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from .document import ENC
from .document import Reader
from .document import by_mention
from .evaluate import get_measure, Evaluate
from collections import Counter
from collections import namedtuple

class _Missing(object):
    def __str__(self):
        return "MISSING"

MISSING = _Missing()

class LinkingError(namedtuple('Error', 'doc_id gold system')):
    @property
    def label(self):
        if self.gold is MISSING:
            return 'extra'
        if self.system is MISSING:
            return 'missing'
        if self.gold is None and self.system is None:
            return 'correct nil'
        if self.gold == self.system:
            return 'correct link'
        if self.gold is None:
            return 'nil-as-link'
        if self.system is None:
            return 'link-as-nil'
        return 'wrong-link'

    @staticmethod
    def _str(val, pre):
        if val is MISSING:
            return u''
        elif val is None:
            return u'{}NIL'.format(pre)
        return u'{}"{}"'.format(pre, val)

    @property
    def _system_str(self):
        return self._str(self.system, 's')

    @property
    def _gold_str(self):
        return self._str(self.gold, 'g')

    def __str__(self):
        return u'{0.label}\t{0.doc_id}\t{0._gold_str}\t{0._system_str}'.format(self)

class Analyze(object):
    """Analyze errors"""
    def __init__(self, system, gold=None, unique=False, summary=False, with_correct=False):
        self.system = list(Reader(open(system)))
        self.gold = list(Reader(open(gold)))
        self.unique = unique
        self.summary = summary
        self.with_correct = with_correct
        self.measure = get_measure('strong_mention_match')

    def __call__(self):
        if self.unique:
            def _data():
                seen = set()
                for entry in self.iter_errors():
                    if entry in seen:
                        continue
                    seen.add(entry)
                    yield entry
        else:
            _data = self.iter_errors

        if self.summary:
            counts = Counter(error.label for error in _data())
            return '\n'.join('{1}\t{0}'.format(*tup)
                             for tup in counts.most_common())
        else:
            return u'\n'.join(unicode(error) for error in _data()).encode(ENC)

    def iter_errors(self):
        for s, g in Evaluate.iter_pairs(self.system, self.gold):
            assert g.id == s.id
            tp, fp, fn = self.measure.get_matches(g.annotations, s.annotations)
            for g_m, s_m in tp:
                if g_m.kbid == s_m.kbid and not self.with_correct:
                    #continue  # Correct case.
                    yield LinkingError(g.id, g_m.kbid, s_m.kbid)
                else:
                    yield LinkingError(g.id, g_m.kbid, s_m.kbid)
            for _, m in fp:
                yield LinkingError(g.id, MISSING, m.kbid)
            for m, _ in fn:
                yield LinkingError(g.id, m.kbid, MISSING)

    @classmethod
    def add_arguments(cls, p):
        p.add_argument('system', metavar='FILE')
        p.add_argument('-g', '--gold', required=True)
        p.add_argument('-u', '--unique', action='store_true', default=False,
                       help='Only consider unique errors')
        p.add_argument('-s', '--summary', action='store_true', default=False,
                       help='Output a summary rather than each instance')
        p.add_argument('-c', '--with-correct', action='store_true', default=False,
                       help='Output correct entries as well as errors')
        p.set_defaults(cls=cls)
        return p

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Tales from Tinseltown…recording them now…I'll let you know when it's story time.
Tag: gossip
July 12, 2019	/ Vickie Lester
Mr. Lester's great aunt Hazel, Katharine Hepburn, and Spencer Tracy and gossip…
The exquisitely patrician Connecticut lady pictured above had quite a career – and split her time between the East Coast and the West. Very busy. I don't know that she really cooked more than brownies and put together hot fudge sundaes – but she did eat and appreciate food. The…
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September 1, 2014	/ Vickie Lester
What did you do over your summer vacation?
It's in His Kiss
August 30, 2014	/ Vickie Lester
Noel Coward on Vulgar Curiosity, Hedda Hopper and Louella Parsons
… But during the last few years this has become increasingly difficult owing to the misguided encouragement of a new form of social parasite, the gossip columnist. This curious phenomenon has insinuated itself itself into the lifestream not only of Hollywood but the whole of America, and what began as…
Read the postNoel Coward on Vulgar Curiosity, Hedda Hopper and Louella Parsons
Blue skies, romance, Hollywood quips and a nip of noir…click on the pic to buy It's in His Kiss by Vickie Lester
Whatever, or whoever, was the cause of her sudden twist of fortune, Anne wasn't disembarking in Los Angeles. The travel itinerary from the studio specified her arrival in Palm Springs. Having flown in from slushy, dingy, frigid New York City in the middle of February she walked outside the terminal.…
Read the postBlue skies, romance, Hollywood quips and a nip of noir…click on the pic to buy It's in His Kiss by Vickie Lester
July 6, 2014	/ Vickie Lester
It's in His Kiss…naughty and nice — with plenty of intrigue and spice! Click on the picture!
5.0 out of 5 stars Hollywood Confidential: Mystery, Scandal & Romance, Oh My, June 28, 2014 By West Coast Reader – See all my reviews This review is from: It's In His Kiss (Paperback Amazon UK) Anne Brown, a novelist whose book has been optioned, is a modern-day Dorothy Gale…
Read the postIt's in His Kiss…naughty and nice — with plenty of intrigue and spice! Click on the picture!
Hollywood types…intrigue, secrets…murder! Click on the picture!
5.0 out of 5 stars It's In His Kiss is a brilliant present day Hollywood noir murder mystery which should appeal immensely to Fans of Chandler and Cain…, July 7, 2014 By Ben Vendetta (Cleveland, OH) – See all my reviews Verified Purchase(What's this?) This review is from: It's…
Read the postHollywood types…intrigue, secrets…murder! Click on the picture!
Gossip column meets romance meets crime fiction…and it's funny! Click on the picture!
5.0 out of 5 stars July 3, 2014 By Ellen Keefe – See all my reviews This review is from: It's In His Kiss (Paperback) I haven't read a murder mystery in a very long time because I don't enjoy the genre but this book was fun and satiric, almost…
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April 11, 2014	/ Vickie Lester
A billionaire who has not incurred the wrath of Vickie Lester, someone known for architectural restoration, not devastation…
There is a man I know very little about, other than he has boat loads of money and has bought and restored two iconic Hollywood residences. One is Greenacres, the former home and beloved garden of the silent film star, Harold Lloyd, and the other is the Ennis House, designed…
Read the postA billionaire who has not incurred the wrath of Vickie Lester, someone known for architectural restoration, not devastation…
The actor and my missing…oh my goodness!
I have a friend who's an actor (you might even call him a star), who when he started out, did a lot of house sitting among the hoi polloi of Hollywood. Let me tell you now, hoi polloi doesn't mean "the swells", it means the masses. Okay. That settled, once…
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January 24, 2014	/ Vickie Lester
Cat fight – Hollywood style – or Vickie Lester goes Sicilian
Listen, babies. It has recently come to my attention that some creative types begrudge other creative types success. I know…hard to believe. I want you to listen to something Ms. Anita Loos said in her seventies: "What I admire most in life is an expert; any expert. An expert is…
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Domestic Apologist: 7qt / Fall baby.
Linking up with Conversion Diary today!
- an open floor plan (Sorry for that one. Too much House Hunters around here).
I know. We (pretty much) all love fall. I just find it funny we say it so darn much.
I barely have energy to throw my own kids in the bath each night. Ain't no way my pumpkin is getting a soak. But wow, I do admire the effort.
I think my Mom bought me this red corduroy vest for Christmas about six or seven years ago. I wore it today and felt just as fall-photoshoot-cool in it today as I did then. Well. Almost as cool. I don't think I showered today so that dampened the effect.
Reading some makeup reviews today, I fell into the trap of thinking I should go out today and buy the recommended product, even though I have plenty of decent face moisturizer, foundation, concealer, blush and mascara to make me look more or less awake when I leave the house each day. I am lucky to have such luxuries to smear on my face each morning, because there are plenty of women that can't afford those things. So, there you go.
Amby just hates being outside these days.
We've been renting a beautiful home for almost two months now, and I cannot begin to express how grateful I am for it. After going to see so many homes and being so disappointed with either the features or the price, I began to feel like we'd never find something decent for our boys. On the way to this home, I prayed out loud to our Blessed Mother: "Please Mother, if this is the right home for our family, please help us get it. And if it's not, well, in the immortal words of Fr. Spitzer, let it crash and burn." Thankfully, it was the former.
Joseph's excited to assist in the carving of his first pumpkin, on or around Halloween. Until then, it sits and greets the mailman each day.
Happy fall. Now go put on some boots.
Two DA posts in as many days? Good week! Feedly is doing it's job.
i love open floor plans :) and puppies. and your kitchen sink. just sayin.
LOL!! I laughed out loud at #2. Yeah. The vegetables don't get bathed until my kids do...so it might be a while.
These were so fun to read. Thanks so much for joining in!


Driven in part by a "ferocious sense of curiosity," James H. Simons, founder of one of the world's most successful hedge funds, has given more than $1 billion over the years in support of math and science initiatives, the New York Times reports.
A graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Simons received his doctorate in mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley at the age of 23; went to work as a code breaker for the Institute for Defense Analyses, a National Security Agency contractor, at the age of 26; and became chairman of the mathematics department at Stony Brook University on Long Island at the age of 30. He subsequently won the Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry at the age of 37; founded the hedge fund Renaissance Technologies, a pioneer in the use of quantitative analysis, at the age of 44; and set up his first charitable foundation at the age of 56. Now 76, Simons continues to serve as board chair of Renaissance Technologies and to publish papers on mathematics, while earlier this year he was elected to the National Academy of Sciences.
Estimated by Forbes to be worth $12.5 billion, Simons ranks as the ninety-third wealthiest person in the world and in 2010 became one of the first individuals to sign the Giving Pledge. Since establishing the New York City-based Simons Foundation in 1994, Simons and his wife, Marilyn, an economist, have awarded more than $1 billion in support of scientists working on questions related to the human genome, the origins of life, the roots of autism, the structure of the early cosmos, and the frontiers of math and computer science, as well as public school math teachers. Indeed, in recent years the Simonses have accelerated their giving to Math for America, which James Simons helped create and which awards stipends and scholarships to high school math and science teachers. In addition, they have helped finance the National Museum of Mathematics, or MoMath; are part of a coalition to double philanthropic support for basic science in the United States over the next ten years; and earlier this week announced a $50 million gift to Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory to establish the Simons Center for Quantitative Biology.
Their financial and business successes notwithstanding, the Simonses have experienced their share of tragedies, including the deaths of two adult children — tragedies that seem to have left Jim Simons eager to explore what he calls the mysteries of the universe. At the same time, Simons has a casual manner that belies his wide-ranging intellect and enormous success. "He's an individual of enormous talent and accomplishment, yet he's completely unpretentious," Marc Tessier-Lavigne, a neuroscientist and president of the Rockefeller University, told the Times. "He manages to blend all these admirable qualities."
Simons said he loved math and logic as a boy and would lie in bed thinking about how to give the instruction "pass it on" in a clearly defined way. "One night, I figured it out," but by morning could no longer remember his insight. "I wasn't the fastest guy in the world," Simons said of his youthful math enthusiasms. "I wouldn't have done well in an Olympiad or a math contest. But I like to ponder. And pondering things, just sort of thinking about it and thinking about it, turns out to be a pretty good approach."
William J. Broad. "Seeker, Doer, Giver, Ponderer: A Billionaire Mathematician's Life of Ferocious Curiosity." New York Times 07/07/2014.


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text: Q: Tensorflow.js - Security: Are the models Imported Secure? I am new to tensorflow.js. We have a couple of tensorflow models in saved format. My question is if we convert those into tfs.js and load them in the browser, let's say in a web application secured with user-id and password. Can someone steal the model? Let's say a client of the web application logs in, tries out a prediction and then decides to copy the pre-trained model which our company has invested so much of time and money in developing?

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By Michelle Lou, CNN
Updated 8:25 AM ET, Fri July 12, 2019
Travis Hornett, 39, was captured shortly after midnight, police say.
(CNN) The inmate who fled the Indiana State Prison in Michigan City on Wednesday morning was captured shortly after midnight, according to Indiana's Department of Corrections.
The prisoner, 39-year-old Travis Hornett, slipped away from work detail on prison grounds at about 11:10 a.m., Michigan City Police said in a Facebook post. Police tracked him to a vacant home in Beverly Shores, which he had forcibly entered. Beverly Shores, which is located along the Lake Michigan shoreline, is about 6 miles from the Michigan City prison.
Hornett surrendered without resistance when confronted by Indiana State Police and other law enforcement officials in the early morning hours on Thursday. As a result of his attempted getaway, Hornett is expected to face felony charges of escape and unlawful residential entry, the corrections department stated.
Hornett was sentenced in September 2018 to five years for burglary. He was previously convicted of burglary twice, as well as theft. Prior to his attempted escape, Hornett's earliest possible release date was scheduled for May 2021, according to the Indiana Department of Correction.
"We greatly appreciate the effort and assistance of the state police and local police agencies who worked side-by-side with our Fugitive Apprehension Unit to get offender Hornett back into custody," Indiana Department of Correction Commissioner Rob Carter stated.
CNN's Susan Scutti contributed to this report.


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Welcome little Sotong! Asian small-clawed otter born December 9
Posted by Gigi Allianic, Communications
Photos by Jeremy Dwyer-Lindgren, Woodland Park Zoo
Say hello to Sotong, our Asian small-clawed otter pup born on December 9! The tiny pup's animal keepers have fondly named her Sotong (soh-TAWNG), Malay for squid or octopus—think Seattle Kraken!
The 2-month-old pup is the first offspring for mom Little Frei and dad Conner. Little Frei was among the last litter born in 2016 at Woodland Park Zoo and was named after Seattle Sounders goalkeeper, Stefan Frei. The parents were paired under the Asian Small-clawed Otter Species Survival Plan. Species Survival Plans are cooperative breeding programs across accredited zoos to help ensure healthy, genetically diverse, self-sustaining populations of select species or subspecies.
Asian small-clawed otters are very social, gregarious animals. Both mom and dad feed and help care for their young. At birth, the pups weigh about 1½ ounces, a little more than a slice of dense, whole-grain bread! Newborns can't see or hear so they fully depend on the nurturing care of both parents until they begin developing their senses at about 3 weeks old.
Otter snuggles!
Sotong currently lives off view in a maternity den with her parents. Occasionally, the parents will go outdoors for short bouts in the public exhibit but prefer staying indoors to focus on caring for their pup. Staff closely monitor Sotong but are hands off as much as possible with little to no intervention except for wellness exams.
Sotong in the hands of her care team during a quick wellness check.
As part of Woodland Park Zoo's exemplary animal care program, its veterinary team conducted the pup's first of a series of wellness exams this week. "We're pleased to give Sotong a clean bill of health. She's robust and healthy, her belly is full and round, and she's within normal growth range at 2 months old," said Dr. Tim Storms, Woodland Park Zoo's interim director of animal health.
Asian small-clawed otters are markedly more vocal than most otter species with at least 12 different vocalizations. "Sotong's high-pitched squeals and chirps ring loud and clear, an excellent sign that she's bonding with her parents," said Martin Ramirez, mammal curator at Woodland Park Zoo. "She has a healthy appetite and is gaining increased mobility. While she continues to nurse, she's sampling solid foods such as capelin, lake smelt and trout.
Little Sotong during a quick health check on January 19.
Parents Little Frei and Conner have started swimming lessons for their daughter. "They're first teaching Sotong how to swim in a plastic tub. After she masters the tub, she'll graduate to the next level: the outdoor exhibit and large pool where she'll be taught to dive a few inches deep while the vigilant parents stay closely by her side," explained Ramirez. "We'll let mom and dad teach at their own pace and comfort level. Once Sotong can swim and safely navigate the outdoor exhibit, we should officially introduce her in early March in the zoo's Banyan Wilds, where visitors will come to fall in love with this charismatic species."
Asian Small-clawed Otters, Did you know?
As the smallest otters among the 13 otter species, Asian small-clawed otters weigh 6 to 12 pounds and measure 2 to 3 feet long, half of which is their tail!
This otter species has partial webbing and stubby fingers, but their paws are still agile and dexterous. Their hunting technique is more hand-oriented, as opposed to the mouth-oriented hunting of more web-footed otter species.
With at least 12 different vocalizations, each whistle, buzz, twitter, chirp or staccato chuckle that an Asian small-clawed otter makes has a distinct meaning, such as alarm, distress, greeting or mating calls. A huffing sound is typically the parents calling the pups to follow them.
Though Asian small-clawed otters are more terrestrial than other otter species, they are still dependent on access to clean, healthy waterways to survive in their native southern and southeastern Asia, including areas of India, southern China, Southeast Asia, Malaysia, Indonesian islands, Taiwan and Palawan in the Philippines.
With rapidly declining habitat, range and population, the species is vulnerable to extinction. The population in the wild is unknown, with some estimates at 5,000 and others far fewer.
Hope for Otters and other Mustelids
Woodland Park Zoo collaborates with conservation partners working in Asian forests to help protect the habitats otters and so many other species depend on for survival. Learn more about the zoo's international conservation efforts through its Conservation Partners.
Buy wisely. Choose Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certified paper and wood products to protect forest habitat and wildlife. By purchasing FSC-certified forest products, consumers help to protect otter habitat by encouraging sustainable forestry and limiting overharvest of forest products (timber, fuelwood, fruits and honey). Without the FSC label, timber may come from illegal logging and forests that are not responsibly managed.
Become a digital ZooParent by adopting an Asian small-clawed otter. ZooParent adoptions help provide exceptional care for all of Woodland Park Zoo's amazing animals and support wildlife conservation efforts in the Pacific Northwest and around the world.
An adult Asian small-clawed otter in Banyan Wilds
Otters in the Northwest
Asian small-clawed otters belong to a group of mammals called mustelids. This includes the two otters found in Washington—the sea otter and the river otter—as well as a variety of other closely related predators such as weasels and mink.
Woodland Park Zoo is a leader in mustelid conservation in the Pacific Northwest and is working on the recovery of wolverines and fishers in the north Cascades, both of which were driven to extinction in the state by the fur trade around a century ago. Wolverines have recently begun to return naturally in small numbers, while fishers were recently purposefully reintroduced to the state. Woodland Park Zoo is also working on marten recovery in the Olympics.
Join us in taking Northwest conservation actions that benefit people, wildlife and PNW landscapes at wearelivingnorthwest.org
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So excited to see the new baby! Was she the only one born? The previous litters were larger, but maybe it's normal for a first time mom to just have one?
By far these cuties are the ones that make us smile most of all!!! So thrilled to have a youngster to cause a little havoc for the adults this summer, just like a Kraken should!! :)
Maybe we will hear Sotong's chirps and squeals from inside the nursery when we visit today. Congratulations Frei and Conner, well done on the little one!!


In addition to the many sources of focused input to this study, the Committee on Human Spaceflight recognizes the importance of reaching out to the communities interested in human exploration. This request for input papers is open to any and all interested individuals and groups wishing to submit their own ideas on the role of human spaceflight and their vision for a suggested future. In developing their papers, respondents are asked to carefully consider the following broad questions.
The committee is seeking input papers of no more than 4 pages in length, not counting any figures, tables or references. (Due to the expected volume of input, the committee is unable to guarantee that papers of greater length will be considered.) In discussing the above questions, please describe the reasoning that supports your arguments and, to the extent possible, include or cite any evidence that supports your views. In considering #1 above, submitters may consider private as well as government space programs.
Because participants will be self-selected, these input papers will not be used to judge the prevalence of attitudes or opinions within various communities. However, they will help ensure that the committee hears about important issues from interested parties. All submitted papers will be reviewed by members of the Committee on Human Spaceflight and will also be available for public viewing via the public access records office. All input papers will be considered non-proprietary for distribution with attribution.
Submissions closed as of July 9, 2013.


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Q: React to cancellation on google play Is it possible to react to a cancellation a user performed after a purchase on google play?
Is there anything like an event one could listen to?
Background: When using my app, the user creates an account on a server. After cancellation that account is obsolete and I'd like to remove it (e.g. with an HTTP request)
Is that possible? The mails google sends don't contain any information to identify the buyer (with good reason, I guess)

A: If you have access to the Google Checkout Merchant API (US/UK only), you can query that for order status and take appropriate action on your server. There is no universal, Android-specific API though.


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/** @module vobj/merchant */

export {default as Merchant, isMerchant} from './iface/Merchant.iface'
export {default as Potion} from './class/Potion.class'
export {default as Tonic} from './class/Tonic.class'
export {default as Remedy} from './class/Remedy.class'
export {default as Transaction, TransactionType} from './class/Transaction.class'

export { default as OwnershipError } from './class/OwnershipError.class'

export {TonicDataType, RemedyDataType} from './datatypes.d'


The first obstacle is means of support. The choice here is between floor, wall or ceiling. The second obstacle is the opening mechanism. The choice here is sliding/rolling, hinged or sprung.
Frameless glass doors also need to be able to be self supporting, and typically this means the thickness of the glass must be at least 10mm. 10mm glass is heavy (see weight of toughened glass), and so the weight of the whole door needs to be supported. The choice of support will normally be determined by the strongest available support, this is usually the floor and hence floor supported glass doors are the most common. However there are three common types of frameless glass door. Each overcomes the problem of supporting the weight of the glass and opening the glass door differently.


We are getting close to the CrossFit Open season! We will begin preparing for the Open by completing past year Open WODs on Mondays until the Open begins on February 22nd. Stay tuned for more information!


• Regional and State 4-H Dairy Quiz Bowl- over 450 youth participate in this jeopardy like contest to learn about the dairy industry each year both on a junior and senior level. In addition to providing the program materials for these contest on a regional and state level, I changed the question context and approach to include more business management, nutrient management, profitability and production management questions to stimulate and challenge their thinking and learning about the dairy industry in the Northeast.
• Dairy Cattle Judging- 300 youth from around the state participate in dairy cattle judging clinics and contest each year. Youth learn about the dairy industry, science and the functional animal.
Cooperate with the dairy youth superintendent and Extension youth educators at the New York State fair in facilitating and coordinating dairy youth educational programs each year. Over 300 youth participate yearly in dairy educational programs at the State fair in judging; showing and dairy management skills contest.
Direct, plan and coordinate yearlong Cornell PRO-DAIRY Junior DAIRY LEADER Program. This program is intended for youth between the ages of 16 to 19 who have an interest in leadership development, dairy careers, and personal and professional planning in those areas.
New York State Animal Crackers Program for youth ages 9 to 13. Provides youth with a unique opportunity to experience science oriented hands-on activities in a university setting while exploring career options in the animals sciences and expanding their knowledge in specific specie area.
Youth Dairy Discovery Program for 15 to 19 year olds. 60 to 80 youth and adults attend annually who have an interest in hands-on learning in dairy production management.
Cooperate with the dairy youth superintendent and extension youth educators at the NYS Fair to facilitate and coordinate dairy youth educational programs. Over 300 youth participate yearly in dairy youth educational programs each year.
Involved in the planning and delivery of bi-annual dairy industry Operations Managers Conference in 2009 and 2011.
Worked with New York State Cattle Health Assurance Program to develop Animal Welfare Certification Program.


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Thursday 13th January 2022, 06:53 Central Time
AFM unveils 2022 Super Bowl campaign
Brand launches its most wide-reaching multichannel shoppable campaign ahead of the Big Game
1 Peru: the evolution of a superbrand
2 Colombia Avocado Board debuts US brand
3 Mission Produce promotes Denise Junqueiro
4 Terra Exports launches Avolicious
5 Mission Produce reports strong third quarter
6 Dole & Total Produce form largest produce supplier
7 Oppy adopts Apeel for avos
8 California avo first for Oppy
9 Fruitbox 60 - Juan Gonzalez Pita, Salix Fruits
10 Guacamole the star of AFM's Cinco de Mayo campaign
Avocados From Mexico (AFM) has announced its return to the Super Bowl with the roll out of a brand-new multichannel marketing campaign in the run up to the Big Gam, culminating in a 30-second TV advert during the final on 13 February.
Actions include the House of Goodness, where consumers can take a virtual tour of an avocado-themed home hosted by NFL star Drew Brees; in-store QR codes that drive directly to the brand's website and a new partnership with eCommerce Acceleration platform MikMak.
During the weeks leading up to the Big Game weekend, AFM is responsible for approximately 95 per cent of avocado sales in the US.
"We've built the AFM brand on a foundation of innovation – now, we're back in the Big Game with not only an ad but another innovative, fully integrated campaign," said Alvaro Luque, AFM's president and CEO.
"We're leading into the future by combining best-in-class brand building with data- and technology-enabled shopper and digital strategies that will make the 2022 Big Game campaign the most effective we've had to date."
Immersive and shoppable digital experience
The brand is deploying a robust multichannel digital campaign designed to drive brand awareness and engagement across all key social platforms, while also increasing purchase intent and placing avocados on the digital shelves of 40 retailers.
At the centre of AFM's digital activation is the House of Goodness. Hosted by former New Orleans star quarterback and football legend, Drew Brees, the House of Goodness will give visitors a first-hand look into the "always good" world of avocados.
The virtual home features several spaces and unique experiences that consumers can navigate through, including taking a selfie with Drew Brees, watching the brand's Big Game TV spot, discovering new guacamole recipes, and purchasing avocados directly at the many shoppable touchpoints across the experience.
House of Goodness visitors can also enter a sweepstakes for a chance to win their very own "House of Goodness" with a US$100,000 Smart Home Makeover.
"This past year, the industry went through one of the fastest transformations that we have seen in decades. Meanwhile, we as a brand have gone through our own accelerated growing curve, fuelled by an optimised marketing team, a revamped data strategy, and a whole new level of integration across platforms, teams, and technologies," said Ivonne Kinser, vice president, marketing and innovation for the brand.
"We're headed into this Big Game with a more modern view of marketing that aims to fuse our branding and performance efforts into a novel approach that we have defined as 'Brandformance' – taking our innovation to the next level in both territories: branding and marketing-driven sales."
As a physical extension of the digital House of Goodness, consumers in New York will have the opportunity to visit a limited time pop-up "Store of Goodness" in SoHo from 8-13 February.
"Through the entire omni-channel experience, AFM is strengthening it Always Good positioning – an unparalleled combination of good taste, good for you and good times," AFM said.
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Belle is the fourth studio album by New Zealand singer-songwriter Bic Runga.

The album was released in New Zealand on 14 November 2011, while in Ireland the album was released earlier on 11 November 2011 under Sony Music Ireland.

It is her first studio album in six years and the first to feature a producer, Kody Nielson and material co-written with other songwriters. The album's title is derived from the theme song of the French television series Belle et Sébastien which Runga also covers on the album.

Singles
The first single from the album is "Hello Hello". The track debuted on New Zealand radio stations in September 2011. On 8 September 2011 for a limited time only Bandit.fm allowed fans the chance to download the song for free. On 12 September 2011, "Hello Hello" was made available to purchase from digital music stores in New Zealand. "Tiny Little Piece of My Heart" and "If You Really Do" were released as follow-up singles in 2012.

Track listing
 "Tiny Little Piece of My Heart" (Ruban Nielson, Kody Nielson, Bic Runga) – 2:16
 "Hello Hello" (Bic Runga, Dann Hume) – 3:05
 "If You Really Do" (Bic Runga) – 3:55
 "This Girl's Prepared for War" (Bic Runga, James Milne) – 4:29
 "Everything Is Beautiful and New" (Bic Runga) – 2:59
 "Good Love" (Bic Runga, Dann Hume) – 3:27
 "Devil on Tambourine" (Bic Runga, Kody Nielson) – 3:21
 "Belle" (Cécile Aubry, Tutti) – 1:56
 "Darkness All Around Us" (Kody Nielson) – 3:14
 "Music and Light" (Bic Runga) – 3:38

Weekly charts

Tour
First leg
2011 Classic Hits Acoustic Church Tour

17 November – Whangarei Central Baptist Church
18 November – Tauranga Holy Trinity
19 November – Hamilton Chapel of Christ the King
21 November – Pukekohe Franklin Baptist Church
22 & 23 November – Auckland Holy Trinity Cathedral
25 November – Napier St John's Cathedral
26 November – Palmerston North All Saints Church
28 November – Masterton St Matthew's Anglican Church
29 & 30 November – Wellington Cathedral
2 & 3 December – Christchurch St Michael & All Angels
5 December – Timaru St Mary's Church
6 & 7 December – Dunedin Knox Church
8 December – Invercargill First Presbyterian Church

Second leg
2012 international tour dates – Ireland, UK and Australia

15 April – CORK, The Opera House, Republic of Ireland
17 April – DUBLIN, Olympia Theatre, Republic of Ireland
18 April – LONDON, O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire, United Kingdom
1 May – KANGAROO GROUND, Wellers Restaurant, Australia
2 May – GEELONG, GPAC Drama Theatre, Australia
4 May – MELBOURNE, Athenaeum Theatre, Australia
5 May – BRISBANE, Powerhouse Theatre, Australia
6 May – BANGALOW, A&I Hall, Australia
8 May – CENTRAL COAST,	Lizottes, Australia
9 May – NEWCASTLE, Lizottes, Australia
11 May – WOLLONGONG – IPAC, Gordon Theatre, Australia
12 May – SYDNEY, City Recital Hall, Australia
13 May – CANBERRA, Street Theatre, Australia

References

External links
Bic Runga's official website
New Zealand Herald's album of the year

2011 albums
Bic Runga albums

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The American newspaper market is a different world to the ferociously competitive daily tabloid market of the UK. Whilst most American newspapers have a closer relationship to the truth, many are local monopolies and can be just a little too earnest.
The one exception is New York which has two tabloids, The New York Daily News and the New York Post. The former is owned by Tronc which also owns the Chicago Herald Tribune and, until recently, The Los Angeles Times. The latter is owned by Rupert Murdoch.
The New York Daily News is known for its uncompromising front pages and campaigning local journalism. Tronc has announced that it is to slash its editorial staff by 50%. Many staff have already announced their departures.
There is little better news for the daily newspaper market in the UK. Most are reporting double digit circulation declines with The Daily Boris Johnson Telegraph reporting a 23% year on year fall to 370,613 copies a day and there is little sign of this abating.
PBS, which is the American equivalent of the BBC is currently running a series "The Great American Read".
As part of this, a number of popular novels such as George Orwell's "1984" have been reimagined as vintage travel posters. Many of these impressive works of art are available for download from PBS.


Stack them up and knock them down! Little ones will be entertained for hours with these great stacking cups; perfect for the bath, pool, beach or general play time. There are 9 brightly coloured stacking cups, each with a different pattern embossed into the side of the cup in a matte and shiny texture. Each cup also has a different animal character etched into the base of the cup, which acts as a stamp – great for in the sand at the beach!


The weekend didn't start well when car problems meant Sarah lost half of the day on Friday's testing. This was always going to put her on the back foot and, with no additional practice on Saturday, Sarah had to go straight into qualifying having only done two short sessions on the track.
Despite this, Sarah got quicker and quicker throughout qualifying and qualified 10th for both races.
Race 1 and Sarah got a good start and managed to get by Young into the first corner. She remained with the pack until Lidsey had a half spin and speared across the track in front of her. Sarah had to lift to avoid getting involved but lost some time to the leading pack as a result and, with everyone being at the top of their game, she simply couldn't make up the gap so had to settle for 10th position.
Race 2 was a similar tale. With the front runners being absolutely on the edge and Sarah still finding time with each lap, it ended up a relatively lonely race with another 10th position.
Sarah finishes the year in a credible 7th position in the Championship despite missing one round due to work commitments.
"I've thoroughly enjoyed the year," Sarah commented. "It was always going to be a learning year for me, particularly having very little time to do any testing and essentially learning the car and what it can do during the race weekends themselves but our plan was always to keep progressing and moving forward which we've achieved. I'm a lot happier with the car and what it can do and believe we have built a solid foundation to build on next year."
Photos courtesy of Marc Waller and Blue Scarab Photography.


What should we do about the military disposability of men?
One of the longest wars in US history grinds on with no criteria for ending it, no good reasons for its perpetuation and one of the results is the psychological destruction of thousands of US military soldiers since the war began both on the battlefield and off. While casualties on the field have been significantly reduced compared to previous wars in history, the psychological cost has been devastating.
In 2013, the United States Department of Veterans Affairs released a study that covered suicides from 1999 to 2010, which showed that roughly 22 veterans were dying by suicide per day, or one every 65 minutes. Some sources suggest that this rate may be under-counting suicides.
Not discussing the horrors of drone strikes which take thousands of civilian lives alongside enemy forces, there doesn't seem to be a plan for ending this war in the foreseeable future.
What do you think? What should we do as civilians of a government which seems bent on continuing to send lives into this war zone without any idea of what it will take to consider this war ended?
How do we perpetuate this war with the understanding, the longer we engage in it the more insurgents we inspire and the greater the economic and social costs we incur as a nation?
How do you think we should handle the perpetual warfare perspective of our nation?
For the most part in the not too distant future, wars will be fought digitally and electronically. Commanded by geeks raised on pac man with relatively small insertions of humans to root out other electronic systems commandeered by equally herd human beings on the other side. It will be more guerrilla type warfare where larger forces of disposable humans will not be effective to fight it. Our own American revolutionary soldiers proved that point.


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FUCKED UP FRIDAYS: A Serbian Film (Revisited)
4 years ago Yeti
Almost a year ago, I watched this film for the first time and reviewed it. I shied away from the more gruesome details. Not this time, though. This time, we're diving deep into this infamous piece of extreme cinema. We're going to talk about all the dirty bits, folks.
A Serbian Film follows Milos, a washed-up porn star just trying to support his family. At one time, he was one of the greatest cock-slinger to ever pound vag. He was the Balkan King of Boning. By the time we meet Milos, though he's just a guy with a huge porn collection of himself and a family. Just when he thinks everything is really going to hell in a hand basket one of his former co-stars offers him a starring role in a new artistic porn film. The director, a secretive man named Vukmir, wants Milos to help him create something more than porn. He wants to create "real sex, real people, real situations," for a very select clientele. Milos soon realizes that Vukmir has sinister plans for him.
The movie opens with Milos slinging dick in a back alley. He has some standing sex before bending his costar over the front of a motorcycle.
The POV shifts and it is revealed that his six year old son, Petar is sitting on the couch watching one of his dad's old movies. Milos and Marija catch him watching the film and there's a little back and forth between them about keeping his films put away.
Daddy makes make believe movies.. they're like cartoons for grownups
It is revealed that Milos had gotten that particular DVD out because Lejla, the girl getting railed in the alleyway, had called him with a job offer and he was planning to meet her. I guess he wanted to refresh his memory of what she looked like naked. I don't know. I don't do business meetings so I'm not sure how much of a help that would be. Either way, he goes to a nice outdoor café to meet his smoking-hot former coworker.
During this meeting, she breaks down this big opportunity to Milos. Vukmir, she explains, is making films in Serbia for the foreign market. She tells him very little about the man or the job but tells him that Vukmir will be calling him the next day and to be nice to him.
As they are wrapping up their talk, Marko comes and sits at the table. Marko is a crooked cop as well as a douchbag. He's also Milos' brother. Later, it is revealed that Marko is super hot for Marija. He even goes so far as to watch home movies of Milos' family while he's getting a blowjob just so he can look at Marija and get his nut. He's creep-level obsessed with Marija. That's all that we really need to know about him for now.
Milos gets the call from his new boss the next day. They talk a bit and Vukmir informs Milos that he will be sending a car around shortly and he is excited to finally meet such a big star. Remember, Milos is famous for his enormous raging erections. Huge cock. That's important later.
Milos shows up to Vukmir's giant house and they talk a little about the job. Vukmir informs his new star that he will be making groundbreaking artistic films. They are bigger than porn. They are life distilled on film. When Milos is handed a contract and told that he doesn't need to read all of it, just the numbers he does just that. He realizes that there is nothing about the film in the contract and wants to know what kind of movie he is agreeing to make. Vukmir informs him that his reaction will be better if he doesn't know what's coming.
Marija and Milos discuss the new job and he decides to do it. The sum of money is never stated but it is apparently enough to have the family financially set for the rest of Petar's life. They need the money so it was hard for Milos to say no.
Filming Starts
From the first day of filming, Milos realized that this gig is a little different. The car arrives for him and the driver hands him an ear piece and tells him to put it in. This is how he gets his direction for the upcoming scene. He is instructed to walk into a building that is revealed to be an orphanage.
right this way…
As two cameramen follow him, he walks into the building and down the hall. Here he is greeted by a beautiful woman who leads him down the hall to a stairwell. She stops and motions Milos to what looks like a preteen girl sitting on the stairs. This is a super fucked up fake out because you're led to believe that Milos is going to be plying his trade with the girl.
Luckily, the girl's mom comes in yelling at her and drags her away. They might be Serbian but that was some methed out trailer park "parenting" if I ever saw it. The woman leads him to a darkened room with two big video screens. As she steps behind Milos and starts groping his bulge, the screens come on. One is the young girl eating a popsicle and the other is her putting on her makeup.
Milos is forced to watch this as the woman gets ready to play a solo on his skin flute. He's a little fucked up about it but finally, he decides to say "fuck it" and rearrange her tonsils despite the weird images on the screen.
Another Day Another Depraved Act
Milos is brought to a big ass warehouse where he will shoot his next film. We see the young girl's mother being slapped around before she crawls over to Milos and begins working on playing her own skin flute concerto.
Everything is going well until Milos realizes that the little girl is sitting in a chair watching them. He freaks out and pushes the woman off of his rod and starts yelling about quitting.
This little girl has some issues though
At this point, one of Vukmir's goons grabs him in a sleeper hold and the woman bites down on Milos' trouser trumpet.
The goon and the young girl start demanding that Milos hit the woman. She's got her teeth dug into his cock meat so it doesn't take much goading for him to give her a few shots to the head. She releases her oral death grip, grabs his crank, and starts working on taking a shot to the face of a different kind.
Things Have Taken a Turn…
Milos meets with Vukmir to tell him that he is quitting the film. He tells Vukmir that he doesn't fuck kids, he doesn't beat women, and he damn sure doesn't beat women while their kids watch. This is obviously a lie. We watched him do it. Anyway, he is telling Vukmir that he isn't down with the kind of shit Vukmir is making.
At this point, Vukmir explains that kids are "his thing" and he explains how people want to live vicariously through film. He wants to show the world the plight of victims. In a world that is becoming more and more free of certain hardships, especially for Vukmir's clients, the victimization of others is an easy sell.
Milos isn't trying to hear any of that shit and instead of listening to reason, Vukmir doubles down. He decides that Milos needs to see some of his "art" in order to understand what he is trying to create. So, he sits Milos down and queues up a film.
This film gives us one of the most infamous scenes in the movie. A large bald man is helping a mother give birth. Milos isn't sure what's going on but he knows it can't be good. First-time viewers are probably in the same boat.
The man delivers the baby. Then, lets not mince words here, he fucks the baby to death in front of the mother. Honestly, I think the mom was into it.
Milos has had enough of this crazy fuckery and bails out. As he's leaving, Vukmir yells after him telling Milos that what he witnessed was a whole new genre. It was called "Newborn porn".
You Thought You Could Leave?
Milos is pretty fucked up over his day at the office and heads home. He's done. He's sure of it. Then he starts rubbing his cock through his jeans as a woman walks across a crosswalk. She comes to the car, reaches in, starts jerking Milos off and ends up pushing him into the passenger seat while she drives. She never stops yanking his crank.
Milos wakes up in his bed all bloody and fucked up. It is revealed that he has lost about three or four days. The man doesn't have a clue what happened but he knows who to blame. Most of the rest of the film plays out in flashbacks.
This is Where Things Get Fucking Weird
Our protagonist heads back to Vukmir's place and finds some tapes. He decides to watch them and is sickened by what he finds. It is revealed that Vukmir and his hot-ass assistant drugged him with a cocktail that basically turned him into a ravenously horny, violent, zombie slave.
One of the first flashbacks shows him with the mother from earlier. She is chained up on the bed, completely naked and face down. All his captors have to do is point him in her direction and he's behind her digging around in her guts.
Vukmir starts telling him what a filthy whore the woman is and demands that he beat her. After Milos lands a few hard punches to her back, he is handing a machete. He continues going to town on this lady doggy-style while hacking her head off with a machete.
Once she is dead, Milos is pulled away from her corpse and the production team goes about cleaning up the crime scene.
A What Kind of Communion?
One of the tapes Milos watches shows him sitting on the couch in a small house. The young gril, Jeca, from earlier is sitting there as well. Her grandmother starts going on about Jeca's late father and how he died before he could give Jeca her "Young woman's communion" and turn her into a woman.
At this point, the young girl starts rubbing on Milos' thigh. She's totally into it. Milos, on the other hand, isn't into it at all. He's so not into it that he threatens to cut his massive member off before jumping out a window.
A Happy Serbian Family
One of the most fucked up scenes in the movie happens a few minutes later. Milos is led into a room. There are two bodies on a platform. They're covered from the waist up but naked from the waist down. He is led to the first one and goes to town fucking it. Then, he is directed to the other body which is much smaller.
Vukmir is like a kid on Christmas. Can't wait to unwrap his gift..
As he is squeezing his big ol' donkey wang into a tiny orifice, a masked man comes over and starts drilling the larger body. Before long, he and the masked man are really giving it to their respective lifeless bodies. Vukmir is standing there like a kid in a candy store. The excitement on his face is evident as he reaches out and unmasks the second man, revealing Marko.
Milos doesn't have time to fully react to this before the two victims are revealed. Marko is shown to be fucking Marija while Milos is balls deep in his son Petar. He loses his shit, beats the fuck out of Vukmir and shoots a couple of the goons. Marija sees her son laying next to her and loses her shit as well. She kills Marko.
Milos is shown back at home. His wife and child are obviously deeply traumatized. After sitting in silence for awhile they make an unspoken agreement and go lay in the bed. Petar is laid between his parents and Milos uses a pistol to end their suffering.
The corpses of the family are laid out on the bed and a camera crew is set up at the foot of the bed. One of the crew starts to unbuckle his pants while looking at the lifeless bodies. Vukmir's replacement tells him to "start with the little one" as the credits roll.
Aesthetically Speaking, Though..
If I've said it once, I'll say it a thousand times: this movie is fucking gorgeous. The cinematography is stellar. There are some shots of Milos brooding over his decisions on life and his actions that are just incredible. They're beautiful scenes steeped in emotion. They really serve to humanize the man that will later be reduced to a mindless fuck machine.
The practical effects in this flick are pretty dope as well. This isn't an all-out bloodbath or anything but when blood spills it looks good. The beheading scene is also really well done.
The only thing that really takes me out of it is Milos' obvious stunt cock. Every time you get a glimpse of his tool it looks like a big generic strap on. I know a fake cock is a weird thing to bitch about but it is what it is.
This movie may be infamous for its content but there great care was taken to present that content in the cleanest way possible.
I feel like these characters are really well put-together. You know everything you need to know about all of them.
Vukmir is framed as a madman and philosopher who is hellbent on bringing his form of art to the world. I really enjoy him as a villain. Some of the speeches he gives about art and humanity are great. He might be a crazy fucker who makes pedo snuff films but that makes him an interesting villain.
Milos is developed well. He's just your average dad. He wants to live his life and love his family. At the root of it, he gets into all of this crazy shit because he wants to give his family a better existence. His humanity is really solidified in his reaction to his actions while under the influence of Vukmir's cocktail. He's a fairly ordinary dude in an extraordinarily fucked up situation and watching him come to terms with is is so rewarding.
How Does It Hold Up?
I said in my previous review that this movie was incredibly fucked up and lived up to all the hype. This time around, though, I feel a little less overwhelmed by it. There are some seriously fucked up moments. The "family scene" will always be really fucking twisted. Much of the rest of the film will fall flat to those who are more used to extreme films.
A Serbian Film is a movie full of depravity and sexual violence. It isn't in this that I find the most disturbing scenes, though. To me, that final scene is the most nihilistic and disturbing of the whole film. You're led to believe that Vukmir is the source of all of this evil but you're shown that he is only a cog in a much larger machine. Knowing this, steals the moment of catharsis that comes with his death. Also, the fact that they are using Milos and his family is props for the next film steals the release of their deaths. This scene is subtle and brilliant.
Honestly, after a year of wading through weird shit, I feel like A Serbian Film is training wheels. It's a good movie and an excellent introduction to extreme cinema but it's nowhere near the most disturbing film ever made.
I saw a shirt the other day that said "I liked A Serbian Film so fuck you and your baby". That's how I feel about it, really. I liked this movie and with the right people, I would be willing to watch it again. If I were going to drag someone down the rabbit hole of extreme cinema this would be within the first couple films I showed them. A Serbian film depraved, disgusting, and well-done. I love this movie for challenging taboos and showing us that lines can be crossed in film even in the modern age.
All in all, would I recommend this movie? You're goddamned right I would! Forget all the hype and all the horrible things you've heard, strap in, and let this movie broaden your horizons. Just keep telling yourself "It's only a movie".
Tags: a serbian film, depravity, exploitation, extreme cinema, extreme horror, fucked up fridays, serbian film, violence
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All issues Volume 40 / No 3 (May-June 2009) Vet. Res., 40 3 (2009) 23 Abstract
Vet. Res.
Volume 40, Number 3, May-June 2009
https://doi.org/10.1051/vetres/2009006
Vet. Res. (2009) 40:23
How to cite this article: Vet. Res. (2009) 40:23
DOI: 10.1051/vetres/2009006
Rapid and widely disseminated acute phase protein response after experimental bacterial infection of pigs
Kerstin Skovgaard1, Shila Mortensen1, Mette Boye1, Karin T. Poulsen1, Fiona M. Campbell2, 3, P. David Eckersall2 and Peter M.H. Heegaard1
1 National Veterinary Institute, Technical University of Denmark, 27 Bülowsvej, DK-1790 Copenhagen V, Denmark
2 Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom
3 Present address: The Rowett Research Institute, Greenburn Road, Bucksburn, Aberdeen, United Kingdom
Received 4 July 2008; accepted 20 February 2009; published online 24 February 2009
Abstract - The acute phase protein response is a well-described generalized early host response to tissue injury, inflammation and infection, observed as pronounced changes in the concentrations of a number of circulating serum proteins. The biological function of this response and its interplay with other parts of innate host defence reactions remain somewhat elusive. In order to gain new insight into this early host defence response in the context of bacterial infection we studied gene expression changes in peripheral lymphoid tissues as compared to hepatic expression changes, 14–18 h after lung infection in pigs. The lung infection was established with the pig specific respiratory pathogen Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae. Quantitative real-time PCR based expression analysis were performed on samples from liver, tracheobronchial lymph node, tonsils, spleen and on blood leukocytes, supplemented with measurements of interleukin-6 and selected acute phase proteins in serum. C-reactive protein and serum amyloid A were clearly induced 14–18 h after infection. Extrahepatic expression of acute phase proteins was found to be dramatically altered as a result of the lung infection with an extrahepatic acute phase protein response occurring concomitantly with the hepatic response. This suggests that the acute phase protein response is a more disseminated systemic response than previously thought. The current study provides to our knowledge the first example of porcine extrahepatic expression and regulation of C-reactive protein, haptoglobin, fibrinogen, pig major acute phase protein, and transferrin in peripheral lymphoid tissues.
Key words: acute phase protein / systemic response / innate defence / gene expression / pig
Corresponding author: kesk@vet.dtu.dk
© INRA, EDP Sciences 2009
PubMed Record
Application of acute phase protein measurements in veterinary clinical chemistry
Vet. Res. 35, 163-187 (2004)
Haptoglobin and pig-major acute protein are increased in pigs with postweaning multisystemic wasting syndrome (PMWS)
Pig Major Acute-Phase Protein and apolipoprotein A-I responses correlate with the clinical course of experimentally induced African Swine Fever and Aujeszky's disease
An experimentally induced Chlamydia suis infection in pigs results in severe lung function disorders and pulmonary inflammation
Vet. Res. 39, 1- (2008)
The negative acute phase response of serum transthyretin following Streptococcus suis infection in the pig
Veterinary Research, a journal on Animal Infection
© INRA / EDP Sciences


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Sports Round-Up Dec. 7
The Archbishop Molloy H.S., Briarwood, junior varsity softball team recently collected and donated over 300 pairs of athletic shoes, baseball gloves, toiletries and medical supplies to underprivileged children in the Dominican Republic through the Cesar Presbott Foundation.
On Nov. 20, St. Joseph's College Brooklyn, Clinton, women's basketball standout Kelly O'Donnell became the 11th student-athlete in program history to score 1,000 career points. The graduate of St. Edmund Prep H.S., Sheepshead Bay, accomplished the feat as a junior and in the fewest number of games of any player in Bears' history.
During a pregame ceremony before the Nov. 21 game against Medgar Evers College, Midwood, the St. Francis College, Brooklyn Heights, men's basketball team honored the legacy of the late Levi "Yogi" Bough, '50.
A true trailblazer, Bough was the first African-African to play on the men's basketball team, paving the way for scores of student-athletes to suit up for the Terriers. His family was on hand to receive a special plaque and a framed No. 14 jersey.
Bough graduated St. Francis with degrees in philosophy and psychology. He established a life in Switzerland as a trainer and basketball coach. He died in 2008 at age 87.
Joanne Persico, the head women's volleyball coach at St. John's University, Jamaica, notched her 500th career victory on Nov. 15 with a straight-set win over Seton Hall University, South Orange, N.J. Persico is a 1984 graduate of St. Francis Prep, Fresh Meadows, and a member of the school's Hall of Fame and Red & Blue Ring of Honor.
Former Bishop Kearney H.S., Bensonhurst, track standout Jackie Gallagher had an impressive showing in the NCAA Division I Northeast Regional Cross-Country Championships, held at SUNY Buffalo, N.Y.
The senior competes as a member of the St. John's University, Jamaica, track team. Before high school, she ran for the St. Francis de Sales, Belle Harbor, Catholic Youth Organization team.
Despite treacherous weather conditions and a fall early on in the race, Gallagher battled back for her best mark of the season in the women's 6K race with a time of 23:14.7. The Biology major also clipped her Big East Conference championship meet time of 25:31.1 by over two minutes.
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so this is a story about trying to sell something on craigslist.
seriously, you would think it is a simple thing to do. and i mean i know there are weird people on craigslist but generally speaking i don't believe it is too much to ask to be able to have a simple sales transaction on craigslist. to relatively normal people.
now i think this sounds slightly odd but i mean, people are weird. i will check with my "voice of reason" and see what she says.
VOR fail. because clearly this person is capt crazypants.
and i am crazy people fly paper.
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An applied research program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, SEDAC draws from the expertise of University of Illinois faculty, staff, and students to conduct cutting-edge research on energy efficiency and sustainability. Leveraging relationships with current and former program participants, SEDAC conducts scholarship to expand understanding of effective strategies to improve energy efficiency in buildings. Research is conducted in close consultation with community partners, addressing questions that have emerged from SEDAC's energy efficiency project experience.
Research articles by SEDAC staff and students have been published in academic journals and shared at conferences across the country. See our research library for links to the articles we've published and explore a few research highlights below.
Our research question: Do energy information dashboards and energy behavior campaigns reduce energy consumption and change occupant behaviors and attitudes?
What we did: We implemented energy dashboards in four buildings on four different community college campuses and implemented a six-week energy behavior change campaign at these colleges. We measured energy consumption before and after the intervention, interviewed building managers, and surveyed students, faculty and staff before and after the intervention.
The good news: These two interventions did result in significant energy savings (7-10% decrease in electricity and 50% decrease in natural gas). Interviews with building managers indicated that energy dashboards improved their ability to detect system faults and implement energy-saving adjustments.
The not-so-good news: There were no significant differences in attitudes and behaviors for students, faculty, and staff before and after the intervention.
The take-away: Energy dashboards can be effective at improving facility management approaches and saving energy, but they may be less useful at influencing occupant attitudes and behaviors.
Timm, S. N., & Deal, B. M. (2016). Effective or ephemeral? The role of energy information dashboards in changing occupant energy behaviors. Energy Research and Social Science, 19, 11-20.
Our research question: It's easy to assume that RCx is a strictly technical exercise, optimizing the energy performance of the built environment. But occupants, operators, staff and administrators introduce human error and variability. How are people part of the energy system, and how can they be part of the solution? What are the human challenges to achieving savings through RCx?
What we did: We reflected on our field experiences to come up with a list of challenges and a series of recommendations to address this human component.
They do not have routine procedures in place to retain savings.
Westervelt, E. (2014, 19-21 May). The Human Side of Retro-Commissioning. Paper presented at the National Conference on Building Commissioning.


getfox.pl is a script i hacked together to automate the fetching of certain comics strips.
It's quite easily modified to fit other sources than foxtrot.com.
This was done as part of the examination in a Perl course I attended at school.
Basically it's a script for setting permissions on files and directories recursively.
length and optional special characters.
The same as above but implemented in C just for educational purposes.
mboxpurge.pl is a tool for purging old messages out of mbox-style mailboxes.
Please feel free to comment or report any bugs to me.


where can we watch the Ukraine\'s girl routine?
I wish you had posted the links to all the NCAA things you mentioned.
HOLY CHRIST I CANNOT RECOMMEND BIKINI ZONE ENOUGH. You can just read (or watch gymnastics) in the time it takes to work and works great on sensitive skin.
Where can we find the Baku lighting videos?
The Romanian girl is Ana Maria Ocolisan.
The good lighting meet is Marseille I think.
Where is the bars routine from Ukraine for god sake thats important!!! lol I want to see it now, her name is Diana what?
Can anyone elaborate on what the South Durham Gymnastics Club posted on FB about Amy Tinkler? Jessica only hinted that it was unprofessional of them and that the post was taken down.


Transition is change; it's often life's way of asking us to re-examine our present way of being. Sometimes these transitions are predictable, but too often they can be unpredictable, such as the sudden death of a loved one or a debilitating accident. They all have one thing in common though: they force us to change our present life and we tend to be resistant to this. A major transition puts us in a new place and sends us in a new path that we have never walked before. The adjustment can be difficult as we experience feelings of fear, doubt and uncertainty.
Transition opens up a period of self-reflection which leads to a new beginning and a new outlook on life. Want it or not, we are forced to let go of the old ways and learn new ones. Forced learning is difficult and uncomfortable and we often feel disconnected form ourselves. As we move through this phase, our feelings can be overwhelming and they can send us into emotional turmoil. We may look for ways such as alcohol and drug abuse to numb the pain and anxiety. When properly processed though, out of these overwhelming transitions, can come good and enriching experiences that can help us mature and grown stronger, spiritually and emotionally.
Life transitions are difficult because we naturally resist change, even the good ones, as they make us feel stressed and uneasy. In short, we are not comfortable with the unknown. Transitions are often beyond the scope of our own behaviour patterns and ways of thinking and it is hard to form a completely new self identity.
Life does not care and change will happen whether we want it or not, forcing us into transition which can be the most painful experience of our life. Nevertheless, there is no way to go around, over or under them, we must go through them and get to the other side. Trying to ignore or resist these unavoidable changes will only prolong them and make them harder to endure, thus negatively affecting our daily life. When it is overwhelmingly difficult to accept and stop fighting life changes, one should seek help from a Life Transitions Counsellor for support, clarity and assistance to learn how to adapt to this fundamental shift.
Dr Milot is a doctor in Therapeutic Counselling. He has over 30 years of experience in the mental health care field, hypnotherapy and life coaching. Dr Milot is schooled in the Carl Rogers 'Client Centered Therapy' (helping relationships). He is also disciplined in martial arts, Zen and Yoga meditation, and is a Tai Chi and Pranayama (breathing exercises) practitioner. Dr Milot is a level 5 graduate (Ph.D. level) in the rare 'Eastern / Western Spirituality' teachings of 'The International College of Spiritual and Psychic Sciences' based in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He is also the first in Canada to be certified as a 'Guided Afterlife Connection' counsellor.
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Simon Cowell breaks back in electric bicycle accident
Aug. 9, 2020 Updated: Aug. 9, 2020 10:53 a.m.
MALIBU, Calif. (AP) — Simon Cowell broke his back Saturday while testing his new electric bicycle at his home in California.
Cowell was expected to have surgery Saturday evening, according to a spokesperson for the entertainment mogul. Cowell fell off the bike while in the courtyard with his family at his house in Malibu. He was taken to a hospital and was said to be under observation and doing fine.
Cowell created "America's Got Talent" and serves as a judge on the show. He has also been the judge on "Britain's Got Talent," "The X Factor" and "American Idol."


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Die RBC Pro Challenge 2017 war ein Tennisturnier für Damen in Tyler, Texas. Das Hartplatzturnier war Teil des ITF Women's Circuit 2017 und fand vom 31. Oktober bis 5. November 2017 statt.

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Distractions Aspen is a high-end fashion boutique located in Aspen, CO. Owned and operated by Heidi Semrau, who handpicks, researches, and selects each collection with the help of her fashion savvy staff, Distractions is THE place to shop if you're looking to stay ahead of fashion trends, both domestic and international.
This project was designed and managed by the brilliant team over at Ivory Digital, a digital production agency based in NYC. Dennis Marrero of Fake Plastic Websites took on the development of this beautiful e-commerce site as part of the Ivory Digital team.


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AM HQ Exhorts Priority on Campus Evangelism During September Prime Season
The school year officially begins for university students in the U.S. and in most other countries in the month of September. Therefore, a great focus and priority should be on campus evangelism. Students are fresh from summer vacation and many freshmen are interested in joining Christian groups.
The beginning of the school year is the best time for spiritual fishing. Once this time is lost, it will be hard to recover a strong pace or momentum for campus evangelism. This is the best time to act and save this dying age group.
A study conducted by Barna Group, described the changing faces of America's churchless in the 21st century. One of the most interesting relationships was the increase of skeptics among young people and college educated people.
Skeptics, according to the article "2015 State of Atheism in America," include atheists and agnostics. Skeptics represent 25% of unchurched adults and there are several major shifts in the profile of these people. Skeptics are developing at younger and younger ages. According to a survey conducted in 1993, only 18% of skeptics were under the age of 30. However, in 2013, the percentage almost doubled to 34%. While only 33% of skeptics were college educated, according to the survey more than 20 years ago, the percentage has risen to 50% as of 2013.
While young people have become less Christian, the proportion of skeptics aged 65 or older has decreased. Unfortunately, the abundance of churches and Christian organizations has not helped to reach out to those who have doubts about God or the Bible. Two-thirds of skeptics have been to church before and still hold to anti-Christian views.
In light of today's post-Christian culture, Christians have a responsibility to shine the light of truth especially among young adults who will become our world leaders very soon. As Barna Group describes, atheism or anti-Christian views have changed from once being a "culture anathema" to being what the "cooler" kids do.
"It is increasingly common among Millennials to dismiss religion, God, churches, authority and tradition," David Kinnaman, president of Barna Group said, in his analysis of the data. "For years, some observers have claimed colleges and universities are a breeding ground for anti-God sentiment. The data does lend support to the notion that college campuses are comfortable places for young people to abandon God and assume control of their own lives.
He continued, "Yet in spite of clear trends and obvious needs, our research suggests that most of the efforts of Christian ministries fail to reach much beyond the core of 'Christianized' America. It's much easier to work with this already-sympathetic audience than to focus on the so-called 'nones.' And it's no mystery why: Figuring out how to effectively engage skeptics is difficult."
Kinnaman goes on to share that skeptics are less engaged in social activities and perhaps less likely to want to form a relationship among ministry leaders. This may discourage Christians from trying to reach out to skeptics or those who do not claim any religious affiliation.
"But in giving his followers the Great Commission, Jesus didn't mention anything about doing what is easy. New levels of courage and clarity will be required to connect beyond the Christianized majority."
May the Holy Spirit guide campus evangelism to boldly and lovingly reach out to all people with the love of Christ.


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Q: On-click JS doesn't working Below mentioned is my HTML code for the navigation menu:

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And now the on-click action is not working. Somebody please help!! I got this code from some online tutorial. Since I'm new to JavaScript, please correct the code for me. Thank you in advance.

A: Your code works perfectly fine, might be the CSS class being incorrect which is causing the issue, can you recheck with the CSS class.
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Leprosy was a horrifying disease in which there was no cure. The people were so scared of it spreading to the masses that they would gather the sick and have a priest inspect them to proclaim them as "lepers." It did not matter the disease, if the people feared any contamination of a disease they did the same action. These sick people would have then been banished from their towns and sent to a encampment to either die or get better. This community of "lepers" would care for one another since so many others were afraid to go near them. I cannot imagine the isolation and hopelessness these poor people had to deal with.
When the leper went to Jesus, he had complete faith that Jesus Christ could heal his illness. This leper knew that many people would not go near him, but he was desperate for a cure that only Jesus could provide him. Then something amazing happened, our Lord told him that He was willing to heal him and reached out His hand and touched the leper. Instantly the leper was cured and everyone around was amazed. Not only did Jesus heal this person because of their faith in Him, but Jesus did not fear the sick and lame.
Today we know that leprosy is curable if treated in the early stages, however, our sins are an incurable disease and we all have it. There is no dividing the ill, because many times our sins are internal and can only be seen by God. Without the loving touch of Jesus Christ in our lives, we are doomed to die with this serious illness. We can learn from this leper and have complete faith that we can be healed from our sins and they will be. Only when we realize the inhibility to handle our own sins can you allow His healing hand to comfort you. Jesus is willing to heal us all and fill us with the spirit of truth and love if we take the first step of faith and seek Him.
So if you are starting to realize that you are ill, please call out to Jesus because He is always willing to hold out His hand for us. Remember you are not alone or isolated because of your sins, we have all been there and felt the same way at one point and time. Our enemy tries to feed these seeds of doubt, but we know what the cure is. So never lose hope and with faith all things are possible.


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The Member's name, boat name and sail number Managing race entries and race results. Sharing race results with other clubs, class associations, and the RYA, and providing race results to local and national media.
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Bayern aim big despite Atletico distraction
Bayern are feeling the pressure in their bid for a repeat of the 2013 treble.
A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Daily Star on April 30, 2016, on page 14.
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Karl Heinz Rummenigge
Jerome Boateng
Pep Guardiola's Bayern Munich can become the first club to win a fourth consecutive Bundesliga title by beating Borussia Moenchengladbach Saturday, amid the distraction of their Champions League semifinal. Bayern hold a seven-point lead and with three games left, a win over Gladbach at Munich's Allianz Arena will confirm a fourth straight German league title, a feat no other team has achieved before.
But Bayern are still smarting from Wednesday's 1-0 Champions League defeat at Atletico Madrid.
Should Gladbach shock Bayern, Borussia Dortmund will look to delay the Munich title party with victory over last season's runners up VfL Wolfsburg at the Signal Iduna Park.
Dortmund have won their last three games by a 3-0 scoreline and have already qualified for the Champions League.


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The Top 12 of 2012
by Betsy Mills | Feb 20, 2013 | Daily Paper Summaries | 6 comments
2. Constraining Dark Energy at high redshifts
Title: The Hubble Space Telescope Cluster Supernova Survey. V. Improving the Dark-energy Constraints above z > 1 and Building an Early-type-hosted Supernova Sample
Authors: N. Suzuki, D. Rubin, C. Lidman, et al.
First Author's Institution: Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, Berkeley
Why it is important: Dark energy is still almost as mysterious as it was in its Nobel-prize winning discovery in 1998. These observations help tighten constraints on one of the things we most want to know– how does dark energy now compare to dark energy in the early universe?
This paper presents an updated sample of type Ia supernovae, including ten at z > 1. Here, the authors show that the current constraints from these supernovae, the CMB, and Baryon Acoustic Oscillations (see #4) are still consistent (contours) with Einstein's model of a cosmological constant (w0 = -1, x-axis) which does not vary with time (wa = 0, y-axis). (Adapted from Figure 6 of Suzuki et al.).
Next: (#1) So Many Gamma Rays, So Little Time: The Best and Biggest Look at the Gamma-ray Sky (So Far)
Previous: (#3) We are Small, but We are Many! Kepler Measures an Increasing Frequency of Small Planets
About Betsy Mills
I am a 22nd-grader at UCLA, working with Mark Morris and spending the year at the MPIA in Heidelberg finishing my thesis. I like molecules in space, radio telescopes, the extreme center of our galaxy, getting to look at things no-one else has ever seen before, solving puzzles, and finding creative ways to survive graduate school
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Dave Coulter	on February 20, 2013 at 5:14 pm
Hi Betsy:
Just a note– it looks like the arXiv link that you have on the first page of this article does not link to the title you provide.
The link looks like it goes here:
"How supernova feedback turns dark matter cusps into cores"
instead of here:
"Keck Spectroscopy of Faint 3<z<8 Lyman Break Galaxies:- Evidence for a Declining Fraction of Emission Line Sources In the Redshift Range 6<z<8"
Ah, actually the links are just switched–
Betsy Mills	on February 21, 2013 at 3:28 am
Thanks Dave! The links are now fixed.
Donald D Clayton	on February 20, 2013 at 7:39 pm
Fascinating articles! But counting citations seriously distorts what astronomy is about. Because most young astronomers today work in observational cosmology, 10/12 papers are on that topic, the most glamorous frontier. But 10/12 of the most significant new papers of 2012 (selected some other way) paint a certainly much broader canvas, and reflect the amazing scope of astronomical research!
Only the search for new planets (another glamour topic) and new calculations of the evolution of rotating stars in the HR diagram (a classic issue in stellar astronomy) penetrated the top twelve. So much more was missing!
Nonetheless, an interesting citation poll.
Song, Wang	on February 20, 2013 at 9:05 pm
Hi, I think the mass-to-light ratio of a low-mass star is higher than that of a high-mass star. In addition, the Salpeter IMF has more low-mass stars than the Kroupa and Chabrier IMFs.
I think that the article in astrobites has more detail introduction:
http://astrobites.com/2012/02/16/the-imf-is-not-universal/
Yes, I had the mass-to-light ratio section entirely backward; this is now corrected (and consistent with the linked astrobite). Thank you!!
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The Slitherine site has been evolving so fast the PH site was having trouble keeping up so we decided rather than try and update 2 sites we would combine them in to one.
You can still buy the same gorgeous military prints as before, at the same great prices. These prints are all exclusive to Slitherine so you wont see them anywhere else!


Here is the DNA of MeMoRy: the joy of being free despite limitations, or how to tell a story, solve puzzles and have fun with traps all the while being creative, authentic and light.
Audiences who have seen MeMoRy report that it is a bluffing, inventive, captivating, surprising, and funny show.
"How does it work?" you may ask.
20 suggestions are taken from the audience in perfectly random order and written on a board visible only to the audience. Improvisor and mentalist Cédric memorizes these words. His partner then enters the theater knowing nothing of these words, and from there they embark on an improvised story in which Cédric puts the words in order from 1 to 20. The audience is kept in suspense, waiting for each word to be placed at the right moment. And even more bluffing: Cédric has his partner saying some of the words during the story, while they have neither seen nor heard them! The soundtrack of the story is created live.
Cédric Fernandez hails from Bordeaux, France, where he evolved from a working engineer to a working improvisor. He joined the Bordeaux improvisation league – LICOEUR – in 2009 and participated in the creation of the BIP (Bordeaux Improvisation Professionnelle) in 2011. He has studied and performed improv in France and Quebec, and has created the show Mes Mots Rient (or MeMorRy) which combines improv, mentalism, music and drawing. MMR has played at Improvidence Bordeaux, Mount Olymprov Festival in Athens, Greece, and the 2018 Festival D'Avignon.
He will be joined by NYC based improvisor Jamie Graham (The Raving Jaynes) and musician William Babin (Bordeaux).
And a tip: unless tu parle français, be sure to activate the subtitles / closed caption for an English translation of the video trailer!


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