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nature protocols
protocol extension
Reconstitution of mouse oogenesis in a dish from pluripotent stem cells
Katsuhiko Hayashi1,2,
Orie Hikabe1,
Yayoi Obata3 &
Yuji Hirao4
Nature Protocols volume 12, pages 1733–1744 (2017)Cite this article
Embryogenesis
Stem-cell differentiation
This protocol is an extension to: Nat. Protoc. 8, 1513–1524 (2013); doi: 10.1038/nprot.2013.090; published online 11 July 2013
Generation of functional oocytes in culture from pluripotent stem cells should provide a useful model system for improving our understanding of the basic mechanisms underlying oogenesis. In addition, it has potential applications as an alternative source of oocytes for reproduction. Using the most advanced mouse model in regard to reproductive engineering and stem cell biology, we previously developed a culture method that produces functional primorial germ cells starting from pluripotent cells in culture and described it in a previous protocol. This Protocol Extension describes an adaptation of this existing Protocol in which oogenesis also occurs in vitro, thus substantially modifying the technique. Oocytes generated from embryonic stem cells (ESCs) or induced pluripotent stem cells give rise to healthy pups. Here, we describe the protocol for oocyte generation in culture. The protocol is mainly composed of three different culture stages: in vitro differentiation (IVDi), in vitro growth (IVG), and in vitro maturation (IVM), which in total take ∼5 weeks. In each culture period, there are several checkpoints that enable the number of oocytes being produced in the culture to be monitored. The basic structure of the culture system should provide a useful tool for clarifying the complicated sequence of oogenesis in mammals.
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Figure 1: Overview of the culture system.
Figure 2: Representative results of IVDi culture.
Figure 3: Manual isolation of single follicles in the rOvary (representative isolation process).
Figure 4: Representative results of IVG culture.
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We thank N. Hamada, S. Shomamoto, N. Hamazaki and G. Nagamatsu for providing technical details of the protocol. This study was supported in part by a Grant-in-Aid from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology of Japan (KAKENHI nos. 25114006, 15K21736, 25290033 and 17H01395); by JST-PRESTO; by the Uehara Memorial Foundation; and by the Takeda Science Foundation.
Department of Stem Cell Biology and Medicine, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
Katsuhiko Hayashi & Orie Hikabe
PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Fukuoka, Japan
Katsuhiko Hayashi
Department of Bioscience, Tokyo University of Agriculture, Tokyo, Japan
Yayoi Obata
NARO Institute of Livestock and Grassland Science, Tsukuba, Japan
Yuji Hirao
Orie Hikabe
K.H., O.H., Y.O. and Y.H. developed the techniques. K.H. wrote the manuscript.
Correspondence to Katsuhiko Hayashi.
Integrated supplementary information
Supplementary Figure 1 Evaluation of 11 media for IVD culture
Representative images of E12.5 gonads cultured with the media and on the days indicated are shown. Note that the number of oocytes is highest in the culture with SptemPro34. Further evaluation revealed that the combination of αMEM and StemPro34 media was suitable for IVD culture of reconstituted ovaries5. Scale bars, 500 μm. These experiments were performed under the ethical guidelines of Kyushu University.
Supplementary Figure 2 IVD culture with fresh or frozen-thawed gonadal somatic cells
Two representative images of IVDi culture with fresh or frozen-thawed gonadal somatic cells are shown. BF, bright field; SC, stella-ECFP. Scale bars, 200 μm. These experiments were performed under the ethical guidelines of Kyushu University.
Supplementary Figures 1 and 2. (PDF 399 kb)
Hayashi, K., Hikabe, O., Obata, Y. et al. Reconstitution of mouse oogenesis in a dish from pluripotent stem cells. Nat Protoc 12, 1733–1744 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nprot.2017.070
Issue Date: September 2017
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/nprot.2017.070
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I don't know where to post it, in which thread but it's anyway related most probably to Neon distro or KDE itself...since I've used iso image with release date around 08 november 2018 after installation everything goes well and after some updates something starts with disk, some packages are stuck during installation process while hard drive works all the time like processing some files forever and then silences, then some files in ~/.config folder have changed permissions like only readable...then after reboot I have to use fsck to repair disk filesystem partition because system won't load due to there disk errors.
Any ideas? I have new laptop, concrete brand so I don't think it's broken mechanically.
Please check that the image you have used is this one. If not download this image and try again.
It seems there're now all iso files with broken Neon packages in KDE Neon download section, it must be repaired quickly. Or they are ok as some other issues started with liveusb with much older date. It may be some update/s.
I used the same ISO image and the install went fine. This image is the latest.
During first boot after Neon install I had black screen with cursor when Plasma was meant to be normally loaded and probably accidentally found a way to work around it via pressing ctrl+shift+f1/f2 which should switch to tty mode anyway but it finished loading and showed plasma desktop as it should be from the start...after that the whole system worked well until some updates came or some hidden processes on disk were done in the background which changed permissions in ~/.config folder and made some disk errors. Something messes in updated latest package management or package installation.
I experience this the first time using Neon as its former releases like KDE 5.13.x or pre Ubuntu 18.04 LTS were stable. I tried to install newer linux kernels using Ukuu software and it went painfully: none installation went clearly from start to finish, I always needed to cancel as the installation was stuck (hard disk) and retry using Synaptic or terminal. Now I'm affraid to install anything or just to make any hard disk operations as the system may stuck again...but fsck fixed all disk errors and didn't log any permanent physical disk errors.
This pattern of errors created after fresh system install occured few times as I reinstalled Neon few times - it went same way, same sequence.
less possible source of these issue may be one of PPAs that I use but I use only the most popular and few like gimp, blender, nvidia drivers, sort of that, no anything really exotic.
pawelg wrote: I tried to install newer linux kernels using Ukuu software and it went painfully: none installation went clearly from start to finish, I always needed to cancel as the installation was stuck (hard disk) and retry using Synaptic or terminal.
FYI I updated to kernel 4.19 with UKUU (and latest mesa with x-team PPA) without any issues four days ago. It's still working flawlessly.
Ryzen 5 1600, RX 580, MSI B350 motherboard.
The issue occured after updating laptop bios to the latest, the whole process went fine but since then I've experienced disk errors on both partitions (windows and linux) and in both cases all errors were reported as fixed but only Windows seems to work back fine while Neon still has same issue, packages installing takes years, overall very poor disk performance and I few times deleted whole ext4 partition and created it from scratch/installed whole Neon again, so it's weird anyway, sooner than later some weird things start to happen with file access or inability to make some read/write operations and installing anything new or any changes like deinstalling/updating packages either way hangs or takes almost infinity to finish.
I don't know is it just a bad coincident (hard drive errors and possibly broken former Neon iso) but I made new liveusb from recent Neon iso file (dated 15 november) and again fresh installed Neon and after first, very long load, another reboot went pretty fast and now Neon seems back to its initial performance which means fast and any installation packages goes normally. Will check further for any weird signs but hopefully none of them will come.
this maybe an answer as I shortly after installing fresh KDE Neon upgraded to kernel 4.19 via ukuu app, will try install again Neon and stay with kernel initially shipped and see what will happen.


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Weekly World News Update: June 13, 2018
Wednesday, June 13, 2018 1:47 PM | Anonymous
President Trump and Kim Jong-un Meet; Aftermath of the G7 Summit; Italy and Malta Say 'No' to Migrants; Qatar Blockade One Year In; Yemen Continues to Crumble; Rwanda Under Tight Control; World Cup 2018
"To me, it was quite disappointing that we really did not put on paper any way that would test the seriousness of Kim Jong-un," said Joseph Yun. "We have to suspend our judgment" until something else happens, he said, but "there is nothing from the meeting to say we've achieved anything."
-- Joseph Yun, former U.S. Special Representative on North Korea Policy, in an article by The Washington Post about the U.S.-North Korea Summit on Tuesday.
President Trump and Kim Jong Un Meet
"Trump and Kim Got What They Wanted. The Rest of the World, Not So Much" Anne Applebaum -- The Washington Post, June 12, 2018
"Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un Sign the Blandest of Agreements" Editorial Board -- The Economist, June 12, 2018
"Mr. Trump, Where's the Beef?" Oh Young-jin -- The Korea Times, June 13, 2018
"Trump-Kim Summit: China and Kim are Winners" Daniel Fried -- Atlantic Council, June 12, 2018
"Stunning Our Allies" Victor Cha and Mike Green -- Center for Strategic and International Studies, June 12, 2018 [Podcast]
Aftermath of the G7 Summit
"Despite Trump, the West Must Stay United" Donald Tusk -- The New York Times, June 6, 2018
"U.S.-Canada Rift Roils NAFTA Talks" Paul Vieira and Sara Schaefer Muñoz -- The Wall Street Journal, June 11, 2018
"Why the G7 Is a Zero" Jim O'Neill -- The Globe and Mail, June 12, 2018
"Trudeau Is Annoying, Not an Adversary" Rich Lowry -- National Review, June 12, 2018
"Trump Goes to War Against the Democracies" David Frum -- The Atlantic, June 10, 2018
"At G7 Summit, Trump Takes a Wrecking Ball to the West" Stewart M. Patrick -- Council on Foreign Relations, June 11, 2018
Italy and Malta Say 'No' to Migrants
"By Refusing Entry to Migrant Rescue Ship, Italy and Malta Reveal Legal Shortcomings" Doris Pundy -- Deutsche Welle, June 12, 2018
"Ideology First: Italy's Troubled Approach to Migration" Stefano M. Torelli -- European Council on Foreign Relations, June 11, 2018
Qatar Blockade: One Year In
"How Qatar Weathered the Gulf Crisis" Kristian Coates Ulrichsen -- Foreign Affairs, June 11, 2018
Yemen Continues to Crumble
"Five Reasons the Crisis in Yemen Matters" Alan Sipress; Laris Karklis; Tim Meko -- The Washington Post, June 8, 2018
"U.S.-Backed Catastrophe Brewing in Yemen" Keith Johnson; Colum Lynch; Robbie Gramer -- Foreign Policy, June 11, 2018
"The Marib Paradox: How One Province Succeeds in the Midst of Yemen's War" Adam Baron -- European Council on Foreign Relations, June 12, 2018
Rwanda Under Tight Control
"A Deathly Hush" Helen Epstein -- New York Review of Books, June 2018
"Is the World Cup for Nationalists or Citizens of the World?" Kanishk Tharoor -- The New York Times, June 11, 2018
"World Cup Carnival Exposes Limits of Western Sanctions on Russia" Max Seddon -- Financial Times, June 13, 2018
WACA Weekly Newsletter: June 11, 2018
Tuesday, June 12, 2018 2:56 PM | Anonymous
WACA Weekly
This Week: Peace Works with Rick Barton on Cover to Cover; Western Michigan Hosts Ambassador of Norway to the U.S.; Masha Gessen at WorldOregon; Travel to Portugal; Councils Hiring
Cover to Cover Tomorrow on Peace Works
Bosnia, Rwanda, Haiti, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria - a quarter-century of stumbles in America's pursuit of a more peaceful and just world. American military interventions have cost thousands of lives and billions of dollars, yet we rarely manage to enact positive and sustainable change. In his new book, former ambassador and global conflict leader Rick Barton uses a mix of stories, history, and analysis for a transformative approach to foreign affairs, offering concrete and attainable solutions for the future.
Join the June Cover to Cover conference call to discuss Barton's new book, Peace Works: America's Unifying Role in a Turbulent World, tomorrow, June 12, at 2:00-2:30 pm ET.
Register for the call
WAC Western Michigan Hosts Ambassador of Norway and Expert Panel
Today's security environment has no precedent. No single challenge to U.S. interests is equivalent to those posed by Nazi Germany, imperial Japan, or the Soviet Union during the 20th century. But the sheer volume and complexity of current and emerging security threats, and their interrelationship, may be just as daunting.
World Affairs Council of Western Michigan will host "World in Disarray: Prospects and Challenges for Transatlantic Relations" on Tuesday, June 12.
· Kåre Aas, Ambassador of Norway to the U.S. (pictured)
· Kadri Liik, Senior Policy Fellow, European Council on Foreign Relations
· Richard Fontaine, President, Center for a New American Security (CNAS)
· Julianne Smith, Senior Fellow and Director, Transatlantic Security Program, CNAS
· Mark Newton, Adjunct Senior Fellow, Transatlantic Security Program, CNAS
· Adam Routh, Research Associate, Defense Program, CNAS
Did you know that CNAS was a featured off-site at the WACA 2017 National Conference?
Masha Gessen at WorldOregon
WorldOregon will host Masha Gessen, Staff Writer for The New Yorker, to discuss Gessen's book, The Future Is History: Totalitarianism and the New Russia on Tuesday, June 12.
Masha Gessen was the winner of the 2017 National Book Award in nonfiction and is the author of several books, including The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin. The recipient of numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Carnegie Fellowship, Gessen also teaches at Amherst College and lives in New York City.
Travel to Portugal with Sarasota World Affairs Council!
Join the quintessential tour of one of the world's oldest nation states and birthplace of the world's 5th most spoken language. Learn about the country's rich history and regional diversity, and stay in unique properties that are themselves part of the country's cultural heritage, all while learning about the wines and gastronomy of Portugal!
Lynne Partington, Vice President of Programs at Sarasota World Affairs Council, will lead this tour, October 19 - October 31, 2018. Email Lynne for more information.
Councils Are Hiring!
World Affairs Council of Atlanta seeks a new Program Manager!
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WorldBoston is hiring a Manager of Operations and Global Education Programs.
Weekly World News Update: June 6, 2018
U.S. Trade War; June 12 U.S.-North Korea Summit; Protests in Jordan; Uncertainty in Italy; Iran Deal; Unrest in Brazil; Instability in South Sudan
"The idea that we are somehow a national security threat to the United States is quite frankly insulting and unacceptable."
-- Justin Trudeau, Prime Minister of Canada, in an interview about the U.S. position on North American trade on NBC's Meet the Press on Saturday.
What's Next for International Trade with the U.S.?
"Mexico and Canada Add to Nations Striking Fear in U.S. Farmers" Jacob Bunge; Heather Haddon; Benjamin Parkin -- The Wall Street Journal, June 6, 2018
"Trump's Trade War Sets Up a Battlefield Rout" Noah Smith -- Bloomberg, June 6, 2018
"Tariffs and Trump: Why the G7 Summit in Canada Could Be Awkward" Jessica Murphy -- BBC News, June 5, 2018
"A Trade War Primer" Paul Krugman -- The New York Times, June 3, 2018
Preparing for the U.S.-North Korea Summit
"'For Kim Jong-Un to Cheat, Risk Is Too High'" Yeo Jun-Suk -- Korea Herald, June 6, 2018
"Korean Peace Declaration 'Is Possible Without China but Would Be Weaker'" Sarah Zheng and Lee Jeong-Ho -- South China Morning Post, June 6, 2018
"Singapore Gears Up for the Greatest Show on Earth: The Trump-Kim Summit" Chun Han Wong; P.R. Venkat; Jonathan Cheng -- The Wall Street Journal, June 6, 2018
"A North Korean Opportunity for America and China" Richard N. Haass -- Project Syndicate, June 1, 2018
"Uninvited Guests Crash Trump's North Korea Talks" Nahal Toosi -- Politico, June 6, 2018
Protests Incite Leadership Turnover in Jordan
"Jordan's King Appoints New Prime Minister as Protests Resume" Omar Akour -- The Washington Post, June 5, 2018
"Jordan's Prime Minister Resigns Amid Protests Against Austerity" Jane Arraf -- NPR, June 4, 2018
"Marginalized Youth: Toward an Inclusive Jordan" Beverley Milton-Edwards -- Brookings Institution, June 6, 2018 [Report]
Italy's Uncertain Road Ahead
"Italy Needs to Be Handled with Care" Editorial Board --The Economist, May 31, 2018
"The Fall and Rise of Matteo Salvini" Erik Jones -- Foreign Affairs, June 5, 2018
Israel, Europe, the U.S., and the Iran Deal
"What do the Iranian People Want?" Rahman Bouzari -- Al Jazeera, June 4, 2018
"What Does Netanyahu Hope To Achieve On His European Trip?" Herb Keinon -- Jerusalem Post, June 6, 2018
"Washington's Dangerous Fixation on Iran" Doug Bandow -- The National Interest, June 4, 2018
"How Sanctions Feed Authoritarianism" Peter Beinart -- The Atlantic, June 5, 2018
Unrest in Brazil
"Brazil, Scared and Leaderless, Looks to the Military" Brian Winter -- Americas Quarterly, May 31, 2018
"Truckers' Strike Highlights 'A Dangerous Moment' for Brazil's Democracy" Dom Phillips -- The Guardian, June 5, 2018
"Brazil's Centrist Parties Urged to Unite, But Behind Whom?" Anthony Boadle -- Reuters, June 5, 2018
Instability Continues in South Sudan
"South Sudan Has Failed Its Children. We Must Not." Nikki Haley -- The Washington Post, May 30, 2018
"Conflict in Abyei Could Reignite South Sudan's Civil War" Sam Mednick -- Foreign Policy, June 6, 2018
WACA June 2018 Newsletter
Tuesday, June 05, 2018 10:35 AM | Anonymous
This Month: WAC San Antonio Is Council of the Month; Utah Hosts Future of Korea; Oman 2018 in San Antonio; U.S.-China Global Ed TV Series; Rick Barton on Cover to Cover; New Podcasts; Member Discounts; Councils in the News
Council of the Month: World Affairs Council of San Antonio
WACA is pleased to announce that the World Affairs Council of San Antonio is our June Council of the Month for hosting the 2018 Spring Leadership and Board Meetings.
Highlights of the Spring Leadership Meeting included an engaging opening program on San Antonio's history with historian Gilberto Hinojosa, an in-depth dinner talk by Stratfor's Reva Goujon, and constructive sessions on WACA membership, and with speakers Jennifer Cantu, SVP in Business and Community Management at Bank of America, and David Davenport, Director of Estate and Planned Gift Giving at San Antonio Area Foundation.
Thank you to Leslie Palmer, Executive Director of WAC San Antonio, and her team for coordinating such a successful program this year!
L to R: WACA President Bill Clifford; WAC San Antonio member; WAC San Antonio Executive Director Leslie Palmer; WACA Board Member Nancy Hamlin; WACA Board Member and WAC Charlotte President L.J. Stambuk.
Utah Council to Host Future of Korea This Week
Utah Council for Citizen Diplomacy will present an Engage America: Future of Korea program in partnership Korea Economic Institute this Thursday, June 7.
· Vanna Lavery, Republic of Korea Desk Officer, U.S. Department of State
· Seungnam Lee, Second Secretary of the Embassy of the Republic of Korea in the U.S.
· Phil Eskeland, Executive Director of Operations and Policy, Korea Economic Institute
U.S.-China Global Education Television Series Launch
The Confucius Institute U.S. Center, strategic partner with World Affairs Council - DC, recently announced its June 2 - July 1 nationwide broadcast schedule of the U.S.-China Global Education Television Series on the MHz Worldview Channel.
The series features one-on-one interviews between distinguished American private and public sector leaders and the presidents of U.S. universities and cultural organizations that host Confucius Institutes.
Featured guests include:
· David Abney, Chairman and CEO of UPS and WACA 2016 Conference keynote speaker
· Chuck Hagel, former U.S. Secretary of Defense
· Bertrand-Marc Allen, President of Boeing International
· More
See press release for more details
June Cover to Cover:
Rick Barton on Peace Works
Join the June Cover to Cover conference call to discuss Barton's new book, Peace Works: America's Unifying Role in a Turbulent World, on Tuesday, June 12, at 2:00-2:30 pm ET.
Dambisa Moyo will discuss Edge of Chaos: Why Democracy is Failing to Deliver Economic Growth - and How to Fix It.
Register for June's Cover to Cover
Listen to WACA's Latest KNOW NOW Podcast!
The Israel-Palestine conflict has reached yet another inflection point. What's next for this protracted conflict? Is hope lost for a peaceful resolution? Is there an end in sight?
Listen to the podcast of our KNOW NOW program with Yousef Bashir, Gaza-born peace activist, to gain insight on these complex questions.
Global I.Q. Minute
In this episode of World Affairs Council of Dallas/Fort Worth's Global I.Q. Minute, Tom Peters, author of The Excellence Dividend, reveals how organizations can thrive in the age of algorithms while elevating the heart and soul of every worthwhile endeavor - our humanity.
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TODAY at 2:00-2:30 PM ET - KNOW NOW on Gaza
Thursday, May 31, 2018 10:10 AM | Anonymous
TODAY: KNOW NOW
Inside Gaza
The Israel-Palestine conflict has reached yet another inflection point.
What's next for this protracted conflict? Is hope lost for a peaceful resolution? Is there an end in sight?
Yousef Bashir, a Gaza-born peace activist, will join WACA for a special KNOW NOW program, Inside Gaza, to shed light on these complex questions.
Yousef began his journey as a peacemaker after being shot in the back at 15 by an Israeli solder. He credits his father for teaching him to forgive and find reconciliation instead of turning to anger and revenge. Bashir holds a BA in International Affairs from Northeastern University and an MA in Coexistence and Conflict from Brandeis University. His experience includes serving as Congressional Intern, a Partnership for a Secure America Scoville Fellow, and partaking in the Seeds of Peace and Kids 4 Peace programs. His story has been featured on media outlets such as NPR and The Washington Post. Currently, Yousef works on Congressional Affairs for the Chief Representative of the PLO to the U.S. He will release a memoir, The Words of My Father, in late September of this year.
Join the May KNOW NOW call today, May 31, from 2:00-2:30 PM ET.
Cover to Cover: June - July
Rick Barton will discuss Peace Works: America's Unifying Role in a Turbulent World.
Weekly World News Update: May 30, 2018
Wednesday, May 30, 2018 3:00 PM | Anonymous
Italy's Political Crisis; Death Toll in Puerto Rico; Inside Gaza; U.S.-North Korea Negotiations; Violence in Cameroon; Crimes Against Humanity in Venezuela; Colombia Heads to a Runoff
"The European Union is in an existential crisis."
-- George Soros, billionaire investor and philanthropist, warned Tuesday in Paris, in a speech delivered to the Annual Meeting at the European Council on Foreign Relations.
Great Implications for Italy's Political Crisis
"What Comes Next for Italy?" Beppe Severgnini -- The New York Times, May 28, 2018
"Spitting in Europe's Face Won't Help Italy" Rachel Donadio -- The Atlantic, May 28, 2018
"Dow Sinks 504 Points - Then Rallies - As Italy's Political Crisis Triggers Global Sell-Off" Thomas Heath -- The Washington Post, May 29, 2018
"Italy's Revolt Against the EU" Erik Jones -- Foreign Affairs, May 24, 2018
"How to Save Europe" George Soros -- Project Syndicate, May 29, 2018
The Real Death Toll of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico
"Mortality in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria" Panel of Experts -- The New England Journal of Medicine, May 29, 2018 [Report]
"Puerto Rico Governor Welcomes 'Real Number' of Hurricane Maria Deaths After Shocking Report" Editorial Board -- CBS News, May 30, 2018
"Israel and Palestinians Trade Fire on Gaza Border Amid Ceasefire Talk" Ruth Eglash -- The Washington Post, May 30, 2018
"Killer Drones, Incendiary Kites, Sniper Rifles and Robot Machine Guns Contribute to Gaza Bloodbath" Sebastien Roblin -- The National Interest, May 27, 2018
Register for Tomorrow's KNOW NOW Call to Learn More
Saving U.S.-North Korea Negotiations
"Korea Summitry" Richard N. Haass -- Foreign Affairs, May 25, 2018
"Trump Should Get Even Tougher with North Korea" Marc A. Thiessen -- The Washington Post, May 24, 2018
"Can South Korea Save the Summit?" E. Tammy Kim -- The New York Times, May 27, 2018
"The North Korea Summit Jitters Scare America's Allies" Joergen Oerstroem Moeller -- The National Interest, May 29, 2018
"How Leaving China in the Dark Helped Doom the Trump-Kim Summit" John S. Van Oudenaren -- The Diplomat, May 26, 2018
Violence in Cameroon
"Cameroon's 'Quiet' Anglophone Crisis Keeps Escalating with Killings, Detentions Mounting" Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu -- Quartz, May 29, 2018
Crimes Against Humanity in Venezuela
"Panel of Independent International Experts Finds 'Reasonable Grounds' for Crimes Against Humanity Committed in Venezuela" Mónica Reyes -- Organization of American States, May 29, 2018 [Press Release]
"Maduro Uses Repression and Military Purge to Stay in Power in Venezuela" Antonio Maria Delgado -- Miami Herald, May 29, 2018
"U.S. Sanctions Must Be Precise in Order to Spare Innocent Venezuelans" Dany Bahar -- The Hill, May 24, 2018
Colombia Prepares for a Runoff
"Colombians Hope for Change in the First Post-War Presidential Election" Editorial Board -- The Economist, May 26, 2018
"In Colombia, Far-Right and Hard-Left Candidates Will Vie for Presidency" Susan Abad and Nicholas Casey -- The New York Times, May 27, 2018
WACA Weekly Newsletter: May 29, 2018
Wednesday, May 30, 2018 9:06 AM | Anonymous
This Week: Inside Gaza on KNOW NOW Thursday; FPA Centennial Dinner; Council Highlights
Thursday KNOW NOW: Inside Gaza
Born in the Gaza Strip, Yousef was paralyzed from the waist down at age 15 after being shot in the spine by an Israeli soldier. During an agonizing recovery at a hospital in Tel Aviv, Yousef was inspired to become a peacemaker by his father's message of coexistence. Bashir holds a BA in International Affairs from Northeastern University and an MA in Coexistence and Conflict from Brandeis University. His experience includes serving as Congressional Intern, a Partnership for a Secure America Scoville Fellow, and partaking in the Seeds of Peace and Kids 4 Peace programs. His story has been featured on media outlets such as NPR and The Washington Post. Currently, Yousef works on Congressional Affairs for the Chief Representative of the PLO to the U.S. He will release a memoir, The Words of My Father, in late September of this year.
Join the May KNOW NOW call this Thursday, May 31, from 2:00-2:30 PM ET.
Foreign Policy Association Holds Centennial Dinner
Inge Thulin
Chairman, President, CEO, 3M
Foreign Policy Association (FPA) will host its 2018 Centennial Annual Dinner on Thursday, May 31.
FPA will present its Corporate Social Responsibility Award to Inge Thulin, President, Chairman, and CEO of 3M, and to Darius Adamczyk, Chairman and CEO of Honeywell.
Darius Adamczyk
Chairman and CEO, Honeywell
FPA will also recognize the work of William R. Rhodes, President and CEO of William R. Rhodes Global Advisors, LLC, and Sana Sabbagh, for their lifetime of philanthropy and work in international affairs education. Both Rhodes and Sabbagh are Directors of the Foreign Policy Association.
Welcome, Summer Interns!
Please join WACA in welcoming our two summer Program and Outreach Interns, Anna Bonsu and Kemal Taban!
Anna graduated Cum Laude with a BA in international studies and political science from Old Dominion University in May 2018. At ODU, she was a member of the International Studies and Political Science National Honor Societies, and served in an executive role at the organization Global Learning ODU. Anna spent her junior year in Seoul, South Korea. She previously interned on a campaign for the 2017 Virginia state election.
Kemal is a rising junior at The College of William and Mary, majoring in international relations and minoring in economics. He is active on campus and serves as Treasurer of the Muslim Student Association and Undersecretary of Diversity Initiatives on the Student Assembly. Kemal has previously worked at the American Psychological Association and with several political campaigns.
Are you a current university student, interested in joining the WACA team? We hire driven, internationally engaged students for fall, spring, and summer terms. Please check our employment page for timelines and information on how to apply!
WorldBoston Is Hiring!
WorldBoston is hiring a Manager of Operations and Global Education Programs!
World Affairs Council of Maine hosts Judith Fergin, former U.S. Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste, for "Asia-Pacific Views of the U.S. and Why They Matter." Details
World Affairs Council of Greater Houston hosts James Clapper, former U.S. Director of National Intelligence, to discuss his book, Facts and Fears: Hard Truths from a Life in Intelligence. Details
World Affairs Council of Dallas/Fort Worth hosts Paula Minnis, Founder of GAIA, for "How a Social Entrepreneur Is Helping Resettled Refugees One Pouch at a Time…" Details
World Affairs Council of New Hampshire hosts Dean Spiliotes, Civic Scholar in the School of Arts and Sciences at Southern New Hampshire University, for a film screening and discussion of The Final Year. Details
World Affairs (Northern California) hosts Fran Ulmer, Chair of the United States Arctic Research Commission, for "After the Arctic Ice Melts." Details
World Affairs Council of Dallas/Fort Worth hosts James Clapper, former U.S. Director of National Intelligence, to discuss his book, Facts and Fears: Hard Truths from a Life in Intelligence. Details
San Diego World Affairs Council hosts Y Pang Tsui, inventor and developer of engineering processes for manufacturing, for "Hong Kong: Reintegration into China." Details
Santa Fe Council on International Relations hosts Rob Reider, former SFCIR Board Member, to discuss his books, The Genius Club and American Scream. Details
World Affairs Council of Western Michigan hosts Michael Hershman, President and CEO of the Fairfax Group, for "Global Corruption: Overview and Navigation for U.S. Businesses." Details
World Affairs Council of Western Michigan hosts William Garvelink, former U.S. Ambassador to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, for "Global Trends in International Relations: Pandemics, Corruption, and Failed States." Details
Travel the World with WAC Philadelphia
Travel with Council Leaders - hear them lecture on Travel the World tours from the World Affairs Council of Philadelphia!
2018 travel schedule includes trips to:
· Craig Snyder, President and CEO, World Affairs Council of Philadelphia, Poland & Moscow Seminar: July 14-22
· Jim Falk, President and CEO, World Affairs Council of Dallas/Fort Worth, Cruise the Rhine, July 11-29
· Megan Torrey, CEO, World Affairs Council of Connecticut, Himalayan Kingdoms, Sept. 11-25
· Dixie Anderson, Executive Director Emerita, World Affairs Council of Western Michigan, Romance of the Douro River: Sept. 15-26
· Joyce Davis, President, World Affairs Council of Harrisburg, Town & Country Life in Languedoc: Oct. 6-14
· Don Samford, Board President, Peoria Area World Affairs Council, Cuba: Nov. 4-12
· Megan Torrey, CEO, World Affairs Council of Connecticut, South East Asia: Jan. 29 - Feb. 11, 2019
· Mimi Gregory, Vice President of Programs, Naples Council on World Affairs, Grand Seine: June 30 - July 18, 2019
· Dr. Carla Thorson, Senior Vice President of Programs, World Affairs, Northern California, Arctic Expedition: June 21 - July 1, 2019
· Derrick Olsen, President, WorldOregon, Trade Routes of Coastal Iberia: Oct. 13-21, 2019
Contact www.wacphila.org/travel or call 1-800-942-5004, ext. 209 or 217.
Next Week! KNOW NOW on Conflict in Gaza on Thursday, May 31 at 2:00-2:30 PM ET
Tuesday, May 29, 2018 9:05 AM | Anonymous
Next Week: KNOW NOW
Yousef began his journey as a peacemaker after being shot in the back at 15 by an Israeli solder. He credits his father for teaching him to forgive and find reconciliation instead of turning to anger and revenge. Bashir holds a BA in International Affairs from Northeastern University and an MA in Coexistence and Conflict from Brandeis University. His experience includes serving as Congressional Intern, a Partnership for a Secure America Scoville Fellow, and partaking in the Seeds of Peace and Kids 4 Peace programs. His story has been featured on media outlets such as NPR and The Washington Post. Currently, Yousef works on Congressional Affairs for the Chief Representative of the PLO to the U.S.
Join the May KNOW NOW call on Thursday, May 31, from 2:00-2:30 PM ET.
Israel-Palestine Conflict; Iran Deal and the EU; North Korea Talks; U.S.-China Trade War; Venezuela's Elections; Reform in Saudi Arabia?
"No nation in the world allows foreigners to storm its border. Period. When the declared intention of the aggressors is to kill that nation's citizens, it is laughable to even suggest that a forceful response would not ensue."
-- H.E. David Friedman, U.S. Ambassador to Israel, in a Monday article for Fox News about the new U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem and violence in Gaza.
"The occupation must end, so the people of Palestine can be liberated, and the people of Israel liberated from it. End the occupation, and the violence and insecurity will largely disappear."
-- Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, in a statement at the Special Session of the Human Rights Council on Friday.
Israel-Palestine Conflict: Is There Hope for Peace?
"How to End the Endless Conflict Between Israel and the Palestinians" Editorial Board -- The Economist, May 17, 2018
"How Netanyahu Is Stoking Israelis' Fear of the Nakba" Galia Golan -- Haaretz, May 21, 2018
"World Must Tell Gaza's Hamas-Abused Masses the Truth: There Will Be No 'Return'" David Horovitz -- The Times of Israel, May 17, 2018
"Palestinians Ask ICC to Open Full Inquiry Into Israel" Marlise Simons and Alan Cowell -- The New York Times, May 22, 2018
"Don't Blame Hamas for the Gaza Bloodshed" Sari Bashi -- Foreign Policy, May 22, 2018
The Iran Deal and the Future of U.S.-EU Relations
"Pompeo Demands a King's Ransom from Iran" Curt Mills -- The National Interest, May 21, 2018
"The Trump Administration's Plan B on Iran Is No Plan at All" Suzanne Maloney -- Brookings Institution, May 22, 2018
"The Saudi Lobby's Scheme to Destroy the Iran Deal" William D. Hartung and Ben Freeman -- The American Conservative, May 23, 2018
"Europeans Want to Break Up with America. Deep Down, They Should Know that They Can't" James Kirchick -- The Washington Post, May 22, 2018
What's the Deal with the North Korea Talks?
"We Need to Test Our Assumptions About North Korea" Ken Gause -- The National Interest, May 22, 2018
"Who's to Blame the Hiccup in North Korea Talks? South Koreans Say Bolton" Anna Fifield -- The Washington Post, May 21, 2018
"Trump Blames China's Xi Jinping for Sabotaging the Kim Jong Un Summit" Gordon G. Chang -- The Daily Beast, May 23, 2018
"Trump's DPRK Dilemma" Dan Blumenthal -- American Enterprise Institute, May 22, 2018
U.S.-China Trade War Negotiations Move Forward
"Who Will Be the Biggest Losers from a China-U.S. Trade War Truce?" Frank Tang and Liu Zhen -- South China Morning Post, May 22, 2018
"Trump's China Deal Is the Worst Ever" Edward Alden -- Nikkei Asian Review, May 22, 2018
"In Trade War With U.S., China Gets the Upper Hand" Greg Ip -- The Wall Street Journal, May 22, 2018
Aftermath of the Venezuelan Elections
"How Long Can Nicolás Maduro Hang on to Power in Venezuela?" Jon Lee Anderson -- The New Yorker, May 22, 2018
"As Trump Adds Sanctions on Venezuela, Its Neighbors Reject Election Result" Nicholas Casey and Julie Hirschfeld Davis -- The New York Times, May 21, 2018
"A Fraudulent Election Means Even More Problems for Venezuela" Dany Bahar -- Brookings Institution, May 22, 2018 [Podcast]
Social Reform Halts in Saudi Arabia
"Saudi Arabia Hits the Brakes on Reforms" Simon Henderson -- The Atlantic, May 22, 2018
"Saudi Arabia Expands Crackdown on Women's Rights Activists" Sarah Dadouch -- Reuters, May 22, 2018
Tuesday, May 22, 2018 3:46 PM | Anonymous
This Week: WACA's Recap on San Antonio Meeting; Future of Korea at WAC Harrisburg; McFaul on Russia Podcast; plus Council Highlights
Spring Leadership and Board Meetings - Thank You WAC San Antonio!
WAC San Antonio's Leslie Palmer (C) with WACA Board members and guests
Karen Burghart (L), Matthew Hughes, and Kimberley Coles
Stratfor VP Reva Goujon delivers Friday dinner keynote
Thank you to all who attended the Council Leadership and WACA Board meetings last week in Texas, and especially to Leslie Palmer and her World Affairs Council of San Antonio team for hosting such a successful program!
In addition to workshops on How to Build an Endowment and on Developing Strong Corporate Relations, WACA President Bill Clifford presented the findings of our Council Benchmarking Survey. So far, we have a 53% participation rate from the Council network. According to Council colleagues, this survey provides invaluable information for local Councils. WACA would like to make our data even more robust by having 100% participation and so have kept the survey open. You can find the link here. Please fill it out if your Council has not yet done so. We are grateful!
Additionally, WACA and Council leaders held a productive discussion on the benefits of WACA membership. We will continue the conversation at the WACA National Conference, November 7-9, and aim to have the new dues structure in place by 2019. We value your input and encourage you to join us at the Conference for the Fall Leadership Meeting, signature policy forums, and special events.
Take Council Survey!
WAC Harrisburg Hosts Future of Korea
The first of eight Future of Korea 2018 events in the annual WACA-KEI program series will be held on Thursday, May 24.
World Affairs Council of Harrisburg will present this program in conjunction with its 2018 Torch of Global Enlightenment Awards, honoring distinguished individuals and globally responsible organizations.
Listen to Michael McFaul on podcast!
From Cold War to Hot Peace: An American Ambassador in Putin's Russia is a riveting inside account of four decades of U.S.-Russia relations, from the fall of the Soviet Union to the rise of the Russian President and his hostile challenge to the West.
Listen to the May Cover to Cover podcast of our conference call with Ambassador Michael McFaul on his new book.
World Affairs Council of Seattle and World Affairs Council of Orange County will feature McFaul in public forums this week. (see Council Highlights below.)
Join us for WACA's June 12 Cover to Cover with Ambassador Rick Barton on his new book, Peace Works.
Cleveland Council on World Affairs hosts François-Philippe Champagne, International Trade Minister of Canada, for "NAFTA: North American Competitiveness is Job #1." Details
World Affairs Council of Greater Houston hosts Jesús Silva-Herzog Márquez, Professor of Law at Instituto Tecnológico Autonomo de Mexico, for "Mexico's Presidential Election and U.S.-Mexico Relations." Details
World Affairs Council of Seattle hosts a panel of experts for "The Future of U.S.-China Relations: A Debate." Details
World Affairs Council of Austin hosts David Firestein, Founding Director of the China Public Policy Center, for "China, Innovation, and Us." Details
World Affairs Council Upstate hosts Paul Berg, former Foreign Service Officer, for "American Foreign Policy: Truth and Fiction from a Firsthand Perspective." Details
Santa Fe Council on International Relations holds a screening of Red Light Revolution. Details
World Affairs Council of Atlanta hosts Elizabeth Kiss, President of Agnes Scott College, for "Reimagining ATL as a Global Leader." Details
San Diego World Affairs Council hosts WACA 2017 Conference speaker Steven Pifer, former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine, for "Ukraine: Russian Interference and How the U.S. Can Bolster Ukrainian Security." Details
World Affairs (Northern California) hosts Shlomi Kofman, Consul General of Israel to the Pacific Northwest, for "Diplomat Luncheon." Details
Global Minnesota hosts Tom Hanson, Diplomat in Residence at University of Minnesota Duluth, and Joan Brzezinski, Executive Director of the China Center and Confucius Institute, for "Bridging the Gap in U.S.-China Negotiation and Communication Styles." Details
World Affairs Council of St. Louis hosts Rob Rudloff, Cybersecurity Team Leader at RubinBrown, and Matt Flinner, Education and Outreach Coordinator at Better Business Bureau, for "Cyber Security and You." Details
World Affairs Council of Seattle hosts Michael McFaul, former U.S. Ambassador to Russia, for "From Cold War to Hot Peace: Looking Back and Forward in the U.S. Russia Relationship." Details
World Affairs Council of Orange County hosts Michael McFaul, former U.S. Ambassador to Russia, to discuss his book, From Cold War to Hot Peace: An American Ambassador in Putin's Russia. Details
World Affairs Council of Orange County hosts WACA 2017 Conference speaker Steven Pifer, former U.S. Ambassador to Russia, and James Coyle, Director of the Center for Global Education at Chapman University, for "Russia's Border Wars and Frozen Conflicts." Details
International Relations Council (Kansas City) hosts a panel of experts for "The Opportunities and Challenges of Chinese Investment in the U.S." Details
World Affairs Council of Sonoma County hosts Norman Bowen, Professor Emeritus of Political Science at California State University East Bay, for "Macron's Vision for France and Europe." Details
World Affairs Council of Kentucky and Southern Indiana hosts WACA Cover to Cover author Dr. Jonathan D. Quick, Chair of the Global Health Council, to discuss his book, The End of Epidemics: The Looming Threat to Humanity and How to Stop It. Details
World Affairs Council of Charlotte hosts Brigadier General Stephen Cheney, USMC (Ret.), CEO of the American Security Project, for "First to Respond: The Military in the Age of Climate Change." Details
World Affairs Council of Dallas/Fort Worth hosts Brett Baier, Chief Political Anchor at Fox News Channel, to discuss his book, Three Days in Moscow: Ronald Reagan and the Fall of the Soviet Empire. Details

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Stephanie Thornton: Superstitions & A New Goal!
Superstitions & A New Goal!
I just finished reading The Wednesday Sisters by Meg Waite Clayton. In a nutshell, it's about five women in the late 60's who discover a mutual love of writing. The book was a fun read and I often found myself nodding along as the characters discovered some new revelation about writing.
Here's a passage I particularly liked.
I know writers who have a talisman or a ritual to make writing easier: bunny slippers they wear or a certain candle they always burn when they're writing; putting a pen to paper at sunrise, or noon, or 11:00 PM; sitting in a certain chair in a favorite cafe or walking their dog on the beach first; playing one song on their iPod on infinite repeat on one novel, then choosing another song for the next. But that always strikes me as dicey. What if that cafe table is taken? What if the god you walk on the beach eats your bunny slippers? What if your iPod dies? And the fact is, we're mothers and wives; if we waited for the stars to align just so, we'd still be waiting.
There are so many excuses not to write, but they're just that- excuses. I don't have any excuses (except work) and I'm halfway through Book #2. So I'm making my newest goal public.
The first draft of THE RELUCTANT QUEEN will be done by July 15th!
What about you? Do you have any writing superstitions? What are your current writing goals?


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Найл Джеймс Хо́ран (; род. 13 сентября 1993, Маллингар, Уэстмит, Ирландия) — ирландский певец, получивший известность благодаря группе One Direction и участию в шоу The X Factor в 2010 году.

Биография
Найл родился в небольшом провинциальном городке Маллингар в Ирландии 13 сентября 1993 года. Мать Найла — Маура Галлахер, отец — Бобби Хоран. У него есть старший брат — Грег. Отец и мать Найла развелись, когда ему было 5 лет. Найл и Грег жили в течение четырёх лет то с матерью, то с отцом. В итоге они решили переселиться к отцу, в Маллингар. Мать Найла вышла замуж и живёт со своим мужем Крисом в Мяхас-Тримь, графстве Лонгфорд.

Школьные годы и начало творческого пути
Найл учился в христианской школе для мальчиков и пел в местном церковном хоре. Музыкальные таланты у Найла раскрылись в раннем детстве, и, видя тягу сына к музыке, отец подарил ему на Рождество гитару. Со временем близкие стали положительно отмечать вокальные способности Найла. Как вспоминает сам исполнитель, он с ранних лет представлял себя в мечтах лишь на сцене. Кумиром его детства был певец Майкл Бубле и он всегда стремился быть на него похожим.

The X Factor и дальнейшая карьера
Целью участия Найла в проекте The X Factor была дальнейшая сольная карьера. Однако, по предложению судьи Николь Шерзингер, он, и ещё 4 участника, Лиам Пейн, Луи Томлинсон, Гарри Стайлз и Зейн Малик, были объединены в одну группу. В итоге новоиспечённый бой-бенд занял третье место на конкурсе. После окончания шоу группа подписала контракт с лейблом Syco Music. В ноябре 2011 года вышел их дебютный альбом Up All Night. Далее группа выпустила ещё 4 альбома: Take Me Home (2012), Midnight Memories (2013), Four (2014) и Made in the A.M. (2015).

В сентябре 2016 года было объявлено, что Найл подписал контракт с лейблом Capitol Records как сольный исполнитель. В этом же месяце он опубликовал свой дебютный сольный сингл под названием «This Town». 4 мая 2017 года он представил свою новую песню «Slow Hands».

В ноябре 2017 года вышел дебютный альбом Flicker, который в первую неделю релиза достиг первого места в хит-парадах США, Канады, Ирландии и третьего места в Великобритании.

Фильмография

Примечания

Ссылки

One Direction

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Background: To investigate the differences of clinicopathological characteristics and computed tomography (CT) features between intrahepatic cholangiocarcinomas (ICC) with and without peritumoral Glisson's sheath invasion (PGSI), and to construct a nomogram to predict PGSI of ICCs preoperatively.
Methods: The clinicopathological characteristics and CT features of 84 ICCs were retrospectively analyzed and compared between ICCs with (30/84, 35.7%) and without PGSI (54/84, 64.3%). Multivariate logistic regression analysis was used to identify preoperative independent predictors of PGSI in ICCs. A nomogram was constructed to predict PGSI preoperatively.
Results: ICCs with and without PGSI differed significantly in the presence of abdominal pain, serum carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) and carbohydrate antigen 19-9 (CA19-9) levels, TNM and T stages, tumor location, intratumoral calcifications, intrahepatic bile duct dilatation, intrahepatic bile duct calculus, morphologic type and dynamic enhancement pattern on CT images (all P<0.05). Abdominal pain, serum CEA level, intrahepatic bile duct dilatation, and morphologic type were independent predictors of PGSI in ICCs. A nomogram based on those predictors was constructed to predict PGSI preoperatively with an area under the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve (AUC) of 0.908 (P<0.001).
Conclusions: Clinicopathological characteristics and CT features differed significantly between ICCs with and without PGSI. A nomogram including abdominal pain, serum CEA level, intrahepatic bile duct dilatation, and morphologic type could predict PGSI accurately.


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Darcy Guttridge (born 30 October 1999) is an Australian rules footballer playing for the St Kilda Football Club in the AFL Women's (AFLW). She previously played for the Collingwood Football Club from 2018 to 2019. Guttridge was drafted by Collingwood with the club's second selection and the 9th pick overall in the 2018 AFL Women's draft. She made her debut in a loss to Carlton at Ikon Park in round 5 of the 2019 season. In April 2019, she departed the club and joined expansion side St Kilda. It was revealed Guttridge had signed on with the Saints for one more year on 30 June 2021, tying her to the club until the end of the 2021/2022 season.

Guttridge's partner Bianca Jakobsson also plays for AFLW club St Kilda.

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Statistics are correct to the end of the 2019 season.

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WWE Survivor Series 2022
WWE didn't want you to hear the loud Sasha Banks chants at Survivor Series
By Cain A. Knight Nov 28, 2022, 10:00am EST
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Sasha Banks and Naomi walked out of WWE just before the May 16 episode of Raw. Here we are six months later and they remain off television, even after WWE underwent regime change that saw Triple H and Stephanie McMahon assume power in place of Vince McMahon.
It sounded like Sasha and Naomi could be on the way back to WWE shortly after the regime change took place this summer, but it still hasn't happened.
WWE's Survivor Series 2022 event just took place this past weekend in Boston, which happens to be the city where Banks is billed from. Not surprisingly, there were some loud chants for her during the show.
On Wrestling Observer Radio, Bryan Alvarez and Dave Meltzer briefly discussed WWE's decision to lower the audio during those chants:
WOR: there was a loud "Sasha Banks" chant on the show that the audio was lowered forhttps://t.co/mYdKSjVF4U pic.twitter.com/xdpvZQYLFL
— Wrestling Observer (@WONF4W) November 27, 2022
Alvarez: "There was a loud Sasha Banks chant during the Ronda Rousey match, and they turned the volume down. They did not that want that one on television, so, make of that what you will."
Meltzer: "Well, they're in contract talks. The last I heard, it was a money situation, and that was a long time ago. So I don't know where it stands right now."
WWE's new regime has shown a willingness to bring back some highly paid stars like Braun Strowman and Bray Wyatt, who Vince McMahon released in 2021. Banks is still under contract with WWE, but it sounds like a disagreement over money could be the main thing that's keeping her on the sidelines right now.
What do you think of WWE's reaction to the Sasha Banks chants in Boston, Cagesiders?


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The boys then inspan the oxen and we proceed west to Kabwe School, about five or six miles distant.
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According to news reports, the man became ill shortly after returning from vacation in Destin Beach where he was visiting family for the 4th of July.
Cheryl Wiygul, the man's daughter, says the family discovered that a large sore had developed on her dad's back once they had returned home, as well as red bumps on his arms and legs. The man died on July 7, just 48 hours after his last swim in Florida.
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Q: Python- What word can have the most consecutive letters removed and still be a dictionary-valid word? I used this hideous and inefficient implementation to find the word that can have the most consecutive last letters removed and still be a word.
Rodeo, for example, is a well-known one: Rodeo, Rode, Rod, Ro.
The program found 'composers': Composers, Composer, Compose, Compos, Comp
I was wondering how I should go about creating a program that finds the longest word that can have ANY of its letters (not just the last ones) removed and it still be considered a word:
For example: beast, best, bet, be -- would be a valid possibility
Here was my program to find the one that removes consecutive letters (I'm also interested in hearing how this can be improved and optimized):
#Recursive function that finds how many letters can be removed from a word and
#it still be valid.
def wordCheck(word, wordList, counter):

    if len(word)>=1:
        if word in wordList:
            return (wordCheck(word[0:counter-1], wordList, counter-1))
        else:
            return counter
    return counter

def main():
    a = open('C:\\Python32\\megalist2.txt', 'r+')
    wordList = set([line.strip() for line in a])
    #megaList contains a sorted list of tuple of
    #(the word, how many letters can be removed  consecutively)
    megaList = sorted([(i, len(i)-1- wordCheck(i, wordList, len(i))) for i in wordList], key= lambda megaList: megaList[1])

    for i in megaList:
        if i[1] > 3:
            print (i)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

A: Here's an implementation I just wrote up. It runs in about five seconds with my ~235k word list. The output doesn't show the whole chain, but you can easily reassemble it from the output.
# Load the words into a dictionary
words = dict((x.strip(), set()) for x in open("/usr/share/dict/words"))

# For each word, remove each letter and see if the remaining word is still
# in the dictionary. If so, add it to the set of shorter words associated with
# that word in the dictionary.
# For example, bear -> {ear, bar, ber}
for w in words:
    for i in range(len(w)):
        shorter = w[:i] + w[i+1:]
        if shorter in words:
            words[w].add(shorter)

# Sort the words by length so we process the shortest ones first
sortedwords = sorted(words, key=len)

# For each word, the maximum chain length is:
#  - the maximum of the chain lengths of each shorter word, if any
#  - or 0 if there are no shorter words for this word
# Note that because sortedwords is sorted by length, we will always
# have maxlength[x] already available for each shorter word x
maxlength = {}
for w in sortedwords:
    if words[w]:
        maxlength[w] = 1 + max(maxlength[x] for x in words[w])
    else:
        maxlength[w] = 0

# Print the words in all chains for each of the top 10 words
toshow = sorted(words, key=lambda x: maxlength[x], reverse=True)[:10]
while toshow:
    w = toshow[0]
    print(w, [(x, maxlength[x]) for x in words[w]])
    toshow = toshow[1:] + list(x for x in words[w] if x not in toshow)

The longest word chain in my dictionary is:

*

*abranchiate

*branchiate

*branchiae

*branchia

*branchi

*branch

*ranch

*rach

*ach

*ah

*a

A: for each english word W:
    for each letter you can remove:
        remove the letter
        if the result W' is also word:
            draw a line W->W'
for each english word W:
    connect ROOT-> each english word W
use a graph search algorithm to find the longest path starting at ROOT
    (specifically, the words are now in a directed acyclic graph; traverse
    the graph left-right-top-down, i.e. in a "topological sort", keeping
    track of the longest candidate path to reach each node; this achieves
    the result in linear time)

this algorithm only takes linear O(#wordsInEnglish*averageWordLength) time! basically as long as it takes to read the input
It can easily be modified to find consecutive letters removed: rather than keeping a single candidate per node like (Node('rod').candidate = rodeo->rode->rod), keep a family of candidates per node AND the index of the letter you removed to get each candidate (Node('rod').candidates={rodeo->rod|e->rod|, road->ro|d}). This has the same running time.

A: Maybe I'm just missing the point of the exercise, but shouldn't a simple heuristic rule be able to cut down a lot of the search?  Especially if you are trying to just find a single word that can have the most letters cut, you'd probably just want to look at the largest words and check if they contain any of the smallest ones.
For example, a huge number of words include the letters "a" and "i" which are both valid English words.  Moreover, longer words will be increasingly likely to have one or both letters.  You can probably skip any word that doesn't have an "a" or "i" immediately.
You could probably work this into Greg's solution, actually, if you get your sorted copy of the word list first, i.e.:
# Similar to Greg's.  Reads into a dict
words = dict((x.strip(), None) for x in open("/usr/share/dict/words"))
# Generates a reverse sorted list from the dict (largest words first)
sortedwords = sorted(words, key=len, reverse=True)

# Largest possible reduction is making a longest word into 1 letter
longestPossible = len(sortedWords[0])-1

# Function that recursively finds shorter words and keeps count of reductions
def getMaxLettersRemoved(w, words, alreadyRemovedCount=0):
    # If you've already calculated the value, return it
    if words[w] is not None:
        return words[w]
    # Recursively calculate how many letters you can remove
    shorterPossibilities = [w[:i] + w[i+1:] for i in xrange(len(w))]
    # Calculate how max # of letters you can remove from shortened words
    totalRemoved = max([getMaxLettersRemoved(w, words, alreadyRemovedCount+1) for shorter in shorterPossibilities if shorter in words])
    # Total removed will be the same or will increase due to removals from shorter words
    totalRemoved = max(totalRemoved, alreadyRemovedCount)
    # Cache the result and return it
    words[w] = totalRemoved
    return totalRemoved

# Go through words from largest to smallest, so long as they have 'a' or 'i'
bestNumRemoved = 0
for w in sortedwords:
    if 'a' in w or 'i' in w:
        # Get the number of letters you can remove
        numRemoved = getMaxLettersRemoved(w, words)
        # Save the best one found
        if numRemoved > bestNumRemoved:
            bestWord = w
            bestNumRemoved = numRemoved
        # Stop if you can't do better
        if bestNumRemoved >= len(w)-1:
            break

# Need to make sure the best one found is better than any left
if bestNumRemoved < longestPossible:
    for w in sortedwords:
        # Get the number of letters you can remove
        numRemoved = getMaxLettersRemoved(w, words)
        # Save the best one found
        if numRemoved > bestNumRemoved:
            bestWord = w
            bestNumRemoved = numRemoved
        # Stop if you can't do better
        if bestNumRemoved >= len(w)-2:
            break

So this one differs in a few ways.  Firstly, it sorts first so you can get the largest words.  Secondly, it completely ignores any word not containing an 'a' or an 'i' on the first pass through.  Thirdly, it doesn't need to compute every word or the entire tree in order to produce a result.  Instead, it just does a recursive look through the words as they're needed.
Every time it cuts out a letter and finds a new word, it runs the same function to find out the number of letters it can cut out of that smaller word, plus the number already removed from whatever root word it came from.  This should in theory be fairly fast because it won't need to run on most words, since it does a typical optimization trick: checking if it's at an optimal bound.  First, it finds the best possibility among those with 'i' or 'a'.  Then, it checks words longer than the best one found to make sure that there isn't a better option that doesn't contain either letter but is at least 2 letters longer (so it could theoretically be better).
There's probably some improvements on this that could do an even better job taking advantage of the regularities of English using a probablistic algorithm, but I'd suspect this would be all right as a deterministic one.  Additionally, I don't have a dictionary on-hand so I can't actually uhm... run this, but the concepts are sound.
Additionally, I'm not entirely convinced that sorting the list of keys is worth it.  While the python sort algorithm works quite fast, it's still dealing with a big list and could have a pretty significant cost to it.  An ideal algorithm would probably have to take that cost into account and decide if it's worth it or not (probably not).  If one is not sorting the list, you'd probably want the first pass to only consider words of a certain minimal length- maybe even as part of a larger loop.  There's really no sense in calculating anything to do with words that might have nothing to do with the solution.

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(Lesson 2) What ideas about civic life informed the founding generation?
(Lesson 3) What historical developments influenced modern ideas of individual rights?
(Lesson 4) What were the British origins of American Constitutionalism?
(Lesson 5) What basic ideas about rights and constitutional government did colonial Americans hold?
(Lesson 6) Why did American colonists want to free themselves from Great Britain?
(Lesson 7) What basic ideas about government and rights did the State constitutions include?
(Lesson 8) What were the Articles of Confederation, and Why did some Founders want to change them?
(Lesson 9) How was the Philadelphia Convention organized?
(Lesson 10) Why was representation a major issue at the Philadelphia Convention?
(Lesson 11) What questions did the Framers consider in designing the three branches of the National Government?
(Lesson 12) How did the delegates distribute powers between National and State governments?
(Lesson 13) What was the Anti-Federalist position in the debate about ratification?
(Lesson 14) What was the Federalist position in the debate about ratification?
(Lesson 15) How have amendments and judicial review changed the Constitution?
(Lesson 16) What is the role of political parties in the Constitutional system?
(Lesson 17) How did the Civil War test and transform the American Constitutional system?
(Lesson 18) How has the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment changed the Constitution?
(Lesson 19) How has the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment changed the Constitution?
(Lesson 20) How has the right to vote been expanded since the adoption of the Constitution?


When I was 46 the wind blew the dust off my face. I saw myself clearly.
When I was 45 I became intimate with darkness.
When I was 44 I found a place in the community.
When I was 43 I only knew myself in relation to others.
When I was 42 I awoke to the racing of my heart.
When I was 41 I let the stars and planets guide me.
When I was 40 I couldn't wait for my morning coffee in a handmade mug.
When I was 39 I stayed at home.
When I was 38 I gave birth to a beautiful being.
When I was 37 I followed the path before me however foggy.
When I was 36 I gave myself away.
When I was 35 I didn't know boundaries.
When I was 34 I was surprised by the person I saw in the mirror.
When I was 33 I fell in love with a ghost beast.
When I was 32 I felt the magic of my ideas come to life.
When I was 31 my identity mutated with each interaction.
When I was 30 I blew out the candles of two cakes at once.
When I was 29 I left the mountains for the swamps.
When I was 28 I felt beauty and pain from inanimate objects.
When I was 27 I pretended to study so I could play.
When I was 26 I wandered begrudgingly.
When I was 25 I struggled with obstacles I could not name.
When I was 24 I drank and danced all night long.
When I was 23 I circumambulated a holy city.
When I was 22 I wanted to be alone.
When I was 21 I took flight when they chased me.
When I was 20 I wasn't bothered by what people said.
When I was 19 I stopped wearing my glasses because the world was sharp.
When I was 18 I took the stairs daily to the 15th floor.
When I was 17 I ran as far as I could.
When I was 16 I said no.
When I was 15 I obsessed over my appearance.
When I was 14 I searched for a best friend.
When I was 13 I imagined a better life as an adult.
When I was 12 I felt like a person.
When I was 11 I time-travelled in my spaceship igloo.
When I was 10 I made a plan to run away.
When I was 9 I imagined dramas as I played the piano.
When I was 8 I did everything correctly.
When I was 7 I was tall enough to reach the sink.
When I was 6 I understood linear time.
When I was 5 I spun as fast as I could til I fell.
When I was 4 I confided in my wool doll, Yoshiko.
When I was 3 a supernatural wave washed over me.
When I was 2 I understood there to be more than one language.
When I was 1 I felt the world open up as I stood on two strong legs.
Before I was 1, I marveled beneath the dappled light of a tree. I was safe.
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Q: How do I convert local .JPG file to Base64 to work with Boto3 and Detect_Text? Relevant Code:
import boto3
from PIL import Image
import base64

client = boto3.client('rekognition')

filename = r'C:\Users\H-63\Pictures\scantests\Rekognition test.JPG'

with open(filename, 'rb') as image_file:
    image = image_file.read()

image = base64.b64encode(image).decode('UTF-8')

response = client.detect_text(
    Image={'Bytes': image
        })

However,
When I run this, I get an error:
An error occurred (InvalidImageFormatException) when calling the DetectText operation: Request has Invalid image format

How do I get my image to be the right format for detect_text? The documentation says it has to be base64 encoding.

A: I'm not sure why the documentation even mentions base64, but the function requires bytes. So just use:
with open(filename, 'rb') as image_file:
  image = image_file.read()
  client.detect_text(Image={'Bytes': image})

A: You can just use bytes the return of read()
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/rekognition/latest/dg/images-bytes.html
#Copyright 2018 Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. All Rights Reserved.
#PDX-License-Identifier: MIT-0 (For details, see https://github.com/awsdocs/amazon-rekognition-developer-guide/blob/master/LICENSE-SAMPLECODE.)

import boto3

if __name__ == "__main__":

 imageFile='input.jpg'
 client=boto3.client('rekognition')

 with open(imageFile, 'rb') as image:
     response = client.detect_labels(Image={'Bytes': image.read()})

 print('Detected labels in ' + imageFile)
 for label in response['Labels']:
     print (label['Name'] + ' : ' + str(label['Confidence']))

 print('Done...')

[1]: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/rekognition/latest/dg/images-bytes.html


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Forum: Miscellaneous Chatter
Topic: What are you playing now?
Re: What are you playing now?
It's mostly smoke & mirrors though. Characters will talk about your decisions from way back all the time but it doesn't actually influence the course of the game that much.
The Walking Dead is surprisingly excellent. I didn't read the comics and stopped watching the show after a season or so but the game really hits you on a different level. I have no idea how they could ever live up to this in season 2 though.
I will probably at least get STAR TRAIL, which was, by and far, my favorite of the series. I actually saw Guido's KS and promoted it like crazy - but had a feeling it would not reach it's goal. He was asking for $1 Mill. That's a LOT of money. Especially after seeing LSL, SpaceVenture, etc - cuttin...
So are you gonna pick up the remakes of the other two games once they are released? Guido Henkel, the guy behind the three original 'The Black Eye' RPGs had a Kickstarter project a few months ago which fell well short of its goal (probably because the pitch was pretty awful). He's now working on a D...
Sat Aug 17, 2013 5:49 am
Forum: Non-Sierra Games & Help
Topic: BioWare writer quits after death threats to family
Re: BioWare writer quits after death threats to family
Jennifer Helper has contacted us to make it clear that she did not leave BioWare as a direct result of the harassment she received at the hands of gamers. 'BioWare was tremendously supportive of me during that time, and I have experienced nothing like it since, due to the excellent policing of the ...
I'm usually an honest gamer but I got a huge, comprehensive Sierra hintbook as a kid and considering my English wasn't really up to the level required back in those days, I used it frequently. I remember KQ4 as a beautiful game, first and foremost. I don't think I remember anything from KQ5 except f...
NOLF2. Which, as it turns out, is a Sierra game.
90s nostalgia is also strongly urging me to pick up Shadowrun Returns on Steam but I remain skeptical.
Topic: Hmm... question re: the Hobbit movie(s)
Re: Hmm... question re: the Hobbit movie(s)
Actually, most Peter Jackson films got the 'Director's Cut-treatment', even back in the 90s. I still haven't figured out why 'The Frighteners' needs a 4hr Making Of-documentary or why King Kong needs to run for 200 min though. That said, I thought with the Tolkien films at least fans were informed b...
Topic: Realms of Arkania: Blade of Destiny
Re: Realms of Arkania: Blade of Destiny
I looked at some reviews of the game today, seems like it's almost unplayable in its current form. People on the developer's studio are already getting their pitchforks out.
Topic: Adventure Games. My Thoughts Of Late.
Re: Adventure Games. My Thoughts Of Late.
Yeah, this is pretty good. I haven't really played any of the games he brings up (except for one stage of Super Meat Boy) but I recently played through Hotline Miami and this ticks a lot of the same boxes. Steam tells me I died about 560 times in the course of doing so but I can't say I was ever rea...
Just to be clear: I'm not arguing against modern gaming comfort. I can do without a lot of it but I like a questlog, for instance. I don't want to be taking handwritten notes during the game and I don't want to have to draw my own maps of dungeons and whatnot. I even like checkpoint saves for certai...
It's straying a little bit off topic but Richard Garriott talked a bit about how much he disikes all those 'comfort' options in modern RPGs [people with an exclamation mark above their heads, certain dialogue systems, questlogs, automaps etc.]. Not that I'm necessarily willing to believe his Shrouds...
I wonder if the widespread availability of walkthroughs and FAQs has contributed to this feeling. Maybe there's just less of an incentive to invest time or even get frustrated over puzzles when you know that you could get to the answer in a heartbeat and it takes all of 30 sec to open up a browser a...
Forum: The Police Quest Series
Topic: Precinct - Jim Walls Kickstarter!
Re: Precinct (Jim Walls KS)
Love how it's 80% nostalgia talk and 20% about the game. From what I've gathered, this is gonna be released in episodes and, like most Kickstarters, runs on Unity3D. Going by the gameplay video, it's also gonna be very simple.
I completely missed this as well. Please do let us know if it's any good, Tawmis.


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Leftist Dean at Ben Gurion University Indicted for Sexual Harassment of his Students
Leftist Dean at Ben Gurion "University" Indicted for Sexual Harassment of his Students
As Seinfeld would say, "Newman!!"
David Newman is, or at least was up unto this week, the Dean of Social Sciences and Humanities at Ben Gurion "University." The right-hand man of BGU president Rivka Carmi, Newman is a leftist liar, the close colleague and sidekick of the anti-Semitic Boycott-Israel extremist Neve Gordon, Israel's Norman Finkelstein.
Newman is a third-rate geographer who single-handedly built the department of politics at BGU into the worst anti-Israel propaganda center in the country, one in which no non-leftists or Zionists are permitted to teach, one in which students fear to contradict the anti-Israel rhetoric of the faculty. Standards in that department are so low that an international panel of experts called for closing it down altogether. Newman has long defended BDS terrorism against Israel. He crayons columns for the Jerusalem Post. He has repeatedly published lies about me.
And now Komrad Newman is facing prosecution for sexual harassment of students at BGU. The evidence is so overwhelming that even Carmi, who has always had Newman's back, could not sweep it under the carpet. This is the same Carmi who prosecuted a rightwing faculty member for sexual harassment when he forgot to close his zipper (see http://isracampus.org.il/third%20level%20pages/BGU%20-%20Rivka%20Carmi%20-%20investigates%20critic%20in%20zippergate.htm ) and who fired another faculty member from a position because he said he does not like the idea of gay couple raising children.
Here is the Haaretz report:
http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.717721
Ben Gurion University's Prof. David Newman faces disciplinary proceedings over sexual harassment complaint
According to the complaint, Newman, dean of the humanities and social sciences faculty, made sexually suggestive comments to a female student, embraced her and asked her to stay overnight with him.
By Yarden Skop | May 3, 2016 | 7:55 PM | 1
Ben-Gurion University has decided to begin disciplinary proceedings against one of its deans, Prof. David Newman, following a sexual harassment complaint by a student who worked under him.
Newman's position as dean of the faculty of humanities and social sciences makes him one of the university's top administrators.
Prof. Rivka Carmi, the university's president, recently received the findings of a preliminary inquiry carried out by the institution's sexual harassment complaints representative. After examining the findings, she decided to approve disciplinary proceedings against Newman, as she believed his actions had unequivocal sexual connotations.
The complainant has been a student in one of the departments where Newman teaches for the past several years. She also worked at the faculty of humanities and social sciences. She decided to file a complaint only after much hesitation, and said she did so only because the professor had serially harassed both her and some of her colleagues.
According to the complaint, Newman would frequently praise the student's looks and make suggestions to her, some of them sexual in nature. She repeatedly refused his suggestions and asked him to stop. In a few cases, he touched or embraced her.
Once, the complaint said, Newman suggested that she stay overnight with him. She refused and asked him to not repeat the offer. After that, she said, he continued harassing her, despite her refusals.
Eventually, she decided to quit her job at the faculty in order to avoid any professional contact with him.
Meanwhile, other people in the faculty decided to ask the university's sexual harassment complaints representative, Prof. Esther Priel, to look into Newman's behavior. The moment he found out Priel was looking into the matter, the complaint said, Newman tried to dissuade the student from filing her complaint.
After Priel finished her inquiry, she transferred her findings to Carmi, who decided to begin disciplinary proceedings.
Newman's attorney, Naomi Shalev Melzer, said, "Prof. Newman has no interest in proving anything or defending himself against anything in the pages of a newspaper, and he does not intend to recruit the media in order to prove his innocence. The confidential disciplinary process laid down in the academic bylaws is what will guide his steps, and he will act in accordance with its instructions."
The university said it "attributes supreme importance to eliminating sexual harassment, and it has acted and is acting in accordance with the law and with its orderly, scrupulous, process for preventing sexual harassment and examining every complaint. In its inquiry process, the university is scrupulous about preserving confidentiality, as mandated by law."
And so the Newman is about to join the Eyal Ben Ari fraternity:
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Dambrine, M.; Richard, J. P.
Stability analysis of time-delay systems. (English) Zbl 0797.34076
Dyn. Syst. Appl. 2, No. 3, 405-414 (1993).
Reviewer: E.Chukwu (Raleigh)
MSC: 34K20 34K25 34A40
\textit{M. Dambrine} and \textit{J. P. Richard}, Dyn. Syst. Appl. 2, No. 3, 405--414 (1993; Zbl 0797.34076)
Migórski, S.
Stability of parameter identification problems with applications to nonlinear evolution systems. (English) Zbl 0787.93081
MSC: 93D20 49K40
\textit{S. Migórski}, Dyn. Syst. Appl. 2, No. 3, 387--403 (1993; Zbl 0787.93081)
Dhillon, B. S.; Anude, O. C.
Common-cause failure analysis of a 1-out-of-\(n\) units system with a repairable warm standby. (English) Zbl 0781.60074
MSC: 60K10 60J20 90B25
\textit{B. S. Dhillon} and \textit{O. C. Anude}, Dyn. Syst. Appl. 2, No. 3, 371--386 (1993; Zbl 0781.60074)
Sun, Yong
Fixed points of weakly inward mappings. (English) Zbl 0803.47058
MSC: 47H10
\textit{Y. Sun}, Dyn. Syst. Appl. 2, No. 3, 363--369 (1993; Zbl 0803.47058)
Dyson, Janet; Bressan, Rosanna Villella
A local existence and uniqueness result for nonlinear nonautononous evolution equations. (English) Zbl 0786.35071
Reviewer: C.Marinov (Bucureşti)
MSC: 35G10 35K25 47H06 35A07 34G20
\textit{J. Dyson} and \textit{R. V. Bressan}, Dyn. Syst. Appl. 2, No. 3, 345--362 (1993; Zbl 0786.35071)
Terjéki, J.
Periodic solutions of second order damped wave equations. (English) Zbl 0785.35066
MSC: 35L70 35B10
\textit{J. Terjéki}, Dyn. Syst. Appl. 2, No. 3, 331--344 (1993; Zbl 0785.35066)
Inertial manifolds and the cone condition. (English) Zbl 0787.34036
MSC: 34C30 35B40 35G10 35K25
\textit{J. C. Robinson}, Dyn. Syst. Appl. 2, No. 3, 311--330 (1993; Zbl 0787.34036)
Kannan, D.; Wu, De Ting
A numerical study of the additive functionals of solutions of stochastic differential equations. (English) Zbl 0786.65134
Reviewer: W.Grecksch (Merseburg)
MSC: 65C99 60H10
\textit{D. Kannan} and \textit{D. T. Wu}, Dyn. Syst. Appl. 2, No. 3, 291--310 (1993; Zbl 0786.65134)
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