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JAMA. 2004 Apr 14;291(14):1701-12.
Effects of conjugated equine estrogen in postmenopausal women with hysterectomy: the Women's Health Initiative randomized controlled trial.
Anderson GL1, Limacher M, Assaf AR, Bassford T, Beresford SA, Black H, Bonds D, Brunner R, Brzyski R, Caan B, Chlebowski R, Curb D, Gass M, Hays J, Heiss G, Hendrix S, Howard BV, Hsia J, Hubbell A, Jackson R, Johnson KC, Judd H, Kotchen JM, Kuller L, LaCroix AZ, Lane D, Langer RD, Lasser N, Lewis CE, Manson J, Margolis K, Ockene J, O'Sullivan MJ, Phillips L, Prentice RL, Ritenbaugh C, Robbins J, Rossouw JE, Sarto G, Stefanick ML, Van Horn L, Wactawski-Wende J, Wallace R, Wassertheil-Smoller S; Women's Health Initiative Steering Committee.
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Wash 98109-1024, USA. garnet@whi.org
Despite decades of use and considerable research, the role of estrogen alone in preventing chronic diseases in postmenopausal women remains uncertain.
To assess the effects on major disease incidence rates of the most commonly used postmenopausal hormone therapy in the United States.
DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS:
A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled disease prevention trial (the estrogen-alone component of the Women's Health Initiative [WHI]) conducted in 40 US clinical centers beginning in 1993. Enrolled were 10 739 postmenopausal women, aged 50-79 years, with prior hysterectomy, including 23% of minority race/ethnicity.
Women were randomly assigned to receive either 0.625 mg/d of conjugated equine estrogen (CEE) or placebo.
The primary outcome was coronary heart disease (CHD) incidence (nonfatal myocardial infarction or CHD death). Invasive breast cancer incidence was the primary safety outcome. A global index of risks and benefits, including these primary outcomes plus stroke, pulmonary embolism (PE), colorectal cancer, hip fracture, and deaths from other causes, was used for summarizing overall effects.
In February 2004, after reviewing data through November 30, 2003, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) decided to end the intervention phase of the trial early. Estimated hazard ratios (HRs) (95% confidence intervals [CIs]) for CEE vs placebo for the major clinical outcomes available through February 29, 2004 (average follow-up 6.8 years), were: CHD, 0.91 (0.75-1.12) with 376 cases; breast cancer, 0.77 (0.59-1.01) with 218 cases; stroke, 1.39 (1.10-1.77) with 276 cases; PE, 1.34 (0.87-2.06) with 85 cases; colorectal cancer, 1.08 (0.75-1.55) with 119 cases; and hip fracture, 0.61 (0.41-0.91) with 102 cases. Corresponding results for composite outcomes were: total cardiovascular disease, 1.12 (1.01-1.24); total cancer, 0.93 (0.81-1.07); total fractures, 0.70 (0.63-0.79); total mortality, 1.04 (0.88-1.22), and the global index, 1.01 (0.91-1.12). For the outcomes significantly affected by CEE, there was an absolute excess risk of 12 additional strokes per 10 000 person-years and an absolute risk reduction of 6 fewer hip fractures per 10 000 person-years. The estimated excess risk for all monitored events in the global index was a nonsignificant 2 events per 10 000 person-years.
The use of CEE increases the risk of stroke, decreases the risk of hip fracture, and does not affect CHD incidence in postmenopausal women with prior hysterectomy over an average of 6.8 years. A possible reduction in breast cancer risk requires further investigation. The burden of incident disease events was equivalent in the CEE and placebo groups, indicating no overall benefit. Thus, CEE should not be recommended for chronic disease prevention in postmenopausal women.
The WHI estrogen-alone trial--do things look any better? [JAMA. 2004]
Effects of estrogen-only treatment in postmenopausal women. [JAMA. 2004]
10.1001/jama.291.14.1701
Breast Neoplasms/epidemiology
Colorectal Neoplasms/epidemiology
Coronary Disease/epidemiology
Estrogen Replacement Therapy*
Estrogens/therapeutic use*
Estrogens, Conjugated (USP)/therapeutic use*
Hip Fractures/epidemiology
Hysterectomy*
Pulmonary Embolism/epidemiology
Stroke/epidemiology
Estrogens, Conjugated (USP)
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Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) is confirmed to report earnings at approximately 6:40 AM ET on Tuesday, January 22, 2019. The consensus earnings estimate is $1.95 per share on revenue of $20.11 billion and the Earnings Whisper ® number is $1.98 per share. Investor sentiment going into the company's earnings release has 52% expecting an earnings beat. Consensus estimates are for year-over-year earnings growth of 12.07% with revenue decreasing by 0.42%. Short interest has increased by 17.6% since the company's last earnings release while the stock has drifted lower by 3.0% from its open following the earnings release to be 0.7% below its 200 day moving average of $131.55. Overall earnings estimates have been revised higher since the company's last earnings release. On Monday, January 7, 2019 there was some notable buying of 16,279 contracts of the $140.00 call expiring on Friday, March 15, 2019. Option traders are pricing in a 3.6% move on earnings and the stock has averaged a 2.6% move in recent quarters.
International Business Machines Corp. (IBM) is confirmed to report earnings at approximately 4:05 PM ET on Tuesday, January 22, 2019. The consensus earnings estimate is $4.81 per share on revenue of $21.75 billion and the Earnings Whisper ® number is $4.88 per share. Investor sentiment going into the company's earnings release has 25% expecting an earnings beat. Consensus estimates are for earnings to decline year-over-year by 7.14% with revenue decreasing by 3.52%. Short interest has decreased by 33.0% since the company's last earnings release while the stock has drifted lower by 8.9% from its open following the earnings release to be 9.9% below its 200 day moving average of $137.41. Overall earnings estimates have been revised lower since the company's last earnings release. On Thursday, January 10, 2019 there was some notable buying of 5,046 contracts of the $90.00 put expiring on Friday, January 17, 2020. Option traders are pricing in a 5.2% move on earnings and the stock has averaged a 5.9% move in recent quarters.
Halliburton Co (HAL) is confirmed to report earnings at approximately 6:45 AM ET on Tuesday, January 22, 2019. The consensus earnings estimate is $0.37 per share on revenue of $5.89 billion and the Earnings Whisper ® number is $0.38 per share. Investor sentiment going into the company's earnings release has 51% expecting an earnings beat The company's guidance was for earnings of $0.37 to $0.40 per share. Consensus estimates are for earnings to decline year-over-year by 30.19% with revenue decreasing by 0.84%. Short interest has increased by 7.1% since the company's last earnings release while the stock has drifted lower by 13.4% from its open following the earnings release to be 20.6% below its 200 day moving average of $40.64. Overall earnings estimates have been revised lower since the company's last earnings release. On Wednesday, January 9, 2019 there was some notable buying of 17,145 contracts of the $30.00 call expiring on Friday, February 15, 2019. Option traders are pricing in a 5.8% move on earnings and the stock has averaged a 4.1% move in recent quarters.
Intel Corp. (INTC) is confirmed to report earnings at approximately 4:05 PM ET on Thursday, January 24, 2019. The consensus earnings estimate is $1.22 per share on revenue of $19.01 billion and the Earnings Whisper ® number is $1.26 per share. Investor sentiment going into the company's earnings release has 69% expecting an earnings beat The company's guidance was for earnings of approximately $1.22 per share. Consensus estimates are for year-over-year earnings growth of 12.96% with revenue increasing by 11.48%. Short interest has increased by 0.5% since the company's last earnings release while the stock has drifted higher by 7.9% from its open following the earnings release to be 0.3% below its 200 day moving average of $49.32. Overall earnings estimates have been revised higher since the company's last earnings release. On Monday, January 7, 2019 there was some notable buying of 20,963 contracts of the $52.50 call expiring on Friday, February 15, 2019. Option traders are pricing in a 5.4% move on earnings and the stock has averaged a 5.2% move in recent quarters.
Ford Motor Company (F) is confirmed to report earnings at approximately 4:15 PM ET on Wednesday, January 23, 2019. The consensus earnings estimate is $0.30 per share on revenue of $36.96 billion and the Earnings Whisper ® number is $0.30 per share. Investor sentiment going into the company's earnings release has 50% expecting an earnings beat. Consensus estimates are for earnings to decline year-over-year by 23.08% with revenue decreasing by 10.51%. Short interest has decreased by 18.6% since the company's last earnings release while the stock has drifted higher by 0.7% from its open following the earnings release to be 15.5% below its 200 day moving average of $10.15. Overall earnings estimates have been revised lower since the company's last earnings release. On Thursday, January 10, 2019 there was some notable buying of 65,967 contracts of the $9.00 call expiring on Friday, February 15, 2019. Option traders are pricing in a 5.5% move on earnings and the stock has averaged a 4.4% move in recent quarters.
American Airlines Group Inc. (AAL) is confirmed to report earnings at approximately 7:30 AM ET on Thursday, January 24, 2019. The consensus earnings estimate is $1.03 per share on revenue of $11.06 billion and the Earnings Whisper ® number is $1.09 per share. Investor sentiment going into the company's earnings release has 72% expecting an earnings beat. Consensus estimates are for year-over-year earnings growth of 8.42% with revenue increasing by 4.34%. Short interest has decreased by 14.0% since the company's last earnings release while the stock has drifted higher by 8.9% from its open following the earnings release to be 12.2% below its 200 day moving average of $38.69. Overall earnings estimates have been revised higher since the company's last earnings release. On Thursday, January 10, 2019 there was some notable buying of 7,164 contracts of the $38.00 call expiring on Friday, May 17, 2019. Option traders are pricing in a 7.2% move on earnings and the stock has averaged a 4.5% move in recent quarters.
Procter & Gamble Co. (PG) is confirmed to report earnings at approximately 7:00 AM ET on Wednesday, January 23, 2019. The consensus earnings estimate is $1.21 per share on revenue of $17.20 billion and the Earnings Whisper ® number is $1.23 per share. Investor sentiment going into the company's earnings release has 59% expecting an earnings beat. Consensus estimates are for year-over-year earnings growth of 1.68% with revenue decreasing by 1.12%. Short interest has increased by 8.9% since the company's last earnings release while the stock has drifted higher by 7.7% from its open following the earnings release to be 10.9% above its 200 day moving average of $82.46. Overall earnings estimates have been revised higher since the company's last earnings release. On Monday, December 31, 2018 there was some notable buying of 10,356 contracts of the $95.00 call expiring on Friday, June 21, 2019. Option traders are pricing in a 3.1% move on earnings and the stock has averaged a 3.7% move in recent quarters.
Steel Dynamics, Inc. (STLD) is confirmed to report earnings at approximately 7:00 AM ET on Tuesday, January 22, 2019. The consensus earnings estimate is $1.25 per share on revenue of $2.94 billion and the Earnings Whisper ® number is $1.27 per share. Investor sentiment going into the company's earnings release has 61% expecting an earnings beat. Consensus estimates are for year-over-year earnings growth of 131.48% with revenue increasing by 25.83%. Short interest has decreased by 43.0% since the company's last earnings release while the stock has drifted lower by 16.8% from its open following the earnings release to be 20.0% below its 200 day moving average of $42.90. Overall earnings estimates have been revised lower since the company's last earnings release. On Tuesday, January 15, 2019 there was some notable buying of 5,226 contracts of the $29.00 put expiring on Friday, February 15, 2019. Option traders are pricing in a 4.7% move on earnings and the stock has averaged a 1.6% move in recent quarters.
Allegheny Technologies Incorporated (ATI) is confirmed to report earnings at approximately 7:15 AM ET on Tuesday, January 22, 2019. The consensus earnings estimate is $0.33 per share on revenue of $982.46 million and the Earnings Whisper ® number is $0.35 per share. Investor sentiment going into the company's earnings release has 45% expecting an earnings beat. Consensus estimates are for year-over-year earnings growth of 22.22% with revenue increasing by 7.97%. Short interest has decreased by 1.2% since the company's last earnings release while the stock has drifted higher by 10.4% from its open following the earnings release to be 3.4% below its 200 day moving average of $26.37. Overall earnings estimates have been revised lower since the company's last earnings release. On Thursday, January 10, 2019 there was some notable buying of 1,011 contracts of the $30.00 call expiring on Thursday, April 18, 2019. Option traders are pricing in a 8.7% move on earnings and the stock has averaged a 5.7% move in recent quarters.
Stanley Black & Decker (SWK) is confirmed to report earnings at approximately 6:00 AM ET on Tuesday, January 22, 2019. The consensus earnings estimate is $2.11 per share on revenue of $3.60 billion and the Earnings Whisper ® number is $2.14 per share. Investor sentiment going into the company's earnings release has 56% expecting an earnings beat. Consensus estimates are for earnings to decline year-over-year by 3.21% with revenue increasing by 5.46%. Short interest has increased by 13.9% since the company's last earnings release while the stock has drifted higher by 27.1% from its open following the earnings release to be 0.9% above its 200 day moving average of $135.70. Overall earnings estimates have been revised lower since the company's last earnings release. On Friday, January 18, 2019 there was some notable buying of 1,651 contracts of the $140.00 call expiring on Friday, February 15, 2019. Option traders are pricing in a 6.4% move on earnings and the stock has averaged a 3.4% move in recent quarters.
Below is a table showing the key earnings reports we'll be watching this week. IBM, Capital One (COF), and Wynn Resorts (WYNN) are three of the big reports tonight after the close, while we'll hear from Procter & Gamble (PG), United Tech (UTX), Texas Instruments (TXN), and Ford Motor (F) on Wednesday. Intel (INTC) and Starbucks (SBUX) will be the most closely watched reports on Thursday, while Friday morning is relatively slow with Colgate-Palmolive (CL), AbbVie (ABBV), and D.R. Horton (DHI) on tap.
Of the stocks listed in the table, United Tech (UTX) and American Airlines (AAL) have the strongest earnings per share beat rates at 93%+. Intuitive Surgical (ISRG) has the strongest revenue beat rate at 84%, and ISRG has also historically responded the most positively to earnings with an average one-day change of +3.62% on its past reports. Las Vegas Sands (LVS) has the worst historical reaction to earnings with an average one-day decline of 1.61%.
It's still very early in the Q4 earnings reporting period, but so far companies have been able to handily beat bottom-line EPS estimates. Where things aren't looking so good is at the top line. We're seeing a worrisome trend of revenue misses.
As shown in the top chart below, 69.5% of companies that have reported this season have beaten bottom-line EPS estimates. However, less than 50% of companies have beaten top-line revenue estimates (bottom chart). We'll get a much better read on things this week when hundreds more companies are set to report, but early signs point to a huge struggle for companies to meet sales expectations in Q4.


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Conform recensământului din 2001, toată populația localității Uleanivka era vorbitoare de ucraineană (100%).

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Q: Stored information between browsing sessions - Selenium I am writing SpecFlow/Selenium tests with headless Google Chrome in --incognito and I would like to know if the headed or headless instances will be more separated than when I use Chrome as a desktop browser.
Specifically, I have two tests running at the same time which require accessing the same site and performing the login steps of two different users. Will those browsers have unique, separate logins or will they behave like incognito does for me as a user - that is, will the first login be recognised by the second instance?

A: They are both completely isolated from eachother.
You can verify this by running either, and then checking for stored cookies or login information.
To answer directly, no, the first login will not be recognized by the second instance.

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Category: stage adaptation
What to stream: Broadway phenomenon 'Hamilton' debuts on Disney+, 'Anne Frank' and 'The Babysitter's Club' on Netflix
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Here's what's new and ready to stream now on Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, HBO Now, video-on-demand, and other streaming services … Celebrate July 4 with Lin-Manuel Miranda's "Hamilton" (2020, PG-13), a filmed version of the Tony- and Pulitzer-winning Broadway phenomenon. The film was shot in 2016 with the original cast in front of a […]
Meryl Streep and Philip Seymour Hoffman cast 'Doubt' on Netflix
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Take the title at face value: Doubt (2008), directed and adapted for the screen by playwright John Patrick Shanley, does not offer answers. Rather, it challenges us to understand our own instincts to believe in the absence of proof. Sunny, optimistic idealist Sister James (Amy Adams), a young nun teaching history to junior high boys […]
Howard Hawks's 'His Girl Friday' on Amazon Prime Video
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His Girl Friday (1940) is based on the rapid-fire newspaper comedy The Front Page, originally a snappy, cynical, double-barrel Broadway hit by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur (themselves veteran reporters) and then a 1931 film directed by Lewis Milestone, with Pat O'Brien and Adolph Menjou in the lead roles. Barely a decade later, Howard Hawks […]
Ethan Hawke is 'Hamlet' on Amazon Prime
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This is not your father's Hamlet (2000). This melancholy Dane is son of the deceased Chairman of Denmark Corporation. His castle is a sleek but alienating New York high rise dotted with omnipresent surveillance cameras, his kingdom city streets lined with paparazzi and tabloid reporters. Ethan Hawke is the youngest actor to tackle the role […]
Jean Renoir's 'The Golden Coach' on Amazon Prime Video and Criterion Channel
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Anna Magnani stars as the earthy, vivacious diva of The Golden Coach (France/Italy, 1952), an adaptation of a Prosper Merimee play about a traveling troupe of Italian commedia dell'arte players in a Peruvian backwater where three men (a viceroy, a bullfighter, and a fellow performer) vie for the affections of the company's leading lady. An […]
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Fences (2016) – Denzel Washington and Viola Davis earned Tony Awards for their performances in the 2010 Broadway revival of August Wilson's play "Fences," the story of a working class African-American family in 1950s Pittsburgh. With the blessing of Wilson's widow (the playwright passed away in 2005), Washington brought the play to the big screen, […]


BERLIN, Sep 28 2012 (IPS) - For many years, the European Union (EU) and its individual member states counted among the strongest advocates for free trade, arguing that it would boost economic growth and welfare both at home and abroad.
But since the global financial crisis in 2007 triggered a severe sovereign debt crisis and a general economic downturn across most European countries, EU institutions, individual governments and representatives of some industrial sectors are calling for protectionist measures, especially against competitors from strong emerging countries such as Brazil, India, the People's Republic of China, and South Korea.
The European turnabout on international trade became evident this summer, when struggling German solar panel manufacturers and the new, Leftist French government of François Hollande urged the EU to launch protectionist measures against Chinese competitors and to suspend a recent free trade agreement (FTA) with South Korea.
French minister for industrial renewal, Arnaud Montebourg, denounced in early August "the unacceptable dumping (by) Korean auto manufacturers such as Hyundai and Kia, which are disloyal competitors to the French auto industry".
"Europe may open its markets, but it should not give herself up" to disloyal economic competitors, Montebourg argued.
An assessment of current industrial trends suggests that Europe is indeed lagging.
The legendary French automaker Peugeot accumulated losses of 1.2 billion euros between July 2011 and June 2012, and has announced layoffs of more than 8,000 workers in France, and industrial relocations to Eastern European countries.
Meanwhile, Korean automakers have substantially increased their exports to Europe. According to European Commission figures released on Aug. 29, exports to France by Korean automobile maker Hyundai grew by 48 percent during the first half of 2012.
At the same time, European automobile exports to Korea fell by 13 percent in the same period.
However, these figures alone do not make a strong enough case for Europe's calls for protectionism. According to the South Korean car maker Hyundai, well over half of the 400,000 automobiles it sold in Europe between January and July this year were actually fabricated in EU countries such as the Czech Republic.
Additionally, the FTA led only to a marginal fall of customs duties for small South Korean autos, from 10 percent before the agreement to 8.3 starting July 2011, and to 6.6 percent since July 2012.
Still, since other French industrial players – from manufacturers of ships and high-speed trains to constructors of nuclear power stations – have recently suffered severe contract losses against South Korean competitors, the latter has become the embodiment of a strong, allegedly disloyal competitor.
SOUTH AMERICA: Mercosur Trade Bloc – Integration or Protectionism?
Additionally, according to the World Economic Forum's newest global competitiveness report, South Korea's economic performance in 2011 surpassed that of France.
But South Korea is not the only formidable threat.
Twenty-five European producers, led by German solar panel manufacturers facing bankruptcy due a strong Sino presence in the market, asked the EU to launch an anti-dumping measure against Chinese competitors, arguing that the government in Beijing gives local manufacturers illegal subsidies and allows them to sell their products below actual costs of production.
Such practices, according to the group EU ProSun – which represents the majority of solar industrial production in the region – constitute "unfair distortions" of international trade.
The World Trade Organisation itself allows governments to act against dumping where there is genuine injury to the competing domestic industry.
In 2011, the Chinese solar panel industry sold 60 percent of its global exports in Europe. On Sept. 6, the EU announced it would respond to ProSun's demand by launching an official investigation into Chinese subsidies and trade practices.
The EU has also developed a new international trade concept, which, according to economic experts and analysts, clearly includes new protectionist measures likely to hurt emerging developing countries such as India, Brazil and South Africa (IBSA) as well as China, South Korea, and Vietnam.
The ODI paper analyses the proposals on international trade approved by the European Commission last May. This new agenda, expected to come into force in January 2014, foresees a reform of the EU's generalised system of preferences (GSP), which has ruled European trade policies towards developing countries since 1971.
According to the new rules, several strong developing countries would be excluded from the GSP. Additionally, the new GSP would establish new standards on environment, labour, and social rules to be respected by developing countries trading with the EU.
In its analysis of this new GSP, the ODI report warns that the number of countries eligible for preferential trade with the EU will fall from 175 at present to about 80 in the near future.
"Clearly, the GSP reform is likely to impose more trade barriers on a range of products and countries when they are not benefiting from a reciprocal Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the EU," te Velde added.
"This does not offer the best value for EU consumers or developing country exporters," he said.
Christopher Stevens, co-author of the study, said the new GSP regime would exclude all so-called Upper Middle Income Countries (UMICs) from the GSP, even for products where these countries are not competitive.
"The justification for the change is that the UMICs are sufficiently well integrated into the world economy (that they) do not need the GSP; and it will ease pressure on less competitive developing countries and hence focus the GSP preferences on the countries most in need," Stevens added.
I see no evidence of Brazilian dumping on the European markets for ANY commodity.
The author of the piece should become better informed.
The fate of the European Union is sealed. This follows from the analysis of the Bible. Bible says: "And [the king of the north] will go back (to) his land with great wealth ; and his heart (will be) against the holy covenant [state atheism]; and will act [this means activity in the international arena]; and turned back to his own land [1991-1993. The collapse of the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact. Russian troops returned to their country]. At the appointed time [he] will return back." (Daniel 11:28, 29a) Russia began to return to Central Asia. This is only the beginning. The current, deepening crisis is not a coincidence. The European Union will collapse as it happened with the Soviet Union. Then Eastern Europe also will return to the Russian sphere of influence. Russian troops will be stationed here again. This is not sophistry. I say this since 1998, when Russia was almost bankrupt.


We are winding up our 3rd week on the Bibbulmun Track, and look forward to starting week 4. As I sit here and relish every inspiring sight that we have come upon, I am in total awe! Every creature we have ran into has been an awesome experience.
I think this one stole my heart and can you see anything as beautiful as this sunset!
OK, now Balingup is quite the town. Here we will stay for two days. I will write about it later.
So on to the why's. I chose to do this virtual challenge to 1st of all, challenge myself. I never had any idea we would have so much fun. And most of all, I had no idea that EMMABE1 (our fearless leader) from The Chair Exercise Team would so involve herself to make this so very special. She has went beyond the call of duty to make this a journey of a lifetime for all who participate. She has prepared all the tools we would need for such a journey. That has been what made it so real. She spent all that time to make this enjoyable for US!!!
It does take time, but I am seeing the benefits of it. I have to ask you, are you happy with the way your body is changing? Are you getting more healthy? Are you willing to change, and MOST OF ALL, do YOU really want to change? If the answer is yes then sign up for some of these challenges. But if you sign up, Know that it is a commitment to your team leader, your team and more importantly YOU! When you sign up, (I know it was with good intentions) and then don't follow through, it hurts everyone, not just you. If our child signs up for the football team or dancing lessons, etc. we want them to go to every practice. Same here or less illness gets in the way, we want you to be faithful to yourself. It matters, no matter how small the challenge or how involved, like this one. Think enough of yourself to see it through. It is worth it. I am walking in my home now without my walker. I still use something in public but at home I am free. It feels awesome and I owe it all to the increased exercise from this challenge.
Now I am off for my spa treatment in Balingup!
Loved the Kangaroo Sunset!! I don't know how You could make you Blogs (and the Discussion Thread!!) any more "Real". You are Incredibly Imaginative!!
walking at home without your walker - how excellent is that!!! this trek has been so much fun!
Wonderful blog Gail. Thanks for sharing that. Its good all thats happening to you because of it. Keep it up!
My first thought was "how embarrassing" Not that you upset me - but your overwhelming praise. Remember I enjoyed doing it too!!
The fact that you are walking freely at home is reward for me - what will you be doing after this and the next 6 weeks =-- turning summersaults maybe!!
Actually several of the members have said they are increasing exercise and feeling better in some way due to the trek!! That is sooooooo good!!
Maybe those roos in the sunset were the ones outside my window last evening in the sunset!! You never know!!
Sounds like a really wonderful experience. Loved the pictures!!
Good for you for following through on the Trek & enjoying it so much. It's amazing what exercises more can do for us. It sounds like Ann outdid herself on this trek as you describe it all so beautifully and it almost seems real to you. Keep having fun in awesome Australia.
I am enjoying your wonderful trip. I am happy that you are finding so many wonderful new things to enjoy.
WHAT A NICE TOUR OF SOMEPLACE I WILL PROBABLY NEVER SEE, BUT THANKS TO YOUR OBSERVATIONS I ENJOYED IT THROUGH YOUR EYES. YES, I LOVE THE SUNSET WITH THE 2 ADORABLE KANGAROOS IN SILHOUETTE!


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1999 Progress Report: Multiplexed Diode-Laser Absorption Sensors for Real-Time Measurements and Control of Combustion Systems
EPA Grant Number: R827123
Title: Multiplexed Diode-Laser Absorption Sensors for Real-Time Measurements and Control of Combustion Systems
Investigators: Hanson, Ronald K. , Baer, D. S.
Current Investigators: Hanson, Ronald K. , Baer, D. S. , Jeffries, J. B.
Institution: Stanford University
EPA Project Officer: Hahn, Intaek
Project Period: October 1, 1998 through September 30, 2001 (Extended to September 30, 2002)
Project Period Covered by this Report: October 1, 1998 through September 30, 1999
Project Amount: $344,605
RFA: Exploratory Research - Environmental Engineering (1998) RFA Text | Recipients Lists
Research Category: Sustainability , Land and Waste Management , Engineering and Environmental Chemistry
This research is aimed at establishing novel optical sensors based on semiconductor diode lasers, fiber-optic components, and absorption spectroscopy techniques for measurements of gas temperature and of CO, CO2, NO, NO2, and H2O concentrations in combustion systems for incineration, propulsion, and energy generation applications. The advanced sensors will incorporate new developments in room-temperature continuous-wave semiconductor diode lasers that extend the range of laser wavelengths into the visible and infrared spectral region (near 2.0 and 2.3 microns), without cryogenic cooling, for sensitive absorption measurements of strong, first-overtone vibrational bands, respectively. These all-optical sensors will be compact, reliable, and enable fast, sensitive measurements of the target species: CO, a combustion pollutant; CO2, a major-species combustion product and greenhouse gas; NO and NO2, the important nitrogen oxides pollutants; and H2O, a major-species combustion product. The diode-laser absorption sensors also will be used to accurately measure (some for the first time) important spectroscopic parameters of the target species at the probed wavelengths over a range of relevant temperatures and pressures to combustion flows. The sensor systems will be applied for nonintrusive, line-of-sight measurements in the combustion region (i.e., in situ) and for fast extractive-sampling measurements in the exhaust region using a multipass cell (36-meter fold optical path) for increased sensitivity, if necessary.
Progress Summary:
Diode-laser absorption sensors have been developed for fast, sensitive, in situ measurements of gas temperature and the concentrations of the target species CO, CO2, and H2O. The sensors employ newly available room temperature, distributed feedback tunable diode lasers that operate near 2.0 microns for CO2 measurements, near 2.3 microns for CO measurements, and near 1.3-1.4 microns for H2O measurements. The sensors were applied for simultaneous, nonintrusive, multiparameter measurements in the combustion and exhaust regions of laboratory combustion facilities (e.g., flat-flame burners). For CO measurements in the exhaust duct, a detection limit of 1.5 ppm-m was achieved by direct absorption spectroscopy with a 50-kHz detection bandwidth and a 50-sweep average (0.1-s total measurement time). With wavelength-modulation spectroscopy techniques, a sensitivity of 0.1 ppm in a 1-m path was achieved with a 500-Hz detection bandwidth and a 20-sweep average (0.4 seconds total measurement time). The measurements in the combustion zone agreed with theoretical equilibrium values to within the experimental uncertainty of about 5 percent. In addition, the CO sensors were incorporated successfully into a system for simultaneous measurements of CO, CO2, and H2O in a laboratory combustion facility. These preliminary results suggest that diode laser absorption techniques may be applied for in situ combustion measurements for in-field continuous emission monitoring and combustion control, detailed studies of engine combustion such as dynamic exhaust gas analysis with single-cycle time resolution, and for development and validation of advanced combustion models.
Future Activities:
Future plans involve extending the capabilities of the sensors for measurements of other combustion species and incorporating the sensors into closed-loop feedback systems for real-time combustion control and emissions compliance.
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Supplemental Keywords:
remote sensing, temperature, waste reduction, pollution prevention, pollution control, atmosphere, combustion, environmental engineering, toxics, pollutants, air pollution., RFA, Scientific Discipline, Air, Waste, Environmental Chemistry, Environmental Monitoring, Incineration/Combustion, Engineering, Chemistry, & Physics, Environmental Engineering, optical sensors, combustion generated radicals, emissions measurement, air pollution, emission controls, optical sensor, process control, carbon dioxide, fiber laser, combustion, incineration, real time monitoring, emissions contol engineering, laser absorption sensors, combustion contaminants
Relevant Websites:
http://navier.stanford.edu/hanson
Progress and Final Reports:
The perspectives, information and conclusions conveyed in research project abstracts, progress reports, final reports, journal abstracts and journal publications convey the viewpoints of the principal investigator and may not represent the views and policies of ORD and EPA. Conclusions drawn by the principal investigators have not been reviewed by the Agency.
Last updated on Thursday, July 18, 2019


As a nanny to a newborn, you should take extra time to make sure you are aware of all the special circumstances that come with a new baby!
The first year of life in terms of development is incredibly important. Did you know babies double their birth weight by gaining an average of .05 ounces to 1 ounce everyday for the first six months? By the time baby reaches 9-12 months, they have nearly tripled their birth weight! By the time a baby turns 1 year old, they will have grown 10 inches!
Keep a daily nanny journal. This can be so helpful for communication in the household, as well as an invaluable document to accompany the baby book. Document the daily goings on, but also document things like did baby smile today? Coo? Make a funny noise? What was baby's temperament like?
Be supportive of mom. She needs your expertise, love, and guidance.
In this day and age with technology, you can even take a picture with your phone and e-mail it to mother's workplace desktop. This can be a great way of helping a new mother stay connected.
Make sure that you and mom are on the same page. How would she like you to put her son down for a nap? How does she want the nursery organized?
Be aware of where all of the first aid kits are in the house (also keep one in your car and a travel kit in the diaper bag). Keep important contact information including local hospital, pediatrician and parent's phone numbers, as well as medical card with a release from parents to authorize medical care. If baby is on medications, be sure you are completely aware of the dosage and record the time the medication was given in order to avoid it being given more than once.
Coordinate with your employer on feedings and naps. If your employer is breastfeeding and she plans to return from work to breastfeed, make sure you don't give baby a bottle when she is about to walk in the door. And with naps, attempt to get baby on a sleep schedule. This is not only good for baby, but allows nanny and mommy to have some consistency in their schedule as well.
The daily journal should also track feeding, sleeping, spitting up behaviors and acid reflux responses with time and activity so that if there is a problem you may be able to identify the pattern using the journal and discuss this information with mom or the pediatrician.
Make sure you hold the newborn and sway,hum and hold the baby close to your body.
Newborns need a lot of sleep. Make sure they are kept warm and comfortable.
Baby should eat about every two hours,and will be need to be fed throughout the night until they are of a certain weight and can begin to eat enough prior to sleep.


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Hurricane Hanna Harms Texas Citrus
Ernie Neff July 31, 2020 hurricane
The Texas citrus industry is still assessing the damage from Hurricane Hanna, which hit the state on July 25.
"Current estimates suggest a 30 percent crop loss," said Dale Murden, president of Texas Citrus Mutual and a citrus grower. "There were no damages to packing and processing facilities, and we do not anticipate any issues with processing this season. We have seen greenhouse damage and are evaluating those losses along with any potential tree damage."
Murden said Texas Citrus Mutual is working with the U.S. Department of Agriculture "to ensure the proper emergency designation" leading to loans and other possible federal assistance.
Grower Jud Flowers said the severity of damage from Hanna "varies greatly depending on row orientation and eyewall passage. Southeastern Cameron (County) and southwestern Hidalgo (County) had very little damage, but the northern part of both counties suffered the most with upwards of 50 percent fruit loss in the most affected parts. We had damaging winds in excess of 15 hours and that's plenty of time to cause problems along with generally 8 to 13 inches of rain."
"On the positive side, we expect to see a considerable rise in our reservoir levels since the storm path covered a large part of our watershed," said Flowers, president of Lone Star Citrus Growers.
Texas Farm Bureau (TFB) reported that Hanna developed into a Category 1 hurricane, "lashing the Texas Gulf Coast and the Rio Grande Valley with high winds and widespread rainfall." TFB stated that the hurricane "first made landfall with 90 mile-per-hour winds in the Rio Grande Valley along the Cameron-Willacy county line. Preliminary reports suggest areas of the Rio Grande Valley and Coastal Bend received anywhere from 2 to 15 inches of rain … In the largest citrus-growing area of Texas, orchards loaded with developing oranges and grapefruit are now standing in water, fruit bobbing uselessly underneath the trees."
See TFB's report about Hanna's impact on citrus and other crops.
The July U.S. Department of Agriculture crop forecast pegged Texas' 2019-20 grapefruit production at 4.4 million boxes, down from 5.8 million boxes forecast in June and down from 6.1 million boxes produced last season. Texas' 2019-20 orange production was 1.34 million boxes, down from 2.3 million boxes forecast in June and down from 2.5 million boxes produced last season.
See the July crop forecast, the last of the 2019-20 season, for Texas and other citrus-producing states.


This was my original design for the MATS Bootcamp assignment for March. I had started this design but when we were given a challenge to use a neutral palette I went with this design for the final. It took me a while to finish up my original design. I spent a lot more time than I probably should, and I'm not sure if it's reflected in the final results. I have to admit that I did try out different techniques and effects that I hadn't used before in Illustrator for this piece so I don't feel the extra time and effort spent was a waste. I do like the texturing effects I was able to achieve (all in Illustrator).
Although I enjoyed exploring using a neutral palette, I really like the punch of the brights on the dark background. I also like how the white of the dishes really pop. I'm glad I can still share this one even though it didn't originally make the cut. Please check out the close up images below to see the detail and textures I used.


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Rex Howard Harrington,  (born October 30, 1962 in Peterborough, Ontario) is a Canadian ballet dancer. In 2000, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. In 2005, he was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame. In 2006, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by York University and was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He is currently artist-in-residence at the National Ballet of Canada, and is a board member of the Dancer Transition Resource Centre.

Dance career
Harrington studied at Canada's National Ballet School. He joined the National Ballet of Canada in 1983 and became a principal dancer in 1988. He partnered with many renowned ballerinas such as Ekaterina Maximova, Carla Fracci, Karen Kain, Veronica Tennant, Alessandra Ferri, Susan Jaffe and Evelyn Hart. He has also performed with such companies as La Scala Theatre Ballet, San Francisco Ballet, Royal Winnipeg Ballet, and Stuttgart Ballet. Harrington's classical roles include Romeo in Romeo and Juliet, Basilio in Don Quixote, Kastchei in The Firebird, Eugene Onegin in Onegin, and Apollo in Balanchine's Apollo. James Kudelka created several roles for Harrington, including Rothbart in Swan Lake (1999), Peter/The Nutcracker in The Nutcracker (1995), and the central role in The Four Seasons (1997). Choreographer Glen Tetley also created the roles of Lewis Carroll in Alice (1992) and The Young Gentleman in La Ronde (1988) for Harrington.

Harrington retired from the stage in 2004, although he came out of retirement to dance the role of Prince Gremin in the National Ballet of Canada's 2010 production of Onegin.

Film, television and theatre
Harrington has appeared in Norman Jewison's The January Man, as well as the film adaptation of The Four Seasons, for which he won a Gemini Award in 2000. Harrington's television credits include the CBC Television specials Karen Kain: Dancing in the Moment and Wild Hearts in Strange Times, featuring dance artist Margie Gillis. In 2002, Harrington made his musical theatre debut in Robin Hood at Toronto's Winter Garden Theatre.

In 2004, he had a guest role in an episode of Queer as Folk.

Harrington was also a recurring guest judge on So You Think You Can Dance Canada. In summer 2014, Rex appeared as a contestant with his fiance, Bob Hope, on the second season of The Amazing Race Canada, where he finished 7th.

Advocacy
Harrington's mother, who first encouraged him to dance, has schizophrenia. He has spoken out against the stigma attached to mental illness, most notably through the "Transforming Lives" campaign of the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto.

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Living people
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Canadian people of Greek descent
Fellows of the Royal Society of Canada
Officers of the Order of Canada
Canadian LGBT entertainers
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So You Think You Can Dance Canada
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Passing the Entrepreneurship Test
Kenya boasts one of Africa's healthiest economies. Yet FSD Kenya estimates only 20% of the country's businesses have received credit from a formal source.
These entrepreneurial ventures, which encompass up to 80% of the total employment opportunities in Kenya and similar developing countries, comprise what is commonly known as the "missing middle." They face intractable structural barriers to finance due to the inability of existing financing models (venture capital, banks and MFIs) to properly assess risk, and therefore reach this critical segment.
It's in this economic and geographic context where, for the past year, I have been deeply involved with the Entrepreneurial Finance Lab (EFL). Since 2007, and initially through the Harvard Kennedy School's Center for International Development (CID), EFL has attempted to solve this crucial finance gap. EFL's co-founders, Drs. Bailey Klinger and Asim Khwaja, found that the lack of funding to this indispensable sector in developing economies was a result of an informational asymmetry, not a lack of high returns to capital in this segment. Put another way, the enormous monetary and social opportunities of lending to these enterprises required better information about risk and potential, while traditional ameliorating factors such as collateral, formal documentation, and rich credit histories simply don't exist in these markets.
With initial support from Google.org and SNV, we tested thousands of banked entrepreneurs, ranging from rural-Andean micro borrowers to urban South African venture capital investees. (You can find a list of our partners here.) From this rich and diverse sample, EFL was able to classify dimensions, from academic research on entrepreneurship and the pre-employment screening industry, which predict entrepreneurial success or failure. Specifically, EFL created a test that could identify entrepreneurial traits across loan sizes, cultures and industries, which enabled us to forecast risk to a very high degree of accuracy – on par with corporate credit models, but without typical informational requirements, (e.g. ameliorating factors mentioned above). The test's power to identify and separate risk is such that, had these institutions utilized the EFL test following their evaluation process, each could reduce defaults by 25% to 40%. Thus, the EFL tool benefits financial institutions along three dimensions: reducing risk, lowering costs and, perhaps most importantly, expanding markets.
Now and Beyond
Armed with a 30 to 45-minute, automated assessment, borrower data spanning seven countries and eight languages, and the interest of flagship financial institutions across Latin America and Africa, EFL spun out of the university to scale its solution in 2010. Initially focused on the SME segment, we were soon contracted by one of Africa's largest banks to fuel its aggressive and innovative expansion plans across the continent. In the upcoming months, this partnership, combined with several other early implementations, will provide more than 30,000 entrepreneurs with access to business credit products for the first time.
The magnitude of the data from a handful or partners will help increase the accuracy of the global EFL model, spur R&D to widen the breadth of its usage, and most importantly, demonstrate the financial viability of lending into this segment. Additionally, the Entrepreneurial Finance Lab Research Initiative at the Harvard Kennedy School CID continues to drive a strong research agenda into evaluating further tools on access to finance and economic growth globally.
EFL was founded to make a large-scale impact through an innovative approach to solving inefficient business environments in developing countries. As such, we're committed to achieving scale through its for-profit customers. However, we have also pursued partnerships with innovative, and often smaller-scale non-profit organizations across three continents to help enable good people do good work.
We look forward to providing frequent updates on our expansion, and will be looking to the NextBillion readership for feedback and support.
Editor's note: EFL was recently recognized for its approach, having recently been voted as a winner of the G-20/Ashoka SME Finance Challenge. You may follow EFL's efforts via Twitter @EFinLaB.


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Az 1995-ös férfi kézilabda-világbajnokságot Izlandon rendezték. A világbajnokságok történetében először vett rész 24 csapat. A tornát Franciaország nyerte, a magyar válogatott a 17. helyen végzett.

Lebonyolítás
A 24 csapatot 4 darab, 6 csapatos csoportba sorsolták. A csoportokban körmérkőzések döntötték el a csoportok végeredményét.A csoportokból az első négy helyezett jutott tovább a nyolcaddöntőbe, az ötödik és hatodik helyezettek kiestek. A nyolcaddöntőtől egyenes kieséses rendszerben folytatódott a torna, az első 12 helyért játszottak helyosztó mérkőzéseket.

Csoportkör

A csoport

B csoport

C csoport

D csoport

Egyenes kieséses szakasz

Nyolcaddöntők

A 9–16. helyért

Negyeddöntők

A 9–12. helyért

Az 5–8. helyért

Elődöntők

A 11. helyért

A 9. helyért

A 7. helyért

Az 5. helyért

Bronzmérkőzés

Döntő

Végeredmény

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Kapcsolódó szócikkek
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Pound set for biggest monthly rise in a decade as no-deal Brexit fears fade
News // October 31, 2019 //
The pound rose today and could score its biggest monthly rise in more than a decade as the combination of a weak dollar and the falling risks of Britain leaving the European Union without a deal has fueled demand.
The immediate catalyst for the pound's gains was a cautious US Federal Reserve who kept the door open for further policy easing after cutting interest rates for the third time this year.
But the broader base for the pound's rally this month was some progress on the Brexit deadlock.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who has failed to deliver on his "do or die" promise that Britain would leave the EU on October 31, secured agreement for an election on December 12 after the EU granted a third delay to Brexit.
The Conservative Party holds around an 8-point lead over the opposition Labour Party, according to a Survation poll conducted by the Daily Mail.
In its latest updated forecasts, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs put the risk of a no-deal Brexit at a low 5% and assign a 75% probability of a deal followed by the likelihood of 20% for Britain opting to stay within the European Union.
Against the dollar, the pound rose 0.3% at $1.2941 and closing in a five-month high above $1.30 hit last week. Sterling has gained 0.2% against the euro.
The pound has strengthened more than 5% against the dollar so far this month, its biggest monthly rise since May 2009, according to Refinitiv data.
The Fed lowered its policy rate to 1.5%-1.75%, but dropped a previous reference in its statement to "act as appropriate" to sustain the economic expansion.
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Q: (Warning: Contract code size exceeds 24576 bytes) Pops on Hardhat but not Remix Remix compiles the code without the warning using their optimized but hardhat throws an error "(Warning: Contract code size exceeds 24576 bytes)"
Hardhat config:
module.exports = {
  solidity: "0.8.7",
  settings: {
    optimizer: {
      enabled: true,
      runs: 500,
      details: { yul: false },
    },
  }....

What could be an issue?
How to tackle it?

A: you need to mention the optimization settings inside the version since hardhat execute
multiple solidity version code.
Example for single version settings
module.exports = {
      solidity: {
        version: "0.8.9",
        settings: {
          optimizer: {
            enabled: true,
            runs: 1000,
          },
        },
      },
    };

For multiple version support settings
solidity: {
    compilers: [
      {
        version: "0.6.12",
      },
      {
        version: "0.5.16",
      },
      {
        version: "0.6.6",
        settings: {
          optimizer: {
            enabled: true,
            runs: 1000,
          },
        },
      },
    ],
  },
};


lightspace dot london has been the most talked about architectural lighting event of recent years. Little wonder – its unique combination of innovation, discussion and inspiration brings architects and the lighting design community together to share ideas. Foster + Partners, Zaha Hadid Architects, BDP, Arup, Speirs + Major, dpa, Light Bureau, GIA Equation, MBLD, Atelier Ten, Michael Grubb Studio, Nulty+, Into, NDYlight and Into are just some of the recent participants. lightspace dot london features the latest architectural luminaires from leading brands, all centred around the heart of the event: the lightspace Arena in association with Amerlux. Here you can gain valuable insights into lighting and architecture from two days of specially curated, engaging content featuring some of the most experienced and knowledgable speakers in architecture and lighting design.
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Islam and the West ( 26 Jan 2020, NewAgeIslam.Com)
Mohammed Bin Salman's Antics Are Making It Hard For Western Allies To Paint Saudi Arabia As A Competent Regional Partner
By Nesrine Malik
There's a famous scene from The Dark Knight in which the Joker gives a rare insight into why he does his disruptive, anarchic things. "I'm like a dog chasing cars," he says, "I wouldn't know what to do if I caught one, you know, I just do … things." There is a certain Middle Eastern prince whose actions can be most accurately explained by this philosophy. A combination of an indulged upbringing, complete unaccountability and vast sovereign wealth has created in Saudi crown prince Mohammed bin Salman (commonly known as MBS) a sort of anarchic, comic-book villain.
With no attempt at covering his tracks, MBS targeted the world's richest person.' Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Jeff Bezos in Riyadh, 2016. Photograph: Bandar Al-Jaloud/Saudi Royal Palace/AFP via Getty Images
There was the botched murder of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi, whose killing not only occurred in a bugged embassy but one where CCTV caught his murderers (who had used their real passports, with their real names) attempting to use a body double in his clothes. But the latest instalment is the allegation that MBS hacked Jeff Bezos's phone via a link sent on a WhatsApp message, and extracted a mass of personal information. With no attempt at subtlety or covering his tracks, MBS targeted the world's richest person. We may have MBS to thank for the leak of Bezos's messages to his lover, a leak that was then reportedly followed by attempts to blackmail the Amazon chief.
But what exactly was MBS looking for? Was it a vindictive strike back against criticism of the prince in the Washington Post, the paper Khashoggi wrote for and which Bezos owns? Was MBS trying to gain some leverage against Bezos? Yet Khashoggi was by no means the most vocal opponent of the Saudi royal family. Why would MBS, a man keen to present himself as a reformer, risk so much international incrimination, such reputational damage, to silence one of the most high-profile Saudis in the western press for nothing more than mild criticism?
The answer is, because over a lifetime of impunity he has grown accustomed to satisfying every whim. In terms of sons of autocrats, MBS is less Bashar al-Assad, Syria's despot, who inherited power from his equally brutal father, Hafez, and more Uday Hussein, the famously erratic son of Saddam, who was reputed to have murdered those who caused the most minor offence to him, even among presidential loyalists and his own brothers-in-law. MBS initially consolidated his position by purging friends and family in an "anti-corruption drive". His calamitous campaign in Yemen, launched when he was made minister of defence in his 20s and now a quagmire for the Saudis, was less a calculated defensive manoeuvre and more an immature power move.
Aside from those internationally notorious incidents and military adventurism, MBS's elevation to de facto ruler of Saudi Arabia has introduced dark palace intrigue. Last September, a high-profile and famously loyal bodyguard to his father, King Salman, was shot and killed, apparently over a "personal dispute" with a friend. Rumours began to circulate that the death was a result of the unhappiness of the old security establishment with MBS's capricious behaviour.
Disruption for the sake of it is now a hallmark of Saudi propaganda and online activity. Already an army of Twitter trolls has been activated to attack Bezos and call for a boycott of Amazon to "teach Bezos a lesson he won't forget" if he does not apologise for alleging that MBS hacked his phone. Last year Twitter suspended 90,000 accounts used to intimidate those who criticised the royal family, and mass-tweeted hashtags glorifying the crown prince. After writing critically about the Saudi royal family, I myself have often been targeted online by identikit Saudi government loyalist accounts claiming I was receiving funding from Qatar.
There is no grand masterplan to this online campaign, nor indeed to Saudi's PR effort as a whole, apart from throwing tantrums at those who point out that perhaps all is not quite together at the heart of the Saudi royal establishment. The hissy-fit model of making friends and influencing people is in keeping with the crown prince's entitled-adolescent style of foreign relations. It is based on avarice, and frustration that not everything can be bought. On trips to the United States, MBS has secured meetings with Silicon Valley royalty, such as Mark Zuckerberg and Bezos himself.
It is, overall, a pattern of behaviour that is making it increasingly hard for western allies to continue painting Saudi Arabia as a competent ally in the region. Western foreign policy has for a long time hinged on a stereotype of regional polarity, with Iran as the unbalanced, evil uranium-enriching twin and Saudi Arabia as the balancing responsible actor, one that is important to keep on side and to support in order to maintain stability in the region.
This was always a fiction, but it is one that is now harder to keep up as the crown prince continues to prove that there is no adult in the room. The latest reports are that Boris Johnson has been bombarded with emoji messages from MBS on WhatsApp – putting the prime minister in the position of trying to figure out if he's been hacked, or if MBS is merely fond of communicating via pictures and not words. As ever, this has also been leaked to the press: MBS seems to think that because there is no functioning media in Saudi Arabia, there is none elsewhere.
What sets MBS apart is not cunning design: it is chaos based on whim, executed via a toy box of tools. In fact, perhaps I should revise my earlier comparison. He lacks the intelligence and cunning of a Joker. He is more Scooby-Doo villain than clever arch-nemesis. The only thing Mohammed bin Salman does as consistently as violating international norms is doing so in such a clumsy, traceable way that he is always caught.
Nesrine Malik is a Guardian columnist
Original Headline: Saudi Arabia's crown prince urgently needs an adult in the room
Source: The Guardian, UK
URL: https://www.newageislam.com/islam-and-the-west/nesrine-malik/mohammed-bin-salman's-antics-are-making-it-hard-for-western-allies-to-paint-saudi-arabia-as-a-competent-regional-partner/d/120899


Many youngsters are mesmerised by the figures that twirl and leap across a stage in a ballet production.
The author and illustrator, Anne Spudvilas was just like them. As a child she loved her mother's book Stories of the Ballets by Gladys Davidson, especially the ballet of Swan Lake. Now it is Spudvilas' turn to enchant readers with her retelling of the ballet by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
What makes the book, Swan Lake, so special are Spudvias' illustrations that are dark, haunting and beautiful.
Viewing the illustrations for the first time gave me a real physical reaction, a shiver ran up my spine and I broke out in goose-bumps, or maybe that should be swan-bumps.
The story is told by presenting each ballet act in words on one page which are then followed by a series of double page spreads telling the story in dramatic illustrations.
In Act 1 we meet the Prince and the Swan Queen who fall in love. The Swan Queen tells the Prince of the Sorcerer's curse, that she can only be in her human form between midnight and dawn. The Prince promises that at the upcoming ball he will choose her as his bride.
The retelling of the heartbreaking story in Act 2 moved me to tears. On the night of the ball the prince is bewitched by the Sorcerer's daughter, who is disguised as the Swan Queen and announces her as his bride. The Swan Queen sees the Princes' betrayal from the window and beats on it with her wings. Heartbroken she runs away to the lake.
In Act 3 the Prince realises his mistake. Like all classic fairy tales he overcomes the evil Sorcerer and breaks the curse but cannot undo his promise of marriage. The story ending is the classic romantic tragedy.
The reader will notice the darkness of the colours used on the endpapers and title page to create the haunting mood in this book. The illustrations are mostly black and white with shades of grey that sometimes include pops of colour.
The careful selection of colours add to the dramatic illustrations, creating emotions entwined with the characters and their actions. Pastel flowers in the hair of the Swan Queen show a warm loving, gentle, sweet and beautiful young woman. While the of colour blood red is used in the illustrations associated with the evil Sorcerer and his daughter, representing danger, passion and desire.
I highly recommend Swan Lake as a must have book for your Anne Spudvilas collection, which should already include The Peasant Prince and Our Village In the Sky.


U.S. to announce end to sanctions waivers for Iran oil imports: source There goes my hope for $40 oil. And a few other things.
I'd appreciate input from anyone on site, so to speak. I read the conservatives are in the lead.
What will happen to Total (FRA) Investments in venezuela? Petrocedeno is at all unemployed.
Populists Lead Ranking of Most Influential EU Parliament Politicians 143 https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2019/04/11/populists-lead-ranking-of-most-influential-eu-parliament-politicians/ New European Union Party expected to garner one third of votes.
I won't bother commenting, I'll just leave this here.


The Virgo, whether man or woman, is legendary for their pursuit of perfectionism. There is nothing shoddy or half-hearted about what a Virgo does. A believer in the maxim that what is worth doing is worth doing well, he/she is often exacting and uncompromising in his high standards. If your boss drives everyone nuts checking and rechecking the final presentation before the client meeting or sending back the proof a hundred times till satisfied about the final layout, chances are that he/she is a Virgo. And it is this quality which makes the senior management hand over the biggest and most complicated projects to your Virgo boss since they are assured that if anyone can get the job done in time and done well, it is him/her. While such a personality may have owed their rise to the top to their inherent search for the optimum, the flipside of this kind of perfectionism is that they will demand the same level of excellence from you. While working for a Virgo boss, you have little hope of getting away with shoddy work or a lame promise that you will add the finishing touches to the window display later. A Virgo boss can only be pleased when the final result is without a flaw and is as close to perfect as anyone other than them can come up with.
Yet another aspect of the Virgo's perfectionism is their meticulous attention to details. While an Aries boss would have motivated a team with his/her energy and them left them to carry on, you can trust a Virgo chief to go into the smallest detail of your proposal or personally check the financial minutiae which again a Leo boss would have been more than happy to leave it to the auditors. It is this fastidiousness which makes it even more difficult to match your boss's standards but once you get the hang of the way he/she works, you will find it easier if you can get the job right the first time.
The desire for perfectionism which informs practically every aspect of a Virgo's life including his/her professional also makes them rather critical in nature. They will assess the presentation or write-up you have slaved over for three days and still come up with a hundred points for correction. The keen hawk-like eye of a Virgo boss is unlikely ever to pass over a mistake or even a chance to point out that mistake - no matter how innocuous. This bent for zeroing in on flaws might make working for a Virgo boss sometimes difficult when it may seem that no matter how hard you try, you can never really please him/her. At such times it would help to remember that the Virgo's penchant for criticism is never motivated by malice or a mean desire to put someone down. Because a Virgo lives by his/her own exacting standards, he/she expects others especially those working for them to work by them as well. And when you come to think of it, it never hurts to work according to the highest standards especially when you are in profession like surgery or aviation where there is little room for error.
What softens and more than redeems a Virgo's strict perfectionist nature is their innate desire to help others. So while a Virgo boss may have asked for some corrections in your projects for the nth time, chances are that he/she will send you enough research material or even stay back after the others have left to offer a helping hand. This tendency to help need not be restricted to professional matters – if you happen to have missed the pool car, your Virgo boss may surprise you with an offer of a lift back home or even let you use his/her personal scanner in case you need some documents urgently and the office copier is out of action. If working for a Virgo boss for a length of time, you will have several opportunities of discovering their innate helpful natures.
If you want to be noticed by your Virgo boss, try to come up with ideas that are practical and aimed at a tangible result. The perfectionist nature of a Virgo is not so much inspired by idealistic notions of beauty and form as by a realistic sense of the importance of a job getting done in the right way. Arguments about your instinct for a plan's success or the value of experimental idea are unlikely to cut much ice with a Virgo boss unless you can show him/her the practical and material advantages that can be reaped by following your idea. This grounded nature of Virgos is probably a consequence of the earth element with which they are associated. However unlike a Taurus who bears a fixed earth sign and is thus resistant to change, the mutable quality of a Virgo makes them welcoming of new ideas and projects, provided they are practical and can be taken to a materially successful end.
Despite their drive for perfectionism and their critical eye, on the whole it is comfortable to be around a Virgo boss because of their sedate and easy-going temperament. They are usually modest in their appearance, professional behavior and inter-personal dealings. And for an employee who has suffered the worst of a Leo's megalomania or a Taurus's bossiness, it is a relief to bask in the soothing rays of a moderate and temperate Virgo nature. At the same time, some Virgos are quite surprisingly insecure inside and so you may need to assure your boss of your allegiance and fidelity from time to time.


Britain's high street banks have an institutionalised bias against female-owned businesses, typically charging them one percentage point more in interest on business loans.
Research by Warwick Business School commissioned by the Bank of England also found that banks will lend to minority-owned businesses on more favourable terms than either white male or white female-owned firms.
The research is the first representative survey of SMEs in the UK to offer close analysis of access to external finance for businesses with fewer than 250 employees.
One in five of the SMEs surveyed had a woman as the principal owner. However the report found that the majority female-owned businesses pay significantly higher margins on term loans than male-owned businesses - 2.9 per cent against 1.9 points over base.
At current rates, this means that a female-owned business will typically be paying 7.65 per cent in interest on a loan, compared to 6.65 per cent for a male-owned firm.
This is despite the fact that majority female-owned businesses are more likely to use an accountant and more likely to seek external advice than majority male-owned businesses.
Overall, one in 10 of the 2,500 firms surveyed were refused finance from banks, most because they had no track record, no assets to secure a loan or lacked an acceptable credit history.
Almost one in five also received less money than they wanted.
But there was also bad news in the report for the government's network of small business support schemes such as Business Link. These were found to make no difference to the likely success of raising finance from banks. Having a knowledge of finance and being willing to carry out market research were far more important factors.
According to the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB), who partly funded the research, the findings highlight that SME are continuing to get a raw deal from an industry dominated by the big four banks.
"The serious lack of competition in the small business banking market is a fundamental reason why small firms get a raw deal," said Neil Hamper, FSB Financial Affairs Chairman.
"This report should be a shot in the arm for the banking industry. In 2002 the Competition Commission said the major clearing banks made excessive profits from small businesses and ordered them to undertake measures to promote greater competition.
"This report provides further evidence that small firms, which have £4bn more on deposit with the banks than they owe in loans, still do not receive the service they deserve."
The Warwick report comes only months after research for the Paris-based Forum for Women Entrepreneurs & Executives (FWE) found that venture capitalists in Europe are shunning investments in companies run by women and that there were no more venture capital-backed female businesses in 2004 than there were in 2000.
Female-run firms also received less than 2.5 per cent of the total venture-capital investment in Europe - which was €3.5 billion in 2004.
According to FWE, this huge disparity was partly due to the fact that the male-dominated venture-capital business does not understand the marketplaces women often serve.
But the possibility that SME funding may be affected by similar prejudices was rejected by Joanna Elson, executive director of the British Bankers Association, who said she was "puzzled" by the Warwick findings.
"The truth is we cannot really understand or explain what has happened. One theory is that there are fewer female-owned businesses and they tend to be newer and therefore might be considered riskier."


Taking care of your health through wellness programs and other such measures is incredibly important, and much of it has become related to weight loss, particularly as the numbers of people who are currently living in the United States and are obese continue to skyrocket among children and adults alike. Though these problems with weight certainly make an impact on the overall health of those who consistently struggle with them (or are even perhaps struggling with them for the first time ever), there are a number of concrete and definable steps that the vast majority of people here in the United States who struggle with their weight are able to take that can help them to get on the road to leading healthier lives. For one, forming an exercise plan is a very viable option, as is going on a (healthy, and not fad) diet. Even just getting up and walking around more can have a bigger impact than many people realize, and sometimes starting off small can make it easier to stick with it and be consistent about your efforts not only to lost weight, but to get healthier as well.
And losing weight is very much part of getting healthier for the astonishing number of people in the United States that are currently considered to be medically overweight or even obese. And unfortunately, these numbers are only set to skyrocket with data showing that by the time that we reach the year of 2030, which is hardly more than ten years from our current year of 2018, as many as one hundred and fifteen adults alone in the country of the United States will be considered by medical professionals to be classified as obese. And obesity is a problem that continues to grow among the population of American children as well, with obese children all too often growing into obese adults and remaining obese or overweight for the rest of their lives.
There are a number of causes for this scourge of obesity as well as for a general unhealthiness among the population of people who are currently living in the United States. Money is one of them. To start with, financial struggles can cause a great deal of stress and it has actually even been found that money stress is the second largest cause of major stress all throughout the entire country of the United States with money stress and other types of stress rising with each new generation – and it has even been found that elderly people, those who are over the age of seventy two, actually experience less stress than any other group currently living in the world today. This increase in the stress that is felt, caused by financial struggles or another cause, is likely to lead to unhealthy coping mechanisms, and many people turn to food in order to deal with the hardships that they face in their everyday lives. This method of using food as a way to relax and unwind and to cope with difficult things in life can quickly become problematic, as people who use food as a crutch are all too often going to make unhealthy choices when it comes to the food that they are eating.
On top of all of this, a lack of exercise only compounds the problem of poor dietary habits and choices. Simply put, far too few people in the country of the United States have an exercise plan, even though exercise and having an exercise plan is integral to the success of any given weight loss program. In fact, recent data shows that only around five percent of the total population of adults who are currently living in the United States get the recommended amount of exercise, which is only around thirty minutes of exercise for one day, far from an excessive amount and a period of time that can be relatively easy to fit into the vast majority of schedules of people who are living in the United States. Having an exercise plan will look different for everyone, and an exercise plan can be as simple as taking a walk every day. Your exercise plan should reflect your goals and capabilities, but an exercise plan should also push you.


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So many things around our church are done by people who are rarely seen or acknowledged. I believe that is true for any active, healthy parish where its members care greatly about the church, and it is certainly true here at Calvary!
I want to send a HUGE thank you to everyone who helped to make my installation service as permanent Rector of Calvary so beautiful! We had over a hundred people fill the pews as we worshipped together in the Spirit of God, unified despite our differences. Clergy from multiple denominations processed down the aisle as a symbol of our community support for one another. We celebrated this call on our lives together with Traditional, Gospel and Contemporary music lead by our Choir and Greg Armstrong from Renew Ministries. We listened to our inclusive, prophetic, and loving Bishop, as he proclaimed God's truth that we are all in this together, as a people called to courageously bring God's character into the world, whatever the cost. We broke bread together, held up our glasses in celebration, and danced the Cupid Shuffle with our head sheep, Bishop Jeffery Lee!
After much prayer and discernment we completed 2017 with a new mission and vision that we believe truly represents the spirit of Calvary.
Our mission is to reflect Christ's image through inclusive relationship, unconditional love and joyful service. Our vision is to love and serve others like Christ so that they come to know Christ themselves.
We are excited about this change and look forward to all the new and exciting things God has in store for us this year! I feel extremely blessed to have been called by God to serve such an amazing and loving group of people. Calvary truly is a small church with a HUGE heart! Your love, support, hard work and dedication to the body of Christ is what has touched my own heart and motivated me to pray more, work harder and connect with the community in any way possible so that we may thrive and live into our calling to welcome all of Gods children, love them like Christ, and serve with joy! Get ready! We are going to have an amazing year together!
Joyfully in Christ,
Mother Mo+


In The Messianic Hope, Jewish Studies professor Michael Rydelnik argues against the view (growing even among evangelicals) that Old Testament texts historically interpreted as direct prophecies of the Messiah were not really Messianic in their original intent. The concept of a "messianic hope" in Israel is widely thought to be merely a postexilic scriptural phenomenon, and some say the apostles engaged in what one writer called "a creative exegetical enterprise" in order to justify it.
But without direct Messianic prophecy in the Old Testament, one of the essential arrows that Jesus and the apostles (as well as the later church) used to defend the messiahship of Jesus is removed from the quiver of contemporary Jewish missions. Furthermore, many New Testament texts are drained of significance that see Jesus as perfectly fitting a mold that the Old Testament writers built text by text. Rydelnik corrects these interpretations and shows how the OT continually points to Christ.
Michael Rydelnik is professor of Jewish Studies in the World Missions and Evangelism department at Moody Bible Institute in Chicago, Illinois. He holds degrees from Moody (diploma), Azusa Pacific University (B.A.), Dallas Theological Seminary (Th.M.), and Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (D.Miss.) and also contributed to The Apologetics Study Bible.
I'm the author/artist and I want to review The Messianic Hope: Is the Hebrew Bible Really Messianic?.


Last night I ran into a friend who used to live and work in Copán and she complimented me on the "amazing updates" (her words) I've been posting on Facebook about the new developments at Casita Copán. While it's true that it has been an amazing couple of months and that many of our dreams as an organization are coming true, it has also been (and continues to be) an incredibly challenging time for all of us. I tend to focus on the positive, so I realize that I haven't written a truly comprehensive update about life at Casita. So here goes.
Anyone who works with kids knows how difficult it can be. We've been doing it for a year and a half with some very troubled children, but our new children are different. Most of these children were abandoned at birth, others taken away from their mothers because of extreme malnutrition, neglect, or abuse. Some spent their whole lives at the orphanage Angelitos Felices here in Copán, others lived at anther orphanage in Santa Rosa (about 3 hours away) first before being sent to Angelitos. All of them suffered extreme neglect and often spent large stretches of time barely supervised or completely unsupervised. The main form of discipline was the "barra" or a metal rod. Food was sometimes plentiful, sometimes scarce. Hygiene and sanitation were absent; most locals couldn't enter the orphanage because of the awful smell. All of the kids are at least two to four years behind in school. When it comes to trusting adults, let's just say we've got a lot of work to do. When our youngest kids cry, they don't cry for "mama," they cry for "Chayo," the nickname of the oldest girl at the orphanage, Rosario.
The kids have terrible nightmares. Nightmares about burning buildings, kidnappings, murder, the devil climbing out from underneath the floor. We keep a light on and try to talk about each dream as much as possible, but it is heartbreaking to realize how deeply the trauma runs. The kids have started to share a bit about their past at the orphanage, but in a detached way. They tell us about the rats and the cockroaches, the scary noises they heard, how dark it always was, how the people there would call them names and beat them. They don't tell the stories with sadness but rather just recount their experiences, but the nightmares show that the issues run deep.
One of the first things the kids bragged to their teachers about was how their new home was "clean." You wouldn't think a kid would comment on cleanliness. I remember as a kid defending my messy room and dreading the Saturday wake up call to start doing my chores. But I never lived in filth. Last Saturday, eight-year-old Alex grabbed a broom and a mop and cleaned the entire main building of Casita without being asked. He said he likes the way it looks clean.
Our kids struggle with anger. Probably struggle isn't a strong enough word. The slightest disappointment is impossible for many of them to self-manage and can turn into extreme temper tantrums or fits of rage. Most of the anger is self-focused. Ten-year-old Naun threatened to throw himself from the top of the fence when he didn't get a chance to use the computer. The next day he was apologetic but also self-critical, saying he hates the way he is and doesn't know why he does that. Last year at school, Alex was angry about something at school and had such an intense reaction that he fainted. Even the smallest kids (I'm talking 3) spout so many swear words that it would make a trucker blush… let's just say my Spanish vocabulary has increased in ways I hadn't imagined.
But more than anger, the main thing that the kids express is a need for attention. It's a yearning, really, that can be emotionally and physically exhausting for those on the receiving end. Our new kids will do anything just to make you look at them or acknowledge them, but it is impossible to divide your attention equally between 13 children (plus the 33 children that were already at Casita!). For our kids, receiving love is not always easy and they fight against it, but then fight for it at the same time. The way I describe it is as an emotional ping-pong game. That's how it feels for all of us – the staff, the volunteers, the kids. We're bouncing back and forth between these extreme emotions while the kids test us to see if the love we're showing is real. It's going to take a long time before they'll be able to accept it or trust it. In the meantime, there will be lots of tears, lots of temper tantrums, and lots of disappointments.
The other huge change for us is we now have a 24-hour, 7-day a week job. Emergencies can happen (and do) at any time. Right now, when it's so necessary to emotionally relax and unwind, there just doesn't seem to be any time! And while I dream of the time when things will "settle down," I know that Casita is now responsible for 13 lives. We now need to make sure that we do everything in our power to help these 13 young people work through their trauma, learn to trust and love, and grow into healthy, productive, and happy adults.
But even on the hardest days, I know we can do it. So I guess that's a positive update after all.


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Stonewall: A Building. an Uprising. a Revolution
Rob Sanders (Author) Jamey Christoph (Illustrator)
FORMAT
Hardcover$17.99$16.55(English)

Library Binding$20.99(English)

Celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising with the very first picture book to tell of its historic and inspiring role in the gay civil rights movement.
From Rob Sanders, author of the acclaimed Pride: The Story of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag, comes this powerful and timeless true story that will allow young readers to discover the rich and dynamic history of the Stonewall Inn and its role in the LGBTQ+ civil rights movement--a movement that continues to this very day. In the early-morning hours of June 28, 1969, the Stonewall Inn was raided by police in New York City. Though the inn had been raided before, that night would be different. It would be the night when empowered members of the LGBTQ+ community--in and around the Stonewall Inn--began to protest and demand their equal rights as citizens of the United States. Movingly narrated by the Stonewall Inn itself, and featuring stirring and dynamic illustrations, Stonewall: A Building. An Uprising. A Revolution is an essential and empowering civil rights story that every child deserves to hear.
PRAISE FOR PRIDE THE STORY OF HARVEY MILK AND THE RAINBOW FLAG
Pride is a beacon of (technicolor) light.
- Entertainment Weekly
An essential LGBTQ children's book
- Out.com
This children's book about gay Pride should be in every school.
- Gay Times Magazine
I couldn't be more thrilled the world now has this book.
- Dustin Lance Black, Academy Award-winning screenwriter of MILK
11.2 X 9.1 X 0.4 inches | 1.05 pounds
History - United States - 20th Century
Social Science - Politics & Government
ROB SANDERS is a writer who teaches and a teacher who writes. He is the author of Crystal Kite Award Winner Outer Space Bedtime Race, Cowboy Christmas, Ruby Rose: Off to School She Goes!, Ruby Rose: Big Bravos!, Rodzilla, and Pride: The Story of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag. Rob lives in Florida, where he teaches elementary school. Visit him at robsanderswrites.com.
JAMEY CHRISTOPH has created illustrations that have appeared in the New York Times and the San Francisco Chronicle, and has received distinguished recognition from the Society of Illustrators for his work on Gordon Parks: How the Photographer Captured Black and White America. Jamey lives in Ohio with his partner and two dogs.
"This celebration of Stonewall is a welcome addition to the slender shelf of LGBTQ books for younger readers."--Booklist, starred review
October Bookshelf: Celebrating LGBTQ History Month VIEW LIST (35 BOOKS)


[Xen-devel] [RFC][Patch] Improvemet the responce of xend.
This is a idea which improve the responce of xend.
we cannot get the respornce from xend.
and they may reboot the system.
If domU is allocated big memory, dumping time is long.
I make the patch which xend fork at dumping time.
But child process of xend cannot write xenstore.
Why cann't it write xenstore? Or I had some mistakes?
Do you have the better idea?
""" Checks the domain for whether a shutdown is required.
# we can do in this context.


Are Execs Prioritizing the Customer Experience When Considering AI Use Cases?
Marketing is all about the customer experience these days, and artificial intelligence (AI) is expected to help improve the digital user experience in coming years. But a new survey from Capgemini calls into question the extent to which business executives are considering the customer experience when deciding on AI use cases.
As part of its report, Capgemini surveyed 568 executives at companies in the Retail, Consumer Products, Banking, Insurance, Utilities, Automotive, E-Commerce, and Fintech industries. About half of these respondents – who came from several countries – work at companies with at least $1 billion in annual revenues.
By comparison to those largely financial considerations, very few cited customer-centric factors. For example, just 1 in 10 indicated that the impact on the customer experience was a very important consideration, and even fewer said they prioritize consumer preference of applications (9%) and solving known consumer pain points (7%).
Failure to consider consumer attitudes could have obvious repercussions, particularly as some consumers are on the fence about AI-driven applications, at least in the retail sector.
Just as worrisome is that executives responding to Capgemini's report seem in some cases to be out of touch with consumers' preferences.
The gap between consumers' desire to know about their AI interactions and executives' beliefs on that front was large across all industries, ranging from Financial Services to Retail and Automotive.
It's also worth noting that consumers generally don't prefer pure AI-led interactions. For low-consideration products and services, a slight majority (54%) prefer a mix of human and AI interactions. Yet the remainder were almost twice as likely to prefer human-only (30%) to AI-only (17%) interactions.
Those differences are exacerbated when dealing with high-consideration products and services. Fewer than half (47%) are OK with a mix of human and AI interactions, with almost as many preferring human-only interactions (45%). Barely any (8%) would want to deal exclusively with AI when making high-consideration purchases.
Finally, while there is an age gap in the findings, it's not terribly strong. Even youth (18-34) skew towards human-led over AI-led interactions for both low- and high-consideration purchases, and the numbers only divulge further along with increasing age.