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Sam Allardyce set to be named England manager after FA board meeting
• Sunderland manager expected to be announced in next 24 hours
• Allardyce takes charge of friendly against Hartlepool on Wednesday
Sam Allardyce arrives at Victoria Park for Sunderland's pre-season friendly against Hartlepool on Wednesday. Photograph: Richard Lee/BPI/Rex/Shutterstock
Louise Taylor
Sam Allardyce's appointment as England's new manager on a two-year contract is set to be ratified on Thursday after the outgoing Sunderland manager convinced the Football Association of his ability to rediscover the national team's "missing identity".
FA: new England manager must cope with 'world's most passionate' press
A meeting of the FA's National Board at Wembley will rubber-stamp the decision already made by the ruling body's recruitment panel of Martin Glenn, Dan Ashworth and David Gill that was mandated to identify Roy Hodgson's successor. That trio were particularly impressed by Allardyce's innovative, pioneering use of psychology.
It leaves Sunderland seeking their seventh managerial appointment in five turbulent years, with the club aiming to accelerate already "advanced" talks with David Moyes about the former Everton, Manchester United and Real Sociedad manager potentially succeeding the 61-year-old Allardyce. Should such negotiations founder, Burnley's Sean Dyche also has his admirers in the Stadium of Light's boardroom.
In what was almost certainly his final act as Sunderland manager, Allardyce took charge of the team for Wednesday night's pre-season friendly at Hartlepool United amid suggestions that his coronation as Hodgson's successor was a matter of hours away.
After stepping off the team bus wearing a smile almost as wide as the North Sea behind him, the soon-to-be-departed manager took his seat in the away dugout and fielded phone calls during the first half before taking his leave at half time with his side 3-0 up.
Sunderland released a statement after the match but denied any agreement had been reached. "Naturally we are aware of the intense media speculation this evening, however, at the present time Sam Allardyce remains Sunderland manager," it read. "We share in the anger and frustration of our supporters and would like to assure them that we are working to conclude the matter in the best interests of Sunderland AFC."
The FA – who did not want to pay over the odds for a high-profile foreign coach – are comfortably able to better Allardyce's £2m-a-year club salary, so agreeing remuneration was never going to be a problem. Similarly, the fact he has only one year outstanding on his Sunderland contract dictates that compensation does not constitute a major hurdle either. Accordingly, the formalities are predicted to run smoothly and swiftly before his formal "unveiling".
The former Bolton Wanderers, Newcastle United, Blackburn Rovers and West Ham United manager – who saved Sunderland from relegation last season and was desperately disappointed to be beaten to the England job by Steve McClaren 10 years ago – saw off competition from a shortlist also featuring the USA coach, Jürgen Klinsmann, Hull City's Steve Bruce and Bournemouth's Eddie Howe.
By way of a major hint earlier on Wednesday, Glenn, the FA's chief executive – revealed that he, Ashworth, the technical director, and Gill, the vice-chairman, had demanded that the new man make concerted, innovative and "unashamed" use of sports psychology to build mental resilience in the face of the "world's most intensely passionate" press.
"The British press, like it or not, are probably the most intensely passionate about the game in the world and that has a spillover effect," Glenn said. "The consequence of which is people probably play not to make a mistake as opposed to play to win. So the new manager's got to be someone who can inspire people to get the best out of themselves, build resilience and unashamedly adopt the kind of psychological techniques that other sports and other football teams have done. To really to inspire people that when they put their England jersey on they play as well for England as they do for their club."
Glenn said he, Ashworth and Gill had "consulted widely in the game and spoken to a handful of people". Such feedback, frequently from former internationals, kept reiterating one message: the need for mental toughness under media scrutiny.
"Speaking to ex-players that have performed well for England it's a pretty consistent theme, which is resilience under pressure," said Glenn, whose insistence that media pressure is more intense than in South America or even other parts of Europe is, nonetheless, highly contentious.
Aidy Boothroyd's Under-19s give England hope for the future
"Why is that? We need to understand it better. It's two things: it's confidence in there being a match plan and it's personal resilience, especially now at a time of massive social media."
Glenn and company were also adamant the new manager must not be a "short-term mercenary" and will duly ask Allardyce to create a legacy as he is given a brief extending well beyond the senior side.
"We're not after a short-term mercenary, someone just to do the job for a couple of years," said the chief executive. "I want someone to come into the England role to really work with not just the senior team but to make sure all the great work with the under-16s, 17s, 18s – look at how well the under-19s are doing now – continues and to knit all that together."
Sam Allardyce

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Records relating to the potential need for a new city hall in Seattle.
Memoranda, meeting agendas and minutes, and reports on the need for a new city hall in Seattle and where and how it would be established. Topics include employee and visitor needs, space needs, available properties, the benefits of building a new city hall rather than leasing space, and financial analyses. The series contains appraisals of existing spaces available for lease, minutes of public information meetings, reports on space needs, and minutes and reports of the Planning and Design Advisory Committee.
[Item and date], Seattle City Hall Project Records, Record Series 0204-02. Box [number], Folder [number]. Seattle Municipal Archives.


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ASSIGNMENT EDITOR
Trump Comes Face to Face With His Nightmare: A News Cycle He Can't Control
The president is frustrated as his efforts to drum up fear of the caravan get pushed off the front page.
Sam Stein
Politics Editor
Lachlan Markay
Updated 10.27.18 9:13AM ET / Published 10.26.18 10:59PM ET
Photo Illustration by Kelly Caminero/The Daily Beast
Donald Trump is living a personal nightmare. Just days before a critical election, he finds himself unable to influence what the political press is covering.
The president has spent the last week attempting to gin up media coverage of a caravan of migrants making their way from Honduras to the Mexico-U.S. border. He's heralded his signing of a major bill to combat the opioid epidemic. He's touted additional—though currently nonexistent—legislation to further slash middle-class taxes.
But a series of real-world events—primarily the dispatch of explosive devices to numerous top Democratic officials by what appears to be an obsessive Trump fan— have overwhelmed that storyline. And it's left Trump notably churlish.
"You could see the frustration," said Eric Bolling, a conservative TV host and close Trump friend who attended a White House summit on opioid abuse on Wednesday, as the bomb scare story broke. With much fanfare, the president signed his first major piece of legislation addressing the opioid crisis, which lifted restrictions on Medicare and Medicaid coverage for addicts, among other measures. But by day's end, that was hardly a blip on the media radar. The bomb scare story was dominating headlines and cable news coverage.
On Friday morning, hours before the bomb suspect, Cesar Sayoc, was apprehended, Trump suggested that the bomb scares had been designed to distract the news media away from the Republican Party's preferred agenda.
"The momentum was clearly on the Republican side," Bolling said. "I don't know that this is going to change anything, but certainly as much as President Trump is campaigning...for the news story to derail, I don't know that that is frustrating him but I would suspect that that is something behind it."
A voracious consumer of the media, Trump prides himself on his ability to shape a news cycle and even credits his own success to his driving of campaign storylines in the closing weeks of the 2016 election. His attention to the media's editorial whims—especially those that affect him directly—is legendary among those who have worked for him.
"He probably follows the tick tock more closely than any major politician ever," said one former top Trump White House aide. "Obviously he is in tune to what is being broadcast on cable but also on Twitter as well. And he will do everything he can to move it to where he wants it to go."
Trump first showed his ability to manipulate the media during the tabloid-drenched New York City news cycles of the '70s and '80s. And he honed it as a mega-reality TV star in the '00s. As president, he's been given the tools to play the role of global assignment editor. And, more often than not, he's used them.
"He simply has to say a couple of words, send a tweet, make a provocative comment on the south lawn and everybody goes running," said Matt Schlapp, an influential Republican lobbyist.
Trump's media manipulation was on display earlier this week, when he moved the caravan story from the purview of right-wing outlets into the focal point of the mainstream press. The president declared that there were unknown Middle Easterners among the larger group of poor and hungry migrants. It was, he later admitted, a statement unsupported by any evidence, but that was beside the point. The caravan featured extensively on cable news and was pictured above the fold in The New York Times two days in a row.
As the topic faded behind the panic over the bomb threats, Trump's angst became evident. At a rally in Wisconsin, he seemed almost apologetic to the crowd for his muted speech. "You see how nice I'm behaving tonight," he joked. "Can you believe this? We're all behaving very well and hopefully we can keep it that way."
A day later, as the bomb threats continued to dominate headlines, his team floated the idea of him issuing an executive order that would effectively stop migration across the southern border—a move that was quickly framed as a political sop to conservative voters.
"He loves to control the narrative. In 2016, it broke late for him. In 2018 it hasn't," said Sam Nunberg, a former Trump aide who was memorably fired during the campaign. "This bombing does not help. Let's just call it as it is."
Trump's frustrations over his inability to play media conductor haven't ended there. On Friday morning, he dashed off a complaint about how his Twitter follower count had remained stagnant for days. That evening, he complained that a recent policy pronouncement to reduce the prices of certain prescription drugs had not received sufficient media coverage.
"Very, very little ink by these great gentlemen," he said, pointing to the media in the back of the arena. "Fake news."
In recent days and weeks, cable channels (including Fox News) have declined to air his campaign rallies live. Two sources close to Trump said that—due to his voracious media consumption and awareness of the coverage he receives—the president is almost certainly aware of the drop-off in that previously uninterrupted cable-news coverage. Both sources noted how much joy and satisfaction he derived from being able to retain such unfettered media attention since the campaign.
"He definitely does not like this," one confidant said of the drop-off.
Trump has also had to shift his attention away from topics that his political aides have advised him to emphasize prior to the election. Opioids is one of them.
Bolling was scheduled for a sit-down with the president on Wednesday to discuss the opioid crisis. But that meeting was postponed as the president responded to the unfolding bomb scare news, he said, underscoring the degree to which the news had already begun to dominate. The irony, Bolling said, is that Cesar Sayoc, the alleged perpetrator of the bomb plot, appears to be a Trump supporter.
"If I were in the White House right now, my frustration would be it appears to be someone who's a Trump supporter," Bolling said. "We have the momentum, why in the world would you get in the way of the pendulum swinging back in our direction?"
With reporting by Asawin Suebsaeng


Theresa May's remaining Brexiteer cabinet ministers are to demand that she pushes Brussels for further concessions as the price of their loyalty.
The Times understands that the ministers are to meet early next week in an attempt to agree a joint strategy. They intend to present it to the prime minister before a summit of EU leaders that is due to sign off on the deal.
The group includes Michael Gove, who handed the prime minister a lifeline yesterday by remaining as environment secretary. Other members include Andrea Leadsom, the leader of the Commons, Penny Mordaunt, the international development secretary, and Liam Fox, the trade secretary.


A company's important applications often are subjected to random and capricious changes due to forces well beyond the control of IT or management. Events like a corporate merger or even a top programmer on an extended vacation can have an adverse impact on the performance and reliability of critical company infrastructure.
During the second day keynote at DockerCon 2017 in Austin TX, Lily Guo and Vivek Saraswat showed a simulation of how to use Docker Enterprise Edition and its application transformation tools to respond to random events that threaten to undermine the stability of their company critical service.
The demo begins as two developers are returning to work after an extended vacation. They discover that, during their absence, their CEO has unexpectedly hired an outside contract programmer to rapidly code and introduce an entire application service that they know nothing about. As they try to build the new service, however, Docker Security Scan detects that a deprecated library has been incorporated by the contractor. This library is found to have a security vulnerability which violates the company's best practice standards. As part of Docker Enterprise Edition Advanced, Docker Security Scan automatically keeps track of code contributions and acts as a gatekeeper to flag issues and protect company standards. In this case, they are able to find a newer version of the library and build the service successfully.
The next step is to deploy the service. Docker Compose is the way to describe the application dependencies and secrets access. It is tempting to simply insert the passwords into the Compose file using plain text. However, the best choice is to let Docker Secrets manage sensitive application configuration data and take advantage of Docker EE with its ability to manage and enforce RBAC (Role Based Access Control).
All of the problems from the beginning of the demo now seem to be resolved, but the CEO rushes in to announce that they have just purchased a company that uses a traditional on premise application. The merger press announcement will be tomorrow and there is concern about the scope and cost of updating and moving the application to a modern infrastructure. However, they know that can use the Docker transformation tool, image2docker, to do the hard work of taking the traditional application and moving it to a modern Docker Enterprise Edition containers which can be deployed on any infrastructure, including Cloud.
The Docker Store is the place where developers can find trusted and scanned commercial content with collaborative support from Docker and the application container image provider. Oracle today announced that its flagship databases and developer tools will be immediately available as Docker containers through the Docker Store marketplace. The first set of certified images include: Oracle Database, Oracle MySQL, Oracle WebLogic Server, Oracle Coherence, Oracle Instant Client, and Oracle Java 8 SE (Server JRE).
The demo ends and it's been shown how developers can use Docker Enterprise Edition to quickly resolve a library incompatibility issues and how easy it is to take traditional applications and accomplish the first steps towards adapting them to a modern container infrastructure.


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dataserv
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|BuildLink|_ |CoverageLink|_ |LicenseLink|_ |IssuesLink|_

.. |BuildLink| image:: https://travis-ci.org/Storj/dataserv.svg?branch=master
.. _BuildLink: https://travis-ci.org/Storj/dataserv

.. |CoverageLink| image:: https://coveralls.io/repos/Storj/dataserv/badge.svg
.. _CoverageLink: https://coveralls.io/r/Storj/dataserv

.. |LicenseLink| image:: https://img.shields.io/badge/license-MIT-blue.svg
.. _LicenseLink: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Storj/dataserv

.. |IssuesLink| image:: https://img.shields.io/github/issues/Storj/dataserv.svg
.. _IssuesLink: https://github.com/Storj/dataserv

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What is this?
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Federated server for getting, pushing, and auditing data on untrusted nodes. Primarily used
for capacity tests for `Test Group B <http://storj.io/earlyaccess>`_ , as well as federated
server based file transfer.

#####
Setup
#####

How to install and run on a clean install of Ubuntu 14.04 (LTS):

::

    # install dependencies
    apt-get update
    apt-get upgrade
    apt-get install -y postgresql postgresql-contrib authbind
    apt-get install -y python-virtualenv screen git python3 libpq-dev python3-dev

    # clone project
    git clone https://github.com/Storj/dataserv
    cd dataserv

    # setup virtualenv and install required python packages
    virtualenv -p /usr/bin/python3 env
    source env/bin/activate
    pip install -r requirements.txt

    # init db and start server
    cd dataserv
    python app.py db upgrade
    python app.py runserver
    curl http://127.0.0.1:5000/api/online/json

###
API
###

Registration
************

Registration of farmers into the database. All farmers must register with the node before they
can perform any other actions.

::

    GET /api/register/<bitcoin address>/<(optional)payout address>

Success Example:

::

    GET /api/register/12guBkWfVjiqBnu5yRdTseBB7wBM5WSWnm
    RESPONSE:
        Status Code: 200
        Text: {"last_seen": 0, "btc_addr": "12guBkWfVjiqBnu5yRdTseBB7wBM5WSWnm, "height": 0, "payout_addr": "12guBkWfVjiqBnu5yRdTseBB7wBM5WSWnm"}

    GET /api/register/12guBkWfVjiqBnu5yRdTseBB7wBM5WSWnm/1BZR9GHs9a1bBfh6cwnDtvq6GEvNwVWxFa
    RESPONSE:
        Status Code: 200
        Text: {"last_seen": 0, "btc_addr": "12guBkWfVjiqBnu5yRdTseBB7wBM5WSWnm", "height": 0, "payout_addr": "1BZR9GHs9a1bBfh6cwnDtvq6GEvNwVWxFa"}

Fail Examples:

::

    GET /api/register/notvalidaddress
    RESPONSE:
        Status Code: 400
        Text: Registration Failed: Invalid BTC Address.

    GET /api/register/12guBkWfVjiqBnu5yRdTseBB7wBM5WSWnm
    RESPONSE:
        Status Code: 409
        Text: Registration failed: Address already is registered.

    GET /api/register/1BZR9GHs9a1bBfh6cwnDtvq6GEvNwVWxFa
    RESPONSE:
        Status Code: 401
        Text: Registration failed: Invalid authentication headers.

Ping-Pong
*********

The farmer must maintain a rudimentary keep-alive with the node. This way we know if the farmer
has gone offline, and that we should not issue more challenges.

::

    GET /api/ping/<bitcoin address>

Success Example:

::

    GET /api/ping/191GVvAaTRxLmz3rW3nU5jAV1rF186VxQc
    RESPONSE:
       Status Code: 200
       Text: Ping accepted.

Fail Examples:

::

    GET /api/ping/notvalidaddress
    RESPONSE:
        Status Code: 400
        Text: Ping failed: Invalid Bitcoin address.

    GET /api/ping/1EawBV7n7f2wDbgxJfNzo1eHyQ9Gj77oJd
    RESPONSE:
        Status Code: 404
        Text: Ping Failed: Farmer not found.

Online Status - Readable
************************

This API call was built to be human readable rather than machine readable. We get a simple
list of the all the farmers, their addresses, and their advertised heights. All of this is ordered by height.
We only display farmers that have done a ping in the last `online_time` minutes, which by default
is 15 minutes.

::

    GET /api/online

Success Example:

::

    GET /api/online
    RESPONSE:
        Status Code: 200
        Text:
            18RZNu2nxTdeNyuDCwAMq8aBpgC3FFERPp | Last Seen: 3 second(s) | Height: 7634
            137x69jwmcyy4mYCBtQUVoxa21p9Fxyss5 | Last Seen: 7 second(s) | Height: 6234
            14wLMb2A9APqrdXJhTQArYLyivmEAf7Y1r | Last Seen: 10 second(s) | Height: 431
            1CgLoZT1ZuSHPBp3H4rLTXJvEUDV3kK7QK | Last Seen: 13 second(s) | Height: 245
            1QACy1Tx5JFzGDyPd8J3oU8SrjhkZkru4H | Last Seen: 14 second(s) | Height: 88
            1NeV1z5BMmFpCXgotwVeZjuN5k124W76MA | Last Seen: 14 second(s) | Height: 10

Online Status - JSON
********************

This API call was built to be human readable rather than machine readable. We get a simple
list of the all the farmers, their addresses, and their advertised heights. All of this is ordered by height.
We only display farmers that have done a ping in the last `online_time` minutes, which by default
is 15 minutes. Last seen is the amount of seconds since we have last seen an API call from the farmer.

::

    GET /api/online/json

Success Example:

::

    GET /api/online
    RESPONSE:
        Status Code: 200
        Text:
            {
              "farmers": [
                {
                  "btc_addr": "1JdEaubcd36ufmT64drdVsGu5SN65A3Z1L",
                  "height": 0,
                  "last_seen": 30,
                  "uptime": 100
                },
                {
                  "btc_addr": "1JdEaubcM36ufmT64drdVsGu5SN65A3Z1A",
                  "height": 0,
                  "last_seen": 2,
                  "uptime": 93
                }
              ]
            }

Address
*******
Display the unique address used for authentication for the node.

::

    GET /api/online
    RESPONSE:
        {
          "address": "16ZcxFDdkVJR1P8GMNmWFyhS4EKrRMsWNG"
        }

Total Bytes
***********

Get the total number of terabytes currently being managed by the node.

::

    GET /api/total

Success Example:

::

    GET /api/total
    RESPONSE:
        Status Code: 200
        Text: 35 TB

Advertise Height
****************

Allows the user to let the node know how much space they have generated via the client side generation scheme.

::

    GET /api/height/<bitcoin address>/<height>

Success Example:

::

    GET /api/height/191GVvAaTRxLmz3rW3nU5jAV1rF186VxQc/50
    RESPONSE:
       Status Code: 200
       Text: Height accepted.

Fail Examples:

::

    GET /api/height/notvalidaddress/50
    RESPONSE:
        Status Code: 400
        Text: Ping Failed: Invalid Bitcoin address.

    GET /api/height/1EawBV7n7f2wDbgxJfNzo1eHyQ9Gj77oJd/50
    RESPONSE:
        Status Code: 404
        Text: Ping Failed: Farmer not found.

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package org.springframework.test;

import junit.framework.TestCase;
import org.apache.commons.logging.Log;
import org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory;

/**
 * Superclass for JUnit 3.8 based tests that allows conditional test execution
 * at the individual test method level. The
 * {@link #isDisabledInThisEnvironment(String) isDisabledInThisEnvironment()}
 * method is invoked before the execution of each test method. Subclasses can
 * override that method to return whether or not the given test should be
 * executed. Note that the tests will still appear to have executed and passed;
 * however, log output will show that the test was not executed.
 *
 * @author Rod Johnson
 * @since 2.0
 * @see #isDisabledInThisEnvironment
 */
public abstract class ConditionalTestCase extends TestCase {

	private static int disabledTestCount;

	/**
	 * Return the number of tests disabled in this environment.
	 */
	public static int getDisabledTestCount() {
		return disabledTestCount;
	}

	/** Logger available to subclasses */
	protected final Log logger = LogFactory.getLog(getClass());

	/**
	 * Default constructor for ConditionalTestCase.
	 */
	public ConditionalTestCase() {
	}

	/**
	 * Constructor for ConditionalTestCase with a JUnit name.
	 */
	public ConditionalTestCase(String name) {
		super(name);
	}

	public void runBare() throws Throwable {
		// getName will return the name of the method being run
		if (isDisabledInThisEnvironment(getName())) {
			recordDisabled();
			this.logger.info("**** " + getClass().getName() + "." + getName() + " disabled in this environment: "
					+ "Total disabled tests = " + getDisabledTestCount());
			return;
		}

		// Let JUnit handle execution
		super.runBare();
	}

	/**
	 * Should this test run?
	 *
	 * @param testMethodName name of the test method
	 * @return whether the test should execute in the current environment
	 */
	protected boolean isDisabledInThisEnvironment(String testMethodName) {
		return false;
	}

	/**
	 * Record a disabled test.
	 *
	 * @return the current disabled test count
	 */
	protected int recordDisabled() {
		return ++disabledTestCount;
	}

}


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Home/Opinion/What The Hell Is Going On Here?
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What The Hell Is Going On Here?
Chris VacaMarch 3, 2014
I can't tell you how many times I sat in front of the TV shouting "WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON IN THIS COUNTRY," and it seems I find myself saying that more and more. We are supposed to be a nation of laws, when any public official takes office, they take a pledge to uphold the Constitution and the laws of the land. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said recently that state attorneys general are not forced to defend laws in their states that ban same-sex marriage if they believe it to be unconstitutional. A nation of laws no more.
Colorado Attorney General John W. Suthers, R-Colo., voiced his opposition to Holder in a Washington Post editorial recently."Depending on one's view of the laws in question, such a 'litigation veto' may, in the short term, be a terrific thing; an unpopular law is defended and the attorney general can take credit. But in the longer term, this practice corrodes our system of checks and balances. Public belief in the power of democracy and ultimately the moral and legal authority on which attorneys general must depend," These state laws are often state constitutional provisions or laws enacted by referendum (people voting directly at the polls), so some find it especially anti-democratic for a state Attorney General not to defend them.
The job of law enforcement is to enforce laws, if the laws are unpopular than change them, but you cannot just disobey them because you don't agree with them. Not only is our top law enforcer a lawbreaker, but it seems that he is also a racist. The Department of Justice wants schools to directly consider race when disciplining students, taking care to ensure that some races are not punished more often than others, even if students of certain races misbehave more often.
Eric Holder's DOJ co-wrote a letter with the Department of Education, and sent it to public schools across the country recently. First among its decrees: Schools should not strive to treat all races the same; rather, they should treat the races differently, levying weaker punishments when necessary, in order to effect equal outcomes among students of all races.
If schools are pressured to get their numbers right in this area, they will either start disciplining students who shouldn't be or, more likely, will not discipline some students who ought to be. If unruly students are not disciplined, the kids who will lose out the most will be well-behaved students in classes with undisciplined classmates. According to the DOJ if a teacher disciplines a white student twice, that teacher can only discipline a black student twice, even though the black student misbehaved six times.
Joe Hicks, a member of the Project 21 (The National Leadership Network of Black Conservatives,) says the attorney general is obsessed with racism. "My view of Eric Holder is that he is most racialized and the most ideological attorney general I think this nation has seen at least in the modern era," he offers. "So here's a man who constantly weighs in on the issues – and always weighs in from a racial aspect that black kids are being mistreated."
Robert Laurie, wrote in The Canada Free Press – I'm pretty sure that Eric
Holder begins each and every day with a meeting where he and his team sit around brainstorming new ways to call Americans racist. If you support the 2nd Amendment, you're a racist. If you want to enforce the nation's borders, you're a racist. If you favor voter ID laws, you're a racist. If you think it's criminal to run guns to Mexico, you're a racist.
Let's face it, the Left is at the point where whenever someone disagrees with them, they have to be a racist, to the people on the left, there can be no other explanation. How long are people going to put up with this? If someone on the Right said that we should not strive to treat all races the same; rather, they should treat the races differently, the media would have been all over them calling them racists remarks, yet we have an AG who not only said it, but truly believes it.
Our top law enforcement officer is a lawbreaker and a racist; well what can we expect, when he gets his marching orders from the lawbreaker-in-chief himself, Obama.
My new book, "Hey Alan Colmes I read Your Book" A Republicans Rebuttal. Available here.
This is one man's opinion.
Chris Vaca
I was born and raised in New York City, but now live in Florida. After losing my mortgage business at age 57, I found the courage to reinvent myself, now at age 65, I enjoy being An Entrepreneur, Public Speaker, Trainer and Author. All my books are listed on Amazon, http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=Chris+vaca
Will the Real United States of America Please Stand Up!
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Jerry T says:
Ok lets just be honest here. The curtain is up for this show and it won't be coming down any time soon if the FEW have their way. They hold all the tickets and nobody is buying them anytime soon, They couldn't sell them if they had too and they know that. But hey it's the only show in town and they own the theater and the critics. As for the awards well they are the best of the best, if we didn't know that well we just were not listening. Live from rodeo shitty music hall its the Barack Obama show with the renowned producer Saul Olinski in participation with Eric Holder and his cast of minions. It's about as imaginative as any Psycho movie and the White house may as well be the Bates Motel with the Antics of this cast of misfits. Nothing will change until the average middle class Americans, AKA Joe and Jane decide they have just about had enough of this bull shit that PT Barnam aka POTUS is handing the world…and until that happens….well it's "Live from the White house lawn in Washington DC. Its the Barry Obama show with his Off Key Band in bad music "The Minions." HHHeeerrrs Barry!
Jan Brown says:
When my head stops spinning for a minute, I realize that this is indeed, the only Country that has PAN Playing with his flute in first chair, an organ grinder's monkey in the second chair and a little mouse eating cheese in the corner(Valerie Jarrett) and yet another graduate from the Machiavelian School of ego at the helm of DOJ. and a 'slew' of czars & new appointees…..all acting like a well rehearsed orchestra to destroy our glorious Nation. WHAT THE HELL??/ WE NEED TO CANCEL THIS CONCERT!


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Back-to-school video riles Broward Teachers Union
By Kathy Bushouse
A silly back-to-school video meant for teachers at Embassy Creek Elementary School in Cooper City has riled the Broward Teachers Union, which says it's inappropriate at a time when the Broward School District has laid off teachers and cut budgets.
The video, set to The Cars' hit "Let The Good Times Roll," includes bits where employees ride chairs down the hall and have an extended "lunch meeting." At one point, the screen flashes to the words, "Budget Cuts, No Problem!"
"We hardly find the district's financial challenges to be funny," said union president Pat Santeramo.
District spokesman Andrew Feirstein said the district is "looking into the matter internally" and declined additional comment. Embassy Creek's principal, Robert Becker, referred calls to the district's media relations office.
The union posted an edited version of the video on YouTube. The first minute and 35 seconds of the three minute, 43 second video is a message from the teachers union.
Union officials say the video was mailed to teachers along with other documents. They estimate the video cost $1,000 to make and mail.
The union is negotiating its 2009-2010 school year contract with the district, in which they've requested a 3-percent raise retroactive to July 1, and another 4-percent raise on Jan. 1, 2010. Unless the two sides make significant progress this week, teachers will start the school year without a contract.
Embassy Creek Elementary School


There is less and less time left for you to discover all the species of swans. Are you ready to discover one of the most eye-catching in the world? This is the coscoroba swan!
This species is scientifically named coscoroba coscoroba and is a species of anseriform bird of the Anatidae family. A very particular species that has no such thing and a whole enigma of evolution.
Although it is called a swan, some think it is a highly developed goose and others think it is simply a variant of the swan that evolved differently. Lives in South America.
It's a bird that measures between 90 and 115. It does not have sexual dimorphism in its plumage, which is not completely white, as the primary feathers are black. Its beak is red, flatter and more flattened than the other swans. Its legs are pink. The male usually weighs between 3 and 5 kg, while the female weighs a maximum of 4.5 kilograms.
Another of its peculiarities is that its neck is not as long as that of other swans, which makes one think that it might not be a member of this family.
This species dives in lakes and lagoons with high vegetation, preferring freshwater ones, although it has been seen visiting brackish waters. In Brazil it has been seen on the sea beaches, although records of Coscorobas, Cortaderas, Paso de San Francisco and the Province of Catamarca have been found.
When it is time to build their nest, they do it in the ground, among the high vegetation, near water areas. They lay four to nine eggs, most of which are incubated by the female. The male stays close, watching the nest. The female rises from the nest twice a day, covering it with down to keep it warm in her absence. Incubation lasts about 35 days. When pups are born, they have grey spots on their feathers. They won't fly until they're three or four months old.
It is a fairly sociable species, both with members of its own species and with others. They live and feed in pairs or in small groups of no more than 100 individuals. When they migrate back with flamingos, they may be seen in winter with flocks of black-necked swans.
This species is currently considered a minor concern as it is quite widespread. It seems that their diet is the same as that of other swans: aquatic plants and crustaceans. He uses the same system to get his food: move his legs by placing them on the plates to release them and catch them with his beak. However, unlike other species of swans, it does not spend as much time in water. Generally when not looking for food, it approaches the coast to be able to walk. Rarely is a specimen seen sleeping in the water like other species, such as the mute swan.


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JOALI Maldives Announces Mr. Enver Arslan as New General Manager
JOALI Maldives has announced the appointment of Enver Arslan as the resort's new General Manager.
Mr. Arslan holds a degree in Hospitality Management from the Hospitality Management School of Erciyes University, and a raft of additional qualifications from Four Seasons and Cornell University.
Over his career, Enver has worked for several Four Seasons properties around the world. He has started his career at Four Seasons Jackson Hole and moved to Palm Beach Florida, Las Vegas, Riyadh, Egypt and Maldives until he decided to join the opening team of JOALI Maldives and acted as Resort Director overlooking the operational departments for the past 4 years.
Enver believes in enjoying life to the fullest, as also proven by his professional career choices from top of the ski mountains of Grand Tetons to the Atlantic Ocean, followed by dazzling architecture and the sparkling lights of Las Vegas to the desert plateau of the Middle East, and finally to the tropical romance of Maldives. Enver Arslan's work ethics and ambition represent a significant contribution to the success of the company.
Enver has benefited from a wide-ranging experience in far-flung destinations over the years. It's a career path he highly recommends: "To move forward in hospitality, it is really rewarding to do openings, rather than joining established hotels. You're not dealing with guests, but with architects. You have to have a broader vision to build a new culture. Then, when you open the doors, you have to have an even bigger vision to redo things."


Martin Scorsese's latest film Silence reportedly continues the thematic thread of faith that began with The Last Temptation of Christ (1988) and continued with Kundun (1997). Looking back at the auteur's career (now nearly half a century long), it's easy to identify a number of recurring fixations and impulses. The director has always shown expertise at representing subject experience through form (from the unharnessed camera movement and woozy voice-over of Mean Streets  to the hyper-discordant editing of The Wolf of Wall Street ). Scorsese rarely employs a shot or a cut simply for the purpose of documentation or function, focusing much more instead on the connection between technique and subject. That the director's technique so often draws in a tapestry of endless music cues (e.g. GoodFellas  and Casino ) or period details (e.g. The Age of Innocence  and Gangs of New York ) speaks to the ways in which environment and history form individuals.
With this cursory context in mind, I draw my attention to the many contextual and thematic connections that link Raging Bull (1980) and The Aviator (2004). First, it is worth noting that both films find Scorsese taking on the passion projects of his two most prominent muses (Robert De Niro and Leonardo DiCaprio, respectively). It's interesting, too, that Scorsese's reported initial reactions to both projects were strikingly similar: at the prospect of adapting Jake LaMotta's 1970 memoir, he told De Niro that he didn't "know anything about boxing," and similarly he found himself musing that he knew "nothing about airplanes" when presented with the opportunity of depicting Howard Hughes's life. By the time Raging Bull came to Scorsese's attention in 1979, he had already enjoyed a fruitful partnership with De Niro (the duo had collaborated on Mean Streets , Taxi Driver  and the then-unsuccessful but now much-disputed masterpiece New York, New York ). Similarly, Scorsese and DiCaprio had already paired up to make the sprawling Gangs of New York (2002) before taking on The Aviator.
In addition to the context of their respective releases, the films share a number of obvious likenesses: both depict dramatic re-imaginings of real historical figures, both are situated in early to mid-20th century America, and both explore their subjects' tumultuous conflicts between vocation and personal life. Furthermore, both films openly call attention to their cinematic characteristics, with Raging Bull openly evoking the black-and-white location-based textures of Elia Kazan's On the Waterfront (1954) and The Aviator mimicking the film stock tones of its various timelines. Both works seek to defamiliarize the beautiful faces of their leads, through De Niro's prosthetic nose and dramatic weight gain, and through DiCaprio's burn-scarred body and unkempt facial hair in The Aviator's later sections.
What shared thematic underpinning, then, serves to connect these two works more deeply? There are several unifying ideas worth identifying, one of which is the tenuous correspondence between public and private life. While both Hughes and LaMotta struggle through the complications and damning consequences of their careers (often played out in the form of public humiliation and, yes, emasculation), they both also privately cave under the pressure of psychological self-destruction. Scorsese evaluates these tensions through the uniquely cinematic properties of his works: in Raging Bull, he portrays De Niro delivering a flat recitation of Marlon Brando's "I coulda been a contender" monologue into a changing room mirror. The scene, appropriately black-and-white in itself, presents a complicated inner-searching of the ways in which cinema informs self-actualization, not only in the now-fictionalized figure of the real LaMotta, but in the form of the film itself. This scene not only calls attention to Raging Bull as a cinematic exercise, but also reframes the virtually mythic images of a plaid-clad Brando wrestling moral quandaries among the docks and streets of Hoboken, New Jersey.
Scorsese explores similarly filmic representations of self-evaluation in The Aviator, going so far as to inscribe DiCaprio-as-Hughes's naked body with the moving images of his own 1930 film, Hell's Angels. This image makes its way into The Aviator's almost epic exploration of Hughes's mental illness taking its toll, depicting the anguished mogul writhing in his private projection room as the black-and-white images of airplanes explode against his flesh. Again, this representation powerfully visualizes Scorsese's work as cinema, entombing DiCaprio as it does in his referent's production. As an aside, it is worth noting that the auteur continues to make gestures to these vexed interrelations between film and reality, specifically considering Hugo's (2011) thesis on film history, and The Wolf of Wall Street's inclusion of the real Jordan Belfort in its much-disputed final scene.
Perhaps what links Raging Bull and The Aviator most vividly are the films' respective bookends. Both works begin and end on representations of birth or futurity, albeit with differing tonal implications. Raging Bull begins with the insular image of a lone De Niro bobbing and jabbing in an empty boxing ring, haloed by the occasional flicker of flashbulb-light as the non-diegetic intermezzo of Pietro Mascagni's "Cavalleria rusticana" plays. It's fitting that this womb-like image of an untouched De Niro is accompanied by an intermezzo, a piece of music suspended among the "living" sections of its opera. Similarly, The Aviator begins with the baptismal image of a pre-teen Hughes being washed by his mother. As he did with LaMotta in the opening Raging Bull, Scorsese foregrounds Hughes' isolation in this scene: as the young boy's mother instructs him, young Hughes spells the word "quarantine" aloud. Similarly, Raging Bull begins post-opening credits with isolated recitation, as a bloated and aged LaMotta prepares alone for his stand-up routine.
Both films likewise conclude with powerful images of isolation. Although Raging Bull's true final sequence comprises of the aforementioned monologue recitation from On the Waterfront, I see a clearer connection to The Aviator in its climactic jail cell scene (which occurs just over 10 minutes before the final credits roll). Scorsese shoots the scene almost entirely in shadow, with a despairing De Niro dipping his head into one of the few shafts of light. The actor pummels his head and fists against a wall for a period of time, before dropping back into the darkness and repeating tearfully, over and over again, that he is "not an animal," and that he is "not that bad." This insistence by LaMotta of his own humanity leads into the ending, which also argues for the existence of some kind of future — the actor's On the Waterfront delivery is suitably unaccompanied by music and noise, a form of reprieve after the assaultive violence of the film as a whole.
The Aviator similarly concludes with one of the most thematically rigorous and deceptively simple images in Scorsese's filmography. Hughes, escorted to an empty restroom by his assistants, paces back and forth, repeating "the way of the future" out loud. The film folds in on itself, as Scorsese imposes an image from the previously mentioned opening sequence: Hughes looks into the mirror and sees himself as a child, his mother telling him that he is "not safe." He then hears his own youthful self stating that he is going to grow up to be "the richest man in the world." In a single technical maneuver, Scorsese calls out the myth of capitalism and the fictionality of cinema simultaneously: he drops the light behind DiCaprio's traumatized face, a synthesis of subjective feeling made visible with formally reflexive gesture.
Upon watching his childhood self fade into darkness, Hughes stares again into the mirror and, barely speaking above a whisper, he continues his hauntingly ambiguous mantra: "the way of the future." He then smiles knowingly, and repeats the phrase as if its inherent emptiness has become known to him. The film concludes with several more repetitions of the phrase, a close-up of DiCaprio's overwhelmingly emotive face framed by darkness. Each repetition increases in volume and assurance, before the film cuts to black.
With Raging Bull and The Aviator, Martin Scorsese perfects a configuration of the biopic as self-recognized fiction. Simultaneously, he deconstructs two icons of masculinity and success, ultimately revealing within both an undercurrent of socialization and conditioning: these men have been similarly damaged and shaped by the cultures in which they are raised, and Scorsese himself acknowledges the role that cinema plays in the development of such subjectivity. The division between "past" and "future" is similarly unfurled in both works, with bookends that call viewers to take pause and consider whether the fictitious forward-momentum of cinema (Raging Bull) or capitalism (The Aviator) is as straightforward as we are led to assume. In a filmography occupied almost entirely by masterpieces, these two titles stand tall above the rest.


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Samsung to Add New NW700 to Sound+ Line of Soundbars
By HomeTheaterReview.com | December 29, 2017
At CES 2018, Samsung will introduce a new soundbar, the NW700. Part of the company's Sound+ line of all-in-one soundbars, the NW700 is a three-channel bar designed to produce solid bass without the need for a separate subwoofer. The NW700 is meant to be wall-mounted and has a thin form--it's 41 percent narrower than the MS650 that we reviewed earlier this year. Pricing and availability have not yet been announced.
From Samsung
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. has announced that the company will unveil a new premium lifestyle soundbar at CES 2018, the NW700 Sound+. The wall-mountable NW700 Sound+ soundbar succeeds the award-winning MS650 Sound+ model and incorporates sound-enhancing features, such as distortion-cancelling, wide-range tweeters and multi-speaker control, all technologies developed at the Samsung Audio Lab in Valencia, California.
The NW700 Sound+ soundbar sports a slim and sleek external design optimized for wall mounting underneath Samsung's super-thin televisions. The 53.5mm-width soundbar, which seamlessly works with a wall mount TV, is 41 percent narrower than the previous soundbar model, allowing users to achieve a harmonious interior. The monolithic soundbar adopts three channels and slim sound technology to deliver dynamic and targeted sound for an immersive listening experience. The body of the soundbar also has a built-in subwoofer, eliminating the need for an external subwoofer and contributing to a clean, slender design for a home entertainment space.
"Samsung continues to invest in product development that fuses lifestyle and technology in a seamless, innovative manner," said Jurack Chae, Senior Vice President of Visual Display Business at Samsung Electronics. "With our NW700 Sound+ soundbar, we are not only committed to superior product design, but also to delivering unmatched sound quality to our consumers."
The technology found in the NW700 Sound+ and its previous iterations has been routinely praised for helping the soundbars achieve powerful bass, a cohesive soundstage and impressive clarity. The distortion-cancelling technology has also been recognized for effectively syncing the drivers in the soundbar to produce a clear and powerful sound. The technology works by predicting distortion at the end of the speaker movement and making the necessary adjustments before the distortion actually takes place. This results in smooth, distortion-free bass tones.
The NW700 Sound+ also supports three sound modes including Standard Mode, Surround Mode (which is used to expand surround sound performance), and Smart Mode (which automatically adjusts volume and surround sound effects).
As one of Samsung's newest lifestyle products, the NW700 Sound+ soundbar is well-suited to be seamlessly integrated into most of home's décor and home theater system.
• Visit the Samsung website to learn more about the company's current soundbar lineup.
• Samsung Sound+ HW-MS650 Three-Channel Soundbar Reviewed at HomeTheaterReview.com.


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Columbus band Twenty One Pilots set to reunite with fans during 3 shows
Margaret Quamme
Special to The Columbus Dispatch
Is it possible that Twenty One Pilots has an ability to hopscotch through the space-time continuum that most of us lack? How else to explain how the rapid changes of the enigmatic and interview-averse pop duo? (The Dispatch asked for an interview but the duo declined.)
Consider the evidence.
Back in 2010, 21-year-old keyboardist Tyler Joseph had recently formed a trio with two friends, bassist Nick Thomas and drummer Chris Salih.
"Four days before our first show at a small coffee shop, I asked my friend from high school — Nick — if he knew how to play the bass guitar," Joseph told Dispatch reporter Kevin Joy in 2010. "He said, 'Nope.' I asked if he could learn, and he said, 'Yup.'"
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By 2011, Thomas and Salih were out of the band, and drummer Josh Dun was in, forming the version of Twenty One Pilots that remains exists today.
Getting a start
That year, the band self-released its second album, "Regional at Best," and gave a free CD release show at New Albany High School. Life-time sales of the album total 5,000 copies.
"In Columbus they were the Beatles," said Atlantic Records Pete Ganberg in a 2018 interview with the New York Times. "But you go over city limits, and no one knew who they were."
In May of 2012, the two played a house concert in Athens that the police shut down after one song.
They also played some slightly longer sets at Skully's Music-Diner and at the Dairy Barn in Athens in 2012.
By October 2012, the duo had signed with Fueled by Ramen, a major label that also included emo acts such as Panic at the Disco and Paramore, and were playing a sold-out show at Lifestyle Communities Pavilion (now Express Live) where Joy, reviewing the show for The Dispatch, noted that "it felt as though the band was still trying to figure out its routine as a headline artist."
A big score with 'Blurryface'
By 2013, the duo had put out their first major label album, "Vessel," and in 2015, they scored big with their second major album, "Blurryface," which has now sold more than 1.5 million copies, and stayed on the Billboard 200 chart for four consecutive years.
One of many singles from that album, "Stressed Out," earned them a 2017 Grammy for Best Pop Duo/Group performance, which they accepted clad in tuxedo jackets and underwear.
In June of 2017, the duo played the "Tour de Columbus" at five Columbus venues of wildly varying sizes, ranging from the Basement, with a capacity of 200, to Value City Arena, with a capacity of 20,000. All five shows sold out in minutes after they were announced.
Watching the Basement version of the show, "disgruntled" Dispatch music critic Julia Oller "stood on a couch at the back of a severely overheated room next to a pair of middle-school boys who seemed to have the time of their lives."
A 2018 reemergence
After playing Columbus, the duo went silent for a year, with no concerts and no social media, and then emerged in 2018 with the bleak, cryptic concept album "Trench," which didn't reach the stellar levels of popularity of "Blurryface," but was praised by critics for its cohesiveness and maturity, and scanned over relentlessly by fans for its inner meanings.
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In 2019, the central Ohio natives were back in town for two shows at Nationwide Arena on the "Bandito Tour," both of which sold out almost immediately when they went on sale in 2018. The Arena, in a fit of enthusiasm, temporarily re-christened Nationwide Boulevard as Twenty One Pilots Boulevard.
In the show, Dispatch reviewer Curtis Schieber said, the duo "rocked the house with youthful energy, considerable technique and a production designed to hit all the right buttons."
During the pandemic, sequestered separately in Los Angeles (Dun) and Columbus (Joseph) the two put together a new, and to many, surprisingly upbeat album. "Scaled and Icy," the title of which close-reading fans note is an anagram of "Clancy is dead," referring to the protagonist of the proceeding album, is the basis of their current tour.
The Takeover Tour
Twenty One Pilots will appear at Nationwide Arena on Oct. 27, 29 and 30. Tickets remain available for all three shows.
Next year might bring change again, and another album, so fans shouldn't get too used to the sunny mood. The dark final song of "Scaled and Icy" offers a hint of what's next.
In an interview with Billboard in June, Joseph said, "I introduced this brand-new, sparkling, happy, colorful record, and I hope that people understand that the reason I end it with 'Redecorate' is that we're headed in another direction after this."
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Twenty One Pilots will perform at 8 p.m. Oct. 27, 29 and 30 at Nationwide Arena, 200 W. Nationwide Blvd. Vaccination or proof of negative COVID test within 72 hours of show is required. Tickets cost $59.50 to $99.50.
Here's what you need to know before you go:
• Purchases made through Ticketmaster will be delivered as mobile tickets.
• Previously issued "hard tickets" for rescheduled shows will be valid.
• Pre-parking is available and can be made at https://arenadistrict.parkmobile.io/
• Face masks are required for ages 3 and older inside the arena, except when eating and drinking.
• Events will be held at full capacity without social distancing.
• All purchases will be cashless throughout the venue.
• Cash-to-card or "reverse ATM" machines will be placed near concession stands and box-office windows to exchange cash for a no-fee debit card.
• Concession stands will accept Apple or Google Pay.
• Bags will not be permitted except medical bags, diaper bags or clutches no larger than 8-by-5-by-1.
• Contactless walk-through security screenings will be in place.
• High-touch surfaces and high-capacity areas will be cleaned and disinfected before and after events.


Dr. Rodillo brings to Bosley an impressive background with more than 25 years of experience as a physician and surgeon, with a special focus in the field of hair restoration. Prior to Bosley, Dr. Rodillo was perfecting his skills as a hair restoration surgeon at Medical Hair Restoration (MHR).
Dr. Rodillo graduated from Brooks Air Force Base School of Aerospace Medicine in San Antonio, TX. Before that, he received his B.S. and M.D. from University of Santo Tomas in the Philippines. Over the next 11 years, Dr Rodillo completed numerous surgical residencies at hospitals, including St. John's Episcopal Hospital in New York, University of Santo Tomas, in Manila, and the University of Chicago Little Co. of Mary Hospital in Evergreen Park, Illinois. Dr. Rodillo also received a Fellowship in Hair Restoration from MHR.
Dr. Rodillo had attained medical licensure in Florida, Georgia, New York, North Carolina and Pennsylvania. His professional memberships include: the International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery, International College of Surgeons, American Association of Clinical Urology, American Board of Disability Analysts, Fellow Association of Laparoscopic Endoscopic Surgeons, Association of Military Surgeons in the United States, Association of Philippine Surgeons in America, Association of Reserve Flight Surgeons, and Reserve Officers Association.


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The establishment of serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D reference intervals in children aged 0–14 years in Zigong area, China
Jianhong Yu1,
Xiaoping He1 &
Shengwei Huang2
To establish the reference interval of serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D (25(OH)D) in apparently healthy children in Zigong, China, using an indirect method to provide a basis for proper clinical diagnosis and treatment.
A total of 1851 apparently healthy children of the Children's Health Care Department in Zigong First People's Hospital between January 2016 and December 2020 were included in the study. The Kolmogorov–Smirnov test was used to analyze the data for normality, and the non-normally distributed data were transformed into approximately normal distribution by Blom's normal rank transformation, and the transformed data were excluded from outliers by the quartile spacing method, and the data were stratified and analyzed according to sex, age, and season. The data were stratified according to sex, age, and season, and the area between the 2.5% and 97.5% percentile points was used as the reference interval.
The serum 25(OH)D data were non-normally distributed. The data were normally distributed after Blom's normality rank transformation, and 92 cases of outliers were excluded from the transformed data according to the interquartile spacing method. The differences in serum 25(OH)D levels between sex were not statistically significant (P > 0.05), and there was no need to establish reference intervals based on sex. There was no statistically significant difference in serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels between winter and spring, and also no difference between summer and autumn (P > 0.05), and the levels were lower in winter-spring than in summer-autumn. Comparison between age groups showed that there was no statistically significant difference in serum 25(OH)D levels between the < 6 months group and the 6 ~ 11 months group, and between the 6 ~ 9 years group and the 10 ~ 14 years group (P > 0.05); serum 25(OH)D levels decreased with increasing age. There was an interactive effect of season and age group on 25(OH)D levels, and the corresponding reference intervals were established according to different seasons and age groups. In summer and autumn, the reference intervals of serum 25(OH)D for < 1 year, 1 ~ 2 years, 3 ~ 5 years, and 6 ~ 14 years were 39.86 ~ 151.43, 31.54 ~ 131.65, 22.05 ~ 103.75, and 15.36 ~ 85.53 ng/ml and 24.42 ~ 144.20, 31.54 ~ 131.65, 16.80 ~ 165.68, and 15.46 ~ 85.54 ng/ml in winter and spring, respectively.
Reference intervals for serum 25(OH)D in children of different seasons and ages in Zigong, China, were established to provide a reference for clinical disease diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis determination.
Vitamin D is a fat-soluble vitamin, its classical function is to regulate calcium and phosphorus homeostasis and enhance bone development. Various studies have shown that vitamin D deficiency leads to a variety of clinical disorders such as rickets, fractures, diabetes, asthma, and cardiovascular disease [1,2,3]. Vitamin D exists in the body mainly in the form of vitamin D2 and vitamin D3, both of which are converted to 25(OH)D in the liver via blood circulation and then to 1,25-hydroxyvitamin D via the kidneys [4]. Among them, 25(OH)D is the main circulating form of vitamin D in the blood and is recognized as a reliable indicator to evaluate the nutritional status of vitamin D in humans. Reference intervals for serum 25(OH)D in minors have been reported in Shanghai [5] and Quanzhou [6], China, but differences in vitamin D levels may exist in different regions with different levels of UV exposure [7]. The recommended vitamin D intake for children aged 0 to 14 years is 10 μg per day (WS/T 578.4–2018 Dietary Nutrient Reference Intakes for Chinese Residents, http://www.nhc.gov.cn/wjw). Vitamin D use in school-age children is lower than in preschoolers [8]. Therefore, the author used the data available in the laboratory database to establish the reference interval of serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D in apparently healthy children in Zigong, China, using an indirect method. The aim was to provide a basis for proper clinical diagnosis and treatment.
Serum 25(OH)D test results were collected from 1911 children who were examined in the Children's Health Care Department of Zigong First People's Hospital from January 2015 to December 2020, and 26 cases with abnormal specimen status (such as hemolysis, lipemia, and jaundice) and 34 cases with abnormal blood, liver or kidney function results were excluded, and the final number of cases entered into this study was 1851 (1071 males and 780 females). The outliers were removed using the Turkey method. The study was approved by the Ethics Committee of Zigong First People's Hospital, and written informed consent was obtained from the guardian.
Samples, instruments, and reagents
Blood samples (2 ml) were collected in all subjects after a fasting state of at least 8 h, placed in a vacuum blood collection tube containing a procoagulant, centrifuged for 10 min at 5 ℃ with a relative centrifugal force of 3072 × g, separated the serum and finished the assay within 2 h. The instrument is the CL-6000i fully automated chemiluminescence immunoassay analyzer (Shenzhen Myriad Biomedical Electronics Co., Ltd.), and the test reagents, calibrators, and quality control products are the supporting products of the instrument. Our laboratory uses Westgard multi-rules (13S, 22S, and R4S) for internal quality control. The test project participated in the quality evaluation activities organized by the clinical laboratory center of the National Health Commission every year. The results were satisfactory, and the bias was acceptable. The coefficient of variation of the indoor quality control data for 25-hydroxyvitamin D was less than 8.33%, and the bias of the inter-room quality evaluation data was less than 5.0%.
Establishment of the reference interval and statistical methods
EXCEL spreadsheet was used to organize the data, and SPSS 26.0 software was used for statistical analysis of the data. Kolmogorov–Smirnov normality test was used to confirm normal distribution for totality of the data, and the non-normally distributed data were transformed into approximately normal distribution by Blom's normality rank transformation with SPSS 26.0 software and the normality of the transformed data was tested using Kolmogorov–Smirnov test. The outliers were removed using the Turkey method [9]. Data were analyzed by subgroup according to sex, season (spring: March–May; summer: June–August; autumn: September–November; winter: December–February) and age (< 6 months, 6 ~ 11 months, 1 ~ 2 years, 3 ~ 5 years, 6 ~ 9 years, 1014 years), and the Mann–Whitney U test was used for comparisons between 2 groups and the Kruskal–Wallis H test, one-way test in a general linear model for interaction between two groups, LSD test for two-way comparison, and the establishment of reference intervals when the difference between two groups was not statistically significant, and the reference intervals were expressed by the percentile method (P 2.5 to P 97.5). The difference was considered statistically significant at P < 0.05.
Normality test and transformation
After the Kolmogorov–Smirnov test, the serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D data showed skewed distribution. Blom's transformed data showed a normal distribution, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2.
Histogram of distribution of 25(OH)D
Histogram of distribution of converted 25(OH)D
Outlier rejection
The serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D data were sorted after an Excel spreadsheet. Outliers were removed using the Turkey method, the upper limit is the 75th percentile plus 1.5 times the interquartile range (IQR), and the lower limit is the 25th percentile minus 1.5 times the IQR. Excluding the outliers of 92 cases, the final number of cases entered into the study was 1759.
Serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels between sex
Serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels followed a normal statistical distribution in groups < 6 months and 6 ~ 11 months but skewed in groups 1 ~ 2 years, 3 ~ 5 years, 6 ~ 9 years, and 10 ~ 14 years (Kolmogorov–Smirnov test). There was no statistical difference in the composition ratio of sex between the different age groups (P > 0.05). There was no statistically significant difference in serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels between sex in the same age groups (P > 0.05), except for group aged 10 ~ 14 years (Table 1).
Table 1 Comparison of serum 25(OH)D levels in the same age groups between sex
Serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels between seasons
The results of the Kruskal–Wallis H test showed that the differences in serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels between different seasons were statistically significant (Table 2). Two-by-two comparison between different seasons using Kruskal–Wallis one-way ANOVA (K-sample) multiple comparison selection all pairwise, listed in Table 3, indicates that there was no statistically significant difference in serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels between winter and spring, and also no difference between summer and autumn (P > 0.05).
Table 2 Comparison of serum 25(OH)D levels between seasons, M (P25 ~ P75)
Table 3 Paired comparison of serum 25(OH)D by season
Serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels among different age groups
The difference in serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels between different age groups was statistically significant by the Kruskal–Wallis H test. By Kruskal–Wallis one-way ANOVA test, the differences in serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels between the < 6 months group and the 6 ~ 11 months group and between the 6 ~ 9 years group and the 10 ~ 14 years group were not statistically significant (P > 0.05). But the differences were statistically significant between groups < 1 year, 1 ~ 2 years, 3 ~ 5 years, and 6 ~ 14 years (Table 4).
Table 4 Comparison of serum 25(OH)D levels between different age groups, M (P25 ~ P75)
Reference intervals of serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D in different seasons and age groups
In children aged 9 ~ 14 years, although serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels were statistically.
different between the sexes, their Z values were lower than Z* values and did not require the establishment of reference intervals based on sex (CLSI EP 28-A3C [10]). The seasons were divided into summer-autumn and winter-spring, and the ages were divided into groups aged < 1 year, 1 ~ 2 years, 3 ~ 5 years, and 6 ~ 14 years. There was an interaction of 25-hydroxyvitamin D between different seasons and ages by general linear model test. Two-two comparisons showed that there was no statistically significant difference in serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels between seasons in group aged 1 ~ 2 years (P > 0.05), no seasonal grouping was required for reference interval establishment in the 1 ~ 2 years group, and the reference range of serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D in children aged 1 ~ 2 years was 31.54 ~ 131.65 ng/ml. In contrast, seasonal differences existed between the remaining age groups, as shown in Table 5.
Table 5 Comparison of serum 25(OH)D levels between seasons in the same age group (ng/ml)
Serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D is an important indicator of vitamin D levels. It is associated with human health status, and 25(OH)D levels are negatively associated with all-cause mortality and stroke risk in elderly Chinese [11, 12]. Higher levels of 25(OH)D are associated with lower overall cancer risk [13]. Higher levels of 25(OH)D are also associated with lower all-cause mortality and cardiovascular disease mortality in patients with diabetes [14]. However, vitamin D insufficiency or deficiency is relatively common in Chinese children and adolescents [15] and postmenopausal women [16]. Vitamin D levels can be increased by sunlight exposure or oral vitamin D supplements. Vitamin D levels can be increased by sunlight exposure or oral vitamin D supplements. However, over-supplementation can also be a health threat, and the literature [17] reports that higher lifetime levels of 25(OH)D are associated with an increased risk of leukoaraiosis. Therefore, proper assessment of serum 25(OH)D levels is of great value for health status, disease diagnosis, and prognostic assessment.
Reference intervals are criteria for assessing health status, disease diagnosis, and prognosis. Most clinical decision-making processes are based on the information provided by laboratory reports. Therefore, providing reliable reference intervals is a fundamental task of clinical laboratories [18]. Currently, the reference intervals used in clinical laboratories are mainly derived from the instructions provided by reagent manufacturers, national clinical test protocols, or literature. However, the inconsistency of measurement results among laboratories is prominent due to different testing systems, different testing methods, different reagent manufacturers, and different geographical regions. Therefore, the reference intervals established by each laboratory according to the local population are more valuable for guiding the diagnosis, disease monitoring, and prognosis of diseases. However, the inconsistency of measurement results among laboratories is prominent due to different testing systems, different testing methods, different reagent manufacturers, and different geographical regions. Therefore, the reference intervals established by each laboratory according to the local population are more valuable for guiding the diagnosis, disease monitoring, and prognosis of diseases.
The establishment of reference intervals by the direct method is recommended by the CLSI EP 28-A3C document [10]. However, the direct method has some disadvantages, such as it requires a lot of human and material resources. Also, children may be limited by ethical restrictions, elderly people may be limited by chronic diseases or medication use. Therefore, establishing reference intervals by the direct method is difficult for most laboratories. With the development of information technology, the indirect establishment of reference intervals through a large amount of data in laboratory information systems is accepted by the EP28-A3C document. In this study, the reference intervals for serum 25(OH)D in children in the Zigong region of China were established by statistical analysis based on the results of serum 25(OH)D tests in apparently healthy children in the last 5 years. Serum 25(OH)D levels in children in the Zigong area did not differ statistically significantly between sex, consistent with Xiao Long-necked [19] and others, and were lower in winter and spring and higher in summer and autumn, due to less sunlight and lower UV exposure and reduced skin synthesis in winter and spring than in summer and autumn. 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels are highest in children under 1 year of age and their levels decrease with increasing age, as also observed in Hangzhou, China [20]. The reason for this may be that children under the age of 1 year are mainly fed on breast milk or formula. Also, this group of children will routinely take vitamin D supplementation by oral means and have better compliance with oral vitamin D. As their age increases, children's physiological needs for vitamin D gradually increase, but vitamin D supplementation is insufficient. Given the interaction of different seasons and ages on serum 25(OH)D levels, this study established reference intervals for serum 25(OH)D in children of different seasons and age groups (Table 5), and serum 25(OH)D levels were higher in children aged 6 ~ 14 years than in Iranian children [21], which may be due to different ethnic groups and different lifestyle habits. The manufacturer's reagent instructions (> 30 ng/ml as adequate, < 20 ng/ml as deficient, and 20–30 ng/ml as insufficient) referred to the reference interval in this laboratory, the percentage of 25(OH)D insufficiency or deficiency in apparently healthy children amounted to 25.58%. If the health industry-standard (WS/T 677–2020 Screening method for vitamin D deficiency in human population, http://www.nhc.gov.cn/wjw) is used as the judgment standard, the rate of 25(OH)D insufficiency or deficiency is 7.56%, which is mainly distributed in the population aged 6 ~ 14 years old, and the possible reasons are: (1) children in this age group are mostly primary or junior high school students, with increased academic tasks and reduced outdoor sunlight exposure related; (2) children above 6 years of age have increased physiological needs but reduced or missing oral vitamin D preparations. Therefore, time for outdoor exercise should be ensured for primary and secondary school students, serum 25(OH)D levels should be monitored regularly, and vitamin D preparations should be supplemented promptly for those with insufficient vitamin D levels to ensure that their vitamin D is maintained at adequate levels.
In conclusion, this study established reference intervals for serum 25(OH)D in children of different seasons and ages in Zigong, China. When determining the status of vitamin D levels in children, child health practitioners should combine this reference interval with relevant health industry standards to make comprehensive judgments and correct conditions of vitamin D overdose, deficiency, or lack in a timely manner to promote children's health.
The datasets supporting the conclusions of this article are included within the article.
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No funding was obtained for this study. This research did not receive any specific grant from funding agencies in the public, commercial, or not-for-profit sectors. Open Access funding enabled and organized by Zigong First People's Hospital.
Department of Clinical Laboratory, Zigong First People's Hospital, Zigong, China
Jianhong Yu & Xiaoping He
Department of Nuclear Medicine, Zigong First People's Hospital, Zigong, China
Shengwei Huang
Jianhong Yu
Xiaoping He
Jianhong Yu made substantial contributions to the conception and design of the manuscript. Shengwei Huang made substantial contributions to the construction of the measurement protocol. Jianhong Yu and Xiaoping He have been involved in the statistical data analysis. The authors read and approved the final manuscript.
Correspondence to Jianhong Yu.
This study was approved by the Ethics Committee of Zigong First People's Hospital, China. All participants' guardians signed an informed consent form in advance.
Yu, J., He, X. & Huang, S. The establishment of serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D reference intervals in children aged 0–14 years in Zigong area, China. J Physiol Anthropol 40, 14 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40101-021-00265-x
Received: 30 June 2021
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s40101-021-00265-x
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Bio of Matilda O'Donnell MacElroy
Space War
Is Earth Hell?
Life force&spirit
Spiritual holocaust
Are we alone?
Human origin & genetic modifications or new root race.
Vibration and soul part
Communication between spirits and humans
Self catering accommodation on the Beara Peninsula, Ireland.
Seaweed Ireland, seaweed info site.
Tragalee Holiday Home.
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German space program 1919-1945
Matilda MacElroy Legacy
Our little Earth, a civilization shredder?
Space, intelligent civilizations.
Electric Energy from Space.
Seaweed online store
Exploring a Worm Hole.
Hans Coler over unity device, the Moray and Hubbard Coil, wireless electricity transmission, and earth
Admiral Richard B. Byrd's -'top Secret'- Diary as published online.
Free energy site
War for Antarctica
Vril Power and vril society
Free energy from space
Eurozone-invest
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The Pyramid, symbol of wisdom or grand deception!
Worm hole & Warp drive!
Matilda, betrayal.
Dulce, copy interview with Thomas Castello
Our converted little boathouse is for sale, a hide-away at sea.
Irland, der Süden.
The demise of Europe!
tragalee
Our human history is bloodstained
The fake world
Violent Earth
Dulce base, New Mexico, USA
DNA research/Clay tablet of summer in the Middle East.
First, a story as told by extraterrestrials.
The old race also called ones or people of the light.
They understood how to create life, and they wanted this territory for their own reasons. Territories are created and held by certain energies for many reasons, one of which is that there is consciousness within all things.
Consciousness communicates continuously. Consciousness vibrates or can be led to vibrate, at certain electromagnetic frequencies.
Electromagnetic energies of consciousness can be influenced to vibrate in a certain way to create a perfect source of food. Consciousness can be prepared and ingested in a variety of ways. Some entities, in the process of their own evolution, began to discover that as they created life and put consciousness into things through modulating the frequencies of forms of consciousness, they could feed themselves; they could keep themselves in charge.
They then began to Figure out that this is how Prime Creator nourished itself. Prime Creator did send out others to create an electromagnetic frequency of consciousness as a food source for itself.
The new owners of this planet arrived and had a different appetite and different preferences than the former ones. They nourished themselves with chaos and fear the more the better. These aliens used to feed off the affected humans, it stimulated them and kept them in power.
These new owners who came here 500,000 years ago are the magnificent beings spoken of in our Bible, in the Babylonian and Sumerian tablets, and in texts all over the world. They came to Earth and rearranged the native human species. We are look-alikes but their brains are between 50-100% larger as old statues of prehistoric the Faro's. When they lost the space war 5000 years ago went underground and humans hold that position without any real power.
It was Zecharia Sitchin who translated and reinterpreted ancient tablets and inscriptions (many of them non-existent or not documented by any archaeologist or specialist in -Babylonian languages) from the villages where the first civilizations emerged.
They rearranged your DNA in order to have you broadcast within a certain limited frequency band whose frequency could feed them and keep them in power. Low frequency as transmitted under stress, fear, survival, hunger, anger, competition.
Anything [of DNA] that was unnecessary for survival and that could keep you informed was unplugged, leaving you with only a double helix that would lock you into controllable, operable frequencies. When you do add up all pieces of DNA left shattered you can construct a twelfth string helix.
A frequency fence, something like an electrical fence, was put around the planet to control the frequencies of humans, to be modulated and changed.
In Airl case there seemed to be no need to feed, his craft was equipped with devices for creating, amplifying and channelling light particles or waves as a form of energy.
Now we have six independent sources of info,
Above by an extraterrestrial.
Clay tablets found in Sumeria and translated by Zecharia Sitchin.
Ilat tablets found in Antartica in 1939.
Reports from Germany during WW2
Whistleblowers from Dulce
The public DNA research.
And Airl the alien interviewed by Matilda and the craft able to produce synthetic feed, by creating, amplifying and channeling light particles or waves as a form of energy. Artificial food?
Zecharia Sitchin translated and reinterpreted ancient tablets and inscriptions (many of them non-existent or not documented by any archaeologist or specialist in -Babylonian languages) from the villages where the first civilizations emerged and written many books about the information found. Alex Collier claims that the reptile species of Alpha Draconis and Rigel Orion, although involved in short-term mind-control projects, are also interested in long-term genetic-control as used in Eden, that is introducing genetic information into a conquered race in order to keep succeeding generations subjected to the Draconian elite by sabotaging certain genetic strengths. From a 12 string DNA too 2.
Most of the pyramids on Earth and build in the past carry their signature. Please have a look at pyramids.
A relationship between the fourth dynasty Egyptian pyramids of the Giza Plateau and the alignment of certain stars in the constellation of Orion. Observations have shown that Orion, and Mintaka, the smaller more easterly of the stars making up Orion's belt was offset slightly from the others.
That our behaviour as humans on earth is heavily influenced by the "hypnotic commands" given to each captured soul between lifetimes. Instead of working together, we are told to try and dominate, compete, allowed to fight and cheat and now by reaching technological capabilities which are no longer matched by conscious, ethical and moral standards a problem. The only long-term solution to undo what did happen in the past at Eden, some, therefore, call for the return of the Annunaki, the executors of these instructions.
Comparing these sources of information with the published outcome or the public Science/Genome project.
"Humbling" was the prevalent adjective used by the scientific teams and the media to describe the principal finding – that the human genome contains not the anticipated 100,000 – 140,000 genes (the stretches of DNA that direct the production of amino acids and proteins) but only some 30,000 ± little more than double the 13,601 genes of a fruit fly and barely fifty percent more than the roundworm's 19,098. What a comedown from the pinnacle of the genomic Tree of Life! Normally you would expect that a being evolving in an evolutionary way would lead to an expansion of genes. Here we see the opposite.
Moreover, there was hardly any uniqueness to the human genes at all. They are comparative to not the presumed 95 per cent but to almost 99 per cent of the chimpanzees, and 70 per cent of the mouse. Human genes, with the same functions, were found to be identical to genes of other vertebrates, as well as invertebrates, plants, fungi, even yeast. Also clear that humans cannot be linked to the Ape, nor that life is an accident or we are the only advanced civilisation in the universe. Our scientist does have a lot to answer for.
The findings not only confirmed that there was one source of DNA for all life on Earth, but in addition also enabled the scientists to trace the evolutionary process – how more complex organisms evolved, genetically, from simpler ones, adopting at each stage the genes of a lower life form to create a more complex higher life form – culminating with Homo sapiens.
An analysis of the functions of these genes through the proteins that they spell out, conducted by the Public Consortium team and published in the journal Nature, shows that they include not only proteins involved in important physiological but also psychiatric functions. Moreover, they are responsible for important neurological enzymes that stem only from the mitochondrial portion of the DNA – the so-called "Eve" DNA that humankind inherited only through the mother-line, all the way back to a single "Eve."
That finding alone raises doubt regarding that the "bacterial insertion" explanation.
It was here, in tracing the vertical evolutionary record contained in the human and the other analyzed genomes, that the scientists ran into an enigma.
The "head-scratching discovery by the public consortium," as Science termed it, was that the human genome contains 223 genes that do not have the required predecessors on the genomic evolutionary tree. Must have come from somewhere else.
The main question; how did Man acquire such a bunch of enigmatic genes?
In the evolutionary progression from bacteria to invertebrates (such as the lineages of yeast, worms, flies or mustard weed – which have been deciphered) to vertebrates (mice, chimpanzees) and finally modern humans, these 223 genes are completely missing in the invertebrate phase.
Therefore, the scientists can explain their presence in the human genome by a "rather recent" (in evolutionary time scales) "probable horizontal transfer from bacteria."
In other words: At a relatively recent time as Evolution goes, modern humans acquired an extra 223 genes, not through gradual evolution, not vertically on the Tree of Life, but horizontally, as a sideways insertion of genetic material from bacteria and changed as result of it!!
But if one is to accept a tentative explanation for enigmatic genes that humans possess, offered when the deciphering of the human genome was announced in mid-February, the feat was decided upon by a group of bacteria and that makes all the difference between us and other animals (world) according to the scientists.
Now, at first glance, it would seem that 223 genes are no big deal. In fact, while every single gene makes a great difference to every individual, 223 genes make an immense difference to a species such as ours.
The difference between Man and Chimpanzee is less than one per cent as genes go, and one per cent of 30,000 genes is 300.
Factually these 223 genes are more than two-thirds of the difference between me, you and a chimpanzee!
A Shaky Theory
How sure are the scientists that such important and complex genes, through we humans obtain such an immense advantage – "rather recently" – through the courtesy of infecting bacteria? "It is a jump that does not follow current evolutionary theories," said Steven Scherer, director of mapping of the Human Genome Sequencing Center, Baylor College of Medicine.
"We did not identify a strongly preferred bacterial source for the putative horizontally transferred genes," states the report in Nature.
The Public Consortium team, conducting a detailed search, found that some 113 genes (out of the 223) "are widespread among bacteria" – though they are entirely absent even in invertebrates.
An analysis of the proteins which the enigmatic genes express showed that out of 35 identified, only ten had counterparts in vertebrates (ranging from cows to rodents to fish); 25 of the 35 were unique to humans.
"It is not clear whether the transfer was from bacteria to human or from human to bacteria," Science quoted Robert Waterson, co-director of Washington University's Genome Sequencing Center, as saying.
But if Man gave those genes to bacteria, where did Man acquire those genes, to begin with?
Clay tablets and Scripture:
The Bible asserts that the Elohim said: " Let us fashion the Adam in our image and after our likeness"
The biblical verses dealing with the fashioning of The Adam are condensed renderings of much much more detailed Sumerian and Akkadian texts, found inscribed on clay tablets, in which the role of the Elohim in Genesis is performed by the Anunnaki –
"Those Who From Heaven to Earth Came."
As detailed in the book written by Zecharia Sitchin , beginning with The 12th Planet (1976) and even more so in Genesis Revisited and The Cosmic Code, the Anunnaki came to Earth some 450,000 years ago from the planet Nibiru – a member of our own solar system whose great orbit brings it to our part of the heavens once every 3,600 years.
They came here in need of gold, with which to protect their dwindling atmosphere.
Exhausted and in need of help in mining the gold, their chief scientist Enki suggested that they use their genetic knowledge to create the needed Primitive Workers.
When the other leaders of the Anunnaki asked: How can you create a new being?
He answered: "The being that we need already exists; all that we have to do is put our mark on it."
The time was some 300,000 years ago.
What he had in mind was to upgrade genetically the existing hominids, who were already on Earth by adding some of the genes of the more advanced Anunnaki.
That the Anunnaki, who could already travel in space 550,000 years ago, possessed the genomic science (whose threshold we have now reached) is clear not only from the actual texts but also from numerous depictions in which the double-helix of the DNA is rendered as Entwined Serpents (a symbol still used for medicine and healing).
When the leaders of the Anunnaki approved the project (as echoed in the biblical "Let us fashion the Adam"), Enki with the help of Ninharsag, the Chief Medical Officer of the Anunnaki, embarked on a process of genetic engineering, by adding and combining genes of the Anunnaki with those of the already-existing hominids.
When, after much trial and error breathtakingly described and recorded in antiquity, a "perfect model" was attained, Ninharsag held him up and shouted: "My hands have made it!"
An ancient artist depicted the scene on a cylinder seal. And that, I suggest, is how we had come to possess the unique extra genes. It was in the image of the Anunnaki, not of bacteria, that Adam and Eve were fashioned.
Now seen as a Matter of Extreme Significance:
Zecharia Sitchin is admen t that; Unless further scientific research can establish, beyond any doubt, that the only possible source of the extra genes are indeed bacteria, and unless it is then also determined that the infection ("horizontal transfer") went from bacteria to Man and not from Man to bacteria, the only other available solution will be that offered by the Sumerian texts millennia ago.
Until then, the enigmatic 223 alien genes will remain as an alternative – and as a corroboration by modern science of the Anunnaki and their genetic feats on Earth.
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Millions of Muslims this month flock to Islam's holiest city of Makkah (or Mecca) to perform the annual hajj pilgrimage.
"Prophet Ibrahim preached the oneness of God, a message that was later revived and renewed by the last of all Prophets, Muhammad (peace be upon him)," Sayed told Al Arabiya News.
Muslims call the Kaaba "the house of God" and are expected to face the direction of Makkah (or Mecca) when praying in any part of the world.
Tawaf: Upon arrival to Makkah (or Mecca), Pilgrims should make Tawaf or circumambulation. It is considered an integral part of the pilgrimage, and refers to the seven times pilgrims circle around the Kaaba at the beginning, during and at the end of hajj.
The circuits are done in a counter-clockwise direction and are thought to express the unity between Muslims in worshipping one God. The rotations are marked by al-Hajar al-Aswad, or the Black Stone at the eastern corner of the Kabaa.
Departure to Mina: Pilgrims proceed to the tent city of Mina on the first day of hajj or what is called the day of Tarwiah. They converge to Mina for prayer, which lies roughly eight kilometers away from Makkah. Pilgrims are required to remain in Mina until the sunrise of the second day of hajj, where they leave to Arafat.
Mount Arafat: After the dawn prayers in Mina, pilgrims start their journey to the desert planes of Arafat. Dubbed as the "most important day of hajj," Muslims spend the day of Arafat in the vicinity of the mountain, praying and repenting.
The rituals of this day end at sunset, when pilgrims move to Muzdalifah.
Muzdalifah: After descending from Arafat, pilgrims arrive to the open land of Muzdalifah, southeast of Mina. People gather in makeshift tents and are required to perform Maghrib and Isha prayers. It is also considered the best place to collect pebbles for Ramy al-Jamarat.
Eid al-Adha: The Eid al-Adha festival, or the Feast of Sacrifice, is celebrated by Muslims who are not on pilgrimage by slaughtering animals to mark Prophet Ibrahim's willingness to sacrifice his son Ismail upon the command of God.
Pilgrims spend the three days of Eid stoning pillars that represent the devil.
They later purchase tokens to have a sheep slaughtered in the Makkah neighbourhood of Mina.