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HomeNewsFour Steps Your Dairy Can Take Toward More Judicious Antibiotic Use
Four Steps Your Dairy Can Take Toward More Judicious Antibiotic Use
Kenna Rathai, Mark Bixler
April 25, 2019 DairyBusiness News Yoda News 0
More than 60 percent of producers responding to a recent survey said they have changed their mastitis treatment protocols in the last few years to be more judicious with their antibiotic use.1 These producers are on the right track; using antibiotics correctly and minimizing unnecessary use on an operation can have a tremendous impact on animal health, food safety and consumer confidence in dairy products.
In addition to working closely with a veterinarian, the following practices can help your operation make strides toward more judicious antibiotic use:
1. Treat the infection, not the inflammation
Clinical mastitis is recognized when a producer sees abnormalities in the milk, the cow's quarter or in the cow. Visible changes in the milk are the result of inflammation or the cow's response to infection. The standard practice is to treat until the mastitis inflammation is gone, which is why some five-day treatment regimens have become common. However, this may be leading producers to over-treat with antibiotics.
"Visible abnormalities in the milk are often the first sign of mastitis, but they should not determine the length of treatment," said Linda Tikofsky, DVM, senior associate director of dairy professional veterinary services, Boehringer Ingelheim.
Dr. Tikofsky added that the bacteria may be effectively killed within the first 24 to 48 hours of treatment, but the inflammation will go on another three or four days while the body eliminates the dead bacteria and white blood cells. Boehringer Ingelheim offers a tube with a three-treatment regimen that is effective at killing mastitis bacteria. However, the milk may still look abnormal at the time of the third treatment.
2. Culture milk before deciding to treat
For mild or moderate mastitis cases, Dr. Tikofsky recommends producers take a milk sample, culture it and wait 24 hours for results before treating. This can be done without a negative effect on cure rate or animal welfare. However, for severe mastitis cases, treat cows right away with an appropriate treatment protocol.
"In 30 to 40 percent of the cultured samples, there are no bacteria present since the cow has eliminated the infection herself, so producers are only seeing inflammation," she explained.2,3,4 "Just wait until the inflammation subsides, then put the cow's milk back in the tank when it returns to normal."
3. Use antibiotics according to the label
Product labels contain important information including indications, dose, route of administration, treatment duration, milk withhold and meat withdrawal times, class of animals (lactating or non-lactating) as well as treatment frequency and duration. Veterinary oversight of extra-label antibiotic use is mandatory; otherwise, animal health can be impacted and result in violative residues.
Following the label is important to ensuring a safe food supply. "It's our job to earn consumer trust and confidence to ensure there's a future for our products," said Jami Schultze, winner of the 2018 Boehringer Ingelheim Producers for Progress recognition program. "If a farm gets a drug residue violation, it means a consumer loses confidence in your product."
4. Adhere to established protocols
Every dairy should have written protocols in place. Schultze works with her veterinarian to determine where they can make improvements. "Our veterinarian regularly reviews our mastitis cases and protocols to make sure we're up to date and giving the best treatment," she noted.
At Schultze's operation, cows with gram-negative culture results aren't administered antibiotics. "With any culture that's gram-positive, we'll take a look at the cow's records and make sure she's worthy of treatment," she said. "If so, we'll treat her."
Of course, responsible antibiotic use requires an industry effort. "It can't just be one farm making that decision," advised Schultze. "Everybody's got to jump on board."
*Image available upon request, contact Kenna Rathai.
1 Boehringer Ingelheim. Mastitis treatment – survey results. Duluth, Georgia. Available at: https://www.bi-vetmedica.com/sites/default/files/mastitistreatment_survey_results_final_c2.pdf. Accessed Nov. 21, 2018.
2 Hoe FG, Ruegg PL. Relationship between antimicrobial susceptibility of clinical mastitis pathogens and treatment outcome in cows. J Am Vet Med Assoc 2005;227(9):1461–1468.
3 Schukken YH, Zurakowski MJ, Rauch BJ, et al. Non-inferiority trial comparing a first-generation cephalosporin with a third-generation cephalosporin in the treatment of non-severe clinical mastitis in dairy cows. J Dairy Sci 2013;96(10):6763–6774.
4 Vasquez AK, Nydam DV, Capel MB, et al. Randomized non-inferiority trial comparing two commercial intramammary antibiotics for the treatment of non-severe clinical mastitis in dairy cows. J Dairy Sci 2016;99(10):8267–8281.
Improving the health and quality of life of patients is the goal of the research-driven pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim. The focus in doing so is on diseases for which no satisfactory treatment option exists to date. The company therefore concentrates on developing innovative therapies that can extend patients' lives. In animal health, Boehringer Ingelheim stands for advanced prevention.
Family-owned since it was established in 1885, Boehringer Ingelheim is one of the pharmaceutical industry's top 20 companies. Some 50,000 employees create value through innovation daily for the three business areas human pharmaceuticals, animal health and biopharmaceuticals. In 2017, Boehringer Ingelheim achieved net sales of nearly 18.1 billion euros. R&D expenditure, exceeding three billion euros, corresponded to 17.0 percent of net sales.
As a family-owned company, Boehringer Ingelheim plans in generations and focuses on long-term success rather than short-term profit. The company therefore aims at organic growth from its own resources, with simultaneous openness to partnerships and strategic alliances in research. In everything it does, Boehringer Ingelheim naturally adopts responsibility toward mankind and the environment.
More information about Boehringer Ingelheim can be found at www.boehringer-ingelheim.com or in our annual report: http://annualreport.boehringer-ingelheim.com.
About Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health
Boehringer Ingelheim is the second largest animal health business in the world. We are committed to creating animal wellbeing through our large portfolio of advanced, preventive healthcare products and services. With net sales in 2017 of 3.9 billion euros ($4.4 billion) and around 10,000 employees worldwide, we are present in more than 150 markets. For more information, visit here: https://www.boehringer-ingelheim.com/animal-health/overview.
©2019 Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health USA Inc., Duluth, GA. All Rights Reserved. BOV-1924-MAST1218.
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Major biographies of the era, make no mention of the UPS strike. This deliberate act of political amnesia extends to the Teamster leadership of today who while celebrating the strike on appropriate occasions, fail to even mention Ron Carey who led it. Yet, the contract campaign and strike live on in other surprising ways. Looking back two decades now, it is not difficult to see that it was one of the parents of today's Fight for $15 movement as well as other campaigns for social justice up and down the logistics supply chain. It's time for this generation to bring those struggles back to UPS.
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Do you have any non-fiction paperbacks you don't need anymore? Mercy House wants them!
Mercy House Spring Collection Drive: Paperback non-fiction books!
We are collecting books to build a "library" at the maternity home. Besides Jesus, education is the key to our girls' future success. Most of our girls are below level (some primary), and we want to instill in them a deep love for reading.
Sometimes we hear of tragic things happening and we want to help – but often we feel helpless and give up before we've even started. The problems of this world are huge – too much for one person to solve.
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This is a wide-ranging subject, not limited to humans. Of course, your personal coiffure -- past or present -- whether as a selfie or snapped by a spouse, is fine. If you got it, flaunt it! But anything or everything that even faintly resembles hair is fair game! (Are there hairy fish?) Pets of all kinds, wild critters, bugs and birds, babies and crazy teeners, Halloweeners in costume -- you name it. Go to it.
Sasha was a real hairball.
An uncombed sergeant, when I still had it!
Photographed at the India Day Festival, Hicksville NY. Interesting and colorful hair decoration.
Thanks for hosting Richard with a good start I have a few to start with - pet hair!!
Nice Richard but I don't think I would want to touch that one.
up hair on a daily basis as well...lol.
thanks Tim, These dogs are shedding right now with temps in the 0's. But they are house pets.
Nice Tim, I wished we look like the 70's look now!!
My youngest son, Jamie doesn't have much hair, and it's mostly grey.
My oldest son, Greg, is the exception. He has very few grey hairs, but both he and his brother can grow facial hair at the drop of a hat.
I don't know, Bob...do you think we could still pull it off?
I sure give it a go. Here is my Avatar shot it was taken in the late 70's my hair is still the same for amount just turning gray now. More hair than I can deal with. Will post a pic of mother in this challenge just look at her hair. We have globs of it.


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YKK steht für:
 Marke der YKK-Gruppe (Yoshida Kōgyō Kabushikigaisha), weltgrößter Reißverschlussproduzent
 Yokohama Kaidashi Kikō, japanischer Manga
 Kitkatla Water Aerodrome (IATA-Code), Wasserflugzeugstation von Kitkatla (British Columbia), British Columbia, Kanada

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When consumers are considering whether your offerings are going to be the problem-solver they are seeking, your pricing page is of significant importance. Not only is it your opportunity to color and influence the pricing dialogue with potential customers, but it is also your chance to underscore your value in a manner which sets the right tone for your personas and builds trust in the future customer relationship—from first click through to conversion.
When visitors come to your pricing page, your hero image is the first chance to adjust the lens through which the users will judge the rest of the content on the page. The language and images you choose should consider the personas you are trying to reach and set a tone that speaks to their motivations and gives them a sense of who they'll be dealing with. Just as with other elements of your site, the overall layout and design is nearly as important to engaging and converting visitors as the content you provide within. Take your time in crafting this conversation starter by providing an interesting, engaging opener that speaks to their stage of the Buyer's Journey and keeps them scrolling down.
Regardless of how complex your offerings are, customers reviewing your pricing page are already dealing with the psychological effects that come with parting with their hard-earned dollars, so the last thing you want to do is to create a confusing or muddled presentation of the options they have. This sets the tone that working with your company could be muddled and confusing. Be sure your pricing options are clearly stated and easy to understand. If you are offering comparison pricing on multiple products or plans, be sure that the comparator points are clear so your visitors can quickly, easily find the plan that meets their needs. Much of your site content is probably pointing to important-yet-intangible elements like value or quality, so be sure that the pricing page clearly reflects the very tangible facts of your pricing points.
Finally, don't give them too many options. Having a side-by-side grid of every feature your products offer with lots of check marks to show which feature applies to which plan may make you feel like you're demonstrating the full breadth and width of your value—but to a consumer trying to make a choice, too many options can be overwhelming, leading to "analysis paralysis." Highlight the key elements to help them make an informed decision, but refrain from turning this page into a checklist of everything you offer. If there are important facets that should be understood but aren't surface-level comparators, that's where dynamic or interactive elements come into play.
In our evolving digital economy, consumers are increasingly expecting dynamic and interactive web elements. Features such as sliders, customized drop menus, and checkbox filter/feature selectors not only give them the sense that you've really thought through how your product could be used by a wide range of customers (including themselves), but also promote the idea that your organization is interactive and responsive as well. These elements are a great way to provide visitors a non-overwhelming experience while still enabling customers to access and understand the finer points of your offerings. In addition, calculating out or at least estimating cost based on the user's feature selections is not only engaging, but ensures that your visitors won't have to pull out a calculator just to get an idea of how much to budget. Yes, you want to keep your audience from looking like the hero graphic for this blog. Overall, allow visitors to enjoy a parsing experience that fits the level of focus that they want to apply by customizing your site in such a manner—it will go a long way toward building a trust relationship.
The inherent sense of anxiety that comes with any significant purchase is a threat to the overall engagement and success of your pricing page. Visitors have been educating themselves on what you do and evaluating others in your sphere that have similar offerings, so it is critical that you give them every reason to trust (and choose) you. Part of this trust-building comes from stewardship of the other elements discussed here—to demonstrate that you have deeply considered their needs and feelings when designing your entire site—but a pricing page is where you can take additional steps to ensure you are building their trust. This page is a perfect spot to let previous customers tell their tale and share how their experience with your company was one of trust and success. Whether it is through testimonials, case studies, or even simple quotes from previous customers, showing that others have been exactly where your visitor is now and have found success by taking the next step carries a lot more weight than any reassurances or value statements from you.
As developer agility and increasingly dynamic mobile experiences continue to color best practices in the area of pricing pages, these four themes will continue to be at the root of what drives successful conversions. Take a step back to evaluate what kind of experience your pricing page provides now. Your customers and your sales team will thank you!
Ken Norquist I've spent years honing my digital marketing craft (both inbound & outbound) across the educational, healthcare, B2B, B2C, government, and non-profit sectors. As a Marketing Strategist for SmartBug Media, I work with our deep roster of talent to deliver excellence for our clients through application of our award-winning approach--applying the best-in-class HubSpot methodology through the lens of our years of combined experience. Read more articles by Ken Norquist.


Last Monday was the last day of my maternity leave and the day I attended a wonderful panel discussion held by Boots beauty brand, No.7 and Mumsnet.
Our panel consisted of working mums from different walks of life; a model, a vlogger, and two career columnists all brought together by one lady. Carrie Longton, co-founder of Mumsnet led the panel discussions and spoke about many issues women face in the workplace such as gender equality, flexible working (what it really means), work-life balance, and how to feel more confident returning to the workplace. It was an eye-opener – women have to still fight for basic gender equality rights, flexible working, and even job security.
I feel like work gives me that 'time away from the kids' that constantly crave. I can actually think about something else other than what to put in the oven for lunch or why the dirty clothes pile for the kids never seems to cease. As much as I love my children, I don't want to be just a mum, I want to be me – the old me before kids. Luckily I only work part-time so it's not too much of a strain on us emotionally and physically (though financially is another thing). I have every weekend off and get a chance to take LO to nursery before I start work – two simple things I wouldn't have been able to do working further away from home.
It was really interesting to hear all the stories the panel had. Vlogger Anna Whitehouse (@Mother_Pukka) spoke about being a working mum and self-employed. She talked about how great it can be but also spoke about the challenges it brings (no maternity leave, SMP). Anna also spoke about setting up a business and gave us a sensible piece of advice. Don't do it for the sake of doing it. Do it because you genuinely believe in it and believe it can make you money because at the end of the day, it is about making money. You are a mum. You have kids and you have mouths to feed.
Phanella (@Step Up Club) spoke about how being pregnant in a male-dominant workplace changed her life whilst Jade Parfitt advised us to make sure we get our partners involved in sharing the workload from the get-go when it comes to parenting as it'll help make it the transition back to work smoother for everyone. Sometimes when we've been away from work for too long, we may feel like our identity has been lost. Like it's somehow merged between being a mother and everything in-between.
After the panel discussion was over, we were treated to delicious nibbles and No7 makeovers. It was time to get #No7Ready of course! 🙂 I took a look around the makeup counters and watched other mums have their makeup done. I chickened out from having mine done and just headed over to the canapés with my +1. We gorged on the truffled brie and roasted artichoke slices, had a few bites of the meat skewers and vegetarian options.
There was also a little fun station where we could take part in a No7 video. We had to write on paper signs (with lipstick!) what confidence means to us. Me and my +1 came up with self love and body confidence. When we were ready to call it a night we left the event with a lovely goody bag courtesy of No.7 each – fabulous!


Focusing on Painting as a space of exploration, Belgian born, American artist Raphaëlle Goethals has worked in encaustic as her signature medium for nearly two decades. After receiving a Bachelor of Art with honors from the Ecole Atelier 75 in Brussels, Goethals came to the United States in 1981 to further her education at the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles, CA. Attracted to the vastness of the landscape and the quality of light, she relocated to New Mexico in 1994 where she developed her mature painting style.
Known for her signature layered encaustic and pigment abstractions, Goethals established her own unique and sophisticated vocabulary in the form of distinctive groups of paintings, which evolve concurrently.
Embarking on a conceptually rigorous journey, yet trusting an intuitive sense of rightness, Goethals is interested in a blurring of boundaries. While the "Lumens" series started in the late nineties alluded to semantics and the intimate relationship between body and text, in the past decade Goethals began to focus on an increasingly distilled process, emptying her subtle surfaces from anything narrative, descriptive, or anecdotal. Morphing the expressive and the minimal, her signature surfaces have turned increasingly rich and psychologically compelling. The work may be seen as referring to minimalism and the fundamentality of Light and Space, yet reformulate the "question of Painting" in the classical sense. The surface itself, the planes, the tones, the light as well as the grid system state their importance. The work unapologically aims to reach a deep level of Beauty and emotional resonance.
Goethals's work is represented in numerous private and corporate collections in the United States and Europe, and has been exhibited in international art fairs in Miami, Chicago, Seattle and San Francisco. Her work is in permanent collections including the Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, the New Mexico Museum of Fine Art, the Boise Art Museum, Hewlett Packard, the Millennium group, Time Warner, Paul Allen, and numerous corporate and private collections in the United States and Europe.


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Airport Emergency Communications for People with Disabilities and Others with Access and Functional Needs
TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Research Report 201 provides guidance and tools for airports to aid in effective communication with passengers and persons with disabilities, including those with cultural and language differences. The report includes a primer that discusses issues, techniques, and the unique requirements and challenges of communicating with people with disabilities and others who have access or functional needs. The report explores uses of technology and other methods t...
Climate Resilience and Benefit–Cost Analysis: A Handbook for Airports
TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Research Report 199: Climate Resilience and Benefit–Cost Analysis: A Handbook for Airports provides information on how to apply benefit–cost analysis tools and techniques to improve decision making affecting resilience of airport infrastructure projects in response to potential long-term impacts of climate change and extreme weather events. The handbook is designed to improve the process by which infrastructure investment strategies are evaluated, with an...
Wetland Mitigation, Volume 2, A Guidebook for Airports
ACRP Research Report 198: Wetland Mitigation, Volume 2, A Guidebook for Airports explores how to mitigate potential impacts to wetlands from airport construction, expansion, and safety improvements. The report addresses a broad range of issues, including: • Concerns over the creation of potential wildlife hazards; • Existing requirements, which may or may not be conflicting; • Impact to existing and future airport development; • Airport considerations of cost and logistics in developing mitigation and re...
Legal Issues Relating to Airports Promoting Competition
TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) LRD 37: Legal Issues Relating to Airports Promoting Competition explores permissible means and methods of encouraging and accommodating competition at U.S. airports. It discusses the history of how competition has been addressed by government and airports and provides the context of the concentration of air carriers and fixed-base operators (FBOs), the accommodation of air carriers with differing business models, and avoiding the grant of exclusive rights...
Airport Incident Reporting Practices
TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Synthesis 95: Airport Incident Reporting Practices focuses on current practices for defining, collecting, aggregating, protecting, and reporting airport organizational incident information. The report is designed to assist those airport operators seeking to understand the nature of airport incident reporting and its importance for organizational learning and effectiveness, risk management, operational safety, and worker safety. An incident reporting syste...
Using GIS for Collaborative Land Use Compatibility Planning Near Airports
TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Research Report 200: Using GIS for Collaborative Land Use Compatibility Planning Near Airports offers guidance for using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) as a collaboration tool to encourage compatible land use around airports. The report is designed to help airport and community planners seeking to work together to protect existing and future airport development as well as maintain safety and improve quality of life for those living and working near ...
Air Demand in a Dynamic Competitive Context with the Automobile
TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program has released a pre-publication version of ACRP Research Report 204: Air Demand in a Dynamic Competitive Context with the Automobile. The report establishes a new approach to the analysis of future consumer demand for shorter distance air travel in comparison with travel by automobile. According to the report, future demand for shorter-range airline trips is both volatile and unstable, affected by changes in technology as well as consumer preferences. Through app...
Guidebook for Managing Small Airports - Second Edition
TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Research Report 16: Guidebook for Managing Small Airports. Second Edition is designed to help airport practitioners, owners, operators, managers, and policymakers of small airports, who may have varying degrees of experience and backgrounds, to fulfill their responsibilities in such areas as financial management, oversight of contracts and leases, safety and security, noise impacts, community relations, compliance with federal and state obligations, facil...
Guidebook for Developing a Comprehensive Renewable Resources Strategy
TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Research Report 197: Guidebook for Developing a Comprehensive Renewable Resources Strategy highlights renewable energy sources, includes steps for developing a renewable energy strategy, and identifies metrics for measuring success. The report also highlights real-world examples of successful renewable resource projects at airports. Renewable resources to reduce emissions from airports and climate impacts have been discussed for several years. Technologic...
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TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Research Results Digest 28: Thought Leader Forum Summary—Emerging Issues for ACRP summarizes a January 30, 2019, forum to identify the most important issues facing the airport industry within the next 5 to 10 years. The goal of this exercise was to engage the ACRP's Airport Operations Committee (AOC) directly with other thought leaders in the industry to identify and define high-level emerging critical issues that impact, or will soon impact, the airport ...
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Whilst at medical school he met his wife, Jo S, and they married in 1963.
Many years later, when Mr N was living in London, he developed many health issues including problems with his memory and increasing frailty. After being found collapsed in the street investigations revealed that he had a likely malignancy, although he was too frail to undergo a biopsy. He moved to be with Dr S, his wife, who cared for him throughout his illness. They instructed Royds Withy King, who visited him at home and took a statement from him detailing everything he could remember about his previous employment. He recalled tipping powder into a giant machine to mix it into a paste at Atlas Stone, which made asbestos products. Even though he was employed there in the 70s, he was not given any warnings or protective equipment. A lot of students from nearby Cambridge University worked there. He also described likely exposure to asbestos at Johnson Matthey, where he and other students had also worked.
Letters of claim were sent and medical evidence obtained. Sadly Mr N died in August 2017, and the inquest confirmed in November that he had mesothelioma. A claim was commenced against Atlas Stone who admitted responsibility and settled the claim for a substantial five figure sum. Dr S was not financially dependent on Mr N so the claim was limited to damages for Mr N's pain suffering loss of amenity, a bereavement award and the funeral costs together with the care and assistance provided during his illness.


Helix Sleep hybrids that have targeted cushioning conform closely, making them optimal for those who sleep on their side. While hybrids that have moderate cushioning don't conform as much and are suitable for all sleep positions. Lighter people may feel more comfortable on models with balanced support, while people who weigh 130 pounds or more often favor the models with additional support.
Helix Sleep also offers 2 mattresses with dual-firmness, the Helix Dual Balanced (with targeted cushioning and balanced support) and the Helix Dual Extra (with extra support and moderate cushioning). Both of these mattresses have one 'Firm' side and one 'Soft' side, which makes them ideal for couples with differing tastes. Lastly, the Helix Nightfall is a hybrid designed for larger, heavier individuals. This model has an extra layer of memory foam for optimum support.
Keep reading for my full review of Helix mattresses, such as sleeper and performance evaluations, their delivery and return policies and everything else you need to know about these mattresses.
All 9 of the various iterations of the mattress will differ slightly in construction, but for 6 of the 9 models, the construction should be quite similar. The six core variants (listed above) are 10 inches tall, made up of 6 inches of pocketed coils and 4 inches of foam.
Cover – Initially, all Helix mattresses have the same cover, made of 100 percent polyester. I found it to be stretchy and thin, allowing for some nice breathability. However, if you would like something more amped up, you can elect to swap out the standard cover for the brand's UltraCool one, which is composed of a phase-change material to regulate heat.
Comfort Layer – On top, you'll discover a thick layer of memory foam. This material has a slow reaction to pressure, which means you are probably going to encounter some satisfying body contouring. Even though it may seem odd for a purportedly medium firm bed to incorporate a memory foam comfort layer, it is crucial to remember that the presence of deep sinkage does not always translate to softness; in fact, most of the time it generates quite a firm feeling.
Transition Layer – After getting past the comfort layer, you'll discover a transition layer of poly foam. This layer works to suppress the sinkage of the comfort layer and establish a supportive, medium firm feeling as you reach the individually wrapped coils underneath.
Support Layer – The bulk of the mattress consists of this segment of individually wrapped coils. This system gives a supportive lift into the structure, working to place the sleeper "on top" of the mattress, as opposed to "in it". Since the coils are individually wrapped, they are also likely to give extra breathability as air flows through the spaces in the coils.
Base Layer – Last but not least, you'll discover a thin section of high-density poly foam. This layer doesn't really affect the feel of the bed too much, working mostly to give the individually wrapped coils something off of which to react.
The firmness of the Helix is going to differ widely depending on the variant you pick out. The Helix Midnight and Dusk, have moderate firmness levels, which tends to be quite versatile and therefore exceptionally popular. If you are more particular, however, Helix Sleep would be happy to oblige you with additional choices.
Laying down on the Helix Midnight, the uppermost foam layer feels soft and generates some quality body shaping, while the rest of the materials in the Midnight work to counteract this and create an overall firmer structure. The pocketed coils and the firmer support foams also help with re-positioning.
For those who sleep on their back, there's enough good comfort material here to conform to your lower spine while supporting your whole upper spine in a neutral position. For larger sleepers or people who prefer a firmer mattress, there are 2 more choices for you in the Helix Twilight and Helix Dawn variants.
Majority of side sleepers will feel totally comfortable on the Midnight, however, if you're needing a bit less pressure while still going with a flexible medium firmness, you may want to check out the Helix Dusk, which uses a body-conforming latex-alternative foam that's breathable and gives the surface a little bit of bounce.
Side sleepers typically need to be mindful of pressure because they sleep with most their weight on a tinier area. Those who are smaller than average or people looking for lots of pressure relief may want to stick to the plusher variants.
Stomach sleepers will feel comfortable in the Midnight, especially if this is not their primary position or they have a tendency to change things up a lot. Firmer mattresses might be preferable for exclusive tummy sleepers so they can make sure their hips do not dip and over-arch their back.
Lastly, the manufacturer recommends Helix for sleepers around 350 pounds or partners that weigh a maximum of 250 lbs each. If you or your partner are substantially larger than average, Helix has also produced a mattress called the Nightfall that's made to accommodate a total weight of 1000 lbs.
Bear in mind that if none of those options seem quite right, you can always check out the four other mattresses in the new collection: the Sunset (plush, softer than the Moonlight), Dusk (medium feel, slightly firmer than the Midnight), Twilight (firm, designed for side sleepers), or Dawn (the firmest variant of the bunch).
Based on my observation, Helix exceeds expectations for hybrids in this space because of the amount and quality of foam it contains, as well as the individually wrapped coils which help keep motion at its source. If you're a light sleeper concerned that movement from the opposite side of the mattress will wake you, you shouldn't have a lot of concern with this hybrid. I'd say that all of the Helix mattresses would be a good choice for couples.
When buying a new mattress, most people want to know whether they will feel like they're sinking "into" the it or lying "on top" of it.
While you're likely to encounter some immediate sinkage from the soft foam at the top, by the time you sink through those layers, you will hit the individually-wrapped coils and experience amazing support. This combo will interest a wide assortment of individuals, but will satisfy stomach and back sleepers the most.
While I do feel the memory foam compress as I sit near the edge of the mattress, the individually-wrapped coils prevent the mattress from collapsing too much beyond that. I feel quite secured sitting on the bed.
In my opinion, Helix mattresses are well above average for edge support in comparison to other bed-in-a-box brands, which is due to their freshly updated edges containing reinforcement in the coil unit. There can be a little compression at the comfort foams when you sit with all your weight on the side, but laying on the side should feel comfortable and secure. Partners who want more space to stretch out normally love strong edges.
Lying down, I also feel like I can get near the edge of the mattress without feeling like I'll fall off or be ejected from the bed. Overall, I think that the Helix has great edge support.
One of the best features of purchasing a mattress-in-a-box online is the sleep trials that they usually include. Helix is not any different. You create the mattress that's made for you, place your order, and within two weeks, it's delivered to your home. From the minute you click to buy the mattress, you have 100 nights to check it out (minus the time for delivery, so it's more like 90 nights). If it is not what you wanted, you can return it for free of charge, and receive a complete refund.
Helix offers an awesome 10-year warranty that covers flaws, but it comes with some limitations, exceptions, while the burden of proof is on the consumer (like most guarantees ). Of course, you should be the original owner of the Helix to make use of the warranty, and you need to be sure that you keep your receipt as proof of purchase.
As long as you follow all of the manufacturer's expectations for use, your warranty should be valid. That means you need to use a suitable foundation (no adjustable bed frames or slats over 4″ apart) and that you don't use the Helix improperly – no jumping on it!
If your mattress begins to show an indentation of 1 inch or more, which is what usually happens when low-density foams break down, then you could qualify for a replacement or repair of your mattress.
If you're convinced that a Helix Sleep mattress is ideal for you, you can find the pricing and size information below. However, please bear in mind that these prices indicate standard pricing, and does not consider my special promo. Click here to receive my special discount and receive up to $125 off your mattress today.
For regular cleaning, it is suggested to use cold water with gentle dish soap to clean any dirt or stains. Make certain that you clean using soft circular movements, rather than rubbing.
The features of the Helix were thoughtfully constructed to provide choices whether you were searching for a mattress that keeps cool all night, if you wanted one to support your shape with a thick comfort system, or both! The reinforced coil unit should offer amazing edge support and motion transfer is at a minimum with their individually-wrapped build.
I hope that I have provided you some notion of what the typical sleeper can expect from the Helix, but it does offer an impressive assortment of customization with a choice for literally every particular desire or need. Your next best sleep might just be a brief online quiz away.


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International Conference on Mechanical & Production Engineering(ICMPE) will be held on 20th Jul 2023 at Thiruvananthapuram,India. ICMPE is to bring together innovative academics and industrial experts in the field of Business Management and Social Innovation to a common forum. All the registered papers will be published by the World Research Library and will be submitted for review for indexing by Google Scholar etc.
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Holiday drunk driving at highest level in eight years say RIDE cops
Random by rochekelly January 3, 2013 January 6, 2013
Drunk driving during the holidays is at its highest in eight years, say provincial police.
OPP officers charged 693 people with having a blood alcohol concentration level over .08.
In addition, 625 "warn range" suspensions were issued to motorists caught driving with between .05 and .08.
"We had hoped to see these numbers decrease significantly during this year's campaign, in light of how much harder we have worked to educate the public about the dangers of drinking and driving," OPP Commissioner Chris Lewis said.
The Festive R.I.D.E. campaign ran from Nov. 24 until Wednesday.
Motorists who blow over .08, or who decline a breathalyzer, immediately have their vehicles impounded for seven days.
Drivers in the "warn range" lose their licence at roadside for three, seven, or 30 days.
Consequences get tougher for repeat occurrences and driving-related Criminal Code convictions remain on a motorist's record for at least 10 years, according to the transportation ministry.
Impaired driving continues to be the leading cause of criminal death in Canada, said Lewis, "and it is disappointing that we still have Ontario drivers who feel entitled to place other road users at risk of losing their lives to an impaired driver."
Last year, 682 motorists were charged with impaired driving while 583 were issued "warn range" suspensions.
There's no excuse for the rise, said cops.
But some boozy revellers planned ahead.
Operation Red Nose Ottawa closed out its annual operation, raising $10,882.68 for the Boys and Girls Club.
The campaign against drunk driving is run by volunteers during Christmas, offering free rides home for partygoers.
Its most successful night to date was New Year's Eve, when 79 volunteers completed 66 rides serving 146 residents. More than $1,800 was donated.
In its second year in Bytown, the operation ran for 10 nights, down slightly from December 2011.
"Comparing the results to the inaugural 2011 season, the desired goal for an increased use of service was met and were it not for unfortunate weather conditions, service would have broken all previous set records," reads a statement released Thursday.
Almost 600 people volunteered, answering 395 calls serving 762 residents, cruising 17,963 km.
Goals for 2013 include raising $14,000, increasing volunteers to 800, and answering 600 calls serving 1,000 residents.
http://www.ottawasun.com/2013/01/03/holiday-drunk-driving-at-highest-level-in-eight-years-say-ride-cops
Teachers fume over province's decision to use, then ditch Bill 115
Memorial University study says police lack basic interviewing skills


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Address :Satellite Research Institute, 47, Shahid Hadi Mirhoseini (fourteenth) street, Saadat Abad Street, Tehran 1997994313, Iran
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Satellite Research Institute (SRI) has intended two strategies for Remote Sensing and Communication Satellites based on the sixth five-year plan of I.R. Iran. In accordance to these strategies, various satellites with exploration missions and technology demonstration goals were defined as intermediate targets besides the improvement of the technology readiness levels in various fields. The strategies will result in design and manufacturing of operational satellites (such as the communication satellites in geostationary orbit) to resolve some of the needs in the field of communications and remote sensing applications.
SRI is also going to develop space technology by research, planning, localization, promotion, implementation and monitoring as well as recruiting and training professionals in different space-related areas. SRI hopes to make Iran proud in national and international arenas and get ready for competition in international levels.
2- Approved Research Groups
o Satellite Systems Engineering Research Group
o Power and Data Processing Research Group
o Satellite Communications Research Group
o Structural, Thermal and Propulsion Research Group
3- Human Resources
Satellite Systems Research Institute has more than 150 researchers ranging from faculty members and experts in Engineering fields such as Aerospace, Mechanical, Electrical and Electronics, Telecommunications, Computer and Industry and also other fields like Remote Sensing, Industrial Management and other related sciences.
4- Library and Documentation Center
There is a professional library for space science and technology with about 21,000 titles of print and electronic resources in SRI. The Documentation Center manages the evolution and realization of projects and records technical documents and other related deals.
5- Research Activities
SRI has many different projects namely remote sensing satellites such as Saba, Pars 1 and 2; and telecommunications satellites such as Mesbah-2, Zohreh, Ghaem-1 and SRIsat. Many other projects such as Mobin, AUTSAT, and Sharifsat has been Supervised by SRI professionals, too. The other recent projects in SRI, have been defined based on its strategies and are described as follows:
▖ Nahid-1 Project:
The flight model of Nahid-1 was shown on 14 February 2016 i.e. the National Space Technology Day with the presence of the President of Iran.
Nahid-1 missions are defined as the first step for in house design and development of geostationary communications satellite for the first time and the results can be used as the basic technology needed for its operational satellite.
Nahid-1, as a micro-satellite, was assumed to test deployment of solar panels in orbit, Communication in Ku-band, taking pictures of the deployment process and estimating the opening rate.
Three-axis attitude control, satellite positioning, and permanent S-band communication can be figured out as the secondary objectives of this project.
Nahid 1 Satellite
Nahid-2 is a communications microsatellite in LEO to develop some other critical subsystems of GEO communications satellites. This satellite is cubic and generates its required power using the body mounted solar arrays. Nahid-2 satellite will control its attitude in three-axis with a precision better than 3 degrees (RMS). Nahid 2 satellite communicates to the ground stations in frequencies of VHF, UHF, S and Ku bands.
▖ Soha Project:
Soha Satellite project is intended to design, development and operation of a remote sensing satellite in orbit with application approach. Soha satellite is going to take images in 7 spectral bands and with a ground resolution of 15 meters. Sending images to the ground station, Soha project will provide a priceless collection of remote sensing data for various fields such as monitoring lands, forests, water and mines.
Soha CAD Model
▖ Satellite Simulation General Software (SIL Project)
This project aims to validate the operation of satellites in various orbits of the spacecraft from the moment of launch until the end of the mission. Subsystems and system-level elements are also defined. In this project, all of the satellite system's elements and its operational environment have been simulated based on technical issues. The integrated simulator has been ready in form of an aggregated set up to investigate the performance of each subsystem independently, and also in interaction with other subsystems and facing errors, disturbances and unknown scenarios.
▖ Development and Improvement of Space Related Technologies:
In addition to the afore-mentioned projects and products, SRI has covered different research activities on satellites and related sciences, which some of them are listed as below:
○ Space LIDAR Payload Design :
LIDAR Payload includes a laser, a telescope and a detector. The most important use of this Payload is in the study of atmospheric parameters, Aerosol monitoring and Atmospheric correction of satellite images.
○ Fuzzy Array Antenna :
To reduce the power consumption of remote sensing satellites in real time data transmission,adoptinga phased array antenna as the satellite antenna has been proposed. This project covers design and simulation of A Phased Array Antenna.
○ Satellite Thermal Environment Simulation:
Satellite Thermal Environment Simulator presents space thermal conditions of a satellite in orbit and investigates the operation of thermal control subsystem in these environmental conditions.
○ MPFL Thermal Control System:
This project reviews the use of thermal control systems based on circulation of pumped fluids to accelerate and increase heat transfer in satellites.
6- Commercialization of technologies and products:
This Research Institute has started commercialization of some technologies in the telecommunication, manufacturing, power distribution and thermal control fields, and some laboratory activities.
7- Laboratories and R&D Equipment:
SRI has laboratories for telecommunications, electronics and electrical, and also attitude determination and control. There is also a "hardware in the loop (HIL)" lab and an integration space for micro to nano satellites.
8- Clean Room:
SRI has a clean room in small size for micro to nano satellites with an¬ area of 22.5 Square meters and a height of 2.4 meters, in class 100000 in accordance with the E 209 standard.
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India's Foreign Policy Transformation
by	C. Raja Mohan
This is one of six essays in the book review roundtable on Sumit Ganguly & Rahul Mukherji's India Since 1980.
C. Raja Mohan heads the Strategic Studies Program at the Observer Research Foundation in New Delhi. He can be reached at crmohan@orfonline.org.
Assessing India's evolution since 1980 is a compelling idea that has been executed with much competence by Sumit Ganguly and Rahul Mukherji in India Since 1980. The volume is part of a broader series of studies on a number of countries since 1980, but any study of India since 1980 offers special rewards. Many features of contemporary India find their origins in that decade. The first considerations of economic reform, the rumbling of the two great tectonic plates of caste and religion, outreach to the United States and China, the perception of India as a regional power, and India's launch of nuclear weapon and missile programs can all be traced back to the 1980s.
In the three decades since then, India's views of itself and the world, as well as the world's image of India, have undergone profound changes. The core concepts that defined India's political and economic development before this period—economic self-reliance, socialism, secularism, nonalignment, and third worldism—would be recast or come under great stress in the years that followed. Ganguly and Mukherji divide the story of India since 1980 into four different domains: the changing nature of its engagement with the world, the restructuring of India's economy, the new patterns of domestic political mobilization, and the challenges to the idea of secularism amid the rise of Hindu nationalism. In a volume of fewer than 200 pages, Ganguly and Mukherji deftly guide us through the labyrinth of India's dramatic transformation.
On the revolutionary changes in India's foreign policy, Ganguly and Mukherji rightly avoid the temptation to offer a comprehensive account. Their focus instead is on India's relations with two major powers (the United States and the Soviet Union/Russia), India's principal adversaries (Pakistan and China), and New Delhi's successful engagement with Southeast Asia as part of its mid-1990s initiative on "Looking East." The chapter on foreign policy also briefly touches on the nuclear question that consumed so much diplomatic and military energy during the last three decades.
Ganguly and Mukherjee delineate with ease the main lines of New Delhi's diplomatic activity in the three decades that followed 1980:
The Cold War's end made it exceedingly difficult for India to continue with its policies of non-alignment and Third World solidarity. Yet structure alone cannot fully explain the changes that came about. Unless key individuals at critical junctures had chosen to undertake different pathways and seize opportune moments, India would have faced the distinct possibility of marginalization in the emergent global order (p. 55).
This assessment whets our appetite for more intensive analyses of the sources of change in India's foreign policy. Besides the Cold War's end, one other structural factor that compelled changes in India's foreign policy comes readily to mind: the collapse of India's economic model of state-led socialism at around the same time as the disintegration of the Soviet Union. The change in India's economic development strategy is fully detailed in another chapter of the book. In retrospect, India's decision to embark on economic liberalization and globalization had a far bigger impact on India's foreign policy than the end of the Cold War.
Whereas India's total merchandise trade in 1980 was $22 billion, it reached nearly $780 billion in 2011. Well before the mid-2010s, it will cross the consequential $1 trillion mark. Merchandise trade now accounts for more than 40% of the nation's GDP, which is a stunning transformation for a country that had consigned itself to the world's economic backwaters until 1991. India's growing economic muscle and the prospects for rapid growth are at the heart of the current international perception of India's rise as a potential great power.
On the foreign policy front, economic change has given India leverage to build more solid relations with the West, especially the United States, and to improve its international standing in the nuclear order. The reform process has also allowed India to reintegrate itself into the economic and political structures of East Asia.
Economic change has also begun to demonstrate the potential for structural change in India's relations with its two main adversaries—China and Pakistan. China is India's largest trading partner in goods—their bilateral commerce rose from less than $1 billion in the late 1990s to $74 billion in 2011. Although the growing trade between the two countries has not resulted in a resolution of their long-standing boundary dispute, it has generated a very different template for the conduct of India's relations with China. Even Pakistan has begun to recognize the importance of the "China model" and has ended five decades of reluctance to trade with India.
Amid India's deepening economic interdependence with the rest of the world, New Delhi's appreciation of the developing world has begun to change as well. From a past view of third-world nations as part of an anti-Western trade union, New Delhi now sees them as markets for its products, sources of raw material, potential recipients of India's expanding foreign aid, and partners in the promotion of India's increasingly global interests.
Ganguly and Mukherji also open the door for a deeper investigation of the nature of agency in the making of Indian foreign policy. Scholars of Indian foreign policy would want to study the changing nature of India's domestic polity—strong regional parties and weak coalition governments at the center—and its impact on the making of India's foreign policy. If India's foreign policy has undergone a dramatic change since the 1980s, is there a new national consensus on the principles of its external orientation? If there is one, how has it been organized?
Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's decisions to conduct nuclear tests in May 1998, declare India as a nuclear weapon state, and proclaim the United States a "natural ally" have been widely seen as a reflection of the Hindu nationalism of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and a decisive rejection of the Nehruvian legacy. This left-leaning liberal critique, however, leaves us with two difficult propositions that need to be examined in greater detail. If Vajpayee's foreign policy was an assertion of Hindu nationalism, how does one explain his persistent overtures to Pakistan despite deep domestic skepticism? Equally challenging is the problem of substantive continuity in the foreign policies of Vajpayee and his successor from the left-of-center Congress Party.
There is thus a real paradox that those following Ganguly and Mukherji in the study of India's transformation since the 1980s must grapple with. While India is poised to become one of the world's largest economies and a major power, many traditional tendencies in India's worldview seem to be re-emerging. There is a renewed fascination with nonalignment and a more vigorous emphasis on strategic autonomy. [1] Even as it deepens military cooperation with the United States, India remains an enthusiastic participant in the BRICS Forum and a vocal champion of a multipolar world. Despite the extraordinary transformation of India's foreign policy since the 1980s, some ideas seem eternal.
[1] See Sunil Khilnani et al., "Nonalignment 2.0: A Foreign and Strategic Policy for India in the Twenty First Century," Centre for Policy Research, Working Paper, January 2012, http://www.cprindia.org/sites/default/files/NonAlignment%202.0_1.pdf.
Asia Policy 14 is supported in part by a grant from the Ford Foundation.
India's Foreign Policy Transformation


Water pollution caused by nitrates has decreased in Europe over the past two decades, but agricultural pressures are still putting water resources under strain.
The latest Report on the implementation of the Nitrates Directive reveals that nitrates concentrations are slightly decreasing in both surface and groundwater and sustainable agricultural practices are more widespread.
Excessive concentrations of nitrates from livestock such as pig, cow and poultry manure and crops fertilisation leaches into waters causing algal blooms, disrupting aquatic ecosystems, causing air pollution and threatening biodiversity. More than 20 years ago the EU recognised the problem, adopting the Nitrates Directive, which promotes good agricultural practices across Europe by reducing water pollution from nitrates from agricultural sources.
Although the overall trend is positive, nitrates pollution and eutrophication – the excess growth of weeds and algae that suffocates life in rivers and seas – are still causing problems in many Member States and further action is needed to bring the waters in the European Union to a good status within a reasonable timescale.
Environment commissioner Janez Potočnik said: "I am very pleased to see that longstanding efforts to reduce pollution from nitrates in water are paying off. But we still have a huge task ahead to bring Europe's waters to good status by 2015. Nitrates put severe pressure on biodiversity, and on the waters and land underpinning our agriculture and economic activities. We need to step up efforts to achieve further significant reductions in nutrient releases. This requires managing the nutrient cycle in a more sustainable and resource-efficient way. In particular, we need to improve efficiency in the use of fertilisers. The longer we wait, the more it will cost, to the economy and the environment."
Agricultural pressures on water quality are still constantly increasing in some areas, as some intensive agricultural practices are heavily dependent on fertilisers that cause local water quality to deteriorate. Several Member States and regions still have a high percentage of nitrate-polluted and eutrophic waters. The problems with groundwater seem most severe in Germany and Malta, while surface waters seem most polluted in Malta, the United Kingdom and Belgium. Almost four out of ten lakes in Europe suffer from eutrophication with the Netherlands suffering most acutely, with 100 % of freshwaters affected.
National measures, such as balanced fertilisation and sustainable manure management, which aim to provide the right amount of nutrients to crops, continue to improve. However, in sectors like horticultural production, farmers are still not sufficiently encouraged to reduce use of nitrates-based fertilisers. New energy crops, the biogas industry, the intensification of livestock production and horticulture are identified in the report as challenging areas that will require further attention and reinforced measures in the future.
Understanding of the problem has also increased, thanks to training programmes and campaigns to raise awareness of the need for water protection measures at the farm level carried out by Member States.


This game's somewhat like brainstorming: someone at the conference table or in the room suggests an idea no matter how blue sky or off the wall. It triggers an association for someone else, then someone else, etc. Eventually challenges are met and problems solved. One format rule: Please relate or connect your post or quotation to the previous one. Have fun.
* In my opinion, this forum has been much more active during the past twelve months than the previous twelve.
Messerschmitt also made the KR 200 bubble car.
The bubble was a vehicle used by Glinda the Good.
Great thread, Bobby! It's only taken 10 posts to get to the personal slurs.
Is "OK" sometimes better than perfect?
Hi Randolfho loving your posts.
"One format rule: Please relate or connect your post or quotation to the previous one. Have fun."
"personal slurs" are an unfortunate fact of life face to face and online.


Brian Bonz and Mike Rizzo, the comedic duo behind Bobo Touch (previously) have launched a new web series titled Bobo Touch Helpline in which they operate a 311-type phone service to help locals with unique Brooklyn-esque problems. Check out the funny Episode 3 above, then subscribe to see new episodes as they are released.
Creepy man named "The Kisser" attacks strangers on the NYC subway, by handing out unwanted kisses and inserting bugs into their mouths. Bobo Touch takes extra measures on this one.


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Getting Analytical: Odds of Winning the Bracket Challenge and Uber Rates
Sadly, the chances of winning $1 billion from Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway for predicting the winner of every one of the 63 games in the National Collegiate Athletic Association men's basketball tournament are zero this year.
Some complex legal wrangling reported in the financial press is to blame for the fact that the $1 billion prize offered by Quicken Loans and insured by Berkshire last year isn't on the table again in 2015. (See, for example, Mar. 12, 2015 article, "Buffett's $1 billion NCAA bet goes bust" on the CNN Money website for details of the legal battle.)
A businessman giving thumbs up looking at his March Madness bracket
But what if the prize were still up for grabs again this year? What shot would you have at early retirement?
Not 1 billion-to-1, which was a popular estimate put forth by media outlets last year.
Try 1.64 trillion-to-1, according to insurance researchers William Wilt and Alan Zimmermann of Assured Research. Or more precisely, 1,644,978,976,149-to-1 instead, the pair wrote in a research note published earlier this week.
Noting that lower seeded teams have not historically had a 50/50 chance of beating the highest seeded teams, Wilt, the president of the New Jersey-based firm, and Zimmermann, the managing director, assigned historic probabilities to the first two rounds in each region in order to arrive at the estimate. From that point on, they simply assumed a 50/50 shot of picking the rest of the winners correctly.
The research note provides more detail, moving from the odds of correctly calling one entire bracket, all four brackets and then the entire tournament.
And just for fun, they give the tournament odds without using historic probabilities—just assuming that you have an even chance of picking all 63 games. The $1 billion answer using that approach is 9.2 quintillion-to-1, they say.
Is Uber Cheaper?
Using a computer instead of a calculator for a different kind of analytical exercise—this one using big data—computer scientists in the U.K. answered another burning question last week: When is Uber cheaper than a Yellow cab in New York City?
An article published in the MIT Technology Review on Mar. 16 (Data Mining Reveals When a Yellow Taxi Is Cheaper Than Uber) reveals the answer from Cecilia Mascolo of the University of Cambridge, who worked on the analysis. "Uber appears more expensive for prices below 35 dollars and begins to become cheaper only after that threshold," the article says quoting Mascolo and providing a link to her research (arxiv.org/abs/1503.03021 "OpenStreetCab: Exploiting Taxi Mobility Patterns in New York City to Reduce Commuter Costs").
What caught Carrier Management's attention wasn't the result. Instead, it was the details of the big data exercise described in the MIT Technology Review article. According to the article, the Yellow Cab data set used for the analysis covered "hundreds of millions" of trips, "tipping the scales at 50GB" with information including the location of every pickup, drop off and fares.
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The article also notes that Mascolo and her research colleagues from the ComputerLab at University of Cambridge, and the University of Namur in Belgium have developed a comparison pricing app called OpenStreetCab based on the analysis.
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Voluntary national consensus standards are used by companies and organizations to reference state-of-the-art practices and technology to create the safest and healthiest work environments for employees. ASSP members such as Loui McCurley use these standards every day and have been involved in their creation. McCurley is a member of the Colorado Chapter, Women in Safety Engineering and the Construction Practice Specialty as well as a former member of the Z359 Fall Protection Standards Committee, is quoted.
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Like McCurley, many ASSP members passionate about safety get involved with development of national consensus standards through ASSP. Those interested in making a difference by promoting best safety practices can learn about getting involved in standards development. ASSP is represented on committees that develop and maintain safety standards. Representatives are selected from interested applicants based on their technical expertise in each committee's subject area, ability to represent the broad range of ASSP's membership and overall knowledge of the OSH profession.
The original Z16 standards were developed in the 1950s and this committee is working to update the standards, better understand lagging indicators and track leading indicators. ASSP representatives on standards have the opportunity to review written proposals to change safety standards and vote on a standard's final approval. These committees are essential because they give companies and organizations best practices and update existing standards to better reflect the modern workplace. Many representatives also share their knowledge by writing about standards in ASSP publications, giving presentations and consulting with other members who have standards-related questions.
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Automated Processing of Wikileaks Cables Reveals U.S. Friends, Foes
Natural Language Processing of nearly 4,000 U.S. diplomatic cables reveals fraying relations with traditional allies, and a few other surprises
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Software capable of determining the positive or negative sentiment of sentences written by humans has been unleashed on 3,891 U.S. diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks, and the results are a systematic, if preliminary, analysis of which countries are our besties and which are in the doghouse.
The analysis was part of a class project (pdf) by a pair of computer science undergraduates at Stanford, Xuwen Cao and Beyang Li. By looking at how often a country was mentioned, as well as whether or not it was cast in a positive or negative light, Cao and Li identified four clusters to which countries could belong: countries we don't like that aren't mentioned very often (red), countries we sort-of don't like that aren't mentioned very often (teal), and countries spoken of positively that also aren't mentioned very often (blue).
Since these cables were supposed to be classified, we can assume they are candid. There weren't any countries that were mentioned frequently in a negative or especially positive light – just countries that were groused about fairly frequently (green).
Here's a further breakdown of what each cluster represents:
Green locations (cast in a somewhat negative light, and frequently):
['london', 'paris', 'cuba', 'africa', 'brasilia', 'cairo', 'eu', 'brazil',
'afghanistan', 'egypt', 'europe', 'iran', 'china', 'iraq', 'libya', 'syria',
'pakistan', 'washington', 'turkey', 'israel', 'moscow', 'spain', 'uk', 'russia',
'madrid', 'india', 'tripoli', 'kabul', 'iceland', 'france']
Red locations (countries talked about infrequently, and in the most negative context):
['djibouti', 'taiwan', 'tajikistan', 'islam', 'mumbai', 'zimbabwe', 'dubai', 'goa',
'tibet', 'armenia', 'yar', 'ecuador', 'benghazi', 'algiers', 'yemen', 'paraguay',
'caracas', 'south africa', 'ouagadougou', 'xxxxxxxxxxxx', 'guinea']
(It's worth noting that due to the nature of natural language processing, a country like Taiwan could be mentioned in the context of negative sentiment about its context, and not the country itself – e.g. the cross-strait tensions with mainland China.)
Teal locations (mentioned in a somewhat negative context, but relatively infrequently):
['kosovo', 'north korea', 'damascus', 'argentina', 'latin america', 'netherlands',
'uruzgan', 'switzerland', 'reykjavik', 'lebanon', 'qatar', 'sudan', 'somalia',
'venezuela', 'guantanamo', 'colombia', 'sao paulo', 'saudi arabia', 'america',
'peru', 'gaza', 'bolivia', 'ukraine', 'geneva', 'jordan', 'tehran', 'georgia',
'sweden', 'portugal', 'mexico', 'lula', 'kenya', 'italy', 'ethiopia', 'canada',
'germany', 'havana', 'algeria']
Blue locations (mentioned in the most positive context, but not very often):
['azerbaijan', 'japan', 'chechnya', 'norway', 'australia', 'ankara', 'baghdad',
'poland', 'haiti', 'kazakhstan', 'honduras', 'belgrade', 'copenhagen', 'kuwait',
'karzai', 'amazon', 'burma', 'tunisia', 'west bank', 'doha', 'west', 'new york',
'nigeria', 'serbia', 'darfur', 'chile', 'morocco', 'vatican', 'uae', 'new delhi',
'middle east', 'brussels']
Here's what the authors say about the seeming outliers in the blue group:
The blue cluster has the highest sentiment score, which means that US is relatively happy with this group. As one may notice, there are a few notable anomalies such as 'burma' and 'sudan'. In the case of 'burma', the positive sentiment is mainly caused by Aung San Suu Kyi's release from house arrest from mutliple cables. In the case of 'sudan', it's also a special case because the darfur cables discuss mostly the international help darfur received, instead of it's dire situation.
And here are the findings the authors found most interesting:
Given our model, we made a few interesting discoveries:
1. In general, the US diplomats are critical of other countries, as we observe the majority of the data points is in the negative
2. Surprisingly, US's most important ally is spain (seen lower right quardrant)
3. US is most friendly with Norway (right-most point), although it's relatively unimportant
4. Iran appeared most frequently, with a small negative sentiment (which means the attitude is not always hostile)
5. US is least happy with Zimbabwe and Paraguay, although it doesn't care too much about them either
6. US doesn't actually have good relations with its traditional allies such as France, UK and Germany. Canada, Italy and Germany even scored lower than China.
Number six is a zinger. It's a stretch to say that cables that talk about our traditional allies in a negative light indicate that we have poor relations with them – maybe we have good relations, and that means we're more willing to be critical, the way siblings are wont to fight. It's also important to note that these results, which aren't peer reviewed, are just a first approximation of what a full-fledged Natural Language Processing analysis of these cables would look like.
As much as this study says something about the nature of diplomacy, it's possible it says something more about the nature of gossip: good news is never as important as news of what's going wrong.
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Q: Understand PDO::ATTR_EMULATE_PREPARES = false completly What I already know about PDO :: ATTR_EMULATE_PREPARES = false:

*

*You can bind on your own

*If you do not bind, the parameter is automatically set back to PDO :: ATTR_EMULATE_PREPARES = true

*PDO :: ATTR_EMULATE_PREPARES = false is a bit more secure

*You should pay attention to whether you get false from the request with PDO :: ATTR_EMULATE_PREPARES = false
So now my question, how do I look if false comes back and how do I deal with it and do I have to work with bind or is it enough to do Prepair and Execute?
Here is my code, please also check whether it is correct by then.
<?php

$options= [
    PDO::ATTR_EMULATE_PREPARES   => false,
    PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE            => PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION,
    PDO::ATTR_DEFAULT_FETCH_MODE => PDO::FETCH_ASSOC,
];

$db = new PDO('mysql:host=localhost;dbnam=db;charset=utf8', user, password, $options);

$stmt = $db->prepare("
    SELECT CURRENT_DATE AS ? FROM DUAL
    UNION ALL
    SELECT CURRENT_DATE FROM DUAL");

$stmt->bindParam(1, $date, PDO::PARAM_STR);

$stmt->execute(); // Do I now have to check if the result is false?

A:

*

*You can bind on your own

EMULATE_PREPARES applies to both →bindParam and →execute likewise.

*If you do not bind, the parameter is automatically set back to PDO :: ATTR_EMULATE_PREPARES = true

No. The PDO setting has no influence on manually interpolated tidbits. If that's what "not bind" was supposed to mean.
If EMULATE_PREPARES was enabled, it applied to any bound parameter. Per default it typecasts any input to strings, escapes it, and interpolates it as '$escaped_str' in place of the placeholder.
The difference is that execute() interprets all parameters as strings per default, whereas bindParam can typecast and interpolate integers/floats as literals.
I have a feeling this question is based on the assumption that more long-winded code improves security. It doesn't. The only reason to use →bindParam in either case is to work around the lack of typecasting on some MySQL query contexts (such as the LIMIT clause). (Albeit LIMIT 1*?, 1*? is often the better workaround there.)

*PDO :: ATTR_EMULATE_PREPARES = false is a bit more secure

Sure.

*You should pay attention to whether you get false from the request with PDO :: ATTR_EMULATE_PREPARES = false

Not gonna happen in reality. The support for emulation is driver-dependent. It's not going to change at runtime for the same database driver and database server.
And you can't really check it, since EMULATE_PREPARES is a initialization option, not something that you usually adapt per PDO::setAttribute in between queries.

Ok so: $stmt = $pdo->prepare("SELECT id, max_bench, max_squat FROM myTable WHERE weight < ?"); $stmt->execute([$int]); AND $stmt = $pdo->prepare("SELECT id, max_bench, max_squat FROM myTable WHERE weight < ?"); $stmt->bindParam(1, $int, PDO::PARAM_INT); $stmt->execute(); does the same with PDO :: ATTR_EMULATE_PREPARES = false and also is same secure?

It's mostly the same, if $int was an integer already. bindParam() only does a secondary typecast, if need be. Irrelevant since MySQL would do the same on its end anyway, depending on the target columns type.

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Q: Starting a new thread in Gui application python I've got a python Gui application which has a thread that does some updating.
This is how its implemented.
GObject.threads_init()
Class main:
    #Extra stuff here
    update_thread = Thread(target= update_func, args=(Blah blah,))
    update_thread.setDaemon(True)
    update_thread.start()
    Gtk.main()

This is how the update_func looke like
def update_func():
    try:
        #do updating
        time.sleep(#6hrs)
    except:
        #catch error
        time.sleep(#5 min)
    finally:
        update_func()

The thread runs as long as the program is running and the program I have runs for days
The problem is that sometimes the thread dies and updates do not occur and I have to restart the application.
Is there a way to start a new thread if the current one dies, especially in a Gui application?

A: Below is a thread example snipped from one of my gtk apps. It might be helpful.
#!/usr/bin/env python3

# Copyright (C) 2013 LiuLang <gsushzhsosgsu@gmail.com>

# Use of this source code is governed by GPLv3 license that can be found
# in http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html

from gi.repository import GObject
from gi.repository import Gtk
import threading

#UPDATE_INTERVAL = 6 * 60 * 60 * 1000   # 6 hours
UPDATE_INTERVAL = 2 * 1000   # 2 secs, for test only

def async_call(func, func_done, *args):
    '''
    Call func in another thread, without blocking gtk main loop.

    `func` does time-consuming job in background, like access website.
    If `func_done` is not None, it will be called after func() ends.
    func_done is called in gtk main thread, and this function is often used
    to update GUI widgets in app.
    `args` are parameters for func()
    '''
    def do_call(*args):
        result = None
        error = None

        try:
            result = func(*args)
        except Exception as e:
            error = e

        if func_done is not None:
            GObject.idle_add(lambda: func_done(result, error))

    thread = threading.Thread(target=do_call, args=args)
    thread.start()

class App(Gtk.Window):
    def __init__(self):
        super().__init__()
        self.initUI()

    def initUI(self):
        self.set_default_size(480, 320)
        self.set_border_width(5)
        self.set_title('Gtk Threads')
        self.connect('delete-event', self.on_app_exit)

        self.update_timer = GObject.timeout_add(UPDATE_INTERVAL,
                self.check_update)

    def run(self):
        self.show_all()
        Gtk.main()

    def on_app_exit(self, *args):
        Gtk.main_quit()

    def check_update(self):
        def _do_check_update():
            print('do check update: will check for updating info')
            print(threading.current_thread(), '\n')

        print('check update')
        print(threading.current_thread())
        async_call(_do_check_update, None)
        return True

if __name__ == '__main__':
    app = App()
    app.run()