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January 31, 2018
Garbage collectors open library with abandoned books
Turkish garbage collectors have turned trash into treasure. Literally. These sanitation workers have saved books from certain death and, instead, given them a new life. You can now visit their public library in Ankara with over 6,000 volumes. All thanks to these trash guys.

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Fought Over Any Good Books Lately?
Another good one from The New York Times about Book Groups and how they can become a scene of in-fighting, snobbery and recriminations, like "what's wrong with Oprah"?
"It’s a nice, high-minded idea to join a book group, a way to make friends and read books that might otherwise sit untouched. But what happens when you wind up hating all the literary selections — or the other members? Breaking up isn’t so hard to do when it means freedom from inane critical commentary, political maneuvering, hurt feelings, bad chick lit and even worse chardonnay."
"Who knew a book group could be such a soap opera?” said Barb Burg, senior vice president at Bantam Dell, which publishes many titles adopted by book groups. “You’d think it would just be about the book. But wherever I go, people want to talk to me about the infighting and the politics.”"


WESTPORT, Conn. – Westport police are searching for a man who robbed the CitiBank on the Westport/Norwalk line Friday afternoon at knife point, Westport Police Capt. Sam Arciola said.
The suspect is described as a clean-shaven black man in his late 30s or early 40s, approximately 6-feet tall with muscular upper body build. The suspect was wearing a black trench-style coat and a blue hat with orange writing, Arciola said.
The robbery happened around 1 p.m. The suspect showed a teller a knife with a black handle and passed a note demanding money, Arciola said. After receiving the money, the suspect fled on foot westbound into Norwalk, he said.
Police found evidence from the robbery, including the suspect’s trench coat, on Sylvan Road North at Marion Road in Westport, about one mile from the bank, Arciola said. This leads investigators to believe the suspect had a vehicle, Arciola added.
Surveillance video from the bank is being processed, Arciola said. Officers from the Norwalk K9 Unit and state police assisted in the search for the suspect, Arciola added.
The Westport Police Department is asking that anyone who may have witnessed the suspect leaving the scene or has any additional information to contact the Westport Police Detective Bureau at 203-341-6080.
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- 2 Greenwich Girl, 17, Issued Tickets In Boating Death Of Friend Last Summer
- 3 Man Drowns In Creek On Bridgeport/Fairfield Border After Bar Fight
- 4 Owner Of Danbury Pet Shop Charged With Animal Cruelty
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text: *Indicates tumor nodule. and enzyme activity (Fig.?2e,g). These findings suggested that EZH2 inhibits MMPs and TIMP2. Open in another window Body 2 EZH2 regulates TIMP2 appearance TIMP2 siRNA delivery Liarozole dihydrochloride was executed once weekly. The SKOV3-shEZH2 cells generated fewer and smaller tumor nodules ( 8 dramatically?mm3) in the peritoneal cavity compared to the SKOV3-shNC cells. Correspondingly, set alongside the control group, the pounds of tumor nodules was decreased around 90% in the SKOV3-shEZH2 group. In the co-transfection group, the quantity and how big is the tumor nodules had been significantly increased set alongside the SKOV3-shEZH2 group however, not completely restored towards the degree in the control group (Fig.?4aCc). The manifestation degrees of TIMP2 and EZH2 in xenografts had been validated by RT-PCR, traditional western blot and immunohistochemistry (Fig.?4dCf). These findings indicated that EZH2 promotes ovarian cancer metastasis by repressing the expression of TIMP2 partly. Open in another window Shape 4 Down-regulation of EZH2 inhibits ovarian tumor metastasis by elevating TIMP2 in xenograft versions. Nude mice were inoculated with SKOV3 cells stably transfected with shNC or shEZH2 intraperitoneally. transient transfection and transfection of siTIMP2 was performed in a single subgroup inoculated with SKOV3-shEZH2. (a) Peritoneal dissemination of xenografts. SKOV3-shEZH2 cells shaped many fewer i.p. metastatic nodules (blue arrow) in the abdominal cavity of mice than SKOV3-shNC cells. WNT-4 On the other hand, the transfection of siTIMP2 could raise the reduced tumor metastatic nodules mediated by EZH2 depletion significantly. (b) Representative pictures from the mesenteric membrane of six mice per group are demonstrated. *Indicates tumor nodule. (c) The histogram of quantified pounds of Liarozole dihydrochloride metastatic nodules 8?mm3 and the real amount of metastatic nodules in three organizations during sacrifice are shown. (d) RT-PCR outcomes of TIMP2 mRNA manifestation from the eighteen SKOV3 xenografts in three organizations. (e) Traditional Liarozole dihydrochloride western blot evaluation of EZH2 and TIMP2 proteins expression from the xenografts. Liarozole dihydrochloride Five cells for every group are demonstrated because one cells in the shEZH2 group and one in the cotransfected group had been too little for protein removal. The cropped blots are found in the shape, and full-length blots are shown in Supplementary Fig.?S9. (f) The hematoxylin and eosin staining and immunohistochemical evaluation of xenografts. TIMP2 and EZH2 proteins expressions in charge and treatment organizations were verified. (scale pub, 20?m). * methylated DNA; methylation index identifies the percentage of M/M?+?U. (d) qRT-PCR and (e) Traditional western blot evaluation of TIMP2 manifestation in A2780 and SKOV3 cells after DNMT1 and DNMT3A siRNA transfection. The cropped blots are found in the shape, and full-length blots are shown in Supplementary Fig.?S13. (f) MSP for DNA methylation position from the TIMP2 promoter in ovarian tumor cells after DNMT1 and DNMT3A siRNA transfection. The cropped gel can be used in the shape, as well as the full-length gel can be shown in Supplementary Fig.?S14. (g) MSP for DNA methylation status from the TIMP2 promoter in the EZH2-controlled ovarian tumor cells. The cropped gels are found in the shape, and full-length gels are shown in Supplementary Fig.?S15. (h) qRT-PCR and (i) Traditional western blot evaluation of TIMP2 manifestation in A2780 and SKOV3 cells after treatment with GSK126. The cropped blots are found in the shape, and full-length blots are shown in Supplementary Fig.?S16. (j) MSP evaluation of TIMP2 promoter methylation in A2780 and SKOV3 cells after treatment with GSK126. The cropped gels are found in the shape, and full-length gels are shown in Supplementary Fig.?S17. *and and and tests had been performed based on the recommendations and protocols for pet care authorized by the Tongji Medical Schools Animal Treatment and Make use of Committee. Woman BALB/c nude mice (Beijing Essential River, China) at 4-6 weeks old had been useful for the mouse model. Cholesterol-conjugated TIMP2 siRNA for siRNA delivery was revised and bought from GenePharma (Suzhou, China). The ovarian tumor xenografts had been produced from SKOV3 cells.

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Airgroup Express is a transportation and logistics provider that generally moves customers’ freight but soon will have to move some for itself.
Barry Smith is moving his company from Valley Center to the CorTen building at the southeast corner of Douglas and Market in downtown Wichita.
“We’re bullish on downtown,” Smith says.
“I want to support downtown Wichita,” he says. “I believe in it.”
It’s also much more convenient for his business.
“We have a need to be at the Chamber of Commerce quite a bit for documentation reasons,” Smith says. “An office that’s three blocks from the Chamber is a dream.”
Smith owns Airgroup Express, which he started in 2002, but it’s affiliated with Seattle-based Radiant Global Logistics.
“We’re like a travel agent for customers’ freight,” Smith says. “That’s my elevator speech when people say, ‘What do you do?’”
He adds, though, that that “almost oversimplifies it.”
“Our specialty is what I would call … the challenging niche.”
For instance, a Wichita customer needing to ship a 3-pound box overnight might use another carrier, but a customer needing a 3-pound box delivered to an ethanol plant in four hours might call Airgroup Express.
The company also handles oversize pieces that are too big to put on a plane. It has its own drivers and coordinates with subcontractors for hauling.
Airgroup Express, which has been in Valley Center for about eight years, has three employees and is getting ready to add another one or two and needs more room.
Smith says he first began considering the CorTen building when developers Robert Eyster and Michael Ramsey started transforming the former Merrill Lynch building.
“It caught my eye right away,” he says. “I kind of wanted to hold off and see what the finished product looked like.”
The first new occupants of the building have started moving in recently.
“I’m very impressed with what Mike and his group have done there,” Smith says.
Leisa Lowry and Krista Lowry of J.P. Weigand & Sons and April Winn of OnPoint Property Group handled the deal.
Smith is moving his company at the first of the year and says he’s looking forward to being part of the downtown mix.
“I love this city, and I like what I see that’s going on down there.”

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Nobel laureate talks about artificial intelligence at seminar
The Department of Economics at Emory University organized a Event on the impact of artificial intelligence on growth, jobs and inequalities on October 27. The event featured Thomas Sargent, 2011 Nobel Laureate in Economics and William Berkley Professor of Economics at New York University.
Sargent defined artificial intelligence as two distinct expressions: artificial, meaning non-human, and intelligence, meaning human. He explained that human intelligence is characterized by pattern recognition, decision making, and awareness of time and space.
During the event, Sargent identified Steven Pinker, a world-renowned psychologist, as a notable contributor to his knowledge. Namely, Sargent said that humans “did not evolve to know” biology, statistics and economics, yet these subjects are used to create artificial intelligence.
Extending beyond contemporary figures, Sargent’s intellectual influences also include Galileo Galilei and Charles Darwin. He explained that both used economic tools to generalize conceptions about the world.
“Artificial intelligence and machine learning are descendants of the methods first used by Galileo,” Sargent said.
Machine learning is “building a model of the world and using the model to make decisions,” Sargent said. This makes machine learning a key facet of artificial intelligence, as it is part of what provides artificial intelligence tools with access to data to make predictions.
Sargent listed economic topics such as statistics, calculus, linear algebra, optimization, and linear programming as fundamental tools of artificial intelligence.
“A lot of ideas from economics have been imported into artificial intelligence,” Sargent said.
Multi-agent decision theory is an important aspect of economics, which can produce research on a realistic approach to modeling social structure, modeling the market and predicting an appropriate response to a real crisis. This theory has been computerized into a form of artificial intelligence that can help economists make predictions.
In a 1997 chess match, the world’s highest ranked chess player Garry Kasparov played against a supercomputer called Deep Blue, and / or the first time artificial intelligence beat a human. It was a monumental feat and helped people start to see a future for this field.
In 2017, Google’s DeepMind artificial intelligence defeated the world’s No.1 Go player, Ke Jie. Go is considered one of the more complex game strategy board games, so Sargent said the victory marked a new frontier for artificial intelligence.
A question-and-answer period followed Sargent’s talk, and attendees expressed concerns that artificial intelligence could replace work done by humans.
Sargent responded that while there have been many jobs where artificial intelligence has supplanted humans, there is a plethora of new jobs being created to manage the technology.
“One thing you can do in education is not to get stuck. Plan for flexibility and some robustness, ”said Sargent. “I think there are a lot of jobs that are going to get better with artificial intelligence and machine learning.”
Another participant asked about the real applications of artificial intelligence. Sargent explained that a form of artificial intelligence is used for second-price auctions to quickly assign ads. He noted that even the IRS uses machine learning to fight tax filing lobbies.
Closing the seminar, a participant asked Sargent for advice on pursuing a career in economics. He advised the students to follow “linear algebra, calculus, and statistics”, but more importantly, suggested that they “persist”.


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30 June 2016
BDO has witnessed sustained growth and expansion throughout the year 2015.
01 June 2016
Whether you choose to view the glass as half-empty or half-full, 2016 is a turning point for the industry.
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Is There Life After Fifty? Thurs. May 24- Sat. May 26, Fri. June 1 - Sat. June 2 @ 7:30 p.m. Matinees Sat. June 2 & Sun. June 3 at 2:00 p.m. Hanover Civic Theatre. Tickets $15.00 available starting May 1st at Hanover Public Library, 519-364-1420 or at the door on day of performance. A comedy that flirts with a topical theme - the aging of the Baby Boomer generation....what are they thinking?
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One of our favourite East Coast bluesmen and frequent bandmate of Garrett Mason, Keith Hallett returns to The Bruce for a Sunday afternoon..


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Uzbekistan is Turkey’s new strategic partner – adviser
Uzbekistan has become a new strategic partner for Turkey, ending decades of mistrust, thanks to diplomatic initiatives led by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, said Ilnur Çevik, a senior adviser to the Turkish president.
Turkey has also achieved a major breakthrough in expanding its influence in Central Asia after Uzbekistan agreed to join the Cooperation Council of Turkic-Speaking States, Çevik said in an editorial for the Daily Sabah newspaper.
Erdoğan visited Uzbekistan last week, signing a series of agreements on the economy, trade and culture. The visit follows similar meetings between Erdoğan and by Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev in Ankara last September, when the two countries agreed to establish a strategic relationship.
Turkey is seeking to expand its influence in Central Asia, the Middle East and Balkans under Erdoğan, who is following an expansionist diplomatic policy after years of relative inertia under the limits of Turkey’s NATO alliance. Erdoğan is also seeking to further political and economic ties in Africa.
The Uzbek administration was disappointed with Turkey in the 1990s and former President Islam Karimov had deep suspicions about Turkey and was reluctant to forge close ties with Ankara, Çevik said. After his death in 2016, Mirziyoyev took over as caretaker president and started a very impressive reform movement called the "Quiet Revolution" and the "Revolution from Above", he said.
Speaking in Uzbekistan's capital Tashkent, Erdoğan said meetings of the Turkey-Uzbekistan High-Level Strategic Cooperation Council will be held annually, with the first to be held in Turkey.

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‘Road to Perdition’ is a period crime movie directed by Sam Mendes. Set in 1931, the neo-noir drama follows mob enforcer Michael Sullivan and his son Michael Sullivan Jr. who are on the run after the latter accidentally witnesses a murder. However, they also have vengeance on their mind as the rest of their family is killed by the same criminal organization that Sullivan works for.
Some of you may feel that parts of the 2002 gangster movie’s storyline have been ripped from the news headlines as it includes some well-known figures from history. So, could that mean the film is based on actual events? We were eager to find out, so here is what we have learned!
Is Road to Perdition Based on a True Story?
‘Road to Perdition’ is partially based on a true story. The movie is made from a screenplay by David Self, which in turn is adapted from the eponymous graphic novel by writer Max Allan Collins and illustrator Richard Piers Rayner. Interestingly, the original source material borrows significantly from real life in terms of characters and plotlines. Collins has not been shy about discussing the various influences that shaped his graphic novel.
Apparently, John Rooney’s character is inspired by John Patrick Looney, a mob boss in the early 1900s from Rock Island, Illinois. He was convicted of William Gabel’s murder, which had triggered a gang war. This bears some resemblance to the repercussions of Finn McGovern’s murder in the movie as it propels the narrative. In the film, Michael Sullivan shoots Rooney point-blank before killing his son Connor in a bathtub. But in reality, a number of people attacked Looney and his son Connor Looney in their car. While the latter died in the attack, Looney escaped and died of tuberculosis many years later.
In an interview in June 2002, Collins revealed that he played around with the time frame to add several historical touches to the storyline. For example, Frank Nitti, Al Capone, and Eliot Ness were all actual people, and the author blended several true incidents into the graphic novel’s fictional plot. As for the characters Michael Sullivan and Michael Sullivan Jr., Collins apparently drew inspiration from the manga ‘Lone Wolf and Cub.’
There are several differences between the movie and Collins’ graphic novel. For one, the father-son element in the narrative has been amped up in the screen adaptation, especially since Rooney being a father figure to Sullivan is quite pronounced. Moreover, Harlen Maguire pursues Sullivan and Sullivan Jr., making the plot all the more engaging.
You would also be surprised to know that the violence in the movie is quite toned down as compared to the graphic novel. In the film, Maguire shoots Sullivan, yet Sullivan Jr. fails to pull the trigger on the man who kills his father. But according to Collins’ book, Sullivan Jr. has no qualms about going on a killing spree along with his father. However, he does grow up to become a priest to atone for his sins.
While the film follows the original source material to quite an extent, one cannot deny that Sam Mendes and David Self’s treatment of the graphic novel is what makes the cinematic experience truly special. What makes it even more exciting is the fact that the narrative intricately weaves elements of fiction with reality.
Read More: Where Was Road to Perdition (2002) Filmed?

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Europe should see a moderate recovery in construction spend in 2017 and 2017 says the Committee for European Construction Equipment in its Quarterly Economic Bulletin.
The bulletin says support for construction investment should mainly come from the relatively strong growth in household real disposable income, low mortgage rates, and a return to rising house prices.
But, since these factors will continue to be partially offset in some European Union states by high levels of household debt and sluggishness in the non-residential construction sector, the rebound in construction investment should be moderate.
According to European Commission figures quoted in the CECE bulletin, the value of construction industry output among the biggest five European markets in 2015 was: Germany €288.7bn, France €192bn, UK €176.8bn, Italy €162.2bn; and Spain €66.3bn.
The bulletin says: “All in all, construction investment is expected to increase by 2% and 3.4% in the euro area in 2016 and 2017 respectively, and by 2.4% and 3.7% in the EU, with a contrast between countries due to structural features, the past performance of the construction sector and the current pace of economic recovery.
“The rebound should be particularly visible in economies that experienced a pre-crisis housing boom, but were then hard hit by the financial crisis (e.g. Ireland, Spain, and the UK) or that are among the faster growing economies in the EU in the post-crisis period (eg Germany and Sweden).
“Ongoing adjustments will continue in 2016 in a number of countries (Greece, France, Slovenia, and Slovakia in the euro area, and Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, and Hungary in the rest of the EU), while in 2017, construction investment is expected to rise in all countries.”


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Date: 1875 ca.
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Around the time I went to high school, before the internet and emails became a commonplace in India, there were only a few internet cafe, who by the way, charged a very high per hour rate with darn slow computers. Back in late 90’s, we lived in a small town called Belgaum in northern Karnataka. My dad and I went to check out this new ‘net-cafe’ after a yummy ice-cream treat. That day, I signed up for my first email account with usa.net. You see, I couldn’t use just Priya as my user name, so the guy at the cafe suggested p_riya16 or something of that sort. I had no clue that there was trial and error option when it comes to choosing your username, so I settled for this complicated one with underscores and my age! It didn’t last that long, the .net domain became paid and we lost the records but the fun memories and first time experience lasts forever….
Well my point is, today we live in an internet age which comes with its own advantages. I’m happy to have global friends and followers, stay connected with old schoolmates and learn everything at the convenience of my home. Yeah, I took you through my the story of my life to convey that I learnt granny square crochet scarf purely from YouTube. 🙂 I hope you enjoyed the story though, it was a special day, that’s probably why I remember it even after 13 years.
Granny square is a great technique for newbie like me. Apart from being a cyclic and a 70’s fashion, it has fun history to it. Quoting author Debbie Stoller,
If you grew up in the seventies, as I did, you might fear the granny square–if only because, for a while, clothing was made of nothing else. Granny square vests, granny square shorts, granny square hats. Heck, I bet there was some kid out there who was forced to go to school wearing granny square underwear.
Thank goodness, for today this pattern is just feminine and a very unique addition to my winter closet. I started out with the red square, adding off-white borders to it for the width and attached it to one another.
- Wool – Bulky, 1 yarn of each color
- Stitch – Single crochet (sc), double crochet (dc), treble crochet (tc) with granny square pattern.
- Hook size – I, 5.5MM
It’s a short scarf now, I’m yet to complete this project by adding length but I’m posting this anyways. Who said that everything I shared on my blog should be a finished work? What about all the ideas, the work in progress and those sad little incomplete projects?
When I get around to finish it, I will let you know… Be inspired by the vast history and the new age!

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Who do you follow on social media? Is there someone or company that you believe does an exceptional job? I am particularly interested in people who are in politics, I can’t find anyone doing a good job with social media in politics but that doesn’t mean they don’t exist.
When Devon and I use the phrase social media, we’re talking about all interactive on-line platforms. The reason we’re aggressively pursuing a strong presence on-line is because we see the trends, people have their smart phones with them almost everywhere they go and we know people are looking at their phones in hyper-drive fashion. We know that without expanding our presence beyond the radio we’re going to eventually lose listeners.
However, our goal isn’t just about listeners, our goal is to expand listener interaction, we want to share more of our lives, while at the same time hearing from people we normally don’t get a chance to hear from. When someone follows us on Twitter ,@tomanddevon, or Instagram, TomandDevon, or on our blog, we try follow them back. We’re usually pretty good about follow backs but every once in awhile we miss.
We really do want to interact as much as possible because that is where we learn what you like hearing us discuss on the radio. Besides, your lives are much more interesting than ours. Now, with social media we have multiply ways to hear from you.
Let us know what you like and dislike about our blog. We’re receiving tremendous enjoyment from blogging, as we get longer into the process we will get better, just like the radio show.
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Lots of people have a banjo solo for this tune…but do they have a GOOD one?! I wrestled with this break for quite a while and I really like the finished product. It’s not too hard to learn, but it’s tasty enough to hold its own on any stage or jam there is. Get to pickin’!
Is there a tab with lyrics on it for this song? I like to sing along when I can. Thanks.
It’s a lot of work to tab out a tune and add lyrics. I can’t say I have ever seen Ben include words.
You might find a tab with lyrics at Tom Arri 's website https://banjotom2.org/
Tom often includes lyrics with his tabs.
Won’t be the same as @BanjoBen 's arrangement
He included lyrics on will the circle and life’s railway at least
Sorry, I don’t have the words on this one I do have words for some of them, however.
International Lyric Playground is a great internet site for many song lyrics. This particular song is titled “I am a man of constant sorrow” on that site. Also I really like Ben’s tab and arrangement for this tune, especially measures 7 and 8.
Love this arrangement. Bluesy with drive!


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Gaza ministry: Israeli strike on Hamas base kills boy nearby
The Gaza health ministry says a 10-year-old boy was killed in an Israeli airstrike that targeted a Hamas military base.
March 10, 2016
Hamas burns 15 tons of Snickers bars following recall
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Palestinian girl stabs, lightly wounds Israel policeman
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February 25, 2016
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Israel cooperation puts Palestinian forces in a tough spot
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AUTHOR: Suzanne Collins
List of Books: 1. Hunger Games 2. Catching Fire 3. Mockingjay 4. Underland Chronicles (5 book series) 5.
Interesting Facts: 1. born August 10, 1962 and still alive
Description of one Book: The Hunger Games is a great book based on games in an arena to the death. This happens in the future of America.
2. husband is Charles Pryor
3. children are Isabel Pryor, Charlie Pryor
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The project gallery showcases the finished works of Hothouse Productions.
Working with the Geena Davis Institute, Hothouse profiles a baker and a mathematician. Who are they?
Rated M for Mature
The Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood and Hothouse Productions partnered to examine how easy it is for young children to obtain M-rated, ultra-violent video games suited for players 17 and up.
This report contains some disturbing images and profanity.
Learning About Cochlear Implants: The Audiologist's Perspective
Audiologists at Children’s Hospital Boston discuss the benefits of cochlear implants for deaf children in a video for Hothouse.
Catholic Charities of Boston
Founded in 1903, Catholic Charities of Boston is one of the largest providers of social services in Massachusetts. Here, Hothouse Productions highlights their work with Nepalese refugees.
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June 14, 2011
The Internet just got a lot faster — at least following a Google (GOOG) search. And offices across America probably will get just a bit louder.
Leveraging its prowess in computer science, Google launched an array of new mobile and desktop search features Tuesday, including the ability to speak a search query to a desktop computer, the ability to run a search query on any personal photo stored on a user’s computer, and a new interface for mobile searches that makes it easier to find information about nearby restaurants, coffee shops and other businesses.
But the new service that users will probably notice most is something Google calls Instant Pages, a service in which Google will start to load the Web page behind the scenes which the search engine predicts a user is mostly likely to choose among their search results. That means when a user clicks on the link Google predicts, typically the first link in their search results, the page will essentially load instantaneously. Google says that will save users three to five seconds on average on every page view from a search.


text: In INVITED everyone can take to the stage. With dance as a shared language, choreographer Seppe Baeyens wants to create a community of cast and audience within just one hour. Supported by three musicians, Baeyens allows this multi-generational group to let loose an unstoppable whirlwind. An essential part of this performance is ROPE, a 65-metre-long connecting snake created by artist Ief Spincemaille. The scenography connects and divides, becomes visible and invisible, and leads audiences and performers through a collectively written choreography. For a moment, we see a glimpse of a community without prejudice, where everyone can be themself in a liberating experience.


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Chinese Hillstream Loach
The regular butterfly loach, or chinese hillstream loach, has a narrower body than the reticulated hillstream loach. The color pattern is a subtle light banded. Normally hillstream loaches are gathered on rocks of swift flowing streams in China and their unusual flat wide fins are perfectly suited to this environment. Freshwater loaches are hardy and feed on just about anything and are quite the site hanging on the other side of the aquarium glass.
- Scientific Name: Jinshaia sinensis
- Origin: China
- Lifespan: 8 Years
- Max size: 3 inches
- Food: Live, frozen, pellets, flake
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The Racial Justice Project is pleased to announce its Supreme Court Report for the October 2008 Term. The report previews the coming term, with a focus on those cases with implications for racial justice issues. The upcoming cases deal with redistricting, state and federal power over tribal lands, and mandatory collective bargaining agreements.
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This paper discusses the U.S. Supreme Court case Parents Involved in Community Schools v. Seattle School District No. 1 and the delicate holding issued by a plurality of the Justices, in which the voluntary school desegregation plans of Seattle and Jefferson County, Kentucky were struck down as violating the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. Paying particular attention to Justice Kennedy’s enigmatic concurring opinion, this paper argues that the constitutionality of Jefferson County’s similarly administered teacher disbursement policy may have garnered five votes had the school district not settled the lawsuit against it. Perhaps more importantly, though, conducting the analysis highlights the apparent contradictions in and absurdity of the Court’s Equal Protection jurisprudence and the practical effect this has on efforts to combat the resegregation of America’s public schools.
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The Boy Who Cried Wolf
The Goat and Her Three Kids
Little Red Riding Hood
Three Little Pigs
The Wolf and the Seven Young Kids
Peter and the Wolf
Ukrainian singer Ruslana's single Dance with the Wolves included a real wolf and an animated wolf and her puppies in the music videos.
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In an interview with the French magazine TÊTU, the French Secretary of State for European Affairs Clément Beaune talked about his sexual orientation. Now openly gay, he speaks of an “additional responsibility” to fight against state homophobia in Poland and Hungary. But he refuses that his struggle can be summed up in sexual orientation.
“The beatings, violence, rejection, exists in 2020. Saying my sexual orientation today is not indecency or staging intimacy”, declared the minister on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of TÊTU. In just three months in the ministry, Clément Beaune left his mark within the government. “As Secretary of State for European Affairs, I have an additional responsibility. I have to fight to spread tolerance“, he said.
Badly named, Clément Beaune denounced in France Inter the “LGBT-free” zones in Poland, after months of silence by Jean-Yves Le Drian, foreign minister. He announced his intention to go to one of these areas in early 2021. “I will support one of the associations that defend the right to abortion”, he adds.
“I come from a family where people were deported because they were Jewish, just two generations ago. It resonates with me. However, I would not like to be told that I am fighting the zones. ‘Free from LGBT’ because I’m gay. It would be an insult to say that I am fighting this fight for myself “, he said.
70% of LGBT+ Poles have suicidal thoughts
In Poland and Hungary, the situation of LGBT+ people is more difficult every day. Governments in power have implemented an openly LGBTphobic policy. LGBT+ activists call on European institutions to protect them. Margot, a non-binary activist who has become a symbol in Poland, announced that “our research shows that 70% of LGBT+ Poles have suicidal thoughts” before going to an SOS.
“When we joined the Union, we signed the treaties and gave our agreement to respect for human rights, equality, freedom, the rule of law. These values are not respected by Poland today. One answer must be financial: it is one of the most effective tools “, MEP admittedly gay Robert Biedrón told TÊTU.


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The phrase horticulture refers to the manufacturing of food, feed as well as various other items on a ranch. Today, farming is actually one of the significant components of the US disgusting domestic product or even the GDP. have a peek at this site
The condition horticulture implies any type of agricultural product or even commodity, whether made in ground or in a factory, for straight individual usage or for livestock consumption. There are actually several classifications of agricultural items in the United States, such as grain, feed and feedstock, animals, fruits as well as vegetables, beef and also livestock, chicken and also eggs, dairy products, fruit products, almonds, wheat or grain and also other cereals. go to my site
On the various other palm, the term vegetable imply what they eat, namely vegetables, fruit product, surfaces as well as other agricultural item made coming from these products. The term fruit product means just about anything helped make coming from the fruit products of any kind of vegetation, such as pears, oranges and apples.
The term animals just indicates residing critters that are made use of for feeding, multiplying and also other related activities. Most typically, this category features steeds, livestock, fowl, fish and also swine. Livestock are generally bred commercial, though there are actually some categories that come under the group of being actually purely for food items, including milk items. Agriculture is actually the method of cultivating generate such as grain, livestock and fruit products to make products that may be eaten through humans. A variety of various types of farming products are actually organized all together under the heading “horticulture”. These feature dairy products, hops, juice, chicken, veggies, fruit products, oilseeds as well as many more.
Milk is an instance of an agrarian item. Natural honey is yet another example of a farming item that drops under the classification of agriculture.
A variety of crops are actually featured in the category of agrarian products. Wheat is an instance of a farming item that has actually additionally been combined along with various other items to produce brand-new meals items.
Wine is actually an instance of an agricultural product that is typically viewed during the course of wedding ceremonies or even on exclusive celebrations. In several countries, such as India, items such as times as well as olives are actually additionally included in the checklist of agricultural items.
Glucose is actually likewise a beneficial instance of an agricultural item. A notable example of an agricultural commodity created through using glucose cane is cleansing soap.
Agricultural products compose a huge component of the grocery store and they are accountable for the development of foodstuffs for human consumption, pet feed and also other uses. All the major examples of agricultural produce listed on agrarian list are not only high in market value but likewise generate incredibly high gains. An example is actually that soy bean which is just one of the best essential agrarian produce to become grown. The article under is going to begin this short article through answering the principal question, what are actually the absolute most popular agrarian fruit and vegetables as well as how agrarian creation and agrarian items are expanded.
A quite integral part of agricultural produce is glucose cane, which is actually collected in the state of Arkansas. This is additionally the largest agrarian commodity in the United States. Sugar cane is usually made use of for animal feed, although it may also be actually expanded for intake. Many of the world’s leading agrarian item vendors and suppliers depend upon the export of sweets cane, to fulfill the needs of the global as well as residential market for animal nourishes, household products, detergents and also sugar.
Much of the world’s essential food items manufacturers are located in the United States or even partly of North America and also the European Union. Several of these countries are actually Canada, Australia, Argentina, South America, China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mexico, Russia, South Africa, United States, Venezuela as well as Vietnam. All these nations have an important duty in the farming production and distribution of food.
Canada is actually an extremely huge merchant of agricultural fruit and vegetables, and they are actually also really professional and strongly knowledgeable in the creation of animals as well as fowl items, such as sheep and also beef. Many farmers in Canada rear dairy products herds and also have expanded their agricultural lands to accommodate various kinds of farming. They likewise develop a substantial volume of fruit products, such as oranges, apples, peppers, potatoes and limes.

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When you replace the factory ECU controlling a GM LS or late-model truck motor don't forget that's where your alternator gets its "excite" voltage required to produce power. This pigtail harness is exactly what you need to wire up excite power to your GM Alternator with 4-pin Oval connector. This 8-foot long harness is sufficiently long for most applications. Wire this to a switched 12-volt source that is powered when the ignition is in the "run" position. The inline 560 ohm, 1/2 watt resistor allows you to run this through a "Charge Light" indicator (that will illuminate if the alternator stops charging.)
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CBD is growing in popularity every day. Many people are confused and lost. There are many products that offer CBD. However, all of this is only popular thanks to legal bills that have been passed. Read on as we dive into how CBD became so popular. How many 1000mg CBD gummies should I eat?
CBD, a chemical compound found in the cannabinoid group, is something you may not have known. Unlike its counterpart THC that gets you high, CBD is becoming popular for its therapeutic benefits. CBD works in tandem with the body’s natural cannabinoids. These endocannabinoids can be thought of as neurotransmitters that ensure that the body maintains perfect homeostasis.
CBD oil can be used to provide many benefits. However, the many benefits associated still cannot be 100% true since scientists need more information to determine just how it affects the body and all of its systems. Users will disagree, however, as they have experienced relief from inflammation, pain, anxiety, and other symptoms.
It’s legal if you have ever wondered. However, the answer still isn’t so clear. There are many varieties of these plants. Some are listed in Schedule I. This means they’re not considered medically necessary and can be misused by anyone. With modern thinking and acceptance of something new, hemp was legalized.
It should contain less than 0.3% THC. In the case where it does, it becomes illegal. As previously mentioned, it has some positive effects on the health. CBD products are marketed as the cure-all. It’s been marketed as the cure for all anxiety, and can even stop the spread cancer.
Even though it’s still early on for many CBD trials, it shows a great deal of promise. It has been shown to reduce pain and ease symptoms of schizophrenia in some of its earliest trials. There is also supporting evidence that indicates that it’s also effective for treating epilepsy.
Within the last year alone, there are has been an approval for medication to treat two of the rarest and most severe forms of epilepsy. There are many products that contain CBD. These are just a few:
Edibles – These come in a wide range such as drinks, chocolates, gummies, more. However, they usually take up to 20 minutes or even 4 hours before they begin to work.
Tinctures or oils – These products are made from a processed CBD form. These can be placed under the tongue, or used with a dropper.
Capsules or pills – These can be taken orally and are similar to vitamins and drugs.
Topicals – Lotions and creams can be used directly on the skin, nails, or the hair. They’re also a great way to treat pain.
Vaping – There are many common e-cig refills that contain CBD. If CBD is present, however, nicotine will not be present.
We’ve now looked at the reasons CBD became so popular. CBD is known for its many health benefits. CBD users can boast that CBD works for every condition.


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The man who plowed his car into a crowd anti-vax mandate protesters in Winnipeg, Canada, last week, is a radical far-left anarchist punk rocker, Rebel News reported, Monday.
Four people were injured in the attack and rushed to hospital after the car swerved into the crowd.
VILE: A freedom protester was mowed down by an SUV late last night. Suspect has been arrested. Trudeau vilified these peaceful protests, and now this happens. Shocking. pic.twitter.com/G08LWmExV6
— Keean Bexte (@TheRealKeean) February 5, 2022
The man charged in Winnipeg for an attack on a convoy protest is a radical far-left anarchist. Police, however, are still treating the incident as a hit-and-run, rather than a hate crime.https://t.co/zSLagURe5u
— Rebel News (@RebelNewsOnline) February 7, 2022
It is important to note that the protesters, who had gathered to support the ongoing trucker protest in Ottawa, were not blocking the street. Cars were able to get through before the alleged driver of the vehicle, Dave Zegarac, swerved into the crowd.
— ema justice arnold (@justice_ema) February 7, 2022
Zegarac was taken into custody an hour later after a brief struggle with police, according to Rebel News. Authorities are reportedly treating the incident as a hit-and-run, rather than a politically motivated hate crime.
Zegarac has been charged with “four counts of assault with a weapon, two counts of dangerous operation of a conveyance causing bodily harm, dangerous operation of a conveyance, two counts of failure to stop after an accident knowing that the driver was reckless, and failing to stop at the scene of an accident times two.”
However, Zegarac — a 43-year-old musician from Winnipeg who describes himself as Indigenous, Serbian and Irish — is the frontman of Canadian punk bands The Brat Attack, Dead Peasants Revolt, The Black Mass Brigade, and Class War Kids.
Zegarac’s Wikipedia page is now deleted, but an archived version is still available which links back to several web pages detailing Zegarac’s politics.
His online bio states that his song lyrics deal primarily with anarchist politics and that he is an outspoken vegan and a long-time anti-racist activist.
According to a Winnipeg Free Press reporter on Twitter, Zegarac is fairly well known punk musician in the area, who was kicked out of the scene seven years ago due to “multiple allegations of sexual assault” against “very young women.”
For clarity: Dave Zegarac was a relatively well-known punk musician, mostly during the 2000s, who did some activist organizing. He was kicked out of the scene over seven years ago due to multiple allegations of sexual assault + abuse, especially of very young women.
— Melissa Martin (@DoubleEmMartin) February 6, 2022
Winnipeg police told the CBC that Zegarac spoke to officers while being arrested, and that “some comments made by the accused” tended to “suggest this was not specifically about the [vaccine] mandates. ” Police added that Zegarac “wasn’t for or against any of the general views that are floating around this country.”
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Here's a macro view, from James A. Johnston, written in 1949:
Because local peace officers were handicapped and limited in
jurisdiction, the professional criminals had little fear of them, and
no concern about State and County boundaries. State boundaries were
barriers to the officers of the law, but meant nothing to the bandits.
Beginning in 1934, the passage of the Federal laws to punish bank
robbery, the strengthening of the F.B.I., the segregation of Federal
prisoners and the establishment of Alcatraz all contributed to the
rout of the roving robbers.
The night burglaries and daylight holdups perpetrated against banks
with increasing frequency, increasing boldness and increasing losses
in the late 1920's and early 1930's, reached a peak of 631 in 1932,
with 77 burglaries and 554 holdups. Soon after passage of Federal laws
and the development of efficient cooperation between local, county,
state and federal forces, the gangs began to break and run to cover,
but wherever they turned, FBI agents and local police cornered them.
The bank burglaries and holdups went down year by year, from 631 in
1932, to the low water mark of 26 in 1943. The efficient enforcement
of the law responsible for this reduction, meant more effective
protection of property, as well as the safeguarding of human lives.
When the bank robbers were running wild, the burglary insurance rates
mounted to almost prohibitive figures, but when the burglaries and
hold-ups went down year by year from 1932 to 1943, the insurance rates
dropped correspondingly, and bank directors and stockholders saved a
lot of money.
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were from banking sources. He references the American Bankers
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Audience Defends Pattinson at 'Cosmopolis' Q&A
Robert Pattinson joined his Cosmopolisdirector David Cronenberg for a special TimesTalks sit-down with New York Times columnist David Carr Wednesday night, and when one of Carr's questions alluded to trouble in Rob and Kristen Stewart's relationship, the audience jeered.
Related: Robert Pattinson Asks Kristen Stewart To Move Out
Carr asked Pattinson about his opinion of America's preoccupation with fame, and the Brit star opined, "I think it's because America really wants to have a royal family." But when Carr likened Pattinson's relationship trouble to that of "Charles and Diana," the audience immediately booed and stepped in to the star's defense, calling out to Carr to move on to the next question.
Pattinson, seeming a bit thrown by how the conversation turned, gamely replied, "I wouldn't go that far."
Based on the novel by Don DeLillo, Cosmopolis follows one day in the wild life of multi-billionaire asset manager Eric Packer (Pattinson), who travels aimlessly through the streets of New York City in his limousine while conducting investment trading from the back seat. As the day progresses, it devolves into an odyssey with a cast of characters that start to tear his world apart.
Carr also asked the Twilight star about the media's intense attention to his every move, and Pattinson declared, "There's this weird thing about accountability -- like paparazzi, or whatever; I'm like a private citizen. I don't make any laws. If a bunch of people followed you around, call the cops -- they'd get arrested."
Related: Pattinson: I Don't Want To Sell My Personal Life
Despite some dark turns, the mood was light during the Q&A, and earlier Cronenberg even joked, "There is a scene with a prostate exam in the movie with Rob, so you might want to see the movie."
Cosmopolis arrives in theaters Friday.


The Deciport Daily Quick-Look: 27 June 2020
Minneapolis has voted to shut down its police force. Picture: AFP Source:AFP
Minneapolis Cancels The Police Force.
The Minneapolis City Council has unanimously voted to change the city charter so their police force can be disbanded.
Following the death of George Floyd (African-American) by a police officer (Caucasian) in the city in May, protests, riots and looting broke out across the country.
Protests also took place around the world.
It what can only be described as a staggering move, rather than reform and improve the standards and procedures of the standing force, the disbanding of the Democrat-run city's police force will highly likely see the city descend into increased petty and major crime; as the city determines how best to manage replacing the force with something else entirely.
It will also likely see other Democrat-run cities attempt to follow suit.
Cancel culture cancels the police.
And it is only June.
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The Daily Quick-Look for 27 June 2020
The Deciport Daily Quick-Look is your at-a-glance look at several key events and situations around the world over the last 24 hours. Each headline contains the link to its source report.
BLUF = Bottom Line Up Front.
FYSA = For Your Situational Awareness.
1. UNITED STATES - Political/Security: George Floyd death: Minneapolis council votes unanimously to abolish city’s police department
FYSA: The Minneapolis City Council has unanimously voted to change the city charter, so that their police department can be dismantled. The extraordinary move is in response to the death of African-American man George Floyd at the hands of a white officer in the city last month, in a case that rocked the United States and sparked massive protests. Black Lives Matter demonstrations began in Minnesota and quickly spread across the country, still being held in multiple cities for the fourth week. Council members voted 12-0 to effectively abolish the police department. They propose establishing a Department of Community Safety and Violence Prevention, instead of a police department. The new department “will have responsibility for public safety services prioritising a holistic, public health-oriented approach,” the council’s draft statement read. The boss of this new agency would have “non-law-enforcement experience in community safety services, including … public health and/or restorative justice approaches”. (News.com.au. See link in heading)
2. UNITED STATES, CHINA - Security/Political: US imposes visa restrictions on Chinese officials over Hong Kong security law
FYSA: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said that Washington is imposing visa restrictions on Chinese Communist Party officials believed to be responsible for undermining freedoms in Hong Kong. Mr Pompeo said the sanctions targeted "current and former" party officials. He said the move followed President Donald Trump's promise to punish Beijing over a proposed security law that could erode Hong Kong's autonomy. China said the US decision was a "mistake" that should be withdrawn. It comes just days ahead of a meeting of China's parliament. (BBC. See link in heading)
3. MEXICO - Security: Mexico City public security chief hurt in assassination attempt
FYSA: Mexico City's chief of police was shot and injured and two of his bodyguards killed in a dramatic assassination attempt early on Friday that he quickly blamed on one of Mexico's most powerful drug gangs, the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG). The city's public security chief Omar Garcia Harfuch suffered three bullet wounds as he and bodyguards came under heavy fire in an upscale Mexico City neighborhood just before dawn. A third person, a woman apparently on her way to work, was also killed in the gunfire, city authorities said. Security camera footage shown on Mexican television showed a group of armed men getting off the back of a truck as well separate images of police moving towards heavy gunfire.(Al Jazeera. See link in heading)
4. UNITED KINGDOM - Security: Officer stabbed in Glasgow hotel attack named
FYSA: Constable David Whyte has been named as the police officer seriously injured in a stabbing attack at a Glasgow hotel. The 42-year-old is being treated in hospital and his condition has been described as "critical but stable". He was one of six people injured in the attack at the hotel, which is currently housing asylum seekers. The suspect was shot dead by police. (BBC. See link in heading)
5. UNITED KINGDOM - Security (Health): UK ditches quarantine for arrivals from low COVID-19 risk countries
FYSA: Britain will ditch a 14-day quarantine period for people arriving from countries it deems to be lower risk for COVID-19 , the government said on Friday. Official travel advice against all but essential travel outside Britain will also be eased for some countries and regions. Taken together, these changes will make it easier for Britons to travel abroad for summer holidays. The relaxations are the latest taken by the government to unwind emergency measures put in place to stop the spread of COVID-19, as ministers look to limit the economic damage caused by the virus. An expert panel will put nations into three categories: green, amber and red. Passengers arriving from green and amber countries will no longer have to quarantine themselves for 14 days after their arrival. “Our new risk-assessment system will enable us to carefully open a number of safe travel routes around the world,” a government spokeswoman said. “But we will not hesitate to put on the brakes if any risks re-emerge.” The rules for red-category countries will not change. (Reuters. See link in heading)
6. EUROPEAN UNION - Security (Health): EU holds off decision on borders, Americans set to be excluded
FYSA: European Union countries failed to settle on Friday on a final “safe list” of countries whose residents could travel to the bloc from July, with the United States, Brazil and Russia set to be excluded. Ambassadors from the 27 EU members convened from Friday afternoon to establish criteria for granting quarantine-free access from next Wednesday. A redrawn text of 10-20 countries was put to them, but many said they needed to consult first with their governments, diplomats said. The list did not include the United States, Brazil or Russia, one diplomat said. Discussions were continuing overnight, with the EU countries expected to give informal replies by Saturday evening, people familiar with the matter said. U.S. passengers may be allowed to travel if they meet certain conditions such as passing temperature checks, two U.S. officials said. (Reuters. See link in heading)
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BOARD OF DIRECTORS
583 SAN YSIDRO ROAD, MONTECITO,
AT 3:00 P.M., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1998
CALL TO ORDER AND ROLL CALL.
MINUTES OF JANUARY 20,1998 BOARD MEETING. (For Board action.)
DISTRICT WATER PRODUCTION REPORT FOR JANUARY 1998.
(For information.) (To be distributed at board meeting.)
- INVESTMENT OF DISTRICT FUNDS. (For Board action.)
- REPORT ON DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM AND FIRE FLOW PROGRAM AND WATER AVAILABILITY CHARGE FUND.
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c. Santa Barbara Water Purveyors Agency Meeting of January 23, 1998.
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d. Cachuma Operation and Maintenance Board Meeting of January 26, 1998.
e. Special District Association Board Meeting of January 26, 1998.
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a. Operations Committee.
b. Finance Committee.
c. Public Information Committee.
d. Water Marketing Committee.
- REQUESTS FROM DIRECTORS FOR ITEMS TO BE INCLUDED ON NEXT AGENDA.
- CLOSED SESSION/MEETING WITH REAL ESTATE NEGOTIATOR PURSUANT TO GOVERNMENT CODE SECTION
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Persepolis 1 & 2 Anomaly Report
The Persepolis Anomaly series began with the Resistance winning the first round by 2,775 points thanks mostly to the massive show of force in Bratislava. Their connected links and fields alone were enough to beat the Enlightened this round.
Both teams won half of the Connected Cells however the Enlightened managed to earn almost double the Total Delta compared to the Resistance.
68% of all points scored in this round were from the Primary city of Bratislava which the Resistance won with 73.6% of the points from the city. Even though the Enlightened won Bari and Thessaloniki with 73.6% and 81.8% of the points respectively, it wasn’t enough with those cities only worth 6% of the rounds scores’ each.
In the second anomaly, the Enlightened began to fight back winning the round by 622 but it’s not enough to put them back in the lead yet. Standard and Volatile Portals played a much more significant role this round making up 55% of the Enlightened’s score.
The Resistance won 6 of the 10 Connected cells for the round and earned more than triple the Total Delta compared to the Enlightened.
The Enlightened’s won in Washington DC with 60% of the points and Phoenix with 75.6%. The Resistance’s wins were comparatively tiny in Buenos Aires and Toronto winning with a margin of 3.1% and 1.8% respectively.
At the end of Round 2, the Enlightened had managed to score 4 shards which so far are worth 18% of their total points. After last weekend, it looks like the Resistance are stronger in Europe on the ground while the Enlightened are stronger in the Americas but opposite for the Connected Cells. Next up, is the final three anomalies on June 20, see you then!

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- Linux Guide
- Mac Guide
- Windows Guide
Shared printers supplied by the School of Computing Science are available in various locations around the school, as listed below. Other printers in the care of specific groups of users are not covered here. The majority are managed from our Linux print server. Un-printed jobs and a small number of recently printed jobs can be managed using the web interface of the server. You will be expected to log in using your CAMPUS ID to alter anything. There are direct links in the table below from which individual print jobs can be managed. Further guidance is included in the platform specific pages for Linux Guide,Mac Guide andWindows Guide. To print from one of the clusters see: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/itservice/clusters/.
We have several Konica multifunction printers (listed below). These support PIN-protected print on demand, which we recommend for printing confidential documents. For a brief introduction to these and other features, see here.
|aftonburn||Tower Floor 11 (CSR Print room)||HP||Color LaserJet CP3525DN||Colour Printer|
|birkburn||Tower Floor 11 (CSR Print room)||HP||Color LaserJet CP3525DN||Colour Printer|
|monmouth||Tower Floor 11 (CSR Print room)||Konica||C652||Photocopier, Booklets, Staples, Colour|
|chatton||Tower Floor 8 (Reception)||Konica||C452||Photocopier, Staples, Booklets, Colour|
|compsci826||Tower Floor 8 (Post Room)||Konica||C454||Photocopier, Colour, Staples, Booklets|
|millburn||Daysh 6.36||Konica||C280||Cluster Printer, Photocopier, Colour|
Each machine has a default printer associated with it when printing using lpr:
- for the mill machines in The Mill it is millburn, which is in Room 6.36 (at the far end of the Daysh corridor). millburn is set up to print double-sided.
It is noticeable that paper is often wasted because jobs are submitted to the "wrong" printer and not collected. It is probably a good idea to get into the habit of always specifying the printer you intend your jobs to be printed on, e.g. if printing from the command line
lpr -Pmillburn <files>
Economies can be made in the use of paper by converting documents to n-up format wherever possible prior to printing. You should get into the habit of doing this as a matter of course; the output is still perfectly readable, printing throughput is improved, and it may postpone the day when charging has to be imposed if the amount of printing continues to increase
A set of utitilies, collectively known as psutils, can be employed to reorganise !PostScript files. There are man pages for each of the utilities. Their names are:
epsffit fixmacps fixwfwps includeres psresize extractres fixpsditps fixwpps psbind psselect fixdlsrps fixpspps fixwwps psbook pstops fixfmps fixtpps getafm psnup
If you are at all uncertain of the contents of a !PostScript document don't just print it in order to find out. If at all possible preview the contents using ghostview under X. If the document conforms to the Adobe Document Structuring Conventions then ghostview will show page numbers, enabling you to identify a subset of pages that it would be sufficient to print. Then of course you would use psselect to extract just those pages for printing, in conjunction with psnup to arrange 2-up printing. Also, be aware that some documents you acquire and wish to print may specify single-sided printing, which will override the printer's double-sided default. Unfortunately, as things currently stand, psutils can not be used to override the single-sided setting.
Two utilities, a2ps and mpage, are provided for the conversion of plain text files to !PostScript in n-up format. Consult its man page for details of mpage, either by typing man mpage, or via the Help system, viz. K -> Help -> Unix manual pages -> Section 1 -> mpage. a2ps is altogether more complicated and supplies its documentation in GNU info file format. It can examined via K -> Help -> Browse info pages -> Printing Tools -> a2ps, or by running the character-based info reader info, thus: info a2ps*. a2ps attempts to send its output directly to a printer, and supports the -P option of lpr, thus
a2ps -Pmillburn *.h
is a valid a2ps command. As a2ps converts its input to 2-up output by default, -P is probably the only option you will need to use most of the time. If you want to save the output in a file then you must use the -o option, e.g.
a2ps -osome-file.ps *.h
The linux print server runs Cups so you can check the status of your jobs or see the whole print queue at https://print.cs.ncl.ac.uk/jobs. You can delete your own unprinted jobs here. The server is set to retain the last few printed or failed jobs for possible debugging or reprinting. You may be required to authenticate using your campus ID.
The recommended connection route from a self-managed Linux machine to our printers is to connect them via the school's Windows print server. These instructions relate to a Mint linux distribution, but any Debian based system should be similar.
From the menu, open Systems Administration / Printers and click the + symbol to add a new printer. You need to be a member of the sudo group or you will be asked to authenticate. Expand the "Network Printer" group and select "Find Network Printer" towards the bottom of the list. Fill in the host name "fontburn64.ncl.ac.uk". Wait, possibly for as long as one minute and you will be asked to authenticate. Use your mormal campus login and remember to specify the CAMPUS domain.
Select the newly added "SMB (Fontburn64.ncl.ac.uk) entry under "Netowrk Printer". You will need to authenticate again.
- Now click the browse button and select the printer you are connecting to. If this is a single-user machine, you may like to select the option to "Set authentication details now". If you do this, you need to enter your normal campus user name in the form shown (CAMPUS\b00000000).
- Once the drivers are installed, you will be able to set the printer's default printing options.
To print to Computing Science laser printers from NUIT cluster PCs:
- Display the file in a Windows application.
- Select Print from the application, tick the Print To File box and enter a filename in which to save the output.
- Transfer the .prn file to your Computing Science file space (at
\\homes.cs.ncl.ac.uk\homes) then print it with lpr from Linux.
- Print from 'rdesktop' having added the relevant Computing Science printer.
For a plain text file, e.g. a C++ program source file, you can go straight to Step 3.
We are in the process of developing a simple script that will automatically set up CS printers for you. Our initial attempt at this is now attached to the wiki. For OS X 10.9 "Mavericks" and newer, please try this script:
If you are using Safari, the above link should automatically download and unzip the script. You should be able to see it and double-click it from the "Downloads" button as in this picture":
When you run the script nothing will visually happen, but three printers should appear in your printer list:
- Millburn (colour, Daysh Mobile Media Studio)
- Tweedmouth (colour, 8th floor print room)
The first time you print, the job will be held until you authenticate to the printer. You may be asked for a username and password when you try to print. If so, please supply your campus username and password.
- If you aren't prompted, please open "Printers & Scanners" and double-click on the printer you were trying to use. You should see your job listed as awaiting authentication. Click on the circular arrow icon (signifying "retry") to supply your username and password. You should only have to do this once.
What follows are our older instructions, hopefully soon to be replaced!
In order to print from a Mac you need to set up some details in the print manager.
To add a printer select Print .. from any application then:
- In the dialog box that appears, go to the pull down menu called Printer and select Add Printer.
- Click on the IP icon
- Set Protocol: to Line Printer Daemon - LPD
- Fill in the Address: field as
- Fill in the Queue: field as the printer name (minus any suffix e.g. howburn not howburn3). No warning will be given if you enter an invalid queue name.
- Change the Name: field to the printer name (or any other personally meaningful description) since the system unhelpfully fills in a default taken from the print server name.
- Set Print Using: to Select Printer Software (or Select A Driver to Use for some versions of Macos X)
- Now choose the appropriate printer model (see the table above for printer models ). If the printer model is not displayed in the Printer Software dialog you can cancel the dialog and set Print Using: to Generic Postscript Printer for basic printing facilities. To access all the facilities of the printer however a driver or PPD file needs to be installed. For any a printer included in the table below:
|Printers not known to the standard MacOS release|
|Printer||Type||PPD file/Installer||Installable Options|
|Monmouth||Konica !BizHub C652||MacOS10.7 Disk Image MacOS10.8 et seq. Disk Image||Finisher: FS-526 + SD - 508|
|Treeburn||Epson Aculaser C3800||PPD|
|Tweedmouth||Konica !BizHub C452||Mac OSX10.7 MacOS10.8 MAC OSX10.9 Mavericks Disk Images||Finisher: FS-527 + SD - 509|
- a PPD file should be saved on the local machine, and installed in the system by selecting Other as the driver type in the Print Using dialog, and navigating to the downloaded PPD file
- an installer should be downloaded and run - it will install the PPD files so the printers it supports (it could be several) are now known to the system and can be chosen by setting Print Using: to Select Printer Software
If you have selected a specific printer driver, you are then prompted to define any installable options the printer may have. This dialog will vary for different printer types.
Some shared printers (tweedmouth at the time of writing) require you to use your registered university login name as your mac account short name. Under early version of MacOS, this cannot be changed easily. Under Leopard, this can be changed in the advanced account options available by control/right-clicking the account name in the system preferences. The underlying directory name cannot be changed. Never do this from the only administrator account on the machine.
OS X may indicate that you need to run "Software Update" to install other required driver components. If it does, do so.
There are two things you need to do.
Firstly, in the Print and Fax System preference, make sure the default page setup size is set to A4.
Once that is done, go into Word, create a new document, and go to the Page Setup dialog box. Set the paper size to A4, then select "Microsoft Word" from the Settings pull down menu. Now select "Default..." and say "yes" when asked if you want to change the default settings for document layout.
This works in Office X and Office 2004, although the Microsoft Word dialog box that you access is slightly different for the two versions of Word.
The use of network managed printers avoids the need to install and configure print drivers on your PC and lets you easily see which printers are available.
To add a new printer:
- select Add a Printer in the Devices and Printers Control Panel
- select Add a network, wireless or Bluetooth printer
- ensure Find a printer in the directory based on location or feature is selected and hit Next
- the Computing Science printers supported by the fontburn64 print server are displayed: select the desired one and hit ''OK'', at which point you will be informed about a driver being downloaded/installed.
- Open the print server directly (e.g. by typing
\\fontburn64into the Start menu search box, an open Explorer window, or simply click here if running Internet Explorer).
- If your are unsure which printer you want then click on View remote printers and ensure you are showing the Details View: you will then see the the location, capabilities etc. of all the printers.
- Open one or more items to add the printer(s) to your system; any print driver required will automatically be installed.
Set the Printing Preferences (accessible by right clicking on a printer in the Devices and Printers control panel) for single/double sided printing or whatever ...
Two versions of a printer may be offered e.g. Redburn on Paper and Redburn on Transparency; these have different default settings for Printing Preferences. Since you may change the Printing Preferences yourself it does not necessarily follow that printing to, say, Redburn on Transparency, will do what you expect.


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BY JAMARI MOHTAR AND AMANDA YEO
In light of the rising number of Covid-19 daily infections which was 7,654 on July 6, the urgent upgrading of the healthcare system becomes very paramount. And the key to this is the high morale of the frontliners.
There have been numerous calls for the government to absorb contract medical officers (MOs) into the public service due to their increasing workload to deal with the rising number of Covid-19 patients, apart from suffering severe burnout due to exhaustion from long working hours and pandemic fatigue for more than a year.
This has affected their morale because the bulk of the healthcare frontliners are contract medical workers. However well the capacity upgrading of the healthcare system proceeds, if the bulk of its medical frontliners has a morale problem, the system won’t do a good job in dispensing its healthcare services.
When at the back of the mind is a niggling worry of their future in terms of whether their contract would be renewed, while they slog it out with long hours of work, their morale would take a beating because so many things are on their head.
Why is Malaysia being bogged down with the problem of contract medical workers, especially at an unenviable time when the country is struck with a double whammy of a pandemic and economic downturn?
The short answer is the poor planning of the past when the Ministry of Higher Education was trigger happy in issuing the licence for the setting up of private medical colleges without consulting the Health Ministry (MoH), resulting in the proliferation of 32 medical colleges – 11 public universities and 21 private colleges. This is more than Australia, UK and US (19, 33 and 179 medical schools respectively) on a per capita basis.
In addition, there are over 300 recognised foreign medical schools with annual returning graduates. Together, this yields a total of about 5,000 medical graduates each year, more than what the MOH can absorb.
Contract medical officers
In 2016, the Najib administration in addressing the ongoing influx of medical graduates in Malaysia implemented a contract tenure scheme whereby all medical graduates employed by MoH were appointed as contract MOs.
A five-year contract is provided, starting with three years of medical graduate training (housemanship) and two years as junior medical officers. Those who returned from overseas and had already completed their housemanship abroad will receive a two-year contract as MOs. Once they have completed the contract, they were then absorbed into the permanent scheme.
But because the MoH has limited vacancies each year, those not absorbed into the permanent establishment will have to seek employment elsewhere in the private or public sectors.
Although the MoH is the biggest employer for these medical graduates, it is not the only employer for them in the public sector (see Table 1 below).
Table 1: Number of MOs employed by the MoH, non-MoH and private sector, 2017-2019
|Year||Number of MOs employed by the MoH||Number of MOs employed by the non MoH||Number of MOs employed by the private sector|
Source: Health Informatics Centre, MoH
Since the contract tenure was introduced in 2016, 23,077 contract MOs were recruited. Based on the data in Table 2, which was extrapolated from MoH, a year after the new contact tenure scheme was implemented in Dec 2016, in 2017 there were a total of 40,230 MOs employed by the MoH.
As the MoH gives only the total employment figure, we are not able to determine the number of the first batch contract MOs under the new scheme. Bear in mind too that this first batch and subsequent batches, each comprised overseas-graduate MOs with a two-year contract and local-graduate MOs with a five-year contract.
Table 2: Number of MOs in MoH, 2017-2019
|Year||Number of MOs employed by the MoH||Number of new MOs employed by the MoH||Number of new MOs employed outside MoH|
Source: Health Informatics Centre, MoH, Graphic by Amanda Yeo
In 2018, there were 43,052 MOs which means 2,822 new contract MOs (43,052 minus 40,230) were recruited from a total of 5,000 medical graduates in 2018, leaving 2,178 to seek employment outside MOH.
In 2019, a total of 48,478 MOs were employed in which 5,426 new MOs (48,478 minus 43,052) were recruited. This implies all the 5,000 medical graduates of 2019 have been recruited. By this time too, overseas graduated contract MOs of the first batch (2017) will have their two-year contract either converted to a permanent position or not renewed.
If we were to assume all the remaining 2,178 graduates of 2018 that were not recruited by MoH still couldn’t find employment, by 2019, 426 (5,426 minus 5,000) were recruited, leaving 1,752 in the lurch.
The figure for 2020 is not out yet, but if were to assume all the 5,000 medical graduates in 2020 were recruited (very likely as the government needed them in the wake of the pandemic), there will be 1,752 MOs from the 2018 cohort that will remain unemployed since 2018, assuming they still have not found an employer.
This is also the time where the second batch of overseas-graduated MOs recruited in 2018 will have their contract converted to a permanent position or not renewed.
This year the first batch of locally graduated MOs recruited in 2017 will have their five-year contract converted to a permanent position or not renewed.
However, the government has announced on May 31 that it will extend the service of 14,000 contract MOs and nurses until 2022 under the Pemerkasa Plus stimulus package.
With this, the fate of the 1,752 contract MOs from the 2018 cohort (could be less if some of them were already employed) was taken care of, together with the first batch of locally graduated MOs whose contract is not converted to a permanent position.
Conversion to a permanent position
Since 2016, only 3.41 percent (789) out of the 23,077 contract MOs have been given permanent positions, says the MoH.
The reason why contract MOs were looking forward to a permanent position is the difficulty of getting employed in both the private sector and the public sector other than MoH, if their contract is not renewed.
Also, the current contract system either does not provide a clear career progression pathway or avenue for specialist training.
Moreover, they are not eligible to receive unrecorded leaves and the government’s scholarship programme where doctors can pursue to become specialists.
Although contract MOs could still choose to further their studies to become specialists, they must do so on their own time with their own expenses. Female contract MOs are also not given maternity leave.
And some question the transparency of the assessment process to convert a contract MO to a permanent scheme.
Responding to this, Health Minister Datuk Seri Dr Adham Baba said appointment to permanent posts was subject to the availability of vacancies from time to time, based on the appointment criteria set out in circulars.
“To ensure fairer and more equitable assessment, the evaluation process during housemanship is made at every posting and every officer is informed of the appointment assessment criteria,” he said.
Elaborating further, Dr Adham explained a three-tier assessment comprising the Permanent Appointment Technical Committee at the medical programme level, Permanent Appointment Selection Committee chaired by the deputy secretary-general (Management) and one to make recommendations to the ministry’s top management, are done to ensure the transparency and integrity of the process.
Bed usage at ICU at a critical level
With bed usage at ICU still at a critical level and with more than 85 percent usage of patient beds in the Klang Valley, many MOs nationwide have been stretched thin since early April 2021.
As mentioned by Jade R. in his article in the Malay Mail on July 5, there is only an average of 55 MOs per shift where their maximum available beds are approximately 6,000 – translating to a ratio of 1 MO to 109 patients per day if they reach 100 percent capacity.
Many MOs work up to 12 arduous hours in stuffy hot Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) suits. Although the World Health Organisation recommends medical frontliners to put on N95 masks for only four hours – the median healthcare worker tolerance time – such an option is not feasible with the current patient load. Moreover, when MOs on duty increase the number of times they remove their PPEs, it significantly increases the infection likelihood of MOs.
EMIR Research has the following suggestions for the government to implement within the next three months (July to September):
- Of the 14,000 contract MOs and nurses whose services have been extended until 2022, the first 3,000 should already be mobilised for duty by end of this month, followed by 5,000 in August and 6,000 in September, with all hospitals in all the states getting a fair share of these MOs based on the state’s daily infection numbers;
- By expediting RM550 mil for spending related operating and management expenses, procurement of medicines and reagents, additional contract MOs can be deployed in treating categories 4 and 5 patients who need respiratory assistance and also need to be treated in the ICU;
- As Selangor, Kuala Lumpur and Negeri Sembilan continue to record over 400 Covid-19 cases as of July 6, MoH could arrange for extended contract MOs to these seriously infected states;
- By expediting the use of RM450 million to increase hospital beds and procure equipment for ICUs, patients will be given better care, given that more contract MOs are assigned in one particular hospital.
When more contract MOs are assigned, the hospital administration could arrange a proper roster whereby the working hours of each MOs can be reduced further from the present 12 hours.
In the intermediate-term, MoH should look into the working conditions of the contract MOs such as giving them unrecorded leaves and maternity leaves for female MOs, and interest-free loans for them to take up specialists’ training.
Long term, the MoH should think of ways to increase the number of MOs for a permanent position without compromising on the three-tier assessment system that is already in place, and to work with potential employers in both the public and private sectors to absorb those MOs whose contract are not renewed.
Jamari Mohtar and Amanda Yeo are part of the research team of EMIR Research, an independent think tank focused on strategic policy recommendations based on rigorous research.