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Increasing the Ability to Track Data Requests from Internal and External Partners
Impact Statement:
The health department improved the process for tracking data requests from internal and external partners. The interventions made the staff more aware of the tracking process and offered education on the use of the Access database. The results included greater use and an increased number of staff using the tracking database, and the better tracking of these requests allows managers to see who is using our data and how much time is spent filling requests. Ideally, tracking can reduce workload for analysts by avoiding duplication of effort.
Organization that conducted the QI initiative:
Jones, K. Public Health Quality Improvement Exchange. Increasing the Ability to Track Data Requests from Internal and External Partners. Wed, 06/03/2015 - 15:25. Available at http://phqix.org/content/increasing-ability-track-data-requests-internal-and-external-partners. Accessed January 20, 2021.
Background and Aim
Aim statement:
The Health Surveillance division of the Vermont Department of Health will increase the number of requests entered in the request log, increase the number of analysts using the request log system, and improve data quality in the request log by reducing the percentage of records with "other" selected from drop-down menus by December 1, 2014.
Need For The QI Initiative:
Analysts and leadership in the Health Surveillance division recognize the potential of the data request tracking system. However, the consensus is that few people use it, and even fewer use it consistently. Because the benefits of the tracking system include potentially reducing workload for analysts and potentially noticing trends in frequently requested data and topics, it was decided that a quality improvement (QI) initiative could begin to examine what changes should be made to the system.
Area for Improvement:
Analysts in the Health Surveillance division spend much of their time filling data requests for internal and external partners. Tracking these requests allows managers to see who is using the data and how much time is spent filling requests. Ideally, tracking can reduce workload for analysts by avoiding duplication of effort. However, use of the current tracking system for requests is not consistent; not all analysts use the system, and those who do may not always remember to use it.
Root Cause:
Root causes included a lack of awareness and accountability, as well as a perceived need for the project.
Planning and Execution Details
QI Implementation:
A group of request tracking system users met and brainstormed possible changes that could be made to the current system. Many ideas were too broad, but the group decided to include two ideas for change. These changes would be easy to make and measure results for, and one would potentially have a high impact. The group decided that one analyst would send an e-mail to staff to remind them to use the request log or, in the case of newer staff who may have been unaware of the log's existence, to introduce them to the log. The people affected by this initiative include data analysts in the Health Surveillance division because they are the primary intended users of this tracking system.
Focus activities
Data collection and management/Information Technology
Policies / internal procedures and processes
QI Methods:
PDCA/PDSA Cycle (Plan, Do, Check/Study, Act)
QI Tools:
Other QI tools:
Impact effort plot
QI Tool Documentation:
AIM Project Meeting.docx
Initiative Dates:
Initiative Duration:
Between 6-12 months
Methods of evaluation:
A pre-test/post-test was used as the method for evaluating the initiative. The request tracking system resides in a Microsoft Access database. The group determined that the system could easily be queried to measure the items that were focused on for improvement. The idea was to see how many analysts were using the system and how many requests were entered in a time period before the change action, measure the same items for a period after the change action, and calculate the percentage of "other" responses before and after taking a change action.
Supplemental Materials:
Sample of materials produced
Supplemental Files:
AIM Storyboard_HSURV.pdf 156.85 KB
AIM_HSURV_Emailtoanalysts.pdf 10.3 KB
Measurable QI Outcomes:
Simple frequencies and rates were used to measure the outcomes. The rate of requests being entered rose from 1.3 per week to 2.0 per week after the e-mail reminder was sent. Eleven analysts used the log after the reminder, including seven new users who had not entered any requests during the baseline (before the change period).
Other QI Outcomes:
The e-mail reminder appeared to have a positive impact on request log use among the analysts. The Health Surveillance division director recognized this, and as a result, a follow-up QI initiative has been planned.
Lessons Learned, Observations and Insights:
The e-mail reminder appeared to have a positive effect on request log use among the analysts. Periodic reminders would likely be helpful in sustaining increased participation in request tracking. Changes need to be made to the drop-down menus to determine whether a reduction in the percentage of "other" being chosen from drop-down menus occurs. Feedback from analysts regarding what topic areas and data sources were included in "other" selections should help add meaningful categories to the drop-down choices. It will also be important to define and gather more meaningful data from the system to help better manage analyst work and reduce time spent on frequent data requests.
Improvement of the request tracking system now aligns with goal 3.1.1 of the Health Surveillance Strategic Plan to "revise the system for tracking and streamlining requests for data." To maintain the gains, ideas for continuing this work were discussed, and a new group has been put together to undertake the follow-up QI initiative.
Training and Preparation
Technical Assistance Received:
Team leads received assistance from the health department's performance improvement manager (PIM). The PIM provided help with choosing a project, defining who the clients were, and creating the storyboard.
QI Related Training Received:
The lead and co-lead attended in-person trainings for the Agency Improvement Model (AIM, described as follows). Each lead attended two trainings, each of which lasted roughly 2–4 hours. The AIM is a simple, straightforward approach to identifying changes that will benefit the customer (internal staff or external customers) and to engaging staff on a change team to plan and measure incremental change. It is similar to Plan, Do, Study, Act (PDSA) cycles and the Network for the Improvement of Addiction Treatment (NIATx) model. The AIM is being used to identify and manage improvements related to Healthy Vermonters 2020 and State Health Improvement Plan (SHIP) priorities. The AIM engages staff by • including staff directly involved with the work; • using a structured methodology to recommend and implement changes; • being data driven, so staff know whether a change demonstrates an improvement; and • being customer focused, so staff know that the change serves customers. This model uses the central components found in most process improvement models, such as the PDSA cycles. The objective is to keep the approach simple and easy to use and to demonstrate results quickly, thus facilitating continued and expanded use in different divisions. Bringing together process improvement efforts in this configuration was developed by NIATx and was originally for use with organizations serving individuals with addictions, but the model is transferable and has been adopted in a wide variety of settings (Vermont Department of Health, 2013). Vermont Department of Health. (2013). State Health Improvement Plan: 2013–2017. Retrieved from http://healthvermont.gov/hv2020/documents/ship_full.pdf
Information about the Community
Population Size:
500,000 to 999,999
Population Characteristics:
The health department serves all Vermonters, which is slightly more than 625,000 people, according to the 2010 U.S. Census. • Of Vermont residents, 20% were younger than 18 years old, 64% were 18–64 years old, and 16% were 65 years old or older (2013). • Of Vermont residents, 6% were a racial or ethnic minority (2013). • Of Vermont residents, 5% spoke a language other than English at home (among those 5 years old or older) (2012).
Information about the Health Department
Local/State Relationship:
State Health Department Governance:
Under a Larger Agency (Super Agency/Umbrella Agency)
PHAB Accreditation Status:
Annual QI Initiative Frequency:
11-20 Initiatives
QI activity level:
Formal Agency Wide QI
State Health Department
QI Staff Information
Total number of Staff on QI Team:
Total number of FTEs on QI Team:
QI team members:
Role in the Initiative:
Co-lead
Role in Organization:
Public Health Analyst
FTE:
Katie Jones
Mike Nyland-Funke
Vitals Unit Chief
Program Tech
Accreditation Details
PHAB Standards:
Domain 1: Conduct and disseminate assessments focused on population health status and public health issues facing the community›Standard 1.2 Collect and Maintain Reliable, Comparable, and Valid Data That Provide Information on Conditions of Public Health Importance and On the Health Status of the Population›Measure 1.2.4 S Provide reports of primary and secondary data to Tribal and local health departments located in the state
Domain 1: Conduct and disseminate assessments focused on population health status and public health issues facing the community›Standard 1.3 Analyze Public Health Data to Identify Trends in Health Problems, Environmental Public Health Hazards, and Social and Economic Factors That Affect the Public's Health›Measure 1.3.2 L Provide public health data to the community in the form of reports on a variety of public health issues, at least annually
Domain 9: Evaluate and continuously improve health department processes, programs, and interventions›Standard 9.2 Develop and Implement Quality Improvement Processes Integrated Into Organizational Practice, Programs, Processes, and Interventions›Measure 9.2.2 A Implement quality improvement activities
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Legendary singer explains how searching through YouTube led to a new duet with Lucinda Williams.
By Corbin Reiff
In 2013, Boz Scaggs ventured into Tennessee to make a new record, his first in five years. The appropriately titled Memphis drew inspiration from the city's rich history of soul and R&B, and when it was time to make a follow-up, he decided to reunite the same group of players across the state in Nashville. The result, A Fool to Care, is one of the most eclectic albums of his long career. Reinvigorating smoky blues numbers, sultry jazz tracks, uptempo Latin rhythms and down-home country barn-burners, Scaggs has put together a wide-ranging document of the history of roots music in America.
Just after its release, the singer called Rolling Stone to talk about the LP's Bonnie Raitt and Lucinda Williams duets, searching YouTube for inspiration and studio memories of old collaborator Duane Allman.
What was it about the Memphis team that made you want to bring them back for another record?
I have worked with these guys off and on for a number of years, and the chemistry of this section is just magic, really. It's phenomenal to the point that I feel that we can do just about any material that we put in front of the section. The style of it is unique and very much suits my approach. The musicians have no idea until they come to the studio that day, but they don't have to know. We have a lot of years and a lot of music in each of our pasts, and it all comes together in a unique way.
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It seems like you used that musical flexibility to its fullest here. Was there a common thread or theme you were looking for when you selected this material?
Not really. The only common thread that runs through the whole process was the rhythm section; the engineer who we used from the previous album in Memphis, Nico Bolas; and the search for interesting material. We considered hundreds of songs in this process, but we found that each of these selections to be extremely interesting. They're vehicles to take us where we want to go. They're vehicles for my voice. They should be of some interest to music people. They come from interesting places and each is unique. That's the only criteria.
The song "Whispering Pines" is a classic by the Band, but what made you envision it as a duet with Lucinda Williams?
I had been searching for the heart of that song for some time. You get into the Band's original recording of it and there's some disparate chords being played, and I think those guys were sort of feeling their way around harmonically. It led me to try and find my own definitive version of those chord changes, and I searched around the web to see if other people had done it and how they had heard it. I didn't hear any version of it that seemed definitive to me, but I did run across a tribute to Levon Helm after he died and Lucinda gave it a reading that was deeper and richer than anybody else had given it. She shares the same fascination for Richard Manuel and the eerie quality and the mysterious quality of that song.
The song "Hell to Pay" is the only song you wrote yourself. What's the story behind that one? It's about as country as a country song can get.
I keep little bits of music around like some people keep little bits of paper. I found this little guitar groove among these little selectables, and I just fleshed it out. I had the idea for the title in mind for some time, and I had made some notes and had written some verses and as we were looking for certain cornerstones for this record I decided to finish this one out. Once I sort of scratched out some lyrics and we had a rhythm track, we sent it to Bonnie and she liked it a lot and agreed to play some guitar and sing with me. It makes it a very special record to me – I haven't done many duets and to have ones with both Bonnie and Lucinda meant a lot to the project and to me.
Were you friends with Bonnie Raitt before you asked her to appear on this track?
I've known Bonnie around for many years. We both live in the San Francisco Bay Area and we have crisscrossed on the road a number of times, but I was a bit hesitant to call her. She gets a lot of calls from all over the place and I thought, "Ugh, she probably doesn't need another phone call from anybody. I know she's making a record of her own." So I hesitated to get in touch with her on my own, but [drummer Steve] Jordan had a rapport with her and went around me and called her direct.
Is the Ray Parker Jr. who plays guitar on this record the Ray Parker Jr. of Ghostbusters fame?
Yes. And I'll put it this way: He left high school when he was 16 to play with Stevie Wonder in Detroit. He's one of the finest studio players out there and has been for decades, as well as being a star in his own right.
You've been returning to the South for inspiration at least since your second self-titled album. What do you remember about working on that record down in Muscle Shoals with Duane Allman?
Duane's part in that record is enormous. He was a powerful presence at those sessions. He had actually left Muscle Shoals and had left session work about six months before he came back to record that album, so his coming back was something of a reunion with those players. He was a very much loved and respected guy, and his presence gave a particular spark. He had been in New York and California and was something of journeyman at the time, and he was a little more worldly than those Muscle Shoals guys. I think he gave it a reading and a little direction that contemporized that recording. I'm not taking anything away from any of the musicians and the people who contributed to that record when I say that, but Duane really lit up the spirit of that record, as evidenced by time itself. It stands pretty solidly as a piece of work for me and for my style – certainly the song "Loan Me a Dime," which Duane is greatly remembered for.

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MADRID - FRIEDEN OHNE GRENZEN > ARCHIVIO > ANTWERPEN 2014 PEACE IS THE FUTURE > CULTURES AND RELIGIONS IN DIALOGUE
7 September 2014 17:00 | Stadsschouwburg
Cultures and religions in dialogue
Shawki Ibrahim Abdel-Karim Allam
Gran Muftì della Repubblica Araba d'Egitto
I greet you with the greeting of Islam which is peace. May the peace and the blessings of God be with you all!
First allow me to express my heartfelt thanks and deep appreciation for this generous invitation and for affording me the opportunity to meet with you all to discuss how our shared religious traditions and values can enhance world peace. I really hope the event proves to be informative and pragmatic for serving humanity at large.
Islam established a moral and humanistic civilization that encompassed a plurality of religions, philosophies and civilizations which contributed immensely to the Muslim civilization. We see ourselves as a people who have absorbed a multiplicity of civilizations; we have been exposed to and assimilated the great civilizations of the Persians, Indians, Chinese, and Greeks into our cultural and intellectual life, and we benefited from all of them as well as contributing to them. Islamic civilization places people and worshippers above places of worship. This humanitarian and cosmopolitan worldview does not allow us to consider ourselves as superior to other people. We are proud of our civilization, but we do not reject other civilizations, rather all who work towards the constructive development in the world should be considered as our partners.
Dialogue is a responsibility that accrues to Muslims by virtue of the nature of their religion. What we have learnt about Islam has been taken from the clear, pristine, and scholarly understanding of the great university of Al Azhar and not from the self-claimed who have attempted to paint a distorted image of Islam as an isolationist faith. Muslims believe that Islam is indeed an open worldview which never seeks to erect barriers between Muslims and others. Rather, Muslims must approach the other with open hearts intent on trying to clarify matters, and not to attack every person who offers objections, for this latter detracts from the purpose of dialogue and understanding.
Muslims must be driven by the principle of conviviality, living together in harmony, and enhancing world peace.
When Muslims turn to the Qur'an and the example of the Prophet, therefore, they will find that dialogue – and not competition – is what is required of them. Dialogue is a process of exploration, and coming to know the other, as much as it is an example of clarifying one's own positions. Therefore, when one dialogues with others, what is desired is to explore their ways of thinking, so as to correct misconceptions in our own minds and arrive at common ground. This common ground is the desideratum of all dialogue, and lays the groundwork for mutual cooperation based on the principles of "faith in God" and "good relations with neighbors."
The key imperative of an interfaith or intercultural dialogue is to build trust between people. As I have argued previously in many forums, the quest for understanding and trust that underlies any dialogue is a process that requires equal and equally willing partners on both sides. The world is in dire need of forums which facilitate genuine dialogue in a shrinking world – a dialogue that stems from the recognition of identities and specificities; a dialogue that remains respectful and does not seek to inflame hostilities or dominate the other; a dialogue that is itself based upon a respect for religious plurality and cultural diversity; a dialogue that does not turn into a one-sided conversation. Dialogue from my perspective is thus not about trying to defeat others, but about understanding and learning about them. As the Qur'an states, God has created us into nations and tribes so that we may learn about each other (Al-Hujurat:13).
One of the problems faced by religious communities today is the issue of authority. In both Islam and other religions we are witnessing a phenomenon in which laypeople without a sound foundation in religious learning have attempted to set themselves up as religious authorities, even though they lack the scholarly qualifications for making valid interpretations of religious law and morality. It is this eccentric and rebellious attitude towards religion that opens the way for extremist interpretations of Islam that have no basis in reality.
Furthermore, and this is very important, is that none of these extremists have been educated in Islam in genuine centers of Islamic learning. They are, rather, products of troubled environments and have subscribed to distorted and misguided interpretations of Islam that have no basis in traditional Islamic doctrine. Their aim is purely political and has no religious foundation. It is to create havoc and chaos in the world.
Our role as religious leaders who have spent our lives carefully studying religious exegesis is to re-establish authority with those who are in true possession of knowledge. I have, through my present position, set out to publish an authoritative picture of Islam which, I hope will give the world a better understanding of and empathy for Islam and the Muslim world and help us all to live together in peace, tranquility, and mutual cooperation.
Some commentators from the non-Muslim world have taken the actions of a small but highly visible and disruptive minority of people within the Muslim world to represent the beliefs of the majority of Muslims, claiming that Islam has been a violent religion from the beginning. This view has unfortunately been reinforced through the presentation of Islam in much of the mass media.
The source of and alleged justification for much of the extremism and political violence across the Muslim world and beyond cannot and should never be attributed to religious values and beliefs but rather to a complex of factors. We need to understand this complicated situation in order to eradicate this menace which is affecting the entire world. Let me be clear by reiterating that Islam is utterly against extremism and terrorism but unless we understand the factors that provide a rationalization for terrorism and extremism we will never be able to eradicate this scourge. This must be understood in order to build a better future that can bring an end to this grave situation that is destroying the world.
It is noteworthy to mention the initiative of the custodian of the two Holy Mosques King Abdullah Bin Abdel Aziz to establish a center under the umbrella of the UN for combating terrorism. We welcomed this initiative and we are pleased for put our scholarly expertise for the success of this important initiative.
Building a world of the sort I imagine requires the participation of leaders of all communities – both religious and otherwise – to express their faith and trust in their Muslim counterparts. There will be no progress until we work together, in faith and trust. There is no more powerful a weapon against all sorts extremism than correct education.
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New brain reading computer lets paralysed patients communicate by thought
By Matthew Griffin Enhanced Humans and Biotech 2nd March 2017
Many people take the ability to communicate for granted, but millions of people aren't as fortunate, but new computing systems are breaking down the walls.
Those crazy researchers at Stanford University have done it again – not content building virtual reality avatars with three arms to improve productivity, or disrupting cloud computing using Blockchain, they've built a new Brain Machine Interface (BMI) that allows paralyzed people to type with their brains ten times faster than before. And if you're paralysed that's a huge deal, although hopefully one day soon those people could see their paralysis reversed, but that's another story…
This rookie used brainwaves to control a plane flying around the skies of Seattle
For their study, they worked with three participants who had severe limb weakness, two because they had ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, and one who had a spinal cord injury. All three participants had electrode arrays embedded in their brains to record signals from the motor cortex, which controls muscle movement and then a cable transmitted their brain signals to a computer, where they were translated by algorithms into point-and-click commands that prompted a cursor to move over letters. In short, participants were able to move the cursor by imagining their own hand movements.
While it took training – these things don't come naturally, just ask the rookie who flew a plane around Seattle using just his brain – some of the participants were able to "type" at 39 characters, or around 8 words a minute proving that BMI's have the potential to enhance communication among people with impaired movement. And it should be noted that these typing rates were achieved without the use of automatic word completion which would obviously speed the process up.
"The performance is really exciting. We're achieving communication rates that many people with arm and hand paralysis would find useful. That's a critical step for making devices that could be suitable for real-world use," said Chethan Pandarinath, one of the researchers involved in the project.
Over the past year there have been huge strides made helping disabled people communicate in ways they'd never imagined possible – recently, for example, researchers at the Wyss Center in Geneva, Switzerland developed a new BMI system that helped people with locked-in syndrome communicate for the very first time.
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In the US alone, millions of people suffer from paralysis, or other debilitating conditions like ALS and this new point and click approach is life changing, but the technology doesn't stop there and we're even beginning to see researchers try to use BMI to help the paralysed walk again.
With some modifications, the Stanford team believes its new system could be applied to other devices, including smartphones or tablets.
"We're approaching half of what, for example, I could probably type on a cell phone," said neurosurgeon and co-senior author Jaimie Henderson, "this study reports the highest speed and accuracy, by a factor of three, over what's been shown before."
In the future, the team hopes to refine the technology so that it becomes wireless, fully implanted, and self-calibrating, so it can be there 24/7. Now all we have to do is fix those pesky auto-complete sisters, er… systems.
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During a meeting last week with the Commonwealth Secretary General Patricia Scotland, President Lungu noted that the effects of climate change need urgent attention. Changing rainfalls and irregular weather patterns have become a frequent occurrence in Zambia, which has had distressing effects on food security and livelihoods.
His comments came just days after many African delegates met in Addis Ababa for the Convention on Biological Diversity's Regional Consultation on the Post-2020 Framework to discuss the future of nature on the continent and the impact that rapid bio-diversity loss is going to have on food, water and income sources if more action is not taken.
Just as Baroness Scotland told State House that the Commonwealth is open to joining hands with countries in finding a permanent solution to the effects of climate change, so too should the Commonwealth and African continent join hands to halt bio-diversity loss, as the two are inextricably linked.
In Africa by 2050 we are set to lose 50% of all bird and mammal populations and see a 20-30% decline in the productivity of Africa's lakes. In addition, an estimated 500,000 square kilometres of African land has been degraded by overexploitation of natural resources, erosion, salinsation and pollution.
This rapid loss of biodiversity and our extreme vulnerability to the impacts of climate change will have severe consequences for economically marginalised populations, unless we act now.
Many African leaders continue to fail to realise that across Africa bio-diversity is linked directly with climate change. The impact of its decline will be just as dramatic on the livelihoods, health, and food and water sources of our citizens.
Bio-diversity loss will directly impact a number of key economic sectors in Zambia; most notably agriculture and tourism. Indeed, many noted during the Convention on Biological Diversity's Regional Consultation on the Post-2020 Framework in Addis Ababa that in order to combat climate change and biodiversity loss we need to look closely at expanding our protected areas.
More than just preserving species, protected areas can also offer a sustainable source of income and employment for many Zambians.
Zambia has already taken admirable steps towards this, Bangweulu in Zambia is a unique, community owned protected wetland, home to 50,000 people who retain the right to sustainably harvest its natural resources and who depend entirely on the richness the park provides. Fish stocks have significantly improved, poaching has been reduced, bird populations are up, and Bangweulu Wetlands is the largest employer in the region. If other African governments follow these examples and take bold action to protect nature, there is a real chance of achieving a new international agreement to halt biodiversity loss, reverse climate change and improving out resilience to changing weather patterns.
There are a number of recommendations for how much land and sea we should be looking to protect globally, and the Campaign for Nature's call for 30% by 2030 has been garnering significant support on the African continent, Zambia now has an opportunity to show real leadership by joining the campaign.
Just as President Lungu has recognised the need to tackle climate change head on, he should extend this bold leadership to bio-diversity loss and with the Ministry of Tourism, Environment and Natural Resources encourage expanding protected areas both here in Zambia and across the continent.
Salomie Kisenge is a leading African environmental campaigner.


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In the 1970s, Andrew Grove heard a guy naming his biotech company "GMO" (Greater Good Genome Corporation). By the mid-1980s, he was introducing the term "intellectual property" into Silicon Valley. Early Silicon Valley icon…
In the 1970s, Andrew Grove heard a guy naming his biotech company "GMO" (Greater Good Genome Corporation). By the mid-1980s, he was introducing the term "intellectual property" into Silicon Valley.
Early Silicon Valley icon Jay Last has died in Palo Alto, California. He was 92.
Last spoke much about the early days of Silicon Valley – when he and some colleagues would form "Clubs of Men" to facilitate their networking and advice – and about the injustices and conflicts that dogged the Silicon Valley in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
"The people who were less than successful were not properly rewarded. But when it was their turn, it turned out they were not being properly rewarded, either," he told Axios in 2017.
Last noted that universities pushed students to use "professional terminology" – because without the expertise they could not graduate. "But" he added, "that would be politics… here are the real benefits, which are economics."
Last might have credited the stock market with "making" him, but the genesis of his enterprises came from the start-up scene. In the mid-1970s, he and fellow entrepreneurs – including Ellen Kullman and Bob Noyce, then CEOs of DuPont and Intel, respectively – joined forces to found Silicon Valley Laboratories.
They call it "the first true start-up". It was run out of a building in Palo Alto (Noyce had built it into a palatial folly in his backyard, much to Last's dismay – but as The Atlantic described in 2015, "the spat was legendary in Silicon Valley").
The sizzle came when "the founders successfully persuaded the public-health bureaucracy that taking their DNA, just from their heads, could be a useful diagnostic device", by attaching it to an antenna that allowed them to draw generalizations about "biomarkers" – diversity, cholesterol, artery constriction, and levels of organic compounds known as metabolites.
That "went through FDA and everyone thought it was a great idea," Last once recounted to Bloomberg, for which he wrote a feature article on the nascent biotechnology sector in the mid-1980s. "The FDA people at one point reached back into the past and asked 'Who can compare?' The stuff that saved people's lives was from back in the 1500s."
The biological breakthrough didn't occur in Last's back yard, but at University of California at San Francisco, which housed an entire department of genetics. "The university was tremendously important in inventing this new field that would manifest itself – genomics – in the late 1960s."
The team had a title. They called themselves the "heros", he told Axios. "The reason is you're no longer going to make money making mugs."
There was a small sugar-cane farm that they bought in Georgia to produce protein polymers. And there was a start-up – Abraxis BioScience – to bring in revenue from the development of drugs.
Last named the company after himself – with a "C" – because no one knew what it meant.
He and his associates wanted to avoid a controversy, he said. As an industry, they were "sort of raping the victims to hold onto the things that could add to the value, but not necessarily the ones that were going to be in their bloodstreams".
About Monsanto – whose brachial plexus misreadings were instrumental in the birth of the modern biotech industry – he would say, "nobody should ever take his eye off the ball".
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Q: How to vectorize a random walk simulation in MATLAB I am rewriting a Monte Carlo simulation model in MATLAB with an emphasis on readability. The model involves many particles, represented as (x,y,z), following a random walk over a small set of states with certain termination probabilities. The information relevant for output is the number of particles that terminate in a given state.
The simulation requires enough particles that running it for each particle individually is cost prohibitive. Vectorization seems to be the way to get performance out of MATLAB, but is there any idiomatic way of creating a vectorized version of this simulation in MATLAB?
I'm beating my head against the wall to accomplish this - I've even tried creating a (nStates x nParticles) matrix representing each particle-state combination, but this approach quickly spirals out of control in terms of readability since particles bounce from state to state independently of one another. Should I just bite the bullet and switch to a language more suitable for this?

A: Just write the code as you normally would.  Almost all matlab functions can accept and return vectorized input.  For instance, to simulate a brownian motion of N particles in 1 dimension
position = zeros([N 1]); %start at origin
sigma = sqrt(D * dt); %D is diffusion coefficient, dt is time step
for j = 1:numSteps
    position = position + sigma*randn(size(position));
end

if you wanted to have a different sigma for each position, you would make sigma a vector the same size as position and use "dot times" notation to indicate element by element operation
position = position + sigma.*randn(size(position));

if the scattering was an arbitrary function of position and some random element, you would just have to write a vectorized function, e.g.
function newstep = step(position)
%diffusion in a overdamped harmonic potential
newstep = -dt*k*position + D*randn(size(position));

for j = 1:numsteps; position = position + step(position);

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If you're looking to add a unique twist to your holiday baking this year, you are going to love new Nestlé® Toll House® DelightFulls™ Filled Baking Morsels! Because chocolate and mint is a classic holiday flavor combination, and one of my all-time favorite flavor duos, I decide to use the mint DelightFulls Filled Baking Morsels to create these decadent Chocolate Mint Mousse Brownies.
These heavenly mint chocolate bars feature a dense, gooey brownie topped with a light mint mousse and a layer of chocolate ganache. Chopped mint DelightFulls Filled Baking Morsels are sprinkled on top for some added color and even more mint flavor.
These brownies will definitely be the talk of your next holiday party or gathering. You can bet they didn't last long at my house!
I admit, my family and I sampled our fair share of Nestlé Toll House DelightFulls during the baking process, and we all agreed that they're pretty terrific straight out of the bag.
I loved the mint and caramel varieties, my kids were huge fans of the peanut butter and chocolate combination, and my husband, whose favorite holiday treat is chocolate covered cherries, was partial to the cherry filled variety.
Of course, during the holiday season there are so many reasons to bake, and DelightFulls Filled Baking Morsels are the perfect size for adding to so many holiday goodies, including your favorite brownies, bars, cookies, cakes and cheesecakes.
I'm planning to bake up all four varieties in both classic and chocolate cookie dough, but the possibilities are endless! To see what I mean, check out all of the Nestlé Toll House DelightFulls recipes at the Very Best Baking website.
I think these brownies would be pretty fantastic with any of the DelightFulls Filled Baking Morsels. The mousse is pretty great as a stand alone dessert too, and you could easily create a peanut butter or cherry version by switching up the baking chips you use.
I chopped some of the chips I used for garnish, just to highlight the contrasting colors inside, but you could leave them whole if you prefer.
Whatever you choose to make, new Nestlé Toll House DelightFulls are sure to add a fun and tasty twist to your baking endeavors this holiday season!
In a large bowl, combine flour, cocoa, and salt.
Add butter mixture to flour mixture and stir until well blended. Spread brownie batter into prepared pan and bake for 25-30 minutes. Cool completely.
Meanwhile, make the mousse by heating marshmallows, DelightFulls Mint Filled Baking Morsels and milk in a medium saucepan over medium-low heat, stirring often until completely smooth. Cool completely.
With an electric mixer, beat whipping cream until stiff peaks form. Stir in cooled chocolate mixture.
Spread mousse evenly over cooled brownies. Refrigerate until set.
To prepare ganache, place 6 ounces Nestlé Toll House Semi-Sweet Chocolate Morsels in a medium bowl.
Heat 1/2 cup cream in medium saucepan until just simmering. Pour over chocolate chips and let stand for a few minutes. Whisk until smooth and shiny.
Let ganache stand until it is cool but still spreadable.
Coarsely chop 1/2 cup of the Nestlé Toll House DelightFulls Mint Filled Baking Morsels. Spread the cooled ganache carefully over the mint mousse layer.
Sprinkle both the whole and the chopped mint morsels evenly over the ganache, pressing into the ganache slightly.
Refrigerate brownies for at least 30 minutes, or until ready to serve. Keep leftover brownies in the refrigerator.


Benner Memorial Hall and its grounds date back to the 1940s. For decades, Benner Hall was a beacon of community spirit, abuzz with activity. But all things change with time.
Now, playground equipment sits rusty and worn. Wooden posts supporting shade structures are slowly eroding. Weeds grow through cracks in the tennis courts.
The Richlandtown Parks and Rec Board has decided that enough is enough. With plans to renovate the playground and park within the next few years, the Board has already raised $243,000 and has been energetically tracking its progress on kaboom.org.
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Q: Getting Application Context in Different Package I have to access the Context in different package. The thing which I am achieving is that I want to save a Integer value in Preferences and want to get the value in different package. Is there any way to achieve this? Actually, there is an asynchronous method which is being used in different package, and I want to do some processing before call come back to my package? How can I achieve this?

A: getApplicationContext() will return you the context in application level. If you want to get the context is Activity level just use "ActivityName.this" or if its in fragment use getActivity()


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William John Billy Bell (born 1904 date of death unknown) was an English professional football left winger. He was born in Backworth. Bell began his career with Chopwell Institute later moving to Blyth Spartans. In 1923 he had an unsuccessful trial with Aston Villa and the following year joined Lincoln City. He scored 3 times in 20 league games for Lincoln before joining non-league Mansfield Town.
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Trafalgar Park is a sports ground located beside the Central Business District of Nelson, in New Zealand's South Island. The stadium has a capacity of 18,000, following upgrades completed for the 2011 Rugby World Cup. It takes its name from its location on Trafalgar Street.

History
Trafalgar Park had its origins in early 1885 when a group of locals formed the Nelson Athletic Ground Company, with the intention of constructing a sports ground "as good as those already formed on the same principle in Christchurch and Dunedin". By its first annual meeting in June 1885, the company had purchased about 15 acres of land on the northern edge of the town between Trafalgar Street and the mouth of the Maitai River. The land was a mud flat, above the high tide line but subject to flooding under exceptional tides. The annual meeting voted to name the ground "Trafalgar Park".

The ground was formally opened on 21 April 1888, when a rugby match was played by local teams on a surface marred only by "an inconvenient number of stones". The first cricket match at the ground took place on 22 December 1888 between two teams of local players. From then on, Trafalgar Park remained Nelson's main cricket ground until the late 1990s, when it was superseded by Saxton Oval.

Status and current use
The park is one of the two home grounds for ITM Cup rugby team, the Tasman Mako. The other is Lansdowne Park, Blenheim.

The park is also the venue for matches in other sporting codes, and hosted the final of the 1978 Chatham Cup, a premier knock-out New Zealand football competition. A cycle track with a length of approximately 540 metres runs around the perimeter of the field and is used primarily for competition track cycling.

Due to the closing of other sports facilities as a result of the February 2011 Christchurch earthquake, Trafalgar Park hosted three Crusaders Super Rugby home games in March 2011. Trafalgar Park hosted three games in the 2011 Rugby World Cup in September 2011, with matches between Italy, Russia, USA and Australia being played. Dean Franklet has been a consistent contributor to the maintenance of Trafalgar Park.

International matches
Trafalgar Park hosted three 2011 Rugby World Cup Pool C matches. The first two involved Italy winning those matches. The first was a 53 - 17 win over Russia on September 20, 2011 and the other was a 27 - 10 win over United States on September 27, 2011. The third match was between Australia and Russia on October 1, 2011 with Australia easily winning 68 - 22.

On September 8, 2018, Trafalgar Park hosted its first All Blacks test match when New Zealand played Argentina. The All Blacks won 46-24. The match was a sell-out, with more than 21,000 people attending.

Cricket

Trafalgar Park was used by Central Districts as one of its home grounds between 1953 and 1997. Nelson used it as its main home ground between 1888 and 1999. Since then Saxton Oval has been the main cricket ground in Nelson.

References

External links
History of Trafalgar Park
Trafalgar Park, Nelson at CricketArchive

1888 establishments in New Zealand
Sport in Nelson, New Zealand
Rugby union stadiums in New Zealand
Cricket grounds in New Zealand
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Abstract: We study the effect of the minimum wage on the employment outcomes and Social Security claiming of older US workers from 1983 to 2016. The probability of work at or near the minimum wage increases substantially near retirement, and previous researchers and policies suggest that older workers may be particularly vulnerable to any disemployment effects of the minimum wage. We find no evidence that the minimum wage causes earlier retirements. Instead, our estimates suggest that higher minimum wages increase earnings and may have small positive effects on the labor supply of workers in the key ages of 62 to 70. Consistent with increased earnings and delayed retirement, higher minimum wages decrease the number of Social Security beneficiaries and amount of benefits disbursed. The minimum wage appears to increase financial resources for workers near retirement.


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Sarah Chayes makes a very important point
As C.I.'s been noting for the past two weeks, Sarah Chayes is an expert on Afghanistan. I haven't seen her on any TV programs or heard her on NPR. I'm sure she has many insights to share on Afghanistan.
I checked her Twitter feed and did find something to share (it's not on Afghanistan):
She reTweeted Sandeep Vaheesan:
Saying RBG supports the antitrust status quo does not somehow validate it because RBG has mostly advanced neoliberalism as a justice and judge. Plus, appeals to authority are lame.
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This is a deep and disturbing reality about
@Scotus
. While people are sweating every 5-4 vote and the letter behind every nominee's name, we are missing the unanimity on behalf of large corporations and their superrich executives.
A very important point.
Monday, August 16, 2021. War Hawks are dismayed over Afghanistan (they're suddenly concerned about bloodshed, aren't they?), Iraq remains a disaster and October elections remain iffy.
On Afghanistan, Glenn Greenwald offers these Tweets:
Both Trump and Biden were adamant about withdrawing all US troops from Afghanistan, and both were right. That country doesn't belong to the US and the US can't run it forever. But the idea that problems with withdrawal plans belongs to anyone but Biden is preposterous.
1:35 PM · Aug 15, 2021
The US Government and Pentagon leadership lied for years about the progress being made in fortifying the Afghan Security Forces. The USG always lies to its citizenry systematically about its wars. It's vital to remember that at the start.
I don't see how the US could have left without a Taliban takeover. "The Taliban" were always the Afghan people. There was no way to eradicate them as had been promised & *claimed* going back to Bush. But if you are someone who thinks the withdrawal plan was bad, that's Biden.
Send Liz Cheney and Jonah Goldberg and the rest of the bloodthirsty neocon monsters and their kids to go fight for Kandahar and Kabul. The US military is a machine built to defend and destroy, not save and transform other people's countries. Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya.
From *July* - just 6 weeks ago. Watch how US leaders say anything, no matter how false:
Things to note. Should Joe elect to pull some troops from Iraq, Afghanistan will be tossed out as an example of why not to.
Afhgnistan is seeing a huge shift right now. And?
That shift would have happened in 2004 or 2009 or 2012 or 2015 or 2026. That's what's most likely going to happen in Iraq as well. You'll see the installed government propped up by the US fall. It's not a real government. It doesn't serve the Iraqi people. You want to keep it in place? You better keep US troops on Iraqi soil forever. And pray there's no revolution like what happened in Iran when the US-installed Shah was overthrown in 1979.
The lesson should not be, "Oh, we should have kept US troops in Afghanistan longer!!!!" The lesson should be that new governments that are imposed on a people -- and that are corrupt -- have no real roots in that society. That should be the lesson.
A little context would go a long way.
So when a liar like Morgan Ortagus shows up and she just wants to inform you, understand, that Ryan Crocker is upset with Joe Biden and blah blah blah.
F**k Morgan. She's a damn liar. Ryan Crocker has been upset with Joe Biden since 2008 -- probaby before then. But anyone who caught The David Petraeus and Ryan Crocker Comedy Hour in April of 2008 -- and we caught -- and covered here -- every Congressional appearance that week -- is fully aware that Ryan Crocker has nothing kind to say about Joe Biden and never has had anything kind to say about him.
Ryan now wants you to know he has doubts about Joe's abilities as commander-in-chief.
Gee, Ry, maybe the time to express that was before the election or during the primary -- if you really wanted to make a difference that is and not just bitch uselessly. Robert Gates made it clear. You didn't. There's nothing that would happen differently if the US pulled some troops out of Afghanistan in 2027. Get honest.
I also don't see the shock over how quickly this happened, how quickly the Taliban took over. They were never vanquished. The government presented as an alternative to them was highly corrupt. Did no one listen once to Sarah Chayes when she warned repeatedly what was taking place in the country.
Those expressing shock and surprise over the events -- whether it's neocons or Ryan Crocker -- are just demonstrating that for all their pretense to be realists and the grown ups in the room, they are incredibly immature and stunted.
We've said the US needs to pull all troops out of Iraq immediately and we've noted the US propped government will probably fall when that happens.
That's reality.
And your alternative is to use US tax dollars and US lives to prop up a government that's being imposed and is not popular, one that will fail the minute US troops leave.
Some are saying that this is a bad time for Afghanistan. The world -- and history -- are full of bad times. This is an opportunity that can be taken to make a new Afghanistan. Will that happen? I have no idea but, more to the point, that's really not up to me -- not up to what I want. I don't live there. It's time for the people of Afghanistan to attempt to make their country what they want. Maybe that's the Taliban. Maybe that's something opposed to the Taliban or instead of the Taliban.
But its the future and it's their history to chart.
Self-determination -- a concept we're all supposed to believe in.
Afghanistan doesn't really matter to those clucking right now. I hope people grasp that but they may not. It's all for show. Iraq's the bigger prize and the one the war mongers want to continue to hold onto. (The Taliban back in charge? Oh, guess that means things are more likely for that pipeline that had Bill Clinton making nice with them back in the 90s. Or are we all going to look the other way now that Gore Vidal's dead and unable to speak those plain truths?)
There's no turning back on Afghanistan. Even liars like Morgan and Ryan know that. The US is not going to stand for a grand invasion of Afghanistan.
This chatter is about Iraq. About making the argument why this can't happen in oil rich Iraq, in Iraq that neighbors US government enemy Iran, the country that is of strategic importance.
Of Iraq, we have said all along that when US troops are removed, peace will not happen. It will be a lively -- and most likely bloody -- scramble as people move for control. But it's up to the Iraqi people to respond to that, it's up to the Iraqi people to shape their world.
And they can't do that when US forces are used to prop up a corrupt government that does not represent the people.
Ryan's fabled judgment has always been questionable. And I wouldn't be surprised -- if his carping takes hold -- if the White House doesn't start speaking to the press -- on background, of course -- about Ryan's longterm and well known drinking problem that he was never smart enough to seek treatment for even after his drunk driving arrest. Sorry, that wasn't kind. I should have said "after his first drunk driving arrest." There. I feel better. Don't you?
In other words, Morgan, you'll probably need to find someone else to hide behind to make your current attacks on Joe Biden.
I have many problems with Joe Biden as president. His making a move to reduce the US troop presence in Afghanistan is not one of them.
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Many young Iraqis in Baghdad make an effort to be hip, even as they admit their country may have no future.
In Baghdad "there are very few places for young people" to go, and they feel stifled by "conservative" Iraqi society. People still keep boys and girls apart.
'We'd like to have a bit of support. It would be nice if Iraqi television did a report on us', they say.
As for the coronavirus, like 95 percent of Iraq's 40 million people, isn't vaccinated. The number of daily infections is running at around 10,000.
What about politics?
Young people hate this subject. Especially for those who joined the unprecedented October 2019 uprising against corruption and mismanagement.
- Vote? No way -
At least 70 activists have been targeted for murder or kidnapping by unidentified groups. The activists believe these are Shiite militias financed by and linked to Iran.
Feel free to look away, many people do look away from reality. But that's what life is in Iraq. Pretend it's different if you can't face the truth. It's hard for some to face reality. They lost someone in the war or they can't admit that they were a damn stupid fool for trusting a politician -- be it Bully Boy Bush or Barack Obama -- so they rush to grasp the fairy tale that somehow life was better for the Iraqis (or the Afghans) . It's not reality but it does help many slumber . . . in dangerous stupidity.
Face reality, even all this time later. You'll be like Bette Davis already having killed Joan Crawford in WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE? but at least, on the beach, as she's dying, you can say, "You mean all of this time we could have been friends?"
We certainly could have been something more than occupier and occupied.
Dilan Sirwan (RUDAW) reports:
Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi on Saturday called on displaced Christians to return to Iraq, and while Christian religious figures consider it as an "honest and sincere" gesture, some have told Rudaw that Christians need more to be able to return home.
Kadhimi met on Saturday with the Cardinal Mar Louis Raphael Sako, the head of the Chaldean Catholic Church, and an accompanying delegation of bishops across Iraq and the globe.
"The Prime Minister called on Christian immigrants and from the rest of the Iraqi sects to return to Iraq, the country of all, stressing that full support will be provided to facilitate this return and stability," read a statement from his office.
Kadhimi's call comes as only a few hundred thousand Christians are left in the country. Following the US-led invasion of 2003, sectarian warfare prompted followers of Iraq's multiple Christian denominations to flee, and attacks by the Islamic State (ISIS) in 2014 hit minority communities especially hard. According to data from Erbil's Chaldean Archbishop Bashar Warda, there were more than one million Christians in Iraq before 2003. Fewer than 300,000 remain today.
Many Christians displaced to the Kurdistan Region had previously told Rudaw English that the best option for them is to leave the country.
Iraqi Christians, please come back. Mustafa won't protect you -- he doesn't protect the protesters -- but you can be targets. Remember the infamous attack on Our Lady of Salvation? That was a massacre. Mustafa wouldn't be able to prevent that. Thug Nouri al-Maliki couldn't prevent it, so weak Mustafa has no hope of preventing it. It's what dispersed the Christian population from Baghdad, remember?
And things are not better in Iraq.
So either Mustafa wants some fresh targets for the militias he can't control or he's just willing to say anything to make himself look better in the hopes of getting a second term as prime minister.
Mustafa Shilani (KURDISTAN 24) serves up some more reality:
Iraq has ranked extremely poorly in an annual index published in the Global Youth Development Report 2020.
It was published by The Commonwealth, an intergovernmental association "of 54 countries working towards shared goals of prosperity, democracy, and peace," supported "by a network of more than 80 organizations."
The new report ranks 181 different nations around the world according to significant developments in youth education, employment, health, equality and integration, peace and security, and political and civic participation. Primary indicators also included literacy and the right to vote, among 1.8 billion people around the world between the ages of 15 and 29.
Overall, Iraq ranked 168th in the global index of 181 nations, scoring at the lowest level in youth development, along with several other nations that have faced conflict and large numbers of displacement over recent years.
That's the reality for the Iraqi people. Do not, for one minute, think they look in awe on the man the US has imposed on them as prime minister. Do not think, for one minute, that this awful and ongoing war has improved their lives.
Let's note this:
The High Independent Electoral Commission in Iraq has announced the presence of 130 international observers in all of Iraq, to monitor the electoral process and provide support and technical advice to the commission.
The Commission added in a statement today, Sunday, and was quoted by media premises, which the Electoral Assistance Office of the United Nations Mission in Iraq (UNAMI) is working to complete preparations and preparations related to monitoring the electoral process.
The statement also made it clear that the mission's work duties were expanded to include monitoring the election process, as well as providing technical support and advice to the commission.
Oh, is that what's going to happen -- going to? Has the crystal ball been pulled out or maybe runes cast? Because we've repeatedly said that they're supposed to be held and they're expected to be held and we've repeatedly noted that this may not happen and that a number of obstacles are not being addressed.
Farhad Alaaldin (RUDAW) reports:
The election date of October 10 is fast approaching, yet political parties have not started any actual electioneering and are not spending their budgets, which fuels speculation about a possible postponement.
Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi, together with the president and speaker of parliament called for a meeting with political parties, the Independent High Electoral Commission, and the United Nations Mission in Iraq (UNAMI) on August 7, 2021 to talk about the elections. The prime minister's advisor for election affairs, Hussein al-Hindawi, said in a press statement that "the attendees confirmed their commitment to holding elections on October 10."
A source who participated in the meeting confirmed that the boycott of some parties was discussed and they decided to send a delegation representing the political parties to meet with the Sadrist movement and urge it to reverse its decision to not participate in the vote.
Elections for the sake of elections
When protesters took to the streets in October 2019, they demanded a change of government and an overhaul of the entire political system. On October 28, 2019, Sadrist movement leader Muqtada al-Sadr called for early elections saying then prime minister "Adil Abdul-Mahdi must come under the dome of parliament to announce early elections, under international supervision."
Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani supported this call in his Friday sermon on December 20, 2019: "The people are the source of the authorities, and from them, they derive their legitimacy – as stipulated by the constitution – and accordingly, the nearest and safest way to get out of the current crisis and avoid going to the unknown, chaos or the internal fighting – God forbid – is to return to the people by holding early elections."
His call was for elections as "the closest and safest way to get out of the crisis." The crisis at that time had reached its peak amid an escalation of demonstrators' fervour, suppressed by the government using excessive force, which led to Abdul-Mahdi's resignation, which in turn led to significant complications in the political scene. However, those days are over and the crises of that time no longer exist. The demonstrations have ended and the hypothesis of internal conflict is no longer present. So we must ask: Why hold elections in spite of boycotts from those who called for the early vote and what is the purpose of the election?
More worrisome to me? A friend with the United Nations tells me that the basic steps required for the elections are still not being taken. This is mundane work of ballots being printed, of voter rolls, ect.
Does no one remember the 2010 parliamenatary elections in Iraq? They took place in March of 2010. They weren't supposed to take part in March. They weren't supposed to take place in 2010. They didn't take place, as they were supposed to, in 2009 and that was due to a number of issues which did include th einability to ensure the basic steps ahead of the election were taken. It also included ther refugee issue and a vice president nixing the election law. That could happen again. And there's been no real effort, to address refugee voting (or, for that matter, the displaced).
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Like most of the teens in his village, Nigerian-born Francis Adewale loved spending time with the American Peace Corps volunteers working there.
One day, he says, one of the volunteers began writing something on a blackboard that Adewale thought was poetry.
It prompted young Adewale, then just the equivalent of a high school junior, to ask about the passage's significance. And the answer he received would change his life.
That, though, is when the conversation took an unexpected turn.
Adewale, now in his mid-40s and an attorney in the Spokane Public Defender's office, dates his desire to be a lawyer from that day. His job involves the handling of cases for clients who are mostly indigent or low-income. He is the primary defense attorney for Spokane's Community Court, a program founded in March that is designed to handle the cases of chronic nonviolent offenders.
In his spare time, Adewale runs a free legal clinic at the Spokane Dream Center church, and he serves on the board of directors for Refugee Connections Spokane, an organization that links immigrants with area support groups.
One of Adewale's more notable contributions involved the American Law and Justice Workshop for Refugees that he coordinated in October with Megan Ballard, a professor at Gonzaga Law School. Sponsored in part by Refugee Connections, the workshop was designed to educate immigrants about the U.S. legal system and to stress how the system might differ from that of their native country.
Adewale's vision of community evolved over years and included a switch of continents. After having left his village of Ilesa, he earned a law degree in 1990 from Lagos' Nigerian Law School and went to practice maritime law.
But though he made a comfortable living, Adewale was troubled by the ongoing problems that his country faced – first by a military dictatorship and later by a corrupt civilian government. He responded as a student and then as a young attorney by joining the protest movement, which made him a target for potential violence.
So when a friend applied for a U.S. Visa lottery program in his name, and he was accepted, Adewale decided to emigrate.
He arrived in Washington, D.C., in 2000 but soon learned that Washington state offered a special deal: Lawyers who have practiced for seven years in common-law countries are eligible to sit for the state's bar exam. Adewale studied while working in D.C. as a security guard, and he passed on his first attempt.
Through another Nigerian, he learned about Spokane. And when the opportunity came to work here as a public defender, he stopped applying to Seattle maritime firms.
The support he received during his first few months, and which continued, convinced Adewale that Spokane was where he wanted to raise his family, which includes his wife and five children.
That joy, Adewale knows, was formed those many years ago by a Peace Corps volunteer with a vision not of America as it necessarily is but certainly as it always has aspired to be.


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20 years of Gimme The Light
Troyton Rami on how he created a buzz
BY HOWARD CAMPBELL
Observer senior writer
Last Tuesday, the Recording Academy announced nominees for the 64th Grammy Awards. Sean Paul earned a sixth nod in the Best Reggae Album category for Live N Livin.
His latest nomination came 20 years since the release of Gimme The Light, a song that catapulted him to global stardom. Done on the Buzz 'riddim', it was the lead single from Dutty Rock which won the Best Reggae Album category in 2004.
Gimme The Light was co-produced by Troyton Rami and Trevor McKenzie for Black Shadow Records. Spurred by power-play from the influential Hot 97 FM in New York, it peaked at number seven on Billboard Magazine's Hot 100 Chart one year later.
"What I was really trying to do was get Jamaican music in the crossover market. I was trying to figure how to get the American market and Caribbean/Jamaican market to collide... that was my objective," said Rami in a recent interview with the Jamaica Observer.
From Grange Hill, Westmoreland, Rami is a longtime South Florida resident. At the time he and McKenzie conjured Gimme The Light, he had been producing songs for five years, working on singles with Sean Paul, the Scare Dem Crew and Mr Vegas.
For most of those productions, Rami wanted to emulate the sound that made songs like Flex by Cobra a monster pop hit during the 1990s. When production on the Buzz was complete, the first artiste he approached was one of dancehall's biggest names.
"I took it to Bounty Killer but he said the beat was too fast for his liking. Sizzla was the first artiste to voice on it; he did Wreck har P.. P..," Rami recalled.
Sean Paul was next up. At the time, his most noted songs were Infiltrate and Hot Gal Today (with Mr Vegas) but that big hit was still elusive for the 'uptown deejay'.
Gimme The Light was recorded at Celestial Studio in Kingston. Rami remembers Sean Paul being extremely focused throughout the session but he was not prepared for the song to become a crossover hit when it was released in Jamaica in late 2001.
While he gave Gimme The Light generous play during his weekly gig at the Rockers Island in Miami, it was not until disc jockey Cipha Sounds of Hot 97 FM passed through that club one night in mid-2002 and requested copies of the single, that momentum began.
"He said, 'Man, this doesn't sound like a dancehall song. This sounds different'," said Rami.
Cipha Sounds played Gimme The Light on his Latin-based Cipha Saturdays show. He passed it on to Funkmaster Flex, the kingpin DJ at Hot 97 FM, who helped propel the song to mainstream glory.
The turning point, according to Rami, was when Chris Chin, president of VP Records, and Murray Elias, head of A&R at that label, contacted him and expressed interest in marketing what became one of the biggest songs for 2002.
"I was watching Billboard and seeing that this record was jumping in the purple. Once it hits the purple you know it's really moving," said Rami.
Gimme The Light proved the perfect appetiser for Dutty Rock which was released in January 2003 by VP and Atlantic Records. The album was a juggernaut, yielding other hit songs in Like Glue, Baby Boy, Get Busy and I'm Still in Love With You (featuring Sasha).
As for Troyton Rami, Gimme The Light remains his finest moment as a producer. It opened doors for him to work with other acts such as Kevin Little.
Still based in South Florida, his latest productions include songs by Alkaline, Mavado, Buju Banton and Elephant Man.
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Child of the Civil Rights Movement
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Paula Young Shelton, daughter of Civil Rights activist Andrew Young, brings a child's unique perspective to an important chapter in America's history. Paula grew up in the Deep South, in a world where whites had and blacks did not. With an activist father and a community of leaders surrounding her, including Uncle Martin (Martin Luther King), Paula watched and listened to the struggles, eventually joining with her family—and thousands of others—in the historic march from Selma to Montgomery.
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Revealing the mysteries of the Maya script
2 November 2015 - Français
Computer Science | History/Archeology
02.11.15 - EPFL researchers have come up with an algorithm to analyze Mayan writing. This project could one day contribute to translating this complex and still partially unknown language.
While some five million people still speak a language that evolved out of Mayan civilization in South America, the written language has suffered a different fate. The secrets of the classical Maya were lost with the destruction of most works during the Spanish conquest in the 16th century. Only three codices have been preserved, and they are in museums and institutions in Paris, Dresden and Madrid. These documents contain precious data for the researchers who are seeking to discover the secrets of this pre-Columbian writing, much of which remains obscure (10 to 15% of the symbols are not known). Researchers at Idiap, a research institute affiliated with EPFL and with the new Digital Humanities Laboratory of the College of Humanities, are harnessing the power of computers to help archeologists and epigraphers make significant progress in their work.
Creative writers
The researchers, working closely with the Maya writing specialists, have analyzed thousands of hieroglyph signs, which are symbols that represent a sound, or also a meaning. Maya texts are often written in the form of blocks. A block could contain one or multiple glyphs, representing a sound, a word or even an entire sentence. "Each image tells a story," said Rui Hu, a researcher working on Social Computing at Idiap. "Sometimes we can guess their meaning with the help of people who still speak this language today, and also by using glossaries." The task is particularly difficult because the hieroglyphs are difficult to decipher in the historical documents owing to their age and state of deterioration. What's more, pre-Columbian writers sometimes drew the symbols in different and creative ways, varying by era and location. And then there are those symbols that look like each other yet mean something completely different.
A real conundrum for archeologists and epigraphers, who still spend a significant amount of time poring over catalogs to identify each symbol. Thanks to the work of the Idiap researchers and the involvement of Maya writing specialists from Bonn University in Germany, high quality representations of the hieroglyphs found in the three known works have now been created and will be catalogued digitally. The researchers will then be able to use this tool to quickly identify a given hieroglyph and its meaning, and to see, for example, what the most common combinations of symbols observed in the same 'block' of text are. "This research is of great interest to mayanists, given the potential of such novel multidisciplinary approaches for overcoming obstacles resulting from applying more traditional methods", said Carlos Pallán Gayol, researcher at Bonn University.
This interdisciplinary project with the contribution of the University of Geneva will eventually lead to an online database that the scientific community will be able to use to research, compare and annotate texts in the quest to expand our knowledge of Mayan writing and iconography. "By combining the work of the Maya experts with IT-based tools, we can make fascinating progress," said Rui Hu. Progress that may someday lead to machine translation - something like Google Translate for historians.
R. Hu, G. Can, C. Pallan Gayol, G. Krempel, J. Spotak, G. Vail, S. Marchand-Maillet, J.-M. Odobez and D. Gatica-Perez, Multimedia Analysis and Access of Ancient Maya Epigraphy, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Special Issue on Signal Processing for Art Investigation, Vol. 32, No. 4, pp. 75-84, Jul. 2015.
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