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Anne Arundel Economic Development Corporation (AAEDC) has been recognized in two award categories by the Maryland Economic Development Association (MEDA). Michael G. Livingston, AAEDC Board of Directors Chairman and President of Bank of Glen Burnie, received the MEDA Volunteer of the Year Award and Annapolis Towne Centre at Parole received the Judges' Redevelopment Award.
Anne Arundel County Executive John R. Leopold said, "I am extremely pleased that MEDA has recognized AAEDC's impact on the business economy through these awards. Congratulations to both Mike Livingston and Annapolis Towne Centre at Parole for supporting and enhancing Anne Arundel County's economic environment."
Mr. Livingston has excelled in leadership positions within the economic development community at large and has been a part of projects that resulted in economic growth, increased capital investment and employment for Maryland. Mr. Livingston has more than 30 years of banking experience which he has enthusiastically shared with AAEDC to help guide business financing programs. He is a passionate advocate for small business and is a trusted advisor to the local chambers of commerce. Mr. Livingston is also an active volunteer for the local schools, teaching financial literacy to Glen Burnie Elementary School students and he participates in Read Across America, the NEA's annual reading motivation and awareness program.
"Mike continues to contribute to the economic health of Anne Arundel County by providing financial expertise, advice, and counsel," said AAEDC President and CEO Robert Hannon. "AAEDC nominated Michael Livingston for this state-wide award in recognition of his generous volunteer activities. Being selected for this honor is well deserved and long overdue."
AAEDC was also recognized for the success of Annapolis Towne Centre at Parole. The award honors the project's positive impact through redevelopment including coordination of partnerships, leverage of resources, innovation and creativity, community revitalization, impact upon the tax base, enhancement of community life, and environmental stewardship. AAEDC coordinated the public/private partnership between Anne Arundel County and Greenberg Gibbons throughout development. The partnership required the coordination of several county departments including Planning and Zoning, Health, Public Works, Soil Conservation District, and Inspections and Permits as well as the State Highway Administration. Anne Arundel Workforce Development Corporation and AAEDC partnered with Greenberg Gibbons to sponsor a job fair attended by approximately 1,000 job seekers. The job fair helped local residents explore the wide variety of new employment opportunities at ATC.
AAEDC nominated the project for its tremendous economic impact on Anne Arundel County in the midst of a recession.
"Annapolis Towne Centre (ATC) at Parole has provided diversity to the economy, generating substantial, long-term tax revenue for both Anne Arundel County and Maryland," said Mr. Hannon. "With the positive benefits it has ought to the businesses and residences within the greater Parole Growth Area, and its successful response to market demand, Annapolis Towne Centre at Parole has been a terrific success."
The sixth annual MEDA Economic Development Awards took place at the MEDA Annual Conference in Cam idge, Maryland. Sponsored by Miles & Stock idge, P.C., the awards recognized outstanding efforts to attract new businesses, assist existing businesses, redevelop business districts, market communities and support workforce development initiatives, tourism activities, and agricultural programs.
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The Anne Arundel Economic Development Corporation (AAEDC) mission is to serve business needs and to increase Anne Arundel County's economic base through job growth and business investment. For a complete list of services provided by AAEDC, visit the web site at www.aaedc.org or call 410-222-7410.
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MEDA enhances the knowledge and skills of its 500 members and encourages e and skills of its 500 members and encourages partnerships and networking among those committed to inging jobs and investment to Maryland. Since 1961, MEDA has operated as a nonprofit organization of economic development professionals, whose members promote the economic well being of Maryland and work to improve the state's business climate. To learn more about MEDA, please visit www.MEDAmd.com.


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The Pigeon Tunnel: Stories from My Life
'Out of the secret world I once knew, I have tried to make a theatre for the larger worlds we inhabit. First comes the imagining, then the search for reality. Then back to the imagining, and to the desk where I'm sitting now.'
The Pigeon Tunnel, John le Carré's memoir and his first work of non-fiction, is a thrilling journey into the worlds of his 'secret sharers' - the men and women, who inspired some of his most enthralling novels - and a testament to the author's extraordinary engagement with the last half-century. The reader is swept along not just by the chilling winds of the Cold War or by the author's frightening journeys into places of terrible violence but, most importantly, by the author's inimitable voice. In this astonishing work we see our world, both public and private, through the eyes of one of this country's greatest writers.
'No other writer has charted - pitilessly for politicians but thrillingly for readers - the public and secret histories of his times' Guardian
'John le Carré is as recognizable a writer as Dickens or Austen' Financial Times
'When I was under house arrest I was helped by the books of John le Carré ... they were a journey into the wider world ... These were the journeys that made me feel that I was not really cut off from the rest of humankind' Aung San Suu Kyi
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Background: A thorough knowledge of the anatomy of the common peroneal nerve (CPN) and its branches is essential for surgeons operating within and around the knee joint. Objectives: To describe origins, the course, branches, length and diameter of the CPN. To identify the relationship between the CPN and palpable landmark: Gerdy"s tubercle (GT), the fibular head (FH), the long head of the biceps femoris (LHBF) tendon and lateral condyle of femur (LCF). Methods: We dissected thirty lower limbs of 15 fresh frozen adult cadavers (9 males; 6 females). Results: The course of the CPN was constant. The length of the CPN was 120.6 mm. The diameter of the CPN was 3.7 mm. The distance from the FH - to origin of the CPN was 99.7 mm (89.1-138.5) - to the center of the CPN as it exits beneath the LHBF in 00, 300, 600, 900 of knee flexion was respectively 62.5 mm (57.1-66.9), 56.2 mm (50.6-60.3), 47.3 mm (44.1-50.4), 44.6 mm (38.7-47.9) - to the origin of the deep peroneal nerve was 26.4 mm (19.2-37.6), - to the anterior intermuscular septum (AIS) was 15.5 mm (13.2-19.1), - to the point where the deep peroneal nerve came out from the tunnel through the AIS was 69.7 mm (56.4-83.2), The distance from the most prominent aspect of GT - to the CPN behind the FH was 45.2 mm (41.0-48.8), - to the starting point of the superficial branch of the CPN was 45.5 mm (41.0-48.6), - to the anterior recurrent branch of the nerve was 45.4 mm (41.0-48.6). The angle between the deep peroneal nerve and the fibula axis was 25.60 (16.20-36.80). Conclusion: A ""safe"" area in the proximal fibula is anterior to the FH and downward laterally, not lower than 19.2 mm and from the most lateral prominence, transverse medially not further than 13.2 mm. The inferior boundary of this area is an oblique line of the deep peroneal nerve about 16.20 from the fibular axis. The course of the common peroneal nerve trunk and its anterior recurrent branch defined an arc with a radius 45 mm. The most prominent aspect of Gerdy"s tubercle is the center of this circumferential trajectory.


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Beshear: Nearly $220,000 in Grants Awarded to Prevent Child Abuse
Crystal Staley or Kenneth Mansfield502-696-5300https://ag.ky.gov/
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Child Victims' Trust Fund grants assist victims, support training that helps protect children
FRANKFORT, Ky. (May 20, 2019) – Nearly $220,000 in grant funding from the Child Victims' Trust Fund (CVTF) has been allocated to help child sexual abuse prevention organizations protect children across the state, Attorney General Andy Beshear announced today.
Beshear said the Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation Prevention Board, attached to the Office of the Attorney General, announced grant recipients for the 2020 fiscal year, which begins July 1, 2019.
The state's 15 Children's Advocacy Centers will receive in excess of $74,000 to cover costs related to more than 990 child sexual abuse medical exams.
Prevent Child Abuse Kentucky will receive $33,078 for statewide prevention programming. Three regional programs: south central Kentucky's Phoenix Rising Inc., northern Kentucky's Family Nurturing Center and western Kentucky's Child Watch Counseling and Advocacy Center will receive more than $85,000.
The fund also provides $25,000 to organizations hosting conferences related to preventing child sexual abuse. Organizations can apply for sponsorships in amounts up to $5,000 by filling out the application at icareaboutkids.ky.gov under the "How We Help" tab.
"Protecting Kentucky's greatest resource – our children – has been my priority," Beshear said. "Donations to the Child Victims' Trust fund are awarded to organizations that have a proven track record of protecting children, because we want to make sure they have the resources they need to continue to help victims and prevent child sexual abuse."
Prevent Child Abuse Kentucky received $33,078 for "Reinventing Our Message: Phase II," a statewide project building upon the fiscal year 2019 CVTF-supported program.
"The funding will help propel our messaging around child sexual abuse prevention," Jill Seyfred, director of Prevent Child Abuse Kentucky, said. "This effort will be the first of its kind in the nation to launch a statewide re-messaging campaign aimed at the prevention of child sexual abuse."
Phoenix Rising Inc. received $10,446 for its "Warrior Conference and Wise Choices Trainings" program, serving Allen, Barren, Butler, Edmonson, Hart, Logan, Metcalfe, Monroe, Simpson and Warren counties. The program includes a conference series and a six-week human trafficking and exploitation prevention program targeted at children ages 6 to 18 and adults.
"Phoenix Rising would like to thank CVTF and the Kentuckians who donate for their ongoing support of life-changing programming," Dr. Azurdee M. Garland, founder and executive director of Phoenix Rising Inc., said. "This grant will help us educate, mentor and encourage kids affected by human trafficking and exploitation. We look forward to another year providing services to our kids."
Family Nurturing Center received $56,000 in funding for its "Stewards of Children" prevention and reporting training programs, serving Boone, Campbell, Grant and Kenton counties. This funding will provide 225 Stewards of Children trainings in the community to 3,000 adults.
"We are so grateful for the continued support and generosity of the Child Victims' Trust Fund," Jane Herms, executive director of the Family Nurturing Center, said. "This partnership allows us to leverage other funding and work together to end child sexual abuse in our region."
Child Watch Counseling and Advocacy Center received $19,600 in funding for its "Safety Tools and Golden Rules" program, serving Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Fulton, Graves, Hickman, Livingston, Marshall and McCracken counties, and will provide sexual abuse prevention training to more than 12,000 children and 300 campers of the Kentucky Sheriffs' Boys and Girls Ranch.
"Children have the right to be safe, which means learning at an early age to recognize abuse and the steps to take to prevent or stop it," Janie Criner, executive director of Child Watch Counseling and Advocacy Center, said. "We are beyond excited to partner with Attorney General Beshear again this year for this critically important program."
Since Beshear took office, CVTF has allocated more than $610,000 to support child sexual abuse prevention programs and helped to pay for more than 2,700 child sexual abuse medical exams.
A donation to the Child Victims' Trust Fund can be made in three ways: through a private donation; purchase of an "I Care About Kids" license plate or a donation made through the state income tax refund check-off program.
Beshear reminds Kentuckians that everyone has a moral and legal duty to report any suspicion of child abuse to local law enforcement or to Kentucky's Child Abuse Hotline at 877-597-2331 or 877-KYSAFE1.


Seismological Society of America > News > Annual Meeting > How Big Can a Tsunami Be in the Caribbean?
How Big Can a Tsunami Be in the Caribbean?
16 May 2018–The 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami has researchers reevaluating whether a magnitude 9.0 megathrust earthquake and resulting tsunami might also be a likely risk for the Caribbean region, seismologists reported at the SSA 2018 Annual Meeting.
"Before 2004, we thought an earthquake of about 8.0 was about right for the largest we might see in the Caribbean, based on the history of earthquakes there and the length and motion of the faults," said Christa von Hillebrandt-Andrade of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
"But now some think that several faults in the region could be capable of producing earthquakes of 8.6, and the catastrophic planning by our emergency management community is considering 8.5 and 9.0 earthquakes," she noted.
The region contains several large subduction zones and faults, most of which are located offshore and are challenging to study. One particular focus is the subduction zone associated with the Puerto Rico Trench, located north of Puerto Rico and roughly on the border of the Caribbean Sea and Atlantic Ocean. A large earthquake on the Trench could produce a tsunami that reaches Puerto Rico within 20 minutes, and might be felt as far away as the U.S. Eastern seaboard.
There is no historical evidence of any megathrust 9.0 earthquakes taking place on the trench, and the fault there has "a bit of oblique motion that takes up some of the energy and doesn't create the big offset of the seafloor creating the tsunami" that would be expected from a straightforward subduction zone, von Hillebrandt-Andrade said.
Another concern is a tsunami generated by submarine landslides that might occur after a more moderate-sized earthquake, she noted, adding that researchers have uncovered traces of very large landslides along the steep parts of the seafloor along the trench.
Other regions that seismologists are keeping a closer eye on include the Lesser Antilles, the Dominican Republic, and the area offshore north of Panama.
von Hillebrandt-Andrade said emergency management planners often work with "scenarios"—how a magnitude 9.0 earthquake and tsunami would impact a region—instead of focusing on the probabilities of a certain-level tsunami taking place within a specified time range. As seismologists continue to work out the recurrence rate of earthquakes in the region, von Hillebrandt-Andrade said researchers also are beginning to look at probabilistic tsunami hazards, beginning in the American Caribbean.
More Caribbean paleoseismology–identifying and analyzing the evidence of past earthquakes—would also help researchers pinpoint the recurrence times of possible large earthquakes, von Hillebrandt-Andrade said.
Since 2005, 48 countries and territories organized under the UNESCO IOC Intergovernmental Coordination Group for Tsunamis and Other Coastal Hazards for the Caribbean and Adjacent Regions have been developing a tsunami warning system. Tsunami response exercises, such as the annual CARIBE Wave draw on seismic hazard research findings to guide their practice scenarios.


Featuring free Wi-Fi and parking on site, GreenHouse Apartaments is located in Ekaterinburg. Restaurants and cafeterias are 1 km away. Including a balcony, each apartment has a sofa and flat-screen TV with cable channels. The kitchen is equipped with a stove, oven and microwave. The bathroom comes with a bath and free toiletries. Museum of Fine Arts and Church of All Saints are 5 km away. Ekaterinburg Passazhirsky Train Station is 6 km from GreenHouse Apartments. Koltsovo Airport is 16 km away.


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Professor Sir Colin Buchanan
12:30AM GMT 10 Dec 2001
PROFESSOR SIR COLIN BUCHANAN, who has died aged 94, was an expert on transport and nearly 40 years ago warned that Britain's towns and cities would become paralysed by traffic congestion.
The Buchanan Report, called Traffic in Towns, was published in November 1963, when there were fewer than seven million cars on Britain's roads.
Yet the picture it painted was almost apocalyptic in tone: "It is impossible to spend any time on the study of the future of traffic in towns," said the report's steering group, "without at once being appalled by the magnitude of the emergency that is coming upon us. We are nourishing at immense cost a monster of great potential destructiveness [the motor vehicle], and yet we love him dearly. To refuse to accept the challenge it presents would be an act of defeatism."
So dismal a prognosis clearly demanded remedies, and Buchanan was not short of suggestions. It was, he said, "inevitable" that traffic would have to banned from parts of some towns and cities. In the larger cities, he proposed underground car parks, as well as the demolition of existing buildings and roads to allow traffic to proceed at ground level with shops - and pedestrians - on a level above. He also recommended parking controls.
Other of Buchanan's proposals still excite the interest of those struggling to deal with the problem. He suggested, for example, a "congestion tax" on car owners, an idea recently favoured by the Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone; Buchanan also drew attention to the importance of cheap public transport in city centres.
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He insisted that it would be possible to provide for the unlimited use of cars only in the smaller urban areas, and there only where environmental considerations did not rule out major roadworks.
It was the Minister of Transport, Ernest Marples, who had commissioned the report in 1960; he wanted to know how the country could cope with the growing demand for, and importance of, the motor vehicle without becoming "a concrete desert". To do the job, Buchanan had a team of seven and a supervisory steering group.
The Buchanan Report was widely praised - the AA and RAC hailed it as a "brilliant and courageous document" - but it did draw some criticism; and there are those today who believe that his bias towards accommodating traffic, rather than restraining it, led to an uncontrolled road building programme which has proved detrimental.
The truth is that Buchanan had always recognised that the car's advantages were too obvious to question and its popularity too great to reverse. In 1958 he had published a book, Mixed Blessing: The Motor in Britain, in which he accepted that people were right to want to own a car; but he stressed that society must also work out new ways of adapting to the problems that this brought.
In a lecture called "Standards and values in motor-age towns" delivered in 1961, Buchanan highlighted the noise and pollution caused by heavy traffic, which had reached "the proportions of a really disgusting nuisance". Oxford Street in London - since closed to private cars - he called "the most uncivilised street in Europe".
When it came to predicting the scale of the problem, however, the Buchanan Report did err on the side of pessimism: Buchanan forecast that there would be 27 million motor vehicles on Britain's roads by 1980; in fact, it was only by the end of the year 2000 that the figure reached 28 million (23 million of these being cars). His forecast that the "saturation point" of 40 million would be reached by 2010 now looks unlikely.
Colin Douglas Buchanan was born on August 22 1907 at Simla, in India, where his father was the water engineer. Colin was to become the fourth in a line of civil engineers. His uncle, Sir George Buchanan, was the senior partner of Buchanan and Halcrow, civil engineering consultants.
When Colin was still an infant, his mother brought him and his elder sister to Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire, and he later attended Berkhamsted School. As a boy he was a keen cyclist, sometimes riding as far as the Quantocks for a holiday.
From 1926 to 1929 Buchanan read Engineering for his BSc at Imperial College, London. He then joined the Public Works Department, Sudan, where he worked on highway planning and bridges until 1933. Returning to England, he spent two years with a firm of planning consultants in Essex. At this time he bought his first car, which he used to take on camping trips, having run up his own tent on a sewing machine.
Buchanan then moved to the Exeter office of the Ministry of Transport, where he was responsible for trunk road improvements throughout the South-West; it was here that he began to develop his interest in traffic problems, and also road safety, and as part of his research he went to look at the German autobahns.
On the outbreak of the Second World War Buchanan was commissioned into the Royal Engineers, serving in Egypt, the Western Desert (where he was attached to the Long Range Desert Group) and the Sudan. He was responsible for constructing a long timber trestle bridge across the White Nile at Juba.
From 1946 to 1960 he was at the Ministry of Town and Country Planning in London, working mainly on planning and transport in the London area. Meanwhile, he had qualified as an architect, and he designed his own house. He also took up caravanning, and built two caravans himself.
After the Ministry moved him to its Inspectorate, Buchanan led public inquiries, mostly into slum clearance. Later, as Principal Inspector, he conducted inquiries into important projects such as the Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Winfrith Heath, Dorset; the Oldbury Nuclear Power Station, Gloucestershire; Trawsfynnydd Nuclear Power Station, Snowdonia; and the Piccadilly Circus redevelopment. Ernest Marples moved Buchanan to the Ministry of Transport as Urban Planning Adviser in 1961.
After completing his Report, Buchanan formed the consultancy Colin Buchanan and Partners, and in 1963 he was appointed to the new Chair of Transport at Imperial College. From 1968 to 1970 he sat on the Roskill Commission into London's third airport, but submitted a minority report dissenting, on planning grounds, from the recommendation that the airport should be constructed north of the Chilterns in the Vale of Aylesbury - instead he argued for the site on Maplin Sands.
In 1974 he was appointed the first Director of the new School of Advanced Urban Studies at the University of Bristol. He retired in 1984.
Buchanan was a Fellow and past Vice-President of the Royal Institute of British Architects, and a Fellow and past President of the Royal Town Planning Institute, which awarded him its Gold Medal. From 1980 to 1985 he was President of the Council for the Protection of Rural England.
He was appointed CBE in 1964, and was knighted in 1972.
Buchanan remained disappointed that action in the wake of his Report had been inadequate, believing that an opportunity had been squandered. During his long retirement he pursued his hobbies of photography, carpentry, and touring Britain and Europe in motor-homes designed and fitted out by himself. He very reluctantly gave up driving at the age of 90.
He married, in 1933, Elsie ("Mick") Mitchell, who died in 1984. He is survived by their daughter and two sons.
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The eigth biennial Canadian portrait competition will be held in 2019. Eligible entries are portraits of Canadians by Canadian artists, either paintings or drawings. Deadline for entries is 26 April 2019.
A professional-quality, high resolution digital photograph file of your portrait is required for the jury. If you are chosen as a finalist, this image will be used for publication in the catalogue, online and elsewhere.
It is recommended that an experienced or professional photographer be engaged to produce the image. If you decide to take the photograph yourself, advice on cameras, lighting etc. is available on many websites. It is suggested that you set the camera image size between 4 and 8 megapixels to obtain the required resolution. Crop the resulting image to just inside the edges of the artwork using photo editing software to produce a .jpg file at 300 pixels per inch.
The artist must submit a one page document containing an artist's statement, biography and CV. Use only Microsoft Word to prepare the file. If a different word processor must be used, please email us at info@kingstonprize.ca for advice before submission.
Artist's Statement: The artist's statement may describe such topics as the circumstances, the subject, the style, and the philosophical background of the portrait. This statement may be used for press releases and publicity.
Biography: The artist's biography may contain biographical details, and explain the current direction of the artist's work and how it relates to the portrait submitted.
Curriculum Vitae (CV): The CV can contain brief summaries of education, awards, solo exhibitions, group exhibitions, employment and other relevant information.
Entries must be received between Monday, February 4 and Friday, April 26, 2019.
Successful entries will be acknowledged by email (if provided) or by return of a self-addressed stamped postcard (if provided). If you feel that you have completed the entry process as prescribed and do not receive an acknowledgement, please contact us.
Your image is important! Please ensure that your image is of high quality, clear, in focus and well-lit so that the jury may properly assess your work.
If you are unsure, please ask. With over 400 submissions, any individual who does not submit the required materials in the proper format may cause their entry to be delayed or disqualified. All successful entries will be acknowledged, either by email or by return of a self-addressed stamped postcard.


The present study was designed to evaluate the effect of acetylcholinesterase inhibitor (AchEI) therapy on balance, gait, and orthostatic hypotension (OH) in elderly patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD).
A total of 102 elderly patients with AD have been recently diagnosed and were treated with AchEI and underwent comprehensive geriatric assessment at baseline and at the end of the sixth month.
Timed Up and Go test and Tinetti Performance-Oriented Mobility Assessment values and the prevalence of OH were not different at the end of the sixth month versus baseline (P > .05). However, it was determined that changes in balance were better in the patients who showed cognitive improvement at the end of the sixth month (P < .05).
Curative effects of AchEIs, which are used in the treatment of AD, on cognitive performance are reflected also in balance functions. Moreover, it was observed that these drugs do not increase the prevalence of OH.


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Q: decimal выдаёт целое число (без запятой) Пишу код для этой формулы.

Вопрос по отображению результата в decimal.
Нужно, чтобы были знаки после запятой, а выдаёт просто 0.
Product - произведение.
Сложность в том, что некоторые операции требуют только double (степень - Math.Pow), в других нельзя этот double использовать (умножение). Запуталась в преобразованиях.
Помогите, пожалуйста.
            int product = 0;   // тут int, т.к. нельзя умножать decimal
            double Factorial = 1;

            for (double i = 2; i <= 3; i++)
            {
                Factorial *= i;
                double vnutriSkobok = Convert.ToDouble(1 - (1 / Factorial)); // double нужнен для Math.Pow

                product = product * Convert.ToInt32(Math.Pow(vnutriSkobok, 2));  // double и decimal не умножает - ошибка

                decimal Product = Convert.ToDecimal(product); // обратно, чтобы были знаки после запятой

                label7.Text = Product.ToString();

A: По моему ошибка была в том, что вы изначально инициализирвовали product нулём а потом перемножали его же на коэфициент, а ноль умноженный на что угодно - всё равно ноль.
Преобразовал немного ваш код:
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Q: Which exception will Python throw when it does not have sufficent permissions to access the file? By permissions I mean unix-like filesystem permissions
I'm looking for a more accurate exception than OSError, which triggers also when the file does not exist

A: You should take a look to IOError
https://docs.python.org/2/library/exceptions.html

A: Ok let me show you...
In Python 2.7.x:
=> this file does not exist:
>>> try:
...     open("foo.bar")
... except Exception as e:
...     e1 = e
...
>>> e1
IOError(2, 'No such file or directory')

=> This one exists but I don't have permissions on it
>>> try:
...     open("/root/foo.txt")
... except Exception as e:
...     e2 = e
...
>>> e2
IOError(13, 'Permission denied')
>>>

So here you cant test on e.args[0], which is also accessible as e.errno
>>> e2.args[0]
13
>>> e2.errno
13
>>>

On Python 3.4.x
>>> try:
...     open("foo.bar")
... except Exception as e:
...     e1 = e
...
>>> e1
*FileNotFoundError(2, 'No such file or directory')
>>>

>>> try:
...     open("/root/foo.txt")
... except Exception as e:
...     e2 = e
...
>>> e2
PermissionError(13, 'Permission denied')

Here you have two distinct subclasses of OSError, so you can either setup two distinct except clauses, or - like in python2 but using OSError instead of IOError - use a single except and test e.errno.
And as you can see, testing this by yourself takes about 2 minutes, which is certainly MUCH less than it took you to connect to SO, post your question, answer comments, edit your question, etc etc etc...


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Man facing sexual assault trial allegedly told woman 'it's not rape if you enjoy it'
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Hayden Smedley approaches the ACT Courts for his Supreme Court trial on Tuesday. Photo: Albert McKnight.
UPDATED: A not guilty verdict was recorded by the jury in this matter.
JUNE 16: A man allegedly continued to have sex with a young woman after she told him to stop, reportedly telling her, "it's not rape if you enjoy it".
Hayden Smedley, 21, denies the accusations and is facing a jury trial in the ACT Supreme Court after pleading not guilty to a charge of having sex with the woman without her consent.
On Tuesday (15 June), prosecutor Keegan Lee told the jury Smedley met the woman on the dating app Bumble in early 2020 when she was 17 years old, although she said she was 18 on the app.
Mr Lee said in April 2020, she decided she wanted to meet him in person for the first time and have sex with him.
Smedley sent her his address and she drove to see him at the two-storey house in Gungahlin he shared with several housemates.
He met her at the front door and they went into his bedroom and started watching Netflix together.
The two began to have consensual sex but stopped after it became painful for the woman. They then began to watch television again.
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But Mr Lee alleged Smedley got back on top of the woman and told her: "I'm not done with you yet".
Smedley allegedly raped the crying woman, despite her saying "stop" and that the sex was hurting her.
Mr Lee said she later fled the house to her car and called her aunt while crying hysterically.
"I told him to stop, but he didn't," the woman said she told her aunt.
In an interview with police, footage of which was played to the court, she also alleged that after he began raping her and she told him to stop, he said, "it's not rape if you enjoy it".
"I thought he was joking because he was laughing when he said it," she said.
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She said the alleged incident had left her feeling violated and scared.
"I realised it was probably the right thing to do to tell someone," she said.
Mr Lee said Mr Smedley admitted he had sex with the woman but said it was consensual.
He said Mr Smedley said the woman appeared to be uncomfortable at one stage and he offered to stop having sex, but she declined.
Mr Lee also said Smedley agreed he used the word "rape" but said he had done so because he was trying to joke around.
Earlier, Justice Michael Elkaim had told the jury he expected the key question in the trial was going to be whether or not the woman had consented to the sexual activity.
The trial is expected to run for several days before Justice Elkaim.
If this story has raised any concerns for you, 1800RESPECT, the national 24-hour sexual assault, family and domestic violence counselling line, can be contacted on 1800 737 732. Help and support is also available through The Canberra Rape Crisis Centre 02 6247 2525, The Domestic Violence Crisis Service ACT 02 6280 0900, and Lifeline: 13 11 14. In an emergency call 000.
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Excellent condition and working order. Super-rare and sought-after two channel analogue delay/modulation rack effect.
When Drawmer produced the DMT 1080 (one of their first pieces of equipment) digital delay was already becoming fairly cheap and ubiquitous, and so if they were going to design a BBD chip-based unit it needed to be something special. This is that unit. Two low-noise channels of Reticon SAD1024 chip goodness, plus a third 10ms delay line for creating phasing effects. This beautifully made unit will do echo of course, and the aforementioned phasing, plus some great flanging and chorus effects. But you also get a continuum of sonic manipulations covering a whole load of points in between all of those. And push it to extremes and there is some high quality BBD weirdness to be had.
CONDITION: In excellent cosmetic condition, the face is showing only the smallest signs of wear or age. The top of the unit has some rack rash on the right side. See photos for more information on cosmetic condition.
The Drawmer DMT 1080 contains two independent delay lines. A multi section delay having a maximum delay time of 80mS, has taps at 10mS, 30mS, 50mS and 80 mS which are fed to either channel 1 or channel 2 by the touch button selectors. The same tap on both channels produces a mono output whilst different taps produce stereo images. Chorus on either channel produces two delays, each of which is different from the main 10,30,50,80mS delays and the two chorus delays on the other channel; so chorus on both channels gives a stereo image.
The output from an auxiliary 10mS delay is fed via the 'Phase' level control to both channels giving a mono image. A clean feed signal is connected in a similar manner via the 'Feedthrough' level control.
Delay time is variable over a 30:1 ratio either manually ('Manual Delay') or automatically using the internal low frequency oscillator which runs at 0.05Hz to 15Hz.
Control Voltages for each delay line are in anti-phase, i.e. when the main delay is at maximum, the 'Phase' delay is at minimum and vice versa. This means that true phasing can occur at several points in the sweep (from min to max delay) as each main delay tap in turn cancels the signal from the auxilliary delay.
Outputs from the main delay taps are of fixed level. They are mixed with the variable 'Phase' and 'Feedthrough' signals before the output level controls. + or – signals from channel 1 can be routed back via the feedback control to the delay line inputs. +feedback produces resonant peaks at short delays whilst – feedback gives a notch filter type of response.


I am planning to attend, and if anyone is interested in going, I'd be happy to car pool. Just let me know.
Check out the THATCamp page for more of what these conferences are all about, or read Natalie Houston's report on the THATCamp that was held here at Rice in 2011.
A couple of you expressed interest last week in the "short courses" offered at Fondren Library on using digital tools. You can find more information about upcoming Digital Media Center courses and GIS Short Courses on the library's webpage. If you attend one of these courses, let us know how it went in the comments?


Jade Goody isn't an easy subject for many teachers (TES Magazine). On the face of it, she was forsaken by education and saved by television. Big Brother - the most stupid, degrading and tedious programme ever conceived - rescued her. Learning played no part. Her dying determination to have her children privately educated could be interpreted as the last rejection of the rejected - a final two fingers for a system that failed her and thousands like her.
It is tempting and comforting to blame Jade's schooling on her background. The daughter of a drug-addicted pimp and a petty thief, her home provided little support. Jade appears to have spent more time caring for her parents than being cared for. So what chance did her teachers have? How could a child in her situation be expected to learn the rudiments of literacy and numeracy when the basics of survival were rather more pressing?
The problems faced by her and her teachers are undeniable. And they have been magnified by some to suggest that the entire state education system is not fit for purpose. That is nonsense. Jade's situation wasn't unique but it was hardly representative. Teachers depressingly familiar with stories like hers could fairly ask how colleagues in private schools would cope with a pupil like Jade. Most, of course, will never be tested. The genius of selection ensures that truly intractable problems are always someone else's.
Maintained schools in deprived areas do not have that luxury. They are expected to mend all the broken lives that come through their gates and are loudly condemned when they fail to do so. It is understandable that some schools - caught between the weight of expectation on the one hand and the sheer scale of disadvantage on the other - should take cover behind a justifiable excuse when it all gets too much. Understandable but mistaken.
Whatever progress has been made in schools in recent years, nothing seems to reduce the proportion of pupils who fail to get any GCSEs at all - the country's Jades. The number has stubbornly stuck at 8 per cent for more than 10 years. To accept this state of affairs, to retreat behind the usual social suspects - poverty, abuse, neglect, crime - is to say, in effect, that a permanent minority are uneducable. It is a more generous rehash of the old divisive argument that seeks to limit education for some but not for all. It is another form of selection.
No child is immune to all forms of education. Not every school can cater for every type of pupil. But if schools cannot provide all the answers, they cannot duck their responsibilities either. It may be tempting to highlight all the reasons why a disadvantaged child fails to make progress, but that can have the unintended effect of obscuring measures that others have tried and found to work. Education can transform the meanest of lives. It cannot be reserved for easy cases. The uneducated Jade Goody understood that more than most.


Helsinki, 14 January 2013 - Following a request from the European Commission, the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) is examining the case for expanding the restriction on cadmium in plastics from the current 16 specific plastic materials listed in Annex XVII of REACH to all plastic materials. ECHA is asking for evidence to help identify the impact of this potential expansion.
Anyone who could be affected by a widening of this restriction, or who holds information on relevant uses of cadmium and its compounds in plastics, or on possible alternatives, is invited to submit comments before 11 February 2013 via an online questionnaire available on the ECHA website. In particular, the Agency seeks to identify any additional plastic materials – made in the EU or imported, for example, in consumer articles, and not covered by the current restriction – which might contain cadmium or cadmium compounds.
The call for evidence provides an opportunity for interested parties to express their views at this early stage in the restriction process. This information will assist ECHA's development of an Annex XV restriction dossier on the expansion of the restrictions on cadmium in plastics. The call for evidence does not replace the public consultation on restriction proposals prepared by ECHA, which forms a standard part of the restriction process and will take place later.


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Messi, Ronaldo, Neymar up for Ballon d'Or
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All three finalists for the Ballon d'Or award as player of the year come from Spain's Primera Liga. Three German World Cup winners failed to make the final cut.
Ballon d'Or holder Cristiano Ronaldo (pictured, above right) of Real Madrid was joined by two members of FC Barcelona on the three-man list of finalists unveiled at a FIFA gala on Monday. Neymar has made it to the final three for the first time, alongside Barcelona teammate and perennial finalist Lionel Messi (above, left). Ronaldo has captured the award as the world's best player for the past two years running, after Messi had dominated the trophy, having previously won the Ballon d'Or four times in a row.
Three members of the German team that won the World Cup in Brazil in 2014, Bayern Munich goalkeeper Manuel Neuer, his high-scoring teammate, Thomas Müller, and Real Madrid midfielder Toni Kroos had all been in the running but failed to advance to the final three.
Bayern's Pep Guardiola on the other hand, is one of the three finalists in the race for coach of the year, alongside Chile's Copa America winner Jorge Sampaoli and Luis Enrique of Barcelona.
The only German to be included among the finalists is Celia Sasic of the women's national team. She is joined by Carli Lloyd of the US squad that won the World Cup in Canada this past summer, as well as Aya Miyama of finalists Japan.
Jill Ellis of the US, Norio Sasak of Japan and Mark Sampson of England are the finalistst in the category of coaches of women's teams.
Also unveiled on Monday were the three finalists for the FIFA Puskas Award for the "most beautiful goal of the year." In the running are Alessandro Florenzi of Roma, Wendell Lira of Brazilian side Athetico GO Goianesia and Lionel Messi.
The winners are to be announced at a gala in Zurich on January 11.
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Q: What can I expect to change about how I write python on my Mac after I install conda? Background
Currently, I have Python 2.7.17 and Python 3.8.1 installed on my Mac (v 10.14.6). Both Python versions were downloaded directly from Python.org using a "macOS 64-bit installer" .pkg file, in late 2019. Both were installed here:
python2: /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/bin/python2
python3: /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/bin/python3
Currently, I use only pip (either pip2 or pip3, depending) to install python packages, which are saved here:
python2: /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/X.X/lib/python2.7/site-packages
python3: /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/3.8/lib/python3.8/site-packages
I am about to begin an online course which requires that I install miniconda in order to install the packages that I need for the course. But after having a very bad experience having Anaconda installed on my machine years ago, and it taking me months to remove it and re-create a clean Python install, I am nervous. I don't want my machine to become a mess again, rife with error messages that it can't find this or that python version or this or that python library.
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*Assuming there will now be multiple installations of Python on my machine (in addition to the versions that I already have, since I believe yet another version of python is installed along with conda), and there will be new places where python packages will be saved, what can I expect to change about how I write python after I install miniconda?

*Is there anything I will need to do differently from what I am doing now when I write python code?

*How can I ensure that everything remains working and compatible and I avoid the fate I suffered many years ago?

Happy to edit/clarify this question per user suggestions. Thanks!

A: Use conda environments and install Python into those environments. This ignores, by design, the versions of Python that are installed at the system level. Also, what's installed into environments (other than the one you're in) is ignored. As somebody who uses conda for all Python development, I don't even know what I have installed in /usr/local/bin/ or other places. Everything is in /path/to/miniconda3/envs/env_name_n. You don't have to uninstall other versions of Python you have elsewhere; the point of environments is to keep everything isolated.

What can I expect to change about how I write python after I install miniconda?

Is there anything I will need to do differently from what I am doing now when I write python code?

Use conda environments and use conda as your package manager. For almost every major project, it nearly a drop-in replacement for pip. Outside of managing dependencies, not much changes.


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Diaz: Nissan N.A. to gain 'profitable' share
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Diaz: We had priced ourselves out of the market.
DETROIT -- U.S. sales boss Fred Diaz expects Nissan North America to continue gaining U.S. market share in 2014 as it rolls out more new models.
After Nissan North America's volume jumped 9 percent in 2013, Diaz expects the company's growth to slow this year but still outperform the rest of the industry.
"We hope to grow sales," helped by the momentum of the redesigned 2014 Rogue that went on sale in November and the redesigned 2015 Murano due in the fall, he told Automotive News today after addressing the Automotive Press Association here. "But we'll do it with more emphasis on being profitable."
Nissan North America's U.S. market share inched up to 8 percent last year from 7.9 percent in 2012.
In January, Nissan North America's U.S. sales rose 12 percent in an overall market that skidded 3 percent.
Diaz said Nissan's 2013 decision to cut sticker prices on several popular models was risky but has paid off. Nissan has reduced average per-vehicle incentives by $375 while increasing average transaction prices by $95, Diaz said.
"It was something we had to do," he said. "We had simply priced ourselves out of the market."
Nissan is working to get more "share of mind" from dealers who also sell other brands, Diaz said. Efforts include having discussions with all 1,161 U.S. dealers, meeting every month last year with the dealer advisory board and adopting product changes sought by dealers.
That's paying off in higher profitability at Nissan dealers, Diaz said.
"Net profits are up 25 percent, return on sales up 33 basis points, parts profitability is 25 percent higher and service profitability is up 34 percent," he said.
Nissan has two other dealer-related goals. This year, it will revamp its ordering system to get vehicles to dealers faster.
And by 2015, Diaz expects that Nissan will source 85 percent of the vehicles it sells in the United States from plants in the United States and Mexico.
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Littlest victims of Florida's opioid crisis are on the rise; Healthy Start program tries to keep up but needs more help.
I sometimes don't have as much sympathy for opioid addicts as I should.
I have a hard time wrapping my brain around a drug that becomes so necessary, so indispensable in people's lives.
A streak of addiction runs in my family, so in one sense I get it. Addiction can make people do things their sober selves never would imagine. But particularly in instances where kids wind up being collateral damage, I have a hard time saying, "it was the drug." Because that just seems inadequate when you see stories of kids strapped in the back seat while their parents are passed out behind the wheel.
Or you hear of the tortured screams of infants born addicted to a drug they never consented to take.
As has been widely reported over the past few weeks, the number of Florida infants born with neonatal abstinence syndrome — addicted to drugs — has skyrocketed in recent years. In 2015, these poor kids numbered 2,487 according to data from the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration. That number jumped to 4,215 last year, a 70 percent increase.
Martin County has managed to avoid being overwhelmed by the opioid epidemic; in 2015, a mere five Martin County babies were born addicted to drugs, according to the state statistics.
In 2016, that number jumped to 13, a 160 percent increase.
This is tiny compared to surrounding counties. In St. Lucie County, 64 kids were born addicted in 2016. In Palm Beach County, it was 160.
And more babies born addicted to drugs means more kids taken away from their addicted mothers by the Florida Department of Children and Families. During fiscal year 2015-16 (July 1, 2015-June 30, 2016), 12 infants in Martin County were removed as a result of substance abuse by the parent.
The number rose to 17 in 2016-17.
Again, thankfully, these are small numbers. But Samantha Suffich, executive director of the Martin County Healthy Start Coalition, said the worst might be yet to come.
"If we don't get ahead of this, yes, our numbers are going to increase," she said.
Healthy Start offers universal risk screening for all pregnant women and infants, and this is the main way the state's 33 Healthy Start coalitions identify women and babies who need services, like addiction counseling.
But the screening is voluntary. And many addicts, Suffich said, don't even realize they're pregnant "until the very end."
"That's one of our biggest challenges, moms who enter into prenatal care late," she said.
As a father, it was hard to hear that. It's hard not to judge the parent who would put a child through that.
But judging doesn't help. Treatment can.
Suffich said when expectant mothers acknowledge an addiction or a healthcare provider suspects it and orders a urinalysis that comes back positive, the coalition refers the mom to drug treatment. Coalition "care coordinators" can provide a realm of other services, and the aid doesn't end once a child is born.
State Sen. Kathleen Passidomo, R-Naples, wants to create a pilot program allowing private, non-profit organizations to establish facilities that can provide 24-hour care for these babies once they can leave intensive care units.
The Department of Children and Families is backing a new state law that would allow children to be removed from homes because of "prospective harm" instead of the "demonstrative harm" that now is required.
And Suffich said the state Healthy Start program is seeking additional funds that would allow care coordinators to, among other things, "make sure the mom is going to treatment, meeting the mom at the treatment ... we're not doing anything that intensive now," she said. "Our perspective is that every baby counts."
And the littlest victims of the opioid crisis need all the help they can get.


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Saxophonist and composer Tom Barford has been named the seventh Kenny Wheeler Jazz Prize winner. His success was announced today by the Royal Academy of Music and Edition Records, co-promoters of the award. It is given each year for "a young artist who demonstrates excellence in both performance and composition, selected from all graduating jazz musicians at the Royal Academy".
Tom Barford joins previous winners Josh Arcoleo, Reuben Fowler, Lauren Kinsella, Misha Mullov-Abbado, Ralph Wyld and Rob Luft.
Evan Parker, one of the judges along with the Academy's head of jazz Nick Smart and Edition boss Dave Stapleton, said: "Even by the high standards set by previous winners of the Kenny Wheeler Prize, Tom is something else. He has that precious combination of strong technique and an inexhaustible flow of ideas which mark him out as a very special soloist. His writing is wonderfully intricate and demanding and yet is exuberantly listenable. We are witnessing the birth of a new star in the jazz firmament. Needless to say, our decision was unanimous."
Barford reacted to the win thus: "I am overwhelmed and delighted to have been chosen to be the recipient of the 2017 Kenny Wheeler Prize, especially considering how much Kenny's music means to me and has affected everything I play and write today. I was lucky enough to meet Kenny Wheeler while studying on the Junior Jazz course at the Academy when, as he was Patron of the course, Kenny kindly came in to lend some words of advice to the young musicians.
"To play next to him and to hear first-hand the sheer emotiveness, power and ability to instantly connect with the listener was one of the most inspiring experiences I have had to date and is a memory that has left a lasting imprint on me as a musician."
The young saxophonist took up the instrument at the age of nine and joined the Junior Jazz Course at the Royal Academy of Music before gaining a place on the Academy's undergraduate course. He writes and plays with his own band ASTEROPE and for a quartet he co-leads, and has also played with the Barry Green Sextet and the Gareth Lockrane Big Band as well as many other groups.
As a winner of this prize, Barford will get to make his debut album for release on Edition Records.


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Letting agents should take larger deposits to cover costs incurred at the end of a tenancy, the Association of Independent Inventory Clerks has claimed.
Repairs and cleaning costs are not always covered by the money taken for deposits according to the organisation, potentially leaving landlords and agents out of pocket.
"Landlords and agents may need to review the deposits they take to ensure they will cover any potential costs incurred at check-out," AIIC chair Pat Barber told Property Reporter.
According to the AIIC, the average deposit in the UK is now £1,197.73, up significantly from the average amount recorded in 2007, which stood at £893.82.
Despite this increase, the organisation also said there is widespread variation between regions, with landlords in some areas taking much higher deposits.
In London, the typical deposit is £1,760.30, compared to the north east and Yorkshire and Humber where average deposits stood at £602.38 and £592.75 respectively.
Ms Barber also said that letting agents and landlords should gather sufficient evidence that should then be used if a tenant disputes a charge.
A highly detailed inventory which is signed and agreed by both a landlord and tenant at the start of a tenancy sets out the standard of upkeep that is expected.
Any invoices for cleaning work at the end of a tenancy should also be kept to provide a breakdown of costs relating to any charges.
Maintenance and repair work can significantly eat into any returns on a buy to let rental property, so landlords should ensure they protect these returns as much as possible.
The AIIC said photographic and video records should be used alongside written sheets to outline every part of a property.
A landlord or letting agent should also carry out a thorough check at the end of a tenancy with the tenant – doing so improves the chances of a landlord winning a case should a dispute go to court.


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The Junior Mpiets of Meerut Public School (Main Wing) brought laurels to their Alma Mater by securing the Saviours Wizard Trophy, a cash prize of Rs. 5100, two school topper medals and 11 ceritificates of Merit, in the Saviours 12th Environment Competition.
Congratulations to the proud winners.


"The Muni", a municipal on and off sale Liquor Store owned by the City, features a generous selection of daily drink specials as well as fine wines and spirits, with a friendly and knowledgeable staff to assist customers.
The Parks Division maintains the entire parkland within the city as well as maintains all city sports and athletic facilities, trails and pavilions, ice rinks, boat landings, and mores.
The outdoor Municipal Pool is open during the summer months in Le Center, for residents, visitors and private parties to swim, lay back and enjoy the Minnesota summertime.


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SANTA BARBARA — Phase 4 of Santa Barbara Harbor's Marina One rebuild has begun, leaving some slip tenants in a precarious situation.
The 10-year, multiphase approach to rebuilding 14 of the 16 dock fingers that make up the 500-slip marina has been going as planned, so far. However, the impending reconstruction scheduled for nearly all of the harbor's 40-foot slips has Santa Barbara's waterfront facilities manager Karl Treiberg searching for ways to keep all of the boats in the harbor.
For every phase so far, project managers been able to relocate the vessels displaced due to construction within Santa Barbara Harbor. But with nearly all of the 40-foot slips about to be put out of commission, the city is having trouble finding space for the larger boats.
At the Harbor Commission's Nov. 15 meeting, Treiberg outlined possibilities for boaters who will be moved out of their slips along Marina One's fingers M and L during the Phase 4 construction period.
Similar to the recently completed Phases 2 and 3 of the project, construction of Phase 4 will include demolition of the old docks, installation of the new docks and installation of the new electrical and water systems on the docks. Finger M consists of 36 slips in the 40-foot range and one 90-foot end-tie. Finger L consists of 44 slips in the 30-foot range, with one 60-foot end-tie.
The harbor has around 35 slips open for transient boaters, and it has been using those slips in the previous rebuild phases to accommodate boats displaced by the construction. But the 40-foot boats on Finger M will have trouble fitting in those spaces, as most are designed for smaller vessels.
Some boats will be rafted up along the sides of other vessels at the end of fingers R, S and Q in the marina, and they will have limited electrical and water hookups during that time.
"If we have to displace boaters, and they go down to Ventura or Channel Islands Harbor, we will be compensating them the rate difference for the slip space down there compared to what they pay here," Treiberg said.
Santa Barbara's Waterfront Department sent out letters to slip tenants in L and M, asking if they would be willing to be voluntarily relocated to a different harbor and receive the city's compensation for the move. Treiberg said that if there were not enough volunteers by the time they needed the vessels off the docks, boats would be selected based on their slip assignment — and boaters with the shortest amount of time as slip permittees would be asked to move first.
Phase 4 is expected to take around three months to complete, starting with M Finger construction to be completed in mid-January and L Finger construction to finish at the end of February. Once each finger is completed, the boats can return to newly rebuilt slips.
The Marina One replacement project began in 2009, with the first phase of construction targeting a replacement of the marina's main headwalk. Phases 2 through 4 were combined into one construction bid awarded to Bellingham Marine Industries in 2010, for a cost of $4.2 million.
Phase 2 included O and P fingers, and was completed in spring 2011. Phase 3 included N Finger and was completed in fall 2011.
Phase 4 is expected to cost $1.4 million to complete. It is being funded by a California Department of Boating and Waterways (Cal Boating) loan of $1.7 million.
The Waterfront Department is hoping upcoming phases 5-8, which cover Marina One's fingers E through K, will be granted additional loan funding from Cal Boating, and it has submitted a $7.3 million loan application for those phases. So far, the department has included $1.9 million in its current budget for the Phase 5 construction project, but the funds must still be approved by the Boating and Waterways Commission.
Phase 5 construction is not expected to take place until 2015.
Santa Barbara Harbor's annual fall cycle of dredging the Federal Channel commenced Thanksgiving weekend, with dredge contractor AIS Construction beginning to mobilize its dredge yard on the West Beach near Stearns Wharf.
The dredging project is part of the harbor's six-year maintenance dredging program prepared by the Army Corps of Engineers in 2010.
The program allows for 320,000 cubic yards of sediment to be dredged from the harbor's main channel area per year, which is distributed between two dredging cycles: a fall dredging period and a spring dredging period.
This fall, AIS is expected to focus most of its allotted 160,000 cubic yards of sediment removal on the harbor's sandspit, which is considered a "feeder" beach for the harbor's entrance channel. It appears larger than normal this year.
"The sandspit has a tremendous amount of sand on it right now," said waterfront facilities manager Karl Treiberg.
Over the past few years, the harbor has been averaging around 270,000 cubic yards of material removed each year, but Treiberg expects that with the sandspit so large, the dredging contractor will probably be approaching the 320,000 cubic yard limit for this year.
The dredged material is sent through a pipeline down the coast to an area just off Santa Barbara's East Beach. There, the sediment will be discharged.
Phase 4 of the harbor's breakwater cap repair project is complete, resulting in the completion of the $1.9 million project that was started in 2004. Phase 4 construction started Sept. 24 with the demolition of eight of the remaining nine panels of sidewalk and parapet wall along the curved section of the breakwater.
The demolition, conducted by Brough Construction, was completed in two weeks. However, construction of the new cap ran into some complications: High tides and large swells led to the delay of installing the reinforced rebar and concrete pouring.
Once the rebar was in place, the contractor poured concrete for seven of the sections of the sidewalk and replaced a slab of concrete in front of the Marina One gangway that was part of the original 1930 breakwater.
Most of the wall sections in need of repair have been reconstructed, adding much-needed protection to the harbor from coastal storms and large waves. The final two concrete panels adjacent to Marina One were finished at the end of November.


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With mild temperatures, D72 had a great turnout of 50 anglers on January 27, 2018 at Lake Sinclair! The sky was cloudy and water temperature was about 48 degrees.
Jimmy Little of Macon, Ga brought the winning sack of 5 bass totaling 13.78 pounds to the scales. He put $807 in his pocket for his patience, as everyone said fishing was slow. Jimmy likes to use a jig for catching fish.
David Simmons of Suwanee, Ga caught 4 keepers weighing 11.04 pounds, and placed second for $555. One of his four went 4.80 pounds.
Jay Carter of Warner Robins, GA caught the Big Bass of the tournament on a Rattle Trap. It weighed 6.23 pounds, and Jay won $250.
All anglers were eligible for two draw prizes at the end of the tournament for a crisp $50 bill. The lucky winners were Jim Windham and Todd Stewart.


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Documentary filmmakers don't get the exposure they deserve. Probably because the majority of the general population internally cringes at the thought of having to learn something from a movie. (I'm not exempting myself from this category.)
But there are different kinds of documentaries. Some focus on a particular person's life. Others chronicle particular points in time. 13th is unique in that it spans both a huge swath of time and individual experiences while tying it all back to its main theme: the mass incarceration of African-Americans in the US.
It's shocking. Even as someone who used to teach history, it's still shocking to watch all of it, laid out from the end of the Civil War to today. You can know every single incident covered in the film and still be shocked--it never goes away.
But this film wasn't put together with the intention of shocking the viewers. Sure, it shows photos of lynchings and videos of police shootings which are always difficult to watch, but really, this aims to educate people; educate anyone not intimately familiar with what it means to be black in America on the sobering fact that black men have a 1 in 3 chance of being incarcerated at some point in their life. 1 in 3. I'm going to repeat that again. 1 in 3.
There have been other avenues that have exposed the inner workings of the prison system and how dysfunctional it is. Lisa Ling, one of my favorite journalists, recently devoted an entire episode of This is Life to it. 13th, on the other hand, delves into the history of incarceration and the systemic biases built into the system and perpetuated throughout generations. Because as one interviewee in the film says, you can't understand why we have 2+ million people incarcerated and militarized police forces that kill nearly 1,000 people a year without learning the nuanced history of race relations and politics in America.
Lest anyone believe this is a "leftist piece of propaganda" (or whatever insult the internet trolls are using these days), it's worth mentioning DuVernay does give a voice to the dissenters--those who deny that mandatory minimums were racially motivated or that private prisons lobby for the incarceration of citizens for profit. It's not a large voice, but they are shown in the film. The film attacks politicians from both sides of the aisle and even black people themselves, for perpetuating this deep-seated belief that African-Americans are criminals. It leaves no angle untouched.
This is a learning movie. But a deeply important one and I hope the prospect of being educated on an uncomfortable and depressing subject doesn't deter people from hearing this message.
Final word: If I were still teaching Social Studies, this would absolutely be shown to every one of my students.
Labels: African-American, Ava DuVernay, documentary, Netflix, prison
Moana (2016)
Auli'i Cravalho, Dwayne Johnson
[I'm not going to lead with how hot The Rock is. I'm not going to lead with how hot The Rock is.]
The Rock is so hot.
People's Sexiest Man Alive, in fact.
So it is slightly disappointing to see his on-screen persona so unattractive (see below), but that's probably my biggest complaint about the movie. At least Maui has the cool tattoos like The Rock.
Moana is a beautiful story, told with a real sense of authenticity to the Polynesian people. The characters look accurate, the music throughout has the island feel, the story references both folklore and the actual history of the Polynesian people, and the main characters are actually voiced by islanders. So even before we delve into the specifics of the movie, it gets an A for effort. One of the favorite things about the movie is being able to hear hear the slight accent of Auli'i Cravalho come through when she pronounces certain words. It's the the little things.
Don't worry, I'm not going to turn this post into a dissertation on the importance of representation in media, but I will just say I teared up a bit thinking about how excited children of Pacific Island descent must have felt seeing their heritage shown accurately and positively for such a wide audience. I certainly remember the impact on my life as a kid just seeing the trailer for Mulan before it was released.
A lot was made about Moana lacking a romantic storyline and a Prince Charming, so to speak, to which I say, doesn't anyone remember Brave? But Moana takes the strong, female independent spirit a step further by focusing not on familial relationships, but solely within herself--her confidence, ability, and resolve to complete a mission she believes vital to save her people. To me, it's this generation's Mulan. Or a female Percy Jackson, but without all the extra characters.
It's difficult not to go on and on about all the details Disney got right about this movie because it is so important considering their history of being a bit insensitive about these things, but I also don't want to give anyone the impression that this movie is one big hyped-up PC fest. The story itself is very good, as is the music. It starts out a bit slow, with the unfolding of folklore tales and setting the stage for a young Moana who yearns for a bigger life (not unlike many of her Disney princess counterparts), but quickly picks up with more catchy songs and a lot of humor, courtesy of her very, very stupid chicken Heihei and Maui (the Rock), who sings my favorite song of the movie. The format is very reminiscent of the "classic" Disney movies with its soft animation, female heroine, and catchy soundtrack. I hope it signals a return to these types of movies from Disney in the future.
In a way, the entire thing feels less like an actual movie and more like the beautiful manifestation of a storybook. There's a sort of enveloping warmth created that makes you feel as though you are watching the legacy unfold in front of your eyes as someone tells you a story. It's quite magical.
The only lingering question I had at the end was...
Final word: Will Moana or Zootopia take home the Oscar?
But seriously, all that money spent on marketing this movie and they couldn't find a distributor who could create a better likeness of her? I personally took this photo at Target.
Labels: animated, Disney, Dwayne Johnson, family, folklore, Golden Globe nominee, Mulan, musical, Polynesia, princesses
Dakota Johnson, Rebel Wilson, Alison Brie, Leslie Mann
This movie is bad. And by bad, I mean terrible. And by terrible, I mean atrocious.
I understand all those words basically mean the same thing, but I'm searching for the exact right word to describe just how stupid this movie is.
I'll start with Rebel Wilson.
Rebel Wilson is the Napoleon Dynamite of actors: some people think she's hilarious, while the rest of us hate everyone who thinks she's hilarious because it means she keeps getting cast in movies.
So...she's in the movie. Does she single-handedly ruin it? No, because that would mean there was a meaningful plot to destroy. Instead, it's a Coke Zero version of He's Just Not That Into You with less famous, less attractive people. No offense to Alison Brie, whom I recently praised in the very watchable Sleeping With Other People, but she's just no Gennifer Goodwin. Nor is Fifty Shades actress Dakota Johnson, though this movie at least convinced me she does actually know how to act.
As it turns out, this movie is so reminiscent of He's Just Not That Into You because it's written by the same person, former Sex and the City writer Liz Tuccillo. Except that in this movie, not all storylines are equally interesting. Leslie Mann does her crazy lady thing, which is always entertaining, even if she's played it a million times before. And when Leslie Mann playing a stereotypical hormonal pregnant woman is the best part of the movie, well...
The best thing I can say about it is that I don't hate myself for watching it.
Final word: See the bolded statement above.
Labels: Alison Brie, comedy, Dakota Johnson, ensemble cast, female empowerment, Leslie Mann, Rebel Wilson, romance
10 More Things I've Learned About The Hallmark Christmas Movie Universe
I'm deep into my fifth year of watching every Hallmark Channel #CountdowntoChristmas movie (and tweeting about them! Follow me!) and even after 2 articles on the subject, I'm still finding new things to mock. At this point, I can't even be sure I enjoy these movies or if I am hate-watching them. I eagerly look forward to watching them each week, only to talk trash about them all the way through. Needless to say, my husband avoids coming home until late on Saturday and Sunday nights.
By branching out and also watching all the original programming on the Ion and UP Channels, I get some additional diversity (both in plot and actual diverse actors), but I also risk sitting through a lot more sludge. But with the exception of slightly racier fare on non-Hallmark channels (people make out!), they're all basically same.
Here are some more ridiculous things I've noticed this year:
1. Old people have nothing better to do than fix up any younger single people they come across. (On second thought, this might reflect real life.)
2. Big-city dwellers are obnoxious eaters, always unaware of their surroundings, and go into a small diner to order egg white omelettes with gluten-free toast and low fat, no foam lattes or whatever.
You can almost believe
it's Christine Taylor!
3. And the main character, luckily, always loves kids! How could anyone possibly be annoyed by a small human following you around and pouting when you can't make their Christmas play/concert/talent show, even if you're not related to them? Everyone loves watching untalented children act and sing in excruciatingly long school productions!
4. Everyone looks vaguely like someone else. Couldn't get a legitimate B- or even C-List star? No worries! There's a knock-off version of hm/her out there who needs a paycheck.
I was really excited about this duo
until I remembered
Danica McKellar isn't Asian
5. Minorities are generally limited to the following quotas:
1 minority assistant to the main character
1 minority in a vague position of power, who may or may not have any actual lines, but will appear just so you know they exist (This movie is diverse! The Board chairman is black!)
No more than 3 minority extras, often scanned past in the background, such as carolers on a street (who are always dressed in Dickens-era clothing)
Nope. Not her kid.
6. All kids are sweet, polite, and generally yearning for an additional parental figure.
7. Small towns are like cults, trying to ensnare any newcomer into staying there forever. (This one might be true too. I wouldn't know, small towns freak me out.)
8. Women are always choosing between their careers and love because there is no compromise in a Hallmark movie, so she usually passes up the big promotion and/or quits her job to stay with the small town guy she met 3 days ago. Yay love?
9. Emotional affairs: OK. Physical affairs: OMG NEVER.
10. Every family has a secret recipe for something because people in Hallmark movies are better cooks than the common folk who just use recipe books.
**I can't possibly let this article end without mentioning the highlight of this year's lineup: a Center Stage ripoff called A Nutcracker Christmas, featuring "Charlie from Seattle" aka Sascha Radetsky. It wasn't good, and more importantly, didn't have Cooper Nielsen, but it was still exciting.**
Labels: Christmas, Hallmark, tv movie
The Nice Guys (2016)
Ryan Gosling, Russell Crowe
This movie was odd. Like, Big Lewbowski odd.
Ok, not quite this weird
First of all, it's a comedy, but also a serious mystery. It's complicated enough that you can't even guess the full plot or who's behind it all until at least halfway through, which is sort of impressive because I can always guess the end. It makes me really annoying to watch movies with. (I suppose I could just keep my predictions to myself, but what fun would that be??)
This movie was marketed really badly. I remember watching the trailer and having no idea at the end of it what the hell the movie was about. Maybe the producers thought they could sell the movie on the backs of Gosling and Crowe's names alone? It's too bad, because the movie is quite clever and I'm sure I'm not the only one who skipped it in the theaters because of the way it was promoted.
Seriously. I'm semi-concerned.
Gosling, as a single father and alcoholic PI, does a brilliant job of being both a lovable drunk and a scuzzy businessman and father. Though maybe he's just lovable because you know, Ryan Gosling. It's impossible to dislike him. Even when he's ugly and in horrible movies like this one. Crowe, on the other hand, despite having put on a distracting amount of weight, plays an even-tempered muscle man who beats people up for a living. The combination of the erratic Gosling and the deep-voiced Crowe is perfect.
Fake Anna Chlumsky, aka Gosling's daughter in the movie, also does a fantastic job and deserves a shout-out because believable child acting is such a rarity. She adds an extra element of absurdity to the events and keeps the plot lighthearted even throughout intense action sequences.
With movies becoming seemingly more and more dumbed down with sequel upon sequel, let's all take a moment and recognize some appreciation for a movie that manages to craft a cagey little plot that uses its action to further and enhance the plot, not cover up the lack of one.
Final word: Entertaining. Surprisingly so.
Labels: 1970's, action, comedy, conspiracy, crime, detective, Los Angeles, Matt Bomer, porn, Russell Crowe, Ryan Gosling
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Membership Register - Christdala Evangelical Lutheran Church Millersburg, Minn.
Description Hard-bound ledger with biographical information on the members of Christdala Swedish Lutheran Church from 1877 through 1952 (with some information added at later dates as members died). Includes an alphabetical index of names with page numbers at the beginning, and individual entries for each person and family in the following pages. A list of births and baptisms into the church in the 1870s and 1880s is included in a section at the back. Notes on each member's birthdate and location, as well as other significant life events (baptism, immigration and arrival in Minnesota, confirmation, marriage, and death) are included when known. Headings for each category are in Swedish and most of the entries are also in Swedish; later notations are in English.
Transcription (FullText) Membership Register - Christdala Evangelical Lutheran Church Millersburg, Minn.


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Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Eyelid
Cyclopia
Neosporin for the Eyes
How Multiple Sclerosis Affects Your Eyes
How HIV Affects the Eyes
Ocular Myasthenia Gravis
Diplopia
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Retinal Tears
Central Retinal Vein Occlusion
Higher Order Aberrations of the Eye
Retinal Disease Testing
High Eye Pressure
Eye Herpes
Cellulitis of the Eye
Eye Infection Symptoms
Eye PVD
Eye Worms
Exotropia (Eye Misalignment)
Eye Discharge
Fuchs' Dystrophy
Eye Dilation
Pinguecula
Chronic Uveitis
Eyelash Mites
Scotoma (Blind Spot or Aura in Vision): Causes, Risk Factors and Treatment
Anisometropia
Hyphema
Convergence Insufficiency: What Is It, Symptoms and Treatments
Corneal Arcus
Peripheral Vision Loss
Scratched Cornea
Styes
Do Eyelashes Grow Back
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Shingles in the Face & Eyes: Treatments That Actually Work
Home / Conditions / Shingles in the Face & Eyes: Treatments
When you are released to your home, there are plenty of things you can do to ease your discomfort. The American Academy of Ophthalmology recommends:
Cool compresses. A moist, damp towel placed over your closed eyes can relieve some of your pain.
Painkillers. If your doctor agrees, you can use medications like aspirin to ease distress.
Eye drops. Your doctor may suggest soothing drops to help your tissues knit back together.
Regardless of what you do at home, it's crucial to stay in touch with your doctor as you heal. The infection is serious, and it pays to work with a professional to heal properly. Don't attempt to treat the issue at home on your own without professional medical supervision.
What You Should Know About Shingles
When Shingles Strikes Your Face
Harm Your Eyes
Can You Prevent?
Your body is crisscrossed with a network of nerves. After a bout of chickenpox, the virus that causes the condition can retreat into that nerve network. When one nerve branch is irritated by the chickenpox virus, it causes blisters. That outbreak is known as shingles.
In most people, the shingles blisters wrap around one side of the torso. But the blisters can appear on the face instead.
Shingles can also strike your eyes, and when that happens, it's a medical emergency. The outbreak can cause temporary vision problems, and without treatment, those losses can become permanent.
Antiviral medication can help to reduce your symptoms and ease discomfort, but you will need to start treatment as soon as outbreaks begin. At-home care, including using cool compresses, may also be helpful.
If you've had chickenpox, you are at risk for shingles. A vaccine can help to reduce your likelihood of facing serious shingles complications.
You may not remember having the itchy, painful welts caused by chickenpox. But according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 99.5 percent of people born before 1980 were infected at one point or another. Anyone who has been infected is at risk for shingles.
When chickenpox infections fade, the virus that caused them does not. Chickenpox is caused by the varicella-zoster virus (VZV), and it's a member of the herpes family. Like most herpes-based illnesses, VZV never really goes away. Instead, it lies dormant within your body.
VZV rests within your nerves, and during a shingles outbreak, the virus triggers inflammation and pain along a nerve band. The CDC says one in three people will get shingles. Most have just one outbreak, but some have repeated problems.
Mayo Clinic says shingles can cause more than pain. The condition can also cause:
Persistent fatigue.
Fever.
Headache.
Sensitivity to light.
Typically, people with shingles will experience blisters along just one small area that wraps around the torso. But any part of the body served by nerves can get hit with shingles. Symptoms last for about two weeks before fading away.
Dozens of muscles line your face, and they help you talk, eat, blink, and wink. All those movements start with nerve impulses, and any nerve band can get hit with a shingles outbreak.
Just one side of the face is touched by the issue, and the blisters will not spread. If you touch the bumps on one side of your face and then touch the other, you can't spread the problem around. The virus sits within the nerves, far below the skin, and you can't influence how the infection spreads.
Your shingles may appear on or around your eyelid, and that can make blinking difficult or painful. Sometimes, the tissues swell, and that makes it hard for you to open your eye.
When you think it's likely that rashes on your face are because of shingles, the American Academy of Dermatology Association (AAD) recommends you seek care within three days to prevent long-term complications such as chronic nerve pain (postherpetic neuralgia).
After taking a comprehensive medical history, a dermatologist will examine the skin rash to determine whether you have shingles or another condition. Typically, the doctor asks questions about your symptoms, such as weakness or fever preceding the development of rashes. Shingles may occur several years after treating chickenpox but tends to be painful or itchy.
Rashes initially appear as small red dots that later blister and crust along specific dermatomes. Your doctor will scrape fluid from the blister and send it to the lab for visualization under a high-powered microscope. If the fluid contains the shingles virus, it's confirmation of shingles disease.
Doctors also rely on the polymerase chain reaction, another laboratory test, to confirm a diagnosis. Other tests that can help your doctor diagnose shingles include:
Direct fluorescent antibody
Tzanck smear
Serological tests
Serological tests little specificity and are not ideal for diagnosing shingles.
Shingles Can Harm Your Eyes
Eyelid shingles can impact your vision and your comfort. But shingles can do even more. The virus can spread to tissues within the eye, and that can cause additional damage.
Researchers say 1 person in 100 can develop the ophthalmic version of shingles, and most who do are elderly. If you have the condition, you may visit your doctor complaining of:
Vision changes.
Redness in your eye.
Welts around your eye.
It's important to get help right away when shingles appears in your eye, says Mayo Clinic. Shingles can cause longstanding problems with your vision, and in some cases, it can cause blindness. The sooner you act, the better.
You will probably be encouraged to get help, experts say, as shingles within the eye are excruciating. You might describe the pain as itchy, burning, or stabbing. It does not get better if you blink or rest. And it may feel worse with each passing day.
Shingles brings more than just extreme discomfort to the eyes. It can also weaken the structures within the eye, and that can increase your risk of other eye health problems. The American Academy of Ophthalmology says a case of shingles can up your risk of developing these issues:
If the welts appear on your cornea, they can leave scars behind. Those marks can blur your vision for years to come.
How Eye Shingles Are Treated
You do not have to endure shingles. With the help of your doctor, you can overcome the discomfort and help the outbreak to heal. You can also take some steps to reduce the frequency and severity of your outbreaks.
The key is to get help within three days of the start of an outbreak. That is the moment at which your immune system is still strong but could use a little boost. Antiviral medications can tamp down the virus and send it back to the nerve root, so you will feel a bit more comfortable.
You will still be at risk for future outbreaks, as shingles can't be cured. But the treatment can keep the excruciating pain and damage at bay.
Your doctor may ask you to spend a few days in the hospital. You will get around-the-clock care for your outbreak, and your doctor can watch the infection carefully and step in if sight-stealing complications appear.
Can You Prevent Shingles?
Shingles are caused by an outbreak of the chickenpox virus. You have two avenues to follow that lead to prevention, including avoidance and vaccines.
If you've never been exposed to the chickenpox virus, prevention is critical. That means you should avoid:
Anyone with active chickenpox. The puss inside the chickenpox holds the virus, and it's very contagious. Steer clear of anyone who has been diagnosed. Chickenpox is considered to be more contagious than shingles.
Anyone with shingles. You can get shingles from someone with an outbreak, although it's rare. If you've never been exposed, do not take a chance.
If the outbreak is in the blister phase, the person is contagious. Once the blisters crust over, the person is no longer contagious. If the person keeps their rash and blisters covered, the risk of spreading the virus is low.
Some people are more susceptible to contracting the virus. This includes people with certain autoimmune conditions as well as those with other conditions that suppress the immune system. People who take certain immunosuppressive medications are also at a higher risk.
Adults 50 and older can use a vaccine for protection. Experts agree that the vaccine is not perfect, and some people who get it still get sick later. But it can reduce your risk of an outbreak. Your doctor can tell you whether you should get it and when.
Aside from vaccination and avoidance, there is no other way to prevent shingles from attacking your body. But remember that if you notice tingling or pain along a nerve band, your doctor can help. Ask about the symptoms you see and get help as soon as you can.
FAQs About Shingles
In most cases, the varicella infection lasts between three to five weeks. Shingles usually begin with a burning or tingling and painful sensation on one side of the body. Some individuals also experience numbness and itching. Within one week, the sensations disappear, and small red rashes follow.
The rash turns into a fluid-containing blister, dries up within the next few days, and crusts to form scabs. In a couple of weeks, even the scab clears. However, long-term complications can occur and prolong shingles without timely treatment.
What can be mistaken for shingles?
Other skin conditions manifesting with rashes such as hives, eczema and psoriasis can be mistaken for shingles. Dermatologists look at the different characteristics of the rash to identify the cause. For instance, raised and welt-like rashes result from hives, while psoriasis manifests with red patches having white scales. Both differ from shingles that begin with small red spots, which blister and crust.
What triggers a shingles outbreak?
After an episode of chickenpox, the virus (Varicella zoster) remains dormant in the body, hiding within the nerves. As long as your immunity is strong, the infection remains suppressed. A compromise of your immune system, whether due to disease or other causes like aging, leads to virus reactivation. The result is a shingles rash that is quite painful.
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