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Wrong type of health care: Wrong type of wind: Wrong type of water: Cranky croc: Happy Easter: and dented Sainsburys.
Moistish, muggyish and a smidge moody at the Castle this morn, work on the defunct do dahs dawdling in the study will commence tomorrow and now that his Maj has figured out how to use the cat flap he has decided to tear in and out of it every ten seconds or so.
I see that Kim Jung more than IL is being planted this morn
Allegedly tens of thousands of soldiers bowed their heads as a giant portrait of Mr Kim was carried slowly through the streets.
His successor and third son, Kim Jung-un, walked beside the hearse, images from state television showed.
Wonder how ronery the new leader will be.....
And our Piss Poor Policies Millionaires Club Coalition
Has come up with a cunning plan to balls up our NHS even more, hospitals will be allowed to earn up to half of their income from private work, it was reported today.
The current cap on income generated from private patients is typically limited to just a few percent but is set to rise to 49% in a move slipped out by the Government last week, according to The Times.
According to knobhead Health Secretary Andrew Lansley "Lifting the private income cap for foundation hospitals will directly benefit NHS patients.
"If these hospitals earn additional income from private work that means there will be more money available to invest in NHS services.
And for every private patient treated there will be an NHS patient that can't be treated....because the Doctor will be busy earning even more money.
Wind farm operators are on course to earn up to £10 million this year for turning off their turbines.
Official figures disclosed that 17 operators were paid almost £7 million for shutting down their farms on almost 40 occasions between January and mid-September. Continuing to make payments at that rate would lead to householders paying out £9.9 million in 2011 for operators to disconnect their turbines from the National Grid.
The scale of the payments triggered a review of the rules on so-called constraint payments. The payments are made when too much electricity floods the grid, with the network unable to absorb any excess power generated. The money is ultimately added on to household bills and paid for by consumers.
Last year, only £176,788 of such payments were made, but changes in the way the National Grid, which supplies energy to retail companies, "balances" the electricity network have meant a huge expansion in their use.
The rules meant that some renewable energy companies were paid more to switch off their turbines than they would have received from ordinary operations.
The wrong type of Leccy...so much for "green energy".
Dahn Unda
A freight train was swept off a bridge during flooding caused by a cyclone in northern Australia.
The two drivers were rescued after being trapped in the vehicle and were flown to hospital in Katherine, south of Darwin, it was reported.
The Edith River Bridge collapsed and some carriages from the derailed train floated downstream in the incident, a local MP told ABC News.
Environmental authorities in the Northern Territory are believed to be investigating if chemicals from the 20-car iron ore train leaked in the flooded river.
Heavy rain from Cyclone Grant led to isolated flooding in the territory, cutting off roads as drivers became stranded.
One couple climbed on to their car roof after the vehicle stalled but they were swept along into the Edith River.
They clung to a tree branch until they were rescued.
Now that is the wrong type of rain.....
Still in the land of hollow wooden tubes
A giant saltwater crocodile named Elvis with an apparent affinity for household machinery charged at an Australian reptile park worker Wednesday before stealing his lawn mower.
Tim Faulkner, operations manager at the Australian Reptile Park, north of Sydney, was one of three workers tending to the lawn in Elvis' enclosure when he heard reptile keeper Billy Collett let out a yelp. Faulkner looked up to see the 16-foot (5-meter), 1,100-pound (500-kilogram) crocodile lunging out of its lagoon at Collett, who warded the creature off with his mower.
"Before we knew it, the croc had the mower above his head," Faulkner said. "He got his jaws around the top of the mower and picked it up and took it underwater with him."
The workers quickly left the enclosure. Elvis, meanwhile, showed no signs of relinquishing his new toy and sat guarding it closely all morning.
Eventually, Faulkner realized he had no other choice but to go back in after the mower.
Collett lured Elvis to the opposite end of the lagoon with a heaping helping of kangaroo meat while Faulkner plunged, fully clothed, into the water. Before grabbing the mower, however, he had to search the bottom of the lagoon for two 3-inch (7-centimeter) teeth Elvis lost during the encounter. He quickly found them and escaped from the pool, unharmed and with mower in tow.
I've heard some weird excuses for not mowing the lawn, but that takes the Kangaroo meat...
Over to one of the European lands
Hashim Thaci, the prime minister of Kosovo, made a major error over the Christmas period, by wishing all Catholics a happy Easter rather than a merry Christmas.
In his festive statement, which was distributed by his office, he said that Easter is the most important holiday in the Catholic world.
He went on to congratulate the official Vatican and all Catholics on the occasion of the resurrection of Christ, rather than his birth.
The prime minister went on to say that he hoped the Easter festivities would bring the Kosovan Catholics 'more warmth, hope and success' as well as 'progress in society, harmony and peace'.
When officials in the prime minister's office noticed the error a second statement appeared on Thaci's official website, offering glad tidings over the festive period.
Nice to see that another country has a Prime Monster with his head up his arse....
Back in Ronery Blighty
A couple who completed a 33,000-mile trip around the world in a rare 1956 Bristol 405 Drophead Coupeclassic car came back to England to find a ''large dent'' in the side after leaving it in a supermarket car park.
Geoffrey and Hilary Herdman, who are both retired, took 16 months to complete the trip that they described as a ''wrinkly gap year''.
Their drive around the world was made in a 1956 Bristol 405 Drophead Coupe, of which only 42 were made.
Despite encountering some of the toughest roads in the world without any problems, it was when they got home and parked the Bristol in a Sainsbury's car park that they ran into trouble.
Having popped into the supermarket they returned to their prized car and found that another motorist had dented it.
Sod's law....
That's it: I'm orf to have a poke at my deep sea vent
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By this definition women and men are anything but equivalent. However, the unrelenting drive by the politically-correct left to somehow make us, to force us into equivalency knows no brakes. In fact it's an ideology and movement that has its foot firmly on the gas pedal.
In the recent past this faction of political thinkers were known as the "lunatic left" and other such terms. They existed on the fringe of the federal and state legislative conscience and as such could largely be ignored. No longer. They're finding avenues to move the notion of gender equivalency not only into mainstream thought and legislative agendas but into our national security and even into the lives and education of our children.
Last year then-Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta lifted the military's ban on women serving in combat capacities, a move that will allow women into front-line positions and, potentially, elite commando units.
The move, prompted by a lawsuit brought by the ACLU (imagine that!) overturns a Pentagon policy restricting women from serving in combat, specifying they may not be assigned below the brigade level -- a unit of about 3,500 troops -- to fight on the ground. Effectively, that has barred women from infantry, artillery, armor, combat engineers and special operations units of battalion size -- about 700 troops -- or lower. Our armed services now have until January 2016 to implement the changes. Each service will be charged with developing policies to integrate women into every military job.
This opens an entire new galaxy of questions and concerns. The most obvious was posed by an officer in the U.S. Army who simply stated, "The question you've got to ask yourself every single time you make a change like this is; Does it increase the combat effectiveness of the military?"
Despite the drive to try and make it so, the fact remains that men and women are not equivalent. Especially not physically equivalent. On average men are bigger, stronger, have a greater amount of muscle mass and therefore greater capacity for physically taxing tasks. Men have about 9 pints of blood in our bodies, women only about 6. Meaning the male cardio-respiratory system is more capable of delivering oxygen to working tissue, thereby resulting in greater stamina/less fatigue and an overall superior ability to perform in the sorts of difficult environments that infantry and other such operational units often find themselves.
Of course our armed services know this and have made necessary adjustments to accommodate this basic anatomical fact. For instance, consider physical fitness testing requirements for men and women. All soldiers in the U.S. Army must attend Basic Training and pass a fitness test in order to graduate out. The Minimum Army Basic Training PFT requirements for a male aged 17 to 21 years are: able to perform 35 pushups, 47 sit ups, complete the 2-mile run in no more than 16 minutes and 36 seconds. For a female of the same age the minimum requirements are: 13 pushups, 47 sit ups, and complete the 2-mile run in no more than 19:42.
The United States Marine Corps (pronounced "core") has slight variations. To complete Marine Basic Training PFT a 17 to 26 year old man must be able to: perform at least 3 pull ups, perform 50 crunches and complete a 3-mile run in 28:00 minutes. Females are not required to perform any pull ups at all but rather be able to: maintain a "flexed-arm hang" for 15 seconds. They have 31 minutes in which to complete the 3-mile run.
Why the differences in standards? Of course the answer is obvious. So does introducing women to front-line combat positions strengthen our military capabilities? Debatable, to be sure. That the law of unintended consequences is destined to rear its ugly head one day is not.
Envision a male soldier fails his fitness test. He's required to complete the 2-mile run in 16:36 and come test time is able to muster only a 16:45. He gets washed out of his unit for failure to meet minimum requirements. But at 16:45 he is easily within the minimum requirements for his female counterparts. Why should he lose his job for running a 16:45, but a woman in his unit be able to keep hers while running a 19:40? It's only a matter of time until a soldier in such a predicament lawyers up and sues the U.S. Army for discriminatory practices.
Field applications of this decision are unimaginable. Commanders of combat units now have to worry -- at least at some basic level -- about providing an adequate level of privacy for issues relating to personal hygiene that he's never had to think about before. Consider a unit in retreat (or pursuit) moving in intense heat, over rough terrain, wearing full Kevlar, each carrying a 55 lb. pack and an M-16. Such a unit can only maintain the pace able to be kept by its slowest member. As previously mentioned, the reality is women's bodies are not capable of moving the same volume of oxygen as men's, meaning the commander of such a unit has to make choices; either slow the pace, thereby placing everyone in the unit at risk of being overtaken or press on and leave the female(s) to fend for themselves and potentially be captured.
Of course in such a situation there is no choice. The United States Military does not leave a comrade behind. These are very real issues that the boots-on-the-ground command will now have to deal with as a result of the ACLU's drive toward gender equivalency. The question to be asked still looms, does making women equivalent to men increase the combat effectiveness of the military?
Closer to home we have California Assembly Bill 1266. Legislative lunacy coming from the Golden State is certainly nothing new, but this law, which took effect last month affecting California's schools and school-aged children, is a doozy even by Cali's lofty lunatic standards.
"...ensures California's transgender youth can fully participate in school activities and use facilities that match their gender identity regardless of what their gender is listed as on school records. In other words, a female student who identifies as a male can now use the boy's bathroom at California public schools."
The notion that gender is decided at conception is gone. No longer does your plumbing matter; all that really matters is the plumbing you "identify" with. A boy who claims he "feels like he should have female reproductive parts" is now free to use the girls' bathroom and locker room in California public schools. And vice versa for females.
Just like the military's decision and as is the case with all bad policies, it's just a matter of time until backfires ignite. The specter of hormone-fueled 17 year-old boys walking into locker rooms with 13 year old girls in various states of undress is a pending disaster all can see coming. It's going to happen. Children are going to get harmed -- if not physically, then most certainly psychologically.
Women and men are equal but not the same. Equal but not equivalent. A man and a woman are wholly, completely and totally different creatures. Physically, emotionally, chemically and no small variety of other ways. But the leftist forces are undaunted. All of these obvious truths have no effect on the drive to enact this "gender-equality" dogma. It's a shame that adults bent on asserting a progressive agenda are willing to do so at the expense of our nation's security and our children's right to innocence and safety in their places of learning.


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Ovarian Hyperstimulation Syndrome with pleural effusion: a case report
Recep Yildizhan1,
Ertan Adali1,
Ali Kolusari1,
Mertihan Kurdoglu1,
Cagdas Ozgokce1 &
Fulya Adali2
To report a case of severe ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome (OHSS) with right pleural effusion following controlled ovarian hyperstimulation.
A 24-year-old woman had severe OHSS as a complication of gonadotropin stimulation. The clinical picture showed enlarged ovaries, massive ascites, pleural effusion, abdominal pain, and dyspnea. Beside the medical treatment, abdominal paracentesis for the drainage of the massive ascites and tube thoracostomy were performed, resulting in expansion of the lung.
Physicians can reduce the risk of OHSS by monitoring gonadotropin therapy and by withholding human chorionic gonadotropin medication. In in vitro fertilization protocols it can be advantageous to postpone the embryo transfer by freezing the embryos. Placement of a chest tube is a safe and efficient method for the treatment of pleural effusion.
Ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome (OHSS) is the most serious complication of controlled ovarian hyperstimulation. OHSS is cystic enlargement of the ovaries and a fluid shift from the intravascular space to the third space due to increased capillary permeability. Its occurrence is dependent on the administration of human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG) after an exaggerated ovarian response to gonadotropin stimulation. The syndrome is relatively common, occurring in up to 5% of women undergoing in vitro fertilization (IVF) or intrauterine insemination (IUI) procedures [1].
Despite close monitoring during ovarian stimulation and rigid guidelines and criteria for canceling cycles, OHSS still occurs. Clinical manifestations of OHSS can be classified into three forms. In mild forms of OHSS the ovaries are enlarged, while in moderate forms there is additional accumulation of ascites with mild abdominal distension. Its severe form in ~0.5% of stimulated cycles [2] is characterized by hemoconcentration, thrombosis, oliguria, pleural effusion, rarely pericardial effusion, and respiratory distress [3]. It can lead to life-threatening complications including thromboembolic events and even death.
A 24-year-old woman was hospitalized in a state hospital because of confirmed bilateral ovarian cysts and ascites. Then she was referred to our hospital because of increasing abdominal girth and dyspnea of 1 week's duration. The patient's weight was 80 kg and height was 162 cm. The stimulation was performed by an external unit using a long protocol with follitropin alfa. The stimulation cycle had to be discontinued because of OHSS. The patient showed a severe form of OHSS with massive ascites, abdominal pain, dyspnea, blood pressure 80/40 mmHg, pulse rate 100 beats/min, plasma estradiol 4000 pg/mL, β-hCG 86 IU/L, hemoconcentration of 52%, hemoglobin of 18.0 g/dL, leucocytosis of 29 × 103/μL, PaO2 of 70 mmHg, PaCO2 of 40 mmHg, pH of 7.44, and oxygen saturation of 91.2%. The ultrasonographic examination revealed bilaterally enlarged multicystic ovaries and a large amount of ascites (Figure 1).
Immediately after admission, infusion therapy was started, consisting of normal saline-infusion 0.9% 1000 ml (Pharmacia), glucose 5% 1000 ml (Pharmacia), four times 50 ml of human serum albumin 20%, and low-molecular weight heparin 5000 IU 2 × 1 per day. Body weight, abdominal circumference, intake and outputs, ultrasonography, and laboratory studies were monitored strictly daily. Renal function was supported using diuretics (Furosemide 20 mg ampoule and Furosemide tablet). Renal function was not disturbed and there were no serious changes in serum electrolytes. The patients' girth increased between days 2 and 7, and then abdominal paracentesis for the drainage of the massive ascites became necessary. The patient reported increasing dyspnea. The anteroposterior chest X-ray (Figure 2) revealed right pleural effusion, whereupon a chest-tube was placed for treatment of pleural effusion.
Ultrasonographic examination revealed bilaterally enlarged multicystic ovaries.
The anteroposterior chest X-ray revealed right pleural effusion.
Ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome (OHSS) is an iatrogenic, serious complication of controlled ovarian hyperstimulation, usually self-limited, but occasionally life threatening and typically occurs with gonadotropin, rarely with clomiphene citrate [4]. Without hCG, OHSS is extremely rare. The symptoms are more severe and persist longer if pregnancy is successful. Patients who are pregnant sustain the ovarian luteinization process by the production of hCG. Although the pathophysiology of this syndrome has not been completely elucidated, the underlying mechanism responsible for the clinical manifestations of OHSS appears to be an increase in capillary permeability of mesothelial surfaces [5]. There is increasing evidence that certain vasoactive substances such as vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), cytokines (IL-2, IL-6, and IL-8), tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha), and the ovarian renin-angiotensin system, which are activated by gonadotropin, can lead to increased vascular permeability and extravascular fluid accumulation in OHSS [6, 7].
VEGF has a major role in the pathogenesis of OHSS. VEGF is a heparin-binding glycoprotein with vascular permeability-enhancing, angiogenic, and endothelial cell-specific mitogenic activities [8]. VEGF increases vascular permeability, which may explain fluid leakage in the third space. This leakage is responsible for the development of ascites, pleural effusions, edema, and hemoconcentration [9]. Clinical characteristics of OHSS include ascites and pleural effusion induced by increased vascular permeability, where VEGF was suspected to be the culprit. Through up-regulation of VEGF, hCG plays a significant role in the pathogenesis of OHSS [10]. Navot et al. [11] detected high levels of prorenin and angiotensin 2 in patients' follicle fluid and high renin concentrations in their plasma.
OHSS, characterized by third space fluid shift and intravascular volume depletion, results in massive ascites and hydrothorax. There are various comments about the development of the pleural fluid. It is adduced that high estrogen levels cause pleural effusion. Pleural effusion usually occurs in the severe forms of OHSS [12]. In our case pleural effusion occurred during the initial days of treatment. Loret de Mola et al [13] observed that pleural effusion in OHSS usually occurs on the right side of the lung, as in our case. They offer the explanation that lymphatic drainage on the right is less than that on the left and the diaphragmatic hollows are greater on the right. It is possible that pleural effusion originates from the fluid shift from abdominal ascites [12].
From the outset of treatment, our patient, who had severe dyspnea and impaired blood gases, was protected from possible pulmonary emboli. We gave a light molecular heparin. Then we eliminated the pulmonary emboli. Thoracocentesis is safe and efficient for the treatment of hydrothorax and lung collapse in cases of OHSS and may be repeated as often as necessary [14]. Our patient also required either paracentesis or thoracentesis four times. A chest-tube was installed in the patient by thoracic surgeons.
If the OHSS develops within an IVF protocol, it may be prudent to postpone the embryo transfer since the establishment of pregnancy can lengthen the recovery time or contribute to a more severe course. Instead of canceling the cycle, it is also possible to administer HCG, to retrieve the oocytes, and to freeze all embryos.
Physicians can reduce the risk of OHSS by monitoring FSH therapy to use this medication cautiously, and by withholding hCG medication. The patients with OHSS must be treated urgently and with multidisciplinary management. If left untreated, OHSS can result in serious health complications and even death.
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Rizk B, Aboulghar M, Smitz J, Ron-El R: The role of vascular endothelial growth factor and interleukins in the pathogenesis of severe ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome. Hum Reprod Update. 1997, 3: 255-266. 10.1093/humupd/3.3.255.
Delbaere A, Bergmann PJM, Gervy-Decoster C, Camus M, Maertelaer de, Englert Y: Prorenin and active renin concentrations in plasma and ascites during severe ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome. Hum Reprod. 1997, 12: 236-240. 10.1093/humrep/12.2.236.
Ferrara G, Houck KA, Jakeman LB, Winer J, Leung DW: The vascular endothelial growth factor family of polypeptides. J Cell Biochem. 1991, 47: 211-218. 10.1002/jcb.240470305.
Elchalal U, Schenker JG: The pathophysiology of ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome- views and ideas. Hum Reprod. 1997, 12: 1129-1137. 10.1093/humrep/12.6.1129.
Wang TH, Horng SG, Chang CL, Wu HM, Tsai YJ, Wang HS, Soong YK: Human chorionic gonadotropin-induced ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome is associated with up-regulation of vascular endothelial growth factor. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2002, 87: 3300-8. 10.1210/jc.87.7.3300.
Navot D, Margolioth EJ, Laufer N, Birkenfeld A, Relou A, Rosler A, Schenker JG: Direct correlation between plasma renin activity and severity of the ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome. Fertil Steril. 1987, 48: 57-61.
Man A, Schwarz Y, Greif J: Pleural effusion as a presenting symptom of ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome. Eur Respir J. 1997, 10: 2425-2426. 10.1183/09031936.97.10102425.
Loret de Mola JR, Arredondo-Soberon F, Randle CP, Tureck RT, Friedlander MA: Markedly elevated cytokines in pleural effusion during the ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome: transudate or ascites?. Fertil Steril. 1997, 67: 780-782. 10.1016/S0015-0282(97)81383-0.
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Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Yuzuncu Yil University, Van, Turkey
Recep Yildizhan, Ertan Adali, Ali Kolusari, Mertihan Kurdoglu & Cagdas Ozgokce
Department of Radiology, Woman and Child Disease Hospital, Van, Turkey
Fulya Adali
Recep Yildizhan
Ertan Adali
Ali Kolusari
Mertihan Kurdoglu
Cagdas Ozgokce
Correspondence to Recep Yildizhan.
All authors were involved in patient's care. RY, EA, AK prepared the manuscript, MK, CO, FA edit and coordinated the manuscript. All authors read and approved the final manuscript.
Yildizhan, R., Adali, E., Kolusari, A. et al. Ovarian Hyperstimulation Syndrome with pleural effusion: a case report. Cases Journal 1, 323 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-323
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The combined Choirs of Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral and Liverpool Anglican Cathedral join together to sing Handel's great masterpiece.
Doors normally open at 7.00pm and refreshments are usually available during the interval. For parking, the car park under the cathedral is available with direct access to the concert venue by lift or stairs. Limited capacity on a first come first served basis. A charge of £3.00 is payable on arrival.
This concert does not form part of our Season Ticket.
Girls' Choir, Boys' Choir & Lay Clerks of Liverpool Cathedral and Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral.


The instance H.R. 5032 and H.R. 5180 : legislative hearing before the Subcommittee on Forests and Forest Health of the Committee on Resources, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Seventh Congress, second session, July 25, 2002 represents a material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Biddle Law Library.


• TUSCULUM COLLEGIATE AND PRO Showcase Baseball Camp will be held Nov. 3-4 on the Greeneville campus. The cost is $175 with a deposit of $50 if received by Oct. 29 and $195 with a $50 deposit after that date.= For more information, contact coach Brandon Steele at (423) 636-7300, ext. 5615, or go online at tusculumpioneers.com and click the Baseball tab.
• CARSON-NEWMAN BASEBALL Elite Catching Camp, for seventh-graders through high-schoolers, will be held Nov. 10-11, from 9 a.m.-2 p.m., on the school's Jefferson City campus. Cost is $200. To register or to learn more, visit totalcamps.com/carsonnewmanbaseball or call (865) 471-3526 or email Mark Allen Bounds at mbounds@cn.edu or Brandon Roberts at baroberts@cn.edu.
• CARSON-NEWMAN BASEBALL Pitching Camp, for 2019-21 graduates, will be held Nov. 10, from 9 a.m.-2 p.m., on the school's Jefferson City campus. Cost is $150. To register or to learn more, go online at totalcamps.com/carsonnewmanbaseball or call (865) 471-3526 or email Mark Allen Bounds at mbounds@cn.edu or Brandon Roberts at baroberts@cn.edu.
• LINCOLN MEMORIAL SOFTBALL team will hold a prospect camp for ninth- through 12th-graders from noon-4 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 3 at Dorothy Neely Field on the university's Harrogate campus. Cost is $125 per camper and preregistration is required. Go online at lmurailsplitters.com and click the Softball page.
• YWCA WINTER ADULT VOLLEYBALL League, featuring men's and women's 4s, begins Nov. 8. All play is on Thursday nights. Entry fee is $25 per player; entry deadline is Monday, Nov. 5. Contact Patty Bailey at pbailey@ywcatnva.org or (423) 968-9444.


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Hommage Chronograph | H40 560 | Rose Gold
Cal. RD56
Default Title - Sold Regular price
Roger Dubuis' career started in typical watchmaking fashion - learning his craft at large manufacturers, including Patek Philippe. These formative years are clearly reflected in the style of this Hommage Chronograph, inspired by classics such as Patek Philippe's reference 130.
It is understood that for each variant in the series, there were no more than 28 made. Each was chronometer-graded, with a certificate from the Besançon Observatory. One of the earlier pieces created by the legendary watchmaker, after establishing his own brand in 1995, examples such as this H40 are becoming increasingly collectible.
The design is that of a two-register chronograph, with an ultramarine blue lacquer dial and gilt tachymetric scale. The dial features a perlage pattern on its base layer, with gilt printing and subsidiary dials forming an excellent contrast against the deep blue dial. Based on the angle and intensity of the light, it displays a range of different shades of blue; the anti-reflective coating on the sapphire glass further emphasising these details. The feuilles hands are rose-gold, matching the applied Arabic numerals.
The case is very distinct with its polished, stepped concave bezel and polished lugs. The three-piece construction gives the watch a bold presence on the wrist, measuring 40mm in diameter. Over time, the right side of the case has developed a rich patina, through oxidisation.
Powered by the Cal. RD 56 (based on the Lemania 2310 - much like the Patek Philippe 5070), the watch bears the Seal of Geneva and was regulated by Roger Dubuis himself. The complexity of the movement is revealed through an engraved sapphire case-back, featuring a 21 jewel, straight-line lever escapement, a monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, a self-compensating Breguet spring and swan-neck micrometer regulator.
Viewings can be arranged in Central London by appointment.
Brand: Roger Dubuis
Model: Hommage Chronograph Ref. H40 560
Movement: mechanical manual-winding Cal. RD56
Functions: chronograph, hours, minutes, sub-seconds
Features: display back, perlage-patterned blue dial
Case: 40 mm 18-carat rose-gold
Crystal: sapphire front and back
Strap: Carcassonne light tan nubuck strap, original Roger Dubuis rose gold tang buckle
Year: circa 2000
Box & papers: original box
Condition, servicing & provenance
This early Roger Dubuis is guaranteed for authenticity and comes with a two-year warranty from A Collected Man. The case is unpolished and has light superficial marks throughout (consistent with occasional wear) and a heavy presence of oxidation on the right side. The reverse of the lugs have some light scratches (from previous strap changes) and the original sapphire glass has light scratches throughout, which are barely visible in natural light owing to the anti-reflecting coating on the glass.
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On the final day to qualify for the US Senate race, Republican and retired air force colonel, Rob Maness (main us), signed up at the Secretary of State's office. Polls show Maness is an underdog in the race, but he had a group of vocal supporters with him when he qualified today…
CUT 9 (10) "…..(cheering)"
And in 5th Congressional District -besides the kissing Congressman Vance McAllister-there are 9 more candiates that have registered to run, including Mangham physician Dr. Ralph Abraham says he's concerned about the current state of affairs in Washington…:
CUT 5 (07) Q: "have to correct"
The election is November 4th.
A ten month investigation of a prostitute operation in Lake Charles–also in Lafayette and Bossier City–has led to the arrest of five people connected to the Asian Massage Parlor. Calcasieu Parish Sheriff's Office Spokesman Matt Vezinot (VEE zuh no) says the charges include 10 counts of promoting prostitution, pandering and prostitution by massage. And he says…:
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An East Baton Rouge public school teacher who was accused of having sex with an underaged student has admitted to the crime. Earlier, 41 year-old Ashley Dowden denied the charges until yesterday, where she admitted to sending sexaully explicit pictures via texts and having carnal knowledge of a juvenile, who in this case was one of her high school students. The East Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Deputies arrested Dowden yesterday and booked her into the East Baton Rouge Parish Prison.


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Prosecutor: Homicide charges expected soon in Plover beating death
B.C. Kowalski
PLOVER – Prosecutors expect to file homicide charges this week against a Plover man accused of beating his stepfather so severely with a baseball bat that the victim died days later.
Christopher Bonnstetter was pronounced dead at 5:41 p.m. Tuesday at Ministry Saint Joseph's Hospital in Marshfield.
Bonnstetter's stepson Andrew Pray, 32, is accused of beating him with a bat May 26 at their home at 2831 Cedar Drive in Plover.
Portage County Assistant District Attorney Cass Cousins said during Pray's bond hearing that Bonnstetter was resting on the floor Memorial Day afternoon when Pray hit him multiple times with the bat, pounding his body and his head.
Police found Bonnstetter lying face down in a pool of his own blood when they arrived, Cousins said.
Pray's mother tried to call police during the incident but couldn't get her phone to work, so she went to a neighbor's house to phone police. Paramedics at the scene said they didn't expect Bonnstetter to survive his injuries.
The investigation is ongoing and police still are interviewing witnesses, but the basic facts in the case are known, Cousins said. Charges of first-degree intentional homicide were expected to be filed by Friday morning, she said.
Pray remains in Portage County Jail on a $250,000 cash bond. He is expected to make an initial appearance Monday.
B.C. Kowalski can be reached at 715-345-2251. Find him on Twitter as @BCreporter.


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Europe,Financial,Main line,News,Policy
Written by Keith Fender
PolRegio signs framework agreements with four manufacturers for 200 EMUs
Abellio to give up Ruhr operations in February
The operator had tried to retain its German contracts through emergency awards.
Photo Credit: Keith Fender.
ABELLIO has announced it will no longer operate services in the Ruhr region with effect from February 1 2022.
The existing contracts will be transferred to new operators on a short-term emergency basis by the three transport authorities: Rhine-Ruhr Transport Association (VRR), Westfalia-Lippe Local Transport (NWL) and Rhineland Regional Transport Association (NVR). This decision follows over 18 months of negotiations and previous proposals from Abellio that it, rather than any other operator, should be awarded the emergency contracts.
Abellio Germany has been in court supervised financial protection since July 2021 and had been seeking to renegotiate its existing contracts with German states, although this has been only partially successful, with most other contracts either ending shortly or being removed completely.
Abellio's decision to no longer run services in the Ruhr region will limit its future financial exposure, but may leave it open to claims for damages from the transport authorities affected. While the Abellio NorthRhine-Westfalia (Abellio NRW) company based in Hagen was the first Abellio rail operation in Germany, the contract terms Abellio NRW had agreed to for recent contracts had become too onerous. In many cases the contracts that have caused the recent financial and operational problems in the Ruhr region and elsewhere in Germany are those that were bid for and awarded from 2016 onwards. Abellio, in common with other German regional train operators, has complained of driver shortages plus disruption and unplanned expense due to infrastructure work.
Abellio had sought to retain some Ruhr region contracts that in some cases it has operated since 2005. Abellio has grown substantially since 2005, when it was a subsidiary of Essen tram operator EVAG and largely owned by British investors Star Capital Partners. By 2019 Abellio had become the second biggest operator in Germany after DB Regio. Wholly owned by Netherlands Railways (NS) since 2008, Abellio moved its headquarters from Essen to Berlin in 2015.
Following the Abellio NRW announcement, VRR, NWL and NVR immediately held meetings with Abellio NRW's employees and have ensured that employees who transfer to the new emergency operators will retain all their contracted Abellio NRW employment rights and pay. The transport authorities are underwriting this promise. Abellio had agreed a new collective agreement for train crew with the Union of German Locomotive Drivers (GDL) less than one week before announcing it would no longer operate in the Ruhr region.
The train fleets used by Abellio in the Ruhr region are owned by the transport authorities making transfer to a new operator relatively simple.
Reduced future operation
Abellio has agreed to give up some contracts in central Germany from 2024, while retaining the Saale-Thuringia-Südharz EMU network contract until 2030. In the southern state of Baden-Württemberg, Abellio has sold its Abellio Rail Baden-Württemberg subsidiary to state owned company Sweg for "between €5m and €6m" after failing to renegotiate terms for contracts around Stuttgart. The transaction was finalised on November 24 and Sweg will operate the former Abellio contracted routes until January 1 2024 under an emergency award, pending a new tender for a long-term contract.
In Lower Saxony, Abellio owns Westfalia Rail (WFB) which received confirmation in September from Lower Saxony Transport Authority (LNVG) that an agreement between LNVG and WFB would be put in place allowing continued operation of the company's contracts for two routes representing around 6 million train-km annually. The contracts run until December 2030 and, assuming Abellio can provide any necessary funding, it now appears likely WFB will remain in Abellio ownership. Along with the Saale-Thuringia-Südharz network in central Germany, this is likely be the only remaining Abellio operation in Germany.
Categories: Europe, Financial, Main line, News, Policy


Equipment quality is one of issues which Nuclear Power Plant owner concern most. The result of actual operation condition and lifetime after the equipment's failure happens is the most important indicator to justify the equipment quality, but it's too late to know it. It will be very useful if the quality can be deduced before the equipment's installation and operation. The evaluation's difficulty lies in several causations. For example, different equipments produced by different manufacturers and even they are produced by the same factory but the process is definitely different, including the design modification, material change, product reservation and quality non-conformance which almost happens in every manufacturing step. Through analyzing the manufacturing characters and using the evaluation theory, a model which describes the manufacturing quality is built. In this model, the manufacturing quality and final test are considered as 2 decisive factors to evaluate the Equipment quality, and under them, the more detail factors are resolved in the deeper level until it can be measured easily and accurately. In conclusion, the precise evaluation will benefit every field during the nuclear power project construction, and also in the operation Plant, including the project construction, nuclear plant safety operation, risk analysis and fault localization, etc.
Guo D, Jin G, Wu Q, Jiao D, Wang W. Evaluation Method of Nuclear Equipment Manufacturing Quality. ASME. International Conference on Nuclear Engineering, Volume 1: Plant Operations, Maintenance, Engineering, Modifications, Life Cycle and Balance of Plant; Nuclear Fuel and Materials; Radiation Protection and Nuclear Technology Applications ():V001T01A036. doi:10.1115/ICONE21-16303.


The United States Hockey League announced today that the Tri-City Storm will host the 2018 USHL/NHL Top Prospects Game on Tuesday, Jan. 9th at the Viaero Center in Kearney, NE.
The two-day event will begin on Monday, Jan. 8th with on-ice testing conducted by HockeyTech, and off-ice measurements conducted by NHL Central Scouting. The announcement comes one week after the USHL had 49 active players listed on NHL Central Scouting's Players to Watch List, including 19 A or B-rated skaters and goaltenders, indicating a potential first, second or third round NHL Draft prospect. The 49 players listed by NHL Central Scouting were the most by any junior league in the world.
2018 marks the fourth consecutive year the USHL will host the USHL/NHL Top Prospects Game, and sixth year all-time. Previous hosts of the USHL/NHL Top Prospects Game include the Muskegon Lumberjacks (2012 and 2013), Dubuque Fighting Saints (2015), Omaha Lancers (2016) and Sioux Falls Stampede (2017).
13 players who participated last year's USHL/NHL Top Prospects Game went on to be selected in the 2017 NHL Draft. In total, 76 players who have participated in the USHL/NHL Top Prospects Game since 2012 have been selected in the NHL Draft, including four first round selections: Shane Bowers (Ottawa Senators, 2017), Kyle Connor (Winnipeg Jets, 2015), Brock Boeser (Vancouver Canucks, 2015) and Jordan Schmaltz (St. Louis Blues, 2012). Other first round selections who were named to the game but were unable to participate due to injury include Eeli Tolvanen (Nashville Predators, 2017), Michael Matheson (Florida Panthers, 2012) and Zemgus Girgensons (Buffalo Sabres, 2012).
Ticket information and other events surrounding the 2018 USHL/NHL Top Prospects Game will be announced by the Tri-City Storm at a later date.


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Label Definition File: CWE134_Uncontrolled_Format_String.vasinks.label.xml
Template File: sources-vasinks-82_goodB2G.tmpl.cpp
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 * @description
 * CWE: 134 Uncontrolled Format String
 * BadSource: console Read input from the console
 * GoodSource: Copy a fixed string into data
 * Sinks: vprintf
 *    GoodSink: vwprintf with a format string
 *    BadSink : vwprintf without a format string
 * Flow Variant: 82 Data flow: data passed in a parameter to an virtual method called via a pointer
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#ifndef OMITGOOD

#include <stdarg.h>
#include "std_testcase.h"
#include "CWE134_Uncontrolled_Format_String__wchar_t_console_vprintf_82.h"

namespace CWE134_Uncontrolled_Format_String__wchar_t_console_vprintf_82
{

static void goodB2GVaSink(wchar_t * data, ...)
{
    {
        va_list args;
        va_start(args, data);
        /* FIX: Specify the format disallowing a format string vulnerability */
        vwprintf(L"%s", args);
        va_end(args);
    }
}

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{
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Boy band DAY6 set to release new album by the end of March
JYP Entertainment's boy band DAY6 will be making a comeback this month, the first time they will be performing as a group of five following the leave of member Junhyeok.
According to reports, they are currently in the progress of wrapping up their album recordings. Not much information is offered other than the album will be released by the end of the month.
DAY6 is the first boy band to debut under JYP Entertainment. Made up of talented members who are also talented lyricists and composers, they made their debut in September 2015. Since then, however, they lost member Junhyeok whose exclusive contract with the agency was terminated. His leave was cited due to personal reasons.
With no plans of adding a new member for the loss of their 6th, DAY6 will be making a comeback with a new album soon.
Source: OSEN


Typically when divination is shown in the media, it's terrifying. The psychic's eyes roll back into her head, a demon appears through the glass of a Ouija board planchette, or someone starts bleeding from…well, anywhere. In truth, divination can be scary, but will never cause death. Tarot Time! is here to prove that! Or at least it's here to prove that tarot cards won't kill you. Divination can take many forms, which range from tarot cards to lithomancy (divination with stones). The cards are more my style and they are an easy way to answer complicated or open-ended questions. From it, you can gain an answer, or at least some clarity in your situation, which is what we really need for the most part. The length of time required to get an answer or to find out something about yourself depends on the type of reading. Single card readings, for example, can take just a few minutes, whereas something like the ten card reading can take ten minutes. The question one asks can also factor into this.
I got into this form of divination out of nowhere. I'd never really thought anything of tarot cards and I never thought that one day I'd be doing readings for people. The only reason I got the cards in the first place was because one of my favorite authors, Maggie Stiefvater, created a hand-drawn deck, showing that not only is she an amazing author, but an amazing artist as well. The Tarot cards were a gift from a friend for Christmas and I've been trying my best to learn about them and really understand the cards. Tarot, although simplistic, can be hard to understand if you don't know what you're doing. The cards all mean something different and, depending on how you interpret the cards, the meanings can be super hard or super easy to understand.
In Tarot Time, I will write about readings I've done for my friends and share their results. Results from readings I've done so far have been terrifyingly accurate and one person almost cried. Hopefully, non-believers will become open to a greater power, or just think that tarot can be a path to deeper insight. Either way, I hope you enjoy Tarot Time!


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An Efficient Mode Reduction Technique for Modeling of Waveguide Gratings
Lijun Yuan,
Dr. Lijun Yuan
Yu Mao Wu
Dr. Yu Mao Wu
Progress In Electromagnetics Research M, Vol. 40, 1-8, 2014
In this paper, an efficient mode reduction technique for eigenmode expansion method is developed to analyze 2-D waveguide grating structures which are a special class of piecewise uniform waveguides. To take advantage of the periodicity property of the structure, the eigenmode expansion method (EEM) is used with the scattering matrix method and a recursive-doubling procedure. In this situation, our proposed mode reduction technique achieves a significant speedup for gratings with large number of periods. Comprehensive numerical examples on the waveguide gratings are studied to validate the efficiency of our proposed mode reduction technique.
Lijun Yuan Yu Mao Wu , "An Efficient Mode Reduction Technique for Modeling of Waveguide Gratings," Progress In Electromagnetics Research M, Vol. 40, 1-8, 2014.
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Attachable sensors for monitoring plant growth
The sensors can also monitor humidity and temperature.
Biplab Das
The butterfly-shaped platform can be placed on top of plant leaves or stems.
npj Flexible Electronics 2018 and Joanna Nassar
A team from Saudi Arabia has designed flexible, butterfly-shaped, attachable sensors that can measure plant growth, humidity and temperature.
The lightweight and stretchable sensors can easily be placed on the stems or leaves of plants, and on soil, according to the researchers.
"These sensors can correlate the effects of humidity and temperature with plant growth; information that is important for increasing crop yields," says electronics engineer Muhammad M. Hussain from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology in Saudi Arabia.
The sensors could help identify optimum growth conditions for individual plants, even in harsh environments, he adds.
The attachable monitoring system was made by integrating strain, humidity and temperature sensors with a rechargeable battery, a memory chip, and a device that wirelessly sends data to a smartphone.
The strain sensor was made by depositing a thin film of gold onto a stretchable biocompatible polymer. The humidity and temperature sensors were made using a different polymer.
When the strain sensors were placed on barley leaves, they were able to record how long the leaves lengthened in a period of just under three hours. The sensors were also able to measure bamboo stem elongation over a period of a day.
The team also converted their sensors into 'plantcopters' that landed safely on the ground after generating temperature data while free falling from a two-storey building. They could potentially be used to monitor temperature and humidity in crop fields.
Nassar, J. M. et al. Compliant plant wearables for localized microclimate and plant growth monitoring. NPJ Flexible Electron. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41528-018-0039-8 (2018).
Tiny molecular sensor within cells
Wearable, implantable sensors possible with flexible transistors
Corrugated, bendable solar cells


In this article you will find a process of creating an SVG picture suitable for using in AnyChart Seat Maps. Adobe Illustrator is used here for drawing a picture, but it is possible to use any other SVG supporting program.
Let's create a picture as a usual project in Illustrator, using its basic components and tools. Let's draw a simple house plan. For drawing use a "figures" and a "feather" tools for creating squares, circles, polygons and curves.
Let's first define the perimeter and form of the house and use a "Rectangle Tool" to draw a rectangle. If the window with tools is not visible, click "Window" in the main menu and choose "Tools".
Now, it is possible to draw the walls and partitions inside, forming the rooms. You can use several tools: Line Segment or Arc Tool (they both are under the same picture of Line Segment Tool, to show other variations of Segment tools, click on the Line Segment Tool and hold the mouse button for a couple of seconds), Rectangle Tool and its variations, Pen Tool, and the Slice Tool might be quite useful for planning. Let's use Line Segments to draw the walls.
Note: to draw a straight line or curve at an angle, multiple of 45°, hold the Shift key on your keyboard while drawing.
After the walls are drawn, it is time to draw the doors. In this plan they are marked as two short lines on a wall.
Now, let's get rid of the extra elements like paths and parts of figures that are not necessary anymore.
Adobe Illustrator has a panel of tools, which is very useful in some cases about shapes and figures. For example, on the current plan, the shape of the house perimeter is complicated: the main entrance is not on the same line as surrounding rooms, and the hall has got a full-height window in a shape of arc. Let's subtract the small rectangle that barricades the entrance and the hall room with the arc-shaped window out of the big one that was initially drawn as a guide perimeter. Press "Window" in the main menu and find the "Pathfinder" tool, or simply press Shift+Ctrl+F9.
Select those two shapes that you need to subtract one from other: the first one to select should be the one to subtract. Hold the Shift key while selecting the shapes. Then choose the "Minus front" button from the Shape Modes on the Pathfinder tab.
The picture below demonstrates a situation you may get into: a new shape comes to the front layer and covers almost everything.
Right-click on this shape and choose "Arrange" -> "Send to back".
Now, the layout with the house is visible again. Let's add some "furniture" into the plan.
The Rectangle, Line and Arc Tools were used in creating the picture above. This picture is unfinished yet, being only a basis for the working SVG file. Now it is time to work with grouping to have each room as a group, which will help to make the map interactive.
To make the image suitable for AnyChart Seat Maps, group elements in a way it is convenient to work with them. It is better to outline each room as a separate path, so they will become separate shapes.
To group several elements, select all of them, right-click and select "Group". Don't forget to join the paths if you used lines/arcs for drawing, otherwise you will have no opportunity to fill the objects with color.
Do the same with the walls to form the rooms as groups.
After each room becomes a separate group and all groups are ready for the further transformations, you can go to the next step and set the IDs.
Setting IDs for the groups helps to manage the last ones as Map points (regions).
There are two options: you can set the ID in Adobe Illustrator or do it through the code.
In the previous picture you can see a new window with Layers. To enable it, click on the "Window" in the menu and choose "Layers".
After all room in your picture have become groups, the window with Layers will show the groups and their components.
Note that there are blue indicators in front of objects' names (the picture below). They show the chosen (highlighted) element. Note that there is a group with no name and several paths inside. This group represents the sofa. To give it a name click twice on the <Group> and enter the preferred name. Let it be "sofa".
Now, do the same with the rooms.
It is a good idea to group lines, curves and shapes that form doors and furniture and put them inside of the groups of those rooms they belong to. The "Layers" window shows the content of the groups.
Save the picture in .SVG format.
Another way to set the names for groups is to do it through the SVG code of the file.
Open this file in any editor that supports SVG files. Look through the code. All "g" tags mean "groups" - those groups which creation is demonstrated in the picture before. Add the "id" field to each group you need to manage. Remember that IDs have to be unique.
Inline groups might have their own ID's due to some reasons. Elements inside of the groups might have classes; set classes to each element you need to react on being hovered over or selected. All elements that belong to the same class have the same interactive settings, so be careful with setting them. Set the classes to the texts.
If there are lines demonstrating some extra elements not necessary anymore, find these lines in the code of the SVG image and simply delete them. This will simplify your work with the file.
Now, the SVG image is ready for the further work and transformations. For more info & tutorial, open the Seat Map article.
You can download the SVG file used in this article.


Field service technicians perform on-site repairs of machinery and equipment. They work on non-portable machines, such as security and heating systems, or machines that are used in private homes, such as washing machines, cable and satellite television systems, as well as heating and air conditioning equipment. Technicians who work in complex fields typically have an associate's degree and certification, while other technicians in less complex fields can usually be trained on the job. Consequently, field service technicians need to be quick learners who are able to absorb and apply new information effectively. Customer-service skills and trustworthiness are also key, as field service technicians often work inside the homes of their customers. Technicians with associate's or bachelor's degrees can expect to have more advancement opportunities than those without certification. Computer technicians will also be in greater demand as more companies start to expand their technological presence.
When searching for field service technicians, hiring managers are primarily concerned with two areas: mechanical aptitude and customer service. For those field service technicians who will be working in people's homes, there is often also an emphasis on ensuring that candidates are reliable and trustworthy. Pre-employment tests can help assess all of these areas. Criteria Corp customers typically administer two or three tests for field service technicians, depending on their priorities and the exact nature of the role. The Wiesen Test of Mechanical Aptitude (WTMA) is designed for roles in which employees will be operating, maintaining, or repairing equipment or machinery. It measures a person's general mechanical aptitude, which is the ability to learn and apply new information in a mechanical context. The Customer Service Aptitude Profile (CSAP) measures personality traits essential to customer service positions, and helps ensure a person will be well-suited for a customer-facing role. Finally, if employers want to minimize the risk related to sending field service technicians to work in customer's homes, employers can utilize the Workplace Productivity Profile (WPP). The WPP is a behavioral risk assessment used for entry and mid-level positions, used to evaluate an applicant's reliability, work ethic, honesty, as well as their attitudes towards theft.
Join pipes or tubing to equipment and to fuel, water, or refrigerant source, to form complete circuit.


There's a new patent application from Technorati on blog spam. Before jumping into that, I want to look at some recent blog posts about Technorati and Google's blog search.
Robert Scoble wrote one, Mirror mirror on the wall, which blog search is best of them all? – asking his readers which blog search is the best.
Lisa Barone covered Dave Sifry's State Of The Live Web and provided some thoughtful analysis of statistics from the report.
Maki, over at Search Engine Journal, explored the differences between Google Blog Search and Technorati in more depth, asking Which is Better? She discusses some of the differences between each that show the value of both.
Has the quality of results in Technorati increased recently, as Robert Scoble was told on his recent trip to the South Park area in San Francisco? Honestly, when I'm performing searches on blogs, I will often perform the same searches on Technorati, Google Blog Search, and Bloglines. The results often differ, but I find value in all three.
Can affiliate activity and web spam signals be looked at together to identify spam in blogs? A Technorati patent application published this morning looks at the kinds of things that indicate spam, and describe how affiliate IDs can be used with those indicators to identify spam pages and stop indexing them.
High frequency of publication of web pages.
A misleading number of inbound links (link farming), or citations published on other web pages.
Automatic publication of third party content.
This kind of information is looked at together with the presence of affiliate identification information.
To identify spam, embodiments of the present invention examine the structure of a network document for indications of affiliation with commercial bounty paying click networks. Statistics on the publish cycle timeframe and the dispersion across publications of affiliate identification tokens can be used to flag web pages as spam.
1) A document is crawled or indexed in response to a ping.
2) Instances of duplicated content from other publishers is identified. When content has been copied from other publishers, it suggests that the document it is on may be spam. A count may be maintained of copied portions of text or other content, and/or the number of other publishers from which content has been copied.
3) The repetitiveness of content in a document is reviewed. The more times some words have been copied and repeated in a document, the more likely the document is spam.
4) Links in a document are looked at to see if they have been previously identified as being associated with web spam.
5) When certain keywords appear more than a certain number of times, this suggests that the document is spam.
6) A weight is assigned to each of the above, and other factors may be looked at in addition.
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Q: versioned rails db and differ I'm wondering if there's an integrated solution to have a database with versioned records supported by rails (ala version_fu ar_versioned) and a differ thanks!

A: Check out acts_as_versioned.

A: Thanks srboisvert for mentioning my fork.  Here's a bit more info/context.  The updated_attributes column's value is set for each version, and lists what attributes were changed from the prior version.  This is useful when you need to display a record/version and want to show what values changed.  I needed this to implement a history view for a particular record we had, where we wanted to color any changed values red in each version we displayed in the history.  This is covered in my blog post which is linked above, along with a couple other minor tweaks.
If anyone tweaks it further, please do send me a pull request, etc.

A: As you noted, that functionality is supported in plugins, and won't be supported by Rails core.

A: There is a forked version of acts-as-versioned (ar-versioned) that includes an additional column in the versioned table (updated-attributes) that is a hash of what was changed.

A: I ended up using acts_as_audited to accomplish this along with the htmldiff plugin to get some pretty output.
see: diff a ruby string or array

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7 In the third year of his reign he sent for his princes, Ben-haʹil, O·ba·diʹah, Zech·a·riʹah, Ne·thanʹel, and Mi·caiʹah, to teach in the cities of Judah. 8 There were Levites with them: She·maiʹah, Neth·a·niʹah, Zeb·a·diʹah, Asʹa·hel, She·mirʹa·moth, Je·honʹa·than, Ad·o·niʹjah, To·biʹjah, and Tob-ad·o·niʹjah, and along with them E·lishʹa·ma and Je·hoʹram the priests.+ 9 They began teaching in Judah, taking with them the book of Jehovah's Law,+ and they went around through all the cities of Judah teaching among the people.
10 And the dread of Jehovah came upon all the kingdoms of the lands surrounding Judah, and they did not fight against Je·hoshʹa·phat. 11 And the Phi·lisʹtines brought to Je·hoshʹa·phat gifts and money as tribute. The Arabs brought him 7,700 rams and 7,700 male goats from their flocks.


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yeah bro we are far behind of them. That's not too cool for us.
well i think 2g will still be in India even after 10G is introduced..
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2012 - Mukesh D Ambani will bring 4G through Infotel. and the rules will change again.
Any one using You broadband in Hyderabad /chennai ?
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Until Dawn (PS4) - Free on PS+
Anything to do with games at all.
PostUntil Dawn (PS4) - Free on PS+
by NickSCFC » Tue Aug 12, 2014 6:55 pm
http://www.supermassivegames.com/games/until-dawn
When eight friends are trapped on a remote mountain retreat and things quickly turn sinister, they start to suspect they aren't alone.
Gripped by fear and with tensions in the group running high, you'll be forced to make snap decisions that could mean life, or death, for everyone involved.
Every choice you make in your terrifying search for answers – even the seemingly trivial ones – will carve out your own unique story.
With spine-tingling performances from a Hollywood cast including Hayden Panettiere (Heroes, Nashville) brought to life with the power of PlayStation®4 – your actions alone will decide who survives Until Dawn.
In an unpredictable and dynamically adaptive story, crafted in consultation with Until Dawn scriptwriters and indie horror auteurs Larry Fessenden and Graham Reznick, eight friends come together at a remote mountain getaway and embark upon a night of unexpected terror. Through the course of the night, anyone can live, anyone can die, and things aren't always what they seem. Twists and turns will keep you guessing right to the end as you play each of the friends. The decisions you make on their behalf will determine who survives Until Dawn.
With innovative choice mechanics and the Butterfly-Effect Interface, players can clearly see the path of their story amid the thousands that are possible. Seemingly insignificant choices as well as huge moral dilemmas that will question your sense of fairness, good and evil, can have major unforeseen consequences.
Using the power of the PlayStation®4 and the superior rendering capability of the Killzone™ Shadowfall Engine, together with our own major enhancements in lighting, camera, and animation systems, Until Dawn brings emotional and credible performances of a talented Hollywood cast to life in its realistically terrifying environments.
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PostRe: Until Dawn (PS4)
by Glowy69 » Tue Aug 12, 2014 7:17 pm
Is that Michael Myers.
Fabian Delph is a banana split.
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by Buffalo » Tue Aug 12, 2014 10:19 pm
I like the look of that. I fully expect the usual halfers to bottle out of playing it.
by NickSCFC » Tue Aug 12, 2014 10:57 pm
Doesn't look like the typical survival horror game where you're basically spending the game commuting genocide instead of trying to survive.
I'd love for this to follow Alien Isolation's lead on what survival actually means.
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by Saint of Killers » Tue Aug 12, 2014 10:58 pm
[iup=3532368]Buffalo[/iup] wrote: I like the look of that. I fully expect the usual halfers to bottle out of playing it.
I'll def get this as it doesn't appear to be a FPS horror.
Have you played P.T., you hard bastard you.
They're over there, by their theremin.
Finiarél
by Finiarél » Tue Aug 12, 2014 11:15 pm
Is that a clown mask?! strawberry float THAT!
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by Buffalo » Wed Aug 13, 2014 1:26 am
Saint of Killers wrote: Have you played P.T.
I didn't know it existed until I had the surprise spoiled for me.
by Crimson » Wed Aug 13, 2014 2:19 pm
Gameplay @ 1 min in
I was expecting this to be in the vein of the many first person horror games we've seen recently but it actually looks to be very heavily influenced by Telltale's stuff. That's probably an immediate turn off for a lot of people but I'm way more interested in it now.
Samuel_1
by Samuel_1 » Wed Aug 13, 2014 2:37 pm
Looks pretty cool. I guess it'll have some replay value as well as it's unlikely you'll get them all through the night on your first play through.
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by Saint of Killers » Wed Aug 13, 2014 4:28 pm
[iup=3532504]Buffalo[/iup] wrote:
About it being a Silent Hill tease? Only one person found that after it had been available for a good number of hours, many more played it and didn't but still "enjoyed" it. You can still play the game!
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by jiggles » Wed Aug 13, 2014 4:38 pm
I think the problem with this is that it's going too hard for the teen scream angle and, because these are just virtual characters, I fear it will come across as goofy more than scary. Horror games work, in my mind, on atmosphere. It's all sound and light cues, and never on characterization or simply because you might be in danger.
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Direar
by Direar » Wed Aug 13, 2014 4:47 pm
I like the look of this, apart from the cues to go over to stuff and press x etc, why cant games let you search/find things rather than point everything out
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by Buffalo » Wed Aug 13, 2014 4:52 pm
Yeah I'll check it out, do it all in one go, because I'm nails
by NickSCFC » Sat Aug 16, 2014 9:03 am
That girl's incredibly annoying, especially the way she's painted the inside of her finger nails white...
..hope she dies first.
by jiggles » Sat Aug 16, 2014 11:02 am
Exactly as I suspected, they're focusing on scaring the character rather than the player. It's a terrible approach. You can't just go from the character having the gooseberry fool scared out of them to them just casually walking around inspecting stuff at the player's pace. Every horror game I've ever played has the player character never show any fear, and the sense of agency works by the player's fear being projected to the character, not the other way around. They're getting it so spectacularly wrong, and seeing the production values ramp up like this is frustrating.
by NickSCFC » Sat Aug 16, 2014 11:13 am
I think Alien Isolation and the Silent Hills teaser have convinced me that horror only works in first person.
by Samuel_1 » Sat Aug 16, 2014 11:53 am
[iup=3535297]jiggles[/iup] wrote: Exactly as I suspected, they're focusing on scaring the character rather than the player. It's a terrible approach. You can't just go from the character having the gooseberry fool scared out of them to them just casually walking around inspecting stuff at the player's pace. Every horror game I've ever played has the player character never show any fear, and the sense of agency works by the player's fear being projected to the character, not the other way around. They're getting it so spectacularly wrong, and seeing the production values ramp up like this is frustrating.
But surely you can get a different sort of enjoyment out of this game? If they follow the teen slasher movie mould it could be full of parody and have some minor scares along the way. As you control who dies, you might even revel in deliberately killing off one of the more annoying characters.
Not every horror game has to scare the gooseberry fool out of you, the same is true of the film medium.
by NickSCFC » Thu Dec 18, 2014 3:28 pm
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by Suffocate Peon » Thu Dec 18, 2014 6:01 pm
The only thing missing from Resident Evil 4 that I could think of, is a section where you're chased through a pitch black forest by El Salvador. It's strange that the most frightening horror film ever, Texas Chainsaw Massacre created a scene where a woman is being chased at night through the woods and few games or films since have latched on to it as a source of horror. Or have they, I don't watch/play much horror. Any parts where you're being chased and, with Resident Evil's controls, fumbling around trying to navigate around corners as best you can, was tense. Mirrors Edge created the same kind of excitement, of feeling worthless compared to the superior faster chaser, forcing you into mistakes you wouldn't normally make. I love being chased or chasing, it's why i watch a load of Korean detective thrillers. Have many horror games played with sound that effectively? Being able to hear a sound in the distance but not know how close it is, just the threat of it and knowing you're vulnerable would be enough to make me hyperventilate.
The other frightening realistic thing about Texas Chainsaw Massacre was that it's not paced like a film, they just get to the house in the day and have a walk around and then start getting butchered. I don't find these videos scary really. Don't care much for haunted houses. The woods, the woods scare me, nature, the unknown.
People overlook Resident Evil 4's scariness, i think. It's not equal to watching IT when i was about 5, and nothing psychological, but those black things that creeped towards you at a slow pace, that you couldn't slow down with normal shots, were unnerving. It taps into the fear of zombies always lurching towards you no matter what, you can only delay the inevitable.
Seems to be a few horror games around at the moment, after Condemned launched with the 360 i thought they'd be more like that. Will this generation be defined by horror games, will that be the next thing ? I'm really in the mood for them, i never played a Silent Hill, kind of missed out.
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