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CUSACK LAB
The Cusack Lab
We study the development of infants in their first year of life. We are based at the Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience at Trinity College Dublin, and collaborate with maternity hospitals in Dublin and other centres across Ireland. Our expertise and backgrounds range from physics to psychology and neonatology to neuroscience. We use many methods to study infant development, including online tasks and MRI.
Rhodri Cusack, MA (Hons) Cantab, PhD
The Thomas Mitchell Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience
Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience
Principal Investigator at SFI INFANT Centre
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Rhodri with son, Calin
Màiri Gardner
Màiri has a broad education in science, research and education from Edinburgh University, University College of Cork, and Oxford University, followed by a number of years of teaching experience of the International Baccalaureate at the United World College of the Adriatic in Italy. She has returned to Ireland and is currently working for two research groups in Trinity College Dublin: the FOUNDCOG Project at the Cusack Lab in the TCIN and the Thermodynamics and Energetics of Quantum Systems Group in the School of Physics.
Lorijn Zaadnoordijk
Lorijn completed a bachelor's degree in language and cognition and a master's degree in cognitive neuroscience before starting her PhD project at the Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition, and Behaviour in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. In her PhD project, she investigated how a sense of agency develops in early infancy. She used theories and methods from (developmental) cognitive psychology, neuroscience, artificial intelligence and philosophy of mind to answer how one could study subjective experiences in preverbal infants and how the capacities underlying the sense of agency emerge in the first months of life.
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Anna Truzzi
Studied developmental psychology at the University of Trento (Italy).
My research focused on the mechanisms underlying the emergence of cognition and social behaviors. Specifically, I investigated the contribution of both individual's predispositions and external environmental factors in shaping individuals' behavioral and physiological responses in infancy and adulthood.
Chiara Caldinelli (PhD candidate)
Chiara received her bachelor's in cognitive science and master's in neuroscience from the University of Padua, Italy, and then became a qualified psychologist with the aim to bridge neuroscience and developmental psychology. She is interested in how higher cognitive functions develop and how early experience can shape the way we look at the world. Chiara is also the president of the Dublin University Neuroscience Society, the social coordinator of the OHBM Student/Postdoc Special Interest Group, and an associate editor at the Journal of European Psychology Students.
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Anna Kravchenko (PhD candidate)
Studied mathematics and computer science at the Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia.
Anna is interested in Bayesian modelling and its applications to psychology, especially concept learning, developmental theories and models of selective attention.
Laura Cabral (PhD candidate, Psychology, Western University)
Laura is interested in the development of the ventral visual stream, particularly how early visual experience and innate factors interact to shape brain development, both on a region and network level. Additionally, Laura uses computational methods from machine learning to investigate brain maturity. She hopes that the methods she's working with will lead to earlier identification of perinatal brain injury, mental health disorders, and other brain diseases.
Outside of the lab, Laura is the VP Finance for the Society of Graduate Students at Western University and chairs a committee on graduate student mental health. She is involved with various science policy organizations, such as The Science and Policy Exchange (based in Montreal), and has participated in the Science Outside the Lab- North Science Policy Professional Development Program. When she's not working, she enjoys hiking and film photography.
Anna Birbeck (Research Assistant)
Anna has recently completed her B.A. in Psychology at Trinity College Dublin and will be graduating this November. She completed her Final Year Project on the relationship between artificial neural network layers and recognisability of object categories and is developing this project further over the summer. Anna is also interested in developmental research and hopes to expand her experience in this field throughout her future career.
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Clíona O'Doherty (Research Assistant)
Clíona has just completed her B.A. in Neuroscience from Trinity College Dublin. Having undertaken her final year thesis in the Cusack Lab she is now continuing to research the exciting possibilities of using artificial intelligence to model the brain's complex cognitive processes. Her interests are focussed on deep learning as a tool in neuroscience research, specifically at the crossroads between computer and biological vision.
Postdocs (Cognitive Neuroscience)
Annika Linke (Western University)
Bobby Stojanoski (Western University)
Conor Wild (Western University)
Daniel Mitchell (University of Cambridge)
Alejandro Vicente-Grabovetsky (University of Cambridge)
Jason Taylor (CamCAN, Cambridge)
Postdocs (Neuroimaging methods)
Marta Correia (University of Cambridge)
Ciara Greene (University of Cambridge)
Stefan Hetzer (University of Cambridge)
Daniel Beauregard (University of Cambridge)
Postdocs (Clinical imaging)
Jeff Crukley (Western University)
Jingyun Chen (Western University, with Mark Daley)
Hester Duffy (Western University)
Charlotte Herzmann (Western University)
Leire Zubiaurre-Elorza (Western University)
Aya Myhr (Western University)
Deborah Ness (Trinity College Dublin)
Michelle Tran (Western University)
Patrick Gatutsi (MSc, Neuroscience, Western University)
Jordynne Ropat (MSc Neuroscience, Western University)
Jacob Matthews (MSc Medical Biophysics, Western University)
Michelle Tran (MSc Neuroscience, Western University)
Annika Linke (PhD University of Cambridge)
Daniel Mitchell (PhD University of Cambridge)
Michele Veldsman (PhD University of Cambridge, with Daniel Mitchell)
Alejandro Vicente-Grabovetsky (PhD University of Cambridge)
Co-Supervised Graduate Students
Sarah Thompson (PhD University of Cambridge, with Bob Carlyon)
Karolina Moutsopoulou (PhD University of Cambridge, with Tom Manly)
Chris Dodds (PhD University of Cambridge, with Tom Manly)
Polly Peers (PhD University of Cambridge, with John Duncan)
Mark Stokes (PhD University of Cambridge, with John Duncan)
Michelle Tran (Western University, Canada)
Madison Laurel Beaty (Neuroscience, Western University)
Laura Cabral (Psychology, Western University)
Vivek John (Physiology and Pharmacology, Western)
Ronak Patel (Neuroscience, Western University)
Kristen Turner (Western University, Canada)
Angela Westgate (Psychology, Western University)
Mason Kadem (Psychology, Western University)
Kristen Turner (Psychology, Western University)
Joanna Ryan (Psychology, Trinity College Dublin)
Lab Volunteers and Summer Interns
Marcus Lo (Western University)
Roni Shanoada (Western University)
Claire Chambers (visting from École Normale Supérieure, Paris)
Lauren Forrest (Schulich School of Medicine, Western University, Canada)
Marcus Lo (Western University, Canada)
Andrew Nicholson (Western University, Canada)
Kim Ramos (visiting from Seton Hall University, NJ)
Oliver Shipston-Sharman (visiting Research Elective from Edinburgh University)
Neuroscience at the Cusack lab
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Eating My Way Through the Holidays! Special Edition: Green Bean Casserole! Can we ever get enough of this all-time favorite side dish? I think not! It seems there are all sorts of variations on this classic holiday casserole. Some of my friends only use French-style green beans while others prefer freshly snapped. And the seasonings are all over the map from Hawaiian sea salt medleys to crushed Midwest garden herbs. I keep it simple because, honestly, once you add the French fried onion rings, everything else takes a back seat.
I just can't bring myself to like this all American dish but I do like the fresh beans with some almonds and butter.
This is our holiday standard!


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Bar Bans Google's Glasses Over Privacy Concerns
By Dann Berg 2013-03-09T10:45:37Z
Google's Project Glass is definitely a game changer, but not everyone believes it's necessarily for the better. The 5 Point Cafe, a local Seattle dive bar, has announced that it is banning the wearable headset, which could be used to take pictures of patrons. On the business' Facebook page, the bar's owner said "*** kickings will be encouraged for violators."
The 5 Point Cafe is the first in what could be a significant list of business that ban Google's upcoming wearable computing device. Privacy concerns are growing as the new product edges closer to release, allowing anyone to take a picture or record a video by simply saying a simple preset phrase. The first-person perspective of the camera provides a unique intimacy to the captured images and critics are worried about how human interaction will be affected if their every action could be captured and instantly uploaded to YouTube.
Dave Meinhert, owner of the 5 Point Cafe, said that the post was meant to be humorous but that he was completely serious about the ban. "We don't let people film other people or take photos unwanted of people in the bar," he said. "It is kind of a private place that people go."
The ban comes far in advance of the release of Project Glass, which isn't yet available to developers and isn't expected to be launched as a consumer release until the end of the year. Google may need to address some of these business concerns prior to the release of the headset in order to avoid Project Glass becoming a taboo similar to smoking in bars and restaurants.
Via Geekwire.
Will Google Glass Make Us Cyborgs?
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Large hand built plate/platter in speckled clay with a white glossy glaze.
Has a beautiful nordic/asian feel to it.
Paul Lowe Ceramics is handmade in Kingston NY.
All my ceramics has a very nordic/asian quality about them.
Perfection is nothing I stride for, all my pieces are handmade and has character and charm.


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INRL 528 International Migration and the EU (2019-20 Spring)
This course is given as part of "UNESCO Chair on International Migration" activities
Tuesdays 12:30-16:20, Y 216
Presentation dates and topics
Please enrol to http://sakai.yasar.edu.tr in order to follow the course updates.
Instructions for the Term Paper
Additional readings:
Sara Wallace Goodman. (November 2010)." Naturalisation Policies in Europe: Exploring Patterns of Inclusion and Exclusion". European University Institute
Zapata-Barrero, R. (2016) Diversity and cultural policy: cultural citizenship as a tool for inclusion. International Journal of cultural Policy, 22 (4), pp.534-552
Rogers Brubaker. (July 2001). "The Return of Assimilation? Changing Perspectives on Immigration and its Sequels in France, Germany and the United States". Ethnic and Racial Studies, 24
Elizabeth Collett. (March 2011). "Immigrant Integration in Europe in a Time of Austerity".Migration Policy Institute
Maarten Peter Vink. (2013). "Immigrant Integration and Access to Citizenship in the European Union: The Role of Origin Countries". INTERACT Research Report. European University Institute
Anja Wiesbrock. (2011)."The Integration of Immigrants in Sweden: A Model for the European Union?". International Migration.49 (4)


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Champions League roundup: Bayern Munich defeat means Atlético top group
• 3-2 defeat at Rostov means Bayern have to settle for second place
• Atlético Madrid beat PSV 2-0 to retain 100% record after five games
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Rostov's Aleksandr Gatskan and Miha Mevlja celebrate their victory against Bayern Munich, while Robert Lewandowski looks disconsolate. Photograph: Maxim Shemetov/Reuters
Bayern Munich's hopes of finishing top of their Champions League group disappeared after they lost 3-2 at Rostov, who recorded their first ever win in the competition.
The German champions had already qualified for the last 16 but will now finish second in Group D after Atlético Madrid's victory over PSV Eindhoven later on Wednesday evening ensured Diego Simeone's side progress as pool winners.
Lionel Messi scores twice as Barcelona send Celtic crashing out of Europe
Rostov, who are merely battling to finish third and get into the Europa League, fell behind when Douglas Costa swept home after 35 minutes but an excellent finish from the Russian side's livewire forward Sardar Azmoun levelled the game and Dmitri Poloz's penalty put the hosts ahead.
Bayern, whose defence was frequently exposed by Rostov's pace on the break, equalised when Juan Bernat drove the ball into the roof of the net but Christian Noboa curled in a precise free-kick to earn Rostov a famous victory.
The defeat came four days after Bayern lost in the Bundesliga for the first time this season, 1-0 at Borussia Dortmund.
Kevin Gameiro and Antoine Griezmann gave Atlético a comfortable 2-0 win at home to PSV.
Manchester City through after David Silva earns draw at Mönchengladbach
Gameiro broke the deadlock in the 55th minute with an arrowed first-time finish and his fellow French striker partner clinched the Spanish side's fifth win in five Champions League games with a near-post finish not long later. Simeone's team are the only one in the competition with a 100% record in the group stages.
Besiktas hit back from three goals behind at half-time, scoring twice in the last 10 minutes, to force a 3-3 draw with Benfica in an enthralling Group B game.
The Portuguese champions raced to a 3-0 lead in 31 minutes, helped by a sublime effort from Nélson Semedo and a bizarre goal by Ljubomir Fejsa who scored after the ball hit the woodwork three times. Cenk Tosun pulled Besiktas back into the game with a scissors kick, Ricardo Quaresma scored from the penalty spot seven minutes from time and Vincent Aboubakar, like Quaresma a former player for Benfica's arch-rivals Porto, equalised in the 89th minute.
PSG and Lucas draw Arsenal's sting to seize initiative in Group A
Napoli's goalscoring problems surfaced again when they were held to a 0-0 Champions League draw at home by Dynamo Kyiv, their third Group B game in a row without a win.
Last year's Serie A runners-up won 17 corners and had five shots on target compared to none for the Ukrainians but could not find a way past Artur Rudko. The result left Napoli level at the top of the group on eight points with the leaders Benfica, their opponents in their final group game. A draw would guarantee them a top two place as it would give them a better head-to-head record against the Portuguese champions. Besiktas have seven points and visit Kiev in their final game, where a win would send them through to the knockout phase.
Ludogorets Razgrad and Basel drew 0-0 in Group A, sending their fight for third place behind PSG and Arsenal to the final round of group matches. Basel looked the more dangerous of the two sides in Bulgaria but the Ludogorets goalkeeper Vladislav Stoyanov did his best to keep alive hopes of continuing in a European competition. Neither team has recorded a win so far in this year's competition, Wednesday night's stalemate following the 1-1 draw between the sides in Switzerland in September. In the final round of matches Basel host Arsenal while Ludogorets travel to Paris Saint-Germain.
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Raag Sethi
Compass Box Studio, Ahmedabad
Raag Sethi is the founder of Compass Box Studio in Ahmedabad. He is a guitarist, bassist and music producer.
Raag graduated from the Woodstock International School in Missouri in 2009, after which he took a gap year to work for the Design for Change contest which was featured in TED that same year. He completed his undergraduate degree from Chapman University, California, in Integrated Educational Studies with an emphasis on schools in the community and music performance in Classical Guitar.
Currently he works at The Riverside School, conducting professional development courses for teachers regarding pedagogy and other teaching methods. He teaches music, global perspective and literature for high school.
He also has a jazz band in Ahmedabad and organizes the Ahmedabad Jazz & Blues festival annually.
Raag completed his Masters of Science in Psychology in Child and Adolescent Development.
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We Are Stars Lyrics
Lyrics ► Artists: V ► Virginia To Vegas ► We Are Stars
Catfish Kate
Birth Of The Cruel
Virginia To Vegas – We Are Stars Lyrics
Everything's so small when you're on top of the world
It's hard to understand what's still yet to unfold
Pretending to be who you're not is a waste of what you've got
Keep dreaming, keep dreaming, keep dreaming
Keep on, keep believing
We are the kings and queens of hearts that break
We may fall in between the cracks
Living life like it's just a game of blackjack
I don't know how but we always find our way back
Looking back when I was just a little girl with a big dream living in a
Lonely world
It seems life is impossible so believe that you're unstoppable
We are stars and
We are open-hearted
We are lovers
We are into loving
We are built for loving
O-o-oh oh oh oh oh
O-o-oh oh oh oh oh oh [x2]
It's hard to see the light when you're caught up in your life
You're scared and insecure cuz now it's fight or flight
Can't think of giving up
You don't know how much you're loved
We're stars
You know we are
We are stars
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from flask_presst.references import Reference

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Game Report on Southwest Guilford-Charlotte Independence Boys:Mitchell mojo(29 points) helps Cowboys win "Thriller at The Ranch"
Final Score:Southwest Guilford 66, Charlotte Independence 65
(Courtesy of SWG Cowboys assistant coach Greg Vlazny)
The Cowboys of Southwest hosted the Patriots of Independence High School from Charlotte in the 3rd round of the State 4A State Playoffs tonight.
The Patriots defeated Mooresville by 20 in the first round, then Ardrey Kell by 21 in the second round to earn their place here in the sweet sixteen. The Cowboys got to tonight by way of a 21 point victory over Myers Park followed by a 43 point demolition of Alexander Central.
With that, both teams come into tonight's contest boasting strong wins in the opening rounds. Which team will keep their season alive?
Southwest opened up the game with a 4-0 spurt, but it didn't take long for the Patriots to come alive. Sparked by their 6'10 center's defense the Patriots controlled the paint to take a 19-14 lead that was capped off with a buzzer beating three pointer.
The second frame again had the Cowboys take early control as they went on a 6-0 run to regain the lead at 20-19. It was short lived however as another three ball gave the Patriots the lead once again at 22-20. Another basket by the Patriots gave them a 4 point cushion. For the next several minutes the teams traded baskets with the Patriots keeping the lead. It wasn't until there was 40 seconds left that the Cowboys retook the lead at 30-28. Once again though, on the ensuing possession a three ball gave the Patriots the lead back at 31-30, but a blitz in the final 27 seconds of the half by the Cowboys put up 4 straight points to take a 34-31 lead at the close of it.
The third quarter was more dogfight at the teams traded blows and baskets. This time it was Southwest that had a 4 point cushion and the teams traded baskets until the Patriots closed the frame out strong with yet another buzzer beating three ball to take a 52-49 lead headed into the final stanza.
The fourth quarter would be filled with intense action and drama. A monster slam off a Cowboys turnover by the Patriots opened up the frame taking us to 54-49. Again the teams traded baskets and body blows. Southwest reclaimed the lead at 56-55 with 6:20 to play, but by the 6:00 mark we were all tied at 56. 90 seconds later and we were even at 58 at 4:30 to play. Independence took the lead at 60-58 with 4:08 to play, and following a Cowboy miscue, it was 62-58 at 3:09. With the season winding down, the Cowboys turned back to one another and showed the team that they have. A three pointer of their own cut it to 62-61 with 2:50.
Following a defensive stop, the Cowboys missed a pair of free throws that could have given them the lead. Another defensive stop thanks to their pressure defense led to another layup giving them the 63-62 lead with 2:05 to play. The Cowboys unfortunately turned it over after getting a stop on defense which then led to another 3 pointer by the Patriots which gave them a 65-63 lead with just 1:30 to play.
The final 90 seconds were filled with action. Southwest missed on their possession and fouled in the backcourt forcing the Patriots to inbound in the full court. The full court pressure forced a turnover right under the basket and Senior Kaymon Mitchell was able to get the basket and was fouled. The free throw bounced out and the Cowboys managed to get the offensive rebound but the tip in fell short with the game tied at 65.
The Patriots called timeout with just 36 seconds left. Once again the Cowboys kept the full court pressure and nearly cost the Patriots another turnover but called timeout just before a 10 second violation was called. The Patriots second attempt to bring the ball up was stymied once again by the swarming Cowboys as they forced yet another turnover.
After a timeout, the Cowboys ran a set that got a penetrating drive to the basket and Kameron Langley was fouled hard with just 6.1 seconds to play. The injury knocked him out of the game, so Sophomore Ty Radford came into the contest to shoot the foul shots. He calmly walked up to the line and drilled the first one giving the Cowboys a 66-65 lead. The second shot rattled out and as the Patriots tried to advance the ball up the court the Cowboys got a critical steal right at midcourt forcing the Patriots to foul again.
Despite not connecting on the free throws, the defense of the Cowboys held on in the final 1.1 seconds for the gritty playoff win at home at 66-65. The Patriots were led by Marcus Thomas with 22 points. Southwest once again had a tremendous team effort that won't always show in the book. Kaymon Mitchell led all scorers with 29, 7 Rebs, 2 Asts. Before hurting his leg, Kameron Langley finished with 17 points, 6 Rebs. Southwest wins the Sectional Championship and moves on to play at Charlotte Catholic next week.
1st  2nd   3rd  4th  Final
Independence      19   12    21   13    65
Southwest         14   18    15   17    66
Casey Allen 3
Chea Johnson 5
Chase Fairfax 6
Justyn Hamilton 11
Colin Holland 2
Matthew Statile 16
Marcus Thomas 22
Keyshaun Langley 9,4 Asts, 3 Rebs
Orlando Smith 2, 2 Stls, Ast, Blk
Kobe Langley 8, 6 Rebs, 5 Asts, 5 Stls
Ty Radford 1
Kameron Langley 17
Kaymon Mitchell 29
Published February 27, 2016 By Guest Columnist
Categorized as High School Tagged High School Basketball
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) through calcium channels. Calcium channel blockers are used as antihypertensive drugs, i.e., as medications to decrease blood pressure in patients with hypertension. CCBs are particularly effective against large vessel stiffness, one of the common causes of elevated systolic blood pressure in elderly patients. Calcium channel blockers are also frequently used to alter heart rate, to prevent cerebral vasospasm, and to reduce chest pain caused by angina pectoris.
N-type, L-type, and T-type voltage-dependent calcium channels are present in the zona glomerulosa of the human adrenal gland, and CCBs can directly influence the biosynthesis of aldosterone in adrenocortical cells, with consequent impact on the clinical treatment of hypertension with these agents.
This CCB class is easily identified by the suffix "-dipine".
Phenylalkylamine calcium channel blockers are relatively selective for myocardium, reduce myocardial oxygen demand and reverse coronary vasospasm, and are often used to treat angina. They have minimal vasodilatory effects compared with dihydropyridines and therefore cause less reflex tachycardia, making it appealing for treatment of angina, where tachycardia can be the most significant contributor to the heart's need for oxygen. Therefore, as vasodilation is minimal with the phenylalkylamines, the major mechanism of action is causing negative inotropy. Phenylalkylamines are thought to access calcium channels from the intracellular side, although the evidence is somewhat mixed.
Research indicates ethanol is involved in the inhibition of L-type calcium channels. One study showed the nature of ethanol binding to L-type calcium channels is according to first-order kinetics with a Hill coefficient around 1. This indicates ethanol binds independently to the channel, expressing noncooperative binding. Early studies showed a link between calcium and the release of vasopressin by the secondary messenger system. Vasopressin levels are reduced after the ingestion of alcohol. The lower levels of vasopressin from the consumption of alcohol have been linked to ethanol acting as an antagonist to voltage-gated calcium channels (VGCCs). Studies conducted by Treistman et al. in the aplysia confirm inhibition of VGCC by ethanol. Voltage clamp recordings have been done on the aplysia neuron. VGCCs were isolated and calcium current was recorded using patch clamp technique having ethanol as a treatment. Recordings were replicated at varying concentrations (0, 10, 25, 50, and 100 mM) at a voltage clamp of +30 mV. Results showed calcium current decreased as concentration of ethanol increased. Similar results have shown to be true in single-channel recordings from isolated nerve terminal of rats that ethanol does in fact block VGCCs.
) outside cells is normally about 10000-fold higher than the concentration inside cells. Embedded in the membrane of some cells are calcium channels. When these cells receive a certain signal, the channels open, letting calcium rush into the cell. The resulting increase in intracellular calcium has different effects in different types of cells. Calcium channel blockers prevent or reduce the opening of these channels and thereby reduce these effects.
By blocking the calcium signal on adrenal cortex cells, they directly reduce aldosterone production, which correlates to lower blood pressure.
Reducing the force of contraction of the myocardium is known as the negative inotropic effect of calcium channel blockers.
Slowing down the conduction of electrical activity within the heart, by blocking the calcium channel during the plateau phase of the action potential of the heart (see: cardiac action potential), results in a negative chronotropic effect, or a lowering of heart rate. This can increase the potential for heart block. The negative chronotropic effects of CCBs make them a commonly used class of agents in individuals with atrial fibrillation or flutter in whom control of the heart rate is generally a goal. Negative chronotropy can be beneficial when treating a variety of disease processes because lower heart rates represent lower cardiac oxygen requirements. Elevated heart rate can result in significantly higher "cardiac work", which can result in symptoms of angina.
In 1021, Avicenna introduced the medicinal use of Taxus baccata for phytotherapy in The Canon of Medicine. He named this herbal drug "Zarnab" and used it as a cardiac remedy. This was the first known use of a calcium channel blocker drug, which were not in wide use in the Western world until the 1960s.
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package org.freedesktop.wayland.generator.impl;

import com.squareup.javawriter.JavaWriter;
import org.freedesktop.wayland.server.Client;
import org.freedesktop.wayland.server.Resource;
import org.freedesktop.wayland.util.Arguments;
import org.freedesktop.wayland.util.Interface;
import org.freedesktop.wayland.util.Message;
import org.w3c.dom.Element;
import org.w3c.dom.NodeList;

import javax.annotation.Nonnull;
import javax.annotation.Nullable;
import javax.lang.model.element.Modifier;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.StringWriter;
import java.io.Writer;
import java.util.EnumSet;
import java.util.HashMap;

import static org.freedesktop.wayland.generator.impl.StringUtil.getArgumentForResource;
import static org.freedesktop.wayland.generator.impl.StringUtil.getDoc;
import static org.freedesktop.wayland.generator.impl.StringUtil.getJavaTypeNameRequests;
import static org.freedesktop.wayland.generator.impl.StringUtil.getJavaTypeNameResource;
import static org.freedesktop.wayland.generator.impl.StringUtil.lowerCamelName;
import static org.freedesktop.wayland.generator.impl.StringUtil.toSignatureChar;

public class ResourceWriter {

    private static final String ELEMENT_REQUEST                   = "request";
    private static final String ELEMENT_EVENT                     = "event";
    private static final String ATTRIBUTE_NAME                    = "name";
    private static final String ELEMENT_REQUEST_ATTRIBUTE_VERSION = "version";
    private static final String ELEMENT_ARG                       = "arg";
    private static final String ATTRIBUTE_SINCE                   = "since";
    private static final String ATTRIBUTE_ALLOW_NULL              = "allow-null";
    private static final String ATTRIBUTE_INTERFACE               = "interface";

    public void write(final Writer writer,
                      final String serverPackage,
                      final String copyright,
                      final Element interfaceNode) throws IOException {
        final JavaWriter javaWriter = new JavaWriter(writer);

        //prepare annotations
        final NodeList requestNodes = interfaceNode.getElementsByTagName(ELEMENT_REQUEST);
        final Object[] methods      = new Object[requestNodes.getLength()];

        for (int i = 0; i < requestNodes.getLength(); i++) {
            final Element requestElement = (Element) requestNodes.item(i);
            methods[i] = constructMessage(serverPackage,
                                          requestElement);
        }

        final NodeList eventNodes = interfaceNode.getElementsByTagName(ELEMENT_EVENT);
        final Object[] events     = new Object[eventNodes.getLength()];

        for (int i = 0; i < eventNodes.getLength(); i++) {
            final Element eventElement = (Element) eventNodes.item(i);
            events[i] = constructMessage(serverPackage,
                                         eventElement);
        }
        //imports
        javaWriter.emitPackage(serverPackage)
                  .emitImports(Arguments.class,
                               Interface.class,
                               Message.class,
                               Nullable.class,
                               Nonnull.class)
                  .emitSingleLineComment(copyright.replace("\n",
                                                           "\n//"));
        //class javadoc
        javaWriter.emitJavadoc(getDoc(interfaceNode));
        //class annotation
        javaWriter.emitAnnotation(Interface.class.getSimpleName(),
                                  new HashMap<String, Object>() {{
                                      put("name",
                                          JavaWriter.stringLiteral(interfaceNode.getAttribute(ATTRIBUTE_NAME)));
                                      put("version",
                                          interfaceNode.getAttribute(ELEMENT_REQUEST_ATTRIBUTE_VERSION));
                                      put("methods",
                                          methods);
                                      put("events",
                                          events);
                                  }});
        //class definition
        final String typeNameResource = getJavaTypeNameResource(serverPackage,
                                                                interfaceNode,
                                                                1);
        javaWriter.beginType(typeNameResource,
                             "class",
                             EnumSet.of(Modifier.PUBLIC),
                             JavaWriter.type(Resource.class,
                                             getJavaTypeNameRequests(serverPackage,
                                                                     interfaceNode,
                                                                     1)));
        //interface name
        javaWriter.emitEmptyLine()
                  .emitField("String",
                             "INTERFACE_NAME",
                             EnumSet.of(Modifier.PUBLIC,
                                        Modifier.STATIC,
                                        Modifier.FINAL),
                             JavaWriter.stringLiteral(interfaceNode.getAttribute(ATTRIBUTE_NAME)));
        //constructors
        javaWriter.emitEmptyLine()
                  .beginConstructor(EnumSet.of(Modifier.PUBLIC),
                                    Client.class.getName(),
                                    "client",
                                    int.class.getName(),
                                    "version",
                                    int.class.getName(),
                                    "id",
                                    getJavaTypeNameRequests(serverPackage,
                                                            interfaceNode,
                                                            1),
                                    "implementation")
                  .emitStatement("super(client, version, id, implementation)")
                  .endConstructor()
                  .emitEmptyLine()
                  .beginConstructor(EnumSet.of(Modifier.PUBLIC),
                                    Long.class.getName(),
                                    "pointer")
                  .emitStatement("super(pointer)")
                  .endConstructor()
                  .emitEmptyLine();

        //methods
        for (int i = 0; i < eventNodes.getLength(); i++) {
            final Element eventElement = (Element) eventNodes.item(i);
            String javaDoc = getDoc(eventElement);

            //construct java method arg types & names
            final String eventName = eventElement.getAttribute(ATTRIBUTE_NAME);
            final NodeList argElements = eventElement.getElementsByTagName(ELEMENT_ARG);
            final String sinceAttr = eventElement.getAttribute(ATTRIBUTE_SINCE);
            final String since = sinceAttr.isEmpty() ? "1" : sinceAttr;
            final String[] args = new String[argElements.getLength() * 2];
            for (int j = 0; j < argElements.getLength(); j++) {
                final Element argElement = (Element) argElements.item(j);
                final boolean allowNull = Boolean.valueOf(argElement.getAttribute(ATTRIBUTE_ALLOW_NULL));
                final String[] argumentForResource = getArgumentForResource(serverPackage,
                                                                            argElement);
                final int k = j * 2;
                String argumentType = argumentForResource[0];
                if (!StringUtil.isPrimitive(argumentType)) {
                    argumentType = allowNull ?
                                   "@" + javaWriter.compressType(Nullable.class.getSimpleName()) + " " + argumentType :
                                   "@" + javaWriter.compressType(Nonnull.class.getSimpleName()) + " " + argumentType;
                }
                args[k] = argumentType;
                args[k + 1] = StringUtil.escapeJavaKeyword(argumentForResource[1]);

                javaDoc += "\n@param " + args[k + 1] + " " + argElement.getAttribute("summary");
            }
            //method javadoc
            javaWriter.emitEmptyLine()
                      .emitJavadoc(javaDoc);
            //actual method
            javaWriter.beginMethod("void",
                                   lowerCamelName(eventName),
                                   EnumSet.of(Modifier.PUBLIC),
                                   args);

            if (Integer.parseInt(since) > 1) {
                javaWriter.emitEmptyLine()
                          .beginControlFlow("if (getVersion() < %s)",
                                            since)
                          .emitStatement("throw new UnsupportedOperationException("
                                         + "\"This object is version \"+getVersion()+\" while version %s is required for this operation.\")",
                                         since)
                          .endControlFlow();
            }

            final String[] argValues = new String[argElements.getLength()];
            if (argValues.length > 0) {
                for (int j = 0; j < argValues.length; j++) {
                    final int k = (j * 2) + 1;
                    argValues[j] = ".set(" + j + ", " + args[k] + ")";
                }
                String arguments = "";
                for (final String argValue : argValues) {
                    arguments += argValue;
                }
                javaWriter.emitStatement("postEvent(%d,Arguments.create(%d)%s)",
                                         i,
                                         argValues.length,
                                         arguments);
            }
            else {
                javaWriter.emitStatement("postEvent(%d)",
                                         i);
            }
            javaWriter.endMethod();
        }
        //end class
        javaWriter.endType();
    }

    private String constructMessage(final String serverPackage,
                                    final Element requestElement) throws IOException {
        final String   requestName = requestElement.getAttribute(ATTRIBUTE_NAME);
        final String   since       = requestElement.getAttribute(ATTRIBUTE_SINCE);
        final NodeList argElements = requestElement.getElementsByTagName(ELEMENT_ARG);

        final StringBuffer signatureBuilder = new StringBuffer(since);
        final String[]     types            = new String[argElements.getLength()];

        for (int i = 0; i < argElements.getLength(); i++) {
            final Element arg = (Element) argElements.item(i);
            final boolean allowNull = Boolean.valueOf(arg.getAttribute(ATTRIBUTE_ALLOW_NULL));
            if (allowNull) {
                signatureBuilder.append('?');
            }
            final char signatureArg = toSignatureChar(arg);
            if (signatureArg == 'n' && arg.getAttribute(ATTRIBUTE_INTERFACE)
                                          .isEmpty()) {
                signatureBuilder.append("su");
            }
            signatureBuilder.append(signatureArg);
            types[i] = getArgumentForResource(serverPackage,
                                              arg)[0] + ".class";
        }

        final StringWriter stringWriter  = new StringWriter();
        final JavaWriter   messageWriter = new JavaWriter(stringWriter);
        messageWriter.emitPackage("");
        messageWriter.emitAnnotation(Message.class.getSimpleName(),
                                     new HashMap<String, Object>() {{
                                         put("signature",
                                             JavaWriter.stringLiteral(signatureBuilder.toString()));
                                         put("name",
                                             JavaWriter.stringLiteral(requestName));
                                         put("types",
                                             types);
                                         put("functionName",
                                             JavaWriter.stringLiteral(StringUtil.lowerCamelName(requestName)));
                                     }});
        messageWriter.close();

        return stringWriter.toString();
    }
}


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China Expels US From the Pacific Ocean
Secret Wars, Forgotten Betrayals, Global Tyranny. Who Is Really in Charge of the U.S. Military?
ChinaUncategorizedUnited States
By Ollie Richardson Last updated Feb 19, 2018
Translated by Ollie Richardson for Fort Russ
3rd March, 2016
Vaunted US naval forces have been throwing tantrums for several days. While US generals threaten to throw fists in the direction of Russia, promised to tear the clothes off Bashar al-Assad and frighten Eastern European urchins with NATO's expansion into most of the outskirts, they got a very tasteful kick on the other side of the most tolerant place of a man's body.
Beneath the Ukrainian-Syrian noise, the unruffled Chinese deployed its latest fighters, J-11 and JH-7, to Woody Island near the Strait of Malacca, which until yesterday was considered a disputed territory. In addition to Chinese aviation, star-spangled intelligence spotted several missile defense systems and high-frequency radars there.
The scale of what has happened will become clear if we remember that the Malacca Strait, for global shipping, is worth about the same value as the Panama and Suez canals. This is the main sea route from the Indian ocean to the Pacific and back. Every year it hosts about 50,000 vessels that provide up to a quarter of all marine traffic on planet Earth. From this we can estimate the military-strategic importance of the Strait, which is now controlled by the respectful Chinese pilots and rocket scientists.
"China is changing the operational landscape of the region," said the commander of the Pacific fleet Admiral, Harry Harris, in assessing the situation. In translation from English into Russian it means that China has the opportunity not only to neutralize all hostile actions of American allies in the Pacific region, but also reduce the efficiency of the "great and terrible" US Navy, to a quantity just shameful for the state that aspires world domination.
And if we consider that the same people from the intelligence service were reporting about air defense systems being deployed on the Gaven and Hughes reefs of the Spratly archipelago, anyone who takes a look at the location on a map, can, without any fear of being mistaken, announce a death sentence for the American fleet, which allowed itself to go deep in the South China sea.
Positioning itself as the strongest military power in the world, America has no right to leave without consequences for such a slap to the Navy's face. But, as it turns out, today they have nothing but diplomatic pressure to oppose the insolence of the healthy Chinese, which China blatantly ignores.
It's only liberals who have never served in the army who think that if the number of US aircraft carriers is multiplied by the number of aircraft the loading bays can hold, you get an irresistible military power. Experts know perfectly well that naval aviation is inferior in characteristics to the one that is based on land. So they can scare only Ukraine, who already longtime ago sold their last aircraft for scrap-metal. The latest Chinese fighter jets are superior in terms of basic characteristics to American counterparts and, under the cover of coastal defense systems, with great probability will turn any of the invading forces into dust.
And the funny thing is that the United States does not have an acceptable way out of the situation. If not to give the incident importance and be limited to a couple of angry statements by the State Department, the Chinese will eat a fair chunk of the Pacific ocean and wont even dare to choke. Military analysts today predict the reunification of China not just with Taiwan but also with the Japanese Senkaku Islands. This will allow our allies to take full control of both the South China and East China sea, closing American military power far beyond Japan.
If the Americans decide to show full resistance to the Chinese, they would have to retract resources from the Russian or Middle Eastern fronts. But it is fraught with troubles. Everyone knows that they need to keep a close watch on Putin. Loosen the sanctions for a moment and he will not only stir up a referendum in Kiev on returning to Russia, but also in Warsaw and Helsinki. And he'll even collect 103%.
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"""Miscellaneous functions related to model import, independent of any specific
 model format"""

from typing import Dict, Union, Optional, Callable

import sympy as sp
from toposort import toposort

SymbolDef = Dict[sp.Symbol, Union[Dict[str, sp.Expr], sp.Expr]]

def noise_distribution_to_cost_function(
        noise_distribution: str
) -> Callable[[str], str]:
    """
    Parse noise distribution string to a cost function definition amici can
    work with.

    The noise distributions listed in the following are supported. :math:`m`
    denotes the measurement, :math:`y` the simulation, and :math:`\\sigma` a
    distribution scale parameter
    (currently, AMICI only supports a single distribution parameter).

    - `'normal'`, `'lin-normal'`: A normal distribution:

      .. math::
         \\pi(m|y,\\sigma) = \\frac{1}{\\sqrt{2\\pi}\\sigma}\\
         exp\\left(-\\frac{(m-y)^2}{2\\sigma^2}\\right)

    - `'log-normal'`: A log-normal distribution (i.e. log(m) is
      normally distributed):

      .. math::
         \\pi(m|y,\\sigma) = \\frac{1}{\\sqrt{2\\pi}\\sigma m}\\
         exp\\left(-\\frac{(\\log m - \\log y)^2}{2\\sigma^2}\\right)

    - `'log10-normal'`: A log10-normal distribution (i.e. log10(m) is
      normally distributed):

      .. math::
         \\pi(m|y,\\sigma) = \\frac{1}{\\sqrt{2\\pi}\\sigma m \\log(10)}\\
         exp\\left(-\\frac{(\\log_{10} m - \\log_{10} y)^2}{2\\sigma^2}\\right)

    - `'laplace'`, `'lin-laplace'`: A laplace distribution:

      .. math::
         \\pi(m|y,\\sigma) = \\frac{1}{2\\sigma}
         \\exp\\left(-\\frac{|m-y|}{\\sigma}\\right)

    - `'log-laplace'`: A log-Laplace distribution (i.e. log(m) is Laplace
      distributed):

      .. math::
         \\pi(m|y,\\sigma) = \\frac{1}{2\\sigma m}
         \\exp\\left(-\\frac{|\\log m - \\log y|}{\\sigma}\\right)

    - `'log10-laplace'`: A log10-Laplace distribution (i.e. log10(m) is
      Laplace distributed):

      .. math::
         \\pi(m|y,\\sigma) = \\frac{1}{2\\sigma m \\log(10)}
         \\exp\\left(-\\frac{|\\log_{10} m - \\log_{10} y|}{\\sigma}\\right)

    - `'binomial'`, `'lin-binomial'`: A (continuation of a discrete) binomial
      distribution, parameterized via the success probability
      :math:`p=\\sigma`:

      .. math::
         \\pi(m|y,\\sigma) = \\operatorname{Heaviside}(y-m) \\cdot
                \\frac{\\Gamma(y+1)}{\\Gamma(m+1) \\Gamma(y-m+1)}
                \\sigma^m (1-\\sigma)^{(y-m)}

    - `'negative-binomial'`, `'lin-negative-binomial'`: A (continuation of a
      discrete) negative binomial distribution, with with `mean = y`,
      parameterized via success probability `p`:

      .. math::

         \\pi(m|y,\\sigma) = \\frac{\\Gamma(m+r)}{\\Gamma(m+1) \\Gamma(r)}
            (1-\\sigma)^m \\sigma^r

      where

      .. math::
         r = \\frac{1-\\sigma}{\\sigma} y

    The distributions above are for a single data point.
    For a collection :math:`D=\\{m_i\\}_i` of data points and corresponding
    simulations :math:`Y=\\{y_i\\}_i` and noise parameters
    :math:`\\Sigma=\\{\\sigma_i\\}_i`, AMICI assumes independence,
    i.e. the full distributions is

    .. math::
       \\pi(D|Y,\\Sigma) = \\prod_i\\pi(m_i|y_i,\\sigma_i)

    AMICI uses the logarithm :math:`\\log(\\pi(m|y,\\sigma)`.

    In addition to the above mentioned distributions, it is also possible to
    pass a function taking a symbol string and returning a log-distribution
    string with variables '{str_symbol}', 'm{str_symbol}', 'sigma{str_symbol}'
    for y, m, sigma, respectively.

    :param noise_distribution: An identifier specifying a noise model.
        Possible values are

        {`'normal'`, `'lin-normal'`, `'log-normal'`, `'log10-normal'`,
        `'laplace'`, `'lin-laplace'`, `'log-laplace'`, `'log10-laplace'`,
        `'binomial'`, `'lin-binomial'`, `'negative-binomial'`,
        `'lin-negative-binomial'`, `<Callable>`}

        For the meaning of the values see above.

    :return: A function that takes a strSymbol and then creates a cost
        function string (negative log-likelihood) from it, which can be
        sympified.
    """

    if isinstance(noise_distribution, Callable):
        return noise_distribution

    if noise_distribution in ['normal', 'lin-normal']:
        y_string = '0.5*log(2*pi*{sigma}**2) + 0.5*(({y} - {m}) / {sigma})**2'
    elif noise_distribution == 'log-normal':
        y_string = '0.5*log(2*pi*{sigma}**2*{m}**2) ' \
                   '+ 0.5*((log({y}) - log({m})) / {sigma})**2'
    elif noise_distribution == 'log10-normal':
        y_string = '0.5*log(2*pi*{sigma}**2*{m}**2*log(10)**2) ' \
                   '+ 0.5*((log({y}, 10) - log({m}, 10)) / {sigma})**2'
    elif noise_distribution in ['laplace', 'lin-laplace']:
        y_string = 'log(2*{sigma}) + Abs({y} - {m}) / {sigma}'
    elif noise_distribution == 'log-laplace':
        y_string = 'log(2*{sigma}*{m}) + Abs(log({y}) - log({m})) / {sigma}'
    elif noise_distribution == 'log10-laplace':
        y_string = 'log(2*{sigma}*{m}*log(10)) ' \
                   '+ Abs(log({y}, 10) - log({m}, 10)) / {sigma}'
    elif noise_distribution in ['binomial', 'lin-binomial']:
        # Binomial noise model parameterized via success probability p
        y_string = '- log(Heaviside({y} - {m})) - loggamma({y}+1) ' \
                   '+ loggamma({m}+1) + loggamma({y}-{m}+1) ' \
                   '- {m} * log({sigma}) - ({y} - {m}) * log(1-{sigma})'
    elif noise_distribution in ['negative-binomial', 'lin-negative-binomial']:
        # Negative binomial noise model of the number of successes m
        # (data) before r=(1-sigma)/sigma * y failures occur,
        # with mean number of successes y (simulation),
        # parameterized via success probability p = sigma.
        r = '{y} * (1-{sigma}) / {sigma}'
        y_string = f'- loggamma({{m}}+{r}) + loggamma({{m}}+1) ' \
                   f'+ loggamma({r}) - {r} * log(1-{{sigma}}) ' \
                   f'- {{m}} * log({{sigma}})'
    else:
        raise ValueError(
            f"Cost identifier {noise_distribution} not recognized.")

    def nllh_y_string(str_symbol):
        y, m, sigma = _get_str_symbol_identifiers(str_symbol)
        return y_string.format(y=y, m=m, sigma=sigma)

    return nllh_y_string

def _get_str_symbol_identifiers(str_symbol: str) -> tuple:
    """Get identifiers for simulation, measurement, and sigma."""
    y, m, sigma = f"{str_symbol}", f"m{str_symbol}", f"sigma{str_symbol}"
    return y, m, sigma

def smart_subs_dict(sym: sp.Expr,
                    subs: SymbolDef,
                    field: Optional[str] = None,
                    reverse: bool = True) -> sp.Expr:
    """
    Subsitutes expressions completely flattening them out. Requires
    sorting of expressions with toposort.

    :param sym:
        Symbolic expression in which expressions will be substituted

    :param subs:
        Substitutions

    :param field:
        Field of substitution expressions in subs.values(), if applicable

    :param reverse:
        Whether ordering in subs should be reversed. Note that substitution
        requires the reverse order of what is required for evaluation.

    :return:
        Substituted symbolic expression
    """
    s = [
        (eid, expr[field] if field is not None else expr)
        for eid, expr in subs.items()
    ]
    if reverse:
        s.reverse()
    for substitution in s:
        # note that substitution may change free symbols, so we have to do
        # this recursively
        if substitution[0] in sym.free_symbols:
            sym = sym.subs(*substitution)
    return sym

def smart_subs(element: sp.Expr, old: sp.Symbol, new: sp.Expr) -> sp.Expr:
    """
    Optimized substitution that checks whether anything needs to be done first

    :param element:
        substitution target

    :param old:
        to be substituted

    :param new:
        subsitution value

    :return:
        substituted expression
    """

    if old in element.free_symbols:
        return element.subs(old, new)

    return element

def toposort_symbols(symbols: SymbolDef,
                     field: Optional[str] = None) -> SymbolDef:
    """
    Topologically sort symbol definitions according to their interdependency

    :param symbols:
        symbol definitions

    :param field:
        field of definition.values() that is used to compute interdependency

    :return:
        ordered symbol definitions
    """
    sorted_symbols = toposort({
        identifier: {
            s for s in (
                definition[field] if field is not None else definition
            ).free_symbols
            if s in symbols
        }
        for identifier, definition
        in symbols.items()
    })
    return {
        s: symbols[s]
        for symbol_group in sorted_symbols
        for s in symbol_group
    }


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The NBA's China Problem Is Due To Political Control Over Markets
Authored by Richard Ebeling via The American Institute for Economic Research,
The news and sports media have been focused on the recent confrontation between the National Basketball Association (NBA) and the Chinese government due to a tweet by the general manager of the Houston Rockets about recent pro-democracy demonstrations in Hong Kong that brought down the wrath of China. While many commentaries have focused on the NBA's attempt to placate the Chinese authorities in the face of losing millions if not billions of dollars in lost revenues in the Chinese market, less attention has been given to what lies behind it all: a government's ability to shut down commercial dealings between willing participants by simple command.
It all began when Rockets General Manager Daryl Morey posted a personal tweet that said, "Flight for freedom, stand for Hong Kong." For several months massive and sometimes violent demonstrations have been going on in the former British colony of Hong Kong. When the British Union Jack was lowered from the last flag pole in Hong Kong in 1997, there was an agreement between London and Beijing that for several decades Chinese authority within the former colony would not interfere with many if not most of the freedoms that people had enjoyed for a good part of the time since 1842, when Hong Kong came under British jurisdiction.
China's Threats to Freedom in Hong Kong
The arrangement was known as "One Country, Two Systems," meaning that on the Chinese mainland, the Communist Party ruled with their existing authoritarian power, while in Hong Kong, many of the internal affairs of the territory would remain untouched by Beijing. But especially in recent years, the Chinese government has been attempting to eat away at the freedoms enjoyed by the people of Hong Kong, including freedom of speech and the press, which has often taken the form of harsh commentaries on Chinese government domestic and foreign policies.
What set off the demonstrations early in the summer of 2019 was a proposed law that would more easily compel the extradition to China of those accused of illegal acts against Chinese law. The extradition proposal itself was really less than it was made out to be, given other Chinese encroachments on Hong Kong freedoms. It was more like a straw-that-breaks-the-camel's-back that sent waves of people, weekend after weekend, into the streets of the city. The demonstrators' demands have been not only a withdrawing of the extradition legislation, but demands that the Chinese government respect the freedom of the people of Hong Kong in general, with even some voices calling for Hong Kong's independence.
China's Domestic Authoritarianism and Global Imperialism
Chinese President Xi Jinping has not only been tightening the authoritarian screws at home against any and all dissent against him or his government, he has been far more aggressively nationalistic in his foreign policies, insisting on reestablishing a global place in the sun for China through a grand mercantilist-type vision of growing Chinese influence and power over many other parts of the world. (See my article "Economic Armaments and China's Global Ambitions.")
Many if not most territories "lost" by China in past centuries are often expressed as fair game to once more bring back into the administrative fold of those in Beijing. Thus, the Chinese government insists that a good part of the South China Sea is "historical" Chinese territory, on which they have been building a series of artificial islands and demanding that other nations stay out of these newly established territorial waters without their permission.
It is equally on this basis that Beijing says that Hong Kong as well as the self-ruling island of Taiwan is part of China. It is the reason the Chinese government opposes "separatist" talk concerning Tibet or among the Muslim Uighur population in the huge western region of Xinjiang, where from all accounts the Chinese authorities have incarcerated upward of a million Uighurs in "re-education camps" that others call mass detention centers; reportedly harsh and even brutal treatment is experienced by those who challenge those who rule over them in these camps. (See my article "Freedom and the Right of Self-Determination.")
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A Tweet Brings China Down on the NBA
So, given the direction of Chinese domestic and foreign policy, when Daryl Morey tweeted his support for the Hong Kong demonstrators and their cause, this immediately set off the ire of the Chinese government. All media and public broadcasting of Houston Rocket basketball events were banned from the Chinese airwaves. Rockets team sportswear and paraphernalia were banned from sale in China. This was followed by the end to a wide variety of business and other commercial relationships between the NBA in general and Chinese businesses, including the threat of breaking endorsement and other ties between leading American basketball players and Chinese companies.
Millions, if not billions, of dollars of revenues were now at risk of being lost, all because of a tweet and the hesitation by the NBA and individual team owners and representatives to unequivocally distance themselves from the Houston Rockets, or the Rockets' own partial apologies for offending the "Chinese people."
In the United States, conservative and "progressive" politicians and pundits lambasted the NBA for not standing up to the Chinese government and its attempt to hinder the freedom of speech of NBA administrators and team members. The NBA was told by voices all across the U.S. political spectrum that their reluctance to tell the Chinese authorities "Hell, No" demonstrated that the NBA and the individual teams placed the fear of lost profits above the political principle of freedom of speech. It showed the decadence of "capitalism" and the greed of those interested only in money.
Some of these pundits pointed out the hypocrisy of the NBA, which has heralded the right and freedom of its players to publicly speak out against "social injustice" and the policies of the current president of the United States, but which now kowtowed to a foreign government threatening its financial bottom line from lost business in China.
China's Reaction to the NBA and the Importance of Economic Liberty
What has been missed in all this, I would suggest, is the important institutional dilemma when any government has the power and authority to dictate with whom its own citizens do business and on what basis and terms of exchange. That the day after Morey's tweet suddenly all of the leading Chinese media outlets and enterprises doing business with the Rockets and the NBA in general announced that they were halting or cancelling their dealings with the Americans makes it very clear that this was not a "spontaneous" series of acts by private Chinese citizens simultaneously upset with the words and deeds of their American business partners.
This was a command coming from the Beijing government authorities to whom all those Chinese enterprises — public and private — are absolutely answerable for their existence and financial survival. Even think of disobeying, and literally "heads would roll" in terms of being fired from state enterprises and having your legal ability to operate threatened in your nominally "private" enterprise.
It should have demonstrated, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that however much China has been praised for its four decades of economic reforms in a direction permitting degrees of individual initiative and private business, the entire Chinese economy remains under the microscopic control and command of the government. If and when businesses are left alone by the Chinese government, it is when those directing and managing those enterprises are doing what is explicitly or implicitly in the directions the Chinese authorities wants them to be moving.
And when those doing the central planning of the Chinese economy, starting with President Xi at the top, want any or all of those enterprisers to do different things differently, they are instantly at the beck and call of those holding the power of life and death over them and their businesses. This is the meaning of "socialism with Chinese characteristics." Others might call it economic fascism, under which businesses may nominally be in private hands, but it is the government that ultimately determines and dictates how those in charge of their businesses go about doing business. In other words, economic fascism is simply socialism with nominal (and not real) private-enterprise characteristics.
Beijing Regularly Threatens American Businesses
The Chinese government has used this power to strong-arm American companies doing business in China numerous times over the years, including being at the service of the communist authorities in their attempt to surveil everyone in the country and dictate the type of political, social, economic, and historical information that will be accessible to citizens of China. In other instances, it has concerned an American company sharing proprietary technology with a Chinese enterprise with which it wants to do business. And at other times, it has been more crassly materialistic, with the expectation that a U.S. company will give a bribe or appoint some government higher-up's son or nephew to a well-paying position in a joint U.S.–Chinese enterprise
In this latest instance concerning the NBA, it is demanding that a group of American sports teams either keep their collective mouths shut on political matters dear to the Chinese government or parrot the Communist Party ideological line, after giving the necessary public and groveling apology for daring to challenge anything said or done by the rising global power of the 21st century.
In the hysteria of an American political election season, the worst thing that could happen would be if politicians and pundits now propose to legislate or regulate the response by the NBA or the Houston Rockets to the Chinese government. With all the chatter about the Chinese attempting to abridge the freedom of speech of Americans through the weapon of financial intimidation if they want to do business in China, it then would be the U.S. government dictating what those sports teams and their NBA representatives could say and agree to in trying to salvage their growing business in China.
The U.S. authorities would be merely doing a political variation on the same commanding-and-controlling theme that the Chinese government is accused of doing. Plus, the establishment of such a precedent would only reinforce the degree to which the U.S. government already regulates, controls, restricts, and commands American enterprises in far too many ways and directions.
Donald Trump Cannot Dictate People's Words or Actions
Those who have suggested hypocrisy in the NBA, in that domestically it encourages players to publicly express their political and social views on a variety of American policy-related issues, but cowers in fear before the Chinese government over a tweet, forget an important difference: the U.S. government cannot just shut down those teams and destroy their financial viability.
There is much made of President Donald Trump's huffing and puffing about football players who kneel during the national anthem at the beginning of a game, or that he says how the mainstream media are out to get him and declares much of what they print and say to be "fake news." His critics accuse him of trying to intimidate those who wish nothing more than express their views under the First Amendment to the Constitution and speak their minds as citizens of a democratic society.
There is one important difference in the words and actions of Donald Trump and those of President Xi Jinping and his government in China: Donald cannot command that all companies doing business with the NFL in terms of products, media coverage, or endorsement contracts are to stop doing so until every football player who has kneeled during the national anthem publicly apologize for "offending the American people" and promises to happily stand and sing along at the start of every game from now on.
Nor can the president of the United States order the firing of the heads of CNN or MSNBC, or command that Fox News get back in line never criticizing anything he says or does, like as good Trumpians they used to always do. The strength of freedom of speech in the United States is demonstrated by the fact that no matter how much Donald Trump may rant and rave, the mainstream media continues to report and editorialize just the way they want, no matter how much they say that he is a friend of fascism and an enemy of freedom.
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Freedom Requires Separating Markets From the State
Why and how can they do this? Because in spite of the degree to which the government influences and regulates much in the American marketplace, it still remains institutionally grounded in an important and respected degree of personal freedom, private property, and freedom of enterprise outside of Chinese-style heavy-handed central planning. It is precisely because of the remaining degree of free enterprise in the United States, again, even with the existing interventionist and regulatory intrusions and controls, that sports teams and their members can make public statements of disagreement without being shut down, driven out of business, or arrested as "enemies of the people." And the same applies to conflicting and competing news reporting and editorializing in the various forms of mass communication.
The essential lesson that should be drawn from this recent dispute between the National Basketball Association and the communist government of China is not that administrators and players in the NBA are being intimidated to make public apologies and toe the party line, but that this is why friends of freedom should always be concerned about and argue against government involvement and regulatory oversight and control over private enterprise and the free market.
It is not only that government regulation over business misdirects how and what private enterprises do, which deflects them away from competitively trying to find the best ways of satisfying consumer demands as the means to earning profits. That is certainly true.
Equally if not more importantly in terms of freedom in society, it is that every introduction and extension of government control, command, and regulation over the private affairs of the marketplace threatens the liberty of the citizenry. How you manage and direct your enterprise as a businessman; where and at what type of work you will be able to earn a living; and with whom you may do business and under what terms. All these become more and more dependent not on your free choices and voluntary associations with others on mutually agreed-upon terms, but upon the fate and favors of those in political power, and their goals and agenda to which you must conform or suffer potentially devastating consequences.
It is not just classical liberal ideologizing about the importance of separating the marketplace from the state, private enterprise from political control. The dilemma that the NBA and its affiliates find themselves in with the Chinese government is the latest example of why a free society is not sustainable without a functioning free market that is widely free and independent from the power of those in political authority.


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Q: How to concat text in Android TextView? I want to concat two text and display with single TextView in Android. I have tried following type. It displays in logcat only, but it isn't concat in XML textview.
Here is my code:
<TextView
              android:id="@+id/heizgriffe"
              android:layout_width="wrap_content"
              android:layout_height="wrap_content"
              android:text="Heizgriffe"
              android:textColor="#000"
              android:textSize="12dp"
              android:textStyle="bold"

              android:layout_below="@+id/txt"/>

in Java class:
txtConcat = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.txt);
String hub="Hubraum:";
            String str= ItemList.getTxt(); // fetting from webservice
            txtConcat .setText(hub + str );

Anything wrong here?

A: txtConcat = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.txt); // initialize
String hub="Hubraum:";
String str= ItemList.getTxt(); // fetching from webservice
txtConcat .setText(hub + str );

A: What you intend to do is not as complicated as you see, it is true that the result you are getting is not what you want, looking at your code I can say that not even the program should compile because it must be generating a syntax error. This is because you cannot concatenate the text using setText. The solution can be the following.
XML file:
<TextView
android:id="@+id/tvInfo"
android:layout_width="wrap_content"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_weight="1"
android:text="TextView" />

Java Class:
public TextView tvInfo;
private java.lang.CharSequence ID = "8945213624";

TextView tvInfo = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.tvInfo);
tvInfo.setText("My ID number is: ");
tvInfo.append(ID);

The result is as follows:
My ID number is: 8945213624
There is nothing wrong with your code, you just have to make proper use of the elements of concatenation, in this case that I show I use append to be able to concatenate the elements.

A: Try This Answer........
String hub="Hubraum:";
String str= hub+ItemList.getTxt(); // fetcting from webservice
txtConcat.setText(str );

A: String str= (String) ItemList.getTxt();

try this

A: txtConcat = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.txt);
Shouldn't it be:
txtConcat = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.heizgriffe);

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How Do Bicycles Influence The Architecture Of Cities?
Bicycles and cycling have seen a major push in community development in cities around the world in recent years, with governments pledging millions in order to make cities more cycle-friendly in an effort to improve the physical and mental health of its inhabitants. But other than making the air cleaner and its people healthier, how does cycling influence the architecture and design of a city?
Visual exposure to a location
Whether in a major city or a small town, removing the protective barrier of a car really exposes both locals and visitors to the visual splendor of that location. A driver will usually consider what is the quickest route from point A to point B; one that avoids traffic and toll roads and limits the amount of time spent in the car. This will keep them confined to highways and constantly aiming for tower blocks of multi-storey parking.
Cyclists not only experience the route at a much slower pace, they come face-to-face with the architecture of every street and every turn. No roof to limit their views above them, no blind spots to keep them from getting a 360 view of every public space, and no barrier to the sounds and smells of the community that lives there. Try cycling past a bakery and not stopping for a freshly-baked treat or a cup of coffee.
Economic accessibility
One of the main oppositions to wide-scale bicycle accessibility often comes from communities that fear a reduction in parking facilities. Cities like San Francisco, a city known to be notoriously difficult for drivers to find parking, vehemently opposed plans to create protected bike lanes to Polk Street, one of the busiest cycling corridors in the city.
Polk Street, San Francisco faced a great deal of public opposition when it introduced dedicated cycle lanes. Image source
In contrast, when similar cycle paths were put in place in New York City - along 8th and 9th Avenues no less - retails sales along those routes saw a massive 49% spike after they were completed. Highlighting the disconnect between those who drive and those who shop, which is often overestimated.
In fact, a survey of business owner's in Toronto revealed that while business owners on average guessed that 25% of their customers drove, the reality is that a mere 4% used 4 wheels to get to their stores, and a healthy 72% of visitors walked or cycled, which actually suggests that better cycle paths will mean better business for retail stores.
The future of cycle cities
The invention of the automobile at the turn of the century completely redefined how cities were planned and developed. Roads were seen as the lifeblood of cities and the infrastructure in subsequent decades has almost entirely been centred on automobile accessibility. But with a growing focus on alternative methods of getting around - including cycle highways and bike-sharing technology - cities in 30 or 40 years could be almost unrecognizable.
While businesses and individuals rethink where they want to allocate their resources, the function of cities will likely be less about convenience and more of an experience; and how locals and visitors move through that space will greatly impact how it will be shaped and how it will operate.
European Velo Stops architecture competition
The European Velo Stops architecture competition is tasking participants with designing rest stop cabins for travellers along Europe's large-scale EuroVelo cycle path network. Designs for the cabins will need to ensure that they can be replicated at multiple locations along the EuroVelo 6 route, which traverses the continent from the Atlantic ocean to the Black Sea.
The jury are looking for simple designs in keeping with the natural surroundings, rather than overly sophisticated projects that have the potential to mar the landscape.
Winning designs will be considered for construction as a part of the Bright Blueprint initiative as a way to help support Europe's Velo culture.


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Dear Hopeful: it's never a good idea to start off with an ad hominim argument
in response to reader comment: Hopeful
Submitted by DrRJP (United States), Jun 7, 2009 at 18:12
What does my degree have to do with understanding the facts about what really happened in this century with respect to Jews and Arabs? What does my degree have to do with understanding what Obama said? Especially since I heard him repeat the same BIG LIE that has been repeated, over and over and over again, by Palestinian propagandists going back to 1964 when Arafat and the PLO invented this mythology. What Obama laid out is EXACTLY THE SAME as what's stated in the PLO's charter -- which became part of the Palesitinian Authority's mission: A unified, independent Palestinian state from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea.
What Obama said was the BIG LIE: that post-Holocaust Jews stole all of the land from indigenous Palestinians and drove them off. It's a pile of camel dung higher than Mt. Everest. It was, and has always been, a case of Arabs not wanting any Jews in their midst. Case in point: from 1948, almost one million Jews were expelled from Arab countries with just the clothes on their backs. They were easily assimilated into Israel along with 1.5 million Arabs.
Meanwhile, not only did they expel Jews, the Arab nations REFUSED to allow any "Palestinian Arabs" to assimilate into their countries, preferring that they rot in squalid camps just so that they could use this to divery attention away from their countries' own problems. Arabs are FULLY RESPONSIBlE for the refugee problem ON BOTH SIDES, Five Arabs nations launched a war of extermination against the Jews, that's the JEWS, hoping to finish what Hitler didn't. And they call that a "catastrophe?"
how many more times did they commit the same "catastrophe of killing Jews?" 1956, 1967, 1973, 1980, 1990, 2000, and 2006. BUT, do you see any Jews attacking the Arab countries from where they were expelled? Do you see any Jews wanting to go back to these Arab countries? Of course not, and neither would any of the Arabs living under Israeli control. Between 1948 and 1967, Egypt killed 9,000 Palestinans (many trying to escape Egypt into Israel) and Jordan killed 29,000 Palestinians. Yet, you will never hear any of the Arab nations mention that. Nor will you hear anything about the illegal occupation of the West Bank by Jordan or the illegal occupation of Gaza by Egypt during that time. What do "Palesitinnas want?" A state REPLACING Israel.
The modern state of Israel has been in existence for 60 years, yet it had never venured anywhere near its original, historic borders. Now, compare that to the spread of imperialistic militant Islam across Asia to Eastern Europe to Africa, leaving death and destruction in its wake. The Ottoman turks were the most barbaric people on Earth. They are also the role models for Hamas, Hezbollah, and Fatah. Yet, you ask the following: "I mean what do you want? Because unless someone brings some sanity into this equation the only choice you have is that Jewish state from Mecca to Gibraltar." What utter nonsense!! The only thing that Jews want is a PART of the land, the country, and the nation, that BELONGED TO THEM, that had existed 3,000 years BEFORE there ever was a "Palestinian," before there ever was this bogus mythology of an independent state known as "Palestine." Nowhere in history has there ever been such a place. They don't want any Arab land. Arabs let what they call, "Palestine," turn into a desert and a cesspool Arabs never take care of the land as Jews have done for millenia.
When Jews returned to Israel in the 19th Century, they turned deserts into oases, and the Arabs flocked to them and settled in and around them. That's how Arabs got there in the first place: through one migration after another. There is no denying that Arabs, living in Israel, and everywhere else that Israel controls or once controlled, and everywhere that Jews were have settled, have always had the highest standard of living than any other nation in the region. It's not even close. Outside of Israel, the rich got richer and the poor got poorer. Gaza has been indpendent since 2005. There are no more Jews in Gaza. So, what have they accomplished in four years? NOTHING!
For that matter, what have ALL of the Arab nations accomplished in the last 60 years for the betterment of its people? **crickets** Inside Israel, Arabs have freedoms unheard of and undreamed of in Arab countries. So, what do we want, you ask? To live in peace. A very simple request that has been denied us for 1,400 years, and not just the past 60. We would like SOME of OUR land back. We would like SOME of the LAND that was promised to us by Britain and the League of Nations. Arabs got all THEIR lands in 1947, as well as OUR land. Except for Egypt, Iran (Persia) and Iraq, the countries in the Middle East that were a part of the Ottoman Empire were created by Britain and handed to Arabs on a platter. Why? Because they had the oil. If only Israel had the oil, where would Arab countries be? I can answer that one: looking to conquer Israel, too.
Meanwhile, 80% of what was to be part of the Jewish homeland was torn out from it and given to the Hashemite King because he threw a temper tantrum when Iraq was given to someone else. So, the slimeball British gave them Transjordan, which became Jordan: THE INDEPENDENT PALESTINIAN STATE. About 75% of Jordan is already Palestinian. We would like some of Judea and some of Samaria back. Who do you think has been living there continously for 3,000 years? "Palestinians?" LOL! Listen, I'm talking about the REAL history of the Middle East, and not the revisionist crap that the PLO authored in 1964, and that mullahs, imams, and Middle Eastern scholars seem to invent on the fly.
Which part of "Both Hamas nor PA/Fatah want to replace the whole of Israel with a Palestinian state," did you not understand? There is no such thing as a "peace agreement" with Israel because the pan-Arab mentality along with jihadist Muslim aspirations both yearn for Israel's destruction.
Mark my comment as a response to Dear Hopeful: it's never a good idea to start off with an ad hominim argument by DrRJP


Plenty of alternative and off the beaten path activities will be hosted this week in Buenos Aires after a long and rainy weekend! Between the announcement of the presidential candidates and all the live music and theatre options, the city is sure to be abuzz.
Start the week by visiting the Evita Museum to find out more about this emblematic political figure. Guided tours in English can be booked in advance and last about an hour.
In the evening, head to the stately Claridge Hotel's tea parlor for a free concert by Opera Singer Elena Tasisto at 7pm.
Take a walk down Corrientes Avenue and stop by the Gran Rex Theatre for a free Vivaldi concert at 1pm. Only 9 blocks away is the best pizza in town at El Cuartito.
Later in the evening you can catch the stunning Fuerza Bruta show being staged until Friday at the Luna Park. Tickets here.
If you're up for drinks, or some vegetarian food, head to Magdalena's Party in Palermo, which opens from 8pm-3am.
Weather forecasts predict rain for Thursday so it's a good day to visit museums. An interesting alternative is the Museo Penitenciario (the penitentiary museum) set in a building that dates back to 1732. The display traces the history of the federal prison activity and shows objects, and archives.
Later on visit the Festival en Pantalla Chica, in the Centro Cultural Rojas, which will be screening a selection of the "Best youtube videos" At 7pm.
In the evening the Ernesto Jodos Trio will be playing jazz at Thelonious at 9.30pm.
Inside a beautiful French style building you will find The Decorative Art Museum, which showcases a collection of local and foreign objects and furniture. Currently they are also hosting a temporary exhibit of Swedish ceramics. The building in itself makes the museum well worth the visit and the cafe in the courtyard is a lovely place for an afternoon stop.
In the evening the British Arts center is staging Chekhov's "The Marriage Proposal" at 9pm.
For some live music later on, head to Thelonious, where Pipi Piazzolla (Astor Piazzollas grandson) will be playing at midnight.
Last few days to visit the Book Tower of Babel installed in the center of town. Plaza San Martin from midday-8pm.
On Sunday head to the beautiful Japanese gardens where a Reiki marathon will be taking place. Av. Figueroa Alcorta and Av. Casares from 10am-6pm.