As self-championed supporters of culture, we like to make sure that Miami is being represented in as well-rounded a way as possible. That means, spotlighting the amazing people and places that make this city so special. And we mean the whole city. That includes neighborhoods outside of the urban core, like South Miami. For many, it's a densely populated residential area, strung along by other, luscious and verdant neighborhoods, with a sleepy personality and little to offer in terms of hype and happenings. Well, we're here to prove you wrong.
In fact, when we crowd-sourced which South Miami gems we couldn't leave out of our latest map series, we got an overwhelming response and some of the most suggestions we've ever received. The map, beautifully designed by local illustrator Beth Rhodes, is our most jam-packed yet and features every gem, landmark, and delicious dive you can't miss–straight from the locals who rep it every day. We're covering South Miami, bleeding into Pinecrest, and lightly grazing some parts of Kendall–making sure to include as much as we can along the way. With US-1 and Old Culture Road as our two spines, let us take you down South and shed some light on the stops you just can't miss.
Pinecrest Gardens – Once the location for the original Parrot Jungle, the sweeping outdoor garden is South Florida's Cultural Arts Park, featuring over 1,000 varieties of rare and exotic tropical plants and palm trees in a native tropical hardwood and cypress setting. It's now home to one of Miami's biggest farmer's markets.
Matheson Hammock Park & Marina – This luscious spot is useful for many reasons. The entrance, with its towering oaks and royal palms, is perfect for birthday parties. The marina has been frequently used by the public for years. But it's the private lagoon beach and its mangrove walls that draw families every weekend.
Tropical Audubon Society – This is seriously one of Miami's best kept secrets and most charming hidden gems. Embraced by native trees and nestles along Sunset Drive, Tropical Audubon Society traces its roots to the 1915 Coconut Grove Audubon Society, the first in Dade County. It now lives at the historic Doc Thomas House where they host live music nights, workshops, and even markets.
William Kerdyk Family Park – Technically in Coral Gables, we're still including it here for being so close to the South Miami line and for benefitting so much for the SoMi community. Some of you might recognize it as the park near Sunset Place that neighbors the Publix and Whole Foods, but many families and active visitors know it as a perfect place to chill under a poinciana, workout outdoors, or stroll with your dog.
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden – The 83-acre tropical oasis is a pillar of research and preservation when it comes to preserving the renown botanist's homage to native and foreign flora. You can get lost here, whether with your family or alone, and discovering some of the most beautiful sights in Miami.
Five Sisters – This New Age gift shop spotlighting items such as crystals, candles, incense, clothes and books came highly recommended by you all, so we couldn't leave it out!
Historic Pinewood Cemetery – The oldest cemetery south of the Miami River, and the final resting place of many of Dade County's pioneer settlers. The serene space has been kept in its natural habitat of pines so perfectly that you can take a walk there without realizing you're in a cemetery.
Dante Fascell Park – Many natve kids growing up here might remember the rolling fields of this park, so close to the Wayside Market down the street. But it's well known for the pristine tennis courts that anyone can book.
Montgomery Botanical Center – While Fairchild gets the popularity, this Botanical center wins in its seemingly untouched natural state. It's a 120-acre non-profit garden opened in 1959 that keeps living specimens from wild plant populations worldwide with an emphasis on palms and cycads.
Deering Estate – The Deering Estate preserves the 1920s era Miami estate of Charles Deering, Chicago industrialist, early preservationist, environmentalist, art collector, philanthropist and first chairman of the International Harvester Company. Nestled along the coast in South Dade, the Deering Estate is a cultural asset and historic site listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Area Stage Company – Long-running performing-arts theater presenting plays and musicals, plus workshops and classes. The non-profit, award-winning theater company fcuses on plays for younger actors with some adult productions.
TamboWorks – A cozy and affordable co-working space that also came highly recommended by our audience as a great place to work from, connect with like-minded people, and lay down the foundation of a fruitful career.
Books & Books Pinecrest – The Suniland Shopping Center is home to many favorites, also on this list. It's also the home of Books & Books' Pinecrest location, where locals in the area can snag books, enjoy readings, and get literal.
Pinecrest Library – If you're anything like us, we love the smell of a library and the hundreds of books it holds safe within its walls. This branch features many a reading hour for kids and children, a colorful Brito upon entry, and is also a community center for support meetings, chess club, speech classes and even yoga.
Casa Vinyasa – The first studio in South Florida to offer classes with infrared heating technology. It's a quiet and friendly studio that focuses on yoga for all levels, but also offers Pilates and other fitness classes.
Red Road Linear Park – A 2.5 mile lighted walking/bicycle path along the Snapper Creek Canal on Red Road. The park includes three rest areas accented with coral rock walls and enhanced landscaping along historic Red Road.
Wall's Old Fashioned Ice Cream – For many locals, this ice cream spot is an absolute favorite and a scoop of childhood nostalgia. The family-owned, cheery, old-school ice cream parlor offers scoops, sundaes and housemade fudge in an eclectic atmosphere.
Whip'n Dip Ice Cream Shop – Another nostalgic ice cream shop, this one has also been around for decades and was even frequented by President Bill Clinton. It's a long-standing sweet shop supplying handmade ice cream, soft-serve yogurt, cakes and other confections.
Joanna's Marketplace – For those in the know and living in the area, Joanna's is the go-to spot for when you want to impress guests at a dinner party or just get a gourmet sandwich on the go. It's a Chic market, bakery, deli and cafe with coffee, daily breads and pastries, to-go meals and so much more.
Brewing Buddha Cafe & Arthouse – Another top-rated spot by our local followers, this one was an absolute gem to discover. They turn making coffee and brewing a perfect cup of tea into an art form, and we're not just talking about the photography and visual art that pepper the walls. It's a perfect vibe for any time of day.
Cao Chocolates – Charming, family-owned shop supplying handcrafted chocolates and truffles made from Venezuelan cacao. You might recognize their products from other coffee shops and markets around town, so we recommend checking out the flagship store for the freshest indulgences.
Pinecrest Wayside Market – Another childhood favorite. Many local kids and even their parents remember frequenting this Red Road stop for fruity treats and snagging local produce. It's a quaint outdoor produce market and juice bar dishing out fruit shakes, snow cones and baked goods. They're famous for their strawberry shake.
Norman Brothers Produce – Across the street from the Galloway nursery, Norman Brothers is an absolute staple. It was one of the first gourmet markets to really hit home with the locals, and is a charming, family-owned market that boasts farm-fresh seasonal produce and meats, plus prepared deli fare for every occasion.
Misha's Cupcakes – Although Misha's is a pretty well-known name in the city, we'd be remiss not to include their flagship store in SoMi. The classic cupcakes have made their way from Miami's hearts into Whole Foods, and we're not surprised because the delicious treats have stayed just as great as when she first started as a pop-up.
Honeybee Doughnuts – Owner Karen Muirhead says that baking ran in her family and it's also what took her away from a corporate job and into a career of passion. You can feel this the moment you walk into the cozy little shop, with rows and rows of fresh handmade donuts in the classic fluffy style.
Madruga Bakery – For those who know about Madruga, they know they've struck absolute gold. With a full mill on-site, you can taste the handmade freshness in every loaf, pastry, or tart you sink your teeth into. Owner Naomi Harris studied with Zak the Baker, Lyon + Lyon, and Cafe Curuba to create the perfect all-day menu. It shows.
Trader Joe's – Okay, okay, we know this one isn't local but gosh darn it's good. Who isn't a fan of Trader Joe's with their seasonal items, affordable prices, and oh-so friendly staff? A majority of their products are made in-company so you can really only get them there. We're keeping it on the list.
La Boulangerie – Well known for their epic French-inspired menu which features breakfast and lunch items that are all to die for, this spot is a neighborhood favorite. It's not a stuffy French bistro but a friendly and open atmosphere where the service is great and the croissants are even better.
Mojo Donuts – We know the Miami location of the fames Mojo Donuts & Fried Chicken isn't technically in South Miami (Bird Road location), we're including it on the list because they'll soon be opening a pop-up along Red Road and near the University of Miami campus.
Atelier Monnier – Many local Europeans and bakery-addicts sweat by this Dadeland area spot, the perfect place to snag a traditional French dessert, freshly baked baguette, succulent macarons, or even swing by for a wine tasting.
Tea & Poets – This mixed-use concept store is an absolute gem when it comes to the Sunset Place area. Part artisanal market featuring local makers, part coffee shop and bite purveyor, and part entertainment venue where monthly poetry readings and spoken words take place.
Phenomenom Nitrogen Ice Cream + Bake Shop – We'll tell you right now, this spot has a serious cult following, we're surprised it hasn't blown up even further. They have one shop on the beach, but we're focusing on their Pinecrest location for the insane nitrogen ice cream and some of the best cookies you've ever had. Try the sugar cookie, we're not kidding.
The French Bakery – Yes, that actually is the name of this place. Search engine difficulties aside, this spot is definitely worth a drive down south. Located in a casual strip mall, you might even miss it. But don't. Because their tarts and croissants have been voted among the very best in town. Grab a sandwich too.
The Big Cheese – An absolute Miami classic. This family-friendly Italian diner has been serving up some of the cheesiest slices for over 30 years. They're well known for the pizza, but of course everything will come dripping in sauce and paired with mouth-watering garlic rolls.
Bougainvillea's Old Florida Tavern – If you grew up in Miami in your college years, chances are you spent a night or two at this classic tavern. Lovingly nicknamed "Bougies," this SoMi spot is just the kind of dark, low-key spot you're looking for to jam to local bands and snag some well-priced local brews in an old Florida-style cottage.
Whisk Gourmet – When this SoMi spot opened, we knew it would become an instant classic. And they haven't expanded over the years, no matter how crowded their intimate spot becomes. They serve up some of the most delicious new-American cuisine in town. We're talking fried green tomatoes, chicken, salads, and a mean brunch featuring the famous huevos rancheros Whisk-style.
Sunset Tavern – Just nearby is another classic SoMi dive. Sunset tavern serves all the sports bar staples from wings to chili and burgers, but also serves up a great lineup of local tribute acts and beyond.
Sports Grill – Down Sunset Drive is another great sports bar, but this one comes with a seriously loyal fanbase. These people aren't loyal for the place necessarily, but the world-famous wings. They're grilled to perfection and the size of your face. Yeah, and the beers and atmosphere are great too.
No Name Chinese – Great names aside, this Chinese outpost is considered one of the best in Miami. They're a cut above your classic Asian spot, with a deep focus on local flavors, seasonal menus, and traditional techniques you won't find anywhere else in the city.
Keg South – The name pretty much does the work for us here, but this isn't your average sports bar. It's been open since the 60s and has barely changed since which, in Miami, is a rarity. People flock over from all over the city to munch on the keg burger and special grilled chicken wings but it's the many local beers on tap that make you feel at home.
Lincoln's Beard Brewing Co. – Although this favorite local brewery isn't technically within the confines on the map, we needed to include it to keep up with their motto "Weird at The Beard." It just makes sense. Their many beers and kombuchas on tap are some of the best in town, and the vibes are always friendly with rousing conversations, live concerts, and much hilarity to ensue. Plus, there's not an ounce of that beer snob attitude you might find at many other craft breweries.
Sage by Chef's Kitchen – What started as a successful family-run catering business, with a community of local fans, became a home for high-level cuisine and charming comfort all year around. Their menu ranges from comforting soups, perfectly seared fish, juicy lamb burgers, and various bread puddings. But the surprise is that although the location has morphed, the quality and love in every dish has always stayed the same.
Cafe Pastis – Near sunset place, this outpost is as French as it gets in Miami. The traditional fare menu has varied little over the years, but no one's complaining. It's intimate and flavorful, just what you want out of your neighborhood bistro.
Roaster 'N Toasters – Many a local Pinecrest kid spent their weekend breakfast here, a portal straight to The Big Apple. It's been a neighborhood staple since 1984 serving traditional New York style fare like house-made bagels and schmears, plus breakfast including smoked fish platters, corned beef, pastrami and Reuben sandwiches, soups, wraps and larger plates like stuffed cabbage and meatloaf.
Babe's Meat & Counter – Babe Froman, like many now-classic Miami eateries, began as a crowd-favorite farmer's market pop-up with juicy meats and cooked cuisine. Now, Babe's got his own meat counter where you can buy cuts or deli goodies just the way you like it.
Apizza Brooklyn Resto + Vino – Yet another high-ranking suggestion from our passionate SoMi community, this artisanal pizzeria has some of the highest-rated ovens in town. It's a perfect slice of Brooklyn-style pizza, complete with the love for traditional recipes with a little local flare thrown in.
Sakura Sushi & Bar – Yes, yes, we know, this one's in West Miami but it came so frequently recommended and it also sits in an odd grey zone that we thought we'd throw it in anyway. It's a casual option with a wide range of sushi and classic Japanese fare in cozy, contemporary surroundings.


If you ever wondered about the music scene in Ireland, check out this list that I have prepared to introduce some of my favourite Irish bands. This list will help you tune in to some good music made in Ireland. I start this post by introducing the most famous Irish band of all times: U2….
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'Blacula' Bites, but Never Sucks
J.C. Macek III
The two most famous horror blaxploitation films look and sound excellent in this dual release, but they deserve more extras considering their importance.
Scream Blacula Scream
Director: Bob Kelljan
Cast: William Marshall, Charles Macaulay, Vonetta McGee, Ted Harris, Rick Metzler, Denise Nicholas, Thalmus Rasulala, Gordon Pinsent, Pam Grier, Richard Lawson, Don Mitchell, Michael Conrad
Studio: American International Pictures
Year: 1972 / 1973
Distributor: Shout! Factory
UK Release Date: Import
One of the best known and most enduring films of the blaxploitation subgenre of films is 1972's Blacula. Although the title may seem overly simplistic and obvious (much like the following year's imitative Blackenstein), Blacula itself is no joke and is, in fact, a legitimate and even dignified horror film with terrifying scenes and enduring moral questions. This was enough to win the film legions of fans and a number of awards, including but not limited to the first ever Saturn Award for "Best Horror Film". The following year also produced Blacula's only sequel in Scream Blacula Scream; while the second film is much more of a standard blaxploitation flick and is, quite frankly, not quite as good, it is still an entertaining and fun horror film. Both films have now been given the Blu-ray treatment on a single disc by Scream! Factory.
One thing that makes Blacula a classic is that the epithet of the title is not a name embraced by the main character himself. Instead, William Marshall gives us an elegant performance as an 18th century African prince named Mamuwalde, who seeks the aid of Count Dracula (Charles Macaulay) to help bring his nation into the modern world and global market. Anyone who has seen a movie (a medium that didn't yet exist in 1780) knows that Dracula is hardly a good guy, but his "realistic" support of the slave trade would surely seem more distasteful than tainted blood to just about any audience member from 1972 onward. In a move that would surely represent to black audiences a punishment for being "uppity", Dracula curses Mamuwalde with his vampirism and locks him in a coffin to hunger in vain while his innocent wife Luva (Vonetta McGee) suffers and dies, imprisoned next to him. This is not before he sarcastically applies the pejorative pun "Blacula" to the once powerful and regal prince.
In short… Dracula's a bad guy.
This opening scene sets the tone and mood for the rest of the film. In modern times, a gay couple who run an antiques business together purchase a lot from Dracula's castle and bring the seemingly empty coffin of Mamuwalde back to Los Angeles where he arises hungry and angry and ready to bite the very next throat he sees. The film's characters handle homosexuality just about as sensitively as race. This could be merely a reflection of the attitudes of the day, or it could have been meant to show that while race relations had matured quite a bit between 1780 and 1972, gay rights still had a long road ahead. While the couple is shown to have their close friends, other characters ask who might care about "a dead faggot".
This same ambiguity surrounds the main character. On one hand, there is no question that Mamuwalde is, indeed, the villain here. Much like Dracula before him, he murders on a grand scale and creates minions and brides to surround and defend him. This is all amid a quest to win the heart of one Tina Williams (also Vonetta McGee), who he sees as the reincarnation of his deceased love.
On the other hand, director William Crain evokes a remarkable pathos from Mamuwalde, aided by the strong acting talents of the lead. The Prince's modern day crimes are doubtlessly evil and heinous and worthy of contempt, but it is lost on no one that Mamuwalde started as a hero and was cursed to become a monster, a path he did not choose. Not only does this add depth to the "Blacula" character himself, but also makes the film on the whole more appealing to its target audience. This is a strong, smart, eloquent and respectable black man forced to become something he never intended to be due to society and the acts of one rich and evil white guy (exceptionally white, being a vampire and all). Luckily, the consistent hero of the film is Dr. Gordon Thomas (played by the very fine actor Thalmus Rasulala), another tough and educated African-American whom the audience can root for the entire time.
As the final credits roll, the audience knows they have just witnessed an exploitation flick. However, Blacula also leaves with conflicting feelings and a bit of a moral debate considering the questions aroused by both Blacula and "Blacula".
Scream Blacula Scream (1973, dir. Bob Kelljan)
On the surface, the 1973 sequel Scream Blacula Scream is a more suspenseful and affective horror film than its predecessor. The sequel also has more than its fair share of blaxploitation cred, in that the film's leading lady is none other than Pam Grier. A Voodoo priestess chooses Grier's character of Lisa as her successor, enraging the priestess' son Willis (Richard Lawson) and prompting him to resurrect Mamuwalde with Voodoo magic. Naturally, the dark prince (who, surprisingly, now embraces the name "Blacula") is about as easy to control as before and soon he is up to his blood-sucking, minion-spawning tricks again. Director Bob Kelljan keeps the scares and tension pumping and that makes for a fun and often disturbing horror film.
However, Blacula was a drama first and a horror and blaxploitation enterprise after that. Scream Blacula Scream is a blaxploitation horror film that takes its influence not just from its predecessor, but the burgeoning subgenre as the whole. This makes for an undeniably entertaining film, but one of lower quality. Further, the morality and social commentary of the first film is lost in the muddled mess that makes up the sequel. Mamuwalde the regal and wrongfully cursed prince (while still portrayed by the excellent and noble actor William Marshall) has been largely supplanted here by "Blacula" the angry monster who is the undeniable villain of the piece. The plot, aside from the voodoo aspect, largely follows that of the original.
The 2015 Scream! Factory Blu-ray release looks and sounds great while still preserving the look of the original films. The disc contains a new interview with Richard Lawson and an audio commentary by film historian David F. Walker, along with the theatrical trailers. While these inclusions are welcome, there is such a rich history of Blacula and blaxploitation cinema that deserves further notice here. Blacula and its sequel both have amazing promotional materials but none appear on the disc, save for the actual trailers. It is not as if Scream! Factory had no access to these, as the inside cover is graced by three posters each from the original marketing campaigns.
This follows a lamentable trend in the re-release of classic and cult films. A decade ago, companies like Blue Underground and Anchor Bay unearthed every rarity and extra they could find and filled their DVDs with new and old bonus features that could make any casual viewer a virtual expert over a weekend. Shout! Factory (of which Scream! Factory is an imprint) is hardly the worst culprit of this trend. In fact, what we do get is welcome considering the fact that their peers have most often released bare bones discs with no features whatsoever. That said, compared to the noted efforts of past companies that have resulted in treasure troves of bonus features, the fact that one would rejoice to have any extras at all is one proposition that sucks far worse than any celluloid vampire could.
Then again, a decade ago, more people were buying DVDs instead of streaming video on demand. The true shame here is that the main reason to purchase Blu-ray and DVD over instant video is slowly becoming a thing of the past, and may one day become a forgotten antique altogether.
Still, the main attractions should be the primary cause for picking up any home video release, and both Blacula films look and sound better than ever. Blacula is a classic, and while Scream Blacula Scream doesn't quite measure up to its predecessor, it nonetheless entertains and doesn't ruin the franchise. Considering their place in film history, however, one could be forgiven for wanting to open this coffin after just over 40 years and find a little bit more antiques awaiting the curious viewer.

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The United States Coast Guard is one of the 5 branches of the military of the United States. It is a part of the United States Department of Homeland Security. The Coast Guard's purpose is to protect the people, environment, industry and security of the United States on seas, lakes and rivers. To do this, the Coast Guard uses boats, ships, helicopters and airplanes to stop smuggling and other crime and terrorism, and to rescue ships and boats in danger.
The modern United States Coast Guard was started on January 28, 1915. This is when the U. S. Congress ordered the United States Revenue Cutter Service and the United States Life-Saving Service to merge into a single service. The Coast Guard can become part of the Department of the Navy during war, but it is not now. It became part of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in 2003.
The U.S. Revenue Cutter Service (USRCS) was set up in 1790 when President George Washington signed an act allowing the building of 10 boats called "cutters".[b] The service was first suggested in a letter by Alexander Hamilton as a way to collect tariffs which were being lost to smuggling.[c] They were also tasked with making sure shipments of goods from the United States were getting through to markets in other countries. The first Coast Guard station was in Newburyport, Massachusetts. Until the re-establishment of the Navy in 1798, the Revenue Cutter Service was the only naval force of the early United States.
The modern Coast Guard can be said to date to 1915, when the Revenue Cutter Service merged with the U.S. Life-Saving Service when Congress formalized the existence of the new organization. In 1939, the Lighthouse Service was brought under the Coast Guard's purview. In 1942, the Bureau of Marine Inspection and Navigation was transferred to the Coast Guard. In 1967, the Coast Guard moved from the U.S. Department of the Treasury to the newly formed U.S. Department of Transportation, an arrangement that lasted until it was placed under the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in 2003 as part of legislation designed to more efficiently protect American interests following the terrorist attacks of 11 September 2001.
In times of war, the Coast Guard or individual components of it can operate as a service of the Department of the Navy. This arrangement has a broad historical basis, as the Coast Guard has been involved in wars as diverse as the War of 1812, the Mexican–American War, and the American Civil War, in which the cutter Harriet Lane fired the first naval shots attempting to relieve besieged Fort Sumter. The last time the Coast Guard operated as a whole within the Navy was in World War II. More often, military and combat units within the Coast Guard will operate under Navy or joint operational control while other Coast Guard units will remain under the Department of Homeland Security.
↑ Although the U.S. Navy lists its founding as 1775 with the formation of the Continental Navy, that service was disbanded with the last of its ships being sold in 1785. The modern U.S. Navy in its present form was founded by an Act of Congress in March 1794 which authorized a naval fleet of six ships.
↑ The term cutter came from the boats used by Great Britain's Royal Customs Service. Modern Coast Guard cutters are any larger ship no matter what the type.
↑ After the American Revolutionary War, the United States was struggling financially. The new country depended on the money it received from import tariffs. Smuggling had been seen as a patriotic duty during the war, but was now a robbing the country of one of its major sources of revenue.
↑ "04 Aug U.S. Coast Guard Celebrates 225th Anniversary". Sun News. Sun Broadcast Group. Retrieved 22 October 2016.
↑ "The Continental Navy". GlobalSecurity.org. Retrieved 22 October 2016.
↑ "Launching the New U.S. Navy". The National Archives. Retrieved 22 October 2016.
↑ 4.0 4.1 "Eighteenth, Nineteenth & Early Twentieth Century Revenue Cutters". United States Coast Guard, U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Retrieved 14 October 2016.
↑ Erin Allen (4 August 2014). "Semper Paratus, Always Ready". Library of Congress. Retrieved 13 October 2016.
↑ Robert Pendleton; Patrick McSherry. "The U. S. Revenue Cutter Service in the Spanish American War". The Spanish American War Centennial Website!. Retrieved 14 October 2016.
↑ 7.0 7.1 "Early Years Of The Revenue Cutter Service". US Military.com. Retrieved 13 October 2016.
↑ "Historic Light Stations". U.S. Coast Guard. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
↑ "U.S. Steamboat Inspection Service". U.S. Coast Guard. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
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Coronavirus: UK health workers in trial to test effectiveness of Trump's hydroxychloroquine
The drug has been made famous thanks to the determined promotion it has received from US President Donald Trump.
Thursday 21 May 2020 07:25, UK
Image: President Trump has enthusiastically promoted the use of hydroxychloroquine
Health workers in the UK will be able to be part of a clinical trial involving a drug touted by Donald Trump as a possible way to prevent the coronavirus.
The trial is the first global study to test whether chloroquine or hydroxychloroquine can prevent infection, whereas previous trials have looked at whether they can treat it.
Hospitals in Brighton and Oxford are the first of a planned 25 sites to take part in the trials.
It is part of an investigation led by the Bangkok-based Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit (MORU), supported by the University of Oxford and health charity Wellcome.
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More than 40,000 people who work with coronavirus patients in Europe, Africa, Asia and South America will be involved, MORU co-principal investigator Professor Sir Nicholas White said.
"We really do not know if chloroquine or hydroxychloroquine are beneficial or harmful against COVID-19," he said, adding that the trial was the best way to find out.
It comes just days after US President Donald Trump told reporters that he had been taking the unproven anti-malarial drug to ward off the virus, which has killed almost 330,000 people worldwide.
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A study in the US showed the drug had no benefit in treating coronavirus patients and was also associated with a higher risk of death.
The Food and Drug Administration has warned hydroxychloroquine can cause heart rhythm problems and Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said there was no evidence the drug could prevent coronavirus.
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The UK government has said chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine are not licensed to treat or prevent COVID-19 and that the drugs should not be used outside clinical trials.
Prof Martin Llewelyn of Brighton and Sussex School, lead UK investigator for the MORU trial, said: "If drugs as well tolerated as chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine could reduce the chances of catching COVID-19 this would be incredibly valuable."
He added: "Like all drugs, chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine have side effects. But actually, used in the sort of doses that we will use them in the COPCOV trial, they're expected to be really, very safe."
Any adult who works in a UK healthcare facility and is delivering direct care to patients with proven or suspected COVID-19 can participate, as long as they have not been diagnosed with COVID-19 or an acute respiratory infection.
The team aims to deliver results by the end of 2020.


This article attempts to bridge the gap between operational methods such as ACM/BPM/CPM/RALB and FOMM and methods used to evolve business strategy.The mission of all strategic and operational initiatives is to build, sustain and augment competitive advantage.
RBV allows organizations to assign priorities to promising initiatives that are competing for scarce resources. Proper implementation, in theory, leads to increased competitive advantage.
The mechanism for bridging the gap between an initiative and its practical implementation within, typically, a Case, is to have operations prepare an ROI submission, citing benefits and objectives. The latter can be parked at a Case in a Figure of Merit Matrix. Periodic assessment of progress toward meeting the objectives of the Case with regard for the ROI really is all you need to bridge the gap.
Things often don't go this way because of the bizarre habit of some corporations of authorizing initiatives and then not bothering to carry out periodic monitoring/auditing on progress.
In extreme cases, the strategy is changed yet the initiative continues. The practical equivalent of this in government is to have an agency in charge of taking care of monuments that no longer exist.
Note from the "Theories of the Firm . . " article, that, for large corporations, RBV does not work very well if you don't have access to 3D free-form-search knowledgebases.
For me, all of this boils down to ". . . you cannot manage what you cannot see".
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USA-195, or Wideband Global SATCOM 1 (WGS-1) is a United States military communications satellite operated by the United States Air Force as part of the Wideband Global SATCOM programme. Launched in 2007, it was the first WGS satellite to reach orbit. It is stationed at a longitude of 174.8° East (Ocean Pacific).

Overview
The WGS system is a constellation of highly capable military communications satellites that leverage cost-effective methods and technological advances in the communications satellite industry. The WGS system is composed of three principal segments: Space Segment (satellites), Control Segment (operators) and Terminal Segment (users). Each WGS satellite provides service in multiple frequency bands, with the unprecedented ability to cross-band between the two frequencies on board the satellite. WGS augments other satellites.

In early 2001, a satellite communications industry team led by Boeing Satellite Systems was selected to develop the Wideband Gapfiller Satellite (WGS) system as successors to the Defense Satellite Communications System (DSCS) series of communications satellites. This satellite communications system is intended to support the warfighter with newer and far greater capabilities than provided by current systems. In March 2007, the acronym WGS was changed to Wideband Global SATCOM.

Just one WGS satellite provides more SATCOM capacity than the entire legacy Defense Satellite Communications System (DSCS) constellation.

Satellite description
Built by Boeing, USA-195 is based on the BSS-702 satellite bus. It had a mass at launch of , and was expected to operate for fourteen years. The satellite is equipped with two solar arrays to generate power for its communications payload, which consists of cross-band X-band and Ka-band transponders. Propulsion is provided by an R-4D-15 apogee motor, with four XIPS-25 ion engines for stationkeeping.

Launch
WGS-1 was launched by United Launch Alliance (ULA), who placed it into orbit using an Atlas V launch vehicle flying in the 421 configuration. The launch took place from Space Launch Complex 41 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS), with liftoff occurring at 00:22 UTC on 11 October 2007. The launch was successful, placing the satellite into a geosynchronous transfer orbit (GTO), from which the spacecraft raised itself into geostationary orbit using its onboard propulsion systems. The satellite was designated USA-195 under the U.S. military's designation system, and received the International Designator 2007-046A and Satellite Catalog Number 32258.

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Thank you to all the wonderful folks who worked so hard in order to make the 100 Year Celebration a success. What an incredible large and historic event to pull off! The effort put into the week end points once again how God has blessed Epworth with beautiful caring and committed Christians. I am thankful to have been here for this historic celebration and look forward to what the future has in store.
This page is dedicated to Epworth's history. The below link is a 60 page document giving an overview of the history at Epworth. A printed version of this online document will be available at the Centennial Celebration April 25th & 26th.
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Can professional athletes compete in the olympics?
Asked by: Kelley Haag Jr.
Score: 4.9/5 (9 votes)
Since the 1970s, the international and US rules around amateurism and sponsorships have relaxed to make way for athletes to be compensated for their efforts and achievements. Financial restrictions have been dropped, and professional athletes are allowed to compete in almost all of the Olympic events, save wrestling.
When could professional athletes compete in the Olympics?
In 1986, professional athletes were given permission by the International Federation to compete in each sport of the Olympic Games.
Why can't professional boxers compete in Olympics?
Another big factor in most professional boxer's choice to not participate in Olympic boxing is the risk of potential injury. Boxer's physical status is extremely valuable to themselves and their teams. Considering each fight requires top performance to win, boxers must always be healthy and in top shape.
Can professional tennis players compete in Olympics?
For the singles competitions, the top 56 players in the world rankings on a later date to be announced of the WTA and ATP tours are qualified for the Olympics. However, entry has been limited to four players from a country.
How much is an Olympic gold medal worth?
As of July 29, gold was priced at $1,831 per ounce and silver was priced at $25.78 per ounce, according to Markets Insider and Monex.com. Under that calculation, an Olympic gold medal is approximately worth a whopping $810.
What is Simone Biles net worth?
Simone Biles Net Worth: $6 Million.
Are knockouts allowed in Olympic boxing?
Boxing rules at the Olympics
An Olympic boxing bout comprises three rounds of three minutes each. Each round is separated by a one-minute break. A boxer can win via knockout/KO.
Can pros fight in Olympic boxing?
The protective headgear rule was not the only one to be introduced during the 2016 Rio Summer Games. Five years ago, professional boxers were allowed to compete in the Olympics. ... Boxing has been contested in all Olympic Games since it was first introduced in 1904.
Did Tyson fight in the Olympics?
Mike Tyson did not compete at the Olympics. The legendary heavyweight boxer has always dreamt of representing his country on the grandest stage of sports, but it was something he wasn't able to do.
Are Olympic medals real gold?
Olympic gold medals have some gold in them, but they're mostly made of silver. According to the International Olympic Committee (IOC), gold and silver medals are required to be at least 92.5 percent silver. The gold in gold medals is in the plating in the outside and must consist of at least 6 grams of pure gold.
How many events can an athlete compete in Olympics?
The number of events per sport ranges from a minimum of two (until 2008, there were sports with only one event) to a maximum of 47 in athletics, which despite its large number of events and its diversity is not divided into disciplines except on an informal basis - the division between, for example, swimming and diving ...
Can an athlete compete in two Olympic sports?
List of athletes who competed in both the Summer and Winter Olympic games. Below is a list of athletes who competed in both the Summer and Winter Olympics, as of the end of the 2016 Summer Olympics. ... Eddie Eagan and Gillis Grafström were the only two athletes to win gold medals in both the Summer and Winter Olympics.
Is there an age limit for the Olympics?
According to the International Olympic Committee, "there is no specific age limit for taking part in the Olympic Games." Rather, the age restrictions depend on each International Sports Federation and the rules of each sport.
Who is the youngest Olympian?
The youngest Olympian in the modern history of the games to win a medal was 10-year-old Dimitrios Loundras, a Greek gymnast who helped his team win a bronze medal in team parallel bars at the 1896 Athens Summer Games. Loundras never competed in another Games, but did serve on Greece's Olympic committee as an adult.
Do amatuer fighters get paid?
Altough amateur boxers can't get paid directly for competing, nor receive any fight and tournament prizes, they can get some sorts of compenzations from endorsements and grants from governments. So, even if amatuer boxers don't get directly paid, there are still some ways they can earn money.
However, most Olympic medal winners do receive a cash reward from their home Olympic committee. The US Olympic and Paralympic Committee pays members of Team USA $37,500 for each gold medal they win, $22,500 for every silver, and $15,000 for a bronze.
How many fights do you need to go pro in boxing?
Personally, I think you need at least 10 fights to understand what the amateur game is all about. So, my recommendation to anyone thinking of becoming professional is to have at least 10 amateur fights first, preferably more though. Do at least one tournament because it's completely different to anything else.
Why are beards banned in Olympic boxing?
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How did Simone Biles get rich?
Simone has earned a little money from her Olympic medals.
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Which country has never won an Olympic gold medal?
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At Glenbrook North, we take pride in how we represent ourselves outside of school both locally and on a national level. In this section, you will find organizations that compete with other schools within the local region and across the country. Getting involved in these organizations creates great opportunities to become part of a team, meet people from other schools, and compete at a high level. Contact one of the sponsors to see how you can represent GBN!
Debate affords interested students an opportunity to learn the rudiments of persuasive speech while acquiring an in-depth knowledge of national affairs. GBN debaters participate in tournaments each weekend competing against schools from throughout the United States. Debaters combine after-school practices with individual research, both of which are highlighted by personal achievement and team camaraderie.
Individual Events (I.E.)/Speech offers a unique opportunity for students to develop a diverse set of performance skills. Students learn to express their dramatic, broadcasting, public speaking, reading, writing, and comedic talents.
An audition is required. Students compete against other schools in such events as humorous and dramatic interpretation, duet acting, radio speaking, oratory, special occasion speaking, extemporaneous and impromptu speaking, prose reading, poetry, original comedy, and more.
Model UN is open to ALL students. In fact, because conferences are held across the school year, and students can pick and choose which events to participate. Students involved in seasonal athletics and/or other yearlong activities are still able to be involved with Model UN. While students are encouraged to attend at least one conference during the season to get a more complete understanding of what Model UN is and does, there is NO obligation or requirement for students to attend a conference. Due to the cost obligation to delegates, many delegates only attend 1-2 conferences. Conferences range in price from $20-$50 for a one-day, in-state conference to $250-$400 for a four-day, in-state conference (based on a minimum of 6 delegates attending).


After a sizzling 1994, the nation's job market this year has felt like a toe being dipped into an icy pond. Moderate economic expansion in 1995 has meant that payrolls have expanded at barely half of last year's rate. A fresh look occurs Friday, with the employment report for October. Chicago economist Robert Dederick is looking for a slight rise in joblessness, to 5.7 percent, from 5.6 percent in September. He sees payrolls growing nationally by about 125,000 positions. Dederick, a consultant to Northern Trust Co., says "the job market doesn't seem to be strengthening because new claims for unemployment insurance have shown a slight rise."
The week begins with upbeat numbers on machine-tool orders, from the Association for Manufacturing Technology. The group says orders for September rose 39.4 percent, to $347 million, from August. However, they were off 5.9 percent from a year earlier. For the year so far, machine-tool orders are up 10.7 percent from a year earlier, to $3.7 billion. Also out Monday: personal income and spending.
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Fabrication and optical characterization of photonic crystal nanocavities with electrodes for gate-defined quantum dots
T. Tajiri, Y. Sakai, K. Kuruma, S. M. Ji, H. Kiyama, A. Oiwa, J. Ritzmann, A. Ludwig, A. D. Wieck, Y. Ota, Y. Arakawa, S. Iwamoto
Among various solid-state systems, gate-defined quantum dots (QD) with high scalability and controllability for single electron spin qubits are promising candidates to realize quantum spin-photon interface. The efficiency of the spin-photon interface is expected to be significantly enhanced by optical coupling of gate-defined QDs with photonic crystal (PhC) nanocavities. As the first step towards this optical coupling, we designed and experimentally demonstrated a PhC nanocavity with electrodes. The electrodes, which can form a single QD, were introduced on the top surfaces of two-dimensional PhC nanocavities with a position accuracy of a few tens of nanometers. Despite the electrodes, a resonant mode was confirmed for the PhC nanocavities through micro-photoluminescence spectroscopy. This work marks a crucial step towards optical coupling between gate-defined QDs and PhC nanocavities.
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Japanese journal of applied physics
https://doi.org/10.7567/1347-4065/ab5b62
Published - 2020 Apr 1
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Photonic crystals Engineering & Materials Science 100%
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photonics Physics & Astronomy 44%
electrodes Physics & Astronomy 39%
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Tajiri, T., Sakai, Y., Kuruma, K., Ji, S. M., Kiyama, H., Oiwa, A., Ritzmann, J., Ludwig, A., Wieck, A. D., Ota, Y., Arakawa, Y., & Iwamoto, S. (2020). Fabrication and optical characterization of photonic crystal nanocavities with electrodes for gate-defined quantum dots. Japanese journal of applied physics, 59(SG), [SGGI05]. https://doi.org/10.7567/1347-4065/ab5b62
Fabrication and optical characterization of photonic crystal nanocavities with electrodes for gate-defined quantum dots. / Tajiri, T.; Sakai, Y.; Kuruma, K. et al.
In: Japanese journal of applied physics, Vol. 59, No. SG, SGGI05, 01.04.2020.
Tajiri, T, Sakai, Y, Kuruma, K, Ji, SM, Kiyama, H, Oiwa, A, Ritzmann, J, Ludwig, A, Wieck, AD, Ota, Y, Arakawa, Y & Iwamoto, S 2020, 'Fabrication and optical characterization of photonic crystal nanocavities with electrodes for gate-defined quantum dots', Japanese journal of applied physics, vol. 59, no. SG, SGGI05. https://doi.org/10.7567/1347-4065/ab5b62
Tajiri T, Sakai Y, Kuruma K, Ji SM, Kiyama H, Oiwa A et al. Fabrication and optical characterization of photonic crystal nanocavities with electrodes for gate-defined quantum dots. Japanese journal of applied physics. 2020 Apr 1;59(SG):SGGI05. doi: 10.7567/1347-4065/ab5b62
Tajiri, T. ; Sakai, Y. ; Kuruma, K. et al. / Fabrication and optical characterization of photonic crystal nanocavities with electrodes for gate-defined quantum dots. In: Japanese journal of applied physics. 2020 ; Vol. 59, No. SG.
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AB - Among various solid-state systems, gate-defined quantum dots (QD) with high scalability and controllability for single electron spin qubits are promising candidates to realize quantum spin-photon interface. The efficiency of the spin-photon interface is expected to be significantly enhanced by optical coupling of gate-defined QDs with photonic crystal (PhC) nanocavities. As the first step towards this optical coupling, we designed and experimentally demonstrated a PhC nanocavity with electrodes. The electrodes, which can form a single QD, were introduced on the top surfaces of two-dimensional PhC nanocavities with a position accuracy of a few tens of nanometers. Despite the electrodes, a resonant mode was confirmed for the PhC nanocavities through micro-photoluminescence spectroscopy. This work marks a crucial step towards optical coupling between gate-defined QDs and PhC nanocavities.
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DO - 10.7567/1347-4065/ab5b62
JO - Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, Part 1: Regular Papers & Short Notes
JF - Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, Part 1: Regular Papers & Short Notes
IS - SG
M1 - SGGI05


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By BLARE Featured June 7, 2019
14 Sets You Can't Miss At Parklife Festival 2019
PARKLIFE is in a class of its own. The Manchester, England festival got its start in Platt Fields before accepting a transfer to Heaton Park in 2012, and since then it has grooved its way into becoming one of the biggest live music settings in Europe. Its infatuation with indie and dance has wooed Frank Ocean and N.E.R.D, and this weekend is no different as the likes of Disclosure, Migos, and Solange have been pinned to dozens of noisemakers who are bent on adding a bit of grime and house to your summer.
Saturday and Sunday's (June 8th & 9th) festivities are tapped with beat wizards (Bicep, Kaytranada), poetic soul hitters (George Ezra, Jacob Banks), and a few no nonsense rap queens (Stefflon Don), and for every Nao or The Streets, there's a pocket full of risers like Slowthai and Col3trane who are there to split genres. Figuring out a proper schedule can be a Rubik's Cube in itself – especially when there are weekend fits that need to be fitted – so here are our picks for one of the hottest tickets of the decade.
For more info on set times, eats or the Afterlife Parties, follow @parklifefest
Saturday June 8th @ Parklife Stage || iTunes / Spotify / SoundCloud
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HELENA HAUFF
Sunday June 9th @ The Palm House || iTunes / Spotify / SoundCloud
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Sunday June 9th @ Near Future || iTunes / Spotify / SoundCloud
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LOYLE CARNER
Saturday June 8th @ Near Future || iTunes / Spotify / SoundCloud
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Sunday June 9th @ The Valley Stage || iTunes / Spotify / SoundCloud
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John Reid graduated with a Masters from MIT forty years ago, and has been successfully tackling huge issues – most of them directly relevant to his passion for system design – ever since. He has been in the C-suite in the corporate, non-profit, city, and state government worlds.
His career has taken him to virtually every corner of The Coca-Cola Company. He was past Chairman of Cross-Cultural Solutions, a global non-profit enabling volunteering abroad; Chief Administrative Officer of the City of Atlanta; Deputy Director of Operations for The State of New York; COO of The Edison Project, now Edison Learning, the grandfather of the Charter School Movement; CEO of LearnNow, sold to Edison, and CEO of Comet Systems, one of the early innovators in internet technologies and search toolbars.
He has traveled extensively, leading teams and speaking publicly about complex, often sensitive issues to a variety of stakeholders. He has collaborated with doctors in Latin America, government officials in Washington and Moscow, think tanks in Brussels and Singapore and Slovenia, peer global companies in food and beverage, and retail customers throughout the world.
He is married to Karen Flanders-Reid, and has five children and four grandchildren. John currently serves on the Boards of the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta, where he is Chair and The Georgia Partnership for Excellence in Education. In addition to the Board service above, his past Board service has included The Princeton Review, Tutor.com, The Duke University School of the Environment, the Emory Center for Ethics, Research Atlanta, the Atlanta Convention and Visitors Bureau, the Georgia Conservancy, and the Midtown Alliance. He and his family live in Atlanta.
The story that the titles and dates simply cannot capture.
Time after time, JCR has been asked to join or lead teams whose job was to meet challenges – both problems and opportunities. He has risen to those challenges and has delivered outcomes. The outcomes have been on time, within budget, and designed in such a way that the solutions were durable – sustainable over time.
He was asked by the three-term Mayor of Atlanta to lead the Mayor's team – and he answered the call. The outcome? Outstanding progress for the City: the administration was hailed for getting the 1996 Olympics for Atlanta, for building a fifth terminal for the airport, for resolving a major dispute with a solution known widely as "Freedom Park" and "Freedom Parkway", for revamping neighborhood planning, and more generally for preparing the City for the greatness it now enjoys.
He left Coca-Cola in 1996 to answer another call – the challenge of public education. He was asked to apply his systems design, operational and team-building skills by leading "The Edison Project". Their challenge was to literally alter the face of public education by building schools that were very different, and much improved, from the norm in public education. JCR met the challenge. Working for Benno Schmidt, the former President of Yale University, who was Chairman of Edison, he built a team and the team designed a methodology for operating a national school system – which thrives and continues to transform public education to this day. He was elected President of Edison in January, 1998.
After Edison, he took on four additional start-up challenges – a non-profit, a two technology companies, and one education company. He grew them all and each was successfully sold. And the non-profit, Cross Cultural Solutions, is today one of the leading organizations in the world supporting international volunteering.
One of the technology companies, Comet Systems, was a Manhattan-based start-up and a leader in the field of client-side software – distributed via a simple download that could be accomplished in seconds through a narrowband connection. Comet distributed over 75 million clients while JCR was CEO, and innovated aggressively in the area of search and search toolbars.
After orchestrating the sale of his fifth start-up, JCR was honored to be asked to join the administration of the incoming Governor of the State of New York. As Assistant Secretary of Education, he had oversight responsibility for all New York State Higher Education, especially CUNY and SUNY. He was further honored when the Governor, by Executive Order, asked JCR to serve as the Executive Director of his Commission on Higher Education, whose mission was to chart a course for New York higher education for the 21st century. Based on the enormous success of this Commission, he was asked to serve as the Executive Director of the New York State Commission on Property Tax Relief, and he was promoted to be Deputy Director of State Operations, a position which gave him oversight responsiblity for all 80 state agencies, reporting to the head of government, the Director of Operations. He served two governors.
After this second major period of government service, JCR returned to The Coca-Cola Company to lead all education, training and leadership development of this enormous global enterprise. As Global Director of Coca-Cola University, he had to design, and then implement, systemic approaches which allowed the Company to ensure outstanding capability-building throughout the world.
After this sevice, JCR was promoted by Coca-Cola to a global vice presidency – Vice President of Corporate Social Responsibility. In this assignment, the challenges were significant and the outcomes were tangible. Under the mantle of the authority of the CEO, JCR designed and led the implementation of a system-wide, cross-functional strategy to tackle head-on the challenges of obesity. Aggressive innovations in packages such as the "mini-can"; in sweeteners such as stevia; in labeling such as front-of-pack labeling, and in active, healthy living such as the Company's global Associate Well-Being Program; all of these and more were the direct result of JCR's leadership.
The categories and tags of this website align to JCR's interests below (in no particular order).
Systems design, systems dynamics, general system theory, adaptive learning systems, deep learning, machine learning, artificial intelligence(AI), systems design, systems architecture, modules, modular systems, modular design, system design patterns, pattern recognition systems, natural language processing systems, homeostasis, forecasting systems that mine big data, digital immortality.
Amazon, E-Bay, Hybrid (Physical and Virtual) retail, warehousing and distribution, 3rd party models, drop shipping, same-day delivery. Also, disruptive internet-enabled businesses such as lendingclub.com, groundfloor.com.
Personalization, Amazon, Bezos, Home Delivery, Home Dispensing, Technology, E-Commerce, Internet, Big Data, Forecasting, Amazon Fresh, Amazon Prime, Privacy, Houzz.com, Patientslikeme.com, Pinterest, TripAdvisor, Yelp, GPS, Sensors, Quantified Self Movement, Accelerometers, Genomics, patterns, SIRI, ECHO, digital immortality.
Natural Environment, Well-Being, Compliance, Beyond Compliance, Equilibrium, Beyond Equilibrium, Homeostasis, Energy, Energy Storage, Elon Musk, solar, renewable energy, Smart Meters, Grid Design, Shaping power through off-peak incentives and on-peak disincentives, home batteries.
Management, Leadership, Motivation, Inspiration, Operations, Strategic Planning, Forecasting, Planning and Control, Marketing, Advertising, Promotion, Packaging, Social Media, Public Affairs, Industry Affairs, Industry Development, Supply Chain, Sustainability, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), Call Center Management.


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The one word that got Draymond Green banned for Durant fight
By Kyle Schnitzer
November 14, 2018 | 9:45am
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Steve Kerr urges Congress members to call out Trump
Stephen Curry: New-look Warriors aren't changing title expectations
We now know at least one word that got Draymond Green in trouble.
Green was suspended after repeatedly calling Kevin Durant a "bitch" after Monday's loss against the Clippers, which gave the Warriors a reason to discipline him for "conduct detrimental to the team," according to Yahoo Sports.
The fight on Monday between the two Warriors stars started when Durant barked at Green during a late-game huddle for not passing the ball on the last possession before overtime. Green argued he had every right to bring up the ball, and the fight later extended into the locker room. The Athletic reported that Green even brought up Durant's free agency status — he can leave Golden State in the offseason — in the argument.
Warriors brass tried cooling the flames before Tuesday's 110-103 win over the Hawks after a fight that reportedly was one of the most animated in the Warriors' championship era.
"I think we'll be fine," coach Steve Kerr told reporters. "We're a team that goes through stuff, just like everybody else. And things happen, bumps in the road. You've got to move forward. It's all part of coaching a team, it's all part of being on a team. You have to get through the adversity and there are some difficult times and you just get through them."
Green served a team-imposed one-game suspension Tuesday. Durant's team-high 29 points wasn't the focus after the game, as his postgame press conference really showed the damage between him and Green.
Durant admitted that the two had not been able to make amends, but said he expected the two to come to terms because it's a "long season."
"I was just focused on the game," Durant said when asked if he was surprised about the suspension. "I didn't really care either way. I was just trying to finish this back-to-back off."
Pretty terse postgame press conference from Kevin Durant. Whatever Draymond Green said yesterday clearly still bothering him. Here's the transcript of the relevant portions. pic.twitter.com/9e27YWCpFZ
— Anthony Slater (@anthonyVslater) November 14, 2018
Whether this marks the beginning of the end of the Warriors dynasty, a super-team that has won three NBA championships in four years, remains unknown.
One thing that it hasn't affected: Durant's free agency status, according to Kerr.
"Not the slightest bit. Nobody ever talks about Kevin's free agency. It doesn't bother any of us. This is the NBA. There are guys that are either under contract or are upcoming free agents. It's the business," Kerr said. "We are focused on this year. I didn't think anybody in our locker room or anyone on our coaching staff thinks twice about Kevin's free agency this summer. … We are coaching this year and we are playing this year."
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Loss Of Separation by Conrad Williams
Loss of Separation
By Conrad Williams
Published by Solaris, 2011
Conrad Williams builds on the success of his previous six novels (including the award winning, One and Unblemished) and novellas to bring us Loss Of Separation. It's a rich back catalogue but for me the standout is his novella Rain, a short but intensely personal piece which focussed as much on character and emotion as horror. That combination of horror through human emotion was very powerful and it's a technique he exploits to the full in Loss of Separation.
Paul Roan was the first officer of a Boeing 777 when it was involved in a near miss (a loss of separation). Seeking solace and a new start in the remote village of Southwick seems like a way to escape the terrible guilt and nightmares he suffers, but a hit and run accident leaves him in a coma and with a body like "a badly constructed Jenga tower". With the help of friends Charlie and Ruth he begins the process of rehabilitation in the village, but during the coma his girlfriend Tamara has disappeared so he must also now attempt to find out what happened to her.
In the hands of most other writers, that plot could easily be the basis for a fairly simple love story. In the hands of Conrad Williams it becomes a tragic tale of dark despair and mystery. The first half of the book is a slow paced dark and puzzling affair as Paul gradually comes to terms with his new life and more particularly the strange town and inhabitants of Southwick. This is a town cut off from the rest of society, a place where there is "death shot through those tides" and a place haunted by the darkness of "the craw".
The second half of the book increases the pace wonderfully towards a fittingly climatic and devastating ending as the depths of the towns black past are revealed. The pacing is excellently handled and Conrad Williams uses remarkable prose techniques to achieve this. At times the narrative is florid and rich, almost poetic, but at other times he uses staccato sentences to introduce that element of confused adrenalin rush. There is one remarkable three page sequence where most of the sentences are two or three word fragments. It's experimental, it's challenging, but it's also fantastically effective in portraying the character's state of mind. That is where the true power of the book lies, in the characters, and most importantly the main character. Confused and suffering memory loss from his accident, Paul Roan is also haunted by the near miss incident and the loss of his girlfriend. Mix these emotions with powerful drugs, which he requires for pain control and you have a character who frequently steps over the boundaries of reality. These voyages are shown in remarkable visionary sequences which when mixed with the actual nightmares he is suffering create a powerful and unsettling sense of confusion in the reader.
This is a novel of raw human emotion and dark mystery. It has elements of M R James in the sweeping coastal panoramas and the mysterious lone figures who appear within them, elements of The Wicker Man's residual horror in a cut off community, but most importantly this is Conrad Williams building his own tradition. This is a writer who knows how to reach into the emotional heart of the reader and fill it with untold horrors. This is a writer who is among the very best horror writers around and one who just gets better and better.
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The Arnold Schultz Law expresses and highlights the differences between conventional and homeopathic approaches very succinctly -...large doses of a poisonous substance may prove lethal, smaller doses of the same poison can actually stimulate vital cellular activity..."
Consequently, it is not improbable that ultra-micro doses of homeopathic medicines should exert profound influence on the vital force of the patients.
Another important basic difference exists between conventional medical therapy and homeopathy. In conventional therapy, the aim often is to control the illness through regular use of medical substances, even if the medication is nothing more than vitamins. If the medication is withdrawn, however, the person returns to illness. There is no permanent cure, so to say. A person who takes a pill for high blood pressure everyday is not undergoing a cure but is only controlling the symptoms.Conventional medicine acts as is all symptoms were alike. It therefore offers a series of suppressive drugs, something to supress the symptoms and something to ease falling asleep.
Homeopathic medicines act on the immune system. When a disease invades the human body, it produces some symptoms. An ultradiluted homeopathic medicine prescribed as per symptoms and diagnosis produces in the human body a drug effect that actuvates the immune system. The activation by the medicine produces an immunity that makes it stronger than the disease, and the person is restored to health. It is due to this mechanism of action that these medicines produce hardly any side effectsand leave the body stronger than they find it. On the contrary, in conventional medicine, the medicines act directly on the disease.After pathological tests, when the infection is detected, a drug is administered, which can kill the infection. These drugs , in the process of killing infections, often kill normal body cells and produce numerous side effects , making the patient weaker. In many deficiency diseases, conventional medicine proposes to fulfil the deficiency by supplementing it throughout life. As an example, in hypothyroid cases, the deficiency of thyroxine is supplemented by the administration of ot orally throughout life. The homeopathic approach is different. In Homeopathy, we prescrive specific medicines which reactivatethe thyroid and when this occurs, we discontinue the medicines and the patient keeps well for the rest of his/her life. We have ample proof of such cases.


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Q: How to create Build Task for C#10 / .NET 6.0 project in Azure DevOps Server 2020 I already have a build pipeline for an existing project. I tried to change to project to <LangVersion>10</LangVersion>. Now the build pipeline fails, because it says, 10 is not allowed.
I already installed Build Tools 2022, but it still didn't work. When I open the pipeline to change the MSBuild or Visual Studio version to be used in the build task, I can only select versions up to 2019 or latest (I picked latest here).
The Build Tools 2019 are still installed (I don't wanted to risk, other pipelines to fail because of the update). So maybe the Build agent just takes the wrong MSBuild version? Maybe I have to update the Build Agent itself? (It doesn't work automatically, because of our company firewall, I would have to copy the newer version to the server for deployment.)
Can anyone tell me, what the official way is, to get this to work. My google search didn't give me usable results.

A: You should read on Mircosoft's devblog arcticle MSBuild and 64-bit Visual Studio 2022
and check on github example

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| Holston Electric Cooperative, Inc.
ROGERSVILLE, Tenn. (February 2, 2018) – HolstonConnect, a wholly-owned, not-for-profit subsidiary of Holston Electric Cooperative, was established in late 2017 to provide fiber-based services to HEC members. HolstonConnect received approval from the cooperative's board of directors in January to begin the initial phase of construction in 2018 and is now a step closer to providing services to HEC members' homes.
Sandlin says the services provided by HolstonConnect will help to improve education, economic development and communication throughout Hawkins and Hamblen counties. Additionally, the fiber-based system will enable smart grid technology, making it more efficient, providing members additional control of their energy usage, and allowing two-way data flow. As technology, such as vehicles, batteries and distributed generation, are added to the electric grid, Holston Electric Cooperative will be better able to meet the needs of members.
The General Manager also asks for the patience of the membership as the new business begins as there are many uncontrollable factors for HolstonConnect that will dictate when and where the first members will receive this service. HolstonConnect will be communicating the plan as details become available.
Sandlin says HolstonConnect most likely will provide digital video service, high-speed internet service, local and long-distance telephone services and gigabit data services across the service area. Information on these services will be released as details become available.
Holston Electric Cooperative is a member-owned, not-for-profit distributor of TVA power that provides safe, reliable and affordable energy to more than 30,000 residential, commercial and industrial customers in Hawkins and Hamblen counties.
HolstonConnect is a local, member-owned, not-for-profit distributor of fiber-based services. A wholly-owned subsidiary of Holston Electric Cooperative, HolstonConnect delivers members with the tools necessary to support community development in Hawkins and Hamblen counties.


Cancer patients could benefit from a surgical procedure that helps the surgeon to determine adequate tumor resection margins. Systemic injection of tumor-specific fluorescence agents with subsequent intraoperative optical imaging can guide the surgeon in this process. However, tumor heterogeneity hampers tumor-specific targeting. In addition, determination of adequate resection margins can be very challenging due to invasive tumor strands that are difficult to resolve and because of the confounding effect of variations in tissue optical properties in the surgical margin. We provide an overview of the "classic approach" of imaging tumor-specific targets or tumor-associated pathophysiological processes, and explain the limitations of these targeting strategies. It is proposed that problems of tumor heterogeneity can theoretically be circumvented by shifting focus of tumor targeting towards the follicle-stimulating hormone receptor (FSHR). Furthermore, we discuss why objective determination of resection margins is required to improve resection of the invasive strands, a goal that may be achieved by targeting the FSHR. When invasive strands would nevertheless extend beyond such a standardized resection margin, we suggest that adjuvant photodynamic therapy would be a very suitable therapeutic regimen. Finally, we describe how point optical spectroscopy can be used to scrutinize suspect tissue that is difficult to differentiate from normal tissue by measuring the local tissue optical properties to recover a local intrinsic fluorescence measurement.
MTN is gratefully acknowledged for his supporting contribution during the writing process.


Tourism in Brussels has been on decline during the past months, with the city's reputation suffering from the linked terror plots by the media. That's when the official Brussels tourism office decided to creatively promote the city, proving that the city is safe.
It was back in November when Brussels was facing a Level 4 alert and lockdown after the terrorist attack in Paris, with the country being portrayed by the international media as a dangerous war zone that tourists should avoid at all costs. This had a significant effect on the tourism, with people all over the world postponing their visit to Brussels.
'Call Brussels' is a campaign linked with the site visit.brussels, hoping to use the power of the Internet and the appeal of the live interaction as a way to let the local residents speak directly with the potential tourists. Three phone cabins have been placed in central places of Brussels (Mont des Arts,Place Flagey and near the newly-famous town hall of Molenbeek) with foreign tourists being encouraged to visit the site, pick the phone cabin of their choice and call a passer-by. Both tourists and local residents were happy to try out the experiment of the campaign, leading to numerous interesting conversations with people all over the world, mentioning to Belgians how they worry about their safety in case they visit Brussels.
The combination of the welcoming and reassuring citizens with the live camera close to the phone cabins managed to calm down the tourists, eliminating their concerns regarding the safety of the city.
In just 5 days, the 'Call Brussels' campaign counted 12,688 calls form 154 countries, proving that the idea was more than successful. What's more, #callbrussels was spread on the Internet, boosting the city's image again in the most authentic way, leading to more than 9 million impressions on social media.
Viewing the campaign from a marketer's perspective, it is another proof that people are more open to real and genuine 'reviews' (residents' perspective in that case) than direct promotional campaigns, feeling that this way they can trust the actual opinion more than any old-fashioned advertising. Think of it, a local's point of view is more important than any poster, or video, deriving from a typical campaign by the tourism office, right?
The power of influence in marketing, whether it's from friends or strangers, is stronger than ever on the Internet and #callbrussels certainly used the concept in the best possible way!