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Anti-vaccine folks often point in differences in the immunization schedules in various countries to try and make a case that some countries do things better than others.
The ACIP and CDC set the immunization schedule in the United States, but it shouldn't be surprising that other countries have their own systems to set their schedules.
Each country vaccinates according to their own needs, so none of their schedules are wrong, even though they are all a little different.
And no, just because they are all a little different, that doesn't mean that any are wrong.
That's easy to understand once you do just a little research on how these immunization schedules are set up.
The WHO immunization schedule.
The WHO immunization schedule is set by the Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) on Immunization.
WHO vaccine position paper development is "a complex, rigorous, multifaceted process."
It's basically a summary of WHO position papers.
The WHO recommendations help other countries develop optimal immunization schedules.
The Communicable Diseases Act in Sweden regulates the 13 factors that the Public Health Agency of Sweden must account for when proposing changes in the national vaccination programme to the Government.
Many countries also have their own National Immunization Technical Advisory Group that sets their immunization schedule.
So their immunization schedule is right for their country, even if it doesn't match the United States schedule.
Australia's Vaccine Schedule
In Australia, for example, the National Immunisation Program (NIP) Schedule is set by National Immunisation Committee (NIC), which reports to the Australian Health Protection Principal Committee (AHPPC) of the Australian Health Ministers Advisory Council (AHMAC) through the Communicable Diseases Network Australia (CDNA).
The Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI) also provides technical advice on the operation of the National Immunisation Program.
Combination vaccines mean infants in Australia get fewer shots, but the same number of vaccines.
Notice any differences between Australia's vaccine schedule and the US schedule?
they give the routine second dose of MMR earlier, at 18 months
they don't give a second dose of the chickenpox vaccine
they give the routine first dose of the meningococcal vaccine earlier, at 12 months
the hepatitis A and flu vaccines are only given to high risk kids
While there are some minor differences, it is fairly similar to the US immunization schedule.
"There is a legislative requirement for all vaccines provided under the NIP or the PBS to undergo a thorough and objective assessment process."
National Immunisation Strategy for Australia
Why the earlier dose of meningococcal vaccine?
This is a good example of why immunization schedules vary between countries.
"The notification rate for meningococcal disease to the National Notifiable Diseases Surveillance System peaked at 4.3 per 100 000 in 2002 and declined to 0.4 per 100 000 in 2013."
Meningococcal disease incidence rates in the United States were much lower, about 0.6 per 100,000, when they started giving meningococcal vaccines in Australia (2001).
The UK Vaccine Schedule
But aren't the immunization schedules from other countries supposed to be a lot different from the US schedule?
Let's look at another…
The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) advises UK health departments on immunisation.
It's not the easiest schedule to read, but you should notice that vaccines for hepatitis A and chickenpox are missing, but younger children get extra meningococcal shots.
You may also have noticed yet another dosage schedule for the Prevnar 13 vaccine.
While the United States gives a three dose primary series and a booster, many other countries give either a three dose primary series alone or a two dose primary series with a booster.
"A large and growing body of evidence from immunogenicity studies, as well as clinical trials and observational studies of carriage, pneumonia and invasive disease, has been systematically reviewed; these data indicate that schedules of 3 or 4 doses all work well, and that the differences between these regimens are subtle, especially in a mature program in which coverage is high and indirect (herd) effects help enhance protection provided directly by a vaccine schedule."
Whitney et al on Dosing schedules for pneumococcal conjugate vaccine: considerations for policy makers.
That doesn't mean that they are all guessing at the dose! All of these schedules are well studied and in this case, there isn't much difference.
There are even studies that suggest giving only one primary dose, combined with one booster dose might work, but only in areas where pneumococcal disease is already well controlled and infants would be protected by indirect herd immunity.
But that doesn't mean that other schedules would work just as well too. For example, giving the doses later or on a slower schedule would not be better.
Infants are most at risk for many of these diseases, especially Hib and pneumococcal disease, when they are young and delaying when infants get vaccinated simply leaves them unprotected and at risk to get sick for a longer period of time. You also want infants to be protected by the time they lose the passive protection they get from their maternal antibodies.
What about the chickenpox vaccine?
While the UK has not added the chickenpox vaccine to their schedule because their models predicted an increase in cases of shingles (which has happened anyway) with a decrease in exogenous boosting (the theory that exposure to chickenpox lowers your risk of shingles), they are now looking at this again.
"This study confirms that severe complications of varicella, including death, continue to occur in the UK and Ireland."
Cameron et al on Severe complications of chickenpox in hospitalised children in the UK and Ireland
Mostly it has been said that the chickenpox vaccine isn't on the schedule because they have not thought it to be cost effective.
Iceland's Vaccine Schedule
When anti-vaccine folks talk about immunization schedules from other countries, they aren't usually talking about the UK or Australia though.
They are talking about Iceland, the country that they believe gives far fewer vaccines than the United States.
You thought they gave even fewer vaccines in Iceland, didn't you?
Vaccines for flu, chickenpox, hepatitis A, and hepatitis B and also available for those who are considered high risk.
Want to follow Iceland's immunization schedule?
Then you should move to Iceland.
Hopefully you are starting to see that immunization schedules are different in each country because each country has different rates of disease, different populations, and different healthcare systems.
Iceland is a small country (338,349 people), with high vaccination rates, and universal health care. Compare that to the United States, with 327,200,000 people, clusters of unvaccinated people, and lots of people without health care.
It should be easy to see that what works in one country might not work in the other…
Vaccine Schedule Comparison by Country
What about other countries?
Austria's immunization schedule for 2019 includes all of the same vaccines as the US schedule, plus the vaccine for Japanese encephalitis (if high risk).
On the immunization schedule in Austria, the columns in red are for vaccines that are recommended and free. The blue columns are also recommended, but they aren't free.
The chickenpox vaccine was just added to Japan's routine vaccine schedule, but they still don't give the combined MMR vaccine. They do still have autistic kids, so does that finally prove that the MMR vaccine is not associated with autism?
Japan has two separate schedules – the routine schedule for everyone (in dark blue above) and the voluntary schedule, with extra vaccines. Note that the primary series of infant vaccines are given at 2, 3, and 4 months.
The latest vaccine schedule in Germany.
Germany also gives their primary series of infant vaccines at 2, 3, and 4 months.
In contrast to the 16 diseases that kids in the US are vaccinated against, Sweden uses vaccines for just 9.
Sweden is the other country that anti-vaccine folks like to talk about a lot. Mostly because they think that Sweden recently banned mandatory vaccination. They didn't.
And note that kids in Sweden can get vaccinated at school!
The Norwegian immunization program makes heavy use of combination vaccines.
Norway is studying adding chickenpox and Shingles vaccines to their schedule.
Switzerland now offers a few optional vaccines for folks who want them, including the meningococcal vaccine, HPV vaccines for boys, and the shingles vaccine for seniors.
Although they only use a two dose primary series, Switzerland gives many of the same vaccines as the United States.
The 2018 vaccination schedule in the Netherlands. New additions in 2020 will be the rotavirus vaccine or high risk infants, Tdap in pregnancy, and MenACWY for teens.
Are you surprised to see that infants in Denmark get more vaccines before they turn 12 month old than infants in the United States and an extra set by four months?
While most vaccines are free, you can pay extra to get vaccines that are already on the United States schedule in most other countries.
Even if they aren't routine in other countries, all of the same vaccines that are offered in the United States, including vaccines to protect kids against rotavirus, chickenpox, and hepatitis A, are available in most other countries.
Vaccination schedule for children and adolescents in Israel.
The latest immunization schedule in Israel includes hepatitis B, DTaP, polio, pneumococcal, rotavirus, MMR, chickenpox, HPV, and flu vaccines.
The 2019 Immunization Schedule for South Korea includes almost all of the US vaccines, plus BCG and Japanese encephalitis vaccines.
What's missing in South Korea's immunization schedule? Meningococcal vaccines. But they do have some that we don't give in the United States.
What don't these different immunization schedules influence? Prevalence rates of autism, SIDS, and other things that scare parents away from vaccinating and protecting their kids.
The One Wrong Way to Give Vaccines
Since the immunization schedules from all of these countries are just a little bit different, does that support the idea that an individualized approach to vaccinating kids is a good idea?
There is no science and nothing that says altering any vaccine schedule is a safer or more effective way to do things.
"Later and slower" is not part of any immunization plan.
In many countries, even if they are missing protection against a few diseases that we routinely vaccinate against in the United States, many get their vaccines earlier! And all start by three months and don't split up the schedule to just give one or two vaccines at a time.
Everyone knows that later and slower just leaves kids unprotected for longer periods of time. More risks. No extra benefits.
More on Vaccine Schedules Around the World
What Is the Evidence for Alternative Vaccine Schedules?
What Happened When Sweden Stop Using the DPT Vaccine?
Has the United States' Infant Mortality Rate Ranking Been Dropping as We Vaccinate More Kids?
Vaccine PSA's and Posters from Other Countries
Why Are the DPT and OPV Vaccines Still Used in Some Countries?
Does Japan have the Lowest Infant Mortality Rate Following a Ban on Mandatory Vaccinations?
WHO – Strategic Advisory Group of Experts (SAGE) on Immunization
Vaccine history timeline in Australia
Meningococcal disease (Victoria State Government)
UK immunisation schedule: the green book, chapter 11
Development Of Immunization Policy And Its Implementation In The United Kingdom
Study – Dosing schedules for pneumococcal conjugate vaccine: considerations for policy makers.
Study – Pneumococcal conjugate vaccine 13 delivered as one primary and one booster dose (1 + 1) compared with two primary doses and a booster (2 + 1) in UK infants: a multicentre, parallel group randomised controlled trial
Study – Severe complications of chickenpox in hospitalised children in the UK and Ireland
Why are children in the UK not vaccinated against chickenpox?
What's the real reason Britons aren't offered the chickenpox vaccine?
Infographic 'The National Immunisation Programme in the Netherlands: Surveillance and developments in 2017-2018'
AAP – Child Immunization Schedule: Why Is It Like That?
Canada's Provincial and Territorial Routine (and Catch-up) Vaccination Routine Schedule Programs for Infants and Children
Findland's Child and Adolescent Vaccination Program
Vaccine Schedules for South Africa
Visualising childhood vaccination schedules across G8 countries
Vaccination schedules in other countries
The Problem With Dr Bob's Alternative Vaccine Schedule
An example of how alternate vaccine schedules endanger children
Cashing In On Fear: The Danger of Dr. Sears
Countering Dr. Sears
The Consequences of Refusing Vaccines
Delaying Vaccines Not A Good Idea
Why Delay Vaccines For Your Child?
Getting with the Schedule : Slow-Vax to Pro-Vax
Inventing your own vaccine schedule? Not a wise idea.
Vaccinations and autism: are we number 1?
More Evidence Autism Rates Not Truly Increasing
Autism Is Not Just An American Thing
Why Universal Hepatitis B Vaccination Isn't Quite Universal
Autism, Denmark and again no link with vaccines.
The Issue of Prevalence of Autism/ASD
International Trends in Sudden Infant Death Syndrome: Stabilization of Rates Requires Further Action
ACIP
booster doses
delaying vaccines
exogenous boosting
Jay Gordon
maternal antibodies
National Immunization Technical Advisory Groups
passive protection
primary series
For some reason, there still seems to be a lot of confusion out there about just how the immunization schedule is developed.
ICYMI – Jay Gordon was Jenny McCarthy's pediatrician.
Who decides which vaccines we give and get?
How do they make that decision?
History of Immunization Schedule Development
While the current immunization schedule is developed by the CDC based on recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), that's not how it was always done.
It has just been since 1995 that we have had this single, simple vaccine schedule and format.
The first unified immunization schedule was developed in 1995.
Before that, we had separate vaccine schedules from the:
American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Control of Infectious Diseases
Centers for Disease Control Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) – established in 1964
American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP)
Armed Forces Epidemiological Board
Even earlier, we had recommendations and schedules from
WHO Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI)
AAP's Special Committee on Prophylactic Procedures Against Communicable Diseases – from its start in the early 1930s, it evolved into today's Committee on Control of Infectious Diseases
American Public Health Association Subcommittee on Communicable Disease Control
Differences in those schedules, which could lead to confusion, lead experts to create a simpler, unified schedule.
Well, at least in the United States. Of course, other countries still set their own schedules…
The Science Behind Setting the Immunization Schedule
Now that you know who sets the immunization, you are probably wondering how they set the immunization schedule.
To truly understand how the immunization schedule gets set up, it is best to go to an ACIP meeting when they make those decisions.
Can't make it to Atlanta for one of the ACIP meetings?
You can watch them online!
Thoughtful discussions on setting the immunization schedule at ACIP.
Past ACIP meetings, agendas, minutes, slides, and videos, are archived online too.
Reading the minutes from the third meeting of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices on November 19-20, 1964 shows how they work, looking at data to make decisions about our vaccines and set the immunization schedule.
Review them and you will get a very good idea of how the immunization schedule gets set up.
The first flu vaccine was developed in 1945.
ACIP basically told folks to go back to the drawing board and make a better flu vaccine at this 1966 meeting.
Did you ever wonder why it took so long to get it on the immunization schedule?
Why was the primary series of polio vaccines made up of three doses?
At the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices meeting on May 24-26, 1967 they discussed polio vaccine scheduling.
Hopefully you are starting to understand how this works…
And no, all of this work doesn't get done over a couple of days a few times a year. ACIP members belong to workgroups which focus on specific vaccines and they gather, analyze, and prepare information and research about those vaccines throughout the year.
It is at the ACIP meetings where the workgroup findings are presented.
"Development of vaccine schedules is based on a large body of basic sciences and epidemiologic research. There is constant review of evidence, adverse events, and epidemiology by a panel of experts."
Shetty et al on Rationale for the Immunization Schedule: Why Is It the Way It Is?
And yes, among that body of research are studies of vaccines tested together, vaccines tested with placebos, vaccines tested vs unvaccinated kids, vaccines tested for long periods of time, and studies looking at risk factors to make sure vaccines don't cause long-term health problems.
It's a very thorough process!
And that's why the great majority of folks understand that following the immunization schedule is the best way to keep their kids protected from vaccine-preventable diseases.
Vaccines are safe, with few risks, and are obviously necessary.
What's not safe? What hasn't been well studied?
Following a non-standard, parent-selected, delayed protection vaccine schedule.
Thinking that an individualized approach is better doesn't trump the 55 years of ACIP meetings that went into setting the current immunization schedule…
Studies have actually shown that delaying or skipping vaccines offers no benefits and actually puts kids at extra risk.
It puts the rest of us at risk too.
More on Setting the Immunization Schedule
Answers To Frequently Asked Questions About Immunizations
Ask 8 Questions Before You Skip a Vaccine
Anti-Vaccine Points Refuted A Thousand Times
100 Myths About Vaccines
AAP – Rationale for the Immunization Schedule: Why Is It the Way It Is?
CDC – Who sets the immunization schedule?
AAP – The Recommended Childhood Immunization Schedule of the United States, 1995.
WHO – Expanded Program on Immunization (EPI)
WHO – Optimizing immunization schedules
The Vaccine Schedule Explained
Vaccine Timeline
WHO – History of vaccine development
Determination of the Immunization Schedule
Immunization Policy Development in the United States: The Role of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices
Study – Timely versus delayed early childhood vaccination and seizures.
Study – Vaccination Status and Health in Children and Adolescents Findings of the German Health Interview and Examination Survey for Children and Adolescents (KiGGS)
Essential reading: A comprehensive takedown of Dr. Sears' The Vaccine Book
The Problem with Dr. Bob's Alternative Vaccine Schedule
Talking about Vaccines : Countering Dr. Sears
Bob Sears
historical immunization schedules
vaccine effectiveness
vaccine studies
Immunization Advisory Groups
Who makes recommendations regarding immunizations?
Your pediatrician?
The CDC?
Merck?
"The most influential body making vaccine recommendations in the USA is the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)."
Vaccinology – An Essential Guide
In the United States, those recommendations are made by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), a group of medical and public health experts who provide advice and guidance to the Director of the CDC.
Again, ACIP is just for the United States though.
Many countries have their own Immunization Advisory Groups
In other countries, there is:
Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation (ATAGI)
Canada's National Advisory Committee on Immunization (NACI)
Ireland's National Immunisation Advisory Committee (NIAC)
Finland's Kansallinen rokotusasiantuntijaryhmä (KRAR)
National Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation in India (NTAGI)
Mexico's Centro Nacional para la Salud de la Infancia y la Adolescencia (CeNSIA)
Portugal's Comissão Técnica de Vacinação (CTV)
National Advisory Group on Immunization of South Africa (NAGI)
Korea Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (KACIP)
Sweden's Referensgrupp för nationella vaccinationsprogram
UK's Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI)
Altogether, at least 99 countries have their own National Immunization Technical Advisory Groups!
"Immunization Technical Advisory Groups (ITAGs) are expert advisory committees that provide recommendations to guide a country's national immunization programs and policies. They consist of independent experts with the technical capacity to evaluate new and existing immunization interventions. The premise of these groups is to facilitate a systematic, transparent process for developing immunization policies by making evidence-based technical recommendations to the national government. Their role is primarily technical and advisory and is intended to bring increased scientific rigour and credibility to the complex process of making immunization policies, free of political or personal interests."
Bryson et al on A global look at national Immunization Technical Advisory Groups
These National Immunization Technical Advisory Groups help countries to tailor immunization schedules and vaccination programs to local needs, while also considering the vaccine policies of the WHO and other experts.
More on Immunization Advisory Groups
Translating Foreign Language Immunization Schedules
Immunization Schedules from Other Countries
Global Vaccine Side Effect Reporting Systems
WHO – National advisory committees on immunization
Study – A global look at national Immunization Technical Advisory Groups.
WHO – Vaccine Policy Recommendations
Antivaxers inundate the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) meeting
For some reason, there are folks think that other countries don't vaccinate and protect their kids as well as we do in the United States.
Of course, looking at the immunization schedules in many of these countries, it is easy to see that simply isn't true.
Many countries use immunization schedules that are very similar to the one is used in the United States.
Many of these countries are a little more creative in the ways that they encourage folks to get vaccinated and protected though.
Before you travel, get vaccinated! A PSA in Japan where the goal is measles zero.
This French poster helped show that measles could be serious for older children and young adults.
Vaccinate your kids to boost their ability to fight disease.
This Korean poster encourages folks to vaccinate their family.
I protect myself, I protect others, I'm getting myself vaccinated
An immunization poster contest winner from Nova Scotia.
Korean vaccination poster with a superhero.
People come before the flu in Germany. Get your flu vaccine each year.
In New Zealand, they know the best time to vaccinate and protect their kids – today!
A poster in Malaysia emphasizes that you if you wait too long to get your child vaccinated and protected, then they could get sick.
Best vaccine poster ever?
Immunization posters won't ever replace the information you get from your pediatrician, but they can help you get educated and raise awareness about new vaccines and new recommendations. In any language.
More on Vaccine PSA's from Other Countries
VAXOPEDIA – Immunization Posters and Slogans
CDC – Latest Childhood Immunization Print Ads and Posters
CDC – Latest Posters to Promote Vaccination of Preteens and Teens
WHO – World Immunization Week
PAIC Immunization Posters
Vaccine Posters and Graphics
Posters, Bullhorns And Skirts Help Spread The Word About Vaccines
Genius 'Star Wars' Poster Campaigned For Vaccines In 1977
National Immunization Poster Contest Winners


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(RxWiki News) Traditional radiation treatments for head and neck cancers can cause some unpleasant side effects, including dry mouth and problems swallowing. Radiologists are looking for ways to reduce these side effects but maintain cancer fighting effectiveness.
A new study revealed that intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) outperformed conventional radiotherapy both in terms of fewer side effects and improved survival.
While IMRT demonstrated patient benefits, the technology is more expensive to use. Therefore, the authors of this study urged more research to prove the cost-effectiveness of IMRT.
"If you have difficulty swallowing, visit your doctor."
Beth Beadle, MD, PhD, of the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, and her colleagues designed this study to evaluate if IMRT helped head and neck cancer patients live longer.
Head and neck cancer can start anywhere in mouth, nose, sinuses, voice box and throat.
IMRT uses multiple beams of radiation. Radiation oncologists can control these beams to conform to the size and shape of the tumor, using various dosages, while avoiding healthy tissue.
This advanced radiotherapy was approved in 1999 and its use has skyrocketed since then, in large part because IMRT reduces life-altering side effects for head and neck cancer patients. These toxicities include chronic dry mouth, range of motion problems and dental complications, including cavities.
So IMRT has shown itself to be a less toxic treatment for head and neck cancers, but no research has looked at the technique's survival benefits.
Dr. Beadle and team analyzed data on 3,172 individuals treated for head and neck cancer with both IMRT and other forms of radiation between 1999 and 2007. Patient information came from the Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) Medicare database, compiled by the National Cancer Institute.
Altogether, 1,056 patients were treated with IMRT, and 2,116 individuals received conventional therapy.
After 40 months of follow-up, the cause-specific survival (death caused by head and neck cancer) for those treated with IMRT was 38.9 percent, compared to 18.9 percent for those who were treated with conventional radiation techniques.
David Horvick, MD, a Radiation Oncologist with 21st Century Oncology of New Jersey, told dailyRx News, "Although retrospective, this study strongly suggests a significantly improved rate of cancer control in patients who received IMRT as opposed to non-IMRT radiation therapy for head and neck cancer. This information combined with IMRT's proven benefit in terms of decreased side effects, strengthens IMRT role as the standard of care for head and neck cancer," Dr. Horvick said.
IMRT is more expensive than conventional radiation treatment. A 2013 study found that compared to conventional radiotherapy, IMRT increased total costs by $5,881.
Dr. Beadle said that additional research is needed to study the cost-effectiveness of IMRT, and noted that if the therapy can reduce or eliminate subsequent disease recurrences, or treatment-related side effects, the cost impact could be favorable.
This study was published January 13 in in Cancer, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society.
No funding information was provided and no conflicts of interest were disclosed.


If you visit my kitchen, on most days you'll find a few vegetable-filled jars sitting around, covered in colorful cloths, taking in the local Brooklyn bacteria. I love to ferment the produce available at the Farmer's Market to preserve the season's bounty and create my own probiotic edibles.
Probiotics are bacteria that find their way to the large intestine, where they assit in digestion and nutrient assimilation, and can benefit everything from brain to immune to cardiovascular health. While continually buying probiotic capsules at the natural food store gets rather expensive, fermenting a head of cabbage, a bunch of pickles, or a bundle of beets is easy on the bank account and way more delicious. Once you master these radishes, you can use the same technique with any vegetable.
In honor of spring, a few weeks ago I used two bunches of radishes to create a big batch of these punchy pink pickles. They sat out for 10 days before I liked their tang and moved them to the fridge. Since then, I've been adding my pickled radishes to salads, such as the Spring Wheat Berry Salad I've included in this post, and using them to to top off a taco, fried egg, or bowl of soup.
Wash one wide mouth quart jar and one quarter pint jar very well.
Prepare the brine by mixing the salt in the water and stirring until completely dissolved.
Pack the radishes into the clean quart jar. Add the garlic clove and red pepper flakes if desired. Cover with brine, leaving about and inch of room at the top of the jar.
Fill the quarter pint jar with water and cover with a lid. Fit this jar into the mouth of the quart jar, pressing down so that the brine reaches the rim of the quart jar and the radishes are completely submerged.
Use a clean, thin kitchen cloth, secured to the jar with a rubber band, to cover.
Allow the radishes to ferment for 4-10 days at room temperature. The longer they ferment, the tangier they will become. Taste occasionally.
When the taste suits you, removed the quarter pint jar, cover the quart jar with a lid and transfer the jar to the refrigerator.
In a medium-sized pot, bring 5 cups water to a boil. Add wheat berries, ½ teaspoon salt, and one whole clove of garlic. Bring back up to a boil and reduce to a simmer. Cook, stirring occasionally, for about 45 minutes, or until the wheat berries are tender. Drain, rinse with cold water, remove the garlic clove, and set aside.
Heat a sauté pan over medium heat. Add 1 tablespoon olive oil. When the oil shimmers, add the minced garlic clove. Cook for 30 seconds until fragrant. Add the cut asparagus, peas, and a generous pinch of salt. Cook until asparagus is crisp tender, about 5 minutes. Set aside to cool.
In a large bowl, combine the wheat berries, cooked vegetables, pickled radishes, 3 tablespoons olive oil, pickling liquid, dill, parsley, arugula, and goat's cheese. Add salt and pepper to taste. Top with sunflower seeds and serve immediately.


Kayaking is allowed on the Rio Grande River near Mission, TX. You can access the river from Anzalduas Park, which also has picnic spots and a pavilion for larger events.
Kayak and canoe rentals are also available at Firemen's Park in McAllen.
For those who prefer to let someone else do the navigating, pontoon boat tours of the Rio Grande are available from the Riverside Club on the River in Mission. Excursions are done aboard a 55-foot enclosed pontoon boat with air conditioning, heat, restrooms and cushioned seating. Pontoon tours are excellent for bird watching, sightseeing or private events.


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Q: Create ParseTree (not AST) I would like to create a parse tree (not an AST) with ANTLR in target language C#. This seems less then trivial, maybe I'm looking in all the wrong places.
So far, I tried to implement the partials in the generated parser as follows:
public partial class TestParser
{

   ParseTree pt = new ParseTree("root", null);

   partial void EnterRule(string ruleName, int ruleIndex)
   {
     ParseTree child = new ParseTree(ruleName, pt);
     pt.Children.Add(child);
     this.pt = child;
   }

   partial void LeaveRule(string ruleName, int ruleIndex)
   {
     this.pt = pt.Parent;
   }

}

with ParseTree being
public class ParseTree
{
    private List<ParseTree> children = new List<ParseTree>();

    public ParseTree(string name, ParseTree parent)
    {
        this.Parent = parent;
        this.Rule = name;
    }

    public ParseTree Parent { get; private set; }
    public string Rule { get; private set; }
    public List<ParseTree> Children { get { return children; } }

    public Boolean IsTerminal
    {
        get
        {
            return (children.Count == 0);
        }
    }

}

This works, but doesn't fulfill my goal: I can't get the matched tokens/text from this tree. Apart from that, it has an additional drawback: If I want to do this for multiple grammars, I have to copy-paste the partial class everywhere, since it's a partial of the TestParser, nothing higher up the foodchain.
I have looked at http://www.antlr.org/wiki/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=1760 but the generated Parser doesn't have a constructor that takes a ParseTreeBuilder.
Where to now?

A: I've found a more or less reasonable solution to my problem. It has a major drawback: It only handles the text of production rules that consist only of tokens. This is sufficient for me, but might not be for you. A proper implementation should have token nodes too, so it can be properly walked.
Adaptor:
    public class ParseAdaptor : CommonTreeAdaptor
    {
        private C<ParseTree> container;

        public ParseAdaptor(C<ParseTree> container)
            : base()
        {
            this.container = container;
        }

        public override void AddChild(object t, object child)
        {
            base.AddChild(t, child);
            this.container.Value.Text += base.GetTree(child).Text;
        }

    }

The ParseTree implementation:
public class ParseTree
{
    private string ownText;
    private List<ParseTree> children = new List<ParseTree>();

    public ParseTree(string name, ParseTree parent)
    {
        this.Parent = parent;
        this.Rule = name;
    }

    public String Text
    {
        get
        {
            if (this.IsTerminal) return this.ownText;
            else
            {
                StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();
                foreach (ParseTree child in children)
                {
                    builder.Append(child.Text);
                }
                return builder.ToString();
            }
        }
        set
        {
            this.ownText = value;
        }
    }

    public ParseTree Parent { get; private set; }
    public string Rule { get; private set; }
    public List<ParseTree> Children { get { return children; } }

    public Boolean IsTerminal
    {
        get
        {
            return (children.Count == 0);
        }
    }

}
//Isn't this the silliest little thing you've ever seen?
//Where is a pointer when you need one?
public class C<T>
{
    public T Value { get; set; }
}

and it gets glued together with the partials:
    public partial class TestParser
    {

        C<ParseTree> parseTreeContainer = new C<ParseTree>() { Value = new ParseTree("root", null) };

        public ParseTree Tree
        {
            get
            {
                return parseTreeContainer.Value;
            }
            set
            {
                parseTreeContainer.Value = value;
            }
        }

        partial void CreateTreeAdaptor(ref ITreeAdaptor adaptor)
        {
            adaptor = new ParseAdaptor(this.parseTreeContainer);
        }

        partial void EnterRule(string ruleName, int ruleIndex)
        {
            ParseTree child = new ParseTree(ruleName, Tree);
            ParseTree parent = Tree;
            parent.Children.Add(child);
            Tree = child;
        }

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Everything is yummy here except for anything including red meat (e.g. beef). Advice for the customers: Stick with the chicken and the poutine, and remember that grilled wings are a healthy delicacy. Advice for the staff : please be more friendly and attentive. Thank you.
Great wings, its a clean place with a enthusiast employes, you can find a lot of different ssuces that are delicious, but quite expensive for such small quantities, but for the rest like the service, the employes and everything its great, the mood is also amazing but still need that WOW factor. Good management.
One of my best rest. The food is gr8 and the waiters are super friendly.
Not that good. Wings should taste much better than it tastes now because the restaurant's speciality is chicken wings, and food is a bit expensive.
Best wings in lebanon, but a bit expensive though.


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How to get student pilot license (SPL)?
What is the age requirement to become a pilot?
Do I Need to Speak English to Become a Pilot?
How to get a pilot license?
Health & Physical
Can I do the pilot training medical check in any hospital?
Can I become a pilot if I have Diabetes?
What are the medical requirements to become a pilot?
What does the pilot training medical check cover?
Programs & Licenses
What are the different types of pilot licenses and how do I get them?
How to get commercial pilot license (CPL)?
How to get airline transport pilot license (ATPL)?
What is a commercial pilot license (CPL)?
Training Procedures
How long does it take to get a commercial pilot license (CPL)?
Is there a way to speed up my pilot training?
Pilot Career
Can I be an instructor with an airline transport pilot license (ATPL)?
Besides airline pilot, what other pilot jobs can I have?
Can I join an airline after getting a commercial pilot license (CPL)?
Can I be a pilot with private pilot license (PPL)?
Can I be an instructor with a commercial pilot license (CPL)?
Can I train to become a pilot at my own pace?
Can I be an instructor with a private pilot license (PPL)?
A Private Pilot License (PPL) does not allow you to be a Flight Instructor. PPL does not allow you to be paid for your flying services.
To be a Certified Flight Instructor (CFI), you must meet the following minimum qualifications:
At least 18 years of age
Be able to read, speak, write and understand the English language
Hold either a Commercial Pilot License (CPL) or an Airline Transport Pilot License (ATPL) and an Instrument Rating (IR)
Have logged at least 250 hours of flight time
Hold a Third Class Medical Certificate (or higher)
Receive a logbook endorsement from an authorized instructor on the fundamentals of instructing
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Azure AD work account support: As we continue to enhance the Starling platform we are keenly aware that many organizations struggle with managing security and identities across all their various SaaS applications. To help customers avoid having to manage "yet-another-identity" we are happy to announce support for Azure AD sign-in! When you arrive at One Identity Starling and want to Trial a solution or sign into Starling, you will always start with typing in your email address. Our new Home Realm Discovery (HRD) functionality will automatically resolve if your company has an Azure AD tenant, and if it does you will be automatically sent to your Azure AD for authentication. This streamlines your adoption of our SaaS services! And it puts the controls back in your hands. For example as people move positions or leave the organization and these changes are made to your Azure AD, Starling will automatically honor these changes. A disabled Azure AD user will not be able to log into Starling. There is no separate need to sync with Starling or to manage a separate Starling identity. In the future we look to expand on our Azure AD support and for example allow you to leverage your existing Azure groups to assign permissions to Starling services. Stay tuned as we continually evolve.


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2 Cops Accused of Workers' Compensation Fraud
Home > Blog > 2020 > February > 2 Cops Accused of Workers' Compensation Fraud
A husband and wife who had retired from working as police officers have been accused of workers' compensation fraud for faking injuries and collecting benefits.
Married Couple Accused of Workers' Compensation Fraud
The situation unfolded in Santa Clara, California. A husband and wife – both of whom worked as police officers in the area – had both retired from the force after suffering injuries. Both spouses had claimed that they had been hurt on the job in October, 2015, and could not work as police officers in any capacity. They both received doctor's notes that claimed they had suffered permanent total disabilities and went on disability leave from the force, receiving workers' compensation benefits.
A subsequent investigation, however, found them engaging in normal activity that contradicted their claims. Investigators first became suspicious of the wife's workers' compensation claims when they learned that she was competing in bodybuilding competitions. They interviewed her at a coffee shop, where she claimed that she could not move well on her own and suffered chronic pain. Her husband even drove her to the interview and helped her walk around the store.
Both before and after the interview, though, investigators had recorded video of her doing nearly daily bodybuilding workouts at the gym.
She was charged with workers' compensation fraud and pleaded no contest in July, 2019, and was ordered to pay restitution and was put on probation. It was only after her case that investigators realized the video recordings made at the gym also caught her husband working out, as well. He has also been charged with workers' compensation fraud.
Why Embellishing Symptoms Can Undercut a Workers' Compensation Claim
People who have actually been hurt on the job and who truly deserve workers' compensation frequently feel the urge to embellish their symptoms. In many cases, they do this out of fear that their legitimate claim for compensation will be denied.
Typically, doctors will be able to see through the embellishments, though, especially if they are provided by employers or parties who have an interest in challenging the workers' compensation claim. When these doctors think that a patient is overplaying their symptoms, they can become suspicious and begin to doubt all of the patient's claims – even the truthful ones.
The result can actually undercut the victim's workers' compensation claim. Credibility is a huge component in workers' compensation cases, and the doctor's expert testimony frequently determines whether a claim is successful or not. Even when a victim of a workplace accident is not completely fabricating their symptoms – as seems to be the case of these California police officers – it can still undermine their case if a doctor thinks that they are exaggerating them.
St. Joseph Workers' Compensation Lawyers at the Smith Law Office
If you have been hurt while on the job, you deserve workers' compensation. The personal injury attorneys at the Smith Law Office can help you get what you deserve. Call their law office in St. Joseph, Missouri, at (816) 875-9373 or contact them online.


WWE also was known as Word Wide Wrestling has just launched their network, which is solely focused on wrestling. There are many people worldwide who watch WWE shows like Raw, Smackdown and main events every week and month.
How to Watch WWE from the UK?
WWE Network is not available outside the US. And if you want to enjoy famous WWE shoes like Royal Rumble, Wrestle Mania, Summer Slam, etc. from the UK, you need to be extra smart. The best way to watch WWE online free from the UK is via VPN.
VPN abbreviated as Virtual Private Network is the best way to watch WWE Network UK. VPN allows you to change your actual IP address and assigns you the virtual IP address. This way you can access every blocked content from anywhere in the world.
There are many VPN's available but if you are in UK ExpressVPN is the best VPN for you. Other than ExpressVPN, you can use NordVPN, IPVanish, and HideMyAss. According to Cyberghost VPN review and ExpressVPN review, these are the two best VPN's.
How to set up a VPN?
First of all, you need a VPN service. For UK users, NordVPN and ExpressVPN are two best VPN services.
After you have selected a VPN, register on that by making an account.
Download and install the app of your chosen VPN. These two VPN's are compatible with every device, so you don't need to worry about that.
After logging in, look for a US server. Once, you have found that connect to that server.
Now you can enjoy watching WWE Network from the UK.
Zero percent loss of your internet speed.
You can have access multiple access to blocked content.
Smart DNS is compatible with all streaming devices like PC's, Smartphone's, Tablets, Mac, etc.
Your local IP address will remain same, and you will still be able to access all local websites.
If your ISP is using DNS Hijacking, you will still be able to access blocked content.
There are many free VPN's available for you, but only above mentioned are best free trial VPN. However, keep in mind your actual location while choosing the VPN service. Almost all the VPN services offer the free trial option, so you can check their services before committing to long term use.
I hope that after reading this guide, you will be able to learn how to watch WWE Network for free in the UK.


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COP23: governments falling behind on climate change compensation scheme for developing countries
A crucial fund to help developing countries cope with the consequences of climate change is being delayed due to EU backtracking on promises to be the driver of climate action.
Speaking from the UN climate summit in Bonn, GUE/NGL MEP Estefanía Torres Martínez has warned of a missed opportunity after news that the much-awaited "loss & damage fund" developing countries have been fighting for is to be postponed again to next year.
The Spanish MEP is taking part in the European Parliament delegation to COP23* and is attending daily briefings about the progress of the negotiations by Miguel Arias Cañete, the EU Commissioner on Climate Action & Energy.
"The COP23 is slowing down. Instead of being ambitious and delivering on the Doha Agreement, Commissioner Cañete admitted that the agenda is shy. Instead of compensating for the lack of initiative in the last summit in Marrakesh, we heard that the roadmap and engagements on the loss & damage fund are to be postponed to spring 2018. Therefore, the only meaningful topics left are focused on the adaptation & mitigation funds and associated pledges."
"The EU is promising a lot but is likely to be inconsistent. The Polish government is the only EU member state not to have ratified the Doha Agreement and their explanation is eagerly awaited in the plenary. Likewise Germany, a major contributor to climate change funds, is reflecting on their investments and they have even had to delay the closure of coal plants, not to mention their rising CO2 emissions."
Torres Martínez expressed hopes for a return to urgency as the end of COP23 draws near:
"As usual, negotiations even on a restricted agenda are going to accelerate in these last days of the summit. We will continue monitoring the impact of responses to the dramatic calls for policy leadership coming from the scientific bodies, mainly from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and their intermediate reports, and from the most vulnerable countries and populations," the Spanish MEP concluded.
*The COP23 summit is the 23rd session of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the UN Convention on Climate Change


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Q: Constraint layout's Horizontal orientation not working I've 3 views, Text view, a vertical divider and switch in order  with chaining as spread inside now I'm trying to move vertical divider from current center towards switch by setting horizontal_bias to .8, but in horizontal_bias does not get honored, How to move vertical divider towards switch in ContraintLayout, below is the layout xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    tools:context=".MainActivityFragment"
    tools:showIn="@layout/activity_main">

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/textView"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_marginStart="8dp"
        android:layout_marginLeft="8dp"
        android:layout_marginTop="16dp"
        android:layout_marginEnd="8dp"
        android:layout_marginRight="8dp"
        android:layout_marginBottom="8dp"
        android:text="TextView"
        app:layout_constraintBottom_toTopOf="@+id/divider"
        app:layout_constraintEnd_toStartOf="@+id/divider2"
        app:layout_constraintHorizontal_chainStyle="spread_inside"
        app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent" />

    <View
        android:id="@+id/divider2"
        android:layout_width="4dp"
        android:layout_height="0dp"
        android:layout_marginStart="8dp"
        android:layout_marginLeft="8dp"
        android:layout_marginTop="8dp"
        android:layout_marginEnd="8dp"
        android:layout_marginRight="8dp"
        android:layout_marginBottom="8dp"
        android:background="?android:attr/listDivider"
        app:layout_constraintBottom_toTopOf="@+id/divider"
        app:layout_constraintEnd_toStartOf="@+id/switch1"
        app:layout_constraintHorizontal_bias="0.8"
        app:layout_constraintHorizontal_chainStyle="spread"
        app:layout_constraintStart_toEndOf="@+id/textView"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintVertical_bias="0.0" />

    <android.support.v7.widget.SwitchCompat
        android:id="@+id/switch1"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_marginStart="8dp"
        android:layout_marginLeft="8dp"
        android:layout_marginTop="8dp"
        android:layout_marginEnd="8dp"
        android:layout_marginRight="8dp"
        android:layout_marginBottom="8dp"
        android:checked="true"
        app:layout_constraintBottom_toTopOf="@+id/divider"
        app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintHorizontal_chainStyle="spread"
        app:layout_constraintStart_toEndOf="@+id/divider2"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent" />

    <View
        android:id="@+id/divider"
        android:layout_width="368dp"
        android:layout_height="1dp"
        android:layout_marginTop="8dp"
        android:background="?android:attr/listDivider"
        app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toBottomOf="@+id/textView" />

</android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout>

A: If it will work in your implementation, try simply removing the view chaining then set the horizontal bias on the divider.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
tools:context=".MainActivityFragment"
tools:showIn="@layout/activity_main">

<TextView
    android:id="@+id/textView"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="14dp"
    android:layout_marginStart="8dp"
    android:layout_marginLeft="8dp"
    android:layout_marginTop="16dp"
    android:text="TextView"
    app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
    app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent" />

<View
    android:id="@+id/divider2"
    android:layout_width="4dp"
    android:layout_height="0dp"
    android:layout_marginStart="8dp"
    android:layout_marginLeft="8dp"
    android:layout_marginTop="8dp"
    android:layout_marginEnd="8dp"
    android:layout_marginRight="8dp"
    android:layout_marginBottom="8dp"
    android:background="?android:attr/listDivider"
    app:layout_constraintBottom_toTopOf="@+id/divider"
    app:layout_constraintEnd_toStartOf="@+id/switch1"
    app:layout_constraintHorizontal_bias="0.75"
    app:layout_constraintStart_toEndOf="@+id/textView"
    app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent"
    app:layout_constraintVertical_bias="0.0" />

<android.support.v7.widget.SwitchCompat
    android:id="@+id/switch1"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_marginTop="8dp"
    android:layout_marginEnd="8dp"
    android:layout_marginRight="8dp"
    android:layout_marginBottom="8dp"
    android:checked="true"
    app:layout_constraintBottom_toTopOf="@+id/divider"
    app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
    app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent" />

<View
    android:id="@+id/divider"
    android:layout_width="368dp"
    android:layout_height="1dp"
    android:layout_marginTop="8dp"
    android:background="?android:attr/listDivider"
    app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
    app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
    app:layout_constraintTop_toBottomOf="@+id/textView" />

</android.support.constraint.ConstraintLayout>


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Optical parameters of partially transmitting thin films. 2: Experiment and further analysis of a novel method for their determination
J. Shamir
The author is with the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Haifa, Israel
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J. Shamir, "Optical parameters of partially transmitting thin films. 2: Experiment and further analysis of a novel method for their determination," Appl. Opt. 15, 120-126 (1976)
Absorption coefficient
Optical surfaces
Optical systems
In Part 1 of this work a theory was developed for the measurement of the thickness, refractive index, and absorption coefficient of a partially transmitting thin film. In the present work, an experimental system is described and the basic theory verified by actual measurements. It is shown how the measurement of intensity ratios in a single setup is adequate for the determination of the above mentioned parameters. In addition, the application of the system for the examination of optical surface quality is demonstrated. Finally, the theory is extended to nonnormal incidence.
Optical parameters of partially transmitting thin films. 1: Basic theory of a novel method for their determinations
J. Shamir and P. Gräff
Infrared holography: an analysis of the thermal behavior of thin films
F. Matekunas, D. W. Sweeney, and W. H. Stevenson
Weakly absorbing layers: interferometric determination of their optical parameters
Y. Demner and J. Shamir
Determination of optical constants of absorbing materials using transmission and reflection of thin films on partially metallized substrates: analysis of the new (T,Rm) technique
A. Hjortsberg
Lummer-Gehrcke interferometer modified for the spectroscopy of thin dielectric films
Cardinal Warde


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Овај чланак садржи податке о учинку кошаркашких клубова из Србије који су учествовали у европским такмичењима под окриљем организација УЛЕБ и ФИБА по сезонама од 2006. године и формирања Кошаркашке лиге Србије.

Закључно са сезоном 2011/12. пласман у европска такмичења клубови су обезбеђивали преко домаће лиге која је имала и једно загарантовано место у Евролиги, док се почев од сезоне 2012/13. проходност стиче преко резултата остварених у регионалној Јадранској лиги.

Занимљивости
У периоду обухваћеном овим чланком:
 Клубови из Србије забележили су укупно 42 учешћа у четири европска такмичења — 18 у Евролиги, 22 у Еврокупу, 2 у Еврочеленџу и 2 у ФИБА Лиги шампиона. Збирно су сакупили 342 победа и 409 пораза.
 Највећи успех неког српског клуба је пласман Партизана на Фајнал фор Евролиге у сезони 2009/10. и освојено четврто место. У Еврокупу се најдаље стизало до полуфинала и тај резултат су по једном остварили ФМП Железник (сез. 2006/07), Хемофарм (сез. 2008/09) и Црвена звезда (сез. 2013/14)
 Србија је по први пут имала два представника у Евролиги у сезони 2013/14. и то су били Партизан и Црвена звезда.
 Српски клубови као домаћини држе рекорде посећености. Највише навијача у било ком такмичењу под окриљем УЛЕБ-а (24.232) било је на реванш утакмици четвртфинала Еврокупа 2013/14. између Црвене звезде и Будивељника, одиграној 26. марта 2014. у Београдској арени. Највише навијача у евролигашком сусрету (22.567) било је на утакмици плеј-офа у сезони 2008/09. између Партизана и Панатинаикоса, одиграној 5. марта 2009, такође у Београдској арени.

Учешће клубова по сезонама

Успешност клубова

Српски клубови на УЛЕБ ранг листи
УЛЕБ врши рангирање клубова на основу резултата остварених у Евролиги и Еврокупу током протекле три сезоне (квалификационе рунде нису урачунате). Свака победа у овим такмичењима доноси два бода, а пораз један бод. Клубови такође добијају још два бода уколико се пласирају у Топ 16 фазу, затим 2 бода за пролазак у четвртфинале, 1 бод у случају да прођу у полуфинале и још 1 ако обезбеде финале.

Види још
 Укупна табела Евролиге у кошарци
 Укупна табела Еврокупа у кошарци

Спољашње везе

 Званичан сајт Евролиге
 Званичан сајт Еврокупа
 Званичан сајт УЛЕБ-а

Српски кошаркашки клубови у европским такмичењима

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The Virtues and Vices of a Press Secretary
September 18, 2009 by Llewellyn King Leave a Comment
The stature of some press secretaries grows the longer they are away from the podium in the James S. Brady briefing room at the White House. Others fade quickly. Brady himself is known more for his role in fighting for gun control than he is for his time as Ronald Reagan's spokesman. His tragic wounding and subsequent disability dwarf whatever he said in his press briefings.
Jerry terHorst, who resigned after only a month in the job because his boss, Gerry Ford, lied to him, was a hero to the press for about as long as he had been press secretary. He ended up working for the Ford Motor Company.
Bill Clinton's second press secretary, Dee Dee Myers, had a rough ride in the job and a modest career in journalism since then.
Among the revered are Marlin Fitzwater, who served George H.W. Bush; Jody Powell, who was Jimmy Carter's press secretary and has just died of a heart attack; and Mike McCurry of the Clinton administration. George W. Bush burned through two press secretaries before he tapped the beloved Tony Snow and the admired Dana Perino.
Barack Obama's press secretary, Robert Gibbs, gets mixed reviews. He said that he talked to Powell and others about the job, but he executes it in his own eccentric way. This has some of the White House press corps up in arms and others giving him a passing grade. It is a classic case of where you sit.
The irritation begins with time-keeping. For Gibbs, but not Obama, nothing seems to go on time. The principal press briefing–the one seen on C-SPAN–is scheduled the night before, and reporters are e-mailed this along with the president's schedule for the next day. Sometimes, this schedule arrives after 8 p.m., making the planning of the next day difficult.
That is only the beginning of the time problem. Invariably, the briefing time slips the next day. Updates delay the beginning of the briefing by one or more hours. But that is not final: Gibbs may make his entrance 20 or more minutes late and without apology.
Then the fault lines within the press corps really open up. They have to do with who gets to ask questions and who is shunned—and this, in turn, has to do with who has assigned seats and sits in the first two rows.
There is ugliness here. Here is class warfare by employment, and here is an unwitting exposure of the White House's hand.
Clearly, television counts more than print–even dominant print outlets like The New York Times and The Washington Post. Likewise, it is revealed in Gibbs' world that the Associated Press trounces Reuters and Bloomberg. The foreign press gets very short schrift.
Gibbs' clear favorites are the television networks and a new crop of correspondents he got to know on the campaign trail. Correspondents like Chuck Todd of NBC are often engaged in a colloquium to which the three dozen or more other correspondents are just spectators.
If you are not one of the favored, you sit in one of the back rows with your hand in the air for favor of recognition to ask a question. It does not happen often.
There is much less criticism of the substance of Gibbs' answers than there is with his tardiness and favoritism. Gibbs will contentiously argue a point with a reporter, but he also will refreshingly admit when he does not have the answer. Also he does not indulge in dead-end referrals, such as "I refer you to the CIA," or "I refer you to the vice president's office." George W. Bush's first two press secretaries, Ari Fleischer and Scott McClellan, did this with exasperating frequency. Snow turned away wrath with philosophy and Perino handled heckling press with humor and efficiency.
Unfortunately, Gibbs' fascination with a small number of TV reporters has carried over to the full-blown press conferences. The chosen few are again the chosen few. The rest of us are right there with the plotted plants: to be seen but not heard.
Filed Under: King's Commentaries Tagged With: Ari Fleischer, Associated Press, Bloomberg, C-SPAN, Chuck Todd, Dana Perino, Dee Dee Myers, James Brady, Jerry terHorst, Jody Powell, Mike McCurry, NBC, President Clinton, President Ford, President George H.W. Bush, President George W. Bush, President Reagan, Reuters, Robert Gibbs, Scott McClellan, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Tony Show, White House daily press briefing, White House Press Secretary
Scotty, We Hardly Knew Ye
June 1, 2008 by White House Chronicle Leave a Comment
In my opinion, Scott McClellan was one of the worst White House press secretaries. He was often short with reporters and refused to say anything about anything that was not in his talking points. He did not seem to know what role the White House press corps played in the functioning of the government.
When McClellan did not want to answer a question, he would "refer" you to other agencies or to the vice president's office. In fact, McClellan had three standard evasive practices. The first was to refer the questioner to an executive agency, department or another branch , which he learned from his predecessor, Ari Fleischer. The second was to invoke the war on terror to shut down a line of questioning. The third, which he also learned from Fleischer, was to accuse the questioner of asking a "hypothetical" question. The third practice gave McClellan undue leverage because most questions embody a hypothesis.
I would sit in the press briefing room in the White House and wonder if McClellan really understood why we were there. He was argumentative, obtuse and sometimes scornful.
So it is with great surprise that we learn that McClellan was on our side, all the time yearning for us to ask him tougher questions. Give us a break.
During his tenure as press secretary, McClellan knew that the press corps, singly and collectively, had great doubts about the merits of the war and the disingenuousness of Vice President Cheney in trying to link al-Qaeda with Saddam Hussein. If McClellan was yearning for greater press coverage of the failures of the administration, he was awfully good at hiding his desire.
My colleagues are quite astounded that McClellan has written a kiss-and-tell book. But we wonder whether he wrote it more because he was eased out of his White House job than any deep feelings he might have had about high administration officials lying about Valerie Plame.
As news, McClellan's book is hot stuff. But as literature, apparently it is wanting. One reviewer has described it as "limp." Another has said it is inferior to former counter-terrorism czar Richard Clarke's memoir. Perhaps even inferior to former Treasury secretary Paul O'Neill's lifting of the veil on the White House.
The importance of McClellan's revelations, and why they dwarf the others', is because he was the public face of the administration. As a press secretary seeks to control what the world thinks of a president and his actions, whatever he says now, McClellan day after day defended the president, the war, the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, and the interrogation of prisoners by harsh means.
It is likely that media-savvy people like Karl Rove, with their friends in the press, picked up the disillusionment of reporters with McClellan. They realized that they needed someone who got along better with the press, knew what motivated them, and was less combative.
The White House got what it wanted in Tony Snow. Snow was a conservative and a journalist. He not only knew what the man in the Oval Office wanted but also what the irregulars in the briefing room needed. He understood that the press office has to operate efficiently—phone calls have to be returned and documents have to be provided. McClellan's press office was perceived to be erratic.
Snow's successor, Dana Perino, who was promoted with his blessing, is also well regarded by the press. She is well-informed and, on the whole, treats reporters civilly, although sometimes she will attack one. Unlike McClellan, she does not act as though the sole purpose of the press corps is to antagonize the briefer.
The smart money in the press corps is on Perino getting a job with a network as soon as she leaves her White House job. That is now a well-trodden path, blazed by George Stephanopoulos.
Filed Under: King's Commentaries Tagged With: Ari Fleischer, Dana Perino, Scott McClellan, Tony Snow, White House Press Secretary


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Patrick Bond (2009) Africans finally getting tough on climate damage. Eye on Civil Society column : -.
The announcement last week that the African Union leadership is now dedicated to addressing climate change via huge reparations demands may actually be useful, a development that struck many environmentalists as rather odd.
After all, the AU generally represents, as Zimbabwe finance minister Tendai Biti once put it, a 'trade union of dictators.' The AU climate team is led by Ethiopian strongman Meles Zenawi, who is also head of the New Partnership for Africa's Development and thus gets invited to G20 gatherings along with South Africa.
Sometimes seen merely as a US puppet – thanks to the disastrous, Washington-sponsored 2007 invasion of neighbouring Somalia – Zenawi is more complex. He was once a self-described Marxist (like Mbeki and a certain Durban municipal official) but is now a brutal tyrant whose forces killed scores of students and other democrats, and who has just imposed a ban on international funding of local civil society aimed to intimidate critics.
Quite ridiculous, isn't it, for Zenawi to lead the charge, reportedly demanding a minimum of $65 billion from the North by 2020?
Well, no, not considering how much Africa will be devastated. Even Zenawi's voice, and role in Copenhagen, are potentially crucial in the struggle ahead.
What a struggle it is. The most shocking probable outcome of climate change I've encountered is that 90% of the African peasantry will be out of business by 2100 due to drought, floods, extreme weather events, disease and political instability, according to UN experts.
There is no question that the people and corporations responsible for this damage should pay reparations. The amounts can be debated, for of course the $65 billion/year Zenawi reportedly wants for the continent is way low, given how many incalculably valuable species will be lost, how much devastation to individuals and communities is already underway, how many economies will falter, how much ecology is threatened.
Like the USA's 'Superfund' legislation or any other damages paid by corporations for messes made – such as Thor Chemicals' KZN mercury spillage – the point is to get a general estimate of clean-up costs and a rough estimate of damages done.
Flows of grant funding are required – hopefully via an accountable, fair, transparent system such as a Basic Income Grant for all residents of Africa – as climate compensation, instead of the kinds of corrupting finance that dictators or big corporations currently grab hold of and redirect to adverse ends.
Unfortunately, it is just such financing – the 'Clean Development Mechanism' (CDM) from the carbon markets – that our own South African negotiators most desire as a North-South funding flow.
Pretoria is supremely hypocritical, taking G77 climate leadership while simultaneously building hundreds of billions of rands worth of new coal and nuclear power plants, so as to continue providing the cheapest electricity in the world to huge mining and metals firms, whose profits escape to London and Melbourne.
Pretoria's climate strategy was, until May, developed by environment minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk (later demoted to tourism minister), who at a 2007 Washington meeting of the International Emissions Trading Association Forum insisted, "An all-encompassing global carbon market regime which includes all developed countries is the first and ultimate aim."
What is a carbon market regime and why is it counterproductive? Emissions trading allows corporations and governments generating greenhouse gases to seemingly reduce their net emissions. They can do this, thanks to the Kyoto Protocol, by trading for others' reductions (e.g. CDM projects in the Third World) or emissions rights (e.g. Eastern Europe's 'hot air' that followed the 1990s economic collapse).
Why do they do it? The pro-trading rationale is that once property rights are granted to polluters for their emissions, a 'cap' can be put on a country's or the world's total emissions (and then progressively lowered if there is political will). So as to minimize adverse economic impact, corporations can stay within the cap even by emitting way above it, by buying others' rights to pollute.
But the carbon market isn't working, for several reasons:
The idea of inventing a property right to pollute is effectively the privatization of the air;
the corporations most responsible for pollution and the World Bank – which is most responsible for fossil fuel financing – are behind the market, and can be expected to engage in systemic corruption to attract money into the market even if this prevents genuine emissions reductions.
Many of the offsetting projects – such as monocultural timber plantations, forest 'protection' and landfill methane-electricity projects – have devastating impacts on local communities and ecologies;
the price is haywire, having crashed by half in a short period in April 2006 and by two-thirds in 2008.
There is a serious potential for carbon markets to become an out-of-control, multi-trillion dollar speculative bubble, similar to exotic financial instruments associated with Enron's 2002 collapse (indeed, many Enron employees populate the carbon markets);
as a 'false solution' to climate change, carbon trading encourages merely small, incremental shifts, and thus distracts us from a wide range of radical changes we need to make in materials extraction, production, distribution, consumption and disposal; and
the idea of market solutions to market failure is an ideology that rarely makes sense, and especially not following the world's worst-ever financial market failure.
Recall that scientists insist an 80% cut in emissions will be necessary within four decades at most. To achieve this, carbon markets won't work, as the leading US climate scientist, James Hansen, remarked in opposition to Barack Obama's cap and trade scheme.
In short, carbon trading is a 'false solution'. Very different forms of climate finance are required at the Copenhagen Summit in December, including the North's payment of ecological debt. But Zenawi and others from Africa – especially civil society – will have to work much harder to put climate compensation on the agenda, because carbon trading is now at the heart of Copenhagen negotiations.
Founded in October 2004, the Durban Group for Climate Justice is the main civil society network explicitly fighting carbon trading. Says one of our gurus, UKZN honorary professor Dennis Brutus, "My own view is that a corrupt deal is being concocted in Copenhagen with the active collaboration of NGOs who have been bought off by the corporations, especially oil and transport. They may even be well-intentioned but they are barking up the wrong tree."
Instead of a bad deal, Brutus recommends that we all 'seattle Copenhagen', i.e. the insiders like Zenawi and others in the AU work with the civil society outsiders to prevent the North from doing a deal in their interests, against Africa's. A decade ago, that formula stopped the World Trade Organisation's Millennial Round from succeeding in Seattle.
To seattle Copenhagen would entail civil society protesting outside and African governments working for Africans' interest inside, to halt a dirty deal that makes matters worse. Even with less than 100 days to go, Brutus insists its feasible, and would then allow us to move on to the real emissions reduction and alternative energy and production systems the world desperately needs.
(Patrick Bond is co-editor of the UKZN Press book Climate Change, Carbon Trading and Civil Society: Negative Returns on South African Investments.)
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The Viofo A129 DUO is Viofo's new dual channel dash camera. It supports 1080p @ 30fps on both front and rear camera. Supports 1080p @ 60 while just the front camera is active. Front and rear camera have the Sony Starvis IMX291 image sensor for excellent night quality. You can now capture what's going on both in front and rear of your vehicle at a great price.
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The global Oil Industry Pressure Pump market is valued at million US$ in 2018 is expected to reach million US$ by the end of 2025, growing at a CAGR of during 2019-2025.
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Do you consider yourself a fashionista? Or are you not so fashionable? No matter which one you are, you can always learn about the ever-changing fashion world and what's going to be big in the upcoming seasons. The following article contains tips to keep you looking your best.
The purse you choose should complement the outfit that you wear, plus any additional bags that your must carry with you. Your purse needs to match the briefcase you carry if both are required for the same occasion. Remember also to never use more than two types of bags at the same time.
There are so many options available in terms of hair accessories. You can purchase something to hold your hair back, pretty bows that will ramp up the effect of any outfit and more. Having some different types of accessories around is a smart move for the fashion-conscious person. To get an athletic look, incorporate a ponytail into your style. Choose fancier hair accessories to match fancier outfits.
Drying your hair off with a basic bath towel may cause your hair to frizz up, so go with another drying option. This will break hair and cause more episodes of frizzing. Try wrapping it in the towel and pushing it to absorb the moisture instead. Afterwards, brush the hair gently.
If you are overweight and want to look skinnier, wear a blouse in black or a very dark color over a dark-colored skirt. These colors disguise your body shape and make bulges less noticeable. Consider skirts featuring elastic waistbands for the ultimate in comfort.
Clean out the closet. You might think that having more clothes means you have more choices, but this is not always the case. When your closet is packed with choices, your fashion sense can become confused. It is time to toss or give away anything that you have not worn in the last year, as well as items that no longer fit well. Dozens of items in long dead styles are far less useful than a few classic pieces that are elegant and well fitting.
Pay no attention to the old adage stating that wearing white any later than Labor Day is a no-no. There is no hard and fast rule on this topic; wear what makes you look good. If you look fabulous in white, wear it any time of the year. No one is going to say anything to you about it.
Whether you consider fashion a hobby or you are not very familiar with it, there will always be more to learn. Apply the tips laid out here in order to stay up-to-date with fashion and always look wonderful.


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The Economic Warfare Division (E.W.D.) was a division of the Admiralty Naval Staff established during world war two it was in operation from September 1939 to July 1945.[1] The staff division was administered by the Director of Economic Warfare Division.[2]
The division was first established in 1939 [3] its responsibilities involved formulating strategies in relation to Economic Warfare and devising plans in order to implement effective economic blockading of Germany. The division worked in liaison with the Ministry of Economic Warfare. It was in operation throughout the second world war and by 1946 it was abolished.[4] The division was administered by the Director Economic Warfare.
Directors of Economic Warfare Division
Captain O. E. Halifax, 1 September, 1939 - October 1944.[5]
↑ Admiralty, Great Britain (October 1944). "Admiralty:Naval Staff Divisions". Navy List Quarterly. London, Great Britain: HM Stationery Office. p. 2122.
↑ Admiralty, Great Britain (March 1940). "Admiralty:Naval Staff Divisions". Navy List. London England: HM Stationery Office. p. 607.
↑ Admiralty, Great Britain (July 1946). "Admiralty:Divisions of the Naval Staff". Navy List. London, England: HM Stationery Office. pp. 1731–1738.
↑ Navy List October 1944. p.2122.
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TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras — Six guards, 800 prisoners, one set of keys. The numbers spelled disaster when fire tore through a prison and 355 people died, many of them men who had never been convicted of a crime.
The deadliest prison blaze in a century is exposing just how deep corruption and confusion go in Honduras, a small Central American country with the world's highest murder rate.
Prisoners' scorched bodies arrived in the state capital of Tegucigalpa on Thursday for identification, which authorities said could take weeks. Dozens of family members gathered outside the morgue wearing surgical masks against the strong smell as police called out the names of the less-charred bodies they could identify.
Most relatives said they didn't believe the official version explaining the tragedy, that a prisoner set a mattress on fire after threatening late Tuesday night to burn down the farm prison 56 miles (90 kilometers) north of Tegucigalpa. Honduras had been the site of two other major prison fires in the last 10 years. Government officials were convicted in one that killed 69 people in 2003.
"Those who lock up the prisoners are in charge of their welfare. Why couldn't they open the doors?" asked a weeping Manuela Alvardo, 69, who lost her 34-year-old son in the fire. He was to finish serving his murder sentence in May. "It couldn't have been a mattress fire. This guy wasn't alone. He was in a crowd. They wouldn't have allowed that to happen, they would have put out the fire."
Such is Honduras, which the U.N. recently determined suffered a murder rate of 82 homicides per 100,000, almost five times higher than Mexico. The U.S. recently pulled its Peace Corps workers from the country for security reasons, and has sent a special envoy to help the country deal with its high crime rate, much of it related to street gangs and drug trafficking.
Howard Berman, then-chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs, last fall questioned U.S. aid to Honduras when human rights abuses involving security forces "reached a distressing pitch." The U.S. State Department has criticized the Honduran government for harsh prison conditions, citing severe overcrowding, malnutrition and lack of adequate sanitation.
"The most chilling aspect of this rather gruesome set of problems is that U.S. government assistance is flowing into the thick of it," Berman wrote to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Honduran authorities said they are still investigating other causes of the fire, including that it could have been set in collusion with guards to stage a prison break.
"All of this isn't confirmed, but we're looking into it," said attorney general's spokesman Melvin Duarte said.
Elver Madrid, director of intelligence for Honduran national police, told The Associated Press outside the prison that inmates have told investigators that the fire started with a fight inside a prison barracks over a mattress.
One prisoner threatened to burn the mattress if the other didn't hand it over, and then he set it alight, according to the prisoner accounts, Madrid said. He said matches were readily available inside the prison.
Madrid said his office currently considered this to be the most credible scenario about the start of the fire.
Survivors told horrific tales of climbing walls to break the sheet metal roofing to escape, only to see prisoners in other cell blocks being burned alive above. Inmates were found stuck to the roofing, their bodies fused to the metal.
From the time firefighters received a call shortly before 11 p.m. local time, the rescue was marred by human error and conditions that made the prison ripe for catastrophe.
A Honduran government report obtained by The Associated Press said 57 percent of the inmates at the Comayagua farm prison north of the Central American country's capital were either awaiting trial or being held as suspected gang members.
On any given day there were about 800 inmates in a facility built for 500. There were only 51 guards by day and just 12 at night. Guards who were on duty that night told the AP that there were only six on duty, four who never left their watch towers outside and two inside who would have been charged with evacuating 852 people.
Honduras prisons even before the massive fire were plagued with human rights violations, according to the U.S. State Department, the United Nations and human rights organizations.
Nationwide, more than half of the 11,000 inmates in the country's 24 prisons are awaiting trial, as yet unconvicted. Every prison is crammed with more people than it was built for, and there's rarely enough food. Guards beat and torture prisoners, and gangs control the facilities, taking advantage of staffing ratios that on any given day amount to one guard for every 65 prisoners.
At Comayagua, prisoners supported themselves, growing corn and beans, and raising fish and chicken, on the 36 acres of farmland surrounding the facility.
The records show Comayagua authorities routinely confiscated marijuana and crack, handmade weapons and cell phones.
Only one of the guards held all the keys to the prison's doors on the night of the fire, said Fidel Tejeda, a guard at the prison for 14 years, told The Associated Press.
Tejeda was in one of the towers and fired two shots as a warning to the other guards when he first saw flames at about 10:50 p.m., he said as he stood in uniform outside the prison Thursday morning, rifle in hand. He said prison rules prevented him from leaving his post to help with the rescue.
"It would be a criminal act," he said.
Tejeda said firefighters took about half an hour to arrive.
Miguel Angel Lopez, a guard who was on duty inside the prison, separately told the AP that he had called the fire department as soon as he saw there was a fire, but confirmed that crews were not inside for 30 minutes. He said he couldn't explain the delay.
Firefighters said the guards wouldn't allow them in because they thought they had a prison break.
National prison system director Danilo Orellana declined to comment on the supervision or the crowded conditions in Comayagua. He referred an AP reporter to the commander of the prison police, who said comment would have to come from his public affairs office, which did not respond to an AP request.
Inside the prison, charred walls and debris marked the path of the fire, which burned through six barracks that had been crammed with 70 to 105 inmates each in four-level bunk beds.
The frantic inmate who started the fire left a cell phone message with the state governor, Paola Castro, who had once worked at the facility. Castro said Thursday that she had erased the message and didn't know the identity of the prisoner.
Fifteen minutes away from the prison, the U.S. military's Southern Command operates Joint Task Force Bravo, where major search and rescue teams and fire squads are on standby. Honduran officials never requested help, and the U.S. personnel were never dispatched.
On Thursday, officials continued their investigation at the prison, where murals of Catholic saints, Jesus Christ and psalms stand out in an otherwise miserable scene. Two palm trees flank the front entrance where a sign reads: "Let there be justice, even if the world perishes."
Mendoza reported from Mexico City. Associated Press writers Albert Arce in Mexico City and Christine Armario and Marcos Aleman in Comayagua, Honduras, contributed to this report.


An ice-color-style color scheme for Sublime Text 2.
Checkout the proj from github: git clone https://github.com/chemdemo/IceWorld.git.
Remove all files or folder other than Dark.tmTheme and 'Light.tmTheme' files.
Move the IceWorld folder to Sublime Text 2 Packages folder and rename to IceWorld Color Scheme.
The editor used in the screenshots is Sublime Text 2 on Mac OSX with the font Source Code Pro.


Maintaining your restaurant's kitchen exhaust hood system is essential to creating a safe commercial kitchen space. A clean kitchen exhaust system will run efficiently and help keep both your employees and customers happy. Your restaurant kitchen exhaust system's job is to keep any greasy air coming off of your grille as a result of cooking from getting any further in your kitchen or dining area. A kitchen hood is installed above your cooking appliances so that it can take in the contaminated air being produced by your cooking operations and deposit it outdoors where it won't impact the cleanliness of your restaurant.
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Big data is the number one topic of our time, and our customers are seeing increased interest by corporations to translate the vast amounts of data into appealing visuals. Chinese agency Twinflag was recently asked by China News Service (CNS) for an interactive installation for their showroom in Beijing. Since CNS handles massive amounts of live data, the task was to create an application that allows visitors to experience global news in a simple, entertaining way.
Twinflag used Ventuz to design an interactive application that was linked to the CNS database. Using the globe as an icon for international communication, the application uses pop-ups for real-time news alerts that come directly from the CNS database and cover breaking news from many different areas. Visitors can see and interact with this data on a 98" multi-touch screen in the CNS showroom in Beijing. The application has been running since March 2016 and CNS is very happy with the outcome.


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Q: Unable to start the MySQL80 service on local computer I'm installing the MySQL8.0.18. While applying the configuration, whenever I press the execute it stops on starting the server and does not configure it. In the log tab, it says;
Beginning configuration step: Starting the server
Attempting to start service MySQL80...
Failed to start service MySQL80.
Waiting until a connection to MySQL Server 8.0.18 can be established (with a maximum of 10 attempts)...
Retry 1: Attempting to connect to Mysql@localhost:3306 with user root with no password...
MySQL error 1042: Unable to connect to any of the specified MySQL hosts.
Waiting 5 seconds before the next connection attempt...
Retry 2: Attempting to connect to Mysql@localhost:3306 with user root with no password...
MySQL error 1042: Unable to connect to any of the specified MySQL hosts.
Waiting 5 seconds before the next connection attempt...
Retry 3: Attempting to connect to Mysql@localhost:3306 with user root with no password...
MySQL error 1042: Unable to connect to any of the specified MySQL hosts.
Waiting 5 seconds before the next connection attempt...
Retry 4: Attempting to connect to Mysql@localhost:3306 with user root with no password...
MySQL error 1042: Unable to connect to any of the specified MySQL hosts.
Waiting 5 seconds before the next connection attempt...
Retry 5: Attempting to connect to Mysql@localhost:3306 with user root with no password...
MySQL error 1042: Unable to connect to any of the specified MySQL hosts.
Waiting 5 seconds before the next connection attempt...
Retry 6: Attempting to connect to Mysql@localhost:3306 with user root with no password...
MySQL error 1042: Unable to connect to any of the specified MySQL hosts.
Waiting 5 seconds before the next connection attempt...
Retry 7: Attempting to connect to Mysql@localhost:3306 with user root with no password...
MySQL error 1042: Unable to connect to any of the specified MySQL hosts.
Waiting 5 seconds before the next connection attempt...
Retry 8: Attempting to connect to Mysql@localhost:3306 with user root with no password...
MySQL error 1042: Unable to connect to any of the specified MySQL hosts.
Waiting 5 seconds before the next connection attempt...
Retry 9: Attempting to connect to Mysql@localhost:3306 with user root with no password...
MySQL error 1042: Unable to connect to any of the specified MySQL hosts.
Waiting 5 seconds before the next connection attempt...
Retry 10: Attempting to connect to Mysql@localhost:3306 with user root with no password...
MySQL error 1042: Unable to connect to any of the specified MySQL hosts.
Failed to connect to MySQL Server 8.0.18 after 10 attempts.
Ended configuration step: Starting the server

I don't know if its the location error or something because I saved my setup in E:\setups\mySQL\setup. It gives the error shown in the snapshot.
I tried to solve it according to the first answer here but it doesn't seem to help.

I tried to reinstall it but it still gives the same error somehow. what should I do?

A: Well, Error 2 in MySQL simply arises due to missing file or wrong location. Probably the path of the service you are trying to run is wrong or missing.

Here are some reference of the same problem

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*windows could not start the MySQL. service on local computer. Error 2 : The system cannot find the file specified

*MySql service Error 2: the system cannot find the file specified

*Could not start the MySQL service on Local Computer. Error 2 [FIXED]

*the MySQL service on local computer started and then stopped (Can also give this a look)

Possible Solution:
Check if the path to the service MySQL80 is proper and all the files exists with proper execution and network permissions. If nothing works, you can always use a different version to see if it is working there and if it does, report a bug in the new version.

A: I don't know,if we have the same Mysql program design,i'am using  the latest version 8.0.26.Try this:
Open your sql editor->go to navigator part left of the screen ->Inside -Instance- select Startup/Shutdown .
Then click on -Start server -button.
If didn't work ,or the program  was crashed, go to windows search tool and type -Services- then search about  Mysql service ,then click -start- it should be closed....
Hope this work..

A: I ran into the same problem.Here's how I resolved it.

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*Win+R

*input"services.msc", then click "Enter"

*find the MySQL service, right click, choose the "attribute" option

*choose the "log in" option, then choose "Local System Account"
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I hope that solves your problem.

A: Go to "C:\ProgramData\MySQL". You'll find a list of archived my.ini files.
Use one to replace the current my.ini file located inside "C:\ProgramData\MySQL\MySQL Server xx.0"


What do I do when I'm struck by the wind and the waves of worry in my life, when I worry about money or my job or the people whom I love? Jesus gives us the answer to worry in our lives and the answer to what we should do for Lent. What am I looking at? Who am I looking at?