CRM Evolution 2016, Day 2: Customer Experience Is the Path to Customer Retention
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Because customer retention has proven more cost-effective than seeking out new business, and competition is often won with experience, businesses must strategize to meet a buyer's expectations, even if that requires additional efforts to bolster their various channels, speakers agreed on day two of this year's CRM Evolution conference.
A chief proponent of this philosophy is Richard P. Shapiro, president of The Center for Client Retention. "Customer experience, to me, starts with that first encounter you have with the customer, and should never end," Shapiro told attendees of his management strategies session. "You have to think of ways to show [customers] that they matter." To Shapiro, for instance, it goes without saying that a company should make a customer feel welcomed, give them their undivided attention, answer more than just their questions, provide them with guidance and expertise, and never refuse one of their requests. Furthermore, those companies that really want to ensure that customers are loyal will invite them to return, show that they care, and continually surprise them in meaningful ways.
Of a similar mind-set are representatives from the customer contact centers at Merck, the pharmaceutical manufacturer and distributor. In late 2014, the company realized that to meet the demands of customers—and particularly those of Millennials—it would have to make a commitment to shift its operations to the cloud and thus enable reps to connect with them wherever they choose. "If we can meet customers in their preferred channels, then that's going to enable a better customer experience," said John Marrone, leader of contact center operations and performance management at Merck. According to Marrone, streamlining interactions and making them more efficient enable the company to increase the amount of calls it handles each day, as well as the total number of impressions it makes, ultimately helping to boost sales.
Representatives from AOL agreed that reaching customers in their preferred environments can yield unforeseen benefits that reverberate throughout the organization. Erin Robinson, who directs the Internet company's voice of the customer program, shared a number of statistics to prove why social media is becoming increasingly worthy of attention. "Thirty-three percent of customers prefer to contact brands using social media rather than the telephone," Robinson emphasized. "We're starting to see a lot more customers signing into Twitter—and creating complaint accounts—just to say negative things." Robinson pointed out that her team of 15 works to listen to, and address, the concerns of customers on Twitter and Facebook. The team reports to the executive once a week, with customer insights gleaned from various social channels, including YouTube, blogs, news, and forums.
Still, despite the benefits of such flexibility, many professionals are still choosing to ignore the writing on the wall regarding customer preferences, said Justin Robbins, group community director of ICMI. Citing research that illustrated the gaps between what companies believe about their customers' expectations and what customers actually want, he revealed some of the most common lies companies tell themselves. Among these is that their focus on excellent customer service is evident to customers; that poor service doesn't do much harm to their brand; that customers don't expect a choice in follow-up communication options; that customers expect to speak with different reps when contacting a company more than once; that the phone is still the preferred method of contacting a company; and that people will not pay more simply to do business with companies who have a better reputation for customer service. And, the worst lie of all, Robbins pointed out, is that many companies believe they can fail to act on these and continue to thrive. "There's an interesting list of companies that were [leaders] in the early 2000s, but didn't focus on the customer experience, and it's incredible to see how many of them got acquired, or sold, or just downright aren't there anymore," Robbins said.
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'Great customer experience, for the vast majority of things we do today, is measured in time,' keynote speaker Gerry McGovern told attendees.
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Every autumn the great yachts of the East descend on Annapolis to compete for one of the jewels in the coastwide ocean racing crown -- the Chesapeake Fall Series.
This season they raced on three successive breezy October Saturdays, massing in a show of ballooning white sails and glittering glass hulls off the mouth of the Severn River.
There was Tatoosh from New York, the eventual winner; the pitch-black Running Tide, at home in the Bay; sleek red Immigrant; the dark blue Albemarle Pippin; Tabasco and Wunder Bear and 90 other state-of-the-art speedsters.
And lo! What's this?
Crashing along the windward edge of the A-class starting line, where the big boys congregate, came an upstart.
A rented yacht.
There was a crew of eight aboard, seven of whom had never raced a big boat before. In fact, five had never even sailed before this year. Thus armed they took off in a puff last spring in their leased boat and campaigned the season away.
Yacht racing is supposed to be the last bastion of the white ducks and blue crowd, now that tennis has turned into a playpen for overpaid, neurotic teenagers.
Yet here was John on the jib-sheet winch, sipping coffee and reading the morning paper five minutes before the start of the last big race of the year.
"Watch that boat to the leeward," a shipmate shouted.
"Leeward," muttered John."Which way is that?"
The crew of this jolly yacht set out to prove in the fall series that you don't have to be rich, refined or even yachty to enjoy yacht racing at its peak.
The skipper is a Washington area businessman who asked for the sake of propriety that his identity be kept confidential. Call him Ahab.
Four years ago he decided that sailing would be a nice sport to pursue and bought a little boat. The next year he bought a bigger boat, but he never raced either one. Then last spring he found a $100,000-plus racer no one was using and he offered a spring-summer-fall lease to the owner.
For reasons incomprehensible to the average mind the owner said yes, and agreed to a preposterously low price that came out to about one-third of the yearly upkeep of the boat.
It all has to do with tax write-offs, depreciation and other high-finance mysteries, and the end effect was that for pocket money Ahab had a reasonably well-equipped boat that could race with the fastest, most expensive boats around. All he needed was someone to sail her.
He found Billy, his only crew member with ocean racing experience, and Billy gathered a bunch of his pals who had strong backs and willing spirits and they were off to the races.
They raced the spring series and the Wednesday night series on the Bay, and when the apex of the Bay racing season arrived last month they were ready. aSort of.
On the first fall series race they managed to miss the start altogether. "We thought there would be two starts for the A-class boats, A1 and A2.
When the gun went off they all took off, and we were standing there scratching our heads," explained the navigator. "We went home."
The second fall series race was better, as the neophytes crossed the line with the pack and managed even "to beat three or four boats," said Ahab.
Then two weeks ago came the final assault on the prickly standards of the yachting world.
Ahab thought he had a fine spot on the starting line 20 seconds before the gun, but one of the competing skippers had another plan. He came hard-charging to an upwind spot and began pushing Ahab downwind.
What he did'nt reckon on was Ahab's minimal investment. "Coming up," shouted Billy, and Ahab steered for the intruder's beam.
A shocked look crossed the newcomer's face and he veered downwind and out of the pack.
Our stalwarts sailed their rented boat hard and they sailed it well. Billy wanted halyard tension on the spinnaker at one point. The winch was straining already. The crew told him so.
"Just keep winching," said Billy. "Rip it off the deck if you have to. It's not our boat. Not after today, anyway."
They didn't beat three or four boats that final race. They beat six or seven. And those six or seven had spent fortunes not to get beaten.
When Ahab motored back to the slip he took a look around, said farewell to his rented yacht and went home. The next day the lease would be up and his headaches had never begun.
Good memories were all that lingered on. ONE LAST RACE The fall series is over, but one major race remains on the Chesapeake before the big boats head for Florida and the Southern Ocean Racing Circuit.
This weekend there will be the overnight season-ender, the Skipper's Race, which begins Saturday off Annapolis.
The end-of-the-season marks a fine time, according to Ahab, for would-be racing yacht leasers to start hunting around. "It's amazing what you can bargain people down to," he said," when their boats are locked in the ice in January."

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With ten books of poetry published between and , Philip Booth has established himself as a remarkable poet. Booth's poetry, written in spare language and dealing with New England settings, has garnered critical acclaim for its quiet power. The Seafarer (poem) The Seafarer is an Old English poem giving a first-person account of a man alone on the sea. The poem consists of lines, followed by the single word "Amen" and is recorded only at folios 81 verso - 83 recto of the Exeter Book, one of the four surviving manuscripts of Old English poetry.
It's extremely difficult to get these jobs because you can't get a job on a ship unless you have seaman's paper's, and you can't get seaman's papers unless you have a job on a ship. There had to be a way to break through the circle, and he was the one who arranged it for me. forty singing seamen and other poems Purchase of this book includes free trial access to where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos.4/5(2).
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Read 2 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. This scarce antiquarian book is a selection fro /5. boscage- thick foliage or woodland extremely elegant prose or aureate poetry boschveldt- bush country, wilderness of the intellectual imagination with acatalepsy challenged bourasque- a tempest or stormy situation boursocrat- a stock exchange official bowery- a seedy or run-down district of a city.
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Discover more great poems Poems for seamen book these great poems about secrets, these classic poems about holidays and vacations, our pick of the best football poems, and these. Bailey S. Haynie sailed throughout World War II, and was on the SS Liberator when she was attacked by a U-boat.
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Old Jarhead Poems In all my years of reading Marine Poems for seamen book literature, never I have come across such a meaningful and reflective book of Marine poems. One or two I recognized from past editions of Leatherneck Magazine but most of the poems I had never read and Brother, how beautifully inspiring they were.
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Inscribed by Alfred Noyes to Mrs. Kermit Roosevelt on front endpaper. Also laid in is a signed paper by Alfred Noyes. Book in good condition, some wear to boards, some wear to gutter. Rare.COVID Resources. Reliable information about the coronavirus (COVID) is available from the World Health Organization (current situation, international travel).Numerous and frequently-updated resource results are available from this ’s WebJunction has pulled together information and resources to assist library staff as they consider how to handle coronavirus.Gilbert’s fourth book, Refusing Heaven (), contains, as poet Dan Albergotti describes, “poems about love, loss, and grief that defy all expectations of sentimentality.
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When women are successful it can be universally felt. No country or border changes the way a woman feels about caring for her children. When women band together under these objectives with the ability to earn a living, serious changes can take place.
Microfinance must first and foremost be about making a difference in the lives of the impoverished and marginalized. It must be about having a positive impact for the overall welfare of microfinance clients.
Both the Jewish and Christian communities from their earliest documents display a debate about with the foundational questions of ownership, agency, interest and usury. The Holy Quran also offers some unique teachings.

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Ibrahim S Mansaray: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 August 2020:
In the last three years, African countries have registered an overall decline in the quality of political participation and the rule of law. The United States, which has traditionally been a major influence in promoting democracy in Africa, has had a seemingly hands-off approach since President Donald Trump came to office in 2017.
The fallacy that United States is the Father of Democracy in the world is dead or dying since Trump came to power. Had Trump been an African President, his country would have been a monarch with his dictatorial tendencies. To the Conservative political pundit, Trump is an epitome of some African leaders whose quest to stay in power is unshakeable.
The notion that America is good at promoting democracy, free and fair elections, political and civil rights seems to be going with the winds. Imagine an American president doubting his own political system or worse off, not even committing to accepting the outcome of the results.
Ironically, not a single African president has lambasted Donald Trump for such undemocratic principles. Had Trump being an African president uttering statements like doubting your own intelligence agency reports, doubting the credibility of mail in ballots voting and even insulting some African leaders as *** hole, the whole western world would have been issuing bundles of press releases denigrating the credentials of such leaders. If it is happening in the West, it is business as usual, but in Africa, it becomes a problem.
If African leaders see Trump, who seems very happy to shake hands with autocrats, it gives them the signal that they can manipulate elections and not face consequences.
Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni, who plans to run for a sixth term in 2021, has been notably effusive in his praise of the American president, once declaring, “I love Trump,” who he describes as the best president the US has had. Few years ago, Lauren Gbagbo, former president of Ivory Coast was kicked out of power and subsequently shipped to the International Criminal Court, the crime? He wanted to twist the constitution and prolong himself in power. The country was plunged into a civil war and nearly tore the country into pieces.
Today, the incumbent, Alassane Ouattara has just been nominated to run for a Third term, a crime he accused his predecessor of doing.
Guinea, a close door neighbor of Sierra Leone, just nominated an 82-year-old president to run for the next presidential election. What a shame! Imagine, Alpha Conde (Photo) was imprisoned by the late Lansana Conte for preaching democracy. Instead of strengthening democracy by conducting transparent elections, he is appearing to be the Godfather of Guinea politics.
The list is endless in Africa… so where is this democracy that people tend to preach about? Is it that African democracy should have different standards? This year, some 15 countries are set to hold elections at different levels, but the credibility of these polls is likely to again conjure up questions about whether democracy is working for Africa.
Few weeks ago, a street boy in Lagos blamed bad leadership for Nigeria’s socio-economic problems. He called for a mass burial of the country’s political elite, which in his opinion, would help combat corruption and unlock the country’s potential. His view echoes the inner and hidden sentiments many people living in African are hidden in many African countries have about their leaders. The reasons for this are easily found.
Most African leaders have done little to improve the welfare of their people, who are very poor, while they, and their cronies, live in opulence.
The menace goes all through the political chain to elected and appointed public officers where party financiers and godfathers dictate who holds what public office without regard for competence and internal democracy. Corruption seems to be prevalent in the continent with little or lack of political will to curb it.
Africa is home to despots and lifetime presidents who either abuse their power or allow abuses to be perpetrated with impunity. The aspect of checks and balances are weak and alternative views are discarded, culminating in low accountability which further deteriorates leadership and reinforces corruption.
In Sierra Leone, on a normal day and time, moving a generator from the east to west is an ordinary government machinery. It raises no eyebrow and being considered as the work of the government in carrying out its responsibilities.
The recent brouhaha surrounding the movement of the generator from Makeni to Lungi that led to the death of civilians has raised the unease between the ruling Sierra Leone People’s Party and the main opposition, All Peoples Congress.
At the core of their internal politics, leadership problem is opaque and suspicious. As it stands, even if the ruling party brings two generators to Makeni, there will still be some people who would become suspicious of government’s generosity. On the other side, the core APC members always consider SLPP as a party bent on decimating APC.
The divide is wide and leaders of the two main political parties are not helping either. The country’s politics needs cleaning and the leaders should think of the masses as the beneficiary of good leadership.
In a recent AYV TV Sunday Talk Show, local Non-Governmental Organization partners described the rift between the North and South as the key problem affecting the country. An Executive Director of a local NGO, Institute for Governance Reform, Andrew Lavalie, described the divide as the core problem besetting the political parties.
Disappointingly, this scourge has gripped even university students coming from these regions as each considers the other as antagonist. One would expect democracy and its associated principles to produce visionary and effective leaders, but this rarely the case in the country.
There may be new faces in government and the leadership of the Sierra Leone Peoples Party, and people expect the status quo to change. The big question is, when? Maybe, very soon.
Hello to all. From my point of view, democracy is causing more ham than good to us in Africa. I stand with China.
Democracy is a vague concept. Granted it has stood the test of time than all the other concepts of government. Sierra Leone has tried parliamentary, single party rule, Military rule, unity government etc. Each has failed us. The United States has never been democratic in the strict sense of the definition of democracy. At every stage of its history, eligible people have been excluded from participating in the governance of their country through several bureaucracies. How many times have we witnessed the executive in the USA bypassing the two houses of legislature to take unilateral and harmful decision on behalf of the country? We have witnessed votes been rigged to get some president elected, the second Bush and Al Gore elections come to mind. Judges who make laws are appointed on political affiliations and ethnicity. Where is the independence of the judiciary?
The question for Africa, what can we do to tailor the good aspects of democracy to our need. Recent developments indices in Africa have shown that countries that have done better have a long history of a single political party in power as evidence in Tanzania which attained middle level economic status recently. Rwanda which has had the same political party and president since 1994, Uganda that has the same political party and president since 1986 at the helm of things.
Since 1994, Sierra Leone has had six political systems and heads of state. Every time one attains power, the agenda of the former is undone or ignored. So if our concept of democracy which is for now based purely on periodic participation of the masses in elections is all we care about, then ours is going to continue to be toxic and some of the times bloody.
Dictators come and go but democracy will always endure. Through out history, the rough guide of dictators have always had a ptedictable out come. In vast majority of cases, their reign always, and surely ends violently, or the lucky fallen dictators spend the rest of their lives in prison. Charles Taylor, Manuel Antonio Neorega of Panama and the forner Chilean dictator Agustus Pinochet. Gaddafi, Doe, Hitler, Mosullini, and many more others that came before and after them. And the one thing they all have in common, they will do anything to stay in power. If they will kill a whole population, they will. And the ones they can’t kill, they made sure they create an US VERSUS THEM MENTALLY amongst the general population. DIVIDE AND RULE. YOU ARE EITHER WITH THEM OR AGAINST THEM.
President Trump and our own very governments of different colours have mastered over the years. They don’t have the interest of the nation at heart. The only thing that keeps them up at night, is how to stay in power indefinitely. You cannot hold people into bondage forever. Nature dictates the human being is born free. And anyone who tries to suppressed that human instincts for freedom, will find themselves in the wrong side of history. Sometimes they are voted out, and sometimes they are booted out. Today’s government is elected on a manifesto.
But their policies are tailored with one eye on the next election cycle. More like governments are perpetually announcing gimmick projects, not for the good of the nation, but for the good of their party and electablity chances. So the idea of the government of the people by the people for the people is a misplaced idea.


What Your Noisy Transmission is Telling You
Troubleshooting your car’s transmission problem can be a very intimidating challenge. Transmissions are very complex pieces of machinery that require an extensive knowledge if you ever plan to rebuild one. However there are some steps you can take at home to see if you can at least isolate the problem and find a possible solution.
The first thing you want to do is listen. Listen for any strange noises and try to find out where they’re coming from and when this is happening. Distinguishing different sounds can be tough to the untrained ear but get as many details as you can as it can be very helpful to your mechanic.
So what kind of sounds should you expect to hear from your transmission? If you suspect something is amiss in your transmission then you may hear a whining sound in an automatic or a clunky thumping sound in a manual.
If your car is shaking or making unusual vibrations in neutral it’s another red flag. The solution may be as simple as replacing the transmission fluid but it could also be more complicated. In some cases you will need to replace worn down needle bearings in the torque converter. You’ll hear grinding or shaking noises while in gear if this is the problem.
Apart from sounds, another key indicator of transmission problems is a distinct burning smell. If you smell a burning odor while your engine is running it could be burning transmission fluid. Check to make sure your transmission fluid is red in color and has a sweet smell to it. If it is discolored or the levels are getting low then the fluid may need to be replaced.
If you’ve tried everything you can think of but are still coming up short then give us a visit at 2J’s Automotive. Our experienced, certified technicians are transmission experts and can find a solution to any transmission problem you have.
Whether you need a transmission rebuilt, reseal job, or any other kind of service and repair then let our expert mechanics take care of it for you. We work on all makes and models both foreign and domestic and we’ll be able to solve any transmission problem you’re having no matter what you pull up in.
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Introducing Quality Attenuation: Do ISPs deliver what their users need?December 1, 2022
Internet Service Providers (ISPs) don’t know whether they are delivering what their customers need. There’s a very good reason for this troubling state of affairs: ISPs sell bandwidth but customers need applications to work well. Bandwidth is certainly important, but ISPs are mostly delivering enough bandwidth already. The relationship between bandwidth and application performance is not at all straightforward, as shown in a recent report by MIT and explained in this blog.
To do something about this problem, the Broadband Forum (BBF) published a new standard called TR-452.1 under the Quality Experience Delivered (QED) project. The standard describes how to measure Quality Attenuation. Quality Attenuation is powerful because it directly relates to the end-user-perceived quality of experience. It can also be used to find the root cause of performance problems, and to make sure Service Level Agreements (SLAs) are respected.
Quality Attenuation reframes network quality from “How much you can send (bandwidth)” to “How quickly and reliably you can send something (latency and packet loss)”.
TR-452.1 defines how to measure the above mentioned “quickly and reliably”, which in network mathematics are latency distributions and packet loss (that is what Quality Attenuation is) in enough detail to work out how well applications will work, and to diagnose problems when applications might fail. This is achieved by reporting latency and packet loss using probability distributions.
Quality Attenuation can be dissected into components (Geographical, Serialization and Variability) that represent different root causes. We can also add and subtract Quality Attenuation, so we can measure the performance of a WiFi link, the link to the ISP, and the link from the ISP to the server, and then add them up to compute the performance end-to-end. This is not possible with other metrics such as the 99th percentile of latency (the 99th percentile means 99 out of 100 samples have lower latency than the 99th percentile). Adding percentiles does not make sense mathematically. Average values can be added and subtracted but the result is not very useful because it does not relate to end-user-perceived performance. Quality attenuation does.
New answers to old questions
Quality Attenuation enables precise answers to questions we could only guess at before:
Is the network good enough for interactive traffic?
What is causing latency problems?
The distance to the server? (Geographical)
A low-bandwidth link? (Serialization)
Network congestion? (Variability)
Which network segment is causing the problem?
Which of two links is better for interactive traffic?
Running occasional speed-tests to measure bandwidth is not enough to ensure that the end-user experience is good because sudden increases in latency or packet loss can happen at any time. That is why Quality Attenuation is designed to constantly monitor running networks. Quality Attenuation can be measured using a very small amount of measurement traffic, and it can also be measured by passively observing existing traffic. The overhead costs of measuring are therefore kept to a minimum.
In summary: Quality Attenuation can give ISPs unprecedented insight into how well the network is working for their customers.


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The Cocoa Rehabilitation and Intensification Programme (CORIP) which seeks to replace diseased and over-aged cocoa trees in cocoa growing areas has so far registered 34,000 cocoa farmers.
Out of the number, 31,350 have undergone intensive training as part of efforts to sustain the country’s cocoa productivity.
The International Fertiliser Development Centre (IFDC) is implementing the programme with support from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Dutch government.
The Communications Specialist for IFDC, Mr Daniel Nana Sei Mensah, who made the disclosure to the Daily Graphic on the sidelines of the IFDC’s 43rd Annual Board of Directors Meeting in Accra, said diseased and over-aged cocoa trees had been cut down and new seedlings planted, while old trees were being pruned.
Currently, about 17 per cent of cocoa trees, covering about 309,830.73 hectares are affected by the Cocoa Swollen Shoot Virus Disease (CSSVD), while about 23 per cent (411,086.41 ha) of the country’s cocoa tree stock is more than 30 years and economically unproductive.
“The programme has also enhanced farmers’ access to improved planting materials, quality fertilisers and safe pesticides,” Mr Mensah said.
The CORIP is also expected to establish 20 cocoa Rural Service Centres (RSC) across the cocoa belt and also help improve cocoa yields in the country from 400 kilogrammes (kg) and 450kg to 1,000kg per hectare.
The Ghana Cocoa Board (COCOBOD) also launched a project recently to treat and rehabilitate about 10,000 hectares of diseased and over-aged cocoa farms in the Western, Northern and Eastern regions this year.
In total, 11 million trees are expected to be uprooted for replanting to be done under the COCOBOD’s initiative.
CORIP is, therefore, expected to complement COCOBOD’s efforts of replacing economically unproductive cocoa trees.
Other projects by IFDC
Mr Mensah said the IFDC was also implementing other programmes such as the USAID Feed the Future Ghana project with other local institutions.
Components of the project include the Commercial Vegetable Sector Development in Ghana (GhanaVeg), Sustainable Clusters in Agribusiness through Learning in Entrepreneurship (2SCALE), and the Ghana Water, Sanitation and Hygiene Programme (Ghana Wash).
GhanaVeg seeks to improve and sustain vegetable productivity in Ghana by pursuing new avenues of business through targeting high-end supermarkets, hotels, restaurants and exports. GhanaWASH also seeks to push the frontiers of innovation in the area of waste treatment and re-use in Ghana, while the 2SCALE project also seeks to improve on rural livelihoods and food security by accelerating inclusive business in agri-food industries through public-private partnerships.
Board of Directors Meeting
The 17-member Board of Directors of the IFDC for the first time held its Meeting in Ghana.
The annual meeting is used to review the board’s achievements in the past year and set new directions and goals for the coming year.
The Chief Executive Officer of the IFDC, Mr Scott Angle, speaking at the meeting said, “typically, our board meetings are held in the United States but this year we brought the meeting to Ghana so that the board members can see first-hand the work the IFDC supports here.”
He said the IFDC interventions had enabled farmers in developing countries such as Ghana to increase agricultural productivity and generate economic growth.
Mr Angle also noted that it was currently working with regional and national organisations on integrated soil fertility management, food security and productivity enhancement, agro-input and output market development and input policies at regional and national levels as well as value chain strengthening.

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EUROWA (EURopean Oiled Wildlife Assistance) is a network of European oiled wildlife response experts who are working together to improve professionalism in marine wildlife emergency response. EUROWA have been building their network of wildlife professionals for many years and with the help of EU Civil Protection funding through the EUROWA-1 and EUROWA-2 projects, the network is now solidifying.
Marine pollution events such as oil spills are rare, but they can have devastating effects on marine life, local livelihoods, and society at large. EUROWA’s aim is to provide a well-disciplined, coordinated, and professional wildlife response team consisting of experts and their equipment, which can quickly be put together and sent to assist a European country that is facing a wildlife emergency.
The key to successful wildlife response is preparedness and understanding how a wildlife response is best integrated into the overall oil spill response organisation. Large-scale oil spill response operations are complex, long-lasting and logistically challenging. Wildlife responders need to have access to key decision making structures and situation awareness tools – and there must be pre-agreed structures in place to accommodate the needs of the Wildlife Branch. Therefore, EUROWA through their mission want to actively educate and involve national authorities, to increase their awareness of the risks and possible scales of wildlife emergencies and advise on how to successfully plan and prepare for them as part of an integrated emergency management system. This will be the main focus of our two authority workshops under the EUROWA-2 project planned in January and March 2022.
For the EUROWA network to be able to respond, a national wildlife response and preparedness system must be in place, that can easily accommodate the presence of EUROWA international experts and their equipment. Ideally, there is a national oiled wildlife response plan that has made arrangements for this. To achieve a well-functioning wildlife response system, a rigid oiled national oiled wildlife response organisation should be in place, where NGOs/volunteers are involved in continued development of facilities, training and equipment – and experts should be able to keep their skills up to date. Exercise programmes should ensure that response capabilities are continually tested and improved. Training local responders to EUROWA standards ensures that providing and receiving European assistance is not only possible but seamless, and that resource use is efficient.
Our vision is for every coastal country in Europe to be well prepared for an emergency involving wildlife. Although several countries (like the Netherlands) have made great strides forward in setting up robust arrangements for wildlife response, across Europe there is still much to be done. Ultimately it is the responsibility of authorities in each country to be able to mount and coordinate an oiled wildlife response, assisted by local stakeholders and expertise from our EUROWA network. With your help EUROWA can develop a European Oiled Wildlife Assistance system that is both financially and structurally supported by authorities, professional, firmly integrated in national and European oil spill response systems and ensures the well-being of oil-affected animals and responders alike!
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cucumber, peeled and sliced
ripe fresh tomatoes, chopped
salt and pepper to taste
Because I did not have vine-riped tomatoes, I used half a pint of halved cherry tomatoes. This is wonderful--simple and delicious. Honestly, I ate the whole bowl by myself! No guilt here......it's low carb and low in calories.
I notice red onion in the picture.Not mentioned in the ingredients. This would definitely add to the flavor. I added a sprinkling of blue cheese when serving.
I make this all the time in the summer when the veggies are super fresh! Sometimes I'll use red wine vinegar in place of the basalmic, just depending on my mood. Also wonderful with onions added~YUM!
Very simple, delicious and refreshing! I used little cherry tomatoes and added red onions to my salad... :-)
I've been eating this for years with red wine vinegar and sliced red onion... however, I feel the Balsamic really takes it over the top. I had a bunch of Cukes and Roma tomatoes... ate this for 4 straight days and LOVED it! Wish I had a garden right about now. Thanks for sharing, MOTTSBELA!
Not bad. Goat cheese or feta can really make this pop!
This is very easy to put together. It is light and refreshing and not too vinegary. The only thing I did different was to add a cut up onion. Will be making again for sure.
Add a few sliced onions, basil, and feta or mozzarella cheese. Yummy!
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Week 3, 2018
The Final Empire
Three years prior to the start of the novel, a half-skaa thief named Kelsier discovers that he is Mistborn and escapes the Pits of Hathsin, a brutal prison camp of the Lord Ruler. He returns to Luthadel, the capital city of the Final Empire, where he rounds up his old thieving crew for a new job: to overthrow the Final Empire by stealing its treasury and collapsing its economy.
At the beginning of the novel, the reader is introduced to Vin, a street urchin who is recruited by Kelsier's crew after Kelsier realizes that she is a Mistborn. She is trained by Kelsier's crew to develop her Allomantic powers, which include burning pewter to strengthen the body, burning tin to enhance the senses, and burning steel to gain a limited form of telekinesis over metal. She also spies on the nobility by attending opulent balls in Luthadel, where she poses as Valette Renoux, niece to Lord Renoux, a nobleman working with Kelsier's crew. During these balls, she meets and falls in love with Elend Venture, heir to House Venture, the most powerful of the Luthadel noble houses. Elend flouts the rules of nobility culture and secretly plans to build a better society with his noble friends, when they ascend to their respective houses.


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The doggy menu has a variety of unique treats, such as chicken pot pie, hot doggy in a blanket, carrot cake, and more!
All items are made with ingredients that are completely safe for dogs. Our baker has spent years researching dog nutrition to ensure each menu item is not only delicious, but healthy too.
We also have special birthday themed items! ex. birthday pumpkin pie, birthday cupcakes and a variety of birthday cookies.
Before opening the store, we hired a dog nutrition specialist to educate our staff and to help us choose which products to carry. We have a wide variety of dog foods that are of the highest quality on the market: no food in this store will contain any corn, by-products, unspecified ingredients or artificial ingredients.
We carry a small variety of wet & dry cat food. We also have supplements, toys, grooming supplies and beautiful cedar dog houses.
Many foods we carry are great for dogs with specific medical conditions. We have done all the research for you and narrowed down the items we carry to only the most beneficial, unique and highest quality products. We take great pride in having toys and accessories that are distinctive and can not be found at any other pet stores in the area (example: tuffy toys, ezydog harnesses and leashes).
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10 Biggest Scandals Of The Obama Presidency
Perhaps it’s just the nature of the job or maybe a byproduct of the highly partisan political climate in our country but these days every presidency is filled with innumerable scandals. Given that our current leader is embroiled in his own controversies, it might be time to look back at previous administrations. Here are 10 of the biggest scandals during Obama’s presidency.
10 IRS Targeting Controversy
“Tea Party” and “patriots”. Just a couple of the words or phrases the IRS was looking for when they were deciding whether or not to grant tax-exempt status to certain groups. Overwhelmingly, the people who faced increased scrutiny were conservative, with nearly 500 organizations suing the government over their actions. As the head of the federal government, Obama was often linked to the scandal in the news.
Revealed by an IRS official in 2013, the agency’s program also targeted liberal groups, but to a much smaller extent. A number of high-ranking officials were forced to resign as investigations delved further into the corruption; however, according to a 2014 House Republican report, Obama was not linked to any of the decisions made by the IRS.
9 “You Can Keep It”
Rated the “Lie of the Year” by Politifact, Obama claimed in 2013 that “if you like your health care plan, you can keep it”. In the early years of the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, there were a number of allegations lobbed at the government which turned out to be false, such as the existence of so-called “death panels”. However, one true scandal was that Obama had lied about the status of people’s health care plans.
Essentially, the promise was that any policies which were in effect as of March 23, 2010 would be “grandfathered”, allowing those who purchased their insurance individually to avoid changes. As it turned out, that was not true and, to make matters worse, the government was aware of that fact as early as July 2010. In addition, most of those who lost their plans saw their premiums skyrocket.
Under President George Bush, the government created a loan program designed to foster American innovation in the field of alternative energies. However, it wasn’t until the economic stimulus under Obama that the program saw its first adopter: Solyndra. Hyped as a solar power startup, the company hosted the President in 2010, giving him a tour of their California-based manufacturing plant. Promising the sky, Solyndra claimed to have billions of dollars in sales and they just needed a $535 million loan to achieve their goals.
Behind the scenes, though, a different story was unfolding. Though Solyndra stated their unique solar panels would reduce installation costs and be more attractive as a result, traditional solar panels began to rapidly decline in price, mainly thanks to the Chinese. Furthermore, the sales numbers promised turned out to be mainly lies, with a majority of the sales actually at heavily discounted prices. Eventually, Solyndra had to file for bankruptcy and became a stain on an otherwise successful program.
7 2012 Benghazi Attack
Most people associate this scandal solely with Hillary Clinton now but, at the time, Obama was just as intertwined as the former First Lady; in fact, there were calls for his impeachment over the incident. A quick overview: in 2012, armed men attacked the US mission in Benghazi, Libya and killed the ambassador and three other US nationals. Initially believed to be linked to a video which mocked Mohammed and Islam in general, the attack was later shown to be the actions of a number of terrorists.
In the aftermath, two claims were made about the Obama administration: firstly, that they didn’t deploy the military as quickly as they could have and secondly, that they could have provided better security to the mission. After a number of investigations, most of which were spearheaded by Republicans, no administration officials were charged with any crimes and the belief was that inadequate resources for security was the main reason behind the deaths.
6 Jeremiah Wright Controversy
Prior to Obama actually becoming president, a controversy threatened to derail his candidacy. In America, every candidate needs to show their religious side and for many, it’s never an issue. However, for Obama in 2008, his choice of pastor engulfed him in a storm of scandal. Rev. Jeremiah Wright was an outspoken, firebrand of a man who began making some outlandish claims about the US government. Chief among them was the idea that HIV was created to foster a genocide among minorities.
In an online video, he also referred to the September 11th attacks as “America’s chickens…coming home to roost.” Because of those videos surfacing, Obama was forced to denounce his former spiritual leader and the officiant for his wedding to Michelle. In the end, he was able to successfully distance himself from the more incendiary comments and Obama managed to power past Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination.
5 $400 Million To Iran
Said to be the settlement of a decades-long dispute dating back to the days of the Iranian Shah, $400 million was stacked on pallets and unloaded in Tehran in early 2016. To a public suspicious because of the Iran Nuclear Deal, the money seemed to be a ransom payment, since five American hostages were released the same day. However, the Obama administration vociferously claimed it was merely a coincidence. (An additional $1.3 billion was later provided as well.)
In the late 1970s, Iran was set to purchase military equipment from the US but the delivery was halted because of the 1979 uprising. That was the reasoning the State Department used when confronted about the pallets of cash, a method used because US law forbids wire transfers to the Middle East country. Eventually, they conceded the timing of the transfer was not a coincidence, that the money was used to pay the ransom for the return of the hostages.
Under President Bush, a controversial law was enacted, called “The Protect America Act of 2007”. Criticized at the time for the removal of surveillance warrant requirements on foreign intelligence targets, it was later revealed to be the genesis for a number of domestic spying programs. Thanks to Edward Snowden, the public became aware of many of these, with one of the largest known as PRISM.
Boiled down, it basically allows the NSA to go the FISA Court and request a warrant on an American citizen. They are then allowed to go to major technological companies and gather data from them, such as Google, Facebook or Apple. Practically though, the government had unfettered access to the communication of any citizen they wished to look at. The extent of the program is evident in the NSA’s own words, calling PRISM “one of the most valuable, unique and productive” in the agency’s history.
This access to American’s via the FISA courts is now again in the news due to claims of manufactured information being used in the secret courts to gain permission to spy on the Trump campaign in the 2016 election. What the outcome of that will be, no one knows, but if true, it has the potential to make Watergate seem an insignificant blip in US political history.
3 VA Healthcare
Considering what we ask them to do in service of our nation and its goals, veterans should be treated with an incredible amount of care when they return to civilized life. In 2014, America discovered that wasn’t the case. It was revealed that the Department of Veterans Affairs had been routinely underreporting the wait times of patients in a number of hospitals, especially one in Phoenix, Arizona. A secret wait list was also alleged to have been kept by administration officials, with an average wait time of 115 days kept from public view.
The reasoning for this is simple greed: VA officials were able to receive pay bonuses based on the fraudulent wait times they reported. Though the government later admitted 23 veterans died as a result of these lies, various other sources, including a senator’s report, claimed the number was much higher, perhaps as high as 1,000 deaths. In the end, very little changed, with a number of top VA officials retiring being the only consequence.
2 Operation Fast and Furious
Known as “gunwalking” otherwise, this ATF operation was given the new moniker after one of the suspects was found to have belonged to a car club. Simplifying the whole thing, Operation Fast and Furious ran from 2009 to 2011 and consisted of government officials allowing illegal gun sales, in the hopes of tracking the weapons back to Mexican cartels. Based in Arizona, along the border, as much as $1.5 million worth of guns was purchased by smugglers.
However, it quickly became evident that many of the guns were lost and soon began turning up at crime scenes, including the murder of a Border Patrol agent in 2010. Attorney General Eric Holder was held in contempt over his refusal to supply Congress with documents related to the program, with Obama eventually invoking executive privilege at his request. (Lawsuits to get those files are still ongoing as of 2019.) Eventually, a couple of government officials lost their jobs, though no one was ever charged with a crime.
1 Increased Drone Strikes
Strikes with unmanned aerial vehicles, otherwise known as drones, actually began under the orders of President George W. Bush. However, Obama escalated their use to unforeseen heights, more than four times higher than his predecessor. Proponents of the program claim it is far safer than conventional air combat, allowing the military to significantly reduce the amount of civilian deaths caused as a result of the bombings.
Critics, however, note that civilian deaths still occur, with as many as 324 happening outside of any major war zones. Even worse, the rationale for who to target, where to target them, and when to call in the strikes is shrouded in mystery. As anyone with a cursory knowledge of American intelligence history knows the agencies tasked with surveilling the planet are not infallible and it results in stories like the first drone operation of Obama’s presidency.
Purportedly, a missile hit a Taliban compound in Koresh Kot, a mere three days after the inauguration. However, it turned out that it was actually the home of a local tribal leader and his family. Instead of killing terrorists, innocent civilians were murdered by a military operating under faulty intelligence.


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It was okay and I, being a fan, liked it. A sort of Daniel Craig redoing a best of from the classic Bond movies.
I really don't get how he survived the
drills to the brain that were calculated to leave him in a vegetative state. It's a movie and all, but film Bond survives the death traps by evading them, not because he has a superhuman healing factor. Ex. the laser in Goldfinger.
OP again. The title song was obviously atrocious. 2-3 notes that never went anywhere and could perhaps have consisted of a simple intro, but this turned out to be the full song!
The score was the usual Hollywood action tripe. No melodies, no themes. Just mindless filler to the action.
People were pissed at the prospect of a blond Bond, but they don't give a shit about the disappearance of Barry's atmosphere? Rhetorical question...
Christoph Waltz's character and acting was the only bad thing about the movie. Interesting because he is the only fucking thing that the critics praised.
first drill went through his jaw just like a test. he escaped from the one that would have crippled him
I loved the theme. Didn't even notice the score, so are probably right about that.
The Twilight Zone vs The X-Files
My vote goes to The Twilight Zone.
>Expect a movie about the horrors of war, sanity, effects of starvation and famine in horrible weather conditions
>Get 10% of that and 90% "muh wendigos are real" and a bunch of gore
I mean I liked it but.. what the fuck.
Not because of the movie itself, but because it made me read the book.
Completely changed my life.
Rupert Grint and Ron Perlman in a comedy about how Kubrick faked the moon landing.
I heard this idea here years ago, so either the Jews really are watching the /swg/ threads or someone here actually made it.
Would you get a /tv/ tattoo?
Will it be any good?
Why are space nazis the best written alien in modern science fiction?
Why are none of you talking about this show?
apparently they could exist within the same universe
Why did they make him a gay, then a traitor, then kill him off?
It didn't fit at all with the rest of the story, did they have to write him out because he demanded more pay or something?
ITT: Your dream movie ideas
Predator 3 is set in the distant past, where instead of having big guns to fight with, the protag has to use sharp sticks and his own ingenuity.
Basically, Apocalypto vs Predator.
Predators seem to be about fair fights or close to fair fights. But fighting on some level of equal weaponry. But a predator coming across a primitive people and disregarding most of it's tech and just fighting with maybe that retractable spear and melee weapons seems pretty awesome too.
Not really fair fighters, they ambush and hide like cowards. Sure they might not go after unarmed people, but remember in the original how the jungle predator would shoot people in the back while in camo off in the distance? Not really fair. And when he was beat by dutch, he didn't die in honor, but instead tried to kill dutch with the self destruct bomb.
Explain this show to me
Is there any character from any movie less deserving of an action figure (who got one) than Sio Bibble?
If you were a kid with a Sio Bibble action figure please justify your life choices.


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OKLAHOMA CITY – The Oklahoma National Guard’s Office of Public Affairs invites all local media to a ribbon cutting ceremony for the new Oklahoma Air National Guard recruiting storefront in Norman, Oklahoma.
The ceremony will take place on Tuesday, August 22, at 2 p.m. at 3625 W. Main Street in Norman, OK 73072. Media is asked to arrive by 1:45 p.m.
Norman is home to multiple aviation education programs for both high school and college students and this storefront will provide Oklahoma Air National Guard recruiters a base of operations within the aviation-friendly community.
“We are thrilled to have a storefront back in Norman,” said Maj. Gen. Thomas H. Mancino, adjutant general for Oklahoma. “Being part of our local communities is what makes the National Guard special and having this storefront in the heart of Norman allows our recruiters to directly reach Oklahomans looking to serve our great state and nation.”
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FINE Gael are believed to want a rotating Taoiseach if they agree to a grand coalition deal with Fianna Fail.
Top ministers also have a list of demands which are reported to include income tax cuts, improved childcare subsidies and the continued rollout of rural broadband.
The latest developments come as Sinn Fein declared it would be impossible to form a government without the support of Fine Gael or Fianna Fail.
Both the political parties have ruled out a deal with the Sinn Fein leader.
Mary Lou McDonald has hit out at the move and slammed it "disgraceful that the old boys' club of Fianna Fail and Fine Gael believe they can set aside the democratic mandate of Sinn Fein".
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[SOLVED] psy 1 project 1
I dont understand this Writing question and need help to study.
Using the South University Online Library; find two peer-reviewed journal articles on Webers Law or Mind-Body Dualism. In your synopsis, you will include:
- A summary of each of the journal articles
- The main points discussed in each of the journal articles and how they relate to the week’s course and text readings
- Your thoughts and perspectives regarding the concepts covered in each of the journal articles
- Name your document: SU_PSY3400_W1_Project_LastName_FirstInitial
- Submit your report in a Microsoft Word document to the Submissions Area by the due date assigned.
- Using APA format, cite sources appropriately throughout your assignment, and reference on a separate page.

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Protein redesign and engineering has become an important task in pharmaceutical research and development. Recent advances in technology have enabled efficient protein redesign by mimicking natural evolutionary mutation, selection, and amplification steps in the laboratory environment. For any given protein, the number of possible mutations is astronomical. It is impractical to synthesize all sequences or even to investigate all functionally interesting variants. Recently, there has been an increased interest in using machine learning to assist protein redesign, since prediction models can be used to virtually screen a large number of novel sequences. However, many state-of-the-art machine learning models, especially deep learning models, have not been extensively explored. Moreover, only a small selection of protein sequence descriptors has been considered. In this work, the performance of prediction models built using an array of machine learning methods and protein descriptor types, including two novel, single amino acid descriptors and one structure-based three-dimensional descriptor, is benchmarked. The predictions were evaluated on a diverse collection of public and proprietary data sets, using a variety of evaluation metrics. The results of this comparison suggest that Convolution Neural Network models built with amino acid property descriptors are the most widely applicable to the types of protein redesign problems faced in the pharmaceutical industry.
Protein redesign by directed evolution experiments has been widely used in the pharmaceutical industry to develop proteins with improved properties.For example, enzymes are often used for the large-scale synthesis of drugs and drug precursors and must be good catalysts often under conditions different from those that would be optimal for natural enzymes. The directed evolution of proteins consists of multiple rounds of experiments that mimic natural selection. In each round various mutated sequences are created from the best available parent sequence, and desired properties (for example, percentage substrate conversion) are measured in vitro. Desirable variants, for example those that synthesize the most product at a given set of conditions, are carried forward to future rounds of evolution. The process of directed evolution is essentially an optimization problem in the ultrahigh dimensional protein sequence space. Identifying desirable mutations with a finite number of experiments remains challenging.Opportunities to improve the efficiency of identifying desirable mutants through the application of predictive modeling are apparent. Machine learning models can learn relationships between sequences and properties from tested sequences in order to make predictions of the properties for virtual sequences.
Illustration of different approaches for creating numerical descriptors from input protein sequence, which is the first step in building machine learning prediction models for proteins (left flowchart). Please note that the examples described here are for a single protein sequence, and the feature construction strategy can easily be expanded to represent a full data set of aligned sequences: (top) protein feature vector or matrix created from single amino acid properties and mutation locations; (middle) protein feature vector based on ProtVec, which is a widely used embedding feature of 3-gram; and (bottom) protein feature vector created from the 3D structure.
Computational approaches can therefore guide the design of future rounds of experiments to synthesize only the most promising sequences.Recently the application of machine learning models in this field has attracted increasing attention. The application of machine learning to protein optimization requires descriptors that are appropriate for the information rich protein sequences. Some protein sequence descriptors have already been successfully applied to sequence-based protein classification and ligand docking problems, wherein descriptors such as amino acid composition (dipeptide, tripeptide composition), predicted secondary structure and predicted solvent accessibility, histograms of torsion angles density and amino acid distances density, k-Spaced Amino Acid Pairs and Conjoint Triad, and 3D grid protein–ligand structures have been employed.
Example diagram of the two neural network models: (a) simple MLP architecture with two hidden layers and (b) simple CNN architecture with two convolution layers and two dense layers. Here they assume that the input protein sequence length is 300, and the 11-dimensional PCscores is used as a single amino acid descriptor, which results in a protein feature matrix with dimension 11 × 300.
Despite this success for protein classification and ligand docking, the prediction of protein function, usually a continuous value measured by experiments, is quite a different task.
Machine learning guided protein engineering is still a new field; and there are few studies with demonstrable success in the current literature, and these have tended to include only a small number of proteins and models.
Both Kimothi and colleagues and Yang et al.have applied the word embedding model doc2vec to large protein sequence data sets. These methods take cues from language processing, treating the protein sequence as documents and fragments of the sequences as words. Yang et al. used a single machine learning method, Gaussian process (GP) regression, to build predictive models with various input descriptors, including this type of embedding, alongside one-hot encoding, mismatch kernel, ProFET, and AAIndex properties, and compared the performance on four public data sets.
Comparison of training and test sets for each public data set: top row, density histogram of number of mutations, and bottom row, distribution of observed protein properties.
A more recent contribution by Wu et al.demonstrated that a high throughput in silico model found improved mutants with reduced experimental effort for guided directed evolution. Several supervised learning methods were used; however, the input descriptors of the protein sequences were not discussed. Yang et al.authored a review article covering some basic concepts of using machine learning for protein engineering, and this article gives two application examples. However, the discussion and recommendation for choosing a machine-learning sequence-function model for proteins are based on literature review, which can hamper quantitative interpretation of the results.
Boxplot comparison of rank by model (ML method + descriptor combination). For each data set and evaluation metric, the rankings are calculated for all 44 descriptor/method combinations.
Aside from the variety of descriptors to select from, predicting biological properties from protein sequence is a challenging task because of the low signal-to-noise ratio data from experiments. The experimental measurement involves multiple steps of selection or amplification of in vitro protein samples. The resulting values from these low-volume, high-throughput experiments can show high variability. Promising variants are often reconfirmed or followed up at larger scale. Another challenge is extrapolation of predictions to include mutants that have not yet been seen in the existing data. Thus, it is critically important to develop accurate prediction models that perform well given the state of real-world data.
In this work, the predictive performance of 44 machine learning method and descriptor combinations is compared across a diverse collection of public and proprietary data sets using common evaluation metrics. Descriptor sets used herein include both widely used amino acid descriptors from the literature and novel, three-dimensional structure-based descriptors that have been developed specifically to address protein redesign problems. In addition, a Convolution Neural Network (CNN) model is proposed, which performed well in many examples herein.
Deep Dive into Machine Learning Models for Protein Engineering Yuting Xu, Deeptak Verma, Robert P. Sheridan, Andy Liaw, Junshui Ma, Nicholas M. Marshall, John McIntosh, Edward C. Sherer, Vladimir Svetnik, and Jennifer M. Johnston Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling 2020 60 (6), 2773-2790 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jcim.0c00073


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Father Charged With Manslaughter After 11-Year-Old Son Is Run Over by Boat: Police
Javier Burillo, 57, was reportedly out on the water on his boat with his two sons, ages 27 and 11, near Angel Island when the incident happened.
A California father has been charged with manslaughter after he accidentally ran over his son with a boat, police said.
Javier Burillo, 57, was out on the water on his boat with his two sons, ages 27 and 11, near Angel Island when the alleged incident happened. Burillo reportedly told authorities his boat hit a wave while sailing and his children flew off the 33-foot vessel.
While Burillo was trying to rescue them, they were hit by the boat, police said. Once back on the boat, they were taken to a nearby yacht club where a medical team assisted them.
The 11-year-old was pronounced dead at the yacht club due to the “traumatic injuries” he sustained in the incident, the Marin County Sheriff’s Office said. The 27-year-old suffered cuts to his legs but is expected to be OK.
Burillo later failed a breathalyzer test, police said. The father has been charged with vehicular manslaughter, willful harm or injury to a child, and reckless or negligent operation of a vessel.
"He was operating the boat — he had that choice — and the negligent part of it is the alcohol," Tiburon Police Chief Michael Cronin said at a press conference. "It's very difficult. This gentleman is going through unimaginable pain. And we have no desire to contribute to that, but we need to enforce the law."
Burillo posted $1 million bail, according to reports. The case is still under investigation.
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Liner companies that serve trade lanes to and from China, and that includes most of them, may have to pause before cutting freight rates in the future.
China’s Ministry of Transport promises to investigate and possibly ban port calls by carriers that offer zero or negative freight rates in order to compete for business, the Ministry of Transport said in a statement earlier this month.
In order to maintain fair competition, companies are forbidden from providing international sea freight services at rates lower than the reasonable level, the ministry said in a statement posted on the central government's website.
The statement suggests that the government is moving to regulate the market and prevent price competition as global trade slows.
The ministry said it will initiate investigations into those companies that disrupt the market order, and penalties will range from restriction of service frequency to suspension of operating licenses in the country.
"Actually the rule on international freight rates has been in place since 2009 and the penalties are in accordance with China's regulations for international maritime transportation. We reiterated the rule because the global shipping market is weak this year," Zhang Lin, an official at the international sea transportation department with the ministry, told the Global Times, an English-language newspaper.
Domestic shipping companies have been struggling with waning demand, excessive shipping capacity and rising costs, the ministry said in the statement.


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The Double Helix – Character Guide
Double Helix Readers Guide * Max Perutz – was the head of the unit where Crick works at Cambridge University.Perutz also shared important X-ray crystallography imagery with Watson and Crick that he had received from Maurice Wilkins and Franklin.Whether he was supposed to give this information to Watson and Crick without Franklin’s knowledge is unknown, nor is it entirely known how important her work was to the discovery of the structure.
Sir Lawrence Bragg – the head of the Cavendish laboratory at Cambridge university, met with much resistance from Watson and especially Crick. Bragg is the youngest ever Nobel prize winner, which he won for the discovery of the Bragg low of X-ray crystallography. Bragg also wrote the foreword to Watson’s book, adding dramatically to the respectability of the book. * John Kendrew – English educated, also worked in the Cavendish laboratory under the direction of Bragg. Worked closely with Perutz and shared the 1962 Nobel prize with him for their work on X-ray crystallography. Erwin Schrodinger – his book What is Life was a great inspiration to Watson, who agreed that many secrets can be uncovered if the scientific world dedicated itself to discovery of what the true secrets of life are * O. T. Avery – important because their research on DNA/protein after Griffiths experiment on the transforming factor, was decisive enough for Watson to believe that DNA was the genetic material (not protein as was believed) * Max Delbruck – pioneered bacteriophage research which allowed Hershey and Chase to conduct their experiments with radioactive labeling. Maurice Wilkins – was Rosalind Franklin’s partner in X-ray crystallography and played an important role in providing Watson with the B-structure of DNA that Franklin and Gosling had made. Franklin, Gosling and Wilkins all worked at King’s College, London. * Rosalind Franklin – Although Franklin had not agreed to the exchange Wilkins had made (providing of B-structure imagery to Watson), her work proved that DNA was helical and that the bases were on the inside with the sugar phosphates on the outside (as she had said all along).
In short, her 3 contributions were crucial to Watson’s development of the model, although the B-model proved one of her theories wrong but several right. Furthermore, Watson and Franklin had a very heated relationship, which led to many heated debates and sometimes even conflicts. * Linus Pauling – the greatest chemist in the history of the United States, worked at Cal Tech and was the closest competition to Watson and Crick in the discovery of the structure of DNA. Famous for the discovery of the hydrogen bond and the alpha-helical structure of protein.
He’s also famous for publishing a wrong model of DNA (three strands) for which he saw major public embarrassment. * Herman Kalkar – was the head of the laboratory in Copenhagen where Watson did phage research soon after he graduated. He did not enjoy his time in Copenhagen, which is why he left soon after getting there. * Salvador Luria – James Watson was Luria’s first graduate student at the University of Indiana. Luria would go on to do groundbreaking work with phages in biochemistry. He would later win the Nobel prize for medicine along with Hershey and Delbruck for their work on phages. J. T. Randall – was the head of the King’s College laboratory team with Wilkins as his deputy. He shared the 1962 Nobel prize with Watson and crick * Dorothy Hodgkin – was the other major female character in the book. Both of the women clearly struggled in a world that was heavily dominated by men. However, Hodgkin was known to get along with men much better than Franklin. She said this was because of her gender, whereas Franklin experienced the opposite. Franklin and Hodgkin worked closely in the contemplation of the DNA structure. Both scientists were X-ray crystallographers.
Hodgkin won the 1964 Nobel prize for chemistry * Willy Seeds – was famous for calling Watson “honest Jim. ” Worked with Maurice Wilkins in the King’s laboratory and was famous for his pioneering work on the DNA fibers. Him calling Watson honest Jim was clearly sarcasm because they King’s scientists were still bitter about Watson stealing their data to make his model * R. G. Gosling – this was Franklin’s lab partner at King’s College laboratory * Erwin Chargaff – discovered the bases in the purines and pyrimidines (double and single ring) and also discovered that A matches with T and C matches with G.
Gave Watson an important clue in his model building, that he had to match the bases. * Al Hershey – was a scientist that was known for conducting the final proof of DNA being the hereditary material. Their experiment ended the race and assured the scientific world that DNA was the inherited material. * Martha Chase – was Hershey’s lab partner, and was one of the few other women in the scientific world * Peter Pauling – Linus’ son, came to study in London and Watson showed him around. In the process Peter gave Watson some important hints that his father was getting close to the discovery of the alpha helical structure.

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- Emiliano Sala’s inquest has revealed the cause of his death after the crash
- Sala was identified by though his fingerprints
- The £15m Cardiff City footballer was pulled from the debris of crashed plane on February 4
Emiliano Sala reportedly died of head injuries he sustained after the plane crashed into the sea alongside Brit pilot David Ibbotson near Alderney on January 21.
According to UK Sun report, an inquest commenced proceeding into Sala’s death today before adjourning in Dorset, but they were informed that a post-mortem confirmed that the Cardiff City star died from "head and trunk" related injuries.
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In addition, they were also informed that investigators found his body on the seabed of the English Channel on February 4, even as they identified Sala his fingerprints.
But the inquest was later adjourned for a pre-inquest review on November 6.
Also, a detailed report is expected from the Air Accident Investigation Branch after six to 12 months, but in two weeks’ time an interim report will be published.
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Reacting after the day’s proceeding Ian Parry, a senior coroner's officer for Dorset, revealed how the whole proceedings went.
"Mr Sala was identified on the 7th February by means of fingerprint evidence analyses by fingerprint expert Christopher Bradbury.
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"A post mortem was carried out after the body was taken to Holly Tree Lodge mortuary.
"Home office pathologist Mr Purdue gave the cause of death as 1a head and trunk injuries."
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However, Sala’s body was recovered from the debris of the plane, but the pilot’s body is still missing.
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Specialists of the V.L. Komarov Botanical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences (St. Petersburg ) – Igor Ozerov, Nadezhda Zhinkina, Alexander Rodionov, Alexander Efimov and Eduard Machs have discovered DNA in the remains of leaves and fruit of fossil trees which got the names of Paramyrtaciphyllum and Paramyrtacicarpus. They used to grow in the territory of Yakutia in the early eocene, i.e. about 55 million years ago. Fossil leaves and fruit resemble respective organs of plants of the Eugenia (Myrtaceae gen.) family, where eucalyptus and feijoa belong. Future investigations will prove if the eocene trees really belong to this family: after all, resemblance may be deceptive.
Fortunately, despite such considerable age, the these plants’ cells are surprisingly well preserved: nuclei can be seen in them under a light microscope. Moreover, these nuclei get the typical pink tint after being processed by special reagents, which have been used by cytologists for more than 80 years in order to reveal DNAs.
DNA molecules passed from parents to their posterity bring us traces of events in evolutionary history. By comparing certain DNA sections’ structure of different living creatures, scientists reveal kinship between them. Contemporary biological taxonomy is already impossible to imagine without evolutionary kinship schemes of organisms (phylogenetic trees) based on molecular data. The DNA structure determination has now become a routine laboratory procedure, and it is already difficult to find such a plant or an animal, whereof individual sections of these gigantic molecules have not been studied. So far, only fossil organisms are exceptions.
Some researchers managed to educe DNAs from remains of plants and animals aged several dozens of million years, however, such finds always provoked deep scepticism on behalf of their colleagues. Scepticism is understandable: it seems incredible that macromoluecules could be preserved for so long. It is easier to assume that educed DNAs belonged not to the ancient organism but got into its remains together with some organic contaminations.
The find by Igor Ozerov and his colleagues is above such suspicion. They have managed to see fossil DNA with their own eyes under the microscope. Thereby they have proved that they deal with “native” macromoluecules of fossil trees, and not with the results of later contamination.
Such find is great luck: fossil remains of plants are very rarely preserved so well. But, on the other hand, there is nothing extraordinary about the find. Examples have long been known of excellent preservation of dead cells structure and their macromolecules for thousands of years (for example, in tissues of mammoths' dead bodies), and analysis of DNA from herbarium specimen collected more than 200 years ago has become a commonplace for botanists. The eocene trees’ remains are in a way a “herbarium” as well, which remained intact due to a very rare combination of natural conditions.
Decoding structures of DNAs from ancient cells is still ahead. This effort is connected with new difficulties: within millions of years, large molecules fell into small fragments, which do not always allow to work with them by commom methods. The St. Petersburg researchers, however, hope that DNA analysis will allow to identify exactly to what contemporary plants Paramyrtaciphyllum and Paramyrtacicarpus relate.
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Uncensored episodes of the '90s anime series airs on Hulu Plus starting Monday, with a remake set to come later this year.
Starting in June, Xbox owners will be able to stream Netflix and Hulu Plus without a $60-per-year Gold membership.
Mobile users will be able to catch selected full TV episodes for free without need of a Hulu Plus subscription starting this summer.
Australians trying to access streaming service Hulu may find themselves blocked, with the site now locking out those streaming content via VPN.
The video-streaming subscription service builds on the success of the Chromecast feature, which essentially turns mobile devices into remote controls.
Fans don't have to try turning their computers on and off again, now that Hulu and Hulu Plus are debuting the long-awaited last episode of the British geek comedy series "The IT Crowd."
The new content helps pad the video-streaming device’s much talked about, but limited, voice search options.
The streaming-video service will announce a deal Wednesday that will get it exclusive rights to previous seasons from popular shows, a report says.
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Introspection is a big deal for Brisbane-born musician, Yoste
In case you’re yet to be acquainted, Yoste is a Brisbane-based producer/musician finding decent success internationally. The fast-rising Australian artiste has so far released two EPs, 2019’s “try to be okay” and 2020’s “A Few Brief Moments.”
One of the standout gems from his latest EP is the dazzlingly beautiful and introspective track, “How It Was.” It’s one of his most relatable creations yet, with its piercing mid-tempo electropop sound on full display. Yoste’s sound falls into that subtle section where catchy pop hooks meet intelligent lyrics and a lush, ambient atmosphere that melds into a dynamic, singular sound.
“How It Was” tells the tale of youthful disaffection and the importance of leaning on others around you to help navigate life’s potentially paralyzing ailments. Yoste is part of a new breed of pop artistes, be sure to get plugged to his enrapturing sound.
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October 2010 – August 2012
A $2.6 million design-build reconstruction of the single span Route 209 Bridge over Raymondskill Creek. The project was completed for the National Park Service and administered by the Federal Highway Administration.
Key Challenges & Project Details
- Existing substructure had to remain and be stabilized using a combination of riprap scour protection, micropile foundation and concrete deadman anchor system.
- Worksite was inside a national park in an archeologically significant area.
- The project specifications issued by the National Park Service and the Federal Highway Administration required grooving services.
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Three Indian tribes settled in this area of the Delaware Water Gap.
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