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Honorary Members/Academicians
eati.mission statement
The European Academy of Tumor Immunology (eati, official website: www.euroacadti.eu) has been founded in 2011 with the idea of creating a novel organization that responds to the need of structuring the European research space in this expanding, clinically ever more important area of research. Rapidly, this initiative, which regroups (part of) the elite of tumor immunologists, has been joined by numerous scientists, who accepted to support eati as founding members. Obviously, eati will not enter in competition with existing prestigious organizations, be they supranational (such as the Cancer Research Institute, CRI; the European Society for Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy, ESCII; and the Society for the Immunotherapy of Cancer, SITC), or national [such as the Cancer Immunology Working Group, CIMM, of the American Association for Cancer Reserch; the (German) Association for Cancer Immunotherapy, CIMT; the (US) Cancer Immunotherapy Consortium, CIC; the (US) Cancer Vaccine Consortium, CVC; and the Italian Network for Cancer Biotherapy, NIBIT]. The choice of cooperation (rather than competition) with these organizations is clearly documented by the fact that many prominent members of CIMM, CIC, CIMT, CRI, CVC, ESCII, NIBIT and SITC are also eati.academicians.
bridging fields
Eati engages in all areas of tumor immunology, considered as a continuum between fundamental, translational and clinical research, as well as the practical implementation of diagnostic and therapeutic procedures in routine clinical practice. Indeed, eati considers that even the most fundamental aspects of immunology and (cancer) cell biology require further in depth investigation to launch the next wave of conceptual insights. It may take several decades to apply a basic discovery in the clinics, as exemplified by the time that elapsed from the discoveries of monoclonal antibodies, dendritic cells and papilloma virus to their application in clinical oncology. Although this time frame certainly deters the pharmaceutical and biotechnical industries—bound to short-term vision – from investing in basic science, eati believes that basic—research constitutes one of the best investments that public administrations can effectuate to ameliorate patient care in the future including in the area of cancer immunotherapy. Obviously, eati does not neglect the translational and clinical aspect of tumor immunology. Indeed, eati will be one of the protagonists of the yet-to-be-created European Network for Cancer Immunotherapy (ENCI), which will launch several multicenter trials on in Europe.
bridging continents
In spite of the appearance of its name, eati is not an exclusively European organization. Close to half of its founding members are from other continents, from the Americas, from Asia and from Australia. This matter of fact illustrates the efforts of eati to act as an intercontinental, global organization that pursues its goals without any local patriotism. Our common enemies are the dominant characteristics of the abysmally anti-scientific society that surrounds us, in all countries on this globe: superficial hedonism, facile consumerism, immoral profit-seeking and political shortsightness. So, it is our moral obligation to pool our energy, knowledge and resources to publicize our vision and to convince policy makers, public administrations, industrial partners and health care professionals that tumor immunology has a huge potential for the prevention and treatment of neoplastic diseases.
bridging generations
The founding members of eati have made essential contributions to tumor immunology (and three among them actually won the Nobel prize), meaning that they (mostly) attained the second half of their life expectancy. Notwithstanding this accumulated experience, eati is aware of the necessity to stimulate and educate the next generation of tumor immunologists. In collaboration with the "LabEx Immuno-Oncology" (a network of laboratories specialized in tumor immunology that is sponsored by the French Government), eati will sponsor several educational graduate student programs in Paris, support graduate and post-doctoral researchers working in the Paris area, launch a seminar series on the immunotherapy of cancer in Paris and hold (at least one) annual meeting that will give educational credits to PhD students. Although these programs are right now limited to Paris, eati plans to extend these efforts across Europe via its cooperation with the European Federation of Immunology Societies (EFIS) and the European Academy of Cancers Sciences (EACS). These educational activities will be publicized in part via OncoImmunology, which is the official eati.journal.
acknowledgments and legal notice
eati is s an association regulated by the french law 1901 and is sponsored by the LabEx Immuno-Oncology

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Since When Is Criticizing The Police A Hate Crime?
September 4, 2014 | by Rob Port
I've long been skeptical of so-called "hate crimes" legislation, mostly because I don't feel that the identity of the victim should necessarily impact the seriousness of a crime. An assault is an assault, whether it's a fist fight at a football game or a racist beating up a Hispanic person.
Even more odious are "hate speech" crimes, which criminalizes behavior that while probably obnoxious to most of us is still just speech. I've always felt as though "hate speech" laws could easily creep into the area of just plain old laws against speech that makes a certain group of people angry.
Which is to say, laws that would limit our freedom of speech.
Case in point, a woman in New York who has been charged with a "hate crime" for graffiti critical of the New York Police Department. Now, to be sure, vandalism is not protected speech. I'm not defending this woman's defacement of other people's property. But charging her with a "hate crime" is criminalizing the content of her speech, not its clearly illegal medium, and in that we have a 1st amendment issue:
Rosella Best, 36, was arrested on Monday for allegedly tagging police cars, vans, scooters, and a school in Brooklyn with anti-cop sentiments. The messages "Nazis=NYPD" and "NYPD pick on the innocent" were discovered on PS 31 near Lorimer and Meserole Streets. Other spray-painted statements included "NYPD pick on the harmless" and "a wrongful arrest is a crime." The NYPD says that Best was caught on video surveillance. The "a blond-haired, blue-eyed vandal" is being charged with "aggravated harassment, criminal mischief as a hate crime, which is considered a felony," according to the Post.
Presumably, if this woman had been spraypainting "Metallica sucks" or something she'd merely be guilty of criminal mischief or vandalism. But because she was being critical of the cops with her graffiti, now it's a hate crime.
Because the government is now a protected class?
This is the sort of absurdity we invite when a free society begins trying to categorize what is and is not acceptable speech. Either we have 1st amendment free speech, or we do not.
Increasingly, given the fervor behind anti-bullying laws and "hate speech" laws which seek to silence controversial or provocative statements, it seems that we do not.
Mark Zuckerberg Doesn't Want to Be Your Speech Police
Democratic Lawmaker Suggests New Ethics Commission Could Regulate Speech of Elected Officials
Plain Talk: Trump Says So-Called "Fake News" Is "Dangerous" and "Not Free Speech" but He's Absolutely Wrong


HomeCurrent TopicsQatars OPEC Exit from latest burning issue from oil country.
Quexit -Qatars OPEC Exit (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Country) recently, announced in 2018 that it will leave OPEC from January 2019.
OPEC is organisation of the petroleum exporting country (not natural gas).
OPEC has headquarter in Vienna, Austria which is not member of OPEC. The group was established in 1965.
OPEC is also infamous for earning profit as they reduce supply of oil when they want to increase oil price.
OPEC country has around 43% of global oil production and 73% of world's oil reserves. OPEC has 2/3rd of oil production and reserves situated in 6 middle eastern (western Asia) Countries that surround the oil-reach persian gulf.
Qatar announced it's withdrawal from organisation for petroleum exporting Countries (OPEC) from the start of 2019, january. It will focus on the production of natural gas.
The announcement will make Qatar as first gulf country to leave OPEC of oil- producing Countries led by Saudi Arabia.
Qatar is not big oil export country. It's main business is on liquified natural gas production. It is world's largest exporter of liquified natural gas (LPG) and 17th largest producer of crude oil around 60000 barrel/day.
Qatar holds only 2% of the total world's global oil reserves and also it has around 1.5% to 2% share in OPEC production. There was always pressure on Qatar to produce more. So now the withdrawal decision reflects Qatars desire to focus it's efforts to develop and increase it's natural gas production from 77 million tonnes per year to 110 million tonnes in the coming years.
Being part of OPEC Countries oil production was steady with limited prospects for increase.
Since, 2013 amount of oil Qatar produced has steadily declined from about 728000 barrels per day (2013) to about 607000 barrels per day (2017) or just under 2% of OPEC's total output.
Blow to Saudi Arabia's dominance Qatars OPEC exit is also geopolitical tustle that started last year is still far from over. It will also encourage other members of OPEC to take similar step if they are facing problem OPEC's dominant Countries and will have own trading norms by giving up the membership. It is first time a Gulf Country leaving OPEC. It's negative impact will be on Saudi Arabia as there will be questions on OPEC leadership.


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Ever since vampires came out of the coffin (as they laughingly put it) four years ago, I'd hoped one would come to Bon Temps. We had all the other minorities in our little town – why not the newest, the legally recognized undead? But rural northern Louisiana wasn't too tempting to vampires, apparently; on the other hand, New Orleans was a real center for them – the whole Anne Rice thing, right?
It's not that long a drive from Bon Temps to New Orleans, and everyone who came into the bar said that if you threw a rock on a street comer you'd hit one. Though you better not.
is substantial, and I have a waspy waistline. I look good in the warm-weather waitress outfit Sam picked for us: black shorts, white T, white socks, black Nikes.
And he sat at one of my tables – the vampire.
"What can I get you?" I asked, happy almost beyond words.
He raised his eyebrows. "Do you have the bottled synthetic blood?" he asked.
"Then red wine, please," he said, and his voice was cool and clear, like a stream over smooth stones. I laughed out loud. It was too perfect.
"Don't mind, Sookie, mister, she's crazy," came a familiarvoice from the booth against the wall. All my happiness deflated, though I could feel the smile still straining my lips. The vampire was staring at me, watching the life go out of my face.
"I'll get your wine right away," I said, and strode off, not even looking at Mack Rattray's smug face.


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I know our driveway has an edge to it and I'm bound and determined to find it!
We weren't here for the first two months of snow and thus our driveway had built up quite a layer of ice. Our neighbors have clean, black driveways. We do not. I'm a bit envious.
Since the beginning of Break-up and warmer temperatures, Todd and I have been out scraping and shoveling the ice off our driveway. It's quite a workout.
I'll let you know when I find the edge!


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Державна служба статистики України (Держстат України, колишній Держа́вний коміте́т стати́стики Украї́ни, Держкомстат України) — національний орган статистики України, центральний орган виконавчої влади із спеціальним статусом, діяльність якого спрямовується і координується міністром Кабінету Міністрів України.

Забезпечує проведення в життя державної політики в галузі статистики, створення і належне функціонування загальнодержавної системи економіко-статистичної інформації на території України. Є спеціально уповноваженим центральним органом виконавчої влади у галузі статистики.

Держстат України створено шляхом реорганізації Державного комітету статистики України під час адміністративної реформи 2010 року.

Історія

 Історія Держкомстату починається від кінця 1920 p., коли засновано Центральне Статистичне Управління України (ЦСУУ). У 1920-их pp. ЦСУУ користувалося чималою автономією як щодо планів статистичних досліджень, так і щодо публікацій. Головні публікації ЦСУУ: «Статистика України» (1921 — 31, 209 випусків), «Статистична хроніка» (1925 — 29, 152 випуски), періодичні органи — «Статистичний бюлетень» (1921 — 25) і «Вісник статистики» (1928 — 30), довідники-річники «Народився господарство України» і річники «Україна». Місцеві статистичні бюро видавали свої статистичні збірки і бюлетені.
 1930, у зв'язку з введенням п'ятирічок і посиленням централізації, ЦСУУ (як і ЦСУ СРСР) скасовано, його функції перебрав Держплан СРСР. Під час чисток апарату 1930-их pp. багатьох співр. ЦСУУ репресовано. З 1931 майже цілком припинено публікацію статистичних матеріалів. Протягом 1930-их pp. вийшло тільки 4 статистичні довідники, якісно слабі і часто з фальшованими даними.
 1941 ЦСУ СРСР відновлено, але воно і надалі було підпорядковано Держпланові. 1948 його вилучено з Держплану і підпорядковано безпосередньо Раді Міністрів СРСР. Відновлене ЦСУ УРСР спочатку підлягало ЦСУ СРСР і не залежало від уряду УРСР.
 У зв'язку з народно-господарськими реформами, що їх розпочав Микита Хрущов у 1956 р., ЦСУ УРСР мало пов'язання й з урядом УРСР. 1957 відновлено публікацію статистичних матеріалів. Від 1959 ЦСУ УРСР видає щорічно статистичні річники «Народне господарство Української РСР» та короткі довідники і незначну кількість статистичних матеріалів про сільське господарствово, науку й культуру.
 1960 стало союзно-республіканською установою під назвою Центральне Статистичне Управління при Раді Міністрів УРСР, яке було союзно-республіканським органом, що керує справою обліку й статистики на території України. Було підпорядковане Раді Міністрів УРСР і Центральному Статистичному Управлінню при Раді Міністрів СРСР (ЦСУ СРСР). В ЦСУ УРСР входить Управління обчислювальних робіт (Укрмехоблік), яке керує процесами механізації обліку в нар. господарстві; Управління підготови кадрів обліку (УПК); Український філіал державного статистичного видавництва; філіал науково-дослідного інституту для проектування обчислювальних центрів і систем економічної інформації ЦСУ СРСР (1992 був перетворений у Науково-дослідницький інститут статистики Міністерства статистики України), основним напрямом наукової діяльності якого є вдосконалення методології статистичної роботи.
 Від 13  серпня  1987 року Центральне статистичне управління Української РСР перетворене у Державний комітет Української РСР по статистиці. У безпосередньому віданні Держкомстату перебувають обласні статистичні управління та статистичне управління міста Києва.

З 20 жовтня 2019 згідно з постановою Кабінету Міністрів України від 20 жовтня 2019 року № 879 «Про внесення змін до схеми спрямування і координації діяльності центральних органів виконавчої влади Кабінетом Міністрів України через відповідних членів Кабінету Міністрів України» діяльність Державнавної служби статистики України спрямовується і координується Кабінетом Міністрів України через відповідних членів Кабінету Міністрів України. Станом на 20 жовтня членом уряду, відповідальним на координацію роботи Держстату визначено міністра Кабінету Міністрів Дмитра Дубілета. 4 березня 2020 року його змінив на посаді Олег Немчінов.

Структура

До структури Державної служби статистики України належать:
 Головне управління статистики підприємств
 Управління статистики промисловості
 Управління статистики інвестицій та будівництва
 Управління структурної статистики
 Управління зведеної інформації
 Управління методології та планування
 Управління національних рахунків
 Управління статистики послуг та соціальних програм
 Управління статистики праці
 Управління статистики населення
 Управління статистики сільського господарства та навколишнього середовища
 Управління статистики торгівлі
 Управління статистики зовнішньої торгівлі
 Управління статистики фінансів
 Управління статистики цін
 Управління статистики зарубіжних країн та міжнародного співробітництва
 Управління обстеження умов життя домогосподарств
 Управління регіональної статистики
 Управління інформатизації

Див. також

 Статистика
 Бюро перепису населення США
 Всесвітній день статистики

Примітки

Джерела

 Енциклопедія нар. господарства Укр. РСР. 4 т. К. 1969 — 12; Первый всеукраинский статистический съезд 16 — 28 ноября 1925 г. Стенографический отчет. X. 1925; Статистический словарь. м. 1956.

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Центральні органи виконавчої влади України
Державна служба статистики України
Україна
Державний комітет статистики України
Засновані в Україні 1920
Статистика в Україні
Вулиця Шота Руставелі (Київ)

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SEOUL, Jan. 17 (Korea Bizwire) — The South Korean children's song "Baby Shark" was ranked on Billboard's Hot 100 main singles chart this week after debuting on the list a week earlier, results showed Thursday.
The English version of the song by Pinkfong, a children's education entertainment brand, whose Korean title is "Shark Family," came in 38th on the Hot 100 chart for the week of Jan. 19, according to the chart update.
Only a few big name Korean pop singers have had their songs listed on the highly competitive chart, including Psy, Wonder Girls and BTS whose latest song "Idol" ranked as high as 11th.


What Does the Bible Say About Willow?
He broke off the topmost of its young twigs and carried it to a land of trade and set it in a city of merchants. Then he took of the seed of the land and planted it in fertile soil. He placed it beside abundant waters. He set it like a willow twig, and it sprouted and became a low spreading vine, and its branches turned toward him, and its roots remained where it stood. So it became a vine and produced branches and put out boughs.


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Karl McDermott begins role as Head Groundsman
Posted: 11 December 2018
Karl McDermott has this month begun the role of Head Groundsman at the prestigious Lord's Cricket Ground.
McDermott, who has joined Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) from Hampshire County Cricket Club, replaces Mick Hunt, who is retiring from the role at Lord's after 49 seasons.
The pair will work alongside each other for a month before Hunt officially retires from the role at the end of the year, as Lord's prepares for a busy summer of international and domestic cricket.
There will be five ICC Cricket World Cup matches, including the Final, and Ireland's inaugural Test Match at the Home of Cricket before England take on Australia as part of the Ashes Series.
"I am very excited about my new role and I am already looking forward to a busy and challenging season in 2019.
McDermott said of being appointed Head Groundsman at Lord's: "I am very excited about my new role and I am already looking forward to a busy and challenging season in 2019.
"Being Mick's successor is a huge honour, and I aim to keep the extremely high standards that he has set at Lord's during his long and distinguished career."
McDermott spent seventeen years at Clontarf Cricket Club in Dublin before taking up the role of Deputy Head Groundsman at the Ageas Bowl in 2009, ahead of the ground's inaugural Test Match in 2011.
He became Head Groundsman at Hampshire in 2016 and twelve months later, presided over England's victory over India, the third Test Match to be held at the Ageas Bowl. Both Hunt and McDermott were recently honoured at the ECB's Business of Cricket Awards, held at The Emirates Old Trafford.
Hunt collected the Appreciation of Service Award, recognising his long career at Lord's, to go along with the ECB Special Award he received at the PCA Awards in October.
McDermott shared the One-Day Pitches Award with Simon Lee of Somerset.
Lord's To Turn Red For The Ruth Strauss Foundation
Royal Mail to celebrate England Cricket's historic World Cup win
Coming to England v. Ireland?


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Math Lately
March 20, 2014 Homeschoolingbeast academy, changing curricula, home education, homeschool, homeschooling, math, math curricula, math in focus, math mammothfarrarwilliams
Mushroom plays a symmetry game in Beast Academy.
We have bounced around with math so much more than I anticipated this year. I thought I'd post about all the various things we've ended up using and where we landed. Math continues to be one of my favorite subjects to teach. I was never a "math person" as a kid. It was always boring because it was too easy in elementary school and then boring because it was too hard later on. But since then I've learned to appreciate math, especially when I unexpectedly ended up teaching it when I was still a school teacher. I really want my kids to be challenged by it and to know it's more about solving puzzles and asking questions than about doing sums, though you can't solve the problems and answer the questions without first learning how to do all those sums and procedures.
BalletBoy's Math
The boys have done separate maths since first grade, when BalletBoy happily plugged on and Mushroom became completely disenchanted with the whole idea of math. For BalletBoy, Math Mammoth has been his spine for what seems like eons and he began the year by wrapping up the last bits of 4a. Math Mammoth is not exactly exciting math. The pages can be crowded and the pace can go slow, but for a child who just wanted to plug away at math and get it done, it was a perfect program. However at the end of 4a, when I went to print packets from 4b, he had a sudden desire to do something completely different. Meanwhile, the Singapore Challenging Word Problems, which had been his supplement for almost two years, also became… not too hard exactly, but too confusing. I often found the wording on the problems confounding such that I didn't even know what they wanted. What had always been slightly annoying became too much to interpret when coupled with harder math.
So it was time to change things up. We tried to switch back to MEP, which we have used for brief periods since first grade, but it wasn't right for him either. I knew the Key to Math books would be a breeze for him, so I had him do the first and second books of several series, including Fractions, Measurement, and Decimals. If you don't know this program, it has short, gentle workbooks about specific topics. The look of the texts is nicely pared down and I like how they have an incremental approach that isn't as overwhelming as Math Mammoth's. However, the biggest topic in fourth grade math, long division, was still missing from his education. We had to find something else.
After a lot of consideration, we landed on Math in Focus. He had already covered most of the topics in the second half of their fourth grade syllabus, so he's working on completing most of 4a right now, including . He says he likes it so much that he'd like to do the fifth grade program next. In case you're not familiar with it, Math in Focus is "the other" Singapore math. When I looked at it ages ago, I liked it a lot less than Singapore Primary Math, but I think I didn't give it a fair enough shake. It has the look of a more American style program, but the math is much more similar to Primary Math. I really appreciate, coming from using Math Mammoth, how pared down the amount of problems is to the ones that really matter. We also found Fan Math's Process Skills in Problem Solving, which we like so much better than the Singapore Challenging Word Problems. The problems are much more clear and there is much better modeling of solutions and information on how the solutions are arrived at in the back.
Mushroom's Math
Mushroom is my real math lover. At the start of the year, I had him working on Beast Academy and the Key to Math books on Fractions and Decimals. He's now in Beast Academy 4a and I've been dragging things out in the hope that 4b will be out (it was supposed be by late February or early March, but I'm still waiting!!!). I cannot sing Beast Academy's praises enough. The program didn't work for BalletBoy when he tried it when it was newer, but it has been a boon for Mushroom. The story in the comic book style text is always funny and very well done. We especially like the recurring elements such as the little beasts rivalry with the bots, the way Grogg finds bizarre solutions to problems, and the multiple personalities (and alliteration) of Professor Grok. The tricky, thought-provoking problems in the text are also great for encouraging kids to really delve in and think. They've been good for teaching Mushroom patience with his math.
After he finished some of the Key to books, I felt that with Beast's slow release pace, he needed to do some really basic fourth grade math review, so I bought him a Spectrum math practice book. It's not a real curriculum, but he just needed to practice traditional algorithms. It's been a mixed bag. I think it's good for him to do this and it has been mostly very easy, but there have been a few things, including the long division algorithm, that he really needed to learn and other things, such as stacked multi-digit multiplication, unit conversion, and names of shapes (memorization of lists is just not his strong suit so "hexagon" is like new information every single time), that he really needed to review. Some days it's good for when he needs to escape the frustration of an especially tricky Beast problem, but other days, he has been known to scream, "This is not math! This is just adding numbers and stuff!" Well, at least I know he gets that math is more than this. If I could go back, I might buy the fifth grade book instead of the fourth, since it presumably would have a slightly trickier range of numbers for him to practice.
As is the case every year, we use a lot of extras for math. This year, probably the two most used extras have been the Murderous Maths books and Hands on Equations. Murderous Maths is a great resource that presents math that's both easy and difficult (or, as the books would probably say… diabolical!) with a sense of humor. The explanations are often really clear and clever and they touch on ways to see numbers and math that most elementary math texts don't bother with.
We did the first level of Hands on Equations last year, but I put it away for awhile and pulled it out again to finish the second and third levels. It's not a difficult program by any means, but I didn't want to run through it all in a couple of weeks, so we've been doing a lesson once a week or less to draw it out. The system they present is really very ingenious and some of the tricks they employ have really grown on me over time. At first I felt like it might be too simplistic, but I now see how they are slowly introducing the basics of algebra one skill at a time. There's not much too the program other than a laminated scale and some dice and game pieces, but I think it's probably worth the cost of the homeschool kit to see how they've laid out these lessons. Between Hands on Equations and Dragonbox, I feel like the kids are going to go into algebra in a couple of years with a really firm grasp of basic concepts to give them a head start.
Math Split
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Well, it's happened. Mushroom and BalletBoy have been on different levels with different things for awhile, even using different things occasionally. However, biting the bullet to do two different paths with math feels like a big leap for us. But we've done it.
BalletBoy is continuing with Math Mammoth. We use the blue series, which breaks the topics up into separate books. He's currently working on Place Value 2 and Addition and Subtraction 2b, with a little bit of Introduction to Fractions thrown in. He's also working on the Singapore Math Challenging Word Problems.
I've never done much of a post reviewing Math Mammoth here, but I just want to sing its praises for a moment. I really love how Math Mammoth takes a topic and slowly teaches and circles around different ways to approach it. The books are deceptively simple. When I first began using it, I was concerned that they were too simple and that they were too structured. I worried it wasn't conceptual enough. However, I have come to see that by giving kids really incremental steps, letting them have a crutch, such as an intermediary step in a simple problem, then gradually taking it away, is really useful for many kids. I think that for really math-loving kids or kids who like solving problems or intuit steps, it would be tedious, but for BalletBoy it's just right.
We're also really enjoying the Challenging Word Problems. He's doing them a year behind, so he's about halfway through the first grade problems. I know they're just first grade math, but occasionally the challenge problems make me pause and think for a minute before I'm sure I have the answer! It scares me a bit for the future. If this is first grade math, what will it look like in fifth? Nonetheless, I'm really impressed with how these have taught BalletBoy how to break a problem down and show his work. He doesn't always get the challenging problems right, but he's getting better at them.
As always, we read math books and play games. BalletBoy kicked my butt in Corners the other day and he honed in to read about negative numbers with Mushroom on the sofa too.
Math Mammoth and Challenging Word Problems was not working for Mushroom. Or rather, sometimes it was fine, but a lot of the time, it was a disaster. He would get 20 problems right, then after finding out he got one wrong, he would get the next 20 all wrong, as if he was trying to prove to me that he was wrong all the time. Basically his anxiety was kicking in, stopping him from finding any success.
So I decided to let him catch up with Miquon. Because we were never using it as our primary program and only doing it occasionally, he's only halfway through the second book, the Red Book. I bought the next two, but it's good that he's only in the Red Book because he needs some confidence builders. I also bought him another confidence builder, the Usborne Big Book of Sticker Math. This is mostly first grade math. It's simple stuff, but he seems to like it.
I also bought him a math journal. Here's some of the things we've put in it so far:
math using dollar and coin stickers
a couple of brain teasers
living math books based math – for example, we read Loreen Leedy's 2×2=Boo at Halloween then he practiced easy times tables in the journal
shopping math with the Lego catalog
practice math for more practice so he can keep getting more fluent with math facts
Miquon-like lab sheets
I want to do more with the math journal. A thread on a certain forum pointed me to this page, where most of the stuff is a little too easy and not exactly my style, but gives a few starting point ideas for younger kids doing math journals. Blog, She Wrote also has some good math journal related posts.
I want to keep up the Miquon, but one of my main things for Mushroom is the realization that while it's more work for me, he really needs to be seeing lots of resources, doing things in a more spiral way. It grates on me, really. I believe in mastery. But I also believe in teaching the kid you've got. If Mushroom needs me to alternate between games, storybooks, worksheets, manipulatives and back around again, then I guess I'll do it. I'm looking at resources like Games for Math and Family Math for ideas.
To round things out, I'm upping the math games for Mushroom, especially games like the RightStart card game Corners and the game Knock Out, both of which encourage kids to be able to break numbers up and see their relationships more easily. I also have ordered him addition and subtraction wrap-ups, which a friend showed me, but we don't have them quite yet. I'm letting him play more math games online. He usually goes to Sheppherd Software, which has a whole lot of games and links to more. I'm especially fond of this one, which allows kids to practice facts quickly. Free Rice is another good quick resource for math practice, one with a nice social benefit (they donate rice to people in need).
In the end, I'd like him to end up in more or less the same place as his brother at the end of the year, so I'm looking at BalletBoy's Math Mammoth table of contents as a guideline for skills I'd like him to achieve.


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Will Legazpi City have a water shortage soon?
LEGAZPI CITY—Thousands of residents in upland villages here are complaining of the inadequate supply of water flowing in their household faucets, an indication that water shortage is slowly creeping the city.
The Legazpi City Water District (LCWD) appears helpless in providing the much-needed water supply and blames the Philippine Hydro Inc., (PhilHydro), the main bulk water provider, for not pursuing measures that would improve and meet the water requirements of thousands of city residents, according to Richard Atun, LCWD spokesman.
PhilHydro, presently operated by Maynilad, entered into a contract in 2008 with the LCWD for bulk supply of potable water to the water distributor.
PhilHydro entered into an agreement with the LCWD to supply bulk water that meets the Philippine National Standards for drinking water to the LCWD for a period of 25 years.
It is supposed to supply 600,000 cubic meters of potable water monthly to the LCWD, which should deliver this clean water to households in this city.
LCWD pays PhilHydro PHP8.1 million this agreed monthly water supply. In an interview, Atun said PhilHydro has to supply the LCWD with 20,000 cubic meters of water a day but the agreement states that in the succeeding years, production would be increased by 1,000 cubic meters a day.
Based on the agreement, it was expected that the firm should have supplied about 27,000 cubic meters of water a day this year.
"The water supply being produced and distributed by Philhydro is below the required volume stipulated in the contract," Atun said.
The LCWD has officially communicated with PHilhydro, requesting it to undertake measures that would address the looming water shortage.
Philhydro and Maynilad officials here declined to answer issues about their operations, saying they are not authorized to speak for the company operation, Atun said.
He said the LCWD is servicing the water supply requirements of some 21,000 households in the 70 villages in this city.
The water shortage of about 7,000 cubic meters a day has affected some 4,200 household consumers, specially those in the upland villages in the southern part of the city.
Affected were villages Old Albay District, Mauyod, Tula-tula Istanza, Taysan, Maslog, Homapon, Bagacay, Bariis and Banquerohan.
Atun said that as low pressure of water are expected in these areas, the LCWD has initiated a water supply distribution scheme where it supplies to the maximum water during peak hours that is 5 a.m. to 9 a.m, and 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. all in a weekdays.
Philhydro is getting its supply of water from wells in the villages of Mabinit, Bunga, Buyuan and Pawa, while other possible water source is being explored in Bagong Abre, Bigaa and Pawa.
In 2011, the city government cancelled PhilHydro's business permit after it failed to comply with the Department Of Health (DOH) requirements needed to operate a water supply facility here.
The DOH findings showed that the water facility firm committed violation in the Sanitation Code of the Philippines.


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Safety and efficacy of insulin detemir in clinical practice: 14-week follow-up data from type 1 and type 2 diabetes patients in the PREDICTIVE European cohort
Int J Clin Pract. 2007 Mar;61(3):523-8. doi: 10.1111/j.1742-1241.2007.01316.x.
A Dornhorst 1 , H-J Lüddeke, S Sreenan, C Koenen, J B Hansen, A Tsur, L Landstedt-Hallin
1 Department of Metabolic Medicine, Imperial College, Hammersmith Hospital Campus, Du Cane Road, London, UK. a.dornhorst@imperial.ac.uk
PREDICTIVE (Predictable Results and Experience in Diabetes through Intensification and Control to Target: An International Variability Evaluation) is a large, multi-national, open-label, prospective, observational study assessing the safety and efficacy of insulin detemir in clinical practice. A total of 20,531 patients with type 1 or 2 diabetes from 11 countries were prescribed insulin detemir and followed up after a mean of 14.4 weeks. The primary endpoint was incidence of serious adverse drug reactions (SADRs), including major hypoglycaemia. Secondary endpoints were: haemoglobin A(1c) (HbA(1c)), mean self-monitored fasting glucose, within-patient fasting glucose variability and body weight change. Two hundred and fourteen patients (1%) reported SADRs, including major hypoglycaemia. The incidence of major hypoglycaemic episodes was reduced from 3.0/patient-year at baseline to 0.7/patient-year at follow-up in type 1 patients (p < 0.0001), and from 0.8 to 0.1/patient-year in type 2 patients (p < 0.0001). Insulin detemir improved glycaemic control in type 1 and type 2 patients, with reductions in mean HbA(1c) (0.5% and 0.9%, respectively, p < 0.0001 for both), fasting glucose (1.7 and 2.6 mmol/l, p < 0.0001 for both) and within-patient fasting glucose variability (0.7 and 0.5 mmol/l, p < 0.0001 for both). There was a small decrease in mean body weight in both type 1 and 2 patients (-0.1 kg, p < 0.01 and -0.4 kg, p < 0.0001 respectively). Insulin detemir was used once- or twice-daily in 49% and 50% of type 1 patients, and 77% and 23% of type 2 diabetes patients, respectively. The 14-week observations from PREDICTIVE support clinical trial data showing that insulin detemir improves glycaemic control, with a lowered risk of hypoglycaemia and no weight gain.
Blood Glucose / metabolism
Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 / drug therapy*
Hypoglycemia / prevention & control*
Hypoglycemic Agents / adverse effects
Insulin / adverse effects
Insulin / analogs & derivatives*
Insulin / therapeutic use
Insulin Detemir
Insulin, Long-Acting


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I've seen requests for a fully laid-out set of instructions for installing CumulusMX on a Raspberry Pi, so here goes. I haven't yet quadruple-checked all this, so please let me know if you find any errors.
•	Suitable Micro USB power supply (it does not need to be a high power 2.5A version for Pi Zero W with only weather station attached; it will be powered on 24/7, so low power consumption 'switched mode' type is preferred – ie one that does not become warm when plugged in with nothing attached. You may have a suitable one from a mobile phone.
These instructions are for a Windows PC. Steps would be similar on a Mac, but programs and details would differ. Should also be possible with an Android tablet.
•	Run SD Card Formatter (click Yes to 'Allow to make changes to your device').
o	Need to use this program rather than the Format tool in File Explorer, because Pi SD cards end up with a very small 'Windows accessible' partition and a large partition containing Linux. SD Card Formatter allows reclaim of the large partition.
•	Your SD card should automatically populate in the 'Drive' box. In case you have another SD card in your PC, ensure the correct card is selected!
•	SD card should be automatically populated. In case you have another SD card in your PC, ensure the correct card is selected!
•	TWO drives will now be visible for the SD card. You will likely see a warning that one of the drives needs to be formatted before it can be used. 'Cancel' that warning and ignore that drive.
•	The function of these 2 files is to connect your Raspberry Pi to your network as soon as it boots, and allows you to connect to and control it from your PC by SSH using PuTTY. This avoids needing to connect a keyboard, mouse and monitor to the Raspberry Pi. It is particularly useful for Pi Zero W (or Pi Zero) which hasn't got enough USB connections and no Ethernet (wired network) connection. This is called 'Headless operation'.
•	Right click on the 'boot' SD card in left pane of File Explorer and 'Eject' it safely.
•	With nothing plugged into the Raspberry Pi, take the Micro SD card from your PC and put it in the Pi.
•	Plug the power supply into the Raspberry Pi. It will boot up (note flashing red and/or green LEDs depending on model).
o	While in your network router for the 'real' Pi you will be using, set up some port forwarding that will be needed later.
•	Start PuTTY on your PC. In the box for 'Host Name or IP address', enter the Pi's IP address from above. In the adjacent 'Port' box, enter 22. Connection type should be SSH. Click 'Open'.
•	A window opens. The first time you do this you will probably see a long message asking to confirm it is OK to connect to a not-previously-known device. Click 'Yes'.
	change 'Locale' if you need something different to en_GB.UTF-8. [Changing this takes quite a while on a slow Pi].
•	Add the 'Mono' package. Simplification: Mono is a package which allows programs to be written cross-platform so that they will run on Linux (including Raspberry Pi), Windows and Mac OS, similar to the Windows '.NET Framework'.
•	There is an anomaly with the USB library not working with later versions of mono, affecting Fine Offset stations and the later Oregon Scientific stations (WMR88/100/200 etc). Other stations should be fine with later/current versions of mono.
	1). Keep the following packages at their current version: Do NOT accept this solution, when that would install the current version of mono (5.x.x) which will not work with Cumulus. Respond with "n"
	2). Install a long list of packages (n=185) to install version 4.0.5.1. Respond with "Y".
	3). Download and continue? Respond with "Y".
Your SSH (PuTTY) session will close out and you'll need to reconnect after the Pi has rebooted. Use username pi and the new password you chose earlier.
o	Click 'Quickconnect'. Raspberry Pi's directory structure appears on the right and your PC's directory structure is on the left.
This shuts down the Raspberry Pi safely. Close the PuTTY window.
then follow the SandaySoft instructions for first run set up. The first thing you will want to do is access Cumulus via its web interface from your PC, so that you can update the settings. Using the IP address for your Pi, in your internet browser, enter: 192.168.1.123:8998. You'll first see a dashboard page, then can access the Settings menu.
If you want to access the Pi without Cumulus running, simply log in, then sudo crontab –e, then add # before @reboot so that that line is ignored 'commented out'. Then sudo reboot. Remove the # again for normal operation.
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A point about the Mono version - it's the USB library which doesn't work with later versions, so the issue affects Fine Offset stations and the later Oregon Scientific stations (WMR88/100/200 etc). Other stations should be fine.
Any tips or guidance on this? I would like to grab it from the Interface, if possible without disrupting the uploads.
You can download using the IP address and port number in the Cumulus settings, and you will need to set a "disconnect period" so that Cumulus disconnects once a minute to allow the logger to upload to weatherlink.com. You will need to experiment with the timing of the disconnect so that enough time is allowed for the upload.But note that this is not entirely reliable, and MX does not currently handle the connection being unavailable, and may crash.
1. I can play with the timeouts and hopefully get them right with automated periodic reboots and/or restarts of Cumulus MX to handle crashes.
2. I can give up on the uploading of data to WeatherLink.com (I need to find out how to shut that off).
3. I can download the data from WeatherLink.com (I believe that will be easier once Davis moves my account from Weatherlink.com ver 1 to WeatherLink.com ver 2). WeatherLink software running on my Windows PC can do that, I think, even with ver 1 of Weatherlink.com. Can Cumulus MX do that?
Given what Steve said, 3 may be best. Suggestions on doing that?
Any other choices? What do others generally do here?
Sorry if I am asking questions that have already been asked. I will also do some searching in the FAQs and forum posts.
No, Cumulus can't download from weatherlink.com.
OK. I did some more work. I found out how to disable uploads from the Davis WeatherLink IP data logger to weatherlink.com. Finding how to do that wasn't obvious. I convinced Davis tech support to (reluctantly) tell me how to do it. If anyone else cares to know how just DM me.
With that upload disabled, CumulusMX seems to run rock solidly - no crashes.
I would, though, like to also do the uploads to weatherlink.com. I will start a new thread and ask for input on the best settings (especially the "delay" setting) to allow that if anyone has succeeded in doing so.
Steve, if you see your way to resuming development, hopefully you will address the issue of CumuluxMX crashing when it encounters a conflict accessing the Davis WeatherLink IP data logger. Another, and perhaps easier way would be to add functionality for Cumulus to upload data to weatherlink.com. The Davis protocols are well known. Since Cumulus can read data right from the WeatherLink IP data logger, it should be possible to program Cumulus to initiate the handshake to weatherlink.com, log in with the user's credentials, and stream the data there (the data logger uploads once/minute.
Also, please expect my donation for the work you've done so far.
I have R Pi with the very latest upto date Raspian installed and I installed the latest mono which is NOT working with my FO usb. I know I need to uninstall my copy of mono and install a v 3.x, but I have been struggling to find a v3.x to install. I have managed to download a file by the name of limono-cil-dev_3.12.1-Oxamarin1_all.deb to my PC, is that the mono file I need?
All now working, after a more thorough reading of the first post in this thread..
I managed (eventually) to download a copy of mono v3.1 directly onto the Pi, rename it, then install it.
harrym1byt wrote: All now working, after a more thorough reading of the first post in this thread..
Glad it helped. I wasted ages ...!
I'm having issues with the auto start of CMX when the Pi reboots. What file do I add that text in? I'm not understanding the last part.
Also, get an error when I type the crontab -e. It tells me no such directory.
Other than this last part the install went flawlessly and my station is up and running!
Guess I didn't explain my self well.
When I try to run "sudo crontab -e" I get an error stating no such directory.
If I run "crontab -e" I get the editor to add the code as explained at the end of the first post. Can I do it here or does it have to be done under "sudo". If it has to be done under sudo, how do I correct the error I'm getting?
Got it figured out! For some reason if I copy and paste the code from the post above it didn't like it, but when I typed it in myself it worked fine.
I have my Pi up and running CumulusMX and it's working great! Thanks for the step by step instructions.
I do have a couple questions, what's the reasoning behind doing a reboot every night?
Also, what's the "safest" way to shut down CumulusMX and the Pi if I need to make changes or move it, etc?


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Jack Stein is the Head of Development at Rick Stein Restaurants. He recently went to René Redzepi's second MAD Symposium. Here are the proceedings in his own words.
The second incarnation of René Redzepi's (Noma) MAD food camp came without the bells as whistles of the first edition. Gone were the food producers markets and stalls – instead, only the symposium with its circus tent remained. This seemed to focus a dedicated group of organizers and speakers, in turn, producing a much more rounded and balanced symposium.David Chang talked about MSG, while Ferran Adria discussed the almost insignificant part that modernist cuisine plays in the global picture of food.
Culinary heavyweights Wylie Dufresne (WD-50), Massimo Bottura (Osteria Francescana) and Fergus Henderson (St. John) were mixed within a programme that included philosophers, psychologists, activists and farmers. What you have to admire about René is his energy and enthusiasm for breaking down old values of secrecy and jealousy amongst chefs. He embraces a Scandinavian impress of free exchange and dialogue that runs from Fjord and field, to laboratory and table. This is something I have admired about Noma and its founders since first meeting René in 2008. He impressed on me then with his intention to use his status as a great chef to help educate and further the culinary appetite of people globally. With MAD, he has achieved this and much more. And long may it continue.
All videos of the MAD2 will be available on madfood.co/Mad-2012.html. Photographs supplied by Jack Stein.