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Palm Beach County nonprofit urging Hispanic women to hit the polls
The women behind Empresarias Hispanas are creating videos to educate and encourage other Hispanic women to vote in the upcoming election.
Jossie Carbonare
ERIN: THANK YOU. HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH RUNS UNTIL THURSDAY, AND WITH ELECTIONS RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER, A LOCAL ORGANIZATI REPRESENTING HISPANIC WOMEN IS MAKING SURE THAT EVERY VOICE IS HEARD. TIFFANY: OUR JOSSIE CARBONARE HAS THE STORY THAT'S ALL NEW AT NOON. JOSSIE: THERE IS A PUSH FOR HISPANIC WOMEN TO VOTE IN PALM BEACH COUNTY. IN A CIVIC VOTING CAMPAIGN HAY QUE VOTAR, OR YOU HAVE TO VOTE. THE FEMALES BEHIND A LOCAL NON-PROFIT CALLED EMPRESARIA HISPANAS ARE SPREADING AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE JUST WEEKS BEFORE THE 2020 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION. >> WE AS HISPANICS AND ESPECIALLY AS HISPANIC BUSINES WOMEN NEED OUR VOICES TO BE HEARD. JOSSIE: THE ORGANIZATION, WHICH AIMS TO EDUCATE, MENTOR, AND SUPPORT MORE THAN 600 HISPANIC BUSINESSWOMEN TAKING THINGS ONE STEP FURTHER, CREATING ENGAGING NON-PARTISAN VIDEOS ABOUT VOTING , SPARKING A CONVERSATION. >> WE COME FROM COUNTRIES WHERE USUALLY WE TEND TO FEEL OUR POLITICIANS AND GOVERNMENTS ARE CORRUPTED. MANY WOMEN AND MANY HISPANICS IN GENERAL DO NOT VOTE BECAUSE THEY FEEL THEIR VOTE WILLNOT COUNT. BUT HERE IN THE U.S., IT MATTERS. EVERY VOTE COUNTS. JOSSIE: IT'S THAT VERY IDEA THEY ARE HOPING TO CHANGE. >> IN MANY HOMES THE MOM IS THE , HEAD OF THE HOUSE, AND WE NEED TO DEFINITELY LEAD BY EXAMPLE. >> WE THINK THAT BY SHOWING THEM THAT VOTING CAN ACTUALLY BE FU THEY CAN ACTUALLY MAKE A DIFFERENCE. JOSSIE: ACCORDING TO A PEW RESEARCH CENTER SURVEY, THE ECONOMY, HEALTH CARE, AND THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC ARE SOME OF THE MOST IMPORTANT ISSUES WEIGHING ON THE HISPANIC VOT IN PALM BEACH COUNTY, THE SUPERVISOR OF ELECTIONS SHOWIN OUT OF THE MORE THAN ONE MILLION REGISTERED VOTERS IN THE COUNTY A LITTLE OVER 12% ARE HISPANIC, MORE THAN HALF OF WHICH ARE HISPANIC WOMEN. >> THAT'S MY FINAL GOAL TO HAVE , HISPANIC VOICES IN PALM BEACH COUNTY HEARD. JOSSIE: THE NEXT HAY QUE VOTAR VIDEO IS GOING UP IN THE NEXT FEW DAYS AND WILL BE COVERING AMENDMENTS
There's a push for Hispanic women to vote in Palm Beach County. In a civic voting campaign — "Hay Que Votar!" or "You have to vote" – the females behind a local nonprofit called Empresarias Hispanas are spreading an important message just weeks before the 2020 presidential election.The organization, which aims to educate, mentor and support more than 600 Hispanic businesswomen, is taking things one step further by creating engaging nonpartisan videos about voting, sparking a conversation. "We as Hispanics, and especially as Hispanic business women, need our voices to be heard," said Claudia Ruiz Levy, founder of Empresarias Hispanas in West Palm Beach."We come from countries where usually we tend to feel that our politicians and our governments are corrupted and many women and many Hispanics in general don't vote because they feel like their vote isn't going to count, but here in the U.S. it matters, every vote counts," Levy added.It's that very idea Levy and the women behind the campaign say they are hoping to change. "Many times the mom is the head of the house, and we need to definitely lead by example," said Claudia Mendoza, member of the group."We think that by showing them that voting can actually be fun, it can actually make a difference," added another member, Victoria Mesa-Estrada.According to a Pew Research Center survey, the economy, health care and the COVID-19 pandemic are some of the most important issues weighing on the Hispanic vote. "The economy is a vital part of everything. I would say both the economy and COVID-19," said Levy.In Palm Beach County, the Supervisor of Elections says out of the more than one million people who registered to vote in the county, a little over 12% are Hispanic, and more than half of those are Hispanic women. "That's my final goal, to have Hispanic voices in Palm Beach County heard," said Levy.The next "Hay Que Votar" video is going up in the next few days and will be covering amendments.
PALM BEACH COUNTY, Fla. —
There's a push for Hispanic women to vote in Palm Beach County.
In a civic voting campaign — "Hay Que Votar!" or "You have to vote" – the females behind a local nonprofit called Empresarias Hispanas are spreading an important message just weeks before the 2020 presidential election.
The organization, which aims to educate, mentor and support more than 600 Hispanic businesswomen, is taking things one step further by creating engaging nonpartisan videos about voting, sparking a conversation.
"We as Hispanics, and especially as Hispanic business women, need our voices to be heard," said Claudia Ruiz Levy, founder of Empresarias Hispanas in West Palm Beach.
"We come from countries where usually we tend to feel that our politicians and our governments are corrupted and many women and many Hispanics in general don't vote because they feel like their vote isn't going to count, but here in the U.S. it matters, every vote counts," Levy added.
It's that very idea Levy and the women behind the campaign say they are hoping to change.
"Many times the mom is the head of the house, and we need to definitely lead by example," said Claudia Mendoza, member of the group.
"We think that by showing them that voting can actually be fun, it can actually make a difference," added another member, Victoria Mesa-Estrada.
According to a Pew Research Center survey, the economy, health care and the COVID-19 pandemic are some of the most important issues weighing on the Hispanic vote.
"The economy is a vital part of everything. I would say both the economy and COVID-19," said Levy.
In Palm Beach County, the Supervisor of Elections says out of the more than one million people who registered to vote in the county, a little over 12% are Hispanic, and more than half of those are Hispanic women.
"That's my final goal, to have Hispanic voices in Palm Beach County heard," said Levy.
The next "Hay Que Votar" video is going up in the next few days and will be covering amendments.


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Now I know what I don't know: how to reform the foundation years to fit 21st-century medicine
Laura Watts
John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust, Oxford, UK
Roles: academic foundation year 2 doctor
For correspondence: laurawatts@doctors.org.uk
The two-year Foundation Programme was introduced in the UK as a structured way to deal with the lack of training, support and difficulties with career progression associated with the old senior house office (SHO) grade. Although it provides a clear curriculum and structure for career progression, there is growing dissatisfaction among participants about the difference between the aspirations of the Foundation Programme and the realities of working as a foundation doctor. In particular, the erosion of the traditional team structure, difficulties with the system of assessment and a feeling that the career structure is now too rigid has led to a situation where doctors are being forced to choose their specialty training too early and often with little experience in the specialty. To what extent is the Foundation Programme fit for purpose? This will be considered together with suggestions for future reform.
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The importance of keeping calm; there is always time to eat and drink; how to write at superhuman speed while balancing three sets of heavy notes. As a new foundation year 2 doctor these are some of the things that immediately popped into mind in answer to a question about how to reform foundation year training. Trivialities aside, they reflect a more serious point about medical training and whether our current foundation years are really adequate preparation for entering specialty training and performing as competent doctors. In other words, to what extent are the foundation years 'fit for purpose'?
The story of the Foundation Programme
The Foundation Programme evolved out of the 2002 report Unfinished business by Professor Sir Liam Donaldson into the problems associated with the senior house officer (SHO) grade.1 In particular, this report identified the poor job structure, lack of training, inadequate support and difficulties with career progression associated with the SHO grade as it was.1 The report proposed a two-year foundation programme that would allow all doctors to develop 'core or generic skills essential for all doctors'. This would then be followed by 'eight (or so) broad based, time capped specialist training programmes'. The aim of such reform was to remove the situation in which doctors spent years stagnating as SHOs while unsuccessfully applying for a variety of higher training posts. Instead, the aim was to provide a clear structure for career progression, which would mean that 'doctors in training would move seamlessly through the grade subject to satisfactory performance and assessment'.
What is the point of the Foundation Programme?
The Foundation Programme, therefore, was developed to deal with a specific set of problems relating to the SHO grade. However, as the first two years of a doctor's working life, it must also have broader aims relating to developing safe, competent and efficient doctors who are ready to progress to the next stage of their training. This is reflected in the self-stated aim of the Foundation Programme, which is to 'form the bridge between medical school and specialty practice training'.2 In particular, the programme aims to provide opportunities for new graduates to:
develop and gain confidence in their clinical skills, particularly when they are treating acutely ill patients, so that they can reliably diagnose and care for seriously ill patients
display professional attitudes and behaviour in their clinical practice
demonstrate competence in these areas through a thorough and reliable system of assessment
have the opportunity to explore a range of career opportunities in different settings and in different areas of medicine.2
Are these aims being met? To what extent are they appropriate for the training of modern doctors?
What are the strengths of the Foundation Programme?
As a participant in the Foundation Programme, my impression is that a gulf remains between the aspiration and reality. This is not to take away from some of the very real progress that the Foundation Programme has made. Career structures are now extremely well defined, and a clear linear progression can be seen right the way through to completion of training. Together with the European Working Time Directive (EWTD), the Foundation Programme does, to a certain extent, provide a bridge from medical school to working as a doctor and, thankfully, relegates the 100-hour working weeks to something of the past. At its best, the system of educational and clinical supervision allows doctors to progress and thrive, while supporting and catching those for whom the transition from medical student to doctor is more fraught. The best of the foundation jobs also allow a junior doctor to develop and practice their clinical skills in a controlled and supervised environment, with the support of a team for when difficulties arise.
What are the problems with the Foundation Programme?
The strengths described above do not represent the reality for most doctors working in the Foundation Programme. During the first foundation year, we most certainly 'developed and gained confidence in our clinical skills'. However, rather than being able to gradually develop these skills during our first year, we are expected to be able to deal as competently with challenging situations on our first day as on our last. I think that most of us in the Foundation Programme will be able to relate to at least one experience during which we felt completely underprepared and unsupported when dealing with an unwell patient. Although I am a wholehearted supporter of the EWTD, it has, unfortunately, resulted in an erosion of the team structure and a greater gulf between what is expected of the foundation doctor during the day and when working out of hours. Inevitably, the current rota system means that junior doctors often do not know the senior doctors with whom they are working, which often makes one feel more alone and less able to call for help when help is needed. The ability simply to run something about which you are not entirely sure past a friendly team member who you know well is something of the past. Foundation doctors undoubtedly are better supported during normal working hours than the pre-registration house officers (PRHOs) of the past. However, the current situation has created a strange dichotomy in which we are given less responsibility and opportunity to learn during the day, yet are still expected to be able to cope single-headedly with 80–100 ward patients out of hours. Initiatives such as the introduction of the national shadowing week for all new foundation year 1 (FY1) doctors from this year will certainly help. However, the transition from medical student to doctor remains a huge gulf that doctors have to cross each year, with some invariably not making it. It is difficult to see how doctors can be allowed to develop their clinical skills in a more supportive environment while we still rely on the lone FY1 doctor on call to deal with more than 100 patients out of hours and with little senior support.
The concept of the 'thorough and reliable system of assessment'2 will almost certainly have been met with a laugh by many in foundation training. The Foundation Programme certainly has the laudable aim of being a competence-based system of assessment that is standardised nationally. In this way, doctors who are struggling should be identified and appropriate action taken. In reality, however, assessment is based on the electronic portfolio, which is extremely difficult to use and requires hours to 'link' spurious evidence with curriculum statements via a virtually unusable website-based programme. Finding senior doctors willing to fill in the mini-clinical examination (mini-CEX) and directly observed procedures (DOPs) assessments required to pass the Foundation Programme is a time-consuming struggle. When one eventually finds a friendly senior doctor willing to complete these assessments, rather than being an objective assessment with constructive feedback, they are a brief tick-box exercise that provides little opportunity to improve in future. It is not unusual that the assessor will select 'satisfactory' for all tasks, irrespective of their actual opinion of the trainee, rather than assess a particular observed encounter. I doubt whether this would detect any doctors struggling with their introduction to clinical practice. In an attempt to address this, these assessments have been renamed 'supervised learning events', with the aim that they become formative encounters and provide on-the-spot and constructive feedback rather than being pass or fail assessments. Without a greater amount of protected time for these assessments for both junior and senior doctors, it is difficult to see how they will radically alter the situation.
One of the key aims of the Foundation Programme was to deal with the 'lost tribe' of SHOs (who were finding progression to specialty training virtually impossible) by providing clearly defined stages of career progression.1 Foundation doctors would have the opportunity to experience a range of specialties, including those that would not traditionally have been part of junior doctor training, in order to allow decisions about future specialisation to be made. The stages of career progression have become more defined, which is certainly a good thing. However, the situation seems to have gone too far, and there is a feeling among FY2 doctors that they are being forced into a rigid career structure far too early. Although the talk of an 'exodus' of junior doctors leaving medicine is certainly overstated,3 we have created another 'lost tribe', this time of FY2 doctors, who are unsure about the next career step and are choosing to step away from the clearly defined career structure. Junior doctors are often being asked to choose specialties with little or no experience of working in that specialty. Although the Foundation Programme contains a variety of specialties, they are often grouped in a nonsensical fashion, and allocation to rotations occurs while the applicant is still at medical school and depends on the score in their initial application. There is little flexibility to swap rotations, so they are often filled by those with little interest in the specialty, while another doctor with a strong interest in that area misses out. The system should allow a greater degree of flexibility so that these doctors can continue in training while they make up their mind, rather than being forced into the cold of locum positions. Otherwise, we are merely recreating the same situation that the Foundation Programme was created to resolve.
What can be done to reform the Foundation Programme?
No magic bullet exists to reform foundation training so that a medical student who enters the programme leaves as a competent and confident doctor ready to enter specialty training. It is also impossible to consider the Foundation Programme in isolation, as it is only one part of the long path of medical training – from medical school to specialty training and beyond. There is no way to make training perfect; however, I would like to propose a few ideas that will deal specifically with the problems outlined above.
Firstly, all medical school final examinations should take place earlier in the year, so that they are completed between January and March in the year that the doctor will enter foundation training. Not only would this allow time for remedial teaching and re-sitting of exams without the penalty of another year at medical school, but it would also allow a period that could be focussed on preparing for life as a doctor: a 'pre-foundation programme'. Although nothing can actually prepare you for your first day as a doctor alone on the wards, a 2–3-month apprenticeship during which the medical student follows the rota and working pattern of an FY1 doctor could certainly help. Some medical schools have adopted this approach already, but it is far from universal. To avoid the dangerous situation of all doctors moving into new jobs on the first Wednesday of August, such job switches could be staggered by a week depending on grade, with new FY1 doctors starting first. This would give them the opportunity to start their job with an experienced team who knows the patients well and could reduce the shock of the transition.
Foundation training should also be extended for another year – to three years in total – but with an uncoupling of FY1 from the other years. The first year of the Foundation Programme should be focussed on core competencies in medicine and surgery, without supernumerary posts such as psychiatry. Foundation years 2 (FY2) and 3 (FY3) should be broad but themed so that a doctor interested in a particular area can gain experience in a variety of relevant specialties. For example, most FY1 doctors know whether they want to follow medicine or surgery, although not which particular specialty, so they could, therefore, choose a medicine-themed FY2 year. There should also be the opportunity for 'special study module'-type components, similar to those in medical school, including the opportunity to experience research. This would replace FY2 jobs, in which FY2 is largely supernumerary, and allow those who were interested in a particular specialty to confirm their choice. Importantly, by including all of these as part of the Foundation Programme, it would allow doctors to switch between themes while still counting previous experience towards future training. After FY3, the doctor would then enter specialty training. To maintain a broad base and ease the transition into specialty training, the first year should be arranged essentially as an apprenticeship to a current registrar. During this year, the trainee would gain the experience and confidence needed to allow them to work independently in the specialty. Specialties should be open to all doctors who have completed the Foundation Programme, irrespective of the theme chosen, as long as they are able to demonstrate the competence required to enter training in that specialty.
As far as possible, a firm structure should be reinitiated so that doctors are working with senior doctors they already know. In addition to the educational and clinical supervisor, a mentor from FY2 or FY3 should be allocated to all FY1 doctors as a more informal source of support. The system of assessments should also be altered so that sufficient time is allocated to achieve them and make them worthwhile for the trainee. Ideally, the system would include a fortnightly timetabled session with the clinical supervisor to discuss any issues and to allow these assessments to be completed. The change to making them formative should remain, so the results should, therefore, strictly not be available to the Foundation Programme directors dealing with sign off at the end of the year. In order to ensure fair and transparent assessment, a doctor should have to undergo a certain, small number of supervised exam-type assessments with an independent assessor, similar to the medical school's objectively structured clinical examination (OSCE). These should be based on competencies and safety, with a national set of criteria for marking and the option to re-sit the exam following feedback and further work with the clinical and educational supervisor. This would both provide allocated time to allow assessments to be completed and remove the largely random nature of getting them signed off and the marks received.
The Foundation Programme has certainly improved some aspects of the training of junior doctors. However, key areas could still be improved. The current system of assessment is difficult to complete and unlikely to identify struggling doctors, while the career progression funnels doctors into specialties too early in their training. Reforms should be aimed at making assessment fairer and more transparent and allowing greater flexibility of training, so that junior doctors can make an informed choice about their future career.
Donaldson L.
Unfinished business. Proposals for reform of the senior house officer grade. London: Department of Health, 2002.
Foundation Programme. Response to the independent inquiry into modernising medical careers. Cardiff: Foundation Programme, 2007. www.foundationprogramme.nhs.uk/news/story/response-to-the-independent-inquiry-into-modernising-medical-careers [Accessed 3 February 2013].
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The junior doctor exodus. BMJ Careers 2010. http://careers.bmj.com/careers/advice/view-article.html?id=20001543 [Accessed 27 February 2013].


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The Achilles tendon is the tendon which connects the three strongest flexor muscles of the leg to the foot. It is a tendon which connects the two heads of the gastrocnemius muscle and the deeper soleus muscle to the calcaneus, or heel bone. The tendon can be felt in the back of the ankle and is just under the skin. This tendon is a common source of pain in runners and other athletes. Achilles tendonitis, tendonosis and rupture are some of the common problems encountered with this structure.
Chronic, repetitive sprains of the ankle. This can be due to an injury that never healed properly but can also be due to weak ankle ligaments or a heel that tilts inward (varus heel).
Ankle Joint
The joint between the foot and the lower leg. It allows the foot to dorsiflex (move upward) and plantarflex (move downward). It is made up of the two bones of the lower leg (tibia & fibula) and the ankle bone (talus). There are ligaments that hold the joint together on the inside (deltoid) and outside (lateral ankle ligament complex).
Arthritis typically refers to the wearing away of joint surfaces. Arthritis falls into one of three categories: Osteoarthritis is primary arthritis of the joint and may be related to family history. Traumatic arthritis is arthritis that develops after injury to a joint. Inflammatory arthritis occurs when a disease affecting the patient causes the cartilage to wear away. Treatment is dependent on the cause and extent of the arthritis and may include medication, bracing, physical therapy or surgery.
The heel bone. Two joints are present: the subtalar joint which allows motion with the talus (ankle) bone which allows inversion and eversion of the foot with the leg; and the calcaneocuboid joint that controls flexibility of the foot and controls the arch of the foot. The Achilles tendon attaches to the back of the calcaneus, and the plantar fascia also attaches to the bottom of the calcaneus.
Cartilage is a living tissue that lines our joints. It is a matrix of proteins and collagen that is tough, absorbs shock and is very smooth. Healthy cartilage can, and often does, last our whole life without problems. Disease of the cartilage or trauma can cause the cartilage cells to die. Unlike most tissues in our body, joint cartilage cells do not reproduce themselves once our skeletons are fully grown. Basic science and clinical research has led to recent innovations in cartilage transplantation and growth.
The midfoot bone on the outside of the foot. This bone lies between the calcaneus and metatarsals. This bone may be crushed ("Nutcracker fracture") when the midfoot is injured.
Twisting out, away from the midline of the body.
A foot extensor is a muscle which raises the toes or ankle. The extensor digitorum longus stabilizes the toes against the ground in push-off and propulsion.
The extensor hallucis longus helps to stablize the first metatarasophalaneal joint (where the toes meet the foot) and forefoot during push-off.
The most prominent bone on the outer side of the ankle that also extends to the knee.
A fractured bone is one that has cracked or broken. Bones are comprised primarily of calcium and are quite hard. A crack usually occurs as a result of an injury. In cases of abnormal bone structure, a fracture can occur after a very minor injury. Overuse can cause a "stress" fracture. Displacement refers to the amount the two broken pieces have moved from each other. In non-displaced fractures the pieces of bone haven't separated at all. Displaced fractures have some separation between the broken pieces. Some bones can heal properly even with a lot of displacement, but some fractured bones require surgery for even a small amount of displacement. Evaluation and treatment by an orthopaedic surgeon is necessary.
Inflammatory arthritis
Inflammatory arthritis occurs when a disease affecting the patient causes the cartilage to die off. Treatment is dependent on the cause and extent of the arthritis and may entail medication, bracing or surgery.
Twisting in, towards the midline of the body.
Lateral malleolus
The end of the fibula, the most prominent bone on the outside of the ankle.
A band of tissue that connects one bone to another, typically to support a joint. Ligaments are made primarily of collagen. Injury to a ligament is referred to as a sprain.
Medial malleolus
The most prominent bone on the inner side of the ankle.
Navicular
A "boat" shaped bone in the midfoot. Two joints are present: the talonavicular joint which has a complicated biomechanical function that controls flexibility of the foot and controls the arch of the foot; and the naviculocuneiform joint which can be injured in midfoot injuries and can contribute to flatfoot deformity.
Osteoarthritis is primary arthritis of the joint and may be related to family history.
Peroneal tendon
The peroneal tendons are behind the outside bone of the ankle (the fibula). These two tendons move the foot outwards in a direction called eversion. They balance the ankle and the back of the foot and prevent the foot from turning inwards repetitively. The peroneal tendons are susceptible to injury as the ankle turns, rolls or becomes sprained because they are not as strong as the muscles and tendons on the inside of the ankle.
Posterior tibial tendon
The posterior tibial tendon and other supportive ligaments help to maintain the arch of the foot. This tendon goes behind the ankle and around the medial malleolus (a bone inside the ankle).
One of the inflammatory arthritis diseases. This is an autoimmune disorder where the patient's immune system malfunctions and attacks the cartilage and tendons.
An injury causing tearing of a ligament. Sprains vary in severity and can range from a partial tearing of the ligament to a complete rupture.
Sprained ankle
A rupture of one or more of the ligaments that surround the ankle.
The ankle bone. This bone sits within the ankle "Mortise" or hinge which is made up of the two leg bones, the tibia and fibula. Three joints are present: the ankle, which allows the up and down motion of the foot with the leg; the subtalar joint which allows "inversion" and "eversion" of the foot with the leg; and the talonavicular joint which has a complicated biomechanical function that controls flexibility of the foot and the arch of the foot. The talus has no muscular attachments and is mostly covered with cartilage, which makes injuries to the talus difficult to heal.
A tendon is a structure in the body that connects muscle to bone. As the muscle contracts, it pulls on the tendon which moves the bone. Tendons are made mostly of collagen. Inflammation of a tendon is called tendonitis. Tendons can tear or rupture if they are pulled too hard by the muscle, or if they degenerate.
Inflammation of a tendon. Most cases of tendonitis are caused by some type of injury, overuse or a mechanical abnormality in the foot or ankle. Treatment depends on the specific tendon involved, the extent of involvement and the length of time the symptoms have been present.
Tendonosis
A later stage of tendonitis where the tendon starts to fray and tear.
Tibia (shinbone)
The large bone of the leg that extends from the knee to the ankle.
Tibialis anterior tendon
The function of the tibialis anterior is to move the ankle upwards. It stabilizes the foot in the latter part of the stance phase of gait and extends the foot at the beginning and middle portions of the swing phase of gait.
Tilted "outward" or away from the midline of the body.
Tilted "inward" or towards the midline of the body.
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As most DIYers and crafters can attest, the feeling of accomplishment when you finish a project is completely addicting and is the best feeling in the world. Now add a really cute baby playing with that project… that feeling just got 39374 times better. I have seen baby "busy boards" around the web and Pinterest for years and have always known I wanted to make our future child one of them, so when little Connor started crawling(!) to all the hinges and knobs around the house I figured it was time.
Since I try really hard to find a balance between baby toys and gear being fun while not looking hideous and out of place in our home (what spurred this post), I wanted to make his busy board with all black fixtures, rustic paint, and natural wood. Our item for this month's Monthly DIY Challenge was wooden beads, the perfect addition to a busy board!
This sandwich-board style creates more of an activity station that works for sitters and standers and also folds down for storage too. If you want though, you can add stuff to both sides for double the fun stations.
These things are super fun to make since you can give it any sort of look you want; paint, finish, and what you choose to put on it. I loved just cruising through our store thinking of things that could work on it. Also, who knew there were a bajillion different latch types?!
Once you have the boards and paint for your piece, the rest of the supply list is pretty much just going hog wild in your scrap wood pile, junk drawer, then local hardware and craft stores and grabbing any and everything that a little one can safely fidget with. Hardware aisle, electrical aisle, plumbing aisle, even the automotive aisle, and then various sewing notions at the craft store.
drill – you'll definitely want to pre-drill your screw holes for the pieces!
whatever else you want to put on it!!
I went for an all-black design for my board pieces and if you go the same route, I will warn that there are less items that come in that finish than in other finishes (which is weird, because black/oil-rubbed bronze is a very popular finish right now) AND if you need black screws for your pieces they're also very few and far between.
As for the plywood thickness, I suggest getting pieces that are thick enough where you don't have to worry about the length of the various screws. I used 1/2″ thick boards but really needed 3/4″ to avoid the issue in the next photo. I tried to find shorter screws to keep it from happening but like I said, there's not much of a size selection for black screws. I ended up putting hot glue over these to keep little fingers from getting poked someday.
Lastly, I originally planned to find some sort of collapsible locking arms or brackets to lock the boards open for safety reasons but I couldn't find anything that worked. But the piece is super heavy and actually very secure when opened so it turned out not to be as much of an issue as I thought it would. I put clear grippy dots on the four corners so it wouldn't slide and they work great.
After sanding your boards, you'll paint them and use whatever finish you'd like. I went with Saltwash again (see process here) so that the boards would have a sensory texture effect also. Two little sample pots of paint were the perfect amount for my two boards.
I don't have pics for putting this together unfortunately because I had to do it in the evenings but luckily it's pretty straightforward, just attach two standard door hinges to the boards and put a handle in one of the top edges. It is easier to do this part before putting all the stuff on the boards, trust me :) Then just lay out your pieces and start installing them! Use the heavy duty adhesive gel in places where screws won't work like the little wooden doors. I used a jigsaw to cut the hole out for the electrical switches.
It folds flat(ish) for storage too which is nice since our spaces aren't that big and the handle makes it much easier to carry around.
You guys, he LOVES this thing!!! We put it down and he hustle-crawled his way over to it and went to town, immediately going for the doorstops then yelling at himself in the mirror. I probably could have just made a board full of those two things and he'd be good to go. He's still a little too young for some of the latches so this should last him for a while, plus I'll probably add on to it when I find other things that would be fun.
While this isn't technically the first project I've done for him, it was definitely more well-received than the changing pad tray or closet crates, ha!
I see many more fun projects for this guy in the future given at how well-received this was…now if he'll just give me some longer naptimes in order to do them!
What a fabulous idea, Emily! And little C looks awfully proud of it! Adorable!
This is so cute and these pics of Connor playing with it are too adorable! Love it and him!
Emily, I LOVE LOVE LOVE this!!! We've been wanting to make one for our boys. I love that you found a way to make it stylish!! So cute!
This is adorable! I wish we would've made one years ago! And I'm sorry to hear about the RSV– that one is tough. Thank you for sharing your project!
Thanks so much Brittany! Knock on wood I think we're out of it now…for a while at least, ha!
I have started this project and I'm confused about how to get the light switches on. Are you cutting a hole to fit them into the board? Thanks!
Yes, I briefly mentioned it in the instructions but unfortunately didn't have a picture of that step (which is probably good because my jigsaw skills definitely need some polishing), but I just traced out how big the cutout needed to be then drilled holes in the corners of the section to start the jigsaw in and cut it out.
Would love to know how you put the light switches on. Did you have to drill through the board?
I love that you found a way to make it stylish. We have been thinking to make one for our boys. Thank you for sharing your project.
I knew it'd be out in our main living room so of course I wanted it to blend in with everything else :) He is still loving it too!
this is Beautiful! I am going to attempt to make one very similar for my son! Thanks for the tutorial.


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Nation page for Cyprus
Cyprus has been a member of the United Nations since 20 September 1960
Cyprus is not in the list of countries with webpages at the UN.
Read the Wikipedia page for Cyprus
Cyprus is part of the Asia / Middle East block
Cyprus has participated in 1436 votes since 26 October 1994, most recently on 23 December 2008
voted with 2 other nations (out of 158) to abstain on Operative paragraph 3 (c). 17 December 1999
voted with 4 other nations (out of 152) to abstain on The draft decision. 8 December 2000
voted with 7 other nations (out of 167) to abstain on The draft resolution (resolution 51/42). 10 December 1996
voted with 7 other nations (out of 164) to abstain on The draft resolution (resolution 52/35). 9 December 1997
voted with 8 other nations (out of 165) to abstain on Operative paragraph 3 as a whole of draft resolution I. 20 November 2000
voted with 8 other nations (out of 158) to abstain on The words "and South Asia" at the end of operative paragraph 3 of draft resolution L. 1 December 1999
voted with 9 other nations (out of 163) to abstain on The words "and South Asia" at the end of operative paragraph 3 of draft resolution I. 20 November 2000
voted with 9 other nations (out of 159) to abstain on Operative paragraph 3 as a whole of draft resolution L. 1 December 1999
voted with 9 other nations (out of 165) to abstain on Draft resolution II (resolution 53/141). 9 December 1998
voted with 12 other nations (out of 156) to abstain on Draft resolution B (resolution 52/38 B). 9 December 1997
voted with 14 other nations (out of 96) in favour of The recommendation contained in paragraph 52 of the report of the General Committee. 13 September 2006
voted with 14 other nations (out of 152) to abstain on The draft resolution A/51/L.26 (resolution 51/30 I). 17 December 1996
voted with 14 other nations (out of 156) to abstain on Operative paragraph 3 of draft resolution B. 9 December 1997
voted with 15 other nations (out of 168) to abstain on Draft resolution G (resolution 55/34 G). 20 November 2000
voted with 15 other nations (out of 172) to abstain on Draft resolution XII (resolution 51/100). 12 December 1996
voted with 16 other nations (out of 161) to abstain on Draft resolution S, as a whole, (resolution 56/24 R). 29 November 2001
voted with 16 other nations (out of 163) to abstain on Draft resolution D (resolution 54/55 D). 1 December 1999
voted with 16 other nations (out of 162) to abstain on Draft resolution P (resolution 50/70 P). 12 December 1995
People who have spoken in the General Assembly or Security Council in the name of Cyprus. Sometimes ministers or heads of state take the place of the official ambassador of the day.
Mr. Agathocleous 5 11 October 1995 25 April 1996
President Christofias 1 24 September 2008 24 September 2008
Mr. Christofides 1 23 September 2002 23 September 2002
President Clerides 9 3 October 1994 11 November 2001
Mr. Droushiotis 1 26 October 1999 26 October 1999
Mr. Georgiades 1 6 November 1995 6 November 1995
Mr. Hadjiargyrou 3 14 March 2001 25 September 2001
Mr. Hadjimichael 1 8 October 2008 8 October 2008
Mr. Iacovou 1 22 September 2003 22 September 2003
Mr. Jacovides 1 24 November 1998 24 November 1998
Mr. Kasoulides 3 26 September 1997 20 September 2002
Mr. Mavroyiannis 18 31 October 2003 8 July 2008
Mr. Messis 1 27 October 1995 27 October 1995
Mr. Moushoutas 22 10 October 1996 4 November 2002
President Papadopoulos 6 25 September 2003 26 September 2007
Mr. Patsalides 1 10 June 2008 10 June 2008
Mr. Pourgourides 1 21 October 2004 21 October 2004
Mr. Shambos 3 14 October 1994 9 November 1994
Mr. Stavrinos 1 12 July 1995 12 July 1995
Mr. Zackheos 22 25 November 1997 3 December 2002


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Received, 9th October, 2008, Accepted, 10th November, 2008, Published online, 11th November, 2008.
Molecules capable of dictating regio- and diastereoselective modifications thereof offer versatile use in organic synthesis. We previously reported an efficient chemoenzymatic preparation of the 2,3,4-trioxycyclopentanol 1 having a dioxabicyclo[3.3.0]octane framework in both enantiomeric forms1 and demonstrated its use in the efficient stereocontrolled synthesis of α-cuparenone,2a (+)-estrone,2b Calabar bean alkaloids,2c and Sceletium alkaloids.2d Highlighting its flexible features, we have now explored its potential as a chiral building block for the representative class of monoterpenoid indole alkaloids derived from secologanin:3 the facts that the overwhelming structural diversity of monoterpenoid indole alkaloids is originated from the common intermediate, secologanin via the adoption of multiple set of biochemical transformations and that secologanin is produced by the oxidative scission of the cyclopentane-ring of loganin (Scheme 1) stimulated our challenge to exploit the further versatility of 1. We report here the diastereocontrolled transformation of 1 to the key intermediates for the synthesis of corynanthe, iboga, and aspidosperma-class of monoterpenoid indole alkaloids which led up to a formal synthesis of (+)-20R-dihydrocleavamine (4),4 (–)-eburnamonine (6),5 and a total synthesis of (+)-aspidospermidine (5).3b,6,7,8 (Scheme 2).
The strategic point of this synthetic venture is to exploit expedient methods addressing issues on how and when to install the requisite side chains selectively at the right positions on the periphery of the cyclopentane ring and to cleave the exact bond by taking a full advantage of functionalities in 1.
The synthetic effort directed toward iboga-type indole alkaloid was put into practice by setting the exact target to (+)-20R-dihydrocleavamine (4), where the construction of the characterictic 1,3-vicinal tertiary alkyl centers was accomplished by applying the Stork radical cyclization protocol17 to the allyl alcohol ent-11 as the key step (Scheme 4). Thus, treament of ent-11, prepared from (–)-1 by employing the same sequence as shown in Scheme 3, with NBS in CH2Cl2 in the presence of ethyl vinyl ether and sodium bicarbonate gave quantitatively the bromoethyl acetal 20, which on treatment with AIBN in boiling toluene in the presence of Bu3SnH furnished the tricyclic lactone 21 in 77% yield.
The synthesis was commenced with the formal substitution of the vinylic hydrogen of ent-8 with an ethyl group to prepare for the construction of the quarternary carbon characteristic to aspidosperma-family (Scheme 5). The task was executed via a sequence involving the conjugate addition of a cuprate generated from ethylmagnesium bromide in THF containing HMPA in the presence of copper(I) iodide and triethysilyl chloride at –40 °C, followed by the in situ trapping of the enolate with triethysilyl chloride, and the subsequent oxidation of the resulting silyl enol ether 27 by the palladium-catalyzed protocol developed by Ito and Saegusa19 to furnish the β-ethyl enone 28 in 89%. The reduction of 28 with sodium borohydride in MeOH at –40 °C in the presence of cerium(III) chloride gave the endo-allyl alcohol 29 as the only product by convex-face selective 1,2-reduction. The Eschenmoser rearrangement reaction1,12,13 of 29 was carried in boiling diphenyl ether (~ 280 °C) to give the acetamide 30 having the desired quarternary center in 86% yield as the single product. The acetamide moiety thus arranged was transformed into the hydroxylethyl handle, which is essential for the Harley-Mason reaction, by treating 30 with LiEt3BH20 in THF.
Note that the well-precedent protocol required 48 h refluxing in acetic acid for the Pictet-Spengler reaction to give a 1:1 mixture of the C(3)α, and β-epimers as their acetate in moderate (up to 50%) yield, which required the subsequent alkaline hydrolysis to detach the acetate moiety. The conversion of the alcohol 36 to (+)-aspidospermidine (5) was carried out as described by Harley-Mason and Kaplan: treatment7 in 40% H2SO4 at 100-110 °C for 1.5 h to give 37, and immediate reduction of 37 with LiAlH4 in refluxing THF to give (+)-aspidospermidine (5) in 51% yield. The spectral data (1H and 13C NMR, IR, MS), mp (115-118 °C) and specific rotation of synthetic aspidospermidine [α]D23 +16.4° (c 1.01 EtOH) were consistent with reported values22 (mp 120-121 °C, [α]D23 +17.0 (c 0.60, EtOH)). The present synthesis implies development of a new diastero- and enantiocontrolled synthesis of ebrunamonine, the medicinally important eburnane-class of indole alkaloid, since the starting ketone 1 is available in both enantiomeric form and the transformation of 36 to eburnamonine (6) via 385c,6a has been established.
In conclusion, we have demonstrated the transformation of 1 to the key synthetic intermediates of corynanthe, iboga, and aspidosperma-class of monoterpenoid indole alkaloids which led up to a formal synthesis of (+)-20R-dihydrocleavamine, (–)-eburnamonine, and a total synthesis of (+)-aspidospermidine (2) , thereby extending the utility of 1 as a chiral building block.
3.	(a) J. Stöckigt and M. Ruppert, 'Comprehensive Natural Products,' Vol. 4, ed. by D. Barton and K. Nakanishi, Elsevier, New York, 1999, 109; (b) J. E. Saxton, 'The Alkaloids,' Vol. 51, ed. by G. A. Cordell, Academic Press, New York, 1998, Chapter 1.
23.	The prolongation of reaction time resulted in the attenuation of the diasteroselectivity in the Pictet-Spengler reaction of 34, suggesting that C(3) β-36 is the kinetically favored product.


A malfunction aboard Kepler may cut short its mission of hunting for Earth-like planets in the galaxy. Here is a look back at some of its discoveries.
Here's a look back at some of the space telescope's discoveries.
The Kepler Space Telescope, the celebrated discoverer of worlds around distant stars, may have found its last planet. NASA announced Wednesday that the telescope, which to date has cost $600 million to build and operate, has lost the ability to point accurately.
It's not dead, but by going wobbly it can't do the precision observations necessary for spotting signs of "exoplanets." Kepler is 40 million miles from Earth, too far away to be fixed even if NASA still had a space shuttle and could throw together a repair mission.
"Kepler's not in a place where I can go up and rescue it, or any other astronaut," said John Grunsfeld, the head of science at NASA who became famous as an astronaut for his missions to fix the Hubble Space Telescope.
The Kepler telescope, launched in 2009, seemed fine when NASA technicians and scientists communicated with it last Thursday. But on Sunday, the telescope signaled that it had gone into "safe" mode, as it is programmed to do when it has a problem. Although NASA didn't know conclusively why that happened, on Tuesday engineers discovered that one of the reaction wheels used for steering wouldn't spin.
The spacecraft has four such wheels. One had failed previously. Now two were inoperative. There is no way to control the pitch, roll and yaw of a spacecraft with just two reaction wheels.
In 2013, scientists captured stunning images of the planets, a galaxy, a planetary nebula and more from space.
That doesn't necessarily mean Kepler is permanently crippled. NASA officials vowed in their news conference to try to restart the wheel or find a workaround to allow Kepler to resume planet-hunting. But they admitted that they were saddened by the malfunction, which may bring to an end a planet-hunting mission that, although it already has lived up to its promise and then some, could potentially have continued for a number of years.
In addition to finding 132 planets that have been confirmed by telescopes on the ground, Kepler has found more than 2,700 other candidate planets. The telescope uses the transit method, looking for the very slight dimming of starlight when a planet passes in front of the star when seen from the telescope.
Earlier this year, Kepler's team of scientists announced that it had found three new planets, modestly larger than the Earth, in habitable zones around two stars.
Scientists still have two years' worth of data to examine, and a truly Earth-sized planet in a habitable zone — an Earth twin, the ultimate potential discovery for Kepler — might be lurking in that data, said William Borucki, Kepler's lead scientist and the driving force behind the telescope.
Asked at the end of the news conference how he felt about this latest turn of events, he sounded more emotional than before.


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Harvard Digital Collections
This website is organized thoughtfully, and it's worth a close look. If you're interested in legal history, the material from the Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. papers is excellent, and the Working Women collection is highly recommended. Other special collections focus on themes such as immigration to the United States, 1789-1930, islamic heritage and more!
Hoover Institution Library & Archives
It provides access to acollection of digitized posters, photographs, manuscripts, moving images, sound recordings, and other historical materials housed at this Institution. Its largest collection is the poster collection. Many of its items document the wartime viewpoints and diverse political sentiments of the twentieth century from around the world.
Huntington Digital Library
It specializes in the fields of British and American history, literature and the history of science spanning the 11th century to the present.
John Carter Brown Library Online
Specialized in primary historical sources pertaining to the Americas, both North and South, before ca. 1825. "Extensive holdings in the literature of European exploration and travel in the Western Hemisphere, from the first Latin edition of the Columbus letter of 1493, through nearly all of the contemporary narratives of Spanish, Portuguese, French, Dutch, and English discovery, exploration, and settlement."
Library Company of Philadelphia - Digital Collections
An independent research library specializing in American history and culture from the 17th through the 19th centuries.
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Chicago's independent research library since 1887. It provides access to items in some of its core collections focusing on topics such as American history and culture and Medieval, Renaissance, and Early Modern studies.
NYU Digital Library Technology Services
Provides access to its digital collections such as the Arabic Collections Online, the Ancient World Digital Library and the Afghanistan Digital Library.
Princeton University Digital Library
Princeton has digitized parts of its public policy collection. Its collection focus on many areas/cultures of the word such as East Asia, Near East and Islamic and Slavic cultures.
Syracuse University Digital Collections
Provides access to its digital collections focusing on a great variety of topics such as activism and social reform, plastics and broadcasting history. The Gerri Smith papers, for example, shed light on the efforts to end slavery before the Civil War.
University of MIchigan Digital Collections
Michigan's collection is especially strong on women's movements and gender. There are good oral histories here, plus publications and photographs.
Wisconsin History Society
The Wisconsin Historical Association has the country's second largest North American Heritage collection—after the Library of Congress. There's great material on lots of topics, including the Civil Rights Movement and Vietnam War.
Yale University Library Digital Collections
Yale has lots of online material about Christian missionaries, and some of the Henry Kissinger material is accessible too. Also, some of the material in Manuscripts and Archives will travel via interlibrary loan—and the Beinecke Library has an extensive collection of digitized documents.
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Q: Why does calling chrome.cast.initialize break the connection to the Chromecast device? I am trying to build a custom Chromecast sender/receiver application, but I can't seem to connect to the device from my custom sender or even Chrome once my custom sender page is loaded.
The Chromecast device appears to be functioning properly (I can cast tabs and YouTube videos). However, when I load the custom sender, it seems to break Chromes connection to the device. The Chromecast icon in Chrome shows "No Cast devices found".
I have found if I comment out chrome.cast.initialize, I can see the Chromecast device again. There are no errors reported in the Chrome debug console and I've commented out all of my code that is called from event handlers related to that call and I still have the same problem. I've also tried resetting the Chromecast device to factory. I've tried a few of the network tweaks recommended in a few other posts as well (though I get the impression they couldn't connect to the device at all).
This was working perfectly yesterday, then it mysteriously stopped. That seems to point to something I might have done, but the only thing I changed was in the receiver app and since I can't get that to start, I don't think it is that.

A: I also got this error before and I solved it by closing then re-openning the Chrome browser. If you are sure 100% that your js code works as expected when calling chrome.cast.initialize (no error show in Console mode but you got no ChromeCast extension found error), then simply close your Chrome browser and re-open it. If in your console, after calling chrome.cast.initialize, you see the line ChromeCast extension found :.... then you should be able to see your ChromeCast device when clicking into ChromeCast extension icon. If re-open browser does not work, clear your browser cache and try again.
Hope it helps.

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Firearms, ammo sales soar amid virus outbreak
By Randy Patrick
Published 5:37 pm Tuesday, March 31, 2020
Buds Gun Shop in Lexington isn't taking phone calls.
A recorded message informs the giant retailer's customers that until further notice, service staff will only communicate via live chat from its web page because their time is better spent processing existing orders.
At Kentucky Gun Co. in Bardstown, owner Patrick Hayden told the Courier-Journal last month that his sales were up 700 percent, surpassing spikes seen during the last decade when gun owners were fearful of possible regulations.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation reports a 36 percent increase in firearms background checks for February compared to February 2019.
While many people are stocking up on nonperishable foods, hand sanitizer and toilet paper because of the coronavirus pandemic, others are buying guns and ammunition.
Winchester doesn't have a big gun shop, but stores that sell a variety of products considered "life-sustaining," and are allowed to remain open under the governor's executive orders, are doing a brisk business selling guns and ammo.
At Rural King one day last week, most of the shelves that held long guns were bare. There were about 35 to 40 rifles and several handguns, but only two shotguns left, according to Jamika Baker, the sales clerk who was waiting on a customer who had a stack of boxes of ammunition.
James Rushing, the general manager, said the store had sold out of most of its stock of firearms and ammunition but was replenishing it as quickly as it could. The company had put out a message to customers that it was ceasing online sales of ammunition, effective immediately, until further notice so that it would have enough to supply its 119 stores.
Rushing, who was a manager for Walmart for 20 years before coming to Rural King, said he's seen panic buying of ammunition and guns before.
"For some folks, it's a natural response to an event. 'What do I do?' It's the unknown" that worries them, he said.
Many people are working from home and are there all day, or they're out of work and think they need to stock up on supplies to sustain them until they get another paycheck. And for some of them, "their stock of choice happens to be ammunition and firearms," he said.
At Winchester's Walmart, manager Shannon Willoughby said it's "business as usual for us."
"We don't carry a whole lot of guns," she said.
Walmart stopped selling some kinds of weapons in response to mass shootings. They have no handguns, and mostly shotguns, hunting rifles and muzzle loaders.
Michael Markuszewski of Tactical Gear Junkie on Rockwell Road in Clark County, said his business isn't, "strictly speaking, a gun store." but because people assume they are, they have been flooded with phone calls from people wanting to buy weapons and ammunition.
The business has a federal firearms license, so it can sell guns, but it doesn't stock them or ammunition. It does a lot of firearms transfers, however, for its customers. They can order them online, have them sent to his business, and he does the transfers.
"We've definitely seen an unprecedented demand for guns and ammunition," Markuszewski said. "There are constant calls about it."
"The truth of the matter is that you can't find ammunition for a lot of popular firearms," such as .556 and .223 for AR-15 rifles and 9 mm for semiautomatic pistols. "It' all pretty much gone everywhere, including online," he said. "Whenever it does come up for a reasonable price, it's gone within minutes or hours at the most."
Markuszewski said that with so many people out of work, an increase in home break-ins is "a realistic threat."
"It's like, 'Now I've got to protect what's mine in case lawlessness erupts in the streets,'" he said. "But there's also a more extreme version of it — people who stock up for what they see as the end of the world. They think it's all going to crash down, and they want to be more prepared than the next guy."
Many people, he said, are "letting their emotions get to them," and so are "thinking of the worst-case scenario," but while it's unlikely things will get as bad as the "preppers" or survivalists always expected, "what they were doing all this time sort of makes sense when you see all the shortages at grocery stores."
"Maybe they had a point," Markuszewski said.
About Randy Patrick
Randy Patrick is a reporter for Bluegrass Newsmedia, which includes The Jessamine Journal. He may be reached at 859-759-0015 or by email at randy.patrick@bluegrassnewsmedia.com.
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Marquette shocks No. 4 Wisconsin with wild, one-handed tip-in at buzzer
Jack Baer
The 2020-21 college basketball season was expected to be among the most chaotic in recent memory, and Marquette more than delivered on Friday against No. 4 Wisconsin.
After a back-and-forth battle with the Badgers, Marquette found itself down 65-64 with the ball and five seconds remaining in the game. Guard D.J. Carton rushed the ball up the floor and eventually ran straight into Wisconsin's D'Mitrik Trice, who didn't get the charge call he was looking for.
Carton went to the line and made the first free throw to tie the game at 65. On the next, he came up short. And then, this happened:
Marquette's shocking buzzer-beater
.@jusbuckets_5 at the buzzer! #WeAreMarquette #mubb pic.twitter.com/6bbZSjqTjl
— Marquette Basketball (@MarquetteMBB) December 5, 2020
A bouncing, buzzer-beating, off-balance, one-handed putback by freshman Justin Lewis off a missed free throw to win the game. Just like they drew it up.
The winner was the final shot of a career day for Lewis, who finished with 18 points on 6 of 10 shooting and eight rebounds off the bench. Lewis is one of three four-star recruits who made up a recruiting class ranked No. 27 in the country by Rivals.
The loss snaps an 11-game active winning streak for the Badgers, who won their last eight games of the season last year before the COVID-19 pandemic swallowed the rest of the season. At 3-0 this year, they were expected to be among the Big Ten's best.
Instead, Marquette gets a big-time win at home, and college basketball looks more chaotic than ever after upset losses by the likes of Kentucky, Virginia and Villanova to open the season
It was a big night for Marquette and coach Steve Wojciechowski. (Zach Bolinger/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
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How to install fence panels and replace any that are damaged
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Tech billionaires have a lot of money and power. And that power ties directly to one of the greatest conundrums of our time, which is the unprecedented command and control tech giants like Amazon have over us.
Investing in 2021? These Tech Stocks Could Be Huge Winners
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It's Not the IRS, It's You: 3 Ways You're Cutting Your Own Social Security Benefits
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UK eyes one-off COVID-19 grant instead of permanent benefit hike - Times
British finance minister Rishi Sunak has proposed giving a one-off 500 pound ($679) grant to recipients of the country's main unemployment and wage support benefit instead of extending a temporary increase on the welfare payments, The Times reported on Saturday. The weekly increase to Universal Credit, which is paid to nearly six million working-age households affected by unemployment or low income, costs about 6 billion pounds a year and is due to expire at the end of March. Sunak will announce future plans at an annual budget on March 3, where he will seek to rein in a budget deficit on track to hit 400 billion pounds, its highest as a share of the economy since World War Two.
Root urges patience from England bowlers in search of win
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These Are The Best Countries For Remote Working
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Q: Oracle function in invalid state error I have oracle function
create or replace function payu_pool_wallet_report(sys_account_id in number) return sys_refcursor as
   p_recordset sys_refcursor;
begin
   open p_recordset for
      select status
            ,reconciliation
            ,count(*) as no_of_transactions
            ,sum(ybl_commission) as commission
            ,sum(merchant_payable) as merchant_payable
            ,sum(amount) as total_amount
        from fund_transfers
       where system_account_id = sys_account_id
         and neutralize = 0
       group by status
               ,reconciliation
       order by status         desc
               ,reconciliation desc;
   return p_recordset;
end;

which works fine when it is created. but after some time or next day ti start throwing erros "function in invalid state"


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At long last, there is visible good news about this historic eyesore at the gateway to Much Wenlock.
Back in July 2016 I wrote about Shropshire Council issuing a "Section 215" notice on the owners requiring them to put this Grade II listed property into good order. No work was apparently carried out, but doubtless this powerful legal tool – rarely used by most local authorities – prompted the owners to submit a planning application for the garden that was likely to be favourably received. I wrote about this in March 2017, including some illustrations of the proposals. The planning application was approved in October 2017 and I included photographs of the wilderness of the garden in my article on this topic.
No action was taken apart from removal of some vegetation which was overhanging the footway in 2018. Then towards the end of last year it became apparent that a group of local businessmen were negotiating to purchase the freehold of the property with the benefit of the planning consent for three houses in the garden – and with the liability of the Section 215 still hanging over the dilapidated house. The news of the purchase has been well-received by residents and the even better news was the arrival of workmen on site who proceeded to clear the land of decades of unmanaged growth.
The brambles and hawthorn have been reduced to woodchip, and some of the detritus has been removed from the property.
The driveway has been levelled so that contractors' vehicles have easy access.
Now, further planning and listed building applications have just been submitted (ref 19/00155/FUL and 19/00156/LBC) to change No.40 to being divided into two three-bedroomed town houses, each with its own separate access (front and rear) along with a garden and parking for 2+ vehicles. The other change proposed from the current planning permission is the proposal that the semidetached new "barn" units are moved 4m north up the site.
The refurbishment of Pinefield is being funding by the ultimate sale of three new dwellings to be built in the garden, a construction phase that will take some time, unfortunately. Nonetheless, the restoration of this property at an important gateway to the town is to be welcomed and one which I support.


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Ficus albipila growing next to The Studio, Danau Girang Field Centre, Kinabatangan, Sabah. F. albipila is one of the rarest figs in Borneo. Previous records include Bandjarmasin and Kutai in Kalimantan and Sungai Resang (Kinabatangan) in Sabah. In the past F. albipila has been frequently confused with tall Koompasia (Mengaris trees) because it is one of the tallest trees in the forest and is frequently used by giant honey bees (Apis dorsata) for hanging their enormous honey combs.
The size of this Ficus albipila at the Danau Girang Field Centre indicates that it is very old with a long history. I suspect the the pockmarks on the trunk are healed wounds from bamboo climbing pegs hammered into the trunk to make a rough ladder for human honey collectors. The many marks indicate that this tree has been climbed multiple times. Apis dorsata bees are nomadic following flowering patches of forest from area to area. They rarely stay more than three or four months in the same locality and often return to the same tree every year.
Botanists need leaves to be able to make plant identification. The skilled field assistants at Danau Girang used a giant catapult with a soft ball attached to a rope to bring down fresh leaves for us to identify.
These are some of the fresh leaves collected by catapult which enabled us to identify this amazing tree as the rare Ficus albipila.


WiseGuyReports have announced the addition of a new report titled "The Chinese Market for DNA Sequencing".
– Revenues of leading companies maintained fast growth through mid-2018. This indicates the high growth rate. The forecast in the previous edition of this report that this growth rate was likely to continue.
– On October 27, 2016, the Chinese government removed restrictions on NIPT services. Any medical body qualified for prenatal examination in China is now allowed to do NIPT without additional governmental approval. This removed the main obstacle to the Chinese NIPT sequencing market.
– The number of newly-established sequencing companies in 2016 and 2017 was smaller than in 2014 and 2015. New entrants had less opportunity while older players led the market.
– Companies founded in 2014 and 2015 received funding from angel investment and series of A/B rounds. Investors from both inside and outside China showed their great interest in the fast growing Chinese DNA sequencing market because the earnings outlook has become clearer than before. More than $1 billion was invested in burgeoning Chinese sequencing companies in 2017. Some of the older players closed or moved to other services. Market opportunity always comes with risks.
– Large sequencing service providers are developing their own equipment, whereas equipment distributors are beginning to provide sequencing services. The upstream and downstream industries interact and intertwine with one another.
– When NovaSeq launched in early 2017, Novogene decided to buy 25 sets of NovaSeq machines. With three sets of HiSeq X Ten and the Novogene sequencers, Novogene currently leads the game of instrument investment in China. As a result, Novogene strengthens its leading position in the sequencing service market, especially in the R&D service market.
– Sequencing companies from major cities such as Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen, where the Chinese DNA sequencing industry begun, are now penetrating other Chinese cities. Tianjin, Chengdu and Chongqing have shown significant potential for strong growth.
– Cooperation, acquisitions and mergers are changing the image of the industry, thus increasing competition while producing new opportunities to industry players.
This chapter provides a summary of the Chinese DNA sequencing market. It also discusses the largest and the fastest-growing markets and important governmental targets and regulations.
The Chinese sequencing industry experienced significant changes as the market grew in recent years. When the industry started in China before 2010, demand from government-sponsored R&D projects was its main driving force. In 2010, noninvasive prenatal testing (NIPT) came to the market, starting the fast growth of the clinical application segment in the following three years. The NIPT service, however, was interrupted by the government in early 2014. In mid-2014, the government only approved a few companies for providing NIPT services to the Chinese market.
The scope of the report includes sequencing technologies, applications, industries, initiatives, markets and companies in China. The markets for sequencing products and services are given for 2016, 2017 and 2022.
This report covers the Chinese sequencing market by workflow, including sample preparation products, sequencing instruments and consumables, informatics and sequencing services. It includes the Chinese sequencing instrument market by platform (i.e., Sanger and next-generation technologies) and by instrument class (i.e., low-throughput, high-throughput, benchtop, handheld).
In this report, "China" refers to Mainland China. This does not include Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. Mainland China has a total of 31 province-level regions, including 22 provinces, four province-level municipalities (cities) and five province-level autonomous regions. Important regional markets will be discussed, including Beijing, Shanghai and Guangdong.
More than 100 Chinese companies in the sequencing industry are profiled in this report.
– Company profiles of major Chinese companies in the sequencing industry, including Gene Denovo, IGE Biotechnology Ltd., Pacific Biosciences, Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI), and Adicon Clinical Laboratories, Inc.
HANGZHOU G-BIO BIOTECH CO. LTD.
HANGZHOU HEYI GENE TECHNOLOGY CO. LTD.
HANGZHOU LIANCHUAN BIO TECHNOLOGIES CO. LTD.
HANGZHOU MITIAN GENE TECHNOLOGY CO. LTD.
HANGZHOU PTM BIOLABS CO. INC.
HANGZHOU RUICHUANG BIOTECHNOLOGY CO. LTD.
HANGZHOU SHENGTING BIOTECH CO. LTD.
HYK Gene Technology Co. Ltd.
KINGMED DIAGNOSTICS CENTER CO. LTD.
NOVOGENE BIOINFORMATICS TECHNOLOGY CO. LTD.
SHANGHAI BIOASIA GENE CO. LTD.
SHANGHAI PERSONAL BIOTECHNOLOGY CO. LTD.
SHANGHAI YUNYING MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY CO. LTD.
ZHEJIANG TIANKE HI-TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT CO. LTD.
ZIXIN PHARMACEUTICAL INDUSTRIAL CO. LTD.