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La Gazette Drouot Art and Culture - Exhibitions
The Snowy Slopes of Mount Fuji
Le 28 août 2020, par Emmanuel Lincot
For followers of Shintoism, Mount Fuji is a treasure enclosing the elixir of immortality. For others, it symbolizes the transience of all things. For…
Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849), Edo Period, 1831, Vent frais par matin clair (Fine Wind, Clear Morning), from the "Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji" series, original print, in blue, of the view called "Red Fuji", monochrome block print in blue (aizuri-e), 25.6 x 37.5 cm.
© RMN-Grand Palais (MNAAG, Paris)/Thierry Ollivier
For followers of Shintoism, Mount Fuji is a treasure enclosing the elixir of immortality. For others, it symbolizes the transience of all things. For everyone, it represents Japan. Some 70 outstanding prints that have been taken out of storage and chronologically arranged in this pedagogically designed exhibition feature the mountain in all its subtlety. The winter scenes of Utagawa Kuniyoshi (1797-1861) are steeped in spirituality, as attested by the reference to monk Nichiren (1222-1282). The works dialogue with each other and depict the Japan of the little people, the lesser nobility and the ronin, the samurai with neither lord nor master, depicted by Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858). Photographer Felice Beato (1832-1909) immortalized some of these figures from the medieval period in hieratic poses in his studio. The silver prints by his Japanese contemporary, Suzuki Shin'ichi II (1855-1912), are among the first-ever made on the legendary road to Tokaido. Lastly, a print by Kawase Hasui (1863-1957) is all the rarer because nearly all his works were lost in the 1923 Tokyo earthquake. This one is based on the naturalist world of novelist Kafu Nagai (1879-1959), often deemed the Japanese Zola. Acquired by the museum very recently, it alone is worth the trip.
Musée national des Arts asiatiques - Guimet,
6, place d'Iéna, Paris.
Until 12 October 2020.
www.guimet.fr
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The Dante Factory in Cologny
The Bodmer Foundation commemorates the anniversary of Dante's death…
Venetia 1600. Births and Rebirths
According to tradition, Venice was founded on March 25, 421. This…
The Venice Cini Collection in Aix-en-Provence
For the 70th anniversary of its foundation, the Cini Collection,…
Niki de Saint Phalle at the Galerie Mitterrand…
The Galerie Mitterrand in Paris bills its new show as an echo of…
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Empire Announce Open Player Tryouts
ALBANY, NY - Today the Albany Empire announced that they will be holding open player tryouts for the upcoming season. Tryouts will be held on Saturday, May 1st from 12pm to 4pm at Afrim's Sports in Colonie.
"We're excited to scout out new talent and expand our team even more. With the new coaching additions, these tryouts will really put together the remaining pieces of the puzzle so we can give the people of Albany the season they've been waiting for" said Head Coach and acting General Manager, Tom Menas. On Wednesday the Empire announced Damon Ware as Offensive Coordinator, Dave Mogensen as Director of Player Personnel, Sergio Gilliam as Defensive Coordinator, and Phil Menas as Assistant to the Director of Player Personnel and Scouting.
Player tryouts will be open to all aspiring athletes and will be $60.00 for pre-registration, $75.00 at the door. Any interested players can go to https://www.albanyempirenal.com/tryouts to register and pay.
At tryouts, the team will be holding a merchandise sale open to the public. The sale will consist of memorabilia from the 2018-2019 season including game-worn jerseys, signed game balls, t-shirts, and more. Cash and PayPal payments will be accepted.
Tickets for the upcoming season are currently on sale at https://www.albanyempirenal.com/season-tickets or by calling the Times Union Center Box Office at 518-487-2085. Season tickets are available for purchase in pods of 2 or 4. Single game tickets are not available at this time. The season kicks off at home on Saturday, May 29th vs. the Ontario Bandits.

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LDS bishop removed from his position after arrest in human trafficking sting in Lehi
Posted 8:41 am, February 20, 2019, by Rebecca Green and D.J. Bolerjack, Updated at 10:12PM, February 20, 2019
LEHI, Utah -- A man who served as a bishop for a local LDS congregation and who formerly supervised a police vice squad was arrested after a human trafficking sting conducted in Lehi on Valentine's Day.
According to the Utah County Sheriff's Office, the arrest was made as part of a human trafficking sting conducted February 14.
Detectives say 51-year-old David N. Moss, using the alias "Pilot", contacted women he believed to be prostitutes on social media. Moss told the women he could manage them, which he claimed was different from being a pimp.
Officers say Moss told the women he could protect them, help them avoid police, and book their clients on their behalf. He told the women he had "run" other girls in the past.
Moss ultimately met with the two undercover officers, and during that meeting he showed them cash and said he was "not opposed to paying" for services, detectives allege. He also detailed ways to avoid police and at that point forcibly grabbed one woman's hand and placed it on his genitals.
The document states Moss then unzipped his pants and exposed himself to the two undercover detectives.
Moss was released that day and arrested February 19 at his home in Lehi. Moss admitted to the details in the chats and the discussions but denied having "managed" other women previously, booking records state.
Detectives wrote that Moss' current position as a religious leader and his prior work as a vice squad cop in St. George gave them reason to worry there may be more victims out there.
They said both positions placed him in contact with potentially vulnerable people. Detectives ask anyone who may have been victimized by Moss to contact them at 801-851-4010.
At the time of his arrest, Moss was serving as the bishop for a congregation of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. According to LDS.org, he oversaw the Mill Pond Ward in Lehi.
The LDS Church stated Wednesday they've taken steps to remove Moss from that position. See below for their complete statement:
"The behavior alleged in this incident is completely unacceptable and unbecoming of any member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and especially of someone serving in a position of local leadership. Upon learning of this situation, local leaders took immediate steps to relieve him of his role and to identify his replacement."
Capt. Mike Giles, St. George Police, said Moss previously supervised their vice squad but resigned his position in their department seven years ago. He said Moss was involved in a consensual sexual relationship that had "an on-duty component" but was not in any way related to the current allegations Moss faces.
Giles said Moss resigned after his case went to a pre-determination meeting but before any recommendation for termination was made.
Moss was booked into jail for the Lehi incident on charges of exploiting a prostitute, patronizing a prostitute, sexual battery, and two counts of lewdness.
The human trafficking investigation netted several other arrests in Lehi.
Fox 13 News will update this story as more details emerge.
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August has just wrapped up and it looks like it was another one for the books when it comes to new email subscribers – a new all time record. Other than that, not to much has changed, so this will be a short one.
Let's start with overall traffic – which has been almost identical to the previous month. Seriously – almost to a T.
As I said – the growth of the Baeldung email list is where it was at in August – a ~9% increase with no new traffic, for a total of 1279 new email subscribers.
Looks like my new experiments are helping my overall conversion rate.
Of course – the 100% plus gains of last year and long gone – all the low hanging fruit have been thoroughly picked. That being said, I still think there's a lot of room for growth, and I'm shooting for a consistent 1500+ new subscribers a month with this level of traffic. That does take constant work though – tweaking working strategies and testing out new ones.
Also, the fact is that any optin CTA, no matter how solid, will decrease over time – that's just the cost of doing business. So, old strategies do need to be refreshed from time to time, just to combat the effect of time.
All in all a solid month – looking forward for September.
Hmm, interesting data, thanks a lot for sharing!
Looks like our reach from the jOOQ blog is quite substantial in your referral section. Not only did we make it to #9, I suspect that a significant amount of traffic from java.dzone.com and javacodegeeks.com are also our syndicated content, mostly from the Java 8 Friday series. Is that correct?
Are you syndicating your content as well? Would be really interesting to learn about how you analyse your own experience with respect to syndication.
The problem I saw was that Google was considering that version of the article more authoritative than my own.
Yes, this can happen some times. But in-article links are syndicated as they are, so chances are that in the long run, you'll still profit from the syndication.
It's really just guess work when it comes to what Google does.


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Oh Gravity tour — второй концертный тур альтернативной рок-группы Switchfoot, прошедший в 2007 году. В программу диска входил вышедший до этого альбом Oh! Gravity.
Тур стартовал 31 января 2007 года в Утрехте, Нидерланды, и закончился в Сент-Джозефе (штат Миссури, США) 17 апреля. Во время 77 дней группа посетила 19 штатов, 6 провинций в Канаде и 4 страны Европы (всего 50 концертов).

Программа концертов
Сингдл Switchfoot Stars из альбома Nothing Is Sound открывала подавляющее число шоу. Oh Gravity Tour примечателен тем, что группа впервые «в живую» исполняла песни «Faust, Midas, and Myself» и «4:12,» из альбома «Oh! Gravity». Заканчивала концерт, как и в прошлом туре сингл «Dare You to Move». Группа вела дневник путешествия, который был назван «Daily Foot». Он доступен на веб-сайте группы. Туда же включены и списки песен концертов.

Группа известна своими тесными связями с фанатами, допускает их к подготовке альбомов (например, Oh! Gravity.). Списки песен, которые впоследствии играла группа, так же составлялись фанатами через голосование.

Даты тура

Европа
 31 января 2007 — Утрехт, Нидерланды
 1 февраля 2007 — Гамбург, Германия
 2 февраля 2007 — Силькеборг, Дания
 3 февраля 2007 — Минден, Германия
 4 февраля 2007 — Франкфурт-на-Майне, Германия
 5 февраля 2007 — Лондон, Великобритания
 6 февраля 2007 — Лондон, Великобритания
 7 февраля 2007 — Суонси, Уэльс
 8 февраля 2007 — Перт, Шотландия

США и Канада
 13 февраля 2007 — Анахайм, Калифорния
 14 февраля 2007 — Сан-Франциско, Калифорния
 15 февраля 2007 — Медфорд, Орегон
 16 февраля 2007 — Юджин, Орегон
 17 февраля 2007 — Спокан, Вашингтон
 18 февраля 2007 — Сиэтл, Вашингтон
 19 февраля 2007 — Ванкувер, Британская Колумбия
 21 февраля 2007 — Калгари, Альберта
 22 февраля 2007 — Эдмонтон, Альберта
 23 февраля 2007 — Саскатун, Саскачеван
 24 февраля 2007 — Виннипег, Манитоба
 26 февраля 2007 — Тандер-Бей, Онтарио
 28 февраля 2007 — Торонто, Онтарио
 1 марта 2007 — Лондон, Онтарио
 2 марта 2007 — Оттава, Онтарио
 3 марта 2007 — Монреаль, Квебек
 6 марта 2007 — Берлингтон, Вермонт
 7 марта 2007 — Бостон, Массачусетс
 8 марта 2007 — Провиденс, Род-Айленд
 9 марта 2007 — Хартфорд, Коннектикут
 10 марта 2007 — Филадельфия, Пенсильвания
 11 марта 2007 — Балтимор, Мэриленд
 12 марта 2007 — Олбани, Нью-Йорк
 14 марта 2007 — Буффало, Нью-Йорк
 15 марта 2007 — Питтсбург, Пенсильвания
 16 марта 2007 — Цинциннати, Огайо
 17 марта 2007 — Чарлстон, Южная Каролина
 18 марта 2007 — Ашвилл, Северная Каролина
 19 марта 2007 — Колумбия, Южная Каролина
 22 марта 2007 — Новый Орлеан, Луизиана
 23 марта 2007 — Хьюстон, Техас
 24 марта 2007 — Остин, Техас
 25 марта 2007 — Даллас, Техас
 26 марта 2007 — Оклахома-Сити, Оклахома
 28 марта 2007 — Тусон, Аризона
 29 марта 2007 — Вентура, Калифорния
 30 марта 2007 — Лос-Анджелес, Калифорния
 31 марта 2007 — Сан-Диего, Калифорния
 14 апреля 2007 — Ноксвилл, Теннесси
 16 апреля 2007 — Спрингфилд, Миссури
 17 апреля 2007 — Сент-Джозеф, Миссури

Примечания

Концертные туры 2007 года
Концертные туры Switchfoot
Альбомы по алфавиту

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November represents Peanut Butter Lover's Month, which celebrates the nutty spread.
There is no question about it: We need an entire month dedicated to our love for peanut butter.
It may sound silly to people who dislike peanut butter, yet every November peanut butter fans from around the world join to celebrate their love of the scrumptious spread during Peanut Butter Lover's Month.
Peanut Butter Lover's Month was created in 1995, when lovers of the famous food decided to make an entire month dedicated to their favorite spread.
Many students at Kearsley find peanut butter a delicious, yet sticky food that has made everyone's mouths water with delight.
Senior Chloe Clarambeau finds peanut butter not only tasty but healthy.
Although some peanut butters are not the best for you, organic peanut butter can help with weight loss, keeping your heart and body healthy.
Junior Tarryn Whitman's favorite brand of peanut butter is Jif.
It can also help protect your body from colon cancer, Alzheimer's disease, and memory impairment due to the niacin from peanuts.
Peanut butter is found in most pantries, and many people find it to be a quick snack or even a part of a meal.
Freshman Allisun Gellish finds peanut butter to have endless uses.
Students at KHS share a love for peanut butter but not always a love for the same brand.
Junior Tarryn Whitman prefers Jif.
Sophomore Shania Bohannon, on the other hand, finds the brand Peter Pan to be better.
Everyone has their own preferences, whether it be crunchy or smooth, or even Jif or Peter Pan, but we can all agree peanut butter has a place in our hearts and it won't be leaving any time soon.


Hepatitis C is a liver disease that is caused by the hepatitis C virus (HCV). Hepatitis C is a bloodborne disease and exposure to the blood of an infected person may result in infection. Abnormal results may require further evaluation by your physician.
Hepatitis C is a liver disease that is caused by the hepatitis C virus (HCV). Hepatitis C is a bloodborne disease and exposure to the blood of an infected person may result in infection.
This test is used to detect and confirm hepatitis C virus infection.
Abnormal results may require further evaluation by your physician.
Includes: Detection of HCV. Estimated turnaround for results is 5 business days. If confirmation testing is required, the estimated time may be extended.
Detect HCV infection; determine the quantity of international units (IU) of hepatitis C virus (HCV) RNA/mL serum/plasma in HCV-positive specimens.
Includes: HCV RNA, PCR, Qualitative, Quantitative Reflex. Estimated turnaround for results is 7 business days. If confirmation testing is required, the estimated time may be extended.
Hepatitis B is a liver disease that is caused by the hepatitis B virus (HBV). Hepatitis B is a bloodborne pathogen and exposure to the blood of an infected person may result in infection.
This test is used to evaluate and stage patients for HBV or HCV infection.
Hepatitis is a disease of the liver causing inflammation. The Hepatitis Profile detects hepatitis A (HAV), hepatitis B (HBV) and hepatitis C (HCV) infections. Abnormal results may require further evaluation by your physician.
Hepatitis C is a viral infection of the liver. The liver becomes inflamed.
How Does Hepatitis C Occur?
Before 1990 one of the most common ways to get Hepatitis C was blood transfusion. However, now blood donors are screened for the virus.
The disease can be spread by people who do not have any symptoms and may not know they carry the virus. These people are called asymptomatic carriers.
You may not have any symptoms of Hepatitis until several weeks or months after you are infected with the virus. Or you may never have any obvious symptoms.
Some people develop a chronic form of the disease without ever having had any obvious symptoms. Liver damage can occur slowly without symptoms in the early stages. When symptoms of chronic Hepatitis C do begin, they are often persistent fatigue, weakness, and loss of appetite, as well as some of the other symptoms listed above.
Your health care provider will ask about your medical history and symptoms. Especially important is your history of Hepatitis risk factors such as IV drug abuse.
Your health care provider will examine your skin and eyes for signs of Hepatitis. Your provider will check your abdomen to see if the liver is enlarged or tender. You may have blood tests to see if your liver is inflamed and if you are infected with the Hepatitis C virus.
If your health care provider thinks you may have chronic Hepatitis or serious liver damage, or if the diagnosis is uncertain, you may have a liver biopsy. A biopsy is a procedure in which a needle is used to remove a small amount of tissue. This is done through the skin over the liver after the area is numbed with an anesthetic. The sample of tissue is sent to a lab for tests to check for damage to your liver.


LGLLS has partnered with the Positive Coaching Alliance (PCA) to deliver on Little League's promise to develop character in youth through baseball. (PCA) is transforming youth sports so sports can transform youth. Through partnership with more than 1,100 youth sports organizations, leagues, schools and cities nationwide, PCA has conducted 6,000-plus workshops for youth sports coaches, parents, organizational leaders and athletes. Youth sports offer a virtual classroom for teaching life lessons, but only if the adults who work with athletes recognize and seize the many teachable moments provided. Research shows that 70% of kids drop out of sports by the age of 13, and if kids don't stay in sports, they won't reap these benefits. Youth athletes coached in a mastery environment have increased self-confidence and a lowered anxiety level. In addition, they achieve more and actually do better on the scoreboard.
PCA provides FREE tips and tools for LGLLS, our coaches, parents and athletes. You can be the leader who brings character education through sports to your community by partnering your school or youth sports organization with Positive Coaching Alliance.
The principles of PCA are in perfect alignment with the ethics of Little League and LGLLS as we strive to honor the sport and all of our participants. We will be disseminating information on the various sessions for the upcoming season. It will be important for all to attend one of the workshops, no matter if you are a coach, umpire and/or parent. Please stay tuned for more information as the season approaches.


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As we remain in lockdown, AKT has continued to see a high volume of young people come to us needing support, either because they are homeless or because their living situation at home is becoming increasingly volatile.
The Services team has managed to keep on top of this workload, rehousing more rough sleepers than we possibly ever have done in this short period of time. Our switch to virtual ('remote') working has also helped us to be effective in supporting young people outside of our main regions and allowed us to help vulnerable LGBTQ+ young people across the UK. For most people, lifting lockdown is the light at the end of the tunnel. However, at AKT, we know that what we're seeing and what young people are experiencing now is just the beginning.
Post-lockdown, we expect many of the hostile and abusive parents and families to tell their LGBTQ+ children to leave. This will lead to a spike in homelessness, including rough sleeping, as their friends might feel uncomfortable letting people sleep on the couch as we remain in social distancing. And for LGBTQ+ young people who were struggling to survive before lockdown, on zero hours contracts or self-employed, we expect them to be impacted by a rent debt crisis. Times are hard, but this is only the beginning for what our young people are going through, and we're starting to make preparations to ensure we can be there and help them every step of the way.
Kaleidoscope Trust's vision is a free, safe and equal world for LGBTQIA people everywhere. Established in 2011, Kaleidoscope Trust works to uphold the human rights of lesbian, bisexual and transgender (LGBT+) people in countries around the world where they are discriminated against or marginalised due to their sexual orientation, gender identity and/or gender expression.
We work with British and international institutions and partners to fund and support the work of LGBT+ activists to bring about positive legislative, policy and social change for LGBT+ people everywhere. Supporting those on the front line in these countries, many of whom put their personal safety and lives at risk to uphold and defend their community's rights. We do this by:
Connecting LGBT+ activists from the Global South with high-level political and diplomatic decision makers across the world to advocate for positive policy change, and strengthening the capacity of LGBT+ activists to partake in international human rights advocacy, through our work with The Commonwealth Equality Network
Helping to build intersectional civil society movements across regions in the Global South that fight for equality for both women & girls, as well as LGBT+ people, through our work in the Equality & Justice Alliance
Challenging societal stigma by working with LGBT+ activists across five cities in Africa to address the challenges facing their communities, promote LGBT+ inclusion in society and strategise on how to drive positive change for LGBT+ people as part of the Strong in Diversity, Bold on Inclusion programme
Co-chairing the Equal Rights Coalition, an inter-governmental body that brings together 42 member states and more 120 civil society organisations in order to advance the human rights of and promote inclusive development for LGBTI+ persons globally.
Our work also involves speaking to and educating the UK public on the historical role the country has played in bestowing discriminatory, anti-LGBT+ laws upon many of its subjects during the colonial era, as well as shining a light on the struggles of LGBT+ human rights activists across the world and educating the public on how they can help to create positive change.


Billy is our first full carbon Punk tripod from the new range. Built for everyday use, Billy is our lightest tripod in the current line up, but built to withstand every day punishment.
Or anywhere else, for that matter. At just 1.38 kg / 3 lb, Billy is the easiest tripod to transport in our range.
Topping out at 1.645 m / 65 ", Billy is a tripod with a serious working height, that still extends to 1.37 m / 53.5" without the column installed, giving you a stable, workable solution in even the most difficult conditions.
Billy, like our other Punks tripods, has one or two tricks up his sleeve. A full height detachable monopod is a sought after feature for most, but the real coup d'état is a minimum working height of just 10 cm / 4"
Billy's legs counterfold around the column and head, enabling the user to get him down to just 46 cm / 18 ".
Billy, like all 3 Legged Thing tripods, comes with a detachable monopod leg that can also be used as a microphone or camera boom.
Billy has detachable rubber Bootz, which can be replaced with any of our foot accessories, for maximum stability on any terrain.
Below is a list of Billy's specifications, including the awesome AirHed Neo.
Max Height 1.645 m / 65 "
Max Height w/o column 1.37 m / 53.5 "
Min Height 100 mm / 4 "
Monopod Max Height 1.71 m / 67.5 "
Folded Length 460 mm / 18 "


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You are assigned to investigate an deadly outbreak occurring in Haiti. After reviewing the preliminary information, you know you have to work quickly and accurately to analyze the outbreak demographics in order to identify the disease pathogen and disease transmission methods. This is the only way you may be able to stop the outbreak and prevent more disease!
As an epidemiologist with the National Institutes of Health (NIH), you have worked on disease outbreaks all over the world. When you got the call to help on an investigation of an outbreak in Haiti, you knew you and your team were headed for a particularly challenging case.
A recent earthquake devastated many areas in Haiti; a few large cities were particularly hard hit, but smaller towns and villages were also severely damaged. Lack of housing and proper sanitation procedures, unsafe water supplies, and inadequate medical treatment created numerous healthcare problems. You weren't surprised when an outbreak of some kind occurred; these kinds of conditions are ideal for infectious disease outbreaks.
Medical personnel in Haiti have written a tentative list of possible diseases that may be the cause of this outbreak. Lack of proper lab equipment and supplies have prevented a final diagnosis. The outbreak has been going on for weeks and field personnel, limited Haitian medical teams, and international volunteers have been unable to control it. You and your team are bringing additional equipment, supplies, and expertise to analyze and contain the disease.
Narrowing down the possible diagnoses will certainly help your team identify the pathogen more quickly which will lead to finding disease transmission possibilities. During the flight to Port-au-Prince, Haiti's capital, and during the car ride to Mirebalais, your first stop, you review the information sent to you. You don't want to waste any time once you get to the Mirebalais health facility.
Identifying the disease is critical not only for proper treatment but also for finding out how the disease is transmitted. Knowing the transmission method leads to prevention, containment, and control. You and your team know you will need to work hard to end this outbreak. Reports indicate that death can come within hours of onset of symptoms. You need to work quickly but accurately in order to save as many lives as possible.
Part I: Diagnosis
You probably remember the Ebola outbreak in west Africa of 2014-2015. The outbreak was first diagnosed in some areas as malaria and in other areas as cholera. Prevention, containment, and treatment of patients were decided based on incorrect diagnoses. The outbreak spread rapidly and people died, partly due to incorrect treatment and partly because they had incorrectly identified how the disease was spread. People moved freely from village to village and even to different countries. (Ebola has a high mortality rate even if patients receive treatment.)
Start the process of identifying the initial diagnosis by reviewing the symptoms that Haitian healthcare officials have observed. They have assembled a working case definition for the illness. In epidemiology, a case definition is a description of specific conditions and details that should be met in order for the person to be identified as having a particular disease or other health condition.
This step is critical to control of the outbreak.
Case definition: Haiti outbreak
Following an incubation period of 6-48 hours, abrupt onset of massive diarrhea begins. Diarrhea has a milky appearance. Nausea and vomiting occur.
Because of the loss of fluids, dehydration may occur. Reduced urine output may result
from electrolyte imbalances and kidney failure follows. Seizure, coma, and cardiac arrest with death have occurred.
Loss of skin elasticity and muscle cramps are common.
The Haitian Health Department also compiled a list of differential diagnoses for the symptoms for this outbreak disease. A differential diagnosis is an alternate diagnosis for symptoms presented in a disease or adverse health condition. Use the NIH site listed below to investigate each differential disease and as a team, decide on an initial diagnosis.
National Institutes of Health (NIH) Medline Plus Medical Encyclopedia https://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/encyclopedia.html
Differential Diagnoses for Haitian Outbreak
1) E. coli infection
2) Cholera
3) Amebic dysentery
4) Giardiasis
5) Food poisoning
6) Ascariasis
7) Trichinosis
8) Leishmaniasis
Note the reason you eliminated a disease as a possible cause of this outbreak on the Reasoning for Possible Differential Diagnosis Elimination worksheet. For example, if the disease includes the presence of a rash and the outbreak disease does not include a rash, note the reason and eliminate that disease from the list.
Report your initial diagnosis and the reasons behind your choice as soon as possible.
Test samples were sent to the laboratory at Port-au-Prince. When you receive lab reports, analyze the results and report a final diagnosis.
Part II: Analyzing the Data
1. In order to find out more about the cause of this disease, how the outbreak started, and its transmission method, review the data you received from the Haitian Health Ministry beginning with the locations of the cases during the first two weeks. Data is provided in both a data table and epi-curve. An epi-curve is a graph that plots the course of an outbreak by time of onset.
Towns and villages have already been grouped by Haitian public health officials as the outbreak seems to affect certain locations similarly. The town of Mirebalais is considered separately.
Mirebalais
Community Group 1 includes the towns of:
L'Estere
Desdeunes
Dessalines
Desarmes
Gonaive
Saint-Michel-de-l'Attalaye
Answer the following questions to help you in your analysis.
Where did the outbreak start?
How long did it take to spread from the initial outbreak location to the next location?
Where did the disease spread next?
d) How long did it take to spread to that location?
e) Where did the disease spread next?
f) What happened to the number of cases in each location from Day 1 to Day 14? Using the data table and epi curve suggest a reason for the spread to each location. What are some possibilities for how the disease is being transmitted?
Your team has just received updated data. The data provides new information that could lead to identifying the source of infection and containing the outbreak. Analyze the numbers and locations of cases and revise your hypothesis of the source of contamination, if necessary.
Analyze the new data and answer the following questions:
a) What is happening in Mirebalais? What do you think caused the change in number of cases?
b) What is happening in Community 1? in Community 2? What do you think caused the change in number of cases?
c) In light of this new data, revise your hypothesis, if necessary. What factors led you to make that hypothesis?
Part III: Mapping the Outbreak
1. Begin your investigation of the initial source of this outbreak. Obtain maps of Haiti that show the locations of the outbreaks. Review the number and locations of the compiled case data.
You must refer to all three maps as you work through locations.
Remember that town and villages have been grouped as the outbreak seems to affect certain locations similarly. Mirebalais is considered separately.
Consider the transmission method and suggest a source of contamination. Be ready to support your hypothesis.
a) What do you think may be a source of the outbreak?
b) Do you have recommendations for testing to find out if your hypothesis is correct?
c) Do you have any questions for citizens or Haitian health workers whose answers would provide you with the information needed to test your hypothesis?
Submit your recommendations, requests for testing, or questions.
Part IV: The Public Health Alert
A public health alert is an announcement that details important health information that the public should know. It defines and updates health conditions regarding communicable disease outbreaks, emerging infectious diseases, immunization updates, and other important information.
Write a public health alert for the cholera outbreak you just investigated and present it to your class. Your teacher may choose other requirements to include.
A public health alert for a disease outbreak includes:
What is causing the disease?
What are the disease symptoms? progression? fatality rate?
How is the disease transmitted?
What is the treatment for the disease?
What is the target population? Who gets the disease more often?
How can the disease be avoided?
Where is the outbreak occurring?
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CINCINNATI -- The commissioner's office might not like it, but Chicago Cubs fans won't be complaining if enigmatic righty Yu Darvish wants to take his time on the mound.
As long as the results look like they did Wednesday -- Darvish struck out 11 without issuing a walk against the Cincinnati Reds -- he can pretty much do whatever he wants.
"I'm a slow guy," Darvish said after the Cubs' 6-5, 10-inning loss. "I'm always slow, especially my first three-to-four years. I told [pitching coach] Tommy [Hottovoy] yesterday, I want to go slower. That's why I was taking my time. That makes me more comfortable."
It would not be an exaggeration to say Darvish looked as good as he has in years, even if he lasted only 5 1/3 innings. According to ESPN Stats & Information research, Darvish hasn't had 11 strikeouts without issuing a free pass since August 2013. But there's more.
His first strike percentage was 67, his highest this season and second-highest as a Cub. In his career, the opposition has a slash line of .177/.219/.277 when Darvish throws strike one.
He earned 26 called strikes, the most in a game for him since 2014.
He threw 37 percent cutters, his highest percentage in a start since joining the Cubs. Ten of his called strikes came on his cutter, tying the most in his career.
He took seven hitters to a 3-ball count but retired all of them, including five via strikeout.
He had six strikeouts looking, the most in a game in his career.
Two of Darvish's called third strikes came at the expense of Joey Votto. The Reds star looked as uncomfortable at the plate against the Cubs righty as you'll see from the All-Star. Between the strikeouts, Darvish got Votto on a check-swing popup.
"He's the best hitter in the lineup, so if he struggles, that means I'm good," Darvish said.
The Cubs have basically thrown out the script for Darvish. They don't care about tempo or anything else if it doesn't make him comfortable. If one pitch is on, then that's the one he'll lean on. Usually it's his slider, but not on Wednesday.
Cubs' Zobrist remains on leave amid divorce
"I felt good about my cutter," Darvish said. "That's why I threw it a lot."
His catcher illustrated the "whatever it takes" attitude the Cubs and Darvish are employing.
"I know the tempo was a little slow, but I don't care," Taylor Davis said. "He was getting guys out. He was making quality pitches ... The pressure situations he was able to handle a lot better.
"I'm taking this as a win for the Cubs. A win for Yu."
However, the Cubs actually came up short after the bullpen blew a lead.
Darvish's next start won't be any easier. He'll face former Cub Jake Arrieta and the Philadelphia Phillies on Monday at Wrigley Field.
"He's a legend in Chicago, for sure," Darvish said of Arrieta. "I respect that, and I'm really looking forward to facing him."
Darvish replaced Arrieta in the Cubs' rotation after signing a six-year, $126 million contract before 2018. Arrieta settled with the Phillies for three years and $75 million. The two have been linked ever since. Darvish would like nothing more than to repeat his performance against the Reds -- but in front of Cubs fans.
"I think I need it at Wrigley," he said. "That's what I want. I always struggle [at home]. I need this start at Wrigley."
Asked what he thought of facing Arrieta at the plate, Darvish deadpanned: "I need a base hit off him."


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A histamine-gated channel is an efficient negative selection marker for $\textit{C. elegans}$ transgenesis.
Sonia El Mouridi, Sarah Al-Harbi, Christian Frøkjær-Jensen
Biological, Environmental Science and Engineering
Gene edits are often recovered at high frequency at the population level but only infrequently in individual animals. For example, a single injected C. elegans has on the order of 10,000 F2 progeny, but only a small fraction of these animals will carry the desired genetic modification. Thus, a key challenge for efficient transgenesis is developing methods to easily identify these rare individuals in a sea of wild-type animals. Therefore, positive and negative (or counter-) selection markers play an essential role in gene editing. Positive selection markers confer an advantage to the organism, e.g., the phenotypic rescue of mutant phenotypes or antibiotic resistance. In C. elegans, commonly used phenotypic rescue markers include lin-15 (Clark et al., 1994), pha-1(ts) (Granato et al., 1994), and unc-119 (Maduro and Pilgrim, 1995) or the antibiotic resistance markers hygroR (Radman et al., 2013), NeoR (Giordano-Santini et al., 2010), PuroR (Semple et al., 2010), and BsrR (Kim et al., 2014). In contrast, negative selection markers can be used to avoid false-positive animals that carry positive selection markers but no genetic modification. Such selection is particularly important for transgenic methods based on plasmid injection because extra-chromosomal arrays are often formed and propagated as an intermediate step. For example, targeted insertion of transgenes by MosSCI (Frøkjær-Jensen et al., 2008) and CRISPR (Dickinson et al., 2013) or random transgene insertion by miniMos transposition (Frøkjær-Jensen et al., 2014) all initially establish array lines and subsequently identify edits in animals that have lost the array. Only a few negative selection markers are commonly used. Fluorescent co-injection markers can be used to identify array animals but do not exert selective pressure and require visual screening on a fluorescence microscope. An alternative negative selection strategy relies on inducible expression of a toxin, peel-1, to kill animals with arrays (Frøkjær-Jensen et al., 2012; McDiarmid et al., 2020; Seidel et al., 2011). peel-1 based selection is easily scaled to large populations (i.e., many individual plates) by simple heat-shock. However, the selection has several drawbacks. First, peel-1 is toxic in the absence of heat-shock, which reduces the efficiency of establishing transgenic array animals (Frøkjær-Jensen et al., 2012). Second, the selection is relatively slow because it takes several hours for the toxin to kill animals, and screening is best done the day after heat-shock. Third, and more frustrating, peel-1 selection is often not fully penetrant, and heat-shocked plates frequently contain false positive "escapers", i.e., array animals that are not killed by the toxin. Therefore, it would be beneficial to have additional negative selection methods to complement or substitute for peel-1 based selection.
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El Mouridi, S., Al-Harbi, S., & Frøkjær-Jensen, C. (2021). A histamine-gated channel is an efficient negative selection marker for $\textit{C. elegans}$ transgenesis. microPublication biology. https://doi.org/10.17912/micropub.biology.000349
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US Speedskating adds new head coaches for short track
KEARNS, Utah (AP) — US Speedskating has hired Anthony Barthell to coach the men's national short track team and promoted Olympic medalist Alex Izykowski to coach of the women's national short track team.
Barthell spent the previous two years in the same job for the Australian national team. Before that, he was an assistant on the 2014 U.S. Olympic team. The 38-year-old former speedskater has previously coached the U.S. junior world team and was a team leader at the 2013 world meet.
Izykowski was part of the bronze medal-winning 5,000-meter relay team at the 2006 Turin Olympics. He assisted in various capacities at the 2010 Vancouver Games and was an assistant at the 2014 Games in Sochi, Russia. The 31-year-old spent the last two seasons as short track program manager and assistant coach.
The short track season begins in November.
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Luxury And It's Interpretation Of "Ingredients"
Sep 20, 2017 Timothy Jackson Artisan, brand identity...
Image credit: Chilternfirehouse.com
Brand identity and communication are the domains of a business or organisation, which aims to differentiate itself to its customers. Evolutions in social media platforms, faster and more accessible mobile devices and infrastructure have combined to create a situation where consumers (who can be perceived as ingredients) are now part of the brand development process. Brand identity may also be regarded as an external wrapping for a business achieved through a complex communications process involving brand messaging, aesthetics, design and other sensory elements. Fashion is an industry where the 'external' brand identity is often more important than the 'internal' components of the product in brand differentiation. This is especially the case in the mass-market where the quality of raw materials (ingredients) and production or manufacture is relatively homogenous across competing fashion brands.
However, the luxury industry has always been able to argue a stronger association between 'internal' components and their brand identity. Fine, rare, bespoke raw materials have been as important in the superior quality messaging as the artisan manufacture of products. In this case, we can argue that the raw materials represent the 'ingredients' of the finished or crafted product, whether it be a bag, item of apparel, jewellery or cosmetics. In fact, this concept of parallel internal and external components of a brand is illustrated nicely by luxury watch brand Richard Mille which pays attention to both internal and external attributes stating it's the "Holistic relationships that unite the interior and exterior of the watch."
Image via Instagram: @richardmilleeurope
It is believed that the luxury industry is going to depend more on revenue generated from monetising experiences in the future. Travel, hospitality and food are all sectors showing growth in the global luxury market. Nuno Mendes head chef at Chiltern Firehouse connects luxury and food; "Food has become the new luxury. Over the last couple of decades, the term luxury has changed dramatically in many different areas of the market. Luxury has really changed and evolved around the role of restaurants and food."
In the last few years, food has become scrutinised by consumers, particularly in respect of dining out in restaurants. At the New York Times Luxury Travel conference 2016, Janice Wong, acclaimed chef and restaurateur stressed; "People really want to know what goes into their food." For example, she explained that chefs and restaurant owners need to identify whether the flour used is high gluten or gluten-free; "The education part is very important and it's our duty as chefs to explain that. We use emoticons that say for example there's no flour in this and the customers appreciate it." Similarly, at the same conference MPS Puri, CEO Nira Hotels and Resorts, commented on how informed customers are about food and diet; "Chefs now also need an education in nutrition and most good chefs do and that helps."
Nuno Mendes charts the changes in interest; "Over the last couple of decades, the term luxury has changed dramatically in many different areas of the market. You can see it in fashion, lifestyle, design and several other sectors. Luxury has really changed and evolved around the role of restaurants and food. Luxury restaurants were associated with ostentatious over the top experiences in grand rooms. The stuffiness attracted wealthy, not so informed tourists, playboy millionaires and other older generations. It was a sad state of reality. They would come in wearing lavish gowns precious stones and live those experiences in a hedonistic way without care or regard for the rest of the world. It was a refuge from changing times that allowed the dismissal towards equality in modern day society. During these decades dishes were served featuring a series of ingredients coming from distant areas of the world in small quantities demanding very high prices. The guests had very little regard for the ethical or sustainability of foods that were served. In most cases no interest where it was from or the story behind it. It was all about status. Nowadays things have changed a lot. We are faced with a very different reality. Luxury today is experiential and in no other areas is it more evident than in restaurants and food. Customers and consumers have changed their demographic and in the way they are now looking at luxury as an experience in which there is a true connection with the artisan. An experience in which they get to know the person, product and story behind it, which they can champion, share and discuss with their friends back home."
As such luxury brand managers should think carefully about the ingredients of their businesses whether that's interpreted as a customer's increasing desire to be more informed about what goes into the products they buy or their contributions and involvement in brand communications (especially in respect of Millennials).
Tim Jackson is a London based academic, writer, speaker and consultant specialising in luxury and fashion. He has worked as a principal lecturer for London College of Fashion and the European Business School in Regent's University where he developed and lead many specialist industry facing and postgraduate courses. Currently Tim leads postgraduate courses on luxury, including an MBA in Luxury Brand Management, at the British School of Fashion within the London based campus of Glasgow Caledonian University.
As a writer Tim has written three fashion books, and contributed chapters to many others. Over the last 16 years he has also been writing about luxury in other media including articles for academic journals and CEO and influencer interviews for WGSN, Stylus, Net Jets client magazine and Positive Luxury. Tim has reported extensively on the 30 annual global luxury conferences hosted by the Financial Times, IHT / New York Times and Condé Nast since 2001. His writing in this period has reflected the global journey that luxury has made and provided a unique set of insights into the strategic decision making within the industry.
He regularly comments on fashion and luxury business issues for global broadcast media, including the BBC (TV and radio) and has spoken at conferences in London, New York, Berlin, Barcelona, Milan, Colombo, Hong Kong, Lithuania on emerging trends and contemporary issues in fashion and luxury.


This paper was written with the intention of showing transistors operate in a practical manner. Very little attention is paid to the holes and electrons and what happens at the basic physics level. Instead, a practical model is built showing what a transistor does when it is used in a simple amplifier circuit. A basic knowledge of Ohm's Law is helpful, but not necessary. What is needed to understand how this amplifier works is given as it is needed. Voltage, current, and power gains are covered. A way to find the DC operating points of a simple transistor circuit is shown. Frequency response is covered, as well as phase shift and decibel gain.
This course was designed for electrical engineers as well as engineers of other disciplines. There is very little math involved in the doing of this course. The understanding of basic algebra is all that is necessary.