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Until now we only used JamVM in single-threaded mode, because firstly, saving and restoring of Java-context has not been supported in the kernel, secondly, the kernel oopsed reproducibly but at various places when multiple jamvm threads were running. Finally I found time to study this problem, and have "recognized its nature." It turned out to be the same old problem with "rotated" registers. JEM implements Java Operand Stack in the first 8 general purpose registers, and pushes and pops them using some internal rotation. When such a rotation is in effect, access to single and to multiple registers actually hit different registers. For example, a "load multiple" (LDM) from registers r0-r7 returns values v0-v7, but reading r0 using MOV or another single-register instruction can actually deliver v1, or any other value, depending on the number of elements on Java Stack. This rotation is enabled always as long as the R bit in the Status Register is set. It has been known since early days of JEM development, that this bit does not get automatically cleared when leaving JEM mode. A thread that once has entered JEM has the R bit set for its entire life-time. Only when switching into the supervisor (kernel) mode or to a different thread the Status Register gets replaced and the R bit is cleared. This is the reason we have to wind and unwind the Java Operand Stack on every entry to and exit from the JEM mode. It now turned out, that also other threads in JamVM process get the R bit set! And not only once at their creation time. Clearing the R bit at fork time is not enough - it gets set again and again! Unfortunately, it is still absolutely unclear_how_ and
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The Ultra is an all-encompassing head positioning system with adjustment capabilities and a portfolio of options and accessories to meet the needs of virtually any individual.
The Ultra series has even greater adjustment options due to the separation of the occipital and the sub-occipital pads, meaning that each can be adjusted separately.
What also makes the Ultra highly customisable is its ability to be configured with any other head support system within the Stealth range. For example the Ultra can be mounted with the i2i to provide occipital support with the Ultra occipital pad, and head and neck support with the i2i standard or low profile head pad.
For a bespoke head support system, catering to your client's specific needs, Ultra is your solution.
How it works
The occipital pad cradles the head and is primarily a resting spot for the head. It also acts as a posterior boundary, minimising hyper extension from abnormal reflexes or tones. The occipital pad proves to be useful tilt and recline features. Positioned at the base of the skull, and used in conjunction with an occipital pad, the sub-occipital pad provides additional lateral and posterior support for individuals that require mild to moderate assistance in maintaining midline positioning. The sub-occipital is bendable so it can be contoured specifically for each individual, which alleviates the tendency to suspend the head or create excessive pressure on the neck.
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The TWB480-QCRS is is a round link hardware with a flip down mount that allows the head pad to be flipped down out of the way when it is not needed, without having to demount it from the chair. This is unique to Stealth and helps for easy transfers without losing any adjustments. After being used, the mount can be clicked back into the original position, easily.
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A shotgun stolen from a Winnipeg police cruiser last May has been recovered, along with a number of other weapons.
In an unexpected discovery of the service weapon, police were called to a home in the area of Donald Drive on Monday for a child welfare matter.
While inside, police discovered one of the adults had an outstanding warrant and a search of the home was conducted.
The stolen shotgun, which was stolen from a marked cruiser on May 26, had since been modified.
Police no longer keep shotguns in their vehicles as of August 2014 and no other service firearms are currently missing.
A 30-year-old man and a 28-year-old woman have been charged with numerous firearm-related offences. They both remain in custody.


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Alam likes to name actual estate dealers and argue. The Campbelltown-based builder believes in matters without delay: he builds houses, sells them himself, and is always cautious of go-betweens.
He even holds his personal real property agent's license, making him feel like he is aware of the enemy.
"I can sell better than any real property agent in Australia," he says. "Why do they ask for a 2.Four% commission? Any actual property agent in Australia can ring me, and my query is: 'What do you do this way you can rate 2.4%?'"
"They must get," right here he pauses, "$500 maximum."
Alam, who did no longer need his remaining call used, is in the procedure of selling a 4-bedroom domestic in Elderslie, southwestern Sydney. He has indexed it on Gumtree with a few images and a $780,000 price tag.
With Sydney's house prices rising 20% in the one year to April, Alam is a common belongings investor and among a developing variety of human beings seeking to avert the tens of heaps of bucks in marketers' commissions.
At the time of the booklet, Gumtree Australia had nearly 6,000 properties listed for sale. "Sell your personal belongings" websites, together with forsalebyowner.Com.Au and buymyplace.Com.Au, offer marketing, photography, and ad placements for among $six hundred and $2,000 and say they may be surging in reputation. Purplebricks, a UK organization that uses retailers but charges discounted costs by way of connecting sellers on a web portal, says it processed 435 income in its first six months in Australia after launching final yr.
However, John Cunningham, the Real Estate Institute of NSW president, says facts from two years ago suggest most effective 1% of sales are made without retailers, apart from income to shut pals or household.
The best issue you need to promote a residence legally is a legitimate settlement of sale across Australia. Private sellers like Alam cope with buyers directly, dealing with all the advertising and marketing, images, inspections, and negotiation themselves.
Contracts – and the accompanying trade and agreement – are commonly treated with the help of a solicitor or conveyancer, but they're not strictly important.
The Law Society of NSW advises that it's a far felony to draft your own settlement and do your very own conveyancing but recommends hiring a solicitor.
"It is a prison … However, the dangers may also outweigh any potential financial savings," says a spokeswoman.
Average commission quotes for promoting houses range from 1%-2% in Sydney and Melbourne to a few%-4% in nearby areas.
According to the Law Society, solicitors help sellers make certain their contracts follow dealer disclosure legal guidelines that vary country-to-state and recommend them while negotiating the contract with the client.
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A spokeswoman said dealers must be cautious in New South Wales, in which it's miles an offense to vicinity a house available on the market without a proper settlement or while selling residences, as strata titles require additional documentation.
Naturally, as president of the height body for actual estate retailers, Cunningham recommends dealers should hire marketers.
He says average commission quotes variety from 1%-2% in such high-density areas as Sydney and Melbourne to 3%-four% in regional areas or states including Western Australia and Tasmania. On pinnacle of that, advertising is charged one at a time at zero.5% to 1%.
For a residence in Sydney, the median price is $1m, which involves $10,000 – $20,000 in commission and $five 000 in advertising and marketing.
In comparison, listing an advert on Domain as a non-public vendor charges $660 for eight weeks or $770 for 12 weeks. Gumtree listings, in which Alam advertises, are loose. He says the most effective character he employs is a solicitor, who charges much less than $1,000 in line with the sale.
"There shouldn't be a marketplace," he says. "I recognize how it works. I've positioned advertisements on Gumtree and realestate.Com.Au, and it doesn't fee that much."
However, Cunningham says the purported financial savings are a myth: "The concept of what humans assume they are saving isn't always what they're simply doing."
He says real property dealers supply higher expenses for sellers via their revel in negotiating and valuing.
"We are in a actually time-poor international, stepping into a extra specialized world, and the entire selling and shopping for the technique are one of the maximum, emotionally charged matters human beings ever do. You're dealing in an area wherein you are being driven using emotion. It isn't easy.
"Private sellers generally tend to overprice, and thus they omit the market. People suppose it's easy to place a price on a property. But you don't clearly know the fee of the house within the first location."
He says that sellers who pass it by myself are making "the most luxurious mistake of their lives."
"They don't understand the artwork of negotiation – they're going right into a huge unknown international which is pretty complex. It's one of the most psychologically professional matters inside the world. They tend to be their very own worst enemy on that the front."
John rejects the idea that there may be any fats to cut within the system or whatever business model for the internet to disrupt.
"There's no longer much left-right here inside the equation. If you're seeking out a quote on a plumbing activity, you're not going to pick the most inexpensive one. You pay for what you get on this life – I'd come as an alternative fly Qantas than Tiger Air".
Amy, who lives within the Blue Mountains, is in mind. She tells Guardian Australia she and her husband have positioned their home on the market online "as an experiment."
"We haven't made the final decision to go with an agent or without," she says. "We've umm-ed and ah-ed and weighed up both aspects."
They are selling their circle of relatives home in Leura, an hour and a half from Sydney, using the automobile. It's an extraordinary level block inside the Blue Mountains, on 1,200 rectangular meters with four bedrooms and a pair. Five-meter ceilings.
"We're a younger married couple who're doing our best to store each cent we will," she says. "The money we keep can move closer to constructing our new home. We've nonetheless got a mortgage that we're looking to get ahead of by way of doing this instead of renting. Every dollar counts.
"The blessings appear big, though, in going with an agent. They have many extra contacts and enjoy. And if they do their task well, they need to get the high-quality price they could. But then you've were given this whacking tremendous rate."
Amy says she's obtained quite a few inquiries on Gumtree. However, she doesn't realize if any are actually sufficient to proceed. "Most of them just messaged, and once I was given back to them, they'd never ring."
Amy, who's considering selling privately, says: 'We maintain a near eye available on the market, so we're pretty assured we're fairly correct.'
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Crucially, they've had the house valued by way of real estate marketers a couple of times – for free – and say it sits around the high $seven-hundred,000s.
"We've likely had about six or eight via within the beyond 18 months. We actually need to understand what we're speakme about. We maintain a close eye available on the market and the homes around us, so we're pretty assured we're pretty correct."
Alam also denies that private dealers want marketers to cost their very own houses: "I do marketplace studies, I study previous sales, then I discern it out. It's now not tough."
In January, Victoria introduced a regulation to crack down on actual property agent underquoting after receiving 236 lawsuits in 2015.
Alam additionally disputes the idea that marketers are better negotiators, pronouncing the three he has formerly sold with were unimpressive.
"They didn't force a clearly correct price for me; they tried to sell the property. Some of them are truely, truly unprofessional because they don't care.
"It is my property; I understand the way to deal. I understand how to promote it." Amy but says the issue of an emotional connection to a family home could be very actual.
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"A lot of dealers aren't frank. But there are quite a few appropriate ones out there, and there are sincere ones; there's a couple that we realize. You don't have a variety of faith when you recognize that others have a tune file of now not being totally honest, I haven't individually skilled that."
In one week of his list, Alam has obtained one zero, five perspectives, and 3 offers, and he's supremely assured. "Hopefully, it is going to be bought in a few days," he says.
He does not plan to use an agent ever once more.
"I desire anyone would come out and wreck their business like Gumtree. Maybe in the future, I will do it."


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Best Metal Bands From 40 Different Subgenres
Before you even say anything, we know what's you're thinking and, yes, there really are more than three dozen different subgenres within the world of heavy metal. There's still plenty of territory we haven't touched as the endless genre mashing continues to populate the most niche of realms, but, for the sake of sanity, this list of the Best Metal Band From 40 Different Subgenres keeps things pretty grounded in the (mostly) familiar.
On the surface, there are the big genre players like traditional, thrash, black, death, doom, power, progressive, grindcore, hair, alternative and industrial, which all have a wealth of largely notable acts within each respective style. This provided plenty of room for experimentation as bands willfully took techniques from any and all subgenres, injecting them into whatever sonic hallmarks were being used as the foundation. This spurred a litany of acts blending black and death metal, implementing doom into death metal, the raucous mixing of hardcore and metal that resulted in metalcore and a lot more, which still continues today.
After 30 years of various kinds of metal, it's hard to imagine many untapped styles still out there waiting to be discovered, but the creative well has never been in danger of running dry with the technical death metal rebirth, newfound classifications like djent and deathcore as well as the embodiment of themes like pirate metal.
If you're new to some of these styles, let the gallery at the top of the page be your guideline to the wide world of heavy metal and if you're a self-proclaimed metal expert, see if your favorite representatives of each subgenre made the cut!
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Life without appliances
As I write in the confines of my basement office, directly above my head a contractor is ripping my kitchen apart, preparing to lay down a new floor and install new plumbing, wiring, cabinets and appliances. For three days now, I have been without any sort of stove or oven and have no running water on the ground floor. I feel a little bit like the urban experimenters at spacing.ca, who do things like walk downtown from the airport: I'm doing something that runs counter to basic social convention. It has already become an apprenticeship in healthy, eco-friendly living. I wonder how long I'll last.
I'm using considerably less water than usual, and far less energy, since I can't cook anything. When you can't cook, you are suddenly confronted with a choice between extremes: eat lots of fresh fruits and vegetables, or eat lots of shelf-stable junk food. Interestingly, with the latter option, the compost bin stays empty while the trash can fills up fast with non-recyclable plastic and foil packaging. Also, my grocery bills shoot through the roof. The experience has reawakened me to my own waste stream, financial and otherwise.
It has also caused me to question energy use. Back in the February 3 edition of the Globe, in a visual feature on greening your home, Martin Middlestaedt gave some of the worst environmental advice I've ever read: "avoid the oven—pressure cookers, microwaves and toasters use up a lot less energy and can save up to 80% on your bills." I raise this now because it has stuck in my craw since the moment I read it. Maybe he understands something I do not, but I object on many levels. First: yes, it's true, it takes less energy to toast bread with a toaster than a broiler. But toasters, like electric kettles, are energy pigs: electrical energy does not transfer efficiently into pure heat, which is what both these appliances try to do, and anyway it's foolish to suggest that a toaster can be a substitute for an oven. The real solution is to stop toasting bread. Second: is it not true that the more appliances you own, the more energy you use? The last three days have certainly taught me that you don't use appliances you don't have, and you learn to cope. Third: the microwave is an energy saver? Huh? In my experience, most people use it for popcorn or for defrosting, which is surely a mortal environmental sin, because it is pure convenience energy. For the last four years, including the last 17 months with baby, I have lived successfully without a microwave. Friends wonder how on earth we manage, but we don't eat popcorn, we take stuff out of the freezer in the morning before leaving for work, and we re-heat soup on the stovetop at low heat (just like mom used to make!).
Now, here's the unfortunate and embarrassing kicker to this meditation: our new kitchen, when finished, will feature lots and lots of electrical outlets as well as a dedicated space for a microwave oven. They are choices we've made to protect the resale value of our home, because that's what sells. I try not to think of it as facilitating energy consumption or waste. I prefer to think of it as a technologically adaptable kitchen, ready to service the latest, most energy-efficient lifestyle aids.


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To serve as the Owner's Advisor on behalf of our client for a new substation project. This new substation would eventually connect into the transmission utility network to provide a more stable, reliable power source for our client's power distribution system.
Halker's client was having problems with their interconnecting distribution utility supplying unreliable power and so they decided to build a substation to provide more stable, reliable power to their distribution infrastructure in the West Texas area. This client reached out to us in need of a second layer of expertise to review their substation design and needed an expert to represent them in reviewing the substation design and provide expertise on their behalf.
The substation would be a 138kV/25kV, 50MVA, Dual-Transformer, Secondary-side Main-Tie-Main Substation that interconnects into the transmission system in the West Texas area to provide more reliable, stable, cheaper power for their oil and gas facilities. Some of the client-owned power distribution feeders would be disconnected from the local distribution utility providers and re-routed to be fed out of this new substation to increase capacity and reliability of the feeder's power capabilities.
Halker's engineers provided owner's advisor engineering services for this client to provide a second layer of technical expertise reviewing the project and to ensure a more sound, well-designed completed design. Halker's responsibilities included reviewing substation designs and drawing sets, reviewing equipment factory acceptance tests, providing field investigations and field inspections, answering questions on behalf of our client, etc.


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Will CCC work with [insert Apple's pre-release OS here]?
Every time Apple makes a new operating system available to developers, we spend several weeks evaluating CCC on that new OS. We look for changes to the features and behavior of the HFS+ filesystem, how the new OS supports (or fails to support) network filesystems, changes to the boot process, changes to support for USB, Firewire, and Thunderbolt -- and a bunch of other things. If nothing has changed and no problems are encountered, the process takes a couple weeks. Realistically, it takes at least three weeks to complete qualification, and in the worst case scenario (e.g. Snow Leopard and Lion), it takes several months to fix problems or add support for new OS and filesystem features. It's a lot of work -- a lot more than the average developer would face when a new OS is released because our software relies so heavily on filesystem functionality and operating system behavior (especially stuff that is poorly documented or not documented at all, like the Recovery HD). We clone the OS, and when Apple ships a new OS, we'd better be doing that correctly.
Because the qualification process consumes so much of our time, we approach it in two phases:
- Evaluate functionality on the Developer Preview. Identify major problems and develop a strategy and timeline to resolve them. As problems are addressed, we may post betas for external evaluation.
- When the GM is announced and delivered to developers, we complete final qualification. Our final product is ready when the "Golden Master" is made available to customers on the AppStore.
It would be foolish for us to complete a thorough qualification on the Developer Preview because a) the Developer Preview is usually quite buggy and Apple's bugs waste my time and b) qualification on the Developer Preview has no relevance to the final product -- we would have to repeat qualification as soon as the Golden Master is posted. Based on experience with past OS X releases, cloning software should not be used to clone new OSes until it has actually been tested on the new OS. While that seems like a common-sense statement, it's apparently not a common practice. That's our policy, though, and that's why you get a dialog that says CCC isn't qualified on Yosemite.
Last year, I had time set aside to produce a beta that would work on Mavericks shortly after the Developer Preview was made available. The announcement of Mavericks was highly anticipated, so I could budget my time really well. This year, Yosemite came with less warning. As a result, I'm in the middle of other work that can't be set aside to start Yosemite evaluation. I plan to start evaluating Yosemite in a few weeks, though, and I hope to provide a beta once any surprises are sorted out.
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Saturday 21 May 2011
Amsterdam. Postcard.
Our tour starts tonight at BITTERZOETT, Amsterdam (with Buster Shuffle ) tickets HERE I've been making postcards for every show I've played for more than a year now. For reasons I explain HERE. Above you can see a poorly taken photograph of the postcard for tonights show. It is painted across two postcard sized canvasses in acrylic paint. I fill in the 'back of the postcard' canvas to whoever buys the canvases. The two canvas set costs 40 Euro there is only one for each show. I also have a couple of the 'Fuck Rock Let's Art' canvases with me I only made 10. They are 50 Euro each. Or 55 if you buy one mail order. The paintings will be at the T-Shirt stall. See you there Edxx
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Kansas-Kansas State: Rivals Clash at The OctagonJanuary 29, 2010
One of the biggest games in the weekend of college basketball pits No. 2 Kansas on the road against No. 13 Kansas State. Bremlage Coliseum, or "The Octagon of Doom," is one of the most difficult places to play in the Big 12, and fans will be fired up to play their in-state rivals.
The Wildcats already took down then-No. 1 Texas at Bremlage earlier this month, and they look to make it two-for-two against the powers of the Big 12. Of course, the crowd will not be able to carry KSU to victory. They also need to play a great game, and here are a few matchups to pay attention to:
Kansas State Key Matchup: Xavier Henry. The freshman shooting guard has been struggling of late, and to make matters worse, he will be playing in his most difficult environment yet. However, the young Jayhawk has the ability to put up a big game any night. If he just trusts his ability and hits some early shots to gain confidence, KSU could be in for a long night.
Kansas Key Matchup: Jacob Pullen. Pullen was essentially absent in the Wildcats' last couple of games but bounced back to have a great game against Baylor. He is the leading scorer on the team at 19 points per game, so clearly if he has a bad game, the Wildcats will struggle. He got away with having a bad game against Texas (2-15 shooting), but don't expect a win tomorrow if does it again.
Will Kansas be rattled by a treacherous environment? Turnovers will tell the story here. The Jayhawks have averaged 14 turnovers per game in Big 12 play, including a whopping 23 last game against Missouri. They need to correct that fast and be able to run an efficient offense to quiet the crowd.
Sherron Collins, as usual, needs to come up big again for Kansas. He is the floor general and emotional leader of this Jayhawk team. He does not typically get rattled, and he needs to prove that early on in the game so that his teammates follow suit. He also needs to make good decisions with the ball and cut down on the turnovers. If a big shot is needed, everyone on the court will know who is taking it.
Kansas State needs to be very active on the glass, particularly on the offensive end. One key to their offensive rebounding chances is Jamar Samuels. The sophomore averages nearly two offensive rebounds per game, which is pretty good coming off the bench. Creating second chance opportunities will be very important for the Wildcats tomorrow.
Prediction: Bitter in-state rivalry games are always difficult to predict. Kansas State is better than usual this year, but I still give the advantage to the Jayhawks. Cole Aldrich and Marcus Morris have really stepped it up the past couple games, and I expect that to continue. Henry is also key, and I look for him to score in double figure for the first time in three games. They will just be a little too much for the Wildcats to handle.


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SMEs: Closing the sustainability gap
December 2, 2016
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Although SMEs form the backbone of most economies, they have been slow to embrace environmental measures. By embedding sustainability in their business practices, SMEs can minimise the environmental impact of their operations for solid financial and commercial reasons as well as improved corporate social responsibility.
Organisations that adopt sustainable print strategies gain a detailed understanding, and better control of, expensive resources – energy, paper, consumables – which reduces wastage and costs, improves efficiency and encourages more secure and compliant print practices. With the right strategy, tools and support SMEs can easily address the sustainability challenge just as successfully as many larger organisations.
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After a 10 hour journey back to Stockholm a quick over night stay in London i am now in Hong Kong. New Year was a bit of a blur due to the jetlag but good all the same. Philip Law from Union Apparel kindly invited me to a dinner with his team. I then headed over to a party by Victoria Harbour to meet some other friends to watch the fireworks.
After looking at the quality of the iphone pics from New Year and loosing my Leica on my last trip here I have given myself a New years present. Lumix GF1! Its by far the best camera i have ever used.


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So my Social Media Circle was quite generous to me today when I reached out and asked for any personal experience with the deadly Palytoxin we are faced with when dealing with some of our reefs. My take on the output? People are very confused – mistaking bacterial infections for the neurotoxin. Take note – "streaking" is blood poisoning which is a huge indicator for bacteria. No biggie, we all get misdirected at times, but for your safety as an aquarist it's still important to recognize the symptoms. Not unlike the flu, nausea, vomiting, chills, fever, the works. Go to a hospital. But let's take some time to visit your personal stories with the dangerous polyps. Warning: the following images are somewhat graphic. I hope you all take this as a stark reminder to protect yourself when dealing with lethal species. Unfortunately, again in warning, these stories don't all have happily ever afters…
From a good friend of mine, Jeff Saurwein:
A couple of years ago, I was fragging a small colony of Nuclear Green Palythoas (Palys) at work with a bandsaw. I had taken the common precautions of wearing gloves and eye protection. After 5 or 10 mins, I started sneezing and caughing. After 15 minutes, I started having trouble breathing. Being a common sufferer of allergies, I brushed it off and thought my allergies were getting the best of me and decided to head home to get away from what was irritating me. After I ate dinner and took a shower, I started getting cold sweats and severe muscle aches that started in my lower back and eventually spread to most of my upper body. The closest thing I can compare it to would be flu like symptoms minus the vomiting. This went on for approximately 12 hours. After an awful nights sleep, I woke up the following morning feeling like I spent the entire night in a hot yoga studio. After doing some reading, I determined the palytoxin had gotten into the water used in the band saw. When the band saw blade rotated, it created a fine mist that I enhaled. This caused the initial respiratory response I experienced. I had forgone using a mask as I had never thought about the palytoxin spreading out into the air in that way. After my experience, everyone fragging zoanthids and Palythoas was required to wear gloves, protective eye wear and a mask. I've been in the hobby for 16 years and at the time worked in the industry for 15. I'm the president of the local marine aquarium society. I'm a perfect example that even the most experienced aquarist can make mistakes. This is a perfect that this hobby is a constant learning experience.
Lesson here? Don't mistake experience and time served for immunity. Next up is from Dan Rigle, a resident blogger here at Reefs:
I've been poisoned quite a few times. Worst was when I vaporized a protopaly with a tile saw and inhaled the mist. Had a rough 24 hours with respiratory distress, chills, fever, seizure type involuntary muscle movements, etc. I've been injected in the hands numerous times with small cuts being exposed to palythoa slime when fragging also.swollen hands. Numbness and nausea with headaches is the typical. Also ingested some palytoxin while biting super glue off my fingers that had some paly slime trapped inside. treat any exposure with benedryl and if in a cut or lesion I use a polysporin or the like . Some specific polyps have a much harder punch then others and symptoms seem to vary from various different type of polyps but generally the large types seem the worst.
That sounds super unpleasant to say the least. Glad to hear Dan suffers no lasting effects from his numerous exposures. Let's visit a nearly fatal story courtesy of Reefcentral:
Tommy (Tcat3rd) almost died Wednesday evening after being exposed to the deadly Palytoxin from zoanthids left overnight in a bucket. The zoo's were half dead from leaving them overnight in a bucket so he decided to clean the rocks off in his utility tub with hot water and scrubbing them. He was full aware of the danger of the toxin, he used eye protection and full length gloves to clean the rocks. What he didn't protect was his lungs, the hot water and steam from the water made the toxin airborne. After 20 minutes of cleaning the rocks he went up stairs, feeling sick to his stomach. after another half hour passed he was ready to head to the emergency room but before he left he printed out articles on the toxin to take with him. In the waiting room he became almost paralyzed and started to cough up blood, his lungs were filling up with blood as well. The doctors treated him with everything they could think of and were getting results, they called in the priest for last rights that evening and didn't think he'd make it through the night. Thursday morning they continued massive treatments of antibiotics and steroids with little improvement. Today he's on his way back from his death bed and will be in the hospital for days to run tests and monitor his progress. We wanted me to post up to let everyone know and to remind them the dangers of our tanks. Thoughts and prayers go out to Tommy and his family, which also got sick from the toxin just not as bad as Tommy did being in closer range to the steam.
Scary stuff right there. Let's visit a rather horrifying story from a woman who got the toxin IN HER EYE! Ugh. I can't even imagine:
I was working in fish store and we had a great sale on paly rocks. Right before I got off I sold like 3 of them. I purchased one and took it home. When i got home I dipped it and placed it in my tank I must have not washed my hands and then rubbed my eye. When i went to bed I was fine I woke up at two in morning feeling like someone stabbed me in both eyes. The pain just got worse so I went to the ER. My left eye was draining and red. Luckily my doctor listened to me and contacted specialists. They irrigated my eye with litters of saline and transferred me to another hospital where they further irrigated and put me on ABX. By this time I also had bad flu symptoms and red streaks down face. My vision was 20/70. I went home and next day my cornea turned completeky white and i had absolutely no vision in it what so ever. I saw one doctor who thought i had an ameoba in my eye and sent me to corneal specialist. My cornea was basically ate away. I had hourly eye drops and abx and pain pills. I saw doctor everyday for 2 weeks then every couple days after that. My eye wasnt healing properly and they thought they were going to sew eye shut, however, by about third week it started slight improvement. I was on steroids for four months along with eye drops. Worst pain ever. There was talk about corneal transplant still but i am holding off. Today is 2 years since injury and i have limited vision in eye. Luckily cornea tissue regenerates fast and my vision is basically like looking through vasoline. My dr wrote paper on this and he might be willing to talk even. I will try to find pictures. Please let me kn o wbwhat else is needed. I am always happy to talk about this in hopes nobody else has to go through this"
As god awful as the above story is, evidence points to a bacterial infection due to the streaking. I'd be curious to hear from her acting doctor, and will be contacting him as he wrote a paper on the whole debacle. Last but far from least, the last story is pretty damn sad. This comes to us courtesy of Mr. Saurwein once again. "Scuba" an adorable, gleeful little Boston Terrier who was loved immensely, met his fate when he decided to utilize some tank water and a refreshing beverage. Warning – this doesn't end well.
It's with great regret that I have to write this. We've all heard the close calls of a reefer getting sick from palytoxin poisoning. Last year a story went viral on the aquarium forums about a reefer boiling his rocks with Palys on them to kill them. What happened shortly after was an entire family, including the dog getting extremely sick. Unfortunately in this case, it isn't about a close call. A few days ago a friend of mine was working on his tank to rid the tank of those ugly brown Palys we all hate. At some point during the cleaning and reworking of the tank, his dog got into some water that the palys had been sitting in. Shortly after, the dog started to exhibit signs of acute palytoxin poisoning. Within an hour his dog passed away. I spoke with the owner of the dog and aquarium and we both agreed that we wanted to get this awful story out to help prevent this from occurring again. Stephen Sullivan (scubasteve) lost Scuba, his 6 year old 31 pound Boston Terrier. For those of you who know Stephen, you know that Scuba meant the world to him. On July 24th Stephen posted a photo with the following caption on facebook, " RIP. Scuba died last night. He ate some of the coral from the tank. I was giving him CPR while he died in my arms. I lost my best friend and my biggest love." After reading through all the comments it became pretty clear, Scuba impacted a lot of people and was an incredible dog. Stephen wanted this story to not only honor his buddy but help educate people about coral safety.
I'd really urge everyone reading this to better educate themselves about the coral that call their tank home. Many of the coral we keep produce some form of toxin or another to help defend themselves against other coral and predation. Most of the toxins are completely harmless to humans but a few are not. The two most commonly kept corals in the aquarium industry happen to be the two most dangerous when it comes to toxicity. Zoanthids and Palythoas, more commonly referred to as Zoas and Palys, are small Cnidarians that have become hugely popular in the last 10 years. Some reefers will shell out over a thousand dollars for a single polyp. Little do they know that they are housing something with the capability of killing them.
This subject has been covered here at Reefs before, but I'd like to instill a friendly reminder as it's a pertinent subject. I'd also like to post this in honor of little Scuba, and all of us at Reefs.com pay our respect to the precious little man that was taken too soon. A harsh reminder of just how deadly the creatures of the deep can be.


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Petr Cech believes a win in Saturday's north London derby would resurrect Arsenal's title ambitions.
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- Cech - Why we have confidence in Ospina
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Arsène Wenger's side go into this weekend's match at White Hart Lane six points off the top of the Premier League, having gained nine points from their last eight league matches.
While that run of form is a concern, Cech feels there are still enough games left for Arsenal to turn things around - starting on Saturday.
"It is not only a London derby but it is probably a must-win game for both teams if you want to have a step closer to the title"
"I think it is the game with a big, capital G because it is the one where, if we want to come back and not let Leicester go away with it [we have to win]," Cech said. "If we don't want to allow the teams behind us to close the gap on us, this is the game where you need to respond.
"We go game by game and there are 10 games to play and the way it goes, everybody has a chance. We know that we are still in it and face a tough opponent on Saturday.
"It is not only a London derby but it is probably a must-win game for both teams if you want to have a step closer to the title. It is a north London derby so everyone knows it is a special game in itself.
"Everybody wants to win the title. All the people in the first five places who say they are not thinking or talking about the title are lying. I have never seen a football player, manager or anyone who was in the top five say 'I don't want to win the title'.
"Everyone wants to win it, but the way the season goes it has been strange because in normal circumstances, with the number of points any team has in the top five places, they probably would not even be top five."
Cech - who won't play on Saturday due to a calf injury - says the Arsenal squad are determined to recover the form that saw them top the league on New Year's Day.
"You could see the disappointment in everybody's eyes [after the Swansea game]," he said. "We wanted to bounce back after the Manchester United game and use the advantage that Leicester had because they had dropped two points. We couldn't do that so it was a big disappointment for us.
"There is a long way to go and you can only come back the next day and keep working, keep getting ready for the next game and to make sure you win the next game."
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A former school worker has admitted five counts of making and distributing images of child abuse.
Daniel Stapleton, 44, of Sherwell Lane, Torquay, has admitted three counts of making indecent images of children and two counts of distributing images.
Of the images he downloaded, eight were in the most serious category A, there were 10 at category B and 17 at category C.
The images he distributed were category C.
Stapleton, formerly a lab technician at Coombeshead Academy, Newton Abbot, will be sentenced at Exeter Crown Court on April 6.
The offences did not occur at the school or involve school equipment, resources or pupils.


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Yup, even ~SILKS~ is joining in the bottomless sparkling wine scene for brunch. But, of course, they're doing theirs with a bit of class. There will be a "Build Your Own Champagne Cocktail Bar," with two different sparkling wines to choose from, crystal Champagne flutes, and all the ingredients for a variety of Champagne cocktails for only $20 per person. You can go with a classic (sugar cube, bitters, lemon twist, and bubbly) to a Kir Royal (cassis, blackberries, and bubbly), make your own combo, have a mimosa, or drink it on its own. Bubbles will change, but the main players are Chandon Blanc de Noirs California and Solter Spätburgunder Brut Rosé (a rosé from Germany made from pinot noir grapes in the traditional Champagne method)—and they'll pull out some nice surprises at times, from vintage Domaine Carneros to Laurent Perrier Grand Siècle. Every Sunday from 11am-3pm.
Winos will also want to note that every Tuesday for dinner, 50 bottles of premium wine will be offered at 50% off the wine list price. The list is created from Silks' 700-bottle Wine Spectator Best of Award of Excellence collection. For reservations, call 415-986-2020.


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Interview – Dreaming Spirits with Mark Egan
Mark Egan sat down with us to discuss Dreaming Spirits, recording the album, and to share news of upcoming endeavors.
Mark Egan, our July 2014 featured cover interview, has joined with percussionist Arjun Bruggeman to release Dreaming Spirits.
Mark's signature bass tone washes together with Arjun's wonderful tabla and frame drum playing to create expansive, meditative soundscapes that decorate the album. A prime example of the duo's interplay can be heard on the track, "Mombassa".
Mark and Arjun, who are longtime collaborators with Kirtan artist Krishna Das, are joined by guest guitarist Shane Theriot.
Shane's playing integrates seamlessly with the duo and offers chances for great conversation with Mark's bass lines, as in "Wave Motion".
Mark sat down with Bass Musician Magazine to discuss Dreaming Spirits, recording the album, and to share news of upcoming endeavors.
I understand that you first started working with Arjun when you both played with Krishna Das?
Yes. I first met tabla player Arjun Bruggeman in 2008 at a recording session for Krishna Das in New York City. Guitarist, composer and producer, David Nichtern asked me to play on a project he was producing with Krishna Das. For those that don't know Krishna Das, he is a spiritual teacher that performs Kirtan, which is a form of meditation in the format of all-and-response of Indian prayers and scriptures. He's written, recorded and performed many songs with an instrumentation that is usually Harmonium, Voice, Tabla, Bass, Finger cymbals, guitar, violin and cello.
Since that first session with Krishna Das I've recorded and toured with he and Arjun in the United States. Bassist Mark Gorman also plays and records with Krishna Das on the west coast and in Hawaii.
From the very beginning, Arjun and I have had a great musical rapport playing together and have always talked about recording a project. Finally, last year in January, we got together and recorded all of the music that's on the new Dreaming Spirits record.
What was your vision for the record, coming from the duo perspective?
Arjun and I had had spoken about what we wanted to do before we got together in the studio. We decided on some different time feels and different tempos; Arjun had some great ideas for tabla grooves and tone drum possibilities.
In preproduction I also had made some bass loops from a Roland RC3 Looped. I made some very long, extended ambient loops with volume pedal and two Lexicon PCM-42 delays with 10 seconds of delay. I also used the Strymon Time line effects delay pedal as well as the Strymon Blue Sky reverb pedal. These harmonic waves/beds are similar in some ways to the way that tabla functions in Indian music as a drone. Arjun and I improvised over these pre-recorded bass waves for some of the original sessions.
Additional pre-production ideas that I focused on were thinking of different key centers and tempos that I thought would be fun to experiment with and improvise over along with some specific bass line sketches and chord sequences that we could develop.
Most of the recording started as improvisations based on the above ideas and the basic concept was "Let's do something in this tempo and in this type of feel and in this key and possibly around this tabla groove or bass line."
We've played a lot over the last ten years and we know the different directions that we can explore. Our main focus was to be creative and enjoy doing it.
Arjun had a lot of ideas that he wanted to experiment with various drums that he had brought to the session. Arjun was originally a drummer so he not only plays tabla, but also frame drum that he plays on "Spirit Blues" and "Framonics". He also played drums on some of tracks, tom-toms, cymbals and shakers. He also played tone drums, which are wooden drums that look like a box with carved wood tone bars that he plays these with his hands.
He came in with two songs that were basically solo pieces on the tone drums. One we later titled "Joy Ride" and the other is called "When Spirits Dance". He recorded these pieces first solo and I then transcribed them and found bass lines and melodies and made the arrangements around his tone drum performance.
As post production evolved it seemed that we needed another voice for the instrumentation so I contacted guitarist Shane Theriot who I have been playing with for the last few years in the New York area. Shane is a very versatile guitarist and was the perfect choice to enhance the music that we had pre-recorded.
From the original two recording sessions with Arjun and myself and the addition of Shane's great overdub sessions we had about two hours of music that now needed to be arranged and edited. I then spent about six months orchestrating, editing and producing. It was a lot of fun and creative to experiment with different bass melodies and effects. I was able to play my Pedulla 8-string fretless and 5-string fretless on backgrounds and melodies along with experimenting with different ambient effects. Even though I played bass on the original tracks, I added more bass melodies, effects and harmonies to the tracks and edited various jams into new pieces.
In the sessions, after the preproduction, you were playing together in the studio?
Yes, for the original sessions we set up facing each other as I was going direct with my bass, so there was no sound leakage from my bass into the tabla mics. All of the tabla and bass was recorded simultaneously. We later overdubbed tablas on top of songs with frame drum and various bass melodies on top of bass grooves. A few of the tracks such as "Village Call" started with just Tabla as Arjun played three different high tabla creating the melody which I later transcribed, double on bass and added bass chords. Later, Shane overdubbed Acoustic guitar strumming, lap slide guitar and electric guitar solo on the out vamp.
The songs on the album have a feeling of conversation in them. They feel very organic.
Whenever Arjun and I play we are always listening to each other and very much in the moment. As I mentioned, we have spent a lot of time playing together with Krishna Das over the last ten years. His music is very groove oriented and we always are having a musical conversation when we play together. We've spent hundreds and hundreds of hours in concert, so we know each other's playing very well so being in the studio was an extension of that conversation and a very organic, evolving process.
One thing I really love is not only his sensitivity and the way that we can play together, but it's not the typical odd-meter type of Indian music, which is sometimes more of the traditional music you associate with tabla. Arjun is an American and started playing drum set and percussion, and then he played tabla. He has a more Western approach to playing tabla even though he has studied and knows the tradition of classical Indian music. Arjun can play tabla with the sensibility of playing a drum kit with kick and snare.
But there's another factor: the sound of my basses, the Pedulla fretless basses fit beautifully with tabla. Sonically the frequency range fits so well with the low tabla (bayan). When we lock in on a feel, it really becomes one sound with the bass and low tabla and I love that. That's not dissimilar to locking in with a kick drum, but the tabla has a nice mid-range punch that I like with my basses. It's a very alluring sound.
Your fretless comes across with a sound that resembles a vocalist.
The fretless bass can create a vocal sound because it's like a cello; that's one of the reasons why I'm so attracted to it. It has much more sustain than a fretted bass and you can play microtonaly around the pitch, which gives it that vocal quality.
Another reason the fretless bass speaks on this project is that the recording is very open and sparse, because of the orchestration. With such an open instrumentation it allowed me to be expressive with my fretless basses and fill in different spaces. Whereas if there were 4-5 musicians playing with a full drum set, I wouldn't want to take up as much space and would play accordingly. In this case it was such an open canvas that it allowed me to really experiment and react to the tabla and guitar.
Let's talk about Shane's contribution to the album. How did he become involved?
After Arjun and I recorded the three days of duo sessions, I was starting to edit and do post-production by adding s bass melodies and bass pads over the tracks. I realized that we had recorded lot of music and it would be nice to have another voice on the project. I didn't want to fill it up with all basses because it would have been too much and be monotonous, so I had the idea to add guitar. I had recently been playing with Shane in New York on a date at Richard Bona's club called Club Bonafied with vibist Steve Shapiro. I asked Shane if he would be available to record at my studio in Connecticut to enhance what Arjun and I had just recorded.
I asked him if he played acoustic, which most guitar players do, but most just play it as a second instrument, but he really plays it as well as electric, just beautifully. I sent him some MP3's of what Arjun and I had recorded along with some of the basic charts for the forms.
When he came to the sessions he had done a lot of homework and came up with several altered tunings for his acoustic guitar. Even though some of the songs were in E minor or D major or B major, that he could have just played on the [standard tuned] acoustic, he had interesting altered guitar tunings for the songs which created different timbres and made him play different parts. When you do altered tunings on a guitar or bass, it's a whole different universe of chord and melody fingerings and you have to figure out different parts as you go. He came with altered tunings for each song. I was so impressed that he had spent a lot of time on it and really spent time learning the music.
He had great sensibilities about the guitar approach for each song. For instance, on songs where the bass was featured predominantly as melody, he came up with really interesting acoustic rhythm parts that added a groove that he then doubled. He then would add lap slide guitar in places, which created pads in the background somewhat like synth pads. We later added a lot of ambience with reverb and delay that created more depth of field in the mix.
There were times where I didn't play a bass solo, because I didn't want to play bass solos 3 or 4 times on the same song. Shane played some great solos and he totally fit into the feeling of what we were doing on the original tracks. He really had the vibe of what we had recorded initially with the duo – so much so that it sounds like we recorded the music all, together in an organic way.
That's the sign of a really gifted player (Shane), that he can immerse himself and superimpose himself onto something that's there and really become a part of it and be in the moment of it. He's a very talented player.
Let's talk about the recording side and how you recorded your bass.
I played my Pedulla basses direct through two Millennia TD-1 mic preamps with EQ. I also went direct through two Radial JDI direct boxes for some of the overdubs. I recorded in stereo using two lexicon digital delays along with effects such as Strymon timeline, Stymon Blue Sky and TC Electronics Chorus.
I didn't use compression on the basic tracks but later in the mixing used a few plugins for compression and EQ.
Do you have dual pickups on your bass, then?
I have two pickups (P/J) but one ¼ ouput on my basses, so a mono output. I went mono out of my bass into stereo effects. In this case I used 2 Lexicon PCM 42's and on some tracks I first went into a TC Electronics chorus. The left and right signals then went into two Lexicon Digital Delays which I used for delays and looping. Out of the delays I went into two Radial JDI direct boxes then into the mic pres. From the mic pres I went directly in the ProTools HDX system.
The bass is really less of a pure solo feature on the album and instead adds presence to the songs. The melodic content in your solos is amazing.
Thank you…
The music took on its own life when we started playing and recording. I think the sound of Arjun playing tabla and his sensibilities and the way that he grooves along with all of my past sensibilities and experiences made me react to the sonic spaces and play more impressionistically rather than just solo above everything. I felt like I played inside the sphere of the music and was just reacting to the spaces that we were creating. I had no awareness or desire to try to play with more of a solo feature. The music didn't call for that and I generally don't like to go in that direction.
When I did solo it was more from a melodic approach and inspired by the setup of the space.
I feel like this album is a very personal statement because of the openness of the orchestration and the overall tone of the recording.
On the first track, "Village Call" the bass improvises throughout the A sections over a Maj #11. The intent was more of a collective improvisation even though the bass is featured.
In recording this project Arjun and I weren't trying to be commercial or come up with airplay material. The only goal was to sit down and play improvised honest music. It was all about what was in the moment and I love to play that way.
What's coming up next for you?
We are producing a video of the trio about the making of the CD as well as some live performances in the studio that will be on YouTube and social media. We'll hopefully be doing some live dates as a trio in the Northeast.
Another project that I'm working on is a duo record with Danny Gottlieb, drums and bass. Danny and I go way back to our days at the University of Miami and the Pat Metheny group experience. We have recorded several sessions that feature compositions and improvisations that draw form our 47 years of playing together. It's a very open project with multi tracked drums and basses and features our experimental side of things. That will be released later this year.
I'm also working on a record with drummer Karl Latham and guitarist Vic Juris that is a follow up to Karl's last recording "Living Standards" where we recorded modern standards such as
"Riders on the Storm", "Tax Man", "Day Tripper" etc. It's so much fun playing with this trio as
Karl and Vic are team players and great musicians.
I am also a member of the Outreach Orchestra that performs every summer in Austria with great players from New York and Europe. It is a player/composers collective and very creative ensemble.
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Now whether we get to see Amir Khan take on Kell Brook in the first half of 2017 or the second half of the year remains to be seen.
I suppose there?s always the possibility, somewhere down the line, of the fight not happening at all.
Before a date can be decided, both boxers have to decide which route they should take. Khan has suggested he might not face Brook until later in the year, with the Bolton fighter proposing to have just the two fights in 2017.
Brook, on the other hand, has to decide whether he wants to defend his IBF welterweight title against the highly-rated US fighter Errol Spence Jnr who has a record that reads 21-0 with 18 wins coming by way of stoppage.
If Brook does decide to take the Spence fight he risks losing his title whilst fighting for only a fraction of the purse a fight against Khan would generate. But Brook knows that, following hand surgery and on the back of a horrible knockout against Saul ?Canelo? Alvarez, Khan wants a warm-up fight.
So what does Brook do?
Does he take the Spence fight, does he vacate his IBF crown, or does he sit and wait for Khan to take his warm-up fight and fight him later in the summer.
It?s a tricky decision for the IBF welterweight champion to make.
What Does Brook Do?
Now whether we get to see Amir Khan take on Kell Brook in the first half of 2017 or the second half of the year remains to be seen.


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Mavenir announces 2G, 4G and 5G Open RAN radios made in India
Mavenir, the Network Software Provider building the future of networks with cloud-native software that runs on any cloud and transforms the way the world connects, announced to have commenced the production of 2G, 4G and 5G Open RAN Radios for the OpenBeamTM portfolio in India, for Indian and other prominent worldwide bands.
OpenBeam offers an innovative radio portfolio, cost-efficient, intelligent radios that meet the critical demands placed on today's networks including massive MIMO, mmWave and multi-band remote radio heads (RRHs) allowing improved network capacity as the network expands. The OpenBeam Open RAN radio solutions are available across all frequency bands and can be used for a wide range of use cases, including enterprises and public settings across urban or rural environments.
Mavenir's robust set of radio options address the needs of the CSPs to be agile and cost-efficient with low power consumption, low wind load, and built with integrated intelligence and automation. Designed for the growing needs of private enterprises to public networks, the portfolio supports both new and legacy radio access technologies. All radios have a modular design, using proven technology to support both MIMO beamforming and multi-band needs.
"Our manufacturing partner network is very well positioned for the sustainable and rapid scaling of Open RAN volumes and made in India requirements. With these new production sites coming online, we have reached another important milestone in our strategy to expand and evolve the Open RAN ecosystem", said Ramnik Kamo, EVP, CIO and CPO of Mavenir.
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India, followed by Indonesia (14 per cent), the Philippines (12 per cent) and China (8 per cent) were the top four countries that contributed most to the global reduction in TB notifications between 2019 and 2020.
About 16 countries, including these four, together accounted for 93 per cent of the total global drop in notifications.
The report revealed that the number of people newly diagnosed with TB and those reported to national governments fell to 5.8 million in 2020 from 7.1 million in 2019.
WHO estimates that some 4.1 million people currently suffer from TB but have not been diagnosed with the disease or have not officially reported to national authorities. This figure is up from 2.9 million in 2019.
In March 2021, an analysis by the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare revealed that notification of TB cases in India reduced by 25 per cent between January and December 2020 because of the lockdown and diversion of resources for Covid-19 control measures.
In 2019, the number of cases reported was 24.04 lakh, a rise of 12 per cent from previous years. It reduced by 25 per cent to 18.02 lakh cases in 2020.
The 2021 WHO Global TB report features data on disease trends and the response to the epidemic from 197 countries and areas, including 182 of the 194 World Health Organization (WHO) Member States.
It showed that the Covid-19 pandemic reversed years of global progress in tackling TB.
Nearly 1.5 million people died from TB in 2020 (including 214,000 among the HIV positive). The increase in TB deaths, the first in more than a decade, occurred mainly in the 30 countries with the highest burden of TB, including India, and also in 2020 than in 2019.
The major reasons were due to disruption in access to TB services and a reduction in resources and people struggling to seek care in the context of lockdowns, as in many countries, human, financial and other resources were reallocated from tackling TB to the Covid-19 response, the report said.
The WHO models and projections suggest that the number of people developing TB and dying from the disease could be much higher in 2021 and 2022.
"This report confirms our fears that the disruption of essential health services due to the pandemic could start to unravel years of progress against tuberculosis," said Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO Director-General, in a statement.
"This is alarming news that must serve as a global wake-up call to the urgent need for investments and innovation to close the gaps in diagnosis, treatment and care for the millions of people affected by this ancient but preventable and treatable disease," he added.
There was also a reduction in provision of TB preventive treatment. Some 2.8 million people accessed this in 2020, a 21 per cent reduction since 2019. In addition, the number of people treated for drug-resistant TB fell by 15 per cent, from 177 000 in 2019 to 150 000 in 2020, equivalent to only about 1 in 3 of those in need, the report said.
Moreover, 2020 also saw a drop in global investment for TB diagnostic, treatment and prevention services, from $5.8 billion to $5.3 billion — less than half of the global target of $13 billion annually by 2022.
Funding in the low and middle-income countries that account for 98 per cent of reported TB cases remains a challenge. Of the total funding available in 2020, 81 per cent came from domestic sources, with the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russian Federation, India, China and South Africa) accounting for 65 per cent of total domestic funding.
However the report also noted some successes. Globally, the reduction in the number of TB deaths between 2015 and 2020 was only 9.2 per cent — about one quarter of the way to the 2020 milestone of 35 per cent.
Globally, the number of people falling ill with TB each year (relative to population) dropped 11 per cent from 2015 to 2020, just over half-way to the 2020 milestone of 20 per cent.
"We have just one year left to reach the historic 2022 TB targets committed by Heads of State at the first UN High Level Meeting on TB. The report provides important information and a strong reminder to countries to urgently fast-track their TB responses and save lives," said Dr Tereza Kasaeva, Director of WHO's Global TB Programme.
The report calls on countries to put in place urgent measures to restore access to essential TB services, double investments in TB research and innovation.


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When the past and present collide…
Taya Kostas is a survivor. She's clawed her way back from the hell she was subjected to at the hands of an undercover agent working for the U.S. government. Since then she's dedicated her life to preventing the same from happening to anyone else. Now her story has come full circle. She's about to take the stand as the key federal witness in the biggest terrorist case the country has seen in years. But even though the man responsible for her nightmares is behind bars, the evil she escaped is still hunting her. When fate places her safety in the hands of the man who saved her life once before, together they race to stay one step ahead of a lethal enemy.
He'll risk it all to save her.
For five years Special Agent Nathan Schroder has been battling his inner demons, but lately it seems like he's on the verge of losing that fight. Then Taya is suddenly thrust back into his life and in imminent danger, so he steps in to protect her. He's never forgotten her or the way she held up under fire, and this time he's not letting her walk away. The terrorists determined to prevent her from testifying will stop at nothing to silence her forever. She might be in official protective custody, but she's way more than a job to Nate. When the enemy finally strikes and her life hangs in the balance, he'll do anything to keep her safe.
Kaylea Cross' military books are some of my all time favorite, I love her style of writing, the rhythm of the stories, and how they flow. The characters are strong, capable, and fierce, yes, the female leads, and the heroes are completely swoon worthy.
In Avenged, Nathan isn't doing well. He is part of the elite HRT team, performing his job, but his mental state of mind is crumbling. The nightmares are constant, he is sleep deprived, and to feel something, anything, he is using one night stands for sex.
If he can't pull himself together, he will soon lose all that is important to him, his job and team mates.
And then he meets Taya again. The connection between them is amazing. It was formed under the most difficult times, but it is real, honest, and pure. Taya is a true survivor, she worked with herself, until the nightmare of her past was just that, in her past. I admire her character, and all that she stood for, was capable of.
Taya presence alone, calms Nathan and his nightmares. There's a scene in the book, where Taya helps Nathan to start to deal with the mental wounds, let's him cry in his arms, face his demons, grieve for his friend, and feel her acceptance of him as he is. A very powerful scene!
The romance between Nathan and Taya is hot, passionate, and sweet. Taya surely brings the best out of Nathan, his tender, caring, protective, romantic side, as he is willing to do anything and give up everything, to take care of Taya.
The fear and danger are constantly present, but the true action comes at the end of the story, and it is brutal, bloody, and deadly.
The characters are deep and complex, very likable, easy to understand. The action and danger elements were intense, and the events from five years ago, when Nathan and Taya met are lived through flashbacks, and nightmares. Overall Avenged is a great romantic suspense, but I admit, not my favorite in the series. And couple grammar mistakes in the story really took me by surprise.
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Joseph Pitton de Tournefort
|5 June 1656
|28 December 1708 (aged 52)
|Alma mater
|University of Paris
|Known for
|Scientific career
|Charles Plumier
Joseph Pitton de Tournefort (5 June 1656 – 28 December 1708) was a French botanist, notable as the first to make a clear definition of the concept of genus for plants. Botanist Charles Plumier was his pupil and accompanied him on his voyages.
Tournefort was born in Aix-en-Provence and studied at the Jesuit convent there. It was intended that he enter the Church, but the death of his father allowed him to follow his interest in botany. After two years collecting, he studied medicine at Montpellier, but was appointed professor of botany at the Jardin des Plantes in Paris in 1683. During this time he travelled through Western Europe, particularly the Pyrenees, where he made extensive collections.[1]
Between 1700 and 1702 he travelled through the islands of Greece and visited Constantinople, the borders of the Black Sea, Armenia, and Georgia, collecting plants and undertaking other types of observations. He was accompanied by the German botanist Andreas Gundelsheimer (1668–1715), and the artist Claude Aubriet (1651–1742). His description of this journey was published posthumously (Relation d'un voyage du Levant),[1] he himself having been killed by a carriage in Paris; the road on which he died now bears his name (Rue de Tournefort in the 5ème arrondissement).
Tournefort's principal work was the 1694 Eléments de botanique, ou Méthode pour reconnaître les Plantes (the Latin translation of it Institutiones rei herbariae was published twice in 1700 and 1719). The principal artist was Claude Aubriet, who later became the principal artist at the Jardin des Plantes. The classification followed was completely artificial, and neglected some important divisions established by earlier botanists, such as John Ray's separation of the phanerogams from the cryptogams, and his division of the flowering plants into monocots and dicots. Overall it was a step backwards in systematics, yet the text was so clearly written and well structured, and contained so much valuable information on individual species, that it became popular amongst botanists, and nearly all classifications published for the next fifty years were based upon it.[2]
Tournefort is often credited with being the first to make a clear distinction between genus and species. Though he did indeed cluster the 7,000 plant species that he described into around 700 genera, this was not particularly original. Concepts of genus and species had been framed as early as the 16th century, and Kaspar Bauhin in particular consistently distinguished genera and species. Augustus Quirinus Rivinus had even advocated the use of binary nomenclature shortly before Tournefort's work was published.[2]
The word herbarium also seems to have been an invention of Tournefort; previously herbaria had been called by a variety of names, such as Hortus siccus.
His herbarium collection of 6,963 specimens was housed in Paris, in Jardin du Roi. It is now part of the Muséum national d'histoire naturelle.[3]
In 1858, botanist Griseb. published Pittoniotis, a genus of flowering plants from South America, belonging to the family Rubiaceae and named in honour of Joseph Pitton de Tournefort.[4]


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"One of the main stars, Nicholas Lea, will probably be the most familiar to a wider audience. Fans of THE X-FILES will no doubt recognize him as Agent Krycek (last seen languishing in an abandoned silo with only a slimy alien for company). This is a change of pace for him. Forget dark alleys and FBI regulation macs. The conspiracy theories may still be in abundance, but the action is much more in your face.
"Woo had not seen Lea in THE X-FILES until he was shown some footage during casting.
"'All the casting was my choice. I only saw a piece of that when it was shown to me. I tend to choose people through my own instincts. With Nicholas Lea, Ivan Sergei, and Sandrine Holt...I think these people had a great potential. I do think I have a good eye, I tend to spot people before they go on to bigger and better things. I first met Jackie Chan in 1975 when he was one of the stunt coordinators on Countdown in Kung-Fu. When I saw him, I knew this guy was going to be a star. I gave him one of the major roles.'"
Ken Shapiro's Life In the Box pans ONCE A THIEF. But he dislikes Nick less than the others, and his comments are interesting! (Thanks to Mrs. Fish for the heads-up!)
And check out the Sympatico: ONCE A THIEF page.
Stomp Tokyo review
ONCE A THIEF is now a syndicated TV series. Twenty-two episodes were made by Alliance for the CTV network in Canada. It's being syndicated around the world.
This also aired on TMC (The Movie Channel), along with two ONCE A THIEF "movies" made by editing four of the TV episodes together in pairs.


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The latest Nintendo Direct has concluded and we now have a better picture of what to expect from the Switch in 2018. While the future is loaded with ports as expected, there's also some solid exclusive content coming for Nintendo fans as well. Here's the breakdown of the announcements from today's conference:
- Super Smash Brothers: The Super Smash Bros. series arrives on the Nintendo Switch in 2018. The teaser trailer featured recognizable faces like Mario, Link and the Inklings from the Splatoon series of games.
- Mario Tennis Aces: Mario Tennis Aces launches on June 22nd and features all of the characters and charm you've come to expect from the series.
- Splatoon 2 Update and Single Player Expansion: In April, Splatoon 2 is getting a free update to version 3.0 which contains over 100 new pieces of gear, more stages, and a new rank. Rank X is an even higher rank than S+. The new stages will roll out over the course of the Spring.
- Single-Player Expansion: The first paid expansion is coming to Splatoon 2 this Summer. The "Octo Expansion" adds a new single-player mode that lets players play as new character (Agent 8) with lost memories. The campaign features 80 missions as well as new stories involving existing characters. Players that complete the Octo Expansion will unlock the ability to play as Octolings in multiplayer battles.
- Octopath Traveler: Octopath Traveler launches on July 13th. A special edition of the game titled Octopath Traveler: Wayfarer's Edition will also be available and includes a pop-up book, cloth map, sound selections CD, and a replica coin based on the in-game currency.
- Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker: A port from the Wii U, Treasure Tracking is coming to Nintendo Switch on July 13th.
- Ports, ports, and more ports: A wealth of ports are arriving on the Switch as should be expected given the sales of third-party titles on the platform. These include Crash Bandicoot, Okami HD, South Park The Fractured But Whole, Little Nightmares, Inside, and Undertale.
- Dark Souls Remastered: Along with the title launching in May, a Solaire Amiibo was annouced and will allow players to use the "Praise the Sun" emote as often as they see fit.
- ARMS US & Canada Online Tournament: The tournament takes place in the game's Ranked Match mode now through March 18th. The finals will be streamed live from Nintendo of America HQ at https://arms.nintendo.com/videos/.
Our Take
We didn't truly know what to expect from Nintendo's Direct today but we are pleasantly surprised. While there are no huge surprises, we did see a wealth of content. We now have confirmation of Smash Brothers in 2018, a date for Octopath Traveler (one of Porshapwr's 10 Games to Watch in 2018), and confirmation that third party support is going to continue to grow for the Switch. Overall we are highly anticipating Octopath Traveler and are excited to see more about Smash later in the year.
What are you most excited about from today's announcements? Let us know!


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Caching and invalidating cache is one of the hardest things in computer science according to Martin Fowler.
Recently I was dealing with cache and invalidating it in three of my applications. I had some serious issues with that and wanted to dig deeper. This time we will discuss
URLRequest caching strategies and how to use it in your apps. I will share some of my learnings and problems that I found.
Creating URLRequest with cache
Not so many of us use caching strategy when creating
URLRequest and hitting the network. If the server you're accessing doesn't have caching strategy implemented then making network requests can cause data corruption in your apps.
I had these issues with just a simple request and getting new
JSON data from the network. For some reason,
URLRequest thought that nothing has changed and returned data from internal app cache rather than the network.
The reason for this is that
NSURLCache is set for the application by default according to the documentation. The cache will be purged when the device runs low on disk space, but mostly this isn't the case. You can control
NSURLCache behavior when launching the app but let's leave that for another post.
Caching strategies
NSURLRequest has a property
cachePolicy which sets the caching strategy for the request you're creating. It is an enum and has several choices defined as constants:
case useProtocolCachePolicy> Use the caching logic defined in the protocol implementation, if any, for a particular URL load request.
case reloadIgnoringLocalCacheData> The URL load should be loaded only from the originating source.
case reloadIgnoringLocalAndRemoteCacheData> Ignore local cache data, and instruct proxies and other intermediates to disregard their caches so far as the protocol allows.
static var reloadIgnoringCacheData: NSURLRequest.CachePolicy> Replaced by NSURLRequest.CachePolicy.reloadIgnoringLocalCacheData
case returnCacheDataElseLoad> Use existing cache data, regardless of age or expiration date, loading from originating source only if there is no cached data.
case returnCacheDataDontLoad> Use existing cache data, regardless of age or expiration date, and fail if no cached data is available.
case reloadRevalidatingCacheData> Use cache data if the origin source can validate it; otherwise, load from the origin
If you just read the documentation then all of these constants look confusing and hard to choose the right now. Let's try to understand which of the caching policy you need to choose for your
URLRequest and when.
Which one to choose?
The default policy for URL load requests is
useProtocolCachePolicy. If a cached response does not exist then it is fetched from the originating source. Otherwise, if a response doesn't tell to revalidate then a response is returned from the cache. For more detailed information you can go to RFC 2616 detailed documentation. Here is an image to illustrate how this policy works.
reloadIgnoringLocalCacheData ignores the local cache and
reloadIgnoringLocalAndRemoteCacheData ignores local and remote cache.
returnCacheDataElseLoad you tell to use cache no matter how out of date it is. If the cached request doesn't exist it will be loaded from the network.
returnCacheDataDontLoad is the most confusion one. It means offline mode. Only cached data will be used and it won't load from the network.
But the story doesn't end here, if we check
reloadRevalidatingCacheData documentation then we see that previous versions than macOS 15, iOS 13, watchOS 6, and tvOS 13 don't implement this constant. Mattt was warning us about that years ago. There is a radar opened in May 2012.
So which one to choose? There isn't a right or wrong answer, but the rule of thumb is - if you want partial cache with default settings then choose
useProtocolCachePolicy. If you want to load a request without cache then choose either
reloadIgnoringLocalCacheData or
Handling cache and cache invalidation are one of the hardest topics in Computer Science. In iOS, macOS, tvOS and watchOS it isn't easy and straight forward. The official documentation is confusing and isn't clear how it works behind the scenes.
URLRequest has a property
cachePolicy which sets the caching strategy for the request.
For most of the cases default
useProtocolCachePolicy option is what you want. If you want to avoid cache then one of
reloadIgnoringLocalCacheData or
reloadIgnoringLocalAndRemoteCacheData is the right one you have to choose.


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How to Deal with your Dog's Phobias
By Fred Goodson on Mar 10, 2010 with Comments 0
Some superstitious behaviors can balloon into full phobias, where the dog is so frightened of an event or sound that he cannot cope with it. This can lead to massive destruction as well as self-mutilation, because some dogs chew on their feet and legs to relieve their anxiety.
Phobias are the same for dogs as they are for people: excessive fear associated with an event or experience. As you know, many people are afraid of heights or spiders. Phobic dogs (who are otherwise perfectly normal), on the other hand, tend to show extreme fear of noises, especially those that are loud and crackling. The fear begins with one event and escalates very quickly to terror.
Thunderstorm phobia is relatively common in some areas of the country where there are lots of storms. Many dogs show the same responses to fireworks (with the result that shelters all over the country receive hundreds more strays on July 4 and the day after). A terrified dog will do anything to get away from the sound. If he's inside, he'll try to get out, sometimes going through a window. If he's outside, he'll try to go inside, or he'll jump the fence to get out of his yard. A dog with thunderstorm phobia is a pitiful sight, running from place to place in the house, looking for somewhere the noise is not. Many of these dogs hide in bathtubs or next to pipes in basements. Some people theorize about "grounding" or some other physical reason why dogs do this.
Oftentimes, phobias develop later in life. In fact, it's one of the few problem behaviors that tend to develop over time. I have had several clients with dogs who spent their first few years accepting noises of all kinds, but then later developed major problems as they reached middle age (six and up).
Behavior modification method
Whatever the cause of a dog's phobia, behavior modification is extremely difficult and usually involves extensive desensitization. I suggest you see an experienced, reputable behaviorist or veterinarian to treat these problems. They may suggest the use of calming drugs while you work on the modification process.
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About the Author: Fred Goodson has a passion for pets and animals. He has 4 dogs and is planning to have another one. He is also a blogger who writes about pets and animals. Currently, he is living in New Jersey.