The egocentric bias is a cognitive bias that causes people to rely too heavily on their own point of view when they examine events in their life or when they try to see things from other people's perspective.
For example, if you do something embarrassing, the egocentric bias might cause you to overestimate the degree to which other people are likely to notice it, because you naturally assume that they care about your actions as much as you do.
Since the egocentric bias influences the way we process and remember information, it's important to understand it. In the following article, you will understand what the egocentric bias is and why we experience is, see some examples of how the egocentric bias affects us, and learn what you can do in order to mitigate its influence.
The egocentric bias is a cognitive bias that causes people to rely too much on their own point of view when they examine or remember events in their life. Essentially, this means that people tend to either underestimate how different other people's viewpoint is from their own, or to ignore other people's viewpoint entirely.
Accordingly, the egocentric bias causes people to project their beliefs, desires, thoughts, and emotions onto other people, especially when those people are close to them. Furthermore, the egocentric bias also hinders people's ability to empathize with others, since it causes them to focus primarily on their own emotions, and to ignore how other people feel.
In some cases, the egocentric bias can also cause people to believe that situations that favor them are fair, even if they think that favoring others in a similar manner would be unjust. This means, for example, that people might think they deserve to receive more than others when it comes to splitting positive outcomes, such as credit or profits, while they might also think they deserve to receive less than others when it comes to splitting negative outcomes, such as blame or penalties.
Note: there is a related cognitive bias called the altercentric bias, which has a somewhat opposite effect than the egocentric bias, since it causes people's judgment of their own emotional state to be influenced by other people's emotions. People experience both these biases to varying degrees, and display different levels of egocentrism and altercentrism in different situations.
The egocentric bias can cause someone who is giving a public talk to assume that their nervousness is more apparent to others than is actually the case.
The egocentric bias can cause someone to overestimate the amount of work that they contributed to a group project.
The egocentric bias can cause someone to assume that his colleagues all share his political beliefs and social values.
The egocentric bias can cause someone who did something embarrassing a few days ago to overestimate the likelihood that others will remember it now.
The egocentric bias can cause someone to remember themselves as having been the key player in a past event, despite the fact that they only played a relatively minor role in it.
The egocentric bias, like other cognitive biases, occurs due to the limitations of our cognitive system, and namely due to the imperfect way we process information. Specifically, the egocentric bias occurs primarily due to the fact that we spend the vast majority of the time seeing things from our own perspective, so we tend to naturally examine and remember events primarily through our personal point of view.
Even when we realize that we should adjust our perspective to see things through other people's eyes, we tend to anchor this new perspective to our own, and we often fail to adjust from our original viewpoint enough to properly assess how other people feel.
The reason why we are predisposed to this issue is that our cognitive system is heuristic-based, meaning that it often tries to run calculations and form judgments in a quick way, that reduces our use of cognitive resources, at the cost of causing us to form incorrect judgments. Accordingly, our cognitive system finds it faster and easier to simply assume that other people's thought process is similar to our own, than to try and assess what their perspective is actually like.
Furthermore, when it comes to how we remember past events, another reason why we tend to experience the egocentric bias is that our cognitive system generally arranges our memories around ourselves, since our own presence serves as a stable constant that stands at the center of our attention most of the time.
Overall, we experience the egocentric bias because of the imperfect way our cognitive system works. Specifically, we are so used to seeing things from our own perspective, that we find it difficult to account for the fact that other people's viewpoint is different from ours. As such, our cognitive system assumes by default that other people have a perspective that is similar to our own, in situations in which we try to assess what other people think or how other people feel.
There are various background factors which affect the likelihood that a person will experience the egocentric bias, as well as the degree to which that person will experience this bias.
A person's age, for example, can significantly affect the likelihood that they will experience the egocentric bias, and in general, it appears that adolescents and older adults display increased egocentricity compared to young and middle-aged adults. Similarly, the number of languages that a person speaks also plays a role in a people's predisposition to the egocentric bias, and bilinguals appear to be less likely to experience the egocentric bias than monolinguals.
However, it's important to note that such background factors only have a relatively minor influence on people's predisposition to the egocentric bias, and that every person experiences the egocentric bias to some degree, since it's a natural byproduct of our universal cognitive system.
The illusion of transparency- the illusion of transparency is a cognitive bias that causes people to believe that their internal state, in terms of their thoughts and emotions, is more apparent to others than is actually the case. This occurs as a result of the egocentric bias, and specifically because our internal state is so readily available to us that we forget that it's not as readily available to others.
The spotlight effect- the spotlight effect is a cognitive bias that causes people to overestimate the degree to which other people notice and care about their appearance and actions. This occurs as a result of the egocentric bias, and specifically because we are so focused on our own actions, that we forget that other people are not as focused on them.
The false consensus effect- the false consensus effect is a cognitive bias that causes people to believe that their opinions and beliefs are more common in the population than they actually are. This occurs as a result of the egocentric bias, and specifically because we are so used to our own opinions and beliefs, that we struggle to remember that other people might hold different ones.
Experiencing some degree of the egocentric bias is normal, since, as we saw above, this bias occurs due to the way our cognitive system works. Nevertheless, there are some cases where it can be beneficial to mitigate the egocentric bias that you experience. Doing so can help you assess situations more clearly, and allow you to make more rational decisions.
The first step to reducing this bias is to simply be aware of it. However, while being aware of the egocentric bias is crucial to your ability to mitigate it, it's not enough if you want to be able to debias yourself successfully.
As such, in the following sections you will see a few useful debiasing techniques that you can use to reduce the degree to which you experience the egocentric bias. These techniques are similar to one another, since they all help you reduce the egocentric bias by enabling you to view things from a different perspective, and by reducing your inherent focus on your own point of view.
One way to reduce the egocentric bias is to increase your psychological self-distance. You can accomplish this using a simple self-distancing technique, that allows you to see things from a different perspective.
Specifically, you can increase your self-distance by thinking about the situation that you are in using self-distancing language, meaning that instead of thinking about yourself using the first-person pronoun (e.g. "what should I do"), you should think about yourself using the second-person pronoun (e.g. "what should you do") or using your own name (e.g. "what should John do").
Doing this helps you increase your psychological self-distance, which in turn can help reduce the egocentric bias that you experience.
Since the egocentric bias occurs due to our innate focus on own perspective, you can mitigate it by trying to visualize the situation from a different viewpoint. Specifically, instead of looking at things only from your own perspective, you can either try to see things from someone else's viewpoint, or you can try to see things from a generalized external perspective.
For example, if you got into an argument with a friend, you can try to see things from their perspective, in order to understand why they feel the way that they do.
Similarly, considering arguments that are at odds with your stance can also help reduce your self-focus, and thus mitigate the egocentric bias. For example, if you believe in a certain political stance, you can try to come up with reasons why a competing stance might also be good. This will allow you to understand why people support that alternative stance, and will help you assess your own beliefs in a more rational manner.
Being more self-aware can help you reduce the egocentric bias, by helping you become conscious of your innate tendency to focus on yourself.
You can increase your self-awareness in various ways. One study, for example, found that doing something as simple as sitting in front of a mirror while making a decision can help increase your self-awareness, and reduce the egocentric bias that you experience.
Other techniques could also work, as long as they accomplish the same thing, by helping you become actively conscious of yourself, and of your tendency to focus on your own perspective.
There are varioous general debiasing techniques that you can use in order to reduce the egocentric bias that you experience.
These techniques include, for example, slowing down your reasoning process, asking others for feedback, and creating an optimal environment for decision making.
To learn more about these techniques, see the guide to debiasing, which explains how cognitive debiasing works, and how you can use debiasing techniques to reduce the influence of various cognitive biases, including the egocentric bias.
The egocentric bias is a cognitive bias that causes people to rely too much on their own point of view when they examine or remember various events in their life.
Accordingly, the egocentric bias can cause people to underestimate how different other people's perspective is from their own, and to project their own beliefs, desires, thoughts, and emotions onto other people. Furthermore, the egocentric bias can cause people to believe that situations which favor them are fair, even if they think that favoring others in a similar manner would be unjust.
The egocentric bias can, for example, cause people to overestimate the degree to which other people notice their actions, or to overestimate their contribution to a shared project compared to other group members.
We experience the egocentric bias because we are used to seeing things from our own perspective, which makes it difficult for us to imagine other people's viewpoint and which causes our cognitive system to rely on our perspective as a primary point of reference.
There are several techniques that can help you reduce the egocentric bias, including using self-distancing language, considering alternative viewpoints, and increasing your self-awareness. In addition, you can also use general debiasing techniques, such as asking for feedback from others, and slowing down your reasoning process.


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Marianne Farley Talks About Her Heartfelt Short Film 'Marguerite'
by James Prestridge October 8, 2018
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MARIANNE Farley's short film Marguerite is a heartfelt story of unacknowledged longing and love. It tells the story of Marguerite (Béatrice Picard), an ageing woman who is inspired by a tender friendship with her nurse (Sandrine Bisson) to begin reflecting on and making peace with long-hidden feelings.
Marianne joins us on Close-up Culture to talk about the Marguerite's brilliant lead performances, taboos about sexuality, emotional responses to the film and much more.
Q: I think we have to start with Béatrice Picard. Can you tell us about your experience working with this legendary French-Canadian actor?
A: WORKING with Béatrice was an incredible experience. I have been a fan of her work since I was very young. She is a brilliant actress and a genuinely sweet human being.
I was astonished to see how open and generous she was with the crew, and me always willing to push herself further. Because I am very precise and resolute when it comes to directing actors and she is a great perfectionist, we were a match made in heaven. And Béatrice is still as passionate about her craft as she was when she was just starting out many decades ago. She is a dream actress for any director; strong yet vulnerable, subtle yet fearless.
Q: Sandrine Bisson (who plays Rachel) is also incredible. Can you talk about Sandrine and Béatrice's chemistry and how they worked together to capture such sensitive moments?
A: SANDRINE is a very close friend of mine and I wanted to offer her a role as empathetic and kind as she is in real life. I wrote the part of Rachel for her because she usually gets cast to play characters who are a little rough around the edges and I craved to see her play a more subdued and subtle character. She is an amazing actress and such a warm-hearted woman.
Sandrine and Béatrice had met before – and were fans of each other's work – but they had never worked together. Instantaneously they bonded and developed a genuine and intimate friendship that transpires on-screen. They got along perfectly and became quite the team. And that is already half the work! You create on-screen chemistry by authentically connecting with your partner. That is what I wholeheartedly believe.
Q: I imagine it was an emotional shoot. What emotions did their performances evoke from you and your team?
A: THE one thing I wanted to create on set more than anything was a calm and safe space to explore and create. We often focus on getting as much footage as possible – and as quickly as possible – but we tend to forget that actors need to feel protected, cared for, to be able to open up emotionally. It was very important to me that we create a serene environment for Béatrice and Sandrine.
This story is both incredibly sad but also filled with love and hope. It is the story of two women connecting in a deep and meaningful way. The end of the film was particular magical to shoot because there was such respect on set for both actresses. A sense of calm, of peace. In fact a few days after the shoot, one of the crew members called me to tell me how deeply it had affected him. He told me that he had started crying as he was telling his wife about the film. It surprised him and it profoundly moved me.
Q: This is a story gives a rather unique perspective of sexuality. Where did the inspiration for it come from?
A: I have never had any taboos about sexuality. Although I understand where those taboos come from for most people, it has always pained me to think about those who were never able to be true to themselves because of society's rules or religion.
I believe that love is love. As long as it is between two consenting adults no one should ever have the right to dictate whom you should or shouldn't love. But I am also very aware of how fortunate I am to have been born at a time and in a country where those rights are enforced by law. It wasn't so for the people of my grandmother's generation for example. And that for me is a tragedy.
Q: The line that very much grabbed me was when Marguerite says: 'What is it like to make love to a woman?' I wonder if you could expand on it.
A: WHEN I wrote that line, I was trying to put myself in Marguerite's shoes. What thoughts would be going through her mind at that point? How far could she go? How could she get Rachel to understand without having to come out and say too much?
In the film, at that moment, Marguerite needs to open up to Rachel. She needs to reveal herself, her vulnerability. But for me, the idea is always to do as little exposition as possible and to keep it simple. Simple dialogue leaves a lot of space for more complex subtext.
And underneath that simple question, Marguerite is showing us – and Rachel – who she is, what she's missed out on. This makes it a huge pivotal moment for her. The courage she needs to muster up in order to ask Rachel that question makes the audience feel for her because what she is really talking about is her own desire, her loneliness and her regret.
Q: 'Marguerite' has won awards a number of festivals. How proud are you that this film is connecting deeply with audiences?
A: I have to say that every award that Marguerite wins makes me feel deeply blessed. I have gotten many letters and emails from audience members who have been moved by Marguerite and that is the thing I am most proud of. The process of coming up with a story and making it come to life is magical to begin with. But getting it out there and knowing that audiences are connecting with it is incredible!
Q: I believe you are currently developing two features. Can you reveal anything about those?
A: THE feature I am in the process of writing is still too embryonic to talk about but my next project (WARRIORS written by Celeste Parr – Gurov & Anna) is in the late development stage. I am currently looking for financing and plan on shooting in the spring of 2019. It takes place in a pre-apocalyptic Southern Quebec when women and the environment have been ravaged. It is the story of a woman who risks the safety of those under her protection – her son included – when a treasonous "water warrior" is discovered on her land. It is beautifully written and stars François Arnaud (The Borgias) and Émilie Bierre (Jenny). I am very excited at the prospect of going into pre-production soon.
I am also in the post-production stage of a film I co-produced (with Benoit Beaulieu – Turbo Kid) and co-starred in – LES NÔTRES directed by Jeanne Leblanc. The film is set to come out in 2019.
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HBO signs on Jon Stewart for short streaming videos
In a four-year deal, the premium TV network is breaking out of its 30- to 60-minute production mold.
By Jared Newman
TechHive |
HBO and Jon Stewart are teaming up, but not for just another TV show.
Instead, the former star of The Daily Show will produce "timely short-form digital content, which will be refreshed on HBO NOW multiple times throughout the day," HBO says. Details are still scarce, but Stewart is apparently working with cloud-rendering company OTOY on new technology to help produce the videos.
The four-year deal also gives HBO first crack at any TV or film projects that Stewart might pursue; but again, HBO hasn't announced any specifics on that front. The focus for now is on the shorter material. "Appearing on television 22 minutes a night clearly broke me," Stewart said in HBO's press release. "I'm pretty sure I can produce a few minutes of content every now and again."
There's no word on exactly when the videos will arrive. In addition to launching on HBO Now, the network's $15-per-month standalone streaming service, they'll also appear on HBO Go, the free service for people who get HBO through their cable provider.
Why this matters: Until now, HBO's streaming services have mainly offered long-form TV shows, movies, and specials. With Stewart's shorter creations, it seems HBO is trying to turn its service into something people will visit more frequently during the day, instead of just for their evening entertainment. This could be the start of a broader response to YouTube and its new ad-free subscription service, along with newer short-form video efforts such as Vessel, Verizon's Go90, and Comcast's Watchable .
Jared Newman covers personal technology from his remote Cincinnati outpost. He also publishes two newsletters, Advisorator for tech advice and Cord Cutter Weekly for help with ditching cable or satellite TV.


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JESUS THE VINE, WE THE BRANCHES TO BEAR THE FRUIT OF LOVE
FIFTH SUNDAY OF EASTER
Reverend Deacon David Justin Lynch
Acts 9:26-31 Psalm 22:26-28, 30, 31-32
I John 3:18-24 John 15:1-8
About three weeks ago, I talked about how difficult evangelism is for people of the Catholic or Anglican tradition. It just seems that it's not in our DNA to talk to other people about our faith in God, and by that I mean our loyalty to Jesus and our Trust in Him. As uncomfortable as that may make us, today's set of lessons thrust that subject even more directly in our laps than when we last encountered it, and illustrates some of the challenges we face when doing it. In our secular world, the public at large often does not trust those who talk God all the time. People are skeptical of our motives when we go so far as to invite them to church, so we back off so as to avoid an uncomfortable conversation.
Today's first lesson from Acts is part of a longer story about Paul the Apostle, and illustrates that when we talk about Jesus, people get suspicious. To give some context to the situation, Paul the Apostle, before he became known as Paul, was Saul, a Pharisaic Jew, who violently persecuted the followers of Jesus at the behest of the Jewish religious establishment. On his way to Damascus, he encountered a sudden vision of Jesus that blinded him, and based on that encounter, he got himself baptized by Ananias and thereafter undertook a mission as the apostle to the Gentiles, that is, everyone who wasn't Jewish. After this miraculous conversion, the disciples didn't trust him and his motives, because all of a sudden, he had done an about-face, changed 180 degrees, from one side to another. Former enemies do not become fast friends overnight.
But Paul stepped from the frying pan into the fire as he got into a confrontation with the Hellenists who, according to this story, tried to kill him. The Hellenists were Greek-speaking Jews who had a different interpretation of the scriptures than those who spoke Hebrew or Aramaic, illustrating that theological differences between factions of the same religious community are nothing new, as to either existence or intensity. Paul, who once was a persecutor, became the persecuted, a bit like me, who once worked on behalf of insurance companies to deny money to injured people, but now representing injured people to get money from insurance companies.
Paul was lucky to have had a friend like Barnabas to reassure the other disciples that everything was OK, that Paul had legitimately become one of the followers of "The Way", as Christianity was originally called. What Barnabas did was integrate Paul into the community of the followers of Jesus, just as we here at Saint Cecilia's must do when new people join us.
Many Christian traditions emphasize so-called, "personal conversion experiences," where people suddenly, shall we say, are "born again" and their lives suddenly and radically transformed. New Christians who have that kind of experience often embrace their new orientation with a zealous enthusiasm that exceeds that of those who grew up in the church. They are anxious to share their faith with others, and often become judgmental of others who haven't "seen the light" in the same way they did.
The danger of relying on conversion alone as a basis of faith, is that it becomes a passing phenomenon, a stage in one's life through which one goes, rather than becoming a part of who one is. It is a bit like a plant that blooms without taking root in the ground. It is the seed sown on thin soil that washes away with the next storm.
Today we encounter the last of the seven "I am" statements of Jesus in John's Gospel. Jesus tells us, "I am the vine" and describes the disciples as branches. Faith is like a plant. It has to be nurtured to grow, and to be nurtured, it has to take root somewhere, and that somewhere is the Church, the Body of Christ. To grow as Christians, we have to become part of that Body, that is, part of the Christian community. A plant that does not take root somewhere cannot survive. To become rooted in our faith, we have to become like a branch of the vine which is Jesus. Like a vine, Jesus is alive. Jesus gives life. As we are connected to Jesus, He gives us life. Our strongest connection with Jesus is through our receiving His Body and Blood in the Eucharist, which nourishes our souls and bodies. Being a branch on the vine which is Jesus, being nourished by His Body and Blood, enables fruit to grow on us as we live in the world. What kind of fruit do we bear? The fruit called love. That is the fruit we bear, the fruit Jesus intended us to bear. Without being part of the vine which is Jesus, we cannot bear the fruit that we could if we did. Today's Gospel tells us that if we go it alone, without being a branch on the vine of Jesus, we will not survive. As I look outside this church, I see so many people who live apart from Jesus. I always wonder if they can be truly happy without Jesus in their lives. But unfortunately, the church in ages past has not been concerned about that. Churches have been so hung up on maintaining themselves as institutions by enforcing rules, that they forget the true purpose of being Christian: to build up the Kingdom of God by loving others as Jesus loved us.
The love we show that comes from Jesus is unique. It is, as described in today's Epistle, not love in word or speech, but in deed and truth. In other words, genuine love shows in what we do. Love doesn't always mean romantic love. It can mean simply random and simple acts of kindness towards others, such as sending a card and flowers when someone is sick or has experienced a death in the family, helping out a single parent who is short a few dollars at the supermarket cash register, buying a meal for a homeless person, or even just holding a door for someone who has their arms full. It is all about your deeds, in the way you show that you care for other people as well as yourself and your immediate family.
Why do we do those things? Because God's command is that we should show our belief in the name of Jesus, by loving one another, just like Jesus told us to do. By fulfilling that commandment, we remain part of Jesus, and Jesus remains part of us. For you and me to be disciples, we must remain in Jesus, and if we remain in Jesus, He will give us whatever we ask.
A vine and branch system is similar to how we relate to Jesus. A branch is part of the vine and the vine is part of the branch. We live in Jesus, and Jesus lives in us. As Jesus is in us and we are in Jesus, fruit, in the form of genuine love, is able to grow on us. But fruit on a vine is not something that the vine decides to make happen. It grows naturally, without anyone telling it to do so. So too, our love as Christians for one another. It grows naturally from our hearts, rather than as something we decide to do. However, engaging in loving behavior ultimately becomes part of who we are and becomes a part of our hearts, the core of who we are, deep inside of ourselves.
For people in the time of Jesus, a vine was a rich source of symbolism in the Middle-Eastern world. The author of today's Gospel had in mind a plant which fastens itself to other objects by means of its tendrils. So too, Jesus, who fastens himself on the world and on us. His tendrils are His love. He grabs us and holds us. The vine in the days of Jesus on earth was noted for luxuriant foliage, intertwining branches, and climbing shoots. Jesus, then as now, is as alive among us as luxuriant foliage, beautiful beyond all human measures of beauty. A vine was a common sight in a Palestinian courtyard climbing a tree or trellis. Why not make Jesus a common sight in our lives? Why not allow Jesus to climb on us without limitation? The vineyards of the Holy Land required intensive care over long periods of time to grow and bear grapes for wine and raisins. So to the church, and in particular, Saint Cecilia's. To build us up to be the Church God wants us to be will not happen overnight. To do that will take intensive care and effort over time. The twining branch signified life and the grape cluster symbolized fertility. We, the people of God here in Palm Springs, are the branches on a vine growing in our vineyard, and that vine is Jesus. The love we show each other, and the greater community around us, will be the fruit that we bear. Only if we love one another are we assured of our standing as Christians.
But it will not be easy. We will encounter people suspicious of us and our motives, both catholic and protestant. On Facebook, I've encountered people whose message is, "how dare you be catholic without being part of the Roman Church," and "how dare you give the sacraments to people Rome says they can't have them." Our answer is this. The relationship between people and churches is one big system of branches coming from a vine. Each church, including ours, is a branch from the vine called Jesus, in the vineyard tended by God the Father as its gardener, a loving Father to a Jesus who taught us how to love. The vine and its branches are thus a demonstration of trilateral love between God, Jesus and the church, the Body of Christ nurtured by God, which nurtures us.
But not all those branches on the vine are all good all the time. Today's Gospel also talks about pruning, that is, cutting off branches from the vine that are not productive, are not bearing fruit. In the context of the overall inclusive message of Jesus, that does not mean cutting people off from the church who aren't pleasing to us. What it does mean is the church cutting off those aspects of its behavior which do not further its growth. I'm talking about churches which silence and/or excommunicate non-conformists, churches who don't offer communion to everyone, churches who won't marry divorced people and same-sex couples, churches who silence non-mainstream theologians, and churches who move pedophile priests from parish to parish instead of removing them from ministry. That's the kind of junk that needs to be gathered and thrown into the fire.
We, as a parish, are one more branch on the vine which is the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church founded by Jesus Christ, who always has been, is now, and will be forever, head of the church, and the author of our salvation, through his incarnation, teaching, death, resurrection and ascension. Jesus will always be there to pray for us, as He did for His disciples, that all Christians may be one, as Jesus and His Father are one. We are all branches on the same vine. This is the same Jesus who said, "I am the bread of life", "I am the light of the world," "I am the door", "I am the Good Shepherd", "I am the resurrection and the life", "I am the way and the truth", and "I am the "true vine." Jesus is all of that. If we live in Jesus, and allow Jesus to live in us, our hearts will bear much fruit, and much love, to the world around us. AMEN.


Temecula Valley Hospital will break ground in April on the hospital's first expansion project since its opening in October 2013. The expansion project is a 29,000 square foot addition to the first floor on the east side of the hospital. This project will allow TVH to expand cardiovascular and stroke services while advancing the capabilities of these programs.
The first floor expansion project includes two catheterization (cath) labs, seven post-anesthesia care unit (PACU) bays, seven pre/post-operative care bays, a neuro biplane room, an endovascular hybrid operating room, a new CT scanner and a community room for educational presentations and events. These additions will help TVH better meet the needs of the growing community and allow the hospital to bring advanced care to residents.
By adding two additional cath labs, TVH will be able to increase the number of cardiac cases that are performed. Currently, the hospital is performing nearly double the national average of cases typically performed in only one cath lab.
The neuro biplane room will support TVH's efforts to become a Joint Commission accredited Comprehensive Stroke Center (CSC). Achieving CSC designation will help the hospital become an advanced multidisciplinary neuroscience center in the region.
The hybrid operating room will be equipped with a large fixed imaging system and will support high-quality interventional imaging. It will allow physicians to perform procedures using real-time image guidance and assess effectiveness while managing perioperative complications. Development of an endovascular hybrid operating room will allow TVH to establish a high-quality, integrated heart and vascular program. The strength and collaboration within the hospital's medical staff provides a strong foundation for building this program.


Last weekend I took the opportunity to visit the TYPO3 Camp Mallorca 2015. Since I moved to Palma just two months ago, I didn't hestitate to register for the event. It was packed with more than 100 TYPO3 enthusiasts. Beside of the great sessions we also had nice dinners with traditional mallorquin food, and a lot of drinks, espacially vino blanco y tinto.
For the sessions which I attended I want to give a quick overview of the learnings I could take away.
Two talks were given by Roland from ENTWICKLUNGSHILFE with great insights for PHP development, basically done with PHPStorm.
In his talk Roland emphasised the importance of clean code, including coding standards like PSR-2. This standard has just recently been adopted by the Flow and Neos team, for instance.
Why is it worth considering to keep your code lean and clean?
The second talk was about refactoring with PHPUnit and PHPStorm. Roland showed an example within a Magento installation which he fired up with a quick vagrant up.
We were working on some rubbish code where the audience had been included. It was a fun session.
Gina gave a talk on basic lean principles when developing products. In stark contrast to the traditional waterfall model, lean and agile development is a complete different approach. You'll ask your customer what he wants, and he might be telling you he needs a big SUV. But at the core of his problem is only 'how to get from A to B.' Maybe a skateboard would already be enough. No? Then maybe a small car? 'OK, that will do it, I'll take it.' Iterate as long as you meet the client's exact need.
Don't ask: What do you want to have?
Ask instead: What do you want to do?
Search functionality on websites or within apps is not often a pleasant experience. Sven Huppach presented a few bad examples and he gave some recommendations on how to improve your onsite search.
In small discussion rounds we talked about a wide range of topics. From the Lean UX session I learned that still plain paper and pencil work best for quickly drafting initial ideas. To put this ideas into life with prototyping tools I am really looking forward to using the Neos based project Typostrap.
In another round we discussed the advantages and pitfalls with TYPO3 and Docker in general. One attendee described how he uses Docker for his agency's development process and CI pipeline. Though they don't use Docker for production yet.
For TYPO3 CMS development I am glad to see that more and more people are using Fluid based approaches for website templating. One talk was about Fluidcontent and -pages with no Typoscript involved. You can build sophisticated and greatly flexible websites with the Fluid Powered TYPO3 suite. For my last freelance project we were using it extensively for an international car rental company that required a lot of custom content elements. So if you don't use it already, have a closer look!
Should you have missed this year's episode of the TYPO3 Camp Mallorca it's definitely worth to check it out next year. Preferably you add a few more days where you can explore the beautiful island, and maybe we will meet next year for some delicious Tapas!


Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a technique used in radiology to capture images of physiological processes in body. Closed MRI system is a tube-like tunnel with high field strength used to obtain greater resolution and thinner slices. It is helpful to study smaller parts of body. It scans patients faster than other MRI systems. Closed MRI systems use magnetic field and radio waves that screen and diagnose various diseases, such as multiple sclerosis (MS), cartilage degeneration in the knee, breast cancer, dementia, prostate cancer, spinal tuberculosis, and others.
Growing aging population and awareness among people about the benefits of MRI scanning are factors propelling the growth of world closed MRI systems market. However, high cost of MRI systems, declining reimbursement rates for MRI procedures, and reduction in the availability of helium that could force hospitals to replace costly MRI magnets would hinder the growth of the market. In addition, advancements in MRI techniques include superconducting (SC) magnets, open architecture, high-field MRI, and software applications would present tremendous opportunities for growth.
The world closed MRI systems market is segmented into field strength, application, and geography. Based on field strength, the market is further classified into low-to-mid field, high field, very high field, and ultra-high field. The applications covered in the report are brain, spine, cardiac, breast, and abdominal MRI systems. The market is classified geographically into North America, Asia, Europe, and Latin America, Middle East and Africa (LAMEA).
The key market players active in the market are GE Healthcare, Philips Healthcare, Siemens Healthcare, Toshiba Medical Systems, Imris Inc., Fonar Corporation, Esaote S.P.A., Hitachi Medical Corporation, Neusoft Medical System, and Aurora Medical Imaging. Various strategies adopted by these companies to gain stronghold of the market include partnerships, collaborations, approvals, mergers & acquisitions, joint ventures, expansions, and others.
The report offers a detailed analysis of key driving and restraining factors of the world closed MRI systems market.
The report provides an extensive analysis of current and future market status of the world closed MRI systems market.
An extensive analysis of current research and clinical developments withinthe world closed MRI systems market is provided with key market dynamic factors that help in understanding the behaviour of the market.
The world closed MRI systems market is segmented into North America, Asia, Europe, and Latin America, Middle East and Africa (LAMEA).
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Q: need to store credit card info. what's my best option? I'm building an auction website that charge small fee for each bid.
There is option to buy bank of bids, and there is an option to pay separately for each bid.
When paying for each bid - I don't want to ask the user to re-enter the credit card info each time. On the other hand I'm surely don't want to store the credit card info on DB and I have read that it is not safe to save it as session variable, not to mention cookies.
The client credit card processing company can't store the credit info either.
All cc info is entered by user under SSL of course.
So, is it even possible ? Is there a safe (/safer) way to store the cc info in the session ?
Thanks

A: Most payment gateways now provide a service now where you send them card details, and they return a token id. When you want to perform an authorization, or take final payment against the card you just send the token id. This is hugely beneficial to helping ease the PCI-DSS burdens that come with taking payments by card, because you only store a benign token id rather than any card details.
This will allow you to capture the card details once, then authorize as frequently as you like. It's worth keeping the frequency as low as possible however, because the payment gateway will typically make a per-authorization charge.
With that in mind, how frequent are the bids? It may be worth summing up the daily bids that a user makes and then authorising/charging for them daily/weekly/monthly, or when a certain value threshold is hit.

A: there are parts of the credit card information that you can store in the database but this does not include CVV2 data (the 3 digit code on the back of the card). I believe all the information you can store needs to be encrypted - check for information here https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/index.shtml
in my experience i found it easier to just set up real-time system and just get the customer to fill in their details each time - i found it to be much less hassle

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how much polyfill do i need?
Please dont dig up 4 month old posts just to start ****.
Please don't come on here and talk about your coarse jungle **** and how you get amino acids (leucine) tangled in your coarse **** crack hair. Have some common sense man.
^Ya know, I am not sure what is wrong with you. But they may make a pill for it.
Now can you help me shave em?
I see a short stay here at CP in your future.
But I am curious...you signed up at this forum, necro'd a 5 year old thread with some off the wall babbling. Why?
why ask why Garrray....BUD DRY!
off the wall??? are you kidding me?
i wanted to shave my coarse jungle **** and use it for polyfill...but no one is doing that are they?? have you heard the dampening properties of jungle **** hair? have you seen the frequency response???
I hope he sticks around for a SHORT time. He is quite entertaining.
whats up with these spammers?...@UNODDELVEDA..GO AWAY!!!!!NO ONE WANTS YOUR JUNK!!!
What happen to this club?


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Construction of Polyphosphoramidates with Acid-Triggered Backbone Degradation
WANG-DISSERTATION-2018.pdf (4.606Mb)
Wang, Hai
This dissertation focuses on the development of advanced synthetic methodologies to afford well-defined polyphosphoramidates (PPAs) containing acid-labile backbone linkages (phosphoramidate). By applying these methodologies, a library of monomers and corresponding polymers could be produced with various functionalities, hydrophilicities, and degradation rates. Further, PPA-based pH-responsive drug delivery systems were developed and exhibited accelerated drug release profiles under acidic conditions compared to neutral conditions, which was demonstrated to enhance the efficacy of an anticancer drug. In the first study, highly water-soluble PPAs with acid-labile backbone linkages were prepared readily under basic conditions via organobase-catalyzed ring-opening polymerization (ROP) of a five-membered-ring monomer. The ROP kinetics were explored, demonstrating these polymerizations proceeded in a controlled manner under basic conditions via the selective cleavage of P−O bonds during the ROP. Degradation studies demonstrated these PPAs underwent rapid backbone degradation under acidic conditions through the cleavage of P−N bonds, yielding oligomers within several days at pH 5 (17.5% P−N bond cleavage after 3 d, DPvn = 90). Compared to months required for their polyphosphoester analogs, which share the same structures except for the P-N linkages, PPAs exhibited significantly faster degradation under acidic conditions. In the second study, the methodology to afford PPAs was advanced to allow for the preparation of well-defined functional PPA-based block copolymers that co-assembled with the anticancer drug camptothecin (CPT) to achieve well-dispersed nanotherapeutics. The nanotherapeutics allowed the aqueous suspension of CPT at concentrations up to 1600× higher than the aqueous solubility of the drug. Encapsulation of CPT by the polymer inhibited premature hydrolysis of CPT at pH 7.4 and enabled accelerated CPT release at pH 5.0 (4× faster than at pH 7.4). The performance of CPT-loaded nanotherapeutics was evaluated in vitro and revealed enhanced efficacy relative to free CPT in cancer cells and similar toxicity in healthy cells. In the third study, the synthesis towards α-amino acid-based PPAs via ROP was carefully evaluated. The hydrolytic degradation of the resulted highly water-soluble PPAs was studied, which revealed a faster degradation rate compared to its analogs without methyl carboxylate groups. Furthermore, the introduction of methyl carboxylate groups endowed the amino acid-based PPAs with intumescence, which made it a potential candidate for advanced coatings.
Polyphosphoramidates
Acid-labile
Wang, Hai (2018). Construction of Polyphosphoramidates with Acid-Triggered Backbone Degradation. Doctoral dissertation, Texas A & M University. Available electronically from http : / /hdl .handle .net /1969 .1 /174521.


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Troyes and Wolfsburg make offers for Toulouse's Amine Adli
Loïc Tanzi reports this evening via La Dépêche that two clubs have made offers for Toulouse winger Amine Adli namely Ligue 1 side Troyes and Bundesliga outfit Wolfsburg.
Club president Damien Comolli had explained to La Dépêche earlier this week that the club had received an offer from a "Top 5" and "Top 15" European club, one of which was accepted by the club but both declined by the player himself.
Troyes – as a partner club of Manchester City – had offered €8m along with €2m in bonuses. The German club, on the other hand, formulated a €10m+€2m bid.
The 21-year-old was named player of the year in last year's Ligue 2 season, in which he scored eight goals and made another eight assists.


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Gang who brought hashish from Ceuta to the mainland sentenced to 30 years
Two members of the criminal network based in Palma had previously been offered terms of only three years and 18 months in prison
Nov 2, 2017 - 12:36 PM
The Palma Audience has condemned to a total of 30.5 years in prison against a gang of drug traffickers made up of ten men dedicated to moving large amounts of hashish from Ceuta to Málaga and also to Mallorca during the years 2011-2012.
The leader of the gang confessed to the facts during the primary section of the case in September, when he admitted to smuggling 75 kilos of hashish via sea on three trips between November 2011 and June 2012. The chamber imposed the longest terms of four years and three months in prison with a fine of 400,000 €
The other seven accused reached a plea bargain with the Prosecutor, for three years in prison. Only two suspects of the criminal organisation based in Palma failed to agree on said plea bargain. All have been sentenced for the crimes against public health via drug trafficking and for three years and 18 months respectively.
The Palma Audience also decreed the destruction of the seized hashish, and the confiscation of the money and assets of the condemned, smartphones, cars, a motorbike and also the high speed launch used by the gang to transport bales of hashish from Ceuta to Málaga.
Declared proven, the main players were dedicated to bring to the mainland elevated quantities of wild cannabis and hashish resin from Ceuta, drugs with final destinations of Holland and Germany, and also Mallorca.
Those now being held in custody used a sophisticated communication system to make their conversations encrypted in an attempt to foil the State security forces. Using dozens of disposable phones again to avoid being tracked down. These phones were purchased a third party always a foreigner, and were rarely used, only for SMS text messages, also they used the main social networks of Facebook and Messenger again to confuse the Police.
Their leader, oversaw the transporting of the drugs, had rented a home in Manilva (Málaga) and used the garage to hoard the drugs ahead of later distribution. On the ferry between Ceuta and Algeciras they had hidden the drugs in the vehicles as an alternative route, and then across Europe to lower drug dealers or directly among users.
On 27 November 2011 they managed to smuggle into Palma 20 kilos of hashish hidden inside a Mercedes which travelled from Andalucía to Valencia.
Earlier, on 6 November 2011, the same car was loaded with ten kilos of hashish to cover the same route. The leader and supervisor spent many visits to Palma and on 18 June 2012, the leader was arrested with his companion based in Palma port. The Guardia Civil then impounded 38 kilos of hashish inside the boot of a van – destined to users in Palma and Calvià.


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Meyers (operator of the "110 Club" website) apparently made his only contributions in December 2007,and Cody (operator of the "Supercentenarian Central" website) has made only one contribution, amending his own biography,since 2008. Cody brought Robert Young into the administrators' group.
Louis Epstein,who does wikiedits from IP 12.144.5.2,has made a substantial number of edits here, the first in months, in July 2009.He left Wikipedia at the start of 2006 after disputes over the format and content of the Supercentenarian articles he had originated there. Young for the most part was a counter-party in these disputes, though both have had run-ins with Wikipedia bureaucracy and have worked together on supercentenarian cases for about 10 years. Mr. Epstein will continue to contribute here if this wiki's officialdom do not obstruct his tendencies to move the format and content of articles towards what he was not allowed to maintain on Wikipedia...otherwise,he will leave.
In 2014, continued disputes at Wikipedia brought over to Wikia.


A very nice example of an early 20th Century barometer in its original leather carrying case. The barometer itself is cased in brass with glass covering the face. The white face has a traditional barometer dial from 25" to 31" and a black arrow pointer which reads the pressure. A moveable marker can be adjusted from turning the outer rim. The face is signed with the maker's details and serial number Compensated. The date on the face has been changed the last time it was serviced and it comes with another original service paper from April 1938. On the reverse of the barometer is the military'Crow's Foot' which indicates that this was a military issue instrument. The barometer comes with its original brown stitched leather carrying case with strap and red velvet lined interior. The case has some signs of age and small scuffs but nothing detrimental. It is in good condition for its age.
The glass is clean and has no major surface scratches. The face is clean and bright with no damages. The brass case has been lightly polished to retain its natural aged patina and displays very nicely.
There are some minor surface scratches on the reverse of the case but nothing detrimental. It seems to be in working order and has been running well for some weeks now.
I've done'the bag test' and the pointer certainly moves as it should and it appears to be giving good readings. Diameter : 4 3/4 / 12cm. The best description comes from the photos so please look at them all carefully and if you have any questions at all please ask. The item "Large Antique Vintage T. Wheeler Military Brass Aneroid Barometer In Leather Case" is in sale since Thursday, May 24, 2018.
This item is in the category "Collectables\Militaria\World War II (1939-1945)\Field Gear". The seller is "inanutshellantiques" and is located in Newton Abbot. This item can be shipped worldwide.


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Yesterday's workout: weak, no energy. Must eat. Crash footage w/ commentary.
I managed to complete yesterday's chest/triceps/delts "core" workout, but it was far from a good training session. Thankfully I experienced no wrist or shoulder pain, and the wounds in and around my mouth did not bleed at all. The problem was my complete lack of energy and strength. I'm still feeling pretty banged up, and I'm sure most of my body's resources are going towards healing my various injuries. I think the biggest problem, however, is my diet. I've been eating 100% clean, but ever since the accident on Sunday I've been under eating because it's painful to chew, and food (even shakes) just isn't very appetizing. I'm embarrassed to report that my daily caloric intake this week has ranged from just 1,300 to 1,600 calories. And Sunday, the day of the accident, I only ate around 1,000 calories. So it's no wonder I'm feeling weak. My body is trying to heal, and I'm doing a terrible job of providing it with raw materials. I need to force myself to eat today, even if it's just protein, oats and peanut butter shakes.
So last night I edited the video footage of Sunday's accident, and what happened after the crash. I was not able to recover the original audio, so instead I created a commentary track. Some of Lisa's reactions, while certainly understandable at the time, are in retrospect pretty damn awesome. You can watch the video below, or click on this link for a larger, Hi-Def version. You may need to turn your sound up, as the recording volume of my commentary was a bit low.


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Observer TV reviews
The week in TV: Call the Midwife; Grace and Frankie; Will and Grace and more – review
The midwives are more sweet than sharp in their seventh series, while one Grace show roundly trumps another
Euan Ferguson
Sun 28 Jan 2018 02.00 EST Last modified on Tue 19 Jun 2018 07.23 EDT
'In danger of feeling borderline saccharine': Leonie Elliott and Jennifer Kirby in Call the Midwife. Photograph: Sophie Mutevelian/BBC/Neal Street Productions/Sophie Mutevelian
Call the Midwife (BBC One) | iPlayer
Holocaust: The Revenge Plot (Channel 4) | All 4
The National Television Awards (ITV) | ITV Hub
Grace and Frankie (Netflix)
Will & Grace (Channel 5)
Is Call the Midwife losing its grit? There was nothing actually wrong about the getting-going-proper of series seven last week. It's just, when coupled with the festive special, the sweetness of which still hurts my fillings (Vanessa Redgrave's pious before-and-aft mouthings – "we unwrap so much at Christmas… we examine and expose our hearts' desires…" or some such guff – are particularly starting to grate), it's in danger of feeling borderline saccharine. Which won't do.
Because grit was always its saving grace. We got to see real postwar Poplar poverty, in all its unromantic gristle, and as the 60s progressed we got to see real hypocrisy, and fear of the other: we saw backstreet abortions, and thalidomide babies left to die on slabs, and savage homophobia: all might pan out at the end, with Trixie, Spry and Jaunty resetting their caps with determined joy and tucking into an inedible slab of celebratory lardcake, but not before we'd delved, long and harrowing, into bleakness.
Without heartaches and angers, Call the Midwife is ever on the cusp of rose-tinted, starch-and-stockings nostalgia
Last week we had a death, yes, but a stoic death within a wise and loving Jewish couple, as their street was demolished around them and Sergeant Woolf held off the bulldozers with his kindly moustache. A new, Jamaican recruit, Nurse Anderson, saved the day with her knowledge of breech births: the neighbourhood's racism will almost certainly kick in later, but it hasn't yet. And without the heartaches, and angers, CTM is ever on the cusp of being a simple exercise in rose-tinted stockings'n'starch nostalgia, which the haters are convinced it actually is, despite most of them having never actually watched it. Writer Heidi Thomas is far sharper than this: and, also, there's a mildly troubling retro-myth that everyone in Britain was somehow "kinder" back then. They weren't, and this show normally shows this. I don't know whether you watched the wonderful School for Stammerers at the start of the year, but as the six who were trying to change their lives went around 2017 London – I know! London, chill dystopolis of spites and snubs! – they were greeted, quite without exception, with patience, encouragement, warmth and charm. I reckon, away from media-fuelled "outrage", kindness is in fairly rude health these days in the general population.
A little-known tale reminded us how history will constantly retain the power to surprise. Shown as part of Channel 4's splendid Secret History strand to mark yesterday's Holocaust Memorial Day, Holocaust: The Revenge Plot told the story of a nasty little scheme cooked up in postwar retribution for the deaths of 6 million Jews. Ghetto survivor Abba Kovner's plan was simple, angry and bleakly misguided: he simply wanted to kill an equal 6 million Germans, innocent or not.
Kovner's "Avengers" had little luck, which was the only point at which even the semblance of light relief raised its tremulous head: they were, frankly, rubbish at genocide. Betrayals, paint pots full of some magical KillQuik chemical lost overboard, arsenic (smuggled in hot-water bottles) mixed with wallpaper paste and then slapped on bread which led to a few sore German tummies. It both turned a tale on its head, asking some profound questions about the nature of justice, and set one thinking about intent versus execution: had the Avengers been as, um, "good" at mass murder as the SS, wouldn't they have then been exactly the same? There was no doubting the pain and anger, of poet Kovner and co, from their writings and a newly discovered 1985 tape recording. It was far harder to watch the team's survivors, now in their 90s, speaking of their genuine "happiness" at murder, their regrets that more innocent Germans hadn't died.
The National Television Awards weren't nearly as bad as I'd feared. Normally, I avoid this night with the kind of lithe alacrity which has me leaping over sofas for the off-button when Radio 4 laughingly begs "and coming next… Money Box Live!' But it was indeed a swish affair, not entirely devoid of humour (the excruciating "set pieces", apart, and "host" Dermot O'Leary's mumblings quite apart; why don't they just let Brendan Walsh host everything on ITV and be cheerfully done with it?). We enjoyed some great clips – Thandie Newton, Sheridan Smith – and learned that it's not only Mr Attenborough who has the power to change minds. What a joy is Paul O'Grady, and his revelatory, knowledgable, love for dogs, not only changing minds but lives. A surprisingly sweet night, though I still can't quite forgive the Great British public for thinking, ever, that Loose Women and, criminally, The Jeremy Kyle Show might deserve nominating above C5's marvellous The Wright Stuff, which continues to go, patiently unheralded, from high to fresh high.
'Speaks little volumes': Lily Tomlin, left, and Jane Fonda in Grace And Frankie. Photograph: Melissa Moseley/Netflix
Two US series have restarted this month, the better of which is Grace and Frankie. It can't hurt that the stellar cast – Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda, Martin Sheen, Sam Waterston – are also preternaturally gifted comedy actors, this season joined, too briefly, by Lisa Kudrow. It's to my taste still too stickily euch, too sunny, white and richly beautiful, too many non-problems among the fretting moneyed of La Jolla. But showrunner Marta Kauffman's keen eye for character, and plotlines that can be both wistful and twisted, keeps it on rather sharp toes, still: Frankie's (Tomlin's) line, as she moves back to San Diego – "I hate Santa Fe. Everyone is an artist, with long grey hair and balloon pants, and has an adopted black son… I fit right in" – speaks little volumes, about her and about America. And it has no laughter track.
Unfortunately, Will & Grace does. I'm not quite sure why they have resurrected this series after an 11-year absence: undoubtedly the gobbier, brasher of the two Grace sitcoms, it was still a sort-of fresh breath even around the millennium, but at times the gay stereotypes – particularly Jack, as the screamiest, queeniest gay man in the whole duck pavilion – felt then, and certainly feel now, sooo dated. It's still startlingly well acted though, and updated for the days of Trump, in which times Will and Grace are obviously horrified, and thus arch-Republican Karen, as ever, gets the best lines. Perhaps it's been rather cleverly resurrected to get some of America at least listening to the other side, by having Will and Grace challenged in their long-held comfort-bubble of liberal privilege and faux-wokeness. Though I fear I'm willing on to it a subtlety it might not, in the end, possess.


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Nov 16, 2020 SOURCE: Elbit Systems Ltd
Elbit Systems Launches E-LynX-Sat – a Portable Tactical SATCOM System
Haifa, Israel, November 12, 2020 – Elbit Systems has launched E-LynX-Sat, a compact satellite communications (SATCOM) add-on system.
The new system utilizes a lightweight less than 1 Kg terminal that interfaces with Elbit Systems' E-LynXTM Software Defined Radio (SDR) solution.
E-LynX-Sat enables Infantry and maneuvering forces to maintain robust and secured, on-the-walk and on-the-move, voice and data communication services, over ranges of hundreds of kilometers. The operational benefits of the newly launched E-LynX-Sat system were successfully demonstrated during the British Army's recent Warfighting Experiment 2020.
"The access to robust long-range voice and data communications is a critical operational capability for Infantry and maneuvering forces. Until now this capability required the use of costly and heavy SATCOM equipment that did not interface smoothly with their tactical radio or command and control systems, limiting their adoption and effectiveness", commented Oren Sabag, a Senior Vice President at Elbit Systems C4I & Cyber Division.
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Today, Punxsutawney Phil, the world's most famous rodent, saw his shadow, thus predicting six more weeks of winter. Now, for anyone paying attention, March 21--the first day of spring--is six weeks away, whether a groundhog sees his shadow or not.
Ancient traditions not only marked the beginnings of the seasons (vernal equinox, summer solstice, autumnal equinox, and winter solstice), but also the midpoint of each season. For winter, that is approximately February 1 or 2, which was known in ancient Ireland as Imbolc, a word which literally means "in the belly." It referred to the time around which ewes and rams would mate. The date is also 40 days after Christmas, which in the Christian tradition is celebrated as Candelmas, the commemoration of Jesus' presentation in the temple and the end of the Christmas/Epiphany season.
In northern Europe, Candelmas became the day when farmers would begin to predict whether or not there would be an early thaw. As one early poem put it, "If Candlemas day be dry and fair/The half o' winter to come and mair [more]."
We don't know exactly how this then transformed into small animals predicting the weather. In France it's a marmot; in Germany, the animal is traditionally a badger. By the 1840s, the groundhog had been attached to the holiday in the United States. Since 1887, the town of Punxsutawney, in Pennsylvania, has hosted groundhog festivities. As celebrations of Candelmas became less important in American life, Groundhog Day took its place. There are now many competing groundhog prognosticators, including Staten Island Chuck who--for the record--did NOT see his shadow, thus predicting an early spring.


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But at 1:30, we had to stop. There was a Muslim "call to prayer," and since Friday is the Muslim Sabbath, ALL Muslim men participated. All the shops closed and the town fell silent. The crazy, loud and obnoxious town of Niamey stood completely still. It was creepy. We were the only ones walking around (we had no choice but to find our way back to the van). There were HUNDREDS of men praying in the street. And there we were- the American Christians just going about our business. We couldn't even get into our van because it was surrounded by men on their prayer mats.
We returned to the Catholic Guesthouse to pack up. We didn't really know what to expect at the new place except that if we wanted air conditioning we had to pay for it. I know I expected the worst. But then we got here and the place is only a few years old. The grounds are all gated and there are lots of security guards. Our guesthouse has two armed guards – Mohammed and Frank. We got a kick out of that- Frank. The place is super clean, modern, and we have an awesome common area for meals and devotions.
Tonight we went to new locations in new groups for the Jesus Film. I was with Kathy, Zac and Don. Our students with us were Solomon and Adam. This time we were in a city neighborhood. MUCH different than the other two places. There was a soccer game going on where we were set up. While we waited for it to end I played with the kids. A few of them knew a little English- I was surprised!
The game ended and we started to set up. Lots of kids helped us and kept yelling, "Cinema!" because they were so excited. Then, just was we were to start there was a "call to prayer." We were just around the corner from a mosque. The students told us that the neighborhood we were in was a very devout Muslim area. We could tell.
When the "call to prayer" was over, we started the film. There were probably 50 kids there and a few adults. About five minutes into the film, a Muslim woman chased all the kids away! They didn't want to leave, but she was very scary that they had no choice! There were about 20 people left when she went away. I was very discouraged, and then it got worse. Parents started showing up and very aggressively began removing their children from the crowd. So halfway through the first reel we had only about six people left to watch.
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Father of Norfolk child porn victim warns other parents
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NORFOLK, Va.- There's a renewed alert on kids being solicited online for sex.
This time the message is coming from a father in Hampton Roads who said his teenager was recently solicited and groomed by an older man over the internet.
Many parents buy their children cell phones and gaming devices to keep them connected with their friends. But this Norfolk father said he had no clue these devices would lead his stepdaughter into the hands of a man accused of sexual crimes.
"I, never in a million years, thought that she would've been somebody that this would happen to," said the father of the child pornography victim. "We couldn't believe it. You know that she was able to be basically groomed the way she was."
News 3 is not identifying the father or the victim to protect their privacy.
The father shared his feelings after learning his daughter was talking to 28-year-old Ethan Roberts online. Court documents show Roberts recently pleaded guilty to producing child pornography.
Court documents also show Roberts and the teen had been chatting for seven months, having sexual conversations, and he had her send him explicit pictures.
"She's a little kid, someone that would do that to a little kid they can just be gone forever," the father said.
In August, the father said he called police worried that their daughter was missing.
Lured from Hampton Roads to Arizona, Roberts and the minor were speaking on online chat platforms, gaming devices, and cell phones, before they even met, according to court documents. Roberts took a bus from Arizona to Hampton Roads and picked her up. They then went back to his home in Arizona.
"I mean, I never ever would've thought that could've happened like that over a gaming system," the child's father said.
According to the U.S. Sentencing Commission, research in a report from 2021 shows that the expansion of digital and mobile technology has contributed to a 422% increase in the number of child pornography production offenders.
The teen's father told News 3's Kelsey Jones he had no idea it was all happening.
Research also shows that over one-third of production offenders sentenced in 2019 were internet strangers who met their victims through an online platform. T
This father now has a message for many other parents.
"Check every device," he said. Kids are going to hate you, but you have to do it for their safety."
In a statement from Special Agent in charge Brian Dugan of FBI Norfolk, he said
"Thanks to the local police department's quick response and FBI Norfolk's ingenuity, we were able to locate the missing victim through her gaming account and reunite her with her family. As the world evolves, so does the FBI and how we solve cases. This is just one example of that. And while criminals might think crossing state lines will help them get away, this case also serves as a reminder that because of the FBI's wide reach and partnership with local law enforcement – these predators will be caught, and they will pay the consequences."
Roberts will be sentenced on April 19th. He faces anywhere from 15 to 30 years in prison.
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At the heart of the St Germain estate stands the old stone chapel and Mas. For most of the last thousand years, St Germain has belonged to the Baron of Montlaur's estate. In the twelfth century, a chapel was erected on the foundations of an ancient Roman villa. The estate was gifted to the church in 1233 and became home to an Augustine convent (St Germain de Fournès) with its cloisters built around the chapel. When the convent closed in 1435 the last Prioress Jeanne de Montlaur sold the property back to her brother, Hector, Baron de Montlaur. Since then, the estate has seen numerous activities from sheep farming, olive, lavender and wine growing to silkworm breeding. The estate's ancient mulberry trees date back to shortly after the French Revolution, when the property was a centre for silkworm production.
The estate sits within a European Natura 2000 zone, created to protect the pair of rare Bonelli's eagles that nest on nearby cliffs. With only 26 couples remaining it is one of France's rarest birds. At over 30 years old the female Eléonore, the oldest Bonelli in France, is now with her third mate. Around 330 species of plant grow on the estate. The air is thick with the typical Provençal scent of wild rosemary and thyme.
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The problem of stochastic stability analysis for Markovian jump inertial neural networks with mode-dependent time-varying delay is considered in this paper. The time-delay is assumed to be mode-dependent and time-varying. Using the suitable transformation technique, the second-order inertial neural network model is transformed into a system of first-order differential equations model. Delay-dependent stochastic stability condition is formulated in terms of linear matrix inequalities through the construction of Lyapunov–Krasovskii functional candidate involving mode-dependent time-varying delay. An integral inequality technique is used in the process to find the bounds of some integral terms. Finally, a numerical example is illustrated to show the effectiveness of the derived theoretical results.
The work of the first author (R. Krishnasamy) is supported by the Science & Engineering Research Board (SERB), Department of Science & Technology, Government of India, New Delhi for the financial assistance through National Post-Doctoral Fellowship scheme (file No. PDF/2016/002992 dated 01/04/2017). Authors are very much thankful to the Editor-in-chief, Associate editor and anonymous reviewers for their careful reading, constructive comments and fruitful suggestions to improve the quality of this manuscript.