The second batch of Innovation Scholars In-Residence Programme will commence from 7th March, 2015. The duration of stay in Rashtrapati Bhavan will be for a period of two weeks.
Applications are invited from interested applicants through the website of the President of India: www.presidentofindia.nic.in. All Indian nationals who have a track record of innovation and implementation of innovative ideas may apply. A Committee will screen the applications and shortlist names for selection as an "Innovation Scholar in-Residence". The decision of the Committee in all matters relating to selection will be final.
Those interested for the 'In Residence' Programme at Rashtrapati Bhavan may apply in the prescribed format available on the website of the President of India: www.presidentofindia.nic.in.


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The hall is commonly used by theWauchope Arts Council for events and is used for workshops, music tuition,and fine art events.
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Celebrity chef Charlie Palmer's proposed luxury hotel and restaurant at Symphony Park in downtown Las Vegas are still on hold until room rates in the city increase, developers for the project told the Las Vegas City Council on Wednesday.
The issue: Developers for the project presented an update to the council on the stalled project and exercised an option to extend the closing date on the land for another year.
What it means: Developers will have another year to try to get the 371-room hotel project off the ground.
During Wednesday's meeting, hotel developer Richard Kaufman told the council the hotel market in Las Vegas has not recovered enough yet for the project to be financially viable.
"The problem is room rates are low so we need to spend less money because we can't charge more. How do we make it more affordable to build?" Kaufman said.
One potential solution, he said, would be to build an initial 100-room hotel with a restaurant on the 3-acre site across from the Smith Center for the Performing Arts that would be expanded later on as part of a second phase.
"Symphony Park is where we want to be and we have made the decision to take the long view that Symphony Park is the best place for the Charlie Palmer hotel," Kaufman said.
Palmer, whose critically acclaimed Aureole restaurants are in New York and Las Vegas, attended the council meeting but did not speak.
Wednesday's action extends the development agreement and land close date until Feb. 27, 2014. The developers have put down a nearly $500,000 deposit to keep their hold on the property. Another extension would require further action by the council.
Kaufman said uncertainty surrounding other tenants at the park, which currently include the Smith Center and the Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center and could eventually include offices, residential units and an arena, also have slowed the project.
Council members seemed anxious to see progress, but acknowledged building the right project was worth waiting a year or two more.


Archduchess Theresia of Austria, 24, was married today to Prince Rasso of Bavaria, according to the Associated Press.
The wedding took place at the chapel of Schloss Wallsee, near Amsetten. The 29-year-old bridegroom is a student at Munich University.
Members of German and Austrian nobility attended the wedding. After a honeymoon in Spain, the couple will live in Starnberg.
Prince Rasso is the youngest child of Prince Franz of Bavaria and Princess Isabella of Croy. Archduchess Theresia is the second child of Archduke Theodor of Salvator of Austria and Countess Maria Theresia von Waldburg zu Zeil und Trauchburg.
The bride is a great-granddaughter of Austrian Emperor Franz Josef, who died in 1916.


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SARS-CoV-2's Wide-Ranging Effects on the Body
Researchers' painstaking examinations have begun to reveal how the virus wreaks havoc in multiple organs and tissues.
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When the first wave of the pandemic hit the US East Coast last spring, clinicians expected to see patients suffering primarily from a respiratory ailment that, in severe cases, left people needing mechanical ventilators to breathe. But Harvard Medical School's Haytham Kaafarani, a trauma surgeon and critical-care physician at Massachusetts General Hospital, and his colleagues noticed an unexpected surge in patients with complications in another part of the body—the gut—ranging from nausea and a loss of appetite to severe intestinal obstruction. According to Kaafarani, gastrointestinal surgeons were consulted frequently for "many, many symptoms that showed up."
Now, with SARS-CoV-2 having infected more than 100 million people and counting, it's clear that the virus can indeed lead to extensive damage outside of the lungs—damage that has contributed to a total of more than 3 million deaths to date. Over the past year and a half, investigators around the world have documented a wide range of symptoms in the blood, heart, kidney, gut, brain, and many other parts of the body. Some studies suggest that nearly a third of all COVID patients experience such symptoms—and this proportion rises to more than two-thirds of those who are critically ill, Kaafarani says. "The one thing we know for sure that we did not know a year ago is that COVID-19 certainly has extra-pulmonary manifestations."
In addition to revealing where COVID-19 leaves its trail of damage in the body, patient assessments, postmortem investigations, and experiments with human cells and tissues have provided hints of the mechanisms through which many of these complications may arise. Single-cell sequencing analyses have revealed that cell surface receptors called ACE2 and TMPRSS2, which are used by SARS-CoV-2 to enter our cells, are widespread. And PCR has revealed the presence of viral RNA in various tissues, hinting at the possibility that SARS-CoV-2 can infect cells outside the respiratory system, though direct evidence of such infection is still limited. Another possibility is that the runaway immune response and blood clotting that SARS-CoV-2 infections can trigger may be to blame for the complications seen around the body. (See illustration.)
Mapping the Effects of SARS-CoV-2
When COVID-19 first emerged more than a year and a half ago in Wuhan, China, experts, seeing hospital beds filling up with patients in need of ventilators, initially thought it was a lung disease. But after more than 100 million confirmed infections, it's clear that SARS-CoV-2, the virus behind the disease, is capable of causing damage far beyond the respiratory system. COVID-19 sparks symptoms around the body, such as headaches, diarrhea, etc. And researchers have identified viral RNA and receptors that SARS-CoV-2 uses to enter cells in various tissues and organs. This raises the possibility that the virus is capable of infecting multiple systems, though in few cases has actual infection been confirmed outside of the respiratory tract. Moreover, even if the virus does infect cells outside of the lungs, inflammation or blood clotting caused by the body's immune reaction to infection likely also play a role in tissue-specific symptoms.
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"We've learned part of the story," says Stanley Perlman, a microbiologist and immunologist at the University of Iowa. "We're moving forward—there's just always more questions, particularly with [COVID-19], which, at least [for] now, hasn't gone away."
Clotting crisis
Blood clots, both large and small, are some of the most common complications of COVID-19. Early in the pandemic, reports from patients who ended up in the ICU in countries such as China, France, and Italy indicated that physicians were seeing blockages of large vessels in the lungs and in the legs. Some studies suggested that close to half of all critically ill patients ended up with these clots. Later studies revealed that many COVID-19 patients also ended up with clots in the small arteries and capillaries of the lungs, as well as in the vessels of other organs, such as the heart, kidneys, brain, and liver. Researchers have also found high levels of D-dimer, fragments of proteins that signal the presence of blood clots, in individuals severely ill with COVID-19.
It's unclear why the clots are happening. Using patient samples, researchers have pinpointed some evidence that the virus, via ACE2, may directly infect vascular endothelial cells and platelets, components of blood that aggregate to form clots, but the clotting process could also be set off by the maladaptive, runaway immune response, says Hanny Al-Samkari, a hematologist at Massachusetts General Hospital and an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School. "It's probably, like most things this bad, a component of both."
Al-Samkari also points out that a major feature of SARS-CoV-2 infection is damage to the vasculature and that the resulting dysfunction of the blood vessels, called endotheliopathy, can lead to clotting regardless of whether it is caused by direct viral effects or inflammation. Investigations of various organs affected by COVID-19 support the notion that endotheliopathy is a key manifestation of the disease. In the heart, for example, main features of SARS-CoV-2 infection include inflammation of the blood vessels (vasculitis) as well as injury and dysfunction of the endothelial cells, says Erica Spatz, a cardiologist at Yale University.
We started getting more and more convinced that there might be something specific to COVID-19 resulting in the presentation of the disease in the gastrointestinal tract.
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As clotting problems emerged in a growing number of COVID-19 patients, investigators launched clinical trials to evaluate the use of blood thinners as a therapeutic. An international collaboration launched three such trials, REMAP-CAP, ACTIV-4, and ATTACC. Interim results, which include data from more than 1,000 patients at 300 hospitals around the world and have not yet been peer reviewed, point to the possibility that blood thinners lead to worse outcomes in people with severe COVID-19 by increasing the probability of major bleeding, while reducing complications in moderately ill patients who were hospitalized but not yet admitted to the ICU. This suggests that in milder COVID-19 cases, preventing clots from forming can help head off more-severe problems, but that there is a threshold at which a patient's blood vessels are already damaged and filled with clots, making blood thinners more likely to cause dangerous levels of bleeding.
"I think this took everybody by surprise," says Al-Samkari, who is involved in that ongoing research. "People like to think of bleeding and clotting as being on a spectrum, and they are really not. . . . You can be at increased risk of bleeding and at increased risk of clotting at the same time."
Al-Samkari adds that the observation that blood thinners can stymie the worsening of disease in milder COVID-19 cases indicates that "a significant component of how COVID-19 makes people sick is probably related to blood clotting."
Kidney injury
As was the case with many of COVID-19's effects on other organs, a link between the disease and kidney function came into focus early in the pandemic. When ICUs across the globe started to fill up with patients, reports from various countries quickly revealed that people with chronic kidney disease and those who required dialysis or a kidney transplant were at high risk of severe disease and death due to COVID-19.
Clinicians also saw acute kidney injury emerge as a key complication of severe COVID-19, even in those without a history of kidney disease. Some early observational studies reported that up to two-thirds of hospitalized COVID-19 patients experienced kidney-related complications. Most problems were mild to moderate: blood or high levels of protein in the urine signaled kidney damage. In some cases, however, patients experienced more severe kidney injuries that led to dialysis and, for some, a higher likelihood of death.
How the virus exerts its influence on the gut is an open question, but several lines of evidence suggest that it may at least partly be due to direct effects of the virus.
Scientists are still unraveling the mechanisms underlying COVID-19's effects on the kidneys. Patient autopsies have revealed signs of blood clotting and inflammation as well as viral RNA in the tubules—kidney structures that remove excess fluids, salts and other waste products from the body. Researchers have also reported signs of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein in urine, pointing to the possibility that the virus directly infects cells of the urinary tract. According to Annette Bruchfeld, a nephrologist and professor at Linköping University and the Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, such evidence is still preliminary, and it is likely that both direct and indirect effects of the virus—in addition to the role of predisposing factors such as genetics—are likely at play.
Whether such kidney complications associated with COVID-19 can lead to chronic disease remains unknown. "I think it's fair to say that acute kidney injury in connection with COVID is a really bad thing and it drives mortality," says Bruchfeld. "But it doesn't mean that if you survive that you will end up being a chronic dialysis patient. We still don't know the long-term effects."
Gastrointestinal complications
Clinicians observed the first signs that COVID-19 could damage the gut during the initial months of the pandemic. An early meta-analysis that included data from more than 4,000 patients, mostly from China, found that the overall prevalence of gastrointestinal symptoms, including loss of appetite, diarrhea, and nausea, was approximately 17 percent, and that GI problems seem to be much more common among COVID-19 patients with severe illness.
Last spring, when Kaafarani and his colleagues at Mass General first noticed an uptick in the numbers of COVID-19 patients with such complications, they launched an investigation to assess whether this trend was a unique manifestation of the viral disease, or if it was a general response to critical illness. To do so, they compared the prevalence of gut issues in patients admitted to the ICU in March and May 2020 to those admitted to the hospital for acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), the type of respiratory failure found in COVID-19 patients, prior to the pandemic. The findings were striking: the prevalence of gastrointestinal complications in severe COVID-19 patients was 74 percent, almost double the 37 percent prevalence seen in the group of people with ARDS but no infection. The researchers recorded symptoms such as bowel blockages and ileus, problems with movement in the intestines. "We started getting more and more convinced that there might be something specific to COVID-19 resulting in the presentation of the disease in the gastrointestinal tract," Kaafarani says.
How the virus exerts its influence on the gut is an open question, but several lines of evidence suggest that it may at least partly be due to direct effects of the virus. For one, there are often high levels of the ACE2 receptor in the cells of the GI tract in COVID-19 patients. In addition, scientists have detected SARS-CoV-2 RNA in patients' stool and GI tissue samples. Whether SARS-CoV-2 replicates in the gastrointestinal tract has yet to be confirmed. It's conceivable that these viral particles are simply fragments of ingested virus. However, Kaafarani notes that scientists have also detected in the gut pieces of the viral messenger RNA, strings of genetic sequences containing the instructions for building proteins—evidence the virus is in fact replicating there.
Preliminary examinations of GI tissues from COVID-19 patients have also revealed some signs of clotting, particularly in the small vessels found below the bowel, that can obscure the flow of blood into the intestinal arteries, according to Kaafarani. Both blood clotting and direct viral effects are plausible explanations for COVID-19's effects in the GI tract, he adds. "I believe in the next few years we will find out exactly which causes what."
A multi-organ disease
COVID-19's effects have also been documented elsewhere in the body—such as in the heart, where the virus has been linked to heart injury and failure, and in the brain, where issues include stroke, seizures, and sensory impairments. Investigators have also identified damage to the eyes, ears, and pancreas, among other organs in COVID-19 patients.
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As with the vasculature, kidney, and GI tract, it's not yet known whether these symptoms come directly from the virus infecting the cells of these organs, or if indirect effects, such as inflammation or blood clotting, may be responsible. In general, the evidence to date of direct viral infection in most parts of the body outside the lungs is limited, says Perlman, so it is likely that much of the damage that occurs in those with COVID-19 "results from the infection rather than what the [virus] itself is doing."
Spatz notes that as research into these various pathologies continues, the findings should help lead the way to treatments for the broad-ranging symptoms of COVID-19—both in the acute phase of infection and for the still-mysterious long COVID. Some of these findings have already led to more-informed treatments, as in the case of blood thinners, for which expert guidelines changed in response to the research, according to Al-Samkari. Still, Spatz says, many open questions remain, especially when it comes to the long-term effects. "A frustrating aspect of where we are is that what we're learning hasn't yet fully impacted our ability to help patients in the long-hauler phase. . . . There's so much that we don't know."
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The brain's septal area, which control the release of oxytocin – the bonding hormone that inspires trust – becomes active in those who never betray each other. The release of oxytocin may lead you to trust people who are not worthy of trust. For example, because you have develop a sense of community with those who share your lifestyle, religion, ethnicity, and so on.
In business, we need to trust our team to do their work. Not by micromanaging, and force them to do our way, but let them to find the numerous way through experiential learning and release the hormone oxytocin while working and playing. Always, think objectively in business, gaining trust together, but don't mistaken with trust just because they are fun to be with.
Sometimes, the brain may signal that you are making a correct decision when in reality, you are not, because of your belief. Anyone can make mistake, so we should think with accuracy before making decision, to gather premises and facts, bearing in minds that what we think is correct need to have validity to avoid mistaken assumptions.
The brain instantaneous decision, can trigger impulse in tense, scary, or emotional situation instantly to avoid hurt/pain. In difficult situation, count to 10 before you act to avoid stupid action / reaction as a self-defense mechanism.
Are you on a treadmill, on autopilot, on an expedition, or on a mission?
When you feel endangered, the brain's limbic system goes into the overdrive. This brain area has amygdala – a cluster of cells which takes over when life become very intense emotionally, it makes us very difficult to act reasonable and thinking rationally. In the perceived crisis, the instinctual responses is to "Fight, Flight, or Freese." Override the normal cognitive processes.
When amygdala takes charge – which becomes active in fear, primitive, instant reactions – Try to shift your focus to cognitively demanding tasks. Ask yourself "What am I feeling" and turn your view in a positive way. To be an effective person, paused for a while and maintain mindfulness (equanimity), gather your senses and develop the "emotional intelligence" which includes "emotional management".
A UX Leader is hybrid, people called us as a Unicorn, because we have to demonstrate self awareness, be comfortable with ambiguity, continuous-learning, and inspire others to solve the complex become simple.
Establishing, driving, and articulate the design vision.
Educate and inspire the knowledge so that success can be measured and result can be achieved.
Delivers successful usable, user-friendly, and intuitive product.
Managing the team, ensures all members are challenged and motivated.
This hybrid skill set can seem complicated, but with experience and willingness to learn, the mindset of leadership can be learned and developed.
Leadership is a journey, every project expands our knowledge and teaches us with more experience to become the master in our field.
The right self-awareness help us to understand our domain pathway, expanding beyond just the design field, and understand more contexts such as business, marketing, sales, technology and many more.
UX Leadership is a long journey, the main step is to take the first step.
In the digital age, we are fortunate to learn a lot of informations at our fingertips. We have a lot of tools we can use, we have a lot of online course to enroll. To improve our skills and experience, we can continuously learn to pursue our interest and advance our career!
You aren't alone. From my past experience, a lot of my journey are inspired by teams of motivated individuals. Everyone has the humility to work collectively to solve complex challenges and make the world a better place.
Delegation isn't just passing the tasks to my team, but also empowering each individuals in the team. We are focusing on how to delegate effectively, educate and expanding others' skill set. We give them explanation why we are giving the the tasks, with clear guidance.
Ensure your team that they will be supported, educated, and rewarded for their role and responsibility.
We set direction and nurture the team. We celebrate everyone success without jealousy and take responsibility for temporary defeat, make them understand every mistake is an opportunity for learning.
If we inspire the team to achieve great things, there is no mountain to high to climb.
Demonstrate and educate the team in continuous skills. Work – is a team efforts, and experienced team will deliver and achieve great things. You will improve yourself by seeing things from others' perspectives.
To lead, learn from the others. Don't always be the smartest people in the room. Get out and find something to learn, from your team, from the experts, make it your primary goal to understand all points of view of the business.
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The ideal product team shares knowledge, communicates ideas, and identifies project tasks to ensure the successful product development in a timely plan and at the highest quality possible.
PROJECT MANAGER: Manage the development and the feature requirement of the project. Great project managers have to understand technology support, the business goals and the design of user needs — at the same time.
UX RESEARCH: Focuses on understanding user needs, behaviours, and scenarios through interviews, observations, customer journeys, and feedbacks analysis.
INTERACTION DESIGNER: Define the interaction of usable product that will be implemented by developers, based on constraints, adoption, and engagement. Great Interaction Designers will help the team to get actionable features early, communicate with stakeholders, and deliver usable product on user needs.
BACK-END: Experienced in databases, like Java, .Net, PHP, Python, and Ruby on Rails, MySQL, etc. Their primary function are to make the system flow smoothly for current and future performance.
QUALITY ASSURANCE: Doing a test-driven development based on a lot of scenarios and user-stories. Great QA Testers are detail – oriented, become the gatekeeper for many functions, as product development sometimes very complex, they help to ensure the steps are taken to deliver great product.
ENGINEERS TEAM: Based on programming language, and project assigned. For example, IOS/Android developer, Virtual Reality, Cloud database, etc.
Product Specialist, Data scientist, Growth Hackers, Business Expert and other will be explained in the future.
As entrepreneurs begin to embark transformative plan to set up ideas from zero to one, we collaborate in Business – Design – Technology during the process of identifying problems designing solutions to come up with 'Breakthrough Ideas' for growth impact.
TEAM: Entrepreneurs, UX Researcher, Stakeholders, Corporate Strategy, Business Experts, and a lot of users (for interviews).
We walk entrepreneurs through proven footstep for inspiration, user-problem, idea generation, prototyping and testing. We do a lot of user interviews, market research, hypothesis (assumptions) to understand user pain points.
TEAM: Entrepreneurs & Team, Software Engineer, Visual/Interaction Designer, Product Specialist / Corporate Strategist, Business Experts, and a lot of users (for testing).
As development is very costly, it takes a lot of time and resources, we can't jump to Agile Development yet. Instead we do rapid prototyping, cheap and fast, turning ideas into something tangible to test whether idea/proposed solution works in the user mind. We continuously test – learn – iterate towards product and market fit.
We can test anything rapidly across problem, solution, multiple customer segment, distribution channels, revenue business model, and many more in order to validate solution and ideas that works.
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We collaborate with cross-functional team to do frequent and incremental delivery of product, ongoing reassessment of and adaptation of plans. A lot of entrepreneurs start jumping into building solution without understand user needs and validating ideas, this creates lack of subsequential progress to create solution that solve user-problem.
Once we understand user need and validate the solution, we can start deliver proposed features and do a incremental enhancement based on user feedback. Based on ideas and feedback, we can decide to do pivot or keep iterating.
TEAM: Entrepreneur & Team, Technology Team, UX Design Team, Product Specialist / Corporate Strategist, Business Experts, QA Testers, Social Media, Digital Marketers, Data Scientist, and a lot of users (for feedbacks) – the team are unlimited here.
We understand user need, validate ideas that work, and build minimum viable product to go to market. The next step is to get ongoing feedback, adapt and deliver precisely to continuously expand and scale.
We design and develop value for customers, increase revenue, reduce profits, and expand the market share. We give the team the opportunity to do more rewarding and fulfilling work.
Conclusion: We are maximising value creation, we do things fast and continuous iteration for transformation. At its core, Design Thinking – Lean UX (Google Sprint) – Agile Development – Growth Hacking will help us to deliver value and gaining prominence in the marketplace.
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Design thinking is a mindset for solving a complex problem based on user focus, identify pain points, collaborations, experimentation, and test-iterate. The process, in turn, refers to follow through steps and real ways of working that are consistent with the mindset.
User interview is a great way to understand users from their perspective. However, Interviews tend to give insights into what people say "the generic answer" and this is sometimes not the same as what they want. We Have to Go Deeper.
We want to connect with customers to see the real cause of the user behavior. We are creating the solution to help our user.
"Tell me a fact and I'll learn. Tell me a truth and I'll believe. But tell me a story and it will live in my heart forever. " – An old Native American proverb.
4. Develop Functional, Emotional, and Social Needs.
Functional benefits user with product attribute of usefulness – functional. Emotional give the user positive feelings, emotionally connected with the product/service. Social provides the user an opportunity to communicate his or her self-image to others.
5. Build The Experience Map – Identify The Pain Points.
An experience map shows the journey a user has while experiencing a product or service. It allows us to see the bigger picture, and make decisions about where to focus activity based on the user's primary pain points.
6. Ask for Customer Feedbacks after Develop Solution.
When we connect user feedback to what we're creating in our solutions, we get a much clearer picture of what's the right thing, improve the idea, and identify opportunities.
7. Work on Gamification to Engage and Retain Users.
By Michael Fillié. The practice of typical game elements (e.g., points, competitions, rewards) when building the ideas and solutions to encourage engagement with the user.
8. Speak Customer Language, Not Your Design Language.
By Vasu Kolla. "Design Thinking, User Experience, Lean UX, Agile, Growth Hacking, and so on." only Designers or People in the industry will understand. Tailor words to different audiences.
9. Business Value Matters – Lead User Generations.
By James Lewin. "What values are important to you in business?" It's not only about the number of impressions or the number of clicks, but also the amount that converts into leads – into people that believe in your idea and you can serve.
10. TERMS, Time + Energy + Resources + Money + Sanity.
By Martin Norbury. If the ideas require a lot of time, energy, resources, money, and sanity to pull it off beyond the ROI, future growth, lifestyle changes and so on. Decide whether it is a good idea or not.
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President Donald Trump speaks Wednesday at an "Our Pledge to America's Workers" event at the White House. On Thursday, he spoke on adoption and foster children in marking November as National Adoption Month. (Photo: Chris Kleponis /CNP/Newscom)
President Donald Trump called Thursday for helping children in need—both born and unborn—by supporting adoption.
"Adoption affirms the inherent value of human life and signals that every child—born or unborn—is wanted and loved," Trump said in a statement, released Wednesday by the White House, proclaiming November as National Adoption Month. "Children, regardless of race, sex, age, or disability deserve a loving embrace into families they can call their own.
"This month, we honor the thousands of American families who have grown because of adoption," the president continued. "We also stand with those children in foster care, and we appeal to families, communities, and houses of worship across our great nation to help these children find a permanent home."
Trump also offered praise to parents willing to put their children up for adoption to have a better life.
"My administration also acknowledges the courage of those mothers and fathers who place their child for adoption," he said. "Our nation grows stronger because of the love and sacrifice of parents, both birth and adoptive."
Trump, who has promoted pro-life policies since becoming president, didn't directly address abortion. However, he seemed to allude to adoption as a better choice for unplanned pregnancies.
"We must also encourage all Americans to recognize that adoption is a powerful way to show women they are not alone in an unexpected pregnancy," the president said.
A letter from 78 Republican members of the House and Senate earlier this year called on Trump to protect faith-based child welfare services from losing federal funding for following their religious beliefs. In Illinois, the District of Columbia, and Massachusetts, faith-based agencies were forced to close for refusing to assist with adoptions by same-sex couples.
The lawmakers asked Trump to enforce existing laws making it illegal for states to withhold funding based on an organization's moral objections.
The Child Welfare Provider and Inclusion Act, a bill in Congress, would protect faith-based adoption agencies and other child welfare providers from discrimination by federal, state, or local governments.
"With hundreds of thousands of children currently in foster care, and the opioid crisis flooding even more children into the system, now more than ever, policymakers should remove—not create—barriers of discrimination against child welfare service providers on the basis of a provider's moral or religious beliefs," said Melanie Israel, a research associate with The Heritage Foundation.
"Protecting a diversity of providers and their ability to operate according to their values—as well as their ability to work with families who share those values—takes nothing away from anyone, and makes it more likely that the greatest possible number of children will be welcomed into a forever home."
The president's proclamation also addressed the unique challenges facing children in foster care.
"My administration is dedicated to supporting the children in foster care who are seeking permanent homes," Trump said. "Unfortunately, many youth leave foster care at the age of 18 without lasting family connections. These children deserve a permanent family, which can provide them with love, stability, support, and encouragement as they pursue personal, educational, and employment goals and confront life's opportunities and challenges."
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Q: spectrum and phase of function in frequency domain This must be a very basic question but I am a finance student just learning some basics about Fourier Transformation to apply to time series analysis. I did a fourier transform on a function in time domain to get the following function in frequency domain:
$Y_1[\omega] = \frac{1}{1-\phi_1 e^{-jw}}$
$Y_2[\omega] = \frac{1}{1-(\phi_1 + \phi_2)e^{-jw} +\phi_1\phi_2e^{-2jw}}$
How do I find the spectrum of this function for given $\phi_1$ and $\phi_2$ coefficients and in the discretization interval $w = [-\pi:.1*\pi: \pi]$? Then, how do I find the 'magnitude' of spectrum and 'phase' of spectrum?

A: Let
\begin{align*}
Z(\omega) & = 1-\phi e^{-jw} = 1-\phi (\cos(\omega) - j \sin(\omega))\\
 & = 1-\phi \cos(\omega) + j \phi \sin(\omega)\\
\end{align*}
Hence, we get that
\begin{align*}
|Z(\omega)| = & \sqrt{(1-\phi (\cos(\omega))^2 + (\phi \sin(\omega))^2} = \sqrt{1 + \phi^2 - 2 \phi \cos(\omega)}\\
\angle{Z(\omega)} = & \tan^{-1}(\frac{\phi \sin(\omega)}{1-\phi \cos(\omega)})
\end{align*}
$$Y(\omega) = \frac{1}{Z(\omega)}$$
Hence, we get that
\begin{align*}
|Y(\omega)| = & \frac{1}{\sqrt{1 + \phi^2 - 2 \phi \cos(\omega)}}\\
\angle{Y(\omega)} = & -\tan^{-1}(\frac{\phi \sin(\omega)}{1-\phi \cos(\omega)})
\end{align*}
Finding the magnitude and phase for $|Y_2(\omega)|$ is a trivial process once you have done the previous one.
$Y_2(\omega) = \frac{1}{1-\phi_1 e^{-jw}} \times \frac{1}{1-\phi_2 e^{-jw}}$.
Hence,
\begin{align*}
|Y_2(\omega)| = & \frac{1}{\sqrt{1 + \phi_1^2 - 2 \phi_1 \cos(\omega)}} \times \frac{1}{\sqrt{1 + \phi_2^2 - 2 \phi_2 \cos(\omega)}}\\
\angle{Y_2(\omega)} = & -\tan^{-1}(\frac{\phi_1 \sin(\omega)}{1-\phi_1\cos(\omega)}) -\tan^{-1}(\frac{\phi_2 \sin(\omega)}{1-\phi_2\cos(\omega)})
\end{align*}

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Rail boss makes fares pledge
RAIL passengers in East Anglia should not see inflation-busting fare increases as a result of a change in government policy, an industry boss claimed today.
But there are likely to be more incentives to encourage passengers to use off-peak services on the main-line to London over the next few years.
There was an outcry this week when it was revealed that new franchise agreements for cross-country and east Midlands services required the new rail operators to increase fares by 30 per cent above inflation rates by 2015.
The government has imposed the conditions to help cut the subsidy paid to rail operators by the Department for Transport.
However 'one' head of corporate affairs Jonathan Denby said his company's fares were regulated by different conditions.
He said: "When we were awarded our franchise in 2004 the conditions were not the same as those imposed on the current round of franchises.
"Our fares are governed by the agreement we signed three years ago and the franchise now runs until 2011 or 2014 so there will be no major increases so far as we are concerned."
But Mr Denby said the company was aware there was a need to pitch fares at the right level - which could mean more differential fares.
He said: "There is no point in offering cheap fares at busy times because people who have paid substantial amounts of money to travel at the peak don't want to find people with cheap tickets sitting in their seats."
The company had found that offering off-peak tickets to London for as little as £6 from Ipswich one-way had attracted many more passengers on to off-peak services.
"There have always been different fares at different times of the day, and that is something that is likely to develop in the years ahead," Mr Denby said.


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THE EDGE OF BLACK CREEK.
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Army Institute of Management (AIMK), Kolkata
Army Institute of Management (AIMK), Kolkata established in 1997, is one of the leading management schools in India. AIMK was initially known as National Institute of Management Calcutta (NIMC) and the institute's current name was given on 11 February, 2005. The Institute's MBA program is approved by the All India Council for Technical Education and affiliated to the West Bengal University of Technology. The college has been Ranked A++ Category B-School in the Country. The college has been managed by the Army Welfare Education Society (AWES), New Delhi; the institute is the first of its kind in India.
The Institute has been in the forefront in providing excellent education to the students since its inception and has been receiving outstanding response from young MBA aspirants. The institute was established with a vision of providing a premier Institution which will enrich, rejuvenate and ensure growth of industrial as well as wealth generating companies / industries with motivated young managers and leaders who are capable of steering the organization in a fiercely competitive environment. The institute aims at preparing a student as an officer and a gentleman with Indian values under army discipline for the global market.
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The AIMK campus is highly conducive for the personal as well as the professional development of students and faculty members. A warm, community feeling is fostered at the campus, where all students are helped to concentrate fully on their respective pursuits. Infrastructural solidity and technological excellence add to the overall attractions of the campus.
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M.B.A. – Stands for Master of Business Administration. Typically, an MBA is a two year postgraduate degree, eligibility for which is an undergraduate degree in business management or business administration. Subjects usually studied under this degree are Basics of Management, Statistics, Quantitative Techniques, Financial & Cost Accounting, Managerial Economics, Organizational Behavior, Marketing Management, Financial Management, Human Resources Management, Marketing Research, Industrial Relations, Consumer Behaviour, International Business , Software Solutions for Business, Relationship Marketing, Corporate Finance etc.
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Q: Hide an element forever on hover When someone hover my site title, the background changes forever, I want the title to disappear forever too.

{Title}

function changeBodyBackground() {
document.body.style.background = "url(http://i.imgur.com/EyWVWO7.gif)";
document.body.style.backgroundSize = "Cover";
}

The code is the background html and javascript, I want to remove the title (h1).

A: Assign and ID

{Title}

At the end of the JavaScript function
 document.getElementById('title').style.display = 'none';


When your forty feet from the 'largest bookstore' in Europe, it's hard to get bored. But alas, the usual 'bug' has hit us. We took the Red Eye from JFK to London on Sunday afternoon. Thinking we were going to get some stuff done…we both crashed in our hotel…for most of the day. On Monday, we toured the National Gallery, maybe ten minutes walk. But we both began to feel that our systems weren't quite right.
I mean how many Botticelli's and Caravaggio's can a guy take in? And the Ruben gallery? Not my body type.
Our hotel is a 4* on Piccadilly Street. What was it we picked up? A cold from the week in NYC? I doubt it, because there's the incubation period to think about. Was it the 'airplane air'? Maybe…I've had some bad luck recently.
So, it's Monday night and we both pretty much stayed put, sleeping and feeling congested and feverish.
I never got out doors today. But I feel a lot better, in case anyone is wondering. Mariam is running a low-grade fever. It's chilly and rainy out.
How are we going to complete our plans? The Ripper Tour? Saint Paul's Cathedral? Highgate Cemetery? The Royal Greenwich observatory ?
Some things will just have to wait.


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Q: Does the integral in the formal 2D Fourier transform of the logarithm converge? If $k$ is a nonzero vector in $\mathbb R^2$, how to interpret this integral:
$$\int_{\mathbb R^2}e^{ik\cdot x}\ln{|x|}dx$$
Does it converge and in what sense?
Thanks in advance.

A: The integral does not converge in any usual sense.
You want the Fourier transform of $\ln |x|$. The Laplacian of $\ln |x|$ is $2\pi \delta_0$, a multiple of the delta function at the origin. The Fourier transform of this $2\pi \delta_0$ is the constant function $2\pi$. On the other hand, taking the Laplacian amounts to multiplying the Fourier transform by $-|k|^2$. So, the Fourier transform of $\ln |x|$ should be $-2\pi |k|^{-2}$.
I say "should be" because $-2\pi |k|^{-2}$ is not locally integrable and therefore does not qualify as a distribution. So the  approximation by tempered distributions does not seem to legitimize the result.
However, we can integrate $|k|^{-2}$ against test functions vanishing at the origin. On the $x$ plane, this corresponds to convolution with test functions that have zero integral. So, the transform is valid in the   following sense: if $\varphi$ is a   Schwartz test function with $\int \varphi=0$, then the convolution $(\ln |x|) *\varphi$ is a tempered distribution, and the Fourier transform of $(\ln |x|) *\varphi$ is $-2\pi |k|^{-2} \hat \varphi$.


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Gary Reginald Whitney (born 19 March 1951 in Campbell Town, Tasmania) is a former cricketer who played for Tasmania. He was a right-handed batsman and right-arm fast-medium bowler who represented Tasmania from 1973 to 1979.

See also
 List of Tasmanian representative cricketers

External links
Cricinfo Profile

1951 births
Living people
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Ahmed gained a BA in Theatre Science (acting & directing) from Helwan University in Egypt in 2015. After his studies he completed a course in cinematography at the Institute of Cinema in Egypt 2016. In 2017 he attended a course in documentary film directing at the Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts in Sweden just before his internship with the FID Festival International De Cinema Marseille, France. Ahmed started out as a filmmaker and his two short films received six awards and have been shown at film festivals all over the world. Recently involving a screening at the BBC Arabic Festival in London 2018 and aired on the BBC Arabic channel 2018 and at the launch of Sharjah Film Platform (SFP) 2019, organised by Sharjah Art Foundation in UAE. Ahmed works as a Filmmaker and Proudcer
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Individuals do not define their own identity and gender. The roles of men and women are constantly defined and redefined by societies and cultures, identities as well. Identity is also subject to determine by groups of individuals and social movements. In the city where we live we try to identify and re-connect with it with a different perspective by work with Visual Art, Video Art, Sound Art and Live Performances
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We took a strategic approach to market research to ensure the new campaign not only reached but also connected with the potential bystanders of domestic violence from within San Francisco's diverse communities. We conducted four focus groups: one in Chinese, one in Spanish, one with LGBTQ communities, and one with a representative cross-section of the general public. We also facilitated a round table discussion with domestic violence advocates to gather their input. The research guided our campaign by helping us determine which messages to use for specific audiences and how to visually present the campaign.
Our media strategy used data from the Department's Family Violence Council report to identify the neighborhoods that generate the most 911 calls for help in domestic violence cases. We placed a mix of Muni transit ads on lines serving these neighborhoods, with Chinese ads placed in Chinatown and the Sunset and Spanish ads placed in the Mission and Excelsior. Our digital media buy included both video and static ads on Facebook, targeting San Franciscans who use the social network in English, Chinese, and Spanish with in-language ads. The campaign was also one of the city's first to run in-app ads on on-line dating sites. By the end of its run, the campaign resulted in more than 10 million impressions within the San Francisco market.
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The Chiawelo comminity is fighting against the installation of pre-payment electricity meters which forces them to pay upfront for electricity. The underlying problem is the increasingly high cost of electricity for non-business electricity users in South Africa. ESKOM,the state-owned electricity company routinely cuts off the power supply to consumers who fall behind several months with their payments. But social movements organising in Soweto, a mainly working class township/suburb, such as the Soweto Electricity Crisis Committee, often re-connect residents who get cut off as part of their struggle for universal access to clean energy. The conflict in Chiawelo arose because the new pre-payment meters are tamper- proof, that is, they are built like money safes and cannot be interfered with by residents and social movement technicians seeking to re-connect the people. In 2010 the community of Chiawelo got very agitated about these meters given a 20% increase in the price of electricity that saw many unable to pay and thus without electricity. They marched in the streets causing chaos and burnt down two houses belonging to local councillors, that is, elected local government representatives. The aftermath saw 26 residents arrested and facing charges of arson, public violence and malicious damage to property. The arrested spent 4 months in jail because the state refused them bail. The court case is on-going.
Opening of the the pre-payment electricity meters using grinders in order to re-connect those who were cut off.
Other The walls of some peoples houses get covered with soot due to the use of paraffin primus stoves, candles spills dirty the house, paraffin smell inside the house and on peoples clothing. This happens due to the use of unclean and unsafe fuels since many people cannot afford to buy electricity.
Other School children studying using paraffin lamps, candles and other inadequate light sources have their eyes negatively affected.
Other Too much money spent on buying electricity constrains the budgets of poor families. Many families rely on government social grants, such as penisions and child grants, for survival given the high unemployment rate in Soweto.
The government promotes a policy of providing free electricity to poor households, but this amounts to 50 kwh per household per month. This is not enough to cover basic energy needs of working class families.
Development of Alternatives They demand enough free electricity for all to cover basic needs i.e. about 400 kwh per household per month. The electricity company must stop installing the pre-payment meters. The government must subsidise the installation of solar energy panels in order to make electricity affordable and to prevent carbon emissions that lead to climate change. All charges to be dropped against the 26 Chiawelo residents who were arrested and who face stiff sentences if found guilty by the court.
Why? Explain briefly. The residents of Soweto have a right to clean energy. Without access to this they end up using unclean fuels such as burning wood, coal and using paraffin. Their struggle highlighted this right and slowed down the implementation of the pre-payment meters throughout Soweto as a result of other communities taking up the resistance and the authorities moving more cautiously.
The government is considering criminalising the stealing of electricity because at the moment there is no piece of law that allows government to arrest and charge residents who re-connect themselves to the power supply when cut off for credit purposes.
South African Broadcasting Corporation, News Research database, 2011.
Maj Fiil-Flynn, The Electricity Crisis in Soweto, Municipal Services Project paper, 2001.
Patrick Bond, Unsustainable South AfricaEnvironment, Development and Social Protest, Pietermaritzburg: University of Kwa-Zulu Natal Press and London: The Merlin Press, 2002.
SA Local Government Research Centre (SALGRC), SA local government briefing (Supplementary), 2011.
Other Comments This is an on-going struggle as the court case continues and electricity prices increase annually in South Africa. The government has recently secured a huge loan from the World Bank to build coal-powered fire stations and these will not only add to carbon emissions but will lead to further price increases. The struggle of the Chiawelo people is at the cutting edge of the struggle for clean, safe affordable energy that does not contribute to climate change.


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Marillion released their studio album debut, Script for a Jester's Tear, in March 1983. The record was certified platinum in the band's native U.K. where it reached number seven on the Albums Chart and spawned two Top 40 singles: 'He Knows You Know' and 'Garden Party'. The deluxe edition opens with a newly remixed stereo version of 'Script for a Jester's Tear' by Andy Bradfield and Avril Mackintosh. In addition, the collection also features new stereo remixes for the b-side 'Charting the Single' that was released in January 1982, as well as the 'Market Square Heroes EP' that followed in October that same year. On April 17th Parlophone/Warner will release a 4CD/Blu-ray Deluxe Edition of SCRIPT FOR A JESTER'S TEAR, there will also be a 4 Vinyl LP box edition.
SCRIPT FOR A JESTER'S TEAR: DELUXE EDITION
4CD/Blu-ray Track Listing
Disc One: Script For A Jester's Tear (2020 Stereo Remix)
Script For A Jester's Tear
He Knows You Know
Chelsea Monday
Forgotten Sons
Disc Two: Market Square Heroes EP (2020 Stereo Remix)
Market Square Heroes
Three Boats Down From The Candy
Charting The Single - 2020 Remaster
Disc Three: Live at the Marquee Club, London (12/29/82)
Garden Party*
Three Boats Down From The Candy*
Grendel*
Chelsea Monday*
He Knows You Know*
Disc Four: Live at the Marquee Club, London (12/29/82)
The Web*
Script For A Jesters Tear*
Forgotten Sons*
Market Square Heroes*
Margaret*
Disc Five: Blu-ray
Documentary: 'Sackcloth and Greasepaint - The Story of Script For A Jester's Tear'
Script For A Jesters Tear - 2020 Stereo Remix (96k 24 bit)
Script For A Jester's Tear (5.1 Surround Remix)
Market Square Heroes EP - 2020 Stereo Remix (96k 24 bit)
Live at the Marquee Club, London (12/29/82) - 2020 Stereo Remix (96k 24 bit)
* previously unreleased
Track listing for the 4LP set is the same as the four CD's
This is a great package for a very resonable price at time of going to press it was listed on Amazon for just 24.24GBP unlike some sets by other bands which have similar sets but try to charge in the region of 99GBP, although some of the discs are quite short in play time, I think it is good they kept the integrity of the track listing and didn't try to squeeze the tracks willy-nilly onto three Discs. The discs come in the popular book format with two CD's attached inside the front cover and two CD's in the rear cover with the Blu-Ray inserted into a pocket page. The Book is of high quality with a nice textured cover featuring the fantastic iconic album cover, the pages of the book feature many early photos of the band and early live sessions, memorabillia and conceptual art and thoughout it is very bold and colourful and captures the 'feel' of the album to a tee.
The discs feature the newly remixed album in its entirity and the sound quality is amazing, having listened to the album many times since buying it on its original release the overall tone and clarity brings out nuances that I have not heard before and it is almost like listening to a new album the remix has certainly 'cleaned' up the original 80's sound. the Second CD features a new 2020 remix of the Market square Heroes EP as well as some additional tracks from the recording sessions which are well known to Marillion afficianados and like the album have a new tonal quality to bring them to life like never before. The final two CD's feature a previously unreleased live performance Live at the Marquee Club, London from 29/12/82 which is a great bonus. Moving onto the Blu-ray it features the 2020 remix of original album in high quality 96/24 audio as well as a fabulous 5.1 surround Remix and also the 2020 remix of the Market square Heroes EP and the Live Marquee Club show in 96/24 audio. As an added bonus there is also a new documentary featuring band interviews which documents the 1979 formation of Marillion in Aylesbury through to the release of Script for a Jester's Tear in 1983. The overall package is superb, the sound quality is great and Andy Bradfield and Avril Mackintosh have done a great job on the remix. For the price it is a must buy, but get in quick as these releases are limited and as seen with other similar packages when they sell out the price goes through the roof, so don't miss out. Click the image below to Pre-order from Amazon.
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Anticipation Plays a Powerful Role in Human Memory
Psychologists have long known that memories of disturbing emotional events - such as an act of violence or the unexpected death of a loved one - are more vivid and deeply imprinted in the brain than mundane recollections of everyday matters.
Probing deeper into how such memories form, researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have found that the mere anticipation of a fearful situation can fire up two memory-forming regions of the brain - even before the event has occurred.
That means the simple act of anticipation may play a surprisingly important role in how fresh the memory of a tough experience remains.
The findings of the brain-imaging study, which appear in the current issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, have important implications for the treatment of psychological conditions such as post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and social anxiety, which are often characterized by flashbacks and intrusive memories of upsetting events.
"The main motivation for this study was a clinical one, in terms of understanding and applying knowledge about memory so that we can better inform the treatment of disorders that have a large memory component, like PTSD," says lead author Kristen Mackiewicz, a graduate student at the University of Colorado who worked on the anticipation study while a student at UW-Madison.
The project also builds on a relatively new body of work on the role of anticipation in emotion and clinical disorders, says senior author Jack Nitschke, a UW-Madison assistant professor of psychiatry and psychology.
"Our study illustrates how the power of expectancy can extend to memory formation as well," says Nitschke, also an associate of UW-Madison's Waisman Laboratory for Brain Imaging and Behavior. "Just the expectation of seeing something bad can enhance the memory of it after it happens."
A teacher who struggles with stage fright, for example, might feel anxious before every class she has to teach. The UW-Madison work suggests that the longer she spends dreading her next lecture, the stronger her memory of the uncomfortable experience is likely to be when it is over. Unfortunately, that sets a vicious cycle in motion, because the stronger her memory of discomfort, the worse her performance anxiety is likely to get.
The UW-Madison scientists found that two key regions of the brain - the amygdala and the hippocampus - become activated when a person is anticipating a difficult situation. Scientists think the amygdala is associated with the formation of emotional memories, while the hippocampus helps the brain form long-term recollections, Nitschke says.
The researchers studied the brain activity of 36 healthy volunteers using a technique known as functional magnetic resonance imaging, which produces high-contrast images of human tissue. They began by showing the volunteers two kinds of signals. One was neutral, but the other indicated that some type of gruesome picture was soon to follow, such as explicit photos of bloody, mutilated bodies.
Thirty minutes after the researchers had shown dozens of violent images, they quizzed study participants on how well they remembered the pictures they had just seen.
"We found that the more activated the amygdala and hippocampus had been during the anticipation [of the pictures], the more likely it was that a person would remember more of them right away," says Nitschke.
Two weeks after the experiment, scientists met with the study subjects again to measure how well they remembered the same disturbing images. This time, they found that people who best remembered them had shown the greatest amygdala and hippocampus activity during the picture-viewing exercise two weeks before. That suggested that those subjects' brains had already started converting short-term memories of the images into longer-lasting ones.
Mackiewicz says the anticipation of an uncomfortable situation probably kick-starts a kind of "arousal or fear circuitry" in the brain, which in turn helps to reinforce old memories.
"In the future, we could look for ways to dampen that arousal response in patients so that they do not evoke negative memories so easily," she adds.
Scientists Issidoros Sarinopoulos and Krystal Cleven at the Waisman Laboratory for Brain Imaging and Behavior also contributed to the study.
Source: University of Wisconsin-Madison
Citation: Anticipation Plays a Powerful Role in Human Memory (2006, September 5) retrieved 30 January 2023 from https://medicalxpress.com/news/2006-09-powerful-role-human-memory.html
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