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Right now, I’m feeling somewhat blue so I decided to read my previous journals. One of them was about my first overseas trip way back 2010. Maybe it’s time to share my first overseas adventure.
During that time, I was teaching in the university for 10 years already and I know that my life will continue just the way it is. My life have fallen into a rut – I’ll go to class, deliver my lessons, go home and during the weekends enjoy my ministry. There were times when I’m always looking forward to those two-week semestral breaks so I can change my environment and visit places in the Philippines with my cousins – these trips are those enjoyable times when I can break free from my routine.
It was the month of September, three months before I turned thirty – a life-changing event happened. One of my cousins invited me to accompany him to Singapore to fetch his daughter after she finishes her on-the-job training. I was really excited. Maybe because, I already told myself that I will have no chance of going outside the Philippines. That’s why I’m really grateful for this opportunity.
Here’s a detailed record of my first international trip:
5:00AM Boarded a Victory Liner bus bound to Caloocan.
10:00AM Arrived at Dau Station, where we ate brunch at Jollibee and rented a van going to Diosdado Macapagal International Airport (DMIA), checked-in our luggage and paid the following fees: Terminal and Security fee =600php and the Travel Tax=1,620php. Went to the immigration for verification of identity docs and stayed at the Departure lounge.
12:50PM Boarded our flight – we used Tiger Airways.
5:00PM Arrived at the Changi Budget Terminal, Singapore, boarded a taxi and checked-in at Regin Hotel, unpacked our things and explored the vicinity. At the back of our hotel is the Geylang district. I have seen a lot of shops and roadside eateries or hawker food stalls.
We decided to try 3 big bowls of spicy noodles as our dinner which amounted to 8SGD. Then we went back to our hotel to rest.
Boarded a bus and used the EZ link card for the first time, we have to fetch my niece and her things at 95 Student Hostels where she stayed during the months of her training at Coffee Club. Then in the afternoon we went to Mustafa to change our Php bills to SGD and bought some souvenirs.
Then we roamed the streets of Singapore. Explored Plaza Singapura and had our lunch at Just Acia. Our lunch was served with unlimited ice cream, coffee and soda.
Next, we visited Orchard Plaza and Orchard Central. There I experienced going up a very high escalator. Somehow, I got really nervous and my palms started perspiring – that’s when I realized that I also have fear of heights.
At past 4:00 in the afternoon, we boarded the tourist bus to see Marina Bay Sands Hotel where we bought tickets so we can go up the Sands Sky Park – a view deck shaped like a luxury ship where you can see the view overlooking the city.
We had fun looking at the view, had a lot of photos taken. As the sky becomes dark, the city transformed into a city of lights. It was an amazing sight to behold. As we explored the sky park, we also saw the infinity pool.
Upon leaving Marina Bay Sands, we passed through the Double helix bridge and visited the Youth Olympic park.
Afterwards, we boarded the train, then bus #64 and bought fruits at the wet market near our hotel. We were really exhausted since we were walking most of the time to see and appreciate different sights so we took a much needed rest.
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Transcript:Daniel Heng, MD, MPH, FRCPC: So now we also have another therapy, cabozantinib, which is a VEGF, MET, and AXL inhibitor. Nizar, do you want to talk about the top-line results of the METEOR study?
Nizar M. Tannir, MD, FACP: Sure. So the METEOR trial was a phase III trial that looked at recruiting patients with clear cell RCC after a VEGFR TKI. The eligibility criteria were very liberal. They allowed any number of prior VEGFR TKIs, as long as the patients had progression within six months of enrolling on trial. And the comparator for cabozantinib was everolimus, similar to the CheckMate 025 study we discussed just a minute ago. Everolimus was the comparator. Unlike the CheckMate 025 study, the primary endpoint was progression-free survival (PFS), and secondary endpoints were overall survival (OS), and response rate, and safety, etc. The impressive results with cabozantinib were that the median PFS with cabozantinib was 7.4 months compared to 3.8 months median PFS with everolimus. So that was statistically significant. Response rate was also 21% versus 5%, similar to the response rate in the CheckMate 025 study. We are awaiting the OS data. It has not matured yet. I think in early 2016 we will have the data, but there was a trend seen.
Daniel Heng, MD, MPH, FRCPC: A strong trend.
Nizar M. Tannir, MD, FACP: A strong trend favoring cabozantinib over everolimus in terms of the secondary endpoint, OS. So actually it’s a VEGFR TKI plus a c-Met inhibitor plus an AXL inhibitor. We were talking about resistance earlier in the discussion. So this agent is novel in the sense that it’s targeting two pathways that are considered to be upregulated in VEGFR-treated patients, so the c-Met pathway and the AXL pathway. And I think it is very possible that the reason cabozantinib was so effective in this salvage setting after the VEGFR TKI is because it’s targeting the c-Met and the AXL pathways. So, obviously, now this brings us another therapy that will be hopefully approved soon for our patients. It’s another drug to treat our patients within the salvage setting.
Daniel Heng, MD, MPH, FRCPC: It’s great to have all that choice. Paul, how do you cope with all that choice? We have axitinib, everolimus, cabozantinib, and nivolumab.
Carlos H. Barrios, MD: He has only two lines.
Susanne Osanto, MD, PhD: NICE! Nice for you.
Daniel Heng, MD, MPH, FRCPC: We need funding.
Paul Nathan, MBBS, PhD, FRCP: Remember, the thing about NICE approval is that when they say it’s approved, actually the companies don’t need to market the drugs very heavily in the UK because there’s an expectation that there’s a standard of care and there’s equal access across the country. And, actually, I think that’s been really important in terms of raising the bar about the quality of care. And we don’t have this problem with community oncologists doing strange things as happens in many other places around the world. So there are lots of benefits, if the drug is approved. We’ll see obviously. Assuming cabozantinib and nivolumab are improved, the first implication is that the role of everolimus gets pushed further down the treatment algorithm. I think we’re yet to see which patients in whom we should be using targeted therapies as a preference versus which patients we should be using immunotherapy. We don’t know that yet.
There are forthcoming subset analyses planned on the CheckMate 025 data which may start to tease out some of the story. My preference generally has always been that if one is trying to use immunotherapy to get durable responses, and you know that you’ve got targeted agents that are active when somebody is progressing, there is a logic in using immunotherapy earlier rather than later. Of course, we don’t have data set in that setting yet. There are ongoing trials not least the combination ipilimumab/nivolumab study. But, at the moment, I’m assuming we’ll have nivolumab access and cabozantinib access. And my preference probably will be to try to get the immunotherapy in earlier rather than later, but that’s a prejudice rather than being data driven.
Daniel Heng, MD, MPH, FRCPC: Carlos, what’s your impression? Is there any difference between IV versus PO treatment or tolerability with either? How would you choose in the second line now that we have all this data?
Carlos H. Barrios, MD: Certainly the IV mode of administration is one of the things that obviously impacts the way we select therapy. But I think the efficacy still remains the most important thing, controlling the disease for the longest period of time. I was impressed with the results of the METEOR study in the sense that it almost doubled the PFS. It’s the first time we go over this three, four, or five months so that’s very impressive. I would eagerly await the survival data because I guess the critical issue here is how to choose the second-line immunotherapy versus the second-line anti-VEGF, -MET TKI. So that’s an interesting question— I think we’re going to have to challenge that. To tell you the truth, I don’t know. I think we need the clinical data. We need to run the trial in order to see what happens and we need to collect biological information in order to analyze what happens to the tumor to see if we can tease out who are the patients that may benefit from one of the two approaches. At this point, we don’t have either agent available in Brazil, so that makes it very easy. I just say, well clinical trials are the right answer.
Nizar M. Tannir, MD, FACP: You don’t even have axitinib approved in Brazil.
Carlos H. Barrios, MD: We don’t even have axitinib.
Nizar M. Tannir, MD, FACP: So, for you, it’s a VEGFR TKI followed by everolimus.
Carlos H. Barrios, MD: Everolimus, that’s all we have. We have a lot of clinical trials at our center specifically. We just finished recruiting on the combination, ipilimumab/nivolumab trial versus sunitinib, which was very interesting and generated a lot of interest in the patient community, and with the doctors as well, because it makes the potential for improving on the response rates and maybe even in the long-term survival—PFS and survival data in that regard like happened in the melanoma arena. So, the point being that we need to collect this information in order to inform our future research.
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Sara Sharif’s father, uncle, and stepmother have been arrested in connection with her death, approximately one month after they left the UK for Pakistan, just a day before the discovery of the 10-year-old girl’s lifeless body.
Sara’s father, Urfan Sharif, 41, her stepmother, Beinash Batool, 29, and her uncle, Faisal Malik, 28, left Sialkot airport in Pakistan on Wednesday morning after negotiations with the police and British authorities, sources told the Guardian. They are understood to have landed at Gatwick Airport on Wednesday evening.
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How to Care for Chinese evergreen Plants
Chinese evergreen plants are undergoing a resurgence of popularity. This is partially due to their ability to survive as a low light plant and their bright colorful leaves. The main reason for the uptick in popularity is that houseplant parents are realizing just how easy to care for Chinese Evergreen Plants really are.
Chinese Evergreens or Aglaonemas are a wonderful addition to just about any indoor space. In offices, Aglaonemas thrive in the low fluorescent light and blend well into open floor plans due to their thin upright growth habits. In homes and apartments where bright natural light is often at a premium Chinese Evergreens can be grown on tables or nightstands away from windows.
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Aglaonema Plants will do best in a well-lit area near al window with western or eastern exposure. Bright indirect light is best but never place your Chinese Evergreens in front of a south-facing window. The bright sun will cause the leaves to burn.
Aglaonemas tolerate and even thrive, in low light areas such as bathrooms and bedrooms. In offices, artificial or fluorescent is enough for Aglaonemas to do well.
How to Water a Chinese evergreen Plant:
Chinese Evergreens prefer to stay moist but not soaking wet. When you water, be sure to thoroughly water the plant and allow the pot to drain. Overwatering will cause the plant to develop yellow leaves and can cause root rot. Always allow the soil to dry out between watering. Allowing the plants to dry out periodically helps to prevent root rot.
In the spring and summer months, Aglaonemas use more water than in the fall and winter so they will need more frequent watering. If you place your potted plant on a saucer its a good idea to place a layer of pebbles on the saucer to allow the plant to not sit in water as the pot drains.
Chinese Evergreens are closely related to peace lily and will begin to show signs of needing water just like the peace lily. The leaves will begin to wilt. Simply watering the plant will quickly reverse this condition.
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Having a saucer under the pot is a good way to raise the humidity level of the air around the plant. Any water that drains after watering will slowly dissipate into the air and maintain the high humidity level around the plant.
Misting these plants every few days with a spray bottle during the winter when indoor air is very dry will also help to keep the air surrounding the plant humid. Dry air is more common in homes with forced air heat.
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- Root Rot: As mentioned earlier overwatering can cause root rot. A sure sign of this happening is the leaves appear to be wilted even though the soil is moist. If this happens to your plant it can be reversed by simply allowing the plant to dry out for longer periods of time between watering. This can also be caused by allowing the pot to sit submerged in water for long periods of time after watering.
- Spider Mites on Chinese evergreen Plants: Very few insects are a problem with Chinese Evergreens. Spider mites can be a problem. These will be easy to notice by their webs that will form at the bases of the leaves and on the undersides of the leaves. Spider mites do take time to eliminate and this is due to having two life stages present. Adults and eggs will be present. Up to three applications of control products will be needed to completely eliminate the pests. A good organic control is an Insecticidal soap by Bonide. Its safe for use inside and can be used repeatedly with no harm to the plant.

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The Chamber of Deputies generally approved the Omnibus Law by 144 votes in favor and 109 against, with the support of the PRO, the UCR, We Make the Federal Coalition and Federal Innovation and, on the contrary, the rejection of Unión por la Homeland and the left. However, the game is far from over for the Government. The treatment of the project will resume on Tuesday with an article by article vote of the little more than 220 that remained in the law (the original text had 664), and several could be rejected.
The ruling party and the “dialogue” blocs still have to overcome differences on privatizations, the delegation of powers, the Guarantee Fund and the sharing of Country Taxes, a key issue for the provinces and the negotiation with the governors. In addition, the ruling party is concerned about the fragmentation of the allied blocs.
Read also: The Government is confident that 90% of the Omnibus Law will be approved, but tension with the governors is growing
Radicalism is internal between De Loredo and deputy Facundo Manes. In We Make the Federal Coalition, Miguel Ángel Pichetto, Juan Manuel López, Margarita Stolbizer and Mónica Fein coexist. The differences within the spaces are great.
The Government believes that 90% of the remaining articles of the Omnibus Law will be approved on Tuesday in the Chamber of Deputies and Javier Milei himself does not hesitate to strain the relationship with the provincial leaders. “Without half-sanction of the law, there is no fiscal agreement. They are going to have to approve it because they have no other choice, they need the funds. The provincial coffers are going to bleed if they do not accompany,” they told TN from very close to the president.
Deputies approved the Omnibus Law in general (REUTERS/Agustin Marcarian). By: REUTERS
The fight that awaits the ruling party in the Senate
If the particular articles are approved, the project will go to the Senate, which can approve, reject or return it with its corrections. If there is any modification and Deputies accept it, the text will be approved by the reviewing chamber, in this case the Senate. But if Deputies insist with the original wording, they will need to reach the same majority of 144 votes or a higher one than that of the Senate for the text they approved on Friday to be sanctioned.
Read also: Unions are on alert after the general approval of the Omnibus Law and do not rule out a new general strike
New and harsh negotiations await the ruling party in the Chamber led by Vice President Victoria Villarruel. La Libertad Avanza has only 7 senators of its own, so it needs another 30 senators from the opposition to have a quorum to meet. In the Senate, Unión por la Patria weighs heavily with 33 senators. In addition, several senators respond to the governors of their provinces, who could take the opportunity to try to tie up loose ends and renew pressure for the fiscal pact.
The vice president and head of the Senate, Victoria Villarruel (Photo: NA).
“In the Senate the discussion starts from scratch,” a senator from a dialogue bloc warned Clarín. “Here begins another negotiation. And it will be tougher than that of Deputies because there are several senators who do not have a governor as their leader,” said another.
Although the Government seeks to shorten the treatment in the Senate, the legislators anticipated that they want “front-line” speakers, such as the Minister of Economy, Luis Caputo, whose absence in the Deputies earned him harsh crosses with Miguel Ángel Pichetto.
Villarruel has not yet made it known which commissions will intervene in the treatment of the project or which senator will preside over the plenary session. Furthermore, it is likely that the Senate will not be able to discuss the project in the chamber before the end of the extraordinary session period, which expires on February 15, which would force Milei to extend it again. The initial date, January 31, reveals that the Government was overly optimistic.
It is worth mentioning that since the inauguration of the new Government, the Single Ballot project, promoted by the ruling party and a part of the “dialogue” opposition, was blocked in the Senate due to the lack of votes to approve it. Although, in recent days, the opposition was also unable to move forward with the treatment of the Emergency Necessity Decree since Vice President Victoria Villarruel did not call a session.


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‘Rosogolla Dibas’ (Rasgulla Day) was celebrated in West Bengal on Thursday to mark the granting of Geographical Indication (GI) tag of ‘Banglar Rosogolla’ (Bengal’s Rasgulla) to the state on this day two years ago.
The statue of Nobin Chandra Das, inventor of the Bengal variant of the sweetmeat, at Bagbazar area of north Kolkata was garlanded in the presence of state minister Sashi Panja, said Dhiman Das, a descendant of Nobin Chandra Das and owner of K C Das Private Ltd.
Street children and inmates of shelter homes near the residence of K C Das (Krishna Chandra Das), son of Nobin Chandra Das, at Gourimata Udyan Park in the northern part of the city were treated to Rosogollas on the occasion, Dhiman Das said. “For the first time in the history of the sweetmeat industry in West Bengal, almost all sweet shops in the state are dedicating this day to Rosogolla,” he said.
At state government’s ‘Misti Hub’ in the northeastern fringes of the city, new varieties of Rosogollas have been displayed at the outlets of popular sweetmeat brands, an official of the West Bengal Housing Infrastructure Development Corporation (HIDCO), that runs the hub, said.
Hundreds of people were treated to the sweetmeat at an event at Khadina More in Hooghly district, said Amitava Dey of ‘Felu Modak’ and an office-bearer of Paschim Banga Mistanna Byabasayee Samity (West Bengal Sweetmeat Traders’ Committee). “The centuries-old truth was vindicated by the GI tag,” Dey said, adding that this year’s celebration was on a scale grander than last year.
A GI tag identifies a product as originating from a particular region. West Bengal and Odisha were involved in a tug-of-war to stake a claim to the origin of the sweetmeat.
While West Bengal was granted the GI tag for ‘Banglar Rosogulla’ or the Bengal variant of the sweetmeat in 2017, Odisha got the GI tag for ‘Odisha Rasagola’ or the Odisha variant earlier this year.


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My friend and fellow King Township resident, Phyllis Vernon (below-right), recently returned from a week in Belize, where among many other naturalist pursuits, she took several bird photos in the jungles along the Caribbean coast of the small, central american nation. Pictured above is a Collared Aracari Toucan (Pteroglossus torquatos) and below-left is Slaty-tailed Trogon (Trogon massena). Another Toucan, not pictured here, the Keel-billed Toucan (Ramphastos sulfuratus), is the national bird of Belize.
It's almost impossible not to take a good picture of the ubiquitous Brown Pelican (Pelecanus occidentalis) in the Caribbean and Phyllis's excellent photo above is no exception. Great portrait! Below is Phyllis's picture of a Black-headed Trogon (Trogon melanocephalus).
Above is Phyllis's photo of a Black-headed Trogon (Trogon melanocephalus) and below is her photo of a Black-cowled Oriole (Icterus dominicensis). Phyllis identified approximately 30 birds on this trip to Belize.
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According to a 2021 McKinsey Survey, top-performing companies now obtain a larger share of their sales from products or services that didn’t exist just one year ago. These companies are making more aggressive plans to differentiate themselves with technology, and some are preparing to reinvent their value proposition altogether.
Business insights gleaned from innovations in data, analytics, and machine learning (ML) technologies are driving this shift. As these technologies have become mainstream and the volume of data has grown exponentially, business leaders are embracing a fundamental truth: The journey to innovation begins with data, and successfully becoming a data-driven organization begins by defining a modern data strategy and proliferating it throughout the company culture.
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In a 2021 executive survey on data leadership by New Vantage Partners, 92% of C-suite leaders stated that organizational culture remains the main barrier to becoming a data-driven organization.
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A modern data strategy works to create a culture that treats data as a strategic resource and invests in the right data infrastructure, solutions, people, processes and tools. It engages everyone in a data-driven vision by educating teams to boost data proficiency and enabling data-driven decision making from the top down. The strategy eschews monolithic, one-size-fits-all data structures, instead opting for data lakes and purpose-built databases and analytics engines to increase agility, easily scale and move data and expand the use of analytics and ML throughout the organization.
Modern data strategies also eliminate structural and departmental data silos, ensuring that all the right people can access data at the right time and with the right controls, even if they aren’t database administration or infrastructure management experts. An effective data strategy meets people where they are in their journey and provides tools to run analytics and ML that match their different skill levels.
Three precepts guide the implementation of the strategy: unify data to create a single source of truth; modernize data infrastructure, analytics and ML; and innovate with the modernized environment to create new processes, customer solutions, and experiences.
Unifying data and putting it to work across multiple data stores can give companies a full picture and single source of truth of their customers and business. Many companies are doing this by making a central data repository — or data lake — the foundational element of their unification strategy.
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Additionally, when all data is unified, it becomes exponentially more powerful because you can put it to work anywhere. Businesses can also modernize analytics and ML by adopting a tailored, yet unified approach. Modern analytics tools can look across multiple data stores and allow the right people to access the right data holistically to meet specific use cases.
Purpose-built analytics services can discover, access, interpret and visualize data in a manner that serves a specific business need. For example, Netflix uses a cloud based large-scale streaming data analytics platform to ingest, augment and analyze the multiple terabytes of flow log data its network generates daily, with sub-second response times for analytics queries. These tools and services also manage data access with the proper security and data governance controls.
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One of the best ways to modernize large data infrastructure is to move away from legacy on-premises data stores to a fully managed end-to-end cloud platform that removes the undifferentiated heavy lifting.
IDC research found that businesses that moved their databases from on-premises to managed cloud-based services achieved 86% faster deployments of new databases, experienced 97% less unplanned downtime, and had a five-month average investment payback period. In practice, Samsung recently migrated 1.1 billion users to a cloud-based relational database service (RDS) across three continents and was able to cut monthly database cost by 44% while achieving 60 millisecond-or-less latency 90% of the time.
Data is now so diverse that companies must embrace a multi-database strategy that includes structured relational, non-relational and large-scale data stores, as well as purpose-built databases that are optimized for specific workloads, like key-value databases for high-traffic web applications, time series databases for IoT applications, or graph databases for recommendation engines.
Case in point: Global information company Experian moved to a cloud-first microservices-driven architecture built on a fully managed, serverless, key-value NoSQL database. The company also replaced its legacy relational database with a fully-managed Relational Database Service (RDS). By automating time-consuming administration tasks like hardware provisioning, database setup, patching, and backups, the time spent to configure and deploy servers went from 60 to 90 days to a matter of hours.
Security, reliability, performance
It’s critical to note that moving from legacy databases to cloud databases is not just about using the latest technologies and getting better latency, it also enables developers to have better security, reliability, and performance — all without the hassle of dealing with undifferentiated heavy-lifting associated with day-to-day operations of these databases. Ultimately, it frees up time for developers, allowing them to focus on innovation and solving complex problems instead of managing database infrastructure.
Cloud environments allow businesses to harness ML at scale by standardizing the development process. Modern cloud ML platforms provide scalable infrastructure, integrated tooling, appropriate practices for responsible use of ML, and tools for users of all ML skill levels.
Intuit created an artificial intelligence (AI) driven expert platform that combines human expertise with ML to accelerate development and incorporate ML into its products. Development lifecycles that used to take six months now take less than a week. Intuit has also used ML to save customers over 25,000 hours via self-help for receipt processing and over 1.3 million hours in receipt processing.
Data strategy: Innovating with modernized analytics, BI and ML
While innovation can take place at each of the three pillars of the modern data strategy, it occurs most often at their intersection, when databases and analytics solutions are infused with ML.
Modern, unified data architectures are connecting different data stores and analytics tools into a coherent, integrated ML development environment that uses automated data collection, prep, and labelling services to ensure that the right data is fueling the model and that it is relevant for the model training and deployment stages. Managed ML services and integrated ML innovations are making modeling and implementation simpler, more democratized and more tailored to specific business challenges and outcomes.
ML is being integrated into these services and large-sale data stores like data lakes and data warehouses to dramatically reduce the time and complexity involved in running ML models at scale. Data stores and analytics services with built-in ML eliminate the need for cumbersome data preparation, feature engineering, algorithm selection, training and tuning, inference, and model monitoring.
For example, developers can use ML embedded into an Amazon RDS database to run models on transactional data using a simple SQL query.
Advantages of co-located ML
ML innovation is already having a measurably positive impact. Health technology company Philips developed a regulatory-compliant, platform-as-a-service (PaaS) solution, Philips HealthSuite, to provide tools and cloud capabilities to advance digital healthcare through imaging AI and ML solutions.
Philips’ ML solution aims to help optimize the quality of healthcare by delivering care quickly and significantly reducing human error. By working toward facilitating diagnostic recommendations using ML, medical professionals will have the tools they need to deliver accurate diagnoses and create treatment plans.
A great example of the advantages of co-located ML is the online job search firm Jobcase, which streamlined and accelerated ML models within its cloud data warehouse by using the in-database local inference capabilities afforded by integrated ML services.
Not having to move large amounts of data across networks or set up complex custom data pipelines to move from their data warehouse to ML platforms to perform quick ML experimentation allows the company’s data scientists to model inference on billions of records in a matter of minutes, directly in its data warehouse.
Maturing data strategy
Data is the gateway to new opportunities. With the right data strategy and culture, organizations can control their growing data, find insights from diverse data types, and make it available to the right people and systems.
The net result of embracing a modern data strategy is becoming the “most informed” organization with ready-made intelligence for applications and workflows that address business problems end-to-end. As an organization’s data strategy matures, it will transform how they solve problems and build customer experiences — which will lead to more breakthroughs in all fields including healthcare, smart buildings, homes and cities, personalized consumer experiences, and efficient manufacturing operations.
Swami Sivasubramanian is vice president of analytics, database and machine learning at AWS.


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By George Knox, CEO of Flexiant
Yesterday, Dell announced the acquisition of Enstratius, an enterprise cloud-management software and services provider that delivers single and multi-cloud management capabilities. As a fellow Gartner Cool Vendor this year in the 2013 Cloud Management report, we want to congratulate Enstratius.
This acquisition is proof that the biggest IT companies in the world recognize that they need to help their clients quickly deliver cloud solutions and that long, expensive development projects are no longer viable (if they ever were). They also need a cloud solution that can easily manage both infrastructure and applications.
These companies are not developing, but acquiring the technology. Only in March did Oracle announce it had agreed to acquire Nimbula, a 2012 Gartner Cool Vendor and provider of private cloud infrastructure management software.
For many of these IT organizations, cloud management is a strategic priority because the benefits are so tangible. Most are focused on enterprise IT, but there are a few focused on the particular requirements of service providers and telcos. This is where Flexiant has focused and differentiates. We also believe strongly, as the purchasers of cloud technology shifts from enterprise IT to telecom and service provider companies; the needs of the purchaser will drive the large traditional enterprise software and infrastructure providers to acquire innovation and technology that fills their technology gaps. Doing so will allow them to take advantage of the next generation of technology spending.
Getting to market quickly with a cloud management solution will open up the new products and services to offer customers
We stress to our customers the need to buy verses develop and the same holds true for these enterprise IT focused organizations. Getting to market quickly with a cloud management solution will open up the new products and services to offer customers. We view it as a no-brainer.
With all the recent cloud management vendor acquisitions, it makes you wonder what the future landscape will look like.

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A Transforming Industry: Applied Materials Merges with TEL
By Denny McGuirk, president and CEO, SEMI
Last week’s blockbuster announcement of the merger between Tokyo Electron, or TEL, and Applied Materials struck me like two good friends who’ve surprisingly revealed they were getting married: we are certainly happy for them, but know this will have significant impact on our shared circle of associates, colleagues and partners. Three of the principals in the deal — Tetsuro Higashi, Tetsuo Tsuneishi, and Mike Splinter — will serve as the new company’s chairman and vice chairmen, respectively, are also SEMI Board members who have taken extremely active leadership roles in the association. Gary Dickerson, Applied Materials’ president and CEO, and an industry veteran of 30 years, will be the CEO of the new company.
The merger announcement is a milestone in our industry and underscores several important trends. Unlike any other industry, many of the key technologies needed to sustain industry growth and meet the targets identified by Moore’s Law have been developed and delivered by key equipment and material suppliers. In many ways, the announcement is the culmination of the unique historical importance of SEMI members and semiconductor supply chain in delivering the advanced technology necessary to enable today’s amazing products including computers, mobile phones and tablets, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, health and medical electronics, and other marvels of modern life. Since Applied and TEL were founded in the 1960’s, they have been at the forefront of the electronics revolution, providing the critical process technology needed to make the next generation chip. Without them, and other SEMI member companies, there would be no Moore’s Law, no affordable Smart Phones, big screen TVs, or tablet computers. Today, the proposed new company would be bigger than all but the very largest semiconductor companies and as visible, essential, and vital to our modern connected world as any of the top technology brands.
Another important trend the merger underscores is the continued maturation and consolidation of the industry: there are fewer large suppliers serving increasingly fewer leading-edge chip companies. These trends are not unique to the semiconductor and display industries; there are also fewer banks, automotive companies, airlines, telecoms, and drug makers to name a few. In our industry, the R&D resources needed to develop the process and manufacturing technologies needed by the next generation chip are enormous and one of the primary drivers towards industry consolidation. Pooling R&D resources through merger and other means is a natural and necessary requirement to sustain Moore’s Law. The microelectronics supply chain, however, remains extremely large, diverse and specialized. SEMI has approximately 1,800 members providing a variety of equipment, materials, technologies and solutions for multiple industries. Over 85 percent of these companies achieve annual revenues less than $25 million. Now more than ever, these companies see the large equipment and materials companies as their primary customer and SEMI is increasingly expanding our collaboration activities among and within the supply chain.
The final trend worth noting is globalization. The semiconductor industry has been one of the most global industries on the planet for many years, but the Applied-TEL union signals an unprecedented vision for conducting international business. The combined organization will have a new name, dual headquarters in Tokyo and Santa Clara, a dual listing on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and NASDAQ, and be incorporated in the Netherlands. The new company will have a shared leadership team. The board will be made up of eleven directors with five directors appointed by each company and one additional director to be mutually agreed upon. Gary Dickerson, CEO of the new entity, will move to Tokyo to oversee the integration. The new organization will be a model for corporate globalization and a benchmark for every company seeking to optimize international business organization. For every company looking to serve the global semiconductor industry, the Applied-TEL alliance will set a high standard for execution and excellence and “pervasive presence” to which even the smallest company should aspire.
Finally, on a personal note, Applied Materials and Tokyo Electron have been providing valuable leadership for our industry for decades in the areas of public policy, standards, industry roadmaps, environmental stewardship and EHS, industry collaboration and other areas. Mike Splinter, Tsuneishi-san and Higashi-san have provided active, hands-on guidance, counsel and support of SEMI programs and services. This support has been invaluable to the association and to the entire industry. We look forward to their continued support and wish them, their employees and associates well in this ambitious, historic new venture.
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Cebu City, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles) – Chances are you’ve seen the viral YouTube video featuring hundreds of jail inmates dancing to a choreographed version of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller.”
Now these same Cebu City inmates, joined by tens of thousands of others incarcerated in Philippine jails and prisons, have gone into a hunger strike. Their demands? Larger jail cells, airconditioning and free wi-fi access.
The Bureau of Corrections (BuCor) and the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) estimate the total prisoners at 80,000. BuCor has jurisdiction over national prisons while BJMP oversees jails in cities, towns and provinces.
The striking inmates were emboldened upon learning that two senators who are now in jail in connection with plunder charges arising from the Ten Billion pork barrerl scam, have demanded more comfortable jail conditions, including airconditioning, gourmet meals, refrigerators, television sets and Internet access, among others. The two senators are Bong Revilla, Jr., and Jinggoy Estrada.
“If our leaders can demand better conditions in their jail cells – or bungalows – why can’t we?” the strikers said.
President NoyNoy Aquino was reported to be under severe stress as a result of the national hunger strike, especially because he has always proclaimed that under the law, every Filipino will be treated equally. Witnesses observed that Aquino has been continuously puffing cigarettes as a result of the stress.

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“Hello, everybody! You know, during the war, we say, "When the music plays, the guns are silent." And we would like the music to play louder and the guns to be silent forever. And now in our hands are guitars and machine guns. We are volunteers and drivers, but first of all, we are musicians. And thanks to Creators for Ukraine for their assistance, as well as for supporting Ukraine and Ukrainian musicians and composers. Thank you, and glory to Ukraine.”
Dmytro Tsyperdyuk - Luiku is the frontman of the Ukrainian band Luiku. He is a composer, arranger, music producer, poet, board member of Ukrainian collecting society Українська Агенція з Авторських та Суміжних Прав.


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Significant Growth of MPLX; Pipeline Throughput Raised by 6%08/24/2022
According to U.S. midstream oil and natural gas company MPLX LP release on August 2, it has increased total pipeline throughputs by 6% in the second quarter of 2022 and terminal throughput by 4%, versus year-ago levels.
In an earnings statement of MPLX, the total pipeline throughputs were 5.9 million bbl/d, with terminal throughput of 3.1 million bbl/d for the second quarter.
Due to an increased utilization at refineries operated by its parent company Marathon Petroleum Co., MPLX’s upticks were mainly created.
Despite the market concerns about a potential global recession that would likely hurt consumption, MPLX is still bullish on energy demand.
The company reported a net income of $875 million and adjusted earnings of $1.457 million in the second quarter, both higher than in the same period of 2021. Also, it expects that there will still be room to run on the demand side, as demand itself is looking good and the inventories are low, so it is still a quite constructive environment for the company
Gathered volumes grew up by 11% from year-ago levels to an average of 5.6 Bcf/d. In the Marcellus region, gathered volumes fell 1% compared to year-ago levels to an average of 1.3 Bcf/d.
The company also announced Tuesday a program to repurchase an additional $1 billion in publicly traded units.
MPLX is expanding several projects, including in the Permian Basin where the Whistler pipeline is increasing from 2 Bcf/d to 2.5 Bcf/d, in addition to lateral pipelines into the Midland Basin and Corpus Christi domestic and export markets.
Furthermore, the company expects the significant growth of the Permian and considers that beyond even the announced expansions of the existing pipes such as Whistler, a couple of more pipes are going to be needed over the next 5-plus years.
Moreover, the construction is also maintained on the 200 MMcf/d Tornado ll processing plant, which MPLX anticipates coming online in the second half of 2022. Additionally, 68,000 bbl/d Smithburg de-ethanizer project in the Marcellus is expected to come online in the third quarter.
MPLX operates several natural gas gathering systems with the scope of services provided dependent on the composition of the raw or untreated gas. Its natural gas processing complexes remove the heavier and more valuable hydrocarbon components from natural gas.
Once natural gas has been processed, the heavier and more valuable hydrocarbon components, which have been extracted as a mixed NGL stream, can be further separated into their component parts for end-use sale through the process of fractionation. It sells basic NGL products, including ethane, propane, normal butane, isobutane, and natural gasoline.
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$465 Million for Stronghold Energy; Ring Energy Completes the Acquisition
On August 31 Ring Energy Inc. purchased privately-held Stronghold Energy, adding operations that are mainly situated in Crane County, Texas, in the Permian Basin’s Central Basin Platform. According to a September 1 Ring Energy release, this transaction fully complements the conventional-focused Central Basin Platform and Northwest Shelf asset positions in the Permian Basin. The majority owned by Warburg Pincus LLC, Stronghold’s operations are concentrated on the development of about 37,000 net acres situated mainly in Crane County. In July Ring Energy entered into an agreement to buy Stronghold Energy II Operating LLC and Stronghold Energy II Royalties LP for $200 million in cash at closing and $230 million in Ring equity based on a 20-day volume weighted average price. Consideration also involved a $15 million deferred cash payment due six months after closing and $20 million of existing Stronghold hedge liability increasing the total transaction value to $465 million. Stronghold’s asset base is almost 99% operated, 99% working interest, and 99% HBP. In July, Ring announced the current net production of Stronghold’s asset base was approximately 9,100 boe/d (54% oil, 75% liquids).
Plains All American Expects 10% Increase in the Permian Oilfield Activity
On 3 August the pipeline operator Plains All American LP raised its 2022 profit forecast for the second time this year, as it expects a huge demand on its pipelines transporting U.S. shale oil to the Gulf Coast. The company increased full-year adjusted earnings guidance by $100 million to approximately $2.38 billion, since it anticipates higher crude and natural gas liquids volumes. European buyers have snapped up the U.S. light sweet crude, the largest part of which is delivered in the Permian Basin of West Texas and New Mexico, as they depend on replacing Russian barrels. Average daily crude oil volumes in the second quarter grew 30% on its Permian Basin pipelines with oilfield activity trending about 10% exceeding its initial expectations. Its shares increased 3.6% in after-hours trading on August 3 to $11.19.
Global oil supply and demand saw notable changes in April 2023. Liquids demand declined by 0.7 MMb/d to 99.9 MMb/d, with gains in China and Europe offset by reduced demand in Japan and the Middle East. OPEC 10 production remained stable at 29.5 MMb/d, while Saudi Arabia increased output by 0.3 MMb/d. Non-OPEC production declined slightly, Russian production dropped further, and US shale production remained steady. Combined production in Iran, Venezuela, and Libya remained unchanged. Commercial inventories increased, and OPEC+ implemented production cuts. Economic sentiment remains uncertain amid rising global inflation.
ONEOK Inc. and Magellan Midstream Partners LP have announced a merger agreement that will result in the formation of a formidable midstream company headquartered in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The deal will bring together their respective assets and expertise, resulting in a powerful entity boasting an extensive network of approximately 25,000 miles of pipelines primarily focused on transporting liquids.
Callon Acquires $1.1 Billion Delaware Assets and Bows Out of Eagle Ford - Here's What You Need to Know
Callon is set to purchase Percussion Petroleum's Delaware assets for $475 million while selling its Eagle Ford assets to Ridgemar for $655 million. In a strategic step to optimize its operations, Callon Petroleum recently made headlines by sealing two deals on May 3, totaling a staggering $1.13 billion. The company is taking confident steps to bolster its presence in the Delaware Basin while bidding farewell to its stake in the Eagle Ford Shale.

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According to a new lawsuit, production assistants working for a number of companies including Paramount, Nickelodeon and Regency were forced to go to the bathroom inside their cars thanks to their strict—and low-paying—job requirements.
The class-action suit was filed this week by four New York-based production assistants, who say they had to take desperate measures while working on films like “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,” “The Wolf of Wall Street,” and “Transformers: Dark Side of the Moon.” Via The Wrap:
“Due to limitations on their ability to leave their assigned locations, many of the Plaintiffs are forced to urinate and defecate into bottles and buckets in their vehicles,” court documents obtained by TheWrap state.
The PPAs [production assistants], who worked on the “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” movies and “Wolf of Wall Street,” also allege that the companies named in the suit regularly required them to work between 60 and 100 hours per week with no overtime pay.
Instead, they were paid a flat rate of $150 a day on average for a 12-hour day. The suit also states that the PPAs were not provided compensation for food, nor given access to food on set, despite others being given dinner on set.
In addition, while working in cold weather conditions, the PPAs claim they were forced to run their cars continuously in order to stay warm, but were not compensated for this either.
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North Korea's top nuclear negotiator arrives in Washington for talks with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and a possible encounter with President Donald Trump aimed a laying the groundwork for a second U.S.-North Korea summit. Eve Johnson reports.
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Monday he was hopeful the United States would send a delegation to North Korea in the coming weeks, after a summit between President Donald Trump and North..
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at a meeting with farmers in Iowa on Monday said, despite not reaching an agreement with North Korea during peace talks in Hanoi, he was "hopeful" that he'd have a..
According to Reuters, the United States and China opened a new round of high-level talks on Wednesday aimed at ending their months-long trade war amid differences over Chinese practices on intellectual..


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text: I started at Saitozaki station and ran through Saitozaki stopping to visit two shrines on the way before hitting the road to Shikanoshima. The route is beautiful with lovely salty sea air and beaches to run through. Once getting to the Island I went up to Shikaumi shrine and then tried to go up many small mountains. However I couldn't find and trail, signs or even tape! So I ended up walking back and forth trying to work out the best routes, in the end I stuck to an old mountain road that went straight up to Yagoroyama and the observation deck there. I then carried on to some other small mountains and shrines before running back around using the road next ro the sea. The island is popular for cyclists so the road has an area for bikes which is also useful for runners. I visited a Mongolian monument and and park dedicated to gold stamps which were both along the road. I ended back at the ferry port and caught a ferry back to Saitozaki (They also go to Hakata port). It has a good run but I think it would be better not to bother trying to go to the small mountains so next time I will focus on running around the island.


Hazardous chemicals in umbilical cord blood
Executive summary: Hazardous chemicals that are used in everyday householdproducts end up in the bodies of unborn children viathe mother.This study, conducted for Greenpeace and WWFUKby TNO, analysed blood samples donated by a number ofwomen and confirmed that hazardous chemicals areunwittingly passed from mother to child. Previous studieshad already reported the presence of hazardous chemicalsin human blood and tissues and the ability of somechemicals to pass the placenta. This study further confirmsthat known or suspected hazardous chemicals from eightchemical groups are commonly present in umbilical cordblood.These findings underscore the urgent need to providemechanisms to replace such substances with safer alternatives.
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