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Good morning Fackers, and those of you who are still sticking around to tell us how "facking qweaah" we are.
Well it was quite a day around here wasn't it? Thanks to some Tuesday night shenanigans in Boston, some tedious work with MLB.tv and Windows Movie Maker by Jay, and gracious links from Big League Stew, Deadspin, The 700 Level, The Legend of Cecilio Guante, and the Cleveland Frowns, this place absolutely blew up. Good thing Jay and I didn't both go the Yankee game or anything like that..... oh wait, we did.
In our absence, what was conceived as a well earned jab at some jackass-ish behavior somehow devolved into a cesspool of anonymous tough-guy commenting centering around steroids, tainted championships, relative payroll levels, fanbase paranoia, recent playoff history, and a bunch of other horseshit. Oh, and I think I might have been invited to visit Texas as well. I'm still trying to discern what the hell any of that has to do with what happened in Boston Tuesday.
So at the risk of stirring up yet another shitstorm, let me see if I can offer as objective an outlook on Youkgate as humanly possible from a dirty facking Yankee fan. The way the first game and two innings of the Tigers-Sox series unfolded, I suppose something like this was bound to happen. The Sox were coming off a four game sweep at the hands of their division rival - a series that had its share of hit batsmen tomfoolery - and were playing their worst baseball of the season.
Monday night's game saw three hit batsmen: Miguel Cabrera in the top of the fourth, Youkilis in the bottom, and Brandon Inge in the the eighth. On Tuesday the teams picked up right where they left off. Cabrera was hit again in the top of the first, causing him to leave the game. For what it's worth, I didn't think that pitch was intentional. In the bottom of the inning, Porcello came inside on Victor Martinez. Martinez didn't like it. I don't think Porcello was trying to hit him, but I'm sure his intent was to come inside. Whether that was retribution or whether it was because that's just a good way to pitch I'm not entirely sure.
Either way, the climate was perfect for a fight when Youkilis led off the bottom of the second. I'm convinced that sometimes, particularly when tensions are high like that, a batter will go to the plate having already made the decision to make a big deal out of anything close to hitting him. That's how we wound up with Manny Ramirez inciting a bench clearing incident in the 2003 ALCS on a pitch that was high, but over the plate. That's how we wound up with Richie Sexson charging the mound on a pitch that was outside. And that's how we wound up with Youkilis, who had already been plunked once in the series, charging the mound on a two seam fastball that appears to have hit him without any intent.
According to pitch f/x, Tuesday night Porcello threw eight four seam fastballs, averaging nearly 93 MPH and topping out at 94 MPH. He threw half as many two seamers, averaging just under 92 MPH, and topping out at 92.2 MPH. MLB Gameday had the two seamer that hit Youkilis at a blistering 89 MPH. According to fangraphs, Porcello's pitch selection and velocity Tuesday, despite the small sample size, was in line with his results this season. So if he wanted to hit Youkilis, why would he choose to do it with a two seamer, a pitch that he throws half as often and anywhere from 1 to 5 MPH slower than his four seamer?
Some might point out that entering last night's game, Porcello had hit just one batter in 111 IP in 2009. That's a fair point, but in his lone minor league season, Porcello plunked 11 batters in just 125 innings of work. But I mean, that's all in the past right? 20 year old Major League pitchers should have impeccable control.
Either way, Youk charged the mound and threw his helmet like a coward. Porcello, giving up about twenty pounds, executed a nice hip toss that would have made Tito Santana proud, leaving Youk at the bottom of the pig pile.
Despite what the pro-Sox contingent commenting here had to say, Youk isn't winning this one on the national stage. The Deadspin comments - not the best gauge but definitely not a biased cross section - were decidedly anti-Youk. Keith Law tore him a new one before the game was even over. MLBN was none too kind to him Tuesday night, and what little coverage I saw on ESPN wasn't too complimentary either. In a way, even the MLB suspensions speak to that: Youk got five games which he began serving last night. Porcello, his ejection dubious to begin with, was also given five. However, most starting pitchers suspended for similar "offenses" have been given six games. The Tigers can easily work Porcello's suspension around an off day, making sure he doesn't miss a start. Alternatively, if Porcello's appeal reduces the suspension by a single game, it will cover his normal rest. But whatever, ignore what's being said on the national stage - several dozen anonymous commenters here can't be wrong.
Now, I don't want to pick through all ninety-some-odd comments we had on the initial post and critique them one by one, but there are two that I'd like to highlight.
First, we have the Greco-Roman wrestling expert who proclaims (sic'd) "The man on defense has the advantage when he knows its coming". Well, sure they do, that's why it's called going on the defensive. Wait - never mind - it's called going on the offensive, because, you know, it's better to attack than be attacked, particularly when you have a running start, your opponent is retreating, and you elect to use protective gear as a missile. I may not be the fighting expert that this anonymous commenter apparently is, but I have taken several physics courses, and I do know that Youkilis' 220 lbs coming at a full sprint is preferable to Porcello's 200 lbs at a standstill. Momentum equals mass times velocity. And for future reference Youk, next time you attack a guy who has you by four inches but is giving you twenty pounds, it might be a better idea to go low. Perhaps if you had spent more time with the Huggins Thugs during your time at Cincy you would know this.
Secondly, we have "I love how you end the clip before youk rolls over on him like he is about to ground and pound him to a bloody pulp". Yes, I'm sure that's exactly what was about to happen next. We've all seen this guy before. He's usually the one who talks a bunch of shit, tears his shirt off, then begs his friends to "hold him back", you know, for the other guy's good, not because he's really a pussy and doesn't actually want to fight. Alternatively, he's the guy who gets his ass kicked, and upon the merciful ending of the fight asks his friends, "Why'd you break it up?!?! I had him right where I wanted him".
Anyway, thanks for the record-shattering day everyone. With just one post we received about a month's worth of traffic. Too bad most of it was a barren wasteland of anonymous idiocy. Despite what I've described above, I see now that we probably should have blindly praised Youkilis for his gritty guttiness and his gutty grittiness. The rest of the post should have been about how the Yankees suck and all take steroids and buy championships and how insecure they are with a 5.5 game lead more than two thirds of the way through the season.
Never mind the fact that I completely unfairly slammed the guy on Monday for his outfield play over the weekend, and no one said peep. The guy took one for the team when it was needed, put himself on the line, and we (predictably) made fun of him for it no one called us out on it. The lowest common denominator wins again.
I realize that calling the blog "Fack Youk", though done somewhat tongue-in-cheek, is antagonistic. As such, a certain amount of what happened yesterday is to be expected when people don't get the joke. But I'm utterly amazed that what I thought was a fairly cut and dry post spurred the pissing match that followed. But what do I know? Keep the comments coming; let's just try to up the collective IQ a bit this time around. As for me I've said my next-to-last about the Sox until the next head-to-head series starts next Friday.
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Sad that we can't have a nice heated discussion today. Yesterday was good because it put a lot of emotion in play, hence the heated comments and just some complete bozos posting garbage. But a good debate would be a nice follow up to yesterday's quite entertaining posts.
I still can't believe you think he didn't hit Youk on purpose. It was the very first pitch of the second inning. Leyland is old school, that's how he works.
Oh, that was definitely on purpose. But Cabrera was not. 0-2 count with runners on 1st and 2nd.
I think it's funny how you call Youkalis a pussy for throwing his helmet..but Porcello threw a fkn basball at 90mph that would have hit him in the squash if he hadnt of turned an took it in the back close to the back of his neck. You make it sound as if a 89-90mph baseball is some sort of nerf ball that doesnt hurt the truth is it can kill never mind injure. I live in PA I'm a Philly's fan for christ sakes an I'd have been pissed if Dwight Howard got hit like that an didnt stand up for himself. Now as for the pittiful display of pugilistic skills well you can have at that all you want that was down right embarrassing IMO How does a man built like Youkalis not punch the shit of a scared bitch like Porcello? Almost looked like he had no intention of punching the kid an he had no idea what to do after he got to him. Again Soxs fans gotta be embarrassed for the guy.
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(WASHINGTON, D.C., 9/22/06) – On Tuesday, September 26, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) will hold its fourth annual Capitol Hill Ramadan “iftar,” or fast-breaking meal, for congressional staffers, American Muslim community leaders and diplomats from Muslim nations.
The iftar will feature the breaking of the fast and the Islamic sunset prayer (maghrib). It is designed to allow Muslim leaders, congressional staffers and elected officials to network on issues of mutual concern, to foster greater understanding of Islam and the American Muslim community and to show appreciation for staffers who have been working closely with Muslims.
| https://www.cair.com/press_releases/cair-to-host-ramadan-iftar-on-capitol-hill/ | 134 |
Edward Minskoff had access to all this valuable sculpture he wanted to share with the city, whether the city wanted it or not.
It turned out the city wasn't so sure, but Mr. Minskoff was. So despite initial opposition from the Municipal Art Society, Community Board 5 and several members of New York's Planning Commission, the 55-year-old developer was granted permission to convert the public atrium in the IBM Building at 590 Madison Ave. into a sculpture garden.
It was an odd battle that pitted Mr. Minskoff against several individuals, such as Amanda Burden, and groups, such as the MAS, that would normally be supportive of a fine arts haven for the city. The problem was that Mr. Minskoff wanted to change a treasured public space with trees and chairs and places to eat lunch, which had been created by the original builders of the office tower as a quid pro quo for being allowed to add 131,000 square feet to the structure. "He came in very arrogant with his first plans," says an official at the Municipal Art Society, recalling the initial proposal that would have removed all the movable chairs and also installed guards. "They were abysmal."
Already,since the project was approved by the community board and the planning commission, Mr. Minskoff has closed the space to the public more times than his agreement with the city permits.
But that's Ed Minskoff. He knows exactly what he wants and, much to the chagrin of many in the real estate industry, this other abrasive offspring of a big developer often gets it.
In an industry dominated by men who manipulate corporations, politicians and even cities to suit their needs, Mr. Minskoff has made his mark as a tough customer. Feared for his unrelenting negotiations, loathed for his success and good luck, he is walking proof that nice guys finish last. He keeps finishing first-at least so far.
Unlike old-style developers, who build partnerships that last a lifetime, Mr. Minskoff changes his allies with almost every dance-not necessarily by his own choice.
It's a pattern that began at home: Mr Minskoff never joined the family firm founded by his grandfather, Sam Minskoff, which built the Minskoff Theatre and office tower in Times Square.
"I never received a dollar in financial support from my family from the day I finished college," Mr. Minskoff says. "The name was more of a difficulty than a help."
Even so, being from a well-known real estate family may have meant the difference for a businessman who, former colleagues say, has a penchant for rampages and tantrums in his efforts to dominate deals.
"I don't have tantrums," Mr. Minskoff responds. "I am 100% in control."
Most brokers and former colleagues interviewed about Mr. Minskoff asked to speak off the record and consistently described him as difficult and intense.
"He gets involved in a deal immediately and changes his mind constantly," says a leasing broker who does business with him. "He has to find new partners because he burns his bridges."
Others who have chosen to do business with him characterize his style as creative and dogged.
"We needed someone who's been through all of it--buying and selling and financing--and emerged relatively unscathed," says Martin Rabinowitz, a partner in Odyssey Partners, which joined with Mr. Minskoff to buy the IBM building. "Ed Minskoff has the intangibles that separate those who are successful from those who are successful in bull markets."
The deal that clinched a place in New York real estate history for Mr. Minskoff is known as the Uris deal. In 1977, he engineered the $338 million sale of eight major Manhattan skyscrapers to the Reichmann family of Toronto, a steal that later paid off big for the Reichmanns' Olympia & York subsidiary, with a return over the next decade of $3 billion. After that transaction, Mr. Minskoff became a partner at O&Y and helped put together the deals on which the World Financial Center was based.
The partnership ended in 1986 when he was bought out by the Reichmanns for at least $40 million. Some former O&Y colleagues say that he was forced out, in what was basically a personality clash with Paul Reichmann.
Coming out of O&Y, he quickly set up shop on his own and began assembling the land and almost $300 million for a new skyscraper, which opened in 1990, behind Sixth Avenue's New York Hilton Hotel.
Five years later, it is finally fully leased. Some contend that Mr. Minskoff, who sank roughly $30 million into it during a 1992 restructuring, was forced to give up most of his equity to Citibank at that time.
The purchase and leasing of the IBM Building went much more smoothly, although it took prodding from his partner Odyssey Partners, the hiring of Edward S. Gordon Co. as a leasing agent, and a reduction in asking rents to the mid $40s per square foot from the mid $50s, insiders say. Little more than a year after the deal was closed, all but seven floors in the million-square-foot building are leased, says Mr. Minskoff. IBM remains in a third of the building.
Mr. Minskoff denies that any rents were cut to bring in tenants. Clearly, though, he tried specifically for some high-prestige names, which may have ended up being less lucrative in the end. His big public relations coup was his successful wooing of the Freedom Forum, a noted nonprofit devoted to the First Amendment, which will rent the former IBM Gallery of Science and Art.
"Old-fashioned developers can't do what he does," says Mariyon Robertson of Joseph Hilton Associates, which recently represented Cemex, a Mexican company, in a lease at the IBM building. "He has no hesitation. He teams up with anybody available. He survives." | https://www.crainsnewyork.com/article/19951204/SUB/512040703/he-s-an-ego-builder-irascible-controlling-minskoff-still-wins | 1,251 |
Thanks spanner, still waiting for an extra armored parts for luca's nightmare. It'll be here in a couple of weeks.
A friend of mine happens to be one of those 21 poor souls. He said that on the 29 of last month, all orders and the sellers account has been suspended by aliexpress security for possible fraudulent business activity. In the email that he received, aliexpress security stated that the sellers have 10 days to prove that they actually have the actual items and provide shopping information. Otherwise all funds will be refunded by aliexpress in 5 working days. Sounds like a good security to me.
That's very unfortunate Mommar, I had 2 of them (I've sold one since). Luckily both were nice, they are even tighter than my brera. I don't know about other member's experience, but you probably received a melon like I did with one one of my vf-25f renewal, that was floppy when taken out of the box. So I share your contempt.
Great pics but they are missing one key ingredient: one more 0A for gerwalk mode. Btw you mentioned 2x 0S, how about the cf 0a?
Wow that actually looks very nice, I wonder if a gunpod will make it look more imposing.
No it's pronounced deru-ta, I kid you. But back to probable storyline, I'm thinking of New UN Spacy vs anti UN (supposedly still active) mainly due to the design of the draken valk, that bears no resemblence to known UN design (please correct me if I'm wrong) while the blue and white valk is "the natural progression" of current valks would likely mean that it's a follow on valks of current ones, seeing how continuity in design in macross verse is maintained (vf-0 to vf-1, yf-19 to vf-19, vf-17 to vf-171) at least that's what I imagine. Regardless, the prospect of vf vs vf and the possibility of planet bound dogfight brings back fun memories of those dogfight scenes from macross zero, so bring it on. Keep up the good work tochiro, I personally find your report refreshing.
It's a very nice price for a D especially if it's the FP bundled one.
I'm actually looking forward to VF vs VF dogfight scenes after looking at the picture.. it would be nice if NUNS squares off with anti UN, rebel, or rogue zentran fleet, hence the shift of focus to VF combat. But then again macross without music and love triangle, is not macross. On a note I agree that the red VF looks similar to saab J-35 draken.
I say go with the VF-19, it's (not a really fair assessment from a diehard 19 fan) besides it's the only different model from your list of valks. If super parts are important for your choice of YF-29, I would say go for isamu as it is easily found, sometimes in bundle pack with the super pack, ozma's is expensive but the pack is very cheap.
Yup my thoughts exactly either they have access to old yamato stock or somehow tied to the company making it for arcadia (wishful thinking) or simply like KO TF toys from china.
It's a mobile suit from the hathaway flash graphic novel. A relatively canon story in gundam universe but obscure due to the lack of translation. The suits on the other hand, have been featured in many gamesHere is the wiki link yeti http://gundam.wikia.com/wiki/Mobile_Suit_Gundam:_Hathaway's_Flash PS: I think the model is from the robot damashii line.
Thanks spanner76 it would be more complete next to your sv-51s acquisition, especially the mass production version.
For me it's 1 and 4 I bought the VF-0D and the 0A and I can't say I'm pleased with them. To be honest, with arcadia's price I expected something better, initially I thought the 0D was a fluke for all its shortcomings but after buying the 0A I began to have serious doubt about having arcadia's future releases, so for me it's wait and see.
I was tinkering with my old yammie VF-0A when I saw the afternoon light, so I couldn't resist taking a couple of shots with my phone. Mind you it's a phone camera, so it's not in the same league as saburo's. Behold "The last sortie"
Wow that's unfortunate Chronocidal, but have you considered another possibility? Cause a friend of mine kind of pushed the booster too hard and actually chipped a part of the tab, since then, he's been trying to fix the tab. But best of luck, hopefully if it's a defect, you'll be able to fix it.
How about imperial pilots, just add 2 huge wings and voila tie fighter with legs. But then again, with such seemingly small room at the back of the regult, the only thing that will fit is probably the T-1000 terminator in liquid form. Here's hoping that the real thing will actually bigger than it looks in pictures.
Wow, do you know that for a fact? Cause it's news for me. Maybe you can elaborate more or some other members who know this for a fact can share their experience. I feel bad about brother beatsing, cause NY has been good for me. Hope you'll fine a solution, soon.
Well I personally will assume that none of us macross toy collectors are happy with the high MSRP that arcadia charges for its valkyries. That said, at the end of the day there are some of us who will balk at high price and make a decision not to purchase a damaged-prone collectibles. And some will undoubtedly resent the price but willing to commit purchasing such collectibles because they are the only offerings in town. Regardless of the niche market argument, the argument that there are those who support or against arcadia' price is not accurate. I personally am pissed at arcadia high prices and quality of items, but for that manner I'm also pissed at bandai half-hearted attempt (vf-171 cf, mac quarter or even vf-19 advance floating tabs) and the now dead yamato for their vf-1 unsafe releases. But the lower the price the higher my tolerance is. But when it comes to take a stand between buying a possible "crap" (pardon the pun) and not buying at all, there will always be people for both camps. Take for example evolution vf-2SS, it's high priced, and inaccurate in some ways, so its a matter of personal decision or commitment to buy it or to wait for something better comes along. So let us all agree to disagree. (Or we can always boycott arcadia's product and in time the company will go down or abandon macross toys production altogether, then it will be one less company that suck all those hard-earned cash and transform it to plastic junk. Not really a prospect that I like either). | https://www.macrossworld.com/mwf/profile/30810-valkryenov/content/ | 1,528 |
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From Block 1 Rep: With apologies, the communication I had hoped to send to you no later than yesterday is delayed until next week. In part, this is so that new information can be incorporated, and also because access to costing data and personnel at ALPA National's offices—vital to the dissenting elected representatives on your MEC for the purpose of verifying information presented by the Negotiating Committee—has been denied. I have faith, however, that our MEC officers will resolve the issue soon.
Accurate, unfiltered information is the oxygen of your democracy, and unfettered access to that information is its lifeblood. Your patience in the matter is appreciated.
Meanwhile, here's some food for thought: While $1.7 Billion worth of claimed improvements in this TA sounds like a large number, some perspective is in order. That's less than 1/2 of one percent of the company's projected revenues from the amendable date through the end of the TA. One half of one penny per dollar of revenue.
For additional perspective: To cover increased costs, the company raised prices 4.9% earlier this year across the board—ten fold the entire amount gained in this TA. This follows a similar pricing move in 2012 and fuel surcharges which have been increased even as fuel prices decline.
Do you still think there's "no money available" to improve your retirement A plan?
Section 8 Deadheading: Section 8 A. 5. c. “Higher Class of Service:” Allowing a lay flat seat to determine a higher class of service could lead to deadheading in coach and reduced deviation banks as airlines expand their use in economy plus. There is no language in the TA providing a “no less than business class” provision.
Section 24 Filling of Vacancies: Our current agreement provides you with a “bid to relieve an excess” option whereby you can bid to any aircraft and any seat anywhere in the system with an excess posting. This option is now eliminated under the TA. If we vote for this agreement, you will only be able to “stand in” for a junior pilot who is being excessed. In other words, you cannot exercise your seniority like you can today, rather you can only go where the junior pilot can go. In addition, this provision provides a reduction in training cycles for every posting. In fairness, this will also lead to less unwanted seat movement for a junior pilot during an excess.
Section 25 S. Trip Revision: Just like in our current agreement, a reserve pilot in this TA still does not receive the same disruption pay protections as a non-reserve pilot in the same cockpit. We should have changed this to provide the same pay for the same work regardless of a pilot being on reserve.
Section 27: The lack of a Health Reimbursement Account (HRA) for the Buy up option leaves pilots who are post-retirement but pre-Medicare vulnerable to large out of pocket costs for insurance and thus acts as a disincentive to retirement before 65.
Section 28: As we have written before, having both a Defined Benefit (DB) “A plan” and a Defined Contribution (DC) “B plan” is the optimum way to provide for retirement security. Our passenger brothers and sisters had their A plan taken in or facing the threat of bankruptcy/distressed termination otherwise they too would enjoy an A plan today. American’s A plan is frozen not terminated and I believe will re-emerge as an option for their pilots in future bargaining as interest rates rise. Our A plan is off-property, in trust for you, and is well funded. In addition, there are approximately 219,000 participants in our company’s DB plan. It is a safe and secure plan and should be retained.
Under current IRS rules, you are limited in the total amount one can put in a B plan. Congress and the White House have flirted with reducing and establishing new limits for DC contributions as a way to raise tax revenue. This means we should not consider putting all of our retirement eggs in one basket.
Keeping all of our current and future pilots in the same retirement plans prevents a “B” scale retirement from undermining our union long-term. However, the A plan remaining unchanged with a $260,000 cap and the B plan increasing only 1% at DOS with an additional 1% four years later is insufficient. We have the leverage to increase these amounts and we should keep fighting to address this issue.
Section 31: A 6-year contract is too long given the issues listed above. Given the time it takes to negotiate agreements, this could be a decade-long agreement.
If you decide to vote this TA down, what happens next?
I would consider a rejection of this TA to be a mandate to rebuild, revise, and re-engage. Your volunteer committee members in Negotiations, Pilot to Pilot, the Strategic Planning and Strike Preparation committees have worked hard to get us to this point. When you see them on the line, be sure to thank them for their service. If we reject this agreement, some of these volunteers may want to take a well-deserved break. Strengthening these key committees with experienced volunteers from prior negotiations would help build bridges among our union leaders. I would suggest we poll to identify your key reasons for rejecting the agreement as well as develop additional strategies to enhance our leverage.
There is risk in this path, but we have been here before. In fact, we were “at will” employees at that time without the protections of a contract. The timeframe to renegotiate this agreement is uncertain and will vary based on management’s motivation to get a ratifiable agreement. Using the offices of the NMB would be optimal for further talks, but their absence does not preclude negotiations if we are successful at encouraging management to bring more to the table.
If you have specific questions about my reasons, please call. This is your future and I look forward to working on your behalf regardless of the outcome of this vote.
From Block 6 Rep: I feel like I was kicked in the gut when I realized that this was our TA. I have been sick to my stomach ever since, with a feeling that I did not meet our pilot’s expectations. It feels as if I personally let the majority of you down.
That is not how history will be written. It is my opinion that a substandard offer from the company was approved by your MEC, in order for our pilot’s to “see it.” I was hoping that we would continue negotiations to make this deal acceptable. I wasn’t ready to quit. However, I failed to make a difference in our discussions and debates. Resultantly, I am now handing you a TA that falls short of my expectations.
Does this TA make you proud?
As many have asked, is this TA a “One Section” deal for me? No, this TA is an “all section” deal. It is simply inadequate when looking at the total package.
No matter if this TA is ratified or not, I am prepared to stand strong with my pilots. We will either be signing a TA together or rallying in a fight for what we are worth. While FedEx could agree to meet with us outside of the NMB, we will still be under NMB mediation and meet according to the NMB’s schedule should FedEx choose not to schedule meetings with us. Either way, I do not fear the unknown.
Please take the time to read the TA for yourself. Attend a road show, send your questions to... or call/email me. I will do my best to give you factual information so that you can make up your own mind. Does this TA represent your worth for a decade of work? Does this TA make you proud?
I'm thankful for the dissenting voters speaking up so people can make their own decisions based on all the information. Just a reminder the union now has an official position and is actively doing their best to convince us to vote for this TA. In order to defeat this we have to work against a funded (by us), professionally organized union with professionally produced videos, talking points, and organized meetings where they control the agenda. The dissenters are providing the critical other side of the argument that we need to consider before voting. I'm a definite No vote, but i want to thank the other No votes for having the courage to stand up for us line pilots. Cheers.
There are other ways to get a pay raise (and significant bonuses!). I suspect that many of us are AT LEAST as qualified as the last guy that had this job?
You have to agree to sell the pilots "down the river." Oh ... and I forgot, you also have to agree to mismanage staffing so badly that there's a need to cancel flight every day?
Hopefully by now, everyone has had a chance to read the TA, watch the videos, watch the webcasts and read the Q & A’s.
There are many good gains in this TA, but I believe there are too many concessions or no movement/improvement.
It was promised to poll often to keep the NC/MEC appraised of your desires in a new contract. I can only remember two in over four and half years, one in 2010 and one right before the amendable date this year. Not often in my opinion.
It was said, many times, that we would stay within the structure of the current CBA and not re-invent the wheel. Well, how many sections saw major re-writes???
Section 3: Is a 3% slope a pay raise or COLA?? You be the judge. There are several different websites that have different numbers for cost of living increases between 2006 and 2015. Anywhere from 1.5 to 4.9 is what I found.
Section 4: So much added/changed that we had to have a side letter just to get a contract. This didn’t fix 4.A.2.b.
Section 6: At least it says we (ANC pilots) get a paid move back if the base closes.
Section 8: Lots of changes here—some good, some not so good. We gave up a day of pay for first class and we give up first class for what??? Where was the costing for this section? The higher class of service for over 2.5 hours vs. first class for lay flat seat. No mention of business lay flat. In my experience, when I upgraded to the higher class of service in Asia on my own, it cost me $100 at most vs. $10,000 difference between first class and business class.
The webcast said that the approved carrier list was the one on Medex, but no mention of the first paragraph saying the current approved list of April 29, 2014.
Too many more to list here.
Section 11: What do you think instructors and LCAs?
Section 24: Pretty much a complete re-write.
Section 25: What can I say??
Section 27: Where are the improvements? Oh, the cost went up and the max the company can raise rates year-over-year went from 6 to 10%.
Section 28: No “A” plan gain at all. Modest “B” plan improvement. So, we went up 3% in the “B” plan from 2006-2021, 15 years worth. No cash over cap is problematic.
SLAB. In my opinion sick should never be part of retirement. Cash for over full DSA has only encouraged flying sick. This will also.
For us Anchorage-based pilots, retiring on the 31st of Dec will be a big tax burden. Per state law, when we retire the company has to pay us what is owed. Therefore, we will get all our accrued vacation pay, two years worth paid with our last paycheck. Unlike TN-based pilots who get the vacation pay the next year.
These are my highlights, at least the major ones. There seem to be too many to mention here.
Were cornerstones met? Did we get improvements in retirement? Insurance? Secondary lines? 4.A.2.b.? The vague wording that was open to interpretation and re-interpretation? What were you looking for in this TA? Remember, we will have to live with this for 6 years minimum.
Please attend a roadshow if you are able—it doesn’t have to be ours.
Read and re-read the TA and ask questions.
Please bring all your questions to the ANC Roadshow to be held on the 16th of Sept., 1200-1430...Fly safe, stay informed and enjoy life.
Why did I vote "NO" on this TA?
Fair question. Understand that explaining my own actions and opinions below—why I voted against this TA—is not the same as telling you how to cast your own vote. I won't do that. Before I go further, invest a couple of extra minutes in your future. Review this video from last summer.
That moment was a show of strength, the likes of which has never been seen on this property. That moment was a powerful demonstration of negotiating capital. That moment should have been replicated manifold this year, but when the crunch time came, you were denied any further opportunity to leverage your Unity, participate in the process, and influence this TA for the better.
I voted "No" because at the very moment when you were ready to go to the wall and fight for what you deserve, your MEC was ambushed with a stunning capitulation which we never saw coming. Because this document encumbered your MEC with a bad option and a worse option, but no good ones.
I voted "No" because I have faith in the strength you've shown throughout this process. Because I have more faith in you than this TA does. Because I believe this TA abandoned you—the most unified pilot group in our company's history—on field of battle. I voted "No" because you asked me to fight for you, I promised you that I would, and when I leave the fight it's supposed to be on my shield, not my horse.
I voted "No" because if I'd told you just one month ago that I'd consider the elements of this TA as acceptable, you'd have recalled me. Because this TA is bad for older pilots and even worse for younger ones. Because the A-Plan increase is AWOL and the B-Plan increase is insulting. Because this TA actually has less than the claimed retro pay and less than the claimed 3% year over year raises, and because if even that simple math isn't right then I have cause to worry that there are undiscovered mistakes in other, more complex sections.
I voted "No" because the small pay increases that do exist will be largely cancelled out for basically having to fund your own retirement from this point onward while paying as much as $2000/year extra for your healthcare. Because there are unadvertised concessions in the new work rule sections. Because the sum total of this mediocrity is locked down in a six year TA, which means you will probably have to live with it for 8 years at the very least.
Most importantly, I voted "No" because this is fixable.
I don't heed the fear mongering. When I hear "The company drew a line in the sand," I take a deep breath, recall the Unity you've shown, and say...So? When I hear "If we don't take this crummy deal now it could be a while before we get a better one," I say...Our pilots would rather wait one year for the right deal than live with this one for eight.
Will the economy be a lesser one next year? Maybe. Will the NMB take a break for a bit? Maybe. Those are considerations. Understand though, that they are only considerations. Those aren't unassailable monsters hiding under your bed at night, as some would have you believe. Understand that there's a bit of fear mongering going on, brought to you by those who are emotionally invested in this TA for having created it, and who will suffer great embarrassment should you reject it in confirmation that they fell short of the mark.
Please also understand; Basic human nature dictates that anyone who creates a TA and is charged with presenting it to you in webcasts, videos and road shows is unlikely to say that there were mistakes made. They are not likely to tell either you or your MEC that there was money left on the table. It's basic human nature to say, "If we didn't get it, it couldn't be gotten." Personally, I don't believe a word of that because my faith is in you—the pilots who are the power in that video above.
That might happen in a month or it might happen a year, but if you want it then it will happen, because you will make it happen.
If you don't reject this TA? Well, we will all just live with it. Exactly what it is (and isn't) will be the subject of a series of comms to follow.
It's guys like Don Ray (block 1 rep) that allow me to keep the faith. I think his letter indicating why he voted not to accept this t/a should be distributed to all. Thank you, Captain Ray!
This TA is insulting on all levels. I read all the data from the actual TA. The information being provided via Roadshows and the YouTube Videos DOES NOT provide data regarding many areas of "grey matter" and blanks. This TA is concessionary at best!
Pilots questioning these areas and concerns are either discounted, ignored or redirected.
Roadshows were nothing more than a "sale" job. Why were the LEC members that did not vote in favor of this TA be allowed to present their opinions and answer questions side by side with the NC Chairman and the SME's? Why weren't the dissenting LEC members permitted to post videos to the membership explaining serious flaws in the TA? Why did the dissenting LEC members have to take refuge at the back of the room with their "booth" to present data which was then drowned out by loud music? What sort of Union does that to their membership? What sort of Union puts a "spin" trying to sway the membership in a direction that may not be in the best interest of the entire pilot group? Why has the MEC Chairman not taken a "position" as to the TA yet LEC has?
Unless you read the entire TA, cover to cover you will not have the "TRUTH" If you form your opinion based on the "Immediate Carrot" (money) in your face and the Videos, you are selling yourself and your fellow pilots short. God forbid we have to live with this for what will likely be 10 YEARS! I commend those LEC leaders who did not vote in favor and posted their reasons why. I cannot understand why they are being inhibited by the very Union that is suppose to represent us. What gives?
What gives is what has always given. The no voters get their one ALPA email to send out, and then their voice is stifled. Same political BS that goes on everywhere. | f2b464a152a623f40fa9018bcb4e5753 | 4,011 |
While recovering from a medical injury, a patient often forgets about meeting certain deadlines. It’s necessary to file before the statute of limitations expires. In Virginia, the statute of limitations for medical malpractice is two years from the date of the injury.
It’s common for patients to think that the courts are willing to wait for their recovery. The truth is that the court is a business and must follow certain procedures and meet deadlines like any other business does. The statute of limitations is designed to ensure that the plaintiff can preserve the freshness of the evidence within a year’s span.
Due to the severity of the case, the statute of limitations for a medical malpractice case is often shorter than that for other types of personal injuries. So, any injured patient who is uncertain about filing a lawsuit should review the basic facts about filing for a civil lawsuit in Virginia before losing the right to do so.
People who are injured by medical professionals are protected by state laws. But this is only as long as they follow the statute of limitations. An injured person must know his or her rights when filing a medical malpractice suit. | https://www.spicerlawfirm.com/blog/2021/10/when-to-file-a-medical-malpractice-suit-in-virginia/ | 232 |
In the previous post, kokedama was introduced as a way to update your potted plant collection. Kokedama is Japanese for moss ball and it’s basically a ball of soil that’s covered with moss. It is a free-form planting method that’s derived from the bonsai. This unique way of planting can be hung up with strings or stand on its own, making it a beautiful home decor addition to the home.
To make your own, these are the steps to follow:
What you need!
- Tiny plants (succulents are a good start!)
- Peat soil
- Cacti Soil
- Clay mud
- Dry Sphagnum moss
- Scissors
- 100 percent cotton thread
- Colourful packing string
- Gloves
- Jar of water
- Bowl to keep the mess in (optional)
What to do!
1. Remove as much soil as possible to expose the roots of the plant. Be careful during this process to prevent snapping the roots.
2. Mix peat soil, cacti soil and mud clay together with a little water over a bowl to contain the mess. The mixture should be moist enough to form a dough-like consistency and hold itself together in a ball without falling apart.
3. Make sure the ball of soil as small as possible but large enough to accommodate the roots of the plant.
4. Wrap sphagnum moss carefully around the roots of the plant to form a circular and compact shape.
Wrap moss around the soil ball
5. Tie cotton string around the sphagnum moss to keep everything in place.
6. Make a small hole in the soil ball and gently press the plant inside. “Close up” the ball by reshaping it into a ball.
7. Press small sheets of moss firmly into the soil ball. Try not to leave any open spaces.
8. To string it up, wrap the string or twine around the ball and leave enough extra strings on each side so it can be hung.
Care Guide
Different plants require different needs such as food, water and amount of sunlight.
Watering: Weight is a good indicator to gauge whether the plant needs watering. Hold the ball in your hand and check whether it feels heavy. If it is, the plant does not need water. If it is light, soak the root ball in a bowl of water for 2 to 3 minutes and squeeze gently after to remove excess water. The root ball should have absorbed enough water to last a week.
Light: Determine whether the plants need lots of sunlight or shade-tolerant and adjust accordingly.
Temperature and humidity: Most indoor plants are shade-tolerant and prefer a humid atmosphere.
Ventilation: Proper ventilation is needed for good plant growth.
Here’s an illustrated guide!
Images to illustrate the steps are from Good Housekeeping
Feature images from Eugenie Fleurat and These Four Walls | 257fb195e5a3624cbc9df53d1dca84db | 621 |
VIVE LA REVOLUTION!
Covers the time period just before the French Revolution, through the Reign of Terror, to Napoleon's rise and fall. The class divides into four rival factions (the Herbetists, the Montagnards, the Les Enrages, and the Girondins) that compete to win the most supporters for a vote in the National Assembly.
Sample pages from the teacher's guide
System requirements:
- Windows: Windows XP or later versions, Microsoft Office 2007 or later versions
- Mac: Mac OS 10.6 or later versions, PowerPoint for Mac 2011 or later versions | f5412408c37dee5f3346f5b772f67d82 | 125 |
Money to Floss, No Money for 9 Baby Mamas
Posted by Bossip Staff
Broncos running back Travis Henry (pictured at a charity event) has millions to floss but is leaning back on paying child support to his 9 baby mama’s. A judge recently put his spending habits on blast:
According to court records, the judge wrote that Henry displayed “bad judgment in his spending habits,” dropping $100,000 for a car and $146,000 for jewelry. Henry fell behind on support payments for onechild. Threatened with jail, he borrowed $9,800 from his former team, the Tennessee Titans, to pay the bill, according to court records.
..The Broncos signed Henry to a five-year, $22.5-million contract in March with $12 million in guaranteed bonuses.
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Come on man, the kids come before a tricked out car on some 24’s. SMH, what type of FUBU sh*t is this? | 645323b2cc8ba59ae7f3f33f56f91527 | 212 |
The Raspberry PI heat sink kit will ensure your Raspberry PI remains cool with no need for Fans. They will also help extend the life of your Raspberry PI and thereby reduce hardware failures.
The heat sink kit comprises of 3 high quality Pressfin heat sinks which are designed to fit the 3 main heat sources on the Raspberry PI. Included in the kit is a 30mm × 30mm piece of thermal adhesive tape to securely fix the heat sinks in place and to ensure a good thermal transfer bond.
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BTS’ RM has released his debut solo album Indigo and shared the video for its lead single “Wild Flower.” Indigo is the follow-up to RM’s two mixtapes – 2015’s RM and 2018’s mono – and is the third solo project to be released by a member of the K-pop group this year.
According to a press release, Indigo is a “record of [RM’s] twenties and a candid introduction of who RM truly is. Each track portrays RM’s outspoken opinions, prevailing thoughts, reminiscence of the past and instant feelings.” The album features collaborations with artists from across the globe, including neo-soul icon Erykah Badu, Anderson .Paak, Mahalia, Korean R&B singer Paul Blanco, iconic Korean singer and actor parkjiyoon, Epik High’s Tablo, and more.
You can check out the video for Wild Flower – here.
Buy or stream Indigo – here.
| https://www.star1021fm.com/2022/12/02/bts-rm-shares-video-for-wild-flower-off-debut-solo-album/ | 218 |
The Utah Supreme Court has held that a software vendor is not liable for any damages after its software caused a dentist to lose all of his patient data. In Blaisdell v. Dentrix Dental Systems, Inc., No. 20100392 (Utah S. Ct. June 26, 2012), the court held that a limitation of liabilities provision was enforceable in the face of (1) the Utah Products Liability Act, (2) a strict products liability claim, and (3) a gross negligence claim. Accordingly, the court did not reach the question of whether tort claims were barred by the economic loss rule (which holds that recovery for purely economic losses may be had only in contract, not tort).
The plaintiff had brought this suit after attempting to perform a software upgrade which resulted in the loss of the patient data. The defendant vendor subsequently acknowledged that the upgrade caused the data loss. However, there were also bad facts for the dentist. His employee had apparently represented to the vendor that the patient data was backed up; it is unclear whether the dentist's employee knew that the backup system had stopped working. Further, everyone agreed that the vendor had made clear that the data should be backed up. The plaintiff had appealed after the trial court granted summary judgment against his contract and tort claims.
In no event will Dentrix be liable to you for any indirect, incidental, consequential, special, or exemplary damages arising out of or in connection with your use or inability to use the Product, the breach of any express or implied warranty, or otherwise in connection with the Product, its Software, the Documentation and/or the license even if Dentrix has been advised of the possibility of such damages.
The limitation on liabilities provision further capped the vendor's damages for all types of claims at the amount of license fees paid by the customer.
Further, “Utah law and precedent permit contracts limiting strict products liability in some situations,” but this was not one of those situations. Although a comment in the Restatement (Second) of Torts appeared to support the plaintiff's position, the Restatement (Third) of Torts approved limiting liability for strict liability claims in some situations. Further, the plaintiff did not dispute that the limitation on liabilities provision was not unconscionable, nor did it cause the contract to fail of its essential purpose. Instead, the contract was between sophisticated business entities. Therefore, the limitation on liabilities provision applied to the strict products liability claim.
Finally, there was no dispute of material fact concerning whether the defendant was grossly negligent. All parties acknowledged that the plaintiff had warned the defendant to back up his data before proceeding with the upgrade operation. Further, the plaintiff's employee had confirmed that the backup had been performed. It could not “be reasonably asserted that [the vendor] 'show[ed] utter indifference' to the possibility that the G2 Upgrade could erase the data.” Therefore, summary judgment for the vendor on the gross negligence claim was appropriate.
The moral to this story is an obvious one: pay close attention to risk allocation provisions, such as limitations of liability, in license agreements. They are usually enforceable. | b6ebccb126ef616c596e79bb7984db8f | 642 |
Jamie Miller created these games for her five children and has also used them successfully in many church and schoolroom settings. As a member of the singing King Family, Jamie was featured on their weekly television show in the 1960s and 70s and toured the United States and Canada performing during those years. A book editor and the coauthor of Christmas Miracles, she has a degree in education and lives in California.
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What about FOB of Bamboo Basket?
As an industry behemoth in China, Guangzhou Carehome House-hold Co., Ltd. ranks among the most reputable companies for the outstanding competence in manufacturing empty gift baskets. Carehome House-hold Company's bamboo basket series include multiple types. The product is intelligent. It is built with microprocessors to monitor pressure, voltage, current, temperature, and to dissipate heat automatically. The product is well packed in the standard export carton in sound condition. This product is environmentally friendly. It is free of lead and mercury and thus contributing to the sustainability of the environment. The product is well packed in the standard export carton in sound condition.
| https://www.chinacarehome.com/what-about-fob-of-bamboo-basket | 143 |
Man is very good at naked dodge rolling (in video games).
Most of us play Dark Souls games once, get killed a tonne of times, finish the game with only a shred of willpower left, and then retreat forever. Others approach it differently, like Twitch streamer FaraazKhan, who is so good at Dark Souls 3 that he's managed to complete it in less than three hours without being hit by a single enemy.
As you'll see, FaraazKhan spends a lot of time dodge rolling. Bravely, he's gone with a pure melee setup, so there's little sniping from afar with magic or arrows. Understandably, he avoids most of the game's optional bosses, and falls back on the trusty Homeward Bone in cases where things are getting a bit too hairy.
Check it out below. Cheers, Reddit. | https://www.pcgamer.com/someone-has-beaten-dark-souls-3-without-getting-hit/ | 180 |
<issue_start><issue_comment>Title: Icon-Request: Check (Money/Bank Check/Cheque)
username_0: I think that having a check icon for bank check. This will allow for web interfaces such as shopping carts that allow check payment, icon for paychecks, etc..
Examples:
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would prefer a simpler icon design, and one that is currency agnostic might be best
<issue_comment>username_3: I'm thinking something more like this, perhaps?
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18 months and still no joy?
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<issue_comment>username_14: Are you ever going to do this? 2.5 years guys.....
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<issue_comment>username_50: +1 Come on Font Awesome, you guys are supposed to be "awesome"! Please do this!
<issue_comment>username_51: +1 I need this too
<issue_comment>username_52: +1 Maybe after three years they'll actually do it?
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<issue_comment>username_57: +1 This must happen!!! :-)
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<issue_comment>username_60: Maybe this will be in Font Awesome 5?
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<issue_comment>username_64: I guess it's not a good sign this is 3 years old. I tried searching the Font Awesome community for an answer but I didn't find anything, so I'll ask it here. I'm hoping someone here could comment.
I'm wondering what is the deciding factor to approve a new icon request. Is it based on how many +1 reactions there are? Then once it's approved, how soon does it become available?
<issue_comment>username_25: I'm a font awesome 5 Pro Kickstarter backer and I approve this Icon :)
Doubt that'll make much difference but what the heck eh?
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<issue_comment>username_70: +100 -- this is the only payment option missing. It is still a valid form of payment.
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<issue_comment>username_78: Working on a card processing app - bank/certified checks seems like a pretty big oversight. Please?
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How is this not made yet
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<issue_comment>username_95: I just "checked" this in to our in-progress queue.
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61.54% of the followers that engaged with sidney_the_dj regularly are from Mozambique, followed by Portugal at 7.69% and Spain at 7.69%. In summary, the top 5 countries of sidney_the_dj's posts engager are coming from Mozambique, Portugal, Spain, Bulgaria, Uruguay.
Sidney_the_dj loves posting about Celebrities, Humor, Fashion.
Check sidney_the_dj's audience demography. This analytics report shows sidney_the_dj's audience demographic percentage for key statistic like number of followers, average engagement rate, topic of interests, top-5 countries, core gender and so forth. | https://starngage.com/app/us/influencers/sidney_the_dj | 144 |
France, Royal. Charles V, AD 1364 to 1380. Silver Blanc au K.
Denomination : Silver Blanc au "K".
Date : Issue of April 20, 1365.
Grade : gVF and fairly well struck for the issue.
Obverse : Short cross within two circles of inscriptions.
Reverse : Crowned "K" flanked by two lis, with DIE GRATIA around, all within a circle of lis in circles. | https://www.vcoins.com/it/stores/calgary_coin/27/product/france_royal__charles_v_ad_1364_to_1380__silver_blanc_au_k/68510/Default.aspx | 101 |
(By Richard Holway 8.00am Thursday 6th August 09) Ofcom has, today, published their annual Communications Market Report. It is, in my view, the best free (well, we the taxpayers pay for it!) report you are ever likely to get. You can get the full monty by following this link.
I’m sure I will refer to this report on many times in the future, but let me give you a quick summary of the main points:
UK consumers rate communications products so highly that they would give up almost everything before discarding their mobile phone, TV or internet connection. Only ‘personal hygiene products’ are rated higher!
But, as we have been saying for many years ‘More for Less’ rules. For example, we spend 25 minutes per day on line – up 9% on 2004 – but spend 6% less (in real terms) on doing it.
The real star is Mobile Broadband – 250,000 new connections in May 09 alone – almost twice the number in May 08. 1 in 10 households now have a mobile broadband connection. 8m people have accessed the internet from their mobiles – up 40% in a year. 1 in 6 16-34 year olds have access to a mobile broadband connection but fewer that 1 in 10 of those aged 55+ do. VOIP was also increasing dramatically.
25% of households use a digital TV recorder (like Sky+) and 23% use catch services like iPlayer from the BBC. The higher the use of such services, the higher the satisfaction levels with TV. Ie the more the viewer is in control of what he watches, the more enjoyable the experience!
But, beware. Although we still watch TV for 3hrs 45min per day, we are now doing other things at the same time. Most significantly surfing the internet. (I am guilty here as I now only watch TV with the remote in one hand and my iPod Touch in the other) Families now gather round the TV but with everyone doing different/multiple things at the same time. Researchers call this 'connected cocooning".
Radio listening has fallen 9%. But use of Spotify has soared. 900,000 use it for on average 30min a week. Clearly the advantage we get from having choice in TV (see above) applies to choosing our own playlists too.
Just to reinforce our view that Microsoft should buy Facebook as its portal to the Cloud, Ofcom has found that 50% of all UK internet users now use Facebook. 15m people use Facebook for 1hr 30min a week. Separately, ComScore has reported thsat FaceBook added 24m users in June taking it to 340m worldwide. That puts Facebook as the 4th most visited website in the world - behind Google, Microsoft and Yahoo.
SIM-only deals now account for 20% of all mobile phone contracts (which now number 77m in total – ie MORE than one per UK citizen) as users hang on to their old phones but search out a cheaper deal. Something Nokia knows only too painfully. 70% of all mobile users said they were going to hang onto their current phone.
Excellent report and I commend you to read it. | 72853ccf3a6ca6da5a44f5c437a54031 | 660 |
Poems by Jesse Nathan
A bestiary of fifteen poems and woodcuts from ants and anteaters to whales in the ocean. Printed from metal type and mahogany blocks. Casebound with hand painted decorative paper.
First edition of fifty copies. 2016
5.375 x 7.125 inches, 40 pages
A murder ballad chronicling the demise of one unfortunate couple in that sad yet sanguine sounding world of old-time music. Thirteen woodcuts printed from cherry blocks. Pamphlet bound.
First edition of fifty copies. 2015
5.25 x 6 inches, 24 pages | d8f9a0a152212b24dba2998d6229cbea | 125 |
Le Trianon Luxury And Spa Casablanca Hotel33.58877385858751, -7.63144925236702
- Facilities
Le Trianon Luxury And Spa Casablanca Hotel
Overview
The 4-star Le Trianon Luxury And Spa Casablanca Hotel is located in the center of Casablanca. Featuring contemporary architecture, the hotel is welcoming guests since 2012.
The convenient location in Gauthier district of Casablanca offers an easy access to Musee Abderrahman Slaoui, New Medina of Casablanca and Museum of Moroccan Judaism. This refined venue is situated 750 meters away from Royal Palace of Casablanca, Parc de la Ligue Arabe and Sacré Coeur Cathedral.
Markets, a mall and boutiques are situated next to the hotel.
Casa Port train station is a 20-minute walk away. The hotel is located 25 minutes' drive from Mohamed V airport.
Rooms
Le Trianon Luxury And Spa Casablanca Hotel provides 38 guestrooms appointed with satellite TV, an in-room safe, individual climate control, free Wi-Fi and a minibar for a pleasant stay in Casablanca. A hairdryer, free toiletries and a shower can be found in all bathrooms.
Services
The hotel offers limousine rental services for travelling a resort area.
Relax
Guests will enjoy using a spa lounge, a Jacuzzi and a sauna after a busy day in Casablanca.
Internet
Wireless internet is available in the entire hotel for free.
Guest Parking
Free private parking is possible on site.
Year renovated: 2012. Number of floors: 5. Number of rooms: 38.
Facilities
General
- Free Wi-Fi
- Free parking
- 24-hour reception
- Non-smoking rooms
- Children are welcome
- Safe deposit box
- Multilingual staff
- No pets allowed
- Coffee shop
- Currency exchange
- Beauty salon
- Luggage storage
- Exterior corridors
- Elevator
Sports & Fitness
- Fitness center
Services
- Paid airport shuttle
- Paid city shuttle
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Known for its prime time dramas, CBS (NYSE: CBS) corporate has a little of its own today: Nancy Tellem is leaving as president of CBS Network Television Entertainment Group and will be a senior adviser to CEO Leslie Moonves. The role will not be filled; instead, Nina Tassler and David Stapf will report directly to Moonves. Tellem’s new position includes “business and strategic opportunities” in content partnerships, new production models, developing technologies and emerging media. Tellem has been in the post since 2004 and gets to do do something few TV execs do — leave while her network is in the lead.
Moonves explained it in a staff memo obtained by paidContent and published in full here. The move was first reported by Nikki Finke:
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I wanted to share some important news with you today. This morning we announced that Nancy Tellem, President of the CBS Network Television Entertainment Group, will transition to an important new role in our company as Senior Advisor to the CEO, CBS Corporation. In her new role, Nancy will explore the expanding growth opportunities that are appearing every day in our changing business, both in the U.S. and abroad as well. The appointment will be effective January 1, 2010, and will report directly to me.
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The detail study and investigation of the circulation of fake news can be attributed mainly to two reasons. Firstly, from a political aspect, many have revealed disappointment that techniques and tactics normally used to address fake news have not been satisfactory.
The various fact-checking and debunking ways and processed often proved to be the disappointment and unsatisfactory in preventing the circulation of hoaxes and rumors. On the other hand, they can inadvertently furnish, contribute and supply them more to make them visible on the web. A better overview and understanding of how fake news travels online can assist to inform and receive feedbacks that are more adapted to the creation phenomena. If analyzed and reviewed from a methodological point of view, as there is no ontological difference between fake and authentic news.
It means the metaphysical study of the nature of fake news being, existence and circulation can help us understand more about how other kinds of news travels.
There are different viewpoints about the creation of fake news. As per one of the well-known media literacy experts, Martina Chapman three factors mistrust, misinformation, and manipulation are responsible for initiation and production of fake news. The fake news is not a new thing however it has become a hot cake in 2017 aftermath the election in the United States. Generally, the sources of news are trusted and reliable sources, journalists and media outlets by adhering to strict codes of practice, ethics, and morals. But the internet has empowered a holistic new approach and way to publish, exchange, share and consume information and news with very less regulation or editorial standards, ethics and morals.
This news or stories are produced to deliberately mislead and misinform readers and audiences, promote or favor ideologies and philosophies and the point of view or particular political cause or agenda.
Many websites and social media accounts publish fake news and stories for entertainment and parody. Some of the examples are The Onion, Waterford Whispers, The Daily Mash, etc.
The writers, reporters or journalists may publish a story with irresponsible and erratic information without verifying all the truths and aspects which can mislead and confuse audiences. This occurred during the U.S. elections, as fashion retailer Urban Outfitters published an Election Day Guide which contained incorrect information in regard to the voters that they needed a voter registration card. This was not a prerequisite in voting in any state in the United States.
The news and stories are manipulated, exaggerated and distorted using misleading or sensational headlines. These types of news can spread quickly like wildfire on social media sites where only headlines and small snippets of the full article are displayed on audience newsfeeds and opinions.
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The fake news is created, published and produced by the internet via different social media, varying website, blogs and reach large audiences. The fake news is a profitable business as it generates large sums of advertising revenue for publishers who create and publish stories that go viral and makes sensational viewership. Therefore, more clicks a story gets, the more money online publishers make through.
Sophisticated, innovative, new and modern technology enhances the manipulation and distortion of content simple and social. The dramatically glorified fabrication is sometimes encouraged by States, populist politicians, and not honest corporate houses, as they are consumed, uncritical people.
As 21st century can be termed as the century of weaponization of information. The companies, state, and countries are trying their best to woo readers, viewers and the general public through all means. And fake news is also one of the tools to influence to bring to their sides. The motives can be economical, social, political, judicial and so on differ from case to case. The mainstream media, social, and others are vying for the competitive market which sometimes they do try to have through unfair means or deceitful intent.
The role of technology is vital for producing fake news. It depends upon the number of varying technologies and their related business models. The media plays an active role in the spread of fake news. The sensational and fabricated news is created, shared, liked, commented on, attacked and defended in all sorts of different ways by hundreds of millions of people all over the world. The consumption of such news becomes the usual daily habits of readers and viewers. Most of the websites do earn revenue with more clicks and more feedbacks creating confusion, anarchy, and mistrust in people. They do compromise quality, authenticity, and truth while publishing fabricating news. It not spread rumors and hoaxes but also impresses readers to believe them and distort the real nature.
It is internet which is largely responsible for the propagation of fake news. The different websites, Google, Facebook, and others are hogging the limelight recently in distorting and manipulating true incidents and news to earn more clicks and thereby maximize visitors sidelining the truth, authenticity and real incidents, stories and news.
In recent years, social media has taken a huge leap in usage, creation, production, and consumption of news. Most of the times, social media was responsible for the passing of information in quick time thereby helping fake news to travel indefinitely. Easy availability of internet makes typically an undesirable situation, or an unfounded belief spread continuously and indefinitely. The different versions of social media have been responsible for the creation, production, and consumption of fake news which leads to discontentment, the creation of confusion and anarchy. In India, many of the lynching and brutal killings are attributed to the technology. WhatsApp is a free app which is used by a large population and runs even on low-priced phones, making it easier and quicker for messages to spread among the intended community members. The creation of SMS and viral transmission through WhatsApp made even the job of police and government officials difficult in controlling riots and mayhem. The impact of fake news lead to unrest between different castes and religions is an example. The ill effects of fake news were felt during the elections in the USA where candidates tried to bring bad reputation to the rival through hoax and spread of fake news. and voter. The impacts can be felt all over the world and are prevalent in all spheres of life-social, economic, political, legal and so on. The roles of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Youtube is questionable as they are not able to control the dissemination of fake news. They ran into controversies and governments all over the world are pressurizing them to take concrete and strong steps to minimize and keep close eyes on crowd platforms.
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It is important to read carefully the online content as they tend to make eye-catching headlines to grab the attention of readers. Usually, the headlines of fake new in all capital letters and use exclamation marks.
The news may or not be featuring in other media it will help us to know the authenticity of news. At last, checking the sources and origination will assist us in knowing the reality.
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Some satirical websites are very popular online and occasionally we fail to confirm whether it is a joke, humor, satire or parody. At times, they are written to read and sound funny.
As per Emil Eifrem, a graph database expert technology is responsible for the production of fake but technology. He is of the opinion that technology can play a major role in counteracting the problem.
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It was acknowledged that social media platforms and other related tech companies are in an odd position: they are arguing that their contribution to the spread of fake news is purely happenstance, an unfortunate combination of human traits and neutral information-sharing platforms. However, they are simultaneously arguing that their algorithms are due First Amendment rights as a type of speech. This presents a challenge on how best to view the results of algorithmic sorting: is it the voice of the platform, or not speak at all? Finally, participants acknowledged that one of the potential benefits of pursuing governmental regulation was that its threat might spur tech companies to develop their own internal means of addressing the problem—which provided an excellent transition to the subsequent session.
Fake news itself is nothing new, but the internet and social media have made it cheap and easy to perpetuate, making it a potential threat to democracy while denting trust in the mainstream media.
There is little doubt that technology helps fake news spread like wildfire. As technology advances so do the ways misinformation can be churned out. Social media and its crowd dynamics, for example, provides a platform that actively encourages sharing.
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1. The Justices look to a number of different sources to determine what "proceeds" means: dictionaries, other federal statutes, other places in the same federal statute, state statutes, and the purposes behind the statute.
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3. It nicely points up the difference between vagueness and ambiguity. The word "proceeds" is ambiguous, not vague, because it means either "gross receipts" or "profits," AND NOTHING ELSE.
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Immediately right of Anartichoke is a short crack leading to a blunt arete. Under the Wire has fun climbing on the arete but it is reachy and bit run out getting to the last clip. The stone is fine and the climbing interesting. Logic and the holds seem to dictate moving to the left after the last clip.
Half a dozen draws and a rope.
The initial crack is 5.8. The crux is stepping off the ledge to start the upper face/arete. There is a good sidepull that is not obvious, though, i.e. easier than it looks. Can easily combinie the lower section with the upper section of Anartichoke for a good 5.9.
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Fallen isn’t just about depression, it’s about being (obsessively) in love.
It’s been bugging me for over a year and a half that I haven’t yet posted a Speaking of Poetry: Fallen. But I haven’t really felt able to dive into that emotional mess until recently, and really I didn’t*want* to go back and reexamine those thoughts and feelings. But before I can do that, I wanted to get this one out of the way—it’s the bridge between the poems where I was on my way to the bottom, and the poems where I was looking towards the sunlight hidden at the end of the tunnel.
Mother is worried about the older sibling finding a job. He’s been graduated the same length of time I have, and he hasn’t found anything yet, even just a small job to bide the time until what he’s looking for (graphic design) pops up. I told her he needs to apply at Wal Mart… but she seems averse to that. I know Wal Mart isn’t exactly the golden world, but beggars can’t be choosers.
She skated Chicago… I could tell she was thinking it (poor mom, you raised a son like you, who reads between the lines to know what you’re thinking, is intuitive enough to run with his suspicions, and who also knows you well enough to know when he’s right) when she talked about “my generation”—living in wolf packs, either being too far in debt to survive or uneducated/unqualified too far to find a living. Times have changed, mother, and I’m sure I don’t have the same dreams you have.
So I’m not scared of the city. I’m not scared of the masses. I’m not scared of finding a job and making a living. All of that is secondary to being alive. Maybe I couldn’t see that until I realized my sexuality and was forced to acknowledge that happiness isn’t something that you can take for granted. If I’m alive, surrounded by the right people, then I’ll find a way.
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The Commonwealth Bank of Australia (ASX: CBA) share price is edging lower on Wednesday afternoon following the release of its full year results.
At the time of writing the banking giant’s shares are down almost 0.5% to $74.37.
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Operating income of $23,758 million, up 0.8% on the prior corresponding period.
Net interest margin declined 2 basis points to 2.07%.
Home lending growth at 1.3x system and household deposit balance growth of 9.8%.
Statutory net profit after tax including discontinued operations of $9,634 million, up 12.4% on FY 2019. This statutory result includes significant gains on the sale of businesses.
Cash net profit after tax from continuing operations down 11.3% to $7,296 million. This was driven largely by higher COVID-19 loan impairment expense.
Final fully franked dividend of 98 cents per share, representing a dividend payout ratio of 49.95%. This is in line with APRA’s guidance that banks should retain at least 50% of earnings.
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The News Volume II. No. 22 BRYN MAWR, PA., MARCH 23, 1916 Price 5 Cents CALENDAR FRIDAY, MARCH 24 4.30 p. m�Gymnasium Contest. 8.00 p. m�Lecture by Professor Albert Carnoy of Lou vain. SATURDAY, MARCH 25 9.30 a. ii.�Apparatus Cup Competition. 10.00 a. m.�Vocational Conference, Taylor Hall. 11.00 a. M.�Basket Ball practice begins. 8.00 p. m�Lecture by Mr. George Arthur Plimpton. SUNDAY, MARCH 26 6.00 p. M.�Vespers. Speaker, M. Bacon, '18. 8.00 p. ii.�Chapel. Sermon by the Rev. Henry Hallam Twcedie, of Yale Divinity School. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2t 7.30 P. m� Bible Classes. 9.30 p. it� Mid-week Meeting of the C. A. Leader, Miss E. Saunders. SATURDAY, APRIL 1 4.00 p. m.�Lecture by the Hon. Mrs. Bes- trand Russell. 8.00 p. u�Philadelphia Orchestra Concert in the Gymnasium. SUNDAY, APRIL 2 6.00 P. m� Vespers. A. P. Smith, '16. 8.00 p. u.�Chapel. Sermon by the Rev. Hugh Black, of Union Seminary, N. Y. SATURDAY, APRIL S 2.00 p. u. and 8.00 p. m.�Performance of the Mikado by the Glee Club. FRIDAY, APRIL 14 Junior-Senior Supper. SATURDAY, APRIL 16 Junior-Senior Supper Play repeated. CRITICISM TO BE INVESTIGATED BY THE C. A. Representative Committee to Report Ten people, representing different inter- ests in College, have been chosen by the C A. Board to investigate and formulate the constructive criticism of the Associa- tion. A. Grabau, '16, chairman of the committee, said that it has been claimed that the Christian Association has out- grown its present organization and the Board wishes to find out the different sug- gestions exactly and to hand in to next year's Board a definite report. The committee will find out from those who resigned this year, from those who have never joined and from any who have Improvements to suggest, what changes might benefit the Association. Those who are on the committee are: Chairman, A. Grabau, '16; A. Werner, 16; C. Kellen, '16; M. Scattergood, "17; N. McFaden, '17; V. Litchfleld. "17; R. Cheney. '18; M. Stair, "18; M. Thurman, '19; D. Cham- bers, '19. M. C. KLEPS IS EUROPEAN FELLOW Eleven Senior* to Graduate Cum Laude CHANGES IN MIKADO ROLES The title role of the Mikado will be played by E. Pugh, '15. M. Russell. '16, hag been cast of the part of Katisha in the piece of H. Johnson. '19, and the part of Nauhl-Poo ha* neon changed from A. Moore, '19, to M. Jacobs, '15, who was �Ralph" teat year In "Pinafore". Both performances of the "Mikado", matinee and evening, will be on April 8th. V. Utchneld. '17, won the poster com- petition. Her design will be used on all the fosters and on the programs. DEATH OF KATHARINE REEVES. '19 Katharine Reeves. 1919. died at her house In West Philadelphia, on March 14th. of pneumonia. Miss Reeves was Charles E. Ellis scholar and was prepared at the West Philadelphia High School. She lived In Radnor Marian Clementine Kleps, 1916, holder of the highest average grade in the class, has been awarded the Bryn Mawr Euro- pean Fellowship and will be graduated magna cum laude. The announcement of the European Fellow and of the winners of the graduate European Fellowships, to- gether with the roll of honour of the Senior Class and the eleven Seniors graduating with distinction, were given in Chapel on Friday morning, March 17th, by President Thomas. European Fellow Very Young Miss Kleps' group is Latin and English and she was prepared by the Girls' High School, Philadelphia. She is just twenty years old. "Her age", said President Thomas in the course of her address, "would be approved by President Lowell of Harvard. In his last president's re- port he has made a study of the Harvard men who enter college at sixteen as com- pared with the Harvard men who enter at eighteen and has reached the conclu- sion that the man who enters the college youngest wins a greater proportion of ac- ademic honours than the man who enters older. This does not mean that if every- body entered college early the grade would be raised. It means only that an exceptional student is exceptional from the beginning. An exceptional student enters college before an ordinary student because she possesses th* kind of ability that will mark her out In college". Graduate Fellowship* The Anna Ottendorfer Memorial Re- search Fellowship In German and Teu- tonic Philology was awarded to Ruth Perkins, of Ahington. Massachusetts. Miss Perkins took her A.B. at Wellesley in 1912, her A.M. at Radcllffe In 1913. and has been doing graduate work at Bryn Mawr for the last two years, scholar in German. 1914-15; fellow In German, 1915-16. "She is particularly well equipped", said President Thomas, "for the study of German philology. She has the advantage of also having studied Anglo-Saxon. The Teutonic dialects In which she has made a beginning ace Old High German, Middle High German, and Norse". "The next fellowship", continued Presi- dent Thomas, "the Mary Elisabeth Gar- j rett European Fellowship, which is given j in the second year of graduate study at Bryn Mawr, has been already given twenty-two times. The faculty has nomi- nated Elisabeth Beatrice Daw. Like Miss Perkins, Miss Daw represents a number of different colleges. She Is A.B., Vas sar. 1909; A.M., University of Pennsylva-. nia, 1910, and has been a Fellow in Eng- llsh at Bryn Mawr for the last two years. Her special work Is English and the sub- jects that she is studying In connection with It are old French Philology and f French Literature". The President's European Fellowship j was awarded this year In Geology to Helen Mornlngstar, of Columbus. Ohio.: Miss Mornlngstar is a graduate of Ohio State University: A.B.. 1913; A.M.. 1915; and is now a Fellow in Geology at Bryn Mawr. In speaking of her work. Presi- dent Thomaa said. "When we send abroad Miss Mornlngstar, we are sending a scien- tific woman who ha* already given prom l*e of the power to do independent re- ^ search work in *clence". DRAMA TOO PICTORIAL Mr. Houaman Criticise* Modern Stagecraft "The drama", said Mr. Lawrence Hous- i man Saturday evening in his lecture on 'The Moral and Immoral Influence of the j Drama', "has shifted from the plastic to I the pictorial, with a consequent loss of j reality. We must subordinate our back- ground and revert to the plastic repre- sentation of the past". In .defining "too pictorial". Mr. Houa- man explained that the drama is pri- marily Intellectual in appeal; it should not depend on costumes and scenery. "The fault of the modern drama", he said,- "is that it over-visualizes in the direction of illusion, and undermentalizes. It is mere pictorial chatter; we think too little and see too much. Dramatic reality cre- ates its own illusion; modern scenery chucks It at your hesd st so much per yard". Living Drama of the Past "The drama to be real", he went on, "must be spontaneous as the Elizabethan or traditional as the Greek. The stage limitations of those times were really as- sets. The Greeks had no sharp division between actors and audience. The ad- vantage of a conventional background Is (Continued on Pagt 3) NO ONE FOR BOTH FOURTH ORAL8 ASSESSMENT MOTION LOST Infirmary to Be Screened by Voluntary Contributions As a result of the third orals, no one will have to take both French and Ger- man In May. Ten people are left, three for French and seven for German, but all of those taking French have passed Ger- man and vice versa. The statistics of the third orals for the last three years are as follows: French 1914 1915 1916 Passed .... 14 10 12 Failed ..... 2 9 3 Merit........ 1 German Passed ___ 14 22 10 Failed ..... 4 5 7 At a meeting of the Undergraduate As- sociation last Thurseday the motion to assess all the members of the College 50 cents to screen the Infirmary was lost, but a motion was passed to raise the money by voluntary contribution. This first motion passed a meeting two weeks ago, but, according to the consti- tution, any assessment of more than 25 cents must pass two meetings before it can go into effect. The motion of as- sessment was not passed because it was felt to be the beginning of a new prece- dent by which, In the future, the College might call upon the Undergraduate Asso- ciation to furnish or repair the buildings at any time. But since the College 1b again in debt this year and the need for screens Is so pressing, It was voted that the Advisory Board consider paying for them by contribution. A motion was also passed that the rules of the Association should be read st the same time as that of the constitution, within the first month of the first sem- ester of each year. The Association also voted to send to the family of Katharine Reeves, '19, a res- olution expressing sympathy and sorrow at her death. WATER-POLO TEAMS 'FIND EMPTY POOL WILSON "FLEEING TO CANADA" Paper Report* Mexican Victories President Wilson was reported to be fleeing before Villa's troops by a Spanish weekly published In Durango, New Mex- ico. The States of Texas and New Mexico were said to have been captured, the troops were pressing north and the Presi- dent and bis family were hastening to Canada for safety. MASEFIELD WILL NOT COME BACK John Masefleld will not pay a second visit to Bryn Mawr to award the Mase- fleld prizes, for on Frldsy, March 17th. he sailed from New York for England. The famous English pcet was given a farewell ovation the day before he sailed by an audience of 2000 In the University of Pennsylvania gymnasium. Mr. Mase- fleld did not give a formal lecture, but told tales of "Bill", a sailor friend of his before the mast. Mr. Masefleld is returning to continue his work among the wounded on the Eu- ropean battlefields. Like old Mother Hubbard who found her cupboard bare, the Alumna? and Var- sity water-polo teams found an empty pool when they were ready to begin the game on Saturday. Among the sugges- tions which were offered for filling the pool rapidly was to run water from the fire hose In, but this was considered slightly cold and any one who saw the stream on the campus at a recent drill will know that it is of a dark, muddy color. Mr. Foley encouragingly said that by 8 o'clock he could have three feet of water. As no possible solution for the difficulty could be found, the two teams played a game of basket-ball. Varsity de- feating the Alumna;, 29-27. The line-up for the basket-ball game was: Alumnr Vanity B. Baker. '14........�............E. Lanler II. Alexander. ox-"18. F............C. Steven* C. Wewon. '08..___C. .............C. 11*1! K. Hhlppen. '14..... O............T. HoweU L. Cadbory. '14..... <J..........U. O'Connor The water-polo was expected to take plsce on Monday, but was called off by the Alumna?. The Varsity lineup would have been: M. O'Connor, M. Willard. F. Howell. T. Howell, M. Strauss. C. Hall. A. Davis. First Subs were: L. Dillingham. C Stevens. A. Thorndlke. E. Lanier. PRIZE OFFERED FOR 3HAKE8PEAREAN BOOKPLATE Two Hundred Dollar* to Be Awarded �TYP" NOTICE (CmUtnueJon Potr 41 Owing to the loss of the first proof of Typ". the number for March 15th will be late In coming out The American Institute of Graphic Art* and the Shakespeare Birthday Committee concur in offering prizes of $100.00. $60.00 and $40.00 for bookplates of exclusively Shakespearean motif. The drawings must be submitted before May 15th at 34 4 West Thirty-eighth Street New York. Each competitor must give in more than one drawing and the drawing* must be sinned with a pseudonym, which Is to b* sent separately with the real �lg|�ture.
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Second album time for New Jersey’s Real Estate – who on the evidence of this are really finding their groove as a band who manage to be somehow soothing and energising at the same time.
Listening to Days is a cleansing experience. The music is slightly out of focus, gently lifting some of the essence of the beguiling music of the Byrds and other West Coast pop luminaries, but putting the stamp of four Ridgewood boys firmly on its front.
They are even confident enough to include a fully fledged instrumental, the accomplished Kinder Blumen, whose intricate guitar work follows on from the album’s most obvious single, It’s Real. This subtly euphoric three minute work of genius deserves a lengthy stint on prime time radio, with a softly chanted hook line, some cheery, jangly guitar lines and an uplifting yet earnest emoting.
That it isn’t likely to make prime time radio is down to the slight but endearing shyness running through the quartet’s music. These are private moments, but the music used to portray them is uniformly positive. Album opener Easy is a beautiful opener that offers a point of focus but ends up dreamily gushing, “Around the fields we run, with love for everyone”. There is something of the early music of The Cardigans in their carefree strains, too, while Out Of Tune has a whiff of Fleetwood Mac‘s Dreams about it by the end – though here the lyrics are loaded with hidden barbs.
Vocals are always slightly backward in the mix, picking up that West Coast fuzziness and humidity, and there are usually at least two guitar lines on the go at any one point. This means the focus can occasionally be lost – but the overall mood of peace and goodwill remains, despite the odd lyrical reference to the contrary. “I’m not yours, and you’re not mine”, offers Wonder Years, which seems to be reminiscing more than is properly healthy, despite a continued good humour.
This relentlessly positive outlook may not suit those searching for a bit more angst in their pop music, but it suits Real Estate just fine – and at the same time, they are a band whose surface attractiveness is more often than not complemented by emotional investment. The coda to closing track All The Same suggests their potential to toughen slightly in the future, too. At seven minutes it is an epic song by their standards, but despite becoming an instrumental for its second half it grows in stature musically, the guitars standing tall as their melodies become ever more insistent.
Adding a bit more steel will bring an important extra element to Real Estate for sure, but what makes this band such an attractive late summer proposition is their tunefulness, their sunny outlook, their sheer positivity. An Indian summer set to music, in fact.
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// Copyright 2022 @paritytech/polkadot-staking-dashboard authors & contributors
// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
import {
faRedoAlt,
faWallet,
faChevronCircleRight,
} from '@fortawesome/free-solid-svg-icons';
import { faCircle } from '@fortawesome/free-regular-svg-icons';
import { IconProp } from '@fortawesome/fontawesome-svg-core';
import { Separator } from 'Wrappers';
import { CardWrapper } from 'library/Graphs/Wrappers';
import { useStaking } from 'contexts/Staking';
import { useBalances } from 'contexts/Balances';
import { useConnect } from 'contexts/Connect';
import { useModal } from 'contexts/Modal';
import { PAYEE_STATUS } from 'consts';
import { useUi } from 'contexts/UI';
import { useApi } from 'contexts/Api';
import Stat from 'library/Stat';
import { APIContextInterface } from 'types/api';
import { ConnectContextInterface } from 'types/connect';
import { BalancesContextInterface } from 'types/balances';
import { StakingContextInterface } from 'types/staking';
export const Status = () => {
const { isReady } = useApi() as APIContextInterface;
const { setOnSetup, getSetupProgressPercent }: any = useUi();
const { openModalWith } = useModal();
const { activeAccount, isReadOnlyAccount } =
useConnect() as ConnectContextInterface;
const { isSyncing } = useUi();
const { getNominationsStatus, staking, inSetup } =
useStaking() as StakingContextInterface;
const { getAccountNominations } = useBalances() as BalancesContextInterface;
const { payee } = staking;
const nominations = getAccountNominations(activeAccount);
// get nomination status
const nominationStatuses = getNominationsStatus();
const active: any = Object.values(nominationStatuses).filter(
(_v: any) => _v === 'active'
).length;
const payeeStatus: any = PAYEE_STATUS.find((item: any) => item.key === payee);
let startTitle = 'Start Staking';
if (inSetup()) {
const progress = getSetupProgressPercent(activeAccount);
if (progress > 0) {
startTitle += `: ${progress}%`;
}
}
return (
<CardWrapper height={300}>
<Stat
label="Status"
assistant={['stake', 'Staking Status']}
stat={
inSetup() || isSyncing
? 'Not Staking'
: !nominations.length
? 'Inactive: Not Nominating'
: active
? 'Actively Nominating with Bonded Funds'
: 'Waiting for Active Nominations'
}
buttons={
!inSetup()
? []
: [
{
title: startTitle,
icon: faChevronCircleRight,
transform: 'grow-1',
disabled:
!isReady ||
isReadOnlyAccount(activeAccount) ||
!activeAccount,
onClick: () => setOnSetup(true),
},
]
}
/>
<Separator />
<Stat
label="Reward Destination"
assistant={['stake', 'Reward Destination']}
icon={
(payee === null
? faCircle
: payee === 'Staked'
? faRedoAlt
: payee === 'None'
? faCircle
: faWallet) as IconProp
}
stat={inSetup() ? 'Not Assigned' : payeeStatus?.name ?? 'Not Assigned'}
buttons={
payeeStatus
? [
{
title: 'Update',
icon: faWallet,
small: true,
disabled:
inSetup() || isSyncing || isReadOnlyAccount(activeAccount),
onClick: () => openModalWith('UpdatePayee', {}, 'small'),
},
]
: []
}
/>
</CardWrapper>
);
};
export default Status;
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The exhibition entitled 'A wider view' will present a sample sheet of European culture landscape in Apeldoorn this summer. Tijs van den Boomen examines the strategy of preservation and regeneration.
This year the Green Heart Cycle Race took place for the second time. Cyclists might think a course of 204.6 kilometres with no cobbles and no mountains is not particularly interesting, but cycling was not Maarten Kloos’ main objective when he launched the initiative for setting up this race. ‘I had a feeling that things would start to go awry with the spatial planning in the western part of the Netherlands if there was no good plan for the Green Heart. When I watched the television reports on the Tour de France and the Giro d’Italia, I not only enjoyed the cycling but also the beautiful countryside they were cycling through.’ Kloos wanted a lengthy video shot like this of the Green Heart and this year 218 thousand people were able to enjoy this five-hour broadcast with breathtaking helicopter pictures of green polders, winding ditches, sparkling lakes with here and there an isolated farm – and the echelons of cyclists weaving their way through it all.
A single ‘Dutch’ landscape does not exist – compare the pictures of the Amstel Gold Race through the hills of Limburg with those of the Green Heart. Neither does a single ‘European’ landscape: you only need to follow the international cycle train for a few days to see this. Yet there are common characteristics, despite the enormous differences in landscape. Untamed nature is rare in Europe, and the effect of human interference is never far away. Centuries of human management of nature have led to a consistency in cultivation and civilisation and a layered and complex landscape – in short, to an accommodating landscape.
In the same way that the American landscape is bound up with the automobile and the road movie, so its scale and multiformity makes the European landscape one inspired by cyclists and more suited to them. If it isn’t from feeling the pedals under your feet, then it is from watching it flash past in the splendid recordings of the cycle tours. The names themselves can be sufficient to summon the landscapes: Vuelta a Castilla y Leon, Giro del Piemonte, and the Hel van Mergelland.
The European landscape has been shaped by centuries of agrarian tradition, from the cultivation of grapes on carefully structured terraces to sheep farming which has given us heath land, from arable farming in plots opened up in forests to wild boar whose rooting keeps the clearings open in a park-like landscape among the oak trees. Thinking of Europe conjures up images of fields, wooded banks and stone walls, of meadows, thickets and scattered villages submerged among them.
We cannot help but think of this pastoral vision when we talk about Europe – they are the landscapes where we like to spend our holidays. Yet such landscapes do not predominate in the exhibition called A wider view – Culture Landscapes in Europe, which will take place from 11 June to 27 September during the International Triennial in Apeldoorn. Agrarian landscapes make up roughly one third of the examples which represent the European landscape. These are the landscapes which are subject to the greatest pressure because their economic support – traditional methods of agriculture – is disappearing.
The creeping process of decline has adopted various forms: the land has been left untilled in some areas, while in others the efficiency of production has been increased through scale increases: the land has suffered from erosion in some places, while in others it has been allowed to flourish and run wild; some areas have been depopulated while others have seen an influx of new inhabitants: some regions have been designated ‘natural area’ while others have seen a change to monoculture. But the fact that the decline has been economic means that protection of the landscape is an extremely complex question.
A wider view envisions two strategies to combat the degeneration of these landscapes: top down using a ‘management strategy’ or bottom up by reinforcing local communities and indirectly revitalising landscapes.
The management approach takes the desired landscape as its starting point. A good example of this is the Hungarian puszta near Hortobágy, where bulldozers have closed up the irrigation systems dating from the 1950s in order to restore the agricultural land to the dry steppe inhabited only by wild horses and birds which had existed previously. This nature reserve will receive economic support from tourists, attracted by the traditional puszta, a landscape which is incidentally not all that old: it only came into being in the nineteenth century when the canalisation of the River Tisza led to its unintentional drying up.
The management strategy is often closely linked to tourism: Tuscany also relies on tourism for the protection of its landscape of vineyards, avenues of cypresses, of cornfields and small hilltop-villages.
The region is so famous and has such economic strength that it is, in fact, more like a brand which is being maintained.
The fact that this may also undermine its vitality can be seen in the perfectly restored medieval villages with no advertising hoardings to be seen anywhere but rather a surplus of roll-down shutters instead. This is where wealthy townspeople re-enact the Italy of yesteryear from time to time. The result is wonderful but has a deathly quality: the local population can hardly afford the houses there.
The most extreme example of the tourism-first approach to managing the landscape is the Kulturlandschaft Albula-Bernina in Switzerland, where the history of tourism is itself protected in the shape of the Rhaetian Railway. At the beginning of the last century, two railways were built straight through the mountain landscape as a tourist attraction, with tunnels and giant bridges resembling Roman aqueducts. This summer, Unesco will decide whether the Rhaetian Railway will be given a place on the World Heritage List, following other sites like Hortobágy’s puszta and Tuscany’s Val d’Orcia. This would provide powerful protection not only for the railways themselves but also for the panoramas to be enjoyed from the train windows, meaning that nothing could impinge on the idyll of this magnificent full-scale model railway.
The second strategy to managing landscapes uses society as a driving force. It is noticeable that architects are among the primary advocates of this strategy. The objective is not so much protection of the entire landscape but the preservation and revitalisation of the architectural heritage. How do you apply traditional building methods and how do you place buildings selectively and carefully in the landscape?
The creation of local employment opportunities is essential in order to prevent young people from moving out of the area.
The Italian region of Cinque Terre deliberately focuses on strengthening agriculture in order to preserve the character of the landscape. Without farmers the terraces, with their hand-stacked walls, would stand no chance of surviving. Initially, only the vineyards were involved, but after the pilot phase the farmers were also given help with their olive and citrus farms and even a completely new crop was even introduced: basil. Here, unlike Tuscany time has not been frozen.
It is no simple task to halt the decline of traditional agricultural landscapes. Landscapes which have developed over the course of centuries, or even of millennia, can decay in the course of a few short decades.
And sometimes this process is accelerated when a region makes a radical switch to a different agricultural product due to European subsidies, or when the diversity of certain crops is replaced by a monoculture. The increases in scale continue, and in addition to this, there is the European requirement that ten percent of transport must run on bio-fuels by 2020. This alone will require an area of 25 million hectares of agricultural land, almost half of the surface area of France.
Two years ago the Canadian geographer Robert Zimmerman warned once more of the rapid decline in the European landscape in his study Environmental Science & Policy. He finds it incomprehensible that there are coffee table books on almost every aspect of the European natural and cultural habitat, but that there is not a single illustrated guide to the rural appearance of Europe. So he set out to write a Red Book for the European landscape himself. The title revives the idea of the guides published by the famous English landscape designer Humphry Repton at the end of the eighteenth century.
During his journeys through Europe, Zimmerman was unable to trace some of the landscapes. Nowhere in south-western Germany was he able to find any traces of Charlemagne’s three-field system – one year of wheat or rye, one year of barley or oats, one year fallow – nowhere a system which introduced such a radical change into European agriculture. Coltura promiscua – a traditional form of agriculture with alternating rows of vines and olive trees with winter wheat in between – also seemed to have disappeared. He still found the combined cultivation of grapes, olives and cattle feed at scattered locations in Tuscany, Umbria and Marche.
Zimmerman does not wish to indulge in nostalgia about this loss; he knows that the beauty of these landscapes was accompanied by poverty. But you can feel his joy when he finds a landscape which looks almost the same as that of a painting from 1443 on the French bank of Lake Geneva. Without ever naming it explicitly, Zimmerman manages to evoke the image of landscapes which are becoming extinct, like some animal species and languages, and he thinks the least we can do is create an inventory by which to record them.
Eric Luisten, curator of the A wider view exhibition and professor of Cultural History and Design at the Technical University of Delft, is also surprised that there is no overview of culture landscapes. ‘There are established European networks for ecology, for architecture, for cultural history and for town and country planning, but for landscape architecture it is still in its infancy. The stakeholders who have befriended landscapes appear to differ in each case. ‘I sometimes feel like Noddy looking for the European landscape.’ Initially, Luiten wanted to link a design competition to the exhibition, but he is now pleased to have been able to create an inventory over the entire multi-disciplinary spectrum. He now says, it is very much the question whether an assignment has been reserved at all for landscape architects in classic agrarian landscapes.
The role of landscape architecture is simpler in the remaining four categories which A wider view has distinguished: the military landscape, the industrial landscape, land reclamation and the park. Although the role of aesthetics has played a negligible role with the exception of the parks, the hand of the designer has been apparent here from the very beginning. This makes it logical to appeal to landscape architects for protection, renovation or regeneration. Military landscapes are the opposite of rural landscapes; they show a different side of Europe and tell a story of war and division. The large expanses that some cover is noticeable: the Roman Limes, marking the boundary of the empire, run from Scotland to the Black Sea and the communist Iron Curtain from the North Cape to Greece.
These lines together form a cross right across Europe.
They are the product of world empires which have disappeared, and although Europe may be united once again in the EU, there is no cross-frontier approach to these superstructures. There is not even agreement concerning the content on how to approach the Limes. On the Anglo-Scottish border, where the Roman Wall is still largely intact, all efforts are focused on careful restoration. The German section has more or less disappeared, and in Southern Germany, in particular, forts and watchtowers are being rebuilt in order to bring history to life once more. And in the Netherlands where the remains are now buried deep in the soil, the former Imperial border is submerged under reports, studies and working groups.
Remarkably, there is more agreement on the line which dissected Europe not so long ago: the Iron Curtain is to become Europe’s green belt, an Ecological Main Structure 8,500 kilometres long. The strength of the European Green Belt lies in its simplicity: a dead strip is being turned into a life line. However, this is not only a historical line, but it is physically tangible and the biodiversity along its length can be monitored. And finally it is a way of keeping the memory of Europe’s one-time dichotomy alive in the long term.
There are two radically different approaches to a landscape: strict preservation and completely new construction. Usually the truth is to be found somewhere in the middle and moderate adaptation is preferred strategy, but in industrial landscapes you encounter these extremes in their unadulterated form. This is no surprise. Of all landscapes, these have been shaped most by human hands, and so the role of large-scale interventions is large in mapping out the future.
Strict conservation is, for example, the approach chosen for the Sečovlje Saltpans. This area, used for salt extraction on the Slovenian coast, dates back to the fourteenth century and the traditional individual exploitation of salt pounds only came to an abrupt end in 1967. The houses where the workers lived – in the summer they had to stay close to the salt pans day and night – were left derelict and are now in a state of collapse. A renovation plan is now needed to save this unique landscape of low dykes and tiny houses.
At the other end of the spectrum – in scale and area – are the brown coal mines in former East Germany. The word ‘gigantic’ does not do justice to bucket wheel excavators which can process more than 200,000 cubic metres of brown coal a day. The grooves which they make through the landscape are many kilometres wide and entire villages can be swallowed in them.
It is almost impossible to repair the lunar landscape that is left once the caravan has passed. The Lausitz region benefits from essential new construction in order to create a landscape for recreation, one where the lakes are shaped irregularly in order to create the maximum shore length for recreation. It is a pity, however, that the planner’s interventions have wiped away as much as possible. Their aim has been to create a landscape which is as natural as possible – as if nothing had happened. However, one might expect that the shifting of such unbelievable amounts of earth that occurred here could have justified some kind of dramatically artificial shape.
A separate category is formed by the industrial landscapes which have been given a new lease of life by the current rise in the price of raw materials, having previously been left idle. Here it is not a matter of the dilemma between preservation and renovation, but the fight between the local population and the international developers. In the Romanian Rosia Montana the Canadian mining firm Gabriel Resources now wants to resume the gold extraction which has been taking place here since time immemorial. The planned opencast mining will mean the end of five mountains, ten churches, twelve cemeteries and 958 farms.
Apart from the loss of cultural heritage, the campaigners are concerned about damage to the environment through the use of cyanide. They can still remember the disaster in the gold mine at Baia Mare to the north in 2000, which poisoned the fish of the Danube on a large scale. Although a large part of the village has already been bought up and the mining company has invested almost 200 million dollars, the opposition is as yet still strong enough for the developers’ mining permits to be put on hold.
Clearly, human intervention is also a particularly visible factor in land-water reclamation, and we can expect to see the contribution of landscape architects in such landscapes. Moreover, this category has predominantly North-western European characteristics; it is no coincidence that the example projects are drawn from the Netherlands, Belgium and Denmark. And their ‘origin’ helps, because in this part of Europe the recognition of landscape architecture as a discipline is much further advanced than in Southern or Eastern Europe, and furthermore the government has been playing a role as landscape planner for longer. On the other hand, the economic dynamics are greater here and spatial constraints are tight. This has led to complex compensation plans such as those for the harbour in Antwerp: in order to construct the Deurganck Dock, the harbour company had to invest in eleven natural areas. The Paardenschor has been restored into a breeding and feeding area for birds. Like the industrial areas, we can often see contradictory strategies in land reclamation areas. Take the two Dutch examples: the Beemster and Wieringermeer. A bottom-up approach was chosen for the early seventeenth century Beemsterpolder. Placing the area on Unesco’s World Heritage List led to questions and opposition among the residents of the polder as well as pride. Can we still renovate our farm? And keep horses? Can the ditches be filled in? Can new country houses be built?
In total, nineteen projects were discussed in the Beemster in total; agreement was not always reached. One of the projects that have been reserved for the future is energy provision: without energy the polder will be submerged, but is this energy to be generated? According to some, large wind turbines must be built in the polder; they see them as the descendants of the old windmills. Opponents, however, want to protect the polder from modern contamination. At the end of June, students from the summer school attached to A wider view will tackle the Beemster. Perhaps they will come up with plans which can resolve this contradiction. Whereas in the Beemster discussion is actively encouraged, the planners in the Wieringerrandmeer were caught off their guard by disputes in their area. An eight-kilometre long lake is envisaged to separate the former island of Wieringen from the polders built in the thirties, and from the mainland. Half of the sixteen hundred hectares will become water; a quarter will be left to nature and a quarter will be for housing and infrastructure. The planned 2100 houses, for which salt marshes and woods will be created, is to provide funding for the construction of a large-scale recreational area, which should create employment for declining North Holland. Wieringerrandmeer fits in with a series of leisure landscapes in the Dutch countryside and has a number of opponents. These opponents were initially very spirited but most have faded away in the course of the years through consultation, changes and weariness. Last March the provincial government gave the final go-ahead for the project. The thirty farmers who will have to move will be more than adequately compensated: recreation is more profitable than agriculture.
The approach to the last category – the parks – was relatively simple.
They have been created by landscape architects have made them, and it is up to landscape architects to maintain and possibly adapt them. But it seems that things are not so simple in Eastern Europe where there is very little recognition in this professional area, as shown by the cry for help from two landscape architects, who are working on the renovation of the park in Sarajevo.
The park was laid out at the end of the nineteenth century. The central axis of three and a half kilometres is flanked by eleven hundred plane trees and seven hundred wild nut trees. It leads from the city to the sources of the river Bosna. The park was very badly damaged during the war and since then has declined even further. Rubbish is still dumped here despite its designation as a water-collection area.
The landscape’s architectonic qualities may not be as great as the famous German Gartenreich or of the Spanish Aranjuez – which are both part of the exhibition and are on the World Heritage List – but the psychological significance of restoration of this park is difficult to overestimate.
Europe has expressed its culture in physical terms in the shape of its landscapes.
Zimmerman comments further that the great significance is not so much in the aesthetic value of these landscapes but in the witness that they give to the centuries of hard work and survival. Since we can only experience a landscape once we have moved through it, he has not opted for aerial images but for an exploration on foot. This double physical aspect of the landscape is diametrically opposed to the literal ‘superficial’ acquaintance which Google Earth provides us with – the landscape as a picture which we can zoom in on at will.
The historically developed, physical aspect of the landscape is what makes its protection so complicated. It is not a picture that we can hang up in a museum to keep for future generations. Landscapes live and inevitably change; they are by-products of economic processes. And if we want to stop the time machine, which period are we going to favour? Who is going to determine this? And who holds the purse strings?
At the conference in honour of the Dutch ratification of the convention in 2005, Dirk Sijmons, Government advisor for the Landscape said: the concept of ‘landscape’ does not appear in the policy of the European Union. And there is also a great difference between the rules and subsidies of the EU and the guiding, moral summons of the Council of Europe.’ In the conservation and transformation of landscapes, landscape architecture will be irrevocably caught at the point where culture, aesthetics and morality collide with the rigid laws of economy and agricultural politics on the other.
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A new virtual smartcard which promises to transform NHS efficiency and improve patient care is now available to NHS trusts and clinicians, says Jo Flynn, marketing manager at Isosec.
Isosec, the market-leading provider of security, authentication and workflow solutions to the NHS and healthcare sectors, has announced the launch and availability of the first Virtual Smartcard for NHS trusts and clinicians.
Virtual Smartcard by Isosec is already in use with the Barnsley Hospital NHS FT and available to NHS organisations with immediate effect.
“Isosec and the Virtual Smartcard has solved a huge problem for us and actually directly impacted our patient care,” said Tom Davidson, ICT director at Barnsley Hospital NHS FT.
The Isosec Virtual Smartcard addresses a multitude of inefficiencies the NHS is currently facing from managing physical smartcards. Issuing physical cards takes a long time and requires specialist printers for production. Common issues and inefficiencies around issuing physical cards arise when recruiting agency staff and cohorts of new doctors. Clinicians and staff have to travel around the trust to register for cards, so Virtual Smartcard is a big time saving for them.
“The Isosec Virtual Smartcard is a game changer for the NHS,” commented Marc Poulaud, CTO and founder at Isosec.
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Virtual Smartcard and Isosec are device agnostic. We work with Apple, Android and Windows tablets. Fingerprint Recognition is obviously only available on devices that are enabled. To use Fingerprint Recognition to authenticate Virtual Smartcard must first be registered.
In the end-to-end security context Virtual Smartcard is actually more secure than physical smartcards, as Virtual Smartcard leverages all the security of the physical card (Strong RA processes, strong encryption) but eradicates the security workarounds users can adopt with physical cards, such as loaning cards, leaving them in readers and using communal cards – which can potentially lead to security breaches and information governance problems.
Is there a clinical benefit?
Clinicians lose valuable time when they cannot access clinical systems due to a locked physical smartcard. If this happens in a remote location or in the middle of the night, for example, they have to wait until an RA manager is available to unlock the card for them. This could potentially be the next day, the IT office is likely to be further away from clinical buildings, and treatment can get delayed. Virtual Smartcard removes this barrier with the Self-Service Portal and Virtual RA so clinicians can continue treating patients in a timely manner. | c78887a5abc3f19a323911fd1a9bbddd | 542 |
Editor’s Note: Lorena Galvan works at Thought for Food, a global movement that engages and empowers university students from around the world in the mission of feeding 9 billion people by 2050. The organization partnered with the Association for Vertical Farming and Illumitex on its recent awards.
“More with less.” In today’s modern agriculture and food system, this phrase bears the burden of being the summary, the catch-all, and goal of the collective effort to create a better food system. Technologies can drive us towards greater efficiency, businesses can promote increased sustainability, and systems lend themselves to better integration; all in an attempt to survive in a food system facing the external challenges of climate change, land scarcity, and costly transportation.
One solution to these challenges is creating a food production system that uses less land, water, transportation, and energy, supplementing conventional agricultural systems and our total food system.
By leveraging advances in LED lighting, precision agriculture, big data, and renewable energy to fuel a rapidly growing space in plant and protein production system, vertical farming can play an important role in addressing these challenges. However, for vertical farming to remain vibrant and impactful, it needs the support of cutting edge innovators.
This vision promoted the Association for Vertical Farming (AVF) and Illumitex to create the 2016 Vertical Farming Award competition. It attracted 100 applications of unique ideas, ranging from utopian ideas to tangible, ready-to-adopt systems for households, from 25 different countries.
Inter-Farm-Market of Malaysia wants to create office and shopping centers, or “community facilities”, with vertical farms integrated into the architecture that supplies fresh produce to retailers in the same building.
VeGaN of the Netherlands has designed a vertical farming system to be implemented in isolated countries like Iceland, using an array of innovative technologies to support a country importing almost all its vegetables.
IMPACKT Farm of Spain has developed a vertical farming system, complete with aquaponics, which can grow to fit any space or environment.
The winning teams will attend the AVF Summit on June 13th in Amsterdam, the biggest gathering of vertical farming experts in the year, to present their concepts, gain valuable feedback, and build their networks.
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Today, acclaimed multi-platinum pop singer and songwriter Andy Grammer has released “Joy,” an emotion-filled new track via Giant Soul/S-Curve/Hollywood Records.
Honored with another reason to rejoice, Andy has recently reached an unprecedented milestone. He officially stands out as the No. 1 “Happy Pop” Streaming Artist and has registered over 3 billion artist streams. This accolade has been buoyed by the runaway success of recent tracks “Lease On Life,” which Andy created under the inspiration of a newfound perspective he gained during the pandemic and has generated over 30 million total streams, “Damn It Feels Good To Be Me,” a genre-bending single that was written about boldly owning your individuality, and “Love Myself,” Andy’s latest release which is about the importance of loving and accepting yourself. All of these songs are building towards a bigger vision for Andy’s fifth full-length album due out in late 2022.
Andy will also kick off The Art of Joy Tour on Friday, February 4 at Resorts World in Monticello, NY. The first leg of the tour includes 18 dates with stops in Cleveland, Boston, New York, Chicago, Denver, San Francisco and more.
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With the light blow in the summer winds and ripening and harvesting of the crops, most of the farmers supplement their income by using their cornfields for corn mazes. However, for a short period during the 1980s and 1990s, the fields of corn became less known for seasonal entertainment, however, became famous for the crop circles.
Crop Circles Mystery!
Crop circles are large strange geometric patterns appearing mysteriously overnight made up of flattened crops mostly found in the farmer's fields in southern England. Scholars undertaking the study of the crop circles are of the view that these are messages sent to the farmers by extraterrestrial life.
In contrast, others claim these as human activities. These strange patterns highly provoke puzzle, delight and astonishment among the press public and researchers. The circles are highly found in the United Kingdom but have spread to dozens of countries around the world in past decades. The mystery has inspired countless books, blogs, fan groups, researchers, and even Hollywood films. Most of the people have reported the activities of crop circles to occur from centuries, a claim that is repeated in books and websites have been devoted to mysteries. The primary piece of evidence is a woodcut from 1678 that appeared in showing a field of oat stalks laid out in a circle. Some of the scholars and intellectuals granted this to be the first eye-witness account of a crop circle, however, some historical investigation shows otherwise. The "woodcut" represented and illustrated folklore describing a "mowing devil" legend. The legend describes the story of an English farmer who tells a worker with whom he was feuding that the farmer would be paying the Devil on his own by cutting his oat field, thereby paying the fee demanded.
The source of harvesting is not known and is deemed to be mysterious; the woodcut depicts Satan himself, who complete with its signature horns and a tail is holding a scythe.
Some people claim that the first crop circle appeared near a small town of Tully, Australia. A farmer, in 1966 reported noticing a flying saucer rise from a swampy area and flew away. When he further wanted to investigate a new roughly circular area of debris and flattened reeds and grass, which he believed to be built by alien spacecraft.
This was later on confirmed through the police investigation and was likely said to be caused by natural phenomena: waterspout or by a dust devil.
From the beginning of 1970s, simple crop circles began to appear in several fields in southern England including Wiltshire, Oxfordshire, Somerset, Gloucestershire. These circles were made at night. By the 1980s and 1990s, they became more complex, which grew into large geometric patterns covering hundreds of feet, even some illustrated complex mathematical calculations.
One of the world's most spectacular and sophisticated crop circles appeared in England across a highway in the countryside of Wiltshire from the mysterious and world-famous Stonehenge monument.
Famed as Julia Set, an astonishing fractal pattern, while some rough and straightforward circles are explained as the outcome of strange weather patterns, however, the Julia Set is explained as demonstrated intelligence. Scholars questioned about the occurrence and were confused about whether the outcome was due to terrestrial or extraterrestrial intelligence. Scholars and eminent researchers studying the patterns of crop circle claimed that the circle with weird and mysterious designs was constructed during the day and with the shortest span of an hour.
However, if it's true, a hoaxer can't accomplish such a critical task, and the circle was one of the most famous ones in its history. However, later analysis revealed that the circle took three hours and was built by three hoaxers early that morning, which farmers and other local people failed to notice it and noticed that afternoon from a flying airplane. The general features of the crop circles, with a few exceptions, virtually all crop circles have found to share some common characteristics. As the name implies, the crop circles are always circular shaped and rarely include triangles, rectangles, or squares, however, some contain straight and curved lines.
Scholars state that coincidentally, a circle is the easiest pattern to be created by hoaxers. These are formed overnight and are often sighted by farmers and passersby the very next morning. Although there are no logical reasons behind the presence of extraterrestrials or earth energies to create patterns at night, however, it's a great advantage for hoaxers in creating such mysterious designs under the coat of darkness, the full moon nights are especially popular. No one has yet been able to capture the pictures of the circle being made. However, the making of circles has been claimed highly suspicious trait, and if the mysterious earth forces or the aliens are working there is no reason that they would not be happening if the cameras are capturing images or recording.
They appear in the fields that are easily accessible by the public, which are located close to roads and highways and rarely appear in remote, inaccessible areas. Due to this, the patterns are usually noticed within a day or two of their creation bypassing people on cars and motorbikes.
Scholars and researchers formulate several theories explaining the formation of the crop circles, which includes both human and inhuman activities such as aliens, mysterious vortices, time travelers and wind patterns. However, the theories lack the most important aspect, good evidence and the only known formations is by mortal humans. Unlike the mysteries of Bigfoot, psychic powers and ghosts, the crop circles are real, and their existence is clear and overwhelming. The main doubt lies in the ways of its creation, which can be investigated by taking into account both internal and external evidence.
The internal evidence includes the content and meaning of the designs that indicate content and the messages hidden in it. The external evidence includes the physical construction of the circles that are known to form on their own. Enthusiasts came up with several ideas and theories about the creation of their patterns, ranging from plausible to absurd causes. An explanation of the 1980s states that the formation of the circle is the outcome of vigorous sexual activities of horny hedgehogs.
However, some enthusiasts do not accept the explanation and state to be created by the localized and precise patterns of wind or by scientifically detectable Earth energy fields combined with meridians, ley lines. Molecular biologist, Horace Drew is of the view that the production of the crop circles is caused by aliens or humans travelling through time from the distant future that help them in navigating the EarthEarth.
He worked on the assumptions and claimed that the designs deliver certain messages: "believe", "there is good out there", "beware the bearers of false gifts and their broken promises" and "We oppose deception". However, these oddities and pseudo biblical messages undermine the credibility of the circles, or at least the messages delivered to the EarthEarth and its mortal beings. It is expected that one day some mysterious yet unknown sources will become known for the formations of crop circles until then, they are the best collected public art.
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The this month that the casino’s best days were “yet to come” which in truth is an optimistic statement for any casino in Atlantic City right now.
Murren would be in surer ground, though, if he were talking about the still nascent online market in New Jersey, despite the recent interventions of the Division of Gaming Enforcement (DGE) which has clouded rather than clarified its stance on grey markets, much as a fog bank can obliterate the views from the famous AC boardwalk.
Earlier this month GVC – which has inherited BwinParty’s supplier relationship with the Borgata – announced that the DGE had determined that the New Jersey licences held by BwinParty would remain valid under GVC’s ownership and that a transactional waiver was not needed in connection with existing contracts.
Kenny Alexander, chief executive at GVC, said the company was “delighted’ with the news. “This is an important development for GVC and one that places the enlarged Group in a strong position should further regulated opportunities in the US arise,” he said.
Previous to the news there were clearly worries on both sides of the deal about whether the DGE would give the GVC a pass. Back in February it was announced that Gameaccount, already the supplier of a social gambling product to the Borgata, had extended its agreement to cover real-money online gambling “in the event certain conditions are met”.
The wording of the deal seemed designed to ensure that MGM has optionality when it comes to the provision of online gambling. It is a word that GVC chief executive Kenneth Alexander used previously when he spoke about what gaining a licence in New Jersey would mean to the group.
Viewing the deals between BwinParty and MGM and Boyd in light of the subsequent two-and-a-half years of online operations in New Jersey, there are reasons enough for Alexander to hold back from being too effusive about the prospects of New Jersey moving the dial for his company.
Although in 2015 the four Borgata websites (including an NJPartyPoker offering) were the market leaders with a gross win of $45.7m, the operation is now coming under pressure from PokerStars which only entered New Jersey in March this year and is already the dominant poker site and along with its other two Resorts Casino sites is pushing for top spot across both poker and casino.
But GVC’s enthusiasm for New Jersey would also have been tempered ahead of the licensing decision by the official advisory note issued by DGE director David Rebuck in late April.
The note attempts to clarify the DGE’s position with regard to online grey markets and how it pertains to New Jersey online licensees and in part it does a good job of attempting to discriminate between black markets – where New Jersey licensees should fear to tread – and grey markets – where broadly they can carry on as they were.
In the case of the latter, Rebuck and the DGE acknowledge the difficulties that arise in the EU between interpretations of national and supra-national laws. In particular, the note makes the point that any attempt to understand the motives of another sovereign government when it comes to their own gambling laws is “fraught with the likelihood of error or misinterpretation”.
As legal sources suggest, this admittance of the limitations of one regulator with regard to gambling laws in another jurisdiction – and the specific issue in Europe of the status of national law and EU statutes – is helpful.
But it is what comes next that is more of an issue. The advisory note states that it is “extremely difficult” for New Jersey to apply what it calls a “stringent approach” to what constitutes activity that would preclude licensing in the state. But, it says, the DGE will examine whether another jurisdiction has taken “affirmative, concrete action to enforce that law” including criminal or civil actions or the issuance of a “formal cease and desist” letter sent by a government official.
This, according to legal sources, is “not very helpful” as a definition given the potentially wide variation of interpretation of who can issue a cease and desist letter. It also puts New Jersey rather in the position of judge and jury, deciding what constitutes “concrete actions” and what and isn’t permissible as far as grey markets are concerned.
As the DGE itself admitted, it is a position which is indeed “fraught” with difficulties. Michael Ellen, partner at Regulus and ex-director of licensing for the Alderney Gambling Commission, notes it is a stance that the UK Gambling Commission notably steered clear of when it came to its online licensing regime. Instead the Commission contented itself (for now at least) with asking that operators inform them of any markets worth more than 5% of their revenues and also supply them with a legal opinion regarding their participation in that market.
What we cannot know at present is what the DGE makes of one particular market – Turkey – which would clear the UK Gambling Commission’s 5% threshold according to analysts at Cenkos. It remains the greyest of the regulatory stars in the GVC firmament, not least because the previous owners of Sportingbet in the region had some employees arrested on illegal gambling charges.
At present it would appear that the DGE clearly doesn’t consider this to be the type of “affirmative, concrete action” that might preclude GVC from being able to operate in New Jersey. As Ellen from Regulus points out, though this would appear to be good news for any operator with any dotcom revenues that might be wishing to look at entering any given regulated US market, it is not the same as a clean bill of health or any cross-border regulatory creep.
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Hello again! There are many things that you can do to find success in college. We’re doing things a little differently this time. Today we will listen to what students had to say about their experience at St. Petersburg College‘s, “Off On the Right Foot” event.
The above quote is from Juliana Bernal, a student in her third semester here at SPC. Another student, Marc Listman, currently in his first semester, also said he learned how to take better notes during the sessions.
I’ve been in classes where some people simply don’t take take notes at all. That, I may never understand. You could at least write the ‘key’ points down for review later. Doing this and, at some point, creating a summary is an excellent idea. The act of re-reading and writing in itself will help with memorization and in the long run. If you do it consistently, you will be comfortably ready for exams.
That quote, from Jimmy Biascan, in his second semester at SPC, is a really important tip.
Many of us have no idea how we learn best. We must remember that nothing is one-size-fits-all when it comes to effective learning. According to an article posted by Neumann University, there are seven main categories that would, either individually or in combination, describe the kind of learners that we are: verbal, spatial-visual, aural, kinesthetic, logical, social or solitary. Figuring out which one of these best describes YOUR learning style could make a world of difference to your learning experience in the class or on your own. St. Pertersburg College offers a course that includes helping you to figure this out, and there are other sites that break it down further for you. Try look into it, if you haven’t already.
Paula Wutling, who is in her first semester at SPC, made this comment, and boy, what an underrated sentiment. Many times we don’t think much of how or when we study…we just do. For some, this works and it works really well, but sometimes it really pays to re-evaluate. Consider the distractions in your current study space (do you even have a study space?)…the location …the lighting…how much time you give yourself to JUST study-with no social-media or TV on in the background. Many things play into YOUR personal study time. With no structure to how you do it, being consistent might be difficult and, worse yet, leave you unprepared when it is most important. Having study skills really isn’t rocket science. You just have to do it and, over time, the where, when and everything else can be perfected to your liking. Another first semester student, Suegauy Scott, said that by attending the event, he learned that there are multiple ways to study and learn new things.
Throughout the event, instructors shared their recommendations.
Ask ALL of your questions! – Don’t fooled. Other students may have questions too…you just may be the only one brave enough to speak up.
Stay ahead in the class. – When you fall behind, it is much easier to STAY behind than it is to catch up. Try not to have to catch up.
Talk about it. – Many instructors are willing to talk through any issues you may have with them or the class. Don’t just quit…talk through it.
The number of ways to improve your experience and outcomes and find success in college are many. Go to the orientation events, seek advice from your professors, get your study time in order and then, enjoy the ride. Your time in college will soon be over and the fact is that to success, there are so many different roads. You just need to find which one is YOURS. | 4eafa9157fa79939d7b9ac7d663d3953 | 802 |
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Concise Polygenic Models for Cancer-Specific Identification of Drug-Sensitive Tumors from Their Multi-Omics Profiles
In silico models to predict which tumors will respond to a given drug are necessary for Precision Oncology. However, predictive models are only available for a handful of cases (each case being a given drug acting on tumors of a specific cancer type). A way to generate predictive models for the remaining cases is with suitable machine learning algorithms that are yet to be applied to existing in vitro pharmacogenomics datasets. Here, we apply XGBoost integrated with a stringent feature selection approach, which is an algorithm that is advantageous for these high-dimensional problems. Thus, we identified and validated 118 predictive models for 62 drugs across five cancer types by exploiting four molecular profiles (sequence mutations, copy-number alterations, gene expression, and DNA methylation). Predictive models were found in each cancer type and with every molecular profile. On average, no omics profile or cancer type obtained models with higher predictive accuracy than the rest. However, within a given cancer type, some molecular profiles were overrepresented among predictive models. For instance, CNA profiles were predictive in breast invasive carcinoma (BRCA) cell lines, but not in small cell lung cancer (SCLC) cell lines where gene expression (GEX) and DNA methylation profiles were the most predictive. Lastly, we identified the best XGBoost model per cancer type and analyzed their selected features. For each model, some of the genes in the selected list had already been found to be individually linked to the response to that drug, providing additional evidence of the usefulness of these models and the merits of the feature selection scheme.
a much smaller subset of features, which often results in less overfitting and thus more predictive models. An additional advantage of the OMC strategy is that a small set of features allows better interpretability and less resource-intensive application to other tumor samples than models employing all the available features (note that other model interpretability techniques from the area of Explainable Artificial Intelligence, XAI [27], could alternatively be applied to this problem). Here, we show the complementarity of both XGB algorithms across the drug-cancer type binomials for which new predictors were found. Furthermore, we identify the most predictive molecular profile for each of these binomials. XGB-OMC predictors exploiting gene expression or DNA methylation profiles are particularly innovative, as these profiles have not been previously analyzed with nonlinear regression algorithms that are able to find a concise subset of predictive features.
Data Description
We defined each case as a drug and cancer type pair, where cell lines can be described by four omics profiles. In terms of genomic profiles, we analyzed Single-Nucleotide Variants (SNV) and CNA data. Both were encoded as binary features, each feature indicating whether a mutation was detected in the gene or if a chromosomal region had copy-number alterations, respectively. On the other hand, gene expression intensities (RMA normalized mapped to gene) and methylation ß-values of the CpG islands were used as real-valued features. Regarding drug sensitivity data, we found 990 cell lines with 212,774 log IC50 values for 265 drugs in 30 cancer types in the GDSC (49,576 measurements did not have an associated cancer type and were subsequently discarded). Once we restricted the dataset to the cancer types with at least 45 cell lines, 3167 unique triplets of drug, cancer type, and tumor profile type remained. Each of these triplets had between 45 and 62 fully profiled data instances, comprising 219 drugs across five cancer types (BRCA: breast invasive carcinoma, COAD/READ: colorectal adenocarcinoma/rectum adenocarcinoma, LUAD: lung adenocarcinoma, SCLC: small cell lung cancer, and SKCM: skin cutaneous melanoma). Drug response is quantified with the concentration required to reduce cell viability by half, i.e., the IC50 value. The log IC50 of an instance is the dependent continuous variable for which regression models will be built. Further description of the data and their pre-processing is available in the Methods section.
To assess the predictive power of the generated models ( Figure 1), we split the cell lines of each case into a training set (used also for model selection via cross-validation) and an external test set. Hence, there is no overlap between any training and test sets. Every test set contained 10 cell lines and was stratified to ensure that it is representative of drug responses for the considered case. In a nutshell, the stratification consists of selecting cell lines at equidistant log IC50 ranks, so that both training and test sets have the same log IC50 range (see Methods subsection "Generation of non-overlapping training and test sets"). The number of training cell lines, n, varies from case to case. For the training set of each case, OMC considered the top k features, with k ranging from 2 to n/2 and n being the number of cell lines in the training set of the considered case. This was done in order to generate a sequence of (n/2) − 1 nested feature subsets, each leading to a different training set using the same cell lines. We set n/2 as the highest model complexity to have at least two training data instances per feature (i.e., two training cell lines per feature as a heuristic to identify models that only require a concise list of features). The OMC was chosen as the top k features resulting in the best median performance over the five folds. The full list of features for the case is also used to build a baseline model with all features and running them on the same training set as the OMC strategy.
In order to select the OMC, features need to be ranked first. We used the p-values obtained from univariate statistical tests to correlate between each feature and the corresponding labels (log IC50 values). For a given case and complexity, p-values between each feature and drug response were calculated using only the training folds (i.e., excluding the validation fold) within the 5-fold stratified cross-validation (see Figure 1). Note that the test set is not used at any step of this training process; in particular, the determination of the OMC uses the training set exclusively. For discrete features (SNV, CNA) and continuous features (gene expression intensities, methylation β-values), the p-values of the Wilcoxon rank-sum test and the Spearman rank-correlation test were used, respectively. We opted to use univariate filter methods to avoid long computational times, making assumptions or biasing predictive performance, as previously reported in the literature [28] (this study found univariate filters to be among the top-performing feature selection algorithms in a related high-dimensional problem).
Biomolecules 2020, 10, x 4 of 22 Figure 1. Schematic outline of the procedure to determine the Optimal Model Complexity (OMC) for each case and evaluating the resulting models. Data pre-processed in the latest Genomics of Drug Sensitivity in Cancer (GDSC) study [5] is partitioned into unique cases and then split into training and test sets. A five-fold cross-validation using stratified folds is used to establish which are the top k features (where k takes all the integer values between 2 and n/2, with n being the number of training cell lines), leading to the most predictive XGB regression model over the five cross-validation runs. Once the optimal k (k_opt) has been determined, the top k_opt features on the entire training set are identified. This is repeated for each case, giving rise to the predictive models discovered and analyzed in this study.
In order to select the OMC, features need to be ranked first. We used the p-values obtained from univariate statistical tests to correlate between each feature and the corresponding labels (log IC50 values). For a given case and complexity, p-values between each feature and drug response were calculated using only the training folds (i.e., excluding the validation fold) within the 5-fold stratified cross-validation (see Figure 1). Note that the test set is not used at any step of this training process; in particular, the determination of the OMC uses the training set exclusively. For discrete features (SNV, CNA) and continuous features (gene expression intensities, methylation β-values), the pvalues of the Wilcoxon rank-sum test and the Spearman rank-correlation test were used, respectively. We opted to use univariate filter methods to avoid long computational times, making assumptions or biasing predictive performance, as previously reported in the literature [28] (this study found univariate filters to be among the top-performing feature selection algorithms in a related highdimensional problem).
We estimated the OMC using a five-fold stratified cross-validation for model selection. To this end, log IC50 values were randomly distributed to one of five folds, yet their ranking within a fold was maintained from small to large in order to represent a fold representative of the test set and the full drug response range. Sizes of validation set folds varied between 7 and 11 cell lines, which is comparable to the size of the external test set. Therefore, we expected the validation folds to provide a good representation of the behavior of the model in the test set. To promote that the OMC generalizes well, we required that the minimum Spearman correlation (Rs) of all five validation folds exceeded an Rs of 0.25 (this is a cut-off previously used to model these datasets [5]); if this minimum performance level is not reached, that OMC is no longer considered. Once the OMC is determined, p-values are calculated using the entire training set, and only the top k_opt features are employed to train the XGB-OMC model, which is applied to predict drug sensitivities in the test set (see Figure 1).
To summarize, we obtain combinations of a drug, cancer type, and omics level. These datasets were each separately analyzed. If we find complexities generalizing well across all five folds, we keep Schematic outline of the procedure to determine the Optimal Model Complexity (OMC) for each case and evaluating the resulting models. Data pre-processed in the latest Genomics of Drug Sensitivity in Cancer (GDSC) study [5] is partitioned into unique cases and then split into training and test sets. A five-fold cross-validation using stratified folds is used to establish which are the top k features (where k takes all the integer values between 2 and n/2, with n being the number of training cell lines), leading to the most predictive XGB regression model over the five cross-validation runs. Once the optimal k (k_opt) has been determined, the top k_opt features on the entire training set are identified. This is repeated for each case, giving rise to the predictive models discovered and analyzed in this study.
We estimated the OMC using a five-fold stratified cross-validation for model selection. To this end, log IC50 values were randomly distributed to one of five folds, yet their ranking within a fold was maintained from small to large in order to represent a fold representative of the test set and the full drug response range. Sizes of validation set folds varied between 7 and 11 cell lines, which is comparable to the size of the external test set. Therefore, we expected the validation folds to provide a good representation of the behavior of the model in the test set. To promote that the OMC generalizes well, we required that the minimum Spearman correlation (R s ) of all five validation folds exceeded an R s of 0.25 (this is a cut-off previously used to model these datasets [5]); if this minimum performance level is not reached, that OMC is no longer considered. Once the OMC is determined, p-values are calculated using the entire training set, and only the top k_opt features are employed to train the XGB-OMC model, which is applied to predict drug sensitivities in the test set (see Figure 1).
To summarize, we obtain combinations of a drug, cancer type, and omics level. These datasets were each separately analyzed. If we find complexities generalizing well across all five folds, we keep this complexity and use it to build the final model. The final model is trained on the full training set and uses only the top-k elements that best correlate with the drug's response.
Building Predictive Cancer-Specific Models
For a model to be regarded as potentially predictive, there needs to be sufficient correlation between its predictions and the true observed log IC50 values. Thus, we required a minimum R s of 0.25 in every validation fold for a model to be considered as potentially predictive. For a potentially predictive model to be confirmed as predictive, we also required that the model needed to have an R s value greater than 0.25 in the test set. By eliminating those with performance below this test set threshold, the number of models was reduced from 268 to 77 (28.73%). The 77 predictive models cover 62 unique drugs across all four data types in the five cancer types with sufficient cell lines. These models are specified in the Supplementary Materials (Supplementary file 1).
To further assess whether these 77 models are truly predictive, we evaluated each selected OMC subset by performing 10 five-fold cross-validation runs on the full dataset (i.e., merging training and test sets for the considered case), in which each run was initialized with a different random seed. We employed the full dataset of each case for this validation in order to use all instances available to that case, instead of validating partially because of using the much smaller test set. Then, we permutated (randomly shuffled) log IC50s across the same data instances and carried out 10 other five-fold cross-validations per OMC subset. In Figure 2, we compared the performances of XGB-OMC models trained on the measured log IC50 values with those from XGB-OMC models trained using case-specific randomly permutated log IC50 values. This y-randomization [29] validation shows what proportion of the model accuracy comes from the signal in the data. As specified before, we only present the best case, i.e., the most predictive combination of drug, cancer type, and omics type. All omics types and cancer types were analyzed separately to be able to compare them.
We can see a substantial difference in Figure 2, even with just 10 cross-validation runs, between the models trained with the unaltered data (blue) and those trained using randomly permutated log IC50s (green). Comparison using a paired t-test for R s from the predictive model and their corresponding permutated variant indicated a highly significant difference between both model types (p-value < 2.2 × 10 −16 across cases), indicating that these model predictions are extremely unlikely to be due to chance. As can be seen in Figure 2, the XGB-OMC models generally outperform models trained on randomly permutated data (note the much higher cross-validated R s values across the 10 runs). This shows that the OMC models capture properties relevant to the drug response. Only one model was found to be slightly problematic when compared to its permutated counterpart (the DNA methylation model for COAD/READ cell lines treated with PFI-1). Compared to most well-predicted cases, the variance in log IC50 for PFI-1 on the relatively low end (0.209 for PFI-1) when compared to the variances for well-predicted drug-cancer combinations in the validation and test sets, such as Thapsigargin in SCLC (0.588), Bleomycin in BRCA (0.653), Mitomycin C in LUAD (0.473), and PI-103 in COAD/READ (0.776). This difference was much less pronounced when compared to the best SKCM case (Pazopanib, log IC50 variance of 0.268).
For all 268 cases that were potentially predictive (R s greater than 0.25 in all validation folds), we compared the models using the OMC with the corresponding models using all features. As previously seen (Figure 2), 77 of the 268 models were predictive in our external test set when using the OMC. Interestingly, we found that 96 models of these 268 were predictive using all features. Therefore, using the XGB-all results in a slightly larger number of predictive models (35.82%) when compared to XGB-OMC (28.73%). Of the 96 XGB-all cases that were predictive, 55 were also predictive using XGB-OMC, thus indicating consistency between both approaches. In 24 of the 55 shared models, XGB-OMC outperformed XGB-all, with the latter seemingly more predictive. However, we found that the average difference in the test set performance between the two was 0.022 in favor of XGB-all, which is not a statistically significant difference (paired t-test; p = 0.374). Therefore, we cannot conclude that both methods perform dissimilarly in these 55 cases in common. It is important to note that We can see a substantial difference in Figure 2, even with just 10 cross-validation runs, between the models trained with the unaltered data (blue) and those trained using randomly permutated log Figure 2. Performances of the 77 predictive XGB-OMC models using real log IC50 values (blue) and their corresponding models using permutated log IC50 values (orange). In each case, performance is calculated as Spearman's correlation (R s ) between predicted and observed log IC50 values (the boxplot is formed with the five validation R s values from the five-fold cross-validation using the full dataset for that case). All five cancer types are shown (a: BRCA, b: COAD/READ, c: LUAD, d: SCLC, e: SKCM), each predictive model identified by its drug (name) and molecular profile (horizontal colour bar below each plot; see legend for correspondence). Of all models, the model for PFI-1 in COAD/READ is by far the worst performer when compared to the permutated log IC50s (p-value = 0.27). This model obtains borderline performance on not only the test set (R s of 0.31), but also on the validation set (R s of 0.29). The odds that the other models are being obtained by chance are very unlikely (p < 2.2 × 10 −16 , t-test). BRCA: breast invasive carcinoma, COAD/READ: colorectal adenocarcinoma/rectum adenocarcinoma, LUAD: lung adenocarcinoma, SCLC: small cell lung cancer, and SKCM: skin cutaneous melanoma. Figure 3 shows a high degree of complementarity between XGB methods. For 41 of the 96 predictive XGB-all models, the XGB-OMC fails to capture potentially predictive characteristics. By contrast, XGB-OMC is predictive in 22 cases where XGB with all features was not. Therefore, the use of both methods is required to obtain predictive models for a larger number of drugs. For those cases below but close to the diagonal, the use the XGB-OMC models is preferred to reduce the feature space with a negligible loss of performance.
Biomolecules 2020, 10, x 8 of 22 From a practical perspective, it is interesting to see that for over half of the cases for which a prediction using the standard all features predictions is possible, these can just as well be described with the OMC subset, as hypothesis testing can then be performed in targeted research experiments, while avoiding the need for costly exome-or genome-wide experiments [30] and qualified personnel that may not be required.
The cases for which XGB with all features did generate less predictive models are also of interest. From a practical perspective, it is interesting to see that for over half of the cases for which a prediction using the standard all features predictions is possible, these can just as well be described with the OMC subset, as hypothesis testing can then be performed in targeted research experiments, while avoiding the need for costly exome-or genome-wide experiments [30] and qualified personnel that may not be required.
The cases for which XGB with all features did generate less predictive models are also of interest. In each plot in Figure 3, these cases are shown above the dashed diagonal line. Therefore, it is important to consider using the OMC approach as a complement to traditional machine learning, as doing so will add 22 cases that were poorly predicted using the same dataset. In Figure 3, all models that could be considered predictive using either the OMC or the all features method are shown. In total, our study has identified 118 novel XGB models with predictive value (77 predictive with XGB-OMC, complemented by 41 XGB-all), all of which are provided together with their OMC feature set in Supplementary file 1. These 118 feature lists and their corresponding models constitute a large set of complex hypothesis of how cancer cell lines respond to a drug.
Conversely, XGB-all obtained better test set Rs values than XGB-OMC in some cases. One contributing factor could be that the features that correlate the most with IC50s on the training set (i.e., those selected by XGB-OMC) are not as predictive when combined with themselves as they are when combined with features less correlated individually with IC50s. Another factor is that the diversity of cell lines, which can always keep the IC50-correlated features in training cell lines from being sufficiently correlated in test cell lines.
Note that a few XGB-OMC and XGB-all models result in negative correlations with the test set log IC50s in Figure 3. This is likely caused by the small training set sizes. We rely on estimating the top features within folds, while for the final model, we correlate to the full training set. When there are no features that strongly correlate with the log IC50, these feature rankings can be prone to change, resulting in worse performance. The growing availability of drug screening data is expected to mitigate this issue.
Identifying the Most Predictive Molecular Profile for Each Drug and Cancer Type
We observed that the identity of the most predictive profile depends strongly on the considered case. Note that there are more predictive models than drug-cancer type binomials, as some of these cases are well predicted using more than one profile. For example, CNA profiles were employed by only 13 of the 118 predictive models (11 of these 13 were the best model for the case). Surprisingly, we found that only 13 SNV models were predictive (12 of these were the best model for the case). This was in stark contrast to real-valued profiles, which did indeed seem to be much more informative: 60 predictive models using gene expression data (56 best models for the case) and 32 predictive models' DNA methylation data (31 best model for the case). Although much information for the binary data types (SNV, CNA) may be lost in the feature creation step (e.g., choice of only census genes, disregarding the specific mutation, disregarding the number of copies . . . ), our results based on the GDSC features seem to suggest that for exploratory analysis, gene expression may be the most likely data type to result in predictive models (50.8% of predictive models). Test set performances by means of R s are shown in Figure 4 for both molecular profile types (left) and cancer types (right).
In Figure 4B, we can see the test set performances for models belonging to the different cancer types. These differences are not statistically significant (p-values > 0.05, t-test). In total, we established 24 predictive models for BRCA, 16 for COAD/READ, 25 for LUAD, 37 for SCLC, and 16 for SKCM across all data types. In contrast to omics profiles, the distribution of the 118 predictive models across cancer types is much more even, complementing their equivalent overall performance characteristics, which suggest we are not biasing toward a single cancer type. The two cancer types with the largest number of cell lines (LUAD and SCLC) are also those for which the largest number of predictive models was obtained, despite the predictive models from some cancer types coming from a similar number of analyzed cases: LUAD (864), SCLC (647), BRCA (600), COAD/READ (362), and SKCM (694). This further supports the importance of larger datasets. An ANOVA analysis performed in R could not find a statistically significant effect of the cancer type, indicating that no cancer type was better predicted than the rest.
This was in stark contrast to real-valued profiles, which did indeed seem to be much more informative: 60 predictive models using gene expression data (56 best models for the case) and 32 predictive models' DNA methylation data (31 best model for the case). Although much information for the binary data types (SNV, CNA) may be lost in the feature creation step (e.g., choice of only census genes, disregarding the specific mutation, disregarding the number of copies …), our results based on the GDSC features seem to suggest that for exploratory analysis, gene expression may be the most likely data type to result in predictive models (50.8% of predictive models). Test set performances by means of Rs are shown in Figure 4 for both molecular profile types (left) and cancer types (right).
Figure 4.
Test set performances of the 118 models identified as predictive in this study. We grouped all the test set performances of the predictive models per omics profile (Panel a). Interestingly, there is no universally better omics data type (p-values > 0.05, t-test). However, gene expression (GEX) was characterized by high predictive performance, and it resulted in the largest number of predictive models. In panel b (right), we visualize the predictive performance of all 118 XGB-OMC and XGB-all models when grouped per cancer type. As in panel a, no cancer type is significantly better predicted . Test set performances of the 118 models identified as predictive in this study. We grouped all the test set performances of the predictive models per omics profile (Panel a). Interestingly, there is no universally better omics data type (p-values > 0.05, t-test). However, gene expression (GEX) was characterized by high predictive performance, and it resulted in the largest number of predictive models. In panel b (right), we visualize the predictive performance of all 118 XGB-OMC and XGB-all models when grouped per cancer type. As in panel a, no cancer type is significantly better predicted than another (p-values > 0.05, t-test). Both plots show that predictive models can be built for each omics profile and cancer type. Figure 5 compiles test R s values between predicted and observed logIC50 of the best cases from each cancer type. In the majority of cancer types, gene expression results in substantially more predictive models than the other three molecular profiles. This is consistent with the highest proportion of predictive models arising from gene expression datasets (60 of the 118 models). However, the relative numbers of predictive models across omics profiles are strongly cancer-specific, as it can be seen in Figure 5. Interestingly, some cases, such as Afatinib and Bleomycin on BRCA, have predictive models with more than one molecular profile ( Figure 5 only presents test set performances for the best profile, which are those with the highest test set Rs). This figure also shows the drugs with predictive models on each cancer type (BRCA: 22 drugs, COAD/READ: 13 drugs, SKCM: 16 drugs, LUAD: 24 drugs, SCLC: 35 drugs).
It is noteworthy that of the 12 cases best predicted with CNA features, 7 are found in BRCA. Similarly, SCLC seems to have a proportionally larger presence of drugs that can be predicted with methylation information (13 of the 35 models), while CNA does not seem to play as much of a role as it does in BRCA. On the other hand, SNV seems to be more relevant for SKCM. Although this relation between predictive omics data types and cancer type depends strongly on the drugs tested, extensive reviews have been presented describing the importance of a given data type to specific cancers, such as the role of DNA methylation in SCLC [31]. It is noteworthy that of the 12 cases best predicted with CNA features, 7 are found in BRCA. Similarly, SCLC seems to have a proportionally larger presence of drugs that can be predicted with methylation information (13 of the 35 models), while CNA does not seem to play as much of a role as it does in BRCA. On the other hand, SNV seems to be more relevant for SKCM. Although this relation between predictive omics data types and cancer type depends strongly on the drugs tested, extensive reviews have been presented describing the importance of a given data type to specific cancers, such as the role of DNA methylation in SCLC [31]. . The data type of the best case (i.e., highest Rs) is shown as color. If the bar is hatched, this indicates that using the XGB-all led to a predictive model where XGB-OMC did not (test set Rs < 0.25). Note that gene expression is the single most informative profile across the considered cancer types. The contributions the other omics data types can vary greatly based on the cancer type.
The Best XGB-OMC Model per Cancer Type as Case Studies
As case studies for discussion, we selected the best XGB-OMC model per cancer type, resulting in five distinct case studies consisting of two gene expression models, two DNA methylation models and a CNA model. These models, together with the test set performance of both corresponding XGB-OMC and XGB-all, are shown in Table 1. The R 2 metric (coefficient of determination), which is an alternative parameter to gauge model performance, is also shown. Two models use all features, while the other three require far fewer features to be predictive, as indicated by the OMC column. Note that the Pazopanib-SKCM could not be predicted at all using all 450 GEX features, unlike when using the OMC to build XGB models with just seven of them. We highlighted the best XGB-OMC model per cancer type to discuss in detail ( Table 1). The first of these five case studies is the DNA methylation model to predict the response of SCLC cell lines to Thapsigargin. The plant-derived compound Thapsigargin is a Ca 2+ -ATPase antagonist that can increase intracellular Ca 2+ concentrations in small cell lung cancer cells and thus has an effect on excreted autocrine growth factors, such as serotonin [32], which is represented at the gene expression level [33]. Furthermore, SCLC shows very distinct methylation patterns that strongly correlate with E2F (E2F transcription factor 1) expression, which is a cell cycle regulator for the transition from G1 to S phase. The activation of EZH2 (enhancer of zeste 2 polycomb repressive complex 2 subunit) has been shown to be a direct consequence of RB1/E2F pathway dysregulation in SCLC [34]. EZH2 is a histone methyltransferase, with EZH2 inhibiting tumor growth in PDX (Patient-Derived Xenograft) models [31]. Our results, based on cell lines, are hence consistent with in vitro and in vivo findings found in the literature, which indicate that the RB1/E2F pathway, and consequently this DNA methylation pattern, may hold predictive value for SCLC treatment strategies.
The second case study is the copy-number alteration model to predict the response of BRCA cell lines to XAV-939. XAV-939 inhibits tankyrase 1 and 2, thus inhibiting Wnt/β-catenin-mediated transcription and stabilizing the cytoplasmic axin levels. Genes associated with the Wnt pathway have high expression in triple-negative breast cancer [35], which makes it an interesting therapeutic prospect to fight this cancer type, representing between 10% and 20% of all breast cancer cases. In our feature set, we found all 53 BRCA-specific CNA to be required for the optimal XGB model (24 were amplifications and 29 constituted deletions). We mapped the CNA-altered region to the gene identifiers of the contained genes with the GDSC-provided files and performed an overrepresentation analysis with pathway terms. Enrichment analysis using KEGG annotation indicated a slight enrichment of BRCA (p = 0.029, ID: hsa05224), thanks to the presence of APC2 (APC regulator of Wnt signaling pathway 2), a Wnt signaling pathway regulator, E2F3 (E2F transcription factor 3, also involved in Wnt/β-catenin regulation), WNT5B (Wnt family member 5), EGFR (epidermal growth factor), and a large number of fibroblast growth factors being present. The presence of several Wnt signaling-related features in the dataset and the model's performance in a cancer type in which the drug has been found to have an effect increases confidence in the polygenic complex hypothesis embodied by the XGB-OMC model.
The third case is the gene expression model to predict the response of LUAD cell lines to Mitomycin, which again seems to be in a clinically relevant tissue for the drug. Thus far, 11 clinical trials evaluate Mitomycin to treat lung cancers (clinicaltrials.gov). In fact, this drug is already indicated for certain lung cancer types (Drugbank ID: DB00305), e.g., it has been used since 1984 for non-small cell lung cancers [36]. Mitomycin is an antibiotic produced by amongst others the actinobacteria Streptomyces caespitosus. Our OMC subset contained 12 gene expression features: NCOR2_expr, MCM3_expr, AMOT_expr, POLR2B_expr, ARFGEF2_expr, U2AF1_expr, NDRG1_expr, MYD88_expr, NTRK2_expr, ATF1_expr, SHMT1_expr, and HNRPDL_expr. Interestingly, MYD88 (MYD88 innate immune signal transduction adaptor) works in close relation with members of the TNF (tumor necrosis factor) family [37], which has been frequently linked to Mitomycin and its Fas/FasL (Fas cell surface death receptor)-dependent apoptosis in cervical carcinoma [38]. Furthermore, several of the features in the OMC set are associated at the protein level with NQO1 (NAD(P)H quinone dehydrogenase 1), which has been described as having an effect on the sensitivity to Mitomycin C [39]. Finally, protein levels of HNRP (heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein) proteins, one of which is in the OMC set, are known to rise after DNA damage [40], such as the damage caused by oxidative stress induced by Mitomycin.
The fourth case study is a DNA methylation model that is used to predict the response of COAD/READ cell lines to PI-103. PI-103 is an inhibitor of PI3K (phospho-Inoside 3-kinase) and mTOR. Previous research indicated that the effects of PI-103, such as the downregulation of choline kinase α, were observable in prostate and colon carcinoma cell lines using magnetic resonance spectroscopy [41]. PI-103 is known to enhance radiosensitivity in several cell lines (including colorectal) and reduced phosphorylation of AKT1 (AKT serine/threonine Kinase 1) at serine 473 [42]. In addition, PI-103 has also been found to slow down tumor growth in PDX models [43]. Hence, our models identify again a predictive case with literature and in vivo experimental support. Since PI3K is has a downregulatory effect of the PI3K pathway, we expected some members of our OMC subset to be related to this pathway. We found that a complexity of 15 CpG islands (iCpGs) [5] best describes the drug response to PI-103. Interestingly, several of these were also present in other cancer types in which the effect of PI-103 has been described. We used the GDSC-provided file (TableS2H.xlsx) to obtain the names of the genes regulated by the considered iCpGs. This resulted in the following set of 18 genes: RAPGEFL1, RRS1, ADHFE1, LIPG, OXR1, ADPRH, ENC1, GSTT1, HSD11B2, ZNF3, DNAH10, PAQR8, SIAH1, HOXA11AS, HOXA11, KAT2A, HSPB9, and P4HB. P4HB (Prolyl 4-hydroxylase subunit beta) is closely associated with AKT1, which is known to be affected by PI-103 [42]. Moreover, GSTT1 (Glutathione S-transferase (GST) theta 1), HOXA11 (Homeobox A11), and SIAH1 (Siah E3 ubiquitin protein ligase 1) are associated with TP53 (Tumor protein P53) in the StringDB [44] network, the latter of which was shown to be affected by PI-103 in AML [45] and is closely associated with AKT1. These studies further support that the methylation status of the promoter regions of at least some OMC-selected genes are highly relevant for PI-103 s drug response.
The last case study is the gene expression model to predict the response of SKCM cell lines to Pazopanib. Pazopanib is a tyrosine kinase inhibitor with antineoplastic activity. It has been used to treat renal cell cancer and soft tissue sarcoma. The drug acts against vascular endothelial growth factors 1, 2, and 3, as well as platelet-derived growth factor receptor beta [46]. We found that an OMC of 7 was sufficient for a gene-expression model to be predictive. Our features were TRERF1_expr, KDR_expr, VHL_expr, PIP5K1A_expr, FMR1_expr, PTPRU_expr, and EPHA4_expr. None of these are a known target of Pazopanib. However, we again found close associations between members of our OMC subset with the known drug targets. For example, PTPRU (Protein tyrosine phosphatase receptor type U) is a direct neighbor of KIT (KIT proto-oncogene, receptor tyrosine kinase), with a combined string score of 0.947, indicating very high confidence. KDR (kinase insert domain receptor) associates with the known targets PDGFB (platelet-derived growth factor subunit B, 0.559), FLT1 (vascular endothelial growth factor receptor 1, 0.963) and VEGFR3 (vascular endothelial growth factor receptor 3, 0.943). VHL (Von Hippel-Lindau syndrome), also in our OMC set, associates with both KDR and FLT1. Other than finding immediate connections in a protein-protein association network, we could find that a clinical trial involving Pazopanib for stage IV cutaneous melanoma was completed in 2010 and reported one patient of the 13 tested with a partial or complete response (https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/results/NCT00861913). It was also further tested in combination with paclitaxel for advanced melanoma, with the authors describing the potential as interesting [47]. Lastly, Pazopanib also had a reported activity in melanoma xenografts [48]. Overall, these observations again suggest that the predicted indication may be clinically relevant.
GDSC
All datasets used were made publicly available by the authors of the 2016 GDSC study through their publication-specific download portal, which can be found at http://www.cancerrxgene.org/ gdsc1000/GDSC1000_WebResources/Home.html. This page provides several Excel sheets referred to in the Iorio et al. paper [5] as Supplementary Materials. All datasets containing cell line phenotypic data, drug response, and information regarding primary tumors used in this study were downloaded through this web portal. The pre-processed datasets were used, as the steps taken by Iorio et al. [5] result in a well-annotated list of features with known functional role in cancer.
Cell Line Information (Metadata)
Throughout the GDSC, both the actual name of the cell line, as well as its COSMIC identifier were used. We created a simple mapping between these two identifiers using the Excel sheet named TableS1E.xlsx (tab "TableS1E-CellLines"). This file also contained further information, such as GDSC tissue type, growth medium, growth properties, microsatellite instability, and TCGA abbreviation. For each cell line, we only retained the identifiers (COSMIC identifier, sample name) and the TCGA abbreviation of the corresponding cancer type.
Drug Response (Continuous Variable)
Drug responses were provided as the natural logarithm of half the maximal inhibitory concentration in a data matrix (TableS4A.xlsx, tab "TableS4A-IC50s"), which we subsequently converted to logarithms with base 10. Cell line information was then merged with the drug response and other phenotypic properties (genomics, transcriptomics, methylomics). Pre-processing steps for the four molecular profile types (SNV, CNA, gene expression, methylation) are further described below.
Single-Nucleotide Variants (SNV, Binary Feature)
Using whole-exome sequencing data for 48 studies with matched tumor-normal samples, Iorio et al. [5] combined the outputs of three variant calling algorithms to predict 470 important cancer genes in primary tumors (TableS2A.xlsx, tab "TableS2A-CancerGenes"). In TableS2B.xlsx (tab "TableS2B-TumourVariants"), which is also available from the download portal, they cover the mutations of all 18,406 genes in primary tumors, while "TableS2C.xlsx" (tab "TableS2C-CellLineVariants") describes 486,243 variants and their classification (missense, nonsense, frameshift, ess_splice, inframe, stop_lost, gene_fusion) found in 19,100 genes for the 1001 GDSC cell lines in 30 cancer types. A total of 470 gene names appeared in the primary tumor list ("TableS2B.xlsx), while these 470 predicted cancer driver genes ("TableS2A.xlsx") were also present in the cell line variant list ("TableS2C.xlsx"). The presence of mutations in these 470 cancer genes in both cell lines and primary tumors signifies their potential clinical relevance. We assigned a 1 to all cell lines in which the feature (gene) carried a mutation, while zeroes indicated wild-type status. This resulted in the 470 SNV features employed.
Iorio et al. [5] further performed a driver mutation analysis with 358 driver mutations reported in primary tumors and 310 in cell lines (293 overlapping between both, available as BEM (binary event matrix) files from the download portal). This constitutes a substantial reduction in feature space. We did not make this distinction between driver and passenger mutations, as the relation between the state of a gene mutation (driver, passenger) and the actual drug response is currently not well understood. Therefore, we opted to err on the side of caution and relied on the dataset itself to identify lists of features with an effect on predictive performance.
Copy Number Alterations (CNA, Binary Feature)
CNA data for cell lines were obtained from TableS2G.xlsx (tab "TableS2G-CellLinesRACSs_CNA"). CNAs were identified by Iorio et al. [5] through ADMIRE [49] analysis over 27 cancer types. Note that no CNA data were released for SCLC. From TableS2G.xlsx, we extracted all segments listed under the column header "Region identifier". These segments were annotated with the prefix cna, the cancer type, and a number (e.g., cnaLUAD1). Contained genes are also indicated between brackets where applicable (e.g., cnaLUAD35 (MECOM)). In total, we obtained 558 unique segments for cell lines. From TableS2F.xlsx, which contains the altered segments in primary tumors, we again filtered out everything but the contents of the "Region identifier" column. This resulted in 851 altered segments for primary tumors. We again selected the intersection between the data for the cell lines and the primary tumors as the section being most relevant for further studies in patients. All 558 segments in the cell lines appeared in primary tumors, while the other 293 were unique to the primary tumors, as reported in the original article [5]. Similar to the genes carrying SNVs, we opted to indicate a copy number altered state as a binary value (either 1 if True or 0 if not). We used all 558 segments that were not unique to cell lines. These are cancer-specific, and hence, each cancer type employed a different set of CNA features.
Transcriptome (GEX, Continuous Feature)
RMA-normalized pre-processed expression information (sanger1018_brainarray_ensemblgene _rma.txt) was also available throughout the article download portal. However, in this case, it links out to the main GDSC portal. We used the latest dataset version of 2 March 2017. The file contains the Ensembl gene identifiers for the genes and COSMIC identifiers for the cell lines. Out of the 1018 cell lines in the file, we retained only those with a COSMIC identifier part of the 1001 cell lines presented in the original GDSC study [5]. The list of genes we reduced from the 17,737 Ensembl gene identifiers to the list of 466 genes to represent the information also covered in SNV. To this end, we mapped the identifiers to the HGNC gene name using the mapping files provided by Ensembl BioMart [50] (Supplementary file 2). A total of 446 out of the 470 HGNC gene symbols could be successfully mapped to their corresponding Ensembl identifiers. The 24 missing entries could all be attributed to use of a secondary name or lack of presence on the array, which we corrected accordingly. Subsequently, 450 features had both expression and mutation information available, and these were used as gene expression features. We retained all gene expression values as continuous variables in order to keep all information content of the data type. Therefore, each cell line was characterized by 450 GEX features.
Methylome (Methy, Continuous Feature)
The list of informative CpG islands (iCpGs) hypermethylated in primary tumors (" Table S2I.xlsx", GDSC article-specific download portal) contained 357 unique sites in the column "HyperMethylated iCpG". We further downloaded the iCpGs found in cell lines by Iorio et al. [5] (TableS2J.xlsx), which contained 338 unique hypermethylated iCpGs and created the intersection between both lists for clinical relevance. All 338 iCpGs found in cell lines occurred in the primary tumors. As the average pre-processed β-values for each of these sites were also available ("F2_METH_CELL_Data.txt"), we opted to keep the content type as rich as possible and use methylation as a continuous feature based on the average β-values per site. We created the methylation data matrix with 338 iCpGs as features and cell lines as index using the mapping file "methSampleId_2_cosmicIds.xlsx", which is also available from the GDSC study [5].
Generation of Non-Overlapping Training and Test Sets
Starting from the pre-processed data, we compiled a dataset for each cancer type with at least 45 treated cell lines annotated with response to a given drug. This modeling choice takes as reference the lowest training set size successfully used in the literature [11], where 28 drugs with 35 profiled cell lines were used as a training set. To be on the safe side, we only considered cases with at least 35 training cell lines. Since we also required an external test set of at least 10 cell lines, only cancer types with at least 45 cell lines in the GDSC [3] were analyzed.
Per case (i.e., a combination of drug, cancer type, and omics data type), an external test containing 10 cell lines was created. Since we intended to create a test set representative of the full drug response range, we ranked all log IC50 values in ascending order and placed the second most extreme values (i.e., the log IC50 just below the maximal and that just above the minimal log IC50 for the considered case) to the external test set. The eight other test set cell lines were selected in an equidistant manner based on the rank of their log IC50 value. This stratification procedure covers a representative range of the drug response and avoids the situation that may appear with fully random selection in which either all high or all low log IC50s are selected, resulting in a biased test set. These 10 cell lines were excluded from the model training set and were therefore not used at all for model building or selection. Thus, the extreme IC50 values are always part of the training set.
Optimal Model Complexity Estimation
XGB will also be employed in conjunction with a strategy to identify the Optimal Model Complexity (OMC) for each case (i.e., each trinomial drug-cancer type-omics profile). In our OMC workflow and for each case, we first rank features based on their correlation with drug response and then train the k th model with the top k features. The idea is to discard the many thousands of uninformative features by selecting the model trained only with those with the highest information content. Thus, the optimal k (k_opt), and a fast approximation to the optimal subset of features of size k_opt corresponds to the model with the highest cross-validated performance in a given case. Results for all cases are reported on test sets that were neither used for training nor for model selection.
Model Selection by Stratified Five-Fold Cross-Validation on the Training Set
Five-fold cross-validation was used as strategy to select the OMC. For our five-fold cross-validation on the training set, we iteratively generated an internal training set (80% of n cell lines in the training set) used to build the model and a validation set (remaining 20% of n cell lines in the training set) to internally test. This ensured that our internal validation sets were of similar size to the external test set. To further guarantee the representativeness of the external test set, we used the same stratification procedure described in "Generation of non-overlapping training and test sets". Per fold and per possible complexity between 2 and n/2, the correlation between predicted and observed log IC50 values was calculated using the Spearman correlation. Complexities that failed to provide to outperform the minimal Rs threshold of 0.25 in any of the five validation folds were discarded. We also rejected models that predicted a constant output value regardless of input data. The enforcement of these rules slightly penalized lower complexities in scenarios where the response range (distance between minimal and maximal log IC50) was low and the models predicted the same drug response irrespective of the biological features used input. The Optimal Model Complexity (OMC) was chosen as the complexity for which the median Spearman correlation across the five folds was highest. As such, it is the number of input features that results in the best median model performance across the five validation folds.
Pre-Ranking Feature Input
The OMC strategy starts by first ranking the input features based on the strength of their association with the log IC50 for a particular case. For discrete inputs (SNV, CNA), this strength is calculated as the p-value of R's [51] wilcox.test function, as the corresponding Python implementation uses approximations. R objects were imported in Python using rpy2 (https://rpy2.bitbucket.io). p-values for continuous input were calculated using a Spearman rank-correlation test [51].
Obtaining the OMC for a Given Drug Fold
After ranking the features from likely to be most relevant (lowest p-value) to increasingly less significant, we defined that the optimal complexity was between 2 features and n/2 features, where n equals the number of cell lines available in the training fold for a particular case. The upper threshold (n/2 features) was chosen to guarantee that we have at least two data instances per feature. In combination with the feature reduction by OMC, the resulting models should be less prone to overfitting. We also trained models using the maximal possible complexity (i.e., all features), as some cases may require the combination of more features for optimal performance.
XGBoost (XGB)
We downloaded the code for XGB (https://github.com/dmlc/xgboost). We first trained and tested all models using default parameters and all features to investigate if XGB captured some of the underlying biology and performed better than random. For the actual model complexity estimation, we opted to use a more conservative learning rate (0.05) than the default value of the implementation, a maximal tree depth of 6, and a larger number of trees (700), as described by Sheridan and co-workers [24]. Subsampling of row (cell line) and column (feature) features per boosting iteration without replacement was set as 0.8 for both in the OMC estimation model. The 80% denotes the fraction of features and observations that was used to build a tree. A case-specific comprehensive grid search for optimal hyperparameter values is expected to improve results further, but it is impractical as the number of cases is too large.
Final Model Performance Estimation
For the construction of the final models, the full training set was used for model training. First, features were pre-ranked as described earlier. Second, the top OMC features were used as input for the models, which were again trained based on 10 random seeds. All other parameters were kept the same as in the random seed five-fold CV loop (settings as in the conservative approach presented by Sheridan et al. [24]). Finally, model performance was calculated using the Spearman metric between the 10 predicted log IC50s and the corresponding test set values observed in the 10 cell lines of the external test set.
Pathway Enrichment Analysis
Enrichment analyses were performed using the Webgestalt tool [52] for the exploratory analyses for the case studies. A minimal significance of 0.05 with Benjamini-Hochberg correction over 1000 permutations for p-value estimation was set. The minimal threshold of features required in a category for a category to be recognized as potentially interesting was defined as 5 (default tool setting). Only annotations for Homo sapiens were used for the GOSlim [53] and KEGG [54] pathway sets.
Conclusions
Cell lines have demonstrated to be highly useful cancer models, especially in a pharmacogenomics context. They are cost-efficient, quick to grow, and amenable to high-throughput experiments [55]. However, similar to all disease models, they also suffer from several inherent limitations. For example, intra-tumor heterogeneity, extracellular environment, and immune system response are not modeled in cell lines, which may lead to alternative disease models, such as PDX [56], being more predictive. Cell lines are furthermore prone to divergence across passages [51]. Despite these issues, several cell lines have proven to be relevant by retaining sufficient correlation to primary tumors [55,57,58].
Given their suitability for high-throughput experiments [49], they are also the model for which most phenotypic and pharmacological information is publicly available. For many drugs, only much smaller amounts of pharmacogenomics datasets, if any, has been released using more patient-relevant in vivo models [59][60][61][62]. Consequently, often the only data that can be used to predict drug sensitivity comes from cell lines, thus having their niche in guiding precision oncology efforts [55].
Our results indicate that XGB, combined with a strategy searching for the Optimal Model Complexity (OMC), can generate very predictive models using only concise sets of tumor features. The latter means that only a fraction of the initially considered features need to be determined in additional cell lines, which is far less resource-intensive. We further demonstrate that the predictive models are very unlikely to arise by chance (Figure 2). In addition, they are largely complementary to those generated by XGB using all features (Figure 3). Predictive models were found in each cancer type and with every molecular profile (Figure 4). On average, no omics profile or cancer type obtained models with higher predictive accuracy than the rest. However, within a given cancer type, some molecular profiles were overrepresented among predictive models ( Figure 5). For instance, CNA profiles were predictive in BRCA cell lines, but not in SCLC cell lines where GEX and DNA methylation profiles were the most predictive. Overall, we analyzed a total of 792 drug-cancer type binomials. Figure 5 shows that XGB-OMC achieved predictive models for 110 of these 792, with XGB-all finding models for 37 binomials more. This evidences how challenging drug response prediction on cancer cell lines is, as discussed elsewhere [63][64][65].
Although we demonstrate the advantages of the approach using only the best-performing models for each cancer type, many more interesting cases were also found (see Figure 5). For example, some cases recapitulated the role of KRAS and BRAF, who are extensively used as clinical biomarkers [66]. In LUAD, the mutation of KRAS appears by estimation in 17% of all cases, while only 2% carries a BRAF mutation [66]. Given all the evidence outlined in their review, the authors suggest screening BRAF, KRAS, NF1, and gain information on the effective use on anti-EGFR treatment. KRAS was suggested as a biomarker for treatment with AZD6244 (Selumetinib), which is a MEK1 inhibitor [67], while another phase II clinical study identified that NF1 was also indicative of tumor response to AZD6244 [68]. Our results support the use of mutations in both KRAS and NF1 in combination with those in the other selected genes (KRAS_mut MYH14_mut FN1_mut MAGI2_mut CHD9_mut ARHGEF6_mut NF1_mut EFTUD2_mut) as a potentially viable biomarker set for AZD6244 response. This set is much richer than predictions involving only KRAS and/or NF1.
Given that all of the five case studies were found to be in relevant cancer types and showed tight integration with the verified or suggested drug mode of action, we believe that the remaining 113 predictive models, as well as the OMC methodology, could also provide useful starting points for researchers investigating how the response of these drugs are affected by the molecular background of tumors. From a methodology research perspective, we have focused on investigating the integration of the OMC strategy with a state-of-the-art embedded-feature-selection algorithm (XGBoost) for supervised learning. With this purpose, we have performed comprehensive comparisons across a range of problem instances of both XGB-OMC and XGB-all (i.e., XGBoost as downloaded without OMC). The comparisons have been discussed in a non-competitive manner because the results showed that using both algorithms is better than using either of them alone. In the future, we would like to look at the related question of whether integrating OMC with other machine learning algorithms is also beneficial. However, such large-scale systematic benchmarking exercise requires a dedicated study to properly discuss the many results that would be obtained.
Supplementary Materials:
The following are available online at http://www.mdpi.com/2218-273X/10/6/963/s1, Code supporting the conclusions of this paper and its instructions of use are available at http://ballester.marseille. inserm.fr/GDSC_XGB-OMC.zip. The instructions also specify which input data files are used and hence have to be downloaded from https://www.cancerrxgene.org/ XGB models along with their predictive accuracies and OMC feature sets are specified in Supplementary File 1, Correspondence between Ensembl identifiers and HGNC gene names as provided by Ensembl BioMart in Supplementary file 2. | 220286103 | 13,114 |
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What is the behaviour of a chinese consumer?
What do you do for a living? Do you own a business or do you work as an employee? Either way, you may have come across typical consumer behaviors. Out of respect to maintain the curriculum of the business, people have to bear the good and bad attitudes of a buyer. But recently, there have been much gossips about Chinese consumer behavior.
Have you ever come across any Chinese consumer? Ever since the Chinese market allowed foreign investment, the Chinese economy has been increased a lot. But the trading dispute of China with the United States has slowly impacted its GDP. It has been noted that Chinese consumers change their behavior faster in the market than any other consumer.
To understand the complex Chinese consumer behavior, several surveys and case studies have been conducted. The results of these surveys help to determine what the 5,000 consumers in the region think about spending, brands, health, and more. This article will help you in understanding Chinese consumer behavior. So, let’s begin!
What is the Behavior of a Chinese Consumer?
If you’re serving in the Chinese market, it should be important for you to understand the preferences and expectations of your customers. The changing behavior of Chinese consumers is because of the increased exposure and integration of social media in their daily life. It is also due to the structural changes in Chinese society and economy. A market can be complex or simple but mainly it depends on the different needs and trends that different people will demand.
Although most old ideas and stereotypes may persist on the fact that Chinese consumers are the sophisticated and spoiled ones. But there is no doubt that these same Chinese consumers help the Chinese market in achieving high income. Currently, there is a wide range of both domestic and foreign brands that are offering a vast array of products in the Chinese market.
However, with the increasing income and purchasing power, the eagerness for the will of even more quality choices is still a noticeable factor. Moreover, modern Chinese consumers prefer to look for product quality rather than quantity. They expect high-caliber personalized products and services that are reasonably priced.
Before the year 1960s, Chinese consumers had a tough life because they had to deal with famine and constant political unrest. Since those years to this day, around 47 million people have died due to the worst living conditions. It was the period of the Cultural Revolution that brought miseries to the life of consumers.
Because these people were living without any social service, they have given a title named ‘The Lost Generation’. Consumers in this era were of two categories: frugal-retired and wealthy-retired, with the former being uneducated and price-sensitive with the latter being educated and placing importance on quality over cost.
In the next few years, the previous miseries have changed the lifestyle of these Chinese consumers. Since they grew up in a time of political disturbance, they became conscious in terms of saving a large portion of their income for emergencies.
The period of millennial (1985 – 1994) was the biggest driver in Chinese consumption. The habits of Chinese millennials were opposite from their parents. They are less likely to save money and spend most of it on various products and services. The most recent generation of Chinese consumers is the quickest in adopting the latest trends. Their purchasing behavior and consumption of food are very impulsive and they are largely driven by social media.
Purchasing power is affecting the whole Chinese market along with its e-commerce platforms that are responsible for the consumption of goods. But the behavior of Chinese consumers keeps changing with time. Despite the increasing growth rate and market share, different regions of China have different rates and consumer trends.
And therefore, Chinese consumer behavior also varies across different eras. In the past three decades, the behavior of Chinese consumers changed drastically in all the cities. But the cities with the highest population growth are expected to experience this change more dynamically. Now, let’s study the distinguishing characteristics of each group one by one!
Frugal & Wealthy Retired – This group consists of all the consumers that are born before 1960. The living conditions of these people were very poor and therefore they did not receive any systemic education as well. The difficult environment of these people made them sensitive towards the changing consumer product prices. Within the next few years, the spending habit of these consumers was paying more attention to groceries.
Frugal & Wealthy Forties – The consumers of the era (1966-76) constitutes this group. In all cities, people work in various companies and they were more prone to savings. But the wealthy forties spent most of their money on entertainment, groceries, travel, and high-quality and healthcare products.
Twenties & Thirties – The consumers of this group are well-educated and they grew in an open environment with their parents. Comparing them to previous groups, these consumers spend more money on entertainment and they often shop online. The shopping habits of the ones in their twenties are conservative and they favor high quality and convenient products.
New Generation – The new generation of the consumer is more open to western trends. Most people in this group do not yet earn an income; they significantly influence their parents’ decisions on food, clothing, electronics, and other purchases. The items that the new generation buys include mobile devices, advanced electronics, and other premium products. They make sure that their purchase is from international brands. Online shopping has made ways far more convenient.
Migrant Workers & Rich – The migrant workers are the rural residents that moved to the cities for jobs starting in the 1990s. They are unlikely to match their urban peers. On the other hand, rich consumers spend money carelessly and purchase anything that they like. In the Chinese economy, there are more than 1 million Chinese with assets over $1.5 million, and the number is increasing rapidly. The rich consumers either own a company or work at high positions in a company.
Instant gratification – the study reveals that Chinese consumers wish to experience long-lasting pleasure without any delay. The response of a survey indicates that around 22% of Chinese are satisfied with their instant deliveries.
The Powerful Women – there are more than 140 self-made women billionaires in China today, making up more than 75% of all self-made women billionaires worldwide. Women have a strong impact on household purchasing decisions in China.
Phone Obsessed – modern technology has made people more habitual to using social media. The number of people accessing the Internet via mobile devices (phones, pads, etc.) in China reached 817 million according to SCMP’s China Internet Report.
Omni channels Shoppers – to get rid of a boring day, Chinese consumers are constantly looking for new and interesting ways to interact with brands. Experiential marketing has become popular to cater to this need through the use of Omnichannel platforms, games, and contests.
Riding Solo – most of the Chinese consumers you’ll face are single due to a cultural shift in terms of dating in China. Marriage is being delayed with being single becoming the norm as young Chinese people set their expectations for dating higher and higher. They are becoming more liberated and breaking away from traditional dating habits. In 2021, over 90 million people are single Chinese.
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This golden and royal blue chandelier, made of solid bronze, is a marvel of delicacy and elegance. The delicacy of his six arms with candles, the flexibility of his pearl necklaces falling from the top of the chandelier, the beauty of his blue basins and golden king, the brilliance of his bronze barrels, the length and originality of his flames licking the chain that supports the cabochon that hides the fixing hook, everything is beautifully worked, thought and balanced. This exceptional work of Lucien Gau craftsmen has been expertly executed in the deepest respect for the traditions handed down by their peers for six generations. Note that this chandelier also exists in eight lights visible under the reference 16060088 and a matching wall lamp is also visible under the reference 16060087.
Dimensions: Height with chain: 100 cm, height without chain: 90 cm, diameter: 50 cm. | https://www.vraimentbeau.com/en/shop/classic-lighting/chandelier/gold-and-royal-blue-directoire-style-chandelier-solid-bronze-six-candles-lucien-gau-16060089/ | 190 |
Just in case you forgot—it's still winter.
We hope your Valentine’s Day plans include staying in and getting cozy, because a stream of cold, arctic air is poised to sweep through the Centennial State in the coming days, casting a chill over the holiday weekend and giving us our first real taste of winter this season.
Though we (thankfully) won’t experience the extreme lows seen in places like Minnesota, the Dakotas, or Montana—which have forecast up to 40 to 70 degrees below zero—Denverites can expect prolonged subzero temperatures to dampen your outdoor date plans for at least the next week or so.
Temperatures in areas east of Denver, like Ft. Morgan and Sterling, haven’t risen out of the teens since early this week. The Denver metro area, on the other hand, has so far been riding the western edge of the cold snap, but that’s about to change, as daytime highs are projected to stay below 20 degrees until at least next Tuesday.
Sunday is currently forecast to be the coldest day, with highs expected to remain below 10 degrees. The lows are likely to fall below zero, with some areas seeing negative temperatures in the double digits.
This cold snap could challenge a few records and will be the first subzero temperature readings along the urban corridor this winter. While it’s not rare for Colorado to see subzero temperatures at some point during the cold-weather months, the wide reach and duration of this weather event is notable. Ice storms, snowstorms, and bitterly cold temperatures are currently impacting folks from southern Texas to the Great Lakes, bringing weather conditions that haven’t been seen in more than 50 years in some cases.
With all this talk of cold, you’d hope we would at least have some snow to go with it—and we might! The forecast is calling for a couple inches of snow across the metro area from Friday to Monday, with the best chance of accumulation coming Saturday night into Sunday morning. Given the bitter cold, expect that any snow that falls will likely stick to the roads—so be careful out there, especially if you’re traversing the mountain corridors.
Speaking of the high country, the mountains have been getting pounded with snow over the last few weeks, which has helped improve our dismal snowpack. We’re still sitting below average, at 85 percent of normal across all of our basins, but the good news is that the next 10 days are poised to be snowy—with at least a foot of snow, if not more, projected at most mountain locations.
Though the freezing temps will be an adjustment, the state needs the moisture and a break from the continuous warmth we’ve seen. According to the Colorado Climate Center, Colorado hasn’t had a month with below-average temperatures since April 2020, and a wetter than average month since February 2020. So bundle up and enjoy the fresh powder, or stay in and Netflix and chill—either way there will be plenty of warm weather days on the horizon.
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How to use the Draft Simulator
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The Draft Simulator is an easy-to-use tool to simulate your draft. The color-coded draft board allows you to easily see who has been drafted already.
The simulator is your own personal draft room with the computer making all other selections.
Once you are logged in with your premium account, go to the Draft Simulator page. It should look like this:
Configuring the Draft Simulator
This is how to understand the settings for the draft simulator:
Draft Format
For draft format, you can either use:
- Pre-defined scoring settings and roster requirements like PPR and 2-QB
- Your own scoring settings and roster requirements including custom flex positions.
The options are to choose from Standard, PPR, 2-QB, Dynasty, Rookie and Custom Settings. The first ones map to the pre-defined site settings used for the mock drafts. The last, Custom Settings is the way you can provide detailed customization.
Select Custom Settings if you want to control the custom settings for the computer algorithms. See below for how to do that.
Custom Settings
Follow the steps on the My Teams documentation to do the one-time setup of your custom settings. Once that is done, return to the Draft Simulator page, and select that team name from the Custom Settings drop-down.
The settings can be set by using the site-wide customization feature, My Teams. Follow the steps listed there to create your settings as a new My Team and then return to this guide.
You can now select Custom Settings from the Draft Format option. When you do, a drop-down will appear that shows the available custom scoring settings that you created in the My Teams section:
Number of Teams
The number of team you would like in the simulated draft.
Rounds
The number of rounds the draft should go.
My Draft Position
The draft position you would like to draft out of.
Keepers
The keepers are a selection of pre-saved keeper players for your league. This makes it easy to re-use keepers over and over again.
For more information on configuring keepers, read the Keepers page.
Team Name
The name of your team to be used in the Draft Simulator.
Running a Simulation
After you click Launch Draft Simulator, the simulation will begin automatically. All teams other than your own will be filled by computers.
The draft will progress quickly, and you will be on the clock to make your pick when the time comes.
The computer algorithm has a slightly random factor included, so each simulation will be completely different.
Using the Draft Simulator
Once you've configured the Draft Simulator how you want it and hit Launch Draft Simulator, you will be taken to a draft room.
By clicking Launch Draft Simulator, we are taken to a draft room that looks like this:
Since we chose to draft with pick #1, we are pick number 1. The rest of the draft is filled with computers that will draft according to the settings we selected.
Continuing on, the computers all take their picks. Then, since we have a keeper selected for our 2nd round pick, that keeper pick is automatically selected by the system.
Then the draft gives us a chance to pick our 3rd round selection as you can see here:
After we make our pick, the draft continues. Keeper picks are automatically selected for any team.
The draft will end when all rounds are complete. When it's done, click the Save and Archive button so that it will appear within your dashboard for analysis.
If you want to stop the draft early, click the Stop Draft button.
That's it! Good luck drafting!
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Multiplier The multiplication comes second for frequency of use.
An "AND" gate multiplies two bits. To multiply two n-bit numbers A and X, n2 "AND" gates are required. The weighted sum of the n2 gate outputs has indeed the same value as P = A × X. However this set of bit is not a number, although its value is computed as if it was a number.
Since A < 2n et X < 2n, the product P < 22n and therefore P is written with 2n bits.
Unsigned Multiplication A regular structure of "AND" gates and "FA" cells with a "consistent" assembling first produces the partial products and then reduces them to a number P. Since each "FA" cell reduces the number of bits by exactly one (while preserving the sum), the necessary number of "FA" cells is n2 – 2n (i.e. number of input bits – number of output bits). Yet in the following applet there are more "FA" than necessary since some '0' must also be reduced, to be precise just as many '0' as bits of X. The vertical arrow labeled "view" hides or displays the wires distributing A and X. At each wires crossing is an "AND" gate.
Signed multiplication If the multiplicand A and the multiplier X are both in 2's complement, then the "AND" with the sign-bits an-1 and xn-1 must be inverted and a constant 2n added to get the opposed value of the products of X and A with those sign-bits. Besides the sign-bit of P must also be inverted.
Overflow of the signed multiplication The two most significant bits of P have (almost) always the same value. Only one of them may be saved as the sign of P. But then the product of the largest negative value by itself gives an incorrect truncated P. This overflow of P is detected by the "AND" of the 2 outputs of the leftmost "FA" cell. The vertical arrow "view" truncate/restore P.
Many approaches lead to a speed improvement.
Minimize the number of partial product bits using a higher radix.
Use a tree structure for the "FA" cell reduction net.
Use "CS" cell, with a reduction power double the "FA" cell's one. Besides this cell allows balanced binary trees (with some difficulties).
Use an advanced cell delay model for the reduction trees.
Select a fast final adder taking into account unequal arrival times.
Using a larger radix automatically reduces the multiplier X digits number.
Let have a look at radix 4, using about two times as less digit as radix 2 for the same range. The "Booth Code" ( "BC" for short) is the minimally redundant symmetric radix-4 code. Digits values Î{-2, -1, -0, 0, 1, 2}. The 3-bit code picked below, known as "sign/magnitude", has 2 notations for zero. However the partial products are computed by a cell more complex than a simple "AND" gate.
The multiplication by one "BC" digit Î {-2, -1, -0, 0, 1, 2} adds 2 bits on top of the A bits: one at left to get either A or 2A, another for the input carry in case of subtraction.
Since A is signed, its sign may have to be extended to the bit added at left.
The multiplication requires as many "CASS" cells as bits in A plus 1.
Partial products generation The multiplication first step generates from A and X a set of bits whose weights sum is the product P. For unsigned multiplication, P most significant bit weight is positive, while in 2's complement it is negative.
Partial products reduction The multiplication second step reduces the partial products from the preceding step into two numbers while preserving the weighted sum. The sough after product P is the sum of those two numbers. The two numbers will be added during the third step.
The "Wallace trees" synthesis follows the Dadda's algorithm, which assures of the minimum counter number. If on top of that we impose to reduce as late as (or as soon as) possible then the solution is unique. The two binary number to be added during the third step may also be seen a one number in "CS" notation (2 bits per digit).
Example of reduction tree The following trees reduce 82 partial products (for example the product of two 8-bit unsigned integers). The "Wallace trees" reduce "as late as possible" (key "Late" on the preceding applet). The weighted sum of the 16 output bits equals the weighted sum of the 64 input bits.
The top check box allows the use of "CS" cell in the reduction. The bottom vertical arrow hides/shows the final 14-bit adder. The result is in binary with the adder and in carry-save notation "CS" without it. The final adder delay is usually comparable to the reduction tree's one.
"FA" cell delay A more subtle delay model for the "FA" cell permits to reduce even more the partial products reduction trees delay. The input "x" is the time reference of the "FA" cell delays; dxy and dxy are tolerable latencies of inputs "y" and "z". Finally dxc and dxs are the computational delays of outputs "c" and "s".
The chronogram displays the internal signals generation time; the output signals to the final adder are drawn in magenta and the carries in green. The vertical arrow "view" appends a line downto the moment when the signal enters another cell (i.e. shows the lost time intervals or slacks) or displays the "FA" and "HA" cells in the reduction trees.
Final adder with unequal arrival times The previous figure shows that the final adder inputs are not ready at the same time. Typically the least significant bits are early, the most significant ones are a bit delayed and the middle ones are very late. This different arrival times (shown by magenta dots in the figure below) can be taken into account to build the reduction "BK" cells trees that produce the final adder carries. To modify the arrival times profile, draw lines in the figure while maintaining the "ctrl" key down. | http://users-tima.imag.fr/cdsi/guyot/Cours/Oparithm/english/Multip.htm | 1,345 |
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import unittest
import numpy as np
from taurex.data.profiles.chemistry.gas.constantgas import ConstantGas
from taurex.data.profiles.chemistry.gas.twopointgas import TwoPointGas
from taurex.data.profiles.chemistry.gas.twolayergas import TwoLayerGas
from taurex.data.profiles.chemistry.gas.arraygas import ArrayGas
class ConstantGasTest(unittest.TestCase):
def test_init(self):
gc = ConstantGas()
gc.initialize_profile(10, None, None, None)
self.assertEqual(gc.molecule, 'H2O')
np.testing.assert_equal(gc.mixProfile, np.ones(10)*1e-5)
param = gc.fitting_parameters()
h2o = param['H2O']
self.assertEqual(h2o[2](), 1e-5)
h2o[3](1e-4)
self.assertEqual(h2o[2](), 1e-4)
gc.initialize_profile(10, None, None, None)
np.testing.assert_equal(gc.mixProfile, np.ones(10)*1e-4)
class TwoPointGasProfileTest(unittest.TestCase):
def test_compute_profile(self):
cgp = TwoPointGas('CH4', 1e-4, 1e-8)
params = cgp.fitting_parameters()
test_layers = 10
pres_prof = np.arange(1, test_layers+1)
self.assertIsNone(cgp.mixProfile)
cgp.initialize_profile(10, pres_prof, pres_prof, pres_prof)
self.assertIsNotNone(cgp.mixProfile)
def test_fittingparams(self):
cgp = TwoPointGas('CH4', 1e-4, 1e-8)
params = cgp.fitting_parameters()
self.assertIn('CH4_surface', params)
self.assertIn('CH4_top', params)
self.assertEqual(params['CH4_surface'][2](), 1e-4)
self.assertEqual(params['CH4_top'][2](), 1e-8)
params['CH4_surface'][3](1e-5)
params['CH4_top'][3](1e-7)
self.assertEqual(params['CH4_surface'][2](), 1e-5)
self.assertEqual(params['CH4_top'][2](), 1e-7)
self.assertEqual(cgp.mixRatioSurface, 1e-5)
self.assertEqual(cgp.mixRatioTop, 1e-7)
class TwoLayerProfileTest(unittest.TestCase):
def test_compute_profile(self):
cgp = TwoLayerGas('CH4', 1e-4, 1e-8, 1e3)
params = cgp.fitting_parameters()
test_layers = 100
pres_prof = np.arange(1, test_layers+1)*200
self.assertIsNone(cgp.mixProfile)
cgp.initialize_profile(test_layers, pres_prof, pres_prof, pres_prof)
self.assertIsNotNone(cgp.mixProfile)
def test_fittingparams(self):
cgp = TwoLayerGas('CH4', 1e-4, 1e-8, 1e3)
params = cgp.fitting_parameters()
self.assertIn('CH4_surface', params)
self.assertIn('CH4_top', params)
self.assertEqual(params['CH4_surface'][2](), 1e-4)
self.assertEqual(params['CH4_top'][2](), 1e-8)
params['CH4_surface'][3](1e-5)
params['CH4_top'][3](1e-7)
self.assertEqual(params['CH4_surface'][2](), 1e-5)
self.assertEqual(params['CH4_top'][2](), 1e-7)
self.assertEqual(cgp.mixRatioSurface, 1e-5)
self.assertEqual(cgp.mixRatioTop, 1e-7)
class ArrayGasTest(unittest.TestCase):
def test_basic(self):
ag = ArrayGas(molecule_name='H2O2', mix_ratio_array=[1e-3, 1e-7])
ag.initialize_profile(2, None, None, None)
self.assertEqual(ag.mixProfile[0], 1e-3)
self.assertEqual(ag.mixProfile[-1], 1e-7)
def test_interpolation(self):
ag = ArrayGas(molecule_name='H2O2', mix_ratio_array=[1e-3, 1e-7])
ag.initialize_profile(3, None, None, None)
self.assertEqual(ag.mixProfile[0], 1e-3)
self.assertEqual(ag.mixProfile[1], (1e-3 + 1e-7)/2)
self.assertEqual(ag.mixProfile[-1], 1e-7)
# class TaurexProfileTest(unittest.TestCase):
# def setUp(self):
# self.tp = TaurexGasProfile('test',['H2O','CH4'],[1e-4,1e-12])
# test_layers = 10
# pres_prof = np.ones(test_layers)
# self.tp.initialize_profile(10,pres_prof,pres_prof,pres_prof)
# def test_compute_active(self):
# self.tp.compute_active_gas_profile()
# def test_compute_inactive(self):
# self.tp.compute_inactive_gas_profile()
# def test_get_profiles(self):
# self.assertIsNotNone(self.tp.activeGasMixProfile)
# self.assertEqual(self.tp.activeGasMixProfile.shape[0],2)
# self.assertEqual(self.tp.activeGasMixProfile.shape[1],10)
# self.assertIsNotNone(self.tp.inactiveGasMixProfile)
# self.assertEqual(self.tp.inactiveGasMixProfile.shape[0],3)
# self.assertEqual(self.tp.inactiveGasMixProfile.shape[1],10)
# self.assertEqual(self.tp.muProfile.shape[0],10)
# zero_mu =np.zeros_like(self.tp.muProfile)
# self.assertFalse((zero_mu == self.tp.muProfile).all())
# def test_fitparams(self):
# params = self.tp.fitting_parameters()
# self.assertIn('N2',params)
# self.assertIn('H2_He',params)
# self.assertEqual(params['N2'][1],'N$_2$')
# self.tp.add_active_gas_param(0)
# self.tp.add_active_gas_param(1)
# params = self.tp.fitting_parameters()
# self.assertIn('H2O',params)
# self.assertIn('CH4',params)
# h2o = params['H2O']
# ch4 = params['CH4']
# self.assertEqual(h2o[2](),1e-4)
# self.assertEqual(ch4[2](),1e-12)
# h2o[3](1e-6)
# ch4[3](1e-18)
# self.assertEqual(self.tp.active_gas_mix_ratio[0],1e-6)
# self.assertEqual(self.tp.active_gas_mix_ratio[1],1e-18)
# class ConstantProfileTest(unittest.TestCase):
# def test_init(self):
# from taurex.data.profiles.gas import ConstantGasProfile
# cgp = ConstantGasProfile(['H2O','CH4'],[1e-4,1e-12])
# print('Constant---------',[x[2] for x in cgp.fitting_parameters().values()])
# test_layers = 10
# pres_prof = np.ones(test_layers)
# cgp.initialize_profile(10,pres_prof,pres_prof,pres_prof)
# def test_default_constant(self):
# from taurex.data.profiles.gas import ConstantGasProfile
# cgp = ConstantGasProfile()
# test_layers = 10
# pres_prof = np.ones(test_layers)
# cgp.initialize_profile(10,pres_prof,pres_prof,pres_prof)
# class ComplexProfileTest(unittest.TestCase):
# def test_parameters(self):
# cgp = ComplexGasProfile('test',['H2O','CH4'],[1e-4,1e-12],['CH4'],[1e-4],[1e-8])
# params = cgp.fitting_parameters()
# self.assertIn('H2O',params)
# self.assertNotIn('CH4',params)
# self.assertIn('T CH4',params)
# self.assertIn('S CH4',params)
# # def test_log_parameters(self):
# # cgp = ComplexGasProfile('test',['H2O','CH4'],[1e-4,1e-12],['CH4'],[1e-4],[1e-8],mode='log')
# # params = cgp.fitting_parameters()
# # self.assertIn('log_H2O',params)
# # self.assertNotIn('log_CH4',params)
# # self.assertNotIn('T CH4',params)
# # self.assertNotIn('S CH4',params)
# # self.assertIn('T_log_CH4',params)
# # self.assertIn('S_log_CH4',params)
# class TwoPointGasProfileTest(unittest.TestCase):
# def test_compute_profile(self):
# cgp = TwoPointGasProfile(['H2O','CH4'],[1e-4,1e-12],['CH4'],[1e-4],[1e-8])
# params = cgp.fitting_parameters()
# test_layers = 10
# pres_prof = np.ones(test_layers)
# cgp.initialize_profile(10,pres_prof,pres_prof,pres_prof)
# class TwoLayerGasProfileTest(unittest.TestCase):
# def test_compute_profile(self):
# cgp = TwoLayerGasProfile(['H2O','CH4'],[1e-4,1e-12],['CH4'],[1e-4],[1e-8],[1e-4])
# params = cgp.fitting_parameters()
# test_layers = 100
# pres_prof = np.ones(test_layers)
# self.assertIn('P CH4',params)
# self.assertNotIn('P H2O',params)
# cgp.initialize_profile(100,pres_prof,pres_prof,pres_prof)
# class AceGasProfileTest(unittest.TestCase):
# def test_compute_profile(self):
# from taurex.data.profiles.gas.acegasprofile import ACEGasProfile
# cgp = ACEGasProfile(['H2O','CH4'],spec_file='src/ACE/Data/composes.dat',therm_file='src/ACE/Data/NASA.therm')
# params = cgp.fitting_parameters()
# test_layers = 10
# pres_prof = np.ones(test_layers)
# cgp.initialize_profile(10,pres_prof,pres_prof,pres_prof)
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Yang Kai’s reaction was very fast, almost simultaneously attacking the moment Shan Qing Luo used her Beguiling Technique.
Even Shan Qing Luo was secretly surprised that he could free himself from her technique so quickly; without mentioning him only possessing a True Element Boundary Fourth Stage cultivation, even an Immortal Ascension master could not free themselves from her skill so easily.
The Asura Sword shot out from within the black gas, like a snake striking from its hole, and stabbed towards Guo Yuan Ming’s neck.
Guo Yuan Ming’s confused and empty eyes suddenly released a cold light as a disdainful grin appeared on his face. Yang Kai’s face instantly sank, and he quickly shifted from attacking to defense and poured all his Qi into his guard.
*Ding…* Yang Kai tumbled backwards, and eventually landed beside Shan Qing Luo. The hand holding his Asura Sword trembled slightly, and his blood flow was in chaos. Breathing heavily, he tried to steady himself.
Shan Qing Luo’s beautiful face was filled with an icy cold. Apparently Guo Yuan Ming had long ago been prepared.
“Brother Guo, rest assured, we’ll be sure to be gentle!” Yuan Shi stepped forward slowly, and obscenely stared at Shan Qing Luo. All traces of fear were gone from his face.
“Heh heh heh …” A burst of wicked laughter rang out. Everyone here had been somewhat uneasy at first, but now seeing how easily they could withstand Shan Meng Luo’s Beguiling Technique, their courage suddenly surged.
Seeing her calm demeanor, without the slightest trace of panic, Guo Yuan Ming’s heart jumped as he involuntarily hesitated.
Given Shan Qing Luo’s personality and methods, if she really escaped from them now, even if they all hid at the ends of the earth they would still not be safe.
Knowing how seriousness things had become, these men gripped their fists and nodded heavily.
A crystal like white silk thread suddenly filled the sky, shrouding the opposite party.
These six or seven were all Immortal Ascension Boundary masters, but their cultivation was not too high, most of them only reaching the Second Stage, only Guo Yuan Ming had broken through to the Third Stage.
Facing Shan Qing Luo’s sudden attack, all of them hastily circulated their Secret Arts and summoned their artifacts to defend themselves.
Yang Kai also thrust forward his hand and condensed nearly a thousand Sword Qi blades around him. As these blades stabbed forward, Yang Kai simultaneously summoned the thousand petal blades of the Thousand Blossoming Blood Begonia.
With the appearance of this slaughtering artifact, the surrounding space instantly became a sea of blood red petals!
With his opponents all being Immortal Ascension Boundary cultivators, Yang Kai did not plan to hold back.
Such a dense and rapid attack sent the enemy party’s resistance into confusion.
Shan Qing Luo quickly formed a series of hand seals, which manipulated the crystal silk threads to dart and weave, which instantly wrapped up two of the Immortal Ascension Boundary First Stage cultivators.
These two were the weakest members of the enemy group, and facing this surprise attack, they soon found themselves bound tightly by layers of silk thread.
Yang Kai quickly seized this opportunity to launch his White Tiger and Divine Ox Seals and summoned the two crimson Monster Beast phantoms. With an Earth shaking roar, the two phantoms bared their fangs and charged towards the two trapped individuals and ferociously mauled them.
The thousand red petals also shot forth in concert, each piece as sharp as any high quality artifact blade. A short burst of extremely shrill screams rang out, which caused Guo Yuan Ming and his companions to cringe as the sound reached their ears.
Blood splattered everywhere!
A surprised light also flashed across Shan Qing Luo eyes. She had not thought that Yang Kai’s attack would have such power. The series of fierce attacks was not something an ordinary True Element Boundary Fourth Stage cultivator could display.
Gripping her fist, her silk threads viciously contracted and instantly dismembered the two already black and blue Immortal Ascension Boundary First Stage cultivators.
Within the span of a few breaths, two Immortal Ascension Boundary cultivators had been brutally killed.
As this happened, another burst of white threads shot out from around Shan Qing Luo’s tender body and wrapped up the remaining enemies.
Yang Kai quickly waved his hand, recalling the thousands petals into his body and activated his Movement Skill and escaped together with Shan Qing Luo.
This devilish woman could now only use strength equivalent to a True Element Boundary Third Stage cultivator. Working together with him to kill two Immortal Ascension First Stage cultivators was already the limit of what she could handle. Although the conflict only lasted an instant, the amount of True Qi she had consumed was certainly not small. If they stayed behind, they would certainly suffer.
“Cheap slut!” Guo Yuan Ming’s angry voice rang out from behind them. He had not thought that Shan Qing Luo would only be able to launch a single attack. It was only after she had left that he realized that she had never actually planned to fight it out with them.
After a few tens of breaths, Guo Yuan Ming and his companions finally managed to break free from their silk bindings. One after another, they stared somewhat fearfully in the direction Shan Qing Luo had disappeared. In the end, a Devil King was still a Devil King, and even if they were seriously injured, they were not so easy to deal with.
“What should we do now?” Yuan Shi asked gloomily.
“Brother Guo is right!” The others quickly nodded in agreement.
No longer hesitating, they hurriedly began the pursuit.
When Shan Qing Luo had first grabbed Yang Kai’s arm, she had wanted to drag him along with her as they escaped, but she quickly realized the speed of this little rascal was actually not much slower than her own. Every time his feet moved, he cast some kind of strange Movement Skill that seemed to instantly propel him forward several tens of meters.
Running at full speed, her proud peaks continuously brushed against and pressed onto Yang Kai’s arm, which made Shan Qing Luo’s cheeks blush bright red, and she soon released her grip.
“Don’t!” Yang Kai hurriedly stopped her, “My Movement Skill is only a short-ranged technique and my Yuan Qi is about to be exhausted, at that time I’ll need your help!” Yang Kai hurried held her hand.
“En!” Shan Qing Luo nodded slightly and continued holding Yang Kai’s arm as they dashed through the jungle.
Half an hour later, Guo Yuan Ming and his band were catching up!
They all knew what the consequences would be if they allowed Shan Qing Luo to escape, so they spared no effort in chasing her down.
Shan Qing Luo’s complexion suddenly paled as a ripple of fear gripped her heart and sent a shiver through her tender body.
Yang Kai quickly licked his lips, recalling the sweet and savory flavour from that experience.
“Yes!” This rogue dared to say anything that popped into his head. He was truly shameless. It was simply unbearable.
“Can you at least try to be serious!” Shan Qing Luo really couldn’t stand it.
“I was being serious.” Yang Kai said bluntly.
Even as the two quipped back and forth, their feet never stopped moving, racing forward as fast as the wind when all of a sudden, the area in front of them opened up, and they rushed out of the jungle.
The two of them suddenly paused, extremely shocked by the scene in front of them.
Not far away, there was actually another two groups of people.
One of the groups had completely surrounded the other, and the ones in the centre were all wearing faces of unwillingness and despair.
As Yang Kai swept his eyes over them, he couldn’t help being startled.
He found that the surrounded group was actually the group led by Qiu Yi Meng, the giant breasted Luo Xiao Man, and the Bai Family’s Bai Yun Feng were among them. In addition, there were three or four other True Element Boundary cultivators along with several dead bodies on the ground, blood constantly flowing from them.
The group encircling them were all staring maliciously towards Qiu Yi Meng’s group. Most of them directed their gaze towards Qiu Yi Meng and Luo Xiao Man’s bodies. Their eyes exposed an obscene light.
Qiu Yi Meng wryly smiled while Luo Xiao Man’s beautiful face had gone pale. The two women stood back to back, their breath ragged and their True Qi also completely depleted.
After escaping for so many days, they had finally been overtaken by the Devil Path cultivators of the Ash-Gray Cloud Evil Land. Experiencing a desperate battle where several of them had been killed, they had now been completely surrounded.
It was just as they came to understand that escape was impossible that Yang Kai and Shan Qing Luo suddenly appeared.
a poison attack is a great idea.
Yup.. The problem is how Yang Kain pick up poison water from obscenity well.
Thanks for the chapter Silavin, PewPewLaserGun, Richard, and Leo of Zion Mountain! And that’s why you use protection! | http://www.divinedaolibrary.com/martial-peak-chapter-303-poison-widow/ | 2,016 |
posing is really, really bad. not sure if it’s deliberate or not, but damn.
Didn’t see the black knight until I scrolled.
Don’t be racist against people who roam in shadows, but seriously, that knight is like way too dark, did you crop him out from one of those dark gm_construct rooms or something?
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A Funeral/ Memorial/ Scattering of Ashes Ceremony, is a part of the grieving process and celebrates the unique life of the deceased and reminds us of how special they were.
There are many End of Life Services, the most popular of course are Burials and Cremations.
Burials, traditionally, took place in the churchyard or sacred ground (the price of a plot today in Peterborough starts from £1308).
Today, Natural Burials, so called because you do not use a grave stone are becoming increasingly popular. Trees are planted and eventually the area returns to nature. There are approximately 350 Natural Burial Grounds in this country (on average £700 a plot). A Celebrant, can lead a wonderfully bespoke Ceremony at your chosen Natural Burial site to your exact requirements.
Cremations of course are traditionally linked to services at the Crematorium, where a Celebrant led ceremony can be performed and the ashes collected at a later date by the family. A short Scattering of Ashes Ceremony, can also be held when convenient, particularly if some family or friends could not attend the cremation service.
Some people are now opting for a Direct Cremation, if they prefer simplicity and want/ need to cut costs. The deceased's body is taken directly to the Crematorium and burned. The ashes can be taken and scattered at a suitable time/ date and a chosen venue, often with the addition of a Celebrant Ceremony.
If the ashes are not scattered, there is an option to have them interred at a natural burial site (approximate cost £300), with a short ceremony, including family and friends.
Memorial Ceremonies, are also very popular, particularly when you can plan a ceremony that is on a date that is convenient for all those that wish to attend, and at a chosen venue.
As a Celebrant, I can discuss all the possibilities and help you decide on your chosen ceremony, depending on your beliefs and choice of venue at this incredibly difficult time.
Death is a fact of life for every single one of us. It is a human right to grieve in peace. | https://www.unitecelebrant.co.uk/funeral-memorial-and-scattering-of | 444 |
A fleet of telepresence robots that helps sick children maintain contact with their schools is capturing the attention of parents around the country following a successful pilot project in Canberra.
The robots, that enable two-way video and audio communication between sick students and their teachers and classmates, is the brainchild of local entrepreneur Megan Gilmour. She says being based in the national capital was instrumental to her success.
“Canberra is really a Petri Dish when it comes to innovation,” Gilmour said.
Inspiration for Gilmour’s not-for-profit organisation, MissingSchool, came from a deeply personal event. In early 2010 her son, Darcy, became very ill and was diagnosed with three rare blood disorders. The following two years were consumed with long hospital stays and treatments including a bone-marrow transplant.
Gilmour became aware that this problem of isolation was not limited to her son.
“School connection offers a sense of normality,” Gilmour said.
It was this situation that sparked the idea for establishing MissingSchool. Working with two other mothers, she initiated and co-wrote a report on the issue which was released in 2015, studied solutions in six overseas countries through a 2016 Churchill Fellowship and, in June 2017, secured funding for this national-first. With $600,000 from St George Foundation’s Inspire Grant, MissingSchool began the pilot in Canberra in September 2017.
“Over the course of three-years, we will place up to 100 robots in schools across Australia to demonstrate that continuous connection is possible between seriously sick children and their classrooms when they are absent,” she said.
More than half way there, MissingSchool is getting attention for the innovation, globally.
Each robot is equipped with a video screen, camera, microphone and speaker. Students access them using their laptop, tablet or smartphone and enjoy two-way video and audio communication with fellow students and teachers. The student can move the robot around their classroom by remote control, from hospital or home.
Gilmour said growing MissingSchool from a concept to a national organisation has taken tremendous work, but it would have been even more challenging if not for the support that Canberra offers as a location for entrepreneurs.
“Canberra is unique because all three levels of government are together in a relatively small environment,” she said.
She said a big plus about being located in Canberra is the ease with which you can network and get introductions to high achievers and well-connected influencers across all fields – something made possible because of the city’s relatively small size.
“While I was able to engage with the Education Directorate at the Territory level, I was also able to make connections in the Commonwealth Department of Education and Training which is literally a stone’s throw away from Entry29, where I co-work,” she said.
Gilmour said it’s possible to get things done in the ACT that would be much harder to achieve in other places.
“It’s easy to get quick wins as you are only ever one or two degrees separated from people who can make things happen,” she said.
Gilmour’s sentiments are echoed by Canberra Innovation Network Chief Executive Officer Petr Adamek.
“An organisation such as MissingSchool is a great example of the types of endeavours that can flourish in Canberra,” Adamek said.
Not one to rest on past achievements, Gilmour has also been busy establishing a new for-profit company, Robots4Good, with Marcus Dawe and Erica Hediger – two highly-respected entrepreneurs she met through the Canberra Innovation Network.
This company will extend the technical learnings achieved through MissingSchool, with exclusive robot reseller rights in Australia for US company OhmniLabs to make telepresence robots available in a range of other sectors, such as aged care and disability.
“We’ve developed the know-how in assistive robot service integration at scale,” she said.
| https://www.theeducatoronline.com/k12/technology/e-learning/how-sick-kids-can-maintain-contact-with-their-school/264288 | 846 |
11' 4x4 dually with studs and mini max and still blowing head gaskets!
Blew the first hg back in May and now in December about to replace. #4 I keep it on wild-hot but I don't dog it at all ! I need to figure out how to keep it out of the shop or sell it to someone that wants it!
Is everything flat?The turbo isn't malfuctioning is it?Somthing defiantly isn't rite.
Sorry to hear of your troubles! Sounds like something is definitely amiss.
Was your work done by someone knowledgeable? Was the cylinder head and block checked for deck squareness? Is your turbo functioning correctly?
Improper installation and torquing can shorten head gasket life. If a deck surface is warped or uneven that will ruin the head gasket in time. If your turbo is sticking in the "closed position" creating too much back pressure, that will help blow gaskets too. You say you're easy on the truck, so I won't mention driving habits but hotter tuning most certainly puts your head gasket under higher loads if you push the go pedal.
x2 on the head and block. thats where the problem is starting from right? so why not start there.
what else is done to the truck? you don't have your signature filled in so that might help shed some light on what is going on if you could share other supporting mods other than just the studs and tuner.
Sorry new to the forums. Only mods I have is all emissions are deleted egr deleted I took it to a good mechanic around the house it blew within 3 hrs took it back blew within 45 min! then I heard about the timing and I was running it on no power to be safe until the 2nd mechanic told me about my timing I haven't messed with the timing on my mini maxx but I did turn the defueling off! I've sent the head off 3 times to be checked for cracks and square deck! I'm trying to fix the problem cuz I really love working out of this truck but can't afford to put it in the shop.
are you still on the default timing on the mini?
did you turn the defuels off after the last hg or in-between one of the blow outs?
do you run the exhaust brake occasionally or all the time?
what were the studs torqued to?
did your mechanic follow the proper torque sequence procedure?
sorry for all the questions, just some things that might help get this figured out. Im in no position to make a claim on what it is I'm just trying to ask things that might help some of the other guys that know better than I do.
What effect does the exhaust brake have on the headgasket?
^^^ keeping things loose in the he351ve prevents the vanes from sticking shut. stuck closed=higher drivepressure=hg problems. using the eb makes the vgt work the way it should.
Having the same problems as Chilipepper88 on boss's truck and need a good diesel performance shop in the Huntsville, Conroe, Lufkin area? Any rec?
Need a really good performance diesel mechanic shop to work on our company owner's truck, a very knowledgable mechanic shop.
It is 2011, 6.7 liter Cummins 4wd / Single wheel 3500 series truck. Mods are Black Max tuner, 6" exhaust, egr delete, nothing else.... No speciality studs put in when programming done. But anyway he had it all done up with H&S Black Maxx equipment to increase mileage and he was only getting 10 to 11 mpg and it only brought it up to 15mpg. But now it is needing major repair work(Possible blown head gasket as diagnosed by Dodge Dealer Service people). It's symptoms are.... Is after he shuts the engine down it, burps and spits coolant back into the radiator puke tank and after losing coolant enough coolant that way, (Which occurs on a daily basis) it begins to start overheating until he shuts it down and has to refil coolant because of losing it. There is no coolant found in his oil and another mechanic also checked and found no hydrocarbons in the radiator or puke tank, with it running or not.
The performance mechanics who cannot get to it for another month or so...Say that to fix it right and alievate the problem altogether that he needs to replace head gasket with some new Vulcan type gasket and replace head bolts with new 625 head bolts and then make sure that they properly torque all of the new head bolts down correctly. They also say that all of this is due to the fact that Dodge on that particular model of truck either didn't install a proper waste gate or size of waste gate if a waste gate at all on this particular truck year model and so what happens is that it causes an overpressure situation and either blows the head gasket out or the pressure cause the gasket to come apart or seperate or delaminates it and allows fluid through it or by it or it floats the head and loses coolant that way.
This is practically a new truck..< 65,000 miles on truck and because of the programmer being installed on it, Dodge won't take care of it, the performance shop who installed the tuner and egr delete and 6" exhaust, won't take care of it and so now, he is left at the mercy of trying to figure out what to do with his truck???
It has a Cummins 6.7 Liter engine w/ (possible Blown Head Gasket) Diesel people we know, say that that year model only has an issue because of an External Waste Gate problem or the lack or size of something in that waste gate and possible progamming issues).
So needless to say....He does not trust a whole lot of diesel shops, because he has been burned already... So then are there any recs out for there, in this area for a great diesel performance shop that has trustworthy mechanics who truly know what they are doing? The Relentless Diesel shop in Willis can't get to it until Jan. 20th which is way too long for him to wait??? He uses this truck every day.
The last head gasket issue 6.7L truck I did the head gasket would last 3hr before a new one was needed. We put in a new head gasket and ran a few hard miles (held to 43psi on a HE351vgt) on it to make sure it held up.
That was six months ago and the head gasket is still holding up. The guy pulls a triple axle RV toy hauler that's loaded on top of loaded. The 6.7L engine was over heated a half dozen times prior to the head gasket being installed.
D-max's are even worse for blown head gaskets and I've fixed a few of them issues trucks over the years.
What are the symptoms? Is the EGR cooler still hooked up?
I figure you have other means of transportation?
Warped head maybe an un-even surface since it has happened over 3 times now. I send it out and have the head resurfaced.
Too much back pressure? Stuck turbo? | https://www.cumminsforum.com/threads/11-4x4-dually-with-studs-and-mini-max-and-still-blowing-head-gaskets.816146/ | 1,525 |
Cruises make a great venue for weddings. You can all be aboard a beautiful ship and see exotic locations together. Plus, they can help plan your wedding so that a lot of the stress is taken off your shoulders.
What Should You Know About Cruise Weddings Before Signing Up?
There a few things you should know about cruise weddings, because there are quite a few different aspects to getting married on the water!
Cruises can be surprisingly less expensive than land weddings typically are. They can range from the lower end of around 1,500 dollars to the top cost of a cruise. Different cruises have different prices.
For example, Carnival Cruises have a few packages – cost will depend on the amount of guests you’re bringing. For up to 10 guests, the Intimate Gold package is 1,450 dollars. There is also the Intimate Platinum for 1,539 dollars and the Intimate Diamond for 1,629 dollars.
There’s the Grand Ceremony Gold which allows up to 50 non-sailing guests for 1,852, and then it goes up from there with the Platinum and Diamond packages.
Finally, they have the Classic packages that range from 2,412 dollars to 3,032 dollars. All these packages have a wedding planner, cake, honeymoon dinner, photography services, and more – all included.
Be warned though, there can be seasonal surcharges. Because cruise weddings are becoming more popular, surcharges are added during popular months like May and June. They may even add surcharges if you want to use one of their newest or more popular ships.
Main market ships have embraced full service wedding packages. Others that are more in the high priced luxury category, like Seabourn and Crystal, don’t offer wedding packages.
If your goal is to get married at sea by the captain, make sure you see if the cruise line offers this service. There are legal limitations that are based on ships’ countries of registry.
Make sure to double check that this option is available before you sign up and pay. It would terrible to have everything set and then find out at the last minute that this one item is the only thing they don’t have.
Because there are a lot of legal complications when it comes to cruise destination weddings, you may end up having a symbolic wedding.
Depending on the country you go to, you may not be allowed to legally marry. Some countries have requirements, like having to live there for a certain amount of time, which is impossible when on a cruise.
When marrying on the ship, you have to follow the rules of whatever country the ship is registered, which can be easy or difficult depending on the ship.
Make sure to do your research before boarding with your bouquet in hand.
You do have the option of getting married onboard a ship before it takes off. This is great if you want to have guests but they can’t afford to be on the cruise.
You can have a clergy perform the ceremony and have an after party before the boat set sails. Then your honeymoon can be on a cruise!
One thing to note, this type of ceremony can be a little rushed because everything must happen between guest embarkments.
If your dream wedding is something where you have a say in every small detail, then cruise weddings aren’t for you.
If you want a large wedding with lots of guests, cruise weddings are not for you.
If you’re worried about having a small cabin on the ship, don’t like the idea of having to eat with other people, and are worried about being stir crazy on a ship, then cruise weddings definitely aren’t for you.
If you would prefer to stay in the states, there are other options for cruises. For example there’s the Hudson River Wedding Cruises in New York. You will get your own private charter cruise and they will work directly with you or your wedding planner.
You can also do a cruise in Boston, Maine, Alaska, and more.
While cruise weddings will not take as much planning, it’s still far from easy.
You have to decide how many people you want at your wedding or maybe you would rather it be just you and your new spouse.
You have to pick which cruise line to use and the package that works best for you.
Also, don’t forget the legalities involved with these types of weddings.
Talk to your wedding planner and the cruise line to make sure you understand everything. That way you can decide if you want a wedding on board before it sails or a symbolic wedding on a tropical island. | https://rivercruisingguide.com/cruise-weddings/ | 963 |
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Roma's Z重庆保密项目能赚钱ukanovic off to Atalanta?
The 29-year-old only joined the Giallorossi from S… 继续阅读 Roma's Z重庆保密项目能赚钱ukanovic off to Atalanta? | 4798fbb2711c3ac24c1c627b6507b10a | 157 |
Le taux d'innovation des petites entreprises est défini de même comme le nombre d'innovations réalisées par les entreprises ayant moins de 500 employés, divisé par le nombre d'employés (en milliers) dans les petites entreprises.
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The small-enterprise innovation rate is analogously defined as the number of innovations contributed by enterprises with fewer than 500 employees, divided by the number of employees (thousands) in small enterprises. | 8555055207fcbc397e26371733aaf46f | 123 |
<issue_start><issue_comment>Title: Use regex to substitute template strings
username_0: Though I doubt many projects will have enough input/output files and command elements for it to matter, this should make the replace linear.
<issue_comment>username_0: This also avoids (the admittedly slim chance of) recursive substitution, for instance:
~~~Meson
project('foo', 'c')
cl = find_program('cl')
config = configuration_data()
in = configure_file(configuration : config, output : 'IN')
put = configure_file(configuration : config, output : 'PUT2')
custom_target('zomg',
input : [in, put, 'foo.c'],
output : 'foo.exe',
command : [cl, '@@INPUT0@@INPUT1@@']
)
~~~
results in `../foo.c` in the build file instead of `@INPUT2@` with the current version, because the expansion is done over the entire string one at a time.
<issue_comment>username_0: Added a regression test.
<issue_comment>username_0: The regression test fails on MSVC backends because they pass full paths for `IN` and `PUT2` to the script. Should I just remove the regression test?
<issue_comment>username_0: The test should work now, assuming no backend adds something to the end of the filename when it is substituted.
Whether it is worth the trade-off between creating an extra list vs the theoretically slower loop, I don't know. | 5123087 | 377 |
import sys
import click
from pyfiglet import figlet_format
from .CapmParameters import CAPMParameters
from .tools import *
from .capm import calculate_capm_values
from .validators import StockValidator, DateValidator
from PyInquirer import (Token, prompt, style_from_dict, print_json)
import warnings
warnings.filterwarnings("ignore")
style = style_from_dict({
Token.QuestionMark: '#fac731 bold',
Token.Answer: '#4688f1 bold',
Token.Instruction: '', # default
Token.Separator: '#cc5454',
Token.Selected: '#0abf5b', # default
Token.Pointer: '#673ab7 bold',
Token.Question: '',
})
def ask_stock_symbol():
return [
{
'type': 'list',
'name': 'stock_symbol',
'message': 'Stock Symbol:',
'choices': ['TSLA', 'F', 'EXPE', 'BKNG', 'MSFT', 'custom']
}
]
def ask_custom_symbol():
return [
{
'type': 'input',
'name': 'stock_symbol',
'message': 'Stock Symbol',
'default': "GOOGL",
'validate': StockValidator
}
]
def ask_custom_date():
return [
{
'type': 'input',
'name': 'start_date',
'message': 'Start Date dd-mm-yyyy',
'validator': DateValidator
},
{
'type': 'input',
'name': 'end_date',
'message': 'End Date dd-mm-yyyy',
}
]
def ask_custom_index():
return [
{
'type': 'input',
'name': 'index',
'message': 'Index',
}
]
@click.command()
def main():
click.echo(click.style(figlet_format("Finance Tools"), fg='green'))
click.echo(click.style("By team 23", fg='blue'))
dates = [[2016, 8, 1], [2021, 9, 1]]
if not click.confirm('Continue with default (2016 - 2021) date range?'):
date_res = prompt(ask_custom_date(), style=style)
print_json(date_res)
start = (date_res.get("start_date")).split("-").reverse()
end = (date_res.get("end_date")).split("-").reverse()
dates[0] = start
dates[1] = end
index = "^GSPC"
if not click.confirm("use S&P 500 as index?"):
click.echo("choosing another index")
index = prompt(ask_custom_index(), style=style).get("index")
stock_ticker = prompt(ask_stock_symbol(), style=style)
if stock_ticker['stock_symbol'] == "custom":
stock_ticker = prompt(ask_custom_symbol(), style=style)
start_date = datetime.datetime(*dates[0])
end_date = datetime.datetime(*dates[1])
params = CAPMParameters(start_date, end_date, 'm', stock_ticker.get("stock_symbol"), index)
click.echo("\n")
click.echo(calculate_capm_values(params.to_dict()))
if __name__ == '__main__':
main()
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Is it a book or magazine? Gena Showalter is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of over thirty books in paranormal and contemporary romances, as well as young adult novels.
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It reads like an issue of Cosmopolitan offering friendly advice and insider information while there are ads for different products such as cover up for vampire bites on the neck.
Have you ever had questions about Immortals and didn’t know who to ask? When I learned about Dating the Undead, I attempted to pre-order it for my Kindle, only to discover to my shock and horror that it would only be available in print.
I realize she’s one of the co-authors, but did we really need the Lord of the Underworld plugs? There are even ads, like Dead Bull and Coffin Klein, and recipes, like sweet ‘n’ spicy angel-bait salsa and chocolate fondue-me I’d actually make these recipes!
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Live from the Rooftop is organized by U'Gundi Jacobs, the director of the William “Hicks” Anderson Community Center.
The event was most recently rescheduled because of parking garage maintenance.
Live from the Rooftop is now slated for May 28.
A nine-hour rooftop party that the Midtown Brandywine Neighbors' Association opposed has been rescheduled and revamped.
Live from the Rooftop, a party for up to 1,000 people, is now scheduled to take place Memorial Day weekend on May 28 and will become a silent rave after midnight, said organizer U'Gundi Jacobs.
The event was originally slated for Labor Day weekend at the Colonial Parking Garage, a private facility at 12th and North Orange streets, but was postponed to Oct. 1 because of weather. The event received pushback from Midtown Brandywine residents concerned about noise and potential alcohol-fueled disturbances in their neighborhood. The most recent date was canceled because of maintenance work at the garage, Jacobs said.
The change to cut the music after midnight was made to accommodate concerns, Jacobs said, but organizers are embracing the opportunity to try a party trend where guests wear headphones.
"We're going to get even fancier," he said. "One door closes, two doors open."
Promotional material for the Oct. 1 event had promised live DJs, R&B and hip-hop music, food, merchandise, bottle service and cabana rentals for up to $600. Jacobs said much of that will likely stay the same but given the extra time, "we may spice it up."
Over two dozen members of the Midtown Brandywine Neighbors' Association voted unanimously against the event at a recent meeting, said Marc Ramos, the association's president. Ramos wrote to the mayor and City Council on Sept. 14 requesting the event's permits be revoked.
Ramos said on Monday that the neighborhood association will meet Tuesday to discuss the event's new date.
"Everybody was happy it wasn’t going to happen," he said. "We asked for 11 p.m ... I think 12 is still too late."
Lyn Doto, a Midtown Brandywine resident, said the event should be held in an area that isn't within yards of homeowners.
"I'm not against the promoter's event," she said. "But an event aiming to draw several hundred attendees does not belong in a small residential neighborhood."
Jacobs, who is the executive director of the William "Hicks" Anderson Community Center, said the additional time will allow for warmer weather and for negative associations with the event to fade.
"It had left a sour taste in the public's mouths," he said.
The event had enlisted the help of private security, the Wilmington Police Department and the nonprofit Downtown Visions. Those entities will still be involved in the spring, Jacobs said.
As part of the event's approval process, organizers must obtain signatures from the community. Residents said last month that some homeowners who signed the "petition of affected parties" didn't understand the magnitude of the event, which is described as a "rooftop experience" on the form. Jacobs said he presented the event accurately.
Jacobs will have to get signatures again and reapply for all permits obtained for the Labor Day weekend party, said city spokeswoman Alexandra Coppadge.
"Hopefully there would be less people signing it," Ramos said.
Councilwoman Loretta Walsh said she inquired to the city's Office of Cultural Affairs last month on behalf of the Midtown Brandywine community but never heard back. She said the event's delay allows for residents and a new mayoral administration to ask questions.
"If the appropriate rules are not followed, new people will be in charge then and perhaps it will be revisited," she said. | https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/2016/10/10/controversial-rooftop-party-postponed/91867334/ | 796 |
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from transformers import PreTrainedModel, PreTrainedTokenizer, AutoModelForSeq2SeqLM, AutoTokenizer
from typing import Optional, Tuple, Any
from fairseq.models import BaseFairseqModel
import torch
DEFAULT_CONFIG = {
"num_beams": 6,
"no_repeat_ngram_size": 3,
"early_stopping": False,
"min_length": 10,
"max_length": 60,
"do_sample": True,
}
def produce_summary_huggingface(source_text: str,
model: PreTrainedModel,
tokenizer: PreTrainedTokenizer,
config: Optional[dict] = None) -> str:
"""
Generates a summary using a model (huggingface's transformers library implementation).
:param source_text: Source text/paragraph to produce summary on
:param model: Pretrained transformer model
:param tokenizer: corresponding tokenizer used for the model
:param config: Configuration for generation/decoding.
:return: Produced summary by the model
"""
if not config:
config = DEFAULT_CONFIG
input_ids = torch.tensor(tokenizer.encode(source_text, add_special_tokens=True)).unsqueeze(0)
input_ids = input_ids.to('cuda')
generated = model.generate(input_ids, **config)
gen_text = tokenizer.batch_decode(
generated, skip_special_tokens=True, clean_up_tokenization_spaces=True
)[0]
gen_text = gen_text.strip()
return gen_text
def load_model_and_tokenizer_huggingface(model_name_or_dir: str) -> Tuple[PreTrainedModel, PreTrainedTokenizer]:
"""
Downloads/Loads a pretrained huggingface model and tokenizer.
:param model_name_or_dir: Directory or the name of the model. See https://huggingface.co/ for the complete list
:return: Pretrained model + tokenizer instance
"""
model = AutoModelForSeq2SeqLM.from_pretrained(model_name_or_dir)
tokenizer = AutoTokenizer.from_pretrained(model_name_or_dir)
return model, tokenizer
def produce_summary_fairseq(source_text: str,
model: BaseFairseqModel,
config: dict) -> str:
"""
Generates a summary with a pretrained fairseq model.
:param source_text: Source text/paragraph to produce summary on
:param model: Pretrained fairseq model
:param config: Configuration for generation/decoding.
:return: Produced summary by the model
"""
source_b = [source_text.rstrip()]
hypothesis_b = model.sample(source_b, **config)
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All too often commercial parties sign contracts without paying much attention to the “boilerplate” provisions. And all too often that causes a problem for one of the parties. Such was the case for an Orlando landlord that didn’t pay enough attention to the demand requirement in a lease guaranty. The result in Nabbie v. Orlando Outlet Owner, LLC, a new decision from Florida’s Fifth District Court of Appeal, should serve as a “heads up” for Florida commercial landlords.
The tenant defaulted under the lease and the landlord sued the guarantor. The guarantor raised a defense that the landlord never made a demand on the guarantor before suing. The landlord argued that Paragraph B meant that the landlord did not have to make a demand on the guarantor. The trial court ruled for the landlord on that argument. The case went to trial and the guarantor lost.
But on appeal, the guarantor won. The appellate court ruled that the landlord was unable to offer any meaning for Paragraph A if Paragraph B meant that the landlord did not have to make a demand before suing the guarantor. Instead, the appellate court found that Paragraph B meant that the landlord did not have to first demand payment from others (such as the tenant and other guarantors).
The landlord argued that the guarantor fell into the group referenced in Paragraph B. The appellate court rejected that argument because the defined term “Guarantor” was not mentioned in Paragraph B and throughout the agreement the parties used that defined term to refer to the guarantor. The court also found that the context of Paragraph B made the landlord’s interpretation unreasonable.
Ultimately, the decision was based on the exact language of the guaranty. The case does not mean that a landlord must always make a pre-suit demand on a guarantor – just when the guaranty requires it. What the case really means is that the parties must be careful about their drafting (a lesson we’ve covered on this blog over and over and over) and read their agreements once executed. | http://flcrelitblog.shutts.com/2018/02/lease-guarantys-demand-requirement-trips-up-landlord/ | 431 |
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Sorry, but building blocks *is* the replacement for the UI - there was a panel at CitCon and an entire episode of ISC on the topic last year.
What may have confused you is that they also explicitly talked about the work they're doing to decouple the UI itself from the underlying functionality, and moving towards a proper 'Model-View-Controller' setup for the UI (which the previous legacy flash framework didn't support, and required the UI to be tightly coupled to the functionality - which was another pain-point)
In short, 'Building Blocks' is both a framework, and an improved architecture, and a set of UI components (in HTML) and stylesheets (in CSS). | 6dbc3abea2e7436bb47128aca6a526e8 | 149 |
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Whose War Is It?
Hardliners in the US and Europe have spent the last four months agitating for Western escalation in Ukraine with the goal of erasing the remaining limits on direct US and allied involvement in the war. Max Boot is the latest one to insist that it is our war: "We keep thinking it’s their war. We should understand that this is our war — and act accordingly." As usual, Boot is wrong in his assessment and in his prescription. While there is no shortage of pundits and politicians that keep trying to make it our war with proposals for no-fly zones and breaking blockades, this is not America’s war to fight, and we should not think of it as our war. It is one thing to provide military assistance to a country that has been attacked in order to repel aggression, but it is something entirely different to see it as a war that our government is responsible for winning. Erasing that distinction invites and practically requires escalation and a wider war, and that would lead to disaster for the US, Russia, and Europe.
Boot’s call for a massive increase in Western weapons supplies is dangerous in several ways. If the US did as he wanted, it would intensify and prolong the war, it might provoke further Russian escalation, and it would make it more difficult to keep the war from spreading beyond Ukraine. The more weapons that the US and its allies pour into Ukraine, the greater the incentives the Russian government will have to target Western supply convoys and possibly even neighboring allied countries. The conceit that the US and its allies should provide unlimited arms to Ukraine until it "wins" puts Ukraine on a path to what would likely be many years of grinding conflict. A policy to "win the war" against Russia would further impoverish and break Ukraine, to say nothing of the destabilizing effects that a prolonged war will have on Europe and the rest of the world.
US and allied support has already encouraged Ukraine’s government to set unrealistic goals in the war. The Washington Post reported this week: "The support appears to have emboldened the government of President Volodymyr Zelensky, who this week vowed to retake all of Russian-controlled Ukraine, even areas annexed by Moscow long before Russian President Vladimir Putin’s Feb. 24 invasion." Even if this were possible, continuing the war until this definition of victory has been met would be devastating to Ukraine and to the many nations that rely on Russian and Ukrainian grain shipments. Further increasing weapons supplies would give the Ukrainian government more encouragement to pursue these maximalist goals.
It is true that the US has spent relatively little to support Ukraine compared to the extraordinarily wasteful spending on unnecessary US wars elsewhere, but that doesn’t explain why the US should be prepared to commit even more resources to someone else’s war. The massive outlays that the US frittered away on its wars over the last twenty years brought it no closer to anything resembling victory. It is doubtful that throwing more money and weapons at the war in Ukraine will achieve anything at an acceptable cost.
Boot’s answer is a form of make-believe: "Policymakers should keep asking themselves, "What would we do if GIs were dying in Donbas?" and act accordingly." Making policy on the basis of fantasy may be appealing to Boot, but it is irrational and absurd to think about the problem this way. If US troops were dying in Donbas, the US would already be fighting a major war with Russia, and that is the outcome that Americans must do everything we can to avoid. Pretending that the US is already directly at war with Russia is the fast track to ensuring that it soon will be. Not only is the war in Ukraine not "our war," but it is imperative for the sake of our security and that of the rest of Europe that it never becomes "ours."
If prolonging the war indefinitely is too costly, the best way forward is for the US and allied governments that have supported Ukraine to urge Zelensky to negotiate a compromise peace. The US should make clear that it wants a return to the pre-February 24 status quo and that it isn’t going to provide open-ended backing for a campaign to take Crimea. To that end, the US and its allies should communicate to Moscow that they will be prepared to lift sanctions imposed this year in exchange for full Russian withdrawal to their pre-February 24 lines and the payment of reparations for the destruction caused by the war. The alternative would be a grueling stalemate that claims many tens of thousands more lives and leaves Ukraine much worse off. That is the ruinous path that Boot and other hardline cheerleaders for "victory" would take us down.
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The average length of time that most people could survive without water is three days. Few people could last longer than this, and it is widely accepted that nobody could last a whole week. This includes sources other than pure H20, taking into account moisture found in food and the environment around us. So, what does the path to dehydration death look like?
The very first sign that you are starting to become dehydrated is the feeling of thirst. If you are starting to feel this way, you have already lost 2% of your body weight in moisture. Luckily, this is a powerful indicator that we need to drink something and most of us know to get some fluids inside us quite quickly after this.
This thirsty sensation sends a message to the brain to retain as much water as possible within the body. That means less fluids are sent to the kidneys and bladder, which are then unable to dilute your urine. So, if your urine is dark, you know you need more water.
You will also be unable to sweat as much, so you will find your internal body temperature starts to rise. There is less water in your blood, which then becomes thicker and slower, and your heart rate will start to speed up, in order to maintain essential oxygen levels. You will feel tired and lethargic, while experiencing heart palpitations.
With less water making its way to all of the essential cells within the body, they will start to shrink. This happens when the body loses 4% of body weight water. Urination will become less frequent and blood pressure can fall dramatically. At this stage of moderate dehydration, you are prone to fainting and extreme fatigue.
Severe dehydration is determined at a 7% loss of body weight. This is when vital organs start to fail due to a lack of blood flow. Your kidneys and gut will be the first to fail, although the pressure on the heart puts it at extreme risk of a heart attack. Without the kidneys working to filter out toxins in the body, this cellular waste can quickly build up, to the point where it becomes impossible to reverse the effects by simply drinking more water. You may become confused and experience seizures, or your body could go into shock. Eventually you will fall into a coma, which can be deadly without emergency medical treatment.
The most obvious reason for dehydration is that you are simply not drinking enough, but most adults are able to assess their needs intuitively before the situation becomes serious. Dehydration can also occur if you are feeling ill, particularly if you are vomiting or experiencing diarrhea. Over-exercising without regular hydration is also a concern. Sometimes, the reason is simply a lack of access to safe water sources, which is a human rights issue. If you feel as though you are struggling to maintain your healthy hydration levels, be sure to seek medical advice as soon as possible, in order to prevent severe medical problems. | https://hydratem8.com/the-countdown-to-dehydration-how-long-can-you-survive-without-water/ | 591 |
The Government of Alberta will begin reopening select licensed child care centres to provide 15,000 child care for core service workers during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The government says Child care centres are being chosen based on proximity to health-care facilities. Those facilities, limited to 30 people, including staff, will be initially reopened in a phased approach based on areas of need, starting the week of March 23. Centres will have to adhere to strict sanitization practices based on specific instructions from the chief medical officer of health and Alberta Health.
The province says parents will be notified this coming week through their employer if they qualify to send their children to newly reopened centres.
Childcare centres chosen for reopening will be contacted directly by Children’s Services. All other licensed child care centres are to remain closed. Licensed day homes may remain open but limited to six children, not including the operators’ own children.
| https://morinvillenews.com/2020/03/22/province-reopening-select-child-care-centres-for-core-service-workers/ | 189 |
Initial Plans for Broadband Internet Technical Advisory Group Announced
Jun 09, 2010, 09:01 ET from Broadband Internet Technical Advisory Group
Would provide advice and guidance on broadband network management practices and other technical practices that can affect users' Internet experience
WASHINGTON, June 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A group of leading broadband and high-tech companies joined Adjunct Professor Dale Hatfield of the University of Colorado at Boulder today in announcing initial plans for a voluntary Broadband Internet Technical Advisory Group (BITAG or.
With Professor Hatfield, a former Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chief Technologist, as facilitator, the group will continue to develop the operational and organization structure of the TAG over the coming weeks. Specifically, the group will assess specific functions for the TAG, including: promoting outreach within the Internet technical community; identifying "best practices" by broadband providers and other entities; interpreting "safe harbor" practices; providing technical guidance to industry and to the public; and/or issuing advisory opinions on the technical issues germane to the TAG's mission that may underlie disputes among discrete parties.
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The. Staff from these agencies would be encouraged to observe and provide suggestions for the TAG's area of focus.
The structure of the TAG will be formalized in the very near future. The group stated its commitment to a diverse membership composed of engineers and other similar technical experts from academia, non-profit and Internet user communities as well as participating companies representing a diverse range of industry views (e.g., broadband providers, applications developers, content developers, and equipment manufacturers).
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Participants in the initial efforts to formulate the TAG have included representatives from AT&T Inc., Cisco Systems, Inc., Comcast Corporation, DISH Network, L.L.C., EchoStar Corporation, Google Inc., Intel Corporation, Level 3 Communications, LLC, Microsoft Corporation, Time Warner Cable and Verizon. The organizations unanimously expressed their appreciation to Professor Hatfield, one of the most respected engineers in the communications policy field, for his willingness to organize and chair the effort.
Hatfield is currently Executive Director, Silicon Flatirons Center; Adjunct Professor in the Interdisciplinary Telecommunications Program at the University of Colorado at Boulder; as well as an independent consultant. He has nearly four decades of experience in telecommunications policy and regulation. Prior to joining the University of Colorado at Boulder, Hatfield was the Chief of the Office of Engineering and Technology at the FCC and, immediately before that, he was Chief Technologist at the Agency.
For further information about this release or participation in the TAG please contact Hillary Maxwell at (202) 572-6205 or [email protected].
SOURCE Broadband Internet Technical Advisory Group
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DEUNER, Cristiane et al. Jasmonic acid as a promoter of resistance in plants. Rev. de Ciências Agrárias [online]. 2015, vol.38, n.3, pp.275-281. ISSN 0871-018X.
Practically all processes related to development and metabolism are controlled by one or more plant growth regulators. Jasmonic acid has been considered as belonging to a new class of phytohormone, known as a signaling molecule in plants in response to injury by herbivores, stress situations, in addition to several other functions in plants. This review presents the main steps in the discover and the steps taken to unravel the roles and biosynthesis pathway of jasmonic acid, its main focus on applications in agriculture, with emphasis on protection of plants against attack by insect pests, and stress situations, and results already achieved with its induction or application.
Keywords : methyl jasmonate; lipoxygenase; plant defense. | http://www.scielo.mec.pt/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0871-018X2015000300001&lng=en&nrm=iso | 209 |
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Nadia's client is concerned about losing their presence in customer living rooms. Nadia knows YouTube would be an excellent solution for the client's problem. What's a compelling reason YouTube would be a good solution for her client to consider?
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> The good news is that there are almost no diesel motorcycles, so we don’t have to bother with NOx emissions. The closing of cities to diesel cars doesn’t affect us.
Interesting stance, considering some places in Asia have completely banned motor scooters long before even considering a ban on cars because two-stroke engines affect air quality so much more than four-strokers... But heeeey, can't have facts get in the way of positive spin, right?
Motorcycles have only escaped close scrutiny so far in Europe because there are simply not enough of them to really cause notice. But if you replaced every car in, say, Paris with a motorcycle, the air quality would go *down*, not up - despite the nominally lower fuel throughput of the whole fleet. (Additionally, noise pollution would go up. Traffic would be a lot less congested, though that's not an advantage exclusive to a combustion engine.)
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Orlando could be playing second fiddle to the deserts of Dubai in the coming years if recent headlines come true. With new theme parks opening by the end of 2016 and a slate of a half dozen in the coming years (and counting), that could be the case. Let’s take a look at what Dubai Read the full article... | https://www.tumblr.com/widgets/share/tool/preview?shareSource=legacy&canonicalUrl=&url=https%3A%2F%2Fthemeparkuniversity.com%2Funcategorized%2Fdubai-set-new-theme-park-capital-world%2F&title=Dubai+Set+to+be+New+Theme+Park+Capital+of+the+World%3F | 69 |
IMT at Riata is a community in northern Austin adjacent to the new Apple Campus. Featuring an abundance of amenities like the lavish sun tanning pool, private fitness facilities, Business Center, Kitchen, Recreation Room, Leasing Center located in the Clubhouse. The extensive landscaping includes a dog park, multiple courtyards, an outdoor kitchen and living room to for entertaining near the Pool Pavillion. In the total 527-parking spaces, there are detached parking garages as well as open carports around the perimeter or the site for tenant leasing. The parking is distributed throughout the site in private garages, in tuck-under buildings, and surface lots. Varied architectural expressions are used to differentiate amenity structures, vertical circulation, and apartments. | https://www.wdgarch.com/portfolio/projects/imt-residences-at-riata | 154 |
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