Context: The economy of Victoria is highly diversified: service sectors including financial and property services, health, education, wholesale, retail, hospitality and manufacturing constitute the majority of employment. Victoria's total gross state product (GSP) is ranked second in Australia, although Victoria is ranked fourth in terms of GSP per capita because of its limited mining activity. Culturally, Melbourne is home to a number of museums, art galleries and theatres and is also described as the "sporting capital of Australia". The Melbourne Cricket Ground is the largest stadium in Australia, and the host of the 1956 Summer Olympics and the 2006 Commonwealth Games. The ground is also considered the "spiritual home" of Australian cricket and Australian rules football, and hosts the grand final of the Australian Football League (AFL) each year, usually drawing crowds of over 95,000 people. Victoria includes eight public universities, with the oldest, the University of Melbourne, having been founded in 1853.

Question: Where according to net domestic product does Victoria rank in Australia?


Context: Committees comprise a small number of MSPs, with membership reflecting the balance of parties across Parliament. There are different committees with their functions set out in different ways. Mandatory Committees are committees which are set down under the Scottish Parliament's standing orders, which govern their remits and proceedings. The current Mandatory Committees in the fourth Session of the Scottish Parliament are: Public Audit; Equal Opportunities; European and External Relations; Finance; Public Petitions; Standards, Procedures and Public Appointments; and Delegated Powers and Law Reform.

Question: What compromises a large number of MSPs?


Context: The Standard Industrial Classification and the newer North American Industry Classification System have a classification system for companies that perform or otherwise engage in construction. To recognize the differences of companies in this sector, it is divided into three subsectors: building construction, heavy and civil engineering construction, and specialty trade contractors. There are also categories for construction service firms (e.g., engineering, architecture) and construction managers (firms engaged in managing construction projects without assuming direct financial responsibility for completion of the construction project).

Question: What are construction managers?


Context: The working fluid in a Rankine cycle can operate as a closed loop system, where the working fluid is recycled continuously, or may be an "open loop" system, where the exhaust steam is directly released to the atmosphere, and a separate source of water feeding the boiler is supplied. Normally water is the fluid of choice due to its favourable properties, such as non-toxic and unreactive chemistry, abundance, low cost, and its thermodynamic properties. Mercury is the working fluid in the mercury vapor turbine. Low boiling hydrocarbons can be used in a binary cycle.

Question: What sort of system releases the exhaust steam into the atmosphere?


Context: Germanic tribes crossed the Rhine in the Migration period, by the 5th century establishing the kingdoms of Francia on the Lower Rhine, Burgundy on the Upper Rhine and Alemannia on the High Rhine. This "Germanic Heroic Age" is reflected in medieval legend, such as the Nibelungenlied which tells of the hero Siegfried killing a dragon on the Drachenfels (Siebengebirge) ("dragons rock"), near Bonn at the Rhine and of the Burgundians and their court at Worms, at the Rhine and Kriemhild's golden treasure, which was thrown into the Rhine by Hagen.

Question: What did Germanic tribes establish with help from the Rhine?


Context: For many years, Sudan had an Islamist regime under the leadership of Hassan al-Turabi. His National Islamic Front first gained influence when strongman General Gaafar al-Nimeiry invited members to serve in his government in 1979. Turabi built a powerful economic base with money from foreign Islamist banking systems, especially those linked with Saudi Arabia. He also recruited and built a cadre of influential loyalists by placing sympathetic students in the university and military academy while serving as minister of education.

Question: Where did Turabi place students apathetic to his views?


Context: Some civil disobedience defendants choose to make a defiant speech, or a speech explaining their actions, in allocution. In U.S. v. Burgos-Andujar, a defendant who was involved in a movement to stop military exercises by trespassing on U.S. Navy property argued to the court in allocution that "the ones who are violating the greater law are the members of the Navy". As a result, the judge increased her sentence from 40 to 60 days. This action was upheld because, according to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, her statement suggested a lack of remorse, an attempt to avoid responsibility for her actions, and even a likelihood of repeating her illegal actions. Some of the other allocution speeches given by the protesters complained about mistreatment from government officials.

Question: In the US v. Burgos-Andujar, why was a member of the Navy's sentence increased?


Context: Mortgage bankers, accountants, and cost engineers are likely participants in creating an overall plan for the financial management of the building construction project. The presence of the mortgage banker is highly likely, even in relatively small projects since the owner's equity in the property is the most obvious source of funding for a building project. Accountants act to study the expected monetary flow over the life of the project and to monitor the payouts throughout the process. Cost engineers and estimators apply expertise to relate the work and materials involved to a proper valuation. Cost overruns with government projects have occurred when the contractor identified change orders or project changes that increased costs, which are not subject to competition from other firms as they have already been eliminated from consideration after the initial bid.

Question: Cost overruns with government projects have occurred when the contractor did what?


Context: Pharmacists provide direct patient care services that optimizes the use of medication and promotes health, wellness, and disease prevention. Clinical pharmacists care for patients in all health care settings, but the clinical pharmacy movement initially began inside hospitals and clinics. Clinical pharmacists often collaborate with physicians and other healthcare professionals to improve pharmaceutical care. Clinical pharmacists are now an integral part of the interdisciplinary approach to patient care. They often participate in patient care rounds drug product selection.

Question: Where are clinical pharmacists not allowed to work with patients?


Answer: swearing


Answer: cabot


Answer: paar


Answer: lead balloon


Answer: e on


Denmark, a hyperactive place with a platform for free speech

Answer: Hyde Park


Answer: mess


Answer: nill


Answer: Bodeguero


help me find a new position as a programmer


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i want to reserve table for 5 at red robin under the name sara at 5


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i need more checkbooks mailed as soon as possible


i watched "were the millers" on netflix last night


Altia 's operating profit jumped to EUR 47 million from EUR 6.6 million .


The agreement was signed with Biohit Healthcare Ltd , the UK-based subsidiary of Biohit Oyj , a Finnish public company which develops , manufactures and markets liquid handling products and diagnostic test systems .


Kesko pursues a strategy of healthy , focused growth concentrating on sales and services to consumer-customers .


Vaisala , headquartered in Helsinki in Finland , develops and manufactures electronic measurement systems for meteorology , environmental sciences , traffic and industry .


Also , a six-year historic analysis is provided for these markets .


Elcoteq 's stock of orders has stabilised in the past weeks , Mr Krippl said .


Also , a six-year historic analysis is provided for this market .


In addition , nine fixed-term employment contracts will not be extended and two people will leave the company under pension arrangements .


Operating loss totalled EUR 0.9 mn , down from a profit of EUR 2.7 mn .


The Insolvency Act regulates the amount of debt that borrowers are permitted to write off .


Target on my back
Lone survivor lasts
They got me in their sights
No surrender no
Trigger fingers go
Living the dangerous life
Hey, hey, hey
Everyday when I wake
Im trying to get up, theyre knocking me down
Chewing me up, spitting me out
Hey, hey, hey
When I need to be saved
Youre making me strong, youre making me stand
Never will fall, never will end
Shot like a rocket up into the sky
Nothing can stop me tonight
You make me feel invincible
Earthquake, powerful
Just like a tidal wave
You make me brave
Youre my titanium
Fight song, raising up
Like a roar of victory in a stadium
Who can touch me cause Im
Im made of fire
Who can stop me tonight
Im hard wired
You make me feel invincible
I feel, I feel it
Invincible
I feel, I feel it
Invincible
Here we go again
I will not give in
Ive got a reason to fight
Every day we choose
We might win or lose
This is the dangerous life
Hey, hey, hey
Everyday when I wake
They say that Im gone; they say that theyve won
The bell has been rung, its over and done
Hey, hey, hey
When I need to be saved
They counting me out, but this is my round
You in my corner, look at me now
Shot like a rocket up into the sky
Nothing can stop me tonight
You make me feel invincible
Earthquake, powerful
Just like a tidal wave
You make me brave
Youre my titanium
Fight song, raising up
Like a roar of victory in a stadium
Who can touch me cause Im
Im made of fire
Who can stop me tonight
Im hard wired
You make me feel invincible
I feel, I feel it
Invincible
I feel, I feel it
Invincible
You make me feel invincible
You make me feel invincible
Shot like a rocket up into the sky
Not gonna stop
Invincible
Feel invincible
Earthquake, powerful
Just like a tidal wave
You make me brave
Youre my titanium
Fight song, raising up
Like a roar of victory in a stadium
So feel invincible
Earthquake, powerful
Just like a tidal wave
You make me brave
Youre my titanium
Fight song, raising up
Like a roar of victory in a stadium
Who can touch me cause Im
Im made of fire
Who can stop me tonight
Im hard wired
You make me feel invincible
I feel, I feel it
Invincible
I feel, I feel it
Invincible


am a nation, am a million faces
Formed together, made for elevation
 am a soldier, wont surrender
Faith is like a fire that never burns to embers
The voice of the unheard
Love is the answer
I gotta speak it, believe it, thats how I feel inside
I, I, cant, cant sit here quiet
You can take my heart, you can take my breath
When you pry it from my cold, dead chest
This is how we rise up
Heavy as a hurricane, louder than a freight train
This is how we rise up
Heart is beating faster, feels like thunder
Magic, static, call me a fanatic
Its our world, they can never have it
This is how we rise up
Its our resistance, you cant resist us
 Can you hear me? Are you listening?
Sleeping in the shadows, could be making history
 through the fire, on the water
Used to be a slave, but now you are a conqueror
They can take my heart, they can take my breath
When they pry it from my cold, dead chest
This is how we rise up
Heavy as a hurricane, louder than a freight train
This is how we rise up
Heart is beating faster, feels like thunder
Magic, static, call me a fanatic
Its our world, they can never have it
This is how we rise up
Its our resistance, you cant resist us
Rising up, up, up, up, up
Were rising up, up, up, up, up
The voice of the unheard
Rising up, up, up, up, up
Were rising up, up, up, up, up
Love is the answer
Rising up, up, up, up, up
Were rising up, up, up, up, up
Love is the answer
This is how we rise up
Its our resistance, you cant resist us
This is how we rise up
Heavy as a hurricane, louder than a freight train
This is how we rise up
Heart is beating faster, feels like thunder
Magic, static, call me a fanatic
Its our world, they can never have it
This is how we rise up
Its our resistance, you cant resist us


Im just a step away, Im just a breath away
Losin my faith today, were fallin off the edge today
I am just a man, not superhuman
Im not superhuman, someone save me from the hate
Its just another war, just another family torn
Were falling from my faith today
Just a step from the edge
Just another day in the world we live
I need a hero to save me now!
I need a hero! Save me now!
I need a hero to save my life!
A hero will save me just in time!
Ive gotta fight today to live another day
Speakin my mind today, my voice will be heard today
Ive gotta make a stand, but I am just a man
Im not superhuman, my voice will be heard today
Its just another war, just another family torn
My voice will be heard today
Its just another kill
The countdown begins to destroy ourselves
I need a hero to save me now!
I need a hero! Save me now!
I need a hero to save my life!
A hero will save me just in time!
I need a hero to save my life!
I need a hero just in time!
Save me just in time!
Save me just in time!
Whos gonna fight for whats right?
Whos gonna help us survive?
Were in the fight of our lives
And were not ready to die
Whos gonna fight for the weak?
Whos gonna make em believe?
Ive got a hero livin in me!
Ive gotta fight for whats right
Today, Im speakin my mind
And if it kills me tonight
I will be ready to die
A heros not afraid to give his life
A heros gonna save me just in time
I need a hero to save me now!
I need a hero! Save me now!
I need a hero to save my life!
A hero will save me just in time!
I need a hero!
Whos gonna fight for whats right?
Whos gonna help us survive?
I need a hero!
Whos gonna fight for the weak?
Whos gonna make em believe?
Ive got a hero, I need a hero!
A heros gonna save me just in time


B-ba-b-b-b-ba-ba-back
B-ba-b-b-b-ba-ba-back
B-ba-b-b-b-ba-ba-back
B-ba-b-b-b-ba-ba-back
Cold and black inside this coffin
Cause you all try to keep me down
How it feels to be forgotten
But youll never forget me now
Enemies clawing at my eyes, I
Scratch and bleed, just to stay alive, yeah
The zombies come out at night
Theyll never catch me
Theyll never catch me
B-ba-b-b-b-ba-ba-back
B-ba-b-b-b-ba-ba-back
Light it up, light it up, now Im burning
Feel the rush, feel the rush of adrenaline
We are young, we are strong, we will rise
Cause Im back, back, back from the dead tonight
To the floor, to the floor, hit the red line
Flying high, flying high at the speed of light
Full of love, full of light, full of fight
Cause Im back, back, back from the dead tonight
B-ba-b-b-b-ba-ba-back
B-ba-b-b-b-ba-ba-back
Break the skin, you spread like poison
Dying slow when we all attack
How it feels to be the broken
You took a piece, now Im biting back
Enemies clawing at my eyes, I
Scratch and bleed, just to stay alive, yeah
The zombies come out at night
Theyll never catch me
Theyll never catch me
B-ba-b-b-b-ba-ba-back
B-ba-b-b-b-ba-ba-back
Light it up, light it up, now Im burning
Feel the rush, feel the rush of adrenaline
We are young, we are strong, we will rise
Cause Im back, back, back from the dead tonight
To the floor, to the floor, hit the red line
Flying high, flying high at the speed of light
Full of love, full of light, full of fight
Cause Im back, back, back from the dead tonight
Back, back, back from the dead tonight
Deep down, for the count
Dont you dare count me out
Never break, never bow
Never beg, not a doubt
The zombies come out at night
Theyll never catch me
Theyll never catch me
B-ba-b-b-b-ba-ba-back
B-ba-b-b-b-ba-ba-back
B-ba-b-b-b-ba-ba-back
B-ba-b-b-b-ba-ba-back
Light it up, light it up, now Im burning
Feel the rush, feel the rush of adrenaline
We are young, we are strong, we will rise
Cause Im back, back, back from the dead tonight
To the floor, to the floor, hit the red line
Flying high, flying high at the speed of light
Full of love, full of light, full of fight
Cause Im back, back, back from the dead tonight
Back, back, back from the dead tonight
Dead tonight
Back from the dead tonight
Dead tonight
Back from the dead tonight


I hate feeling like this
Im so tired of trying to fight this
Im asleep and all I dream of is waking to you
Tell me that you will listen
Your touch is what Im missing
And the more I hide I realize Im slowly losing you
Comatose
Ill never wake up without an overdose of you
I dont want to live
I dont want to breathe
Less I feel you next to me
You take the pain I feel
I dont want to sleep
I dont want to dream
Cause my dreams dont comfort me
The way you make me feel
I hate living without you
Dead wrong to ever doubt you
But my demons lay in waiting
Tempting me away
Oh, how I adore you
Oh, how I thirst for you
Oh, how I need you
Comatose
Ill never wake up without an overdose of you
I dont want to live
I dont want to breathe
Less I feel you next to me
You take the pain I feel
I dont want to sleep
I dont want to dream
Cause my dreams dont comfort me
The way you make me feel
Breathing life
Waking up
My eyes open up
Comatose
Ill never wake up without an overdose of you
I dont want to live
I dont want to breathe
Less I feel you next to me
You take the pain I feel
I dont want to sleep
I dont want to dream
Cause my dreams dont comfort me
The way you make me feel
Oh, how I adore you
Waking up to you never felt so real
Oh, how I thirst for you
Waking up to you never felt so real
Oh, how I adore you, oh
The way you make me feel
Waking up to you never felt so real


Im at war with the world and they
Try to pull me into the dark
I struggle to find my faith
As Im slipping from your arms
Its getting harder to stay awake
And my strength is fading fast
You breathe into me at last
Im awake Im alive
Now I know what I believe inside
Now its my time
Ill do what I want cause this is my life
Here , right now
Ill stand my ground and never back down
I know what I believe inside
Im awake and Im alive
Im at war with the world cause I
Aint never going to sell my soul
Ive already made up my mind
No matter what I cant be bought or sold
When my faith is getting weak
And I feel like giving in
You breathe into me again
Im awake Im alive
Now I know what I believe inside
Now its my time
Ill do what I want cause this is my life
Here , right now
Ill stand my ground and never back down
I know what I believe inside
Im awake and Im alive
Waking up, waking up
Waking up, waking up
Waking up, waking up
Waking up, waking up
In the dark
I can feel you in my sleep
In your arms I feel you breathe into me
Forever hold this heart that I will give to you
Forever I will live for you
Im awake Im alive
Now I know what I believe inside
Now its my time
Ill do what I want cause this is my life
Here , right now
Ill stand my ground and never back down
I know what I believe inside
Im awake and Im alive
Waking up, waking up
Waking up, waking up
Waking up, waking up
Waking up, waking up


You spoke a word and life began
Told oceans where to start and where to end
You set in motion time and space
But still you come and you call to me by name
But still you come and you call to me by name
If you can hold the stars in place
You can hold my heart the same
Whenever I fall away
Whenever I start to break
So here I am, lifting up my heart
To the one who holds the stars
The deepest depths, the darkest nights
Cant separate, cant keep me from your sight
I get so lost, forget my way
But still you love and you dont forget my name
If you can hold the stars in place
You can hold my heart the same
Whenever I fall away
Whenever I start to break
So here I am, lifting up my heart
If you can calm the raging sea
You can calm the storm in me
Youre never too far away
You never show up too late
So here I am, lifting up my heart
To the one who holds the stars
Your love has called my name
What do I have to fear?
What do I have to fear?
Your love has called my name
What do I have to fear?
What do I have to fear?
If you can hold the stars in place
You can hold my heart the same
Whenever I fall away
Whenever I start to break
So here I am, lifting up my heart
If you can calm the raging sea
You can calm the storm in me
Youre never too far away
You never show up too late
So here I am, lifting up my heart
To the one who holds the stars
Youre the one who holds the stars


Oh!
Oh!
Oh, oh, oh
Oh!
Oh, oh, oh
My heart bleeds adrenaline
The fire I breathe is where I live
Say my name, incredible
Say my name, an animal
One life to live
I never give up, I never give in
Some people wanna turn and run
But the strong rise under the gun
Top, to the top
Aint never gonna stop
To the top, to the top
Aint never gonna stop
Never gonna keep me down
Still the one thats standin now
Destiny is callin me, go down in history
Every day, Ill fight to be legendary
Oh!
Oh, oh, oh
Oh!
Oh, oh
Legendary
Fly high or will I fall?
Legends made when faith is strong
Say my name, no time to plead
Say my name, Im conquering
While Im alive, Ill push through the pain, Ill run for the prize
Some people wanna turn and run
But the strong rise under the gun
Top, to the top
Aint never gonna stop
To the top, to the top
Aint never gonna stop
Never gonna keep me down
Still the one thats standin now
Destiny is callin me, go down in history
Every day, Ill fight to be legendary
Oh, oh, oh
Every day, Ill fight to be legendary
Oh!
Oh, oh, oh
Oh!
Oh, oh
Legendary
Wings are made to fly, made to fly
Fears are born to die, born to die
Pushin through the pain, through the pain
Pushin through, breakin through
Whatever it takes, what I gotta do
Givin my all, givin all that Ive got
Never will stop til I get to the top
Top, to the top
Aint never gonna stop
To the top, to the top
Aint never gonna stop
Never gonna keep me down
Still the one thats standin now
Destiny is callin me, go down in history
Every day, Ill fight to be legendary
Never gonna keep me down
Oh, oh, oh
Still the one thats standin now
Oh, oh, oh
Destiny is callin me, go down in history
Oh, oh, oh
Every day Ill fight to be legendary
Oh, oh
Legendary
Oh!
Oh, oh, oh
Oh!
Oh, oh
Legendary
Oh, oh, oh
Oh, oh
Legendary


Problem Statement

Chef Diablo has set up a stall for selling his famous Modaks in the Trinity fest. He wants to earn as much profit as he can. So he has bought a chemical that increases the taste level of the Modaks. The tastier the Modaks the higher he can price them. This chemical is very costly hence he applies only certain amount of chemical on the Modaks(also he does not make it so costly that no one would buy it...:P). If Chef Diablo applies the chemical on the Modak having an initial of taste level TL, its taste level becomes TL^N where N is the number of drops of the chemical. Given TL and N, tell Chef Diablo the final Taste level of the Modak.

Input:

First line contains t, the number of test cases. Then t lines follow, each line containing 2 space separated integers denoting TL and N respectively.

Output:

It will consist of t lines having the final taste level of the Modak modulo 10^9+7.

Constraints:

1<=t<=100
1<=TL<=10^101
0<=N<=10^101

Input:

3
1 1
2 2
123123123123 2

Output:

1
4
293883007

Solution:
T=input()
while T:
    T-=1
    tl,n=[int(x) for x in raw_input().split()]
    if n==0:
        n=1
    print pow(tl,n,pow(10,9)+7)


Melting ice cubes in sunlight (solid to liquid).


The Aleutian Low is an area of almost constant stormy weather.


The carotid arteries are two arteries in the neck that supply blood to the brain.


It is therefore present in radioactive waste and in the nuclear fallout of fission bomb explosions.


A plasma is a hot, dense cloud of positively and negatively charged particles and is in fact the most widespread state of matter in the universe.


Growth, taking in nutrients, breathing, and reproduction are the life processes of all living things.


A potential difficulty of an adaptive secondary mirror is the ability to verify the commanded mirror shapes of a large convex deformable surface.


Ore from which a metal is derived;


The maps are composed largely of named genes identified by recombinant DNA probes in Southern blotting assays.


Metabolism is defined as the sum of all chemical processes that take place in the body as they relate to the movement of nutrients in the blood after digestion, resulting in growth, energy, release of wastes, and other bodily functions.


3D modeling keyshot rendering

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Making a series of short video copies of specific actor footage from international streaming services...

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I want to create a memorial website

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Training a CTC-based model for automatic speech recognition.


Introduction


Speech recognition is an interdisciplinary subfield of computer science and computational linguistics that develops methodologies and technologies that enable the recognition and translation of spoken language into text by computers. It is also known as automatic speech recognition (ASR), computer speech recognition or speech to text (STT). It incorporates knowledge and research in the computer science, linguistics and computer engineering fields.


We will use the LJSpeech dataset from the LibriVox project. It consists of short audio clips of a single speaker reading passages from 7 non-fiction books.


We will evaluate the quality of the model using Word Error Rate (WER). WER is obtained by adding up the substitutions, insertions, and deletions that occur in a sequence of recognized words. Divide that number by the total number of words originally spoken. The result is the WER. To get the WER score you need to install the jiwer package. You can use the following command line:


Clinical features of culture-proven Mycoplasma pneumoniae infections at King Abdulaziz University Hospital, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

OBJECTIVE: This retrospective chart review describes the epidemiology and clinical features of 40 patients with culture-proven Mycoplasma pneumoniae infections at King Abdulaziz University Hospital, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. METHODS: Patients with positive M. pneumoniae cultures from respiratory specimens from January 1997 through December 1998 were identified through the Microbiology records. Charts of patients were reviewed. RESULTS: 40 patients were identified, 33 (82.5%) of whom required admission. Most infections (92.5%) were community-acquired. The infection affected all age groups but was most common in infants (32.5%) and pre-school children (22.5%). It occurred year-round but was most common in the fall (35%) and spring (30%). More than three-quarters of patients (77.5%) had comorbidities. Twenty-four isolates (60%) were associated with pneumonia, 14 (35%) with upper respiratory tract infections, and 2 (5%) with bronchiolitis. Cough (82.5%), fever (75%), and malaise (58.8%) were the most common symptoms, and crepitations (60%), and wheezes (40%) were the most common signs. Most patients with pneumonia had crepitations (79.2%) but only 25% had bronchial breathing. Immunocompromised patients were more likely than non-immunocompromised patients to present with pneumonia (8/9 versus 16/31, P = 0.05). Of the 24 patients with pneumonia, 14 (58.3%) had uneventful recovery, 4 (16.7%) recovered following some complications, 3 (12.5%) died because of M pneumoniae infection, and 3 (12.5%) died due to underlying comorbidities. The 3 patients who died of M pneumoniae pneumonia had other comorbidities. CONCLUSION: our results were similar to published data except for the finding that infections were more common in infants and preschool children and that the mortality rate of pneumonia in patients with comorbidities was high.

Question: what is pneumoniae infection prevalence


Surfactant protein-D and pulmonary host defense

Surfactant protein-D (SP-D) participates in the innate response to inhaled microorganisms and organic antigens, and contributes to immune and inflammatory regulation within the lung. SP-D is synthesized and secreted by alveolar and bronchiolar epithelial cells, but is also expressed by epithelial cells lining various exocrine ducts and the mucosa of the gastrointestinal and genitourinary tracts. SP-D, a collagenous calcium-dependent lectin (or collectin), binds to surface glycoconjugates expressed by a wide variety of microorganisms, and to oligosaccharides associated with the surface of various complex organic antigens. SP-D also specifically interacts with glycoconjugates and other molecules expressed on the surface of macrophages, neutrophils, and lymphocytes. In addition, SP-D binds to specific surfactant-associated lipids and can influence the organization of lipid mixtures containing phosphatidylinositol in vitro. Consistent with these diverse in vitro activities is the observation that SP-D-deficient transgenic mice show abnormal accumulations of surfactant lipids, and respond abnormally to challenge with respiratory viruses and bacterial lipopolysaccharides. The phenotype of macrophages isolated from the lungs of SP-D-deficient mice is altered, and there is circumstantial evidence that abnormal oxidant metabolism and/or increased metalloproteinase expression contributes to the development of emphysema. The expression of SP-D is increased in response to many forms of lung injury, and deficient accumulation of appropriately oligomerized SP-D might contribute to the pathogenesis of a variety of human lung diseases.

Question: which microorganisms are affected by surfactant-d


Role of endothelin-1 in lung disease

Endothelin-1 (ET-1) is a 21 amino acid peptide with diverse biological activity that has been implicated in numerous diseases. ET-1 is a potent mitogen regulator of smooth muscle tone, and inflammatory mediator that may play a key role in diseases of the airways, pulmonary circulation, and inflammatory lung diseases, both acute and chronic. This review will focus on the biology of ET-1 and its role in lung disease.

Question: what is a et1


Gene expression in epithelial cells in response to pneumovirus infection

Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) and pneumonia virus of mice (PVM) are viruses of the family Paramyxoviridae, subfamily pneumovirus, which cause clinically important respiratory infections in humans and rodents, respectively. The respiratory epithelial target cells respond to viral infection with specific alterations in gene expression, including production of chemoattractant cytokines, adhesion molecules, elements that are related to the apoptosis response, and others that remain incompletely understood. Here we review our current understanding of these mucosal responses and discuss several genomic approaches, including differential display reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and gene array strategies, that will permit us to unravel the nature of these responses in a more complete and systematic manner.

Question: what is the epithelial cellular response


Debate: Transfusing to normal haemoglobin levels will not improve outcome

Recent evidence suggests that critically ill patients are able to tolerate lower levels of haemoglobin than was previously believed. It is our goal to show that transfusing to a level of 100 g/l does not improve mortality and other clinically important outcomes in a critical care setting. Although many questions remain, many laboratory and clinical studies, including a recent randomized controlled trial (RCT), have established that transfusing to normal haemoglobin concentrations does not improve organ failure and mortality in the critically ill patient. In addition, a restrictive transfusion strategy will reduce exposure to allogeneic transfusions, result in more efficient use of red blood cells (RBCs), save blood overall, and decrease health care costs.

Question: does transfusing to normal haemoglobin level increase mortality


The 21st International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, Brussels, Belgium, 20-23 March 2001

The 21st International Symposium on Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine was dominated by the results of recent clinical trials in sepsis and acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). The promise of extracorporeal liver replacement therapy and noninvasive ventilation were other areas of interest. Ethical issues also received attention. Overall, the 'state of the art' lectures, pro/con debates, seminars and tutorials were of a high standard. The meeting was marked by a sense of renewed enthusiasm that positive progress is occurring in intensive care medicine.

Question: when is the international symposium on intensive care


package com.nepxion.thunder.serialization.compression;

/**
 *
Title: Nepxion Thunder

 *
Description: Nepxion Thunder For Distribution

 *
Copyright: Copyright (c) 2017-2050

 *
Company: Nepxion

 * @author Haojun Ren
 * @version 1.0
 */

import java.io.

Snappy;

import com.nepxion.thunder.serialization.compression.quicklz.

QuickLz;

public class CompressorExecutor {
    public static byte[] compress(byte[] bytes) {
        return compress(bytes, CompressorFactory.getCompressorType());
    }

    public static byte[] decompress(byte[] bytes) {
        return decompress(bytes, CompressorFactory.getCompressorType());
    }

    public static byte[] compress(byte[] bytes, CompressorType type) {
        if (type == CompressorType.

QUICK_LZ_COMPRESSOR) {
            return QuickLz.compress(bytes, 1);
        } else if (type == CompressorType.

SNAPPY_COMPRESSOR) {
            try {
                return Snappy.compress(bytes);
            } catch (IOException e) {
                throw new CompressorException(e);
            }
        } else {
            throw new CompressorException("Invalid compressor type : " + type);
        }
    }

    public static byte[] decompress(byte[] bytes, CompressorType type) {
        if (type == CompressorType.

QUICK_LZ_COMPRESSOR) {
            return QuickLz.decompress(bytes);
        } else if (type == CompressorType.

SNAPPY_COMPRESSOR) {
            try {
                return Snappy.uncompress(bytes);
            } catch (IOException e) {
                throw new CompressorException(e);
            }
        } else {
            throw new CompressorException("Invalid compressor type : " + type);
        }
    }
}


3-Deacetoxy-7-(alpha-amino-1-cyclohexenylacetamido) cephalosporanic acid (SCE-100), a new semisynthetic cephalosporin.

I. Comparative in vitro antibacterial activities of SCE-100 and cephalexin (CEX).

3-Deacetoxy-7(alpha-amino)-1-cyclohexenylacetamido) cephalosporanic acid (SCE-100) has a potent antibacterial activity against Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria.

The minimum inhibitory concentration of SCE-100 is 0.2 approximately 12.5 mug/ml against Gram-positive bacteria including penicillin G-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and 6.25 approximately 100 mug/ml against Gram-negative bacteria.

SCE-100 inhibits clinically isolated strains of penicillin G-resistant S. aureus and ampicillin-resistant Escherichia coli, as well as the corresponding sensitive strains.

The activity of SCE-100 is enhanced by decreasing the inoculum size and is only slightly influenced by medium pH, difference of medium composition and the addition of horse serum.

SCE-100 has bactericidal activity against S. aureus and E. coli.

There is a stepwise development of in vitro bacterial resistance to SCE-100 by serial transfer of organisms into a liquid medium containing SCE-100.

Cross resistance was observed between SCE-100 and other tested cephalosporins.


The Belmont Report is one of the leading works concerning ethics and health care research.

Its primary purpose is to protect subjects and participants in clinical trials or research studies.

This report consists of 3 principles: beneficence, justice, and respect for persons.

This article reviews the Belmont Report and these 3 principles as well as its importance to nurse researchers.


Q:

Fake UINavigationController slide animation

I'm creating an app, where I need to have so much navigation controllers and in every navcontroller I have all elements (buttons, images, etc.)

Customer wants to have "sliding" animaiton when switching between navcontrollers like instagram app has.

I was wondering if there is any possibility to "simulate" switch of two navigationcontrollers and just change uilabels

A:

If a lot of UIViewControllers have the same UIBarButton items,I strongly suggest you to have a common superclass like "BaseViewController".

Every UIViewController will be a subclass of BaseViewController and not of the standard UIViewController.

With this pattern you can configure your default UINavigationBar on BaseViewController by adding the buttons and images which are always present and customize it only when you need it (by adding the UILabels you are talking about)
The instagram animation is the default iOS animation you achieve by pushing a new UIViewController onto the navigationController stack with this:
[self.navigationController pushViewController:controller animated:YES];

To reply to your question on the comment section:
It's already left to right,but if you want you can animate from right to left also.

Check this out:
YourViewController  *pageView = [[YourViewController alloc] initWithNibName:@"YourViewController" bundle:nil];

CATransition *transition = [CATransition animation];
transition.duration = 0.45;
transition.timingFunction = [CAMediaTimingFunction functionWithName:kCAMediaTimingFunctionDefault];
transition.type = kCATransitionFromLeft;
[transition setType:kCATransitionPush];
transition.subtype = kCATransitionFromLeft;
transition.delegate = self;
[self.navigationController.view.layer addAnimation:transition forKey:nil];
[self.navigationController pushViewController:pageView animated:NO];


About Nokia X5-01 softwares

We have plenty of Nokia X5-01 softwares available for downloads, Nokia X5-01 are contributed by our members.

To download Nokia X5-01 softwares, simply click on any above software and then click on the download button.

You can also download Nokia X5-01 softwares to your mobile by visiting our wap site http://wap.mobiletoones.com You either need to have software in your wap folder or WAP ID.

WAP ID can be found on software details page.


The present invention related to a permanent magnetic work holder, or referred to hereinafter as a sucker, particularly a light-weight magnetic sucker with high strength and stability through application of fusion weld at high temperature for assembly of magnetic conductive disk and sucker in order to improve working efficiency and to prolong service life.

Conventionally permanent magnetic sucker is incorporated with a case iron base.

Hence, it is quite heavy, working efficiency is limited, particularly where a large sucker is required.

Prolonged use of such sucker would deteriorate machining precision.

Moreover, the cam for its operating lever is made of steel which is designed to keep constant contact with the base.

Such a design does not only make maintenance very difficult, and cause seizing of the operating lever at the base frequently.

Seizing is always a trouble to its operator for its is very difficult to maintain the contact for it is inside the base.

Furthermore, the sucker assembly of the prior art is formed by soldering, its bonding strength is weak, change of temperature can affect the levelness of the surface of the sucker, and consequently adversely affect the precision of machining.

In view of the above defects, the inventor has created a new structure of permanent magnetic sucker which makes use of aluminum alloy for making of the base to minimize its weight, two pads at the bottom of the base to facilitate use of large electromagnetic sucker, a copper alloy sleeve for the operating level to prevent from being seized, and fusion weld at high temperature for assembly of the magnetic conductive disk and sucker to eliminate impurities, to assure high bonding strength and stability for the highest possible machining precision.


More New Products Added

July 22, 2012

Last week, my webhost Zenfolio added a few new products for printing.

They've added metal prints and more wall mounts.

The metal prints are printed on a 0.45" thick aluminum photo panel with rounded corners and are coated with a gloss finish.

I recommend the Clear Gloss finish which gives the print a transparent metallic look.

Each print includes a hanging wall mount.

The other choice of wall mount is printed on a professional photographic paper and made to be wall mounted.

First, the wall brackets are mounted on the wall and then the prints attaches on to the brackets by magnets.

This will allow different prints to be easily changed on and off the wall brackets.

The prints will be rich in colors and details without glass, glare, mats or frame.

So far, I've added a few photos and selected the correct aspect ratio for availability from my website.

Metal Prints choices: 12"x18", 16"x24", 20"x30" & 24"x36"

New Wall Mount choices: 15"x10", 22.5"x15" & 30"x20"

I'm hoping to produce more photos with different aspect ratios.

This way I can have more products available.


10072339_1	Facial dermatitis, contact urticaria, rhinoconjunctivitis, and asthma induced by potato.


10072339	0	17	Facial dermatitis	Negative_phenotype


10072339	19	36	contact urticaria	Negative_phenotype


10072339	38	57	rhinoconjunctivitis	Negative_phenotype


10072339	63	69	asthma	Negative_phenotype


10072339	81	87	potato	Plant


10072339	Increase	0	17	Facial dermatitis	Negative_phenotype	81	87	potato	Plant


10072339	Increase	19	36	contact urticaria	Negative_phenotype	81	87	potato	Plant


10072339	Increase	38	57	rhinoconjunctivitis	Negative_phenotype	81	87	potato	Plant


10072339	Increase	63	69	asthma	Negative_phenotype	81	87	potato	Plant


Astaroth has been delivered via malicious e-mail attachments.


Sidewinder has sent e-mails with malicious attachments that lead victims to credential harvesting websites.


Researchers have discovered a wave of emails with malicious attachments orchestrated by Russian Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) group APT29.


Using attached HTML files containing JavaScript, the email will write an ISO file to disk; this contains a Cobalt Strike beacon that will activate on completion.


Strrat, a Java-based malware, is currently being delivered as an attached PDF document via a phishing campaign using compromised email accounts.


Although the email may look official and legitimate, if you have no reason to receive such an email or if the content is questionable, you should not open any attached files.


RestorePrivacy, an information site about privacy, examined the proof the seller put out and found the following information, scraped from LinkedIn user profiles: Email addresses, Full names, Phone numbers, Physical addresses, LinkedIn username and profile URL, Personal and professional experience/background.


Targets are identified, groomed, and then deceived by quite sophisticated email techniques into wiring funds to 'burner' bank accounts, and thinking that the email request comes from the CEO, the victim willingly sends the money.


This threat group instructs its affiliates to parse companies websites and social media to identify leadership, HR, and accounting staff for following targeted spear phishing attacks.


@paulwalk It 's the view from where I 'm living for two weeks . Empire State Building = ESB . Pretty bad storm here last evening .


From Green Newsfeed : AHFA extends deadline for Sage Award to Nov . 5 http://tinyurl.com/24agj38


Pxleyes Top 50 Photography Contest Pictures of August 2010 ... http://bit.ly/bgCyZ0 #photography


4Dbling 's place til monday , party party party . < 3


watching the VMA pre-show again lol it was n't even a good show the first time ... so bored !


27 followers ! 30 followers is my goal for today !


This is the 2nd hospital ive been in today , but ive just seen a doctor who was an older version of justin :' )


Friday Night Eats http://twitpic.com/2pdvtr


Gotta dress up for london fashion week and party in style !


A person on a horse jumps over a broken down airplane.

A person is training his horse for a competition.


A person is at a diner, ordering an omelette.


A boy is jumping on skateboard in the middle of a red bridge.


An older man sits with his orange juice at a small table in a coffee shop while employees in bright colored shirts smile in the background.

An older man drinks his juice as he waits for his daughter to get off work.


Context: After strengthening his government in northern China, Kublai pursued an expansionist policy in line with the tradition of Mongol and Chinese imperialism. He renewed a massive drive against the Song dynasty to the south. Kublai besieged Xiangyang between 1268 and 1273, the last obstacle in his way to capture the rich Yangzi River basin. An unsuccessful naval expedition was undertaken against Japan in 1274. Kublai captured the Song capital of Hangzhou in 1276, the wealthiest city of China. Song loyalists escaped from the capital and enthroned a young child as Emperor Bing of Song. The Mongols defeated the loyalists at the battle of Yamen in 1279. The last Song emperor drowned, bringing an end to the Song dynasty. The conquest of the Song reunited northern and southern China for the first time in three hundred years.

Question: How did the final Song emperor begin?


Context: Plotting the relationship between level of income and inequality, Kuznets saw middle-income developing economies level of inequality bulging out to form what is now known as the Kuznets curve. Kuznets demonstrated this relationship using cross-sectional data. However, more recent testing of this theory with superior panel data has shown it to be very weak. Kuznets' curve predicts that income inequality will eventually decrease given time. As an example, income inequality did fall in the United States during its High school movement from 1910 to 1940 and thereafter.[citation needed] However, recent data shows that the level of income inequality began to rise after the 1970s. This does not necessarily disprove Kuznets' theory.[citation needed] It may be possible that another Kuznets' cycle is occurring, specifically the move from the manufacturing sector to the service sector.[citation needed] This implies that it may be possible for multiple Kuznets' cycles to be in effect at any given time.

Question: What does Kuznets' curve predict about income inequality given time?

eventually decrease
eventually decrease
decrease


Context: The popular neighborhood known as the Tower District is centered around the historic Tower Theatre, which is included on the National List of Historic Places. The theater was built in 1939 and is at Olive and Wishon Avenues in the heart of the Tower District. (The name of the theater refers to a well-known landmark water tower, which is actually in another nearby area). The Tower District neighborhood is just north of downtown Fresno proper, and one-half mile south of Fresno City College. Although the neighborhood was known as a residential area prior, the early commercial establishments of the Tower District began with small shops and services that flocked to the area shortly after World War II. The character of small local businesses largely remains today. To some extent, the businesses of the Tower District were developed due to the proximity of the original Fresno Normal School, (later renamed California State University at Fresno). In 1916 the college moved to what is now the site of Fresno City College one-half mile north of the Tower District.

Question: When was the landmark water tower built?


Context: Renewed religious warfare in the 1620s caused the political and military privileges of the Huguenots to be abolished following their defeat. They retained the religious provisions of the Edict of Nantes until the rule of Louis XIV, who progressively increased persecution of them until he issued the Edict of Fontainebleau (1685), which abolished all legal recognition of Protestantism in France, and forced the Huguenots to convert. While nearly three-quarters eventually were killed  or submitted, roughly 500,000 Huguenots had fled France by the early 18th century[citation needed].

Question: How many Huguenots were in France in the early 18th century?


Capilla de la Parroquia Señor de la Misericordia,Gustavo A Madero,Ciudad de México


Standard Output Sensitivity and Recommended Exposure Index

Flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode


Flash fired, auto mode, return light detected


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Please help.  The card won't work.

Please help.  The card won't work.


What fiat currencies do you support?

What fiat currencies do you support?


My money has gone missing. I had recently added money in, and saw it was there and went through. Now it's missing. What is happening?


My phone has been stolen.  How can I make sure no one uses my account from it?


the exchange rate on my payment was wrong


I want to transfer money into my account


Can I get spare cards?

Can I get spare cards?


I have a card payment that I don't recognize. What should I do?


Can I top up online?

Can I top up online?


Where is my new card if I haven't received it yet?


A Porthcawl RNLI crew with a medic and the coastguard search and rescue helicopter were sent to Sker Beach, near Kenfig Nature Reserve, at 12:50 GMT on Sunday.
Crewman Chris Page said the rider had head injuries and was very cold from lying unconscious on wet sand.
She was treated before being flown to Cardiff's University Hospital of Wales.

A woman has been airlifted to hospital after falling from a horse on a Bridgend county beach.


Verheydt, who had been with Maastricht since 2015, has signed a three-year contract with Harry Kewell's side.
The 25-year-old scored 13 goals in 43 appearances in all competitions last season.
Meanwhile, Watford winger Dennon Lewis, 20, has joined the Reds on a loan deal until 31 December.
Lewis, who made 29 National League appearances on loan at Woking last season, played under Kewell when the Australian was coach of Watford's under-23 team.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.

League Two side Crawley Town have signed striker Thomas Verheydt from Dutch second-tier side MVV Maastricht for an undisclosed fee.


The 32-year-old had been playing in the Isthmian Premier Division with Leatherhead following his release by Newport at the end of last season.
Pidgeley has made 260 appearances in spells with nine clubs, including Chelsea, Watford and Millwall.
Forest Green are currently second in the National League table, one point behind leaders Cheltenham Town.
Pidgeley could make his Rovers debut when they host Aldershot on Friday.

National League side Forest Green Rovers have signed goalkeeper Lenny Pidgeley until the end of the season.


The suspected green mamba was found on a ship that had docked in Aberdeen from west Africa last month.
The snake died after it was placed in a freezer by the animal charity after attempts to rehome it with specialist reptile keepers failed.
The snake was later identified as a harmless green tree snake.
Police Scotland said a complaint was under consideration.
Scottish SPCA Ch Supt Mike Flynn said: "We were called out after a green snake arrived in Aberdeen on a boat from Africa.
"The snake was thought to be a green mamba, one of the deadliest snakes in the world. The snake was taken by police escort to our Aberdeenshire animal rescue and rehoming centre.
"Sadly the snake, which staff genuinely believed to be a green mamba, had to be put to sleep after our attempts to rehome it to specialist reptile keepers were unsuccessful."
He added: "We could not keep the snake in our centre due to severe health and safety concerns, as the closest anti-venom is held in Bedford. Green mambas also require a Dangerous Wild Animal Licence which the society does not have.
"The safety of our staff and the public is paramount and as such the snake was placed in a freezer where it passed away.
"The Scottish SPCA is proud of its policy not put healthy animals to sleep. Animals are only put to sleep on veterinary advice if they are too ill or too aggressive to be rehomed, or where we are legally required to do so.
"The decision to euthanise the snake was not taken lightly. Unfortunately, the snake has since been identified as a harmless green tree snake. This has been an honest mistake on the society's part as we genuinely believed this was an extremely deadly snake."
The western green mamba feeds on small animals and rodents and is mainly found in the coastal tropical rainforests of western Africa.
Experts say its bite can be fatal in as little as 30 minutes.

A complaint about the Scottish SPCA putting what was thought to be one of the world's most deadly snakes to sleep is being investigated by police.


The all-rounder has been included in the T20 squad to face Sri Lanka on 5 July at the Ageas Bowl, having been part of the World T20 squad in March.
"It's nice to be involved again," the 26-year-old slow left-armer and right-handed batsman told BBC Radio Solent.
"I wasn't expecting to be as I thought Moeen Ali would, but him being rested hands me another opportunity."
Dawson failed to make an appearance during England's run to the World T20 final in India this year, but his limited-overs performances for Hampshire this season have kept him in contention.
"I'm not sure what team they'll go with," he said.
"I've had some good performances for Hampshire in one-day and T20 cricket and if I keep going with that, hopefully I might get a chance."

Hampshire's Liam Dawson says it would be "amazing" to make his England Twenty20 debut on his home ground.


The Egypt-backed plan had envisaged a regional forum which analysts say might have forced Israel to reveal whether or not it has nuclear weapons.
The proposal was blocked by the US, the UK and Canada. The next review is set for  2020.
Israel neither confirms nor denies it has a stockpile of nuclear weapons.
Speaking after four weeks of negotiations, US Under-Secretary of State Rose Gottemoeller accused Egypt and other Arab countries of "not willing to let go of these unrealistic and unworkable conditions" for future talks.
She also said some participants tried to "cynically manipulate" the whole process.
But Egypt warned that the failure to reach a deal "will have consequences in front of the Arab world and public opinion", the Associated Press news agency reports.
Last month, Egypt had proposed to stage a regional conference - with or without Israel's participation and without an agreed agenda.
Some analysts suggested that this move might have forced Israel - which is not a party to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) - to publicly clarify its position on nuclear weapons.
Decisions at NPT review conferences - held every five years - are made by consensus.
The failure of the current talks means the next gathering could only be held in 2020 at the earliest.

A UN conference aimed at preventing the proliferation of nuclear weapons has ended in failure after a row over a nuclear-free Middle East proposal.


Mothers-to-be are more likely to get malaria as their immunity is lowered, says the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG).
Malaria carries serious risks for mother and baby including miscarriage, stillbirth and premature labour.
The tropical disease is transmitted by mosquitoes and causes a fever, flu-like symptoms, vomiting and diarrhoea.
There have been no malaria-related deaths in pregnant or recently pregnant women in the UK in the past decade but the RCOG says it has been receiving inquires from worried women.
In the UK, about 1,500 cases of malaria are reported each year and about 10 people will die, said the RCOG.
It says all non-essential trips to areas with a high risk of malaria should be avoided.
Risk areas include large areas of Africa, Asia including China and India, Central and South America, parts of the Middle East and some Pacific Islands.
If the trip is unavoidable, the college advises women to seek advice from a centre with expertise in malaria which will provide information on ways to reduce the risk of infection.
Women should make sure they are aware of the risk, take out measures such as mosquito nets for bite prevention and take anti-malarial medication.
Philippa Marsden, who chairs the RCOG's patient information committee, said although the risks were still relatively small it was important that women were well-informed.
Cath Broderick of the RCOG women's network said: "If women are worried about symptoms after returning from a high-risk country and think they may have malaria, they should see a doctor immediately and inform them of their recent travels."
Symptoms can take a week or more to develop after being bitten.

Pregnant women should visit countries with a risk of malaria only if their trip is essential, experts are warning.


Researchers at the University of Sheffield said the tumours were effectively "fertilising" the bone to help themselves grow.
The study, in the journal Nature, said it may be possible to protect bone from a tumour's nefarious influence and consequently stop the cancer's spread.
Cancer charities said this opened up "a whole new avenue for research".
Around 85% of breast cancers that spread around the body end up in bone, at which point the cancer is difficult to treat and more deadly.
The scientists, in Sheffield and the University of Copenhagen, discovered patients with secondary cancers had higher levels of an enzyme called LOX being produced by their tumours and released into the blood.
Bone is constantly being broken down and rebuilt. But in a series of experiments on mice, the research team showed LOX was disrupting the process and leaving lesions and holes in the bone.
Using drugs to block LOX prevented the cancer from spreading.
Dr Alison Gartland, a reader in bone and cancer biology at the university, told the BBC News website: "We think it's a significant breakthrough in trying to prevent metastases (secondary tumours) in breast cancer.
"The cancer cells in the primary tumour are actually fertilising the soil for the future growth of itself, LOX is changing the environment in bone to make it better to grow."
The animal tests also showed that a set of osteoporosis drugs called bisphosphonates could prevent the spread of cancer.
Bisphosphonates also interfere with the way bone is recycled in order to strengthen it.
They are already given to some cancer patients, but the Sheffield team believe they could have a much larger role.
The effect was discovered only in oestrogen-negative breast cancers. They account for around a third of cases, but are far more deadly.
Katherine Woods, from Breast Cancer Campaign and Breakthrough Breast Cancer, said: "By unveiling the role that the protein LOX is playing, these results open up a whole new avenue for research and treatments that could stop breast cancer spreading to the bone.
"The research also adds weight to the growing body of evidence supporting the role of bisphosphonates in stopping secondary breast cancer in its tracks.
"The reality of living with secondary breast cancer in the bone is a stark one, which leaves many women with bone pain and fractures that need extensive surgery just when they need to be making the most of the time they have left with friends and family."
The findings may also apply in colon cancer.

Breast cancers can manipulate the structure of bone to make it easier to spread there, a study has found.


View + as a random digit instead of a mathematical operation. Q: What is the first digit of 63+18? A:


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quantum field theory naturally began with the study of electromagnetic interactions as the electromagnetic field was the only known classical field as of the 1920s 8 1

Question: when was quantum field theory developed

Answer: 1920s


the nobel prize in literature swedish nobelpriset i litteratur is awarded annually by the swedish academy to authors for outstanding contributions in the field of literature it is one of the five nobel prizes established by the 1895 will of alfred nobel which are awarded for outstanding contributions in chemistry physics literature peace and physiology or medicine 1 as dictated by nobel s will the award is administered by the nobel foundation and awarded by a committee that consists of five members elected by the swedish academy 2 the first nobel prize in literature was awarded in 1901 to sully prudhomme of france 3 each recipient receives a medal a diploma and a monetary award prize that has varied throughout the years 4 in 1901 prudhomme received 150 782 sek which is equivalent to 8 823 637 78 sek in january 2018 the award is presented in stockholm at an annual ceremony on december 10 the anniversary of nobel s death 5

Question: who was the first nobel prize winner for literature

Answer: sully

Answer: prudhomme


hangul was personally created and promulgated by the fourth king of the joseon dynasty sejong the great 1 2 sejong s scholarly institute the hall of worthies is often credited with the work and at least one of its scholars was heavily involved in its creation but it appears to have also been a personal project of sejong

Question: who invented hangul

Answer: sejong

Answer: the

Answer: great


grasshoppers are plant eaters with a few species at times becoming serious pests of cereals vegetables and pasture especially when they swarm in their millions as locusts and destroy crops over wide areas they protect themselves from predators by camouflage when detected many species attempt to startle the predator with a brilliantly coloured wing flash while jumping and if adult launching themselves into the air usually flying for only a short distance other species such as the rainbow grasshopper have warning coloration which deters predators grasshoppers are affected by parasites and various diseases and many predatory creatures feed on both nymphs and adults the eggs are the subject of attack by parasitoids and predators

Question: what do grasshoppers eat

Answer: grasshoppers

Answer: are

Answer: plant

Answer: eaters

Answer: with

Answer: a

Answer: few

Answer: species

Answer: at

Answer: times

Answer: becoming

Answer: serious

Answer: pests

Answer: of

Answer: cereals

Answer: vegetables

Answer: and

Answer: pasture

Answer: especially

Answer: when

Answer: they

Answer: swarm

Answer: in

Answer: their

Answer: millions

Answer: as

Answer: locusts

Answer: and

Answer: destroy

Answer: crops

Answer: over

Answer: wide

Answer: areas


guitar hero live is a music video game developed by freestylegames and published by activision it was released for playstation 3 playstation 4 wii u xbox 360 and xbox one in october 2015 and to ios devices including apple tv in november 2015 as with previous games in the series the goal is to use a special guitar controller to match fret patterns displayed on a scrolling note pattern on screen in time with the music

Question: when was guitar hero live first released

Answer: october

Answer: 2015


on march 7 1901 lupinus subcarnosus became the only species of bluebonnet recognized as the state flower of texas 2 however lupinus texensis emerged as the favorite of most texans so in 1971 the texas legislature made any similar species of lupinus that could be found in texas the state flower 3 4

Question: when were bluebonnets named the state flower of texas

Answer: march

Answer: 7

Answer: 1901


taylor s keel was laid down by bath iron works corp bath maine on may 5 1983 she was launched november 5 1983 and commissioned december 1 1984 in bath maine taylor was sponsored by barbara a taylor the widow of the ship s namesake and diane taylor oeland as matron of honor

Question: when was the uss taylor built

Answer: may

Answer: 5

Answer: 1983


Byte addressing

Byte addressing refers to hardware architectures which support accessing individual bytes of data rather than only larger units called words, which would be word-addressable.

Such computers are sometimes called byte machines (in contrast to word machines).

The basic unit of digital storage is called a bit, storing a single 0 or 1.

Many common architectures can address more than 8 bits of data at a time.

For example, the Intel 386SX processor can handle 16-bit (two-byte) data, since data is transferred over a 16-bit bus.

However, data in memory may be of various lengths.

A 64-bit architecture machine might still need to access 8-bit data over its 64-bit address line, and have the data returned in the bottom 8 bits of its longer data line.

Byte addressable memory refers to architectures where data can be accessed and addressed in units that are narrower than the bus.

An eight-bit processor like the Intel 8008 addresses eight bits, but as this is the full width of the bus, this is regarded as word-addressable.

The 386SX, which addresses memory in 8-bit units but can fetch and store it 16 bits at a time, is termed byte-addressable.

Bytes have not always meant 8 bits; in fact, depending on the platform, byte sizes of 1 to 48 bits have been used in the past.

Therefore, the term octet is used where the context makes byte-length ambiguous.

For example, in the 1980s, Honeywell mainframes had 36-bit words, and were byte-addressable in 9-bit bytes, or "nonets", They used 7- or 8-bit character codes, either of which were stored one to each 9-bit byte, making characters individually addressable.

To illustrate why byte addressing is useful, consider the IBM 7094, which is word-addressable and has no concept of a byte.

It has 36-bit words, and stores its six-bit character codes six to a word.

To change the 16th character in a string, the program has to determine that this is the fourth character of the third word in the string, fetch the third word, mask out the old value of the fourth character from the value held in the register, "or" in the new one, and then store back the amended word.

Usually these are relegated to a subroutine, so every store or fetch of a single character involves the overhead of calling a subroutine and returning.

With byte addressing, that can be achieved in one instruction: store this character code at that byte address.

Text programs are easier to write, smaller, and run faster.

The advantage of word addressing is that more memory can be addressed in the same number of bits.

The IBM 7094 has 15-bit addresses, so could address 32,768 words of 36 bits.

The machines were often built with a full complement of addressable memory.

Addressing 32,768 bytes of 6 bits would have been much less useful for scientific and engineering users.

Or consider the 32-bit Pentium processor.

Its 32-bit address bus can address 4 billion different items.

Using word addressing, a 32-bit address bus could address 4 Gigawords; or 16 Gigabytes using the modern 8-bit byte.

If the 386SX and its successors had used word addressing, scientists, engineers, and gamers could all have enjoyed programs that were 4x larger on 32-bit machines.

Then again, word processing, rendering HTML, and all other text applications would have run more slowly.

When computers were so costly that they were only or mainly used for science and engineering, word addressing was the obvious mode.

As it became cost-effective to use computers for handling text, hardware designers moved to byte addressing.

Some systems, such as the PDP-10, use word addressing but facilitate access to individual bytes using special instructions which can access memory using a byte pointer, which contains both a word address and the index of a specific byte within the word.

See also

 Data structure alignment
 Endianness

References

Category:Computer architecture
Category:Central processing unit


Q:

Using < Symbol in Ansible

I have an ansible script I created that backs up a Databases, Destroys, Creates, and Points the back up to the newly created DB:
 - name: Backing up database
   command: pg_dump --schema-only --file=image.dump.20100217 image

 - name: Destroying Current Database
   command: time dropdb image

 - name: Creating Database
   postgresql_db: name=image
                  owner='ryan'

 - name: Pointing newly created DB to Backed up DB
   command: psql image < image.dump.20100217

Everything runs fine until it tries to point to the backed up DB.

Ansible doesn't process the < symbol and ultimately crashes:
failed: [192.168.x.x] => {"changed": true, "cmd": ["psql", "image", "<", "image.dump.20100217"], "delta": "0:00:00.003229", "end": "2015-08-19 11:26:21.796224", "rc": 2, "start": "2015-08-19 11:26:21.792995", "warnings": []}
stderr: psql: warning: extra command-line argument "image.dump.20100217" ignored
psql: FATAL:  role "<" does not exist

FATAL: all hosts have already failed -- aborting

Does anyone have any suggestions on how to work around this?

A:

Have not tested it but the ultimate trick with problematic characters is to put it into a Jinja expression:
command: psql image {{ "<" }} image.dump.20100217

I can't reproduce this in Ansible 1.9.2.

Here is what I tested:
- command: echo psql image < image.dump.20100217
  register: x
- debug: var=x


The capacity of acute stress disorder to predict posttraumatic psychiatric disorders.

One rationale for establishing the acute stress disorder diagnosis was to identify recently trauma-exposed people who may develop later posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).

This study conducted a multi-site assessment of the extent to which ASD predicts subsequent PTSD, and also major depressive disorder, panic disorder, agoraphobia, social phobia, specific phobia, generalized anxiety disorder, and substance use disorder, 12 months after trauma.

Consecutive admissions to 5 major trauma hospitals across Australia (N = 1084) were assessed during hospital admission and within one month of trauma exposure and subsequently re-assessed for psychiatric disorder 12 months after the initial assessment (N = 859).

Whereas 120 (10%) patients met criteria for ASD in the initial month after trauma, 83 (10%) met criteria for PTSD, and 268 (31%) had any psychiatric disorder at 12 months.

In terms of those diagnosed with ASD, 28 (36%) subsequently met criteria for PTSD and 50 (65%) subsequently developed any psychiatric disorder.

Whereas the majority of people with ASD subsequently develop a psychiatric disorder, most people with a disorder at 12 months do not initially display ASD.


Q:

GitLab CI: YAML not being run

I am getting the following error from GitLab when I committed:
(<unknown>): did not find expected '-' indicator while parsing a block collection at line 29 column 5

The file did not change between commits but somehow is failing now, when it succeeded in the past.

.gitlab-ci.yaml
image: 'ubuntu:latest'

stages:
  - test
  - pages

before_script:
  - apt-get update -y && apt-get upgrade -y
  - apt-get install -y python3.7 python3-pip xvfb qt5-default

test:
  stage: test
  except:
    changes:
      - CHANGELOG.txt
      - README.RST
      - requirements.txt
      - tools
      - LICENSE
      - example.py
      - setup.py
  script:
    - python3.7 -m pip install pyqt5 pytest pytest-qt pytest-cov
    - python3.7 setup.py install
    - xvfb-run python3.7 -m pytest --cov=NodalPy tests/

pages:
  script:
    - python3.7 -m pip install sphinx sphinx-rtd-theme
    - sphinx-build docs/source docs/build
    - mkdir public
    - sphinx-build docs/source docs/build
    - mv docs/build/ public/
    artifacts:
      paths:
        - public
  only:
    - master

A:

artifacts indentation is not correct, must be at the same level than script
pages:
script:
  - python3.7 -m pip install sphinx sphinx-rtd-theme
  - sphinx-build docs/source docs/build
  - mkdir public
  - sphinx-build docs/source docs/build
  - mv docs/build/ public/
artifacts:
  paths:
    - public
only:
- master


Input: [Name] PDPK1-001 [Transcript ID] ENST00000342085 [bp] 7241 [Protein] 556aa [Translation ID] ENSP00000344220 [Biotype] Genes and/or transcript that contains an open reading frame (ORF).Protein coding [CCDS] CCDS10472 [UniProt] O15530 [RefSeq] NM_002613 NP_002604 [Flags]

Output: Transcript Support Level 1, when transcripts are supported by at least one non-suspect mRNA.The Transcript Support Level (TSL) is a method to highlight the well-supported and poorly-supported transcript models for users. The method relies on the primary data that can support full-length transcript structure: mRNA and EST alignments supplied by UCSC and Ensembl.TSL:1The GENCODE set is the gene set for human and mouse. GENCODE Basic is a subset of representative transcripts (splice variants).GENCODE basicPRINCIPAL1 - APPRIS candidate principal isoform.APPRIS is a system to annotate alternatively spliced transcripts based on a range of computational methods.APPRIS P1

Ensembl genome browser 81: Homo sapiens - ID History - Transcript: PDPK1-013 (ENST00000441549)


Input: [Name] PDPK1-002 [Transcript ID] ENST00000268673 [bp] 4728 [Protein] 429aa [Translation ID] ENSP00000268673 [Biotype] Genes and/or transcript that contains an open reading frame (ORF).Protein coding [CCDS] CCDS10473 [UniProt] O15530 [RefSeq] NM_031268 NP_112558 [Flags]

Output: Transcript Support Level 1, when transcripts are supported by at least one non-suspect mRNA.The Transcript Support Level (TSL) is a method to highlight the well-supported and poorly-supported transcript models for users. The method relies on the primary data that can support full-length transcript structure: mRNA and EST alignments supplied by UCSC and Ensembl.TSL:1The GENCODE set is the gene set for human and mouse. GENCODE Basic is a subset of representative transcripts (splice variants).GENCODE basic

Ensembl genome browser 81: Homo sapiens - ID History - Transcript: PDPK1-013 (ENST00000441549)


Input: [Name] PDPK1-013 [Transcript ID] ENST00000441549 [bp] 1729 [Protein] 454aa [Translation ID] ENSP00000395357 [Biotype] Genes and/or transcript that contains an open reading frame (ORF).Protein coding [CCDS] CCDS58411 [UniProt] O15530 [RefSeq] NM_001261816 NP_001248745 [Flags]

Output: Transcript Support Level 1, when transcripts are supported by at least one non-suspect mRNA.The Transcript Support Level (TSL) is a method to highlight the well-supported and poorly-supported transcript models for users. The method relies on the primary data that can support full-length transcript structure: mRNA and EST alignments supplied by UCSC and Ensembl.TSL:1The GENCODE set is the gene set for human and mouse. GENCODE Basic is a subset of representative transcripts (splice variants).GENCODE basic

Ensembl genome browser 81: Homo sapiens - ID History - Transcript: PDPK1-013 (ENST00000441549)


Input: [Name] PDPK1-003 [Transcript ID] ENST00000389224 [bp] 2416 [Protein] 529aa [Translation ID] ENSP00000373876 [Biotype] Genes and/or transcript that contains an open reading frame (ORF).Protein coding [CCDS] - [UniProt] E9PER6 [RefSeq] - [Flags]

Output: Transcript Support Level 2, when transcripts are supported by multiple ESTs or by an mRNA flagged as suspect.The Transcript Support Level (TSL) is a method to highlight the well-supported and poorly-supported transcript models for users. The method relies on the primary data that can support full-length transcript structure: mRNA and EST alignments supplied by UCSC and Ensembl.TSL:2The GENCODE set is the gene set for human and mouse. GENCODE Basic is a subset of representative transcripts (splice variants).GENCODE basic

Ensembl genome browser 81: Homo sapiens - ID History - Transcript: PDPK1-013 (ENST00000441549)


Input: [Name] PDPK1-008 [Transcript ID] ENST00000461815 [bp] 611 [Protein] 149aa [Translation ID] ENSP00000455551 [Biotype] Genes and/or transcript that contains an open reading frame (ORF).Protein coding [CCDS] - [UniProt] H3BQ10 [RefSeq] - [Flags]

Output: 3' truncation in transcript evidence prevents annotation of the end of the CDS.CDS 3' incompleteTranscript Support Level 3, when transcripts are supported by a single EST only.The Transcript Support Level (TSL) is a method to highlight the well-supported and poorly-supported transcript models for users. The method relies on the primary data that can support full-length transcript structure: mRNA and EST alignments supplied by UCSC and Ensembl.TSL:3

Ensembl genome browser 81: Homo sapiens - ID History - Transcript: PDPK1-013 (ENST00000441549)


Input: [Name] PDPK1-015 [Transcript ID] ENST00000566659 [bp] 451 [Protein] 88aa [Translation ID] ENSP00000455492 [Biotype] Genes and/or transcript that contains an open reading frame (ORF).Protein coding [CCDS] - [UniProt] H3BPW1 [RefSeq] - [Flags]

Output: 3' truncation in transcript evidence prevents annotation of the end of the CDS.CDS 3' incompleteTranscript Support Level 3, when transcripts are supported by a single EST only.The Transcript Support Level (TSL) is a method to highlight the well-supported and poorly-supported transcript models for users. The method relies on the primary data that can support full-length transcript structure: mRNA and EST alignments supplied by UCSC and Ensembl.TSL:3

Ensembl genome browser 81: Homo sapiens - ID History - Transcript: PDPK1-013 (ENST00000441549)


Input: [Name] PDPK1-006 [Transcript ID] ENST00000474706 [bp] 699 [Protein] 35aa [Translation ID] ENSP00000455025 [Biotype] Transcript is thought to undergo nonsense mediated decay, a process which detects nonsense mutations and prevents the expression of truncated or erroneous proteins. Nonsense mediated decay [CCDS] - [UniProt] H3BNV5 [RefSeq] - [Flags]

Output: Transcript Support Level 5, for transcripts that are not supported at all by either an mRNA or an EST.The Transcript Support Level (TSL) is a method to highlight the well-supported and poorly-supported transcript models for users. The method relies on the primary data that can support full-length transcript structure: mRNA and EST alignments supplied by UCSC and Ensembl.TSL:5

Ensembl genome browser 81: Homo sapiens - ID History - Transcript: PDPK1-013 (ENST00000441549)


Input: [Name] PDPK1-007 [Transcript ID] ENST00000492021 [bp] 552 [Protein] 55aa [Translation ID] ENSP00000455684 [Biotype] Transcript is thought to undergo nonsense mediated decay, a process which detects nonsense mutations and prevents the expression of truncated or erroneous proteins. Nonsense mediated decay [CCDS] - [UniProt] H3BQA3 [RefSeq] - [Flags]

Output: Transcript Support Level 5, for transcripts that are not supported at all by either an mRNA or an EST.The Transcript Support Level (TSL) is a method to highlight the well-supported and poorly-supported transcript models for users. The method relies on the primary data that can support full-length transcript structure: mRNA and EST alignments supplied by UCSC and Ensembl.TSL:5

Ensembl genome browser 81: Homo sapiens - ID History - Transcript: PDPK1-013 (ENST00000441549)


Input: [Name] PDPK1-012 [Transcript ID] ENST00000478708 [bp] 445 [Protein] 40aa [Translation ID] ENSP00000455438 [Biotype] Transcript is thought to undergo nonsense mediated decay, a process which detects nonsense mutations and prevents the expression of truncated or erroneous proteins. Nonsense mediated decay [CCDS] - [UniProt] H3BPR5 [RefSeq] - [Flags]

Output: 5' truncation in transcript evidence prevents annotation of the start of the CDS.CDS 5' incompleteTranscript Support Level 5, for transcripts that are not supported at all by either an mRNA or an EST.The Transcript Support Level (TSL) is a method to highlight the well-supported and poorly-supported transcript models for users. The method relies on the primary data that can support full-length transcript structure: mRNA and EST alignments supplied by UCSC and Ensembl.TSL:5

Ensembl genome browser 81: Homo sapiens - ID History - Transcript: PDPK1-013 (ENST00000441549)


Input: [Name] PDPK1-011 [Transcript ID] ENST00000471311 [bp] 621 [Protein] No protein [Translation ID] - [Biotype] Transcripts that don't contain an open reading frame (ORF) and cannot be placed in one of the other categories.Processed transcript [CCDS] - [UniProt] - [RefSeq] - [Flags]

Output: Transcript Support Level 3, when transcripts are supported by a single EST only.The Transcript Support Level (TSL) is a method to highlight the well-supported and poorly-supported transcript models for users. The method relies on the primary data that can support full-length transcript structure: mRNA and EST alignments supplied by UCSC and Ensembl.TSL:3

Ensembl genome browser 81: Homo sapiens - ID History - Transcript: PDPK1-013 (ENST00000441549)


C ongressional employees are retained to perform public duties that include assisting Members in official responsibilities in personal, committee, leadership, or administrative office settings. The roles, duties, and activities of congressional staff are matters of ongoing interest to Members of Congress, congressional staff, groups, and individuals, including those who raise concerns about congressional operations. Most observers recognize that Congress does not function without staff, but there is little systematic attention to what staff do, or what Members expect of them. In congressional offices, there may be interest in identifying Member expectations of congressional staff duties by position from multiple perspectives, including assessment of staffing needs in Member offices; guidance in setting position expectations, qualifications, and experience when offices choose to hire staff; and informing current and potential congressional employees of position expectations. Members of the House and Senate generally establish their own employment policies and practices for their personal offices. It is arguably the case that within Member offices, a common group of activities is executed for which staff with relevant skillsets and other qualifications are necessary. A body of publicly available job advertisements for staff positions from a number of different offices can shed light on the expectations Members have for position duties, as well as staff skills, characteristics, experience, and other expectations. For 33 commonly used congressional staff position titles, this report describes the most frequently listed job duties, applicant skills, characteristics, prior experiences, and other expectations found in a sample of job advertisements placed by Members of Congress between approximately December 2014 and September 2019 seeking staff in their offices. Table 1 lists the position titles and the frequency with which advertisements for them appeared in the sample. Identifying Job Advertisements for Congressional Staff Positions Data used in developing sample position expectations were taken from several publicly available sources, including the following, over the periods specified: The House Employment Bulletin, published weekly by the House Vacancy Announcement and Placement Service (HVAPS) in the Human Resources Office of the House Chief Administrative Officer (CAO). Data were collected from ads published between approximately January 2015 and September 2019. The Employment Bulletin, published online by the Senate "as a service to Senate offices choosing to advertise staff vacancies." Data were collected from ads, which were not dated, appearing from approximately July 2016 to July 2019. The House GOP Job and Resume Bank, which posts ads on behalf of the House Republican Conference on Facebook. Ads were collected between approximately January and June 2017. Other ads were collected from the period between approximately December 2014 and January 2017 from the House GOP Job Bank web page on the website of Representative Virginia Foxx during part of her tenure as the House Republican Conference Secretary. The Job Announcements Board hosted by Representative Steny Hoyer during part of his tenure as House Minority Whip. Data were collected from ads posted between approximately January 2016 and December 2017. Categorizing and Coding Job Advertisements More than 1,800 ads were collected from all sources. Duplicate ads resulting from posts to more than one source, and ads that appear to have been frequently reposted, were removed, as were ads for positions in congressional settings other than personal offices, yielding 880 ads for positions in Member personal offices. Substantially similar position titles (e.g., deputy scheduler and state deputy scheduler) for which there were five or more ads were identified and grouped together, as were related job titles (e.g., positions designated as district, field, or regional representative that had essentially similar job duties and expectations) for which there were five or more substantially similar ads, yielding a total of 704 ads. Ads for the 33 identified position titles were further categorized if there were five or more ads that specified the advertised position as "not entry level" or other signifier of presumptive advanced status. The 704 ads were coded against a variety of variables within eight categories, including ad tracking information; ad details; position responsibilities and responsibility areas; expected job skills, qualifications, and credentials; application materials; and office type. The distribution of ads by job title and level is provided in Table 1 . Solicitations of applicants for congressional staff appear to originate in a highly decentralized manner. Means of identifying appropriate candidates might potentially include reassigning staff within offices, placing ads in services that make them available by subscription, word of mouth, and other nonpublic means of identifying potential applicants for congressional staff positions. Consequently, it cannot be determined whether the dataset of ads analyzed in this report is representative of all congressional employment solicitations. In addition, the process by which candidates for some Member office senior staff positions are identified may not be public-facing. Based on information specified within the ads, most position titles were identified by one of the following four primary responsibility areas (some positions were identified by up to three responsibility areas): Legislative, Policy, and Oversight, Media, Messaging, and Speeches, Constituent Communications, Outreach, and Service, and Office Administration and Support. For each position, at least one sample position description was created based on the coded data. Information includes the most frequently occurring of the following: primary responsibility areas; widely expected duties, typically up to six of the most frequently occurring duties specified in all ads for that position; other potential duties, typically up to six other duties mentioned in more than one ad; applicant information, including characteristics, skills, and knowledge and prior experience; and other expectations. Concluding Observations Categorizing congressional staff positions by position title relies on an assumption that similarly titled positions in House and Senate personal offices carry out the same tasks under essentially similar circumstances. While personal offices may carry out similar activities, the assumption might be questionable given the differences in staff resources in House and Senate offices, as well as potential differences within offices of each chamber. Generalizations about staff roles and duties may also be limited in some ways due to the broad discretion Members have with regard to running their office activities. Variations from office to office, which might include differences in job duties, work schedules, office emphases, and other factors, may limit the extent to which sample position expectations provided here match operational practices in all congressional offices. Sample Position Expectations Caseworker18 Communications Director19 Communications Director, "Senior Level" or "Not Entry Level"20 Constituent Services Representative21 Correspondence Manager22 Deputy Press Secretary23 Deputy Scheduler24 Deputy Scheduler/Assistant to Chief of Staff25 Digital Director/Press Assistant26 Digital Media Director27 District Director28 Executive Assistant29 Executive Assistant/Scheduler30 Executive Assistant/Scheduler, "Not Entry Level"31 Field, District, or Regional Representative32 Field Representative/Caseworker33 Legislative Aide34 Legislative Assistant35 Legislative Assistant, "Not Entry Level"36 Legislative Correspondent37 Legislative Correspondent/Press Assistant38 Legislative Correspondent/Staff Assistant39 Legislative Counsel40 Legislative Director, House41 Legislative Director "Senior Level," or "Not Entry Level"42 Legislative Director, Senate43 Military Legislative Assistant44 Press Assistant45 Press Secretary46 Regional Coordinator47 Scheduler48 Scheduler, "Not Entry Level"49 Scheduler/Office Manager50 Senior Legislative Assistant51 Speechwriter52 Staff Assistant53 Staff Assistant/Driver54 Staff Assistant/Press Assistant55 Systems Administrator56

The roles, duties, and activities of congressional staff are matters of ongoing interest to Members of Congress, congressional staff, and observers of Congress. Members of the House and Senate establish their own employment policies and practices for their personal offices. It is arguably the case that within Member offices, a common group of activities is executed for which staff are necessary. Accordingly, a group of job advertisements for those positions from a number of different offices can shed light on the expectations Members have for position duties, as well as staff skills, characteristics, experience, and other expectations. This report provides a set of 39 widely expected job duties, applicant skills, characteristics, prior experiences, and other expectations based on a sample of ads placed by Members of Congress between approximately December 2014 and September 2019 seeking staff in their offices for 33 position titles: Sample position expectations might assist Congress from multiple perspectives, including assessment of staffing needs in Member offices; guidance in setting position expectations, qualifications, and experience when offices need to hire staff; and informing current and potential congressional employees of position expectations. At the same time, categorizing congressional staff positions by position title relies on an assumption that similarly titled positions in House and Senate personal offices carry out the same tasks under essentially similar circumstances. Although personal offices may carry out similar activities, the assumption might be questionable given the differences in staff resources in House and Senate offices, as well as potential differences among offices of each chamber, particularly the Senate. Genera lizations about staff roles and duties may also be limited in some ways due to the broad discretion Members have with regard to running their office activities. Variations from office to office, which might include differences in job duties, work schedules, office emphases, and other factors, may limit the extent to which sample position expectations might match operational practices in all congressional offices. This is one of several CRS products on congressional staff. To access those products, see CRS Report R44688, Congressional Staff: CRS Products on Size, Pay, and Job Tenure .


Works with RTL and Nextbook Aries 8. Demod stops working if the scan width is changed requiring restart.


Works with RTL SDR Works but no audio when demodulating


Awsome App! Easy to use  works great on Notes w / Realtek dongle.


I'll forgo the refund. But no go with Watson dongle... Nexus 9. Yet to try on Nexus 6p. So very disappointed!!! :-(


looks like a great program  1 of its kind I don't have the necessary hardware to utilize it though.


Great app! The new version now works on my Bravia Android TV which is great as it's right by my rooftop aerial cable. The scan feature would be useful...any ETA on when this will be available? Also the option to import a list of bookmarks e.g. from a simple properties file would be useful.


Great It's not fully optimised and has some issues with crashing but still a nice app  especially considering the price and it's open source.


Works on a Nexus 6p I'm still messing around with my hackrf but it works with my Nexus 6p  Trond usb-c to usb host adapter. Thanks!


The bandwidth seemed to be limited to maximum 2 MHz or so. I tried to increase the bandwidth but not possible. I purchased this is because one of the pictures in the advertisement showed the 2.4GHz band with around 10MHz or more bandwidth. Is it not possible to increase the bandwidth? If not  it is just the same performance as other free APPs.


Works well with my Hackrf Hopefully new updates will arrive for extra functions


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Some will include all viewers above the age of four,others will focus on 25plus and some others on 35plus audience


Will anyone study Shakespeare like we do?


This is the end
Beautiful friend
This is the end
My only friend, the end
Of our elaborate plans, the end
Of everything that stands, the end
No safety or surprise, the end
Ill never look into your eyes again
Can you picture what will be?
So limitless and free
Desperately in need
Of some strangers hand
In a desperate land
Lost in a Roman wilderness of pain
And all the children are insane
All the children are insane
Waiting for the summer rain, yeah
Theres danger on the edge of town
Ride the Kings Highway, baby
Weird scenes inside the gold mine
Ride the highway west, baby
Ride the snake, ride the snake
To the lake, the ancient lake, baby
The snake, hes long, seven miles
Ride the snake
Hes old and his skin is cold
The west is the best
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Get here and well do the rest
The blue bus is calling us
The blue bus is calling us
Driver, where you taking us?
The killer awoke before dawn
He put his boots on
He took a face from the ancient gallery
And he walked on down the hall
He went into the room where his sister lived, and then he
Paid a visit to his brother, and then he
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And he came to a door
And he looked inside
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Mother? I want to...
Come on baby, take a chance with us
Come on baby, take a chance with us
Come on baby, take a chance with us
And meet me at the back of the blue bus
Doin a blue rug, on a blue bus, doin a
Come on yeah
Fuck, fuck-ah, yeah
Fuck, fuck
Fuck, fuck
Fuck, fuck, fuck yeah!
Come on baby, come on
Fuck me baby, fuck yeah
Woah
Fuck, fuck, fuck, yeah!
Fuck, yeah, come on baby
Fuck me baby, fuck fuck
Woah, woah, woah, yeah
Fuck yeah, do it, yeah
Come on!
Huh, huh, huh, huh, yeah
Alright
Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill
This is the end
Beautiful friend
This is the end
My only friend, the end
It hurts to set you free
But youll never follow me
The end of laughter and soft lies
The end of nights we tried to die
This is the end