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Insured losses from disasters below average in 2014 despite record number of natural catastrophe events, says Swiss Re study
Published on: 25 Mar 2015, Zurich
Total global economic losses from natural catastrophes and man-made disasters were around USD 110 billion in 2014
This compares to global insured losses of about USD 35 billion in 2014, below the USD 64 billion-average of the last 10 years
There were 189 natural catastrophes worldwide last year, the highest on sigma records
Disasters claimed more than 12 700 lives in 2014, one of the lowest ever in a single year
Severe thunderstorm losses are trending upward – details in the special chapter of this sigma
According to the latest sigma study, global insured losses from natural catastrophes and man-made disasters were USD 35 billion in 2014, down from USD 44 billion in 2013 and well below the USD 64 billion-average of the previous 10 years. There were 189 natural catastrophe events in 2014, the highest ever on sigma records, causing global economic losses of USD 110 billion. Around 12 700 people lost their lives in all disaster events, down from as many as 27 000 in 2013, making it one of the lowest numbers ever recorded in a single year.
Total economic losses from all disaster events in 2014 were USD 110 billion, down from USD 138 billion in 2013, and well below the previous 10-year annual average of USD 200 billion. Of these total economic losses, USD 101 billion were due to natural catastrophes, with cyclones in Asia Pacific causing the most damage. Of the USD 35 billion in global insured losses last year, USD 28 billion were attributed to natural catastrophe events.
Weather events in the US, Europe and Japan cause most insured losses
"The frequency of catastrophic events appear to be increasing, with a record number of natural catastrophes last year," says Kurt Karl, Swiss Re's Chief Economist. For example, a series of severe thunderstorms triggered sizable losses in both the US and Europe last year. In May, a spate of severe storms with hail in the US resulted in the largest insured loss event of the year, with insurance claims of USD 2.9 billion.
In Europe in the following month, the low pressure system Ela brought large and damaging hail to parts of France and Belgium, and strong winds in Germany. The combined insured losses were USD 2.2 billion, making Ela the second most expensive hail event in Europe on sigma records.
Harsh winters in the US and in Japan were another major cause of insurance claims in 2014. The US experienced multiple storms with heavy snow and long stretches of freezing temperatures. Insured losses from all winter storms in the US were USD 2.4 billion, more than double the average of the previous 10 years. The largest loss event was a storm in January that impacted 17 states, with snow falling as far south as Florida, leading to overall insured losses of USD 1.7 billion. Meanwhile in Japan, a severe cold snap in mid-February brought the heaviest snow in decades, killing 26 people and injuring many more, primarily in road accidents. The insured loss total was estimated at USD 2.5 billion.
It was another quiet hurricane season in the North Atlantic in 2014, with no major hurricane making US landfall for the ninth year in succession. This was the main reason for the overall below-average insured losses last year. In contrast, there were 20 named storms in the eastern Pacific, the most since 1992. Of those, in September Hurricane Odile in the Baja of California, Mexico, caused the biggest event loss. The region is a tourist destination with many hotels and commercial properties and consequently, insurance penetration is relatively high. The insured losses were USD 1.7 billion, making Odile the second largest insured loss event ever in Mexico, after Hurricane Wilma in 2005 which caused insured losses of USD 2.1 billion.
Protection gap issues remain
Lack of insurance cover, however, remains an issue in many countries. For example, in May, low pressure system Yvette brought very heavy rain to Serbia, Bosnia and Croatia, in some areas the heaviest downpour in 120 years. Several dams failed and the ensuing floods and debris flows destroyed houses, infrastructure and crops. There were 82 deaths, the largest loss of life from a natural catastrophe event in Europe in 2014, and total losses were estimated to be USD 3 billion, mostly uninsured. Italy also endured a very wet year, with a series of flash floods events causing overall economic losses of more than USD 1 billion, also largely uninsured.
There are areas which are underinsured in the US also. In August last year, the South Napa earthquake caused structural and inventory damage totaling USD 0.7 billion, particularly in the numerous barrel storage facilities of the local wine industry. However, the insured loss was just USD 0.16 billion. "In spite of high exposure to seismic risk, insurance take-up in San Francisco County and California state generally is still very low, even for commercial properties. That's why insured losses, in certain areas, can be surprisingly low when disaster events happen," says Lucia Bevere, co-author of the study.
Severe thunderstorms generate mounting losses
This sigma includes a special chapter on severe thunderstorms, which are also called severe convective storms.1 The total costs and insured losses of severe convective storms have been on an upward trend over the last 25 years. This is mainly due to rising losses in the US where the frequency of storms (particularly tornadoes) and insurance penetration are highest, and in Europe where hail storms and flash flooding happen often.
The global insured losses from severe convective storms rose by an average annual rate of 9% in the period 1990 and 2014.2 Insured losses from all-weather events in the same period rose by 6.6% on the same basis. In the US alone, insured losses from severe convective storms averaged USD 8 billion annually between 1990 and 2014. And from 2008, those losses have exceeded USD 10 billion every year, including in 2014 when insured losses were USD 13 billion, the fourth highest on sigma records.
[1] Severe convective storms include tornadoes, hail, thunder, heavy rains and flash floods. Generally speaking, a storm is classified as "severe" based on the threshold where damage is expected to occur, typically winds of 90 km/26 miles per hour and/or hail of 2 cm in diametre or more in countries using the metric system and 1 inch or more in US reference terminology,
[2] To smooth out the short term-fluctuations and highlight the longer-term trends, the annual growth rate is calculated based on the average of the years 1986-1990 and 2010-2014.
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Q: How does CPU handle overclocking To my understanding, each stage in the datapath pipline takes an ns amount of seconds to execute and the clock cycle is set as close as possible to the execution time of the most expensive stage. What happens when the CPU is overclocked? How does it execute all of the stages on time?

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the clock cycle is set as close as possible to the execution time of the most expensive stage.

Yes, the critical path length determines the maximum possible clock speed, but power / cooling are also a limiting factor in setting the rated clock speed.
Vendors rate their CPUs to stay within a maximum electrical power consumption / thermal dissipation power (TDP) limit for any software workload at the rated clock speed, so they can guarantee reliable operation in a system with limited cooling, and so motherboard vendors know how good the voltage regulators need to be.
Higher clocks mean higher power, especially if voltage is also increased (which reduces the critical path length by reducing the gate-delay time).  But power scales with V2, and linearly with frequency, so overvolting can dramatically increase cooling requirements.  Higher temperatures increase the critical path length, IIRC.
Some overclockers only care about running games, which generate less heat than high-throughput 256b FMA code on all cores (like SuperPi), so limiting the software workload is one way to allow overclocking.
Even without limiting the workload, better cooling and power supply than the minimum requirements can allow overclocking even for max-power workloads like SuperPi, just with a different power / performance tradeoff than the vendor was aiming for.  (e.g. running at max turbo for extended periods still counts as overclocking when it takes you outside the rated TDP and supply current envelope.)

The other major reason that OCing works is that CPUs are sold with rated clock speeds lower than the theoretical max.  This is often for marketing reasons.  The silicon coming off the production line is binned according to how high it can clock.  But if more high-clock-capable chips are coming off the production line than there is market demand for, some of these chips will be sold as lower clock-speed parts (instead of reducing prices on the faster chips).  (Back in the day before locked clocks on all but the highest-end SKUs, this was the main reason for OCing.)
Notice that Intel for example only sells one (or two: i5 and i7) unlocked SKUs.  There is always going to be some variation from chip to chip within these bins.  Maybe you get an i7-6700k that has hardly any headroom to OC before the clock speed is too fast for the critical path (and you get data errors).  Or maybe you got lucky and the chip you bought is nearly perfect, and significantly better than the minimum threshold for that highest bin.

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Washington, D.C. - The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) has published the report Violencia y discriminación contra mujeres, niñas y adolescentes: buenas prácticas y desafíos en América Latina y en el Caribe. This report is one of the main outcomes of the project Eradication of Violence and Discrimination Against Women and Girls in Latin America and the Caribbean, conducted by the IACHR with valuable support from the Canadian government. The report was presented on December 10, 2019 at the headquarters of the Organization of American States (OAS), to mark International Human Rights Day and the campaign 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence.
Given the context of violence and discrimination faced by women, girls, and adolescents in the region, the Commission has identified them as persons who face particular discrimination and has therefore prioritized lines of work to promote and protect their fundamental rights. The IACHR has played an essential role in the development of legal standards to protect and defend the rights of women, girls, and adolescents and has issued recommendations to identify and overcome structural discrimination and intersecting forms of discrimination specifically affecting them. To fulfil its mandate, the Inter-American Commission has also supported Member States of the OAS in their concrete efforts to comply with the decisions and recommendations of inter-American human rights institutions, whether the Commission itself or the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
To draft the report Violencia y discriminación contra mujeres, niñas y adolescentes: buenas prácticas y desafíos en América Latina y en el Caribe, the Commission used the information it obtained from its various monitoring mechanisms, including working visits, on-site visits, public hearings, and requests to States for information, as well as information linked to the petition, case, and precautionary measure system. The IACHR also held two meetings with subject experts, received information from 12 States and 20 civil society organizations in response to a questionnaire, and assessed over 800 recommendations made in thematic reports published by the Commission over the past 10 years.
Based on all the information it has examined , the IACHR presents in this report a series of positive initiatives adopted by States in Latin America and the Caribbean to promote and protect the rights of women, girls, and adolescents. The report includes a non-exhaustive list of good practices—particularly legislation, public policies, and court decisions—that are examples of specific progress made in the fight against violence and discrimination. The IACHR stresses its call to States, so they strive to make further efforts in this matter and to consolidate any progress they have made so far.
However, in spite of all these achievements, the Commission has noted that many challenges persist in the fight against violence and discrimination affecting women and girls. One of the report's main findings is linked to the persistent invisibility of girls' specific needs. They remain part of a broad, age-less "women" category that fails to take into account their specific protection needs as developing individuals, and they also remain invisible in the "children" category, which fails to take their gender into consideration. As it profoundly assessed violence and discrimination against girls, the Commission identified the prevalence of various specific forms of violence and discrimination, including child marriage and non-marital cohabitation involving girls; early pregnancies that are consequences of sexual violence; child labor, labor exploitation, and human trafficking; and violence in the context of new technologies.
The Commission also identified profound challenges that persist in the effort to eradicate the structural factors involved in discrimination against women and girls, such as sexism, machismo, and the prevalence of gender stereotypes that are deeply rooted in the social fabric around Latin America and the Caribbean, which lead to a high tolerance for violence against women. In this report, the IACHR warns that violence and discrimination do not affect all women equally. Afro-descendant, indigenous, and lesbian, bisexual, trans, and intersex (LBTI) women suffer violence and discrimination on two or event three counts beyond their gender. More specifically, the Commission observes the prevalence of laws that discriminate against women and girls in the region; heightened trends and discourses against women's rights; violence and discrimination against women who challenge gender stereotypes, including journalists, human rights defenders, and politically committed women; and the many challenges that continue to restrict access to justice for women and girls who are victims of violence.
In this report, the IACHR also analyzes violent trends that particularly affect women and girls, including the prevalence of gender-based murders and the profound gap between the development of regulatory frameworks and criminal categorizations, and their specific application; the worrying figures concerning disappearances of women and girls, and the failure to adequately investigate such cases; and the high levels of sexual violence and the failure to prevent and investigate such violence, as well as to provide appropriate medical care for victims. The report further addresses a deficient approach to certain forms of violence and discrimination against women and girls. Such forms of violence are not fully or adequately considered by States, which is apparent in the insufficient development of standards and public policies concerning them and in the absence of an in-depth analysis. These forms of violence include obstetric violence, a practice that is common around the region and stems from an asymmetrical relationship between women and healthcare staff; the effects on the rights of women and adolescents of fully criminalizing abortion; and the impact of organized crime on women's rights.
The report Violencia y discriminación contra mujeres, niñas y adolescentes: buenas prácticas y desafíos en América Latina y en el Caribe addresses the persistent invisibility of girls' specific needs and ends with a series of recommendations to support States as they tackle these challenges. The report includes two annexes. The first annex contains a compilation of the IACHR's main standards and recommendations concerning violence and discrimination against women, girls, and adolescents. The second annex addresses the impact of cases of violence and discrimination against women, and the challenges that remain pending in such cases.
"Based on the findings presented in this report, the Commission specifically addresses forms of violence and discrimination that need to be adequately tackled by Latin American and Caribbean States to ensure the right of women, girls, and adolescents to a life that is free from violence. We hope this analysis will prove useful to address problems that are currently invisible or normalized and to permanently eradicate all forms of violence and discrimination," said Commissioner Margarette May Macaulay, the IACHR's Rapporteur on the Rights of Women.
Commissioner Esmeralda Arosemena de Troitiño, who is the Commission's President as well as its Rapporteur on the Rights of the Child, thanked the Canadian government for its support for the project that made it possible to draft this thematic report.
"It is essential for States to reflect on the particular vulnerability context faced by girls and adolescents in the Americas, not only as women, but also as individuals who are developing. We trust that this report will serve as a call to States, so they will continue to make progress to protect and ensure the rights of all women and girls," said President Arosemena de Troitiño.
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the other functions and instead kept them in the DWD.
compensation system go into effect on January 1, 2016.
judges will have a new supervisor, Brian Hayes, Administrator of the DHA.
and phone numbers. Mail, including hearing applications, is to go to the current DWD address.
specific cases or ALJ contacts.
not settle, then the hearing will immediately follow.
application. After filing of the application, the agreement goes to the OWCH.
Wisconsin Worker's Compensation Act. It was subsequently amended on Dec. 18,2015.
that an employee's violation of its alcohol or drug policy caused the injury.
plan, the employer is allowed to direct the treatment received by the employee.
Shortens the statute of limitations for traumatic injuries from 12 to two years.
disability occurring more than two years after the injury date.
the WC Act to favor its constituents.
are best served when worker's compensation legislation is supported by the WCAC.
activity" not to be considered services growing out of and incidental to employment.
more than one year after the injury date, if no compensation was paid by the employer.
law" violation to the list. The current version refers just to fraudulent insurance claims.
agents could be prosecuted. Another provision creates and funds a position in the Dept.
of Justice for prosecuting worker's compensation fraud by any party.
must also be a "causal connection" between the false representation and the injury.
needs more workers and whether the job candidate has the skills to fit the job description.
format for $26 per request.
reports will be required in all applicable cases, except where the entire claim was denied.
contract could be enforced in another forum. (See also the discussion of Wis. Stat. Sec.
retraining compensation before the employee actually commences a course of instruction.
the Worker's Compensation Advisory Council.
applies when the employer has a defined benefit health plan under Wis. Stat. Sec.
exempted from having to provide health insurance under the federal Affordable Care Act.
relative to large employers doing the same type of work.
pennanent. This one has been extended at least twice. It is currently not the law.
retroactively to injuries occurring prior to the effective date of the subsection.
save employers that much money because "unimpaired" was not defined.
reductions in rates apply only to payments after Jan. 1,2016.
vocational retraining claim? How would they be segregated from the other payments?
parties seek expert opinions to prove that a certain level of intoxication caused the injury.
released its "agreed bill" to amend the Wisconsin Worker's Compensation Act. On Jan.
Dept. of Justice for prosecuting worker's compensation fraud by any party.
for $26 per request. This same proposal is in AB SOl.
parties. AB 50 I shortens the limitation period for traumatic injuries to two years.
a minimum permanent disability is mandated by Wis. Adm. Code Sec. DWD 80.32?
litigation against the employer or insurer that is liable for the pre-existing disability?
related permanent disability. It will not be a simple task.
actually starts school, so there is some proof that the worker intends to be retrained.
unduly delay resolution. That should put to an end litigation over improper pleadings.
vocational retraining temporary total disability compensation. It is currently not the law.
AB 501, but that bill preserves the "sunset" provision and makes the date April 30,2018.
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substantial damage to his or her employer's property.
violence instigated by an employee at the workplace of his or her employer.
notice and one or more valid reasons for the absenteeism or tardiness.
the employer warns the employee about the infraction.
The provisions of Wis. Stat. Secs. 108.04(5)(a) conflict with existing provisions of Wis.
drug test after the employee's doctor allows light work. Thus, the defense is unavailable.
Under Wis. Stat. Sec. I08.04(5)(a), no such healing period or light work limitation exists.
Employers will be able to use this defense more often than under the current statute.
Wis. Stat. Secs. 108.04(5)(b) and 108.04(5)(c) conflict with existing sec. 102.43(9)(b).
rewrite the existing statute is going to cause litigation over which to apply.
work. In Great Northern COfp. v. LIRC, 189 Wis. 2d 313, 525 N.W.2d 361 (et. App.
cases will potentially apply. However, the causation requirement will limit the increase.
a certain level of intoxication caused the injury.


Applies mainly to convertible securities. Redeemable by the issuer before the scheduled maturity under specific conditions and at a stated price, which usually begins at a premium to par and declines annually. Bonds are usually called when interest rates fall so significantly that the issuer can save money by issuing new bonds at lower rates.
A provision in an indenture that allows a bond to be redeemed before maturity. Callability allows the bond to be called at the discretion of the issuer, within certain limits. When the bond is called, the bondholder receives the par value (or sometimes slightly more) and does not receive any more coupons. Callable bonds are issued to allow the issuers to hedge against interest rate risk. That is, if interest rates fall significantly, they can call the bond and issue a new bond at a lower interest rate, reducing their liabilities. However, to protect the bondholder, most callable bonds also include call protection, which prevents the bonds from being called for a certain period of time and thereby guarantees the current interest rate for that time.
A bond issue, all or part of which may be redeemed before maturity by the issuing corporation under specific conditions. The term also applies to preferred shares of stock, which may be redeemed by the issuing corporation.
Thanks to its merits of simple operation and low investment cost, callable bull/bear contracts have been developing rapidly since their debut in Hong Kong in 2006.
A callable bull/bear contract is a derivative that provides investors with a leveraged investment in underlying assets, which can be a single stock or an index.
The notes, which are callable in 2017, will have a fixed interest rate at first, and a floating-rate interest based on the three-month Libor at a later stage.
Interest rate hedging is often thought to be the reason for callable bond issues.
First, most of the empirical studies use data from the 1970s and 1980s, decades where most bond issues were callable.
Edwards, about the sale of callable CDs to elderly investors.
22, 2013, the effective date of the amendments and reoffering, the issuer will be authorized to issue CP notes callable during a period commencing on the 35th day prior to the maturity date.
The I&PA will continue to draw on the liquidity facility to make payments of the principal of the series H Notes at maturity, if there are insufficient funds from the City's principal loan repayments and the proceeds of rollover callable CP notes.
Most callable bonds research focuses on explaining the call's existence, developing theoretical models based on option pricing theory, explaining corporate decisions surrounding the call, or analyzing stock market reactions to bond-related announcements.
The taxable series B-2 notes may be issued at par or at a discount, although callable CP notes may only be issued at par.
In our sample, the numbers of callable bonds and noncallable bonds are about equal, greatly improving the reliability of the inferences.


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African Beauty: Hollywood classics get photographic remake
By Teo Kermeliotis, for CNN
updated 12:23 PM EDT, Mon July 29, 2013
Senegal-based photographers Omar Victor Diop and Antoine Tempe have revisited some of Hollywood's greatest films, such as "American Beauty," as part of their Onomolliwood series.
The artists chose movies they liked and which had influenced them, including "The Matrix," and gave them an African makeover.
"I wanted to imagine what these movies would look like if they were conceived and shot in Africa," explains Diop, who also included "Frida" in the Onomolliwood series.
"Breakfast At Onomo's," by Antoine Tempe, a French-born American photographer with years of working experience in West Africa.
"Thelma & Louise," also by Tempe.
Diop, 33, has also embarked on a project aimed at documenting "Africa's contemporary urban scene."
Dubbed "The Studio of Vanities," the project is a series of staged images of the young generation of Dakar's cultural entrepreneurs.
Apart from fine arts and staged portraits, Diop's body of work also includes fashion photography -- Image: "Blutiful shades of black."
"I am very interested in movement; movement of the human body but also of the fabrics, outfits and styles that are used to embellish the body," says Diop. "Image: I Feel Like A Bird Today."
Diop is a newcomer to Senegal's artistic scene, having quit his corporate job last year to fully dedicate himself to photography.
Key to his decision was the success of his "Fashion 2112, Le Futur Du Beau" series, which was exhibited at Bamako Encounters in 2011.
Looking ahead, Diop says he would like to get an artist residency program "to be inspired by a different environment." Series: "Wax Dolls, Poupées de Cire."
Omar Victor Diop's eclectic images
'Onomolliwood' series
Senegalese photographer revisits cinema classics to give an Africa twist
The Matrix, Frida, among the movies he re-imagined
Omar Victor Diop's work focuses on art and fashion
His other work includes portraits of Africa's contemporary creative minds
(CNN) -- It is one of the iconic modern cinema scenes: Mena Suvari, as Angela in Oscar-winning "American Beauty," stretches her arms wide as she basks in a sea of floating rose petals during one of Lester's (Kevin Spacey) frequent fantasies.
But when Senegalese photographer Omar Victor Diop set out to recreate the provocative sequence for his latest project, finding a bed of red roses proved difficult. Undeterred, Diop found the solution by using a plant wall inside the hotel where the shoot was taking place.
"The creative process of this series itself is very similar to the way African contemporary creation often takes place," says Diop. "We often have to tweak concepts and styles from around the world and adapt them to our context, while preserving their original feel."
That series is "Onomolliwood," a dazzling collection of images in which Diop and Antoine Tempe, a Senegal-based French-American photographer, revisited several Hollywood classics to give an African take on some of cinema's most iconic moments.
The two artists merged their passion for aesthetics and performance art to offer a collection of striking images infused with flowing swirls of color, vivacious textures and dynamic characters.
"I wanted to imagine what these movies would look like if they were conceived and shot in Africa," explains Diop.
Read this: Artists' road trip across Africa
Senegalese photographer Omar Victor Diop.
PHOTO: ANTOINE TEMPE
Completely self-taught, the 33-year-old is a newcomer to Senegal's creative scene. He started experimenting with cameras on the streets of Dakar in 2010, at a time when he was still working in corporate communications for a multinational.
But much to his surprise, Diop's first conceptual project, the futuristic "Fashion 2112," was selected the following year to be showcased at Bamako Encounters, Africa's premier photo exhibition.
After that, Diop decided to fully pursue his passion for photography. He quit his job last year and quickly started building an eclectic body of work that spreads from conceptual art to fashion photography and portraits.
CNN's African Voices spoke to Diop about revisiting cinema classics and the transition from the corporate world to art.
Photography as an agent of change
How photographers documented apartheid
CNN: "The Matrix," "American Beauty" and "Frida" are just some of the famous films featured in the Onomolliwood series. What was the inspiration behind the project?
Omar Victor Diop: I worked on this project with French-born American photographer Antoine Tempe after an invitation by the Onomo Hotel Group. We thought that actually using cinema as a general theme would be a way for our respective creative universes to meet because cinema involves fashion and aesthetics, but it also involves an important performance dimension.
We started working with the movies we liked, the movies that had influenced us. I remember watching in the 1980s the same movies as the young people of Paris and New York and maybe Bangkok. At the end of the day we're all the same young people regardless of where you were born and where you were raised and somehow I wanted to show this also through the choice of movies in the series.
CNN: Is part of your artistic goal to show the modern side of Dakar and Senegal?
OVD: Yes, and it's not even about the new Africa, it's just that because of globalization and the internet the modernity of Africa has sort of accelerated. But even back in the 1980s, when I was just a kid, I can tell you that Dakar was very modernized and international.
Another advantage we had was that we were open to not only the Western world but the entire world -- we had African cultural content, Asian content, Chinese or Indian movies. It's just a shame that all of this, especially the urban life of the 1980s, is not documented.
Read this: Photos show Congo in new light
It's terrific when you realize that you can actually write your own history as you live your passion.
Omar Victor Diop, photographer
So when I think about creating a new series I always make sure that not only the current Africa but also the one I grew up is somehow portrayed. I believe it's the responsibility of a photographer to not only conceptualize but also come up with some work that can be used as a reference in the future as a history document.
CNN: How is it working as an artist in Dakar today?
OVD: It's very exciting being part of the creative scene in Dakar right now. I think the period we are living in is a breakthrough, in the sense that there is a sustained and growing interest for "another Africa." Also, African artists are now aware that they can communicate to the world, and speak about and for themselves. It's terrific when you realize that you can actually write your own history as you live your passion.
CNN: What kind of themes fascinate you?
OVD: I am very interested in movement; movement of the human body but also of the fabrics, outfits and styles that are used to embellish the body. Even in my fashion photography I always make sure that there is a movement that is captured, and that tells a story.
I'm also interested in the aesthetics of the 1970s and the 1980s, especially in Africa, and I always try to recreate that with the use of colors and styling references.
It's very exciting being part of the creative scene in Dakar right now.
And I'm also interested in personalities; that's why I've started a series of portraits called "The Studio of Vanities." The reason behind it was that I wanted to somehow pay homage and also document the youngest generation of Dakar's cultural entrepreneurs -- I'm convinced that many of these people are going to be very successful and are going to bring a lot of great things to the cultural sector in the next few years.
CNN: How was the transition from the corporate world to becoming artist?
OVD: I quit my job a year ago; it was a quite bold decision that scared many people around me because being an artist was not considered as a valid option. I come from a family where my mum is a lawyer and my dad is a chartered accountant -- both of them having very senior jobs throughout their careers -- and I attended top schools that were very advanced and quite expensive. With the money my family invested in me, of course you can imagine my mum being quite devastated, but I now have their full support.
Photographer's love letter to Nigeria
updated 8:53 AM EDT, Mon October 13, 2014
Through a variety of exhibitions including one signed off by the artist himself, Nigeria is presenting J.D. Okhai Ojeikere to the world one last time.
What's cooking in Tanzania?
updated 7:39 AM EST, Mon December 22, 2014
With the help of an army of Tanzania's finest senior citizens, one woman is on a mission to put traditional foods back on the menu.
How not to respond to Ebola
updated 8:12 AM EDT, Fri October 24, 2014
U.S. response to Ebola is key for setting global example, writes global health advocate Idris Ayodeji Bello.
Going green with organic cosmetics
updated 8:39 AM EST, Tue December 9, 2014
Using his deep-rooted knowlege of herbs, savvy entrepreneur Alhaji Mustapha Oti Boateng had an idea to help his fellow Ghanaians.
Parasite keeping millions in poverty
updated 8:22 AM EDT, Tue October 21, 2014
One of the most debilitating medical conditions in sub-Saharan Africa isn't fatal. In fact, it's easily curable.
Nigeria's star architect on success
updated 10:00 AM EST, Mon December 8, 2014
Nigerian architect Olajumoke Adenowo reveals her tips for success, mentorship and what she'd like to do next.
Who's entitled to speak for Africa?
updated 6:19 AM EST, Fri December 5, 2014
Pius Adesanmi: Activist diaspora insists on her story of Africa -- and social media has enhanced its voice.
Facing forward with Africa's stories
The smuggler turned safari king
updated 5:48 AM EST, Mon December 1, 2014
Amos Wekesa has seen a lot of changes in his country. Today, the self-made millionaire oversees Great Lakes Safaris, one of the largest tour operators in Uganda.
South Africa's 'titanium woman'
updated 5:36 AM EDT, Tue September 23, 2014
In the largely male-dominated world of the motorsport, South African superbike racer Janine Davies is an anomaly.
Disrupting the global art scene
updated 1:48 PM EST, Tue November 25, 2014
For anyone that needs convincing that African art is the next big thing, they need look no further than 1:54, the London-based contemporary African art fair.
Malawi's one-man artistic force du jour
He's one of Malawi's best abstract artists and now the 40-year-old dreamer is revealing his journey in to the world of art.
See more African Voices
Each week African Voices brings you inspiring and compelling profiles of Africans across the continent and around the world.


Port Townsend your way: A weekend of culture, history or outdoors fun. You really don't need to make any effort at all to connect with history in Port Townsend. Just stroll pretty much any street and gawk at the 19th-century architecture.
The Smithsonian.com ranks Port Townsend as number six of the 20 best small towns to visit in 2015.
From the Seattle Times - Saturday, April 6, 2014:In "Frontier Boosters," historian Elaine Nailor chronicles the struggles of the leaders of 19th-century Port Townsend to compete with Seattle as the commercial center of Puget Sound.
From the Seattle Times - Saturday, February 8, 2014: Port Townsend has something fun for everyone, from the thriving Northwest Maritime Center and a local history museum to a lively music, art, literary and theater scene.
A retirement-oriented website has named Port Townsend as one of the five best small towns for post-career baby boomers who want a comfortable, interesting place to spend their golden years.
Seattle Metropolitian Magazine, April 2006: Ross Anderson, a Cape George resident wrote, "Okay, I'll say it: life's good out here with the old folks. It's taken a couple of years to admit it, but there it is.
Last year my wife and I, both of sound mind and body and still a few years shy of 60, willfully sold our home in a very nice Seattle neighborhood and moved to a senior enclave a few miles outside Port Townsend."
Fort Worden State Park: There's detailed information on the park, including the vacation housing, on the Washington State Parks web site. The Web site includes a useful housing availability calendar. Or phone the park housing office at 360-344-4434.
Port Townsend infomation from "Where to Retire"
This section of the "Where to Retire" article provides significant information about Port Townsend's demographics. It is a bit dated as the article was published in 2000.


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Our Creative and Marketing teams took a hard look at the state of the Smartpress brand. We still had a large list of loyal customers, but our website had become significantly outdated. The Smartpress logo and aesthetic were overwhelmingly generic, and our teams had never aligned strategically on who our target customers were, or should be. Needless to say, we had a lot of work to do.
We set out on what would be nearly a year-long journey to redefine our brand direction, visual identity, and website. It would now be an understatement to say that there has been a change at Smartpress.
Our Brand Mission: Create Brilliant Print.
In short, our new brand promise is to Create Brilliant Print. All of our design and messaging will now be in this spirit, and it will be focused on instilling the trust and confidence in our customers that we will deliver on this promise.
Next came the task of putting everything about this new brand of ours into a singular visual representation – a new Smartpress logo. Throughout the concept phase, a few themes developed. We wanted the logo to portray the relationship between Smartpress and our customers. This idea started to come to life in visual form by having two independent design elements (one for us, and one for our customer) create one cohesive shape.
We also started to think about how our customer relationships really work. Our customers create a beautiful design, then they put all of their hard work in our hands. They trust us to make the final product live up to their original vision. That moment of interaction, that trusting hand-off from design to production, is where creating brilliant print is actually made possible.
We began to use visual metaphors, like a spark, to illustrate that moment. In the final logomark, this concept is shown by the "S" that is created in the center where the two lines meet. The bottom-left and top-right halves coming together is also reminiscent of a handshake.
Another goal of the logo design was to make something very complex (like our printing process) seem more approachable. The linework in the mark is intricate, yet simple. The typography in the logo was designed to have a uniform, monospaced feeling, commonly found in fonts used for computer programming. This added a precision to the logo.
However, this techy-touch was simultaneously contrasted by subtly rounding the strokes and terminals of the characters. During our research, we discovered that 60% of our customer base was female, so these softer design touches helped make the styling of the mark appear more friendly and slightly less masculine.
It's been an adventure and a lot of hard work, but it was well worth the effort. We're excited that we now have a brand identity that communicates the passion behind what we do every day here at Smartpress. We're also more confident than ever that we are more accurately representing our true identity to our customers.


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// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
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/**
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 * ripple. It can be interacted with like a normal button using click as well as
 * space and enter to effectively click the button and fire a 'click' event.
 *
 * There are two sources to icons, cr-icons and iron-iconset-svg. The cr-icon's
 * are defined as background images with a reference to a resource file
 * associated with a CSS class name. The iron-icon's are defined as inline SVG's
 * under a key that is stored in a global map that is accessible to the
 * iron-icon element.
 *
 * Example of using a cr-icon:
 * <link rel="import" href="chrome://resources/cr_elements/cr_icons_css.html">
 * <dom-module id="module">
 *   <template>
 *     <style includes="cr-icons"></style>
 *     <cr-icon-button class="icon-class-name"></cr-icon-button>
 *   </template>
 * </dom-module>
 *
 * In general when an icon is specified using a class, the expectation is the
 * class will set an image to the --cr-icon-image variable.
 *
 * Example of using an iron-icon:
 * <link rel="import" href="chrome://resources/cr_elements/icons.html">
 * <cr-icon-button iron-icon="cr:icon-key"></cr-icon-button>
 *
 * The color of the icon can be overridden using CSS variables. When using
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 * --cr-icon-button-stroke-color
 *
 * When not using iron-icon (ie. specifying --cr-icon-image), the icons support
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  properties: {
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forced friendship —
Apartment complex demands tenants give Facebook "like" within 5 days
Tenants are disliking the "Facebook addendum" posted on their doors last week.
Joe Mullin - May 31, 2016 2:44 pm UTC
with 94 posters participating, including story author
Remember the Florida apartment complex that got a lot of attention for giving tenants a contract banning harsh online reviews? A Utah apartment complex is going one better: instead of squelching negative reviews, owners of the complex are trying to coerce tenants into giving positive feedback.
One apartment complex's rule: You write a bad review, we fine you $10k
Last week, tenants at City Park Apartments, located in Salt Lake City, received a "Facebook Addendum" posted on their doors, outlining what's expected of them. Most jarring was a requirement that they "friend" the complex within five days.
The predictable results are already rolling in. Rather than a flood of "likes," the City Park Apartments contract became a story on KSL, a local TV station. By Sunday, The Associated Press picked up the story and made it national. The complex hasn't gotten the positive feedback it hoped for; instead, it has racked up more than 800 one-star reviews on an unofficial Facebook page.
"I don't want to be forced to be someone's friend and be threatened to break my lease because of that," tenant Jason Ring told KSL-TV. "It's outrageous as far as I'm concerned."
For good measure, the Addendum bans negative reviews as well.
In general, contracts that require customers to give up their rights to review services haven't held up in court. The contracts themselves can get companies into legal trouble. In 2003, a New York judge found that a contract barring customers from publishing reviews of software programs "without prior consent" violated that state's unfair competition law.
The document also includes a release allowing the complex to post pictures of tenants and their visitors on Facebook.
Representatives for City Park Apartments didn't respond to inquiries from KSL-TV or the AP.
Joe Mullin Joe has covered the intersection of law and technology, including the world's biggest copyright and patent battles, since 2007.
Email joe.mullin@arstechnica.com // Twitter @joemullin


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Series: 10 Years of Impact
Behind the Headline: Tim Newman
Tim Newman was an advocate for his fellow civilian contractors injured in Iraq and Afghanistan, helping them get medical care. A ProPublica story drew national attention, and policy change, for their hidden plight.
by Cynthia Gordy Giwa
Dylan Wilson for ProPublica
Sparking Real-World Change
Impact has been at the core of ProPublica's mission since we launched 10 years ago, and it remains the principal yardstick for our success today. For our 10th anniversary, we're presenting stories of people whose lives have been affected by our work.
Tim Newman was a government contractor, training Iraqi police forces in Baghdad, when he lost his right leg in an explosion in 2005. The insurance provided to contractors through a private company covered a prosthetic, and he transitioned to working as an advocate to help other injured contractors get counseling and medical treatment. When he requested a more advanced prosthetic leg a few years later, his request was denied, and he found himself embroiled in a long-running battle. He sued the Department of Labor, his case taking a year to go through the federal court system, in order to get it.
Newman shared his story with ProPublica reporter T. Christian Miller, whose 2009 series "Disposable Army" revealed that contractors returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, suffering the same physical and mental scars as troops, often have to fight with insurers to get the care they need.
"My story was actually a 'good' story because my leg was taken care of," said Newman. "But ProPublica was able to pull all the stories together so it didn't sound like a small group of disgruntled cops wanting their piece of pie. This was a massive group of heroic Americans that went overseas to help fight a war, and they wanted what they deserved and what they were promised. The story was a driving force simply because we knew that we had a sympathetic ear that cared about us."
Read the Original Investigation
Disposable Army
Civilian Contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan
The story drew attention to the issue, and at a congressional hearing two months later, lawmakers, including Rep. Elijah Cummings, Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Dennis Kucinich, sharply criticized the federal program that relies on private insurance companies to provide medical care and benefits to civilian contractors. Injured workers, including Newman, testified about having to fight insurers for months and sometimes years to receive basic medical care.
By the end of that year, the Department of Labor launched a series of changes to improve the system. "People's claims became more streamlined," said Newman of the changes he saw in his community of injured contractors after new steps were implemented. "There were still some contentions on certain procedures, but it was easier to prevail when a claim was disputed. It did make the system better."
Welcome to Our Second Decade
Much has changed since ProPublica published its first story, but we remain committed to the power of fact-based journalism to spur change and right wrongs.
Cynthia Gordy Giwa
Cynthia Gordy Giwa is ProPublica's marketing director.


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DirecTV-15 ist ein Fernsehsatellit des US-amerikanischen Satellitenbetreibers und Programmanbieters DirecTV.

Er wurde im Herbst 2011 bestellt und am 27. Mai 2015 um 21:16 UTC mit einer Ariane-5-Trägerrakete vom Raketenstartplatz Centre Spatial Guyanais zusammen mit Sky Mexico 1 in eine geostationäre Umlaufbahn gebracht.

Technische Daten
Der dreiachsenstabilisierte Satellit ist mit 25 Ka-Band-, 32 Ku-Band- und 18 Reverseband-Transpondern ausgerüstet und soll von der Position 102,75° West aus die USA mit Alaska und Hawaii sowie Puerto-Rico mit Fernsehen (unter anderem Ultra-HD-4K) versorgen. Als Reverseband wird eine Nutzungsvariante des elektromagnetischen Spektrums bezeichnet, bei der der Bandbereich für den Uplink verwendet wird, der woanders dem Downlink dient, und der für den Downlink, der woanders für den Uplink zum Einsatz kommt. Für die Lageregelung sowie das Halten oder Verändern der Position besitzt er mehrere mit MMH und MON-3 betriebene Zweistofftriebwerke mit 10 Newton Schub sowie mit Xenon als Stützmasse betriebene elektrische Triebwerke des Typs SPT-100 (СПД-100) des russischen Konstruktionsbüros Fakel aus Kaliningrad. Diese haben Schub von jeweils 83 Millinewton. DirecTV-15 wurde auf Basis des Satellitenbus Eurostar E3000 von Airbus Defence and Space gebaut und besitzt eine geplante Lebensdauer von 15 Jahren.

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Q: state in my react app get set to undefined Below is my code for a personal project where i can keep track of my monthly subscriptions, if i have to add a subscription i just have a add an object to an existing array. however for testing purposes when i tried to console.log(value.startDate) in handleSubmit it gives me undefined and causes further problems. How would i fix it?
import React from 'react';
import PropTypes from 'prop-types';
const List = () => {
    const [ mylist, setList ] = React.useState([]);
    const [ value, setValue ] = React.useState({ subscription: '', startDate: '', paymentTime: 0 });
    const handleSubmit = (e) => {
        console.log(value.startDate);
        setList(mylist.push(value));
        e.preventDefault();
    };
    const handleOnChange = (event) => {
        setValue({ [event.target.name]: event.target.value });
    };
    return (

{mylist.map((obj) =>
{obj.subscription}
)}

                <form>
                    <input type="text" name="subscription" onChange={handleOnChange} value={value.subscription} />
                    <input type="text" name="startDate" onChange={handleOnChange} value={value.startDate} />
                    <input type="number" name="paymentTime" onChange={handleOnChange} value={value.paymentTime} />
                </form>

            <button onClick={handleSubmit}>Add Item</button>

    );
};
// it just removes the error above.
List.propTypes = {
    list: PropTypes.node
};
export default List;

A: You are replacing your state every time. This might be because of the miss in understanding the difference between setState in traditional class based React components and useState.
You need to append the value to the existing data. Something similar would work
const handleOnChange = (event) => {
    setValue({ ...value, [event.target.name]: event.target.value });
};

The setState in class based components always accepts partial state and merges with the existing one. While useState setter function replaces the value you provide in the respective state.

A: On handleChange function you need to pass the old value of value
 const handleOnChange = (event) => {
    setValue({ ...value , [event.target.name]: event.target.value });
 };


Summer Camp.. The place to Challenge Yourself!
Be Prepared! Be a Scout..... for Life.
We meet Wednesday evening from 6:30 to 8:00pm at the Marshall United Methodist Church located at 721 Old US 27 North, Marshall, MI 49068. You will find the Scout room on the west side of the building. Drive around to the back side of the building and use the rear entrance and the Scout room is inside and to the right.
Troop 373 continues to develop good citizens through application of teaching and living the Scout Oath and Laws. Giving youth the moral, ethical, and correct tools to make sound life decisions is the primary goal of Scouting. Giving back to the Community is the hallmark of the Scouting. Lifelong friendships develop as youth progress through the ranks toward Eagle.
Troop 373 is proud to have promoted 42 Eagle Scouts to date.


We start with a solid piece of billet aluminum and meticulously machine every aspect for a part that is as nice to look at as it is to use. This version clamps to pistol buffer tubes or adapter spuds ranging from 1.17″ to 1.2″ in diameter. It features a limited rotation sling swivel QD socket as well. Weighing in at a scant 4.5 ounces, you will never feel it there. That is, until you want to use it. It is finished with a hard anodizing to withstand years of serious use.
We sell out of these very quickly and are making them as fast as we can. Each production run comes faster than the one before as we continue to expand and improve. If this is out of stock, sign up for the in stock notification below and we will let you know when they are available again.


Krugman received a B.A. from Yale University, 1974, and Ph.D. from MIT, 1977. He has taught at Yale, MIT and Stanford University. At MIT he became the Ford International Professor of Economics."  He is currently a Professor of Economics, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University.
Krugman is a member of The Group of Thirty Consultative Group on International Economic and Monetary Affairs Inc. (often called Group of Thirty or G30), "a collection of 30 of the most senior representatives from the public and private sectors of the financial world and universities". He is a former member of the Council of Economic Advisors.
Paul Krugman, The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century (2003 book) (ISBN 0393058506), W. W. Norton & Company; 1st edition (September, 2003).
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Interview: "Paul Krugman, New York Times Columnist and Author of 'The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century'," BuzzFlash, September 11, 2003.
Kevin Drum, "An Interview With Paul Krugman", Calpundit, September 16, 2003.
"Krugman on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, March 11, 2005. See Krugman in "A Dan for All Seasons" Video Clip (air date March 10, 2005) posted by Crooks & Liars; also see clip at Comedy Central website.
Paul Krugman, "Demons and Demonization," the New York Times, March 17, 2005.
The Unofficial Paul Krugman Archive.
Paul Krugman, Columns, New York Times; also here.
Paul Krugman "Slanting Social Security," New York Times, March 11, 2005.
The Official Paul Krugman Web Page.
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This custom-designed Greek Revival home sits on Main Street across from Cannonball Park, only a short walk or ride to the downtown action. Great consideration was taken to provide privacy and ample room for a large family or visiting guests. The main foyer runs the length of the house and allows for good flow from room to room. The quaint den has a gas fireplace and can be converted into a spare bedroom, a spacious formal living room has ample seating for reading or entertaining, an adjacent dining room has seating for 10, and a set of French doors that open to the spacious pool and patio area. Of course the home is equipped with the finest kitchen, featuring soapstone countertops, stainless steel appliances and a large center island. Four expansive en-suite bedrooms are on the 2nd floor including a luxurious master wing with vaulted ceilings, gas fireplace, TV, walk-in closet and a sunny bath with double vanity sinks, a jetted tub and custom glass shower. A separate staircase leads you back down to the mudroom where you can head out to the pool, lawn or outdoor shower. In the event of rain or time for the kids to watch their favorite movie, head to the finished media room with lounge seating, a pool table and wet bar. No details were overlooked in this impressive vacation rental property. If you are interested in even more room, inquire about the lovely rental property next door.


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I upgraded my WordPress to the new version 2.3. One of the big new features is tagging built into WP. Right now there is a field under where I'm typing to let you enter tags.
So I started just putting words in there that were key words from the post. Then I went to add the tag tags to my template so I could show them under the post. Problem was I had taken the approach that categories were tags. You don't see the word "category" anywhere on my site. On my archives page there is a tag cloud of the WP categories.
So tags were often redundant. And there are thousands of posts with no tags. WP2.3 doesn't seem to have a tag that says "does this post have tags?". So an empty tag label was on most posts on the site.
The other problem with tags is for them to be useful they need to be normalized. That means only one tag should be used for every post that has that tag. You can't have "RPG, D&D and rpg" used to describe posts on role playing games. Those are all different tags and if you looked for RPG tagged items, you miss the ones with the rpg tag.
Well using categories as tags fixes this because all tags have to be previously defined. So they are consistently applied.
So I'm back to the way it was before. And I like it and think it works.


Welcome to the ninth monthly email of PERTinent Updates featuring a select group of articles for your review. We aim to inform and update our members with the most recent major developments in the fields of PERT/VTE so that we in the PERT Consortium can continue to be at the leading edge of improving care for this vulnerable and overlooked group of patients.
This months "From Our Own" section features work by Victor Tapson in Thorax; Jay Giri, Michael Jaff, Kenneth Rosenfield, Mauricio Villavicencio-Theoduloz, Thoralf Sundt and Ido Weinberg in the Vascular Medicine; and Rachel Rosovsky & Geno Merli in Techniques in Vascular and Interventional Radiology.
1 Preemptive Anticoagulation of Patients with a High Pretest Probability of Pulmonary Embolism: Are Guidelines Followed?
2 Increased benefit of betrixaban among patients with a history of venous thromboembolism: a post-hoc analysis of the APEX trial.
3 Accuracy and reproducibility of CT right-to-left ventricular diameter measurement in patients with acute pulmonary embolism.
4 Syncope on presentation is a surrogate for submassive and massive acute pulmonary embolism.
5 Validity of Using Inpatient and Outpatient Administrative Codes to Identify Acute Venous Thromboembolism: The CVRN VTE Study.
Fang MC(1), Fan D, Sung SH, Witt DM, Schmelzer JR, Steinhubl SR, Yale SH, Go AS. Med Care. 2017 Dec;55(12):e137-e143.
Efficacy and safety outcomes of recanalisation procedures in patients with acute symptomatic pulmonary embolism: systematic review and network meta-analysis.
Extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation and outcomes in massive pulmonary embolism: Two eras at an urban tertiary care hospital.
Anticoagulation in Pulmonary Embolism: Update in the Age of Direct Oral Anticoagulants.


Researchers have hit on a simple solution that could radically broaden the range of metal alloys that can be produced by additive manufacturing [Martin et al., Nature (2017), doi: 10.1038/nature23894].
Additive manufacturing or 3D printing promises to eliminate the constraints imposed by economies-of-scale manufacturing. The technique is a printing-like process in which an object is built up layer-by-layer as a precursor powder or solution is rastered across a surface. Components of great complexity can be made to order, individual components can be customized, and time-to-market of new products can be reduced.
But only a few of many thousand metal alloys can be printed in this way. One issue is that the metal powder has to be melted by an electron or laser beam as it is deposited, in a process akin to welding, to fuse each layer together. Because solidification rates are much higher than in conventional casting processes, 3D printing can result in severe cracking, particularly in aluminum alloys.
To overcome these difficulties, researchers from HRL Laboratories and the University of California, Santa Barbara have devised nanoparticle nucleants that can be introduced into the process to control solidification during additive manufacturing.
Finding the right nanoparticle nucleant for a specific alloy was made possible by a software tool that matches a range of crystallographic properties, such as lattice spacing and density. From over 4500 powder and nanoparticle combinations, the team selected hydrogen-stabilized zirconium nanoparticles to stabilize the production of two aluminum alloys.
Aluminum alloy powders were coated with the hydrogen-stabilized zirconium nanoparticles and additively manufactured into 80 × 80 mm components. 3D printed components without the nucleant additive show large grains and high levels of cracking. By contrast, alloys with the nanoparticles show small, equal-sized grains and no cracks.
"We've used a 70-year-old nucleation theory to solve a 100- year-old problem with a 21st century machine," commented John Hunter Martin, who co-led the research effort with Brennan D. Yahata, in a statement.
The affect on the properties of 3D printed aluminum alloys is dramatic. Without the additive, the alloys have almost no strength at all because of the high level of cracks. With the zirconium particles, the alloy shows an 80% increase in strength taking it into the realm of conventionally produced components.
Increasing the zinc component in the feedstock powder and optimizing heat treatment could improve what differences remain. Processing parameters could likewise be adjusted to reduce laser damage and trapped gas, which would improve the ductility and elastic modulus of the alloy.
The researchers believe that the approach could be applied to other crack-susceptible or non-weldable alloys such as nickel alloys, superalloys, and intermetallics that are currently not amenable to 3D printing. The advance could also enable the development of a wide range of new alloy systems specifically for 3D printing and bring its revolutionary ideas of individualized production to aerospace, automotive, and biomedical industries.
This article was originally published in Nano Today (2017), doi: 10.1016/j.nantod.2017.10.006.
3D printing company 3D Metalforge has opened the 3D Metal Additive Manufacturing Centre (AMC) in Singapore.


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Eduardo Mondlane Chivambo, né le  à Manjacaze, province de Gaza, dans l'ancienne colonie portugaise du Mozambique (Afrique orientale), et mort assassiné le 3 février 1969 à Dar es-Salaam, est un homme politique mozambicain, considéré comme le père du Mozambique indépendant et premier président du Front de libération du Mozambique (FRELIMO).

Biographie
Mondlane est le quatrième de seize enfants d'un chef tribal d'une tribu de langue bantoue, les Tsongas. Il grandit dans une zone rurale très en retrait du Mozambique. Il commence sa primaire à l'école de la Mission Suisse et la termine à Lourenço Marques (Maputo) et obtient son diplôme d'évangéliste à Rikatla. Il rejoint ensuite la mission méthodiste rurale de Cambine jusqu'en 1942. En 1948, il part étudier les sciences sociales à l'université du Witwatersrand à Johannesbourg.

En 1949, alors que Daniel François Malan vient d'être nommé premier ministre, l'apartheid force Eduardo Mondlane à quitter le pays. Ses professeurs et camarades de classe organisent une manifestation de protestation qui connait un retentissement médiatique en Afrique du Sud et dans les pays lusophones, attirant l'attention de la PIDE. Il est arrêté, interrogé, puis pris sous l'aile par les autorités portugaises qui l'envoient étudier aux États-Unis. Il y obtient une maîtrise d'art à Oberlin en 1953, et poursuit un doctorat de sociologie à l'université de Northwestern.

En 1957, il rejoint l'Organisation des Nations unies à la section des territoires sous mandat, poste qu'il quitte en 1961 lorsque Julius Nyerere l'invite à rejoindre la Tanzanie où l'indépendance se met en place. En Tanzanie, il rencontre les populations mozambicaines réfugiées là, et décide de coordonner les groupements politiques d'opposition. Le , il co-fonde le Front de libération du Mozambique (FRELIMO) et en prend la présidence, poste auquel il est réélu en 1968 après que les forces armées du FRELIMO aient libéré le nord du Mozambique.

Il souhaite l'indépendance du Mozambique et l'instauration d'un système socialiste.

Le , un colis piégé envoyé à Eduardo Mondlane explose et le tue sur le coup. Certains accusent des opposants à Mondlane au sein du FRELIMO, d'autres accusent la PIDE.

Ouvrages

Prix et récompenses
 Ordre des Compagnons d'Oliver Tambo, remis par la République d'Afrique du Sud

Vie privée
En 1956, il épouse Janet Rae Johnson, jeune Américaine d'origine suédoise.

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Personnalité politique mozambicaine
Naissance en juin 1920
Naissance au Mozambique
Décès en février 1969
Décès à Dar es Salaam
Décès à 48 ans
Mort assassiné en Tanzanie


How Would the Fiscal Cliff Affect Typical Families in Each State?
Download Fiscal Fact No. 341: How Would the Fiscal Cliff Affect Typical Families in Each State?
With the election behind it, the 112th Congress has a couple of months during the lame duck session to turn its attention to pressing fiscal issues. Large changes to both taxes and spending are scheduled to take place at the end of the year unless Congress acts. On the tax side, the biggest potential change is the expiration of all Bush-era and Obama tax cuts.
Additionally, the Alternative Minimum Tax (AMT) has yet to be patched for the current tax year, let alone next. Congress could pass a retroactive patch (which it has done in the past) that would apply to the current year as well as next year; however, if it does not, the AMT exemption level would revert to what it was twelve years ago, and certain credits (such as the Child Tax Credit) would no longer be allowed against AMT liability. If this were to happen, millions of middle-class taxpayers could see a substantial tax increase, which for some could be even larger than the change from the end of the Bush-era tax cuts.
Finally, the 2% temporary cut to employee-side social security payroll taxes is also scheduled to expire at the end of this year—a potential third tax increase that would affect the vast majority of taxpayers.
To illustrate the potential impact on typical families, we have used Census and IRS data to estimate income and deductions for the median two-child family in each of the fifty states. We then ran these returns through our online tax calculator under two scenarios—2011 tax law (chosen because it is the latest year that an AMT patch was in effect), and 2013 law, assuming all Bush-era and Obama tax cuts expire and AMT remains unpatched.
While there are exceptions, the general pattern is median families in high-income and low-income states are more affected than those in middle-income states. Higher-income families would be disproportionately affected by the imminent AMT changes—particularly those that owe higher than average state income tax, which is deductible under the ordinary tax system but not the AMT.
At the opposite end, low-income states are disproportionately affected because three tax increases from the end of the Bush-era tax cuts—the reduction in the child tax credit, the elimination of the 10% bracket, and the reduced standard deduction for married filers—represent fixed increases that do not depend on income. Therefore, these increases, as a percentage of income, are largest for lower-income families.
The full data is shown below.
 See Tax Foundation Staff, The Fiscal Cliff: A Primer, Tax Foundation Special Report No. 204 (Nov. 8, 2012), https://taxfoundation.org/article/fiscal-cliff-primer.
 The IRS has state-by-state averages for many tax items, including itemized deductions. We calculated the average itemized deduction as a percent of income for each state for the income bracket that the median family is in using 2010 state and income bracket data (the latest available), adjusted for family size using 2009 data (the latest data for which family size breakdowns are available), and applied the modified percentages to the 2011 median incomes shown in the table.
 Includes amounts from AMT changes that would prevent taking the credit against it. The amount purely from the Bush-era tax changes to the child tax credit is $1,000 for every state.


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Photo Essay: Bud Selig honored as Witness to History
Posted by Lee Matz | May 15, 2017 | Photos |
"It's interesting as I review history, I remember we were down to our last hope. And then it just happened. No one could have imagined we would bring the Seattle team to Milwaukee. They could not have imagined all this. It's not possible." – Allan H. "Bud" Selig
Selig's dedication to baseball has paralleled his love of his hometown of Milwaukee. His first significant move as an executive was to return Major League Baseball to Milwaukee in 1970, when he founded the Milwaukee Brewers. In its first decade, the Brewers featured some of the great teams of that era, which eventually led to an American League pennant and a 1982 World Series appearance. Since 1953, the Milwaukee County Historical Society (MCHS) has honored individuals, community groups, and companies that have worked diligently to preserve and promote local history. The nonprofit held its 64th Annual Awards Dinner on May 9, and Selig was bestowed the Witness to History award to acknowledge his longstanding commitment to Milwaukee. As part of the fundraising program, the anniversary accolades recognize the 50th, 75th, 100th, 125th, 150th, and 175th anniversaries of local businesses, organizations, educational institutions.
The annual recognition awards comprise five categories:
Witness to History: honors those who have played a significant role in shaping and documenting our community's history.
The Courtland R. Conlee Community Service Award: Named in 1981 for the Milwaukee Journal vice president devoted to the Milwaukee County Historical Society, this award recognizes individuals who make major contributions to preserving Milwaukee history over a career or lifetime.
Frederick I. Olson Historic Preservation Award: Named in honor of legendary MCHS Board member Fred Olson, this award recognizes the efforts of individuals and organizations to preserve and protect historic architecture in Milwaukee County.
Gambrinus Prize: Named for the mythical god of brewing, and awarded to the best book-length contribution to Milwaukee historiography.
Dan Emmer Recognition Award: Named for a long time MCHS volunteer and Board member, this award recognizes the efforts of volunteers or organizations that make significant contributions to the operation of the Milwaukee County Historical Society.
These images feature many of the honored guests at the 64th Annual Awards Dinner, including the Witness to History presentation to Allan H. "Bud" Selig.
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Molecular cloning of the gene encoding the 83 kDa amastigote surface protein and its identification as a member of the Trypanosoma cruzi sialidase superfamily
Hoi Pang Low, University of Massachusetts Medical SchoolFollow
Rick L. Tarleton
Amino Acid Sequence; Animals; Base Sequence; Cloning, Molecular; Conserved Sequence; DNA Primers; DNA, Protozoan; Escherichia coli; Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental; *Genes, Protozoan; Molecular Sequence Data; Molecular Weight; Neuraminidase; Polymerase Chain Reaction; Protozoan Proteins; Recombinant Proteins; Trypanosoma cruzi
Genetics and Genomics | Molecular Genetics
Amastigote surface proteins of Trypanosoma cruzi are likely targets of both humoral and cell-mediated immune responses, however, few such molecules have been well studied. In this study, we have used modified RACE (rapid amplification of cDNA ends) and SOE (gene splicing by overlap extension) polymerase chain reaction strategies to clone the gene for the previously described 83 kDa amastigote surface protein of T. cruzi. Of the several clones obtained, only one clone, clone 4, was found to encode the 20 amino acid sequence originally reported by Pan and McMahon-Pratt (J Immunol 1989;143:1001-1008). The identity of the cloned gene with the 83 kDa amastigote surface protein was further confirmed by the reactivity of polyclonal antisera against the purified 83 kDa protein with the gene product expressed in E. coli. Sequence analyses revealed that this amastigote surface protein (ASP-2) has two conserved aspartic acid box motifs and the highly conserved VTVxNVxLYNR motif characteristic of bacterial and viral sialidases and the type III module of fibronectin, respectively. ASP-2 thus joins ASP-1 as a member of the amastigote surface expressed family of sialidase-like molecules having strong homology with family 2 of the sialidase/trans-sialidase gene superfamily of T. cruzi.
Mol Biochem Parasitol. 1997 Sep;88(1-2):137-49.
Molecular and biochemical parasitology
Low HP, Tarleton RL. (1997). Molecular cloning of the gene encoding the 83 kDa amastigote surface protein and its identification as a member of the Trypanosoma cruzi sialidase superfamily. Neurology Publications. Retrieved from https://escholarship.umassmed.edu/neuro_pp/184


In July, a Chicago man, who suffered serious and permanent disfigurement after taking the anti-psychotic drug Risperdal filed a new lawsuit. Michael Johnson brings counts of negligence and breach of warranties against Ortho-McNeil Janssen Pharmaceuticals (a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson). According to the lawsuit, the defendants failed to warn men about dangerous side effects—such as gynecomastia. Johnson started taking Risperdal when he was just 11 years old. He continued to take this medication for 5 years while he was going through puberty. During this time,he experienced weight gain and damage to his endocrine and sexual systems. As a result, he developed permanent gynecomastia. Gynecomastia is the development of breasts in men. This development is permanent and results in men having to undergo mastectomies to surgically remove the breast tissue. These men experience severe mental pain and anguish and embarrassment as a result. According to the lawsuit, Johnson's physicians were unaware of the serious side effects and risks associated with Risperdal. If they had been aware, they would not have prescribed this information to him. In addition, his physicians received information and promotional materials that claimed Risperdal was safe and an appropriate treatment choice for adolescents. The plaintiffs claim that Janssen engaged in promotional activities that were false and misleading and encouraged the off-label use of Risperdal. In 1999, the very year that Mr. Johnson began taking Risperdal, the FDA sent a letter to Janssen reprimanding them for a campaign that included false and misleading materials. In 2001, the FDA demanded that they change their label to include a statement that said, "the safety and effectiveness in children have not been established". Johnson seeks compensatory and punitive damages.
If you or someone you love has been harmed after taking the dangerous drug Risperdal, it is important to contact the national Risperdal lawsuit attorneys at Phillips Law Firm. We represent patients across the United States who have been diagnosed with gynecomastia after taking Risperdal. If you are interested in learning more about your legal options, call us at 1-800-708-6000. Our Risperdal lawsuit attorneys are waiting to assist you 24/7, offering a free case evaluation. Remember our no fee promise. If we do not recover anything for you, you do not owe us an attorney fee.


On January 18th, a new Broadway production flew into town. Through February 5th, the musical "Wicked" was at the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center. With "Wicked" being the hottest new show around, it was brought to Tampa, for the central Floridians to enjoy. And what was not to enjoy? "Wicked" was one show that would send you spiraling through a hurricane of emotions as The Wicked West of the East and Glinda the Good gave you their take on what was really going on in Oz. "Wicked" had it all, from elaborate sets and costumes to quirky and sometimes crazy characters, with the cast really fitting each roll. The audience loved Kendra Kassebaum, playing Glinda and her absolute airheaded, sometimes self-absorbed way of life. A girlie-girl Glinda was what we would expect to find when a person is constantly in her own world. Then you had Stephanie J. Block, playing Elphaba, who later became the Wicked Witch of the West. Block gave an absolutely phenomenal performance, demonstrating that the Wicked Witch of the West was actually a good person, but was construed as bad when her superiors convinced Oz of her wickedness. What is bigger than Elphaba and Glinda was their friendship throughout the production. Both Glinda and Elphaba underwent many serious changes throughout the entire show. Glinda went from seeming completely self-absorbed to being a young lady who could think for herself and finally figure out how to put her foot down to the bad people and munchkins running Oz. Elphaba discovered her sad truth–that she was limited and could not change the world in how she hoped. Instead, Elphaba handed over her book of spells to Glinda, her best and only friend in her life, to help her learn how to change Oz through magic and herself.
By the end of this production, the audience was breathless, yet able to jump quickly enough to give the entire cast a standing ovation which they all deserved. All the hard work the cast and crew put in along with the emotion that flew from each character could really be seen. It is too late to buy tickets, but do not worry your pretty little head, my dear, because, with a wave of Glinda the Good's wand, the show will be back at the Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center. Be sure to look out for ticket information because the way these tickets just fly is wicked!