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BJP worker shoots himself dead inside BJP office in Sakchi
Jamshedpur: A BJP worker Niranjan M allegedly committed suicide by shooting himself at around 2:30 am on Wednesday inside BJP office situated near Sabzi Mandi under the jurisdiction of Sakchi police station.
As soon as the incident was reported, City SP Subhash Chandra Jat reached the spot and started investigating the matter.
Local people told the police that Niranjan used to work as a line technician. Along with this, he was also a BJP worker.
When the police reached the Sakchi BJP office in the course of investigation, they saw that the pistol was in his hand.
The body of the deceased was found in the Mandal Office of BJP located at Sakchi vegetable market.
A relative of the deceased said that the deceased was unmarried. The nephew of the deceased too is a BJP leader.
The City SP S C Jat said that the case prima facie seems to be one of suicide, but the police are still investigating it. He said that the case would be resolved soon.


Here's the original article, as published in The Sunday Times – by Tom Whipple.
It wasn't just British roads that were straighter in Roman times: our smiles were, too.
For all our access to modern dentistry, flossing and mouthwash, a study published today has found that the buffed and brushed mouths of 21st century Britons are still more likely to harbour gum disease than those of their 3rd century forebears.
An analysis of the skulls of more than 300 Roman Britons has found a significantly lower rate of periodontitis, a common form of gum disease, than exists in today's population. Among those examined – who were originally buried in a site in Poundbury, Dorset – between 5 per cent and 10 per cent had the disease, compared with 15 per cent to 30 per cent today.
However, they also had considerably more evidence of abrasion on their teeth, probably a result of the diet of coarse grains that was common.
The work involved looking at the sockets holding the teeth into the jaw. "Because gum disease causes disruption of the bone around the teeth, we are able to measure it," said Francis Hughes, professor of periodontology at King's college London.
He and his colleagues learnt that the Natural History Museum had a large collection of skeletons from the Poundbury burial site, and asked to analyse them.
"To a lot of people's surprise they had quite a lot less periodontitis than the modern human population. It was about a third as common as today," Professor Hughes said.
Some of the explanation for this does not exactly provide cause for envy: the Ancient Britons managed to contract even more serious diseases first, and died of those instead of suffering through old age with bad teeth.
The most common age at death appeared to be in the 40's. The reason for the modern mouth to be unhealthier than it was centuries ago is probably a result of two things – diabetes and smoking. "Those two change the risk enormously," Professor Hughes said.
Periodontitis starts as gingivitis, a consequence of poor brushing that often manifests as bleeding and inflamed gums. This response is actually a protective mechanism.
"It's the body trying to fight the bacteria off. In smoking and diabetes that protective mechanism is decreased – the body is less able to fight," Professor Hughes said.
With a life free not just from smoking and diabetes but also from refined sugar, the Poundbury teeth were similarly less affected by cavities. Nevertheless, the research, published in the British Dental Journal, did not find that the oral hygiene of Ancient Britons was entirely something to be aspired to.
Where decay did exist, it went unchecked. Some teeth had decayed to the point where they had infected the nerve, while others caused holes down to the jaw itself.
The ultimate peasant food low in refined sugar, almost impossible to get obese on, you know what they say, nothing tastes as good as thin feels. And gruel feels pretty thin.
Ward off diabetes the ancient Briton way, by chewing continuously on gritty, tough and mind-numbingly tedious bread made from poorly milled flour. Calorifically, you barely break even.
It might not have the richness of modern soups, but as far as your oral hygiene is concerned it will keep you smiling to the very end. If, that is, you can get over the unrelenting misery of your diet.
Professor Francis Hughes' research into the incidence of gum disease is not surprising. He found there was a much lower incidence of gum disease but a much higher incidence of tooth wear due to a much rougher diet. He then claims that this is due to two things: diabetes and smoking, but also an absence of refined sugar from the diet. I am not sure if I agree with him, because in Roman times, people's lifespans were only about 40 years, whereas now it extends easily to twice that. So many of our patients are much older and the disease process is around for much longer so that it appears to be worse, but actually it is not. Also the Romans ate a lot of starch which breaks down to sugar and this would have caused tooth decay that he noted was present……….. And as for diabetes? Well type II diabetes, which is on the increase, usually affects people after the age of 40, so most of the Romans would have died before it took place! But what is a fact is that because we are living longer, our bodies and bodily functions start to suffer from wear and tear and we need to work harder and harder to maintain health and reduce the effects of illness. Good diet, lots of exercise, and of course, looking after our bodies better is the key to a healthy old age. As gum problems only start to become a major problem as we get older, it is even more important to ensure that we do not have any bleeding gums or other symptoms of gum disease that may compromise our general wellness.


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The Penultimate Word
voting is the best revenge
Accurate 332 to 206 electoral vote outcome, posted on 3 November 2012 - by robert@Libertariangop.com
We are going to find out who is smarter - me or Karl Rove (and his billion dollar political machine). In an article in the Wall Street Journal Rove says Romney will win with at least 279 electoral votes, but he thinks probably more. I think Karl is suffering from a little wishful thinking. Of course, Karl knows that by just writing such an article in such a paper he may sway a few votes. So we will never know whether he really thinks Romney will get 279+ or whether he is just being a good party man and singing the assigned chorus.
It looks to me like the electoral vote will go 332-206 for Obama. Unlike Mr. Rove I put my best guess in map form below. Election Night could very well be an exercise in frustration for a guy that has been running for president longer than Al Gore did. Romney could carry Ohio and Florida and still lose 285-253. Actually, the very best scenario for Romney is that he wins Ohio, Florida, Colorado, and Nevada- and still loses 270- 268. Of the states I have not named here there is virtually no doubt how they will vote. Recently there has been talk that more states are in play for Romney, e.g. Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Iowa. No reasonable person would think MI, WI, or PA would vote for Romney. Look at 2008 county by county results from IA and VA and you see clearly the counties won by Obama are not demographically inclined to vote for Romney. There is no way this looks good for Romney. He has no path to victory. We picked a bad candidate, again, and we will lose, again.
I do not hate Romney. I am not trying to pick on him or tick anybody off. I am just drawing a conclusion based on a county by county look at the swing states. The 2012 electoral map will look exactly like the 2008 map EXCEPT that Romney will likely win back North Carolina and Indiana. The flash of blue tint on those two states will undoubtedly turn back to red. Other than North Carolina and Indiana, there are no counties in swing states that voted for Obama in '08 that will vote for Romney in '12. Therefore, in the counties where Romney does win he must have a bigger turnout of the base than McCain did in '08. For Romney to get a bigger turnout than McCain is asking a lot. The base is less happy with Romney than they were with McCain. I do not know if a presidential/vice-presidential ticket has ever lost the home states of both candidates, but it sure looks like such will be the case this year.
Karl Rove's Electoral vote prediction
A crucial element: the mix of Democrats and Republicans who show up this election
In addition to the data, the anecdotal and intangible evidence—from crowd sizes to each side's closing arguments — give the sense that the odds favor Mr. Romney. They do. My prediction: Sometime after the cock crows on the morning of Nov. 7, Mitt Romney will be declared America's 45th president. Let's call it 51%-48%, with Mr. Romney carrying at least 279 Electoral College votes, probably more.
Mr. Rove, a former deputy chief of staff to President George W. Bush, helped organize the political action committee American Crossroads.
A version of this article appeared November 1, 2012, on page A15 in the U.S. edition of The Wall Street Journal, with the headline: Sifting the Numbers for a Winner.
Top Ohio Republicans Ask Why Party Lost
Failed Voter Turnout, a Surge of African-Americans at the Polls and a Lack of Love for the Candidate Cited as Explanations
Neil King Jr.
Top Ohio Republicans and aides to Mitt Romney's presidential campaign remain flabbergasted over what went wrong Tuesday in a do-or-die state they thought they would win all the way up to the final hours.
Was it a failed voter-turnout operation? An unforeseen surge in African-American voters? A lack of real love for the candidate?
Ohio Republicans see evidence for all those explanations, a surprise after their polls and modeling of the electorate told them that a late tide of enthusiasm and a large swing among independent voters would push Mr. Romney over the top ...

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Am J Case Rep. 2016 Jan 29;17:51-4.
Remission of Severe Myasthenia Gravis After Massive-Dose Vitamin D Treatment.
This is a case report of a patient with severe and refractory myasthenia gravis (MG) who followed a "high-dose vitamin D treatment", a massive-dose treatment (80,000 to 120,000 IU/day) promoted by a medical center in Brazil (but still not proven), and she had her first complete remission after this type of treatment with increased vitamin D serum levels (400 to 700 ng/mL).
This case report may reinforce the reported correlation between vitamin D level and disease severity and introduces a possible new use for vitamin D as a potential target for treating autoimmune diseases. We recommend large, double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized studies usinghigh-dose vitamin D treatment for refractory autoimmune diseases to reliably assess this pharmacotherapy target for these diseases.


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A vision for a healthier, more prosperous and secure future for all coastal communities
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Empower civil society
Civil Society Engagement
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Enhance governance
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Grants :: Small Grant Facilities :: Publishing an environmental magazine, Madupuwath
Publishing an environmental magazine, Madupuwath
Madupuwath magazine , Sri Lanka © KEkaratne , 2009
This project had two main objectives: to educate the community living around Maduganga estuary about its environmental values; and to educate schoolchildren in the local community.
The Maduganga estuary and its islands, a complex coastal wetland ecosystem, was declared a Ramsar site in 2003. The 915 hectare estuary consists of 770 hectares of open water and 15 islands that collectively cover 145 hectares. It has several wetland vegetation types, including mangrove forest, mangrove scrub and bank scrub, with a total of 303 plant species in 95 families. Mangroves harbour the greatest number of plant species, closely followed by mangrove mixed swamps.
The threats to the Maduganga wetland are many, chiefly clearing of mangroves, dumping of waste, discharges of fuel from boats, discharges of agro-chemicals, the spread of invasive species, and erosion of river banks. The need to inform local people of the dangers faced by this unique ecosystem, and so reduce the threats, was recognized by the Maduganga Development Foundation (MDF), a pioneering local NGO. With support from government, and later MFF, MDF started spreading the message through an environmental magazine.
Madupuwath is a monthly environmental magazine devoted to the Maduganga wetland. Published in the Sinhala language, the first four issues were printed in 2007 in black and white, with funds from the Coastal Resources Management Project administered by the Coast Conservation Department. MDF secured a small grant from MFF to produce 12 more issues of the magazine, which carries news items and articles on Maduganga area.
The aim of this project was to educate the community around Maduganga, and in particular to educate local schoolchildren and win their cooperation for protecting the remaining unspoilt mangroves in the estuary.
Target beneficiaries
The community living around the Maduganga wetland, and schoolchildren in particular.
Production and distribution of 12 issues of Madupuwath.
Awareness of environmental issues raised in the community.
Accomplishments and challenges
Over the course of a year, the project published 12 issues of Madupuwath, an environmental magazine targeting schoolchildren with stories and news articles relevant to the Maduganga area. The grant allowed MDF to improve the magazine's design and layout to make it more attractive, and covered the printing costs of the first three issues. Production of the next nine issues was funded from the sales of previous issues. Issues 5 to 12 were printed in colour in editions of 1,000 copies. They were sold for US$0.26 at local bookshops and schools, and at the MDF office.
The project faced a delay in implementation caused by a change of administration, but was eventually able to bring awareness of the importance of conserving mangroves into the school curriculum.
Contributions to cross-cutting themes
Communications and gender equality
The project was entirely in the field of communications, and targeted both men and women, including boys and girls, as producers and readers.
A publication can raise community awareness and promote involvement in environmental conservation. However, a market analysis should be carried out before publishing any periodical that depends on sales revenue for its long-term sustainability.
Maduganga, Sri Lanka
1st Jan 2009 to 31st Dec 2009
MFF Grant Amount
Implementing Partner
Maduganga Development
Foundation (MDF)
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At EMC World in Las Vegas EMC has announced availability of the ECS (Elastic Cloud Storage) storage appliance, which will offer storage capacity into the Exabyte range for enterprises and service providers and which uses EMC's ViPR storage virtualisation platform to provide block, object-based and Hadoop storage access.
The product – based on Project Nile, unveiled late last year – will see ViPR run on x86 servers as the control layer over EMC VNX-based storage arrays packed with 6TB disk. EMC will initially offer capacities of 360TB, 1.4PB and 2.9PB scalable up to Exabytes and this first configuration will be aimed at a cloud services workload.
ECS aims to be a private cloud alternative that competes on cost for organisations that would otherwise consider public cloud storage offerings. It's also aimed at service providers that want to use it to provide public cloud services to others, said president of EMC's advanced software division, Amitabh Srivastava.
But, other than total capacities, however, Srivastava, couldn't be more specific about likely specs for ECS options.
ECS will use ViPR 2.0, a new version of the storage virtualisation/big data platform.
ViPR – first announced at EMC World this time last year – allows customers to build large, single pools of storage, including with big data capabilities. EMC bills it as enabling customers to build web-scale software-defined storage without needing an army of PhD-level technicians.
On the one hand customers can choose to use ViPR's control level to unify the management and provisioning of storage from heterogenous media. On the other hand customers can make use of deeper controls in the data plane to enable, for example, management and analytics of data where it resides on the storage media.
Upgrades in ViPR 2.0, announced at the Las Vegas extravaganza, include: the ability for ViPR to run on commodity server hardware (HP's SL4540 is first, with more to follow); ViPR packaged in a pre-configured hardware appliance; multi-site capabilities with ViPR able to manage storage across multiple datacentres; the use of erasure coding between ViPR instances for data protection; the addition of native Hitachi Data Systems array compatibility (in addition to existing NetApp interoperability), and; connectivity to Dell, IBM and Oracle storage via the OpenStack Cinder block storage connector.
At the show EMC also announced its ScaleIO product, that can create block storage arrays from commodity disk, would be available in a hardware package. This is billed by EMC as providing a "hyperscale converged appliance" that can scale from 10s to 1,000s of nodes.


HAMTRAMCK—Black and Brown Theatre presents What Had Happened Was... Friday, November 9 and Saturday, November 10 at Planet Ant's Ant Hall at 2320 Caniff St, Hamtramck. Both performances start at 8pm with doors opening at 7:30pm.
What Had Happened Was... is a new theater experience rooted in the idea that everyone in the community has a story to share and that all stories are stronger together. The first act consists of prompted questions to the audience to share their stories. As stories are shared, the actors on stage take notes and partake in real time demonstrations of the moments and the people that the audience mentions. Then an intermission is taken in which audiences can socialize, grab a drink from the bar, or spy on the actors, who remain on stage to prepare a sketch outline of a world premiere play based on the audience's suggestions. When the intermission is over, the audience returns to their seats and watches a live, one-act play based on their suggestions, performed by actors from Black and Brown Theatre.
The format was inspired by Meggan Gomez, theater conservatory director at Working Classrooms in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Black and Brown Theatre met with Gomez following her visit to their production of Scarlet Letter this past spring and spoke with her about adapting the format to Black and Brown Theatre. Black and Brown Theatre worked under Gomez' blessing to adapt this format specifically for Detroit audiences.
For more information or to purchase tickets, please visit: www.BlackandBrownTheatre.org or follow Black and Brown Theatre on social media: @BandBTheatre.


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Wales to bring in Law charging 20p for Plastic Bags
Epsom & Ewell Lib Dems have been campaigning against the use of plastic bags all year
Shoppers in Wales could face paying up to 20p if they use plastic bags at the checkout after the Climate Change Law comes into force.
Nearly £13 million a year would be raised and would be used to fund Welsh environmental projects. Plastic bag use is expected to go down by 90 per cent, from 583 million a year to just 65 million. The Welsh National Assembly's sustainability committee published a report last week calling for just such a levy - see Related Link below.
The proposals are modelled on a similar scheme in the Republic of Ireland, introduced in 2002.
£2.8million was raised in the first five months and the amount of plastic bag litter was reduced by around 95 per cent. Revenue from that charge is channelled to a Department of the Environment green fund.
Welsh plan


Rhynoplasty is a cosmetic surgical procedure that reshapes and resizes the nose. It involves "sculpting" the nose cartilage and bone through small incisions inside the nose in order to hide scarring. This procedure is known as "closed rhynoplasty". Rynoplasty is an individual procedure and it is executed for instance to change the nose tip, to adjust a crooked nose or to remove a hump.


An upright piano, or vertical piano, is a piano whose frame is vertical instead of horizontal. There are many different sizes, so if you are purchasing a new piano, you should always check the manufacturer's specifications to find out what that particular piano's dimensions are.
Modern pianos are loosely grouped into four categories determined by their size. A spinet model is the shortest, and the strings are located below the keyboard instead of above. Next is the console piano. Its strings are above the keyboard, but they are shorter than full-length. A studio piano is the shortest piano that can still house full-sized strings above the keyboard. These are usually between 42 and 45 inches high. The tallest piano is called an upright, and it can be any reasonable height.
Vertical pianos are typically 20 to 25 inches in depth and 55 to 60 inches in length. There is more variance in height. A professional-quality piano is likely to be of studio height or upright height, so it will be at least 42 inches in height.
Grand pianos are classified by length, and always take up more space than upright pianos. A concert grand is often 9 feet long. A parlour grand may be 7 feet. A baby grand is the smallest and is generally about 5 feet long.
Older pianos have far more variance than contemporary pianos, but by and large, they tend to be taller. Whatever piano you are considering, you will need to get exact dimensions for that piano to know for sure.
One early type of upright piano was called a "birdcage piano" because its dampers seemed to suggest a birdcage. There are many shapes and sizes of pianos that are no longer made today.
Christine Kincaid has been a professional writer since 2004. She has a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and has written many non-fiction and fiction pieces over the years. She's been a professional artist since 2002, working primarily as a muralist and scene painter.


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Council tax rises as budget proposals approved
The budget was passed at a full council meeting on Wednesday.
David Spereall
People in Wakefield will see their council tax bill rise by 3.99 per cent from April.
It comes after the local authority passed a new budget for the coming financial year, which includes the introduction of Sunday parking charges and big changes to bin collections.
Sunday parking charges will be brought in at Newmillerdam Country Park
The increase includes a one per cent hike in the social care precept.
The ruling Labour party said that the rises were necessary to meet a "black hole" in its funding from central government, as it faces a £22.2million budget shortfall.
The council will also cut the funding it's given to The Hepworth Gallery, which it has been supporting since it opened.
Changing bin rounds will save around £40,000 but the council insists that the frequency of collections will remain the same for everyone.
Council leader Peter Box said that "tough decisions" had to be made.
Sunday parking charges at Newmillerdam Country Park will also be brought in to balance the books and are expected to generate as much as £70,000 in extra income over the next 12 months.
At a full council meeting on Wednesday, council leader Peter Box said that Labour was committed to "helping those whose lives were blighted" by cutbacks to frontline services.
He said: "Our robust and effective financial management has enabled us to deliver a balanced budget through years of austerity, but once again we are forced to make some tough decisions.
"Our budget challenge in 2019/20 is £22.2 million.
Bin collections will be altered.
"That's made up of a significant increase in the demand for services for both adults and children, rising costs and further government cuts to council funding.
"Our proposals for responding to this challenge have been shaped by our residents with several hundred of them sharing their views with us.
He added: "In 2010 there were three foodbanks in Wakefield - there are now 19."
A shadow budget produced by the Conservatives was voted down.
Conservative group leader Nadeem Ahmed said his proposals put "people's priorities first".
They had proposed introducing limited free parking to help "stimulate" the city and town centres, as well as slashing payments to trade union representatives and reducing the frequency of local elections.
They also wanted to accelerate the funding cuts to The Hepworth.
Group leader Nadeem Ahmed said their ideas were "fully costed" and would deliver what the district's residents wanted.
He said: "Our budget takes action on people's priorities and it's good for business.
"Our town and city centres are under massive pressure. Free parking won't go all the way to alleviating those pressures, but it will go some way towards it.
"Our trade union proposal is not political. I say that as a member of two trade unions - it's not the duty of the council to be paying them.
Funding for the Hepworth Gallery will be slashed. The Conservatives had wanted this to be accelerated.
"Labour is putting trade unions ahead of the people," he added.
The policing precept, which also appears on council tax bills, will also rise by an average of £24 per year from April.
That rise was approved by the region's Police and Crime Panel on February 1.


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Mid-Day Market Update: DSW Climbs On Upbeat Results; Akcea Therapeutics Shares Slide
August 28, 2018 12:12pm 452 Comments
Midway through trading Tuesday, the Dow traded up 0.17 percent to 26,093.20 while the NASDAQ climbed 0.15 percent to 8,030.26. The S&P also rose, gaining 0.07 percent to 2,898.74.
Leading and Lagging Sectors
On Tuesday, the energy shares rose 0.31 percent. Meanwhile, top gainers in the sector included Nuverra Environmental Solutions, Inc. (NYSE: NES) up 5 percent, and Profire Energy, Inc. (NASDAQ: PFIE) up 3 percent.
In trading on Tuesday, utilities shares fell 0.37 percent.
Tiffany & Co. (NYSE: TIF) reported better-than-expected results for its second quarter and raised its FY18 guidance.
Tiffany posted quarterly earnings of $1.17 per share on revenue of $1.1 billion. However, analysts were expecting earnings of $1.01 per share on revenue of $1.04 billion. Tiffany now expects FY18 earnings of $4.65 to $4.80 per share, versus prior forecast of $4.50 to $4.70 per share.
Equities Trading UP
Affimed NV (NASDAQ: AFMD) shares shot up 166 percent to $4.25 after the clinical stage biopharmaceutical company that focuses on cancer immunotherapies announced an encouraging update. The company said it signed a new strategic collaboration agreement with Genentech and will receive an upfront $96 million payment and up to an additional $5 billion over time.
Shares of Staffing 360 Solutions Inc (NASDAQ: STAF) got a boost, shooting up 40 percent to $2.7093 after announcing the acquisition of Key Resources Inc. in North Carolina.
DSW Inc. (NYSE: DSW) shares were also up, gaining 24 percent to $33.6295 after the company reported upbeat Q2 results and raised its FY18 forecast.
Equities Trading DOWN
Akcea Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ: AKCA) shares dropped 27 percent to $24.2105 after the biopharmaceutical company that focuses on treating serious and rare diseases said the FDA rejected its New Drug Application for volanesorsen.
Shares of Mitek Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: MITK) were down 19 percent to $6.875 after the company announced management changes and reaffirmed in-line 2018 sales guidance.
Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: IONS) was down, falling around 14 percent to $46.05 after the FDA issued a CRL on Volanesorsen.
In commodity news, oil traded down 0.48 percent to $68.54 while gold traded down 0.19 percent to $1,213.70.
Silver traded down 0.48 percent Tuesday to $14.90, while copper rose 0.59 to $2.748.
European shares were mostly higher today. The eurozone's STOXX 600 rose 0.12 percent, the Spanish Ibex Index fell 0.31 percent, while Italy's FTSE MIB Index fell 0.52 percent. Meanwhile the German DAX climbed 0.02 percent, and the French CAC 40 climbed 0.35 percent while U.K. shares rose 0.65 percent.
U.S. trade deficit in goods rose 6.3 percent to $72.2 billion in July, versus a revised $67.9 billion for June. Economists expected a deficit of $69.4 billion. Wholesale inventories rose 0.7 percent in July.
The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller home price index increased 6.3 percent year-over-year for June, versus a 6.5 percent rise in May.
The Conference Board's consumer confidence index increased to 133.4 in August, versus prior reading of 126.5.
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Q: how to implement loading more for table view when scroll to bottom?(i.e. pull up to refresh)
I want to load more data when view scroll to bottom,i.e. pull up to refresh, but I don't know how to display words like "Loading More..." as showing below and stop the tableview at that cell, because if use
NSIndexPath *indexPath = [NSIndexPath indexPathForRow:10 inSection:0];
[self.tableView scrollToRowAtIndexPath:indexPath atScrollPosition:UITableViewScrollPositionBottom animated:YES];

there's an error:
*** Terminating app due to uncaught exception 'NSRangeException', reason: '-[TNTableView _contentOffsetForScrollingToRowAtIndexPath:atScrollPosition:]: row (10) beyond bounds (0) for section (0).'
and if there's no data for tableView, loading more is still at the bottom cell, e.g. a table can show 9 rows, if there's no data for tableview, the "Loading More" cell is at the 10th row.

A: I found a great example in AppCoda website, try to use it in your app.
http://www.appcoda.com/pull-to-refresh-uitableview-empty/
I've used in my app and it really worked... and it is probably what you are looking for.

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Rochester Man's Murder Trial Resumes Today
Andy Brownell Published: April 4, 2022
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Rochester, MN (KROC-AM News) - A Rochester man's murder trial is winding down in Olmsted County court.
The testimony portion in the trial of 25-year-old Ayub Iman is expected to wrap up later today or Tuesday. The trial began with jury selection a week ago and opening statements were presented last Tuesday.
Iman is the second person to stand trial for his alleged involvement in the "execution-style" murder of 28-year-old Garad Roble. The Rochester man was found shot to death on a rural road on the southeast edge of Rochester on March 5, 2019. The other man charged in the case, 33-year-old Muhidin Abukar, went to trial last December but a mistrial was declared after the jury was unable to reach a unanimous verdict and he is scheduled to stand trial for a second time in May.
Iman and Abukar are both charged with second-degree murder. Much of the evidence against both men involves cell phone tracking that investigators say links them to the murder scene and to the site where the murder weapon was later recovered.
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Fastest lap and 12th in the KZ2 class Final was little consolation for Kiwi karter Marcus Armstrong at his second big European kart meeting in Italy over the weekend.
"Normally I wouldn't say I was unlucky but this weekend I was," the 15-year-old works Tony Kart driver said from Lonato in Brescia this morning. "We were second in heat one but seized (the engine) in heat two which immediately put a stop to a clean weekend.
"We started our Pre-Final in 13th and made it up to seventh which meant we started the Final 13th but I stalled on the formation lap - completely my error - and had to start last."
The fact that he was able to make up 22 positions in 34 laps and set the quickest race in traffic certainly bodes well for the young Christchurch driver heading into the 2016 European season, however.
"It was frustrating," he said, "but has definitely motivated us for future races."
Armstrong's team leader in the Tony Kart team, four-time former world champion Marco Ardigo dominated the meeting and won the Final from another Tony Kart driver, fellow Italian Luca Corberi.
Despite his frustration there is no doubting Armstrong's speed in his debut year in the 6-speed gearbox/125cc KZ2 karts. The young Kiwi was second quickest behind Ardigo in the third practise session earlier in the week then third quickest in his qualifying session and ninth quickest overall.
He was then second quickest behind Ardigo in his first race heat before being credited with 33rd after the engine seize in heat two then coming back to claim seventh in his third heat.
Armstrong then made it from 13th on the grid to seventh in the first Pre-Final before his forceful drive back through the field in the Final.
The annual Winter Cup meeting is one of Italy's biggest and most important, with all the key teams entered and over 280 entries this year.


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Citizens initiatives target voters needed to get proposed amendments on the ballot
by John Lucas | Jul 12, 2019
The hot, long days of summer can be taxing on most of us, not to mention petition gatherers who are responsible for hanging out in front of grocery stores collecting voter signatures in an effort to put citizens initiatives on the ballot for voters to decide.
Even with the Legislature imposing tougher requirements on petition gathers this year, there are a number of proposed amendments that still hope to reach the ballot by the 2020 election.
One of those is the minimum wage initiative that would raise the hourly wage to $15 by 2026. Backed by Orlando trial attorney John Morgan, who was also behind the medical marijuana in 2016. Morgan leads the group, Florida for a Fair Wage. The group has collected 343,749 signatures thus far. That's more than half of the 766,200 registered petitions required to make the ballot.
That's a tough task as it is, but this year's Legislature passed a bill that Gov. Ron DeSantis signed into law earlier this year could make it harder for citizen initiative constitutional amendments to get on the ballot.
Among other things, the new law makes it illegal to pay petition gatherers based on the number of petitions they collect. The law also requires that signed petitions be turned into county supervisors of elections within 30 days. Each petition submitted late would be assessed a fine of up to $50.–
Critics say the new requirements will make it more difficult to meet the required number of voter signatures to be placed on the ballot.
The changes in the law could pose challenges to other constitutional amendments that are trying to make the 2020 ballot,
Two other citizen initiatives have hopes of being placed on next year's ballot, but they have a lot of work to make it on the ballot. One would legalize recreational marijuna, the other would ban assault weapons in Florida.
The marijuana legalization initiative goes by the name of Regulate Florida. The group has a total of 67,006, or less than a tenth of the number of signatures' required to make the ballot. That's about 9,000 voter signatures below what the group had hoped to have collected as this point of the drive, The move to ban assault weapons in the state has slightly more signatures with 94,925.
The group is called Ban Assault Weapons Now!
The proposed amendment classifies assault weapons as semi-automatic rifles and shotguns capable of holding more than 10 rounds of ammunition at one time.
The proposal would exempt possession of such weapons by military and law enforcement personnel in their official duties and exempts assault weapons lawfully owned before the law takes effect.


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Notre Dame College Presents the Expertise of Empowered Women Entrepreneurs
Notre Dame College entrepreneurship students with support from the Burton D. Morgan Foundation are giving voice to inspiring stories from women in business.
Students at the college in the BU 303 Entrepreneurship course are hosting an "Empowered Women" business panel discussion on Tuesday, October 19, at 7 p.m. in Regina Auditorium. Featured speakers are Erin Deimling, vice president and director of client and community relations at PNC Bank; Kathleen Ferry, a member of FocusCFO consulting; Karen Johnson, president and CEO of W.F. Han, an HVAC maintenance and repair firm; and Emilie Kurtz from Quasar Energy Group in Cleveland.
The event is free and open to the public. The program is sponsored by the Burton D. Morgan Foundation. The class is taught by Peter Corrigan, assistant professor of entrepreneurship at Notre Dame.
Deimling develops and implements charitable giving, sponsorships and local branding strategies, as well as employee engagement initiatives for PNC in the Cleveland market. She is a member of the Cleveland Bridge Builders Class of 2012 and servces on the boards of the Rainey Institute, Starting Point, Cleveland Public Library Foundation and Twinsburg, Ohio, Schools Foundation.
Ferry has more than 35 years of experience in finance and management, most recently serving as a member of FocusCFO, a firm consulting with small and mid-sized businesses. She is the former owner and CEO of Telefast, a fastener manufacturing and distribution company in the Cleveland area. She sold the company in 2015. Ferry is a Cleveland Foundation board member and a trustee at Magnificat and St. Ignatius high schools.
Johnson has led W.F. Hann to be recognized as one of the top workplaces in Northeast Ohio. Among her and her companies many awards, she has been named the Small Business Marketing Executive of the Year by the Sales and Marketing Executives of Cleveland.
Kurtz has contributed to the eco-entrepreneurial startup Quasar Energy Group grow into a viable Northeast Ohio company. The energy and organics management firm that specializes in the deployment of sustainable technology solutions in agricultural, municipal and industrial applications has captured more than one billion tons of carbon dioxide in its anaerobic biomass digesters, while launching many other green projects.
Notre Dame's entrepreneurship program is advanced among colleges and universities. Students can add entrepreneurship only as a co-major to any other degree program at the College. The resulting double major trains students to apply an entrepreneurial mindset to their specific field of study, growing their own career and business endeavors to create personal wealth for themselves and their families.
Popular and inventive bachelor's degrees in performing arts music entrepreneurship, and in performing arts theatre entrepreneurship also are available at Notre Dame.
About Notre Dame College
Notre Dame College is a private, Catholic, liberal arts college in South Euclid, Ohio, committed to teaching students how to make a good living and live a good life. Founded by the Sisters of Notre Dame in 1922, the College offers bachelor's degrees in 30 disciplines plus a variety of master's degrees, certification programs and continuing and professional development programs for adult learners on campus and online. For more information, visit NotreDameCollege.edu.


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Q: Microsoft Dependency Injection Library A would like to make my ASP.NET Core project could see only another library: Api, where I have interfaces. And another library makes wiring for interfaces and their implementation.
Instead of it Microsoft Dependency Injection Library proposes to make a wiring point right in the asp.net project. In this case this project will see both libraries: Api and ApiImpl. And it's not acceptable.
I wanna find a solution like Ninject, for example, does with modules.

A: A kind solution of this is here:
https://github.com/aspnet/DependencyInjection/issues/497


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CWA Spoofs T-Mobile Ad Over Call Center Closings
The Communications Workers of America created a spoof of the latest ad from T-Mobile "No More Mr. Nice Girl," to protest the company's plans to close call centers in the United States and outsource thousands of jobs. The idea that T-Mobile is
By Kenneth Quinnell
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The Communications Workers of America created a spoof of the latest ad from T-Mobile "No More Mr. Nice Girl," to protest the company's plans to close call centers in the United States and outsource thousands of jobs. The idea that T-Mobile is the one that is no longer nice is based on the company's plans:
T-Mobile USA is planning to close seven call centers in June
3,300 workers are at risk of losing their jobs
Additionally, the company has shipped 6,000 jobs overseas to the Philippines and Honduras
The 7 call centers set to close are: Allentown, PA.; Fort Lauderdale, FL.; Frisco, TX; Brownsville, TX; Thornton, CO; Redmond, OR; & Lenexa, KS
The message in T-Mobile's original ad is a little sketchy, as they are suggesting that the company is getting 'tough' and providing a better network and service for customers, something that isn't quite supported by their actual actions, particularly towards their workers.
The original T-Mobile ad:
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My DP work on the Nine Virtues may be found in at Segoi: The Nine Pagan Virtues" for reference.
Wisdom – The intersection of knowing right and doing right. While I thought for a long time that this was a shared value, I noticed that the confirmation process of Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court did not center on her judicial record (which many of those who declared a "no" vote stated was impeccable), but rather centered on two or three comments outside the courtroom. It astounded me that someone who had shown such wisdom on the bench could have that wisdom ignored. While this is an isolated incident, it is also alarming if such a trend continues. Still, I think this value is shared, though there is a twist on it: many people want their wisdom to be "blind," not visionary, at least on the courts.
Vision – Seeing the connection between things and the rta. Vision is greatly important in business circles: there are entire firms dedicated to helping businesses write mission statements and vision statements. Projects with clear timelines and benchmarks that take into account all possibilities are looked favourably upon.
Piety – Participating in the *ghosti- relationship through action. Of the First Function Virtues, this is least respected in our culture: between a notion that mystical visionaries are mentally imbalanced and the idea of piety as "going through the motions" (and this being a bad thing), "pious" has become somewhat of an insult in some circles. While some deeply religious people are idolized (Billy Graham comes to mind) and it is of great importance to some people whether our president is a "good Christian" or not, the wider value of piety itself is not, generally, a shared value in this culture.
Courage – Action in the face of fear. I believe this society values certain types of courage greatly, with monuments to The Unknown Soldier, Congressional Medals of Honour, and Nobel Peace Prizes. It does not, however, value all types of courage: welfare mothers are looked down on even though they fight as hard as any other mother; conscientious objectors have no monuments; and American Idol does major business on people who have the courage to perform on national television, but do nt necessarily have the talent to do so.
Integrity – The state of being whole and maintaining right agreements. Integrity is clearly a value of our society: we want agreements maintained, contracts honoured, and we enforce these agreements and contracts with laws (and on television, with Judge Judy and Judge Joe Brown). As children, we are taught to honour bets and accept "double dog dares." This may be the most widely accpeted value in our society: honesty and the notion of agreements being binding.
Perseverence – Manifestation of motivation. Hard work is valued, and those who don't succeed are often looked down upon (the notion that homeless people "just didn't try hard enough" to keep their homes is a common perception). Our society tends to believe that if you start in the mailroom, you can reach the CEO's office through sheer will (and some people actually can). The issue comes in when those who fail to persevere (and there are far more mailroom jobs than there are CEO jobs) are looked down on because of a failure to arrive at the highest point possible.
Hospitality – Participating in *ghosti- relationships in general. Many people value hospitality, but do not necessarily understand it well: I have one friend who has helped move another friend across town several times, but the friend who has been moved has never actually thanked the friend who helped her move, despite an avowed fidelity to hospitality. While I think that hospitality is definitely a shared value, understandings of it fluctuate greatly within the community about what, exactly, it means.
Moderation – The rock of knowledge of limits and necessity. Those who understand concepts of balance, as well as those who can reach their limits without overreaching them are looked on positively. Those who have gone too far and have rectified their issues (recovering alcoholics, persons who worked their way out of debt, etc.) are also generally respected. Those who reach too far, or extend beyond their own reach, are usually looked down upon by most. This is clearly a shared value.
Fertility – The maintenance of creation. Entrepenuership is looked upon with approval, as is great musical or literary talent. Actors are idolized and every kid wants to be a scientist who discovers something new. On the other hand, those who are no longer creating are looked on with derision, known as "selling out": the actor who takes parts for money and doesn't produce good movies, or the musician whose music starts to sound the same as everyone else's when she gets onto a major label. Fertility is clearly valued in this society.


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Lomastangara (Sicalis raimondii) är en fågel i familjen tangaror inom ordningen tättingar.

Utbredning och systematik
Fågeln förekommer i västra Anderna i Peru (Cajamarca till Arequipa och Moquegua). Den behandlas som monotypisk, det vill säga att den inte delas in i några underarter.

Familjetillhörighet
Liksom andra finkliknande tangaror placerades denna art tidigare i familjen Emberizidae. Genetiska studier visar dock att den är en del av tangarorna.

Status
IUCN kategoriserar arten som livskraftig.

Namn
Lomas är gröna ökenoaser i Peru och Chile som får sitt vatten från kustnära dimma. Artens vetenskapliga artnamn raimondii hedrar Antonio Raimondi (1825–1890), italiensk naturforskare och upptäcktsresande boende i Peru 1850–1890.

Noter

Externa länkar

Tangaror
Fåglar i neotropiska regionen
Endemiska fågelarter i Peru

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Nova Scotia > Sports
SNAPSHOTS: Flames cooled by Panthers in Florida
Kristen Anderson | Posted: Jan. 5, 2022, midnight | Updated: Jan. 5, 2022, 2:21 p.m. | 5 Min Read
The Panthers' Anton Lundell celebrates a first-period goal against the Calgary Flames during Tuesday night's game at FLA Live Arena in Sunrise, Fla. The Panthers won 6-2.
It was one of those measuring stick-type games, the ones that make you feel good about your team, where you are at, and how much progress you have made.
So, when Darryl Sutter was asked about lessons learned following the Calgary Flames' 6-2 loss to the Florida Panthers on Tuesday night at FLA Live Arena, and how the head coach could ensure this "measuring stick" performance stuck with them in the playoffs, he scoffed.
"Well, there's not a post-season if you play like they did tonight," was Sutter's answer during the post-game media conference over Zoom.
That, pretty much, said it all as the Panthers, now 18-3-0 at home, dominated the visitors in nearly every facet of the game. It was the first time Calgary has allowed six goals all season as Jacob Markstrom was "left out to dry."
The Flames, who arrived in South Florida with a 7-1-2 record in their last 10 in the building, outshot the home side 44-38. So that was a plus.
Eleven (!) of those shots were Blake Coleman's, a career-high, as he clearly had an extra gear on this night, playing a former rival from when he was skating with the two-time Stanley Cup champion Tampa Bay Lightning.
One of those shots got past Panthers netminder Sergei Bobrovsky.
The other one was Johnny Gaudreau's, putting the Flames up 2-1 in the first period.
"And obviously the wheels fell off the bus," said Flames defenceman Chris Tanev of the game's turning point. "We weren't good enough to win tonight. They deserved the two points. We've gotta be better in all areas of our game if we want to beat teams like that."
One area that could use some drastic improvement rapidly is their secondary scoring.
The Panthers had five different goal-scorers, including Patric Hornqvist who had a pair. Yes, two of their goals were on the power play.
But Calgary allowed way too many odd-man rushes and high-danger chances to be in the mix. Markstrom was good, and certainly didn't play like he'd allowed six goals on 34 shots, yet it's not necessarily up to the goalie each and every night to bail out his team.
Especially against one of the best teams in the National Hockey League.
"That's a different level of team we've played lately. That's a team that's built for playoff hockey," Sutter said. "We had some guys that didn't meet that sort of challenge, in terms of the one-on-one stuff."
Savvy veteran Joe Thornton made it 3-2 on a powerplay goal with 1:09 remaining in the opening frame. But, truth be told, the Flames made it easy for him.
Rasmus Andersson and Noah Hanifin were MIA while the big man with the big beard plopped himself in front of Markstrom.
That was the beginning of the end for the Flames on this night.
"If you give up that many goals, you're not going to win," Sutter said. "That's not about getting the team going. We had some defencemen that weren't into the defending or checking part of the game and it cost us the hockey game."
The Panthers made them pay at the end of the second period which was, by all accounts, a tightly contested frame, and turned on the jets.
And, by turning on the jets, we mean five unanswered goals.
At the time of Coleman's goal, they had a 2-1 lead but after Anthony Duclair made it 2-2 less than three minutes later, the Flames couldn't recover.
So, this measuring stick?
"Obviously we didn't measure up very well today," said Flames forward Matthew Tkachuk. "But I think there's no greater challenge than for us to play the defending champs from two years in a row next game. There's no excuse not to get up for that one so we better be ready."
The Flames face the Lightning Thursday at Amalie Arena (5 p.m. MT, Sportsnet West, Sportsnet 960 The Fan).
TOUGH TANEV
Tanev skated in his 600th game Sunday at Chicago and while that's a special milestone for any NHLer, it's even more impressive when you consider how hard the 32-year-old battles on a nightly basis.
The fact that he has been able to make it to 600 without losing a limb or, at least, a few more teeth is remarkable.
But they're not all expected to be masterpieces.
Tuesday's game was an example of how you can do all the right things, play an honest game, and bring your best effort every night — and still get scored on when you're on the ice.
On a first-period penalty-kill, Tanev was battling for the puck with Hornqvist when he lifted his stick and managed to tap the puck past Markstrom to put the Panthers up 1-0. Tanev arguably did everything right on the play but Hornqvist beat him, fair and square.
There were plenty of Calgary-Florida connections on Tuesday outside of Sam Bennett, who served the first of a three-game suspension and didn't play against his former team.
And one of which was Ryan Lomberg, who played in the Flames system for five seasons. He put the Panthers up 4-2 with 17 seconds to go in the middle frame, which seemed to kill Calgary's momentum completely.
Other connections to note: Markstrom (drafted 31st overall by the Panthers in 2008), Erik Gudbranson (drafted third overall by the Panthers in 2010), and associate coach Kirk Muller, who played three seasons in Florida from 1996-97 to 1998-99.
Gaudreau's strike extended his road point streak to 11 games. Only seven players in franchise history have posted a longer run, including Gaudreau himself who posted a 13-game stretch in 2017-18 … Flames forward Brett Ritchie drew in for his first game since Nov. 2, playing in place of an injured Brad Richardson … D Michael Stone was a healthy scratch while forward Adam Ruzicka was deployed to Calgary's Taxi Squad.
Copyright Postmedia Network Inc., 2022


Microsoft is undergoing a major reshuffling effort as its head of Windows gets ready to leave the company.
Flickr via Jorge Figueroa. Click for original.
Microsoft is losing a longtime veteran in Terry Myerson, the executive vice president for its Windows and Devices group, who is bidding farewell to the company as it undergoes a major shakeup in upper management.
Myerson's departure is one of many big changes happening at Microsoft. In a note to employees, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella announced the formation of two new engineering teams, one that will be focused on "Experiences & Devices" and another to lead its "Cloud + AI" efforts.
"I want to thank Terry for his leadership on my team and across Microsoft. He will work with me on the transition over the coming months," Nadella said.
Myerson has worked at Microsoft for over two decades. He oversaw many of the company's products and services, including Windows, Xbox, and HoloLens. More recently, Myerson supervised the launched of Windows 10, which represented a major transition for the Windows ecosystem.
"With change comes transition, and one transition we have been planning for is for Terry Myerson to pursue his next chapter outside Microsoft," Nadella added. "Terry has been instrumental in helping me arrive at this new organizational structure, and I deeply appreciate his leadership and insight as we've worked through the opportunity that lies ahead."
In a lengthy letter of his own posted to LinkedIn, Myerson called it an "emotional day" as he looks ahead to starting his next chapter outside of Microsoft in a few months. He reflected on several memories, such as meeting Bill Gates for the first time in 1996, and taking charge of Xbox, Windows, and Windows Phone at the request of Steve Ballmer in 2013.
"One of my favorite things about leading Windows has been the Windows fans. Through good times and bad, I've loved your feedback. I've loved your passion for our work. I've loved your applause when we've done great work and I've loved the push to do better," Myerson said.
What this ultimately means for Microsoft and Windows remains to be seen. Nadella said that Rajesh Jha, the company's executive vice president for its Product group, will take charge of the new Experiences and Devices division. In addition, Microsoft is creating an AI Perception and Mixed Reality group, to be led by Alex Kipman. Mixed reality was one of the centerpieces of its Fall Creators Update for Windows 10.
The shakeup brings with it many questions, about Microsoft's future and what impact this will have on Windows and its other service.
"We'll talk more about these changes at the Q&A next week and the important work ahead," Nadella said.


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As with many other psychiatric disorders, Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) is widely regarded as the product of complex interactions among multiple factors, including genetic, neurochemical, neuroanatomical, and psychological factors. It is important to emphasize that there is considerable diversity in the literature with regard to etiological understandings of BPD, and that many conclusions remain speculative.
Evidence suggests that BPD runs in families. Through the study of biological relatives of people with BPD, it has been proposed that BPD is 4 to 20 times more prevalent among relatives of those with BPD compared to relatives of individuals not diagnosed with BPD. Torgersen and colleagues provided support for the genetic vulnerability of BPD by studying monozygotic and dizygotic twins. In their study, the concordance rate of BPD among monozygotic twins was 35% compared to a 7% concordance rate among dizygotic twins. The high concordance rate of BPD found in monozygotic twins is strongly suggestive of genetics playing a role in the etiology of BPD.
There is some support for neurochemical vulnerability in people with BPD. Specifically, two neurotransmitters have caught the attention of researchers: serotonin and norepinephrine. Serotonin has been found to be associated with aggression and impulsivity, whereby as levels of serotonin decrease, aggression and impulsive behaviours increase. Thus, it has been suggested that the characteristic aggressive and impulsive behaviours of BPD are the result of decreased or low levels of serotonin in the brain. In much the same way, norepinephrine has been found to be related to aggressive behaviours in BPD. Also found was that males with lower levels of norepinephrine were more likely to be diagnosed with BPD and more likely to have a lifetime history of aggression.
Researchers have also found anatomical and physiological brain differences between those with and without BPD. Hyperactivity of the amygdala, a brain structure in charge of autonomic responses associated with fear, arousal, and emotional responses, has been found in people with BPD. Additionally, decreased functioning of the prefrontal and preorbital cortex in patients with BPD has been related to a decreased capacity of affect. These findings might explain the sensitivity to environmental stressors and the deep impact that these stressors have in the interpersonal relationships and affects of individuals with BPD.
Consistently, individuals diagnosed with BPD report trauma and adversity as characteristic of their early lives. These individuals tend to differ from those without mental health concerns and from people diagnosed with other personality or mood disorders on reports of physical abuse, sexual abuse, and neglect during childhood. Similarly, people with BPD report more maternal and paternal abandonment, more parental conflict, and higher rates of being raised by relatives or in foster homes. Patients with BPD can further be differentiated from other psychiatric patients on the basis of their lack of resolution and capacity to think about or reflect on traumatic experiences. It appears that patients with BPD suffer the effects of trauma without being able to cognitively process their experiences and that this combination, beginning early in life, promotes a type of vicious circle in which their ability to think about and regulate their emotional experience is impaired.
The emotional and interpersonal instability characteristic of BPD may be the result of a failure to create secure attachments early in life. Bowlby suggested that there is continuity between the quality of our early relationships with caregivers and our adult interpersonal relationships. Early attachment behaviour enables infants to maintain proximity and contact with caregivers, which serves to promote the formation of an affectionate bond between infant and caregiver, ensuring safety and survival. Based on the repeated experience of the caregiver's timely soothing responses, infants develop the expectation that important others are sources of help and comfort, along with the eventual capacity to regulate their own emotional states. These developments, the products of secure early attachment relationships, are both impaired among patients with BPD.
Integrating parallel streams of thought from the fields of psychoanalysis, developmental psychology, and cognitive neuroscience, comprehensive theories of BPD have been developed by leading authorities in the field. Although differing in certain aspects, these theories all attend to the issue of mentalization. The concept of mentalization describes the way humans make sense of their social world by imagining the mental states (e.g., beliefs, motives, emotions, desires, and needs) that underpin their own and others' behaviours in interpersonal interactions. Fonagy has elaborated a theory of how the capacity to mentalize develops in early childhood and, alternatively, how deviations from this normal developmental path result in severe forms of adult psychopathology, most notably BPD.
Fonagy and colleagues suggest that, in order to cope with a neglectful or abusive caregiver, children may defensively inhibit thinking about the intentions of others because it is too painful to think about an attachment figure's wish to cause them harm. Furthermore, in cases of abuse or neglect, the absence of care signals danger and lack of safety that in turn triggers the child's attachment system. Thus, the child seeks physical proximity to the caregiver but at the same time is defensively psychologically distant. This contradictory position can lead to distortions in the development of self-regulatory abilities and an overall sense of self.
Oldham provided an eloquent and succinct summary of contemporary research on BPD, which integrates recent advances in our understanding of BPD. As Oldham explains, contributions of clinical and basic science research have helped us recognize that the "stress-vulnerability" model of disease is a useful guide for considering a biopsychosocial concept of BPD. Researchers have identified core heritable endophenotypes (a special kind of biomarker) of affective dysregulation and impulsive aggression. Additional findings that brain abnormalities can be identified by brain imaging techniques, and that inherent hyperactivity of the amygdala has been detected lend further support to the idea that borderline pathology is at least partially "hard-wired". The heritable "priming" for emotional overactivity, coupled with an impairment in the usual cortical capacity to downregulate or inhibit this limbic-driven emotionality or impulsivity, can interfere with the normal attachment process during development (which can be magnified when there is inadequate parental support). Such a disposition can arrest or distort integration of aspects of self and others, resulting in early onset and persistence of profound interpersonal difficulties that characterise those with BPD.


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Troy the Odyssey
In this re-telling of Iliad, set in 1174 B.C. after ten years of fighting in the Trojan War, the Greek warrior Odysseus decides to travel for home, but instead finds a string of mis-adventures over the sea and land as he, along with a captive Trojan warrior named Circe as well as a group of loyal Greek soldiers, venture on the sea and land to get home to the island kingdom of Icarus and fighting sea sirens, and other mystical creatures to get home to his wife Penelope who is being hounded by a group of suitors hoping she will chose to make one of them their bride.
Director: Tekin Girgin
Actors: Dan Renalds, David Blazejko, David Gray, Dylan Vox, Ego Mikitas, Eoin O'Brien, Hachem Hicham, Katrina Grey, Kelly B. Jones, Lara Heller, Nikola Mitic
Keywords:Troja 2 - Die Odyssee
Cat Run 2
A couple of fumbling best friends run a private detective agency and find themselves solving their next case in New Orleans, becoming embroiled in a web of sexy female spies…
When Tony Stark tries to jumpstart a dormant peacekeeping program, things go awry and Earth's Mightiest Heroes are put to the ultimate test as the fate of the planet hangs…
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Science Fiction
Jarhead 3: The Siege
Corporal Evan Albright joined the elite Marine Corps Security Guards to save the world and see some action-not necessarily in that order. But his first assignment, protecting a U. S….
Kagemusha
Akira Kurosawa's lauded feudal epic presents the tale of a petty thief who is recruited to impersonate Shingen, an aging warlord, in order to avoid attacks by competing clans. When…
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Self/less
An extremely wealthy elderly man dying from cancer undergoes a radical medical procedure that transfers his consciousness to the body of a healthy young man but everything may not be…
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Joe Armstrong, an orphaned drifter will little respect for much other than martial arts, finds himself on an American Army base in The Philippines after a judge gives him a…
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Connors' War
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Interior Gateway Protocols
The Network Layer
In the second week of this course, we'll explore the network layer in more depth. We'll learn about the IP addressing scheme and how subnetting works. We'll explore how encapsulation works and how protocols such as ARP allow different layers of the network to communicate. We'll also cover the basics of routing, routing protocols, and how the Internet works. By the end of this module, you'll be able to describe the IP addressing scheme, understand how subnetting works, perform binary math to describe subnets, and understand how the Internet works.
Basic Routing Concepts8:21
Routing Tables3:35
Interior Gateway Protocols5:46
Exterior Gateway Protocols3:10
Non-Routable Address Space3:19
Alex Good Story1:30
We've covered the basics of how routing works and how routing tables are constructed, and they're both really pretty basic concepts. The real magic of routing is in the way that routing tables are always updated with new information about the quickest path to destination networks. The protocols we'll be learning about in this video will help you identify routing problems on any network you might support. In order to learn about the world around them, routers use what are known as routing protocols. These are special protocols the routers use to speak to each other in order to share what information they might have. This is how a router on one side of the planet can eventually learn about the best path to a network on the other side of the planet. Routing protocols fall into two main categories, interior gateway protocols, and exterior gateway protocols. Interior gateway protocols are further split into two categories, link state routing protocols and distance-vector protocols. In this video, we'll cover the basics of interior gateway protocols. Interior gateway protocols are used by routers to share information within a single autonomous system. In networking terms, an autonomous system is a collection of networks that all fall under the control of a single network operator. The best example of this would be a large corporation that needs to route data between their many offices an each of which might have their own local area network. Another example is the many routers employed by an Internet service provider who's reaches are usually national in scale. You can contrast this with exterior gateway protocols, which are used for the exchange of information between independent autonomous systems. Spoiler alert, we'll cover exterior gateway protocols in an upcoming video. The two main types of interior gateway protocols are link state routing protocols and distance-vector protocols. Their goals are super similar, but the routers that employ them share different kinds of data to get the job done. Distance-vector protocols are an older standard. A router using a distance-vector protocol basically just takes its routing table, which is a list of every network known to it and how far away these networks are in terms of hops. Then the router sends this list to every neighboring router, which is basically every router directly connected to it. In computer science, a list is known as a vector. This is why a protocol that just sends a list of distances to networks is known as a distance-vector protocol. With a distance-vector protocol, routers don't really know that much about the total state of an autonomous system, they just have some information about their immediate neighbors. For a basic glimpse into how distance vector protocols work, let's look at how two routers might influence each other's routing tables. Router A has a routing table with a bunch of entries. One of these entries is for 10.1.1.0/24 network, which we'll refer to as Network X. Router A believes that the quickest path to Network X is through its own interface 2, which is where Router C is connected. Router A knows that sending data intended for Network X through interface 2 to Router C means it'll take four hops to get to the destination. Meanwhile, Router B is only two hops removed from Network X, and this is reflected in its routing table. Router B using a distance vector protocol sends the basic contents of its routing table to Router A. Router A sees that Network X is only two hops away from Router B even with the extra hop to get from Router A to Router B. This means that Network X is only three hops away from Router A if it forwards data to Router B instead of Router C. Armed with this new information, Router A updates its routing table to reflect this. In order to reach Network X in the fastest way, it should forward traffic through its own interface 1 to Router B. Now distance vector protocols are pretty simple, but they don't allow for a router to have much information about the state of the world outside of their own direct neighbors. Because of this, a router might be slow to react to a change in the network far away from it. This is why link state protocols were eventually invented. Routers using a link state protocol taking more sophisticated approach to determining the best path to a network. Link state protocols get their name because each router advertises the state of the link of each of its interfaces. These interfaces could be connected to other routers, or they could be direct connections to networks. The information about each router is propagated to every other router on the autonomous system. This means that every router on the system knows every detail about every other router in the system. Each router then uses this much larger set of information and runs complicated algorithms against it to determine what the best path to any destination network might be. Link state protocols require both more memory in order to hold all of this data and also much more processing power. This is because it has to run algorithms against this data in order to determine the quickest path to update the routing tables. As computer hardware has become more powerful and cheaper over the years, link state protocols have mostly made distance vector protocols outdated. Up next, we'll talk about exterior gateway protocols. See you there.


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