Angie O'Leary is head of Wealth Planning at RBC Wealth Management-U.S. In this role, O'Leary and her team are focused on helping clients live life with more clarity and confidence through goals-based planning delivered by skilled financial advisors.
O'Leary is a 25-year veteran of the financial services industry, most recently serving as the head of investment solutions for U.S. Bank Wealth Management where she was responsible for investment product management, desktop tools and digital investment capabilities. She also oversaw the business line's mutual fund and insurance product distribution relationships. Prior to her career at U.S. Bank, O'Leary previously held leadership positions at UBS and Piper Jaffray.
She sits on several industry roundtable and advisory boards and is often asked to contribute her expertise. O'Leary has authored numerous white papers, published articles and is active in the media and press. She has a passion for financial literacy and is an advocate for women and their financial success.
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Q: VideoReader/read in matlab I use matlab 2018 in Windows 10.
I got an error message in reading avi-File in Matlab.
v = VideoReader('M-Movie_1.avi');
video = read(v);

I got this error-message
Error using VideoReader/read>readFramesUntilEnd (line 229)
Dot indexing is not supported for variables of this type.

Error in VideoReader/read (line 120)
    videoFrames = readFramesUntilEnd(obj);

Error in main (line 7)
video = read(v);

any ideas what is going wrong?

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Éric Prungnaud est un scénariste français, né le . Il a écrit des scénarios pour la télévision, la radio et la bande dessinée.

Biographie

Éric Prungnaud est titulaire d'une licence de géographie. Il exerce ensuite la fonction de technicien sur des tournages vidéos. Il écrit des sketches pour la télévision puis il rédige, pour une émission de radio, le texte Mauvaises Ondes. Son premier travail dans la bande dessinée porte sur Salomé, publié en 2005.

Œuvres

Scénariste pour la télévision
Il a écrit ou co-écrit des scénarios pour plusieurs séries françaises :
 série Père et Maire (TF1)
 2006, Épisode 17 : Nicolas, co-scénariste avec Emmanuelle Chopin
 2007, Épisode 19 : Poids plume, co-scénariste avec Marie-Hélène Bizet
  série Otages : scénario, adaptation, dialogues. Coécrit avec Pierre Lemaitre
  série Engrenages, saison 3, épisode 5 : adaptation
  série Injustice (TF1), épisode "Affaire Vauthier". Co-écrit avec Pierre Lemaitre
  série Jeff et Léo : Flics et Jumeaux (M6), épisode "Le Placard". Co-écrit avec Marie Dujardin
  série La Crim''' (France2). Co-écrit avec Sylviane Corgiat
 épisodes Sacrifice, Camille, Abnégation, Enfance volée, Le secret, Taxi de nuit, Douleur assassine  série Elodie Bardford (M6), épisode Sang d'Encre. Co-écrit avec Emmanuelle Choppin
  série Diane, femme flic (TF1), épisode L'amour d'un fils. Co-écrit avec Emmanuelle Choppin
  série Commissariat Bastille (TF1), épisode "Compte à Rebours". Co-écrit avec Rémy Tarrier
  série Les Duettistes (TF1) :
 Le môme Co-écrit avec Kristelle Mudry
 Jeunes proies Co-écrit avec Anita Rées
  série Navarro (TF1) :
 Vengeance Aveugle Co-écrit avec Georges Moréas
 Suicide de flic : Scénario, adaptation, dialogue
 Verdict : Scénario, adaptation, dialogue
 Le Fils Unique Co-écrit avec Sylviane Corgiat
 Coups Bas Co-écrit avec Sylviane Corgiat
 Triste Carnaval : Scénario, adaptation, dialogue
  série Cordier (TF1), épisode Le petit juge  série Intrigues (TF1), épisodes "Remords", "Judas", "Dernier Souffle" et "Anne ma sœur Anne"

 Scénariste de bande dessinée
 série Salomé, scénario d'Éric Prungnaud, dessins de Giuseppe Palumbo
 La Noyée du Tibre (Les Humanoïdes Associés , 2005)
 Les Adorateurs de Ranactès (2006)

 Scénariste pour la radio
 Mauvaises ondes, fiction de 18 minutes. Lauréat d'un concours de fiction radio organisé par OFREDIA et la SACD. Les acteurs choisis pour l'interprétation de ce texte sont Fabrice Luchini, Claude Piéplu, Ronny Coutteure et Irène Jacob.
 Confession'' (France Culture), pièce radiophonique de 58 minutes

Références

Annexes

Bibliographie

Liens externes

Naissance en août 1959
Scénariste français de bande dessinée

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Here was a musician who evolved each and every step of the way throughout the course of his career.


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The dual pour construction composes of Rink Rat's Mtech inner core, and a pro level urethane on the outside. Mtech is a flexible, 62a urethane that flexes well for better grip and rebounds back when you come out of your turns for better agility and speed. The outer layer is built with a 82a urethane that maintains high speeds and durability.
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Do you read multiple books at once? I sometimes claim that I do, but it's not really true. It's not literally true, of course, because my eyes can't focus on two books simultaneously. But it's also not true in the sense that when I put down one book to start another, I often don't return to the first book until I've finished the second book. As a result, I normally have a few books lying around that I'm in the middle of, but haven't opened in months. Quite often, I don't end up finishing those books that I stopped reading. Overall, I probably make it through two thirds or so of the books I start.
When a book does not interest me, I tend to give the author another chapter or two before I stop reading. When a book is interesting to me but poorly written—and this happens far too often—I'm likely to lose my patience quickly. No disrespect to writers, by the way—particularly if I've enjoyed some of your other writing, I'll likely plough through some tough bits. But there's a limit.
Recently, for instance, I stopped reading Flow by Mihali Csiksentmihalyi a couple of chapters before the end. It's an interesting book, or rather, the author's description of "flow" and his research on the subject are interesting. But three quarters into the book, I had gotten the gist of it and felt that Csiksentmihalyi was only belaboring points he'd made earlier.
I felt guilty for "giving up", though! Am I a quitter? Isn't is disrespectful to put down a book before reading all of it, like it would be disrespectful to walk out of a lecture halfway through? In the end, the rational part of my brain "won". I decided that guilt is a silly emotion in this instance, because I had not promised to anyone else that I'd finish the book. I think I felt guilt because when I start a book, I make an implicit promise to myself that I'll try to finish it. When I give up, it's easy to feel like I failed.
Can you think of any other reasons?
So… what do I do?
To lose the guilt, I decided to stop promising to myself (even implicitly) that I'll finish each book. Instead, I decided that I'll read a book only for as long as I enjoy reading it. Time is the most precious commodity I have and I want to spend it doing things I enjoy, not doing things that I think I "have to" do. Of course there are things that aren't fun as you do them, but that have long-term benefits, such as cleaning the toilet. But I don't think that finishing each book I start reading, no matter whether the middle or end of the book is enjoyable, is one of those things. In that sense I'm glad that I stopped reading Flow when it no longer effortlessly kept my attention. I hope to do more of that in the future.
I always had the guilt thing when I couldn't finish a book, but now I know someone else has struggled with that, and I'm over it! Thanks, Pete!


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Several state parks in southern Michigan will host volunteer stewardship workdays in December. Volunteers are needed to cut invasive, non-native shrubs like glossy buckthorn, autumn olive, multi-flora rose and others. It's a great way to enjoy the outdoors while restoring and learning more about high-quality, unique ecosystems.
Saturday, Dec. 1 at Warren Dunes State Park (Berrien County), 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
Saturday, Dec. 1 at Highland Recreation Area (Oakland County), 9 a.m.-1 p.m.
Saturday, Dec. 8 at Warren Dunes State Park (Berrien County), 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
Saturday, Dec. 15 at Fort Custer Recreation Area (Kalamazoo County), 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
More information about volunteer stewardship workdays, including a calendar of opportunities, is available at michigan.gov/dnrvolunteers.
To volunteer, please register by completing and submitting the stewardship volunteer registration form.


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The Story of A Fierce Bad Rabbit.
Published: London & New York Frederick Warne & Co., 1906
The Tale of Samuel Whiskers. Or, The Roly-Poly Pudding.
The Tale of Timmy Tiptoes.
The Tale of Benjamin Bunny.
The Tale of Jeremy Fisher.
First edition, first issue, with "London & New York" on the rear cover. Shops were reluctant to stock this and Miss Moppet, the only other book by Potter published in this form, because they are awkward for small hands to handle and easily damaged. Both were eventually reprinted in book form in 1916. A Fierce Bad Rabbit was written at the prompting of Beatrix Potter's niece, Louie, who told her aunt that "Peter was much too good a rabbit, and she wanted a story about a really naughty one!"
Oblong duodecimo. Panorama mounted on pale green linen back, arranged in pairs with text on recto and illustration on facing verso, and folded concertina-style into the original green cloth wallet case, with closing tab heightened with silver. Titles in dark blue and colour pictorial label on front cover.
Illustrated by the author.
Extremities slightly rubbed, minor wear to folds and lower margins of a couple of leaves.

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Łyżwiarstwo figurowe na Zimowych Igrzyskach Olimpijskich 1998 – jedna z dyscyplin rozgrywanych podczas igrzysk w dniach 8–21 lutego 1998 w hali White Ring w Nagano, w Japonii. Zawody odbyły się w czterech konkurencjach: solistów i solistek, par sportowych i tanecznych.

Polskę reprezentowały dwa duety; para sportowa – Dorota Zagórska i Mariusz Siudek oraz para taneczna – Sylwia Nowak i Sebastian Kolasiński.
 Zobacz: Polscy łyżwiarze figurowi na igrzyskach olimpijskich

Medaliści

Klasyfikacja medalowa

Wyniki

Soliści

Solistki

Pary sportowe

Pary taneczne

Przypisy

Bibliografia

Dyscypliny rozgrywane podczas Zimowych Igrzysk Olimpijskich 1998
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The Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences does not provide student housing.
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The Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences (GSBS) at the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS) comprises approximately 400 students and 350 research faculty who share a passion for biomedical research. Their work is producing exciting advances in existing and emergent areas of biology and medicine and is contributing to the explosive development of new technologies used to probe the most challenging problems in biomedicine. Our students' research spans the study of single molecules in isolation through population genomics and outcomes, is yielding spectacular insights and, in some cases, has been translated into novel medicines and therapies, improving the lives of citizens of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and beyond.
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Our graduating students leave the GSBS and enter into a wide variety of positions; including Industry Research, Academia, Healthcare Management, and Regulatory Affairs. Review the data to explore the wide-variety of opportunities available:
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36 of our current GSBS students have been award fellowships from the NIH, NSF, and other private sources.
Student publications data reflect publications by students for up to 2 years post-graduation, if published with their thesis advisor. Current student/mentor publication averages for the three most recent years (defined as academic year of graduation plus two years post-graduation) are: 2020 = 4.4 publications, 2019 = 4.2 publications, 2018 = 4.1 publications. Scholarly output for GSBS alumni for the five most recent years are: 2020 = 288, 2019 = 240, 2018 = 265, 2017 = 232, 2016 = 240
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The Graduate Student Body Committee (GSBC) is a group of elected students who serve as the voice of graduate students on campus. By serving on committees with faculty, we represent student interests and help in decision-making. An important goal of the GSBC is to keep graduate students informed about new policies regarding their thesis work. We gain insight from students about changes they would like to see happen at UMass Medical School and work hard to implement these changes. One of our major goals is to further relationships between graduate students on campus, in addition to interprofessional relationships with both the medical and nursing students. The GSBC encourages fellow colleagues in their studies, hosting events for first-year students during their core coursework. We offer social events throughout the year to foster friendships and support groups and hold local volunteer activities such as Working for Worcester and Habitat for Humanity. We also partner with the Career and Professional Development group and host events for students that help prepare them for their career path of interest.
President Co-Chairs: Joe Magrino, Heather Learnard
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GSBS Cares is a community service organization with elected chairs from the GSBS, but seeking involvement from all three schools.
Student Chairs: Brent Horowitz, Melanie Walker
Industry Exploration (IndEx) Program
The primary objective of the group is to provide both graduate students and postdocs an opportunity to explore PhD-level careers in the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries. We organize site visits in the Massachusetts and New England area to allow trainees to observe company cultures, learn about the structure and function of industry research and enhance their knowledge of careers in industry. The program also provides an opportunity to interact directly and network with industry professionals and obtain valuable career guidance.
Co-chairs: Cansu Colpan and Socheata Ly
Faculty/Staff Advisors: Cynthia Fuhrmann, PhD
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This student chapter will meet regularly to discuss pharmacoepidemiology methods, share research in progress, and provide peer review.
Student Representative: Matthew Alcusky
Faculty co-advisors: Kate Lapane PhD, Christine Ulbricht PhD, MPH
MassTERi Entrepreneurship Club (eClub)
The Entrepreneurship Club (eClub) is a student and post-doctoral fellow-led initiative that was launched in 2014 as one of the key elements to the MassTERi program.
The MassTERi eClub has three goals: 1) Develop a community of entrepreneurs at UMMS that includes students, post-docs, staff, and faculty; 2) Inspire and foster an entrepreneurial culture at UMMS in both basic and translational research; 3) Provide opportunities for networking with a global community of innovators, scientists, and investors, as well as business and legal professionals.
eClub events are short and intense, and are designed to help participants gain the knowledge, skills and confidence to be successful entrepreneurs.
Steering Committee Members: Shuwen Cao, Nandhitha Umanaresh, Feng Wang
MD/PhD Student Advisory Committee (MD/PhD SAC)
The MD/PhD SAC consists of students representing all MD/PhD class years and handles changes in MD/PhD programming and the organization of the MD/PhD retreat.
Student Leaders: Peter Cruz-Gordillo, Chantal Ferguson, Jordan Smith
Faculty Leader: Gyongyi Szabo MD, PhD
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Established in 2011, the UMMS Student Government Alliance (SGA) is the overarching student governance body. The SGA consists of two elected officials from each school's student governance group, two members-at-large from each school, an elected sustainability representative, and the student trustee. The SGA promotes student communication and collaboration across the three schools, and serves as a resource for communicating and working with campus administration. The SGA provides representation for students across the three schools on Faculty Council and Executive Council and other campus-wide governing bodies and committees. The SGA reports to the provost, and addresses matters of importance to students and submits recommendations expressing student views and concerns to administration (provost).
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You can review the appeals policy in the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences Student Handbook under sections three and four (Academic Policies and Regulations, and Academic Milestones) or the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences Honor Code.
Student Completion and Retention Rates and Average Time to Degree
We recognize that our mean and median time to degree is considered to be long, and we are taking active steps to ensure that Morningside Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences students complete an impactful body of work in timely manner. These steps include streamlining curricular requirements, monitoring timely completion of the qualifying exam, monitoring student scientific development and progress, and articulating clear standards for degree completion. Impacts of changes made over the last five years will be measured by tracking the six-year completion rate for each cohort.
Completion Rates
75% of matriculating students received a PhD terminal degree and an additional 4% received a Master of Science as a terminal degree. Completion rates were calculated for cohorts entering 2008-2012 and completing by 2020 (based on 150% average time to PhD = 9 years)
Retention Rates
The retention rate of first year students entering their second year of graduate study for the three most recent years is: Fall 2020 = 98%, Fall 2019 = 95%, Fall 2018 = 94%
Time to Degree
For the most recent 10-year period (2010-2020), the time to degree (TTD) for all PhD graduates from the Basic Biomedical Sciences (BBS) division of the GSBS was 6.6 years.
Median Time to Degree by 3-Year Graduating Class 2000-2020
PhD Median Time to Degree 2000-2020
*International students are excluded from the URM data. US Citizens and Permanent Residents only.
MD/PhD Median Time to Degree 2000-2020
Student Body Demographics
Student Complaint Procedures
Creating a positive learning environment for every learner on the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS) campus is a top priority. The UMMS Director for a Positive Learning Environment is dedicated to ensuring a safe, secure and positive learning environment for all learners on campus, including students from the School of Medicine (SOM), Graduate School of Nursing (GSN), Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences (GSBS), post-doctoral scholars and residents/fellows in Graduate Medical Education (GME) programs.
The Director serves as a confidential resource for all of our learners, offering guidance and support to learners who have experienced or witnessed mistreatment, and collaborating with other university offices including, but not limited to, the Diversity and Inclusion Office (DIO), the Title IX Officer, Human Resources (HR), the Associate Deans for each School, and Student Counseling Services to further advocate for and support our learners.
You may initiate confidential contact with the Director for a Positive Learning Environment through any of these means:
Email: PositiveLearning@umassmed.edu
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Online: https://www.umassmed.edu/studentlife/studentresources/positive-learning/
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https://www.umassmed.edu/dio/equal-opportunity/ppg-ats/
To file a complaint and or for more information about sexual assault or harassment please visit:
https://www.umassmed.edu/dio/equal-opportunity/title-ix-incident-investigative/
Withdrawal Procedures
You can review the withdrawal procedures for the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences in the Student Handbook, sections three and four (Academic Policies and Regulations, and Academic Milestones).
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Home Essay Gatsby: Theme and character analysis of Tom and Daisy
Gatsby: Theme and character analysis of Tom and Daisy
The characters' search of their own identities and the struggle that ensues is the most suffusive theme throughout The Great Gatsby . The fact that we never really know the characters, and the corrupt immoral things they do, directly represent the 20's high society lifestyle. The characters continued to cheat on their spouses, let money become their obsession, and debated the American dream for the hopes of one day obtaining happiness. But the fact remains that they have no true morals or ideals of themselves as individuals.
These are a group of people ho –no matter how cocky and self- confident they seem– have absolutely no idea of what they are doing (as many men and women of the 20's do not). Tom and Daisy are two examples. Daisy is a hospitable character who had a love for parties and tended to lose herself in them and the drinking. Daisy once said, "What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon, and the day after that, and the next thirty years? " This quote not only means she lives for one day at a time never thinking of the future, but that she truly has no idea of what to do with herself.
She is like loose change loating around wandering from party to party, man to man, friend to friend, in a big house in East Egg with no sense of purpose. She once attempted to plan something when she first reunited with Nick. She said, "What'll we plan? What do people plan? " meaning she has never had to make decisions nor has she had much responsibility. Not only does she have no purpose, she has no morals. She literally killed a woman and went home to eat cold chicken. What more, her lover was killed and she left on a trip missing his funeral.
Show me a woman who has no morals or goals and I'll show you woman who is searching for her own identity. Tom Buchanan is a small man hiding in a big house with an equally large ego. In fact, he once remarked that women run around too much and meet the wrong kind of people. This statement is both arrogant and ironic because he runs around with the wrong people, and women run around with him- he being the wrong people. Also, when stating this he was most likely referring to his wife, and subtly putting her down for her relationship with Gatsby in a most conceited way.
Tom is not a caring or sympathetic man. He did not attend his mistress's- Myrtle's- funeral. Tom cared a great deal about his image. Enough to uncover the history and truth about his wife's lover, and openly embarass him for it. Tom is so desperately an empty man that he believes he can define himself with exterior belongings. He is trying to find his identity by looking for happiness in nice cars (his is a ridiculous yellow luxury vehicle), money and a good woman- be it he has to cheat on his wife to do so. But what about if the money runs out?
What happens if his wife finds another lover also? r one of his women kills the other? One day he will look himself in the mirror and not like what he sees, and only then can he finally forget about the image and just be. To best describe Daisy's, Tom's, and the 1920's high society's relentless quest for money and aimlessness existence is Daisy and Tom's own relationship. They were once young lovers with a hold on the world like their hold on eachother but that too tarnished like a gilded cup and saucer. Tom once carried Daisy down from the punch owl so her feet wouldn't get wet.
But the weight of time has pulled at their ove until Tom was seen as a racist man reading The Rise of Colored Empires who depends on a mistress to fulfill his need of lust and to be apart from home life, leaving Daisy ignorant and smiling. She hoped her daughter would be a fool of a girl so nothing would hurt her, a lesson she learned from living with Tom. While their marriage seems to be falling apart Daisy finds a man from her past- Gatsby-who has a heated desperation for her love- enough so to acquire a huge home and beautiful shirts, and throw lavish parties at the hope she will attend to add to his facade.
But not even he people who gave up their own lives for Tom or Daisy could change them. For Nick. the eternal observer with his unbiased opinions once wrote, "They were careless people, Tom and Daisy–they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back to their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they made… " Even with both spouses having affairs with a passion possibly more than the love Tom and Daisy share, they stay together for the sole purpose of money.
In conclusion, The Great Gatsby asks the ternal question: what is the purpose of our lives? and Tom and Daisy answer for the 1920's high society, "I don't know, but it has to do with money and lots of it. " Throughout Daisy and Tom's marriage they have grown and they are still growing, but the question remains: who are they and what are they here for? Until these two can think of others before themselves, not hold exterior belongings with such high repute, and stop all the reputations and images that surround them, they will just be two random, conceited, rich people in a time dependent on classes and will never be individuals.
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The Effect of Progesterone on the In vitro Maturation and Developmental Competence of Mouse Germinal Vesicle Oocytes
Saeed Zavareh 1
Adel Saberivand 1
Mojdeh Salehnia 2
1 Theriogenology Department, College of Veterinary Medicine, Urmia University, Urmia, Iran
2 Anatomy Department, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Tarbiat Modares University, Tehran, Iran
10.22074/ijfs.2009.45742
The aim of the present study was to investigate the role of progesterone on the developmental competence of cumulus-oocyte complexes (COCs) and cumulus-denuded oocytes (CDOs) at germinal vesicle (GV) stage.
GV oocytes of pregnant mare's serum gonadotropin (PMSG)-primed prepubertal mice were divided into two groups: CDOs and COCs. The oocytes were cultured in TCM199 with different concentrations of progesterone (10, 38, 50 and 100 μM) and without progesterone (controls). The number of oocytes at the GV, germinal vesicle breakdown (GVBD) and metaphase II (MII) stages were counted. In vitro fertilization (IVF) of MII oocytes and their development to the blastocyst stage were evaluated.
Significantly different MII rates were observed between the COCs (85%) and CDOs (68%) control groups. The MII rates of 83%, 48%, 14% and 0% for COCs and 65%, 53%, 20% and 0% for CDOs were obtained in TCM199 that contained 10, 38, 50 and 100μM progesterone concentrations, respectively. These MII rates were lower (p <0.05) in both COCs and CDOs as compared to their respective control groups, except for 10 μM. The fertilization and blastocyst rates of COCs (83% and 35%, respectively) were higher (p <0.05) than those of the CDOs (51% and 5%, respectively) control groups. The fertilization and blastocyst rates in the presence of 10 μM (81% and 36%, respectively) and 38 μM (85% and 30%, respectively) progesterone in COCs and CDOs (52% and 4% for 10 μM; 56% and 4% for 38 μM) were similar to their respective control groups.
Adding progesterone to the medium could not improve maturation of mouse GV oocytes and their development to the blastocyst stage.
Germinal Vesicle
Oocytes
Volume 3, Issue 1 - Serial Number 9
Zavareh, S., Saberivand, A., Salehnia, M. (2009). The Effect of Progesterone on the In vitro Maturation and Developmental Competence of Mouse Germinal Vesicle Oocytes. International Journal of Fertility and Sterility, 3(1), 21-28. doi: 10.22074/ijfs.2009.45742
Saeed Zavareh; Adel Saberivand; Mojdeh Salehnia. "The Effect of Progesterone on the In vitro Maturation and Developmental Competence of Mouse Germinal Vesicle Oocytes". International Journal of Fertility and Sterility, 3, 1, 2009, 21-28. doi: 10.22074/ijfs.2009.45742
Zavareh, S., Saberivand, A., Salehnia, M. (2009). 'The Effect of Progesterone on the In vitro Maturation and Developmental Competence of Mouse Germinal Vesicle Oocytes', International Journal of Fertility and Sterility, 3(1), pp. 21-28. doi: 10.22074/ijfs.2009.45742
Zavareh, S., Saberivand, A., Salehnia, M. The Effect of Progesterone on the In vitro Maturation and Developmental Competence of Mouse Germinal Vesicle Oocytes. International Journal of Fertility and Sterility, 2009; 3(1): 21-28. doi: 10.22074/ijfs.2009.45742


Almost everyone must shop for a car sooner or later. Even though doing so can be some fun, the magnitude of the cost can make the situation stressful for the unprepared. Continue reading to get some great tips for making your shopping experience a bit simpler and more successful.
When you go car shopping, you must know what you need before you leave the house. How much can you afford to spend? Will you need to tote a big family around? What are you looking for in gas mileage? How many doors do you need for your car? Write down all your desires and bring the list with you so you don't forget any.
When car shopping, plan to be in the dealership for awhile. You should not purchase a vehicle if you feel rushed and do not have time to think about your decision. You need at least an entire afternoon. If you don't have that much time, simply plan to return if need be.
Think about both fuel economy, and how much money you have to spend, when you are out looking at cars. For instance, you may want an automobile with a V-8 engine and the ability to tow. But think about how often you truly require the additional horsepower provided by a V-8 engine and how frequently you will use the towing feature.
You don't have to buy from a dealership. You may be able to find what you want from a private seller or a smaller dealership. Make good use of your local classifieds and social media sites that can help you narrow your search and possibly find the right car at a great price.
Most salesmen will have monthly goals or quotas to make. Use this against them by shopping at month end. The sales staff will want to sell you a car to meet their goals. That will put you in a better negotiating position.
Try planning car shopping trips near the end of a month. Most salesmen have a certain quota they would like to reach for each month. When the month is nearly over, you can get a better deal, since your salesman may be trying to meet his quota.
Go to a car show to find out which cars you are interested in. Car shows are a great chance to compare a number of different models against each other, all in one place. It will also allow you to speak to lots of people who know a great deal about cars. When you leave an auto show, you will have a better idea of what kind of car to explore further.
Prior to shopping for any car, review your budgetary needs carefully. You need to know what you can, and what you can't, buy. Determine the amount of money you can realistically spend every month on your car payment. You may want to get car financing arranged prior to actually shopping.
Shopping for a car should be fun. A brand new truck or car is a great, exciting experience. Buying one can be too. Far too often, people get stressed shopping for a car, but that doesn't have to be the case. Keep these tips in mind to have the best shopping experience possible.
Have an understanding of what you want in a car when you go out to buy one. How much of a budget do you have to work with? How many passengers do you need to drive around? You will need to know the gas milage that is acceptable for your budget. Do you want a car with two or four doors? Make sure to jot down all the qualities you want in your car.
If you can't afford it, don't be persuaded by a talented salesman. Sports cars look nice and you can be sweet talked into such a purchase. Remember, the salesperson is after a commission.
Do your homework before you go car shopping. You will have a negotiating advantage if you understand their trade and financing practices. You need to know how people who own the car feel about it.
Have a good idea of the car that you desire beforehand. Research is important to give you all of the possible details that you need. You will also have a better idea of the price you want to pay for a vehicle.
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Set a budget before visiting a dealership. Do not go over what you planned to spend, no matter what payment plans your dealer offers. Remember that you are the one that might be paying for your car for around 6 years, not the dealer.
If you know you are easily convinced by salespeople, you should not go shopping for a new car by yourself. Ask a loved one to help you stay strong. Inform this person of your budget and what you need prior to entering the dealership.
If the car you are driving now is expensive, don't drive it to the dealership. They will look at the car and refuse any lowball offers you make, This is only acceptable if the car you arrive in is going to be something you are trading in.


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Q: Subset (Comprehension, Separation) Axiom and Definability I am reading Moshe Machover's book, Set Theory, Logic, and Their Limitations, and on p. 19 he states that if $A\cup B$ is a set, then $A$ and $B$ are too by the Subset Axiom.  But this confuses me.  Clearly, $A$ and $B$ are both subsets of $A\cup B$.  But how do we know that they are definable?  (Similarly, if $A$ is a class of sets, and $\cup A$ is a set, then I take it that $A$ is supposed to be a set by Powerset and Subset.  But my question re-arises here.)  I'm obviously missing something basic.  Thanks, in advance.

A: Classes are defined as "extensions" of properties [page 16].
The "universe of discourse" is made of sets and individuals.

A class that is not a set is called a proper class; a proper class is not
  an object, and therefore cannot be a member of any class [page 16].

Thus, sets are those that some axiom of the theory claims that they exists, like e.g.

3.2. Axiom of Pairing (A2) : For all objects $a$ and $b$ the class $\{ a, b \}$ is a set [page 17],

or some theorem of the theory proves that they exists, like e.g.

3.9. Theorem : $\emptyset$ is a set [page 18].

We have that: 3.14. Definition [page 19] defines the union (or join) $A \cup B$ of two classes $A$ and $B$, which - of course - is a class.
We do not know that, in general, $A \cup B$ is a set, but we can prove it:

3.15. Theorem: $A \cup B$ is a set iff both $A$ and $B$ are sets.

The first part: if $A,B$ are set, then also $A \cup B$ is, is proved by Axiom of Pairing (A2) and Axiom of Union set (AU).
The second part: if $A \cup B$ is a set, then also $A,B$ are, is proved through:

3.6. Axiom of Subsets (AS) : If $B \subseteq A$ and $A$ is a set then so is $B$.

We know that $A \cup B = \{x : x \in A \text { or } x \in B \}$ is a set; but, e.g. $B \subseteq A \cup B$, and thus by AS also $B$ is a set (the same for $A$).
For $B \subseteq A \cup B$, we have to apply:

3.4. Definition: Let $A$ and $B$ be classes. If every member of $B$ is also a member of $A$, we say that $B$ is a subclass of $A$, briefly: $B \subseteq A$.

Clearly, if $a \in B$, then $a \in B$ or $a \in A$, and thus $a \in A \cup B$.

A: Assuming your set theory is sufficiently strong, this is not true:
Let $M$ be a countable transitive model of some large fragment of your set theory. Then there is a subset $X \subseteq \omega$ such that $X \not \in M$ (since $M$ is countable). If $\omega \setminus X$ were in $M$, then so would $X$ be (because we can correctly calculate complements in $M$). Hence $X, \omega \setminus X \not \in M$, but $\omega = X \cup (\omega \setminus X) \in M$.


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What's New in iOS 7.1
At the start of the week Apple launched iOS 7.1, the largest update to its iOS 7 operating system so far. As always, people have been scrutinising the new mobile operating system, going through it with the proverbial fine tooth comb; we're not going to go into as much detail though, just look at the biggest new features.
First of all there's CarPlay, something which we talked about in last weeks blog post which you can view here. For anyone who doesn't want to read the whole post – CarPlay is a new system introduced by Apple which will allow people to use their phones in their cars "Eyes Free". It's due to be available in most manufacturers cars before the end of the year.
Updates to Siri voices have been included for UK English, Australian English and a few other languages to make them sound a little bit more human and a little bit less computerised. UI improvements have also been made to allow you to release the home button when you've finished talking, rather than letting Siri detect when you stop – really handy if you're somewhere noisy.
This next update will be something that will please a lot of people; adjustments to the panel zoom. When iOS 7 was first released, people were suffering from motion sickness because of all the flying into and out of screens, a slight update was made in iOS 7.0.3 to try and fix this and people were able to turn off the feature if they felt like. This latest update though has been hailed as the one which "finally" fixes the motion sickness problem.
Aside from these major updates, other improvements have been made to the accessibility and a few minor icon adjustments.
Even though iOS 7.1 is still hot off the press, the rumor mill has already started churning details for iOS 8 which is predicted for release with the iPhone 6. Rumors for iOS 8 include a Health Book app, which will presumably accompany an iWatch (especially after details of a patent filed by Apple for a more accurate wrist based sensor were released today) along with a major overhaul to iOS Maps and the possibility of mobile payments.


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Q: Sort two "numbers" with multiple dots I have an unordered list that can look something like this:
1.1.1
1.1.1.1
1.1.2
1.10.1
1.10.2
1.2.1
1.2.2
1.2.3
1.2.4
1.20.1
1.3.1

And I want to sort it like "numerical" order in Javascript.
1.1.1
1.1.1.1
1.1.2
1.2.1
1.2.2
1.2.3
1.2.4
1.3.1
1.10.1
1.10.2
1.20.1

Which sort function I need?

A: You can try:
Array.prototype.sortVersions = function() {
return this.map(function(e) {
  return e.split('.').map(function(e) {
    return parseInt(e)
   }
 )}).sort(function(a,b) {
   for (var i = 0; i < Math.max(a.length, b.length); i++) {
     if (!a[i]) return -1;
     if (!b[i]) return 1;
     if (a[i]-b[i] != 0) return a[i]-b[i];
   }
   return 0;
 }).map(function(e) {
   return e.join('.')
 });
}

['1.1.1','1.1.1.1','1.1.2','1.10.1','1.10.2','1.2.1','1.2.2','1.2.3','1.2.4','1.20.1','1.3.1'].sortVersions()

A: Here is the code that works for me:
var arr = [
  '1.2.2',
  '1.1.1',
'1.1.1.1',
'1.1.2',
'1.10.1',
'1.10.2',
'1.2.1',
'1.2.2',
'1.2.3',
'1.2.4',
'1.20.1',
'1.3.1'];

arr.sort(function(a, b) {
    return versionCompare(a, b);
  });

console.log(arr);

function versionCompare(v1, v2, options) {
    var lexicographical = options && options.lexicographical,
        zeroExtend = options && options.zeroExtend,
        v1parts = v1.split('.'),
        v2parts = v2.split('.');

    function isValidPart(x) {
        return (lexicographical ? /^\d+[A-Za-z]*$/ : /^\d+$/).test(x);
    }

    if (!v1parts.every(isValidPart) || !v2parts.every(isValidPart)) {
        return NaN;
    }

    if (zeroExtend) {
        while (v1parts.length < v2parts.length) v1parts.push("0");
        while (v2parts.length < v1parts.length) v2parts.push("0");
    }

    if (!lexicographical) {
        v1parts = v1parts.map(Number);
        v2parts = v2parts.map(Number);
    }

    for (var i = 0; i < v1parts.length; ++i) {
        if (v2parts.length == i) {
            return 1;
        }

        if (v1parts[i] == v2parts[i]) {
            continue;
        }
        else if (v1parts[i] > v2parts[i]) {
            return 1;
        }
        else {
            return -1;
        }
    }

    if (v1parts.length != v2parts.length) {
        return -1;
    }

    return 0;
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Stop GOK: how residents of Chelyabinsk are resisting plans for a new copper plant
Plans for a new copper mining and enrichment plant outside the Urals town of Chelyabinsk are pitting Russian citizens against regional oligarchs. RU
Андрей Талевлин Editors of OpenDemocracy Russia
The tree-felling operation at Tomino has already started, despite protests by residents. Source: Stop GOK. Twelve kilometres from the city of Chelyabinsk, the Russian Copper Company (RMK) is planning to build a new ore mining and enrichment plant. This Urals city, where local residents claim there's already nothing to breathe, is protesting how it can. But so far, they haven't been successful in stopping RMK's advances.
Most of all, residents of Chelyabinsk and its surrounding villages are concerned by the tree-felling that's already happening near the construction site — the green zone that allows one of Russia's most polluted cities to breathe. Thus, in 2017, nearly 4,000 residents filed a suit with the Chelyabinsk regional government to revoke the act permitting the zoning change that transferred these forests into a different category (which allows the company to cut down the trees near the site). But on 1 August, the Chelyabinsk regional court decided against the residents, and the forest will continue to fall.
Perhaps the struggle against the Russian Copper Company is doomed to fail because it's so hard to identify its real owners — a situation familiar to many environmental activists. RMK's shareholders are offshore firms registered in Cyprus, and the company is directed by Igor Altushkin (Russia's 47th richest businessman, according to Forbes). Indeed, many residents of the South Urals call RMK the "Cyprus Copper Company". Despite the fact that the levels of copper at Tomino, the proposed site for the mining and enrichment plant, are very low, RMK pursues its commercial interests fiercely. It seems in the long term the company intends to expand into mining silver and other precious metals. RMK is clearly attracted by the developed industrial infrastructure, which has long been in place in the region.
Supported by local authorities, RMK is acting against public opinion and refusing to enter into dialogue with ecological organisations. As part of our coverage of Russia's Year of Ecology, we talked to Andrei Talevlin, chairperson of For Nature, an environmental organisation based in Chelyabinsk — to find out more about the ecological threat posed by the Tomino mining complex, and why there's grounds to doubt the legality of the project.
Andrei, how did it happen that the plant is going to be built so close to the city limits? How will this proximity affect Chelyabinsk?
The Tomino copper ore repository was opened back in 1957. And seeing as the environmental situation in Chelyabinsk was already poor, it was decided to assign Tomino reserve status — that is, until the Russian Copper Company started developing it.
In terms of the impacts, first, the construction will entail felling forests at Tomino. In 2013, the chairman of the Chelyabinsk regional government Sergei Komyakov contacted Rosleskhoz [the federal executive body responsible for oversight of forestry issues] with a request to remove the protected status of the forests near the Tomino site. The federal agency approved this request, without any consultations with the local authorities. And now 15 square kilometres of Chelyabinsk's suburban forest are to be cut down.
November 2016: scenes from a rally against the copper enrichment plant, Chelyabinsk. Image: Andrei Talevlin. Second, the territory planned for the plant's construction is currently the only complete green zone near Chelyabinsk. The enrichment plant will work through 28m tonnes of ore a year, and will operate for 50 years. This is the biggest project of its type in Russia today, and the only one next to a city with a population over a million.
What threat does this pose for city residents? Well, imagine this: everyday, thousands of tonnes of dust will be pushed up into the air from quarry explosions, the enrichment plant and adjoining facilities. This dust will spread over many kilometres via air currents. And there'll be nowhere for polluting materials to settle — the nearby forests will have been cut down. Western winds predominate in this climatic zone, and so this dust will naturally gravitate towards Chelyabinsk.
The plant's waste will also, of course, present a danger to the environment — we're talking about various acids, arsenic, lead, cadmium, mercury and several dozens of other harmful substances.
Does the project contain any provisions for preventing ecological risks?
More like the other way round. It's clear from the project at hand that the risks will be huge — and there are, as yet, no plans to deal with them systematically.
Right now, RMK plans to build two huge quarries, an enrichment plant, a hydrometallurgical factory and a huge tailing pond. A tailing pond is a big lake filled with liquid waste products, chemical products left over after enrichment. When a similar tailing pond burst open at Ajka, in Hungary, in 2010, it led to an ecological catastrophe, with toxic waste poisoning a significant area — the harm still hasn't been fully accounted for.
June 2017: public hearings at Voznesenka village, Chelyabinsk. Source: Stop GOK.The way the Tomino tailing pond has been designed so far presents a real threat. In terms of size, it'll be three times the size of the only water source for the 1.5m people who live in this district, the Shershi reservoir. Given the quarries will be next to this reservoir, leaks from various sides of production are likely to find their way into the main water artery for Chelyabinsk.
One of the dams planned for it is to be nearly 100m high. Representatives of RMK claim that they'll review the project — but there's no new project as such yet, and the old version has been approved by all the necessary ministries.
What do residents of Chelyabinsk and the region think about this new plant?
In my opinion, the majority are categorically against it. This is obvious if you look at the opinion surveys.
Even the Russian Public Opinion Research Center (VTsIOM) was forced to recognise in 2016 that the majority of people surveyed in the region do not support the Tomino project (and that's with the loyal position of that particular centre in mind). Another survey, carried out on the initiative of the local authorities of Poletaevo village district is even more revealing. The residents of Poletaevo and other nearby villages were asked about their attitudes to the copper enrichment plant. The majority responded negatively. A similar survey was carried out in the village of Voznesenka, which will also be influenced by the plant. The response was also negative. It's worth noting that these were official polls, as dictated under municipal legislation, and the results were confirmed by the local authorities.
"The villagers, country-house owners and even the city people feel intuitively that the result of this development will be catastrophic"
Meanwhile, the public hearings on this issue have been constantly moved around. The first hearings were held in Tomino in June 2012. Out of the villagers present, no one understood a thing — even their official representatives. Back then, no one suspected that the project would reach the scale that it has, or that the consequences would be as damaging. The initial hearings were quiet. As soon as it became clear what RMK were up to, the local population's attitude turned, obviously, negative. Since then, the investors have done everything to suppress any dissent at its core.
For instance, big public hearings on the plant's plan were planned in 2015 for the middle of the working day and a location that is impossible to reach via public transport. The documents destined for public consumption were practically impossible to access — they were kept in the Tomino village administration building, and were not uploaded to the internet. So basically, the only way you could get them was to go during the day, during the week — and you were banned from taking copies. Moreover, you need to understand that it's the institutions of local self-governance that organise these hearings officially. And legally they have no link to the client behind them, RMK. Yet in the case of the Tomino plant, the authorities have clearly taken the side of the offshore company.
Group "UltraSi" perform a protest song against the Tomino Mining Complex. Source: "UltraSi" / Youtube.
There have been other manipulations of public opinion. All the petitions by independent civic organisations to be included on the public hearing organising commission have been refused straight off. And meanwhile, otherwise unknown representatives of civil society arrive at the hearings, together with security guards from RMK, in a very organised manner. These representatives of pseudo-public opinion, as a rule, are following exclusively their own personal — and often profitable — interests. And these "representatives" never get into the problems facing Chelyabinsk. State institutions actively support and use these figures and their organisations. In essence, this is the expansion of ignorance, rudeness and lack of principles into the healthy forces of society.
But even these artificial barriers failed to guarantee legitimacy for the approval of the project via public hearings in 2015. People managed to get to the hearings location (after taking four different buses) and made their opinion heard forcefully. This is understandable: not everyone is ready to hand over thousands of hectares for barbaric destruction.
The villagers, country-house owners and even the city people feel intuitively that the result of this development will be catastrophic. And no fancy films (shown to them during the hearings), nor overtures from RMK representatives to the effect that everything will be fine – have convinced them. The threat to the Shershnev reservoir, ground pollution for many kilometres, additional air pollution was clearly there in the hall next to the flowers and birch trees that were shown on the screen. The majority of those present said no to the plant. Even with people specially bussed in, when the question was posed to the audience, the majority of people were against the Tomino plant.
How has RMK managed to get this project confirmed?
It seems that the client behind RMK's project, and Russian state institutions, are obliged to stop the project. This is demanded from Article 2 of the Russian Constitution: the duty of the state to defend the rights and freedoms of its citizens. But instead, the authorities and RMK have come up with another move: an ecological audit. According to legislative norms, an ecological audit — an independent evaluation of how ecological demands will be observed — can only be carried out at an already operating production site. And in our case, it's been decided to evaluate the project, which isn't guaranteed by law. It seems they just liked the name.
1 August: citizens gather at Chelyabinsk regional court after a record number of citizens filed a case against the Tomino forest re-zoning decision. Source: Igor Yadroshnikov / Activatica.It was the governor of Chelyabinsk region, Boris Dubrovsky, who initiated the audit. The Mining Institute of Ekaterinburg won the tender — and the institute, by a strange turn of circumstance, enjoys, among others, the sponsorship of RMK. The auditors have given their overall approval to the project, and recommended that the client ditch the hydrometallurgical plant, as well as proposing to situate part of the waste cycle in another quarry. These recommendations have so far remained on paper, and haven't been included in the project yet.
RMK, which doesn't yet have building permission, is planning to fell more trees very shortly. The Chelyabinsk regional prosecutor's office has already told local residents that "everything is lawful". And on 11 July, the director of RMK Igor Altushkin, together with the regional governor and Russia's minister of industry and trade Denis Manturov, announced the launch of the project at Innoprom-2017, an international industrial expo.
How is your organisation fighting against this project?
In December 2013, For Nature conducted the first open public hearings. We just used the norm written into national legislation. And we had representatives not just from Chelyabinsk region, but Kurgan, Sverdlovsk regions too. RMK, it should be said, ignored these hearings.
After these hearings, there emerged a civic movement called "Stop GOK" — and their representatives started promoting information for the active part of the local community. There was a big response. People came out to rallies, organised pickets, asked for help from the local authorities — but so far, it's been unsuccessful.
Back then, 108,000 people signed a petition against the plant addressed to the President. And we received a response from the presidential administration that the project had passed all the stages and there were no violations.
"Once again, as has happened in the past, the law is becoming a weapon of Russia's ruling class, and the state is transforming into a tool to destroy nature"
For Nature tried to conduct a public ecological inquiry of the entire project. We legally registered an expert commission, and informed the local administration as necessary. However, RMK did not present the design to independent experts. Civic activists appealed to the regional arbitration court, and won the case. So, there is a court decision that enforces RMK to present documentation to For Nature, but a year on, this decision still hasn't been enforced. Moreover, at the end of 2016, our organisation was liquidated by decision of the regional court, after a case was put by the local ministry of justice. Two violations were found, and we were liquidated instantly without any demands or communication.
Today, activists from Stop GOK are conducting court cases against the legal decisions made by the authorities and the oligarchs (which, in Russia today, are unfortunately the same thing). There are cases from citizens and civic organisations sitting in the Chelyabinsk regional court and Supreme Court. But in the current conditions, there's not much point relying on the courts to defend the rights and interests of citizens.
The example of how ecological rights are violated in Russia shows us how society is gradually moving away from the principle of the rule of law. Once again, as has happened in the past, the law is becoming a weapon of Russia's ruling class, and the state is transforming into a tool to destroy nature.
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Q: When declaring objects in Cocoa, should I set them to nil? Say I want to create an instance of NSString, which is initialized to a certain value depending on the value of another variable. Normally, I would do
NSString *string;
if(foo == 1)
    string = @"Foo is one.";
else
    string = @"Foo is not one.";

However, in some sample code that I've seen, I've seen people do
NSString *string = nil;
if(foo == 1)
    string = @"Foo is one.";
else
    string = @"Foo is not one.";

What is the difference between these two, and which method is preferred?

A: My personal preference is to initialize any variable immediately.  However, in the sample you provided, these two methods are equivalent.
In C languages (i.e. C, C++, Obj-C) variables that are not initialized immediately may contain random garbage values.  Using the the variable before it is initialized lead to unexpected behavior (ranging from hopefully crashing to getting unexpected behavior).
Example
Consider the following example:
int abs;
if (argument > 0) abs = argument;
else if (argument < 0) abs = -1 * argument;
NSLog(@"%i", abs);

Here the code leaves abs variable uninitialized if argument is 0.  So you would getting random values logged and then lead to corrupting the values in the rest of the program; and it would be hard to detect where the problem is!
If you use an uninitialized reference, you would most likely get a EXC_BAD_ACCESS.

A: The assignment to nil is there so that no one ever looks at the code and worries that the variable is ever in an undefined state.
NSString *string;
NSLog(@"%p", string);

That code will print a garbage value since string's value is undefined.
Rather than write code like in your example, I prefer to use the ternary operator. Here's an example:
NSString *string = (foo == 1) ? @"Foo is one." : @"Foo is not one.";

Now string's value is always defined. If the expressions get complicated, and the line gets long, just use intermediate variables.
The best solution to many problems is to just eliminate the problem. This does just that.

A: Setting variables to a value or to nil can make an uninitialized-value error easier to spot at run-time.
NSString *string = @"Foo is not one";
if(foo == 1)
    string = @"Foo is one.";

Various compilers are better at spotting uninitialized values these days.
One Objective C reason to set pointers to nil (after last usage) is garbage collection.

A: Generally you would probably set a variable to nil to make sure you start out with a known value state of the variable. So you know that the variable is nil starting out and then later on you can compare the variable against nil. A good example of this is Error checking with NSError like so
NSError *error = nil;
[SomeCocoaClass performOperationWithObject:obj error:&error];
if(nil != error){
//handle error
}

It's possible to create a variable and start out with an uninitialized state and then when you try to read that variable in later you get garbage and crash. It's just a good coding practice to initialize your variables to a known initial state then check against that state later on.


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Results from North Island Regional Housing Needs Survey unveiled
Jon Gauthier, staff Wednesday, Dec. 16th, 2020
Home and house keys. (Tierra Mallorca, Unsplash.com)
A housing needs report for the North Island has been released, including data for Alert Bay, Port Alice, Port Hardy, and Port McNeill.
The Regional District of Mount Waddington (RDMW) says the purpose of the report is to document the demographic, economic and housing profiles of the communities in the area.
It could also be used to understand current housing needs, projected community growth in terms of population and households, and future housing needs over the next five years.
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That being said, the report outlined that while most homes were owned, renters contributed to 38 per cent of households in Port Hardy and 33 per cent in Port McNeill in 2016.
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The median salary for those living in Port McNeill, Electoral Area D, and Electoral Area B was higher at $84,589, $83,968, and $80,696, respectively.
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By Thilini de Silva and Ranjan Katugampola
The Aunt of 'Makandure Madush' yesterday filed a Fundamental Rights petition in the Supreme Court seeking a restraining order against the Special Task Force (STF) and Criminal Investigations Department (CID) from arresting him while in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), claiming there is no Extradition Treaty between the two countries and therefore it is illegal.
The petitioner, A.V. Sriyani of Hathporuwa, Suriyawewa had named STF Commandant DIG T.F. Latiff and four others as respondents.
In a petition, she had stated that at the age of ten, Madush's mother was killed by the Army in 1989. Few years later Madush worked as a hospital attendant and later married to a nurse. He is a father of one. Due to constant threat from local politicians, he had to flee from his home town. In several occasions he was in remand custody over several counterfeit charges.
Due to this situation and constant threat on his life, he had to leave the country for his safety, the petition stated. However, recently he was arrested by the UAE authorities.
Since there is no extradition treaty between the two countries, she asked the SC to issue an order preventing him being arrested by the Sri Lankan law enforcement authorities.