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Setién's Villarreal beats Real Madrid 2-1 in Spanish league
by: By JOSEPH WILSON
BARCELONA, Spain (AP)This will be one for Quique Setien to savor.
His Villarreal beat Real Madrid 2-1 on Saturday in a victory that will help rehabilitate the credentials of a coach who spent more than two years away from soccer following his short and painful stint in charge of Barcelona.
The pulsating Spanish league match at Villarreal's remodeled Estadio de la Ceramica could have ended with more goals, especially for the all-yellow hosts.
Gerard Moreno, who missed the World Cup for Spain due to injury, led Villarreal with an assist and a goal against the Spanish and European champions.
Yeremy Pino put Villarreal deservedly ahead in the 47th minute from a pass by Moreno after Ferland Mendy lost possession with an errant pass. A handball by Villarreal's Juan Foyth allowed Karim Benzema to momentarily level from the penalty spot in the 60th.
But another handball, this time by Madrid defender David Alaba on a pass by Foyth, sent Moreno to take the winner for Villarreal in the 63rd.
Villarreal, which held Madrid to five consecutive draws at its stadium, took the initiative and forced Madrid's defenders into sloppy passing. Francis Coquelin hit the post with a superb shot with the back of his heel while on the turn, slicing the ball from a tight angle past Thibaut Courtois. That pressure led to the breakthrough by Pino just after halftime.
"We played an extraordinary match against an extraordinary team," Setien said. "We were better in many aspects, kept the action in their half of the field and created our scoring chances. We increased our pressure because we know that if you give them room, they can cause you problems."
The 40-year-old Pepe Reina started in Villarreal's goal, hours after the club announced it transferred Argentine Geronimo Rulli to Ajax. Reina blocked a shot by Vinicius Junior in Madrid's best chance late in the first half.
Villarreal substitute Arnaut Danjuma should have tacked on a third goal on the game's final kick when Courtois was caught joining Madrid's last-gasp attack, only for his effort to trickle wide of the unprotected net.
Setien was considered one of Spain's brightest coaching minds before he joined Barcelona in January 2020 for his first job with an elite club. He lasted just eight months and was let go following an 8-2 loss to Bayern Munich, Barcelona's worst in recent memory.
The manager returned to coaching only in October when he accepted the challenge of replacing Unai Emery, who left for Aston Villa following his successful run at Villarreal that included a Europa League title and the Champions League semifinals.
Setien had a turbulent start, drawing in his debut and losing the next three matches. But the team started to win and is playing even better following the World Cup break. It beat Valencia in a regional derby before taking down Madrid to climb into fifth place.
Setien, known for his attacking style, tweaked what was a successful scheme under Emery and found another way to win. Pino has moved from the right to the left side of the attack, allowing Samuel Chukwueze to play on the right and provide speed on both flanks. Alex Baena, who is enjoying a breakout season, shifted into an interior role, while Dani Parejo has moved further back in the midfield to act as its main playmaker.
"I always believed," Setien said. "Our start was not the best one. There was the shock in the club with a new coach who wants to change things even though the team is playing well. But I am a man of convictions and knew that this would work out."
The loss by Madrid gave Barcelona the opportunity to regain sole lead of the competition on Sunday when it visits Atletico Madrid.
Madrid will pause league play to compete in the Spanish Super Cup in Saudi Arabia along with Barcelona, Real Betis and Valencia. Once back in Spain, Madrid will face another trip to Villarreal in the Copa del Rey quarterfinals.
Madrid coach Carlo Ancelotti called on his defense to play better.
"We didn't defend like we want to, we left too many spaces between our lines," Ancelotti said. "We have to interpret the moments of the game better. Now we have to focus on the Super Cup."
Madrid's starting 11 included no Spanish players. According to Opta statistics, this was the first time Madrid did not have a Spaniard on the field at kickoff in a Spanish league game in this century. Other local media said it was the first time this occurred in the history of the club.
A stoppage-time header by Abdon Prats snatched Mallorca a 1-0 win at home over Valladolid, while Girona drew 2-2 at Espanyol.
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Meet the 2018 MN Cup Semifinalists!
MINNEAPOLIS—MAY 30, 2018—Statewide entrepreneurial competition MN Cup announced today that the top 90 teams of Minnesota-based entrepreneurs, inventors and innovators are advancing to the semifinal round of the 2018 competition.
Now in its fourteenth year, the MN Cup is set to give away a record $500,000in total prize money. The semifinalist teams will gather on June 6 at the Carlson School of Management to begin the mentoring phase of the competition.
Teams compete in one of nine divisions: Energy/Clean Tech/Water, Food/Agriculture/Beverage, General, High Tech, Life Science/Health IT, Impact Ventures, Student (for enrolled grad school or undergrad students ages 19-30) and Youth (age 18 and younger). New this year is the Education and Training category. In all categories, those who advanced to the semifinalists level will meet with experienced mentors throughout the summer to craft detailed business plans.
At the MN Cup awards celebration in October at the University of Minnesota, one startup will be chosen as 2018's best breakthrough business idea. Nearly 15,000 Minnesotans have participated since the contest began, and finalists have gone on to raise more than $280 million in capital to support the development of their ideas, create jobs, and broker numerous business partnerships, collaborations and distribution agreements. And they've done it all with the help of MN Cup's support network of 350+ volunteers and 75+ partners and sponsors, who believe in the promise of creating a thriving culture of innovation and entrepreneurship in Minnesota.


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Hilton Reports $432 Million Second-Quarter Loss
Like much of the hospitality sector and the travel industry at large, Hilton's business was ravaged by the COVID-19 pandemic in the second quarter of 2020.
On Thursday, the hotel giant reported a net loss of $432 million for the quarter and said it saw systemwide comparable RevPAR (revenue per available room) decrease by 81 percent from the same period in 2019.
Meanwhile, Hilton reported adjusted EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization) of $51 million for the three months ended June 30 compared to $618 million during the same period last year.
The coronavirus crisis continues to impact Hilton's business but the company reports that all major regions have experienced month over month increases in occupancy and RevPAR since hitting rock bottom in April. Hilton's recoveries in the United States and Asia Pacific have been among the bright spots, with occupancy levels up approximately 20 percentage points and 15 percentage points, respectively, from April to June.
"Our second-quarter results reflect the challenges that our business has experienced as a result of the pandemic," Hilton President and CEO Christopher Nassetta said in a statement accompanying Thursday's report. "However, as restrictions are lifting and properties around the world are reopening, we are seeing improved occupancy. While we have a long journey in front of us, we are on the road to recovery and look forward to the opportunities ahead."
In addition to launching the CleanStay program in collaboration with RB, maker of Lysol and Dettol, and the Mayo Clinic, to ensure an enhanced standard of cleanliness and disinfection at properties around the world, Hilton opened 60 new hotels totaling 6,800 rooms during the quarter and reports that 96 percent of its systemwide hotels are open as of July 31.
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Ride On is the biggest bus system in the region after WMATA. Its busiest lines might surprise you.
TransitBy Dan Reed (Editorial Board) June 20, 2017 21
A Ride On bus in Germantown. Photo by the author. Image by the author.
Montgomery County's Ride On is the busiest bus system in the Washington region after Metrobus, carrying 75,000 riders each day. Its most popular bus routes, however, might surprise you.
Here's a map of the ten most heavily used Ride On routes in Montgomery County. They all have a couple of things in common, which can tell us a lot about the state of transit in the county.
For starters, many of these routes have simple, easy-to-remember routes, a key feature for growing ridership. The 46 (Rockville-Medical Center) and 55 (Germantown-Rockville) both run on Route 355 with few deviations. The 100 (Germantown-Shady Grove express) follows I-270, making one stop in Germantown and another at the Shady Grove Metro station. Riders don't need to be intimately familiar with each route in order to use it. They just need to know where that street goes.
These are the most popular Ride On bus routes as of 2015. Map by the author using data from MCDOT. Image by the author.
In addition, most of these routes are pretty frequent, running all day, every day, and every 15 minutes or more during rush hour. That means riders can rely on them at all times, without worrying how they might get home if they miss the last bus.
Where these 10 routes go, however, might be the most interesting part. Three of them, the 15, 16, and 20, run between Silver Spring and the Takoma-Langley Crossroads area, a dense corridor with tens of thousands of residents, shops, and jobs. It's also where the Purple Line will go, demonstrating the there's a lot of demand for transit here.
But five of the routes, the 46, 55, 59, 61, and 100, all serve the Upcounty, the newest, most suburban, and most spread-out part of Montgomery County. The prevailing wisdom among some county officials is that transit "doesn't work" in these areas, unlike the denser, more urban Downcounty, where all of the county's busiest Metrobus routes are. In the Upcounty, the roads are big and fast and you have to travel long distances to get from residential areas to jobs, shopping, or popular hangouts.
Map of Ride On's Route 46, which has a pretty clear, easy-to-follow route along Route 355. Image by Montgomery County.
Yet these areas still manage to support frequent, heavily used transit service. There are thousands of car-free and one-car households in areas like Gaithersburg and Germantown who depend on transit. The Upcounty also has lots of places that people want to go to: Montgomery College and the Universities at Shady Grove; two hospitals; big shopping centers like Lakeforest and Milestone; and walkable, urban-ish neighborhoods like Rio/Washingtonian Center and Germantown Town Center.
That's something to remember as the county considers building new transit lines to serve the Upcounty, like the Corridor Cities Transitway and bus rapid transit on Route 355 - as well as big highway projects like M-83 and adding new lanes to I-270. Driving rates in Montgomery County have stayed flat over the past 15 years, even as 100,000 new people moved here. And it's because some of those people, even those coming to Germantown, took the bus.
Tagged: brt, buses, gaithersburg, germantown, maryland, montgomery, montgomery county, ride on, transit
Dan Reed is an urban planner and freelance writer. Check out his regular column in Washingtonian and his blog, Just Up the Pike. He's also an agent at Living In Style Real Estate. Dan still gets a full night's sleep. He lives in downtown Silver Spring. All opinions are his own.
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Sony to improve DirectX 11 for the PS4, triple Blu-ray speeds
By Matthew Humphries 03.28.2013 :: 12:15PM EDT 03.28.2013
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Sony hasn't released much in the way of new details about the PlayStation 4 since its launch event last month. But at the Game Developer Conference this week Chris Norden, senior staff engineer at Sony, finally went into some more detail about the underlying hardware.
The PS4 sees Sony move to a 64-bit x86 chip architecture, which will be music to the ears of developers, especially those used to working on PC games. The good news doesn't stop there, though. Developers will be able to take advantage of Microsoft's latest industry standard DirectX API — DirectX 11.1, but Sony has taken the time to improve upon it, pushing the feature set beyond what is available for PC games development.
Those improvements include better shader pipeline access, improved debugging support features out the box, and much lower level access to the system hardware enabling developers to do "more cool things." That's achieved not only through an modified DirectX 11.1 API, but also a secondary low-level API specifically for the PS4 hardware.
As well as having more control over the hardware, Norden explained that developers get complete control over the CPU, GPU, and RAM. That means the GPU isn't just limited to handling graphics on the system, it can run arbitrary code. Developers also get to decide how to use/split the 8GB RAM between different tasks. There's no predefined limits meaning there's more headroom to experiment.
One area of the console that is sure to please gamers is the Blu-ray drive the PS4 will ship with. Not only does that ensure the console can double as a Blu-ray player just like the PS3 did, it's also a 3x faster drive than in the PS3, which should help with install and game load times.
You may also remember Sony mentioned live streaming of games and recording of key gaming moments was a major feature of the PS4. Norden explained that was due to an extra chip being included in the system that will always contain the last few minutes of play. By doing that, Sony can handle live streaming automatically without impacting system performance, and gamers don't have to remember to start recording when they think something memorable will happen. They instead just have to remember to save what the PS4 already recorded automatically.
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In the Pokémon TCG: HS Undaunted expansion, you'll discover battle-ready Pokémon just waiting to be summoned by the fearless Trainer in you! The powerful Rayquaza and Deoxys become Pokémon LEGENDs to be reckoned with and six Pokémon—from Raichu to Umbreon to Slowking—join the ranks of Pokémon Prime.
The greatest Trainers are those who are fearless in the face of battle. In the Pokémon TCG: HS Undaunted expansion, you'll discover battle-ready Pokémon just waiting to be summoned by the fearless Trainer in you! The powerful Rayquaza and Deoxys become Pokémon LEGENDs to be reckoned with and six Pokémon—from Raichu to Umbreon to Slowking—join the ranks of Pokémon Prime. Stadium cards like the Ruins of Alph and Trainer cards like Legend Box change every player's strategy. Are you ready to be Undaunted?
- All new theme deck packaging featuring clear preview window to see first card in each deck.
- Introduction of Daybreak and Nightfall theme decks with bonus booster pack!
- Rare and Legendary Pokémon teamed up in pairs—Kyogre & Groudon and Rayquaza & Deoxys!
- New amazing Pokémon Prime cards including Houndoom and Scizor!
Get ready to take your game in a bunch of new directions with Eevee and its many Evolved forms! Virtually all of Eevee's Evolved forms are here, including Espeon (2/90), which comes with a Solar Suggestion attack that lets you move up to 4 damage counters among your opponent's Pokémon in any way you like. And don't miss out on Espeon Prime (81/90): its Evolution Memories Poké-Body will let you use the attacks of any of the Pokémon that you have in play that evolve from Eevee! Take your pick from a wide range of attacks to suit whatever situation you find yourself in!
Two more Pokémon LEGEND pairs take charge in HS—Undaunted: First, Kyogre & Groudon LEGEND (87/90 and 88/90) storms into play with a pair of powerful attacks that will fit into any Water- or Fire-themed decks. Not to be outdone, Rayquaza & Deoxys LEGEND (89/90 and 90/90) can also deliver punishing blows while—thanks to its Space Virus Poke-Body—taking an extra Prize card every time it Knocks Out one of your opponent's Pokémon! There's no end to the possibilities when you play these outstanding Pokémon LEGENDs!
Pokémon LEGENDs are extraordinarily powerful, but they can be a little difficult to get into play. Fortunately, HS—Undaunted solves that issue with a few of excellent Supporter and Trainer cards. First, the Legend Box (75/90) Trainer card lets you look at the top 10 cards of your deck. If you find both halves of a Pokémon LEGEND, you can play them directly onto your Bench. Plus, you also get to attach any of the Energy cards you revealed onto the Pokémon LEGEND! If that's not enough, check out the Sage's Training (77/90) Supporter card, which lets you look at the top 5 cards of your deck and keep any two of them...but the other three go in your discard pile. Costly, but one thing to consider: Sage's Training is a worthwhile gambit if you're looking to play Pokémon LEGENDs quickly!


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Please Keep Willow Creek Clean!! Or please pick up the doggie do!
Due to the annual costs of replacing the bags in the dog poop bag dispensers (nearly $1,200/year) the Grounds Committee has decided to remove the dispensers and rely solely on dog owners to bring their own bags and/or voluntarily refill the black round bag dispensers with recycled grocery or newspaper bags. The five locations with recycled bag dispensers and waste receptacles will remain on the posts and be dumped weekly by JBK. It has been difficult to keep these bag dispensers refilled due to the continued theft of large quantities of bags from the dispensers.
This is the time of year when coyote pups leave their dens and are taught how to hunt for food. Centennial residents may see more coyotes and their pups out and about in backyards, neighborhoods, and in open spaces.
Coyotes are attracted to neighborhoods due to the availability of their natural food sources, pet food, birdfeeders, compost piles and garbage. Please keep these attractants away and securely fastened. In addition, pets may be easy prey for coyotes. To ensure pet safety cats should stay indoors and small dogs should be accompanied outdoors. Pets should be on a leash at all times. Stay in well-lit areas and keep a whistle handy. If small dogs must be kept outdoors daily or at night, the City strongly recommends a fully enclosed dog run secured to the house.
* Do NOT feed coyotes- it is illegal to feed coyotes in the state of Colorado. Please report individuals feeding coyotes to the Colorado Department of Wildlife at (303) 291-7227.
When using hazing techniques it is very important to change the hazing method used each time. It is important to continue hazing until the coyote leaves the area.
How do you make a rabbit stew? Keep it waiting.
It is UNLAWFUL to discharge a firearm within city limits. Furthermore, it is illegal in Centennial to fire a bow or cross bow. The Colorado Department of Wildlife requires a permit and hunter education. There are other restrictions on slingshots, snares and traps, which basically results in manual capture only. In addition, rabbits carry and spread disease: plague, tularemia, leptospirosis, Colorado tick fever, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, and Lyme's disease.
Some garden centers carry different 'rabbit' repellent sprays for your plants and advise gardeners to plant flowers & bushes that give off a strong smell – lavender, Russian sage, as rabbits do not like the smell. Another suggestion is to place mothballs around your plants.


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To renegotiate NAFTA may not be easy; and it still stands conjectural.
Economic anxieties present in the United States have resulted in arguably the largest populist wave since FDR's New Deal, even though the turnout was in-fact the lowest in decades. And, to Trump's benefit, NAFTA's negative externalities have afforded Trump with a predominately white, blue collar movement prepared to pounce on international power players. Trump's magical elixirs of economic promises offer hope to those seeking financial assistance – but was Trump's populist movement justified in reference to his heated arguments against NAFTA, is the question to answer.
This all depends. NAFTA's positive benefits included an increase in American jobs, lower finished goods import prices, and trade has risen substantially for Mexico. On the other hand, the lowering of tariffs contributed to a max exodus of American manufacturing firms to the developing world, lowered American union wages, and ultimately caused the collapse of the Mexican agricultural sector. But, there are two important positive and negative externalities to centre on: 1) positive, a total increase in trade for NAFTA countries generally, and 2) negative, the naively unanticipated weakening of America's manufacturing workforce – and, of course, Mexico's agricultural sector.
Now, a complete overhaul, or major alteration for that matter, "might" fix the major issues with NAFTA's negative externalities, but it's a dubious proposal. In addition, relations between the US and Mexico will be tested, and tested strongly. Trump's catering to right-wing elements residing within the Republican Party is contributing to a sentiment of fear for America's ally, Mexico. A major issue for Trump if he were to scrap NAFTA could be a sharp rise in the cost of consumer good for American consumers.
Furthermore, both respective workforces would experience a sharp drop in manufacturing employment. But most important, the way in which Mexico has been treated by the Trump campaign could ruin nations with one of America's most loyal economic partners. If Trump chooses to cut ties from the EU, and both Mexico and Canada – while also increasing tariffs – then America may, once again, become an isolationist-centric nation.
Lastly, Trump's obsession with rolling back NAFTA may end up riling up those with favourable leanings toward Mexico, such as Mexican-Americans – legal ones at that. If the Hispanic, legal base of the United States feels threatened by Trump's rapid transition into essentially demonizing Mexican leaders, his level of support will presumably drop. If Trump is such a "calculated, intelligent" politician, why would be unfathomably choose to alienate the largest growing political block in American history?
If Trump was proficient enough in terms of striking the balance between foreign relations and economics, he would tame his rhetoric, implement incremental alterations, and at the least, attempt to comprehend the ramifications of such a major economic decision. However, getting the attention of this unapologetic despot is quite a challenging task.


It is not uncommon for a speech therapist to recommend Occupational Therapy for certain children. Although speech therapists are working on a child's ability to communicate effectively, they are also looking at the overall development of the particular child. Often, other aspects of development impact speech and language. In fact, our speech relies heavily on our attention system, memory system, visual system and auditory system. As a result, it's often useful to have a team or multi-disciplinary approach in therapy to help children achieve their greatest potential.
Occupational therapy helps improve various aspects of a child's development that are directly related to speech and communication. For example, an OT will work with children on their attention and regulation, which helps children to be able to focus and engage, a foundation the use of language. They also work on postural or jaw stability which is critical for speech production. An Occupational Therapist also works on sensory integration that affects oral-motor skills and feeding. They also assist with hand-writing skills needed for written language. It assists with Executive Function Skills that helps the child plan, organize and sequence their thoughts and ideas logically in order to improve overall communication and expressive language.
According to the AOTA (American Occupational Therapy Association) children with the following medical conditions might benefit from OT: sensory processing disorders; autism; visual processing issues and learning disabilities such as dyslexia, executive functioning issues and dysgraphia. Occupational therapists help children develop a variety of skills that are related to speech and communication. For example, they work on fine motor skills so they can grasp and release toys and develop strong handwriting skills. They also address hand-eye coordination to improve school and play skills such as batting a ball or copying from a blackboard or notebook.
The OT will also address self-care or activities of daily living such as buttoning clothes and using eating utensils. They work with children who have sensory and attentional issues to improve focus and social skills. Full body exercises, yoga, animal poses and trampoline play are examples of OT activities that can help certain kids exert enough energy to then be able to sit at a speech therapy session and in a classroom.
A team approach of Occupational and Speech Therapy is particularly helpful when working with children who have sensory processing issues and learning disabilities. The OT will help develop needed skills so that the child can self-regulate and focus on their speech therapy lessons. Many experts agree that occupational therapy also helps in treating weakness in coordination and organization, which is often found in children with ADHD, a condition that is often present in children with dyslexia and other learning disabilities.
It's never too late to ask your Speech Therapist about the benefits of Occupational Therapy for your own child and how it may actually strengthen the results of your child's speech therapy sessions. Studies confirm that the earlier you can provide therapy for speech and developmental delays, the more effective the therapies will be for your child.


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Q: mysql performance one big tables vs many tables I am working on a social network website, so i hope users will be a lot.
I need to save tags (key | counter) for every user and i wonder if it's better to use 1) a big table vs 2) one really large table vs 3) splitted big tables.
1) this is an example for many tables implementation
table userid_tags (every user has it's own table)
key   | counter
-----   ---------
tag1  |   3
tag2  |   1
tag3  |   10

Query 1: SELECT * FROM userid_tags WHERE key='tag1'
Query 2: SELECT * FROM userid_tags

2) single table implementation:
table tags
key   | counter | user_id
-----   ------------------
tag1  |   3     | 20022
tag2  |   1     | 20022
tag2  |   10    | 31234

Query 1: SELECT * FROM userid_tags WHERE key='tag1' AND user_id='20022'
Query 2: SELECT * FROM userid_tags AND user_id='20022'

3) splitted tables implementation
table 1000_tags (user_id from 1 to 1000)
key   | counter | user_id
-----   ------------------
tag1  |   3     | 122
tag2  |   1     | 122
tag2  |   10    | 734

table 21000_tags (user_id from 20000 to 21000)
key   | counter | user_id
-----   ------------------
tag1  |   3     | 20022
tag2  |   1     | 20022
tag2  |   10    | 20234

Query 1: SELECT * FROM userid_tags WHERE key='tag1' AND user_id='20022'
Query 2: SELECT * FROM userid_tags AND user_id='20022'

Question for 3) what's a good split index? i used 1000 (users) following the instict

A: 2 is the right answer.  Think about how you are going to maintain one table per user, or 1 table per 1000 tags.  How Will you create/update/delete the tables?  What if you have to make mass changes?  How will you be able to figure out which table you need to select from?  Even if you can, what if you need to select from more than one of those tables simultaneously (e.g. get the tags for two users).
Having the tables split up won't give you much of a performance benefit as it is.  It's true that if the tables grow very large inserts may become slower because mysql has to create the keys, but as long as you have the appropriate keys look ups should be very fast.
Another similar solution would be to have a table for tags, a table for users, and a table that maps both of them.  This will keep the tag cardinality small and if you're using an auto_increment surrogate key for both tables, the key length for both will be small which should make look ups as fast as possible with no restrictions on the relation (i.e. having to figure out other tables to join on for other users).

A: Using option 2 is the correct way to handle this. You can still use partitions within the table though. All the information about using partition can be found in the MySQL documentation.
Splitting the table in partitions for every thousand users would look something like:
CREATE TABLE tags (`key VARCHAR(50), counter INT, user_id INT)
    PARTITION BY KEY(user_id) partitions 1000;

If the user_id would be 21001 you could start searching in the correct partition something like:
SELECT * FROM tags PARTITION (p22);'

Because the id  21001 would be in the 22nd partition. Check the link for more information.

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Jason Matthew Patrick Moran (22 September 1967 – 21 June 2003) was an Irish-Australian criminal from Melbourne, and one of the leaders of the Moran family, notable for its involvement in the Melbourne gangland killings. He sported a 12 cm scar on the side of his face.

Early life
Moran was the son of Lewis Moran and Judy Moran. Mark Moran was his half-brother. Moran attended Penleigh and Essendon Grammar School. He met his future wife, Trisha Kane, at 15 years of age.  She is the daughter of Les Kane, a Melbourne painter and docker and reputed criminal who was murdered in his family home on 19 October 1978.

During the 1990s Moran emerged as one of Melbourne's main dealers in "party" drugs.  During this time he had a team of up-and-coming western suburbs gangsters led by Bluey Watkins who has been missing since 1995.

Moran was reported to have shot Carl Williams in the stomach during an argument in Gladstone Park on 13 October 1999, giving rise to lengthy violent turf wars known as the Melbourne gangland killings.
 Jason Moran had attended the funeral of another slain mobster, Victor Peirce.

Alphonse Gangitano and Moran, along with associate Mark John McNamara, were charged over an attack in the Sports Bar nightclub in King Street, Melbourne, on 19 December 1995, for which Moran received a term of imprisonment.

Moran was considered by many to be a "dead man walking" and when paroled from prison in September 2001 was allowed to leave Australia due to fears for his life. He later returned to give evidence in the inquest into the death of Gangitano on 20 November which began on 14 January 2002. Moran was suspected in Gangitano's murder. Gangitano was found dead in the laundry of his Templestowe house by his wife in 1998.
 A coroner found that Jason Moran and Graham Kinniburgh were present during Gangitano's murder in January 1998.
According to former Moran associate Bertie Wrout, however, it was Kinniburgh who killed Gangitano and it was Mark—not Jason—Moran who was his accomplice.

Murder
Pasquale Barbaro and Moran were gunned down on 21 June 2003 at Cross Keys Reserve in Essendon, where they had been watching Moran's young children play football. On returning to their motor vehicle they were shot dead by a lone gunman. Security footage from a neighbouring hotel showed the van they had driven to the football grounds and a figure running away from the vehicle. Police feared that the murders would lead to further violence in the Melbourne underworld war. Father Joe Giaccobe, a friend of the Moran family officiated at Moran's funeral.
During the service another priest, Father John Martin, said:

"Any funeral presents a challenge. Obviously, the church does not make judgements about the person. They need the prayers and whatever the church can do for them...They have to answer to God. We will not deny them."

Moran's father, Lewis Moran, was unable to attend the service due to incarceration at Port Phillip Correctional Centre. Authorities refused his request, for security reasons, to be released from prison to attend the service. Lewis Moran was later murdered while drinking in a Brunswick bar.

On 28 February 2007, Carl Williams pleaded guilty in the Supreme Court of Victoria to the murder of Moran (but not of Barbaro).  The actual shooting was done by a killer often known as the "Runner" with Williams having organised the killing. Williams was sentenced to life imprisonment, with a minimum of 35 years, on 7 May 2007. He was later murdered while incarcerated at Barwon prison on 19 April 2010.

References in popular culture
In the drama series Underbelly Jason Moran was played by Les Hill. Hill later reprised that role in the 2014 series Fat Tony & Co..

References

External links
 "Lest we forget: Jason Moran was a drug-dealing killer"
 The Murder of Jason Moran Melbourne Underworld (an online reference guide from the Crime Writers Association of Australia)

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Today, the Kansas City Royals and left fielder Alex Gordon finally reached a deal that will allow Gordon to remain in Kansas City for the next 4 years worth $72 mil fully guaranteed, according to Jon Heyman and Jeffrey Flanagan. Also, there is a mutual option for a fifth year. This contract is the largest to ever be handed out in Royals' history.
Now, it seems that Alex Gordon took a discount to remain in the system that he grew up in. Well, also the market for outfielders is dead and shocked that Gordon got a deal done before Cespedes, who was being linked to the rival White Sox last week.
In addition, Gordon is worth the money because he is the heart and soul of this clubhouse, plus he is a solid bat in a young lineup that can hit .270 with 15 homers and driving in 65 to 70 RBIs. That is the typical season average that Gordon produces every year, which is fine because he also plays phenomenal defense. Now, Gordon will be 32 in February and has shown some signs of injuries in 2015, but he is in the American League and could DH if needed.
In fact, Gordon can show that he plays excellent defense by winning 4 gold glove awards in his career. Also, Gordon has been named an All-Star in the past 3 seasons (2013,2014,2015).
Finally, Gordon played in 104 games this year and missed 58 games due to a gruesome groin injury, while trying to make a play on a pop fly. In those 104 games, Gordon hit a stat line of .271/.377/.432/.809 with 13 homers and driving in 48 RBIs. Gordon tallied up 96 hits on 354 at bats, but earning 422 plate appearances.
Note: Gordon has pretty much set the market price for outfielders, so expect Cespedes and Upton to take one year deals to get their market value up for the 2017 off-season, so they can land their 4 or 5 year $90 to $100 mil deals.
That guy is a gamer. Good for KC for resigning him. They're showing themselves to be a cutting edge organization.
I agree with you. Home grown player can finish his career where he started. That does not happen much in sports anymore.


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Diesel car sales 'doomed' in 2018
Study by Aston University suggests 'perfect storm' of consumer confusion and environmental pressure will see diesel sales continue to plunge
Scott McCulloch
Car sales declined in 2017 after five years of rapid growth figures (Image: Getty Images)
Diesel car sales are "doomed" in the UK with their market share expected to fall from around 50 per cent to just 15 per cent by 2025, new research suggests.
The study by Aston University suggests a "perfect storm" of consumer confusion and environmental pressure will see diesel sales fall another 10 per cent in 2018, having fallen 17.1 per cent in 2017.
'Demonisation of diesel' blamed for plunge in Scottish new car registrations
Aston University's research suggests diesel sales will account for less than a third of the UK automotive market by 2020.
Professor David Bailey of the university's Economics, Finance & Entrepreneurship Department, said the research raises questions about the relevance of the government's support of diesel since 1998 when then Chancellor Gordon Brown decided diesel cars should pay less tax due to having better C02 performance than petrol engines.
However, while diesel cars on average produce 15 per cent less C02 that their petrol rivals, they produce four times more nitrogen dioxide (N02) and 22 times more particulates.
Diesel car sales in the UK rose from less than 10 per cent of the market in the min-1990's to more than 50 per cent of the market by 2012 and most recent figures from the Department for Transport put the total diesel fleet at 12.1 million vehicles on UK roads, accounting for 39 per cent of the total, up from 10 per cent in 1996.
Professor Bailey said: "Diesel cars face a raft of challenges, each one of which could damage sales, and which are combining to kill off the domestic diesel sector, which was so rattled by the 'Dieselgate' scandal.
"They face a 'perfect storm' of bad PR over pollution, coupled with concerns over increasingly strict regulations and sinking second-hand values.
"Sales of diesels are set to fall by up to 10 per cent in 2018, and they could have as little as 30 per cent of the market by 2020 – shrinking rapidly to 15 per cent by 2025.
"And this is despite diesels accounting for 50 per cent or more of the market just a few years ago."
Professor Bailey said the car market has been "over-trading" for some time now, which he said explains why 2017 was still one of the best years on record for sales despite a marked slowdown in sales.
Latest figures from the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders show new car sales fell for the first time in six years in 2017, down 5.6 per cent to 2.54 million units, though sales were still the third highest recorded in the last decade.
However December sales dropped 14.4 per cent, marking the ninth consecutive month sales have fallen year-on-year.
Alternatively fuelled car sales rose 34.8 per cent to 119,821 units sold in 2017 while diesel sales fell 17.1 per in the year to 1.06 million and petrol sales rose 2.7 per cent to 1.35 million.
Diesel's market share in the UK fell to 42 per cent in 2017, down from 47.7 per cent in 2016.
New diesel car sales fell 31.1 per cent in December to 57,612, petrol sales were down 2.1 per cent to 86,276 and alternative fuelled vehicle (AFV) sales rose 37 per cent to 8,585.
Professor Bailey said: "None of the factors acting as a brake on car sales has gone away: wages are being squeezed, inflation is creeping up.
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"Then factor in interest rate rises and an ongoing strengthening of European car markets, cutting the number of cheap vehicles offloaded on the UK, and we could be looking at another cut in sales of between five and 10 per cent in 2018."
Professor Bailey has called on the government to introduce a diesel scrappage scheme to encourage consumers to switch to electric-powered vehicles.


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"Crimson Contagion"
"Crimson Contagion"
Authored by Jeffrey Tucker via DailyReckoning.com,
The lockdowns of March 2020 shocked the American people and most public…
The lockdowns of March 2020 shocked the American people and most public health agencies, not to mention infectious disease doctors.
The idea of school shutdowns, business closures, plus mandatory remote work and other restrictions have previously seemed inconceivable. It was especially remarkable to have such an "all-of-government" response to a virus that we already knew posed a threat mainly to the elderly and infirm.
Issues like public-health precedent, American legal tradition, and medical knowledge about dealing with respiratory viruses, not to mention natural immunity and collateral damage of lockdowns, were all thrown out the window.
Robert Kennedy, Jr.'s book The Real Anthony Fauci mentions a tabletop exercise called "Crimson Contagion" that ran from January through August, 2019. I had not previously heard of it and I found the mention remarkable, simply because it proves that not everyone was shocked by lockdowns.
They were not part of official planning documents of either the CDC or WHO but they were clearly in the plans of someone.
This Is Eerie
I've only followed up on this report in light of growing focus on the person who coordinated Crimson Contagion: Robert Kadlec, who served in the Trump administration as Assistant Secretary of Health and Human Services, Preparedness and Response. It was he who also ran the Covid response between HHS and the Department of Homeland Security.
Kadlec's lifetime government service (and, yes, he is said to be CIA) extends all the way back to the G.W. Bush administration when in 2007 he took the position of Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Biodefense Policy on the Homeland Security Council from 2007 to 2009.
The very notion of lockdowns originated in that administration.
The 2019 tabletop exercise involved a huge number of public-sector agencies across all states plus many private-sector associations. It postulated a disease scenario in which a respiratory virus begins in China and spreads around the world by air travelers.
It's first detected in Chicago. The World Health Organization declares a pandemic 47 days later. But then it was too late: 110 million Americans became sick, with 7.7 million hospitalized and 586,000 dead.
The conclusion of the exercise was that government was not well prepared for a pandemic and urged more planning and fast acting to implement what we now call lockdowns as we await a vaccine. Presumably, the vaccine then fixes everything.
The public knew nothing of this exercise until March 19, 2020, when the New York Times reported on it for the first time. This was one day following the detailed release of stay-at-home orders by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. The next day, National Public Radio also ran a report on Crimson Contagion.
A Trial Run
The Times reported:
The Crimson Contagion planning exercise run last year by the Department of Health and Human Services involved officials from 12 states and at least a dozen federal agencies. They included the Pentagon, the Department of Veterans Affairs and the National Security Council. Groups like the American Red Cross and American Nurses Association were invited to join, as were health insurance companies and major hospitals like the Mayo Clinic.
The war game-like exercise was overseen by Robert P. Kadlec, a former Air Force physician who has spent decades focused on biodefense issues. After stints on the Bush administration's Homeland Security Council and the staff of the Senate Intelligence Committee, he was appointed assistant secretary of Health and Human Services for Preparedness and Response.
Also participating were former Trump administration officials Rex Tillerson (Secretary of State, 2017-2018) and John F. Kelly, who was White House chief of staff from 2017 to 2019. The NYT even ran a picture of the two of them at the event.
Here are some direct quotes from the October 2019 report of Crimson Contagion:
The exercise revealed several workforce protection challenges under conditions where medical countermeasures, such as the pandemic vaccine, antiviral medications, and personal protective equipment, are limited. To protect the public prior to vaccine distribution, public health officials issued guidance on the implementation of nonpharmaceutical interventions intended to slow the spread of the virus.
In keeping with non-pharmaceutical intervention recommendations, employers – including government entities – sought to practice social distancing by having a significant portion of their employees work remotely. Employers encountered cascading impacts associated with making, communicating, and implementing such work-distancing decisions.
At multiple levels of government, officials wrestled with identifying employees who are essential and those who are nonessential in the context of an incident forecasted to span many months. In addition, officials faced challenges in determining which employees could perform their duties remotely and hierarchical organizations, such as state and federal departments and agencies, were uncertain as to the process for determining and implementing remote-workforce decisions.
Shut Down the Schools!
During the exercise, CDC recommended that states delay school openings for six weeks, a follow-up to the initial (pre-exercise) recommendation that states delay the opening of schools for two weeks if the disease is present in the area. Many local jurisdictions and school districts have the authority to decide to close schools (or keep schools open). This distributed approach to school closure decisions caused confusion centered on discrepancies between schools that remained open and those that closed.
In addition, while school delays and dismissals may be necessary over the course of the pandemic response, state participants identified any continued school delays and dismissals as having serious cascading impacts that require a concerted public messaging campaign and government coordination. Multiple states realized that dismissing schools is much more complex than they previously appreciated.
This exercise took place entirely out of the public eye but had strangely prescient foretelling of events only 5 months later. Kadlec, who had organized the entire tabletop exercise, was also later the author of the U.S. Senate Committee on Health Education, Labor and Pensions report: An Analysis of the Origins of the COVID-19 Pandemic, which came out earlier this year.
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., reports: "second only to his longtime crony and comrade in arms Anthony Fauci, Robert Kadlec played a historic leadership role in fomenting the contagious logic that infectious disease posed a national security threat requiring a militarized response."
It's the Law!
By the time of this letter, US intelligence already knew of the Wuhan virus. Four months later, US lockdowns began, starting with the March 8th cancellation of South-by-Southwest by the Austin, Texas mayor, and extending to the March 12th imposition of travel restrictions, the March 13 takeover by FEMA, and the March 16th press conference by Trump, Fauci, and Deborah Birx, which announced nationwide lockdowns.
The same day, Politico ran an article about another pandemic exercise from 2017 in which some incoming Trump officials participated, including Kelly and Tillerson. The article claims that such exercises are required by law.
By the time of Covid lockdowns, they had both been pushed out, only to reemerge as key participants in Crimson Contagion along with most national-security and health-related agencies of the federal government.
The lockdowns — to which Trump agreed only reluctantly and were extended far past the point in which he believed they would control the virus — were the most ruinous of the administration. Trump's pollsters for 2020 all agreed that these lockdowns created the conditions that drove him from office.
What does it all mean? Perhaps it is all just a series of coincidental data points, that what is called the worst pandemic in 100 years came only a few months after an elaborate multi-agency trial run of the same in which former high officials of the Trump administration participated.
And perhaps the best person to run the Covid response also happened to be the very person who organized and managed the trial run in the previous season.
Many people will surely say there is nothing to see here. There is so much not to see these days.
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Visualizing Remittance Flows & GDP Impact By Country
The COVID-19 pandemic slowed down the flow of global immigration by 27%.
And, as Visual Capitalist's Richie Lionell details below, alongside it, travel restrictions, job losses, and mounting health concerns meant that many migrant workers couldn't send money in the form of remittances back to families in their home countries.
This flow of remittances received by countries dropped by 1.5% to $711 billion globally in 2020. But over the next two years, things quickly turned back around.
As visa approvals restarted and international borders opened, so did international migration and global remittance flows.
In 2021, total global remittances were estimated at $781 billion and have further risen to $794 billion in 2022.
In these images, Richie Lionell uses the World Bank's KNOMAD data to visualize this increasing flow of money across international borders in 176 countries.
Why Do Remittances Matter?
Remittances contribute to the economy of nations worldwide, especially low and middle-income countries (LMICs).
They have been shown to help alleviate poverty, improve nutrition, and even increase school enrollment rates in these nations. Research has also found that these inflows of income can help recipient households become resilient, especially in the face of disasters.
At the same time, it's worth noting that these transfers aren't a silver bullet for recipient nations. In fact, some research shows that overreliance on remittances can cause a vicious cycle that doesn't translate to consistent economic growth over time.
Countries Receiving the Highest Remittances
For the past 15 years, India has consistently topped the chart of the largest remittance beneficiaries.
With an estimated $100 billion in remittances received, India is said to have reached an all-time high in 2022.
This increasing flow of remittances can be partially attributed to migrant Indians switching to high-skilled jobs in high-income countries—including the U.S., the UK, and Singapore—from low-skilled and low-paying jobs in Gulf countries.
Remittance Inflows by Country
$100,000M
2 Mexico $60,300M
3 China $51,000M
4 Philippines $38,000M
5 Egypt, Arab Rep. $32,337M
6 Pakistan $29,000M
7 France $28,520M
8 Bangladesh $21,000M
9 Nigeria $20,945M
10 Vietnam $19,000M
11 Ukraine $18,421M
12 Guatemala $18,112M
13 Germany $18,000M
14 Belgium $13,500M
15 Uzbekistan $13,500M
16 Morocco $11,401M
17 Romania $11,064M
18 Dominican Republic $9,920M
19 Indonesia $9,700M
20 Thailand $9,500M
21 Colombia $9,133M
22 Italy $9,000M
23 Nepal $8,500M
24 Spain $8,500M
25 Honduras $8,284M
26 Poland $8,000M
27 Korea, Rep. $7,877M
28 El Salvador $7,620M
29 Lebanon $6,841M
30 Israel $6,143M
31 United States $6,097M
32 Russian Federation $6,000M
33 Serbia $5,400M
34 Brazil $5,045M
35 Japan $5,000M
36 Portugal $4,694M
37 Ghana $4,664M
38 Jordan $4,646M
39 Czech Republic $4,539M
40 Haiti $4,532M
41 Ecuador $4,468M
42 Georgia $4,100M
43 Kenya $4,091M
44 Croatia $3,701M
45 Peru $3,699M
46 Sri Lanka $3,600M
47 West Bank and Gaza $3,495M
48 Jamaica $3,419M
49 Armenia $3,350M
50 Tajikistan $3,200M
51 Nicaragua $3,126M
52 Kyrgyz Republic $3,050M
53 Senegal $2,711M
54 Austria $2,700M
55 Switzerland $2,631M
56 Sweden $2,565M
57 United Kingdom $2,501M
58 Hungary $2,404M
59 Bosnia and Herzegovina $2,400M
60 Slovak Republic $2,300M
61 Moldova $2,170M
62 Azerbaijan $2,150M
63 Tunisia $2,085M
64 Zimbabwe $2,047M
65 Luxembourg $2,000M
66 Netherlands $2,000M
67 Myanmar $1,900M
68 Algeria $1,829M
69 Albania $1,800M
70 Somalia $1735M
71 Congo, Dem. Rep. $1,664M
72 Malaysia $1,620M
73 Kosovo $1,600M
74 Denmark $1,517M
75 Latvia $1,500M
76 Bolivia $1,403M
77 Belarus $1,350M
78 Cambodia $1,250M
79 Bermuda $1,200M
80 South Sudan $1,187M
81 Uganda $1,131M
82 Mali $1,094M
83 South Africa $1,019M
84 Sudan $1,013M
85 Argentina $966M
86 Montenegro $920M
87 Finland $880M
88 Bulgaria $850M
89 Slovenia $800M
90 Australia $737M
91 Madagascar $718M
92 Turkey $710M
93 Canada $700M
94 Lithuania $700M
95 Togo $668M
96 Greece $665M
97 Costa Rica $654M
98 Estonia $626M
99 Qatar $624M
100 Iraq $624M
101 Gambia, The $615M
102 Tanzania $609M
103 Norway $600M
104 Panama $596M
105 Burkina Faso $589M
106 Hong Kong SAR, China $571M
107 Paraguay $554M
108 Mozambique $545M
109 Niger $534M
110 Cyprus $527M
111 Lesotho $527M
112 Mongolia $500M
113 Rwanda $469M
114 Fiji $450M
115 North Macedonia $450M
116 Guyana $400M
117 Cabo Verde $375M
118 Kazakhstan $370M
119 Cameroon $365M
120 Cote d'Ivoire $360M
121 Liberia $351M
122 Afghanistan $350M
123 Ethiopia $327M
124 Samoa $280M
125 Mauritius $279M
126 Saudi Arabia $273M
127 Malta $271M
128 Malawi $267M
129 Zambia $260M
130 Tonga $250M
131 Comoros $250M
132 Ireland $249M
133 Suriname $221M
134 Benin $209M
135 Lao PDR $200M
136 Timor-Leste $185M
137 Sierra Leone $179M
138 Guinea-Bissau $178M
139 Trinidad and Tobago $172M
140 Mauritania $168M
141 Iceland $164M
142 Eswatini $148M
143 Belize $142M
144 Curacao $131M
145 Uruguay $127M
146 Chile $78M
147 Vanuatu $75M
148 St. Vincent and the Grenadines $70M
149 Grenada $69M
150 Botswana $56M
151 St. Lucia $55M
152 Bhutan $55M
153 Djibouti $55M
154 Dominica $52M
155 Burundi $50M
156 Aruba $44M
157 Namibia $44M
158 Guinea $41M
159 Solomon Islands $40M
160 Oman $39M
161 Antigua and Barbuda $35M
162 St. Kitts and Nevis $33M
163 Marshall Islands $30M
164 Kuwait $27M
165 New Zealand $25M
166 Macao SAR, China $17M
167 Angola $16M
168 Kiribati $15M
169 Cayman Islands $14M
170 Sao Tome and Principe $10M
171 Seychelles $9M
172 Maldives $5M
173 Gabon $4M
174 Palau $2M
175 Papua New Guinea $2M
176 Turkmenistan $1M
Mexico and China round out the top three remittance-receiving nations, with estimated inbound transfers of $60 billion and $51 billion respectively in 2022.
Impact on National GDP
While India tops the list of countries benefitting from remittances, its $100 billion received amounts to only 2.9% of its 2022 GDP.
Meanwhile, low and middle-income countries around the world heavily rely on this source of income to boost their economies in a more substantive way. In 2022, for example, remittances accounted for over 15% of the GDP of 25 countries.
% of GDP (2022)
1 Tonga 49.9%
2 Lebanon 37.8%
3 Samoa 33.7%
4 Tajikistan 32.0%
5 Kyrgyz Republic 31.2%
6 Gambia, The 28.3%
7 Honduras 27.1%
8 South Sudan 24.8%
9 El Salvador 23.8%
10 Haiti 22.4%
11 Nepal 21.7%
12 Jamaica 21.2%
13 Lesotho 21.0%
14 Somalia 20.6%
15 Comoros 20.1%
16 Nicaragua 19.9%
17 Guatemala 19.8%
18 Armenia 18.9%
19 West Bank and Gaza 18.5%
20 Cabo Verde 18.2%
21 Kosovo 17.3%
22 Uzbekistan 17.0%
23 Georgia 16.2%
24 Moldova 15.4%
25 Montenegro 15.0%
26 Ukraine 13.8%
27 Marshall Islands 11.0%
28 Guinea-Bissau 10.9%
29 Bosnia and Herzegovina 10.1%
30 Albania 9.8%
31 Senegal 9.8%
32 Jordan 9.6%
33 Philippines 9.4%
34 Fiji 9.2%
35 Liberia 9.0%
36 Dominican Republic 8.8%
37 Dominica 8.6%
38 Serbia 8.6%
39 Togo 7.9%
40 Morocco 7.9%
41 Pakistan 7.7%
42 Vanuatu 7.6%
43 Timor-Leste 7.5%
44 Suriname 7.3%
45 St. Vincent and the Grenadines 7.3%
46 Kiribati 7.2%
47 Egypt, Arab Rep. 6.8%
48 Ghana 6.1%
49 Mali 5.9%
50 Grenada 5.8%
51 Zimbabwe 5.3%
52 Croatia 5.3%
53 Belize 5.3%
54 Sri Lanka 4.8%
55 Madagascar 4.7%
56 Vietnam 4.5%
57 Bangladesh 4.5%
58 Tunisia 4.5%
59 Cambodia 4.4%
60 Sierra Leone 4.3%
61 Mexico 4.2%
62 Nigeria 4.1%
63 Rwanda 3.8%
64 Ecuador 3.8%
65 Latvia 3.6%
66 Romania 3.6%
67 Niger 3.6%
68 Kenya 3.5%
69 Bolivia 3.2%
70 Burkina Faso 3.2%
71 Myanmar 3.1%
72 North Macedonia 3.1%
73 Mongolia 3.1%
74 Eswatini 3.1%
75 Azerbaijan 3.0%
76 Mozambique 3.0%
77 St. Kitts and Nevis 2.9%
78 India 2.8%
79 St. Lucia 2.7%
80 Guyana 2.6%
81 Colombia 2.6%
82 Congo, Dem. Rep. 2.6%
83 Solomon Islands 2.4%
84 Luxembourg 2.4%
85 Mauritius 2.4%
86 Sudan 2.3%
87 Uganda 2.3%
88 Malawi 2.3%
89 Belgium 2.2%
90 Sao Tome and Principe 2.0%
91 Afghanistan 2.0%
92 Slovak Republic 2.0%
93 Antigua and Barbuda 2.0%
94 Bhutan 2.0%
95 Cyprus 1.9%
96 Portugal 1.8%
97 Thailand 1.7%
98 Belarus 1.6%
99 Mauritania 1.6%
100 Estonia 1.6%
101 Malta 1.5%
102 Peru 1.5%
103 Czech Republic 1.5%
104 Djibouti 1.4%
105 Burundi 1.3%
106 Paraguay 1.3%
107 Hungary 1.3%
108 Slovenia 1.2%
109 Aruba 1.2%
110 Lao PDR 1.2%
111 Benin 1.1%
112 Israel 1.1%
113 Poland 1.1%
114 Lithuania 1.0%
115 France 1.0%
116 Bulgaria 0.9%
117 Algeria 0.9%
118 Zambia 0.9%
119 Costa Rica 0.9%
120 Palau 0.8%
121 Panama 0.8%
122 Cameroon 0.8%
123 Tanzania 0.7%
124 Indonesia 0.7%
125 Spain 0.6%
126 Iceland 0.5%
127 Trinidad and Tobago 0.5%
128 Austria 0.5%
129 Cote d'Ivoire 0.5%
130 Seychelles 0.4%
131 Korea, Rep. 0.4%
132 Italy 0.4%
133 Germany 0.4%
134 Sweden 0.4%
135 Denmark 0.3%
136 Malaysia 0.3%
137 Namibia 0.3%
138 Switzerland 0.3%
139 Finland 0.3%
140 Botswana 0.3%
141 Greece 0.2%
142 Ethiopia 0.2%
143 Qatar 0.2%
144 Russian Federation 0.2%
145 Brazil 0.2%
146 China 0.2%
147 South Africa 0.2%
148 Iraq 0.2%
149 Guinea 0.2%
150 Netherlands 0.2%
151 Uruguay 0.1%
152 Kazakhstan 0.1%
153 Hong Kong SAR, China 0.1%
154 Argentina 0.1%
155 Norway 0.1%
156 Japan 0.1%
157 Maldives 0.08%
158 Turkey 0.08%
159 United Kingdom 0.07%
160 Macao SAR, China 0.07%
161 Ireland 0.05%
162 Australia 0.04%
163 Oman 0.04%
164 Saudi Arabia 0.03%
165 Chile 0.02%
166 United States 0.02%
167 Gabon 0.02%
168 Kuwait 0.01%
169 Angola 0.01%
170 New Zealand 0.01%
171 Papua New Guinea 0.01%
172 Turkmenistan 0.001%
Known primarily as a tourist destination, the Polynesian country of Tonga banks on remittance inflows to support its economy. In 2022, the country's incoming remittance flows were equal to almost 50% of its GDP.
Next on this list is Lebanon. The country received $6.8 billion in remittances in 2022, estimated to equal almost 38% of its GDP and making it a key support to the nation's shrinking economy.
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Svenja Lohner, PhD, Science Buddies
Global warming, pollution, and deforestation are just a few examples of how human actions affect our planet. How can we reduce our impact on the environment? In this lesson, students will find out by using an online tool called Your Plan, Your Planet. Based on their findings, students will come up with their own action plans aimed at reducing their personal ecological footprint and assess its effectiveness after implementation.
Identify causal relationships between a specific human activity and its negative environmental impact
Generate ideas on how to mitigate negative impacts of human behaviors on the environment
Evaluate possible actions by quantifying their effectiveness after implementation
NGSS Alignment
This lesson helps students prepare for these Next Generation Science Standards Performance Expectations:
MS-ESS3-3. Apply scientific principles to design a method for monitoring and minimizing a human impact on the environment.
This lesson focuses on these aspects of NGSS Three Dimensional Learning:
Science & Engineering Practices Disciplinary Core Ideas Crosscutting Concepts
Science & Engineering Practices Obtaining, Evaluating, and Communicating Information. Obtain and combine information from books and/or other reliable media to explain phenomena or solutions to a design problem.
Engaging in Argument from Evidence. Construct and/or support an argument with evidence, data, and/or a model.
Use data to evaluate claims about cause and effect.
Make a claim about the merit of a solution to a problem by citing relevant evidence about how it meets the criteria and constraints of the problem.
Constructing Explanations and Designing Solutions. Use evidence (e.g., measurements, observations, patterns) to construct or support an explanation or design a solution to a problem.
Disciplinary Core Ideas ESS3.C: Human Impacts on Earth Systems. Human activities have significantly altered the biosphere, sometimes damaging or destroying natural habitats and causing the extinction of other species. But changes to Earth's environments can have different impacts (negative and positive) for different living things. (MS-ESS3-3)
Typically as human populations and per-capita consumption of natural resources increase, so do the negative impacts on Earth unless the activities and technologies involved are engineered otherwise. (MS-ESS3-3), (MS-ESS3-4)
Crosscutting Concepts Cause and Effect: Mechanisms and Prediction. Cause and effect relationships are routinely identified, tested, and used to explain change.
Stability and Change. Change is measured in terms of differences over time and may occur at different rates.
Computer, tablet or mobile phone with internet access
Access to the online tool Your Plan, Your Planet
Background Information for Teachers
This section contains a quick review for teachers of the science and concepts covered in this lesson.
Nowadays, reports on climate change, global warming, air and water pollution, or animal extinction are published on a daily basis. All of these issues are caused by human actions on Earth. We use our planet's natural resources, such as fossil fuels, minerals, trees, or water to generate energy, food, and other products that we consume every day. As a consequence of this consumption, we face the depletion of freshwater resources, global warming due to emissions of carbon dioxide and other gases contributing to the greenhouse effect, destruction of natural habitats, and unprocessed trash (Figure 1). These issues are described in reports released by global organizations such as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) or the United Nations (UN). This is why sustainability has become an increasingly important topic over the last century. For a refresher on the concept of sustainability, read the background section in the Sustainability: How Our Actions Affect the Environment lesson plan.
Four photos show the changes to the landscape and environment caused by humans. From top-left to bottom-right the photos include: a landfill, a section of forest that has been cut down, smoke being emitted from chimneys at a factory, and trash washing up on the shore of a beach.
Figure 1. Human impacts on Earth include landfills full of trash, deforestation, carbon dioxide emissions, and environmental pollution.
To mitigate or reverse the negative impacts our actions have on the environment, these issues must be resolved. A lot of research and development focuses on new technologies and solutions that help minimize our impacts on Earth's systems. For example, wind and solar energy technologies are being developed to decrease our dependence on fossil fuels, electric or hybrid cars reduce the emission of greenhouse gases, industrial processes are being optimized to use resources more efficiently, and water-saving irrigation technologies are being developed for the agricultural industry. To your students, these challenges might seem overwhelming. It is helpful for them to realize that there are plenty of things every individual or community can do to contribute to positive change on a global scale. These actions are primarily about how we behave as consumers of food, energy, water, and stuff on a daily basis. These four factors have the biggest environmental impact on our planet.
In this lesson, students will use the online tool Your Plan, Your Planet, to assess their individual impact on the environment by evaluating some of their personal consumer habits in each of the above-mentioned areas. Based on their findings, they will come up with their own action plans on how to reduce their environmental impact. As they gather data on their consumption of water, food, energy, or stuff before and after putting their proposed actions into practice, they can realize their own agency and ability to effect change.
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Meena Kadapakkam
Instructor, Pediatrics - Hematology & Oncology
Tamar Kadmon
Casual - Non-Exempt, Surgery - General Surgery
Christopher Bryan Kaelin
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Frank Takeshi Kagawa
Clinical Professor (Affiliated), Medicine - Med/Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Kenny Kagawa
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Meenakshi Kagda
Scientific Data Curator 2, Genetics
David Kahn
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Current Research and Scholarly Interests Cosmetic surgery and the study of changes associated with the aging appearance of the face.
1. Analysis and development of new procedures for aesthetic surgery of the face
2. Analysis of the changes the face undergoes with age in the bone and soft tissues
3. Analysis of techniques for rhinoplasty
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James Kahn
Professor of Medicine (General Medical Disciplines) at the Palo Alto Veterans Administration Health Care System
Current Research and Scholarly Interests My initial research activities involved antiretroviral and novel therapeutic treatments of HIV infection, understanding elements of HIV pathogenesis associated with acute HIV infection and post exposure prevention. My most recent scholarly activities concentrate on working as a team to capitalize on the data stored in electronic medical records, HIV disease modeling and using electronic medical records for outcome research and developing a mentorship program for early career scientists.
Jana Kahn
Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences - Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Maryam Kaifi
Research Assistant, Psych/Major Laboratories and Clinical & Translational Neurosciences Incubator
Herbert K. Kain
Emeritus Adjunct Clinical Professor, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
A Dale Kaiser
Jack, Lulu and Sam Willson Professor of Biochemistry, Emeritus
Current Research and Scholarly Interests How are genes regulated to construct a developmental program? How do signals received from other cells change the program and coordinate it for multicellular development? The approach taken by our laboratory group to answer these questions utilizes biochemistry and genetics; genetics to isolate mutants that have particular defects in development and biochemistry to determine the molecular basis of the defects. We study swarming in Myxococcus xanthus that builds fruiting bodies.
Alexander Kaiser
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Cardiology
Bio Alexander D. Kaiser is an applied mathematician who researches modeling and simulation of heart mechanics. His doctoral work focused on the mitral valve. He currently works in the Stanford Cardiovascular Biomechanics Computation Laboratory, led by Alison Marsden, on modeling cardiac disease.
Pooja Kakar
Clinical Instructor, Pediatrics - General Pediatrics
Bio Pooja Kakar, MD is a Clinical Instructor of Pediatrics at Stanford University's Division of General Pediatrics with her primary practice at Gardner Packard Children's Health Center. Her interests are in maternal-child health, breastfeeding medicine, social determinants of health, and cultural humility.
Dr. Kakar earned her BA with Honors in Cell Biology and Neuroscience at Rutgers University, followed by an MD with Distinction in Service to the Community at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School. She completed her Pediatric Residency at St. Christopher?s Hospital in Philadelphia. Dr. Kakar has language proficiency in Spanish and Hindi.
Shawn Kaku
Clinical Assistant Professor, Emergency Medicine
Hamilton Tinobayana Kakwere
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Lucy (Goddard) Kalanithi
Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine - Primary Care and Population Health
Haik Kalantarian
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Systems Medicine
Bio I am a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Wall Lab at Stanford University, investigating novel therapies and outcome measures for autism using computer vision and wearables. I completed my Doctorate in the Department of Computer Science at the University of California, Los Angeles. I am generally interested in applications of mobile and wearable systems in health, with an emphasis on end-to-end system design.
Mohammed Kaleel
Adjunct Clinical Instructor, Radiology
Agnieszka Kalinowski
Clinical Instructor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Sujatha Kalle
Clinical Research Coordinator Associate, Neurology
Raja Kalluru
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Pathology
Amita Kalra
Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine - Gastroenterology & Hepatology
Julia Kaltschmidt
Associate Professor of Neurosurgery
Current Research and Scholarly Interests The lab?s primary research interest is to understand how specific neuronal circuits are established. We use mouse genetics, combinatorial immunochemical labeling and high-resolution laser scanning microscopy to identify, manipulate, and quantitatively analyze synaptic contacts within the complex neuronal milieu of the spinal cord and the enteric nervous system.
Rajalakshmi Kalyanaraman
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Leslie Kam
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Afrin Kamal
Instructor, Medicine - Gastroenterology & Hepatology
Ahmad Kamal MD
Clinical Associate Professor (Affiliated) [SCVMC], Medicine - Med/Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Fahmeedah Kamal
Clinical Assistant Professor, Medicine - Nephrology
Robin Kamal
Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at the Stanford University Medical Center
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Syed Wali Kamal
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Tahereh Kamali
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Neurology and Neurological Sciences
Vivek V. Kamarshi
Research Assistant, Pediatrics - Infectious Diseases
Kalika Kamat
Life Science Research Professional 3, Obstetrics & Gynecology - Oncology
Aya Kamaya, MD
Associate Professor of Radiology (Body Imaging) at the Stanford University Medical Center
Current Research and Scholarly Interests Hepatic imaging
Novel ultrasound technologies
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Roarke Kamber
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Genetics
Neeraja Kambham
Professor of Pathology at the Stanford University Medical Center
Current Research and Scholarly Interests Research interests primarily involve medical diseases and transplantation pathology of the kidney and liver.
Marija Kamceva
Aditi Kamdar
Clinical Assistant Professor, Pediatrics - Hematology & Oncology
Kunjan Kamdar
Clin Manuf Qual Assr Anlyst 2, Stanford Laboratory for Cell and Gene Medicine
Julia Kamenz
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Chemical and Systems Biology
Tsukushi Kamiya
Graduate Visiting Researcher Student, Microbiology and Immunology
Wei Kan
Basic Life Res Scientist, Structural Biology
Matthew Kanan
Associate Professor of Chemistry and Senior Fellow at the Precourt Institute for Energy
Bio Associate Professor of Chemistry Matthew Kanan develops new catalysts and chemical reactions for applications in renewable energy conversion and CO2 utilization. His group at Stanford University has recently developed a novel method to create plastic from carbon dioxide and inedible plant material rather than petroleum products, and pioneered the study of ?defect-rich? heterogeneous electro-catalysts for converting carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide to liquid fuel.
Matthew Kanan completed undergraduate study in chemistry at Rice University (B.A. 2000 Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa). During doctoral research in organic chemistry at Harvard University (Ph.D. 2005), he developed a novel method for using DNA to discover new chemical reactions. He then moved into inorganic chemistry for his postdoctoral studies as a National Institutes of Health Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he discovered a water oxidation catalyst that operates in neutral water. He joined the Stanford Chemistry Department faculty in 2009 to continue research into energy-related catalysis and reactions. His research and teaching have already been recognized in selection as one of Chemistry & Engineering News? first annual Talented 12, the Camille Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award, Eli Lilly New Faculty Award, and recognition as a Camille and Henry Dreyfus Environmental Mentor, among other honors.
The Kanan Lab addresses fundamental challenges in catalysis and synthesis with an emphasis on enabling new technologies for scalable CO2 utilization. The interdisciplinary effort spans organic synthesis, materials chemistry and electrochemistry.
One of the greatest challenges of the 21st century is to transition to an energy economy with ultra-low greenhouse gas emissions without compromising quality of life for a growing population. The Kanan Lab aims to help enable this transition by developing catalysts and chemical reactions that recycle CO2 into fuels and commodity chemicals using renewable energy sources. To be implemented on a substantial scale, these methods must ultimately be competitive with fossil fuels and petrochemicals. With this requirement in mind, the group focuses on the fundamental chemical challenge of making carbon?carbon (C?C) bonds because multi-carbon compounds have higher energy density, greater value, and more diverse applications that one-carbon compounds. Both electrochemical and chemical methods are being pursued. For electrochemical conversion, the group studies how defects known as grain boundaries can be exploited to improve CO2/CO electro-reduction catalysis. Recent work has unveiled quantitative correlations between grain boundaries and catalytic activity, establishing a new design principle for electrocatalysis, and developed grain boundary-rich copper catalysts with unparalleled activity for converting carbon monoxide to liquid fuel. For chemical CO2 conversion, the group is developing C?H carboxylation and CO2 hydrogenation reactions that are promoted by simple carbonate salts. These reactions provide a way to make C?C bonds between un-activated substrates and CO2 without resorting to energy-intensive and hazardous reagents. Among numerous applications, carbonate-promoted carboxylation enables the synthesis of a monomer used to make polyester plastic from CO2 and a feedstock derived from agricultural waste.
In addition to CO2 chemistry, the Kanan group is pursuing new strategies to control selectivity in molecular catalysis for fine chemical synthesis. Of particular interest in the use of electrostatic interactions to discriminate between competing reaction pathways based on their charge distributions. This effort uses ion pairing or interfaces to control the local electrostatic environment in which a reaction takes place. The group has recently shown that local electric fields can control regioselectivity in isomerization reactions catalyzed by gold complexes.
Jennifer L. Kanapicki
Brandon Sarkis Kandarian
Affiliate, School of Medicine - Dean's Office
Bio 2018-2019: Regional Anesthesiology and Acute Pain Medicine Fellowship, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CA
2015-2018: Anesthesiology Residency, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY
2014-2015: Internship, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY
2010-2014: Doctor of Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY
2007-2009: Master of Science, Neurobiology, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA
2004-2008: Bachelor of Science, Human Biology and International Studies, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA


You know that pit in your stomach you got when you realized you were late to a meeting? Or the worry that filled your head when your child got sick? Or the rush of blood you felt when you narrowly escaped a car accident?
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Your Meetropolis is full of experiences. Things worth knowing and seeing, things to enjoy, and adventures will provide the unforgettable environment for your convention. The idea of team building is the focus of Incentives. The experience components available for private pre- and post-convention tours are so varied that you will have to come back again and again.
A guided tour and a sightseeing tour will provide a chance to discover the city history, and in conjunction with a boat trip on the Rhine, a detective story tour or viewing underground excavations the tours also include the perfect element of adventure. A must in Cologne: climbing up Cologne Cathedral. The city's landmark is the second-highest cathedral in Europe, a UNESCO World Heritage sight and, with its six million visitors a year, Germany's most-visited place of interest.
Many other activities ensure enjoyment, fun and memories which visitors will take home with them: a vintage car rally provides an exciting ride in an elegant cult vehicle. Cooking events ranging from the culinary exquisite to the homely Meet & Grill by the Rhine will challenge your creativity. The stunt workshop will test your nerve. The crowning moment of the fireworks seminar is when you get to light the firework you have created yourself. Over 40 different pieces of sports equipment at the Fun Olympics ensure that participants are put through their paces. Football training sessions, dragon boat races, a Segway course, golf and much, much more are available in The Meetropolis.
The major local events which take place each year, such as the carnival, the biggest fun fair on the Rhine, the Cologne Lights fireworks and the Christmas markets with their magical atmosphere, also provide the perfect backdrop for your event.
The picturesque alleys in the old city locations and modern areas such as the MedienHafen and Rheinauhafen harbours with their attractive architecture and eating establishments will also tempt visitors to go sightseeing on their own initiative. Boulevards and shopping streets like the Königsallee in Düsseldorf - the most-visited luxury boulevard in Germany - and the Hohe Strasse, the oldest main street in Cologne, invite you to treat yourself to a shopping outing. You can then take a relaxing stroll on the promenades on the banks of the Rhine or in the green areas or parks and let the day draw to a close.
Over 66 museums, more than 200 art galleries, two opera houses, major concert halls such as the Philharmonie and Tonhalle, and the Capitol Theater, which stages internationally renowned musicals, plus numerous other theatres and stages make The Meetropolis a unique art and culture metropolis which you can experience yourself. If you wish, you can explore the varied restaurant and gastronomic scene. Restaurants offering all kinds of national cuisine and at prices to suit every budget, breweries, the "longest bar in the world", modern clubs, noble bars and student and trendy pubs offer night life which caters for every taste.