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AbstractMike Powell of the United States currently holds the world record for the long jump at 8.95 meters, which is almost 30 feet! How did he jump so far? In this experiment, learn how a long jumper uses momentum from running to jump farther than the competition.
ObjectiveIn this experiment you will test if you can increase jumping distance by increasing the running distance before the jump.
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The long jump was one of the events of the original Olympics in Ancient Greece. The athletes carried a weight in each hand, called a haltere. These weights would be swung forward as the athlete jumped to increase momentum, and then thrown backwards whilst in mid-air so as to propel himself further forward (Wikipedia Contributors, 2006).
Here is an illustration of ancient Greek Olympians using halteres to increase their distance on the standing long jump. (illustration by Patricia J. Wynne, American Musem of Natural History)
So how can you improve your long jump? The most important things to think about in the long jump are your approach, your takeoff, your flight, and your landing. The key to being successful at the long jump is to have a good technique at each stage of the jump. A strong approach will lead to a better takeoff, which will lead to a better flight and a longer jump (KidzWorld, 2006).
In this experiment, you will test how momentum can help you jump farther. Since it is tough these days to find ancient Greek halteres at your local sporting goods store, we will use running distance to increase momentum. Will running a longer distance before the jump make you jump farther?
Terms and ConceptsTo do this type of experiment you should know what the following terms mean. Have an adult help you search the internet, or take you to your local library to find out more!
- Long jump
- Ancient Greece
- Halteres
- Momentum
- Distance in meters
- How far can you get in the long jump?
- Can using your momentum help you jump farther?
- Will running before the jump make you jump farther?
- Wikipedia contributors, Long Jump, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved August 4, 2006.
- KidzWorld, 2006. Quiz the Coach - I Can't Long Jump Very Far, KidzWorld.com. Retrieved August 4, 2006.
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Materials and Equipment
- A long jump pit (try a local park or high school track)
- Tape measure (preferably metric)
- Sidewalk chalk
- Good running shoes
- An assistant to help mark your jump
Experimental Procedure
- For this experiment you will need to find a long jump pit. Most high schools will have one on the track field. Look for a running track that ends in a pit of sand.
- First, measure out different running distances on the track and mark them off with your sidewalk chalk. Measure each distance from the bar at the edge of the pit. Try using these distances: zero, 3, 6, 9, and 12 meters.
- Make a data table for your results. You should include space for three trial jumps at each starting distance you have measured. Here is an example:
|Running Distance (meters)
|Jumping Distance (meters)
|Trial 1
|Trial 2
|Trial 3
|3 m
|6 m
|9 m
|12 m
- Now try running and jumping from your different starting points. Have someone help you to mark where your feet land (not your bottom) when you jump into the pit.
- After you jump into the pit, mark off and measure the distance of your jump and write the data in your data table.
- Keep jumping! The more jumps you do, the more data you will have! Maybe even have your friend repeat the experiment.
- Make a line graph of your results. On the left side of the graph (Y-axis) put the distance of the jump in meters. On the bottom of the graph (X-axis) put the starting distances that you measured and marked off with chalk. Now mark a dot where your data values (average jump length and starting length) intersect and connect the dots with a line.
- Analyze your graph. Does the line increase (slope upwards) or decrease (slope downwards)? What do you think this means about your results? How did increasing the running distance affect your jumping distance?
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- Try making your own halteres with 1 gallon milk jugs. Fill the jugs with different volumes of water and then use them for a standing long jump. Do they improve your jumping distance? Which weight works the best?
- Does height affect jumping distance? Find volunteers of different heights and have them do the long jump. Will tall people jump farther than short people?
- Does speed affect jumping distance? Have volunteers do the long jump (to measure the jumping distance) AND time them running a sprint (to measure their running speed). Do people who run faster also have better jumping distances?
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ATHENS, Greece -- Greece's debt management agency says the country's short-term borrowing costs have inched down in a new treasury bill auction that raised (EURO)1.3 billion ($1.7 billion).
An agency statement said Tuesday's sale of 26-week paper offered a yield of 4.46 percent, compared to 4.54 percent in the last similar auction last month.
The auction was 1.6 times oversubscribed, showing slightly lower investor interest than last month.
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Personal finance can be a scary issue for many people. It can be confusing and overwhelming. To make matters worse, most Australians are so busy juggling work and life that they lack the time to give their personal finances the attention it deserves – which is the reason why most employees are requesting workplace financial education, tools and resources to help them make the right financial decisions, so they can achieve real LIFE outcomes outside of work.
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An Emotional Sales Video
The MassMutual Trust Company sits inside MassMutual and provides comprehensive trust and fiduciary services.
What does that even mean?
It means if you're a high net-worth individual, they can help you manage your investments and help with your overall estate plan. Then once you pass away they can act as your trustee to carry out your wishes.
OK got it. So how do we go from that to a story about a father and daughter – and a magic trick?
The Challenge
The MassMutual Trust Company was having a hard time explaining the importance of setting up a trust to their core audience (high net-worth individuals). They needed to arm their agents with a sales tool that could clearly explain why someone should want to set up a trust.
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Setting up a trust is really all about planning for the future. But if you go one level deeper, it's about passing down your essence. Yes, your wealth is passed down – but along with the money comes your thoughts, knowledge, and values – because those are the things that made the wealth in the first place.
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Convene is a sculptural installation of aluminum canoes painted with designs that abstractly and explicitly evoke national flags symbolic of the diverse historical and contemporary demographic makeup of Astoria and Long Island City. The work will be installed on land along the East River in Hunter' Point South Park in Long Island City.
Various factors influence personal assumptions about how communities are composed: where one lives or has lived, whom one lives amongst, proximity to or isolation from populations perceived as different and marginal, or longing for the way things were "before" These subjective impressions commingle with demographic information (and its strict categories) as it is distributed through popular media and news outlets.
Convene addresses population data and its visual representation while engaging the canoe's symbolic narratives of historical shift and reliance on personal vessels to move navigators, people, and goods to their desired destinations, often via bodies of water that span or bisect local, national, and international territories. Simmons's work references the conditions and forms of migration, political and leisure travel, transport, and refuge, as well as the practices of documenting and representing the location and movement of people. Abstracting the visual identities of individual flags, Simmons acknowledges the complex interplay between national, cultural, and ethnic subjects, as well as the reality that allegiances to flags are often imperfect reflections of individual or collective identities. Presenting visual information that is hard to decipher, Convene suggests that statistics found in any set of data need critical engagement in order to be put to use.
Xaviera Simmons (born 1974 in New York; lives and works in New York) received a BFA from Bard College (2004) after spending two years on a walking pilgrimage retracing the Transatlantic slave trade with Buddhist monks. She completed the Whitney Museum's Independent Study Program in Studio Art (2005) while simultaneously completing a two-year actor-training conservatory with The Maggie Flanigan Studio. Her solo shows include Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (2017); The Kitchen, New York (2016); The Goethe-Institute (2010); and The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2013). Simmons has participated in recent group exhibitions at the Renaissance Society, Chicago (2018); Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH (2017); Prospect 5 New Orleans (2017); Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (2017); and MCA Chicago, Chicago (2017). Simmons's work is in major collections including The Museum of Modern Art, Deutsche Bank, The Rubell Family Collection, The Guggenheim Museum, The Weatherspoon Art Museum, The Agnes Gund Art Collection, The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, The Studio Museum in Harlem, The High Museum, Atlanta, and The Nasher Museum of Art, Duke University.
The project is curated by SculptureCenter Executive Director and Chief Curator Mary Ceruti.
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The Department of Education last week issued final policy guidance for educators on sexual harassment of students. The document, among other guidelines, declares that a 1st grader should not be punished for a single kiss on a classmate's cheek.
The 18-page guidance, published March 13 in the Federal Register, makes a reference to the uproar last fall over Johnathan Prevette, the 6-year-old Lexington, N.C., boy who was punished under his school's sexual-harassment policy for kissing a girl in his 1st grade class. The school district later backtracked and said the boy violated a general behavior code. ("Suspensions Spur Debate Over Discipline Codes," Oct. 23, 1996.)
"A kiss on the cheek by a 1st grader does not constitute sexual harassment," Norma V. Cantu, the department's assistant secretary for civil rights, says in an introduction to the guidance.
The incident involving the North Carolina boy, as well as similar incidents of discipline of other youngsters, highlighted the confusion school officials face over what constitutes sexual harassment and what they are obligated to do about it.
The final policy guidance from the department's office for civil rights is meant to address that confusion. And while it suggests that school officials may have overreacted in the North Carolina case, the guidance reiterates the federal government's long-held view that educators must take sexual-harassment complaints seriously.
"A school will be liable under Title IX [of the Education Amendments of 1972] if its students sexually harass other students ... the school knows or should have known of the harassment, and the school fails to take immediate and appropriate corrective action," the guidance states.
An Unsettled Area
The final guidance combines separate draft documents, issued last year, that addressed student-to-student sexual harassment and employee-student harassment. The final draft also responds to advice and requests for clarification from the public, Ms. Cantu said.
OCR guidance is not binding on the courts, and the extent of districts' liability for sexual-harassment incidents remains an unsettled area of federal law. ("In Harassment Suits, a New Era Emerges," Sept. 25, 1996, and "Supreme Court Declines To Accept Student Sexual-Harassment Case," Oct. 16, 1996.)
Notably, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit has taken a much narrower view of district liability than the OCR and a number of other federal courts.
The 5th Circuit court said in a ruling last year that peer sexual-harassment cases arising in schools should not be handled under the framework applied to businesses by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The court said in Rowinsky v. Bryan Independent School District that districts are not liable for peer sexual harassment unless they respond differently to complaints based on the sex of the alleged victim.
The U.S. Supreme Court declined last fall to review the circuit court's ruling in Rowinsky. The high court appears to be allowing the issue to percolate in the lower federal courts.
The OCR guidance says the 5th Circuit court's view is wrong, but the agency will follow the court's rulings when investigating sexual-harassment complaints in the three states--Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas--under that court's jurisdiction.
Legal Notice
Ms. Cantu says that some educators who reviewed the department's draft documents asked for rules that were more easily understood about what constitutes sexual harassment and how schools should respond. But, she writes in her introduction, "it is impossible to provide hard and fast rules applicable to all instances of sexual harassment."
Educators will have to use the guidance and the examples, which generally come from federal case law, to devise their own policies, she says.
One critical piece of guidance for administrators is that once they receive a report of possible sexual harassment of students, they should take immediate steps to investigate and end the harassment. Schools have been confused about whether they are liable when a teacher or a staff member other than an administrator receives a sexual-harassment complaint.
The ocr says it disagrees with those who suggest that only "managerial" employees can receive a sexual-harassment complaint for a school to be on legal notice.
"Young students may not understand those designations and may reasonably believe that an adult, such as a teacher or the school nurse, is a person they can and should tell about incidents of sexual harassment," Ms. Cantu says.
The department plans to publish a pamphlet for teachers, parents, and students that outlines the guidance in less legalistic terms. Copies of the pamphlet and the full guidance also will be posted at the department's World Wide Web site at http://www.ed.gov/offices/OCR/ocrpubs.html.
The pamphlets also are available by calling the department at (800) 421-3481.
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If you didn't know already, I'm a Spurs fan. This Sunday we are playing Portsmouth at Fratton Park, and this is a game we must win if we are looking to improve on our pretty diabolical season so far. Portsmouth have recently been whipped by Man City (6-0) and Chelsea (4-0) so they are currently on a run of big losses, hopefully we can capitalise on this.
We need to win this game for a little bit of confidence around the players which will in turn help them to gel as a team unit. With all the new summer signings we have become a team which is still figuring out how to play best, and it seems like it will take the entire first half of the season to achive this.
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Southbank Residents Association
07 Apr 2016
This month we have great news for Southbank. Firstly I was thrilled to see the Southbank Police Station finally opened.
It has been years in the planning with so much dialogue that many of us probably started to wonder if it would ever happen at all. Well I certainly felt that way.
I know this police presence will be welcome across all corners of Southbank. I frequently communicate with the station commander, Snr Sgt Steve Bills, and I know he is just as excited.
Last month I was delighted to learn that the controversial Cbus application for the old Suncorp site on Collins St in the city has once again been rejected by the Planning Minister citing overshadowing.
Around 18 months ago we fought hard to stop this development by lobbying the then Planning Minister Matthew Guy after the Melbourne City Council endorsed the plans despite their contravention of the planning scheme – namely overshadowing the north and south banks.
Our prized sunlight in Queensbridge Square would have been lost forever at the very time of day when it is most appreciated by visitors and locals.
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We once again lobbied council to reject the application but they endorsed it again.
The planning minister has since negotiated an agreement with the developer for a shorter building and we commend him for taking a stand to protect our scarce public open space from overshadowing.
We hope it sends a strong message to developers to undertake due-diligence prior to purchasing land for development.
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WTA Players and their Love Partners has grown into the most popular section on Women's Tennis Blog and I am regularly receiving tips from readers, informing me about new relationships and marriages of female tennis players. The latest such tip came from our regular visitor Frank, who let me know about the boyfriend of Canadian Aleksandra Wozniak.
Twenty-six-year old Aleksandra Wozniak has been dating Canadian twenty-three-year old professional ice hockey player Louis Leblanc. Leblanc was recently traded to the Anaheim Ducks by the Montreal Canadiens.
The two have been a couple for at least a year, while the earliest photo I found of them together dates back to January 2013, when Leblanc was spotted hitting balls with Wozniak at the Cedar Springs club in Burlington.
All the photos in this post are from Wozniak's Twitter account.
Wozniak won Stanford back in 2008 and became the first woman from Québec to have won a WTA title. As an honor, she was presented with key to the city in Blainville, Québec by the mayor. Moreover, Wozniak won Tennis Canada's Best Female Athlete of the Year five times – in 2004, 2006, 2008, 2009 and 2012.


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You will notice the column Fact for "The Factor"
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Romance scam letter(s) from Olga Kirillova to Carlos (Spain)
Letter 1
Hello my love Carlos!!! How at you business? What plans at you for today? Having come today in the Internet of cafe I was glad to receive from you the letter and I am very glad, that you have not forgotten about me. I''m fine!! Today at me the happiest day when I have woken up on heart at me there was a happiness and I think of that as we shall meet. As I spoke you that I shall go to travel agency, under the name Virginia. This best agency in our city. When I there have come, I at once have approached to the manager and have asked it to help me. I have explained all to it and they have told that all will be good. The manager to me has told that I will need to make documents: 1. The passport - cost 180 euro 2. The tourist visa for the period of 90 days - cost 120 euro 3. The medical insurance - 79 euro And all these services to me will manage in 379 euro. When I have given them your data they at once have contacted the Moscow embassy and all have precisely specified. Documents will be made within 10 working days and after all it will be ready they will inform me cost of the ticket and will tell what flight for me it will be better. My love I at all did not know that documents and services of agency, cost so dearly and to me even became as that sadly, that if you do not want to help me both we we shall not meet also I very much I worry!!! My love I understand that it is greater money but if I would have such sum I all have made itself and have arrived to you having made you a surprise. And I have more that does not need as to be asked the help from you. Carlos I love you and I hope that you will not throw me and will agree to help me with documents. The manager of travel agency has told to me, that after everyone will make to me it is necessary to go Moscow to embassy. More I did not learn what information. My love at me one hope it you and I very much want our meeting and our meeting in your hands. I perfectly understand all that a trip dearly, but I trust you and that money it not the main thing in a life and if we love each other we we shall overcome all difficulties and we shall do the utmost to be together. You agree with me??? Whether I have written to you all as to me have told in agency and now I need to know you are ready to help me??? Documents will make after I shall make payment. And I have told to the manager, that I shall come in some days and all I shall precisely tell. I very much on you miss And I want, that day of our meeting has come as soon as possible!!!! Whether also me it is necessary to know you are ready to send me 379 euro??? Carlos now I shall go to bank and I shall specify as you it will be better to make transfer of money to Russia and that I without problems could remove them to pay my documents and to take the first step for our meeting. Then I shall come in the Internet of cafe and I shall wait from you the letter and I at all do not know that you will answer me. But I am assured that you love me and will not leave me in this situation. I wish you good day!!! My gentle embraces and 100000000 kisses. Your favourite Olga
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In his comment on the subject of stereotype threat, Charles Parsons reports that when he knew Steele, twenty years ago, Steele had worked on a way to circumvent stereotype threat. That got me thinking about why it was that we in the UMass Afro-American Studies Department had such success with students who, on their GRE exams, clearly exhibited signs of the condition. I think several factors contributed to our success, all of which are relevant to a much broader variety of stereotype threat situations.
First of all, as I mentioned, when I saw the discrepancy between the test scores and the student performances, I stopped requiring the test scores. It would have been a colossal waste of time to try to devise some way of administering the Graduate Record Examination that compensated for the baleful effects of stereotype threat. We had not worked and struggled and argued and pleaded with those responsible for approving our program so that we could ask people for their GRE scores! The supposed purpose of the GRE scores was to identify promising candidates for our doctoral program, and when I saw that the test was not working as it was supposed to work, I stopped looking at the scores. A little experience proved that the very best identifier for promising students was the writing sample, so after the first year, the Admissions Committee, which was everyone in the Department, read every applicant's sample. This sounds so obvious as to be trivial, but in fact it is not trivial at all. People obsess about PSAT scores, SAT scores, ACT scores, LSAT scores, GRE scores, and all manner of "objective" [i.e., easy to grade] tests, as though the goal of a successful educational system is to raise those scores as much as possible and eliminate any variations associated with race, class, gender, sexual orientation, and ethnicity [or height, weight, and hair color, for that matter.]
Notice that our decision was grounded in a certain self-confidence and also in a capacity for patience. We were quite certain that we were perfectly capable of judging whether a student was progressing satisfactorily to a doctoral degree that we could be proud of, and we were willing to wait the years it would take before we had been proven right by the dissertations, publications, and job placements of our students. In a curious way, we were aided and abetted in this self-confidence by the fact that most of the rest of the university thought our program was an academically low-quality sop to Black folks, so they did not expect our students to measure up to their distorted standards of excellence. Indeed, as I recount in my Autobiography, the Provost as much as said so to our faces in the one meeting we had with him.
The second important fact is that when those students showed up to begin their graduate education, they found a Department all the members of which, save myself, were Black and very, very smart. I was the Graduate Program Director, of course, but the students pretty quickly twigged onto the fact that I knew very little about Afro-American Studies. As I liked to joke, I was the shabbes goy of the Department, the little White boy brought in from the next village to do all the scut work no self-respecting academic wanted to spend time on. There were White students [and Latino and Asian students], but Black, not White, was the "unmarked racial category" in our Department. Could a Black student make it as an academic? The question simply never came up. Since John Bracey and Mike Thelwell and Esther Terry and Bill Strickland and Ernie Allen were all Black, the question was as fatuous as asking, in the Harvard Philosophy Department in which I studied, whether a man could be a good philosopher.
The third reason is that for all of the faculty in the Department, the success of our students was desperately important. Everyone save for myself had wanted a doctoral program in Afro-American Studies for many years. Now we had one, and these were our students. They were in no sense an elite group of students. Not one of them had come either from a major research university or from an elite private liberal arts college. One of them was a woman in middle age, and as the years went by, we enrolled a number of such atypical students. We made very heavy demands on them as students, and held them to a high standard, but we were prepared to give them all the attention and help they needed to succeed.
In the dinner with Steele to which I alluded in my blog post, Esther Terry [the Chair] and I talked about this collective commitment to the success of our students. Steele said, rather wryly, that in the Stanford Psychology Department, of which he was then Chair, his colleagues viewed graduate students either as useful lab workers or else as an annoyance.
I think there are some interesting lessons to be learned from our experience at UMass. But if anyone wants to replicate our success, maybe the first thing to do is cancel the Graduate Record Examination.


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Logistics Innovation Lessons From DHL's Innovation Officer
I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today.
I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
– James Joyce
Innovators see the world differently. And innovation, technology and logistics are more intertwined than ever. But real progress isn't always so apparent in freight forwarding.
When we heard Joeri Kuik, VP at DHL Global Forwarding, Global Head of DHL Lead Logistics Partner and Chief Innovation Officer, get up at the eft 3PL Summit in Venlo and say that the biggest logistics technology innovation in the last century was the shipping container, we had to hear how DHL is planning on changing that.
So we sat with Mr. Kuik to hear how the world's most famous yellow and red logistics provider take on logistics technology today and tomorrow.
Mr. Joeri Kuik
Global Head of DHL Lead Logistics Partner, Chief Innovation Officer
DHL Global Forwarding
As much as we all hope for a flash of brilliance, DHL isn't gambling its future on hairbrain ideas. "We saw challenges but didn't have the right answers", says Mr. Kuik. So Deutsche Post CEO Frank Appel created the innovation unit, which researches megatrends, micro-trends, partner performance and customers, and also has the resources to devise and implement new ideas. When you see incredible videos of augmented reality in warehouses, it's the result of careful planning, not a stroke of brilliance.
The group uses something called an "Innovation Cycle" to devise ideas and get it out into the real world. Here's how it goes:
- Ideas are derived either top-down or bottom-up, within or outside of the innovation unit.
- A core concept is written and presented to a product development board. The concept is evaluated based on several criteria, including business proposition, required personnel and financial resources, lead time and more.
- A proof of concept is initiated following a second review, which explores whether it actually solves a problem, and whether there is commercial value.
- The idea is brought to marketing. DHL's patience is key here as well, as the handoff process to the business takes 2-3 years. Large tech venture capital companies invest hundreds of millions in companies without a guarantee of immediate payback. Similarly, DHL doesn't necessarily expect profitability from ideas for up to five years.
Citing DHL's top position in the air freight market with a mere 12% market share, Kuik says that forwarders are constantly being challenged – "It's a commodity business and easy to enter. All you need is a few computers, some smart guys, a little money. And start". The solution for larger forwarders? "More than ever, technology innovation is entering logistics". According to Kuik, providers with better data infrastructure, better information sharing and better technology solutions can drive more value for shippers, reduce costs and increase reliability.
"Everyone has their own information system, their own information … and we know information is important. So we keep it to ourselves" but in the future, Kuik says, information needs to move better, whether between forwarders and shippers or even between the actual goods themselves. Envisioning data-laden RFIDs on pallets, Kuik sees a future where each pallet contains information on where it needs to go and constantly optimizes its own path. "It won't use a workflow system to be routed, it simply says I'm here and what the most optimal solution is to go there."
As production cycles shorten and more production is outsourced, shippers become more vulnerable to supply chain problems. Kuik is the first to admit that 3PLs need to improve on reliability to stand out in an asset-light, commoditized market. "The reliability we offer in the 3PL market today is not enough". Instead, shippers need to focus on "optimized cycle time and lower variation [which will] automatically drop costs, improve flexibility and enhance utilization."
- Deutsche Post expects huge changes in logistics (see DP's "Logistics 2050" paper for some incredible scenarios"). Kuik singled out these six areas as key areas for advancement in the near future:
- Low-cost sensor technology
- Crowd logistics
- 3D Printing
- Augmented reality
- Autonomous logistics
- Big data
If there is one lesson here, it's that change doesn't just happen; it's pushed through by innovators who know that they need to challenge the status quo and reconnect the dots to make logistics better. Being a disruptive logistics startup, it's great to see that some large logistics corporations also take innovation as seriously as we do.
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Next week Thursday is your math and science test.
The math test will cover: Adding and subtracting decimals, long division and multiplication. The homework assigned this week is excellent review of these topic areas.
The science will cover the digestive system. Below is the attachment to the study sheet.
Students will be expected to:
1. Correctly spell the 9 key areas (please see the attachment) students have been given this study sheet today.
2. Students will be asked to label the human body with these 9 areas.
3. Describe what each area does.
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Maryland Judiciary Case Search Online: We know you are here to know about the 'Maryland Judiciary Case Search'. Yes! now you are allowed to search Maryland criminal court records online in just a matter of minutes. The state of Maryland has given the public access to case records. With that access, you can search for court cases and opinions online. If you want to do a background check then you can easily search criminal records for free in the state of Maryland to find out whether the person was convicted of a felony or not. This option can be used for a pre-employment background check. For further details check the below section.
Maryland Judiciary Case Search Online
As a part of the pre-employment background check, you can do Maryland Judiciary Case Search online to weed out the fraudulent applicants. Out of all the qualified applicants you need to pick the honest ones. And this can be done via a background check. Before initiating a background check with the third party agent, you can perform an online Maryland Judiciary Case Search. With this action, you can know whether the information submitted by them is factual or not. Below we have provided the information with which you can learn how to perform the Maryland Judiciary Case Search Online. If you are willing to find whether the applicant is honest to work for you in the State of Maryland then check the guidelines and information which we have updated in this post.
How to Perform Maryland Judiciary Case Search Online
In order to perform the Maryland Judiciary Case Search Online, you will require few things. We have provided them below. Just keep them ready before performing the online search. Also, follow our guidelines as mentioned in the below section.
Things You Will Require:
- Full Legal Name and Date of Birth.
- A pc or a laptop with internet access.
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- Arrange all the job applications properly. Take some time to research about them. As we discussed earlier, The State of Maryland provides the access to court records. That is, you can search an online database containing District Court traffic, civil case records & criminal case records of Maryland. You can search for free and will not take much time. The amount of information available per jurisdiction will vary based on the system. The well managed and often upgraded computerized case management system provides more info and vice versa. Even if an applicant has never received a conviction, a history of their arrest/case disposition remains documented. And you can find it from the online database unless they have petitioned the Courts to delete their records. These public records are available to everyone but, however, the Juvenile Records are sealed. That is, the general public will not be allowed to access that records.
- Most often, the applications request for the information which reveals the prior criminal convictions of a person. This can be done as a part of an employee criminal background check but remember to keep it legal i.e. don't ask someone directly that how many times they have been arrested. It is possible that they may have been arrested and then released as innocent. Thousands of guilty people are released due to clerical error or a technicality such as failure to properly maintain chain of evidence protocol. Perhaps a case was dropped due to witness intimidation; no States witness/no case. Or maybe they left no DNA or fingerprints behind to prove sufficient evidence to convict. If you want to ask anything then you, by Law, can only ask whether the applicant has ever received a conviction and, if so, to explain the circumstances.
- Ensure that you have properly formatted the job application to ask for relevant information such as the full legal name and any aliases the applicant has ever used. As we mentioned earlier, you will need their date of birth. Also, have the information of their address history of 3-5 years (or more). All these details and information are required to initiate an online Maryland Judiciary Case Search.
- Now you can begin the background screening at the local level by verifying the information you have. Once after receiving the list of qualified applicants, you can start this process. Before that make sure to ask them the legal copies of their Driver's License, State ID Card, Passport, Birth Certificate and Social Security Card. Also, you have to contact the prior employers and personal or business references, that the applicants have provided. Verify that the Schools listed by them have their name in the school alumni records.
- Visit the official website of Maryland Judiciary Case Search or click on the official website.
- Once after verifying the name(s), dates and locations, read the terms, conditions, and limitations.
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- Enter the information into the relevant boxes and click search to begin.
- Extend your search by selecting all case types and searching both Circuit and District Courts, with the Party Type and County set on Default All.
- Compare any results with the name and age of the applicant.
- After that, complete the legal hiring process for employment by performing the background check required by the Maryland State Police.
- For that, you need to collect the applicant's fingerprints scanned through the (Nationwide) AFIS system. (Applicants can also provide the 'Form 011' which is nothing but a state fingerprint card that can be printed at any local law enforcement agency)
- Then the State Police will mail this card either to the CJIS-Central Repository located at 6776 Reisterstown Road, Suite 102, Baltimore Maryland 21215 or to CJIS-CR P.O. Box 32708, Pikesville, Maryland, 21282.
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Their vision for a turnkey production company was born out of an unwavering passion for storytelling and a strong desire to challenge the status quo of current film genres dominating the local film industry.
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Christy Moore's Friday night show in the GB Shaw in Carlow has sold out and a second date has been added.
As well as performing this Friday night, Christy will also be in the theatre this Saturday, September 21. Fans need to move fast though as tickets for this show are also selling very quickly. Visit www.visualcarlow.ie for more information or to book tickets.


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A 53-year-old Grand Junction man was seriously injured Tuesday night when the dump truck he was driving crashed into an Interstate 70 bridge. At about 9:30 Tuesday night, Steven Bounds was driving a large construction dump truck on Highway 6 near Dotsero. The initial investigation has implied Continue reading
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AC Milan: Will They Qualify for the Europa League?April 8, 2014
AC Milan have been in a rich vein of form in recent weeks, with victories over Chievo Verona and Fiorentina in their two matches prior to Monday's triumph over Genoa.
Clarence Seedorf's men have injected some much-needed optimism into the team, giving them belief that they are making legitimate progress under Seedorf as they transition out of the Max Allegri era.
The victory over Genoa was particularly promising, as it saw significant contributions from two men who arrived in January: Adel Taarabt and Keisuke Honda.
Taarabt scored a beautiful goal and set up Honda's eventual winner in the second half of the match. Of course, Taarabt has been in excellent form since arriving in Milan, and Honda's goal will hopefully awaken him from the malaise he has been under in recent times.
What is especially impressive is that the victories over Fiorentina and Genoa came away from the San Siro. Milan had only won three of 15 away matches in Serie A prior to these victories.
Once again under Seedorf, there is an air of relief from the tensions that threatened to take over the club during their month-long run without a victory in all competitions.
Logically, attention will now turn to Milan's spot in the standings. Eleventh place is where they stand right now with 45 points, level with Torino, but only five points separate them from city rivals Inter in fifth place.
Of course, the top six sides in Serie A this year will in all likelihood play in Europe, with the fourth through sixth spots enabling qualification for next year's Europa League.
The merits of being in the Europa League have divided opinion, as many believe it is simply not worth it and stretches the club thinner than necessary with unusual match dates and excessive travel for a competition that is simply not viewed as being prestigious enough for a club of Milan's stature.
On the other hand, being in Europe allows Milan to continue to bring in some revenue (even if it pales in comparison to Champions League money) and keep some of the members of the squad happy with extra playing time.
Regardless of the end result, Milan will continue to fight and have a real shot at making the top six. With six games to go, their opponents are as follows:
Catania have been absolutely dreadful away from home, with zero wins from 16 matches. Nevertheless, they are fighting relegation and will not go down without a fight. Even so, Milan should win this tie handily.
Livorno have been similarly poor away from home, with only two victories from 16 matches. In 18th place, they are also fighting for their Serie A lives at this point.
Roma are seemingly locked into the second spot in Serie A, eight points behind pace-setters Juventus and 12 ahead of third-placed Napoli. They are undefeated at home and will in all likelihood be the toughest remaining test on Milan's schedule.
Inter, as Milan's eternal rivals, will be an interesting case as well. Direct opposition to the Rossoneri for a European spot, the Nerazzurri are not going to give up their spot easily. This match will likely decide Milan's relevance in the race for Europe: Lose to Inter, and there is very little hope of overcoming them. Win, and suddenly things are very interesting.
Atalanta are also direct rivals to Milan for a European spot. With 46 points, very little separates the two sides at present.
Finally, Sassuolo have already shown Milan what they are capable of, inflicting a damaging 4-3 defeat to the Rossoneri in January that served as the nail in the coffin to Allegri's stint as manager. However, they are stuck in 19th place and, depending on results in the coming weeks, may need a result to stay up next year.
Ultimately, Milan's fate is seemingly in their own hands. Parma and Inter have been stuttering recently, and none of Lazio, Atalanta, Hellas Verona or Torino have the squad depth that Milan has.
All six matches take on crucial significance now, with the potential decider being the derby with Inter on May 4. If Milan can continue their run of good results, they have an excellent chance of being involved in Europe once more next season.
At this point, however, it is crucial they do not lose their focus and only think about Catania next weekend. Any slip-ups could be very costly, and as such, Milan must ensure maximum focus on each matchday through the end of the season.


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Cat stealing dogs
Well you might have seen this happening only in the cartoons
but this cat has set a shocking real life example by stealing the puppies of a
dog. Apparently, what happened is that a dog gave birth to a beautiful litter
of puppies but what happened is that Miss Kitty arrived at the scene when the
dog wasn't around and stole the puppies by carrying them into her mouth one by
one. This might look unreal but this actually happened and the people living in
the neighborhood are witness to this event.
Before you develop an evil and hateful image of the cat, let us clear that the mother dog of the puppies had nothing to do with them. She had abandoned them and the puppies were almost sure to die without any care at such young age. So, Miss Kitty arrived as a guardian angel for them and took them with her and took care of them. Amazing!


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Facebook Reveal AI Machinations Despite Warnings by Elon Musk
Now his views have brought him into direct opposition to those of Mark Zuckerberg. At an event in Delhi last week, Facebook unveiled their plans to pour an unprecedented amount of time and money into AI, even going so far as to claim that they intend to develop something which is smarter and more aware than a human being. We already have a great deal of technology which is capable of processing information faster than the human brain, but nothing which is legitimately more perceptive, or comprehends that information with any kind of legitimate self-awareness.
Last October, whilst commenting on this very issue, Musk referred to the notion of this kind of AI development as akin to "summoning the demon". He hasn't commented directly on Facebook's plans, since the announcement is so recent and he is probably one of the busiest people on the planet, but it wouldn't come as any surprise if he publicly denounced Zuckerberg's intentions some time in the near future. Musk isn't the sort of person who would need to worry about getting on Facebook's bad side, really.
Zuckerberg's plans for AI development seem to center around making their already existent programs more efficient, and beyond the aforementioned risks, this seems like a waste of potential. It's easy to forget sometimes that Facebook's continued, rapid advancements in tech are almost exclusively geared to making the site's online experience better, when at its core, Facebook is still just a distraction, a non-essential social lubricant. AI, used responsibly, can and will change the world, Musk is right to be wary, races to be the first to do something without really knowing why rarely end well.
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The Seattle Police Department announced today that they have made an arrest in the homicide case of Wallingford community leader Lita Byrnes:
SPD Homicide Detectives have arrested a 25-year-old man for the murder of his roommate, a 38-year-old woman, in Wallingford last month.
The arrest in this complex case came after an extensive investigation, working in conjunction with the Washington State Crime Lab and the King County Prosecuting Attorney's Office.
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McDonalds® Deep Fryer Training
Earlier in my safety career, I came across a Safety Officer who provided me with an excellent heuristic or rule of thumb when it comes to determining adequacy of training. The Safety Officer, Randy, would often pick me up at my office and tour other worksites as a 'ride along' to provide me with insight on what to be looking for when it comes to worksite inspections from a Regulator.
On one of those occasions, Randy would describe to me his rule of thumb when it comes to the adequacy of training through the Deep Fryer Test. Bewildered, I asked what does a deep fryer have to do with the adequacy of training? Randy would go on to say that, "As an employer, McDonalds® would take five hours to train their crew members on the use of a deep fryer" while simultaneously raising his right hand in the air to clearly show his five fingers. I was reluctant to ask the obvious rhetorical question and thought to myself, why would it take five hours to train someone on how to use a deep fryer? Am I missing something? I thought all a worker does is lower a basket filled with frozen fries into cooking oil, remove it once it's cooked and sprinkle some salt. No wonder it takes forever to get my fries…
All jokes aside, I was curious on why the Deep Fryer Test was held so high in Randy's mind.
The 3 'D''s of Training
Randy went on to describe that the Deep Fryer Training requires the supervisor to follow the three 'D's of training: Describe, Demonstrate and Do.
- The supervisor would describe how to use the deep fryer to a new employee, keeping in mind of productivity, quality and safety.
- Then the supervisor would demonstrate how to properly use the deep fryer.
- Lastly, the employee would 'Do' the task of using the deep fryer by themselves.
The supervisor would closely observe and correct behavior when needed, then when the supervisor felt comfortable, would distance themselves from the employee and return less and less frequently to correct unsatisfactory behavior.
Once the supervisor felt completely comfortable leaving the employee to work by themselves with the deep fryer, the supervisor would document that the employee was competent to perform the task.
Randy explained that the supervisor was not only demonstrating, and in some cases, simulating, what the work task would be ninety-five percent of the time, but also how the employee should react when under pressure. The entire choreography of how food was ordered, prepared and served including the performance of the surrounding crew members was taken into consideration on how those other factors can influence the deep fryers ability to perform their work positively or negatively.
Last Token of Wisdom
It was close to the end of my shift and Randy pulled the vehicle into the Atco trailer where my site office was and gave me one last token of wisdom on the Deep Fryer Test before he departed. "If I am evaluating the adequacy of a company's training program, I will ask the supervisor, what is the Deep Fryer Test for those specific pieces of equipment, tools or machinery? If the supervisor's answer did not provide an adequate response, I would dig deeper."
He goes on to say that too often he inspects worksites for companies that give the keys to a half million-dollar piece of machinery to new employees and expects that they can perform their work efficiently and safely. "What is their Deep Fryer Test on this piece of equipment? If McDonalds® spends 5 hours of training on using a deep fryer, how many hours should they spent on an Articulating Rock Truck?"
Critically Examining Your Training Program
That rule of thumb, which feels like eons ago, is still permanently tattooed in my brain. Now, as a Safety Consultant, I ask my clients on what their Deep Fryer Test is on the multitude of tools, equipment, machinery they have their workers use on a daily basis, not as a means to benchmark or measure their performance, but as a discussion point. This allows clients to take a step back and critically examine their training.
For organizations starting their training programs or for those who have an established training program, take Randy's advice and ask yourselves, what is our Deep Fryer Test?
Hayden Greenshields is a partner at Free Spirit Ventures Inc. in Prince George, British Columbia. He is a Consulting Environmental, Health and Safety Professional with over 12 years of experience as a safety professional. He also provides program design and instructional support to the University of Northern British Columbia's Occupational Health & Safety Practitioner Certificate Program and specializes in Human Factors & System Safety. He can be reached at email@example.com or visit www.safetypays.ca for more information.


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According to the results of the Population and Housing Census in 2017, women make up 48.76% of the total population of Pakistan. And for a developing country like Pakistan, there is a crucial need for more female participation in the workforce. More female is an important requirement.
Barrier of Conventional Mindset
We all know what our supposed traditions are with regard women venturing out of the homes and doing jobs. Then there is also the question of certain types of jobs being "appropriate" and "suitable" for women. Many professions and career paths are considered rather unsuitable and inappropriate for women. This is a major obstacle for countless aspiring young girls who could otherwise have grown into competent professionals in various fields while also being productive contributors Jobs in Pakistan.
The good news is that as education and awareness become widespread, more and more people are shunning this mindset. As a result, we are starting to see a very encouraging trend where more women than ever before are now entering the workforce. What's more, their number seems to be on the rise every year, which is a really big thing.
Encouraging Signs
The majority of our female population is from rural areas where there are next to no opportunities. However, the 2012 Economic Survey of Pakistan shows a major increase in the number of working women in the big cities and urban areas. In the same way, the 2017 Economic Survey shows further promise. There is now a minimum quota of 10% for women in public sector jobs. In another important development, there must be one female member on the board of directors of every corporate entity.
These are all very promising signs because the women participate in the public and corporate sector, the more progress will witnessed in our economy.
Reasons for this Change
A number of factors can be attributed to this turnaround. More education and awareness means more emphasis on education means that more females are now acquiring quality education. Universities are seeing a lot of more girl students than they were ten or fifteen years ago.
Because of this, the literacy rate among women has risen incrementally which has resultantly opened up countless new career possibilities for them. In the decades gone by, most of the women used to be on very low-level or basic level jobs that were low-paying with less chances of growth and progress.
Today, we see lots of female-led companies. There are more female startup founders/owners and CEOs today than there were at any point in the history of Pakistan. The coming future is likely to produce more female trailblazers who will surely inspire a whole generation of young girls to step up and make their mark in the world.


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Economic aide Navarro notes Beijing's $500 billion in exports to U.S. far outweigh the $130 billion it imports
China has more to lose than the United States in the two nations' burgeoning trade dispute but Washington remains open to dialogue with its largest trading partner, a senior White House adviser said on Tuesday.
Trade brinkmanship between Washington and Beijing continued late Monday when President Donald Trump threatened to put fresh duties on between $200 billion and $400 billion in Chinese imports. The possible new duties, which could cover the lion's share of all of China's exports to the United States, were a response to retaliatory Chinese levies on up to $50 billion in U.S. goods announced on Friday.
With Wall Street sliding further into the red on Tuesday and nerves on edge among lawmakers in Trump's Republican Party, senior White House economic aide Peter Navarro defended the new trade policy.
"It's clear that China does have much more to lose," he told reporters, noting that China exported more than $500 billion to the U.S. last year, far more than the $130 billion it imported from the United States. Navarro reiterated Washington's accusations that China had used string of unfair practices—cyber-theft, state-sponsored corporate acquisitions, forced technology transfers and export restrictions—to target global dominance in advanced new industrial sectors.
"It is important to note here that the actions President Trump has taken are purely defensive in nature," Navarro said. "They are designed to defend the crown jewels of American technology from China's aggressive behavior."
These included aerospace, advanced rail and shipping, artificial intelligence, augmented reality, biotechnology, new energy vehicles, precision farming and robotics, said Navarro.
"These are the future of the world and of America and China cannot have 70 percent of production of these industries by 2025," he added, referring to a Chinese industrial development plan denounced by Washington.
Navarro said U.S. officials planned to cushion against the blows to American industries and workers in the United States and present in China but declined to elaborate on any plans to help the U.S. farming sector. "President Trump will have the backs of all Americans who may be targeted by Chinese actions and with respect to the farmers in Iowa or any other state," Navarro said.
Efforts to convince Beijing to change its ways had so far failed despite several rounds of transpacific diplomacy, he added. "Our phone lines are open. They have always been open," said Navarro. "The fundamental reality is talk is cheap. Delay is expensive."


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Though computer systems have made it easier for the librarians to catalog the books and place them in an ordered fashion, it is still difficult to find the book put on the wrong shelf by some casual visitor. The larger the library, the more daunting this task of finding and locating a misplaced book becomes.
As always, technology has come to our rescue with efficient robotic librarians able to navigate their way during the dark hours of the day. These robots walk along the library shelves, scanning the book spines and identifying the missing volumes as well as those books that have been placed on a wrong shelf.
The autonomous robot does its job by scanning the RFID tags of the books. The autonomous robotic shelf-scanning (AuRoSS) system generates a report at the end of the day which can be consulted by their human counterparts in the morning to retrieve the misplaced books and return them to their original place on the shelf. Thus, the system sufficiently reduces the burden on the librarians by freeing them from the arduous task of manual scanning of each shelf.
The robot navigates its way by employing lasers and ultrasonic sensors to wheel its way around the library. One of the scientists included in the team called Renjun Li, explained the navigational plan as:
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The AuRoSS system utilizes a robotic arm to adjust the RFID antenna such that it remains within the optimum tag-scanning distance. The distance must neither be too far that the signal is lost, nor too close that the scanners hit the shelf.
The system is being used in Singapore libraries and has shown an accuracy of 99 percent. Amazingly, the robotic system did not waver in its accuracy even while working on the curved shelves. The system can be customized with various sensors like cameras, Bluetooth, and Wi-Fi. The adaptability of the system makes it suitable for diversified applications like use in warehouses, retail stores, Aerospace and Automotive industries.


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The networking titan Cisco will no longer sell storage gear that came from its $415 million acquisition of storage startup Whiptail in 2013.
Cisco Systems continue to trim the fat before Chuck Robbins steps in as CEO next week after longtime leader, John Chambers, steps down.
The networking titan will no longer sell storage hardware, a line of business it inherited with its $415 million acquisition of storage startup Whiptail in 2013. The company will still sell a line of servers that has storage capabilities, but not a product that's sole purpose it to store data.
Analysts told the Wall Street Journal that Cisco's move to selling storage equipment put it at odds with some of its longtime partners, like EMC EMC -1.35% and NetApp NTAP -0.96% .
"Cisco is prioritizing the elements of our portfolio to drive the most value for our customers both now and in the future, and today, we are announcing the End of Life (EoL) for the Invicta Appliance and Scaling System products," a company spokesperson told CRN.
The decision to shed the business makes sense considering Cisco CSCO 1.39% just sold off its set-top box business Thursday for $600 million to remove one more less-profitable product line that drag down the company's core networking technology business.
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Nasal spray vaccine to stop heart attacks developed
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- Researchers at the Lund University in Sweden say they have achieved a major breakthrough in the prevention of heart attacks. They say they have developed a vaccine that can prevent heart attacks by drastically reducing fat in the arteries.
According to the scientists, the new vaccine can be applied either by injection or by nasal spray. They say they expect it to be available in the next five years.
Current methods for preventing heart attacks involve use of drugs that prevent accumulation of fat in the arteries by lowering cholesterol and blood pressure. The new treatment, however, targets the cause of heart attacks directly by drastically reducing fat clogging the arteries. Fat deposits in the arteries narrow its lumen and prevent free flow of blood, forcing the blood to pump harder to sustain blood flow.
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reports Professor Peter Weissberg of the British Heart Foundation, said the new vaccine is "very promising." It works by stimulating the body's immune system to produce antibodies that attack the build up of fat in the arteries. According
Times Live
, the vaccine stimulates the body's immune system to produce antibodies that prevent build up of fat deposits in the arteries.
According to the researchers, a test on mice found that the vaccine can reduce plaque build-up in the arteries by as much as 60 to 70 percent.
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Frontiers in Cardiovascular Biology
conference at Imperial College, London, was told that different ways of administering the vaccine are being developed, and that the nasal spray could be introduced within five years.
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reports Professor Jan Nilsson, expert in cardiovascular research, at the Lund University, told the conference that earlier experiments had shown it is possible to change the way the immune system responds to plaque build-up in the arteries, reduce inflammation and suppress plaque formation.
Nilsson, in collaboration with Prof Prediman Shah of the Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute in Los Angeles, developed the CVX-210 vaccine.
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reports another method involving injecting antibodies targeting bad low density lipoprotein carrying plaque forming cholesterol in the blood is also in trials. According to Nilsson: "The rationale is that since oxidized LDL plays a major role in the development of atherosclerotic plaques and harmful inflammatory processes, directly targeting oxidized LDL should prevent plaque formation and reduce inflammation."
Previous studies had shown that an antibody called BI-204, developed by BioInvent and Genentech, reduced plaques by half and is well tolerated in healthy people. The nasal spray form of the vaccine is under trial in the U.S. The trial involves 144 heart disease sufferers.
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reports Nilsson said that statins and blood pressure drugs reduce the risk of heart disease only by 40%. He said: "It should not be forgotten that 60% of cardiovascular events continue to occur. These treatments are far more like drugs: to be effective they'd need to be given long term."
Nilsson said it is unlikely that the new vaccine would be administered in childhood as vaccines usually are. He said: "The antibody therapy in particular is likely to be expensive, so you could probably only afford to give it to high-risk populations rather than everyone."
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reports Nilsson told the conference: "People at high risk of heart attacks are likely to be the first candidates for immune approaches. Such treatments, since they've totally different modes of action, could be used in addition to the current therapies."
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Bahrain's New Fintech Fund to Invest in Indian Startups
The new fund will earmark a certain portion of its investment assets to Indian startups that have an interest in the Bahrain region and those that are planning to scale up their operations in the middle-east.
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Bahrain's EDB sets up office in Mumbai to accelerate its fintech development program.
Bahrain's new fintech fund will invest in Indian startups that have an economic interest in Bahrain. In a bid to speed up its financial offerings in the fintech space, Bahrain has tied up with the Singapore Fintech Consortium to invest in fintech start-ups in the middle-east and Asia region to boost the development of financial technology in Bahrain.
The new fund will earmark a certain portion of its investment assets to Indian startups that have an interest in the Bahrain region and those that are planning to scale up their operations in the middle-east.
Bahrain will also run accelerator programs to bring fintech innovation to the Middle-east. "We are going to run a couple of accelerator programs. Once we identify fintech ventures which have an interest in Bahrain, then the logical next step is to set up a visit, and so we can connect them with the regulators or telecom companies or financial institutions. We will manage that through Mumbai," said David Parker, Business Development, Financial Services, Bahrain Economic Development Board.
Mentioning that fintech development has been slow to start in Bahrain, Parker was confident that the region would like to catch up on fintech, and some of the options that are likely to attract Indian startups to Bahrain are payments, robo-advisory, online banking, and wealth management.
Parker noted that Bahrain is setting up a Fintech Hub which will bring together companies from across the region to share ideas. Parker said that Bahrain's new Sandbox will bring together regulators and financial technology innovators together which will enable communication on a common platform.
"The thinking behind a regulatory sandbox is that the financial services industry is highly regulated, which isn't necessarily conducive to innovation. You can't be launching bright ideas, and the regulator says that you can't do this and can't do that. On the other hand, if you let innovators on their own, then there could be all sorts of implications for customers, money laundering, financial security and so on. So a sandbox is perhaps not necessary the right name, but a sandbox is a bridge between the innovative ideas and the regulation," said Parker.
Parker also said that the new entrepreneurs will be allowed to develop their ideas under the watchful eye of the regulator. "At the end of that process, we can put a new regulation in place if we think we need to accommodate the fintech's idea. The opportunity for the regulator to test and monitor the new innovations is within the Sandbox," noted Parker.
Parker pointed out that the idea of a Sandbox germinated from the fact that regulators are struggling to keep up with massive innovation in the fintech space across the world. Hence, Bahrain is putting an environment that does not compromise on regulations but also accelerates the fintech program at a faster pace. "We think that fintech will explode in the coming years. There's a huge appetite for online banking, and digital banking," said Parker.
Parker also said that Bahrain's Economic Development Board is talking to quite a few companies and bringing them together in the Fintech Hub in Bahrain. "The EDB joins all the different components and we look at the innovators around the world and get them to Bahrain. We are the glue that puts all the different things together. With the focus being on driving the ecosystem faster," said Parker.
Parker said that Bahrain has a strong financial industry and the country has been doing financial services for over 50 years, and so it will be able to catch up with some of the fintech developments that have happened in countries like India and Europe. "We are working with regulators and we are keen to catch up with the rest of the world on fintech development," said Parker.
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