Engravers spend many hours engraving words and images into stone and other hard surfaces. Using the GIMP image-editing software, you can create the engraving effect in graphical projects. This effect can be applied to any layer, whether it contains text or some type of graphics or image. For the most realistic results, you will want to add the effect over a layer that looks like stone or rock, but it can be added over almost any image.
Add text by clicking the "Text" tool, then clicking and dragging on the canvas. Type the text you wish to insert.
Choose a different font and text size in the Options window if you desire.
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Click the "Eye" icon next to the text layer in the Layers window to hide the layer from view.


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Multi-Dot Shell - ROSE-QUARTZ/INDIA-INK - XS - Talbots is rated 4.5 out of 5 by 4.
A fun and feminine shell to add to your collection. Playful dots in a variety of sizes and a shirred neckline enhance the classic silhouette with a modern twist.
Fit: Length: Misses: 23", Petite: 22", Plus: 28 1/2", Plus petite: 27"
Rated 3 out of 5 by Simmie from Purchased for layering This item was in my wish list for several weeks. It is beautiful, but unfortunately I had to return The color did not complement my skin tone. The blue is india ink not indigo. The reason for the the rating is the arm holes were very big.
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Rated 5 out of 5 by Marie from Smart Choice! I too agree with the last reviewer. I bought this blouse in January to wear with a beautiful blue cashmere blazer from Talbots. The armholes are cut higher than a summer sleeveless blouse. The neckline is not low, and has great detailing. It is smarter to wear a sleeveless blouse with a blazer or jacket, winter or summer, enabling you remain comfortable when needed.
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Today we say GG to Samuel 'flickz' Jones one last time, as he announces his retirement from competitive CS:GO.
"There have been many ups and downs over the two years, but I wouldn't change a thing.
Joining us in March this year, Sam swiftly became a valued player of the lineup, participating in multiple domestic and international events including IEM Sydney, the ESL ANZ Championships and eXTREMESLAND Asia Finals in Shanghai, and ended his career on a high with wins at WESG Oceania Finals in Adelaide, the LPL Pro Invitational Finals in Auckland, and the ESL AU & NZ Championships in Brisbane.
He has been an amazing player to work with, consistently delivering his best efforts and will be sorely missed.
GG for the last time.
From all of us at the Club, thank you for the time we've shared, and we wish you all the best for your future endeavours.


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The Scariest History What-If Ever: Nazi Germany with a Nuclear Weapon
August 4, 2017 Topic: History Region: Europe Blog Brand: The Buzz Tags: NaziThird ReichGermanyNukesHitlerMilitaryTechnologyNuclear Weapons
The prospect of a German atomic bomb is sobering, but Nazi scientists themselves doomed the project to failure.
by Warfare History Network
The most nightmarish of World War II alternative history scenarios is the one in which Nazi Germany acquires atomic weapons. In fact, by the spring of 1945, when America's massive nuclear program was reaching its culmination, the Nazi atomic program consisted of one experimental reactor in a cave in southern Germany, operated by scientists who lacked a clear conception of how to build an atomic weapon.
Even if the German scientists had known what they were doing, they still lacked suitable radioactive material to produce a weapon. One of World War II's most remarkable and controversial stories is just how the Nazi atomic program came to this sorry pass.
The potential power of atomic energy is a corollary of Einstein's famous Theory of Relativity equation, E = MC2. Simply put, the equation means that all matter is energy. To determine the energy contained in any bit of matter, one need only multiply its mass times the square of the speed of light. As the speed of light is somewhere in excess of 186,000 miles per second, the resulting number is correspondingly huge.
Early in the 20th century, physicists realized that if it was possible to release the atomic energy in a piece of matter, say a brick, they could create a doomsday weapon. Fortunately, the atoms in bricks, and in almost all ordinary matter, are quite stable and not likely to erupt in an atomic chain reaction. However, by the mid-1930s, experiments with the unstable element uranium revealed the potential to tap into its store of nuclear energy and create machines of awesome power.
Nazi Germany's Rejection of "Jewish Physics"
Theoretically, by the 1930s Germany had a jump on the rest of the world in atomic research. Many of the world's top nuclear physicists were German or Austrian, or worked closely with German or Austrian colleagues. It was a German scientist, Otto Hahn, who first split the atom in 1938. Although Hahn later tried to claim all the credit for his experiment, at the time he did not actually know what he had done.
It was Lise Meitner, an Austrian Jewish colleague, who realized the significance of Hahn's discovery and described the processes involved. Meitner realized that Hahn, by bombarding a small sample of uranium with neutrons, had literally broken some uranium atoms apart, releasing powerful atomic energy. Incredibly, in accord with Nazi policy, Hahn and other "German" academics had recently driven Meitner from her post at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry near Berlin to refuge in Sweden. Meitner was a brilliant scientist, but evidently socially and politically inept enough that she continued to assist Hahn despite his treatment of her and Nazi Germany's policies toward Jews in general.
Although Meitner continued to assist her former colleagues in Nazi Germany for a time, most Jewish scientists were not so lucky or naïve. By the late 1930s almost all of Germany and Austria's Jewish physicists, along with many others who rejected Nazism, had fled, mostly to Britain or America. Einstein was by far the most famous among them, but only one of a great many.
Nazi academics began to take over Germany's great educational institutions, hungrily seizing positions and offices previously held by Jews, foreigners, or anti-Nazi German academics. Some of these newcomers were marginal teachers and scientists, envious of successes by those they considered racially or ideologically inferior. Many disdained theoretical physics and Einstein's relativity theories.
These men and the Nazi hierarchy regarded Einstein's relativity theories and their progeny as "Jewish physics." For them, the only valid physics was "Deutsche" or "Volkish" physics, by which they apparently meant a classical experimental physics that could somehow ignore the realities Einstein described. Nonetheless, not all of Germany's scientists disdained "Jewish physics," and as war loomed and then broke out, even high-ranking Nazis came to appreciate the tantalizing prospect of an atomic super weapon.
Werner Heisenberg: Germany's Top Physicist
In the late 1930s, the most famous physicist in Germany (Einstein having left Germany for New Jersey) was Werner Heisenberg. Heisenberg was internationally renowned for his work in quantum mechanics and the Uncertainty Principle that usually bore his name. He was a brilliant theorist and mathematician and prided himself on his practical abilities as a physicist, although in fact these were suspect. For a time he was Germany's youngest full professor.
In 1932, Heisenberg was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics for his work on the Uncertainty Principle, although the prize committee slighted several other physicists who arguably deserved as much credit as the charismatic Heisenberg. In 1937, Heisenberg was appointed to a senior professorship at Leipzig University.
While not a card-carrying Nazi, Heisenberg was a loyal and patriotic German. Like many German academics and professional soldiers of his time, he considered himself above politics, and so was willing to serve whatever government ruled Germany, even Hitler's. He was the logical choice to lead the country's atomic weapons program.
However, in July 1937, just months before Hahn split the atom, Heisenberg came under attack in an article that appeared in Das Schwarze Korps, an SS magazine. The instigator behind the article was Johannes Stark, a rabidly anti-Semitic experimentalist who resented Heisenberg's success and his association with Jewish physicists, a practical necessity in Heisenberg's field. The article accused Heisenberg of being a part of a "white Jewish" establishment that sought to keep true Germans from positions of importance, promoted Einstein's relativity theory, and by implication sought to undermine the Nazi Party.
Such an attack was serious business in Nazi Germany and threatened internment in a concentration camp or worse. Heisenberg sought the assistance of friends and associates within the establishment, including Nazi Party members, to clear his name. Heisenberg's mother, who had been an acquaintance of Heinrich Himmler's father, passed on a personal letter from the physicist to the SS Reichsführer. After a thorough investigation by the SS, which included a terrifying interview at its Berlin headquarters, Himmler personally exonerated Heisenberg, effectively inoculating him from charges of treason until the end of the war.
In his letter clearing Heisenberg, Himmler permitted him to continue with his work, but with the proviso that Heisenberg could only apply relativity theory and the work of Jewish scientists without acknowledging them. Relieved, Heisenberg readily agreed to the conditions and began working in earnest on the German atomic project.
Heavy Water Reactor Project
While Germany began state-sponsored atomic research several years before the Allies, its efforts did not go unnoticed. Because so many physicists were driven from the Reich, Allied governments were quickly able to form a relatively clear picture of German efforts. America's program was sparked in part by Einstein's warning to President Franklin D. Roosevelt concerning possible German successes.
By 1941, the Germans were operating two experimental reactor projects, but German success had in fact been limited. Heisenberg's team in particular made certain engineering decisions that put the German program almost immediately at risk.
Very basically, a nuclear reactor operates by inducing a chain reaction in masses of Uranium 238 within the reactor. To initiate a reaction, the flow of neutrons around the radioactive isotope must be moderated by another substance, such as graphite or deuterium (heavy water). The Germans chose to use heavy water, which is rare in nature and difficult to manufacture.
In 1940, the Germans captured a heavy water plant in Vermok, a Norwegian town 100 miles north of Oslo. British intelligence had learned the basic outline of the German reactor project and realized that the Norwegian heavy water supply was a weak link. By mid-1942, the Norwegian factory was producing up to 10,000 pounds of heavy water per year for Heisenberg's teams in Leipzig and Berlin. An initial raid on the plant by British paratroopers ended in disaster when the gliders carrying the troops crashed far from the target.
The British were concerned enough about the plant to mount another operation. The second raid was more subtle than the first. A daring team of Norwegian commandos infiltrated the plant and blew up the water tanks. Later, British submarines interdicted further shipments. The loss of so much heavy water set the German project back but did not derail it. That, the Germans unwittingly did themselves.
The Challenges of U-235 Enrichment
Despite the continuing attacks on the heavy water supply line, by 1941 German scientists had come to several broad theoretical conclusions that mirrored American conceptions of how to build an atomic device: (1) an enriched uranium fission device, (2) a plutonium-based fission device, or (3) a "reactor bomb." While the United States would build successful atomic reactors and both uranium and plutonium bombs by the end of the war, the German scientists never approached a working conception for actual production of a successful atomic machine.
The American bomb that exploded over Hiroshima was a uranium fission device. The key to manufacturing such a bomb was producing sufficient quantities of highly enriched Uranium 235, an isotope that exists naturally only in tiny quantities within the much more abundant Uranium 238. Extracting U-235 from U-238 cannot be done chemically and requires a time-consuming and expensive gaseous diffusion process.
Here, German racial policies effectively stymied Nazi pursuit of a nuclear device. A German, Gustav Hertz, was on the cutting edge of research on gaseous diffusion. But Hertz's uncle, the famous Heinrich Hertz, was Jewish. As a result, Gustav was forced out of his position as head of the physics department at Berlin Technical College. Whatever Nazi functionary replaced him evidently was unable or uninterested in continuing Hertz's work, and the Germans never developed a uranium isotope separation method.
Both sides faced the question of how much U-235 would be necessary to make a workable atomic bomb. The issue was particularly crucial given the difficulty of uranium separation. Heisenberg and the Germans made a fundamental and critical theoretical mistake regarding the practicality of a U-235 fission device. They thought a bomb required far too much U-235 to make it a practical weapon in any case.
This error remains the source of enduring controversy. It appears Heisenberg only attempted to roughly calculate the critical mass of U-235 that would produce a runaway nuclear chain reaction. He and his colleagues erroneously concluded that it would require about a ton of U-235 to reach critical mass.
In fact, as American scientists determined, critical mass was less than 100 pounds of U-235. The Germans knew that producing a ton of enriched U-235 was a practical impossibility. The more modest actual requirement for an atomic bomb was, however, within their reach, assuming an enormous industrial and governmental effort (as in fact occurred with the Manhattan Project).
No Support From Speer
Whether Germany would launch its own Manhattan Project was not up to Heisenberg or the other German scientists, but the Reich's armaments minister, Albert Speer. Speer needed to know whether the scientists could deliver a workable weapon before the war ended. Heisenberg met with Speer in 1942 during the course of a conference on the potentialities of nuclear power put on for various officials from the Army and the SS.
What exactly was said during the conference and during Speer's more private discussions with Heisenberg is not known, but evidently Heisenberg did not encourage Speer as to the short-term possibilities of producing uranium-based atomic weapons or a practical reactor engine for ships or submarines. Heisenberg did not request a dramatic increase in funding for the German project.
Speer concluded that the German atom scientists could make little contribution to the war effort and concentrated the Reich's experimental energies on the more promising rocket and jet projects that would materialize before the end of the war. Clearly, the German scientists did not believe they could extract sufficient U-235 to make a bomb and so did not urge Speer to commit German industry to an isotope separation project, as was then being done in the United States at the Manhattan Project's huge Oak Ridge, Tenn., facility.
Working Toward a Plutonium Bomb
Heisenberg, however, was not without hope. German scientists were on their way to producing a working nuclear reactor. For a time, Heisenberg and his scientists considered the possibility of using the reactor itself as a kind of "dirty bomb." The reactor ran on U-238 and so could not sustain the kind of rapid chain reaction required for a true atomic explosion, but the Germans considered the possibility of running the reactor to a critical stage and then supplementing the intense radiation developed with conventional explosives. The result would be massive radioactive contamination. Like a nuclear bomb with a ton of uranium, the idea itself was impractical: How do you deliver a reactor bomb?
Germany's last hope was producing sufficient plutonium in a reactor and using it, rather than uranium, as the fissionable bomb material. Such a plutonium bomb was dropped on Nagasaki. The Germans realized that highly radioactive plutonium could be produced as a byproduct of U-238 "burned" in the reactor. Plutonium in sufficient quantities would work as well or better than U-235 in an atomic device. Heisenberg and other scientists had hinted at such a possibility during the conferences with Speer and other Nazi officials.
As Heisenberg's discussions with Speer implied, German reactor research remained a surprisingly academic endeavor. While the Germans managed to construct a couple of experimental reactors, the various teams did not always coordinate their efforts, and it took the Germans much longer than the Allies to simply determine what shape the uranium pile should take within the reactor. Heisenberg and other scientists pursued atomic research while carrying on other academic duties, visiting occupied countries on propaganda missions, and writing papers.
The German hierarchy never deliberately organized German industry to aid the bomb project. There was nothing in Germany like the scientifically star-studded Los Alamos pressure cooker or the vast Tennessee separation plant. The Germans also had to contend with the insecure heavy water supply and American and British air raids on important industrial, transportation, and research facilities.
By 1945, German research teams managed to build a research reactor in an abandoned cave in the Swabian region of southwest Germany, far from the advancing Soviet Red Army and coincidentally in the general area where Einstein spent some of his boyhood. Yet, despite Heisenberg's best efforts, sometimes at physical risk to himself and his assistants, the Germans did not succeed in producing a self-sustaining chain reaction in the reactor by the time American troops arrived.
Not only had the German scientists failed, but they were surprised when they realized that the Allied scientists advancing with the American troops were unimpressed by their accomplishments. The German reactor was little more than a curiosity. The Americans were mainly concerned that leftover uranium, heavy water, and Germans physicists not fall into Russian hands.
Why Did the Nazi Atomic Weapons Project Fail?
After the war, Heisenberg and his apologists suggested that the project failed because Heisenberg deliberately sabotaged it. Heisenberg intimated that he knew the proper critical mass for U-235 in 1942, but deliberately misled Speer in order to frustrate the German project. Heisenberg's famous meeting with his mentor, the great Danish (and half-Jewish) physicist Nils Bohr, in Copenhagen in 1941, has also been the subject of much speculation, and the subject of a prize-winning play that suggests Heisenberg was morally troubled at the prospect of a Nazi bomb.
Beyond Heisenberg's own circumlocutions on the topic, and quasi-fictional speculations, there are abundant reasons for the German failure that have little to do with postwar claims of moral scruples by German scientists. Most available evidence suggests that the German physicists would have happily produced a bomb if they had been capable. That they did not was due to a number of discrete and explainable reasons.
Most obviously, Germany suffered from a critical brain drain produced by Nazi anti-Semitism. Brilliant scientists in Germany and occupied Europe were exiled, ignored, or executed. Many found their way to England or America where they dedicated themselves to destroying the Nazi regime. Although Heisenberg and some of his remaining colleagues were topnotch physicists, they could not match the basic brainpower deliberately assembled for the Manhattan Project.
Allied organizational ability also outmatched Germany's. There were no effective German counterparts to General Leslie Groves or Robert Oppenheimer, who together drove the Manhattan Project. The German project bounced around under varying ministries until the end of the war, while the scientists themselves often worked in an uncoordinated, wasteful fashion.
The Germans remained blissfully unaware of American advances throughout the war. This made the Germans complacent. Arrogantly, they refused to believe German science could fall behind American science. Effective Allied security prevented German intelligence from proving otherwise.
Mistakes Made by the Nazi Scientists
Meanwhile, a steady stream of fleeing European scientists, Bohr among them (in 1943), provided a relatively clear picture of German advances, or lack thereof, to Allied intelligence services. After the war, captured German scientists were surreptitiously tape recorded after being informed of the atomic bombing of Japan. The tapes reveal a mixture of surprise, bewilderment, and excuses.
Heisenberg and his colleagues were very smart, but they made fundamental conceptual errors throughout the war that led them to believe producing an atomic weapon was more difficult and impracticable than was the case. These misconceptions ranged from miscalculation of the critical mass necessary to fission U-235 in a bomb to the best shape to form U-238 in a reactor to the relative difficulty of separating the two isotopes. All of these problems were correctly solved relatively early on by Allied scientists.
Finally, the overall cultural prejudices of the regime and of a great number of scientists, functionaries, and soldiers prevented the German project from being anything more than a sidelight, while "real" German scientists worked on jets and rockets. While the jet and rocket projects were impressive and far in advance of Allied efforts, they also proved to be indecisive militarily and even wasteful.
On the other hand, had Germany produced just a couple of atomic weapons before the end of the war, instead of the thousands of V-1 and V-2 rockets lobbed on Britain, the course of history would undoubtedly have been different. For reasons having little to do with morality or luck, we remain fortunate this alternate history did not come to pass.
This article by Jonathan F. Keiler originally appeared on Warfare History Network.

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American Revolution and French Revolution?
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Time discrepancies in the animus?
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Google Finds Way To Bypass Internet Explorer Engine
Google introduced a coding plug-in for Web site developers that instructs Microsoft Internet Explorer browsers to use Google Chrome technologies.
The plug-in, called "Google Chrome Frame," was announced on Tuesday and is still at the early release stage, according to a Google blog. The blog features a video suggesting that IE 8 will pass the Acid3 test while using Google Chrome Frame. It also suggests that developers will see better support for rich Internet applications by using the plug-in.
The switch is triggered by adding a single tag to a Web site's HTML markup. It tells IE to use the open source WebKit Web content engine favored by the Google Chrome browser rather than Microsoft's IE Trident layout engine.
Web developers can take advantage of upcoming HTML 5 technologies and "recent JavaScript performance improvements" by using Google Chrome Frame, according to Google's blog. However, HTML 5 is still at the draft stage. W3C documentation points to a release milestone for the HTML 5 recommendation sometime in 2009 to 2010. A Google spokesperson said that final changes to the HTML 5 spec might happen in October or November, but "it's still a long process after that."
HTML 5 will have offline capabilities allowing calendar or e-mail applications to sync, as well as audio and video tags that don't depend on the browser using Adobe Flash or Microsoft Silverlight, the Google spokesperson noted.
A spokesperson for Microsoft explained in a released statement that "HTML5 is still a standard in progress and the makers of it say it will be years at least before it's done, so no one can standardize on it." The spokesperson added that all browsers support parts of HTML 5. Internet Explorer supports the following features in the current spec:
"The DOM Store -- that allows developers to store content and data on the end users computer
Cross Document Messaging
Cross Domain Messaging
Ajax Navigation
ContentEditable"
The statement provided by Microsoft suggested that there could be security repercussions to using Google Chrome Frame.
"Given the security issues with plug-ins in general and Google Chrome in particular, Google Chrome Frame running as a plug-in has doubled the attack area for malware and malicious scripts," the statement explained. "This is not a risk we would recommend our friends and families take."
Microsoft referred people to studies by NSS Labs, funded by Microsoft, on the protections afforded by browsers against phishing attacks and malware. Those studies found IE 8 to be one of the safest browsers.
A statement from Google took a different view on the alleged security risks of its browser and plug-in.
"While we encourage users to use a more modern and standards compliant browser such as Firefox, Safari, Opera or Google Chrome rather than a plug-in, for those who don't, Google Chrome Frame is designed to provide better performance, strong security features, and more choice to both developers and users, across all versions of Internet Explorer."
Google's statement cited protections against malware and phishing, as well as its sandbox security technology, plus frequent browser updates to meet emerging online threats.
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"If any googler wants to investigate, just drop me a line and I'm happy to provide MPS report or other troubleshooting data for diagnostics," Wang wrote.
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Kurt Mackie is senior news producer for 1105 Media's Converge360 group.
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Google Quietly Drops New Privacy Sandbox Guidance, Clamps Down On Workarounds For Cross-Site Identity And Tracking
by AdExchanger Content Studio // Tuesday, August 10th, 2021 – 12:39 pm
This article is sponsored by RTB House.
Google's recently updated timeline for phasing out third-party cookies in Chrome wasn't the end of the story.
Late on Friday, July 23, Google launched a dedicated website with a more detailed running timeline, which it plans to update every month. It announced the website's launch via tweet rather than blog or press release. (You'd be forgiven for missing the news if you don't already follow the Chrome Developers Twitter account.)
RTB House blogged about Google's delay when it was announced, explaining why we thought it was a good move and making our own predictions about when ad tech players would need to begin their Privacy Sandbox studies to be ready for the shifted deadline.
Our estimates turned out to be quite accurate: With the new website giving more regular updates, it's clear that advertising vendors without prototypes using Google Chrome advertising APIs built this year will have a hard time catching up to market leaders. The bottom line: The industry did not get an extra two years to prepare as previously assumed.
What can you expect next in leading Google's Privacy Sandbox proposals?
Google's official timeline states that proposals for both displaying and measuring ads will enter the Origin Trials phase in Q4 2021. However, the proposals aiming to strengthen cross-site privacy boundaries are planned for the second half of Q4. This is especially significant as the Fenced Frames API is among them, and it is one of the crucial elements of FLEDGE. It means Origin Trials for FLEDGE will start a little later than for FLoC, which has already been confirmed by Michael Kleber, Privacy Sandbox Lead Engineer.
It is also worth noting that the initial FLoC Origin Trials have just been finished. The setup of these tests, resulting in a scale limited to only around 0.5% of browser users from selected countries, did not allow participating entities to extract relevant insights. The next Origin Trials of FLoC – which, according to the presented timeline, are planned for Q4 2021 – are expected to be more extensive than the first.
Industry consensus is that FloC still allows potential bad actors to identify users and track them at the individual level. Mozilla's extensive FLoC privacy analysis is a standout example of how the industry thinks about FLoC, and industry expert Łukasz Olejnik's independent analysis has made striking conclusions about its current state (including that it can disclose information about browser use in incognito mode and that it can reveal website visit history). Obviously, these issues will need to be addressed in the next iteration of FLoC, and we're still fairly optimistic about the ability of Chrome engineers to solve them.
Google publicly claimed that the recent Origin Trials were only the initial tests of FLoC on a small percentage of users in selected countries, and that Google "will expand to other regions as the trial expands globally." We expect the following Origin Trials to be available in the EEA region to allow tech companies and publishers focused on the European region to test this API. Otherwise, Google will again face accusations of FLoC not being GDPR-compliant.
However, the biggest news from Google's Friday announcement relates to the company's updates regarding potential workarounds to FLoC. Google promised that it will share updates regarding the company's work on reducing workarounds to cross-site tracking.
Proposals addressing covert tracking techniques, such as fingerprinting and network-level tracking, are designed to mitigate particular entropy (browser-side signals available via the network) that might be used to build server-side user/device profiles and thus functionally allow cross-site tracking without third-party cookies.
Out of all the announced proposals, three API groups seem to be particularly important because they may have a potential impact on the individual-based targeting methods:
Mitigating usage of User-Agent string for building a user/device profile. [a. User-Agent Client Hints; b. User-Agent Reduction]
Significantly reducing the usability of email as a cross-site identifier or for mitigating bounce tracking. [a. WebID API]
Mitigating abuse of an IP address for building a user/device profile. (Yes, it is now official: Chrome plans to provide a mechanism which hides user/device IP address sharing in the second half of 2022.) [a. Gnatcatcher (IP blindness)]
Most of the presented APIs are planned to become available as soon as next year. However, there are no details as to whether the proposed dates indicate the start of testing or their final adoption. This is crucial, as these APIs will affect the targeting methods developed by vendors using browser-side signals for probabilistic identifiers working cross-site. According to various estimates, there are around 80 such vendors, and these changes will greatly limit their technological capabilities and efficacy.
These APIs may have a significant impact on cross-site identity and targeting in the cookieless future. Marketers also need to understand how the absence of particular entropies in data will affect the ultimate effectiveness of the particular audience-targeting method.


PARISH HOUSE IS WRECKED BY BLAST.
BOMB MAY HAVE DESTROYED TOLEDO CONGREGATIONAL STRUCTURE -- TWO LOSE LIVES.
WOMAN CARETAKER AND HUSBAND ARE KILLED, AND WOMAN ASSISTANT IS SEVERELY BURNED.
Toledo, Ohio, Feb. 5 (AP) -- Two persons were killed and a third seriously injured early today in an explosion and fire that destroyed the First Congregational Church and adjacent parish property.
MR. and MRS. CLYDE E. WILT.
MRS. WILT was caretaker of the church.
MRS. MARY FITZGERALD, assistant caretaker was taken to a hospital.
Cause of the explosion was not definitely determined. Fireman expressed belief it might have resulted from escaping gas in a water heater, but Charles H. Langdon, architect of the building, declared the blast may have resulted from a bomb. He said he did not believe gas was escaping.
Thousands of persons crowded the fire lines around the church property while firemen plunged into the kitchen of the parish house and brought out MRS. FITZGERALD, 33, and the bodies of WILT and his wife. MRS. FITZGERALD was severely burned.
The blast was of teriffic force, hurling doors and window frames across the street and rocking the neighborhood. Windows of buildings nearby were shattered.
MRS. FITZGERALD was so badly burned that she was not identified until her husband reached the hospital.
The loss was estimated at $200,000.
A suspicious appearing man seen at the church yesterday caused belief the explosion was caused by a bomb.
The Rev. Allan Stockdale, pastor of the church, is visiting in Washington, D.C.


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WeWork competitor Cowork|rs eyeing capital raise
Company is looking to expand across the northeast
By Katherine Clarke
WeWork competitor Cowork|rs is looking to court outside investors to support its expansion both in New York and across the Northeast, founder Shlomo Silber told The Real Deal.
Silber and the company's other top brass are pitching their co-working concept to developers, institutional investors and lenders with the hope of raising north of $20 million, he said.
Cowork|rs top brass hopes the funding will take the form of an extended line of credit, allowing the start-up to ink deals for targeted spaces at a measured pace as they become available.
"We don't want to be forced to do stupid deals because we have a lot of money sitting in the bank," said Silber's colleague, company chairman Elie Deitsch.
The raise would mark the first time Cowork|rs has looked to outside capital to help grow the business, which has thus far been funded by friends and family-type investors, Silber said.
The company now has five locations across the city and recently signed on for 30,000 square feet in Bushwick, at 839 Broadway Near The Myrtle Avenue subway stop, and for 40,000 square feet at 60 Broad Street.
Silber said the company is looking at prospective new offices in areas such as Washington D.C. and wants to start its expansion in areas close to New York.


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using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Security.Claims;
using System.Text;
using System.Text.Encodings.Web;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Authentication;
using Microsoft.Extensions.Logging;
using Microsoft.Extensions.Options;
using ReadingList.Logging;
using ReadingList.Trello.Models;
using ReadingList.Trello.Services;

namespace ReadingList.Carter.ApiKeyAuthentication
{
    public class TrelloApiKeyAuthenticationHandler : AuthenticationHandler<TrelloApiKeyAuthenticationOptions>
    {
        private readonly ITrelloAuthorizationWrapper _trelloAuthWrapper;
        private readonly TrelloAuthSettings _configuredTrelloAuthSettings;
        private readonly ILog _logger;
        public TrelloApiKeyAuthenticationHandler(
            IOptionsMonitor<TrelloApiKeyAuthenticationOptions> options,
            ILoggerFactory logger,
            UrlEncoder encoder,
            ISystemClock clock,
            IOptions<TrelloAuthSettings> configuredTrelloAuthSettings,
            ITrelloAuthorizationWrapper trelloAuthWrapper,
            ILogFactory logFactory)
            : base(options, logger, encoder, clock)
        {
            _configuredTrelloAuthSettings = configuredTrelloAuthSettings.Value;
            _trelloAuthWrapper = trelloAuthWrapper;
            _logger = logFactory.GetLogger(this.GetType());
        }
        protected override Task<AuthenticateResult> HandleAuthenticateAsync()
        {
            string missingApiOrUserToken = "TrelloAPIKey and TrelloUserToken is required in header to do this operation.";
            string invalidApiOrUserToken = "TrelloAPIKey and TrelloUserToken does not match configured APIKey or Token";

            if (!Request.Headers.TryGetValue(TrelloApiKeyAuthenticationOptions.ApiKeyHeaderName, out var extractedApiKey))
            {
                _logger.Info($"ApiKey was not provided. Attempt from {Request.Host.Host}");
                return Task.FromResult(AuthenticateResult.Fail(missingApiOrUserToken));
            }
            if (!Request.Headers.TryGetValue(TrelloApiKeyAuthenticationOptions.UserTokenHeaderName, out var extractedUserToken))
            {
                _logger.Info($"UserToken was not provided. Attempt from {Request.Host.Host}");
                return Task.FromResult(AuthenticateResult.Fail(missingApiOrUserToken));
            }
            var trelloKeys = new TrelloAuthSettings { TrelloAPIKey = extractedApiKey, TrelloUserToken = extractedUserToken };
            if (!_trelloAuthWrapper.IsValidKeys(trelloKeys))
            {
                _logger.Info($"Invalid ApiKey or UserToken was provided. Attempt from {Request.Host.Host}");
                return Task.FromResult(AuthenticateResult.Fail(invalidApiOrUserToken));
            }

            var claims = new List<Claim>
            {
                new Claim(ClaimTypes.Name, "ReadingList"),
                new Claim(ClaimTypes.Role, "AddOrUpdate")
            };

            var identity = new ClaimsIdentity(claims, Options.Scheme);
            var principal = new ClaimsPrincipal(identity);
            var ticket = new AuthenticationTicket(principal, Options.Scheme);

            return Task.FromResult(AuthenticateResult.Success(ticket));
        }

    }
}


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The effect of the glycine site-specific N-methyl-D-aspartate antagonist ACEA1021 on ischemic brain damage caused by acute subdural hematoma in the rat
E. Tsuchida, Ross Bullock
Acute subdural hematoma (SDH) complicates about 20% of severely head- injured patients, and death and severe disability frequently result, yet over half of these patients may have been conscious, at some time after injury, implying secondary mechanisms of brain damage. Drugs that block the 'excitotoxic' effects of glutamate at the N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor have generally been effective in reducing ischemic brain damage associated with SDH in animal models, yet these agents all appear to be associated with major behavioral side effects, in conscious patients, at neuroprotective doses. We therefore evaluated the effects of treatment with a novel antagonist for the glycine binding site of the NMDA receptor (ACEA1021) upon ischemic brain damage, in the rat SDH model. ACEA1021 may be free of psychomotor effects, and may thus permit high dose therapy in conscious trauma and stroke patients. SDH was produced by the slow injection of 0.4 mL autologous blood into the subdural space overlying the parietal cortex. Brain damage was assessed histologically at 8 coronal planes, in animals sacrificed 4 h after induction of hematoma. Both pre and posttreatment with ACEA1021 significantly reduced hemispheric ischemic damage produced by SDH. The magnitude of neuroprotection with this compound (26 to 39% reduction in infarct size) is similar to other NMDA antagonists, and the robust posttreatment effect implies that human studies with this compound should be performed in head injured patients, subject to completion of toxicology testing.
Journal of Neurotrauma
Hematoma, Subdural, Acute
N-Methylaspartate
Subdural Hematoma
N-Methyl-D-Aspartate Receptors
Subdural Space
ACEA 1021
acute subdural hematoma
glycine binding site
ischemic brain damage
NMDA antagonist
Tsuchida, E., & Bullock, R. (1995). The effect of the glycine site-specific N-methyl-D-aspartate antagonist ACEA1021 on ischemic brain damage caused by acute subdural hematoma in the rat. Journal of Neurotrauma, 12(3), 279-288.
The effect of the glycine site-specific N-methyl-D-aspartate antagonist ACEA1021 on ischemic brain damage caused by acute subdural hematoma in the rat. / Tsuchida, E.; Bullock, Ross.
In: Journal of Neurotrauma, Vol. 12, No. 3, 01.01.1995, p. 279-288.
Tsuchida, E & Bullock, R 1995, 'The effect of the glycine site-specific N-methyl-D-aspartate antagonist ACEA1021 on ischemic brain damage caused by acute subdural hematoma in the rat', Journal of Neurotrauma, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 279-288.
Tsuchida E, Bullock R. The effect of the glycine site-specific N-methyl-D-aspartate antagonist ACEA1021 on ischemic brain damage caused by acute subdural hematoma in the rat. Journal of Neurotrauma. 1995 Jan 1;12(3):279-288.
Tsuchida, E. ; Bullock, Ross. / The effect of the glycine site-specific N-methyl-D-aspartate antagonist ACEA1021 on ischemic brain damage caused by acute subdural hematoma in the rat. In: Journal of Neurotrauma. 1995 ; Vol. 12, No. 3. pp. 279-288.
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Ince: Time To Bounce Back
The manager's thoughts ahead of the trip to Derby tomorrow
After a disappointing defeat at Yeovil on Tuesday night, Paul Ince says Blackpool have now recharged their batteries and will look to return to winning ways when they visit Derby County tomorrow lunchtime.
Ince was understandably frustrated after seeing his side slump to just their third defeat of the season at Huish Park, with three of his players also receiving their marching orders in stoppage time. But as far as he is concerned that is old news now as they take on an in-form Derby side in front of the Sky cameras tomorrow.
"It was a disappointing result on Tuesday as I thought we were the better team. We weren't clinical enough in front of goal and to add to that their goal was two or three yards offside, so it wasn't a good night to say the least," said Ince.
"It was obviously massively disappointing that three of our most experienced players got sent off. The two centre-halves (MacKenzie and Broadfoot) have been absolutely magnificent all season and have been an integral part of us keeping the eight clean sheets we have done so far this season.
"Fortunately it's only a one-game suspension so they will be back for the QPR game. In the meantime we're scarce for resources at the back, but we've got people who can come in there and do a job.
"We've been playing Bash at right-back and Bish at left-midfield, so that shows that we can mix around with the squad."
Despite the setback on Tuesday night Ince is delighted with how his side have performed so far this campaign, as they remain in the play-off positions ahead of the trip to the iPro Stadium.
"In the bookies' eyes I think we've produced an absolute miracle so far. The lads have been absolutely excellent, so long may that continue.
"To be where we are now was unthinkable at the start of pre-season - no-one expected it. But we're not getting carried away as we're only in December.
"In an ideal world you'd like to go to Derby with your best side but that's something we're not going to be able to do. However, one thing about these lads is that they always go and surprise you when you least expect it, so we'll go there and give it a right good go."
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"I've watched them a few times this season. They've always been a good side and they have got a very good group of young players who are getting to grips with what is expected of them.
"I was very impressed with what I saw of them last weekend at Wigan, so we'll have to be at our best if we want to get anything from the game."


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In a city which is the birth of Aretha Franklin and the birth of many greats, there is only one question one might ask. Why won't black people vote? In a city where 75% of the population is black and brown and could control every elected office. Why not vote at least so you could employ yourselves? If we run the government we decide who is in charge of budgets and employment. Many mishaps can happen in an election but no matter what Your vote is Your voice. We have the numbers. Why not Stack the Deck?
There are just as many blacks in Memphis as Atlanta, as St. Louis. So why won't blacks vote? According to intense community canvassing data reveals that there has been a systematic and intentional distribution of the incorrect information and a disease called "lack-of -knowledge" this illness is contagious and spread from one family member and passed on generation after generation. The reality is most citizens in Shelby county do not understanding the political process and how it affects them. The high school graduate rate does not soar but the crime and poverty rate triple daily in Memphis. There seniors citizens who are registered to vote but are afraid to cast their vote in an election because they would be summons to jury duty if they vote, but when their grandson is convicted for a homicide he didn't commit they will scream "He didn't get a fair trial!" The lack of intelligence of how the criminal justice system functions is a direct correlation to the low voter turnout and intentional voter suppression tactics to keep black people uninterested and uninvolved.
The United States Congress had passed the Civil Rights Act of 1866, ostensibly guaranteeing citizens equal protection under the law and outlawing race-based discrimination.
One month later, three days of riots in Memphis, Tennessee, left nearly 50 dead, several were injured, over 90 buildings wrecked, and black residents scattered and terrified. Around the same time, a white mob assembled, including police and firemen, and attacked the camp of former slaves and Black neighborhoods.
Government officials led the mob. City Recorder John C. Creighton rallied the attackers, saying, "Boys, I want you to go ahead and kill every damned one of the nigger race and burn up the cradle." Defying the orders of the Shelby County sheriff, the rioters fanned out from Causey and Vance Streets. That night, "the Negroes were hunted down by police, firemen and other white citizens, shot, assaulted, robbed, and in many instances, their houses searched under the pretense of hunting for concealed arms, plundered, and then set on fire," according to an Army investigation.
"During [this] no resistance . . . was offered by the Negroes." Violence resumed late the next morning when "a posse of police and citizens again appeared in South Memphis and commenced an indiscriminate attack upon the Negroes, they were shot down without mercy, women suffered alike with the men, and in several instances, little children were killed by these miscreants." For the next two days, the city seemed to be at the mercy of the mob. "All crimes imaginable were committed from simple larceny to rape and murder," a Army investigator reported. "Several women and children were shot in bed." This happened in Memphis!
An African American woman, Rachel Johnson, "was shot and then thrown into the flames of a burning house and consumed. Another was forced twice through the flames and finally escaped. In some instances, houses were [set ablaze] and armed men guarded them to prevent the escape of those inside." In the aftermath, no arrests or attempts at prosecution were made. Federal civil-rights enforcement was lacking, and General Stoneman refused to intervene.
Memphis Mayor John Park washed his hands of the matter. Congress investigated, producing a detailed report. But there were no arrests, no trials, and no convictions. Even if the Fourteenth Amendment seemed to solve the legal problems of Reconstruction, there was no political will to bring the perpetrators to justice.
The massacre started with a rumor of black-on-white crime: Black soldiers stationed at Fort Pickering on the city's south bluffs had allegedly killed white policemen attempting to arrest an African American soldier. Former Confederates could murder, rob, and rape African Americans with impunity. Although much has changed since the end of the Civil War, the fact remains that political violence undermines the democratic process even where civil-rights protections are supposedly in place.
If we don't know our history we are bound to repeat it. In-spite of our history a small group of citizens today continue to fight over confederate statues but what about the statues in the Tennessee Code Annotated that are being violated daily and the Due Process that is trampled by racism and incompetence in our courts. The illegal seizure our property, our liberty and our civil liberties that are supposed to be protected are being massacred daily and your families will pay dearly in the future unless we RISE UP.
We live in a city when voter suppression is the norm by other blacks folks who have worked their way up the system by stepping on other blacks necks and disregarding the law. Until blacks who are in high positions lend a helping hand to those beneath them and unite with the majority we will continue to have voter suppression, poverty and crime.
Everyone has the power to exercise their rights.
One of the constitutional rights is the right to vote.
There are over 300,000 eligible voters in Shelby County who are not registered. Many are convicted felons who just need to be restored, others are those who just don't know the importance of voting, and refuse to participate in the process. BLM has partnered with Rise Up North Memphis to restore 5000 convicted felons free of charge. We are also checking to see if you are registered at your current address and disseminating crucial civic awareness information. If you would like to volunteer for any of our initiatives email us at info@blacklivesmattermemphis.org. We are also collecting data for the US Human Rights Network for human rights violations please stay tuned for more information. #blacklivesmatter #riseupmemphis


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Opposing Force is an expansion pack for Valve Software's science fiction first-person shooter video game Half-Life. The game was developed by Gearbox Software and published by Sierra Entertainment on November 1, 1999. Opposing Force is the first expansion for Half-Life and was first announced in April 1999. Randy Pitchford, the lead designer on the game, later noted that he believed Gearbox was selected to develop Opposing Force because Valve wanted to concentrate on their future projects. Over the course of development, Gearbox brought in a variety of outside talent from other areas of the video games industry to help bolster various aspects of design. The game was released on Steam on September 28, 2005.
Opposing Force returns to the same setting as Half-Life, but instead portrays the events from the perspective of a U.S. Marine, one of the enemy characters in the original game. The player character, Adrian Shephard, is sent in to neutralize the Black Mesa Research Facility after a scientific mishap causes it to be invaded by aliens, but quickly finds that the Marines are outnumbered and slowly being beaten back by a second alien race and black operations units. Opposing Force was received well by critics, many describing it as the new benchmark title for expansion packs, in a similar fashion to how Half-Life revolutionized the first-person shooter genre. Other reviewers, however, thought that the game still had many of the negative aspects of other expansion packs, although it was still regarded as an exceptional add-on.
As an expansion pack for Half-Life, Opposing Force is a first-person shooter. The overall gameplay of Opposing Force does not significantly differ from that of Half-Life: players are required to navigate through the game's levels, fight hostile non-player characters and solve a variety of puzzles to advance. The game continues Half-Life's methods of an unbroken narrative. The player sees everything through the first person perspective of the protagonist and remains in control of the player character for almost all of the game. Story events are conveyed through the use of scripted sequences rather than cut scenes. Progress through the game's world is continuous; although the game is divided up into chapters, the only significant pauses are when the game needs to load the next part of an environment.Opposing Force also features an extended multiplayer, incorporating the various new environments and weapons into the original deathmatch mode used in Half-Life. After release, a new capture the flag mode with additional levels, items and powerups, was created by Gearbox for the game.
For the most part the player battles through the single-player game alone, but is occasionally assisted by friendly non-player characters. Security guards and scientists will occasionally help the player in reaching new areas and convey relevant plot information. However, Opposing Force also features fellow U.S. Marines who will assist the player in combat to a far greater degree than security guards. Three types of Marines are featured in the game: the soldier will simply provide fire support for the player with a submachine gun, shotgun or machine gun, the combat medic is capable of healing the player and other non-player characters, while the engineer can cut through doors and remove obstacles, allowing the player and their squad to proceed unhindered.A selection of enemies from Half-Life populate the game, including alien creatures such as headcrabs and Vortigaunts. A variety of new alien non-player characters, labelled "Race X", appear in the game as well, often engaging in combat with the aliens from Xen. The player also encounters human opponents in the form of a detachment of black operations units who have been sent to destroy the base in the wake of the failure of the U.S. Marines to eliminate the alien threat. A limited selection of Half-Life's weaponry is allocated to the player to defend themselves with, although several new weapons such as a sniper rifle, combat knife and a variety of alien weaponry are also present in the game.
Opposing Force is set in the same location and timeframe as that of Half-Life, taking place at a remote New Mexico laboratory called the Black Mesa Research Facility. In Half-Life, the player takes on the role of Gordon Freeman, a scientist involved in an accident that opens an inter-dimensional portal to the borderworld of Xen, allowing the alien creatures of Xen to attack the facility. The player guides Freeman in an attempt to escape the facility and close the portal, ultimately traveling to Xen to do so.Opposing Force, however, shows the events of Half-Life from the perspective of a different protagonist. The player assumes the role of Adrian Shephard, a U.S. Marine Corporal assigned to the Hazardous Environment Combat Unit, a specialized unit sent in to Black Mesa by the government to quell the alien threat and silence all witnesses. However, after Shephard becomes isolated from his fellow Marines, he must ally with the Black Mesa personnel and attempt to escape the base
Opposing Force opens with Shephard riding on a V-22 Osprey with his squad. His squad discuss their deployment, somewhat irritated that they have not been told what they are being deployed for. However, as they are nearing their Landing Zone at Black Mesa, airborne alien creatures attack the Osprey formation, causing Shephard's Osprey to crash land. Shephard regains consciousness in a Black Mesa medical bay, tended to by the science team, learning that the Marines are being steadily beaten by the alien forces from Xen and orders have come through to pull out. Consequently, Shephard departs to reach an extraction point and escape the facility.However, Shephard is prevented from reaching the extraction point by the enigmatic G-Man, forcing the evacuation craft to leave without him.
Other Marines who have also been left behind team up with Shephard and attempt to reach another extraction point near Black Mesa's Lambda Complex, but en route they come under attack from black operations units seeking to thoroughly contain the situation and eliminate all survivors.Shephard makes it to the Lambda Complex alive, and briefly sees Gordon Freeman as the latter teleports to Xen in the final stages of Half-Life. To escape the teleportation chamber, Shephard is forced to enter a separate portal, briefly taking him to Xen before depositing him in an entirely different area of the facility. The facility is now heavily damaged, and it soon becomes clear that a new alien race, Race X, has exploited the situation to mount a localized invasion, attacking both human and Xen forces in Black Mesa indiscriminately. Fighting between the black operations units and Race X quickly intensifies.
Shephard soon encounters more stranded Marine units in the wreckage of the base, and tries to break through the black operations units to reach an escape point past the facility's storage unit, but meets heavy resistance from both Race X and the black operations units.A surviving Black Mesa security guard reveals to Shephard that the black operators intend to detonate a tactical nuclear weapon in the base, thereby totally sealing it off and killing everything in it. After successfully neutralizing the guarding black operations unit, Shephard disarms the device and proceeds to the nearby storage areas, intent on escape. However, the G-Man rearms the device as Shephard departs. The storage unit has become a thick battleground between Race X and the black operation units, and although Shephard manages to evade them, he is informed by another security guard that something very large is coming through an alien portal blocking the exit path
At the portal, Shephard discovers a gene worm, a massive creature facilitating the Race X invasion. Shephard is able to kill the creature, but just afterwards he is teleported onto an Osprey by the G-Man. As the G-Man congratulates Shephard on his accomplishments, the nuclear device detonates in the background, destroying Black Mesa. The game closes with the G-Man detaining Shephard someplace where he can tell no one of what he has seen and cannot be harmed, pending further evaluation.
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Elekta Alters Outlook, Discusses Challenges for 2019/20 in Light of COVID-19
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As a result of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our last quarter (ending April 30), Elekta has changed the outlook for the fiscal year 2019/20. They expect net sales growth of around 1 percent compared to last year based on constant currency, and an EBITA margin between 16 and 17 percent.
Due to ongoing uncertainties related to the development of the COVID-19 pandemic, they also withdraw their scenario for 2020/21 to 2022/23. An updated outlook will be published when Elekta can further quantify the impact of COVID-19 on the radiation therapy market and the effect on business.
As stated in a press release: "The COVID-19 pandemic has swept like a wave over the world affecting all our markets and our business, with an increasing effect in April. In China, orders and installations were halted but are now recovering. Public tenders are restarting from the end of March, and installations are back on track. Production is now running fully at our Beijing site after it restarted on February 10 already.
"Since COVID-19 became a pandemic, Elekta has managed well through the crisis, balancing our commitments to our customers with the safety of our employees. The treatment utilization rate in our installed base has been maintained at nearly normal levels (around 97 percent), despite very challenging conditions. This was possible due to a strong local presence and our capability to service remotely with our IntelliMax system. The remote fix-rate has increased globally with 12 percentage points and in Europe even by around 20 percentage points during the crisis, demonstrating Elekta's adaptability and digitization level. The impact of COVID-19 on service revenue is limited."
Order intake and sales have been negatively affected during the quarter with an increasing effect in April due to limited access to hospitals and delayed starts of installations as a consequence of lock down of countries. Despite this, Elekta has managed to attain new orders, including three new Elekta Unity orders the recent weeks, one of it with a digital signing ceremony via internet. We have not experienced any order cancellation in the quarter.
EBITA margin in the fourth quarter will be affected by lower revenue; however, the company will be able to leverage from cost and productivity measures, supporting an increase in the margin compared to the first nine months. Elekta will continue and strengthen productivity initiatives in the next fiscal year to mitigate the effects of COVID-19.
The continuity of Elekta's supply chain has benefitted from our dual source strategy and the fact that Elekta and its suppliers being labelled essential business by relevant government authorities. For Linacs the company is fully operational in both sites: Crawley and Beijing. The Brachy and Neuro production facilities are up and running.
Elekta is emphasizing digital applications to enable customers to work more effectively remotely and with less physical contact. Elekta is offering free usage for 90 days of our new application ProKnow, which enables clinicians to create, modify and release treatments plans remotely as a way to maintain cancer care during the pandemic.
Since the end of January, the company has further strengthened its strong financial position with a low net debt to EBITDA ratio. Elekta expects available cash at the end of April 2020 to amount to approximately SEK 6 billion with balanced and long maturities. In March, Elekta issued two new bonds totaling SEK 1.5 billion, replacing maturing bonds and loans of SEK 1.2 billion. In April, the company also signed a seven-year loan agreement with the Nordic Investment Bank (NIB) of GBP 90 million for investments in R&D for future innovations and a two-year loan of SEK 300 million with the Swedish Export Credit Corporation (SEK).
"Elekta will be here until cancer isn't, which will be long after the coronavirus. The underlying demand for radiotherapy and the increased cancer incidence in the world will not change. In fact, access to high-precision radiotherapy with less fractions and reduced side effects is even more important now as it limits the exposure to potential infection by reducing visits at hospitals," says Richard Hausmann, (pictured above) President and CEO of Elekta.
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