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Budget Crisis? What Budget Crisis?
"Me Too" Clause Increases Pay For City Hall Managers
Managers at City Hall have declared that city-wide budget cuts, made in the wake of the June budget battle should come from somewhere other than their salaries the Tattler has learned. Tucked inside a July 20 memo, penned by Assistant City Manager Delores Turner for the City Council's consideration, is language that would restore the pay (an effective increase) of managers at City Hall. The managers had earlier agreed to a pay cut to help defray the budget crisis.
The memo reports that the Management of Emeryville Services Authority (MESA), a collection of non-union city employees at the management level, has decided to recommend to the City Council to vote to increase their pay at Tuesday night's council meeting. The memo says that if the Service Employee SEIU union member underlings are able to negotiate a lower contribution rate to their retirement, then all the non-union managers will automatically get the same deal, hence the use of the term 'me too'.
The memo falsely justifies this pay increase for top level managers by claiming the managers earn "comparable salaries" to the union employees when the union employee "greater pay provisions (such as overtime compensation)" is considered and so in the interest of 'fairness' they should be let out of the previous pay cut agreement. This argument was made because the SEIU had earlier stated that most employees under its representation don't make enough money to allow a cut in pay owing to the high cost of Bay Area living. The management at City Hall has not made that argument, until now.
A check of the facts shows the pay related claims made by the managers in Ms Turner's letter are incorrect. In 2009, gross pay amounts for all city employees show only two SEIU-represented employees earned more than $88,000 gross (including overtime) while 24 unrepresented employees earned more than that amount. These facts belie the oft claimed unsustainable nature of the city's pension costs being based on the high SEIU employee compensation, the majority of which earn less than $60,000.
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Bay Street Ready To Receive More Manna From City Hall
Citizen's Group Moves To Stop Another Give-A-Way To
Mall Developer
A local citizen's group will attempt to scupper plans by city officials to grant another extension to an East Coast developer still trying to figure out what to do with a large chunk of prime Emeryville land.
If granted in September as expected, it would mark the sixth annual "exclusive negotiating" deal that city officials have doled out to Washington D.C.-based mall developer, Madison Marquette.
The property in question, dubbed 'Site-B' by the city, sits between the developer's existing Bay Street mall and Powell Street.
Residents United for a Livable Emeryville (RULE), has said enough is enough. The group contends that the existing mall is geared to regional shoppers and provides little for local residents.
If it grants the extension, city officials would be barred from considering any plan not submitted by Madison Marquette. With the economy still faltering, its possible, if not likely, that the company would have a difficult time assembling the multi-million dollar building loans needed to finance a major project. Madison Marquette has indicated this is in fact happening as they have still not presented any specific proposal for the site.
RULE representative Ruth Major says Emeryville deserves a better option than what Bay Street has delivered. She noted "Continuing to support Madison Marquette with yet another extension is ridiculous". She added, "The original agreement, five years ago, gave them 60 days to submit a preliminary plan for the site. I have yet to see it, it may be out there but it is certainly not transparent if it is. My understanding is that Madison Marquette still did not have a plan, as of 2009 when the fifth extension was granted".
Ms Major pointed out that the council has already given more than $50 million in direct subsidy to the developer so far and granting six years of exclusive developing rights amounts to a further taxpayer subsidy for Madison Marquette by locking out tax receipts from a valuable piece of property.
Last year, when the city council bestowed a fifth extension, RULE organized a City Hall rally demanding officials reopen the vacant parcel hoping another developer might present a proposal better meeting residents' needs. In response, other developers have shown interest in developing the site with plans considered 'more resident friendly,' notably Federal Development LLC. That company, however, has been rebuffed by the council in favor of Madison Marquette.
The idea of extending the benefit of exclusive rights to Madison Marquette an unprecedented sixth time drew criticism from Council member Jennifer West, "The City Council needs to listen more to the residents. After five extensions of the contract, the onus is on them [Madison Marquette] to convince the community that their [non]plan is viable and that it will directly and substantively benefit the residents" she said.
As a corollary, citizens have also complained that the existing mall has become a magnet for criminals in the East Bay and crime has been steadily increasing there. Chief of Police Ken James agrees and he claims that Bay Street is the single largest reason that the Emeryville Police Department has racked up so much overtime pay.
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Petrograd to Leningrad
to St Petersburg
More than five years after its inception, The Emeryville Center of Community Life (ECCL) is undergoing a name change; for now it's being called the Joint Use Facility (JUF) until presumably a different name can be agreed upon by those in power. ECCL watchers have pointed to the extreme sensitivity shown by the Council and the School Board to negative public association for the expensive community project as a reason for the name change, especially since a $95 million bond initiative for the project is looming.
Council members and the School Board, together called the City Schools Committee, have noted they want to do everything in their power to increase the chances that the bond initiative will pass. They are very sensitive that the freshly released survey by the Lew Edwards Group, an Oakland political consulting firm commissioned by the city, has indicated that the Emeryville Center of Community Life is a losing idea and that the voters should be told they are voting simply on a school bond. Lew Edwards' information shows school bonds generally are looked at with more favor by voters and the school/community social services project presented previously by ECCL, is a loser in November.
Further, the political consultants are also pushing earthquake safety as a way to spin this massive project. Unspoken is the fact that any building more than five years old is not up to currant seismic codes and it's not fiscally prudent or even possible to be continually tearing down schools and rebuilding them as seismic codes change.
So it's going to be all about a school bond on the November 2 ballot and the need for seismic upgrading because that's what will sell this project according to the consultants.
We feel this project, now slated at almost $120 million, after $25 million kicked in directly from Emeryville taxpayers, is too important for trickery like this. The people should be allowed a real debate about a public project this massive for our town. We are chagrined the City Schools Committee has decided to engage in a game of three card monte rather than leveling with the Emeryville people about what the real stakes are.
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Court Slams Bukowski over Niece's Eviction
Judgment Against Bukowski
An Alameda County Judge slapped Emeryville Councilman Ken Bukowski with a bill for $1,500 in damages recently in a case stemming from a botched eviction at Bukowski's Doyle Street compound. County Superior Court small claims Judge John A Renzman ordered Mr. Bukowski on July 1 to pay his niece, Kim Bukowski $1500 for damages stemming from an improper eviction from an apartment owned by the councilman, Ms Bukowski said. Mr. Bukowski was granted 60 days to comply. So far, the court ordered judgment has not been paid.
Ms. Bukowski was living with her child at the Doyle Street apartment when the improper eviction took place.
The apartment building owned by Mr. Bukowski has been under investigation by the City for numerous violations; among them, keeping unclean premises leading to rodent harborage and code violations including renting an illegal non-habitable unit.
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Electoral Humiliation Blamed on Delays, Chamber
City's O'Keeffe Blames Chamber Of Commerce For Defeat
Dawdling, and opposition from the Chamber of Commerce are why a major tax hike was torpedoed May 18, according to City Manager Patrick O'Keeffe.
According to a post election memo Mr. O'Keeffe penned analyzing the lopsided drubbing, the measure failed because of delays in getting it on the ballot and because, "members of the Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors that were opposed had time to organize commercial and residential properties against the measure." The internal document, dated June 22, was distributed to a handful of select city officials, and obtained by The Tattler.
The measure, which would have established a "Landscape and Lighting District," and collect $1.2 million annually to maintain parks and streetlamps, was rejected by an overwhelming 91 percent of voters. It was the widest margin in Emeryville election history. Park and lighting costs have thus far been paid by the city's general fund. A new tax district would have freed up that money for other purposes.
Only property owners were permitted to vote in the by-mail election. Votes were weighed by the size of a voters property, such that, the preference of an office building owner was worth hundreds of times the choice of an individual homeowner.
Mr. O'Keeffe's missive is almost certain to partially disrupt the cozy relationship between to the City Hall and the Chamber. In the memo, Mr. O'Keeffe absolves himself of any resposibility for the loss and shifts the blame to the Chamber of Commerce. He previously said the Chamber supported the measure and warmly welcomed their support. O'Keeffe had earlier assured both the Chamber and the Council that voters would easily pass the tax.
Before the measure failed, the Council gave $35,000 of taxpayer funds to a political consulting firm to perform a pre-election voter survey, hoping it would build voter support.
Another Roll Of The Dice
In a related story, the council is gambling that Emeryville voters have had a change of heart. In what could prove an even more embarrassing replay, the Council has been assured that its glory project, the $95 million school bond initiative to build a "Center of Community Life" campus, will sail to victory with 65 percent of the vote. The measure will be on the ballot November 2. To help goose public support, the Council has lavished more than $1 million on campaign consultants and associated costs.
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Labels: Center of Community Life, Pat O'Keeffe
Spend $30,000 To "Search" For
Pat O'Keeffe?
At the Tattler, we've noticed the city council and other deliberative bodies in Emeryville make controversial votes that get forgotten by the residents over time. In deference to the general edification of public policy and to strengthen Emeryville's democratic institutions, we will publish occasional short reminders on how the Power Elite in town have voted on these controversial issues.
In February, 2007, the issue before the City Council was:
Should the City hire Pat O'Keeffe as City Manager after paying $30,000 for a nation-wide executive search that Council member Dick Kassis called a waste of time and money?
Nora Davis - YES
Ruth Atkin - YES
Dick Kassis - YES
John Fricke - NO
Ken Bukowski - NO
Pat O'Keeffe was working for the City for 11 years as the head of the Redevelopment Agency at the time and Dick Kassis said they should just vote to have Mr O'Keeffe move up to City Manager and not waste time and money on a phony executive search. He said everyone knew they would hire Mr O'Keeffe in the end anyway. He subsequently went ahead and voted for the search along with his colleagues and later they voted to hire Mr O'Keeffe (by the 3-2 vote). Council member Fricke revealed after Mr O'Keeffe was confirmed, that of the several applicants that were considered, Mr O'Keeffe was not the most qualified applicant for the job.
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That Old Time Feeling
Council member Ken Bukowski is a man, by his own reckoning, beset with debt. He owes thousands of dollars to developers all over town and he also owes $15,000 to the state for 11 campaign violations of the Political Reform Act in 2009, determined by the Fair Political Practices Committee. To call Mr Bukowski a desperate man would not be an exaggeration. And yet, Ken Bukowski is also a man, who until recently, was in possession of something extremely valuable to certain members of the Emeryville Power Elite.
Council member Bukowski has been the lone holdout among elected officials in Emeryville, against the Emeryville Center of Community Life. We use the words 'has been' since Mr Bukowski shocked ECCL watchers last week when he announced in a June 29th letter to residents that he is now a total supporter of the $120 million project, a complete reversal of his longstanding opposition to the controversial school rebuild proposal.
Previously, Mr Bukowski did not keep his disdain for the Center of Community Life secret. For more than three years he has railed against the project both publicly and privately. His opposition has centered on the extreme cost of the proposal and the incompetence and lack of forthrightness of the people pushing the project. It is indeed surprising to see a sudden 180 degree turn in Mr Bukowski's opinion especially since the reasons for his previous opposition have not been rectified and his previous criticisms still stand.
Change of Heart? Really?
The flip-flop comes at a critical time for the Center of Community Life. The City/Schools Committee will soon vote to place the issue before the voters in the form of a $95 million general obligation bond initiative in November. With the bond vote looming, Mr Bukowski's obstinacy has been a source for worry for the backers of the project.
We are chagrined at the prospect of mutual back scratching going on. We have never been comfortable with Mr Bukowski's prodigious back room finagling and this sudden change of heart on the Center of Community Life only adds to that old time feeling that Ken Bukowski is up to his old tricks.
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Labels: Center of Community Life, Ken Bukowski
I recently posted a comment on the Emeryville google group (bike_walk Emeryville) about egregious spending and equally questionable inaction on the part of the city council. I assumed they and perhaps citizens as well would respond but, assuming my remarks were even read, i appear to be mistaken about the level of interest in these matters..
Specifically, i indicated that the salaries of (City Manager Pat) O'Keeffe and (City Attorney Mike) Biddle exceeded $200000/year , that they have additional benefits, including paid health care, that their contracts can be obtained for review, that O'Keeffe should be fired because the budget deficit was incurred and continues on his watch and he refuses any responsibility for it ,that Biddle's performance as assessed by the costs of the litigation he has presided over, should be evaluated, that it may be less expensive to replace both men by contracting out their positions and that same should be explored.
I also asked whether either man has had to compete openly for his position and that if they have not, to instigate that kind of open competition immediately in the interest of cost cutting and that an explanation of why there has been no such open competition over several contract renewals, be made by the council.
I also remarked that (City Councilman Ken) Bukowski's continued presence is a stain on city gov't and that he should be removed forthwith. I offered an email i received from him as well.
I indicated that there has been no action on obtaining a tenant for the marina, no feedback on the status of that from the parties contracted to find same and therefore a loss of potential income to the city continues.. I requested that feedback.
I commented that i would like to embrace Emeryville as my city but cannot do so unless the kinds of issues mentioned are taken seriously....
Given that the council and many citizens may not be concerned about such matters ( with the exception of City Councilwoman Jennifer West on the council) I think the city will get what it continues to receive on these issues.
I think we should all be troubled by the existence of these very fixable problems and hope that they will be addressed now -and certainly at election time.
Walt Watman
Emeryville resident
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Mug shot of Dominic Ingle after his arrest in May 2016 for a non-fatal stabbing in Lancaster.
Death of state prison inmate, serving time for Lancaster stabbing, ruled a suicide
JEFF HAWKES | Staff Writer
The death of a 24-year-old Camp Hill state prison inmate, serving time for a stabbing in Lancaster, has been ruled a suicide, authorities said.
Dominic Ingle, formerly of Stewartstown, York County, died Sunday at a Camp Hill hospital, 11 days after he was found unresponsive in his cell from passive hanging.
Tim Strasbaugh, Cumberland County deputy coroner, told LNP the death was ruled a suicide.
Corrections officers and prison medical staff attempted to resuscitate Ingle Dec. 4 until medics transported the inmate to Geisinger Holy Spirit Hospital, the state Department of Corrections said. Ingle was pronounced dead at 3:10 p.m. Sunday.
Lancaster County Prison doesn't want you back. And it's got a plan.
State police in Carlisle were continuing an investigation.
In February 2017, a Lancaster County judge sentenced Ingle to 3-to-6 years in prison after Ingle pleaded guilty to aggravated assault.
Ingle admitted to stabbing a 39-year-old man in the abdomen in April 2016 during a dispute over a bicycle. The inch-deep wound was not life-threatening. The assault happened at South Queen and Andrew streets.
How much have Lancaster County taxpayers put up to settle lawsuits in recent years?
CARTER WALKER | Staff Writer

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VietJet Air announces the launch of two new routes (Narita to Ho Chi Minh City and Haneda to Danang), celebrating with a kagamiwari sake barrel-breaking ceremony. Toshihiro Nikai (far left), chairman of the Japan-Vietnam Parliamentary Friendship League and secretary-general of the Liberal Democratic Party, breaks open a barrel with (from second from left) Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc; Nguyen Thanh Hung, vice chairman of VietJet's board of directors; Isao Iijima, special adviser to the Cabinet; and Satsuki Katayama, minister of state for regional revitalization, at New Otani Hotel on July 1. | YOSHIAKI MIURA
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COVID-19 Policy in Los Angeles County Jails - Follow Up
Sheriff Alex Villanueva
Assistant Sheriff Bruce Chase
Director Jackie Clark, ICHS
County Health Officer Muntu Davis, MD, MPH
RE: COVID-19 Policy and Mechanisms for Release
Dear Sheriff Villanueva, Assistant Sheriff Chase, County Health Officer Davis, and Director Clark:
In our March 12, 2020 letter we urged you to release from jail medically vulnerable people to reduce the severe health threat that the COVID-19 virus poses, and provided some statutory authority that would permit you to do so. We have since found additional statutory authority that would provide an effective means for the Sheriff's Department and the County Health Officer in coordination with Inmate Correctional Health Services to release medically vulnerable people from the jails to reduce the threat that COVID-19 poses to people who are incarcerated, Sheriff's personnel, and the Los Angeles community as a whole.
Section 26602 of the Government Code states that one of the duties of a Sheriff is that the Sheriff "may execute all orders of the local health officer issued for the purpose of preventing the spread of any contagious or communicable disease." The "local health officer" is appointed by the Board of Supervisors. Health and Safety Code § 101000.
The Sheriff therefore has the statutory authority to execute an order from the County Health Officer issued for the purpose of preventing the spread of COVID-19 in Los Angeles County jails. We encourage you to work with Dr. Davis and the ICHS Director to determine how best to prevent the spread of COVID-19, and to release individuals from your custody if doing so will prevent the spread.
The CDC has recommended special precautions for medically fragile individuals, and the same care should apply in the context of the jails. Those who are most vulnerable, including the elderly, people who are pregnant, people who are immunocompromised, and others with underlying health issues should be given special attention, including priority release.
California law also provides you with protection from civil or criminal liability for the act of removing individuals from your custody in the case of an emergency. See Government Code § 8658. We hope to discuss these mechanisms with you further this Friday.
Peter Eliasberg
Jacob Reisberg
Jails Conditions Advocate
Jails Project
pdfCOVID-19 Policy in Los Angeles County Jails - Follow Up
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Q: Unable to install pandas - InsecurePlatformWarning error I am using pyScripter 2.7.5 and tring to install pandas using command "pip install pandas" but it is showing the below error:

Collecting pandas
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  platform. This may cause the server to present an incorrect TLS
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University Research Commercialisation Consultation paper
Roy, R. (Consultant)
Bond Business School
As announced in the 2020-21 Budget, the Government is providing $5.8 million to scope a University Research Commercialisation Scheme (a Scheme) to better translate and commercialise university research outputs. This is in addition to the $1.2 billion provided to the university research sector to maintain capability and excellence of Australian research.
The scoping study will develop options for the establishment of a Scheme, drawing on advice from universities, industry and other experts and will be presented to Government for consideration.
On 11 November 2020, the Minister for Education convened an expert panel made up of business and university leaders, to advise him on the scoping study. The panel is chaired by Mr Jeff Connolly, Chairman and CEO of Siemens Australia and New Zealand.
A consultation paper was released on Friday 26 February 2021 outlining the issues, missions, rationale, and design elements of a university research commercialisation scheme, and invited submissions from interested parties and members of the public.
Submissions closed on Friday 9 April 2021.
Australian Government Department of Education, Skills and Employment, Australia
University Research Commercialisation
Mortality salience and message framing for health-related compliance behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic
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John 'Goldfinger' Palmer murder investigation: Reward offered to help find killer of notorious Essex conman
He was fatally shot six times at his £800,000 mansion
Sophie Finnegan
Updated 14:53, 21 JUN 2018
John Palmer was killed three years ago
Get the latest on all the biggest court and crime news in Essex direct from our expert court reporter
A £100,000 reward has been offered to help find the killer of a notorious conman who was gunned down at his home in South Weald three years ago.
John "Goldfinger" Palmer, 65, was fatally shot six times at his £800,000 mansion in Sandpit Lane on June 24, 2015, in a suspected assasination.
During their investigation, Essex Police discovered a hole had been cut in a fence near to a purpose-built office where Palmer was killed.
This enabled the shooter to watch Mr Palmer.
The area was cordoned off while police investigated
It is believed the attacker then scaled the fence, before repeatedly firing bullets into the gangland kinpin's chest with a pistol.
This led investigating officers to believe it was a "professional killing" which could have taken weeks or even months to plan.
Due to the gangster's "lifestyle of criminality", police looked into several lines of enquiry as to who may have had a motive.
Police armed with tasers called after 'knife seen' during Colchester High Street fight
Palmer was once described as Britain's richest criminal and was thought to have been worth £300 million.
He earned his nickname after he was arrested on suspicion of melting down gold from the £25 million Brink's-Mat robbery in 1983, although he was never convicted.
He was jailed in 2001 for a £20 million timeshare fraud in Tenerife, and at the time of his death was due to stand trial in Spain on charges of fraud, firearm possession and money laundering.
His death remains a mystery
Palmer also had links to several members of the Hatton Garden heist where £14 million of jewels were stolen in 2015.
Man arrested for 'making threats to kill' after police descend on Chelmsford road
He died after being shot with an 8mm pistol, which probably had a silencer fitted, Chelmsford Coroners' Court heard.
He was found "unresponsive" by members of his family in the garden at around 5.30pm.
Three years on, his violent end remains a mystery as no one has been charged in connection with his death.
The reward to catch Palmer's killer has been doubled by his family, who offered £50,000 in March 2016.
Essex Police
Locals slam 'pothole epidemic' and demand action over 'neglected' Harlow roads
A councillor in Harlow said one road features more than 100 potholes in three quarters of a mile


The World is shocked by the growing death toll, that has now passed 5,000 as a result of the recent earthquake in Nepal.
The epicentre was close to Pokhara the country's second largest city with a population just over a quarter of a million. Just how many of the deaths occurred there is not yet clear.


The Parents Television Council is urging members to contact CBS affiliates to ask that they pre-empt this Sunday's episode of Dexter, the off-Showtime series about a serial killer turned police investigator.
The PTC complained about the show when it began airing on CBS at 10 p.m. Sundays as part of a cross-promotional move to help fill its writers'-strike-impaired schedule.
According to the PTC, CBS affiliates assured it that the show would not air near the family hour. CBS at the time told B&C that the show would be edited to comport with broadcast standards.
The season finale of Dexter is scheduled to air from 9 p.m.-11 p.m., which puts the first half in the so-called family hour at 8 p.m.-9 p.m. in the Central and Mountain time zones, the PTC pointed out.
Following is a copy of an e-mail B&C received, apparently by mistake and to an outdated address, from a PTC member asking their local affiliate to pull the show. A PTC spokesperson had not returned a call for comment at press time.
When Dexter debuted on CBS, the American people were promised that it would be "scheduled responsibly in the last hour of primetime." These are the very words of the CBS network executives. But their words are no longer true. As you know, CBS is planning to air back-to-back episodes of Dexter this Sunday, with the first episode airing as early as 9 p.m. on the East and West Coast and 8 p.m. in the Central and Mountain time zones!
It is the height of irresponsibility for CBS to schedule this intensely violent, premium-cable series so early in evening when millions of impressionable -- and easily frightened -- children are still awake and watching television. You've had time to see for yourself just how gruesome and disturbing Dexter is and how grossly inappropriate this series is for the broadcast medium. I urge you to do the responsible thing by pulling this Sunday's airings of Dexter.
As you know, your broadcast license is contingent on your acting in the public interest and convenience, and that your failure to take this community's concerns into consideration when making broadcasting decisions will surely be an issue when it's time for the FCC [Federal Communications Commission] to renew your broadcast license.
I sincerely hope you will behave as a responsible member of this community and pull this Sunday's airing of Dexter.


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SpeeDx Pursues Clinical Trials Ahead of Anticipated FDA Clearance for M. Genitalium Assay
Jun 26, 2018 | John Gilmore
NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – SpeeDx has begun US clinical trials for its Mycoplasma genitalium assay called ResistancePlus MG in anticipation of Food and Drug Administration 510(k) approval for the assay next year.
CE marked in 2016, the assay both detects M. genitalium and identifies biomarkers in the bacterium's 23S rRNA that confer resistance to the macrolide antibiotic azithromycin.
Clinicians typically detect drug resistance in sexually transmitted infections by performing cell cultures in the presence of antibiotics. However, M. genitalium cell culture is only performed in two laboratories worldwide due to technical demands and slow sample-to-answer results.
SpeeDx developed the ResistancePlus MG assay to quickly diagnose patients with the STI so treatment can begin as soon as possible and the chances of antibiotic resistance is minimized. Currently available in Europe and commercially available in Australia, the assay uses vaginal swabs in women and urine sample from men to detect drug-resistant biomarkers of M. genitalium in patients.
In a study published earlier this month in Clinical Infectious Diseases, researchers at the Melbourne Sexual Health Center established a three-tier resistance-guided therapy approach for patients with varying levels of M. genitalium infection.
"We wanted to be able to treat patients properly and reduce the number of repeat visits and prescriptions, and [avoid] the often disappointing news that treatment had failed," sexual health physician and project director Timothy Read said in an email.
First, clinicians replaced azithromycin with doxycycline as the frontline treatment for nongonococcal urethritis, proctitis, and cervicitis. The team then used the ResistancePlus MG assay in 244 patients with infections to detect M. genitalium and the presence of macrolide resistance mutations, and detected macrolide-resistant M. genitalium mutations in 167 patients.
Afterward, clinicians treated patients based on whether they had macrolide-susceptible infections or macrolide-resistant infections. Overall, the researchers reported an overall cure rate of greater than 92 percent for M. genitalium infections.
While Read noted that the M. genitalium assay delivered results within a couple of days, he emphasized that by combining this type of test with a rapid PCR platform, the assay "could enable same-day resistance-guided therapy." Although his team did not focus on clinical utility, Read said that the assay's sensitivity and specificity has ranged from 95 to 100 percent in previous studies.
"[F]ailure to detect a mutation is highly likely to lead to treatment failure if a macrolide is used," he explained, "so we assume few if any of the successful macrolide treatments —[almost] 95 percent of cases — included false negatives."
In terms of limitations, Read noted that his team only had Sanger sequencing results available for the four cases where azithromycin treatment appeared to fail. In one case, the assay misclassified the pre-treatment sample as macrolide-sensitive rather than resistant. Read's team will therefore analyze further sequencing results in a latter publication.
In an additional study presented at the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases in April, healthcare scientist Jayne Harwood and her team at Freeman Hospital in the UK examined the prevalence of M. genitalium in symptomatic patients in northeastern England. In an email, Harwood explained that once the team determined the prevalence of the pathogen, they aimed to find the rate of resistance to macrolide treatment.
Harwood and her team tested 322 patients presenting symptoms or contacts of M. genitalium with 214 male and 81 female individuals. They found that the SpeeDx assay produced an 18 percent positive detection rate in the population. Because of the high rate of resistance, the researchers believe that the assay should be applied to symptomatic patients.
In anticipation of potential de novo clearance of the assay for the US market, SpeeDx commenced clinical trials using the assay in May. As part of the ongoing multicenter lab collaboration, the firm will work with up to 10 collection centers across the US and focus on male and female populations at multiple risk levels for contracting M. genitalium.
SpeeDx has partnered with labs at Johns Hopkins University, TriCore Reference Laboratories, and the University of Alabama, Birmingham to perform the ResistancePlus MG assay on collected patient samples. SpeeDx CEO Colin Denver said he'd like to to reach the whole spectrum of socioeconomic and ethnic groups with its collection sites, which currently service many low-resource settings in high STD prevalence areas in the US.
In addition, Denver mentioned that the firm has a number of clinical utility studies planned and underway that will generate payor awareness. He explained that the studies will address economic benefits of improving cure rates with resistance-guided therapy.
According to Denver, the clinical trial will enroll up to 3,000 patients, capturing M. genitalium prevalence "across a wide snapshot of demographics and risk factors." He believes it will also deliver information on the levels of antibiotic resistance in the different populations and "could inform future guidelines for treatment."
He anticipates SpeeDx will have all data ready for an FDA submission by the end of December, and clearance could come by late April 2019.
If the agency approves SpeeDx's ResistancePlus MG assay, the firm will be entering a crowded STI detection market. Hologic, for example, has developed an assay for M. genitalium that runs on the firm's Panther Fusion PCR-based platform. In addition, Roche recently received CE marking for the Cobas TV/MG test on its automated Cobas 6800/8800 platform, which detects pathogens such as M. genitalium in symptomatic as well as asymptomatic patients.
UK-based startup Atlas Genetics is also developing STI detection tests that will include species including M. genitalium. The firm recently received a two-year Phase II contract from Innovate UK worth £2 million ($2.6 million) in August 2017 to expand the menu for its rapid diagnostic platform called Io.
Denver believes SpeeDx's technology distinguishes itself from competitors due to its ability to detect resistance biomarkers simultaneously with the bacterial species.
"In our experience [during] the last two years, that piece of information is critical to the clinician treating the patient," Denver explained. Being able to inform about antibiotic resistance "gives the treating doctor confidence that they're prescribing the correct drug for the infected patient."
If it receives FDA approval, SpeeDx envisions marketing the assay to hospital-based labs and reference labs. The assay is currently a laboratory-developed test, meaning it requires a lab to run the test, but Denver said that the firm aims to "weave the assay into a near-patient format, but it is still under development."
Denver declined to comment on the eventual cost of the assay. He noted that the reimbursement rate for similar tests is in the $45 to $47 range.
In December SpeeDx established a US subsidiary to identify distribution partners in the clinical, research, and private pathology spaces. According to Denver, the firm has also begun integrating a distribution model that supplements its direct sales team in the US.
Harwood pointed out that in the era of antimicrobial resistance, "it is important to identify patients who have resistant strains so that treatment can be targeted and therefore reduce the possibility of serious" consequences for infected individuals. According to Harwood, the test's ease of use would allow it to easily fit into the laboratory's workflow if it is eventually developed into an automated assay.
However, Read noted that using the assay in the clinical and private pathology spaces does have immediate limitations. The "paradox" he said, is that as the incidence of antibiotic resistance rises, the cost benefit for SpeeDx's test goes down. "I see this test as being clinically valuable in populations where resistance is found in 10 to 70 percent [of test cases], but cost-benefit [studies] are needed to establish this."
SpeeDx indeed plans to perform cost-benefit and economic studies on the ResistancePlus MG assay in the US market, looking at the value in reducing different treatment failures. Denver expects to have data on the studies in 2019 if not earlier. In addition, the firm will launch its gonorrhea assay in July or early August, initially seeking approval for the assay in the European and Australian markets before switching to the US.
"We will then follow a similar model with our gonorrhea product that the M. genitalium assay is going through in the US market," Denver said.
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Follow instructions in the diagram below; the victim should sit at the center of the room the person treating them should start by reading Quran 1:1-7 each time standing at the corners of the room followed by Quran 109:1-6(7x).
If the victim is a woman slaughter a female goat and if he is a man slaughter a Billy goat for those who can afford let the slaughter a Camel or a cow and the genders of the animal should be the same with that of the victim. The slaughter is done for the sake of praying to Allah and getting rid of the victim's problems. Do it with the fear of Allah and should be followed by listening to recorded "Ruqiya" on CD/Tape for a period of three months read the verses below every morning and evening; Quran 1:1-7(3x), Quran 112:1-4(3x), Quran 113:1-5(3x), Quran 114:1-6(3x), Quran 1:1-7(1x) Pray a lot and depend on Allah.
The victim and the person healing him/her should be clean both in body and mind and should have faith in God. They should also remember that the Jinn is around the and can attack them anytime and even kill them and leave them mentally disturbed. You must fight them until they are gone pray for the victim for three months until they are healed.
When praying for the victim be careful if you don't know don't try if you want to pray for the victim you should read John 17:3(400X), Psalms 23:1-6(200x), Exodus 20:3-5(x400), Mark 1617-18(400x); Read these verses with a settled mind excorsim is not a joke, it's tiresome. The victim must donate food stuff to the needy and invite people to his/her house cook for them and make merry and pray to God in the correct way no noise or alcohol.


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Rachel Heindl: Congrats to her for scoring her 1000th career point earlier this month. On the the subject of TCN - the girls team are in a tough DIII district bracket. Wow, what a murderers row of teams. Almost every team in that district has a winning record. The Panthers will really need to scrap to advance.
On the other hand, the girls DIV district at Brookville has several local teams that could advance.
Poor Preble Shawnee - another year without a win? Time is running out. A new coach has not made a difference. Picking up a basketball before October would help. I do know that in both of the last two summers that the coaches tried to do summer programs - but no one would show. And the last two winters you can see the results.
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South Clashes With Trail
J. C. Tilton
National Trail has had a resurgent season this year thanks in part to freshman 6 footer Kate Yeazel. She has been able to score in double figures almost at will this season. This has lead to a rebound of the Blazer fortunes. They are playing .500 ball this season after a series of losing seasons. South is struggling this season. They are a team of guards, with little height. So they would need to find a way to counterbalance Yeazel's inside game with speed. The result was a closely fought game with several lead changes.
South sprang out to an early 6-0 lead. They were double teaming Yeazel every time she touched the ball. At first this was effective but finally Trail found other ways to score and closed the gap and the first quarter ended with a 9-9 tie. South employed a number of defenses - man to man and several zone offenses. But Trail showed the ability to score from outside and it was difficult to stay in a zone for very long. Trail stayed in man to man thru out the game. Placing Stacy Davis against South's leading scorer Adelee Gates.
Yeazel was able to score more on the South defense in the second quarter - she had all of the Blazers 10 points. Trail employed a spread offense to loosen up the South defense and when South tried to trip them up by going to a zone, they were still able to get the ball inside to her. The half ended with Trail up 19-18.
This season South has had problems in the third quarter and this game was not an exception. They had two turnovers, missed foul shots and open shots from the field in the first 4 minutes of the half. Finally coach Mabry had seen enough and called a time out to get the team back on track. But Trail had already taken advantage and rang up a 10 point lead thanks to Kate Yeazel and Alyssa Joyce. The time out had the desired effect. Now it was South's turn to go on a run and they closed the gap by slashing to the basket. Adelee Gates, Taylor Creech, and Whitney Wysong (4 free throws) all contributed to the South run which allowed South to pull within 2 of Trail by the end of the third.
Another factor that fell into the Panthers favor was Yeazel getting her third foul in the third quarter which sent her to the bench. And early in the fourth quarter, she would get her fourth. With Yeazel out of the game, South was able to get a small lead. But with the game on the line Yeazel would reappear in the last 5 minutes of the quarter. South had a 4 point lead at this point. But during this critical stretch, South could not find the basket and began missing shots. Alyssa Joyce was a big factor for Trail, scoring 2 big baskets during their run to the finish. Her second basket would tie the game at 41 with 1:47 on the clock. Later with :28 on the clock Yeazel would hit one of two free throws to give Trail the lead. South would try to set up a last second shot, but the attempt did not fall and they fouled on the rebound. This set up the final score of 43-41 in favor of the Blazers.
South Coach Mabry on the game, "Our girls played well, it just came down to who would score the final bucket. We had to foul on their end and they made the bucket. And we tried to set up an out of bounds play, but we couldn't get the ball where we wanted it."
Trail Coach Ferguson, "We tried to pull ahead there in the second half. But give South credit they really came back. I thought that our girls played really well. Our bread and butter is our inside game. They did a good job of taking it away early by doubling down. But our girls stayed with it. And Alyssa Joyce ended up with a critical rebound at the end of the game that sealed the win for us." On defense, "We knew going in that Gates was their leading scorer and we assigned Stacy Davis to her - she held her to 9 points so she really hustled."
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Regional Development League side Peninsula earned themselves a plum second-round Women's National Cup tie against Olympia after beating Poole Phoenix.
Peninsula, of the North Regional Development League, took on Phoenix of the South-West League, running out 18-16 winners. The victory sees them host current cup holders Olympia on the weekend of 4/5 March 2017.
London GD, the 2015 Cup winners, face a Capital City derby against London Angels in the second round after beating Cambridge 23-15 in an all-Super-7 clash.
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All second-round ties will be played on the weekend of 4/5 March 2017.


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Learning to drive is a huge milestone for many people; gaining that skill gives you freedom to go to the places you want to without having to ask someone to take you or using public transport to get there. This skill isn't one that comes easy and requires dedication and effort to get you where you want to be.
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The clutch has three key functions to help you operate your vehicle. The clutch pedal helps to move from one gear to another while driving. It's also used to control the car when coming to a stop- prevents stalling and lastly it can be used to stop the car while travelling at slower speeds or used effectively for clutch control- when the clutch pedal is half engaged.
Firstly you need to learn how to find the 'bite' point when using the clutch; which is when the clutch plates start to meet and you should be able to establish this point easily. Finding this point will allow you to stop depressing the car which causes damage to the car in the long run. Remember that these plates move apart when the clutch pedal is fully pressed down.
The dreaded steep hill is the starting point for effective clutch control practice. It's very easy to stall your vehicle when taking off from the bottom of the hill. You also need to be wary of the car rolling backwards if you don't bring the clutch to its bite point in time.
Practice makes perfect; try putting the handbrake down and depressing the clutch. Also give the car a little more power than you would usually on a flat surface, then slowly start to raise the clutch until you hit the bite point. From this point you will find that you can raise the handbrake and the car will remain stationery as long as you are on the bite point. Give the car a little bit more power but be careful not to overdo it.
The key is to be calm, relaxed and to show confidence in your driving. This is how you better yourself and reduce the errors you make over time. Be able to get back up after a few faults in the road. Be as cautious as you possibly can be to prevent any life threatening mistakes.


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The internet has made it quite simple to check out diplomas and ensure their authenticity. Colleges and universities, as well as employers have recognized that some may try to pass off fakes for the real thing and have adopted policies that allow them to verify the information. Checks and verification will take place and once the truth is found out there is no fixing it. So one can see how hard it would be to use a fake and how easy it would be to get caught and wind up in legal trouble.
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Gorbachev warns of 'hot war' between US, Russia
By Zack Budryk - 12/01/19 01:20 PM EST
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev warned in a new interview that tensions between the U.S. and Russia could lead to a "hot war" between the two nations.
Asked whether the tensions threatened to lead to a new era akin to the Cold War, Gorbachev told CNN, "I think this should be avoided."
"It's good that already all over the world there is a conversation and people are talking, people are reacting, and this is the most important thing," Gorbachev said.
"Speakers and politicians, people understand that this, the New Cold War, must not be allowed. This might turn out to be a hot war that could mean the destruction of our entire civilization," he added.
"This must not be allowed."
Gorbachev also expressed hope for a new version of the landmark Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty that he and then-President Reagan presided over in 1987 after both the U.S. and Russia exited the pact earlier this year.
"All the agreements that are there are preserved and not destroyed," he told the network. "But these are the first steps towards destruction of [that which] must not be destroyed in any case. Therefore, if this path goes further, then everything is possible."


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//  <copyright file="CommunicationCryptor.cs" company="OSharp开源团队">
//      Copyright (c) 2014 OSharp. All rights reserved.
//  </copyright>
//  <last-editor>郭明锋</last-editor>
//  <last-date>2014-11-13 22:19</last-date>
// -----------------------------------------------------------------------

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Security.Cryptography;
using System.Text;

using OSharp.Utility.Extensions;
using OSharp.Utility.Properties;

namespace OSharp.Utility.Secutiry
{
    /// <summary>
    /// 结合RSA,DES的通信加密解密操作类
    /// </summary>
    public class CommunicationCryptor
    {
        private readonly string _ownPrivateKey;
        private readonly string _facePublicKey;
        private readonly string _hashType;
        private static readonly string Separator = Convert.ToBase64String(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes("#@|osharp|@#"));

        /// <summary>
        /// 初始化一个<see cref="CommunicationCryptor"/>类型的新实例
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="ownPrivateKey">己方私钥</param>
        /// <param name="facePublicKey">对方公钥</param>
        /// <param name="hashType">摘要哈希方式,值必须为MD5或SHA1</param>
        public CommunicationCryptor(string ownPrivateKey, string facePublicKey, string hashType)
        {
            ownPrivateKey.CheckNotNull("ownPrivateKey");
            facePublicKey.CheckNotNull("facePublicKey");
            hashType.CheckNotNull("hashType");
            hashType.Required(str => hashType == "MD5" || hashType == "SHA1", Resources.Security_RSA_Sign_HashType);

            _ownPrivateKey = ownPrivateKey;
            _facePublicKey = facePublicKey;
            _hashType = hashType;
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// 解密接收到的加密数据并验证完整性,如果验证通过返回明文
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="data">接收到的加密数据</param>
        /// <returns>解密并验证成功后,返回明文</returns>
        public string DecryptAndVerifyData(string data)
        {
            data.CheckNotNullOrEmpty("data");

            string[] separators = { Separator };
            //0为DES密钥密文,1为 正文+摘要 的密文
            string[] datas = data.Split(separators, StringSplitOptions.None);
            //用接收端私钥RSA解密获取DES密钥
            byte[] desKey = RsaHelper.Decrypt(Convert.FromBase64String(datas[0]), _ownPrivateKey);
            //DES解密获取 正文+摘要 的明文
            data = new DesHelper(desKey).Decrypt(datas[1]);
            //0为正文明文,1为摘要
            datas = data.Split(separators, StringSplitOptions.None);
            data = datas[0];
            if (RsaHelper.VerifyData(data, datas[1], _hashType, _facePublicKey))
            {
                return data;
            }
            throw new CryptographicException("加密数据在进行解密时校验失败");
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// 加密要发送的数据,包含签名,DES加密,RSA加密DES密钥等步骤
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="data">要加密的正文明文数据</param>
        /// <returns>已加密待发送的密文</returns>
        public string EncryptData(string data)
        {
            data.CheckNotNull("data");

            //获取正文摘要
            string signData = RsaHelper.SignData(data, _hashType, _ownPrivateKey);
            data = new[] { data, signData }.ExpandAndToString(Separator);
            //使用DES加密 正文+摘要
            DesHelper des = new DesHelper();
            data = des.Encrypt(data);
            //RSA加密DES密钥
            string enDesKey = Convert.ToBase64String(RsaHelper.Encrypt(des.Key, _facePublicKey));
            return new[] { enDesKey, data }.ExpandAndToString(Separator);
        }
    }
}

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List of Undergraduate Courses Offered at Bindula University(BUSE), Zimbabwe
The Management of Bindura University of Science Education, Zimbabwe has published a comprehensive list of courses/programmes offered at the institution. The statement advises candidates who wish to apply, to check the list of approved courses/programmes for the current session.
LIST OF UNDERGRADUATE COURSES OFFERED AT BINDURA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE EDUCATION (BUSE)
Below is the full detail of all the undergraduate courses offered at the Bindura University of Science Education, BUSE:
Faculty of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences
Diploma in Science Education
Bachelor of Science Education General Degree in Biological Sciences (3 years)
Bachelor of Science Education General Degree in Chemistry (BscEd 3 years)
Bachelor of Science Education General Degree in Geography (BScEd 3 years)
Bachelor of Science Education Honours Degree in Biological Sciences (HBScEd – 3 Years)
Bachelor of Science Education Honours Degree in Chemistry (HBScEd 3 years)
Bachelor of Science Education Honours Degree in Computer Science (HBScED 3 years)
Bachelor of Science Education Honours Degree in Chemistry (BScEdH)4 years
Bachelor of Science Education Honours Degree in Physics (BScEdH 4 years)
Bachelor of Science Education Honours Degree in Mathematics (BScEdH 4 years)
Bachelor of Science Education Honours Degree in Computer Science (BScEdH 4 years)
Bachelor of Science Honours Degree in Biological Sciences
Bachelor of Technology Honours Degree in Biotechnology
Bachelor of Science Honours Degree in Applied Mathematics
Bachelor of Science Honours Degree in Statistics and Financial Mathematics
Bachelor of Science Honours Degree in Physics
Master of Science Degree in Environmental Physics
Postgraduate Diploma in Statistics and Financial Mathematics
Bachelor of Science Honours Degree in Chemical Technology
Bachelor of Science Honours Degree in Computer Science
Bachelor of Science Honours Degree in Information Technology
Bachelor of Science Honours Degree in Sport Science and Management
Bachelor of Science Honours Degree in Development Studies
Bachelor of Science Honours Degree in Disaster Management
BSc Honours Degree in Nursing Education
BSc Honours Degree in Optometry
Bachelor of Environmental Science Honours Degree in Forestry
Bachelor of Environmental Science Honours Degree in Wildlife and Rangeland Ecology
Bachelor of Environmental Science Honours Degree in Safety, Health and Environmental Management(Block Release and Conventional)
Bachelor of Science Honours Degree in Crop Science
Bachelor of Science Honours Degree in Animal Science
Bachelor of Science Honours in Agricultural Economics and Management
Bachelor of Science Honours in Agricultural Education and Extension
Diploma in Agricultural Practice
Bachelor of Science Education Honours Degree in Peace and Governance
Bachelor of Science Honours Degree in Social Work
Certificate in Clinical Pastoral Education and Counselling
Bachelor of Accountancy Honours Degree
Bachelor of Science Honours Degree in Economics
Bachelor of Commerce Honours Degree in Purchasing and Supply
Bachelor of Business Studies Honours degree in Marketing
Bachelor of Business Studies Honours Degree in Human Resources Management
Bachelor of Commerce Honours Degree in Banking and Finance
Bachelor of Commerce Honours Degree in Financial Intelligence 4 years (Conventional)
Bachelor of Commerce Honours Degree in Financial Intelligence 3 Years (Block Release)
Bachelor of Business Administration in Police and Security Studies
Diploma In Intelligence And Security
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List of Undergraduate Courses Offered at Bindula University


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Mobile Devices, Tablets & Phones
Derek Strickland
@DeekeTweak
Published Thu, Oct 1 2015 9:11 AM CDT | Updated Tue, Nov 3 2020 12:03 PM CST
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We've all joked about the future of IoT wearable technology, especially with the audacious idea of "smart jewelry". But Apple is pretty serious about pushing the limits of wearables and now for the first time we have a glimpse of what may very well become the Apple iRing.
The patent for Apple's smart ring tech has just been published, revealing rough abstracts and schematics of the small wearable. According to the patent, the "iRing" is an "external electronic device with a finger-ring-mounted touchscreen that includes a computer processor, wireless transceiver, and a rechargable power source".
The ring's form factor is quite curious. One configuration of the device has a pressure-sensitive display (hinting at layered 3D Touch support) with haptic and tactile feedback on the front, with a slider dial, buttons and a built-in microphone underneath the screen. Other variants don't have a screen at all, Some variants come with an onboard camera for photos and video recording.
Apple justifies the need for the new smart ring in the following preamble:
"Use of existing touchpads and touch-screen displays, however, may be cumbersome, inconvenient, or inefficient for certain tasks and applications. A user's hands may be preoccupied with another task, for example, or the user's hands and/or arms may become fatigued after holding the device in a viewing position for extended periods of time. The light emitted by a touchscreen may be inappropriate in certain social environments or even dangerous if it gives away the position of a threatened user. Furthermore, switching back-and-forth between different input modes, such as a keyboard and mouse, may be inefficient. A need therefore exists for a more discreet, safer, more efficient, or more ergonomic way to interact with touch pads or touch screens."
The brief mentions that Apple's smart ring can perform a variety of practical functions like sending and receiving calls via the onboard microphone, and accessing a host of ring-specific apps for email, text messaging, checking weather, biometric sensors for health and fitness, etc. Plus the use of hand gesture tracking could let users control tech across Apple's iDevice spectrum, from iPhones to Apple TVs and everything in between.
Remember that this patent represents pre-protytpe technology and that there's no guarantee that Apple's smart ring will even see the light of day. Considering how consumers are reticent to adopt wearable tech, we probably won't see Apple unveil the product any time soon. Maybe it'll accompany the launch of the iPhone 7, but for now all we have is a set of curious blueprints that hint at what's to come.
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Q: VNC: connection timeout I have realvnc, the vnc server was giving some errors yesterday but i fixed them.

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I turned off my firewall, tried again, I got the same error, so the problem is not with my firewall. If i use SolusVm vnc viewer, it works. I'm trying to connect to my debian vps.

A: First you should try to access it from inside your local network, if it works (probrably will) it means it is something with your router.
Did you created the VirtualServer correctly?
As far as i know the connections port and the java viewer port shall be different from each other. The java port is used to provide a java viewer client on browsers.
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Ре́ний (химический символ — Re, от ) — химический элемент 7-й группы (по устаревшей классификации — побочной подгруппы седьмой группы, VIIB) шестого периода периодической системы химических элементов Д. И. Менделеева, с атомным номером 75.

При стандартных условиях простое вещество рений представляет собой тяжёлый металл серебристо-белого цвета.

Происхождение названия
Название элемента происходит от латинского «Rhenus» — наименование реки Рейн в Германии.

История
Существование рения было предсказано Д. И. Менделеевым («тримарганец») в 1871 году, по аналогии свойств элементов в группе периодической системы, однако «двимарганец» (английское «dvi-manganese») использовалось гораздо чаще. Подтверждение этому было полученно Генри Мозли в 1914 году.

В 1908 году японский химик Масатака Огава объявил, что он открыл 43-й элемент и назвал его ниппоний (Np) в честь Японии (Ниппон по-японски). Однако недавний анализ показал наличие рения (элемента 75), а не элемента 43, хотя это переосмысление было поставлено под сомнение Эриком Скерри.

Элемент открыли в 1925 году немецкие химики Ида и Вальтер Ноддак, исследуя минерал колумбит спектральным анализом в лаборатории компании Siemens & Halske. Об этом было доложено на собрании немецких химиков в Нюрнберге. В следующем году группа учёных выделила из молибденита первые 2 мг рения. Относительно чистый рений удалось получить только в 1928 году. Для получения 1 г рения требовалось переработать более 600 кг норвежского молибденита.

Первое промышленное производство рения было организовано в Германии в 1930-х годах. Мощность установки составляла 120 кг в год, что полностью удовлетворяло мировую потребность в этом металле. В 1943 году в США после переработки молибденовых концентратов были получены первые 4,5 кг рения.

Рений стал последним открытым элементом, у которого известен стабильный изотоп. Все элементы, которые были открыты позднее рения (в том числе и полученные искусственно), не имели стабильных изотопов.

Нахождение в природе

Мировая добыча рения
Крупнейшим производителем первичного рения является чилийская компания Molymet. Мировое производство рения колеблется между 50 и 60 тоннами. В 2008 году было произведено 57 тонн, в 2014 году — 48,8 тонн.

По странам крупнейшим производителем рения является Чили (53 % мирового производства), США (16 %), Польша (16 %), Узбекистан (10 %), Армения (1 %). Все прочие страны мира производят около 4 %, в том числе РФ менее 1 %. По другим данным, на втором месте после Чили по поставкам первичного рения на мировой рынок находится Казахстан (компании «Южполиметалл» и «Жезказганредмет», 8,5 т рения в год).

Сырьевые источники и запасы
По природным запасам рения на первом месте в мире стоит Чили, на втором месте — США, а на третьем — Россия. Крупными запасами рения обладает современный Казахстан (месторождение вблизи г. Жезказган), бывший основным источником добычи рения в СССР. Запасы рения в виде рениита на острове Итуруп оцениваются в 10—15 тонн, в виде вулканических газов — до 20 тонн в год. В России гидрогенные полиэлементные месторождения (месторождения зон пластового окисления) обладают наибольшим ресурсным потенциалом, превышая потенциал медно-молибденовых руд медно-порфировых месторождений (основной источник рения в мире). Суммарные прогнозные ресурсы рения по месторождениям этого типа на территории РФ оцениваются в 2900 т, что составляет 76 % ресурсов Re страны. Бо́льшая часть (82 %) этих ресурсов находится в Подмосковной провинции, приуроченной к Подмосковному буроугольному бассейну, где наиболее изученным рениеносным объектом является Брикетно-Желтухинское месторождение в Рязанской области.

Общие мировые запасы рения (без учёта гидрогенных полиэлементных месторождений) составляют около 13 000 тонн, в том числе 3500 тонн в молибденовом сырье и 9500 тонн — в медном. При перспективном уровне потребления рения в количестве 40—50 тонн в год человечеству этого металла может хватить ещё на 250—300 лет. (Приведённое число носит оценочный характер без учёта степени повторного использования металла.) В практическом отношении важнейшими сырьевыми источниками получения первичного рения в промышленном масштабе остаются молибденовые и медные сульфидные концентраты. Содержание рения в них может доходить до 0,002—0,005 % по массе. В общем балансе производства рения в мире на них приходится более 80 %. Остальное в основном приходится на вторичное сырьё.

В последние четверть века внимание исследователей привлекает высокотемпературная редкометалльная парогазовая система вулкана Кудрявый на о. Итуруп Сахалинской области России — первое в мире открытое месторождение рения, представленное фумарольным полем с действующими источниками глубинных флюидов. Доказана возможность извлечения рения и других редких металлов из фумарольных газов вулкана; сделан обзор разработанных и запатентованных технологий извлечения ReS2 из высокотемпературных вулканических газов. Описан состав первого собственного минерала рения — рениита. Вынос металлов вулканическими газами может достигать . Сделан вывод о целесообразности извлечения рения, индия, германия и других металлов из этого единственного в мире месторождения, а фумарольные парогазовые выбросы вулкана можно рассматривать как новый тип уникального комплексного минерального сырья. Утверждается, что извлеченный рений может полностью удовлетворить потребности России и исключить зависимость её промышленности от импорта. Начало добычи рения в промышленных масштабах из этого месторождения планировалось на 2020 год, однако пока так и не начато. Также источником рения является повторное его извлечение из лома материалов его содержащих.

Геохимия рения
Рений — один из редчайших элементов земной коры. Его содержание в земной коре оценивается в 7 по массе. По геохимическим свойствам он схож со своими гораздо более распространёнными соседями по периодической системе — молибденом и вольфрамом. Поэтому в виде малых примесей он входит в минералы этих элементов. Основным источником рения служат молибденовые руды некоторых месторождений, где его извлекают как попутный компонент.

О чрезвычайной рассеянности рения говорит тот факт, что в мире известно только одно экономически выгодное месторождение рения. Оно находится в России: запасы в нём составляют около 10—15 тонн. Это месторождение было открыто в 1992 году на вулкане Кудрявый, остров Итуруп, Курильские острова. Месторождение в кальдере на вершине вулкана представлено фумарольным полем размерами  с постоянно действующими источниками высокотемпературных глубинных флюидов — фумаролами. Это означает, что месторождение активно формируется по сегодняшний день: по разным оценкам, с газами в атмосферу уходит от 10 до 37 тонн рения в год.

Минералы рения редки. На 2020 год известны пять сульфидных минералов рения и самородный рений. Кроме того, в качестве примеси рений входит в колумбит, колчедан, а также в циркон и минералы редкоземельных элементов.

Рений встречается в виде редкого минерала джезказганита (ReMoCu2PbS6), найденного в 1968 году в медистых песчаниках вблизи казахстанского города Джезказган (). Он в настоящее время дискредитирован Комиссией по новым минералам, номенклатуре и классификации ввиду недостаточности структурных данных.

Описан минерал, также названный публикаторами джезказганитом, но не являющийся им. Это сульфид меди, железа и рения с массовым содержанием рения 10,50…36,47 %, обнаруженный в медно-молибден-порфировых рудах месторождения Кальмакыр (Узбекистан) в 2007 году.

Рений обнаружен в указанном выше месторождении на вулкане Кудрявый в форме минерала рениит ReS2, описанного в 1994 году, со структурой, аналогичной молибдениту. Массовое содержание рения в нём 74,30 %. Природный дисульфид рения обнаружен впервые в 1986 году на вулкане Усу (Япония)

Осмиево-медный рениит (<60,25 мас. % Re) описан в медносульфидных рудах в составе кварцито-песчаников месторождения Воронов Бор, Карелия (2010 год).

Ещё один минерал, содержащий рений, — таркианит (Cu,Fe)(Re,Mo)4S8 (53,61 % Re) — был обнаружен в медно-никелевом концентрате из месторождения Хитура в Финляндии.

Рений крайне редко встречается в самородной форме, такие находки описаны лишь трижды в виде микронных объектов в Забайкалье (1976), Австрии (2008) и на Украине (2007).

Физические свойства
Полная электронная конфигурация атома рения: 1s22s22p63s23p64s23d104p65s24d105p66s24f145d5.

Рений — блестящий серебристо-белый металл. Порошок металла — чёрного или тёмно-серого цвета в зависимости от дисперсности. Это один из наиболее плотных и твёрдых металлов (плотность — 21,02 г/см³). Температура плавления — 3459 K (3186 °C). Кипит при 5869 K (5596 °C). Парамагнитен.

Кристаллическая решётка гексагональная ( = 0,2760 нм,  = 0,4458 нм) ( = 0,2761 нм,  = 0,4456 нм).

По ряду физических свойств рений приближается к тугоплавким металлам VI группы (молибден, вольфрам), а также к металлам платиновой группы. По температуре плавления рений занимает второе место среди металлов, уступая лишь вольфраму, а по плотности — четвёртое (после осмия, иридия и платины). По температуре кипения стоит на первом месте среди химических элементов (5869 К по сравнению с 5828 К у вольфрама).
Чистый металл пластичен при комнатной температуре, но вследствие высокого модуля упругости после обработки твёрдость рения сильно возрастает из-за наклёпа. Для восстановления пластичности его отжигают в водороде, инертном газе или вакууме. Рений выдерживает многократные нагревы и охлаждения без потери прочности. Его прочность при температуре до 1200 выше, чем вольфрама, и значительно превосходит прочность молибдена. Удельное электрическое сопротивление рения в четыре раза больше, чем у вольфрама и молибдена.

Химические свойства
Компактный рений устойчив на воздухе при обычных температурах. При температурах выше 300  наблюдается окисление металла, интенсивно окисление идёт при температурах выше 600 . Рений более устойчив к окислению, чем вольфрам, не реагирует непосредственно с азотом и водородом; порошок рения лишь адсорбирует водород. При нагревании рений взаимодействует с фтором, хлором и бромом. Рений почти не растворим в соляной и плавиковой кислотах и лишь слабо реагирует с серной кислотой даже при нагревании, но легко растворяется в азотной кислоте. Со ртутью рений образует амальгаму.

Рений взаимодействует с водными растворами пероксида водорода с образованием рениевой кислоты.

Стоимость
Из-за низкой доступности и высокого спроса рений является одним из самых дорогих металлов. Цена на него сильно зависит от чистоты металла, 1 кг рения стоит от 1000 до  долларов. Цены на 99,99-процентный рений колеблются в зависимости от спроса в диапазоне от 1200 долларов/кг в 2005 году до  в 2008 г., на 2014 год они составляли около 3000 долл./кг.

Получение

Технология получения рения
Рений получают при переработке сырья с очень низким содержанием целевого компонента (в основном это медное и молибденовое сульфидное сырьё).

Переработка сульфидного ренийсодержащего медного и молибденового сырья основана на пирометаллургических процессах (плавка, конвертирование, окислительный обжиг). В условиях высоких температур рений возгоняется в виде высшего оксида Re2O7, который затем задерживается в системах пылегазоулавливания.

В случае неполной возгонки рения при обжиге молибденитовых концентратов часть его остаётся в огарке и затем переходит в аммиачные или содовые растворы выщелачивания огарков (NH4ReO4), которые позже восстанавливают водородом:

 2 NH4ReO4 + 7 H2 -> 2 NH3 + 2 Re + 8 H2O

Полученный порошок рения методами порошковой металлургии превращают в слитки металла.

Таким образом, источниками получения рения при переработке молибденитовых концентратов могут служить сернокислотные растворы мокрых систем пылеулавливания и маточные растворы после гидрометаллургической переработки огарков.

При плавке медных концентратов с газами уносится 56—60 % рения. Невозогнавшийся рений целиком переходит в штейн. При конвертировании последнего содержащийся в нём рений удаляется с газами. Если печные и конверторные газы используют для производства серной кислоты, то рений концентрируется в промывной циркуляционной серной кислоте электрофильтров в виде рениевой кислоты. Таким образом, промывная серная кислота служит основным источником получения рения при переработке медных концентратов.

Основные методы выделения из растворов и очистки рения — экстракционные и сорбционные.

После возгонки и очистки раствора итоговый выход из руды составляет 65—85 %. Ввиду столь низкой доли выделения дорогого металла ведутся поиски альтернативных способов извлечения из руды (что применимо ко всем рассеянным металлам). Одним из современных методов является извлечение нанофракций в водный, а не кислотный или щелочной раствор. Таким образом снижается предел обнаружения ряда химических элементов на 2—3 порядка, то есть можно фиксировать значительно меньшие концентрации.

Практикуются технологии попутного извлечение рения из продуктивных растворов подземного выщелачивания урановых руд.

Применение
Потребление рения в 2014 году составляло 59,7 тонны, из них 45,4 тонны — в США, 15,2 тонны — все прочие страны.

Важнейшие свойства рения, определяющие его применение — это очень высокая температура плавления, устойчивость к химическим реагентам, каталитическая активность (в этом он близок к платиноидам). Рений является дорогим и редким металлом, поэтому его использование ограничено теми случаями, когда они дают исключительные преимущества перед использованием других металлов.

До открытия платинорениевых катализаторов риформинга основной областью применения рения были жаропрочные сплавы. Сплавы рения с молибденом, вольфрамом и другими металлами используются при создании деталей ракетной техники и сверхзвуковой авиации. Сплавы никеля и рения используются для изготовления камер сгорания, лопаток турбин и выхлопных сопел реактивных двигателей. Эти сплавы содержат до 6 % рения, что делает строительство реактивных двигателей крупнейшим потребителем рения. В частности, монокристаллические никелевые ренийсодержащие сплавы, обладающие повышенной жаропрочностью, используются для изготовления лопаток газотурбинных двигателей. Рений имеет критическое военно-стратегическое значение ввиду его использования при изготовлении высокопроизводительных военных реактивных и ракетных двигателей.

Вольфрам-рениевые термопары позволяют измерять температуры до 2200 °C.

Как легирующую присадку рений вводят в сплавы на основе никеля, хрома и титана. Промотирование рением платиновых металлов увеличивает износоустойчивость последних. Из подобных сплавов делают наконечники перьев автоматических ручек, фильеры для искусственного волокна.
Также рений используют в сплавах для изготовления деталей точных приборов, например, пружин, для изготовления нитей накала в масс-спектрометрах и ионных манометрах, и катодов. В этих случаях также используют вольфрам, покрытый рением. Рений химически стоек, поэтому его применяют для создания покрытий, предохраняющих металлы от действия кислот, щелочей, морской воды и сернистых соединений.

С момента открытия платинорениевых катализаторов риформинга (1968) рений начали активно использовать для промышленного производства таких катализаторов. Это позволило повысить эффективность производства высокооктановых компонентов бензина, используемых для получения товарного бензина, не требующего добавки тетраэтилсвинца. Использование рения в нефтепереработке во много раз повысило мировой спрос на него.

Кроме того, из рения делают самоочищающиеся электрические контакты. При замыкании и разрыве цепи всегда происходит электрический разряд, в результате чего металл контакта окисляется. Точно так же окисляется и рений, но его оксид Re2O7 летуч при относительно низких температурах (температура кипения — всего +362,4 ), и при разрядах он испаряется с поверхности контакта, поэтому рениевые контакты служат очень долго.

В США 70 % использования рения приходится на высокотемпературные сплавы для деталей турбинных двигателей, 20 % — на производство катализаторов для риформинга нефти.

Биологическая роль
Рений не участвует в биохимических процессах и не играет биологической роли.

Изотопы

Известны изотопы рения с массовыми числами от 160 до 194 (количество протонов 75, нейтронов от 85 до 119), и более 20 ядерных изомеров.

Природный рений состоит из двух изотопов: 185Re (37,07 %) и 187Re (62,93 %). Первый из них стабилен, а второй испытывает бета-распад с периодом полураспада 43,5 млрд лет. Этот изотоп используется для определения абсолютного геологического возраста минералов, горных пород, руд и метеоритов с помощью рений-осмиевого метода) по измерению в минералах, содержащих рений, относительных концентраций изотопов 187Re и 187Os — стабильного изотопа, являющегося продуктом распада 187Re.

Распад 187Re примечателен также тем, что энергия этого распада является наименьшей (2,6 кэВ) среди всех известных изотопов, подверженных бета-распаду.

Примечания

Литература

Ссылки

Химические элементы
Радиоактивные элементы
Переходные металлы
Элементы, предсказанные Дмитрием Менделеевым

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Do you ever wonder why people do the thing they do? Brian & I got out of a perfectly warm bed this morning to go to the flea market in Prescott Valley. It was 17 F. Prescott Valley is 2,400 ft higher in altitude so was only 14 F. We froze our fingers getting our tables set up. My nose may never be the same. It was either freezing or running and sometimes both. I had to sneeze and of course, I covered my mouth with my hand. Then, I had to go to the washroom and wash them. The warm water felt good but I had to be sure to dry them good so I wouldn't have icicles when I went back outside.
Brian and I dressed for the cold. Insulated underwear, top and bottom. Thick socks and boots. Jeans and sweatshirts. Winter jackets and knitted hats. Gloves for part of the time too. But, the people who came through were dressed much differently. True, there were some who were dressed for the cold but many more were dressed for summer. They hurried past shivering from the cold.
Why do people stomp their feet? Does it make them any warmer? Why do people blow on their hands? Why don't people like to wear hats? Does wearing a jacket or coat or a cold day make you a sissy? Do they like being cold?
What irks me is people going past dragging small children dresses in dresses or short pants with no coat. If they are not cold, the children must not be cold either? They were shivering and noses were red and running. Don't parents realize that small children need warm coats?
Well, I made my choices and dresses warmly. I used to embaress my boys by making them wear boots and hats with their warm coats when they went out in winter. I suspect that they took them off when they were around the corner. But, I don't remember going out dressed for summer in the winter when I was young. My parents were like me. You dressed for winter.
Guess I'll get off the platform now. See you later!
I agree with George, it is purely a matter of fashion. A lot of people will do silly things to look good. I must admit though that I do this sometimes as well, e.g. I refuse to wear hats, caps because I don't like how they look and I also will walk in the rain rather than carry an umbrella. Silly I know but I'm sure I will come to my senses someday in the future.
Now subjecting kids to the cold is a totally different story. How fashion-conscious can kids be? Oh well.
I was not a fashion consious kid at all, I wore what my mother bought for me and accepted hand-me-downs whenever I could. I also sported a massive thick-framed pair of glasses. But you know what... I had a happy care-free childhood :) Kids shouldn't have to worry about stuff like that but unfortunately in today's world that's becoming increasingly tougher.
I think it maybe depends on where you live. Kids in small towns or in rural areas probably have less problems that kids in urban areas. I think kids today have too much television, computers and games that encourage more conformity. well, maybe kids have always wanted things other kids had, but they seemed more content with what they had and not what everyone else had. I don't know but we were happy with what we had. I made a lot of my boys clothing. They were happy when they got something that was faddish(?). But they didn't get everything they wanted.