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Fake news and the effects on the pandemic
The covid-19 pandemic has resulted in a lot of controversies since its development. Many people around the globe have had different opinions that have given rise to fake news.
Through this fake news, this fake news has harmed the perception of the pandemic. One of the effects that this fake news has caused is the perception of people seeing that there is no covid-19.
Many people in the world don’t believe that there is such a disease. Through many government efforts making sure that their citizens are healthy, many of the citizens fail to follow covid-19 rules and regulations such as wearing masks, keeping social distance, and many others more.
This has resulted to be a burden for many nations in the world to be able to control this deadly flu-like disease known as coronavirus. (Fernández-Torres, et al. 2021) The recent effects of fake news on the pandemic are about the covid-19 vaccine.
The vaccine has caused a lot of arguments, with others saying the vaccine has side effects and it’s not an appropriate thing for a human being to use while others are in agreement that the vaccine is the right way to control this pandemic.
In this essay paper, I am going to discuss how the procedure of researching influences my understanding as it is connected to media learning.
Explaining how I became more media well-educated after investigating my topic, expounding on how my view moved as it relates to media knowledge after finishing my project, how the project altered my viewpoint on media exits and how they convinced me in watching and responding to their content, the local and global groups that work on the issue of media knowledge and the ones that work on subjects connected to my capstone task.
The procedure of investigating influenced my understanding as it is connected to media literacy; all along I have believed that the media plays a positive role in informing and educating people. But through my research, influenced my understanding that media can be both positive and negative at the same time.
For my topic, media has contributed much negativity to the pandemic rather than it has done on the positive influence. Through researching, I was able to understand how media can be used negatively to influence people, many people do believe in media, media has a powerful impact on a citizen of a country.

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UK inflation has continued to fall, slipping to 1.6pc in March year-on-year, down from 1.7pc a month earlier, pushed lower by a fall in petrol prices and clothing.
The March Consumer Prices Index (CPI) inflation rate is the lowest rate since October 2009 and was inline with economists' forecasts.
The data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed that the drop in prices was led by transport costs, particularly petrol prices, clothing and furniture.
CPI 12-month inflation rate from March 2004 to March 2014
The statistics office said Easter didn’t have an impact on the March inflation data. The late timing of the holiday means it’s likely to have an impact on the April numbers.
Inflation has been below the Bank of England's target of 2pc for the past three months, helping support Governor Mark Carney’s case for keeping the benchmark interest rate at a record-low 0.5pc.
Samuel Tombs, UK economist at Capital Economics, said he expected inflation to fall as far as 1pc this year, which would mean no rate rise until the end of next year.
"We continue to think that a combination of stable commodity prices, falling import prices and recovering productivity will push CPI inflation as low as 1pc before the year is out," he said.
"This would provide more solid foundations for the recovery in consumer spending and enable the MPC to keep Bank Rate at 0.5pc until late 2015."
Today's data comes a day ahead of separate ONS labour market statistics which are expected to show that regular pay is rising at a rate of 1.8pc, up from 1.3pc, providing the first evidence that the pressure on family budgets and living costs is starting to ease.
That will mark the first time pay increases have outstripped inflation for the first time in six years as the economy gathers pace and unemployment continues to fall.
The turning point between pay and prices – and the return of an increase in “real pay” – will provide ammunition for George Osborne, the Chancellor, over Labour and its focus on the cost of living.
Mr Osborne said on Tuesday: "These latest inflation numbers are welcome news for families. Lower inflation and rising job numbers show our long term plan is working, and bringing greater economic security. But there is still much more we need to do to build the resilient economy I spoke of at the Budget."


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Public pressure delays deportation off amilies.
Two Messianic Jewish families who have been given a reprieve from deportation by the Israeli government are hoping public pressure will allow them to stay permanently.
“To start deporting Jews who believe in Jesus would not be popular,” says Gary Beresford. “But we are willing to go to prison rather than leave.”
The families, including one from the United States, have convinced government officials to extend deadlines. The Knesset extended a deportation order by three months following a week of demonstrations outside the Israeli parliament in late February. Since late May, the Beresfords have been in no-man’s land—still living in Israel but without any legal claim as the Knesset prepares to debate a bill determining their residency rights. “We want a permanent status,” says Shirley Beresford. “Right now we’re in limbo, unable to get a work permit.”
The Beresfords, who are British citizens, first applied for Israeli citizenship in 1986. The Israeli High Court twice has ruled on their request for citizenship, first determining the Beresfords do not qualify as Jews under the country’s 1950 Law of Return, which defines a Jew as “a person born to a Jewish mother or converted to Judaism.” A 1970 amendment added “and who is not a member of another religion.” According to Beresford, the High Court originally ruled that because his family attended a Messianic congregation in Jerusalem that confessed Jesus as the Messiah he did not qualify as a Jew under the law. Beresford, 41, says he agreed to stop attending the congregation after the first ruling in order to remain in the country, but the court later disqualified him merely because he believed in Jesus.
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Our parent movie reviews let you know which new releases to take your kids to and which ones you may want to hold off on.
1) Family Review of How to Train Your Dragon 2
Four years after the initial film, ‘How to Train Your Dragon 2’ reunites us with young Viking Hiccup and his trusty dragon Toothless. This second installation has way more dragons, but its wider scope makes for some generic storytelling....…Read More
2) Family Review of 22 Jump Street
‘22 Jump Street’ is not as memorably hilarious as its surprisingly successful predecessor, but it’s a solid follow-up. Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill continue to be strangely magical in their roles as sometimes-brilliant cops, even though the film sometimes drags......Read More
3) Family Review of Words and Pictures
‘Words and Pictures’ wants to be a thinking person’s romantic drama, with its main characters facing off whether which is more important: literature or art. The idea is interesting and the performances from Clive Owen and Juliette Binoche solid, but the movie doesn’t feel that unique......…Read More

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SHANGHAI, Jun 28 (SMM) – SHFE zinc dived unexpectedly since June 22, and recorded the new low at 22,525, yuan/mt since October 2021. As of June 27, SHFE zinc narrowed its decline from nearly 8% on Friday June 24 to 3.4%, and closed the day at 23,690 yuan/mt.
In the spot market, SMM 0# zinc ingot dropped 960 yuan/mt on June 28 to 23,800 yuan/mt, down 1,180 yuan compared with that on June 22.
SMM believes that the current of steep fall is mainly the result of the macro changes. Recently, the Europe and the United States have been raising interest rates one after another, triggering market concerns about a global recession, followed by hawkish statements from the Federal Reserve, which has increased market pessimism. Against this bearish background, the metals market was under pressure as a whole.
Besides disturbances from the macro front, sluggish demand also dragged on zinc prices. According to SMM research, the die-casting, zinc alloy and zinc oxide sectors also posted falling weekly operating rates due to sluggish real estate and infrastructure.
Nonetheless, there have been frequent production cuts on the supply side last week. In details, flooding in Guangxi led to the suspension of production of a local smelter, which then gradually resumed the production after the power station was restored. A smelter in the west Hunan stopped the production for 10 days and reopened on Friday. Some smelters in Inner Mongolia will be overhauled from July to August to reduce the production, and some in Shaanxi are expected to start overhaul or reduce the production beyond expectation.
As such, SMM has revised the monthly output estimate in June and July down to 487,200 mt and 512,200 mt respectively. And the market shall watch if there be more production cuts or suspensions as some smelters have already suffered losses owing to constantly falling zinc prices last week.
In terms of inventory, SMM zinc ingot social inventory across seven markets in China totalled 197,400 mt as of June 27, down 10,900 mt from last Friday June 24, and down 20,700 mt from Monday June 20 mainly because of less arrivals and restocking on dips.
To sum up, the inventory is expected to fall further amid supply tightness, open export window and purchases on dips though the supply and demand sides are both weak. The bearishness on the macro front has weighed on zinc prices, and investors are advised to stay wait-and-see until the prices stabilise.

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ItemBulk and Single-Cell Profiling of Breast Tumors Identifies TREM-1 as a Dominant Immune Suppressive Marker Associated With Poor Outcomes(Frontiers Media, 2021-12-08) Pullikuth, Ashok K.; Routh, Eric D.; Zimmerman, Kip D.; Chifman, Julia; Chou, Jeff W.; Soike, Michael H.; Jin, Guangxu; Su, Jing; Song, Qianqian; Black, Michael A.; Print, Cristin; Bedognetti, Davide; Howard-McNatt, Marissa; O’Neill, Stacey S.; Thomas, Alexandra; Langefeld, Carl D.; Sigalov, Alexander B.; Lu, Yong; Miller, Lance D.; Biostatistics and Health Data Science, School of MedicineBackground: Triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells (TREM)-1 is a key mediator of innate immunity previously associated with the severity of inflammatory disorders, and more recently, the inferior survival of lung and liver cancer patients. Here, we investigated the prognostic impact and immunological correlates of TREM1 expression in breast tumors. Methods: Breast tumor microarray and RNAseq expression profiles (n=4,364 tumors) were analyzed for associations between gene expression, tumor immune subtypes, distant metastasis-free survival (DMFS) and clinical response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC). Single-cell (sc)RNAseq was performed using the 10X Genomics platform. Statistical associations were assessed by logistic regression, Cox regression, Kaplan-Meier analysis, Spearman correlation, Student's t-test and Chi-square test. Results: In pre-treatment biopsies, TREM1 and known TREM-1 inducible cytokines (IL1B, IL8) were discovered by a statistical ranking procedure as top genes for which high expression was associated with reduced response to NAC, but only in the context of immunologically "hot" tumors otherwise associated with a high NAC response rate. In surgical specimens, TREM1 expression varied among tumor molecular subtypes, with highest expression in the more aggressive subtypes (Basal-like, HER2-E). High TREM1 significantly and reproducibly associated with inferior distant metastasis-free survival (DMFS), independent of conventional prognostic markers. Notably, the association between high TREM1 and inferior DMFS was most prominent in the subset of immunogenic tumors that exhibited the immunologically hot phenotype and otherwise associated with superior DMFS. Further observations from bulk and single-cell RNAseq analyses indicated that TREM1 expression was significantly enriched in polymorphonuclear myeloid-derived suppressor cells (PMN-MDSCs) and M2-like macrophages, and correlated with downstream transcriptional targets of TREM-1 (IL8, IL-1B, IL6, MCP-1, SPP1, IL1RN, INHBA) which have been previously associated with pro-tumorigenic and immunosuppressive functions. Conclusions: Together, these findings indicate that increased TREM1 expression is prognostic of inferior breast cancer outcomes and may contribute to myeloid-mediated breast cancer progression and immune suppression. Itemc-Met Mediated Cytokine Network Promotes Brain Metastasis of Breast Cancer by Remodeling Neutrophil Activities(MDPI, 2023-05-05) Liu, Yin; Smith, Margaret R.; Wang, Yuezhu; D’Agostino, Ralph, Jr.; Ruiz, Jimmy; Lycan, Thomas; Kucera, Gregory L.; Miller, Lance D.; Li, Wencheng; Chan, Michael D.; Farris, Michael; Su, Jing; Song, Qianqian; Zhao, Dawen; Chandrasekaran, Arvind; Xing, Fei; Biostatistics and Health Data Science, School of MedicineThe brain is one of the most common metastatic sites among breast cancer patients, especially in those who have Her2-positive or triple-negative tumors. The brain microenvironment has been considered immune privileged, and the exact mechanisms of how immune cells in the brain microenvironment contribute to brain metastasis remain elusive. In this study, we found that neutrophils are recruited and influenced by c-Met high brain metastatic cells in the metastatic sites, and depletion of neutrophils significantly suppressed brain metastasis in animal models. Overexpression of c-Met in tumor cells enhances the secretion of a group of cytokines, including CXCL1/2, G-CSF, and GM-CSF, which play critical roles in neutrophil attraction, granulopoiesis, and homeostasis. Meanwhile, our transcriptomic analysis demonstrated that conditioned media from c-Met high cells significantly induced the secretion of lipocalin 2 (LCN2) from neutrophils, which in turn promotes the self-renewal of cancer stem cells. Our study unveiled the molecular and pathogenic mechanisms of how crosstalk between innate immune cells and tumor cells facilitates tumor progression in the brain, which provides novel therapeutic targets for treating brain metastasis. ItemComprehensive and Computable Molecular Diagnostic Panel (C2Dx) From Small Volume Specimens for Precision Oncology: Molecular Subtyping of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer From Fine Needle Aspirates(Frontiers Media, 2021-04-16) Su, Jing; Huang, Lynn S.; Barnard, Ryan; Parks, Graham; Cappellari, James; Bellinger, Christina; Dotson, Travis; Craddock, Lou; Prakash, Bharat; Hovda, Jonathan; Clark, Hollins; Petty, William Jeffrey; Pasche, Boris; Chan, Michael D.; Miller, Lance D.; Ruiz, Jimmy; Biostatistics, School of Public HealthThe Comprehensive, Computable NanoString Diagnostic gene panel (C2Dx) is a promising solution to address the need for a molecular pathological research and diagnostic tool for precision oncology utilizing small volume tumor specimens. We translate subtyping-related gene expression patterns of Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) derived from public transcriptomic data which establish a highly robust and accurate subtyping system. The C2Dx demonstrates supreme performance on the NanoString platform using microgram-level FNA samples and has excellent portability to frozen tissues and RNA-Seq transcriptomic data. This workflow shows great potential for research and the clinical practice of cancer molecular diagnosis. ItemMulti-Omics Analysis of Brain Metastasis Outcomes Following Craniotomy(Frontiers Media, 2021-04-06) Su, Jing; Song, Qianqian; Qasem, Shadi; O’Neill, Stacey; Lee, Jingyun; Furdui, Cristina M.; Pasche, Boris; Metheny-Barlow, Linda; Masters, Adrianna H.; Lo, Hui-Wen; Xing, Fei; Watabe, Kounosuke; Miller, Lance D.; Tatter, Stephen B.; Laxton, Adrian W.; Whitlow, Christopher T.; Chan, Michael D.; Soike, Michael H.; Ruiz, Jimmy; Biostatistics, School of Public HealthBackground: The incidence of brain metastasis continues to increase as therapeutic strategies have improved for a number of solid tumors. The presence of brain metastasis is associated with worse prognosis but it is unclear if distinctive biomarkers can separate patients at risk for CNS related death. Methods: We executed a single institution retrospective collection of brain metastasis from patients who were diagnosed with lung, breast, and other primary tumors. The brain metastatic samples were sent for RNA sequencing, proteomic and metabolomic analysis of brain metastasis. The primary outcome was distant brain failure after definitive therapies that included craniotomy resection and radiation to surgical bed. Novel prognostic subtypes were discovered using transcriptomic data and sparse non-negative matrix factorization. Results: We discovered two molecular subtypes showing statistically significant differential prognosis irrespective of tumor subtype. The median survival time of the good and the poor prognostic subtypes were 7.89 and 42.27 months, respectively. Further integrated characterization and analysis of these two distinctive prognostic subtypes using transcriptomic, proteomic, and metabolomic molecular profiles of patients identified key pathways and metabolites. The analysis suggested that immune microenvironment landscape as well as proliferation and migration signaling pathways may be responsible to the observed survival difference. Conclusion: A multi-omics approach to characterization of brain metastasis provides an opportunity to identify clinically impactful biomarkers and associated prognostic subtypes and generate provocative integrative understanding of disease. ItemThe nuclear structural protein NuMA is a negative regulator of 53BP1 in DNA double-strand break repair(Oxford University Press, 2019-04-08) Salvador Moreno, Naike; Liu, Jing; Haas, Karen M.; Parker, Laurie L.; Chakraborty, Chaitali; Kron, Stephen J.; Hodges, Kurt; Miller, Lance D.; Langefeld, Carl; Robinson, Paul J.; Lelièvre, Sophie A.; Vidi, Pierre-Alexandre; Physics, School of ScienceP53-binding protein 1 (53BP1) mediates DNA repair pathway choice and promotes checkpoint activation. Chromatin marks induced by DNA double-strand breaks and recognized by 53BP1 enable focal accumulation of this multifunctional repair factor at damaged chromatin. Here, we unveil an additional level of regulation of 53BP1 outside repair foci. 53BP1 movements are constrained throughout the nucleoplasm and increase in response to DNA damage. 53BP1 interacts with the structural protein NuMA, which controls 53BP1 diffusion. This interaction, and colocalization between the two proteins in vitro and in breast tissues, is reduced after DNA damage. In cell lines and breast carcinoma NuMA prevents 53BP1 accumulation at DNA breaks, and high NuMA expression predicts better patient outcomes. Manipulating NuMA expression alters PARP inhibitor sensitivity of BRCA1-null cells, end-joining activity, and immunoglobulin class switching that rely on 53BP1. We propose a mechanism involving the sequestration of 53BP1 by NuMA in the absence of DNA damage. Such a mechanism may have evolved to disable repair functions and may be a decisive factor for tumor responses to genotoxic treatments. ItemPrognostic Mutational Signatures of NSCLC Patients treated with chemotherapy, immunotherapy and chemoimmunotherapy(Springer Nature, 2023-03-27) Smith, Margaret R.; Wang, Yuezhu; D’Agostino, Ralph, Jr.; Liu, Yin; Ruiz, Jimmy; Lycan, Thomas; Oliver, George; Miller, Lance D.; Topaloglu, Umit; Pinkney, Jireh; Abdulhaleem, Mohammed N.; Chan, Michael D.; Farris, Michael; Su, Jing; Mileham, Kathryn F.; Xing, Fei; Biostatistics and Health Data Science, School of MedicineDifferent types of therapy are currently being used to treat non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) depending on the stage of tumor and the presence of potentially druggable mutations. However, few biomarkers are available to guide clinicians in selecting the most effective therapy for all patients with various genetic backgrounds. To examine whether patients' mutation profiles are associated with the response to a specific treatment, we collected comprehensive clinical characteristics and sequencing data from 524 patients with stage III and IV NSCLC treated at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist. Overall survival based Cox-proportional hazard regression models were applied to identify mutations that were "beneficial" (HR < 1) or "detrimental" (HR > 1) for patients treated with chemotherapy (chemo), immune checkpoint inhibitor (ICI) and chemo+ICI combination therapy (Chemo+ICI) followed by the generation of mutation composite scores (MCS) for each treatment. We also found that MCS is highly treatment specific that MCS derived from one treatment group failed to predict the response in others. Receiver operating characteristics (ROC) analyses showed a superior predictive power of MCS compared to TMB and PD-L1 status for immune therapy-treated patients. Mutation interaction analysis also identified novel co-occurring and mutually exclusive mutations in each treatment group. Our work highlights how patients' sequencing data facilitates the clinical selection of optimized treatment strategies. ItemscLM: Automatic Detection of Consensus Gene Clusters Across Multiple Single-cell Datasets(Elsevier, 2021-04) Song, Qianqian; Su, Jing; Miller, Lance D.; Zhang, Wei; Biostatistics, School of Public HealthIn gene expression profiling studies, including single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) analyses, the identification and characterization of co-expressed genes provides critical information on cell identity and function. Gene co-expression clustering in scRNA-seq data presents certain challenges. We show that commonly used methods for single-cell data are not capable of identifying co-expressed genes accurately, and produce results that substantially limit biological expectations of co-expressed genes. Herein, we present single-cell Latent-variable Model (scLM), a gene co-clustering algorithm tailored to single-cell data that performs well at detecting gene clusters with significant biologic context. Importantly, scLM can simultaneously cluster multiple single-cell datasets, i.e., consensus clustering, enabling users to leverage single-cell data from multiple sources for novel comparative analysis. scLM takes raw count data as input and preserves biological variation without being influenced by batch effects from multiple datasets. Results from both simulation data and experimental data demonstrate that scLM outperforms the existing methods with considerably improved accuracy. To illustrate the biological insights of scLM, we apply it to our in-house and public experimental scRNA-seq datasets. scLM identifies novel functional gene modules and refines cell states, which facilitates mechanism discovery and understanding of complex biosystems such as cancers. A user-friendly R package with all the key features of the scLM method is available at https://github.com/QSong-github/scLM. ItemSingle-cell sequencing reveals the landscape of the human brain metastatic microenvironment(Springer Nature, 2023-07-21) Song, Qianqian; Ruiz, Jimmy; Xing, Fei; Lo, Hui-Wen; Craddock, Lou; Pullikuth, Ashok K.; Miller, Lance D.; Soike, Michael H.; O’Neill, Stacey S.; Watabe, Kounosuke; Chan, Michael D.; Su, Jing; Biostatistics and Health Data Science, School of MedicineBrain metastases is the most common intracranial tumor and account for approximately 20% of all systematic cancer cases. It is a leading cause of death in advanced-stage cancer, resulting in a five-year overall survival rate below 10%. Therefore, there is a critical need to identify effective biomarkers that can support frequent surveillance and promote efficient drug guidance in brain metastasis. Recently, the remarkable breakthroughs in single-cell RNA-sequencing (scRNA-seq) technology have advanced our insights into the tumor microenvironment (TME) at single-cell resolution, which offers the potential to unravel the metastasis-related cellular crosstalk and provides the potential for improving therapeutic effects mediated by multifaceted cellular interactions within TME. In this study, we have applied scRNA-seq and profiled 10,896 cells collected from five brain tumor tissue samples originating from breast and lung cancers. Our analysis reveals the presence of various intratumoral components, including tumor cells, fibroblasts, myeloid cells, stromal cells expressing neural stem cell markers, as well as minor populations of oligodendrocytes and T cells. Interestingly, distinct cellular compositions are observed across different samples, indicating the influence of diverse cellular interactions on the infiltration patterns within the TME. Importantly, we identify tumor-associated fibroblasts in both our in-house dataset and external scRNA-seq datasets. These fibroblasts exhibit high expression of type I collagen genes, dominate cell-cell interactions within the TME via the type I collagen signaling axis, and facilitate the remodeling of the TME to a collagen-I-rich extracellular matrix similar to the original TME at primary sites. Additionally, we observe M1 activation in native microglial cells and infiltrated macrophages, which may contribute to a proinflammatory TME and the upregulation of collagen type I expression in fibroblasts. Furthermore, tumor cell-specific receptors exhibit a significant association with patient survival in both brain metastasis and native glioblastoma cases. Taken together, our comprehensive analyses identify type I collagen-secreting tumor-associated fibroblasts as key mediators in metastatic brain tumors and uncover tumor receptors that are potentially associated with patient survival. These discoveries provide potential biomarkers for effective therapeutic targets and intervention strategies.

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text: Christian was admitted to the bar in 2014. Christian grew up in Lima, Peru, and later migrated to the United States. He attended the University of Utah and the University of California Berkeley, obtaining Bachelor’s degrees in Political Science and History and a Master’s degree in Political Economy. Christian attended law school at the S.J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah. Christian focuses his practice on litigation for personal injury actions representing plaintiffs in cases involving serious motor vehicle car accidents, semi-truck accidents, commercial vehicle accidents, construction accidents, train accidents, electrocutions, catastrophic injury cases, premise liability cases, and wrongful death claims. His experience in litigation includes a multi-million dollar jury verdict in Utah Federal District Court and several seven-figure confidential settlements. Helping injured clients get the restitution they deserve is a passion for Christian and Adams Davis. Christian likes to travel, read, be a foodie, and watch sports in his spare time.

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My latest paper is on the arXiv today, to be submitted to JHEP (Journal of High Energy Physics): https://arxiv.org/abs/2203.01009
Here is a simple explanation…
The Standard Model of particle physics encapsulates our best understanding of the building blocks of the universe to date, but we know it’s incomplete: there must ne new physics to account for dark matter. So far, no extra fundamental particles have been discovered at the LHC’s two main detectors, which can be thought of as 3D cameras surrounding the proton collision points. But what if we were looking in the wrong place? So far, we have assumed that any new particles would instantly decay at the collision point, before they reach our detectors… but particles which travelled a few meters and decayed **inside** the detector itself would have been completely missed. Just like in a car, it’s crucial to check the blind spots, in case something important is hiding there.
So this paper is part of a series of searches for so called “long-lived” exotic particles. We used AI to try to distinguish candidate collision events which might contain these particles decaying “inside the camera”, from some of the many unusual backgrounds we face: the ATLAS detectors were not designed for this sort of search! Sadly we did not find any evidence of new particles, but we set some stringent limits on how often any such particles could be produced at the scale of the LHC. The search goes on!
Here are more explanations about the picture: neutral long-lived particles decaying inside the ATLAS calorimeters would lead to narrow, trackless jets (clusters of energy deposits) with little or no energy in electromagnetic part of the calorimeter. You see two such jets in the picture, as bunches of yellow bars, with very few yellow tracks in their vicinity. This collision event is from actual LHC data (it’s not a simulation, just a visualisation), and it looks just like our signal (the long-lived particles) would. However, regular collisions can also cause such events, because of inefficiencies in detector reconstruction, and we precisely measured how many of these “background” collisions we would expect. We didn’t observe any excess of such events above what we expected from the background, so it’s likely this particular event was **not** due to new physics!


We get offended when people refer to Africa as a country.
Africa is not country, Africa is continent made up of 55 different countries but of course you know this you are here all 54 of you (well minus the one recently suspended)
“An integrated, Prosperous and Peaceful Africa, driven by its own citizens and representing a dynamic force in the global force in the global arena”African Union Vision
That’s a great vision to have for the African Union, Africa has come a long way and we have further to go…
After chatting with friends all over the continent, we have more in common than differences, united by the problems we face, differing in scale and intensity but the same nonetheless, Africa might as well as be a country
Sudan is in a crisis right now… Security services brutally cracking down on protestors, committing unspeakable atrocities
Indigo Blue a favourite colour of a 26 year old protestor gunned down has become a symbol for solidarity #BlueForSudan there’s an internet black out in Sudan
Protest in Sudan toppled the country’s 30 year dictatorship, and for a bit there was even hope for democracy but the military council refused to cede control to a civilian government and now here we are…
It feels like a dejavu, our former president of 30 years, “resigned” and then we had elections “eventually” with contested results and now a violent military response to protestor during an internet black out seems to be the order of the day.
Wait which country am I talking about? Violence, Elections, Protest, Internet Shutdown, Violence, Military crack down….
Are African leaders in a who is who competition to see who can rule the longest or rather who can hold on to power the longest, what are elections, what is democracy?
Are we doomed to be trapped in an endless cycle of one uprising after another, rebellions and revolutions, exchanging one tyrant for another?…
Day 15 of #WinterABC challenge post Addressing The African Union


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Bara Imambara, Lucknow. Important visiting information
More about Bara Imambara, Lucknow and Historical Information
Constructed in the 18th century by Asaf-ud-Daula, the Nawab of Awadh, the Bara Imambara is a religious Muslim monument situated in Lucknow. Also known as Asafi Imambara, this monument is a must visit when in Lucknow. Neither a mosque nor a mausoleum, this building has elements which are very intriguing. It is one of the most important pilgrimage sites for Muslims especially during Muharram. The monument is significant as it represents the replicas of the tombs dedicated to the Holy Prophet and his family members. The Imambara is a monument that is a great example of Nawabi architecture. It houses a mosque, ‘bawali’ (a step-well mostly used in summers), Taziya, Zari, 489 identical doorways, domed chamber, interconnected passages leading to a three-dimensional labyrinth, and the tomb of Asaf-ud-Daula. The Bara Imambara is one the largest arched constructions with colossal halls and a ‘bhool bhulaiya’-maze of corridors where one can easily get lost. The ideal time to visit this beautiful monument is between October and March since the weather is pleasant. The monument is open to public from sunrise to sunset, and it is advised to visit it with a guide to get the complete feel of the history the monument has to narrate.
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Concentrating (focusing) collectors
Logically, in order to collect the maximum radiation for each unit surface area of the collector, it is necessary to direct its surface at right angles to direct radiation direction continuation of maximum benefit by the collector during a day is possible by keeping the collector surface perpendicular to the incident solar radiation throughout the daylight. It is theoretically simple to show that a moving collector compared to the horizontal ones at the same site can collect p/2 times more energy per day. However, in practice this factor is around 1.5 times. Of course, the more the direct radiation, the better is the energy generation from the sun radiation.
If high temperatures are needed then the collector surface is manufactured as a curve for concentrating (focusing) the solar radiation at certain points by mirror or lens. Mirrors are cheaper to construct than lenses. The mirror collectors may have spherical or linear parabolic shapes as shown in Fig. 32. In a parabolic mirror solar radiation is concentrated at a point, and therefore, the concentration ratio is approximately 40,000. The concentration of one-dimensional linear parabolic system is around 200. So far as the lenses are concerned there are single surface or equivalent Fresnel types as shown in Fig. 33. Although in flat plate collectors diffuse solar radiation also makes contribution in the radiation collection, but the concentrating collectors focus the incident sunlight on the collector surface, leaving the contribution of diffuse
radiation a side. Another disadvantage of the concentrating collectors is that they must track the sun in order to obtain the optimal benefit. Concentrating collectors cause temperature rises in the heater up to 300-6000 °C. These collectors must be aligned with sufficient accuracy to ensure that the focus coincides with the collector surface. The greater the degree of concentration, the more accurate is the alignment required. Typical uses of solar radiation collectors can be grouped into four different categories depending on the purpose.
1. as a heat source for low temperatures, which may be used for domestic hot water or crop drying purposes,
2. in order to power heat engines, relatively high heat collectors can be used,
3. depending on the climate, the collectors can be used as high temperature heat to power refrigerators and air conditioners, and finally,
4. in the photovoltaic cells operation for direct electricity production.
Although the flat collectors make use of diffuse solar radiation also, but this is not possible with the concentrators where the temperatures can reach to 300-600 °C. In a concentrator collector the position must be aligned such that sufficient accuracy is ensured by directing the focus with the collector surface.
Most low-temperature solar collectors are dependent on the properties of glass which is transparent to visible light and short-wave infrared, but opaque to long wave infrared reradiated from a solar collector or building behind it. In order to benefit from daylight, and especially solar radiation as energy source, manufacturers strive for making glass as transparent as possible, by keeping the iron content down.
Optical properties of commonly used glazing materials
In Table 5, the optical properties of some commonly used glazing materials are indicated.
Line focus collectors focus the solar radiation on to a pipe running down the center of a trough which is mainly used for generating steam for electricity. To get the maximum benefit, it is necessary that the trough is pivoted to track the sun’s movement in any direction.
Point focus collectors as shown in Fig. 28 also track the sun but in two dimensions and these also generate steam for electricity. If the solar radiation is concentrated trough mirrors or lenses then over boiling temperatures may be reached for water. It is possible to use such high temperature trough in steam production for mechanical work, for instance, for water pumping or electricity generation. These are already named as high-temperature collectors. Most often parabolic mirrors are used for solar radiation concentrations. As shown in Fig. 34, all sun’s rays directed parallel to the axis of such a mirror are reflected to one point. It is necessary that the mirror tracts the sun, otherwise slightly off-axis solar beams will make inconvenient reflections, and the intensity of radiation concentration onto a point or line will be weakened. In the line focus form the sun radiation can be concentrated on a small region running along the length of the mirror. For the maximum focusing of the sun radiation, it is necessary to tract the sun in elevation only that is up and down. However, in the point
focus form, the sun radiation is reflected on a boiler in the mirror center. For optimum performance, the axis must be pointed directly at the sun all times, so it needs to tract the sun both in elevation and in azimuth.
On the other hand, another technology of centralized electricity generation is solar-thermal power. In order to reflect the sun’s rays onto an oil-filled tube this is produced by using large mirror troughs, which in turn superheats water to produce the steam that drives an electricitygenerating turbine. Since mid-1980s, about 350 MW of solar systems are installed across 3 mile2 of southern California desert, which is enough to electrify 170,000 homes. Especially, in areas of extensive pollution control, solar-thermal electricity substitution is required for the pollution protection. In order to have sufficiency and success, solar-thermal electricity production is practical in areas where there are intense and direct sunlight conditions such as the arid regions of the world.


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Bruce Conforth and Gayle Dean Wardlow, the authors of Up Jumped The Devil: The Real Life of Robert Johnson, are not shy about asserting their purpose for writing this biography. They admit that they’re “[hoping] to free Johnson from being the sign and myth that blues fans created and return him to his human particulars.” It’s this myth-busting desire that fuels their detailed investigation of Johnson’s short life. In the end though, Conforth and Wardlow do not so much demythologize Johnson as demystify him, and perhaps this is for the best — sometimes we need our cultural myths left intact.
Anyone with even a cursory knowledge of the blues knows the Johnson fable: The infamous rendezvous at that famed Mississippi crossroads where, in exchange for his soul, The Devil turns Johnson into a formidable musician with extraordinary guitar skills. Conforth and Wardlow accurately locate the metaphor of the “crossroads,” along with the idea of the Faustian bargain, solidly within the traditions of voodoo and trace its historical heritage back to its African roots. It’s fascinating reading and sheds considerable light upon how these sacred myths take hold and spread. And although Conforth is a retired professor of folklore and American history at the University of Michigan, he largely avoids the kind of academic jargon that’s often deadly in biographies.
Yet, this biography is overflowing with impeccable research, and I imagine Conforth and Wardlow are correct when they suggest that what is now unknown about Johnson’s life will more than likely stay that way. Through first-person accounts from those who knew Johnson, and their own carefully-crafted analysis, the authors supply their audience with precise details of Johnson’s often harrowing world of share-cropping and itinerant wandering. For instance, their accounts of Johnson’s recording sessions in Texas are superb examples of biographical narrative; so too is their portrayal of Johnson’s brutal death, at twenty-seven, and the speculation surrounding its details.
Johnson is an enigmatic character given his mythic stature in the development of the blues, and this biography does much to lift the haze through which we had viewed his life. It traces Johnson’s early urban-oriented childhood in Memphis through his forced relocation to a share-cropper’s cabin in rural Mississippi to his life as a rambling musician and finally to his death from poisoning in 1938. It deftly examines the effects his experiences, specifically the death of his wife and unborn son, had upon his life and music.
Oddly though, in the end Conforth and Wardlow’s detailed analysis of Johnson’s life doesn’t lessen the power of its mythic qualities, and this is why I’d argue that this biography demystifies rather than demythologizes Johnson. Conforth and Wardlow expose and resolve many of the mysteries that haunted Johnson’s life and our view of it, and rightly so. But that myth of a lone man bargaining with Satan on a dark night at a forsaken crossroads and then emerging as a musician of otherworldly talent still seizes our imagination, and that too is rightly so.
Up Jumped The Devil: The Real Life of Robert Johnson, Bruce Conforth and Gayle Dean Wardlow, Authors. Chicago Review Press, 326 pages. $30.00


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In order to take our lives to the next level we must realize that the same pattern of thinking that has gotten us to where we are will not get us to where we want to go. Dreams without work accomplishes nothing. If you aren't doing anything to accomplish your goals, the Holy Spirit isn't doing anything either. So it is said that a ship resting in the harbor cannot be steered. So the Holy Spirit cannot guide us if we are not doing anything. He needs us to move so that he can turn us in the right direction.
Decisions / Choices
What we become tomorrow is a result of the decisions that we make today. Everyday we choose, many times and in many ways, what the quality of our lives will be.
During Life's Journey
Our lives seldom move in a straight line or unfold in the way we pray to God they will. So we doubt and fear and give our power to panic, because we believe only what we see. But even when our world seems to be falling apart, beneath the chaos lies a divine purpose and perfect plan. The open doors and greater rewards God is urging us toward awaits us, but they are hidden beyond our view of understanding.
As Frederic Douglas observed, we want the bountiful rain but not the thunder, the treasures of the ocean but not the awful roar. But all this is life and all that life serves up is good. This all God, and just the experience we need to step up to greatness.
You didn't stumble unto this planet, but you were preordained. The solution to what ever challenges we face is always the same. Don't give your power to panic. Stand firmly in the faith that God rides on the heavens to help you and know that things fall apart, so God can give you something better and make more of you.
Gifts / Abilities & Talents
God gives us many gifts, abilities and talents, but He will not develop these talents for us. It is our responsibility to develop these talents for ourselves. It does not matter how well or how hard you pray, sing or shout. God will not develop your abilities for you. You have to do this yourself. The late Martin Luther King Jr. once said, "It is as wrong for man to think that God will do for a man what a man can do for himself."
The Consequences of Choices
Our life is a gift from God. What we do with it is our gift to God. For life is essentially a matter of choices. What we are today is the result of the choices that we made yesterday. Each choice that we make unleashes a chain of events that are unstoppable and must play out it's course until finished.

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Thin Ice Ensemble Theater is producing "Anne of Green Gables" this weekend. One of our young actresses will be wearing a most exquisite antique silk jacket. We inherited it with a set of costumes created by the theatrical grandmother in one of our families. The jacket will be worn by Mrs. Barry.
The tan jacket is lined with a tiny red and white stripe, both silks. Then there are super wonderful gathered silk flowers with bead centers, and a metallic lace trim. Here are some close-ups. I am in love!

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A Dance in the Rain
A still air, a peaceful and gentle rain,
A summer evening, a girl that's insane.
Out of her room and into the street,
She dances in the rain, in her bare feet.
Her hair dripping wet, her dress clinging to her,
She spins and she sways, smelling of myre.
With the pigeons and the doves she plays,
She sings to the sky in her joyful haze.
There's only one who loves her, only one who cares,
He'll dance with her, he'll ignore the glares.
Though she'll never fully understand,
He'll always love her, he'll always hold her hand.


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Barcrest Just Launched Boulder Bucks Slot Machine
Boulder Bucks is a slots game developed by Barcrest that uses one of the most popular and fun cartoon from the 60s -The Flintstones- to inspire the game, by featuring a caveman sharing with dinosaurs and saber-tooth tigers. The game graphics are very advanced, with very natural animations that make the environment pretty nicely to start playing.
This game is a standard slots game with 5 reels and 10 paylines with different pay tables based on the bet amount per line. The game includes seven regular symbols, one Wild symbol and two Scatter symbols that can trigger the Free Spins bonus game or some hidden reward for you to get. All symbols are related to the general Flintstones-like theme.
Barcrest is a gaming developer which is part of Scientific Games group established in the UK. The games of this developer usually include a ‘Big Bet’ button for increased rewards using consecutive spins and different paytables depending on how much money you bet.
This company is one of the most influential companies of the gaming industry since they came around almost 40 year ago and they usually develop high quality games with tons of colour and fun and Boulder Bucks is no exception to this rule.
The main feature of the Boulder Bucks slot is the Free Spins bonus game where you can choose between 3 types of modes for different amounts of Free Spins and Wild symbols behavior to maximize wins.
You could get more than one opportunity at it, so you need to choose between forfeiting your wins and trying again your luck with a different mode, or just collecting your win.
As we mentioned earlier, the developer includes a Big Bet button that allows you to choose between €20 and €30 bets that include 5 consecutive spins for €2 bet line and an additional mechanic to get extra chances of triggering the Free Spins bonus game.
What We Love
The game graphics and animations are neat, the thematic and aesthetics are well used and the different and never-seen-before modes to choose from in the Free Spins bonus game make for an unique, flexible and fun experience that can be hardly found among other slots.
What We Don’t Love
The soundtrack is not so much pieced together with the general theme and the other aspects of the game; sometimes it feels repetitive and lame.
I think Boulder Bucks is a well made, enjoyable and entertained game that brings a lot of flexibility for its players, combined with some pretty unique and fun mechanics, it can keep you interested and also can reward your wallet nicely if you can play smart enough with your choices.
Besides, this nicely developed slot has that really unique three modes Free Spins feature that we mentioned earlier that makes Boulder Bucks one of the most interesting, entertaining and potentially lucrative slots out there, so we definitely recommend that you spend some cash and time on this really nice game.

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Tanning leather is an ancient art that has been practiced for centuries. It is a process that involves treating animal hides with chemicals to preserve them and make them suitable for use in clothing, furniture, and other items. The process begins with the selection of the hide, which is usually taken from cows, sheep, goats, or pigs. The hide is then soaked in a solution of water and salt to remove any dirt and debris. After this, the hide is placed in a vat of tannin, which is a chemical compound that helps to preserve the hide and make it more durable. The hide is then left to soak in the tannin for several days, during which time the tannin penetrates the hide and binds the proteins together. After this, the hide is removed from the vat and dried. Once dry, the hide is then treated with oils and waxes to make it more pliable and to give it a desired color. Finally, the hide is stretched and stitched together to create the desired product. Tanning leather is a time-consuming process, but the end result is a durable and attractive material that can be used for a variety of purposes.
Leather making is an ancient craft that has been practiced for centuries. It involves the tanning of animal hides to create a durable material that can be used for a variety of purposes. The process of leather making begins with the selection of the hide, which is usually taken from cows, sheep, goats, pigs, and other animals. The hide is then soaked in a solution of water and chemicals to remove any dirt, grease, and other impurities. After the hide has been cleaned, it is then stretched and dried. The hide is then treated with a variety of chemicals to make it more durable and to give it a desired color. Once the hide has been treated, it is then cut into the desired shape and size. The leather is then stitched together and finished with a variety of treatments such as dyeing, embossing, and oiling. Finally, the leather is ready to be used for a variety of purposes such as clothing, shoes, bags, and furniture. Leather making is a complex process that requires a great deal of skill and knowledge to master.


The fussing over Finance Minister Morneau’s personal financial disclosures has distracted attention from the rather more important issue of the changes to proposals for taxing small business.
Posted October 27, 2017
The energy from Muskrat Falls is not going to be available until at least 2020. But the transmission lines are all built at a cost exceeding $1.5 billion. You are going to pay the interest on that debt while we wait.
Posted September 15, 2017
The article of January 20th in support of resource industries prompted many supportive emails. It also received a decidedly frosty response from a tight-knit posse of activists, some of whose viewpoints were printed in the January 27th opinion section.
Posted February 2, 2018
Justin Trudeau spoke to the Liberal faithful for just under 30 minutes on April 21st. He loves to talk about “sunny days.” The list of topics he didn’t discuss was as revealing as the ones he did.
Posted April 27, 2018
There was so much to talk about in Tuesday’s budget that big chunks of it were released in the preceding days.
Arguably, the most important element was the multi-faceted boost to family physician compensation. It has several attractive features:
Posted March 23, 2018
The Liberals have produced another barely balanced budget, but we still have a lot of debt and will need a rejuvenated population for long term viability.
Posted April 6, 2018
When parties experiencing a testy relationship come to an agreement, the necessary concessions often come from a group that is not represented at the bargaining table.
Posted March 2, 2018
The government and the Nova Scotia Teachers Union are doing a disservice to taxpayers and today’s teachers, who are paying for the inadequacy of past contributions by and for the teachers that retired long ago.
In contrast, the public-sector pension plans for civil service and health care workers are well-funded and can be expected to keep their promises to pensioners over the long term.
Posted May 18, 2018
The city planned to pay for the convention centre with property taxes on the other buildings in the Nova Centre. It didn’t work, and it was always a bad plan.
In late 2010, Halifax City Council voted to commit $56.4 million, matched by both the province and federal government, toward the cost of the convention centre portion of the Nova Centre project. Part of the proposal was that that some or all of the city’s funding could be financed by the property taxes on the commercial part of the project.
Posted May 11, 2018


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You are probably familiar with the Rotherham scandal. Rotherham is a city in England where over a period of years, more than 1,400 girls, many of them pre-teens, were raped and trafficked by a loose consortium of men. The men were all Muslim immigrants or sons of immigrants, the girls were all, or nearly all, white. When the scandal finally came to light in 2014, city officials said that they had been reluctant to do anything about the problem for fear of being accused of racism.
Several criminal trials have resulted from the scandal. The third such trial has just been completed. Six defendants were convicted and sentenced to 10 to 20 years for rape and other crimes. The Sun identified them:
Brothers Basharat Dad, 32, and Nasar Dad, 36, of both of Rotherham, and Tayab Dad, 34, of Sheffield, were jailed on Tuesday for sex offences along with Matloob Hussain, 41, of Rotherham, Mohammed Sadiq, 40, of Rotherham, and Amjad Ali, of Worksop, Nottinghamshire.
This is the most curious aspect of the news report:
There were emotional and chaotic scenes at Sheffield Crown Court after two of the defendants shouted “Allahu Akbar” as they were led from the dock.
What do you suppose they meant by that?
As their supporters began shouting down into the court, one of the victims shouted back “justice is served” as police moved into the public gallery.
They have supporters? Why?


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Juneyao Airlines posts 70% climb in Q1 net profit
Juneyao Airlines reported a first-quarter net profit of RMB 454.2 million ($70 million), up 70% over the RMB 266.5 million net income in the same quarter of previous year
Shanghai-based Juneyao Airlines reported a first-quarter net profit of RMB 454.2 million ($70 million), up 70% over a net income of RMB 266.5 million in the year-ago quarter.
Operating revenue rose 30.4% to RMB 255.2 million while operating expenses increased 30.6% to RMB 179.2 million.
The carrier credited the “robust growth of market demand” as the main reason for the much-improved financial performance. Industry analysts also cited lower fuel prices and Shanghai’s high growth rate as more reasons for the carrier’s performance.
Juneyao took up 8.65 share of Shanghai market in terms of passenger boardings. The carrier did not reveal traffic figures.
For 2015, Juneyao reported a net profit of RMB 1.05 billion ($161.3 million), more than double its net income of RMB 427.7 million in 2014.
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Slime maybe behind some of the biggest tsunamis on record.
Yeah, that’s right. Not earthquakes, but slime. Although, actually, they sort of work the same way. Bear with me here.
Earlier this month, researchers published a report in the journal Geology showing how some of the most massive landslides on earth actually occur underwater. In some cases, these landslides can be 1,000 times more massive than, say, the landslide generated by something as massive above the sea surface like, oh, say, the eruption of Mt. St. Helens. Scientists have long wondered what caused these subsurface landslides, and now they think they know–a big layer of slime that the ocean floor slides around on.
The idea is that large hunks of the sea floor are actually resting on a layer of ooze made up of the remains of diatoms–tiny oceanic algae. As the diatoms die off over thousands of years, their microscopic corpses form a silica-rich slime. Clays that make up the sea bed build up over many, many years right on top of the silica slime. Gradually the pressure bearing down on the slime increases, squeezing water from the slime into the clay, which destabilizes the clay. At a certain tipping point–bang, the clay collapses, the seafloor shifts, and giant landslides ensue.
When that happens, just like it can above the sea surface, the huge energy released during a landslide can trigger a tsunami, even if the landslide happens at the bottom of the ocean. Scientists think that one such underwater slide 8,500 years ago off the coast of Norway sent waves 65-feet tall slamming into nearby coastlines. The team that put the study together thinks as many as 20 percent of all tsunamis might be because of these underwater slime slides. Figuring out where all this sea floor ooze is deposited may help predict submarine landslides and tsunamis in the future.
Slime-causes tsunamis. The more you know.

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Gently, I left as I gently came to my poem like Xu Zhimo's poem
A very short stay in Cambridge on the Kang River rafting
from the Bridge of Sighs to the Math Bridge with the connotation of the Cambridge boatman
There are also clumsy tourist strokes. The more you collide, the more you are happy to give a smile.
Although there is no sunset in the golden willow, but the people on the river will meet again
River Cam is located in Cambridge The beautiful sword river of the university is also a symbol of Cambridge University.
For a long time in the past, Jianhe was called the River Granta and River Cam
by the locals. It is actually the same river. The former refers to the city of Cambridge. The section of Grantchester is located in the upper reaches of the river. The river is meandering. The scenery on the shore is natural and simple
the latter is the lower reaches of the river. The river is wide and the water flow is gentle.
It is the gorgeous architecture of the University of Cambridge campus, the College Backs.
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Jennifer and her best friend Noah started their senior year in high school with a plan to have loads of fun. But some events of past comes back to haunt the residents of Evergreen Wood. Their friends start to get branded by an anonymous. Her friends become strangers. Everyone becomes a suspect. Everyone has motives. As days pass by, Jennifer faces some horrible truths. Will she find herself among friends again?
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Childhood Obesity News has been looking at the question of how much responsibility schools should bear for preventing childhood obesity. In one way, it seems almost intuitively obvious that, especially in the early years, school is the right place to teach good habits of nutrition and physical development. Politically, it seems obvious because obesity is a huge public health issue and a drain on the finances of the nation. Yet all of those points have been contested extensively.
Many people feel that, at the very least, schools should not add to the problem by serving unhealthful foods in any free or discounted meals available to children in need. In cafeterias where a child can choose to buy lunch or not, it still seems that there is an obligation on the part of the school to avoid serving items full of empty calories.
Vending machines are a whole separate issue, and it’s very tempting to go for the simple answer of disallowing them entirely. Why are there vending machines in schools at all? Why entertain any disputes about what should be available in those machines — why not just get rid of them? The website Debate.org asked the question, “Should schools have vending machines?” and three-quarters of the respondents said yes.
Some alleged reasons for keeping snack vending machines are just plain silly — for instance:
Removing vending machines makes it less convenient. It does NOT prevent anything. They can still buy “unhealthy snacks” from outside and bring them to school and share them.
Just substitute “drugs” for “unhealthy snacks,” and think about how much sense that argument makes. Yet it contains a grain of truth, because some schools that have tried to limit junk food access on or near the school grounds have found that suppression only stimulated the growth of a clandestine underground economy.
A couple of years ago, the school district in Los Angeles adopted a new, healthful menu, only to find that kids were throwing the food in the garbage. But entrepreneurial students brought in snacks to sell to their peers, establishing a junk food black market. Some schools have enough trouble keeping knives and guns out of their premises — should they also be expected to enforce anti-snack laws too?
Dr. Pretlow brings up an interesting point from his own early experience:
I recall when I was in college, I got a job giving out free cigarillo sample packs to students at football games. Do fast food companies sell pizza, Chicken McNuggets, etc. to school cafeterias at significantly reduced prices in order to get the kids hooked? Financially strapped schools would take advantage of such offers, in effect selling the souls of their students.
People say that school vending machines are good because schools profits from them, raising money for projects and clubs. Others say the public already pays taxes for the very purpose of supporting schools, and if the government would curb some of its irresponsible and unpopular uses of public money, it would be no problem for schools to meet their funding needs.
The science website ineffableisland.com collected some fascinating stories about school lunches. One suggests that even foods that meet the nutritional guidelines laid down for schools might still contain unacceptable amounts of additives and preservatives. If true, this probably leads to disturbances in the educational environment, because these substances have been linked to hyperactivity. And as Childhood Obesity News has mentioned before, there are many school cafeterias where free drinking water is not even available.
Another problem is that food supplies are not always acquired solely on the basis of their nutritional qualities:
The USDA purchases surplus foods, like meat and dairy, and provides them to institutions completely gratis…. While budget-friendly, these may not always be the best choices for concocting healthy meals, as many prove high in saturated fat and cholesterol.
A theory from the discipline of behavioral economics holds that banning junk food is counterproductive:
Coercion could backfire and cause students to seek out unhealthy foods outside of school as compensation. A greater range of choices, coupled with education and controlled portion sizes, can actually be a much more effective method than a full junk food ban.
Your responses and feedback are welcome!
Source: “Should schools have vending machines?” March 2013
Source: “Junk food ban in schools set to begin but could create black market,” RT.com, 04/12/14
Source: “25 Facts You Should Share for School Lunch Week,” 2011
Image by U.S. Department of Agriculture


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*On a man-made island in the South Atlantic Ocean on Sol III is the AWB.
Here is kept the fortunes of many planets, secure in the knowledge that their funds are VERY safe.
The bank as never been robbed in the 4 centuries since it opened.
The architecture is based on the maximum security facility on Talac V.
When first built they arranged for inmates of the prison to try their luck at cracking the bank, freedom was offered to anybeing that did.
No beings met the challenge, and it is still offered.!*


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From the 1930 Edition of the Sublette Monitor -
Above is pictured a session of the district court in the former county seat.
Reading from left to right (top row): The late "Bill" Lucas, Sheriff: Myrtle Rice, Court Reporter: The late Judge William Howard Thompson: Albert Jasper, Clerk of the District Court and a Christian Preacher; C. G. Dennis, County Attorney and Lawyer in Sublette today;
Second Row: The late T. W. Marshall, Lawyer of New Ulysses; John J. Miller, Pioneer Publisher of the Sublette (then the Santa Fe) Monitor; An unidentified Lawyer; H. W. Stubbs, a Lawyer of Ulysses; H. O. Trinkle, A Lawyer of Garden City; Herbert Rhoades, a Lawyer then of New Ulysses and now of Nebraska; C. E. Vance, A Lawyer of Garden City; Albert Watkins, a Dodge City Lawyer; A. B. Crum, a Lawyer of Lyndon, KS; Richard J. Hopkins, now a Federal Judge; Edgar Foster, a Garden City Lawyer; John Mars, A Santa Fe Lawyer then whose whereabouts is unknown now; The late L. A. Madison, a Dodge City Lawyer; and Ralph Wallace, a Satanta Merchant.
Believe the Calendar to be November 1912.
From the 1930 edition of the Sublette Monitor - There was a brisk trading at Santa Fe when a herd of sleek horses like those shown above were offered for sale. At that time the pioneers were unaccustomed to benefits of power farming and even motor cars were a rarity.
The man 6th from the right with tie, vest, white shirt looking forward is J. J. Miller.
At the right shows Cave Store and Frank McCoy Lands office.
From 1930 edition of Sublette Monitor -
Santa Fe pioneers fought hard for a railroad for Haskell County, but when it came it missed the former county seat. So the county seat moved to the railroad. Above is shown part of the adjustment to new development. Jas. S. Patrick's office was moved to Satanta; S. E. Caves store to Sublette. Building at center left is the Rutledge hotel. Building with arches and railing is the courthouse at Santa Fe.
The Presbyterian/Dunkard Church at Santa Fe. Later moved north to the Plymell community and was added onto.
In the background you will notice the rail cars in use on the newly laid track. The buffalo grass has been cut short to mark the new main street with construction on the first building in Sublette, The Cave Mercantile. This building for was known for many years as the T. M. Deal Lumber Company. There were living quarters upstairs which were used by the Cave family for a time; doctor Miner had an office upstairs also. The second story of the building was damaged in a storm and has since been removed.
Construction has also begun on The Rounds & Porter Lumber Company, one block south of The Cave Store, they are preparing for the growth of the new county seat.
The Rutledge tent were railroad crews were fed and housed can also be seen.
Citizens turn out near the newly excavated foundation for the Rutledge Hotel. The Rutledge tent restaurant/hotel for railroad workers can be seen at left. The tent was set up in 1912 on the corner east of the present McCoy Grain Elevator to provide sleeping quarters for and a place in which to serve meals to the men who were building the Santa Fe Rd.


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So the boys are back at school and can you believe here in the Northern hemisphere, Autumn is upon us – eeeek. That said, I hope everyone UK-side is enjoying the glorious, clear and sunny skies!
With the current restrictions, many summer weddings were unfortunately postponed or vastly down-sized. Poem Bespoke still received a fair few wedding related enquiries over the period however and these continue to grow each week. As well as personalised wedding ceremony readings and wedding speech poems, Morning of the Wedding poem gifts are right on-trend at the moment here at Poem Bespoke HQ. I adore creating these personalised love poems and sending them off all gift-ready for their surprise appearance on the special day.
I’ve had lots of BIG birthday and gift poems to write as well. Many clients who contact me want to perform the poem to their special someone at a family dinner per say, but also receive a prettied-up, printed version in the post, ready to gift either framed or unframed (depending on whether the recipient might like to choose their own frame). On occasion, I’m asked to write a personalised family poem ‘voiced’ by a treasured child, or much-missed loved one…and yep, I’m open to pen poems from pets!
As Christmas approaches (too soon?), I envisage that gift poems for entire families will make a seasonal splash. These personalised gift poems incorporate a few lines about each family member as well as special holidays, memories and major milestones – a beautiful keepsake to frame and display at home, (in fact, I’ll add some poem examples onto my website soon here). https://poembespoke.com/gift-poems/
Hope everyone has a lovely weekend.


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You may have read many financial books but in this blog, you will find the most important mistakes that you should avoid.
We think we can pay later but our mind puts a lot of stress on us that may decrease our happiness.
I think that illiquid assets (Eg startup, real estate) are good for growing money.
But after reading ‘Do Epic Shit’. My thought was changed to liquid assets. (Eg stocks and gold)
But invest in yourself first🥇.
We think it’s time to enjoy. But, you will regret this choice.
Money compounds. So, please start saving from today.
You will think this point is ridiculous but you should see the calculation first.
Inflation rate = 6.00%
Interest rate on fd = 4.00%
Money will lose its value by 2.00% EVERY YEAR. This means your $100 will decrease to $98 every year.
You may have got bitcoin. I also did but it didn’t help me to grow.
Follow yourself and Best investors. Not the trend.

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Mumbai: The makers of Aamir Khan and Amitabh Bachchan starrer Thugs of Hindostan have unveiled yet another behind-the-scenes video to show the efforts the actors have put to get into the skin of the character.
The latest video is a compilation of the training sessions for the film's action sequences. Aamir, who had undergone training in wrestling for Dangal, learnt sword fighting for this action-adventure film directed by Vijay Krishna Acharya. Fatima Sana Shaikh, who had played Aamir's daughter in Dangal, is an integral part of this film too.
The pretty and very talented actress trained in sword-fighting and archery to execute her character to perfection.
Aamir took to Instagram to share his experience of working with Big B. The Mr Perfectionist is elated to have got an opportunity to share screen space with the megastar for the first time. Interestingly, the two play rivals in the film.
Aamir wrote: "Just imagine...not only do I get to act with Mr.Bachchan, dance with Mr.Bachchan, but also fight with Mr.Bachchan. Meri toh Diwali! (sic)."
Katrina Kaif and English actor Lloyd Owen, is a visual treat and a spectacle of sorts.
Reportedly set in the backdrop of India under the British rule in the 19th century, Thugs of Hindostan, inspired by Philip Meadows Taylor's 1839 novel 'Confessions of a Thug' also stars Katrina Kaif and Lloyd Owen.
It revolves around the life of a thug and his gang who challenge the British Empire in the country.
Aamir, who plays Firangi Mallah in a film has undergone a major transformation. Big B as Khudabaksh looks like a warrior, Fatima as Zafira comes across as the daredevil while Katrina as Suraiyya, the ultimate diva.
The film is slated to hit theatres on November 8.


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Port commissioners approve $500K for phase two of artistic Coronado lighting project
SAN DIEGO (KUSI) — The board of the Port of San Diego has approved the next phase of a $10 million project to add artistic lighting to the San Diego Coronado Bay Bridge.
Upon completion, the bridge could be the largest public art display in the region. On Tuesday, port commissioners approved more than $480,000 for phase two, in which British artist Peter Fink will fine-tune his design, with community input.
Some of the money will also go to Caltrans, which owns the span, to review the design and prepare the environmental and coastal documents that are required.
The project was first conceived in 2006 but stalled because of the downturn in the economy. Port Commissioner Marshall Merrifield who helped to revive the project last year said the funding will not require taxpayer dollars but will be raised through private donations.
Merrifield said in the last few months, he has collected more than $1 million in cash and pledges.
“It’s been a wonderful response to see businesses and people around town step up to support this,” the commissioner said.
Yvonne Wise, the Port’s curator of public art said the Port initially looked at a number of bayside locations, described by Wise as ”kind of a land space to install a monumental artwork.”
Those efforts were later abandoned.
“We knew that just wasn’t right because we wanted the artwork to be visible from the five port cities as well, something that would be an artwork for the entire region. It was a wonderful surprise when the committee stumbled upon the opportunity to light the bridge," Wise said.
The LED lights on the roadway and bridge supports will be in different colors and vary according to how they’re programmed.
“What we can expect is the lighting is not going to be static. It’s going to be dynamic and changing at different times of the year,” Wise said. "The design also calls for the lights to run through solar power."
According to Merrifield, “This will be the first artistically lit building or bridge in the United States that’s sustainably powered.”
The Port is inviting public participation in the lighting project. It will be hosting a series of community meetings to help the artistic team gather more design ideas from the public.
“The color palette is infinite,” Wise said. "Peter (the artist) is going to come up with a lighting scenario by working with the community.”
Merrifield said a GoFundMe page is being developed to encourage online donations. The Port wants to have the lighting ready by the end of 2019, in time to mark the bridge’s 50th birthday.


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Living in Los Angeles, I see my share of food trends, early and often. The ubiquity of gluten-free/vegan/juiced/non-GMO food is so common, it's no longer a trend but part of the regular menu at many restaurants. However, when a friend of mine told me about the newest trend in San Francisco, 'artisanal toast', I thought it was something I could really support. It's such a simple concept and when done right, turns a basic breakfast into something special. I made my four favorite versions, using a hearty loaf from La Brea Bakery and ingredients that I typically have in stock.
Lox + Chive Cream Cheese
Ingredients: Cream Cheese, Chives, Lox, Dill, Capers, Lemon
Ingredients: Tomato+Garlic Hummus, Sprouts, Cucumber, Tomato, Feta, Olive Oil
Peanut Butter + Banana + Sea Salt
Ingredients: Peanut Butter (unsalted), Banana, Honey, Maldon Sea Salt, Ground Cinnamon
Avocado with a Kick
Ingredients: Avocado, Radish, Shallot, Lemon Zest, Maldon Sea Salt, Olive Oil, Red Chili Flakes

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- Population structure and breeding season of the South Atlantic hermit crab, Loxopagurus loxochelis (Anomura, Diogenidae) from the Ubatuba region, Brazil
- Universidade Federal do Pará (UFPA)
- Universidade de São Paulo (USP)
- Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP)
- A population of Loxopagurus loxochelis was studied in terms of seasonal abundance, size frequency distribution, sex ratio, and reproductive period (percentage of ovigerous females). Specimens were collected monthly over a period of two years (from September 1995 to August 1997) in the non-consolidated areas of the Ubatuba, Mar Virado, and Ubatumirim bays (northern coast of São Paulo State, Brazil) with a double-rig trawl net. A total of 1,084 individuals were analysed. Animal size (minimum, maximum, and mean +/- SD shield length) was 2.8, 9.1, and 6.88 +/- 1.13 mm for 625 males; 2.8, 8.2, and 5.78 +/- 0.98 mm for 236 non-ovigerous females; and 4.6, 8.0, and 6.24 +/- 0.68 mm for 223 ovigerous females, respectively. Sexual dimorphism was recorded by the presence of males in the largest size classes. The sex ratio was 1.4 : 1 in favour of males. The highest incidence of ovigerous females occurred during winter and spring (June to October), with a low percentage in summer and fall (November to May), indicating continuity in the reproductive cycle. This strategy of reproduction is related to temperature. The occurrence of L. loxochelis in the Ubatuba region represents the final point of northern distribution of this species as a function of water mass influence, and could be its real limit on the Atlantic coast of South America.
- Crustaceana. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, v. 75, p. 791-802, 2002.
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In addition to those identified in the previous level: Knowledge of building codes, environmental regulations, and safety codes. Knowledge of project management processes and procedures. Ability to analyze and interpret technical construction documentation. Ability to prepare cost estimates for required materials.
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By David Shepardson
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -A Norfolk Southern freight train that derailed near New Castle, Pennsylvania, on Wednesday night received an alarm several miles before the incident, according to preliminary findings released Friday by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB).
The derailment of nine train cars was about 20 miles (32 km)from the site of a Feb. 3 incident in East Palestine, Ohio, in which Norfolk Southern-operated train cars carrying toxic vinyl chloride and other hazardous chemicals spilled and caught fire.
The railroad said Thursday there were no reported injuries or hazardous material concerns in the Pennsylvania derailment. The NTSB said preliminary information indicates the train received an alarm "from a wayside defect detector, or hot bearing detector, several miles before the train derailed."
The devices are used to detect the temperature of wheel bearings on rail cars. Norfolk Southern did not immediately comment.
The NTSB said in the East Palestine derailment a wayside defect detector transmitted a critical audible alarm message instructing the crew to slow and stop the train to inspect a hot axle.
Some experts have said the derailment in East Palestine may have been averted if detectors had been placed closer together. That derailment and the subsequent fire sent a cloud of smoke with billowing black plumes over the town of East Palestine, outraging thousands of residents who were forced to evacuate.
Earlier Wednesday, the U.S. Senate Commerce Committee passed bipartisan sweeping rail safety reform legislation.
Commerce Committee chair Maria Cantwell noted that hours after passage "another train derailed likely due to a bad wheel bearing. This could have been prevented had the commonsense reforms in our bill been in place.... It’s time for Congress to get on board to improve rail safety."
The legislation would require hotbox detectors be deployed an average of every 15 miles, a reduction of the current voluntary practice of installing defect detectors an average of every 25 miles today.
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Thursday he looks forward to bringing the rail measure to the Senate floor "as soon as possible."
(Reporting by David Shepardson; editing by Jonathan Oatis and David Gregorio)

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MVS Moderator Made In Japan wonders out loud if it’s better to buy control arm bushings and use a press to press them into the existing control arms, or say ####-it and buy new control arms. MVS Contributor oragex sums it up nicely: Most people agree that installing these bushings is a PITA. Being stubborn, […]
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