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Gestosis – causes, symptoms, diagnosis,treatment

Mon, Mar 21, 2016

Гестоз – это осложнения при беременности,
which are caused by the breakdown of various functions vital
important organs, especially the bloodstream and vascular system.

Gestosis – symptoms (signs)

The first signs of preeclampsia are the appearance of various edemas,
which is called dropsy of pregnant women. Initially, the legs begin to swell
and hands. More serious symptoms include:
blood pressure, as well as the appearance of protein in the urine.

When manifesting these signs, be sure to visit
obstetrician-gynecologist, since this complication may unfavorably
affect the development of the child. Treatment of this disease
It is carried out only in a hospital setting, unlike the light form,
which can be treated at home.

Depending on the manifestations of preeclampsia is divided into eclampsia,
swelling of pregnant women and preeclampsia. Edemas are divided into obvious and
secretive. In the early stages of preeclampsia, hidden edema may appear,
which are associated with fluid retention.

Attempting diuretic self-medication does not reduce the volume
edema and worsen the condition of the fetus and pregnant. Should also
remember that not all edemas during pregnancy are associated with this
disease. And do not be afraid ahead of time, and be sure
you need to consult with your doctor.

The manifestation of preeclampsia can be very different: from stretched to
months of low symptom forms, to lightning and catastrophic
its consequences.

Gestosis – diagnosis

The diagnosis of this disease can be made on the basis of
various laboratory and clinical data. For early diagnosis
this disease requires timely registration in
female consultation, and also it is necessary to visit
regular routine check-ups at the gynecologist and at specialists who
who can send you for consultation. If the attending physician
found you have a suspicion of preeclampsia, you will need:

• pass a complete blood count to determine the amount
platelets and red blood cells; • pass biochemical blood tests
with the determination of the concentration of protein, electrolytes, creatinine and nitrogen
urea; • be tested for clotting and fluidity
blood tests • pass urine tests to determine the amount of
protein; • control diuresis; • carry out blood measurements
pressure on both hands, since there is a big difference in
testimony that indicates the depth of the occurring
violations • maintain constant weight control • conduct
examination of the fundus • to undergo ultrasound and
fetal dopplerometry; • consult a general practitioner,
a neurologist and a nephrologist.

Гестоз – treatment

Modern medicine is not yet able to completely cure
of this disease, but in many cases it is possible to control this
states. Правильное и современное treatment будет способствовать
prevention of severe forms of the disease. Самоtreatment ни в коем случае
unacceptable because without professional and individual
treatments are possible even more complications that will lead to
deterioration of the fetus and pregnant.

With this disease that is treatable, doctors do not
will stimulate preterm labor. Because
premature delivery can only be performed when
inefficiency of treatment or deterioration
baby and pregnant. Treatment of preeclampsia should be individualized, and
timely and proper initiation of treatment can prevent
development of the most severe complications.

Если ваш лечащий врач назначил treatment, то необходимо быстро и
to fulfill all his appointments in a disciplined way, since this can
lead to recovery. Do not do self-healing!

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I have a scene where I have a lot of particles (> 5000) which are essentially spheres, that I would like to animate in a particular fashion. Basically, the thousands of particles can be categorized into a few types, with each type having its own material.

I am working on animating the behavior of a "periodic" box where, as particles cross a plane, they appear out the other side. Similar to a game of snake where the snake goes through one wall and appears out the other. However, I have come across the following limitation(s):

  • When I keyframe the animation, unless the frames are literally 1 apart, the particles will travel backwards then start moving forwards again. If the frames are 1 apart, the particle will disappear and reappear at the back. This is undesirable as I would like to have a smooth animation.

As a solution to this, I thought of fading out the object, move it, then fade it back in at the start. However this brings up another issue:

  • I am using cycles. Short of having 5000+ materials, one for each objects, I don't know how to control the opacity/transparency of an object independently. Also, if I have that many materials, I lose the ability to change the attributes (color/texture/etc...) of an entire group collectively.

If anyone has any thoughts on how to deal with this issue, whether in terms of fading out an object independently of its material, or any neat approaches to what I am trying to do, it would be greatly appreciated. Just for sake of completeness, I am writing a blender python module to do this, since all the position data for the particles are in a file generated by a simulation, and this is the remaining issue I have.

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    $\begingroup$ Maybe I've not well understood the situation, but what would the benefit be in terms of simplicity by not using materials? This "vanishing" property must be controlled per object too,..or not? Changing the attributes of an entire group can be done by using materials node groups. Do you have an example video to show? It would be helpful to better understand the situation $\endgroup$ – Carlo Aug 13 '15 at 21:29
  • $\begingroup$ So you are saying I create independent materials for each particle, but have all the similar particles in one node group? I did not think of that. If I do that, how can I change the materials of all of the nodes collectively? Will it override the individual material properties of each one? This may be what I'm looking for, but if you could clarify that would be great. $\endgroup$ – pragmatist1 Aug 13 '15 at 21:39
  • $\begingroup$ It would be great if you could add a couple of images to your question describing what you are after. It might be something that's easier fine on the compositor. But I'm not 100% sure I understood the question correctly $\endgroup$ – user1853 Aug 13 '15 at 22:04
  • $\begingroup$ No, I was just asking for clarifications. What I was suggesting that with material nodes group you can give a base shader, one per type, and than add a node setup to controle the transparency, that would work per object, so you'll still have 5000 material but based on few groups. The challenge is to avoid to control 5000 transparency keyframes $\endgroup$ – Carlo Aug 13 '15 at 22:06

Ok so I figured out a solution thanks to @Carlo's comment. Hopefully this will help anyone else who's trying to do something similar.

I create one node group per object type that has a default color, and accepts one input: transparency. The node group itself is basically a mixer between Diffuse bsdf and transparent bsdf shaders.

Each object of that type has it's own material which basically links the node group with the material output. I can then keyframe the opacity on each material independently, but still maintain the ability to change the color collectively for the type by changing the node group color.

Since I am scripting this, I am not worried about having to keyframe 5000+ objects. I came up with the following functions:

# create_node_group - Creates a node group
# for a particle type with a default color.
def create_node_group(name, color):
    group = bpy.data.node_groups.new(name, 'ShaderNodeTree')

    # Create node group input.
    inputs = group.nodes.new('NodeGroupInput')
    inputs.location = (-300, 0)

    # Create diffuse shader.
    diffuse = group.nodes.new('ShaderNodeBsdfDiffuse')
    diffuse.location = (0, -200)
    diffuse.inputs[0].default_value = (color[0], color[1], color[2], 1)

    # Create transparent shader.
    transparent = group.nodes.new('ShaderNodeBsdfTransparent')
    transparent.location = (0, -400)

    # Create shader mixer.
    mixer = group.nodes.new('ShaderNodeMixShader')
    mixer.location = (200, 0)

    # Create node group output.
    outputs = group.nodes.new('NodeGroupOutput')
    outputs.location = (350, 0)

    # Create input and output sockets.
    group.inputs.new('NodeSocketFloat', 'Transparency')
    group.outputs.new('NodeSocketShader', 'Shader')

    # Link everything together.
    group.links.new(inputs.outputs[0], mixer.inputs[0])
    group.links.new(diffuse.outputs[0], mixer.inputs[1])
    group.links.new(transparent.outputs[0], mixer.inputs[2])
    group.links.new(mixer.outputs[0], outputs.inputs[0])

    return group

The above function creates the node group and returns a reference to it. I then use the function below to create a material for each object in my scene, which calls the function above.

# create_material - Creates a material with a color
# for the group (if not created already). Name and
# group name should typically be the same.
def create_material(name, group_name, color):
    group = bpy.data.node_groups.get(group_name)
    if group is None:
        group = create_node_group(group_name, color)

    mat = bpy.data.materials.new(name)
    mat.use_nodes = True

    for node in mat.node_tree.nodes:

    mgroup = mat.node_tree.nodes.new('ShaderNodeGroup')
    mgroup.node_tree = group

    outmat = mat.node_tree.nodes.new('ShaderNodeOutputMaterial')
    outmat.location = (200, 0)

    mat.node_tree.links.new(mgroup.outputs[0], outmat.inputs[0])
    return mat

Finally, if I want to change the opacity of an object, I simply call this small function:

# set_transparency - Set the transparency of an object.
def set_transparency(ob, val):
    mat = ob.data.materials[0]
    mat.node_tree.nodes["Group"].inputs[0].default_value = val

This may not be the best solution, but it works for me, and hopefully it will help others in a similar situation.

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  • $\begingroup$ Just to clarify. Do you call the create_material() method 5k times once for each sphere? Or just a few times, once for each sphere type? $\endgroup$ – Justas Feb 15 '18 at 21:06

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Introduction The World Council of Churches Faith and Order Commission issued an ecumenical milestone in 1982 with the publication of Baptism, Eucharist and Ministry, (Faith and Order Paper #111. Geneva: WCC, 1982). It sent that document to the churches which are members of the World Council and other churches who participate in the work of […]


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St. Albert the Great, whose feast day we celebrate on November 15, was the patron saint of Blessed Trinity’s second pastor, Rev. Albert Fritton. St. Albert appears in ceramic relief on the door of the church’s Ambry.
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November 10 – 17, 2019

Weekly Activities

Wednesday, November 13 from 12:00 noon – 4:00 p.m. ~ Catholic Central Food Pantry in St. Charles Hall (Food Pantry operates every Wednesday from Noon-4pm)

Wednesday, November 13 at 7:00 p.m. ~ Choir rehearsal in St. Charles Hall

Thursday, November 14 at 8:00 p.m. ~ Bingo will be played in St. Charles Hall.*

Saturday, November 16 at 8:00 p.m. ~ Bingo will be played in St. Charles Hall.*

Sunday, November 17 from 5:00-7:00 p.m. ~ Italian Dinner in St. Charles Hall

*To check the Red, White & Blue and progressive Share-the-Wealth carry over amounts and progressive numbers for this week, click HERE and visit our Facebook page.

Mass Intentions

Sunday, November 10 ~ Mass at 10:00 a.m. – Eternal Rest for Edward F. Schroeder (Requested by Connie Aquino)

Monday,November 11 ~ Veterans Day ~ St. Martin of Tours ~ No Service

Tuesday, November 12 ~ St. Josaphat ~ Mass at 11:00 a.m. – Deceased Members of the Ryan, Reilly, Reynolds and Pfeiffer Families (Estate of Mary Reilly)

Wednesday, November 13 ~ St. Frances Xavier Cabrini ~ Mass at 11:00 a.m. – Eternal rest for Lucille Venezia (Blessed Trinity Church)

Thursday, November 14 ~ Mass at 11:00 a.m. – Deceased Members of the Ryan, Reilly, Reynolds and Pfeiffer Families (Estate of Mary Reilly)

Friday, November 15 ~ St. Albert the Great ~ Mass at 11:00 a.m. – Eternal rest for Lucille Venezia (Blessed Trinity Church)

Saturday, November 16 ~ Mass of Christian Burial at 10:00 a.m. for Lucille Venezia

Saturday, November 16 ~ St. Margaret of Scotland, St. Gertrude ~ Mass at 4:30 p.m. – Blessings for Francis X. Hezel (Judy Casassa)

Sunday, November 17 ~ Mass at 10:00 a.m. – Eternal Rest for Edward F. Schroeder (Amy Johnson)

Ministry Schedule for Saturday and Sunday, November 16/17, 2019:

Saturday, 4:30 p.m.  Reader: Michael Ogoh Eucharistic Minister: John Curtin

Sunday, 10:00 a.m.  Readers: Joe Nwogu; Eucharistic Ministers: Dan Korchowsky, Alice Davis, Fidelia Ejimadu; Choir – Mary Kresse

Veterans Day
November 11

News from our Parish Community

Dinner Reservations ~ This is the final weekend to obtain tickets for the Italian Dinner, on Sunday evening, November 17. Our in-house Italian dinner featuring homemade pasta and bolognese sauce prepared by Cugino’s Restaurant in Williamsville will be served from 5-7pm, and includes entrée, salad, beverage and dessert. Tickets will be available following both Masses this weekend. They at priced at $15 for adults and $8 for children 12 & under.

Gifts for The Home Bound Through December 1, the Ladies Sodality will be accepting items for their annual Christmas gift bags to be delivered to our home bound parishioners and those in senior care facilities. We face a greater challenge this year as there are already 18 potential recipients (5 men; 13 women). Our goal is to have presents ready for delivery on the weekend of Dec. 7/8.  If you would like to contribute, please bring your new, unwrapped items to church and leave them in the designated basket at the left end of the communion rail near the statue of St. Joseph. If you prefer to donate money, please do so BY NOVEMBER 21 so that our volunteers have time to shop. To share information about someone you think should be included, please contact Vera Andrew (716-704-2944) or Mickey Dick (716-832-2540).

Cocoa Challenge 2019 ~ Did you notice? Instant hot chocolate donation are filling up the back pew. Please help us reach our goal of 4,200 packets by December 1 (only 3 weeks away). Busy? Shopping inconvenient? Consider a monetary donation. Just use the envelope marked “Prisoner Gifts” and place it in the weekend collection.

Help personalize the gift bags to be filled with items for our prison inmates. No special talent is need to decorate the bags — keep it simple. Bags with instructions are available in the back pew near the cocoa donations )or call Amy Johnson at 716-836-4694).

Books — Donations of soft cover pocket-size books (5×8″ max) ar also welcomed and can be left in the marked back pew.

All are Welcome! The Blessed Trinity Choir is welcoming new members to enhance our Christmas Eve Liturgy. Choir practices are most Wednesdays at 7:00 p.m. in St. Charles Hall. We are currently beginning preparations for our Prelude on Christmas Eve and are learning some beautiful settings of The Huron Carol, Silent Night, Infant Holy, and a new piece by Liam Lawton, Nowell, Nowell.

While listening to Christmas music before Thanksgiving may be tiresome, singing Christmas music is uplifting, and helps us prepare our hearts for the beautiful advent and holiday season. No previous singing experience is necessary, nor is the ability to read music. All interested singers are welcome to join us in St. Charles Hall for camaraderie and a little holiday cheer – with no long term commitment.  Please speak to any choir member about your interest, and help make our Christmas Eve Liturgy one to remember!

Did you know Blessed Trinity Church has one of the most beautiful acoustics in Western New York? Join us up in the loft and help enhance our Liturgies. Choir practice continues on Wednesday, November 13, at 7:00 p.m. in St. Charles Hall. All are welcome to attend.

The second collection on November 9/10 is an archdiocesan collection to support religious services for those in the military services. Please be generous.

Sodality Christmas Dinner ~ Please note that the date of the Ladies Sodality Christmas dinner party has been changed to Tuesday evening, December 3.  It will take place at The Family Tree Restaurant on Bailey Avenue in Amherst. Additional information about dinner choices and pricing will follow.

So Much to be Thankful For ~ Our Fall Wine Tasting committee is pleased to announce that the October 25 event raised $4,100. Thank you to everyone who contributed in any way!

Bridget Blesnuk
Music Director
1991 – 2010

From Hurt to Hope — a service of healing and hope for our diocesan family – Sunday, November 24, at 3 PM at St. Peter & Paul Church, 5480 Main St., Williamsville. In light of recent events surrounding sexual abuse in our diocese, members of the Church Musicians Guild of Buffalo (the “CMG”) are offering an outlet for sorrow and a way to express hope for our Church through their gift of music. The service will be meditative in style and feature music of Taize in a program conceived around the theme of “only in God can my soul find rest.” The choir will be drawn from the host church and include Guild members and members of our own choir. It was made possible through a bequest in honor of our late music director and CMG member, Bridget Blesnuk. All are welcome to attend, and we hope you will join us.

Blessed Trinity Needs Your Help! We’re not asking for money, but for something maybe even more valuable: a little bit of your TIME. Just a bit. ONE or TWO nights a month that will really help your parish. Our most recent financial report shows the importance of BINGO. Clearly, this fundraiser is essential for our parish’s financial health. Just as clearly, it needs broad parish support in the way of MORE workers. We have Bingo every Thursday and Saturday night. Can you PLEASE commit to one or two nights a month? You can start simply by helping to sell things and — as you learn the routine — cross-train for other essential tasks. Our friendly team of workers stands ready to help you. Please contact Kathy Press at 716-445-8160 for more information. Your Parish Bingo Team thanks you!

Do you know that Mass is the highest and greatest form of prayer? The Catechism of the Catholic Church reveals that “from the very earliest days of the Christian religion, [the Church] has honored with great respect the memory of the dead.” In its reference to the Second Vatican Council’s conclusion that “it is a wholly and a wholesome thought to pray for the dead that they may be loosed from their sins,” the Catechism adds: “Our prayer for them is capable of not only helping them, but also of making their intercession for us effective.” Consider contacting the church office (716-833-0301) to request a Mass for yourself, your deceased loved ones, or for any intention. The stipend is $15.

Presentation of Offertory Gifts ~ For those who have requested a Mass and would like to present the Offertory gifts, please see Head Usher, Ed Marien, prior to Mass. This also applies to those whose family members are being remembered during the Liturgy.

Is it time to update your contact information? We know that not everyone can attend church every weekend, so when there is important information to be shared, we often mail it.  If you have not received some of our recent mailings, please make sure that we have your correct contact information by completing this form. This is also a chance to let us know if you: wish to be included in our online email list, register as a parishioner, or request envelopes. You can also submit the requested information by phoning our secretary at 716-833-0301 any Tuesday-Thursday between 10:30am and 2:30pm; sending an email to blessedtrinitychurch [at] gmail [dot] com; or Clicking HERE to use the contact feature of our web site to submit the information. If you choose either of the last two, please use “Contact Update” as the subject of the email or message.

Home Visits ~ Please notify the church office if you know of aged, sick, or home bound parishioners who may wish to receive a visit and the Eucharist on the last Friday of each month.

“I will give thanks to you, O Lord, with all my heart, … in the presence of the angels I will sing your praise.” Ps 138:1
Angels in Vincent Mundo’s murals on either side of the Sanctuary express attitudes one should have toward the Eucharist, including praise, thanksgiving, and petition.
Photo credit: Duane Held

News from our Vicariate Cluster and the Wider Community

Free Legal Advice by Volunteer Lawyers Project, Wednesdays, 12-2pm at Adult Education Center (368 Virginia Street in Buffalo) and Thursdays 3:30-5:30pm at East Community High School (820 Northampton Street in Buffalo). Visit or call 716-828-8491 for more information.

Concerts for The Soul Presents Remembering Our Loved Ones: A Musical-Poetic Journey (7pm, by donation) ~ Friday Nov. 15 St. Andrew’s Church (1525  Sheridan Drive in Kenmore); Saturday Nov. 16 at Blessed Sacrament Church (1035 Delaware Avenue in Buffalo); Friday Nov. 22 at UB Newman Center (495 Skinnersville Road in Amherst); Saturday Nov. 23 at St. Francis of Assisi (4263 St. Francis Drive in Hamburg). Come join Tenor Vocalist Cory James Gallagher and Writer-Poet Amy Gallagher as they take you on a musical-poetic journey through loss and grief, to the light of hope and inspiration. This evening will be a meaning-filled opportunity to remember those that we hold most dear in our hearts. You may request to have your loved one included in the concert with a song dedication or a written message in the program by contacting Cory at concertsforthesoul [at] gmail [dot] com or 716-868-2047.

Handling the Holidays will be presented Tuesday November 19 at 7pm at Mt. Olivet Cemetery (4000 Elmwood Avenue in Kenmore). The holiday season is not always greeted with happy anticipation. Grief may make it difficult to carry on as usual. Practical tips and strategies will be discussed for handling the holidays, to help you find your way through the season. Presenter is Cindy Tichenor who has served for over 20 years as a facilitator of her parish Bereavement Support Group. Open to the community; no charge. For more information or to reserve a spot, call Marianne Hubert, Director of Grief Support, at 716-873-6500.

Weekend Retreat “JUST MEN” at Stella Niagara Center of Renewal in Lewiston, Friday November 22. Led by Fr. John Graden, OSFS, Director of Embraced by God. Space is limited. Visit or call 716-754-7376, ext. 2 to register (preferably 2 weeks prior to event).


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Professor Krista Jefferies Writing Effective Prose 110-47 Gangs as a Social Issue Essay 2 December 2010 Gangs An Endemic Gangs and gang violence are an issue that is arising in the United States and other parts of the world. Its increasing membership, which happens to be made up of younger and younger children are impacting communities in direct and indirect ways, which is one reason why it is a social issue. People might not expect gangs to be a social issue because there are more important issues out there, such as gay rights, abortion, homelessness, child abuse, and environmental issues, but that is where they are wrong. Gangs affect people and their communities in many different ways. In some cases, they affect them in more ways than they know or expect. Either they affect the children they recruit, or the mothers of these children, or the neighborhood. Gangs, gang violence, and gang influence in general is much widespread than people know, and if something is not done to constrain it, it will affect communities on an even more personal level, and possible start to deteriorate them. According to Tom Jackman, a Washington Post staff writer, there are two ways to combat gangs and their violence, one, the Los Angeles approach, and two, the New York approach. In 2005 there were a reported 11,402 gang-related crimes in Los Angeles, and 520 in New York. Jackman says the reason for this is that New York has a lot of programs that direct children away from gangs and their influence such as job training, after-school activities, mentoring, and recreational programs. In comparison between Los Angeles and New York, these programs greatly impact gang violence by giving children direction in life, or something to do. One way gangs affect people is because of the alarming rate that children are joining them. It is a two way street for the children and the leaders for the gangs. For the children, normally they come from broken homes, where they are neglected and they yearn for a sense of family. That is why they turn to gangs where they are provided with that sense of importance and belonging. One main reason why gangbangers (gang members) join gangs is to gain a reputation. Other reasons include retaliation/revenge, respect, recognition, and money (Nawojczyk). For the gang leaders, they know that juveniles will not be seriously charged for anything and receive a lesser punishment, and so they become comfortable with sending children to do the dirty work for them. According to the National Drug Intelligence Center Street gangs, outlaw motorcycle gangs, and prison gangs are the primary distributors of illegal drugs on the streets of the United States. Gangs also smuggle drugs into the United States and produce and transport drugs within the country.Street gang members convert powdered cocaine into crack cocaine and produce most of the PCP available in the United States. Gangs also produce marijuana and methamphetamine. In addition, gangs increasingly are involved in smuggling large quantities of cocaine and marijuana and lesser quantities of heroin, methamphetamine into the United States from foreign sources of supply. Gangs primarily transport and distribute powdered cocaine, crack cocaine, heroin, marijuana, methamphetamine, MDMA, and PCP in the United States Drugs are a very present problem in society, even in first world country America. It is no surprise that almost all of the drugs that are being trafficked are owned and regulated by gangs. For example, the drugs that a gang leader attains from an overseas exporter are given to his gang members in large amounts to sell. Then, it is divided and sold even further, to teens that are either in gangs themselves or are looking for quick money. Sooner or later these drugs find themselves in schools and other institutions of the like. Apart from drugs and the terror gangs unleash on communities, a considerable amount of crime is also gang related. Unsurprisingly, they are the ones to abuse the second Amendment by owning guns illegally, which only means more crime such as armed robberies and homicides. Without gangs, communities that look filthy and broken down would look a little prettier without the occasional tagging of gangs and their vandalism. These taggings are spray paintings of a gangs initials or symbols that are spray-painted allover a neighborhoods walls. Gang graffiti is the most common way to relay messages and communicate with other gang members. They communicate messages such as challenges, deeds, warnings, and other pronouncements. Only other gang members can understand these taggings, sometimes members of other rival gangs (Nawojczyk). Most gang members do not know that by becoming a gangbanger they are lead into a life of destruction, one that they can never leave as it is against all gang rules. Once one is in, he or she is in for life. Fraternity rules apply here as well in a gang if one tries to leave, they will not make it out alive. The punishment for trying to abandon is almost always death. The last thing one wants to do in a gang is abandon it. The authorities try to crack down on gangs but gangs are becoming engraved in societies. To make sure children are not tempted or forced to join gangs, cities must create programs that allow children to have something to do keep them occupied (Jackman). People must ensure that children are not neglected, but loved so they do not go looking for love in the wrong places. Works Cited Jackman, Tom. Social Programs to Combat Gangs Seen as More Effective Than Police. 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Once you start cosplaying, it’s hard to stop and Gary Sterley has given the cosplay bug to his wife Angela by helping her make the impressive Destiny Hunter costume pictured above. The armor features the Iron Banner design. It features a tree pattern not unlike the White Tree of Gondor from Lord of the Rings. Gary and Angela built the costume from the ground up using foam, fabric, fabric paint, Sintra, and more — we previously highlighted how Gary used a 3D printed stamp to embellish the armor. They’ve been working on the costume on and off since May and really ramped up production before Dragon Con.

The work in progress photos below show off a couple stages of the armor and the knuckle armor. See more photos on Facebook.

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Hire Heroes to Combat Talent Shortage

Candidate scarcity is becoming an increasingly common challenge due to record unemployment lows. In addition to making changes in how they hire, many smart Hiring Managers are realizing the value of transferable skills – and that veterans, an often-overlooked group when it comes to stellar employees, have them in spades. In addition to possessing great technical skills, veterans also have many sought-after competencies that we look for in job candidates. Thanks to their prior military training and career, they have polished their skills in leadership, teamwork, critical thinking and problem-solving to a fine shine – not to mention their training on how to work under pressure was a bit more rigorous than many of their civilian counterparts. And that’s just a few of their many marketable strengths. Here are a few more:

  1. High adaptability: veterans have a proven ability to learn new skills quickly and efficiently, which is very helpful nowadays, when we are constantly changing software, improving processes and evolving our best practices.
  2. Strong leadership:as trained soldiers, veterans can calmly take charge when necessary, and then lead by example as well as through clear directives, motivation, and delegation.
  3. Collaboration and diversity:nothing teaches teamwork as thoroughly as the military, where the mission and goal come first, and everyone must learn to work together successfully, regardless of race, gender, ethnicity, age – everyone is a valued part of the team and critical to the mission’s success.
  4. Accountability:the military is legendary for cultivating a healthy respect processes, systems, policies and taking responsibility. Follow-through and ownership are vital skills in the armed forces.
  5. Safety and health awareness:veterans are trained to be conscious and cautious of any dangers that can pose threats to them or those around them. They are comfortable with even stringent health and safety standards, and many are trained to remain calm when incidents, hazards, or injuries happen.

Even before Thanksgiving, there is a holiday in November that reminds us to give thanks – specifically to an amazing group of men and women. Veterans Day honors those who have served in the U.S. Armed Forces. If you work with or for a veteran, don’t forget to give them a salute!

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November 15, 2015

Lessons from "Conflict Management Training and Coaching Sessions"

The quotes in this post are participant feedback from a one day conflict management session delivered to IT professionals in Kochi, India.

Participants were asked, "After attending this session, how can you prevent and/or resolve conflict?"
To prevent conflict, we have to respect others and their decisions. Take into account everyone's opinions.

I should be more patient and listen to the other person's perspective. We should try to discuss it rather than making assumptions about it. In some cases, I should be flexible. If the other person has good ideas, maybe I can compromise.

I am more confident to handle problems inside and outside of work after taking the session. Jennifer also added a small section on how to handle conflicts in our native language. Though she is not fluent in Malayalam, she was able to facilitate us in a group discussion and activity on this which helped us understand it better in our own culture.
We have to know there are no winners from a conflict. We have to consider how badly the other person may be impacted during the conflict to find a reasonable solution which benefits both sides.
If I pay attention to our conflict triggers and others, this helps us to prevent conflicts or to avoid escalating problems. Also, understanding triggers helps us to be more sensitive to our own and others feelings and emotions.
Something suprising I learned is that conflict is not always bad. I always avoided conflict because it's uncomfortable. This session helped me by providing me skills in communicating in difficult situatoins. Rather than avoid conflict, now I am confident to discuss challenges with my colleagues in hopes of learning and improving ourselves.
Though we feel it's easier to give good feedback rather than negative feedback, this session helped me to articulate with more accuracy positive feedback as well as how to point out mistakes or tell someone they are wrong in a collaborative way. I also have understood how to take feedback professionally, without taking it too personally.
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Much has been made of the Internet’s ability to resist such control. The network’s technological origins, we are sometimes told, lie in the cold war–era quest for a communications infrastructure so robust that even a nuclear attack could not shut it down. Although that is only partly true, it conveys something of the strength inherent in the Internet’s elegantly decentralized design. With its multiple, redundant pathways between any two network nodes and its ability to accommodate new nodes on the fly, the TCP/IP protocol that defines the Internet should ensure that it can keep on carrying data no matter how many nodes are blocked and whether it’s an atom bomb or a repressive regime that does it. As digital-rights activist John Gilmore once famously said, “The Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.”

That is what it was designed to do anyway. And yet if five phone calls can cut off the Internet access of 80 million Egyptians, things have not worked quite that way in practice. The Egyptian cutoff was only the starkest of a growing list of examples that demonstrate how susceptible the Internet can be to top-down control. During the Tunisian revolution the month before, authorities had taken a more targeted approach, blocking only some sites from the national Internet. In the Iranian postelection protests of 2009, Iran’s government slowed nationwide Internet traffic rather than stopping it altogether. And for years China’s “great firewall” has given the government the ability to block whatever sites it chooses. In Western democracies, consolidation of Internet service providers has put a shrinking number of corporate entities in control of growing shares of Internet traffic, giving companies such as Comcast and AT&T both the incentive and the power to speed traffic served by their own media partners at the expense of competitors.

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Seven Deadly Sins Of Your Website Design

Posted by Jon Sooy on Thu, Jun 28, 2018 @ 12:32 PM

Most business owners realize that websites are not permanent fixtures and must be updated periodically. But many businesses still commit deadly sins with their new designs. Don't be that business.

Have you ever wondered what makes for a really good website? There are many factors and design is one of the main elements to consider. All the things your website visitor cannot see are important, but what that visitor does see and experience is arguably more important.

At least, it is to your visitor. And it had better be good or they are unlikely to come back!

The Seven Deadly Sins of Websites

It's not enough to just hope for the best and think that your crappy web design will be "good enough." If you want to avoid having visitors wishing they hadn't found your site before they quickly click away, you have to confess your website design sins and make restitution.

Or, better yet, make a better website.

So, what are the "Seven Deadly Sins" that you could commit with your website? Well, first, be assured that there actually many more than that, but these are probably the worst of the bunch. Secondly, they are all things that can be eliminated, corrected or changed.

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1. Loads Slowly

No one likes to wait for a site to load. This is true for the loading times on all devices . What is considered slow? Ten seconds to load? Five? Or even three? Yep! In fact, a good loading time is measured in milliseconds. And, to make it worse, even Google will penalize your site if it is too slow and your visitors quickly leave to go elsewhere. While much of the speed rests with your hosting service, your website design can help significantly.

2. Not Mobile-Friendly

The number of people using mobile devices increases on a daily basis. If your website does not have an engaging, mobile-friendly design that your audience can access quickly and easily, they probably won't. Sites that don't fit the screen on a mobile phone, or take forever to load (see above!) won't be visited. Simple as that. By not providing a mobile-friendly version you may see a negative impact on your search rankings. And a site with a solid mobile-friendly presence will potentially see a boost in rankings.

3. Not Optimized For Search

If you built a business but had no signage, no directory listing, no... anything! - would people ever find your store? No. Not even if they were looking for a business like it. That's what happens to websites that fail to optimize for search engines. People are looking for a business like yours on the web, but if the search engines don't know you're out there, you might as well not be.

4. Not Designed For Conversions

You website is not a museum piece. Hopefully, visitors don't show up to admire your content and cool images and then move on. If you are a business, organization, or non-profit, you probably want people to DO something once they show up. Bad designs make this difficult or impossible. A site that doesn't have a clear and compelling call to action might as well be in a museum.

5. No Email Capture Forms

Closely related to the fourth deadly sin, not having a way to capture your visitor's email address and name is tantamount to selling things to strangers out of the back of your car.  No names are exchanged and no way to track the transaction. But no way to get a repeat sale, a loyal customer, or a client for life. Just two ships passing in the night. Or the Internet.

6. Not Linked To Social Media

Maybe you're not big on social media. That's fine. But odds are that your prospects and customers are. And if your site does not leverage the reach and impact of social media platforms, it will be a squeaky, small voice in a sea of loud voices. A site that doesn't allow users to quickly access social media pages instantly limits that brand’s reach, visibility... and traffic.

7. Not On SSL

Do you find "http" versus "https" confusing? Understandable. Or irrelevant? Not good. Google thinks data security is very relevant. In fact, since late last year, if your website doesn’t have an SSL certificate, it shows a ‘Not Secure’ notification in the URL bar. An SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) is the standard technology to establish an encrypted link between a web server and a browser. It ensures that all data passed between a web server and a browser remains private and integral. Acquiring an SSL certificate changes the "prefix" of your URL from "http" to "https". And Bob's your uncle!

Website Design as a Marketing Strategy Component

Your website is your prime real estate on the Internet. It is your digital home-base and your inbound marketing platform. As such it is (or should be) a major piece of your overall marketing strategy. So it makes since to do everything you can afford to have the best designed, most optimized, and fully leveraged website possible.

This is true whether you are a brick-and-mortar operation with a website, or an online business whose website is their actual "store." Don't fall for the lie that physical businesses only need to have an "online brochure" type of website. You are cheating both yourself and your customers with that.

And if you are a strictly online entity then you already know that your website is your lifeline and requires as much improvement as you can afford.

Yes, it requires an investment. However, the good news is two-fold:

  1. It doesn't have to break your budget
  2. It will pay for itself and beyond

The truth is that the costs for website re-design vary tremendously and often you are only looking at some relatively minor additions, tweaks and adjustments. The key is to determine what your ideal site would look like and do as much as you can to make it that way.

Update Your Website for Better Results

You might be somewhat limited in what you can do with your existing design. Fair enough. But just know that keeping visitors on your site long enough to become leads is crucial. Invest in as much updating as you can afford. And come to grips with the fact that it really is an investment.

Here's a bonus (and mind-numbing!) mistake too many businesses make with their sites: no call to action. Seriously? What action do you want visitors to take when they land on your homepage? Figure that one out and then create a prominent, clickable “call to action”, or CTA, button. The call to action on your homepage should be designed to draw visitors further into your site.

You can and probably should have more than one CTA, but it’s also important not to overload your website with too many CTAs. If you have too many, you’ll simply create more visual distraction for users and that can lead to a confusing user experience.

Help With Your Website

If you are considering getting help with your company's marketing efforts, it is helpful to have the insights of a third-party, a marketing professional, to assess your website and assist with your strategy. BroadVision Marketing offers helpful information on creating effective marketing strategies.

You can get free advice with your Free Complimentary Inbound Marketing Session and also learn more about your website and its place in Inbound Marketing. You can also call BroadVision Marketing at 707-799-1238

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We are pleased to announce ETH/USD margin trading on CEX.IO, following numerous requests from our users. This is the fourth pair for trading with 1:2 and 1:3 leverage on the exchange, after BTC/USD, BTC/EUR and ETH/BTC.

Margin trading is a perfect way to trade more than you’d be able to trade using your funds only, and that can result in a higher profit. Trading with leverage on our exchange is easy and intuitive. Therefore, not only traders can take advantage of it, but also cryptocurrency beginners.

Why Use Margin Trading on CEX.IO?

The killer feature of margin trading on the platform is a risk-preventing system guaranteeing that margin trading cannot move your balance to negative values.

Other benefits of margin trading on the exchange are the following:

  • Guaranteed stop loss. Our system reserves part of the order book, so that position is closed at price, not worse than the stop loss price.
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5 December 2013

A Dozen Weeks

Gilded Rose, again
In the 12th week of my Software Craftsmanship tour I ran an in-house Coding Dojo for a team that wanted to improve their unit testing skills. After an introduction what constitutes (and what does not) a good unit test I wanted them to practice. Understanding the concept of unit tests and using the corresponding testing framework was no big deal, but applying all the principles in practice was harder than it looked. I asked them to write the Test Cases for the Gilded Rose Kata, an exercise designed by Emily Bache. Since I participated in Emily's session during this year's XP conference in Vienna, I just love this kata. Although creating test cases for a small piece of logic might seem trivial, there is so much one can learn here. I had run the same kata during one of my Dojos at Agile Testing Days before and got a lot of positive feedback. If you got curious about the kata, it is described in full detail in Emily's excellent Coding Dojo Handbook.

Vienna seen from the 34th floorQuality important is. Fight for it you must ;-)
Next I visited Gregor Riegler. I had not known Gregor before my tour, but his blog Be a Better Developer had attracted my attention. I really liked its subtitle "Quality important is". When I studied his blog I noticed that he was from Austria, even Vienna. I immediately sent him an email and Gregor was interested in my tour right away. Although it looked like we would not be able to pair, he managed to get approval from his management in the end. I spent three days in the office of EBCONT enterprise technologies, in the 34th floor of the Millennium City and enjoyed the view.

Gregor called himself a Restifarian and so we rightfully worked on a REST API for his current project. The Spring Web-MVC powered REST resources would just display data from the database, and first it looked that there would be no particular logic to put into the resource controllers. But we needed links to related resources, the so called hypertext. We had great discussions how to create and add these links to the response in a DRY way without messing up the domain model which we wanted to stay independent of any technology. I liked our session very much and learned a lot both about REST and learning in general. Thank you Gregor!

November is DemoCamp Time
Since the very first Eclipse DemoCamp in Vienna, November 30th 2009, we kept up the tradition of organizing an Eclipse DemoCamp twice a year. So Friday afternoon was demo time. For the ninth time the Vienna Eclipse enthusiasts met to see all the cool technology being built by the Eclipse community. There were great presentations by Tom Schindl, Gunnar Wagenknecht and Benjamin Cabé as well as some local people. The closing presentation was Flo's famous demo remote controlling Sharky. It was a pleasant event and socialising continued till late night. You should definitely attend our next DemoCamp in June. To keep updated about it, follow us on Twitter: @edcvienna. (Please note that the Twitter handle was changed recently.)

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Anna Ravenelle is a graduate of Cornell University, where she studied English with a concentration in Creative Writing. After spending two application cycles in the CollegeVine applications division, she now uses her admissions experience to help a greater number of students. She resides in New York but her heart has never left New Hampshire, where she grew up.


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Hidden Pricing Power

Donald V. Potter discusses many tips on pricing, in his classic article “Discovering Hidden Pricing Power”, published in “Business Horizons” magazine, during November, December 2000. His inputs to go beyond the standard rate cards, % discounting, fixed price and T&M models, so that you have the edge when trying to make that sale.

Here are some useful tips from this wonderful article:

  • Bundle Benefits
  • Unbundle Benefits
  • Offer alternative service levels and price points
  • Link Future Purchases to Current Transaction
  • Understand the components of the cost better to keep cost and price moving together
  • Shift some of the price to suppliers
  • Set Prices Selectively, Not across the board
  • Move Prices in Smaller Increments
  • Raise Invisible Prices
  • Match Price Moves to the Market
  • Use Discounts strategically to build relationship with important clients
  • Price Against The Leader (Price it down when leader is reluctant)
  • Follow the leader (Move the prices up, if leader increases)
  • Seek out new segments that tolerate high prices

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Autologous vs. Allogenic Stem Cell Transplants: What’s the Difference?

November 11, 2019

Medically Reviewed By: Joseph H. Antin, MD
  • An autologous transplant uses a person’s own stem cells.
  • An allogeneic transplant uses stem cells from a donor whose human leukocyte antigens (HLA) are acceptable matches to the patient’s.

A stem cell transplant is a procedure during which doctors either replace diseased or ineffective stem cells with healthy new stem cells or allow high-dose treatment for lymphoma, some testicular cancers, and other diseases. It is often lifesaving for patients with blood cancer and serious blood disorders.

A person may need a transplant for a few different reasons: when their body cannot make the blood cells that it needs, because their bone marrow or blood cells have become diseased and need to be replaced, or because they have a disease that is treated with high doses of chemotherapy and/or radiation, which destroys cancerous and stem cells at the same time.

Two of the most common types of stem cell transplants are autologous and allogeneic transplants. Both kinds of stem cell transplantations are a common treatment option for cancers such as leukemia, lymphoma, and multiple myeloma.

Autologous versus allogenic transplant

An autologous transplant uses a person’s own stem cells. In this procedure, stem cells are collected from the patient and frozen in liquid nitrogen before transplant conditioning. Stem cells are intrinsically normal, and they are collected to allow blood cell recovery after the administration of high dose therapy that would otherwise irreversibly damage them. Following conditioning treatment, the patient’s stem cells are returned to the body to help it produce healthy red and white blood cells and platelets.

An allogeneic transplant uses stem cells from a donor whose human leukocyte antigens (HLA) are acceptable matches to the patient’s. The stem cell donor may be related to the patient, or they may be an unrelated volunteer found through a donor registry search such as the National Marrow Donor Program.

Types of allogenic transplants

There are two types of allogeneic transplants. In a myeloablative transplant, large doses of chemotherapy – or a combination of chemotherapy and radiation – are used to overcome resistance and eradicate a patient’s malignancy. In a reduced-intensity allogeneic transplant, doctors suppress the recipient’s immune system enough so the donor stem cells can take root, or “engraft,” there. The intensity of the therapy is insufficient to eradicate the malignancy, so this form of transplantation depends on the immunologic recognition of the cancer by the immune system of the donor. This is called the graft-versus-tumor effect.

These types of transplants are also used to treat blood disorders and immune system diseases, such as aplastic anemia, sickle cell anemia, myelodysplastic syndromes, Waldenström’s macroglobulinemia, and myeloproliferative disorders. Which type of transplant is appropriate for a patient is determined by his or her transplant physician.

The process of growing new blood cells after receiving a transplant generally takes between two and four weeks. But because stem cell transplants destroy and rebuild the immune system, patients are left immunocompromised and more vulnerable to infection fr common germs and fungi. The full recovery of the immune system can take much longer. It’s important to ensure that your home is ready for a safe return after the procedure, and to follow your care team’s directions regarding visitor and food restrictions, which are designed to limit your risk of complications.

About the Medical Reviewer

Joseph H. Antin, MD

Dr. Antin received his MD from Cornell University in 1978, and postgraduate training in hematology and medical oncology at DFCI and Brigham and Women's Hospital. He subsequently served as director of the Bone Marrow Transplantation Service at BWH from 1987 to 1997. He now heads the Stem Cell Transplant Program of the Department of Medical Oncology at DFCI and BWH. He is a founding member and past president of the American Society of Blood and Marrow Transplantation and a past Chairman of the Steering Committee of the BMT Clinical Trial Network.


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Thank you Elizabeth! Our Associate Director moving on to new opportunities

In 2014 Elizabeth Hull stepped into the basement office of NESCent at Duke University to begin working with Dryad as a curator. Since then Elizabeth has worked in almost every role in the organization, leading curation efforts, business operations, communications, team building, writing grants, answering thousands of emails on HelpDesk, Interim Executive Director, Associate Director and most importantly connecting with so many researchers, librarians and publishers in our community. After so many years of service as a steward of Dryad and leader of the team, Elizabeth has decided to move on to new opportunities.

As a team, we want to share our gratitude for her leadership, commitment, strength and grace under pressure and how she has welcomed and supported us all as team members. We will miss her work with Dryad, and her as a person on our team.

As our Board Chair Caroline Sutton recently commented: “our continued presence as Dryad is a testament to Elizabeth’s standing in the community and among our staff as well as her skills and dedication.”

We know Elizabeth has supported, welcomed, talked with and listened to so many in our community over the years and made a significant impact. Please share any of your own notes or thank you’s with us or with her directly.

Thank you Elizabeth, and we wish you all the best in your next endeavors!

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Old & New School: Rounded VS Square Brims

Old & New School: Round VS Square Hat Brim

There is a very serious difference between being old school and abiding by the new trends. This can make or break your whole style. Because of this, you need to know the current and the old fashion trends, so you can follow them and put your whole outfit together in a certain way.

This, of course, goes for your hat as well. After all, you can’t just wear something that goes against your whole style, even though it’s only a small part of your outfit.

Round Brims

This is the old school style. Think about all the hat styles that have round brims. Ascot caps, boaters, baseball caps. But most importantly captains (otherwise known as Pilgrim hats). What to these make you think of? Old times, yes. Really old times, some of these date back to the 1600s. But even then, fashion was a thing and hats had a huge role to play in that. Because of this, there are a lot of round brimmed hats. Plenty to choose from.

But one thing you must not forget is that you can still rock this style. It’s not dated, you can still look amazing, even if the fashion you are wearing is a bit old. The only thing you need to do is match the rest of your outfit to your hat. That is literally it, that simple.

Old school is still a relevant style. You just need to know how to use it.

Square Brims

You have guessed it, this is the new school style. Square brims are a bit more “rebellious” and have a little bit of edge to them. Exactly what we think of the younger generations too. Well, at least millennials and Gen Z. But really, these two qualities are what we associate with today’s youth. They are not exactly good, but sure they are interesting and exciting.

Which is exactly what modern styles are about. There are certain keywords that stick with today’s fashion. Like edgy, freedom and youth. These appeal to us for some reason and some hats can give these exact vibes. Like snapbacks, for example.

But once again, you need to build your whole outfit in a modern style. It needs to represent all those keywords and all those feelings that arise while wearing those specific clothes. Unfortunately, you don’t have many choices. There are very few hat styles that have square brims and actually look good.

Therefore, you need to look around a lot. You need to visit a lot of shops and online stores to find the exact styles that you like and that will actually fit you. Both appearance-wise and outfit wise.

You need to learn what your style is. Is it old school? Is it new? Either way, you need to address it and find a way to dress in a way to represent it. And as always, a hat is a huge part of it.

Which style do you like more? Old or new school? Tell us down in the comments below!

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Dental office managers need to add another step to their new employee onboarding process

As dental offices being to evaluate what “normal” looks like in a Coronavirus world, they need to evaluate everything they did before, including the new employee onboarding checklist. With more emphasis on PPE, dental office managers will need to think about adjusting their hiring checklist to include a fit test for those using a N95 mask. A N95 fit test tests the seal between the N95 mask face piece and the wearer’s face. The test usually takes 15-20 minutes to complete and includes selecting the proper mask, testing the fit and properly recording the test date.

Offer a reasonable selection of N95 masks

The ADA states that employers need to provide staff with a reasonable selection of N95 masks of different styles and fits to try on. If a certain model or size does not fit properly, try new sizes, models or styles until one fits properly.

Perform the fit test

Next, perform a fit test like the qualitative fit test, which is the most common fit test in dentistry. The qualitative fit test is a pass/fail test that relies on the wearer’s sense of taste or smell, or their reaction to an irritant, to detect leakage. The mask fails the test if the wearer can detect any leakage of the test substance. OSHA has accepted four qualitative fit test methods including:

  1. Isoamly acetate, which smells like bananas;
  2. Saccharin, which leaves a sweet taste in your mouth;
  3. Bitrex, which leaves a bitter taste in your mouth;
  4. Irritant smoke, which causes coughing.

Ensure proper recordkeeping

Once a fit test has been conducted and passed, make sure to record the date to of the fit test. Employers have a responsibility to ensure proper fit and recordkeeping requirements of OSHA’s respiratory protection stands are met before staff can use the N95 mask at work. Also, once the wearer has found a mask that passes the fit test, they should always use that mask. Additionally, replacement and reordering is much simpler as the wearer knows the model and size that provides the appropriate fit. Finally, OSHA requires that training and fit testing be completed annually before the anniversary date of the employee’s previous training and fit test to ensure proper protection.

For more information on qualitative fit, visit the fit test resource on OSHA’s website.


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'04 Cummins Custom Tuned w/MM3 by Calibrated Power

[fa icon="calendar'] Oct 12, 2016 8:35:00 AM / by Paul Wilson posted in Cummins, Smarty, Smarty MM3, 2004 Cummins Tuning, custom tuning

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Custom MM3 Tuning on a 2003 Cummins:

For many years truck owners with the 2003 - 2005 Cummins motor have craved quality custom tuning.  Sure there have been attempts in this field, and some were even decent, but never before has there been a software capable of fully custom tuning for these trucks.

Darrell has had his 2003 Cummins for a few years.  He invested in a built transmission (a few times), 50hp injectors, 2nd Gen exhaust manifold, 188/220 Hamilton cam, Wilson thasher intake, 62/74/14 turbo, ati balancer and a Smarty with TNT-R tunes.

The truck came in with plenty of power.  It also came in with plenty of smoke, plenty of room to improve shift quality and throttle response and plenty of character.  Darrell uses the truck to pull equipment, daily drive, and all around just to have fun.  Although he does not drag race or sled pull in a highly competitive atmosphere, he wants the most he can get out of the truck.

  • 62/74/14 Turbo
  • 50hp Injectors
  • Smarty So6 with TNT-R Tunes
  • Dyno'd 540 RWHP
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We have a VP test truck, LET THE PARTY BEGIN!

[fa icon="calendar'] Aug 30, 2016 3:41:20 PM / by Paul Wilson posted in VP44, vp, VP Truck Tuning, Smarty, Smarty MM3

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Custom Tuning for 1998.5 - 2002 Cummins VP Trucks!

We have been tuning 06 and newer Cummins along with 2001 and newer Duramax motors for over a decade.  It's been no secret in the industry that truly custom tuning on the 1998.5 - 2002 Cummins was sadly missing.  However in the past there has never been a decent hardware option for us to get our files onto those trucks.  Box programmers offered mild adjustments, but certainly nothing at the caliber of tuning we are accustomed to.

Now with Smarty MM3 we have the long missing hardware access to deliver tunes that are up to our standards.  Creating clean, powerful tunes that drive smooth and offer the windshield experience our customers expect.

With our new test truck arriving this past weekend, our office is buzzing with excitement.  Testing kicks off in the next few days and we will be bringing you the results and hopefully answering your questions though out the process.  Below you will find the most common questions asked about VP tuning so far.

  • Does MM3 Tuning require you to tap the pump? - Testing in process
  • Will the RPM limit be raised? - Yes,  but to which final level remains to be seen
  • Can the Smarty Touch be updated to use MM3 software? - Yes
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Smarty MM3 Tuning - Update

[fa icon="calendar'] Aug 24, 2016 10:08:25 AM / by Paul Wilson posted in Cummins, Best tuning for Cummins, 2013 Cummins, Cummins Turbo, Cummins Diesel, 2011 Cummins, 2015 Cummins, New Cummins, 2012 Cummins, 2014 Cummins, 2000 Cummins Tuning, 2001 Cummins Tuning, 2002 Cummins tuning, 1998.5 Cummins, 2003 Cummins Tuning, 2006 Cummins Tuning, Smarty, Smarty MM3, 1999 Cummins, 2004 Cummins Tuning, 2005 Cummins Tuning, Best tuning for, new cummins tuning

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Smarty MM3 Tuning Update!

We have been testing the new Smarty MM3 Tuning for the 1998.5 - 2016 Cummins. The software/hardware is the newest solution for custom tuning.  Until now, the  limited amount of accessible tables in the 1998.5-2002 tuning platforms made fine tuning challenging for highly modified Cummins trucks leaving them smokey, noisey,  and generally not as smooth as other similarly modified trucks tuned with more advanced software.  Now that we have access to said tables, we will be able to create clean, efficient power with these trucks.

One of the most exciting features to the new Smarty MM3 is Live Tuning.  The live tuning ability allows our tuners to make real-time changes to the calibration on the dyno or during a road test where in the past we had to wait 7-12 minutes to implement one change.  As you might imagine, live tuning will significantly shorten the developement cycle and allow us to quickly  fine-tune a wide variety of modifications on-site at CPS.   The second advantage to the live tuning software is the ability of the customer to change tunes (power levels etc.) on the fly on any of the supported platforms.  These power levels will be supplied along with the base tune to customer at the time of sale (idealy).

Our discussion with the developers of this software/hardware package lead us to believe that improved scan tool functionality is next on the priority list.  We would expect to see a very high sample rate scan tool along with several dozen of the most important PIDs in the near future for beta testing.   This tool is critical to the development process.  Without a strong scan tool we cannot validate our work, the better the tool - the better the final product and the better we can help our customers troubleshoot accurately if they need to.

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New Custom Tuning Product for '98.5-'16 Cummins

[fa icon="calendar'] Aug 22, 2016 10:58:35 AM / by Paul Wilson posted in Emissions, Cummins, Best tuning for Cummins, DPF Intact, DPF ON, Tuning for new Cummins, 2013 Cummins, Cummins Turbo, Cummins Diesel, Emisssions Intact Tuning, 2011 Cummins, 2015 Cummins, New Cummins, 2012 Cummins, 2014 Cummins, Emissions Intact, Smarty, Smarty MM3

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Calibrated Power is excited to beta test a new tuning product for the 1998.5 - 2016 Cummins.

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London-based Northern Commerce, Digital Echidna Both on Canadian Business’ Growth Lists

A storefront, with the window reading "Digital Echidna: Connections, Commerce, Content"

LONDON, ON -- Oct. 15, 2020 -- In their final year as independent companies before an already-announced merger, top London technology firms Northern Commerce and Digital Echidna both find themselves on Canadian Business and Maclean’s magazine’s key growth lists published today.

Digital Echidna makes its fourth consecutive appearance on the Growth List ranking of Canada’s Fastest-Growing Companies, this year appearing at 280. Northern Commerce is ranked 79th on the 2020 Startup List. This recognition follows both agencies recent recognition on the Report on Business’ ranking of Canada’s Top Growing Companies

The Growth list logo“We’re proud to be listed on the 2020 Startup List as it is reflective of the success of our organization and validates the potential we saw in merging two established companies,” Michael DeLorenzi, President of Northern Commerce, said, explaining that while Northern was founded within the past five years -- meeting the timeframe mandated by the Growth List -- its creation was built upon the earlier foundation of two innovative companies: Inspiratica and ATMOS.

That history of success bodes well, he said, for the merger of Northern and Digital Echidna.

“To see us both on our respective Fastest-Growing Companies lists gives us a strong base to grow our organization by pooling the resources, knowledge, and experience exhibited by two successful organizations.”

For Digital Echidna president Andrew McClenaghan, the company’s presence on four consecutive Growth Lists is reflective of the dedication that the team has not only to customer service, but also being willing to take chances, learn new ways of working, and embracing new technologies -- a must in this ever-changing digital environment.

“It’s not easy to make this list in the first place,” McClenaghan said. “But it becomes more challenging each year to maintain the exponential growth that it requires to stay on the list for four straight years.

“The only way to do it is to be adaptive, flexible, and unique in your offerings. And it is those very qualities that both organizations share, which can only serve us well as we combine our resources and work towards future growth.”

Ranking Canada’s Fastest-Growing Companies by five-year revenue growth, the Growth List profiles the country’s most successful entrepreneurial businesses. The Growth List is produced by Canadian Business.

“The companies on the 2020 Growth List are really exceptional. Their stories are a masterclass in how to survive when the economy throws a curveball. Despite turbulence, 2020 Growth List companies showed resilience, spirit and, most importantly, empathy and strong leadership,” Susan Grimbly, Growth List editor, explained. “As we celebrate over 30 years of the Canada’s Fastest-Growing Companies program, it’s encouraging to see that the heart of Canada’s entrepreneurial community beats strong, even in tough times.”

As much as it is a win for both organizations, DeLorenzi said it is also a recognition of the powerful technology industry in London, and for the people, organizations, and educational facilities that support it.

“We can’t grow without talent. We can’t grow without community support. And we can’t grow without a city welcoming and supporting the people who live in it,” he said. “From Western to Fanshawe to LEDC and TechAlliance to the City of London itself, all of these organizations combine to make London a place where not only can companies like us grow roots, but they create an environment where we can grow and flourish.”

Headquartered in London, Ontario, Northern is a full-service digital experience agency. Northern unites creativity, technology, and performance marketing to create immersive digital experiences for leading brands in their pursuit of digital transformation.

For more information on Northern Commerce, please visit

Digital Echidna is a web design and digital agency that focuses on developing digital experiences and large-scale websites on the Drupal content management system. It has a strong presence in the educational, health, government, and public sector markets.

For more information on Digital Echidna, please visit

For over 30 years, the Growth List ranking of Canada’s Fastest-Growing Companies (formerly the Growth 500) has been Canada’s most respected and influential ranking of entrepreneurial achievement. Originally developed by PROFIT and now published in a special Growth List print issue of Canadian Business (packaged with the December issue of Maclean’s magazine) and online at and, the Growth List ranks Canadian companies on five-year revenue growth, and the Startup List ranks Canadian new growth companies on two-year revenue growth. For more information on the ranking, visit

Founded in 1928, Canadian Business is the longest-serving business publication in the country. It has fuelled the success of Canada’s business elite and, through the Growth List ranking, celebrates leadership, innovation, business strategy and management tactics. Learn more at

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Now Filming . . . Everyday Edisons!

Now Filming . . . Everyday Edisons!

This post has been updated as of February 11, 2020.

Are you ready for the return of Everyday Edisons? The fabulous Everyday Edisons cast and crew have been hard at work this week filming the series at the Edison Nation headquarters in Charlotte! The rebooted series will begin streaming in March 2020 on Crackle!

Everyday Edisons is filming this week in Charlotte, NC!

The Emmy and Telly Award–Winning inspirational reality TV series originally aired in 2006 for four seasons on PBS. The show chronicled the journeys of first-time inventors as they brought their products to market, and viewers rooted for their favorite inventor throughout the episodes, learning the identity of the winner at the season’s end.

Attracting a nationwide viewership of 125,000, the popular series launched 30 products into major retailers, including Bed, Bath & Beyond, Babies”R”Us, Toys“R”Us, CVS, Dicks Sporting Goods, PetSmart, Walgreens and Walmart.

In the relaunched series, each episode will feature three inventors competing to have their idea selected by a panel of leading innovators for development by Edison Nation. Panelists will include lead judges Louis Foreman (Eventys Stystems), Chris Ferguson (Edison Nation), and Kelly Bagla (Go Legal Yourself) as well as guest panelists Tiffany Norwood (Tribetan) and Brian Fried (Inventor Coach).

The Everyday Edisons crew hard at work

Incorporating segments featuring the triumphs of successful inventors, episodes will rekindle the excitement of the original series while providing a new level of mentorship to contestants and viewers. The new Everyday Edisons will be produced by 23-time Emmy Award winner Michael Cable, co-creator, head writer, and host of the original series.

We at Edison Nation can’t wait to see what remarkable products the new Everyday Edisons will have in store. Stay tuned for the official March release date to discover more extraordinary ideas from ordinary people!

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  1. Marvin Blaine

    Over the moon happy to be a part of Everyday Edison’s Season 6.

    My experience this week has been highly educational from meeting with mentors for learning about numbers, market size, I.P professionals who help you broaden your patent claims, Design Experts who help you with design, and Engineering who will talk to you about your product, materials used, shape, design, taking it apart to see how it works and putting it back together.

    The Beauty of this show has educated all 24 Inventors here for Season 6 this entire week and once streamed February 11, 2020 will educate everyone who has and who has ever had a product idea.

    I feel in love with Everyday Edison TV Show when i first caught it during Season 2 and having products ideas all my life I knew then I needed to be a part of this Amazing TV Show.

    Emily Dings if your around for filming today please stop by and say hi.

  2. Emily Dings

    Thank you for writing, Marvin! We are so pleased that you had a good experience and can’t wait to see the show.

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Public key only ssh access to procurve 2510G (tested on 2510G-24, software Y.11.12, rom N.10.02)

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It appears that procedures described in the Access Security Guide for the HP ProCurve 2510G-24 (J9279A) are misleading. I found several requests for help online on this topic regarding HP ProCurve devices with similar documentation.

Furthermore, while testing, I discovered that step-by-step following the procedure actually allows password access when selecting ‘none’ as the secondary login authentication method, possibly leading you to a security breach. Thus, one should test:

  1. that one gets access with a legitimate key,
  2. that one does not get access if he owns only illegitimate keys,
  3. that one does not get access if he owns no key.

In cases 2. and 3., you should definitely get no password prompt.

I had the following requirements (among others not mentioned here):

– ssh clients get access only through public keys,

– managers get access directly as managers (and do not need to explicitly move to enable level),

– operators get access directly as operators (and cannot move to enable level).

The following configuration tested successfully on default config:

crypto key generate ssh rsa
copy tftp pub-key-file <IP_of_your_TFTP_server> <Path_of_the_managers_public_keys_file> manager
copy tftp pub-key-file <IP_of_your_TFTP_server> <Path_of_the_operators_public_keys_file> operator
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aaa authentication ssh login public-key none
aaa authentication ssh enable public-key none


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Christian Cornille, Cedric Gautier, Rafael Tentor Appointed to Airbus Group Leadership Roles

airbus logoThe Airbus Group has appointed three executives to leadership positions in the conglomerate’s helicopters and defense and space divisions, as well as the Aerolia subsidiary.

Christian Cornille will serve as executive vice president of industry for the Airbus Helicopters division and Cedric Gautier will succeed Cornille as CEO of Aerolia, Airbus announced Tuesday.

Rafael Tentor has been appointed manager of the A4000 program for Airbus Defense and Space

Tentor was most recently head of the light and medium aircraft program and multi-role transport and tanker program for Airbus Defense and Space.

The appointments take effect May 5.

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Saturday, November 24, 2012

National Dog Show

The National Dog Show was on NBC last night, and was a lot of fun to watch if you're a dog lover like me. It's great to see people with their pets in positive relationships, and having fun together.

Of course it's much better to adopt from a shelter or breed-rescue organization than to pay a breeder or (much worse) pet store for a dog or cat. So many beautiful animals are killed every year for want of a home - it doesn't make sense to pay money to add to the pet population rather than adopt an animal that needs a home. Many shelter dogs are purebreds or close relatives too. Anyway, the Humane Society has a great little article: "The Top 5 Reasons to Adopt".

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How To Use AR Bitmoji In Snapchat

Augmented reality is slowly becoming more common. You might think it’s because of Apple and its newest iPhones but you’re wrong. You have Pokèmon Go to thank for it, and possibly Snapchat. While the new AR games that will come to iOS will only work on the latest iPhone models, Snapchat is keeping things more inclusive. It already has 3D lenses and it’s now added AR Bitmoji. Bitmoji has been a pretty big part of Snapchat and AR makes it more fun. You can now add your very own animated Bitmoji avatar to your snaps in Snapchat. Here’s how to use AR Bitmoji in Snapchat.

Use AR Bitmoji In Snapchat

This is a new Snapchat feature so make sure you’re running the latest version of the app. Open Snapchat and on the camera viewfinder, tap and hold for while. Normally, this loads 3D lenses in Snapchat. The AR Bitmoji in Snapchat is something similar. Once they load, swipe and bring one of the AR Bitmoji into the capture button and it will load your avatar.

While the avatar is loading, you will see the Bitmoji logo in the middle of the screen. There are several AR Bitmoji in Snapchat that you can swipe through. Your 3D lens are still there, just at the end.

Once the avatar loads, you can position it anywhere, and pinch to make it smaller or larger. You can also rotate an avatar to get a different angle. Tap the capture button to capture or record a snap. The Bitmoji are animated so a video will show them off the best. They also come with sound effects so again, go for a video. Some of the animations are longer than the maximum length of a clip so you might want to pay a little attention to when you start recording.

Supported Devices

Ideally, AR Bitmoji should work regardless of how old, or how new your device is. This feature doesn’t require a very high-quality camera to work. In fact, it has nothing to do with the camera at all. If your device is supported by the latest version of Snapchat, you’re good to go.

It’s important that you have a Bitmoji avatar configured and connected to your account. You can edit your Bitmoji’s appearance in the official Bitmoji app and the AR Bitmoji will update to reflect it. It’s actually why it takes a little time to load your avatar. You do not need to have the Bitmoji app installed on your phone to use the feature, however, if you need to edit your avatar’s appearance, you will need the app.

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How To Successfully Block Large Image Files From Loading In Firefox

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The average internet speed a user could expect some years back would actually make browsing a modern web page really impossible. To say, connection speed and technology have really improved exponentially in the past. It’s what influences services like Hulu and Netflix possible. The average user can watch a video with little to zero buffering. The file size is not really important now but that doesn’t mean it’s not an issue sometimes. Large files normal delay a web page from loading completely. Also, as these files load, they push the web page down making it hard to read. ImageBlocker is a Firefox add-on that allows you to block large image files from being loaded if they surpass a specific size.

Block Large Image Files From Loading

Install ImageBlocker and click on the addon icon in the tools bar. The addon is built to help block large image files from loading though it doesn’t add a blanket ban. Rather, you can select which files to block by their extension format. For instance, if you want to block a BMP file or GIFs, you can indicate their specific extensions in the addon’s settings.

Similarly, you choose how big a file is too big. You can also specify the size of a file in KBs and if a file exceeds that size, Firefox won’t load it. The size is determined on a for every file type basis. So, if at all you want to block BMP files that are larger than 200KB, but allow GIFs that are under 500KB, you can be able to do just that.

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To set limits, all you have to do is enter the file extension and after that the upper file size limit in the box just next to it. Click Save. You can also include various exceptions, and you can as well delete or edit the ones you’ve previously added.

The addon is somewhat buggy. It isn’t always able to prevent images from loading and we don’t know what the reason is. The addon is built to block images but in view of how it’s built, it could, in theory, block any type of file if it exceeds a specific size. We’d have tried that premise but like we stated, the addon is flaky notwithstanding with regards to blocking images.

There’s nothing left wanting in this addon with the exception of it needs to work more reliable. For users on a Windows tablet, this addon can possibly be extremely useful. Hopefully, the developer gives it a little more consideration and irons out the crimps.

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Top Ten Fun Facts – Stuttgart

This entry is part 5 of 8 in the series TOP TEN
  • having vineyards since 3 AD, Stuttgart is the only city in Germany with a municipal wine estate, which covers 15.5 hectares
  • City of science – Stuttgart has the highest density of scientific, academic and research organizations in Germany
  • Cradle of the automobile – housing two of the world’s most popular car firms Mercedes-Benz and Porsche, Stuttgart offers to automobile museums (of course Mercedes and Porsche) and the Käfer (second most sold car of the world) was developed here!
  • featuring many vineyards, parks and forests Stuttgart belongs to the greenest cities of Europe. Especially ‘The Green U’ a 8 km long ring made up of parks, offers many recreational areas
  • The Teddybear as we all know it today was invented and born in Stuttgart by Richard Steiff
  • Stuttgart’s Ballett ranks among the world’s best dance institutions and is highly renowned
  • The first TV tower of the world was build in Stuttgart and you can still visit it!
  • City of the Maultäschle – Maultäschle, a typical Swabian dish (and Stuttgart is the capital of the Swabian region) was invented for being allowed eating meat on Good Friday. Normally, you do not eat meat on Good Friday, however the Swabians invented Maultaschen as ‘God is not able to see the meat inside the dough’. So they could eat meat and god did not notice
  • one Europe’s largest christmas markets takes place in Stuttgart every year between the last Thursday of November and 23rd December. Dating back to approximately 1692 and comprising about 280 decorated stalls it attracts around 3 million visitors every year!
  • Keeping up with Munich: Stuttgart has it’s own Oktoberfest – they call it Wasen instead of Wiesn and celebrate it two times a year! A bit smaller than Munich’s Oktoberfest, however it attracts nearly as much visitors as its big brother and is at least as amusing as the Wiesn
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Checking the optimum cutoff for QE

Rise your hand if you have ever gotten a pseudo-potential from somewhere and you started to use it just by checking the recommended values of the cutoffs inside the file.

Are we sure these values are good?
If you are an skeptic scientist and you do not thrust what you don’t do by yourself, now there is a really simple and cheap way for you to test for the optimum cutoff of any pseudopotential with Quantum Espresso: my pw_cutoff checking script.

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Don’t Drop It! Logitech Survey Shows Kids are Using – and Dropping – Hand-Held Tech

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With the holidays over and many families now the proud new owners of a gifted iPad or two, Logitech wanted to share some findings on kids’ tablet and mobile phone use. Logitech conducted a survey of U.S. and U.K. parents that revealed that 92 percent of kids are using mobile devices, although parents are still split on whether they approve of this early tech use. In fact, just 51 percent of parents believe it’s appropriate to introduce kids ages five and under to mobile devices.

And because kids can sometimes be as clumsy as they are cute, it turns out parents find their children often mishandling these devices. The survey revealed that approximately half of children (47 percent in the U.K. and 56 percent in the U.S.) are frequently mishandling mobile devices. This accounts for 47 percent of U.S. children and 36 percent of U.K. children having damaged the tablet or smartphone they’re using. Though parents are split on what age to start sharing tech with their kids, they agree on what it should be used for; 88 percent of U.S. parents and 84 percent of U.K. parents think that educational purposes are the best reasons to allow children to use mobile devices. For those parents looking to introduce tech to their children, Logitech has the following tips:

The Logi BLOK Protective Shell, the Logi BLOK Protective Case and the Logi BLOK Protective Keyboard Case are designed to protect your iPad from impact, without adding unnecessary bulk or weight. The square corners have extra-absorbent polymers to give your iPad more protection where it needs it most – so kids can handle your tech without fear. Want a chance to win a Logi BLOK case and iPad Air 2? Share advice on the do’s and don’ts of  introducing your kids to tech by commenting on our #KidsMeetTech Facebook posts (here) or retweeting our #KidsMeetTech tweets (here) with your stories and tips!

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