Before he set out, Yeddyurappa told media persons that he felt Udipi MP Sadananda Gowda should be the next CM.
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BANGALORE/NEW DELHI: In a determined bid to signal that he remains the decisive factor in BJP's Karnataka affairs, B S Yeddyurappa has virtually served the party high command a fait accompli by naming Sadananda Gowda as his chosen successor for chief minister.
Yeddyurappa finally quit as CM on Sunday but turned the process into a show of strength. He undertook a padyatra to meet the governor with a host of MLAs loyal to him tagging along. Before he set out, Yeddyurappa told media persons that he felt Udipi MP Sadananda Gowda should be the next CM. "This is my suggestion," he said.
BJP managers Arun Jaitley and Rajnath Singh sought to deny that a decision had been taken but Yeddyurappa's grandstanding ensured that a meeting of party legislators scheduled for Sunday evening had to be put off till Monday. Even if the BJP brass was agreeable to Yeddyurappa's choice, it would hardly want it to be rubbed in as public a manner as the outgoing CM did.
Yeddyurappa's public endorsement of Gowda led to his rivals like Ananth Kumar objecting, even though BJP leadership was veering around to Gowda, their options have got complicated.


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An article published by the medical journal Mutagenesis in February 2013, “Differential mutation profiles and similar intronic TP53 polymorphisms in asbestos-related lung cancer and pleural mesothelioma” shows the synergistic effect between asbestos exposure and cigarette smoking.
As background, lung cancer has been shown to be caused by both tobacco smoke and asbestos exposure, as well as other carcinogens. Exposure to both tobacco smoke and asbestos greatly enhances that risk so that the total risk is greater than adding the individual effects (a toxicology effect called synergism). If asbestos exposure increases your chance of getting cancer by 5 times and smoking increases your chance of getting cancer by 12 times, then being exposed to both of them can increase your chances by 60 to 100 times.
From the Absract for this February 2013 Mutagenesis article, which was based on a French study:
Given the interest in defining biomarkers of asbestos exposure and to provide insights into asbestos-related and cell-specific mechanisms of neoplasia, the identification of gene alterations in asbestos-related cancers can help to a better understanding of exposure risk. To understand the aetiology of asbestos-induced malignancies and to increase our knowledge of mesothelial carcinogenesis, we compared genetic alterations in relevant cancer genes between lung cancer, induced by asbestos and tobacco smoke, and malignant pleural mesothelioma (MPM), a cancer related to asbestos, but not to tobacco smoke…. While genetic changes in [non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC)] are dominated by the effects of tobacco smoke, the increase of transversions in TP53 gene is consistent with a synergistic effect of asbestos. These results may help to define cell-dependent mechanisms of action of asbestos and identify susceptibility factors to asbestos.
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This particular decision is upheld by the High Court of Odisha through the division bench of Justice Aditya Kumar Mohapatra in the case of Kantaro Kondagari @ Kajol v. State of Odisha & Ors (W.P.(C) No. 4779 of 2022)
The petitioner’s father, Balaji Kondagari was a government employee who worked for the Rural Development Department’s Executive Engineer RW Division in Rayagada. Smt. Binjama Kondagari after the death of her husband Balaji Kondagari’s, was sanctioned and received the family pension after his death. After her death the current petitioner applied to the Executive Engineer RW Division, Rayagada for a family pension under Rule 56 of the Odisha Civil Services (Pension) Rules, 1992 for the grant of a family pension in her favour. It must also be mentioned that the current petitioner and her sister are unmarried, widowed, or divorced daughters, and hence are eligible for a family pension.
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The issue in this particular case was Whether a transgender daughter has right to claim family pension. To the pertaining issue the petitioner contented that the concerned members ignored the petitioner’s request for a family pension, despite the fact that Rule 56 of the Orissa Civil Services (Pension) Rules, 1992 allows for the payment of a family pension to an unmarried daughter and as she was a transgender the authority had certainly treated her differently. The petitioner was a transgender (Women) as evidenced by a certificate granted by the District Magistrate on December 2, 2021. On the other hand, the counsel for the State claimed that the competent authority, namely the Ex. Engineer, R W division, had already recommended the petitioner’s case.
Court was of the considered view that the petitioner as a transgender has every right to choose her gender and accordingly, she has submitted her application for grant of family pension under Section 56(1) of Odisha Civil Services (Pension) Rules, 1992. Further such right has been recognized and legalized by judgment of the Hon’ble Apex Court in NALSA’s Case (supra) and as such, the law laid down by the Hon’ble Supreme Court is binding on all. Therefore, the present writ petition filed by the petitioner deserves to be allowed and the same is hereby allowed. The Principal Accountant General (A&E), Odisha, Bhubaneswar (Opposite Party No.5) is directed to process the application of the petitioner as expeditiously as possible preferably within a period of six weeks from the date of communication of certified copy of this order. The Opposite Party No.5 is further directed to immediately calculate, sanction and disburse the family pension as is due and admissible to the petitioner within the aforesaid stipulated period of time.
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In this blog post, we will explore the concept of 'designerly ways' for sustainable livelihoods. The sustainable livelihoods approach (SLA) is centered around developing people by building their strengths and bringing relevant aspects of their lives and livelihoods into the development process. The SL framework consists of five core components: vulnerability context, livelihood assets, policies-institutions-processes, livelihood strategies, and livelihood outcomes. Similarly, the designerly approach requires cross-disciplinary and transdisciplinary knowledge and expertise to deal with complex, interrelated issues. Both SLA and designerly approaches aim to help stakeholders address and realize their constraints and opportunities by bringing together various relevant stakeholders. SLA stresses the need to bridge the gap between macro-level policy and institutions and the influence of the same on livelihood options of grassroots-level communities and individuals. In contrast, designerly ways require effective communication with stakeholders to reach a sustainable solution on all three dimensions (social, economic and environment), contextually appropriate, and with mutually agreed trade-offs. The 'designerly ways' concept highlights the significance of understanding the relationship between decisions and activities, analyzing the inherent potential of the people involved, and eliminating the constraints in the path of realization of those potentials. By incorporating this approach into sustainable livelihoods, we can create an integrated approach that ensures sustainable livelihoods for all stakeholders.
To read some research cases from our lab, visit: Banerjee S., Upadhyay P., Punekar R.M. (2022). ‘‘Designerly Ways’ for Sustainable Livelihoods’. In: Melles G.B. (eds) Designing Social Innovation for Sustainable Livelihoods. Design Science and Innovation. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-8452-4_4.
The current economic paradigm, characterized by a continuous pursuit of economic efficiency in resource exploitation, is unsustainable and unfair. There is an urgent need to reframe the economy towards a new paradigm that promotes human well-being in harmony with nature. Distributed Economies (DE) is a promising model for locally-based sustainability. DE consists of small-scale value-adding units (e.g. manufacturing, energy generation, food production, water management, software development, knowledge generation) where the control of core activities is shifted towards the user/client.
Centralization is a key barrier to sustainability and resilience. The mass production of goods and services in centralized systems is based on ideals of efficiency and cost savings, but it rarely considers the social and environmental costs of manufacturing. Overcapacity is pushed onto consumers through aggressive marketing and planned obsolescence strategies, and nature is seen only as a provider of resources to be exploited. This centralization also creates barriers to repair and maintain products, affecting actors who contribute to a local economy and ensure circular material flows.
DE addresses these issues by promoting cooperative work in the production of goods and services, solidarity finance, fair trade, and solidarity consumption. Participants share the economic, political, and cultural results obtained from value creation. The principle of Distributed Economies calls for an analysis of what products and services in a specific region deliver social and environmental harms by virtue of being produced in large-scale, centralized modes. The objective is to become sensitive to and work to change systems that have become an “ever-faster once-through flow of materials from depletion to pollution”.
In conclusion, DE is a promising model for local sustainability. It promotes cooperative work and shared value creation while reducing environmental impact and resource depletion. DE can address the issues caused by centralization and promote a sustainable economic paradigm that values human well-being in harmony with nature.
For more read - dos Santos, A., Vezzoli, C., Garcia Parra, B., Molina Mata, S., Banerjee, S., Kohtala, C., . . . Xia, N. (2021). Distributed Economies. In C. Vezzoli, B. Garcia Parra, & C. Kohtala (Eds.), Designing Sustainability for All: The Design of Sustainable Product-Service Systems Applied to Distributed Economies (pp. 23-50). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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UPS opened a new 208,000-square-foot healthcare-compliant distribution and warehousing facility in New Jersey.
The multi-client hub is the first in UPS’s network to offer medical device companies comprehensive logistics services such as autoclave capabilities, instrument inspection, and surgical set replenishment, among other services.
It is strategically located near UPS’s air hub at Philadelphia International Airport, and is fully integrated into UPS’s overall transportation and field stocking location network, and provides an end-to-end solution for healthcare customers seeking increased inventory visibility and control of their supply chains.
This network also makes it possible for healthcare manufacturers and distributors to reach more than 80 percent of U.S. hospitals within four hours, according to a press release on DOTmed.com.
“UPS continues to strengthen our integrated network globally to help manufacturers lower costs, streamline inventory and meet increasing demands,” said John Menna, UPS Vice President of Global Strategy, Healthcare Logistics. “In the U.S., building out a best-in-class, comprehensive service that integrates a loaner hub with our vast FSL and global transportation network raises the bar and further demonstrates our commitment to the healthcare industry.”


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Sitting in his synagogue office in central Kyiv, Rabbi Pinchas Vishedski is keeping watch on Ukraine’s rapidly deteriorating security situation, as 100,000 Russian forces mass on the border and U.S. President Joe Biden predicts an imminent invasion.
A refugee displaced by the Russian seizure of the industrial city of Donetsk in 2014, the Israeli-born rabbi says his community, mostly comprised of fellow Jews from occupied eastern Ukraine, is ready to receive and support a fresh wave of refugees should the Kremlin order a fresh offensive.
“We are, as always, working in collaboration with the Federation of Jewish Communities of the CIS and the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, and we are ready if, God forbid, there is an escalation and deterioration in the situation,” Vishedski told Haaretz by phone from the Ukrainian capital.
“God willing, we will always be here in order to help anybody who needs our help,” he said. “We already have the experience from 2014-15 and if, God forbid, refugees start arriving, we will immediately know what to do, how to receive them and where to place them. We are, unfortunately, experienced.”
Following the ouster of pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych in 2014, Moscow annexed Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula and fomented a Russian-backed insurgency in the country’s east, which has claimed more than 14,000 lives and displaced millions.
Many Ukrainians have fled from the Russia-backed military conflict convulsing the east of their country. According to Israel’s Aliyah and Integration Ministry, more than 30,000 people moved to Israel from Ukraine between 2014 and October 2018.
Most of the membership of the Jewish communities of the cities of Donetsk and Luhansk were displaced by the conflict, even as Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed he was intervening in Ukraine to save Jews and other minorities from an alleged “rampage” of reactionary, nationalist and antisemitic forces.
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And while the conflict has largely ground down to static trench warfare reminiscent of World War I, Western countries now fear Russia is planning a new assault against Ukraine. Russia denies such an attack, but says it could take unspecified military action unless a list of demands are met – including a promise from NATO never to admit Ukraine into the Western military alliance.
Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, himself Jewish, said Wednesday that Moscow is trying to induce a constant feeling of panic among Ukrainians. “All our citizens, especially the elderly, need to understand this: everyone needs to exhale. Calm down. Don’t run for emergency supplies like buckwheat and matches.”
While many in the Jewish community are wary of the possibility of renewed fighting, there is little sense of panic, said Rabbi Aryeh Shwartz, who serves as Vishedsky’s successor in occupied Donetsk.
“Whenever there’s a change in the security situation, there’s concern,” he said. If an evacuation is necessary, “we will certainly do everything so Jews can be safe,” he added. However, in a WhatsApp message sent from the Russian side of the front line, he noted that “there is no increase in the number of Jews who want to leave” the area.
Rabbi Mendel Cohen, the spiritual leader of the Jewish community in Mariupol, an industrial city just over the Ukrainian side of the line, told Haaretz: “We’re very concerned about developments, but are staying in place.”
Jerusalem is also following developments closely, said Michael Brodsky, the Israeli ambassador to Ukraine. He has called on Israeli citizens in the country to register with the embassy so they can be contacted quickly in case of an emergency.
According to Brodsky, there has been no indication of increased interest in immigration on the part of Ukrainian Jews since the beginning of the recent Russian troop buildup. He added that the embassy is “in touch with the Jewish communities around the country and will provide assistance if necessary.”
Despite the widespread concern, Inna Ioffe, CEO of the Jewish Confederation of Ukraine – one of the country’s largest Jewish umbrella bodies – has dismissed any notion of an invasion, instead expressing anxiety over financial and public health issues.
“We do not need to be prepared; we have had a military conflict in the eastern part of Ukraine for about eight years,” she said, citing a recent speech by Zelenskyy that characterized invasion fears as unfounded hype.
“We’re afraid not of war but of a situation of high prices for all good products, communal services and medicine. We’re concerned with new COVID-19 lockdowns and omicron,” she added.
Reuters and JTA contributed to this report.

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Upcoming match between Monchengladbach Borussia M And RB Leipzig promises to be intriguing. Both teams are known for their competitiveness in the Bundesliga, but they are approaching this match in opposite shapes.
Borussia M the season didn't start very well. In their last four matches in the Bundesliga they have only drawn twice and lost twice, scoring 8 goals and conceding 12. The vulnerability of the defense is obvious: on average they concede 3 goals per game. In addition, in the match with Bayern, lost with a score of 1:2, Borussia M dominated corners, suggesting potential weaknesses in controlling tempo and territory. However, the draw with Augsburg (4:4) suggests that Borussia M has sufficient potential to pose a threat.
RB Leipzig, on the contrary, is in excellent shape. They have won three of their last four Bundesliga matches, scoring 13 times and conceding just 4. It is noteworthy that they also performed successfully in the Champions League, beating Young Boys with a score of 3:1. It's obvious that RB Leipzig is currently the stronger team, both in attack and defense.
If you look at their head-to-head meetings, you can note that the teams showed different results in recent meetings. If RB Leipzig in March 2023. won a landslide victory with a score of 3:0, then Borussia M has previously shown that it can withstand tactics RB Leipzig, as evidenced by its 3-0 victory in September 2022.
Event: Match outcome
Bid: Win RB Leipzig, CF: 1. 55
Why: RB Leipzig are in excellent form, winning three of their last four Bundesliga matches with an impressive goal difference. While Borussia M are struggling, with only two draws and two defeats in the same period. The Bundesliga can be unpredictable, but RB Leipzig's current form and performances make them favorites to win the title.
RB Leipzig's excellent form and recent performances in the Bundesliga and Champions League make them favorites to win.
Event: Total goals
Bid: Total goals bmore than 2.5, CF: 1. 42
Why: Both teams are consistently involved in matches where more than 2.5 goals are scored. Given the vulnerability of Borussia M's defense and the powerful attack of RB Leipzig, there is a high probability that at least three goals will be scored in this game.
Event: Both teams will score
Bid: Both teams will score - Yes, CF: 1. 55
Why: Borussia M, despite problems in defense, demonstrates the ability to score, as evidenced by the recent draw with Augsburg (4:4). RB Leipzig's attacking prowess is beyond doubt. Both teams can score.
Event: Total corners
Bid: Total corners bmore than 9.5, CF: 1. 8
Why: Corner statistics from previous matches indicate both teams' propensity to earn corners. A combination of attacks and defensive tackles can lead to corners, making this a worthwhile bet.
Event: Handicap (Handicap)
Bid: Handicap Borussia M +1. 5, CF: 1. 6
Why: This bet provides some protection against RB Leipzig winning. Even if Leipzig win by one goal, this bet will still be successful. Given Borussia M's ability to withstand strong teams and the unpredictability of football, this handicap provides an opportunity to play it safe.

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Discover a place so beloved by Robert the Bruce, he chose it as the final resting place for his heart.
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Jedburgh Castle Jail & Museum is an attraction that looks like a grand castle – but inside is a different story!
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The extraordinary home of Scottish legend Sir Walter Scott, the man who gave us the historical novel, popularised tartan & rediscovered Scotland’s Crown Jewels.
Nestled in the Cheviot Hills, Beirhope offers a stunning backdrop to meet or trek with Alpacas. Great fun for all.
Alpaca trekking in the Scottish Borders
Gunsgreen House is full of fun and adventures for children. Toilet facilities, baby changing, lift access and parking is free.
Restaurant serving locally sourced food from the Scottish Borders
Discover a town’s treasures in an historic house in beautiful parkland.
This mock Jacobean folly stands in the grounds pf Dalkeith estate Newly restored after years of neglect Entry to the estate is free
A challenging 95 mile route from Biggar to Berwick-uponTweed through the heart of the Scottish Borders following the course of the River Tweed.
Cafe Sitooterie serves fresh, seasonal and local food in the conservatory of the award winning Caddon View Guest House which has 8 very comfortable bedrooms
A gentle walk around a reservoir built to supply water to Edinburgh and surrounding areas
The ancient stronghold of the Scotts of Buccleuch which stands on a high bank above the Teviot begun its life as a Border pele-tower
The original Edinburgh Cab Tour company offering a wide range of private tours for all interests and all travellers.
The Gardens were gifted to Galashiels Town Council shortly after the Second World War
The Museum follows his extraordinary career. Artefacts, photos & Buchan's writings to tell a remarkable story.
Abbey House which dates from the late 18th century
Tasty hot food and coffee can be found here.
Comfy cinema, café bar with locally-sourced produce and cinema snacks, special events and live music performances.
There has been a church on this site since 1152 AD
Village Pub, only 200 mtrs from Gorebridge Railway Station - Borders Railway Line.
A good mix of walks for all abilities in the woods beside Folly Loch, Peniel Heugh or the hard surfaced Cricket Park Route
This impressive church building held its first service in November 1881

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Her commitment to people, and great service at affordable pricing is her number one goal in her new career. Charlene graduated with Honors from Humber College in the Immigration Consultant and Paralegal program of study. Charlene has proved her ability to understand the laws governing those areas of practice.
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In Ontario, the Small Claims Court is a branch of the Superior Court of Justice. It deals with civil disputes of a monetary value.
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On June 1, LeSean McCoy's mother showed up at his Georgia home because her son wanted her "to get his things for him so that he did not have to deal" with his estranged girlfriend, according to a police report.
McCoy's mother, Daphne McCoy, and others brought a moving truck to the home to load furniture and other items.
Daphne McCoy told police on June 1 that her son planned to sell the house in the Atlanta suburb of Milton. McCoy was willing to let his ex-girlfriend, Delicia Cordon, stay there, according to the report, obtained by the Democrat and Chronicle through a records request.
McCoy, the star running back with the Buffalo Bills, was then in Buffalo training with the team.
Daphne McCoy told police that "LeSean told her that Delicia could stay in the house until it was sold since she had two small children." It's unclear from the report if McCoy planned to completely empty the house of furniture.
The police report adds more detail to the events that sparked McCoy's recent attempts to evict Cordon and her children from a previous relationship. And the attempted eviction is likely part of a police investigation into a robbery and assault on Cordon at McCoy's home.
Cordon was beaten during an early-morning July 10 home invasion at the house, according to police accounts and a statement from Cordon's attorney. Friends of Cordon have alleged on social media that McCoy hired individuals to rob the home, and Cordon's Atlanta attorney, Tanya Michelle Graham, said that McCoy wanted jewelry returned that McCoy had given her.
McCoy has not been charged with a crime and has denied the allegations.
Attorney Graham's statement also discussed the June 1 incident at McCoy's home, saying that McCoy had friends and family remove items that belonged to Cordon. Cordon saw the goods being taken from the home when she checked on the residence's security cameras through a cellphone application. She was then in Virginia at her sister's high school graduation.
Cordon called police, who went to McCoy's home shortly before 10 a.m.
Police told Daphne McCoy that the property in the home was "communal property" and could not be taken. "She stated that LeSean paid for everything inside the home and she should be able to remove those items for him," the report states.
Officers told McCoy's mother that a civil court action would be needed to divide the goods. "The movers removed all the furniture from the moving truck and put them back inside the house," the police report says. "They only left LeSean's clothing and shoes on the truck."
One officer then spoke with LeSean McCoy on the telephone about why he could not clear the home of furniture and other items. "He stated that he understood and would contact his lawyer to start the process for civil court."
"I also advised him that if he wanted Delicia out of the home he would have to start the eviction process since he was a resident of the home," the police report states. Five days later McCoy filed papers seeking to evict Cordon.
In her statement released this week, Graham alleged that McCoy had been asking that Cordon give him back jewelry he had bought for her, and she refused. McCoy "would often suggest to Ms. Cordon that she could be robbed because the jewelry was expensive," the statement said.
The robber demanded specific pieces of jewelry, and, after being unable to remove a bracelet from Cordon's wrist, hit her in the head with a gun, Graham said.
Graham said McCoy changed the security system after June 1 and Cordon could no longer access the cameras.


During the month of June on this blog, I got annoyed not once, but twice. First, I got annoyed at Sharon Begley for a truly annoying and evidence-free (other than cherry-picked anecdotes) broadside against the NIH for its “culture of caution” that, according to her, is largely responsible for the “lack of progress” against cancer over the last 38 years since President Richard Nixon declared “war on cancer.” In essence, Begley blamed the need scientists have for publishing in the highest impact journals they can get their manuscripts into for “delaying” cures or, as I put it, “keeping teh curez from teh sick babiez!!!” To her, the emphasis at the NIH on basic research is keeping translational research from actually being translated to patients. Unfortunately, Begley appeared not to understand that translational research requires a healthy pipeline of basic science recoveries to feed it or that the NIH actually does emphasize translational research. Mike the Mad Biologist also pointed out that Begley appeared to be mistaking a symptom for the real problem.
A couple of weeks later, Gina Kolata of the New York Times picked up the gauntlet and ran with it in a similar direction, only with a different twist. In essence, Kolata, using a few cherry-picked anecdotes and no objective evidence or study, blamed instead the way grants are awarded. To her, it was all those nasty scientists who demand, you know, evidence to support grant applications and can’t see the vision behind “high risk” research. Of course, far be it from me not to admit that the NIH peer review system is all too often risk-averse, but the level of caution is more or less inversely proportional to the level of funding. Also, what non-scientists (and a lot of scientists) seem not to realize is that these “transformative” and “risky” ideas that paid off are (1) far outnumbered by risky ideas that never pay off and (2) usually only recognized as transformative in retrospect. As we used to say in residency, the retrospectoscope’s vision is 20-20, but at the time scientists are trying to pick between “risky” projects, there is often no good way to distinguish between multiple ideas that seem good but maybe only one (or even none) of which will ever actually result in a major improvement in cancer treatment.
Over the weekend, Gina Kolata wrote a followup. This time, she’s a lot more on target (but still manages to lay a big egg at one point) with an article entitled Lack of Study Volunteers Hobbles Cancer Fight:
Not long ago, at a meeting of an advisory group established by Congress to monitor the war on cancer, participants were asked how to speed progress.
“Everyone was talking about expanding the cancer work force and getting people to stop smoking,” said Dr. Scott Ramsey, a cancer researcher and health economist, who was participating in that January 2008 meeting of the President’s Cancer Panel. “Lots of murmurs of approval.”
Then it was his turn.
The biggest barrier, in his opinion, was that almost no adult cancer patients — just 3 percent — participate in studies of cancer treatments, mostly new drugs or drug regimens.
“To me it was obvious,” Dr. Ramsey said. “We can’t improve survival unless we test new treatments against established ones.”
The room fell silent.
“It was one of those embarrassing moments,” said Dr. Ramsey, an associate professor at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle. He had brought up the subject he said no one wanted to touch.
Forty years after President Richard M. Nixon declared war on cancer, death rates have barely changed. “Why aren’t we getting cures?” Dr. Ramsey said. “This is one of the biggest reasons.”
Right on! I can tell you that this is a huge problem. I’ve now been on the faculty at two major NCI-designated comprehensive cancer centers in my career. Yes, this is anecdotal, but at both of them keeping our clinical trials going by accruing enough patients has been a major concern. It’s one of the criteria by which we judge our clinical research programs, and we absolutely can’t make any progress against cancer without well-designed clinical trials that accrue enough patients to have the statistical power to tell if a new treatment is working better than the standard of care. Overall, the article provides a good explanation of why there are such problems. The problems are at all levels, including patient concerns, roadblocks to physicians enrolling patients in clinical trials, and systemic issues. Many of us in the oncology field are stymied and frustrated as well, because we believe that clinical trials represent some of the best medicine patients can receive. Nowhere else is care so closely supervised, do deviations from protocol need such a detailed explanation, or do adverse events result in as much reporting.
There are many patient concerns and misconceptions out there. One of the most common of which is the fear of getting a placebo. If there’s one thing I want to emphasize right here right now, it’s that placebos are rarely used in cancer clinical trials. The far more common design is to add the new drug being tested to the existing standard of care or to compare the new drug combination being tested against the standard of care. Another concern, which is more difficult to overcome, is that patients do not like the loss of control that comes with joining a clinical trial. The randomization process requires that the patient agree to accept its result, which means that any subjects in a clinical trial might be given standard of care or might get the new drug. Those of us involved in clinical trials know that one of the motivating factors for entering a clinical trial is the hope of receiving a newer, more effective drug; they don’t want the “old” drug. Of course, the novelty effect leads most patients to tend to downplay the potential risks of a new drug and overestimate the potential benefits, but, distorted assessment of risk-benefit ratio or not, we as clinical researchers can’t ignore these concerns. Not surprisingly, it is patients who have the worst disease and the bleakest prognosis who are usually the most willing to “try anything” and sign up for even the riskiest clinical trials, namely phase I trials, sometimes called “first in human” trials.
To give you an idea of how difficult it can be to persuade a patient to accept randomization, look back 30 years or so to breast cancer clinical trials. This was when lumpectomy was coming into vogue and surgical trials were being done to compare modified radical mastectomy (mastectomy plus removal of the lymph nodes under the arm) with lumpectomy and axillary dissection followed by radiation therapy. Imagine being a patient being asked to accept randomization to either losing your breast or not. Never mind that we didn’t know at the time whether the “lesser” surgery of lumpectomy and radiation therapy would be as likely to cure the disease as mastectomy. Giving up that choice required a beneficence that few can manage, and it is doubtful that such a trial could be done today.
There’s yet another issue that concerns me because I work in a highly urban cancer center. Among some groups of African Americans, there is a huge mistrust of doctors. It’s not entirely unjustified either; well do many remember the Tuskegee syphilis experiment and other abuses. Many of these patients are very resistant to signing up for a clinical trial because they honestly believe that human experimentation will be as exploitive of them as the Tuskegee syphilis experiment was. It’s very hard to overcome this at times, but it’s important to try. The main reason is because African American women tend to have a higher incidence of a more aggressive form of breast cancer and thus a lower survival rate and younger age at diagnosis.
From the physician side, there’s a huge impediment to enrolling patients on clinical trials. Not all physicians can design and carry out clinical trials, but many of them who are not affiliated with major academic medical centers can still sign them up for trials. The problem is that there are few incentives, other than a desire to help advance the field, to promote more physicians signing up patients for clinical trials. First off, there is no reimbursement for it. Before the first patient is considered for a trial, it takes a lot of work to get a trial approved by an institutional review board (IRB), as well as a significant infrastructure in order to monitor patients for adverse reactions and response to therapy. To sign a patient up is also a lot of work. A lot of work. It takes a lot longer to explain to a patient a clinical trial and obtain informed consent than it does to give standard therapy, and there is no additional reimbursement. Moreover, unlike conventional chemotherapy, oncologists are not reimbursed more. They lose money:
For 15 years, Dr. John M. Rainey at Louisiana Oncology Associates in Lafayette did his best to enroll patients in clinical trials. He believed in research and thought doctors like him should do their part. But he finally had to stop. Every study was costing his group a few hundred dollars to $1,500 and the bureaucratic requirements were getting out of control.
“When we put a pencil to it, it didn’t make economic sense,” Dr. Rainey said.
First was the institutional review board, the committee that reviews the trial to make sure patients are protected from harm. Every time a study patient had an adverse reaction, every participating medical center had to notify patients and respond to the review board. Many reactions had nothing to do with the drugs, Dr. Rainey said, and instead were related to the patients’ illnesses.
“It became a hassle factor,” he said. “We didn’t have the manpower.” One of the five doctors in the group was spending three to five hours a week filling out forms.
“You could see five or six or seven patients in that time,” Dr. Rainey said.
Few private oncology groups have the resources or manpower, and, even in large academic centers, coming up with the resources to support the expensive infrastructure and bureaucracy necessary to run clinical trials can be a problem. True, the NIH and other sources fund clinical trials, but even at large cancer centers signing patients up for clinical trials can often be a major challenge, logistically, financially, and in terms of persuasion.
This brings me to systemic issues, which include issues of science. As the article mentions, a lot of clinical trials are too small to produce definitive answers and some are redundant. Many end up closing because of insufficient accrual. Last fall, I saw a depressingly amazing talk by Dr. David Dilts, PhD, MBA of the Center for Management Research in Health Care. He pointed out how inefficient and crude our current clinical trial mechanism is. Indeed, so impressed was I that I still have some of my notes. It turns out that 29% of clinical trials never accrue a single patient, while 31% accrue less than five. Overall 63% of clinical trials fail to reach their accrual target, and it costs an institution between $700 and $4,000 month to keep open each low accruing trial. The system is hugely inefficient. Worse, the emphasis in the health care reform bill wending its way through Congress right now on comparative effectiveness research will only make the problem worse. While such research is useful from a practical standpoint to determine whether drug combination X is better than drug combination Y or to determine if dosage schedule A is better than dosage schedule B, it will not result in breakthroughs. Quite frankly, as useful as it is from a practical standpoint, from a strictly scientific standpoint, comparative effectiveness research is about as uninteresting as it gets.
It’s toward the end of the article that Kolata goes a little off the rails. Given the structure of a typical story, it’s not very satisfying to present just a problem, as this story does up until now. It’s far more satisfying to present a potential solution, and this is what Kolata does:
Donald Berry, a statistician at the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, wants to use resources more efficiently. To do so, he designed a new sort of study to test experimental drugs for breast cancer.
The study, starting this fall, is a departure from traditional notions of drug testing and cancer treatment.
Participants will be women who are newly diagnosed with breast cancer and at high risk that it will spread in their bodies.
Ordinarily, women with breast cancer have surgery first to remove the tumor in their breast and then have chemotherapy. The problem with removing the tumor right away is that it can take 5 to 10 years to know whether an experimental drug killed any remaining cancer cells. It is easier and much faster to assess an experimental drug’s effects on tumors that remain in the body. So in this study, women will get standard chemotherapy and experimental drugs first. Researchers will do MRI scans to see whether the tumors are responding.
Then, six months later, surgeons will remove the tumor or, if the tumor is gone, tissue from where it used to be, to determine how the cancer responded to the drugs.
The idea of leaving a cancer in place for six months can sound shocking, even dangerous. But cancer researchers say it actually makes no difference whether chemotherapy comes before or after surgery.
The idea of this trial, known as I-SPY is this:
The study involves the use of a contrast-enhanced breast MRI for the evaluation of locally-advanced breast cancer patients undergoing neoadjuvant treatment. The I-SPY study aims to correlate MRI results with molecular markers to identify the right surrogate marker for early response.
The I-SPY informatics effort involves providing informatics support for the I-SPY trial. This involves the integration, and analysis of diverse data types including clinical, MRI imaging, gene expression, Comparative Genome Hybridization (CGH), immunohistochemistry (IHC), Fluorescent In Situ Hybridization (FISH), and cell lysates throughout the breast cancer treatment cycle. By providing an integrative platform designed to correlate molecular data with MRI patterns, study researchers will be able to more effectively identify surrogate markers for early response which will ultimately result in more effective therapies for breast cancer patients.
It’s a very impressive “big science” project, the very sort of thing that the nominee to be the new director of the NIH, Francis Collins, is known for promoting. I’m of a mixed mind on this. On the one hand, there could well be major efficiencies to be had in sharing data. Also, our current methodology for predicting response to chemotherapy is crude at best, even with innovations such as the Oncotype DX finding their way into clinic. This question has been the Holy Grail of oncology for a very long time–decades even. While the I-SPY trial could provide us with a large amount of new information, unlike how it is portrayed in Kolata’s story, I highly doubt it’s the “definitely the answer” to getting answers with fewer patients. The reason is simple: The more markers for response to chemotherapy, be they molecular biomarkers, MRI, or other imaging studies, the more permutations of potential therapies will be. The more genomic subtypes of breast cancer, each requiring a different treatment, again, the more permutations. That’s always been the problem with “personalized medicine.” Validating the correlations between various combinations of biomarkers and response to therapy has always been problematic. Don’t get me wrong; trying to figure out these questions the traditional way would have required ridiculous numbers of patients. Moreover, initial tumor response doesn’t always correlate with a prolongation of survival. True, lack of initial tumor response correlates with a lack of improvement in survival due to treatment, but correlating tumor response to survival has always been dicey.
Another thing that has to be understood is that the final trials, phase III trials based on the results of earlier parts of the I-SPY trials are not likely to take any less time than any other phase III trial. The reason is that, unless the differences in survival between the new treatment group and the standard of care group are truly dramatic, it will still take between five and ten years to see them definitively–particularly if only 300 patients are used in these final trials.
Human subjects and human tissue are the most precious resources in translational science. All the careful and elegant preclinical science in the world, with its careful biochemical and genomic studies, cell culture correlates, and animal models, goes for naught if the ultimate result doesn’t translate into an effective therapy in humans. The only way to validate a therapy that has managed to jump through all the preliminary preclinical hoops is to test it in humans and follow the responses that occur in human tissue. Not only can such studies tell us whether a new therapy works or not but they can reveal the biology behind the disease and its response to therapy. To complicate matters, all of this has to be done under the highest scientific and ethical standards that protect patient autonomy and minimize the risks of harm to research subjects. It’s no wonder that efforts are under way to use fewer human subjects. Who knows? I-SPY may even be a major advance. I just don’t think it will be a panacea for this problem, and that’s what Kolata seems to be implying that it is.


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Training Sniffer Dogs as Lab and Field Research Assistants: What They Can Teach Us
|Saturday, May 23, 2015|
|4:00 PM–4:50 PM |
|Lila Cockrell Theatre (CC)|
|Area: AAB; Domain: Applied Research|
|Instruction Level: Basic|
|CE Instructor: Megan E. Maxwell, Ph.D.|
|Chair: Megan E. Maxwell (Pet Behavior Change, LLC)|
|SIMON GADBOIS (Dalhousie University)|
|Dr. Simon Gadbois is a canid researcher at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada. After studying behavioral endocrinology and behavior patterns in wild canids (foxes, coyotes, and wolves) for 15 years, he began a research program with sniffer dogs. He is particularly interested in the application of sniffer dogs to biomedical diagnostics, and for the detection and search of invasive species and species-at-risk. His approach to canine behavior and sensory processing is influenced by the ethologists (John Fentress, Peter McLeod, and Fred Harrington), experimental psychologists (Werner Honig, Vincent LoLordo, and Marvin Krank) and neuroscientists (Will Moger, Shelley Adamo, and Richard Brown) he has worked with since 1986. He believes in a strong integration and synthesis of ethology, experimental psychology, and neuroscience. He uses animal learning principles in fundamental and applied olfactory psychophysics and is strongly influenced by Gibsonian psychology (from J.J. Gibson, the "Skinner of Perception") and zoosemiotics. Dr. Gadbois is director of the Canid Behaviour Research Laboratory at Dalhousie University and the Canadian representative of the International Council of Ethologists. His work on wolves, coyotes, and dogs has been featured in documentaries (e.g., PBS Nature, National Film Board of Canada), and he has been a frequent guest speaker in North America and Europe since 2007.|
Training sniffer dogs for specialty work, especially in the field, requires an unusual set of skills and knowledge: Fluid dynamics, analytical chemistry, psychophysics, microclimatology, and micrometeorology. Dogs are complex animals, and even the lab work (during training, or for diagnostic work) can have its challenges with long sessions of repetitive behaviors (e.g., responses in go/no-go tasks) with few stimuli and a sterilized and aseptic environment. Basic questions arise: Should we try to manipulate the dog, the stimuli, or the whole environment? When are interferences too much--or too little? And how can we train our dogs to succeed and keep performance steady over time? Dr. Simon Gadbois will address four main issues: (1) The role of motivation; (2) olfactomotor activation; (3) affordance training; and (4) understanding the where, what, and how much sub-systems of olfactory processing. He will, for example, discuss how modern training and assessment techniques treat olfactory detection and discrimination as a memory task when in fact, it is a fundamental sensory-perceptual task. Testing procedures that are mnemonically challenging should instead focus on perceptually challenging tasks. Dr. Gadbois will discuss how smell is a percept that needs to be processed in context. Much of this talk is derived from, and expands on, Gadbois& Reeve (2014).
|Target Audience: |
Behavior analysts interested in learning how behavioral techniques are integrated with and understanding sensory processing to teach dogs how to sniff out invasive species and species at risk in conservation work.
|Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of the event, participants should be able to (1) appreciate the intricacies of scent work and how it goes beyond mastering learning theory; (2) conceptualize ecologically valid training conditions, take in consideration ethological principles, and facilitate training by manipulation of the immediate environment; and (3) integrate the three main sub-systems of olfactory processing in designing training protocols.|
|Keyword(s): dogs, olfactory processing|

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'Poems Done On A Late Night Car' by Carl Sandburg
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I. CHICKENSI am The Great White Way of the city:
When you ask what is my desire, I answer:
"Girls fresh as country wild flowers,
With young faces tired of the cows and barns,
Eager in their eyes as the dawn to find my mysteries,
Slender supple girls with shapely legs,
Lure in the arch of their little shoulders
And wisdom from the prairies to cry only softly atthe ashes of my mysteries."II. USED UPLines based on certain regrets that come with ruminationupon the painted faces of women onNorth Clark Street, ChicagoRoses,Red roses,Crushed
In the rain and wind
Like mouths of women
Beaten by the fists of
Men using them.O little rosesAnd broken leavesAnd petal wisps:
You that so flung your crimsonTo the sun
Only yesterday.III. HOMEHere is a thing my heart wishes the world had more of:
I heard it in the air of one night when I listened
To a mother singing softly to a child restless and angryin the darkness.
Editor 1 Interpretation
Poems Done on a Late Night Car: A Study in Carl Sandburg's Poetry
What is it about Carl Sandburg's poetry that makes it so enduring and unforgettable? Perhaps it is his ability to capture the essence of America, its people, and its landscapes in a way that is both simple and profound. Or maybe it is his use of language, which is often as evocative as it is precise. Whatever the reason, Sandburg's Poems Done on a Late Night Car is a collection that deserves to be studied and appreciated by anyone who loves poetry.
Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) was an American poet, journalist, and biographer. He was born in Galesburg, Illinois, and spent much of his childhood in poverty. Despite this, he was able to attend college and eventually became a successful writer. Sandburg's poetry is known for its accessibility and its use of free verse. He often wrote about everyday people and their struggles, as well as the natural beauty of America.
Poems Done on a Late Night Car was first published in 1919. The collection consists of 36 poems, many of which were written while Sandburg was working as a journalist in Chicago. The poems are characterized by their vivid imagery, musical language, and emotional depth.
Themes and Analysis
One of the most striking things about Poems Done on a Late Night Car is its range of subjects. Sandburg writes about everything from the beauty of nature ("Stars") to the horrors of war ("Killers") to the simple pleasures of life ("Happiness"). However, there are certain themes that recur throughout the collection.
Loneliness and Isolation
Many of Sandburg's poems deal with the theme of loneliness and isolation. In "The Harbor" and "Under a Hat Rim," the speaker is alone at night, contemplating his place in the world. In "Limited," the speaker is on a train, feeling disconnected from the world around him. Even in "Happiness," the speaker is alone, enjoying the simple pleasures of life but still aware of his solitude.
Nature and the Environment
Sandburg was a lover of nature, and many of his poems celebrate the beauty of the natural world. In "Stars," he describes the night sky as a "singing archipelago" and compares the stars to "a great herd of buffalo" moving across the sky. In "Fish Crier," he paints a vivid picture of a fish seller calling out his wares in the street.
Sandburg was also interested in the lives of everyday people. In "Early Moon," he describes a factory worker coming home from a long day's work. In "Happiness," he celebrates the joy of a simple meal and a quiet evening at home. In "The Great Hunt," he satirizes the obsession with material possessions that he saw in American society.
War and Violence
Sandburg was a pacifist and a critic of war, and several of his poems deal with the theme of violence. In "Killers," he describes the atrocities committed by soldiers during World War I. In "The Four Brothers," he mourns the loss of four soldiers who died in battle. In "The Red Son," he criticizes those who use violence to achieve their goals.
Style and Technique
Sandburg's style is characterized by its simplicity and accessibility. He often uses short lines and simple language, which makes his poetry easy to understand. However, this simplicity is deceptive, as Sandburg's poems are also full of complex images and ideas.
One of Sandburg's most distinctive techniques is his use of repetition. He often repeats words and phrases, which creates a musical quality in his poetry. In "Fish Crier," he repeats the phrase "Fish, fish" to mimic the call of the fish seller. In "Stars," he repeats the phrase "They are" to emphasize the vastness and beauty of the night sky.
Sandburg also uses metaphor and simile to great effect in his poetry. In "Stars," he compares the night sky to "a singing archipelago." In "Limited," he describes the train as "a long, thin caterpillar." These comparisons are often surprising and inventive, and they help to create the vivid imagery that is one of Sandburg's trademarks.
Poems Done on a Late Night Car is a collection that showcases Carl Sandburg's many talents as a poet. His ability to capture the beauty of nature, the struggles of everyday people, and the horrors of war makes his poetry both powerful and enduring. His use of repetition, metaphor, and simile creates a musical quality that is both accessible and complex. If you love poetry, this collection is a must-read.
Editor 2 Analysis and Explanation
Poetry Poems Done On A Late Night Car: An Analysis
Carl Sandburg's "Poetry Poems Done On A Late Night Car" is a classic poem that has been studied and analyzed by scholars and poetry enthusiasts alike. This poem is a perfect example of Sandburg's unique style of writing, which is characterized by his use of free verse, colloquial language, and vivid imagery. In this analysis, we will explore the themes, structure, and literary devices used in this poem to understand its meaning and significance.
The poem begins with the speaker describing a late-night car ride with a friend. The speaker is in a reflective mood and begins to think about poetry. He wonders what poetry is and what it means to him. He then goes on to describe the different types of poetry that he has encountered in his life, from the traditional sonnets to the modernist free verse. The speaker is trying to understand what makes poetry so special and why it has such a profound impact on people.
One of the main themes of this poem is the power of poetry. The speaker is trying to understand why poetry has such a profound impact on people. He describes how poetry can make people feel emotions that they never thought were possible. He says that poetry can make people feel happy, sad, angry, or even scared. The speaker is trying to understand how poetry has the power to move people in such a profound way.
Another theme of this poem is the importance of individuality. The speaker describes how there are many different types of poetry, each with its own unique style and voice. He says that each poet has their own way of expressing themselves and that this is what makes poetry so special. The speaker is trying to convey the message that everyone has their own unique voice and that this should be celebrated.
The structure of this poem is also interesting. It is written in free verse, which means that it does not follow a specific rhyme or meter. This gives the poem a more conversational tone, as if the speaker is talking to the reader directly. The lack of structure also allows the speaker to explore different ideas and themes without being constrained by a specific form.
The poem also uses a variety of literary devices to convey its message. One of the most prominent devices used in this poem is imagery. The speaker uses vivid descriptions to paint a picture in the reader's mind. For example, he describes the "night wind" as "a wildcat" and the "streetlights" as "yellow cats." These descriptions help to create a sense of atmosphere and mood.
Another literary device used in this poem is repetition. The speaker repeats the phrase "what is poetry" several times throughout the poem. This repetition helps to emphasize the importance of this question and shows that the speaker is truly trying to understand what poetry means to him.
The poem also uses metaphor to convey its message. The speaker compares poetry to a "wild horse" that cannot be tamed. This metaphor helps to convey the idea that poetry is something that cannot be controlled or contained. It is something that is free and wild, just like a horse running through a field.
In conclusion, Carl Sandburg's "Poetry Poems Done On A Late Night Car" is a powerful and thought-provoking poem that explores the themes of the power of poetry and the importance of individuality. The poem's structure, use of literary devices, and vivid imagery all work together to create a unique and memorable reading experience. This poem is a testament to Sandburg's skill as a poet and his ability to capture the essence of what makes poetry so special.
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The 10th-generation Honda Civic is one of our favorite cars. The all-new 2017 Civic Si doesn’t need more power. It doesn’t need more of anything, really. The intrinsic beauty of the Si is in its balance: It doesn’t overachieve at any one thing, rather, it does everything well. It’s fun to drive – more than its spec sheet would lead you to believe – and still works like a Civic, offering comfort and convenience for easy daily livability.
The fun-to-drive factor is super important here – that Si badge has to mean more than just a well-balanced Civic. We guess you know the Si uses an enhanced version of Honda’s turbocharged 1.5-liter inline-four, with 205 hp and 192 pound-feet of torque. But those numbers only tell part of the story. The car also gets 38 miles per gallon highway. Compared to a standard Civic EX-T, the Si upgrade includes stiffer springs and stabilizer bars, adaptive dampers, and a limited-slip differential. It gets larger 18-inch wheels and wider 235/40-series all-season tires (Goodyear Eagle F1 summer rubber is a $200 option), as well as beefier brakes for better stopping power. Finally, the car sits five millimeters (0.2 inch) lower to the ground.
More importantly, it isn’t just a Civic Sport with a little extra power. The adaptive damping really improves the Civic’s chassis, offering compliance and comfort when you’re just need to get through traffic, but more stability and feedback when you’re cornering quickly. Likewise, the six-speed manual transmission is better in the Si, with a clearer take-up point in the clutch and crisper action of the shifter itself thanks to new linkage. Decide which body style you want, pick your color, and you’re done. Both the coupe and sedan start at $23,900, and adding the better tires and factoring in $875 for destination means you won’t crest $25,000, all in. A loaded Si undercuts the base prices of the Ford Focus ST, Subaru BRZ, WRX, Toyota 86, and Volkswagen GTI.


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R.L. STINE, famous for his "Goosebumps" and "Fear Street" horror series, may have given more chills to more children than any author in history. But his audience has grown up, and Mr. Stine says he is ready to move on too, with his new novel, "The Sitter," a horror story for adults. "This is my attempt to grow with my audience," said Mr. Stine, 60, who lives part of the year in Sag Harbor. "My readers are getting older, so I thought I'd try to do a book with 20-somethings instead of teenagers.
November 9, 2003

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The Internet has changed our world; it has given wings to the experts and artist around the world. We have seen so many profiles which have the mind-boggling fan following on the Internet. Some profiles are even more significant than many Bollywood and sports stars in India. We are talking about one genius who has taken social media by storm with his popularity. And he is "Pappya Gaikwad" one of the famous names on Facebook and Instagram.
You will be surprised to know about his popularity. People are crazy about his posts, and he is the record holder too. He holds the second spots in terms of sharing. Yes, Pappya Gaikwad's posts are shared in the highest number even higher than top celebrities of India in every field. He comes second after Ronaldo in terms of popularity.
Pappya Gaikwad comes from Maharashtra's top location Lonavala. He is a young and talented guy who knows how to grow in the 21st century with his artistic work.
Pappya Gaikwad started posting his work on Facebook in 2017 and two years, and he has more than 1.4 million followers on Instagram (pappya_gaikwad_official). What 1.4 million? And another shock is he is not a Bollywood hero, not a politician and not even a sportsman. You may get surprised by his booming popularity right. We too, were astonished by his growing stature on social media accounts Facebook.
Pappya Gaikwad comes from a modest family. He started the trend of modelling photos in Maharashtra. Pappya began to photography with his mobile phone as he did not have DSLR but who wants DSLR when you have the creativity. Slowly people began to recognize his talent in photography. After that, he started photo editing and the man then there is no looking back for this young talent. He has made everyone his fan from north to south of India and even abroad.
Pappya Gaikwad is not a name it’s and brand now in India. His one post get highest likes and share in India on Instagram and Facebook. He is also the brand ambassador for many top brands.
So good to see out young Indian talent has made and unique name in the internet world which very few can make. We are proud of his achievements as he is young; we will see many more successes from him. And he will surely make India satisfied with his popularity and work.


Donnie Baseball deserves another look from Hall of Fame voters. Between 1984-1987, Mattingly averaged 29 home runs and 120 RBIs per season. His on-base plus slugging during that stretch was .918, .939, .967 and .937.
Baseball writers do the voting and they have become the gatekeepers. Baseball writers must judge the game diligently and expertly.
David Robertson is faced with the unenviable task of filling Mariano Rivera’s shoes but is ready to take on the challenge.
The NYPD said that there were about a dozen arrests Wednesday night. Most of those were for disorderly conduct, but at least one arrest was as for assaulting a police officer. Police said a protester knocked an officer off his scooter.


So a couple of days ago Cisco, it would seem, have finally released their new open source security analytics framework: OpenSOC to the developer community. OpenSOC sits conceptually at the intersection between Big Data and Security Analytics
The current totalizer on the Breach Level Index website (breachlevelindex.com) sits at almost 2.4 billion data records lost this year so far which works out approximately 6 million per day. The levels of this data loss will not be dropping anytime soon as attackers are only going to get better at getting their hands on this information. There is hope however as even the best hackers leave clues in their wake although finding these clues in enormous amounts of analytical data such as logs and telemetry can be the biggest of challenges.
This is where OpenSOC will seek to make the crucial difference and bridge the gap. Incorporating a platform of anomaly detection and incident forensics, it integrates elements of the Hadoop environment such as Kafka, Elasticsearch and Storm to deliver a scalable platform enabling full-packet capture indexing, storage, data enrichment, stream processing, batch processing, real-time search and telemetry aggregation. It will seek to provide security professionals the facility to detect and react to complex threats on a single converged platform.
The OpenSOC framework provides three key elements for security analytics:
An extremely high speed mechanism to capture and store security data. OpenSOC consumes data by delivering it to multiple high speed processors capable of heavy lift contextual analytics in tandem with appropriate storage enabling subsequent forensic investigations.
Application of enrichments such as threat intelligence, geolocation, and DNS information to collected telemetry providing for quick reaction investigations.
The interface presents alert summaries with threat intelligence and enrichment data specific to an alert on a single page. The advanced search capabilities and full packet-extraction tools are available for investigation without the need to pivot between multiple tools.
When sensitive data is compromised, the company’s reputation, resources, and intellectual property is put at risk. Quickly identifying and resolving the issue is critical, but, traditional approaches to security incident investigation can be time-consuming. An analyst may need to take the following steps:
Review reports from a Security Incident and Event Manager (SIEM) and run batch queries on other telemetry sources for additional context.
Research external threat intelligence sources to uncover proactive warnings to potential attacks.
Research a network forensics tool with full packet capture and historical records in order to determine context.
Apart from having to access several tools and information sets, the act of searching and analyzing the amount of data collected can take minutes to hours using traditional techniques. Security professionals can use a single tool to navigate data with narrowed focus instead of wasting precious time trying to make sense of mountains of unstructured data.
Hadoop, a free, Java-based programming framework that makes it possible to run applications on systems with thousands of nodes involving thousands of terabytes, supports the processing of large amounts of data in a distributed computing environment and is part of the Apache project sponsored by the Apache Software Foundation. Its distributed file system facilitates rapid data transfer rates among nodes and allows the system to continue operating uninterrupted in case of a node failure. This approach lowers the risk of catastrophic system failure, even if a significant number of nodes become inoperative.
Hadoop was inspired by Google's MapReduce, a software framework in which an application is broken down into numerous small parts. Any of these parts (also called fragments or blocks) can be run on any node in the cluster. Doug Cutting, Hadoop's creator, named the framework after his child's stuffed toy elephant. The current Apache Hadoop ecosystem consists of the Hadoop kernel, MapReduce, the Hadoop distributed file system (HDFS) and a number of related projects such as Apache Hive, HBase and Zookeeper.
The Hadoop framework is used by major players including Google, Yahoo and IBM, largely for applications involving search engines and advertising. The preferred operating systems are Windows and Linux but Hadoop can also work with BSD and OS X.
The rapid proliferation of unstructured data is one of the driving forces of the new paradigm of big data analytics. According to one study, we are now producing as much data every 10 minutes as was created from the beginning of recorded time through the year 2003.1 The preponderance of data being created is of the unstructured variety -- up to about 90%, according to the IDC.
Big data is about being able to not just capture a wide variety of unstructured data, but to also capturing that data and combining it with other data to gain new insights that can be used in many ways to improve business performance. For Instance, in retail, it could mean delivering faster and better services to customers; in research, it could mean conducting tests over much wider sampling sizes; in healthcare, it could mean faster and more accurate diagnoses of illnesses.
The ways in which big data will change our lives is significant, and just beginning to reveal itself for those who are willing to capture, combine, and discover answers to their Big Questions. For big data to deliver on the promise of its vast potential, however, technology must be in place to enable organizations to capture and store massive amounts of unstructured data in its native format. That’s where Hadoop has become one of the enabling data processing technologies for big data analytics. Hadoop allows for dramatically bigger business questions to be answered, that we are already starting to see realized from large public cloud companies, which will shortly infiltrate into other IT oriented industries and services.
More than 50% of participating companies have begun implementing the available Hadoop frameworks as data hubs or auxiliary data repositories to their existing infrastructures, according to Intel’s 2013 IT Manager’s Survey on How Organizations are Using Big Data. In addition, 31% more organizations reported evaluating one of open-source Apache Hadoop framework.
So what are the key characteristics IT professionals should know about Hadoop in order to maximize its potential in managing unstructured data and advancing the cause of big data analytics? Here are five to keep in mind:
Hadoop is economical. As an open-source software framework, Hadoop runs on standard servers. Hardware can be added or swapped in or out of a cluster, and operational costs are relatively low because the software is common across the infrastructure, requiring little tuning for each physical server.
Hadoop provides an efficient framework for processing large sets of data. MapReduce is the software programming framework in the Hadoop stack. Simply put, rather than moving data across a network to be processed, MapReduce provides a framework to move the processing software to the data.3 In addition to simplifying the processing of big data sets, MapReduce also provides programmers with a common method of defining and orchestrating complex processing tasks across clusters of computers.
Hadoop supports your existing database and analytics infrastructures, and does not displace it. Hadoop can handle data sets and tasks that can be a problem for legacy databases. In big data environments, you want to make sure that the underlying storage and infrastructure platform for the database is capable of handling the capacity and speed of big data initiatives, particularly for mission-critical applications. Because of this capacity it can and has been implemented as a replacement to existing infrastructures, but only where it fits the business need or advantage
Hadoop will provide the best value where it is implemented with the right infrastructure. The Hadoop framework typically runs on mainstream standard servers using common Intel® server hardware. Newer servers with the latest Intel® computing, larger memory footprint, and more cache will typically provide better performance. In addition, Hadoop will perform better with faster in node storage, so systems should contain some amount of solid-state storage. In addition, the storage infrastructure should be optimized with the latest advances in automated tiering, deduplication, compression, encryption, erasure coding and thin provisioning. When Hadoop has scaled to encompass larger datasets it benefits from faster networks, so then 10Gb Ethernet rather than typical 1GbE bandwidth provides further benefit.
Hadoop is supported by a large and active ecosystem. Big data is a big opportunity, not just for those using it to deliver competitive advantage, but also to those providing solutions. A large and active ecosystem has developed quickly around Hadoop, as it usually does around open-source solutions. As an example, Intel recently invested $740 million dollars into the leading distribution for Hadoop provided by Cloudera. Vendors are available to provide all or part of the Hadoop stack, including management software, third-party applications and a wide range of other tools to help simplify the deployment of Hadoop.
Unstructured data is growing nonstop across a variety of applications, in a wide range of formats. Those companies that are best able to harness it and use it for competitive advantage are seeing significant results and benefits. That’s why more than 80% of the companies surveyed by Intel are using, implementing or evaluating Hadoop.


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Cheetah Cubs Debut At The National Zoo [VIDEO]
Two cheetah cubs are making their debut at Washington's Smithsonian National Zoo this week. Zoo members got the opportunity to see the three-month old cubs on Tuesday before the general public, which will be able to see them beginning on Saturday.
The cubs are garnering extra attention because of the "rare and risky" situation surrounding their birth. The mother, Ally, gave birth to the first cub in April, but abandoned him and left him in the cold. Her labor then stopped, despite the fact that she still had three cubs inside her. Veterinarians quickly performed a cesarean section, saving one more of the cubs.
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While the cheetah cubs have not officially been named yet, zoo officials said they will be named after the fastest American Olympic athletes in the 100-meter dash. Possible names include Carmelita, Tianna and Allyson for the female cheetah and Justin, Tyson and Ryan for the male cheetah.
"The decision to name the cubs after the fastest Americans is part of a broader National Zoo Games campaign to celebrate the Zoo's finest animaletes," the Zoo says on its website. "Beginning July 24 and lasting for the duration of the Olympic Games, the Zoo will be posting photos, videos and fun facts showcasing the best of sport in the animal kingdom, from weightlifting ants to water polo-playing lions. Followers can track the updates on the Zoo's Facebook page and website and through the hashtag #ZooGames on Twitter. Each activity that the animals participate in is an important component of the Zoo's Animal Enrichment program, which provides physically and mentally stimulating activities and environments for the Zoo's residents."
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Stacey Abrams campaigned for governor of Georgia in 2018 against Secretary of State Brian Kemp. Abrams won more votes than any other Democrat governor candidate in Georgia’s history, but she narrowly lost the election. Abrams is once again challenging Republican Brian Kemp for governor of Georgia. However, her One Georgia campaign committee has suffered a setback. Last week, a federal judge struck down a lawsuit her committee filed dealing with campaign financing. Here, Election Central takes a closer look at what happened, and what this ruling could mean for Abrams’ campaign.
Abrams’ lawsuit challenged a new Georgia campaign financing law. Up until recently, it was illegal for lawmakers to raise money for their re-elections during legislative sessions. That’s to prevent the possibility of a legislator being tempted with special interest money to vote a certain way on legislation and put that money into campaign funds. But the new law makes it legal for these candidates to create “leadership committees,” which can raise campaign funding without limits and may do so during legislative sessions. Only the governor, lieutenant governor, a party’s nominee for one of those positions, and the Republican and Democratic caucuses in the state House and Senate can create one of these special committees. The law was signed by Governor Kemp.
Abrams and her One Georgia committee challenged the law in federal court, saying that it gives some candidates, and especially incumbents, an unfair financial advantage over others. The committee requested that Abrams be allowed unlimited campaign financing as well. But the judge ruled against One Georgia, stating that because Abrams is not yet the official Democratic Party nominee, the new law doesn’t apply to her.
Abrams is currently running unopposed in the May 24 Democratic primary. Governor Kemp will face former U.S. Senator David Perdue in the Republican primary. Perdue also challenged the new law in court, in front of the same judge as Abrams. In Purdue’s case, the judge ruled that Kemp could keep raising unlimited funds, but he can’t use them against Perdue in the primary and must save them for the general election instead.


The release of the files comes after The Daily Telegraph disclosed papers obtained by WikiLeaks showing that ministers secretly advised Muammar Gaddafi's Libyan regime on how to secure the bomber's freedom.
David Cameron will today release dozens of confidential letters, 150 pages of documents, memos and minutes of meetings that are said to provide a "comprehensive" picture of the last government's involvement in freeing Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi.
Mr Cameron and Hillary Clinton, the US Secretary of State, issued a joint statement at the weekend in which they "strongly agreed" that the decision had been a mistake.
Megrahi, the only man convicted of the Lockerbie bombing, was freed from jail on compassionate grounds in August 2009.
It was claimed that his prostate cancer meant he had no more than three months to live. He is still alive more than 17 months later.
Today's documents are thought to include further information about the extent to which ministers under Tony Blair's and Gordon Brown's leadership were willing to help the Libyans to secure a multi-billion pound oil deal for BP.
Their publication by the Cabinet Office is expected to undermine the Labour government's claims further that it did not interfere in the decision, which was the devolved Scottish Executive's responsibility.
Mr Cameron has previously insisted the decision was made by Scottish ministers alone, but agreed to release the documents during his first official meeting with Barack Obama last July to quell growing American anger.
Sir Gus O'Donnell, the Cabinet Secretary, has since overseen a review of "all the paperwork" related to the case. It is expected that some key passages will be redacted but officials said the publication would not be a whitewash. A Cabinet Office spokesman said: "It's quite a comprehensive review."
It is understood the release will show Labour ministers were "complicit" in efforts to free the bomber. Mr Blair was instrumental in striking a 2007 prisoner transfer agreement (PTA) with Gaddafi, signing the "deal in the desert" just hours before BP unveiled a £500million oil contract with Libya.
Jack Straw, the former Justice Secretary, has admitted originally wanting to exclude Megrahi from the PTA. He dropped his objection after Libya used its deal with BP as a bargaining chip.
The Daily Telegraph disclosed last week that Bill Rammell, a former Foreign Office minister, sent Libyan officials legal advice on how to use the bomber's cancer diagnosis to ensure he was freed.
Mr Cameron discussed the release with Mrs Clinton at a security conference in Munich at the weekend. A Downing Street spokesman said: "The Prime Minister and Secretary of State strongly agreed that the release of the Lockerbie bomber had been a mistake."
A spokesman for Alex Salmond, the Scottish First Minister, said: "The UK Government's position changed from autumn 2008 towards one of seeking to facilitate Megrahi's release."
But he said the Executive paid "no heed" to UK ministers and the bomber's release was "based upon the precepts of Scots Law, and not on foreign policy, economic, or any other considerations."
Scottish ministers will also publish some papers detailing their discussions about Megrahi with their Westminster counterparts. Sources close to Mr Salmond said the documents would "vindicate" his administration, showing it acted in a straightforward manner, while UK ministers tried to fix trade deals.


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I saw an article about "Strong Women" and it made me wonder if people believe women are either born strong or not.
How many of these Strong Women's lives guided them to explore and discover their inner strength? Seen with this perspective, every woman has the opportunity to reach for it. For some, it could even become a quest, a journey of discovery that is purposeful and deliberate in its intention.
The steps along such a journey may look something like this...
Stepping away from "being on alert" and finding a way to "be present"
Stepping away from feeling uncertain to embracing seeing things outside the box
Stepping away from the limitations that come with self doubt and stepping into believing in dreams
Stepping away from being numb to feeling more alive by exploring taste, touch, sight, smell and sound
Stepping away from waiting to be invited to becoming the planner
Stepping away from a frantic pace of "busy" towards embracing solitary time
Stepping away from complaining and blaming to gently bouncing with each of life's bumps
Stepping away from questioning towards exploring faith
I've experienced such a journey.
My strength is found within my core. It is stable, solid and reliable.
On the days that I forget, I also remember and find it again.
Know someone who wants to find theirs? Is it you?


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Moving one step closer to official alliance membership, the addition of China Southern to SkyTeam will expand service offerings for all involved. In addition to expanded coverage in China, SkyTeam members will add a well-positioned, modern hub, at Guangzhou to the alliance network.
China Southern operates in China with more than 600 routes and a fleet of 259 aircraft. It serves a number of international destinations that match up with SkyTeam member destinations, including Dalian and Changsha in China and Melbourne in Australia.
Working since 2004, when it signed an initial agreement, China Southern has established relationships for cargo and passenger handling with five of SkyTeam’s ten members – Air France, Delta, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, Korean Air and Northwest Airlines. The remaining membes are Aeroflot, Aeromexico, Alitalia, Continental Airlines and Czech Airlines.


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New mum Stacey Solomon has finally confirmed her newborn son’s name – and the very special reason behind it.
Taking to Instagram on his due date, the Loose Women star posted a new black and white image of the adorable tot sound asleep, wrapped in blankets.
And, she revealed, her and partner Joe Swash’s kids – Stacey’s sons Leighton and Zachary, and Joe’s son Harry – were instrumental in picking the new addition’s name.
She revealed: “Rex Toby Francis Swash. Due today, born 23.05.2019 on my Mummy’s birthday.”
Explaining their choice of name, Stacey continued: “Rex because our boys think he sounds like a T-Rex. Francis is Joe’s Nanna’s name and Toby is my Nanna’s name.”
The new mum also revealed why it’s taken her so long to reveal Rex’s name.
She said: “It’s taken us this long to announce the name because for some strange, probably hormone and post birth related, reason I didn’t want to do it until his official due date.”
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Welcome Rex Toby Francis Swash you gorgeous little thing 💕💖💕💯 Our Gorgeous Grandson #baby #grandchildren #grandson #grandchild #love #hands #gorgeous #beautiful #family #canon #portrait #fingers I love my family #Myworld #blackandwhite #photography #photooftheday #photographer
Famous friends were quick to comment on the picture, with TV presenter Davina McCall commenting on the tot’s uncanny likeness to his dad.
She said: “Oh my god it’s Joe!”
Proud dad Joe shared the same picture and said: “Welcome to the world REX TOBY FRANCIS SWASH!!”
Stacey had previously shared a now-deleted video in which she called the tot Rexi, promoting fans to speculate that the star had accidentally revealed his name.
Stacey’s photographer father, proud grandad David Solomon, also shared new pictures of the tot, including a gorgeous black and white shot of Stacey and Joe gazing adoringly at their new son.
New mum Stacey also opened up about breastfeeding Rex. Sharing an early-morning video to Instagram Stories, the sound of Stacey’s breast pump could be heard as she expressed milk.
Alongside the video, she commented: “The sound of insanity.”
Posting a picture of a bottle with less than 1oz of milk in it, Stacey added: “Half an hour later… It’s like getting blood from a stone.”
However, come morning the star’s breastfeeding woes seemed to be long forgotten, as Stacey posted a cute tribute to her sleeping newborn.
Uploading a picture of Rex sound asleep in his cot, with his cute little outfits hanging on a rail behind him, she said: “Laying beside you is everything I dreamed and more… I love you so much.”
What do you think of Stacey and Joe’s baby name and the cute reasons for choosing it? Head over to our Facebook page @EntertainmentDailyFix and let us know.


Competition to create a symbol for DubaiOur Response:Dubai is a city of curves and skyscrapers. For our proposal we adopted the curve yet abandoned the notion of a tall embelem. We believe the proposal should be a low lying entity of scale to which people will be able to relate to. We have integrated our entire scheme with ramps and landscape elements to create an ambience of culture and heritage. We would like the symbol of the nation to be an active element in the urban fabric of Dubai. Hence we have created our own program for the symbol to incorporate. We envision the "symbol" to be a place where one can understand the history of Dubai and its people along with being a platform for cultural experimentation.


text: Now this is what I call an animation. From the Japanese school of anime comes this little beauty, Nasu: Summer in Andalusia (?? ????????). It was released in 2003 and a sequel was made in 2007. The attention to detail is incredible, the people involved must of spent hours researching and riding racing bikes to get it to look like this. Want to see more cycling anime now.


“One can say that the city itself is the collective memory of its people,
and like memory it is associated with objects and places.
The city is the locus of the collective memory.”
Aldo Rossi, The Architecture of the City, 1982
Graphical representation of the idealized human diploid karyotype - National Human Genome Research Institute - via wikipedia
Burgoyne Diller - Composition - 1941


Well bumbling around the threads I stumbled on this a couple of days ago, and surprised it hasn't popped up here.
Excuse the wording as it's a Google translation of the German site.
Dynamic Messerschmitt ME 262
2 x 70mm EDF Jet WW2
"The Messerschmitt Me 262, developed by Messerschmitt AG, Augsburg, was the first production aircraft with jet engines. Between 1941 and 1945 were 1433 copies made of the twin-engine, of which during the Second World War, approximately 800 units in the Air Force of the Armed Forces to were used.
The Me 262 had a major influence after the Second World War, the development of the jet-powered fighter aircraft and is widely considered one of the most advanced aircraft of its time considered. "(Source: Wikipedia) (Full Article)
The legendary ME 262 as 1500mm Twin EDF Jet EPO with 3-foot retractable landing gear! This has never happened before!
2 x 70mm EDF drive
The perfect look


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Distance from Austria to Malaysia
Distance from Austria to Malaysia is 9,473 kilometers. This air travel distance is equal to 5,886 miles.
The air travel (bird fly) shortest distance between Austria and Malaysia is 9,473 km= 5,886 miles.
If you travel with an airplane (which has average speed of 560 miles) from Austria to Malaysia, It takes 10.51 hours to arrive.
|GPS Coordinates (DMS)||47° 30´ 58.4280'' N |
14° 33´ 0.2520'' E
Austria Distances to Countries
|Distance from Austria to Turks and Caicos Islands||7,982 km|
|Distance from Austria to Dominican Republic||8,094 km|
|Distance from Austria to Niger||3,378 km|
|GPS Coordinates||4° 12´ 37.7280'' N |
101° 58´ 32.7720'' E
Malaysia Distances to Countries
|Distance from Fiji to Malaysia||8,685 km|
|Distance from Cape Verde to Malaysia||13,650 km|
|Distance from Malaysia to Singapore||378 km|

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