Interesting… Here is an article about people with a condition that makes them unable to produce mental images.
What I've found in my process is that in my past, almost 100% of the reason I would spend so much time in pictures / imaginations in my head, is to escape reality / distract myself from the things in this world / in my life that I don't understand / don't like / struggle with — you know the day to day reality of money, suffering, struggle, frustrations, conflicts, a screwed up world — where I'd take information that I liked the sound of — in my case it was things like spiritual beliefs / stories and turn it into pictures in my head, dreaming up alternate realities to keep myself stimulated / enabling myself to 'explain' things in a way that makes me feel good, and to see myself as some character with a purpose / reason for existing that is based on / dependent on pictures / an alternate reality in my head that makes me feel better about things — when in fact I'm not actually practically investigating reality / relationships / the mind / the world system to understand the problems and explore practical solutions to create a world / humanity that is worth existing in and with.
I mean, I can use pictures in my head practically – to assist with conceptualizing certain things — but now the difference is that I'm not using it as entertainment / an alternate reality. What I've found is that, the more I'm learning to Live in practical reality, living without belief systems, standing within and as the simplicity of – 'I am Life as all as one as equal' – is that I don't have the desire to sit and daydream and picture all kinds of stuff in my head – because I'm busy living and developing my self expression, skills, and purpose as a physical life lived with the purpose and self commitment of assisting and supporting to bring about solutions to create a world that's best for everyone.
This kind of condition of not being able to produce mental images raises some interesting questions in relation to belief systems / personalities that depend on pictures in the head in order to maintain one's purpose / stability / experience of one's self — who would you be, what would you do – if all of a sudden, you could not produce any images / pictures in your head?


We hope that you are enjoying this festival of lights as much as we are here at Manna. It's inspiring to remember the events of the Maccabees and how they chose, no matter the cost, to uphold the Torah of Yahweh. It is easy to see how this historical event is a prophetic shadow picture for the events that will transpire on the horizon, once again the temple of Yahweh being desecrated by another who attempts to take His place and His worship. Yet every day we fight this same battle whether we realize it or not!
Even more than the enemy's desire to desecrate the place of worship/the Temple of Yahweh, is his desire to compromise you and I! If we're willing to compromise in our own lives, then we have no business protesting the desecration of the physical building. This is what Hanukkah is our reminder of – the need to guard our thoughts and our steps, to make sure that we are operating as a kadosh/set apart people. Will we choose to stand in the face of adversity just as the Macabees did so long ago? If we're not living it out daily now when things are the easy, then the answer is most likely a resounding no! So this Hanukkah season, it's our desire to make sure we've dedicated our lives unto Yahweh and that the light of Yeshua burns brightly within us!


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Bahrain admits using 'excessive force' during protests
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-15825542
Image caption The protests began in Bahrain on 14 February
"Excessive force" was used by security forces in Bahrain against pro-democracy protesters earlier this year, the government has said.
At least 24 people died during Shia-led protests last February and March.
The government was commenting ahead of the publication of a report into the crackdown, commissioned by King Hamad.
Bahrain's information affairs authority said 20 members of the security forces had been charged over the alleged abuses.
It said the inquiry found there had been "instances of excessive force and mistreatment of detainees" during the crackdown.
The statement from the government was welcomed by Mansoor al-Jamri, editor of al-Wasat, the only independent newspaper in Bahrain.
"These are small steps in the right direction," he told the BBC, adding that the government needed to be seen to respond positively to the report. "It wants to say to the outside world we have taken action."
But he cautioned: "The system is still there and we can only encourage the government to start the long march away from the despotic and repressive regime that is still very much in place."
Maryam al-Khawaja, a human rights activist, told the BBC she was sceptical about the prosecution of policemen for excessive use of force.
"It is our experience that the government says it will take action but in the end nothing is done and the perpetrators are released without charge," she said.
She adds that because of international criticism the government wants to be seen to be moving forward: "This is their exit strategy but it won't work unless there is real change on the ground."
Medics retrial
Unrest in the tiny island state began on 14 February, led by the majority Shia Muslims protesting about economic hardship, the lack of political freedom and discrimination in jobs in favour of the governing Sunni Muslim majority.
A clampdown began on 16 March, with a state of emergency imposed and the arrival of hundreds of Saudi and UAE soldiers to beef up security.
Hospitals were sealed off and medics were beaten as they tried to help the wounded in the streets. The UN described the crackdown as "shocking and illegal".
King Hamad lifted the state of emergency on 1 June, but hundreds of people have been arrested since February and dozens have been handed lengthy jail terms, with at least five people sentenced to death.
Last month, Bahraini authorities ordered a retrial for 20 medics after they were given jail sentences of up to 15 years, sparking an international outcry.
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Tantalising mystery of missing JFK assassination file solved - 23 years ago
3 Nov, 2017 12:42 AM 4 minutes to read
The US Government has today released long classified documents about the JFK assassination
By Ian Shapira
Of the 2,800 files related to John F. Kennedy's assassination released last week, one document seemed especially juicy.
It was a previously classified 1975 deposition of former CIA director Richard Helms before the President's Commission on CIA Activities in which Helms was asked about Lee Harvey Oswald, the former Marine who shot Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963, in Dallas. Oswald himself was killed by nightclub owner Jack Ruby at Dallas police headquarters on live television, fueling decades of conspiracy theories.
The 1975 testimony, taken by the commission's counsel, David Belin, cut off right at the most tantalising part.
MR. BELIN: Well, now, the final area of my interrogation relates to charges that the CIA was in some way conspiratorially involved with the assassination of President Kennedy. During the time of the Warren Commission, you were Deputy Director of Plans, is that correct?
MR. HELMS: I believe so.
MR. BELIN: Is there any information involved with the assassination of President Kennedy which in any way shows that Lee Harvey Oswald was in some way a CIA agent or an age[nt]...
In this November 23, 1963, file photo, surrounded by detectives, Lee Harvey Oswald talks to the media as he is led down a corridor of the Dallas police station for questioning. Photo / AP
Several news organisations, including The Washington Post, seized on the truncated file as an example of the government's continued secrecy about the assassination.
The Sun newspaper in Britain wrote an article breathlessly headlined: COVER-UP? JFK files CUT OUT CIA director's reply to whether Lee Harvey Oswald was a secret agent...so will we ever know the truth?" The Huffington Post reported the cut-off document and speculated that if Oswald had been a CIA agent, "it would stoke even more confusion" because of Oswald's reported meeting with a KGB officer in Mexico City nearly two months before the assassination. The New York Times also found the abruptly finished document fascinating, saying it "may add to the questions" fueling conspiracy theories about the killing.
On Twitter, the suspicious-looking deposition also earned some attention. After the faux account of President Richard M. Nixon tweeted about the Kennedy files, one user replied: "Sir, have you seen the partial deposition of the Richard Helms that mysteriously cuts off?"
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Here's the thing, though. The rest of the deposition was released. Just not in this latest batch. The full testimony was declassified in 1994, according to the Mary Ferrell Foundation, which has been monitoring and writing about the Kennedy assassination records for years. So, what did Helms say?
The rest of Belin's question asked Helms whether Oswald was an "agent of the FBI or any other Government agency?" Here is how Helms responds:
MR. HELMS: Mr. Belin, this question, and I think you may recall this, was raised at the time and the Agency was never able to find any evidence whatsoever, and we really searched that it had any contact with Lee Harvey Oswald. As far as the FBI was concerned, my recollection is not all that precise. I believe that Mr. Hoover testified that he had not been an agent of theirs either. He was certainly not an agent of the CIA. He was certainly never used by the CIA. Whether any CIA officer ever talked to him any place or not I don't know but I certainly felt quite comfortable - I believe Mr. [John] McCone [a previous CIA director] was asked to testify before the Commission on this point. I believe he was asked to testify. It was a hot item anyway at the time. And my recollection is that I informed Mr. McCone that we could find no evidence that Oswald had any connection with the CIA.
Belin didn't challenge Helms any further on the matter. Instead, he pivoted and asked whether the CIA had withheld any information from the Warren Commission.


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How to read books effectively? How could you know that the book deserves your attention? How to remember what you have read for a long time? Editor from GetEssayEditor.com, a service that provides online writing and editing assistance for students, shares with us tips on how to read books effectively.
When it comes to books, most people feel a strange mixture of greed and apathy. We like to buy the books, store them up on the shelves, but do not always read them. A huge number of unread books discourages us.
Do not buy a lot of books for future use. You just need one or two. All the rest will wait in the wings in the reading list. And try to buy less expensive illustrated editions, because they are good for a gift, but not for personal usage.
Life is too short to waste it on uncurious books. Try to drop out all boring and useless books from the very start. It's enough to read the first 50 pages of the book to realize whether is it interesting or not. If the first 50 pages captivate your attention, you will not be disappointed by the book at the end. If not – c'est la vie. Try not to give a second chance to a bad book. Every year hundreds of thousands of new and exciting books are published around you.
3. Who is the author? What does he write?
Before reading, take stock of the book: read about the author of the book, briefly review the main topic. Thus, you will be able to get yourself ready for the reading. In addition, before reading ask yourself what would you like to know about the book? What problems will it help to resolve? This will help to cling to the subject matter of the book that is useful for you.
There are plenty more fish in the sea than the books. Nowadays, there are a lot of other formats that can be interesting for you: articles, audio books and podcasts, infographics and long-form articles, digests and mailout.
If the book seems to be long and boring to you, it means that it is really boring and long. Switch to the other formats, found your cup of tea.
Never read a book without a pencil. If you cannot make a note or highlight a quote, reading is useless. The book is just a mountain of the verbal minerals, from which you need to extract grains of sense. If you cannot separate the rock from the gold nuggets, then why do you read it? Feel free to underline and highlight, note down your own thoughts and ideas. Turn the book into something more special, more than a stack of hemmed paper. After such a conscious reading, the book becomes truly yours.
All people have their own read rate. Some people prefer reading a book per month or more, sticking to details page by page. Some people run through the whole book in a couple of days. However, there is a simple and universal formula of reading. It helps to read and finish the book to the end before you lose your interest and curiosity.
Try to read at least for one hour a day and at least 30 pages per day. Therefore, you will be able read one book week. It is 60 books a year, what an excellent result!
Everyone has several favorite genres of literature. However, if we delve into detective novels or business books too much, we can get sick of it . Even exciting books may become annoying.
In this case it is useful to change the genre. Mix books like cocktail ingredients. After you have read a non-fiction, take something from English classic literature. Then, discover fiction literature and switch to some psychology book.
The ability to alternate literary genres is a great way to stay erudite and broaden your outlook.
If you read effectively, then you will eventually collect interesting citations, excerpts and thoughts about the stories. This is valuable information, this is what expands horizons. Share this information with other readers or your friends online.
Start your own blog about books and interesting readings. You may write a review on the book you have just read, or share quotations. Publish your reading list, provide own feedbacks on bad publishing companies and advise what to read. It is not necessary to create a personal blog for this purpose, you may even use your Facebook account, because you do not need any special writing skills to share your opinion concerning good books and authors.
Thus, you will have a place to keep good quotes and excerpts, and your friends will be thankful to you and will get a couple more reasons to love you better.
Make it a habit to re-read your book notes. It often happens that you read something interesting and try to remember it, but in several days you may completely forget the information that was so important to you. Making notes helps you to learn information by heart easier and faster. Notes are always at hand. Practice makes perfect. So the key ideas will always be at hand whenever you need it.
If you want to remember what you have read in the book, tell your friends about it.
GetEssayEditor's team members, as well as our professional editors usually give seminars on the most interesting books and news in the field of academic writing and literature. During workshops, employees share information about novelty books and best sellers. You can carry out a reading workshop with your friends and family, it would be very exciting.
Do not hoard books, better read at least 30 pages a day.
Review the first 50 pages book to decide if it is worth reading.
Feel free to try different genres and alternative formats.
Be sure to write out quotes and take notes.
Share your ideas in the blog and make presentations for colleagues and friends.


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package com.microsoft.awt.models

import java.lang.{Boolean => JBoolean}

import scala.scalajs.js
import scala.scalajs.js.annotation.ScalaJSDefined

/**
  * Represents a user model object
  * @author lawrence.daniels@gmail.com
  */
@ScalaJSDefined
class User(var _id: js.UndefOr[String] = js.undefined,
           var username: js.UndefOr[String] = js.undefined,
           var firstName: js.UndefOr[String] = js.undefined,
           var lastName: js.UndefOr[String] = js.undefined,
           var title: js.UndefOr[String] = js.undefined,
           var primaryEmail: js.UndefOr[String] = js.undefined,
           var avatarId: js.UndefOr[String] = js.undefined,
           var avatarURL: js.UndefOr[String] = js.undefined,
           var endorsements: js.UndefOr[Integer] = js.undefined,
           var endorsers: js.UndefOr[js.Array[String]] = js.undefined,
           var totalFollowers: js.UndefOr[Integer] = js.undefined,
           var followers: js.UndefOr[js.Array[String]] = js.undefined,
           var isAdmin: js.UndefOr[JBoolean] = js.undefined,
           var creationTime: js.UndefOr[js.Date] = js.undefined) extends js.Object

/**
  * User Companion Object
  * @author lawrence.daniels@gmail.com
  */
object User {

  /**
    * User Extensions
    * @param user the given [[User user]]
    */
  implicit class UserExtensions(val user: User) extends AnyVal {

    def fullName = Seq(user.firstName.toOption, user.lastName.toOption).flatten.mkString(" ")

  }

}

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Dubuque NAACP
To ensure a society in which all individuals have equal rights without discrimination based on race
Dubuque Branch History
2017 Branch Initiatives
MLK Tribute
Freedom Fund Banquet
Ruby Sutton Award
S.C.O.P.E Award
D.O.M.E. Award
Iowa Disenfranchisement Law Petition
Next Steps for Justice
National NAACP
I AM NAACP
45th NAACP Image Award Winners
NAACP HISTOR: ANTI-LYNCHING BILL
NAACP HISTORY: COSTIGAN WAGNER BILL
NAACP HISTORY: VOTING RIGHTS ACT
NAACP HISTORY: LIFT EV'RY VOICE AND SING
The Dubuque Branch N.A.A.C.P.
The local Branch of the N.A.A.C.P. was chartered in 1989, and the years since then have been busy ones. Ralph Watkins, of the University of Dubuque Theological Seminary, convened the chapter's first unofficial meeting at First Baptist Church in late 1988, and 65-70 people attended this meeting. By the new year, 100 members had been enrolled, so the group could officially be recognized. The Branch began its regular monthly meetings in January 1989 in the basement of St. Mark Community Center. It then moved to Peters Commons on the University of Dubuque campus. The number in the Dubuque branch has been as high as 330 members. Meetings were held on the third Tuesday of each month at 6:00 p.m.
The first N.A.A.C.P. Freedom Fund Banquet was held the following November at Hoffman House, and the guest speaker was Ruth Anderson, persident of the Iowa/Nebraska State Conference. The Freedom Fund Banquet has been held every November since then, with speakers including Rev. C.T. Vivian, Rev. George Clements, Archbishop Daniel Kucera, and Larry Carter of the Des Moines, N.A.A.C.P. The banquet is also the occasion of the Ruby Sutton Award, given to personas who have made special contributions to the work and ideals of the branch in the past.
In 1993, a special award was given posthumously to Hazel O'Neal for her dedication and work in the area of multicultural nonsexist education in the Dubuque Community School District.
Over the years, the N.A.A.C.P. Branch has been actively involved in community affairs. Its Education Committee members have supported efforts in promoting multicultural non-sexist education in Dubuque, and have established the Martin Luther King Jr. Essay Contest as annual event in the Dubuque Schools. Its members supported the initiative of Constructive Integration that led to the establishment of the Dubuque Council for Diversity. Also, the N.A.A.C.P. has worked with the City of Dubuque and the Dubuque Human Rights Commisssion to improve relations between the police and the community to establish procedures for handling cases of discrimination and harassment.
The Dubuque Branch of the NAACP currently meets the Second Wednesday of every month at the Multi-cultural Family Center at 5:30pm.
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Q: Lambda expression - Read db I want to allow user to edit their UserName(that have to be unique) and some other data. However, with the expression I'm using, if you choose to not edit your username, then it wont let you change anything because your current userName already in database.
  if (db.Users.Any(u => u.UserName == user.UserName)) {
     //doing stuff
      return View();
    }

Instead of
"if there is ANY of input.UserName in database",
I would like it to express
"if there is ANY input.UserName(but except input.UserName that belongs to input.Id itself) in database".

A:
if there is ANY input.UserName(but except input.UserName that belongs to input.Id itself) in database

It's simply
b.Users.Any(u => u.UserName == user.UserName && u.Id != user.Id)

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The COPAC Executive Committee approved this week that Sergio Navarro would take on the position of Provisional Chairman of Ocean Racing in Americas.
The initiative came with the intention of separating Canoe Ocean Racing from the Canoe Marathon Committees in the next Congress, which will take place during the 2019 Lima Games.
In this sense and with the need to begin the development of the modality in America, the 2nd vice president of COPAC will be the Provisional Chairman until the process of formation and approval of the mentioned Committee is carried out.
He started in sport in 1984 as a canoeing athlete from the Central University of Venezuela. From 1986 to 1990 he assumed the presidency of the Canomir Club. In 1987 he founded the Venezuelan Federation of Canoeing, also acting as its president from 2002 to 2009 and from 2015 to 2017. He was COPAC's treasurer from 2005 to 2007 and Secretary General of COSURCA and Central American and Caribbean Confederation from 2005 to 2009. He was assistant to the President of the Olympic Committee of Venezuela in the canoe from 2009 to 2017.
He also participated in numerous international congresses, championships and assemblies of the sport.
Navarro currently serves as the 2nd Vice President of COPAC and now also serves as the Provisional Chairman of Ocean Racing in Americas.


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'My greed:' Investor for Elsa Prince Trust sentenced in $16M theft
Updated: Apr. 02, 2019, 10:13 p.m. | Published: Oct. 04, 2016, 3:47 p.m.
Robert Haveman, right, leaves U.S. District Court in Grand Rapids, with attorney, Charles "Chip" Chamberlain Jr., in this file photo.
GRAND RAPIDS, MI - In letter after letter, Robert Haveman, former investor for philanthropist Elsa Prince Broekhuizen and her living trust, was described as a conscientious, trusted and honest man.
He was the one Prince Broekhuizen could trust with her fortune.
On Tuesday, Oct. 4, he struggled to explain how he found himself standing before a judge, waiting to be sentenced for stealing $16 million from Prince Broekhuizen, a close family friend.
U.S. District Judge Robert Holmes Bell, who read 46 pages of letters submitted to the court on Haveman's behalf, understood why Haveman was in such a "very privileged position," he said.
"I can see exactly why you were given so much confidence because you had established ... a high degree of conscientiousness, attitude. You were a man of your word," Bell said.
Then, he said: "I'm puzzled. I am puzzled as to what happened. Where did you come off the rails?"
"Your honor, I've asked that question myself, of myself, many times."
Bell wasn't satisfied with the answer. He told Haveman, 68, that they were of the same generation.
"Something happened," Bell said.
"My greed. I don't know, your honor, I don't know."
Elsa Prince Broekhuizen
Haveman, of West Olive, was sentenced to 31/2 years in federal prison, to be followed by three years on supervised release.
The judge granted a request by defense attorney Charles "Chip" Chamberlain Jr. to sentence Haveman below advisory guidelines, which called for nearly six years in prison.
Bell said he gave considerable thought to the case.
He considered "the life you had lived" before he began his "aberrant behavior" 16 years ago. He also considered that Haveman cooperated with investigators, has paid $5 million in restitution and appears to be very remorseful.
Haveman pleaded guilty to wire fraud and money laundering.
Haveman has admitted that he cost the trust at least $50 million, making risky investments to recover lost funds. The vast majority of those funds would have been donated to charity.
"It's clear this was a breach of confidence and unlawful appropriation of monies," Bell said.
"It's just that this was done within a social context, of a close friendship. This was not an arms-length legal fraud. This was fraud up close. So that's troubling."
The judge said Haveman showed a "lack of respect for order and law. The public needs to understand, in a sentencing context, this is not something that is excused. I can't excuse it."
Haveman will self-surrender to prison at the direction of the U.S. Bureau of Prisons.
Prince Broekhuizen is the widow of Prince Corp. founder Edgar Prince. The late industrialist's Holland-based company was later sold to Johnson Controls Inc.
Prince Brookhuizen is also the mother of Blackwater founder and U.S. Navy Seal Erik Prince, and Republican Party activist Betsy DeVos, who is married to Amway heir Dick DeVos.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Christopher O'Connor said Haveman, with a house on Lake Michigan, could have lived a millionaire's lifestyle without the stolen money.
Haveman invested assets of Prince Broekhuizen and the Elsa D. Prince Living Trust. He was president of EDP Management in downtown Holland.
He owes $11 million in restitution.


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Q: How to encode JSON data in application/x-www-form-urlencoded using Axios? I have to make a post request to an API endpoint and it is required that the body of the request is encoded in application/x-www-form-urlencoded.
Here is what I am currently doing:
  // Request data
  const data = {
    grant_type: "client_credentials",
  };

  // Request configuration
  const config = {
    method: "post",
    url,
    data,
    headers: {
      "Content-Type": "application/x-www-form-urlencoded",
      Authorization:
        "Basic " +
        Buffer.from(clientId + ":" + clientSecret).toString("base64"),
    },
  };

  return axios(config).then(.....

As you can see, I have my data in JSON format, so how can I pass it encoded in application/x-www-form-urlencoded?
Any ideas? Thank you.

A: application/x-www-form-urlencoded means you can:
Send FormData body: axios post request to send form data
Or send data in the url query string: How to post query parameters with Axios?
You can also combine both.
This encoding is often used when JSON encoding doesn't meet the requirements e.g. sending files. You could send a file in a json string but that would be a base64 encoded file as string which increases the size.

A: This:
JSON.stringify(data);

will return
'data = {"grant_type": "client_credentials"}'


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using System;
using System.Linq;
using System.Linq.Expressions;
using System.Reflection;
using System.Runtime.CompilerServices;
using Nimbus.Extensions;

namespace Nimbus.Tests.Common
{
    public static class MethodInfoExtensions
    {
        public static bool IsExtensionMethod(this MethodInfo methodInfo)
        {
            return methodInfo.IsDefined(typeof (ExtensionAttribute), true);
        }

        public static bool IsExtensionMethodFor<T>(this MethodInfo methodInfo)
        {
            if (!methodInfo.IsExtensionMethod()) return false;

            var args = methodInfo.GetParameters();
            if (args.None()) return false;

            var firstArg = args.First();
            return typeof (T).IsAssignableFrom(firstArg.ParameterType);
        }

        public static string MethodName<TType, TResult>(this TType obj, Expression<Func<TType, TResult>> methodExpr)
        {
            return ((MethodCallExpression) methodExpr.Body).Method.Name;
        }

        public static string MethodName<TType, TResult>(Expression<Func<TType, TResult>> methodExpr)
        {
            return ((MethodCallExpression) methodExpr.Body).Method.Name;
        }

        public static string MethodName<T>(this T obj, Expression<Action<T>> methodExpr)
        {
            return ((MethodCallExpression) methodExpr.Body).Method.Name;
        }

        public static string MethodName<T>(Expression<Action<T>> methodExpr)
        {
            return ((MethodCallExpression) methodExpr.Body).Method.Name;
        }
    }
}


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Several animals are nocturnal, meaning they sleep during the day and hunt at the night. When teaching children about nocturnal animals, such as hedgehogs, bats and owls, you can prepare some entertaining activities for them to do. Children can learn about nocturnal animals while having fun at the same time. Awarding small prizes to activity winners will entice the children to play along.
Print pictures of hedgehogs for the children to look at. You can also print coloring pages for them to color with markers and crayons. Give the children clay and have them shape the body of a hedgehog. Older children can use toothpicks to simulate the stiff hairs while younger children can use small stick pretzels. Allow the children to use self-hardening clay to turn the hedgehog into a keepsake. Have a contest to see who can create the best hedgehog and award a small prize to the winner.
Children can creeate edible owl snacks by placing a piece of bologna on a paper plate. Give each child three small triangles of cheese for the beak and ears. Use two round crackers to create the eyes. Add two sliced olives on top of the crackers for additional decoration. Or you can have them draw a picture of an owl on a poster board and tape it to the bottom of a cardboard box. Cut out the mouth and lean the box against a wall. Have the children try to toss beanbags into the owl's mouth. Award a small prize to each child who makes a beanbag in the owl's mouth.
Give each child a paper plate to paint black and a large sheet of black construction paper. Have him trace his hands on the black construction paper and cut them out. Ask the children to tape one hand to each side of the plate to create the bat wings. Give the children paint pens and googly eyes to create the bat's face. For another activity, give the children a large cardboard box, such as an appliance box, to create a bat cave. Help the children cut a door on the bat cave so they can crawl in and out of it. The children can cut small bats out of construction paper to glue inside the bat cave.
Create an animal-themed game by cutting out pictures of nocturnal and diurnal animals. A few nocturnal animals include badgers, boa constrictors, bobcats, lions and raccoons. Diurnal animals include coyotes, golden eagles, vultures and horned lizards. Mix the animal pictures up and have the children sort the nocturnal from the diurnal animals. You can also use the pictures to create a memory game. Place the cards face down on a table. Children have to match two nocturnal or two diurnal animals to have a match. The child with the most pairs at the end of the game wins.


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Scientists get instant access to radar images of Antarctic ice thanks to Forward Observer supercomputer.
With the addition of a new base camp and a new aircraft, NASA's longest-running airborne mission is better equipped to study sea ice and glaciers in the fast-changing region of West Antarctica. And with the support of technology created by Indiana University (IU), the mission is gathering and processing more information than ever.
IceBridge, an airborne mission that monitors changes at the Earth's poles, surveys snow and ice conditions with three types of radar.
For the past nine years, IU and the Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (CReSIS) at the University of Kansas have worked with NASA's Operation IceBridge to collect data about polar ice caps. IU provides IT support for the missions and assists in processing the enormous amounts of data the mission generates, helping improve the models of the physical interactions of glaciers, sea ice, and ice sheets for scientists to study.
Data is gathered using three radar systems located in the plane's belly and wings. Accumulation Radar measures how much snow has accumulated on the surface level; Snow Radar studies the thickness of snow on top of sea ice to help determine the thickness of the ice; and the Multichannel Coherent Radar Depth Sounder (MCoRDS) shoots all the way down to the bedrock to map the terrain below the ice.
The Forward Observer supercomputer captures the data streams and makes multiple copies of the information, providing the scientists with nearly instant access to preliminary images during the flight.
Each flight can result in the collection of up to 5 terabytes of data—the entire season can range from 100 to 350 terabytes. Forward Observer captures the data streams and makes multiple copies of the information, providing the scientists with nearly instant access to preliminary images during the flight.
Previously, the mission gathered data and brought it back to the base to be duplicated and preserved—a process taking up to 18 hours. The use of the Forward Observer not only makes data gathering more efficient, it also eliminates the risk of losing the only existing copy of the collected information.
Wells ensures the safe travel of all the hard drives and servers relating to the mission. "I put the data online for CReSIS so they can download it and begin the transfer from the hard drives to DC-WAN2 (Data Capacitor Wide Area Network 2—a high-speed data facility for accessing and sharing large amounts of data remotely)," Wells said.
Once the data is processed and backed up, it is used to create images of literal slices of the snow, ice, and bedrock for scientists to study.
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P-3 planes are used by the U.S. Navy for submarine hunting, due to their ability to fly slowly at low altitudes. Because of its role in the IceBridge mission, the plane is also equipped with technology to detect fluctuations in the Earth's gravity, as well as infrared cameras and radar systems that might assist in locating the submarine. Sadly, the search and rescue mission was unsuccessful, and the submarine remains missing.
Read the original article on Indiana University's website here.


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Reports of synthetic marijuana poisoning up 229% in 2015
By USAHM-News on June 13, 2015 /
Spice, K2 and other synthetic cannabinoids are marketed as safe, legal alternatives to marijuana, but calls to US poison control centers about users of the chemical products skyrocketed in the first few months of 2015, according to the US government.
Monthly calls related to the adverse effects of synthetic marijuana jumped 330 percent between January and April, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said on Friday. The number of those calls to poison control centers between January and May was also a 229 percent increase over the same time period in 2014, from 1,085 calls to 3,572.
The increased calls due to adverse reactions included 15 deaths between January and May 2015, three times higher than those same months in 2014. In January, a US soldier who was self-monitoring for Ebola died near Fort Hood, Texas. It turned out that his death was due to "synthetic cannabinoid intoxication" from Spice, his autopsy found.
The most commonly reported adverse health effects were agitation at 35.3 percent of calls, tachycardia (29 percent), drowsiness or lethargy (26.3 percent), vomiting (16.4 percent) and confusion (4.2 percent). When medical outcomes were reported for the calls, 335 ‒ or 11.3 percent ‒ had a major adverse effect, meaning signs or symptoms that are life-threatening or result in substantial residual disability or disfigurement. Almost half of callers ‒ 47.5 percent ‒ had moderate effect, while 37 percent had a minor effect, meaning minimally bothersome.
Synthetic cannabinoids are known by a variety of names, such as synthetic marijuana, spice, K2, black mamba and crazy clown, and can be sold legally as herbal products. They are made of various psychoactive chemicals that are sprayed onto plant material, which is then often smoked or ingested to achieve a "high" similar to that of regular marijuana.
"The increasing number of synthetic cannabinoid variants available, higher toxicity of new variants, and the potentially increased use as indicated by calls to poison centers might suggest that synthetic cannabinoids pose an emerging public health threat," CDC epidemiologist Royal Law wrote in the agency's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, which analyzed data tracked by the National Poison Data System.
"Multiple other recent outbreaks suggest a need for greater public health surveillance and awareness, targeted public health messaging, and enhanced efforts to remove these products from the market," Law added.
The Drug Enforcement Agency designated the five active chemicals found in Spice and other such synthetic products as Schedule I controlled substances, making it illegal to sell, buy or possess them.
The problem with regulating or banning the products is that the producers of synthetic marijuana products are continually tweaking their formulas. The herbal mixtures themselves are legal, albeit labeled as "not for human consumption."
"Manufacturers of Spice products attempt to evade these legal restrictions by substituting different chemicals in their mixtures, while the DEA continues to monitor the situation and evaluate the need for updating the list of banned cannabinoids," the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) says in its drug facts on synthetic marijuana.
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Is Star Wars Clone Wars Canon?
By Hrvoje Milakovic / March 12, 2021 November 10, 2022
Star Wars the Clone Wars TV series is one of the most entertaining pieces of the Star Wars media. It further explores the events of the movie which shares the name as well as what happens between it and the following movie. Although the plot seems to blend in seamlessly into the movies and the rest of the Star Wars franchise, fans will know better than to assume. So, the omnipresent question regarding pieces of the Star Wars media, is Star Wars The Clone Wars canon?
Although the question confused the fans since the show's release, it is actually a part of the official canon. Alongside the series, canon also includes additional material made up from unfinished episodes and unreleased content from the series.
If you want to know more about how the whole canon thing works when it comes to this particular series make sure to finish reading this article. This is an extremely interesting part of the Star Wars universe and it ties into the movie cannon nicely and if you want to know how this is the right article for you.
Are the unfinished Clone Wars episodes canon?
Is Star Wars the Clone Wars connected to the movies?
This seems like a simple question to answer. The storyline is the same as the movies, the only difference is that the show further explores the events from the movies.
The story follows the fall of the Republic and the transition into the Galactic Empire. This drastic change is also reflected in the main characters in the series.
We see Anakin question the Jedi and his devotion to them. The questioning eventually leads him to turn to the dark side and completely abandon the Jedi ways.
The same happens with Ahsoka who also questions how much good the Jedi are actually doing in the war and ultimately reaches the conclusion that the Jedi cause as much damage to the Republic as the people they are fighting which is why she leaves the order behind (at least for now).
Yoda and Obi-Wan were confronted with the dark side and the corruption they were surrounded with but unaware of start questioning themselves and the actions they took.
This means that story-wise there are no contradictions to the original source material. Additionally, the show was originally worked on by George Lucas who wanted to incorporate it in the main canon.
The fact that before LucasFilm was bought by Disney the show didn't reference the movies or make any efforts to connect with the rest of the canon should make the series fit in with the rest of the material much smoother.
Another thing that works in favor of the Clone Wars series is the fact that a part of the series was released after Disney acquired the rights for the series, which led the part of the series after that to be created specifically to fit with the existing universe and the upcoming sequel trilogy movies.
Taking all of this into consideration with the addition of the official statement from Disney we come to the conclusion that The Clone Wars series is officially a part of the main canon in the Star Wars Franchise.
This is where the question of belonging to the official question gets a bit more complicated. Although the series was declared official canon, there was a part of it that confused fans a bit.
The series features seven seasons, which are a part of the official canon, but aside from that it also includes two arcs related to the series which were released as separated story reals.
It was unclear for a bit but then the unfinished episodes got declared as canon and one of the arcs was later in production made into what is today season seven of the series.
Since Star Wars The Clone Wars is pretty much in the center of the action and serves as a direct continuation of the second movie from the prequel trilogy, there are a plethora of connections with the movie franchise.
These connections range from certain characters that later show up in the movies, certain plot elements all the way to some additional information on things that get mentioned in the movie franchise but are not further explained in the movies.
One of the most important connections is the time connection. The Clone Wars series serves as a direct sequel for the movie it shares the name with and leads directly into the third movie and the original trilogy.
Ahsoka Tano is one of the most beloved characters that came out of the series. This warranted her various appearances in other Star Wars media, however, she still didn't make her live-action appearance.
Despite not actually seeing her in the movies, we do hear her in the latest addition to the franchise. While Rey is preparing to take on Darth Sidious in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, she hears voices of previous Jedi and one of those voices belongs to Ahsoka.
Another iconic character that makes an appearance in the series is Captain Rex. He is one of the characters from the original trilogy who can be seen during the Battle of Endor.
Originally he was a part of the clone army, however, he did not kill a single Jedi after the troopers were ordered to carry out order 66. After switching sides he joined the Rebel Alliance and fought on the side of resistance.
Darth Maul is one of the characters from the prequels which most people wanted to see more of and the series delivers on this demand precisely.
We see him after being killed during his Battle with Obi-Wan. The series revives him, gives him robotic limbs to replace the ones he lost, and sets him on a journey that carries over into Star Wars: Rebels.
Since the series deals with the events of the clone wars it is only natural that Order 66 is a part of it. In the movies, we see it being executed on the order of Emperor Palpatine, however, the series shows us that it was a crucial part of the clone training and even delves into the clones' opinion on the order and their reasonings for the opinions they hold.
Another thing that we briefly see in the movies and that gets further explained in the series is what happened to Obi-Wan. We find out how he became Ben Kenobi and what exactly he did while he was hiding from the Empire.
Some things which were mentioned in the movie series but get further explained in the Clone Wars series are some of the most interesting parts of the series.
We first get introduced to the Force bond which is extremely important in the sequel trilogy since it establishes the relationship between Rea and Ben. While Yoda suffers from his immense knowledge of the dark side, he suggests that the thoughts and the mental burden were caused by the Force bond with Count Dooku who is feeding him these thoughts.
The exploration of interesting elements from the movie franchise is one episode dedicated to explaining the mechanics of the Kyber crystals. The episode explains in great detail how and what are they used, which fills in nicely with the already provided information which suggests they were used to create lightsabers and the Death Star.
Since the movies feature a proportionally bigger number of Jedi we don't get a lot of information regarding the Sith order and their origins. The show was a great way to explore this topic a bit more.
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Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu (4 november 1933 – 26 november 2011) was een Nigeriaans en Biafraans staatsman. Van 1967 tot 1970 was Ojukwu president van de Republiek Biafra.

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Chukwuemeka Ojukwu behoort tot de Igbo bevolkingsgroep en was de zoon van een Nigeriaanse miljonair. Hij studeerde aan Kings College van Lagos en nam deel aan de studentenrevolte van 1944. Wegens het slaan van een leraar werd hij door de rechtbank veroordeeld tot een korte gevangenisstraf. Na zijn vrijlating voltooide hij zijn middelbare opleiding en wilde, tegen de zin van zijn vader, het leger in. Zijn vader en gouverneur John Macpherson van Nigeria wisten hem hier enige tijd van te weerhouden. Ojukwu ging naar Oxford waar hij geschiedenis studeerde. Nadat hij zijn studie had voltooid werd hij alsnog militair. Hij bereikte uiteindelijk de rang van luitenant-kolonel van het Nigeriaanse leger.

President van Biafra
Na de staatsgreep van januari 1966 (waarbij premier Abubakar Tafawa Balewa door een Igbo-luitenant was vermoord) ontstonden er ernstige conflicten tussen de in Oost-Nigeria wonende christelijke en animistische Igbo's en de in Noord-Nigeria wonende islamitische Hausa's en Fulanis (Balewa kwam uit het noorden). Na slachtpartijen over en weer, vond er genocide plaats op de Igbo's. Luitenant-kolonel Ojukwu werd in november 1966 aangesteld als gouverneur van Oost-Nigeria en koos de zijde van de Igbo's, tot welke stam hijzelf ook behoorde. In januari 1967 vond in Ghana overleg plaats tussen gouverneur Ojukwu, de gouverneurs van de andere deelstaten en het Nigeriaanse staatshoofd kolonel Yakubu Gowon. Deze gesprekken liepen vast en Ojukwu besloot na overleg met Ibo-stamhoofden de onafhankelijke republiek Biafra uit te roepen (30 mei 1967). Ojukwu aanvaardde daarna het presidentschap.

De federale regering van Nigeria ontving steun van de Sovjet-Unie, Tsjecho-Slowakije, de Verenigde Staten, het Verenigd Koninkrijk en de meeste Afrikaanse staten. Biafra stond er alleen voor. In 1968 werd Biafra door een aantal landen (w.o. Gabon, Haïti en Tanzania) diplomatiek erkend. Vanaf 1968 ontving Biafra op bescheiden schaal wapens van Frankrijk en West-Duitsland.
Grote delen van Biafra werden al snel door het Nigeriaanse leger heroverd, maar het Biafraans leger hield stand tot in 1970.

Op 8 januari 1970 trad Ojukwu af. Zijn opvolger, kolonel Philip Effiong, capituleerde op 12 januari ten overstaan van de Nigeriaanse generale staf.

Presidentskandidaat Nigeriaanse presidentsverkiezingen
Tot 1980 leefde Ojukwu in ballingschap. In 1980 kreeg hij van president Abaharidkaie Haji Shehu Shagari toestemming om naar Nigeria terug te keren. Ojukwu sloot zich toen aan bij Ojukwu's National Party of Nigeria (NPN, Nationale Partij van Nigeria). In 1983 was hij kandidaat tijdens de verkiezingen voor de Nigeriaanse Senaat en in 2003 was hij presidentskandidaat voor de All Progressives Grand Alliance. Bij beide verkiezingen werd hij niet gekozen. Hij was van mening dat president Olusegun Obasanjo tijdens de verkiezingen van 2003 verkiezingsfraude had gepleegd, maar legde zich uiteindelijk toch bij de verkiezingsuitslag neer. In 2007 was hij nogmaals presidentskandidaat.

Zie ook
Philip Effiong

Nigeriaans politicus

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Hockey Chat: As hockey players we've seen that not every great play leads to a great goal. And for goalie's a near perfect save percentage for their team might still wind up as a loss for the night. Efforts are not always reward in those moments of great plays but great players come back to give their best again and again knowing that they will win.
Life Lesson: There are many ways that we can do great things for God through a Christian act of kindness. The instant reaction to those actions may not be that great. Maybe you felt an act of kindness was overlooked or maybe you tried sharing your faith and the other person balked at it. Always remember that the purpose is not just for the moment and you may not immediately receive acclamation for your actions. But know that your Heavenly Father sees your efforts and is proud of his child and in his time he will give you your great reward.


Because that seems like a lie… non-living matter is still exsisting matter. All living things like plants, animals, insects, birds, microorganisms, etc. For example, ducklings have a lot of growing to do to catch up in size to their mother. Multicellular organisms like ducks grow by increasing the size and number of their cells. The resins are insoluble in water but soluble in alcohol and turpentine. There is no single undisputed definition that offers a hallmark of life. Students should do this independently, however, if some are struggling, open it up to a group work session after about 3-4 minutes.
Pens showing no traits of a living thing, making them non-living Non-Living things — As the name suggests, they are not alive and are not active unless programmed to be so. There are many answers a human mind cannot imagine about. Non-living things have no responses. There are tissues, organs, organ systems which work as an integrated unit No organisation Growth They show growth No growth Movement They show movement or locomotion No movement Nutrition Need food for energy Need no food Respiration All living organism respire. Characteristic 1 - Made of 1 or more cells - is the most important takeaway for students to meet the objective of this lesson. Plants do not have mouths, so instead of eating like we do, they absorb water and other minerals that they need from the soil.
There are about twenty known amino acids. The average cell may have 20-40 chloroplasts. Living things can move from one place to another, on their own, except plants. Various floral parts are differentiated as osmophors and they assume the form of flaps, cilia or brushes. Students now watch a second video that alternates images of living and nonliving things. Well-known examples are eucalyptus oil and the oil from orange peel. How do plants absorb the water and minerals? Because organisms are living, another characteristic they possess is that they will also die.
That changes the list we made to explain why dogs and people should be considered living things. Living things are composed of units called cells, which functions in something that possesses life. A plant is composed of cells, because it grows. The gums are soluble in water and insoluble in alcohol. Various kinds of varnish and other resins are obtained by the same method from other conifers. Have you ever played with a puzzle? When you think of examples of organisms, you might only think of plants and animals.
They are either found in individual cells or in special organs, called the tannin sacs. The rubber particles suspended in latex vary in size and shape. This energy is derived from various metabolic processes within the cell. It is relatively permeable and may allow large molecules of protein. Unlike non-living things, they excrete unwanted materials and show adaptations to their environmental conditions. The most notable exceptions: wood is made of dead cells, and most of household dust is made up of dead cells, as are wool, leather, hair, and so on.
Viruses are responsible for some of the most dangerous and deadly diseases including influenza, ebola, rabies and smallpox. Example Organization Highly organized No such organization Conciousness They sense things and react to external stimulus. Organisms have means for receiving information, such as eyes, ears, and taste buds. Some examples of non-living things are stones, paper, electronic goods, books, buildings, and automobiles. There is no such thing like life span. In order to obtain energy, glucose is combine with oxygen in cells. Trees and flowers definitely grow, but do they eat food? They are the derivatives of phenol and usually related to glucosides.
For example, to burn the food you eat, you take in oxygen and release carbon dioxide gas as a waste product. Amino-acids are peculiar in that they have both basic and acid properties. In shape, cystoliths vary greatly in different genera and families. I bet that question was too easy for you. They are insoluble in water but soluble in ether, chloroform and petroleum. Which are fast acting and have better intelligence than us. For example, polar bears would not survive very well in the Sahara Desert, but their thick fur allows them to thrive in cold, polar regions.
Tissues then form organs, which form organ systems. The well known mounting fluid, Canada balsam is a resinous product of Abies balsamea. But what about the skin cells which are non-living cells. In sugarcane and sugarbeet sucrose is found as reserve food. Within the protoplast, tannins are a common ingredient of the vacuoles. This animation is an important tool to emphasize that cells are much too small to see with the naked eye.


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LIBRARY GETTING COSTLY
SETH BORENSTEIN, Staff Writer Staff Writers Marjorie Valbrun and Kathleen Kernicky contributed to this reportSUN-SENTINEL
One book has Pompano Beach commissioners wondering whether they should keep the more than 100,000 volumes the city already owns.
The book that bothers city commissioners is the proposed budget, which calls for a 61 percent tax hike. So a majority of commissioners are talking about giving the city's independent library to the county, to save $1.46 million.
Of the 28 cities in Broward County, five have their own libraries and two of them -- Pompano Beach and Oakland Park -- have recently looked at transferring their libraries to the county. Oakland Park found other budget areas to cut and will keep its library.
The other three cities -- Plantation, Wilton Manors and Lighthouse Point -- are keeping their libraries.
In Pompano Beach, acting City Manager Danny Crew's proposed budget would increase city spending from $70.5 million to $86.8 million. The library would cost $1.46 million next year.
On the first day of budget meetings, Pompano Beach Vice Mayor Herb Skolnick put the library on the hot seat.
"I'm going to ask that we move the library to the county system and save a million-and-a-half bucks," Skolnick said. The issue will come up in meetings this week or next.
Elizabeth Johnson, acting chairwoman of the library advisory board, said the city cannot save that much money because of charges to join the county library's computer system.
"They won't be able to cut the whole $1.4 million," Johnson said on Sunday.
Last March, the city's library advisory board presented a study about joining the county's system, recommending against it. Joining the county system would cost the city a one-time fee of $350,000 to hook up to the computer system, the advisory board report said.
But Skolnick said even if the entire $1.4 million is not saved in one year, it would be saved in future years.
Johnson said the issue is a matter of local control.
"Why do they want to keep the police department local instead of countywide?" Johnson said. "It'd be the same idea: the close personal touch of keeping it local."
Mayor E. Pat Larkins said he would consider transferring the library to the county. Commissioner Michael Gomes said if the residents supported the idea, and if the services were equal to or better than what the city provides, he would go along with a transfer.
However, Gomes said the city should not cut out its library system during budget sessions. He said it is something that must be planned and negotiated with the county.
Commissioners Nate Braverman and S. Randy Kester Jr. and acting City Manager Crew said transferring the library would be a mistake.
"I believe in a full-service city," Kester said. "I think three or four years down the road, we would regret it."
Braverman and Crew said they think the transfer probably will happen anyway.
"The library idea, there's no question it's going to come," Braverman said. "This is saving money on the cheap: $1 million real fast."
It depends on how the residents react, Gomes said.
"If the people want to pay extra for the distinction of having their own library system, I can accept it," Gomes said.
In Oakland Park, officials recently announced that they might have to turn their library over to the county or face an 11.73 percent tax increase.
Hundreds of residents, some wearing pins that said, "We do more than keep the books at Your library," came to a City Council meeting to support the higher taxes. They said they would rather pay than lose a library that is a source of city pride.
City Council members decided to keep the library and go ahead with the tax increase.
Wilton Manors has not considered giving up its library, Mayor Tracy Stafford said.
"The city-owned and -operated library has been important to our residents," Stafford said. "They have been willing to pay additional taxes."


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Anyone else disappointed that Wind isn't part of the group anymore?
Along with some nasty looking mobs comes a new 20-player raid called Infernal Dawn. Players will fight the dragons Maelforge and Laethys, along with their stronger followers in the middle of a volcano.
It seems that any battle that involves hot lava is usually pretty important.
Two new tradeskills will also be added for fishing and survival, along with new leaderboards and a guild finder tool. Last on the list is a teleporter to Ember Isle for questing. The leaderboards should come in handy for the competitive players, but a guild finder tool always seems to rub me the wrong way.
What updates are you most looking forward to in the patch?


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using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Threading.Tasks;
using NUnit.Framework;

namespace NSim.Tests
{
    [TestFixture]
    public class Renege1
    {
        private SimContext _context;
        private SimpleResource _counter;
        private double _timeInBank = 12;
        private int _minPatience = 5;
        private int _maxPatience = 5;

        [Test]
        public void A()
        {
            _context = new SimContext();
            _counter = new SimpleResource(2);
            _context.Process(CustomerGenerator(2, 100));

            for (int i = 0; i < 30; i++)
            {
                _context.Step();
            }

            //todo
        }

        private IEnumerable<IEvent> CustomerGenerator(double everySeconds, int total)
        {
            for (int i = 0;i<total; i++)
            {
                yield return new Timeout(_context.Random.Exponential(1/everySeconds).Seconds());
                Trace.WriteLine("Generated customer " + i + " at " + _context.Now);
                _context.Process(Customer(i));
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        }

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                {
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Cedars-Sinai Research: Century-Old Vaccine May Be Useful Against COVID-19 Coronavirus
TOPICS:Cedars-Sinai Medical CenterCOVID-19Infectious DiseasesPublic HealthVaccine
By Cedars-Sinai Medical Center November 24, 2020
TB Vaccine Linked to Lower Risk of Contracting COVID-19
A widely used tuberculosis vaccine is associated with reduced likelihood of contracting COVID-19 (coronavirus), according to a new study by Cedars-Sinai. The findings raise the possibility that a vaccine already approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration may help prevent coronavirus infections or reduce severity of the disease.
The vaccine, known as Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG), was developed between1908 and 1921 and is administered to more than 100 million children around the world every year. In the U.S., it is FDA-approved as a drug to treat bladder cancer and as a vaccine for people at high risk of contracting TB. The BCG vaccine is currently being tested in multiple clinical trials worldwide for effectiveness against COVID-19.
In the new study, published online on November 19, 2020, in The Journal of Clinical Investigation, investigators tested the blood of more than 6,000 healthcare workers in the Cedars-Sinai Health System for evidence of antibodies to SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, and also asked them about their medical and vaccination histories.
They found that workers who had received BCG vaccinations in the past-nearly 30% of those studied-were significantly less likely to test positive for SARS-CoV-2 antibodies in their blood or to report having had infections with coronavirus or coronavirus-associated symptoms over the prior six months than those who had not received BCG. These effects were not related to whether workers had received meningococcal, pneumococcal or influenza vaccinations.
The reasons for the lower SARS-CoV-2 antibody levels in the BCG group were not clear, according to Moshe Arditi, MD, director of the Pediatric and Infectious Diseases and Immunology Division at Cedars-Sinai and co-senior author of the study.
"It appears that BCG-vaccinated individuals either may have been less sick and therefore produced fewer anti-SARS-CoV-2 antibodies, or they may have mounted a more efficient cellular immune response against the virus," said Arditi, professor of Pediatrics and Biomedical Sciences. "We were interested in studying the BCG vaccine because it has long been known to have a general protective effect against a range of bacterial and viral diseases other than TB, including neonatal sepsis and respiratory infections."
In the new study, the lower antibody levels in the BCG group persisted despite the fact that these individuals had higher frequencies of hypertension, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases and COPD, which are known risk factors for being more susceptible to SARS-CoV-2 and developing the more severe forms of COVID-19 illness.
While noting that no one believes BCG will be more effective than a specific vaccine for COVID-19, Arditi explained that it could be more quickly approved and made available, given that it has a strong safety profile demonstrated by many years of use. "It is a potentially important bridge that could offer some benefit until we have the most effective and safe COVID19 vaccines made widely available," he said.
"Given our findings, we believe that large, randomized clinical trials are urgently needed to confirm whether BCG vaccination can induce a protective effect against SARS-CoV2 infection," said Susan Cheng, MD, MPH, MMSc, associate professor of Cardiology and director of Public Health Research at the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai. She was the other co-senior author of the study. The first author was Magali Noval Rivas, PhD, assistant professor of Pediatrics at Cedars-Sinai.
In fact, a number of randomized clinical trials have been launched to study the potential protective effects of BCG vaccination against COVID-19. Along with Texas A&M University, Baylor College of Medicine, and the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Cedars Sinai is a site for the U.S. arm of this ongoing trial, which is recruiting hundreds of healthcare workers. Arditi serves as the principal investigator of this clinical trial at Cedars-Sinai.
"It would it be wonderful if one of the oldest vaccines that we have could help defeat the world's newest pandemic," Arditi said.
Reference: "BCG vaccination history associates with decreased SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence across a diverse cohort of healthcare workers" by Magali Noval Rivas, Joseph E. Ebinger, Min Wu, Nancy Sun, Jonathan Braun, Kimia Sobhani, Jennifer E. Van Eyk, Susan Cheng and Moshe Arditi, 19 November 2020, The Journal of Clinical Investigation.
DOI: 10.1172/JCI145157
Funding: Research reported in this publication was supported by Cedars Sinai, the National Cancer Institute of the National Institutes of Health under award number U54 CA26059 and the Erika J. Glazer Family Foundation.
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2 Comments on "Cedars-Sinai Research: Century-Old Vaccine May Be Useful Against COVID-19 Coronavirus"
Art Kocsis | November 25, 2020 at 8:15 am | Reply
Is this rampart bureaucracy at work or what?
• The BCG vaccine is safe
• The BCG vaccine is probably inexpensive since it has been out of patent for > 100 years
• The BCG vaccine has shown some efficacy ("significantly less likely" some numbers should have been reported)
• A lot of people will contract Covid-19 within the next six months
• It is unlikely that a Covid-19 specific vaccine will be widely available within six months
• Off label usage is quite common and accepted
• BCG supplies and distribution infrastructure is already in place
Given these facts (and assumptions about cost and distribution), why not promote widespread inoculation with BCG?
There is a short window of opportunity here. To wait for "large, randomized clinical trials" of BCG that won't be complete for over six months seems stupid and asinine. By the time a BCG study is complete Covid-19 specific vaccines with 90+% efficacy should be widely available and the use of BCG irrelevant. But during this window, assuming BCG does in fact have some efficacy, needless suffering and deaths could be prevented by widespread use of BCG. If it turns out that BCG did not have significant efficacy nothing much would have been lost. In other words, to quote an off used phrase: "It couldn't hurt". In either case, it would accomplish the goal of a clinical BCG efficacy study.
S.J.Green, PhD | December 9, 2020 at 3:40 am | Reply
BCG likely protects against Covid by triggering the production of anti-viral nitric oxide… https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19/86410


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Moody's, Israel's Team8 to create cyber risk index for businesses
Tova Cohen, Ari Rabinovitch
* Index to assess businesses' vulnerability to cyber attacks
* Hopes to create global benchmark
* Seen as a crucial tool for M&As, cyber insurance
By Tova Cohen and Ari Rabinovitch
TEL AVIV, June 27 (Reuters) - Ratings agency Moody's Corp and Israeli cyber group Team8 launched on Thursday a joint venture to assess how vulnerable businesses are to cyber attacks and create what they hope will become a global benchmark.
Cyber attacks are in focus after a virus from Ukraine spread around the globe in 2017, crippling thousands of computers, disrupting ports from Los Angeles to Mumbai and even halting production at a chocolate factory in Australia.
Similar to the way that banks can check their stability with a stress-test, Moody's and Team8 are developing a framework to measure companies' defenses and preparedness for such attacks in comparison to other businesses and over time.
The service will be a tool for companies engaging in mergers and acquisitions or when purchasing cyber insurance policies, said Derek Vadala, chief executive of the joint venture who most recently served as head of Moody's cyber risk group.
They did not disclose financial details.
"Companies doing business with each other are spending more and more resources on understanding what is the risk associated with doing business with third parties and fourth parties," Team8 CEO Nadav Zafrir told Reuters on the sidelines of a Tel Aviv University cyber conference.
"We believe that not only is that already slowing down the economy, but that we are going to see this slant continuing to deteriorate," Zafrir, an ex-commander of Israel's elite 8200 military intelligence unit, added.
The new company will be based in New York and in Israel and will initially have a dozen employees, but they expect it to grow to hundreds in coming years.
A creator of cyber defense startups, Team8 is backed financially by Moody's and other major companies like Microsoft , Airbus and Qualcomm.
Companies are well aware of growing cyber threats, and total spending on information security products and services is expected to reach $124 billion in 2019, according to a report from advisory company Gartner which estimated spending surpassing $114 billion in 2018.
A coordinated global cyber attack, spread through malicious email, could cause economic damages of between $85 billion and $193 billion, one hypothetical scenario developed as a stress test for risk management showed.
In this scenario, claims paid by the insurance sector are estimated at $10 billion-$27 billion, the report produced by insurance market Lloyd's of London and Aon said.
Vadala said the company was building its model and expects to have beta customers in a year. The idea is to engage thousands of companies so the index becomes the global standard, he said. (Reporting by Tova Cohen; editing by Emelia Sithole-Matarise)


Philippe Coutinho says he doesn't intend to leave Barcelona this summer which is a blow to the clubs interested in bringing him back to the Premier League .
Brazil international Coutinho developed into one of the Premier League's most exciting and influential players when he joined Liverpool in 2013.
After spending five years at Anfield, Coutinho scored over 54 goals in 204 league appearances for the Reds before Barcelona paid an initial £105m to bring him to the Nou Camp report the Metro .
Coutinho has already won a number of trophies at Barcelona but his performances have come under scrutiny and reports suggested he was considering a return to England.
Manchester United and Chelsea are both believed to be monitoring his situation in Spain but Coutinho says his head is 'exclusively in Barcelona'.
"My head is exclusively in Barcelona. Returning to England now does not fit into my plans,' he told the Sunday Mirror .
Coutinho will return to England on Wednesday evening as Barcelona travel to Old Trafford for the first leg of their Champions League quarter-final clash against Manchester United.
And the former Liverpool man expects to be subjected to a hostile reception at the Theatre of Dreams.
"If they boo myself and Luis Suarez then that's normal at Old Trafford because of the team we used to play for. But it won't make any difference to me" he said.