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K&L Gates' Hedge Fund, Venture Fund, and Private Fund practice represents a full range of U.S. domestic and non-U.S. funds in all aspects of their organization, funding, operations, and extraordinary transactions. Approximately 20 of our partners and of counsel, and a substantial number of associates, devote a significant portion of their time to hedge fund, venture fund, and other private fund matters. Our clients include general partners, managing members and managers of hedge funds, venture funds, private equity funds (including leveraged buyout funds and distressed securities or "vulture" funds), offshore mutual funds, U.S. domestic and non-U.S. equity and debt funds, arbitrage funds, real estate funds, "principal-protected" funds, and various other private funds, as well as the funds themselves and significant fund investors. We work with fund sponsors, advisers, distributors, key investors, and similar participants, as well as custodians, administrators, prime brokers, and other private fund service providers.
Our work involves virtually all aspects of the fund business. We advise on organization, structuring, fund-raising, compensation, distribution, trading, e-commerce, and other issues. We are also frequently called on to assist clients with various "business" issues, such as identifying current market and best practices, evaluating fee and distribution structures, evaluating agreements with service providers, and operational matters. In addition, we often assist managers in structuring employment and compensation arrangements both for themselves and their employees and advise them on tax planning.
We counsel fund managers on the regulatory aspects of their businesses and operations. We help our clients to address the many issues presented in the rapidly evolving regulatory environment in the United States, Europe and Asia, including investment adviser registration and regulation, the effects of other securities laws, futures and derivatives regulation, and ERISA and tax issues.
We represent all segments of this industry and evaluate fund documents for institutional investors seeking alternative investments. Our clients include major fund managers, Wall Street and international investment banking firms, brokerage firms, mutual fund and institutional management firms, banks and bank holding companies, insurance companies, family offices, government agencies, pension funds, universities, and endowments.
Our clients come to us from across the United States. We have also represented fund managers with respect to funds offered, sold, and/or organized in Europe, Latin America, Asia, and Africa. Our London office advises London-based hedge fund managers and those looking to market funds into the U.K. and EU and/or domicile funds in an EU jurisdiction. We regularly assist non-U.S. managers to establish London operations. In Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore, we regularly counsel money managers in fund structuring and distribution issues, including obtaining authorizations for onshore and offshore funds, advisers, and distributors, or the availability of exemptions.
As a full-service law firm, we offer resources in a number of areas that may be important for private funds, from employment law to tax to telecom.
Structuring and Organizing Funds
K&L Gates assists in selecting the appropriate structure and jurisdiction of organization (whether in the United States or in non-U.S. jurisdictions), based on (among other things) regulatory and tax issues and marketing concerns. We also assist fund managers in developing fund terms, preparing necessary documentation, negotiating with investors, and conducting closings. We have experience working with fund investors of all types including governmental pension plans, funds-of-funds, sovereign wealth investors, high net-worth investors, foundations, and Taft-Hartley plans.
In the United States, we have organized funds as limited partnerships, limited liability companies, business and other types of trusts, and Subchapter S corporations. We have also assisted clients with the organization and operation of group trusts under Revenue Ruling 81-100. In addition, we have represented registered investment companies and bank collective funds that have converted into private funds. In the United Kingdom, we are able to advise on a wide range of hedge fund structures and other funds used in the markets, such as onshore and offshore limited partnerships, LLPs, onshore and offshore unit trusts, and offshore exempt companies.
We have assisted in creating various types of sophisticated structures, including funds-of-funds, master-feeder funds, series funds, joint back office funds, and mirror and parallel funds structures. We prepare organizational documents, private placement memoranda, subscription agreements, investment advisory agreements, prime brokerage, margin agreements, swap and derivative documentation, custody and administration agreements, regulatory filings, stock exchange filings, distribution plans and agreements, various policies and procedures, annual and periodic reports, proxy materials, advertising materials, and other documents.
Our experience extends to:
Private Investment and Hedge Funds. We represent sponsors of and investors in U.S. and non-U.S. private investment and hedge funds that invest in or actively trade listed securities and other financial instruments, as well as futures contracts and options thereon (commodity pools), bank loans, forwards, swaps and other derivative instruments, direct investments in other private funds, private fund interests purchased in secondary market transactions, and life policy settlements.
Non-U.S./Offshore Funds. We have organized offshore funds in Bermuda, the British Virgin Islands, the Cayman Islands, Guernsey, Ireland, the Isle of Man, Jersey, Luxembourg, Mauritius, Panama, and a number of other countries. We represent sponsors of offshore mutual funds, including funds organized as UCITS (undertakings for collective investment in transferable securities), which are available for public distribution throughout Europe. We have also assisted foreign funds in obtaining listings on a number of non-U.S. stock exchanges, including the Cayman Islands, Hong Kong, Irish, and Philippine Stock Exchanges.
Venture Capital and Private Equity Funds. We represent sponsors of and investors in public and private venture capital and private equity funds and funds-of-funds (that is, funds that invest in private equity and venture funds). We assist clients in structuring these funds, drafting and negotiating appropriate organizational and offering documents, and structuring and completing investments.
Other Types of Funds. We have also helped in the formation of, and counseled clients investing in, funds owning intangible assets (other than stocks and securities), real estate, and natural resources, which has included the formation of real estate investment trusts. We work with a number of major law firms, including several in Silicon Valley, Calif., to assist them in their representation of venture fund clients. We also represent clients whose business is similar to the business of private venture funds, such as public and private technology operating companies and law firms that have created investment pools for their partners and associates. We also represent registered funds that invest in venture investments.
Advising on Regulatory Issues
We advise U.S. domestic, U.K., and offshore funds on, and assist in preparing policies and procedures relating to, a variety of U.S. and EU regulatory issues, including:
Compliance procedures and codes of ethics designed to comply with the U.S. Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (Advisers Act) and regulations required by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Dodd-Frank Act)
Exemptions from and regulation under the Advisers Act and comparable state laws, including the regulation of performance fees, principal and cross-trades, solicitation arrangements, custody rules, performance presentation, and advertising restrictions
All aspects of compliance with the rules of the U.K. Financial Services Authority (FSA)
Adapting organizational documents for managers to private funds who are now registering under the Advisers Act or state securities laws
The U.S. Commodity Exchange Act exemptions, and registration and regulatory requirements, applicable to funds that use futures and options on futures or invest in funds that do
Compliance procedures designed to comply with the U.S. Commodity Exchange Act provisions and regulations applicable to commodity pool operators and commodity trading advisors
U.S. federal and state private placement issues, including issues under Section 4(2) of the Securities Act of 1933 (1933 Act), and Regulation D, Regulation S, Rule 144, and Rule 144A under the 1933 Act
Sections 3(c)(1) and 3(c)(7) exclusions from the definition of "investment company" in the U.S. Investment Company Act of 1940 (ICA)
Requirements (including fiduciary responsibility and prohibited transaction requirements) applicable to employee benefit plans investing in private funds under the U.S. Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA), including advising managers of "plan asset" funds on their fiduciary responsibilities under ERISA
U.S. federal and state tax issues, including partnership taxation, withholding, unrelated business income tax (UBIT), effectively connected income (ECI), taxation of financial instruments held by funds, analysis of "double tax" treaties, and other U.S. domestic and fund tax issues and similar U.K. tax issues
Regulatory issues for bank and financial holding companies under the Volcker Rule in Title VI of the Dodd-Frank Act and under the U.S. Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, including rules governing the holding company's ability to sponsor, invest in, control, and market a private fund
Exemptions for bank-sponsored common and collective trust funds under the ICA, including Section 3(c)(3) (for common trust funds) and Section 3(c)(11) (for collective trust funds); the 1933 Act, including Section 3(a)(2) (5th clause) (for common trust funds) and Section 3(a)(2) (7th clause) (for collective trust funds); and the U.S. Securities Exchange Act of 1934 ("Exchange Act"), including Section 3(a)(12)(A) (interests in common or collective trust funds) and Section 12(g)(2)(H) (interests in collective trust funds)
U.S. federal and state bank regulatory requirements (including "Regulation 9" of the Comptroller of the Currency) governing bank-sponsored common and collective trust funds
Tax rules and restrictions applicable in the United States to bank-sponsored common trust funds, including Section 584 of the U.S. Internal Revenue Code of 1986
U.K. "collective investment schemes" rules and exemptions and the COLL Sourcebook for regulated funds
Regulatory issues under the ICA, including the limitations on investments in registered investment companies imposed by Section 12(d)(1) of the ICA
In relation to U.K.-listed funds, the rules of the U.K. Listing Authority (a subdivision of the FSA)
Issues relating to the EU Markets in Financial Instruments Directive, the EU Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive, the EU undertakings for Collective Investments in Transferable Securities Directive, and pan-European "passporting" in general
Restrictions on the distribution and financing of interests in private funds, including issues involving sales charges and commissions and distribution and subdistribution arrangements
U.K. selling restrictions and financial promotion issues
U.K. selling agreements for the distribution of funds by managers and selling agents
Proxy voting procedures, insider trading, front-running, trading, and supervisory issues under the U.S. federal and state securities laws and similar supervisory and conduct of business issues in the United Kingdom
Reporting requirements and trading restrictions under Sections 13 and 16 of the Exchange Act
Regulatory and business issues relating to swap agreements and other derivative instruments
Advising and organizing "principal-protected" structured products formed as private funds
Handling M&A and Other Extraordinary Transactions
K&L Gates lawyers have represented funds and managers in a wide range of extraordinary transactions, including:
Hostile takeover attempts
Mergers, acquisitions, and sales of investment advisers
Changes in control of investment advisers
Strategic alliances and joint ventures
Restructurings
Mergers of funds
Changes in form and/or jurisdiction of organization
Changes in investment policies
Changes in permissible investors
Representing Service Providers
K&L Gates has represented various service providers, including:
Registered and unregistered private fund investment advisers and managers
U.S. and non-U.S. brokers and dealers, third-party marketing agents, finders, and other distributors of interests in private funds
U.S. and non-U.S. custodians, transfer agents, and administrators
Our work for these entities has involved negotiating and drafting various agreements, coordinating local counsel in multi-jurisdictional offerings, providing advice in connection with extraordinary private fund transactions, preparing policies and procedures, and reviewing private fund documents.
Keeping Clients Current
The scope and depth of K&L Gates' practice helps us keep our private fund clients up-to-date on legislative and regulatory developments affecting their business. We track a broad range of legal and regulatory developments, including legislative proposals, rule proposals, enforcement proceedings, court decisions, no-action letters, exemptive orders, revenue rulings, private letter rulings, speeches by key regulators, and regulatory trends evident from agency inspection programs. As a result of our extensive industry experience, our lawyers are able to add insight, beyond the public reporting, on industry events and developments by evaluating their impact on our private fund clients and recommending suitable and, where appropriate, strategic courses of action.
The scope of our practice also keeps us in touch with, and often directly involved in, industry developments. In addition, we maintain an active dialogue with the staff of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the U.K. FSA, and other regulators. We speak on and attend conference panels devoted to private funds issues, periodically present breakfast briefings, seminars and webinars, and offer client alerts on current topics. In addition, one of our lawyers has written a book that discusses, among other things, the principal exemptions from the ICA on which private funds rely. In the United States, we are members of the Managed Funds Association and, in the U.K., we are members of the Alternative Investment Management Association, an international trade association for the hedge fund industry, through which we remain current on the key issues affecting the industry.
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A limited liability company advised by a state registered investment adviser investing in small capitalization U.S. securities.
An onshore fund-of-funds that invests in funds using alternative investment strategies (for example, direct lending to small and middle-market companies; investments in direct reinsurance risk; investments in weather derivatives; energy trading; premium finance; trading in foreign exchange markets; investing in PIPE transactions; and trading greenhouse gas emissions credits).
Delaware limited partnership that invests in hedge fund and private equity fund interests and side pocket investments purchased in secondary market transactions, and an associated feeder fund formed as a Cayman Islands limited partnership.
Multiple funds organized as series limited liability companies, for a bank-affiliated investment adviser, that parallel that firm's U.S. registered mutual funds, invest in money market securities and S&P 500 futures, or invest in other private funds.
Funds designed for taxable and tax-exempt investors that invest in timberlands, some of which were sponsored by a timberland management company and others of which were sponsored by a regional bank.
Leveraged and unleveraged funds-of-funds designed for insurance company segregated accounts.
A limited partnership and a limited liability company advised by a large institutional money manager investing in large capitalization U.S. stocks.
A multiple-series limited partnership investing in small capitalization U.S. stocks in various industry sectors.
Limited liability companies and collective trust funds sponsored by a bank-affiliated investment adviser to invest in fund-of-funds products sponsored by an unaffiliated adviser.
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Posted: 30th November 2018
A project led by the Faculty of Law, and involving the Department of Computer Science, at the University of Oxford has been awarded £1.2 million to explore the potential and limitations of using artificial intelligence (AI) in support of legal services.
The award, from the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), will fund the project 'Unlocking the Potential of AI for English Law', a research collaboration between various departments within the University of Oxford including Law, Economics, Social Policy, Computer Science, Education and the Saïd Business School and a range of private sector organisations.
The stakes for AI's implementation in UK legal services are high. If executed effectively, it is an opportunity to improve legal services not only for export but also for domestic business and individuals. This research seeks to identify how constraints on the implementation of AI in legal services can be relaxed to unlock its potential for good.
The research team will work with private-sector partners representing a range of different positions in the legal services sector, including international law firms Slaughter and May and Allen & Overy; barristers Robin Dicker QC and Ryan Perkins of South Square Chambers; solicitors' professional body the Law Society; legal technology leader Thomson Reuters; lawtech start-up LexSnap. These collaborations will ensure that the research benefits from insights into, and testing against, real requirements.
Members of the team will investigate a range of complementary research questions. These will include: investigating emerging business models deploying AI in law to help identify best practice in governance and strategy; understanding the potential for application of AI in dispute resolution; exploring the application of new AI methods to legal reasoning; and comparing skills training and technology transfer in the UK with competitor countries such as the US, Hong Kong and Singapore to draw policy implications. The fulcrum of the programme will be research into training and educational needs for lawyers' engagement with technology and programmers' engagement with law. The team will develop education and training packages will be developed that respond to these needs for delivery by both universities and private-sector firms.
Professor John Armour, from the Faculty of Law, leads the multi-disciplinary team working on the project. He said 'I am delighted that we will be able to embark on this innovative and timely programme of research. The project team will draw on relevant expertise from a wide range of disciplines across the University, and we will work together with a number of private sector partners who are also engaging with these issues. It is hugely exciting to be able to work with such an outstanding team.'
Coordination of the interdisciplinary team was facilitated with the support of the Business Engagement and Partnerships team at the Social Sciences Division of the University of Oxford, led by Esther Brown.
Abi Adams – Department of Economics, Oxford
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Trishuli River Rafting, Trishuli White Water Rafting- Nepal Mother House Treks.
The name of Trishuli River is after a legend that says, in the high Himalaya at Gosainkund the god Shiva drove his trident into the ground to create three springs - the source of the river - and hence its name Trisuli. It is very popular for white water Rafting and Kayaking.
Trishuli River has carved some truly impressive gorges in its lower part as it cut its way through the 2000 meter high Mahavarat Range. The gorges are also the rout flowed by the main Prithivi Highway and the road diesel trucks undoubtedly detract from the River itself. The opposite side to the road is relatively wild and you have chance to see some wildlife, a profusion of colorful birds, including eagles and vultures during the Rafting/ Kayaking. Trishuli river represents the ideal compromise Rafting trip: just the right length of time, exhilarating rapids, but not too difficult, easily accessible from Kathmandu. Definitely, if you're looking for more of a wilderness experience in the pure beaches, no other rafting groups, and un-spoilt scenery, then you should consider one of the other rivers. The rapid Rafting / Kayaking on Trisuli are mainly big, bouncy and relatively safe; 'flips' (where the raft capsizes) or other accidents are rare in normal water condition, and if you wish, it is possible to walk around the few difficult rapids. Since the highway follows the river you can easily come back to Kathmandu in a few hours after completion of the trip.
We "Nepal Mother House Treks" offer this Trishuli River White Rafting /Kayaking 1-3 days, starting at Charaudi on the Prithivi Highway and taking out at before Narayanghat. This trip gives you a full satisfying experience as you run all the major rapids, watch the river grow as its tributaries join, see the awesome sight as it cuts its way through impressive gorges, and then leave it when it spreads out over the great plain of the Ganges. This river in Nepal is the best for training purpose, Kayaking and Rafting.
Day 01:Drive 3 to 4 hours from Kathmandu to Charaudi and Rafting trip.
Day 01 : Drive 3 to 4 hours from Kathmandu to Charaudi and Rafting trip.Drive 3 to 4 hours from Kathmandu to Charaudi about 85 kilometers by tourist bus. Then start your rafting after our Guide short briefing about safety and team work during raft. The trip hitting a few classes 2 or 3 rapids called "LADISE DELIGHT" and stop for the lunch for 45 mutinies. Then white water hit a class 2 to 3 rapid called "UPSET" and "SURPRISE" before get at Fishling. This will be total 3 to 4 hours rafting. Then drive back trip ending point Fishling to Kathmandu or Pokhara per your destination by Public bus.


This elderly couple took a photo in their small garden outside their house for every season of the year, come rain, snow or shine.
They stood in the same spot for every season and showed off their beautiful little garden that they were obviously quite proud of.
Then the last photo floored us. We can't say any more.


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Queensland Early Pioneers Indexes 1824-1859 (USB)
Publisher: Queensland Family History Society
QFH603
Media: DATA CD - 1 USB
This USB provides an index covering 75 primary sources, to people who were in what is now Queensland prior to separation from New South Wales at the end of 1859, with a scanned image of an accompanying guide and three smaller indexes to other court, land and miscellaneous records for the same period. The main index contains approximately 150,000 entries, with direct searching on name, title, year and source with QFHSdatasearch.
The Early Pioneers Index has proved an invaluable and extremely popular resource for family researchers and general historians researching in the pre-separation period, since it was initially published on microfiche with the printed guide as the Queensland Pre-separation Index in 1990. This USB makes the information much more accessible and easily organised by combining it with the searching and sorting capabilities of QFHSdatasearch.
The index entries cover a wide range of sources, including convict, administration, immigration, law, land, newspaper, hospital and personal records. Information in the index includes name, title, date, person's nationality, convict status and gender, type of record, source and reference within the source. The guide, viewable with Adobe (Acrobat) Reader, includes a history for the region as well as index details.
QFHSdatasearch is a generic interface designed to search genealogy databases and developed by the Queensland Family History Society Inc. This version features field oriented and keyword searches, Boolean selection, sorting, wildcard searches and, when applicable, links between search results and images held in pdf files of the source records.
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Moreton Bay People: The Complete Collection
The Free Settlers of Australia 1788-1828
The Free Settlers of Australia 1788-1828 (CD)
In the Early Days: History and Incident of Pioneer Queensland
Queensland Founding Families: Biographies of Families Living in Queensland Prior of Separation from New South Wales (CD)
Tracing History Through Title Deeds: A Guide for Family and Local Historians
Feature Art 12x12 Lest We Forget Paper Pack
Queensland Directories Collection 2: Pugh's 1859-1927 (USB)
Under the Colony's Eye: Gentlemen and Convicts on Cockatoo Island 1839-1869
Marriage Law for Genealogists: The Definitive Guide


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import com.strategy.api.board.Board;
import com.strategy.api.logic.Position;

/**
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public interface Field {

	/**
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Don't panic if your child gets head lice or you get a lice letter from school. Parents wonder, how did my child get lice? Should I worry about super lice? Are pesticide-free products effective? Pediatrician Dr. Katie Freidman answers parents' questions about lice myths and facts and the factors to consider to eliminate head lice on Lifetime TV's The Balancing Act.


Manchester City vs Shakhtar Donetsk Preview: Can returning Brazilians take revenge for home defeat?
Manchester City welcome Shakhtar Donetsk for the fourth match in the Champions League group stage on Wednesday. Here's everything you need to know about the fixture.
Manchester City were extremely dominant in the away trip to Shakhtar Donetsk. They had 53% of the ball and took 24 shots to Shakhtar's 14.
The victory along with Lyon's draw with Hoffenheim took City to the top of the group with six points and with Lyon hosting Hoffenheim this week, City will look to take a stranglehold of top place in the group with 9 more points.
Shakhtar manager Paulo Fonseca welcome back Taison and Dentinho, both of whom missed the reverse fixture at the Metalist Stadium in Kharkiv.
Both of them are extremely important to the way that Shakhtar play and their absence has been keenly felt.
Fonseca has said that even though he realizes that his team are not favourites, he has confidence in them.
Having kept Riyad Mahrez, Danilo and Gabriel Jesus all on the bench this weekend, Pep Guardiola will be keen to rotate his side to keep them fresh for the weekend's Manchester Derby.
John Stones has been the only constant in all three of their previous matches and was taken off for Vincent Kompany on Sunday against Southampton after City had put the match to bed, so he might again get the opportunity to take a breather.
Phil Foden and Brahim Diaz, who impressed against Fulham in City's previous midweek exertions, may also feature, but only if City can establish a lead early in the match.
After missing the last seven matches with a hamstring strain Ilkay Gundogan could feature from the bench as he posted that he could be on the pitch soon on social media.
In other news, Kevin De Bruyne will be kept out for another month at the very least after another knee ligament injury suffered against Fulham in only his third appearance back from a long term injury.
Nicolas Otamendi is absent too with a muscular injury.


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MDGOP Considering Legal Challenge to Multi-Member House of Delegates Districts
Brian Griffiths
One of the more important takeaways from the Maryland Republican Party Fall Convention from over the weekend (which of course you may not have heard about because the media other than Red Maryland blew off the convention) was not the officer elections, but a new fight over redistricting that's looming.
The @MDGOP is looking at challenging the constitutionality of multi-member House of Delegates districts #MDPolitics
— Red Maryland (@RedMaryland) December 8, 2018
This has been a topic of conversation among conservative chattering classes for some time. But it does have some merit.
The Constitution of the state of Maryland does, in fact, allow for multi-member districts to exist:
SEC. 3. The State shall be divided by law into legislative districts for the election of members of the Senate and the House of Delegates. Each legislative district shall contain one (1) Senator and three (3) Delegates. Nothing herein shall prohibit the subdivision of any one or more of the legislative districts for the purpose of electing members of the House of Delegates into three (3) single-member delegate districts or one (1) single-member delegate district and one (1) multi-member delegate district
The question comes as to whether or not multi-member districts provide uneven levels of representation.
For example, I live in Legislative District 31B. I am represented by one State Senator and two members of the House of Delegates. A few miles down the road, residents who live in District 31A are represented by one State Senator but only one member of the House of Delegates. A few miles farther down the road, residents who live in District 32 are represented by one State Senator and three members of the House of Delegates.
How many people are representing you in Annapolis basically depends on where you live and on the whims of whoever is drawing the districts when it comes time to redistricting. And that, one can argue, violates the idea of "One Man, One Vote."
While I have great confidence in the Redistricting Commission that will be appointed by Governor Larry Hogan in 2021 will draw single-member districts that provide equal representation of all Marylanders, there is still an inherent unfairness in the fact that somebody in one part of Maryland may have more representation that in another part of Maryland. The easiest and fairest fix would be to amend the State Constitution to require single-member districts, which was proposed in the failed Constitution of 1967. But legal action at the federal level does have its merits, particularly in light of the success to date of the plaintiffs in the 6th Congressional District lawsuit that is currently forcing the state to redraw its Congressional lines.
We are a long way away from seeing multi-member districts thrown out and ensuring equal representation for all, but it is good to see that the Maryland Republican Party is considering proactive and aggressive steps to fight for equal protection for all Marylanders.
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Frederik Hoppe (født 18. september 1770 i København, død 22. februar 1837 sammesteds) var en dansk godsejer, kammerherre og hofjægermester, bror til Johan Christopher Hoppe.

Han var søn af konferensråd Peder Hoppe og hustru og ejede 1803-05 Rosenfeldt og 1806-21 Sæbygård på Sjælland. Han blev kammerherre og hofjægermester.

Hoppe blev gift 14. december 1800 i Davinde Kirke med Josephine Marie Skeel (29. februar 1780 i Rellingen - 11. marts 1821 i København), datter af gehejmestatsminister Jørgen Erik Skeel og Anne Dorothea von Ahlefeldt.

Han havde med hende fire sønner, der døde uden at efterlade sig afkom, samt to døtre:
 Anna Sophie Elisabeth Hoppe (21. februar 1803 i København - 17. maj 1881 på Bækkeskov), gift 1823 med kammerherre, hofjægermester Christian Andreas Vind til Sanderumgård og Bækkeskov
 Eleonora Sophie Frederikke Hoppe (5. september 1807 på Sæbygård - 24. maj 1866 i Vedbæk), gift 1836 med kammerherre Georg Bernadotte Sehested (1808-1873)

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Franklin mourns for students, honors their bravery
Justin L. Mack
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Blue-and-white balloons filled the skies Wednesday night, as the Franklin community came together to honor the heroism of a group of students during a rescue attempt last week in the Big Blue River.
Memorial services held for Jason Moran at Franklin High School's gym attracted hundreds of supporters from throughout the state. Those in attendance also mourned student Michael Chadbourne, who died this week after planning for the services had begun.
Moran, 17, and Chadbourne, 18, were swimming with three other classmates Friday in the river in Edinburgh, when Sarah McLevish, 16, Morgantown, was swept over a low-head dam. Her friends swam over the dam into the turbulent waters below in an attempt to save her.
Two other students — Trent Crabb, 17, and Mark Nally, 18, both Franklin — made it out of the water uninjured.
The school campus was covered with dozens of blue ribbons hanging from trees and lightposts.
A blue ribbon accompanied by the Twitter hashtag #FranklinStrong has become a poignant reminder of the loss. The phrase has also become a rallying cry for those struggling with their grief.
"The community has outdone itself once again. I am so proud of Franklin, as we have all come together to lift up the thoughts and prayers from all of the students and family members who are grieving," said Franklin Mayor Joe McGuinness.
"Never forget, lean on and support each other. ... This is our community, and together we will be stronger."
In the short walk from the front door to the gymnasium, the school's halls were covered with photos and posters of Moran, Chadbourne and McLevish, who is still fighting for her life at IU Health Methodist Hospital in Indianapolis.
Inside the gym, a large screen projected photos of Moran and game footage from the Franklin High football team, for which Moran and Chadbourne played.
After the ceremony, the school's football players lined both sides of a hallway leading to the football field where the balloons were released.
Gov. Mike Pence also spoke, assuring classmates and community members that no one would soon forget the brave actions of Moran, Chadbourne and their friends that day.
"We find hope when we see selflessness and courage in our neighbors, in our families and in our friends," Pence said.
"The character and sacrifice that they personified that day will never be forgotten."
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The Union Pacific Challengers are a type of simple articulated 4-6-6-4 steam locomotive built by American Locomotive Company (ALCO) from 1936 to 1944 and operated by the Union Pacific Railroad until the late 1950s.

A total of 105 Challengers were built in five classes. They were nearly  long and weighed 537 short tons (487 tonnes). They operated over most of the Union Pacific system, primarily in freight service, but a few were assigned to the Portland Rose and other passenger trains. Their design and operating experience shaped the design of the Big Boy locomotive type, which in turn shaped the design of the last three orders of Challengers.

Two Union Pacific Challengers survive. The most notable is Union Pacific No. 3985, which was restored by the Union Pacific in 1981, then operated in excursion service as part of its heritage fleet program. Mechanical problems forced it out of service in October 2010; it was retired in January 2020 after the restoration of the 4-8-8-4 Big Boy 4014 and eventually donated to the Railroading Heritage of Midwest America in 2022, where the locomotive is undergoing a second restoration. The only other surviving Challenger is UP No. 3977, which is on display in North Platte, Nebraska.

History

Description
The name "Challenger" was given to steam locomotives with a 4-6-6-4 wheel arrangement: four wheels in the leading pilot truck to guide the locomotive into curves, two sets of six driving wheels, and four trailing wheels to support the rear of the engine and its massive firebox. Each set of driving wheels is driven by two steam cylinders. In essence, the result is two engines under one boiler. Union Pacific developed five types of Challengers: the "light" CSA-1 and CSA-2 classes and the "heavy" 4664–3, 4664–4, and 4664-5 classes.

The railroad sought powerful locomotives that could handle mountain grades at high speeds. Previously, articulated locomotives had been limited to slow speeds by their design. Technical breakthroughs allowed the UP Challengers to operate with  boiler pressure, something usually reserved for passenger locomotives like the FEF Series. They had  drivers, mammoth wheels usually seen on passenger locomotives only because freight engines normally require the extra torque provided by smaller wheels. Speeds in excess of , while unheard-of on most other railroads using articulated steam locomotives, became commonplace on the Union Pacific.

When the first Challengers entered service in 1936, on the UP's main line over the Wasatch Range between Green River and Ogden, the locomotives had problems climbing the steep grades. For most of the route, the maximum grade is 0.82% in either direction, but the climb eastward from Ogden, into the Wasatch Range, reached 1.14%. Hauling a  freight train demanded double heading and helper operations, and adding and removing helper engines slowed operations. Those limitations prompted the introduction of the Big Boy in 1941, as well as a redesign of the last three orders from 1942 to 1944.

Using the experience from the Big Boy, UP chief mechanical engineer, Otto Jabelmann, redesigned the last three orders of Challengers in 1941. The result was a locomotive in working order weighing some  accompanied by a tender weighing  when 2/3 loaded. Calculated tractive effort is . From 1941, the Challengers were intended to speed up freight operations on the grades across Wyoming; the Wasatch Range climb east from Ogden was to be conquered by the Big Boys without helpers.

Construction
The 105 locomotives were ordered in five batches: the first two of light Challengers, and the final three of heavy Challengers. Along with the Big Boys, the Challengers arrived on the scene just as traffic was surging in preparation for American participation in World War II.

As part of Union Pacific's fourth order in 1943, ALCO built thirty-one locomotives for Union Pacific using the same specifications. However, the War Production Board diverted six locomotives after completion to the Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad via a lease through the War Department's Defense Plant Corporation. Locomotives 3900-3905 formed the Rio Grande's Class L-97. These were later sold to Clinchfield Railroad in 1947 and were renumbered as 670–675, where they formed the Clinchfield's Class E-3.

Preservation
Only two Challengers survive, both from the 4664-4 order built in 1943. No. 3977 is on static display in North Platte, Nebraska. No. 3985 was restored to operating condition by Union Pacific in 1981 and used in excursion service until mechanical problems sent it back into storage in October 2010. It was officially retired in January 2020 and is stored in Cheyenne, Wyoming, but has since been acquired by the Railroading Heritage of Midwest America (RRHMA) in Little Silvis Shops in Silvis, Illinois, where the locomotive is now being restored to operation once again.

See also
Union Pacific Big Boy
Union Pacific FEF Series

References

Bibliography

Further reading

External links
 Union Pacific Steam Shop Information on locomotives and excursion schedules.
 UP 3985 Challenger, Steam Locomotive - photos and additional information

Union Pacific Railroad locomotives
ALCO locomotives
Simple articulated locomotives
Standard gauge locomotives of the United States
Railway locomotives introduced in 1936


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Комитетът е създаден през 1952 година със секретно решение на Министерския съвет. Първоначално се предвижда той да има 6 члена в мирно време и 9 - в случай на война, като по-късно броят на членовете е увеличен до 13. Комитетът по това време е пряко подчинен на Министерския съвет, а председател е главнокомандващият Българската народна армия (министър-председателят, а след 1971 година - председателят на Държавния съвет).

Живковската конституция от 1971 година за пръв път урежда публично статута на ДКО, който дотогава функционира на основата на секретни документи, и го поставя на подчинение на Държавния съвет. През 70-те години се създава и самостоятелна администрация на комитета. Със закриването на Държавния съвет през 1990 година е прекратено съществуването и на ДКО.

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By JP Fallavollita Posted on June 9, 2009 January 18, 2016
A Sense Of Vertigo Returns For Japer
I'm beginning to swoon again.
No, it's not my relatively minor fear of heights brought on by recently clambering up on some rickety scaffolding to shoo nesting birds away from the roof of the house nor is it my suspected slight inner ear infection, the exasperating remnants of last week's flu. No, I have not been drinking much red wine lately and no, I have not recently fallen in love.
What's caused my buoyant leap over our orbiting moon has everything to do with literate and fantastical storytelling and that notion's relationship with Vertigo, the mature and sophisticated imprint of DC Comics.
Vertigo is the house that Karen Berger, editor extraordinaire, built in the late eighties and early nineties with titles like Swamp Thing, Hellblazer, Sandman, and Preacher. She's the individual responsible for giving writers like Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, Garth Ennis and Peter Milligan the vehicle to tell the types of stories that had never been published in comic book format before. The comic book niche that Vertigo fits within and its inherent literary success led to further groundbreaking runs by writers such as Grant Morrison, Brian Azzarello and Bill Willingham on The Invisibles, 100 Bullets, and Fables respectively.
Something happened in the last few years, however. Something that was disappointing for all of those early readers of Vertigo comics.
For the most part, Vertigo, in the last decade, lost its magic and its sense of wonder. Sales slipped, titles were cancelled and the creators, those engineers of word and image that helped build Vertigo into the opulent castle that it was, left for other projects and other companies. The imprint, for many readers, lost its raison d'etre, subsequently losing its audience, withering away from the zeitgeist which is had created. The business climate, of course, did not help matters, and although there were still a few strong monthly titles being published, a new direction was required.
In the last year or so, Vertigo has released several creator-owned projects by names more often recognized in the independent scene but no less capable than the imprints founding fathers. The publisher has brought aboard these writers and artists and moved to compete more in the realm of the small, literary publisher. Under the Vertigo banner, readers have seen new works by auteurs such as Harvey Pekar, Paul Pope and David Lapham, while still providing a vehicle for rising stars such as Jason Aaron and Brian Wood among others.
Interestingly, Vertigo has also created a new sub-imprint dedicated to crime fiction that will showcase one-off graphic novels featuring both creator-owned stories as well as proprietary characters. In a bid to open up their market to bookstores everywhere, the first hardcover book in this line will feature Vertigo mainstay and Hellblazer star John Constantine, as written by famed Scottish novelist, Ian Rankin. Dark Entries, billed as a sinister detective story, finds everyone's favourite occultist acting as a mole inside television's hottest reality show.
Stalwart Vertigo crime writer Brian Azzarello returns with a story of his own too. Filthy Rich is the expectedly hard-hitting tale of a bodyguard for the rich and troublesome daughter of his boss. It promises to be gritty, sexy and action packed. Both books are scheduled to be released in August with more titles in the line on the way.
Part of the reason Vertigo fell from grace with readers was that when flagship monthly titles faulted or, indeed, ended, the replacements were not successful in tapping into the publisher's "sophisticated" audience.
For every Fables, there was an Exterminators. For every Y: The Last Man, there was a House of Secrets. Although not poorly written or drawn, these titles never seemed to garner an audience. Readers did not rush out to their local comic shop to purchase each monthly issue as they did with Sandman and indeed, mainstream media no longer had interest in reviewing the titles or following the company.
The advent of the collected version of series in either soft or hardcover format took away from the interest of monthly instalments. This is an interesting paradox in itself. Generally, only successful sales of a monthly book will see that book collected, yet if readers wait on the collection, who would be purchasing the monthly title?
As mentioned earlier, there has been a bit of a renaissance for Vertigo of late and the monthly comic has not been excluded in that ascent.
Last summer saw the release of Matt Wagner's magic-tinged Madame Xanadu, with spectacular art by Amy Reeder-Hedley, a newcomer to mainstream comics, known more for her manga-styled pencils in the independent arena. The series has sold reasonably well and has turned the heads of critics, being nominated for various awards including an Eisner. G. Willow Wilson's Air has garnered the same attention as has Jason Aaron's Scalped, a cop story set on an Indian reservation. Brian Wood's viking saga Northlanders recently dedicated an entire issue to the scientific, second-by-second breakdown of Norse combat, illustrated sublimely by Vasilis Lolos.
These are the chances Vertigo is taking – once again triumphantly taking up a leadership mantle in comics, exploring areas of storytelling that have not been covered by the medium before.
A new crop of monthly titles aim to build on this momentum. Last week saw the release of The Unwritten, Mike Carey's return to the publisher. The comic tells the story of Tom Taylor, the real life man who inspired a Harry Potter-type character of the same name, conceived and written by his long disappeared but still famous father. In a startlingly fresh first issue, the series looks to be a dialogue on the importance of story on humanity while a plot unfurls that speaks to historical locations and incidents and the fiction that represents these elements in story.
On the horizon are two titles I'm personally looking forward to. Peter Milligan's Greek Street, a modern day re-imagining of the Greek tragedies is due out in July while award-winning Canadian writer/artist Jeff Lemire's first on-going series for the publisher, Sweet Tooth, is released in September. It tells the fairy tale/science fiction-like story of Gus, a boy born with antlers and raised within the confines of a forest, who leaves his idyllic sanctuary, forced to travel through an incomprehensible outside world.
Vertigo has always been at their best when they've lived up to the name of the imprint – keeping audiences on edge, pushing them away from convention and into the realm of new ideas. With the return to a directive of groundbreaking story and art, Vertigo could very well see their old audience revisit them while building an entirely new one at the same time.
I'm sure many of us will be along this summer and fall for the coming swoon.
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The Democratization of Software Development
As-a-service platforms are part of the natural evolution of technology.
By Dan Blacharski • Dec 14, 2016
Software development -- once the domain of hard-core techies who worked in a world apart from the day-to-day operations of the business world -- has become democratized. Newer business models now bring tech, development and business together, and line-of-business managers now have a hand in developing programs that were once relegated to a windowless back room staffed with the mysterious high priests of code, working late into the night and guzzling energy drinks.
Those days are gone, thanks to a new generation of software-as-a-service development platforms that simplify app creation, along with new cloud and as-a-service innovations that have brought IT out into the daylight in a new "dot-cloud boom" era of easy access and development for the masses.
Related: How To Build a SaaS Startup That Wins and Lasts
Cary Landis, founder and CEO of SaaSMaker, has been on the forefront of the cloud movement from the very beginning when he assisted with defining the NIST reference architecture for cloud computing and implementing SaaS at NASA as early as 2008. "As-a-service platforms are part of the natural evolution of technology," said Landis. "We've gone from needing highly specialized programmers to create a thousand cardboard punchcards fed into a hopper just to execute a single task, to an environment of ready-made, do-it-yourself components and drag-and-drop development that puts routine programmatic execution in the hands of line managers. The result is faster execution, greater innovation, and more efficiency than we ever dreamed was possible."
Ushering in a new wave of entrepreneurship.
Technology-driven innovation has come in waves. From the dotcom boom of the 1990s, to the more recent onslaught of mobile and smartphone apps, each successive iteration of innovation has become more accessible. The ease with which these apps are developed, and the convenient platforms for selling them, has led to more than 2.2 million apps currently available on Google Play, 2 million in the Apple store, 669,000 in the Windows store, 600,000 in the Amazon app store, and 234,500 on BlackBerry world, with BlackBerry apps expected to skyrocket after the company's recent shift away from its iconic hardware platform to being a software company.
Related: 7 Rising SaaS Startups Delivering Stellar Content
"The cost of launch often ran in the tens of millions of dollars in the early part of the dotcom boom," said Landis. "All software was custom-made and time-consuming. There were no small projects. As the cost of launch moves towards zero, a new era of dotcloud boom has already begun. We're seeing a new type of startup today in the post-dotcom world, which we call dotclouds. These new agile startups use cloud-based infrastructure, so they don't need a data center. They use SaaS development platforms, so they don't need huge programming staff. And they take advantage of things like existing app stores, so marketing and selling is as simple as posting the app in the online store with a creative description."
I wanna start a software company!
There will always be great ideas. The difference today is that those ideas are a lot simpler to execute, and more small-scale app companies will be launched not by technologists, but by business users and innovators. Landis launched SaaSMaker in recognition of the continuing evolution of tech innovation and entrepreneurship. "The evolution of cloud computing has brought us to a point today where entrepreneurs can create anything from a prototype to a full-scale free system, on a single "idea to revenue' platform that allows for prototyping, development, hosting, and marketing."
The new dotcloud era will be marked by developers looking for dramatically reduced time-to-market, taking advantage of cloud infrastructure and services to avoid the costs inherent to on-premise operations, and drag-and-drop development that bridges the gap that has traditionally existed between business and IT.
Unlike traditional development tools, Landis defines a SaaS development platform-as-a-service (PaaS) as more of an entire ecosystem rather than a single utility. "It's not a hammer; it's the whole toolbox," he says. These types of platforms will be especially important in the next wave of entrepreneurship.
Related: 5 Ways to Reduce Your SaaS Churn
With development traditionally representing the majority of IT costs, new product launches have often been prohibitively costly to new entrepreneurs, often running into the millions of dollars. Independent software vendors stand to gain a lot with the PaaS model. According to a Frost and Sullivan report sponsored by Cisco, "As the cloud matures, providers who have invested in cloud infrastructure will look to evolve today's Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offerings into new sources of revenue and competitive differentiators. They will leverage their current cloud infrastructure, services, systems and expertise to take on the next great opportunity in cloud services -- Platform as a Service."
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Dan Blacharski is a thought leader and PR counsel to several Internet startups. He is author of the book "Born in the Cloud Marketing: Transformative Strategies for the Next Generation of Cloud-Based Businesses."
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3 Ways to Grow a Multi-Million Dollar Drop Shipping Business
Begin with these drop shipping basics and everything will soon fall into place.
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Hillandale Farms in Bozrah, Connecticut went up in flames on Saturday in an incident that is still under investigation.


To fully take advantage of multi-core processors and to speed up response times, developers have to embrace parallel design patterns. Most of the code we write today is in serial; we execute one method after another in a linear fashion. There are some pretty advanced libraries available to us thanks to the .NET Framework (e.g. ThreadPool, Thread), but for many reasons they are under utilized.
Coming in .NET 4.0 with Visual Studio 2010, we will get a whole new library that will allow us to easily take advantage of parallelism in our apps -- without drastically changing the code structure. I think this is the biggest selling point here. The .NET wizards at Microsoft took a look at the structure of our existing code and figured out some intuitive and non-intrusive ways for us to leverage parallel execution. This article has a very thorough explanation of the new classes.
For now, we can use existing classes like ThreadPool, Thread, and BackgroundWorker to execute code in multiple threads, which in turn should be processed in parallel from the multiple cores available on the system.
I've written a simple helper method that will execute chunks of code in parallel using ThreadPool. You can use the method in pretty much the same way as the Parallel.Do() method coming in .NET 4.0. So once you're on 4.0, just swap out the method calls.
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Two New Communications Districts Join Vermont's Growing Community Broadband Effort
Fri, May 15, 2020 | Posted by Katie Kienbaum
In March, we reported on the formation of Deerfield Valley Communications Union District in Vermont.
That same month, communities in different parts of the state also formed two other communications union districts (CUDs) to improve their local connectivity. Voters in dozens of towns approved the formation of Northeast Kingdom CUD and Southern Vermont CUD during Vermont's Town Meeting Day on March 3. The two new CUDs are currently undertaking feasibility studies and hope to take advantage of federal and state funding — including through Vermont's new — to deploy Fiber-to-the-Home networks to all region residents and businesses.
Developing Districts
Northeast Kingdom CUD is currently made up of 27 towns in the counties of Caledonia, Essex, and Orleans. The group's FAQ explains that the district's goal is to "bring a reliable and affordable, high-speed Internet option (at least 100 mbps symmetrical) to every residential and business e911 address in the Northeast Kingdom. According to VTDigger, the participating communities are in some of the most underserved counties in Vermont.
On the other end of the state, the Southern Vermont CUD is comprised of 12 member towns, all in Bennington County. The fact that all of the towns voted to join the CUD doesn't surprise local officials, who are familiar with residents' desire for better connectivity. "I had heard next to no negative comments about the CUD, and mostly people who are really anxious to see their internet situation improve," Tim Scoggins, Southern Vermont CUD Governing Board Chair and Shaftsbury Selectboard Chair, told the Bennington Banner.
Both of the new CUDs plan to conduct feasibility studies and create business plans using funding from the state's Broadband Innovation Grant Program. When it comes to deploying their networks, the two entities hope to tap into federal and state funds to finance construction. "The funding is going to remain the biggest challenge for the CUDs moving forward," said Clay Purvis, Director of Telecommunications at the Vermont Department of Public Service.
Northeast Kingdom CUD and Southern Vermont CUD join three other districts in the state: Central Vermont Fiber, ECFiber, and Deerfield Valley CUD. The CUD structure allows communities to unite their efforts and better attract funding. Purvis explained to VTDigger:
It makes these kind of rag-tag groups of towns into something that is more sophisticated . . . So when the time comes to seek funding, whether it's in the private market or from the state of Vermont or the federal government, they look much more sophisticated.
Old Problems, New Urgency
The importance of finding local solutions to poor, unreliable, and expensive connectivity is even more apparent as Vermont communities struggle to overcome the spread of the novel coronavirus. "More than ever we need to figure out a solution for a pandemic or any other scenario that may come up where we have to rely on Internet to keep our businesses and our lives moving forward," Evan Carlson, Board Chair of Northeast Kingdom CUD, told a local news station.
In response to the Covid-19 pandemic and the lack of universal Internet access throughout the state, Vermont has drafted an Emergency Broadband Action Plan [pdf] that lays out how the state could connect unserved residents during and after the crisis. The proposal includes immediate steps to extend Internet access during the pandemic as well as a plan to bring broadband access to all Vermonters. Achieving universal access in the state would involve funding new broadband deployment as well as supporting CUDs in their efforts to tap into federal grant programs.
Download the Emergency Broadband Action Plan below, and check back for future MuniNetworks.org coverage of the state's plan under the "Vermont" tag.
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Home Better Living Tips Why we need multiple vaccines to combat COVID-19
Why we need multiple vaccines to combat COVID-19
Kenya Confidential Medical Desk. Nairobi – March 27, 2021
Having a range of Covid-19 vaccines available for people to use around the world will be essential to bringing the pandemic under control. Here's why. Four reasons why we need multiple vaccines for Covid-19
Opinion by Charlie Weller Welcome Head of Vaccines Programme
Going into 2021, a handful of vaccines to protect against Covid-19 were already approved for use in parts of the world.
So why, with highly effective vaccines already in use, is it important to keep working on and investing in the hundreds of Covid-19 vaccines still in development?
1. We need a range of vaccines that can work for a range of people
We need Covid-19 vaccines to work for a diverse range of people – including older people and those with underlying health conditions. At this stage, we don't have sufficient data to understand how effective the vaccines are for people of all ages, from different ethnic backgrounds, with different immune systems; and for different strains of the virus. We also don't know how long immunity might last for, or whether the vaccines stop transmission of the disease.
With questions like these unanswered, we can't rely on one or two vaccines to help us recover from Covid-19.
And it might be that one vaccine is not as effective for everyone. We often need multiple vaccines for a disease, to be able to protect different groups. For example, this winter the UK is using four different flu vaccines. Which vaccine is given depends on a person's risk group and how their immune system might respond – the vaccine given to a teenager with a robust immune system is not the same as that given to someone over the age of 65.
Vaccines are a bit like different painkillers: aspirin, paracetamol, ibuprofen – they all have the same goal, they just achieve it in slightly different ways.
If we have a varied Covid-19 vaccine portfolio, we can be confident we will find the right vaccine for every person. https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/XVIJG3haDoc?wmode=opaque&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&color=white&autohide=1
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Professor Luke O'Neill, Chair of Biochemistry at Trinity College Dublin, explains why we need different types of vaccines.
2. We need to produce billions of vaccine doses to protect those most at risk
To be able to get control of the virus we will need to produce and roll out vaccines at a scale and speed never seen before. To meet the aim of vaccinating high-risk populations around the world by the end of 2021(opens in a new tab), estimates suggest we need at least 2 billion vaccine doses.
Because many countries have pre-ordered large quantities of the vaccine, a large share of the initial production is already spoken for. Companies are scaling up production as much as they can, for example Moderna have stated they hope to produce 600 million doses of their vaccine in 2021(opens in a new tab). However, current models(opens in a new tab) predict that there will not be enough vaccines to cover the world's population until 2023 or 2024(opens in a new tab).
We have also never licensed or scaled-up an RNA vaccine before – the technology that the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines use – and doing this requires specialised equipment. So there may be unforeseen manufacturing issues while new facilities and processes are being set up, potentially causing delays and limiting availability.
By developing and investing in multiple vaccine candidates we stand a much better chance of having the volume of doses we need to get the virus under control.
3. We need vaccines that can reach everyone, everywhere
We will need to get Covid-19 vaccines to everyone who needs them, wherever they are – from people living in metropolitan areas and cities, to rural populations in remote corners of the world(opens in a new tab).
Both the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna vaccines need to be stored and transported at exceptionally low temperatures, the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine at -70C and the Moderna vaccine at -20C, to ensure they stay viable. In comparison, most childhood vaccines require storage at between 2C to 8C, similar to the temperature in a domestic fridge.
The requirements for cold storage and transportation will be difficult to meet in many locations, and no vaccine requiring such cold storage has ever been rolled out to so many countries all at once.
In addition, both RNA vaccines currently have a relatively high cost per dose, although this should fall once large scale production and supply chains are in place. The news that the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine costs significantly less has been widely welcomed, but it is hoped that more highly effective vaccines will be offered at a lower cost.
Dosing creates an additional challenge. Most approved vaccines to date require two doses, spaced a few weeks apart. Developing effective single-dose vaccines will be critical to protect people for whom getting two doses might be difficult, such as those without access to regular healthcare, or refugees. Some manufacturers, including Johnson & Johnson, are currently developing single dose vaccines, and if the phase III results show these to be effective, it could be a turning point in global vaccine access.
These technical considerations mean it is vital that we continue to develop and invest in multiple vaccine candidates, which may be able to offer high levels of efficacy without the need for such cold storage, or multiple doses.
4. We need vaccines that are available to all countries and supported through COVAX
To overcome the pandemic, people all around the world must have access to vaccines, treatments and tests. However, many of the vaccines being developed are being bought up by countries making deals directly with pharmaceutical companies for their populations.
More than half of all advanced Covid-19 vaccine orders(opens in a new tab) have been from high-income countries, with the US accounting for more than one sixth. The EU alone has reserved over 2.3 billion doses of a number of different vaccine candidates, while the UK has secured over 350 million vaccine doses – more than five times the size of its population. Pfizer-BioNTech have already promised all doses from their first round of production to a small number of countries.
The COVID-19 Vaccine Global Access Facility(opens in a new tab) (COVAX) is a multilateral effort to make sure that poorer countries are not frozen out of access to vaccines. It works by supporting the research, development and manufacturing of a wide range of Covid-19 vaccines, and negotiating their pricing. All participating countries, regardless of income levels, will have equal access to these vaccines once they are developed.
While many of the vaccine candidates, including the Oxford-AstraZeneca and Moderna vaccines, are part of COVAX, others are not. It is hoped more will join the initiative in the coming weeks.
As of 20 January 2021, just 25 doses of vaccine had been administered in a lowest-income country, while more than 40 million doses had been given in higher-income countries.
It is essential that countries with vaccine doses secured in bilateral deals commit to donating excess doses to COVAX to be distributed fairly.
This article was originally published on 20 November 2020.
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I'd been wanting to try Genghis Grill for quite some time; however they don't seem to have any restaurants near us. So I was thrilled to discover that they had one in Reno, as that's a frequent lunch stop for us on road trips. I finally got to give them a try a few weeks ago, and I have to say I'm quite impressed.
It's a stir fry grill with table service, and you have the option to order something off the menu or to make your own mix. And after looking at some of the combinations on the menu I decided that the healthier way was to choose my own ingredients, and that's exactly what I did.
You go through a buffet line and first pick you plate size (I picked small instead of regular) and then you fill it up with proteins, veggies, seasonings and sauces. I wanted mainly veggies, so I took about two ounces of chicken (I love that you have total control of the portions) and seasoned it with some ginger and pepper. I tried to stay away from some of the spice blends, as they usually have a lot of sodium in them. Then I grabbed some stir fry veggies, bok choy and bean sprouts to complete my plate.
Next up sauces. I wanted something low in sodium so I tasted the sweet and sour (they have tasting spoons), but it just wasn't to my liking. Then I tried the dragon sauce and I knew it was the perfect choice. It has 477 mg. of sodium in a one-ounce portion, but that's really not bad for Asian sauces. Let's just say, I used it very sparingly.
Then you drop off your order, choose your starch and go back to your table. I chose white rice as my starch, and although I could have eliminated 20 calories by ordering brown rice, I just prefer the white rice.
The bottom line was that it was very tasty and fresh, and at just 271 calories and 631 mg. of sodium, it's a very doable lunch choice. I'm adding Genghis Grill to my healthy eating list. My only complaint is that they don't have enough restaurants. Hopefully they will build one near me soon.
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Q: AngularJS directives link function execution order with require I've watched this video and I've got a question which I can't find an answer to. There is a plunker http://plnkr.co/edit/L8OMoB?p=preview
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                <my-select-view on="color">
                    <my-view label="Red" value="red">Red Content</my-view>
                    <my-view label="Blue" value="blue">Blue Content</my-view>
                    <my-view label="Green" value="green">Green Content</my-view>
                    <my-view label="Something" value="something">Something Content</my-view>
                </my-select-view>

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angular.module('app', ['ngSanitize'])
        .directive("mySelectView", function($compile) {

            return {
                restrict: "E",
                scope: { item : "=on"},
                controller: function($scope, $element) {
                    $scope.views = [];

                    this.addView = function(label, value, content) {
                        $scope.views.push({ label: label, value: value, content: content });
                    }

                },
                link: function(scope, element, attrs, ctrl) {
                    var selectTpl = "<select ng-model='item'" +
                                    "        ng-options='view.value as view.label for view in views'" +
                                    "        ng-change='changeView()'></select>";

                    ...

                }
            }
        })
        .directive("myView", function() {
            return {
                restrict: "E",
                require: "^mySelectView",
                link: function(scope, element, attrs, ctrl) {
                    ctrl.addView(attrs.label, attrs.value, element.html());
                }
            };
        })
        .controller("MyCtrl", function($scope) {
            $scope.color = "something";
        });

I would like to know one thing. We got directive "mySelectView", which contains "link" function. This "link" function depends on "views" variable to be defined and contain something.
The only way for it to get it is by calling a "link" function on other directive "myView". This directive have a require parameter to previous directive.
So my question is: How does "link" function of directive "mySelectView" executed after "link" function of directive "myView". I assuming this because of "ng-option" attribute which needs $scope.views in order to properly display things. This means link function of "myView" get executed and added views.
But how? Who deciding order on this? Why would "link" function of first directive just not happily fail because of undefined $scope.views?
Any help would be appreciated!

A: Your $scope.views isn't undefined. On the contrary it has been initialised to an empty array $scope.views = [];
I hope this link will answer your questions on the execution order of link functions

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