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Gary Clark gives Rockets much-needed boost
Glynn A. Hill , Houston Chronicle Nov. 27, 2019
Houston Rockets forward Gary Clark (6) goes after a loose ball during the fourth quarter of an NBA basketball game at the Toyota Center on Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2019, in Houston.
Photo: Jon Shapley/Staff photographer
In less than 10 minutes on the floor this season, Rockets forward Gary Clark averaged 1.5 points per game.
He eclipsed both numbers through a near double-double performance in a 117-108 win over the Miami Heat on Wednesday.
"We're trying to find somebody to get us to something consistent. Now it's up to him to do this," coach Mike D'Antoni said. "Everybody in the NBA can do it for one or two nights. Can you do it for six months in a row? We've got to have that and we're looking for that. He's got an opportunity, but tonight he was good."
Clark recorded season-highs with 12 points and eight rebounds in 29 minutes. He added a block, an assist and a steal.
D'Antoni didn't intend to give the power forward that much time, but five minutes into his second-quarter debut, Clark scored five points and secured four rebounds.
"It's big," Clark said of the importance of staying ready for his opportunity. "You can think a lot sitting over there a lot of games… Just being able to think the game, learn the game, just seeing the ins and outs when you're sitting over there."
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Four weeks after Miami routed Houston 129-100, Clark helped Houston limit Miami's frontcourt players in the absence of Clint Capela (illness).
Although forward Kelly Olynyk scored 19 points, forwards Meyers Leonard (five points) and James Johnson (who did not score) were far less effective than their Nov. 3 showings, where they combined for 38 points.
"You almost have to go small (when Olynyk checks in)," D'Antoni said. "That's why Gary was so important tonight, because he could also guard bigs, so if they leave one big in there, we can switch it and stuff… I thought Gary was really good for what we needed. He gave it to us."
If Clark can build on Wednesday's performance, D'Antoni could give him a greater role in Houston's rotation.
"He played really well," D'Antoni said. "Gary has the possibility, he's got all kinds of talent."
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The clergy prayers at Biden's inauguration are a signal of his priorities
The choice of Fr. Leo O'Donovan and Rev. Silvester Beaman have personal and national significance.
By Alissa Wilkinson@alissamarie Jan 18, 2021, 1:10pm EST
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Joe Biden at Bethel AME Church in Wilmington, Delaware on June 1. Bethel's pastor, Rev. Silvester Beaman, will offer the benediction at Biden's inauguration.
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Alissa Wilkinson covers film and culture for Vox. Alissa is a member of the New York Film Critics Circle and the National Society of Film Critics.
As with everything that happens at a presidential inauguration, the selection of clergy to pray at the ceremony is not just a formality — it's a statement by the incoming president, telegraphing the values of his administration to the country.
And for Joe Biden — a lifelong Catholic who has frequently cited his faith in his recent speeches, quoting everyone from St. Francis of Assisi to the hymn "On Eagle's Wings" — the two men offering prayers hold personal meaning. Father Leo J. O'Donovan, a Jesuit priest and spiritual mentor to Biden, will offer the invocation at the start of the service on January 20, and Rev. Silvester Beaman, a friend and confidant, will give the benediction at the end.
Beaman and O'Donovan's participation in Biden's inauguration places them in a long line of clergy who have prayed at inauguration events, stretching back to the second inauguration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, an Episcopalian, in 1937. Trump's inauguration in 2017 featured six religious leaders, a record, including Franklin Graham (who participated in George W. Bush's 2001 inauguration), Paula White, and Cardinal Timothy Dolan, archbishop of New York City.
Biden is only the second Catholic to become US president, following John F. Kennedy's election in 1960. But in recent years, he has also been criticized by fellow Catholics for his stance on abortion rights. In 2019, he announced that he no longer supported the Hyde Amendment, which bans federal funding for abortions, a more progressive stance than he previously took (though it was in line with what his fellow 2020 Democratic presidential candidates proposed).
Some Catholic clergy have suggested that he ought to be barred from participating in Holy Communion — the central feature of the Catholic mass — and some have already denied him outright. However, Biden contends he is a devout Catholic (he received a congratulatory call from Pope Francis following his election), and his invocation of his faith throughout his campaign suggests his Catholicism will be an important part of not just his inauguration ceremony, but also his presidency.
Fr. Leo O'Donovan's invocation is a signal of Biden's connection to his Catholic roots
The careers of Biden and O'Donovan have intersected for decades. O'Donovan, a native New Yorker, served as the president of Georgetown University from 1989 to 2001, a time marked by the university's evolution into a highly selective, more diverse, and more financially stable institution. But there were controversies, too; most notably, in 1992 he was ordered by a Vatican court to defund a campus abortion rights advocacy organization.
In 1992, while Biden's son Hunter was a student at Georgetown, O'Donovan invited then-Sen. Biden to give a lecture on how his faith informed his public service. "I'd never talked about my faith publicly," Biden told Esquire in 2011. "Anyway, I never worked so hard on a speech my whole life. What I realized as I wrote it was the greatest sin a man or woman can commit is the abuse of power."
Fr. Leo O'Donovan speaking an at event in 2019 in New York City.
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Since leaving Georgetown's presidency, O'Donovan has returned to teaching as a visiting professor at institutions including Fordham University, General Theological Seminary, and Union Theological Seminary. At the request of former Disney CEO Michael Eisner, whose son attended Georgetown, O'Donovan served on the board of directors of the Walt Disney Company.
In 2015, Biden's son Beau, the former attorney general of Delaware, died at the age of 46 after a recurrence of brain cancer. Biden asked O'Donovan to give the homily at Beau's funeral. "Joe, I am so sorry," O'Donovan said to Biden, and then started crying.
"He began to comfort me," O'Donovan later told the National Catholic Register. "He became the pastor there."
In 2016, O'Donovan became director of mission at the Jesuit Refugee Service USA, and has since sharply criticized President Trump's immigration policies. On November 12, 2020, days after his election, Biden participated in a virtual fundraiser for Jesuit Refugee Service, during which he announced that he would increase the target for admitted refugees into the US from the Trump administration's 15,000 per year to 125,000 per year. Biden also wrote the foreword to O'Donovan's 2018 book Blessed Are the Refugees: Beatitudes of Immigrant Children.
On Inauguration Day, O'Donovan's prayer will represent not just a long friendship and a connection to one of the most tragic events in Biden's life; it will be a statement about the new president's continued connection to his Catholic roots. Biden has often spoken of his faith as a "solace" in a time of tragedy and sorrow during the loss of his own family members. And that seems especially important for a president taking office in a time marked by suffering and grief for many Americans.
Rev. Silvester Beaman's benediction is a reminder that there's work to be done
O'Donovan's invocation — traditionally, a prayer that asks for assistance — will likely call for God's blessing on the ceremony and on Biden before the new president swears to uphold the Constitution. Following the ceremony, Rev. Silvester Beaman will offer a prayer of benediction, or a blessing for those assembled.
A native of Niagara Falls, New York, Beaman is a graduate of Wilberforce University, the first private historically Black university to be owned and operated by African Americans. Wilberforce is associated with the African Methodist Episcopal denomination, as is Beaman's church, Bethel AME, a predominantly Black church located in Wilmington, Delaware. (Biden's main residence is in Greenville, a suburb of Wilmington.)
Biden and Beaman met in 1993, after Beaman took over Bethel. Biden attended a community event that Beaman held and introduced himself to the new pastor, and the two men struck up a friendship. Beaman occasionally traveled with Biden during his previous presidential campaigns and became a friend to the entire Biden family, especially Beau.
Beaman told NBC News that while Beau Biden was the Delaware attorney general, he found a partner in his work. "Beau and I became kindred spirits," Beaman said. "We became good friends in the trenches dealing with social issues in Wilmington and the state." He also participated in Beau's 2015 funeral service.
Biden praying at Bethel AME on June 1, 2020.
On June 1, 2020, amid national unrest and protests against racism and police violence following the death of George Floyd, Biden — who had sharply decreased his public appearances due to the coronavirus pandemic — met with 15 Black community leaders in a meeting in the sanctuary at Bethel. He vowed to address institutional racism and set up a police oversight body during his first 100 days in office if elected. "The vice president came to hear from us," Beaman said before the group prayed. "This is a homeboy."
The June 1 meeting at Beaman's church became fodder for three misleading and racist Trump campaign ads, which used footage of Biden kneeling in the church sanctuary in front of Beaman and other Black leaders. In an ad released in June, the video was superimposed over images of violent protests, with the church context blurred out and a narrator saying, "Antifa destroys our communities. Rioting. Looting. Yet Joe Biden kneels down."
In August, the footage was digitally altered to make it appear that Biden was alone in an ad designed to insinuate that the former vice president was cowering in fear and defeated, having all but given up campaigning.
In September, the footage appeared again, this time in slow motion and with the Black leaders visible. The words "Stop Joe Biden and his rioters" followed the footage, with audio of Vice President Mike Pence saying, "You won't be safe in Joe Biden's America." Beaman told Religion News Service that this ad was "overtly racist," an "attack on the African American Church." Along with other AME leaders, Beaman signed a letter that denounced the ad and called on federal law enforcement to investigate it, as it "might incite violence, and encourage racial tensions that lead to placing people of color in harm's way."
On Wednesday, the benediction from Beaman — a friend and confidant for nearly 30 years — will signal a promise to be connected to the concerns of Black communities, a matter of great importance as Biden steps into the role of president at this moment.
And Beaman is well aware of the stakes: "I will be standing in front of a building that slaves built and I will be standing at a podium that a mob desecrated," he told NBC News. "The last word that day will be the voice of God. I'm asking God to use me to channel his final grace upon the occasion and speak to the moment. And it's an honor to do so."
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House of Reps' Spending Info Is Now Online as Data
ameliademandprogressorg	Reports & Analysis	 May 31, 2016 September 25, 2020
Yesterday the House of Representatives began publishing its spending data online as a spreadsheet (and continued publishing it online as a PDF file).
As Josh Tauberer explains in Open Government Data: The Book, the compilation of spending data, known as the Statements of Disbursements, includes "how much congressmen and their staffs are paid, what kinds of expenses they have, and who they are paying for those services." While it does not contain all the nitty-gritty details, the Disbursements data can tell you a lot about the health and activities of Congress.
Yesterday's publication includes the full dataset for the first quarter of 2016 in a 17.8 MB CSV file, and a smaller 502 KB summary file in CSV format. The information is also published as a PDF, which it has been since November 2009.
The prompt for the House to publish the information online in 2009 came from the "Parliamentary Expenses Scandal" in the United Kingdom. Members of Parliament used their expense accounts for incredibly stupid stuff, such as one member with the Dickensian name Douglas Hogg who spent money to clean out the moat at what I presume must have been his castle. There were many other eye-rolling examples. (Here's a full accounting of the fall-out.)
When I was at the Sunlight Foundation, then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi recognized the usefulness of our suggestion to begin publishing the reports online. Her commitment to better government made it happen, and I'm sure she ran endless traps for what was the right thing to do, even though it was probably difficult and a largely thankless task. Eventually, belatedly, the Senate began publishing their reports online as well in 2011, thanks to a legislative nudge by then-Sen. Coburn.
On behalf of the Congressional Data Coalition and several organizations where I have worked (including Demand Progress), I have advocated for the House and Senate to publish this information as data, not just a PDF. Publishing the information as data means that it's much easier to reuse the information and analyze its contents. The Sunlight Foundation built a helpful tool that scrapes the expenditures data, so it eventually became possible for anyone to download an unofficial account for the spending information.
At one time, I put together an extensive list of the smart and silly uses of this data and examples of each. Among the most powerful stories it can tell include looking at patterns in congressional staff pay, staff turnover rates, the best and worst members to work for, issues arising from the revolving door, corruption, and a full accounting of all congressional staff in the form of a free staff directory. Seamus Kraft of the OpenGov Foundation used it to identify trends in information technology spending. Of course, the information can be used for silly or counter-productive purposes, such as reporting on how much then-Speaker Pelosi spent on flowers, member spending on bottled water, etc.
The political impetus to publish Congress's financial books as data arose in the House of Representatives from a commitment and another scandal. At the start of the 114th Congress, the House of Representatives adopted as part of its rules package a commitment to make legislative documents available in machine-readable formats. The Aaron Shock scandal — including lax reporting on his travel and redecoration budgets and unusual staffing choices — impelled the House to create a special task force of Reps. Rodney Davis and Zoe Lofgren to address spending improprieties and improve reporting.
One of our recommendations to the task force, some of which they adopted and turned into a resolution that was approved by the Committee on House Administration, was the publication of the Statements of Disbursements as data. Yesterday's publication of this data turns their commitment into reality.
We have yet to analyze the data released by the House of Representatives for completeness, accuracy, patterns, and to ensure it contains an appropriate level of detail. I suspect in the days ahead we will have more to say about whether there's enough information regarding the dates and destination of travel and the means thereof, for example.
The Senate should follow the House's lead and publish its own statements of disbursements — which it calls "report of the Secretary to the Senate" — in a digital spreadsheet format like a CSV. Most of this information already is available unofficially from the Sunlight Foundation, but it should come from an official source. The House has shown the way forward.
We also believe improvement should be made in how members of the House and Senate report their data to their respective administrative committees. This article on the Congressional Accounting and Personnel System (CAPS)illustrates why Congress must fully overhaul its accounting systems and financial oversight processes. It should be easy (or at least easier) for congressional offices to track and report spending information. We are not looking for more reporting requirements (except to fill the gaps), but we do want better and more accurate reporting that is easier for everyone to implement.
Congratulations to the House of Representatives for publishing its financial books in a useful digital format. Now comes the hard work of seeing what's there.
— Written by Daniel Schuman
Published May 31, 2016 September 25, 2020
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Ernest Karl Arnold Eklund, född 25 november 1915 i Munsala, var en finländsk stadsdirektör.

Eklund, som var son till bonden Karl Johan Eklund och Maria Johanna Stenvall, utexaminerades från handelsläroverk 1937. Han var kommunalsekreterare i Munsala kommun 1945–1955, verkställande direktör för Munsala andelskassa 1956 och stadsdirektör i Nykarleby från 1957. Han var medlem av styrelsen för mentalsjukhusdistriktet och tuberkulosdistriktet, ordförande i sjukhusstyrelsen för lokalsjukhuset i Nykarleby, medlem av förbundsfullmäktige för centralsjukhuset i Vasa, Kårkulla sinnesslöanstalt i Pargas, viceordförande i styrelsen för yrkesskolan i Jakobstad och i styrelsen för Juthbacka semesterhem.

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How the Universe Really Works
Most of us have heard of the Four Elements - Earth, Water, Air, and Fire - and probably believe that the mediaeval philosophers thought of these as the basis of everything that existed in the material world, in the same way that we think of sub-atomic particles as the basis of our own universe.
But that's not quite right. Mediaeval philosophers had another level of reality just as modern physicists have quantum theory, which goes deeper than the classic sub-atomic model of reality. Earth, Water, Air, and Fire were produced by combining truly elemental substances, the Four Contraries: Hot, Cold, Moist, and Dry (Hot and Dry for Fire, Hot and Moist for Air, Cold and Moist for Water, Cold and Dry for Earth). Combining these Contraries within the human body produced the four Humours, which in turn created an individual's basic nature depending on the proportion of each which was present in that person's make-up.
Most of us probably also believe that people in the Middle Ages thought that the world was flat. This is another myth: they knew that it was a sphere. (The idea that they considered that the earth flat originated in the nineteenth century.) According to mediaeval thinking, the globe of the earth had two polar zones, both uninhabitable due to cold, and two temperate zones, with an equator around the middle, uninhabitable due to heat. This hot zone, in fact, formed an impenetrable barrier, so that no human being could ever reach the southern hemisphere. But that hemisphere was not uninhabited: the Antipodeans ('those with their feet opposed') lived there. Nor were they 'upside-down', because it was recognised that 'down' really means 'toward the centre of the earth'
According to Cicero's Republic, in the Northern Hemisphere, where human beings lived, were several great land masses: Europe, Africa, and Asia, divided by four great north-south running rivers.
Mediaeval astronomers also knew that the Earth was larger than the Moon, but smaller than the Sun. The entire universe, however, dwarfed the Earth in size. These notions parallel our own; but whereas we think of Space as empty and infinite, mediaeval thinkers believed it to be a series of concentric spheres: the first seven spheres were those of the seven planets, namely the Moon, Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. Beyond Saturn was the sphere of the fixed stars, the Stellatum; outside that was the largest object in the universe, the sphere called the Primum Mobile. Outside that, there was no space at all, just 'pure light, intellectual light, full of love (Dante, Paradiso, 30.38). As c. S. Lewis explains in his last book, The Discarded Image:
You must go out on a starry night and walk about for half an hour trying to see the sky in terms of the old cosmology. Remember that you now have an absolute Up and Down. The Earth is really the centre, really the lowest place; movement to it from whatever direction is downward movement. As a modern, you locate the stars at a great distance. For distance you must now substitute that very special, and far less abstract, sort of distance which we call height; height, which speaks immediately to our muscles and nerves. The Medieval Model is vertiginous. And… the medieval universe, while unimaginably large, was also unambiguously finite. And one unexpected result of this is to make the smallness of Earth more vividly felt. In our universe she is small, no doubt; but so are the galaxies, so is everything – and so what? But in theirs there was an absolute standard of comparison. The furthest sphere, Dante's maggior corpo is, quite simply, the largest object in existence. The word 'small' applied to Earth thus takes on a far more absolute significance. Again, because the medieval universe is finite, it has a shape, the perfect spherical shape, containing within itself an ordered variety. Hence to look out on the night sky with modern eyes is like looking out over a sea that fades away into mist, or looking about one in a trackless forest – trees forever and no horizon. To look up at the towering medieval universe is much more like looking at a great building. The 'space' of modern astronomy may arouse terror, or bewilderment or vague reverie; the spheres of the old present us with an object in which the mind can rest, overwhelming in its greatness but satisfying in its harmony.
In this vast but enclosed cosmos, the main source of light was the Sun: even starlight was reflected sunlight. Shadows created the only darkness. As the Sun rotated around the Earth, the Earth's shadow stretched out toward the spheres. The night sky was dark, therefore, because we were looking up at it through a shadow.
The really important difference between this universe and ours was what made it move: in modern terms, the motion of the stars and planets stems from an original 'Big Bang' and from an invisible force, gravity. But in the Middle Ages it was believed that all the motion of the spheres originated at the outermost edge with the Primum Mobile or 'First Movable'. What made that move? The Primum Mobile moved because it had sympathy - love - for God.
In fact each celestial sphere moved because of its love for God and by the influence of the other spheres: the Primum Mobile moved rapidly, even though it was huge, and this generated the motion of the Stellatum in which the stars were embedded, thus causing the movement of the sphere of Saturn and so on. Thus implied that the spheres, far from being vast inanimate objects, possessed some kind of living quality - and this is in fact what was believed: each sphere was the abode of an angelic-like being of god-like strength and power called an Intelligence. In fact, these were the Christianized versions of the Pagan planetary gods, Mercury, Venus, Mars and so forth.
Why was this motion considered to be a perfect circle? As Lewis explained, 'The nearest approach to the divine and perfect ubiquity that the spheres can attain is the swiftest and most regular possible movement, in the most perfect form, which is circular.'
He went on to evoke the imaginative quality of such a cosmos:
When the sun is up he dazzles us and we cannot see. Darkness, our own darkness, draws the veil and we catch a glimpse of the high pomps within; the vast, lighted concavity filled with music and life. And, looking in, we do not see…'the army of unalterable law', but rather the revelry of insatiable love. We are watching the activity of creatures whose experience we can only lamely compare to that of one in the act of drinking, his thirst delighted yet not quenched.
This wasn't just an observable dance in the Heavens, though: it had a direct bearing on events upon Earth. The Stellatum had an effect upon Saturn, Saturn upon Jupiter, Jupiter upon Mars and soon - and each had its effect upon the 'ground', the Earth. The sphere of the Moon, for example, disturbed the air, causing winds. Air was considered to be the medium by which all of the planets affected human affairs.
These ideas were embraced by the Christian Church rather than rejected: the idea that the planets exerted a physical influence upon events was about as close as the Middle Ages got to what we would consider to be a 'science'. But when it came to astrological prediction of the future or astrological determinism, or the worship of the planets, the Church objected.
This cosmological system passed all the way down into an understanding of animal life, the soul, the senses and much more.
Lewis gave great weight to this Model as a tool for the imagination, and in The Discarded Image asks us to remember that all models of the universe are just that, models, not definitive realities - any model is a 'best fit' for observations made at that time, and, importantly, for belief systems at particular times.
No Model is a catalogue of ultimate realities, and none is a mere fantasy. Each is a serious attempt to get in all the phenomena known at a given period, and each succeeds in getting in a great many. But also, no less surely, each reflects the prevalent psychology of an age almost as much as it reflects the state of that age's knowledge.
The book hints at a future in which our current model the universe is superseded as we discover more and more about how things really work.


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Remarks by Henrietta Fore, UNICEF Executive Director, at press briefing on Education Plus initiative
As prepared for delivery
NEW YORK, 2 October 2020 – UNICEF is proud to join our agency partners here today to put the spotlight on adolescent girls.
Adolescent girls are a tremendous engine of progress. They drive economies. They transform communities. And they lead change around the world.
But only if we give them that chance.
Only if we support them with the right resources and support.
Ending child marriage. Preventing abuse and violence. Supporting their health at every stage of development.
And finding new ways to provide the greatest tool of all — education.
This starts with closing the digital divide, so all children and young people — especially girls — can access education and skills no matter where they live.
Especially digital skills, which are crucial to the 21st century economy.
Through our GIGA partnership with the ITU, we're bringing partners around a simple but powerful idea — to connect every school in every community to the internet.
We're also building an arsenal of digital tools to help them once they're connected. This includes our collaboration with Microsoft around the Learning Passport — an innovative online learning tool.
By combining connectivity and tools, we see a huge opportunity not only to provide education for younger girls, but to help adolescent girls gain valuable skills. No matter where they live.
This is a key step towards our joint vision of at least 12 years of quality education for every girl, everywhere.
And ultimately, to ensure that every girl has the chance to shape not only her own future — but the future of her community and her country. Thank you.
Sara Alhattab UNICEF New York Tel: +1 917 957 6536
Email: salhattab@unicef.org
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The letter to Werfel, which requires a response by June 25, comes on the heels of a lawsuit filed by an unnamed health-care provider against the IRS in California Superior Court.
The lawsuit alleged that 15 IRS agents improperly stole medical records during search of the facility in March 2011, according to a report about the incident from Court House News.
"In light of these allegations and in anticipation of the IRS's increased role in implementing health care under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, we are writing to request information regarding your agency's ability to both protect the confidential medical information of millions of Americans and respect the safeguards imposed by HIPAA [Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act]," the letter reads.
The IRS did not immediately respond to request for comment.


This post is for all of you who are thrilled by vibrant, opulent and exotic cultures and styles like Moroccan. Mediterranean design is very recognizable by its vibrant and colorful appearance.
It's a very bold move to create an exotic Mediterranean kitchen in a more modern and less exotic country.
If you want to bring this exotic and bold charm into your kitchen then you need to push the boundaries of what's ordinary.
In this post we have quite a feast for your eyes. Check out this round up of extremely inspiring, refreshing and exotic kitchen designs straight from the shores of the Mediterranean Sea.
You'll definitely take away some great ideas for your own home designs. Read on and enjoy!
We absolutely love the natural and creamy appearance of this Moroccan inspired kitchen. It has a bold texture spectrum and a warm, engaging color scheme. The unfinished wood beams along the ceiling help to create a rustic charm while the large stone vent and oversized kitchen island with its embossed ethnic patterns emphasize the authentic Moroccan ambiance.
How delightful is this little kitchen right? It's just bursting with freshness and a warm rustic charm. The wall tiles along with that blue pattern at the top of the walls add to the vibrancey while the wood island with its crafted bronze legs brings a bold and opulent vibe to this beautiful space.
We love the freshness and laid back ambiance of this kitchen with its extremely natural yet exotic feel. The wood ceiling makes a rustic and natural statement while the wide open windows open up the space making everything feel much more airy and bright. The red curtains, rug and other accents add to a feeling of opulence and make the space much more vibrant.
This lovely and sweet kitchen is inspired by Portuguese design. The white, yellow and blue colour scheme creates just the perfect exotic and Mediterranean ambiance. The hanging wall plates brings a bit of a traditional country feel and everything here just feels so refreshing.
This kitchen looks like it's right out of Morocco. It's superbly natural and exotic. The textured kitchen cabinets along with the matching kitchen island unifies everything together while that marble kitchen backsplash makes everything look just a bit more modern. The exotic decorative items also contribute to the overall ambience completing the space.
We absolutely love the play of colors and patterns in this small yet adorable kitchen. The bright yellow backsplash creates a cheery and lively foundation for this space. The light oak wood cabinets with their bold textures make everything look just a bit more interesting. Finally, we certainly have to mention the beautiful ceramic items decorating the space and adding a hint of blue to the overall color scheme.
Here's another amazing little kitchen that looks straight out of Morocco. The natural orange stone wall combined with that traditional tile backsplash brings a lively, opulent and cheery ambiance to this lovely kitchen interior.
Even though this kitchen has more of an Eastern European look it still incorporates elements of Mediterranean design. It's a haven of colors and patterns with a beautiful and sweet ambiance. The yellow and green color scheme with it's pops of blue combined with the natural wood panelling strikes a perfect balance of natural and rustic charm.


Fallout Shelter outfits - The Vault Fallout Wiki - Everything you need to know about Fallout 76, Fallout 4, New Vegas and more!
This page lists all apparel in Fallout Shelter.
Outfits are sets of clothing that Vault dwellers can wear in Fallout Shelter. Outfits replace the standard Vault jumpsuits adding visual diversity as well as boosting dwellers SPECIAL stats.
There are ninety outfit types that can be unlocked. Outfits can be brought by dwellers sent to explore the Wasteland, obtained through cards found in Lunchboxes, and occasionally Rare or Legendary Dwellers may come equipped. Outfits can be stored in Storage Room, but don't hoard them, use them as they come.
Outfits boost particular combinations of SPECIAL stats, so try and give everyone an outfit that boosts their strongest stat, corresponding with their job. Apart from the basic tiered outfits, most items are only available to particular sexes, even if the only differences are headgear and a different color pattern. Their availability is identified in the last column.
All outfits in this section are available when characters spawn, whether from the wasteland or the vault.
Wasteland clothes The default apparel of common wastelanders.
All outfits in this section are available in three grades: Common, Rare, and Legendary.
All outfits in this section are rare items which possess only a single grade.
All outfits in this section are legendary items which possess only a single grade.
All power armor, under a separate heading. Obviously, all power armor are legendary items.
All outfits in this section can be crafted in the outfit factory. Some are available in three grades: Common, Rare, and Legendary.
These are found in lunchboxes.
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package com.xixicm.de.domain.interactor;

import com.xixicm.de.domain.Constants;
import com.xixicm.ca.domain.usecase.AbstractUseCase;
import com.xixicm.ca.domain.util.LogUtils;

/**
 * A auto trigger use case to fetch today's sentence.  No request parameter, No response,
 * implementation should base on other notification scheme, such as EventBus
 *
 * @author mc
 */
public class AutoFetchTodaysSentenceUC extends AbstractUseCase<Void, Void, Void> {
    SentenceFetchExecutor mSentenceFetchExecutor;

    public AutoFetchTodaysSentenceUC(SentenceFetchExecutor sentenceFetchExecutor) {
        mSentenceFetchExecutor = sentenceFetchExecutor;
    }

    private void fetchTodaysSentence() {
        LogUtils.v(Constants.TAG, "auto start to fetch today's sentence.");
        mSentenceFetchExecutor.fetchTodaysSentence(false);
    }

    @Override
    public void run() {
        fetchTodaysSentence();
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Wotruba, Fritz
> Wotruba, Fritz (english)
Wotruba, Fritz#
b. Vienna, April 23, 1907, d. Vienna, Aug. 28, 1975, one of the most influential sculptors of the 20th century. Trained as an engraver from 1921-1924; student of A. Hanak at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts; fled to Switzerland in 1938, where he stayed until 1945. After his return, he became Professor at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts. Represented Austria at the Biennale Festival in Venice in 1948 and 1952. In his early years sculptured his representations of human beings according to realistic principles (e.g. "Denkmal der Arbeit" at Donawitz, in 1932). After 1945 increasingly combined archaic with cubist elements, using the elementary block structure of stone, his preferred material, as a basic means of expression (e.g. "Sitzende Figur", 1949, Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation, Vienna). From the 1950s sculptured various monuments for public places (e.g. Wagner monument, 1969, Mainz; "Grosse liegende Figur", 1971, Rotterdam), created reliefs and busts adjusted to the requirements of different kinds of buildings, worked for the stage (from 1948-1967 in Vienna, at the Salzburg Festival, in Athens and Berlin) and occupied himself intensively with graphic arts. From 1974-1976 a church dedicated to the Holy Trinity ("W.-Church") was erected according to his designs at Vienna-Mauer (had worked on the plans from 1967). Both as an artist and long-standing teacher at the Vienna Academy, W. made Austrian sculpture internationally known after 1945 ("W.-School"). Among his pupils were many outstanding sculptors such as H. Leinfellner, J. Pillhofer, A. Urteil, J. Avramidis and A. Hrdlička. Awarded the Grand Austrian State Prize in 1958 and the Austrian Decoration for Science and Art in 1871.
Literature#
Hommage à W., exhibition catalogue, Vienna 1985; F. W. Druckgraphik 1950-1975, exhibition catalogue, Vienna 1989; F. W. Der Bildhauer als Buehnenbildner, exhibition catalogue, Bremen 1992; F. W., exhibition catalogue, Zurich 1992; O. Breicha, F. W. Figur als Widerstand, 21995; A. Pistorius, F. W. Das szenische Werk, 1995; M. Haldemann (ed.), Dialog mit der Moderne. F. W. und die Sammlung Kamm, exhibition catalogue, Zug 1998; P. v. Kraft, F. W. Studien zu Leben und Werk, 1999; NOeB.
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Dieser Artikel ist eine Übersetzung aus dem Jahr 1995 basierend auf dem Österreich-Lexikon, R. u. M. Bamberger, E. Bruckmüller, K. Gutkas, Verlagsgemeinschaft Österreich-Lexikon, 1995 (2 Bde.).
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On the right, left out in ultra-liberal S.F.: the city's Trump fans
Heather Knight Oct. 3, 2017 Updated: Oct. 3, 2017 6 a.m.
On the right, left out in ultra-liberal S.F.: the...
1of2San Franciscan Vicky Berol supports President Trump and isn't shy about saying so — and she defies an array of stereotypes.Photo: Michael Macor, The Chronicle
2of2Howard Epstein (third from left), spokesman for the San Francisco Republican Party, leads a Log Cabin Republicans meeting in the Pledge of Allegiance.Photo: Amy Osborne, Special To The Chronicle
My phone rang the other day, and the caller had a real man-bites-dog story — the unusual event journalists relish.
"You said in your column you wanted to know if there was anybody living in San Francisco who supports President Trump," said a woman's voice. "Well I am, and I do. What do you want to know?"
I like bluntness, and I immediately liked Vicky Berol, a Cow Hollow resident who when asked her age, said "past maturity." The retired insurance broker and I got to talking, and she had many reasons for supporting the president whom I despise.
"I like that he is not a politician — that's No. 1," she said. "I like that he is a successful businessman. I like that he is more of a bulldog than a pussycat, which appealed to me because I knew he would be taken through the wringer."
She likes his stances on curbing illegal immigration, renegotiating trade agreements and invigorating the coal industry. And she adores his "lovely family." I disagreed with a lot of what she said. (Lovely is one of the last adjectives I'd use to describe Donald Trump Jr. or Jared Kushner.) But unlike Trump, Berol sounded well-spoken, clever and like she'd be fun to pass time with over a glass of wine.
In far-left San Francisco, we tend to assume all of our neighbors think like we do, vote like we do and hate Trump like we do. But even in this liberal land of political correctness and rainbow flags, 37,688 city residents voted for Trump in November — that's 9.23 percent of all those who cast a vote. And many of them don't regret it.
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A few weeks ago, I had a line in a column about immigration that read, "Who in San Francisco isn't against President Trump? (If you live in the city and support him, I want to know. Really.)" It was the kind of snarky, throw-away line loyal readers know I enjoy, and I didn't think much of it.
But readers sure did. A couple dozen called or e-mailed to say they live here and support Trump. Though many liberals are quick to dismiss Trump supporters as racist, sexist buffoons not worthy of actually engaging in a dialogue, I figured it couldn't hurt to actually hear them out. Especially those with whom we share our beloved city.
A map using precinct-level data from the Department of Elections shows that Trump voters reside in every district, though they're concentrated in the Marina, the Financial District, Sea Cliff, the Richmond, the Sunset, St. Francis Wood and the Lake Merced area.
Many Trump supporters didn't want their names attached, as if they were copping to committing some kind of crime.
"The name has to stay out of it," said a man in hushed tones on my voice mail. "It's very necessary as I am applying for a job."
Another man wouldn't go on the record, he said, because whenever he's had conservative-leaning letters to the editor printed in The Chronicle, he has gotten nasty phone calls.
"They call me racist, an —hole, say why am I living here, get out of here, I know your address," he said.
A woman named Bev said on my voice mail, "I am for him 100 percent, and there are a lot of people like me in San Francisco. We're not all over-the-top, lockstep liberals."
According to my totally unscientific, very small sampling, Trump supporters in San Francisco appear to be older, mostly white and natives of the city, or at least old-timers who lived here long before the city became associated with Burning Man, electric vehicles and avocado toast.
The small sampling also showed they're not wild about Trump's bullying or poor Twitter behavior, but they're even less wild about Hillary Clinton, the Democratic Party and, yes, the news media. And they blame the latter two for pounding away at Trump for every perceived misstep.
"I think they're showing their ignorance. They're acting like spoiled 5-year-olds who just had a toy taken away from them, screaming," said Howard Epstein, 70, a Trump supporter who lives in the Richmond, of liberals post-election.
Epstein, a retired small-business owner, is the spokesman for the San Francisco Republican Party. Yes, there is such a thing. Epstein has lived in the city since he was born, and he said it's not easy being a Republican here.
Shortly after the election, he was in line for coffee and overheard two women in front of him chatting about politics. One woman asked the other, "Why do you think anybody would vote for Donald Trump?"
Epstein said he couldn't help but interject, "Because he'll do a better job." (Mansplaining in a coffee line — gotta love it.) He said the woman then countered, "You're a white man" and went on to inform him that he has a particular piece of anatomy that she doesn't so he wouldn't understand.
"In situations like that, now I kind of shut up," he said. "The last decade, decade and a half, the city has made a very, very hard left turn. And it's not working out. You look at the housing prices, you look at the city budget, you look at all kinds of things, and it's not working well."
I agree a lot in San Francisco isn't working well, but it's functioning a whole lot better than Washington, D.C.
Mike McNulty, 56, is a registered Libertarian who lives in Ingleside Terraces and voted for Trump. He said government, from the local level to the national, isn't working, and pointed as an example to the city's homeless problem not getting any better despite $305 million in annual spending.
"I think there's a troubling aspect to the status quo, and some of us just said, 'Well, maybe something different would be good. Maybe we need to shake things up a bit.' There's a certain corruption built into the system, and Trump's tipping it on its head a little bit," he said.
As for Vicky Berol, she said she and her husband are proud to be Republicans and proud to be Trump supporters. And she won't stay quiet about it — not even in San Francisco.
"There's no reason for me to keep my mouth shut," she said. "I haven't committed a crime."
Most of her friends here, naturally, are Democrats who voted for Clinton. She talks to some of them about politics, but avoids it with others. She said she endured eight years of President Obama just fine, and Democrats fretting over Trump should get some perspective.
"We're over 200 years old," she said of the country. "Four years is nothing."
Sure seems like an eternity, though. Doesn't it?
San Francisco Chronicle columnist Heather Knight appears Sundays and Tuesdays. Email: hknight@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @hknightsf
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Home Primary What Happened Everyday Denial
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We interviewed Munira Subašić, President of the Mothers of the Enclaves of Srebrenica and Zepa, about the problem of genocide denial in the former Yugoslavia.
You speak powerfully about the problem of genocide denial. How do the Mothers of Srebrenica experience denial?
Denial is the final stage of genocide. Denial operates at all levels throughout the former Yugoslavia – politics, media, even the judicial system. Even after the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia (ICTY) ruled that Srebrenica was a genocide, this is still denied by Serbia and the political representatives of the Serbs in Bosnia-Herzegovina today.
A key reason for the ongoing denial is that the International Court of Justice (ICJ) did not find Serbia guilty of committing the genocide in Srebrenica, only for failing to prevent it. This failure by the ICJ means that sanctions have not been imposed on those most responsible for Srebrenica. The least that the Court should have done is to make Serbia publicly acknowledge that it is responsible for the crimes committed, to apologise, to acknowledge its crimes for the record. This would have been easier for everyone, even more important than any material reparation. All this is absent.
My experience tells me that the denial of genocide is mostly political. We, the victims, feel the same pain regardless of who we are and our origins. A victim is a victim. Therefore, we, the victims of different nations, religions, and backgrounds can often find common ground. My association cooperates with organisations and individuals from different countries – even those who have different opinions about the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
How have the Mothers of Srebrenica challenged genocide denial?
We are fighting using the truth. The truth and nothing but the truth. For us, the truth means first coping with the fact that we are victims, we have lost our loved ones, and that we still have to survive in today's world. It means knowing that those who are responsible for the crime of genocide are still out there.
We are fighting by actively pursuing justice. Our main task is to co-operate with the competent institutions to ensure that perpetrators are criminally prosecuted through the courts. We testify before all courts and monitor all judicial processes in Bosnia-Herzegovina, before the ICTY and abroad. Our struggle in the prosecution of war criminals is also our struggle to prevent genocide ever happening again.
We are fighting in the way we have organised our lives – with our companionship, common understanding and action. We are fighting through our support, education and care for young people so that this crime is never repeated. We build mutual understanding, friendships and ties with other victims. We want to keep the momentum – being constantly active is the best guarantee that we will succeed in our struggle.
How can we support the Mothers of Srebrenica in challenging genocide denial?
After the EU Parliament Resolution in 2009, some of the most important countries in the world have commemorated Srebrenica, but not Serbia.
If only there was a "good invisible hand" that could fulfil all wishes. Denial would disappear in minutes. Whatever makes many politicians in Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina believe that crime can be state policy, that criminals are national heroes or that celebrating genocide can be patriotism, would disappear. The good invisible hand would ensure that politicians publicly and sincerely acknowledge the genocide and demand justice.
There may be no «good invisible hand», but every person in the world can help us – by taking up our cause, by telling the truth about what happened at Srebrenica, by calling for justice. Above all, we must always remember the victims.
Jun 20, 2017 Amil Khan
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Statement on the Finsbury Park Mosque Attack from our London ChairJustice After Genocide
A Deadly Warning: Srebrenica Revisited
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Disgraceful to see children at a school in Srebrenica celebrating Chetniks. Such behaviour is part of a wider and worrying trend in which we are witnessing an increasing number of provocative acts that have caused much distress amongst the local community https://t.co/7pIY0OPP1n
Delighted that phase two of the pioneering conflict transformation & Srebrenica programme has been launched which will provide over 20 further participants with a unique opportunity to be part of a powerful & unique learning experience. https://t.co/FiJleS5jF5 #MEASrebrenica
'This experience has hardened my resolve to bring all our communities together so that never again can such horrors take place'. Powerful speech in Parliament from our community champion @charlotte2153 who spoke about the impact of her visits to Auschwitz and Srebrenica.
Charlotte Nichols@charlotte2153
Today is #HolocaustMemorialDay
I spoke in Parliament in Thursday's emotional Holocaust Memorial Day debate, on my experiences visiting Auschwitz and Srebrenica, and standing together.
Watch full speech: https://t.co/jNwUhMPMt4
Transcript: https://t.co/LlfhEsCr4q
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Very proud of two of our Mid East Antrim Community Champions, Clare and Mohammed, who participated in today's NI Holocaust Memorial Day commemoration.
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Ended #HolocaustRemembranceDay speaking at @HarrowArts to a beautifully diverse audience truly representative of the best of London along with Holocaust Survivor Helen Aronson, my new adoptive nana. Bonds of survival are strong. Thank you to @HMD_UK @SrebrenicaUK @harrow_council
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Virginia Apgar (1909-1974)
Virginia Apgar worked as an obstetrical anesthesiologist, administering drugs that reduce women's pain during childbirth, in the US in the mid-twentieth century. In 1953, Apgar created a scoring system using five easily assessable measurements, including heart rate and breathing rate, to evaluate whether or not infants would benefit from medical attention immediately after birth. Apgar's system showed that infants who were previously set aside as too sick to survive, despite low Apgar scores, could recover with immediate medical attention.
Subject: People, Reproduction
Albrecht von Haller (1708-1777)
Victor Albrecht von Haller was an 18th century scientist who did extensive work in the life sciences, including anatomy and physiology, botany, and developmental biology. His embryological work consisted of experiments in understanding the process of generation, and led him to adopt the model of preformationism called ovism (the idea that the new individual exists within the maternal egg prior to conception). Haller was born in Bern, Switzerland, on 16 October, 1708. His mother was Anna Maria Engel, and his father was Niklaus Emanuel Haller.
Frederik Ruysch (1638-1731)
Frederik Ruysch made anatomical drawings and collected and preserved human specimens, many of which were infants and fetuses, in the Netherlands during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Ruysch had many interests, including anatomy, botany, and medicine, and he discovered structures of the lymphatic system and of the eye. His collection of preserved human specimens were used as educational tools for his students and for other physicians, and they were displayed in a museum of his own making that was open to the public.
Ethics of Fetal Surgery
Surgeons sometimes operate on the developing fetuses in utero of pregnant women as a medical intervention to treat a number of congential abnormalities, operations that have ethical aspects. A. William Liley performed the first successful fetal surgery, a blood transfusion, in New Zealand in 1963 to counteract the effects of hemolytic anemia, or Rh disease.
Subject: Ethics
Evaluation of the Newborn Infant--Second Report (1958), by Virginia Apgar et al.
Virginia Apgar and colleagues wrote "Evaluation of the Newborn Infant—Second Report" in 1958. This article explained that Apgar's system for evaluating infants' condition after birth accurately predicted the health of infants. Apgar had developed the scoring system in 1953 to provide a simple method for determining if an infant needed medical attention after birth.
Subject: Reproduction, Publications
Golden Rice was engineered from normal rice by Ingo Potrykus and Peter Beyer in the 1990s to help improve human health. Golden Rice has an engineered multi-gene biochemical pathway in its genome. This pathway produces beta-carotene, a molecule that becomes vitamin A when metabolized by humans. Ingo Potrykus worked at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland, and Peter Beyer worked at University of Freiburg, in Freiburg, Germany. The US Rockefeller Foundation supported their collaboration.
Subject: Organisms, Legal
The China-US Study on the Prevention of Neural Tube Defects using Folic Acid (1999)
From 1993 to 1995 researchers led by Robert J. Berry from the US Centers for Disease Control headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, and Zhu Li from Beijing Medical University in Beijing, China, conducted a collaborative study in China on the prevention of neural tube defects or NTDs using folic acid supplements. NTDs are birth defects in which openings in the spinal cord or the brain that occur during early development remain after birth. Neural-tube formation occurs in early pregnancy, often before a woman knows she is pregnant and therefore before she has begun taking prenatal vitamins.
Subject: Experiments
Sidney Q. Cohlan (1915-1999)
Sidney Q. Cohlan studied birth defects in the US during the twentieth century. Cohlan helped to discover that if a pregnant woman ate too much vitamin A her fetus faced a higher than normal risk of teratogenic effects, such as cleft palate. A teratogen is a substance that causes malformation of a developing organism. Cohlan also identified the teratogenic effects of several other substances including a lack of normal magnesium and prenatal exposure to the antibiotic tetracycline.
The e-Mouse Atlas Project (1992- )
The Edinburgh Mouse Atlas, also called the e-Mouse Atlas Project (EMAP), is an online resource comprised of the e-Mouse Atlas (EMA), a detailed digital model of mouse development, and the e-Mouse Atlas of Gene Expression (EMAGE), a database that identifies sites of gene expression in mouse embryos. Duncan Davidson and Richard Baldock founded the project in 1992, and the Medical Research Council (MRC) in Edinburgh, United Kingdom, funds the project.
Subject: Technologies
In re Agent Orange Product Liability Litigation (1979-1984)
In the legal case In re Agent Orange Product Liability Litigation of the early 1980s, US military veterans of the Vietnam War sued the US chemical companies that had produced the herbicide Agent Orange, and those companies settled with US veterans out of court. Agent Orange contains dioxin, a chemical later shown to disrupt the hormone system of the body and to cause cancer. As veterans returned to the US from Vietnam, scientists further confirmed that exposure to Agent Orange caused a variety of cancers in veterans and developmental problems in the veterans' children.
Subject: Legal, Ethics
Reduction of Maternal-Infant Transmission of Human Immunodeficiency Virus with Zidovudine Treatment
In 1994, Edward M. Connor and colleagues published "Reduction of Maternal-Infant Transmission of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 with Zidovudine Treatment." Their study summarized how to reduce the transfer of human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, from pregnant women to their fetuses with Zidovudine, otherwise known as AZT. HIV is a virus that weakens the immune system by destroying white blood cells, a part of the body's immune system. Fifteen to forty percent of infants born to HIV-positive mothers become infected during fetal development, labor and delivery, or breast-feeding.
Subject: Publications
Assisted Reproductive Technologies
Assisted reproductive technologies (ART) are a collection of different techniques designed to help those who are infertile achieve a successful pregnancy. The most popular technology currently in use is in vitro fertilization (IVF), but others include gamete intrafallopian transfer (GIFT), zygote intrafallopian transfer (ZIFT), intrauterine insemination (IUI), and intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI).
Subject: Technologies, Reproduction
Kurt Benirschke (1924-)
Kurt Benirschke studied cells, placentas, and endangered species in Germany and the US during the twentieth century. Benirschke was professor at the University of California in San Diego, California, and a director of the research department at the San Diego Zoo in San Diego, California. He also helped form the research department of the San Diego Zoo and its sister organization, the Center for Reproduction of Endangered Species.
Amniocentesis is a test used for prenatal diagnosis of inherited diseases, Rh incompatibility, neural tube defects, and lung maturity. Normally performed during the second trimester of a pregnancy, this invasive procedure allows the detection of health problems in the fetus as early as fifteen weeks gestation. Although amniocentesis does carry some significant risks, the medical community commonly accepts it as a safe and useful procedure.
The Pasteur Institute (1887- )
L'Institut Pasteur (The Pasteur Institute) is a non-profit private research institution founded by Louis Pasteur on 4 June 1887 in Paris, France. The Institute's research focuses on the study of infectious diseases, micro-organisms, viruses, and vaccines. As of 2014, ten scientists have received Nobel Prizes in physiology or medicine for the research they have done at the Pasteur Institute.
Subject: Organizations
Lydia Estes Pinkham (1819–1883)
Lydia Estes Pinkham invented and sold Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, a medicinal tonic used to treat menstrual discomfort and promote female reproductive health in general, in the US during the nineteenth century. Pinkham also founded Mrs. Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Company, a business that sold natural remedies for women's health issues. Throughout her life, Pinkham acted as an authority on female wellness, writing medical pamphlets about female anatomy and reproductive processes.
Diana W. Bianchi
Diana W. Bianchi studied the medical treatment of premature and newborn infants in the US during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Bianchi helped develop non-invasive prenatal genetic tests that use cell-free fetal DNA found within maternal blood to diagnose genetic abnormalities of the fetus during pregnancy. The test provides a means to test fetuses for chromosomal and genetic abnormalities.
Center for Reproductive Health (1986-1995)
The Center for Reproductive Health was a fertility clinic run by a partnership of world-renowned fertility specialists from 1986 to 1995. The Center operated at three clinic locations under affiliation with the University of California Irvine 's Medical Center (UCIMC). The Center's renowned specialists and medical success stories attracted clients worldwide until evidence of highly unethical practices conducted by doctors there resulted in over one hundred lawsuits against the University. At issue was the doctors' misappropriation and unauthorized use of eggs and embryos.
Subject: Organizations, Reproduction
The Business of Being Born (2008)
In 2008, Barranca Productions released a documentary called The Business of Being Born, detailing the topic of childbirth. Ricki Lake and Abby Epstein produced and directed the documentary. The documentary explores pregnancy related healthcare in the US, including the history of midwives and obstetrics. The film also discusses potential consequences of medicalized childbirth common in the twenty-first century. The Business of Being Born provides viewers with information about home-births, midwives, and the positive and negative aspects of going to the hospital for childbirth.
Subject: Outreach
Davis v. Davis (1992)
In Davis v. Davis (1992), the Supreme Court of Tennessee decided a dispute over cryopreserved preembryos in favor of Junior Lewis Davis, who sought to have the preembryos destroyed over the objections of his former wife, Mary Sue Davis. The decision in Davis, although not binding in other states, suggested a framework for resolving similar disputes in the US. That framework established that courts should follow the wishes of those who contribute their sperm and egg cells, or gamete providers, to create preembryos.
Subject: Legal
Charles Robert Cantor (1942- )
Charles Robert Cantor helped sequence the human genome, and he developed methods to non-invasively determine the genes in human fetuses. Cantor worked in the US during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. His early research focused on oligonucleotides, small molecules of DNA or RNA. That research enabled the development of a technique that Cantor subsequently used to describe nucleotide sequences of DNA, a process called sequencing, in humans. Cantor was the principal scientist for the Human Genome Project, for which scientists sequenced the entirety of the human genome in 2003.
South Korea's Bioethics and Biosafety Act (2005)
The South Korean government passed the Bioethics and Biosafety Act, known henceforth as the Bioethics Act, in 2003 and it took effect in 2005. South Korea's Ministry of Health and Welfare proposed the law to the South Korean National Assembly to allow the progress of biotechnology and life sciences research in South Korea while protecting human research subjects with practices such as informed consent. The Bioethics Act establishes a National Bioethics Committee in Seoul, South Korea.
Cord blood banks are institutions designed to store umbilical cord blood (UCB) stem cells. UCB, a source of hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs), has garnered attention from scientific and medical communities since its first successful use in a hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) in 1988. The umbilical cord is the lifeline by which the growing fetus is nourished by the mother. Once regarded as medical waste, the umbilical cord has become a source of lifesaving treatment.
Ooplasmic Transfer Technology
Ooplasmic transfer, also called cytoplasmic transfer, is an outside the body, in vitro fertilization (IVF) technique. Ooplasmic transfer in humans (Homo sapiens) is similar to in vitro fertilization (IVF), with a few additions. IVF is the process in which doctors manually combine an egg and sperm cells in a laboratory dish, as opposed to artificial insemination, which takes place in the female's body. For ooplasmic transfer, doctors withdraw cytoplasm from a donor's oocyte, and then they inject that cytoplasm with sperm into a patient's oocyte.


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Welcome to SYSOS
A group researching complex networked control systems, biological and technological
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Our group develops tools and algorithms for the analysis and design of biological and technological systems and applies them in a range of areas, from Synthetic Biology to fluid mechanics. In particular, we have been developing theory to understand how nonlinear networked systems (System of Systems) operate how to design control laws for them, using computational tools based on the Sum of Squares decomposition and Semidefinite Programming. We have been applying this theory to understand and (re)design biological systems (Systems and Synthetic Biology) but also to analyse and design control laws for fluid flows, robust synchronization, multi-agent system consensus, smart power networks and congestion control for the Internet. Here is a short summary of the areas we work on - please follow the links below for more details.
Nonlinear systems analysis, Sum of Squares optimization and Lyapunov techniques. In this spirit, we have developed methods for stability analysis of systems described by Ordinary, Delay and Partial Differential Equations, as well as switched/hybrid systems.
Systems and Synthetic Biology. We collaborate closely with groups in Engineering Science (Professor Wei Huang) Oxford Biochemistry (Dr George Wadhams and Professor Judith Armitage) and other institutions for understanding biological pathways through mathematical modelling using experimental data and designing new experiments for model invalidation (Systems Biology), as well as proposing and implementing redesigns for existing biological systems for improved performance (Synthetic Biology).
Software Development (SOSTOOLS). This can be found here.
Large-scale Networked Systems analysis with communication and structural constraints. Examples in this field come from synchronization phenomena in oscillator networks, Network Congestion Control for the Internet and Power System analysis/Smart grid. We are also looking at multi-agent systems consensus under communication and structural constraints such as the effect of time delays and switching topologies.
Fluid mechanics and Heat transfer, from a control perspective. We are taking a control engineering approach to understand questions in Hydrodynamic Stability and mechanisms for background noise energy amplification and subsequent reduction. We are also using a Sum of Squares approach for the stability analysis and control design of systems described by Partial Differential Equations.
Complexity reduction of networked systems. We are investigating methods based on model decomposition and reduction to facilitate computational analysis and identification of large-scale and nonlinear systems. Systems of interest include biochemical reaction networks, power systems and consensus networks.
Professor Antonis Papachristodoulou - Academic
Dr Michael Schaub - Marie Skłodowska Curie Fellow, July 2017-
Mr Harrison Steel - DPhil Candidate, October 2016-
Mr Licio Romao - DPhil Candidate, October 2017-. Co-supervised with Professor Kostas Margellos.
Ms Carolin Schulte - Probationary Research Student, July 2018-. Co-supervised with Professor Philip Poole.
Mr Boon Lim - Probationary Research Student, October 2018-. Co-supervised with Professor Wei Huang.
Current Externally Funded Projects
EPSRC Fellowship for Growth in Synthetic Biology: Designing Feedback Control in Biology for Robustness and Scalability [1]
EPSRC & BBSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Synthetic Biology [2]
Analysis of Functional Differential Equations Using Sum of Squares Programming - ASU, U.S.A.
A Control Engineering Approach for Modelling High-Shear Flows - Johns Hopkins [3]
Multi-Agent-Systems and Delay Robustness in Cooperative Control - IST, Stuttgart
International Workshop on Control Engineering and Synthetic Biology, Worcester College, Oxford, 9-11 September 2019.
Workshop on `New Vistas in computational systems and synthetic biology', May 2019, Vigo, Spain.
Antonis Papachristodoulou is elevated to IEEE Fellow for his contributions to analysis and design of networked control systems.
Workshop on Vistas in Control at ETHZ, September 10-11, 2018.
MBI Workshop on Control of Cellular and Molecular Systems, Mathematical Biosciences Institute, 2-6 October 2017.
International Workshop on Control Engineering and Synthetic Biology. What next?, Prince Philip House, London, 17-18 July 2017.
Thomas Prescott is awarded the 2015 European PhD Award for the Control of Complex and Heterogeneous networks for his thesis Large-Scale Layered Systems and Synthetic Biology: Model Reduction and Decomposition.
Richard Mason and Antonis Papachristodoulou are awarded the O. Hugo Schuck Best Paper Award for their 2014 ACC paper on Chordal Sparsity, Decomposing SDPs and the Lyapunov Equation.
Antonis Papachirstodoulou is awarded the 2015 European Control Award and will be giving a plenary at the 2015 European Control Conference.
5th IFAC Workshop on Distributed Estimation and Control in Networked Systems, Philadelphia, 10-11 September 2015.
Antonis Papachristodoulou awarded an EPSRC Fellowship for Growth in Synthetic Biology.
Richard Mason's paper Chordal Sparsity, Decomposing SDPs and the Lyapunov Equation has received the best student paper award at the 2014 American Control Conference. Download the PDF here.
A workshop on Control Engineering and Synthetic Biology, Worcester College, Oxford, 10-12 September 2014.
Towards Next Generation Synthetic Biology: 21-22 November 2013, Warwick, UK.
Workshop on Algorithms for Dynamical Systems and Lyapunov Functions: 17 July -19 July 2013, Reykjavík, Iceland.
Oberwolfach Workshop on Structured function systems and applications: 24 February - 3 March 2013, TU Dortmund, Germany.
Optimization and Control for Smart Grids: 21-25 May 2012, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.
Warwick Systems Biology DTC Annual Conference: 27-29 July 2011, Stratford Apon Avon, UK.
Third RoSBNet Workshop: 20-22 July 2011, St Annes' College, University of Oxford.
Exeter Synthetic Biology Sandpit: 3 June 2011, University of Exeter, UK.
Dynamics, Control and Pricing in Power Systems: 18-20 May 2011, Lund University, Sweden.
CDC2010: The 49th Conference on Decision and Control, Atlanta, Georgia, 15-17 December 2010. Special session on Decentralised Network Analysis, Control and Optimisation.
Synthetic Components Network: SCN annual conference, 23-24 September, Oulton Hall, Leeds, U.K.
Frontiers of Multidisciplinary Research: Mathematics, engineering, and biology, 21-24 September 2010, University of Exeter, U.K.
Dynamics Days Europe 2010: Minisymposium on Cell Dynamics and Systems Biology, 6-10 September, 2010, University of Bristol, U.K.
Application of Control Theory and Optimization in Biochemical Pathways: A Satellite Meeting of the 2010 ICM, 16-18 August, 2010, Hyderabad, India.
Second RoSBNet Workshop: 12-14 July, 2010, St Annes' College, University of Oxford.
MTNS 2010: Invited Session: Real Algebraic Geometry and Applications, 5-9 July, 2010, Budapest, Hungary.
Banff Workshop: Randomization, Relaxation, and Complexity, 28 February - 5 March 2010, Banff International Research Station, Banff, Canada.
Lund Center for Control of Complex Engineering Systems: Multi-agent coordination and estimation, Jan 18 - Feb 19: Workshop Feb 3-5, 2010.
CDC 2009 Preconference Workshop: Full-day CDC 2009 Pre-conference Workshop on Biomolecular Circuit Analysis and Design, 15th December 2009.
NE{S|T}COC: Symposium on Recent Trends in Networked Systems and Cooperative Control & Workshop on Network Induced Constraints in Control, 28-29 September, 2009, University of Stuttgart, Germany
ARCC Workshop on Convex Algebraic Geometry, Optimization and Applications: 21-25 September, 2009, Palo Alto, California, USA.
RoSBNet First Year Workshop: 14-16 September 2009, St. Annes' College, University of Oxford, U.K.
RoSBNet Launch Meeting: A Network in Synthetic Biology, 6 July 2009, University of Oxford, U.K.
IMA Thematic Year on Mathematics of Molecular and Cellular Biology
Organization of Biological Networks, 3-7 March, 2008
Design Principles in Biological Systems, 21-25 April, 2008
IMA Thematic Year on Applications of Algebraic Geometry
Software for Algebraic Geometry, 23-27 October, 2006
Optimization and Control, 16-20 January, 2007
Banff Workshop: Positive Polynomials and Optimization, 7-12 October, 2006, Banff International Research Station, Banff, Canada
ARCC Workshop: Theory and Algorithms of Linear Matrix Inequalities, 1-5 August 2005, American Institute of Mathematics, Palo Alto, California.
Joining SySOS
If you find what we do interesting, and you want to apply for a DPhil (PhD) or MSc by Research in our group, then please contact us sooner than later to discuss possible projects. Note that there are several Centres of Doctoral Training that are relevant to our research, especially the EPSRC & BBSRC CDT in Synthetic Biology as well as the EPSRC CDT in Autonomous Intelligent Machines and Systems. If you have a strong academic background, the chances of securing funding for your studies are higher the earlier you apply. Note that applications need to follow the Postgraduate Admissions guidelines.
Any PDRA openings will be advertised on the departmental website. None are available now.
There are several other routes for joining SySOS, mainly through fellowships.
Dr Aivar Sootla - Post-Doctoral Research Associate, September 2016-June 2019.
Mr James Scott-Brown (project page, personal site)- DPhil Candidate, October 2014-October 2018. Co-supervised with Dr Jonathan David (dstl).
Mr Yang Zheng - DPhil Student, October 2015 - March 2019
Dr Nicolas Delalez - Post-Doctoral Research Associate, January 2016 - January 2019.
Dr Axel Nyström - DPhil Student, October 2013-2018. Co-supervised with Dr Andrew Angel.
Dr Ciarán Kelly - Post-Doctoral Research Associate, December 2017-April 2018
Dr Thomas Folliard - DPhil student, 2013-2017. Co-supervised with Professor Judith Armitage.
Dr Andreas Harris - DPhil student, 2013-2017.
Dr Dhruva Raman - DPhil student, 2013-2017. Co-supervised with Dr James Anderson
Dr Mohamadreza Ahmadi - DPhil student, 2013-2016. Co-supervised with Dr Giorgio Valmorbida.
Dr James Anderson DPhil student, 2008 - 2011, Post-Doctoral Research Associate 2011-2012, Junior Research Fellow, 2012-2016.
Dr Thomas P. Prescott - DPhil student, 2011 - 2015, Post-Doctoral Research Associate, 2015-2016
Dr Richard P. Mason - DPhil student, 2011-2016
Dr Xuan Zhang - DPhil student, October 2011-2015
Dr Giorgio Valmorbida - Post-Doctoral Research Associate, 2013-2015
Dr Edward Hancock - Post-Doctoral Research Associate, 2013 - 2015
Dr Bing Chu - Postdoctoral Research Assistant, June 2010-March 2012
Dr Yo-Cheng (Mark) Chang DPhil, co-supervised with Professor Judith Armitage, Department of Biochemistry, January 2007-January 2011.
Dr Bence Mélykúti, DPhil, co-supervised with Professor Alison Etheridge, Department of Statistics, January 2008-February 2011.
Dr Abdullah Hamadeh, March 2009 - October 2009
Miss Nassia Inglessis, September 2009 - October 2009
Mr Christoph Maier, April 2009 - July 2009
Dr Mark Roberts, October 2007 - December 2008
Dr Elias August, October 2007 - December 2008
Sum-of-Squares Approach to Global Stability and Control of Fluid Flows [4]
Autonomous Behaviour and Learning in an Uncertain World [5]
Control Engineering Inspired Design Tools for Synthetic Biology [6]
Using Control Theory to Design Sustainable Policies for Greenhouse Gas Emissions in the Presence of Model Uncertainty [7]
RoSBNet: Network in Synthetic Biology.
European Space Agency project with GMV (Spain), NGC (Canada) and the University of Leicester, "Worst-Case and Safety Analysis Tools for Autonomous Rendezvous Systems".
Control Theory Tools for Elucidating the Phosphotransfer Network in Rhodobacter sphaeroides: A Feasibility Study
Oxford-Princeton Collaboration on Network Science with Professor Mung Chiang.
Engineering Science Control Group
Oxford Centre for Integrative Systems Biology
Doctoral Training Centres
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