More than 15 years of democracy have not yet been enough to get the National Congress interested in and influencing a crucial issue for the country's future: the role of the Armed Forces. There are few senators and federal congressional representatives properly informed about military matters and many congressional representatives, when talking about military affairs, confuse the issues of nation defense (protecting Brazilian territory against foreign threats) and public security (combating violence, crime and drug trafficking). To make this picture of apathy over military matters in the Federal Legislature worse, the Executive power today centralizes all important decisions on guidelines and activities to be undertaken by the Army, Navy, and Air Force. "National policy in the military field is established in isolation by the president.
The Legislative Power is not called on to express an opinion during its preparation. In practice, it just ratifies the Executive's proposals", explains political scientist Eliézer Rizzo de Oliveira, coordinator of the Strategic Studies Nucleus of the Campinas State University (Unicamp), and the originator of the conclusions described above. "I am not in favor of dual command of troops, but the Executive should make an effort to make Congress jointly responsible for National Defense policy".
Having studied military matters for more than two decades, Oliveira has just completed a thematic project, financed by FAPESP, that examined Congress's participation in the destiny of the Armed Forces since the restoration of democracy to this country (José Sarney's presidency in 1985) up to Fernando Henrique Cardoso's second term. According to his account, among the 512 federal congressional representatives and 81 senators, there are ten – 20 at most – representatives with a good knowledge of military life.
On the short list of Congressional representatives with a deeper view of the Armed Forces, Oliveira includes representatives of all ideological leanings. On the right, with an especially corporatist standpoint, Jair Bolsonaro (PPB-RJ), a reserve army officer, stands out. On the center-right, another representative mentioned is the businessman Luciano Pizzatto (PFL-PR). On the left, the figures that stand out are José Genoíno (PT-SP), who took part in the Araguaia guerrilla war, a movement that the military dictatorship fought and defeated in the 70s, and Aldo Rebelo (PC do B), a long-standing communist. Among center-left politicians, the research mentions Yeda Crusius(PSDB-RS), Antonio Carlos Pannunzio (PSDB-SP) and José Anibal (federal congressman representing São Paulo and currently the national president of the PSDB).
In Oliveira's view, many congressional representatives and senators mix up two essential concepts when they speak of the roles of the Armed Forces. "They have a narrow perception of what national defense is and a broad perception of what public safety is", says the researcher. In other words, they think that the Armed Forces should be more concerned with fighting crime (whether organized or not) and drug trafficking, and protect "law and order" than defending the country from a foreign enemy. It is no wonder, therefore, that calling on the Armed Forces to police towns in given situations – such as during the Earth Summit in 1992, the mega-conference involving dozens of heads of State in Rio de Janeiro – is rarely the target of harsh criticism in Congress.
"This view by our representatives is wrong. The military should not be involved in public security. At most, the Armed Forces should lend a hand in this", says Oliveira. An occasional hand, as in the case of calling on the Army, at the end of May, to put down the strike-mutiny of Military Police soldiers in the State of Toccantins. At the request of the local governor, Fernando Henrique Cardoso authorized the dispatch of troops to contain the movement.
Currently, the constitutional option of calling on military troops to handle internal matters is a decision resting solely with the President of the Republic, the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces. Congress does not need to be consulted on the subject. "In my opinion, the Constitution should involve the Legislature in this process. The president should send a request for authorization to Congress, as he would if he wished to impose a state of siege or declare war", says Oliveira. "And, once the intervention is over, he should be accountable to the congressional representatives and senators".
If the situation, at present, does not seem ideal, the researcher recalls that, during the first few years of the present Constitution, it became dangerously easy and commonplace to turn to the military to handle public security. Between October 1988 and July 1991, during which time the Constitution was established and the first complementary law regulating military affairs was passed, a legal loophole gave complete independence for any member of the Three Powers, at the municipal, state or federal level, to call out the troops to handle "law and order".
Without having to ask for authorization from the President of the Republic or being accountable to anyone, any mayor, alderman, congressman or judge could call out the federal troops to suppress conflicts. This was possible because the original wording of article 142 of the Constitution, referring to the military, was silent on the matter and there was no regulation. All that existed in writing was that one of the constitutional powers could call out the federal troops to ensure "law and order". Nothing more.
Working within the legal loophole, a judge requested Army troops in November 1988 to put down a strike at the Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional, inVolta Redonda (RJ). The result was a sad page in Brazilian history: three dead during the intervention. This legal loophole was closed in July 1991 by passing a complementary law. According to this law, only the President of the Republic has the power to decide on employing the Armed Forces, on his own initiative or in response to a request sent by the presidents of the Federal Supreme Court, the Senate, or the Chamber of Deputies.
Would the lack of interest and absence of knowledge by members of the Legislature regarding military matters not be a natural consequence of a power that was silenced by the Armed Forces during the military dictatorship? Oliveira is not satisfied with this kind of explanation. "In Brazil, there is no sense of strategic outlook by civilian authorities", he declares. The target of the criticism is not just the Congress but the Executive branch too. Presidents under the democratic system have not attached much importance to the preparation of a more detailed military policy. In contacts with officers and executives in Southern Cone countries, the researcher came away with the impression that the Brazilian Armed Forces showed considerable timidity in foreign affairs.
"Our neighbors think that the Brazilian military could exert more influence internationally. The circumspect participation abroad by Brazilian soldiers in peace missions under the umbrella of the United Nations Organization (UNO) is a symptom of this timid policy. Amid criticism of the performance of the Executive in the conduct of the Armed Forces, the researcher quotes one encouraging action: the creation, two years ago, of the Ministry of Defense, headed by a civilian. With the new portfolio, the commanders of the Armed Forces (the Army, Navy, and Air Force) have lost the status of minister and now report to the head of the Defense Ministry – and no longer directly to the President of the Republic. This is more fitting in a democracy.
If Brazil does not yet know the role of its Armed Forces, the United States knows and says, loud and clear, what it expects from its soldiers and officers, regarding its military structure as a sort of world policeman. It is ready to defend, it is true, US territory, and the safety of its citizens, but above all, it is in a state of alert to defend the enormous range of Washington's interests. The White House, for example, has granted itself the right to make or promote wars solely in order to guarantee consumer markets for its products and to gain access to sources of wealth and natural resources. "Freedom to trade is part of the United States' defense policy", says the researcher Eliézer Rizzo de Oliveira.
All this can be seen in the United States' Defense Department's website. The reports on the workings of the country's Armed Forces explain the role of the military machine of the largest power on earth. The 2000 version contains the following section: "When the interests at stake are vital – that is to say, they are of great and preponderant importance to the survival, security and vitality of the nation – the United States will do what is necessary to defend them, including, where necessary, the unilateral use of military force".
Vital national interests include: protecting the sovereignty, the territory and the people of the United States; avoiding the emergence of hostile regional or hegemonic coalitions: ensuring unlimited access to key markets, energy sources and strategic resources; deterring and, if possible, defeating aggression against allies and friends of the United States; guaranteeing freedom of the seas, the sky and space, and the security of vital communication lines.
In the 2001 report, the right to go to war for economic interests was toned down. The threatening tone of the fourth vital interest – access to markets and strategic resources – was changed and gave way to a more politically correct construction: "To protect the economic well-being of the United States society". Even so, the new wording does not change the essential character of what was previously said: the Americans place their Armed Forces at the disposal of commercial wars. The man with the word is the new president of the world's only superpower, the conservative republican George W. Bush.
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Q: Combine the outputs of a sub model intermediate layer and a parent model I am trying to make a toy example work; there is a simple submodel:
Model: "sub_model"
_________________________________________________________________
 Layer (type)                Output Shape              Param #
=================================================================
 sub_middle (Dense)          (None, 100)               12900

 sub_last (Dense)            (None, 100)               10100

=================================================================

which is embedded in a parent model:
Model: "model"
_________________________________________________________________
 Layer (type)                Output Shape              Param #
=================================================================
 sub_model (Sequential)      (None, 100)               23000

 last (Dense)                (None, 2)                 202

=================================================================

Is it possible to create a third model which outputs the sub_middle layer's output and the parent model output?
Motivation: The sub-model can be a CNN predefined neural network e.g. VGG, with a custom head that is implemented in a parent model. I would like to create the third model for calculating the gradients of an arbitrary layer in the CNN predefined neural network in relation to the parent output.
The example code:
import tensorflow as tf
import numpy as np

sub_model = tf.keras.Sequential([
        tf.keras.layers.Input(shape=(128)),
        tf.keras.layers.Dense(100, name = 'sub_middle'),
        tf.keras.layers.Dense(100, name = 'sub_last'),
    ],
    name="sub_model",
)

model = tf.keras.Sequential([
        tf.keras.layers.Input(shape=(128), name = 'input'),
        sub_model,
        tf.keras.layers.Dense(2, name = 'last'),
    ],
    name="model",
)

# Works fine
grad_model = tf.keras.models.Model([model.get_layer('sub_model').input], [model.get_layer('sub_model').get_layer('sub_middle').output])

# Works fine
grad_model = tf.keras.models.Model([model.input], [model.input, model.output])

# ValueError: Graph disconnected
grad_model = tf.keras.models.Model([model.get_layer('sub_model').input], [model.get_layer('sub_model').get_layer('sub_middle').output, model.output])

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Amitabh Bachchan Birthday Special: From Shehenshah to Sholay, Big B gave us numerous of irreplaceable one-liners.
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The Physiotherapy Pain Association (PPA) is the Professional Network of the UK`s Chartered Society of Physiotherapy and part of its recently formed NeuroMusculoskeletal Alliance. It is both pleased and proud to lead this project by supervising development of the Physiopedia Pain section.
As a project-in-development we intend to populate the site with practical, credible and thought-provoking information on the science of pain, its assessment and management. Much of our direction will be guided by the new IASP Curriculum Outline on Pain for Physical Therapy.
Any one is welcome to join in this project. You will be joining people from all over the world in contributing evidence based articles to create an evidence based reference on Pain. In return for your efforts you will receive a certificate of completion to help you evidence your learning through your involvement with this project.
We very much hope you will watch this space and ultimately find it a useful point of reference…..and if you do, we hope you will guide colleagues towards it!
The Physiopedia team is currently managing this project.
As a participant in this project you will create (or update an existing) pain related page within Physiopedia. You may choose to take part in this project as a personal contribution to your own professional development or you may wish to contribute evidence based information to develop this resource for our profession. Your contribution will be reviewed by the PPA and once complete recognised by the award of a certificate of completion.
If you would like to take part in this project please follow the instructions below.
If you have any questions, please do email us.
Choose an article from the list below that you would like to develop. Be sure that the article doesn't already have a name next to it.
At this point you should email the project co-ordinator to let them know that you would like to join the project and which page you would like to work on. Please feel free also to ask any questions that you have in relation to this project e.g. if you feel a new page needs adding.
You will receive an email from Jo (the project co-ordinator) to confirm you participation in the project and also to confirm the page that you will develop.
First you will need to sign up for a Physiopedia account so that you can make edits to the site. You can request an account here.
Once you have requested your account you will receive an email asking you to confirm your email address, please do that by clicking on the link. Your account will then be activated and you will receive your login details. This is a manual process and may take a couple of days. If you do not receive the emails please check your spam folder and if they are not there please contact the course co-ordinator.
When you are all set up with your Physiopedia account you will be given your own profile page on the site (the link to this will be in your joining email). We recommend that you edit your profile to include your professional information. Have a go at adding an image and a link. This is a great way to practice editing and also provides you with a professional profile online to link to from your new page. See the help tutorials.
By now you should feel comfortable making edits in Physiopedia, now you are ready to work on your page! You should create an evidence based article on the topic that you have been assigned. Basically this means writing about your chosen topic and providing, where possible, the best references/evidence available for the content that you write. It's just like Wikipedia! We are not expecting fully comprehensive articles at this stage but if you can provide a good knowledge base for the article (use your judgement here) it can updated and broadened at a later stage in the project. Have a browse through other Articles on Physiopedia to get an understanding of the type of articles that we like to create. If you need help with editing please read the user tutorials or see tips below for writing guidance.
What we would like you to do now is to think about your own persoanl learning outcomes as a result of taking part in this project. These learning outcomes will be printed on your certificate.
Once you have completed you article and listed your learning outcomes please email them to project co-ordinator.
Your article will then be reviewed by the PPA project team.
You will be emailed a response of approval or of amendments to be made.
Once the article has been finally approved, it will be published and you will receive your certificate of completion.
If you have any questions please do email us.
Physiopedia is an online resource that provides evidence based, critically reviewed information for Physiotherapists across the world. It is a collaboratively developed project that is contributed to by physiotherapists all over the world. The project has standards of writing that articles must adhere to in order to be published. As a collaborative activity, please do not feel dis-heartened if others make suggests or contributions to your articles over time, it helps maintain relevance and shares learning, it is not a criticism of you personally.
With all this in mind here are 5 pieces of advice that we hope will give you some confidence about creating a Physiopedia pain article that will be valuable to physiotherapists all over the world!
Look around Physiopedia and work out what articles/pages you like and are more/less likely to engage with. Think about why this is. Is it about the title, the first sentence, layout, use of pictures/videos/presentations or something else?
Be mindful to reference your work and use quotation marks when appropriate. Plagerism is not good academic practice. Use the guidance in the Physiopedia tutorial about referencing. Wherever possible add hyperlinks to your information sources in your text, this will also add credence to you work. Remember it is your job to be be critically selective about the sources you use.
The article should be, wherever possible factual, not a piece to direct readers into one conclusion or another. Therefore adopt a neutral tone and voice and present other peoples arguments/references/facts and figures from all perspectives, leaving the final decision to the reader.
If you are concerned about the world seeing your article as your write and edit it, or you are not confident to write straight into Physiopedia, you can compose your article as a word document and we will translate into Physiopedia for you.
A word on word count. This is for you to determine as is most appropriate for your topic and approach. Ideally not a 500 word summary of a topic, but equally not a 3000 essay. Use hyperlinks to other related Physiopedia pages and information sources tactically to help manage your word count and avoid avoid long winded explanations and signpost readers to more information/background reading. Keep in your mind the situation readers are likely to be in when accessing your information - a quick reference point for sit down with a cuppa? Aim to produce an article that critically introduces the key topics/ideas/themes relating to the article title. Use links and signposting to send interested readers to other sources and Physiopedia pages for more details....or, if you want to include a lot of detail about one sepcific element of your article, think about creating a seperate page for it. Consider your article to be somewhere a therapist wanting to get a crticial introduction to the topic might start their search.
Finally remember this project is about collaboration and harnessing of knowledge, so tap into your colleagues knowledge, skills - editing/proof reading, references and learn as you go together! Could make an interesting in-service training session, or team building exercise!
IASP and British Pain Society resources might be a useful starting places for many of the articles below.
Multidimensional Nature of Pain: Define acute and chronic pain terms of a multidimensional pain experience.
Nociception: Describe nociceptors and the need for adequate stimuli to activate nociceptors in different tissue types (i.e. skin, muscle, joint, viscera).
6a.Describe and explain the afferent innervations of the spinal cord from different tissue types, and how pain from different tissues is processed centrally.
6b. Describe the changes and role of ion channels, excitatory neurotransmitters, and inhibitory neurotransmitters in the peripheral nervous system and in non-neuronal cells, and how these changes influence the processing of noceception.
Sensory discriminative and motivational affective component of pain: Describe the pain pathways involved in the sensory discriminative and motivational affective component of pain.
Central sensitisation: Describe and define central sensitization and how this is similar and different from peripheral sensitization.
Alteration of nociception transmission post injury: Describe the role of excitatory neurotransmitters, inhibitory neurotransmitters, and glia in the central nervous system in enhancement of pain transmission, and changes that occur as a result of tissue injury.
Pain facilitation and inhibition: Define and describe the the differences between them in terms of brain sites and neurotransmitters that play a role in this process. And how these pathways can be activated by non-pharmacological treatments.
20a. Multidisciplinary care: Describe and explain the role and responsibilities of the physical therapist in pain management and the integration of physical therapy into the interdisciplinary team.
Behavioural Approaches to Pain Management: Describe cognitive and physical aspects of behavioural approaches to pain management and how applied in practice.


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The spring brings flowers in bloom and bicyclists on carfree streets; this year our spring season has many open street events that you can participate in.
Culver City to the Sea is the best of the best routes. Come see us at the Culver City hub and join us for the family ride to kick off the event at 9:00 a.m. Free bike helmets too!
Don't miss your chance to see the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach race track just like the drivers do, on the very course itself! The City of Long Beach in cooperation with the Grand Prix Association of Long Beach invite you to ride a bike, glide on in-line skates, walk or job while experiencing the turns, tire tracks and sights all at your own pace! The 1.5 mile, 6-turn circuit encircles the Long Beach Convention Center and runs down scenic Shoreline Drive and Seaside Way.
This year, the route travels from West Street to Garden Grove Boulevard and Acacia Parkway. An After Party will continue on Historic Main Street, from 6:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. Plans are in the works for a fun, interactive event, where pedestrians and cyclists can explore a car-free Garden Grove. The event will include a 2.5-mile route for biking and walking that will demonstrate options for active transportation enhancements in the community. It will also feature a zip line, rock climbing wall, 4-D interactive chalk art, food trucks, prizes, and more! At 6:00 p.m., Historic Main Street will light up with a live band, beer garden, and strolling performers.
The streets will once again become a public park for the day and transformed into a celebration of people-power to promote better health, flexibility and fun! A mile of car-free space for people of all ages and abilities to play and exercise in!
For a single day, the City of Long Beach closes a major traffic corridor to cars and open the street to people walking and bicycling. The event attracts local residents & visitors from across the region to explore & discover the area at a slower "foot-traffic" pace. Previous Beach Streets events have attracted more than 40,000 people! Streets closed to traffic are Atherton St., Bellflower Blvd., Los Coyotes Diagonal, and Spring St. and are labeled in orange on the map.


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Sorry everyone for the delay, Its been very hectic recently to say the least and the update hasn't exactly been one of my highest priority's and it pretty much got thrown to the side for a while.
However no worries I've started working on it again and It's very close to being ready for a release, sadly I could not get the sound functionality working as I wished so it will be left out of the next update, but once everything else is done I'll have another go at it and see if it can be added in the future.
I can't give an exact date for when the update will be released but It'll be before the end of the year, I was hoping to have it out in the next week or so but I'll see how it go's and I'll try to keep people posted.
In response to a few people in regards to compatibility issues -> currently the PSVPAD server uses a third party library to interact with a virtual driver in order to emulate a joystick in windows, whilst I continue to use this third party software to emulate the joystick its essentially out of my hands. There are no plans as of yet to change how the joystick is emulated in windows but it is under consideration. In an ideal world I would write a custom driver and be done with it!, Suggestions of how the software can be improved are always welcomed so please feel free to contact me either via the contact me form on this website or via my email address AJ_Moore@UnorthodoxGameStudios.co.uk.
IF YOU DO HAVE SUGGESTIONS NOW IS THE TIME TO TELL ME WHILST I'M ACTIVELY WORKING ON THE SOFTWARE.
Just Updated the PSV PAD… Enjoy. I re-uploaded the zip you should actually be able to extract the files now.
PSVPAD Description – Allows you to use your Playstation Vita as a Game Pad for your PC, It is possible to set up an ad-hoc connection on your computer and connect directly…Instructions may follow.
IllumiRoom is a very interesting concept it was designed to augment a room surrounding your television to try and improve gaming experience and add a level of immersion that we have never seen before. It allows the games as well as video to come out of your tv into the real world. IllumiRoom makes use of a kinnect system as well as a projector to produce some well… pretty amazing effects. The video below goes over the illumiRoom and all the different effects that can be created and how it interacts with the room around.
Although I really like the idea I can't help but see the many issues that will arise with it, one of the first flaws that I see which was the same with the kinnect system is that i can see it relying a lot of space and personally I don't think its something that I would have space for in my bedroom necessarily. Something else that worries me is this is the sort of thing that I can see really messing with my head, looking at some of the stuff in the video it seems kinda trippy.
Anyway its something totally worth checking out, I can definitely see this as something I would love to have sat in my living room.
So every now and then I get emails from people regarding the application for the vita I developed a while back so I though I would official address the issue.
When I developed the application the PSM was in beta and you could install applications of the vita without having to buy a licence now that is no longer the case. Not long ago I tested the application using the build in emulator in PSM and it seemed to work fine. I am unable to test the application on the vita because I don't have a licence myself and have no interest in purchasing one at this moment in time. Without a developer licence I'm afraid you can't install anything on the vita.
If you noticed I haven't really been around for a while I stopped updating the website and it was hacked and taken down and all that crap. But anyway I'm back and thought I'd let the world know whats been happening in my absence.
Initially I wasn't updating my website because I was quite busy with work and other things and my life became quite hectic and I really didn't have time to focus on my website.
Along with all this back in December last year I got very ill and because of that I've been in and out of hospital since, It started off as pain, then had surgery in January which led onto complications which had me re-hospitalized in February eventually I was let out with antibiotics but I still continued to deteriorate and was sent back to hospital in march when I spent 6 weeks before having major surgery on the 17th of April. I was Discharged from hospital 2 days ago and seem to be doing well.
Naturally having been ill so long I've fell quite far behind with uni work and everything I've been working on has gone to pot.
Just in case anyone's interested as far as my engine is concerned I actually started work on a new Engine "Nightmare Engine" Back towards the beginning of this academic year the pure focus of the engine was simplicity more than anything. I was focusing primarily on making all the different modules of the engine independent with next to no coupling to keep the project simple. The irony being is potentially this engine although far simpler than my previous engine, is more powerful, there's less coupling and is far easier to maintain and add new features. Obviously having being ill I haven't really worked on in for a while but nether the less it has a nice set of functionality which I plan to improve upon over the next few years. I had planned to do a lot more by now but due to illness I have been unable. At some point either on here or on its own separate website I'll be putting up some information about my engine and maybe a few demo applications to check out.
So hopefully how I'm better I'm going to start writing some random but maybe quite interesting posts again and get back on the development front.
Over the following weeks I'm probably going to have another bash at the PSM SDK at making some fun quick app's, I was kinda just wondering whether anyone's got any ideas of some stuff they would like to see on the vita and then maybe over the summer I'll give it a shot. You can either contact me using the generic contact form on this page, or send me an email if you have my address or just post a comment below.
I did say to a few individuals that I would be posting an update for the ps vita app that I made… but I'm sorry to say I have be unable to find the time busy weekend…went to a wedding and stuff… And I suspect this following week will be fairly busy for me to. I will try to make an update available soonish, for now I hope you'll able to resolve any problems your having by yourself without the need of the update, otherwise I'm very sorry. If you find any issues let me know and I'll try to work it into the update.


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Q: Node.js for loop with http requests for api request I go trough some arrays:
'mail',
    '20.03.2017 05:32',
    '11.07.2017 03:44',
    '2',
    '0',
    '2',
    '0',
    '4',
    '3',
    '46' ]
for each array I do 3 nested request
But now I have the problem that my index for the requests is sometimes wrong. I think that my loop is faster than the request. How can I take the following way:

*

*Start for loop index = 1

*make api call 1 with index 1

*wait for api call 1 response

*make api call 2 with index 1

*wait for response of api call 2

*make api call 3 with index 1

*wait for response of api call 3

*index++

*make api call 1 with index 2
......

for (var i = 1; i <= (csvData.length-1); i++){

var options = { method: 'GET',
  url: 'https://api.pipedrive.com/v1/persons/find',
  qs:
   { term: csvData[i][0],
     start: '0',
     search_by_email: '1',
     api_token: '' },
  headers:
   { 'postman-token': '',
     'cache-control': 'no-cache' } };

request(options, function (error, response, body) {
  if (error) throw new Error(error);

  var user = JSON.parse(body);
    console.log("-->User gefunden<--");
    console.log("-->User: "+user.data[0].name+"<--");

    var options = { method: 'GET',
  url: 'https://api.pipedrive.com/v1/deals/find',
  qs:
   { term: user.data[0].name,
     api_token: '' },
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A: You need to use : -
async.eachOfSeries(coll, iteratee, callback) as parent loop and
async.eachSeries() as a child loop.
for more details see async library :
https://caolan.github.io/async/docs.html#eachOfSeries

A: You need to use closures How do JavaScript closures work?. You cannot guarantee values when it comes to async.

A: Use the series method of the Async library.
async.series(['mail', '20.03.2017 05:32', '11.07.2017 03:44', '2', '0', '2', '0', '4', '3', '46' ].map( elem => {
  return done => { // Building an array of functions to pass to Async. They will be executed one after the other, when done() is called
       callYourApi( elem, result => done(null,result) ) // 1st argument = error, null == no error
  }
},
(err, results) => { // Global callback when all the calls are finished (or when an error occured in the chain)
  // results is now an array of all the "result" of every call
})

A: Buddy .
firstly the syntax you are doing is wrong.
IF you want 1 request than 2 request than 3 request
you have to do like this
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request(options2,function(){
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      });
});

});

and apply async or promises instead of for loop.
check async or promise in node.


It's about that time of the year in Bahamas, and it's easy to understand by the presence of sailing super stars such as Max Salminen (SWE), Gold medallist in London in the Star as crew and later Finn World Champion. He is training with his crew Johan Tillander (SWE) for the SSL Finals 2018 starting next Tuesday the 4th in December. Will he do better then his former helmsman Freddy Loof?


Thousands of people enter Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia every October, waiting in lengthy lines in hope — or fear — that whatever happens inside the old prison will leave them quivering in fright.
Other people outright avoid the prison's spooky Terror Behind the Walls experience and similar haunted houses that pop at Halloween each year.
Why does the same experience thrill some people, but freak out others out?
A person's response to fear depends on a combination of genetics and life experience, according to John Dani, a neurological sciences professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine.
"You're going to have a distribution of how people will respond to fear," Dani said. "Some are going to be extremely untroubled by it. Some are going to be more vulnerable to it genetically. In addition to that, it's what their experiences have been."
When a person perceives a potentially fearful situation, portions of the brain that govern emotional and rational responses communicate to dictate a final response. Some of the emotional elements can be based on previous experiences — particularly during childhood — that leave lasting fears.
Yet, a person who repeatedly has gone through the same haunted house, will be less fearful of it than someone who never has experienced it, Dani said. The same idea applies to other experiences that many people deem scary — fears like heights, tight spaces or darkness.
Still, Halloween – particularly haunted houses and scary movies – embeds a level of unpredictability that other common fears do not contain.
"You see this in horror movies all the time," Dani said. "The music builds, the music builds and then – all of sudden – something really scary happens. You're being primed, but you don't know when it's going to happen."
Most people can overcome their fears if they are willing to expose themselves to them repeatedly. (Others, including people suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder or deeply held phobias, may need additional therapy.) Consider people who fear walking on open staircases, Dani said.
"If you do that a lot, normally you extinguish that (fear)," Dani said. "You'll get used to it. You'll learn little tricks, like don't stare down while you're walking."
The same is true for haunted houses.
"They learn through experience after experience after experience that this haunted house isn't scary," he said.


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Q: PhpMailer vs. SwiftMailer? I'm building a fairly simple PHP script that will need to send some emails with attachments. I've found these 2 libraries to do this.
Does either one have significant advantages over the other? Or should I just pick one at random and be done with it?

A: There is also Zend_Mail. If I had to pick one for a new project today, I would seriously consider that.

A: Having looked at both I think SwiftMailer has a much nicer interface than PHPMailer and as someone has pointed out Zend_Mail is also another good option especially if you're using other Zend components.  It makes life much easier if you use everything from the same framework.

A: I've used PHPMailer on many projects and never had a problem. It's feature complete and it has good docs.
I had never heard of Swiftmailer so I took a peek at the website. It seems a nice solution too.
If your needs are simple as you say, then just pick one at random.

A: Google trends: swiftmailer is growing but phpmailer is still very strong.
I would go with Swiftmailer because documentation is clear and easy. Phpmailer site/docs are a bit messy (at least they look so).

EDIT: after trying them both (and banging my head against an hosting issue for which SwiftMailer did not output any type of hint) I completely changed my mind, I would definitely go with PHPMailer for at least one good reason: it's much easier to debug in the event you have any issue.
Both SwiftMailer and PHPMailer provide debug options (SwiftMailer with a plugin and PHPMailer by turning on SMTPDebug = 2), but SwiftMailer is made by hundreds of small files that make SwiftMailer more difficult to debug compared to the 3 files PHPMailer is made of.
And about docs, the PHPmailer documentation is less fancy looking, but it has got all you need: simple tutorial, examples

A: I was going to say that PHPMailer is no longer developed, and Swift Mailer is. But when I googled ...
https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer
That suggests its being worked on again.
I've used PHPMailer a lot, and its always been solid and reliable. I had recently started using Swift Mailer, for the above reason, and it too has given me no trouble.
Now that PHPMailer is developed again, I think I'll probably give the new version a try.
So, my answer is that both are capable, and that it doesn't matter that much – choose one, learn it, use it. Both offer massive advantages over mail() and abstract away the nuances of email so that you can get on with whatever you are really trying to develop.

A: I've just switched to Swift today due to the problems with PHPMailer and PHP 5.3 - even the latest version - which is a shame. Swift has a very well documented integration, which makes things easier.

A: Whatever the features are, they have variety in their applicable licenses:
PHPMailer - LGPL 2.1 (https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer)
SwiftMailer -  MIT license (https://github.com/swiftmailer/swiftmailer)


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Average is one of the important topics of arithmetic and the questions from this area are asked in CAT almost every year. In this article we will discuss about averages in details.
Average means balancing of the terms. It means that when we have certain numbers with us and we want to make them all equal without changing their sum, then that equal number will be the average of all the numbers.
Mathematically, Average = Sum of terms/ Number of terms
Or, we can have Sum of terms = Average × Number of terms.
The above result is applicable in all the questions of average.
Ex. Find the average of 12, 15, 21, 28, 34.
Sol: Here, the average of the numbers = Sum of terms/ Number of terms = (12 + 15 + 21 + 28 + 34)/5 = 110/5 = 22
Ex. The average weight of 15 men in a group is increased by 1 kg when one of the men who weighs 60 kg is replaced by a new man. Find the weight of new man.
Sol: We know that, Sum of terms = Average × Number of terms. Now, this formula can be used to get the answer.
Let the average weight of the original 15 men is x, so the average weight of the final 15 men will be x + 1. Let the weight of the new man is y kg
Using the above result, we have, 15x – 60 + y = 15 (x + 1)
⇒ 15x – 60 + y = 15x + 15 ⇒ y = 75 kg.
Note: Following points should be kept in mind while solving the questions of average.
I. If the difference in the terms is same and the total number of terms are odd (say 'n'), then the average will be the middle term, i.e., (n +1)/2th term.
E.g., If we have the numbers 4, 7, 10, 13, 16, 19, 22 then we can see that the difference in these numbers is same. In this case we can directly say that the average will be the middle term. Here, number of terms are 7. So, n = 7. Hence, the middle term is (7 + 1)/2 = 4th term which is 13. So, the average of the given numbers is 13.
II. If the difference in the terms is same and the total number of terms are even (say 'n'), then there will be two middle terms n/2th term and (n/2 + 1)th term and the average of all the numbers will be equal to the average of these two middle terms.
E.g., If we have the numbers 4, 7, 10, 13, 16, 19, 22, 25, then again, the difference in the terms is same and there are two middle terms here, i.e., 13 and 16. So, the average of all the terms is equal to the average of 13 and 16 which is 14.5.
Note: In the above 2 pointers, you can see that the terms are in AP and hence the average can be found as (First Term + Last term)/2.
Ex. Consider a sequence of seven consecutive integers. The average of the first five integers is n. Find the average of all the seven integers.
1. n 2. n + 1 3. n + (2/7) 4. (n + 2)/7
Sol: Here, we have consecutive integers, which means the average will be the middle term. Now the middle term of the first five integers will be the 3rd term and it is the average which is given to be equal to 'n'. So, the 4th term will be n + 1. Now the middle term of all the 7 integers will be the 4th term and it will be the required average. Hence, the average of all the seven integers is n + 1.
III. If same number is added to each of the given numbers, then the average also increases by the same amount.
E.g., Average of 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 is 30. Now If we add same number say 5 to every number, then the numbers will become 15, 25, 35, 45 and 55 and their average will be 35 which is 5 more than the original average.
IV. If the same number is subtracted from the given numbers or same number is multiplied to each of the given numbers, then the average also decreases/multiplies by the same amount. The same happens with the division also.
Let us now consider what happens to the average of the given numbers if a number is increased or decreased by some amount.
Let us take an example where there are five children A, B, C, D and E having 10, 20, 30, 40 and 50 marbles respectively. The average number of marbles will be 30 with them. Now, what does it mean? As discussed at the start of this article that average simply means balancing of the terms which means that if we want to equate the number of marbles with these children then everyone will get 30 marbles. Now how will that happen? Here, C has his quota of 30 marbles. B has 10 marbles less than the average and D has 10 marbles more than the average. So, D will give his additional 10 marbles to B and both will have 30 marbles each. Similarly, E will give his additional 20 marbles to A and both will have 30 marbles each. Now, consider that say A got 20 more marbles from his parents. So, what will he do with these additional 20 marbles. Obviously, as they have earlier distributed the marbles equally, so he will divide these additional 20 marbles with the other children. So, everyone will get 20/5 = 4 additional marbles. Therefore, the number of marbles with each of them will be 34 and so as the average. Now, what do we learnt from here?
"If a number is increased by some amount, then that increase will be distributed on all the given numbers equally and whatever is received by each number, the average also increases by the same amount."
You can see that the same happened in the above example also, where the additional 20 marbles obtained by A got distributed equally among all the five children and the average also increased by 4.
Now, what will happen If say E lost his 20 marbles? In this case the loss of E will be shared by all the five children. So, 20/5 = 4 is the number of marbles that will be given to E by A, B, C and D so that everyone has 26 marbles now and that is also the average numbers of marbles with them.
E.g., Let us consider the numbers 13, 16, 20, 21, 35. The average of these numbers is 21. Now if we replace the number 13 with the numbers say 18, then what will be the average?
Well, the answer is very easy. Replacing the number 13 by 18 means that 13 is increased by 5. Now, this increase will be equally divided among all the 5 numbers. So, every number will get 5/5 = 1, so the average will also increase by 1. Therefore, the new average will be 21 + 1 = 22.
Hence, we can say that "If a number is decreased by some amount, then that decrease will be distributed on all the given numbers equally and whatever is reduced from each number, the average also decreases by the same amount."
The above discussed two points are useful when we do the questions without making the equations and that really saves the time in the competitive exams like CAT, XAT etc.
In the next part, we will discuss about the change in average if a number is deleted from the group of numbers.
Well, let us again take the same example as above where the children A, B, C, D and E have marbles with them and the average marbles with them is 30. Now, what will happen if say A leaves the group. Will the average increase or decrease?
Remember that as per the concept of average, each one of them has 30 marbles. Now when A will leave the group, then he will return the 20 marbles back to E. So, B, C, D and E will have 20 marbles as surplus with them and they will divide them equally. So, each will get additional 20/4 = 5 marbles and total marbles with them will be 35 each and average will also become 35. So, in this case, the average increased.
Let us now consider another case where E leaves the group. In this case, A will lose the 20 marbles he got from E. Now this loss of A will be shared by A, B, C and D equally. So, everyone will share 20/4 = 5 marbles and they will have 25 marbles each. In this case the average will decrease to 25.
It means that if a number smaller than the average is deleted, then the average will increase and if a number greater than average is deleted then the average will decrease. This increase or decrease in the average is equal to the difference of the deleted number from the average divided by the remaining numbers.
E.g., Let us consider the numbers 13, 16, 20, 21, 35. The average of these numbers is 21. Now if we delete the number 13, then what will be the new average?
Well here the difference of 13 from the average is 8. So, average will increase by 8/4 = 2. The new average will be 21 + 2 = 23.
Weighted Average: The weighted average is the average where the numbers in the data have different degree of importance. While calculating the weighted average, each number is multiplied by the weight assigned to it and then all the values are added.
Let there are n values x1, x2, x3, …….., xn having the weights w1, w2, w3,………, wn respectively.
The weighted average = (w1x1 + w2x2 + w3x3 + ………… + wnxn)/(w1 + w2 + w3 + ….wn)
Ex. A test was given to three sections A, B and C of class 9. The average scores of the sections A, B and C are 30, 35 and 40 respectively. The number of students in sections A, B and C are 20, 25 and 30 respectively. Find the average score of the class 9.
Sol: Here the number of students in each section is different, so the formula of weighted average will be used to find the average of the class.
Weighted average = (30 × 20 + 35 × 25 + 40 × 30)/(20 + 25 + 30) = 2675/75 = 35.67. Therefore, the average of the class is 35.67.
Let us now discuss few examples:
1. The average of Rahul after 50 one day matches is 70. If Rahul's target is to increase his average to 72 after the next one-day match how much should Rahul score in the next match.
1. 165 2. 172 3. 160 4. 176
Sol: Total score of Rahul after 50 matches = 50 × 70 = 3500
If his average after 51 matches is 72, then the total will be = 51 × 72 = 3672
Hence, Rahul should score 3672 – 3500 = 172 runs in the next match.
2. From a group of 16 students with average weight 42.5 kg, two students leave the group and because of that the average of the group decreases to 41.25 kg. Find the average weight of the two students who left the group.
1. 51.25 2. 51.75 3. 50.5 4. 52.25
Sol: Total weight of 16 students = 16 × 42.5 = 680 kg
Total weight of the remaining 14 students = 14 × 41.25 = 577.5
Therefore, the total weight of the two students who left the group = 680 – 577.5 = 102.5 kg
Hence, the average weight of the two students = 102.5/2 = 51.25.
3. If a student weighing 70 kg joins a group of n students, the average weight of the group increases by 1 kg. If the new student weighed 55 kg, the average weight of the group would have declined by 2 kg. Find n.
1. 3 2. 4 3. 5 4. 6
Sol: Let the average weight of the group is x kg
Now, in first case nx + 70 = (x + 1) × (n + 1)
⇒ nx + 70 = nx + n + x + 1
⇒ n + x = 69 ……..(i)
In the second case, nx + 55 = (x – 2) (n + 1)
⇒ nx + 55 = nx + x – 2n – 2
⇒ x – 2n = 57 …..(ii)
Solving (i) and (ii), we get 3n = 12 or n = 4.
4. The average of 13 consecutive numbers is 324. If there is another series of consecutive numbers which starts with the same number as the previous series, then what is the average of first 20 numbers of this series.
1. 327 2. 326.5 3. 327.5 4. 328.5
Sol: Since the numbers are consecutive the average would be the same as the middle term. The middle term of 13 numbers is the 7th number which is 324. Since the next series start with the same number, the 10th number is 327 And 11th number is 328. So, the average of 20 consecutive numbers is the average of 10th and 11th number i.e., average of 20 numbers is equal to (327 + 328)/2 = 327.5.
5. The average age of 20 women is 49 years. The age of the youngest woman is 32 years and that of the oldest woman is 56 years. If two women with ages 45 and 50 years leave the group and three women join the group, the average remains unchanged. What is the average age (in years) of the three women who join the group later?
1. 48 2. 32 3. 49 4. 45
Sol: Total age of the group of 20 women = 49 × 20 = 980 years.
Total age of the women who left the group = 45 + 50 = 95 years.
Let, the average age of 3 women who joined later be x years.
Hence, the sum of their ages = 3x.
Since the average age after the leaving and joining of women is still 49 years, therefore, 980 + 3x – 95 = 49 × 21
⇒ 3x + 885 = 1029 ⇒ 3x = 144 ⇒ x = 48 years.
6. A class consists of 20 boys and 30 girls. In the mid-semester examination, the average score of the girls was 5 higher than that of the boys. In the final exam, however, the average score of the girls dropped by 3 while the average score of the entire class increased by 2. The increase in the average score of the boys is:
1. 9.5 2. 10 3. 4.5 4. 6
Sol: The average score of 30 girls decreased by 3, so, the total score of the girls decreased by 30 × 3 = 90. The average of the class still increased by 2, i.e., the total score of the class increased by 50 × 2 = 100 and this increase happened in spite of the decrease in the marks of the girls. It means that all the increase happened because of the marks of the boys and they have compensated for the decrease in marks of the girls also. Hence, the marks of boys must have been increased by 90 + 100 = 190 and their average increased by 190/20 = 9.5.
7. In an apartment complex, the number of people aged 51 years and above is 30 and there are at most 39 people whose ages are below 51 years. The average age of all the people in the apartment complex is 38 years. What is the largest possible average age, in years, of the people whose ages are below 51 years?
Sol: Let there are 'n' people below the age of 51 years.
The total age of all the people = (30 + n) × 38 years.
Now, the average age of the people below the age of 51 years will be maximum if the average age of the people above 51 years of age is minimum i.e., their average age is 51 years.
Hence, the total of the age of people below 51 years = (30 + n) × 38 – 51 × 30 = 38n – 390
Average age of the people below 51 years of age = (38n – 390)/n = 38 – 390/n
This average will be maximum if 390/n is minimum i.e., n is maximum and maximum value of n = 39
Hence, the maximum average age = 38 – 390/39 = 28 years.
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The seamless connection between Core and Digital Media Hub allows users to collect, store, and distribute creative assets through a full-fledged media asset management system rather than having to pull from a hierarchy of folders on the server based on someone else's environment. This type of capability allows rights holders and content owners to take complete control of their content.
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Here are the statements issued so far. We will update this page as new statements are made.
This clip has virtually nothing to do with anything but appears to be Ted Cruz's statement on the matter.
No statement, except to retweet the president.
President Trump is maliciously targeting and endangering the personal safety of @IlhanMN, a Muslim Congresswoman, who dared to point out that too often the entire Muslim community is defined by the worst acts of a few.
I was teaching in Brooklyn, NY on 9/11. I felt the terror and uncertainty, the pain and suffering. And I saw New Yorkers come together to support each other.
Trump's racist attacks on @Ilhan are the worst type of response. A leader should bring us together, not tear us apart.
The president and those who support him are weaponizing a national tragedy, a terrorist attack on this country, for political gain. They are deliberately distorting @IlhanMN's words to intimidate her, demonize an entire religion, and divide us.
ADAPT of Texas is concerned about the lawsuit you are leading that, if successful, will rule that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is unconstitutional.
Increased Medicaid match for home & community services.
Even with these improvements Texas leads the nation with the largest number and percentage of uninsured people. Texas has the largest number of uninsured children – 10.7% – more than twice the national average. These numbers could have been significantly reduced in the past few years; however, Texas has chosen not to avail ourselves of the Medicaid Expansion.
ADAPT of Texas wants to highlight two areas in the ACA that currently have a direct positive effect on people with disabilities of all ages.
All disabled people, regardless of age, have a pre-existing condition, many have more than one. This fact is often overlooked when discussing coverage for people with pre-existing conditions. Pre-existing conditions are a disability issue. The protections for people with pre-existing conditions in the ACA not only require insurance coverage, this coverage must be offered for the same price as insurance coverage for people without pre-existing conditions. In addition, the ACA provides a subsidy so people with less income can afford this important coverage.
Texas recognized the need of people with pre-existing conditions before the ACA and created a High Risk Pool. This pool was shut down when the ACA became law. Though the coverage was not bad, it was outrageously expensive, completely unaffordable to thousands of Texans. The result? Texans with pre-existing conditions, who were not on Medicaid and/or Medicare and were not wealthy, were often uninsured, were sicker or more disabled, and even died because of lack of coverage.
There are many sections in the ACA that do not directly impact health insurance yet have a significant effect on the health care delivery system.
The Community First Choice (CFC) Option is a section in the ACA that improves the individuals' health by delivering long term services and supports in a community setting. Study after study shows that people of all ages who need personal care supports prefer and benefit from services and supports in the community. Not only do these people prefer and see health benefits from community services and supports, they save the state millions of Medicaid dollars. Texas provides CFC services to people with disabilities and, thanks to the ACA, receives a 6% Medicaid enhanced match.
If the Texas led lawsuit prevails, protections for pre-existing conditions, CFC and the 6% Medicaid enhanced match goes away.
ADAPT of Texas asks you not to target Texans with disabilities and to drop off the lawsuit and work with us to develop a health care delivery system, including community long term services and supports, that meet the needs of people with disabilities of all ages and incomes.
We ask for a meeting to discuss the above issues. Please let me know the day, time and location that works for y'all.
People with vision impairment sometimes use screen-reading software to help them navigate the web. The software dictates audio based upon what's on the screen. This works best when the information is text-based, and when it's organized well. Unfortunately, not all webpages fit this description.
Images, especially, are hard to parse with a screen reader. It's long been considered a best practice to add additional "meta" information to images so that they can be read by screen readers (and also by search engines, but that's another story). Unfortunately, the meta information requires manual input, and most people posting images online either don't do it, or do it poorly. We are guilty of this, and will strive to do better.
Once you enable the feature, you'll have an additional option to add a description to any image you post. Take the time to do this, and don't be lazy about it. When writing your description of the image, imagine you are describing it to someone over the phone. If you're posting a screen-shot of text (like someone's Facebook post, or another tweet), post that same text into the image description. Otherwise, people with vision impairment have no idea what you are posting.
It takes more time. If you're in a hurry, you can be tempted to bypass the image description or to be lazy about it. Resist that temptation!
Third-party apps don't include image descriptions. If you're using something like Tweetdeck or Hootsuite to schedule tweets, there is no place to add image descriptions. This is unfortunate. We don't schedule many tweets in advance, but when we need to, image-tweets will be missing descriptions.
Accessibility on the web is always evolving, and mistakes will always happen. Adding image descriptions is a simple way to start being a better ally to our friends in the disability community, but it's only a start. We would love to hear how we can do better in the comments.
On Thursday, President Trump insulted immigrants and endangered diplomatic relationships by calling African nations "shithole countries," and demanding that Haitians and others with Temporary Protected Status (TPS) be removed from any bipartisan immigration deal.
The issue isn't his language. This president has proven time and again to be racist and vulgar.
A racist is not capable of negotiating an immigration deal in good faith.
The issue is the dangerous position that many immigrants find themselves in today, whether they are Dreamers losing their protections on a daily basis, or people with TPS whose lives have been thrown into turmoil.
The issue is the so-called "deal," and the vision our political leadership has for the future of immigrants who call the US home, and who will have the opportunity to come to the US in the future.
Trump made this statement during bipartisan talks on a possible legislative solution to ensure Dreamers aren't heartlessly removed from the country they call home. Reports of these talks also indicated that members of Democratic leadership—the party that often claims to be the champion of immigrants—had already made disturbing concessions to the president before his remarks. Those concessions show that Democratic leaders are not seeking a clean DREAM Act, but instead are negotiating the future of Dreamers by blocking family-based visas for their parents, giving the president funding for "the wall," and ending diversity visas.
The initial deal framework, as originally reported, is unacceptable. We do not ask for ceremonial statements of condemnation of the president's remarks. We demand those who say they stand with immigrants negotiate protections for those whose status has been compromised by the revocation of DACA and TPS—with no strings attached.
Five Democrats voted against the DREAM Act in 2010 and 17 Democrats broke their promise to protect Dreamers and voted with the GOP before going home for the holidays last month. Trump's latest racist comments have given these incumbents a third chance to redeem themselves before this year's primary season.
Austin-area Rep. Lloyd Doggett has long been on the side of Dreamers, and he continues to push Congress to take quick action and pass a clean DREAM Act (which he co-sponsors). More Democrats need to follow his lead.
More than 120,000 Dreamers live in Texas. Approximately 14,500 Dreamers across the country have already lost DACA status, and 122 more lose their status every day that passes without a permanent solution. If a permanent legislative solution is not passed by March, all 700,000 of our most law-abiding immigrants will lose their status. They will lose their work permits and become immediately eligible for deportation.
Dreamers are not a bargaining chip.
Dreamers are our classmates, colleagues, neighbors, and friends. Here in Texas, 2,000 of them are school teachers. We won't accept a bad deal for those who have built a better life for their families here in America, and those who seek to.
Friday was the eighth anniversary of the earthquake that killed 160,000 Haitians. Do not let cynicism or Trump fatigue overtake you. Honor their memory and call your members of Congress and let them know you're watching to see if they can be trusted to protect Dreamers and the American Dream itself.
Traducción al español por Jasmain Rodriguez. Lea en inglés.
Ha pasado un poco menos de un mes desde que anunciamos nuestro apoyo a Alirio Gámez. Alirio Gámez aún se encuentra refugiado en la Primera Iglesia Unitaria Universal de Austin, y si sale de allí, será detenido por ICE y será deportado a El Salvador. Si esto pasara, su vida estaría en peligro.
Ha llegado el tiempo de cambiar nuestras tácticas para apoyar a Alirio. El mes pasado, cien personas firmarmos una petición demandando a oficiales de ICE que usaran la discreción acusadora para permitir que Alirio permanezca en el país. ¡Queremos que escuchen nuestra voz!
Le pedimos a usted que haga una breve llamada telefónica para parar la deportación de Alirio. Hemos hecho cientos de llamadas a nuestros representantes electos para oponerse a Trump y su agenda; ahora vamos a usar nuestro tiempo y pasión en nombre de Alirio.
Haz una llamada telefónica a ICE por Alirio.
Por favor haz una llamada hoy (jueves 11/9) o mañana (11/10) durante las horas de oficina de Norma Lacy, Oficial de Inmigración al 210-283-4750.
Cuando escuche el correo de voz, presiona el número 1 y deja un mensaje. Si alguien contesta y te hace preguntas, contesta –Hable con su abogado. Ayúdenos a mantener el conteo de llamadas que se han hecho en nombre de él enviando un correo electrónico a ewelliver@grassrootsleadership.org para darnos el reporte. Gracias.
"Hola mi nombre es ______. Estoy llamando de (ubicación u organización) para pedirle a ICE que use se discreción acusadora para parar la deportación de Alirio Gámez A#208270481. Alirio huyó de su hogar en El Salvador en búsqueda de asilo en los Estados Unidos debido a experiencias violentas y amenazas de muerte que ha recibido. Él tiene el derecho a vivir en seguridad y eso significa quedándose aquí.
Nosotros luchamos juntos por la justicia.
Invisible Austin respeta y continúa el trabajo de la Red Santuaria de Austin y Grassroots Leadership en su apoyo a Alirio y muchas otras causas. Para más información revisa estas organizaciones.


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The cause is not known, but the predisposition to develop keratoconus is probably commonly present from birth. Keratoconus is thought to involve a defect in collagen, the tissue that delivers strength to the cornea and gives it it's round shape.
Some researchers believe that allergy and eye rubbing may speed up the damage.
Keratoconus is often discovered during ones youth. We are now able to detect the presence of keratoconus well before subjective symptoms develop. Corneal Topography and Aberrametry measurements have become the standard of care in diagnosing and management of keratoconus. A computerized system images the shape of the cornea together with the entire optical system by taking tens of thousands of data points. The results are instantly analyzed and wave front topography maps are generated. These printouts will show Dr. Azman an eye-map-print (just like a finger print) of the location and severity of any corneal distortion and high order aberrations (HOA).
Specular Microscopy is noninvasive photographic technique that facilitates accurate and precise diagnosis of corneal disease in the back part of the cornea (endothelium). This instrument can pick up early signs of corneal edema, which cannot be picked up on routine examination. If there is any indication of corneal disease, such as keratoconus or edema we might recommend a different treatment modality.
Contact lenses are the main treatment for most patients with keratoconus. However very specialized designs have been developed that improve vision and comfort far beyond yesterday's lenses. In addition, soft lenses, RGP lenses, hybrid lenses scleral lenses, PVR PROSE Treatment, and EyePrint PRO ,can now be designed to provide excellent visual results fro patients with keratoconus.


This line captures the rise in inequality better than any other chart or simple summary that I've seen. So I went to the economists with a request: Could they produce versions of their chart for years before 1980, to capture the income trends following World War II.
The message from the graph is straightforward. Only a few decades ago, the middle class and the poor weren't just receiving healthy raises. Their take-home pay was rising even more rapidly, in percentage terms, than the pay of the rich.
In recent decades, by contrast, only very affluent families – those in roughly the top 1/40th of the income distribution – have received such large raises. Yes, the upper-middle class has done better than the middle class or the poor, but the huge gaps are between the superrich and everyone else.
It's true that the country can't magically return to the 1950s and 1960s (nor would we want to, all things considered). Economic growth was faster in those decades than we can reasonably expect today. Yet there is nothing natural about the distribution of today's growth – the fact that our economic bounty flows overwhelmingly to a small share of the population.
Remarkably, President Donald Trump and the Republican leaders in Congress are trying to go in the other direction. They spent months trying to take away health insurance from millions of middle-class and poor families. Their initial tax-reform plans would reduce taxes for the rich much more than for everyone else. And they want to cut spending on schools, even though education is the single best way to improve middle-class living standards over the long term.


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Why I love reading fanfiction and why I can't write it.
June 2, 2014 Elena Linville	5 Comments
I must admit that I absolutely love reading fanfiction. I think it's because sometimes I like the characters or the world so much, that I feel sad leaving them behind once the book is finished. I think most of us feel the same way, as the sheer amount of fanfiction written everyday can attest.
Fanfiction gives the readers a chance to explore the world the author created a bit further, or to shine the light on secondary characters that had been mostly on the margins of the original story. Sometimes it even lets the readers reimagine the story itself if, for some reason, they didn't like the ending the author gave them. I know that I love reading fanfics that I will never forgive Rowling for pairing Hermione with Ron, or for killing Severus Snape off (and in such a lame way). So I particularly enjoy reading fanfics that explore other paths Hermione could have taken after Hogwards, or those where Snape survived and finally got a chance a normal life.
I think it's normal to want to read and write fanfiction, and I know that many writers started their writing careers by writing fanfics for books that really touched them. It's also an excellent form of exercise, because it lets your imagination run free, but at the same time give you a set of rules consistent with the world of the original (unless you are trying to write something totally AU). It's also an easily accessible (and free) way of staying a little bit longer with the characters you like.
The downside of this is that there is a lot of drivel out there. Stories that are poorly written, with characters that are so OOC they are unrecognizable, and a plot that is pure wish fulfilment on the part of author. I have noticed a lot of that last one when the authors try to introduce an original character into the story and she / he end up being a better (in their mind) version of the author him / herself (that's where all the Mary Sue and Gary Stu come from). So, sifting through the muck can be a painful and mind-numbing process, but sometimes you find absolute gems – fanfics so well written, that they keep you hooked just as much (if not more sometimes) than the original book (movie, series, graphic novel) did.
By the way, if you are a fan of Harry Potter fiction, the wonderful Loten has some beautiful (and very well plotted) stories. WARNING – there is explicit content and most of the stories are about Hermione Granger and Severus Snape. I would especially recommend her Post Tenebras Lux.
But I got sidetracked. Moving on. I think I pretty much covered the reason of my love for fanfiction, so now I have a confession to make. I absolutely, totally suck at writing it. I CAN'T write fanfiction to save my life. Every time I get psyched up about a show or a book and want to write a story about it, I end up thinking about it for so long that by the time I sit down to write, I have created my own world and the characters populating it have nothing in common with their prototypes.
For example, my first novel Of Broken Things started out as a fanfiction idea when I watched Star Trek Into Darkness. I had been so impressed by the portrayal of Khan by the wonderful Benedict Cumberbatch, that I remember thinking, "What would someone like that do if he fell in love? And then lost the woman he loved? Oh, but it must have been an exceptional woman to catch the eye of someone like that." And I started thinking about plot and character backgrounds, world building and politics, and ended up with a story that has nothing to do with Star Trek. Yes, one of the protagonists in it is a genetically modified soldier, but that's the only think GMS798 has in common with Khan. I started with a fanfiction idea and ended up with an original book.
The idea for my next book also came as a result of watching a popular TV series. I was so impressed with one of the characters that I wanted to play with him myself. Only he didn't want to talk to me. He kept pushing other characters into the light instead, none of which were present in the original show. By the time he finally decided to step into the light and tell his story, the only thing he had left from that character in the show was the face. And I'm thankful, because he brought me a wonderful story that I can't wait to tell.
I think the reason why I can't write fanfiction is because I don't feel comfortable playing in somebody else's sandbox. I can't help but start changing the rules, modifying the backstory and starting to build my own castles. So I might was well go to my own sandbox and do it there, at least then I can have some fun without feeling guilty about it, and even discover wonderful stories in the process.
So what do you guys think? Do you read fanfiction? Do you write it? Do you think fanfiction is important? And question for published authors out there, do you read fanfiction about your stories?
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