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Suana concolor is a moth of the family Lasiocampidae first described by Francis Walker in 1855. It is found in India and Sri Lanka, to South China, Java, Borneo and the Philippines.

Biology
The adult is a sphinx-like moth with dark reddish-brown wings and a lighter margin. One or two yellowish spots are found on the forewings. The female lays off-white to light brown eggs which are ellipsoidal. It has a single lateral ovoid brown spot. The caterpillar has a black head in first instars. Thoracic segments white and black transversely banded. Caterpillars hairy with downward directed tufts. Larval development usually lasts 60–80 days for the males and 85–100 days for the females. Pupa elongate bean shaped. It is dark brown to black to the tip of abdomen, with a shining cover.

Caterpillars feed on a diverse range of plants such as Careya, Ceiba, Canarium, Shorea, Castanea, Cinnamomum, Litsea, Persea, Acacia, Albizia, Cassia, Gossypium, Hibiscus, Embelia, Eucalyptus, Psidium, Syzygium, Citrus, Sonneratia, Theobroma, Camellia, Schima, and Tectona species.

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Home National Turns out Trump isn't sending $200 to older Americans like he promised
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Turns out Trump isn't sending $200 to older Americans like he promised
'We ran out of time,' an official with the Trump administration said.
Donald Trump will not keep his promise to provide older Americans $200 prescription drug gift cards. He announced the multibillion-dollar program last year, as polls showed him shedding voters over 65.
Politico reported on Thursday that the administration has abandoned efforts to send out the cards before Trump leaves office next Tuesday.
"It would take days to get all the sign-offs we still need, plus the time to print the letters and make the cards," an unnamed official told the outlet. "We ran out of time."
Trump promised in September that he would find a way to unilaterally send $200 cards to senior citizens to help them pay for their medications — even though Congress had not authorized the program.
"Nobody's seen this before, these cards are incredible," he bragged. "The cards will be mailed out in coming weeks, I will always take care of our wonderful senior citizens. Joe Biden won't be doing this."
The watchdog group Public Citizen called the announcement a "pathetic attempt to bribe voters" just before the November 2020 elections.
Like most of his campaign promises, the plan hit snags when he actually had to turn it from rhetoric to reality. The administration struggled to get the necessary approvals, though as recently as mid-December, they vowed to start sending out the cards by Jan. 1.
After his botched response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Trump's poll numbers with older Americans took a major hit. Pre-election surveys showed many in the group swinging hard from Trump in 2016 to Biden in 2020.
It's unclear whether the drug card promise made any difference to voters, but 2020 exit polls showed Trump won among voters age 65 and up by a 52% to 47% margin. This was closer than his eight-point margin with the group in his 2016 race against Hillary Clinton.
This is not the first time Trump has promised money to someone and skipped out on the bill — a hallmark of his career.
His campaign repeatedly refused to reimburse localities for security costs after his rallies. On Thursday, the Washington Post reported that Trump has even stiffed his personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani — instructing his staff not to pay his legal bills.
President-elect Biden promised to reduce the cost of prescription drugs and to allow Medicare to negotiate prices with pharmaceutical companies.
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Q: Using the *compact* property of subsets in $R$ to prove Bolzano-Weierstrass Theorem I have been asked to prove the Bolzano-Weierstrass Theorem with respect to a bounded sequence of real numbers by using the fact that closed and bounded subsets of $R$ are compact.
There is a hint along with the question stating that there are two cases: one where the same value appears infinitely many times in the sequence, and another where each value appears a finite number of times.
I have been attempting this question for a while, but I have been having trouble relating the compact property to the proof.

A: Hint 1 : Every sequence $a_n$ contains a monotone subsequence.
The proof is hidden below, you can attempt this yourself or look at the proof (by hovering the mouse over it) if you like:

 Let us call $n \in \mathbb{N}$ special if $a_n > a_m$ for all $m> n$. Then, two possibilities arise. One is that there are infinitely many special points, in which case there is a decreasing subsequence. On the other hand, if there are finitely many special points, then take $n_1$ larger than all the special points. Since $n_1$ is not special, there is $n_2 > n_1$ such that $a_{n_2} \geq a_{n_1}$. Now $n_2$ is not special etc. so we can form an increasing subsequence.

Hint 2:A bounded monotone sequence converges. This proof I leave to you.
Hence, every bounded sequence has a monotone subsequence, which is also bounded hence converges. You don't at all need compactness in this proof.

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I saw this documentary, and enjoyed it. First of all, it's in color, part of the new colorizing process that seems to be the rage, and it looks very good, and the color very natural.
I like how it shows things about the Cold War we didn't see earlier. I was very grateful they showed the expulsion of Germans from Eastern Europe, and all their suffering, as well as a lot of allied b.s. in ignoring local atrocities.
Also, showing how the communists gained power in Eastern Europe was informative. The Red Army was naturally in control, but the Soviets used a lot of fake parties promising 'democracy' to get the reds in power so they could claim to be genuine people's national movements. They kind pulled the wool over allied eyes at first.
Also, showed how the reds almost took over France and Italy, moving in after all the right-wing groups (fascist and Vichy) had been rooted out, leaving a vacuum. A lot of red tactics were very similar to Antifa.
What was interesting was Czechoslovakia. The Czechs actually cheered the red army, expecting them to liberate then leave. Instead, the communists infiltrated local parties, and essentially outmaneuvered the 'conservatives' and 'liberals.' Finally, the reds formed large, massive street rallies, shouting down and threatening other groups, who just gave up...sound familiar?
I was never that crazy about the Czechs. They never fight. In 1938, 1948, 1968...they just took it.
It was a balanced commentary, and as I said, so much of what the reds did looks like Antifa's tactics. The difference was, America finally woke up and did something...who will wake up and save us?
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Unusual for Internationale Geographic. Most of the stuff they broadcast on their TV channel is leftist, communist garbage. The magazine has been that way for the past 40-plus years, too.
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yeah looks like the National Geographic Channel is THE channel now the cable companies use to lure you into the most expensive package.
this Drain the Oceans series is really good. They can scan the mud at the bottom of the ocean and create 3-D imaging way down under the sea floor.
the one series on the invasion of Japan by Ghenghis Khan was excellent but I don't see it on youtube. Anyways that is where the name 'Kamikaze' came from, there was something like 4000 ships about to invade Japan, Ghenghis Khan was going to conquer Japan with an overwhelming invasion, but a huge cat 5 typhoon wiped out the entire fleet before it landed. that's what The Divine Wind was. Kami Kazi
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Thing about that is ,, just imagine how different the world would have played out if Ghenghis Khan had conquered Japan. That would have really altered the world so much. Just makes you wonder, how sometimes divine intervention occurs, under what circumstances and for what reasons. I mean, why wasn't the magic life force of those other people's strong enough to fend off Ghenghis Khan?
on a side note, did you know who those Uyghurs being put in concentration camps are, historically?? The Uyghur language was the written language of the Ghengis Khan empire, the Uyghurs were the scribes and administrators of the Khan empire
I have to get off into speculation, why the anti christ forces might want to seal the psychic wormhole to the Ghenghis Khan dimension, but there is definitely something to that in the things that they do. It's truly unmistakable. Like the whole 'De Nazification' of Germany or the 'De-Baathification' of Iraq. They want to destroy the rememberance of things in people's consciousness for mystical reasons. It's true. Just like Jews history being remembered, from thousands of years ago, what does it do to your mind when you remember your childhood in vivid detail? or you tap into those race memories of your parents or grandparents?? it's powerful. more than that, it raises your consciousness. you become part of the super organism. when those memories of your grandparents are triggered, now you share them with all their descendents. there is no 'you' or 'I', you become one. a superorganism.
The top witches fear the ghosts of Great men of the past. Ghenghis Khan's consiousness , his DNa exists in 16 million Chinese. they have his y chromosome.
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I've also noticed commercials run on NatGeo are some of the worst for race mixing, Covid-19 propaganda and general lefty-commie bullshit. It's a shame, the NGS used to have such good, informative and educational documentaries, but that hasn't been since about the 1980s.
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The Oxford Companion to the Mind (2 ed.)
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Term used by *existentialists to dramatize the sense of loss that comes from realizing that there is no external
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The Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers
Francis Ellingwood Abbot was born in Boston, Massachusetts on 6 November 1836. Following Boston Latin School, Abbot joined the class
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Thomas Kingsmill Abbott was born in Dublin on 26 March 1829 and died there on 18 December 1913. He
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Abbott Lyman was born on 18 December 1835 in Roxbury, Massachusetts. Lyman graduated from New York University with a BA
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Darrelle Revis Agrees To Extension With New York Jets, Ends Holdout
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In what has been a whirlwind of news over the past several months, the NFL's most popular contract holdout has come to and end. Darrelle Revis has agreed to a seven-year extension with the New York Jets.
ESPN's Adam Schefter was the first to report it via Twitter. Manish Mehta reports that it will be an additional four-years at $46 million, $32 million of which is guaranteed.
It has been said that Jets coach Rex Ryan himself flew down to Florida this past weekend to negotiate a deal. The Jets had previously offered a 10-year/$122 million deal, which was rejected by Revis.
The 25-year old Revis had six interceptions to go along with 51 tackles in 2009, solidifying himself as one of the best defensive players in the NFL. With his help, the Jets reached the AFC Championship Game for the first time since 1998.
"It not has only been hard on u guys but it has for me too. I just want to tell yall that I'm sorry for this process and I can't wait to get back on the field."
Throughout his holdout, Revis accumulated fines of $578,305. It is unknown if that will be worked into his contract. He is expected to play Week 1 vs. the Ravens.
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The omega-3 fatty acid eicosapentaenoic acid accelerates disease progression in a model of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive fatal neurodegenerative disease characterised by loss of motor neurons that currently has no cure. Omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids, such as eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA), have many health benefits including neuroprotective and myoprotective potential. We tested the hypothesis that a high level of dietary EPA could exert beneficial effects in ALS. The dietary exposure to EPA (300 mg/kg/day) in a well-established mouse model of ALS expressing the G93A superoxide dismutase 1 (SOD1) mutation was initiated at a pre-symptomatic or symptomatic stage, and the disease progression was monitored until the end stage. Daily dietary EPA exposure initiated at the disease onset did not significantly alter disease presentation and progression. In contrast, EPA treatment initiated at the pre-symptomatic stage induced a significantly shorter lifespan. In a separate group of animals sacrificed before the end stage, the tissue analysis showed that the vacuolisation detected in G93A-SOD1 mice was significantly increased by exposure to EPA. Although EPA did not alter motor neurone loss, EPA reversed the significant increase in activated microglia and the astrocytic activation seen in G93A-SOD1 mice. The microglia in the spinal cord of G93A-SOD1 mice treated with EPA showed a significant increase in 4-hydroxy-2-hexenal, a highly toxic aldehydic oxidation product of omega-3 fatty acids. These data show that dietary EPA supplementation in ALS has the potential to worsen the condition and accelerate the disease progression. This suggests that great caution should be exerted when considering dietary omega-3 fatty acid supplements in ALS patients.


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The Safari Tents at Sabora Plains Tented Camps are incredibly luxurious, yet due to their understated anitique-colonial style, they don't feel over the top.
Each of Sabora's tents is raised on a wooden platform – and entered through a door at the back. Once inside the tents at Sabora Plains Tented Camp are incredibly spacious, with cream carpeting, Persian rugs across the floors, and an array of antique furniture.
Leather-bound trunks sit at the foot of the vast four poster beds. Old leather directors' chairs and large floor cushions create a lounging area. The electric lights are discretely disguised as brass storm lanterns. To complete the colonial theme – in our room we had an old hat stand, with an antique safari pith helmet hanging from it.
On the coffee table, you will find classic games like chess, draughts and scrabble. There is also the traditional game of Bao which is played across many of the east and southern Africa countries. It is a really fun to learn from one of the team, though be warned they play a tough game. We didn't win a single game whilst we were there!
At the front of each bedroom at Sabora Plains Tented Camp is a veranda furnished with a pair of lounge chairs – this is a great spot to watch out for game. When we were sat here one evening a group of zebra raced passed us, only two or three metres from where we were sitting and completely unaware of our presence.
In addition to the veranda – there is also a comfortable day-bed and deck-chair set on the grass, a few metres in front of the tents – and all shaded by a white parasol.
The rooms at Sabora Plains Tented Camp all come complete with 24-hour electricity, hairdryers, UK-style sockets, wireless internet and an internet phone. Guests can use the wireless and the internet phone to call internationally free of charge.
The en-suite bathrooms at Sabora Plains Tented Camp can be found through a canvas dividing wall.
The bathrooms were our favourite part of these rooms – they are spectacular. The floors are covered with leather tiles and in front of the gauze window in a huge white claw-foot bath. An antique chest of draws sits to one side, with antique silver brushes and mirrors sitting on it. Then a huge freestanding mirror sits to the other. Adjacent to this are his-and-hers ceramic sinks set into a wooden surface.
Through a further canvas door is an open air shower, around which a wall of wooden poles has been cleverly crafted for privacy which still allows you to look out across the plains. Towels sit in a wrought iron towel rail and high-quality complementary toiletries from South Africa are provided.


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Introduction of NTCU
Education is to the basis of Taiwan progression, and teacher cultivation to the priority of it. In 1899, Taiwan elementary education thrived and required Taiwanese teachers as Public School teachers (now called elementary school teachers). Taichung Normal School was established in Changhua Wunwu Temple at the time, Taipei Normal School in Taipei Dadaocheng, and Tainan Normal School in Tainan Sanshang King Temple . With the President 木下邦昌 and sixty school faculties efforts, Taichung Normal School, the former of National Taichung University of Education, was the preface to the history of Taiwan teacher education.
In 1902, Taichung Normal School was not well processed as anticipation. The School and Taipei Normal School were suspended at the time and the one in Tainan as well in 1904. However, Taiwan rudimentary education has already popularized in 1923. At the same time, Japan government announced that Taichung Normal School affiliating to Taiwan Governor General Administration was reestablished in Taichung 川端町及後壠子 (No. 140, Minsheng Rd., West District, Taichung City ). On the day of opening ceremony, President 大岩榮吾 standing on an old plow declaimed to six teachers, one clerk and 95 students. " Taichung normal school now arises and the rough dorm is enclosed with. It may foster the future prospects and burden with great responsibilities. I urge you all to strive for our new school." This inculcation brought National Taichung University of Education the nearly hundred year education mission.
In 1943, the School was merged with Hsinchu Normal School to Taichung Teacher School (Junior College) of Taiwan Governor General Administration. Taichung Teacher School , at the time of Japanese occupation, nurtured two thousand more Taiwanese teachers who were all Taiwan elites and in addition, gave fresh impetus to Taiwan modernization.
In 1945, the government promoted the School to Taiwan Provincial Taichung Normal School . Mr. Hsueh Chien-Wu was the first president and then led the School to the era of Taichung Normal School . It came with a governmental movement and at the time within 1946 to 1949, there were four gentlemen, Hung Yen-Chiu, Liao Ying-Hua, Wang Yu-Lan and Huang Chin-Ao, taking charge of the School. President Liao encouraged all the faculties and students and wrote down the alma mater for school– One to be others' model is the light of the nation. President Wang left a motto of "setting a good example with one's own conduct," and President Hung accomplished teacher spirit of free and living education from 1949 to 1960. It established a concept of model teacher training and helped school advancing toward the time of Teacher Junior College .
In 1960, the sixth president, Mr. Chu Hui-Sen , formed a democratic and liberated atmosphere on campus and took the lead in upgrading the school and renamed Taiwan Provincial Junior Teachers College which then went into the first transformation-Teacher Junior College. Subsequently in 1967, Mr. Lo Jen-Chieh held the School as the second president. He marked the school motto-loyal, firm, diligent and plain-four spirits based on Confucian culture and expected the School formed with loyal responsibility, firm perseverance, diligent conduct, and plain attitude. According to the democratic concept and four spirits, the third President Chen Han-Tsung proceeded dorm construction, developed reading climate, and promoted extracurricular activities in 1981. During the time of Teacher Junior College , the School established refined and professional academic ideal and it animated the School to a modern academic institution.
The School was advanced to Taiwan Provincial Taichung Teachers College in 1987. From hiring Mr. Chien Mao-Fa the first president, the college stepped into the second transmutability. Present Chien focused on promoting educational specialized and nourishing intimate and caring teachers. At the year of 1991, it had been promoted to National Taichung Teachers College and 1994, in keeping with Taiwan diverse society, the second President-Liu Hsiang-Chuan specialized academic education. In 2000, the third President Lai Ching-Piao aggressively extended the second campus, adjusted the curriculum to cultivate students' multi-capability and upgraded the school as National Taichung University of Education . Meanwhile, continuous enabling students of not only professional but also distinguishing features are the main school policy and it catalyzed the centenary school toward another epoch.
President Lai and all the colleagues aimed at "stepping forward" and went through the next transformation by 2005. Hand in hand, they started the times of Taichung University . The next year, the second president of Taichung University , Mr. Yang Ssu-Wei, integrating the past social theory with refined ideal and academic professional, enabled non-teacher training students of pro-abilities and teacher training students of novel teacher spirits. Both refined specialists would make NTCU a model school of higher academy and in the future, the top in the region, the head in Taiwan and a distinguished liberal arts university in the nations.
The campus still resound with the inculcation spoken by President 大岩榮吾 , "…I urge you all to strive for our new school," and the past hundred thousand graduates leaving the Gothic building sang "Ilha Formosa, bristling NTCU, majestic in its variety…" It is still sung in every corner of Taiwan society and NTCU advances in the history toward the new age.
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Established in Changhua Wunwu Temple .
The School was suspended and the students were transferred to the Taiwan Mandarin school and Tainan Normal School .
School reestablished. Practicum was established with a maximum study period of seven years.
The main building (Administration Dept.) was completed and the affiliated elementary school was established.
The school was upgraded to a teacher school (junior college) and instituted the access course in Hsinchu normal school.
The Japanese occupation of Taiwan ended when the government surrendered to the Allied forces. The affiliation of the school with Taiwan Governor-General Administration also ended.
The government official, Mr. Hsueh Chien-Wu, took over the school which was renamed the Taiwan Provincial Taichung Normal School . A three-year program of general course was instituted for junior high and vocational junior high graduates.
Mr. Hung Yen-Chiu, be the president and extend three year art teacher training department.
Mr. Wang Yu-Lan, be the president.
Mr. Huang Chin-Ao, be the president.
Mr. Chu Hui-Sen , be the president.
The school was promoted to Taiwan Provincial Junior Teachers College and a three year program of elementary education courses was instituted for general and special education teachers, and senior high and vocational senior high graduates.
The school initiated a five-year day program and an evening-school program for training elementary school teachers.
Mr. Lo Jen-Chieh, be the president.
Summer courses division was set up and the school recruited elementary school presidents and teachers for refresher courses.
The school extended of summer open courses and recruited elementary school teachers with two year refresher courses.
Mr. Chen Han-Tsung, be the president.
The school was upgraded and renamed Taiwan Provincial Taichung Teachers College , which was comprised of Elementary Education Department, Language and Literacy Education Department, Social Studies Education Department, Mathematics and Science Education Department and Early Childhood Teacher Education Program.
Dr. Chien Mao-Fa, be the president.
The summer course division was switched to Division of Continuing and Extension Education and the school recruited elementary school teachers for refresher courses.
The College became affiliated with the Ministry of Education and was renamed the National Taichung Teachers College .
The College established the Graduate Institute of Elementary and Secondary (Education in August 1995), the Department of Early Childhood Education, and the Department of Fine Arts and Crafts Education.
The College established the Department of Music Education and the Department of Special Education.
Dr. Liu Hsiang-Chuan, be the president.
The College established the Graduate Institute of Educational Measurement a Statistics.
The College established the Department of physical Education and the Graduate Institute of Environmental Education, and divided the Mathematics and Science Education Department into the Department of Mathematics Education and the Department of Natural Science Education (including the master's program)
The College established a master's program in the Department of Mathematics Education.
The College established the Graduate Institute of Counseling and Educational Psychology and a doctoral program in the Graduate Institute of Elementary and Secondary Education. Dr. Lai Ching-Piao, be the president.
The College established the Graduate Institute of Special Education and Assistive Technology and a master's program in the Department of Language and Literacy Education.
The College built Qiz-Zhen Building .
The College established a master's program in the Department of Social Studies Education.
The College accomplished ground alteration from fifty level grounds to a college.
The College established the Department of Early childhood Education and a master's program in the Department of Fine Arts and Crafts.
The College established the Department of Taiwanese Languages, the Department of Information Science, a doctoral program in the Department of Language and Literacy Education, the Graduate Institute of Curriculum and Instruction, the Graduate In statute of Instructional Technology, and the Graduate Institute of Early Intervention. The Graduate Institute of Elementary and Secondary Education and the Department of Elementary Education were combined and named the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.
The College was upgraded and renamed National Taichung University of Education , and the Department of English Education, the Department of Digital Content and Technology, the master's program in the Department of Physical Education, the master's program in the Department of Music Education, and the doctoral program in the Graduate Institute of Educational Measurement and Statistics were all established.
Dr. Yang Ssu-wei, be the president. The Department of Elementary and Secondary Education was renamed the Department of Education; the Department of Fine Arts and Crafts Education was renamed the Department of Fine Arts; the Department of Music Education was renamed the Department of Music; the Department of Natural Science Education was renamed the Department Science Application and Dissemination; the Department of English Education was renamed the Department of English; the Graduate Institute of Counseling and Educational Psychology established an undergraduate program and was renamed the Department of Counseling and Applied Psychology; the Graduate Institute of Special Education and Assistive Technology was merged into the Department of Special Education; and the Graduate Institute of Instructional Technology was merged into the Department of Digital Content and Technology.
The president of Thailand normal school came to Taiwan for an academic communion.
The College cooperated and contracted with Johnson Health Tech. Co., Ltd.
The Office of Research and Development was founded and the Division of Continuing and Extension Education was adjusted from the second level unit to the first.
The College contracted with Joy Enterprises Organization .
The College contracted with Kent State University , Ohio , Indiana State University , Indiana , Fontbonne University , Minnesota , and Columbus State University , Georgia .
The Center for Teacher Education affiliated to the Academic Affairs Office was adjusted to the first level unit and named the Center for Teacher Education and Career Center .


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Introduction: Nucor Corporation to build a full-range merchant bar quality (MBQ) mill at its existing bar steel mill located in Bourbonnais, Illinois. The Mill is expected to cost $180 million. Features: The MBQ mill will have an annual capacity of 500,000 tons.
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Liu, Kaiyang, M.D.; Cai, Junrong, M.D.; Li, Hongjin, M.D.; Feng, Jingwei, M.D.; Feng, Chuanbo, Ph.D.; Lu, Feng, M.D., Ph.D.
Background: Fat grafting is a popular soft-tissue filler method; however, the mechanism of its survival and regeneration is still not fully understood. Neutrophils are the frontier inflammatory cells and closely associated with tissue regeneration. To understand the role of neutrophils in fat graft retention, we adopted neutrophil depletion and up-regulation models.
Methods: Mouse inguinal fat (approximately 200 mg) was transferred autologously. The anti-mouse Ly6G antibody and lipopolysaccharides were used in the mouse fat grafting model for neutrophil depletion or activation, respectively. We examined the blood and graft stromal vascular fraction by fluorescence-activated cell sorting in manipulation/control groups. Graft weight, vascularization, and secreted factors were also compared.
Results: There was a significant reduction/increase of neutrophil counts in the circulation and the transferred fat before day 7 with Ly6G antibody/lipopolysaccharides treatment. Early depletion of neutrophils resulted in incompetent angiogenesis and eventually a poor retention rate (27 ± 8 percent) compared with control (51 ± 10 percent; p < 0.05), whereas up-regulated neutrophils increased the inflammation and reactive oxygen species level, leading to tissue damage and poor retention rate (20 ± 9 percent) compared with control (51 ± 10 percent; p < 0.05). Enhanced macrophage infiltration could be found in both neutrophil depletion and up-regulation groups after week 4.
Conclusions: Undisturbed neutrophil function is the key to initiating downstream responses of macrophage infiltration, stimulating vessel formation, and regulating inflammation level; thus, it exerts a great impact on the long-term retention rate. Disturbed neutrophil function, either enhanced or weakened, can lead to impaired fat graft retention.
From the Department of Plastic and Cosmetic Surgery, Nanfang Hospital, Southern Medical University.
Received for publication October 26, 2017; accepted April 10, 2018.
The first two authors contributed equally to this article and should be considered co–first authors.
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery142(5):1229-1238, November 2018.
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Farmers and the Future of Food
As globalization has greatly widened the lens through which we view human activities, the critical role of agriculture in this larger tableau—and of the farmer in particular—has expanded as well. All of the seemingly intractable global challenges we face—exploding population growth, hunger, poor nutrition, lack of food security and safety, a growing middle class, and changing diets—are falling heavily on the world's farmers.
So it's a good thing they're not alone in facing these challenges. Think of the farmer as the hub of our global food development and supply chain ecosystem, and the input suppliers, food companies, regulators, advocates, and consumers as the spokes. Every single one of these players has a stake in making sure there's enough safe food for people around the world and, thus, in increasing both yield and farm sustainability. This makes them natural collaborators with farmers in the effort to address the changes and improvements needed to satisfy the increasing global demand for food.
"In the next 30 years, the world has to feed billions of more people," says Ed Kee, former Delaware Secretary of Agriculture. "The efficiencies and technological advances and stakeholder relationships that are created to produce those calories are critical. Without them, growers will not be able to do the job they have to—and want to—do."
Sizing up the challenge
The numbers make all too clear the difficulty of the task at hand. By 2050, global population will grow by one-third, to almost 10 billion and caloric intake will rise even faster because of improved standards of living around the world. The result is that farm output will have to increase by about 70 percent to satisfy food demand.
Part of the increase in demand will be a direct outcome of increasing urbanization, which is likely to add around 2.5 billion new city dwellers around the world by 2050. Larger cities means improvements in commercial infrastructure, which, in turn, generates more jobs, with higher pay. And as incomes rise, people favor more expensive foods—especially meat. Annual per capita meat consumption is projected to reach 45.3 kilograms per person in 2030, up from 36.4 kg in 1997-99. With that, the need for livestock feed will skyrocket, ratcheting up pressure on farm yields since cattle, chicken and pigs typically consume about 70 percent of the grain grown in the U.S. and 75 percent of soybean crops globally in any given year.
In many ways, this couldn't have come at a worse time. Farm yields are growing but not nearly at the pace they need to. Currently, output of four key staples—corn, rice, wheat and soybeans – is increasing at rates of only about 0.9 to 1.6 percent a year. This translates into overall yield gains for each crop of about 38 to 67 percent by 2050. Even if farmers produce to the upper range and global population grows on the low side of forecasts, the math doesn't work for farm output to keep up with demand.
Compounding the problem, often as a reaction to the ever-present threat that unpredictable commodity prices will fall, growers tend to fall prey to the determination to improve yields beyond what is feasible for their farms. This in turn has led at times to ill-advised farming practices, such as overuse of chemicals, poorly planned crop rotation and the destruction of biodiversity. In the long term, however, such practices can have the opposite effect, impeding attempts to boost output. According to the United Nations about 30 percent of land globally is considered degraded—either eroded or robbed of its nutrients by poor land management and rapidly losing its ability to produce sufficient food. Meanwhile, climate change—driven in part by greenhouse gases produced by farms—is aggravating soil damage and making global agricultural systems yet more fragile. In fact, the National Academy of Sciences predicts that if global mean temperature rises just 2 degrees Fahrenheit, corn yields will fall by 7.4 percent, wheat by 6 percent and rice by 3.2 percent.
Equally problematic, agricultural activity uses 70 percent of the world's freshwater resources. But pollution and other types of mismanagement, including chemical run-off from farms, continue to plague water supplies. Twenty-eight percent of all agricultural land, 56 percent of irrigated cropland, 43 percent of wheat fields and 35 percent of corn acreage are already in water-stressed regions.
Almost everyone involved with agriculture acknowledges these stubborn issues. But as is often the case, resolving them won't be easy. Farmers, and regulators, agricultural supply companies and food manufacturers, too, tend get defensive about what they are doing to improve yield and grow food more safely and securely. But they are all coming around, in increasingly large numbers, and cooperation among groups with a stake in the outcome is on the rise.
The role of regulators
Because they get to set the rules, regulators could have the greatest impact, and they are becoming increasingly active. Regulatory efforts in developed countries began around the early 1970s, primarily as a response to concerns about air and water pollution. But over time, these regulations have increasingly been linked to improving agricultural productivity by tackling the environmental conditions that impact crop growth.
In many cases, these policies are enforced by linked farm subsidies. In the European Union, as much as 50 percent of all government-based payments to farmers are dependent upon the degree to which sustainable agricultural methods and measurement protocols are adopted. High on the list of these policy recommendations are disciplined crop rotation plans and reduced water irrigation schemes. Regulators in Asia, too, and particularly in China, are emphasizing environmentally sound agricultural practices, to be implemented between now and 2030. In the U.S., however, regulators have been slower to use subsidies to compel agricultural sustainability improvements. Only 6 percent of total U.S. farmer revenue is tied to subsidies for sustainable agriculture programs.
One very large effort, however, on the part of the United Nations may have an outsized influence on the way regulators—and thus farmers—address food production shortfalls and security. In 2015, all 193 member nations backed a plan called the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, which has 17 separate goals, including ending poverty, combatting climate change and safeguarding biodiversity. Under the category Zero Poverty, the U.N. set a target of 2030 to "ensure sustainable food production systems and implement resilient agricultural practices that increase productivity and production, that help maintain ecosystems, that strengthen capacity for adaptation to climate change, extreme weather, drought, flooding and other disasters and that progressively improve land and soil quality." Many countries, especially in developing areas, are using the U.N. rules as templates for their own agricultural policies.
For farmers, working with regulators is often a difficult process. There isn't a lot of give-and-take on the part of policymakers, who tend to be more interested in implementing newly legislated rules than in working with farmers, whose livelihood and work routines will be altered the most by those rules.
On the other hand, the private sector—both agricultural suppliers and food companies—typically maintains a different, non-adversarial relationship with farmers. These companies are beginning to adopt business strategies that support sustainable farming initiatives, in large part to ensure the growth of their industries while improving crop yields to feed the world's expanding population. Done right, these strategies encourage cooperation and collaboration with growers, enabling them to take advantage of leading-edge product and services offerings that directly address farm productivity, sustainability and safety issues.
Private enterprise
The activities of food companies are driven in part by the swelling ranks of consumers seeking safer food that comes from farms determined to strengthen the health of their soil and produce more nutritious crops. There is a profit motive at work here as well: studies have found that profit margins of organically grown products, for example, can run as much as 50 percent higher than traditionally grown food. Whatever the reason, the outcome is the same. Farmers are increasingly under pressure to grow and prove that they grow highest-value crops. "If you don't have records, then you can't do business now with Danone Yogurt," says Julie Natale, director of customer relations at Granular, a farm management software company. "If you don't have a picture of the bag of seeds you've planted that grew the soybeans that cows eat, you're out of luck."
That's just one of many examples. Kellogg's has begun a program to buy its staple ingredients, including corn, wheat and rice, solely from farms with a minimal carbon footprint and that prioritizes protecting water supplies and soil health. And Mondelez has an aggressive initiative that tackles, among other things, agricultural land deforestation and increasing the use of precision equipment on farms to optimize water use and limit the use of fertilizers and pesticides.
Altruistic or not, all of these initiatives are ultimately beneficial to farmers because they ostensibly will lead to better soil productivity, safer and more plentiful water resources and a wider marketplace of customers willing to pay more for their crops. For that reason, it makes sense for farmers to collaborate with food companies to improve conditions on their farms. Already a few of these partnerships have produced results. For instance, in 2012, Campbell Soup Company began using metrics developed by environmental groups, growers and food companies to assess the sustainability practices of their tomato growers. After monitoring water and fertilizer use for five years, Campbell and the farmers developed a drip irrigation technique that reduced average water use by nearly 25 percent.
Environmental cooperation
To forge better, more collaborative relationships with food companies, some farmers are turning to environmental groups for help. Because of their private sector responsibilities to shareholders, food companies may demand farming practices—such as using precision agricultural equipment or taking complex soil readings before planting—that prove too great an economic burden on hard-pressed farmers, ultimately harming grower profitability even as they try to improve farm output. Environmental groups have the same goal as food companies and farmers—cleaner and safer growing practices that protect water and soil. But because they are often more well-versed in the underlying resource issues, they can sometimes make a strong case both for policies that best balance environmental and economic concerns in the short run and that are more likely to be successful in the long run. Not always, but frequently, these environmental groups can offer compromise approaches that will favor farmers and, thus, encourage at least a minimum of environmentally-sound activities from growers who otherwise would not be able to afford to participate.
When consumer packaged goods companies set sustainability goals, farmers can be affected "in positive or negative ways," says Sean McMahon, executive director of the Iowa Ag Water Alliance (IAWA). "A number of environmental and conservation groups enjoy a strong relationship and influence over these companies. And it can be constructive for agricultural groups to have strong working relationships with them. When sustainability and goals are driven by data and science and not emotion and rhetoric, it is better for everyone."
Inputs and output
Agricultural supply companies, both seed and crop protection providers and equipment manufacturers, are also rising to the challenge to improve yields, boost productivity and ensure food safety. After all, their growth depends upon the health of farms and farming as a profession. So they are developing products and services that put as great a premium on the sustainable use of inputs and machinery as on maximizing farm yields.
Many of these products are the result of advances in technology. Standalone sensors and sensors on farm equipment can monitor crop health, soil infestations, fertilizer efficacy and soil moisture levels on individual fields and even plant clusters. These pictures provide a level of insight about farm conditions that growers couldn't imagine 20 years ago—and are beginning to wonder how they ever did without.
As veteran Iowa farmer Kevan Kaiser put it, "Nitrogen management has been tough my whole career. Being able to delineate everything that's going on in the environment in a specific location now allows me to have up to date, ready to go recommendations about the amount of nitrogen in the soil and how much is needed. I can't ask for more."
Field of opportunities
For growers, the possibilities inherent in being the foundation of the world's most essential supply chain are enormous. Partnerships among stakeholders are valuable and even essential in the effort to improve yield and protect environmental resources. But farmers have the standing in the agricultural arena to use their position and their unique expertise to drive the sustainable production of food for a fast-rising global population.
Aaron Lee, a Southern Indiana farmer, described the attitude that growers should have to deal with their challenges by breaking down the problem into one crop at a time: "I look at it, I'm 43 years old. I've planted about 23 crops and I may want to do another 20 or 25 in my life. And in the big scheme of things, that's not very many. So I look at each one, each planting, as just incredibly important to do the best job that we can."
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Retrace Helps VinSolutions with Risk-Free Visibility for Their Dev Teams
Stackify October 12, 2017 Developer Tips, Tricks & Resources, Stackify Product & Company Updates
The Choice: Security or Visibility
Stackify was founded because we were frustrated that our development team didn't have the tools that they needed. We used a variety of tools like Nagios and Splunk, but none of our developers had access to them. What's worse, even if they did, the tools only told part of the story and presented a unique security issue that we were determined to fix.
Granting access to production data raises both security concerns and fear of unauthorized changes to the servers without going through proper release processes. But developers need visibility to the aggregated information. This leads to a lot of teams having to choose between finding a problem fast and risking security and possible subsequent issues or depending on others' access and time to get the information they need.
Option One: Choose Visibility
When VinSolutions started using Retrace in the fall of 2016, their teams had the need for uncomplicated visibility without risk. Headquartered in Kansas and wholly owned by Cox Automotive, VinSolutions helps automotive dealers make every customer connection count by providing an all-in-one internal management, sales, and service marketing solutions platform. This requires not only extremely talented and capable developers, but also tools that empower them to make decisions quickly.
Louis To and Lalith Kumar are just two of the 100+ users that utilize Retrace to solve problems in production, review metrics, and have an overall sense of knowing what and how their code is doing. Both need access to server performance insights.
Louis To works in the DevOps group and deployed Retrace as his first project with the company. His role gives him direct access to the servers. "I basically deploy every bit of software that comes out of [VinSolutions] from all the teams. Aside from that, I fix issues[,] troubleshoot, service tickets from all the different team leads, and maintain all our CI/CD systems."
As he learned more about the tool, he became impressed with the depth of visibility Retrace gave him. "It was like approaching a forest and every tree in the forest takes you deeper and deeper until you're looking straight at the logs."
On a day-to-day basis, Louis appreciates always being able to trend essential server metrics like CPU usage, memory, and uptime/downtime. "It also helps with auditing and making sure that what you think is on the server is actually there and running or not." In other words, Louis not only sees the forest and its trees but every limb and branch – all without having to get into the servers.
Option Two: Choose Security
Application monitoring tools are the eyes and ears of the development team in production. In lots of companies, developers do not have access to production servers. That is easy to understand for multiple reasons. However, unless you're like Louis and your role provides you with administrator-level access to log files and other data, it is very difficult to investigate problems.
In cases like these, Stackify provides developers all the information they need to monitor and troubleshoot production applications without giving them direct access to all the servers. This can relieve developers of a huge burden. One of the first things Lalith Kumar thought once he started using Retrace was "Oh, good, I don't have to log into a server ever again."
On what his work was like before Retrace, Lalith says, "Most of my work was [logging] into the actual server and [viewing] the logs. That was really painful." Now, Lalith, a Technical Lead at VinSolutions, can do all his troubleshooting and monitoring from one application dashboard. Like Louis, he can see where the app is deployed, the current health, performance stats, recent errors, full logs, and key metrics.
But most of all, he is glad he doesn't have to depend on someone else to get to that data.
"I don't have to ask for access to the servers," he says with obvious relief.
Option 3: Don't Compromise. Get Security AND Visibility
Whether you're a server admin, tech lead, developer or manager, Stackify helps companies like VinSolutions embrace DevOps when it comes to supporting production applications. Retrace allows leaders to enforce strict security rules in production and still give developers everything they need by leveraging the right types of tools. When it comes to security and visibility, not only is compromising unnecessary — it's not even an option.
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Quiche Recipe from America Days in Rakvere (Ameerika Paevad Rakveres)
2 cups flour, plus more for dusting
¼ teaspoon sugar
150 grams unsalted butter, cold and cut into small chunks
3 tablespoons cold water, plus more if needed
Combine flour, salt and sugar in a large mixing bowl. Add butter and mix with hands until coarse crumbs form. Beat yolk and ice water together and add to pastry. Work to bind dough and squeeze together with hands. If the pastry is too crumbly, add more water 1 tablespoon at a time. Form a disk, cover with plastic wrap or bag, and refrigerate for 30 minutes (this is ideal, but you can also roll it out right away if you are pressed for time).
Quiche Filling:
1 Ingredient Variation (see below)
2 ½ cups hard cheese, grated
Using a rolling pin or wine bottle, roll out quiche pastry into a ¼ inch thick circle. Dust with flour as needed to prevent sticking. Gently place in a pie pan or iron skillet that can go in the oven. Press pastry down into pan. Sprinkle ingredients and cheese over the pastry. Whisk together eggs, milk, salt, pepper and nutmeg. Pour into pastry crust. Bake in medium oven (350F) for 45 minutes to 1 hour, until filling is set and the top is golden brown. Serve hot. Yields 8 slices.
Ingredient Variations for Quiche:
Crab or Crawfish: Combine 1 cup crab or crawfish, ½ cup yellow onion, thinly sliced, 2 tablespoons fresh chopped parsley. Proceed as directed.
Mushroom and Onion: In 1 teaspoon of oil, sauté 200 grams of cleaned, sliced mushrooms with 2-3 thinly sliced green onions for 10 minutes. Add 2 tablespoons chopped, fresh parsley if available. Proceed as directed.
Ham and Swiss: Chop 100 grams of ham. Use Swiss cheese as the hard cheese. Proceed as directed.
Also try spinach and green onion, finely grated carrot and mushroom, or any other ingredients you need to use in your refrigerator.
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Entrepreneurs Learn How to Move Past the Startup Phase
Though most residents of Tallinn may be in the countryside, catching the final rays of summer, the startup community is continually abuzz, coding away behind their laptops or doing strategic planning into the midnight hours. US Embassy Tallinn had the unique treat this week of showing noted entrepreneur and UC Berkeley MBA Professor Naeem Zafar why this country is known as E-stonia.
Mr. Zafar visited Mektory, Skype, and the ICT demo center. He also spoke with the Estonian press. The highlight of Professor Zafar's visit, however, was his trip to Startup Wiseguys, where he conducted a workshop for the startup accelerators new "class" of entrepreneurs.
(Photo: Mr. Zafar's workshop at Startup Wiseguys/Will Ziesing)
Mr. Zafar quickly adapted his normal speech into an immersive conversation that fit the "students" quite perfectly. It was clear that Mr. Zafar, despite his extensive entrepreneurial bent, also possessed the unique qualities of a sophisticated collegiate professor. He addressed sales and company culture, in particular. He said "Selling is like being a doctor. It's finding people with a problem, and then seeing if you have a solution." Many students were quite captivated by Professor Zafar's advice, and the directors at Startup Wiseguys were eager to plan a follow up event in the future.
As always, the team from US Embassy Tallinn that accompanied Mr. Zafar was pleased to further the link between the American and Estonian tech communities. With great mentors, ideas, and capital coming from both sides of the Atlantic, it remains exciting for the State Department to connect these two technology ecosystems.
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Estonian Youth, Activisim and the Estonian Dream
On July 23, a group from the U.S. Embassy in Tallinn visited the Estonian Youth Council's (EYC) opening day of Summer School in Olustvere. The program hosts approximately 100 to 200 Estonian youth activists every year, representing different youth organizations from the Eesti LGTB Uhing (Estonian LGTB Society) to the Eesti Skautide Uhing (Estonian Girls Scouts).
(Photo: Amb Levine with some organizers of the Estonian Youth Council./Aylin Erdogan)
U.S. Ambassador Levine, Estonian MP Kalle Palling and President of the Youth Council Reet Sillavee were the opening day guests. And while they had interesting things to say, it was discussions from the participants about the difference between an inactive adult and an engaged young adult and why it's important for youth to be a part of decision-making process at the local or national level that made the panel more interesting for me.
One point they raised during the session was their take on public protests. Youth activists said that Estonians are actually polite people and even if they vent their frustration on a number of issues during social gatherings, they refrain from voicing negative opinions in public. It's a stark contrast to what we've seen with Arab Spring and Occupy Wall Street protests. But Palling, a young politician, shared his insights on youth participation in Estonian politics, saying Estonia is doing a fair job encouraging young adults to be active in politics. They currently have six members under 30 in the parliament, something that is different from the U.S.
(Photo: Amb Levine, Estonian MP Kalle Palling and President of the Council Reet Sillavee discusses youth activism in Estonia and USA./Aylin Erdogan)
In America, we see many young people in high school or college take an active part in political campaigns. We also see those who succeed in campaigning later heading to work in Congressional offices in Washington D.C and in their districts—and indeed, nearly 60 percent of Congressional staffers are between 20-35. However, when we look at executive offices, we see that older folks have a more direct hand in the in the governmental decision-making process.
Still, I think that youth activism has always had a positive impact on American society. In my school, SUNY Buffalo, for instance, students' protested an increase in college tuition and student activity fee. The action influenced State Senators to negotiate with the SUNY administration and reduce the 5 percentage increase SUNY was aiming for to 2 percentage. We heard from our Estonian peers that the youth council in Rapla was able to raise their voice and influence the mayoral election in the city.
The second part of the event was dedicated to a smaller discussion session on the "Estonian Dream" with Ambassador Levine, Assistant Public Affairs Officer Menaka Nayyar and about 20 Estonian youth. I was looking forward to this discussion to hear what Estonian youth had to say about what the Estonian Dream is or whether it has ever existed. In the past, the Estonian dream was freedom and that one common vision united Estonians. But now that freedom has been achieved, and after the economy started to decline, with young people finding more opportunities in other countries, the Estonian youths at the meeting said they feel as if the Estonian dream doesn't exist anymore. Still, they added that it's important for them not to lose their identity no matter where they are or what language they speak. Estonia is now more open to world cultures, but young adults want the world to know Estonia too.
(Photo: Amb. Levine and APAO Menaka Nayyar discuss the Estonian Dream with EYC members./Aylin Erdogan)
Thank you to all Estonian Youth Council members for sharing their thoughtful insights with us and the Summer School organizers for giving such a talented group of young people an opportunity to get together and share their voices!
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Estonain Hockey Sticks Go Global
While this hot July in Estonia may have everyone headed to the beach, Estonians will soon start thinking about (or maybe dreading) the return of the dark, cold nights of Estonian winters. However, one of the bright spots of the return of colder weather is the onset of hockey season.
Estonian hockey – in a sense – is making its mark globally. At the Sochi Olympics, equipment from Frontier Hockey OÜ, Estonia's homegrown hockey stick manufacturer, made it to the quarterfinals. It's the favored brand of Latvian goalkeeper Kristers Gudļevskis. He made an epic 55 saves out of 57 shots to keeps the Latvians in the mix against the eventual champion Canada.
Embassy staffers visited Frontier this week to check out their production line and hear about their growing export business to America. Currently, over 10 percent of their hockey sticks are exported to the United States.
(Photo: U.S. Embassy staffers meet with Mr. Imre Taveter and talk hockey sticks.)
Frontier Hockey specializes in goalie sticks—they produce standard sticks as well— and the company has supplied Gudlevskis, a former player for the Tampa Bay Lightning, as well as Finnish and other European professionals. Company founder, Imre Taveter, grew up playing hockey and loves the sport for its team building qualities and diligent group effort. Mr. Taveter started the company to take advantage of the fine craftsmanship, superior wood, and winter sports traditions found in Estonia. The Pärnu factory churns out thousands of quality hockey sticks throughout the year.
We thank Imre for showing us around the factory and letting us take a couple of shots with the sticks. And we wish him the best of luck as he continues to expand globally, showing the world the quality of Estonian made hockey sticks.
Labels: estonia, Frontier Hockey, hockey
Folk Music Comes Out in Force at the Viljandi Folk Festival
Play. That's the theme of this year's Viljandi Folk Festival, which starts on Thursday and lasts through Sunday. It's a fitting theme because it's not just about playing music, but the playful feeling many get when they go to a music festival like this, including many of us at the embassy.
One appeal of the Viljandi Folk Festival is that it exposes music fans not only to traditional Estonian or regional folk music, but to a variety of styles from around the world, including the United States. U.S. Embassy Tallinn has supported the festival regularly over the past 10 years and we are proud to help bring the Grammy-nominated U.S. group Cedric Watson & Bijou Creole to this year's festival!
In the past, festival organizers have facilitated programs with other U.S. performers in Viljandi, including master classes from visiting U.S. experts. The Viljandi Culture Academy has become a popular destination for U.S. Fulbright scholars and students, hosting three in recent years. And as a sign of Viljandi's growing partnership with the U.S. Embassy, the mayor, Ando Kiviberg hosted "Viljandi America Days" this past March.
(Photo: Performers from last year's Viljandi Folk Festival.)
Ando Kiviberg was the former artistic director of the Viljandi Folk Festival and worked for 20 years to promote the advantages of bringing a music festival to a small and quiet town. Thanks to his efforts, Viljandi is now Estonia's folk culture capital and over the past 22 years ago the Viljandi Folk Festival has become one of the largest and most beloved summer events in Estonia and in the Nordic region.
Have a fun, music-filled weekend! See you in Viljandi!
Labels: estonia, music, music festival, Viljandi Folk Festival
A Bird's Eye View of Wind Power in Estonia
This week Ambassador Levine realized a small dream: going to the top of an 85m clean energy producing wind turbine. Along with members of the Political/Economic section of the U.S. Embassy in Tallinn, the Ambassador visited the a Nelja Energia's wind farm in Paldiski, where 18 GE Wind Energy electric turbines produce 67 gigawatt hours per year, enough to meet the needs of 20,000 Estonian families of average energy consumption.
The tour began with a scenic drive through the wind farm to meet with Martin Kruus, the Chairman of the Board of Nelja Energia, and Erkki Kallas, the Production Manager of Nelja Energia, to get more information on wind energy in Estonia and the Paldiski wind farm in particular. We were excited to learn that 6 percent of Estonia's electricity is supplied by wind farms such as the one in Paldiski.
(Photo: Ambassador Levine at the wind farm, getting ready to climb the turbine and then at the top.)
After the meeting, we were all outfitted with a safety harness, gloves, and escorted to the top of the windmill by one of the windfarm's mechanical maintenance specialists. The ascent was a bit more physical than expected and required us to climb a long ladder before reaching the tiny, rickety elevator that would bring us the rest of the way to the top, but the view was certainly worth the effort.
(Photo: Laura on the wind turbine.)
Those of us who got to learn about wind energy in Estonia, and travel to the top of the wind turbine wish to extend our gratitude to Sigrit, Martin, Errki and everyne else at Nelja Energia for making this trip possible. It was truly and unforgetable experience.
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Labels: 4 energia, alternative energy, Ambassador Levine, estonia, nelja energia, wind farm, wind power
Coen Brothers are in Tallinn! (In Spirit)
Rooftop Cinema at the Viru Center opened its doors (or its roof, to be more precise) to American movie fans for a Coen Brothers' Co-Spective Program this week. It is also exciting news for us, since the U.S. Embassy in Tallinn has been a proud supporter of Rooftop Cinema's American movie weeks for several years.
(Photo: Film fans at Rooftop Cinema./Courtesy of Aivar Lann)
"We decided to feature the Coen Brothers because their philosophy fits well with our mindset of what kind of movies we want to show here" explained Aivar Laan, the founder of the Rooftop Cinema. "They are sharp, eccentric, not your typical Hollywood blockbuster choices and they have an excellent eye to see and reflect the black humor in life."
Aivar Laan says showing these movies wasn't easy. "It was challenging work to get the copyright of the movies because not only you have to have sufficient funding for these expensive movies, but also have to have good connections, as they are very selective with who to give the copyrights of these movies," he explained. "So we were happy to work with the U.S. Embassy in this project and unite Coen Brothers with their Estonian fans."
Laan, who lived as an expat for several years, got the idea of opening a summer rooftop cinema in Tallinn when he was in Australia. Tallinn's unpredictable summer weather did made him think twice about the venture, but the enthusiasm of bringing a new project to Estonia pushed him forward. Since 2010, the Rooftop Cinema has brought true cinema classics and variety of independent movies to about 30,000 local cinema enthusiasts in Tallinn every summer. (And thanks to some construction work and good weather, they haven't had to cancel more than five or six screenings since 2010, Laan said.)
Coen Brothers' Co-Spective Program already started this week and it will continue till July 21 with screenings of Fargo (Thursday), The Big Lebowski (Friday), Burn After Reading (Saturday), O, Brother; Where, Art, Thou? (Sunday) And No Country For Old Men (Monday). Check the cinema's website for more information on current and upcoming movie schedule.
And if you can't make it this week, don't worry. The Coen Brothers will return to the Rooftop Cinema in mid-August and all the movies will be screened once again for a week.
Post by Aylin Erdogan
Labels: coen brothers, film, movies, rooftop cinema
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Stanley Frederick Amis (12 January 1924 – 10 August 2021), was a British architect.

Amis was born in Virginia Water, Surrey, the son of Frederick Amis, an electrical engineer who worked for Western Electric, and Belinda (nee Nash). He was educated at Merchant Taylors' school in London, followed by the Architectural Association School of Architecture.

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27 /** Data associated to each stereo image in the calibration process mrpt::vision::checkerBoardCameraCalibration (All the information can be left empty and will be filled up in the calibration method).
53 unsigned int check_size_x,check_size_y; //!< The number of squares in the checkerboard in the "X" & "Y" direction.
54 double check_squares_length_X_meters,check_squares_length_Y_meters; //!< The size of each square in the checkerboard, in meters, in the "X" & "Y" axes.
61 * k1,k2,k3 are the r^2, r^4 and r^6 radial distorion coeficients, and t1 and t2 are the tangential distortion coeficients (see mrpt::utils::TCamera).
62 * Those set to false will be assumed to be fixed to zero (no distortion).
63 * \note Default values are to only assume distortion via k1 and k2 (the rest are zeros).
72 void * callback_user_param; //!< If using a callback function, you can use this to pass custom data to your callback.
89 std::vector<bool> image_pair_was_used; //!< true if a checkerboard was correctly detected in both left/right images. false if it wasn't, so the image pair didn't make it to the optimization.
91 double final_rmse; //!< Final reprojection square Root Mean Square Error (in pixels).
92 size_t final_iters; //!< Final number of optimization iterations executed.
93 size_t final_number_good_image_pairs; //!< Number of image pairs in which valid checkerboards were correctly detected.
95 /** The inverse variance (information/precision) of each of the 9 left/right camera parameters [fx fy cx cy k1 k2 k3 t1 t2].
106 /** Optimize the calibration parameters of a stereo camera or a RGB+D (Kinect) camera.
108 * from a sequence of pairs of captured images of a checkerboard.
109 * A custom implementation of an optimizer (Levenberg-Marquartd) seeks for the set of selected parameters to estimate that minimize the reprojection errors.
111 * \param input_images [IN/OUT] At input, this list must have one entry for each image to process. At output the original, detected checkboard and rectified images can be found here. See TImageCalibData.
112 * \param params [IN] Mandatory: the user must provide the size of the checkerboard, which parameters to optimize and which to leave fixed to zero, etc.
113 * \param out_results [OUT] The results of the calibration, and its uncertainty measure, will be found here upon return.
115 * \return false on any error (more info will be dumped to cout), or true on success.
Final reprojection square Root Mean Square Error (in pixels).
Recovered parameters of the stereo camera.
If using a callback function, you can use this to pass custom data to your callback.
Number of image pairs in which valid checkerboards were correctly detected.
The number of squares in the checkerboard in the "X" & "Y" direction.
Final number of optimization iterations executed.
Poses of the origin of coordinates of the pattern wrt the left camera (i.e.
Params of the optional callback provided by the user.
Optimize the calibration parameters of a stereo camera or a RGB+D (Kinect) camera.
Prototype of optional user callback function.
The pose of the left camera as seen from the right camera.
The size of each square in the checkerboard, in meters, in the "X" & "Y" axes.


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Het schip van Kyrenia is een scheepswrak van een Grieks handelsschip (4de eeuw voor Christus). Het werd in 1967 ontdekt door de Cypriotische sponsduiker Andreas Kariolou en geborgen in de buurt van  Kyrenia op Cyprus tijdens een expeditie onder leiding van Michael Katzev, een afgestudeerd student van het universiteitsmuseum van Pennsylvania, van 1967 to 1969. De conservering van het scheepshout duurde tot de winter van 1970. Katzev was later de medestichter van het Instituut voor nautische archeologie.

Het schip van Kyrenia is het oudste Griekse schip ooit ontdekt. De vondst werd uitgebreid behandeld in een documentaire van de National Geographic Society. Het is het enige overgeleverde schip uit de Griekse klassieke oudheid. Het schip werd beschouwd als zeer goed bewaard met ongeveer 75% ervan nog in goede staat. Het vond een nieuw tehuis in het museum in het kasteel van Kyrenia.

In 1974 werd Kyrenia, zoals de rest van Noord-Cyprus, bezet door Turkije. Het schip bleef in de stad en wordt er nog steeds bewaard.

Replica's

Kyrenia II
In 1985 maakten Griekse professoren een levensgrote replica van het schip, dat bekend zou worden als Kyrenia II. Kyrenia II wordt vaak gebruikt als een drijvende ambassadeur van de Cypriotische cultuur, en heeft verscheidene delen van de wereld bezocht. In 1986 deed het New York aan, in 1988 Japan en in 1989 West-Duitsland.

Kyrenia III
Na het bezoek van de Kyrenia II aan Japan in 1988, bouwde de Japanse stad Fukuoka een tweede replica van het schip, dewelke permanent tentoongesteld is in deze stad.

Kyrenia Liberty
In 2002 begon de constructie van een derde replica van het schip. Dit schip werd de Kyrenia Liberty genoemd. Het werd gebouwd met moderne technieken, maar met respect voor het oorspronkelijke ontwerp. Het schip was klaar voor de Olympische Zomerspelen 2004 en zeilde uit naar Athene met een symbolische lading koper dat zou gebruikt worden om de Olympische bronzen medailles mee te slaan. De vracht was symbolisch, daar de naam van Cyprus wordt geassocieerd met het Griekse woord voor koper.

Symbolisme van de schepen
Het schip van Kyrenia, Kyrenia II, en Kyrenia Liberty zijn voor vele Cyprioten symbolen van nationale trots geworden, en voor vele Grieks-Cypriotische vluchtelingen uit Kyrenia een symbool van hun verloren thuisstad.

Op het ontwerp van de Cypriotische euromunten van € 0,10, € 0,20 en € 0,50 staat het schip van Kyrenia afgebeeld. Het staat in de eerste plaats symbool voor de zee die het eiland Cyprus omringt, maar daarnaast natuurlijk ook voor de Cypriotische cultuur.

Externe links
Kyrenia II, shipping.gov.cy (2006).
, History and Archaeology of the Ship, cma.soton.ac.uk (2000).

Geschiedenis van Cyprus
Noord-Cyprus
Scheepswrak


Stunning at sunrise, sunset or during the day, the name says it all. And from the Arckaringa homestead…the changing looks of the desert hills are in full view all day long. So who is the artist of the Painted Desert you may ask? It is all thanks to Mother Nature who has taken 80 million years to create this master piece which is enjoyed by many tourists and photographers all year round.
The Painted Desert is an ancient Inland Sea bed where the hills are the result of rain, weather and erosion. The slopes and shapes include many different colours and shades of orange, yellow and white, and it is the coloured shale on the faces of the hills from which the name "Painted Desert" came. The various shapes are formed when the top layers of soil dry out and fall away to reveal the beautiful rich colours underneath.
Views at sunrise and sunset are particularly amazing. The deep red, brown, orange, yellow and white colours blend together and by midday are transformed into brighter shades. Also among these spectacular hills is the Mirackina Range, a long dark line of mesas, which run about 5 to 10 kms to the west. It runs almost parallel to the Arckaringa Creek. This range is the ancient remains of another waterway, the Mirackina Paleochannel, which can be seen by satellite image.
The Painted Desert makes for an exciting outback experience for the whole family to explore. You can drive up to the Painted Desert or better yet, take a walk through the hills to get up close and personal to Mother Nature's art piece.
Copyright © 2012 Copyright The Painted Desert 2010-2012.


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To promote small innovative business in the Urals region.
to raise innovative culture of small and medium business.
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As director of the Segal Design Certificate program, Stacy develops program curriculum and advises all McCormick students pursuing the certificate. She is an expert in engineering design process, innovation strategies, and project management, resulting from 10 years of industry experience at IDEO and independent innovation consulting.
Benjamin strongly believes in learning-by-doing, and she works to structure class project experiences as close to industry experiences as possible. She encourages students to think critically throughout the design process. Asking the right questions can prevent you from solving the wrong problem.
Benjamin has also been building a network of Segal Affiliates, specialists in industry from a range of companies in the Chicagoland area. The affiliates interact with students through design reviews, guest lectures, project support, and more. This gives students another window on how engineering is applied in the real world and a chance to begin building their own networks.


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AIRF secretary writes a letter to Railway Minister in protest against the Railway Budget
Com. Shiva Gopal Mishra GS/AIRF has written letter to Railway Minister in protest against the Railway Budget.
A.I.R.F
4, State Entry Road,
New Delhi.-110055
D.O.No. AIRF/60
Dated: July 14, 2014
Resp. Shri Sadananda Gowda Ji,
Sub: Rail Budget 2014-15
We are very much pained and constrained on the Rail Budget 2014-15, presented by you in the floor of the Lok Sabha.
I had given you a memorandum consisting of suggestions related to Rail Budget, but unfortunately none of them could get place in this Rail Budget, and by and large there is nothing motivational and inspiring for the Railwaymen in the said Rail Budget. This has happened after a long time.
Moreover, direction of the said Rail Budget is towards privatization, and the announcement of Foreign Direct Investment(FDI) in the Railways has created lot of resentment among the Railwaymen. All India Railwaymen's Federation(AIRF) in its General Council Meeting, held at Chennai on 3-4 July, 2014, unanimously adopted a resolution to oppose all kinds of privatization in the Railways.
AIRF is a recognized federation and having a wider support among 13 lakh Railway employees. We always expect from the Railway Board that before making any announcement, which may change the face/ownership of the Railways, the matter must be discussed transparently with the Federation. But in the matter of FDI and PPP, no discussion has been made with the recognized federations.
If any decision detrimental to the interest of Railway Industry, Railwaymen in particular and the Rail users in general, takes place, we will have no other alternative, but to organize sustained struggle to save the Indian Railways.
In this Rail Budget, something also has been said about the Restructuring of the Railways. Earlier also there had been similar talks of Railway Restructuring through Rakesh Mohan and Prakash Tandan Committees and also under various modes.
We know that, the Planning Commission in the past also tried to privatize the Indian Railways but they could not do so because of pressure from the Railway workers as well as rail users.
I know that, as "Opposition", at that time, the BJP had also opposed the idea of Privatization and FDI. There should not be any change in that stand on coming into power.
Since lot of demoralization and de-motivation are going down the line among the Railway employees, who are very sensitive and working round-the-clock to keep operative country's lifeline. It would be appreciated, if a dialogue is organized with the recognized federations, representing 13 lakh Railway employees, at an earliest to clarify various issues, taking the Railways to a different direction.
I do hope, you will take this communication in a very justify perspective because the AIRF throughout the years, after 1974, has tried to maintain industrial peace and still stands for the same, but such announcements may create a breach of industrial peace.
Therefore, an early dialogue is requested.
With kind regards!
(Shiva Gopal Mishra)
Source : AIRF
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UPDATE 1 – Shots, Tear Gas Fired in Jakarta Protests
Police fired tear gas and warning shots to disperse protesters who took to the streets on Wednesday to mark the first anniversary of the swearing in of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.
More than 150 mainly student demonstrators blocked roads in the wealthy Menteng neighbourhood of central Jakarta with wooden planks, and attacked police who tried to remove them.
They hurled rocks and sticks at the riot police, who responded with tear gas and rifle fire into the air. Three people were taken into custody, and one man was shot in the leg, protesters said.
"They were pushing us away for several minutes when suddenly they opened fire. I heard 10 gunshots, the first into the air and the rest at us," said 24-year-old student Adi.
"One student was shot in his right leg and was taken to hospital."
One of the demonstrators shouted "this is the source of the mess in this country" as they set a poster of Yudhoyono alight.
"We had to fire tear gas to disperse the protesters as they set fire to the president's poster," Jakarta police spokesman Boy Rafli Amar said.
"We'll take firmer action against them if they start to burn cars or buildings."
Thousands of protesters took part in other anti-government rallies on Wednesday in Jakarta, Bandung, Surabaya, Palu and Bogor, where students also reportedly clashed with police.
Almost 20,000 police were on standby in the capital to deal with any unrest, the Antara state news agency reported.
About 300 protesters gathered in front of the presidential palace in Jakarta, shouting "SBY has failed, SBY has failed," using the president's nickname.
"He has failed to eradicate corruption," said Rudi Daman of a group called the People's Defender Front.
Another protester, Yati Andriyani of the Commission for Missing Persons and Victims of Violence, said Yudhoyono had not honoured promises to protect human rights in the mainly Muslim country of 240 million people.
"They were only empty promises," she said.


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The SB8K is a sportbike made by Italian motorcycle manufacturer Bimota.

The bike was added to the present lineup after the company hiatus in the late 1990s financial crisis. The bike was built with a profusion of light alloys and carbon fiber; the materials employed in the construction of the chassis are the most advanced materials available today. Carbon fiber is used for the fairing, as well as for the construction of the fuel tank, which was built utilizing the same techniques applied to parts for the Motorcycle Grand Prix racebike. Many elements of the SB8K are meticulously machined from aluminum alloy, a distinctive hallmark for all classic and current Bimota products.

The "SB" series means the powerplant beneath the bike frame was taken directly from the Suzuki TL1000R, and has been highly tuned by engineers to deliver more power output & torque at all engine speeds.

The SB8K is the only production bike in the world using Bimota's own radial injector fuel injection (Radial EFI).

Chassis

The SB8K has a distinctive frame that wraps around the TL1000R motor, where the upper frame is built of lightweight alloy and the lower footrest section consists of two carbon fibre plates with a box structure to reduce the frame and bike overall weight. The result is a lighter frame with the best possible rigidity over lightness ratio, the frame just weighing 185 kg on road with exceptional rigidity.

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Q: How do I know whether the data is in cache or not in iOS Firebase? I'm totally new to Firebase. My iOS app support offline feature as well. And I'm using Firebase.defaultConfig().persistenceEnabled = true which described by Firebase doc for iOS.
How do I know whether the data is still in the cache or not. I was searching an answer for this question but couldn't find any.
Thanks in advance.

A: if firebase is disconnected, the data should be cached.  Check the firebase connection status with:
Firebase *connectedRef = [[Firebase alloc] initWithUrl:@"https://<YOUR-FIREBASE-APP>.firebaseio.com/.info/connected"];
[connectedRef observeEventType:FEventTypeValue withBlock:^(FDataSnapshot *snapshot) {
  if([snapshot.value boolValue]) {
    NSLog(@"connected");
  } else {
    NSLog(@"not connected");
  }
}];

there is more info:
https://www.firebase.com/docs/ios/guide/offline-capabilities.html