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Drexel University Wins Sixth Annual Shure Fantastic Scholastic Recording Competition
NILES, IL, August 12, 2010 — Shure Incorporated announced today that a four-member team from Drexel University is this year's Grand Prize Winner of the sixth annual "Fantastic Scholastic Recording Competition." The four-student team of Chris Pollock, Monika Arielle Julien, Justin T. Chapman, and Lenard Reuben Skolnick, with faculty advisor Cyrille Taillandier, won this year's contest with an original composition by Sonni Shine entitled "Just Like Ice."
"Congratulations to the winning team from Drexel University, and thanks to all of the students who participated in the contest from all of the schools this year," said Dave Mendez, Market Development Specialist at Shure, who coordinated the competition. "This was one of the most musically diverse and high quality fields of submitted entries in our contest's history. In the end, though, the project submitted by Drexel won over our amazing panel of judges."
The judges for the competition were Ed Cherney, Mike Clink, Ryan Hewitt, Tom Jung, and Hugh Padgham. They evaluated the recordings on their overall fidelity, clarity, and sonic balance – as well as creativity in selection and placement of microphones.
"In a world of DI's and samples, it is refreshing to see the use of microphone technology and acoustic recording promoted by the Shure Recording Competition," said Jung. "Without this type of encouragement I'm afraid that acoustic recording might just become a lost art over time."
"Being a judge for the Shure Recording Contest was fun," added Cherney. "In every recording and performance I could hear the exuberance and total love and dedication to music. It reminded me of why I pursued this life in the first place."
In addition to the Drexel team, there were nine other competing teams from Belmont University, DePaul University, Emerson College, Shenandoah University, the University of Central Missouri, the University of Colorado, Denver, the Peabody Conservatory of Music at Johns Hopkins University, the University of Southern California (Thornton School of Music), and William Paterson University of New Jersey.
The runner-up in this year's competition was the team from the University of Colorado, Denver and the students from the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore, MD received an honorable mention.
Each of the ten student teams worked on a recording project that consisted of tracking and mixing a performance, exclusively using a "microphone locker" provided by Shure for the competition. Teams submitted a stereo mix for review by a panel of industry professionals who were selected by Shure to judge the competition.
"One of the things that is always hard to teach in a music program is the importance of capturing the moment," said Professor Cyrille Taillandier, the Faculty Advisor for the winning team from Drexel. "I think it offered a unique and valuable opportunity with Shure putting together this contest to put the emphasis on how to do a great job capturing the song, and I thought that would be great for the students to have that experience."
The winning team used almost all of the microphones in the locker provided by Shure to create their project, which enabled them to gain experience with some microphones that none of them had previously used. Having a wide selection of professional microphones at their disposal also enabled them to experiment with different mics on different instruments and a variety of microphone placements.
As the winning school, Drexel University takes ownership of a selection of Shure KSM recording microphones, which consists of one KSM313 ribbon microphone, two KSM32/SL, two KSM44/SL, two KSM141/SL studio condenser microphones, and one A27M stereo mic stand adapter. The entire microphone package is valued at more than $6,000. In addition, a donation of $3,000 toward a scholarship fund will be awarded to the winning school, and each member of the winning team will receive a KSM32/SL, valued at $686.00.


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How footballers fared at the Alfred Dunhill Links – including former Chelsea and Liverpool stars
The Alfred Dunhill Links Pro-Am Championship always attracts the biggest name sin sport and entertainment, and 2019 was no different – and there were former players from Chelsea, Liverpool, and Real Madrid among them. But who were they and how did they do?
Luke Donald and Jamie Redknapp 6th/-35
Redknapp is no stranger to the Alfed Dunhill Links Championship. This year was his ninth appearance, and he certainly gave a good account of himself.
The former Liverpool and Tottenham star turned Sky TV pundit came in 6th placed playing alongside former world number one Luke Donald.
He also managed to wrangle a night partying with Justin Timberlake before the tournament, so it was a pretty solid weekend's work for Redknapp.
Nicolai Højgaard and Andriy Shevchenko 8th/-34
AC Milan legend Shevchenko was taking part in the championship for just the second time, and he certainly didn't disgrace himself.
Shevchenko, who also had a spell with Chelsea, plays his golf at Queenswood – alongside Jamie Redknapp – and is a pretty busy guy considering he is also the current coach of Ukraine.
He paired with Danish star Nicolair Hojgaard, who struggles in the pro's competition, which surely bestows even more credit upon Shevchenko's illustrious shoulders.
Matthew Fitzpatrick and Luis Figo T86/-17
You have to go a long way down the list to find another football star, but when you do come across a name it's a pretty impressive one.
Former European and World Footballer of the Year Figo is one of the few players to have played for both Barcelona and Real Madrid with distinction, although he didn't really cover himself in glory here.
Fitzpatrick was able to match Rory McIlroy in the pro tournament, but tied-86th while paired with Figo in the team competition was a pretty dismal showing.
It was Figo's fourth appearance at the tournament, and he plays his golf at the Encin and Moraleja golf clubs in Madrid.
Justin Harding and Vinnie Jones T102/-16
Younger readers may find Jones more synonymous with Hollywood than football, but football is where he made his name.
Jones, the physical enforcer for Wimbledon's notorious 'crazy gang' in the 1980s was making his first appearance in the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship, and he will be hoping for significant improvement he next time he is back.
He probably wasn't helped by Justin Harding, who obviously wasn't in the greatest nick after missing the cut in the pro competition, but it seems unlikely a T102 will sit well with the uber-competitive Jones.
Wil Besseling and Ruud Gullit T118/-15
The poorest-performing footballer in the tournament was probably the biggest name.
That is perhaps even more surprising given it was his 16th appearance at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship.
Gullit was one of the 'rock star' footballer of the 1980s, playing six years for AC Milan before heading to England for an adventure as both player and manager of Chelsea.
You could say that -15 is a perfectly respectable score, and his partner Besling made the cut for the pros too, but in reality it was nothing to write home about.

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Joseph Edwin "Joe" Dossett was born November 29, 1928 in Hillsboro, Texas and passed away July 12, 2018 in Bryan, Texas. He was the son of Arthur Malcolm (1884-1944) and Daisie Leggett (1893 - 1981) Dossett. He had served his country in the U.S. Army during the Korean War.
Joe spent his working days with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, assigned to several towns throughout Texas. He married Joyce Burdette (1928 - 2008) in Dublin, Texas. They moved to Madisonville in 1959, and called it home until each of their passings. He loved Madisonville and turned down more than one promotion rather than move away. Both of his sons graduated from Madisonville High School.
Joe graduated from Hillsboro High School and enjoyed telling tales of roaming the streets of Hillsboro with the likes of the late Doctor Red Duke and the late Texas politician, Bob Bullock. He attended Texas Tech and was an avid Red Raider fam. Joe had a passion for hunting, working in his yard and Red Raider football.
Joe was preceded in death by both of his parents; wife, Joyce Dossett; brothers, Malcolm and A.J. Dossett and sister, Grace Vincent. Surviving relatives include sons & daughters-in-law, Gary & Paula Dossett of Conroe and Edwin & Gloria Dossett of Miami, FL; grandchildren, Denna Dossett Mathieson, Jack Edwin Dossett and Elena Dossett Flores and great grandchildren, Andrew, Brandon & Emily Mathieson.
A funeral service for Joe will be held Sunday, July 15, 2018 at 3 P.M. at the Madisonville Funeral Home in Madisonville. A brief visitation will take place from 1:30 P.M. to 3 P.M. before the funeral. A graveside service will be held 10 A.M., Monday, July 16th at Ridge Park Cemetery in Hillsboro, Texas.
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Dover students help one another during difficult times
Dover, Delaware– Students at the Harris School of Business have a lot of heart. This year, students at the Dover campus realized that some of their fellow students were struggling to make ends meet. And it didn't take them long to do something about it.
The student council decided to hold a food drive and a clothing drive. By pulling together everyone's resources, they could work together to support their fellow students who were struggling. Within weeks, a large number of donations had come in. The items are shelved in a closet on the campus, and are available to students who need them.
"Our students really care about one another, and they respect that everyone comes from different backgrounds," says Nikole Schriefer, Associate School Director. "The donations are very generous, and they mean a lot to the people who are receiving them." Any student who is interested in learning more about the food and clothing closet may contact Ms. Schriefer privately.
Any students who want to donate to the food and clothing closet are encouraged to do so. Here are some items that may be useful:
Canned goods, including soups, chili, baked beans, tuna, and vegetables
Boxed items such as pasta, macaroni & cheese, and pasta meal kits like Hamburger Helper
Low-sugar cereals
Fruit cups and applesauce cups
Gently used children's clothing
Gently used adult clothing that could be appropriate for a job interview
Gently used scrubs
The Harris School of Business is proud of the acts of kindness that Harris students share with one another, and wishes the best of luck to all its students as they pursue their career training with us.
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"I have faced the darkest moments": Ex-Leeds United boss 'raped and tortured' in Dubai jail 'after being outed against his will'
British police are investigating the horrifying allegations by David Haigh, who claims he was repeatedly tortured and abused in the United Arab Emirates jail
Anthony Harwood
13:44, 7 NOV 2017
David Haigh claims he was raped and tortured in a Dubai jail (Image: SWNS)
The former boss of a top football club has claimed he was raped and tortured in a Dubai jail after the authorities allegedly outed him as gay against his will.
Scotland Yard are investigating the horrifying allegations by David Haigh, who says he has "faced the darkest ever moments a human never should face".
Mr Haigh, ex-Managing Director of Leeds United, was jailed after being accused of falsifying invoices and unlawfully channelling funds to a secret bank account.
He spent 22 months in prison in the United Arab Emirates city.
He claims he was tricked into flying out to the Middle East to meet with officials from Gulf Finance House, from whom he had been trying to buy the football club.
However, the deal fell through and Mr Haigh, who used to work in Dubai, says he was arrested on the trumped-up charges in March 2014.
Mr Haigh, ex-Managing Director of Leeds United, is pictured during his time with the club (Image: Getty)
Mr Haigh claims that during his time behind bars, he was repeatedly tortured and abused, undergoing five "serious episodes" of physical abuse.
He also alleges that he witnessed the torture of other inmates.
His complaint to the Metropolitan Police war crimes unit details the five months he spent in hospital on release, suffering Post Traumatic Stress Disorder as well as damage to his knee, hands, shoulder, eyes, teeth and a fractured cheek bone.
He claimed that, while in jail, he was outed as being gay by the authorities against his will - in a country where the penalty for being homosexual is death.
It allegedly happened after he wrote pleading letters to the Dubai DIFC Courts, including judges who were required to investigate allegations of torture, but he claimed refused to do so.
He said: 'One of these letters begged for the name of my partner and my sexuality not to be made public by the DIFC Court, as I feared for his and my own life.
'This request was ignored, and such information was made public, and further, made available online in a country where the penalty for being gay is death.
Mr Haigh spent 22 months in prison in the United Arab Emirates city. Above, a file picture of Dubai
'The result of the information being made public, was that I was raped and sexually abused, and my partner had to flee our home in the Middle East where he is from, and claim refugee status.
"I was categorically discriminated against…on the basis that I am gay, and because my partner is Muslim'.
Mr Haigh was among a string of Britons held in Dubai jails, often on spurious charges.
The latest was electrician Jamie Harron who was jailed for three months for 'touching a man's hip' in a bar.
Speaking to the Mail on Sunday following his release last month, Mr Harron warned: "People should be very wary. The legal system in Dubai is a shambles and if this can happen to me, it can happen to anyone."
Mr Haigh claimed he was tortured in the same police stations where UK holidaymaker Lee Bradley died in 2011 amid allegations he was beaten in custody.
Brit Jamie Harron was jailed for three months in Dubai after 'touching a man's hip' in a bar (Image: ITV)
Having been held since May 2014 and convicted of fraud, he was due for release in November 2016, only to be re-arrested for slander over comments made on Twitter while he was in jail, which kept him behind bars for another five months.
In an Instagram post last week, Mr Haigh wrote how despite being "raped and tortured and set up", he survived and will "never give up".
He posted "I have faced the darkest ever moments a human never should face. Raped & tortured & set up. I survived. I have lost so much. Yet I will never give up.
"This month I lost many friends to God. Yet I will never give up for i have love and courage. #courage#love #future #davidhaigh #dontgiveup."
His lawyer, Toby Cadman, of Guernica 37 International Justice Chambers, said: 'Mr Haigh highlighted how he was detained on an entirely arbitrary basis, that the trial process that followed ignored all established fair trial procedures, and further, that during his detention, he was tortured on a number of occasions, mentally, physically and sexually, and forced to watch the torture of other inmates at the hands of the Dubai police.'
Mr Haigh wrote on Instagram that despite being "raped and tortured and set up", he survived and will "never give up" (Image: Getty)
Following numerous complaints by Britons and foreign nationals of torture and mistreatment, the UAE has been criticised by the United Nations over its human rights records on detainees.
Universal jurisdiction enables certain serious crimes, such as torture, to be tried in UK domestic courts even if the alleged crime was committed abroad.
A Scotland Yard spokesman said: 'We can confirm that in July 2017, we received an allegation of torture of a British national in Dubai, UAE between May 2014 and April 2016.
'Officers from the Met's War Crimes Unit (part of SO15) are currently scoping the allegations in line with the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) and SO15 guidelines.'
If charges follow, anyone identified by Mr Haigh as carrying out the alleged torture could be arrested if they set foot in the UK and put on trial.
They could be jailed for life if convicted.
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Are we divided by the man, here?
I turn on the radio. I turn off the radio.
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Does Converting Simple Sugars to Lactic Acid Reduce the Energy Available in Silages?
Technical article written for submission to Feedstuffs
Joanne Knapp, Ph.D. PAS, Fox Hollow Consulting, LLC
During silage fermentation, simple sugars are converted mostly to lactic acid. How does this process impact the energy content of the silage for feeding dairy cattle? We'll review lactate metabolism and then answer this question on a theoretical and a practical basis.
Rumen lactic acid concentration is a balance between inputs (feed lactic acid and lactic acid from carbohydrate fermentation) and outputs (absorption across the reticulo-rumen epithelium and consumption by lactic acid utilizing bacteria (LAB); Figure 1). Lactic acid concentration in the rumen ranges from 3 to 6 mM and can climb up to 12 mM at times post-feeding (Khorasani and Kennelly, 2001; Khorasani et al., 2001). In comparison, total VFA concentration ranges from 100 to 130 mM in high-producing dairy cows. Lactic acid consumed in ensiled feeds can be the major source of rumen lactic acid in dairy cows consuming diets containing 40 to 60% forage, with 50% of the forage coming from silages or haylages. Lactic acid intake is substantially greater than lactic acid produced in microbial fermentation of feed carbohydrates (sugars, starches, pectins, hemicellulose, cellulose, etc.) under normal feeding and rumen conditions in dairy cattle (Fig. 1; Slyter, 1976). Lactic acid absorption by the reticulo-rumen epithelium and appearance in the portal blood flow is the major outflow; uptake and metabolism by LAB such as Selenomonas ruminantium and Megasphaera elsdenii is minor under normal rumen conditions (Fig. 1). Under feeding conditions in dairy nutrition that ensure good rumen function, the capacity for lactate absorption exceeds lactic acid production and rumen lactic acid concentration does not increase. In rumen acidosis, lactic acid production by microbial fermentation exceeds the absorption capacity, and concentration rises, dropping rumen pH and causing further disturbances in rumen function.
Lactate from either silage or rumen fermentation can be a mixture of L- and D-isomers. Both isomers are metabolized by rumen microbes and mammalian tissues (Harmon et al., 1984; Ewaschuk et al., 2005). The liver extracts most of the lactate delivered in the portal blood (Fig. 1), as well as the lactate produced by other tissues arriving via the hepatic artery (Reynolds et al., 1988; Kristensen et al., 2007). After uptake by the liver, lactate equilibrates with pyruvate, which is used to produce glucose, oxidized in the TCA (tricarboxylic acid) cycle to produce ATP, or converted to non-essential amino acids (AA) such as alanine. Lactate is an important substrate for gluconeogenesis, accounting for approximately 20% of liver glucose output in dairy cattle (Reynolds et al., 1988; Reynolds et al., 2003).
small intestine as well as the total tract digestibility. If starch is fermented by microbes, energy will be lost to the animal (Fig. 2). If starch is digested to glucose in the small intestine, it will provide nearly the same amount of ME as lactate on a pound-for-pound basis. While theoretical differences exist in the ME value of starch depending on whether it's absorbed as VFA or glucose, research has not been able to detect differences in animal performance based on these alternative metabolic pathways (Nocek & Tamminga, 1991; Huntington et al., 2003). Total tract NDF digestibilities range from 35 to 60%; all of this is via fermentation to VFA (Fig. 2). No differences would be expected between lactate and VFA in the efficiency of conversion of ME to NEl.
Most of the silage acids in ensiled forages are derived from easily fermented sugars inside the plant cells. If the sugars are fermented via the homolactic pathway, 100% of the energy is retained in lactic acid. If the sugars are fermented via the heterolactic pathway with formation of acetic acid or ethanol, energy and dry matter are lost. Additional energy may be lost from the silage if the acids volatize off or leach out in the effluent. However, we can see that conversion of plant sugars to lactic acid in the silage fermentation with consumption of the lactic acid and absorption by the cow could provide more energy than retaining the sugars intact in the silage and then losing energy during the rumen fermentation.
How is lactic acid utilization handled in current ration formulation software? In CNCPS 6.1 and its commercial versions (AMTS and NDS), lactic acid is explicity described as the CHO A2 pool. Interchanging it for sugar or starch has non-significant impacts on energy content of the silage and no impact on the available energy in the ration. In CPMDairy 3.0, lactic acid is part of the CHO A1 silage acid pool, and varying its content with corresponding changes in sugars or starch has no impact on the energy content of the silage or the ration. In NRC 2001, lactic acid is implicitly modeled as part of the total digestible NFC (non-fiber carbohydrate) pool, with the same DE (Digestible Energy), ME, and NEl as the NFC. Accordingly, varying lactic acid content with sugar or starch will not change the energy content of the silage significantly. Thus, none of these models captures the theoretically higher energy in lactic acid as compared to fermentable carbohydrates. On a practical basis, this discrepancy has little impact since it is small compared to the variation seen in starch and NDF digestibility.
On a molar basis, lactic acid has half the energy of glucose, but on a weight basis (grams or lbs.), it has the same energy.
Ruminant animals lose, on average, 25% of the energy in feed carbohydrates during the rumen fermentation.
On a theoretical basis, lactate provides 33% more Metabolizable Energy than fermentable carbohydrates.
Current ration formulation software packages do not account for the difference in ME content between lactic acid and fermentable carbohydrates; however, the underestimation of lactic acid's energy content is not likely to have a significant impact on total ME availability.
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Ewaschuk, J.B., J.M. Naylor, and G.A. Zello. 2005. D-lactate in human and ruminant metabolism. J. Nutr. 135:1619-1625.
Harmon, D.L., R.A. Britton, and R.L. Prior. 1984. In vitro rates of oxidation and gluconeogenesis from L(+) and D(-) lactate in bovine tissues. Comp. Biochem. Physiol. 77B:365-368.
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Huntington, G.B., D.L. Harmon, and C.J. Richards. 2006. Sites, rates, and limits of starch digestion and glucose metabolism in growing cattle. J. Anim. Sci. 2006 84:E14-E24.
Khorasani, G.R. and J.J. Kennelly. 2001. Influence of carbohydrate source and buffer on rumen fermentation characteristics, milk yield, and milk composition in late-lactation Holstein cows.
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Khorasani, G.R., E.K. Okine and J.J. Kennelly. 2001. Effects of substituting barley grain with corn on ruminal fermentation characteristics, milk yield, and milk composition of Holstein cows. J. Dairy Sci. 84: 2760-2769.
Kristensen, N.B., A. Storm, B.M.L. Raun, B.A. Røjen, and D.L. Harmon. 2007. Metabolism of silage alcohols in lactating dairy cows. J. Dairy Sci. 90:1364-1377.
Nocek, J.E. and S. Tamminga. 1991. Site of digestion of starch in the gastrointestinal tract of dairy cows and its effect on milk yield and composition. J. Dairy Sci. 74:3598-3629.
Reynolds, C.K., G.B. Huntington, H.F. Tyrrell, and P.J. Reynolds. 1988. Net portal-drained visceral and hepatic metabolism of glucose, l-lactate, and nitrogenous compounds in lactating Holstein cows. J. Dairy Sci. 71:1803-1812.
Reynolds, C.K., P.C. Aikman, B. Lupoli, D.J. Humphries and D.E. Beever. 2003. Splanchnic metabolism of dairy cows during the transition from late gestation through early lactation. J. Dairy Sci. 86:1201-1217.
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As we Bishops of the United States are about to meet in our Spring Assembly, I am reminded of your presence among us at the Kansas City Assembly last year. It was a great pleasure to have you with us at that time, and I was particularly pleased that you were able to be my guest in Newark. At this historic juncture, our Conference is eager to lend whatever support we can to make the promise of the 1996 Nobel Peace Prize a reality. We believe that the United States government should impress upon the new Indonesian administration the need for a prompt resolution of the East Timor issue, based upon the freely expressed wishes of the people and in accord with the resolutions of the United Nations.
Attached is a copy of a letter I have just sent to Secretary Albright expressing those views. I extend warm personal greetings to you and to Bishop Do Nascimento, assuring you of the continued solidarity of our Conference with the Church in East Timor.
For many years now, the Catholic Bishops of the United States have expressed their concern about the religious and civil liberties of the people of the former Portuguese colony of East Timor. We are aware that you also have shared these concerns, and we recall especially your visit to Indonesia as our U.N. Ambassador in September of 1995 during which you addressed the continuing problem of the human rights situation.
Bishop Carlos Ximenes Belo of Dili, recipient of the 1996 Nobel Peace Prize, has commented recently on the continued civil disturbances that are causing great suffering and growing resentment on the part of the people of East Timor, disturbances caused largely, in the bishop's view, by the heavy-handed excesses of the Indonesian military in the territory.
In view of the recent changes within the Indonesian government, this would seem an appropriate time for the United States to press anew for a speedy resolution of the East Timor status question that, with the good offices of the United Nations, must be based on the freely expressed wishes of the people of East Timor.
While that longer-term goal is all-important, I would urge that the United States advocate an immediate and genuine reduction of the Indonesian military presence in East Timor, the release of prisoners incarcerated for purely political reasons, the guarantee of freedom of speech and assembly, and an end to abuses of peoples' human rights. Minimizing the military presence and ending abuses could greatly enhance the prospects for a genuine solution of the East Timor tragedy.


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US praises Malaga's approach to preventing radicalisation of its Muslim youth
The Malaga plan seeks to combat social media messages, a key recruiting tool for jihadists
Laurence Dollimore (Digital Editor)
25 Jul, 2017 @ 14:21
THE US has praised Malaga for its efforts to reduce Jihadist radicalisation.
The US Department of State, in its report on terrorism in Spain in 2016, highlights the pioneering program launched by the Ayuntamiento de Malaga.
In its report, the United States celebrates the city's pioneering prevention plan, which aims to raise awareness and build an active and resilient citizenship that promotes social cohesion, improves coexistence, respects religions and religious freedom and avoids marginalization and violent radicalism.
It comes after the Councilor for Social Affairs, Julio Andrade and director general of Social Rights Ruth Sarabia, began research work more than two years ago to develop a plan.
"When we started working, we were not aware of the importance of the plan. We have had meetings at the highest level with American intelligence who even helped us to develop people who were former extremists and who have given important keys to developing the project, " said Andrade.
He added that during the last two years the team have traveled around the world holding job interviews with the United Nations, the United States Department of Homeland Security, the National Intelligence Center (CNI) of Spain and other international organizations.
Andrade said: "There have been several cities that have been interested in its content and even several countries have asked for information and we have had to send them to the Ministry of Interior."
The plan has a municipal office in the ??Social Services department, where citizens can report processes of radicalisation.
According to recent data, the hotline has received 900 calls 'of interest' since December 2015.
The main areas of the plan are prevention and programmed intervention; Actions and institutional cooperation; Awareness raising and training; Gender equality and promotion among Muslim women in the social, cultural, health and productive spheres; Social and intercultural mediation; Management of coexistence, religious and multicultural diversity; Education and development of attitudes and skills in minors and youth; Strategic communication on the internet and social networks and research and analysis.
The Malaga plan seeks to combat social media messages, a key recruiting tool for jihadists.
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The team has been in contact with young Muslims who are opinion leaders in social networks among their communities.
"The idea is that these people send their followers messages of tolerance and coexistence, in order to counter those who call for radicalization," said Andrade.
This part of the prevention program includes an agreement with the University of Málaga to measure the results.
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Q: Is there a socket for SOP8 packaging with SOP8 pins?
25Q128 is a flash memory for an IP camera. I want to dump its firmware but also try to write my own firmware. I have all the soldering equipment to remove it safely. I also bought the breakout board for SOP8 package so I can solder the flash memory in to dump it. However, if I want to test lots of firmwares, then I can't keep soldering it back and forth on every new firmware.
Is there such thing as a socket that I can solder in the place of this flash memory so I can insert it there?
Another option would be to solder wires into it but I have the feeling that powering the flash memory might power adjacent things that might try to read/write into it, makign impossible for me to do a clean write/read, so I guess my only option is to desolder and put it into a socket.

A: You want an SOIC clip. You can use this to interact with the serial flash without desoldering.

https://www.sparkfun.com/products/13153
These are also available on Ebay and from other sources
These will work on any SOIC package with matching lead spacing regardless of width (that winbond package is wider than the standard ones)
They also make them for 16 pin packages though those are much less common.

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Dr. Anderson served as President of the American University in Cairo for five years, from 2011-2016. Prior to her appointment as President, she was the University's provost, a position she had assumed in 2008. She is Dean Emerita of the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia, where she led the school from 1997-2007. She was on the faculty of Columbia since 1986; prior to her appointment as Dean, she served as Chair of the Political Science Department and Director of Columbia's Middle East Institute. She has also taught at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School and in the Government and Social Studies departments at Harvard University.
Dr. Anderson's scholarly research has included work on state formation in the Middle East and North Africa; on regime change and democratization in developing countries; and on social science, academic research and public policy both in the United States and around the world. Among her books are The State and Social Transformation in Tunisia and Libya, 1830-1980 (1986) and Pursuing Truth, Exercising Power: Social Science and Public Policy in the Twenty-first Century (2003); she has also published numerous scholarly articles.
Dr. Anderson is a trustee of the Aga Khan University and Tufts University as well as a member of the advisory board of the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin and the Sciences Po's School of Public Affairs in Paris. She is a member emerita of the Board of Directors of Human Rights Watch, served as elected President of the Middle East Studies Association, and as Chair of the Board of the Social Science Research Council (1998-2008). Additionally, she is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Council on Foreign Relations and she has received honorary degrees from Monmouth University and the American University in Paris.
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Q: How to make a div scroll automatically in react (hooks) I am currently making a chat application and having trouble making the div scroll to the bottom when a new chat message is added, I used the css overflow-y:auto to make it be able to scroll but can't figure out how to make it always scroll to the bottom when a new chat is loaded.
Here is my app.js file:
import "./App.css";
import React, { useEffect, useState ,useRef} from "react";
import io from 'socket.io-client';

let socket;
const CONNECTION_PORT = "localhost:3002/";

function App() {
  //before login
  const [logged, setLogged] = useState(false);
  const [name,setName] = useState("");
  const [room,setRoom] = useState("");

  //after login
  const [message,setMessage] = useState("");
  const [messageList,setMessageList] = useState([]);

  const ref = useRef();

  useEffect(()=>{
    socket = io(CONNECTION_PORT,{transports: ['websocket', 'polling', 'flashsocket']});

  },[])

  useEffect(()=>{
    socket.on('recieve_message', (data)=>{
        setMessageList([...messageList,data])
    })
  });

//   useEffect(()=>{
//  const objDiv = document.getElementById('scroll');
//     objDiv.scrollTop = objDiv.scrollHeight;

//   },[message])

  function connectRoom(){
    socket.emit('join', room)
    setLogged(true);
  }

  function sendMessage(e){

    let messageContent = {
      room:room,
      content:{
        author:name,
        message:message
      }
    }
    socket.emit('send_message',messageContent)
    setMessageList([...messageList,messageContent.content])
    setMessage("");

  }

  return (

        {!logged?(

            login

            <input type="text" required="" onChange={e=> setName(e.target.value)}/>
            Full Name

            <input type="text" required="" onChange={ e=> setRoom(e.target.value)}/>
            Room

            <button type="button" className="btn" onClick={connectRoom}>submit</button>

        ):(
            <>

                        {messageList.map((val,key)=>{
                            return (

                                    {val.message}

 {val.author}

                            );
                        })}

                    <input type="text" placeholder="Type Here" onChange={ e=> setMessage(e.target.value)}/>
                    <button type="submit" onClick={sendMessage}> Send</button>

            </>

          )}

  );
}

export default App;

here is my css file:

body{
  margin: 0px;
  padding: 0px;
}

.App{
  margin: 0px;
  padding: 0px;
  display: grid;
  place-items: center;
  height: 100vh;
  background-color: #2a2730;
}

.background{
  margin: 0px;
  padding: 0px;
  width: 100%;
  height: 100vh;
  background-color: #e74c3c;
}
.text-center{
    color:#fff;
    text-transform:uppercase;
    font-size: 23px;
    margin: -50px 0 80px 0;
    display: block;
    text-align: center;
}
.box{
    position:absolute;
    left:50%;
    top:50%;
    transform: translate(-50%,-50%);
    background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.89);
    border-radius:3px;
    padding:70px 100px;
}
.input-container{
    position:relative;
  margin-bottom:25px;

}
.input-container label{
    position:absolute;
    top:0px;
    left:0px;
    font-size:16px;
    color:#fff;
    pointer-event:none;
    transition: all 0.5s ease-in-out;
}
.input-container input{
  border:0;
  border-bottom:1px solid #555;
  background:transparent;
  width:100%;
  padding:8px 0 5px 0;
  font-size:16px;
  color:#fff;
}
.input-container input:focus{
 border:none;
 outline:none;
 border-bottom:1px solid #e74c3c;
}
.btn{
    color:#fff;
    background-color:#e74c3c;
    outline: none;
    border: 0;
    color: #fff;
    padding:10px 20px;
    text-transform:uppercase;
    margin-top:50px;
    border-radius:2px;
    cursor:pointer;
    position:relative;
}
/*.btn:after{
    content:"";
    position:absolute;
    background:rgba(0,0,0,0.50);
    top:0;
    right:0;
    width:100%;
    height:100%;
}*/
.input-container input:focus ~ label,
.input-container input:valid ~ label{
    top:-12px;
    font-size:12px;

}

.chatContainer {
    width: 600px;
    height: 350px;
    border: 5px solid #0091ff;
    border-radius: 10px;
    display: flex;
    flex-direction: column;
  }

  .chatContainer .messages {
    flex: 80%;
    width: 100%;
    padding-left: 20px;
    overflow-y: scroll;
    /* flex-direction: column-reverse; */

  }

  .chatContainer .messageInputs {
    flex: 20%;
    width: 100%;
    display: flex;
    flex-direction: row;

  }

  .chatContainer .messageInputs input{
    flex: 80%;
    height: calc(100% -5px);
    border: none;
    border-top: 5px solid #0091ff;
    padding-left: 20px;
    font-size: 20px;
  }

  .chatContainer .messageInputs button{
    flex: 20%;
    height: 100%;
    background-color: #0091ff;
    border: none;
    color: white;
    font-size: 18px;
  }

  .messageContainer {
    display: flex;
    flex-direction: column;
    width: calc(100% - 30px);
    height: auto;
  }

  .messageContainer h1{
    color: white;
    font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
    font-weight: 300;
    font-size: 17px;

  }

  #You{
    align-items: flex-end;
  }

  #Other {
    align-items: flex-start;
  }

  #You .messageIndividual {
    background-color: #5ff064;
    color: black;
  }
  .messageIndividual {
    width: 200px;
    height: auto;
    border-radius: 10px;
    display: grid;
    place-items: center;
    background-color: #0091ff;
    opacity: 0.9;
    color: white;
    font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
    margin-right: 10px;
    margin-top: 20px;
    word-break: break-all;
    white-space: pre-wrap;
    padding: 4px;

  }

here is what the chat application looks like:

A: You can add a span with ref bellow messages list that will be scroll into it when new messages are received.
Try this example :
useEffect :
  useEffect(() => {
     scrollSpan.current.scrollIntoView({ behavior: "smooth" });
  }, [messageList]);

useRef :
 const scrollSpan= useRef();

JSX :

                    {messageList.map((val,key)=>{
                        return (

                                {val.message}

 {val.author}

                        );
                    })}

A: On your 'messageContainer' div, create a reference using the 'useRef' React hook.
...
const container = useRef();
...
..
return (
    ...

...

);

and use one more useEffect as follows:
useEffect(() => {
    container.current.scrollTop = chatBoxRef.current.scrollHeight;
}, [messageList]);

Some improvements(!important) to your code, which could prevent memory leaks in your app:
-so you're doing this:
useEffect(()=>{
    socket.on('recieve_message', (data)=>{
        setMessageList([...messageList,data])
    })
  });

This causes a new 'receive message' event to get registered to the socket every time your component re-renders. You don't want that. You want this event to get registered just once. So do as follows:
useEffect(()=>{
    socket.on('recieve_message', (data)=>{
        setMessageList(prevMessageList => [...prevMessageList, data]);
    })
  }, []);

Note the change in setMessageList.(Look up why I did that, it is related to closures since this useEffect now runs only on the first render).


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The following provides an update on developments regarding Puerto Rico's governorship since our August 2 Alert:
On Friday, August 2nd, at 5:01 pm, Mr. Pedro Pierluisi was sworn in as the Governor of Puerto Rico. He had been nominated as Secretary of State by outgoing Governor Rosselló on July 31st, 2019, three days before Rosselló's announced departure.
The Constitution of Puerto Rico (Article III, Section 7) states that when there is a vacancy in the office of the Governor by, among other causes, a resignation, the responsibility devolves upon the Secretary of State, who must be confirmed by both legislative chambers, House of Representatives and Senate.
Both legislative chambers, in accordance with Rosselló's call for an extraordinary session to consider his nominee, commenced an evaluation process of Mr. Pierluisi, as Secretary of State.
On Thursday, August 1st, the Senate adjourned until Monday, August 5th, 2019.
On Friday, August 2nd, the House of Representatives voted to confirm the nomination of Mr. Pierluisi as Secretary of State.
In his first press conference as Governor of Puerto Rico on Friday August 2nd, Mr. Pierluisi acknowledged that the Senate still had to confirm his position as Governor by holding a vote on his nomination as Secretary of State this week.
On Sunday, August 4th, the Senate of Puerto Rico filed a petition for injunction and declaratory judgement before the Court of First Instance requesting the court to enjoin Mr. Pierluisi from continuing to act as Governor until he receives the advice and consent of the Senate. The Senate further requested a declaratory judgment declaring Act No. 7 of 1952, as amended in 2005, unconstitutional, for which Mr. Pierluisi's swearing-in as Governor, as well as any acts he may have performed as Governor are null and void.
On Monday morning, the Senate filed an intra-jurisdictional petition for certification before the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico, requesting the Court to bring before it the injunction petition filed by the Senate and resolve the case in an expedited manner.The Supreme Court granted the petition and scheduled the filing of briefs by tomorrow Tuesday, August 6th, at noon. The Supreme Court of Puerto Rico stayed the proceedings before the Court of First Instance, indicating that it will decide the merits of the case.
On Monday afternoon, Mr. Pierluisi reiterated through the press and social media that he would honor the determination of the Senate of Puerto Rico in their consideration of his nomination as Secretary of State.
Later on Monday, the Senate of Puerto Rico reconvened and subsequently closed the session sine die without voting or considering Mr. Pierluisi's nomination.
Accordingly, the nomination of Mr. Pierluisi as Secretary of State has not been approved because both legislative chambers need to confirm the nomination and the Senate has not done so.
Pursuant to Act No. 7 of 1952, as amended, in the absence of a duly approved Secretary of State, the order of succession falls on the Secretary of Justice, Wanda Vazquez-Garced.
However, Mr. Pierluisi has informed that he intends to wait until the Supreme Court of Puerto Rico rules upon the Senate petition for injunction and declaratory judgement, and thus the validity of his swearing-in as Governor of Puerto Rico.
Puerto Rico still awaits a final resolution of who will be its Governor, three days after former Governor Rosselló's resignation became effective.
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Prospects and amateur scouting are a new frontier within hockey analytics. Numbers can highlight some large market inefficiencies exploitable by teams if and when they start to advance their knowledge in this niche. The numbers on prospects, especially when combined with knowledge of scouts, can tell you a lot more than the some of the largest mainstream scouting outlets.
In Money Puck's recent series of posts, he has touched on a proposed "re-tooling on the fly" method to help the Canucks sell off veterans for picks, pick up free agents to replace them, and then use those picks on prospects who could in turn help the Canucks in the future.
You might have noticed him talking about PCS, or "Prospect Cohort Success." In this post, we will look more into what this technique is for analyzing prospects.
One of the most popular tools for analyzing prospects is NHL Equivalency (NHLE) numbers, which convert a prospect's junior Points-Per-Game number to what they would be expected to score if they were to jump to the NHL the next year. These translation numbers change all the time, are updated by hockey stats pioneers like Rob Vollman, and have been cited by nearly every hockey stats blogger at one time or another.
NHLEs assume the player will make the jump to the NHL, but that is not often the case. Prospects often play through intermediate leagues and development and opportunities can shape their future as a player.
NHLEs are based on a linear regression method which moves all players towards the mean; this rarely happens.
NHLEs have to be updated as scoring and talent within leagues changes. This means the NHLE translation factors you would use today for the OHL do not necessarily reflect the same league a decade ago.
The issues in the translation factors are even more exaggerated when looking at leagues that are affected by smaller sample sizes.
Seventeen year olds, who play in professional leagues in Europe have different roles than top 17 year olds in North America. They are often depth players without special teams time which lowers their scoring relative to their NA peers. But being able to play in a pro league itself is a strong signal that the player is likely to become a regular NHLer. This will not be reflected in NHLEs, as they are not designed to consider talented under-age players in smaller roles.
Last, but not least, not all leagues have a translation factor. Sure, ECHLers are unlikely to play in the NHL, but it is still useful to know how their probability of success, as some of them have gone on to the big leagues.
To address many of these issues, I've been working on a tool called "Prospect Cohort Success" (PCS) with many of my peers here at the Nations Network (thanks to Money Puck, Garret Hohl, and Rhys Jessop for the work they have done so far). While the model is complete, a publicly available and viewable tool is far from finished and is still in Beta. When it is working at an acceptable fashion it may be made open to the public, similarly to the Hockey Projection Project.
For now, as we have had many questions on the PCS numbers we've cited in past articles and our planned use of PCS is only going to increase as the draft gets closer, it's important to address the common question of what is PCS and what does it mean?
The idea behind PCS is that you can take a player and generate a list of comparable players (aka: "cohorts"). Knowing these comparable players, we can look at their success in other leagues beyond junior to estimate the likelihood of a current prospect becoming an NHLer, and what kind of player they could become.
We currently are using three main attributes which we have found to be predictive of a prospects success: age, scoring rate, and height. Height is a bit of a chicken and the egg scenario as typically prospects who are bigger are given more chances to play in the NHL and attract more attention at the draft, but they also have higher success rates. If size bias exists in amateur scouting, it likely persists equally so with pro-scouting, general managers, and coaching. Weight has not been found useful, most likely as it can easily change drastically up or down over a prospect's development.
While the PCS method is league agnostic and could be used for European or AHL depth players, currently, the definition of future success is players in the NHL who have played a minimum of 200 games. The 200 game mark is used as the minimum for "NHL success" based on previous work by TSN's Scott Cullen.
The number of players in the cohort who have reached the 200 game threshold determine the percentage of cohorts who have succeeded, or the Player Cohort Success percentage (PCS%) of the player. Additionally, looking at the NHL points per game average of these cohorts will give you their PCS points per game – a ballpark estimate of how effective comparable players became at the NHL level.
What these values tell us is that we can look at a prospect of any age and in any league, and estimate their likelihood of graduating to the NHL as well as their most likely level of production as a player.
One of the main applications of PCS is to look at the PCS% of draft eligible players to see how likely they are to succeed based on how their cohorts have succeeded. This can be viewed as a good handle of how "safe" a draft selection is. Another use is to see how the development of a prospect is moving.
Connor McDavid is a special case because he is legitimately a generational talent. He has been so good at such a young age it becomes difficult to find talent similar to him. Those who are similar have all gone on to play in the NHL and you have definitely heard of them. It's also good to see that his ceiling continues to grow.
Tyler Johnson is a player that has become much talked about these playoffs. He is playing a key role with the Tampa Bay Lighting and despite nearly scoring a point a game, he went undrafted as you may have heard.
When looking back to his WHL career (ages 17-20), it is clear that Johnson was not statistically likely to become an NHL regular due to the lack of scoring and his size. The numbers agreed with the scouts – but both were wrong as he was a clear outlier of player development. Tyler Johnson shows how development and luck/opportunities are important in making the final jump to the big leagues.
An additional point to note is every time the PCS percentage jumps we call that a "graduation bump" – where a prospect who moves to an even tougher league (e.g. from CHL to the AHL), it means they're more likely to become an NHL regular as professional hockey management and coaches have determined they are worthy of a roster spot. Scoring only adds to their likelihood of graduating.
This has been your introduction to Prospect Cohort Success – a tool we are still working on to help identify prospect success rates and ceilings. There is still much work to do with the large amount of data we have.
Our future work in the near term is to look at era-adjusting every league to compare the adjusted numbers vs. raw scoring rates. Additionally we are going to include more features such as Quality of Teammates (i.e. with Goals Created) and maybe through other features such as PIMs (which Ian Fyffe found to be a predictor of success).
If this area interests you, we welcome and encourage any feedback!
Ambitious, meaningful off-season post. Appreciate how you threw Johnson in there to demonstrate that exceptions exist with every model. Good stuff.
This is the best and most convincing explanation I've seen so far of the use of the size variable — here you make it clear why even if success may be intensified by the bias towards taller players by the hockey establishment, it doesn't diminish the overall point that it remains a predictor of success at the benchmark of games played (not necessarily quality of that play). The cohort model you've developed seems like a much more convincing and rigorous version of something that we already tend to hear anecdotally in scouting reports, that prospect x resembles NHL player y and yet that is often based on little more than gut feelings. Good luck with this and looking forward to seeing the full working model.
Something that jumps out to me is that all of the cohorts you have listed for Cassels are from 2004 or earlier.
Maybe I am missing something obvious, but all the cohorts you have listed for Cassels are at least a decade old, so why is it valid to use pts/gm across eras in this case but not in the NHLE case?
Nice work on this post. Clear and informative for us non-stats guys.
i'm not a stat guy by any means but this looks good. really good. i predict you will all become rich and famous.
i'd be curious to see a comparative chart without the height factor.
This is a moreare a more balanced post regarding statistical analysis, as there are factors that are impossible to model(at least for now) such as luck, development support, etc….. Kudos guys.
As you pointed out there are always outliers from both sides of the spectrum. The Tyler Johnsons and the Connor McDavids. But there are others at the other end too such as the Alexandre Daigles of the world. I know that we always talk about sample sizes, but sometimes they also bring these outsiders into the mix that skew the average. Ideaaly it should be balanced and cancel each other, but reality sometimes doesn't follow logic..
You are moving in the right direction, acknowledging the short comings, and going back again to revisit the assumptions, etc….
Really cool stuff guys, with each article I become more worried that you guys are going to get snapped up by a pro scouting department before you finish this series of articles.
Seriously though, I'm enjoying this next level look at prospect potential, it must be a ton of work, well done!
This methodology seems somewhat similar to the Viper(?… Vapor? something like that?) method.
Which is a reasonable approach, but I'd expect this model to fall victim to the same kind of long-term trends that scoring-based methods do.
For example, if more young high-end prospects choose the college route, or if young guys start getting less and less opportunities in the European elite leagues, it would still skew the probability of making the NHL for a kid playing in those leagues today. Just as surely as increase or a decrease in scoring in those leagues would skew a point-production-based model.


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