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In Cuba the urban agriculture model implemented matches the crisis model described by Deelstra and other authors. The driving forces were the economical difficulties derived from the drastic modification of economic relationships. After the crisis an alternative model was pursued and within it urban agriculture was identified early on as a means to ensure food availability for a large number of urban households and has recently been identified as an important provider of jobs. Support for food related issues had prevailed as a prioritised issue in the Cuban political agenda since the early 1960s and this experience seems to be inscribed also in UPA.
Presently, more than ten years since the initial implementation of urban agriculture, the process has evolved into one of highly complex structures and relationships. A strong emphasis has been placed on the socioeconomic dimension, for instance, food production and its nutritional values; in second place, the potential of UPA as a job provider and its influence in the lowering of food prices have been recognised. Environmentally, its organic character is its main asset but other aspects have been overlooked or neglected. Largely (at least initially) due to the lack of hard currency to purchase fertilisers and pesticides, many producers individually started to use derelict urban spaces and are now using organic production methods, which has become a requirement for most urban producers. There is also a growing awareness of environmental damage caused by intensive conventional techniques. These statements show that the government is eager to promote urban and organic food production firstly for both economic and social reason, but also for environmental reasons.
In terms of its socio-economic situation and political system, Cuba is unique. Few developing countries have invested so much in their human capital, nor have they achieved similar social indicators. Probably none has suffered such stress on its economy as that generated in the early 1990s, nor the effects of current economic and financial sanctions. In part, the problems Cuba now experiences are the result of an economy pushed to be dependent until 1990 on few trading partners, and of an agricultural strategy in which export cash crops dominated, food security was not a priority, and food self-sufficiency was poorly covered. Undoubtedly, part of the success in adopting an alternative agricultural model can be ascribed to the central influence on markets, and indeed on all aspects of the economy and society in general, of central government. In spite of its uniqueness there are important lessons to be learnt from the Cuban experience.
What makes it outstanding is firstly its comprehensiveness. Secondly it is a matter of scale. In a very short period Cuba has observed a tremendous increase in the volume of production, in the areas dedicated to urban production and likely a variation in the nutrition habits of some sectors of the population favouring an increase in their daily consumption of fresh vegetables. Gonzalez Novo and Murphy (2001) have described the Cuban experience as the 'world's first nationwide co-ordinated urban agriculture programme, integrating access to land, extension services, research and technology development, new supply stores for small farmers and new marketing schemes and organisation of selling points for urban producers.'
There has been a close, effective association between the development of agriculture, local government and local democracy. The participation developed at the community level makes it a successful combination of top-down and bottom-up approaches. The short period, and the scale, of its implementation are surprising. Earlier investment in human capital and specifically in locally-oriented agricultural research and development skills and infrastructure have paid dividends and the close links between research organisations and the excellent extension services have delivered appropriate and timely research outputs. A mixture of innovation and determination are today making the Cuban experience a success story. Necessity has persuaded Cuba to adopt a largely organic approach to agriculture in which urban and periurban agriculture occupy a relevant role. Together with this organic approach, the presence of a steady political will to ensure food availability for all seems to have had a strong influence. The existence of political willingness seems to be a key factor in ensuring the development of this kind of experience even though the realisation of all advantages is limited. For instance, a strong emphasis initially on food production and later on jobs generation, nutrition quality and education issues to the detriment of environmental considerations beyond UPA's essentially organic character.
Havana represents an interesting case study since it has experienced most of the contradictions associated with this kind of urban industry. The level of integration into Urban Planning Policy is distinctive and has been achieved though a more flexible and proactive approach resulting from a better understanding of the potential positive role and risks associated with UPA and its potential contribution to comprehensive policies.
It remains to be seen to what extent Cuba's organic experiment will survive when the national economy recovers, when the prospect of agricultural input returns, and when the full insertion of Cuba's economy into the world market becomes a reality, including the influence of the American agri-business. However, urban agriculture occupies a distinctive position within this process and it seems to be more likely to survive these influences even if the extension of the alternative model is reduced to small spots or even disappears. In the meantime lessons are being learnt which could have major implications worldwide.
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Deere, C. D. (1992). Socialism on one island?: Cuba's National Food Program and its prospects for food security. Institute of Social Studies. The Hague.
DPPFA (2000). Esquema de OrdenamientoTerritorial 2001 (Master Plan). Direccion Provincial de Planificacion Fisica. La Habana.
Dresher, A., Jacobi, P W. and Amend, J. (May 2000). Urban Agriculture: Justification and Planning guidelines. http://www. city farmer. org/uajustification. html
Gonzalez Novo, M. and Murphy, C. (1999). Urban Agriculture in the city of Havana a popular response to a crisis. In Growing Cities, Growing Food Urban Agriculture on the Policy Agenda. A Reader on Urban Agriculture. Deutsche Stiftung fuer internationale Entwicklung (DSE), 329-348.
Guevara Nunez, O. (2001). Demostracion de que si se puede. In Granma, (official newspaper of the Cuban Communist Party) 1 February, 2001, p. 8.
Palet, M. (1995). Estructura de los asentamientos humanos en Cuba. Doctorate Thesis. Institute of Tropical Geography, Havana. (Not published)
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COLUMBIA, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee doctor who lost five patients to fatal overdoses in 10 months now faces up to 20 years in prison and a $1 million fine.
News outlets report 64-year-old Dr. Darrel Rinehart pleaded guilty Monday to prescribing drugs without medical necessity.
U.S. Attorney Don Cochran says Rinehart also admitted to unreasonably distributing opioids and other substances to multiple patients. Health records indicate at least five of Rinehart's patients fatally overdosed either partially or wholly because of drugs he prescribed in 2014 and 2015. He later moved to Indiana.
Rinehart was one of 32 Tennessee medical professionals charged with crimes related to over-prescribing opioids. He was indicted in March on 19 counts of distribution. His sentencing is scheduled for July 30.
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Generous Shopper Who Paid For Man's Bill Gets £8k Thank You
The generous woman was given a painting worth £7,850
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A WOMAN generously paid a fellow customer's £22 supermarker bill was surprised to get her money back – and shocked to get an additional £8,000 painting too.
Pamela Philip discoverd the man she helped was a famous "sleepwalking artist", who was so moved by her random act of kindness he decided to gift her one of his works of art.
At the time, Philip was in a hurry to meet a friend when she got stuck behind a flustered customer, who had lost his wallet, in the queue at Tesco.
She stepped forward to pay for his shopping, so she could get out of the store.
The grateful man insisted on repaying the 29-year-old, and convinced her to give him her address.
She thought nothing of it, until one month later when she received a package in the post.
Inside was a cheque for £22 and a painting with a certificate of authenticity signed by artist Lee Hadwin.
When she investigated, she discovered the man she encountered at Tesco was Hadwin, a professional artist who does all his work while sleeping, and the painting of a red cross on a solid black background is worth £7,850.
She told Daily Mirror: "I still can't believe it, I'm in shock. I never expected to hear from him again.
"When he asked for my address I kept saying 'no don't worry about it, it's nothing' because £22 is nothing really.
"I had forgotten all about it. I think it's quite a rare thing for people to do these days. I gave the money without expecting anything back.
"If his shopping had been £100 I wouldn't have offered, but £22 isn't much so I was happy to help."
Philip, a call centre worker, from east London, stepped in for the penniless shopper at Tesco near Liverpool Street Underground on Saturday, April 23.
She has not yet decided what to do with her unexpected gift, as she is still reeling from the shock.
She said: "I'm quite flattered by it, but I have also been really intrigued to find out more about the artist."
Lee Hadwin, 41, is a "sleepwalking artist" who cannot draw when he is awake.
The Welsh painter has been sketching and drawing in his sleep since he was four, but says his work became more intricate after reaching his early teens.
He now exhibits his work all over the world and one of his pieces was purchased by US presidential hopeful Donald Trump.
"I told her I had lost my wallet and then she just offered to pay," he recalled.
"I took her details very quickly and it's taken me three or four weeks to get back to her. I was slow, but I thought it would be a nice gesture.
"I just felt our country is becoming a hateful place, so it's nice when you get a kind gesture like this."
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Take a Caribbean vacation while at Disney World! This charming resort will put you on a tropical island complete with white sand beaches. There are 33 two story buildings which house all 2112 guest rooms. The "Villages" of buildings bearing Caribbean inspired names such as Trinidad North and South, Barbados, Jamaica, Aruba, and Martinique, are situated around the shores of the 45 acre Barefoot Bay. Each village has its own beach (You can enjoy the sand and the view but cannot swim!), pool, laundry, bus stop, playground, and hammocks.
Old Port Royale is the activity hub of the resort housing all the dining, shopping, arcade, Barefoot Bay Marina and Bike Works for recreation rentals, and is home to the largest pool at the resort. Some resort rooms are quite a distance to this area so if you want to be close by to food and recreation you may consider paying for a preferred room.
The Custom House is the main entrance and guest check in. You will also find magical express and airline check in here.
Market Street Food Court is a quick service food court located in Old Port Royale. Market Street is open from 6am-Midnight daily with offerings such as waffles and bagels for breakfast and Pizza and sandwiches and items from the grill for lunch and dinner.
Shutters at Old Port Royale is a table service location offering Caribbean style fare such as jerk crusted tuna, Caribbean braised beef, and Aruba style roast chicken.
Banana Cabana is a poolside bar located at the main pirate themed pool. Grab a tropical drink to make your stay at the Caribbean Beach Resort complete.
Shopping at Calypso Trading Post and Calypso Straw Market for incidentals and souvenirs.
Transportation to all Disney Theme Parks and Down Town Disney is available. There is a bus stop at each village and one at Old Port Royale. The buses run regularly, but you may have a bit of a walk to the bus stop.
Quick Review: This is a fun budget friendly option for families and honeymooners. This is a big resort so make sure you understand the layout when booking.
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Jeffrey Bule (15 de noviembre de 1991) es un futbolista salomonense que juega como defensor en el Solomon Warriors FC.

Carrera

Debutó en 2008 en el Koloale FC. Pasó en 2012 al Solomon Warriors FC.

Clubes

Selección nacional

Disputó 4 partidos representando a las . Fue convocado para la Copa de las Naciones de la OFC 2012.

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Bule en ceroacero
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Q: PerformancePoint filter Hi
I have created a performance point dashboard in which i have included a filter.
It works fine.
The filter has got parent nodes and child nodes.
For example...parent node is A
and its child node is 1,2,3
Again another parent node is B
and its child node is 1,2,3
so when i select the check box in front of A,it is showing  the graph according to the parent node A.
But I want the child nodes to be auto selected when ever i select the parent node,
i.e when i select the checkbox for A,its child nodes 1,2,3 should get auto selected and the graph should be displayed according to the child nodes.
Is this possible in performance point filter.
Plz help me out to solve this issue.
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A: Out of the box, Performance Point does not allow you to check the child nodes from the parent level. Meaning you'll have to select each node you want to show onto the graph.

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Q: Use layer output in keras custom loss I am developing a custom loss function in Keras and I need the first layer output.
How can I retrieve it?
def custom_loss(y_true, y_pred):
    cross = K.mean(K.binary_crossentropy(y_true, y_pred), axis = 1)
    layer_output = model.get_layer_output(1) # this is what i'd like to use
    return cross  + perturb

A: Checking the docs you can retrieve a layer by using the model.get_layer() method. You can then pass the desired index or well pass the name of the layer.
After getting a layer you can easily obtain its output by using the layer.output attribute, as explained here on the docs.
Combining both you can obtain the output of your desired layer.


If you are contemplating of spending the next few years in business school and have already obtained your entrance to the relevant university and packing up to take in the new responsibilities, you may have to take a good hard look at your laptop too. This is because your laptop would be an extension of your hands and would be one item which would be as close to as your other personal gear.
Your laptop would follow you to the lecture halls, the library and would be on your study table all the time. It would store practically everything that is part of your studies to be retrieved when needed to complete your studies. If this is the same laptop that has been storing all your photos, personal emails, Skype addresses of friends and relation all over the world and all other miscellaneous information all these years then you should be taking a very pragmatic decision to get yourself a new laptop.
Storing data which would be irrelevant to your course studies in your laptop would not be a prudent way to start on your business studies. You would have to store loads of information in your laptop from course materials, assignments, team projects, presentations and many more. Hence procuring one of the recommended laptops for business students should be your first prerogative.
Your present laptop which would have data and other information which are completely irrelevant to your course study would still have ample storage and you could contemplate that it would be sufficient to carry you through the course. You could be wrong and could get stuck halfway through a very busy semester and then look high and dry for a new one. Let that not happen to you, because you would have invested quite a sum to get yourself an internationally recognized degree and being "pennywise pound foolish" would not be a prudent way to embark on such an important step in your life.
You would have access to state of the art computer work stations in your university and whilst in the premises you could have unlimited access to them, but when away you would need to have access to information too. Obtaining an internationally recognize degree or masters is no cake walk. It would need your unstinted concentration and every minute would be valuable. Hence cutting corners with the main weapon in your armory to achieve your life's goals, which would be that all important laptop would not be a very prudent decision.
What would be the best laptop?
If you have an idea of what you need then you could get a separate laptop to be exclusively used by you for your course studies, but if not getting some advice would be in your best interests. You may need to know what configuration you would need to complete your degree or masters and for this your peers or your course lecturers would be able to extend some inputs. Get the best advice and then select the best laptop which would carry you through to the end of your course.


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getting help with drug and alcohol dependency;
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the Student Safety Bill.
Please continue reading below for more on each of these topics. Additionally, all required labor law notices are accessible online.
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Aga Mikolaj (geboren als Agnieszka Beata Mikołajczyk) (Kutno, 7 maart 1971 – 11 november 2021) was een Poolse sopraan.

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Opleiding
Aga Mikolaj studeerde van 1990 tot 1996 aan de Musikakademie in Posen bij professor Antonina Kawecka. Gedurende haar studie ontving ze een stipendium van de Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Wenen. In 1997 nam ze deel aan masterclasses van Renata Scotto in het kader van het I.V.C. te 's-Hertogenbosch, en vanaf 2001 tot 2006 was ze privé leerling van Elisabeth Schwarzkopf.

Carrière
Haar loopbaan als zangeres begon in 1995 aan het Teatr Wielki te Poznań, waar ze rollen als de gravin (Le Nozze di Figaro), Pamina (Die Zauberflöte) en Rachel (La Juive) zong. Daarnaast had ze gastoptredens aan het Teatr Wielki te Warschau, evenals aan de operahuizen van Łódź, Breslau, Luxemburg, Heilbronn en Hannover. Vanaf september 2002 zong Aga Mikolaj aan de Bayerischen Staatsoper München, waar ze rollen als Eerste Dame en Pamina in Die Zauberflöte, Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), het Eerste Bloemenmeisje (Parsifal), Ännchen (Der Freischütz), Drusilla (L'Incoronazione di Poppea), Gretel (Hänsel und Gretel), Marzelline (Fidelio), Euridice (Orfeo ed Euridice), Najade (Ariadne auf Naxos), Almirena (Rinaldo), Musetta (La Bohème) und Gravin Almaviva in Le Nozze di Figaro vertolkte.

Aga Mikolaj was te gast aan verschillende Europese operahuizen, bijvoorbeeld aan het Aalto-Theater (Pamina, Eva/Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Gravin/Le Nozze di Figaro), aan de Opéra Bastille in Parijs (Eerste Dame), aan de Wiener Volksoper (Micaela/Carmen), aan het Nationaltheater Prag (Donna Elvira), Deutsche Oper Berlin, aan het Opernhaus Graz en aan het Nationaltheater Mannheim. In 2004 was Aga Mikolaj met de Weense Staatsopera op tournee in Japan, onder leiding van Seiji Ozawa (Don Giovanni). Contracten in de VS en Canada voerden naar optredens in Chicago, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Providence en Montreal. In 2006 gaf ze haar concertdebuut in New York in de Avery Fisher Hall van het Lincoln Center. Haar debuut op het Glyndebourne Festival als Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte vond plaats in het kader van een tournee in het najaar van 2006.

In het seizoen 2008/2009 zong ze Donna Elvira in Monte Carlo, Wiesbaden, Tokio, Berlijn en Boedapest..

Overlijden
Mikolaj stierf op 11 november 2021 op 50-jarige leeftijd aan complicaties van COVID-19.

Prijzen
 1995: Spezialpreis des Ada-Sari-Wettbewerbs in Nowy Sącz (Polen).
 1996: Publieksprijs en de G.F. Handel Award van het 41ste Internationale Vocalistenconcours te 's-Hertogenbosch
 1999: Zowel de 2e prijs als ook de Verdi-prijs bij de Internationale Alfredo Kraus-wedstrijd te Las Palmas.

Discografie
 Janáček: Glagolitische Mis (PentaTone)
 Penderecki: Seven Gates of Jerusalem, Symphony No. 7 (Naxos)
 Penderecki: Credo / Cantata in honorem Almae Matris Universitatis Iagellonicae sescentos abhinc annos fundatae (Naxos)
 Schubert: Der vierjährige Posten / Die Zwillingsbrüder (Phoenix Edition)
 Aga Mikolaj singt Strauss & Mozart (CPO)

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Please note: This chapter contains graphic descriptions of birth and me be a trigger for those who have experienced sexual abuse or birth trauma. Reader discretion is advised.
Our final day on the road was difficult to say the least. There were so many ancient settlements in this area, and with Passover coming, there were even more people coming towards Jerusalem than normal, leaving the roads crowded and dusty, making it hard to pass. I kept close by Mariam's side the whole day, and was glad that I did. By noon, when we came to a brief rest along the side of the road in the shade of some olive trees, I could see that the baby was well into position.
I found a low rock and encouraged Mariam to sit there, concerned that it might be difficult for her to sit on the ground at this point. It seemed she had very little interest anymore in what was going on around her. The energy that had gotten her up the mountains yesterday was rapidly ebbing away, and I found myself having to encourage her to take her food and water.
The pains had also come back by this time, and now they were no longer sporadic, but steady – still spaced widely apart, but nice and regular. I was torn between giving Mariam a rest, and urging us on to Bethlehem, well aware that the side of the road was not the place for this baby to be born, whoever it was.
We did get moving again, but as the afternoon continued, Mariam's pains began to draw closer together. We found ourselves separated several times from our group, as Mariam would pause to gather her breath at the height of the pain before being able to continue the journey. I found myself thankful that I had spoken quietly to Jacob at our noon rest – I knew that he would stop at each mile marker and wait for us to join them, or send one of the boys back to check on us if we took too long to meet up with them.
Because of our delays, daylight was drawing to a close as we reached Bethlehem. I had a quick word with Jacob, who set out with Joseph to see what he could find by way of accommodation. I sat down by the well with Mariam and began to gently rub her lower back, helping her to flex her hips back and forth, side to side with each of the pains. They were now coming every few minutes, and I knew that this babe would be born tonight, whether we were in the fields or an inn. I hoped for the warmth of an inn, but I didn't hold my breath – we were poor travellers, and the town was bursting at the seams with people from all walks of life. Plus we had arrived late in the day. I didn't think we would have much choice.
As dusk was falling, Joseph and Jacob finally returned. They looked tired, worried, and defeated, but they put a brave smile on for us. "There is no room inside – no one has any space – but the innkeeper on the other side of the square has a courtyard he's willing to let us use for the night. It's full of his traveller's animals, and open to the sky, but it will be safe from wild animals. He said he wouldn't normally let someone stay in it, but when I explained that Mariam was in labor …" He broke off suddenly as Mariam's body began to rock and sway of its own accord, a low moan breaking between her lips as she breathed her way through the building pain.
It was with great relief that the party heard my words. Up until then, I think they had all been worried about who would take care of this obviously inappropriate task. After all, Passover was just a week away, and assisting with a birth would render anyone involved unclean. They were thrilled to run ahead to ready the space, and I was perfectly content to do what I now knew in my heart was what God had made me to do.
And so, after whispering quietly into Mariam's ear that after the next contraction we would set out, I waited for the pain to come and then to go, and then gently but firmly helped her to stand. Walking backwards in front of Mariam, I told Samuel to clear a path for me, and we started towards the inn together. I'm quite sure that we were a sight to behold – really, who in their right mind would wait this long into labor to find themselves at home in their bed? – but dusk was now turning to darkness, and the square was teeming with so many people that I don't think very many of them even bothered to notice two small women with our heads pressed close together, and a young boy leading us.
We finally came to the inn, and Samuel led us round the back to the courtyard. I was relieved to see that the men had been able to carry out my instructions – and remarkably quickly. Our group had cleared out one of the stalls, and laid fresh straw across the bottom of it, nice and thick. Then they had rigged up someone's blanket – I hoped it was an extra one – across the entrance to the stall to give us a small amount of privacy. Someone had started a fire in the middle of the courtyard, and one of the other women was busy preparing the evening meal, while another had begun to lay out the bedding around the fire, so it was clear where they would be – on the far side of the fire from the birthing stall. I was grateful – I didn't want to have to worry about them hearing things or seeing things they shouldn't. Someone handed me a lantern, and I shuffled backwards into the stall, drawing the blanket across as I lowered an exhausted Mariam to the ground.
Once she was as comfortable as I could make her, I placed my hand on her belly to feel for the baby's movements. There were not nearly as many as I would have liked, but I could smell the soup on the fire now, and I stuck my head around the curtain and asked for some water and a share of the soup. I slowly dripped them into Mariam's mouth – first one, and then the other – between the contractions, and as her strength came back, so did the baby's. I was desperately relieved. She was going to need her energy if she was to get through this ordeal.
It is dark here for 12 hours, and these hours are broken down into four 'watches' of the night, each three hours long.
Even knowing, as I did, that this phase would soon be over, I wished so strongly that I could make it end. Instead, Mariam's water's broke, and with that enormous gush of fluid came a contraction that transformed alarmingly quickly into a pushing surge. Mariam – completely unprepared for what had just occurred, looked at me with huge questioning eyes as her stomach involuntarily pushed down. I called out, "water – now" through the blanket, hoping someone would hear, and prepared to help Mariam into a squat at the end of the contraction. I knew there might only be seconds to move her.
When it finally came, I lifted her from her side into a squat, pushing fresh straw under her to cover the puddle her body had made, which seemed much redder than I would have liked, and hiking her dress up above her baby, so that I could have a good view of her. Realizing that we were missing the birthing stones, I called out again, "Ruth – come help me. Bring Rachel." And so Ruth came, bringing her new friend Rachel. I placed one of Mariam's arms around each of their shoulders, and showed them how to brace their legs so that Mariam could push between them. All of this seemed to take forever, but really must have happened in the space of a minute or two at most, because everything was in place when the next pain hit.
Again with the pain, Mariam's body bore down. She looked wildly around – as if she was trying to understand what was going on – as so many women do at this stage in labor. I stroked her belly gently, singing the songs of David, as my mother and aunt had taught me to do – willing her to draw strength from the strength of her ancestors. This calmed her down a bit, but didn't seem to teach her how to push. Each time the pain came, her body bore down, but I noticed that although her belly would harden and try to push the baby out, her legs remained rigid, her pelvis tilted forward, as if she was trying to prevent the very thing that needed to happen.
I watched in confusion for several contractions, trying to figure out what was happening and why, before I finally remembered. Mariam was a virgin! She had never known the presence of a man inside of her, never learned how to move with grace through the building of pleasure, or how to enjoy these inner places she had been given. That must have been why her waters were so bloodied – that must have been her virgin blood. But now, somehow, like a woman who had been hurt through violence, I had to talk her through giving birth.
And as the next pain came I held Mariam's upper leg back and rocked her side to side, grunting with her through the pain – hoping she would follow my lead.
To begin with she didn't. Thinking back, it must have been more than half the watch before she finally found the courage to begin to push properly into the contraction. I worried that she would loose her energy before she was able to finish pushing, and this I did not want, so I continued to offer her sips of soup between the pains, allowing her to fall back into my mother-arms to rest.
We tried many different positions, but in the end the one that worked the best for Mariam was probably the hardest for me. It involved me being behind Mariam's back – propping her up into a half-lying, half-sitting position, and then curling myself up around her back as she pushed, peaking around her belly as best I could between contractions to see how she was coming.
It was incredible the difference that one touch brought. Mariam had been almost asleep just a moment ago – barely able to push – and now some internal instinct told her to turn around, and get onto her hands and knees (thankfully facing me, as that stall would have been too narrow for me to pass her and hold her at the same time!) As the next pain came, she rocked back slowly onto her heels, and gave the best push I had seen so far. Rocking forward, she drew her breath in before pushing down again, slowly and intentionally. One more breath she drew, one more push down, and I could see the head right at the edge.
As the pain subsided, I helped Mariam's groping hand find the head again. Then I explained that I needed her to rest back onto her heels and puff, puff, puff her breath for the next pain. I didn't want to risk a tear – not here – not in an animal stall! I reached around her and dipped one of the rags Ruth had left earlier in the jug of water. I held it to Mariam then, pushing back ever so gently against the baby's head, willing him to have patience – just a bit – and to come out gently for his exhausted mother.
Somehow, despite the overwhelming urge she had to push, Mariam managed to listen to my breath, and follow my lead through the next pain. Nonetheless, I felt the baby's head pushing against my fingers, saw the skin slowly stretch, stretch, stretch, and then with an enormous bellow from deep within Mariam, the head was born. I quickly checked around its neck, and sure enough, there was the slippery cord. I was thankful that the pain seemed to have subsided by that point, so I had time to lift the cord up around the baby's head – not once, not twice, but three times! I wondered then whether this babe would be okay or not, but there wasn't long to wonder, as the next pain hit almost as soon as I finished, and this time there was no holding Mariam back. She rocked up onto all fours and bore down so strongly that it was a good thing I had already hooked my finger under the baby's lead shoulder before it started, or I think he might have come headlong, straight into the straw!
As the baby's lungs filled with air for the first time, and he made his entrance known to the entire courtyard, Mariam's arm immediately reached down as she tried to move onto her back and take her baby at the same time – in some movement that is more built into women than taught. I helped to guide the baby through and into her arms, then moved quickly to gather rags and dry him off against the cool of the night air as Mariam half-laughed, half-cried – babbling with the incoherent love-utterances of the brand-new mother. Within minutes I had him rubbed down, and was thankful to have done so even with his continued wails of protest. But once he was fully wrapped, he seemed to settle down.
Mariam instinctively drew him to her breast, and after a few minutes of suckling, I saw the cord suddenly drop by several inches. I told Mariam to cough and give another little push, and the afterbirth came then, all in one piece, deep and red, and healthy-looking. I was relieved. I had seen an afterbirth come apart in pieces once, and no amount of herbs from my mother or aunt or anyone else in the village had been able to stop the woman's bleeding. In the end, as the closest relative with milk, I had ended up raising that little babe for the first few years of her life. It was an experience, however, that I did not wish to repeat!
Mariam and the baby lay there feeding for quite some time, while I slowly tended to the work of cleaning her up. I called out for help at one point, and got a clean gown for Mariam, then had Deborah and Esther bring fresh straw and a blanket, and we somehow managed to change the straw under Mariam without once making her get up. Thankfully someone had thought to set aside some bread and a bit more soup from the evening meal, so I was able to give the now-ravenous Mariam a meal before finally tucking her up with the baby in the manger above her as the fourth watch was sounded.


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Born in 1953, Dead in 2009, Canadian ice hockey coaches,
Canadian ice hockey players
Estevan Bruins alumni
New Westminster Bruins alumni
Fort Worth Wings players
Fort Worth Texans players
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Medicine Hat Tigers coaches
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Ron Kennedy
Ron Kennedy (May 7, 1953 - July 9, 2009) was a Canadian ice hockey player and coach.
Early life Edit
He was born in North Battleford, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Career Edit
He played major junior hockey for the Estevan Bruins and the New Westminster Bruins from 1970 to 1973. The New York Islanders chose him 65th overall in the 1973 NHL Amateur Draft and the Winnipeg Jets picked him 76th overall in the 1973 WHA Amateur Draft.
Kennedy went with the Islanders and turned pro with their farm team, the Fort Worth Wings, in 1973-74. After three years in the minor pros, Kennedy went to Sweden for a year (1976-77). He stayed in Europe for most of the rest of his career, playing in Germany, the Netherlands, and Austria.
Coaching career Edit
His coaching career included:
Medicine Hat Tigers (Western Hockey League). Won the Dunc McCallum Memorial Trophy in 1988-89.
Villach, Austria - won the Austrian championship in his first year (1992-1994)
New York Islanders assistant coach
EC Hannover, Eisbären Berlin and ERC Ingolstadt (Deutsche Eishockey Liga)
Head coach of the Austrian national team (1996-2002)
Villach, Austria (second time)
Innsbruck (Austria) and Bolzano (Italy)
Canadian national team coach for the 2006 Deutschland Cup
Death Edit
Ron Kennedy resigned after his December 2008 diagnosis of brain cancer, from which he died, aged 56, in Klagenfurt, Austria.[1]
↑ Ron Kennedy's hockey statistics profile at hockeydb.com. hockeydb.com (2008). Retrieved on 2009-07-15.
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Dead in 2009
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Tuckamore Festival: free lunchtime concert 12:30-1:50 p.m. The Kirk.
Tuckamore Festival: Free Children's Concert 1-1:50 p.m. D. F. Cook Recital Hall, School of Music.
Tuckamore Festival: Free Open Rehearsal 2-4 p.m. Petro Canada Hall, School of Music.
Tuckamore Festival: Lasting Impressions with the Lafayette String Quartet 8-10 p.m. St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church (The Kirk), St. John's.
Tuckamore Festival: features renowned Canadian pianist Louis Lortie 8 p.m. D. F. Cook Recital Hall.
Tuckamore Festival: Louis Lortie Master Class 11 a.m.-1 p.m. D. F. Cook Recital Hall.
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Tuckamore Festival: The Beautiful in Music with Faculty Artists Nancy Dahn, viola, Vernon Regehr, cello, Timothy Steeves, piano, joining the Lafayette String Quartet, 8-10 p.m. D. F. Cook Recital Hall, School of Music.
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Tuckamore Festival: Free Open Rehearsal with Nancy Dahn, violin, Timothy Steeves, piano and Vernon Regehr, cello on a new trio, The Gypsies, by Serbian- born Canadian composer Katarina Curcin, 1-3 p.m. D. F. Cook Recital Hall, School of Music.
Tuckamore Festival: Rennie Regehr Master Class 1-3 p.m. Petro-Canada Hall, School of Music.
Tuckamore Festival: Bridging Styles with Susan Waterbury, violin, and Rennie Regehr, viola, join Nancy Dahn, violin, Vernon Regehr, cello, and Timothy Steeves, piano, 8-10 p.m. D. F. Cook Recital Hall, School of Music.
Tuckamore Festival: Fond Farewell 8-10 p.m. D. F. Cook Recital Hall, School of Music.
PhD Oral Defence of Jiancheng Liu, Faculty of Engineering and Applied Science, titled Mathematical Modeling Ice-Hull Interaction for Real Time Simulations of Ship Manoeuvring in Level Ice 2-4 p.m. IIC-2014, Inco Innovation Centre.
PhD oral defence of Shawn Chatman, Department of Physics and Physical Oceanography, titled Electronic Properties of Electrodeposited Semiconductor Junctions 10 a.m.-12 p.m. IIC-2014, Inco Innovation Centre.
Meet Memorial 2009 - final travel destination for this season features the Marine Institute main campus and the Capital Campaign Office 10 a.m.-2 p.m. at 155 Ridge Road (main entrance) and Inco Centre, room IIC-2006.
PhD oral defence of Joshua W. Hollett, Department of Chemistry, titled Properties and Applications of the Average Interparticle Distance, 10 a.m.-12 p.m. IIC-2014, Inco Innovation Centre.
Newfoundland Ecology Series: Edible Plant Hike at the Botanical Garden with Todd Boland, research horticulturist, 2-4 p.m.
Annual Employee and Retiree Appreciation Barbecue 3-8 p.m. Paton College quadrangle and Dining Hall.
NSERC Discovery Grant Information Session 9 a.m.-12 p.m. IIC-2014, Inco Innovation Centre.
PhD oral defence of Julia Temple, Department of Sociology, titled "Mother of Twenty-One": Primary and Elementary Teachers' Workloads and Health in Rural and Urban Newfoundland and Labrador, 10 a.m.-12 p.m. IIC-2014, Inco Innovation Centre.


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SACRAMENTO, California—The likely cause of a bus-truck crash last year that killed 10 people in Northern California may soon be revealed, but not the reason why a FedEx driver veered across an interstate median into oncoming traffic.
US federal investigators are expected Tuesday to announce the probable cause of the deadly crash between the truck and the bus carrying high school students.
The National Transportation Safety Board earlier this year released about 2,100 pages of records from its investigation, but the records did not indicate the driver's medical condition or whether there were any mechanical defects in the truck.
At the NTSB's Tuesday meeting, investigators are expected to present a report that will include the probable cause of the crash and safety recommendations to prevent similar tragedies. A separate probe by the California Highway Patrol faulted the truck driver, but the state investigators said in May that the driver's body was too badly burned to figure out if the driver fell asleep or had an undiagnosed medical condition.
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The art of Roldan Lauzán can be understood as a dialogue established between antagonists; dialogue that the artist represents through a manipulation or subversion of images coming from religious, spiritual and occultist symbolisms and iconographies.
His main interest is to invite the viewer to consider and contemplate the idea of the duality of being. It aims to invite us to reflect on how divine wills would work in the mundane and earthly plane that surrounds us, and at the same time, he wants us to notice the human creative act that exists in everything we can imagine and experience as divine. It seeks to fuse in the same character the two opposite extremes that we all carry inside.
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Biografia
Amico dell'adolescente Ugo Foscolo, che lo scelse come dedicatario di alcune delle sue prime composizioni poetiche, fu ordinato sacerdote ed iniziò nel 1791 la sua esperienza di professore, quale insegnante di « rettorica » nel bresciano collegio Falsina. Nella città natale entrò inoltre a far parte sei anni più tardi del locale Comitato di Pubblica Istruzione, istituzione di orientamento democratico. Insegnò quindi letteratura italiana nel Patrio liceo, e sempre a Brescia fu segretario dell'Accademia di scienze ed arti, prima del trasferimento a Bologna, dove divenne vice-bibliotecario del prestigioso ateneo felsineo (1807-1815).

Le sue idee filo-muratiane lo costrinsero a riparare a Milano, dove visse gli ultimi anni di vita, fondando l'Accademia dei Concordi, destinata ad effimera durata.

Poeta e prosatore, è ricordato in primo luogo come autore di tragedie, imitatore di Alfieri e Foscolo. Scrisse le tragedie Socrate (1803), Annibale in Bitinia (1805), Priamo alla tenda di Achille (1806), Giulietta e Romeo (da cui Felice Romani trarrà il libretto per l'opera lirica omonima di Nicola Vaccaj), Saffo (1814), Aristodemo ed Erode, tutte rispettose delle unità aristoteliche. Godette di un buon successo presso i contemporanei.

Massone, fu membro della loggia di Brescia Amalia Augusta.

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Iran's Elnaz Rekabi, Who Competed Without Hijab, Now in Tehran
Jon Gambrell
In this image taken from video by Iran's state-run IRNA news agency, Iranian competitive climber Elnaz Rekabi speaks to journalists in Imam Khomeini International Airport in Tehran, Iran, Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2022. (IRNA via AP)
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iranian competitive climber Elnaz Rekabi received a hero's welcome on her return to Tehran early Wednesday, after competing in South Korea without wearing a mandatory headscarf required of female athletes from the Islamic Republic.
Rekabi's decision not to wear the hijab while competing Sunday came as protests sparked by the Sept. 16 death in custody of a 22-year-old woman have entered a fifth week. Mahsa Amini was detained by the country's morality police over her clothing — and her death has seen women removing their mandatory hijabs in public.
The demonstrations, drawing school-age children, oil workers and others to the street in over 100 cities, represent the most-serious challenge to Iran's theocracy since the mass protests surrounding its disputed 2009 presidential election.
Supporters and Farsi-language media outside of Iran have worried about Rekabi's safety after she choose to compete without the hijab.
Rekabi on Wednesday repeated an explanation posted earlier to an Instagram account in her name that described her not wearing a hijab as "unintentional." The Iranian government routinely pressures activists at home and abroad, often airing what rights group describe as coerced confessions on state television — the same cameras she addressed on her arrival back home.
Video shared online showed large crowds gathered early Wednesday at Imam Khomeini International Airport outside of Tehran, the sanctioned nation's main gateway out of the country. The videos, corresponding to known features of the airport, showed crowds chanting the 33-year-old Rekabi's name and calling her a hero.
She walked into one of the airport's terminals, filmed by state media and wearing a black baseball cap and a black hoodie covering her hair. She received flowers from an onlooker, and then repeated what had been posted on Instagram that not wearing the hijab was "unintentional" and her travel had been as previously planned.
Rekabi described being in a women's only waiting area prior to her climb.
"Because I was busy putting on my shoes and my gear, it caused me to forget to put on my hijab and then I went to compete," she said.
She added: "I came back to Iran with peace of mind although I had a lot of tension and stress. But so far, thank God, nothing has happened."
Outside, she apparently entered a van and slowly was driven through the gathered crowd, who cheered her. It wasn't clear where she went after that.
Rekabi left Seoul on a Tuesday morning flight. The BBC's Persian service, which has extensive contacts within Iran despite being banned from operating there, quoted an unnamed "informed source" who described Iranian officials as seizing both Rekabi's mobile phone and passport.
BBC Persian also said she initially had been scheduled to return on Wednesday, but her flight apparently had been moved up unexpectedly.
IranWire, another website focusing on the country founded by Iranian-Canadian journalist Maziar Bahari who once was detained by Iran, alleged that Rekabi would be immediately transferred to Tehran's notorious Evin Prison after arriving in the country. Evin Prison was the site of a massive fire this past weekend that killed at least eight prisoners.
In a tweet, the Iranian Embassy in Seoul denied "all the fake, false news and disinformation" regarding Rekabi's departure. But instead of posting a photo of her from the Seoul competition, it posted an image of her wearing a headscarf at a previous competition in Moscow, where she took a bronze medal.
Rekabi didn't put on a hijab during Sunday's final at the International Federation of Sport Climbing's Asia Championship.
Rekabi wore a hijab during her initial appearances at the one-week climbing event. She wore just a black headband when competing Sunday, her dark hair pulled back in a ponytail; she had a white jersey with Iran's flag as a logo on it.
Footage of the competition showed Rekabi relaxed as she approached the climbing and after she competed.
Iranian women competing abroad under the Iranian flag always wear the hijab.
"Our understanding is that she is returning to Iran, and we will continue to monitor the situation as it develops on her arrival," the International Federation of Sport Climbing, which oversaw the event, said in a statement. "It is important to stress that athletes' safety is paramount for us and we support any efforts to keep a valued member of our community safe in this situation."
The federation said it had been in touch with both Rekabi and Iranian officials, but declined to elaborate on the substance of those calls when reached by The Associated Press. The federation also declined to discuss the Instagram post attributed to Rekabi and the claims in it.
South Korea's Foreign Ministry acknowledged the departures of the Iranian athlete and her team from the country without elaborating. On Wednesday, a small group of protesters demonstrated in front of Iran's Embassy in Seoul, with some women cutting off locks of their hair like others have in demonstrations worldwide since Amini's death.
So far, human rights groups estimate that over 200 people have been killed in the protests and the violent security force crackdown that followed. Iran has not offered a death toll in weeks. Demonstrations have been seen in over 100 cities, according to the group Human Rights Activists in Iran. Thousands are believed to have been arrested.
Gathering information about the demonstrations remains difficult, however. Internet access has been disrupted for weeks by the Iranian government. Meanwhile, authorities have detained at least 40 journalists, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.
Iranian officials, including Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, have repeatedly alleged the country's foreign enemies are behind the ongoing demonstrations, rather than Iranians angered by Amini's death and the country's other woes.
Iranians have seen their life savings evaporate; the country's currency, the rial, plummeted and Tehran's nuclear deal with world powers has been reduced to tatters.
Associated Press writer Ahn Young-joon in Seoul, South Korea, contributed to this report.
Copyright 2022 by The Associated Press. All rights reserved.


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While on balcony and talking on the phone this afternoon, I was surprised to see a hummingbird sitting boldly on a branch, a scant few feet out of reach. She regarded me without apparent fear, turning her head slightly this way and that, blinking, and fluffing her breast feathers. After what seemed a long time of mutual observation, I stepped away from her, and she shot off in a wild trajectory up and then back down amongst the branches.
Perhaps she thought I wouldn't be able to track her sudden course, but I have millions of years of predatory ancestors guiding my vision, so I saw her arrive at her nest. She fed the two tiny chicks in the nest, unaware of my continued viewing.
Walking home, I saw a crow chasing an indignant seagull away. I've seen crows chase hawks, but never a seagull. I tend to think of gulls as being more graceful fliers, and crows as being more acrobatic, but both birds were engaging in rapid, erratic flight. After a hundred-meter chase, the crow returned to what I'm assuming must have been its mate, and probably nesting site.
Apropos wings, I've seen more hummingbird moths in the garden this year than I think I've seen in all previous years combined. And the golden male carpenter bees as well.
I was having problems getting it to go. The vmware-config.pl was having issues with the kernel headers.
Turns out, you just have to look in the right place. Amazing, eh?
I also needed to actually, you know, reboot to get that shiny new kernel running.
A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars — billions upon billions of stars.
Even though Wikipedia claims 200-400 billion stars in the Milky Way, Feynman's number varies by only a couple factors of two.
According to Oxfam, there has been $8.4 Trillion spent on bailouts. So, call that about US $21/star in the Milky Way. That's a lot of money.
Oh, but doesn't stop there. According to the Office of the Comptroller, the "notional value of derivatives held by U.S. commercial banks" is around $200.4 trillion. So call that US $500/star in the Milky Way.
As has been widely reported, DK Matai, the Chairman of the ACTA Open, has published that the outstanding value of the derivative market worldwide is US $1.1 Quadrillion. That's a cool US $2,750/per star in the Milky Way galaxy.


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Dept of Hebrew & Jewish Studies
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Dr. Nadia Vidro is a postdoctoral research associate in the project "Karaite and Rabbanite calendars: Origins, Interaction, and Polemic", funded by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation. She holds a PhD in Hebrew Studies from Cambridge (2010), an MA in Jewish Studies (major), Islamic Studies (minor) and General Linguistics (minor) from the University of Cologne (2004) and a Diploma in Bio-physics from the Saratov State University, Russia (2000).
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Dr. Nadia Vidro's primary research interests are Hebrew manuscripts and Jewish intellectual history. Dr. Vidro's research at UCL focuses on the history of the Jewish calendar. She joined UCL in 2013 as a research associate in the ERC-funded project "Calendars in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages: standardization and fixation" (PI Prof. Sacha Stern), where she studied popular, non-standard Jewish calendars in medieval manuscripts. Easy to produce, these calendars were incompatible with the normative rabbinic calendar and could have led to holidays being celebrated at divergent times. Nadia systematically surveyed the evidence of reiterative calendars in medieval manuscripts, analyzed how they were constructed and used, and investigated their historical implications.
From September 2018 Dr. Vidro works as a postdoctoral research associate in the project "Karaite and Rabbanite calendars: Origins, Interaction, and Polemic", funded by the Fritz Thyssen Foundation and led by Prof. Sacha Stern (UCL) and Prof. Ronny Vollandt (LMU). Her research investigates the origins of the Karaite calendar, and studies the calendar disagreement between Karaites and Rabbanites, its significances on each side of the debate, and its polemical uses. This research also reflects on how people run their lives with different timeframes and calendars, and on the impact this exerts upon the sense of social belonging and identity. The results of Dr. Vidro's research in both projects will be published in a monograph on medieval Jewish calendar, co-authored with Prof. Sacha Stern.
Dr. Vidro is also involved in the project "Calendar Fragments as a Tool for Palaeography" (British Academy Small Research Grant, PI Dr. Ben Outhwaite, Cambridge), where she explores the possibility of using datable calendar fragments from the Cairo Genizah as points of comparison for handwriting analysis.
Before joining UCL Dr. Vidro studied and worked in the University of Cambridge (2006–2013), where she specialized in the history of Hebrew linguistics, looking at grammatical manuscripts from the Karaite school of Hebrew linguistics. Her research centered around an unpublished Karaite pedagogical grammar of Biblical Hebrew Kitab al-Uqud fi Tasarif al-Lugha al-Ibraniyya ("The Book of Rules regarding the Grammatical Inflections of the Hebrew Language"). Dr. Vidro reconstructed, edited and translated into English the Judaeo-Arabic text of Kitab al-Uqud and examined approaches to the verbal classification and derivation reflected in Karaite works on Biblical Hebrew verbal morphology. Her investigation of didactic tools used in Karaite pedagogical grammars added a new dimension to the research literature on medieval Jewish education in the field of Biblical Hebrew. Dr. Vidro continues to follow her interest in the history of grammar by studying the transmission of grammatical knowledge between the Jewish and the Muslim cultures as reflected in grammars of Classical Arabic preserved in Judaeo-Arabic.
Nadia teaches Hebrew, Judaeo-Arabic and courses on the Cairo Genizah
2009 Doctor of Philosophy University of Cambridge
2004 Master of Arts Universitat Koln
2000 Diploma in Physics Saratov State University


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Study shows Canada Genome Centres primed for COVID-19 host sequencing
Large-scale genome sequencing initiatives frequently rely on datasets provided by different sequencing centres, all of which may employ different laboratory protocols, instruments and analytical methods that may introduce disparities in the data produced. When combining datasets generated at different institutions, how do researchers ensure consistency between datasets?
In early 2019, Dr. Andy Mungall, Biospecimen and Library Cores Group Leader at the GSC and former Chair of the Canada Genomics Enterprise (CGEn) Technical Experts Committee, co-supervised an experiment to address this disparity. Consequently, this has also primed the three centres that comprise CGEn to embark on a national population sequencing initiative aimed at understanding host factors impacting COVID-19 disease outcomes.
In the study, published in the journal Frontiers in Genetics, researchers from CGEn's three nodes—the GSC, The Centre for Applied Genomics at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto and the McGill Genome Centre in Montreal—compared sequencing data produced and analyzed at each of the three centres.
To facilitate their evaluation, each node sequenced the genomes of three standard reference cell lines from the Genome in a Bottle (GIAB) consortium. The consortium enables sequencing centers to routinely assess the precision and sensitivity of single nucleotide variants (SNVs) and insertion and deletions (indels) detected in their analyses by sequencing GIAB reference samples.
"The idea of this experiment was to see how comparable data independently generated at the three sites were to one another, and whether CGEn might lend itself to national-scale population sequencing," says Dr. Mungall.
The team used three replicates of three different DNA samples from the GIAB consortium, sequenced them at the three sequencing centres and analyzed the data using three different bioinformatics pipelines, resulting in a total of 81 different datasets for comparison.
Their results demonstrated that datasets produced at each of the three centres were highly similar, and that the most significant differences were the result of the analytical pipelines used rather than laboratory methods and instrumentation.
"We were very pleased to find that despite using different laboratory methods, the sequencing data produced at the three centres were very consistent. In fact, they were just as consistent as replicates sequenced at one centre. That was very reassuring," says Dr. Mungall. "Data analysis is dependent on the experiment being conducted; all the three centres specialize in different types of analyses, so we were not surprised to find some disparities arising due to different analytical pipelines. On the whole, however, data production is very similar across Canada's three high-throughput genome sequencing centres."
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As part of the Canadian COVID Genomics Network (CanCOGeN)—a Genome Canada initiative that will generate accessible and usable genomics data to inform our COVID-19 public health decisions—CGEn will sequence 10,000 Canadians that have tested positive for the virus.
"This study gives us confidence that we are primed and ready for national-scale population sequencing projects like the CanCOGeN HostSeq initiative," says Dr. Mungall. "Sequencing of the 10,000 human genomes will be distributed across CGEn's three centres, and we now know we need to pay particular attention to how those data are analyzed. To do this, packaged and distributable analysis pipelines will be shared between the centres, ensuring that all of the datasets are processed through an identical analytical pipeline."
More than 500,000 human genomes have been sequenced and deposited in public databases to date. These data have provided the foundation for enhanced understanding of the genetic basis of human health and disease and are increasingly being used in clinical genetics settings as a biological reference for national precision medicine initiatives. As more large-scale, multi-site sequencing projects are launched, researchers will need to evaluate datasets produced at different sequencing centres to ensure high confidence in the pan-geographic reproducibility of results.
This study provides a framework for evaluating consistency in data generated in national and international distributed genome sequencing projects. Further, by publishing the study in Frontiers in Genetics, the manuscript and datasets are publicly available. This study focused on SNVs and indels, but researchers are able to dive deeper into the data to analyze structural variants, copy number variants or other genomic features of interest to see what differences may be expected from a distributed network.
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Richard D. Corbett, Robert Eveleigh, Joe Whitney, Namrata Barai, Mathieu Bourgey, Eric Chuah, Joanne Johnson, Richard A. Moore, Neda Moradin, Karen L. Mungall, Sergio Pereira, Miriam S. Reuter, Bhooma Thiruvahindrapuram, Richard F. Wintle, Jiannis Ragoussis, Lisa J. Strug, Jo-Anne Herbrick, Naveed Aziz, Steven J. M. Jones, Mark Lathrop, Stephen W. Scherer, Alfredo Staffa and Andrew J. Mungall. A Distributed Whole Genome Sequencing Benchmark Study. Frontiers in Genetics. 11:612515.
CGEn is a national sequencing facility supported by the Canada Foundation for Innovation's Major Science Initiatives. Leveraged co-funding supporting CGEn and the experiments was provided by Genome Canada through Genome BC, Ontario Genomics, and Génome Quebec, and by the University of Toronto McLaughlin Centre.


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Violet is the third studio album by Polish gothic rock band Closterkeller. It was released on September, 1993 in Poland through Izabelin Studio. The album was recorded at Izabelin Studio from April to September, 1993. The cover art was created by Marta Dziubalska and Łukasz Dziubalski.

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Bonus Tracks

Personnel
 Anja Orthodox - vocal, lyrics
 Paweł Pieczyński - guitar
 Krzysztof Najman - bass
 Piotr Pawłowski - drums
 Michał Rollinger - keyboards
Zbigniew Bieniak - backing vocals
Violetta "Fiolka" Najdenowicz - backing vocals
Music - Closterkeller.

Music videos
 "Agnieszka" (1993)
 "W moim kraju" (1993)
 "Babeluu" (1994)
 "Supernova" (1994)

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1993 albums
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New Campaign Launched By Alexandria Police For The Officers
A new police program is launched in Alexandria which seeks to help officers keep themselves out of harm's way on the road. The campaign is named "Safety First — Every Shift, Every Call". In this campaign, Alexandria police will provide officers with monthly safety tips throughout 2020 on topics like safe driving tactics, traffic stops and driving while fatigued.
According to wtop.com, "The campaign was developed in response to an increase in traffic-related deaths and injuries in the law enforcement community, the Alexandria Police Department explained in a news release. The campaign will serve as a "visual reminder" for police to practice safe behavior while driving and stepping out of their vehicles."
As per wtop.com, "There has been a large disproportionate amount of fatalities and injuries directly related to traffic incidents," said Chief Michael Brown. "Like [all] police departments, the APD wants its officers to make it home safely to their families and friends." The campaign is a collaboration between the department, the National Police Foundation and the Bureau of Justice Assistance. It is funded through the Valor for Blue Program."
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Tens of thousands of Palestinians rallied against the Annapolis peace conference.
Chanting "Death to Israel, Death to the United States," thousands of Hamas supporters held demonstrations in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday as Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas attended the U.S.-hosted peace talks in the Maryland capital. Rally organizers denounced Abbas as a "traitor" for seeking coexistence with the Jewish state.
While the rallies in Hamas-ruled Gaza went ahead, Hamas sympathizers in the West Bank, which is still under Abbas' control, tried to hold similar demonstrations, only to clash with P.A. security forces. At least one protester was reported to have been killed by police gunfire in Hebron, while a journalist was wounded in Ramallah.