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Sydney park destroyed as thousands of Pokémon Go players descend
The park was removed from the game after local residents complained.
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A SMALL SYDNEY suburban park that attracted thousands of Pokemon Go players, causing the grassy spot to turn to mud, has disappeared from the popular mobile game after complaints of chaos.
The backlash in the Sydney suburb of Rhodes is the latest battle between avid players of the augmented-reality game, which has been a huge hit since it was rolled out last month, and authorities unhappy with the crowds it can attract.
"Weekends, particularly at night, there were up to a 1,000-1,500 people in the park," City of Canada Bay Council's deputy mayor Helen McCaffrey told AFP.
"The grass is no longer there and residents after three-and-a-half weeks were just over it," she said of Peg Paterson Park, which has a playground and is surrounded by tall apartment buildings.
When a rare Pokemon was caught, there would be a cheer and cars would honk as the traffic was becoming horrific. I spoke to somebody a couple of days ago who was coming in from Penrith (45 kilometres/28 miles away) to play.
The council encouraged residents to complain directly to the game's developer, US-based software company Niantic, to ask for the park to be deleted from the game after they complained of "complete chaos" and rubbish being dumped.
"All 3 pokestops removed. Not a single soul left in the park. NOT ONE," wrote a Facebook user late Monday, while another added:
For the people still convinced that Rhodes is still the hot spot…. Let it go, mourn the loss…. It's dead! GONE!
The game – which has the tagline "catch 'em all" – allows players to chase virtual cartoon character monsters with their mobile phones, with the Peg Paterson Park particularly popular due to the regular appearance of rare Pokemon.
While Pokemon Go has been praised as a fun way to get people outdoors, it has also attracted safety warnings about not walking into oncoming traffic, straying into restricted areas, or becoming victims of crimes.
The app by Niantic, a spinoff of Google, has now been launched in more than 40 countries including the US, Japan and much of Europe. It has been downloaded more than 75 million times.
Pokemon Go has also raised the potential of such technology for other applications, and the real-world impact they could have.
© – AFP, 2016
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Tuel hurt as Cougs hang on
Tuel: Time to get loud
Tue., Sept. 4, 2012
PULLMAN – After Washington State football players were called out publicly by coach Mike Leach for showing too much frustration on the sidelines during Thursday's season-opening loss at Brigham Young, at least one Cougars player actually wishes he'd shown more emotion. In a positive way, of course.
WSU's Tuel wants to be heard
Mon., Sept. 3, 2012
After Washington State football players were called out publicly by coach Mike Leach for showing too much frustration on the sidelines during Thursday's season-opening loss at Brigham Young, at least one Cougars player actually wishes he'd shown more emotion. In a positive way, of course. "I haven't played a game like that in a while, and I maybe tried to play it a little too cool and just be too relaxed," quarterback Jeff Tuel said Monday. "And I need to let myself out more and let some of my passion for the game out, and do a better job leading and being vocal for my guys on the sideline to make sure that guys don't hang their heads and get down." The unnecessary relaxation resulted in too much hesitation, something Tuel and Leach have readily admitted in the days since.
Jeff Tuel putting BYU behind him
Leach speaks, other WSU notes
WSU, BYU quotes
Washington State story lines
All about the offense It would be quite literally unprecedented if a Washington State quarterback doesn't post passing numbers among the nation's best this season.
Tuel seems right for job
Tue., Aug. 21, 2012
This is the last of eight position previews for the Washington State football team. PULLMAN – Mike Leach won't come right out and say it, but the Washington State coach has drawn plenty of lines to read between when it comes to his team's quarterback competition.
Mon., Aug. 20, 2012
Mike Leach won't come right out and say it, but the Washington State coach has drawn plenty of lines to read between when it comes to his team's quarterback competition. The battle – if you can call it that – between senior Jeff Tuel and redshirt sophomore Connor Halliday was supposed to be staged during the spring, but Halliday's liver injury kept him out of 11-on-11 sessions and Tuel took every snap with the No. 1 offense. Halliday returned healthy for camp, but Tuel has continued to take the majority of the No. 1 reps. And Leach said this after practice on Sunday: "We've shifted reps on players. We're putting more reps on the players we expect to play with more." Those words seem to suggest, then, that Tuel is most likely to be WSU's starter when the Cougars travel to face Brigham Young on Aug. 30, even if Leach doesn't officially name him as such.
Tuel, Halliday share highlights at WSU scrimmage
Sun., Aug. 12, 2012
PULLMAN – Both Washington State players performed well in Saturday's scrimmage, and both split their repetitions between the first- and second-team offenses. Yes, receivers Marquess Wilson and Gabe Marks did their thing during WSU's first scrimmage of training camp at Martin Stadium, with Wilson catching two touchdown passes and Marks snagging an impressive 70-yard score.
Notes from a WSU scrimmage
Sat., Aug. 11, 2012
Live, from Pullman, it's the Cougs
PULLMAN – Like most other things about Mike Leach and his offense, the goal for quarterback Jeff Tuel in today's scrimmage at Martin Stadium will be simple. "Just keep rolling," the senior quarterback said Friday following the Cougars' ninth practice of training camp.
Washington State gets down to the business of football
Fri., Aug. 3, 2012
PULLMAN – The honeymoon might not be over yet, but the bear hunting certainly is. New coach Mike Leach – famed for his unique offseason ventures – was all business Thursday as his Washington State football players began handling theirs.
Leach will keep Cougars busy on and off the field
Sun., July 29, 2012
Roughly 30 minutes after Mike Leach departed the stage at Pac-12 media day last week in Los Angeles, he was answering another question, this one about his celebrity and how quickly it's grown in the months since his hire. The Washington State coach, perhaps surprisingly, didn't have much to say.
Leach steals show
Wed., July 25, 2012
UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. – No longer is it true that Mike Leach has yet to win anything as Washington State's head football coach. It will be more than a month before the Cougars actually play a game. But Leach was the undisputed champion of Tuesday's Pac-12 media day, breaking up a fairly mundane parade of standard preseason questions and answers by introducing his character and unique style of conversation to the gathered reporters inside the Gibson Amphitheater at Universal Studios.
Leach steals show at Pac-12 media day
Tue., July 24, 2012
No longer is it true that Mike Leach has yet to win anything as Washington State's head football coach.
WSU's Tuel turns focus to summer workouts
Wed., April 25, 2012
PULLMAN – Call him Coach Tuel. That's not to say that Washington State's quarterback thinks he's ready to take over the reins from Mike Leach. But with the 15th and final practice of the spring in the books as of about 6 p.m. Tuesday, the onus is now on Jeff Tuel to make sure the Cougars' summer workouts go off without a hitch.
Wilson comes up with inspired effort for Cougars offense in Crimson and Gray Game
Sun., April 22, 2012
The play would have felt routine coming from Marquess Wilson last season. On Saturday, it was more of a reminder that the junior receiver is actually still here.
WSU defense not up to speed, but still impressive in scrimmage
PULLMAN – If the tempo of Washington State's defense during Saturday's scrimmage wasn't quite fast enough for defensive coordinator Mike Breske's liking, there's good news for players on that side of the ball. The Cougars have an entire week to speed things up.
Defensive line dominates WSU scrimmage
Sun., April 8, 2012
PULLMAN – The story of Saturday's scrimmage may have been the bits of turf clinging to the jerseys of Washington State's offensive linemen. For the Cougars under coach Mike Leach, there's practice, and then there's the 15 or so minutes after practice during which players break off into their position groups and receive a little extra instruction based off their performance that day.

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Kanye West has a cold.
Or at least a sore throat. "My voice is so hoarse. I can't finish the show," the rapper told his thousands of fans just before ditching Thursday's sixth gig at the Forum in Inglewood early.
The rapper-producer-designer, who was performing his song "Only One" from atop a floating stage that hovered over the audience, informed the crowd that he couldn't continue. "Turn the lights up," he said. "Show's over. I can't let y'all have a show where I can't perform. I'm sorry." He then offered refunds.
His fans started chattering as West told his crew to return the stage to its base. Standing atop the platform as his baffled disciples looked on, he then floated silently and awkwardly back toward his exit point, a man alone on his perch.
Thursday's Forum show was scheduled to be West's last in a run that was originally slated for four nights. But as the shows sold out, West added two more. As a result, the Grammy-winning artist's touring schedule was loaded with concerts over the past month as he rolled through Canada and then down the West Coast.
Given West's penchant for onstage oration, such a schedule can wreak havoc on vocal cords.
Whether fans will indeed receive a refund isn't yet known. West's average set during the tour has included about 35 songs, and he was about two-thirds of the way through the Thursday gig. Promoter Live Nation and West's publicity team have not yet responded to queries regarding refunds.
The good news for West fans waiting to see him later on the Saint Pablo tour? Thursday's Forum set was the last one before a two-week break, which will give him time to recuperate.


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Our Impact: ISN-TTC Sister Transplant Centers Program
04May May 4, 2020
Reema Parmar2020-10-01T09:49:51+00:00
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The ISN-TTS STC Program was launched in 2013 as a joint initiative between the ISN and the Transplantation Society (TTS) to develop transplantation services in low and middle-income (LMIC) countries either by pairing an experienced center to help build on an existing low-level transplant program; or by assisting an established regional nephrology service to develop a renal transplant program.
The STC Program has proved to be extremely popular and successful, growing substantially to include centers that continue to progress to successive levels of the program.
Here are just two examples of the significant impact the program has had on centers:
Emerging Institution: the Foundation for Children with Kidney Diseases in Guatemala (FUNDANIER)
Supporting Institution: the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA)
In 2013, a sister center partnership was established between the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) and the Foundation for Children with Kidney Diseases in Guatemala (FUNDANIER). The ultimate goal of this collaboration is to establish a deceased donor program in Guatemala.
A general pathologist received training in nephropathology at UCLA to gain the skills required to set up a local nephropathology laboratory at the National University of Guatemala.
A team from UCLA was invited to train local surgeons in laparoscopic donor nephrectomy. Local professionals were also trained in human leukocyte antigen (HLA) typing and cross-matching. UCLA donated a Luminex system to the FUNDANIER center.
A local physician was trained as a transplant coordinator to head the national committee of donations at the Roosevelt Hospital in Guatemala. The aim is to set up a transitional clinic to decrease the number of renal transplant rejections.
FUNDANIER is ensuring that all programs in the country adhere to the Declaration of Istanbul.
Dr. Randall Lou Meda, a pediatric nephrologist from Fundanier, praised the support from TTS and ISN, stating that this type of collaboration "is key in the developing world" and can "change the shape of the world and the lives of many people." He confirms that, having graduated, the next step is to share the experience gained from the relationship with UCLA by providing training to other centers in the region.
Emerging Institution: Al-Shifa Hospital, Gaza
Supporting Institution: Royal Liverpool University Hospital (RLUH)
Since 2013, a collaboration sponsored by the ISN-TTS Sister Transplant Centers Program has been established between a team from the Royal Liverpool University Hospital in the UK and the Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza permitting the transfer of skills, technology, and education.
El Shifa is the largest hospital in Gaza and treats over half of the region's 500 kidney failure patients. According to staff from RLUH, many patients there are in desperate need of transplants but because doctors are unable to leave the region, they cannot access the training they need to carry out transplant operations. During the 2008 war, half of all patients in need of dialysis died because they were unable to reach a hospital in time.
In 2013, the Royal Liverpool hospital traveled to the Gaza strip to complete the first-ever kidney transplant in the region. They faced a specific set of challenges including a lack of equipment, simple medication, and the constant threat of war.
51 kidney transplants have since been carried out in Gaza, with a 94 percent one-year graft survival rate. The team also set up the first tissue-typing lab in the region and provided crucial transplantation equipment such as a plasma exchange machine and specialist theatre equipment.
This pairing has helped educate local healthcare professionals toward the goal of establishing a transplant center in Gaza so that kidney transplantation can become a regular activity in the region, giving every patient with kidney failure the chance of a normal life.
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Poll: 59% of Americans oppose plan to withdraw from Paris accord
Andrew V. Pestano
A recent poll shows that 59 percent to 28 percent of Americans oppose President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw from the 2015 Paris climate change agreement. File Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
June 6 (UPI) -- An ABC News/Washington Post poll found that 59 percent of Americans oppose President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw from the Paris climate change agreement.
The American public opposes Trump's move by 59 percent to 28 percent. The majority of those surveyed said the decision would weaken U.S. leadership in the world; the majority also rejected Trump's position that it would improve the U.S. economy.
About 18 percent of Americans strongly support Trump's decision, while 46 percent strongly oppose -- a 7 percent increase from the similar poll in January, the poll shows.
About 51 percent of Americans said withdrawing from the Paris agreement would hurt international efforts to address climate change, while 33 percent said it would make no difference and 11 percent said it would help efforts.
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About 42 percent of Americans said withdrawing would hurt the U.S. economy, while 32 percent said it would help and 20 percent said it would make no difference.
About 55 percent of Americans said withdrawing would hurt U.S. leadership in the world, while 23 percent said it would make no difference and 18 percent said it would help.
"Views are highly partisan. Sixty-seven percent of Republicans support Trump's decision to withdraw from the agreement; 63 percent of independents, and 82 percent of Democrats, oppose it," Langer Research Associates analyst Gary Langer said in a statement. "Support reaches 55 percent among conservatives, compared with opposition from 64 percent of moderates and 88 percent of liberals."
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The poll, which has a 5 percent margin of error, was conducted from Friday through Sunday by New York-based Langer Research Associates for ABC News and The Washington Post via telephone interviews with a random sample of 527 Americans.
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Q: when does the "Laplacian" of a $W^{1,2}$ function exist? $\Omega $ is an open domain in $R^n$. Given a function $u \in W_{loc}^{1,2}\left( \Omega  \right)$, we define a functional ${L_u}$ on $Li{p_0}\left( \Omega  \right)$(Lipschitz functions with compact support) by $${L_u}\left( \phi  \right) =  - \int_\Omega  {\left\langle {\nabla u,\nabla v} \right\rangle } dvol,\forall \phi  \in Li{p_0}\left( \Omega  \right)$$
If u is convex(concave), then $L_u$ is a signed radon measure? With non-negative(non-positive) singular part respectively?
Let $f \in {L^2}\left( \Omega  \right)$ and $u \in W_{loc}^{1,2}\left( \Omega  \right)$. If $${L_u}\left( \phi  \right) \ge \int_\Omega  {f\phi dvol} \left( {or{L_u}\left( \phi  \right) \le \int_\Omega  {f\phi dvol} } \right)$$ for all nonnegative $\phi  \in Li{p_0}\left( \Omega  \right)$,then $L_u$ is a signed radon measure?

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