King Abdullah Design and Development Bureau (KADDB). The Jordan armed forces have around 50 vehicles in service today. Azerbaijan was the second user, and most prolific with around 165 vehicles so far, partially manufactured locally. Of course, SANDF, the South African Forces purchased around 50 vehicles too. Contrary to what is sometimes seen, the US Forces operated in Iraq and Afghanistan never operated the Marauder but instead the RG-31 Nyala which is relatively similar in shape except lighter and smaller.
The Marauder on Wikipedia
Official page.
Marauder specifications
Dimensions (l-w-h): 6.14 oa x 2.48 x 2.66 m
Total weight, battle ready: 9-12 Tons
Crew : 2+8
Propulsion: Cummins ISBe4-300 Diesel 300hp (221kW)/MAN diesel
Suspensions: Independent coil Springs, schock absorbers
Top Speed 100-120 kph (70 mph)
Range (road) 400 km (250 mi)
Armament (see notes) Standard 12.7 mm RWS. see notes.
Armour STANAG III (small arms fire, AT mines up to 8 kgs TNT)
Total Production 250
SANDF Paramount Marauder
Azeri (Azerbaijan) Marauder, armed with a cal.50 RWS
Azerbaidjani Marauder.
Top gear 2011 Richard Hammond: The Marauder
Modern Tanks
Modern MBTs posters
Denel Bagder (2018)
Type 16 MCV (2016)
Gepard 1A2 last rounds 2011
SANDF
Russian AFVs


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W. Samuel Patten is an American political consultant and lobbyist who received international attention in spring 2018 in relation to the Special Counsel investigation led by former FBI director Robert Mueller. This was due to Patten's relationship with Konstantin Kilimnik, a subject of the investigation. In summer 2018, attention intensified due to Patten's emergence as a subject of the investigation in his own right, followed by his guilty plea, after being charged in August 2018 with violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act for failing to register as a foreign agent with the Justice Department when he represented the Opposition Bloc, a Ukrainian political party, from 2014 through 2018.

Early life and family
Patten's father is Bill Patten Jr., whose mother was the Washington, D.C., socialite Susan Mary Alsop; Patten Jr.'s father was later alleged to have been the British politician Duff Cooper, with whom his mother had an affair while married to her first husband Bill Patten. Patten Jr. moved to Maine, where he published a small-town weekly newspaper in Camden and became a prison minister.

Patten grew up in Maine and went to school there. He graduated from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., in 1993. While at Georgetown he became close to his famous grandmother Susan Mary Alsop, and was once wounded while defending her from muggers. He married in 2013.

Career

Patten began his political career in Maine, as an intern for Senator William Cohen and as press secretary for Susan Collins during her campaigns for governor (1994) and senator (1996). In 1999 he moved to Washington, D.C., where he worked for Senators Collins and Olympia Snowe. He was the Maine campaign director for the George W. Bush presidential campaign in 2000. From 2001 to 2004 Patten headed the Moscow office of the International Republican Institute; while there he worked with Konstantin Kilimnik, who later moved to Kiev to work for Paul Manafort's consulting business in Ukraine. Patten worked for the U.S. State Department in 2008. In 2012, he advised Rob Sobhani on his U.S. Senate campaign in Maryland.

In the mid-to-late 1990s, Patten did public affairs work for the Kazakhstan oil sector. Around 2012, he was being paid $30,000 per month by Bidzina Ivanishvili and a firm related to Ivanishvili. In 2014, Patten was receiving $20,000 per month from Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Saleh al-Mutlaq and the Al-Arabiya Coalition, to support al-Mutlaq's run for prime minister.

In 2014, Patten was a senior consultant for SCL Group, the parent company of Cambridge Analytica, working at their Oregon office to help them fine-tune their models for the 2014 U.S. mid-term elections. He also helped SCL Group with their work on the 2015 Nigeria elections, including hiring Israeli hackers to find kompromat on presidential candidate Muhammadu Buhari.

Patten and Kilimnik founded Begemot Ventures International (BVI) in February 2015. Based in Washington, D.C., BVI is "a strategic and political advisory firm" that Patten claims only has clients outside the United States.

Guilty plea

In August 2018, Patten was charged with violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act for failing to register as a foreign agent with the Justice Department when he represented the Opposition Bloc, a Ukrainian political party, from 2014 through 2018. In the statement of the offense, Kilimnik is identified as "Foreigner A", Begemot Ventures International as "Company A", and Serhiy Lyovochkin as "Foreigner B".

The prosecution against Patten was an outgrowth of work by the Special Counsel investigation, which referred the matter to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia and the Criminal Division of the Justice Department, which handled the prosecution. Additionally, after Patten was interviewed by Senate Intelligence Committee staff, "the Committee made a criminal referral to the Department of Justice" because of "concerns about certain statements made by Mr. Patten." In his subsequent guilty plea, Patten admitted to lying to the Intelligence Committee, although the crime to which Patten admitted guilt did not relate directly to his statements to the committee.

As part of his guilty plea, Patten admitted that he laundered a $50,000 contribution from Kilimnik to the Trump inauguration committee, by having the money transferred from a Cypriot bank to his company and from there to an unnamed American who sent it to the committee. According to the charge, Patten knew that it was illegal for a foreign national to give money to the committee. He also admitted that he lied to a Congressional committee about the inauguration donation and about his foreign lobbying work, and that he intentionally destroyed documents about that work.

On April 12, 2019, Patten was sentenced to three years' probation, 500 hours of community service and a $5000 fine.

See also
Mueller Report
Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections

References

Living people
American political consultants
Georgetown University alumni
American lobbyists
Place of birth missing (living people)
People associated with Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections
Maine Republicans
1971 births


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HomeMinistry of Education Releases Primary School Examinations Preliminary Results
Ministry of Education Releases Primary School Examinations Preliminary Results
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The Ministry of Education, Youth, Sports and Culture hereby issues the preliminary results of the 2017 Primary School Examination (PSE) which was administered countrywide on April 3, 2017 and May 2, 2017.
The Top 5 Performers for San Pedro and Caye Calker are as follows:
1st Place:
San Pedro R.C School: Kiona Sanker 363/400 = 90.7%
Island Academy: Collin Grief 363/400 = 90.7%
2nd Place:
Island Academy: Tellen Smith 358/400 = 89.5%
3rd Place:
San Pedro R.C School: Jacinto Bradley 357/400 = 89.2%
4th Place:
Island Academy: Alexandra Lausen 352/400 = 88%
San Pedro R.C School: Ninel Pacheco 350/400 = 87.5%
New Horizon Seven Day Adventist: Marilyn Cuellar 350/400 = 87.5%
Top 5 of San Pedro R.C School - Back Row: Axcel Patt, Luis Murray; Bottom Row: Ninel Pacheco, Jacinto Bradley, Kiona Sanker, Jayden Lopez
1st Place: Collin Grief From Island Academy
2nd Place: Tellen Smith from Island Academy
A total of 7,271 candidates registered for the PSE of which 7,077 candidates actually sat all parts of the exam this year. Of the registered candidates, 3558 (49.8%) were male and 3585 (50.2%) were female. This year, there were 11 private candidates. PSE numbers for 2017 show that there were 121 less registered candidates than 2016. Of the 7,271 who were registered for the exam, 194 (or approximately 2.7%) were either fully absent, absent for part of the exam, had a Ungraded for the English Writing Paper or the Math Problem Solving Paper, had a No Result for at least one part of the exam, or a had a combination of Absent, Ungraded or No Result for different parts of the exam.
Purpose and Intended Use of the Primary School Examination
The PSE assesses achievement of curriculum content and skills in the four (4) areas of English, Mathematics, Social Studies and Science of the National Primary School Curriculum. The examination is criterion-referenced meaning that performance of "each individual is compared with a preset standard for acceptable achievement...The performance of other examinees is irrelevant." In this way, the examination seeks not to rank students in comparison to other students (as in norm- referencing) but to report what each student has achieved for individual subjects. This is expressed as a percentage score. The results of the examination are intended to be used for two main purposes:
1. Certificationofstudentsatthecompletionofprimaryschoolinginfourcontentareasofthe primary curriculum; and
2. Educational decision-making to inform policy, planning and practice at national, district, school and classroom levels.
The PSE is not and was never intended to be used as the sole criteria for entrance into secondary schools. Secondary schools are advised to use multiple sources of evidence of students' achievement and holistic development at primary school to get a more complete picture of the students' abilities, strengths and weaknesses in informing educational decisions with respect to the students they enroll and serve.
While the Ministry of Education will be recognizing outstanding students who have done well on the PSE, the Ministry of Education cautions that making judgments about schools and teachers on the basis of individual student performances is inappropriate. In the first instance, the performance of one or a few students may not be reflective of the whole school, and secondly schools are not all the same. Therefore making judgments of individual schools' effectiveness on this basis without considering inputs (resources) available to individual schools and without considering background and contextual factors (socio-economic and family backgrounds and communities in which schools are located) of each school is not only inappropriate, but unfair.
Additionally, there is a tendency to either praise or criticize the Standard six teachers depending on the performance of students on the PSE. The Ministry of Education wishes to note that it is the school as a whole, and not individual teachers that is responsible for delivering the curriculum—educating the students and thus for the performance of students on the PSE.
Teachers should, therefore, not be considered independent practitioners, like general practitioner doctors, for whom the school is simply a base. Therefore, the school is to be viewed as a team of teachers led by a principal who is an instructional as well as administrative leader with the school's management being responsible for monitoring and providing support. Schools, teachers and managements should take ownership for their performance as a school and should avoid using resources (or lack thereof) and students' background and contextual factors to justify their performance. It is quite likely that for every school that 'blames' its performance on any of these factors that there is another very similar school that is doing better. Furthermore, there should be collective responsibility and ownership for the school's performance and a culture that always seeks improvements in the quality of education delivered.
What the PSE Attempts to Assess/Measure
Following from the purpose of the PSE, the construction of the examination is guided by a table of specifications which specifies what curriculum content and skills are to be tested, that is, what curriculum content and skills will form the basis of the questions set. See attached annexes for
Table of Specifications.
The Primary School Examination Results for 2017
Below are tables showing various statistics for this year's PSE as well a 10-year trend of performance by subject and statistics for each district and the country as a whole. Scores are interpreted according to the following grade bands indicating different levels of achievement/performance.
Letter Grade Description (Grade Range/Band)
A Excellent (80-100%)
B Competent (70-79%)
C Satisfactory (60-69%)
D Adequate (50-59%)
E Inadequate (49% and below)
National Performance on PSE by Subjects
Table 1: Performance in English
Half of the students (50%) sitting this year's test scored a Satisfactory Level of Performance or better (grade C or better). The mean score remains in the Adequate range, with a negligible increase from 57.8 in 2016, to 57.9 this year. The gaps among the Satisfactory, Adequate and Inadequate ranges remain close, with the Mode being within the C (Satisfactory) range.
Table 2: Performance in Math
In Math, approximately 37% of students scored a Satisfactory Level of Performance or better (Grade C or better). This result is a 2% increase in performance from 2016 in Mathematics. The majority (49%) of students' scores were in the E (Inadequate) range; this is still a concern even though there was a 1% decrease of the number of students who scored in this range in 2016. The Ministry is undertaking remedial action in this area as indicated further in this report.
The Mean score increased slightly from 50.6% in 2016, to 51.9% this year.
Table 3: Performance in Social Studies
Performance in Social Studies showed a marked increase in the number of students (31%) whose scores were in the A (Excellent) range. This is notable, as last year 21% of students' scores were in the same range. Likewise, the mean score increased from 63.7% in 2016 to 68.1% this year.
The mode grade range of A indicates that most students scored within the Excellent range, a shift from the B (Competent) range of 2016.
Table 4: Performance in Science
This year's scores for Science decreased markedly. In 2016, 70% of students scored in the Satisfactory or above ranges; this year's performance showed only 58% of test-takers in the same ranges, with the number of students in the Excellent range falling from 28% in 2016 to 13% in 2017. Notably, the Mode shifted from the Excellent (A) range in 2016 to Satisfactory (C) this year.
Trends in Mean Performance
The graph below shows the trends in mean performance by subject since 2008.
Graph 1: English
Performance in English has remained more or less very stable, with annual fluctuations, showing only a very slight upward trend.
Graph 2: Math
For Math, the national mean score has remained more or less constant over the ten years shown with spikes in 2008, 2010, 2012 and 2013. While mean performance in 2017 is just above 50, as it has been for the last two years, and the last three years represent an overall increase over previous years generally (apart from the mentioned spikes), it is still of great concern that most students are scoring in the grade E band which represents inadequate performance.
Graph 3: Social Studies
In Social Studies, the scores have fluctuated within the Satisfactory range. A sharp increase within the same range was noted in 2008, and was followed by a sharp decrease in 2009. Since that year, there have been modest improvements in performance. Scores for this subject since 2014 appear to show slight increases with this year's mean score (68.1%) up from 63.6% in 2016.
Graph 4: Science
Since 2008, the Science mean scores remained more or less stable within the Satisfactory and Competent levels of performance. However, the Ministry has noted the steadily decreasing Mean scores over the last five years.
While the tables of specification that guide the construction of an exam help to ensure that more or less similar content and skills are tested each year no two PSE examinations are exactly alike. Therefore, while each year's examination is similar to the previous in the content and skills assessed and hence presumed difficulty, caution should be taken in interpreting trends as the difficulty of the exam may vary from year to year. Procedures for equating the difficulty of the examinations each year for a more reliable interpretation of trends are not yet in place.
USING THE EXAMINATION RESULTS TO IMPROVE TEACHING AND LEARNING:
WHAT IS TO BE DONE
The results show that national mean performance by subject on PSE has remained more or less stable over the last ten years. It is important to note, however, that means or averages do not necessarily give the most complete picture of performance. It is, therefore, important to note how our students are distributed across the various grade ranges/bands, which is shown in the tables for each subject earlier in this release. For example, the Ministry has noted with concern in the past and again this year, that roughly half of our students score below the Satisfactory Level of Performance (Grade C) in English. Similarly, 60% or more of our students have tended to score below a Grade C in Math.
All concerned—teachers, principals, parents, managements and the Ministry of Education, Youth, Sports and Culture—must take ownership for the quality of education in our schools. The Ministry of Education, continues to expand its efforts to provide relevant and quality education to all children. Under the Education Quality Improvement Program (EQIP), primary school teachers nationwide are being trained in student-centered methodologies to improve learning. A feedback system to inform Teacher Education Institutions (TEIs) on the performance of their graduates and to improve the quality of teacher education programs is also in development. These projects are among many that are being implemented including initiatives to revise and improve the national primary curriculum and providing training to teachers and principals on proper curriculum planning and attention to student learning outcomes.
While the Ministry of Education has taken the lead in these endeavors, it is also the responsibility of the managements and individual schools to analyze their own school results to determine areas of strengths and weaknesses and to plan and implement interventions to address the areas of weakness. This must be done with a sense of collective responsibility.
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It is formed by the alpha linkage of galactose to lactosylceramide catalyzed by A4GALT.

It is metabolized by alpha-galactosidase, which hydrolyzes the terminal alpha linkage.

Clinical significance
Defects in the enzyme alpha-galactosidase lead to the buildup of globotriaosylceramide, causing Fabry's disease. The pharmaceutical drug migalastat enhances the function of alpha-galactosidase and is used to treat Fabry's.

Globotriaosylceramide is also one of the targets of Shiga toxin, which is responsible for pathogenicity of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC).

The bacterial Shiga toxin can be used for targeted therapy of certain gastrointestinal cancers that express the receptor of the Shiga toxin. For this purpose a non-specific chemotherapeutic agent is conjugated to the B-subunit to make it specific. In this way only the tumor cells, but not healthy cells, should be destroyed during therapy.

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IFA PRESIDENT SAYS RETAILERS MUST ATTEND BEEF TALKS
Cattle, Mercosur, President
IFA President Joe Healy has said that retailers and the EU Commission must be included in the talks that the Minister for Agriculture Michael Creed has convened for tomorrow.
Speaking at the Tullamore Show today (Sun), Joe Healy said, "While the factories are the main problem, the retailer has a dominant role in the dysfunctional food chain that is not working for beef farmers. They need to be around the table tomorrow to account for their actions and to outline how they intend to address the problem".
Joe Healy said the EU Commission needs to be represented to explain why they are allowing the EU beef market to be totally undermined with imports which fail to meet EU standards and also to outline their plans and supports for the Irish and EU beef sector in Brexit.
The IFA President said the letter sent by Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) to farmers involved in the Beef Plan Movement shows that the current rules and enforcement structure in the area is a complete joke.
"They need to be replaced with a new regulator who acts for all parties in the chain," he said.
"If anyone needs to be investigated, it is the meat factories. The Competition Authority has previously raided the IFA offices and threatened us and other farmers on numerous occasions. The CCPC is not fit for purpose from a farmer's point of view," he said.
"New EU legislation on the Agri Markets Task Force needs to be implemented here. It will require a new state agency with robust oversight and resources to enforce it," he said.
Joe Healy pointed out that at the Oireachtas Agriculture Committee hearings earlier this year on the beef sector, IFA called on Minister Creed and the Committee to investigate the lack of competition in the beef processing sector.


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Els límits d'explosió indiquen les concentracions de les mescles entre un producte i l'aire formant una atmosfera explosiva o AtEx. Mescles molt pobres en aire no són explosives, com tampoc ho són les mescles amb poca quantitat de combustible. És a dir, hi ha un límit inferior d'explosivitat, o LIE, i un límit superior d'explosivitat o LSE.

Els límits d'explosió es poden referir a productes químics purs o a mescles, i poden aparèixer AtEx generades per gasos o per pols.

Vegeu també
 Inflamabilitat
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Termodinàmica
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The Manchester Animation Festival has selected 'The Race In The Sky' to screen as part of their Commissioned Films category this autumn. We completed the film in September 2016, as our sixth animation for CiTV's Share A Story competition for young viewers, written and read by 11-year-old Jenotha Seenivasan. The story is a cosmic tale of how the sun and moon had a race to decide who 'owns' the sky. The models used in the film were crafted from recycled materials and given a bit of magic using 'light writing', long exposures created with torchlight and bare light bulbs. Special thanks go to Nina Noon, Andrea Haenze, Chris Mair and Leah Hadley for getting stuck in with us during the production. The film will be screening on Tue November 14th at 12;10 and Wed 15th at 15:40.


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Naughty Dog's Uncharted has finally arrived on PC in the form of The Legacy Collection, bringing together Uncharted 4 and The Lost Legacy in a double-pack, initially enhanced for PlayStation 5 earlier in the year and now finally available for PC. As is the custom, Digital Foundry will be telling you what the settings actually do, which ones to choose for the most optimal experience and also stacking up Iron Galaxy's port against the reference PlayStation 5 version. There's a lot to like in this conversion and the quality of Naughty Dog's work remains intact, but equally, there's a sense that PC should be delivering more.
First impressions for a PC port are often defined for me by looking at its options, where we find something of a mixed bag. There are things I like such as support for FSR 2 and DLSS, with separate sharpening sliders for both. However, there are other things that I found disappointing or counterintuitive for the PC audience. For example, resolution and refresh rate are tied to your desktop resolution and you have no real control over them in-game, beyond an internal resolution slider. There is also the lack of graphical options in general – around five meaningful settings overall, along with anisotropic filtering, which everyone ends up ramping to the max anyway owing to its minuscule cost on today's PC hardware. HDR also appears to be missing at first glance, but it is there, the option becoming available when HDR is enabled on the Windows desktop.
First impressions are mediocre then but what did impress me is Iron Galaxy's approach to shader compilation. Hitching and stuttering in PC titles has become a heinous issue and it requires a proactive approach to ensure a stutter-free PC experience. The solution here is to compile them when the game loads for the first time. It's a time-consuming process, clocking in at around ten minutes on a 12900K with high-end DDR5, so expect that to take longer on more mainstream processors. You can ignore this and plough on into gameplay, but loading takes longer and CPU utilisation increases as it's essentially crunching shaders in the background as you play. I recommend waiting however long it takes for the process to complete before beginning the game proper.
Everything you need to know about Uncharted's PC port – including a quick look at the problematic review code that was thankfully fixed before launch.
Before the day one patch 'dropped', I had plenty more negative things to say about the game but having reported our issues to Sony last week, it's great to see key visual problems and remaining stuttering issues fixed – even if it did mean delaying our coverage to test the launch day code. Remaining issues are thin on the ground, but despite taking a punt on improving motion blur for the launch version, the effect is still broken and requires work. On top of that, despite standard and enhanced model options, the game's level of detail has issues: draw distance in some respects is actually better on the PS5 version even up against PC's enhanced setting.
Another problem is loading. PlayStation 5 loads a chapter point in around 2.5 seconds, up against circa 16 seconds on a PC with a 3.5GB/s NVMe drive. This gulf isn't down to PS5's faster SSD but rather the inefficient loading system on the PC port. When loading, the game smartly turns off v-sync for the duration, but only one or two CPU threads are used to process incoming data – leaving a lot of processing horsepower untapped. The loading times are not objectively bad, but it is weird to see such single-threaded loading in a game releasing in 2022, especially as other ports of Sony first party titles have excellent loading speeds on PC – Marvel's Spider-Man being especially impressive.
Getting into the few graphical options the game has, I have been able to get close to matching PS5 settings but not as close as I would like to allow for a like-for-like performance comparison between console and PC graphics hardware. Ambient occlusion, for example, presents on PS5 in a manner that's consistent with the medium setting – which basically looks identical on all higher settings, right up to ultra. Reflections? PS5 looks better than low and worse than ultra, but medium and high look the same to my eyes. Shadows? This one sees PS5 aligning exactly with the high setting, with ultra looking a little more refined. Textures on PS5 match both high and ultra, but the latter option seems to cache texture data to the point where an 8GB GPU may struggle with the top-end setting.
Setting selections and the effectiveness of those settings is minimal, unfortunately.
Optimised Settings
Approximate PS5 Settings
Textures High High or Ultra
Model Quality Enhanced Higher than Enhanced
Anisotropic Filtering Ultra High or Ultra
Shadows High High
Reflections Medium or High Medium or High
Ambient Occlusion Medium or High Medium or High or Ultra
Altogether, optimised settings and how they relate to PlayStation 5's presentation are best expressed in the table above where there are obvious ambiguities. In practice, my settings selection will barely look different than the fully maxed experience as this game's ultra settings are what I would call poor or placebo – unlike the most recent Sony ports which have generally offered meaningful enhancements above the console version. On an RTX 2060 Super in a dense scene, I have measured the optimised settings at 1440p offering a seven percent performance uplift over maxed or a ten percent performance uplift with medium ambient occlusion enabled instead of high.
I typically use the RTX 2060 Super and the Radeon RX 5700 to test out optimised settings at 1440p, which is also the resolution used by PlayStation 5 for its 60fps mode. The RX 5700 manages to be around eight percent faster on average than the RTX 2060 Super. Both of these GPUs are right on the edge of 60fps, which would be fine for a VRR display, but I think the more realistic use-case is to use DLSS or FSR 2 in their balanced modes, which takes gameplay into 80fps-90fps territory. These modes are well implemented and may even offer quality improvements over nature resolution rendering.
With the major issues I had with the title fixed in the day one patch, The Legacy Collection on PC is accomplished enough but is somewhat lacking in ambition. It performs well, it does not have intrusive stutter and it looks like the PlayStation 5 version for the most part. I like it, but I want it to be better. The graphical options are limited and the few upgrades it has over the PS5 version do not tend to make the game look noticeably better. Furthermore, the game's level of detail is worse than PS5, which is something that should never happen. Uncharted is good in a plain way. It does the job it needs to do and the inclusion of reconstruction technology support is welcome, though I'd like to see XeSS added to complete the set. However, Iron Galaxy's work clearly fails to fully take advantage of the platform's potential in the way that Marvel's Spider-Man did – and that's a shame.
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Q: opengl-es 2.0 normal looks not so normal to me i am trying to learn how to do lighting in opengl 2.0.
i have a cube which is located on (0,0,0), and the camera is on (0,0,20).
at the vertices i manually added all the necessary information
and when i got to the normals, i just looked at the cube from the camera prespective,
suggesting that the front face normal will be (0,0,-1) and the back face normal (0,0,1).
also, the right face is (1,0,0), left - (-1,0,0), top - (0,1,0), bottom - (0,-1,0);
now, the problem is, that if i switch the front and back normals, it works.
but i just don't understand.. the same logic i used for all the other normals (which works as is)
mean that the front SHOULD be (0,0,-1).. but evidently i'm wrong.. i just don't get it..

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[...] a cube which is located on (0,0,0) [...] the camera is on (0,0,20) [...]

The normal vector of the front face must point from the cube to the camera. The vector from the cube to the camera is (0, 0, 20). Therefore the normal vector of the front face must be (0, 0, 1).
In general, in the OpenGL view space coordinate system, the Z axis points out of the view. The view space coordinate system is Right-handed system, where the X-axis points to the right and the Y-axis points up. The Z-axis points out of the view, because the Z-Axis is given by the cross product of the X-Axis and the Y-Axis.


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Guildford Cathedral Choir Graces St. Michael's Sanctuary
by John W. Lambert
February 16, 2009, Raleigh, NC: The Guildford Cathedral Choir of men and boys visited Raleigh as part of its US East Coast tour. St. Michael's Episcopal Church was both venue and host, putting up the mostly very young men – and their director and accompanist – while they were here. They'd arrived the previous Friday in New York and spent an apparently tiring weekend there, singing and sightseeing, as groups on tour are wont to do. As a result, the substantial program, printed in color by the church, was trimmed and rearranged as the concert progressed.
The place was packed, and in the audience were choristers, choral directors, organists, and scholars. There seemed to be contingents from many of the important Episcopal churches, but other denominations were there in full force, too. There was warm welcoming applause as the 23 singers and their director, Katherine Dienes-Williams (whose title is "Organist and Master of the Choristers") processed. She avoided the keyboard on this occasion, however; the accompaniments were provided by David Davies, "Sub Organist & Director of the Cathedral Girls Choir" (which didn't get to make the trip).
One reason the place was packed may have been Dienes-Williams' prior work here; she's served as artistic director of the Royal College of Music summer programs (in the Triangle) on two occasions, and she has a huge and altogether favorable reputation among church musicians. Based on the singing of the Guildford Choir, that reputation is richly deserved. She's a highly animated director, and she elicited some of the most remarkable "church choir" singing heard hereabouts in a long time. If at the outset it was too rich, too full, and perhaps deficient in dynamic contrasts – this is a grandiose way of saying the singing was too loud at first – then in fairness one must report that the ensemble's (and its director's) measure of the room found adjustment as the concert progressed, and by the end the musicians dazzled pretty much all the time. The director has been at Guildford only a little over a year, having been appointed in January 2008. She's broken many gender barriers in the UK – she's the first female member of the Cathedral Organists Association and the first female director of music in an English cathedral.
Things got underway in Raleigh with a richly-varied Haydn motet ("Insanae et vanae curae") that left many members of the audience awe-struck. (Texts and translations were not provided.) A trio of a cappella works by Tallis, Byrd, and Gibbons followed, all of which gave ample evidence of the choir's expert diction, balance, and blend. The clarity of the lines was remarkable, too – and there were no shrinking violets in the ranks, making one wish that our boys choirs (and their directors!) could have heard these visitors. Moore's short "Ubi caritas" was alas marred by a cell phone (despite a pre-concert prompt by the church's Kevin Kerstetter). Fortunately, Herbert Howells' extraordinary – and extraordinarily personal – Requiem was unmarred by audience noise; this six-section work, with two separate settings of "Requiem aeternam," and several psalm texts along the way, was the evening's major work and for this listener its highlight as well. Howells' better known "Magnificat and Nunc dimittis" brought the first half to a close.
Following the intermission, the choir turned to Purcell ("I was glad") and Mendelssohn (an exceptional reading of "Hear my prayer," with an exquisite solo). Sub Organist Davies played a brilliant organ solo by Francis Jackson, giving St. Michael's instrument a fine work-out. More Haydn followed; in "The heavens are telling," the singing was so splendid it would have been a good stopping point, bringing us full circle to where we'd come in. Instead the choir's eight men produced "Something for the weekend…" – the offering was "Blue Moon," of all things, in a sort of mid-'30s pre-crooner arrangement. John David's "You are the new day," a Kings Singers favorite, brought the entire choir back to center stage, and the concert then ended with a rousing performance of Handel's coronation anthem, "Zadok the Priest," which, the Very Reverend Victor Stock, Dean of Guildford Cathedral told us, the choir had had the opportunity to sing for the current monarch, not too long ago. A standing ovation – from the heart, for sure – resulted in a single encore, a reading of "Joshua fit the battle of Jericho," complete with a few Britishisms not often heard on this side of the pond. As was often the case during this generous program, despite their travel fatigue and lingering jet lag, the singers clearly had a wonderful time with this number – and so did the audience.
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