Having spent an unforgettable few days in Budapest celebrating, partying and obviously learning it was time to bundle into the van and follow the Danube north to Vienna. This was to be Charlie and Jake's maiden voyage of our grand tour and seeing their excited faces filling up my rear view mirror was a nice change of scenery. We burst onto the motorway full of life, with a new collection of music and new company adding to the joy of road tripping, and to begin with the van seemed to be running like a dream despite the previous legs gear issues. This is a state that did not last long.
A breakdown on the trip was inevitable, the scale of the setback up in the air. A tyre is easy to change, overheating was a possibility but no major drama and the simple air-cooled engine doesn't require a rocket scientist to maintain. A transmission issue, such as a hole in the gear box was one of the worst-case scenarios, one that would completely immobilise the van and entail a large mechanics bill. And this is what happened. As annoying as losing out home for a week was it was the drawn-out death of the gearbox that was most frustrating. Selecting gears became harder and harder throughout the final voyage up to Vienna, inciting a lot of road rage on the way until eventually it became impossible. Trying to get into a gear just wasn't happening, and as much as I wiggled the stick about there was no hope, which led to angrier wiggling of the stick and a plethora of fowl language. We couldn't even push the van into a free car park or move it in anyway, we just had to pack our things and search for a home for the night. In retrospect, the fact I coaxed the van into the car park of the national stadium was a minor miracle. Utilising the final gear left we crawled all the way from the motorway junction to the stadium in third , which definitely didn't do much for the clutch's health. There is no good place to break down but doing so in Vienna really rubbed salt into the wounds. The price was going to be extortionate, an apartment for a few nights would be as well and the fact the van was sent to a Porsche garage didn't help. Although there was a silver lining as Ferdinand Porsche, who was Austrian, played a vital role in creating the VW van legacy so there was some sweet circularity I could chuckle at. It was a sad moment ringing up the insurance company to call in the death and arrange a tow truck, and even sadder seeing the van be taken away. Luckily, the chaps were on hand to cheer me up. As the language barrier created some issues with the tow truck locating us we had a lot of time to kill, which was effectively done so by frisbee golf. Using our surroundings, we created a car park course, using anything from trees to street lamps to map out the 'holes' and we spent hours flinging the disc about until nigh time fell. Once the truck had arrived and hooked up Fanny we were rendered homeless, and as the van was rolled out we began the long walk to the Airbnb we had to book as a replacement. What had served as our home and transport for the last month was now being towed to a garage and, not to be to overdramatic, it felt losing a child (not that I've ever lost a child). A bond between someone and their car is like no other, you discover their personalities and character and take so much joy from them, so to see them crippled is a sad moment, and one any owner dreads. But the show had to go on, so we got our stuff, made it to our flat and rinsed the complimentary wine given to us. As with anything in life, there are going to be ups and downs and road tripping is no exception, and this down was the one of the lowest we had, and an annoying one to sort out over the following days in Vienna.
That is a TOTAL BUMMER man! Despite your road rage and, what I assume, were several "F" bombs, you have to keep in mind that this is all part of the bigger adventure!
It was a complete nightmare, as was the mission to get it repaired. Looking back now though it's just a good story and part of the fun of having an old van!
It is interesting reading about your adventures as you travel. I can certainly identify with the trouble an old vehicle can give from time to time. Thanks for checking out what I write, and I'm glad you enjoy some of what I write. I appreciate it.
It is interesting reading of your adventures as you travel. I can certainly identify with the trouble an old vehicle can give from time to time. Which can be funny, and maybe not so funny.
Thanks for checking out a recent post . I am glad you enjoyed it.
Thanks for the comment, it's much appreciate. The breakdown wasn't so funny at the time but it's an adventure I can look back on and laugh about!
This was my first venture onto your blog, and not the story I'd have preferred to read. I day dream about being footloose and fancy free and traveling. That I have never 'camped' means my rosy glasses are firmly in place as to just how fancy free it would be. Hope to read happier posts in the future.


All GROSSMANN machines are adapted to individual customer requests, additional versions apart from the standard model are possible.
Baking plate size: 200 mm in diameter max.
Baking plate size: 215 mm in diameter max.
For more than 60 years, company GROSSMANN has been constructing, building and selling Wafer Baking Machines in Germany, Europe and throughout the whole world – approx. 90 % of the machines are intended for export. It all started with Hubert Großmann (1917 – 2000), a skilled machine manufacturer who founded the company.
After World War II he left his home in the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) together with his wife and two small children in order to set up his own business in western Germany. His seed money was one dispatch case filled with tools and his head full of good ideas. He tried this and that and among other things he also tried to sell ice-cream. In the post-war era, however, it was hard to get hold of the required ice-cream cones. Hence he built a hand baking device he had constructed himself and started producing his own ice-cream cones. Surprisingly, other bakers asked him more and more often to build similar devices for them and soon he was able to go into "serial production". It was the year 1950 in a small place called Fredeburg, in a region in North-Rhine-Westphalia called Sauerland – and the beginning of GROSSMANN Wafer Baking Installations.
While the first Baking Machine still fitted into the trunk of a passenger car, in the following years the machines kept getting larger, the range became wider and space for production became scarce.
After relocating several times, a new production site was built in Winterberg- Zueschen.
Following his formation as constructing engineer, the eldest son, Dieter Großmann, started working in his father's company at the beginning of the 1960s and they enlarged the company further. A few years later, the second son, Lutz Großmann, joined the company as well.
Meanwhile the company was exporting worldwide with increasing demand and the location in Zueschen became too small. At a distance of approx. 30 km, a larger production site was built at today's premises in Frankenberg/Eder. The relocation took place in 1981; at the same time GROSSMANN GmbH was founded. Hubert Großmann retired from the business operations and assigned the responsibility to his two sons.
For a long time now not only rolled ice-cream cones in all kinds of shapes are being produced with GROSSMANN Wafer Baking Machines but a multitude of products like, e.g. wafer rolls, wafer cups, fan-shaped wafers, toasted design wafers, round wafers, Brussels Waffles, wafer chips and so on.
Small and medium-sized producers are being supplied just as consumers from the big industry. The machines are being designed according to the customer's wishes and are subject to the latest technologies, qualified employees and long-term experience. Whether a round-table or an elongated construction, electrically or gas heated, here special machinery is being built by a professional and this is done with great passion and creative solutions.
Today GROSSMANN is one of the leading producers of Wafer Baking Machines in the world, still family-owned and currently run by the managing director Lutz Großmann.
See for yourself. We are looking forward to receiving your inquiry!


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Q: elasticsearch cloudformation yaml file not working Below is my yaml file for Elasticsearch template
AWSTemplateFormatVersion: 2010-09-09

Resources:
    ElasticSearchCluster:
        Type: AWS::Elasticsearch::Domain
        Properties:
            AccessPolicies:
                Version: '2012-10-17'
                Statement:
                - Effect: Allow
                  Principal:
                    AWS:
                    - arn:aws:iam::{NUMBER}:role/service-role/{role}
                    - arn:aws:iam::{NUMBER}:role/service-role/{role}
                  Action: 'es:*'
                  Resource: 'arn:aws:es:{RESTOFARN}*'
            DomainName: 'photos'
            ElasticsearchClusterConfig:
                InstanceType: 't3.small.elasticsearch'
            ElasticsearchVersion: '7.9'

I don't know why but I cannot go to the "NEXT" page when I specify with this template with error of The following resource types are not supported for resource import: AWS::Elasticsearch::Domain.
Is there something wrong in the yaml file?

A: AWS::Elasticsearch::Domain can't be imported. Only few resources support importing, and AWS::Elasticsearch::Domain is not one of them. You have to recreate entire cluster if you want to bring it under CFN control.
List of supported resources for import is here.

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Q: Performance of operator '==' with boolean variable? I guess this situation came across in every programmer,where we can use comparison operator '==',in my case situation is like this,a c++ pgm
code 1:This has been used in all files except constructor
if(a==10)
{
 //do something;
}

but i can do the same as above with the following way,
i set a bool variable to true when variable a becomes 10 in constructor itself,i.e
constructor_name()
{
 boolean variable_name=TRUE;//when a == 10;
}

then i use the following code in my all files instead of code 1,
code 3:
if(variable_name)
{
 //do same as first code
}

which is better for performance ,the code 1 or code 3.I hope i have illustrated my situation so than you can understand.Please help me.Thanks in advance.

A: You shouldn't micro-optimize. You will hardly notice any difference between your 2 version in performance (maybe you will save 1 CPU cycle), but it is not worth the time and effort, especially because nowadays CPUs are really fast.
Only optimize if you profile and find a bottleneck in your code.
Look at it this way, if you store the boolean variable in the class, it uses memory (1 byte) for maybe saving 1 CPU cycle. Depending on how often you create the class, that can scale up (even though the amount would still be ridiculously small). You maybe saved 1 cycle, but you lost 1 byte.
If you wrote this in production code, I am sure that others would find it confusing (I would), and wonder why you put a isTen boolean in the class, instead of just comparing the value using operator==.
Also, there may be a bug if you change a outisde of the constructor to 10, then isTen would still be false, but a is 10!

A: I found the below thing would make a difference,
consider variable a is an integer variable and it takes 4 bytes(assuming 4bytes for int),then compiler has to perform comparision of 4 bytes of memory where as a bool variable takes 1byte ,i guess this makes a differance in performance.


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Metro budget proposal could bring big changes to transit system
By Bob Barnard
Big changes could be coming to Metro after new General Manager Randy Clarke unveiled his first budget proposal.
WASHINGTON - Big changes could be coming to Metro after new General Manager Randy Clarke unveiled his first budget proposal.
The proposal includes simplifying the Metrorail fare structure for customers and eliminating peak fares, reports FOX 5's Bob Barnard. Fares would be raised for mid-to-long trips, and a low-income fare program would be added, Barnard says.
Meanwhile, the D.C. Council took another step toward offering free bus service to riders in the District. On Tuesday, the Council voted 13-0 to waive fares for Metrobus trips that originate in D.C. Under the plan, the free Metrobus rides would begin on July 1, 2023 and D.C. residents would receive a $100 monthly balance on a registered SmarTrip card in 2024.
You can read the full proposed budget online.
Metro customers can share their feedback on the budget proposal and other issues online or by participating in a community meeting on Wednesday, December 14, at 6 p.m. at Metro Headquarters.
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The Americana of New York
Stanley Turkel
Hotel history
The Americana of New York opened on September 25, 1962 as a 2,000-room convention hotel. It was constructed by brothers Laurence Tisch and Preston Tisch, co-owners of the Loews Corporation and was the first over 1,000-room hotel to be built in New York since the Waldorf Astoria in 1931. With 51 floors, it was acclaimed for many years in its advertising and by the media as the tallest hotel in the world, based on the number and height of its inhabited floors. The Americana was built, along with the New York Hilton facing Sixth Avenue on the next block, to serve the huge number of tourists that the 1964 New York World's Fair would bring, as well as the business and convention market. The hotel was also known in later years as the Americana Hotel, Americana New York and Loews Americana of New York.
On May 14, 1968, John Lennon and Paul McCartney held a press conference at the Americana to announce the formation of Apple Corps, their music label. The Americana also hosted the New York portion of the 1967 and 1968 Emmy Awards. The hotel's supper club, The Royal Box featured performances by Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Julie London, Peggy Lee, Liberace, Lena Horne, Sammy Davis, Jr., Paul Anka, Frank Sinatra and many more musical legends.
The hotel was built to the designs of architect Morris Lapidus with a two-story podium originally containing the lobby, five restaurants, ten ballrooms, a large convention hall, and "an acre of kitchens", with the hotel rooms in narrow slabs above. To achieve this, Lapidus employed three structural systems: floors 1 through 5 are steel-concrete composite columns, floors 5 through 29 are concrete shear walls, and 29 to 51 reinforced concrete columns. At the time of its completion, the building was the tallest concrete-framed structure in the city.
On July 21, 1972, American Airlines leased the Americana of New York from Loews, as well as the City Squire Motor Inn across the street, and the Americana Hotels in Bal Harbour, Florida, and San Juan, Puerto Rico, for a period of thirty years. American merged the hotels with their existing Sky Chefs Hotels chain, and marketed all the properties under the Americana Hotels brand. The hotel served as Democratic headquarters for the 1976 Democratic National Convention and 1980 Democratic National Convention. The hotel also hosted the 1974 NFL Draft.
The Americana of New York and the City Squire Motor Inn were sold to a partnership of Sheraton Hotels and the Equitable Life Assurance Society on January 24, 1979. The Americana was renamed the Sheraton Centre Hotel & Towers. Sheraton bought out Equitable's share in the hotel in 1990, freeing them to undertake a nearly $200 million renovation in 1991, when the hotel was renamed the Sheraton New York Hotel and Towers. Following the World Trade Center attacks of September 11, 2001, Lehman Brothers Investment Banking division temporarily converted the first-floor lounges, restaurants, and 665 guestrooms of the hotel into office space. Starwood Hotels (which had bought Sheraton in 1998) sold the hotel, along with 37 other properties, to Host Marriott for $4 Billion on November 14, 2005. The hotel continued to be managed by Sheraton, however, and was again renovated from 2011-2012, at a cost of $180 million, with the name shortened to Sheraton New York Hotel in 2012 and then changed to Sheraton New York Times Square Hotel in 2013.
The main block of accommodation is a tall thin bent slab form, angled towards the 52nd Street corner, emphasized by the horizontal striped façade of strip windows and yellow glazed brick spandrels. On the north side facing Sixth Avenue, a lower 25-story wing is placed at right angles to the bent slab, and so at a slight angle to the street, and includes the entrance and lobby in a two-story podium.
The dominant feature at ground level is the two story circular rotunda projecting from under the end of the bent wing on the 52nd street corner. An image of the original hotel in the 1960s can be found in the collection of the Museum of the City of New York. The sidewalk on all sides originally had striped paving at the slight angle of the entry and bent wing, effectively turning the Seventh Avenue sidewalk into a forecourt for the hotel.
The facades of the accommodation blocks are generally intact, but the podium levels were reclad in the 1991 renovation, replacing the varied, light 1960s details with Postmodern squared granite.
I once worked as Resident Manager of the Americana of New York. I lived on the 45th floor and was available at any hour of the night for any and all out-of-the-ordinary events. Inevitably, there were incidents that arose out of mechanical failures, unexpected guest behavior and/or employee shortcomings. I loved the excitement of the job and reported to General Manager Tom Troy, a veteran of the Statler Hotel Corporation.
Photo above in the Library of Congress, public domain. Photo by Gottscho, Samuel H. (Samuel Herman), 1875-1971, photographer Loew's Hotels, client
Stanley Turkel is a Virginia-based hotel consultant specializing in hotel-related expert witness cases and asset management. He was designated as the 2014 and 2015 Historian of the Year by Historic Hotels of America, the official program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. To order his books go to www.stanleyturkel.com and click on "books":
-"Great American Hoteliers: Pioneers of the Hotel Industry"
-"Built To Last: 100+ Year-Old Hotels in New York"
-"Built To Last: 100+ Year-Old Hotels East of the Mississippi"
-"Hotel Mavens: Lucius M. Boomer, George C. Boldt, Oscar of the Waldorf"
-"Great American Hoteliers Volume 2: Pioneers of the Hotel Industry"
-"Built To Last: 100+ Year Old Hotels West of the Mississippi"
-"Hotel Mavens Volume 2: Henry Morrison Flagler, Henry Bradley Plant, Carl Graham Fisher"


Brooks started her career as a dancer and would soon be trained by legendary dancer Ruth St. Denis and started dancing professionally with St. Denis in 1921 and later the 1925 Ziegfeld Follies. She then was noticed by Charlie Chaplin and the two had a torrid summer affair. Her 1925 film debut was in an unaccredited role IN the silent film titled "The Street of Forgotten Men." This lead her to playing the lead female with major actors of the time Like W. C. Fields and Adolphe Menjou. Her roles consisted mainly of silent light comedies and "flapper" films which the later she portrayed and was copied perfectly.
Brooks was known as a Party-Girl and her fashioned would be noticed by many, especially her hair and had one of the most copied "Bob" or Flapper haircut of the 1920's, she went on to become a very successful Silent Film actress in the movies and she also inspired the John H.
Striebel's "Dixie Dugan" newspaper comic strips. In her film Pandora's Box, she historically was the first screen Portrayal of a lesbian and is rumored to have had lesbian affairs in real life as well which was taboo at the time. Anyway, her role of Lulu is now regarded as one of the greatest performances in film history.
Around 1938 Brooks became disillusioned with Hollywood as the Talkies took over ( Some say she was Black-Listed do to her voice, Which was not a problem at all) she slipped into obscurity until the 1950s. Eventually she was re discovered and later became a noted film writer in her own right. However during the 1940s she teamed up with another dancer by the name of 'Barrett O'Shea' and formed a dance studio in Los Angeles with him (Barrett O'Shea dance studio) and published weekly dance articles ( A series of anecdotal advertisements actually) in local newspapers called "Hints For Dancing" which included dance Gossip and Tips on Music or dance Techniques. This kept her in the public eye for many years.
Brooks live mainly alone most of her life and died from a heart attack in 1985, after suffering from arthritis and emphysema for many, many years. She continues to this day to inspire interest by writers, film makers and musicians alike.


OLYMPIA - The prospect of a spring razor clam dig dimmed today when tests conducted earlier this week revealed that domoic acid levels at two ocean beaches still exceed the amount deemed safe for human consumption.
Although concentrations of the marine toxin continue to decline at Long Beach and Twin Harbors, some samples tested this week still exceed the state's health standard of 20 parts per million (ppm), said Dan Ayres, coastal shellfish manager for the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW).
Domoic acid levels at the state's other three razor clam beaches - Mocrocks, Copalis and Kalaloch - have continued to test well above the state standard and will likely remain closed until fall, Ayres said.
"There's still an outside chance of a spring opening - particularly at Long Beach - but it's going to be close," said Ayres, noting that no clam digging will be allowed after May when razor clams begin to spawn. "Basically it's turned into a race against time."
Under protocols established by the Washington Department of Health (DOH), domoic acid levels in all samples taken from a beach must test below 20 ppm for two consecutive weeks before WDFW can open a fishery.
At Long Beach, two of three samples collected in each of the past two weeks have tested below the threshold, but the third has exceeded it, Ayres said. At Twin Harbors, samples taken April 14 tested in the low- to mid-30s.
All Washington razor clam beaches have been closed to clam digging since October 2002, when prolific coastal algal blooms caused domoic acid levels to soar as high as 185 ppm in some areas. Similar conditions prompted season-long closures in 1991-92 and again in 1998-99 to protect human health.
Ingesting high levels of domoic acid can cause amnesic shellfish poisoning (ASP), producing vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal cramps, dizziness and a variety of other ailments. Extreme cases can result in death, although there have been no known fatalities from ASP in Washington state.
There is no antidote for ASP, and neither cooking nor freezing the clams lessens the toxicity. DOH, which has the responsibility for monitoring shellfish contamination, has assured the public that all commercially harvested razor clams and other commercial shellfish currently available in the marketplace have been subjected to rigorous testing and are safe for consumption.
Ayres said shellfish managers are well aware of the hardship caused by the season closure - both to recreational diggers and to coastal communities that rely on their business. Recreational clam digging can attract as many as 10,000 people to coastal beaches on a given day, generating more than $4.5 million in annual economic benefits for coastal communities.
In March, WDFW was invited by the U.S. House of Representatives Science Committee to travel to Washington D.C to provide testimony regarding the impacts these domoic acid outbreaks have on the small coastal communities in Washington State.
Although scientists have not found a way to control toxin-producing algae blooms, they are developing better methods for detecting when they have occurred. Since 1999, WDFW has been working with variety of federal, state and educational organizations through the Olympic Region Harmful Algal Bloom (ORHAB) partnership to develop an "early warning system" for marine toxin outbreaks.
The new monitoring system, which detects toxicity in coastal waters, helped to confirm indications of increasing domoic acid levels in clams at the start of the 2002-03 season.


I think it is really easy to be vegan with Maharashtrian cooking. Everyday sabjis that my mom makes are all vegan. Paneer was not at all known to us until I was in college. We bought 1 or 1.5 ltrs of milk everyday. If we had unexpected guests that day, we had nothing left even to have morning cup of tea. We did get small dollop of freshly churned butter with bhakari and one vati of homemade buttermilk everyday. This was all before 'Operation Milk Flood in India'. I remember it was very difficult to make any milk based desserts during summer due to scarcity of milk. But milk was available in good quantities during August/September during festivals. My grandma and mom both took great care of malai everyday, and took efforts to make homemade ghee and save for festivals.
Yesterday I saw an Indian family taking about 6 gallons of milk from supermarket and I wondered how do they use so much milk :) But again who am I to judge, right?
My day-to-day cooking is about 90-95% vegan. But occasionally I deviate to some lacto-vegetarian recipes like Kadhi-Khichadi and Buttermilk Spinach that I am going to share today. I just love spinach with tangy buttermilk that is thick in consistency. It takes just few minutes to prepare and comfort food is ready to enjoy with chapati, quinoa or rice. I have even tried making this with vegan yogurt and results were very comparable. So that is good option for vegans too. Let's move on to the recipe, shall we?
Mix 2 cups of water with yogurt and make buttermilk using immersion blender or wire whisk.
Add besan and mix thoroughly dissolving all the lumps.
Heat 1 tsp oil in heavy bottom vessel.
Add chopped spinach and saute. Add little salt and mix well, this will help to spinach to wilt faster.
Let it cook for few minutes. Now add red chili powder, little more salt, goda masala and jaggery. Stir well to mix.
Stir buttermilk and carefully pour in the cooking spinach.
Stir constantly as the buttermilk can curdle. Let it cook thoroughly.
If its too thick, you can add more water and mix.
Smash garlic and chop roughly. Remove stems of red chilies and break chilies in couple of pieces if they are too long.
Now heat remaining oil in a small kadhai, add cumin and mustard seeds, let them splutter. Add hing, turmeric powder and curry leaves. Add chopped garlic and red chilies. Let it sizzle for couple of minutes and pour over cooked sabji. Mix well and serve hot with hot chapati, quinoa or rice.
You can add 1/4 cup of cooked peanuts in while sauteing spinach.
You can add green chili paste instead of red chili powder.
I like thick consistency but you can adjust that with water as you like.
Next trip into Maharashtra, I will buy all these masalas that you use. Goda Masala seems to be adding a lot of flavour to the dish.
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New 'Ghostbusters' Trailer Shows the New Team in Action
That's not a mine. It's a gateway.
'Ghostbusters: Afterlife' Trailer: Bustin' Still Makes Us Feel Good
Check out those uniforms!
The Original 'Ghostbusters' Is Returning to Theaters For Its 35th Anniversary
They're still ready to believe you.
Paul Rudd Will Star in Jason Reitman's 'Ghostbusters'
The Hudson Valley's Paul Rudd will reportedly play a teacher in the new sequel to the original Bill Murray-Dan Aykroyd franchise.
Sigourney Weaver Will Return for 2020's 'Ghostbusters' Sequel
Weaver says it's going to be "crazy" reuniting with the original cast.
There's Already a First Teaser For Jason Reitman's 'Ghostbusters'
The movie doesn't come out for over a year — but you can watch the first trailer now.
Dan Aykroyd Says 'Ghostbusters 3' Script Is 'Being Written Now'
There's still a part for Bill Murray, too.


Nicknamed Revdi, Ravindra Jadeja, considered on December 6, 1988 in Navagam-Khed, is a direct left-arm standard bowler who is a more-than-profitable lower focus ask for batsman. Jadeja was a bit of the Under-19 gather that lost to Pakistan in the 2006 World Cup however finished champions in 2008 with him making a striking duty all through the opposition. In the 2008-09 five star season, Jadeja was wonderful for Saurashtra, completing the thumping down a few pins traces with 42 wickets and finishing sixth on the run-getters list with 739 runs.
Such an execution was hard to ignore and Jadeja was quickly fused into the Indian squad for the Sri Lanka ODIs in January 2009. He made his presentation in the last match of the course of action, scoring a fifty even as India lost. After his T20 make a big appearance that year, Jadeja went under criticism for his direct pound against England in the T20 WC in 2009 as an outcome of which India were discarded from the opposition. He was furthermore run out at a basic junction in the fifth ODI against Australia in Hyderabad, which India scarcely lost despite Sachin Tendulkar pulverizing 175. In any case, his officer MS Dhoni reinforced him and he returned unequivocally in the going with ODI course of action against Sri Lanka, enrolling a four-wicket pull in the third ODI in Cuttack.
He was picked by the Rajasthan foundation and played a couple of blinders drop down the demand in the inaugural IPL in 2008. He saved his best for the Ranji season. With the World Cup 2011 in sight, Jadeja got various chances in the ODI position as he was the principle decent option open in the 'all-rounders' characterization. He performed dependably with the ball, yet his shows with the bat were no place close to India's cravings and his batting dissatisfactions provoked him being dropped from the World Cup squad.
Regardless, he returned to the ODI side after a productive IPL season and lauded his bounce back preoccupation with a phenomenal pound on September 9, 2011, scoring a fine 78 after a top-ask for breakdown in the third ODI at The Oval against England.
Jadeja has reliably been Dhoni's go-to man when he anticipated that would break an association and the left-armer has passed on the stock on various occasions. His region gives Dhoni the extra cushion of playing an additional batsman if vital.
He was with Kochi Tuskers Kerala in the 2011 arrival of the IPL and after that was obtained for a dumbfounding 2 million USD by Chennai in. His attempts in the 2012-13 Ranji Trophy, in the midst of which he also transformed into the primary player to make three triple several years, earned him a Test ring against the meeting English gathering in 2012 in the Nagpur Test. The Saurashtrian, continued with his extraordinary structure in the going with ODI course of action against England, getting nine wickets besides backing it up with 128 continues running with the bat, which fused a match portraying 61 not out in Kochi. In the home Test plan against Australia in 2013, he was jumped at the chance to Pragyan Ojha for his all around limits.
He made his ODI make a big appearance against Sri Lanka on 8 February 2009 and scored an unbeaten 60 off 77 balls in that match. In any case, his Test make a big appearance came practically four years afterward, on 13 December 2012, against England at Nagpur. He was obtained for $2 million by the Chennai Super Kings at the 2012 IPL Players Auction. He was acquired by the Gujarat Lions in the 2016 IPL Players Auction for RS 9.5 crores, after his past gathering Chennai Super Kings was restricted from the IPL for 2 seasons.


Ok, we are keeping in $day, the nr. of current day 1 to 7. We use echo $day to see what's the nr. of today. Just for testing purposes. We use also || operator which means "or". So if $day is equal to 7 or $day is equal to 6 that we have a weekend, else we don't have a weekend.
The difference with elseif is that we can say exactly for which case we should handle the situation. We can add as many elseif's we need. And keep on else just something as an "not known" message.
Switch is an elegant alternative to elseif, but we must see the differences between them. After each commands in a case branch we need to use break. Also in elseif we can have a message on else branch if nothing was found that met our conditions. Personally I didn't use Switch too much, but is good to know how to use it.
This is the end of my tutorial. Next I will present "include" and "require" to important functions of PHP. I hope you enjoy this. Also always any questions or suggestions are welcomed. Thanks for reading!
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Touken Ranbu Warriors
Written by Eoghan O'Connell on 24 May 2022
Distributor Koei Tecmo • Price £49.99
I had never heard of the Touken Ranbu franchise before I was given this game to review. It originated as a mobile game in 2015 and has since been adapted into anime series, stage plays, a live-action film and now a Warriors game. Speaking of Warriors games, I confess that my interactions with the franchise have been rather limited. I do distinctly remember playing one of the Dynasty Warriors games on PS2 when I was younger but my biggest experience has actually come from the two Dragon Quest Heroes games which I enjoyed quite a bit due to the clever implementation of characters and mechanics from the Dragon Quest series. Having established all that, let's take a look at Touken Ranbu Warriors.
Set initially in 2205, 15 Touken Danshi, living incarnations of swords, live at their home, referred to as the honmaru, and they are waiting for the return of their master. However, they are contacted by the Government of the Time to go back in the past, specifically to the Sengoku Period of Japan, to fight against the History Retrograde Army, typically referred to as HRA. The HRA is working to interfere in past events so that a new timeline is established.
While there is a helpful glossary provided in the game to cover terms as well as provide a synopsis for the characters, I couldn't help but feel that I was missing key parts of information. In particular, I never understood why the HRA wanted to change history and what their ultimate goal was. Due to that, as well as the fact that we don't get enough time with each character to fully flesh them out, I couldn't invest myself in the story which felt like we were going from battle to battle aimlessly. I'm sure Touken Danshi fans will get much more out of the story of the game than I did but I can also confidently say that, if you're unfamiliar with the Touken Danshi franchise, this game isn't a good introduction to the series.
If you're familiar with the Warriors games, you probably have a good idea of what to expect from gameplay. As usual, you'll be fighting against hundreds upon hundreds of weak enemies with some considerably stronger leaders/commanders mixed in. I've heard people refer to the Warriors games as "Button Mashers" and while I think it's a bit harsh to reduce the series to that, I also completely understand where they're coming from. You have a standard attack, heavy attack and dodge but you can also equip four special techniques that can be used in battle as well. Additionally, you charge a meter as you inflict damage and, once charged, you can unleash a special attack which wipes out hordes of enemies. You also pick a partner to go into battle with you and they have a separate meter that is also filled by either doing a combo attack which is on cooldown or by inflicting damage. Once this meter has been filled, you can activate a mode where you and your partner fight together inflicting high damage and typically stunning the enemy with each attack. Finally, once the bar has depleted, both you and your partner do a combined special attack which inflicts even more damage than your normal one. It's not a particularly deep combat system but it is passable.
The missions each confine you to a relatively small map and task you with completing a goal within the time limit while avoiding any possible fail conditions. These goals are typically to defeat specific leaders/commanders but they do try to add some variety to these missions by introducing escort missions, defense missions and stealth missions. The stealth missions in particular are clumsy since it's clear that the game isn't designed with them in mind but I do appreciate the attempt. It's also important to note that many of these missions will also have a hidden, secret goal and completing the mission without fulfilling these will result in failure. It's not typically hard to figure out what the secret goal is since you can usually achieve these by exploring the map and listening to the characters.
Speaking of difficulty, this is an area where I have a major issue with the game. It's far, far too easy. As soon as I began playing the game, I could feel that there was something wrong with the difficulty. I quickly set the difficulty to hard but the game still proved to be terribly easy. I would end up throwing myself relentlessly at opponents as I realised that they could do little to threaten me. Having finished the game now, I did fail a couple of missions due to accidently triggering a fail condition but not once did I ever fall in battle.
Between missions, the Touken Danshi reside at the honmaru and you are able to do a couple of things there. First off, you can replay missions that you've already completed, apparently in order to grind experience and resources. At the same time, the honmaru is divided into five rooms and you are able to station Touken Danshi within these rooms in order to develop the honmaru and earn experience and resources. Developing the honmaru is very much a hands off task as it develops merely by stationing Touken Danshi and initially grants you access to more rooms and slots to fill. However, it's purpose quickly shifts to merely introducing new stock in the shop which, while helpful, is very unexciting. You can also spend resources to develop each Touken Danshi via a skill tree and each Touken Danshi is disappointingly similar when it comes to gameplay with hardly any differences. Finally, you have the mini-games which occur after each mission and are, thankfully, optional. Each room has different mini-games which vary depending on whether you have one or two Touken Danshi stationed there. These mini-games are incredibly simple and have absolutely no depth whatsoever, merely serving to give the player small bonuses based on their performance and to pad out the game time.
Graphically, the game is a mixed bag. On one hand, the character models themselves are decently detailed and some of the animations in battle are wonderfully over the top and cleanly animated. However, the environments themselves are quite drab and basic looking and the animation during cutscenes is stiff with some very awkward movement. There is also a startling lack of enemy variety with most of the enemies being either basic demon goons or insectoid looking creatures.
I do confess that I actually do quite like the soundtrack to this game. The battle music captures the historical setting quite well and is quite exciting while the rest of the music, barring the look at this goofy situation music which I can't stand, is also very well composed. The voice acting is restricted to Japanese and most of the cast give decent if not particularly memorable performances but I do deplore the lack of subtitles during battle intros and special moves. It also doesn't help that character conversations in battle are relegated to a small section of the corner and are easy to miss during battle where the various sounds of enemies can drown out the voices before you realise to look up at the subtitles.
I played this game on PC and have a few notes to make on that front. Koei Tecmo is not known for making particularly good PC ports and, when I started the game, I was quite shocked to see that it had opened in windowed mode and had no options on the main menu. Thankfully, once you start a new game and access the main menu there, you can access options and I was able to set it to 1440p borderless. However, there is one single graphical preset of low, medium or high and the game is locked to 60fps. There are also some pre-rendered cutscenes that seem to be rendered at a much lower frame rate which I found distracting to watch. With regards to any other PC issues, I did experience one crash which forced me to replay a battle and one cutscene had an audio hiccup where the buzzing sound of a slain insectoid opponent continued to play but I had no other problems.
If you're a fan of the Touken Ranbu series and you enjoy the Warriors games than you'll get much more out of this game than I did. However, I ultimately found Touken Ranbu Warriors to be quite a dull and uninspired game and, while it's certainly not terrible, I would strongly recommend against people unfamiliar with Touken Ranbu picking it up.
Touken Ranbu and Warriors fans may like Touken Ranbu Warriors but others should look elsewhere.
About Eoghan O'Connell
Going by the online persona Immortallium, I'm a YouTuber as well as a Manga, Anime and Video Game enthusiast.
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BSNL's Masterly Gameplan To Counter Jio: Free Lifetime Voice Calls & Cheaper Than Jio Data Tariffs
State run BSNL has decided to take on the tsunami unleashed by Reliance Jio in a massive way. Igniting a new level of telecom war, BSNL has decided to offer free lifetime voice calls for all their customers.
However, unlike Jio's free voice calls, which are limited to only 4G users, BSNL's free voice calls are targeted for 2G and 3G customers, which sets the stage on fire, when it comes to tariff war.
Besides,BSNL is also planning to offer cheaper data than Reliance Jio: as per reports coming in, data offered by BSNL would be atleast Rs 2-4 cheaper than what Jio is offering.
These plans would be launched from January, 2017, and telecom circle in India is right now abuzz with the possibilities.
This proves that BSNL is keeping a tab on the pulse of the market, and is not accepting Jio's unchallenged dominance.
BSNL chairman and managing director Anupam Shrivastava said, "We are closely observing the market as well as Jio's performance. We will also come up with lifetime free-voice plans from the new year as part of fresh offerings,"
BSNL has devised the plans in such a manner that their customers can now pay less than Rs 149 per month, which is the entry level plan for Jio customers on 4G network.
By unveiling such dirt cheap plans, that too for 2G and 3G customers, BSNL has directly challenged Jio's much hyped low cost free voice calls plans, and is all set to attract a new set of customers who are still years away from 4G network.
How Will BSNL Provide Free Voice Calls?
There is a catch in BSNL's newest salvo, though; and strategy wise, it is a master-stroke.
The new free lifetime voice calls and cheap data would be rolled out only for those customers who have installed BSNL's broadband services at home; and the free voice calls would be routed via home broadband connection and used for providing free mobile calls.
Earlier this month, BSNL has offered unlimited broadband at Rs 249 per month, and this new plan perfectly compliments the previous offer.
Hence, the free calls would be data based, almost like VoLTE based free voice calls which Jio offers.
But how can BSNL offer consistent voice calls, supported by 2G network is the question, which no one has any answer.
BSNL's Broadband Experience: A Personal Experience
I have been using BSNL's broadband connection for the last few weeks, and based on the experience of data speed and connectivity, it is clear that a lot needs to be achieved.
Based on phone lines, the connection suddenly disappears when there is a storm or high winds or rain, and it is restored only when the wind stops.
Speed is more or less in the range of 1-2 Mbps, although the plan promises 4 Mbps speed, and as per the technician who had come to install the broadband, 1-2 Mbps is 'realistic expectations' from BSNL, under the current infrastructure.
Right now, a heavily funded 'startup' like Jio is not able to provide a seamless experience for their users as 10 crore calls are dropped daily on its network.
The customer is not concerned whether it's a telecom war or a technical issue: the service being experienced is bad. No matter if the calls are free; if the customer is not able to even talk, then what is the use of such free and cheap offers.
Having said that, it is indeed doubtful how BSNL is going to keep up the promises, and deliver seamless connectivity on the backbone of their crumbling network.
Earth shattering promises should be backed by a even better infrastructure and a mechanism to deliver those promises.
If you are a BSNL broadband user, then do share your feedback and views on their newest promise to deliver free voice calls, by commenting right here.
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Q: How to arrange dataset of species list from most abundant species to least abundant species I have a dataset that looks something like the below. Is there a line of code in R to arrange the different species from most abundant (occurs the most in the column) to least abundant? Thank you!
df <- tibble::tribble(
  ~name,
  "Species A",
  "Species A",
  "Species B",
  "Species C",
  "Species A",
  "Species C",
  "Species B",
  "Species A"
)

A: You can try to use table, sort this, use match to the names and order.
df[order(match(df$name, names(sort(table(df$name), decreasing=TRUE)))),]
## A tibble: 8 × 1
#  name
#  <chr>
#1 Species A
#2 Species A
#3 Species A
#4 Species A
#5 Species B
#6 Species B
#7 Species C
#8 Species C

Or using split:
. <- split(seq_len(nrow(df)), df$name)
df[unlist(.[order(lengths(.), decreasing=TRUE)], FALSE, FALSE),]
## A tibble: 8 × 1
#  name
#  <chr>
#1 Species A
#2 Species A
#3 Species A
#4 Species A
#5 Species B
#6 Species B
#7 Species C
#8 Species C

Or in case only the vector should be sorted:
. <- sort(table(df$name), decreasing=TRUE)
rep(names(.), .)
#[1] "Species A" "Species A" "Species A" "Species A" "Species B" "Species B"
#[7] "Species C" "Species C"

A: There is the function fct_infreq from the forcats package to order elements by their abundance:
library(tidyverse)

data <- tibble(
  species = c(
  "Species A",
  "Species A",
  "Species B",
  "Species C",
  "Species A",
  "Species C",
  "Species B",
  "Species A")
)

data %>%
  mutate(species = species %>% fct_infreq()) %>%
  arrange(species)
#> # A tibble: 8 × 1
#>   species
#>   <fct>
#> 1 Species A
#> 2 Species A
#> 3 Species A
#> 4 Species A
#> 5 Species B
#> 6 Species B
#> 7 Species C
#> 8 Species C

Created on 2022-05-11 by the reprex package (v2.0.0)

A: You can also reorder the factor by number of occurrences, and then sort the factor:
data$species <- reorder(data$species, data$species, FUN = length) |>
  sort(decreasing = T)

output
data

    species
1 Species A
2 Species A
3 Species A
4 Species A
5 Species C
6 Species C
7 Species B
8 Species B

A: data.table solution
library(data.table)

data <- setDT(data)[, n := .N, species][order(-n, species)][, n := NULL]

output
data

#      species
# 1: Species A
# 2: Species A
# 3: Species A
# 4: Species A
# 5: Species B
# 6: Species B
# 7: Species C
# 8: Species C

data
data <- tibble(
  species = c(
  "Species A",
  "Species A",
  "Species B",
  "Species C",
  "Species A",
  "Species C",
  "Species B",
  "Species A")
)


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<?php

namespace Apero\UserBundle\Entity;

use Doctrine\ORM\EntityRepository;

/**
 * AmisGroupeRepository
 *
 * This class was generated by the Doctrine ORM. Add your own custom
 * repository methods below.
 */
class AmisGroupeRepository extends EntityRepository
{
	public function findbyGroupe($groupeID)
	{
		$qb = $this
			->createQueryBuilder('ua')
		;

		$qb->where('ua.groupe = :groupe')
				->setParameter('groupe', $groupeID)
		;

		return $qb
			->getQuery()
			->getResult()
		;
	}

	public function findbyUser($userID)
	{
		$qb = $this->createQueryBuilder('ua');
		$qb->where('ua.user = :user')
			->setParameter('user', $userID)
		;

		return $qb
			->getQuery()
			->getResult()
		;
	}

	public function findbyGroupeAndUser($groupeID, $userID)
	{
		$qb = $this->createQueryBuilder('ua');
		$qb->where('ua.groupe = :groupe')
			->setParameter('groupe', $groupeID)
			->andWhere('ua.user = :user')
			->setParameter('user', $userID)
		;

		return $qb
			->getQuery()
			->getResult()
		;
	}
}

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There are 2 types of HP laser source very popular on the industrial app. Which can go up to 5kw or higher, they are Laser Diode(LD) and Fiber Laser (FL). It could be either Bar type or Direct Diode Laser on the LD section, here we mainly discuss DDL.
Due to its own structure reason, the DDL is more competitive on the cost, wall plug efficiency and robust aspect, while FL is known for its excellent beam quality, easier heat dissipation and better flexibility. Those 2 types of laser source are used for different applications and both are heading for high power direction. In the past, inherited for its beam quality the DDL usually won't be able to do the laser cutting on metal material, however, as time goes by there are remarkable progress on the coupling efficiency and beam combining tech. The DDL of KW level with optical fiber output can also meet the request on the beam quality. Plus, there are multiple choices on the wavlength, DDL becomes hotter on the laser welding of the al. Mainframe in the automobile market. In short, it is a trend that both DDL and FL hitting the 10KW level app.
Lasfiberio Co. Ltd. Sees and understands this request and we developed combo in combiner+QBH of 10KW level for our customers in south China and South Korea, and the feedback is great. Following is a typical DDL structure.
It is in 19 of 200/220 NA0.22 as input and 1000/1100 NA0.22 as output, 600w/leg for the input and the output connector is in QBH.
The optical fiber entitled the DDL same flexibility of FL, it is true if there is strict parameter on the beam quality, the DDL can hardly meet, while for the app. Like thin metal sheet welding, laser cladding etc. The beam quality request is so-so and the DDL standing out for its economical, robust character. If high brightness laser diodes are deployed, the input leg can be less and the output fiber can be smaller on the core, and reach higher brightness beam spot.


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Finder's, Not Keepers By D.E. Haggerty #Book Tour
Mystery, Cozy Mystery, Romantic Suspense
What do you do with a diamond no one wants? You can't keep it. Or can you?
While cleaning her ex-husband's effects out of the attic, Terri finds an exquisite diamond pendant necklace. She's determined to return the necklace to its proper owner, but the owner was brutally killed, a murder which remains unsolved, and her heirs want nothing to do with the diamond. Terri embarks upon a journey researching charities to which she can donate the diamond. When her research becomes dangerous, Terri contemplates solving the murder herself. Her best friend, Melanie, jumps feet first into investigating the murder, but her neighbor, Ryder, doesn't want Terri exposed to any danger. Ryder, to Terri's surprise, also wants to be more than neighbors with Terri. Luckily, he's prepared to take any measure necessary to keep her safe because someone is determined to stop her inquiries.
Join Terri on her quest to find a home for the diamond, which may result in the unveiling of a murderer – if she survives long enoug
"Now," Mrs. Collins said as she sat back with her own cup of coffee. "I'm sure you're curious about Jessica." Terri nodded but didn't dare speak for fear her curiosity would come across as excitement, which was morbid considering the poor woman was dead. "Phil?"
Mr. Collins cleared his throat. "Our niece Jessica was only twenty-five when she was killed."
Terri gasped. "Killed? Oh no! What happened?" She leaned forward, her coffee and pie forgotten.
"That's what we'd like to know," Mrs. Collins snapped. Her husband reached over and grasped her hand.
"She was murdered three years ago," he explained.
Terri set her coffee and pie on the coffee table, no longer interested in Mrs. Collins' culinary skills. "Oh no. Who would do such a thing?"
Mr. Collins shook his head. "We don't know. The police have labeled it an unsolved mystery."
"I don't think they're even looking for the killer anymore. They say it was a random act of violence." Mrs. Collins snorted in a very unladylike manner at that idea. "As if violence is something random. This entire country has gotten too used to violent acts, if you want my opinion."
Terri had no response to that. What did you say when someone told you a loved one had been murdered and the police had no clue what happened? Instead, she reached down for her purse and took out the necklace. "I have no words of comfort, but perhaps you'll at least find some comfort in the return of her necklace." She held it out to Mrs. Collins who just shook her head.
"Actually," Mr. Collins cleared his throat. "We don't want it."
I grew up reading everything I could get my grubby hands on, from my mom's Harlequin romances to Nancy Drew, to Little Women. When I wasn't flipping pages in a library book, I was penning horrendous poems, writing songs no one should ever sing, or drafting stories which have thankfully been destroyed. College and a stint in the U.S. Army came along, robbing me of free time to write and read, although on the odd occasion I did manage to sneak a book into my rucksack between rolled up socks, MRIs, t-shirts, and cold weather gear. After surviving the army experience, I went back to school and got my law degree. I jumped ship and joined the hubby in the Netherlands before the graduation ceremony could even begin. A few years into my legal career, I was exhausted, fed up, and just plain done. I quit my job and sat down to write a manuscript, which I promptly hid in the attic after returning to the law. But being a lawyer really wasn't my thing, so I quit (again!) and went off to Germany to start a B&B. Turns out being a B&B owner wasn't my thing either. I polished off that manuscript languishing in the attic before following the husband to Istanbul where I decided to give the whole writer-thing a go. But ten years was too many to stay away from my adopted home. I packed up again and moved to The Hague where I'm currently working on my next book. I hope I'll always be working on my next book.
Finders, Not Keepers is my thirteenth book.
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Entered giveaway. really want to read this book. I hope I win.
Thanks for stopping by. Lots of luck with the giveaway!
This book intrigues me because of the mystery that abounds when she finds a diamond pendant. I want to know where it came from like Terri and I want to know how it got there and why? I would love to read this book, review it after I win. I hope I win.
I would love to win this giveaway. Book sounds like a good book. I really hope I win. good post.


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Q: How to debug phonegap on Windows Is there any way to Debug Phonegap Apps on a Windows 7 PC?
It takes quite a long time to upload this stuff to the Phone everytime.

A: Take a look at the Ripple emulator plugin for Chrome. It allows you to simulate how your app would work on a multitude of devices. If you are using anything outside of the core cordova.js/phonegap.js (meaning plugins) I do not think it will work though. For basic testing it works great.


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12/2/2022 5:00:00 AM Reporting from Detroit,MI
Study shows new Corewell Health treatment plan improves pain management in spine surgery, leads to statewide recommendation
https://www.beaumont.org/health-wellness/press-releases/corewell-health-treatment-plan-improves-pain-management-in-spine-surgery
A promising pain management treatment plan used for spine surgery lessened patients' pain and reduced opioid use by 35%, according to a study by Corewell Health East, the new name for Beaumont Health, and has led to a statewide recommendation to establish the same treatment plan for all spine surgery patients.
Study shows new Corewell Health treatment plan improves pain management in spine surgery, leads to statewide
New treatment plan also shortens stay, lowers costs and reduces post-surgery complications
Administering an intravenous (IV) dose of long-acting methadone, an old drug with a new twist, in the operating room provided better long-term pain relief when compared to a patient intermittently pushing a button to administer their own doses of short-acting opioid medication after their procedure, according to a retrospective study that looked at both approaches led by Dr. Richard Easton, chief of Orthopedic Surgery at Corewell Health Beaumont Troy Hospital, the new name for Beaumont Hospital, Troy.
The use of long-acting IV methadone in this way, the basis for an enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS) treatment plan, originated in cardio-thoracic surgery. Dr. Easton and Dr. Daniel Silvasi, surgical director of Clinical Operations and medical director of operating rooms at Corewell Health Beaumont Troy Hospital, and their team were the first in Michigan to apply this particular ERAS approach to lumbar fusion, or spine surgery.
The study's results were first published in The Spine Journal, a publication of the National Association of Spine Specialists, and presented at the 2022 Annual Congress of Enhanced Recovery & Perioperative Medicine in Baltimore, Maryland, by Corewell Health anesthesiologist Dr. Greg Smith, the study's co-investigator. In October, Dr. Easton shared their work at the North American Spine Society's 37th Annual Meeting in Chicago.
"We have found some success in pain management and patient outcomes applying the ERAS pain management principles to spine surgery at Beaumont Health, now Corewell Health East," Dr. Easton said. "We have included standard practices used since ERAS' inception in the 1990s, including educating patients before their procedure, standardizing treatment for pain relief, helping patients become mobile as early as possible and advising on helpful nutrition during recovery. All of this helps patients take an active role in their care."
The study also found this approach shortened patients' length of stay in the hospital, lowered the overall hospital costs and lessened some common post-operative events like hypotension and urinary retention.
Positive results of implementing the ERAS treatment led the Michigan Spine Surgery Improvement Collaborative (MSSIC), a statewide quality improvement collaborative dedicated to improving care during spine surgery, to recommend hospitals establish the ERAS treatment as a standard practice to be compared and evaluated at different hospitals. Spine surgeons and representatives from other Michigan health systems visited Corewell Health Beaumont Troy Hospital this summer to learn more about Corewell Health East's ERAS protocol.
"This new approach has had some success, and is key to team support from doctors, anesthesiology, nursing and allied services," Dr. Silvasi said. "We're changing the way things are done. We're changing how staff is caring for patients, and how patients are caring for themselves."
To evaluate the impact of the pain management approach, the study compared outcomes before and after patients followed the ERAS treatment. The study looked at a total of 338 patients who underwent lumbar fusion surgery in 2018 and 2019. One hundred ninety-two patients followed traditional pain management, and 146 were treated under the new ERAS pain management plan.
To help establish the practice, the team produced educational materials in the form of videos, posters and brochures to re-train staff and educate patients.
"We're changing a culture to successfully implement a new treatment plan to assist patients," Dr. Easton said. "Staff and patient engagement are critical to our ERAS journey success."
The ERAS treatment plan has also been adopted at Corewell Health Beaumont Troy Hospital for patients undergoing laminectomy – decompression of a spinal area that had been causing pain – as well as cervical (neck) fusion and lumbar (low back) revision procedures.
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This brand new degree course draws on and examines different aspects of mind, body and spirt. You will examine the idea of lifelong development and consider the psychological and social perspectives of life phases. You will also explore the themes of emotional language, social and personal development, physical development and the importance of lifelong activity. Setting these topics in a broader context, you will consider the spiritual aspects of landscape and international aspects of sustainability and 'global village'.
The programme will encourage you to explore your identity and that of others, and take a close look at your society and culture, as well as different philosophies. Looking critically at spirituality and creativity will improve your own reflective practice.
research and student academic development.
Why Human Development (Mind, Body, Spirit)?
BSc Human Development (Mind, Body, Spirit) is an exciting new multi-disciplinary degree course. This course will give you an in-depth and critical insight into humans, how they develop, their society and wider aspects of being human. You can study from a wide discipline of subjects including health, psychology, social sciences, education and spirituality.
It is situated within the Faculty of Education and draws on elements from existing degree routes in an innovative new combination and adds a spiritual development strand, which currently does not exist in undergraduate courses either at Christ Church or externally.
Student Development / Research focus.
On successful completion of the course you will be able to progress on to Masters level with specific relevance to the MA Myth, Cosmology and the Sacred and Masters by Research Physical Education Physical Activity run by Canterbury Christ Church University.
Careers that you might consider following the BSc in Human Development (Mind, Body and Spirit) include policing, social work, therapeutic social care, youth work, sciences, and other human-based services.
This course is three years in duration. You will study 120 credits per year with modules valued at 20 credits.
You will be offered optional modules althought this will be subject to a minimum group size and to timetabling restrictions. Teaching will be mainly based at the Canterbury campus, however, there may be either off-site or sports facilities that are used.
The multi-disciplined course team will enable your learning across their expertise and offer you the benefit of their specialist knowledge and experience.
Reflecting the nature and content of this course we will assess both your academic knowledge and also the development and understanding of professional interpersonal skills. Accordingly, you will be assessed through a range of methods, including individual and group presentations, posters, assignments and timed essay. There are no exams.


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Beguilding Beetls in the Wildflife Garden Article by Heather Holm from Native Plants & Wildlife Gardens
Beetles are a very diverse insect order and many beetles are frequent flower visitors; they are pollinators, beneficial insects predating on problem insect populations such as aphids, as well as parasitoids of other flower visitors. See similar posts about Fantastic Flies and Wonderful Wasps
The two most common flower visitors are soldier beetles (Cantharidae family) and long-horned beetles (Cerambycidae family). Beetles visit flowers to feed on pollen and nectar. Some have hairs on their tongue tip that act like pollen brushes, but typically they use their mandibles for chewing pollen grains.
Beetle Life Cycles and the Greater Food Web – It's All Connected
Many beetle larvae are wood-boring, feeding on wood fibers or the fungus that inhabits decaying wood. By leaving dead standing trees (snags), or downed tree logs on the ground (nurse logs) in your landscape, you are providing valuable habitat for beetle larvae and the birds who feed on the larvae such as woodpeckers. Many native bee species use the abandoned wood burrows made by beetle larvae as nesting sites. Some examples include leafcutter bees, Megachile spp., mason bees, Osmia spp. and carpenter bees, Xylocopa spp.
Banded Longhorn Beetles, Typocerus velutinus
Common on coneflowers, this beetle feeds on pollen and nectar, their larvae are wood-boring.
Beetles can sometimes be destructive; some are not delicate flower visitors by any means, their mandibles chew on flower parts and foliage causing damage in some cases. For example, these blister beetles, Lytta sayi, are destructive feeders on legume flowers such as wild white indigo, Baptisia alba.
Many flower visiting beetles have hairy bodies where pollen grains attach aiding in the pollination of flowers. They often show a preference for white, cream or green colored flowers, with a strong, fruity or fermenting odor. The hard wings (elytra) provide some protection to beetles while they visit flowers. They are not easily scared off by other flower-visiting insects and will spend several minutes on a flower feeding on floral resources.
Locust Borer Beetle, Megacyllene robiniae
Locust borer beetles feed on pollen and are found on many goldenrod species in late summer. A possible survival strategy is to mimic wasps with black and yellow coloring, a good bird deterrent. The larvae of this beetle excavate tunnels in the wood of black locust trees (Robinia pseudoacacia).
Blister Beetles, Nemognatha spp.
These blister beetles are common on black-eyed susans, often feeding on nectar. They have strange looking mouthparts consisting of long maxillae that they use to suck nectar, they can also feed on pollen with their mandibles. Females lay their eggs on flowers, when the larvae hatch, they attach themselves to visiting bees and are carried back to the bee nests. The beetle larvae kill the bee larvae and consume the bee provisions of pollen and nectar.
Fire-Colored Beetles, Pedilus spp.
Fire-colored beetles are common flower-visitors in the spring. Larvae feed on fungi in decaying wood. Look for these beetles on flowers near woods often where blister beetles occur. Male fire-colored beetles will climb onto blister beetles, prompting them to release cantharidin, a defensive chemical. The male fire-colored beetles then lick the cantharidin off the blister beetle and use the chemical to attract females. When the male beetles mate with females, the cantharidin is transferred to the female. Her eggs are coated with cantharidin which helps protect them from predation.
PREDATION (BENEFICIAL INSECTS)
Soldier Beetles, Family Cantharidae
Soldier beetles visit flowers for pollen and nectar, they are very common in mid- to late-summer.Their narrow head, thorax, and maxillary tongue allow them to access flower nectar in fairly deep flower corollas.Considered a beneficial insect, soldier beetle larvae feed on aphids, fly larvae, small caterpillars, beetle larvae and grasshopper eggs. Some adults in this family also feed on aphids. One defense mechanism of soldier beetles is to secrete a chemical compound so they are unpalatable to predators.
Ladybird Beetles, Cycloneda spp.
Both adults and larvae feed on soft-bodied insects (mainly aphids) and are utilized in the biological control of aphids. Females can consume hundreds of aphids before laying eggs. These beetles overwinter in groupings as adults and emerge in spring. Look for ladybird beetle eggs laid near aphid clusters, often under the flowerheads.
Wedge Shaped Beetle, Macrosiagon limbatum
A distinctive, triangular-shaped small beetle. Both male and female wedge-shaped beetles are found on native plants visited by wasps (and bees), where the female lays her eggs on the foliage. When an egg hatches the tiny first stage larva attaches itself to a visiting wasp or bee. The host carries it back to its nest where the beetle larva burrow into the host larva and live as an internal parasite.The developing wedge-shaped beetle larva continues to consume its host from the inside and eventually emerges from the host body. It then proceeds to feed on the host from the outside until the host dies.
Tiphiid Wasp, Myzinum spp.
These wasps visit late summer natives for nectar. Males have a menacing looking 'pseudostinger' on the end of their abdomen. Females burrow into the ground and lay their eggs on scarab beetle grubs which their larvae consume as they develop.
Milkweed Leaf Beetle, Labidomera clivicollis
Milkweed leaf beetles are one of several beetles who specialize feeding on the foliage of milkweed (Asclepias) plants. Overwintering adults emerge in early spring. Females typically lay their eggs on the underside of milkweed leaves; look for bright red to orange egg clusters. Larvae hatch and develop in several instar stages during the summer months and feed on milkweed flowers and foliage. Adults are again active in the fall preparing to overwinter.
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Wildflower of The Week: EUPATORIUM PURPUREUM | Sweet Joe Pye This Is a Great Wildflower & Did You Know Gardening Gone Wild Website Has Name This One a Top Perennial Plant for 2013!
"Sweet Joe Pye Weed, Boneset, Gravel-root, Hempweed, Jopi Root, Jopi Weed, Kidney Root, King-of-the-Meadow, Queen-of-the-Meadow, Marsh Milkweed, Motherwort, Quillwort, Skunk Weed, Stink Trumpet Weed, Quillwort and others"
Greek, from the name of the King of Pontus, Eupator and the Latin purpureum for "purple".
Found throughout the Tallgrass Region at the edge of wet places where woodlands open into thickets and marshes. Blooms from July through September on erect stems to ten feet tall. Occasionally, the green stem is mottled with purple that shades to a deep purple at the leaf joints. When crushed or dried, the stem and leaves give off a vanilla-like odor. Flowers are tiny and grow in dome-like clusters up 8 inches across. Flowers are creamy white to pale pink or pale purple. Short petals and long stamens give them a frilly appearance
The astute reader will note that both E. maculatum and E. purpureum are called Joe Pye Weed. The main difference is in the flower heads with E. purpureum being more dome-shaped.
This plant is one of the great stories in Native American medicine. It is named after the east coast Native American, Joe Pye, a member of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, who used the plant to cure fevers. It is still used in parts of Appalachia to treat urinary disorders. Some mothers bathed their fretful children in a tea made from Joe Pye Weed to calm them down and bring on a restful sleep. Meskwaki men would nibble the leaves of this plant to ensure success while wooing chosen tribal maidens. We cannot report on the success of this particular usage.
Edible Uses: The roots have been burnt and their ashes used as salt to flavour foods.
Medicinal Uses: Gravel root was used by the native N. American Indians as a diaphoretic to induce perspiration and break a fever. The plant was quickly adopted by the white settlers and still finds a use in modern herbalism. The whole plant, but especially the root, is astringent, diuretic, nervine and tonic. It works particularly on the genito-urinary system and the uterus. Especially valuable as a diuretic and stimulant, as well as an astringent tonic, a tea made from the roots and leaves has been used to eliminate stones from the urinary tract, to treat urinary incontinence in children, cystitis, urethritis, impotence etc. It is also said to be helpful in treating rheumatism and gout by increasing the removal of waste from the kidneys. The leaves and flowering stems are harvested in the summer before the buds open and are dried for later use. The roots are harvested in the autumn and dried for later use.
Other Uses: The stems have been used as straws.
The fruits yield a pink or red textile dye.
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Enhance Your Bird Feeding Station with White Wild Indigo Article
Many bird-feeding stations are barren of cover for birds at your feeders. You can solve this problem by providing instant cover with fully mature fall or winter-harvested stems of the White Wild Indigo. When the plants mature and fall comes, the plants will go dormant leaving their study and durable stems erect with dried leaves and stems still in tack. This makes for the perfect little bush that will give birds a secure place to land.
Just break the stems off at ground level. Get a two or three gallon container. Fill with any soil. Insert the stems into the soil for a secure upright position of the stems. You may want to put a heavy rock in the bottom of the container to keep the wind from blowing it over. Place the pots near your feeders. When the birds land in the branches of the White Wild Indigo, they can rest there and feel protected against predators.
Within minutes you will have more birds right next to your feeders feeling secure and safe. This will enable you to stand much closer to your feeders and observe birds up close.
You can plant White Wild Indigo from seed and they will mature in two to three years or you could plant them as live plants and they will mature faster. Seeds should be scarified with sand paper to thin the hard seed coating if planted in the spring and place in a plastic bag with moist sand or vermiculite. After 10 days you may plant the seed. If planted in the fall they will not need scarification. They grow to about four to five feet in height and have beautiful white flowers up and down the sturdy stems in early to mid-summer. As they mature, they will develop black seedpods, which are very attractive. They are native from Canada to Southern Texas and Florida and throughout the central region of the U.S. They will thrive in most soils.
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'Prairie Therapy' Soothes Psychiatrist, Autistic Son Article
When psychiatrist Elizabeth Reeve needs to unwind and recharge her mental batteries, she heads to the prairie.
Not the wild prairie, but the one she and her husband have painstakingly restored at their weekend home in southeastern Minnesota.
"It's therapeutic — an opportunity to get outside and think in a different way," she said.
She loves walking its five gently rolling acres and seeing what's blooming and growing.
The prairie helps Reeve maintain the balance she needs to juggle a very full life. In addition to her practice, which focuses on autism and other developmental disabilities, she recently was named Minnesota's Psychiatrist of the Year by her peers and published a book, a survival guide for kids with autism spectrum disorders and their parents.
It's a subject Reeve knows not just clinically but personally, from raising an autistic son herself. Born during her residency, he's now 24 and lives at home.
"Having a disabled adult child changes your perspective — it changes the whole plan," Reeve said.
In a way, that changed plan helped lead Reeve's family to the prairie. "We were looking for land to build on when we retired," she said. "My son doesn't drive. He has to live in an urban environment because he takes the bus. The long-term plan is he'll have the house (in Minneapolis) and we'll retire down here."
Reeve and her husband, Mark Conway, alpine-ski-racing coach for the Minneapolis school district, were driving in the rural area when they saw a "for sale" sign. They liked the 1995-built house with its post-and-beam construction, and the 20 wooded acres surrounding it. The previous owner, who built the house, had already started a prairie restoration on what used to be a cornfield.
Reeve, an avid gardener, and Conway decided to buy the land and continue the restoration. Their work includes "burns," torching the landscape to eliminate non-native plants. "The natives have deep roots; they'll come back, but the noxious weeds are superficial," Reeve said.
"You need a crew, so it doesn't get out of control," Reeve said. "The first year I was absolutely terrified. Afterwards it looked like a lava field."
It was hard to imagine that the scorched earth would ever support life again. But before long, native plants began to reappear, denser and more vigorous than ever.
Last year, the couple did a second burn and Reeve took part, donning a firefighter's suit, laying a "water line" around the perimeter, then using a flamethrower to ignite the landscape.
The two prairie burns have transformed their landscape dramatically, Reeve said. They now have 50 to 60 native species, including wildflowers, native grasses and medicinal plants.
"We've worked really hard to expand the diversity," Reeve said.
She also harvests seeds, drying them and scattering them to produce more native prairie plants.
Reeve is fascinated by the variety of native species now thriving on their land. She points out a compass plant, so-named because it orients its leaves to point north-south, and a purple hyssop. "If you smell the leaves, they smell like licorice," she said. When she finds a new one, she marks it with a little flag. "So in theory, I can find them again," she said.
When Reeve isn't tending the prairie, she's tending their large garden.
"We don't buy any vegetables," she said. "There's nothing better than out-of-the-garden fried red potatoes for breakfast."
Does she ever, like, relax on weekends?
"This is relaxing," she said with a smile.
Being outdoors in the natural world restores balance and well-being for their whole family, she said. Her adult son loves splitting wood. Her younger son, Luke, likes playing "Star Wars" on the prairie and helping reseed the native plants, sometimes both at the same time.
Kids, and in particular, kids with ADHD, benefit from being outside, doing physical things, Reeve said, rather than being inside playing with electronic devices all day. "Research shows that lack of (outdoor activity) decreases people's creativity," she said. "It's not rocket science. People who get out and take a walk feel better than people sitting inside all day."
Spending time in her prairie helped her write her book, she said, and she hopes to write a second. "I want to do a book for high-school students and young adults with autism — helping them live with it," she said.
Even the drive back to workday reality, on rural roads vs. a crowded rush-hour freeway, is a relaxing transition, she said. "I'm absolutely fresher Monday after being here. It starts the whole week off completely differently."
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04 CONTRIBUTO IN ATTO DI CONVEGNO
04.02 - Abstract in atti di convegno
Inclusions in diamonds may provide direct samples from the otherwise inaccessible Earth's lower mantle, as was first suggested almost thirty years ago. Nevertheless, it is only in the last two decades that diamonds of a deeper origin have been identified as minor components from a number of kimberlitic and alluvial diamond deposits worldwide [1, and references therein]. These so-called super-deep diamonds may originate between 300 and 800 km depth and thus provide important natural evidence on phases and phase compositions that allow unique insights into the processes and states in the extreme depths of our planet. They mainly contain ferropericlase, enstatite (believed to be derived from MgSi- perovskite) and CaSiO3-walstromite (believed to be derived from CaSiO3-perovskite). In order to obtain some information on their depth of origin, two alluvial diamonds coming from São Luiz (Juina, Brazil) were investigated both by in-situ microRaman spectroscopy and in-situ single-crystal X-ray diffraction. In total we analyzed more than sixty inclusions and we found evidence of CaSiO3-walstromite, larnite, CaSi2O5-titanite, perovskite, orthoenstatite, siderite, phase EGG and probably ferropericlase; other phases are present but they still need to be identified. In particular, at least one inclusion showed the coexistence of CaSiO3-walstromite, larnite and CaSi2O5- titanite, indicating that CaSiO3-walstromite can effectively form in sublithospheric conditions from the back transformation of larnite + CaSi2O5-titanite. Our preliminary thermodynamic calculations, however, suggested us that single inclusions of CaSiO3-walstromite cannot derive from CaSiO3- perovskite. This is due to the high volume change from the high-pressure to the low-pressure polymorph, that would require ~30% of expansion in the host. Further analyses are in progress in order to determine the unit-cell of ferropericlase and phase EGG.
Insights into Juina super-deep diamonds
Anzolini, Chiara
;Nestola, Fabrizio;Milani, Sula;Brenker, Frank E.;Harris, Jeffrey W.
Titolo del Libro
Goldschmidt2015 Abstracts
Descrizione: Abstract principale
Tipologia: Published (publisher's version)
Licenza: Accesso libero


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Q: Remove C++ char* has point address Since I changed my project settings, the boolean value below returns false because in the debugger, value of the char* parameter contains pointer address.  how do i remove this?
I created this simple example to illustrate (i have to keep char* data type) and I can't do pattern matching to remove the pointer address.
void Test(char* thisValue)
{
if (thisValue == "PassingTest")
{
bo = true;
}
else
{
bo = false;
}
}

In debugger, I found thisValue = " PassingTest"
Please guide how to let thisValue only contain "PassingTest" as a value and not pointeraddress.

A: That's how char*s work - they're pointers to characters in memory. If you want a string that supports values you can use std::string from #include <string>.
Working with char*s, you can use
if (strcmp(thisValue, "PassingTest") == 0)

and if you're not intending to modify the string contents in your function you can accept const char* thisValue rather than just char* thisValue.

A: The == operator cannot compare string values in C; it can only compare their pointers.  Use the strcmp function to test whether two strings are equal (it returns 0 if they are).

A: if (thisValue == "PassingTest")

This will not work, as thisValue is char*.
Use std::string:
if (std::string(thisValue) == "PassingTest")

It will work now.
It will be better if you do this:
void Test(const std::string & thisValue)
{
    bo = (thisValue == "PassingTest") ;
}

A: You have no guarantee that two identical literal strings will reside at same memory address.
If they do then that's an example of "constant folding", which is an optimization that may or may not be done.
So your code has arbitrary result.
To avoid this problem, just use std::string instead of raw pointers and raw arrays.
Like
void test( std::string const& thisValue )
{
    bo = (thisValue == "PassingTest");
}

Cheers & hth.,

A: In C use strcmp(3). C++ has nice std::string for this.

A: The reason why is that in C++ the comparison in the if block is comparing pointer addresses not string values.  To compare the actual string values you'll need to use a function like strcmp or even better use STL string values
void Test(const stl::string thisValue) {
  if (thisValue == "PassingTest") {
    bo = true;
  } else {
    bo = false;
  }
}


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"Improving investment governance via the formal measurement of the performance of investment decisions and advice has the potential to yield significant results," said Mr Pedersen.
There is a positive link between performance and governance for local government pension schemes, according to research conducted by Clerus.
£17 billion 'hidden' cost of poor investment decision-making and advice to Local Government Pension Funds.
CLERUS has just released the first in a series of research reports on governance and investment decision-making in UK Pensions Funds. The first report focuses on Local Government Pension Schemes ("LGPS").
The Independent research conducted by CLERUS reveals the majority of local government pension schemes do not comply with key Myners Principles on good governance and the data indicates that this basic lack of compliance and transparency can explain an annual shortfall versus LGPS benchmarks and targets of more than £2 billion per annum or £17 billion in net present value over 10 years. In addition the report shows that Schemes with good governance against the Myners Principles on Performance Measurement perform at least 0.5% per annum better over 5 and 10 years than those with poor governance.
The report highlights the urgent need to implement the good governance recommendations outlined in the Myners Report, including the formal performance measurement of trustees' investment decision-making and of the recommendations made by their investment advisors.
CLERUS was founded to offer independent senior investment management, governance and decision-making expertise to Pension Funds or other asset owners looking to evaluate the efficiency of their current investment management process.
CLERUS co-founders Henrik Pedersen, MBA and Richard Rothwell, FSIP, ASIP are both seasoned financial experts with many years of applied institutional investment experience, which they recognise could be of value to those pension-fund investment-decision makers, who might lack the applied investment experience to question the investment advice they receive.
CLERUS governance review process has been developed and successfully deployed to evaluate and improve the performance of investment decisions within leading investment firms and over many years.
A recent research paper from Said Business School, University of Oxford analyse the impact of investment consultants recommendations on US plan sponsor's performance using 13 years of survey data provided by Greenwich Associates which has conducted surveys of investment consultants since 1988. The data analysed reflect the recommendations of US equity product by investment consultants for the period 1999-2011 during which period an average of 29 investment consultants answered the survey each year, reflecting a 91% share of the US consulting market. The recommendations used are the aggregated recommendations of all the consultants surveyed as investment consultants do not publicly disclose their own past recommendations to allow analysis of recommendations by individual consultants.
The findings of the study is interesting and suggests that a main impact of the recommendations is to drive significant fund flows into the recommended managers and that these managers then tend to underperform the wider market of available (equity) managers in which to invest.
The conclusion of the report is aligned with the recommendations of the Myners Report and discuss in detail the inconsistency that while fund managers testify to the rigor with which investment consultants scrutinize their performance and measure the effectiveness of their decisions, investment consultants themselves are shy of disclosing the sort of information which would allow pension funds, or any outsider, to measure their own performance. In an article in Financial Times on September 22, 2013 Mr Jones, one of the authors of the report highlight that "Since consultants do not disclose their individual recommendations, pension funds are allocating assets on advice the quality of which is impossible to judge" and contrasted the situation with the consultants scrutiny of fund managers.
If you want to know how CLERUS can help you measure the performance of your advisors and enable you to state full compliance with the Myners principle 4 on Performance Measurement please give us a call to discuss.