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That's the Way the [Computer] Cookie Crumbles: Computer Cookies and How it Affects Data Privacy
Websites nowadays are accompanied with a pop-up window that notifies the user that said websites use cookies for analytics, advertising, or optimal performance. It gives the user the option to consent to the use of cookies or to learn more about such cookies. Some notices would mention that it is pursuant to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a European Union (EU) regulation on the protection of consumer and personal information.
If one does not consent, the pop-up will remain, and the user may not be able to access the website. Most of the time, users will mindlessly give their consent in order to immediately access the website, without really understanding the consequences of such act.
Cookies are text files used by a website which are saved on a user's computer they store the website's name and an ID that would identify the user. Cookies can also store other information such as traffic data (i.e., the amount of time spent on a website) and content data (i.e., links clicked while using the website, the settings set on the website, the accounts logged into). These cause concern for private individuals and consumers.
There are several types of cookies, some of which are session cookie, persistent cookie, and third-party cookie. Session cookies are present only while a user is navigating a website and disappears when the user closes the web browser. This allows a website to remember a user when they navigate from one page to another within the website. These are typically used in online shopping.
Persistent cookies, also known as permanent cookies, are saved on a user's computer until its expiration. It stores the information and settings of a website frequently visited and allows the website to remember the user and their preferences during his or her subsequent visits. These are used in remembering one's preferences and login details in their web browsers. This is also why users see advertisements regarding products or services they have recently or frequently search.
Third-party cookies are those installed by third parties, such as advertising companies that manage the banner ads on websites, which collect certain data for research purposes such as consumer behavior, demographics, and the like.
When cookies stored in a device are able to uniquely identify a user through the device or combined with unique identifiers or other information received by the servers such as IP addresses, it is considered as personal information. This causes concern for those who value their privacy. This is where GDPR steps in and helps regulate the collecting and processing of such information.
The GDPR was enacted to balance the privacy rights of individuals with the rights of organizations and governments to collect and use data for business and administrative purposes by emphasizing on transparency, security, and accountability from data controllers such as the websites, which collect and process information on its users.
In order to comply with lawful processing as provided by the GDPR, websites must obtain the consent of the user for a specific purpose. However, this consent must be clearly, freely, and genuinely given as there is a presumption that the same was not freely given. As such, the act of merely visiting a website, without agreeing to the cookie policy of such website, cannot be considered as consent.
The GDPR took effect on May 25, 2018 and failure to comply with its regulations will result in fines up to Twenty Million Euros (€20 Million or equivalent to Php 121,478,000.00 as of the date of writing) or four percent (4%) of the website's global annual turnover, whichever is higher. This is why pop-ups regarding the cookie policy of websites have been proliferating.
The Philippines, while not a signatory to the GDPR, provides for an extraterritoriality effect when personal information of users who are part of the EU are being processed when users' behavior within the EU are being monitored by a controller or processor who is not part of EU.
The Philippines enacted Republic Act No. 10173, otherwise known as the "Data Privacy Act of 2012" (hereinafter DPA) is largely aligned with the GDPR. The DPA does not have a counterpart provision on cookies being used as an identifier, but the definition of personal information in Section 3(g) of RA 10173 is broad enough to include the use of cookies. Therefore, data processors or controllers who collect and/or process personal information in the Philippines may be found liable if they do not obtain the consent of its users. DPA provides penalties of imprisonment ranging from one (1) year to three (3) years and a fine of not less than Five Hundred Thousand Pesos (Php500,000.00) but not more than Two Million Pesos (Php2,000,000.00) on persons who process personal information without the consent of the data subject, or without being authorized under the DPA or any existing law.


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General Hospital Spoilers: Parry Shen Opens Up About The Ties That Hold Brad's Family Together
By Bernice Emanuel Last updated Dec 23, 2021
General Hospital spoilers say that when it comes to this fictional town of Port Charles, there's nothing like having family close by, right? Well, at least that's how actor Parry Shen feels, especially when it comes to his character, Brad Cooper. Here's what he has to say.
Speaking to Soap Opera Digest in a new interview, the handsome actor opened up about his ties with his aunt Selina Wu (Lydia Look). And according to the actor, this has been a long time coming for Brad, who has been in need of someone blood related that he could count on.
Parry put it this way, "I was like, 'Finally! Let's see what's going on!' I've literally been so curious. When I saw her coming back with all the Sonny [Maurice Benard] stuff and the mob families getting together, I was like, 'Oh, cool, she's back in the loop!' But I thought it would be a separate journey. I didn't think that our paths would cross. I've never had a family member on the show to see what kind of dynamic that might bring, and especially with the legacy and history of the Asian Quarter, I hope some of that will be folded in. That would be really cool."
What's more, Parry also opened up about Brad having more scenes on General Hospital, which he is definitely loving at the moment. He said, "It has been really fun to see people's reactions. I think that absence makes the heart grow fonder. People who are not necessarily really popular get more popular as they're off the page, I guess, because I follow the message boards; I troll myself on things and comment. So I kind of have a good pulse of the positives and the negatives and I started noticing halfway through the prison sentence that the positive started to outweigh the negative with the Brad fans."
General Hospital Spoilers: Brad's Happy To Have A Family Connection Finally
Brad added, "So I guess there is something to be said with the intimacy of seeing someone in your home on a daily basis for years and you may think that you don't like them but they just sort of seep in! I have a very thick skin and I love hearing both opinions about the character, but it's getting harder and harder to find people who despise me, or the Brad character, I should say. It's been a pleasant surprise that the fans are excited [to be seeing more of Brad]. It's pretty cool."
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Q: Form of the spectral density in Wiener Khinchin theorem? The Wiener–Khinchin theorem says the autocorrelation function of a wide sense stationary process can be written as a Stieltjes integral, where the integrator function is called the power spectral distribution function. When the power spectral distribution function is absolutely continuous, its derivative is called the power spectral density, and the power spectral density and the autocorrelation function are a Fourier transform pair.
My question is when and how the power spectral density of the stationary stochastic process can be represented as in Wikipedia:
for a stationary process $x(t), t \geq 0$,

the power spectral density can be defined as
  $$
    S_{xx}(\omega) := \lim_{T \rightarrow \infty} \mathbf{E} \left[ | \frac{1}{\sqrt{T}} \int_0^T x(t) e^{-i\omega t}\, dt | ^ 2 \right]. $$

Thanks and regards!

A: The Wikipedia article is still under construction, and still contains errors.
I am one of the editors.
The formula you cite is from the section of the article about the power spectral density of a stochastic process, and is rather sloppy, it still needs to be corrected.
But the wordy definition you cite is from a different paragraph of the article, and applies first of all to an individual signal, i.e., a deterministic signal, i.e., a sample function of the process, ignoring the existence of all other sample functions, thus, ignoring the structure of the process.  Secondly, it applies to a process too but only to the spectral decomposition of the process, and not to the formula you mention.
Now, the truth is this: given any function of time (a deterministic function of time) x(t),
such that $$\lim_{T\rightarrow\infty} {1\over 2T} \int_{-T}^T x(t+\tau)x(t) dt   \,\,\,\,\,\ \ \ \ \ \ \    (*)$$ exists for all $\tau$, then one can find a statistical distribution function $S$, called the power spectral distibution function of $x$, such that for almost all frequencies $f_1,f_2$,
$S(f_2)-S(f_1)$ is the amount of power contributed to $x$ by frequencies in the band $[f_1,f_2]$ in the sense of the sum of the squares of the jumps at frequencies in that band of $s$, the generalised Fourier transform of $x$, defined by the limit in mean (i.e, the limit in an $L^2$ space, not a pointwise limit) of
$$s(\omega) = \int_{-A}^{-1} x(t) {e^{-i\omega t}\over it} dt + \int_{-1}^{1} x(t) {e^{-i\omega t}-1\over it} dt + \int^{A}_{1} x(t) {e^{-i\omega t}\over it} dt \,\,\,\,\,\ \ \  (**)$$ as $A$ goes to infinity, with $\omega = 2\pi f$.
The first tricky bit is that $x$ will not usually have a Fourier transform, which is why we have to put a factor of $t$ in the denominator here, for convergence.  If only $x$ had a Fourier transform $X$, this generalisation, $s$, would be the integral of $X$.
The second tricky bit is that even if  $s$ is continuous, it might be so far away from being differentiable that its "infinitesimal" jumps contribute something to the power.  For this reason, the intuitive notion of "sum of squares of the Fourier coefficients of $x$ " has to be interpreted as the sum of the squares of the jumps of $s$" which, in turn, has to be interpreted as $$\lim_{\epsilon\rightarrow0} {1 \over 2\epsilon} \int_{f_1}^{f_2} \vert s(f+\epsilon) - s(u-\epsilon) \vert ^2 du.$$  This succeeds in defining $S$  almost everywhere.
Now even if $S$ is not differentiable, it does define a distribution, and its derivative in the sense of a distribution can be defined as the power spectral density.  But since $S$ can have jump discontinuities, its derivative can have delta functions in it.
=== The case of a stochastic process
Suppose now that $X(t)$ is a stochastic process.  We must further assume that it is stationary (in the wide sense)---this assumption is analogous to assumption $(*)$ above for a deterministic signal.  Then $X$ has a spectral decomposition, which is a rather sophisticated analogue of the Fourier transform of a deterministic function.  It uses the notion of stochastic integration which is much more elementary than Ito's notion of a stochastic integral.  See Gnedenko, Kyrc Torpii Vepoyath¿nocteu, Chapter 10,  No. 56, ctp. 316.  Provided these are understood in the sense of the limit in mean of stochastic processes, one can write a spectral decomposition of $X$ entirely analogous to $(**)$:
$$X(t) = \int_0^\infty \cos \omega t dZ_1(\omega) + \int_0^\infty \sin \omega t dZ_1(\omega) ,$$
where $$Z_1(t) = \lim_{T\rightarrow\infty} {1\over 2\pi} \int_{-T}^T X(t) {\sin \omega t\over t} dt$$
and
$$Z_2(t) = \lim_{T\rightarrow\infty} {1\over 2\pi} \int_{-T}^T X(t) {1-\cos \omega t\over t} dt.$$
Now here, too, if the process is ergodic so that time averages can be replaced by ensemble averaging by taking the expectation operator $\bf E$, then the average power or variance contributed by the frequency $f$ can be found by looking at the expected value of the jump of $Z_i$ at $f$, i.e., studying $\bf E( \vert Z_i(\omega + \Delta\omega) - Z_i(\omega)\vert ^2 )$ etc.  But at this point one bails and uses a theorem of Bochner, as generalised by Khinchin to the context of stochastic processes, and sees that this is equal to $F(\omega + \Delta\omega) - F(\omega)$ where $F$ is the statistical distribution function given by Bochner's theorem applied to the auto-correlation function of the process $X$.
==Now, as to the formula itself==
The formula you quote,
Sxx(ω):=limT→∞E[|1T−−√∫T0x(t)e−iωtdt|2],
is not correct.  I have never seen a reliable source that proves (or even asserts) that it converges.  I see it a lot on the internet and in engineering textbooks: they never bother to assert that it converges.  I computed an example for a line spectrum, it does not converge---admittedly, it should not converge since a line spectrum does not have a power spectral density.
Consider the right hand side without the expectation operator, as if for a deterministic signal.  Then it does not converge even when the spectral density exists, since the sample paths of a noisy process have unbounded variation on any finite interval whatsoever.  As far as I know, one must introduce a lag window factor to make it converge, i.e., something like Cesaro summation but for an integral instead of a series.
This topic is fraught with peril: a signal contaminated with noise is modelled by a function which is continuous but nowhere differentiable and with unbounded variation on any finite interval, so Fourier inversion never is valid.  More generally, because of the nature of these signals, one can never be sure it is valid to interchange two limits.
One often hears hand-waving assertions to the effect that the use of Laurent Schwartz's method of distributions makes these formulas all right.  But even with distributions, one still has to convolve with a lag window or a spectral window to make it converge.  I have never seen proofs of these handwaving assertions, and the only careful statements I know (without proofs, but it is after all a handbook which omits the proofs), D. C. Champeney, A handook of Fourier theorems, Cambridge Univ. Press, does not treat stochastic processes.

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Kershaw returning to Dodgers on $20 mil, 1-year deal
Clayton Kershaw will pitch for the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2023 after re-signing in a $20 million, one-year deal.
For the second straight year, the Dodgers didn't extend a qualifying offer to the three-time Cy Young Award winner. Instead, they gave him additional time to mull his future, and he once again decided to stay with the only franchise he's ever played for during his 15-year major league career.
The 34-year-old left-hander was 12-3 with 2.28 ERA in 22 starts last season. He struck out 137 and walked 23. Kershaw made his ninth All-Star team and started the Midsummer Classic for the first time in his career at Dodger Stadium.
Last April, he became the franchise's all-time strikeout leader with 2,697. He reached 2,800 strikeouts in his last start of the regular season on Oct. 5 against Colorado. Kershaw ranks 24th all-time with 2,807.
Kershaw has a career record of 197-87 with a 2.48 ERA. He won his only World Series title in 2020, when the Dodgers beat Tampa Bay during the pandemic-shortened season.
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I learned the other day that ending a text message with a period can be interpreted as insincere. Such a simple, innocuous dot now carries more hidden messages than it was ever intended to convey.
Time WILL pass, will YOU? Does this imply a nurturing, supportive environment that believes ALL students deserve every opportunity to be successful? I'm not so sure.
Students not paying attention in class? Lock up devices. Does this show trust? Relationship building? I wonder if the teacher's device is locked up during meetings as well.
Or how about this sign I saw in a classroom: "Work hard in silence. Let success be your noise." A companion sign read, "The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing." Does this mean we don't value collaboration? Team work? I wonder how Edison and Einstein would have fared had they been forced to work in silence.
the relationship between the two, or in other ways?
This helps us (and students) slow down and make careful, detailed observations. This is done by looking beyond the obvious features of an object or system to stimulate curiosity and raise questions. When we did this at Project Zero, we were asked to list EVERY SINGLE ITEM in our classroom, and then to question its purpose and its complexity. So many a-ha moments happened from this activity as people really started to question each and every object, and why it was there. They began to see the messages, the periods at the end of the sentences.
So as you look around your classroom, ask yourself, what messages are you sending? What punctuation is on those messages?
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Huawei chief financial officer arrested in Canada, faces possible extradition to United States
China demanded Meng Wanzhou's immediate release, and a former Canadian envoy to China warned that the case might lead to retaliation by China against American and Canadian executives.
Huawei chief financial officer arrested in Canada, faces possible extradition to United States China demanded Meng Wanzhou's immediate release, and a former Canadian envoy to China warned that the case might lead to retaliation by China against American and Canadian executives. Check out this story on scsun-news.com: https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2018/12/05/huawei-meng-wanzhou-arrested-united-states-extradition/2222525002/
Rob Gillies, Associated Press Published 8:12 p.m. MT Dec. 5, 2018 | Updated 8:56 a.m. MT Dec. 6, 2018
Canadian authorities said Wednesday that they have arrested the chief financial officer of China's Huawei Technologies for possible extradition to the United States. Time
Meng Wanzhou, Chief Financial Officer of Huawei, is pictured attending the VTB Capital's 'RUSSIA CALLING' investment forum in Moscow.(Photo: Maxim Shipenkov, EPA-EFE)
TORONTO – Canadian authorities said Wednesday that they have arrested the chief financial officer of China's Huawei Technologies for possible extradition to the United States.
China demanded her immediate release, and a former Canadian envoy to China warned the case might lead to retaliation by the Chinese against American and Canadian executives.
Justice Department spokesman Ian McLeod said Meng Wanzhou was detained in Vancouver, British Columbia, on Saturday. Meng is a prominent member of Chinese society as deputy chairman of the board and the daughter of company founder Ren Zhengfei.
McLeod said a publication ban had been imposed in the case and he could not provide further details. The ban was sought by Meng, who has a bail hearing Friday, he said.
The Wall Street Journal reported earlier this year that U.S. authorities are investigating whether Chinese tech giant Huawei violated sanctions on Iran.
Huawei issued a statement saying Meng was changing flights in Canada when she was detained "on behalf of the United States of America" to face "unspecified charges" in New York.
"The company has been provided very little information regarding the charges and is not aware of any wrongdoing by Ms. Meng," the statement said.
Huawei said it complies with all laws and rules where it operates, including export controls and sanctions of the United Nations, the U.S. and European Union.
The Chinese Embassy in Ottawa said her human rights were violated and demanded she be freed.
"The Chinese side firmly opposes and strongly protests over such kind of actions which seriously harmed the human rights of the victim," the statement said.
A U.S. Justice Department spokesman declined to comment.
In April, China appealed to Washington to avoid damaging business confidence following the Wall Street Journal report that U.S. authorities were investigating whether Huawei violated sanctions on Iran amid spiraling technology tensions.
A foreign ministry spokeswoman, Hua Chunying, said then that China hoped the U.S. would refrain from taking actions that could further undermine investor confidence in the U.S. business environment and harm its domestic economy.
That same month Washington barred Huawei rival ZTE Corp. from exporting U.S. technology in a separate case over exports to Iran and North Korea
Trump has threatened to raise tariffs on Chinese goods in response to complaints that Beijing improperly pressures foreign companies to hand over technology. That is widely seen as part of a broader effort by Washington to respond to intensifying competition with Chinese technology industries that Trump says benefit from improper subsidies and market barriers.
David Mulroney, a former Canadian ambassador to China, said U.S. and Canadian business executives could face reprisals in China.
"That's something we should be watching out for. It's a possibility. China's plays rough," Mulroney said. "It's a prominent member of their society and it's a company that really embodies China's quest for global recognition as a technology power."
Mulroney said Canada should be prepared for "sustained fury" from the Chinese and said it will be portrayed in China as Canada kowtowing to Trump. He also said the Iran allegations are very damaging to Huawei and said China will push back hard.
U.S. Sen. Ben Sasse, a Republican member of the Senate Armed Services and Banking committees, said Huawei is an agent of China's communist party and applauded Canada for the arrest.
"Americans are grateful that our Canadian partners have arrested the Chief Financial Officer of a giant Chinese telecom company for breaking U.S. sanctions against Iran," he said.
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Q: Nuget behind Corporate proxy - External sources work, but internal does not So in order to use NuGet and other dev tools working inside my organisation we've had to set a system wide environment variable 'http_proxy' for each user in our user specific Environment variables.
Now, this works for everything we've tried so far, all package managers like NuGet, NPM, chocolatey, all work fine with external repositories.
Recently we've tried to set up an internal NuGet server on our build server to internally host common packages. Everyone can browse to the URL where the server is located: -ip-/nuget and we can see the XML feed. The issue comes when we try to use nuget.exe, or Visual Studio 2017 for connecting to this source, the requests to find packages all time-out after 100000ms which i guess is the default timeout.
We can also browse exactly to the URL that times out out in any browser with no issue. I'm assuming that this is something to do with our internal proxy trying to route traffic out of the network when it is actually internal, but i have no way of verifying that.
Is there anything we can try to see if we can get this resolved?

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Is there anything we can try to see if we can get this resolved?

Since you can also browse exactly to the URL that times out out in any browser with no issue from your office system, there should be some internet limitations in your office environment. So I suggest you contact your office IT to confirm whether they add any limitations and whether used any proxy. If they are using some proxy, you need to set the proxy settings in NuGet.Config file which store in C:\Users\user name\AppData\Roaming\NuGet:
<configuration>

    <config>
        <add key="http_proxy" value="http://my.proxy.address:port" />
        <add key="http_proxy.user" value="mydomain\myUserName" />
        <add key="http_proxy.password" value="base64encodedHopefullyEncryptedPassword" />
    </config>

</configuration>

Refer to this link for details: NuGet Behind Proxy


Alzlive is a distinct voice in the online caregiver landscape, devoted to family who are caring for those with Alzheimer's and other dementias. The site was the brainchild of Dave Kelso – who has personally witnessed the ravages of Alzheimer's. Dave wants to help family be the best caregivers they can, through a confounding disease. Alzlive scans the world to find the freshest thinking and innovation. Check out alzlive.com.
Torge, then in her 40s, was fed up with the way she saw facilities for seniors organized. To her they were dreary, patronizing, dull. While she wasn't nearly old enough to live in one herself, she wanted change before she got there. For her, the only solution was to get radical.
When it comes to the smaller financial activities, such as the purchase of a birthday gift, some may feel that if the one with dementia cannot remember the occasion then it is no longer necessary to give a gift. After all, what they don't know won't hurt them -- right?
Everyday infections such as the common cold, a stomach bug, upper respiratory infection or urinary tract infection have been shown to hasten cognitive decline among people with dementia. You don't want to pass along a bug to your loved one, to bring on these afflictions.
When it comes to financial matters, communications are necessary in order to avoid or at least minimize family conflict and long term feelings of resentment. It is not unusual for families to struggle with questions on finances and to be concerned about impact on the estate.
There is no right answer regarding end of life care. Your personal choices will be interpreted within an increasingly volatile landscape of changing laws and changing interpretations of the laws alongside changes in our society's acceptance of end of life decision-making.
You will need to pay close attention to financial decisions necessary to protect your housing security. Although a home is often the largest asset owned, it is also the one with the least research and supports available when it comes to Alzheimer's and legal and financial matters.
It is deeply hurtful to even remotely consider that someone from your most trusted group of allies could be intending to take advantage of you when you are most vulnerable, but avoiding this issue only leaves you more vulnerable. Your best line of defence is to increase your awareness on some of the more typical financial threats.
You may be inclined to ignore your finances while dealing with your diagnosis of Alzheimer's, but it is important to begin assessing any financial vulnerabilities you may have. This is not the time to disengage from the management of your financial and legal affairs.
One of the greatest gifts you can give yourself and those who care most about you is the selection of individuals who are capable of carrying out your wishes. This requires taking the time to fully inform these people about your wishes.
There will come a time when your decision making will be increasingly restricted. You can prepare for these changes through planning and communications with trusted people in your life and this can help ensure your autonomy is supported and respected.
Daniel Roebuck's tenderly nuanced performance as his wife' primary caregiver is such a perfectly balanced blend of heartache and hopeful longing, weariness and worry, unconditional love and utter loneliness that his character comes across so authentically, you forget you're watching a movie rather than visiting with a fellow family member impacted by Alzheimer's or dementia.
In the families I've dealt with, there was a sense that after their loved one moved into a care community, the gradual erosion of the relationship with their loved one would suddenly be accelerated to the point that any hope of further connection would forever be lost.
The big "A." The elephant in the room. The dreaded disease you've been forced to think about thanks to Dear Alice and Glen Campbell and so many others whose stories have raised awareness and brought Alzheimer's right into your living room -- and now, maybe right into your life.
But from the moment my mother and grandmother shared with me my grandfather's diagnosis, everything changed. Though my role as national director of sales and marketing memory care for one of the country's largest providers of assisted living was still the same, my motivation was completely different.
Driving is an activity of daily living (ADL) just like getting washed, dressed or cooking. It is an activity that we learn to do once the skills needed to drive have matured. In order to drive safely, we rely on the fine-tuned integration of the necessary physical, visual, cognitive-perceptual, and behavioural skills.
Alzheimer's caregivers are amazingly successful at juggling all of the things necessary to meet the needs of their loved one, but each day they're simultaneously learning how to juggle the many emotions they experience. Anger, guilt, fear and frustration are just a few of the complex emotional balls they are trying so hard to keep in the air.
It is not always easy to recognize elder abuse, particularly if you are the victim. Yet elder abuse is, unfortunately, prevalent in our society. The good news is that there is increased awareness with respect to the existence of elder abuse and its many forms, and numerous resources available to help.
As we became a young adult, our relationship to our parents became different. We still turned to our parents, but more for guidance and support. Never did we imagine or expect that one day we would be the parent to our parent. When did it happen? When was the shift? Now we are the ones in the "worry seat."
There are some things we can do from a distance to increase our full understanding of their situation, to improve the communication we have with them, and to manage the risks inherent in long distance (and close distance) caregiving. All of these suggestions can be done via the internet and phone.


CHELSEA are reportedly on the hunt for Bayern Munich star Jerome Boateng – and video shows what the German could bring to the Blues' defence.
Antonio Conte shocked fans by contacting the Bundesliga side for the 28-year-old, according to the Daily Mirror.
The Italian head honcho is looking to strengthen his defence after selling Nathan Ake to Bournemouth and saying goodbye to Stamford Bridge legend John Terry.
A solid backline will be essential as Chelsea prepare to defend their Premier League title and fight for Champions League glory.
And video of Boateng – who just bagged the Bundesliga title with Bayern – shows he could be the man to replace Terry or Ake.
Footage shows a rival striker making mincemeat of Bayern's defence, leaving the side's goalkeeper open to attack.
But Boateng expertly tracks the player and slides in to clear the ball just inside the penalty area.
Another clip shows him sneakily stealing the ball from an opposition winger before he can whip it into the box.
Boateng formerly played in the Premier League for Manchester City during the 2010-11 season before he was plucked by Bayern.
CHELSEA have raked in plenty of money this year by selling players they didn't really need.
The German made just 16 appearances but lifted the FA Cup after City beat Stoke 1-0 in the final.
Chelsea have so far shown interest in Monaco midfielder Tiemoue Bakayoko as well as Juventus defender Alex Sandro.
Bakayoko flew to London on Tuesday (June 27) to complete negotiations and undergo a medical ahead of signing a five-year contract, according to French radio station RTL.
Liverpool are the only top four side to have made a summer signing by poaching winger Mohamed Salah from Roma for £34m.


Bible Affirmations - For when I am weak, then I am strong.
Each time he said, "My grace is all you need. My power works best in weakness." So now I am glad to boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ can work through me. That's why I take pleasure in my weaknesses, and in the insults, hardships, persecutions, and troubles that I suffer for Christ. For when I am weak, then I am strong.


Established in 1919, Dandenong High School is one of the oldest, largest and most culturally diverse Secondary Schools in the state. In 2019, we will celebrate a significant milestone not only for the school, but for education across the state with our 100th anniversary. This will be an important opportunity to celebrate the history and achievements of the school over the past 100 years.
Term 2: 10th anniversary of the opening of the Houses to be recognised with a school based ceremony attend by leaders, staff, students, parents and special guests.
Term 4: 100th anniversary to be recognised with a series of events in the week of the centenary of the laying of the Foundation Stone (21st November 1919).


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Ark of the Covenant Finally Discovered
Steven Spielberg's reconstruction of the Ark of the Covenant. The ridge surrounding the top is too high, and the Angels' overarching wings are too centered: for the primary purpose of the Ark was to be a seat (whence the name of the cover of the Ark: Seat of Mercy), with the wings serving as a backrest. The real Ark is presently guarded in Jerusalem, but no official photographs are available. In 1982, anestetist/archaeologist Ron Wyatt scraped rusty-looking stains off the cracked stone lid covering the Ark, had them suspended, cultured and karyotyped. Ron wanted to know whether the blood was human or animal. The white blood cells were alive, and contained 24 chromosomes. The Jewish employees of the Jerusalem medical laboratory would not answer him: they insisted in asking whose blood this was. Ron testifies of this, and does so quite candidly: in a public talk, he mentions 23 X-chromosomes. A man with such a deficient biological education would be utterly unable to sell whatever biological lie.
The following text is a summary of a 2009 post on Anchorstone, with photo's taken from Wyatt's Discovery site.
In 1978, Ron Wyatt and his sons, Danny and Ronny, made two trips to Israel in order to drive to the western shore of the Gulf of Aqaba to go scuba diving in search of chariot parts in the Red Sea. Due to a painful swelling in Ron's legs, he was forced to pause a few days. When sightseeing near the Damascus Gate, Ron had a supernatural experience. He returned in January, 1979 with the permission of the local authorities to excavate. They reached bedrock 38 feet below the present ground surface. Carefully removing debris, they found themselves in an approximately 15 foot diameter round chamber carved out of the rock with steps chiseled into the shaft descending from the top in a spiral to the bottom. At some point in time it had been modified and plastered, reused as a cistern. Either of these explanations would explain the presence of the "rope hole" chiseled in the cliff-face — it was for the rope that held the bucket or jug which was lowered down into the shaft to retrieve grain or water. Ron chiseled through the plaster and found a large amount of pottery among the dirt and debris used as fill to form the cistern. When he turned these pottery pieces in to Antiquities, the Israeli authorities informed Ron that the earliest dated back to the Jebusite time (10th century BC). The latest dated specimens were from the Roman period, whence the grain bin was closed in the first century AD.
Huge water-bearing, pre-Christian cistern. It served to hydrate the garden's olive tree grove and vineyard.
Ancient wine press, in the vicinity of the tomb. It was excavated in 1924, and is one of the largest known in Israel. It is of pre-Christian origin. A very large vineyard must have been in the area for a press this size to have been in use.
Entrance to Zedekiah's Cave, north of the Fish Gate.
In the cistern, Ron discovered a rectangular, near-square lid covering a rectangular hole of 23.5 inches deep. About four feet lower, he uncovered three more squarish holes chiseled in the rock in front of a platform. The cut-out niches (about twelve to thirteen inches square) probably displayed the crimes of the crucified. A Christian church had been built over the place of the crucifixion.
At the surface of the Golgotha, the crack is as wide as one foot. Matthew 27:51 reads "At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two, from top to bottom. The earth shook, and the rocks were split."
The oldest Roman coins had the image of Emperor Tiberius (Emperor from 14 to 37 AD). The latest coins were from 135 AD. This placed the date of the church between the time of the crucifixion and 135 AD. It was most likely built after 70 AD, when crucifixion was abandoned altogether. Christians were apparently tolerated by the Romans, as is supported by the fact that in 130 AD, when the Emperor Hadrian came to Jerusalem to rebuild it as a Roman city named Aelia Capitolina, he allowed Christians while forbidding Jews. This contributed to a revolt among the Jews in Judea in 132 AD. It resulted in the dramatic death of at least half a million Jewish men. Aelia Capitolina did not prosper. It did not suffer destruction, but merely fell into disuse.
This rocky hill flanks the traffic artery known today as the Sultan Suleyman street. In the time of Christ, this was the main street bordering the north side of the city of Jerusalem. The hill was called Golgotha (Latin: calvarium) because of its appearance: a huge skull with recognizable eye voids and a nose.
Garden tomb. John 19:41,42 reads: "Now in the place where He was crucified there was a garden, and in the garden a new tomb in which no one had yet been laid. So there they laid Jesus, because of the Jews' Preparation Day, for the tomb was nearby." The entrance was blocked by a circular stone of the same diameter as the circle chiseled around the entrance.
Inside the church, Ron stumbled onto a thirteen feet diameter circular stone, which he identified as the seal-stone from the tomb of Joseph of Arimathaea in which Christ was buried (Mt 27:60). By this time, Ron and the boys had been working here for almost two years. They had begun in January of 1979 and it was now late 1980. The three decided to break through the cliff face, and broke through the rock into an open space. Enlarging the hole, they saw behind it a barren cavern (about 15 feet in height and of about the same width), which turned out to be only a very small part of a very extensive honeycomb of natural caves and tunnels within the mountain. By the end of 1981, Ron's two sons abandoned their father's quest.
Behind a 16 inch stalactite, Ron found a tiny hole. He knocked the stalactite off (and brought it to the US, where Ark Discovery keeps it to this day). Behind the hole was a chamber completely full of large rocks, with about 18 inches of clearance to the ceiling. Alone in this vast cave system, he took his hammer and chisel and enlarged the hole, crawling through. With only about 18 inches clearance, he had to lie on his stomach with nothing but his flashlight in his hand for light. It was 2 pm, Wednesday, January 6, 1982. He first stumbled upon a gold veneered table with a raised molding around the side, consisting of an alternating pattern of a bell and a pomegranate. He identified it as the Table of Shewbread. Toward the end of the cave, he discovered a stone case containing another golden table. The hole was covered with a heavy lid. Luckily the lid was broken, and he could peek through it, but was unable to touch the table. Subsequently, Ron found out that above the broken lid was a crack very much like the one some twenty feet higher, below the rectangular chiseled hole. He was astonished to learn that it was the same crack, and that the golden object was stored right below the place where Christ's cross had stood. In the rock-filled chamber (22 feet long by 12 feet on 2 sides, while the other 2 sides followed the line of the cliff-face, narrowed down in one corner), he identified, besides the Ark of the Covenant (in the stone case) and the Table of Shewbread, a Golden Altar of Incense, a Golden Censer; a seven-branched Candlestick holder, a very large sword, an Ephod, a Miter with an ivory pomegranate on the tip, a brass shekel weight, numerous oil lamps, and a brass curtain ring. Inside the Ark, under the Mercy Seat, he found two Tables of Stone. On the back of the Ark was a small open cubicle with the the books Exodus, Numbers, Leviticus, and Deuteronomy. Amazingly, Ron found these scrolls, written on animal skins, in perfect condition.
This Cherub (winged lion with human head) was discovered by French archeologist Clermont-Ganneau in 1874. It was carved into a wall of Zedekiah's grave, the entrance of which was used by the Israelites to hide the Ark of the Covenant. Wyatt reached the Ark of the covenant via another route, breaking his way through walls. It was definitely not the first time the Israelites had to hide the Ark. Jeremiah had done so, six centuries earlier: "Prompted by a divine message, the prophet gave orders that the Tent of Meeting and the ark should go with him. Then he went away to the mountain from the top of which Moses saw God's Promised Land. When he reached the mountain, Jeremiah found a cave-dwelling; he carried the tent, the ark, and the incense-altar into it, then blocked up the entrance. Some of his companions came to mark out the way, but were unable to find it. When Jeremiah learned of this he reprimanded them. 'The place shall remain unknown', he said, 'until God finally gathers his people together and shows mercy to them. Then the Lord will bring these things to light again, and the glory of the Lord will appear with the cloud, as it was seen both in the time of Moses and when Solomon prayed that the shrine might be worthily consecrated'" (2 Mac 2:4-8).
Ashurbanipal II of Assyria dominated the Levant from 668 BC. His capital city was Niniveh, at the Tigris river. Nahum had prophesied her horrible fall at the height of her glory. Babylonian King Nebuchadnezzar II had managed to ally with the Chaldeans, and revolted against Ashurbanipal II. He conquered Nineveh in 612 BC, and dealt with her horribly (Nah 3:7). At this time, King Josiah ruled Judah. He ordered the Levite Priests to return the Ark to the Temple of Solomon, from the place where Jeremiah had hidden it (Mount Nebo, see Deut 31:1-4). In 609 BC, the armies of Egyptian King Necho II marched northwards, in order to unite with their Assyrian allies in Carchemish. Despite the warnings of Prophet Jeremiah, King Josiah denied the Egyptians transit. Necho crushed Josiah in the plains of Meggido. Necho placed Jehoiakim on the throne, King Josiah's eldest son. While in prison, Jeremiah dictated God's word to Baruch. Upon hearing the prophecies, King Jehoiakim ordered several prophets to be executed (among whom Uriah), but the Judean princes hid Jeremiah and Baruch. In 605 BC, Nebuchadnezzar defeated King Necho at the Battle of Carchemish, and subsequently besieged Jerusalem. To avoid the destruction of Jerusalem, Jehoiakim surrendered, and paid tribute from the treasury in Jerusalem. In 601 BC, Nebuchadnezzar unsuccessfully attempted to invade Egypt and was repulsed with heavy losses. The failure led to numerous rebellions among the states of the Levant which owed allegiance to Babylon, including Judah. King Jehoiakim conveniently changed his alliance back to Egypt, and stopped paying tribute to Nebuchadnezzar. Consequently, Nebuchadnezzar laid siege to Jerusalem for the second time. Jehoiakim died during the siege, in 598 BC. The Levite priests hid the Ark of the Covenant in the intricate cave system below the city. Jerusalem fell in 597 BC. Nebuchadnezzar pillaged the Royal Palace and the Temple, and deported ten thousand Judeans, including the young king Jeconiah and his court. Nebuchadnezzar installed Jeconiah's uncle, Zedekiah, as puppet-king of Judah. Eleven years later, Zedekiah rebelled, too, and allied with Pharaoh Hophra, King of Egypt. In 589 BC, the Babylonian army sieged the city for the third time. Jerusalem fell in 587 BC, and Nebuchadnezzar razed her to the ground. Very probably, the only priests who knew where the Ark had been hidden in 598 BC, died in 587 BC. In the 2nd century BC, the pious Maccabees (descendants from the Jews who had not been deported) had no idea of the existence of the Ark.
Today's city walls (black continuous lines) were built in the 16th century, by Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, partly on the remains of the ancient walls. The Jews gained their independence from the Seleucid Empire in 164 BC, under the Maccabees (later: Hasmoneans). They built the city walls (orange) and fortifications (green), which stood in the time of Christ. Both the Garden Tomb and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre (where Catholic tradition locates Golgotha) were outside the Hasmonean walls. Herod Agrippa I laid foundations of Josephus' third northern city wall (purple) in AD 37-44. Jesus carried his cross from the present Church of Condemnation and Flagellation (built on the site of the destroyed Antonia Fortress, the governor's headquarters of Mark 15:16), along the Via Dolorosa (not indicated), and through the Fish Gate (Neh 3:3), to what is marked on the map as Gordon's Calvary. This place was outside the city walls, and visible from afar (John 19:20), unlike the Golgotha of the Catholic tradition. Israel's Pool, just outside the city walls, at the feet of the Antonia fortress, is the Biblical pool of Bethesda, with five portico's (John 5:2-4). The Biblical pool of Siloam (John 7:2) was discovered in 2004. It has a trapezoidal shape. Most of it is hidden below an orchard (King's Garden).


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I'm a 50-something translator and mad keen gardener/cook/allotmenteer. Originally from Cheshire, I've also lived in the Peak District in the charming village of Rainow, in Rhu on the West Coast of Scotland, where I had a 2-acre woodland garden with superb peaty loam and a perfect Gulf stream climate (oh, and the joy of midges) and I'm now on the borders of Sussex and Kent, with a lot more sunshine (usually – it hasn't stopped deluging for the past three weeks!) and heavy clay soil.
When we moved down from Scotland just over ten years ago, we were following my then husband's job and bought a lovely house in the little village of Mark Cross, some 6 miles south of Tunbridge Wells, with a 2-acre garden complete with beautiful views extending up to the North Downs. The garden had been lovingly landscaped and had huge scope for my dreams of an extensive vegetable garden and orchard, but it wasn't to be: said husband waltzed off with his secretary three months into the Southern dream and it was soon apparent that neither the mortgage nor the huge garden was sustainable on my own! My teenage boys, then aged 11 and 14, did their best with the tractor mower on the vast expanse of grass, and my green-fingered parents helped as best they could, but we were fighting a losing battle, especially as I now had to gradually increase my previously part-time work load to full-time, albeit still from home.
Allotment July 2013
Fast forward fifteen years and I'm now divorced, living in a much smaller 30's semi in the nearby village of Wadhurst, with a tiny courtyard back garden, marginally bigger front garden and an allotment to pander to my grow-your-own needs. My elder son is now married with a baby of his own, while the younger one got married last year and now lives in Boston with his American wife – and a community garden (allotment!) of his own. I've now been recording my thoughts on gardening/food/allotments in general for the past five years, and it's been a genuine labour of love – as well as an excellent recipe file/gardening task/plant reminder for me and my family. I love my job with a passion, but the gardening/cooking is what keeps me grounded throughout good times and bad – not forgetting my faithful helper Leo, of course…. Sadly, I lost Poppy the springer earlier this year at the good old age of 13 1/2, but her soul lives on in my garden and in my allotment.
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Q: How does the Intermediate Value Theorem prove change of sign at discontinuity? I understand how the Intermediate Value Theorem proves a sign change can only happen at roots if a function is continuous. Intuitively, I understand the possible sign change due to a discontinuity.  However, I don't understand how the theorem proves a sign change can happen at a discontinuity when the theorem only applies to continuous functions. Or is that the reason that the theorem only applies to continuous functions? Thanks!

A: The negation of that statement is that, when $f(a) < 0 < f(b)$ and $f$ does not have a root (in $(a,b)$), then $f$ is not continuous on $[a,b]$, i.e. there exists at least one point in that interval where $f$ is not continuous.


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Network Rail (NR) in the UK is lagging behind the rest of European companies in efficiency, with a 40% efficiency gap in maintaining and renewing its infrastructure, according to the Office of Rail Regulation (ORR). The UK's rail regulator is, however, ahead of its European peers incl
Network Rail (NR) in the UK is lagging behind the rest of European companies in efficiency, with a 40% efficiency gap in maintaining and renewing its infrastructure, according to the Office of Rail Regulation (ORR).
The UK's rail regulator is, however, ahead of its European peers including Germany, Ireland and Belgium in the cost of track laying for engineering work, upgrading signal boxes and repairing overhead lines.
The study, part of the ORR's estimation of NR's finances and efficiency, reveals that NR has reported a 3.6% efficiency improvement in its operating, maintenance and renewals efforts during 2009-10 compared with the previous year.
The ORR said NR should show about 18% of efficiency savings during the next four years to meet its targets, according to news.scotsman.com.
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John D. Ash, Ph.D.
Francis M. Bullard Eminent Scholar Chair in Ophthalmic Sciences
Associate Professor of Ophthalmology
jash@ufl.edu
Dr Ash received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Biology in 1986 from Austin College in Sherman, Texas. Dr. Ash earned his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from The Ohio State University 1994. Dr. Ash has been engaged in Vision Research since 1994 when he accepted a postdoctoral fellowship in Ocular Cell Biology under the mentorship of Dr. Paul Overbeek at Baylor College of Medicine, in Houston, Texas.
Dr. Ash's research is focused on both understanding the cause of blindness due to retinal degeneration and developing therapies to prevent loss of sight. His research is relevant to inherited retinal degenerations such as retinitis pigmentosa, cone-rod dystrophies, LCA, or age related macular degeneration. His most recent studies have shown the important contribution of endogenously expressed cytokines such as leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF). His work has shown that these cytokines are expressed under conditions of stress, and that the increased LIF is important to prevent or delay photoreceptor or RPE cell death under chronic stress conditions, including inherited mutations known to cause blindness. Work from his lab has demonstrated that loss of the LIF receptor, gp130 or it's signaling intermediate STAT3, results in accelerated retinal degeneration. The results from this work have broad implications in the understanding of human inherited retinal degeneration. In humans, disease-causing genes are present before birth; however patients inheriting those mutations that cause retinitis pigmentosa or age related macular degeneration typically do not develop disease for 40 to 80 years. Dr. Ash's work suggests that LIF and its receptor gp130 keep cells alive and functioning, and serve to delay the onset and progression of disease. Variation in efficiency of this internally protective activity could also be a partial explanation of why family members who inherit the same mutation can have a wide range in the age of onset and severity of disease. This work has led to the identification of drug targets to promote cell survival, and has led to the development of several gene therapy approaches to specifically enhance the survival of photoreceptors and RPE which are now being tested in models of disease.
In 1999, Dr Ash began his academic career as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 2006 and received full Tenure in 2007. In 2011 Dr Ash moved to the University of Florida, as the Francis M. Bullard Eminent Scholar Chair in Ophthalmic Sciences, in the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Florida.
Service to Scientific community
Dr. Ash has a strong commitment to vision research as demonstrated by his role in multiple national and international societies. He was elected to serve a three-year term on the Scientific Program Committee for the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, representing the Retinal Cell Biology section. He is permanent member of the Organizing Committee for the International Symposium on Retinal Degeneration. Dr. Ash has served on the program committee for the American Diabetes Association annual meeting for which he reviewed program abstracts on ocular complications. He also serves on the Scientific Advisory Board for the Foundation Fighting Blindness and was recently appointed as chair of their Novel Medical Therapies grant review committee. Dr. Ash serves on the International Panel of Experts for Fighting Blindness Ireland. In addition, he is on the grant review panels for American Health Assistance Foundation. He is an executive editor for Experimental Eye Research and Scientific Review Editor for Molecular Vision. Dr. Ash is also a Co-editor for book on Retinal Degeneration published in 2012, and the primary editor of a 110 chapter Retinal Degeneration book to be published in 2013.
Publications in Journals
(last 5 years listed out of a total of 40)
Chollangi S, Mather T, Rodgers KK, Ash JD. A unique loop structure in oncostatin M determines binding affinity towards oncostatin M receptor and leukemia inhibitory factor receptor. J Biol Chem. (2012) July 24; [Epub ahead of print]
Chucair-Elliott AJ, Elliott HM, Wang J, Moiseyev GP, Ma JX, Politi LE, Rotstein NP, Akira S, Uematsu S, Ash JD,. Leukemia Inhibitory Factor (LIF) coordinates the downregulation of the visual cycle in the retina and retinal pigmented epithelium (RPE). J Biol Chem. (2012) May 29; [Epub ahead of print]
Li X, McClellan ME, Tanito M, Garteiser P, Towner R, Bissig D, Berkowitz BA, Fliesle SJ, Woodruff ML, Fain GL, Birch DG, Khan MS, Ash JD, Elliott MH. Loss of caveolin-1 impairs rtinal function due to disturbance of subretinal microenvironment. J Biol Chem. (2012) May 11; 287(20):16424-34.
Siatkowski RM, Yanovitch TL, Ash JD, Moreau A., The effects of D-penicillamine on a murine model of oxygen-induced retinopathy., J AAPOS. (2011) 15:370-373
Zheng, Y., Zhao, YD., Gibbons, M., Abramova, T., Chu, PY., Ash JD., Cunningham, JM., Skapek, SX., (2010), TGFb signaling directly induces Arf promoter remodeling by a mechanism involving Smads 2/3 and p38 Mapk., J. Biol. Chem. (2010) 285:35654-64. PMC2975190
Charles, E., Joshi, S., Ash, J.D., Fox, B.A., Farris, A.D., Bzik, D.J., Lang, M.L., Blader, I.J., CD4 T-Cell suppression by cells from toxoplasma gondii-infected retinas is mediated by PD-L1. Infect. Immun. 2010. (2010) 78:3484-92. PMC2916285
Reneker, L.W., Block, A., Xie, L. Overbeek, P.A., Ash, J.D., (2010) Induction of corneal myofibroblasts by lens-derived transforming growth factor b1 (TGFb1): a transgenic mouse model. Brain Research Bulletin, (2010), 81:287-296. PMC2814984
Ueki, Y., Le, Y.Z., Chollangi, S., Muller, W., Ash, J.D., (2009) Preconditioning-induced protection of photoreceptors requires activation of the signal-transducing receptor gp130 in photoreceptors. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 106(50):21389-94
Chollangi, S., Wang, J., Martin, A., Quinn, J., Ash, J.D., (2009) Preconditioning-Induced Protection from Oxidative Injury is Mediated by Leukemia Inhibitory Factor Receptor (LIFR) and its Ligands in the Retina, Neurobiology of Disease, 34(3):535-44
Ueki, Y., Ash, J.D., Zhu, M., Zheng, L., Le, Y.Z., (2009), Expression of Cre recombinase in retinal Muller cells, Vision Research, 49(6):614-21
LaVail, M.M., Nishikawa, S., Duncan, J.L., Haidong, Y., Matthes, M.M., Yasumura, D., Vollrath, D., Overbeek, P.A., Ash, J.D., Robinson, M.L., (2008), Sustained delivery of NT-3 from lens fiber cells in transgenic mice reveals specificity of neuroprotection in retinal degenerations., Journal of Comparative Neurology, 511(6):724-35
Templeton, A., Nguyen, G., Ash, J.D., Straub, R.H., Carr, D.J.J., (2008), Chemical Sympathectomy Increases Susceptibility to Ocular Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 Infection., Journal of Neuroimmunology, 197:37-46
Ueki, Y., Wang, J., Chollangi, S., Ash, J.D., (2008) STAT3 activation in photoreceptors by leukemia inhibitory factor is associated with protection from light damage, Journal of Neurochemistry, 105:784-96.
Carr, D.J. Wuest, T., Ash J., (2008) An Increase in Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 in the Anterior Segment of the Eye is Linked to a Deficiency in NK Cell Infiltration in Mice Deficient in CXCR3, Journal of Interferon & Cytokine Research, 28:245-51
Publications in Book Chapters
(last 5 years listed out of a total of 6)
Zhu, M., Zheng, L., Ueki, Y., Ash, J.D., Anderson, R.E., Le, Y.L., (2010) Unexpected Transcriptional activity of the Human VMD2 Promoter in retinal development. Adv Exp Med Biol 664:211-6
Ueki, Y., Chollangi, S., Le, Y.Z., Ash, J.D., gp130 (2010) Activation in Muller Cells is not essential for photoreceptor protection from light damage. Adv Exp Med Biol 664:655-61
Kasus-Jacobi, A. & Ash, J. D.: AAV2-hRPE65v2, an adeno-associated viral vector-mediated human rpe65 gene therapy for Leber's congenital amaurosis. Thomson Reuters Pharma (20 March 2012) [Online]. Available: https://www.thomson-pharma.com/
Mandal, M.N., Anderson, R.E., Ash, J.D., Injury and repair: light damage. In Encyclopedia of the eye, Editor-in-chief: Darlene A. Dartt, Academic Press, Oxford, 2010 Pg 392-99.
Mandal, M.N., Anderson, R.E., Ash, J.D., Injury and repair: light damage. Republished in: The Retina and its disorders, by Elsevier Limited 2011, Edited by Joseph C. Besharse and Dean Bok, Pg 338-45.
Vinores, S.A., Ash, J.D., (2006), Pericytes and Glial Cells and Vascular Development. Microvascular Research: Biology And Pathology. Edited by David Shepro, Elsevier/ Academic Press, New York, pg:137-141 (Chapter 22)
Retinal Degenerative Diseases. Lavail, M.M.; Ash, J.; Anderson, R.E.; Hollyfield, J.G.; Grimm, C. (Eds.) Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, Vol. 723, 2012 LXIV, 864 p. ISBN 978-1-4614-0630-3
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Ináncsi Pap Gábor (Kápolnás-Nyék, 1791. június 29. – Bécs, 1873. január 13.) író, színműíró, fordító, mecénás, színházvezető.

Pályája
Fejér vármegye alügyésze, majd a Helytartótanács titoknoka. Fejér vármegye megbízásából az 1825-ös pozsonyi országgyűlésen szereplő társulat igazgatója volt.

Első megjelent munkája, a Szöszvár, verses rege. Magyarra fordította Franz Grillparzer osztrák drámaíró Sappho című drámáját. Az időmértékes verseléssel készült fordítást a székesfehérvári színészek már a megjelenés előtti évben, 1819-ben eljátszották. Később az ország több városában is színre került. Történeti tárgyú novelláinak gyüjteménye a Történetek a mai időből. Ebben figyelmet érdemel Balatonfüred című terjedelmes elbeszélése. Egyszerű meséjét hősei levelezése kapcsán mondja el. Viszonylag jó elbeszélő, a jellemzéssel és környezetrajzzal is megpróbálkozott. Történeti drámája, az Imre vagy a királyi tekintet hatalma rajongó királyhűséggel írt színdarab. Egyik-másik jelenetén és alakján a Bánk bán hatása érződik.

Munkái
 Szöszvár; egy rege. Pest, 1818 (versben)
 Sappho. Szomorújáték öt felv. Grilparzer Ferencz után ford. Székes-Fehérvár, 1820 (Előadták: Székesfejérvárt 1819. november 22., Pesten 1820. május 22., Kolozsvárt 1824. január 17., Miskolcon 1832. március 31., Budán 1833. november 9., 1834. május 5.)
 Történetek a mai időkből. I. kötet, uo, 1822
 Imre, vagy a királyi tekintet hatalma. Négy felvonásban, uo, 1830

Jegyzetek

Források

Magyar színházművészeti lexikon

További információk

 Ponori Thewrewk József: Magyarok születésnapjai. Schmidt Antal, Pozsony, 1846
 Új magyar irodalmi lexikon. Főszerk. Péter László, Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, 1994

Magyar drámaírók
1791-ben született személyek
1873-ban elhunyt személyek
Magyar mecénások

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Defects in medical devices and materials have life-or-death consequences.
All health care-related fields are growing, and the same is true for applications that test medical instruments and materials.
According to a study from Markets and Markets, the medical device testing market will reach $12.26 billion by 2023, growing at a rate of 6.2% from $8.6 billion in 2017.
The growth is mirrored in national spending on health care itself, which is projected to grow at an average rate of 5.5% per year through 2026, according to the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, reaching $5.7 trillion that year.
Driven by an aging Baby Boomer population, health care spending as a percentage of the national gross domestic product will increase from 17.9% in 2016 to 19.7% by 2026, according to the U.S. government health agency. That far outstrips many other industries commonly associated with materials testing. The automotive industry, for example, has traditionally hovered around 3-4% of U.S. GDP, and the entire manufacturing economy's share of GDP is currently about 12%. Energy accounted for about 5.6% of GDP in 2016, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
Quality is important for any product, but defects in medical devices can have immediate life or death consequences. Just about everything is classified by the risk of a defect occurring, including general medical equipment like scalpels, scissors, and X-ray film.
That's in addition to external diagnostic tools such as blood analysis equipment; controlled medical equipment including catheters for the gastrointestinal tract, dental alloys and electronic endoscopes; and specially controlled medical equipment including orthopedic implants, balloon catheters, contact lenses and stent grafts, according to Shimadzu.
Shimadzu offers a variety of practical testing equipment for these purposes.
Pharmaceutical manufacturers measure the force required to inject liquids from needles and syringes. Tests ensure that the force exerted by the plunger stays within a suitable range.
Ampoules are sealed glass capsules containing measured quantities of liquids for injecting. It's important that ampoules and other injectable drug and liquid containers are sterilized, and while glass ampoules are common, the use of plastic versions has increased.
Those plastic ampoules must be tested for strength properties because it has an effect on both the storage of the medical liquids, in addition to transportation and handling. Ampoule breakage strength is measured by bending tests.
Engineers perform a variety of tests to inspect the mechanical properties of injection needles.
Contacts are now more popular than glasses. The lenses are tested for tensile and compression strength to ensure they can withstand daily use.
Metals, plastics, films, resins, textiles and other materials are all used in medical devices. Use depends on the environment. Some are sterilized, some aren't. Some may be used repeatedly and others may only be used once and then thrown away.
Shimadzu offers a universal table top tester than can be used to test the wide range of medical materials, for applications ranging from research and development to quality control.
The shapes and sizes of surgical tubes vary along with applications, whether they are used for drainage, liquid delivery, or injections. Different connectors and accessories come along with the variety of tubes.
Determining the mechanical properties of surgical tubes is extremely important to prevent defects that could put a patient at risk.
Test requirements involve "material defects, junction defects, and physiological parameter simulations," according to Shimadzu. "To this end, material/final product tensile strength, durability and friction properties are measured.
Hollow, flexible catheters are inserted for a variety of medical purposes. They are often placed into body cavities, the gastrointestinal tract, ducts and blood vessels. Once inserted, they eliminate bodily fluids, or inject or drip liquid medicines. They can also deliver medical stents, balloons, and other devices into the body.
Tensile materials are used for bandages or moisture-absorbent cotton.
Rubbers and thin resin materials are used in therapeutic applications. Using a video extensometer, engineers can find accurate extension measurements in tensile tests of soft stretchable samples.


Caviar's Vladimir Putin-themed watch features the president's signature.
Sometimes, you just need a little more Russia in your gadgets.
Jewelry maker Caviar, known for its collection of high-end iPhone remakes, has released a set of custom, Russia-themed Apple Watch designs. The three watches pay tribute to Russian President Vladimir Putin, Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin and tsar Peter the Great.
The gold coated Putin-themed watch includes Putin's signature, an engraving of a modern Moscow panorama and an image of the state emblem on the device's crown. The version with a Milanese loop bracelet is limited to 999 pieces and costs 197,000 rubles ($3,073), while the leather bracelet variant goes for 192,000 rubles ($3,000).
The Peter the Great-themed watch also got the gold plating treatment, as well as an engraving of a pattern that appears on the royal throne, currently on display at Russia's State Hermitage museum in St. Petersburg. The price is 182,000 rubles ($2,844) for the leather bracelet variant, and 187,000 rubles ($2,922) for the Milanese loop one.
The Lenin-themed watch substitutes gold for rhodium, whose gray color signifies strength, endurance and power, according to Caviar. Besides the engraving of the Kremlin, it features a CCCP sign in bold letters, and the obligatory hammer and sickle on the watch's crown. Though there's no gold on this one, you can get it with a leather or Milanese loop bracelet for exactly the same prices as the one featuring Peter the Great.
Though Caviar's takes on the Apple Watch aren't exactly cheap, the gold-plated variants sound like a pretty good deal compared to the gold Apple Watch Edition, which starts at $10,000. Apple Watch became available in Russia on July 31.


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People diagnosed with depression need to step out for a cigarette twice as often as smokers who are not dealing with a mood disorder. And those who have the hardest time shaking off the habit may have more mental health issues than they are actually aware of, research suggests. While nearly one in five North American adults are regular smokers, a figure that continues to steadily decline, about 40 per cent of depressed people are in need of a regular drag.
Older PostBoomers building muscle at the gym -- but where's the passion?


NEW YORK (AP) Two balls launched into the seats, one fired over the first hitter's head and just like that, David Wright and the New York Mets are right back in a World Series that has suddenly turned testy.
Wright homered and drove in four runs, Curtis Granderson also connected and rookie Noah Syndergaard set a nasty tone at the start of a 9-3 victory against the Kansas City Royals that trimmed New York's deficit to 2-1 Friday night.
Syndergaard's first pitch was a 97 mph fastball just off the inside corner and above the head of a ducking Alcides Escobar, eliciting a loud cheer from fans as the ball sailed all the way to the backstop. The skinny shortstop went down to the dirt on his rear end and stayed there, legs splayed, catching his breath for several seconds.
''I feel like it really made a statement to start the game off, that you guys can't dig in and get too aggressive because I'll come in there,'' said Syndergaard, who alluded Thursday to having ''a few tricks'' up his sleeve for the leadoff man.
Escobar, having a huge postseason, acknowledged it was an eye opener.
Royals players spent the next few innings shouting at Syndergaard from their bench.
Syndergaard had a stern response to that, too.
Shut down at the plate in Kansas City, the Mets broke loose and chased Yordano Ventura early during the first Series game at Citi Field. Aided by more unsteady fielding from a Royals team known for tight defense, New York got hits from nine different players and finished with 12.
Pitching on Halloween eve, Syndergaard recovered from a scary start and went six innings, giving the Mets the winning performance they didn't get from fellow studs Matt Harvey and Jacob deGrom at Kauffman Stadium.
Another rookie, hometown kid Steven Matz, will attempt to pull New York even Saturday night in Game 4 when he faces 36-year-old Chris Young.
After the Mets fell behind in the first inning, Granderson started the bottom half with a single and Wright hit his first World Series home run, recharging a packed crowd of 44,781 that included Jerry Seinfeld, Chris Rock and Dennis Miller.
''It's one of those memories, at least for me, that will stick with me for the rest of my life,'' Wright said.
The captain, who entered batting .182 without an RBI in his first World Series, added a two-run single on Kelvin Herrera's first pitch during a four-run sixth that broke it open.
Pinch-hitter Juan Uribe, just back from a chest injury, had an RBI single in his first plate appearance since Sept. 25. Slumping slugger Yoenis Cespedes added a sacrifice fly.
''We were relentless,'' Wright said.
In a matchup between two of the hardest throwers in the game, Syndergaard turned up the heat on a brisk night (52 degrees and windy) while Ventura lost some steam.
Syndergaard, who beat Cubs ace Jake Arrieta in the NLCS, struggled early against a Royals lineup minus slugging designated hitter Kendrys Morales and was only a couple of batters from coming out of the game, Collins said.
But the big right-hander aptly nicknamed Thor found his groove just in time and got stronger in the middle innings, when Harvey and deGrom had faded in Kansas City.
Syndergaard set down 12 in a row, five on strikeouts, before loading the bases with two outs in the sixth. He retired Alex Rios on his 104th and final pitch to the delight of fans who showed up in long, blond wigs and Viking helmets with replica hammers in their hands.
Hoping to rekindle the comeback spirit of 1986, when the Mets rallied from an 0-2 World Series hole to beat Boston for their most recent championship, the team played its highlight video from that year on the large scoreboard during batting practice.
Local boy Billy Joel sang the national anthem, same as 29 years ago at Shea Stadium, and Syndergaard grabbed everyone's attention with his first sizzling fastball.
Escobar led off Game 1 with an inside-the-park homer on Harvey's first pitch. This time, the ALCS MVP wound up whiffing on a 99 mph heater. Yet the Royals hardly looked intimidated as they scored three runs in the first two innings.
They ran themselves out of a chance for a bigger outburst when Alex Gordon was thrown out at third by rookie left fielder Michael Conforto, the safe call reversed following a replay review.
Syndergaard was a little shaky fielding his position but helped himself at the plate. He singled leading off the third ahead of Granderson's second homer of the Series, a line drive off Ventura into the front row of seats in the right-field corner.
That put the Mets ahead to stay at 4-3, making it the first World Series game with three lead changes in the first three innings, according to STATS.
Royals: Young won the opener in relief Tuesday, throwing 53 pitches and striking out four over three hitless innings. ''My body feels fine,'' he said. ''I'm not worried about bouncing back.'' The 6-foot-10 Princeton product, who has overcome a string of substantial injuries, went 5-9 in 24 starts for the Mets from 2011-12.


As Shale's harsh winter began to bite and night temperatures plummeted across the war zones, the campaign ground into a bloody stalemate. Imperial strategic savants calculated that a tipping point was drawing near. With faith in the Emperor and one last effort of will the Imperial forces might finally be able to turn the tide against the invading Daemons and Xenos. But if they faltered now and gave even an inch of ground then it was likely to be the beginning of the end for Imperial control of Shale.
A conclave of Inquisitors and Generals was convened and a bold plan conceived. The Imperium would strike back at heart of the Daemon incursion by attacking the mysterious centre of warp activity deep in the corrupted desert. The strike force had a lot of ground to cover and pressure on supply lines would be high. In a bid to alleviate this somewhat the advance was set to sweep through several abandoned mining outputs to forage for supplies. Ever at the forefront of the fighting, the Lamb's World 117th took the vanguard position in the advancing column.
Daemonic opposition in the form of the Cavalcade of Decay was encountered at the first settlement on the advance. The fighting amongst the ruined supply warehouses and hydroponic facilities ended in an inconclusive tactical draw, although the engagment was considered by many scholars to be an Imperial moral victory due to their comparatively light casualties and the combat readyness of their surviving forces when compared to the Daemonic host.
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