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Train No.82629 Chennai Egmore – Kollam Suvidha special will leave Chennai Egmore at 17.00 hrs. on 08th February, 2019 and reach Kollam at 09.20 hrs. the next day.
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Technical Debt is defined as the consequences of poor software architecture and software development within a codebase. Carrying too much technical debt reduce the ability of software to change and evolve. In this article, Jurgen De Smet explains how to manage technical debt from a business perspective.
In this article, Jurgen De Smet discusses technical debt from his perspective of having worked with a large organization maintaining a very large software system. The article presents the different steps that were used to reduce technical debt. The strategy that was created aimed at combining business strategy with technical debt in a single management system. The business perspective was used to evaluate the necessity to re-factor items of the software system. The final situation is that it takes now only three days each month for the solution architect to maintain the process of visualizing the technical debt and having it linked to the business priorities.
Read the complete article on http://blog.co-learning.be/2013/02/28/learn-hxxow-to-manage-technical-debt-from-a-business-perspective/

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LAHORE (Khyber News) – As PDM is all set to hold their final power show at Lahore's Minar e Pakistan before embarking on a long march to Islamabad, PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari and PML-N vice president Maryam Nawaz have reached the rally venue to participate in the rally.
PDM head and JUI-F leader Maulana Fazlur Rehman, PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, PML-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz, Akhtar Mengal and other leaders of the movement will address the rally.
A separate entrance point and enclosure has been built for female workers, the security of which has been handed over to JUI's Ansar ul Islam volunteers and PML-N's Sher Jawan Force.
Generators have been installed for uninterrupted power supply to the rally while special flood light poles have also been installed. Large banners with pictures of PDM's central leaders and slogans have also been hung around the grounds.
Stages, one for central leadership and one for others, have been built for the rally. A main LED screen measuring 20 ft high and 80ft tall and 10 smaller ones measuring 10 feet high and 15 feet wide have been installed around different parts of the rally grounds.
Some major announcements are expected at PDM's main event as the opposition parties have convened a pre-rally meeting at half past noon today.
The meeting between central PDM leaders will be held at the residence of former Speaker National Assembly Sardar Ayaz Sadiq. After the meeting, all leaders will leave together towards the rally ground.


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Kings of the Realm is a multi-platform free-to-play , Real Time Strategy (RTS) MMO Game set in a rich, persistent, medieval fantasy world of conquests, alliances and betrayals.
Kings of the Realm is a free-to-play massively multiplayer real-time-strategy game containing the back story of the fallen realm, hints on strategy and richly expand on details of the online world through an action-adventure fantasy novel. Kings of the Realm is a fantastic gaming experience that will appeal to fans of books ranging from The Hobbit to Game of Thrones. Gamers can play the same game across any connected device they wish, from an iPhone or iPad to an Android device, Windows Phone, a web browser or even on Facebook - what Barnwell calls ''seamlessly cross platform ''.
Imagine a game where you join forces with other players to build a kingdom. You might pledge fealty to a powerful duke for protection, or crush a rebellious knight. You may even conquer or bargain your way to the crown and tax your vassals to pay for your armies. Now imagine thousands of these realms, scrambling for wealth and power across a war-torn continent. Fragile alliances crumbling as new kingdoms rise from the ashes, vying for dominance.
Gameplay: - Build your settlement from a tiny encampment to a sprawling walled city with an army to match. - Strategically deep, asynchronous combat with a range of battle options. - Gather intelligence on your rivals with spies and scouts. - Interact with other players and see the balance of power and wealth on the vast map of Vinland.
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We are the Weber High PTSA! Our mission is to support ALL students at Weber High. In the last several years, the PTSA has not held a fundraiser. We know that so many people in our community are asked to support fundraising efforts by Weber athletes and students participating in clubs. However, this year, we have been asked by Weber High administration to raise money to purchase large banners that will hang on the utility poles that line Weber High Drive and Shorty's Lane. We want everyone who is driving through North Ogden and Pleasant View to know that they are entering Weber High territory. We are the Warriors and we are proud!
This is a "No Fuss Fundraiser." We are not selling candy bars, coupon books or hosting a 5K race. We are counting on all our "Friends of Weber High" to support our effort to promote the spirit of Weber High in our community. We need to raise $2,000 to purchase 26 banners to line the streets of North Ogden and Pleasant View. Everyone in our community will benefit as we beautify our streets and increase our school and community pride. Additional funds collected will support PTSA activities throughout the year. Donations can be made via PayPal to firstname.lastname@example.com, or by visiting https://weber.wds.net/index.php/parent-services/ptsa.
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NPT is hosting monthly NPT After Hours. These sessions are designed for the entire family! Parents can enjoy an hour long session on the months topic, while their students are engaged with our staff on learning and fun! Dinner will be served along with a family activity! Don't miss out on a great time! Registration is below!
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Our NPT Workforce Program was busy at work this summer! The students visited many community businesses learning, first hand, work skills needed to work at those businesses. The students had visitors from local fire and police departments. They went grocery shopping, cooked following recipes and even left with a cookbook of things they could make at home. These students are amazing and NPT couldn't be more proud of each and every one of them!


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Why are men so attracted by fascinating women
Have you noticed that some women never lack admirers? Have you ever wondered why some women though dressed very sexy fail to attract men? You are amazed by how some women succeed to attract men's attention when entering the room, regardless of how they are dressed - elegant, sexy, sport or a very simple outfit?
What does a man want from a woman?
As you have already presumed, men want a woman who in their view is attractive, beautiful, sexy, exciting, funny and who can enchant by her presence. Men want a woman who can be respected and who is "fitting their soul". They want a woman to be able to talk with about anything.
But most of all they want a woman who have confidence in herself and who states by her entire being and behaviour: "I know who I am, and now you can discover me." This is the secret that gives a particular charm to any woman and makes her irresistible.
Is there a man who could resist such a woman? Even if a man will not be interested in her as his possible girlfriend, he would like to know who she is, what she does, where she goes, what she likes. Why? Because when she enters the room, she catches all the attention. While she speaks, people around her turn into an auditorium, which enjoys every word of her. Regardless of how she looks, you are helpless and fascinated by her presence. She disarms you with her charm and her inner beauty overwhelms you.
How does she make the man feel?
Not only does she make him feel a truly man, but she makes him feel happy for being a man and makes him feel the man who he always wanted to be. How does she succeed to make such miracles? This irresistible woman knows exactly what her boyfriend wants. She respects him and makes him feel appreciated. She loves and she never misses the opportunity to tell and show him her love.
She appreciates her boyfriend and all he does for her. She says that she appreciates and shows it to him through her kindness, affection and consideration.
She believes her boyfriend is sexy and attractive and shows it to him through sincere compliments and her intense desire for him. She trusts her boyfriend and supports him every day. In other words she appreciates her boyfriend and treats him in such a way that he feels her appreciation.
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If you want to know how such a woman makes her boyfriend feel, imagine that you are this man, who is fulfilled and delighted by his girlfriend. Imagine how you'd feel if you were him. Basically you as a woman you also want your boyfriend to make you feel very happy and satisfied. It's natural for him to want that from you.
Use your loaf, be attentive and discover what would make your boyfriend feel: happy, appreciated, fulfilled, respected, and loved. You can become irresistible if you learn how to behave with your boyfriend in the way he dreams. The man you love will be delighted by your transformation and will show it to you ... and then you will be very happy that you have chosen to do so!


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September is National Suicide Prevention Month. This is a topic that is very important to me, so I wanted to do a podcast episode discussing mental health in the agricultural context. I was joined by Ted Matthews, a counselor who has spent his career working with farm and ranch families as Director of the Minnesota Rural Mental Health Specialists. Ted offered some great insight about mental health on the farm. To listen to our conversation, click here.
Additionally, we've compiled a list of resources related to mental health that I'd like to share.
Minnesota Farm & Rural Helpline: 833-600-2670
National Ag Law Center compilation of mental health resources by state
National suicide prevention hotline
Prior mental health podcast with Adrienne DeSutter
Prior mental health podcast with Lesley Kelly
Fighting to improve your mental health is something we should all be doing. Asking for help if you need it is a brave first step. You are not alone.


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Work of the contract is for construction of the 18th Street Storm Sewer Systems including approximately 16,000 linear feet of storm sewer ranging in size from 24" pipe to a 5' x 10' reinforced concrete box, 3,000 feet of water line replacement and 4,500 feet of sanitary sewer line replacement. Also included is resurfacing of the roadway and repair of ADA curb ramps where warranted.
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Reclaim your health.
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Acupuncture with Monica's philosophy of "whole person healing" was derived from Monica's past personal experience of receiving healthcare in which she had to set aside and even actively repress her feelings while trying to get help for an autoimmune disorder that developed when she was ten years old.
This process was frustrating and disheartening and it wasn't until she discovered acupuncture that she found a system of healing that honored her as a whole person: her values, her experience, her emotions, as well as her body, mind, and spirit.
All of us are interconnected beings, and you deserve healthcare that honors each of the components that make you you.
You don't need to set aside your feelings or push through discomfort to receive the best care.
Monica specializes in helping women suffering from stress, anxiety, trauma, gi disorders, autoimmune conditions, and other lingering health concerns that just will not resolve.
Acupuncture works as an embodied therapy—helping people recover physically and physiologically while also feeling more connected emotionally, more aligned, and more at ease.
Her gentle approach allows those who work with her to feel safe expressing and exploring what health and wellness looks like for them and implementing small steps to help them get there.
We provide a safe and supportive environment in which women can heal.
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realme has unveiled its first 5G smartphone in its number series – realme 8 5G.
realme 8 5G is India's first smartphone equipped with MediaTek Dimensity 700 5G processor, crafted with excellence and trendsetting features like super slim design, ultra-smooth display, dual 5G dual standby, massive battery with smart 5G power-saving and excellent camera quality. realme 8 5G provides a comprehensive experience for smartphone users at the most affordable price, offering nothing but the best to its customers and bringing realme closer to its goal of becoming a 5G leader in India.
Commenting on the occasion of the launch, Madhav Sheth, Vice President, realme and Chief Executive Officer, realme India and Europe said, "At realme, bringing cutting-edge and emerging technology to our customers has always been a priority. Staying true to its goal as a 5G Leader, we have launched our first 5G smartphone in number series. While the realme 8 5G series is just one step towards realizing this vision, we have big plans to make 5G-enabled smartphones widely available. We will bring more 5G smartphones to every Indian in a variety of price ranges. With the realme 8 5G, users can experience speed to infinity thanks to India's first MediaTek Dimensity 700 5G processor. As a 5G leader, realme will keep on democratizing 5G models to various price segments to make it affordable for a massive number of users".
"MediaTek and realme have been collaborating closely to fulfill our common goal of popularizing 5G in India and empowering customers with the latest technologies. realme 8 5G powered by MediaTek Dimensity 700 processor is a step forward in this direction. Offering a suite of advanced features, it is set to revolutionize the 5G smartphone segment in India with its seamless all-around experience. We look forward to more such attractive launches in association with realme in the near future," said Anku Jain, Managing Director, MediaTek India.
realme 8 5G, a powerful 5G smartphone for everyone, is equipped with MediaTek Dimensity 700 5G processor supporting 5G Dual SIM Dual Standby, letting the phone support 5G SIM cards online by 5G network. realme 8 5G is the thinnest 5G smartphone in the segment with an 8.5mm super slim body and comes with a 16.5cm (6.5″) 90Hz Ultra Smooth Display.
The smartphone has a 5000mAh massive battery, along with a Smart 5G Power Saving mode. With the 18W type-C quick charge, the 5000mAh battery can be fully charged rapidly. realme 8 5G also features an advanced 48MP Nightscape Camera, comprising a 48MP Ultra HD Main Camera, a B&W portrait lens, and a 4cm macro lens along with a 16MP Ultra-clear front camera to meet the selfie needs.
realme 8 5G also comes with a Fast Side Fingerprint Scanner, and a new Dynamic RAM Expansion Technology (DRE) that converts storage/ROM into virtual RAM to address the drawbacks caused by insufficient RAM and create more memory. realme 8 5G is available in two colours – Supersonic Blue and Supersonic Black and comes in two storage variants priced at INR 14999 (4GB+128GB) and INR 16999 (8GB+128GB).
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This instrument is based upon a famous harpsichord belonging to the Art Museum of Hamburg. Its musical elegance and refined look bring to the memory the name of J.S. Bach and the great German harpsichord tradition.
It's often chosen by musicians who want to approach to the German repertoire using instrument coming from the same geographic area.
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Lavandula intermedia
Lavender is an old world ornamental related to mint, its flowers are used in salads, soups, teas as well as potpourri and sachets. Perennial in zones 5-9.
Growing information: Lavender takes its time germinating, so start indoors 6-12 weeks before the last frost. Sow seeds in a fine seed starting mixture or fine vermiculite with a light layer of soil on top. Keep on a heating mat or in a warm location and keep moist. Transplant seedlings once the soil warms, in a location with full sun and good drainage. Does not do well in locations that are overly moist. Growth isn't impressive the first year. In colder climates, bring indoors during winter.
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Vetus is known worldwide for producing some of the best tweezers for eyelash extensions.
Made from high quality stainless steal, these MCS-15 curved tweezers are ideal for separating natural lasheswhile placing lash extensions.
Finished with a luxury gloss silver surface, these tweezers are perfectly formed to fit comfortably between your fingers. The sharp tip ensures the highest precision so you can lash faster and better.
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Firefox 72 was first out of the gate with "independent transforms." That is, instead of having to combine transforms together, like:
.el {
transform: translate(10px, 10px) scale(0.95) rotate(10deg);
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.el {
rotate: 10deg;
scale: 0.95;
translate: 10px 10px;
That's extremely useful, as having to repeat other transforms when you change a single one, lest remove them, is tedious and prone to error.
But there is some nuance to know about here, and Dan Wilson digs in.
Little things to know:
- Independent transforms happen first. The
transformproperty happens last and stacks on top of what has already been done, which can get confusing¹.
- They all share the same
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offset-*properties also effectively moves/rotates elements. Those happen after independent transforms and before
- Claus Colloseus wrote in to fix some issues in this post and clarify just how confusing this can be. For example,
rotate: 45deg; transform: rotate(-45deg);will do nothing as both of them will apply and effectively cancel each other out. So shouldn't
translate: 50px 0; rotate: 45deg; transform: translate(-50px, 0) rotate(-45deg);also all cancel out? No, because of the ordering, the end result is like
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Wow that sounds like a really complex pattern. I am sure you will get it down pretty quick and be whipping that herd of llamas out in no time.
it's not that they are small, just you do need to read. Her illustrations are well done and I have a tendancy to look at those and not READ. Well, you do need to read. I was zipping along nicely, sewed on the snowball corners (GG) at the bottom. Went to add the legs and hmmm, they don't fit. Did I cut the spacer between the legs wrong? Nope. Ah, I didn't add piece EE. And of course I had already trimmed behind GG. So I added a couple of seams. You can't tell because there are so many seams already. This really reminds me of paper piecing but without the paper. Lots of seams.
Here is the 1st one. The ears won't be as pointy when finished, the tips will be sewn into the seam above - right now they look a bit like horns.
I do need to figure out how to get organized. Last night I had all 39 pieces laid out on my cutting table (many are either 1" or 1.25" wide), but I won't have that much room at the retreat. I had packaged them in a baggie for each complete llama. But now I'm thinking it would work better to package them in sections instead (face, legs, ears, etc) as that is how she has her instructions organized. Her instructions are well written but I wish she had given some ideas on organization. I remember Judy Neimeyer's quilt I made several years ago had very detailed instructions on organization that made the entire process VERY easy.
how about adding a flannel board to your tools you take - you can lay out an entire llama, and work from her instructions for the pieces..
I had a mini quilt I did years ago that was a hand piecing project. I took each template and cut out all the pieces I needed for that template.......then I threaded a needle and pushed it thru the center of that stack. For the several years I schleped that project around it all stayed perfectly organized that way. If you cut each lama and then layer each template in the same order and when you are ready to make one take all the parts for that one llama and put them on a little design board in the correct layout. This way they are all organized and as you go you just need to deal with the parts for one of them. If you have a paper template at the bottom of each stack you will always know what those parts are. That is likely how I would approach it but I know we all work differently so you might come up with a better solution for you.
I just love the first one and I can't tell there is a mistake. Just adorable. If I made this I would be tempted to make one mirror image on in the group just because there is always one that didn't get the memo. Your daughter is going to be over the moon with this quilt!!!
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If I made this I would be tempted to make one mirror image on in the group just because there is always one that didn't get the memo.
Ami, that is such a marvelous suggestion!!!!!!!
Just want to hug that little llama because she is so cute. (Yes, I can tell it's a girl llama because her choice of colors is so feminine.)
Ami, thank you I'm going to remember this tip for the next time I do a crazy bunch of small pieces quilt.
Glad that my suggestion is something you can use. I have used this technique many times with projects and it really does keep it all organized even if you drop the project on the floor! When I do scrappy applique I can lay stuff out and then just do my thread thru the stuff in the order I had laid out and I never have to guess. I also snap a photo of the layout so I know where I am as I go.
He is cute.He look like he need some company.
I remember you telling me about running a thread through the middle. So I did that yesterday. The stacks of pieces were too thick to use clips but thread will work. I then put them in bags by section (face, neck, legs, ears, body). I think that will work well. I'm going to try and save it for the retreat the 1st week of October.
As I was going through the bin for a large project bag I ran across a top that for a moment I could not remember where it came from Then duh, I had been given a top to quilt by a lady at church that I had forgot all about - at least 2 months ago. Not real excited about it, it's random squares and her 1st quilt. I've made 2 t-shirt quilts and 2 granddaughter quilts for her. Now she's trying quilting and wanted me to quilt it. I felt kind of cornered so I agreed. She didn't give me any backing and wouldn't tell me what she wanted - grrr.
I also need to quilt a baby quilt for my boss's 3rd grandchild. The two big sisters both have quilts with purple backs that they LOVE (the mom sends me videos of them playing with them). But all the quilts I have finished have purple backs. Grandma & I agreed the new grandson needs a blue back or his sisters will appropriate his. I have 6 finished tops in the closet so I can finish one of those. I didn't realize all the ones I had donated were blue backed and only had purple left. So I have some quilting to do this weekend.


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Chris Mooney posted a slightly histeric blog entry over at the Intersection to which I responded. I don't have the exact text of what I wrote, but basically I told him that I hoped that n = 1 was not a part of his statistical model. You know, that he sampled a bit more outside the year 2005. And that if he didn't, wasn't he being a bit alarmist?
My comment obviously was not worth publishing. Which makes Mooney, IMNSHO, a whiny little twit. Can't take a little criticism, Chris?
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The Presidential Election and Sales Prospecting
I have some slightly bad news for you regarding the upcoming election in November:
No matter who wins the 2016 presidential election, unless your phone is ringing off the hook or you're up to your ears in referrals, you are still going to need to be proactive and reach out to prospects by phone or in person.
You can't control the weather. (See Hurricane Sandy!)
You can't control the election. (Unless you're a mega donor!)
You can't control other companies. (Companies merge and get acquired all the time.)
You can't control other executives. (Executives change jobs or get fired.)
Mark Cuban said best: "The only thing any entrepreneur, salesperson or anyone in any position can control is their effort."
(He's the owner of the Dallas Mavericks and a billionaire by the way!)
I came across an article from by Dave Kurlan recently. Here's his key points verbatim:
"Cold calling isn't enjoyable (for those salespeople who are truthful about it). Cold calling isn't effective except for the most brilliant of callers. Cold calling isn't efficient anymore. One thing that cold calling will always be is controllable and manageable.
You can't control the number of inbound leads your salespeople will get. Of course, if you are generating more leads than necessary to keep the pipeline full of quality opportunities my argument doesn't work. But most companies aren't accomplishing that – yet.
You can't control the number of introductions you will receive from your clients and customers.
You can't control the number of introductions your social network will make on your behalf, even if you are asking for them.
You can control the number of cold calls your salespeople make. Even if the numbers are as ugly as this:
Attempts – 100
Connects – 10
Meeting Scheduled – 1
At least you can control that.
I don't think cold calling should still be the default approach for new business development. However, if a salesperson needs to add 20 new opportunities to their pipeline each month, and the other methods deliver only 7, then cold calling becomes a necessary method to secure the remaining 13 opportunities required."
True that!
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Ryan K Dentistry is your neighborhood children's dentist and strives to be your go-to kid's dental office. We welcome kids of all ages to our dental center. Our dentists prioritize building a quality relationship with your kids to help them feel more comfortable about their oral health. Ensuring your kids have a good experience will be crucial in making sure they understand the importance of practicing good dental care.
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Thumb-sucking appliances are made of metal and are attached to the roof of your kid's mouth. It is an effective method of preventing your kid from sucking their thumbs as it blocks the roof of their mouths, making it uncomfortable for them when they do. Your kid will eventually stop sucking their thumbs altogether, and the appliance will be removed once the habit has been kicked.
Arch expanders are commonly used to widen the roof of your kid's palate (roof of their mouth). It is often used before your kid gets a procedure like braces done as it helps create additional separation and space for the permanent teeth to come in. It is highly effective in kids as their palates tend to be more flexible and are not fully fused.
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2.) Try not to play until you get tired. When feeling too tired to have to sit and win the results of betting on Baccarat should take a break When you feel more comfortable, come back to play again.
3.)Focus on their scorecards and bets. How to win at Baccarat in a basic sure win that everyone should do if you want to play for more money comparing your own playing stats It makes it easier for us to analyze and come up with a formula that will be used to win the next game.
4.)Don't get distracted by other players. While placing bets you should focus on your own play. More than that of gamblers sharing the same table because it will reduce the confidence of their own play and the consequences may be unacceptable for you.
5.)Try to be friendly with the dealer and the casino manager. and should not be rude to them. having a good relationship with the people around It is basic etiquette for living together. Whether your bet results are good or you are in a crisis.
6.)Don't be in a hurry to play, always calm down before playing. It will result in your performance being better than bad.
7.)Withdraw money after playing by what should be done is walk to the cashier Turn playable chips into cash. Then always keep a record of the results of their play.
8.)Take some breaks after playing for a while to see if your physical condition is still ready to continue playing. Rest is important for every activity. Not even gambling, casino games, when the body is well-rested. This will allow us to focus and our body ready to move forward to fully enjoy this activity.
9.)When playing, it should be stopped. Don't try to force yourself to continue playing because it may turn from profit to money. Playing 100 baht is better than Lei losing 100 baht anyway.
10.)Do not overplay Have been playing many times Even betting only 100 baht the next time may be a concern. Should return to bet with a smaller amount until you feel better then start betting with larger amounts later?
11.)As long as you still win, keep playing. If you think that there is still a chance to make more money but should be careful and must be very conscious. Obsessed with the victory because we cannot 100% predict that the next turn will be able to make more money for us.
12.)Stop playing immediately. When it is due according to the strategy rules, play stops. Whether to gain or lose must follow the plan well.


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It's always interesting to watch companies form. And while my vantage point usually has me monitoring startups, I've got to say that following along with the founding, formation, and funding of a venture capital firm is equally interesting. And likely has some valuable learnings for everyone. That's why I was drawn to today's news from Elevate Capital, our newest homegrown fund. Read More


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LORMAN, Miss. – Allen Smith scored 20 points as Arkansas-Pine Bluff defeated Alcorn State 81-74 Monday night in a Southwestern Athletic Conference game.
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MARSHALL TOWNSHIP, Pennsylvania (KDKA) — After 25 years of taking children to and from school, a local school bus driver has decided to retire.
But all of the families he's served wouldn't let him go quietly. They threw him a party to show him how much he's meant to them all.
Tom Herbert has spent the last 25 years as a school bus driver in the North Allegheny School District.
"Kind of overwhelmed and really appreciative. I can't say thank you enough. This is a great neighborhood. This is why I've been doing it for so many years," Herbert said.
As a token of their gratitude, families in the Sewickley Farms neighborhood gathered at a single bus stop and waited for Herbert as a surprise and thank you for caring for their children.
"He's like grandpa. The kids get on the bus, and he greets them, and he's concerned about what's going on with them and he's really like part of our family," parent Marisa Maccarelli said.
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For Herbert, not many drivers tend to stick around for as long as he has, but he says there is a reason he's stayed.
"Seeing the children every day. They are all so nice and all the people. I can't leave them, I just can't leave them, they've been so good to me," Herbert said. "Every time I go through the neighborhood there's people walking, and they always remember me, so I really appreciate this. Thank you so much."
The end of a bus-driving era, maybe; but families say, it is a connection they will always have with a very special man.
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not in lustful passion, like the Gentiles who do not know God;1 Thessalonians 4:5(NASB)
As he is drawing his letter to a close, Paul gives some practical instructions on life and living. The Thessalonians were new believers who needed encouragement to stand firm in the faith. Like all believers, they needed instruction in Christian virtue and godly morality. In this passage, Paul reminds all of us how to walk in a way that pleases the Lord, "not in lustful passion, like the Gentiles who do not know God." Having been saved by grace through faith in Christ, we are to walk in a manner worthy of the Lord. Having been born from above, we are to live in a way that pleases our Heavenly Father, rather than ourselves.
The believers in Thessalonica were growing in their faith, but Paul wanted them to abound in grace more and more with every passing day - and this should be our desire too. We never stop learning. We never stop growing in our Christian life. However much we mature in the faith, grow in holiness, walk in the spirit and live righteously before God, there are always more lessons to learn, greater heights to reach and a deeper knowledge of Scripture to discover.
In this passage, Paul reminded the Thessalonians that the will of God was for their sanctification. He wanted them to grow in grace, walk in spirit and truth, mature in the faith, love as Christ loved, live in unity with one another, and rejoice in the Lord always. Paul made particular reference to sexual immorality. "That you abstain from sexual immorality," is Paul's admonishment, "that each of you knows how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honour. That you know how to conduct yourself - not in lustful passion, like the Gentiles who do not know God."
Before their salvation, the Thessalonians indulged in worldly ways. Like every descendent of Adam, they had a God-given conscience and a free-will to make choices. Like all of fallen humanity, they were sinners, at enmity with God, knowing what was right without the ability to do what was good and knowing what was evil, without the capacity to avoid it.
Like all those who are born in trespasses and sin, our imputed sin nature with its fleshly lusts and our prideful attitudes battle against the born-again spirit of Christ within. However, once we are saved, we are to put away the things of the world and our fleshly appetites, and walk in spirit and truth. And so, Paul was urging these believers to put away any lustful passion. They were to remember who they were in Christ and the price He paid to secure their salvation. And we too are exhorted to live a life that honours His holy name, through the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit.
Paul was their 'father-in-the-faith' who knew that God's will for each of His children is their sanctification. Paul knew the importance of teaching these young believers the need to be sexually pure, to curb any fleshly appetites and to abstain from all forms of evil. They were to keep their hearts clean, their bodies pure, and their minds on Christ. They were to know how to control their own bodies, and live in a holy and honourable manner - and so are we!
During those early days of the Church, there was rampant sexual immorality in every stratum of society, and little has changed in the days in which we live. The modern-day culture is riddled with all sorts of sexual immorality and acts that are an abomination to the Lord, and Paul wanted to stress how important it was for believers to be separate from such godless customs, and to keep from all forms of sexual immorality, lustful leanings, and the godlessness of the culture that surrounded them. And that same message remains God's desire for us all today.
The positive aspect of sanctification is setting ourselves apart unto God. It is to live a life that is consecrated to the Lord. It is a believer that presents their body to the Lord as a living sacrifice that is holy and acceptable unto Him. The one who is being sanctified is the one that learns to say, not my will but THINE be done. The other side of sanctification is to do with the things we abstain from, such as immorality, lustful passion, and attitudes that reflect the unsaved who do not know God.
As we keep the eyes of our heart upon Jesus, abide in the Lord moment by moment and align our mind to the mind of Christ, the less attractive and alluring the things of this world will become. "So may the God of peace Himself sanctify each of us entirely; and may our spirit and soul and body be preserved complete, without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ." (1 Thessalonians 5:23)
Turn your eyes upon Jesus,
Look full in His wonderful face,
And the things of earth will grow strangely dim,
In the light of His glory and grace.
Heavenly Father, I praise and thank You for the many truths contained in the Scripture and the many lessons You want to teach me through the epistles of Paul and the other apostles of Christ. Give me ears that are willing to hear Your voice, eyes to see what You want me to see, and a teachable heart that is open to the challenges You give me. I confess, there have been times when I have left my first love and strayed back into the ways of the world. I pray that You would search my heart and cleanse me within, and keep me walking on the road of righteousness, for His name's sake, AMEN.
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Parashat Beshalach – Erev Shabbat 7 February 2020
Week of 2-8 February 2019
Torah portion: Exodus 13:17-17:16 Haftarah: Judges 4:4-5:31
Theme: War with Amalek
I have to confess that through my theology studies I have become a bit of an expert of the last section in today's parashah: war with Amalek (Exod 17:8-16). So I could not miss this opportunity to reflect on it here.
The story about the war with Amalek is a story of how God's people should face their enemy. In this case the enemy is straight forward: a fairly obscure people (though Gen 36:12 lists them among Israel's relatives) who attack Israel without any apparent reason or provocation. The responsibility of handling this situation falls on Moses. However, his response is nothing like the one at the crossing of the Sea (Exod 14:15-31). This time there is no explicit prayer of Moses and no direct commands or deeds on God's part. At the Sea, God fights the enemy and Moses acts as his apprentice. At Rephidim, the name of God is not heard until well after the battle, there is no apparent prayer and, most particularly, Moses does not handle this situation on his own. Sharing responsibility of dealing with this community crisis is the very core of the story about the war with Amalek.
In the Bible we see this sharing of leadership in several details: Moses approaches Joshua to ask for help, Joshua chooses "men", Aaron and Hur support Moses during the battle. The Mekhilta of Rabbi Ishmael, the earliest compilation of rabbinic commentary on Exodus, also emphasises this sharing of the community leadership. Commenting on Moses' words to Joshua "Choose us men" (Exod 17:9), the Mekhilta comments: "From this it is evident that Moses treated Joshua as his equal." (Lauterbach, 257) According to the Mekhilta, Aaron and Hur helped Moses not only physically supporting him, but also evoking the "deeds of the fathers and the deeds of the mothers." (Lauterbach, 259f.) As the Mekhilta points out, this act of the community working together is reminded in the liturgy of fast days when the community "should have no less than three people passing to the front of the ark to read the prayers." (Lauterbach, 260f.)
Moses, Joshua, Aaron and Hur had to work together to win the war with Amalek. But at the end of the story God reveals that He is in charge after all: "I will surely blot out the remembrance of Amalek." (Exod 17:14) The battle with Amalek is not as spectacular as the victory over the Egyptians and there is not even a victory song after it. The Israelites seem to be growing up and their world is changing. However, this story affirms that despite it all God is always present and in charge, even if sometimes we cannot see it.
For Reflection and Discussion: [1] Reflect on similarities and differences between the battle at the Sea and the battle with Amalek. [2] Discuss God's direct intervention in this world and his less obvious presence.
Bibliography: Lauterbach, J. Z. Mekhilta De-Rabbi Ishmael (Philadelphia: 2004)


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This post will take a look at the JavaScript, HTML and CSS code to implement this progress bar as a dojo widget. In the last post the code I gave was actually for dojo 0.1. Since dojo 0.2 is the latest version, I've moved to that for the final implementation. There aren't really any big changes.
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Should the NFL Raise Superbowl Ticket Prices?
Here's an interesting pricing anomaly: the face value of a ticket to Sunday's Superbowl is $700 - $900, but officials for ticket scalper (reseller) StubHub claim that the average resale price for a Superbowl ticket is $4,300. Given this price disparity, do you think the NFL should raise its prices?
My bet is that the NFL is in no hurry to raise ticket prices because going to the Superbowl is akin to attending an exclusive party that most of us simply aren't invited to. The truth is that only 1% of Superbowl tickets are offered to the public via lottery. To buy these tickets, you have to send in a card indicating interest by June 1 of the previous year. Economist Alan Krueger reports that in 2001, over 36,000 people vied for 500 pairs of tickets in the lottery. So where do the rest of the tickets go? It's payback time: The NFL gets its cut (25.2% of tickets), each team gets 17.5%, host committee (5%), and the remaining 29 NFL teams split the final 34.8%. And who actually sits in these seats? Retired sports heros, sponsors (access to tickets makes paying $2.7 million for a 30 second ad more bearable), season ticket holders, management, and the well-connected. Maximizing profit is not the primary motive in setting ticket prices.
In a fascinating 2001 survey, Alan Krueger tracked down winners of the Superbowl ticket lottery and asked a simple question: if they hadn't won the lottery, would they pay $3,000 (average 2001 price of a scalped Superbowl ticket) for their ticket. 90+% of respondents in essence responded "are you out of your mind, of course not."
What's interesting is that these lottery winners were in fact paying $3,000 a ticket - they could have resold their ticket for that amount. This type of pricing anomaly has long puzzled economists: If I think it's crazy to pay $3,000 for a ticket, shouldn't I be willing to sell my ticket for that amount?
So what's going on here? I don't think economists are thinking about this correctly. Here's my new-to-the-world hypothesis: when asked if they would pay $3,000 for a ticket, lottery winners evaluated how this expenditure would affect their current lifestyle (e.g., skimp on necessities or not make luxury purchases) and decided it's not worth it.
So why not sell the ticket for $3,000? The decision is different. Because they won the lottery, these consumers in essence have an extra $3,000 in their budget. So the dilemma they face really is: "What should I do with this extra money in my budget? These lottery winners opted to spend their $3,000 windfall on the Superbowl over other discretionary luxury expenditures (vacation, fancy electronics, etc.).
I recently had a similar experience. Through a bit of luck, I was seated about 30 feet away from Bruce Springsteen at his Boston concert. As Bruce swung into one of his greatest hits and the crowd went berserk – instead of enjoying the moment like my fellow fans were – I started wondering how much I valued this experience. My answer: it would have taken $1,500 for me to sell my prime ticket but if asked to pay that amount out of my pocket, without a doubt I would have replied "Are you crazy?"
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I wonder what the locations are on those lottery tickets or if they are spread around randomly. It is a private party which you are invited to watch on TV. If I got a pair of tickets for it, I honestly don't think I'd go. Just too much hassle unless you've got an in on a room, private plane in etc, etc. This is and event that is better on TV.


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There is a two-lane boat launch. The launch ramp is perfectly angled for ease of use and will accommodate almost all trailerable boats. The ramp is grooved for good traction, and there are two davit cranes suitable for launching dinghies or small sailboats. Boat launch fees range from daily and yearly.
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Private transient restrooms and showers are available in the building east of the marina office. Additional restrooms are seasonally open to the public in the same building. Cleanliness is our goal and our hallmark. Infant changing tables are provided.
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Both diesel fuel and ethanol-free mid-grade gasoline are available during business hours and by appointment during the season. The Pump-out station is located at the fuel dock – $15 for seasonal tenants + overnight transients. $25 for non-tenants.
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Block and bagged cube ice are available in the office.
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The marina is "fishing friendly." Good fishing is the norm in and around the marina. "Fishing Revetments" are built into the outer break wall promenade. See the Fishing section of this website.
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This is my 1936 Chevy High-cab pickup. They were only produced from December of 1935 to March of 1936. It has a little history. It was purchased in 1936 from Rodas Chevrolet by a feed and grain store and was in service making deliveries until 1965. It was then traded back it to Rodas where it stayed until 2001, showing 19,000 miles.
The truck retains all of its original panels (with the exception of the added roll pan). It also carries the original wood in the bed. It now has a Mustang II front end, power disc brakes, 4067 Chevy engine, 700R4 OD transmission, 10 bolt posi rear with 343 gears, heat, air conditioning and cruise control. It is driver everywhere.
Thanks for looking.
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Augusta, Georgia
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On Friendship
Commentary column of the Guardian Review (2005)
Friendship is a little like the practice of biography. We can't choose our families, but we can our friends and subjects. In a sense the biographer chooses a companion in the past, and lives on close terms with this person for a number of years. It can be closer, in its way, than relations with the living. This was so in the most intense and melancholic way for Tennyson who clung to the dead Arthur Hallam, while memorialising the formative impact of this friend: "I felt and feel, though left alone,/ His being working in my own, / The footsteps of his life in mine."
My Cape Town friend Elizabeth Gevers, who has a keen eye for a lapse in friendship, detects my absence of attention when I think it disguised. This tends to happen in mixed company when some man is holding forth with dogged confidence. After a recent lunch party, I accepted an offer of a lift, but gratitude faded as the driver talked all the way about cars and their "emissions". Once, at an Oxford High Table, before most colleges went mixed, I deplored the old custom of caning in public schools. The dons, all of them men, stopped eating and there was an awkward silence. At length, a kind old classicist whom I particularly liked, said, "Six juicy ones did no one any harm." His colleagues nodded sagely. Most of them had to be talked to about themselves. Such oblivion would be astonishing were it not so common. Is it habit? Or can it be atrophy of imagination, not the rarefied imagination but our normal endowment, what George Eliot called "sympathy" – the secret of characterisation, she said, lies in deep human sympathy. For George Eliot, there was no artificial gap between the imagination of the novelist intent on character, and that of an ordinary social being. Her novels show imaginative sympathy to be a trait anyone – even the miserly recluse Silas Marner - can learn to cultivate.
Though mixed parties are often tedious, they have the advantage of enhancing, by way of contrast, the stimulus of chosen friends – including biographical companions from the past. The longer I lived with Charlotte Brontë and Mary Wollstonecraft, the more I admired their flair for friendship – their efforts to see, hear, and draw out others (Brontë, the discerning Scottish acumen in her light-hearted publisher George Smith; Wollstonecraft, the domestic affections lurking in the frosty philosopher Godwin who didn't care for women's rights).
Unlike friendship, biography can be a one-sided affair. It can happen that the companion from the past does not welcome the relationship, as Henry James imagines in his tale "The Real, Right Thing" where the dead subject - who had been, in fact, a friend - bars his biographer's way. Yet, for the most part, friendship and biography can converge to advantage, as when Virginia Woolf invites insight from Vita Sackville-West: "What I am, I want you to tell me." Then she dares a step further: "if you make me up, I'll make you."
If we could "tell" who we are, or if a friend could "make us up", we would, in a way, create one another. When I recalled three school-friends who died young (Shared Lives), it was like peering into a provincial backwater, which Cape Town was in the fifties : a backwater polluted not only by the rising tide of apartheid but also by stagnant channels of womanhood. The contorted engineering of apartheid was so blatant that it alerted us to the crudity of identities based on race and gender, and to the warping plots that would ensue. At school, our revulsion for the biographic narratives that seemed to lie ahead, encouraged friendship as a liberating alternative. Together, we dreamt of emigration and other transforming plots of existence. A flair for friendship as a form of creativity – beyond anything I have since encountered – was the gift of one girl with cropped red hair called Flora Gevint whom I met on the first day of high school.
The daughter of Jewish refugees whom she protected and also alarmed (finding they had given birth to an explosive alien), she bounced up, at eleven, amongst cowed girls and demanded to know who we were. Perched on her desk, she asked this of twenty-five girls in succession. There was something in her manner so innocently curious that she didn't invite ridicule. Her demand to know was intrusive but exciting. She invented her friends, made us up, conferred on us qualities that were congenial to her. The more unpromising we were, the more resourceful she became – she liked the hopeless ones best. Since I was plain and freckled, she gave me, at sixteen, a charge of confidence. Since Phillippa, was blighted by her sister's death, she infused a continued surge of life; and later, when Ellie, a clinical psychologist, grew lonely and drank, despairing of a succession of partners who sapped her strength, Flora restored her to clarity. All of us she urged to play our parts in character.
Refusing to yield to a predictable future, she broke off her wedding at its rehearsal. Unwilling to violate her integrity, she lived from crisis to crisis. A more formless life is hard to imagine. And yet, as I remember the passion with which Flora urged her friends to be and do, I wonder if there are forms of action like friendship which leave no record but are as creative in their way as more public forms of creativity. In her novels of provincial life, George Eliot could shape her sympathies with moral acumen. But, articulate as Flora was, and fearless in her truth to experience, she could not transmute life into art. Her skill was to shape people, not works; and this, I now see, was the pattern of her life – possibly, the pattern of many unwritten lives that are attuned to what Middlemarch calls "the roar from the other side of silence".


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The Parliament Assembly of the Council of Europe has adopted a new resolution on the Need for Democratic Governance of Artificial Intelligence. The Assembly called for "strong and swift action" by the Council of Europe. The parliamentarians warned that "soft-law instruments and self-regulation have proven so far not sufficient in addressing these challenges and in protecting human rights, democracy and rule of law."
"AI can bring about economic and social progress, and improve government transparency and democratic participation, but it can also be used to disrupt democracy through interference in electoral processes, or manipulating public opinion," the parliamentarians stressed, adopting unanimously a resolution based on the report of Deborah Bergamini (Italy, EPP/CD). She warned that filtering information and mass surveillance, enabled by AI, "risk undermining civil rights and political freedoms and the emergence of digital authoritarianism."
The Council of Europe resolution also follows extensive work by the COE Ad Hoc Committee on Artificial Intelligence (CAHAI). In September 2020 the COE Committee of Ministers approved the CAHAI progress report, which concluded that the "Council of Europe has a crucial role to play today to ensure that AI applications are in line with human rights protections." The Ministers asked the CAHAI to draft a feasibility study on a legal instrument that could "regulate the design, development and application of AI that have a significant impact on human rights, democracy and the rule of law." The COE Ministers also proposed that the CAHAI should examine "human rights impact assessments" and "certification of algorithms and AI systems."
The COE is a leader in the realm of international legal instruments and human rights. All Council of Europe member states have signed up to the European Convention on Human Rights, a treaty designed to protect human rights, democracy and the rule of law. And Article 8 of that Convention has done much to shape modern privacy law. There are 47 member states, including the 27 members of the European Union. COE Conventions are also open for ratification by non-member state. The original COE Convention on Privacy (Convention 108) was ratified by 56 countries.
Parliamentarians with both the Council of Europe and the European Union have now made clear the need to adopt legislation for the democratic governance of Artificial Intelligence. And the Social Contract for the Age of AI, developed in collaboration with the Boston Global Forum and the Club of Madrid, also urges governments to pass laws to ensure that AI respects fundamental rights and benefits society. The Boston Global Forum and the Club be Madrid now propose a new Democratic Alliance for Digital Governance to promote and to enforce the Social Contract.
Marc Rotenberg, Director
Center for AI and Digital Policy at Michael Dukakis Institute
The Center for AI and Digital Policy, founded in 2020, advises governments on technology policy


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Editor's note: Find the latest COVID-19 news and guidance in Medscape's Coronavirus Resource Center.
The number of patients who presented with acute HIV infections at the University of Chicago's emergency department (ED) more than doubled this year. At the same time, routine HIV visits dropped in the surrounding area.
David Pitrak, MD, an infectious diseases (ID) specialist at the University of Chicago Medicine (UCM) in Illinois, and colleagues found that the incidence ratio (IR) of acute HIV infection (AHI) jumped to 14.4 this year compared with the 6.8 average for the previous 4 years (IR, 2.14; 95% CI, 1.01 – 4.54; P < .05).
At a press conference at IDWeek 2020, he said that this year, acute patients made up one quarter of all new diagnoses (9 of 35), "the highest percentage we have ever seen.
"Patients with acute infection, especially those with symptoms, have extremely high viral loads and progress more rapidly. Because of those high viral loads, there's risk of transmission to others, so rapid linkage to care and ART [antiretroviral treatment] is really important," he said.
After the IDWeek abstract was submitted in September, Pitrak said, three additional AHI cases were diagnosed in the ED, bringing the IR of AHI during the pandemic to 2.57 (95% CI, 1.29 – 5.11).
Should All EDs Link HIV Screening to COVID-19 Testing?
The ED at UCM incorporated blood draws for HIV screening as part of COVID-19 evaluations early on during the pandemic, and they recommend that practice for EDs across the nation.
After a positive test result, the ID team was able to quickly link the HIV patients to care and initiation of antiretroviral treatment without adding staff or resources, Pitrak told Medscape Medical News.
Pitrak and colleagues reviewed data from 13 healthcare centers on the south and west sides of Chicago. At most of the centers, fourth- and fifth-generation antibody tests were available. The investigators found that the number of HIV screens that were conducted dropped significantly during the COVID-19 pandemic.
At the height of the pandemic, HIV screening at the sites decreased an average of 58%, the researchers found. As of the end of June, the number was decreased by 32%.
"This is a global problem," he said. "HIV services have been severely impacted worldwide, with the greatest impact on the LGBTQ community."
UCM performed 19,111 HIV screens (11,133 in the ED) between January 1 and August 17 this year. It performed 14,754 COVID polymerase chain reaction tests in the ED between March 17 and August 17. All of the acute cases were identified in the ED.
Pitrak mentioned some possible causes of an increase in the number of patients with acute cases who present in the ED. People who do not suspect they have AHI may be coming to the ED because they think they have COVID-19, inasmuch as many of the symptoms overlap. One of the AHI patients actually did have a coinfection, Pitrak noted.
"There is also the possibility that this could be bad news," Pitrak told Medscape Medical News. "It could be that there are more acute cases presenting because there are more community transmissions."
He noted that follow-up visits have been canceled or converted to telehealth visits during the pandemic, and the number of patients who are initiating preexposure prophylaxis has declined significantly.
"I hope we're not seeing an increase in new transmissions after so much work has been done to decrease transmissions over the past few years," he said.
Partnership With Emergency Physicians
Critical to screening these patients is building a solid partnership between ID and ED physicians.
Coauthor Kimberly Stanford, MD, MPH, an assistant professor in emergency medicine at UCM, said, "You need a champion within the emergency department who can help make sure that the workflow is not disrupted, that however you implement your screening program, you're not putting extra work on the staff.
"We can feel extremely confident that if I send a test and it comes back positive, I know someone is going to call that patient and make sure they get into care."
Although the testing is performed in the ED at UCM, the follow-up, linkage to care, and initiation of treatment are conducted by the ID specialists.
Beverly E. Sha, MD, professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Rush Medical College in Chicago, told Medscape Medical News that although she agrees that HIV screening programs in EDs "make absolute sense," there are different ways to conduct such programs. Sha was not involved in Pitrak's study.
At Rush's ED, she says, HIV testing is linked with a complete blood count.
"If someone presents with fever, we would often be doing that test as well," she said. "I think just globally increasing screening [in the ED] is what makes the most sense."
Sha said they have not seen a similar surge in acute cases in the ED at Rush during the pandemic.
She noted, however, that UCM tested more than 11,000 people for HIV in the ED this year, whereas "we probably only did about 3500.
"The reason testing is so important, whether for HIV or COVID, is the more you test, the more you're going to find," she said, "especially in cities like Chicago."
Pitrak received grant support from Gilead Sciences. His coauthors and Sha reported no relevant financial relationships.
IDWeek 2020: Abstract LB-6, presented on October 24, 2020.
Marcia Frellick is a freelance journalist based in Chicago. She has previously written for the Chicago Tribune and Nurse.com and was an editor at the Chicago Sun-Times, the Cincinnati Enquirer, and the St. Cloud (Minnesota) Times. Follow her on Twitter at @mfrellick.
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KINGSTON, Jamaica (Sporting Alert) — Sprint ace Veronica Campbell-Brown has been given a public warning for the positive test she returned at the Jamaica International Invitational Meet in May.
Campbell-Brown, who missed this summer's IAAF World Championships in Russia because of the positive test, is now cleared to compete again.
Last month, the 2004 and 2008 Olympic 200m gold medallist, had her disciplinary hearing with the Jamaica Administrative Athletics Association (JAAA) Disciplinary Panel behind closed doors, which according to reports, was done under tight security to determine whether or not she had used a banned substance.
The panel, after collecting all the details, made its decision recently – accepting that the Caribbean sprint queen never used the prohibited substance as a mean to enhanced her performances.
Campbell-Brown has been widely recognized as one of the most gifted female sprinters in the world and has constantly denied ever taking anything banned substance to improve her racing.
The Jamaican World Indoor 60m champion owns personal bests of 10.76 and 21.74 seconds over the 100m and 200m dashes.


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Included in the sales flier was this ad.
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Black Friday Ammo Sale
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