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Scientists Scanned DNA of 8,000 People to See How Facial Features Are Controlled by Genes
Using 3-D facial images researchers have identified changes in the DNA that contribute to variation in facial features. Julie D. White, CC BY-SA Seth M. Weinberg, University of Pittsburgh and John R. Shaffer, University of Pittsburgh Takeaways A new study reveals more than 130 regions in human DNA play a role in sculpting facial features. The nose is the facial feature most influenced by your genes. Understanding the link between specific genes and facial features could be useful for treating facial malformations or for orthodontics. You might think it's rather obvious that your facial appearance is determined by your genes. Just look in the family photo album and observe the same nose, eyes or chin on your grandparents, cousins and uncles and aunts. Perhaps you have seen or know someone with a genetic syndrome – that often results from a damaging alteration to one or more genes – and noticed the often distinctive facial features. You may be surprised to learn that until
Retro: how to install 3D Pinball Space Cadet in Windows 10
One of the best retro games can be played on Windows 10 and that is 3D Pinball Space Cadet, here is how you can do it. With Microsoft Windows we have seen many legendary games , and although many always remember Minesweeper or Solitaire , one of the most interesting Windows games of all is undoubtedly Full Tilt! Pinball , which brought back very interesting moments and memorabilia that we can never erase from our memory. That's why we show you how to play this title on your Windows 10 system , at least one of the pinball games you could play at this point, the so called 3D Pinball Space Cadet . 3D Pinball Space Cadet on Windows 10 To begin, what you will have to do is download a WinRAR file, which you can find on this website , to be more precise, its the green link that says "3D Space Cadet executable file" in the Windows section . Now you only have to double click on the WinRAR file you just downloaded and select the "Run" option. Now everything is much eas
Five real cases of zombies around the world
Zombies today are a big part of our pop culture: The Walking Dead, Call of Duty, Red Dead Redemption: Undead Nightmare, The Last of Us, ZNation, Resident Evil - there are countless games, movies and series featuring the living dead. Zombies really mess with the human imagination. The most bizarre thing is that in real life there are some cases similar to zombies, and technically we can actually call it zombification. Learn about five of these bizarre, yet real cases: 1. Zombie ants Imagine that you are walking in nature when you step on a spore of a fungus that controls minds and that spore sticks to your body - now, you have a pet parasite. This may seem out of this world, but it is not so far fetched. The fungi genus Ophiocordyceps, with emphasis on the most famous species, unilateralis, hijack the minds of carpenter ants. However, in the beginning, everything develops in a rather mundane way. The ant minds its own business, collecting leaves to feed its fungu
The story of a doctor that tried to prove the existence of the soul
In 1907, a doctor tried to prove the existence of the soul in a very strange way In the early 20th century, Duncan MacDougall, an American doctor tried to prove the existence of the soul in Massachusetts. His strange method required a few terminally ill people and some unsuspecting dogs. First of all, the doctor believed that the soul had physical mass and, therefore, it was possible to weigh it. His decision, then, was to weigh some people just before they passed away, and then weigh them again, after. The difference in weights would be the weight of the soul. Thus, MacDougall looked for patients in their final stages. These patients were weighed twice, before and after their 'souls' were disembodied. Terminally ill patients had tuberculosis or similar illnesses, so they used to be exhausted and immobile at the time of measurement. The doctor's strange method The doctor built large scales on the bed in his office for patients. One version of events points out that th
World's first Real Retractable Metal-Cutting Star Wars Lightsaber
A popular YouTuber has created the first working lightsaber that uses propane gas burning at around 4,000 degrees Celsius to generate a retractable plasma beam. Canadian James Hobson, known as "Hacksmith," has 10 million users and is dedicated to bringing science fiction to life. Invention of a retractable and Star Wars lightsaber Inspired by his love for Star Wars, he has created a variety of lightsabers, but he wants to create "the world's first retractable plasma" version. To do so, the Internet-famous engineer used liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), a fuel hidden in many sheds and often used to power barbecues. Housed in a custom-made backpack and piped to the device, they are more like early "primitive sabers" than the weapons used by Luke Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi. Hobson said that these backpack-less designs are currently outside the scope of our technology because they require D-cell batteries that ca
Is the Sun Changing 2020? | A Decade of Sun
What cycle is the sun in currently? NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory -- SDO -- has been observing the Sun continuously for a full decade now. From its orbit around the Earth in space, SDO has collected 425 million high-resolution images of the Sun over the past 10 years, accumulating 20 million gigabytes of data. Sun 2020 "This information has enabled us to make countless new discoveries about how our nearest star works and its impact on the solar system." SDO uses three instruments to take images of the Sun every 0.75 seconds. The Atmospheric Imaging Component alone takes images at 10 different wavelengths of light every 12 seconds. This 10-year time lapse shows images taken at 17.1 nanometers, an extreme ultraviolet wavelength that reveals the outermost layer of the solar atmosphere, the corona. By collating the photos every hour, the film condenses the decade of the sun to 61 minutes. The video shows the i
Five meters long, weighing 1.6 tons: researchers catch gigantic white shark
SA research team of the non-profit organization Ocearch has caught a giant great white shark in the Canadian province of New Brunswick . The colossus is the largest specimen of its kind ever discovered in the Northwest Atlantic. By taking blood samples, the researchers hope to gain knowledge about the ocean ecosystem . Researchers capture and tag 5.1816-meter great white shark OCEARCH is a non-profit organization that has made an unprecedented commitment to our ocean giants. The OCEARCH science team was able to tag, sample and release the beautiful white shark Nukumi, who will provide more data for 21 collaborative studies. The project joins seven other white sharks tagged during the Nova Scotia Expedition, the 39th research expedition in Nova Scotia. #FactsOverFear Track Nukumi and other sharks in OCEARCH Global Shark Tracker for free in real time and learn more at https://www.ocearch.org . Researchers off the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada, have discovered a huge great white shark
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A new 18-member advisory committee at the Portland Expo Center aims to add new perspective and revenue opportunities for the events giant.
Rotchford reached out to Expo clients, neighborhood businesses, and even government officials past and present; seeking volunteers with knowledge of the venue and a stake in its success, he said.
Some of the advisory committee members are former Oregon Sen. Avel Gordly, former Metro Councilor Ed Washington, and past president of OMSI and former MERC General Manager Pat LaCrosse. A mix of tradeshow veterans, including Peter O'Loughlin of the Portland Boat Show, Shellie O'Donnell with the Northwest Quilting Expo, and Chris Palmer of America's Largest Antique and Collectible Shows, add their influence alongside a number of local business and industry leaders.
Rotchford hopes the committee's business sense and community knowledge will grow the center's reputation as a regional events space for both private and public events. At their second meeting, in February, members dove into topics that will undoubtedly develop over many months and years.
Subcommittees were tasked with thinking about how to improve outreach opportunities, review long-term funding options, and to research historical aspects of the center and its events.
One issue that has the potential to affect business at Expo is the enormous bi-state highway project, the Columbia River Crossing (CRC). Rotchford said it's more important than ever to ensure the center has a clear voice during its planning process. "Our events are some of the largest and well-attended. We need to ensure we maintain the levels of service our customers have come to expect," he said.
Advisory committee member and MERC Commissioner Karis Stoudamire-Phillips said that the CRC is one of many topics important to her as both a nearby neighbor and as a commissioner for the Metropolitan Exposition Recreation Commission.
Maintaining good relationships with area businesses is also a priority for the center.
Linda Addy, managing partner of the seafood restaurant Salty's on the Columbia, reached out to Rotchford several years ago to see how the two businesses could partner up. The two have been in touch ever since, making Addy an obvious addition to the committee.
Addy said that the opportunity to contribute ideas and share concerns with the Expo Center has always been important for Salty's, and that the success of one business is often vital for the ventures surrounding it.
In May, Rotchford will lead the group's third meeting, taking notes on what the subcommittees have prepared since their last gathering. With the collective brainpower of the group, he said that channeling their enthusiasm is his own challenge.
The Portland Expo Center is Oregon's largest multi-purpose facility, hosting more than 100 annual events with five exhibit halls and ten meeting rooms, and generating $35 million in annual spending. The Expo is owned and operated by Metro, and managed by Metropolitan Exposition Recreation Commission (MERC). Visit www.expocenter.org for more information.


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Aiguebelette-le-Lac ist eine französische Gemeinde mit  Einwohnern (Stand: ) im Département Savoie in der Region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. Sie gehört zum Kanton Le Pont-de-Beauvoisin im Arrondissement Chambéry und ist Mitglied im Gemeindeverband Le Lac d'Aiguebelette. Die Einwohner werden Gabellans oder Aiguebelletois genannt.

Geographie
Aiguebelette-le-Lac liegt etwa acht Kilometer westsüdwestlich von Chambéry am Lac d'Aiguebelette. Nachbargemeinden von Aiguebelette-le-Lac sind Nances im Norden, Saint-Sulpice im Nordosten, Vimines im Osten, Lépin-le-Lac im Süden und Südwesten, Saint-Alban-de-Montbel im Westen sowie Novalaise im Nordwesten.

Bevölkerungsentwicklung

Sehenswürdigkeiten
 Kirche Saint-André
 Schloss Aiguebelette, Anfang des 14. Jahrhunderts erbaut
 Reste der mittelalterlichen Burg

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1997 und 2015 fanden hier die Ruder-Weltmeisterschaften statt.

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Part of the Blockbuster Summer campaign that Disney World has going on includes the new show, The Music of Pixar, A Symphony of Characters, at Disney's Hollywood Studios. In May I was lucky enough to get a sneak peek of the new show at a media event, but this past weekend we actually went to watch the entire production. If you love Pixar movies, they you will love this show. Guests get to see clips of their favorite Pixar films, while a live orchestra plays the music along with the scenes. The movies featured are Toy Story, Up, Cars, Monsters Inc, Finding Nemo/Dory, and The Incredibles. Each section is amazing. We even get to see some of our favorite characters on stage as an added bonus.
Again this show is more like a symphony concert, rather than what we usually see from Disney. The music is beautiful, I think I cried for over half the show. The scenes they show, like Andy leaving for college or Carl losing Ellie… in conjunction with the amazing orchestra. Well it's a little overwhelming if you are a sap like myself. Bring tissues with you just in case, I was glad that I had some. At the end of the show, the orchestra plays the classic song "You've Got a Friend in Me" as the words roll across the screen. The characters come back out one final time as well. You can watch the entire show below. Don't forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel for more!


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Q: Implementing relationship in models I have two models: Dish and DishCategory. I decided to implement a "One to many" relationship.
Here's a migration for Dish model:
Schema::create('dishes', function (Blueprint $table) {
    $table->increments('id');
    $table->string('dish', 50);
    $table->string('photo');
    $table->double('price', 8, 2);
    $table->integer('category_id');
    $table->integer('type_id'); /* 1 - menu for delivery; 0 - general menu */
});

And a migration for DishCategory model:
Schema::create('dish_categories', function (Blueprint $table) {
    $table->increments('id');
    $table->string('category');
});

I've created a method called dish() in DishCategory model:
public function dish()
{
    return $this->hasMany('App\Dish');
}

And dish_category() in Dish model:3
public function dish_category()
{
    return $this->belongsTo('App\DishCategory', 'category_id');
}

I'm trying to set up a foreign key in my relationship, so it's been set up in dish_category() method as a second parameter of belongsTo(). But it doesn't work. What is the workaround?

A: Change the dish() relationship definition to:
public function dish()
{
    return $this->hasMany('App\Dish', 'category_id');
}

And dish_category() is defined correctly.
If you also want to add a constraint, add this to the dishes table migration:
Schema::table('dishes', function (Blueprint $table) {
    $table->foreign('category_id')->references('id')->on('dish_categories');
});

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Does your company have a business plan? And, a marketing plan? How about a hiring plan?
It doesn't matter if you have two employees or two hundred. Having a plan will help you avoid many of the pitfalls associated with hiring new staff members. If you provide an In-Home service, such as Healthcare, Residential Cleaning or Pet Sitting, you are likely looking for staff right now. In fact, you are probably always looking for staff.
Assuming you run your business as a for profit company, you owe it to yourself and your existing staff to only hire those who will make a positive contribution to your business. Adding staff because "they" need a job, or because they seem "perky", or because they "seem" to be OK, is often a formula for disaster. You may be asking yourself why do I owe anything to my existing staff, when it comes to new hire? Fair question! The Number One reason good employees leave an existing position is the perception that owners/managers are unaware, or disinterested, in the negative and disruptive behavior of co-workers. These good employees feel they must carry an extra burden, picking up the slack for these less dedicated, unproductive co-workers. They see, often first hand, others get away with violations of policy and procedure and appear to pay no penalty. The natural reaction is to ask themselves, "Why should I care, the owner/manager doesn't seem to care?
• Accept the idea that you won't settle.
• Build a pool of candidates when you don't need anyone. Hiring is a year around process.
• Set specific standards and stay with them.
1. Does the applicant have verifiable references?
2. Does the work history timeline make sense?
3. Does the number of recent jobs seem reasonable?
5. Do they meet ALL your technical requirements?
• Always ask the exact same questions to each applicant you interview.
• If an applicant clearly doesn't match basic criteria, don't waste your time interviewing them.
• Don't be swayed by non-job-related characteristics or perceived personality.
• Know your own biases and guard against giving them too much weight in the process.
• Get the background check results before you allow a new hire to visit the home of a client.
• Hold applicants accountable for following your pre-hire guidelines.
• Hold new hires accountable to their "Job Description".
• Train new hires completely.
Clearly, this is not a complete list. The above list is based on my conversations with owners. These are areas that are often ignored or overlooked. Many owners take the "I'll wing it" approach to hiring. Many see it as an event that, once complete, can be forgotten until the next time. The important issue is your developing a plan that "works" for you. If you've got a great staff and your present plan is working…. don't fix it. If not, please consider taking the time to review what you are looking for in new staff members and set about the task of finding objective measurements to identify those who would fit your criteria. Something as simple as a checklist may help you reinforce your focus.
A Hiring Plan should be just as important as your Business Plan and your Marketing Plan. Think of it this way. Without a consistent hiring plan, you are jeopardizing your business and marketing plans. How can you implement any plan if you don't have the right staff in place to execute that plan?
For some, this is the hardest part of running their business. The reason staff selection can seem so difficult stems from using a subjective approach. When owners and managers rely on the "feeling" about an applicant, they will often be disappointed.
Using objective criteria, embedded in an overall hiring plan makes the process easier and far more reliable.
• Supervisory Attitude – Will they follow policy and procedure and accept being managed?
• Work Attitude – Will they show up, and on time?
• Drug Use – Is there a risk that they will use drugs in the work environment?
• Theft Attitude – What is the likelihood of the person stealing form you, or your client?
• Customer Service Attitude – Will they go the extra mile to make the client happy?
• Safety and Risk Avoidance – Will they behave in a safe, low risk fashion?
The Orion is no guarantee of hiring a great employee. It is a way to improve your odds of avoiding those applicants who would likely cause you nightmares, lost business, damage to your brand, or create negative feedback in your marketplace.
Hundreds of In-Home Service company owners use the Orion System to Improve Their Odds and their Plan.
If you would like to know more about how the Orion System might help you as you navigate the hiring waters, please don't hesitate to call for more information. We are always glad to explain how this system can help improve YOUR odds.
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There has been some noise over the past few years about the use of the word Pint and how it relates to the actual amount of beer in the glass.
It first started in 2013 in BC where some licensees switched to a 16 oz Pint, which as you know is an American Pint.
This was called out in the Vancouver Sun, investigative reports style. This promoted a knee-jerk reaction from the government (probably an election issue) to pass a law that all "Pints of draft" must be 19.5 Imperial fluid ounces.
Why the government spells draught the American way and uses imperial measurement instead of milliliters is beyond me.
In Sept 2014, the Toronto Star did a piece called "Tastes great, but less filling now runs afoul of the law" on Toronto bars pouring "pints" and what was perceived as their pour size.
2) you cannot accurately measure the liquid in one vessel by pouring it into a graduated cylinder, which may or may not be accurately calibrated (measuring cup).
Point One – Yes, most (almost all) beer glasses come from the US because there are no glassware manufacturers in Canada. If you are a big brewer creating a beer glass, you make the custom mold, with a focus on the shape that speaks to the brand identity and flavour. Most often they will use the US fluid oz measurement since this is the standard for North America. If you are a small Canadian brewer, you use a pre-existing beer glass instead of creating a mold of your own – why re-invent the wheel – that glass is most probably made in the USA.
One US fluid oz. is 29.58 ml.
So, if most of the glassware is 20 US fluid oz, they are 591.6 ml full. But any good bar (most in the Star article are good bars) will pour a head on the beer, usually the height of a dime standing on its edge. That means 18 US fluid oz or 532.4 ml. Foam is at least 25% beer, so add in half a fluid oz of beer (14.8 ml) and you have a glass of beer that has 547.2 ml of beer.
The government regulation says that the "pint" should be 19.5 Imperial fluid oz., which is 554 ml (19.5 x 28.41). They allow for a plus minus of half an imperial oz (14.2ml), so by their definition, an acceptable "pint of draft" can be 539.8 ml.
But wait! The government says that the foam doesn't count!! Reality check – The foam is beer and it does count. Anyone who knows anything about beer knows that the head is incredibly important and that the head is made up of beer. Besides, if you pour it with no head on it, you can't serve it as it spills down the side and gets everyone and everything wet.
Even if you don't count the head on the beer, the difference between a properly poured glass of beer in a 20 US fluid oz glass and the government's definition of a "Pint of draft" is a difference of seven milliliters: an acceptable "pint of draft" can be 539.8 ml. and 18 US fluid oz is 532.4 ml = less than 7 ml.
There you have it – a 20 US fluid oz glass of beer that is properly poured meets the government regulation to what a pint should be, minus seven milliliters.
Point Two – I have poured a beer or two in my day and am fully aware that you cannot pour beer from one container into another without losing beer somewhere. Beer will spill, it will partly remain on the inside of the glass, the glass won't be entirely empty, it foams,… I spoke with my good friend Giulio Accardi from Brand Concepts (known in the industry as "The Glass Man" btw) who told me that the proper way to measure how much liquid is in a glass accurately is to use a digital scale and room temperature water. To make this little investigative report legit, they would have had to take the glass of beer and mark the top line of the beer. Empty and clean the glass. Pour water to the line where the beer was. Measure how many grams the water weighs (assuming they calculated the tare weight of the glass first) to determine the number of milliliters (1 g = 1 ml). This is the method that the glasses manufacturers use to ensure consistency when making glasses.
The real issue here is that bars and restaurants are using the word "Pint" a little too freely.
Use branded glasses to ensure size consistency within the brand (yet another reason to use branded glasses). Staff pouring the same brand into a variety of glasses creates inconsistency.
Determine the amount of beer you are pouring into the glass using the measurement method above in point two. This should be easy as more and more glasses are coming with a fill line on them now anyhow. Use a dime to determine pour/head level if there is no line on the glass.
On your bar/drink menu, list your beers by brand or category and include the amount that the guest should expect to receive in Imperial fluid ounces. It would make more sense to list in milliliters, but most people don't know the conversion. Round down a bit to keep everyone happy, if it is 19 Imperial fluid ounces, call it 18. If you find that all of the brands in a particular category are within an ounce or two, it may be easier to list the lowest amount for the entire category. The challenge lies in the fact that some higher ABV beer is served in smaller glasses, so, in this case, you would have to list the brand, pour size, and price for each brand. Descriptions of the beer are a nice touch as well, but not necessary.
Don't call anything a "Pint" on your menu, just list the specifics above. Unless you can ensure every glass of beer will contain more than 554 ml of liquid, then call it an "Imperial Pint".
It's disappointing that it has come to this, but I understand why. Like many things in our industry, it comes down to consistency and education – not only of bar staff but consumers as well.
Enjoy your pint glass of beer. Cheers!


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O MAIDENS IN YOUR SAVAGE SEASON Is What Anime Needs Right Now
Posted by Jane Y. Auman | Jul 16, 2019 | Animation, TV & Streaming | 0
Content Notice: Please be aware that this article, and the series it is about, contain discussions of sexuality. Reader discretion is advised.
O Maidens In Your Savage Season's opening sequence features, among other things, the core cast ankle-deep in the sea. It's an apt metaphor, this is a series where absolutely everything feels as huge as the ocean, despite the relatively small stakes of the actual story.
That's not to say that the series is dour, far from it actually. It's hard for anything that ends its first episode with the flustered protagonist running through the streets of her hometown, screaming at her own inability to turn off her dirty mind "serious". Conversely, it's hard to call Maidens strictly a "comedy". We are certainly well away from the innocent school life comedy of something like last season's Hitoribocchi, or last year's Anima Yell!.
Maidens is primarily a coming of age story in the most literal, biological sense. That is to say, it's basically about puberty, study of budding sexuality included and, in fact, foregrounded. It is also, consequently, a show in which characters are frequently run through the ringer of their own teenage emotions and outside circumstance alike. Maidens is a great show, but occasionally painful to watch because of this, if you're prone to secondhand embarrassment, it's going to be a bit of a rough one. Its stars are the members of a high school literature club, each of whom is going through a unique journey.
O' Maidens, In Your Savage Season!
It should come as no surprise, all this in mind, that Maidens is the brainchild of Mari Okada. It is adapted from a manga she wrote, and it shows. Okada is one of the best and most prolific writers in the anime industry. Her scripts bubble with an emotional intensity that most writers simply can't match. It is that, matched with gorgeous animation from the still-young Studio Lay-duce, that drives Maidens' first two episodes. This through highs and lows for its characters alike.
That swirling storm of emotions is tackled from a lot of angles too, each girl has her own story, and the series is pretty good about juggling them all, at least so far.
Knock Before Entering
Maidens' arguable main character is Kazusa Onodera. Kazusa is a character who is in many ways the archetypal 'perfectly average' anime high school girl. Her arc so far is perhaps best described as a youth drama romance hyper-compressed and cranked to 11. Okada is known for writing characters with strong emotions, occasionally at the expense of realism. Kazusa, though, seems to me a very true-to-life kind of teenage bleeding heart.
Her story is in many ways the simplest; she is in love with her childhood best friend. It takes her two whole episodes to realize this (though that's not actually that long, in anime terms), and in the mean time her perspective is the one that gets the most outright jokes. She's easily flustered (though not as much as Rika) and a bit dense.
In the first episode, this leads to what became said episode's defining scene. Looking for Izumi, she enters his house, and thinks nothing of checking his room, despite hearing some weird sounds coming from there. She promptly catches the boy…well, doing what young boys do when home alone. Which leads to the freakout described above.
A Tempest In Your Heart
It's funny, but it's also quite genuine, and it leads to the further development of their relationship in the second episode. Kazusa can't get the image out of her head, and despite eventually realizing that she was in the wrong by barging in, it takes time for her to sort out her feelings. She tries to remain on friendly terms with Izumi, and the two in fact have a cute bit of (very embarrassed) banter about the subject.
But it takes one of Kazusa's friends and fellow literature club members, Niina, to make her realize what's really going on. Niina helps Kazusa eavesdrop on Izumi turning a girl who's asked him out down, and Kazusa, being who she is, is upset with Izumi specifically because he specified that there's "no one" he likes right now. The bridge from her being upset about that, to figuring out why, is about ten minutes and a scene transition. It nonetheless leads to what I'd argue is Maidens' single best sequence so far.
As the girls relax by the sea, Niina poses to Kazusa a question.
They say eyes are windows to the soul for a reason.
I really have to point out this cut specifically, because this kind of thing is indicative of Maidens' key strengths. The soundtrack swelling and us being able to actually see Kazusa finally make the connection in her brain by zooming in on her eye. This is a show that understands the experience of teenage girls very, very well. It is not afraid to put all of its weight behind portraying those experiences with the drama they deserve.
The Art of Avoiding Unwelcome Attention
It's tempting to center all conversation about Maidens on Kazusa. She is the main character and her arc is so far arguably the strongest. But there are other members of Maidens' core cast, and each has had some development of their own already. The show likes cutting between story lines, making for a well-paced viewing experience. This is kind of a pain if you're trying to talk about the show's events chronologically, but it's great for organizing things around character arcs.
Niina Sugawara is the second of the three characters who've gotten significant development so far. She's established as a relatively recent arrival to the literature club. She is also, we learn, a former drama student, something that comes up in the second episode here.
Niina's story in the second episode here is about a pretty common problem in Japan and, really, the world. That being; having to fend off unwanted attention from men.
We're not given context as to how this person started bothering Niina, but she's clearly uncomfortable. She catches a glimpse of a nearby Kazusa out of the corner of her eye, and texts her.
This kind of impromptu enlistment tactic is pretty common. Stories abound all over Twitter and similar platforms about having to rely on friends when things get dicey. Maidens' willingness to actually go here puts it a cut above many similar shows. It's not exactly comfortable territory.
Maidens is still Maidens, of course. The way this ends up being resolved involves Kazusa loudly, woodenly declaring that she has an STD. Is this cringe comedy? Yes. It's pretty darn funny because of her delivery, though. The comedy shouldn't conceal that it's still an example of girls helping each other. Something Maidens seems poised to tackle in broader ways over its remaining 10 episodes.
Euphemism Soup
The last of the three most-developed characters so far is Rika Sonezaki. Rika's defining trait is that she's a huge prude. In any other show, this would be played exclusively for laughs. Even here, the series gets a lot of mileage out of just how far she's willing to go to avoid having to say the word "sex". At one point she commands her fellow literature club members to come up with "literary" euphemisms so they can avoid using the term. The results are….less than ideal.
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This is not the limit of her characterization though. Honestly if it were, it'd be kind of jarring. Rika's prudishness is also played as a dramatic element. It drives a wedge between her and her significantly more promiscuous (or at least playing at being so) classmates. In the first episode, she's outright bullied for it after she blows up at a group of gossiping gyaru.
This is not something we've been given a concrete reason for so far. The signs point to a self-image issue, though. Rika has a potential romance partner of her own, actually, as she's been now twice comforted by the same boy after outbursts. Rika's arc is very much open-ended at this point, but it's going to be interesting to see where it goes.
The First Rule of Book Club
There's one final thing to cover, the role of the literature club itself. The idea of a school club as a place of solace and genuineness is not a new one to anime, and it's actually here where Maidens hews closest to genre convention. That's not a bad thing, though. The girls are threatened with a club shutdown, both because of their loud arguments about "vulgar" topics and for their lack of a club advisor. The series portrays the teachers quite unsympathetically here. I'm pretty sure everyone had some variation of this guy in their high school.
The second episode does not resolve if they'll be able to get the club re-approved or not. But the girls do make it very clear where they stand. Niina, in fact, explicitly says why she loves the club so much. It's a place where she can be who she is, without worrying about the performative standards of the outside world.
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It's a more elegant summary of the appeal of a school club–or any closely-knit group of high school friends–than many anime manage.
To Be A Daisy
There is so much more that could be discussed about Maidens. Niina's internalized, toxic view of losing her virginity as "dying". The two other members of the literature club–Momoko and Hitoha. The delightfully varied cast of minor characters. This is a show with a lot to unpack. There is one last thing I want to get in here though, a comparison I've consciously avoided making for the rest of the article.
The anime O Maidens In Your Savage Season reminds me most of is actually last year's A Place Further Than The Universe. The similarity runs deeper than just both having long titles and being written by women. They're both ensemble dramedies with strong female casts who all feel unique and three dimensional. They both primarily deal with growing up. It is true that Maidens lacks (at least currently), Further's adventure element, but the two shows otherwise really do feel like they're speaking the same language. They also both feel like anime that are logical progressions beyond the school life genre, without necessarily being refutations of it. One great anime is notable. Two is the possible rumblings of a trend, and that is such a thrilling idea.
I think the highest compliment I can pay to Maidens, at this early stage and in all sincerity, is that it makes me excited about the future of the art form. The show risks going under-watched, being confined to the somewhat obscure HiDIVE platform as opposed to the more well-known Crunchyroll, and I think that would be a shame. Consider this a thorough, hearty recommendation of Maidens. It is uncommonly intelligent, well-written, and I might even say powerful. This is one to keep your eye on.
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You use Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 to create an application. You manually create your own Context class named AdventureWorksDB that inherits from ObjectContext. You need to use AdventureWorksDB to invoke a stored procedure that is defined in the data source. Which method should you call?
ExecuteFunction(String, ObjectParameter) Executes a stored procedure or function that is defined in the data source and expressed in the conceptual model; discards any results returned from the function; and returns the number of rows affected by the execution.
ExecuteStoreCommand() Executes an arbitrary command directly against the data source using the existing connection.
ExecuteStoreQuery<TElement>(String, Object) Executes a query directly against the data source that returns a sequence of typed results.
Translate<TElement>(DbDataReader) Translates a DbDataReader that contains rows of entity data to objects of the requested entity type.
You use Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 to create an application. The application uses the ADO.NET Entity Framework to model entities. You create an entity as shown in the following code fragment.
– ModifiedDate that is automatically set whenever the entity is updated.
Which code fragment should you add to the .edmx file?
A. Configure IIS to require basic authentication.
B. Configure IIS to allow anonymous access.
C. Configure IIS to require Windows authentication.
D. Enable the WCF Authentication Service.
E. Modify the Data Services service to use a Microsoft ASP.NET membership provider.
You use Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 to create a Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Data Services service. You discover that when an application submits a PUT or DELETE request to the Data Services service, it receives an error. You need to ensure that the application can access the service. Which header and request type should you use in the application?
The X-HTTP-Method header can be added to a POST request that signals that the server MUST process the request not as a POST, but as if the HTTP verb specified as the value of the header was used as the method on the HTTP request's request line, as specified in [RFC2616] section 5.1. This technique is often referred to as "verb tunneling". This header is only valid when on HTTP POST requests.
Alterantive A. This is an Object Query. It looks at the Order Details EntitySet and creating a group g based on OrderID.
Alterantive D. This is an Object Query. The GroupJoin method is used to join Orders to OrderDetails.
The body of the Lamda Expression is working out the total and Returning a Dynamic object as in A.
You need to query the DataSet object to retrieve only the rows where the ContactName field is not NULL. Which code segment should you use?
Field<T>(DataRow, String) Provides strongly-typed access to each of the column values in the specified row. The Field method also supports nullable types.
You use Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 to create an application. The application connects to a Microsoft SQL Server database. You use Entity SQL to retrieve data from the database. You need to find out whether a collection is empty. Which entity set operator should you use?
EXISTS Determines if a collection is empty.
You use Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 to create an application. The application connects to a Microsoft SQL Server database. You use Entity SQL to retrieve data from the database. You need to enable query plan caching. Which object should you use?
Whenever an attempt to execute a query is made, the query pipeline looks up its query plan cache to see whether the exact query is already compiled and available.
If so, it reuses the cached plan rather than building a new one.
If a match is not found in the query plan cache, the query is compiled and cached.
A query is identified by its Entity SQL text and parameter collection (names and types).
All text comparisons are case-sensitive.
Query plan caching is configurable through the EntityCommand.
To enable or disable query plan caching through System.Data.EntityClient.EntityCommand. EnablePlanCaching, set this property to true or false.
Disabling plan caching for individual dynamic queries that are unlikely to be used more then once improves performance.
You can enable query plan caching through EnablePlanCaching.
You use Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 to create an application. The application connects to a Microsoft SQL Server 2008 database. You need to ensure that the application calls a stored procedure that accepts a table-valued parameter. You create a SqlParameter object. What should you do next?
A. Set the SqlDbType of SqlParameter to Udt.
B. Set the SqlDbType of SqlParameter to Variant.
C. Set the ParameterDirection of SqlParameter to Output.
D. Set the SqlDbType of SqlParameter to Structured. Set the TypeName of SqlParameter to Udt.
SqlParameter.DbType Gets or sets the SqlDbType of the parameter.
SqlParameter.TypeName Gets or sets the type name for a table-valued parameter. SqlDbType.Structured A special data type for specifying structured data contained in table-valued parameters.
Udt A SQL Server 2005 user-defined type (UDT).
You use Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 to create an application. The application connects to a Microsoft SQL Server 2008 database. You need to use a spatial value type as a parameter for your database query. What should you do?
A. Set the parameter's SqlDbType to Binary.
B. Set the parameter's SqlDbType to Variant.
C. Set the parameter's SqlDbType to Udt. Set the parameter's UdtTypeName to GEOMETRY.
D. Set the parameter's SqlDbType to Structured. Set the parameter's TypeName to GEOMETRY.
There are two types of spatial data. The geometry data type supports planar, or Euclidean (flat-earth), data. The geometry data type conforms to the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Simple Features for SQL Specification version 1.1.0. In addition, SQL Server supports the geography data type, which stores ellipsoidal (round-earth) data, such as GPS latitude and longitude coordinates. SqlParameter.UdtTypeName Gets or sets a string that represents a user-defined type as a parameter.
The application queries the XML fragment by using the XmlDocument class. You need to select all the descendant elements of the MenuItem element that has its name attribute as File. Which XPath expression should you use?
– Only customers that match the following filter criteria are retrieved: City="Seattle" AND Level > 200.
– Data is sorted in ascending order by the ContactName and Address properties.
Which URL should you use for the query?
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You use Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 to create a Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) Data Services service. You deploy the data service to the following URL: http://contoso.com/Northwind.svc. You need to update the City property of the Customer record that has its ID value as 123. You also need to preserve the current values of the remaining properties. Which HTTP request should you use?
HTTP GET-This is the default action when a resource is accessed from a browser. No payload is supplied in the request message, and a response method with a payload that contains the requested data is returned.
HTTP POST-Inserts new entity data into the supplied resource. Data to be inserted is supplied in the payload of the request message.
The payload of the response message contains the data for the newly created entity.
This includes any autogenerated key values.
The header also contains the URI that addresses the new entity resource. HTTP DELETE-Deletes the entity data that the specified resource represents. A payload is not present in the request or response messages. HTTP PUT – Replaces existing entity data at the requested resource with new data that is supplied in the payload of the request message.
HTTP MERGE-Because of inefficiencies in executing a delete followed by an insert in the data source just to change entity data, OData introduces a new HTTP MERGE action. The payload of the request message contains the properties that must be changed on the addressed entity resource. Because HTTP MERGE is not defined in the HTTP specification, it may require additional processing to route a HTTP MERGE request through non-OData aware servers.
You are updating an existing Microsoft .NET Framework 4 application that includes a data layer built with ADO.NET Entity Framework 4. The application communicates with a Microsoft SQL Server 2008 instance named INST01 on a server named SQL01. The application stores data in a database named Contoso in the INST01 instance. You need to update the existing technology and develop new functionality by using Microsoft Visual Studio 2010.
The application tracks bicycle parts as they pass through a factory. Parts are represented by the abstract Part entity and its associated partial classes. Each part has a name stored in the Name field and a unique identifier stored in the Id field.
Parts are either component s (represented by the Component class) such as chains, wheels, and frames, or finished product s (represented by the Product class) such as completed bicycles. The Component class and the Product class derive from the Part class and may contain additional class-specific properties.
Parts may have a color (represented by the Color class), but not all parts have a color, Parts may be composed of other parts, and those parts may in turn be composed of other parts ; any p art represents a tree of the parts that are used to build it, The lowest level of the tree consists of c omponents that do not contain other components.
A product is a p art that has been completed and is ready to leave the factory. A p roduct typically consists of many c omponents (forming a tree of child p arts) but can also be constructed by combining other p roducts and/or c omponents to form a bundled p roduct, such as a bicycle and a helmet that are sold together.
Components and products are stored in a database table named Parts by using a table-per-hierarchy (TPH) mapping. Components have a null ProductType field and a non-null PartType field. Products have a non-null ProductType field and a null PartType field.
The following diagram illustrates the complete Entity data model diagram (EDMX diagram).
The following graphic illustrates detail s of the Part-Color Association.
– Updates the Customer table on the database when a customer is marked as deleted.
– Updates the related entries in other tables (CustomerAddress, CustomerContacts) by marking them as deleted.
– Prevents consumer code from setting the Deleted column's value directly.
You need to ensure that the function verifies that customers have no outstanding orders before they are marked as deleted. You also need to ensure that existing applications can use the update function without requiring changes in the code. What should you do?
You use Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and the Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 to create an application. The application connects to a Microsoft SQL Server database. The application uses DataContexts to query the database. You define a foreign key between the Customers and Orders tables in the database. You need to ensure that when you delete a customer record, the corresponding order records are deleted. You want to achieve this goal by using the minimum amount of development effort. What should you do?
A. Override the Delete operation of the customer entity.
B. Remove the foreign key between the Customers and Orders tables.
C. Use the ExecuteDynamicDelete method of the DataContext object.
D. Modify the foreign key between the Customers and Orders tables to enable the ON DELETE CASCADE option.
– Stores customer data offline.
– Allows users to update customer records while they are disconnected from the server.
– Enables offline changes to be submitted back to the SQL Server by using the DataContext object.
You need to ensure that the application can detect all conflicts that occur between the offline customer information submitted to the SQL Server and the server version. You also need to ensure that you can roll back local changes. What should you do?
A. Add a try/catch statement around calls to the SubmitChanges method of the DataContext object and catch SqlExceptions.
B. Add a try/catch statement around calls to the SubmitChanges method of the DataContext object and catch ChangeConflictExceptions.
C. Override the Update operation of the DataContext object. Call the ExecuteDynamicUpdate method to generate the update SQL.
D. Call the SubmitChanges method of the DataContext object. Pass System.Data.Linq.ConflictMode.ContinueOnConflict to the method.
FailOnFirstConflict Specifies that attempts to update the database should stop immediately when the first concurrency conflict error is detected. ContinueOnConflict Specifies that all updates to the database should be tried, and that concurrency conflicts should be accumulated and returned at the end of the process. ExecuteDynamicUpdate() Method Called inside update override methods to redelegate to LINQ to SQL the task of generating and executing dynamic SQL for update operations.
A. Re-attach the SalesOrderDetail entities.
B. Set the MergeOption of SalesOrderDetail to MergeOptions.OverwriteChanges.
C. Set the MergeOption of SalesOrderDetail to MergeOptions.NoTracking.
ApplyCurrentValues(Of TEntity) Copies the scalar values from the supplied object into the object in the ObjectContext that has the same key.
The ApplyCurrentValues<TEntity> method is used to apply changes that were made to objects outside the ObjectContext, such as detached objects that are received by a Web service. The method copies the scalar values from the supplied object into the object in the ObjectContext that has the same key. You can use the EntityKey of the detached object to retrieve an instance of this object from the data source. Any values that differ from the original values of the object are marked as modified.
Note, the method does not apply the current values to the related objects of currentEntity. ApplyOriginalValues(Of TEntity) Copies the scalar values from the supplied object into set of original values for the object in the ObjectContext that has the same key.
The ApplyOriginalValues<TEntity> method is used to apply changes that were made to objects outside the ObjectContext, such as detached objects that are received by a Web service. The method copies the scalar values from the supplied object into the object in the ObjectContext that has the same key. You can use the EntityKey of the detached object to retrieve an instance of this object from the data source. Any values that differ from the current values of the object are marked as modified.
Note, the method does not apply the current values to the related objects of originalEntity.
You use Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 to create an application. The application uses the ADO.NET Entity Framework to manage customer and related order records. You add a new order for an existing customer. You need to associate the Order entity with the Customer entity. What should you do?
Entity Reference (Of Entity) Represents a related end of an association with a multiplicity of zero or one.
You use Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0 to create an application. The application connects to a Microsoft SQL Server database over the network. The application uses data from multiple related database tables. You need to ensure that the application can be used if the connection is disconnected or unavailable. Which object type should you use to store data from the database tables?
The DataSet, which is an in-memory cache of data retrieved from a data source, is a major component of the ADO.NET architecture. The DataSet consists of a collection of DataTable objects that you can relate to each other with DataRelation objects. You can also enforce data integrity in the DataSet by using the UniqueConstraint and ForeignKeyConstraint objects.
– Load only new customer records each time the page refreshes.
– Preserve existing customer records.
A. Set the ClearBeforeFill property of the TableAdapter to false.
Use the Fill method of the TableAdapter.
B. Set the ClearBeforeFill property of the TableAdapter to false.
Use the GetData method of the TableAdapter to create a new DataTable.
C. Set the ClearBeforeFill property of the TableAdapter to true.
Use the Fill method of the TableAdapter to load additional customers.
D. Set the ClearBeforeFill property of the TableAdapter to true.
Update Data Using a TableAdapter.
TableAdapter.GetData Returns a new DataTable filled with data.
TableAdapter.Insert Creates a new row in the data table. For more information, see How to: Add Rows to a DataTable.
TableAdapter.ClearBeforeFill Determines whether a data table is emptied before you call one of the Fill methods.
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Joint Geographical and Temporal Modeling based on Matrix Factorization for Point-of-Interest Recommendation
by Hossein A. Rahmani, et al.
With the popularity of Location-based Social Networks, Point-of-Interest (POI) recommendation has become an important task, which learns the users' preferences and mobility patterns to recommend POIs. Previous studies show that incorporating contextual information such as geographical and temporal influences is necessary to improve POI recommendation by addressing the data sparsity problem. However, existing methods model the geographical influence based on the physical distance between POIs and users, while ignoring the temporal characteristics of such geographical influences. In this paper, we perform a study on the user mobility patterns where we find out that users' check-ins happen around several centers depending on their current temporal state. Next, we propose a spatio-temporal activity-centers algorithm to model users' behavior more accurately. Finally, we demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed contextual model by incorporating it into the matrix factorization model under two different settings: i) static and ii) temporal. To show the effectiveness of our proposed method, which we refer to as STACP, we conduct experiments on two well-known real-world datasets acquired from Gowalla and Foursquare LBSNs. Experimental results show that the STACP model achieves a statistically significant performance improvement, compared to the state-of-the-art techniques. Also, we demonstrate the effectiveness of capturing geographical and temporal information for modeling users' activity centers and the importance of modeling them jointly.
Hossein A. Rahmani
Mohammad Aliannejadi
Mitra Baratchi
Fabio Crestani
Leveraging Social Influence based on Users Activity Centers for Point-of-Interest Recommendation
Recommender Systems (RSs) aim to model and predict the user preference w...
Kosar Seyedhoseinzadeh, et al. ∙
A Systematic Analysis on the Impact of Contextual Information on Point-of-Interest Recommendation
As the popularity of Location-based Social Networks (LBSNs) increases, d...
Hossein A. Rahmani, et al. ∙
Modelling of Bi-directional Spatio-Temporal Dependence and Users' Dynamic Preferences for Missing POI Check-in Identification
Human mobility data accumulated from Point-of-Interest (POI) check-ins p...
Dongbo Xi, et al. ∙
RELINE: Point-of-Interest Recommendations using Multiple Network Embeddings
The rapid growth of users' involvement in Location-Based Social Networks...
Giannis Christoforidis, et al. ∙
A Joint Two-Phase Time-Sensitive Regularized Collaborative Ranking Model for Point of Interest Recommendation
The popularity of location-based social networks (LBSNs) has led to a tr...
Mohammad Aliannejadi, et al. ∙
Relation Embedding for Personalised POI Recommendation
Point-of-interest (POI) recommendation is one of the most important loca...
Xianjing Wang, et al. ∙
DREAM: A Dynamic Relational-Aware Model for Social Recommendation
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Where is the international outrage?
In response to pressure from President Trump, Israel reportedly is preparing a series of concessions to Palestinians in a bid to re-launch peace talks. Trump may want to consider pressuring the Palestinians for parallel gestures, including correcting educational policies that are antithetical to peace.
The "Palestinian school curricula are inspected by the international donors who finance the Palestinian Authority and, by extension, its public education system," the Times of Israel reported.
Incredibly, European countries pressure Israel to freeze settlement growth and take other steps towards peace, while funding pro-war messages targeted at future generations of Palestinians.
The Palestinian curriculum of violence and hate highlighted by the IMPACT-se study is just one of the many ways in which Palestinian leaders have forced their violent agendas onto children.
In 2012, senior Hamas commander Zaher Jabarin told Hamas' Al-Quds TV that Hamas labors "day and night" to educate Palestinian children in Gaza to become suicide bombers. In 2013, Gaza's Hamas-run al-Aqsa TV showed children singing the virtues of suicide attacks and wishing to blow themselves up to liberate Jerusalem and Palestine, according to a translation by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI).
Islamist abuse of Palestinian children extends beyond the educational context. Tens of millions of foreign aid dollars intended to benefit injured children "was instead taken by families of Hamas members who falsely registered their children in the program," the Times of Israel reported last August.
The use and abuse of children by Islamists also occurs outside of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The Islamic State uses child soldiers and brainwashes them to perform gruesome acts at an early age, including mock beheadings of dolls.
In 2015, Boko Haram, an Islamic extremist group based in Nigeria, sent 44 children on suicide missions in Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, and Niger. The use of children as suicide bombers in Islamic countries is explored in greater depth by Lawrence A. Franklin, a former Defense Department Iran Desk officer.
But radical Islam isn't always the main factor in Palestinian terrorism committed by children. Last month, a report by Israel's Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT) found that children from troubled backgrounds were often ripe for radicalization because they viewed attacks as a way to commit suicide with glory. Child terrorists might be further motivated to die trying to kill Israelis because the Palestinian Authority often rewards such deaths by paying the bereaved families a monthly stipend.
Reforming the anti-Israel indoctrination of Palestinian children will not be easy. Palestinians reportedly responded with threats over reports that the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) is considering curricular changes that might curtail incitement.
Nevertheless, if world powers are serious about promoting a genuine Israeli-Palestinian peace, they must pressure Palestinian leaders to start preparing future generations for peace by replacing anti-Israel incitement and "martyrdom" adulation with messages of peaceful coexistence, including maps and history that acknowledge Jewish claims to Israel proper and territories in dispute.


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Thursday COVID-19 Roundup: 3 Additional Deaths at Henry Mayo Bringing Total to 55; SCV Cases Top 13,000
Press Release | Thursday, Dec 17, 2020
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The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health confirmed Thursday 102 new deaths, including 3 additional deaths at Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital and 14,418 new cases of COVID-19, including 13,090 total cases in the Santa Clarita Valley.
To date, Public Health identified 580,325 positive cases of COVID-19 across all areas of L.A. County and a total of 8,664 deaths.
There are 4,864 people with COVID-19 currently hospitalized and 20% of these people are in the ICU. In the last two days the number of patients hospitalized with COVID-19 has increased by more than 450 people.
According to the State, the Southern California Region has 0% ICU capacity remaining.
California Thursday Snapshot
Statewide, the California Department of Public Health confirmed a total of 1,723,362 confirmed, with 21,860 deaths from the disease. There are 15,431 confirmed hospitalizations and 3,280 ICU hospitalizations in California.
Numbers may not represent true day-over-day change as reporting of test results can be delayed.
There were 52,281 newly recorded confirmed cases Wednesday. Numbers do not represent true day-over-day change as these results include cases from prior to yesterday. Today's numbers are slightly higher due to the implementation of an auto-processing feature to track report the large volume of COVID-19 cases. In collaboration with counties, on December 13, the state began automatically processing positive cases reported by laboratories and these cases are reflected in our public reporting.
Typically, local public health departments receive cases into an inbox and manually process those cases, however, with high transmission rates, this has become increasingly difficult. The auto processing feature ensures that local public health officials can quickly determine when cases occurred, which gives us all a better sense of COVID-19's trajectory.
The 7-day positivity rate is 12.8% and the 14-day positivity rate is 11.5%.
There have been 28,456,358 tests conducted in California. This represents an increase of 306,768 over the prior 24-hour reporting period.
As case numbers continue to rise in California, the total number of individuals who will have serious outcomes will also increase.
Health Care Worker Infection Rates
As of Dec. 16, local health departments have reported 61,435 confirmed positive cases in health care workers and 237 deaths statewide.
Santa Clarita Valley Thursday Update
As of 5:30 p.m. Thursday, the L.A. County Public Health dashboard, is reporting 93 deaths among Santa Clarita Valley residents since the pandemic began. Note: The dashboard had not yet recorded the most recent deaths from Henry Mayo, which would bring the SCV tally to 99.
Of the 99 SCV residents who have died, 78 lived in Santa Clarita, 5 in Castaic, 3 in Acton, 3 in Stevenson Ranch, 2 in unincorporated Canyon Country, 1 in unincorporated Bouquet Canyon, 1 in Val Verde, and 6 in communities not yet named.
Of the 13,090 cases reported to Public Health for the SCV to date, the community breakdown is as follows:
City of Santa Clarita: 8,893
Castaic: 2,657 (includes Pitchess Detention Center and North County Correctional Facility*)
Stevenson Ranch: 453
Canyon Country (unincorporated portion): 376
Acton: 192
Val Verde: 144
Valencia (unincorporated portion west of I-5): 82
Agua Dulce: 91
Saugus (unincorporated portion): 60
Newhall (Unincorporated portion): 50
Elizabeth Lake: 26
Lake Hughes: 18
Saugus/Canyon Country: 18
Bouquet Canyon: 18
Sand Canyon: 8
San Francisquito/Bouquet Canyon: 4
*Note: The county is unable to break out separate numbers for Castaic and PDC/NCCF because the county uses geotagging software that cannot be changed at this time, according to officials. Click here for the LASD COVID-19 dashboard.
Henry Mayo Thursday Update
Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital reported 3 additional deaths from COVID-19 Thursday, bringing the total to 55, hospital spokesman Patrick Moody said.
As of Thursday, of the 14,044 people tested at Henry Mayo to date, 1,907 tested positive, 16,911 were negative, 1 was pending, 85 patients were hospitalized in a dedicated unit receiving ICU-level care and a total of 528 COVID-19 patients have been treated and discharged so far, Moody said.
Discrepancies in the testing numbers at the hospital are due to some patients being tested multiple times.
Henry Mayo releases statistics weekly, usually on Wednesdays, unless a new death occurs.
Privacy laws prohibit the hospital from releasing the community of residence for patients who die there; that info is reported by the L.A. County Public Health COVID-19 dashboard, which is generally 48 hours behind.
L.A. County
A second COVID-19 vaccine, the Moderna vaccine, was endorsed today by the FDA's Advisory Committee, and based on the publicly released findings of the vaccine trial, Public Health is hopeful the vaccine will receive Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) very soon. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Advisory Committee on Immunizations Practices will meet this weekend to discuss the recommended use of the Moderna vaccine and will also vote on additional priority populations to receive it.
Currently, the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine has been received by all nine pre-designated sites in L.A County and this initial allocation is being used by acute care hospitals to vaccinate health care personnel. Healthcare workers are prioritized for vaccination based on their job duties and associated risks of exposure to COVID-19 as well as risks of severe disease. A second allotment of Pfizer vaccine is anticipated to arrive next week and will be used to vaccinate additional healthcare workers at acute care hospitals. If the Moderna vaccine receives EUA, doses of this vaccine should arrive in L.A. County next week as well. These doses will be used to vaccinate residents and staff at skilled nursing facilities and frontline EMS responders.
Public Health will host the L.A County COVID-19 Vaccine Town Hall tonight from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30pm. Join the town hall to learn more about the COVID-19 vaccine, how it was developed, where it will be distributed in communities, and when it will be made available to the general public. The town hall will be streamed live on Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube @lapublichealth. For more information and to submit a question, visit: http://tinyurl.com/askcovidtownhall.
Of the 102 new deaths reported today, 43 people that passed away were over the age of 80 years old, 26 people who died were between the ages of 65 and 79 years old, 18 people who died were between the ages of 50 and 64 years old, and 11 people who died were between the ages of 30 and 49 years old. Seventy-two people who died had underlying health conditions including 33 people over the age of 80 years old, 19 people between the ages of 65 and 79 years old, 13 people between the ages of 50 and 64 years old, and seven people between the ages of 30 and 49 years old. Four deaths were reported by the city of Long Beach.
"We send our deepest condolences to the many people grieving the loss of a family member or friend who passed away due to COVID-19," said Barbara Ferrer, PhD, MPH, MEd, Director of Public Health. "There is an increasingly bright light at the end of this pandemic for us as a second vaccine gets closer to emergency use authorization. However, we are months away from having enough vaccine widely available in L.A. County. Until then, we need to make choices in our daily lives to protect ourselves and others. The devastation we are experiencing now is in part because many people ignored warnings and made the decision to travel or visit with people from outside of their home over the Thanksgiving holidays. We are now learning a very painful lesson that, despite how much we want things to go back to normal, this virus is relentless and will continue to spread, make people very ill, and tragically lead to people passing away. We can't afford another holiday season surge that will further overwhelm our already strained hospitals and healthcare staff. We must all work together to prevent as much death as possible."
Right now, the most important action for everyone to take to stop the surge is to stay home as much as possible and not mingle with others not in your household. Only go out for work, exercise or for essential services. When you must leave your home, always wear a face covering and stay at least 6 feet away from people you do not live with at all times. Individuals with underlying health conditions and those that are older should remain in their home and not be around others unless seeking routine or essential health and dental care.
If you have symptoms or concerns you were exposed, get tested for COVID-19 and isolate immediately from your family and others if you have symptoms or test positive for COVID-19. If you are having difficulty breathing, go to an emergency room or call 911. The Reopening Protocols, COVID-19 Surveillance Interactive Dashboard, Roadmap to Recovery, Recovery Dashboard, and additional things you can do to protect yourself, your family and your community are on the Public Health website, www.publichealth.lacounty.gov.
California Thursday
The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) announced Thursday the most recent statistics on COVID-19, including data on intensive care unit (ICU) capacity across the state. Based on ICU data, the Bay Area will enter the Regional Stay at Home Order Thursday, Dec. 17, at 11:59 p.m. Three other regions, San Joaquin Valley, Southern California, and Greater Sacramento are already under the order. More than 50% of the state's ICU capacity is filled with patients who have COVID-19.
Regional Stay at Home Order
Regions must remain under the Regional Stay at Home Order for at least three weeks and will be eligible to exit the order and return to the Blueprint for a Safer Economy only if ICU capacity projections for the following month are above or equal to 15%.
The dates that regions will be eligible to exit are:
San Joaquin: Monday, Dec. 28
Southern California: Monday, Dec. 28
Greater Sacramento: Friday, Jan. 1
Bay Area: Friday, Jan. 8
Current available ICU capacity by region:
Bay Area: 13.1%
Greater Sacramento Region: 11.3%
Northern California: 25.8%
San Joaquin Valley: 0.7%
Southern California: 0.0%
See region map. Read the full Regional Stay at Home Order, Supplement to the Order, and frequently asked questions.
Vaccinate All 58
The COVID-19 shipment of the COVID-19 vaccine has arrived in California, and additional shipments will continue to arrive throughout this week. The first doses are being administered to health care workers and residents of long-term care facilities. The state is working closely with community partners and stakeholders to help ensure the vaccine is distributed and administered equitably across California. For more information, visit the CDPH COVID-19 Vaccine webpage and Vaccinate All 58.
Blueprint for a Safer Economy
Gov. Gavin Newsom unveiled the Blueprint for a Safer Economy, a statewide plan for reducing COVID-19 and keeping Californians healthy and safe. The plan imposes risk-based criteria on tightening and loosening COVID-19 allowable activities and expands the length of time between changes to assess how any movement affects the trajectory of the disease.
Californians can go to covid19.ca.gov to find out where their county falls and what activities are allowable in each county.
New Testing Turnaround Time Dashboard
The testing turnaround dashboard reports how long California patients are waiting for COVID-19 test results. California has worked to reduce testing turnaround times in recent weeks to help curb the spread of the virus. During the week of Nov. 29 – Dec. 5, the average time patients waited for test results was 1.4 days. During this same time period, 58 percent of patients received test results in 1 day and 87 percent received them within 2 days. The testing turnaround time dashboard (PDF) is updated weekly.
At this time, all four tiers in the Testing Prioritization Guidance will have equal priority for testing.
A wide range of data and analysis guides California's response to COVID-19. The state is making the data and its analytical tools available to researchers, scientists and the public at covid19.ca.gov.
Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C)
Each week, the California Department of Public Health updates the number of cases of Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C) reported in the state. As of Dec. 14, 152 cases of MIS-C have been reported statewide. To protect patient confidentiality in counties with fewer than 11 cases, we are not providing total counts at this time
MIS-C is a rare inflammatory condition associated with COVID-19 that can damage multiple organ systems. MIS-C can require hospitalization and be life threatening. Parents should be aware of the signs and symptoms of MIS-C including fever that does not go away, abdominal pain, vomiting, diarrhea, neck pain, rash, bloodshot eyes or feeling tired. Contact your child's doctor immediately if your child has these symptoms. Early diagnosis and treatment of patients is critical to preventing long-term complications.
Racial Demographics – A More Complete Picture
The California Department of Public Health is committed to health equity and collecting more detailed racial and ethnic data that will provide additional understanding for determining future action. Health outcomes are affected by forces including structural racism, poverty and the disproportionate prevalence of underlying conditions such as asthma and heart disease among Latinos and African American Californians. Only by looking at the full picture can we understand how to ensure the best outcomes for all Californians.
The differences in health outcomes related to COVID-19 are most stark in COVID-19 deaths. We have nearly complete data on race and ethnicity for COVID-19 deaths, and we are seeing the following trends: Latinos, African Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders are dying at disproportionately higher levels. More males are dying from COVID-19 than females, in line with national trends. More information is available at COVID-19 Race and Ethnicity Data.
Popular links include:
– The Statewide COVID-19 Dashboard
– The California COVID-19 Assessment Tool (CalCAT)
– State Cases and Deaths Associated with COVID-19 by Age Group
– COVID-19 Race & Ethnicity Data
– COVID-19 Hospital Data and Case Statistics
– View additional datasets at the California Open Data Portal (Including: Testing Data, PPE Logistics Data, Hospital Data, Homeless Impact and more)
Your Actions Save Lives
California is experiencing the fastest increase in cases we have seen yet – faster than what we experienced at the outset of the pandemic and this summer. If COVID-19 continues to spread at this rate, it could quickly overwhelm our health care system and lead to catastrophic outcomes. Protect yourself, family, friends and community by following these prevention measures:
– Staying home except for essential needs/activities and following local and state public health guidelines when visiting businesses that are open.
– Following the Limited Stay at Home Order that requires allnon-essential work and activities to stop between 10 p.m. and 5 a.m. in counties in the purple tier. The order took effect at 10 p.m. Saturday, November 21, and will remain in effect until 5 a.m. December 21.
– Staying close to home, avoiding non-essential travel, and practicing self-quarantine for 14 days after arrival if you leave the state.
– Keeping gatherings small, short and outdoors and limiting them to those who live in your household.
– Wearing a cloth face mask when out in public.
– Washing hands with soap and water for a minimum of 20 seconds.
– Avoiding touching eyes, nose or mouth with unwashed hands.
– Covering a cough or sneeze with your sleeve, or disposable tissue. Wash your hands afterward.
– Avoiding close contact with people who are sick.
– Staying away from work, school or other people if you become sick with respiratory symptoms like fever and cough.
– Following guidance from public health officials.
Always check with trusted sources for the latest accurate information about novel coronavirus:
– Los Angeles County Department of Public Health
– California Department of Public Health
– Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
– Spanish
– World Health Organization
L.A. County residents can also call 2-1-1.
What to Do if You Think You're Sick
Call ahead: If you are experiencing symptoms of COVID-19 (fever, cough or shortness of breath), call your health care provider before seeking medical care so that appropriate precautions can be taken. More than 85 community testing sites also offer free, confidential testing: Find a COVID-19 Testing Site.
For more information about what Californians can do to prevent the spread of COVID-19, visit Coronavirus (COVID-19) in California.
California continues to issue guidance on preparing and protecting California from COVID-19. Consolidated guidance is available on the California Department of Public Health's Guidance webpage.
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SYSTRA Canada has won a major urban mobility contract in Quebec
Quebec City and the RTC announced that SYSTRA Canada's experts will work on the implementation of a global mobility solution for tramways and bus rapid transport (BRT).
SYSTRA Canada has had a major success in the public transport sector. In the context of a five-year contract, with the option of two additional years, the city of Quebec and the capital's transport network (RTC) have chosen SYSTRA to accompany and advise them on the design of their tramway project, as well as the electrification of Quebec's public transport network, which comprises 600 buses.
Two experts will be mobilised full time in Quebec for this project. They will be supported by the Montreal office and the teams of the Technical Directorate (DTE) in France.
SYSTRA was officially awarded this new contract on 19th November by the mayor of Quebec, Régis Lebeaume, who said: "This is the largest construction project in the history of the city." He also spoke about the numerous tramway projects carried out by SYSTRA, referring not only to Bordeaux, Nice, Tours and Lyon but also to Montreal, Washington D.C., Algiers and even Casablanca. This contract represents a real acknowledgment of our expertise in design and tramway project management, acquired with our clients over several decades.
Dave Spagnolo, Head of our North America (AMR) operations commented: "Beyond all the previous mandates we have won in the sector for SYSTRA Canada, especially the design of the Montreal tramway in 2008 and our work accompanying the REM project in 2016/2017, this new contract is in line with our ambition to develop a new Transport business unit and to position ourselves as a strong and sustainable player in people's mobility in Quebec and in Canada, in parallel with our historical activities. Congratulations to all the teams involved."
Samuel Derosiaux, SYSTRA Canada's Vice President: "We are at the start of a great professional adventure that will enable us to put the SYSTRA signature on a major project in Canada and also to open up exciting opportunities for us in the urban transport sector as well as in electromobility."
The Quebec Tramway: objective 2026
The project mainly consists of the creation of two main routes, a new line of 23km linking Charlesbourg to Cap-Rouge via Parliament Hill with an underground section of 3.5km, as well as an entirely electrified BRT line of 17km with articulated buses. The future structure of Quebec's network will form the backbone of the capital's mobility.
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