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SDCC2018: Dana Gould Talks About The Art of Crafting 'Evil'
July 25, 2018 by Erin Maxwell
For a third year, cranky curmudgeon lawman Stan Miller (John C. McGinley) returns to fight the forces of evil in a small New Hampshire town in the IFC gory laffer Stan Against Evil.
Created by funnyman Dana Gould, the show carries on the torch first lit by the likes of Evil Dead and Young Frankenstein, adding another property to the growing list of horror comedies.
At San Diego Comic-Con, Gould chatted about the upcoming third season and what to expect from the quirky comedy.
"I loved the first season of the show. And I think the second season is better than the first season. And I think the third season is better than the second season. I learn a little more every year. As the show gets established with viewers, it allows you to go beyond the boundaries a little bit because people know what they are getting," said Gould.
"I ended season two with the portal of hell being opened on Earth. So had to solve that problem, which we do. The theme of the show is like the theme of reality: Sometimes to solve a problem you end up in bigger trouble. If you solve one problem, you open up a door to another problem. Thus is life."
"But this season we also get to do some straight out homage episodes. We have one episode that is an homage to The X-Files. We have the New Hampshire Department of Paranormal Phenomenon, who sends out a couple of agents. We have an homage to Kolchak: The Night Stalker. We have a Godzilla episode with Mothra fairies. I got to stretch my fanboy muscles."
"But the whole season is built on the arc in the way the original problem of how the portal to hell is resolved."
Gould's glee in writing for his famdom was something he wanted to do for a while, but had to wait until the third season before he could unleash his geeky tendencies on the IFC audience.
"The audience doesn't trust you. Not everyone in the audience is going to get the Night Stalker or the Mothra fairy reference. If you don't get it, it's not crucial. I learned that from The Simpsons."
"You don't need to see The X-Files to enjoy The X-FIles episode. But if you don't know what a Godzilla movie is, I can't help you."
In writing for the show, Gould found a balance for writing the monster of the week and overall arc of the story.
"It's a lot like X-Files in how the show is designed. I have an overall season arc that the season is based on. And usually that is served by half of the story. And in the middle you can do monster of the week episodes, but you bring up the general arc just to keep it alive."
"I have some real talent in the writers' room. I come up with the arc of the series, and then I bring in about five people write the other scripts."
"Ryan Murphy and Guy Busick are a team. Jessica Conrad usually ends up writing the season finale and one other episode. This year, my friend Mike Mendez, who is a director, we were just talking about a short movie idea he had about evil puppets. It was going to be part of an anthology but the financing fell apart. So I said, 'I'll buy it. Can you write it for Stan Against Evil?'
He said, 'But I'm a director.'
'You can write it'…And he did. And it was great."
"Anyplace I can find a story, I'll happily take it. It's our own little Meet the Feebles."
"This year, Rob Cohen came in and directed the season. We have been very close since we shared an office on The Ben Stiller Show. And we have done of things together. He is a director now, but he started off as a writer and my closest friend in the world."
With the key players in place behind the scenes, the story and the characters begin to jump from the small screen, beginning with Stan (John C. McGinley).
"The stories usually revolve around Stan having a terrible idea and the way it affects everyone. He's just a guy looking for a little peace, and he's never going to find it. It's how that refracts in the world around him. "
"In this season, we basically defeated Hitler by aligning with Stalin. And now we have to deal with Stalin. "
As for the new season, get ready for a few familiar faces.
"We brought back the Black Hat Society of last season and the character of Gerard Duquette (Emmett Hunter), who is the voodoo priest, has a very big role this season. And of course Kevin the Gravedigger, the most important small character," jokes Gould.
"Basically, at this point, I'm a utility player. I'm like grout. I come into a scene that needs to be fixed over and I cast myself because I'm there."
"The whole point of the show — and it's a selfish point of view — is that it's fun. It's fun to write. It's a lot of work but really fun to do. I love it. If I didn't make the show, I would watch the show."
The new season of Stan Against Evil premieres this Halloween on IFC.
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This list of rivers in the Brazilian State of Piauí is arranged by drainage basin, with respective tributaries indented under each larger stream's name and ordered from downstream to upstream. All rivers in Piauí drain to the Atlantic Ocean.

By Drainage Basin

 Parnaíba River
 Piranji River
 Longá River
 Piracuruca River
 Dos Matos River
 Maratasã River
 Corrente River
 Poti River
 Berlengas River
 Sambito River
 São Nicolau River
 Cais River
 Capivara River
 Canindé River
 Piauí River
 Mitéuca River
 Fidalgo River
 Itaim River
 Itaueira River
 Gurguéia River
 Esfolado River
 Paraim River
 Uruçuí Prêto River
 Riozinho River
 Uruçuí-Vermelho River

Alphabetically

 Berlengas River
 Cais River
 Canindé River
 Capivara River
 Corrente River
 Dos Matos River
 Esfolado River
 Fidalgo River
 Gurguéia River
 Itaim River
 Itaueira River
 Longá River
 Maratasã River
 Mitéuca River
 Paraim River
 Parnaíba River
 Piauí River
 Piracuruca River
 Piranji River
 Poti River
 Riozinho River
 Sambito River
 São Nicolau River
 Uruçuí Prêto River
 Uruçuí-Vermelho River

References
 Map from Ministry of Transport
 GEOnet Names Server

Rivers of Piauí
Piauí
Environment of Piauí

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OECD COVID-19 Transfer Pricing Guidance: What Does It Say?
On 18 December 2020, the OECD published a report on the transfer pricing implications of the COVID-19 pandemic (the OECD COVID Guidance). This is a long-awaited document that discusses important aspects of transfer pricing during the pandemic, which may be helpful for both taxpayers and tax administrations worldwide. Importantly, the report represents the consensus view of the 137 members of the Inclusive Framework, which makes it relevant in (almost) every country of the world.
Even though the OECD COVID Guidance does not provide detailed instructions, it is still helpful as it gives general principles of the application of the arm's length principle during COVID pandemic. Notably, the OECD provides "no-go" options that taxpayers could consider before, but are now clearly not recommended.
The OECD COVID Guidance focuses on four priority areas that we summarized below. The document is structured in the FAQ manner, i.e. provides popular questions and answers to them.
As a general approach, though, the OECD COVID Guidance highlights that the arm's length principle should be applied in the same way as described in the OECD Guidelines, and the COVID-19 pandemic just makes it's application more difficult from a practical perspective.
I. Comparability analysis
The OECD COVID Guidance makes it clear that comparability analysis is difficult during the pandemic due to several reasons, in particular:
Lack of information about the effect of the pandemic on comparables (and the economy as a whole)
Timing issues (especially for the TNMM application)
Issues with comparability (i.e., due to different government assistance programs in different countries)
The OECD COVID Guidance provides several practical approaches to address information deficiencies, and, more generally, comparability difficulties:
Use of reasonable commercial judgement to set an estimate of the arm's length price (supported by contemporaneous information);
Allowing the use of "price testing" approach (where "price-setting" was used in the past) and greater flexibility to use compensating adjustments; ensuring access to MAP to avoid double taxation; Use of more that one transfer pricing method;
Use of more segmented periods for price testing (or price setting), or, alternatively, a greater level of aggregation (i.e. comparing the results of the controlled transaction for several years, combined);
Where one of the comparability factors is considered the most relevant (i.e. geography) - greater flexibility around other comparability search criteria.
II. Losses and allocation of COVID-19 specific costs
As a general principle, the OECD COVID Guidance highlights that losses and COVID-19 specific costs should be split in line with the risk allocation between parties of the transaction. Parties should align the allocation of exceptional, non-recurring costs (i.e. PPE costs) with how independent enterprises' would allocate them.
One of the most burning COVID-19 pandemic TP questions is if limited risk entities can incur losses. The OECD COVID Guidance does not go beyond what is written in the OECD Guidelines. One of the important takeaways is that OECD urges against generalizing the "limited-risk" entities and highlights that each case is unique. I.e., if the entity was bearing the marketplace risk that played out during the pandemic, it could incur losses, if not – then no marketplace risk losses should be assigned to it.
Consistency between risk allocation and profits/losses distribution is critically important, and the OECD makes it clear that modifying functional analysis to substantiate the loss is not a good idea.
This section also provides more detailed guidance on how exceptional costs should be taken into account in a comparability analysis and the effect of force majeure clauses on the losses allocation.
III. Government assistance programs
Generally, the OECD COVID Guidance recognizes that there are various types of government assistance, and it is difficult to develop one size fits all approach. The availability, substance, duration and take-up of these programs will differ and may have different transfer pricing implications. Some general principles on transfer pricing implications of government assistance programs are summarized below:
Government assistance is an economically relevant characteristic, where it has a substantial economic effect (i.e., wage subsidies, liquidity support, etc.)
In line with the OECD Guidelines, government interventions should be treated as conditions of the market
Taxpayers and tax administrations should carefully consider if the government support affects prices in the controlled transaction (and related transactions with third parties), the enterprise's cost base, and how these effects should be accounted for.
Since government assistance programs are country-specific, benchmarks that use comparables from other countries can become less relevant.
IV. Advance Pricing Arrangements (APAs)
The issue of APAs during the COVID-19 pandemic is especially relevant. The main problem is that many APAs concluded by taxpayers in the past include critical assumptions around economic conditions' stability. Obviously, the pandemic leads to significant changes to the environment, and therefore, a potential breach of critical assumptions.
The OECD COVID Guidance encourages taxpayers to adopt a collaborative and transparent approach by raising COVID-19-related issues with the relevant tax administrations in a timely manner. The document highlights that tax administrations should consider every APA on a case-by-case basis. The report considers three potential outcomes for APAs and provides details on the reasons for choosing these options by tax administrations:
Revision: The APA still applies for the whole period, although terms can be adjusted.
Cancellation: The APA is in effect only up to the cancellation date.
Revocation: The APA is treated as having never been entered into.
The OECD COVID Guidance recognizes difficulties taxpayers and tax administrations face while negotiating APAs during the COVID pandemic. These include both fundamental issues (uncertainty, business changes, etc.), as well as practical problems (travel limitations, no f2f meetings, etc.). Nevertheless, the document notes that despite potential challenges, the value of achieving advanced certainty and effective dispute prevention through APAs remains compelling.
Is the OECD COVID Guidance relevant for the ADIT exam?
The short answer is "no", as the OECD COVID Guidance is not included in the ADIT syllabus for 2021, and it is not intended to become the part of the OECD Guidelines in the future. However, there is a chance that CIOT will include some questions about transfer pricing during uncertain times and crises. The OECD COVID Guidance is not only relevant for the COVID-19 pandemic, but can also be useful for issues faced by MNEs and tax administrations while dealing with transfer pricing in other crisis situations.
We also discuss practical considerations of the COVID-19 pandemic in Module 18 of our transfer pricing course, as well as in the textbook.

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In this paper an overview is presented of several approximations within Density Functional Theory (DFT) to calculate g-tensors in transition metal containing systems and a new accurate description of the spin–other-orbit contribution for high spin systems is suggested. Various implementations in a broad variety of software packages (ORCA, ADF, Gaussian, CP2K, GIPAW and BAND) are critically assessed on various aspects including (i) non-relativistic versus relativistic Hamiltonians, (ii) spin–orbit coupling contributions and (iii) the gauge. Particular attention is given to the level of accuracy that can be achieved for codes that allow g-tensor calculations under periodic boundary conditions, as these are ideally suited to efficiently describe extended condensed-phase systems containing transition metals. In periodic codes like CP2K and GIPAW, the g-tensor calculation schemes currently suffer from an incorrect treatment of the exchange spin–orbit interaction and a deficient description of the spin–other-orbit term. In this paper a protocol is proposed, making the predictions of the exchange part to the g-tensor shift more plausible. Focus is also put on the influence of the spin–other-orbit interaction which becomes of higher importance for high-spin systems. In a revisited derivation of the various terms arising from the two-electron spin–orbit and spin–other-orbit interaction (SOO), new insight has been obtained revealing amongst other issues new terms for the SOO contribution. The periodic CP2K code has been adapted in view of this new development. One of the objectives of this study is indeed a serious enhancement of the performance of periodic codes in predicting g-tensors in transition metal containing systems at the same level of accuracy as the most advanced but time consuming spin–orbit mean-field approach. The methods are first applied on rhodium carbide but afterwards extended to a broad test set of molecules containing transition metals from the fourth, fifth and sixth row of the periodic table. The set contains doublets as well as high-spin molecules.


Jason Wilkes, 39, of Two Harbors, died Friday, December 22, 2017 in a car accident on the North Shore.
Jason was born March 24, 1978 in Lakewood, Colorado to Arlee (Croft) and Paul Wilkes, and was a life-long resident of Two Harbors. After graduating from Two Harbors high school in 1997, he served in the U. S. Army Reserves from 1999 until 2003 as a squad leader. He graduated from Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts in Mendota Heights as a baking and pastry chef in 2007. Jason was employed at various restaurants in the area and for the past ten years he was employed as a morning chef and baker, but willing to help in any department, at Grand Superior Lodge. He was dedicated to his work and would walk or hitchhike if necessary to get to work.
Jason was a member of Bethlehem Lutheran Church and its Youth Group, where he served on several mission trips, and was equipment manager for "Spiritwind". He was also a member of the Boy Scouts of America. When his mother needed a kidney transplant, he arranged and prepared a benefit meal.
He enjoyed music, fixing things, and collecting Coca Cola memorabilia.
Jason is survived by his mother Arlee Wilkes; his father, Paul (Deb) Wilkes; aunts and uncles, Louise (Gerald) Egger, George (Marlene Kaupenen) Croft, John (Michiko) Croft, Ben (Deb) Croft; numerous nieces, nephews, cousins and other extended family; and his cat Rusty.
Visitation will be from 5-7 PM Wednesday December 27, 2017 at Cavallin Funeral Home in Two Harbors and again from 1 PM until the 2 PM service on Thursday at Emmanuel Lutheran Church in Two Harbors.


After I attending Thoroughly Modern Production's musical, Assassins at 2nd Street Theater, I walked away mulling over the theme. The timing of the production, directly after the reelection of Obama, the 44th President of the United States, made the show not only relevant, but set the audience up for a thought provoking journey into some of the minds of America's most notorious presidential assassins.
Personally, I had never spent much time on the motivations and personal lives of individuals such as Leon Czolgosz (assassinated President William McKinley), Giuseppe Zangara (failed assassination attempt on President Franklin Roosevelt) and even Lee Harvey Oswald (JFK's assassin).
Theatre can ignite imaginations and pose questions in a very provoking manner. Assassins used a fair amount of humor to tell the tale of these tragic and terrible lives. Bringing attention to human element through humor created an accessible way to re-imagine these figures often viewed as monsters.
For theatre to give your mind some juicy bits to work on after the production can be the mark of a successful show. When could the audience be more open to learning about the fragility and starkness of human life, of our president's lives? The turbulent 2012 election cycle is over, but as Assassins reminded me, there is always unrest, there are always issues that go unresolved and there are always people who feel unheard and find destructive ways to be noticed.
It is good to be reminded of the power of the stage and have your preconceived notions challenged.


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OH, THE HUMANITY
Psychologists who studied shame around the world say it's an essential part of being human
No man is an island.
Image: Reuters/Kim Kyung-Hoon
Cassie Werber
There's a school of thought that says shame is a social construct: We only learn to feel inadequate and exposed because our particular culture sends us messages about what falls outside the realm of acceptability.
But an international group of psychologists and anthropologists are putting forward an entirely different theory: Perhaps shame is universal—an evolved mechanism that helps us avoid behavior that would make our social group stop valuing us. In a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, these researchers suggest that shame may be "a basic part of human biology."
"Human foragers are obligately group-living, and their high dependence on mutual aid is believed to have characterized our species' social evolution," the researchers write. "It was therefore a central adaptive problem for our ancestors to avoid damaging the willingness of other group members to render them assistance. Cognitively, this requires a predictive map of the degree to which others would devalue the individual based on each of various possible acts." In other words, our sense of shame arises from our ability to accurately predict which traits or actions will make other people think less of us—a skill that's been important for human survival.
To investigate this theory, the researchers, led by Daniel Sznycer, an assistant professor of psychology at the University of Montreal, looked at 15 extremely different societies around the world, each of which was picked because it has—by today's standards—little contact with other social groups. The researchers used local-language interviews to present a set of 12 scenarios that might prompt shame, such as a person breaking their promises or having a lot of sexual partners, to 899 individuals. Some of the participants had to imagine being the perpetrator, while others imagined that they were observing a community member. Translators used the word "shame" in each of the local languages, or the closest possible word in that language, when asking their questions.
They found a clear pattern that held true for both fishing communities in Japan and forager-horticulturalists in Ikland, Uganda; from the Amazon rainforest to the far north of Mongolia. The extent of shame that people felt when they were asked to imagine possessing certain traits or committing certain actions mapped very closely onto the precise amount their community "devalued" that trait or act. Moreover, the traits and behaviors that elicited shame were similar across communities. A person who shirked work, for example, would have a negative impact on the larger group; someone who stole valuable resources would have an even bigger impact. The degree to which people felt shame for those things aligned pretty precisely with society's perception of those actions, both where they lived, and across cultures.
The global study had a small sample size in each community, in part because the communities themselves are small. But according to Sznycer, the results suggest our sense of shame is evolved, not imposed.
"What people agreed on, both within and across nations, was the very precise magnitude of the extent to which something would be shameful or negative from an audience perspective," Sznycer said. "That's really powerful…[because] it suggests that the underlying machinery is universal."
In 2016, the same group of researchers published a paper focused on feelings of shame in the US, India, and Israel. That paper also found that the more negatively a given trait or behavior was viewed by others, the more likely it was to elicit shame. But those societies, while distinct, aren't entirely separate. The globalized economy has linked people in all three countries through everything from television to Facebook. So the question remained as to whether people in the US, India, and Israel had learned to be ashamed of similar things because of cultural crossover. The experiment with remote communities was an attempt to address that question.
The research counters some of the current thinking on shame, which progressive types tend to think of as something imposed from the outside—sometimes archaic, and often to be resisted. And of course, there are clear cases where the notion of social shame is used to justify truly egregious acts, like so-called "honor" killings, or to constrain others' personal freedom, as with "slut-shaming."
Sznycer notes, meanwhile, that even if shame is evolutionarily useful, it can still lead us to behave in ways that aren't admirable. We're so averse to the negative evaluations of our peer group that we'll go to great lengths to avoid the feeling of shame. As an example, he tells the story of 18th-century philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
As a 16-year-old servant, Rousseau steals a ribbon from his employer and is accused of the theft. The magnitude of shame he feels at the prospect of being labelled a thief leads him to blame a young female employee. Blaming others, as well as acts of aggression, are both common reactions to the "weight" that shame can place on us.
Years later, Rousseau wrote that he still felt deeply guilty about the lie. It's a good example of the knots in which a powerful emotion like shame can tie us.


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[Home] [Stand down] [Andrews AFB]
It's very suspicious that F-16s were scrambled from Langley to protect Washington from attack, and not Andrews Air Force Base, which was much closer.
According to the 9/11 Commission, Andrews had no available fighters on alert that morning..
"All the hijacked aircraft were in one of NORAD's Continental U.S. sectors, the Northeast Air Defense Sector (also known as NEADS). NEADS is based in Rome, New York. On 9/11, it could call on two alert sites, each with one pair of ready fighters. These were the 2 Otis Air National Guard Base in Cape Cod, Massachusetts and Langley Air Force Base in Langley, Virginia".
9/11 Commission Staff Statement 17
Some sites say this is hard to believe, because it's known that Andrews had "combat ready" fighters.
"On 11 September there were two entire squadrons of combat-ready fighter jets at Andrews. Their job was to protect the skies over Washington D.C. They failed to do their job. Despite over one hour's advance warning of a terrorist attack in progress, not a single Andrews fighter tried to protect the city".
http://autarchic.tripod.com/files/murder.html
However, the term "combat ready" does not mean "available to launch within minutes" on an emergency intercept. It's a more general term than that. For example, the 180th Fighter Wing page tells us that:
"The mission of the 112th Fighter Squadron is to provide combat ready aircrews capable of deploying anywhere in the world within 24 hours of notification".
http://www.ohtole.ang.af.mil/aboutus/OrgPage/180Units.html
Airman (the "magazine of America's Air Force") offers some confirmation that Andrews wasn't always on alert, at least when this article was published back in December 1999:
The Air National Guard exclusively performs the air sovereignty mission in the continental United States, and those units fall under the control of the 1st Air Force based at Tyndall. The Guard maintains seven alert sites with 14 fighters and pilots on call around the clock. Besides Homestead, alert birds also sit armed and ready at Tyndall; Langley AFB, Va.; Otis Air National Guard Base, Mass.; Portland International Airport, Ore.; March ARB, Calif.; and Ellington Field, Texas.
http://www.af.mil/news/airman/1299/home2.htm


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Q: Is manually closing SQL connections at the end of PHP scripts necessary, or am I adding unnecessary lines of code? I'm building a PHP site mainly via peaking at other peoples code. The code in particular I'm attempting to mimic has this line of code at the bottom of almost all of their .PHP files that have anything to do with SQL connections...
// Never forget to close the connection, otherwise memory leaks will happen!
mysqli_close($dbConnection);

So my question is; does his comment have some merit? Should I always be closing my mysqli connections in this fashion in all of my PHP files? Or would that be wasting my time, and does it happen automatically or something?
Thanks in advance!

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I'm building a PHP site mainly via peaking at other peoples code.

That's quite wrong approach in case of learning PHP, as this language have very bad ancestry - so, 99% of code you may find will be plainly awful, full of bad practices and wild superstitions.
You'd make yourself a huge favor if start building your site peeking into some modern PHP framework tutorial.
Regarding the question you asked - no, it is not that strictly necessary. Make your PHP scripts  always run fast, die young - and you will never ever have a need in closing whatever resources manually.

A: Short answer is no. The comment if false.... but, while a connection is open it is consuming resources both on the webserver  and database server and you should, as soon as your done with it, close it down.
Imagine a situation where after you grab the data from the server you have to do some complex calculation and layout, this will take time and you will be consuming a connection to the server.
You're being kinda like that annoying guy in the checkout lane of a store that after he gets his change, has to stand there and organize his wallet instead of getting the hell out of the way so you can check out.

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A weekend primer for the UIL area track meets and a link to UIL track and field results from the Corpus Christi area.
District 30-5A and District 31-4A cap a busy week of area track meets on Thursday and Saturday.
Representatives from the 11 30-5A schools will head to Floresville to match up with qualifiers from District 29-5A.
District 31-4A returns to the site of its district meet, hosting 32-4A at Rockport on Saturday where warmer weather is expected to greet the athletes, along with a chance of thunderstorms.
In the area meet, the top four finishers in each event will qualify for the regional meets held April 27-28.
The Region IV-5A meet will take place at Alamo Stadium in San Antonio. Class 4A competitors join Class 2A qualifiers at Javelina Stadium for the regional meet in Kingsville.
District 30-5A was a force last year at Cabaniss Multipurpose Complex, winning 31 of 34 events contested, and had at least two regional qualifiers in 33 events.
The district featured the high-point male (Calallen's Jackson Lanam) and high-point female (Gregory-Portland's Abigail Tello-Mettlach) last season and have several athletes capable of making a run at those crowns again this season.
District 29-5A will have home-field advantage with Floresville hosting the meet on Thursday.
A handful of athletes have a chance to chase a medal in all of their event this week.
Tello-Mettlach and Marlee Serrano of Sinton set the bar high last year and several athletes can make a run at winning all of their events.
Alice's Criselda Cruz won both hurdle events, the high jump and triple jump at the 30-5A meet and Riley Floerke is a threat in the long and triple jumps and is the favorite in her specialty, pole vault.
Ingleside's Jordan Blanton collected five gold medals earlier this year at a meet in Kingsville and won the long jump, pole vault and 300 hurdles two weeks ago in Rockport. She will have a chance to chase regional berths in all of her events.
Chance Guidry will again compete at his home track, looking to improve on his winning times in the 100, 200 and the school record he set in long jump, 22-feet, 11.5-inches.
Calallen's Brooke Barrington put her stamp on the 30-5A meet with golds in the 400, 800 and 1,600 and will look to take another step toward returning to the state meet.
• At the District 30-5A meet G-P's Cody Fountain eked out a win in the boys 800, beating Jacob Tremblay of Veterans Memorial by three-hundredths of a second (2:00.39 to 2:00.42). They will meet again and highlight a number of races to watch.
• The girls 100 and 300 hurdles have been one of the highlights of every meet in the area the last two seasons, and Thursday will be no exception.
Cruz, Averie Griffith and Amber Jones will challenge in the 100 hurdles and Cruz and Texas A&M-Corpus Christi signee Ariel Bustamante lead the pack in the 300 hurdles.
• David Garza (Kingsville) and David Jordan (Ingleside) both broke 40 seconds in the 300 hurdles in their last encounter and will square off again Saturday.
• In a windstorm, Rockport-Fulton's Jacob Brake set a personal best of 14-6 in the pole vault, besting Sinton's Tyler Rittiman (14-0). Rittiman and his brother Trey Rittiman will get another chance this week.
• In the first varsity race of the 31-4A meet, Robstown freshman Elizabeth Silva out-kicked R-F's Sophie Vaughn and beat her on the home stretch of the 3,200 and the two will be paired again.
• Ingleside and Rockport-Fulton in the boys throws. The two schools combined to earn seven out of eight area meet spots from the District 31-4A meet. The schools go at it again on Saturday.


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April & May 2005
Working on Ontario Cottage
Paul and Kitty Antonik Wakfer had made the decision before going south to Arizona for the dead of winter in January 2005, that upon our return we would leave the Toronto apartment that Paul had occupied for over 10 years (since Oct 1, 1994 - the longest he had ever lived in one place since graduating from university). The owners of the building - the infamous (in Toronto) Wynn Family - had been very lax in maintaining the building and had every year raised the rent for those who stayed while offering apparently area competitive rents to newcomers. While the building was nicely situated in the mostly pleasant Annex section of the city, and the apartment was a good size (enabling us to create a good arrangement for our computer workspaces) and the on the corner of the second floor (providing a nice cross breeze and good view of pedestrian traffic), the lack of adequate maintenance had become increasingly bothersome. (Among the worst: sudsy water backing up in the kitchen sink at all hours even spilling out onto the floor and leaking down into the cabinet by way of an unsealed kitchen sink; bathroom walls and ceiling only partially repaired and unpainted for over 5 years from original leak in apartment above; garage space that flooded with every rain and remained so sometimes for weeks; dirty inside stairwells; and graffiti on outside garage entry walls inviting break-ins - which occurred twice while we were there. The Golden Cockroach repeatedly awarded to the Wynn's by a Toronto renter's group is easily understood by us.)
We had notified Wynn Family Properties by registered mail in March (after leaving them post dated checks through the end of April) that we would be vacating the apartment at 66 Spadina Road at the end of May, and that the one month rent in advance paid in September of 1994 (with no interest returned yearly as required by Toronto law) would cover the May rent.
The pleasures of living in Toronto had also decreased in the previous 3 years - dancing at the clubs had degenerated to mostly hip/hop with far less frequent high energy than before, and there were far more dirt/trash and beggars in the streets and on the sidewalks. Our income didn't permit us to move to a more desirable area (if there really is such a place), and that wouldn't change the greatly reduced availability of good dance clubs. So our cost-benefit analysis concluded that the outlay of our modest funds was not returned with sufficient benefits. Therefore our decision to make the cottage built almost 39 years previously Paul's Canadian residence and our home during the warm months each year.
We arrived back in Toronto in mid April, and by the last week we had started making weekly trips to the cottage to take items there that we would be retaining and bringing items back that we then left for donation at the large downtown Toronto Goodwill collection center. The main purpose of the trips, however, was to get started on the modifications of the cottage that it required in order to make it a more efficient and therefore enjoyable full time residence for 6 months each year.
The bed frame that had been built by Paul's daughter and son-in-law in the north bedroom was taken apart and removed so that this room could be used for storage during our renovation period. We have been using the south bedroom but plan to move into the north one when all the work is completed.
The biggest change planned for the cottage is removal of the wall between the middle bedroom and living room (wall at extreme right in photo), thereby greatly enlarging this space by connecting it to the open living room, dining room and kitchen along the front (west and lake side) of the cottage. This will allow us to enjoy views of (and breezes from) the lake to the west and the woods on the east, as well as be better able to talk to whoever of us is in the kitchen while working at the computers, which will be situated in what is here being called the middle bedroom, but will then be part of the living room. This larger area should also give us much more space to dance!
The interior walls are a single thickness of tongue and groove cedar logs and once the nails at the ends that had been driven into the log below ("toe nails") were removed, the log could be easily slid out of place. Paul tried out this method on a log in the short closet (non-bearing) wall that ended at the common livingroom/middle bedroom wall. The narrow width of the closet opening required that the log also be pushed at an angle in order to be removed. From this point, it was a short job to remove all the logs of the middle bedroom closet up to the level where the door frame had been.
The remainder of this wall is the back of the closet in the south bedroom. Removing the logs here required that they be pulled out, choosing the first one by the fact that a wrecking bar could be just wedged between the end and the outside wall.
It didn't take too long before our bed in the south bedroom could be seen through the back wall of its former closet and the closet doorway. The once closet doorway has now become a temporary entrance from that bedroom to our office - the former middle bedroom (and through our office, the shortest way to the bathroom), but it will be relocated along the wall toward the front of the cottage (opening further into the living room) with the eventual rebuilding of that wall.
The living room wall removal referred to above could not quickly proceed from the closet wall removal shown (which had been mainly done to get some idea of how the work of log removal would go and to enlarge the office a little at the same time). There was the problem of storing our possessions that needed to be moved from Toronto, some of which would make the trip onto Arizona. Some of the existing space needed to be made more usable even before enlarging the living room to include the computer workspace. And Paul decided that the cottage needed to be leveled before proceeding with that wall work (a major supporting wall).
The first change in the kitchen was a move of the outlet for the refrigerator that then permitted the unit to fit more tightly in the corner. This was needed before the planned installation of cabinets, sorely needed for storage.
It was a nice day - relatively free of the infamous cottage country blackflies - and this stump needed removal. The plan was that the vehicle we used for final moving of the big items would be backed up to the porch (from which Kitty took this pic). But a stump remaining from a dead tree cut down many years before was in the way. Paul with his handy axe took it down to chips in fairly short order - and Kitty took a bunch of swings at it too.
Although this wall will likely not be removed before the end of the summer, taking the baseboard heater off will permit more efficient temporary storage of items coming from the Toronto apartment.
The bed that Paul and Kitty (and he alone before that) used in the south bedroom was quite old, consisted of mattress and box spring and allowed virtually no storage below it. (Our soon to be "lost" king size waterbed in Toronto was atop a frame that Paul had built that allowed a great deal of container storage below. Arranging for comparable storage was a must for the cottage.) Therefore, Paul discarded the box spring (actually we donated it to GoodWill), disassembled the old bed frame and utilized many of the parts in fashioning a platform for the existing mattress.
The old bed frame had metal pins that needed to be removed before the wood (which was a good thickness and length) could be used. Paul's saw cut through the metal quickly (the same saw that had been used to build the cottage 39 years previously!).
The new frame, having been constructed in the living room, is ready to be put in the bedroom and then the slats installed.
The slats used were those (after a bit of shortening) that were part of the short (to the ground) platform for the original box spring, but now were raise much higher and the mattress would sit directly on them. Note in the top left corner of the picture, on a low bookshelf sits a green-painted lamp that Paul made on a wood lathe in "manual training" in 1950 when he was 12 years old. He has managed to retain a few other things that he made way back then.
The finished bed is just as comfortable as it was on the old frame and now has the added advantage of container storage space below. All done in one day.
The next day we got back to working in the kitchen - towards creating the much needed, increased and improved work and storage space.
Paul at this point had already removed the counter and partial cabinet that was along the west wall and moved the stove from where it had been near the corner. The empty space in the corner itself had always been an annoyance to Paul when his daughter and son-in-law installed the replacement counters from what had been there originally. Now he was going to do it himself - and right.
We took many measurements before purchasing two prefabricated floor cabinets by Mill's Pride at Home Depot. The blind cabinet one is to be placed in the empty corner; Paul begins by increasing the height of the existing cabinets.
The cabinet was assembled to the point where it is ready for placement.
Some muscle was needed to push the cabinet into place.
The cabinet was removed when we realized that the existing counter top on the sink cabinets was not high enough to allow for proper placement of the reapplied counter top on the new cabinets.
So up goes the old cabinet a bit more. This necessitated lengthening the water inlet plumbing, which we purchased between trips and had ready the next time.
Unable to proceed with the cabinets but there still being time before returning to Toronto the next evening, Paul decided to move onto reconnecting the electric stove in its new location at the end of where the new cabinets would sit below the old counter top.
Because the kitchen floor cabinet installation had not been completed in the original 2 days we had allotted, we made an extra trip - with the car loaded, of course, to make use of every trip to transport items from the very full apartment being vacated.
Paul takes a deep breath and a chuckle part way through his modification of the purchased prefabricated blind corner cabinet. He eliminated the planned "blind" wall and extended the floor so that it then turns the corner and ends at the existing wall of the sink base cabinet. Without this there would be a wasted 6 inches - not tolerable to Paul who works to always optimize everything ;>)
With the corner cabinet in place, Paul's modifications can be better seen. No wasted space for the Wakfers!
Fitting the filler piece in place required that Paul work inside the cabinet part of the time - not many men can do this.
With the other new cabinet and the saved counter top in place, Paul got back to finishing his corner modifications.
A sky-hook arrangement was devised for additional support to the shelf constructed by Paul to but with supplied one (running the full length of the back of the cupboard) and continue forward around the corner into the extended blind end.
Paul is appropriately pleased at the greatly increased floor cabinets and better arranged counter surface in the cottage kitchen.
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Mango growers are exploring options to export a surplus of fruit that is grown in Far North Queensland. Gennaro Arena of Barron River Gold Mangoes exports all of his R2E2 mangoes grown on his orchid near Mareeba to the Middle East. PICTURE: BRENDAN RADKE
How our mango exports to China could grow 200 per cent
by Andrea Falvo
THE Far North region's role as a major player in the mango industry could help unlock even greater exporting potential to China in the near future.
Cooperative Research Centre for Developing Northern Australia has today announced a $2.24 million project, which promises to boost northern Australian mango exports into China by 200 per cent within five years.
The research collaboration between Australia's leading Calypso mango exporter Perfection Fresh, Queensland Department of Agriculture and Fisheries and the University of Queensland, will use the latest in supply chain management, quality assessment tools and information technology platforms to identify and resolve issues impeding the export of mangoes into China.
The CRCNA has committed $952,471 towards the project, with the remainder of the project funded via cash and in-kind contributions from project participants.
Calypso mango orchards in Mareeba and Dimbulah are among those that have been selected as research locations.
FNQ Growers president Joe Moro said any efforts to increase capacity into China would alleviate pressure on the domestic market.
He said improvements made to exporting Calypso mangoes would also have a flow-on effect to other varieties, in particular R2E2 which is popular with the Chinese.
"The Mareeba/Dimbulah mango growing region is probably be the biggest region in Australia," he said.
"The Chinese already know our product is very good and it's just how we get the product there up to the standard.
"Any efforts to increase direct freight will be a good thing for the industry and China's a huge market.
"I think the funding will definitely help increase volumes into China …."
Perfection spokesman Andrew Edwards said shifting from an airfreight transport model to sea freight would be a key focus of the research.
"Transporting mangoes via sea freight will transform the industry from a low volume Australian export participant, more than tripling current export value to over $20 million per year, within the next three to five years," he said.
BROADER IMPACT
DRAWING on earlier research and investment from Perfection and DAF, the project will facilitate the adoption of improved supply chain systems. The project is expected to be completed by mid-2021. CRCNA chief executive officer Jed Matz said although the initial focus was on the Calypso mango supply chain, it's expected any improvements would be shared with the broader industry.
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W e l c o m e t o b i e n b o n e s b a n e z 6 6 6 a r t w o r l d. " T h e G r e a t e s t L i v i n g F i l i p i n o S u r r e a l i s t i s a D a b a w e n y o . "
Robert J. Wickenheiser
February 5, 2018 bones
Robert J. Wickenheiser, center, Bienvenido Bones Banez, left, Terrance Lindall, right, in 2012
Robert J. Wickenheiser (December 13, 1942 – November 23, 2015) served as president of Mount St. Mary's Collegein Maryland from 1977 to 1993 and of St. Bonaventure University in New York from 1994 to 2003.[3] The Maryland State Senate recognized his "exemplary leadership" of Mount St. Mary's when he retired. The first layman to hold the position at St. Bonaventure, he oversaw the university as it implemented a new core curriculum and expanded its University of Ministries, among other achievements before resigning his position during a scandal over the acceptance of an ineligible basketball player. An avid collector of the works of 17th century poet John Milton for decades, Wickenheiser sold his collection to the University of South Carolina in 2006, helping it establish what was declared at that time to be among the largest collections of Milton in the world.[4]
A North Dakota native, Wickenheiser was born in Bismarck on 13 December 1942 and grew up in Strasburg. Wickenheiser was a Benedictine monk for four years,[3] having entered a monastery in 1962. He attended St. Benedict's College, where he graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor's degree in philosophy in 1965, and the University of Minnesota, where he earned a doctoral degree in English Literature.[3] He attended the Assumption School of Theology and the Shakespeare Institute in England for a year.
After serving as an English teacher at Princeton University, Wickenheiser was named 21st president of Mount St. Mary's College near Emmitsburg, Maryland in 1977. Following his announced intent to retire in 1993, he was celebrated by the Maryland State Senate, who passed a resolution to recognize "his exemplary leadership" of the college. The last year of his tenure had been marked by controversies which Wickenheiser indicated arose from "firm and difficult actions [that] had to be taken to place the Mount clearly on track with its mission".
Brought aboard as the 19th president of St. Bonaventure University in 1994, Wickenheiser was in tenure at the university in 1998 when it introduced its new core curriculum.[3] He resigned from the university in 2003 after acknowledging that he had ordered subordinates to allow an ineligible student entry to the school so he could play basketball.[9]
Wickenheiser began collecting works related to John Milton in the late 1960s, amassing over 6,000 volumes of books about the poet which he sold to the University of South Carolina in Columbia in 2006 for one million dollars.[11][4][12] According to the university, Wickenheiser and his wife desired to keep the collection together in one library and so accepted a conservative valuation for the sale. The Robert J. Wickenheiser Collection is housed in the William L. Richter Room, named for the philanthropist who provided the bulk of the funds.[4] At the time of the sale, the Associated Press noted that the influx of manuscripts made the Milton collection at USC "among the largest in the world".[4]
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Starch industry generates enormous amount of wastes which contains several valuable components such as minerals, proteins and amino acids. In the past those wastes were released to the environment in unchanged form or used as fertilizers or animal feed. However, economical and ecological functionality of those applications was minor and rather a result of lack of better options than real needs. Currently, due to the urgent necessity of environment pollution prevention as well as for economic reasons, research concerning development of new methods of recovery, bioconversion and utilization of valuable substances present in wastes is being undertaken. This publication aims to describe strategies of starch industry wastes conversion, mainly potato soap, into useful products. Historical, presently used and advanced biotechnological methods were described. In addition, an economical and ecological evaluation of methods was performed. Ion-Exchange chromatography can be an economically profitable technology for the isolation and purification of different native potato proteins. Using membrane adsorption instead of classical chromatography has many advantages. Further availability of filter modules with different shapes and capacities enables the efficient isolation of proteins on an industrial scale. The application of ion-exchange modules for active recovery of proteins from potato juice is confirmed by research. In recent years, Sartorius Stedim Biotech company has designed new modules with polymer spacers and different channel sizes (MA-IEX-modules) enabling processing of crude, particle-containing solutions using a tangential flowthrough the membranes. The great advantage of this solution is the possibility of omitting the first steps of the purification, what saves time and money. The usefulness of such units was confirmed by isolation of valuable potato proteins: patatin and low molecular weight from potato fruit juice from starch factory.
In this study a preliminary researches of the possibility of using the membrane ion exchange chromatography as a technique for recovery of biologically active protein from waste material which is potato pulp is also presented.


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Владимир Степанович Чечёткин (1 августа 1937, Московская область — 10 апреля 2020, Чита, Забайкальский край) — советский организатор и руководитель геолого-разведочного производства. Главный геолог Читинского производственного геологического объединения в 1985—1993 годах. Заслуженный работник промышленности СССР.

Биография
Родился 1 августа 1937 года в городе Шатура Московской области.

Окончив в 1955 году среднюю школу в городе Новосибирск, поступил на геолого-разведочный факультет Томского политехнического института, по окончании которого в 1960 году получил специальность «Горный инженер-геолог» со специализацией «Поиск и разведка руд редких и радиоактивных элементов».

С 1960 года работал в Читинском геологическом управлении (ЧГУ): старшим техником-геологом, инженером-геологом, начальником партии Удоканской геолого-разведочной экспедиции. В 1966–1969 годах — старший геолог поисковой партии, впервые оценившей запасы титаномагнетитовых руд Читинской области. В 1970—1985 годах — главный геолог Удоканской экспедиции ЧГУ.

Под его руководством сотрудники экспедиции провели оценку многочисленных месторождений края — медистых песчаников, железистых кварцитов, коксующихся углей, редких металлов, сынныритов, а также месторождений естественных строительных материалов и подземных вод. За высокие производственные достижения по итогам восьмой пятилетки (1966—1970) награждён орденом Трудового Красного Знамени, а по итогам десятой пятилетки (1976—1980) — орденом Ленина.

С 1985 года — главный геолог Читинского производственного геологического объединения (ПГО «Читагеология») Министерства геологии РСФСР.

Под его руководством были разведаны Апсатское месторождение каменного угля, Голевское месторождение сынныритов, Катугинское криолит-редкоземельно-редкометалльное месторождение, Удоканское месторождение меди, Чинейское месторождение железотитанванадиевых и медных руд, выполнена государственная программа по наращиванию минерально-сырьевой базы Читинской области, открыт ряд россыпных и коренных месторождений золота, месторождения и перспективные проявления молибдена, флюорита, меди, угля, цеолитов, магнезитов, подземных вод и других полезных ископаемых. Внес вклад в становление системы лицензионного недропользования в Читинской области.

В 1987 году защитил диссертацию по теме «Минеральные ресурсы в зоне БАМ на севере Читинской области: перспективы развития и освоения» с присвоением степени кандидата геолого-минералогических наук.

В 1993—1999 годах — председатель Комитета по геологии и использованию недр Читинской области (с 2008 года — Забайкальский край).

С 1999 года — исполнительный директор Чититинского регионального отделения Российского геологического общества. Член редколлегии регионального научно-популярного журнала «Забайкалья: наука, культура, жизнь» (с 2003). Автор более 100 научных публикаций, 3 авторских свидетельств на изобретения.

В 2007 году был принят по конкурсу в лабораторию комплексной оценки эффективного освоения и сохранения месторождений Забайкалья Читинского филиала Института горного дела Сибирского отделения Российской академии наук (ИГД СО РАН). Внёс существенный вклад в обоснование предложенной комбинированной схемы разработки Удоканского месторождения с использованием физико-химических геотехнологий.

С 2015 года — на заслуженном отдыхе.

Жил в Чите.

Заслуженный работник промышленности СССР (17.01.1990, знак № 12) — за большие успехи в повышении производительности труда, улучшении качества продукции и высокое профессиональное мастерство. Почётный разведчик недр СССР (1984).

Кандидат геолого-минералогических наук (1987). Член-корреспондент Международной академии медицинской реабилитации (1996).

Скончался 10 апреля 2020 года в Чите, Забайкальский край.

Награды
 орден Ленина (10.03.1981);
 орден Трудового Красного Знамени (20.04.1971);
 Медаль «Ветеран труда»;
 медаль «За заслуги перед Читинской областью» (2007).

Примечания

Ссылки
 Указ Президиума Верховного Совета СССР от 17.01.1990 № 1077—I «О присвоении почетного звания «Заслуженный работник промышленности СССР» работникам промышленности» (Ведомости СНД СССР и ВС СССР, 1990, № 4, ст. 46)
 Чечёткин Владимир Степанович // Энциклопедия Забайкалья
 Чечёткин Владимир Степанович // Институт горного дела СО РАН
  Чечёткин Владимир Степанович // Электронная энциклопедия Томского политехнического университета
Заслуженные работники промышленности СССР

Сочинения
 Минерально-сырьевая база Читинской области – Чита, 1997 г. (совм. с др.);
 Геологические исследования и горно-промышленный комплекс Забайкалья (совм. с др.). – Новосибирск, 1999 г. (совм. с др.).


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Bethel Names New Vice President and Dean
June 18, 2014 | 8:47 a.m.
By Tricia Theurer, Communications Specialist
Deb Sullivan-Trainor is the new vice president and dean of the College of Arts & Sciences. (Photo: Nathan Klok '17)
Deborah (Deb) Sullivan-Trainor has been named Bethel's vice president and dean of the College of Arts & Sciences by Executive Vice President and Provost Deb Harless, following recommendations from the Vice President and Dean Search Advisory Committee. Sullivan-Trainor has served as associate dean of general education and faculty development for the College of Arts & Sciences since 2005 and has also held the position of acting co-dean since January 2013.
"This is a particularly critical leadership position in the College of Arts & Sciences (CAS) and Bethel University at this time in our history," says Harless. "Deb brings the demonstrated skills, personal capacities, and commitment to the liberal arts and Christian higher education that are necessary in order to serve with excellence and to move CAS forward in positive and innovative ways. She has highly effective communication skills, is a very skilled listener, and consistently seeks out faculty voices and perspectives. She is also skilled at moving projects and tasks forward."
Sullivan-Trainor joined the Bethel University faculty in the modern world languages department in 1999 and also served as department chair. Before coming to Bethel, Sullivan-Trainor was on the faculty at Concordia College in Moorhead, Minnesota, for seven years and taught at Mary Washington College in Fredericksburg, Virginia, for two years. She holds a Ph.D. in French from the University of California, Irvine; and an M.A. and B.A. from Texas Tech University.


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It's been a very long time since I updated the blog, I've got quite a lot finished lately.
It is the Algormortis pattern from The Anticraft.
Again, this is the Margaret bag pattern.
But all of this is nothing compared to what Dave and Katie have been making for the last nine months.
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Home Insights The Use of AI Amid COVID-19
By BDO Digital| May 19, 2020
Artificial intelligence (AI) generally receives notice from its usual users - government, large tech organizations and academics. However, researchers and developers are increasingly using AI and machine learning to track and monitor COVID-19, as well as, to gain a more comprehensive understanding of the virus. These uncertain times call for extraordinary measures, compelling governments and businesses to learn how to manage privacy and security while using AI and data technologies, to reduce the impact of COVID-19 in the upcoming months.
Here are three ways AI architecture is being leveraged to combat the current situation.
Early Warnings and Alerts:
AI services can predict the outbreak of COVID-19 faster and with less human interpretation to identify a significant target. BlueDot, a Canadian-based AI model is known to out-predict humans in spotting infectious disease outbreaks. According to accounts, BlueDot predicted the outbreak of COVID-19 at the end of 2019, issuing a warning to its clients on December 31, 2019, before the World Health Organization's announcement on January 9, 2020. While BlueDot is a powerful AI tool, other AI platforms also pinpoint the virus within hours of their prediction. AI systems help identify outbreaks and threats by connecting the dots, whether that's a virtual assistant responding to a question or tracking the cases. However, it's important to remember that human interpretation is necessary for optional application.
Identification and Prediction:
AI can eliminate many false paths and be used to track and predict how COVID-19 will spread over time and across the world. AI has previously tracked the spread of viruses, allowing these systems to be re-trained using the data from COVID-19. At Carnegie Mellon University, algorithms that are trained to predict the seasonal flu are now being re-trained using new data from COVID-19. Due to the lack of historical and unbiased data available, accurate forecasting systems can be negatively affected. However, businesses and other platforms are implementing AI strategies to moderate content in order to reduce the noise and to help acquire more accurate information about the virus. Large social media platforms such as YouTube and Facebook have implemented AI systems to scan for misconstrued information, due to the reduction of human staff resulting from the stay-at-home policies. It is acknowledged that AI must be accompanied by human input for optimal content moderation. AI forecasts of COVID-19 are still a work in progress, however combined with epidemiological models, such as SIR, Susceptible, Infected and Removed, can improve tracking and prediction of the virus.
Treatments and Recovery:
Prior to COVID-19, AI was known for its potential to contribute to new drug discovery. As COVID-19 has moved across the globe, many research labs and data centers have indicated that they are using AI to search for treatments and a vaccine against COVID-19. For example, Google's DeepMind has predicted, not yet confirmed, the structure of the proteins of the virus, which will be useful in developing a drug. Besides DeepMind, researchers at a Singaporean firm, Gero, have been using AI to identify several existing experimental and approved treatments that could potentially be used to treat COVID-19; however, they still await for peer-review. It is not likely that these treatments, will be available in the near future due to extensive medical and scientific checks and approval. Yet the hope is that AI can accelerate the processes of discovery as well as repurpose existing drugs.
By providing AI models with more data, in turn enabling them to be operational, and by using human input to moderate the system, AI can play a significant role in fighting against COVID-19. AI will be useful in biomedical research, determining whether any of the current drugs have the ability to combat COVID-19. This pandemic is an interdisciplinary problem, but the implementation of AI systems can offer headway on accurate and timely research options for this outbreak.
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"We enjoyed this trip on an international TGV mainly because it was on time, we were located in one of the quiet coaches and it was quiet! The snack coupon handed out to first class was pleasant albeit a little insignificant. "


On today's episode of One Cross Radio, we are joined by Pastor Isaac Medler from Calvary Church Toronto. Pastor Isaac was wonderful enough to share his testimony, experiences and insights into ministry, awesome things the Lord is doing at Calvary, and more!
Also, as we've. mentioned before, we have a ko-fi site, which you can check out here.
I hope and pray that you enjoyed today's episode and that the Lord spoke to you during it. And if you can, please keep Pastor Isaac in your prayers!
Just a heads up, next Sunday is Canada day and we have the monday off as a holiday – so we won't have an episode next week (I'll be with my amazing wife, and I hope y'all will be with fam and friends having a great day), but we'll be back on July 9th!
Hope you have a wonderful day, don't forget to share and subscribe if you can! God bless my friends!


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using namespace mlir;

template <typename OpTy>
static void createForAllDimensions(OpBuilder &builder, Location loc,
                                   SmallVectorImpl<Value *> &values) {
  for (StringRef dim : {"x", "y", "z"}) {
    Value *v = builder.create<OpTy>(loc, builder.getIndexType(),
                                    builder.getStringAttr(dim));
    values.push_back(v);
  }
}

// Add operations generating block/thread ids and gird/block dimensions at the
// beginning of `kernelFunc` and replace uses of the respective function args.
static void injectGpuIndexOperations(Location loc, FuncOp kernelFunc) {
  OpBuilder OpBuilder(kernelFunc.getBody());
  SmallVector<Value *, 12> indexOps;
  createForAllDimensions<gpu::BlockIdOp>(OpBuilder, loc, indexOps);
  createForAllDimensions<gpu::ThreadIdOp>(OpBuilder, loc, indexOps);
  createForAllDimensions<gpu::GridDimOp>(OpBuilder, loc, indexOps);
  createForAllDimensions<gpu::BlockDimOp>(OpBuilder, loc, indexOps);
  // Replace the leading 12 function args with the respective thread/block index
  // operations. Iterate backwards since args are erased and indices change.
  for (int i = 11; i >= 0; --i) {
    auto &firstBlock = kernelFunc.front();
    firstBlock.getArgument(i)->replaceAllUsesWith(indexOps[i]);
    firstBlock.eraseArgument(i);
  }
}

static bool isInliningBeneficiary(Operation *op) {
  return isa<ConstantOp>(op) || isa<DimOp>(op);
}

// Move arguments of the given kernel function into the function if this reduces
// the number of kernel arguments.
static gpu::LaunchFuncOp inlineBeneficiaryOps(FuncOp kernelFunc,
                                              gpu::LaunchFuncOp launch) {
  OpBuilder kernelBuilder(kernelFunc.getBody());
  auto &firstBlock = kernelFunc.getBody().front();
  llvm::SmallVector<Value *, 8> newLaunchArgs;
  BlockAndValueMapping map;
  for (int i = 0, e = launch.getNumKernelOperands(); i < e; ++i) {
    map.map(launch.getKernelOperand(i), kernelFunc.getArgument(i));
  }
  for (int i = launch.getNumKernelOperands() - 1; i >= 0; --i) {
    auto operandOp = launch.getKernelOperand(i)->getDefiningOp();
    if (!operandOp || !isInliningBeneficiary(operandOp)) {
      newLaunchArgs.push_back(launch.getKernelOperand(i));
      continue;
    }
    // Only inline operations that do not create new arguments.
    if (!llvm::all_of(operandOp->getOperands(),
                      [map](Value *value) { return map.contains(value); })) {
      continue;
    }
    auto clone = kernelBuilder.clone(*operandOp, map);
    firstBlock.getArgument(i)->replaceAllUsesWith(clone->getResult(0));
    firstBlock.eraseArgument(i);
  }
  if (newLaunchArgs.size() == launch.getNumKernelOperands())
    return launch;

  std::reverse(newLaunchArgs.begin(), newLaunchArgs.end());
  OpBuilder LaunchBuilder(launch);
  SmallVector<Type, 8> newArgumentTypes;
  newArgumentTypes.reserve(firstBlock.getNumArguments());
  for (auto value : firstBlock.getArguments()) {
    newArgumentTypes.push_back(value->getType());
  }
  kernelFunc.setType(LaunchBuilder.getFunctionType(newArgumentTypes, {}));
  auto newLaunch = LaunchBuilder.create<gpu::LaunchFuncOp>(
      launch.getLoc(), kernelFunc, launch.getGridSizeOperandValues(),
      launch.getBlockSizeOperandValues(), newLaunchArgs);
  launch.erase();
  return newLaunch;
}

// Outline the `gpu.launch` operation body into a kernel function. Replace
// `gpu.return` operations by `std.return` in the generated function.
static FuncOp outlineKernelFunc(gpu::LaunchOp launchOp) {
  Location loc = launchOp.getLoc();
  SmallVector<Type, 4> kernelOperandTypes(launchOp.getKernelOperandTypes());
  FunctionType type =
      FunctionType::get(kernelOperandTypes, {}, launchOp.getContext());
  std::string kernelFuncName =
      Twine(launchOp.getParentOfType<FuncOp>().getName(), "_kernel").str();
  FuncOp outlinedFunc = FuncOp::create(loc, kernelFuncName, type);
  outlinedFunc.getBody().takeBody(launchOp.getBody());
  Builder builder(launchOp.getContext());
  outlinedFunc.setAttr(gpu::GPUDialect::getKernelFuncAttrName(),
                       builder.getUnitAttr());
  injectGpuIndexOperations(loc, outlinedFunc);
  outlinedFunc.walk([](gpu::ReturnOp op) {
    OpBuilder replacer(op);
    replacer.create<ReturnOp>(op.getLoc());
    op.erase();
  });
  return outlinedFunc;
}

// Replace `gpu.launch` operations with an `gpu.launch_func` operation launching
// `kernelFunc`. The kernel func contains the body of the `gpu.launch` with
// constant region arguments inlined.
static void convertToLaunchFuncOp(gpu::LaunchOp &launchOp, FuncOp kernelFunc) {
  OpBuilder builder(launchOp);
  SmallVector<Value *, 4> kernelOperandValues(
      launchOp.getKernelOperandValues());
  auto launchFuncOp = builder.create<gpu::LaunchFuncOp>(
      launchOp.getLoc(), kernelFunc, launchOp.getGridSizeOperandValues(),
      launchOp.getBlockSizeOperandValues(), kernelOperandValues);
  inlineBeneficiaryOps(kernelFunc, launchFuncOp);
  launchOp.erase();
}

namespace {

/// Pass that moves the kernel of each LaunchOp into its separate nested module.
///
/// This pass moves the kernel code of each LaunchOp into a function created
/// inside a nested module. It also creates an external function of the same
/// name in the parent module.
///
/// The kernel modules are intended to be compiled to a cubin blob independently
/// in a separate pass. The external functions can then be annotated with the
/// symbol of the cubin accessor function.
class GpuKernelOutliningPass : public ModulePass<GpuKernelOutliningPass> {
public:
  void runOnModule() override {
    ModuleManager moduleManager(getModule());
    bool modified = false;
    for (auto func : getModule().getOps<FuncOp>()) {
      // Insert just after the function.
      Block::iterator insertPt(func.getOperation()->getNextNode());
      func.walk([&](gpu::LaunchOp op) {
        FuncOp outlinedFunc = outlineKernelFunc(op);

        // Create nested module and insert outlinedFunc. The module will
        // originally get the same name as the function, but may be renamed on
        // insertion into the parent module.
        auto kernelModule = createKernelModule(outlinedFunc, moduleManager);
        moduleManager.insert(insertPt, kernelModule);

        // Potentially changes signature, pulling in constants.
        convertToLaunchFuncOp(op, outlinedFunc);
        modified = true;
      });
    }

    // If any new module was inserted in this module, annotate this module as
    // a container module.
    if (modified)
      getModule().setAttr(gpu::GPUDialect::getContainerModuleAttrName(),
                          UnitAttr::get(&getContext()));
  }

private:
  // Returns a module containing kernelFunc and all callees (recursive).
  ModuleOp createKernelModule(FuncOp kernelFunc,
                              const ModuleManager &parentModuleManager) {
    auto context = getModule().getContext();
    Builder builder(context);
    auto kernelModule =
        ModuleOp::create(builder.getUnknownLoc(), kernelFunc.getName());
    kernelModule.setAttr(gpu::GPUDialect::getKernelModuleAttrName(),
                         builder.getUnitAttr());
    ModuleManager moduleManager(kernelModule);

    moduleManager.insert(kernelFunc);

    llvm::SmallVector<Operation *, 8> symbolDefWorklist = {kernelFunc};
    while (!symbolDefWorklist.empty()) {
      if (Optional<SymbolTable::UseRange> symbolUses =
              SymbolTable::getSymbolUses(symbolDefWorklist.pop_back_val())) {
        for (SymbolTable::SymbolUse symbolUse : *symbolUses) {
          StringRef symbolName =
              symbolUse.getSymbolRef().cast<FlatSymbolRefAttr>().getValue();
          if (moduleManager.lookupSymbol(symbolName))
            continue;

          Operation *symbolDefClone =
              parentModuleManager.lookupSymbol(symbolName)->clone();
          symbolDefWorklist.push_back(symbolDefClone);
          moduleManager.insert(symbolDefClone);
        }
      }
    }

    return kernelModule;
  }
};

} // namespace

std::unique_ptr<OpPassBase<ModuleOp>> mlir::createGpuKernelOutliningPass() {
  return std::make_unique<GpuKernelOutliningPass>();
}

static PassRegistration<GpuKernelOutliningPass>
    pass("gpu-kernel-outlining",
         "Outline gpu.launch bodies to kernel functions.");

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Following the final episode of "Lost," Jimmy Kimmel will host a one-hour post-show discussion and celebration of the beloved series, SUNDAY, MAY 23 at 12:05 a.m., ET on ABC, following local news.
Kimmel will be joined in studio by Naveen Andrews, Nestor Carbonell, Alan Dale, Jeremy Davies, Emilie de Ravin, Michael Emerson, Matthew Fox, Daniel Dae Kim, Terry O'Quinn and Harold Perrineau, with special appearances by Jorge Garcia, Josh Holloway and Evangeline Lilly and an exclusive look at THREE ALTERNATIVE FINAL SCENES from the minds of executive producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse.
Jimmy Kimmel Live has been deluged by more studio audience ticket requests for this special than any show in its seven-plus year history. Watch the grand finale to the grand finale on "Jimmy Kimmel Live: Aloha to Lost."


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Our Beginning
The Haut Family had its beginning in Funeral Service in the year 1909, when A.H. Haut of the firm Haut & Marckel in Gackle, ND was called upon to assist a family that did not wish to use the funeral service business in Gackle at that time. In 1909 the firm Haut & Marckel began selling caskets for the burial of the dead.
During these early days, the caskets were made by cabinet makers, who also made furniture and since this firm was selling furniture, it was only natural to accept this allied business. In 1928 Norbert J. Haut became the second generation of the Haut Family in the funeral service, and became a licensed funeral director. In 1953 Eugene N. Haut entered into the funeral service becoming the 3rd Generation.
On January 1, 1959 the Haut Funeral Home business reorganized and relocated to a newly constructed building in Gackle, near the Haut & Marckel Store. The Haut's furnished funeral sales and service, monuments sales and service and also started ambulance service. In the fall of 1965, the ambulance service was discontinued. In 1967 the Haut family arranged for the opening of a funeral home in Jamestown, ND.
In 1984, Roger J. Haut entered the family business as an apprentice embalmer, and became a licensed embalmer/funeral director in 1985. Gary E. Haut entered the family business in 1985 as an apprentice embalmer and was licensed in 1986. In the fall of 1986, the Haut Funeral Homes purchased the Assembly of God Church building in Wishek, North Dakota to begin an operation there. After this addition, there were three full service funeral homes, Jamestown, Gackle and Wishek.
In January of 1993, the Hauts purchased land in the Northeast part of Jamestown on 5th Ave at the 1100 block. On June 1, 1993 they began construction on a new funeral home facility which consists of 12,700 square feet. In January of 2015 Truman Haut became the 5th generation of Hauts to continue serving families in the area.