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…Sometimes I wonder, how would this world look like if we had no friends, family or relatives, if we would live completely alone, isolated from the rest of the world, like ascetics.
What do you mean by that?
I mean, world of today is becoming more and more an isolated and lonely place.
Why do you think so?
Well, people of today look more like a programmed machines, carrying with them all sorts of devices, every day, every minute of their boring and miserable life. Can this be a normal behaviour of one intelligent human being?
People chose by themselves to live in a self-created automated world, they made machines to help them to produce more, to progress faster, to defeat the destructive forces of nature. But instead, they have become machines themselves, a disturbed combination of man and machine. Instead of ruling the world of machines they created, these machines rule them.
But, I wonder, can we consider these machines only a part of human invention, made to serve us, or maybe they can become some sort of friends to us, like we have other people or animals?
It is very hard to answer this question, because not all people that humans consider friends are real friends. Many of those friends are only available when they need help from other human beings, and many of them use people for their own goals, which can be in many times, vicious and destructive.
I always thought that the best friends are those that we all need to live happy and fulfilled lives.
Yes, that is true in many cases. But still, many people that you consider friends are not friends at all. Your best friend today can become your worst enemy tomorrow. Don´t trust anybody if you are not sure of their intentions.
But, how will I know the real difference between real friends and the ones who pretend to be my friends? And what about all those that we call acquaintances, people that we met maybe a couple a times, that we can not call them friends, but still can be very important part of our lives. And what about total strangers, can we trust them sometimes?
Sometimes, a complete stranger can be a better friend than all of your “real” friends and acquaintances. Just remember, no matter how much you trust those people that you consider real friends, the same ones with whom you share your biggest secrets, your strengths and weaknesses, your life, can become your biggest rivalries and enemies. Remember this, if you want to defeat your biggest enemy, first you have to become his/hers best friend.


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Sir, - You begin your leader comment ("Mortality
in hospital", 19 July) by stating that people go into hospital
to die. This simply is not true. People go to hospices to die; they
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be cured and restored to health.
That many patients do die was not, and still is not,
the reason why they go into hospital in the first place.
You should not make statements that are untrue, and that offer
little if any hope to those who, for one reason or another, are
required to have a spell in hospital. While there is life, there is
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Gunn junior Andrew Maltz dominated his weight division during the SCVAL De Anza Division dual-match season and carried that momentum into the league wrestling championships that concluded Saturday in Gunn's Bow Gym.
Maltz pinned all three of his opponents and captured the 285-pound division to help the Titans finish fourth in the 15-team event.
Maltz, who came in ranked No. 13 in the Central Coast Section, opened with a pin of Josiah Maama of King`s Academy in 1:57 before pinning Manny Sandoval of Wilcox in 2:06. In the championship match, Maltz pinned Davis Howard of Harker in just 47 seconds.
During the season, Maltz lost only twice in nonleague action, both by pin. All the rest of his opponents he pinned.
"Andy wrestled great, and we ended up with four finalists, not bad for a group of mostly first-time varsity athletes," said Gunn head coach Chris Horpel.
Five mats were going all day Friday and Saturday as both the varsity and 2nd-Man (JV) tournaments ran side-by-side.
Cupertino won the league title by virtue of going 6-0 in dual meets and winning the tournament. Fremont was second and Monta Vista third.
Gunn produced eight qualifiers and three alternates (11 SCVAL medalists) for the CCS Championships this Friday and Saturday at Independence High in San Jose. Gunn also has nine female wrestlers qualified for the girls' CCS meet, which will run concurrently with the boys.
Gunn's David Abramovitch placed second at 126 pounds by posting one pin and two decisions before falling in the title match, 8-0, to Louis Gueziec of Fremont.
Gunn teammate Tanner Kerrins was second at 138 pounds with a pin and decision that put him into the finals, where he was pinned by Joshua Aceves of Fremont.
Gunn's Dash Lee finished second at 182 pounds, also opening with a pin and winning by decision before being pinned in the finals by Matthew McLean of Los Gatos.
Other CCS qualifiers for Gunn included Eric Wei (fourth at 113), Aaron Schultz (fourth at 152), Thomas Chang-Davidson (fifth at 160), and Steven Lassen (sixth at 220).
Palo Alto's Seth Goyal, one of the favorites for a league title after being ranked No. 3 in CCS at 132 pounds, suffered an injury in the Vikings' final dual match and did not compete in the league meet.
Goyal, however, advanced to CCS as a hardship qualifier. He'll be joined by teammate Andrew Wang, who finished second at 113 pounds after dropping a 5-3 decision to Fremont's Angelo Reyes in the finals. Wang reached the title match with a pin of Jacob Bernstein of Monta Vista at 4:00.
At the PAL Championships at El Camino High, the Menlo-Atherton girls finished second in their division despite missing a handful of starters due to injury. Terra Nova won the team title by 33 points.
M-A had three champions in Bianca Vargas, Folashade Akinola and Abby Ericson.
The Pinewood girls finished off a three-win week with a 75-49 nonleague victory over host Scotts Valley on Saturday night.
Erin Poindexter-McHan led the Panthers (19-3) with 20, including five 3-pointers, with fellow junior Akayla Hackson adding 16 points and six rebounds. Freshman Klara Astrom contributed 13 points and Mikaela Topper added eight points, six assists and four rebounds.
Pinewood (9-0) will host Menlo School (8-1) on Tuesday at 6:30 p.m., with first place in the West Bay Athletic League (Foothill Division) on the line.


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What to listen to now: SZA, Bleachers, Secret Sisters and more
A look at must-hear, recently released music, as chosen by The Times’ pop staff.
SZA, “Ctrl” (Top Dawg Entertainment / RCA)
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Falling into music after walking away from studying marine biology, SZA — born Solȧna Rowe — released a pair of mix-tapes before she became the lone female voice of L.A. hip-hop powerhouse Top Dawg Entertainment and delivered her breakout 2014 EP, “Z.”
“Ctrl,” like her earlier work, sees SZA navigating the complexities of love, sexual freedom, family, personal growth and self-esteem through the gaze of a woman who grew up in an Orthodox Muslim home. The records are tender, vulnerable and often defiant.
Self-doubt and uncertainty are explored with as much depth as lust and loneliness. “Do you even know I’m alive,” she pines on “Anything.” She sings of her desire to be a “Normal Girl,” ruminates on aging on “Prom” and navigates a shared lover on the standout jam “The Weekend.” The music is equal parts aching, brazen and gorgeously honest. — Gerrick D. Kennedy
Bleachers, “Gone Now” (RCA)
Five years ago, Jack Antonoff reached an audience of millions thanks to “We Are Young,” the Grammy-winning No. 1 single by his band Fun. And this week he’s likely to do it again with Friday’s release of “Melodrama,” the highly anticipated Lorde album that he co-produced with that young New Zealand pop star.
Antonoff, who’s also worked in the studio with Taylor Swift and Carly Rae Jepsen, won’t reach anywhere near the same number of people with his second semi-solo album under the name Bleachers. But on “Gone Now,” which came out early this month, he sounds only dimly aware of that fact: These are grand-scaled electro-rock anthems that recall the fist-pumping likes of Arcade Fire and Bruce Springsteen even as they confess to an introvert’s anxieties. — Mikael Wood
The Secret Sisters, “You Don’t Own Me Anymore,” (New West)
The third album from Muscle Shoals, Ala.-reared sisters Laura and Lydia Rogers shows no hint of anyone going Hollywood. Here, they’ve turned to Brandi Carlile to co-produce with brothers Tim and Phil Hanseroth after being guided on their previous two efforts by their mentor, T Bone Burnett.
If anything, they’ve stripped things down further with hauntingly spare arrangements of songs that revel in Southern Gothic themes, which soar through their exquisite sibling harmonies. The Rogers sisters’ originals often dive deep into consuming all-or-nothing matters of the heart and the myriad emotions associated with home and all it conveys. They apply their ethereal voices to Paul Simon’s “Kathy’s Song,” his gorgeous early ode to a faraway love. The purity of intention and execution is palpable. — Randy Lewis
Joan Shelley, “Joan Shelley” (No Quarter)
Amid today’s onslaught of breaking news notifications , it’s comforting to know that this Louisville singer and songwriter’s brand of pastoral beauty is out there. Shelley’s new album continues her focus on earthen themes that are as relevant today as they were centuries ago when another Shelley, poet Percy Bysshe, was romanticizing them: love and desire, dawning and fading light, natural beauty and the delicacy of emotion.
Produced by Jeff Tweedy of the rock band Wilco, Shelley’s 11 songs highlight her precise vocal and guitar melodies and express a desire, as she writes in “If the Storms Never Came,” to “plant in rows the fruit you want/ Train hands to push the clay/ And pull in close, you feed the ones/ You don’t want far away.”
Behind her, Tweedy offers meditative bass lines, his drummer-son Spencer taps out understated rhythms, guitarist Nathan Salsburg adds labyrinthine lines and multi-instrumentalist James Elkington switches between piano and resonator guitar.
Like her excellent previous album, “Over and Even” (2015), Shelley’s new one is a subtle venture that requires focused listening — put down your phone — to fully appreciate. In such a habitat, the songs blossom with a lushness akin to the themes that occupy her lyrical world — “widening skies,” “your head across my thigh” and “your creases and your lines.” — Randall Roberts
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Misinformation in Indonesia has spread extensively and pervaded areas such as politics, religion and health as the 2024 General Election draws closer.
In response, news organisations and civil society organisations in Indonesia have initiated a digital fact-checking movement as an effort to tackle misinformation. Two organisations that become the pioneers of such a movement are the Indonesian Cyber Media Association (AMSI) and the Alliance of Independent Journalists (Aliansi Jurnalis Independen/AJI), with support from the Google News Initiative.
The three organisations have established cekfakta.com, a web-based platform through which 25 Indonesian press institutions collaboratively share fact-checking results. Through this movement, they publish digital content that aims to track and correct other content suspected of carrying false information.
News organisations have built networks locally and internationally to enhance fact-checking capabilities. One of the driving factors behind the fact-checking movement in Indonesia has been the Google News Initiative. The organisation has provided US$33 million in funding to support digital literacy and misinformation-busting program in the Asia Pacific. More than 1,000 media partners across 32 countries, including Indonesia, have joined the movement.
This massive digital fact-checking initiative has been a significant step to take to protect the public from misinformation.
However, in our latest research, we, a team from department of digital journalism at Multimedia Nusantara University, have found that the initiative still lacks public attention, at least in part because text is the dominant media of the fact checks. A more dominant role for visual elements in fact-checking content may make them more engaging and appealing to the public.
People want more visual appearance
With support from the Indonesian Cyber Media Association and Google News Initiative, we asked 1,596 audiences representing regions across Indonesia in 2022 about their preferences for the format of fact-checks produced by Indonesian journalists.
In the early stages of the research, we identified seven formats of fact-checks produced by Indonesian journalists. They are texts with photos, static infographics, debunking statements from political candidates, Instagram live, videos with background music, videos with a narrator and videos with a reporter.
We measured the audiences’ preferences of each format using four variables: how familiar is the content, how frequently they see the content, how much they like it and how likely they will use it.
One of the interesting results is that while 49% find that text fact-checks are useful, they do not actually like them. Audiences in Indonesia prefer the fact-check formats dominated by visual elements, either videos or photos.
As many as 901 respondents (60.6%) revealed that they “very much like” fact-checking content in the form of short videos accompanied by text, photos and background music.
Up to 853 respondents (60.8%) stated very much liked fact checks in the form of live Instagram posts. Both fact-check formats, short videos with background music and live Instagram, are preferred over lengthy fact-check texts. The comparison of audience choices can be seen in the following graphs.
In the context of the fact-check format, our data shows that the majority of audiences in Indonesia consider themselves to be “very familiar” with short video with background music and Instagram live as their preferred formats for fact-check contents.
Conversely, they express lower level of familiarity to text content.
Evaluation for fact-check fighters
Indonesian journalists have been combating misinformation for years. AMSI and AJI have been working with Google News Initiative extensively, training more than thousands of journalists in 2018 and 2019.
The 2020 GNI report reveals that the Cek Fakta initiative has trained more than 10,800 journalists since 2018.
A team of more than 10,000 trained journalists is a huge cyber army. They have been fighting misinformation by producing fact-checks. Three years is enough time to start evaluating whether the content they produced are liked by the audience.
Our research only provides initial recommendations. The Indonesian press needs to produce more visual-based content so that the campaign against misinformation continues.
Our research recommends that fact-check content need to be visually engagng to attract public attention. Otherwise, the public can simply ignore them.
In the context of the 2024 general election, fact checking is getting more important to ensure that the public gets the right information, so that they can make relevant political decisions.
Without fact-checks, the public could to be trapped in a wave of propaganda campaigns and lies, as happened in the 2019 general election.
Fact-checking initiatives are important and can enhance public understanding. But if they fail to capture public attention, there is little point in the exercises.

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Pied Piper and the team of geniuses is back for the final run. Silicon Valley Season 6 is on its way to entertain its die-hard fans one more time. HBO’s hit comedy has been renewed for the last run quite a while ago, and since then, there has not been any word about the forthcoming season. However, the first look for the sixth season of Silicon Valley has come out, and the fans are going crazy over it.
Created by Mike Judge, John Altschuler, and Dave Krinsky, Silicon Valley is a comedy series of HBO. The series features a story around a company Pied Piper in Silicon Valley, led by five young men and their journey throughout the years. The series debuted in 2014 and became one of the most successful series of HBO in previous years.
Silicon Valley Season 6 will be the final run of the series. Creators Mike Judge and Alec Berg discussed their views while the production work for the sixth season started in June. According to them, Silicon Valley has been a career and life highlight for them, and they will miss it desperately. However, the two also stated that they have always let Pied Piper’s journey guide the way, and season 6 seems to be the fitting conclusion.
Trailer Out Now
Yes, the official trailer for the sixth season of Silicon Valley has arrived. The first look featured Thomas Middleditch as Richard Hendricks doing a Zuckerberg. In the trailer, the guy is sitting alongside Hooli CEO Gavin Belson (Matt Ross), testifying on data privacy in front of US Congress and making a mess out of it. The chairman of the committee says they’ve already asked Facebook, Google, and Amazon about the security of their user’s data, and it’s now their turn.
Though it seemed like an awful hell like situation for Richard, the audience quite enjoyed the trailer for the sixth season. However, it did not reveal much about the plot of the final season. Check the whole trailer out.
Will Silicon Valley Season 6 have T.J. Miller?
The audience did not get to see T.J.Miller’s Erlich Bachman in the entire fifth season of Silicon Valley. The sixth season will serve as the final entry in the list. Therefore, the fans of the show are expecting him to be back, just for one time. Though the question is, will Miller return for Silicon Valley Season 6? Or was his departure from the fifth season was his final one? The answers to these questions are still unclear, but if this happens, the fans of Silicon Valley will be all happy.
Silicon Valley Season 6: Premiere Date
Finally, the premiere date for the sixth season of Silicon Valley got out. The final season of nerd drama is scheduled to premiere on October 27, 2019, on HBO. In India, as announced last month, the final season will premiere through Hotstar and Star World. For future updates on Silicon Valley Season 6, stay tuned.


Officials struggle with ballot change
Tri-County Area election officials are scrambling to find the most simple and cost-effective way to alert voters to misleading language that appears on their ballots.
The information deals with a referendum on whether Illinois should hold a constitutional convention. A Cook County Circuit Court judge ordered one week ago that state election officials direct voters to disregard the "inaccurate" information.
Area election officials, though not bound by the Cook County decision, are dealing with the issue to stave off any possible problems following the election. Peoria, Tazewell and Woodford counties all will have notices posted inside voting booths alerting voters to ignore the question calling for a constitutional convention and instead consider a separate explanation.
The Chicago Bar Association and Lt. Gov. Pat Quinn who sued over the referendum said the ballot's language is biased. It currently states that failure to vote on the question amounts to a "no" vote.
The revised explanation asks voters who support a constitutional convention to vote "yes" and those who oppose it to vote "no."
"I think there might be some confusion that the ballot says one thing and there's a notice posted saying another. All we can do is the best we can," said Tom Bride, executive director of the Peoria City Election Commission.
There is minimal added cost to election officials and it is too late to change the ballot. Notices from here on will be mailed with military and absentee ballots. Tri-County Area election officials already have mailed thousands of those ballots.
Secretary of State Jesse White has said his office is willing to spend more than $300,000 on newspaper ads to publicize the change, according to The Associated Press.
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Dr. Majed Negm, the Helwan University President, said that the university received a patients number of “Covid-19”, in addition, the university is preparing for the final exams with specific criteria.
SeeNews conducted an interview with Dr. Negm. In it, he explained the university’s efforts in trying to combat covid-19 and the preparation of final exams.
Here is the excerpts of an interview.
Q: When did the university campuses started receiving new Coronavirus patients?
We started receiving a patients approximately two weeks ago, until now, with fluctuating numbers; we have no limit for them. It is important to mention that the reception of patients by the university campuses is not for critical cases, but rather for minor cases with hopes of recovery.
Q: How many buildings have been prepared to receive patients?
6 buildings with a capacity of 600 beds are equipped to isolate these patients.
Q: What is the cost for equipping university campuses to be a healthy insulation for Coronavirus patients?
We only hand the buildings over to the Health Ministry, which it take care of the equipment completely.
Q: What is the fate of those buildings after the pandemic end ?
Of course, it will be well sterilized in order to receive students.
Q: Some students raised complaints about the loss of their belongings in campuses. Has Helwan university addressed this issue?
All the students received their belongings; if something was lost, the university will compensate the student for this matter. Due to the preparation and evacuation of the buildings within few hours, the loss of properties can’t be avoided.
Q: Will lessons be converted to electronic after the end of the pandemic?
We have a vision that the courses ought to be transferred 30% electronically upon return to normal study; this will reduce the students’ presence at the university for a day or two.
This will have direct effects on many other things such as reducing electricity consumption inside the classes, in addition traffic reduction.
Q: What is the plan for final exams at Helwan university?
We will established standards to ensure the students safety by having sufficient distances between the student , distributing masks before entering the committees, as well as sterilization through the designated sterilization portals for that.


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|This is the Web Edition of "A Trip Into Space", a Coimbra-based electronic book on space science. Both the texts and the photos are by courtesy of National Aeronautics and Space Administration.|
|A Trip Into Space Jupiter Satellites Jupiter's Satellite Ganymede - Map Of Temperature Of The Surface|
|See also: Jovian Satellite Fact Sheet|
This map shows the temperatures for most of the surface of Ganymede made from data taken by the Photopolarimeter/Radiometer (PPR) instrument on June 26, 1996 as Galileo approached the sunlit side of the moon. The color bar shows the range of temperatures of this data, with the dark red being the coldest and white being the warmest. This is similar to the temperature forecast maps that you see on the evening news or in some newspapers. The difference between this map and one of Earth is that PPR measures the temperature of the surface (the ground), instead of air temperature. Ganymede is much colder than Earth, with these daytime temperatures ranging across the surface from 90 to 160 Kelvin (or -297 to -171 degrees Fahrenheit). Jupiter and its moons receive less than 1/30th the amount of sunlight that the Earth does, and Ganymede has essentially no atmosphere to trap heat. Ganymede's day is just over 7 Earth days long, the same time it takes to orbit Jupiter once.
The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA manages the mission for NASA's Office of Space Science, Washington, DC.
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It was the first day of classes on an NFL campus for 31 players picked up by the Broncos during or after the draft last week.
All eyes were focused on Denver’s first-round pick, quarterback Paxton Lynch, who showed up with a Broncos hat on his head and a white glove on his left nonthrowing hand.
Lynch said he wore the glove because his college coach, Justin Fuente, didn’t let them wear accessories so he took advantage of it in the NFL. He’s not sure yet if it’s something he’ll continue during practices and games.
It was those sort of particulars that he was surprised that the large media contingent picked up on. It’s very different from the attention he received at Memphis on a daily basis.
“It’s pretty crazy,” Lynch said.
No time for a meet and greet, the music was blasting and the rookies — along with eight veterans or free-agents invited Friday — were getting to work on the field.
Lynch was the only quarterback at minicamp, throwing crisp passes to receivers and tight ends during the 20-minute viewing period. He took a lot of snaps under center and looked comfortable getting into his three- and five-step drops.
Broncos coach Gary Kubiak was by Lynch’s side during every throw, giving him instruction from time to time.
“This will be a big five or six weeks for him. We got to make a lot of progress. Just watching him today, he’s swimming,” Kubiak said. “This guy is going to make up a lot ground very quickly.”
Lynch has a wristband he received from Fuente that says ‘Earn it.’ He expects to continue to use that message in the NFL as he hopes to earn the respect of everyone in the locker room. He’s embraces the underdog role he and his Memphis team overcame as he transitions to the NFL.
Speculation Lynch won’t be ready for at least a year or two hasn’t gone on deaf ears, but he seems confident in his abilities.
He said he thought he threw decently Friday, but expects to improve with more reps.
“I knew what was going on. I just don’t think I was picking it up as fast I should have,” Lynch said. “But that’ll come with time. I just love that I’m getting every rep I possibly can get right now.”
Lynch was scheduled to head to the University of Memphis after Friday’s minicamp and will miss Saturday’s practice while getting his degree in sports management.
He’ll pull a switcheroo with fourth-round running back Devontae Booker, who was the only rookie to miss Friday’s practice. Booker was in Utah for his commencement. He was scheduled to arrive Friday night and be at Saturday’s minicamp.
Veteran and free-agents invited to Broncos camp included cornerback Taurean Nixon, long snapper Casey Kreiter, tight end/fullback Manasseh Garner, linebacker Zaire Anderson, center Dillon Day, tackles Kyle Roberts and Cameron Jefferson, and receiver Jordan Taylor.
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I hadn’t intended to write much about George Galloway’s mayoral bid, his and Respect’s past performance in City Hall elections means he has no measurable chance of winning next May.
But Galloway’s first policy commitment – the merger of the City of London police and the Metropolitan police – is a good example of something that I’ve been meaning to comment on for a few weeks.
The Mayor has no control over the City of London or its police force. He cannot abolish, reform, merge or takeover either of them.
Galloway’s police merger is therefore dead on arrival. Even if he somehow defied electoral reality and succeeded Boris, there’s no power or mechanism by which he could deliver on his promise.
And yet the pledge gets repeated without any challenge in today’s Evening Standard which does its readers a massive disservice in not pointing out the sheer undeliverability of it.
Other candidates have enjoyed, from a variety of commentators and outlets who all know better, similarly uncritical coverage both of non-starter policies and empty vows to lobby for powers the current Government simply won’t hand over.
If elected, Gareth Thomas would never be allowed to turn Transport for London into a co-operative where we all get a seat around the board table – bad news for American hedge funds hoping to take control in a few years time when mismanagement and lack of effective oversight send it the same way as the Co-Op’s bank.
And Mayor Sadiq Khan would spend his entire first term being refused the power to cap rents that has so excited some of his backers. Yet this policy has taken centre stage in a series of articles covering his bid, none of which bother the reader with the troublesome fact that there’s no chance it would bear fruit before he had to seek re-election in 2020.
These fantasy policies aren’t of course confined to candidates on the left.
Would-be Tory mayor Ivan Massow wasted everyone’s time, especially his own, pushing the idea that he’d turn City Hall into “a place where our homeless and some of the city’s dispossessed who are now in care can live.”
Picky types who pointed out that the building is rented and the landlords aren’t going to agree to such a radical a change of use were told by Massow’s supporters that these mere facts didn’t matter and that “where there’s a will, there’s a way.”
Massow has also pledged to introduce “tough guidelines about dealing with bad social housing tenants, so that those who fail to respect their community and their environment will be evicted and be considered to have made themselves intentionally homeless.”
But social housing tenants and their landlords don’t answer to the Mayor who has no power to decide how problem tenants are dealt with or insist on the eviction of anyone.
For all the pride we feel in London, its openness, tolerance and opportunities, there’s still plenty wrong with the city and much to be fixed. Addressing growing inequality, the housing crisis and the rising cost of living has be the focus of whoever is elected next year.
But advocating lazy, ill-researched and sometimes frankly bullshit policies does nothing to address these issues. All indulging such pronouncements achieves is to let candidates off lightly and mislead voters, many of whom will end up even more disillusioned with politics when these impossible things never happen.
No matter how exciting an idea might seem, if it relies on the victor spending 2 years lobbying ministers and – assuming they’re successful – another 12 months waiting for parliament to legislate, it’s the wrong solution for the urgent problems of today.
So let’s leave ‘thinking outside the box’ and ‘blue sky thinking’ to the writers of W1A and have a debate about London’s problems and their solutions which is centred around things the mayor can do within their existing powers from the moment they take office.
That way we might actually achieve something.


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Happy Birthday, Michael Novak
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A steady stream of about 200 well-wishers came by the Pub in Ave Maria Wednesday evening, Sept. 9, to wish happy birthday to author and theologian Michael Novak on his 82nd birthday. (Above, Rich Dittus congratulating Mr. Novak.)

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Good Faith Bill 329 requires that the insurance industry acts in good faith
Michigan Association for Justice Announces Support of Michigan Senate Bill 329
MAJ attorneys played a critical role in development of Good Faith bill that upholds the policyholder bill of rights
LANSING — Michigan Association for Justice (MAJ) President Stuart A. Sklar today issued the following statement in support of Senate Bill 329, which creates the policyholder bill of rights that will protect Michiganders and their property by requiring the insurance industry to act in good faith.
“The insurance industry has created a culture where company profits are placed ahead of the interests of policyholders. The corporate tactics they use to delay and deny payment of claims are unfair and can be harmful, even disastrous, to the individuals and businesses who have paid premiums for years only to have their insurer refuse to pay what was owed when a claim is filed. It is critical that we establish insurance industry standards for investigating and paying claims, so that we can protect consumers and businesses by giving them the right force their insurer to pay what they owe and punish the insurer when it intentionally fails to do so.
MAJ will continue to support and fight for policyholders and hold the insurance industry responsible for its Bad Faith conduct. Dozens of MAJ members contributed insights and content to make this bill a reality.”
SB 329 would:
Ensure that the insurance industry has a duty to honor its contracts and obligations in good faith and allows for legal recourse when the industry fails.
Establish the right of consumers to have claims investigated properly and handled fairly.
Require insurance companies to promptly pay valid, rightful claims on home, auto, life, and business policies.
Protect consumers from loss based on policyholder needs, and not on insurance company profits.
Create reasonable industry standards for investigating and paying claims, as well as reasonable industry standards to protect consumers, businesses, and insurance companies.
“One of the biggest challenges for medical providers is timely and predictable payments from insurance companies,” said Tim Hoste, President of the Coalition to Protect Auto No Fault. “If enacted, this law will ensure that medical providers can rely on the fact that payments for medical services will be made timely, which will result in lower costs to patients and drivers.”
Visit https://www.michiganjustice.org/ for more information about the Michigan Association for Justice.
About the Michigan Association for Justice
The Michigan Association for Justice, formerly the Michigan Trial Lawyers Association (MTLA), is a trade association of over 1,300 attorneys who represent individuals in injury, employment, civil rights and criminal matters. The organization’s staff has offices in Lansing, Michigan.
Click here to read SB 329 https://www.legislature.mi.gov/documents/2023-2024/billintroduced/Senate/pdf/2023-SIB-0329.pdf


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Trump scheduled to appear for deposition in E. Jean Carroll lawsuit
Former President Donald Trump is set to answer questions under oath Wednesday as part of the defamation lawsuit brought by former magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll.
Last week, a federal judge cleared the way for Trump’s testimony saying the former President had already taken steps to delay the case and he “should not be able to run out the clock.”
It is not clear if Trump will answer questions when he is deposed by Carroll’s attorney.
Lawyers for Trump and Carroll have declined to comment.
Carroll sued Trump in 2019 for defamation after he denied her claim that he raped her in a New York department store in the mid-1990s. She was scheduled to sit for her deposition last Friday.
The legal stakes for Trump were recently raised when Carroll said she intends to sue him next month under a new New York State law that allows victims of sexual assault to sue years after the attack. His testimony in the defamation case could be used in a future lawsuit.
The defamation case has been in legal limbo for over a year.
Trump and the Justice Department argued Trump was a federal employee and his statements denying Carroll’s allegations were made in response to reporters’ questions while he was at the White House. They argued the Justice Department should be substituted as the defendant, which, because the government cannot be sued for defamation, would end the lawsuit.
Judge Lewis Kaplan ruled against Trump and DOJ. They appealed. Last month a federal appeals court in New York ruled that Trump was a federal employee when he denied Carroll’s claim of rape and sexual assault.
However, the federal appeals court asked the Washington, DC, appeals court to determine if Trump was acting within the scope of his employment when he made the allegedly defamatory statements. If the DC court finds in favor of Trump, then the Justice Department would likely be substituted as a defendant and the case dismissed. The DC appeals court has not yet taken up the matter and it is unclear if or when they will.
This year Trump was ordered by a New York State judge to sit for a deposition with the New York attorney general’s office. Trump refused to answer questions, citing his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.
Last month the New York attorney general’s office filed a $250 million lawsuit against Trump, his eldest children and the Trump Organization for allegedly defrauding lenders and insurers through false financial statements. Trump has denied any wrongdoing and said the lawsuit was politically motivated.
In civil cases if someone declines to answer questions the jury is allowed to apply an adverse inference against the person when deciding their potential liability.
Last year Trump sat for a deposition for a civil lawsuit brought by protestors who claimed they were injured outside of Trump Tower during his first presidential campaign. He is also expected to testify in another civil lawsuit relating to a marketing campaign by the end of the month.

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AS Wayne and Coleen continue to work out the status of their marriage, LOVE AND BE LOVED offers a timely clue as to the secret of success.
Success can come her way again today at Leicester as she seeks to follow up a recent win in today’s fillies’ handicap at 5.15.
Earlier in the afternoon, Wayne probably won’t want reminding of COURT HOUSE’s credentials in the 5.05, but John Gosden’s newcomer comes from a family with a decent record of first time out winners and can be backed accordingly to lay down the law.
The 5 furlong opener at Kempton at 1.50 should see Michael Owen’s trainer Tom Dascombe saddle the winner in the shape of DEVIATE.
Like Owen, Deviate is lightening quick but happily for punters we don’t have to listen to the horse on BT Sport for hours on end as we collect our winnings in the first race of the day.
The feature race of the day at Kempton 4.35 can go the way of the Charlie Hills trained BARRINGTON.
Charlie is the well-heeled son of veteran mega-trainer Barry Hills and, you guessed it, Barry wasn’t christened Barry at the font.
Barrington can ensure only the finest claret is served at this evening’s Hills family supper, having dropped down the handicap to a winnable mark this afternoon.
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Looking back at the weekend we found a winner with the marvellous JAMES GARFIELD who was way too good for his rivals under Frankie Dettori.
He’s 40/1 for next year’s 2000 Guineas.
I’ve seen (and had) dafter bets and although plenty can change between now and early May 2018 he’s worth a couple of quid each way at a massive price.
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This is the second part to my May blog. Here I will be covering some more established bands, and their plans for the upcoming half of 2015. And can you believe half the year is almost gone? Damn. The older you get, the faster time passes it seems.
The first band of this blog is SECRETS. A San Diego based post hardcore band, who also wrote the track this blog is named for, Maybe Next May, from their sophomore album Fragile Figures. As for their third, well they are currently writing material for that release. They already released an acoustic EP, Renditions, back in April. And as their beginning of their year was packed with tours, I suspect they will be devoting the rest of the year to R&R, and working on their third album. This is one of my favorite bands, and one of the few bands to suffer a major lineup change and come out stronger. I'll get into it in more detail some other time, but for now I suggest you go listen to Dance of the Dead, Infinite Escape, or Fragile Figures.
Then there's one band that needs no introduction, Bring Me The Horizon. The band has posted pictures of them working on new material, and just goofing off, so a new album can be expected sometime this year, or early next year. They ended their "Sempiternal era" with their outstanding Wembley performance. So what's to come next? Who knows. This band has had its ups and downs. And ten years since their formation, they've come a long way. Their 5th release is sure to be a memorable one, good, bad or otherwise. Songs to listen to include, Seen It All Before, Go to Hell for Heaven's Sake, Shadow Moses, Visions, and Drown.
The last three bands are all Fearless Record label mates. That's right, I'm talking about Pierce the Veil, Chunk! No, Captain Chunk!, and Tonight Alive. Each band has their eyes set on a 2015 release for their next album. CNCC have already released two singles for their third album, Get Lost Find Yourself, which I'll be covering later this month when it comes out. Go listen to Taking Chances, Progression of Regression, Playing Dead, and In Friends We Trust.
PTV had planned to release their 4th album last year, but delayed it due to some new songs being written. So this year looks like the year for some new music from our favorite Mexican bred boys. They're out on Warped Tour this year, so hopefully they'll debut a new single as part of their setlist. Do I even need to suggest songs for this band? Okay, fine. Give King for a Day, Bulls in the Bronx, Hold on til May, Besitos, and Bulletproof Love a listen. Or all of their 2nd or 3rd albums because they're both so damn good. Their debut is just that, a debut.
And last but not least is Tonight Alive. This album is one I can't wait to hear. After their previous release, I'm not sure how they can possibly top it. I love everything about this band. Their work ethic, their sound, the band itself, and their performances. You can't not watch Jenna and Whak, the lead guitarist, and not want to see more. Those two have such great on stage chemistry. The last time I saw them was on the 2013 Warped Tour, and I still remember every second of it. Songs to hear are The Edge, Listening, Starlight, Lonely Girl, Come Home, Thank You and Goodnight, Amelia, and Breaking and Entering. I could go on and on really, but I'll just leave it with those songs.
So that's the end of this blog. Enjoy the rest of your May, and


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The objective to the paper emphasizes on the study of various models related to antimicrobial and antidiarrheal activity of Tinospora cordifolia. The plant also possesses various pharmacological activities including its use as antihyperglycemic, anti-inflammatory, antiarthritic, ant osteoporotic, enhance cognition (learning and memory), antidiarrheal and immunomodulatory effects. The current works aims to justify the folklore use of the whole plant of the Tinospora cordifolia for its antidiarrheal and antimicrobial potentiality. Tinospora cordifolia contains phytochemical constituent such as alkaloids, diterpenoid lactones, glycosides, steroids, sesquiterpenoid, phenolics, aliphatic compounds and polysaccharides. T. cordifolia is already an import- tent composition of many traditional Indian medicine formulations, both its purified stem proteins and the derived peptides by enzyme hydrolysis could be incorporated into food products or nutraceuticals or developed to be a safe and efficient drug for treating oxidative stress and related disorders. Pretreatment with Tinospora cordifolia extracts provide significant protection against castor oil and magnesium sulfate‑induced diarrhea, the extracts may presume to have antisecretory and preventive action towards CCK release.

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Ok so i’m just going to vent a little bit here. I know that it’s no big deal and that i’m just being about as stupid as the title to this blog but i’m very irritated by “Diabetic” Cookbooks. Mainly because there is nothing in this world that i diabetic can’t eat. I think instead of labeling these cookbooks as “Diabetic” they should call them “Low Carb.” or CookBooks with nutritional info or something. I don’t know… it’s not like I really care or that i’m abnormally bothered by this but I was just sitting at my desk looking through some of the cookbooks in my office for ideas for a cooking group that i run once a week at the local youth centre and the thought just popped into my head. Why do they make cookbooks especially for us?
Because most are sold to those who are newly DX’d, or someone not diabetic who thinks that buying a diabetic cookbook will make them more thoughtful/considerate of their diabetic friends (notice how there is often a “diabetic desserts” or similar book as an impulse item at most grocery stores)… not realizing that there is very little difference in the content other than the name.
Not true Sarah! I once used a d-cookbook that prided itself on using alternative sugar sources. I tried a brownie recipe that used PRUNES and it was the grossest thing ever. That cookbook went in the garbage bin along with the brownies! Cheers, MJ
Because we make a very large target audience. And I’m not talking body composition, just sheer numbers
Disclaimer: In my day job, I work for a company that makes cookbooks, so you can stop reading now, unless you’re really eager to know more about my philosophy on recipes that are useful when a person wants to cook with diabetes in mind …
Ideally, cookbooks labeled “diabetic” or “diabetes” would look at all the nutritional requirements of eating well for diabetes, not just be low carb.
To cater to diabetes-specific health concerns–weight maintenance/loss needs, blood lipids, and blood pressure (nearly 75% of adults with diabetes have high blood pressure–not so good for avoiding complications)–recipes should be sensible in calories, limited in saturated fat, contain no trans fats, be high in fiber, use whole grains as much as possible, encourage vegetable consumption, be well-balanced, champion lean proteins, contain all nutrition counts (fiber, so it can be subtracted from total carb count to equal net carbs, sodium so people can have a chance at consuming no more than 1,500 mg/daily, for example), offer substitutions and recommend which sugar substitutes will work (for people who use them).
Also, it’s nice when recipes list exact serving sizes (ever tried to figure out the individual serving size from a pot of stew that claims to have 8 servings–is it 1 cup or 2 cups or 1.33 cups?).
And I appreciate when the recipes are tested by a test kitchen (so the measurements and methods will work in my kitchen) and tasted by a taste panel that helps avoid gross pruney brownies. 'Cause who wants to go to all the work of buying ingredients and standing over a hot stove if it’s gonna be garbage-can material?
Obviously I have spend waaaaay too much time thinking about this.
I agree with you Billy. I despise the word Diabetic because I’m more then a disease. I’ve cringed through the years whenever I’ve read or heard that word. I refer to myself as a person who lives with Diabetes.
Ones like Kelly describes are helpful, but most I’ve seen are useless. Several friends gave me gifts of diabetic cookbooks. These books substituted artificial sweeteners for sugar & that was the only difference between them & regular recipes. Hint–if the cover has a pic of a bowl of pasta, it’s useless. Yep, one I received had pasta & rice recipes & no carb counts.
The best recipes I’ve found are on low carb sites.
Big money to be made on cookbooks, diet books & self-help books.
Kelly, I like your response. I have quite a few Diabetic cookbooks and find them very helpful because of the nutritional information. As like all cookbooks some are better than others.
Ya i totally understand that you probably make more sales on cookbooks if they say diabetic. I guess it just sort of irritates me a little because i get so mad when people look at what i’m eating and ask, “can you eat that?” it was just a thought and i decided to share it. Haha i still use some recipes out of “diabetic cookbooks” for some of my cooking groups and such just because they do have all the nutritional information. It was just a thought… nothing really against them.
Good point, Kelly, about serving sizes. Even my Weight Watcher cookbooks will say things like “Soup serves 12.” Great. I made soup. Now let me pour it into 12 equally sized bowls so I can determine if I’m eating exactly 1/12th in this sitting. Or it says “Serve over rice” and shows grilled chicken and veggies served over rice in the photo and then lists the carb count as 36g. “Great, is that 36g before the rice? And how much rice? Because there’s no way that that whole meal served over rice is just 36g…but with just those veggies? UGH.”
I am so annoyed by every cookbook I own lately…and I cook at home every night. I just want a d@mn measurement. 2/3 cup, 8 ounces, 2 tablespoons, I don’t care! Just give me something I can weigh or measure.
I love Fine Cooking magazine, and also Martha Stewart’s little magazine, Everyday Food. They both list nutritional info. I stopped subscribing to Gourmet last year because they didn’t list the data. I guess it’s my fault they just folded.
This is the exact reason why I do diabetic cookbook reviews on my blog. I try to take everything into account although I do miss a point here and there once in awhile. I would be interested in knowing people’s opinions on certain diabetic cookbooks. If anyone is interested in joining a group that does diabetic cookbook reviews just click here. You will have to have a Google account in order to join.
actually the magazine kelly works for has good nurtrition info with each recipe and they keep diabetics in mind without killing you with untasteful foods. BUT as a person who hates to cook or even think about cooking, cookbooks don’t do much for me. I get nervous about measuring too Melissa, i could never imagine making spaghetti with the sauce already poured in it just for the simple fact you can’t control the carbs. So how do i eat you ask??? I eat frozen foods and anything i slap together i make sure i can count it (like salads or sandwichs). But one day i hope to be brave enough to make a recipe and as melissa put it “pour it into 12 equally sized bowls so I can determine if I’m eating exactly 1/12th in this sitting.” (even the hamburger helper portion is to small after you cook it!)


Studies Shed New Light on Effects of Administration's Tax Cuts
Publication Date: September 2004
Special Collection: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Keywords: Tax code; Economic projections; Fiscal future; Federal budget
A wide variety of informative new data and analyses has been released recently that provide a more complete picture of how the 2001-2003 tax cuts are affecting the economy, the budget, and different income groups. This information comes from two new studies of the tax cuts — one by the Congressional Budget Office and the other by the chief economist of Economy.com, an independent economics research firm. In addition, new data from the Economic Policy Institute and new budget estimates from the Administration shed more light on the tax cuts’ effects.


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Cuomo Expects Coronavirus Peak in 45 Days, Plans Boost in Hospital Capacity
by Dan Clark • Published on March 17, 2020 • 0 Comments
Gov. Andrew Cuomo speaks to reporters Tuesday, March 17, 2020.
Credit: Dan Clark
Gov. Andrew Cuomo said experts in New York expect the number of hospitalizations required because of the novel coronavirus, or COVID-19, to peak in 45 days, and could require more than 12 times as many ICU beds than the state currently has available.
Hospital administrators are meeting today in New York, Cuomo said, to create a plan for creating more space, and making more beds available for patients with the disease.
That comes as more than 400 additional cases of COVID-19 were identified in New York overnight, bringing the statewide total to 1,374 as of Tuesday morning. More than 10,000 people have been tested for the disease, as of now, with 12 deaths.
Out of the 1,374 cases in New York, 264, or about 19%, have required hospitalization.
Cuomo said experts in New York have predicted that as many as 18,600 to 37,200 intensive care unit beds could be needed at the peak of the disease, which is expected around the end of April. As many as 55,000 to 110,000 hospital beds could be needed, Cuomo said.
As of now, New York state has 53,000 hospital beds and 3,000 intensive care unit beds, Cuomo’s said in recent days.
He’s called on President Donald Trump to authorize the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to come to New York and identify spaces that could be retrofitted to accommodate individuals with the coronavirus when hospital capacity reaches a critical point.
Cuomo told reporters he spoke to Trump Tuesday morning, and that Trump said the Army Corps of Engineers and the Federal Emergency Management Agency would be available to help the situation in New York.
New York, Cuomo said, will work in cooperation with the federal government as much as possible to curb the outbreak.
“We’re not Democrats, we’re not Republicans. We’re Americans at the end of the day,” Cuomo said.
Trump, speaking at the White House Tuesday morning, said the conversation with Cuomo was “productive.” Trump said the federal government will authorize the Army Corps of Engineers to work with New York if needed.
“We’re starting to, we’re starting the process. We hope it’s not necessary, but it could be necessary,” Trump said. “The state is working on it very hard themselves, but we’ll probably supplement what they’re doing.”
There’s a three-way agreement, Cuomo said, between his office, the State Senate, and the Assembly on legislation that would provide paid sick leave amid the coronavirus pandemic. We have the details on that bill in a separate post.
The U.S. Senate, on Tuesday, was also expected to take up legislation to provide sick leave for individuals affected by the disease. The House has already approved the bill.
As of now, Cuomo said, there are no plans to quarantine entire cities, or areas, to curb the spread of COVID-19. Cuomo said that kind of order wouldn’t make sense because people would immediately leave the area before it took effect.
Several local officials have reached out to him, Cuomo said, and told him about complaints from constituents, who are upset about the state’s recent actions regarding COVID-19. He said to direct those individuals to him.
“If you are upset by what we have done, be upset at me,” Cuomo said. “I made these decisions. They’re all state-ordered rules.”
New York will also open a second drive-through testing facility for the coronavirus in Nassau County on Tuesday, Cuomo said, with other locations expected in Suffolk County, Rockland County, and on Staten Island.

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The enormous increase of scientific papers in digital form has increased document management complexity. The development of effective and efficient methods to sort and organize the documents is thus very crucial. Clustering is one of data mining techniques widely applied in various field that may be used to resolve the issue. This paper presents the performance comparison of partitioning-based clustering algorithms, namely random clustering, k-means, x-means, and k-medoids in an unsupervised classification of scientific publications based on topic similarity. Rapidminer is utilized to preprocess and analyze the data. Afterwards, the purity value and processing time of each algorithm are investigated. The results show that k-means performs the best purity value, although its run time is not the fastest. Meanwhile random clustering offers the fastest processing time with the lowest purity value trade-off. None of the observed algorithms produce best purity and processing time at once. It may due to the complex of parameters that affect the clustering results, inter alia, the type of data, selected algorithm, distance measures, and preprocessing methods.
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December 7, 2011 - 2:22pm
The Louisville Film Society’s new theater (810 E. Market St.) is named Dreamland, after an early-20th-century Louisville theater. As society co-founder Tracy Heightchew gives a tour and optimistically describes her hopes for the space, the name seems fitting. “We want this place to kind of be a rabbit hole where everybody’s visions can be expanded,” she says.
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December 7, 2011 - 1:27pm
Editor's Letter: The first time I truly understood that I lived in a basketball state was mid-August, when I tuned to a local sports radio show and heard the host and his guest talking about recruiting. Basketball recruiting.
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BETHEL-ST. PAUL CHURCH TO BEGIN
MINISTRY TO ABUSED AND WOUNDED PEOPLE
In January of 2012, Bethel-St. Paul Church, 4004 Shelbyville Road, will begin a new ministry to abused and wounded people called “Journey Groups”.
December 5, 2011 - 2:05pm
Kick off December with Louisville Magazine's launch party!
Join us for our December launch party at the University Club, located on the University of Louisville's campus, just off Cardinal Boulevard.Don't miss out on free appetizers, drink specials, and a chance to win a Rick Pitino signed basketball.There will also be free, on-site parking.For...
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Opinion Pieces Discuss Efforts, Funding Needed To Continue Progress Toward Global Malaria Elimination
Devex: Opinion: Combating the deadliest animal on Earth
Tom Hart, North America executive director of the ONE Campaign
“…After over 15 years of strong U.S. support for the Global Fund, we’ve reached an impasse where President Trump appears ready to trade our hard-fought gains for a white flag of surrender. Last month, the White House proposed a budget that would drastically cut the U.S. historic contribution to the Global Fund … Pulling back [from the Global Fund] now will signal retreat at a time when we should be doubling down on the progress we’ve already made. The heartbreaking reality of malaria is that children — who through no fault of their own were born into a home without a bed net or a village without a hospital — are its biggest target. It’s within our collective power to stop this outrage, but getting there will require the United States and other donors to continue their full-throated support of programs including the Global Fund that are helping stop malaria one bite at a time…” (4/25).
The Hill: New malaria vaccine: A new biotechnology for the children of Africa
Peter J. Hotez, vaccine scientist, professor of pediatrics, and dean of the National School of Tropical Medicine at Baylor College of Medicine
“…While lives have been saved, the overall progress in the fight against malaria is still slow, and it would be great to have in-hand a game-changing technology to accelerate future public health gains. … [T]he most effective way to save lives is through the development, testing, and ultimately introduction of a vaccine. For malaria, several vaccines are in different stages of product and clinical development, but the one furthest along is known as RTS,S … The delivery of a partially-protective vaccine [such as RTS,S] being used alongside of existing measures is a relatively new idea in the global health community, and one that might take time for policymakers to accept. But it’s one that we’ll need to get used to. … I hope it becomes the first of several new vaccines to come online for the world’s most prevalent neglected diseases” (4/25).
Miami Herald: We can — and must — stop malaria in the Americas
Henri R. Ford, pediatric surgeon and dean of the University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine
“…Malaria elimination in the Americas is … a matter of health security. … Ongoing support to programs such as the President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria is essential. … Strong U.S. leadership must work with country partners to save lives, protect public health across the region, and prevent a malaria resurgence here at home. Overcoming the challenge of diagnosing and treating malaria in remote areas will require continued partnerships between governments, the private sector, communities, and international institutions. Support from entities like PMI and the Global Fund, with sustained investment from donor countries including the U.S., has helped save millions of lives from malaria. This disease can be wiped out, but not if we stand still. We must step up the fight to end malaria in the Americas — and everywhere — for good” (4/24).
The Telegraph: Tackling malaria at the grassroots is key to its elimination
Olivia Ngou, founder and executive director of Impact Santé Afrique and member of Civil Society for Malaria Elimination (CS4ME) and the RBM Partnership to End Malaria
“…As we mark World Malaria Day on April 25 it is time to think again about how to combat a disease that still kills 250,000 children in Africa every year. Scientific research into vaccines and drugs is of course vital, but working with communities to tackle the disease where it hits — in villages and towns across Africa — is a key part of the battle. … Civil Society 4 Malaria Elimination was established to tackle the disease at the grassroots. It is the first global network of community and civil society organizations working for the elimination of malaria. It aims to promote more inclusive and effective programs that focus on communities and are based on social, gender, and human rights. … I see the concrete progress we are making every day but we must take the fight to the people the disease hits hardest” (4/25).
The Hill: Malaria kills 1,000 children daily, now there’s a vaccine to fight it
Chris Plowe, professor of medicine, molecular genetics and microbiology, and global health at Duke University and director of the Duke Global Health Institute
“…The vaccine [launched last week] in Malawi is no silver bullet. … Still, there is good reason to hope that the ‘world’s first’ will be followed by something better, perhaps soon. A completely different vaccine — one that, in a strange but satisfying biological twist, is actually manufactured in mosquitoes — will soon be rolled out in a large field test on Bioko Island off the coast of Equatorial Guinea, aiming to eliminate malaria there. What these vaccines have in common, along with many of our best malaria drugs over the last century, is that they were developed with U.S. government funding, including long-term funding from the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and especially the Department of Defense malaria research programs. The importance of this sustained public commitment to innovation cannot be overlooked. If we hope to read news about tomorrow’s more effective vaccines, we need to remain committed to funding the search for better tools today…” (4/24).
The KFF Daily Global Health Policy Report summarized news and information on global health policy from hundreds of sources, from May 2009 through December 2020. All summaries are archived and available via search.


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KEiiNO Nominated For Norwegian Grammy!
By Nikola Stojanović Last updated Apr 28, 2020
Spellemannprisen is a Norwegian music award established by the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) and for the first time it was awarded back in 1973. The prize honours musicians for their achievements in the previous year and it is often referred to as the Norwegian Grammy Awards. KEiiNO has received their first nomination for Spellemannprisen in the category of the best song for their Eurovision entry “Spirit In The Sky”.
The nominees for the best song include:
Isah & Dutty Dior – “HALLO” KEiiNO – “Spritit In The Sky” Kygo feat. Store P, Lars Vaular – “Kem kan eg ringe“ Nicolay Ramm – “Raske Briller” Rat City feat. Isak Heim – “Kind of Love” Ruben – “Lay by Me” Sigrid – “Don’t Feel Like Crying”
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Some of the previous winners of Spellemannprisen who also represented Norway at Eurovision include Anita Skorgan for Best Pop Album “Ingenveitilbake” in 1979; Jahn Teigen for Best Male Vocal in 1978 and twice for Jury Honorary Award in 1983 & 2009. Bobbysocks for Jury Honorary Award in 1985. Margaret Berger with “Lifetime Guarantee” for Best Musical Video in 2004. Alexander Rybak won the Spellemann of the year (Åretsspellemann) for 2009 a special prize based on the commercial success of the artist and his music.
The winner of this prize receives a bronze statue designed as a gramophone which is in his possession for a year and the winners of the biggest prize include a-ha; Röyksopp; Kygo; Marcus & Martinus and last year it went to Alan Walker.


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It's my understanding that unless congress does something by 12/31/12 the SS tax withholding amount is 6.2% for 2013.
Is that correct?
I have payroll to do on the 1st and the 5th....so I use the 6.2$ right?
6.2% for SS wages paid in 2013 is the current law. It will take an act of Congress to change it. I'm not holding my breath for that.
Another question is what to withhold for Federal income taxes. I believe the IRS hasn't issued withholding tables for 2013 yet.
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NEW YORK — Yankees manager Aaron Boone used two words to describe Gerrit Cole’s state of mind through four starts this season: shut down.
Cole’s strong start to 2023, highlighted by his complete game with the Twins on Sunday, is just what the doctor ordered for the Yankees’ patchy rotation. While left-hander Carlos Rodón, his flashy offseason pick-up, and righties Luis Severino and Frankie Montas are parked on the injured list, the Yankees need consistency and electric stuff from their ace. So far, Cole has answered the call.
His start Sunday was so dominant — 10 strikeouts, two hits and one walk allowed over nine innings and 109 pitches in a 2-0 victory — that Boone recalled Cole’s Hall of Fame career. But at least one major recognition is still missing from Cole’s 11-year MLB career. Boone said he’s surprised Cole hasn’t picked up a Cy Young yet, though the skipper is confident he’ll get one, maybe more. While it’s still early in the season, Cole’s 0.95 ERA suggests he could be in for his first such award this year.
“Even coming into this year, I think he’s probably been on some level underrated, underrated,” Boone said of Cole. “He’s a great pitcher. I think he’s going to end up in Cooperstown one day. He’s very responsible, diligent and cares about his profession, his team, his teammates. He’s ready and takes a lot of responsibility to be that guy.”
For Cole, being that guy starts with a Yankees win. He’s not putting much emphasis on his fourth career shutout, and first since July 10, 2021 against the Astros, other than to say that accomplishing the feat is “old school.” The Yankees have won every time Cole has taken the mound so far this season, and that’s the most important result on his mind.
The correlated trend he hopes to maintain is his incredible command of the fastball. When Cole is locating his fastball, it makes his secondary pitches much more effective. And that command combined with getting ahead in the count, he believes, has also allowed him to limit the long ball. Cole’s 33 home runs allowed last year led the major leagues and were a big part of why he tended to spiral, unable to stop the bleeding in big innings. This year, Cole hasn’t given up a single home run in four starts and 28.1 innings.
Interestingly, Cole’s strikeout percentage is slightly lower than what we’re used to seeing from the Yankees’ ace. When asked if his ability to limit home runs is related to his lower K/9 rate, Cole’s eyes lit up.
Yankees’ Gerrit Cole throws 10 shutouts against Twins
“Oh wow. That’s a fascinating question,” Cole commented. “I haven’t thought about it at all, but I’ll keep it in mind and look into it.”
Regardless of how that rate compares to his previous seasons, the workhorse set a new Yankees benchmark for strikeouts on Sunday. Cole became the first pitcher in franchise history to post a sub-1.00 ERA and at least 30 strikeouts in his first four appearances of a season since earned runs became a stat in 1913. With his 10th strikeout of the afternoon, a three-pitch whiff against Donovan Solano, Cole tied Ron Guidry for double-digit strikeout games (23) in Yankees history.
Cole has thrown the most runs in baseball since arriving in New York in 2020 (626) — and every year since 2017, his final season in Pittsburgh (1,424) — and it’s not even close. It’s things like that, along with his miniscule ERA, that add to the argument that Cole is the best pitcher in baseball right now.
To be more consistent, Cole will continue to throw his fastball with conviction and look to lower his walk rate. He has walked at least one batter in each of his four starts, leading to a higher BB/9 ratio than previous years. But the encouraging aspect of Cole’s walk rate is that he’s been able to strand almost all of those runners as well as get out of jams. That confidence will be important for him as the season progresses.
Also, shutting down Cole every five days has lessened the sting of losing two key arms in Rodón and Severino to the injured list. His latest masterpiece salvaged a series split after the Yankees (10-6) dropped their first two games to the Twins. That reliability goes a long way in a 162-game season.
“He’s just handling every situation so well,” Boone said. “His fastball command and the fact that he’s getting pressure in a lot of different spots in the strike zone has been huge for him. His secondary stuff I thought played a big role, all of them. But that’s big performance right there. He’s a special pitcher.”
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The community that was to become Wabamun was not originally located on its present site. Rather, it was situated on the northwest corner of Moonlight Bay on Lake Wabamun. With the arrival of the Grand Trunk Pacific Railway, the community was moved to its present location. A feat made possible by the cold winter of 1911 to 1912 which allowed the buildings to be moved across the frozen lake. The community of Wabamun, named after the native word for “looking glass”, was officially incorporated as a Village in 1912.
In those early years the Village’s economy centered around two things: the proximity of the lake and the presence of the rail line. The railway company promoted Wabamun as a summer resort to encourage tourists from Edmonton. The combination of the rail line and the lake also allowed for the development of a commercial fishing industry. Fish were shipped by boxcar as far away as New York. In winter, ice was cut from the lake to supply railway refrigeration cars.
Additionally, the rail line allowed development of the nearby coal resources. Initially, coal was used locally for domestic heating purposes. Later it was also shipped by rail to a power generating station in Edmonton.
Between 1954 and 1968 a four-unit power generating plant was built. The Whitewood Coal Mine, located northwest of Wabamun, became operational in 1962 to supply coal to the generating plant. Two other power generating plants were built on the south shore of the lake and the Keephills coal mine was developed to supply the two newer plants.
The development of the Wabamun Provincial Park as well as the Village’s Waterfront Park, boat launch and a federal pier have increased Wabamun’s appeal as a recreational and tourism destination. In 1996, the addition of a private marina and boat launch capable of launching and mooring large sailboats has played a key role in attracting boating enthusiasts.
You can learn more about the history of Wabamun and the surrounding area by visiting the Wabamun & District Museum, located at 5140 52 Ave.

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Clinical Homogeneity of DSM-IV Schizophrenic DisordersOulis P. · Lykouras L. · Tomaras V. · Stefanis C. · Christodoulou G.N.
University of Athens, Department of Psychiatry, Eginition Hospital, Athens, Greece
We investigated the lifetime fulfillment of five subcriteria of diagnostic criterion A in 94 inpatients with a definite diagnosis of DSM-IV schizophrenic disorder. Among the five diagnostic features captured by criterion A, only delusions were found to be almost universal, whereas of the remaining four, only hallucinations and negative symptoms occurred in more than half of all the cases. Overall, almost 60% of the 28 possible patterns of combination among the five subcriteria were found to be fulfilled although 60% of the cases were accounted for by only 4 patterns, which were also identified by means of a cluster analysis, as accounting for the totality of the cases. The first cluster was characterized by the fulfillment of subcriteria 1,2 and 5, the second by subcriteria 1 and 2, the third by subcriteria 1 and 5 and the fourth by subcriteria 1,2, and 3. The substantial clinical heterogeneity of the DSM-IV category of schizophrenic disorders with respect to their diagnostically characteristic features captured in criterion A is traced to the polythetic character of its five subcriteria.
P. Oulis, MD
Vas. Sophias Av. 74
Athens 115 28 (Greece)
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Psychopathology (International Journal of Descriptive Psychopathology Phenomenology and Clinical Diagnositcs)
Founded 1897 as ‘Monatsschrift für Psychiatrie und Neurologie’
Vol. 32, No. 4, Year 1999 (Cover Date: July-August 1999)
Journal Editor: P. Berner, Vienna/Paris; E. Gabriel, Vienna
ISSN: 0254–4962 (print), 1423–033X (Online)
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525 km south of Addis Ababa, the town Chencha is known for human trafficking. WSG / Bright Star work to prevent this through a kindergarten, a youth center, medical campaigns, youth empowerment programs, Sport for the Gospel, and improvement of drinking water.
CHENCHA PRISON MINISTRY
WSG / Bright Star runs a prison ministry in the Chencha prison, where the prisoners get the opportunity to participate in income generating activities in the workshop and receive spiritual support and visits. Financial supports for the school in the prison and sport material are also provided.
CHENCHA CHILDREN SPORT MINISTRY
WSG-Gamo TESFA Football Project is a community sports project with 30 young players under 13 years of age who train football regularly with a coach and receive a meal. The project is a collaboration with Tesfa Football Academy, which is registered under the Ministy of Youth and Sports as well as Ethiopian Football Federation.
CHENCHA YOUTH CENTER AND MINISTRY
WSG Youth Center has been established in Chencha to give community free library to ensure education, a meeting center for youth empowerment and activities for the youth, such as sport. The area is highly populated and has no public library or youth center so this center meets the community needs and aims to equip the youth for education to prevent them to end on the streets.
CHENCHA WATER AND HYGIENE PROJECT
A water project impacting 500 families has been conducted in Chencha teaching about hygiene and implementing 'mechanical' water stations where the weaving technique pushing a bar with the foot is used to poor water. This reduces contamination.

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mannequin, outpatient drug-free, and methadone upkeep approaches. Nonetheless, medical observations do indicate that therapy of particular populations may be enhanced if
To improve the chances of achieving meaningful and long-lasting sobriety, it’s highly recommended these struggling with substance abuse bear a long-term drug therapy programs that lasts ninety days and longer. Research exhibits that individuals completing a minimum of ninety days of remedy have considerably decrease relapse charges than those who stay for shorter amounts of time. One of the advantages of inpatient rehab is that they supply a secure place to detox where medical professionals can monitor vitals and ease a number of the unpleasant symptoms. Depending on the substance and severity of the habit, withdrawal symptoms usually start a couple of hours after the final dose of the drug. Alcohol detox generally lasts wherever from three to 10 days, with withdrawal symptoms starting inside 6 hours and being their worst at 72 hours. Alcohol withdrawal lessens considerably in severity after 72 hours to one week, which known as the acute withdrawal phase.
At The Hope House, we provide a free insurance verification to help explain precisely what protection is on the market. Cocaine rehab is most successful for clients who stay in treatment for a minimal of 90 days and learn to overcome their triggers. A long-term research of cocaine users found that only 21% of individuals were utilizing cocaine weekly one-year post-rehab. The rehab timeline will vary for each particular person, because it is dependent upon quite a few elements. However, it is essential to observe that the length of recovery just isn’t the sole focus.
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A natural and healthy diet can bring its own rewards. We may already have all the right ingredients but need to rethink how we can combine them for maximum nutritional benefit says Way Long Soo
Food and drink nurture life. But if one does not know that the nature of substances may be opposed to each other, and one consumes them all together indiscriminately, the vital organs will be thrown out of harmony and disastrous consequences soon arise. Therefore, those who wish to nurture their lives must carefully avoid doing such damage to themselves.’ (Chia Ming, Essential Knowledge For Eating And Drinking, 1368)
From a Taoist point of view, the route to optimum health and longevity involves striking a balance between yin and yang. Failure to do so can lead to the ‘opening of the floodgates’ to a host of chronic ailments. However, strict adherence to favourable combinations of the ‘four energies’ and the ‘five flavours’ in food can avoid any such deleterious effects on our health. The four energies are warm, hot, cool and cold. Warm and hot foods belong to yang while cool and cold foods belong to yin. The five flavours in food are the more subtle distinctions based on the Five Elements: sweet (Earth), bitter (Fire), sour (Wood), pungent (Metal) and salty (Water), as outlined in our last issue.
The cardinal rule in balancing yin and yang is to avoid any indiscriminate combination of foods. Unless this rule is adhered to, it will not be possible to gain the full nutritional benefit from the foods we eat, even if they are the most wholesome foods on earth!
The principle of the yin and yang balance in food can be best explained in terms of the acid and alkaline principle of the West whereby the adding of a measure of acid to an equivalent measure of alkaline produces a neutral result.
Taking The Starch Out
Eating protein and carbohydrate (or starch) together at the same meal is the worst form of food combination. This is because for a complete and efficient digestion of any protein, a highly acidic medium is required. Starch or carbohydrate, on the other hand, requires a highly alkaline medium to do so. Therefore, if both protein and carbohydrate (or starch) are consumed together at the same meal, it will not be possible to digest either one of them properly giving the ever-present bacteria in our digestive tract ample opportunity to putrefy the remaining protein and ferment the carbohydrate.
If so, then why don’t we have any trouble digesting foods that contain both protein and starch such as whole grains? The answer is very simple; our body has no problem adjusting its juices to accommodate the digestive requirement of a single article of starch/protein food. This is where a distinction between the digestion of a single food (regardless of the complexity of its composition), has to be drawn from the digestion of a mixture of different foods. Therefore, it is advisable for you to have either eggs or toast for breakfast, or meat or potato for dinner instead of both together.
Acid Versus Alkaline
It is also important to take note when eating different types of proteins together since different proteins have different digestive needs. For example, the digestion of meat occurs during the first hour and milk during the last hour with eggs somewhere in between. However, consumption of two similar meats such as beef and lamb will not cause any digestive conflicts since they are not sufficiently different in nature. Nevertheless, it is still advisable to eat only one type of protein at a single meal.
Consumption of any acid food such as tomatoes together with starch sabotages the digestive needs for both right away, causing fermentation. Therefore, if you want to eat toast or cereal for breakfast, then skip the orange juice and the eggs. Though proteins require a highly acidic medium to digest properly and efficiently, eating acid foods together with proteins will nevertheless inhibit digestion. This is because the protein-digesting enzyme can only work in the presence of hydrochloric acid and not any other form of acid.
Fats, taken together with proteins, pose a strong impediment to an efficient digestion of the latter which in turn results in putrefaction. This is because fats exert an inhibiting influence on the secretion of the gastric juices to digest proteins properly. This explains why fatty meats such as bacon, steaks and lean meats fried in fats sit so heavily in our stomach for hours after eating them.
It is a well established fact that sugars digest neither in the mouth nor in the stomach. Instead they pass directly into the small intestine for digestion and assimilation. This is because of our inability to secrete those gastric juices necessary for their digestion. Therefore, if sugars are consumed together with proteins such as cake after steak, the digestion of the protein will be inhibited by the sugars which in turn, will also be stuck pending the digestion of the former. As a result of this entrapment, the sugars will start to ferment releasing noxious gases and toxins which will further impede the digestion. The message is clear: eat them separately!
Keeping The Balance Right
The same reasoning goes for combining starches with sugars. The trapped sugars will start to ferment causing acidic by-products which will further impede the proper digestion of the starches. Therefore, though bread (starch) and butter (fat) is a compatible combination, a spoonful of honey or jam over it will interfere with the digestive process of the starches. This is the same for breakfast cereal sprinkled with sugar.
The processes of both fermentation and putrefaction are the dual culprits of all sorts of digestive distress which includes gas, heartburn, cramps, bloating, constipation, foul stools, bleeding piles, colitis and so on. Even so-called allergies such as rashes, headaches, nausea, hives and other symptoms are often caused by the indiscriminate combination of food.
Maintaining the equilibrium of yin and yang by properly combining the foods does not require any self-denial. You can still eat what you want except in a compatible and digestible combinations. Besides, how on earth do you expect to get the full benefits of what you ate if you cannot digest them! Therefore, use your imagination during cookery to avoid committing too many ‘culinary crimes’, and you will be on your way to a better health!

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Gallbladder Sludge in Dogs: Ultrasonographic and Clinical Findings in 200 Patients.
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Echogenic luminal contents are often noted during ultrasonographic examination of the gallbladder (GB) in canine patients, but the significance of biliary sludge is not well understood. GB contents were evaluated during 200 sequential ultrasonographic scans performed at a veterinary school, and sludge was quantified using a 1-5 scale. GB volume was retrospectively estimated from stored images. Medical records were used to determine patient demographics, clinicopathologic findings, and diagnoses/disorders. The majority of dogs (66.5%) had some hyperechoic material within the GB. Four dogs were diagnosed with a mucocele. For statistical purposes, dogs with uniformly nonechogenic bile or minimal sludge (80.5%) were compared to those with >25% sludge (17.5%). Dogs with >25% sludge were significantly older than those with minimal sludge (8 versus 11 yr). Serum cholesterol and bilirubin concentrations and activities of both alkaline phosphatase and gamma-glutamyl transferase were not correlated with the presence of GB sludge. Dogs with spontaneous hyperadrenocorticism or hypothyroidism were more likely to have >25% sludge (odds ratio: 5.04). In addition, >25% sludge was associated with increased GB volume, suggesting that changes in GB function or contractility may impact the formation of biliary sludge in dogs.
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No other breed can be mistaken for the Puli, a compact but powerful herder covered from head to tail with profuse, naturally occurring cords. Bred to work closely with humans, these agile and faithful little dynamos are quick learners.
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