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Bill C-51, a Conservative government anti-terror bill that has been the subject of controversy since its introduction in January, is to undergo a review and amendment process beginning Tuesday.
Amendments will attempt to narrow the scope of what might be considered terrorist activity, according to CBC News.
The bill has drawn criticism from some who say that it restricts freedom and defies the constitution.
A series of protests have occurred in recent weeks, including a country-wide "Defend our Freedom" day of action, during which NDP and Official Opposition leader Thomas Mulcair and Green Party leader Elizabeth May joined thousands of protesters in Montréal and Toronto, respectively.
NDP MP Andrew Cash says the faults in Bill C-51 compromise the spirit of the constitution. "The charter rights and freedoms are great when everyone agrees and things are popular. It is when communities are under threat that we need to defend the threat of all religions, freedom of free speech, freedom of assembly and the freedom of our civil liberties," Cash says.
Cash adds that the "vague wording of Bill C-51" could "lump together" environmental and First Nations activism with violent extremism under the law.
Former prime ministers Jean Chrétien, Paul Martin, Joe Clark, and John Turner have all called for stronger security oversight, but caution that the government's bill may take it too far.
These former prime ministers and 18 other prominent Canadians, including five former Supreme Court Justices, issued a joint statement regarding the bill. "Protecting human rights and protecting public safety are complementary objectives, but experience has shown that serious human rights abuses can occur in the name of maintaining national security," they said in the statement.
NDP deputy public safety critic Rosane Doré Lefebvre told CBC News that the Conservative Party has been "forced to change their tune" due to the major backlash produced by the bill's opponents. | {
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Election Riddle: If Imee Marcos Makes it to the Top 3 Senators 2019, What will it Make Bongbong Marcos in 2022?
The anti-Marcos stalwarts can only deny the rising popularity of Gov. Imee Marcos for Senator in the upcoming 2019 election. However, they start to ask; Will voters care if the candidate is pro-Marcos or anti-Marcos? Political analysts and Professor, Ramon Casiple, Tindig Pilipinas Convenor. Atty. Edwin Lacierda, and Atty. Bruce Rivera debate on the issue. At one point, they insinuate that if she makes it to the top 3, then what will it make Bongbong Marcos in 2022?
[VIDEO]: Will voters care if the candidate is pro-Marcos or anti-Marcos? Political analysts and Professor, Ramon Casiple, Tindig Pilipinas Convenor, Atty. Edwin Lacierda, and Atty. Bruce Rivera said that this is a non-factor in the voters' decision in choosing their candidates.
Political personalities seeking reelection and a return to the Senate will most likely top the senatorial elections. A commissioned survey of the Social Weather Stations (SWS) announced this recently. Billionaire Senator Cynthia Villar tops the survey with 53 percent. Senator Grace Poe immediately follows. Taguig Representative, Pia Cayetano, a former senator was next. The two are tied at 2nd and 3rd place with 43 percent each.
Tied in 4th and 5th places meanwhile, are reelectionists, Senator Aquilino "Koko" Pimentel III and former Senator Lito Lapid. Former Senator Jinggoy Estrada, who seeks for a political comeback after a three-year detention over plunder charges, places 6th. Next in the list is the former senator and Interior Secretary Mar Roxas Lacierda stresses that the LP would be very happy if Roxas is indeed running.
Reelectionist Senators Nancy Binay and Sonny Angara share the 8th to 9th spots. Bureau of Corrections chief Director General Ronald "Bato" Dela Rosa follows them. Completing the "Magic 12" are former Senator Serge Osmeña and Ilocos Norte Gov. Imee Marcos. As per the discussion, Marcos can still make it to the top 3 since her position jumps to the 7th from the 11th spot during Pulse Asia's recent survey.
Reelectionist Senators Nancy Binay and Sonny Angara shared the 8th to 9th spots at 26 percent each. Bureau of Corrections chief Director General Ronald "Bato" Dela Rosa follows at 25 percent. Completing the "Magic 12" are former Senator Serge Osmeña and Ilocos Norte Gov. Imee Marcos at 24 percent each. The rest of the LP bets are at the tail end.
Unfortunately for the Marcos detractors, there's a sudden rise of Ilocos Norte Governor Imee Marcos' rank in the recent Pulse Asia senatorial survey. Its President justifies it by saying that it is not due to "an increase of her voting support." The daughter of the late President Ferdinand Marcos climbs to the 8th spot in Pulse Asia's September senatorial preferences survey. She is up 6 spots from her 14th place finish in the June survey. Atty. Rivera explains that since Marcos has the support of President Rodrigo Du30, she can easily gain votes from his supporters. Likewise, Du30's chosen Presidential successor is her brother Bongbong Marcos. That can very well equate to his possible win should he runs for President in 2022.
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Time and past has proven that your personal views are just personal. it does not have anything to fo with the public sentiments. people have learned a lot.
Time and past has proven that your personal views are just personal. it does not have anything to fo with the public sentiments. people have learned a lot. You can deny that all you can but tomorow is inevitable and you will have to face reality that truth didn't allow itself to be hidden while you continue to pretend.
Hey Lacierda, during 2016 debates all kinds of negative attacks were thrown to BB Marcos, yet he still received more than 14M votes (probably 16M if he was not cheated). Less than 50K from Bicol. Cayetano got most of the votes in Davao, and he only got 5M votes.
That is on a one-on-one vote. This time people are choosing 12.
Sen. Imee Marcos already had a guranteed 16M votes plus those DDS supporters who voted for Cayetano (from his 5M votes) instead of BBM for VP and more from Bicol (800K voters). | {
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Of course, this bag is ideal for housing any deck that has horses in the illustrations as many of the Native-American themed decks tend to do. Actually, almost all tarot decks have horses on at least the knight cards. For example, the three Druidcraft Tarot cards shown here are illustrated with horses. Clearly anyone could use this bag to store any deck. It would make a perfect gift bag for a friend that is also an equestrian.
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I could just swim in a giant batch of mashed potatoes during the holidays…they are my absolute favorite holiday side! If I'm lucky enough to snag leftovers after Thanksgiving, I love to make these reimagined potato cakes. I was inspired by www.justataste.com. As if the flavor of mashed potatoes aren't delicious already, the added goodies enhance them even more. They remind me of smashed loaded baked potatoes with the cheese, sour cream, chives and bacon…YUM!
Using your hands, divide the mixture into 10-12 portions. Roll each portion into a compact ball then flatten it into a pancake about a 1/2″ thick.
Place the remaining 1/2 cup of flour in a shallow dish and carefully dredge each pancake in the flour.
Transfer the pancakes to a paper towel-lined plate and immediately sprinkle extra cheese on top to melt.
Serve the potato pancakes garnished with sour cream, bacon crumbles and chives/scallions. Enjoy!
Notes: All leftover mashed potatoes will vary in consistency depending on how much cream, milk or melted butter you added to the original batch. If the mashed potato pancake mixture looks too dry and isn't holding together, add one more egg. If it looks too wet, add more flour, 1 tablespoon at a time, until the mixture is cohesive. | {
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WASHINGTON – Evangelical Christian advocates for broad immigration reform have warmly welcomed a proposal offered by a bipartisan group of United States senators.
Republicans and four Democrats outlined Monday (Jan. 28) their plan for addressing what has been a hotly debated issue for years as an estimated 11 million illegal, or undocumented, immigrants have made their homes in this country. Congress has not made a serious attempt since 2007 to repair what seemingly everyone acknowledges as a broken immigration system.
Southern Baptist ethicist Richard Land said he was "very encouraged" by the bipartisan framework.
President Obama, in a Tuesday (Jan. 29) speech from immigrant-rich Las Vegas, applauded the bipartisan effort, but said he will work to ensure comprehensive reform occurs without delay.
"This provides the parameters that many of us have been working for for some time and shows that there is a critical mass of Republicans and Democrats who are ready to make the compromises necessary to provide a comprehensive immigration reform policy that the American people will support," Land said.
Other members of the Evangelical Immigration Table, a coalition of Christian leaders, also applauded the senators' proposal.
The senators offered only an outline, not legislation. Undoubtedly, the specifics regarding a "path to citizenship" for undocumented immigrants will be a focus of debate.
Their bill, the coalition of senators said, would require undocumented immigrants to register with the government – as well as pass a background check and pay back taxes and a fine – to gain "probationary legal status." All enforcement provisions must be final before an immigrant on probation can earn a green card. A commission, which includes governors and attorneys general from Southwestern border states, must make a recommendation about when the security prerequisites are met.
Obama said in Las Vegas, "Yesterday, a bipartisan group of senators announced their principles for comprehensive immigration reform, which are very much in line with the principles I've proposed and campaigned on for the last few years. At this moment, it looks like there's a genuine desire to get this done soon. And that's very encouraging.
Comprehensive immigration reform is essential to growing the economy, as it would utilize the strengths of all willing to invest energies here and ensure companies compete fairly, Obama said.
The audience met his comments with applause on several points aimed at creating a path of citizenship to undocumented immigrants, including children brought here illegally.
Obama encouraged reform that would provide a clear, achievable path to citizenship. For those already here illegally, he said, the process would include paying overdue taxes, passing criminal background checks, learning English and giving precedence to those already playing by the rules.
Strengthening border security, imposing stiff penalties for companies employing undocumented workers and streamlining legal immigration must also be part of the solution, Obama said.
Some Republican senators expressed reservations about their colleagues' framework.
Sen. Mike Lee of Utah, who was part of discussions on the proposal, said he was encouraged by the process but could not sign onto it.
In addition to Schumer and Rubio, the other senators offering the proposal were Republicans Jeff Flake and John McCain, both of Arizona, and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, as well as Democrats Michael Bennet of Colorado, Richard Durbin of Illinois and Robert Menendez of New Jersey.
For several years, the ERLC's Land has called for comprehensive reform that includes a pathway to citizenship that would consist of such requirements as paying fines, undergoing a criminal background check, learning English, pledging allegiance to the American government, accepting a probationary period and going to the back of the line behind those seeking to enter the country legally. | {
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This is a list of radio stations that broadcast on FM 88.6 frequency 88.0 FM MHz:
Australia
Radio Austral in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory
Raw FM (Australian radio network) in Coffs Harbour, New South Wales
Vision Radio Network in Cootamundra, New South Wales
Planet Radio in Brisbane, Queensland
Red Dirt Radio in Bundaberg, Queensland
Radio ENA in Adelaide, South Australia
Radio TAB in Naracoorte, South Australia
Radio TAB in Mount Gambier, South Australia
Radio TAB in Port Pirie, South Australia
Vision Radio Network in Woomera, South Australia
Bangladesh
Radio Foorti
New Zealand
Various low-power stations up to 1 watt
Turkey
TRT-4 at Hatay
United Kingdom
Heart North Wales in Wrexham and Chester
References
Lists of radio stations by frequency | {
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Health insurance provides regular, preventive care for you and your family to stay healthy and prevent illness. Medical bills are the number one cause of bankruptcy and can reach into the millions of dollars. Having quality health coverage gives you peace of mind knowing that if an accident or illness strikes you and your family are protected from a lifetime of financial burden.
Starting with the 2019 coverage year (for which you will file taxes in 2020), there is no longer a tax penalty or "individual mandate" for not having health insurance.
However, the mandate is still in effect for the 2018 coverage year. This means most individuals, including their children and anyone else they claim as a dependent on their federal taxes must have had health coverage for 2018, qualify for an exemption, or pay a tax penalty when filing their federal tax return in 2019.
$695 per adult and $347.50 per child (up to a maximum of $2,085).
A person will pay one-twelfth of the total annual penalty for each month without coverage.
The IRS website has resources to help calculate your penalty. | {
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Q: No gradient in custom loss function I tried to create a custom loss function using spearman correlation in tensorflow 2.1.0-rc1. However, I've encountered "no gradient" error. I have multiple targets. To avoid spearman giving nan for labels with only one unique value, I just pass and did nothing. Here is my code:
import tensorflow as tf
from scipy.stats import spearmanr
def spear_func(a, b):
return spearmanr(a, b).correlation.astype('float32')
def custom_loss(num_targets):
def custom_rhos(y_true, y_pred):
rhos = tf.constant(0, dtype='float32')
for ind in range(num_targets):
a = tf.slice(y_true, [0, ind], [-1, 1])
a = tf.reshape(a, [-1])
b = tf.slice(y_pred, [0, ind], [-1, 1])
b = tf.reshape(b, [-1])
rhos = tf.cond(tf.equal(tf.argmax(a), tf.argmin(a)),
lambda: rhos, # <-- Here is the problem
lambda: tf.subtract(rhos,
tf.compat.v1.py_func(spear_func, [a, b], Tout=tf.float32)))
return rhos
return custom_rhos
The error message is:
/tensorflow-2.1.0/python3.6/tensorflow_core/python/keras/optimizer_v2/optimizer_v2.py in _filter_grads(grads_and_vars)
1037 if not filtered:
1038 raise ValueError("No gradients provided for any variable: %s." %
-> 1039 ([v.name for _, v in grads_and_vars],))
1040 if vars_with_empty_grads:
1041 logging.warning(
ValueError: No gradients provided for any variable:
I tried to write my own spearman function. But it sill gives the same error.
from scipy.stats import rankdata
BATCH_SIZE = 4
def custom_loss(num_targets):
def custom_rhos(y_true, y_pred):
rhos = []
for ind in range(num_targets):
a = tf.squeeze(tf.slice(y_true, [0, ind], [-1, 1]))
# a = tf.reshape(a, [-1])
b = tf.squeeze(tf.slice(y_pred, [0, ind], [-1, 1]))
# b = tf.reshape(b, [-1])
rank_a, rank_b = tf.numpy_function(rankdata, [a], Tout=tf.float32), tf.numpy_function(rankdata, [b], Tout=tf.float32)
rho = 1 - 6 * tf.reduce_sum((rank_a - rank_b) ** 2) / (BATCH_SIZE ** 3 - BATCH_SIZE)
rhos.append(rho)
return -tf.reduce_sum(rhos)
return custom_rhos
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Today (Dec. 1) is #GivingTuesday. Celebrate #APhysicsDayofGiving with your friends at SPS!
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Today (Dec. 1), as part of the Giving Tuesday initiative, the Society of Physics Students, Sigma Pi Sigma, and the American Institute of Physics celebrate #APhysicsDayofGiving, a 24-hour, online, fundraising and awareness event. #GivingTuesday is a national day of philanthropy held annually on the Tuesday after Thanksgiving.
Fuel the future of the physical sciences. Make a donation today to help a physics student. Money donated to Sigma Pi Sigma helps students by providing scholarships, internships, and unique opportunities to interact with professional scientists who are living the career life that physics students are working to have one day.
This year the focus is on the 2016 Quadrennial Physics Congress (PhysCon). The Congress Student Travel Fund will allow students to apply to receive a Reporter Award that will provide a stipend for registration and travel to the 2016 PhysCon.
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In an encahnting landscape just few kilometers from San Gimignano, you can find "La Fattoria di Larniano farmhouse. It consists of two estates of considerable architectural value: the Torre and the Villa. The villas have been fully restored and each accommodation has been equipped with private swimming pool and with a tennis court. A real paradise for those who want to relax in the serene beauty of the Senese countryside, and forget for a moment the hustle and bustle of metropolitan life. In a third building between the Torre and the Villa, you find the private restaurant where we arrange cooking classes on request (classic, Tuscan, vegetarian, etc.) The restaurant is also ideal for meetings, cerimonies, events, etc. At a few steps, the lovely consacred chapel.
The estate's vineyards produce a delicious white wine know as La Vernaccia, and its extensive olive groves the rich-tasting oil for which Tuscany is famed. Sweeping lawns, often visited by hares and pheasants, 4 equipped pools, a clay tennis court: these are some of the amenities the visitors may find in Larniano. Sightseers can explore the many hill towns in the immediate area and in the nearby Chianti region, while golfers have access to one of Italy's best courses a short drive away.
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A new edition of the best-selling work from one of the most forward-thinking and important philosophers of our time.
Join one of the greatest contemporary philosophers on a breathtaking tour of time and the Kosmos—from the Big Bang right up to the eve of the twenty-first century. This accessible and entertaining summary of Ken Wilber's great ideas has been expanding minds now for two decades, providing a kind of unified field theory of the universe and, along the way, treating a host of issues related to that universe, from gender roles, to multiculturalism, to environmentalism, and even the meaning of the Internet. This special anniversary edition contains as an afterword a dialogue between the author and Lana Wachowski, the award-winning writer-director of the Matrix film trilogy, in which we're offered an intimate glimpse into the evolution of Ken's thinking and where he stands today. A Brief History of Everything may well be the best introduction to the thought of this man who has been called the "Einstein of Consciousness" (John White). | {
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NHS launches next step of urgent care review
By Emergency Live Last updated Jul 27, 2015
NHS England Chief Executive Simon Stevens and the NHS Five Year Forward View partners today (Friday) announced eight new vanguards that will launch the transformation of urgent and emergency care for more than nine million people.
This comes as NHS England also revealed the success of Regional Major Trauma Networks which, after they were set up just three years ago, have seen a remarkable 50 percent increase in the odds of survival for trauma patients revealed in a new independent audit by the Trauma Audit and Research Network (TARN).
Building on the recent success in improving trauma survival rates, the urgent and emergency care vanguards are tasked with changing the way in which all organisations work together to provide care in a more joined up way for patients.
Urgent care will be delivered, not just in hospitals but also by GPs, pharmacists, community teams, ambulance services, NHS 111, social care and others, and through patients being given support and education to manage their own conditions. Another aim is to break down boundaries between physical and mental health to improve the quality of care and experience for all.
The eight new vanguards will spearhead this work and, like other vanguards, will benefit from a programme of support and investment from the £200m transformation fund.
Six vanguards will cover smaller local systems which may include hospitals and surrounding GP practices and social care, while two network vanguards will be working with much larger populations to integrate care on a greater scale.
This will include innovative plans such as those in North-East England where services across the region will be aligned to a single joined-up system to ensure all patients including those living in remote rural locations will get the care they need, including a rapid specialist opinion should they need one.
The West Yorkshire network will launch mobile treatment services and, working with mental health providers and the police, create rapid crisis response and street triage services.
Other vanguards, such as Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland, will focus on establishing same-day response teams with GPs, acute home-visiting and crisis response services, community nursing, an older people's assessment unit and a new urgent care centre.
NHS England's Chief executive, Simon Stevens, said: "Starting today, the NHS will begin joining up the often confusing array of A&E, GP out of hours, minor injuries clinics, ambulance services and 111 so that patients know where they can get urgent help easily and effectively, 7 days a week. That's why we're backing what our frontline nurses, doctors and other staff, in partnership with local communities, to radically redesign our urgent and emergency services."
Professor Chris Moran, NHS England's National Clinical Director for Trauma Care, said: "It's enormously rewarding for the NHS and the people it serves that in just three years we have seen a fifty per cent increase in the odds of survival with life-threatening injuries, that's hundreds more patients saved since the networks started."
Professor Keith Willett, NHS England's Director of Acute Care, who is leading the Urgent and Emergency Care transformation, said: "This proves a modern NHS needs a very different approach and shows, we can transform patient care.
"These networks and new vanguards will support and improve all our local urgent and emergency care services, such as A&E departments, urgent care centres, GPs, NHS 111 and community, social care and ambulance services, so no one is working isolated from expert advice 24 hours a day."
"All over the country there are pockets of best practice yielding enormous benefits; but to ensure our urgent care services are sustainable for the future every region must begin delivering faster, better and safer care. Now it is time for the new urgent and emergency care vanguards to design the best solutions locally."
Today's launch of the vanguards comes in the face of pressure on all NHS frontline emergency services, with increased A&E attendances and emergency admissions, and both ambulance and NHS 111 services facing rising demands.
The Urgent and Emergency Care vanguards are a key element within the NHS Five Year Forward View which is a partnership between NHS England, the Care Quality Commission, Health Education England, Monitor, the Trust Development Authority, Public Health England and the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence and represent the next step in the transformation of Urgent and Emergency Care for the NHS announced by Sir Bruce Keogh, NHS England's National Medical Director, in 2013.
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What Is Myasthenia Gravis?
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Myasthenia gravis (MG) is a condition that causes profound muscle weakness as a result of the immune system attacking receptors (docking sites) located on muscle tissue. The muscles in the eyelids and those attached to the eyeball are commonly the first (and sometimes only) muscles affected in myasthenia gravis. Other muscles that may become weak include jaw, limb, and even, breathing muscles.
While there is no cure yet for myasthenia gravis, the upside is that there are several therapies available to improve symptoms.
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The primary symptom of myasthenia gravis is significant, specific muscle weakness that tends to get progressively worse later in the day, especially if the affected muscles are being used a lot.
Commonly, someone with myasthenia gravis will first experience droopy eyelids or "tired eyes" (ptosis) and/or blurry or double vision (diplopia).
While some people with MG only experience eye muscle weakness (ocular myasthenia), others progress to a more generalized form of the disease in which multiple muscles are affected.
In those individuals, besides eye-related problems, these symptoms may occur:
Mouth/jaw weakness leading to trouble chewing or swallowing food, or slurred speech
Limited facial expressions
Arms, hands, fingers, legs, and/or neck weakness
Keep in mind, the weakness of myasthenia gravis is different than, for example, the tiredness someone might feel in their legs after standing or working all day. Weakness implies only barely being able to move a particular muscle.
Rarely, a myasthenic crisis may occur. This is a life-threatening condition characterized by difficulty breathing due to severe weakness of the respiratory muscles. It is often triggered by a change in medication, infection, or surgery.
Due to related, severe shortness of breath, intubation (being placed on a breathing machine) and monitoring in an intensive care unit are required.
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Myasthenia gravis occurs when antibodies (proteins produced by the immune system) misguidedly attack the receptors for acetylcholine—a chemical messenger released by nerve cells to stimulate muscle contractions. These antibodies are called acetylcholine receptor (AChR) antibodies. As a result of the interference with the transmission of nerve-to-muscle signaling, muscle weakness develops.
It's important to note that in some cases, instead of antibodies produced against acetylcholine receptors, a person with myasthenia gravis has antibodies produced against proteins located on the surface of the muscle membrane. These antibodies are called muscle-specific receptor tyrosine kinase (MuSK) antibodies.
The diagnosis of myasthenia gravis begins with a medical history and neurological examination. Then, if symptoms and signs suggestive of myasthenia gravis are present, additional confirmatory tests will be performed, often by a neurologist.
Medical History and Neurological Exam
During the medical history, a doctor will listen carefully to your health story and inquire about specific details. For example, they may ask the following questions if they suspect myasthenia gravis based on you noting "tired or dropping eyes."
Are you having any difficulties speaking or swallowing?
Besides your eye weakness, are you experiencing weakness anywhere else in your body (e.g., arms or legs)?
Is your weakness worse in the morning or evening?
After these questions, your doctor will perform a neurological exam in which they evaluate your muscle strength and tone. They will also check your eyes to see if there are any problems with eye movement.
In addition to a medical history and physical exam, if a person has symptoms suggestive of myasthenia gravis, there are antibody blood tests that can be done to confirm the diagnosis.
The most specific test is the acetylcholine receptor antibody test, which checks the blood for the presence of abnormal antibodies. Presence of the antibodies confirms the diagnosis. Your doctor may also check for the presence of MuSK antibodies.
Electrophysiological Studies
Electrophysiological studies, such as repetitive nerve stimulation studies and single-fiber electromyography (EMG), can be very helpful in diagnosing myasthenia gravis—especially if other tests (like the antibody blood test) are normal, but a doctor's suspicion for MG is still high based on one's symptoms.
Understanding Your Electromyography Results
Edrophonium Test
The edrophonium test, also called the Tensilon test, has mostly fallen out of use due to the unavailability of the chemical required to perform it.
Historically, though, during this test, a doctor injects edrophonium—a medicine that prevents the breakdown of acetylcholine—into a vein. If muscle strength improves after this medicine is given, the test is considered positive and offers strong support for the diagnosis of MG.
Some patients with myasthenia gravis have a tumor of the thymus gland—an immune system gland that is located in your chest. Imaging tests, usually a computed tomography (CT) scan or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), can diagnose thymomas.
An MRI of the brain may also be ordered during the diagnostic process to evaluate for mimicking conditions like stroke, brain tumor, or multiple sclerosis.
While there is no cure for myasthenia gravis, there are treatments that ease symptoms and calm the disease down.
Acetylcholine Inhibitors
Drugs called acetylcholinesterase inhibitors, which block the breakdown of acetylcholine, can help increase the levels of acetylcholine at the neuromuscular junction. The main acetylcholinesterase inhibitor used to treat myasthenia gravis is Mestinon (pyridostigmine).
Potential side effects of this drug include diarrhea, abdominal cramping, and nausea, although taking it with food can reduce gastrointestinal distress.
Glucocorticoids, such as prednisone, are often used to suppress the abnormal production of antibodies in people with myasthenia gravis.
Other immune-system suppressing drugs sometimes used to treat myasthenia gravis include:
Imuran (azathioprine)
CellCept (mycophenolate mofetil)
Prograf (tacrolimus)
Rituxan (rituximab)
Immunosuppressant medications require careful monitoring by your doctor, as they all may cause potentially serious side effects.
Plasmapheresis
Plasma exchange (plasmapheresis), in which blood plasma containing the abnormal antibodies is removed and fresh plasma is put back in, is used to treat an acute myasthenic crisis. This procedure may also be done before surgery in an effort to head off a myasthenic crisis.
The caveat about plasmapheresis is that while it works within days, the benefits are short-lived (usually just weeks). In addition, plasmapheresis is expensive and complications may arise, such as:
Heart arrhythmias
Bleeding
Intravenous Immunoglobulin
Intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) entails giving a person (through their vein) a high concentration of antibodies collected from healthy donors. The administration of IVIG is usually done over a period of two to five days. While possible side effects of IVIG are generally mild, serious complications may occur including kidney failure, meningitis, and allergic reactions.
Just like plasmapheresis, intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIG) may be used to treat a myasthenic crisis or administered prior to surgery. Likewise, the effects of IVIG are short-lived.
Thymectomy
Surgery to remove the thymus gland (thymectomy) can reduce and possibly even resolve myasthenia gravis symptoms.
While surgery is definitely indicated in people with a thymus gland tumor, whether thymectomy is indicated in other cases is less clear. In these instances, it's important to have a thoughtful discussion with a neurologist who has experience treating myasthenia gravis.
A key strategy for preventing myasthenic attacks is to avoid/minimize possible triggers.
Potential triggers for myasthenic attacks include:
Surgery
Thyroid disease (underactive or overactive)
Increases in body temperature
Certain medications can also trigger an attack, such as:
Cipro (ciprofloxacin) or other antibiotics
Beta-blockers, like Inderal (propranolol)
Individuals with myasthenia gravis should be careful before starting any new medication and watch carefully after taking it for signs of muscle weakness.
Infection, such as with the flu or pneumonia, can also trigger a myasthenia flare. With that, be sure to obtain all recommended vaccines, such as your yearly flu shot.
The future of myasthenia gravis is bright, as researchers work tirelessly to find therapies that target and perhaps fix the immune system abnormality that lies at the root of myasthenia gravis. Until then, continue to remain active in your health care: See your doctor regularly, report any new symptoms right away, and take medication as advised.
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April 11, 2019 / Irma Heldman
Metropolis: A Bernie Gunther Novel
By Philip Kerr
A Marian Wood book/ Putnam 2019
This is the 14th and final Bernie Gunther novel (after 2018's Greeks Bearing Gifts) due to author Philip Kerr's untimely death in March 2018. Metropolis is Bernie's origin story. We meet the gimlet-eyed gumshoe with a penchant for wiseass humor in the summer of 1928. Berlin is a modern Babylon, bursting with artistic creativity as well as unprecedented sexual freedom, yet it's also witnessing the rise of virulent anti-Semitism, anti-immigrant and anti-gay fervor, and street battles between political extremists on the Right and Left. Like Bernie, its people are still suffering from the devastating psychic and physical wounds of World War I, with which he is only too well acquainted from his four years on the Western Front.
Bernie's skills as a vice cop have earned him a place on the Berlin Murder Commission. It's the elite homicide investigation unit irreverently known as the Murder Wagon. Insiders often refer to it as the Alex because of the address. As Bernie explains when he's put on the Commission:
In 1928, vice in all its permutations was my departmental responsibility at the Police Praesidium on Berlin's Alexanderplatz. Criminalistically speaking—which was a new word for us cops—I knew almost as much about the subject of vice as Gilles de Rais.
And in the words of Berlin's chief of police, Bernhard Weiss:
In our opinion you've the makings of a fine detective, Gunther. You are diligent and you know when to keep your mouth shut; that's good in a detective. Very good…. So welcome to the Murder Commission, Gunther. The rest of your life just changed forever. …From now on, whenever you stand next to a man at a bus stop or on a train, you'll be sizing him up as a potential killer.
Bernie's first assignment is the so-called Silesian Station Killings—four local prostitutes murdered in as many weeks. Always at night. The first one near Silesian Station. All of them hit over the head with a ball hammer and then scalped with a very sharp knife. He's just about through the case files, when another girl is murdered. This one's father is heavily connected to organized crime, German style and will stop at nothing to find his daughter's killer.
Mid-assignment, so to speak, there is an outbreak of killings among the city's maimed veterans. These are the half-men begging on wheels called cripple-carts or klutz wagons. Claiming responsibility for their murders in taunting letters to the police is a man who signs himself Dr. Gnadenschuss (which translates as coup de grâce or death blow). Bernie agrees to go undercover posing as a disabled vet. To pull off the deception, Weiss introduces him to Brigitte, a beautiful young make-up artist who transforms his appearance. Natürlich, they begin an affair. She is working on the inaugural production of The Threepenny Opera. She has also worked for the film studio UFA on Fritz Lang's recently released silent film masterpiece Metropolis.
As Bernie moves through the seamy side of Weimar Germany, he encounters a mindboggling array of suspects. From the heights of Berlin society to its depths, from pimps to party girls, gang bosses to philandering government ministers. The city itself is also a protagonist:
A great big department store of debauchery. The city was like a large ship, Bernie thinks, that had slipped its mooring and was slowly drifting further and further away from the coast of Germany. It's not a place for the fainthearted, either, especially after dark. There is something about all that neon light at night that seems to bleach out a man's spirit.
Ultimately, Bernie concludes that there is only one killer eliminating the prostitutes and the cripples and that he's a cop. The problem is that his cohorts in crime-solving think he's crazy. And even if he can prove it, can he risk putting the already shaky reputation of the Berlin police department in further jeopardy, at a time when the voice of Nazism is becoming a roar that threatens to drown out all others?
Incisive, intelligent, mesmerizing, mordantly witty, masterfully written, Metropolis is the author at the top of his game. Auf wiedersehen Mr. Gunther and Mr. Kerr—you will be sorely missed.
--Irma Heldman is a veteran publishing executive and book reviewer with a penchant for mysteries. One of her favorite gigs was her magazine column "On the Docket" under the pseudonym O. L. Bailey.
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Nike's Zoom Superfly Elite is one of Nike's new track shoes for this summer's Olympics.
The spike plate is metallic, bluish-purple, and sports an amorphous, latticed spike plate—like a piece of coral mated with a disco ball.
This shoe can shave a runner's 100-meter-dash time down by more than a tenth of a second—enough time to turn a fourth-place finisher into a gold medalist.
It's the result of more than four years of algorithmic software design and 3-D printing prototyping, done in the Nike Sports Research Lab. These are prototypes made and tested in the lab, by Jamaican track star Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce.
Created with the help of algorithmic design, the plate is about half the weight—61 grams, down from 118—of the one on the Ja Fly 2, Nike's last spike. It's also four times as stiff.
The spike plate on Nike's Zoom Superfly Elite—one of Nike's new track shoes for this summer's Olympics—looks surprisingly glam-rock, for a piece of athletic wear. It's metallic, bluish-purple, and sports an amorphous, latticed spike plate. The bizarre design looks like a piece of coral mated with a disco ball, but its performance benefits are incredible. It can shave a runner's 100-meter-dash time down by more than a tenth of a second—enough time to turn a fourth-place finisher into a gold medalist.
The Zoom Superfly Elite spike plate is all one piece; the spikes aren't screwed in, like they are with traditional sprinting shoes. The webbed structure also defies any kind of grid or obvious unit of measurement. The cells seem to shrink and swarm around the outsides and arch of the foot, and expand around the ball and heel areas.
These almost alien looks are the result of more than four years of algorithmic software design and 3-D printing prototyping, done in the Nike Sports Research Lab. Before even the London Olympics, designers there have endeavored to create a track shoe with the lightest and stiffest spike plate ever made. With the Zoom Superfly Elite, created with help from Jamaican track star Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce, Nike says it's done it. This plate is about half the weight—61 grams, down from 118—of the one on the Ja Fly 2, Nike's last spike. It's also four times as stiff.
If you're a sprinter, stiffness if your friend. In 2000, researchers at the University of Calgary's Human Performance Lab found that a stiff outsole reduces the amount of energy lost at the metatarsophalangeal joint (where the pad of your foot meets the base of your toe), which improves an athlete's efficiency during sprinting and jumping. In a followup study, researchers from the lab found that increasing the stiffness of an athlete's shoe lead to a boost in sprinting performance.
But stiffness isn't the only thing you have to consider when designing a track shoe. According to Bret Schoolmeester, innovation director at Nike Running, adding stiffness to something as featherlight as a pair of track spikes typically results in a heavier shoe. The stiffer=faster equation breaks down when the benefits of a shoe's stiffness are outweighed by its... well, its weight. If the shoe is too heavy, it doesn't matter how stiff it is; it's going to slow the athlete down.
Bedeviled by the tradeoff between weight and stiffness, Nike designers turned to computational design. Computational (aka generative, or algorithmic) designis an ideal way to create lighter, stronger structures. Software can easily take the goals of the problem—stiffness and lightness—and optimize for both, whereas a human would likely design by altering an existing shoe. In the Nike Sports Research Lab, designers captured heat maps of Pryce as she ran the 100-meter dash. They fed that data into an algorithm, which translated it into a spike plate optimized for weight and rigidity. They 3-D printed prototypes and tested them, repeating the cycle until they had a design that could really perform. | {
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Library materials cover all fields of activities of the Peace Institute, above all those related to marginalized discourses. In addition, there is a special library fund of Maska, a magazine dedicated to performance arts. The library is open once a week and provides for a reading room and lending library sources.
Peace Institute's library hosts the library of Maska Institute. Opening times are the same for both libraries. There is no membership fee for the Maska Institute library. Library members are eligible to borrow materials for one month. Library also offers a space for reading to its members.
The library is open on Fridays from 4pm to 7pm.
Peace Institute Library is open to the general public. There is no membership fee, but a proof of identity is required.
The library is an open-stack library. Reading space is available to our members.
Library members are eligible to borrow materials outside the library for one month. Overdue fine is 0,10 euro per item, per day. Number of books which can be borrowed is seven.
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Todd has extensive local property knowledge and is experience in all sectors of commercial, industrial and retail sales and leasing.
Over his time in real estate, Todd has developed a broad client base of both local and corporate clients. He has acted in major task appointments for such clients as News Limited, Westpac, BP, Townsville City Council, Australia Post, KordaMentha and Ernst & Young.
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Il Tampere Open 1994 è stato un torneo di tennis facente parte della categoria ATP Challenger Series nell'ambito dell'ATP Challenger Series 1994. Il torneo si è giocato a Tampere in Finlandia dal 18 al 24 luglio 1994 su campi in terra rossa.
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Ингрида Цирцене (; р. 6 декабря 1956, Рига) — латвийский политик, бывший министр здравоохранения Латвии (2003—2004 и с октября 2011 года по июль 2014 года). Экс-депутат Айзпутской городской думы и Сейма Латвии. Член «Нового времени», входящего в объединение «Единство».
Окончила Рижскую среднюю школу № 4 (позднее Рижская английская гимназия), Рижский медицинский институт и Рижскую коммерческую школу.
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I've recently replaced the sagemcom modem with a Netgear modern. It's running in bridge mode into a Netgear X6 router. My Fetch box will not connect to the internet not will the Netflix app run on my phone when connected via wifi. I'm guessing the DNS settings in the router and fetch box are not correct.
Internet works on most of the other devices in the house. PS4 doesn't seem to work either.
Hey curranw, pretty strange that it's only certain devices.
Just to confirm, have you been in touch with Tech Support to see if they can iron out the problem?
Best to check all the bridge settings are set up correctly too.
I haven't been in touch with tech support as yet. I wanted to try all setting options before contacting tech support.
Still seems to be some hidden settings in the Sagemcom modem that allow the fetch box and netflix app to work.
Unfortunately there are no bridge 'settings' as such on the netgear modem DM200. Once in Bridge mode, nothing can be accessed.
The X6 router has all the settings for logging into the optus account.
I have tried just using the modem only but still no joy.
I will contact tech support over the weekend when I have time to wait on the phone.
Let us know how you go with Tech Support. As mentioned, you can always jump on Live Chat to get ahold of them.
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Doxycycline is indicated for the treatment of the following infections: 1. Rocky Mountain spotted fever, typhus fever and the typhus group. Q fever. rickettsialpox, and tick fevers caused by Rickettsiae. 2. Respiratory tract infections caused by Mycoplasma pneumoniae. 3. Lymphogranuloma venereum caused by Chlamydia trachomatis. 4. Psittacosis (ornithosis) caused by Chlamydia psittaci. 5. Trachoma caused by Chlamydia trachomatis, although the infectious agent is not always eliminated as judged by immunofluorescence. 6. Conjunctivitis caused by Chlamydia trachomatis. 7. Uncomplicated urethral, endocervical or rectal infections in adults caused by Chlamydia trachomatis. 8. Nongonococcal urethritis caused by Ureaplasma urealyticum. 9. Relapsing fever due to Borrelia recurrentis. Doxycycline also is indicated for the treatment of infections caused by the following gram-negative microorganisms: 1. Chancroid caused by Haemophilus ducreyi. 2. Plague due to Yersinia pestis (formerly Pasteurella pestis). 3. Tularemia due to Francisella tularensis (formerly Pasteurella tularensis). 4. Cholera caused by Vibrio cholerae (formerly Vibrio comma). 5. Campylobacter fetus infections caused by Campylobacter fetus (formerly Vibrio fetus). 6. Brucellosis due to Brucella species (in conjunction with streptomycin). 7. Bartonellosis due to Bartonella bacilliformis. 8. Granuloma inguinale caused by Calymmatobacterium granulomatis.
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Study Sheds Light On Signaling Mechanism in Stem Cells, Cancer
10/25/05 -- UCSF scientists have illuminated a key step in a signaling pathway that helps orchestrate embryonic development. The finding, they say, could lead to insights into the development of stem cells, as well as birth defects and cancers, and thus fuel therapeutic strategies.
The study, reported in Nature (Oct. 13, 2005), focuses on the Hedgehog family of signaling molecules, which play a central role in directing development of the early embryo's growth and spatial plan, as well as its later organ and limb development. Defects in Hedgehog signaling are a significant cause of some birth defects and cancers.
Secreted from one cell, a Hedgehog signal shoots to the surface receptor of a second cell, and then, in a rapid-fire succession of biochemical reactions, relays a message into the cell's nucleus. There, it issues an instruction, prompting the cell to divide, or specialize into a particular cell type, or migrate to help form another part of the embryo, and so on. This transaction, known as signal transduction, is a ceaseless activity of embryonic development. Scientists have long known that Hedgehog signaling requires the activity of a protein known as Smoothened. This has been demonstrated in animals ranging from insects to humans. They have also known that defects in Smoothened, which only functions within Hedgehog signaling, are responsible for some cases of human cancers - most prominently a skin cancer known as basal cell carcinoma and a childhood brain cancer known as medulloblastoma -- as well as some birth defects. However, they have not known how Smoothened executes its function, nor where it is located in the target cell.
Now, through a series of studies conducted in several types of cells in culture, and in zebrafish and mouse embryos, the UCSF scientists have answered both questions. In the process, they have revealed the critical role of a cellular component that until now has been a mystery: an antenna-like structure attached to cells known as the primary cilium. The primary cilium, it turns out, serves as the fulcrum in a series of acrobatic like moves between the Hedgehog signal and the Smoothened protein. Once Hedgehog has latched on to its receptor on the target cell's surface, it prompts the cell to move Smoothened, located in vesicles around the cell's nucleus, to the primary cilium. The positioning of Smoothened on the cilium, in turn, prompts downstream signaling of Hedgehog signals into the nucleus, where the instructions are issued. Just how or what the primary cilium is doing to promote Smoothened's activity is not clear, say the researchers. However, its involvement in the process is a revelation.
Scientists elsewhere reported in Nature in (Nov. 6, 2003) that removal of the primary cilium from cells led to defects in neural patterning resulting from Hedgehog signaling. However, they didn't know why. "This study takes two mysteries - how Smoothened functions and the role of the primary cilium - and suggests a mechanism by which they are connected," says the senior author of the study, Jeremy Reiter, MD, PhD, a fellow in the UCSF Program in Developmental and Stem Cell Biology, which is part of the UCSF Institute for Stem Cell and Tissue Biology.
The implications for medical research, he says, are significant. Hedgehog signals play an important role in prompting embryonic and adult stem cells to differentiate into some of the specialized cells that make up the body's tissues -- such as those of the brain, pancreas and skin. The new finding, says Reiter, will advance scientists efforts to use signaling molecules to direct the differentiation of embryonic stem cells in the culture dish, with the goal of using them to replace or replenish damaged tissues in patients. The discovery could be particularly important for neural stem cell research, says Arnold Kriegstein, MD, PhD, director of the UCSF Institute for Stem Cell and Tissue Biology. Kriegstein, a neural stem cell scientist, was not an author on the study. "Hedgehog signaling plays a critical role in prompting the differentiation of neural stem cells into the various forms of neurons in the brain," he says. "The discovery of the importance of the cilium in Hedgehog signaling should significantly advance our understanding of the mechanisms involved," he says.
The finding should fuel research into the causes of certain birth defects (such as holoprosencephaly and limb defects) and cancers, says Reiter. Smoothened is already known to be a proto-oncogene, a normal gene that, if mutated, is capable of causing cancers. But its close involvement with the primary cilium suggests that the latter may also be implicated, suggesting a possible target for therapy. More broadly, says Reiter, the primary cilium's role in Hedgehog signaling indicates it is likely to function in other signaling pathways, as well. The scientists moved in on the role of Smoothened and the primary cilium incrementally. First, driven by their interest in Smoothened, they set out to determine where it was expressed in the embryo. They did so by developing highly specific antibodies to the protein and applying them to the tissue of an eight-day mouse embryo. The study revealed that Smoothened was modestly upregulated in cells of the node, an important early organizer tissue within the mouse embryo, and was expressed predominantly along the primary cilium of these nodal cells. This was a significant surprise. Second, to examine whether Smoothened's movement from vesicles around the nucleus to the cilium was regulated by Hedgehog signals, they carried out two studies, one involving cultured epithelial and fibroblasts cells expressing Smoothened, another involving a mouse embryo. In both cases, one set of cells was exposed to Hedgehog signals. Another set was exposed to cyclopamine, a drug that blocks Smoothened's function. In the cells exposed to the Hedgehog signals, Smoothened moved from the vesicles of the cell body to the cilium. In the cells exposed to cyclopamine, Smoothened was undetectable on the cilium.
Scientists have known that cyclopamine inhibits Hedgehog signaling and can prevent Hedgehog-dependent cancers from spreading. The demonstration that the drug affected Smoothened movement to the cilium suggests how cyclopamine inhibits the Hedgehog pathway, the researchers say, and shows that the correlation between Smoothened on the cilium and pathway activation is very tight. Third, they examined whether the Smoothened protein included an amino acid sequence that other seven-transmembrane proteins require to move to the primary cilium and, if so, whether this sequence - a so-called "motif" - was essential to its relocation there. The answer to both questions was yes: A study of mouse cells in which Smoothened was mutated to lack the motif revealed that Smoothened no longer moved to the primary cilium.
Finally, to determine Smoothened's function, they tested the mutant form of Smoothened that no longer could move to the primary cilium in epithelial cells in culture and in zebrafish embryos to see if the protein still functioned. It did not. "Thus, not only does Smoothened ciliary localization depend up on Hedgehog signaling, but Hedgehog signaling depends on a Smoothened ciliary localization motif," says Reiter. "Whether Smoothened functions at the cilium in all cell types remains to be determined. In addition, how Smoothened activates the Hedgehog pathway at the cilium remains unclear," he says. "But the current finding lays the groundwork for future studies that could ultimately have clinical benefit."
Co-authors of the study were Kevin C. Corbit, Pia Aanstad, Veena Singla, Andrew R. Norman and Didier Y.R. Stainier, PhD. All are members of the UCSF Program in Developmental and Stem Cell Biology and the UCSF Diabetes Center. Aanstad and Stainier are also members of the UCSF Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics. All are also members of the UCSF Institute for Stem Cell and Tissue Biology.
Source: University of California - San Francisco
More Hedgehog Research at Bio.com
10/25/05 -- Curis, Inc. (NASDAQ: CRIS), a therapeutic drug development company, today announced the publication of data showing that stimulating the Hedgehog signaling pathway was therapeutically efficacious in preclinical models of both acute and chronic ischemic heart disease. Myocardial ischemia, the interruption of blood flow and oxygen to heart muscle, is the leading cause of heart attacks. In the U.S., approximately 1.1 million individuals experience new or recurrent myocardial infarctions each year and, of these, about 40% eventually develop congestive heart failure, a form of chronic heart disease. The research for these studies was performed in the laboratory of Dr. Douglas Losordo in the Division of Cardiovascular Research at the St. Elizabeth's Medical Center of Boston, Massachusetts. Bio.com
The Hedgehog pathway governs major aspects of heart and blood vessel development in the fetus and remains active in the adult for tissue maintenance and repair. When blood flow to the heart is blocked experimentally, which simulates an acute heart attack, the pathway is upregulated. In the reported animal studies, therapeutic activation of the Hedgehog pathway near the zone of ischemic damage in the heart appeared to protect heart cells from death, preserve heart muscle function, improve blood flow, and attract bone-marrow derived progenitor cells from the blood that help build new blood vessels. Activating the Hedgehog pathway appears to result in the coordinated release of various factors that promote these diverse protective and regenerative effects, which potentially could result in more robust and durable efficacy in the clinic than treatment with single factors alone.
"This study adds to the growing body of preclinical data supporting the use of Hedgehog agonists to promote tissue repair post ischemia. Heart disease is one of the leading killers of Americans and although early, this data is encouraging that our novel approach could show significant promise. In keeping with our collaboration strategy, which allows for the development of a broad portfolio of promising assets providing significant value potential, we would plan to partner this program for human studies," said Daniel R. Passeri, President and Chief Executive Officer of Curis, Inc. | {
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ERIC PREVEN'S NOTEBOOK - If you are worried about hunger, money and shelter, it's very hard to worry about anything else, like how many citations you may have accrued and whether or not you qualify for any kind of immunity.
Another annoying piece in the New York Sunday paper comparing the Big Apple to Los Angeles. Converging cities... one ethos. They're waiting for their first Erewhon.
The argument that they are more similar than different is an old one because both cities are meccas for extremely competitive overachievers who either have a lot of money, get a lot of money or will be forced out.
Here in Los Angeles, if you are alive... welcome to Studio City. If you are dying, why not try New York, there's a lot to do.
If you are merely drowning, maybe pass by the Grove and try Rick Caruso's auto salon. Once you do, you'll never go back... to New York. In LA we have some four-acre liberals who actually have four-acres.
In New York they have a severe garbage problem and so a concomitant rat problem, even at Mayor Eric Adams's house.
Here in Lala land, we had our own rat problem at City Hall but it was more of a Disney production in that it was totally fabricated.
Disney was more successful in bringing back the old boss. Nury Martinez tried to bring Herb Wesson back which flopped but he still gets credit for the rats at the city hall episode.
Wesson, it turns out, was very very worried that, Deron Williams, his trusty chief of staff, might have inadvertently attracted a 'bug' in the ceiling. So, during the holidays, he called Greig Smith's guys to come have a look, and poke around. Pretext: Pandemic. Nope. Pretext: Rat Infestation ding ding ding.
Even the City Clerk Holly Wolcott was worried... about public health, obviously.
David Goldstein of KCAL TV might remember... as long as the burn scars hold this week.
Los Angeles can definitely hold its own in the category of craven politicians willing to do anyyyyythingg for money.
After the rain, near city hall, there will be fields of green and a new crop of optimists like Traci Park and Eunisses Hernandez and Hugo Soto Martinez and Tim Mcosker and Katy Yaroslavsy with which to frolic liberally.
Financing will fall from the sated trees and the Good Mayor Bass will enlist an army of well-off good Samaritans eager to convert all the city's pain to pleasure... and expensive housing.
Why not take a beautiful open space in Studio City and put up a net zero high school regulation basketball court? Why not build a tower at a choke point?
Absolutely not, Brad Sherman. Maybe in New York.
Selfies:
Supervisor Horvath took a selfie by appointing, Lindsey P. Horvath, to the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority.
Kudos, she's going to show up and see for herself.
Supervisor Hahn is joining Horvath to work get cracking on making NARCAN readily accessible in the County's Juvenile Halls and Camps. Finally!
And regarding the homelessness crisis, there is much to be done in expediting contracting and procurement. "Leveraging the lessons learned during the COVID-19 pandemic," we need to take appropriate steps to expedite processes for getting materials, equipment, and services necessary to respond rapidly to the homelessness crisis."
Excellent, shall we bypass putting anything on a public agenda as we race to get things done? Public Scrutiny is simply a luxury... we don't have time. "Vlade, back the truck up to the treasury...quickly!"
And whereas, I agree the Chief Executive Officer should report back to the Board on the new emergency proclamation, in writing, in one year caught me off-guard. How about next month?
And, as we recognize January 22, 2023, as the start of the "Lunar New Year" in Los Angeles County and tout the Los Angeles County Asian American Employees Association and the Chinese Employees Association of Los Angeles County for their contributions to Asian American and Pacific Islander residents, what, pray tell, about the Armenians?
Why is there 'nary a word about the Armenians on Tuesday's agenda?
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Barger? Hahn? Next presentation...
Motorola: Bruno Mars
Some of us remember how Uptown Funk pumped out a private gig ONLY for the vaccinated last summer.
Motorola Solutions Inc. CEO Greg Brown, the opposite of a hipster, reportedly paid for his kid's multi-million dollar wedding and party. The payout to Mr. Mars was said to be in the high 6- to 7-digit range. Lovely.
Motorola has been ripping off the City and the County for years. Who knows when we will be washing through another upcharge under the MSA that will retroactively increase contract funding from the General Fund by...(last time) $8,468,397.50, consisting of $2,497,555 for the Sixteenth Amendment and $5,970,842.50 for the Seventeenth Amendment.
What for? Install computers and related communications equipment in 1,800 patrol vehicles and to extend the term of maintenance for the 9-1-1 Telephony Recording System from January 1, 2020 to December 31, 2021. Three months left!
Also, to provide maintenance for the PremierOne Computer-Aided Dispatch system and extend the term of the contract an additional ten months out to February 2025.
In case it's not fishy enough, "Should funding in the contract out years not be appropriated to the Department, the provisions of Contract Section 3.E., Compensation and Method of Payment, Limitation of City's Obligation to Make Payments to Contractor, protects the City from any claims by the Contractor for payment until the City makes an appropriation of funds for such work."
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$10,000 and a sincere apology:
I wondered if the prior county beat reporter, who moved on to the mental health beat, was tuning into a NY Times event.
Elizabeth Williamson... from the legitimate, New York Times, was talking with Amy Barkhorst and Julian Ford about the recent wave of shootings.
Barkhorst said, "We have to find a reason... so we go mental health, but for crimes, robberies etc. we don't attribute those shootings to mental health." "If we stamped out mental illness" she posited, "we would reduce crime by 4%..."
"We always hear they've had counseling (the shooters) ... there is a difference between having mental health issues, and a problem... depression, anxiety, anger. Those things can be in the normal range, or potentially a symptom of mental illness.
"Chest pain, doesn't mean you are having a heart attack... "
Severity matters. she said, but sadness and loneliness are normal parts of human emotions. They can of course get out of control.
The fact that young men are often bullied, isolated, and under-appreciated... is not helping. "It results in violent revenge fantasies."
These young men feel compelled to show that they are worthy... they want to feel powerful because they felt ...the opposite.
This is not necessarily a mental illness, though it is characteristic of someone who is "not in a great space..."
Can improvements to the mental health system rectify that problem?
Amy Barkhorst said, "A lot of people during the pandemic ...worried about more suicides. But we didn't see that overall in the numbers. We did see a big increase in violence and homicides." It was surprising but correlated with large firearm purchases.
The demographic of first-time buyers who were not the typical old white guys, but more liberals, women, and people of color, she said, "I was gobsmacked by that..."
Taser-Drones:
Between 2019 - 2022 on average there was a 45 % increase in firearm purchases across all the states.
Red Flag laws could be helpful, "but if you have a High School student... whose into violent video games, military stuff... comments to students, 'wouldn't it be cool to blow this place up, then he references Columbine...' etc... a so-called, school-shooter type!
If that kid were legally old enough, at 18 to get a gun... if he had no hospitalizations... he can legally own firearms. "The police can't just take them away."
People are understandably alarmed when cops show up and they have "no legal recourse." Red Flag laws could fill that hole. If a judge decides, the owner could be a danger... they can extend the order."
I asked an LA County Sheriff Watch Commander, "if I saw a Howitzer artillery gun in my neighbor's garage would you come out?"
He reminded me of the 2nd amendment, "no."
The conversation shifted to the fact that adolescents don't develop a pre-frontal cortex until their mid-20s. Adolescent boys have high rates of substance abuse, sex activity, car crashes, and impulsive acts of decision. They are more likely to perpetrate a mass shooting because they don't fully grasp it. The anger, rage, and vengeance is consuming.
So ,by increasing to 21, the age to get a firearm... it would be better!
Julian Ford came out and said the parents of Adam Lanza, who killed children at Sandy Hook in 2012, really tried to get help for their kid, but, they felt the state had failed them.
Adam was an isolated, emotionally detached twenty-year-old. As a pre-teen... he had a significant psychiatric evaluation at Yale.
Nothing came out, violent.
They found he was not just depressed, he was not psychotic, but he was very cut off and detached from other human beings.
Not like autism, where some things are not relatable... or psychopathy, no concern for other people. Adam wanted to be involved with other people, but he reportedly didn't know how.
Ford, who wrote a book about this, said Adam "couldn't have an understanding of how others might feel. "Then he told of a fifth grade... drawing, that Adam labeled, "The big book of granny..."
Dr. Ford found the drawings of all sorts of violence happening to an older woman called granny, deeply troubling. The fact that he was struggling with violent impulses, never showed up anywhere else in his behavior.
He was living in a basement, and the one family thing he liked to do, was to go to the shooting range. He was very detached... and literally became obsessed with video games, and military, and weapons. His mother thought going to the gun range with him was a way to connect with him...
The attack began when Adam killed his mother, Nancy Lanza, in the home that the two shared in Newtown.
Would a Taser Drone have helped?
Apparently, the in-house AI Ethics board, at Axon the parent company of Taser, has more balls than the LA City Ethics Commission. Those who don't recall Mitch Englander's Taser tenacity can refresh here.
Armed police couldn't stop the shooters in Buffalo and in Uvalde. But perhaps a very small drone equipped with a Taser could. Specifically, Axon CEO Rick Smith suggested, "non-lethal drones capable of incapacitating an active shooter in less than 60 seconds" (according to the Axon press release), which would be stationed inside of schools.
Smith's curious proposal met near-instantaneous backlash. By the following day, nine members of Axon's A.I. ethics board had resigned, writing in a statement that the school Taser-drone announcement had led them to conclude "that after several years of work, the company has fundamentally failed to embrace the values that we have tried to instill."
Smith, who adored Mitch Englander for shoving through a huge bodycam order with 4,400 Tasers under the seat, early on, is deeply into this idea and outlined his views in detail in his 2019 self-published graphic novel, The End of Killing, which combines his philosophical take on the matter with two hypothetical scenarios in which Taser drones feature.
According to the graphic novel, "killing is a technology problem," and Axon-made devices like Tasers and Tasers that fit on drones are the solution.
"In one graphic novel scenario, an improbably buff workplace shooter is (literally) shocked into submission by a miniature Taser drone that emerges from a smoke detector–like nest on the ceiling. In a second and even more fanciful scenario, set in Syria in 2045, an ISIS-like masked man with a scimitar is prevented from executing an innocent man by a fleet of small Taser-equipped drones, which U.S. intelligence services had tasked with watching the area. After a human approves the action, the drone tases the swordsman into submission. Then a "human transport drone" equipped with a large grabbing arm scoops him up and flies away with him. At the detention facility where he's deposited, he's fitted with a mind-scanning helmet that literally reads his memories, looking for incriminating information. "Thousands of people will be processed in the same manner," Smith confidently asserts. "Some of them will be determined to have done nothing wrong; they will be released and given $10,000 along with a sincere apology." | {
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The Frederick Douglass Papers Series Three: Correspondence, Volume 1: 1842-1852 Frederick Douglass, John R. Kaufman-McKivigan
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This volume of The Frederick Douglass Papers represents the first of a four-volume series of the selected correspondence of the great American abolitionist and reformer. Douglass's correspondence was richly varied, from relatively obscure slaveholders and fugitive slaves to poets and politicians, including Horace Greeley, William H. Seward, Susan B. Anthony, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
The letters acquaint us with Douglass's many roles—politician, abolitionist, diplomat, runaway slave, women's rights advocate, and family man—and include many previously unpublished letters between Douglass and members of his family. Douglass stood at the epicenter of the political, social, intellectual, and cultural issues of antebellum America. This collection of Douglass's early correspondence illuminates not only his growth as an activist and writer, but the larger world of the times and the abolition movement as well.
John R. McKivigan is Mary O'Brien Gibson Professor of History at Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis.
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Q: Write a file in a folder with dynamic path C++ I successfully write to a file in the folder which run example:
// I run "test" executable file in "TestWrite File" folder
const char *path="/home/kingfisher/Desktop/TestWrite File/xml/kingfisher.txt";
std::ofstream file(path); //open in constructor
std::string data("data to write to file");
file << data;
However, If I try to write with dynamic path: *path = "/xml/kingfisher.txt", it goes wrong (in Windows, it will be fine)!! How I can write with dynamic path like above (not a specific path)? Thanks!
A: If by dynamic you mean relative, you need to get rid of the leading /, since that makes it an absolute path:
path = "xml/kingfisher.txt";
Just be aware that this file is relative to your current working directory so you will probably need to ensure that it is set to /home/kingfisher/Desktop/TestWrite File for this to work.
If, by dynamic, you mean changable, you can change it whenever you want:
const char *path = "/tmp/dummy";
:
path = "/home/.profile"; // Note path, NOT *path
The const simply means you're not permitted to change the data behind the pointer. You're able to change the pointer itself at will.
A: *path = "/xml/kingfisher.txt"
This is incorrect since it attempts to dereferences your const char* and modify the contents. This is undefined behaviour since the data is const.
Just declare your path to be a std::string to begin with:
std::string path = "/home/kingfisher/Desktop/TestWrite File/xml/kingfisher.txt";
Then later you can assign any other value you like to the std string and it's operator= will dynamically change it's internals for you:
path = "my/new/path";
You can use this with ofstream just as before and if you need to pass it to a function which expects a const char * just pass path.c_str().
A: Not sure what you mean by "dynamic path"; a dynamic path is one that
will be read dynamically (and so will probably be in an std::string).
On the other hand, you seem to be confusing absolute path and relative
path. If the filename begins with a '/' (under Unix), or with a '/'
or a '\\', possibly preceded by "d:" under
Windows, it is absolute; the search for the file will start at the root
of the file system (on the specified drive in the case of Windows). In
all other cases, it is relative; the search for the file will start at
the current working directory. In your example, both
"/home/kingfisher/Desktop/TestWrite File/xml/kingfiger.txt" and
"/xml/kingfisher.txt" are absolute. If the current working directory
is "/home/kingfisher/Desktop/TestWrite File", then
"xml/kingfisher.txt" should find the file specified by the first
absolute pathname.
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Economic Business Strategies of Ryanair
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The economics of business vary, both depending upon the industry where they operate and the style and strategy adopted by the management. Within this paper it is intended to assess those economic factors as they relate to the "low-cost" airlines. To assist with this assessment Ryanair, one of the leading "low-cost" airline operators in Europe, will be used as an example.
Existing Corporate Strategy
Following the liberalisation of the airline industry, the consumer demand for air travel began to increase. However, when operators such as Ryanair, an Irish based company, was one of the "first-movers" (Faulkner and Campbell 2006). in adopting a "low-cost" strategy for Europe, similar to the model successfully introduced by Southwest Airlines (2007) in the US, the levels of demand increased dramatically. As can be seen from the numbers of passengers using UK airports (see table 1).
Table 1 Airline passengers
Passengers (m)
The demand for airline seats is also forecast to more than treble by 2030 to around five hundred million UK passengers.
Ryanair is an Irish airline operator that commenced business in the mid 1980's with one 15-seater aircraft, has grown to a business that now has a fleet of over 150 aircraft and carrying over two million passengers (About Us 2007). Since the beginning of the century, the company's growth rate has improved substantially, to a position where it is now supplying air travel to around forty million passengers (see figure 1), with an expectation of this rising to seventy million within the next few years (Ryanair 2007).
The company has achieved this growth by supplying consumers with consistently low prices. It maintained these low fares by creating a "no frills" price advantage (Pettigrew et al 2002), which differentiated its service from the established airline competitors (Porter 2004, p.207 and Kotler et al 2004, p.407). In other words Ryanair offered cheap fares with lower levels of service. For example, free in-flight meals were eliminated. At one stage the no-frills policy included not providing ice for in-flight drinks (Creaton 2004, p.169), although this was reintroduced following complaints.
However, to sustain this position, as Lynch (2006) and Faulkner and Campbell (2005), who submitted that to achieve and maintain low price in the market place, the business itself had to be structured in a way that provided a limited cost base. Ryanair has achieved this situation by taking a number of measures, which include: -
Maximising use of resources by using one aricraft type, increasing employee roles and reducing airpot turnaround times.
Ticketless and direct selling via the Internet or phone, which served to reduce administrative costs.
Use of secondary rather than main airports. This move enabled the business to negotiate lower airport fees.
Single class travel, elimatiion of free inflight services and seat reservation helped reduce business costs.
All of these measure have given Ryanair the flexibility to be able to maintain a flexibility of price, from 99p owards, and service and helped it to react effectively to industry changes.
In terms of profit and the financial contribution that Ryanair's strategy has achieved, as can be seen from the following financial data taken from the relevant company's website, shows how successful Ryanairs appraach was in 2003, when compared with its main competitors (See table 2 below).
Table 2Net profit percentages
There are significant future challenges facing the low-cost airline industry in general, and Ryanair in particular, which will need to be addressed. Amongst these are the following: -
It increased regional and global harmonisation and development of air travel; Ryanair is bound to face increasing competition within the next five years. This could materialise from developing nations within Europe, where there is significant scope for new entrants (see figure 2)
It could also result from the recently signed "open skies" agreement between the EU and US (Milmo and Gow 2007). Both of these actions could result in loss of market share to new entrants, which would impact adversely upon Ryanair's current level of success and financial results. Similarly, Ryanair's own growth predictions could reduce its profitability levels. Whilst growth brings economies of scale, it can increase management costs, which is counter-productive to efficiency (Creaton 2004, p.250).
At present the airline industry is heavily subsidised. As identified with the Bized (2004) report, this benefits the industry players by around £6 billion annually. These benefits include zero VAT, capped landing charges and fuel tax exemption. It is anticipated the removal of these benefits, by introducing the relevant takes could reduce passenger levels by over 22% as a result of the increase in prices. Whilst it is not expected that all these subsidies will be eliminated at once, there is little doubt that for political, treasury and environmental reasons some adjustments will be seen in these areas will be seen within the next five years.
The major challenge facing Ryanair relates to its impact on climate change. Following recent IPCC, the EU are becoming increasingly concerned with the airline industries contribution to this global issue. As a result, these organisations have developed industry targets that are expected to be met within the next 5 years and beyond (see table 3).
Unless Ryanair adapts its corporate strategy to take into account these targets, the result addition costs, or reduction in service will impact severely upon its ability to remain cost efficient and to maintain its present levels of profitability.
As has been advised by a number of researchers (Lynch (2006) and Faulkner and Campbell (2006)) every business needs to review its corporate strategy to address future challenges. There are two ways that Ryanair can address the challenges that have been outlined in the previous section of this paper
In terms of reducing the impact of competition, and making it more difficult for new entrants, the business needs to continue to seek ways to sustain its cost reduction programme. This not only means that it has to ensure that the internal management structure efficiency of the business needs to be as efficient as it has been in the past, but also that the business needs to seek new measures of cost reductions. For example, expanding its automatic check-in processes through all its locations would greatly reduce the business human resource cost. It can also sustain its lower price policy by transferring the cost of flying from ticket cost to other aspects of the travel, for example luggage. This specific action could also offset any potential airport cost increases.
However, the most effective strategy to adopt in order to address all of the challenges is to develop a plan that increases the supply to meet anticipated demand, whilst at the same time reducing the cost of that supply and the effects of increased taxations and meeting its environmental commitment. The most effective plan for this achievement is the conversion of the current fleet to higher passenger capacity aircraft. For example, the introduction of a significant number of Airbus models would double capacity on those flights. From an economic viewpoint it would also reduce costs. For example the maintenance and servicing costs would remain the same because aircraft numbers have not been increased, but will reduce as a percentage of the ticket cost. Similarly, airport costs and other taxes, such as fuel tax would also be reduced per passenger capita. Finally, because of the increased load, and higher efficiency of these aircraft, the emissions level per passenger km would also see a reduction, thus helping the business to meet its environmental targets.
As has been seen from this research, over the past two decades the business economic strategies that Ryanair has employed have been successful in helping it maintain competitive advantage, achieve passenger growth and fulfil its objective of increasing business value.
However, with the future challenges facing the business from increased competition, rising taxation and environmental concerns, the business will need to adopt a that is flexible to change, whilst at the same time enabling it to continue to sustain and achieve the successes of the past. This will mean combining cost reduction with a production and supply system that reduces the impact of potential tax increases, whilst at the same time enabling Ryanair to meet the increasing demands of reducing its environmental impact.
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St. Petersburg, Fla. (October 24, 2017) – The city of St. Petersburg, along with State Senator Darryl Rouson and David Gwynn, District Seven Secretary of the Florida Department of Transportation, will host an unveiling of the C. Bette Wimbish Interstate 375 highway designation this month. The public is invited to join Mayor Rick Kriseman for the festivities on Sunday, October 29, beginning at 2 p.m. in the parking lot of the St. Petersburg Coliseum, 545 Fourth Avenue North, near the sign. A brief reception sponsored by Dolman Law Group will immediately follow the event.
State Senator from St. Petersburg Darryl E. Rouson, Esq., stated, "Honoring the trailblazing legacy of C. Bette Wimbish is important to telling the rich "herstory" of blacks in St. Petersburg. My hope is that it inspires others as she inspired me."
Background. C. Bette Wimbish, was a lawyer, politician, and activist in Pinellas during the 20th century. Born in 1924, she was a lifelong Floridian. She graduated from Gibbs High School in St. Petersburg and received her bachelor's degree from Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU), Florida's only historically black university. Though her degree was in education, Wimbish's exposure to racial harassment and discrimination inspired her to get involved in politics and activism.
An Important Career. In 1960, she ran for the Pinellas County Board of Public Instruction. Her platform centered on improving and desegregating Pinellas Schools. Though she didn't win, she received a substantial amount of votes. She was also the first black woman to run for a countywide political office in Pinellas. She and her husband also participated in sit-ins and other protests, and were known for opening up their home to black artists, musicians, and athletes who were turned away from hotels or housing due to segregation laws.
Groundbreaking Contributions. She later received her law degree from FAMU's law school, and returned to work at a St. Petersburg family law firm. She was the first black female attorney in Pinellas, and only the third black female attorney in the entire state. Later, she was also elected to St. Petersburg City Council, where she eventually became vice-mayor. | {
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Underwater rugby is a fast paced, three-dimensional team sport where players jostle underwater to get the ball into a basket at the bottom of the pool. Underwater rugby is traditionally played in a 5m deep pool, however, UNSW also play in a 2m and 4m deep pool.
Each team has 6 players in the water: 2 forwards, 2 defenders and 2 goalies. Each player wears a mask, snorkel and fins.
The club offers social and competitive games, and skilled players have the opportunity to play for the Australian team at the World Championships every 4 years. Our UNSW Whales A team is currently ranked #1 in Australia.
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DUBLIN, IRELAND- The rematch between Ireland and the All Blacks has captured the attention of the entire world in the wake of Ireland's famous victory in Chicago two weeks ago.
The commotion after Ireland's famous victory in Chicago was an infectious reminder of the power of a single victory, erasing 111 years of hurt and inspiring the world of rugby, let alone the island of Ireland, to believe that New Zealand are actually fallible.
But, be wary of the reigning two-time champions when they take the pitch. If the 6°C forecast is any foreshadowing of the match ahead, then New Zealand would love nothing more than serve up a a fresh, bitterly cold plate of revenge in front of the Aviva Stadium's sea of green supporters.
The All Blacks, who make five changes going into the fixture can be counted on to be much sharper than their performance in Chicago. Captain Kieran Read and head coach Steve Hansen have assured a smarter, more tactical performance than that of two weeks prior, and Hansen's revitalised lineup goes to show that the visitors truly mean business.
Israel Dagg moves into the #14 jersey to replace Waisake Naholo after the Crusaders star put on an impressive display in New Zealand's 68-10 thumping of Italy last weekend. In the midfield Anton Leinart-Brown and Malakai Fekitoa resume their partnership for the second week in a row, a two-try outing for Fekitoa against the Italians making Hansen's decision to bench George Moala and Ryan Crotty worthwhile. The final two changes come in the forwards with the return of Brodie Retallick and Sam Whitelock, both of whom are once again fit enough to resume their pairing at lock.
For the Irish, Joe Schmidt has named a single change to the lineup that started against New Zealand in Chicago two weeks ago, Sean O'Brien returning to his familiar position on the flank in replacement of the injured Jordi Murphy.
Schmidt's decision to field a completely new 15-man lineup against the Canadians last weekend has sorted out the often-problematic situation of the Irish bench; Connacht stars Kieran Marmion and Finley Bealham retain their spots while Ulster's Paddy Jackson replaces Joey Carbery as back up to Johnny Sexton.
The All Blacks stratagem must have an absolute focus on precision. Their usually daunting line-out was uncharacteristically imprecise in Chicago and scrummaging against the Irish two didn't produce the front-foot ball that historically made New Zealand so deadly off midfield set pieces. The new combination of Whitelock and Retallick should do wonders for the Kiwi scrum and their matchup/battle against Ireland's Devin Toner and Donnacha Ryan will be key for securing ball at the line-out. New Zealand will have to counter Ireland's use of Toner's colossal 6'7″ height at the front of the line-out and make sure they're not forced into throwing to the back jumper on every throw like they were in Chicago.
Most importantly for the All Blacks, though, will be there start of the match. The longer Ireland remains in the match, the more they will be inspired to a second consecutive victory. If New Zealand start the match early and powerfully they'll have the opportunity to put the Irish resistance to bed before the match is over.
On the other side of the ball, Ireland will need to properly balance wide-play and kicking tactics to the same degree they succeeded in achieving in Chicago. Sexton and Murray were exceptional with their positional awareness and took advantage of the sloppiness of New Zealand's back three in Ben Smith, Naholo, and Savea. The Irish were also to spread the field with the likes of Henshaw and Kearney, both of whom had massive success in the wider channels outside of New Zealand's midfield pairing.
Above all else, the boys in green need to replicate their defensive performance from two weeks ago. Andy Farrell's new defensive scheme put plenty of numbers into the breakdown with support on the edges effectively blocking off the inside channels. Outside of the ruck the Irish were very uniform in their defense of line and were speedy enough to disrupt most of New Zealand's attacks. The Kiwi's will certainly be prepared for the revitalised Irish defense tomorrow, and it will be fascinating to see how Schmidt and Farrell combat these new tactics.
This match will hopefully be nothing short of explosive theatrics. The match starts at 1730 Irish time (1230 EST, 0930 PST) and can be watched on ESPN3 online. Do not miss this match, it might just turn out to be the most exciting match of the year.
Ireland XV: Kearney; Trimble, Payne, Henshaw, Zebo; Sexton, Murray; McGrath, Best (capt), Furlong, Ryan, Toner; Stander, Heaslip, O'Brien.
Replacements: Cronin, Healy, Bealham, Henderson, Van der Flier, Marmion, Jackson, Ringrose.
New Zealand XV: B Smith, Dagg, M Fekitoa, A Lienert-Brown, J Savea, B Barrett, A Smith; J Moody, D Coles, O Franks, B Retallick, S Whitelock, L Squire, S Cane, K Read (capt).
Replacements: C Taylor, W Crockett, C Faumuina, S Barrett, A Savea, TJ Perenara, A Cruden, W Naholo. | {
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The Emergency Medicine Residency program at IU School of Medicine offers five separate, voluntary tracks for residents who can choose to focus on academic, advocacy, global health, administration or EMS. These options afford residents the opportunity to tailor their career focus to specific interests in these three areas and gain valuable experience prior to graduation.
The academic track prepares residents for a successful career in academic emergency medicine and provides insight on academic career pathways and experiences in writing, teaching and leadership. The track is organized into sub-tracks that provide more in-depth experiences in specific academic niche areas, including education, simulation, research, toxicology and ultrasound.
The advocacy track prepares physician leaders in emergency medicine to be the voices and advocates of health care change in society. The advocacy track provides patient-centered advocacy strategies and teaches the basic principles of health policy and interaction with the legislative process. This training is accomplished through mentoring, modeling, education and outreach, information flow, and innovations in scholarships.
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The Education for Reconciliation eCourse provides a learning pathway for all members of a school community to deepen their awareness and understanding of 'Foundational Knowledge' as it pertains to Alberta's Indigenous Peoples. This eLearning opportunity is intended to help participants create shared understandings of the diverse First Nations, Métis, and Inuit culture and traditions, values and attitudes, and of historical and contemporary realities of First Nations, Métis, and Inuit people in Alberta.
The Education for Reconciliation eCourse is designed for all members of a school community, and is accessible by participants 24/7 to accommodate the busy schedules of those wishing to participate in this dynamic learning opportunity.
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I learned and didn't learn how to (among other things) look at a word on article and bring up a mental picture with word and visual image. Like lucky the ai, see a chair and the word Chair meme but in my head. Oh no! I forgot the word for this concept. I won't leave my apartment. All leave being afraid of things in my apartment. | {
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Charlton manager Lee Bowyer says he will be surprised if Lyle Taylor is not fit to face his former club AFC Wimbledon on Saturday.
The striker, a summer signing after his Dons deal expired, assisted both goals in Tuesday's 2-1 win at Portsmouth. But he left Fratton Park with a protective boot on his right foot after a tackle with Ben Thompson, who was shown a straight red card.
Bowyer expects to be missing Karlan Grant, who came off with a hamstring injury in the first half, but reckons Taylor will be available.
"I'm 99.9 per cent sure that Karlan won't be involved," he said. "He has got something there with his hamstring and is going for a scan today. We don't know how serious it is.
"The way Lyle is and the who we are playing, I'll be amazed if he doesn't step out there on Saturday. When he had an injury before he just kept playing when he really shouldn't have. But he said: 'I want to play'. I'm guessing he'll be the same on Saturday.
"It just depends how bad it is. It was swollen straight after the game.
"Will he be 100 per cent? No he won't. But he gets out there."
Mark Marshall is a doubt after sustaining a rib injury while Krystian Bielik suffered a facial blow as Thompson caught him with an elbow in the second half.
"To be fair he should have gone in earlier for the ball," said Bowyer. 'It bounced and they were both running – Krystian was favourite probably, 60-40 in his favour. Then he checked his run and it left him open.
"The lad led with his arm and caught him but I don't think it was malicious and that he meant to do it. It is a protection thing. They are both running at speed from different directions and it's a protection thing, everyone does it.
"It didn't look good but if Krystian didn't hesitate and won it cleanly then he probably wouldn't get hurt."
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A Fan's Christmas Wish List of the Cincinnati Reds in 2015
by Tyler Grote under MLB
Dear Santa,
Reds fan here. We haven't been on the greatest of terms since Clinchmas, now over four years ago. Where have you been since? And what's with all the coal in our red stockings?
What do you think about when you're checking your list and you get to the Cincinnati Reds? Clinchmas was amazing, but that team got swept by the Phillies. Then after a deflating 2011 season, you put Mat Latos under the tree, and we witnessed arguably the best Reds team in over a decade.
But it was weird, Santa. Joey Votto suffered then an injury that's affecting him now, and Johnny Cueto couldn't come home for the holidays when we needed him most.
Weren't we good? How could our behavior have been any better?
I got over it when you gave us Shin-Soo Choo the next year. Because it was all about the lead-off man. It was awesome; Choo finished with a .423 OBP that season. The Reds had a .323 OBP for the year, No. 6 in the game. But Cueto got hurt again. We got him back just barely in time to throw him right into a one-game playoff, where he not only got shelled but created a moment that will follow Cueto back to PNC Park in every start he will make there.
You lost me there, Santa. But I sucked it up. Maybe Pittsburgh had just stacked more karma than the Reds. I know not to be envious. But after 2014, I'm struggling to find any Christmas spirit.
You know what happened. No one likes talking about it, but you know it had a lot to do with injuries and the bullpen failure. Most reasonable Reds fans will admit as much, even if the local media won't.
But baseball doesn't wait. And since we could no longer afford 2011's Christmas gift, we had to trade him away, along with another starter. And now what do we do? How does a team built on its rotation, the third-best rotation in baseball, have any success without its No. 2?
C'mon, Santa. It's all tidings and good cheer until it's time to sit down at the arbitration table, isn't it?
Will you please bring us something for the back of the rotation? I know the Reds have tons of minor league talent nearing ready, but there's no reason to rush them. Aaron Harang is out there. He threw over 200 innings and cashed in a 3.75 ERA. And he only made $1 million last year. Not asking for much.
Then there's our bullpen, which you know was naughty. To be second in bullpen losses and have the third-worst bullpen ERA is to replace your eye drops with lemon juice. I know we were bad, so can you help us be better and maybe bring us another bullpen arm? If Raisel Iglesias is all, I won't be mad, but a middle-relief guy would be decent, and if nothing else, maybe let Sean Marshall stay healthy?
Speaking of health, can you bring two bubbles? One for Votto and one for Homer Bailey? You understand.
This last request will come as no surprise, Santa. And you already know what I'm going to ask. It's been years since we had a good left fielder to watch on an everyday basis. Instead of bringing us some cheap knock-off, better-as-a-pinch-hitter brand, can you just get us Nori Aoki?
I don't care about all the talk surrounding his declining power numbers, or how he hit just one home run last year. Who cares? His OBP was .349 and .353 for his career.
This is serious, Santa. Honestly, it would be cool if you got me everything else, but this is like the Nintendo 64 when it was new. You could get me all the cool stuff in the world, but without the 64 centerpiece, Christmas is ruined.
CBSSports.com's Jon Heyman says Aoki is going to get anywhere from $7 to $8 million. Is that in the budget this year?
That's all I got, big man. I want a back-of-the-rotation veteran starter, I want a middle-relief bullpen arm and I want a left fielder. And if it's not too much, I'd like to be able to enjoy the 2015 Reds product, not its understudies.
And don't give me any excuses this year. You can travel around the world in a single night, you can force yourself down chimneys, even in houses that don't have one, and you fly reindeer. That's great and all, but wake me up when Aoki is under my tree.
Stats courtesy of ESPN.com/MLB
Baseball, Cincinnati, Cincinnati Reds, Homer Bailey, Joey Votto, Johnny Cueto, Mat Latos, NL Central, Opinion | {
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I've added the cpio hoook to the package. You may need to remove it from your filesystem if you added it manually.
The breeze-plymouth theme utilizes the Plymouth label plugin (label.so) along with its dependencies (i.e. Pango). For some reason, this is not included into the initramfs image on Arch. Hence text labels and such is not displayed during boot.
Then add the custom build hook breeze-plymouth to the HOOKS array in the /etc/mkinitcpio.conf configuration file.
Regenerate the initial ramdisk with mkinitcpio -p linux.
I added noto-fonts as an optional dependency since the hook isn't required for basic functionality.
With the new hook, should noto-fonts be added as dep?
@ImNtReal Good question. I haven't really thought of it until now. Since the label.so plugin problem only seem to affect the breeze-plymouth theme (at least to my knowledge), it would make more sense to include it in this package.
On the other hand.. What would be the arguments not to include the plugin in the regular plymouth package? The Arch KISS principle...? I guess asking the opinion of the plymouth package maintainer would be a good idea.
If I recall correctly, Ubuntu includes it when generating initramfs image (unable to check atm as I do not have a working Ubuntu system in front of me). Does that mean that all Ubuntu derivatives also include it? Haven't checked on Fedora distros. What I am going with this is that if the majority of distros do include it, then it most definitely should be included in the Arch package imo.
Do what you think is the best. I am just glad I could be of some help.
EDIT: I had a closer look at the hooks in the plymouth package.. In /usr/lib/initcpio/install/plymouth-encrypt it is directly included: 21 add_binary "/usr/lib/plymouth/label.so"
So the breeze-plymouth theme should work with that hook.
The other two hooks, /usr/lib/initcpio/install/plymouth and /usr/lib/initcpio/install/sd-plymouth include the following: text.so, details.so, drm.so and frame-buffer.so.
These hooks also check what is assigned to ModuleName in the /usr/share/plymouth/themes/name/name.plymouth file. In the case of breeze-plymouth it is assigned to script, hence script.so is also included in the initramfs image, but not label.so.
So I guess one might say it is partly the fault of the breeze-plymouth theme AND the way the plymouth hooks work in the Arch package.
I hope this helps even more. Sorry for the long reply btw. Maybe forum PM is a better way of communicating regarding this.
@ctrlX, thanks for putting the hook together. Do you think it would make more sense to try and get this added to the existing plymouth hooks, or have one added to that package called plymouth-label rather than add it to this package?
Please write the instructions. People should not guess. | {
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Furia fumimontana är en svampart som först beskrevs av Balazy, och fick sitt nu gällande namn av S. Keller 2005. Furia fumimontana ingår i släktet Furia och familjen Entomophthoraceae. Inga underarter finns listade i Catalogue of Life.
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Night Market (23.00-06.00) increased in price by 50%. Guide services are paid separately - 2000 rub ..
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San Francisco, October 2010 — The 29th Annual Fall Antiques Show at Fort Mason Center will run from October 29–31. It is the oldest international antiques fair on the West Coast. Over 60 dealers will present thousands of fine art objects representing all styles and periods.
This year's theme, Chinoiserie: Rococo to Eco, will be celebrated by a two- story, gilded pagoda entrance designed by architect Andrew Skurman and built by Peninsula Custom Homes (PCH).The six red lacquer pagodas with gilt eaves and fretwork panels create a dramatic entrance to the show. PCH has donated their time and expertise to this project in an effort to support Enterprise for High School Students.
The show benefits Enterprise for High School Students, an organization which is meant to engage and empower San Francisco Bay Area high school students to discover career opportunities and cultivate their individual interests.
San Francisco, October 2011 — The 30th Annual Fall Antiques Show at Fort Mason Center will run from October 27–30. It is the oldest international antiques fair on the West Coast. Over 60 dealers will present thousands of fine art objects representing all styles and periods.
Hidden Treasures: Celebrating 30 Years of Surprising Finds is the theme this year and is inspired by the traditional 30th anniversary gift, the pearl, a treasure hidden in an oyster shell. The entryway, six oversized scroll brackets, designed by architect Andrew Skurman and built by Peninsula Custom Homes (PCH) includes faux painting to invite a double take by visitors as they pass into the show. PCH has donated their time and expertise to this project in an effort to support Enterprise for High School Students.
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Sarah Sharp, a third-year D.V.M. candidate at the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University, has received a 2013 Switzer Environmental Fellowship, a prestigious academic award given to promising environmental leaders.
Of this year's 22 fellows, chosen from graduate programs in New England and California, Sharp is the only to student to represent the field of veterinary medicine. Each fellow is awarded $15,000 to complete masters and doctoral degrees to advance their skills and develop expertise to address critical environmental challenges.
Sharp's veterinary studies focus on wildlife and conservation medicine. She has worked with the International Fund for Animal Welfare on marine mammal rescues, and served in Americorps in the environmental and disaster programs.
Last summer, Sharp participated in the Student Summer Research Program at Tufts University. Her research, funded by the U.S. Army Medical Command, investigated if certain health assessment parameters could predict whether or not the dolphins would survive after being released from shore. By better understanding which values are important in terms of survival, stranding responders and veterinarians can make better informed release decisions and start to uncover the reasons for stranding. This study was the first of its kind to identify blood work and body condition values from stranded dolphins that correlated with their survival after release. Her findings are now being utilized in the field to improve decision-making procedures.
In the future, Sharp would like to practice wildlife veterinary medicine and conduct research on marine animal health within the context of broader conservation efforts. In the interest of cultivating a more holistic approach to environmental stewardship, her goal is to work across disciplines to bridge the gap between the fields of veterinary medicine and environmental conservation.
The Switzer Environmental Fellowship is a program of the Robert and Patricia Switzer Foundation. More information on the 2013 Switzer Fellows and other Switzer Foundation Grants recipients can be found at www.switzernetwork.org. | {
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for example, you can sign into the web messenger from Dolly and then move to News or any other site, even yahoo7 (so long as they host the widget library code package) and continue their conversations and session.
We believe its the first of its kind so we are pretty excited.
Lots of credit to the amazing WLML 2.0 library, which provides the code Live Messenger engine API. Its very stable and great to use.
I'll repost soon on more technical details later. In the meantime, you can give it a go here http://dolly.ninemsn.com.au/ and here are some screen shots of the widget sitting in the Dolly site and how it looks when the user has signed in. | {
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We hope you enjoyed your Thanksgiving holiday and are ready to take a break from the shopping mall to see what you missed this week at Third and State.
We blogged about the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue's Britney Spears moment, the challenges of reading all the way to the end, and why it's good to be king (or at least a well-paid CEO).
On the Marcellus Shale, Michael Wood blogged about a $56 million "oops" by the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue in estimates it made earlier this year of Marcellus Shale industry tax contributions in 2010.
On jobs and the economy, Mark Price explained why it's a good idea to read to the end before criticizing the work of others. He also highlighted in the Morning Must Reads The Philadelphia Inquirer's series "America: What Went Wrong" and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's series on what happened to the middle class.
In other Morning Must Reads, Mark Price shared news stories on the fallout of fiscal austerity across the Commonwealth and wrote about the big bucks the new CEO of Pittsburgh-based American Eagle Outfitters will be making. As King Louis XVI of France was fond of saying, it's good to be king.
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has released new estimates of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act's impact on employment and output (the quantity of goods and services in the economy). Commenting on the new ARRA estimates, Paul Krugman argues that the U.S. has been practicing austerity since the middle of 2010.
Failing to do more to boost employment growth means tax revenues remain depressed for state and local governments. And this means higher local taxes and more layoffs at a time when the unemployment rate remains higher in most cities and counties in Pennsylvania than it was even at the worst of the last two recessions.
Recent commentaries by the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review's editorial board and the Allegheny Institute in Pittsburgh offer a good lesson for why you should really try to read all the way to the end.
The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reports this morning that the Pittsburgh-based retailer American Eagle Outfitters has hired a new CEO. So what is it like to be the CEO of the company most responsible for millions of tweens wearing sweat pants in locations other than the gym?
Well, for starters, you get a nice signing bonus and $15,000 for your lawyer to review your contract, a luxury car and a severance package equal to two years of your salary plus your stock options should things not work out.
The new CEO made $2.6 million a year at Levi Strauss, so he just got a 242% raise. As King Louis XVI of France was fond of saying, it's good to be king.
American Eagle Outfitters Inc.'s new CEO Robert L. Hanson could make as much as $26.7 million over his first three years with the company, the South Side clothing retailer disclosed in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing.
Averaged over the three-year contract, the $8.9 million a year Hanson could make leading American Eagle would rank him near the top 10 CEOs in Pittsburgh for annual compensation in 2010.
If you are concerned about a lack of good jobs for the 99%, one positive development is that Governor Tom Corbett has formed an advisory council to be housed at the Team PA Foundation to focus on issues important to manufacturing. On average, manufacturing jobs pay better than jobs in the service sector (especially at the low end, see the chart) so it makes sense to do what can be done to expand manufacturing employment.
Morning Must Reads: What Went Wrong and the Confidence Fairy Is Back!
Over the next year, The Philadelphia Inquirer will be updating a series from 1991 titled "America: What Went Wrong," by Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele. This morning, Barlett and Steele take on the legacy of Apple Computers.
The death of Steve Jobs was followed by an avalanche of superlatives — brilliant, genius, and visionary among the more common. He was likened to Leonardo da Vinci, Albert Einstein, and Thomas Edison.
But in the case of Edison, there was one significant difference that went unmentioned. For more than a century, just one of Edison's inventions alone — the incandescent lightbulb — was manufactured at numerous locations in the United States, providing employment for millions of Americans across family generations.
While Barlett and Steele explore what went wrong, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette's series Middle of Nowhere continues today with a survey of major events and policy choices that are thought to be important to creating the middle class in America.
This week, we blogged about the latest developments in enacting a Marcellus Shale drilling fee, more bad employment news for Pennsylvania and a new study ranking nations based on indicators of social well being (the U.S. doesn't do so good).
On the Marcellus Shale, Sharon Ward provided an update on legislative developments in the Pennsylvania House, and Michael Wood shared a new fact check from the Pennsylvania Budget and Policy Center comparing the effective rates of leading drilling tax and fee plans before the General Assembly.
On inequality, Stephen Herzenberg blogged about a new study that ranks the 31 Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) countries on eight indicators of social well-being. The U.S. ranks 27th.
On jobs and unemployment, Mark Price wrote about more bad employment news for Pennsylvania, including a revised outlook from the Philadelphia Federal Reserve signaling that the state's economy will be shrinking through the first quarter of 2012.
In the Morning Must Reads this week, Mark Price summed up local unemployment data, shared an amusing video from The Daily Show suggesting that it is time for the 1% to go on strike, wrote about rising college tuition and budget strains for local governments, highlighted a lack of political will for fixing the broken economy, and noted that some in the U.S. Senate would just prefer that people that have to drive over structurally deficient bridges would just drop dead.
The Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), the body that establishes monetary policy at the Federal Reserve, announced on Wednesday that it is expecting the economy to grow more slowly than previously thought over the next several years.
In response to the deteriorating economic situation, the committee decided to do nothing.
At his press conference explaining the FOMC decision, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke urged Congress to do something about jobs.
'I think it would be helpful if we could get assistance from other parts of the government to help create more jobs,' Mr. Bernanke said.
Meanwhile, with unemployment high, federal assistance running out and the state cutting spending, local government finances are deeply in the red. Lackawanna County appears headed for layoffs and tax increases.
A bipartisan advisory panel recommended Wednesday that Lackawanna County increase real estate taxes to balance its 2012 budget, warning a steep hike will be required as county government contends with a financial crisis that will not be resolved quickly or painlessly.
The Philadelphia School District, also deeply in the red, has a plan to save up to $9 million by closing nine schools.
Turning to college kids, student loan debt rose by 5% in 2010. Public colleges, faced with significant cuts in state support, raised tuition nationally by 7.3% this year.
This week we blogged about momentum building for a natural gas drilling tax and rising unemployment in Pennsylvania. We also featured a guest post on the need for stronger insurance rate protections in Pennsylvania. And Mark Price kept us up to date with the Morning Must Reads.
On jobs and unemployment, Stephen Herzenberg shared his media statement on the rising jobless rate in Pennsylvania.
On the Marcellus Shale, Sharon Ward highlighted a recent New York Times article on the problems that have come with Marcellus Shale growth in Pennsylvania. Kate Atkins urged readers to sign a letter to lawmakers in support of a drilling tax that would generate revenue to improve schools, fix roads, train workers, and protect the environment.
On health care, Athena Ford of the Pennsylvania Health Access Network penned a guest post on the need for better insurance rate protections in Pennsylvania.
Finally, Mark Price had Morning Must Reads on the economic polarization of the 99%, the need for more accountability in charter schools, how we can boost the economy, and what budget cuts and layoffs have in common.
Morning Must Reads: Yes Bridges Need Repair & Little Old Ladies Are Homeless But Ask Yourself Have We Really Done Enough for the Top 1%?
With unemployment in the construction industry at record highs, interest rates low and a deep backlog of thousands of structurally deficient bridges in need of repair, now is a great time to spend money to fix stuff do nothing!
Actually, it is not really that bad; it's worse. The Pennsylvania Legislature is spending time debating changes to the state's prevailing wage statute, even though a large body of empirical research demonstrates that changes to prevailing wage laws do not lower construction costs. Anyway, if you find yourself in Pittsburgh, make sure your car seat also doubles as a floatation device. | {
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$20 NLHE 6-max: $20 NLHE 6-max: Who's got a 5bet bluff range?
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He most likely had a hand like AQ and figured you have AA or KK and surrendered it.
Don't think his 5bet is a bluff very often since his raise is just too small to induce any folds. Maybe he just 5bet to get more informations. When you 6bet shove here he can almost be sure you have KK or AA. JJ are a pretty easy laydown for him then.
I think the more interesting question is if villain should fold QQ to your shove.
If you had the read that he keeps miss clicking you should have called his 5bet, to let a chance for him to bluff his stack off. KK AA way to strong to go allin with against him. You could play allin pre with TT JJ QQ AK vs him in this specific spot.
I didn't have a read that he missclicked , just trying to explain his fold. calling his 5bet for 33% of his stack seems terrible to me and gives him a cheap look at out flopping AA KK. If he's 5bet i'm getting the money in preflop and don't want AK to fold when he misses the flop or JJ,QQ to fold when overcards come on the flop.
In that case preflop allin is better. I thought he was re-rasing you most of the time. | {
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Students use creative tools in the Seesaw app or website to complete classroom activities like "Word Order Practice"
Press the button. Use the tool to move the words into a sentence that makes sense. Use the tool to record yourself while reading the words and sentences. Press the to submit. | {
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Prestige and Dominance in Finland and Colombia
Maija-Eliina Sequeira
In her PhD project, 2020 Sylff fellow Maija-Eliina Sequeira combines ethnographic and experimental methods to explore how the sociocultural environment shapes children's understanding of social hierarchies. Following a study in Finland, she is currently conducting further research in Colombia using an SRA grant. The outcome of the comparative study will shed light on how children in the two countries differ in their preferences for prestige or dominance and how they develop these preferences.
Humans must be understood as both social and biological beings; a focus on nature or nurture alone is not enough to explain both the diversities and the consistencies in how humans across the globe structure and live their lives. Instead, underlying universal human cognitive tendencies and capacities, such as the capacity to learn language or the tendency to ascribe agency to nonhuman beings at a certain age, are shaped by various factors including the sociocultural environment within which a child is socialized. This socialization occurs through active processes such as teaching, as well as through more passive exposure to norms, structures, and patterns in the world around them. Certain tendencies and capacities might be taught, encouraged, or nurtured in the growing child, while others are stifled or simply not given attention, depending on local norms, values, and customs—which themselves vary between individuals and across time periods. In short, I consider that children learn what it means to be human within a certain historical setting and in the context of specific social groups—such as their local community, family, and the wider society—and that these factors shape and direct their development throughout their lives.
With this in mind, I took on a PhD project that allowed me to combine "bottom-up" exploratory ethnographic methods—and generate the deep, nuanced understandings of social relationships that they lend themselves to—with the more structured "top-down" experimental methods that enable fruitful comparisons between two groups. Having lived in Colombia for several years before moving to Finland in 2019, I was struck by just how different the two countries are at the societal, familial, and school levels. I knew that such stark differences would provide an interesting and informative backdrop for a comparison of the socialization of children.
Children painting. (Source: Canva)
Basis of Social Status: Dominance or Prestige
My research explores how children's sociocultural environment shapes how they understand, use, and navigate through social hierarchies in their everyday lives. Human societies tend to be stratified; they have certain people with more power or influence than others, although such stratification takes many different forms, ranging from more systematized and explicit caste or class systems to very subtle differences in influence according to age, gender, or some other marker of status in a relatively egalitarian society. Research from psychology suggests that an individual's high status can be built on two different processes: dominance processes, a coercive process based on fear, strength, or intimidation and threat, and prestige processes, which are based on merit and knowledge or on skill in a locally valued domain.[1] Dominance processes are found in many nonhuman primates and other animals, whereas prestige processes appear to be a uniquely human phenomenon, and it has been suggested that prestigious imitation—the tendency of humans to choose to learn from and copy prestigious individuals—might serve as an important social learning mechanism for cultural transmission in human social groups.[2] It is therefore very interesting to consider how and when children learn to identify dominance and prestige and to determine how their sociocultural environment shapes the way in which they react to prestige and dominance.
A scene from the experiments, showing the dominant, prestigious and subordinate characters.
Research from developmental psychology suggests that children start to develop a basic ability to reason about rank, and particularly to identify dominance, from when they are just months old, which suggests that there are universal cognitive mechanisms underlying the ability. This is supported by the fact that cues of dominance appear to be similar cross-culturally and are also consistent with dominance cues found among nonhuman primates, such as "squaring up" behavior. Prestige, meanwhile, is dependent on local cultural value placed on different skills and behaviors, since what is valued and considered to be an important ability or knowledge varies dramatically across different societies: in one it might be the ability to hunt a specific large animal and in another to sing in a particular pitch, while in others it might be associated with the accumulation of highly specific knowledge about local fauna and flora. Therefore, as children grow and are socialized within a specific sociocultural environment, they must develop a much more nuanced and locally specific understanding of how power and influence are distributed in their society, and they must learn to navigate within these complex systems.
There is cross-cultural variation not only in the understanding of what behaviors are considered prestigious, but also in people's preference for dominant and prestigious leadership. In societies characterized by instability and resource inequality, dominant-style leadership is considered to be more acceptable and, in some cases, preferable to prestigious-type leadership.[3] In my PhD work, I use a combination of ethnographic and experimental methods to explore and compare how children in Finland and Colombia—two extremely different sociocultural environments—learn, use, and navigate social hierarchies. Colombia has high levels of insecurity and extreme socioeconomic inequality, making it a very different social environment from the equality, stability, and safety net of a generous social security system that Finland is known for. Interestingly, despite these differences, both Colombia and Finland have been named "happiest country in the world" depending on the measures of happiness that are used.[4]
Tents at the summer camps where I carried out ethnographic fieldwork in 2021.
Conducting Research in Helsinki and Santa Marta
In 2021 I carried out 12 months of ethnographic research with children and families in Helsinki, Finland. This was followed by a series of experiments to investigate whether children (i) infer high social rank from cues of dominance and prestige, (ii) differentiate between prestigious and dominant individuals, (iii) show a personal preference for prestige or dominance, (iv) assign leadership skills to prestigious or dominant individuals, and (v) choose to learn from a prestigious or dominant individual. I tested over 170 children aged 4 to 11 years over a series of weekends from December 2021 to March 2022, basing myself at Heureka science museum. The experimental data are still in the process of being checked for validity, and so analysis has not yet started, but through ethnographic research I have identified a strong aversion to dominant behavior among children living in Helsinki, which I expect to be reflected in the experimental results.
Research assistants during testing at Heureka museum in Finland.
The SRA grant allowed me to hire a research assistant, Valeria Aza Barros, and to collaborate with the research group on cognition and education at the Universidad de Magdalena, Colombia, to replicate the same experiments with children in Santa Marta. After undergoing training and pilot studies via Zoom and checking the translations of the experiments to ensure that they were locally valid, Valeria conducted the experiment with 160 children—our required sample size—between the ages of 4 and 11. Although I am still coding the data, after which they will undergo validity checking and then be analyzed in the coming months, they show signs of very different patterns compared to the data from Finland.
Upcoming ethnographic fieldwork in Santa Marta from August to December 2022 will allow me to contextualize the findings within local norms and hierarchies. This combination of ethnographic and experimental data allows me to interpret the experiments while considering contextual information that might influence the choices and answers of the children during the experiment. Future analyses will reveal whether the children in Colombia really do show a greater preference for dominance over prestige and allow me to determine whether they trust in and prefer dominant individuals to a greater extent than the children in Finland do.
Research in hierarchy is relevant to ongoing debates in many academic fields, such as those related to the evolution and nature of cooperation and morality. However, this project is not just of academic interest; it also holds important societal lessons about the lifelong impact that the early socioeconomic environment can have on individual people and wider society. A preference for dominance in the face of insecurity may have been highly adaptive when the insecurity stemmed, for example, from small-scale warfare with neighboring groups. In such circumstances, dominance may indeed have been the best strategy to ensure survival and prosperity for a community. But such a preference may be maladaptive in modern industrialized societies where a dominant-type leader, who depends on threats and intimidation to gain and maintain power and influence, is unlikely to provide any genuine benefits to people living in situations of insecurity and economic inequality. If individuals raised in more insecure, unequal societies are more inclined to prefer and ultimately choose dominant leaders (such as in elections), they may ultimately be doing more harm than good to themselves and their communities. Dominant leaders are not necessarily the best placed to improve the circumstances of the average citizen and instead might serve to simply perpetuate the cycle of insecurity and inequality that leads to them being selected as leaders and given power in the first place.
[1] J. T. Cheng, "Dominance, Prestige, and the Role of Leveling in Human Social Hierarchy and Equality," Current Opinion in Psychology 33 (June 2020): 238–244, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.copsyc.2019.10.004.
[2] M. Chudek, S. Heller, S. Birch, and J. Henrich, "Prestige-Biased Cultural Learning: Bystander's Differential Attention to Potential Models Influences Children's Learning," Evolution and Human Behavior 33, no. 1 (January 2012): 46–56, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2011.05.005.
[3] R. Ronay, W. W. Maddux, and W. von Hippel, "Inequality Rules: Resource Distribution and the Evolution of Dominance- and Prestige-Based Leadership," The Leadership Quarterly 31, no. 2 (May 2018), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.leaqua.2018.04.004.
[4] D. Roos, "Colombia, Not Finland, May Be the Happiest Country in the World," HowStuffWorks.com, March 26, 2018, https://science.howstuffworks.com/life/inside-the-mind/emotions/colombia-not-finland-may-be-happiest-country-in-world.htm.
Maija-Eliina Sequeira*
Academic supervisor: Assistant Professor Anni Kajanus
I hold an MSc in Demography and Health from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (Distinction), and a BA in Human Sciences from the University of Oxford (First Class). I was awarded the Selwyn-Clarke prize for my Masters thesis, which explored the relationship between children's time spend in work and cognitive test results in Peru. I recently spent 3 years working on a nationwide bilingual education programme in Colombia, and have previously volunteered as a teacher and mentor in Nepal and the UK.
I am currently a PhD student in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Helsinki. My inter-disciplinary background and experiences of working within the field of education in various countries have shaped the development of my PhD project, in which I will explore how children in Santa Marta, Colombia, develop an understanding of inter-personal hierarchies. I will use approaches from both anthropology and developmental psychology in order to understand how the children's social-historical-cultural environment shapes their understandings of hierarchy. I will be undertaking my fieldwork in 2021. | {
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Hypothalamic tanycytes are an ERK-gated conduit for leptin into the brain.
α-Tanycytes of the adult hypothalamic third ventricle include distinct populations of FGF-responsive neural progenitors.
Fgf10-expressing tanycytes add new neurons to the appetite/energy-balance regulating centers of the postnatal and adult hypothalamus.
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You are here: Home / Students / Announcements / Calling All Performers - We Need You to Perform at University Events!
We are putting on events throughout the week, starting with a launch event in Centenary Square on the afternoon of 4 March. As part of this, we would love for our students (male and female) to perform and present artistic contributions by or about women.
Think you've got an idea for a performance? Let us know here.
Based on student feedback and designed around student suggestions, we are planning a University of Leicester Festival, to take place between 28 and 31 May. With various traditional (and not-so-traditional) performance venues, we want to create a festival filled with your performances. We have the experience, expertise and budget to organise the event, create some brilliant marketing and really promote your activities - but we need you to perform for us!
Please register your interest by completing our online form.
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For your approval, some photos of the M-45 Dreadnought, in Hemlock & Claro Walnut, just after polishing and yet to receive a pickguard. This guitar is patterned after an excellent 1935 Gibson Original Jumbo, with knife edge bracing, no popsicle brace, two scalloped tone bars, and a small maple bridge plate. Working with an awesome customer with great taste, we went with a 1940's sunburst and a Brazilian Rosewood belly bridge. Rounding the guitar out is buttery smooth Waverly ivoroid-button tuners and amber binding. The neck is Spanish Cedar with a c-carve and 1.75″ nut width. The M-45 will get a Dazzo Pickup for beautiful amplification. The Hemlock has many of the qualities of Adirondack Spruce, and was sawn from a very old and fine grained beam from a building in Wisconsin. The Walnut does a wonderful job of mellowing the guitar, and providing focus for the tone of the top. After just a few hours being strung up, the whole guitar comes alive when strummed, having the rotund authority of a vintage Gibson, and offers a very strong bass response while being reasonably balanced across the range. A singer or flatpickers dream!
The wonderful Adam Kiesling and AJ Srubas just posted some videos including the Miller Roy Smeck Dreadnought. The guitar is constructed of Adirondack Spruce and Big Leaf Maple with a 1934 sunburst and unusual blonde back and sides. This is a 24.75″ scale, 12 frets-to-body dreadnought with extra depth. Enjoy! | {
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College students And Sports
By Glory | December 29, 2018
Sports are a very fashionable interest worldwide as there are various varieties individuals can select from to indulge themselves in. Some people are involved in soccer while others like basketball. The fun and delight issue is a number of times larger if you happen to play with your pals, family and other individuals you do know. A few of the most popular sports currently in apply by junior athletes are cricket, golf, tee ball, soccer, netball and little athletics.
The majority of these early photos have been of outstanding gamers in posed situations, giving te sense of action. Staff and self-talks are also power strategies to boost arousal ranges and improve inspiring sports performances. It takes loads of vitality to cope with players which have poor attitudes, however they are often turned around, and the impression they've on the rest of the staff could be considerably lessened.
Contestants can't suppose something except extreme sports. It is no coincidence that almost all of the gamers who make up the N.B.A. and N.F.L. are Black. He says the elemental ideas of sports are those relevant to all sports organisations and on account of their general acceptability, they are sometimes referred to as "universal ideas of sports management".
China didn't participate on the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow, URSS (currently Russia).Many Chinese language athletes -notably hurdler Tsu Lin, excessive jumper Ni Chih-chin, long jumper Hsia Chieh-ping, runner Sung Mei-hua, and volleyball players Liang Yan, Zhang Rongfang, Zhou Xiaolan and Zhu Ling- lost their Olympic alternatives.
For human as all of us are, we are apt to become pleased with our victories and ashamed of our defeats, but, this is all together totally different in a sportsman, as he learns the rules of the game that there is no such thing as a motive to be proud or ashamed, for conditions keep changing for all.
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This week I had coffee with a Human Resources (HR) Consultant who specializes in helping small businesses with challenging employee issues and questions. She advises her clients on the policies, procedures and systems they need to have in place to minimize the legal and performance issues that come with being an employer.
Sound familiar? How often have you known the action you needed to take, yet avoided taking it for weeks…or months…or years. Or are still waiting?
This "I know what I need to do but …" space is endlessly interesting to me, especially because it shows up differently for everyone. One of my clients received the recommendation from a business consultant to hire someone to run the administrative side of his practice. The numbers made sense. It was the best way to grow the practice. The need was clear. The consultant even wrote the job description and identified an internal candidate that was a good fit for the job. It took 3 years for my client to act on this recommendation, not because he didn't know the right course, but because he wasn't ready to let go of "owning" that part of the business. The decision to NOT act cost him in terms of energy, focus and growth opportunity.
When you see yourself not following through EVEN WHEN YOU KNOW WHAT YOU NEED TO DO, you are officially in your own way. The barrier isn't lack of knowledge or skill anymore – the barriers are those unconscious habits and beliefs that are driving your decisions.
What is the risk if I take this action?
What is the risk if I don't take this action?
What is the most important for the company or for me that makes taking action worth it?
Sometimes just noticing what is driving your inaction and reconnecting to why the action is important is enough to get you moving. If you've been unable to take a key action for your company despite getting excellent advice, give me a call. Together we will shine a light into the space between knowledge and action. I promise – it will be interesting! | {
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Q: How to isolate the variable $c$ n this system of equations? $$\begin{align}
5.5 &= a\cdot\sin(11\pi/24-c) + d \\
9 &= a\cdot\sin(2\pi/3-c) + d \\
\sin(\pi/8)/2+15 &= a\cdot\sin(\pi/4-c) + d \\
\end{align}$$
Above is the system of equations in question.
Is it possible to isolate $c$? I want to construct a function that passes through these points but am finding difficulty in doing so.
It is possibly an issue of the function not being defined at these points?
Thanks.
A: I believe, the problem is something like this: Find values $a$, $c$, $d$ such that $f(x)=a \sin(x-c)+d$ passes through three given points $(x_i,y_i)$, $i=1,2,3$.
Using formula $\sin(x-c)=\sin x \cos c - \sin c \cos x$, substituting $a\cos c=p$, $a\sin c=q$, we can obtain following linear system for $p$, $q$, $d$: $$y_i=p\sin x_i-q\cos x_i+d.$$
Linear system may have no solution in definite cases. For points given in question, system will have unique solution.
$p=a\cos c$, $q=a\sin c$ $\Rightarrow$ $p^2+q^2=a^2$. There are two possible values of $a_{1,2}=\pm\sqrt{p^2+q^2}$ and two sets of $c=c_{1,2}+2k\pi$, $k\in\mathbb{Z}$, where $\cos c_i=\frac{p}{a_i}$, $\sin c_i=\frac{q}{a_i}$.
A: So you have 3 determining equations for $a$, $c$ and $d$ of the form
$$\begin{align}y_n &= a\cdot\sin(t_n - c)+d\quad\text{ with } n = 1,2,3 \tag 1\\
y &= (5.5,\ 9,\ \sin(\pi/8) + 15) \\
t &= (11/24,\ 2/3,\ 1/4)\cdot \pi
\end{align}$$
Subtracting $n=2,3$ from $n=1$ eliminates $d$ from $(1)$. And for shorter formulae, let's use notations like $y_{uv}=y_u-y_v$ for differences:
$$\begin{align}
y_{12}/a &= \sin (t_1-c) - \sin(t_2-c) \\
y_{13}/a &= \sin (t_1-c) - \sin(t_3-c) \\\tag 2
\end{align}$$
Dividing the two equations $(2)$ eliminates $a$:
$$\begin{align}
\frac{y_{12}}{y_{13}}
&= \frac{\sin (t_1-c) - \sin(t_2-c)}{\sin (t_1-c) - \sin(t_3-c)}\\
&= \frac{\sin x - \sin(t_{21}+x)}{\sin x - \sin(t_{31}+x)}\\
&= \frac{\sin x - \sin t_{21}\cos x- \cos t_{21}\sin x}{\sin x - \sin t_{31}\cos x- \cos t_{31}\sin x}\\
&= \frac{\tan x - \sin t_{21} - \cos t_{21}\tan x}{\tan x - \sin t_{31} - \cos t_{31}\tan x} \tag 3\\
\end{align}$$
with $x = t_1-c$. Now $(3)$ is just a linear equation in $\tan x$ of the form:
$$\begin{align}
Y &= \frac{S_2 - C_2\tan x}{S_3 - C_3\tan x} \\
(S_n,\ C_n,\ Y) &= (\sin t_{n1},\ 1-\cos t_{n1},\ y_{12}/y_{13})
\end{align}$$
so that you can work back from
$$\begin{align}
\tan x = \frac{S_2 - YS_3}{C_2-YC_3} \tag 4
\end{align}$$
to get:
$$\begin{align}
c \equiv t_1 - \arctan \frac
{y_{13}\sin t_{21} - y_{12}\sin t_{31}}
{y_{13}(1-\cos t_{21})-y_{12}(1-\cos t_{31})} \mod \pi \tag 5
\end{align}$$
You then get $a$ from $(2)$ and $d$ from $(1)$.
Notes on the solution
*
*$c$ is only determined up to integer multiples of $\pi$.
*Solutions to $(1)$ are periodic in $c$ with period $2\pi$.
*Adding an odd multiple of $\pi$ to $c$ will just flip the sign of $a$.
*Any permutation of the indices will yield the same solution(s). This can be handy if the denominator in $(4)$, $(5)$ is zero (and the numerator is not).
*Plugging all that stuff in a calculator yields:$$\begin{align}
c &\approx 0.02960560 + k\pi\\
a &\approx -32.80221277\cdot(-1)^k \\
d &\approx 37.88059461 \\
\end{align}$$
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Accounting Clerk, Talent on Demand, Vancouver, BC
PHSA
This position is part of PHSA Talent on Demand - an in-house recruitment service providing talent to PHSA and other health authorities. We manage a robust talent pool of service-minded professionals who are available to start work immediately. Talent on Demand creates a gateway for those who wish to achieve their career goals. Successful candidates will gain significant health care experience and can transition into long-term, permanent roles within PHSA. For more information, visit [email protected] .
Accounting Clerk,
Talent on Demand,
The Accounting Clerk performs Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, and general accounting duties. These include assisting the Accountant in: the preparation of journal entries for review, reconciling accounts receivable with the general ledger and preparing statistical reports such as patient accrual reports.
Assists the Accountant in monitoring the budgets by maintaining Accounts Receivable balances used for forecasting revenue inflows and budgeting for outflows of cash. Maintains general ledger in relation to accounts receivable and prepares supporting spreadsheets regarding Accounts Payable payments.
Performs the Accounts Receivable function by invoicing, receiving and accounting of funds on an accrual basis from sponsoring agencies and maintaining accounts using database software.
Performs the Accounts Payable function by performing duties such as:
Matching invoices to purchase orders and related documents.
Ensuring approval for all invoices and expense claims as established by signing authority guidelines and circulating to the appropriate signing authority as required.
Forwarding approved and coded invoices to Accounts Payable for payment on a timely basis.
Performs a variety of general accounting duties including:
Investigating account inquiries related to A/R invoicing and A/P payments and fund transfers and resolving related issues by identifying and analyzing problems and initiating appropriate corrective action where required..
Extracting and compiling information from a variety of computer generated reports and keying information into working software.
Preparing routine journal entries including cheques for deposit.
Performs A/R and A/P reconciliation of individual studies during year-end invoicing and close-out of studies by matching information such as invoice payments received against refunds and invoices issued.
Provides input to the Accountant on existing departmental processes as requested.
Maintains timekeeping records and forwards to Manager for approval.
Performs other related duties as assigned.
Previous experience with PeopleSoft, processing reimbursements, accounts payable, coding invoices, follow-up on outstanding invoices etc.
Grade 12, successful completion of a recognized accounting course and three years' recent related experience or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience.
Ability to keyboard 45 w.p.m.
Ability to communicate effectively both verbally and in writing.
Ability to deal with others effectively.
Ability to organize work.
Ability to operate related equipment.
Physical ability to carry out the duties of the position
Commitment to upholding the shared responsibility of creating lasting and meaningful reconciliation in Canada as per TRC (2015) and BC's Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (2019).
As a strong asset for consideration, we are looking for our successful candidate to have; knowledge of social, economic, political and historical realities impacting indigenous communities and familiarity with Indigenous Cultural Safety and anti-racism and accompanying reports (BC DRIPA, TRC, etc.).
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Every PHSA employee enables the best possible patient care for our patients and their families. Whether you are providing direct care, conducting research, or making it possible for others to do their work, you impact the lives of British Columbians today and in the future. That's why we're focused on your care too - offering health, wellness, development programs to support you - at work and at home.
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Writing Snippets: Post/Write a Fanfiction Scene, Story, or Idea: Forest of Dreams
CrimsonCowboy |2 pointswritten 1 day ago ago
A Forest of Dreams? OK.
Imagine, if you will, a moment where music seems to play in your head out of sheer excitement at finding for the first moment your favorite section.
Or perhaps, a moment of relief, as a problem seems soon to be rectified.
Or perhaps, a sigh of defeat, as the volume that describes your problem is a thousand pages thick. Rest well, the index is probably pretty good.
Or perhaps, a moment of levity, as a societal problem is addressed in a fictional sense, but with apparent overtones to the prevailing societal happenings.
Or perhaps, a story set so far in the future, that common sense breaks down and all you are left with is a strange sense of wonder and hope, or despair?
Welcome, weary traveler, to the Canterlot Technical Library.
I want to conclude the zompony apocalypse with...
The conturemeasure.
It had been demonstrated previously that laser light will dispel dark necromanitic influences. Something about it's coherent light's inherent 'harmony'.
Tami and Oson flew in with Quantum providing covering fire. "Java! We need your glass blowing skills NOW!"
Java Stout was a chemical engineer, and knew very well how to manipulate semi-molten glass. Chemistry equipment typically did not come pre-assembled. He smiled. "I'm on it."
As Quantum from the rooftop kept their house zombie-free with her crossbow, the other three worked on their conturemeasure.
"Mirrors affixed to the tubes. Testing reflectivity. Bugger, needs adjusting."
"Pressures not right... Resetting with the vacuum pump..."
"Voltage should work right. AH! NO! CIRCUIT BOARD ON FIRE"
"Put it out PUT IT OUT! Agh! I have to redo that... Is the transformer at least ok?"
"Yeah, it doesn't smell burnt..."
"How are we going to hook up cooling water?"
"I already grabbed a garden-hose hookup. And we have the tubes to run it up to the roof."
"Test run, minimal power. Goggles up, everyone."
"...."
"Awesome. Let's go save Canterlot."
Quantum Shift hefted the device the others had built. It was plugged into the mains and the water supply. Four separate tubes of carbon dioxide, connected to a high voltage supply and each between two mirrors. And it was ready.
She aimed the device down the street, and smiling, let loose a beam of infrared laser light. The spell affecting the zombies immediately dissipated, and they fell.
Meanwhile, Tami and Oson had once again taken to the air. They were carrying the sheet of steel, which they had precious few moments to polish before this. Tami let's out a loud squawk to indicate their position, and sees the focusing dot - a cheap laser pointer - align itself on the plate.
They were going to be the reflector of an infrared laser beam. And they were going to shine it over the entirety of Canterlot, street by street, block by block.
Quantum pushed the trigger. The countermeasure was active.
Tami and Oson flapped down. Tami said, "Java... I need a cup of coffee, and some kind of meal. Blast and Damn, we should've used an aluminum sheet..."
Oson nods; "That thing was heavy, though with the wind at that altitude, it's momentum kinda helped."
"Still heavy as all get out... Gwa... I need to work-out more..."
Oson flits up and pecks a kiss on Tami's forehead. "I think you'd look and feel lovely. Though you look just fine as you are."
The gryphoness pauses. She then reaches for and grips the changeling. "I love you so much, Oson."
Quantum has been listening to the radio. "Everyone, bad news. They haven't caught the necromancer. Reanimation. We need to pull off that stunt again."
Java shakes his head. "And I had just started the waffles..."
Tami slams her empty mug down. "I. Am Now. IRATE!"
Which type of pony would you be?
CrimsonCowboy |2 pointswritten 6 days ago ago
Earther, or changeling. I write fanfics, and the characters are... very bad at magic. So, they invent technology to solve their problems. The changeling can't change well, the unicorn can't use magic very well, the gryphon, is well, a gryphon. And the earther is just rather strong and clever.
Another character is an Earther, and really good at the technology game.
So, whatever I get, technology will be built to deal with the issues that are not addressed.
[WP]: "I'm not special at all just average," you said. The scientist scans you and replied: "You don't understand, there is no record of you in any other multiverse. All the choices you have made are the only choices available to you."
"Well, statistically, we're average. But only because we have diverse interests. And I know for a fact, we're not the only ones like us in the multiverse." Oson nodded after the last sentence.
Tam's points at the basement. "We keep the dimensporter down there. More tools, and a safer place in general to run it."
The Multiverse Guard is perplexed. "You... Can travel between dimensions as well?"
"Let me tell you, it was a pain mapping out the coordinates. Anyway, the mirror-dimension has roughly the same versions of ourselves." Tam shakes her head and mutters quietly, "Worst summer vacation ever."
Jav's speaks up from the kitchen. "We can demonstrate! I got a fresh bottle of vodka I'd like to share with them!"
He wanders forward, vodka in tow. Lifting the bottle, he states, "It's like... The only thing we can exchange. Vodka is non-chiral, so the mirror flip-age doesn't make, like, toxic amino-acid combinations." He grabs a sticky-note pad, writes a message on it, and heads downstairs.
A large mirror with devices and runes on it awaits in the basement. Oson points out, "That's the fixed dimensporter; we figured out how to reach other dimensions by changing the orientation of the field generators. That one's kinda stuck on with glue, so... Fixed to the mirror dimension it is."
Jav's flicks a switch, and the machine hums. With a shimmer, a portal is opened. He tosses the plastic bottle through, and moments later, another is tossed back. He pulls the note on it off, flips it around, and holds it up to the light. "The text is inversed, so I have to read it from behind.... Ah! 'Share and Enjoy!' I intend to, mirror me."
The Multiverse Guard is stunned. "There... are two of you?"
Jav shrugs. "At least. Want a drink? We can go over our multiverse map with you."
The Guard grips the wall. "This might be why I was called to investigate you... You are singular individuals, that's for certain... How many dimensions have you crossed?"
Oson replies immediately. "Twenty seven. Three to the third. We needed a lot of coordinates to figure out where home was. The mirrored versions of ourselves have done likewise."
This was proving a much more perplexing investigation than he had counted on. "I... would very much like that drink."
Writing Snippets: Post/Write a Fanfiction Scene, Story, or Idea: Epic
I'll be honest, I've dozens of these that are all stuck on cliffhangers. Place characters in strange situations, then... get distracted and let the conclusion puzzle itself in my mind.
Death. Always so much death. So rarely, necessary.
'Blast and damn,' thought Quantum Shift, 'I really, really wish we could have a calm weekend for once.' She loads another bolt into her crossbow and takes aim.
Java Stout slides the roof panel open, and with his magic offers the Earth Pony perched on the roof a mug. The crossbow fires, and she turns to grip the mug. She sips, then guzzles it. "Strong. Cold. Black."
Java smirks. "Heh. Just how you like it."
She holds the empty mug out, and Java grips it again with his magic. "Thanks, Java..." She loads another arrow.
"Hey, you're up here, keeping everyone on the block safe. Gotta help where I can. Miss Shibu even sent some treats over with a special note to you."
TWANG Quantum loads another arrow. "Oh? What did it say?"
Java rubs his head. "Um... I think the sum of it was, I'm sure this isn't your fault, and thank you for protecting us."
TWANG "Well, we certainly aren't necromancers. So yeah, she's right on that front." TWANG
The radio-set next to her crackles. "OI! TAMI TO QUANTS, WE HAVE FLYERS FOLLOWING US! NORTH-WEST-WEST, INBOUND WITH CARGO!"
"OSON TO QUANTI! AT LEAST TWENTY!"
Quantum stares at the radio-set. She turns to Java, "Did you hear that?"
He is frowning. "Yeah... and they can't fly as fast ladened with supplies..."
Quantum stares North-West-West. She can see the incoming hoard. She pushes the transmit button. "I have a plan. Dive low when you see the flare. I'll pull out the big gun. JAVA!"
He snaps to attention. She says, staring at what is coming. "Two teacups. Spatial contraction generator. Two harmonized arrows. My heavy crossbow. Get them." She pushes transmit again, "It'll take a minute to brew the tea for the chaos generator. Hold tight, look for the flashbang."
Twefy 'fi Oson and Tami Owlson are laden with the parts needed for the countermeasure they had designed. Copper wire, Iron plates, heavily doped silicon, silvered mirrors, glass, and worst of all of, a tank of compressed carbon dioxide gas.
And a zombie horde was behind them.
"Bloodly. Fucking. Lovely." Tami says to herself.
Oson is panicking. "Look for the flare?! LOOK for the flare?! They're gonna fire a chaos-derived spatial contraction field super-luminal bolt at a position near us!"
Tami glares at their house. "And Quants has great eyesight..."
The flare goes up.
"DIVE! DIVE! Dive you glorious bitch, DIVE!"
"No no no no no AAAAAAGH!"
A gryphon and a changeling make a steep dive out of the air as they approach their house.
Their house responds with a burst. Matter that has a harmonization ruin on in can move at super-luminal speeds through a chaos-derived spatial contraction field.
Inside of an atmosphere, there is an immediate problem with this. Atmospheric resistance.
This is why Quantum Shift had a face mask. She had learned with the first test of this ridiculous experiment that the blast back was... Significant.
The blast-forward, as suggested, was significantly larger.
Quantum wiped the mask's lenses clear, and loaded the second arrow. "Java, anything on the radio?"
Java shouts up, "Oson says they still have at least five inbound!"
Quantum smiles. "This is why I requested a second harmonized arrow.
Quantum raises her face-mask to to reload the crossbow. She lowers it. "JAVA! Get onto the radio!"
"I'm, uh, right next to it."
"Is that the only zombie horde?!"
Java sets the radio to speaker. The radio shouts back, "IT'S JUST ON US! FIRE FIRE FIRE!"
This dog that directed police to a burning building to save his owner.
CrimsonCowboy |1 pointwritten 11 days ago ago
Looks like a husky to me.
How many times have police stopped you for playing Pokémon Go?
I was getting out of work around 11pm, after a show had concluded. I was in my car, catching for a few minutes. I drove a block and parked in front of a gym to take it. A cop stopped nearby, and came over, suspecting that I was drunk as they noted the previous behavior.
I stated I was playing Pokemon Go, and they were OK with that, but they noted there was no parking on that side of the street. I apologise, and move on. In my defense, it was the middle of winter and everything barring the center of the road was covered in snow.
Writing Snippets: Post/Write a Fanfiction Scene, Story, or Idea: Snow Day
CrimsonCowboy |2 pointswritten 21 days ago ago
"Frickin' Windegos! Get off my roof, I have a dinner to serve!"
"I swear, whatever necromancy cooked up these critters needs to be unwound."
Nah; in this silly alt-universe, changelings, for the most part, want the ponies to survive. The ponies just seem hell-bent on self-destruction.
Prevent that. By any means necessary.
Hearth's Warming. Typically a time of getting together, exchanging gifts, and repeating the tales of "Hey, don't commit genocide." Or the other holiday favorite "Hey, remember that story about not committing genocide? Don't do that."
Tami Owlson, griffon, said "I'm kinda amazed you ponies haven't killed each other off by now."
Quantum Shift, earther, replies, "It took some time. But we're better now."
Tami scowls. "Wait. Were these real stories?"
Twyfi 'fi Oson, changeling, raises a holey hoof. "I... I read through the archives about this day. Yes. They did attempt to genocide themselves, twice. The second time we tried to intervene. It was a success."
Quantum stares at her. "You... Your kind was involved in Hearth's Warming?"
Oson looks down. "... Yes. The ghosts, the illusions, it was all changeling magics. We really don't want you to die. And screw the cold."
She looks to the hallway closest - lines of snow-ware hung up to dry. She had, as a cold-blooded creature, four of the racks of her snow-gear drying, and a power-supply hooked up recharging her lead-acid batteries she kept in special saddle bags to drive some heating coils.
Java Stout, unicorn, shouts from the kitchen. "Ha HA! I did it! Triple falafel! It shouldn't be possible, will probably taste awful or at best questionable, and I am amazed it didn't explode when I kept putting it back into the fry oil!"
This raises their attention. They had been conversing over a Hearth's Warming vinyl they had found. They turn their attention to the kitchen; Java had indeed made a three-layer falafel. In fact, he had made an awful lot of them.
This is the problem with haven a drunken chemist as a roommate who likes to cook. Strange things will happen. The falafels were the least of it. The punch was the last of it.
When they had completed their meal, they were quite full and quite drunk. They decide to wrap themselves up, and with a songbook Oson had in her library, head out into the wilds of Canterlot winter to serenade the public and distribute the excess falafel.
This was one of the best Solstice Celebrations they had. As opposed to when they decided to "Make a great light." This led to more questions from the guard than they preferred. Just sharing a very sanitary food product was a lot easier.
If you had enough money to build your dream house, what's a strange room/feature you'd include?
I like a lot of these ideas, but I can add some weird ones. Tracks for robotic arms to run along the ceiling. The ceiling would be steel reinforced concrete. There would be a massive battery bank nearby, and a vertical wind turbine would be spinning in the background. The walls would be steel or aluminum plates that could be removed easily to upgrade the infrastructure.
Writing Snippets: Post/Write a Fanfiction Scene, Short, or Idea: Pony of a Different Color
Java Stout was not a happy pony at the moment.
He was, normally, a lanky, blond and earth colored unicorn.
Normally.
To the giggling of his housemates as he sets down a jug, he relates the tale.
"So, the experiment was to manufacture some of the simpler azo-dyes.
"The problem with azo-dyes is as fallows.
"The "azo" part of it comes from the nitrogen double-bonding between two rings of carbon."
He holds out his hooves and adjusts their distance. "Because it has two rings, it's very stable."
He gestures about. "And that distance between the two rings strongly suggests to all these atoms a photon it should emit. Want a different color - add something to those rings to change the electrical charge keeping the rings apart.."
Java holds his hooves apart. "Change the charge, change the photon it can give out."
He takes a long drink, and refills his glass. "What happens if a newbie tries to prepare one and... One second, I'm having difficulty with this." He takes another long drink.
He finishes the beer, and lets his head slam against the table. "What happens when, they get the reaction wrong, then wrong again, then finally, right, but have somehow figured out how to make the reaction an explosive."
He takes another long drink. "That's the reason half the class has to retake that test, and why I'm azo-dyeded like a freaking flag."
He takes another drink, and sighs. The technicolor pony looks up. "So, how was your day?"
Writing Snippets: Post/Write a Fanfiction Scene, Short Story, or Idea: Boats!
CrimsonCowboy |2 pointswritten 1 month ago ago
Not soon enough. There is, on average, four atoms of plutonium in you. And as a result of theses tests, we can, by carbon dating, figure out how old organ tissues are.
An... awful lot of them, actually.
This was directly in response to Fallout: Equestria.
Harbormakers are a reference to Project Plowshares - the peaceful utilization of atomic energy. And in their home dimension, the only one. Seeing it weaponized... Well, who am I do judge?
We detonated harbormakers in our only atmosphere.
But wait... There is no ship!
Usual cast. Griffon, Tami Owlson; Changeling, Twefy 'fi Oson; Unicorn, Java Stout; Earther, Quantum Shift.
Setting: A dimension they were trapped in long enough to collect enough data to traverse to another in the goals of mapping the multiverse well enough to get home.
The Geiger counter immediately started clicking upon entry to this dimension. It was an overcast wasteland. Quantum Shift immediately spoke up, "Masks up, everyone. We don't want to breath this."
They all equipped their respirators, the faceparts designed unique to their species, but the filters easily swappable and rated for filtering hydrochloric acid and asbestos. Quantum gave a thought to this; what was the reactivity of a monoatomic radioactive material with the chemically infused fibers of the filter? Well... If it was a metal, at the least, it's probably going to react with the filter material chemically and bind to it... She decided to ask Java about this later.
This gave her pause. She looks about this blasted landscape, and asks, "Hey... Why in the all-hells is the gieger counter clicking so hard? Java, can you give me a quick spectrogram?"
Java Stout pulls out the tool they mostly use for determining the chirality of the target dimension's molecules - a compact spectrograph unit. He takes a sample of the soil and places it in the machine.
He immediately recoils. "Traces of Uranium, Thorium, Radium, Lead, and... Oh, hell's no. Plutonium?! Why the hell is that in the environment?!"
Twefy 'fi Oson begins breathing heavily through her mask. "Plutonium is only made in laboratory reactors! Why is it out here?! ARE YOU SURE?!" She is beginning to panic.
Java nods. "The spectral lines match up with that element."
"WHY IS IT OUT HERE?!"
An explosion occurs in the distance. A mushroom cloud grows, and the Geiger counter clicks something feirce.
Tami Owlson stares. "Was that... Was that a harbormaker?"
A second blast follows. "Oh, that was definitely a harbormaker. Everyone, get down. There is going to be a shockwave. What fucktards detonate one of those above ground?!" Tami grasps Oson and holds her beneath herself while orienting herself in line with the blast, tucking her head underneath her; Java and Quantum try to make themselves as flat as possible against the ground.
The shockwave rushes over them, carrying loads of radioactive dust. They have successfully oriented themselves to prevent most of it sticking to their fur or feathers, but the Gieger counter is clicking.
When the second shockwave hits, the Geiger counter clicks even more.
They get up. Tami asks, "Everyone alright?"
The affirmation follow. Though Oson adds, much to everyone's chagrin, "There must've been an electrical pulse - the thaumameter reset itself. We lost an hour's worth of data."
"So we need to spend 25 hours in this crap-sack dimension."
Another blast in the distance. The same drill. And, afterwards, noting the Thaumameter has once again been reset.
Tami shakes off the doubtlessly contaminated dust. "We need to get out of this hellscape if we want any chance to characterize this dimension's coordinates. Oson, if they have harbormakers, they must have radio. See if any fuckhead is transmitting. I'm going to take a look at the land from above."
Oson nods, and pulls out her radio. Tami frowns as she takes to the skies. This was the worst possible "summer vacation". Every dimension, shittier than the last. Sun and moon, she couldn't wait till they had enough data to get back home. This sucked.
"Why," she silently asks herself, "Why do these worlds fucking hate themselves so much?"
The landscape is barren and grey. She can see the dust settling from the harbormakers. There is very clearly no waterway to make a harbor in. All that can be seen is what remains of a small city.
Harbormakers. In a city.
She screams, "WHAT THE FUCK?!"
A sharp noise is heard to her left, then another. She looks to the ground - there are ponies there, and are pointing a machine at her. It flashes. Another sharp noise near her, on the right side, a few moments later. Realization flashes across her mind.
She flaps her wings and enters a powered dive. "GUYS! CHEMICALLY PROPELLED METAL! WE NEED TO RUN!"
People that "forget to eat", how are you able to ignore the sensation of hunger/hunger pangs?
CrimsonCowboy |1 pointwritten 1 month ago ago
I wish I knew. It possibly has something to do with my alcohol consumption. I will, however, wake up, regularly consume something with [a lot of] caffeine in it, head to work, and start to malfunction due to a simple lack of calories. Then have breakfast at 10 pm.
What loophole did you exploit for years before someone found out?
College bookstore had a full refund return policy first week; assuming you dropped the course, return the books, bada bing bada boom, here's your money back.
I had a large format scanner. I got up to 300 pages an hour.
Writing Snippets: Post/Write a Fanfiction Scene, Short Story, or Idea: Cockatrice
Tami was leaned down next to Pearl. She still didn't fully understand chicken-scratch. And was asking questions.
Oson comes over. "So, the magic effect really is transmitted through the infrared-bands. Neat. Uh. What are you asking Pearl?"
Tami keeps her gaze. "How to swear in chicken."
Engineers. Asking the important questions.
Edit: Chicken goggles are actually a thing.
"I thought we agreed we wouldn't have a pet here. What with, well, the extreme dangers that we repeatedly experience." Quantum was concerned.
Oson points at the phone book. "I have checked every animal shelter in the area. None would take a cockatrice, and Pearl has been around ponies so long she shouldn't be released into the wild."
Quantum looks down. She sighs. "... How do we make her safe?"
"The petrify-effect is mostly based in the infrared bands. So... um.... Corrective goggles?" She taps her own lenses that correct for her compound-eyes' extreme nearsightedness.
"We'd have to make them..."
"The only place open right now is Screwdrivers..."
Java whoops. "Hardware store run!"
"For the love of - stop trying to petrify the employees, they just make minimum wage! Gwah..." Tami scribbles out the chicken-scratch that the cockatrice seems to understand.
She holds up another sheet of paper. "We are here to build you goggles, so you can live among us safely."
She regrets that her understanding of chicken-scratch is limited to what could be deduced from a newspaper, which alas, does not feature curse words.
Because this little bastard was starting to get on her nerves...
They had succeeded on one end. Rose colored goggles to block out that hateful petrifying gaze. A small pet bed. A litter box. They weren't entirely certain that was appropriate, but the library was closed and they really didn't want to break into it again.
Talking with their landlady was a bit more awkward. Their rental contract did not mention pets. Miss Shibu, Diamond Dog, was very forgiving, and on seeing the bespectacled Pearl, instantly fell in love. "Aren't you the sweetest little thing!"
She handed Pearl a treat. "I save these for my sons, but it seems like you might enjoy them too."
Pearl gobbles it up, and nuzzles Miss Shibu.
Taking care of a pet is somewhat hard. But, with four people, it can be done. Quantum takes Pearl out on her early morning runs, Java takes her on his late evening trips to the grocers. Tami and Oson bring her out in the afternoon, between classes.
And Pearl's intelligence was a boon - when it was written "Don't chew these cables, it's bad for you.", she only had to test this once before realizing that yes, these crazy people are actually looking out for me.
It is somewhat absurd, having a cockatrice as a pet. Though this was far from the absurdest thing they have done.
"See, this is why we don't go to house parties. Literally everyone is stoned." Tami Owlson smacks her face in frustration.
She shouts, "Does anyone even see the host? Aaugh.... Oson, can you see if the DJ had any decent music in their collection? I can't stand any more of that vocoded shit."
Java Stout raises a hoof. "Uh, I can probably help with that better. I used to be a DJ at WCTU."
Tami shakes her head. "Fine, get on it. Oson, Quants, you know anything about this kinda shit? Because I really don't want to have to explain this to the guard without something to back it up."
Quantum Shift had been looking at the statues. "Well, they seem to have been having a good time."
Twefy 'fi Oson is panicking. She normally doesn't like social gatherings, and this one has taken a hard turn for the worse. "It... It's medusa syndrome... Which means either the drinks were spiked with a hyper-calcifier... Or there is a cockatrice loose."
Quantum frowns. "I really find it awkward that we need to bring tool kits to even these sorts of events. Everyone, goggles on! Java, finish putting on some sick kicks and come over here to analyze the punch. Oson, Tami, you've two have the best sense of smell. Find us a chicken. I'm going to check the rest of the house for more of these... Poor bastards."
Tami, griffon, is somewhat dismayed. This is a frat house. And she is being asked to sniff it.
Clearly, life could be worse. But it could sure be a hell of a lot better.
Oson is similarly disgusted. But knows a bit about psychology of animals. "It's probably scared. Check the hiding places you'd expect a cat to seek out."
Java shouts, "The punch is just spiked with booze. So it's option two."
Tami grumbles to herself. "Blast. And. Damn."
"Hello little - Gwah! It nipped at me!" Oson pulls her holey hoof away from the small area next to the refrigerators.
Tami sighs. "Lemme try something... I think I remember enough of that chicken-scratch to write a message... Bugger all, I hope this little shit is literate." She begins to draw lines on a pad of paper.
We mean you no harm.
We think everything about this was stupid.
We really don't want the guard involved.
Can you please undo this?
It cocks it's head. It moves as if to bite Tami, but she realizes it's just reaching for the pen.
Yes, if you get me out of here.
Tami reads the note. She smiles and offers a talon to the cockatrice. It exits the area it had been hiding in. Tami picks it up, and says loudly, "Everyone, we have come to an agreement."
Quantum is staring at the host of the party. "We are never attending one of these events ever again. I saw... Horrible things upstairs."
Two other ponies blush and look to the ground.
Tami adds, cockatrice under her arm, "And we're taking Pearl with us. Using her like you did... You sick fucks."
Oson adds, "It isn't right what was done."
Java chimes in next to the now drained punch bowl. "Also, your taste in music is terrible. Great punch, though."
The quartet takes their leave, and wonder what to do with Pearl.
Writing Snippets: Post/Write a Fanfiction Scene, Short Story, or Idea: The Other Hives
Heh. I've posted the middling points here in the past; they have their warp drive, but no space-industrial complex. Another phase I need to implement, but I always used cheat codes in SimCity, so building a Luna City to manufacture the ships requires a different batch of research that may very well lead me to running for city council.
When I world-build, I world-build hard.
I wanted to write a MLP/Star Trek thing. But the thing is, you need to have a space program to even start that. The chain of events leading up to a warp drive is... Difficult with their anachronistic levels of technology. So, I need to work through the tech tree.
Operation Moonshot: The secret society of the world, keeping the peace and sharing the secrets that one race or another discover, decides a space-race would be a great new solution for generating love. Before the Nightmare Moon event, of course. Still haven't worked out all the details; my geopolitics isn't on point.
It has been a rough couple of months working foodservice. Ironic the last thing I posted was about a disease requiring Canterlot's lockdown. Then in reality, everyone forgot how to cook for themselves. And just three weeks ago, over half our staff had to quarantine, and guess which social-life-less lucky bastards had to cover them. | {
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The statistics are alienating, because we just read numbers and those distance us from the humanity of who these children are. We often hear or read that they have experienced "unspeakable horrors," but when I meet these children, usually between the ages of 13 to 17, they often don't wear the trauma on their faces. Some do, especially those who are sick. Several were coughing this week, couldn't enjoy themselves. I think about them being kept in the "iceboxes" (detention centers) when they are first detained, or the "cages" that are supposedly not "cages" but are more like large dog kennels that they can stand up in or lie down in and have "facilities." I think about the one meal a day they might eat, of a cold sandwich. I remember the first group of girls I met in 2014, who had been given only cookies and juice every day for the requisite 21 days they were kept in detention.
This week, the children were all boys, in their mid to late teens. One boy was about to turn 18. This was not good. He would be sent back to the border on his 18th birthday. No longer a minor, he would not be eligible for sheltering and education any longer. Happy birthday.
The boys were cold, they didn't have any winter boots for the sub freezing temperatures and snow in New York, but they didn't complain. They all had sneakers, and their feet were cold. We kept saying to one another, "Frio, frio, frio." I can't speak much Spanish, and they are supposed to be learning English, but I end up speaking my broken Spanish anyway, and they practice their broken English, and we do a lot of miming.
Yes, we collected sap from the trees and boiled it to make syrup, we collected eggs from the chickens and made pancakes with maple syrup, and yes they learned a lot of new information, how to eat locally and seasonally, how to make healthy choices, how to live sustainably in this part of the world. But that wasn't what made me so happy this week. I love what we teach them, but what I loved this week was what they were compelled to do: play.
They are children. And in this case, they were boys who had never played in the snow before, and so all they wanted to do was roll around in it, throw it at each other, slide down the hillside on it. I brought them sleds and they laughed and played for hours, they couldn't not play.
But they are children, and so they get silly, goofy, emotional, and they need to eat and play. I remember a line from a favorite book, "Yardsticks," by Chip Wood, about children's behavioral stages, and how for the 5-year old, in their minds, they only come to school to eat and to play. It's the same for teenagers, I think. The more time they get to eat and play, the happier they are too.
So I watched them tumbling in the snow, wrestling in the snow, throwing snowballs, tackling each other, putting snow down each other's jackets, sledding, laughing, running, and not minding being freezing cold (not too much), and I kept thinking, they are children.
At one point as we were walking around the pond, talking about how there are fish and frogs, snakes and turtles, and all kinds of wildlife that is dormant for the winter, we asked the boys if they had any questions. "Preguntas?" Yes, one of them did. The translator told me the question, "How do the ducks walk on water?" They laughed; they'd never seen ducks walking on ice. The boys tested the ice with their sneakers, could they walk on water too?
They are walking on water, I thought to myself. The miracle that they have made it this far is no less than that.
This is so very moving.
The pictures speak so eloquently, as well.. thank you.
Thank you for writing and sharing this.. It's beautifully written, what a journey these kids have been through already and they're just kids..
Wow. So well told. So touching. So necessary to be heard and shared. | {
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Q&A with Sportsman Channel's "MeatEater" Steven Rinella
Ammoland Inc. Posted on January 30, 2015 January 12, 2018 by Sportsman Channel
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New Berlin, Wis. –(Ammoland.com)- Sportsman Channel's "MeatEater" Steven Rinella is purposeful and passionate about his hunting style and the wild game he harvests and consumes. Rinella, whose show, MeatEater premieres exclusively on Sportsman Channel on Thursdays at 8 p.m. ET/PT, has been described by many people – inside and outside of the outdoor industry – as a "modern day Daniel Boone."
Recently, Rinella participated in a Q&A forum with Sportsman Channel to discuss everything from his favorite hunting locations, organic cooking and his experiences living in New York City.
Steven Rinella
Q: Do you believe more people are accepting and exploring the 'field to plate' movement?
A: I think there's more excitement about it on a popular culture level for sure. Of course, there has always been a lot of Americans who were quietly eating wild game meat without thinking of it as something extraordinary. My early hunting and fishing mentors come to mind most readily; they ate game several times a week but never thought to proselytize about it. But, now you've got a new crowd of far more vocal folks, the kinds of people with Twitter accounts who want as many people as possible to know what they're up to. They give "field to plate" a sense of buzz. They put it out there and it is something new. In a per capita sense, though, I really have no idea if Americans are actually eating more game. But, they are definitely talking about it more.
Q: Where is your favorite place to hunt and why?
A: I like to hunt Alaska. I have family there and I know the place pretty well. In particular, I like to do fly-in, self-guided hunts in the nastiest backcountry I can find. That kind of stuff makes me feel very alive.
Q: How did you become such an accomplished cook of wild game?
A: I learned to cook by experimenting, reading, and hanging out with chefs who know a lot more than I do. I listed those three things in their proper order of importance. I should point out here that I'm not nearly as good with food as some guys are. I specialize in what I like to think of as caveman cuisine—rough and rustic stuff, done over fires with an eye toward historical significance — but guys like Hank Shaw and Michael Ruhlman can cook circles around me.
Q: What is your favorite wild game to prepare/consume and why?
A: That's tough to answer, because I like just about everything. I love how surprisingly good squirrels are; I love the texture of a perfectly done mallard; I love the reliability of elk meat. The world of wild game is just too complex to be broken down into favorites. I even like some foods that I don't actually like, simply because I enjoyed the experience of trying them for the first time. Take javelina, for instance. It's fun just to try to make that meat taste as good as possible, which will never be great.
Q: Having lived in New York City and when you were not cooking, what were your favorite go-to restaurants?
A: This will sound funny, but I actually got burned out on restaurants in New York City. For a year or so I loved it, hitting all of these beautiful (and often expensive) restaurants. Then, the sensation started to dull and I found myself craving home cooked meals at my friends' houses or at my own home. By far, the best meal I ever ate in New York City was at the apartment of Chef Matt Weingarten's house. I liked it much better than eating at the restaurant he was running at that time, even though the restaurant's food was "better" by any objective standard. But there's huge subjectivity to food, obviously, and to me there's a genuine and soulful quality to home-cooked food that is lacking in restaurant food.
About Steven Rinella: Steven Rinella is an avid outdoorsman, writer, and television personality best known for his ability to translate the hunting lifestyle to a wide variety of audiences. He is the author of The Scavenger's Guide to Haute Cuisine, the award-winning American Buffalo: In Search of a Lost Icon, and most recently, Meat Eater: Adventures from the Life of an American Hunter. He is a correspondent for Outside magazine, and his writing has also appeared in the New York Times, Glamour, O the Oprah Magazine, Men's Journal, and more traditional hunting and fishing publications like Field and Stream and Petersen's Hunting.
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Patriot Solutions: Sure looks like a lot of arrests going down with limited details, indictments and "covid" cases (wink wink) for nothing… | {
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Reserves And Provisions
Manufacturing Account
Financial Accounts Exercise
Construct A Trading Account
Profitability And Break Even Point
Financial Statements Test Questions
Financial Statements Exercises
How To Read A Company Balance Sheet
A The cash and bank account of A. White, an ironmonger, show the following total entries during the year to 31 December 2016.
Repairs to premises 1,500
Repairs to plant and machinery 2,500
Rates 2,900
Purchases 143,500
Sales 175,261
Sundry expenses 3,525
Wages 27,500
Salaries 7,250
The balance of cash in the bank is £18,725, and cash in the office till is £1466. Stock is held valued at cost at £184,400. A total of £127,255 is owed to the business by debtors, and the business owes £122,500 to its creditors.
At the beginning of the year no cash was held in the till, stock was valued at £141,000, plant and machinery at £120,000, leasehold premises at £112,500, and office furniture at £1920.
Draw up the income and expenditure account in such a way as to show, in the form of a sub-account, the gross profit - treating for this purpose the following expenditure as direct: wages; repairs to plant and machinery. Write off 15% depreciation on plant and machinery, 10% of leasehold premises, and 10% of furniture.
Calculate the rate of mark-up of gross profit, expressed as a percentage of cost price of sales, the percentage net profit of sales, and the percentage net profit to capital employed. What is the amount of working capital?
(a) Prepare a balance sheet from the following information taken
from the websites of J. Jones at the end of his first year of trading on 30 November 2016:
£1 £1
Freehold shop 25,000 Shop furniture and fittings at
Stock 12,000 valuation 3,500
Cash at bank 5,800 Net profit for year 8,200
Amount owed to business Wages owing to staff 320
by customers 6,800 Drawings in cash for
Amount owed by personal use 4,500
Cash in hand 120
(b) Calculate J. Jones's working capital.
(c) Jones contemplates installing a new shop front and display cases at a cost of £111,000, borrowing the money from the bank on the security of the shop. What effect would this have on his working capital?
(d) Jones can perfectly well continue to trade without the extra work on the shop premises. What factors should he take into consideration in deciding whether to go ahead?
C The graph in Fig. 13.4 illustrates the performance of a business in each of four years.
1. In which year did the business make the most net profit?
2. In which year was the percentage net profit to sales at the maximum?
Total sales revenue
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Reading Balance Sheets
1. Why are all receipts and payments of a capital nature excluded from an income and expenditure account?
2. A depreciation charge is treated as expenditure in an income and expenditure account, although it represents no movement in cash and is not included in the cash website. What is depreciation? On what sort of assets is it properly chargeable?
3. What is a balance sheet?
4. How would you account for expenses paid in advance (a) in the balance sheet, and (b) in the income and expenditure account?
5. How would you account for expenses incurred but not... see: Financial Statements Test Questions
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We live and work in a world of constant distraction. How many of us begin working on a project only to have our train of thought derailed by a distraction – a phone call, social media post, or a buzz on the cell phone alerting you to a text message. It's easy to say that the power of distraction has never been higher. I was listening to a podcast featuring Kobe Bryant who, among other topics, talked about focus. Here's a man who made a living based on focus. His legendary approach transformed the Lakers and the game of basketball. He's a man of focus and of limiting his distractions. His focus was to win basketball games and championships, and he let nothing get in the way. What are your goals? What are your distractions? Kobe could have let many things get in his way after his first few championships, but he loved to win. What are the distractions that get in the way of you reaching your goals? Limit the distractions. Focus on the goal. Win.
The Countdown has begun. As you read this, we less than two weeks away from the Taste of the Region & Business Expo, presented by Hand & Stone Massage and Facial Spa. We are truly excited about this year's event – it's going to be outstanding! We still have room for exhibitors and sponsors. Make sure it's on your calendar to attend. You won't want to miss it. | {
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The second Manchester Beer & Cider Festival was a runaway success, putting behind it some of the teething problems that beset the 2014 inaugural event.
Over 11,000 customers came through the doors, but this time every single one of them was anticipated meaning that there was beer for everyone right to the end – in fact even at 7pm on Saturday there were over 250 different beers available. Taking over the whole of the Velodrome gave more space for everyone with beers on both the concourse (near the loos!) and on the floor.
We at MBCF would like to thank all our customers who attended the festival and especially those who have taken the time to give us so much positive feedback.
Just like we did after the first event, we'll take on board all your feedback and seek to improve for the future.
Thanks again – hope we will see you all again in 2016.
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Book > Major Work > Political Science & International Relations
Almanac of State Legislative Elections
William Lilley III
Laurence J. DeFranco
Mark F. Bernstein
Kari L. Ramsby
August 2007 | 400 pages | CQ Press
The Almanac of State Legislative Elections, Third Edition combines detailed, state-by-state, district-by-district election results for the nation&BAD:rsquo;s 6,744 state legislative districts with a wide range of socioeconomic data for each district to present a comprehensive portrait of voting and demographic trends across the nation. This new edition features data from 2000 through 2006, covering the most recent trends and updates to district lines. It includes extensive state-by-state analyses and 290 maps of the district boundaries. Inside, researchers will find:An introductory overview of the major trends in all 50 states and their legislative districts In-depth data from each state showing the voting results and demographic changes in each of the districts from 2000 through 2006Concise and informative essays on each state that offer context to the data presented and provide valuable historical perspective and analyze current major electoral and demographic changesOver 290 color maps showing district boundaries for state House and Senate districts, plus detail maps on urban areas and population that show how much each district has gained or lost in population during the periodStatistical tables for each state, showing district-by-district population changes, along with up-to-date (2006) demographic data measuring average household income, degree of higher education, percent above/below the poverty line, and ethnic/racial mixThis unique and valuable work is the only resource to bring together district maps, elections results, and demographics for all 50 states in one source. | {
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Alleged Death Of Fulani Herdsmen in Abia: Group Threatens To Drag IPOB To ICC
Who does this man Samson Babalola work for? It will be interesting to see where he dragged the Fulani herdsmen to ICC since their incessant killings in Agatu and in and around the entire country.
Shouldn't he have far more evidence to drag these Fulani's to ICC than one unsubstantiated allegation against IPOB? Nigeria is indeed a very funny country.
The Conference of Minority Tribes of Nigeria (CMTN), has said it will drag the leadership of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) to the International Criminal Court (ICC) at the Hague following the alleged killings of some Fulani herdsmen in Abia State.
CMTN Coordinator, Babalola (middle)
The group which condemned the killings of the northerners, described it as a crime against humanity.
Recall that bikerings have followed the allegations by the Department of State Services, DSS, Abuja Headquarters, that members of IPOB killed some Fulani herdsmen in Abia State, and dumped them in gutters.
But this allegation, the separatist group, other groups, as well as the Abia State government, has denied, describing it as a lie from the pit of hell.
In separate press statements, they condemned the DSS, accusing the nation's secret police of wanting to spark another ethnic pogrom in Nigeria.
However, addressing a press conference on Monday, in Abuja, Secretary General of CMTN, Comrade Samson Babalola said these alleged killings marked a new low in what had been cordial relations between ethnic nationalities in Nigeria that have always accepted each other as family.
He said other ethnic groups strongly condemned government forces when it clamped down on IPOB' protests and had even planned sympathy marches in support of IPOB and its leaders that are being detained.
Babalola said, "However, by killing these innocent people, whose only offence is possibly that they were of a different ethnic stock from IPOB, these separatists have proven that they do not deserve and must never get the backing of other tribes and ethnic nationalities in the country."
He warned that if not urgently tackled, the new dimension may lead to the Rwanda Genocide of 1990, in which members of one ethnic group tried to wipe out the other.
He said further, "it is also not too early to begin to monitor the online activities of IPOB members that are carrying out their own brand of radicalisation. They work hard to build public anger against anything Nigerian online making it difficult for their moderate sympathisers to contribute to national discourse without coming under threats. This has greatly shrunken the space for intellectual discourse and actively endorsed promotion of violence against the state as a precondition for being considered loyal to IPOB ideals."
He explained that there are rules internationally set out for pursuing self-determination and this is the only acceptable option for those with the intellectual bend of mind as the murderous campaign of the paid killers running IPOB violates every known norm.
He said, "the Conference of Minority Tribes will drag those named by the DSS in these killings before the ICC. We had earlier condemned in totality the incessant herders clash with farmers which Nigerians can attest to and the principle of justice and fairness demands that every Nigerian should speak up when there is any perceived injustice in the land.
"This is an unbearable narrative that must be condemned by all irrespective of tribal or ethnic affiliations. It is a matter of time before IPOB separatists turn on the rest of us if we remain silent on this matter. As for those sponsoring this national blight called IPOB, it is not too late to return to the path of national integration." Vanguard
April 12, 2016 Ike A. Offor
3 thoughts on "Alleged Death Of Fulani Herdsmen in Abia: Group Threatens To Drag IPOB To ICC"
Dr. Benneth Onoh says:
The Conference of Minority Tribes of Nigeria (CMTN) allegedly headed by one Yoruba sounding name Samson Babalola, had fallen short of listing which ethnic minorities in Nigeria that is under his representation or rather he is protecting their interest. But an outright point of correction to Mr. Babalola is that the Fulani Caliphate in Nigeria is not a minority Tribe. I have always maintained that one of the most difficult things in life is to lye or rather to fabricate things, because one ends up being consistent in inconsistency which in turn exposes his or her incompetence. According to Mr. Babalola himself the DSS knows the details of the killing and the shallow Grave in Abia to the extent that they could mention some names of People who allegedly were involved in the killings whom Mr. Babalola intend to drag to Hague. I seriously praise the meticulousness of the DSS here. But that exactly raises the serious question of their competence on the other hand. Singling out the Shiite Massacre among other atrocities committed under the watch of the present government and their Security forces for example, If the same Nigeria Security forces including the DSS that has consistently denied the massacre of over 300 Shiite which we are now learning were allegedly buried in a mass grave in Kaduna, but was never discovered by the DSS or any other Security Agency could meticulously discover a shallow Grave in Abia allegedly containing a few supposedly Killed Fulanis herdsmen, with all the details Mr Babalola enumerated. It raises some serious questions about the DSS, 1. Is there something wrong with their investigative competence in the Shiite massacre? 2. Could they have probably known more than they admitted in the Shiite Massacre ? 3. Were they sectarian in their investigation in the Shiite Massacre? Whichever way the answer goes something is definitely wrong.
Haven said that, killing of fellow human being remains the gravest offense of all Society and has nothing to look for in our society in the 21st Century. It is for this reason that there is a Government in place to checkmate human excesses hoping that the same government which one seriously doubts in the case of Nigeria government of the day does not turn to excesses themselves. Interestingly Mr Babalola admits that the Nigerian Government is already on investigation in this case, be it genuine or fabricated. The simple fact Mr. Babalola should have known is that ICC has its Mandate in such cases where the Government of the Land is not doing anything like the Massacre of the Shiite , the Agatu Incident the shooting down in open daylight of peaceful demonstrators by the same Government that should protect lives and property of its citizens etc.
But on a more serious note to Mr Babalola over his statement "He warned that if not urgently tackled, the new dimension may lead to the Rwanda Genocide of 1990, in which members of one ethnic group tried to wipe out the other". Should there be any form of Orchestrated genocide in Nigeria, he Mr Babalola would be directly held responsible for this well conspired inciting Statement. We are watching.
Ike A. Offor says:
Brilliant indeed. I made the same observation concerning those he represents, since the Fulani tribe is not a minority group. His personal hate of the Igbos is what is driving him to jump into conclusion and make threats. The killings have been linked to kidnappers and not to any Biafran group.
CLIFF O UDEALA says:
There is nothing 'comrade' in Samson Babalola but a criminal, an impostor and impersonator with his so called CTMN. Somebody must educate him about the meaning of the word minority before himself and his group start classifying Hausafulani, Igbos or his Yoruba tribes as minorities in a nation with over 250 ethnic groups with diverse languages. Where have Samson Babalola and his group been during the annihilation of the Berons, Jokuns, Gwaris,Tivs, Domas,Itshekiris, Binis, the people of Southern Kaduna, or even his ethnic Yorubas in Ondo, Ekiti and Lagos and most recently the Agatus? Is Babalola Samson not aware that fulani herdsmen have killed over 20 Igbos in their farm lands and ravaged their crops worth over a billion naira? Since the dss and the government cannot do anything to protect them, should they not protect themselves. I think Samson and his unknown group is dishing out DSS script to justify their incitement for genocide against Igbos. There is no life that is not valuable! | {
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Why a Trip to explore The Hague should be on your Bucket list
When you think of The Netherlands, you think of Amsterdam. Its grand canals, its cute houses, its thousands of bikes and probably its direct yet friendly-in-their-own-way locals.
But what if I told you that there's far more to the Netherlands than simply Amsterdam? Sure, it's a small country and most other, major cities are easily accessible for a daytrip. But spending a few hours in them won't do them anything even close to justice.
As a Dutchie living in a city that is not Amsterdam, I am calling for all travelers to explore the beauty other cities have to offer. Or well, lets be honest: I want you to explore The Hague.
Explore The Hague: The Second Capital
Just an hour south of Amsterdam lies our political capital: The Hague. The Dutch call it Den Haag, or more formally 's-Gravenhage, but I won't hold it against you if you can't pronounce that. It translates to the "Duke's Forest", after the 13th century Duke of Holland who loved the area so much he built a castle to hunt in the forests around it. He invited his fellow dukes of Europe to come to The Hague to discuss the governance of their lands, and as time went by The Hague grew to be the political capital of the Netherlands. Even though Amsterdam is the official capital and the one dealing with the most tourists, the Dutch houses of Parliament are in The Hague, centered around the medieval Binnenhof square (tours depart several times per day across the street at ProDemos, Hofweg 1).
Besides national politics, The Hague is also home to many international institutions. Though most of them are closed to the public, the famous Peace Palace can be admired from outside. It was built in 1913, and houses (amongst others) the International Court of Justice (ICJ). The annual International Open Day in September allows you to take a tour of these otherwise restricted institutions.
Explore The Hague: For Foodies & Club Hoppers
Over recent years, the city has worked hard to make itself more attractive to young people. And, successfully so: just last year, the University of nearby city Leiden moved one of their faculties to The Hague, so their Governance and Global Affairs students can be closer to where it all actually happens. With the influx of young students comes a boost for The Hague's nightlife and restaurant/bar scene.
One of the latest additions is Bleyenberg, opened June 2017, located just off the bustling Grote Markt. Bleyenberg is a restaurant/bar on the ground floor and a trendy rooftop bar on the 3rd floor. Wait – rooftop? Third floor? Yes – Dutch soil isn't very suitable for high rise buildings, so enjoying the view over the city is even possible for people with a fear of heights. For those of you who'd like to go higher, you can climb the 288 steps to the top of the Haagse Toren ("Hague Tower"). But, it doesn't end there: Bleyenberg also has a 24-hour techno club in the basement, called Het Magazijn ("the warehouse"). Be aware, nightlife in the Netherlands is notoriously casual – no need for painful feet as you can just rock the dancefloor in jeans and sneakers.
The local nightlife stretches far beyond the main hubs (which are Grote Markt and the less informal Plein). The Zeehelden quarter is famous for cute little bars and restaurants, hidden away on unexpected lively squares in the middle of residential areas. The quarter is active on social media and has its own blog – giving you enough inspiration to never see the rest of the city and get lost in its little boutiques and charming cafes.
The Hague has been strongly developing to draw more and younger people to the city. Both Hofhouse and Minglemush are collections of mini restaurants in an informal setting – perfect if you're not sure yet what to eat. Think food court, but better. The previously boring business area of Binkhorst has undergone a transformation, and now is a youthful integral part of The Hague, housing Bink36, an office building but with an epic rooftop bar which hosts regular parties; Mama Kelly, a classic restaurant in trendy industrial setting; and last but not least, The Hague's own craft beer brewery 'Kompaan'.
Explore The Hague: Relax by Scheveningen
The Hague does not need to work too hard to make itself more attractive than it already is. With close proximity to the beach, it has an all-round attraction. Even though there are plenty of European cities by the sea, none can quite compare to ours. The Hague's beach area is called Scheveningen – again, I won't hold it against you if you can't pronounce it. On January 1st, the Dutch have a peculiar tradition that originates in Scheveningen. On this new year's day, we battle through our hangovers and make our way to the beach for the traditional New Year's Plunge. Sausage and soup manufacturer Unox traditionally sponsors the event, handing out bright orange hats and gloves and warm pea soup.
Throughout the rest of the year, Scheveningen offers a seaside boulevard with a newly restored pier with restaurants, shops, a Ferris wheel and even a bungee platform 60 meters above the North Sea waters.
Explore The Hague: Thriving Art Scene
However, The Hague has much more in store than entertaining yet slightly weird traditions and an active nightlife. The city has known a lively art scene throughout the 20th century and now offers a wide variety of museums to enjoy, such as the Mauritshuis (home to the famous Girl with a Pearl Earring), Escher in het Paleis ("Escher in the Palace", dedicated to the genius drawings of M.C. Escher), the unique Panorama Mesdag (a gorgeous, 360 painting that takes you to the beach even on a rainy day), the Gemeente Museum (changing collections of modern and post-modern art, in a typical Art Deco building) or the Gevangenpoort ("Prison Gate", if you're more into history) – to name a few.
As a Dutchie who spent her early 20s in Amsterdam but recently moved cities, The Hague gives me enough room to breathe, yet still enough incentives to keep exploring. After having fallen in love myself, I would love nothing more than for fellow travelers to experience the same beauty – but ssshhh… we'll keep it our secret, and just leave all those ignorant tourists on the crowded streets of Amsterdam.
This is a guest post by Emma Bakels.
Emma is a 25 year old student who recently moved to The Hague (Netherlands) after having spent 6 years in wild wild Amsterdam. She is an avid traveler, currently able to tick 43 countries across 4 continents off her list (but who's counting?). Her all time favorites are Vietnam, South Africa and the Faroe Islands – and the latter definitely being the most special place she has visited so far. Follow her adventures on Instagram @emma.charlotteb!
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by Charmaine Ng | Architecture & Lifestyle Blog on September 25, 2017 12:48 am Reply
Wow, I learned a lot about The Hague from this post. I didn't even know about it before. It seems super interesting and like a great place to visit, thank you for sharing!
by Emma on September 25, 2017 10:07 am Reply
Thank you so much, Charmaine! I hope you'll pay us a visit next time you are in the Netherlands - the Hague is definitely not to be missed.
by Owen Langdale on September 25, 2017 5:51 am Reply
Great article (was alerted to it by a friend in Melbourne). Love to add that both Leiden and Delft are super close to Den Haag too, plus marvellous things like Louwman Auto Museum, one of the finest car collections in the world. If you visit and miss Rotterdam you will fail to encounter some of the best modern architecture around, plus if you use NS (Dutch Rail) you can travel around this tiny country with great ease and at little cost. Second time living in NL and although my current city is Den Haag I still love where I first lived, Utrecht, even more - just like Amsterdam but older and less crowded.
Thank you so much for the additions, Owen! You are completely right - both Leiden and Delft are only 10 minutes and Rotterdam no more than 30 minutes by train from The Hague. But of course, with all that The Hague has to offer, like the Louwman Museum, you wouldn't need (want!) to go anywhere else ;-)
by Steph on September 25, 2017 8:03 am Reply
Never even heard of The Hague but it definitely sounds super cool and makes a change to Amsterdam.
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I'm so glad to hear you enjoyed the article, Steph! I do hope The Hague is now on your radar for any upcoming visits to the Netherlands :-)
by Crete Senesi on September 26, 2017 11:53 am Reply
Thank you so much for sharing this post.
by Emma on September 27, 2017 4:53 am Reply
You're Welcome, Crete! I hope you enjoyed it :)
by Edana on November 7, 2017 9:47 am Reply
I was in The Hague back in July and it was really nice to go somewhere that's not a huge touristy city. Would love to go back to Scheveningen for a weekend getaway :) | {
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Distinguishing Late-Life Depression and Alzheimer's Disease Based on Memory Impairment and Memory-Associated Biochemical Markers- A Systematic Review
Daniel Kjærgaard1 and Jesper Mogensen2*
1Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
2The Unit for Cognitive Neuroscience (UCN), Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
*Corresponding Author:Jesper Mogensen, The Unit for Cognitive Neuroscience (UCN), Department of Psychology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Received: December 16, 2019; Published: January 31, 2020
Background: The need to identify Alzheimer's disease and late-life depression increases as the overall age of the population rises. The lack of evidence of the underlying physiopathologies as well as the heterogeneity of both illnesses complicate the distinction, thus increasing the risk of misdiagnosis. Providing the appropriate diagnoses are necessary to ensure the best possible outcome of care and treatment of existing and future treatment. This systematic review examines the role of episodic memory impairment and memory-associated biochemical markers to distinguish between late-life depression and Alzheimer's disease.
Method: 78 articles were included for full-text screening, of which 9 met the inclusion criteria. These criteria are that articles includes both participants with late-life depression and Alzheimer's disease, examining impaired episodic memory and are peer-reviewed. Studies examining genes or having comorbid illnesses were not included.
Results: Late-life depression and Alzheimer's disease can both be characterized by hippocampal atrophy which consequently can lead to impairment of episodic memory (especially coding new information) and changes in memory-associated biochemical markers. Indeed, measures of cerebrospinal fluid (p-tau231, AβxMAP&t-tau/Aβ40, Aβ1-40/1-42, D-serine and Neprilysin) and urinary samples (AD7c-NTP) are able to distinguish between the two illnesses with a sensitivity and specificity ~80%. Neuropsychological tests (FCSRT, OI) have approximately the same accuracy. Yet, also reflected in the reviewed papers is the fact that late-life depression is not a homogeneous diagnosis, thus subtypes might be particularly difficult to differentiate from Alzheimer's disease. Furthermore, the possibility that subtypes of late-life depression are prodromes to Alzheimer's disease is a pressing issue questioning whether the differentiation is even possible.
Conclusion: Measures of memory impairment can be valid means to distinguish late-life depression from Alzheimer's disease. Both diagnoses can be characterized by impairment of episodic memory, indeed, the degree of the impairment is what can help set the diagnosis. Future studies should study the underlying pathophysiology of both diagnoses, and understand the possible causal relationship between them, to set a more certain diagnosis.
Keywords: Alzheimer's Disease; Late-Life Depression; Cerebrospinal Fluid; Neuropsychological Tests; Differentiation
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Citation: Daniel Kjærgaard and Jesper Mogensen. "Distinguishing Late-Life Depression and Alzheimer's Disease Based on Memory Impairment and Memory-Associated Biochemical Markers- A Systematic Review". EC Neurology 12.2 (2020): 01-26.
Copyright: © 2020 Daniel Kjærgaard and Jesper Mogensen. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. | {
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MI6 chief warns Russian-style 'hybrid warfare' poses threat to democracies
"The risks at stake are profound and represent a fundamental threat to our sovereignty," Alex Younger said.
By Tom Porter
Updated December 8, 2016 16:23 GMT
The head of MI6 warned, on 8 December, that cyber attacks, propaganda, and subversion by hostile foreign states pose a "fundamental threat" to democracies.
In his major speech on Thursday (8 December), the new head of the British foreign intelligence service, Alex Younger, also criticised Russian policy in Syria, claiming it risked alienating those whose support is necessary for defeating Islamic extremism.
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"The connectivity that is at the heart of globalisation can be exploited by states with hostile intent to further their aims deniably," he said, at the speech in MI6 headquarters in Vauxhall Cross, London.
He said British intelligence officers were increasingly having to counter the "the increasingly dangerous phenomenon of hybrid warfare".
"They do this through means as varied as cyber-attacks, propaganda or subversion of democratic process. Our job is to give the government the information advantage: to shine a light on these activities and help our country and our allies, in particular across Europe, build the resilience they need to protect themselves.
"The risks at stake are profound and represent a fundamental threat to our sovereignty. They should be a concern to all those who share democratic values."
He criticised Kremlin policy in Syria, where the Russia has waged a military campaign in support of the regime of President Bashar al-Assad, and has been accused of deliberately targetting schools and hospitals by human rights organisations.
Alex Younger criticised Russian policy in Syria FCO
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He said that 12 terror plots had been disrupted by British intelligence since July, 2013, and that maost emanated from ungoverned spaces in the Middle East.
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Monroe Martin knows a thing or two about NYC audiences—he plays at some of the best comedy theaters in New York, night after night, and he knows exactly how to get the best out of them. We caught up with the gravel-voiced comic before one of his sets at The Stand (home to regular shows from the likes of Judah Friedlander) to find out what New York has taught him about comedy.
How different are New York audiences to those back in your hometown?
New York is different from Philly because there are a lot more foreigners that come to the shows. In Philly, there's no one from Sweden or Spain.
How do you deal with an audience that might not speak English that well?
I realized I had to get more general, speak in more broad terms. You have to find a level that everyone can meet on, like, everybody gets relationship stuff, everybody gets race-based stuff, everybody gets political stuff. So as long as you're very broad and you're not talking down to them, everybody's going to laugh when they're on the same level.
What else have you learned from New York audiences?
If you can kill here, you can kill anywhere. That whole slogan, "If you can make it in New York you can make it anywhere" has some truth to it. If you can kill in New York, not just get by, but legit get belly laughs in New York, you'll have no problem getting belly laughs in Arkansas or in freaking Canada, like, they're ready.
I'm sure Canada's going to be flattered by that comparison.
Yeah, they're gonna be super polite!
So are New York audiences more demanding in general?
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Can the US do anything about domestic propaganda/misinformation?
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It starts with a population that is willing if not wanting to be sensationalized and radicalized. You try and ban/block one avenue of "information" (note intentionally not using word news) but they will just seek out even more fringe and radical outlets.
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[DHT]Osiris said:
This is basically /thread. An educated populace is inoculated to falsehoods, and a happy, healthy (read: not indentured servants) populace is inoculated to extremism and pandering.
It's why there has been a long, directed assault against things like "a liberal education." It's a word that absolutely does not mean what the conservative derposphere has long convinced their zealots it means. It does mean democrat. It does not mean leftists, but this is the definition that has been plugged in to their brains for so long, that you see this nonsense repeated ad nauseum here, without a single attempt by any of these people to ever question what that actually means. They "know," because all they "know" is whatever truths they need to tell themselves.
Classically, and fundamentally to this day--a liberal education simply means a diverse, well-rounded exposure to all forms of knowledge--It's not just science and math, but the pillars of knowledge that have existed just as long, and are still just as fundamentally important: the classics, philosophy, art...all of those things. They are fundamental for critical thinking, and for creating actual functioning adults.
This is why, while there is this directed assault on what that means, you now have people that seem to believe that the only purpose of education is STEM, because that is all society needs...this is observably, disastrously false, and it isn't any other way. At the same time, you have the same type of morons that claim these things, bitching and moaning that China and Japan are destroying us in education! We can't compete? Uh...why? It's because you dillholes have been systematically trying to dismantle what we have always done best with education--real critical thinking. Real creative, highly educated adults. STEM is only half, maybe less of any kind of real education. If you think rote memorization of fundamental laws is all there is to life, then you probably deserve the misery that you have absolutely brought upon yourself.
...and of course, this all plays into the same assault on education, explicitly by the GOP over the last several decades: convince the rubes that they just need to be unquestioning, functioning automatons that are highly-functional tech wizzes, they will never challenge what is going on around them. They won't care to observe, won't care to think for themselves, because they will be fat and happy in what is, fundamentally, a mediocre life compared to the trajectory that it was on 4 decades ago--when we decided to take all of their wealth from them, and give it to their bosses. They will be "happy enough," never accepting or ever believing that they are fundamentally valued at 60-70% less than what they were worth in the mid-70s. ...We took that from them, but they will never care, because they no longer trust "the elites," they are incapable of critical thinking and thus forming any kind of rational argument when challenged by the actual smart people that point out these fundamental facts to them--but it doesn't matter, because they don't care. They don't know what they don't know, so while they will continue to fail in defending what is their actual mediocrity, it won't matter because they don't believe. Truth is belief, and that is all they care about. Their brains are our prisoners, and that is all we ever wanted of them. Keep them fat and content, they will never know the theft that we have been funneling from them for decades. This, quite plainly, is modern conservatism. It is the plain truth, and best explained the then-scion of conservatism in his time, Barry Goldwater, and what he predicted is exactly what is, today, the modern conservative: ignorant to the core because they fundamentally lack the tools to know what they don't know--because faith is truth. Facts aren't facts when faith is all that matters. These are dangerous people, to any democracy. It simply can not work with them participating.
You can't talk to these people. You can't rationalize with them, because they have been conditioned from childhood to invent their own truths, and so they only find comfort in a political party that allows this expressly, and simply demands of them that they never question, never challenge. Remain fat and happy, distrust and smear those "elites" that mock your ignorance, that challenge your belief...oh but trust us. because we are the best!
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zinfamous said:
Great write-up, and good summary.
Elitism is actually Intellectualism. Anti-intellectualism is actually pro-ignorance and pro-stupidity. The Republican party, for the last 50-odd years, has benefited directly from pro-ignorance propaganda, and pro-stupidity constituents.
Weak men who have forgotten the faces of their fathers.
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VRAMdemon
No simple answers for this complex problem. Low and no information voters are still going to be low and no information. They adore a President who is personally eroding trust in true journalism, telling the low/no info voters it is okay to disregard news that is inconvenient. It's barely a band-aid trying to cover a 12" long gash.
"The problem," said the theater manager gravely, "is not the people who keep screaming 'FIRE!!!' It's the gullible idiots who believe it, and trample each other to death trying to escape."
dawp said:
should have mentioned all the tax money spent on trumps golf trips which far exceeds Obamas and the impeachment.
send her this link to really piss her off
Trump Golf Count: Tracking President Trump's golf outings so you don't have to!
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Also remind her that Mueller's investigation turned up a net profit of something like $15 million, iirc, after reclaiming all that stolen money from all those witches that were convicted (especially Manafort)
I think the worst thing that has happened to this country was when the last living conservative (of his time or our time), George HW Bush was defeated in the primaries by Reagan. Conservatism died in that moment. Bush is the guy that coined "voodoo economics," and I am certain that not one single, living conservative remembers, or even knows this. He knew that Reagan was full of horseshit. He knew that supply-side economics was nothing but grifting the middle-class to forever trap wealth into the hands of the already-preposterously-and-undeserved wealthy.
He knew it. And of course it was the post-Reagan republican mindfuck on the people, to create this absolute myth that Reagan was some kind of "saint" of conservatism, when every single observable economic and policy metric that you can pin on Reagan tells a completely, inarguably, different story. Conservatives today are completely mindfucked.
They simply do not know what they do not know.
I keep hoping one day someone will open a doomsday vault to find a family of conservatives living inside, including a 90-yo 'old world' father, with his 70-something son (hopefully with a gal that came in with them) and their 50-something grandson who's this pinnacle of true Republicanism from when they actually had legs to stand on. That kid then runs for president under the R ticket.
That's about the only thing that would recover the Republican party at this point.
When Mitt Romney is being tore down by his own party for being a "RINO", good luck with that. There is no saving the Republican party. Its new inhabitants don't want to be saved.
vi edit said:
They'd have to ride in on a golden chariot and slay all the existing members of the party, like some resurrection of Alexander the Great or something.
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Epstein didn't kill himself?
No one really believes he did.
hal2kilo
Zorba said:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCC_fairness_doctrine - Killed by Reagan
Strict ownership limits and controls - Killed by Clinton
We used to have means of controlling propaganda, given to us by FDR, killed by the deregulation masturbatory fantasy.
Someone remembers when things were, well, normal.
ivwshane
Lost_in_the_HTTP said:
You spelled right wingnut extremists wrong.
Indeed. I should have included the eye roll tag but I figured everyone knows the "liberal education indoctrination" meme.
Eliminating FAUX Nooze and other disinformation plagues like Breitbart would be a start.
While I agree, the question would be how does that happen legally and without back firing.
I don't think you can block what people want to look at but I think you may be able to block what businesses are able to disseminate. | {
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In February 2018, Abu Dhabi Ports signed a shareholder agreement with Autoterminal Barcelona – a member of Spain-based Noatum Maritime Group – to create Autoterminal Khalifa Port, a new joint venture (JV) company.
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Radiation from wireless technology affects the blood, the heart, and the autonomic nervous system1)
Magda Havas
From the journal Reviews on Environmental Health
https://doi.org/10.1515/reveh-2013-0004
Exposure to electrosmog generated by electric, electronic, and wireless technology is accelerating to the point that a portion of the population is experiencing adverse reactions when they are exposed. The symptoms of electrohypersensitivity (EHS), best described as rapid aging syndrome, experienced by adults and children resemble symptoms experienced by radar operators in the 1940s to the 1960s and are well described in the literature. An increasingly common response includes clumping (rouleau formation) of the red blood cells, heart palpitations, pain or pressure in the chest accompanied by anxiety, and an upregulation of the sympathetic nervous system coincident with a downregulation of the parasympathetic nervous system typical of the "fight-or-flight" response. Provocation studies presented in this article demonstrate that the response to electrosmog is physiologic and not psychosomatic. Those who experience prolonged and severe EHS may develop psychologic problems as a consequence of their inability to work, their limited ability to travel in our highly technologic environment, and the social stigma that their symptoms are imagined rather than real.
Keywords: electrosmog; radio-frequency radiation; rouleau; tachycardia; WiFi; Wolff-Parkinson-White Syndrome
Corresponding author: Magda Havas, PhD, Environmental and Resource Studies, Trent University, Peterborough, ON, K9J 7B8 Canada, E-mail: [email protected]; www.magdahavas.com
Presented at the Corporate Interference with Science and Health: Fracking, Food, and Wireless, Scandinavia House, New York, NY, March 13 and 14, 2013.
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Accepted: 2013-7-24
©2013 by Walter de Gruyter Berlin Boston
Article Radiation from wireless technology affects the blood, the heart, and the autonomic nervous system1)
Magda Havas 2013
Havas, Magda. "Radiation from wireless technology affects the blood, the heart, and the autonomic nervous system1)" Reviews on Environmental Health, vol. 28, no. 2-3, 2013, pp. 75-84. https://doi.org/10.1515/reveh-2013-0004
Havas, M. (2013). Radiation from wireless technology affects the blood, the heart, and the autonomic nervous system1). Reviews on Environmental Health, 28(2-3), 75-84. https://doi.org/10.1515/reveh-2013-0004
Havas, M. (2013) Radiation from wireless technology affects the blood, the heart, and the autonomic nervous system1). Reviews on Environmental Health, Vol. 28 (Issue 2-3), pp. 75-84. https://doi.org/10.1515/reveh-2013-0004
Havas, Magda. "Radiation from wireless technology affects the blood, the heart, and the autonomic nervous system1)" Reviews on Environmental Health 28, no. 2-3 (2013): 75-84. https://doi.org/10.1515/reveh-2013-0004
Havas M. Radiation from wireless technology affects the blood, the heart, and the autonomic nervous system1). Reviews on Environmental Health. 2013;28(2-3): 75-84. https://doi.org/10.1515/reveh-2013-0004
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Edmund Jacobson (ur. 22 kwietnia 1888 w Chicago, zm. 7 stycznia 1983 w Chicago) — amerykański lekarz medycyny wewnętrznej, fizjolog i psychiatra, naukowiec, twórca treningu Jacobsona oraz Biofeedbacku.
Jego badania nad aktywnością nerwowo-mięśniową, elektrycznymi impulsami nerwowymi udowodniły, że nadmierne napięcie mięśni jest powiązane z zaburzeniami emocjonalnymi.
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Solutions for the level 11 cliff?
Post by ducci » Sat Jan 11, 2020 10:49 am
There's always been a difficulty spike at level 11, but it must have gotten worse with the changes to the combat code that made hitroll and armor class more effective. There's a loss of 85 armor class and 27 hitroll, and I wonder if that now results in a "game-breaking" drop in combat ability.
I was talking to Grakk, who recently made some new characters, and he was shocked that his hitroll had dropped to just 2 at level 11. He had picked up a variety of equipment, but it must not have had any hitroll bonuses. Of course, he played a long time ago and only has vague memories of what and where the good equipment is. He said combat had become almost impossible because he couldn't hit mobs anymore, and I suspect that mobs who had been missing the majority of their attacks started hitting him at the normal probability.
Is there a good solution to this? The easiest thing might be just to increase the maximum level for Clericus to give spells, although that could just create a new cliff at a different level. It also wouldn't solve the problem of players becoming dependent on the buffs and not even realizing that they need different equipment.
We could also create a BR Academy "Graduate" equipment set and make it available to level 11 characters. It could have some relatively big hitroll and AC bonuses that would smooth the transition away from Clericus buffs, while not totally superseding the good equipment options that are available in the wild for levels 11-20.
Re: Solutions for the level 11 cliff?
Post by Everybody » Tue Jan 14, 2020 9:05 am
I'd prefer the second - easily available equipment for level 7-9ish with moderate stat boosts. First, it's easier to get into the game, as it doesn't require coding. Second, pushing out Clericus's targeting only delays the issue rather than fixes it (as you noted). An in-between possibility is having Clericus cast lower level spells for 11-15 so you get weaned off of relying on them, but that's a more significant code change to get it working.
Adding some easy access to enchant scrolls might be a useful benefit, as well - the hitroll bonuses off of that are a lot of the early game addition for that stat.
Post by ducci » Tue Jan 14, 2020 10:12 am
Just as a starting point, here are some thoughts I had:
A mobile vendor in the expert area of the academy could sell "used Calathar guard gear." It would be unrepairable and already dented, so before a player hits level 20, they will probably be looking for upgrades.
He'd sell you 4 armor items: 2 bracers (wrists), 1 helm, and 1 girth (waist)
Each would have these stats:
-20 ac (bonus)
He'd also sell a lvl 15 enchant scroll. That would keep the ones in Thalos and Perelandra still worth exploring for.
Also what would you think of adding a few more foods to the newbie grocer and 1 cure light pill disguised as a food? | {
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type ExpressReq = any; //TODO
type ExpressRouter = any; //TODO
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Just returned home from a 4 day Ironman CDA training camp with VO2 Multisport. As much as I like doing my training solo, it is really nice to get in with a group now and then.
I trained far harder and longer and "smarter" than I would have on my own. By smarter I mean that I was really adhering to a better routine of nutrition both during and before/after exercise. This is needed with long training days back to back.
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