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bradycardia:see arrhythmiaarrhythmia
, disturbance in the rate or rhythm of the heartbeat. Various arrhythmias can be symptoms of serious heart disorders; however, they are usually of no medical significance except in the presence of additional symptoms.
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decrease in frequency of heart contractions to less than 60 beats per minute.
Bradycardia may be found as a normal, constitutionally conditioned phenomenon in perfectly healthy persons, in well-trained athletes, and as one of the symptoms in many diseases. More often, bradycardia is observed as a result of organic disturbances of auriculoventricular conductivity—heart blockage, myocardial infarction, and inflammatory (infectious or toxic) diseases of the heart muscle. Complete blockage of the heart with a pulse frequency of 30–40 beats per minute or less threatens brain complications: loss of consciousness, convulsions, and cessation of heart activity. Prophylaxis and treatment are directed toward removal of the cause.
Slow heart rate.


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Protesters have hijacked a major political speech for the second time in a week, with Energy Minister Martin Ferguson the latest target of anti-coal activists.
Two protesters walked onto the stage holding paper masks of Mr Ferguson as he launched the federal government's energy white paper in Melbourne on Thursday.
While the minister stood aside, staff took several minutes to get the protesters off the stage, during which time Mr Ferguson was "congratulated" on his energy white paper.
The protesters were from Quit Coal, the same group that crashed a speech by Opposition Leader Tony Abbott last Friday.
"Thank you so much for your ongoing support of the fossil fuel industry," one said, patting the minister on the back and shoulder when he finally returned to the lectern.
One sang a song apparently related to the impact of carbon emissions on climate change.
"Fergo, Fergo. Don't worry about that global warming. It's just those hippies moaning. It's all about coal. You make a great big hole," he sang.
Resuming his speech, Mr Ferguson said it was "good to see our taxpayer dollars" being spent on educating the young men, drawing laughter and applause from the audience.
The minister did not address the incident in a news conference after the speech to the Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) event.
But a spokeswoman for Mr Ferguson said his advice to the protesters would be to read the white paper.
Another staffer said the minister's security was a matter for the Australian Federal Police.
The two protesters were among about six members of the Quit Coal group at the event, some of whom were sitting in the media section.
All were eventually ejected from the Hilton Hotel in central Melbourne.
Outside the hotel one of the men, who called himself Fregmonto Stokes, told AAP he had taken to the stage "to support Mr Ferguson and congratulate him for developing the brown coal industry in Victoria".
A statement from Quit Coal said Mr Stokes and Dominic O'Dwyer had been protesting against the government's prioritising of gas expansion and industry deregulation.
"The government has firmly placed the interests of the fossil fuel industry above that of Australian families," the statement said.
Mr O'Dwyer was among a group of several protesters who disrupted the start of a speech by Mr Abbott in Melbourne last Friday.
He was also involved in the scaling of Victoria's Parliament House in September, when protesters unfurled an anti-coal sign.
A few minutes into Mr Abbott's speech, Mr O'Dwyer appeared on the stage saying he was happy to see Mr Abbott and looked forward to him becoming prime minister.
He noted the opposition leader thought global warming "is a bunch of crap".
Mr Abbott was also mobbed by a small group of protesters as he reached his car when leaving the conference.

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NRA: Practice Range / MEDL MOBILE
Users of the "NRA: Practice Range" iOS app are taken to target practice, as seen in this screen shot.
Just weeks after the National Rifle Association forcefully blamed violent video games for gun violence, a new shooter game is out that appears to be from the NRA.
"NRA: Practice Range" was released Sunday in iTunes, the Apple-run site.
It features a 3D-shooting range and offers users simulated target practice. It isn't clear what connection the NRA has to the app, which is described as an "Official NRA Licensed Product" on iTunes. NBC News has reached out to the organization for comment but has yet to receive a response.
The game's launch comes one month after the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., which touched off a national debate over how to limit gun violence.
"Guns don't kill people. Video games, the media and Obama's budget kill people," NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre said at a Dec. 21 press conference where he addressed the tragedy at Sandy Hook. "There exists in this country, sadly, a callous, corrupt and corrupting shadow industry that sells and stows violence against its own people, through vicious, violent video games with names like 'Bulletstorm,' 'Grand Theft Auto,' 'Mortal Kombat' and 'Splatterhouse.'"
The free app was initially recommended for ages 4 and up, according to the iTunes rating system, but later Monday was recommended for 12 and up.
The site said it offered "a 3D shooting game that instills safe and responsible ownership through fun challenges and realistic simulations." The app description added, "It strikes the right balance of gaming and safety education, allowing you to enjoy the most authentic experience possible."
Users don't shoot live subjects in the app, but instead are given guns and sent to target practice in three immersive shooting ranges.
In the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, the National Rifle Association held a news conference in Washington, D.C, blaming the media and video games for cultivating a culture of violence.
The description in iTunes says it puts the NRA's "broad scope of resources in the palm of your hand – with 2nd Amendment newsfeeds, gun law information centers and educational materials that you can access anywhere, anytime."
The app has received three-and-a-half out of five stars in the iTunes store, but has attracted several scathing customer reviews, some calling for it to be pulled from the iTunes store.
"Is this some kind of sick joke?" asked one user known as Papershipsonfire. "The NRA complains about violent games and then releases one a week later. Sure you're not shooting humans but does it really matter?"
"What a dumb move," posted Mansonr6. "Good luck getting anyone to take your video game theory serious after this."
But others praised the educational content offered in the game.
"This is fun and informative plus there is no need for eye and ear protection," wrote Joe in BrynMawr. "A must have for any gun enthusiast and defender of the U.S. constitution."
Last week, after a meeting with Vice President Joe Biden's gun reform task force, the NRA slammed the White House.
"It is unfortunate that this Administration continues to insist on pushing failed solutions to our nation's most pressing problems," the NRA said in a statement. "We will not allow law-abiding gun owners to be blamed for the acts of criminals and madmen."
Editor's note: The headine and story have been amended to reflect the fact that the NRA has not acknowledged the new app was launched by the organization.
NRA: Practice Range / MEDL MOBILE
For 99 cents, users can upgrade their firearm from a free M9 to a Beretta, a Browning or a Colt in the app, which offers indoor, outdoor and skeet shooting modes.


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Kylie Jenner was surprised by rappers Drake and Big Sean on Saturday night when they performed at the reality TV star's 16th birthday bash.
The youngest of the Keeping Up with the Kardashians siblings celebrated her official sweet 16 a week ago with an intimate dinner with family and friends, but Jenner pulled out all the stops for a second celebration on Saturday.
Held at the AT&T Center in Los Angeles, she hosted an Alice in Wonderland-themed party, complete with her extended family and famous friends, including rumoured boyfriend Jaden Smith, actress Hailee Steinfeld, Tyga and Naya Rivera.
Drake was a big surprise when he hit the stage to perform his single All Me with Big Sean. During his impromptu appearance, Drake put his gold chains around the birthday girl's neck.
Jenner took to Twitter.com to coo about her surprise guests, writing, "DRAKE & BIG SEAN what?! Thank you guys so much. Thank u to everyone who came to my party and making my night so special HAD THE BESTTT NIGHTTT."
Her mother, Kris Jenner, also took to the microblogging site to show her gratitude to the hip-hop superstars, suggesting her daughter Kim Kardashian's boyfriend, Kanye West, was the mastermind behind the big surprise.
She wrote, "Wow wow what an amazing night @kyliejenner I hope you had the most wonderful birthday. Thank you Drake AKA @champagnepapi @bigsean for the surprise performances!! Love you Kanye."
West and Kylie's big sister Kim missed the party as they were attending the funeral of the rapper's grandfather in Oklahoma.
Kylie Jenner was surprised by rappers Drake and Big Sean on Saturday night when they performed at the reality TV star's 16th birthday bash.


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get_iplayer news
Firstly I must apologise to all of those people who have posted information regarding the continued development of get_iplayer which I hadn't approved on the comment threads. Well, here is the information which I have summarised below:
- get_iplayer appears to have been taken over by several other developers. One of the strengths of free open source software is that anyone can 'fork' a project as long as they abide by the license conditions (get_iplayer was released under the GPLv3).
- The most active and up to date fork, which seems to work the best, is maintained by David Woodhouse at: http://www.infradead.org/get_iplayer/html/get_iplayer.html
- There is a mailing list at http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
- A windows installer is available at this site.
- Fedora users will be pleased to know that get_iplayer is now available in RPM Fusion repos.


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Public ethics, as opposed to personal ethics, focus on choices made by individuals as representatives of institutions or agencies in their professional, rather than private, activities. Dramatic changes in the capacity of medicine to treat illness have prompted major reconsiderations of basic concepts of biomedical ethics, such as when to begin, when to withhold, and when to stop therapy. Before the advent of the AIDS epidemic, however, little attention was paid to the questions raised concerning the relationship of the state to its citizens in the context of epidemic disease, which was seen largely as a thing of the past.
Historically, as governments have confronted the challenge of epidemic disease, they have tended to rely on policies marked by an authoritarian perspective. Indeed, traditional public health practice in Europe and North America centered on mandatory reporting of cases to public health registries, contact tracing (identifying and notifying people who may have been exposed to HIV), compulsory treatment, and, at times, quarantine and isolation. The shape of public health practice was dictated by both the nature of the infectious threats and prevailing conceptions of the appropriate relationship between the individual and the state. AIDS has provided the occasion for a challenge to the traditional approach to public health practice.
As both a lethal illness spread in the context of the most intimate relationships and as a public health threat, AIDS has forced society to confront questions regarding the appropriate role of the state in limiting morbidity and mortality. In so doing, it has required a reconsideration of the ethical limits on state power in the face of a grave social threat. As a disease of the socially vulnerable, AIDS has also compelled society to face issues involving the role of the state in protecting the weak at moments of social stress. As a disease that has affected large numbers of poor individuals who do not possess adequate health insurance or who live in nations with limited health care systems, AIDS has required a reconsideration of what justice demands in terms of the protection of individuals versus the costs associated with illness. Thus, the roles of government in advancing the public health, defending the weak, and ensuring access to health care have all been called into question by the AIDS epidemic.
In the United States and in other nations bounded by the traditions of Western liberalism, ethical considerations, pragmatic concerns, and efforts on the part of AIDS service organizations have influenced public health strategies that control the spread of HIV infection. These strategies may be defined as voluntaristic, in that they stress mass education, counseling, and respect for privacy. Indeed, both in the United States and elsewhere a paradigm of what might be termed "HIV exceptionalism," or special treatment for AIDS as opposed to other infectious diseases, has dominated public health policy. A focus on voluntarism also informed the policies put forth by the Global Programme on AIDS at the World Health Organization, which, in turn, helped shape policies in nations around the world. This general consensus has affected policies on discrimination, the protection of confidentiality, and the use of the coercive powers of the state to restrict those whose behaviors are thought to pose a risk of HIV transmission.
Perhaps no ethical issue involving AIDS has received more attention than confidentiality. It has been viewed as crucial to protecting the privacy interests of those with HIV and as a way of encouraging such individuals to come forward for counseling and medical care. However, in light of pressing public health necessities, confidentiality is never absolute and is always subject to limits.
In many nations, a central responsibility of public health officials has been to record the names of those with certain diseases in special registries. In part, such reporting has been deemed necessary for purposes of epidemiological surveillance. On other occasions, reporting has been thought of as crucial to ensure that individuals with communicable conditions are appropriately treated. Finally, such reporting has been central to contact tracing. Where reporting by name does occur, the ethics of confidentiality dictate that the identity of those with AIDS be shielded from unwarranted disclosure. The reporting of names is justified on public health grounds alone. Disclosure to those with other motives for knowing the identities of individuals with HIV/AIDS is not ethically justifiable.
The role of confidentiality in the clinical setting is more complicated. It is not always clear what the moral responsibilities of a physician are when an HIV-infected patient refuses to inform identifiable, past or current partners about the dangers of infection. In the United States, a central legal doctrine emerged out of the widely discussed Tarasoff case, which held that, under certain circumstances, a clinician has an affirmative duty to warn or protect unsuspecting targets of his or her patient's harmful intentions. The underlying ethical principle is that other ethical values may supersede confidentiality. When vulnerable, unsuspecting persons are placed at risk, it may be necessary to breach confidentiality. However, there is a concern that if clinicians routinely report HIV-positive clients who have refused to inform past or current sexual partners, such clients may be less candid with their clinicians and thus less open to appropriate counseling.
The ethics of research is another major area of concern. The AIDS epidemic has produced a broad and potent political movement that has sought to reshape radically the conditions under which research is undertaken in the United States. Many of the major practices that have informed research ethics since the end of World War II have been brought into question, including the role of the randomized clinical trial, the importance of placebo controls, the central role of academic research institutions, the unquestioned authority of scientists over subjects, and the distinction between research and therapy.
In all these areas, AIDS has challenged the "protectionist" ethos, which views research as posing dangers or risks against which subjects need to be defended. In a reversal of policy developed since the Holocaust, which states that patients have a right not to be subjected to research, the absence of a cure or effective therapy for AIDS has promoted the notion of patients having a right to be involved in experimental research. That striking change has resulted in a rejection of the model of research conducted at remote academic centers, with restrictive (protective) standards of access and strict adherence to the "gold standard" of clinical trials, in which participants are randomly assigned to treatment and control conditions.
Blurring the distinction between research and treatment, those insistent upon radical reform have sought to open wide the points of entry to new "therapeutic" agents, both within and outside of clinical trials, arguing that "a drug trial is health care, too." Such activists have demanded an ethical regime informed by respect for the autonomous choice of potential subjects who can weigh for themselves the potential risks and benefits of new experimental treatments for HIV infection. Demands have been made that women be enrolled in trials in greater numbers, that prisoners and drug users be granted access, and that children be included in trials at a much earlier point than had been considered acceptable. Moreover, the revisionists have demanded a basic reconceptualization of the relationship between researchers and subjects. In place of protocols imposed from above, they have proposed a more egalitarian and democratic model, in which negotiation among all those involved would replace scientific authority.
The ethics of care is another major issue. Since the World War II era, health care workers in industrial societies have been largely shielded from what was the routine experience of those who had worked with the sick in prior eras: the acquisition of their patients' infections and sometimes lethal diseases. The resultant sense of invincibility was ruptured by AIDS, beginning in 1981.
Early in the history of the AIDS epidemic, anecdotal reports began to surface about hospital aides leaving food trays at the doors of those who were sick and of nurses, physicians, and dentists refusing to treat patients with the new disease. Confronted with the threat of patient abandonment, those committed to stanching the trend turned to history in hopes that a lesson on the responsibility of physicians would emerge. Physicians had, after all, been called upon to respond when epidemics were more common and when morbidity was much more severe. Those who had hoped to discover a single message from the past were disappointed. Although some physicians had stayed behind to care for their patients, many had fled.
When history provided no clear guidance, some looked to the codes of ethics that have expressed the aspirations of the guilds and associations of medical practitioners. Remarkably, such codes had been silent on the duty of physicians to treat in times of epidemics. In the United States, the American Medical Association (AMA) code of 1847 was unique in its forthright assertion of such a responsibility: "And when pestilence prevails, it is their duty to face the danger and to continue their labors for the alleviation of suffering, even at the jeopardy of their own lives." This provision remained in the code until 1957, when a revised and shortened statement eliminated the stipulation that must certainly have seemed an anachronism. After all, it was widely believed that the era of epidemics had come to an end in the advanced industrial world.
It was not until November 1987 that the AMA's Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs ruled that "a physician may not ethically refuse to treat a patient whose condition is within the physician's current realm of competence solely because the patient is [HIV-] seropositive." In so doing, the AMA joined the American Nurses Association, which had a year earlier denounced discriminatory treatment of patients with AIDS.
For many who have stressed a universal obligation to treat, the relatively low risk of infection has been central. Were the risks of HIV transmission much greater, it would have required an ethics of heroism to insist that each health care worker bear the responsibility of ensuring adequate and appropriate care for the infected. Given the level of risk of HIV infection, even among surgeons and obstetricians, those who stressed the obligation to treat argued that it was not heroism but straightforward duty that was involved.
The issue of access to care is not, however, primarily raised by the specter of physician abandonment. Rather, it centers on the access the poor have to care. In the United States, which unlike other economically advanced nations does not guarantee access to health care for its citizens, there is a striking contrast between important clinical advances in the care of those with HIV infection and the social organization of American medicine. This contrast led a national commission on AIDS to warn in a December 1989 report to the president that medical breakthroughs would "mean little unless the health care system can incorporate them and make them accessible to people in need." The existence of a medically disenfranchised class meant that, for many, access to care was almost solely through hospital emergency rooms. Thus, AIDS raised, in a stark way, the question of justice in health care.
Related Entries:
Clinical Trials; Confidentiality; Contact Tracing and Partner Notification; Disclosure; Discrimination; Epidemics, Historical; Ethics, Personal; Health Care Workers; Informed Consent; Insurance; Testing Debates
Key Words:
biomedical ethics, confidentiality, ethics, health care providers, informed consent, research, testing
Further Reading
Arras, J., "The Fragile Web of Professional Responsibility: AIDS and the Duty to Treat," Hastings Center Report, special supplement (April-May 1988)
Bayer, R., Private Acts, Social Consequences: AIDS and the Politics of Public Health, second edition, New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 1991
Bayer, R., "Public Health Policy and the AIDS Epidemic: An End to HIV Exceptionalism?" New England Journal of Medicine 324 (1991), pp. 1500-1504
Dickens, B., "Legal Limits of AIDS Confidentiality," Journal of the American Medical Association 259 (1988), pp. 3399-3451
Gostin, L., "The AIDS Litigation Project: A National Review of Court and Human Rights Commission Decisions, Part I: The Social Impact of AIDS," Journal of the American Medical Association 263 (1990), p. 1963
Levine, C., "Has AIDS Changed the Ethics of Human Subjects Research?," Law, Medicine and Health Care 16 (1988), pp. 167-173
The Encyclopedia of AIDS: A Social, Political, Cultural, and Scientific Record of the HIV Epidemic, Raymond A. Smith, Editor. Copyright © 1998, Raymond A. Smith. Carried by permission of Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers.
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Daily Newspaper Deals at New Post-Recession Highs
By: Press Release | Dirks, Van Essen & Murray
The number of daily newspapers sold and the number of individual transactions involving daily newspapers in 2012 were the highest since the onset of the national recession five years ago.
In total, 84 daily newspapers were sold last year in 25 transactions worth $642.83 million, according to statistics compiled by Dirks, Van Essen & Murray, the nation's leading newspaper merger and acquisition firm. The increased activity shows renewed optimism about the industry, as new buyers who entered the market in 2011 continued to build in 2012. Looking forward in 2013, the firm expects the deal flow to remain strong.
"Although the environment for financing transactions is still challenging, many of the buyers entering the marketplace are bringing financial strength that enhances their ability to close," said Phil Murray, executive vice president of Dirks, Van Essen & Murray.
- Several prominent buyers who started to acquire newspapers in late 2011, including Warren Stephens, Warren Buffett and Phil Anschutz, remained acquisition-minded in 2012 and contributed to the increased deal volume.
- Versa Capital Management, which made its first newspaper purchase in 2011, built a new company called Civitas Media in 2012 with 35 dailies that cracked the top 10 in terms of daily newspapers owned.
- Most of the sellers in 2012 were group owners. Just 20% of the daily transactions involved independently owned newspapers.
- The number of dailies changing hands and the number of transactions in 2012 were up from 2011, when 71 dailies sold in just 11 separate transactions, according to DV&M. Dollar volume was slightly higher in 2011 at $788.75 million. Both years were the most active since the record-setting year of 2007, just prior to the national recession, the firm said.
"Newspaper publishers are starting to drive revenue from non-traditional sources," Murray said. "This is giving buyers renewed confidence about the future of the industry."
The two largest transactions of 2012 involved the breakups of two venerable newspaper companies. A unit of Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway bought most of the newspapers owned by Richmond, Va.-based Media General. Media General's Tampa (FL) Tribune and related publications were sold separately to a private equity group.
In addition, Freedom Communications sold all of its newspapers in a series of transactions. An investor group led by Aaron Kushner bought the newspapers located in the west, including the Orange County Register, and retained the Freedom Communications name.
Previously, Freedom had sold its newspapers in Florida and North Carolina to Stephens' Halifax Media Group, its Texas newspapers to a new company led by Jeremy Halbreich and its Midwest newspapers to Versa. Versa formed Civitas Media after taking over Heartland Publications later in the year.
The field of buyers in 2012 also consisted of a number of longtime privately held newspaper companies that took advantage of opportunities. Among these were Ogden Newspapers, Jeff Brown's Home News Enterprises, Sample News Group and Boone Newspapers. Additionally, local interests bought newspapers in Santa Rosa, California; Lawton, Oklahoma; Maine; and Philadelphia.


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New restore points can be created without problem. But all earlyer RP's are not shown anymore.
Happens after every IFW diskimage restore.
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MIDDLETON, Wis. — A Middleton-Cross Plains teacher reinstated after facing accusations of receiving and sharing explicit emails while on the job has sent a letter to the parents of his students.
Arbitrators ruled the school district wrongly fired Andrew Harris in 2010 and he should be reinstated. He returned to the classroom this month.
In the letter to parents, Harris apologized for his actions.
"Four years ago I made a mistake that showed a lack of judgment and forethought. I want you to know how sorry I am that I allowed this occur."
He pointed out that no students were involved in the misconduct and he said his teaching wasn't affected.
"I am not defending my actions, but I want to assure you that my classroom will be a safe learning environment for your student. I have been given a second chance to do what I love- making science fun for students and showing them that doing science can be exciting and educational all at the same time."
Harris also provided parents with contact information and invited parents to sit in on a class.
On Tuesday, Gov. Scott Walker sent a letter to Wisconsin state Superintendent Tony Evers to start proceedings to revoke Harris' license, saying that Harris' behavior meets the definition of immoral conduct cited in state statutes.
Department of Public Instruction officials said an investigation of Harris started in May 2010.
Last week a group of parents picketed outside Kromrey Middle School against the decision to allow Harris back into the school.


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That's Infotainment. Sometimes, operating new cars' media control interfaces is like trying to drive a spaceship. Now, new cars will be offering Apple CarPlay and Android Auto connectivity systems that will allow drivers to use interfaces they are more familiar with.
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Yesterday's climb took three hours in all, though Goodwin was replenished along the way by cups of water provided by the tower's residents. Local police arrested Spider Dan immediately after the climb for trespassing and being a public nuisance, though he was later released.
The 54-year-old climber has previously scaled the Sears Tower in Chicago and the World Trade Center in New York, drawing attention to the fact that skyscrapers are still vulnerable to terrorist attacks. And vulnerable to feel-good Labor Day news items about graying Cancer-survivor climbers with suction cups. [KGO via Gawker]


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Kongsberg Oil & Gas Technologies Acquires Advali AS
Norway and India based software firm to integrate with Kongsberg Oil & Gas Technologies` Software & Services Division.
Kongsberg Oil & Gas Technologies AS (KOGT), a wholly owned company of Kongsberg, has entered into an agreement to acquire 100% of the shares in Advali AS. The acquisition, which is expected to be completed mid-December 2012, will strengthen KOGT's capabilities and efficiency in software development, testing and support.
Advali is a provider of software development services to the Nordic region. The company was originally founded in Norway in 1997. In 2003 it established facilities in Bangalore, India, focusing on software development and testing. All 120 employees are now based in Bangalore.
Today, Advali is a specialized company in relation to the entire software development value chain; from project management, technical design, modelling, development, implementation, and testing.
"We see an increasing demand to strengthen our capacity, competence and efficiency within software development, test and support," states Pål Helsing, President and CEO, KOGT. "We have cooperated with Advali for the last few years, and have very good experience with its services and deliveries. We are therefore very pleased with the acquisition and are looking forward to integrating Advali into KOGT."
"As a leading technology and software company, KOGT is a very good match for Advali," adds Robert Kristiansen, Chief Executive Officer of Advali. "The acquisition will further strengthen our development, supporting deliveries and growth, in addition to being very positive for our highly skilled employees who will be working as part of a highly respected and experienced organisation in a very exciting marketplace worldwide."
"KOGT has been our major customer for many years – integrity, passion for technology, people centric, customer oriented, are some strong common ethos' that binds both the entities, generating the synergy that was a primary ingredient to this amalgamation and will certainly be the success factor for an easy integration of the organizations going forward," says Vinod Bhawnani Chief Technology Officer, Advali. "We are keen to experience the increased employment opportunities, larger customer base and a wider geographic presence."


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GRAPEVINE, Texas -- For the first time in the program's 22-year history, the Texas Rangers are hosting the 2014 Reviving Baseball in Inner Cities (RBI) World Series, with baseball and softball tournaments being played through Aug. 17 at local high schools in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
The baseball tournament features teams from all over the world in two age groups competing for the chance to play in the championship games on Monday at Globe Life Park, home to the Texas Rangers. Championship games will be televised on MLB Network on Aug. 16 at 4:30 p.m. ET.
In the senior division, consisting of ages 16-18, eight teams fill the bracket, with four teams representing RBI programs run by MLB clubs. Other representatives are from Kansas City, Kan., Jersey City, N.J., Cleveland and Venezuela.
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The Chinese manufacturer saw its revenue increase by 52% compared with a year earlier, to hit CNY 1.2 billion ($194 million). This was largely due to an increase in the number of turbines commissioned during the period, the company said.
This helped lift profit from a meagre CNY 3.6 million in Q1 2013 to CNY 187 million for the latest period despite a 44% increase in the cost of sales, which was counteracted by a 38% fall in financial expenses.
In a positive sign for the future, orders were also up. The company logged new orders for turbines with a capacity of 672MW, largely for its workhorse 1.5MW turbine. This compares with 349MW for the same period last year.
Ming Yang posted its third annual fall in profit in a row when it revealed its 2013 results in April. This was largely due to a depression of the gross margin, but in these latest results the margin hit 15.7%, an increase of 4.6 percentage points on Q1 2013.


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A few weeks ago Men's Warehouse founder, George Zimmer was fired from the company he founded. It turned out he wasn't the majority shareholder of the company. That led to his ouster.
No matter what kind of company you found, there are a few key points to ensure this doesn't happen to you (unless you are just in it for a quick turnaround and flip, in which case that's your exit strategy and what you strive for).
· When raising money, remember, the probability of having to give up more than 50% to get the money is very high. That means you're giving up control. Often the founder is parachuted out with lots of cash. But if you want to build a company and maintain control, think carefully about the sources of your money. This is what is meant by "expensive" money.
· When taking on partners or starting out with partners, make sure there is a strong contractual agreement in place that covers who is in control of what and to what degree. Anything can happen, and the weird stuff often does – if your partner dies or gets divorced, you may wind up with an heir who knows or cares nothing about the business. Then your problems really begin, especially if they don't want to be bought out (or you can't afford to buy them out).
· Vision = Control as stated very clearly in the article link below. If you want to see your vision flourish, make sure you maintain control of your company.
· If your company has a Board of Directors, remember one of their main functions is to determine whether or not to fire you (and your management team). This is what happened at Men's Warehouse. This is also why so many large corporations have a Board of Directors that is composed of cronies.
She is the author of Lies Startups Tell Themselves to Avoid Marketing.


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I had so much fun with this lesson because it is based on one my favorite foods in the entire world. How many of you out there just LOVE noodles? If you're like me and your a fanatic about noodles, you will definitely love this Asian inspired lesson on "how to draw noodles", step by step. I simply can not believe that I have never made a tutorial on a bowl of noodles with a pair of chopsticks before. At first I didn't know if I should make stringy noodles, or a bowl that looked full. I tried both concepts and from the image you can guess which one I chose. I was going to make the noodles stringy, but that concept came out looking like spaghetti. I like the way that this delectable, delicious, tasty, universal food came out. I love anything that has to do with Asian cuisine, although I must admit that I haven't tried 'everything' yet, so I may come across some dishes that I'm not to fond of. Until that day comes, I will enjoy my solitude eating a bowl of hot noodles. Have fun with your drawing guys and be sure to let me know if you are a noodle lover too!
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"In vivo multimodal imaging of a rat model for Parkinson's disease: high resolution micro-MRI, micro-SPECT and micro-CT", 21th Annual Scientific Meeting - European Society for Magnetic Resonance in Medicine and Biology, Copenhagen, Denmark, pp. 22-23, 2004.
"In vivo multimodal (MRI,SPECT) imaging of the 6-OHDA rat model for Parkinson's disease correlated with behavior and histology", XXIInd International Symposium on Cerebral Blood Flow, Metabolism and Function and VIIth International Conference of Quantification of Brain Function with PET, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, June, 2005.


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Few people in West Virginia had any idea that an obscure company was storing a mysterious coal-washing chemical in tanks overlooking the Elk River, just upstream from a major water treatment plant.
Nor did many realize that no agency had conducted regular inspections of those tanks, even though they are perched on a steep bank that tumbles down to the river northeast of downtown Charleston.
On the morning of Jan. 9, residents complained about a licorice-like odor wafting from the site, operated by a chemical company with the unlikely name of Freedom Industries. When state inspectors arrived to investigate, they discovered that one of the tanks had ruptured and dumped the little-known chemical 4-methylcyclohexane methanol, known as MCHM, into the river.
The inspectors also discovered something else: Freedom Industries had not taken action to stop the leak or report it to authorities, according to the state Department of Environmental Protection. As it turned out, there are virtually no regulations governing inspection and maintenance of the storage tanks.
"I can't believe there is not a law against what they did," Charleston's outspoken mayor, Danny Jones, said in an interview. He called the chemical company "a bunch of renegades who have done irreparable harm to this valley."
"Quite frankly," he said, "somebody needs to go to jail."
At least 7,500 gallons of the foaming agent cascaded past a containment area and poured into the Elk River. The spill left more than 300,000 residents of Kanawha County, which includes Charleston, and eight surrounding counties without water after the governor issued an emergency do-not-use order. People couldn't use tap water to drink, bathe, brush teeth or wash dishes or clothes. Boiling it would do no good. The U.S. attorney's office in Charleston has begun an investigation.
It was hardly the first accident to spew dangerous chemicals in West Virginia, where the economy is built on the coal and chemical industries. Despite periodic accidents, the two industries have teamed with politicians in a deeply conservative state (Mitt Romney won 62% of votes in the 2012 presidential election) to fight environmental regulations.
The Department of Environmental Protection last inspected the tanks in 1999, when the site was owned by an oil company. The tanks at the time contained "hazardous waste-generating" oil products, department spokesman Tom Aluise said in an interview. But the tanks now hold chemicals and do not require state inspections because they don't contain material considered hazardous, he said.
Federal inspections are not required because "atmospheric tanks" like the one operated by Freedom Industries are exempt under federal safety inspections because they are not under pressure, cooled or heated — and are not involved in chemical processing, according to the U.S. Chemical Safety Board.
"They fall through the cracks," Daniel M. Horowitz, managing director of the board, which has advocated revising the regulations, said in an interview.
Little is known about the possible health effects of MCHM, a solvent used to wash impurities from coal. For days after the spill, state officials were at a loss to explain to residents just what was in the stuff and just how dangerous it might be. Authorities said it was not lethal, but could cause vomiting, nausea and skin, eye and throat irritation.
As bottled water supplies sold out in many areas within hours of the governor's edict, thousands of residents lined up to collect emergency bottled water or fill makeshift containers from water tankers towed in by the West Virginia National Guard. Day after day, residents went without showers as authorities scrambled to test the water to ensure it met the federal safety standard of less than one part per million of the contaminant.
But that standard was challenged by Richard Denison, a senior scientist at the Environmental Defense Fund. He said the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention violated its own procedures by relying chiefly on a lab rat study by the chemical manufacturer to set the standard. He called the study, in which he said MCHM was fed to rats until they died, "crude," "very problematic" and based on "shaky science."
Dr. Vikas Kapil, a senior CDC official, defended the standard as valid. But he added, "There are uncertainties, and there is very little information on this chemical." He said the agency was reviewing a second MCHM study it had obtained.
The CDC on Wednesday warned pregnant women not to drink water, even though state officials have declared the water safe for 150,000 people in some affected districts, based on the CDC standard. Kapil said the warning was issued "out of an abundance of caution."
In a letter to the CDC on Thursday, Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.) and Rep. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) said they were "deeply disappointed" in the agency for causing "confusion, fear and mistrust" regarding its safety standard. They requested details of CDC studies.
Maranda Demuth of the MCHM manufacturer, Eastman Chemical Co. in Tennessee, said the company was providing complete toxicity studies for the chemical to all agencies and first responders who requested them after the spill. The company's tests were conducted "by reputable laboratories in accordance with established standards," Demuth said.
As an established chemical at the time of the 1976 Toxic Substances Control Act, MCHM is exempt from its regulations, which applies to new chemicals. A document on the Eastman Chemical website says of MCHM: "Harmful if swallowed, causes skin and eye irritation."
"MCHM wasn't on anybody's radar screen until this accident," said Horowitz of the U.S. Chemical Safety Board. He also said most local residents were barely aware of the chemical facility because the tanks are "very ordinary looking, just storage tanks on a concrete pad."
"One might assume the chemical stored inside is not hazardous — until it spills into the drinking water," he said.
As Charleston residents lined up for water, often in the rain or in darkness, they fumed at the chemical company and asked how it could be allowed to let a dangerous and poorly understood chemical leak into their tap water.
"They didn't maintain their product like they should have, and it's affected a lot of people's lives," Chuck Fulks, 59, a construction company employee, said as he loaded emergency water into his pickup in the parking lot of an industrial plant in Charleston. "It looks like they didn't follow regulations."
In Chemical Valley, as the area around Charleston is sometimes called, regulation can be a dirty word. The chemical industry provides at least 9,950 jobs directly and 27,000 related jobs, according to the American Chemistry Council. The region's industry generates a $747-million payroll and pays $117 million in federal taxes and $72 million in state and local taxes, according to the trade group.
Mayor Jones said many residents had complained to him since the spill that the chemical company wasn't properly regulated. He said he was not sure more regulation was the answer.
"Maybe we just need the people who are supposed to enforce the laws to enforce them," he said.
Aluise of the state Department of Environmental Protection said Freedom Industries was required by law to immediately report the leak and to take action to stop it. The company did neither, he said. On Monday, the state agency cited the company for five safety violations, saying containment walls at a new site where Freedom has moved the chemicals were riddled with holes.
When a 2008 explosion and fire killed two workers at the Bayer CropScience plant in Institute, W.Va., the Chemical Safety Board recommended new procedures to help prevent chemical accidents. Those recommendations were not adopted by state environmental and health agencies.
Horowitz said there was "some cautious support early on" from the state and the chemical industry after the 2008 incident. "But there hasn't been much concrete action," he said.
The safety board also made recommendations after a 2010 phosgene leak at a DuPont plant in Belle, W.Va., that killed one worker. Prior to the leak, federal regulators had not inspected the plant for five years. The plant later complied with the recommendations.
Asked about last week's spill, Anne Kolton, vice president of communications for the American Chemistry Council, said the trade group supported attempts to find out what went wrong in Charleston.
"It's very important to determine whether better enforcement of existing regulations could have helped prevent this incident," Kolton said. "If careful examination indicates that new steps are needed, ACC will work with Congress to ensure that any new requirements are targeted and minimize unintended consequences."
Horowitz said one focus of the Chemical Safety Board inquiry would be installation, maintenance and inspection of the storage tanks. Asked whether the board would recommend changes in inspections, he replied, "There is an opportunity for improvement."
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Aluise said the Department of Environmental Protection intended to propose legislation for tougher regulations on chemical storage. In June, the agency asked Eastman about MCHM in response to complaints about odors at the tank site. The agency visited the site five times since 2001 in response to similar complaints but did not inspect the tanks, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Even after the water is declared safe to drink, long-term health effects of exposure to the chemical still won't be known, said Denison of the Environmental Defense Fund. Among them could be damage to the liver or kidneys, or to a developing fetus, he said.
"We just don't know because this chemical has never been properly tested," Denison said. "The data just don't exist."


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Drawings 1 and 2 are labeled according to how NCNW used the rooms during Bethune's tenancy. NCNW members used the first floor front room or parlor as a reception area and converted the dining room into a conference room and library. In this space, committees met and planned various programs such as the annual conference. The largest room on the second floor became office space for NCNW staff. This floor also housed Bethune's bedroom and private office. Bedrooms on the third floor accommodated African American visitors who were not permitted to stay in most hotels in the segregated city.Questions for Drawings 1 and 2
1. Compare Drawings 1 and 2 with Photo 1. Where is the front of the house on the drawings?
2. Briefly describe the use of the main rooms of the house.
3. Study the placement and size of the rooms. What might have been some challenges NCNW faced in using a house as a headquarters for a national organization? What might have been some challenges that Bethune faced in living in the same house that served as the headquarters?
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