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Q: Test of significant for success rate improvement on paired samples I want to compare the success rate of two configurations of a program.
A program run two times on the same set of photographs and returns each time a list of face matches.
The success rate is computed for the two run with number_of_good_match/total_number_of_match.
e.g. Configuration A : 4500 success over 5000 matches
     Configuration B : 4400 success over 4900 matches
The two-proportion z-test would have been a good candidate, but it make the assumption that "The sampling method for each population is simple random sampling." which does not look apply to my data.

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*What would be a good way to test that a given configuration success rate is significantly higher than another one ?

*Should I use a one-tailed test in this situation, or would a two tailed test be suitable ?

A: First, if you need a convenient way to test this, the pooled or un-pooled t-test might be a good fit for your problem. If you assume that Configuration A and Configuration B have the same variance, use the pooled t-test; Otherwise, use the un-pooled t-test. Both the two tests do not have restrictive assumptions on the sample size for the two groups.
Here is a resource that you can look up to for the equations: https://onlinecourses.science.psu.edu/stat200/node/60
The assumptions for the two tests are also i.i.d sampling and the underlying distribution of the two population are normally distributed. I am not sure why you think your data is not simple random sampling, but as the data size is large, CLT can always support this. Just try this pooled or the un-pooled test, and see the result if it makes any sense.
Use two tailed, if your hypothesis is group A is different from group B; Use one tailed, if your hypothesis is one group is over another.
Another test you might think of is KS test. Here is one resource: http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/eda/section3/eda35g.htm
Instead of comparing the mean of the two group, this can compare everything. For example, if the mean of two groups are very closed, but the max, min, quantile are very different for two groups, t-test might not be significant, but KS test can be significant.
One last try is Bayesian. Assuming the two groups are normally distributed, and get priors for mean and variance. Plug this in rJags. Adjust the priors for mean and the variance, see what you can get.


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Changes made in Pawnee County after woman dies in jail
Since the death of a woman inside the Pawnee County Jail, Sheriff Mike Waters said he has made changes to the operation.
Posted at 6:20 AM, Mar 28, 2019
PAWNEE — Since the death of a woman inside the Pawnee County Jail, Sheriff Mike Waters said he has made changes to the operation.
Sheriff Waters said 26-year old Brittany Weide smuggled a .40 caliber gun inside her body and shot herself in a detox cell. The mother of two was arrested hours earlier for public intoxication.
The story is challenging for her family to understand.
"It's hard to be in this town and walk around and people are always asking you questions about it," Tammy Tubbs, Weide's aunt, said. "'I don't know. I don't know what to tell you.'"
Tubbs said she and Weide's grandmother found out that the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation cleared the Pawnee County Sheriff's Office of wrongdoing on 2 Works For You.
Our team submitted a Freedom of Information Act request to the OSBI for their case file. The request was not granted. Instead, Public Information Officer Brook Arbeitman sent an email saying, "I was able to get with our General Counsel who advised me that the OSBI is not subject to Open Records." The email went on to cite the state statute that says all of the bureau's records are confidential.
"I realize everybody is human," Tubbs said. "People make mistakes in your life, but you also know you've got to be accountable for those mistakes and there is no accountability here."
There are cameras in the detox cells, where the 26-year old was being held, that Sheriff Waters said live streams to the jail staff's desk. He said at the time of her death they did not record, but they do now.
"I'm in the process of getting a walk through metal detector to put specifically in the jail," Sheriff Waters said.
He said usually they require inmates to dress in jail jumpsuits after they are booked. Sheriff Waters said since Weide was being combative, she was left in her street clothes for the safety of the jail staff. As far as the searches, he said there is not much more they can do legally.
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List of medieval Slavic tribes
Vaiunites
You may be right, you may be right... I'm afraid I largely lose my historical compass of the Balkans during the Slavic migrations. I'll be sure to read about them soon
I'm pretty sure that Maciamo is using Martinez et al 2007 there, and now that I look at it, there is significant I2a, probably mostly I2a-Din-N, in the Peloponnese, although I2*, probably I2c-B is much higher in Crete. King et al 2008 is another good study I've seen of Crete, and that one is pretty explicit that the I2 in Crete is "I2*" (probably I2c-B because that's all we've found there so far and they didn't test the SNPs that define I2c).
It looks like there was a pretty direct Slavic influence in Greece based on this, more than I expected, unless some of the I2a-Din-N predated the Slavic expansion. The N cluster is nearly 2500 years old, after all.
I agree that this is problematic. The I2a2 in the Balkans cannot be Slavic or Sarmatian if it is so different from the I2a found in other parts of Eastern Europe.
When I say I favour the hypothesis of the Paleolithic continuity, I don't mean that I2a2-Din already existed in the Paleolithic, but that I2* was all over Europe in the Paleolithic, then only became I2a around the Mesolithic, I2a2 perhaps in the late Mesolithic or early Neolithic, and eventually I2a2-Din in the Chalcolithic or Bronze Age. It doesn't mean that the ancestors of the modern I2a-Din were already in the Balkans in the Paleolithic. However I look at it, I can't see how I2a-Din could have been in the Balkans before the Neolithic. A hypothesis that I like is that the I2a2 people from the Danube region were pushed away by Neolithic farmers (G2a) and moved to the Balkans and the Carpathians, where they evolved into different subclades.
Another possibility is that I2a2 came from Eastern Anatolia along with G2a during the Neolithic, and each variety of I2a2 developed once Neolithic farmers had settled permanently in one place.
Well I suppose we need better I2a testing in Greece (:=)). It wouldn't surprise me one bit to discover a lot of Greek-speaking I2a-Din there. After all the Slavs literally swamped Greece in the late 6th and (especially) early 7th century. In the context of the Byzantine reconquista, a tremendous number of them were captured and sold into slavery outside of Greece (hence the birth of the relevant "esclave"->"slave" term). But numbers will tell, and genes would have been left behind.
For me, ftdna results were enough to conclude that vast majority of I2a in Balkans is the same variety as the one found in other parts of eastern Europe: Y-Haplogroup I2a Project
Originally Posted by Maciamo
But it isn't "so different"... the large majority of I2a in Eastern Europe as a whole is I2a-Din.
Then why do we see only one very young I2a clade in the Balkans, with the older STR cluster of that clade outside of the Balkans? Like I said, you'd need a weird double-bottleneck for this pattern to occur, not to mention an inexplicably recent migration out of the Balkans.
The fact that the two closest clades to I2a-Din both have their centers of diversity in the British Isles, and the fact that outlier clades of I2a, like I2a1*-Rassette and I2a1*-F are very European and even Western European, lends poorly to this theory.
Yes the link is 2006 , far younger than the link you provided as the 2 that are newer has no reference to our discussion
I read it that the german I1a went to sweden and not the slovenian one.
If you think the slovenian I1a HG is east germanic, then lets assume that R1a and I2a-din never arrived in western Balkans. Are you saying then, this germanic I1a reached northern greece and all of the western balkans in the great % that is there now.
Ok, but not part of this discussion
because the percentages are not significant once you eliminate the R1a and I2a-din
If I recall an earlier KenN note saying the western I2a1 went from spain to venice and directly a line north of venice. I think he called it an anti R1a HG.
[[ I would not be so cowardly to guess such a broad upstream haplogroup
category as Hg I. I guess I2b-ADR L415+ L416+ L417+ found today on the
shores of the northern Adriatic Sea. Ken ]]
You refer to this comment above for I2b-ADR
http://knordtvedt.home.bresnan.net/T...r%20Hg%20I.pdf
I guess this I2b-ADR was a made up HG to catecorize Otzi in September 2011, prior to finding he was G2a
Huh? Yours is older, and the links I provided are relevant to I1 analysis, which is what we were talking about.
No, he's not saying that there are different I1a's, he's wondering which direction it went with respect to Slovenia.
I'm not sure if I1 is old enough to have some pre-Germanic Eastern European components; if it does, they are possibly in the T2 STR cluster, but I doubt that the members in the AS clusters are anything other than East Germanic. That seems to place I1 as at least largely East Germanic in origin for its distribution in the Balkans and Greece. I don't see a "great percentage" to discount this, anyway... there's mostly single-digit I1 in the region.
Oh, but it is. If the origin of I1 is Schleswig-Holstein, and the TMRCA of it is really as young as Nordtvedt calculates, then we should expect a tight coupling of I1 carriers and Germanic ancestry. That's my point.
So? Why can't the R1a and I2a-Din be largely recent introductions? And why couldn't the Neolithic haplogroups have displaced the Paleolithic ones? Two major displacements could have resulted in practically no Paleolithic remnants in the region.
That's old I2a1, or current I2a1a, not that closely related to I2a1b1a-Din.
I2b-ADR isn't a made up clade, living people have it, just not very many. Nordtvedt guessed Ötzi to be I2b-ADR and was wrong... I suspect that I2b-ADR was generally more Southern during Ötzi's time, but the data on that clade is badly deficient. Maybe that's why we're all guessing it to be a missing link for any particular problem that pops up.
Which is the one to read ?
i see 2001, 2005 etc etc
Are you trying to say they are gothic and vandal HG in western balkans ,
In regards to percentages, they are single digit because the R1a and i2a-din makes them so.
You are smart enough to realise that percentage numbers are different based on the different number of foreigners in the area. so, if area A had 100 of I1a and area B likewise, if R1a entered areas A and B but, in A went 300 and in B went 500, then the percentage of I1a in area A is greater then in area B
So, they would not be single digit numbers for any region in the western balkans if you remove R1a and i2a-din
As an example, by using Maciano's y-dna country numbers for albania and removing the R1a and I2a
the following percentages occur once reconfigured
I1 - 3
I2b = 2
R1b = 21
G = 3
J2 = 25.5
J1 = 3
E1b1b = 37.5
true if its only 1 sub-clade of I1a ( I1) exists
thats what we are discussing, for your theory to work , another Hg had to be in the western balkans. I am trying to figure out if I1a is that HG
irrelevant at this time to have any impact on this discussion
Oh you mean the I1 Project? I thought you meant my link to Nordtvedt. For the I1 Project, I was referring to the raw data, not the studies they refer to on their homepage.
Yes, principally Ostrogothic, at least that's my best guess.
Good point, I1 may be higher than we might expect, but it's not impossible that they could have expanded due to cultural selection. As usual, Y-DNA magnifies the effect of migration.
That looks about like what I would expect, although E1b may also have a bit of a founder effect itself... my guess is that R1b, J2, and E1b would have been dominant together, with G2a an interesting Neolithic marker and I1 mostly Germanic. That "I2b" is probably dominated by I2a2a2-Cont3, which I have already brought up.
Multiple subclades exist, but there's no special Balkans subclade... I1 in the Balkans has so far fit neatly into existing "Germanic" subclades of I1.
To me, it's odd that you're targeting I1... that seems the least likely to be Illyrian of the remaining markers once you subtract R1a and I2a-Din.
You do realise that the 200 year of ostrogothic rule for western balkans would apply to italy as well in the issue of I1a ......you want to go down this line?
I ran some numbers from Y-dna country in regards to eliminating the R1a and I2a and got these numbers for I1a ( I1) ...rounded to nearest half %
AUStria = 29.5
NEItaly = 10
SLOvenia = 31.5
CROtia = 28.5
HUNgary = 23
SERbia = 19
BOSnia = 9
ALBania = 4.5
MACedonia = 24.5
NGreece = 13.5
Montenegro is missing ...maybe its a mix of BOS and ALB
Clearly the very high E Hg for albania and bosnia dominate these areas and could indicate a different tribe , maybe the thracians
You are probably right about that. But I am still sceptical about I2a-Din coming from the steppes with the Indo-Europeans, the Sarmatians or the Slavs. If it was PIE, we would find much more of it in Siberia, Central Asia and South Asia. If it was Sarmatian, there would also be more in Central Asia, because that is where the Sarmatians originally came from before moving to the Pontic Steppe. It cannot be Proto-Slavic if it wasn't PIE to start with.
Then, there are other subclades of I2a2 in Western Europe (I2a-Isles), which surely have nothing to do with the Slavs and point at a common origin in continental Europe (somewhere between France and Ukraine). So I still think that I2a2 was in Europe before the Indo-Europeans. This is further corroborated by the fact that I2a1 was found in Neolithic France. Yet, until then it was thought that I2a1 was also fairly young* like I2a2. That's why you can't trust STR dating.
* In 2004, Rootsi et al. estimated the age of I2a* between 4000 and 8000 years old. This is almost impossible if its subclade I2a1 already existed 5000 years ago (Treilles site).
Knovas
I agree with Maciamo here. There's probably an exception in the I subclades (¿I2c?), but the rest seem to be in the continental Europe since the beginning.
I voted for the paleolithic continuity hypothesis and would add a founder effect in the Dinaric Alpine region.
Strong levels are found throughout the Balkans with 4% in modern-day Turkey but what is more significant to me is its 'Slavic' presence in Russia. This suggests strongly a link to the paleolithic Balkans as haplogroup I is definitely not a West Asian/Caucasian marker. The spread to Russia and Sarmatian lands followed the Balkan Refugium repopulation of Eurasia.
The weakness in this theory is based on the assumption that related subclades would have to be found throughout the region as well. I believe this assumption is generally valid however I would not place too much emphasis on it in this context as most I subclades would have been wiped out during the severe climactic events that overwhelmed Europe circa 10 000ybp. In addition one could add that the various I haplgroup subclades would have left the Balkan Refugium many thousands of years ago and would have been thinned out by then.
My social anthropological view of I in the Balkans is based on an erratic diffusion model between 10 and 5 thousand ybp following a period of entrapment (refuge) within the southern extremities of Europe. The pre-LGM period would have most certainly shown a Europe-wide distribution that was severely disrupted and abruptly cut short by the big freeze.
Sardinia and Iberia back up the continuity of this haplogroup from a pre-Glacial period. The difference concerning the Balkans is that repopulation spread further and wider in a Northeasterly direction as the Balkans were much less conducive to agriculture with its rocky landscape. The fertile plains of West Sarmatia and the mild climate of the North Balkan coastline share many parallels.
It cannot be Proto-Slavic if it wasn't PIE to start with.
I think he is not arguing I2a-Din was Proto-Slavic but that it came to Balkans with Slavs. It wasn't there before Slavic expansion.
Personally, I could stand behind Proto-Slavic hypothesis also.
So I still think that I2a2 was in Europe before the Indo-Europeans.
No one is saying it wasn't.
The problem is following - if two very close varieties like I2a2-Din and I2a2-Isles are completely geographically separated why would there have to be geographical continuity for two more distant subclades as I2a2 and I2a2-Din are?
What Maciamo and Knovas et al. seem to be completely ignoring is the age of I2a-Din as a subclade. We don't know where its ancestral Daddy roamed. But we do know that the specific I2a-Din subclade did not begin to exist until ca. 300 BCE. On the basis of current historical and archaeological knowledge, an assumption of the Balkans as roaming grounds cannot explain its expansion. Unless you have Daddy migrate northward very soon after 300 BCE (with progeny). But what in the archaeology or documented historical facts can support this? On the other hand, the Nordtvedt/Verenic computations not only point to a 2340/2040 BP founding age for Din N+S but also to ca. 1200-1500 BP as its age of "expansion" (which also fits in very well with historical events), I think they have made their case, for the time being at any rate. But the issue of the whereabouts of Granddaddy whence Daddy Din mutated is still very much open. My favourite scenario is a migration southeastward of Daddy with the Bastarnians (in the 3rd c. BCE) from the area of the Yastorf culture, and eventual participation of his progeny in Slavic ethnogenesis with associated R1a's and others. That would make Daddy a Germanic fellow traveller. And would explain some very early Germanic borrowings into the Slavic languages (especially in the area of military and political terminology) as well as the nearly complete Germanic character of the recorded names of the leadership of the Antes and Sclavini in the 6th century as per Byzantine chroniclers. It would also explain the mysterious Dulibians (Dud-Leiba). But this is obviously a different issue.
The R1a and I2a subclades have a poor classification system which has hindered progress IMO. I assume the classifications used such as Rassette and F and Din are based on STR values, right? If so then there is a very real problem here as one will need to test many more individuals in the Balkans to do an STR analysis than would otherwise be the case with ydna SNP testing. Either way I think you are not able to compare STR values from the Balkans as the sample sizes are limited.
What Maciamo and Knovas et al. seem to be completely ignoring is the age of I2a-Din as a subclade. We don't know where its ancestral Daddy roamed. But we do know that the specific I2a-Din subclade did not begin to exist until ca. 300 BCE.
I => 25,000 years ago (in the Balkans)
I2 => 17,000 years ago (in the Balkans)
I2b => 13,000 years ago (in Central Europe)
I2a => 11,000 years ago (in the Balkans)
I2a1 => 8,000 years ago (in Sardinia)
I2a2 => 7,500 years ago (in the Dinaric Alps)
I2b1 => 9,000 years ago (in Germany)
I1 => 5,000 years ago (in Scandinavia)
I2b1a => less than 3,000 years ago (in Britain)
And what is the age of I2a1b1?
For poor classification se here.
Cf. http://knordtvedt.home.bresnan.net/T...r%20Hg%20I.pdf for the Nordtvedt I tree
I2a1b1 [L69.2/S163.2] (formerly known as I2a2a) is younger than its paternal clade which is estimated at 7500 ybp. I don't agree with the estimated TMRCA used by Nordtvedt. I view him as somewhat controversial in this respect, however his work more than makes up for this IMO.
The multiple effect of a genetically fit progenitor's descendants, especially if the group is somewhat isolated, will depict a false variance unsuitable for TMRCA calculation without the necessary adjustment. I squeezed in a lot of info in my previous sentence but the point is it is older than it looks, and E in the Balkans is also older than it looks.
The classifications used to depict STR clusters are not on the ISOGG site as they are experimental STR categories. Both R1a and I haplogroups alike continue to remain poorly defined compared to R1b-L11+ subclades where numerous SNP's make classification much easier.
That isn't very helpful, Dorianfinder. I'll fix it for you:
I => 23,000 years ago (maybe in Southern Europe somewhere)
I2 => 22,000 years ago (maybe in Southern Europe somewhere)
I2a2 => 13,000 years ago (somewhere in Europe, probably Eastern or Central)
I2a1 => 20,000 years ago (somewhere in Europe, not sure but maybe the Carpathian Basin)
I2a1a => 8,000 years ago (probably Iberia, definitely not Sardinia)
I2a1b => 13,000 years ago (somewhere in Europe, too dispersed to narrow down, probably not the Balkans)
I1 => 5,000 years ago (around Schleswig-Holstein)
I2a2a1 => 5,000 years ago (in Britain)
And I'll add another one:
I2a1b1a-Din => 2,500 years ago (somewhere around Belarus)
The SNP tree for I2a has gotten better lately, although there are still some I2a1*'s, like Rassette and F. Sample sizes are fine for I2a-Din. At the FTDNA Project alone, you have hundreds, plus additional STR values from other sources. We do need more for Rassette (2 samples) and F (7 samples), but those are useful for comparing against other STR clusters.
Where I2a-Din is in the SNP tree is well established.
Originally Posted by Knovas
I think every I subclade has been in Europe since their beginning, including I2c (see my I2c diversity map... based on the STR data available so far, it's showing a center of diversity in Western or Central Europe, maybe around Germany).
But as Shetop summarizes my argument, I'm not saying that "I2a-Din was Proto-Slavic but that it came to Balkans with Slavs. It wasn't there before Slavic expansion."
If we say things like "Germanic peoples spread I1," even though I1 is clearly from a pre-IE European lineage, why can't we say "Slavic peoples spread I2a-Din"?
I was thinking more along the lines of those subclades immediately downstream of I2a-Din.
Maybe you could explain this, because there are no subclades downstream I2a-Din.
I could save you the trouble and say that no clear ancient distribution patterns are forthcoming from modern sample testing alone.
...well there are a couple of British ones upstream per SNP testing (all L343+), and thanks to the fact that British-origin people test with FTDNA more than anybody, their sample sizes are about as good as we can hope for. I2a-Disles is a particularly rare clade, so it's the smallest by quite a bit, but I2a-Isles is very well attested.
What's downstream?
Then why were you using it as evidence for your point? It's not clear, and there is evidence otherwise, that the ancestors of I2a-Din have been in the Balkans through their existence.
I am not on the team looking specifically at the I haplogroup so please take what I am saying with a pinch of salt. Generally, the more SNPs are allocated to the phylogeny of a haplogroup the easier it becomes to pinpoint suitable candidates for a y-dna walk through. When one is swimming too far upstream this cannot be done efficiently without taking too much of a risk and not having enough skeleton to add to. Haplogroup I has got some ways to go before many more SNPs will begin rolling in ... until then clusters need to be formed using slow-moving STR markers, in some cases these can be as good as an SNP, however only SNP's can be allocated to a position making it essential in phylogeny development.
I see sparkey. Your explanation makes sense, it's perfectly possible. I can't deny it ;)
My point was about the estimated age to the TMRCA. I only highlighted the Balkans for I2a to accentuate the paternal link to the Dinaric Alps and I2a2.
OK. I think the value of the point dries up once it's clear that I2a-Din's ancestor clades were more likely not from the Balkans, than from the Balkans. Because then we can't look and say, "Hey, its ancestor was in the Balkans 11,000 years ago, and 7,500 years ago." If that changes to "Well actually it looks more like it was somewhere in Europe, maybe close-ish to the Balkans 20,000 years ago, and maybe even further away from the Balkans 13,000 years ago" then the usefulness of the whole thing goes away.
Point taken about the unreliability of STR dating, though... Nordtvedt's estimate does have fairly large error bars, which is why I resist saying things like "I2a-Din's MRCA lived in 300BCE." But suppose we pushed I2a-Din's TMRCA back all the way to its parent clade (I2a1b1). Then it's still less than 6,000 years old... and still has a diversity gradient coming down from the North. So Paleolithic continuity still fails.
But suppose we pushed I2a-Din's TMRCA back all the way to its parent clade (I2a1b1). Then it's still less than 6,000 years old... and still has a diversity gradient coming down from the North. So Paleolithic continuity still fails.
Great point.
Point taken about the unreliability of STR dating, though...
Nordtvedt's estimate does have fairly large error bars, which is why I resist saying things like "I2a-Din's MRCA lived in 300BCE." But suppose we pushed I2a-Din's TMRCA back all the way to its parent clade (I2a1b1). Then it's still less than 6,000 years old... and still has a diversity gradient coming down from the North. So Paleolithic continuity still fails.
What I like about Nordtvedt is his strict and cautious scientific approach to all this. He operates with SNP's even more than with STR's. He keeps retesting and refining. His latest surmise for TMRCA of I2a-Din is interesting in that the more he tests and refines the "younger" the subclade gets (not by much but some). I have no idea of how Dorianfinder gets his dates and the "I don't care for N's analysis" approach is of course not particularly persuasive. It would help to have something more precise. It's Nordtvedt who discovered the British Disles older brother to Din. As for Verenic's adaptations cf. the thread here, esp. from posts 113 ff. http://dna-forums.org/index.php?/top..._1#entry221867
Unfortunately we can't get aDNA from the Slavic homeland area because of the cremation ritual. But the possibility of checking exists for some of the Wielbark and Chernyakhiv gravesites, once the Ukrainans get their act together. We could see if there is any I2a1b1 there.
As for Verenic's adaptations cf. the thread here, esp. from posts 113 ff. http://dna-forums.org/index.php?/top..._1#entry221867
Vadim Verenich's analysis is great. The diversity charts are very helpful... For those who aren't DNA Forums members, his maps indicate diversity spikes outside the Balkans, namely in Ukraine/Moldova (probably close to the expansion point of I2a-Din-N) and Austria, except one around Bosnia/Serbia, which looks to me like the expansion point of I2a-Din-S. There are also interesting "isolates" in Belarus, Greece, and a few other places, and a general molecular diversity pattern that spans Eastern Europe (but not most of the Balkans outside of that Bosnia/Serbia point). He compares these maps favorably to "Slavic expansion" maps.
Have you managed to figure out the route-relationship between the east European 'Dinaric' forms of I2a and the north-western forms such as L161 'Isles' and the tiny 'Disles' clade? What are the frequency distributions suggesting? If the Balto-Slavic hypothesis is studied in depth I think one will find Southern European countries share the up-stream clades and the north the down-stream ones.
The different I2a1b clades have their modern centers of diversity too dispersed to figure out a route-relationship. The modern frequency distributions aren't going to help much, either. It's quite clear that both Disles and Isles have their centers of diversity in Britain, so it's appropriate to assume that both formed there. Does that mean that Dinaric came out of Britain, since 2 clades being in Britain and 1 being out means that the highest place of diversity of I2a1b as a whole is in Britain? Not necessarily, of course... but I suspect that it may be closer to the right place than the Balkans.
Disles and Isles may be more diverse in Britain but they are parallel to Dinaric. All Disles and Isles have the SNPs common to Dinaric however the inverse is not true.
Edited: correction, downstream should be parallel. Please read #83 for explanation.


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Fortunately is that since today RadioShack. Radioshack Component And S-video 4-in/1-out Remote Controlled A/v Selector… has officially been acquired by Retail Ecommerce Ventures (REV), giving the troubled company a brand-new lease on life. The downside, at least for folks like us, is that there are no instant plans to return the iconic electronics retailer to its brick-and-mortar roots. As the name indicates, REV concentrates on online retail, having actually formerly revamped the Internet presence of other bankrupt businesses such as Pier 1 Imports and Dressbarn.
While the press release doesn't straight-out preclude the possibility of new physical RadioShack places, it's clear that REV thinks the future of retail isn't to be found in your local shopping center. As the US mulls further lockdowns in response to the continuing COVID-19 pandemic, it's tough to disagree. There will be countless bored kids and grownups searching for something to do throughout the long winter nights, and an electronic kit or two shipped to their door might be simply the important things.
REV states they prepare to relaunch the rather outdated RadioShack website just in time for the business's 100th anniversary in 2021. As of this composing the site currently states that sales have been momentarily halted to allow for stock restructuring, though it's uncertain if this is straight related to the buyout or not. Getting an accurate count of how much merchandise the business still has on hand after shuttering most of their physical places in 2017 definitely seems like something the new owners would wish to do.
RadioShack's shambling remains were provided another shock of life today when they were purchased by another business that prepares to relaunch the once-great merchant as an online-focused brand.
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These questions and answers were provided informal Q&A sessions held during normal growth group time at Kempsey and South West Rocks on the 13th and 14th of September.
I have posted them here for the benefit of our congregation. If you think I have gotten some of the material from other people – you are probably right! I can't remember all that much where I've heard what from.
Why are we having this vote at all?
Three is a long history to calling this vote. In 2004 the Howard Government amended the 1961 marriage act to make the legislation explicit about who the parties of marriage were between: a man and woman. That bill sailed through parliament. At that time though there were some rumblings about changing the definition of marriage in Australian society, that view was largely not prevalent. However, society's view has changed quite rapidly since then. Polls have repeatedly showed for its support in Australia generally, and perhaps the main reason it has not already been legalised is because of Tony Abbot's strong objections towards it. He forced his party members to hold firm to the party line of not allowing same-sex marriage (i.e, he did not allow private member's bills calling for a conscience vote) but forced the Liberal Party to go through the means of a plebiscite before allowing the Parliament to vote. The Turnbull government, succeeding from the Abbott government has chosen to honour that election promise by at least using a postal survey, since the plebiscite was blocked by Senate.
What are we actually voting for?
The exact question is:
"Should the law be changed to allow same-sex couples to marry?" Yes / No
The Turnbull government has promised that if the vote returns a majority "NO" then no bill will be presented to Parliament, but if so, then a private-member's bill will be allowed.
What does the Bible actually say about homosexuality and homosexual marriage
Individual Bible passages
Romans 1:24-27. Some commentators have said that this passage does not explicitly condemn same-sex unions but homosexual unions that have occurred outside a committed-homosexual relationship. To be fair verse 24 talks about the "lusts of their hearts to impurity" and verse 26 to "dishonourable passions". Perhaps this is about adulterous relationships outside committed partnerships.
But ultimately, this is not a very widely held view among biblical scholars, and requires special pleading that somehow what Paul didn't have in mind homosexuality in general.
Such a view also very clearly neglects the text. The passage is a condemnation about the human condition and its desire to pursue even things contrary to nature. If Paul was talking about adultery from committed relationships – then surely he would talk about that! But these unions are contrasted with male and female unions; unions that are clearly not "contrary to nature" (V26).
Rom 1:26-27
For their women exchanged natural relations for those that are contrary to nature; and the men likewise gave up natural relations with women and were consumed with passion for one another, men committing shameless acts with men and receiving in themselves the due penalty for their error.
Bible as a narrative arc
But what is perhaps most persuasive is if we read the Bible as a story from the beginning. Genesis clearly shows that there is a certain design for creation – including their sexuality. He gives the woman to the man, and this is so that they can fulfil his creation mandate to multiply and fill the earth (Gen 1:28).
The fall of man occurs in chapter 3 when they defy God's created order and wisdom – and that is when sin enters and with it all manner of things outside God's design for his people. Murder occurs in the very next chapter. The flood comes to obliterate people in Genesis 6. When the people of Sodom engage in homosexual rape – yes – they are condemned and judged for the rape since their behaviour in not accepting guests was heinous. However, it would be a grave error not to think that their homosexuality was somehow within the bounds of what was clearly the ideal presented in Genesis 1 and 2. The extent of how far gone they are must also be seen in the type of unions they chose to be acceptable.
What about the rights of the LBGT community?
It has been said that the LGBT community suffers from being excluded from several rights that being married enjoys. But let's be clear, this debate is not about rights.
I would suggest that it is even disingenuous to say it's about rights at all. If it were then any lack of rights (of which I do not know of any due to anti-discrimination laws and current laws regarding de-facto couples as basically married) could be achieved by introducing a legal arrangement called a "civil union" similar to how they are recognised in Europe. Also, I think most people who support the traditional view of marriage would support such a case for these rights.
This is all about recognition. Same-sex couples want their unions to be allowed to be also called marriages. They don't want it to be called a civil union because it doesn't fit with their desire of equal societal-recognition.
The right for their "love" to be called marriage totally misses the point about why the Government cares about marriages at all. It isn't about love, but about regulating what is generally known to be essential is holding society together. The family structure that is most conducive to raising the next generation of citizens with minimal cost to society.
Shouldn't Christians just stay out of politics? Like isn't there a separation of church and state? Why should we want to legislate something that will force people into submitting to our peculiar view of the world?
As a liberal democracy we are invited into the political process. And our views are just as "invited" as the one who has a non-religious view.
Every government at the end of the day is answerable to God
The government is answerable to God because God has installed it, and its job is to uphold justice. They don't proclaim the gospel but they don't hinder it.
'[Governments] are God's servants, agents of wrath to bring punishment on the wrongdoer.' (Romans 13:4)
Government is by nature coercive. When we vote for government we are very nature being involved in the coercive process. It's inescapable. So it is just a question of what is being coerced.
Blogger Akos Balogh makes the important point:
Justice, by its very nature, is coercive. It forces people to behave in certain ways or face the consequences for not doing so. Governments enforce this justice firstly by laws, which are backed up by the Police, and the Court system. The Bible says that God gives governments a 'sword' to 'bring punishment on the wrongdoer' (Romans 13:4).
Laws embody someone's beliefs – and whose would you have it be?
Laws also teach society what's good and just and fair.
As ethicist Andrew T. Walker points out:
The law, like culture, is not static but dynamic and pedagogical. For good or ill, the forces of cultural opinion shape law, but, conversely, the law is an almost-unrivalled force for shaping cultural opinion.'
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If the public square is a battleground of lords…any lawmaker or judge who forbids a so-called religious perspective in the writing of laws…is doing nothing more than clearing a path for the imposition of his or her religion.
Marriage is a public good
Marriage is not merely for Christians, but for all people. It was instituted in the beginning by God (not the church and certainly not by even government). It is regulated by the government for the public good, especially to support the most basic structure in society – family.
It is well-documented that a happily married, heterosexual union by far is the most stable unit on which to build a family than any other arrangement. Family structures that exist around other units – whether unmarried de-facto, single-parent with unmarried-live-in partner, are less stable and more conducive to abuse to those most vulnerable in that family – i.e. the children.
Sadly marriage has not had a good run in the past century. About half end in divorce and there is plenty of family break-up. This is happening even among so-called Christians.
Nevertheless, I attribute this more to a result of society believing more in an self-serving view of marriage that is divorced from its original intentions. Marriage is now seen as little more than an icing on the cake to love… a statement of commitment until one feels otherwise.
This is not how it should be. The Christian view of marriage is that marriage is rather about serving the other, and the married-couple together serving the wider community, partly through the training of children to become good citizens.
Nevertheless, even with the saddening trends of how marriage is doing, there is still evidence to suggest that the traditional view of marriage – when the parents are both biologically related to the child – are a better context for raising families than any other family structure. This is yes, an ideal that is becoming further and further hard-to-see, but I think that normalising any other form of family structure will be overall not a positive step for society.
Is there really no evidence that homosexual marriages harms children?
The studies that somehow "prove" a homosexual unions do not harm kids are not very conclusive:
Even the academics admit that the "many studies" that show that same-sex parenting produces no-worse outcomes for children are based on lots of small studies that have very little way being able to randomise their data selection. Most studies are on reliant on volunteers to come forward and there is not much way of telling whether they have an "agenda" to want to show their parenting is on-par with others in society. This is freely admitted.
Even when we look at meta-analysis (that supposedly is more reliable because it combines all these smaller studies and makes a larger data set) we need to understand the weakness of this method. They really only look at the variability of past research and they make a judgement on whether that research are all fairly consistent. The underlying assumption is that single stand-alone studies can be weeded out for biases. But it cannot account for a generally consistent bias in a particular direction. And to a fairly sceptical person who thinks that same-sex marriage is a fairly controversial topic and there will be lots of gay/lesbian parents who want to prove that their parenting is no-worse to me is reason enough to suggest that most, if not all, studies should be treated with a level of suspicion.
Further to that, the research freely admits that most of the people who take part in these studies are white, well-educated, and well-off. You can expect children of these gay-lesbian parents to be doing better than average than the average population anyway – and they have not had any real way of accounting for that fact.
There's anecdotal evidence to support the case that such children are being silenced
It's framed in the negative and the bar is very low. Rather we need to ask what is the best family-structure for which to raise children:
First, research clearly demonstrates that family structure matters for children, and the family structure that helps children the most is a family headed by two biological parents in a low-conflict marriage. Children in single-parent families, children born to unmarried mothers, and children in stepfamilies or cohabiting relationships face higher risks of poor outcomes than do children in intact families headed by two biological parents. – Kristin Anderson Moore, Susan M. Jekielek and Carol Emig, "Marriage from a Child's Perspective: How Does Family Structure Affect Children, and What Can We Do about It?", Child Trends Research Brief, June 2002.
What will actually change if the "yes" vote gets up?
Re: societal changes
I agree there is no direct logical relationship between SSM and the Safe Schools program.
But imagine this: we as a society has redefined marriage. 20 years from now the new normal (that families no longer need a mum and dad) is accepted. In fact, talking about such families as "abnormal" is no longer tolerated. It is political and social orthodoxy that it doesn't matter what gender the parents are – and in fact they don't need to identify with a gender at all! And of course there is no "normal" kind of sexuality.
Now, if that is what will be the norm, you can see that it will not take much more effort for society to be able to teach its children that there is no normal with regard to one's gender and sexuality. Don't let people tell you who you're supposed that "because you're a boy you must marry a girl". No… decide what gender you are for yourself, and decide who you what sexuality you identify with.
Now of course we need to be sensitive to the fact that there are many in the LGBT community who ONLY want SSM, and nothing else, but it would be flawed to say that SSM is just about them. SSM is a step closer to a radically new kind of society, one in which freedom of sexual expression is the pinnacle of liberty – and that is what the LGBT lobby and many cultural elites want today.
Religious freedom changes
And this of course has repercussions to religious freedom as well.
We as a country do not have explicit laws protecting religious freedom as the Unites States does (e.g. 1st amendment).
We already witness huge intolerance against religious institutions. Advocates for traditional marriage are already taken to anti-discrimination tribunals. Such intolerance will only become more entrenched. For a society that already believes that the church's teaching on abstinence and marriage-for-life is outdated and even dangerously repressive, what will happen when the bill is passed and this view is strengthened by our law as well?
Now when the bill gets passed, hopefully we will have some religious freedom explicitly given to include more than just clergy. E.g. What about Christian Schools? How will they be able to continue being exclusive in their education that marriage is between a man and woman to the exclusion of all else?
But the fact remains is that you can bet your bottom dollar that there will be greater and greater pushes for churches do away with legal protections (currently existing or not) against people with minority views.
We are not anti-homosexual marriage so much as we are pro-marriage in its healthiest God-given state
We are not fighting against flesh and blood – but against cosmic powers (Ephesians 6:12). Therefore let us not vent our anger at people.
We need to know why are fighting for. It's easy to judge the world and point out its faults. We are ultimately fighting for souls. I am worried that our fight will be seen to be a fight against people, judging people, rather than a fight for good – and ultimately a fight that people might know the Lord who even gave us mercy.
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By Chris bayee, 08/04/20, 11:30AM PDT
There was always room for the circle to grow as far as Wendy Cates was concerned.
The longtime Jr. Ducks team manager, statistician and team parent, who passed away on May 28 after a four-plus-year bout with colon cancer, was fondly remembered by her peers as the ultimate "includer" and youth hockey fan.
"Our (2000 birth year) team was always extremely close, and I fell in love with the Cates family," said Bill Fischer, whose son Ryan played with Jamie Cates for five years. "Our whole team was really close, and a lot of that was because Wendy and Denise Levine made sure everyone was involved.
"A lot of times hockey parents will cluster in smaller groups, but Wendy made sure everyone would be included in the circle at gatherings in restaurants, hotels and rinks."
Jim Cates was a sports fan when he met Wendy at Ganahl Lumber, but he wasn't particularly a hockey fan. Wendy was, and as a gift, sent him to attend a Los Angeles Kings game in 1990 – Jim's first in-person experience with the sport, but far from his last. Three years later they began dating, the same year the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim were hatched.
It took some work to convert Wendy to being a Mighty Ducks fan, but by the time the couple married in 1998 that process was well underway, Jim likes to say.
"She was a big, big hockey fan from the time I met her," Jim said.
By the time they got married in 1998 she was converted to a Mighty Ducks fan, and the season tickets that they shared with her Disney brother-in-law worked very well, Jim likes to say.
Jamie, the couple's only child, began skating age 4 at a mommy and me skate in Anaheim. After some initial resistance, he took to the game, developing into a strong player, and one who will continue his hockey career at Division III powerhouse Williams College in Massachusetts this season.
Wendy's dedication to Jamie and his teammates was undeniable.
"Wendy would drive Jamie from Anaheim to Yorba Linda, 12 miles back and forth to school, then pick him up along with some teammates and drive them back and forth to practice in Lakewood (from Anaheim) every day," Jim said. "She also made sure each did their homework!
"She never complained about all the driving."
Whatever a coach or Jamie's team needed, Wendy would pitch in, if not lead the charge.
"It went beyond always being at games," said Jr. Ducks Director of Coaches Craig Johnson. "She loved her son, and she loved watching him play, and she would help any way she could, whether managing or helping the team's manager.
"She's a great example to any hockey parent."
The core of the 2000 group achieved several highs, reaching the finals of the Pee Wee AA Nationals in 2012 and enjoying a long run at the Quebec International Pee Wee Tournament the next year. Jamie twice scored shootout winners in the latter tournament.
"That Nationals team was magical, and Wendy was a big part of that, any parent of a player on that team would tell you that," Bill Fischer said. "I vividly remember this: Wendy was so happy she was in tears."
For some hockey parents, travel can be a burden. The 2000's viewed it as an opportunity, often scheduling in an extra day before or after a tournament to check out the city's culture, Fischer said.
"Most kids read about these places, our kids were fortunate enough to experience them," he said.
Wendy also helped spearhead a charity tournament in December 2012, while the NHL was navigating a lockout, to help facilitate the Jr. Ducks' Pee Wee AAA team being able to go to Quebec.
"We ended up with 18 NHL players from the Ducks and Kings coming out to play at Christmas time to support these kids," Jim Cates recalled. "The players were fantastic and really eager to help out."
Jr. Ducks coach Eugene Kabanets coached that team, as well as Jamie's team the previous season. He, too, fondly remembered Wendy.
"She was great," Kabanets said. "She helped the boys so much, made sure they had whatever they needed, and she helped me so much. I never had to worry about forgetting things because Wendy and Bill were on top of everything."
Wendy's final days saw her enjoy two things she took immense pride in with Jamie, a two-year captain at Tilton School in New Hampshire.
On May 11, the headmaster of Tilton School flew to Southern California to perform a commencement for Jamie at the Cates' Anaheim house, allowing Wendy, whose cancer had returned aggressively, to be able to see her son graduate. Hundreds of friends and colleagues of Jim and Wendy drove by and dropped by to congratulate the Cates family.
"For him to do that shows the impact Wendy had," Jim said.
One week later, she got to see Jamie skate one more time at a private junior and college skate at Bay Harbor. Attended by many parents of past teammates and competitors, it was a very happy – and sad – moment for all.
"As players move on, sometimes you (parents) lose touch, and we had," Bill Fischer said. "Ryan came home from one of those skates and said he'd seen Jamie. It struck me to send Wendy a text, and we were able to communicate one last time. She was not able to speak much after that. If I hadn't texted her …"
Ten days later she passed peacefully at home with family by her side.
"It's like losing a family member," Fischer said. "Hockey families become so close because you're so committed to the sport. We would talk about life, politics, school, and it sometimes became very spirited conversations.
"Wendy became like a sister to me," he added.
"Jamie is the epitome of what you hope for in your kid. Jim and Wendy raised a terrific young man."
Wendy's love – for her family and hockey – struck Johnson as well.
"That's the biggest thing I saw – her love for the sport and for her family," he said. "Jamie is an unbelievable player, a great teammate and an outstanding student. Jim and Wendy had a lot to do with that.
"It's not a stretch to say she left her mark on the Jr. Ducks and on hockey in general."
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Although realism freaks will always opt for the supernaturally realistic driving models of Papyrus' auto sims, there's something to be said about a damn good arcade racing game. Speed Busters opens with a video sequence that's cool in a goofy. A police officer has won the lottery, gone mental, and now gives speeders cash rewards instead of tickets. This provides an excuse for people to drive really fast on back-country roads without having to worry about the law.
Speed Busters isn't a realistic driving sim by any means. Racing in Speed Busters is fast and furious, with loopy jumps, spectacular crashes, and spinouts galore. You've got a near-unlimited number of nitro boosts that send you hurtling madly down the road; and every track is populated with wacky obstacles — the track set in Hollywood features a giant ape smashing his fists onto the roadway, a man-eating shark taking a huge chunk out of the wooden bridge you're driving on, and an enormous dinosaur dragging a flaming car across the street.
The Speed Busters recipe also includes the best feature of Atari's San Francisco Rush: hidden shortcuts! If you're feeling particularly spunky, you can forge your own track off the beaten path at several spots in the game, taking a flying leap on to moving trains or riverboats or across rope bridges. While they're not quite as cool as Rush's rooftop jumps, they certainly provide an extra boost to put you in the lead. Still, the game could have used an "abort" button to mash when the player flies off a cliff to his certain doom or gets wedged into a 90-degree corner.
Aside from the expected Arcade and Time Attack modes, there's an additional Championship mode, in which police officers with radar guns are spread out over each track. Depending on how fast you blast by each of them, you'll get oodles of cash to spend on new cars, nitro boosts, and other cool car customizations. There are no officially-licensed, real-world cars, but Speed Busters' garage features some extremely cool 1950s-era muscle-car lookalikes. Even better are the multiple "skins" available, from hippy rainbow designs to zebra paint jobs.
The only problems lie with the game's physics. The cars seem a little too heavy, and the friction seems a bit off when your vehicle manages to flip over. And it'd be nice to have more than six tracks (plus one hidden roadway), although the option to play each course backwards adds some variety. There were also clipping issues experienced on some cards in the default D3D. You can't play on 3dfx or Software mode, so these clipping bugs, where objects just popped into existence randomly, did affect racing results.


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Initial placement will be on probation basis only (2 years period). Permanent appointment shall be decided, based on incumbent's performance in probation period and necessity of employees. During this involvement, appointees may also be transferred to any of the Defence units within India. For minimum eligibility conditions and applying procedure, go through the below section.
A pass in Matriculation or equivalent is enough to enter into this Civilian Motor Driver posts. But, a valid driving licence (heavy) is mandatory.
Atleast 2 years of heavy motor vehicle driving experience is compulsory, to get considered for this 757 (I) TPT PL ASC recruitment.
Minimum eligible age to apply for 757 (I) TPT PL ASC recruitment is 18 years, as on closing date of application submission. The capped age varies based on category i.e. 30 years for OBC personnel's and 32 years for ST category.
The different stages of selection going to be conducted by 757 (I) TPT PL ASC's Board of Officers (BOO) are Physical & Endurance Test, Driving Test, Written Exam and Interview. Final selection would be done on the basis of seeing overall merit marks. Before appointment, Medical Examination, Police Verification and Certificate Verification will also be done.
Written exam will be of objective type and mark deduction is applicable for each wrong answer. Multiple choice questions would be asked from topics like General Intelligence & Reasoning, Numerical Aptitude, General English & General Awareness and Traffic rules & regulations.
The hired employees shall be offered with a Pay Band – 1 salary of Rs.5200 – 20200/- and a Grade Pay of Rs.1900/-, per month.
Submit the job applications on prescribed format, as attached along with official notification. Duly fill the blank form and append it with attested (Gazetted Officer) copies of Qualification, Experience, Date of Birth, Category, etc.
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As rational, thinking human beings, we have a moral obligation to those around us. Not just our friends and family, but those around the nation, and the world. Think of this theme as a series of concentric circles with you at the center. We are citizens of not only our local circle, but our regional, societal, and global circles as well. The globalization of our world binds us in more ways than ever before, we must act to preserve our global community. This year's theme is dedicated to those ideas that have the capacity to transcend all facets of societies.
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Sean Connell: listener
After working in a variety of positions, including stints at
Procter & Gamble, the Peace Corps, and a short time in politics, UC alumnus Sean Connell founded the Connell Group in 2000, a market research and brand strategy consultancy dedicated to integrating research and marketing at a time when most companies treated them as different functions. The Connell Group focuses primarily on health care and business-to-business clients, with an emphasis on complex business and research questions.
Rajiv Satyal: comedian
Rajiv Satyal is a Cincinnati-born, Los Angeles-based comedian, host, and speaker. His TV-clean act has made him one of the most versatile performers working today. Some of his most interesting claims-to-fame include opening for the Indian Prime Minister, a viral video viewed over 50 million times, hosting David Chappelle's very first show after his much-publicized hiatus, co-creating a tour that mad it into the U.S. Congressional Record, and is even the mastermind behind the name of UC's online radio station, Bearcast. Follow him on Twitter at @funnyindian.
James Canfield: empowerer
Dr. James P. Canfield, assistant professor at the UC School of Social Work, is an expert on child homelessness, poverty and school social work. He has authored the only book on how to work with homeless children and youth, School-based Practice with Children and Youth Experiencing Homelessness, and he has published numerous articles on the impact of poverty and homelessness on childhood outcomes. His accolades include developing a federal policy evaluation scale used in ten states and the 2013 SAGE/Council on Social Work Innovative Teaching Award.
Frank Wood: stress boss
Dr. Frank Wood is the Founder and CEO of Thriving with Stress, an innovative cutting-edge training course designed to manage and mitigate stress in the workplace, school and home. An invited speaker, author, trainer and innovative thinker on stress, Dr. Frank has a PhD in Clinical Psychology. His broad experience has resulted in a deep understanding on the way that stress intersects with resilience and burnout. He recently authored his first book Thriving with Stress and is currently developing the first digital format of his training Thriving with Stress: Your Resilient Divorce.
Frank Russell: engager
Frank Russell is the Director of the University of Cincinnati Community Design Center and the Niehoff Urban Studio and is an Instructor in Urban Design, as well as a Registered Architect and Urban Design with a Harvard graduate degree. He has engaged with Cincinnati community partners since 1990 through the Community Design Center to address their most pressing issues. Recognizing the need to bring that same engagement to the classroom, in 2002 he started the Niehoff Urban Studio, which promotes the interdisciplinary collaboration of students and faculty with community stakeholders in a shared problem solving process.
E. James Barnett: trailblazer
James Barnett is one of the founding partners at Azure Coaching and Consulting, LLC, a firm dedicated to facilitating client performance in the competitive arena of today's educational landscape. Leveraging diverse professional experiences and graduate level training in applied psychology, James partners with individuals and organizations to provide innovative and research-based solutions to academic and organizational challenges. Additionally, he has played a critical role in cultivating the We Speak Math initiative and was nominated in 2014 for CLRA's Peer Mentor of the Year award for his work with at-risk student populations.
David Coleman: entertainer
David Coleman, known worldwide as "The Dating Doctor," is a speaker, author, and media personality. He has been honored 14 times as the National Speaker of the Year and has spoken live to over 2.5 million people, in addition to millions more through his appearances on radio, television, internet and print. David is filled with anecdotes and strategies to help expand relationship and leadership potential and approaches his topics humorously and candidly. His examinations of the subtleties and complexities surrounding dating, relationships, romance and sex are known worldwide, and even earned him a National Service Citation from President George H.W. Bush.
Christine O'Dea: healer
Christine O'Dea, MD, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the UC College of Medicine. After spending five years in rural family medicine practice in northern Wisconsin, she moved with her family and small children to rural Honduras, where she spent two years as a volunteer family physician with the nongovernmental organization Shoulder to Shoulder. Christy returned from Honduras to join the faculty at the University of Cincinnati, and, additionally, is the medical director at Crossroad Health Center and a member of the Latino Health Collaborative.
Christina Brown: agitator
Christina D. Brown is a self-described freedom fighter from Columbus, Ohio. She serves in a full time role with the Cincinnati Human Relations Commission where she utilizes community engagement to increase understanding across identities. Brown is most notorious for her for social justice activism, persistently lecturing and organizing for various social justice causes and racial equity since 2006. Her leadership also extends to non profit boards, including the Martin Luther King Coalition, Cincinnati Young Black Professionals, Affordable Housing Advocates and the Walnut Hills Redevelopment Foundation. You can find her blog at www.Christinathinks.com.
Brian Eiler: discoverer
Brian Eiler is a doctoral candidate at the University of Cincinnati, where he also received a Bachelor and a Masters degree, both in Psychology. Brian's research combines several areas of behavioral science (social, cognitive, and ecological) with other disciplines (physics, complexity, and biology), in his search to discover the governing principles that underlie the ordered social behavior humans display. Brian's goal is to ground the theory and description of behavior in natural law—to understand why we behave the way we do, in terms of universal principles that transcend spatial and temporal scale.
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How authentication challenges are driving 6 cybersecurity trends
By Peter Goldstein
In the past decade, the security sector has experienced an identity crisis. Insufficient identity verification has led to limitless account takeover, extensive phishing attempts, hacks of IoT devices and even election interferences.
In 2020, we'll begin to see the full impact of this identity crisis on organizations and individuals all over the world. Here are a few specific trends and predictions relating to the lack of identity authentication and the ramifications this will have on cybersecurity.
Email security will prove to be the weakest link in election security
Email is implicated in more than 90 percent of all cybersecurity attacks, and election infrastructure is also vulnerable to email-based attacks. This means email security must be a priority for thwarting interference with the 2020 presidential election. But research shows the majority of U.S. states are overlooking this vulnerability. Only 5 percent of email domains associated with local election officials across the U.S. have implemented and enforced DMARC.
DMARC is a widely accepted open standard that ensures only authorized senders can send emails from a particular domain—it's one of the most basic and highly effective means of stopping phishing attacks, which is why the Department of Homeland Security mandated its use for federal agencies in 2017. Yet below the federal level, governments remain vulnerable. In May 2019, we learned Russian hackers breached two county election systems in Florida via a spear-phishing campaign, and in November we learned of a phishing-based ransomware attack on Louisiana during an election cycle.
Because only a tiny percentage of counties and states have DMARC configured at enforcement, email is an easy way in for malicious actors looking to disrupt our elections.
Identity validation will be a major challenge across the entire security sector
Most oeganizations think about cybersecurity in terms of encryption, sandboxing, network segmentation and other defenses, yet overlook the core role of identity. In 2019 we saw enterprises and security vendors increasingly wake up to the importance of identity and access management (IAM) as an integral component of enterprise security, and for good reason.
But granting access is just one slice of the cybersecurity "identity crisis." Every person, phone, computer and IoT device has an identity that must be authenticated to establish trusted communication. And validating identity is no easy task.
Over Labor Day weekend we saw Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's Twitter account get hacked via SIM swapping (which was most likely initiated by an impersonation of Dorsey himself), and incidents of business email compromise (BEC) attacks and social media disinformation campaigns executed by bots are all examples of havoc wreaked when identity is not authenticated.
Deepfake technology will be leveraged in more cyber attacks
In 2020, we'll see deepfake technologies migrate from proof of concept and occasional attack tool to a more common tactic. Deepfake audio and video can make cyberattacks against individuals and organizations far more sophisticated and convincing, and therefore, more effective.
In 2019, a fraudster used AI voice technology to impersonate the CEO of a German company, convincing an employee to transfer more than $200,000 to the bank of a Hungarian supplier, which was then immediately transferred to another bank in Mexico.
It would be foolish to think cyber criminals all over the world didn't take notice of this incident, and start exploring how they too could leverage this type of technology to reap similar payouts (for example, by delivering messages via Google Voice).
Scammers will add deepfakes to their toolkits, combining them with already proven successful techniques, such as phone number spoofing and email impersonation, to advance phishing and BEC techniques and propel increasingly targeted attacks. We predict losses from impersonation-based attacks could be in the billions of dollars in 2020, spurred by an increase in the use of deepfake tech.
DMARC adoption will grow across industries
We'll see a continued increase in Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance (DMARC) adoption. DMARC is a vendor-neutral authentication protocol that allows email domain owners to protect their domain from spoofing, and the number of domains using it has grown 5x in the last 3 years. We'll see increased growth across several verticals in 2020—especially healthcare and government.
Following the lead of the federal government's civilian branches, the Department of Defense soon will be requiring all of its domains to enforce DMARC, resulting in an increase in the number of military domains protected. H-ISAC, global nonprofit organization serving the healthcare sector, has urged healthcare companies to adopt DMARC as part of best practices for securing email, and as a result we've already seen a rise in adoption rates in this vertical. This growth will continue throughout 2020.
Major brands will lead the way with BIMI
Brand Indicators for Message Identification (BIMI) is an email standard that will change the way people interact with their favorite brands via email. BIMI provides a framework through which an organization can provide an authorized logo for display in the recipients' inboxes alongside authenticated email from that organization.
BIMI will grow in popularity, especially among large enterprises and prominent brands that rely heavily on the trust and engagement of their customers. In fact, Google will be launching a BIMI pilot in 2020, which will help spur adoption. Research by Verizon Media has shown that BIMI can increase open rates and boost customer engagement, giving marketers a big incentive to support the email authentication that is a prerequisite for BIMI.
IoT/smart city security will continue to grow as a target for attackers
Securing cities must begin with preventing phishers from gaining access to computers where they could push out commands to IoT devices remotely. There are many challenges with IoT security, not the least of which is authenticating device-server communications.
Additionally, using default passwords and outdated encryption makes these systems easy to hack. In 2019, we read about some annoying and spooky incidents based on IoT hacking; however, heading into the New Year, what we really need to be concerned about is hackers targeting energy grids and other major infrastructure to cause serious economic and social disruption.
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Suzlon secures 50.4 MW order from Atria Power
To supply 24 units of S111-140m and S120-140m with rated capacity of 2.1 MW each
Project to be completed in two phases by H1, FY20 in Tuticorin, Tamil Nadu
Provide electricity to ~43,000 households and curb ~1,42,569 tonnes of CO2 emissions per year
(Courtesy of Suzlon Energy Limited)
Suzlon Group, India's largest renewable energy solutions provider, today announced its maiden order win for development of 50.4 MW wind power project from Atria Power. Suzlon will install 12 units of S111-140m and 12 units of S120-140m wind turbine generators (WTGs) with a Hybrid Lattice Tubular (HLT) tower, with rated capacity of 2.1 MW each. The project is located in Tuticorin, Tamil Nadu and is in advance stages. It will be commissioned in two phases by H1, FY20. This order formed a part of our Letter of Intent (LoI) orders of 484 MW.
Suzlon will execute the project on turnkey basis and will also provide comprehensive operation and maintenance services.
Sunder Raju, Director, Atria Brindavan Power Pvt. Ltd. said, "In our plan to build 1,000 MW of power projects, we are actively enhancing our renewable energy portfolio in the country in line with government's thrust on green energy. The project will further our footprint in Tamil Nadu's commercial and industrial (C&I) energy space. We are simultaneously working on converting this plant into a Wind-Solar PV hybrid plant to provide a more reliable energy supply to our customers. We are pleased to partner with Suzlon, given their technologically advanced products, EPC capabilities, operations and maintenance services."
Speaking on the order win, J.P. Chalasani, Group CEO, Suzlon Group said, "We are glad to partner with Atria Power and look forward to forge a solid partnership with this maiden venture. We believe the synergy in our common resolve towards India's energy security brought us together to partner for this project. We are seeing an increased interest from all customer segments to invest in renewable energy. Suzlon's 'concept to commissioning' and value added services for the life time of the project, offers convenience to customers for setting up wind power projects. The project will be commissioned in two phases and will comprise of S111-140m and S120-140m, the tallest wind turbines in the country."
The S111-140m and S120-140m WTGs feature the time tested Doubly Fed Induction Generator (DFIG) technology that efficiently integrates wind turbines into the utility network, to meet the grid requirements. Suzlon's next generation turbines are designed to optimally harness wind resources at higher altitudes making low wind sites viable.
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21 Dec | Senvion signs 340 MW conditional wind turbine contracts with Mainstream Renewable Power in Chile
Repeat order from Mainstream comprises largest order for newly launched 4.2M platform
Represents one of biggest ever Chilean wind turbine contracts
19 Dec | Casa dos Ventos places order for 151 MW of V150-4.2 MW turbines in Brazil
To offer its customers the most efficient and competitive wind energy solutions and to underline its commitment to the expansion of Brazil's wind market, Vestas earlier this year announced it will produce its leading onshore wind turbine, the V150-4.2 MW, in Brazil.
18 Dec | Nordex obtains follow-up order for 83 MW from Argentina
The Nordex Group is ramping up its presence further in the growth market of Argentina with a follow-up order from its customer AES Generación S.A. The "Vientos Neuquinos" wind farm comprises 24 AW132/3465 turbines and is to be built in the province of Neuquén in the south-west of Argentina.
15 Nov | YPF Luz and GE Renewable Energy to construct Los Teros Wind Farm in Azul, Argentina
An investment of US$ 144 million is expected.
The energy produced is equivalent to the consumption of 160,000 homes and may reduce about 5.5 million tons of CO2 in 20 years.


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How Green Mediterranean diet can keep your health in the pink
By ANI
The Mediterranean diet, rich in plant-based foods, is linked to a lower risk of heart disease, stroke and diabetes and currently forms the backbone of dietary guidelines to stave off coronary heart disease.
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Washington: Green Mediterranean ('green Med') diet containing more plant matter and very little red meat or poultry, maybe even better for cardiovascular and metabolic health than the traditional version--at least in men. The research was published online in the journal Heart.
It's thought that its impact is related to higher dietary intake of polyphenols, 'healthy' fats and fiber and lower animal protein intake.
The researchers wanted to find out whether a greener version of this diet, higher in green plant food sources and even lower in red meat intake, might be even better for health. They randomly assigned 294 sedentary and moderately obese people (BMI of 31) with an average age of 51 into three dietary groups.
The first group received guidance on boosting physical activity and basic guidelines for achieving a healthy diet. The second received the same physical activity guidance plus advice on following a calorie-restricted (1500-1800 kcal/day for men and 1200-1400 kcal/ day for women) traditional Mediterranean diet.
This was low in simple carbohydrates, rich in vegetables, with poultry and fish replacing red meat. It included 28 g/day of walnuts. The third group received physical activity guidance plus advice on following a similar calorie-restricted green version of the Mediterranean diet ('green Med').
This included 28 g/day walnuts, avoidance of red/processed meat, and higher quantities of plant matter. It also included 3-4 cups/day of green tea and 100 g frozen cubes of Wolffia globosa (cultivated Mankai strain), a high protein form of the aquatic plant duckweed, taken as a green plant-based protein shake as a partial substitute for animal protein.
After six months, the effect of each of the diets on weight loss and on cardiovascular and metabolic risk factors was assessed. Those on both types of Mediterranean diet lost more weight: green Med 6.2 kg; Mediterranean 5.4 kg; healthy diet 1.5 kg.
Waist circumference--an indicator of a potentially harmful midriff bulge--shrank by an average of 8.6 cm among those on the green Med diet compared with 6.8 cm for those on the Mediterranean diet and 4.3 cm for those on the healthy diet.
The green Med diet group achieved larger falls in 'bad' low-density cholesterol of 6.1 mg/dl, a reduction of nearly 4%. The equivalent figures were 2.3 mg/dl (nearly 1%) for those in the Mediterranean diet group, and 0.2 mg/dl for those in the healthy diet group.
Similarly, other cardiovascular and metabolic risk factors improved more among those on the green Med diet, including falls in diastolic blood pressure, insulin resistance, and an important marker of inflammation, C-reactive protein, which has a key role in artery hardening. The ratio of 'good' to 'bad' cholesterol also increased.
These changes resulted in a substantial nearly 2-fold fall in the 10-year Framingham Risk Score--a calculation used to predict the likelihood of serious heart disease over the next decade--among those on the green Med diet.
The researchers caution that their sample included just 35 women, nor were they able to identify the specific factors in the green Med diet responsible for the observed effects.
But they write: "Education and encouragement to follow a green Med dietary pattern in conjunction with physical activity has the potential to be a major contributor to public health as it may improve balancing of cardiovascular risk factors, eventually preventing cardiovascular morbidity and mortality."
"Our findings suggest that additional restriction of meat intake with a parallel increase in plant-based, protein-rich foods, may further benefit the cardiometabolic state and reduce cardiovascular risk, beyond the known beneficial effects of the traditional Mediterranean diet," they concluded.
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2023 NFL Draft interview: North Dakota State OL Cody Mauch
WCG's Lead Draft Analyst spoke with arguably the top small-school prospect in the 2023 NFL Draft.
By Jacob Infante@jacobinfante24 Jan 23, 2023, 3:00pm CST
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North Dakota State offensive lineman Cody Mauch was an absolute force at the FCS level.
Starting off his collegiate career as a tight end for the Bison, Mauch became a three-year starter who was an absolute force at left tackle. Over the course of his collegiate career, he was a three-time FCS champion, a two-time first-team All-MVFC, and a two-time All-American, having made it to the first team in 2022 and the second team in 2021.
Now, Mauch has his eyes towards the 2023 NFL Draft, where many view him as not just the best small-school offensive line prospect, but arguably the top small-school prospect, period. He has both Senior Bowl and Scouting Combine invitations to his name, where he'll get the chance to prove to teams that he's worthy of significant investment.
I had the chance to speak with Mauch about what he wants out of the Senior Bowl, his favorite collegiate memory, his transition from tight end to offensive tackle, and more.
JI: Congratulations on being invited to the Senior Bowl. What are you looking forward to the most about being down in Mobile?
CM: I think the biggest thing is just how much competition is gonna be there. It's a great chance to go and compete against some of the best guys in the country. And then with that, just [starting] the interview process with teams, get that process going. I'm looking forward to it.
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JI: A lot of FCS, Division II and Division III players have seen their stock rise by playing well at the Senior Bowl. What are you looking to prove once you get on the field?
CM: I think the biggest thing is just that I can actually play ball. To me, football's football, whatever level you're at. If you can play, you can play, and honestly, [I'm] just going to prove that that, not only I belong, but that football is football, really. Anyone can do it from any level.
JI: I see you on tape, and I see a nasty dude willing to drive defenders into the dirt. What goes into developing that mentality to play with that much aggression and confidence in your ability?
CM: Honestly, I think the mentality just kind of develops on its own. I didn't even really try to [develop it]. The way I see it, I'm just out there just playing to the whistle, playing as hard as I can. I don't really know if I ever like tried to hone and develop this "tough guy mentality", [and] try to just kill people. You're just trying to block as hard as you can until the end of the whistle, and that stuff just happens.
JI: How does your past background as a tight end help you out along the offensive line?
CM: I think it's helped a lot in terms of footwork or athleticism stuff. I still kind of have that in my background. Also, just playbook-wise, at least for me at NDSU, playing tight end for a year, knowing that playbook, and then moving over the line. Now, when I'm running these combos with the tight ends, I know what they're expecting, what they're looking for. I think it all really ties together when you know what a tight end's expecting.
JI: I'm sure you've seen the popular ESPN graphic showing you when you first started at NDSU and where you are now. What was your reaction when you first saw that?
CM: Yeah, I thought it was funny. Going through the process, you don't really like to think about big-picture stuff like that. It all just kind of seemed like you take it day by day, and then all of a sudden, you look back and "wow, I gained 85 pounds, and I looked a little bit different than I than I did back then". I think it was cool to see those pictures side-by-side, just the body progression through five years. I was wandering through it, and I was still kind of shocked at it.
People finally discovering North Dakota State OL Cody Mauch and his glorious transformation warms my heart.
More important than that, he's a great blocker with a mean streak and impressive athleticism. I'd say he's a #Bears target in Round 2, but I'm not sure he falls there. pic.twitter.com/SLWF6Xy9yi
— Jacob Infante (@jacobinfante24) December 17, 2022
JI: Playing for a prestigious program like North Dakota State, I'm sure you've had plenty of great experiences in your collegiate career, so what do you think your favorite memory was from your time there?
CM: I think anytime you can end up on the stage after winning a National Championship, it's just such an unforgettable feeling. Thankfully for me, it happened more than once, but probably the feeling [of] last year's National Championship meant a lot, because it was my first one that I was a starter, and you're contributing more to the team. I was coming back for a sixth year, but a lot of the guys in my class, a lot of them were going to be done, so it's kind of our last time to celebrate something like that together as teammates. Really, just sending those guys out on the right note and getting one last chance to be teammates with a lot of my best friends, that was one of the most memorable things for me.
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JI: You've been teammates with NFL draft picks like Dillon Radunz and Cordell Volson. What did being teammates with those guys do for your game?
CM: Yeah, I think it helped a lot, not only for guys that I can consult have conversations with about what I'm gonna get myself into, stuff like that. I talk to Cordell a lot about the process, how to go about it and whatnot. Even looking back a couple years ago when they were still here, those are the guys that I was competing against. I was a tackle, they were all tackles. I'm competing against them, but I'm also getting to learn from them, [who are] some of the best ever do it at our school. I was able to learn from them and try to mimic it or give them some kind of competition. To be able to learn from guys like that was just awesome for me.
JI: That's cool you and Cordell keep in touch.
CM: For sure. You get to get not only ask him questions, but also just hear his life story a little bit different than it was a year or two ago. It's good to catch up with him whenever we can.
JI: How do you spend your free time outside of football?
CM: A couple of things. In North Dakota, there's not a whole lot to do, so we'll go out and do some hunting, pheasant hunting, duck or geese hunting, something like that. I really enjoy that; it's fun to do. It's also fun to just spend some time with your friends, doing stuff like that. I have a dog, so I spend a lot of time with him or I take it for runs, or he'll come hunting with us. Probably, just hanging out with friends, doing stuff like that, and just chilling with my dog.
JI: What kind of dog do you have?
CM: I have a chocolate lab. He's almost three. His name's Motley.
JI: You're a North Dakota guy, so did you grow up a Vikings fan?
CM: Yeah, sadly (laughs). [I've] been a Vikes fan my whole life.
JI: You guys had a good regular season this year, at least!
CM: Yeah, [I] can't be sad about that. It's just seems like we always get our hopes up and get kind of crushed (laughs).
JI: Let's say I'm an NFL general manager. What would I be getting if I drafted you to my team?
CM: Good question. I think you get a guy who understands football well. At NDSU, we run a variety of different schemes, so I understand football well. I am a good locker room guy. I'm always making sure the vibes are high. When it's business time, it's business time, but, I like to keep things loose a little bit and [try] to keep things light in the locker room and whatnot.