This project will be the biggest aviation construction and civil project in Australia. With a timeframe of 2014-2020 at an investment of $1.35B this project will give Brisbane Airport the best runway in Australia. With reclaiming of around 360 hectares of soft marshland by pumping around 11million ²m of sand onto the marshlands during the next 4 years, the weight of the sand with help from 330,000 wick drains funnelling water to the surface will produce a solid base for the construction of the runway. New pavement approximately 3.3 klms long, 60 metres wide will be constructed for the 12km taxiway. Lighting, navigational aids and landscaping will all be part of this project.
Land Solution Australia were very excited to be part of this impressive project to support their client with Stage 1 of the build which included constructing the platform for the dredging pipeline. Our Surveyors assisted the civil contractors with GNSS Localisation surveys including Survey control points, transfer points from MGA to Airport grid. Office Data Management and analysis of imported data from 12D to Autodesk Civil 3D for checks, calculations of grid coordinates and QA the PDF Plans requiring adjustments. Our client constructed 3.71km 1m diameter steel dredge pipe and maintenance road from Luggage Point through an existing waste water treatment plant across the current airport to the proposed disposal site. Our client were also involved in the installation of a 40m temporary pipe bridge across the existing WWTW outfall, installing 270m of 30mm welded pipe through a culvert under the existing runway, significant diversion of roads within the airport and the installation of the floating pipe into the Brisbane River. Our client worked to incredible timeframes to complete these requirements for their client and to ensure the dredging of the marshland commenced.
This deadline driven Stage 1 required Land Solution Australia to be out on call performing on-site localisation and upload to equipment , creating and validating 3D constructible data models, managing design changes with those models, pre-commencement survey, calculation of volumes, create turn around models and re-issue data. Our surveyors also performed field data capture for As-constructed survey of access tracks, reductions and CAD drafting.
In support of this project for our client, Land Solution Australia ensured their Surveyors conducted all appropriate medicals and permits and were completed before commencement of all survey requirements to Stage 1 for the Brisbane Airport Parallel Runway. Some of Land Solution Australia survey requirements involved the JVR localisation, the TJL pre-commencement survey, airside JDN surface capture and Road as-constructed surveys.


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Prashanth, who was caught up in a messy divorce, is all set to begin a new life. The actor is currently busy with Mambattiyan, which is being directed by his father Thyagarajan. This film is a remake of the smash hit Thyagarajan-starrer Malaiyoor Mambattiyaan. He also has another project lined up, which is Ponnar Shankar.
In a recent interview, Prashanth's father and filmmaker Thyagarajan revealed that plans are afoot to get his son married soon. He had also disclosed that the marriage will take place within a few days of Mambattiyan release.


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Integrated relational Enzyme database
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IntEnz is a freely available resource focused on enzyme nomenclature. IntEnz contains the recommendations of the Nomenclature Committee of the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (NC-IUBMB) on the nomenclature and classification of enzyme-catalysed reactions.
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Q: Search by '.' causes non-selective query exception I have a simple query in an Apex trigger:
SELECT Id, Name FROM Account WHERE Name in :Names

where :Names is a set of strings
Set<String> Names = new Set<String>();

This query fails with System.QueryException: Non-selective query against large object type (more than 100000 rows) when the set contains '.' string.
Names.add( '.' );

Can anyone explain this behavior? Does the dot character have a special meaning in SOQL?
By the way, the account record with the weird name "." exists if this is important.
Update.
There are more than 100000 accounts, most of them are unique. I can select the accounts using Developer Console:

As you can see, 2 records are selected. The exception rises when I try to reproduce the query in a trigger. I've created the most simple trigger that causes the exception:
trigger testTrigg on Contact (after insert) {
    Account[] accounts = [select Id, Name from Account where Name in ('.') limit 100];
}

Then I tried to create a contact and got the exception:

As I see, I get a different query plan depends on value of searching. '.' value is surprisingly equal to NULL.

A: I have tried in Developer Console, and there is no issue with the dot character.
Code
 Set<String> Names = new Set<String>();
 Names.add( '.' );
 List<Account> accounts = [SELECT Id, Name FROM Account WHERE Name in :Names];
 System.debug('hola ' + accounts);

Result

Let me share my thoughts about your issue

*

*If you really have more than 100000 Account records with the name ".", there is a big issue in your design. Check if that is what you really want and remove / update those which name could be different.

*If you don't have such a big amount of Accounts with "." as name, but you are not sure what is going on, try to run your query in the developer console and debug it. If you still get this issue, add a limit in order to retrieve less records and don't hit the issue. Maybe there is information that you don't know.

 [SELECT Id, Name FROM Account WHERE Name in :Names LIMIT 100];

*If you have so many records with this name, but you only want to retrieve some of them, you can always add another filter. Actually Salefsorce advice is to filter by a indexed field, for instance ExternalIds one. And if your field is requires to be indexed, you can make a request. However that is not your issue as you are filtering by Name Standard field that is already indexed.

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Taylor Swift has a new plan for ticket sales, and it's a little bit shady
By Tyler Jenke
Shout Tyler Jenke a coffee
Taylor Swift has had a pretty big month. Fresh from winning her sexual assault case in court, the US music superstar also announced the release of a new album, single, and a new plan for buying tickets to her upcoming tour, which has left some fans pretty upset.
As Alternative Press reports, Taylor Swift has announced tour dates in support of her new album Reputation, partnering with Ticketmaster in the process to help distribute tickets. But there's just one aspect to this whole deal which has left a sour taste in fans' mouths.
See, Taylor Swift is using Ticketmaster's Verified Fan program to sell these tickets, which, on paper, is fine. The Verified Fan program is designed to deter scammers and ticket bots by emailing a code to fans who pre-register to buy tickets. However Taylor Swift's program is a little bit different, and is encouraging fans to do tasks to boost their place in line. Tasks which may result in little to no reward.
The program, titled 'Taylor Swift Tix', allows users to register to buy tickets like normal, but then gives fans the opportunity to perform activities to skip ahead in the virtual line they will be placed in to receive their ticket code. These activities range from the low-effort and low-cost, including making a promotional social media post, to the other end of the spectrum, which includes buying merch, and copies of the album.
The website notes that these tasks result in a 'high' or 'low' boost. Sharing a Tweet about Reputation? Low boost. Buying a copy of the album, or Taylor Swift's 24 karat-gold plated snake ring? Well, that's a high boost. In fact, you can buy the new album up to thirteen times from different retailers in one day, receiving a new high boost each time, meaning that before you know it, you'll be at the front of the line in no time, with those sweet Taylor tickets in your hand, right? Not necessarily.
If you're to actually read into the fine print on the Ticketmaster website, you'll notice that all of this could just be for nothing. The fine print actually reads "Participation does not guarantee access to purchase tickets or the ability to purchase tickets," meaning that you could buy multiple copies of Reputation in hopes of getting those prime seats, but you could still miss out.
As Jezebel notes, this is pretty messed up for a number of reasons. Firstly, there's the fact that it turns the sometimes fun, sometimes frustrating process of buying concert tickets into a game that will only reward the fans with the most money. Then there's also the fact that even if you do partake in this scheme, emptying your bank account by buying merch just to be given the opportunity to even buy tickets, you could still be right out of luck.
This of course means that the thirteen copies of Reputation you bought are only going to serve as the soundtrack to the night in you'll now have because you missed out on tickets to the gig.
So while this whole process if framed as a process to help stop ticket bots, and to ensure that everyone is on an equal playing field when it comes to the ticket buying process, it sort of misses the point entirely, making it just as hard for dedicated fans to get tickets as it was before.
As Jezebel says, the whole process is explained in its promotional video as a fun way to buy tickets, much like a game. However the end result is less like a game, and more of a tricky way to get fans to spend more cash on merch, which is a little bit messed up.
Check out the promotional video for 'Taylor Swift Tix' below.


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Q: What time is considered day and night? In Witcher 3, certain Quests and Actions can only be performed during the Day or Night. What hour does each start at? I thought that 6 am and onwards would be Day, but I notice that at least 5 am and possibly earlier is also considered Daytime.

A: Daytime is considered the time between 4:00 a.m. and 9:59 p.m. and so night
time is between 10:00 p.m. and 3:59 a.m.
More precisely, the time is divided into four categories:
Morning between 4:00 a.m. and 9:59 a.m.

Noon between 10:00 a.m. and 3:59 p.m.

Evening between 4:00 p.m. and 9:59 p.m.

Night between 10:00 p.m. and 3:59 a.m.

Morning, noon and evening all count as daytime, since the ability "Sun and Stars" regenerates Geralt's health during that time.

A: All I know that when they say "meet me at sundown" or something along those lines then it means after 6pm.


The Kootenay Rockies Tourism Media Relations Specialist works as part of an integrated team with Destination BC to plan and execute tactical strategies for effective media coverage from North American media outlets.
Key objectives are to increase unpaid editorial copy on the Kootenay Rockies region in credible, high profile, qualified outlets. To meet this objective, the regional representative attends a number of media events in North America to meet with writers, journalists, photographers and bloggers to pitch story ideas, raise awareness of our unique and diverse products and to deliver consistent and unified messages to the media about the opportunities for visitors in the Kootenay Rockies region. The regional Travel Media Representative also supports Destination BC's overseas offices with in-market media relations and press trip visits.
Press trips are initiated in two ways, either through the provincial or international media teams of Destination BC or from Kootenay Rockies Tourism internal media department. In both cases the regional representative supports and coordinates the logistics and works with the stakeholders on the press trip itineraries. Budget and tactics are approved and determined by Destination BC.


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Keeping One Step Ahead of the News
Bill Alpert
Updated May 28, 2011 12:01 am ET / Original May 28, 2011 4:32 am ET
Regulators are hotly pursuing insider trading. On May 11, federal prosecutors secured the conviction of Galleon hedge-fund boss Raj Rajaratnam for reaping over $60 million in profit by trading stocks on inside information, and federal prosecutor Preet Bharara -- who's called the practice "rampant"–has warned more cases are coming.Still, the government might be missing a lot of the action. Some insider cases allege wrongful trading in the options markets, but most concern only trading in stocks. Yet a new and alarming finance study finds spikes in options trading ahead of breaking news and other surprise events across diverse industries. For instance, a few days before Bank of America (ticker: BAC) announced its January 2008 acquisition of troubled mortgage-lender Countrywide Financial, volume leapt 50 fold in the Bank of America put options that represented a bearish bet on the acquirer's stock -- as shown in the upper left-hand chart on this page -- and the stock fell about 5% in a short stretch of time. In February of this year, Baxter International (BAX) announced successful results from a clinical trial of its novel vaccine against influenza. In the days before the Feb. 15 announcement and an accompanying report in the medical journal Lancet, volume in Baxter call options rocketed more than a 500 fold -- as shown in the upper right-hand chart. The good news lifted Baxter stock almost 10% over a couple of weeks.
Read It Here First
Well before the news, there were big jumps in the cumulative trading volume of Bank of America and Baxter options (the dark lines in the top charts), shown as multiples of the starting volume level. Stock-trading volumes (top edge of the shaded area) didn't jump as much above starting levels (the bottom edge of the shaded area).
The announcements by Bank of America and Baxter weren't scheduled -- but some traders seemed to know something was coming or were very lucky. These instances weren't isolated. Seven years of high-frequency trading data (allowing the researcher to look at five-minute intervals of trading) on the companies in the Dow Jones Industrial Index show that options volume rose more than 30-fold in the two hours before news announcements that should have come as surprises -- as shown on the next page's charts -- while stock volumes roughly quadrupled.
"We didn't expect that there would be so much going on in the Dow stocks," says Nitish R. Sinha, the University of Illinois at Chicago finance expert who performed the options study with a Citigroup credit-risk analyst Wei Dong. "Am I saying there's evidence of inside-information trading in the Dow stocks? It's likely."
"Informed traders like to hide, and the options market has a lot of nooks and crannies in which to hide," says Sinha. The stock market may be liquid, but it's fairly centralized and exposed, says Sinha, and options on individual stocks can trade at dozens of strike prices, across more than five major exchanges. The tools the two researchers used to flag suspicious options trading could produce leads for regulators. Market-surveillance types at the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority and the Securities and Exchange Commission ought to give themselves this, well, option.
Insider-trading cases rarely emerge from options trading. In September 2010, a former executive of Merck (MRK) settled civil insider-trading charges (without admitting guilt), in which the SEC alleged that the executive's friend had bought call options in a drug-industry takeover target called MedImmune. Administrative charges by the SEC in March alleged that onetime Goldman Sachs director Rajat K. Gupta supplied inside information to Galleon's Rajaratnam that led Galleon to load up on Goldman call options and stock. Gupta's fighting the charges.
Separately, Rajaratnam has asked a judge to dismiss his criminal conviction.
AND THIS MONTH, the Wall Street Journal reported that Senator Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) received reports from Finra of about 20 instances when that securities industry self-regulator had referred suspicious trades by SAC Capital Advisors to the SEC. According to the Journal, the senator is also looking into SAC's options trades. The senator wants the SEC to tell him by June 7 if it did anything about these referrals. SAC is cooperating with Grassley's office, and neither SAC nor its founder Steven A. Cohen has been accused of any wrongdoing by authorities.
Before becoming an assistant professor of finance at UIC, Sinha worked at Goldman Sachs and India's Tata Group. Dong was a physicist before going into finance. They began studying options trading as a way to measure the impact of news on investors' uncertainty about a stock—with that uncertainty represented by the volatility implied by the options on that stock. Sinha and Dong noticed some stocks with suspicious options activity ahead of news of earnings or mergers, as had previous finance researchers. But earlier studies only examined a narrow selection of news announcements. Sinha decided to expand his sample by taking advantage of the Thomson Reuters Sentiment NewsScope database, one of a number of computational-linguistics products that classify articles according to their tone, novelty and relevance to a particular company. The researchers then mapped the Reuters news stories to high-frequency trading data on the 30 companies in the Dow Industrials from 2003 to 2009, obtained from the five largest options exchanges and the central Options Price Reporting Authority (actually, just 29 of the Dow stocks, because Philip Morris' transformation into Altria rendered those entities not comparable).
The researchers expected traders to anticipate certain kinds of news, such as scheduled announcements of earnings. They expected that trading volume in stocks and options might rise ahead of such events, but figured they would find less trading in advance of news stories that ought to be surprises: mergers, changes in an analyst's rating or earnings forecast, judicial outcomes, credit-rating changes and the breaking news items that Reuters calls "Alerts."
"Before we started the study, we expected there'd be a difference in trading ahead of scheduled and unscheduled news," says Sinha. That turned out to be true for stocks, but not for options. Measuring from 100 minutes before the news stories appeared on Reuters terminals, they found that the rise in options volume ahead of scheduled news wasn't statistically different from the rise ahead of a news surprise. The pair of charts on this page show the trading volumes before and after news for the 29 Dow-component stocks and options, measured in multiples of the volume level at the start of the measurement window (and using logarithms, so that stocks and options can fit on the same chart). News boosts stock trading volumes several-fold, but options volume jumps 60-to-400-fold.
Suspicious Trading, Even in Dow Stocks
Composite graphs of stock (gray lines) and option (black) volumes show eerie rises -- even ahead of surprise news -- in seven years of trading in the Dow Industrial stocks. To better model actual trader behavior, researchers used computer simulations to estimate the Dow stocks' response to news events.
THE SURPRISE IS, the clear volume jump in Dow stock options in the 80 minutes before a news surprise. Sinha's working paper politely calls such trading "informed," rather than "insider trading," since some traders may legitimately know enough about a company to anticipate news. But given that options expire on a particular date, says Sinha, "if you're trading options, you must have time-sensitive information."
Insider-trading cases in Dow component stocks aren't unheard of -- but they typically involve the stock, not options. In recent years, cases have concerned shares of Pfizer, Disney, Intel, IBM, Merck and Johnson & Johnson. But Sinha and Dong seem to have found new cause for suspicion. Sinha's discovery of the February activity in Baxter options, which postdated their study's time frame, came by accident as he was looking for examples of earnings disappointments for one of his UIC finance lessons. In addition to the suspicious options trading before Countrywide's 2008 takeover by Bank of America, the researchers' seven-year survey found curious options activity before rating changes on other Dow components.
The conventional wisdom holds that guilty traders would favor the liquid market for stocks. But Sinha thinks that "informed" traders use options because it's easier to hide among all the strike prices and markets. Put options also furnish a quick way to make a bearish bet, compared to the borrowing chores involved in a stock's short sale. And options market makers tend to ask fewer questions, says Sinha, than would an investor who got skinned taking the other side of an informed investor's stock trade. "When you're buying or selling an option," he says, "the other side is a market maker, not another guy like you, and the options market makers instantly hedge their exposure in the stock market."
As with any kind of corruption, insider-trading prosecutions probably catch just a small portion of the activity. The trading in thousands of securities on dozens of markets generates an overwhelming amount of data to analyze. For just the 29 stocks in Sinha's study, the data amounted to five terabytes (that is, five trillion pieces of data). But the researchers' idea of conditioning their surveillance on news "surprises" makes the job tractable. "So you don't need to watch all the options of every stock," says the UIC professor. "If you look at the most liquid of the at-the-money or near-the-money options -- you'll catch them."


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Louisiana Drivers Pay Highest Auto Insurance Premiums In U.S., Double National Average, While Rates In Most States Are Falling, Report Says
Louisiana, Michigan and Florida, states which are relatively densely populated and plagued with high proportions of uninsured drivers, currently have the highest auto insurance costs in the country, according to a report released Tuesday by Insure.com, a research unit of marketing firm QuinStreet Inc.
Motorists drive their vehicles along Interstate 20 in Shreveport, Louisiana, U.S., on Wednesday, … [+] Nov. 21, 2007. The American Automobile Association expects a record 38.7 million Americans will travel 50 miles (80 kilometers) or more this week, with about 80 percent of those trips by car. That would top the previous mark of 38.1 million travelers last year. Photographer: Mario Villafuerte/Bloomberg News
The national average of auto insurance premiums dropped by 6% from last year to $1,428 – with rates falling in the majority of states, while rising or staying flat in nine states, suggesting the Covid pandemic forced many drivers to stay off the roads.
Louisiana's insurance rates jumped by 19% from last year, to an average annual premium of $2,839, about double the national average, partly because of its large number of uninsured and underinsured drivers – about 11.7% of drivers in the state are currently uninsured.
After Louisiana, the states with the highest average insurance costs are Michigan ($2,112), Florida ($2,082), California ($1,966) and Missouri ($1,895).
The five states with the cheapest insurance rates are Maine (average premium $858, down from $912 last year), New Hampshire ($885), Wisconsin ($938), Idaho ($985) and Ohio ($992).
Key Background
States with very high premiums typically have one or more of the following characteristics: "unique" insurance schemes, high-density populations, many uninsured drivers and a proliferation of costly lawsuits which often push up premiums, Insure.com said. As each state sets their own auto insurance regulations, a complex array of factors can influence the premiums residents pay. Louisiana and Michigan switched places from last year's rankings, but the top three states (including Florida) remained the same. Michigan's auto insurance premiums are very high because as a "no-fault" state, drivers are required to buy personal injury protection to pay for injuries, no matter who was responsible for the crash. Moreover, consumer finance firm WalletHub noted, Michigan's PIP requirements are unusually high, with most policyholders needing at least $250,000 in PIP. But one of the biggest factors in high auto premiums is linked to the presence of uninsured drivers as insurance companies usually pass the cost of such drivers onto the insured. In the state of Michigan, one-fourth of drivers were estimated to be uninsured in 2019, according to the Insurance Information Institute (versus a national average of 12.6%). The corresponding figure for Florida was 20.4%. "Keeping auto insurance affordable is more difficult when a significant number of drivers refuse to carry their fair share of the costs," said David Corum, vice president of the Insurance Research Council.
States with the cheapest auto rates, Maine, New Hampshire and Wisconsin, tend to have lower population densities which leads to fewer car accidents and claims, a higher percentage of insured drivers and competitive insurance markets. The average premium in the cheapest state, highly rural Maine, dropped by 6% from last year, while more than 95% of its drivers are insured, according to Insurance Information Institute, the fourth highest figure in the country.
While one's state of residence can influence auto insurance rates, other factors, Insure.com said, including driving record, age (teens pay the highest premiums due to their predilection for accidents), gender (male teenagers have higher premiums than their female peers), one's neighborhood (high crime areas usually mean higher premiums), and credit score (low scores linked to higher likelihood of making a claim), type of vehicle (sports cars and luxury autos are more expensive to insure than most other vehicles due to higher repair costs). Even the weather can shape auto premiums – states prone to severe weather patterns, like flooding and hurricanes, tend to have higher rates.
Big Number
$248 Billion. That's the total amount of premiums paid out involving private passenger automobile insurance in 2019, up from $240 billion in 2018, said the Insurance Information Institute.
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Home » Politics » Trump supporters confront Mitt Romney at airport, on plane: videos
Trump supporters confront Mitt Romney at airport, on plane: videos
GOP senators at odds over certifying Biden election win
A group of Republican senators plans to object to certifying electors from disputed states; Chad Pergram reports from Capitol Hill.
Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, was confronted by supporters of President Trump on Tuesday while waiting for a flight at an airport and during the flight, according to videos circulating on social media.
"Why aren't you supporting President Trump?" asked one woman, who approached Romney while he sat in the airport waiting area using his iPad, noting that she would agree to put on a mask because she wanted to have a "chat" with him.
"I do agree with many of the things he is for, and I support those things," the Utah senator replied, in reference to the president.
She asked if he would support Trump and some Republican lawmakers' efforts to overturn President-elect Biden's win by blocking the Senate's certification of the Electoral College votes.
"No," he replied. "It's a long story, but we have a Constitution; the Constitution process is clear. I will follow the Constitution, and I will explain all that when we meet in Congress this week."
The woman continued to confront Romney for not voting to reelect the president, adding that he had been voted in "as a conservative to represent the conservative constituents. Period."
Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, in an interview with Fox News Sunday's Chris Wallace.
(Fox News)
He replied that isn't "how the Constitution works."
"It is," she contradicted, adding, "you work for us."
As Romney got up from his seat, he reminded her that he works for the people of Utah. She replied that she is from Utah and said his constituents would make sure he's voted out in the next election.
"You're a joke," the woman said after saying she wouldn't be surprised if there had been fraud involved in his election victory.
"Absolute joke, it's a disgusting shame," she added as he walked away.
But the trouble wasn't over for the Republican.
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Q: $(\mathfrak{g},K)$-Module where $K$ is a field? I am reading through Finite groups of Lie type_ conjugacy classes and complex characters by Roger Carter, and came across this passage where Carter is setting up a special class of module to give a representation $\rho$ of a lie algebra $\mathfrak{g}$:

Let $\frak{g}$ be a finite dimensional Lie algebra over an arbitrary field $k$, and let $M$ be a finite dimensional $k\frak{g}$-module.

Im assuming by this he means a $(\mathfrak{g},k)$-module because we are building the machinery to prove the Jacobson-Morozov theorem. For a $(\mathfrak{g},k)$-module though, $k$ has to be a maximal compact subgroup of the Lie group corresponding to $\frak{g}$ -- but arbitrary fields are not compact?
Was I wrong to assume that a $k\mathfrak{g}$-module was a $(\mathfrak{g},k)$-module by some different notation? Unfortunately, Carter doesn't elaborate much more on what he means by this. Any suggested readings would be appreciated, I am quite new to the study of lie algebras and don't really know what I am doing yet!


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The use of clip cages to restrain insects reduces leaf expansion systemically in Rumex obtusifolius.
Moore, Jason P. and Taylor, Jane E. and Paul, Nigel D. and Whittaker, John B. (2003) The use of clip cages to restrain insects reduces leaf expansion systemically in Rumex obtusifolius. Ecological Entomology, 28 (2). pp. 239-242. ISSN 1365-2311
Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-2311.2003.00490.x
1. Clip cages have been used widely by experimental ecologists to contain insects on plants. 2. Under controlled conditions, the effect of applying clip cages alone and clip cages and the chrysomelid beetle Gastrophysa viridula on systemic leaf expansion of Rumex obtusifolius was investigated. Treatments were applied to the fully expanded fourth leaf and expansion of leaf 8 was measured over a period of 22 days. 3. The application of clip cages reduced the rate at which leaf area increased and led to reductions in final leaf areas. 4. Clip cages have systemic effects on plant development and these effects are sustained even after the clip cage is removed. Investigators should take this into account in designing experiments.
Ecological Entomology
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Dr Nigel Paul
https://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/id/eprint/8813


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@brief Constructor using an intialized distance measure.
\brief Constructor using an intialized distance measure.
initializing Distance prior to constructing the KNN.
@brief Make predictions for unweighted test data.
\brief Make predictions for unweighted test data.
@brief Make predictions for weighted test data.
\brief Make predictions for weighted test data.
/// @brief Class for Nearest Centroid Classification.
/// the concept \ref concept_distance.
distance, to define distance between samples and centroids.
Distance prior to constructing the NCC.
/// @return the centroids for each class as columns in a matrix.
\brief Get the centroids for all classes.
\return The centroids for each class as columns in a matrix.
/// targets. Centroids are calculated for each class.
zero weights, are used if the centroids contain NaN's.
NaN for the class in \a results.
the variable across all training samples in the class.
/// The output operator for the NCC class.


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Q: C++ & SFML Separating Axis Theorem I'm trying to implement collision detection in sfml using the separating axis theorem but my function to get the min translation vector (getMtv()) is always returning that there is a collision (MTV::IsValid()). I was following a tutorial here
but I can't see where I went wrong.
#include <iostream>
#include <math.h>
#include <SFML/Graphics.hpp>
#include <gtest/gtest.h>

typedef sf::Vector2f Vector2;
typedef sf::Vector2f Axis;
typedef sf::Vector2f Projection;
typedef std::vector<Axis> AxesVec;

class MTV
{
private:
    bool _valid;
    Axis _axis;
    float _overlap;

public:

    MTV(Axis axis, float overlap, bool valid)
    {
        _valid = valid;
        _overlap = overlap;
        _axis = axis;
    }

    bool IsValid() const
    {
        return _valid;
    }

};

Vector2 perpendicular(Vector2 v)
{
    return Vector2(v.y, -v.x);
}

float dot(Vector2 vec1, Vector2 vec2)
{
    return (vec1.x * vec2.x) + (vec1.y * vec2.y);
}

float magnitude(Vector2 v)
{
    return std::sqrt(dot(v,v));
}

class Polygon : public sf::ConvexShape
{
public:
    const AxesVec& GetAxes() const
    {
        return axes;
    }

    AxesVec axes;

void generateAxes()
{
    for (int i = 0; i < getPointCount(); i++)
    {
        // get the current vertex
        Vector2 p1 = getPoint(i); //shape.vertices[i];
        // get the next vertex
        Vector2 p2 =  getPoint(i + 1 == getPointCount() ? 0 : i + 1);
        // subtract the two to get the edge vector
        Vector2 edge = p1 - p2;
        // get either perpendicular vector
        Vector2 normal = perpendicular(edge);
        // the perp method is just (x, y) => (-y, x) or (y, -x)
        axes.push_back(normal / magnitude(normal));
    }
};

float cross(Vector2 vec1, Vector2 vec2)
{
    return (vec1.x * vec2.y) - (vec1.y * vec2.x);
}

Vector2 project(Polygon p, Axis axis)
{
    float min = dot(axis, p.getPoint(0)); //axis.dot(shape.vertices[0]);
    float max = min;
    for (int i = 1; i < p.getPointCount(); i++)
    {
        // NOTE: the axis must be normalized to get accurate projections
        float prj = dot(axis, p.getPoint(i));//axis.dot(shape.vertices[i]);
        if (prj < min)
        {
            min = prj;
        }
        else if (prj > max)
        {
            max = prj;
        }
    }
    //Projection proj = new Projection(min, max);
    return Projection(min, max);
}

class Collison
{
private:
    Vector2 mtv;
    Polygon a;
    Polygon b;
};

bool overlap(Projection a, Projection b)
{
    // x = min & y = max
    return !(a.x > b.y || a.x > b.y);
}

float getOverlap(Projection a, Projection b)
{
    // x = min & y = max
    return (a.y < b.y) ? a.y - b.x : b.y - a.x;
}

MTV getMtv(Polygon a, Polygon b)
{
    float overlapMax = std::numeric_limits<float>::infinity();// really large value;
    float Overlap;

    Axis smallest;// = null;
    AxesVec axesA = a.GetAxes();
    AxesVec axesB = b.GetAxes();

    // loop over the axes1
    for (auto&& axis : axesA) //for (int i = 0; i < axes1.length; i++)
    {
        //Axis axis = axes1[i];
        // project both shapes onto the axis
        Projection pA = project(a, axis);
        Projection pB = project(b, axis);
        // do the projections overlap?
        if (!overlap(pA, pB)) //(!p1.overlap(p2))
        {
            // then we can guarantee that the shapes do not overlap
            return MTV(smallest, 0, false);
        }
        else
        {
            // get the overlap
            float o = getOverlap(pA, pB); //p1.getOverlap(p2);
            // check for minimum
            if (o < overlapMax)
            {
                // then set this one as the smallest
                Overlap = o;
                smallest = axis;
            }
        }
    }

    for (auto&& axis : axesB) //for (int i = 0; i < axes1.length; i++)
    {
        //Axis axis = axes1[i];
        // project both shapes onto the axis
        Projection pA = project(a, axis);
        Projection pB = project(b, axis);
        // do the projections overlap?
        if (!overlap(pA, pB)) //(!p1.overlap(p2))
        {
            // then we can guarantee that the shapes do not overlap
            return MTV(smallest, 0, false);
        }
        else
        {
            // get the overlap
            double o = getOverlap(pA, pB); //p1.getOverlap(p2);
            // check for minimum
            if (o < overlapMax)
            {
                // then set this one as the smallest
                Overlap = o;
                smallest = axis;
            }
        }
    }

    //MTV mtv = new MTV(smallest, overlap);
    // if we get here then we know that every axis had overlap on it
    // so we can guarantee an intersection
    return MTV(smallest, Overlap, true);
}

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
    Polygon polygon;
    polygon.setPointCount(3);
    polygon.setPoint(0, sf::Vector2f(500, 100));
    polygon.setPoint(1, sf::Vector2f(250, 500));
    polygon.setPoint(2, sf::Vector2f(750, 500));
    polygon.setFillColor(sf::Color::Red);
    polygon.generateAxes();

    Polygon polygon2;
    polygon2.setPointCount(3);
    polygon2.setPoint(0, sf::Vector2f(100, 0));
    polygon2.setPoint(1, sf::Vector2f(50, 150));
    polygon2.setPoint(2, sf::Vector2f(150, 150));
    polygon2.generateAxes();

    //polygon2.setPoint(0, sf::Vector2f(100, 0));
    //polygon2.setPoint(1, sf::Vector2f(500, 150));
    //polygon2.setPoint(2, sf::Vector2f(250, 150));

    polygon2.setFillColor(sf::Color::Green);

    sf::RenderWindow window(sf::VideoMode(800, 600), "My window");

    // run the program as long as the window is open
    while (window.isOpen())
    {
        // check all the window's events that were triggered since the last iteration of the loop
        sf::Event event;
        while (window.pollEvent(event))
        {
            // "close requested" event: we close the window
            if (event.type == sf::Event::Closed)
                window.close();
        }

        // clear the window with black color
        window.clear(sf::Color::Black);

        // draw everything here...
        window.draw(polygon);
        window.draw(polygon2);
        std::cout << getMtv(polygon, polygon2).IsValid() << std::endl;

        // end the current frame
        window.display();
    }

    return 0;
}


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Moths team up with James Herbert
HORROR writer James Herbert has inked a deal with moths to write a horrifying account of their battle with mankind.
The clothes-eating insects have sold the novelisation rights to their species to the author of The Rats for an undisclosed six-figure sum.
Moth Nathan Muir said: "We will be working closely with James to bring the full horror of our murderous rampage to blood-soaked life. He really likes my idea that we lay our eggs in people's hair and then little moths fly out of their noses.
"The front cover will be a really cool picture of a moth with skull-shaped patterns on its wings, all covered in blood. The strapline will be 'They creep…they crawl…they fly…' in big embossed letters under the title 'MOTHS'."
But fellow moth Emma Bradford said: "That strapline doesn't even make sense. Creeping and crawling are effectively the same thing.
"Frankly I think this whole thing is an awful, larvae-brained idea. We should be working with a credible writer like Hilary Mantel on a sort of insect historical saga.
James Herbert's spokesman said: "James is really excited about moths, they genuinely freak him out.
"He promises his younger fanbase that there will be plenty of gratuitous sex scenes using words like 'cupping."
Norwich fan to be burned as witch
TEENAGE Norwich City fan Chris Brown is to be burned at the stake for dabbling in the dark arts of electricity.
His crimes include using the sorcery known as 'internet' in strict defiance of the laws laid down by the elders of the wet principality.
Brown will burned in a large wicker laptop in Norwich city centre this Saturday, providing the man who has the fire can get there on time.
Wetland denizen and High Chief of the Broads Roy Hobbs said: "If the gods had meant us to use computers they'd have given us the infrastructure, technology and physical dexterity to manipulate them properly.
"At seventeen years old he's a middle-aged man so he should know better by now. No good can come of these thingummy-learning ways.
"Next he'll be looking at those paperylooking things with squiggles on them. You know. Those."
Brown has been found guilty of using the powers of evil to leak the design of the Norwich City squad's new straw hats. However the club has said that if he sacrifices two chickens and smears their blood over his face during a full moon before his incineration his soul may not suffer for all eternity.
The straitlaced Christian sergeant initially assigned to investigate Norwich's complaint has been told that Chris Brown never existed and that there is nothing for him to see here.
Norwich supporters have previously been criticised for worshipping the man who installed the floodlights at Carrow Road as a 'sun god'.
Brown said: "I'll come quietly rather than having the locals drag me from my home as I don't want my parents getting into trouble for their indoor toilet."


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Archive for: Mark Kaplan
'Wherever two or more black people are gathered, there is a chocolate city,' says Marcus Anthony Hunter, the first lecturer in UCLA Luskin's new Transdisciplinary Speaker Series. Photo by Mary Braswell
A New Vision of Black America Launches Transdisciplinary Venture In first event of Schoolwide seminar series, 'Chocolate Cities' author calls for a fresh lens on culture and history
December 6, 2018 /0 Comments/in Diversity, Public Policy, School of Public Affairs, Social Welfare, Urban Planning Amada Armenta, Kian Goh, Laura Wray-Lake, Mark A. Peterson, Mark Kaplan /by Mary Braswell
By Mary Braswell
To fully comprehend the experience of black Americans, start by throwing out conventional maps, tired vocabularies and old ways of thinking.
That is the core message of Marcus Anthony Hunter, chair of African American Studies at UCLA and co-author of a new book about the struggle and triumph of black culture over many generations.
Hunter drew on insights and anecdotes from the book, "Chocolate Cities: The Black Map of American Life," to engage an audience of more than 50 students, faculty and guests at a Nov. 19, 2018, lecture at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs.
"I believe that in order to move forward into a more productive world and more productive scientific conversation about space, place and people, we need new words," he said. "And new words bring realities, bring frameworks, and so my agenda today is to give you some new words and bring it from the culture."
Hunter's takeaway — to seek out fresh vantage points for a clearer picture of truth — was a fitting launch for the Transdisciplinary Speaker Series at UCLA Luskin. A collaborative effort by Public Policy, Social Welfare and Urban Planning, the new series brings in lecturers from across the spectrum of social sciences to share messages that cross, even erase, disciplinary lines.
"We are talking about how to step out of our silos," said Social Welfare Professor Mark Kaplan, who spearheaded the seminar series. "This is really an effort to get people to think beyond their immediate range of disciplinary interest."
Faculty members including Mark Peterson of Public Policy, Laura Wray-Lake of Social Welfare and Amada Armenta and Kian Goh of Urban Planning worked together to nominate speakers "who perhaps we would not think of in our own fields," Kaplan said.
The series aspires to do more than simply attract people curious about what's happening outside their own disciplines. It aims to shatter old paradigms, overcome institutional resistance, encourage collaborative work and find solutions to the tough social problems that UCLA Luskin tackles daily, Kaplan said.
He envisions UCLA Luskin as a laboratory for the transdisciplinary approach, an idea that has been incubating at the School for years. The initiative got new life in spring 2018 when Dean Gary Segura met with Kaplan and endorsed the lecture series and its broader ambitions.
Sociologist, author and educator Marcus Anthony Hunter employs news footage, music, film, poetry and other cultural touchpoints. Photo by Mary Braswell
Hunter's talk showed the potential of the cross-pollination approach, weaving urban geography together with demographic data, oral histories, news archives and a large dose of cultural touchpoints from poetry, fiction, film and music.
Parliament Funkadelic's 1975 "Chocolate City" album inspired Hunter and co-author Zandria F. Robinson to adopt the term as a fitting description of black communities, replacing "slum," "ghetto," "Buttermilk Bottom," "Cabrini Green," "South Central" — and the stereotypes they invoke.
"Wherever two or more black people are gathered, there is a chocolate city," Hunter told the Transdisciplinary Speaker Series audience. But he stressed that the black experience does not require a physical bond.
"There's this idea of connectivity across black space that to me is deeply, deeply profound," said Hunter, an associate professor of sociology. "Without meeting with each other, there's a similar sentiment about all sorts of things related to trauma, struggle and accomplishment."
To underscore his argument that conventional borders are misleading and outmoded, Hunter played audio of Malcolm X's 1964 address at King Solomon Baptist Church in Detroit.
"If you black, you were born in jail, in the North as well as the South," the racial justice advocate said. "Stop talking about the South. As long as you south of the Canadian border, you South."
Hunter's reimagining of U.S. territory is made up of many different "Souths."
"When we think about the South, we're talking about surveillance, Jim Crow, racial segregation, residential segregation. We know from the research that these practices exist all across the United States, but we usually attribute bad behavior to the South," Hunter said.
"Everywhere is the South if you are black. The South follows black people as they leave."
Some of these geographies exist below the surface, as in the case of black transgender women, Hunter argued. He aired video clips of "the two Ms. Johnsons": Gay rights activist Marsha P. Johnson was killed in suspicious circumstances in New York City in 1992. Duanna Johnson was shot to death on a Memphis street in 2008, months after her videotaped beating by two police officers drew wide condemnation. The killers of these two black transgender women have never been found.
"Your status as trans puts you at this really interesting and dangerous intersection and you often come up missing," said Hunter, who devoted a chapter in his book to the two Ms. Johnsons and the little-known worlds they traversed.
"Our goal here was to recover those maps and to also honor the lives of these people who tried to navigate the chocolate city in all of its dangers and wonders."
View a Flickr album from the Transdisciplinary Speaker Series event.
Professor Mark S. Kaplan spoke about research related to suicide among military veterans and other at-risk populations. Photo by Mary Braswell
Preventing Suicide Among Veterans and Other Vulnerable Groups
November 8, 2018 /0 Comments/in Luskin's Latest Blog Mark Kaplan /by Mary Braswell
Experts on suicide, particularly among veterans, led a wide-ranging conversation about risk factors and effective interventions at an event hosted by UCLA Luskin Social Welfare. Professor Mark S. Kaplan shared insights from his extensive research of at-risk populations with the gathering of students and social workers. "What many vulnerable young veterans returning from places like Afghanistan and Iraq needed more than anything else was not a psychiatrist but a social worker, somebody who could help them with that transition into civilian life, somebody who could help them with their family and their community," he said. "It was really a challenge of reintegration that mattered most; it wasn't a psychiatric problem." The Nov. 6, 2018, panel included Susan Pindack, a social worker with the Veterans Affairs Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System; Sam Coleman, a lecturer at Cal State Long Beach and coordinator of the Veterans for Peace PTSD Working Group; and Carolyn Levitan, director of the crisis line at Didi Hirsch Mental Health Services' Suicide Prevention Center. The panel's broad experience led to an expansive discussion that touched on Civil War fighters who took their own lives, firearm use among female soldiers, the role of pain management in preventing suicide and the impact of the Netflix series "13 Reasons Why." Students from the Mental Health Caucus at UCLA, one of several event co-sponsors, led a question-and-answer session after the panel presentations. — Mary Braswell
View a Flickr album from the event here.
On Podcast, Kaplan Talks About Rise in U.S. Suicides
July 18, 2018 /0 Comments/in Luskin in the News Mark Kaplan /by Les Dunseith
Mark S. Kaplan, professor of social welfare at UCLA Luskin, has researched suicide and written about it from several perspectives. He joined the Scholars' Circle podcast to talk about some of the potential explanations for the recently reported increase in suicides in the United States. The interview is the first segment of the podcast.
Listen to the interview
Kaplan Discusses CDC Report About Suicide Rates Rising Across U.S.
July 2, 2018 /0 Comments/in Luskin in the News Mark Kaplan /by Les Dunseith
New CDC figures documenting the growing rate of suicide may not reflect the full scope of the problem, said Mark S. Kaplan, professor of social welfare at UCLA Luskin. Many suicides are actually classified as "accidental deaths," Kaplan, a noted suicide prevention researcher, told WebMD. "Some are classified as unintentional self-injury when, in fact, if you take a closer look, they look more like suicide," he said. "The true incidence of suicide is unknown." Kaplan said the Great Recession from 2007 to 2009 contributed to what he terms "deaths of despair" by suicide. Some people, he said, never recovered economically.
Mark S. Kaplan, professor of Social Welfare, gave a presentation on the link between poverty, inequality and firearm violence in America's cities. Photo by Stan Paul
The Connection Between Poverty, Inequality and Firearm Violence UCLA Luskin's Mark Kaplan explains how circumstances in U.S. urban centers go hand in hand with gun violence
February 1, 2017 /1 Comment/in For Faculty, For Policymakers, For Students, School of Public Affairs, Social Welfare News Mark Kaplan /by Les Dunseith
A fatal gunshot wound. This is a slide that Mark Kaplan, professor of Social Welfare at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, shows early in his presentation on gun violence.
As he recites annual gun death statistics in the United States, the vivid and unsettling scene serves as a backdrop.
"This might have been a suicide, this might have been a homicide; we're not exactly sure. All I can tell you is that it was a fatal gunshot wound," said Kaplan who spoke on "Poverty, Inequality and Firearm Violence," Jan. 26, 2017 at the Luskin School as part of the Public Child Welfare Seminar series.
"The reason for putting this up is because quite often the discussion about guns is sanitized." Kaplan explained, "We often treat the issue of gun violence as an abstraction but when you talk to people who are working in emergency departments, when you talk to coroners and medical centers, this is what people tell you. This is the net effect of guns."
Across the nation, that net effect amounts to more than 33,000 similar scenes recorded each year on average, and more than 36,000 for 2015, Kaplan reported as the latest available data. What stands out for Kaplan is that two-thirds are suicides, his area of research. Kaplan, who holds adjunct appointments in psychiatry at the Oregon Health & Science University and in epidemiology and community medicine at the University of Ottawa, focuses on using population-wide data to understand suicide risk factors and firearm violence among vulnerable populations.
"So, the problem of gun violence in this country is primarily a suicide problem, less so a homicide problem," said Kaplan to the audience, which included future social workers who are students in the master of social welfare (MSW) program. While recognizing the spike in gun deaths in cities such as Chicago – more than 50 in January in that city alone — Kaplan said that over the past 10-15 years there has been an overall national decline in the rate of gun deaths.
Kaplan said gun ownership in the U.S. is at more than 300 million and growing, and the death rate is only part of the story. He pointed out that for all of the recorded deaths by guns, there were more than 81,000 people – more than 200 per day – injured nationwide by guns in 2014.
"There are a lot of individuals who are shot, who survive, who wind up in emergency departments, are hospitalized and often disabled for life."
A relationship exists between the high rate of guns and gun ownership and the number of homicides, suicides and injuries. Kaplan said that work is needed "on the ground" in America's cities, such as limiting access to guns that would "go a long way to reducing some of the fatalities that we're experiencing both in the homicide and suicide."
He pointed to the work of one of his doctoral students that showed almost 90 percent of suicides involved guns in some parts of the country. California is an exception, according to Kaplan, who credited the state's stringent gun control measures.
"California is an outlier. There aren't many states like us," he noted, suggesting that California could serve as a role model for the rest of the country. Unfortunately, two-thirds of states fall into the quadrant with both high rates of gun violence and lax restrictions on gun ownership, he said. "We are a gun-toting, gun-culture nation, and that's going to make things a little bit challenging."
The U.S. stands out among industrialized nations, Kaplan said. Gun homicides in the U.S. are 25 times higher than the average of other high-income countries. Factors such as poverty and inequality are contributing factors, he said.
"You all hear about poverty, but inequality is another measure of economic well-being. And there is a strong correlation between homicide per million and income inequality," said Kaplan, pointing out that countries that are most equal have the lowest rates of gun-related homicides.
In terms of race and ethnicity, Kaplan said that 77 percent of white gun deaths in the U.S. are suicides, while less than 1 in 5 (19 percent) is a homicide. The figures are nearly opposite for African Americans, for which only 14 percent are suicides.
African American males in the 20-29 age group have the highest risk (89 per 100,000) in terms of the firearm homicide rate, a figure that is comparable with Honduras (90.4 murders per 100,000 people).
"In many ways we look like what some developing or Third World countries are experiencing," Kaplan said.
Citing recent scholarship published by the Brookings Institution, he said that people who witness gun violence are also at increased risk for a variety mental health issues that can manifest as post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), depression, poor academic performance, substance abuse, risky sexual behavior, delinquency and violent behavior – a "constellation of interconnected pathologies."
Cities such as Los Angeles and New York have been stereotyped as "dangerous big cities," Kaplan said, but both have benefitted from gun control measures. "Look how well we do in Los Angeles. New York is another place where the homicide rate has declined quite dramatically in the past 10-15, maybe 20, years."
In contrast, Philadelphia today still has a high homicide rate, he said. And Texas, which has some of the least restrictive gun law on the books (with both Dallas and Houston appearing close to the bottom), has among the highest rates of gun deaths in the United States.
UCLA Luskin's Mark Kaplan talks about a spike in gun violence in Chicago, a topic that has been much discussed by President Donald Trump and others. Photo by Stan Paul
Kaplan, who was born in Chicago, spoke about that city's spike in murders in the past few years – nearly 300 shootings this January. One of Kaplan's slides showed a recent tweet by President Trump about gun homicides in Chicago.
"We don't know what [Trump] is going to do, but he is reacting to something legitimate" that is not occurring randomly, Kaplan said in reference to the accuracy of the numbers.
"You can approach this problem as a criminal justice problem … or approach it as a public health or social welfare or social justice problem, and that's was missing in the discussion," Kaplan said. Social inequality and income inequality are to some extent fueling the gun violence epidemic in Chicago, he noted.
Over the long term, however, little has really changed in Chicago, which has concentrated areas of poverty and racial segregation. Some areas are 90 percent African American. "Neighborhoods still look the same way as they did 10, 15, 20, maybe even 30, years ago. Chicago is a very divided city socio-economically," Kaplan said.
The addition of guns increases violence. "The more guns, the more lethal the assault. When guns are absent, people are more likely to survive an assault," said Kaplan. "If we could just tamp down the levels of gun ownership, that might – might – be the first step in trying to reduce the rate of gun violence."
Compared to other leading causes of death in the U.S., the national investment in trying to understand and prevent gun deaths "pales by comparison" to what is spent on other causes of death and other major health problems, he said. A prohibition in the United States related to research on firearms doesn't help.
"There is so much we need to know," Kaplan said. "That's what depresses me and keep me up at night."
The study found that for men 45 to 64 years old, the proportion of alcohol-related suicides and poverty rates were positively associated. Pixabay photo
Studying the Link Between Poverty and Suicides New research shows that poverty may have a greater effect on suicide rates than do unemployment or foreclosures
November 14, 2016 /0 Comments/in School of Public Affairs, Social Welfare Mark Kaplan /by George Foulsham
Mark S. Kaplan
County-level suicide rates in the United States had a strong positive relationship with county poverty rates, while no relationships were found between county measures of unemployment or foreclosures when poverty rates were controlled, according to a new study from the Alcohol Research Group (ARG), a program of the Public Health Institute, in collaboration with the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, Oregon Health and Science University, Prevention Research Center and the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto.
The study, published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, analyzed data over a six-year period from 2005 to 2011 that includes the major U.S. economic downturn from 2007 to 2009. The study also found that for men 45 to 64 years old, the proportion of alcohol-related suicides and poverty rates were positively associated. This working-age group was a key demographic in rising suicide rates during the recession.
This is the first study to try to unravel how different features of such a downturn affect suicide rates and alcohol-related suicides in particular. It is also the first study to suggest that unemployment's role may not be as significant as poverty.
"Our finding suggests that the consequences of unemployment were more important than being unemployed during this period," said ARG senior scientist and lead author William C. Kerr. "These results are consistent with what we see in countries that have strong unemployment support systems — where being out of a job doesn't increase your risk for suicide."
Poverty was also found to mediate unemployment's effect on suicide rates, which suggests that policies should focus directly on reducing poverty as well as on supporting people who are unemployed.
"The analysis also draws attention to the importance of targeting suicide prevention efforts in economically disadvantaged communities and incorporating alcohol control policies, abuse prevention and treatment for alcohol misuse into such efforts," said Mark S. Kaplan, co-author and professor in UCLA Luskin's Department of Social Welfare.
"County-level poverty rates reflect what's happening at an individual and family level as well as across the entire area," Kerr added. "It speaks to a lack of resources for people who are struggling. It's possible that some people were already at a breaking point when the recession hit — it's difficult to know for sure. But the results do tell us that we need better mechanisms in place to help the people who need it the most."
The study analyzed data from 16 states included in the National Violent Death Reporting System during the study period. This system links data from coroner/medical examiner records, police reports, death certificates and crime laboratories.
Support for this paper was provided by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism at the National Institutes of Health under award number R01 AA021791.
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Study Explains Link Between Heavy Alcohol Use and Suicides During Economic Downturns Social Welfare professor Mark Kaplan and colleagues found that increase in high-risk drinking during the Great Recession may explain rise in alcohol-related suicides by men — but not women — during period of overall decline in alcohol use
May 17, 2016 /0 Comments/in Social Welfare, Social Welfare News Mark Kaplan /by Les Dunseith
While economic downturns have been linked previously to increased suicide risk in the United States, new research from the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs sheds light on the role alcohol use may play in the complex relationship between economic conditions and suicide.
UCLA Social Welfare professor Mark Kaplan is lead author and principal investigator of a new study funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and released online today. The report, "Heavy Alcohol Use Among Suicide Decedents Relative to a Nonsuicide Comparison Group: Gender Specific Effects of Economic Contraction," will be published in the July issue of the journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research.
In conducting the study, specifically on the contribution of alcohol to suicide during the 2008-09 recession period, Kaplan and colleagues used data from the U.S. National Violent Death Reporting System from 16 participating states and supplemented with data from the Behavior Risk Factors Surveillance System for the same states, which was used as the nonsuicide comparison group. Blood-alcohol levels in suicide decedents were compared to heavy alcohol use in the nonsuicide comparison group in the years 2005-07 (before), 2008-09 (during), and 2010-11 (after the recession).
Kaplan and colleagues noted that, in general, economic recessions have been associated with declines in overall alcohol consumption but at the same time with increases in heavy alcohol use, particularly among those directly affected by the contraction. In their current work, Kaplan and colleagues showed that the percentages of suicide decedents who were intoxicated at the time of death increased during the recent economic recession. What is unknown is whether this change in alcohol use prior to suicide mirrored patterns of heavy drinking in the general population.
In this new study, Kaplan's findings show that, for men, alcohol involvement increased among decedents beyond what was observed in the general population, emphasizing the "heightened importance" of acute alcohol use as a risk factor for suicide among men during times of severe economic hardship. "Surprisingly, there is evidence that individuals intoxicated at the time of death did not necessarily have a history of alcohol abuse prior to suicide," said Kaplan.
But similar results were not found for women who died by suicide. Kaplan suggests women may show resilience to the interaction of alcohol and financial crises, reporting that heavy alcohol use by women mirrored consumption in the general population.
He further explains how creative control policies have been shown to reduce the risk. Among those policies, Kaplan cites research on pricing strategies, including raising taxes and pricing beverages according to alcohol content. Also, easy access to alcohol — longer hours for alcohol sale or high density of alcohol outlets — may create more opportunity for impulse buying and thus contribute to suicide during economic downturns, Kaplan concluded.
And, citing recent research, Kaplan explains, "Not only are alcohol control policies important, but equally so is investing in the public health and social welfare infrastructure to minimize the adverse effects of future economic downturns, such as high unemployment and associated material deprivation."
The full study may be found online at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/acer.13100/abstract
The findings are part of a three-year study funded by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism at the National Institutes of Health. Kaplan is the principal investigator of the project, which is a collaboration between UCLA, Oregon Health and Science University, Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation (Oakland, CA), Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (Toronto, ON), and the Pacific Health Institute (Emeryville, CA).
Mark S. Kaplan, Dr.P.H., is professor of Social Welfare at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. He holds an adjunct appointment in psychiatry at the Oregon Health & Science University. His research focuses on using population-wide data to understand suicide risk factors among veterans, seniors and other vulnerable populations. He is the recipient of a Distinguished Investigator Award from the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and has contributed to state and federal suicide prevention initiatives.
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Examining the Link Between Gun Laws and Suicides Luskin professor and his student find that states with most-restrictive gun laws have a reduced rate of firearm suicides among older males
April 11, 2016 /0 Comments/in Social Welfare, Social Welfare News Mark Kaplan /by Les Dunseith
By Adeney Zo and Stan Paul
In April, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a study showing that, from 1999 to 2014, the rate of suicides in America rose nearly 25 percent, with a marked increase after 2006. And, in this election year, gun control remains one of the most heated topics in the nation.
Researchers at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs have been taking a close look at the role firearms play in suicides — specifically among older adults — and the effect that gun law environment and gun control policies can have on reducing firearm suicides among this age group.
UCLA Social Welfare professor Mark Kaplan and Social Welfare doctoral student Carol Leung's work on this issue has been presented at conferences across the U.S. Results from their research and presentations were recently published in the study "Deploying an Ecological Model to Stem the Rising Tide of Suicide in Older Age" in the Journal of Aging & Social Policy.
While gun control laws generally can reduce the risk of suicide, few studies exist showing what laws are the most effective in curbing firearm suicides in older males.
"Suicide research is a small niche, but it's such an important topic," Leung said. "Two-thirds of all gun deaths are suicides, and 80 percent of older males who complete suicide will use a firearm."
Among the key results of their study on older men and suicide, Kaplan and Leung found:
Older men have a higher suicide rate and a higher proportion of suicides involving firearms compared to their younger counterparts.
States with the most restrictive gun laws (California) have proportionately fewer suicides involving the use of firearms.
Two out of the six gun policies ("gun owner accountability" and "regulation of sales and transfers") explained more than half (53 percent) of the variation in the fraction of suicides involving firearms among older men.
"Gun owner accountability" (i.e., licensing of gun owners and purchases, registration of firearms, and reporting of stolen firearms) accounted for the largest share of the explained variance (50 percent).
"I found a very linear relationship," said Leung. "States without these policies have the highest rate of firearm-related suicide. The states with the lowest rate of firearm-related suicide have the strictest gun laws."
As an example, California received an A- on "The 2013 State Scorecard: Why Gun Laws Matter," produced by the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence and the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence, whereas nearly two-thirds of the states received a D or F on the scale.
In addition, Kaplan explained that, in the context of health and older adult suicides, 70 percent of older adults will visit their primary care physician prior to completing suicide.
"We hope to influence health-care providers to be more attentive to anything that seems to be associated with pending suicide attempts," said Kaplan. "This includes probing for gun availability. The mere presence of a gun matters; their chances of dying by firearm-related accident or suicide increase."
The researchers know that change doesn't happen overnight. "Suicide prevention starts with advocacy work that involves collaboration between policy makers, professors and clinicians," said Leung.
Kaplan and Leung, who also presented at the 49th annual American Association of Suicidology Conference, strongly urge that clinicians and policy makers need to become stronger advocates for a more restrictive gun law environment. Overall, their research demonstrates the important role a "gun law environment" and specific gun control policies can play in reducing firearm suicides among older adults. Their most recent work will contribute to a study to be conducted this summer.
"We strive to harmonize policies and clinical practice with preventing firearm suicides among older adults, particularly older men," said Leung.
Mark S. Kaplan, Dr. P.H., is professor of Social Welfare at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs. He holds an adjunct appointment in psychiatry at the Oregon Health & Science University. His research focuses on using population-wide data to understand suicide risk factors among veterans, seniors and other vulnerable populations. He is the recipient of a Distinguished Investigator Award from the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and has contributed to state and federal suicide prevention initiatives.
Carol Leung, LMSW, is a doctoral student in the Department of Social Welfare at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs.
Policies minimizing harmful alcohol use are essential for suicide prevention.
Recent Findings Concerning Alcohol Abuse and Suicide Policies minimizing harmful alcohol use are essential for suicide prevention.
January 4, 2016 /0 Comments/in School of Public Affairs, Social Welfare Mark Kaplan /by Joe Luk
By UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs
Recent studies conducted by UCLA professor Mark Kaplan and a team of researchers shed light on the association between alcohol abuse, racial-ethnic demographics, and suicide. The study, funded by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, reveals patterns between heavy alcohol use immediately prior to suicide with certain demographic groups, notably 43 percent of American Indian/Alaskan Native men and 35 percent of women demonstrated heavy alcohol use (defined as postmortem blood alcohol level at or above .08) at the time of suicide.
Other particularly vulnerable groups (demonstrating high alcohol use prior to suicide) include:
Latinos — 30.6 percent of men and 25 percent of women.
American Indian/Alaska Native — 43 percent of men and 35 percent of women.
White men — demonstrated 24.4 percent rate of heavy alcohol use.
"Using the 2005-11 National Violent Death Reporting System (n=52,276) and the 2001-02 National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions (n=43,093), we examined odds of heavy alcohol use among suicide decedents relative to living respondents across racial-ethnic groups after stratifying by gender and then adjusting for age and alcohol dependence," wrote Kaplan, lead author of the study and Social Welfare professor at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs.
The paper "Heavy Alcohol Use Among Suicide Decedents: Differences in Risk Across Racial-Ethnic Groups" appears in the January 2016 online issue of the journal Psychiatric Services published by the American Psychiatric Association and emphasizes the markedly elevated risk of suicide associated with heavy alcohol use across all racial-ethnic groups and especially so for Hispanic women. According to Kaplan and colleagues, "Policies minimizing harmful alcohol use are essential for suicide prevention, particularly for the most vulnerable."
April 22, 2015 /in Social Welfare Mental Health, Public Health Mark Kaplan, Mark S. Kaplan All Faculty, Senate/Field/Adjunct Faculty Faculty /by webteam
Mark S. Kaplan, Dr.P.H., is professor of Social Welfare at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs and holds adjunct appointments in psychiatry at the Oregon Health & Science University and in epidemiology and community medicine at the University of Ottawa. He received his doctorate in public health from the University of California, Berkeley and holds master's degrees in social work and public health with postdoctoral training in preventive medicine at the University of Southern California. His research, funded by the National Institutes of Health and private foundations, has focused on using population-wide data to understand suicide risk factors among veterans, seniors and other vulnerable populations.
Dr. Kaplan is the recipient of a Distinguished Investigator Award from the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention. He has contributed to state and federal suicide prevention initiatives. Dr. Kaplan testified before the Senate Special Committee on Aging at its hearing on veterans' health and was a member of the Expert Panel on the VA Blue Ribbon Work Group on Suicide Prevention in the Veteran Population. He serves as a scientific advisor to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention.
Currently, he is principal investigator on two National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism funded projects: "Acute alcohol use and suicide" and "Economic contraction and alcohol-associated suicides: A multi-level analysis."


Human Resource Services is offering general information sessions regarding changes to the support staff collective agreement. The last scheduled session will be held in Room L1-430 at the Edmonton Clinic Health Academy on September 20, 2012, from 1:30 – 3:00 PM. If you have any questions about the collective agreement changes, please contact your HR Consultant.


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Q: Deleted my root account from /etc/passwd file for testing in Centos7.3 I deleted my root account line from the file /etc/passwd and unable to boot into Rescue Mode and Emergency Mode.
How can I recover the root user back.

A: Enter into rescue mode.
After entering into rescue mode with a Live USB, run this command as root.
If you have installed your OS with /etc on a different partition instead of having all the filesystem's in one partition, mount the /etc/ partition of your Centos install onto a folder, for this example I will use /dev/sda2.
mkdir /mnt/etc
mount /dev/sda2 /mnt/etc
echo 'root::0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash' >> /mnt/etc/passwd

If you have don't have your /etc/ on a different disk, mount your Centos installation's root directory(/).
mkdir /mnt/root
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/root
echo 'root::0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash' >> /mnt/root/etc/passwd

A: If the root passwd information is stored in shadow then all you need is to boot normally and run sudo under a sudo user.
sudo nano /etc/passwd


What to do when your event doesn't sell well?
Email marketing is perhaps one of the most popular tools for promoting goods and services today due to the almost unlimited possibilities of its tools and usage. On the Internet, you can find an infinite number of guides and articles with tips on how to create, design and run a good email-list. We won't follow in their footsteps, we'll just tell you where to start and how to use email marketing tools to complete the tasks of an event organizer.
Of course, the most advanced emailing users are online stores that squeeze it out up to 200%, as most of network retailers' profit falls exactly on repeat sales, which are generated by email-marketing. As for the entertainment industry, here we are reduced only to a small toolkit, but it can help to achieve notable results. So, what do you need to do to start using emailings?
The first and foremost step is gathering the base of your audience. To know how to do this, read the article in our blog, illustrating it with an example from theatrical field. If you have never done this, then you need to start building the database in two ways. First, selling tickets online on your site, in your social networks and in the booking office (the system you use for selling must provide you with email addresses that a viewer leaves when buying). In addition, you need to install on your official site an email collector. With the Radario marketing platform, it works as follows: you customize a form to collect addresses (choose the color, enter the title, set the sizes), get the code to paste into the site and add it to the right place, by yourself or with the help of your resource administrator.
NB: The list of modern proven mail services is not so long, and each of them has almost similar functionality. It is important to understand that you cannot use all their tools (leave it to notorious online stores). Therefore, the most important thing to pay attention to is integration. A service is good if you can integrate it with your ticket platform.
Now we need to understand which audience our mailing will be sent to. It depends on goals you set for yourself. For example, you need to increase sales for a particular event, but at the same time you want to "encourage" your regular viewers. In this case, you can filter the user base by the amount of purchases or by the average check and offer a discount or other special offers. Or you can select a segment of viewers according to their preferences (those who visit a particular event of a certain genre) and offer them a similar event. Actually, there are a lot of options. You can also involve demography, geography, information about sales channels, etc.
NB: Right targeting is the key to success. A mailing targeted at a specific audience works better than sending emails to the entire database. Send people only those proposals that they are waiting for. Firstly, it will make them understand that you "feel" them, and secondly, it will reduce the risk that a user will delete your letter and unsubscribe.
Modern postal services (including the Radario platform) offer you all the necessary elements and templates for creating a beautifully designed letter. So let's talk about the content. The first thing you should pay attention to is the subject of the letter. We're bore to death of this expression, but still, first impressions are half the battle.
The head of the letter should be given maximum attention, because it determines whether a user will open your letter. Undoubtedly, if you send a message to your viewers who have already bought tickets for your events, you can be sure that they know about you, and, at least, your letter will not be a surprise to them. However, this does not negate the fact that you should clearly, briefly and most interestingly formulate your proposal in the subject line. It may be with a spectacular and, perhaps, provocative title. But you should not abuse your imagination, too much pretentiousness can only alienate your addressee from reading the letter.
As for content, you do not need to get carried away. Remember that the size of your message directly affects the conversion. So it must be clear and relevant, otherwise it highly probable that the addressee will not finish reading the letter to the end. But, again, do not forget that you are communicating with ordinary people, not with officials or robots. Although, of course, the questions of stylistics is up to you, as well the manner of communication with your audience.
Always remember that the main thing in your letter is a call to action. It must be noticeable and obvious. For example, you want to give viewers the opportunity to buy a discount ticket or offer to leave a review of the past event they visited. Accordingly, everything in your letter should work for the person to click the appropriate button, whether it is to go to the purchase or form to fill.
NB: Remember the main thing: content is above all, so it should be high-quality. Do not be lazy to check their texts with the help of special services (for example, "Glavred" and many others ). Also pay attention to the readability of the letter: make accents (text or graphic), divide information into blocks, use buttons with a call to action, add illustrations.
There is a lot of research on what time and day of the week it is better to do emailing. Of course, you do not need to take them as an unquestioning guide to action, but try different variants and follow the conversion. But the general laws for all are approximately the same. In addition, remember that you need to determine the frequency balance of mailings, quantity (letters) rarely goes into quality (sales).
NB: At the beginning of the work, it will be good to create several variants of mailings and to check them with the help of A / B testing. This will allow you to find out not only the best time and day of the week for sending letters, but also what form of presenting information and style of communication are suitable for your audience.
Summing up, you can once again say that, well-managed, email marketing tools can help you not only increase sales, but also build a full-fledged loyalty program. Moreover, even if you just start this work, you will soon be able to assess the effect of emailing and revisit the concept of this tool and adjust your strategy, since all statistics are transparent and accessible, and you do not need to have in-depth expert knowledge to analyze it.
We recommend that you read our material about how to start using the Radario marketing platform, where you can learn in more detail about how to configure and start mailing.


A new study published by the National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders revealed that up to 70% of those with eating disorders don't have the more commonly known disorders like anorexia or bulimia. They have what is called "eating disorder not otherwise specified," or EDNOS, which is characterized by traits of anorexia and bulimia but don't necessarily meet the DSM criteria for either.
EDNOS can be more deadly with a 5.2% mortality rate, which is higher than anorexia and bulimia. The increased mortality rate is because the disordered eating behaviors vary from one person to another, making harder to detect, diagnose and treat. Therefore the lag time between the onset of the disorder and treatment for eating disorders increases. Also, most sufferers flip flop between anorexia and bulimia and binge eating, which can give the illusion of a healthy body weight despite the inner damage and strain on vital organs like the heart. Other health effects are compounded by various EDNOS behaviors such as compulsive exercise, laxative use, binge eating and food restricting include loss of menstruation, fainting and heart arrhythmia.
Eating disorders are known to have the highest mortality rate of any psychiatric diagnosis – including alcoholism and addiction to dangerous, overdose prone drugs like heroin. This makes eating disorder treatment more crucial and timely to the person suffering from any eating disorder - be it anorexia, bulimia or EDNOS.
There are excellent treatment centers for eating disorders that help those struggling restore their physical well being while simultaneously tackling the psychological characteristics the underlie the eating disorder. If you or a loved one is in the grips of an eating disorder, Passport to Recovery has hand picked some of the most reputable eating disorder treatment centers to help you on your road to recovery.


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Singer's topless photo shoot at British war memorial sparks uproar
by Web Desk | Published on September 6, 2018 (Edited September 6, 2018) 
LONDON – A singer who posed topless in front of a London war memorial has found herself at the center of a social media shame storm. Lauren Henson defended herself by suggesting the dead soldiers would have appreciated seeing her.
Henson, who goes by the name of Indiana, posed in front of the plaque in Clapham which commemorates those who died in WWI. The singer had no top on and was covering her breasts with her hands.
Henson first posted the pictures in June, but when she added more images from the same night to her Instagram this week, she invited a wave of anger from patriotic Brits offended by the combination of bare breasts and brave deceased war heroes.
"Those names behind me, those boys died fighting for our freedom," Henson said. "I live in the free world they created and here I am, embracing my body and being free."
A post shared by I N D I A N A (@indianathegirl) on Sep 2, 2018 at 11:18am PDT
Those names behind me, those boys died fighting for our freedom. I live in the free world they created and here I am, embracing my body and being free. Take me back 100 years, stand me in front of those soldiers, what would they think? What would they say? What would they do? I think I look good in front of that wall. I haven't done it to upset anyone and I don't think it's a particularly offensive image, in fact anyone who checks my social platforms will have seen it before… Of course I'm not trying to disrespect the fallen. If I've offended anyone then it was not my intention.
A post shared by I N D I A N A (@indianathegirl) on Sep 5, 2018 at 8:39am PDT
"Take me back 100 years, stand me in front of those soldiers, what would they think? What would they do?" she wrote. "I think I look good in front of that wall."
Henson said she had no idea she was posing next to a war memorial. She told BBC Radio Nottingham that she saw the words, 'The Glorious Dead' on the monument and thought "that's so cool". She also said she was embracing her sexuality and that she is a "very sexual person."
I've had a really really good day! So much good stuff happening right now!! Can't wait to share it all with you 🖤 #sexleisure
A post shared by I N D I A N A (@indianathegirl) on Jun 26, 2018 at 2:02pm PDT
However, many people were not impressed with the photo shoot, describing it as "deliberately provocative" and a "publicity stunt".


I swear, the artists who design anime characters outfits ought to be moonlighting in the fashion industry because there's some truly remarkable outfits out there. And of course when I say outfit, I don't mean a uniforms or costumes like maid outfits or school clothes (that's a separate category after all) I just mean something that a character always wears and defines their image but is no different from regular clothes. Okay, I say "no different" but obviously they wouldn't be a contender for 'sexiest outfit' if they were just normal clothes! Rem Galeu's Outfit from 'How Not To Summon A Demon Lord' is an everyday outfit that's among anime's sexiest, not only is it tight and revealing to show off the best of Rem's body but it actually looks nice aesthetically with the complimenting colours and strong seam lines (look at me, pretending that I know anything about fashion).


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Senjedak or Senjedk () may refer to:
 Senjedak, Markazi
 Senjedak, Fariman, Razavi Khorasan Province
 Senjedak, Kashmar, Razavi Khorasan Province
 Senjedak, Sistan and Baluchestan
 Senjedak, Behabad, Yazd Province

See also
Senjetak (disambiguation)

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