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Poor bladder control causes the sufferer to leak urine or suffer complete incontinence. Bladder problems can occur in both males and females due to a variety of conditions.
The bladder holds and stores urine. When full, the muscles relax and allow the urine to flow out of the body. People with poor bladder control lack the ability to hold the urine. It is estimated that 13 million Americans suffer from bladder control problems. As many as one in five people over the age of 40 have varying degrees of incontinence. Women tend to suffer more from the disorder.
Childbirth, menopause, weak muscles, excessive weight gain, infections, substance abuse, nerve damage, prostate problems and certain diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease and multiple sclerosis may all cause poor bladder control in seniors. Some medications can also cause bladder control problems.
Poor bladder control can occur at any time, and can be an embarrassing experience if the sufferer is not prepared. Commercial pads and adult diapers may all help hide a leaking bladder. Many people who suffer from the condition avoid going out in public or getting too far from a bathroom.
Although lack of bladder control is normally not a medical emergency, many sufferers experience underlying health conditions that can require immediate emergency assistance. Bladder control problems typically strike seniors who suffer from varying degrees of arthritis and mobility issues. The disorder can also occur as a result of Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer’s disease and multiple sclerosis.
When a senior starts to feel that they need to empty their bladder, they may rush to get to the bathroom. Arthritis and other diseases often make the senior unsteady and prone to falling. Frequently visiting the bathroom can also weaken a senior and make it difficult to safely sit or rise from the toilet. If a fall should occur, a senior can quickly summon for help using a medical alert system.
A senior who experiences frequent bladder control problems can opt to live their life without medical alerts, but they should take a few steps to ensure their safety. There are several steps that they can take to avoid an accident.
Sudden urge to go: The sudden urge to go may make you jump up and hurry to the bathroom. Having a walker or a cane handy will provide you with stability and help prevent a possible fall.
Frequent bathroom visits: Seniors with bladder control problems often spend an excessive amount of time sitting on the toilet. Having a safety toilet frame installed helps you stand and sit without falling. You may also want to have handrails installed for additional assistance.
Middle-of-the-night bathroom trips: In the middle of the night, it may difficult to get up and go to the bathroom. Having a safety stand/assist placed beside the bed will help you rise from the bed. You may also want to have voice or motion activated lights installed so you are not walking to the bathroom in the dark.
Leaking urine: There are numerous commercial brands of pads and adult diapers that can absorb leaks and keep them from wetting your clothing.
Avoid inactivity: Activity often causes bladder leaks in susceptible individuals, but living an inactive lifestyle is not wise. Pelvic floor muscles play a key role in bladder control, so exercising may actually reduce the incidences of bladder leaks.
Medication: Many physicians provide prescription medication to control the sudden urge to empty your bladder. You should always take all medication according to your physician's directions.
Living with bladder control problems is never easy. These issues are usually a sign of a more serious underlying health condition. In some cases, they go hand in hand with arthritis or other diseases that threaten your safety. Having a medical alert system in place to summon help will provide you with peace of mind.


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Getting better at something doesn’t always require adding skills or knowledge.
-You can become a better listener by talking less.
-You can make better decisions by waiting, thinking, and avoiding taking impulsive action.
You can become a better musician by changing how you spend your time and energy, instead of practicing more hours.
In this post, I address what I think is the single most important thing you can do to improve your musicianship, and it doesn’t involve adding any new skills or knowledge.
So what is the easiest thing you can do to improve your musicianship?
Socrates said, “Know thyself.” The easiest way for you to improve is by recording yourself, listening back, and then making a note to refrain from playing things you don’t like.
I recommend you record yourself practicing, rehearsing, or performing. Then listen back whenever you have free time- in the car, during meals, before bed, etc. Through listening frequently, and critically, in order to shorten the gap between what you think you sound like, and what you actually sound like, you can become an unbiased critic of your own playing.
During the moment you’re playing, you may not have a clue what you actually sound like. When you listen back, you perceive something closer to what you actually sound like. You want to be able to hear how you really sound, not how you think you sound in the moment you’re playing.
When you hear things you don’t like in your recordings, make a note to refrain from those bad habits in the future. If you hear yourself using the same lick over and over again, make a note to limit your use of that lick. If you always play flat in third position, make a note of it. By becoming aware of these bad habits and actively rooting them out, you can rapidly improve your playing, and as you continue to listen to recordings, you will see evidence of that progress.
Healthy living starts with kicking bad habits. The same is true for musicians who are looking to improve. Identify and stop bad habits and you’ll become twice the musician you are today.
Listen to and “keep score” of many aspects of your playing. Music is multidimensional. Listen to your timing, tone, and phrasing, and make note of your strengths and weaknesses. An awesome way to expedite this process is by using looping technology. Looping is a great way for your to mimic a live performance setting when you are practicing alone. And listening to recordings of your loop jams will allow you to hear areas for improvement in both your rhythm and lead playing.
Here’s a loop-pedal performance of a tune I named “Pat From Memory” in honor of guitarist, Pat Metheny.
If you begin to regularly listen to recordings of yourself, I guarantee you will quickly start to see measurable improvement in your playing.
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When Grover Dale booked West Side Story, he had no idea what was in store for him. He learned he needed to prove himself every day.
At a recent Member Meet-Up, staffer Suzy Miller was reminded just how powerful two little words can be... Thank You! It's another small way you can be smart about your career.
Our Summer Meet-Up in New York City brought dancers together from all over the world to explore possibilities for their careers.
Dancers are, by nature, creative thinkers. Find out how these A4Ders put those same instincts to work in the workplace.
If building an effective demo reel is one of your goals, read on. Here's where you'll find practical insights and examples that members have shared with us.
Wonder how to obtain a visa to work in the USA? 78% of work visas for dancers are 0-1's and here's the info you need to take the mystery out of getting yours.
Working with stats provided by top agencies, we identified the most desireable skills employers are looking for at auditions. This is valuable info.
A4D members recently participated in auditions surveys. The results show real trends in the business. We collected real numbers from our members.


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“Iranian Nuclear Talks” Testimony of David Albright, President Institute for Science and International Security (ISIS) before the Terrorism, Nonproliferation, and Trade Subcommittee, Committee on Foreign Affairs, U.S. House of Representatives November 18, 2014 Iran and the P5+1 group of countries (the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Russia, and China) are feverishly working to reach a final, comprehensive solution on Iran’s nuclear program before the November 24, 2014 extended deadline of the Joint Plan of Action (JPA). The November 2013 JPA set out a process aimed at limiting Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for relief from economic and financial sanctions. On a separate but linked negotiating track, Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) have been working on a step-wise approach to address the IAEA’s concerns, particularly those about the alleged past and possibly on-going military dimensions (or so-called PMD) of Iran’s nuclear program. However, this process has stalled. Whether and how Iran complies with the IAEA’s concerns is currently being played out in the context of P5+1/Iran negotiations. Despite hopeful signs of progress in the negotiations, much reportedly remains to be settled. If there is no deal, an extension of the JPA may occur while the parties attempt to continue to reach agreement. And if negotiations fail, the United States will likely face a daunting challenge of preventing the escalation of tensions while attempting to pressure Iran back to the negotiating table. The potential for the parties to commit to a bad deal that actually worsens tensions and mistrust in the long run is likewise a dangerous prospect. In order to avoid a bad deal, the P5+1 must hold strong on achieving an agreement that limits Iran’s nuclear program to a reasonable civilian capability, significantly increases the timelines for breakout to nuclear weapons, and introduces enhanced verification that goes beyond the IAEA’s Additional Protocol. A sound deal will also require Iran to verifiably address the IAEA’s concerns about its past and possibly on-going work on nuclear weapons, which means Iran must address those concerns in a concrete manner before a deal is finalized or any relief of economic or financial sanctions occurs.
The primary goal of a comprehensive solution is to ensure that Iran’s nuclear program is indeed peaceful, against a background of two decades of Iran deceiving the IAEA about its nuclear programs, including military nuclear programs. This long history of deception and violations places additional burdens on achieving a verifiable, long term agreement. To achieve a verifiable solution, Iran will need to limit specific, existing nuclear capabilities, including reducing significantly the number of its centrifuges and the size of its uranium and low enriched uranium stocks, and limiting its centrifuge R&D programs. As mentioned above, Iran should demonstrate in a concrete manner its intention to address allegations of past and possibly on-going work on nuclear weapons prior to the finalization of any deal. The agreement will need to include verification provisions that create a critical baseline of information, including how many centrifuges Iran has made, how much natural uranium it has produced and is producing annually, and its inventory of raw materials and equipment for its centrifuge program. This baseline is necessary if the agreement is to provide assurances about the absence of secret nuclear activities and facilities. Sanctions on proliferation sensitive goods will need to continue and will need to be enforced rigorously, while allowing exemptions for authorized nuclear programs. Iran will need to allow mechanisms to ensure that any further military nuclear related work would be detected on short order. Without these limitations on Iran’s nuclear programs and expanded verification conditions, a long-term deal will likely fail or exacerbate the threat from Iran. However, an adequate agreement is possible and within reach of the United States and its negotiating partners.
A key goal of the negotiations is to ensure that any deal provides adequate reaction time, namely, adequate time to respond diplomatically and internationally to stop Iran if it does decide to renege on its commitments and build nuclear weapons. According to Undersecretary of State Wendy Sherman, “We must be confident that any effort by Tehran to break out of its obligations will be so visible and time-consuming that the attempt would have no chance of success.”1 That goal must be at the core of any agreement. Obtaining adequate reaction time requires that limitations are placed on Iran’s sensitive nuclear programs, adequate verification is ensured, and concrete progress has been demonstrated that Iran will address the IAEA’s concerns about its past and possibly on-going nuclear weapons efforts. Because of Iran’s long history of non-compliance with its safeguards obligations, a deal must last long enough, on order of 20 years, so that there is little risk of Iran seeking nuclear weapons.
If Iran were to make the political decision to produce a nuclear weapon after a comprehensive nuclear deal, it is not possible to second guess how it may proceed. Iran may use its declared nuclear facilities to secretly make enough highly enriched uranium (HEU) or plutonium for a bomb or it may build covert sites to make the HEU or separate the plutonium. Given that Iran has such a long history of building and conducting secret nuclear activities, U.S. negotiators need to take a broad view and secure a deal that makes all of Iran’s paths to the bomb a time consuming, risky effort. Some have advocated that only the covert route to nuclear weapons is likely. Those who favor this view often rely on the U.S. 2007 National Intelligence Estimate, Iran: Nuclear Intentions and Capabilities. It concluded, “We assess with moderate confidence that Iran probably would use covert facilities—rather than its declared nuclear sites—for the production of highly enriched uranium for a weapon.” That assessment may have been true in 2007 when Iran had few centrifuges, and in fact, we now know, was building a covert centrifuge plant at Qom, called the Fordow facility. However, that statement no longer holds true. At this point in time, it is unlikely that Iran would rely entirely on the covert pathway option for fear of getting caught again as it did in building the formerly secret Fordow facility, and long before it has enough weapon-grade uranium or separated plutonium for nuclear weapons. The revelation about the Qom enrichment plant was highly damaging to Iran’s international credibility. For example, Russia became much more critical of Iran after this revelation and the creation of damaging sanctions became easier. Therefore, Iran is unlikely to want to repeat that mistake without greater assurance of being able to successfully hide a covert program, something it likely lacks now and will not gain anytime soon if the long term deal is carefully crafted by the United States and its partners. Iran is more likely today to choose a safe route to preserving and further developing a capability to produce fissile material for a nuclear weapon. In the case of gas centrifuges, it is likely to seek to maintain and increase its capabilities at declared centrifuge sites, the associated centrifuge manufacturing complex, and centrifuge R&D facilities. It would view this path as the preferred one, because it can simply and legitimately claim that all its activities are civil in nature, even if it is actually hiding the goal of eventually seeking nuclear weapons. If it opts to make nuclear weapons in the future, its declared programs could serve as the basis of whatever it does. Then, it could pursue breakout as it deems most appropriate, whether by misusing its declared centrifuge facilities, building covert ones, or using both paths together. Thus, the U.S. goal should be limiting sharply the number of centrifuges at declared sites and constraining centrifuge manufacturing and R&D activities, both of which could help outfit covert programs. This approach would greatly diminish Iran’s ability to breakout to nuclear weapons. If Iran decides to build nuclear weapons in the future, it would have to start from this relatively low level of capability, regardless of the path it would actually select in the future. The long timeline to acquire enough HEU for a weapon may turn out to deter Iran from even trying. This strategy depends on creating a robust verification regime able to detect covert nuclear activities or a small hidden away centrifuge plant. Iran has assuredly learned from its mistakes at hiding the Qom enrichment site. In fact, it has likely developed more sophisticated methods to hide covert nuclear activities. But robust verification, which requires measures beyond the Additional Protocol, can provide assurance that Iran is not hiding centrifuge plants or other nuclear capabilities in the future. These additional verification measures would ensure that Iran would have a very hard time creating or maintaining a covert program outside of its declared programs after signing a long term agreement. It is wiser to anticipate and block all of Iran’s potential future paths to the bomb, rather than guessing and choosing the wrong one.
One assured way to quantify the concept of adequate reaction time when discussing limitations on uranium enrichment programs is to link timely reaction time to breakout time. Breakout time is the amount of time Iran would need to create enough weapon-grade uranium for a single nuclear weapon, if it reneged or cheated on the agreement. Additional time would be needed to fabricate the nuclear weapon itself but the creation of enough fissile material (weapon-grade uranium or separated plutonium) is widely accepted as the “long pole in the tent” of making a nuclear weapon and the only part of this process susceptible to reliable discovery and subsequent pressure. Other nuclear weaponization activities, such as producing high explosive components, electronic components, or uranium metal parts, are notoriously difficult to detect and stop. By focusing on breakout time—as defined above—the agreement would grant the international community a guaranteed period of time to react and prevent Iran’s success. The longer the breakout time, the more reaction options we have. A deal that enshrines a short breakout time is risky because if Iran were to make the decision to make a weapon, military intervention would be the only available response. Thus, time for Iran’s ability to produce enough weapon-grade uranium for a bomb must be sufficiently long to allow the international community to prepare and implement a response able to stop Iran from succeeding. Typically, the U.S. negotiators have sought limitations in Iran’s nuclear programs that lead to reaction times of twelve months. ISIS has taken the position that under certain conditions six months could be adequate. To better understand the implications of breakout, we have prepared a range of breakout calculations under a wide variety of current and posited centrifuge capabilities that in essence convert the reaction time, i.e. breakout time, into an equivalent number of centrifuges and stocks of low enriched uranium. One of the calculations considers an important case, namely the current, frozen centrifuge program under the JPA where Iran retains its existing, installed IR-1 centrifuges and no stocks of near 20 percent LEU hexafluoride. In this case, the breakout time is about two months, which is the same as public U.S. government estimates. If the number of IR-1 centrifuges were reduced to about 10,000, breakout time would grow to about three months, according to the ISIS estimates. To achieve a breakout time of 6-12 months, which is more desirable, the calculations lead to a centrifuge program of about 2,000-4,000 IR-1 centrifuges. Thus, any nuclear deal should allow no more than about 4,000 IR-1 centrifuges.
These principles flow from the effort to ensure that Iran’s nuclear program is peaceful and remains so. These principles also reflect long experience in negotiating arms control and non-proliferation agreements and a recognition of the strengths and weaknesses in those agreements to date. Iran on the other hand has emphasized the principles of cooperation and transparency. These principles are predicated on its assertion that its word should be trusted, namely its pronouncement that it will not build nuclear weapons. These principles also reflect its long standing view that any agreement should have constrained verification conditions and minimal impact on its nuclear programs, even allowing for their significant growth, despite the current lack of economic or practical justifications for such growth. Many of Iran’s negotiating positions have been rejected because they can be undone on short order, offering little practical utility in constraining Iran’s future abilities to build nuclear weapons. Iran on numerous occasions in the past has shown a willingness to stop cooperation with the IAEA and reverse agreed upon constraints, sometimes rapidly. A robust and painstakingly built international sanctions regime on Iran cannot be lifted in return for inadequate and reversible constraints. The negotiating process has shown the complexity of any agreement able to ensure that Iran’s nuclear program will remain peaceful. But by sticking to sound principles, potential compromises can be better evaluated and any resulting deal will be more likely to last.
These conditions argue for continuing all the UNSC and national sanctions and well-enforced export controls on proliferation-sensitive goods. Such goods are those key goods used or needed in Iran’s nuclear programs and nuclear weapon delivery systems, the latter typically interpreted as covering ballistic missiles. Sanctions should continue on the listed goods in the UNSC resolutions, many of them dual-use in nature, and more generally on those other dual-use goods that could contribute to uranium enrichment, plutonium reprocessing, heavy water, and nuclear weapon delivery systems (see United Nations Security Council resolution 1929, par. 13). The latter is often referred to as the “catch-all” provision and mirrors many national catch-all requirements in export control laws and regulations. In the case of Iran, this provision is especially important. Without illicitly obtaining the goods covered by catch-all, Iran would be severely constrained in building or expanding nuclear sites. The P5+1 powers need to manage carefully the transition to a time when imports of goods to Iran are allowed for legitimate nuclear and later possibly for civilian uses. Many proliferation sensitive goods are dual-use goods, which have applications both in nuclear and non-nuclear industries and institutions. Currently, the world is on heightened alert about Iran’s illicit procurements for its sanctioned nuclear, missile, and military programs. Routinely, this alert has led to the thwarting of many illicit purchases and interdictions of banned goods. But as nations enter into expanded commercial and trade relationships with Iran, a risk is that many countries will effectively stand down from this heightened state of awareness and lose much of their motivation to stop banned sales to Iran even if UN sanctions remain in place. Despite the sanctions and vigilant efforts today, many goods now make their way to Iran illicitly that fall below the sanctions list thresholds but are covered by the catch-all condition that bans all goods that could contribute to Iran’s nuclear program. The volume of these sales is expected to increase after an agreement takes effect and many more of these goods could get through successfully. Unless carefully managed, a key risk is that the sanctions may not hold firm for the below threshold or catch-all goods. Stopping transfers of explicitly banned items may also become more difficult as business opportunities increase and much of the world de-emphasizes Iran’s nuclear program as a major issue in their foreign policies and domestic regulations. This could be particularly true for China and middle economic powers, such as Turkey, which already have substantial trade with Iran and are expected to seek expanded ties. Other countries with weak export controls may expand trade as well.
Minimum breakout time versus 3.5% inventory used Note: The results are calculated as breakout times for various numbers of centrifuges and amounts of 3.5% inventory used, with multiple scenarios for each number of centrifuges matched with a specific 3.5% inventory. Two sets of breakout times are reported in the figures: mean with range and minimum value of all scenarios. The results in the text use the mean values. The minimum values are viewed as worst case estimates which may be unlikely to be achieved in practice.
1 “Iran’s Current Enrichment Level Not Acceptable: US,” Agence France Presse. September 17, 2014. 2 Aside from the IR-2m and a few other centrifuge models, little is known about Iran’s next generation centrifuges. Quarterly IAEA safeguards reports indicate that Iran has not successfully operated next generation centrifuges on a continuous basis or in significant numbers since their installation began at the Natanz Pilot Fuel Enrichment Plant. This suggests that Iran may be having difficulty with aspects of their design or operation. Iran’s failure to deploy next-generation centrifuges in significant quantities is one indication that sanctions were effective to slow or significantly raise the costs of procurement.

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just got me a snow wolf m82 cqb. am wanting to put a tightbore barrel in it and change the hop unit. as i understand it any m4 hop will work?
i was considering Airsoft pro Full CNC M4 HopUp chamber set- Gen.2 ? this any good, anyone reccomend an awesome one?
Loadouts: DPM, assault vest, webbing. pattern 56 gear (falklands). congo mercenary.
Considering I currently own 4 SW M82's, the hops they come with is actually pretty good, the 2 "upgraded" ones I bought either didn't show any improvement, or showed a loss of air seal, only thing I've actually done is change barrel and bucking (pdi 6.01mm and a lonex hard bucking) and that improved it a bit.
Also, pics or it didn't happen.
sorry the last one isn't up to date, those 2 are currently being worked on and I'd rather not give it away till it's finished (already been in production for a year), and as to why, I just think that the .50 bmg/M82 platform is so good I'm surprised there isn't more multi-role capability for it.
nice, i'm new to upgrading guns, have you done any other mods to your barretts? and upgrades you would reccomend?
no worries, I'm personally of the opinion "if it ain't broke, don't fix it",unless there is something actually wrong with it, or you've got a specific thing in mind I'd just clean the barrel and play with it until it dies.
13:1 gears from AK2M4 (SHS if I remember correctly), changed the old ones as I went through a ROF period, added maybe 3-4rps.
Lonex red piston (stripped the old one after about 15-20 games) recommend airlab as the better supplier.
firefly hard hop rubber (only put this in if you've got everything else right, should add a few metres).
and as an additional, they use the crappy green lube/gunk in the boxes, I would recommend getting rid of it as soon as possible. probably the only thing I would recommend to be done immediately. there are a couple of other things I have done because of the external modifications, so I won't list them.
when you do upgrade, do one thing at a time, much easier to trouble-shoot.
thx matey, btw what fps yours shooting unmodded? mine is about 380ish but i've seen new ones for sale listing much less?
if memory serves, when I first got it, it was chronoing just under 400fps, a couple of thousand rounds (in the backyard) it had settled down to ~360 fps (around about).
right now it's shooting 328-333fps, but there's a story behind that, went to the mall with mates and totally forgot about the fps limits, so instead of borrowing a gun I heated up a needle and stuck it through the air nozzle (don't do this at home kids) which got it to the current level, and I never saw a point in bringing it back up as it's at a level totally legal at any site in the UK.

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There Is Nothing Left to Lose-მა 2001 წელს მიიღო გრემი წლის როკ-ალბომის კატეგორიაში და Foo Fighters-ისთვის იყო ამ დაჯილდოებაზე მიღებული პირველი ჯილდო. შემდგომში კოლექტივმა მიიღო კიდევ სამი, ალბომებისთვის One by One, Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace და Wasting Light.
ყველა სიმღერის ავტორი — დეივ გროლი, ნეიტ მენდელი და ტეილორ ჰოუკინზი.
↑ Schinder, Scott. (ნოემბერი 5, 1999) There Is Nothing Left to Lose Review. Entertainment Weekly. წაკითხვის თარიღი: აპრილი 10, 2012.
↑ There Is Nothing Left To Lose – NME. NME (სექტემბერი 12, 2005). წაკითხვის თარიღი: აგვისტო 21, 2017.
↑ Karchich, Timothy. Foo Fighters: There is Nothing Left To Lose (1999). Punknews. წაკითხვის თარიღი: აგვისტო 21, 2017.
↑ კრისტგოუ, რობერტ. CG: Foo Fighters. RobertChristgau.com. წაკითხვის თარიღი: აპრილი 10, 2012.
↑ კოტი, Greg. (ნოემბერი 11, 1999) There Is Nothing Left to Lose by Foo Fighters. Rolling Stone. Wenner Media. წაკითხვის თარიღი: ოქტომბერი 24, 2013.
↑ Davey Boy. (ივნისი 2, 2008) Review: Foo Fighters – There Is Nothing Left To Lose. Sputnikmusic. წაკითხვის თარიღი: სექტემბერი 19, 2011.
↑ Gundersen, Edna. (ნოემბერი 2, 1999) Foo Fighters have plenty left; Lil' Wayne makes hot debut. USA Today. წაკითხვის თარიღი: აგვისტო 27, 2013.
↑ "Foo Fighters – There Is Nothing Left to Lose". Australiancharts.com. Hung Medien. წაკითხვის თარიღი ივნისი 26, 2016.
↑ "Foo Fighters - There Is Nothing Left to Lose" (გერმანულად). Austriancharts.at. Hung Medien. წაკითხვის თარიღი ივნისი 26, 2016.
↑ "Foo Fighters – There Is Nothing Left to Lose" (ჰოლანდიურად). Ultratop.be. Hung Medien. წაკითხვის თარიღი ივნისი 26, 2016.
↑ RPM Top 100 CD's – 5 ნოემბერი 1999 collectionscanada.gc.ca retrieved ივნისი 26, 2016.
↑ "Foo Fighters – There Is Nothing Left to Lose" (ჰოლანდიურად). Dutchcharts.nl. Hung Medien. წაკითხვის თარიღი ივნისი 26, 2016.
↑ "Foo Fighters: There Is Nothing Left to Lose" (ფინურად). Musiikkituottajat – IFPI ფინეთი. წაკითხვის თარიღი ივნისი 26, 2016.
↑ "Foo Fighters – There Is Nothing Left to Lose". Lescharts.com. Hung Medien. წაკითხვის თარიღი ივნისი 26, 2016.
↑ "Foo Fighters – There Is Nothing Left to Lose". Charts.org.nz. Hung Medien. წაკითხვის თარიღი ივნისი 26, 2016.
↑ "Foo Fighters – There Is Nothing Left to Lose". Norwegiancharts.com. Hung Medien. წაკითხვის თარიღი ივნისი 26, 2016.
↑ "Foo Fighters – There Is Nothing Left to Lose". Swedishcharts.com. Hung Medien. წაკითხვის თარიღი ივნისი 26, 2016.
↑ ARIA Charts – End of Year Charts – Top 100 Albums 2000. Australian Recording Industry Association. წაკითხვის თარიღი: იანვარი 8, 2016.
↑ ARIA-ს ჩარტები – აკრედიტაციები – 2007 Albums. ავსტრალიის ხმისჩამწერი ინდუსტრიის ასოციაცია. წაკითხვის თარიღი: სექტემბერი 28, 2011.
↑ Canadian album certifications – Foo Fighters – There Is Nothing Left to Lose. Music Canada. წაკითხვის თარიღი: სექტემბერი 28, 2011.
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You can watch videos, read stories and browse photos in several different sections. As the name suggests, a new issue of The Daily comes out each day. Conveniently enough, if you're a subscriber, it will be automatically downloaded to your device, just as if it were a morning newspaper delivered to your doorstep.

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Android version would me fantastic.
Could we have a dedicated Project Cars ap Mr B to help people get started... This would really help newcomers with the pretty steep learning curve they encounter?
I haven't tried it, but there is this app for the Android Track & Tune (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.teknosinteractive.joseph.trackandtune).
FYI the app for IOS sets you back USD 1,99.
Very interesting, I would like to hear how useful it was from someone who has tried it.
Does anyone have this app and what You think about it?
I was curious and bought it.
Pretty basic but would be handy for those like me with little tuning knowledge as a quick reference.
Useless app, which does nothing to help. not worth buying. two euros is not much but still.


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se6astian: how can task T987 : Try running Tensorflow DeepLab-v3+ inside AXIOM Beta help?
I mean what is the need of semantic segmentation in AXIOM Beta?
se6astian: ok. Let me give it try. Which processor does AXIOM has and how much main memory is available?
siddhantsahu: what amount of memory are we talking here?
The MobileNetV2 (focused towards mobile devices)model can be used as a feature extractor with DeepLab-v3 which has less precision and number of parameters suited for mobile devices.

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Your cover letter is as important as your resume because it is read first! Its purpose is to interest the reader in you as a prospective employee, and therefore it should be a very positive presentation. It should be brief, precise, and written in a business letter style.
There is no one perfect cover letter. The advice and examples of cover letters included in this handbook should only be used as guides . It is extremely important that you individualize the letter to highlight your unique qualifications; as they relate to the specific requirements sought by the employer.
Why you are applying for the position, level of interest.
Every resume that is sent should be accompanied by a cover letter.
Use good quality bond white or off white paper for both the resume and cover letter.
Use letter quality or laser printer for a clear sharp copy.
Check and recheck for accurate spelling and grammar. Do not rely on spell-check.
Please consider the enclosed copy of my resume an application for the position of law clerk with your firm. I learned from the Career Services Office that you plan to hire a first-year law student next summer. I was pleased to discover that your firm practices in the area of construction law because that area is of particular interest to me.
As the assistant office manager for Longfellow Construction Company, I was involved with some construction law issues. I find this practice area fascinating and would like to learn more about it, as well as the other practice areas of your firm. I enjoy researching and writing, as evidenced by my involvement with the school newspaper. I feel this trait would be an asset to your firm.
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During the last decade, antibiotic resistance by various mechanisms has increased worldwide in bacterial pathogens leading to treatment failures in human and animal infectious diseases ([European Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance System] EARSS 2005, Harbarth and Samore 2005, WHO 2007). Resistance against antibiotics by pathogenic bacteria is a major concern in the anti-infective therapy of both humans and animals. Bacteria are able to adapt rapidly to new environmental conditions such as the presence of antimicrobial molecules and, as a consequence, resistance increases with the antimicrobial use (Falagas and Bliziotis 2007, Jansen et al. 2006). Serious concerns about bacterial drug resistance from nosocomial, community-acquired and food-borne pathogens have been growing for a number of years and have been raised at both national and international levels (see Reports from EARSS 2005 [European Academies Science Advisory Council] EASAC 2005, [European Food Safety Authority] EFSA 2007 and WHO 2007, Jansen et al 2006).
Antimicrobial molecules include antibiotics and biocides having a bactericidal/bacteriostatic effect on bacteria (see the definition in section 3.2.1.1). The various antibiotic resistance strategies are well-described in the scientific literature. By comparison, resistance against other biocides has only been studied and characterised recently. Biocides and antibiotics may share some common behaviour and properties in their respective activity and in the resistance mechanisms developed by bacteria (Russell 2003, Sheldon 2005). Today, it is important to weigh the risks of selecting antibiotic resistant bacteria by biocide use correctly and to have a clear view of the corresponding emerging health risk. Moreover, understanding the selection and dissemination of biocide resistant pathogens is very important for combating the dissemination of health care associated diseases and foodborne pathogens.
In 2006, the market for biocides amounted to €10-11 billion with a growth of 4-5% per annum for the previous 15 years. Market expansion is predicted to continue (for further details, see www.pan-europe.info/Biocides.htm ). As a result, the hazard/risk of biocide use leading to the selection of antibiotic resistant bacteria followed by selection and dissemination of resistant pathogens is of increasing concern. Therefore, the aim of the present opinion is to assess the risk relating to the possible interactions between the use of biocides and the emergence of antibiotic resistance in pathogenic bacteria.
The objective of this opinion is to review evidence on the emergence of biocide resistance and cross-resistance between biocides and antibiotics in bacteria, and to determine if the increasing use of biocides may be associated with an increase in antibiotic resistance in bacterial pathogens. Areas where information is scarce or not available and subsequent additional research will be highlighted.
Within the scope of the mandate our proposition is to limit the definition of "antimicrobials" to substances that are primarily active against bacteria, and does exclude for example antifungal and antiprotozoal agents.
According to the Directive 98/8/EC of the European Parliament and Council of the 16 February 1998, biocidal products are defined as active substances and preparations containing one or more active substances, put up in the form in which they are supplied to the user, intended to destroy, render harmless, prevent the action of, or otherwise exert a controlling effect on any harmful organism by chemical or biological means. In the Annex V of the Directive is presented a list of 23 product types with an indicative set of descriptions.
The active substances are without concern (Annex IA of the directive) or with concern about their inherent capacity to cause an adverse effect on humans, animals or the environment.
Biocide: an active chemical molecule to control the growth of or kill bacteria in a biocidal product.
The mandate to the Committee did not require the clarification of the terminology used to define resistance to biocides. The definitions used in this opinion are based on the experts' assessment of the currently used definitions in the peer-reviewed literature.
There are several definitions of resistance to antimicrobials biocides or/and antibiotics and several terms used to describe similar phenomena in the literature. A literal definition of resistance is the capacity of bacteria to withstand the effects of a harmful chemical agent.
The following definitions are based partly on those put forward by Chapman and colleagues (Chapman 1998, Chapman et al. 1998), Russell and colleagues (Hammond et al. 1987, Russell 2003) and Cloete (2003).
In the context of this mandate, when non-antibiotic antimicrobial agents (i.e. biocides) are considered, the word “resistance” is used in a similar way where a strain is not killed or inhibited by a concentration attained in practice (the in-use concentration) and in situations (ii) and (iii) described above.
The term 'Multi-Drug Resistant’ (MDR) applies to a bacterium that is simultaneously resistant to a number of antibiotics belonging to different chemical classes by using various mechanisms (Depardieu et al. 2007). The EFSA uses the term multiple resistance (MR) or multi-resistance when a bacterial strain is resistant to several different antimicrobials or antimicrobial classes (EFSA 2008a, EFSA 2008b).
Other terms such as “insusceptibility”, “tolerance” and “co-resistance” have been used in the published literature. Insusceptibility refers to an intrinsic (innate) property of a micro-organism, such as cell layer impermeability in mycobacteria and Gram-negative bacteria. Tolerance denotes a reduced susceptibility to an antimicrobial molecule characterised by a raised minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC), or a situation in which a preservative system no longer prevents microbial growth. Co-resistance specifically refers to genetic determinants (such as integrons, transposons or plasmids) encoding for unrelated resistance mechanisms, that are transferred in a single event and expressed jointly in a new bacterial host.
The number of biocides in use is large (see Annex – 1 [of the Commission Regulation of 4 December 2007, listing the identified existing active substances for evaluation EC/1451/2007]). In the context of this mandate, biocides used for their surfactant properties, and for which the primary purpose is not their antimicrobial activity, as well as antimicrobial peptides (for instance, bacteriocins), will not be considered.
For the purpose of this document, only the most commonly used biocides for which information about bacterial resistance is available in the public domain, will be discussed. The list of such active substances classified on the basis of their chemical groups or their mode of action is presented in Table 1 and Table 2, respectively. Components of the formulation might have an effect on the antimicrobial activity of the biocide (pH, surfactants, antioxidants, chelating agents, aroma chemicals and alcohols, botanical and herbals, antimicrobial amphiphillic peptides [defensins, Cationic Antimicrobial Peptides (CAMP)], enzymatic antimicrobial systems), or several biocides might be used in the same formulation to increase the overall antimicrobial activity. The effects of combining two or more biocides can be defined as (i) additive when the combined action is no greater than the sum of the activities of the individual actives, (ii) synergistic when the combined action is greater than the sum of the activities of any actives on their own and (iii) antagonistic where the combined effect results in a lower activity than the sum of the activities of the individual actives. For a biocidal formulation containing more than two different active molecules, synergy is the goal.
Some of the components that are commonly found in household products are surface active agents (surfactants) and “membrane permeabilisers”. Surfactants have an intrinsic antibacterial activity (anionic, non-ionic, organic acids [active against Gram-positive bacteria] and compounds with alkyl chains [active against both Gram positive and negative bacteria]) (Birnie et al. 2000) and may increase the overall bactericidal activity of the associated products when used in combination. They are not usually described or labelled as active molecules of the products. Membrane permeabilisers and chaotropic agents (e.g. EDTA, detergents) increase the bactericidal efficacy of a product mainly against Gram-negative bacteria when used in combination with a biocide. Their mechanism of action has been well-described (Alakomi et al. 2006, Ayres et al. 1999, Denyer and Maillard 2002, Maillard 2005).
Table 1: List of active molecules in biocidal products classified on the basis of chemical groups.
In contrast to the surveillance on the use of antibiotics used in human and animal health care, the use of biocides is not regularly monitored, and the amounts of products applied or used remains largely unknown (see Table 1 and Table 2). Only general figures, such as the estimated EU-market value of €10-11 billion in 2006, with a continuing increase, are available (www.pan-europe.info/Biocides.htm ).
While most biocides are known to be high volume products, the Committee could not obtain any valid tonnage information despite several efforts. However, production volumes of many of these compounds are considered to be several orders of magnitude higher than those of antibiotics. It is conceivable that the huge amount of biocides disseminated in the environment may, per se, induce a biological hazard via the selective pressure* applied to bacterial populations.
In general, Directive 98/8/EC on the placing of biocidal products on the market governs the use of active substances in biocidal products. In this Directive the prerequisites for placing of biocidal products on the market are defined, including detailed requirements of the pre-marketing approval process. Requirements are among others, the demonstration of efficacy, safety, analytical methods for detection and identification, toxicity, the control of residues including metabolites and degradation products (Art 2a-g) and ecotoxicological studies.

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In contrast to what you saw on twitter, I saw this.
Don’t forget the number of former employees (who either left of their own volition or were terminated) who had their summit invitations revoked by the head of Mozilla HR. Great way to keep folks involved!
There is a Mozilla Alumni group … on Facebook. Organized by Mozilla Alumni.
While it’s not quite as dire (and the Twitterer in question was just making an ill-phrased joke) as it could be, it’s certainly not great. For this particular Summit, applications to receive invitations were sent through the Mozillians email list, and many people I know don’t read those communiques (a broader problem: how as a Mozillian should I try to stay involved?) or didn’t expect that to be the process by which they would receive an invite to the event. A definite pity.
The thing I find most frustrating is that having now worked for a couple of startups, there is a lot of great data and feedback I’d like to share with Mozilla about things like mobile, apps, etc. I’d also love to be a strong advocate for them. I feel, however, like any attempts I make to do so are met with initial enthusiasm and then poor follow up. I’m left wondering how best to contribute, when my contribution is not purely code based. Some people may argue that this, in particular, is the problem, and not a new one.
I totally agree that a small amount of the community team’s time dedicated to providing great support for alumni would be fantastic. I know, first hand!, that we are some of the most effective evangelists for Mozilla.
Hey, that tweet made me uncomfortable too (even if it was in jest) so thank you for calling it out and writing this. I’m not sure if I agree with your broader conclusions, though.
For one thing, a number of former staff did come to at least visit during part of the summit and were welcome in discussions there (including some now at Facebook, like my former teammate Frank Yan).
But none of the ex-employees that I’ve personally worked with are really engaged with the Mozilla project anymore. (Those who are can opt in to communications like summit invitations in the same way all our community can.) That’s their choice to make, and I absolutely don’t fault them for it. People burn out or become otherwise dissatisfied, or just need to focus on their new thing for a while. But since the summit has a limited amount of space and we already need to turn away some community members who would like to attend, we *should* prioritize people who are active in the project now over people who were in the past.
That’s not to dismiss the value that alumni bring to an organization even after they disengage. I’ve stepped down from several companies and open source projects in the past. Being part of the alumni network for each of those groups benefits both me and the group. I can provide links between my old colleagues and new ones, and evangelize ideas and products (as Beltzner mentioned). But in my new role as an outsider with ties to a group (rather than a current member of the group) I no longer expect to be invited to the yearly off-site or company picnic or whatnot.
So I agree we should value and strengthen ties with alumni whether they remain active contributors or not, but I think the expectations are different for the two cases. And Beltzner is right that there are many ways we fail to engage properly with non-full-time contributors in many areas; I’m one of those who would argue this is a general failing that extends beyond former paid staff.
Yeah. I wanted to chime in and say about the same thing. I don’t know if the former-empolyees know, but there are plenty of people who are very VERY active contributers to the project right now, working more than a few hours every night on stuff, who weren’t invited as well (in the cases I know about, the timing was off between when they started contributing and when summit invites were sent).
i.e. you weren’t alone in not getting invites, and it wasn’t an intentional slight. Just prioritizing people who were especially active at the moment invites were being sent out. Thems the logistics for an org thats much much larger than just its paid staff. At least, that’s how I took/explained it to my active contributers.
This is a very valuable conversation to have. I don’t want to pick on the twitter thread in here, since for one I posted on it :) and also I thought it was clear that it was a joke between friends, and that we were sad the person in question didn’t get invited and thought they should come anyway. I am afraid that this is going to cause hurt feelings where there shouldn’t be any, and that’d be unfortunate because we need to have this dialogue.
I’ve been a contributor, then staff, then a contributor, and then staff again – so I think I have some perspective of both sides here. I have primarily contributed on the code and devops sides (I helped get tinderbox up when it fell down and helped with code for it’s replacement, as a contributor, to give a concrete example). I have also done some big-picture thinking (with prototypes!) as a contributor, and made a lot of noise and pinged people about it.
My personal experience is that many teams are very busy and in some form of crisis mode pretty much all the time, and were very receptive to the former and enthusiastic but didn’t have time or energy to follow up on the latter, much to my chagrin. I also wasn’t privy to a lot of the project-wide thinking and priorities, not because they are secret so much as because I didn’t have time to call into meetings and try to keep up with that sort of thing.
Whether I got invited to events or not largely seemed to be related to how recently I had helped out, and also just random expressions of interest in such things while out to lunch/dinner with at-the-time former co-workers. I think the process is more formal now but I think it’s pretty hard to define “active contribution”.
It’s unfortunate that (based on admittedly anecdotal, but looking at other comments here, corroborated data), it’s probably worse than that: Mozilla’s actions over the past few years, both organizationally and through its director-level-and-above management have not only alienated people, they’ve actually turned alumnis into something between apathetic and detractors.
I don’t know how you tackle this, but current employees giving public presentations and tech talks denigrating the work of Mozillians who came before them is likely a good place to start.
There is tension here, whether officially recognized or not.
I admit to feeling a spectrum of emotions when I first read the tweet in question, and I certainly heard mixed reactions when I talked to various people at the Summit about this. People move on for a myriad of reasons, but some people also choose to stay with Mozilla. I miss my friends who have moved on, but how much influence do I want former employees to have on our mission, something that I’m still living and breathing every day? Petty on my part, perhaps, but that’s how I feel.
What I’m hearing from this conversation is that alumni have trouble plugging into process once the leave. What expectations should former employees have for engagement, especially if they once held positions of relative power and access within Mozilla? How should we be handling input from former thought leaders? How do we measure that contribution versus some other traditionally volunteer activity like e.g. l10n?
I’d love to see my ex-Mozilla friends at the next Summit, but it really has to be for the *whole* Summit, and not just the parties. Mozilla needs to find a way to enable and value their ongoing contributions in such a way that inviting them to the next Summit is a no-brainer.
agree wholeheartedly with the past paragraph.
coop, I feel like the implication is that just because I’m not paid-staff that I don’t still “live and breath” the mission every day. I’d suggest that that’s what’s pretty powerful about Mozilla – as some have left paid-staff the Mission values go with them and into other work places.
In the (Facebook) thread above, a (Facebook) event was created for Mozilla to “take over” Old Pro in Palo Alto.
it doesn’t solve the problem. In certain ways, it exacerbates it.
Christ on crackers, Paul, I’m using Facebook to invite people out for drinks so we can hang out together. Nobody other than you has used the words “mission accomplished,” or even suggested that this is a solution to the problem. It is, however, a more constructive step than simply denouncing the problem and any attempt at making things better.
I kind of hope I don’t see you there if this is the attitude you’re going to bring.
Please allow me, Mike, to put this as plainly as I possibly can: when you single out individuals who are true to their own experiences and express concerns about the exact issue raised in this post, and you choose to do so by trying to devalue their experience, discredit their character, and say things like “I kind of hope I don’t see you there if this [is what you’re actually feeling about the situation],” you are exemplifying the exact behavior that causes the problem described in this post. Maybe it’s unclear to you, but this behavior alienates people.
And to clarify: I didn’t denounce the problem at all; in fact, I did the exact opposite, so I don’t know why you chose that word. I did denounce your proposed solution, because I don’t think it solves the problem. It looks to me to be an opportunity to hang out with the specific people referenced in the blurred-out tweets (thank you search.twitter.com), which… there’s nothing wrong with that, but again: it doesn’t solve the problem raised in this post.
IIRC, while “join this mozillians.org group” was the way of asking to be considered for a Summit invite, it wasn’t the way the process was announced. It was announced in the Monday meeting on 1st April (did people think it was a joke? ;-), and on Mitchell’s blog and the community blog (and so on Planet).
Also local communities were asked to go and encourage their members to apply. Perhaps it’s English-speaking bias here, but could it be that the reason several ex-Mozillians represented here didn’t even hear about it is that there’s not an “English-speaking Mozilla community” group in the same way that there’s one for French or German or Korean?
One thing I want to explicitly note here is that individual instances of what’s meant (hoped?) to be “friends teasing” becomes something different when it’s part of a pattern. There’s been a lot of it, and when a group of people is the subject of the same joke for the 10th time, and/or from 20 different people, it’s time to stop. And from from talking with some Facebook employees at the summit, it was already pretty clear they’re quite tired of it, and it’s a disservice to both them and us.
And so even though the particular tweet you happen to call out in this post didn’t have ill-intent and wasn’t (afaik) received that way, that’s not the point. It’s a problem to fix, and a fine place to start talking about the broader alumni topic.
Communicating and especially listening in a sincere way with alumni seems like a good start – also http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/governance/policies/participation/ seems appropriate and might be helpful (and maybe revisit if we need to!) – conflicts arising from humor backfiring seems especially appropriate.
Yeah, definitely this. I can be pretty direct when I talk in lots of technical discussions. But this sort of non-technical thing, I tend to be a bit more sensitive when talking. And the somewhat-restrained frustration in those “teasing” responses, while understandable, didn’t seem to be particularly helpful to me. People change. They move on. (If not always moving *fully* on.) Expecting equal involvement from everyone is never going to work, for lots of reasons. So yeah, thinking at least a little before joking, or even before expressing frustration however justified, seems good to me.
I don’t know what the alumnis group on Facebook provides, but why is there a need for a mozilla alumnis group at all? As i see it, either you moved on, and an alumnis group is only ever going to help you keep contact with other people that moved on (how good is that, really?), or you’re still involved as a mozillian, and well, then, you’re not different than other non-employees.
Man facebook is awesome, just for their work on open datacentres and the opencompute project. As a member of mozilla IT, I feel that they really do their part in their own way in opening the web. They have their own internal needs, etc when it comes to privacy and policy, etc, but as with everything in the world, it is shades of grey.
On the other hand, we definitely need to treat our alumni with more respect and have better relationships with them.


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