Almost every organ and process in the body can be negatively affected by alcohol. Beyond that, it can negatively impact families and the community.
Almost every organ and process in your body can be negatively affected by alcohol. And beyond your person, its consumption has negative repercussions for families and community. It needlessly kills people every day, for one reason or another. But for now, let's just look at the personal health-related problems.
You might have heard of the beer gut, but all types of alcohol are fattening. Studies have shown that alcohol can cause a temporary decrease in the amount of fat the body burns by up to 33 percent.
Alcohol is a depressant to the central nervous system and slows down the metabolic rate. Alcohol is very high in calories, and since your body can't store it, the calories from alcohol have to be used as fuel before your body can burn off calories from food. In other words, alcohol slows down, and even prevents, the foods you eat from being burnt off, especially those you consume with alcohol.
Alcohol in moderation also increases your appetite; reduces your willpower to say no to unhealthy foods; often comes with extra calories from mixers, such as sodas or fruit juice; and can lead to inactivity and fat bingeing the next day.
Alcohol is not only fattening on its own, but so are the foods normally consumed with it. Some typical foods that people combine with alcohol include beer and pizza, beer and hot dogs, beer and fries (at sports events); wine with cheese and dips, beer with nuts or chips (with a restaurant meal).
These foods are high in fats, and with the exception of nuts, are high in the type of fats that are dangerous to your cardiovascular health due to their cholesterol raising effect. These fatty foods are also more likely to be stored when consumed with alcohol.
Alcohol is a "depressant" drug. That means it slows down the parts of your brain that affect your thinking and behaviour, as well as your breathing and heart rate. The use of alcohol has been traced as far back as 8000 BC, and is common in many cultures today.
Where does alcohol come from?
Alcohol is produced by fermenting, and sometimes distilling, various fruits, vegetables or grains. Fermented beverages include beer and wine, which have a maximum alcohol content of about 15 per cent. Distilled beverages, often called "hard liquor" or "spirits," such as rum, whiskey and vodka, have a higher alcohol content.
Although alcohol comes in different forms, it has the same effect. In the following table, each "standard" drink contains 13.6 grams of alcohol.
Pure (ethyl) alcohol is a clear, colourless liquid. Alcoholic beverages get their distinctive colours from their other ingredients, and from the process of fermentation.
Research reports that alcohol use among Ontarians age 18 and older was 87 per cent in 1992 and 79 per cent in 1999. Even though our laws restrict alcohol use to those 19 years of age and over, a 2001 survey of Ontario students in grades 7 to OAC found that 66 per cent reported using alcohol in the past year, and 27 per cent had been drunk at least once in the past four weeks.
In general, men drink more than women do, and are almost twice as likely to have drinking problems.
How does alcohol make you feel?
* whether you've taken any other drugs (illicit, prescription, over-the-counter or herbal).
For many people, a single drink of alcohol releases tension and reduces inhibition, making them feel more at ease and outgoing. Some people feel happy or excited when they drink, while others become depressed or hostile. Suicide and violent crimes often involve alcohol.
Women are generally more sensitive to the effects of alcohol than men, and all adults become increasingly sensitive to alcohol's effects as they age. When someone is more sensitive, it takes less alcohol to cause intoxication, and more time for the body to eliminate the alcohol consumed.
Early signs of alcohol intoxication include flushed skin, impaired judgment and reduced inhibition. Continued drinking increases these effects, and causes other effects, such as impaired attention, reduced muscle control, slowed reflexes, staggering gait, slurred speech and double or blurred vision. A severely intoxicated person may "black out," and have no memory of what was said or done while drinking. Effects of extreme intoxication include inability to stand, vomiting, stupor, coma and death.
It takes about one hour for the liver of a person weighing 70 kg (154 lbs.) to process and eliminate eight to 10 grams of alcohol, or about two-thirds of the alcohol contained in a standard drink. This rate is constant, no matter how much alcohol has been consumed, or what food or non-alcoholic beverages are taken.
Drinking heavily usually results in a "hangover," beginning eight to 12 hours after the last drink. Symptoms can include headache, nausea, diarrhea, shakiness and vomiting. A hangover is caused in part by acetaldehyde, a toxic chemical that is created as alcohol is processed by your liver. Other causes include dehydration and changes in hormone levels.
Some people think that having a drink before bed helps them to get to sleep. While alcohol does bring on sleep more quickly, it disturbs sleep patterns, and causes wakefulness in the night.
Yes, alcohol can be dangerous in a number of ways.
The impact of alcohol's effect on judgment, behaviour, attitude and reflexes can range from embarrassment, to unwanted or high-risk sexual contact, to violence, injury or death. Alcohol is involved in more regrettable moments, crimes and traffic fatalities than all other drugs of abuse combined. Young people, who are less familiar with the effects of alcohol, may be especially prone to act in an impulsive or dangerous manner while intoxicated.
Extreme intoxication can kill, often as the result of the person "passing out," vomiting and choking. A person who has been drinking heavily and is unconscious should be laid on his or her side and watched closely. Clammy skin, low body temperature, slow and laboured breathing and incontinence are signs of acute alcohol poisoning, which can be fatal. Seek emergency medical care.
Women who drink during pregnancy risk giving birth to a baby with behaviour problems, growth deficiency, developmental disability, head and facial deformities, joint and limb abnormalities and heart defects. The risk of bearing a child with these birth defects increases with the amount of alcohol consumed. The first trimester may be a time of greatest risk for the fetus, although there is no time during pregnancy when it is known to be safe to drink alcohol.
Mixing alcohol with other drugs — prescribed or recreational — can have unpredictable results. Alcohol may either block the absorption of the other drug, making it less effective, or it may increase the effect of the other drug, to the point of danger. The general rule is to never mix alcohol with any other drugs; for exceptions, ask your doctor.
Is there a safe level of drinking?
While there is no precise "safe" level of drinking, there are guidelines for adults who wish to lower the risks of drinking. People who are pregnant, who have certain medical conditions such as liver disease or mental illness, or who will be driving a vehicle or operating machinery, should avoid alcohol.
The "low-risk drinking" guidelines suggest spacing drinks an hour apart, and drinking no more than two standard drinks per drinking occasion. Men should have no more than 14 drinks a week, and women no more than nine.
Most alcohol-related illnesses, social problems, accidents and deaths are caused by "problem drinking." This term describes alcohol use that causes problems in a person's life, but does not include physical dependence. Problem drinking is four times as common as severe alcohol dependence.
Physical dependence involves tolerance to alcohol's effects, and withdrawal symptoms when drinking is stopped. As people develop tolerance, they need more and more alcohol to produce the desired effect. People who are physically dependent on alcohol can develop withdrawal symptoms, such as sleeplessness, tremors, nausea and seizures, within a few hours after their last drink. These symptoms can last from two to seven days and range from mild to severe, depending of the amount of alcohol consumed and the period of time over which it was used. Some people experience delirium tremens, or "the DTs," five to six days after drinking stops. This dangerous syndrome consists of frightening hallucinations, extreme confusion, fever and racing heart. If left untreated, severe alcohol withdrawal can result in death.
Treatment for alcohol dependence usually begins by treating withdrawal symptoms, but most people will need additional treatments to help them stop drinking. Even after long periods of abstinence, a person may continue to crave alcohol, and may begin to drink again. Treatment may include residential or outpatient treatment, individual or group therapy, self-help or mutual help groups, such as Alcoholics Anonymous, and certain medications, such as naltrexone. Some people respond well to one form of treatment, while others do not. There is no single most effective treatment approach.
What are the long-term effects of drinking alcohol?
How alcohol affects you in the long term depends on how much and how often you drink.
For middle-aged and older adults, as little as one drink of alcohol every other day can help protect against heart disease. On the other hand, heavy drinking raises blood pressure and puts people at risk of stroke and heart failure.
Heavy alcohol use can result in appetite loss, sexual impotence or menstrual irregularities, vitamin deficiencies and infections. Alcohol irritates the lining of the stomach, which can be painful and is potentially fatal. Alcoholic liver disease is a major cause of illness and death in North America. Alcohol also increases the risk of liver, throat, breast and other cancers.
Chronic use of alcohol can damage the brain, which can lead to dementia, difficulties with co-ordination and motor control, and loss of feeling or painful burning in the feet. Alcohol dependence often results in clinical depression, and the rate of suicide among people who are alcohol-dependent is six times that of the general population.
Although women's average lifetime alcohol intake is less than half that of men, women are just as likely as men to develop alcohol-related diseases, and are twice as likely to die from these conditions.
Provincial and federal laws regulate the manufacture, distribution, importation, advertising, possession and consumption of alcohol.
In Ontario it is illegal for anyone under 19 years of age to possess, consume or purchase alcohol; it is also illegal to sell or supply alcohol to anyone known to be or appearing to be (unless that person has proof otherwise) under the age of 19, or to sell or supply alcohol to anyone who appears to be intoxicated. Anyone who sells or supplies alcohol to others may be held civilly liable if people (including patrons of a tavern or restaurant and guests in a private home) injure themselves or others while intoxicated.


Sir Jim Rose, as reported by the BBC Subjects torn up in school review has been asked by the U.K. Government to carry out a detailed review of what is taught in primary schools.
Happily for those in the computer business he has concluded that the answer is more technology.
Not sure whether it is good news for Primary School teachers who will have to combine the need for more emphasis on play with the need for teaching youngsters how to use the internet for "research", word-processing and the production of podcasts. It's certainly not good news for teachers in secondary or tertiary education who will have to increase the element of remedial teaching as pupils with an overview of understanding, limited knowledge of the basics but great computer gaming skills move through the educational system.


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Valve's utopian crowd-sourced submissions system isn't quite set to to deliver on it's promise yet
Valve has announced a tweak to its Steam Greenlight (opens in new tab) service, the system intended to democratise Steam's submissions process by allowing users to vote on which projects make it to the publishing stage. That tweak? A $100 submission fee.
The new policy, rather than being some manner of eldritch Victorian indie tax to swell Valve's coffers by feeding on the blood of little-guy developers, is apparently a deterrent against the abuse the Greenlight system has seen from joke and troll submitters since launch. And the money doesn't even go to Valve, instead being donated to the Child's Play charity. That's fine in principle. The inherent point of Greenlight is to allow promising talent to rise majestically to the surface, so anything that stops the misanthropic holidaying redneck gobshites at the side of the pond from throwing in tyres and drunkenly firing air-rifles at the ducks is something I can get behind.
In principle.
And the system will work. A forced $100 investment in one's joke submission will ensure that any prospective troll will either a) make sure that their fictional 'Penis Hammer 17: The Cockening' pitch is really, really funny, or else b) not bother. But I can't help but worry that the system is akin to using a shotgun to open a particularly sticky jam jar lid. Moreover, it typifies what seems to me a holistic clumsiness that has plagued the implementation of Greenlight overall. But I skip haphazardly ahead of myself. First, the case of the sugary exit wound and the delicious strawberry spatter-pattern analysis.
$100 (or around £60 in the money of the tea-sipping motherland) is not a vast sum in the great scheme of things. To a burgeoning indie games studio, it could quite easily be seen as just one of the many niggly little costs that any new company's stumbly newborn deer period must absorb. An investment in future success if you will, and one that no-one will even remember in the years to come, except to scoff at smugly while gesturing for a slave-child to ignite a fifty to light their cigars with as they float merrily around their brandy-filled swimming pool. But the thing is, not everyone is in a position to absorb $100 into an already-accepted start-up budget. Because not every great new game idea comes from someone with any kind of a budget.
Above: Prince of Persia spawned some of the best games of the last couple of generations and an oily-chested Jake Gyllenhaal blockbuster. But it started with two boys twatting around with sheets at home
Dating right back to the '80s, some of the best games have come from one man with an idea, coding away on his home computer in his bedroom in his spare time. Some brilliant, historically important games – whole companies, even - have started with one guy, a crazy notion, and many long experimental hours spent burning through his evenings in front of a monitor.
Those guys are surely the people something like Greenlight can theoretically be most useful to. Those are the guys who can best benefit from an instant impression of whether their untested experimental idea is cool or not. Those are the guys whose inexperience in systems and aesthetic design can be immediately off-set by a vast focus group of players throwing in pointers from the prototype stage. But those uncertain tinkering experimenters are also the folk least likely to want to commit $100 to an uncertain process they're only just getting into. It maybe doesn't sound a lot for a potential key to the lucrative Steam sales party, but for micro-devs juggling the perils of day-to-day survival with trying to get their game made, such as Dames Making Games founder Zoe Quinn, "That's eating for a month (opens in new tab)".
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And that's assuming that Greenlight even works as intended of course. But now you also have to layer in all of the other elements that I'm uneasy about. Like the fact that its structure currently makes it feel like less of a creative workshop-cum-talent promotion service and more like a TV talent show, albeit one in which the participants have to pay to be judged on sight before they've even sung a note.
The glaring error of a downvote button alone fills me with visions of vested-interest abuse and the uneducated knee-jerk burying of certain projects. You only need to look at the argument that's already broken out in the comments section for Slenderman Stories: The Orphanage (opens in new tab) for an early superficial example. A quick click over there reveals a whole groundswell of instinctive condemnation for any Slenderman-related project, rife with accusations of tiredness and idea-theft based on the barest whisps of gameplay description, despite the public-domain Slender mythos having been invented as part of a crowd-sourced online community horror project in the first place.
Now consider how easily the internet can and does group together to e-bully someone down over a tangentially related beef, and how often up and down-voting systems are abused as a result of personal and professional bias. You've got the potential for political derailment at every turn if the wrong people get organised.
Of course Steam isn't the only online marketplace charging for exposure. There are buy-in costs for Apple's App Store of course, as well as the likes of Xbox Live and the PSN. But there's a key difference. The development license costs there pay for a direct line to the real submission evaluation process. In Greenlight, your $100 is basically a really expensive lottery ticket, buying you a chance to be judged by a community who – at the time of writing at least – stumble across submissions through a system which leaves a lot to be desired in terms of search and filtering.
And then if you're really lucky, and your game does attain the currently ill-defined approval requirements, then it will be passed up to Valve for its real judgement. And then there's every chance it will be turned down anyway. Valve's own approval criteria for Steam are a bit inconsistent (opens in new tab), to say the very least.
Above: Flatout 3. One of the worst things to happen to humanity (opens in new tab). Got accepted onto Steam. Plenty of good games don't
Yes, there's every chance that I'm over-romanticising the plight of the bedroom developer here, looking upon it through the same eye-misting idiot-tunnel through which I view everything related to the Amiga and the Spectrum. And yes, I'm fully aware that if you don't have faith in your game's ability to sell $100 worth of copies then there's a chance it shouldn't be on Steam anyway. But the assumption that every Greenlight fee will be made back in sales is one hell of an inaccurate assumption when you factor in everything at play here. When you consider what developers are really getting for their $100 (ie. not a lot really, given that decent Greenlight support will probably still require the sort of grass-roots promotion that a smart Steam-courting indie would cultivate for their game anyway), that throwaway nominal fee suddenly becomes a whole lot heftier.
Don't get me wrong. In principle Greenlight is a definite improvement over the curtained-off arcanery of Valve's traditional submission process. But it currently feels in need of a good deal more ironing out before it's really ready to achieve its theoretical purpose. The quick addition of the admission fee does at least prove that Valve is willing to be dynamic and adaptable in honing the system though, which can only be a good thing. But I personally can't help feeling that the necessary honing has only just begun.
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LifeWatch Greece integrated into GOOS Biology and Ecosystems GeoNode
The LifeWatch Greece national node, led by HCMR, hosts a large and continuously updated database with biodiversity data collected from monitoring projects throughout the Mediterranean (MedOBIS). As of September, it has been integrated as a layer of GeoNode BioEco Portal as a monitoring project for Greek Bioversity.
The GOOS BioEco Portal is a publicly available tool to monitor the status of the marine biological observing system. The GEONODE is the back-end interface where registered users can upload, edit and manage their monitoring program details including which EOVs (Essential Ocean Variables) and EBVs (Essential Biodiversity Variables) are monitored; spatial and temporal information; status of the program; data availability and licences; standardisation and protocols; as well as links to applications, tools and outputs based on the collected observations. This GeoNode is hosted and maintained by the secretariat of the Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) based at the IOC Project Office for IODE in Ostend, Belgium as a service to support the Global Ocean Observing System Biology and Ecosystem Panel.
You can find the original article on the LifeWatch Greece website.
LifeWatch Greece launches Marine Creatures Citizen Science platform for Nautilos project
The Institute of Marine Biology, Biotechnology and Aquaculture at the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research –coordinator of the LifeWatch Greece node– has launched a new citizen science platform for the Horizon2020 project, Nautilos. Using the software Zooniverse, they have called their platform for Nautilos Marine Creatures, at the service of citizen scientists everywhere. The aim of the project is to help identify the sessile and often unnoticed benthic communities living on hard substrates using high-definition underwater images from artificial reefs, ports and natural sea caves. Morphological characters can be used to identify the taxonomic groups of these sophisticated marine communities.
If you would like to participate in this voluntary project and help out, please click here and get involved! A Tutorial and a Field Guide are available which will help you discover the project, be a Citizen Scientist and learn more about the marine environment.
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In Athens for the EOSC Future Consortium Meeting
The EOSC Future General Assembly and Consortium Meeting took place on 5–6 July 2022 at the Royal Olympic Hotel, Athens. The meeting gathered the consortium partners, in person and remotely, and was a crucial moment to assess the first 18 months of work, align technical and non-technical milestones, and coordinate the steps ahead to ensure the success of project activities.
EOSC Future is an EU-funded H2020 project that is implementing the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC), which will give European researchers access to a fully operational web of data and related services founded on FAIR protocols, principles and standards for accessing interoperable datasets.
Several members of LifeWatch ERIC attended the key event in the project calendar, among whom CEO Christos Arvanitidis, CTO Juan Miguel González-Aranda, Training Officer Cosimo Vallo, Project Manager Ana Mellado García, Data Lakehouse and Blockchain Officer Joaquín López Lérida and International Initiatives & Projects Manager Cristina Huertas-Olivares. Being Work Package 6 leader, Christos Arvanitidis presented the progress of WP6 to the consortium during the discussion on Science Projects, following the review of the project after its first year in operation. Cosimo Vallo also updated the consortium on the next steps of the project's training plan, as part of Work Package 9.
To learn more about the projects in which LifeWatch ERIC is involved, please visit the Related Projects page.
Introducing the EBES Master's Diary
In the Spring Term of 2022, LifeWatch ERIC will be funding a three-month internship abroad for three students, Martina, Marco and Ludovico, of the e-Biodiversity and Ecosystem Sciences Master's degree (EBES) at the University of Salento, which is supported by LifeWatch ERIC.
Thanks to this dedicated LifeWatch ERIC internship programme, the students will be going to the Ionian University in Corfu, where they will be given the chance to apply the skills they have developed during their studies, carrying out research for their dissertations and gaining experience in the university labs. Individually, Martina, Marco and Ludovico will be focusing on using text mining to extract information on spatial and ecological traits of freshwater fishes, using a modelling approach to investigate the reasons a species population stays heterogenous, and building user-friendly citizen science applications with the aim of monitoring natural ecosystems. You can follow all three of the students' journeys throughout their experience in Corfu by watching their Master's Diary, which they will be updating periodically – subscribe to our YouTube channel to ensure you never miss an update!
The EBES Master's Degree e-Biodiversity and Ecosystem Sciences (EBES) is the newest curriculum available within the Master of Coastal and Marine Biodiversity and Ecology degree, designed to provide trans-disciplinary knowledge and skill sets for a new generation of ecologists proficient in data science, modelling and eco-informatics. It is a two-year programme at the University of Salento, entirely taught in English, allowing students to gain highly specialised instruction on biological and ecological sciences,ecological modelling and ecological informatics technologies. The course was created as current global challenges call for a deeper understanding of ecological phenomena at various levels of scale, to identify patterns and underlying mechanisms of biodiversity organisation and ecosystem functioning, and design scenarios of future change.
For more information about the EBES Master's Degree, please see the dedicated webpage of the University of Salento, or download the PDF here.
International Women's Day 2022: Despoina Vokou
For International Women's Day 2022, we at LifeWatch ERIC are putting eight scientists in the spotlight. Each of the LifeWatch ERIC member states has proposed a figure who has broken boundaries over the course of her lifetime, and is an inspiration to younger generations looking to pursue a career in STEM.
As we explored in the podcast we recorded for The International Day of Women and Girls in Science, women are still underrepresented in various scientific fields, such as engineering, computer science and AI. Additionally, scientific research in general is not only unbalanced in terms of composition (33% female) but also in terms of hierarchy, with only 12% of national science academy members being women, who are disproportionately overlooked when it comes to promotion and grants.
The women at the centre of our campaign are very diverse, hailing from a range of countries and time periods, but they all have one thing in common: overcoming the odds in order to contribute to scientific improvement. We want to draw attention to just a fraction of the women who have defied the cultural barriers pitted against them to bring good to the world, and bring recognition where they might have been overlooked.
Despoina Vokou is a Professor of Ecology in the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, where she previously held the roles of Head of the School of Biology and Deputy Dean of the School of Science. She obtained her bachelor's degree from School of Pharmacy, National and Kapodistrian of the University of Athens, followed by a PhD from the School of Biology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Her research interests include aerobiology, mycology and plant ecology, Mediterranean ecosystems, biodiversity conservation and management of protected areas. She has published over 110 scientific publications with an h-index of 36.
Vokou's expertise in her field has received much recognition, having also been heavily involved in the direction of WWF Greece over the last 30 years; she was invited to represent Greece at the 10th Μeeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP 10) in Japan, and was president of the Natura 2000 national Committee, as well as being called up as an expert on international environmental issues/WPIEI-Biodiversity for the 2014 Greek Presidency of the EU Council.
The National Bank of Greece invited her to review its report on 'The environmental, economic and social impacts of climate change in Greece', and the 5th Assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) invited her to review chapters of its famous report 'Climate Change Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability'. In addition to being a Member of the Council of European Ecological Federation (EEF) for nearly a decade, Vokou is also a founding member of the Hellenic Ecological Society (HELECOS), which she presided over for several years.
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LWGreece Research Infrastructure Data Services
The Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (HCMR) is working on the enhancement of the LifeWatchGreece Research Infrastructure (LWGreece RI) Data Services. The purpose of these activities is to provide end-users with a user-friendly service, enabling them to search and access (meta)data from two sources, Micro-CT vLab and IPT MedOBIS.
The activities are divided into three major categories:
(a) design and implementation of facilities for harvesting data
(b) data modelling and semantic data transformation activities, and
(c) updates and enhancements of the Data Services of the LWGreece RI.
More details of these activities are given below:
A set of supporting services and tools have been designed and implemented, able to harvest resources from two databases: (a) the IPT MedOBIS database and (b) the Micro-CT vLab database. A harvesting mechanism has been implemented that exports information from the above-mentioned sources, which are subsequently transformed and added to LWGreece repositories (see point below).
After harvesting data from the sources described above, they needed to be homogenised before depositing them in the repositories of the LWGreece infrastructure. To this end, a set of mappings was implemented, using X3ML Specification Language,[1] that describes the transition of the harvested resources from their original schemata, to a common target top-level ontology MarineTLO.[2] The result was a set of ontological-based descriptions regarding MarineTLO that were inserted into the LWGreece semantic repositories.
Several endpoints of the Data Services were updated, so that they can properly retrieve information from LWGreece semantic repositories. In addition, we have enhanced the services based on the findings and the updated modelling that emerged from the two new sources that were used (i.e., IPT MedOBIS, micro-CT vLab).
It is worth mentioning that the Data Services (along with all the other available vLabs) is now available through the Metadata Catalogue of LifeWatch ERIC. Allowing this central catalogue to be machine-interoperable is necessary for the population of the catalogue, and implements the FAIR principles and EOSC-interoperability, promoted through ENVRI-FAIR WP9 and WP11.
[1] Marketakis, Y., Minadakis, N., Kondylakis, H., Konsolaki, K., Samaritakis, G., Theodoridou, M., Flouris, G. and Doerr, M., 2017. X3ML mapping framework for information integration in cultural heritage and beyond. International Journal on Digital Libraries, 18(4), pp. 301-319.
[2] Tzitzikas, Y., Allocca, C., Bekiari, C., Marketakis, Y., Fafalios, P., Doerr, M., Minadakis, N., Patkos, T. and Candela, L., 2016. Unifying heterogeneous and distributed information about marine species through the top level ontology MarineTLO. Program, 50(1), pp. 16-40.
Explainers: the Micro-CT vLab
The Micro-CT vLab is a virtual laboratory which is hosted in the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (HCMR) and was initially established during the ESFRI LifeWatchGreece Research Infrastructure. This virtual lab offers users access to virtual galleries of various samples which can be displayed and downloaded through a web application. This tool has been updated over the Elixir-GR, BIOIMAGING-GR and Synthesys+ projects with the addition of several new features. Firstly, the Micro-CT vLab has now been upgraded to Drupal version 9. A series of micro-CT datasets from medical to biological studies can be uploaded in order to be stored and disseminated.
Furthermore, the Micro-CT vLab has now a REST API for creating new content. Through the API, the user has the ability to access micro-CT API endpoints, which can retrieve information about various micro-CT scans, species and metadata information related with the micro-CT datasets. A metadata catalogue has been also created in order to dynamically display the complete metadata available for each dataset which are published in the micro-CT. Finally, following registration, the user now has the ability to upload the original micro-CT datasets and the related metadata through a user-friendly form.
You can watch a short demonstration video of the Micro-CT vLab below.
LifeWatch ERIC CEO at the Ionian University
On 23–24 November 2021, LifeWatch ERIC CEO, Christos Arvanitidis, travelled to the Ionian University in Zakynthos (Greece) to deliver three lectures to Bachelor's degree students at the University's Department of the Environment.
Dr Arvanitidis gave three in-person lectures; the first presented the research infrastructure LifeWatch ERIC and its unique position at the service of the biodiversity and ecosystem research community, the second covered examples on the international, European and national legal framework of the sea, whilst the third demonstrated how LifeWatch ERIC can help scientists working on lagoonal biodiversity and ecosystem dynamics. Dr Arvanitidis himself is a marine scientist and Research Director at the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, where he helped to form the national node LifeWatchGreece before becoming LifeWatch ERIC CEO.
LifeWatch ERIC already has strong ties with the Ionian University, which will soon be offering the same LifeWatch ERIC-developed e-Biodiversity and Ecosystem Sciences (EBES) MSc programme already available at the University of Salento (host of LifeWatch Italy). Once activated there, the course will give enrolled students the opportunity to obtain a "Joint Degree" with an exchange programme between the two countries.
You can view the EBES Master's brochure here.
LifeWatch ERIC CEO and CTO Inspire at 'Inspirational Event 2021'
Inspirational Event 2021, powered by Advance Services, took place at Heraklion (Crete) on 15 and 16 November. Its purpose was to bring together successful and distinguished professionals to give half-hour talks, passing on their knowledge, experiences and advice to an audience consisting of executives and entrepreneurs of the local community.
Alongside LifeWatch ERIC Executive Board members, Dr Juan Miguel Gonzalez-Aranda (LifeWatch ERIC CTO & Head of its ICT-Core) and Dr Christos Arvanitidis (LifeWatch ERIC CEO), spoke Dr George Bruseker (Takin Solutions CEO), Dr George Caridakis (Professor at the Aegean University), Mr Yannis Lidakis (Harvard University Representative & SkyExpress Commercial Director) and Dr Armando Stellato (Professor at the University of Rome). The event was chaired by Nikos Minadakis, CEO of Advance Services, which provides Technical & Operations Consultancy to LifeWatch ERIC.
The audience was thrilled with the professional experiences, tips, suggestions and ideas of the speakers, and actively participated with comments and questions. A total of fifty people who had received invitations said they would gladly attend the event each year and were looking forward to returning. The executives of Advance Services expressed their enthusiasm in repeating the event, next time with even more speakers, listeners and a wider range of topics.
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Biomonitoring of aquatic ecosystems using genetic methods
The second part of a DNAqua-Net workshop on "Biomonitoring of aquatic ecosystems using genetic methods", was hosted virtually by the Cyprus University of Technology and the Institute of Marine Biology, Biotechnology and Aquaculture (IMBBC) of the Hellenic Centre for Marine Research on Friday 12 March 2021. It presented to experts, and to the general public, the exciting potential of new, promising and rapidly developing genetic methods for assessing biodiversity, and their use as monitoring tools.
Throughout their lifetime, all organisms release DNA into the environment (environmental DNA or eDNA). New genetic methods, such as DNA metabarcoding, detect this eDNA that is released into the environment and can partially identify and quantify the existence of various organisms without necessarily collecting whole organisms. In aquatic ecosystems, for example, living species can be detected by filtering only a few litres of water and submitting them to genetic analysis.
In an age of great ecological challenges, eDNA methods will find applications in monitoring changes in biodiversity caused by factors such as ecosystem degradation and climate change, in the early detection of alien/invasive species, and in the identification of rare and endangered species. They therefore have the potential to substantially improve the procedures for assessing and monitoring the ecological status of aquatic ecosystems, in particular as part of national and European directives, such as the Water Framework Directive and the Marine Strategy Framework Directive.
The workshop provided in-depth information on the great potential of DNA and eDNA-based methods to experts involved in the practical implementation of these European Directives, and highlighted the status quo of the reference databases. The presentations by IMBBC and CUT were followed by a discussion which emphasised the need for collaborative action between stakeholders (scientists in the fields of genetics, ecology and bioinformatics, policy makers, management bodies, NGOs, etc.) in order to standardise the methods used at national level so as to be able to engage in formal bio-monitoring actions on the ecological quality of aquatic ecosystems right across Europe.
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Ahead of Saturday's Emirates FA Cup Preliminary Round the Football Association have made the draw for the First Qualifying Round with three local sides in the hat.
Bracknell Town, Highmoor-IBIS and Ascot United have all been drawn but will have to get through tough fixtures on Saturday against the likes of Didcot Town and Egham Town.
Highmoor-IBIS have on paper the best opportunity to progress to the first qualifying round given that of the three, they are facing step five counterparts in Hellenic Premier Division rivals Brimscombe & Thrupp.
Bracknell Town have arguably the toughest test in Evo-Stik Southern League Division 1 side Egham Town – the brilliantly named Sarnies finished third last season but have only won once this season in three games and the Robins have Adam Cornell.
Ascot United's FA Cup goalscorer James Brazier. Photo: Mark Pugh.
As for Ascot United, well I've written them off to already this season and they continue to prove me wrong so I'll not make that mistake again. I fully expect them to get past struggling Evo-Stik Division 1 side Didcot Town on Saturday.
As much as I expect the Yellamen to pull a shock on Didcot, getting past Ryman Premier Tonbridge Angels is another story in the First Qualifying Round.
It's an entirely different view for Bracknell and Highmoor who will both face Southern Combination sides – the equivalent step five league to the Hellenic covering Sussex and southern Surrey.
If they can take good form in to those games then I'd definitely expect both to at least reach the Second Qualifying Round, which is one hell of an improvement on last seasons performance for all our Berkshire clubs!
FootballinBracknell will be at Egham Town for the Bracknell game on Saturday. You can see the FULL draw for the First Qualifying Round here, and the full draw for the Preliminary Round here.
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93 percent of Polish citizens believe that vaccination is the most effective way to protect children from serious diseases. 90 percent are convinced that vaccination of children causes more good than harm, and 86% believe that vaccines are safe, according to a CBOS (Public Opinion Research Center) survey.
According to the information published on this week, 87 percent respondents believe that vaccination against the most dangerous infectious diseases should be mandatory. 9 percent respondents believe all vaccinations should be voluntary.
The study shows that those who think that vaccines are being promoted not because they are needed, but because it is in the interest of pharmaceutical companies are a minority (22 percent), as are respondents who think that vaccines for children they can cause serious developmental disorders (18%).
The CBOS survey shows that opinions on vaccination are weakly diverse socially. In all analysed socio-demographic groups, the vast majority of respondents believe that vaccination is the most effective way to protect children from serious diseases, vaccines are safe, and vaccinating children causes more good than harm.
Slightly more socially diverse is the view that vaccination is promoted mainly because it is in the interest of pharmaceutical companies. This view is more popular among respondents aged 45-54 (26%), residents of cities with the population from 20,000 to less than 100,000 (28%), respondents with basic vocational education (27%), per capita income from PLN 1,300 to PLN 1,799 (28%), and taking into account political views - respondents identifying themselves with the right (28%).
More often than others, 25-34 years old people (72%), university graduates (76%), respondents with the highest per capita income (78%) and those with leftist political views (75%) do not agree with this view.
CBOS notes that the attitude of Polish citizens to vaccinations improved markedly over the last five years, and a particularly significant improvement took place over the last year and a half.
Compared to July 2017, the percentage of respondents believing that vaccinations are safe clearly increased (by 13 percentage points) as did the percentage of those, who negate the statement that vaccination may cause serious development disorders (by 14 points). There are also more respondents who believe that vaccinations are the most effective way to protect against serious diseases (7 points increase) and that vaccinating children causes more good than harm (5 points increase). The percentage of respondents who object to the opinion that vaccination is promoted mainly because it is in the interest of pharmaceutical companies is also higher (16 points increase).
More often than a year and a half ago, people in Poland believe that vaccinations against the most dangerous infectious diseases should be obligatory (87%, an increase by 7 percentage points), and they less often opt for voluntary vaccination (a drop by 3 points to 9%). There are also fewer respondents who do not have an opinion on this subject (a drop by 3 points).


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Unclear what happens to personal info with Clear
NEW YORK (AP) — More than a quarter million people are wondering what will happen to their fingerprints, social security numbers, home addresses and other personal information now that a company that sped them through airport security is out of business.
Government officials are wondering too.
The sudden shutdown of the Clear program, run by Verified Identity Pass Inc., this week has raised more concerns about who keeps our personal information, how well it's protected from theft and whether it could be sold to the highest bidder.
If Verified files for bankruptcy protection or is taken over by another company, security experts say it's unlikely customers' private data would be handed over to creditors or new owners. But they — as well as some members of Congress — are starting to trace the data trail.
Worries about protecting personal information and the danger of identity theft cover many areas of life in the 21st century beyond travel — from drawing cash out of an ATM to handing a credit card over to a store or restaurant.
On Tuesday, the parent company of retailers T.J. Maxx and Marshall's said it will pay $9.75 million in a settlement with a number of states related to massive data theft that exposed tens of millions of payment card numbers.
Clear said it will secure the personal information it gathered, which it says it handled according to Transportation Security Administration standards, and will "take appropriate steps to delete the information." Clear only provided information to TSA when it was part of the agency's pilot program, Registered Traveler, which ended in July 2008.
In a statement on its Web site Friday, Verified Identity Pass said that all of its Clear airport kiosks have been wiped clean of data. Employees' laptops are in the process of being cleared.
Although it was a private company, Clear had to follow TSA guidelines and report personal information to the TSA to get its members through special fast-lane security lines at about 20 airports.
Spokesman Greg Soule said Friday that the agency didn't keep any data for passengers after July 2008, when Clear began operations as a fully private company. Soule said that the TSA is obligated to delete all information it collected during the pilot program by July 31.
Soule emphasized that Clear was a private company responsible for destroying its own data.
But security experts are still questioning the TSA's methods. Some say the Transportation Security Administration should manage passenger data better and not store so much of it for so long.
"This question about whether or not (the TSA is holding on to information from Clear customers) is actually part of a bigger debate," said Marc Rotenberg, executive director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center. "This is just one of the long-running battles; they simply keep too much data on too many people for too long,"
The intimate information shared with the TSA by Clear could leave some people especially vulnerable if there were a security breach, he said.
In addition to information such as social security numbers and home addresses, Clear took eye scans, fingerprints and digital photos of every one of its approximately 260,000 members.
"I think the customers of Clear should be concerned about this," Rotenberg said. "Fingerprints are one of the most effective ways to (steal someone's) identity."
Clear grew out of the government agency's Registered Traveler program, which requires "biometric identifiers." Two similar companies — FLO and Vigilant, still operate similar databases, but are far smaller.
Rotenberg said he doesn't believe that all the data the TSA collected from Clear members is going to be deleted. And the longer the data is held, the more potential there is for leaks.
TSA's own record raises doubts about the security of personal information it holds. In 2007, it lost an external hard drive containing the personal and financial information of 100,000 current and former agency workers. In 2006, the TSA inadvertently exposed thousands of Americans' personal information on the Internet when they launched an unsecured Web site to help travelers whose names were incorrectly on airline watch lists.
Clear had breaches as well. Last year, the TSA suspended the program temporarily after a laptop containing pre-enrollment records of about 33,000 customers was lost at San Francisco International Airport.
On Thursday, the House Committee on Homeland Security sent a letter to TSA Assistant Secretary Gale Rossides expressing concern about the handling of Clear members personal data.
"While we recognize that Clear is not a government program managed by TSA, we are concerned about the protocols Verified Identity Pass will implement in the next few days as Clear winds down," the letter read. "…It appears the TSA allowed the private sector to determine a method of storage and disposal of extremely sensitive personal information. It is our understanding that TSA's directives are silent on the disposal of data in the event of a company's merger, buy out, or bankruptcy."
The letter went on to say that the committee is "concerned about the safety and security of the information currently held by Clear."
Rotenberg said he doesn't think the TSA is properly prepared to deal with removing the large amount of private information from Clear customers.
"It's not clear to me that they're really going to destroy it," he said. "The TSA policy does not appear to adequately consider the consumers of Registered Traveler programs if the company ceases operations. I don't think they anticipated this."
A look at what TSA and the airlines know about you
Here's a look at what the Transportation Security Administration and the airlines know about the traveling public:
Under a new TSA program called Secure Flight, four unnamed airlines are
now providing names of passengers to the TSA. The others check watch
lists individually.
— The agency is also asking passengers to provide date of birth and gender.
How long does TSA hold onto your information?
— Data related to names that don't match a watch list is held for 7 days.
— Data for names that are a potential match for the watch list are held for 7 years.
— Information for names matching a watch or "No Fly" list will be held for 99 years.
Starting in August, the TSA will ask all airlines to provide names, birth dates and genders.
Source: TSA


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Student body, admissions, and outcomes
According to Peterson's  and recent institutional publications, International Business College has an undergraduate population of 403.   Of 1,012 applicants, 707 (or 70%) were admitted. Per College Navigator, the most recent graduation/transfer out rate is 76%.

Accreditation

International Business College is accredited by the Accrediting Commission of Career Schools and Colleges  to award diplomas and associate degrees
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but should we get rid of using context all together?
Janet Allen in her book, Words, Words, Words (2006) asks, "Why Not Context?" She says without guidance students generally resort to two methods for learning new words: looking it up and sounding it out in a sentence (context). A single sentence usually does not have enough information for students to figure out what a word means in context, so they need new strategies.
Students learn more words on their own by reading, so they should have instruction in how to figure words out on their own. Arm them with strategies for figuring out the words in context. Using strategies to learn vocabulary is known as concept-based vocabulary and researches say that the benefits last well beyond the usual vocabulary instruction.
Finally, show students how you use strategies to figure out words you don't know well. Talk through the process with them, so they can see a more efficient way to go about the process.


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Mick joined the portfolio management team in 2016. His main focus is on quant research, backtesting of strategies and trading strategy optimization. Before joining Saemor Capital, Mick performed a research internship with the Quantitative Multi Asset team of NN Investment Partners. Prior to this, he had a summer internship with the Equity Research department at ABN AMRO.
Mick holds a BSc degree in Business Economics and a MSc degree in Financial Econometrics (Quantitative Finance) from the Erasmus University Rotterdam.


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Concrete 101: What, Why and How
Posted on December 4, 2020 by Loreley Molina - Concrete
Concrete is a mainstay of modern life, which is why it's used in almost every imaginable structure – from skyscrapers to driveways. But what is this wonder material really made of, and why is it so ubiquitous and durable?
Concrete vs. Cement
Before anything else, there should be a distinction between concrete and cement. While most people think they're one and the same, cement – particularly Portland cement – is just one component of concrete.
components of Concrete
There are three things that comprise regular concrete: water, the aforementioned Portland cement and aggregates (filler material, such as gravel or sand). This is actually similar to asphalt, but the latter uses a petroleum product instead of cement.
Water is often called the universal solvent, and, in this case, it's also an essential component of concrete. It allows the cement to become a paste (which is normally in powder form) and allows the aggregate to mix with the cement. This process is called hydration, where the water permeates the powdered cement and allows it to adhere to the aggregate. Still, remember that the more water a concrete mixture has, the weaker it is; this is called the water-cement ratio.
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It was an incredible day of racing at Revolution Series round three on Saturday (January 4 2014) in Manchester, with records falling and world-class performances all round.
Team Sky's Peter Kennaugh delivered an absolutely stunning ride in the Points Race in the afternoon session, lapping the field seven times. In the sold-out evening session Ed Clancy and Ollie Wood, riding for Rapha Condor JLT, set a new world's best mark in the 1km Madison TT.
A world-class field descended on the National Cycling Centre with Kennaugh, Clancy, Alex Dowsett, Steven Burke, Adam Blythe riding alongside the likes of Laura Trott, Dani King, Lizzie Armitstead, Jason Kenny and Dani Khan.
Team Sky's Kennaugh thrilled the crowd last season by lapping the field twice: incredibly, he went five times better this time around, gaining seven times on the field, on his way to a dominant victory.
Also in the afternoon, Katie Archibald shone in the Women's Elimination Race, beating off competition from Wiggle Honda in the shape of Trott, King, Elinor Barker and Joanna Rowsell.
Clancy (Rapha Condor JLT) had earlier kicked the New Year off in style with a victory in the Flying Lap in a time of 13.208″.
Nico Hesslich (Rudy Project RT, 13.408″) was second as he had been at Round 2 in Glasgow. Ross Edgar (Rouleur, 13.651″) third.
In the evening session, the first Elite Championship event on the menu was the Team Elimination Race – a combination of the Madison and Elimination formats. It was the WD40 boys came out on top, Owain Doull and Chris Latham proving too good. Telegraph All Stars – Dowsett and Blythe – were second, with Rudy Project RT third.
Laura Trott raised a big cheer as she took the Women's Elimination Race, before escaping virtually unharmed from a heavy crash in the Scratch Race, which was eventually won by her Wiggle Honda team-mate Elinor Barker.
Kennaugh had set the tone in the afternoon: Clancy and Wood then raised the bar further with a new world record in the 1km Madison Time Trial.
Clancy's scorching first lap set the pace and they managed a jaw-dropping time 54.537″ – beating Sir Chris Hoy and Arnaud Tournant's previous record of 54.549″ which was recently voted the best-ever Revolution Series moment by fans.
"Congrats lads! Told you a Hogmanay at the Hoy's is good for your form Ed!" tweeted Hoy soon after, Clancy having celebrated the New Year with Hoy just a few days before.
Buoyed by setting a world record, Clancy then won a hard-fought UCI Scratch Race in fine style, just as he did in Round 1 in October.
Three-time Olympic gold medalist Jason Kenny won the men's UCI Sprint final, while Elis Ligtlee of Holland continued her strong form with victory in the Women's event.
UCI President Brian Cookson had been enjoying all the action from track centre, and was on hand to carry out the presentations, with Rudy Project RT remaining top of the Elite Championship table.
In the HOY Future Stars Joe Truman and Sophie Capewell both rode strongly to stay out in front of the Boy's and Girl's competitions respectively.
After the presentations, on-form Kenny added the UCI Keirin Final to his list of victories. Danni Khan won the Women's Keirin, the penultimate event of the night.
Revolution Series Round four is on Saturday, February 1 at the National Cycling Centre in Manchester before the season finale at Lee Valley VeloPark in London (March 14-15).
Television highlights of round three will be shown on BT Sport 2 at 10pm, Tuesday January 7, with repeats, both on BT Sport 2, 6.30pm on Wednesday (January 8) and 1.15pm on Saturday (January 11).


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Q: Closed Connection:next Error in resultSet The connection doesn't seem to be closed, I'm thinking perhaps it's due to callableStatement being nested inside preparedStatement. The query works and shows the first row that I'm looking for, but the connection closes after the first iteration of the loop.
Here's the code:
public static void main(String[] args) {
    try (Connection connection = ConnectionUtil_Basic.getConnection();
            PreparedStatement preparedStatement = connection.prepareStatement(generateQuery());
            ResultSet resultSet = preparedStatement.executeQuery()) {

        while (resultSet.next()) {
            int mbr = resultSet.getInt(1);
            String ime = resultSet.getString(2);
            String prezime = resultSet.getString(3);
            int brRadnika = ExecuteFun.getRadnici(mbr);

            System.out.printf("%-4d %-8s %-8s %-4d\n", mbr, ime, prezime, brRadnika);
        }
    } catch(SQLException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
}

And here's the method from ExecuteFun that uses callableStatement:
(F_SEL_BrRadnikaSefova is a function in SQL connected to my database)
public static int getRadnici(int mbr_sefa) {
    try (Connection connection = ConnectionUtil_Basic.getConnection();
            CallableStatement callableStatement = connection.prepareCall("{? = call F_SEL_BrRadnikaSefova(?) }")) {
        callableStatement.registerOutParameter(1, java.sql.Types.INTEGER);
        callableStatement.setLong(2, mbr_sefa);

        callableStatement.execute();

        int result = (Integer) callableStatement.getObject(1);
        return result;
    } catch (SQLException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
        return NULL;
    }

And here's the stacktrace:
java.sql.SQLRecoverableException: Closed Connection: next
    at oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleResultSetImpl.next(OracleResultSetImpl.java:247)
    at upit2.Upit2_Sefovi.main(Upit2_Sefovi.java:20)

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A huge congratulations to the new Mr & Mrs Marshall-Boon on your big day! We loved being part of it and we would like to wish you all the best for the future.
Bee Gees Tribute Night at Old Thorns was a blast! We hope you all enjoyed your night and we look forward to seeing you in the booth again soon.
Roaming Photography pictures from Go South Coast a night with the Stars of 2018, and what a great night it was!
A night with the stars from 2018 event was amazing! We sure do love being part of the awards! We hope you all had a great night and congratulations to all of the winners!
Ed Vs Adele Tribute Night at Old Thorns! What a cracking night! We look forward to seeing you at another event soon.
Golf Presidents Dinner presentation was amazing! We loved the shooting range and and the casinos! This years theme went down a treat! See you all again next year guys!
What a night, we love the Abba Gold Tribute act at Old Thorns, we hope you all enjoyed it too? We look forward to seeing you in the booth again soon.
The First Lythe Hill Hotel Showcase of the year, and boy it was a busy one! We loved chatting to you all about your wedding plans, and we can not wait to be part of your weddings!
A huge happy birthday to Paul, you are now a proud member of the 60s club! We hope you had a fab party and we loved being part of it!


Pregnancy really looks great on this stunning mama to be. She is so brave too, as she was put on STRICT bed rest very early on in her pregnancy. She was determined to have photos, so we took it nice and easy with this lifestyle session in her beautiful home. It was such a pleasure meeting this family, and I can't wait to meet the little one this year.


(A word to the effect of counting. I don' have a system. Some of the postings in this category I consider auxiliary in terms of developing the theme and so they don't get a number. Others again take us a step further and so I count them in. This contemplative discourse "Listening to Orpheus" is all about the descent into the underworld – but even more importantly about the turning around and coming back to the world of form. It is about the forces of life – creativity, death and a passion for life.
My friend Fatima pointed me to this wonderful lecture of Sheik Hamza Yussuf on the occasion of a Rumi convention.
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So typical. Hamza starting off by saying , "I want to start off by saying….." that he knows nothing about Rumi.
His saying that was followed up by, "I have read his poetry in translation and the Masnawi translated by Nicholson." How many people would still say that, feel that way, after having read so much?
I mean, how many of us could, sincerely, be able to say something like that? He gives my understanding of how humility can look on the ground a whole new dimension.
I have read the complete (6 volumes) of the Masnawi 3 times and I can assure anybody who listens to this that Hamza has more understanding of who Rumi was, and what he was trying to convey, than I ever will. So he is going to speak of something else at this Rumi Commemoration.
This unique gift to human beings Language. Words (he just loves words…really)………and poetry …..the highest and most subtle form of human communication. The Masnawi in Persian is an epic poem. The Qur an in Arabic is in poetry not prose..
A modern example: Rilke who is touching and powerful in translation. How much more so in German? Guess one would have to be German to know the full import of that. And, just because someone is German, or Persian or Arabic does not mean that they will necessarily "get it".
It sort of raises a question doesn't it?


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The World We Live Without: New Stage Musical at DLS-CSB
Imagine a society where the LGBTQA+ are accepted and the heterosexuals are oppressed. This is the theme the epic new stage musical "The World We Live Without" revolves around. Bringing in director/lyricist Kurvine Chua and writer Kamille Casida, with original music from Kurvine and the Rebellion, the audience should expect to be treated to a unique environment that hopes to open even jaded eyes to the injustices of reality. Add to this an edgy, 1980s inspired aesthetic, and viewers are in for one heck of a throwback, revolutionary experience.
Produced by students of the Arts Management program of De La Salle-College of Saint Benilde, under the guidance of Eric dela Cruz, the show opens on March 17, 2016 (Thursday), with runs until March 19 (Saturday). There will be two shows per day, one at 1:00 p.m. and another at 7:00 p.m. Tickets are priced at 150 Php each and can be purchased by visiting our booth located on the 9th floor and 12th of the School of Design and Arts campus.
Follow our protagonist Elle as she continues her parents' battle for equality. Starring Isabella Manikan, Jearon Sepacio, Patricia Ong, Lucas Buencamino, Shania Sumergido, Ricardo Torres, Brian Bobadilla, Hannah Rodrigo, and Leif Malvas, this is a spectacle you would definitely not want to miss.
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TWO ORIGINAL MAY 1944 AND JAN. 1945 DOCUMENTS FROM THE SS JUDGE ABOUT
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SS-Obersturmführer Adalbert Trattenschegg from the infamous 'Brigade Dirlewanger' who was killed during the Warsaw uprising.
The documents about him are from the SS judge at the office of Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler. One document, dated 5 May 1944 deals about the transfer of Trattenschegg to the SS prison Danzig-Matzkau and that Trattenschegg may never become a member of the SS again. The second document, dated 6 January 1945 is a notification about his death while serving in the SS-Sturmbrigade Dirlewanger during the Warsaw uprising, including the order of his rehabilitation. The papers are signed by an unknown SS-Hauptscharführer "für die Richtigkeit der Angaben", confirming the accuracy of what the SS judge states in these documents.
The Dirlewanger Brigade, also known as the SS-Sturmbrigade Dirlewanger (1944)] or the 36th Waffen Grenadier Division of the SS (German: die 36. Waffen-Grenadier-Division der SS), or The Black Hunters (German: Die schwarzen Jäger), was a unit of the Waffen-SS during World War II. The unit, named after its commander Oskar Dirlewanger, consisted of convicted criminals who were not expected by Nazi Germany to survive their service with the unit. Originally formed in 1940 and first deployed for counter-insurgency duties against the Polish resistance movement, the brigade saw service in anti-partisan actions in German-occupied Eastern Europe.
During its operations, the unit participated in the mass murder of civilians and in other war crimes in German-occupied Eastern Europe. It gained a reputation among Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS officers for its brutality. Several members such as Hans von Cullen were put to death post-war by ad-hoc tribunals. Several commanders attempted to remove Dirlewanger from command and to dissolve the unit, but powerful patrons within the Nazi apparatus protected Dirlewanger and intervened on his behalf. Amongst other actions, the unit took part in the destruction of Warsaw in late 1944 and in the massacre of around 100,000 of Warsaw's inhabitants in August 1944 during the Warsaw Uprising – as well as in the brutal suppression of the Slovak National Uprising of August to October 1944. The eponymous Dirlewanger Brigade was led by World War I veteran and convicted criminal Oskar Dirlewanger, considered an amoral violent alcoholic who was claimed to have possessed a sadistic sexual orientation and a barbaric nature; he has been described as "the most evil man" in the SS. [source: Wikipedia]
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Q: Measurable functions of finite measure spaces Let $(X;\mu )$ be a finite measure space; $f : X \to R$ be a measurable
function. Assume $\mu(f > 0) > 0$. Is it true that for every $\epsilon> 0$ there
is a $\delta > 0$ such that $\mu(0 < f < \delta) < \epsilon$?
I need a hint on how to start the solution.

A: Suppose there exists $c>0$ such that for every $n>0$, $\mu(0<f<1/n)\geq c$. Write $\mu(f>0) =A$.
We have $\mu(f\geq 1/n) =\mu(f>0) -\mu(0<f<1/n)\leq A-c$.
Since $(f>0)\subset \bigcup_n (f\geq 1/n)$, we deduce $\mu(f>0)\leq lim_n\mu(f\geq 1/n)\leq A-c$. This is a contradiction with the fact that $\mu(f>0) =A$.


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USA Northeast
T Extention to the airport
By tooluther, January 6, 2006 in Pittsburgh
tooluther 0
Location: Pittsburgh, PA (Lawrenceville)
The new "Conextions" newsletter put out by PAT lays out the case for just extending the T to the north side to save costs (and cutting the convention center station)...in doing so they show a rough routing of what the line to the airport will look like (in a hundred years I guess)
Conextions Winter 2005
PghUSA 0
Location: RollingRock's WorldHeadquarters GREATER PITTSBURGH
I've always been a huge fan of an airport link to the T, though in recent months you all have convinced me that capturing the hearts and minds of the teens and 20 somethings in Oakland with the Universities is more important then the occasional business traveler to PIT. Both routes are important though.
My biggest surprise at this route is that it would create a whole new "airport corridor" far north of the Parkway west. That could add to the critical mass out there making places like the Rocks and Kennedy Twp. vital again!
Evergrey 0
Location: Pittsburgh (Bloomfield)
Though I'd certainly like to see a T connection to the Airport eventually... I would rather see the T service the people who live in Pittsburgh... instead of travelers using the airport. I think it should be a higher priority to connect the neighborhoods of the city. As it is... the T barely services anyone who lives in the city (a few stops in Beechview and the limited Allentown loop)... it's primarily a system for suburbanites from the south hills to go to work downtown. (which isn't a bad thing esp. considering there are no limited access highways in the south hills) I feel that the North Shore connector is geared towards suburbanites as well. Though it does have the potential to connect more north side neighborhoods (and apparently the airport as well)... it seems to me that it is more show than function... it's goal to bring T riders from Bethel Park to Pirate games. The whole T system is too suburban-oriented. The densely populated city hoods should be the priority. Take a look at Cleveland's system... much of the city is serviced by rail transit. That's one area where Cleveland destroys us.
Instead of north... and especially the rather sparsely populated west... I'd like to see the T move east... connect Bloomfield, Lawrenceville, Garfield, E. Liberty, Highland Park, Oakland, Point Breeze, etc to the network.
I know my wish would take an extreme amount of money... but how did we build transit systems before? Aren't we the "richest society" in the world right now? But of course... we allocate that money to the ephemeral dreams of suburbia. The sky is the limit when it comes to building super-highways and on-ramps and interchanges the size of Altoona... but any plan for mass transit is seen as a pipe dream due to lack of funds.
Evergrey . . . great points!
I have to had it to you it's been an eternity since I've heard someone say "Cleveland destroys us" !
There is a theory out there that they are keeping the T crime free (or virtually) b/c it is NOT going through the urban hoods but instead focusing on the white collar workers looking for an alternative to commuting. Don't know how true that might be but the "busways" could most easily be turned into dedicated light rail for not much cost (biggest expense in many of these things is buying the overpriced real estate and then putting down the infrastructure much of which already exists on the busways). I would love for an uptown route to Oakland, I know O'Connor recently touted the street car or cable car idea for intra-Oakland, although I like it, why not just extend the T to the Universities?
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I agree. The airport extension is pretty useless. I can't imagine that many riders wanting to take the T to the airport, especially given how much of the rest of the system serves the suburbs. People from Bethel Park would rather drive to the airport than go on a 2 hour T ride.
One problem with a Downtown-Oakland routing, however, is funding. The federal govt. (and I believe the state) already gave huge sums for the East Busway. Good luck in getting them to give out even more money for a LRT extension along what is basically the same corridor. Similarly, I think an airport extension is likewise doomed b/c of the West Busway. I know that the same argument could have been made for the LRT and the South Busway but they somehow managed to eek that one out (at least the 42 line doesn't go through the same neighborhoods). By contrast, the current plan for an Oakland extension is to have the LRT go up the East Busway, meaning that it would be exactly parallel.
As for Cleveland vs. Pittsburgh, I don't know if Cleveland is necessarily that much better in the rapid transit department. True, their RT is easily more extensive than the T. However, Pittsburgh does have a form of rapid transit - the busways. Yes, they aren't as "sexy" as the RT (if the RT can even be called that ;-) ). However, they do funnel large numbers of passengers rather rapidly from Point A to Point B. Also, they are more versatile since the vehicles that travel along these express lines can go on local roads. In fact, perhaps a better plan would have been to further develop the busway system and then run the busses underground in Downtown much like they do in Seattle. Saettle has a bus subway (built for later coversion to light rail) complete with subway stations. They just don't have the busways. Meanwhile, Pgh has the busways but the busses get clogged up downtown b/c they can't go into the subway. Combine the two and, voila, you've got a pretty good rapid transit system.
That is a fantastic idea about the Seattle underground, but alas the funding issue gets sticky. Being a student of politics what we really need is a Bud Shuster type that gets seniority on some subway subcommittee on the Hill and has rapid transit funds shipped back by the boat load. Sorry to sound so crass about it but thats how things like the "Big Dig" and the FBI's slow ozzing west into Sen. Byrd's state get done quick and effectively in this country.
As far as the airport link I would encourage all to revisit it, I have come down more for the universities link-up as a priority, but if you consider the conventioneers, out-of-town visitors, event attendees (BassMaster, ASG, NHL ASG, NCAA Regionals, the possible 2008 DNC convention), as well as how many professionals go first to their office downtown then to the airport, an airport link is to me a close second to the universities.
The airport link also has a way of influencing more conventions to the city (an added way to get your people from downtown to the airport), increasing the convention biz and possibly the euro-flights as well as increased domestic traffic, nothing would force a JetBlue to Pittsburgh faster then a secured DNC convention or a winter olympics etc.
I recall when Hong Kong built it's new "super hub" airport (much like Pittsburgh a decade before) one of the first things it did was link it to the subway system in the city--that was essential to the success of the airport as well as increasing the ROI of the airport for HK.
You must also consider the powerful taxi lobby... they make a ton of money from the airport route... they will fight tooth and nail against a T extension.
That is very true, but are they really THAT powerful? Then again in the fiefdoms that make this metro up anything is possible
One difference with HK, however, is that HK has a very very very dense city center, thus making a city center to airport rail line very feasible since its essentially point to point. By contrast, too much of Pittsburgh's population (and potential airport rail users) live spread throughout the suburbs, thus making driving a more feasible form of transportation.
All that said, quite a few US cities have rail services linking their downtowns to their airports. NYC, Boston, Philly, Baltimore, DC, Atlanta, Cleveland, Chicago, St. Louis, Dallas, Portland, and San Francisco come to mind. So it would only make sense for Pgh to have one too.
Sundodger 1
Saettle has a bus subway (built for later coversion to light rail) complete with subway stations.
Conversion under progress as we speak.
Urban sounds like you have reconsidered on the Airport line
If I got my wish it would be the University line, but the airport line is a close second, I think those cities you listed have a leg up with convention planners and corporate planners because they have a dedicated mass transit line in addition to bus and taxi service.
TheGerbil 0
A 'T' extension to Oakland would be great but, frankly, this whole discussion is kind of moot. Sure the Port Authority has laid out a route for the subway to go to the airport, but it won't happen any time soon.
Pittsburgh is quite fortunate to get federal money for the North Shore connector. It'll probably be eons before the gov't gives us any more money for transit. They seem to throw money at some cities, but generally ignore us.
However, I am happy about the North Shore connector. That area is rapidly becoming a part of Downtown. Everyone keeps saying the new extension will only serve the stadiums, but I do not agree. There are two new office buildings over there, and more offices and housing planned. Plus the riverfront park, museums, and the aviary. The T extension will make that neighborhood more a part of Downtown. It will also be great for tourists, since now Station Square, Downtown and the North Shore will all be connected.
By contrast, the current plan for an Oakland extension is to have the LRT go up the East Busway, meaning that it would be exactly parallel.
They wouldn't run parallel, the east busway is built at LRT grade. It can be ripped up and turned into a light rail line...but that would be stupid because it bypasses the strip district which I think is in dire need of the T
Pittsburgh does have a form of rapid transit - the busways. Yes, they aren't as "sexy" as the RT (if the RT can even be called that ;-) ). However, they do funnel large numbers of passengers rather rapidly from Point A to Point B. Also, they are more versatile since the vehicles that travel along these express lines can go on local roads. In fact, perhaps a better plan would have been to further develop the busway system and then run the busses underground in Downtown much like they do in Seattle.
Busses are still busses. They are loud, small, and they spew exhaust. The east and west busways were just a way to provide transit to "low class" communities without spending all the money they did to provide light rail to Mt. Lebanon and USC...also, I don't think the busses need to go underground downtown (although that would be nice) they just need to stay on a perimeter loop. Something to the extent of Blvd of the allies-stanwix-ft. duq.-grant...this should happen NOW regardless of future plans. NO BUSSES IN MARKET SQUARE (or on 5th, forbes, liberty, or penn for that matter they are killing redevelopment)
Yeah Market Sq. at some points during the day resembles a bus depot .
As far as the Oakland link being moot? Hasn't O'Connor been pushing for street/cable cars in Oakland possibly linking with the T, why not just make them the T to begin with?
The idea of the street car is that it would cost a fraction of a "true" light rail system. It would run on the streets and the only major construction would be to dig down 11 inches into the pavement and lay tracks. The light rail proposal would either run via the eat busway and then into oakland, along second ave to the technology park and then to oakland proper, or underground through the hill district. All of those would probably require major constrction.
however, I don't see why the two systems could not be compatible. That way the street cars could stay underground downtown as not to clog up the streets more. The PCC cars did it for a while before they closed the Drake line, back in the day.
A lot of people laughed and vilified the street car idea. I think it would be awesome and could be expanded to places like the south side and lawrencville...the street cars would run intra-city and the T would run to the suburbs and the airport etc.
There realy needs to be a master transportation plan layed out for the region and then followed rather than just mini studies done for each area.
Busses are still busses. They are loud, small, and they spew exhaust.
Those kind of busses can't go in tunnels, unless you spend a fortune on exhaust systems. The bus tunnel in Seattle used reticulated trolley busses; in other words they are relatively quiet, big, and spew nothing. Plus there is the better cost and flexability of busses.
I keep hearing that PAT is working on some kind of big master-plan for local transit for the whole county. I wonder if that is progressing and whether anything will come of it.
I do hate hearing so many good idea and then seeing nothing come of them. Wish I had a buck for every time I hear a good plan for commuter rail. But someone's got to pay for it - guess that is why most plans do not wind up happening.
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Honestly, as soon as the T opend in the 80s, PAT should have announced that in the 90s or later, we would have both a link the airport and an eastern route, to Oakland, the East end and even the eastern burbs.
The airport and city areas (especially Oakland) are a given.
However, the airport route should have limited stops and more faster than the South Hills snailride.
Imagine this though, now they can plan to build mixed use T stops with housing (in addition to parking lots - in fact no lots, only garages).
Now, sadly, it will probably take 20 years, since this isn't even in the pipeline (correct me if I am wrong, but drawing a transit line and starting the process to secure money are two different things).
I do recall (maybe in 05?) a T route to Oakland via 2nd Ave 9departing from Firstside). Seems like a realitvely easy and painless way to get there.... I would prefer a Forbes (or Fifth) line stopping at Duquesne/Mercy, but it's a start.
My biggest regret will be this summer, a few years ago wasn't the northshore extension to be completed or near completion in time for the proposed ASG. Have they even started digging yet? Sad.
I don't know about that. Alot of those cities with extensive (compared to the T) LRT systems got those because they sacrificed highway miles. Portland did that and that's why their LRT system (Portland MAX) is much larger than the T. The federal government allowed them to trade in interstate highway dollars for transit dollars.
On a larger scale, the DC Metro was largely funded also by traded-in highway dollars.
I think the biggest benefit of the North Shore connector would be sparking residential growth on the North Shore since it would be linked quite well with Downtown and Station Square.
They did. I remember that, about a week after they opened the subway in 1985, they announce that they were looking to extend the T to the North Side and to Oakland and Squirrel Hill. The plan was qutie detailed too since it called for running the T across the 6th Street (Roberto Clemente) bridge to the North Side. They also said the eastern terminus would be at Forbes and Murray. At one point, they even extended that to Regents Square.
Of course all that was just talk. However, it does show that PAT was thinking. In fact, in its origianl conception, the present T was supposed to be a "starter" system - much like the "starter" systems in Portland and elsewhere which spawned larger LRT systems. The problem all along has been funding.
not to spark a political debate, but the reason the "spine line project" (north shore to oakland) was killed was because it was a project supported by the Dem. majority in the county government. When the Republicans took over they decided it was a waste of money and put a stop to it.
Tooluther, if I remember correctly the GOP that year owed it's victory to a tax-cutting agenda. The crappy things about politics is you have to promise something different then the incumbent, if you win you have to deliver. The debate on that is endless, would you rather be wealthier in a not so hot city or be in a great city that takes a great chunk of your change every year?
Urban, those are some great points and insight. One thing that is lacking out there on the net is a good comprehensive history of the political decisions surrounding the Skybus, Trolleys and Subway. I have seen bits of it but nothing major.
Tiem for you to write a "Skybus" entry on wikipedia .
LOL! already edited the Port Authority and main Pittsburgh entries multiple times . . . I have to take it easy on that, anymore action over there and I might need an intervention .


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'Claw': A Low Budget Version of Jurassic Park
July 8, 2021 by Joey
If you watched 'Jurassic Park' and thought to yourself, "This movie could have been great if only it didn't have any sort of suspense, stunning effects, or any scientific explanation for how they created dinosaurs," then 'Claw' is the perfect movie for you.
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'Claw' follows the story of Julia (Chynna Walker) and Kyle (Richard Rennie), who unexpectedly find themselves stranded in the middle of the desert after their tire blows while on their way to Los Angeles for a stand-up comedy night.
The duo decide to walk to a remote ghost town nearby in hopes of finding a phone. Instead of a phone, they find Ray, the owner of the abandoned ghost town, who offers them shelter for the night.
Nearby, a scientist is discovered to be keeping a successfully cloned velociraptor secured in a pen made of corrugated metal, plywood, and chicken wire (proving that 'Jurassic Park' went overboard with all that fortified and electric fencing).
The raptor is able to escape its confinement (clever girl) and find its way to the abandoned ghost town, where Julie, Kyle, and Ray have to try to evade the prehistoric predator if they hope to survive the night.
'Claw' is what happens when someone decides to take the concept of a successful film and turn it into a low-budget horror movie.
Rather than take its time trying to explain how they made a dinosaur, the film is relying on the fact that you have seen 'Jurassic Park' and are aware that they cloned a dinosaur from a sample of its blood.
This movie doesn't give you the mosquito in amber or an explanation from Mr. D.N.A. Instead, it compacts all the scientific exposition into brief flashes over the opening credits which include newspaper clippings about a "disgraced" scientist, sequences of gene splicing, images of DNA strands, a fossil of a raptor's claw, a blood sample on a glass slide, glimpses of the "disgraced" scientist working in a makeshift lab, and a shot of an egg hatching (proving that, once again, John Hammond was just throwing away millions of dollars in genetic research at his park because, clearly, you can create dinosaurs in a ramshackle shed in the middle of nowhere with just a couple of microscopes and some stolen lab equipment).
Also, rather than set the movie in a multi-billion-dollar theme park like its counterpart, this film is set in a vacant frontier tourist attraction. Which is practically the same thing.
'Claw' is the type of movie that knows it's not going to win you over with its storytelling or plot, so instead, it's relying on its laughable premise and absurd situations to try to win over its audience.
It's unlikely that 'Claw' will ever generate enough of a fan base to become a cult classic, similar to titles like 'Tammy and the T-Rex' or 'The VelociPastor,' but, if you're a fan of movies that fall under the "they're so bad, they're good" category, then you will find some enjoyment from watching 'Claw,' particularly in the ease with which our cast of characters can avoid the velociraptor.
On a scale of 1-5 stars, I give this movie 2.5 stars.
Although it manages to entertain at times, the film's almost complete lack of an actual ending and unfunny stand-up routine at the end of the film leave you wondering if they just ran out of ideas while filming the movie.
'Claw' is directed by Gerald Rascionato, co-written by Rascionato and Joel Hogan, and stars Chynna Walker as Julia, Richard Rennie as Kyle, Mel Mede as Ray, Ken Mertz as the scientist, Allen Lyster as the gas station attendant, and Juan Carlos Sanchez as the announcer.
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Q: Spreadsheet custom function returns error while in script editor not I've created custom function in spreadsheet, which gets data from Fusion table.
function getData(){
  var tableId = "********";
  var sql = 'SELECT * FROM ' + tableId + ' LIMIT 100';
  var response = FusionTables.Query.sql(sql);
  Logger.log(response);
  return response;
}

It works when I run the function in the Script editor, but when I call the function in a cell in the spreadsheet it returns:
Daily Limit for Unauthenticated Use Exceeded. Continued use requires signup.
Is there different approach to the data from spreadsheet and from script editor or am I doing something wrong?
Thank you for any idea!

A: Custom functions can not user services that can access users data. The docs have a list of what services can be used in custom functions.

https://developers.google.com/apps-script/guides/sheets/functions#using_apps_script_services

There is a work around for this by using the Execution API. The basic idea is you publish your script as an execution api and call it from your custom function. Check out a demo I put together on this at:

https://github.com/Spencer-Easton/Apps-Script-Authorized-Custom-Function