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Akinobu Takabayashi
Akihito Suzuki
Introduction| March 01 2019
Life, Science, and Power in History and Philosophy
Akihito Suzuki;
Graduate School of Sociology, Keio University, Japan e-mail: akihitosuzuki2.0@gmail.com
Akihito Suzuki teaches social and cultural history of medicine at Keio University. He studies the history of psychiatry, infectious diseases, and patients' behavior. He is now completing a book which examines psychiatry, patients, and families in Tokyo in the earlier half of the twentieth century from the rich archive of a private psychiatric hospital.
Department of History, Rikkyo University, Japan e-mail: atakabayashi@rikkyo.ac.jp
Akinobu Takabayashi is associate professor of the Department of History, Rikkyo University, Japan. He studies and teaches the social history of medicine and psychiatry, having published an article in English for Medical History and a book on the psychiatric profession in early twentieth-century England from Misuzu Shobo in Japan.
East Asian Science, Technology and Society (2019) 13 (1): 9–16.
Akihito Suzuki, Akinobu Takabayashi; Life, Science, and Power in History and Philosophy. East Asian Science, Technology and Society 1 March 2019; 13 (1): 9–16. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/18752160-7338333
Osamu Kanamori (1954–2016) was a prolific author of science and technology studies in Japan in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. He represented many new directions, which he originally learned from France, the United States, and Japan. He influenced histories of scientific ideas and STS in Japan and East Asia. Around the same period, a new history of medicine in modern Japan started to take off. Many historical studies of modern medicine in Japan are published in English. This special issue tries to examine the relationship between Kanamori's works and Japanese medical historians and medical sociologists. After extensively reviewing and summarizing the variety of themes and genres within the works of Kanamori, these four papers will discuss four topics of medical technology, infectious diseases, psychiatric war pensions, and bioethical sci-fi works which have all been inspired by the works of Kanamori. This special issue explores the extensive works of Kanamori and the new history of medicine in Japan and argues that the new history of medicine in the near future becomes a core academic discipline within the relationship of the philosophical discussion of medicine in society and culture.
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Neurasthenia and the Rise of Psy Disciplines in Republican China
Public Health Law and Institutional Vaccine Skepticism
Race, Sex, Politricks, and Belles Lettres
History of the Academic Medical Center
Ethnography Prosecuted Facing the Fabulation of Power
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Q: ColumnTransformer & Pipeline with OHE - Is the OHE encoded field retained or removed after ct is performed? Doc on CT:
remainder{'drop', 'passthrough'} or estimator, default='drop'

By default, only the specified columns in transformers are transformed and combined in the output, and the non-specified columns are dropped. (default of 'drop'). By specifying remainder='passthrough', all remaining columns that were not specified in transformers will be automatically passed through. This subset of columns is concatenated with the output of the transformers. By setting remainder to be an estimator, the remaining non-specified columns will use the remainder estimator. The estimator must support fit and transform. Note that using this feature requires that the DataFrame columns input at fit and transform have identical order.

I believe this remainder= is not relevant to the field being OneHot Encoded.  I would like to know how is the OHE field (eg. 'CatX') being handled.
When I do a standalone CT transform, I see that 'CatX' does not appear in the output.
ct = ColumnTransformer(transformers=[('OHE',ohe,ohe_col)],remainder='passthrough')

When I do a standalone CT with OHE repeated, it is successful (ie OHE 2 times).  This tells me that within CT, the field is still available but only removed on exiting CT.
ct = ColumnTransformer(transformers=[('OHE',ohe,ohe_col),('OHE1',ohe,ohe_col)],
remainder='passthrough')

Then I tried putting this in a Pipeline, I tried doing CT twice.  This is the confusing part.  It passed.  This tells me that the first CT1 passed 'CatX' to CT2.
ct = ColumnTransformer(transformers=[('OHE',ohe,ohe_col)],remainder='passthrough')
Pipeline([('ct1',ct),('ct2',ct)('model',v)])

Question:

*

*When using Pipeline, who is controlling whether CT would pass 'CatX' on exit ?

*When using Pipeline, if the 'CatX' is being passed, then won't the model be able to process it ?

I hope my question is clear.  Thanks for any answers in advance.

A: ColumnTransformer is meant to transform columns of arrays or dataframes by means of the specified transformation. This means that after fitting you won't have the original column anymore.
import pandas as pd
from sklearn.compose import ColumnTransformer, make_column_selector
from sklearn.preprocessing import OneHotEncoder

X = pd.DataFrame({'city': ['London', 'London', 'Paris', 'Sallisaw'],
              'title': ['His Last Bow', 'How Watson Learned the Trick', 'A Moveable Feast', 'The Grapes of Wrath'],
              'expert_rating': [5, 3, 4, 5],
              'user_rating': [4, 5, 4, 3]})

ct = ColumnTransformer(transformers=[
    ('ohe', OneHotEncoder(), make_column_selector(pattern='city'))],
    remainder='passthrough', verbose_feature_names_out=False)

pd.DataFrame(ct.fit_transform(X), columns=ct.get_feature_names_out())

At the same time you should be aware of the fact that ColumnTransformer applies its transformers in parallel and that's the reason why in your second example you'll see OHE applied twice, namely because both OHE transformers act on the original data. There are interesting posts on this, see here and here and here eg.
Therefore, this would be the result when applying the transformation twice by means of ColumnTransformer:
ct_d = ColumnTransformer(transformers=[
    ('ohe1', OneHotEncoder(), make_column_selector(pattern='city')),
    ('ohe2', OneHotEncoder(), make_column_selector(pattern='city'))],
    remainder='passthrough', verbose_feature_names_out=True)

pd.DataFrame(ct_d.fit_transform(X), columns=ct_d.get_feature_names_out())

Then, I'm not sure I properly get your issue when using a Pipeline (perhaps it might be useful to add some details or I might be overlooking at something). That's what I get when avoiding to pass through an instance of ColumnTransformer; you won't find the original column anymore as OneHotEncoder removes it.
from sklearn.pipeline import Pipeline

pipe_new = Pipeline([('ohe', OneHotEncoder())])
pd.DataFrame(pipe_new.fit_transform(pd.DataFrame(X['city'])).toarray())

On the other hand, here's an example that might resemble your use of the Pipeline. Namely, column city is one-hot-encoded in ct1 and its output (column 0 of its output, actually) undergoes the same destiny when ct2 is applied (and the remaining columns are passed through). More specifically, column 0 of ct1 output (np.array([1.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0]).T) is one-hot-encoded to become np.array([[0.0, 0.0, 1.0, 1.0], [1.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0]]).T (actually it wouldn't be a np array, I'm writing it like this only for ease of notation).
ct = ColumnTransformer(transformers=[
    ('ohe', OneHotEncoder(), [0])], remainder='passthrough', verbose_feature_names_out=False)

pipe = Pipeline([
    ('ct1', ct),
    ('ct2', ct)
])

pd.DataFrame(pipe.fit_transform(X))

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Protecting our national parks and wilderness areas seems of utmost importance in the coming years, but it's more complicated than that: Plenty of businesses that use national parks land pre-dates the parks themselves. In several pending cases, new National Parks Director Jon Jarvis and crew will need to determine the boundaries of precedence in national parks usage.
The spark to this flame came when the National Parks Service announced that it will not renew Drakes Bay Oyster Company's permit to farm oysters in an estuary in Point Reyes National Seashore.
Managers at Point Reyes cite a recent report that the company's boats are destroying the eelgrass, which disrupts seal habitat. Ken Lunny, owner of the Drakes Bay Oyster Company, strongly disagrees, claiming the report exaggerates the circumstances. Lunny's got big guns on his side: With the support of Sen. Feinstein, Dem. California, a separate investigation was launched by the National Academy of Sciences to review the claims. They concluded that there was insufficient data to support the findings of the report.
Beyond the Point Reyes debacle, any decision regarding the leasing of park lands could have far-reaching effects. Gary Paul Nabhan, a former National Park System Advisory Board member, told the New York Times that over half the parks have working farms and orchards, and he thinks these elements are as vital and worthy of protection as wild spaces. Lunny's Drakes Bay Oyster Company would fall within Nabhan's boundaries for protection: The 70-year-old company predates the park's creation in 1962, and is therefore part of the historical working landscape of the area.
Should our wilderness be strictly protected whatsoever the circumstances, or should commerce be allowed to coexist? If so, where are the boundaries? Let us know what you think in the comments section below!


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Independent Programming Company Lists Liabilities of $4.6M, $3.2M in Assets
Programming distributor and developer CableReady has filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
The Norwalk, Conn.-headquartered independent, which has been involved with such fare as Oddities, Forensic Files, Lost Treasure Hunters, Inside the Actors Studio, Live from Lincoln Center and Deals from the Dark Side, filed under the U.S. code in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Connecticut in Bridgeport, Conn.
The company, which listed assets of $3.2 million and liabilities of $4.6 million in its bankruptcy filing, said it pursued other avenues before going this route.
"I am saddened. The company explored every possible alternative to avoid filing for Chapter 11, which included an extensive search to find a buyer for CableReady," said president and CEO Gary Lico in a statement. "However, due to industry consolidation, mergers and acquisitions of production companies, larger competitors paying higher and higher advances for programming or networks retaining all rights, and the uncertain global economy squeezing independent companies like ours ̶ CableReady was left with no choice but to seek protection. Enduring these hurdles we made significant changes to the organization and yet still maintained the industry leading level of service while assuring high integrity and a fun atmosphere."
Lico noted that the company will "continue operations (every buyer will receive their programs, every original concept will be developed) while it looks into the many possibilities that are available to reorganize its debts and transition the business for the benefit of our employees and customers. This filing provides the best means of maximizing recoveries for our creditors."
Lico expressed the belief that "through the Chapter 11 process, like so many companies before us, CableReady can be restored to financial health. We've never ever been quitters as our friends and clients know."
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Programmer plans to exit bankruptcy in Q2 after reducing debt
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In 1997, OIG promulgated a procedural regulation (42 CFR 1008.15(c)(2)) providing in part that the agency will not accept a request and will not issue an opinion regarding an arrangement that is the "same or substantially the same" as a matter that is under investigation or that has been the subject of a proceeding involving HHS or another governmental agency.
Effective February 10, 2022, this prohibition against accepting advisory opinion requests in these circumstances has been eliminated from the OIG's rules.
The OIG chose to eliminate this prohibition because it wanted the flexibility, in the right circumstance, to opine on substantially the same conduct that could be under investigation or subject to a proceeding. They noted that some requestors expressed frustration when OIG was precluded from providing its legal opinion in these cases. Additionally, OIG believes that removal of this barrier may provide industry stakeholders with greater transparency regarding factors the government may consider in evaluating compliance with the fraud and abuse laws and its analysis that distinguishes between similar arrangements.
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Could North Korea Survive Without the Kim Cult?
In the early summer of 1945, various American military planners bobbed through Pacific typhoons, paced humid Sichuan airfields, and filled their War Department offices with tobacco smoke in anxiety, wondering what they would do with postwar Japan. The end of World War II in Asia is primarily remembered for its horrifying conflagration of human flesh and the U.S. Air Force attacks on civilians, but the period also witnessed the expression of a classic debate which concerns us today: Given conditions of defeat or collapse, can a victorious foreign power or an indigenous band of political reformers use a discredited imperial cult to its own ends?
Against a chorus of protest which included many Japanese, General Douglas MacArthur decided to maintain Hirohito on the throne, christening the Showa Emperor almost immediately in September 1945 as a man whose past was irrelevant and whose desires were congruent with the new democratic trends. MacArthur was well versed in using American troops to smash dissenters, but he fell squarely into the camp that the imperial institution, stripped of its militaristic garb, could play a significant role in stabilising Japanese society undergoing intense upheavals in virtually every other area of life. Hirohito played along magnificently, efficiently having his wartime diaries burned even as the US rebuilt Japanese airfield which would soon be used to drop napalm on North Korean troops and civilians.
In the case of the country whose occupation was supposed to have been modelled on the successes of Japan – namely, Iraq – the U.S. made a different set of calculations. From the outset of the war (die sogennanten "Operation Iraqi Freedom") the Americans sought to assassinate Saddam Hussein and his family. The U.S. moved thereafter to uproot, demonize, and render illegal anyone who had had contacts with Saddam's expansive Baath Party, a group which included more than a few members of the university system and most of the police. Thanks to the "de-Baathification" policy and the total demonization of the old system, such people were thus rendered inoperable and pushed into varying degrees of resistance to the occupation. Seven years, four million refugees, three city-sized forward operating bases, a few thousand American dead, and a couple of trillion dollars later, we realize that a policy of soft continuity on the Japanese model, had it been possible, might have been easier. The comparison is inherently unfair, yet it still is worth making: Hirohito got a free pass, the occupation went relatively well (nostalgic stat for the day: 0 American combat deaths in seven years of occupation) and the emperor spent the rest of his life cutting ribbons, writing books about sea biology, and listening to his successor-son Prince Akihito practice cello. Saddam, by contrast, unleashed a Mao-style guerrilla warfare against American forces, had his dead offspring laid out on operating tables like slabs of meat for foreign photographers, and was so hated that, when he was finally handed over to our new Iraqi Shiite allies, they put his execution up on YouTube.
Among the most horrified viewers of Saddam's demise was, undoubtedly, Kim Jong Il in Pyongyang. Kim has, no doubt, lingered over video footage of dictators strung up by long-repressed mobs like Ceaucesceau in Romania (1989) and Moussilini in Milan. Moreover, as one whose teenage years were spent in the global swoon of leftist tilt toward Moscow, he was also no doubt aware that the Romanov royal family ended up, well, in pieces. But, as Bryan Myers argues in The Cleanest Race (a "must-read" for any serious Pyongyangologist), the North Korean regime patterns itself most clearly on the Japanese imperial model. For a man confronting his own morality and the possibility of torrential change after his death like Kim Jong Il, Hirohito remains a salient example in more ways than one, and one who represents continuity.
Forgetting for a moment that China seems determined to prop up the DPRK, come hell or high water (and there has been plenty of both already in the past few months): What happens if North Korea collapses? The US and China, the two big military fish in the region, seem unable to agree to even discuss post-collapse scenarios. When a top Chinese think-tank scholar implied that China would work through the UN and not unilaterally occupy North Korea, it was big news. Nevertheless, this kind of open discussion certainly also causes tremors in Pyongyang. South Korea, for its part, has always seemed to assume a collapse of the northern government would result in the absolute obliteration of the North Korean state system and the wholesale absorption of the entirety of the peninsula under the rule of the Republic of Korea from the traditional political center of Seoul. Recent estimates, however, of the exorbitant price tag for such a policy – minus one bullish Goldman Sachs report which fairly drooled at the all the valuable minerals still to be extracted from underneath North Korea's mountain ranges – have cooled Seoul's ardor to swallow North Korea whole. Keep sending rice, they say, we don't want these people here. With 20,000 North Korean refugees now in South Korea, the ROK feels stuffed to the gills with them. Imagine 20 million poor North Koreans all needing handouts, jobs, etc. A tiered society would emerge immediately, even if a handful of North Korean elites – assuming they were able to escape prosecution for crimes against humanity – would be able to hold their own economically in the new system. Continuity has its benefits.
If North Korea can evolve into a system truly committed to Chinese-style reforms, the regime may still have a Kimist face. Irregardless, even if North Korea were to fall tomorrow, keeping in mind the example of Douglas MacArthur and Emperor Hirohito may prove to be also of some use.
Among the most horrified viewers of Saddam's demise was, undoubtedly, Kim Jong Il in Pyongyang. Kim has, no doubt, lingered over video footage of dictators strung up by long-repressed mobs like Ceaucesceau in Romania (1989) and Moussilini in Milan (1945). Moreover, as one whose teenage years were spent in the global swoon of leftist tilt toward Moscow, he was also no doubt aware that the Romanov royal family ended up, well, in pieces. But, as Bryan Myers argues in The Cleanest Race (a "must-read" for any serious Pyongyangologist), the North Korean regime patterns itself most clearly on the Japanese imperial model. For a man confronting his own morality and the possibility of torrential change after his death like Kim Jong Il, Hirohito remains a salient example in more ways than one, and one who represents continuity.
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http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,721076,00.html
Is there any validity to this claim?
It's no more specious than anything coming out of South Korean media; rumors, I suppose. It's worth noting that the Spiegel item was picked up for several days in the Seoul press this month and got full play in the ROK. Given how questionable the original photographs were in the first place (several rose up only to be refuted) and the spottiness of the reporting on the successor's years in Berne (half of the stories were actually about his older brother), I wouldn't put too much stock in it. North Korea is strange enough…as an antidote, I recommend all of Ruediger Frank's recent writing on the DPRK!


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Marvel's "Ant-Man" landed with a solid $58 million at the weekend box office, while "Trainwreck's" Amy Schumer put her own raunchy spin on romantic comedies to the tune of a $30.2 million debut.
It marks Marvel's 12th consecutive first place opening, although "Ant-Man" isn't at the level of other, bigger-name costumed heroes like Captain America, Thor and Iron Man, all of whom performed better out of the gate with their solo adventures. Going into the weekend, analysts expected "Ant-Man" to top $60 million, but its opening is similar to "The Incredible Hulk," which earned an initial $55 million on its way to a $134 million U.S. haul.
"They are a victim of their own success," said Paul Dergarabedian, senior media analyst at Rentrak. "Any time you have a brand like Marvel, the expectations get blown out of proportion."
That may be, but the studio sounds disappointed it couldn't elevate "Ant-Man" to "Guardians of the Galaxy"-like numbers. Disney distribution chief Dave Hollis admitted that he wished the movie had done better, but still praised Marvel as a model of consistency.
"No one else could take what is really an obscure character and launch it in such a big way," said Hollis. "It's a sign that they're doing so much right and that it's a brand that has overwhelming momentum."
Not every studio was on the defensive. Universal's "Trainwreck" bested initial projections which had it debuting to roughly $20 million. The story of a commitment-phobic woman who falls for a sports doctor got a boost from strong reviews and a long and winding promotional tour that saw Schumer doing everything from posing provocatively with C3PO to sexting Katie Couric's husband.
"Amy Schumer is absolutely a star," said Nick Carpou, Universal's domestic distribution chief. "Based on exit polling, after the humor, she's the second-biggest reason people went out to see the film."
"Trainwreck" kicks off Schumer's film career on a high note and marks the second-biggest opening for director Judd Apatow, behind only "Knocked Up's" $30.7 million debut. Females represented 66% of ticket buyers. Universal produced the comedy for a modest $35 million, so it should make a healthy return on its investment.
That's a fraction of the $130 million that Marvel spent on the story of a thief (Paul Rudd) who becomes a hero after donning a suit that gives him the powers of an arthropod. The superhero film will lean heavily on foreign crowds as it looks for profits. Internationally, "Ant-Man" opened in 37 markets, including Mexico, the U.K., France and Russia, pulling in $56 million.
"Ant-Man," which employs a more tongue-in-cheek, lighter tone than most superhero movies, hoped to pull in younger crowds. To that end, the domestic audience for "Ant-Man" was 28% comprised of families. Fifty eight percent of ticket buyers were male, 59% were adult and 13% were teens.
In its second weekend, Universal and Illumination Entertainment's "Minions" captured runner-up status, pulling in $50.2 million. The "Despicable Me" spinoff has racked up $216.7 million Stateside since it debuted, while selling boatloads of merchandise.
In milestone news, "Jurassic World" became just the fourth film in history to top $600 million domestically. The dinosaur thriller added $11.4 million to take fifth place on the box office chart and propel its North American total to $611.1 million.
Meanwhile, "Inside Out" pushed past $300 million domestically, joining "Toy Story 3" and "Finding Nemo" as the third Pixar film to reach that mark. Domestically, "Inside Out" racked up $11.6 million for a fourth place finish, bringing its North American gross to $306.4 million.
Among arthouse releases, Woody Allen's "Irrational Man" pulled in $188,115 on five screens during its first weekend, for a per screen average of $37,623. Also opening, "Mr. Holmes" with Ian McKellen as an aging version of the supersleuth, grossed an estimated $2.5 million on 363 screens, for a per screen average of $6,856.
Overall box office numbers are still being tallied, but it looks like ticket sales will be up more than 30% over the same period last year. It marks the sixth consecutive weekend of gains, a sign that business is booming at the multiplexes. That cuts both ways, as Disney and Marvel discovered.
"It's great for the business, but what it means is that it's more competitive," said Hollis.


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Income tax filing deadline moved from April 15 to July 15
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin made the announcement on Twitter.
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Updated: 9:35 AM CDT March 20, 2020
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin says the Trump administration has decided to push the income tax filing date to July 15 from April 15.
Mnuchin announced the decision in a tweet Friday saying that at President Donald Trump's direction "we are moving Tax Day from April 15 to July 15. All taxpayers and businesses will have this additional time to file and make payments without interest or penalties."
In a seperate tweet, Mnuchin said all taxpayers expecting a refund should file now.
"I encourage all taxpayers who may have tax refunds to file now to get your money," Mnuchin tweeted.
The administration had announced earlier in the week that it would delay the payments, a move that Mnuchin said would leave $300 billion in the economy at a critical time.
Individuals will be able to delay paying up to $1 million in payments while corporations will be able to defer payment on up to $10 million.


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Russia And America Moving In Different Directions, Russian Lawmakers Approve Anti-Gay Propaganda Bill
Editors Note: So the same day the U.S. Supreme Court rules against The Defense of Marriage Act, Russia lawmakers vote AGAINST homosexuality… It seems more and more likely that God could use Russia and Vladamir Putin to come against America like he had Babylon and Nebuchadnezzar come against the Kingdom of Judah for their wickedness… And in the end Nebuchadnezzar turned to God.
34 "And at the end of the days I Nebuchadnezzar lifted up mine eyes unto heaven, and mine understanding returned unto me, and I blessed the most High, and I praised and honoured him that liveth for ever, whose dominion is an everlasting dominion, and his kingdom is from generation to generation: 35 And all the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing: and he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth: and none can stay his hand, or say unto him, What doest thou? 37 Now I Nebuchadnezzar praise and extol and honour the King of heaven, all whose works are truth, and his ways judgment: and those that walk in pride he is able to abase." -Daniel 4:34,35,37
June 26th, 2013. Russian senators give green light to 'gay propaganda' ban. RT.com
"Russia's upper house, the Federation House, has approved a bill introducing fines for propaganda of non-traditional sex relations to minors, including in the media, on the internet and via viral adverts.
Some 137 senators voted for the draft law which introduces administrative liability and fines of up to a million roubles (over US$ 30,000) for promotion of homosexuality among children. One senator abstained from voting and no one voted against the legislation.
The controversial bill – which critics fear may spark a wave of homophobia in the country – was approved by the lower house, the State Duma, on June 11. The vast majority of the population – 88 % – is also in favor of the introduction of the ban, according to a poll by the Russian Public Opinion Research Center (VCIOM).
The draft law is not discriminative against LGBT people and is only aimed to protect minors, Federation Council speaker, Valentina Matvienko, emphasized on Wednesday, ahead of voting.
Unlike in the Soviet times, people with non-traditional sexual orientation are no longer prosecuted in Russia, she reminded.
"They are ordinary equal members of the society. As adults, they are entitled to decide how they want to live. But when it comes to minors [the ban on propaganda] is not someone's whim, but a demand from the society," Matvienko said.
Under the bill, individuals will be fined up to 5,000 roubles ($US 152) for such propaganda, officials will have to pay up to 50,000 roubles (about US$ 1,500) and companies – up to 500,000 roubles (about $US 15,000).
If law violators use the media or the internet for the promotion of non-traditional sex relations, they will face even harsher punishment. For instance, individuals will have shell out up to 100,000 roubles (about US$ 3,000), while organizations – a million roubles or face a 90-day suspension of activities.
Foreign citizens or stateless persons who violate the ban will face a fine or an arrest for up to 15 days followed by a deportation from Russia.
The law also defines what is considered the gay propaganda of non-traditional relations. It is the distribution of information aimed at forming non-traditional sexual concept in children, describing such ties as attractive, promoting the distorted understanding of social equality of traditional and non-traditional relations and also unwanted solicitation of information that could provoke interest in such relations.
The bill was slammed as "anti-gay" by gay rights activists both in Russia and abroad. The issue was raised again earlier in the week. The Russian president called on Western countries not to interfere with Russian internal affairs, speaking at a media conference during his trip to Finland. He reiterated that the draft law is not about introducing any sort of sanctions on homosexuality and does not violate rights of sexual minorities.
"Some countries … think that there is no need to protect children from this. We Do. We are not going to interfere," he said. "But we are going to provide such protection the way that State Duma lawmakers have decided."
To come into force, the bill has yet to be signed by the president."
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A soothing soak in a bath of warm water is brilliant for recharging the batteries but it also has great beauty benefits.
Read our guide to the best way to beautify yourself during a long relaxing bath and see our selections of gorgeous pampering products.
It deep-cleanses your skin by encouraging the pores to open up and release any impurities that have built up during the course of the day.
If you're to reap the ultimate benefits from your bathtime, never fill the tub with very hot water - even on the coldest winter evening.
Submerging yourself in water that's too hot will boost circulation and increase your heart rate - a physical state not conducive to relaxation. Instead try to keep it at around body temperature.
Increase the benefit of your bath by adding a few drops of essential oil or a favourite bath foam. There are plenty of tempting products to choose from, depending on the mood you're in.
If you opt for a pure essential oil, try blending a few drops with some milk before adding it to your bath water. This way, it will disperse into the water evenly, rather than sit in oily droplets on the surface.
Add five or six drops (depending on the depth of your water) and never apply an oil directly to the skin. Essential oils are potent and some of them can cause serious irritation when they come undiluted into direct contact with the skin.
If you prefer, pick a product that's been ready blended for you. To help you choose, we've shortlisted a few of our favourite bathtime elixirs.
If you've pushed yourself a little too hard at the gym, or are suffering from a general case of over-worked and over-stressed muscles, you'll love the rich scents of Elemis' Aching Muscle Super Soak (£29/400ml).
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Aromatherapy experts, Cariad have devised a perfect formula to you breathe more easily. Their Breathe Easy Aromatherapy Bath Milk (£6.50/100ml) is an exotic blend of eucalyptus, tea tree, lavender and peppermint essential oils that will transform the water into a wonderfully aromatic milk worthy of Cleopatra's bath tub.
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It was Sydney's third game in six days in case you hadn't heard, they arrived with the same starting eleven, is this an indication of the lack of depth in their side or justified faith from their coach? Melbourne City should have come into the game with a spring in their step, ready to take control of Sydney, but maybe they were also confused to be in sky blue shirts.
Whilst City dominated possession they never did enough with the ball to look intimidating, with only two shots on target with their 61% possession. When Sydney had the ball they looked more like the slick Sydney we know (thanks for only arriving now and not Tuesday night!).
It only took 16 minutes for Sydney to capitalise from a well hit ball from "mullet man" Grant allowing Retre to score through Galekovic's legs with many women in attendance/viewing desperate they were Galekovic receiving Retre's ball through their legs. Ten minutes later Delbridge produces an impressive header to stop Sydney scoring a second. Sydney are unable to capitalise from the resulting corner. Both teams spend the next half an hour pressing each other with minimal result and I find my attention span drifting after a long day and googling seagull jokes, as their numbers increase on the pitch. Not many were very funny….
As the second half begins Seagull FC have too many players on the pitch and it is hard to tell which small white thing is the ball, maybe City are having the same problem. In the 61st minute Grant managed to get another nice pass off to Retre, who put the ball in the path of Le Fondre, who tapped the goal home.
McGree found himself with a yellow card after sliding in, perhaps should have been a red but perhaps LeFondre doesn't milk it enough and stays on his feet. It is LeFondre that gets the last laugh, scoring his second goal of the match in the 92nd minute. He has now scored seven goals in six appearances, have to be happy with that stat.
While the match was a convincing performance for the sky blues (I think, I THINK this may be their 3rd game in 6 days?) the City Group didn't have very much to be excited about. Full strength team, Fornaroli up front, the man with the short shorts at the back and the kid who was invited to the Puskas starting.. Is this worrying signs for Melbourne City?
Post match sees Grant win player of the match and even more importantly, our girl Cassandra Treppiedi gave Grant a 10/10 in her Player Ratings on ftbl.com.au. Surely that's for the haircut, right Cass?
Grant lets everyone know during the post match press conference that he will be keeping the haircut for the season which means we need to work on our jokes, so we don't repeat them for the next few months!


In Episode #4: Trauma & Epigenetics, Matt, Curt, and Jerry explore the topic of epigenetics. Genetics is the study of genes, genetic variation, and heredity in living organisms. Epigenetics is the field of research that examines alterations in gene expression caused by mechanisms other than changes in DNA sequence. This relatively recent field of study suggests additional mechanisms through which experiences can directly influence traits passed on from parents to children. Epigenetics expands our understanding of factors influencing heritability to include behavioral patterns, and environmental conditions.


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'American Idol' Runner-Up Dead At 23 Following Car Accident In Tennessee
By Ingrid Mendoza
Willie Spence is a finalist on Season 19 of "American Idol." ABC/Eric McCandless
"American Idol" Season 19 runner-up Willie Spence died in a car accident in Tennessee
Katherine McPhee, Luke Bryan and Ryan Seacrest paid tribute to the singer on Instagram
Spence auditioned for "American Idol" last year, performing Rihanna's hit song "Diamonds"
"American Idol" Season 19 runner-up Will Spence passed away Tuesday due to injuries sustained from a car crash in Tennessee. He was 23.
The former contestant, who as a teen also went viral online with his rendition of Rihanna's "Diamonds," was reportedly driving a Jeep Cherokee when he went off the road and crashed into the back of a tractor-trailer parked on the side of the road, said an accident report from Marion County Sheriff's Office obtained by DouglasNow.com.
The Georgia-based news outlet noted that the truck, a 2023 International, was driven by Raymond Kresl, 68, from Ohama, Nebraska. However, Spence was the only one who did not survive the accident.
The accident happened at around 4 p.m. on I-24 east near Chattanooga, a city in southeastern Tennessee. TMZ later reported that an unnamed family source said Spence had a flat tire but allegedly had it fixed before heading to his home in Atlanta.
"DouglasNow has learned that Douglas native and 'American Idol' Season 19 runner-up Willie Spence, 23, has passed away due to injuries sustained in an automobile accident in Tennessee," the local news outlet also announced via a Facebook post on Tuesday.
The outlet continued, "We have no further details at this time. We extend our condolences to Willie's family, friends, and fans. He was an extraordinary talent and a ray of light to millions across the world. He will be missed."
Following the announcement of Spence's death, the long-running singing competition and other Hollywood personalities took to social media to express their condolences and pay tribute to his undeniable talent.
"We are devastated about the passing of our beloved American Idol family member, Willie Spence. He was a true talent who lit up every room he entered and will be deeply missed. We send our condolences to his loved ones," posted the official "American Idol" Instagram account Wednesday alongside his audition video.
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"American Idol" alum Katherine McPhee, who shared a duet with Spence back in 2021 while invited as a guest mentor, also took to her Instagram Story to express her devastation.
"I received very tragic news tonight. Sweet @williespenceofficial passed away in a car accident," McPhee wrote in the caption while re-sharing her performance with the singer of the song "The Prayer," written by her husband David Foster.
She continued, "Only 23 years old. Life is so unfair, and nothing is ever promised. God rest your soul, Willie. It was a pleasure to sing with you and to know you."
McPhee also reposted the last video of Spence on his Instagram account, where he was seen singing "You Are My Hiding Place" by Selah, and included the caption, "He posted this right before the accident."
"American Idol" judge Luke Bryan and host Ryan Seacrest also paid tribute to Spence via Instagram Story.
The 46-year-old country singer wrote, "Willie really did light up every room he walked into. He could change the mood instantly when he started singing. He will be truly missed." Meanwhile, Seacrest shared that "everyone on set" loved Spence, and he would be "deeply missed."
Spence auditioned for "American Idol" in February last year and performed his viral version of "Diamonds," which immediately impressed judges Bryan, Katy Perry and Lionel Richie. He even received a standing ovation from veteran singer Richie who described his performance as "unbelievable."
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"When you think about your future, and you think about the voice you have [because] you know it stops people in their tracks, this is the magic you have, in five years, what do you want it to look like?" the "Dark Horse" singer asked after his performance, "In your wildest dreams if nothing was standing in your way?"
Spence said he wanted his voice "to reach the world and just share my gift" and hoped to win a Grammy award someday.
The singer made it to the finale and placed second behind fellow "American Idol" contestant Chayce Beckham. He performed numerous hits on the show, including "Set Fire To The Rain," "Stand Up," "Georgia on My Mind" and "A Change is Gonna Come."
Willie Spence is competing on Season 19 of "American Idol." ABC/Eric McCandless


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A Brief Romance With Punk
June 21, 2014 by Eleanor
When I was in high school, the trend of being emo was in full thrive. A few of my friends would sport a fringe covering half their face, fell in love with Alex Heartbreaker, and would perfect the art of wearing thick eyeliner.
It was never really for me, the emo style. It wasn't the most cheerful of looks or attitudes, a lot of the music was awful, and the link to self harm and suicide was worrying. So what was a young, naive teenage girl to do when the alternative scene was calling her, but she wanted to be in more control of her image rather than jumping on the [EMO]tional bandwagon.
She chose punk.
To the thirteen year old me, punk was amazing. The whole "fuck you" attitude could take me away from the little dramas of high school: fall outs, grades, and cliques. I could emerge myself into a world that didn't try to impress- instead it encouraged a sense of individuality from customised clothing to the broad range of punk rock sub-genres. The famous "Punks Not Dead" saying rang true: to me, punk was alive.
Of course for a thirteen year old who wanted to be something that was in its prime 30 years previously, it wouldn't be a perfect discovery of the self. Whilst on paper punk was an expression of individual freedom, I found that if you weren't the perfect example of ripped clothing, mohawks and safety pins in your skin, you apparently were not a "real punk".
Who could be considered a real punk? Was it the underground bands who toured in a van? I remember once reading a YouTube comment complaining that Green Day* were sell outs because they have air conditioned tour buses. So the true meaning of punk is to give up home comforts? And using the punk subculture to make any political or individual statements is irrelevant?
I realised that the supposed freedom of punk was very limited, I grew up and took my image and style into my own hands. I will argue that punk was different to other subcultures, trends or labels, as it included art, literature, social commentary and more. When I pull my old tartan drainpipes out of the wardrobe to wear, the confidence a punk attitude gave me is still alive. But I would advise any thirteen year old girl that their own style is there to create and evolve, and is only a fraction of their identity that they project onto the rest of the world. What others think or do is of little importance.
Which, in a funny way, is what drew me to punk in the first place.
*There's a lot of debate over what genre Green day actually is: punk, emo, pop rock…personally I just like to say alternative.
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In 2009, the Pentagon conducted a study and determined that 75% of US 18-24 year-olds were unfit for military service. The reasons range from: low education to obesity to criminal records. Moreover, it could be argued that today's generation is less than willing to engage in laborious work; most are too accustomed to comfort and technology. The sad reality is also that sacrifice is not something that this generation has learned very well.
Unfit for cohesive duty in a competitive world, Americans also find themselves more polarized than during the Civil War. We're divided, we're unfit, and we're unmotivated. Since the start of the War on Terror, our rights have been eroded, countless thousands have been killed, all-the-while we argued over graffiti on a wall, snow on a tree, and a slew of other minutiae.
Even as our nation marches into apocalypse in the Middle East, all I notice is concern over Miley Cyrus and Batman. I can't believe I see adults arguing over teenage antics and Hollywood fiction, while few cry out about the military and economic doom that we unleash upon the world, and that we may very soon worsen.
If the situation in the Middle East escalates to its intended extreme, America will find itself embroiled in another Vietnam. The youth of the nation will be drafted, plucked from their lives of digital comfort, and shipped to distant, deadly places. But perhaps a draft is necessary, perhaps our generation does need some great force to check its "moral compass."
Occupy Wall Street was something that some in our generation believed could make our too-big-to-fail capitalist system take a different course, but the Old Guard infiltrated, stifled, and even plotted to shoot prominent Occupy Wall Street activists. While the oppressed Arabs in corporate dictatorships had something to move them, too few Americans are fit for military service, and perhaps an even lower number is fit to occupy a street.
Our Pentagon planners know that we need a great awakening, and they're giving it to us with Syria. The consequences will be mostly intentional, but they will also be largely unpredictable. The America that will come after this war will be as different as the segregated America that existed before the Vietnam War. Women will be in the front lines, and they will also come back in body bags. Gays will make their way through the ranks. The border will be "Berlinized" and the notion of illegal immigrant will be discarded. If all goes according to plan, the people will awaken and demand what our leaders have in store for us.


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Unguarded Machinery Severs Three Fingers In Accident At Work
A timber company from Lincolnshire has been fined after one of its workers seriously injured their hand in an accident at work.
Shaun Newcombe, a 30-year-old man from Bourne, severed parts of his little, middle and ring finger when he was working on a roller conveyor on March 9th 2012.
His right hand touched the unguarded chains and sprockets when he was trying to clear a blockage, and the injuries he sustained required extensive hospital treatment, physiotherapy and counseling. He was not able to return to work for nine months, and when he was able to work, he decided he would be unable to continue working for the same company and moved to a different employer.
In a hearing at Lincoln Crown Court, Sewstern Timber Services Ltd pleaded guilty to breaching health and safety regulations and was fined £18,000 with costs of £10,000.
An investigation by the Health and Safety Executive revealed that the company had received the conveyor from Armistead Engineering Ltd a couple of months before the workplace accident, but that it was not properly guarded.
The firm did not complete a risk assessment for the new machinery and therefore did not identify the hazard that led to Mr Newcombe's injury at work.
Mr Newcombe said that he has experienced significant problems as a result of his injury. His wife had to be absent from her job to take care of him, and his children were also affected. He is now unable to play darts and has had to relearn skills such as playing pool, using a knife, and tying his shoelaces. He finds it hard to do some parts of his job as his fingers lack dexterity, his grip strength is reduced, and the cold affects his fingers.
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Q: How to parse a python list for largest N values? I have attached data at the bottom of this post. I have output from another program that I would like to parse in python in a reasonable way.
The output will always be in the same form, and what I would like to do is find out which "tag" has the largest value. I've labeled a truncated version of the data below (and labeled the top of the column)
0        1               2                3            4        5            6          7              8
AlII     1.6272514892aa  0.0000042282     5.85216aa    0.68792  10.741103    0.074253   0.0000E+00QA  0.0000E+00  0 [   0.000   0.000 1.000E+00 0.000E+00
AlII     1.6273145922ab  0.0000129136     0.50000ab    1.41279  10.483775    0.516978   0.0000E+00QA  0.0000E+00  0 [   0.000   0.000 1.000E+00 0.000E+00
MgII     1.6272514892AA  0.0000000000     5.85217AA    0.00000  11.510502    3.9484     0.0000E+00QA  0.0000E+00  0 [   0.000   0.000 0.000E+00 0.000E+00

So what I'd like to do is parse this file in a number of ways. From the abbreviated one above I'd like to return the following:

*

*Largest (column 2): AlII ab: 0.0000129136

*Largest (column 4): AlII ab: 1.41279

*Largest (column 6): MgII AA: 3.9484

And I'd actually like to do the top N largest values, but for the example I'll just do the largest. I'm getting bogged down by creating new lists, and finding the indexes of these new lists. Is there some straightforward way of doing this kind of parsing? Or is it going to be a messy process?
EDIT
I've been asked to give some code showing what I've tried.
import numpy as np
analyseList = []
with open('output.ascii', 'r') as f18:
  for line in f18.read().splitlines():
    analyseList.append(line.split())

for column in [2, 4, 6]:
  winner = analyseList[np.argmax(np.column_stack(np.array(analyseList))[column])]
  print winner[0], winner[1][-2:], winner[column]

Of course this only returns the largest value (and I'd like to be able to do the N largest). Also, it just looks like I'm doing it in the least straightforward way possible.
To get the index values of the top N largest values, I can do (using the suggestion from ):
[list(analyse_array[2]).index(x) for x in heapq.nlargest(5, analyse_array[2])]

Am I doing some super-convoluted stuff?
AlII     1.6272514892aa  0.0000042282     5.85216aa    0.68792  10.741103    0.074253   0.0000E+00QA  0.0000E+00  0 [   0.000   0.000 1.000E+00 0.000E+00
AlII     1.6273145922ab  0.0000129136     0.50000ab    1.41279  10.483775    0.516978   0.0000E+00QA  0.0000E+00  0 [   0.000   0.000 1.000E+00 0.000E+00
AlII     1.6273482473ac  0.0000118688     2.01059ac    3.95256  10.714536    0.646238   0.0000E+00QA  0.0000E+00  0 [   0.000   0.000 1.000E+00 0.000E+00
AlII     1.6273975034ad  0.0000379662     3.78319ad    5.42225  11.118654    0.683413   0.0000E+00QA  0.0000E+00  0 [   0.000   0.000 1.000E+00 0.000E+00
AlII     1.6274362338ae  0.0000137972     2.17566ae    2.17134  11.105118    1.025574   0.0000E+00QA  0.0000E+00  0 [   0.000   0.000 1.000E+00 0.000E+00
AlII     1.6274729985af  0.0000071899     2.59672af    1.62035  11.686851    0.218038   0.0000E+00QA  0.0000E+00  0 [   0.000   0.000 1.000E+00 0.000E+00
AlII     1.6275047836ag  0.0000059328     0.56225ag    0.73486  10.908730    0.729322   0.0000E+00QA  0.0000E+00  0 [   0.000   0.000 1.000E+00 0.000E+00
AlII     1.6275333529ah  0.0000063501     2.46788ah    1.66430  11.280185    0.381467   0.0000E+00QA  0.0000E+00  0 [   0.000   0.000 1.000E+00 0.000E+00
AlII     1.6275811952ai  0.0000273404     4.39490ai    3.90964  11.154901    0.430842   0.0000E+00QA  0.0000E+00  0 [   0.000   0.000 1.000E+00 0.000E+00
AlII     1.6276822766ak  0.0000153451     3.86075ak    1.01659  11.687808    0.302170   0.0000E+00QA  0.0000E+00  0 [   0.000   0.000 1.000E+00 0.000E+00
AlII     1.6277080822al  0.0000041420     2.77773al    0.74546  11.515588    0.594305   0.0000E+00QA  0.0000E+00  0 [   0.000   0.000 1.000E+00 0.000E+00
AlII     1.6277357442am  0.0000180202     3.03343am    2.97410  11.311138    0.474284   0.0000E+00QA  0.0000E+00  0 [   0.000   0.000 1.000E+00 0.000E+00
AlII     1.6277884119an  0.0000100139     3.05039an    1.49107  11.218137    0.271466   0.0000E+00QA  0.0000E+00  0 [   0.000   0.000 1.000E+00 0.000E+00
AlII     1.6278358107cd  0.0000488929     3.80549cd    6.28261  11.103154    1.305702   0.0000E+00QA  0.0000E+00  0 [   0.000   0.000 1.000E+00 0.000E+00
AlII     1.6278657638ao  0.0000095109     4.23025ao    1.26277  11.681221    0.419769   0.0000E+00QA  0.0000E+00  0 [   0.000   0.000 1.000E+00 0.000E+00
AlII     1.6279139560bq  0.0000074039     2.68827bq    1.66201  11.457767    0.630426   0.0000E+00QA  0.0000E+00  0 [   0.000   0.000 1.000E+00 0.000E+00
AlII     1.6280021360cb  0.0000058565     1.55711cb    1.67734  11.188839    0.706256   0.0000E+00QA  0.0000E+00  0 [   0.000   0.000 1.000E+00 0.000E+00
AlII     1.6280408039cc  0.0000168737     3.88995cc    2.74610  11.520547    0.303991   0.0000E+00QA  0.0000E+00  0 [   0.000   0.000 1.000E+00 0.000E+00
AlII     1.6279628448ar  0.0000059612     4.02312ar    2.18053  11.975320    0.228508   0.0000E+00QA  0.0000E+00  0 [   0.000   0.000 1.000E+00 0.000E+00
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A: Have you access to the NumPy package? You could load your whole 2D list in a single ndarray (if you want, with the first string column too). Then you could use the argmax method of your array to find the position of the maximum along each column using argmax(axis=0) or each line argmax(axis=1)...
Assuming that you construct your array column by column, you could do:
analyse_array = np.column_stack(analyse_list)
col_max = analyse_array.argmax(axis=0)

That gives you an array giving the position of the maximum for each column, as the index of the row. If you want the results only for columns 2, 4, 6, just use fancy indexing:
col_max[[2,4,6]]

That way, you can retrieve the corresponding rows as
analyse_array[col_max[[2,4,6]]]

A: Assuming that you have a list-of-lists to start with, you could do something using just the stdlib(untested and most certainly will need tweaking) such as:
import heapq
from operator import itemgetter

# get a two tuple of (idx, row)
list_with_index = enumerate(your_list)

# Get the top 10 from column '1' and return a list of those
# which will be (row_index, original_row)
largest = heapq.nlargest(10, list_with_index, key=itemgetter(1, 1))

# Get the top 5 index values
largest_indices = [el[0] for el in largest]
# or map(itemgetter(0), largest) if you prefer...

Based on your example code (again untested):
for colno in (2, 4, 6):
    largest = map(itemgetter(0), heapq.nlargest(10, enumerate(analyseList), key=itemgetter(1, colno)))
    print '{} largest: {}'.format(colno, ', '.join(largest))

On a side note you could also consider looking at .argsort on a numpy array.


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Q: JMeter/Timeshift: Using timeShift, get UTC time without converting to local time. eg. ${__timeShift(HH:mm,,PT30M,,)} Whenever I run ${__timeShift(HH:mm,,PT30M,,)} from the Function Helper, it gives me the time in CST (my local timezone)
I'm having trouble figuring out how to use timeShift to evaluate the HH:mm value without automatically converting it to CST time. Is there a simple way to do this, or will I need to use to use a JSR223 process to calculate the UTC value and vars.put it as a variable?
The ultimate goal is to use this value in an HTTP Sampler.
I've tried various combinations of parameters from the https://www.perfmatrix.com/jmeter-timestamp/
Also tried some basic time conversions in a JSR223 process. I am extremely new to both Java and JMeter though, so I haven't had much success.

A: You can achieve this using the following scary __groovy() function:
${__groovy(java.time.ZonedDateTime.now(java.time.ZoneId.of("UTC")).plusMinutes(30).format(java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter.ofPattern("HH:mm")),)}

More information: The Groovy Templates Cheat Sheet for JMeter

A: Answer was to set a default time zone:
TimeZone.setDefault(TimeZone.getTimeZone('UTC'))
def theTime = ${__timeShift("HH:mm",,PT30M,,)}


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As with any bachelor's degree, you are required to take courses that do not apply directly to your field of study. Most colleges require about 50 credit hours in what they consider core areas. These are basic math, English, science, history and other humanities. Some of these hours are likely directly applicable to biology, like chemistry other sciences, but others, like fine arts, are not. While many students bemoan these requirements, make the best of the ones that interest you, and consider taking the ones that don't online so you can get them over with faster.
Another factor determining the length of time needed for your degree is the area of biology you study.
Another factor determining the length of time needed for your degree is the area of biology you study. While the offerings vary by university, you will likely have options that focus on zoology, botany, genetics and molecular biology, human anatomy and physiology and perhaps more. Depending on the popularity of the track you choose, certain classes are offered more than others. Therefore, if you choose botany and a course is offered only once every year, make sure you take it and pass it the first go round or you can be stuck waiting for one course to graduate. Some tracks that grant certification upon graduation, like wildlife and fisheries options, may require more than the standard number of hours to graduate.
Maintain an enrollment at a local community college.
Numerous options exist to get your degree faster than the standard four years. The most obvious is going to summer school. Check with your department to see how often biology courses are offered. Likely, there will be few advanced courses during the summer sessions, if any. However, if you plan well, you can take your core courses in the summer and use the fall and spring semesters for your biology courses.
Another option is maintaining an enrollment at a local community college. Tuition is often cheaper, and you can transfer your basic courses to your college of choice. Most colleges will only let you sign up for 18 to 21 hours in a semester, a substantial course load. However, if you are motivated, you can take an extra course or two at the community college. Just be wary of taking on too much; failing classes will only set you back.
Examine what you already have some credits in and declare that your minor.
Any university offering a bachelor's degree is likely going to make you declare at least one minor and sometimes two. Depending on the school, it takes anywhere from 12 to 24 credit hours to have an official minor, which means an extra three to six classes. However, if you look at the courses required for your degree, you may already have a few chemistry classes or maybe a few humanities. Examine what you already have some credits in and declare that your minor. Depending on your track in biology, you may come out with 16 credit hours in chemistry (having taken, for example, inorganic and organic chemistry), which means a minor is right around the corner.
Once you graduate with your bachelor's, you may be tempted to immediately join the workforce. However, if you successfully graduate in four years or less, you likely have what it takes to achieve a master's degree within one or two years. Getting a master's, and even a Ph.D., will open up a world of jobs that are not available to those with only a bachelor's. It's worth considering going straight through if it looks as if your career will require a master's.
Williams, Matthew. "How Long Does It Take To Get a Bachelor's Degree in Biology?" Synonym, https://classroom.synonym.com/long-bachelors-degree-biology-5377342.html. Accessed 20 April 2019.


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It is a movement of sudden expulsion of air from the lungs due to some discomfort in the throat. The definition refers to that cough for no apparent reason that occurs in some moments of the day to day or chronically.
The cough serves to reject something that we have inside us (airways and lungs, our territory), an intruder that we must expel.
Dry or irritating cough is a violent reaction of irritation and rejection towards a person or a situation that has made us uncomfortable, that has bothered us, but that we have not said anything, it has stayed inside us, and we have not expressed it.
These are situations, such as: an intruder who breaks into our space, an unexpected visit, an order that we have been given, something that we are reluctant to do.
Or for being in a place that we cannot stand, lack of space, cigarette smoke, being with people who make us uncomfortable, etc.
And we have to bear in mind that these conflicts will always be related to our territory (home, work, etc.) and will have to do with someone with whom we live on a daily basis and, therefore, we must look for conflictive stories in which they may be involved. our boss, partner, father, son, friends, coworker, etc.
"What you say or do bother me makes me uncomfortable, but I don't say anything because you are offended. I don't want to hurt you ", "I see or hear something that irritates me", "What you say hurts me, but I don't tell you", "I can't stand that do such a thing "," I cannot stand such a person "," I do not accept what such a person does, says or thinks, but I restrain myself from giving my opinion, but I feel that I should have said it"
Coughing also warns us that we have difficulty admitting, understanding and accepting the opinions of others: "What will they say?", "I am afraid of what others say about what I think, so I better not say anything", "What they have told me has made me feel foolish", "That person devalues me and I bark at him, I cough to drive him away", "No, I responded as I should, I did not defend myself "
Most of the time it is related to something that we have said or that we have been told and that "has enraged us", since we are very irritable and very critical of ourselves and others.
It also shows me that I feel separated from myself because I do not defend myself from enemies who want to take over my territory or me. "I'm not happy with my life, but I don't say anything, I don't tell anyone"
When the cough is chronic, it wants to indicate to us that there are times that we do express what we feel, but that we fall back into the same situation (retain what we think and feel) over and over again. "I have no right to express myself forcefully"
The wet or productive cough manifests itself in external situations that in addition to bothering us make us sad, someone who criticized us, someone who hurt us, who offended us, something that we could not solve, etc.
It is the sign that the perpetrators of the aggression have been imprisoned within us. Or that we have accumulated many things, many critical or negative thoughts that we have not been able to say. We spit to expel what is attacking us, despair, and inner anguish, due to difficulty in expressing it. "The other is inside me"
The persistent coughing crisis is actually a desire to bark at the world, a desire to be heard and taken into account or for others to shut up. It's our way of saying, "Hey, I deserve respect and attention, I'm here and I'm able to think and decide for myself"
Whooping cough or compulsive cough: it warns me about a situation of permanent dispute with my father related to my limits of territory and his.
Laryngeal cough: it gives us fear and inability to take over our territory. Like the old dog that doesn't have the strength to defend its territory from an invasion. "Dog cough", "I don't want to hear about it"
In an active conflict phase, coughing occurs only during the day and tells us that we have not yet expressed what we feel, that is, we still live with that person to whom we have not told what we would have wanted to say.
If the cough appears during the day, but I also usually cough at night, it tells us that the conflict has been resolved and we are repairing, that is, we have already been able to say what we did not dare to express.
If we are not currently experiencing an emotional conflict, such as those mentioned, we have to look in the family tree to see if we are the double of an ancestor who has suffered from lung problems due to having been in contact with dangerous chemical substances or has worked in a mine, etc. In general, we have to look for histories of deaths due to suffocation or deaths due to respiratory problems.
Recommendations to recover physical, emotional and spiritual health:
I must learn to express myself freely and always do it from the heart.
When the cough appears, I must stop for a moment and become aware of what I was thinking before coughing.
Was I criticizing myself? Who or what circumstances make me criticize myself? I have to learn to be tolerant of myself.
Publicado por joman en 03:41
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Janice 25 February 2018 at 14:34
BANG ON !
Wow thank you so much, I feel validated!
can totally relate with the situation I'm facing right now...much thamks
Jesus name
Dor 10 February 2020 at 18:05
Wow!! I have been suppressed at work and I have a chronic cough. I am being wronged, I do not have enough space, overpowering, controlling boss and EVERYONE in upper management and HR is ignoring the facts! Sad situation! Thank you so much!!
Amazing ..
c'est moi 5 March 2020 at 07:49
OMG! Speechless as I am re-reading this. I've had the compulsive cough for almost a week now. By stopping to think about what was on my mind right before I started coughing was eye opening! Thank you so much for your time, energy, and all the effort that you've put into this fantastic book!
Joman Romero 5 March 2020 at 10:38
So how do we stop it?
Joman Romero 23 April 2020 at 00:33
Expressing ourselves with absolute confidence in ourselves and without fear of the other's response. Communicate heart to heart.
Is there print copy is available
About the book on know ourselves
Joman Romero 12 December 2021 at 00:15
Hi yes, you can buy it in eBook and paper.


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Arsenic may stop some adult leukemia
Now, researchers say they've found a surprising new way to stop a potentially deadly type of adult leukemia from coming back. They give the patient arsenic. That's right, poison.
It's a notorious poison straight out of the movies, but what if your doctor wanted to give it to you?
"I knew what arsenic was because I worked on farms and stuff, and it's rat poison, and I was like, 'what, you're kidding me.'" John Williams, a leukemia patient, told Ivanhoe.
44-year-old John Williams is being treated with arsenic to fight an acute form of leukemia called APL. it's where abnormal white blood cells grow instead of normal, healthy ones. That's where the arsenic comes in.
" It's supposed to retrain the bad cells into thinking that they were good cells again and they get back to doing their normal stuff," John said.
Doctors at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center put patients on two, five-week IV regimens of arsenic trioxide after getting standard treatment to put their leukemia in remission. Principal investigator doctor Bayard Powell says this arsenic is less toxic than chemo.
"There's a lot of trepidation as people first start. They're a little bit anxious about getting arsenic, but once they get it, especially those who've already had chemotherapy, they're so excited about how they feel," Bayard L. Powell, M.D., a professor of internal medicine, and chief of the section on hematology and oncology at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, explained.
90 percent of the patients treated with arsenic were disease-free after three years compared to just 70 percent of those who didn't get arsenic.
"There's a better response rate, better cure rate, for patients and also it's with less toxicity," Dr. Powell said. Now, John can look forward to spending a lot more time with his best friends. Eight months after a leukemia diagnosis, he's cancer-free.
"All because of some rat poison!" John said.
Rat poison and some very smart doctors. Obviously, the form of arsenic used in this experimental treatment is not the same chemical they put in rat poison. This new approach is still considered experimental but is being used more frequently.
If you would like more information, please contact:
Bonnie Davis, Media Relations Manager
Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center
bdavis@wfubmc.edu