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The past is a foreign country | Inquirer Opinion
By: Ambeth R. Ocampo - @inquirerdotnet
Philippine Daily Inquirer / 05:22 AM January 18, 2019
Some years ago, on the first day of class, while going over the syllabus, a student asked me whether the books on the list of references were available online. When I replied that the books were available in the library, the student rolled his eyes and, in a slightly belligerent tone, followed up with: "You want me to go to the library?"
I said that not all books were online; some had to be consulted in the university library. He then asked sarcastically: "You want me to handle a physical book?" What I didn't tell him was that I would sometimes borrow or hide the important volumes to teach them how to locate the book on the shelf using the Library of Congress classification system. I wanted to test how creative and resourceful they could be when the book was not on the shelf.
Whenever I relate the above exchange, some people start to wail about the death of books and how young people are not reading books anymore. I disagree on both points, because paper books are far from extinction; they have merely transformed into the digital format for reading on a tablet, laptop or phone. Magazines have gone from print to digital, too, and I wonder how much longer the paper edition of the Inquirer will be around. Then there are books that have gone from the visual to the audio, to make sitting in Edsa traffic more productive and bearable.
Contrary to popular belief, young people today are reading, and perhaps reading way more than others their age from another time or generation. They read texts, but on the small screens on their smartphones, their field of sight reduced, their attention span shorter, as in 140 characters in a tweet. They don't get their news from newspapers or television anymore but through social media and their phones.
I know young people are reading. The question is, what do they read? What is their tolerance for long texts without pictures or video? What frightens me is the thought that many students mistakenly believe that what is not online does not exist.
In 1940, a textbook series for public school pupils rolled out, and Book Three was titled "The Flags and Other Stories," by Eleanor G. Riss, Manuel Lopez and Pelagia Untalan. The frontispiece in color depicted a smiling brown-skinned girl holding a doll with light skin and blonde hair; it was painted by Fernando Amorsolo. The interior illustrations were by Cesar Amorsolo and Dionisio Paras. Lessons in civics, Philippine history and good manners and right conduct were imparted through simple stories with guide questions.
One story, "Lydia's Helpers," illustrated a toothbrush, a comb, a bar of soap, a towel and a wash basin to teach children about hygiene. The next story was about Rita, who was sent home from school because she had lice in her hair. Her mother then mixed half a cup of coconut oil with half a cup of petroleum, rubbed this mixture into Rita's hair and wrapped her head with a towel that stayed on overnight. In the morning, her hair was rinsed with soap thrice, then hot lemon juice was applied to deal with the stubborn white eggs that remained in her hair; the eggs were then all removed with a fine-tooth comb.
There were stories about the boyhood of Jose Rizal and Apolinario Mabini, and about Francisco Baltazar, "a great poet from long ago." One story was about Abraham Lincoln. Two flags that every child was taught to recognize and respect were depicted on a page—the American Stars and Stripes at the top of the flagpole, and below it the Philippine Flag. The first three pages contained numbered, detailed instructions on how to prepare a new book for use:
"1. Take the book in your right hand and place it on your desk. 2. With your left hand carefully open the front cover and press it down slowly. 3. Hold all the leaves with your left hand. 4 Open the back cover with your right hand and press it down slowly. Press it down near the inside margin. 5. Take 10 pages from the back and open them as you opened the covers… 8. Continue opening 10 pages from the back and 10 pages from the front until you have pressed down all the pages."
This Commonwealth-era textbook contrasts student life then and now, reminding us that the past is truly a foreign country, because people did things so differently then.
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Knowledge, wisdom and peace
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Trunity Holdings Teams with Houghton Mifflin Harcourt to DeliverDigital Solutions to Pre-K-12 Schools in High-Growth International Markets
Portsmouth, NH and Boston - (Marketwired) - January 21, 2014 - Education technology pioneer Trunity Holdings, Inc. (OTCBB/OTCQB:TNTY), today announced its agreement to partner with global education leader Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (NASDAQ: HMHC) (HMH) to offer select HMH digital content via the Trunity Knowledge Exchange to Pre-K-12 schools, as well as to government agencies and entities responsible for the selection or purchase of educational materials.
As one of the world's leading providers of research-based, technology-enabled education content and solutions, HMH will seek to leverage the robust scalability, rich multi-media, mobile capabilities, and intuitive cloud-based functionality of the Trunity eLearning Platform to provide increased access to its educational content in high growth international markets. Both companies intend this partnership to provide an enriching educational experience for both students and teachers anywhere, anytime and on any connected device.
The transformative Trunity eLearning Platform will integrate HMH's quality content to provide a vibrant, interactive learning vehicle capable of delivering modular, customizable, real-time socially collaborative learning solutions through the cloud. Utilizing Trunity's powerful content management capabilities, educational content can be organized to address almost any curriculum while incorporating a variety of rich, dynamic media, such as videos, animations and interactive lessons. Through the Trunity Knowledge Exchange, users can easily search a repository of content and titles from multiple sources to create personalized and highly interactive learning experiences within a single platform. Moreover, students on the platform are able to collaborate in an engaging, social learning environment, while administrators and educators are able to effectively gauge the level of each student's interaction.
"Because we share HMH's commitment to providing learning solutions that represent the best our industry can offer, we are looking forward to working closely with them to combine and optimize our respective strengths and resources to make learning more dynamic, engaging and effective," noted Dr. Arol Buntzman, Trunity Chairman and CEO. "To that end, we are particularly excited about ongoing opportunities to distribute HMH's 'Trunitized' educational content through our platform to educational systems internationally, where we have successfully established or are working to establish partnerships with national governmental leaders and education ministries."
"Education has a powerful role to play in overcoming the barriers facing many developing nations," added Tim Cannon, Executive Vice President, Alliances and Services at HMH. "Given the robust and scalable architecture of the Trunity eLearning Platform, coupled with its innovative sharing and content management capabilities, our new strategic alliance with Trunity will greatly complement our digital growth in key international markets while enhancing our abilities to reach and empower lifelong learners around the world with our proven education content."
The Companies will be co-exhibiting at BETT 2014 beginning tomorrow, January 22 and continuing through Friday, January 24. Taking place at the ExCel London international exhibition and conference center in London, BETT is the world's leading event for learning technology, bringing together 35,000 educators and learning professionals every January. Since its inception in 1985, it has been the platform for technological innovation in education, both in the UK and globally. BETT has evolved into the most well-attended education hub in the world and provides a meeting place for attendees to come together, inspire each other, discover the latest educational solutions and discuss the issues affecting the world's education industry.
Trunity representatives will join the HMH team in its booth (#C330) to showcase HMH's premium learning content through the Trunity eLearning Platform. Trunity will be demonstrating how educators, administrators, students and parents can access, manage, share and interact with select HMH content, including learning modules from Science Fusion for Grades 6-8, that has been published on its platform.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (NASDAQ:HMHC) is a global learning company with the mission of changing people's lives by fostering passionate, curious learners. Among the world's largest providers of pre-K-12 education solutions and one of the longest-established publishing houses, HMH combines cutting-edge research, editorial excellence and technological innovation to improve teaching and learning environments and solve complex literacy and education challenges. HMH's interactive, results-driven education solutions are utilized by 50 million students in over 150 countries, and its renowned and awarded novels, non-fiction, children's books and reference works are enjoyed by readers throughout the world. For more information, visit www.hmhco.com.
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Founded in 2009, Trunity Holdings, Inc. (OTCBB/OTCQB: TNTY) ("Trunity") has developed a collaborative knowledge management, publishing and education delivery platform which provides an end-to-end solution for the rapidly growing eTextbook, eLearning and enterprise training marketplaces. As a result of the platform's innovative multi-tenant cloud-based architecture, Trunity allows content from multiple sources to be assembled into customized living digital textbooks and courseware and delivered with real-time updates directly to the student on any Internet-enabled computer or mobile device. The content powered by Trunity is seamlessly integrated with learning management, social collaboration, standards alignment, real-time analytics and royalty-tracking functionality. Trunity currently hosts a growing global community of over 4,300 expert contributors made up of top scientists and educators, who create peer-reviewed educational content. The Company's clients include leading colleges, universities, K-12 schools, corporate enterprises and government agencies worldwide. Headquartered in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Trunity has operations in North America and internationally. For more information, visit http://www.trunity.com/.
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New Processors: 32nm or Inexpensive Quad-Cores?
This week has seen both AMD and Intel make big strides with their processors, with Intel teasing information about its new 32nm processors, and AMD announcing an inexpensive quad core chip.
Earlier this week, Intel started posting videos about its upcoming line of 32nm processors, which are slated to be unveiled at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) next week. These chips, which use the "Westmere" cores are expected to be very small dual-core processor dies, which will be paired with 45nm integrated graphics to create the "Arrandale" mobile chip and the "Clarkdale" desktop one. ExtremeTech has a preview of IDF currently on the site.
I expect we won't see Arrandale systems until later this year, but the technology is actually quite amazing, and I'm certainly interesting in hearing more about them.
Although AMD is a bit behind on process technology – it released its first 45nm chips early this year – it is instead focusing on value, today introducing new Quad-core processors that start at less than $100. The Athlon II X4 620 runs at 2.6 GHz and has a list price of $99, while the 2.8GHx Athlon II 630 lists at $129. These chips, part of the "Propus" line have 2 MB of Level 2 cache per core, and a total desktop power of 95 watts.
Whether you really want a quad-core desktop depends on your application, of course. For running a single application, you can find a faster dual-core system at the same price and thus get better performance in most cases. For high-end gaming, you want a system with discrete graphics. But for lots of multitasking, a quad-core system is often the right choice, and these new AMD systems should perform well at that. These won't be the fastest systems on the market, but they seem to offer good price/performance. (For more details, here are reviews from Techware Labs and Legit Reviews.
For more of Michael Miller's take on the world of Tech, read his blog, Forward Thinking.


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We are proud to announce the Riley County Board of County Commissioners proclaimed November 2022 Native American Heritage Month. Riley County EMS staff members Nathan Dixon and Abby Linderman received the proclamation, which stated:
WHEREAS, Native Americans were the first to create cities, domesticate crops, and establish great civilizations in the Americas, and
WHEREAS, the state of Kansas is historically home to many Native nations, including the Kaw, Osage, and Pawnee, and many other Nations utilized the lands currently within Riley County as their hunting grounds, and
WHEREAS, Kansas is the current home to four federally recognized Native nations: The Prairie Band Potawatomi, the Kickapoo Tribe of Kansas, the Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska, and the Sac and Fox Nation of Missouri in Kansas and Nebraska, and
WHEREAS, Native Americans have profoundly shaped our country's character and our cultural heritage, and enriched every aspect of our country, and
WHEREAS, Native Americans, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians are leaders in every aspect of our society – as teachers, professionals, emergency responders, business owners, elected officials, and neighbors, and
WHEREAS, Riley County celebrates the traditions, languages, and stories of Native Americans to help ensure their rich histories and contributions can thrive with each passing generation,
NOW THEREFORE, We, County Commissioners of Riley County, Kansas, do hereby proclaim November 2022
in Riley County, Kansas in recognition of the immeasurable contributions that Native Americans have made to our Nation.
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Lagos has a tropical savannah climate that is similar to that of the rest of Southern Nigeria. There are two rainy seasons, with the heaviest rains falling from April to July and a weaker rainy season in October and November. There is a brief relatively dry spell in August and September and a longer dry season from December to March. Monthly rainfall between May and July averages over 300 mm (12 in), while in August and September it is down to 75 mm (3 inches) and in January as low as 35 mm (1.5 inches). The main dry season is accompanied by harmattan winds from the Sahara Desert, which between December and early February can be quite strong. The average temperature in January is 27°C (79°F) and for July it is 25°C (77°F). On average the hottest month is March; with a mean temperature of 29°C (84°F); while July is the coolest month.
The people of Lagos city are art lovers. Lagos is known for its different style of music throughout Africa. Nigeria's movie industry which is known as Nollywood, is also situated here.
Lagos festivals offer a bit of culture for travellers to this region in Nigeria. Festivals vary in offerings each year and may be held in different months from the previous year. The Lagos festivals provide entertainment of dance and song to add excitement to travel during a stay in Nigeria. Plan the trip around a festival to learn more about the Nigerian people, culture and be entertained by their traditions.
The Eyo Festival is one of the Lagos festivals that is well known. With origins from 1750, this festival has masquerades of performers in white robes and dancers. The attraction is held in the Tafawa Belewa Square and has thousands of attendees each year.
The week of the carnival has different coluors of performers from the Eyo groups that are seen with a staff. Once the senior Eyo member is seen in public during a Sunday in April, the rest follow over the week signalling that the festival will take place on the next Saturday. This festival sometimes takes place in February or other months.
This World Festival of Yoruba Arts and Culture happens each April in Lagos. Promotion of art and culture from the Yoruba people is the base of the festival. Performers entertain the crowds while artists display their things in exhibitions.
Enjoy local and international jazz musicians for this festival in Lagos. Held in varying months each year, the jazz fest sees about 20 different bands. Workshops and master classes are available for attendance. Exhibitions display photography and local artists. Relish local food while listening to the music.
The Lagos Black Heritage Festival takes place in April. Carnival processions stroll through the street in remembrance of the African slave trade story. Dance performances are given to animate the story over seven days of festivity. Art exhibitions and films are presented to retell the tales.Many visitors attend the festival each year. The tradition and modern styles of performance are given to provide visitors with a unique cultural experience in Lagos.
The film festival takes place in the month of August. The film industry in Nigeria shows motion pictures from different genres. Set to promote the art of film in Lagos, this festival is also known as the Eko International Film Festival. Attendees are treated to several days of films being presented by locals and international filmmakers.
Lagos, the former capital of Nigeria, lies in south Western Nigeria, on the Atlantic coast in the Gulf of Guinea, west of the Niger River delta, located on longitude 3° 24′ E and latitude 6° 27′ N. It is the economic and financial centre of Nigeria as most of the economic and financial activities are concentrated here. The best time to visit Lagos is from December to March.
Lagos is Nigeria's most prosperous city, and much of the nation's wealth and economic activity are concentrated here. Most commercial and financial business are transacted at the Central Business District situated in the island. This is also where most of the country's commercial banks and financial institutions and major corporations are headquartered. Lagos has one of the highest standards of living as compared to other cities in Nigeria as well as in Africa.
Present-day Lagos is a modern state in South-Western Nigeria. Lagos history is something historians and fellow Nigerians find fascinating. Lagos geography is equally enchanting, covering a physical area of 3,577 square kilometres, of which one-fifth comprises quaint creeks and serene lagoons. Lagos is linked to the widely acclaimed Portuguese Age of Discovery of the 14th-15th century.
English is the official language of Lagos however, Yoruba is also widely spoken.
Lagos is one hour ahead of CET.
The population of Metropolitan Lagos is 7,937,932 as per the 2006 census. Lagos is the second most populous city of Africa and is currently estimated to be the second fastest growing city in Africa and the 7th fastest in the world.


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Energy costs in the datacenter dominate TCO (Total Cost of Ownership). Processors consume ~60% of all power in Google datacenters (1). Efficient utilization of compute resources, which drive overall utilization efficiency, is a top priority for the datacenter industry. "Utilization drives TCO" (2).
The amount of data pouring into the datacenter continues to grow exponentially, and the size of applications executed by datacenter processors is also rapidly growing ‐ putting huge pressure on available compute resources.
New embarrassingly parallel workloads such as Deep Learning training are best served by purpose built architectures, predominantly GPU. But these purpose built GPUs and ASICs are not "general purpose CPUs" that are easily programmed in C++, which is by far the dominant language of code executing in the datacenter.
Most computing in the datacenter is still handled by Host x86 CPUs (i.e. Xeon) that are comprised of many‐core configurations of single core architectures such as SkyLake.
Instruction driven single threaded deeply pipelined CPU cores are the basis for all general purpose processor architectures (including SkyLake), however single thread CPU performance gains stalled 15 years ago, and is one of the reasons architects have been forced to multi‐core chips.
Ascenium has "thought outside the box" to crack the processor performance barrier. Rather than heroically attempting to elevate an alternate instruction driven deeply pipelined architecture (e.g. ARM) to the task, Ascenium bypasses existing architectural limitations by eliminating both the instruction driven model and the deep pipeline. Ascenium leverages the compiler to do much more of the work, allowing the run time hardware to be greatly simplified. To accomplish this disruptive approach, Ascenium leverages new compiler approaches.
The Ascenium Aptos then is a general purpose processor without an instruction set ‐ the first of a new class of Software Defined Processors ‐ programmed in standard High Level Languages such as C/C++.
Ascenium expects a single Aptos processor core to achieve significantly higher single-threaded single-core performance vs standard deeply pipelined single-threaded single-core processors. However, industry insiders Ascenium has spoken to insist the datacenter TCO ROI is so high for improved compute efficiency in the datacenter (primarily due to energy cost savings), that even relatively small improvements in SPECint benchmark performance is sufficient to break into the market.
(1) Partha Ranganathan (Google) et. al., The Datacenter as a Computer, 3rd ed, Morgan Claypool, 2019
(2) Conversations with leading industry insiders
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Officially unveiled last month, the new global small car from Tata Motors, Zica will be launched in India on the 20th of January. Aimed at young, first time car buyers, the new Tata Zica is expected to be priced in the range of INR 3.8-6 lakh. Once launched it will rival the likes of Maruti WagonR, Maruti Celerio and the Hyundai i10.
Powering the petrol Tata Zica is a 1.2 liter 3 cyl Revotron engine which delivers 85 PS at 6000 rpm and 114 Nm at 3500 rpm. The diesel Tata Zica features a 1.05 liter 3 cyl Revotorq engine which delivers 70 PS at 4,000 rpm and 140 Nm torque between 1800-3000 rpm. Both these engines are mated to a five speed MT.
Features on offer include airbags, ABS, cornering stability, driving modes, best in class Harman infotainment system with 8 speakers, smarphone based navigation, exceptional cabin space, large boot, comfortable seats, and much more.
Designed at Tata Motors' design studio in Italy, UK and India; Zica will be the first car which will be promoted by their new global ambassador – Lionel Messi. Apart from being sold in India, Tata Motors also has plans of exporting the small car to many countries across the globe.
To be produced from their under-utilized facility in Sanand near Ahmedabad, launch of Tata Zica will be followed by a compact sedan based on the same platform, Hexa MPV and Nexon compact SUV.
Tata Zica aims to be the best in segment.


I'm an achievement-oriented person, always have been. Knowing this, it should come as no surprise that my journey to publishing Around Our Way on Neighbors' Day didn't really start out as a dream.
It was a goal from day one.
Yes, I made the rookie mistake of banging out a picture book story in three days, mailing it off to four of the top publishers in the industry, and waiting confidently for the offers to roll in because of my phenomenal, oft-commended writing skills.
Well. At least I had done enough research to make sure the manuscript was properly formatted and a SASE was enclosed.
Though that first book was certainly way…way…WAY off the mark, I do consider that first round of submissions to have been serendipitous. From those submissions, I received a form rejection letter (photocopied askew on the page) that informed me about The Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators.
Via SCBWI, I found out there was much I had no idea I didn't know. I got straight to the business of learning it. The rest is ongoing history.


A huge dinosaur dig called Mission Jurassic will take place in the USA. Scientists who study fossils will go there. It is at a site called the Jurassic Mile, which is 2.6 square kilometers in size. Scientists from the USA, England and Holland will join the team. They will try to find bones from the Jurassic Era, 150 million years ago. Scientists already found many interesting things. They include dinosaur footprints, plant fossils and Diplodocus bones.
The bones will go on display at the world's largest children's museum. A co-leader of the dig said: "The hope is to find...new species of dinosaurs and the animals and plants that lived around them." A museum professor said: "This site offers a rare opportunity to build a picture of what the real Jurassic ecosystem would have looked like 150 million years ago." He hopes to find fossils from plants, crocodiles, mammals, lizards and sea life.
A huge (1) ___________________ Mission Jurassic will take place in the USA. Scientists (2) ___________________ will go there. It is at a site called the Jurassic Mile, (3) ___________________ square kilometers in size. Scientists from the USA, England and Holland will join the team. They (4) ___________________ find bones from the Jurassic Era, 150 (5) ___________________. Scientists already found many interesting things. They include dinosaur footprints, (6) ___________________ Diplodocus bones.
The bones will go (7) ___________________ the world's largest children's museum. A (8) ___________________ dig said: "The hope is to find...new species of dinosaurs and the animals and plants (9) ___________________ them." A museum professor said: "This site offers a rare opportunity to (10) ___________________ of what the real Jurassic ecosystem would (11) ___________________ 150 million years ago." He hopes to find fossils from plants, crocodiles, mammals, (12) ___________________ life.


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'The Young And The Restless' News: Camryn Grimes To Appear In TNT's New Drama 'Animal Kingdom'
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By Migueljt	 On May 25, 2016
'The Young and the Restless' actress Camryn Grimes [Mariah Copeland] revealed in a live tweeting session today details about her next project. When a fan inquired of other projects she was working on outside of the CBS soap opera, she replied "I did an ep of #AnimalKingdom that airs sometime end of June/early July! #yr".
Grimes, has not revealed what role she will be playing but she confirmed that she is slated for an appearance in just one episode so far. 'Animal Kingdom' is an upcoming drama series which was developed by Jonathan Lisco and inspired by the Australian film by David Michod, who is the executive producer for the upcoming series.
The series "follows a 17-year-old boy, who, after the death of his mother, moves in with the Cody's, a criminal family clan governed by matriarch Smurf." The lead role of Janine "Smurf" Cody is played Ellen Barkin. Originally TNT was the channel who ordered the pilot back in May 2015 and later green lit the series, picking it up with a 10-episode order back in December 2015. The show is scheduled to debut on June 14.
Regular cast members include; Shawn Hatosy as Pope, Molly Gordon as Nicky, Finn Cole as Joshua "J" Cody, Daniella Alonso as Catherine, Ben Robson as Craig, Scott Speedman as Barry and Jake Weary as Deran Cody. Other cast members are Anna Belknap, Tyler Lain, Kaitlin Huwe, Morgan Rusler, Conrad Bluth, Aaron David, Linda Burzynski, Yves Brigt, Javier Calderon, Marlon Correa, Liz Jenkins, Ryan Dorsey, Carolina Guerra, Harry Katzman and more.
Grimes can be seen on Y&R weekdays as Mariah Copeland trying to keep it together as Sharon [Sharon Case] try to keep the truth about baby Sully from Nick [Joshua Morrow] and Dylan [Steve Burton].
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Congress Confirms Electoral Votes Despite Insurgent Attack on Capitol
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The joint session of Congress met as prescribed by the United States Constitution to confirm the Electoral Votes at promptly 1:00 p.m. ET on Jan. 6, 2021. Normally, this is a formality and quickly settled. However, hundreds of Republican congressmen and women decided to argue the fairness of the 2020 General election.
Outgoing President Donald Trump, his legal team, and associates disputed the election results immediately after Joe Biden's victory was called. They filed and lost at least 62 frivolous lawsuits claiming voter fraud.
Mike Pence participating as the Senate President, suffered bullying from Trump, who does not believe his VP cannot deliver the election for him. Ahead of opening the session, he released a statement declaring he is a figurehead during Congress' session. He has no intention of stepping outside of the job the Constitution expects him to accomplish.
After the formal opening, the unsealing, verifying, reading, and certifying began as expected when Pence asked Congress if there were any objections to Arizona's electoral votes. They had barely retired to their separate chambers for debate when reports indicated the security barricades at the United States Capitol had been breached.
Congress members were escorted to safety. They hid for hours until it was deemed safe for them to return. The mobs broke tore apart Congressional offices and chambers.
After the day's events, it is admirable that the Congress members came back together to finish the election certification. The objections announced were for Arizona and Pennsylvania, which after the debates, were voted out.
At 3:44 a.m. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were declared officially the next president and vice president of the United States and will be sworn into office on January 20.
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Authorities release 911 calls in deadly Maryland plane crash
Montgomery County, Md., firefighters stand outside a house where a small private jet crashed in Gaithersburg, Md., Monday, Dec. 8, 2014. A woman and her two young sons inside the home and three people on the aircraft were killed, authorities said. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)(The Associated Press)
The wreckage of a small private jet smolders in a driveway after crashing into a neighboring house in Gaithersburg, Md., Monday, Dec. 8, 2014. A woman and her two young sons inside the home and three people aboard the aircraft were killed, authorities said. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)(The Associated Press)
The wreckage of a small private jet sits in a driveway after crashing into a neighboring house in Gaithersburg, Md., Monday, Dec. 8, 2014. A woman and her two young sons inside the home and three people aboard the aircraft were killed, authorities said. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)(The Associated Press)
GAITHERSBURG, Md. – Residents of a suburban community adjacent to a small, regional airport said they don't give much thought to the jets that fly over their homes daily.
But the sound they heard Monday — a plane flying much too low and struggling to remain aloft — was different. It was followed by a horrifying scene on the ground.
A mother and her two young sons, one of them just a month old, were killed Monday morning when a private jet crashed into their two-story wood-frame home, which was engulfed in a fireball immediately, authorities and witnesses said. All three people on board the plane also died.
Marie Gemmell, 36, tried to protect 3-year-old Cole and 1-month-old Devon from the smoke and fire, but there was nothing she could do, Montgomery County police spokesman Capt. Paul Starks said. Her body was found in a second-floor bathroom, lying on top of her sons.
The jet's fuselage crashed into the front lawn of an adjacent home, which was heavily damaged by fire, and investigators believe one of its wings, which had fuel inside, sheared off and tore through the front of the Gemmell home, said Robert Sumwalt, a National Transportation Safety Board member. Witnesses reported seeing and hearing a secondary explosion after the plane hit the ground.
The plane took off from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and was approaching a runway at the Montgomery County Airpark, about a mile from the crash site, when it went down, Sumwalt said. Witnesses reported that the plane was flying too low and careening wildly before the crash.
"This guy, when I saw him, for a fast jet with the wheels down, I said, 'I think he's coming in too low,'" Fred Pedreira, 67, who lives near the crash site, told The Associated Press. "Then he was 90 degrees — sideways — and then he went belly-up into the house and it was a ball of fire. It was terrible.
"I tell you, I got goosebumps when I saw it," Pedreira said. "I said, 'My God, those are people in that plane.'"
In 911 calls released by authorities overnight, shock and alarm is evident in the callers' voices.
"I just saw a jet hit a house! The house is on fire," one man said. "When he came in on final (approach), it flamed out and he went straight down into that house."
Another caller said he heard a giant explosion.
"And we looked out the window and it looks like a house is on fire and there is smoke coming out of it and everything," the man said. "We got some people running over there to see if people are OK right now."
The home was gutted by the crash and ensuing blaze. The first floor was nearly completely blown out and smoke drifted from a gaping hole in what was left of the collapsing roof. No one was injured in the two adjacent homes that also had major damage.
The founder and CEO of a North Carolina clinical research organization was among those on the plane, officials said. Health Decisions of Durham said in a news release that Dr. Michael Rosenberg was among those killed. The other two passengers were not immediately identified.
Rosenberg was a pilot who crashed a different plane in Gaithersburg on March 1, 2010, according a government official who wasn't authorized to speak publicly and asked not to be named. Investigators were still trying to determine if Rosenberg was at the controls at the time of Monday's crash.
NTSB investigators recovered the cockpit voice and flight data recorders from the plane, and they were in good condition, Sumwalt said. Investigators planned to remain on the scene for up to seven days collecting evidence.
The agency planned to look into everything that could have led to the crash, including crew experience and proficiency, training and procedures, equipment performance, weather and other environmental factors such as birds, Sumwalt said.


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Pulsar: A Web 3.0 MMO Real Time Strategy Play To Own Game
In today's video gaming news, we introduce an upcoming, promising free-to-play sci-fi MMO Real Time Strategy blockchain game, Pulsar. This upcoming \"play to own NFT game\" will entertain hundreds and thousands of players around the world, where players will mine, build, and conquer. It is arguably the first Web3 RTS game with a lot to offer in terms of entertainment, graphics, gameplay, and earning opportunities. So, gamers, rally around and get ready to welcome the Starcraft of Web3 blockchain gaming, Pulsar.
The game offers spectacular gameplay with futuristic art concepts. The game\'s biomes each have their own distinct characteristics and breathtaking immersive environments. Moreover, the game gives off AAA vibes and is powered by the Unreal Engine and Avalanche Subnet. It offers some of the crispiest, most crystal clear, vibrant, and cleanest graphics that a blockchain game has yet to offer. The only other blockchain game next to Pulsar that promises supergraphics in the sci-fi genre is Ascenders.
The Lore
With billions of stars and galaxies in deep space, we are surely not alone. There must be civilizations or empires out there that are more advanced in technology, intelligence, and resources. It all began when Earth satellites in deep space received signals — a sound wave with a frequency that had never been heard before. The frequency was named Beacon 0, and the source was Pulsar.
In search of the origin, the believers went from planet to planet, established colonies, and extracted resources to continue penetrating into deeper space. Now, the believers have reached the last planet just before the Pulsar System, and in between are millions of light years of distance. So, the explorers decided to populate W12R as it is the last planetary outpost before the start of the Pulsar System. This makes the W12R an important outpost, and the battle to gain control over it has just started.
Pulsar is Free-to-Play
The team behind Pulsar is considerate towards players as well as a player-driven economy. The developers have made this game free to play, requiring no initial investment to begin playing. Moreover, the game also lets you play the game even without connecting your digital wallets. You don't need to figure out wallet configuration, mint NFTs, or any other geeky crypto knowledge to excel in this game. Just download the game and start playing it. Pulsar welcomes Web2 and Web3 gamers alike.
Pulsar Miner
Pulsar Game Modes
The game has three game modes as of yet:
PvE: Single and Co-op (25th December 2022)
PvE: Story Mode in the first quarter of 2023.
PvP: No official date yet
The game will let players choose different occupations or specializations.
Miners will harvest raw resources on the land.
The builder will work in the building and craft items.
Fighters will ensure the defense of lands and resources.
Play-to-Own Mechanism in Pulsar
Pulsar offers players complete ownership of every in-game item they possess. Players will own everything from units to buildings, land and crafts, NFTs, and resources.
NFTs are upgradeable and will help players in combat battles and production capabilities. This will also increase the value of the NFTs in the marketplace.
Land in Pulsar
Land mining is also available, which will monetize the player's assets. The land will also let players mine NFTs and even lend their land to other players. So, what about land?
Pulsar Land
There are four types of lands, or biomes, in the game, and each biome has unique attributes attached to it. Each land has a minimum or maximum of $PLSR in it, depending on the size of the land. Moreover, a land's size also determines the number of motherships and units that it can host. The land also has resources in it ranging from common to uncommon to rare. These resources will be at the disposal of all players; however, the land owner will charge a tax from players that extract resources.
The Building Refinery
The NFTs from the land will need to head to the refinery building, where Genesis Pulsar Refinery will convert raw Pulsar to $PLSR tokens. Resource Refinery, on the other hand, will convert raw resources into on-chain resource tokens.
Pulsar Tokenomics
$PLSR is the primary in-game currency that the players can also mine. The process involves getting raw Pulsars from the land and getting them refined into $PLSR.
$GAS is another on-chain token that will help players craft NFTs and also be used in trade.
Our Take On Pulsar
The game holds a lot of potential and shows promise, especially on the fun and graphics sides, which are much more appealing. The in-game economy is the real challenge that every Web3 game faces, especially during the crypto winter. However, Pulsar might just be the game that eventually comes up with an innovation where the in-game economy thrives into a robust ecosystem.
What else is happening in Web 3? Check out our recent news blockchain news here.
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A bartender pours a daft beer in a bar in Brest, western France , on January 10, 2023. – Dry January is the tradition of abstaining from consuming alcohol…
A bartender pours a daft beer in a bar in Brest, western France , on January 10, 2023. – Dry January is the tradition of abstaining from consuming alcohol throughout the month of January, to recover from a booze-soaked festive season. (Photo by FRED TANNEAU / AFP) (Photo by FRED TANNEAU/AFP via Getty Images)
What is damp January?
by: Jeremy Tanner
(NEXSTAR) – After weeks of holiday treats, feasts and libations, some swear off alcohol entirely to start the year, a military march into 31 days of sobriety known as dry January. But what is a "damp" January?
"Well, damp January just means it's a little less severe of an approach," Shara Turner, an addiction expert and clinical director of Sabina Recovery in Tucson, Ariz., told Nexstar's WOWK. "Maybe just cutting back a little bit, maybe just drinking on the weekends, just not completely going dry."
While experts say cutting back on alcohol can have a number of health benefits, Turner adds that it's important to look at one's motivations when it comes to the monthlong challenge.
"If you're considering leaving alcohol behind there might be a deeper issue or problem, and I always like to think that if you can't go a whole month without an alcoholic drink there just might be another issue you need to look at," Turner said. "I would certainly give it a shot, if it doesn't work out and you're having a hard time even cutting down, again that's just a really big opportunity for you to look at some of your habits and maybe seek out help."
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Heavy drinkers should reach out to their physician before embarking on a dry or damp January, according to Alan Berki, a drug and alcohol rehab counselor with Cleveland Clinic, as withdrawal symptoms can be uncomfortable and even deadly.
For others, however, there can be a number of physical, mental and emotional benefits.
"The condition of your skin, the increased amount of energy that you have, if you're not replacing the alcohol with candy or sweets because you may start to crave those a little more if you stop drinking, you'll definitely experience weight loss," said Berki.
Dr. Klayton Barrows, D.O., a family medicine physician with Seale Harris Clinic in Birmingham, has seen more people drinking heavily over the last few years, according to Nexstar's WIAT.
"Any amount [of alcohol] less is better than any amount more, but there are amounts of alcohol that are considered harmful," Barrows said. The CDC and National Cancer Institute have tied alcohol use to an elevated risk of several types of cancer, including mouth and throat, larynx, esophagus, colon, liver and breast.
So whether your January is bone dry, or not entirely, experts recommend remembering that even small changes are worth making.
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What Matters and How It Matters: A Choice-Theoretic Representation of Moral Theories
Franz Dietrich, Christian List
The Philosophical Review (1 October 2017) 126 (4): 421–479.
...Franz Dietrich; Christian List This essay presents a new "reason-based" approach to the formal representation of moral theories, drawing on recent decision-theoretic work. It shows that any moral theory within a very large class can be represented in terms of two parameters: (i) a specification of...
Descartes's Moral Theory
Lisa Shapiro
The Philosophical Review (1 April 2001) 110 (2): 270–272.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-110-2-270
...Lisa Shapiro DESCARTES'S MORAL THEORY. By John Marshall. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998. Pp. x, 177. Cornell University 2001 BOOK REVIEWS The Philosophical hzm, Vol. 110, No. 2 (April 2001) DESCARTES'S MORAL THEORY By JOHN MARSHALL...
AQUINAS'S MORAL THEORY: ESSAYS IN HONOR OF NORMAN KRETZMANN
Simo Knuuttila
...Simo Knuuttila AQUINAS'S MORAL THEORY: ESSAYS IN HONOR OF NORMAN KRETZMANN. Scott MacDonald and Eleonore Stump, Eds. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1998. Pp. xiii, 291. Cornell University 2001 BOOK REVIEWS tary that is much more lively and of broader...
MORAL DEMANDS IN NONIDEAL THEORY
Thaddeus Metz
...Thaddeus Metz MORAL DEMANDS IN NONIDEAL THEORY. By Liam B. Murphy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. Pp. xiii, 168. Cornell University 2001 BOOK REVIEWS whereas a majority vote is simply a way of deciding, and so not contrary to mutual respect...
Responsibility and Control: A Theory of Moral Responsibility
Alison McIntyre
...Alison McIntyre RESPONSIBILITY AND CONTROL: A THEORY OF MORAL RESPONSIBILITY. By John Martin Fischer and Mark Ravizza, S. J. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Pp. viii, 277. Cornell University 2000 BOOK REKEWS The Philosophical Review...
AQUINAS: MORAL, POLITICAL, AND LEGAL THEORY
Paul E. Sigmund
The Philosophical Review (1 January 2001) 110 (1): 129–132.
...Paul E. Sigmund AQUINAS: MORAL, POLITICAL, AND LEGAL THEORY. By John Finnis. NewYork: Oxford University Press, 1998. Pp. xxi, 385. Cornell University 2001 Finnis, John. 1980 . Natural Law and Natural Rights. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Clarendon Press. ____. 1983...
KANT'S THEORY OF MORAL MOTIVATION
David Sussman
...David Sussman KANT'S THEORY OF MORAL MOTIVATION By Daniel Guevara. Boulder: Westview Press, 2000. Pp. 158, 300. Cornell University 2002 BOOK REVIEWS detailing the argument, the structure, and the development of the first Critique as well as the changes in...
Ought , Agents, and Actions
Mark Schroeder
The Philosophical Review (1 January 2011) 120 (1): 1–41.
... there are two distinct normative senses of 'ought', which actually exhibit different syntactic behavior, and then going on to argue that the deliberative sense of 'ought' relates agents to actions, rather than to propositions. It closes by drawing lessons for a range of issues in moral theory...
Should We Wish Well to All?
Caspar Hare
...Caspar Hare Some moral theories (for example, standard, "ex post" forms of egalitarianism, prioritarianism, and constraint-based deontology) tell you, in some situations in which you are interacting with a group of people, to avoid acting in the way that is expectedly best for everybody. This essay...
On Moral Considerability: An Essay on Who Morally Matters
Martino Traxler
... (3-4, 23, 169-70). This argument, developed over three chapters (3-114), is followed by a chapter rejecting recent chauvinist arguments and a chapter arguing for the redemption of contractualist moral theory in the eyes of friends of the sentient. Bernstein's overall manner of argument, his...
MIND AND MORALITY: AN EXAMINATION OF HUME'S MORAL PSYCHOLOGY
Don Garrett
... philosophy to two main fail- ings: (i) insufficient attention to "the foundations, in his philosophy of mind, on which Hume builds when constructing his theory of morality" and (ii) "the prac- tice of taking his theory of morality as a patchwork of severally brilliant and provocative, but essentially...
Kant's Conception of Moral Character: The "CRITICAL" Link of Morality, Anthropology, and Reflective Judgment
Natalie Brender
The Philosophical Review (1 July 2001) 110 (3): 440–443.
..., Munzel's larger purpose is to highlight the gulf between Kant's conception of moral character and the Aristotelian conception that underlies much recent philosophical work in virtue theory. By demonstrating the possibility of a notion of character focusing on the principled, rigorously controlled...
Kant on Moral Autonomy
Benjamin S. Yost
... "Autonomy and the Moral Regard for Ends" explains how Kantian autonomy can provide a plausible defense of the moral significance of rational agency (215), succeeding where, Flikschuh says, contemporary theories fail. Timmermann also wades into the debate between intellectualists and affectivists about...
The Social Turn in Moral Psychology
Alex Madva
... also keeping up with, and building, and revising their theories in light of evidence regarding moral development in children, moral behavior in nonhuman animals, and the manifold deliverances of neuroscience from studies using fMRI, lesions, implants, and so on. Minimally, one consideration (over and...
Moral Fictionalism
Tristram McPherson
.... Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. xii + 193 pp. Recent advocates of moral fictionalism have proposed it as a revisionary doc- trine. For example, Richard Joyce argues for an error theory about morality and then suggests that it would be useful to retain...
Moral Particularism
Pekka Väyrynen
... the sort of mappings of nonmoral features of the world onto moral features at which moral theory aims. Moral principles that determine what considerations function as reasons represent such mappings, and should explain why those mappings hold. On the other hand, there is little reason why...
Aristotle's Ethics and Moral Responsibility
Susan Sauvé Meyer
...Susan Sauvé Meyer Echeñique Javier Aristotle's Ethics and Moral Responsibility . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2012 . viii +209 pp . © 2015 by Cornell University 2015 Does Aristotle have a conception of moral responsibility? A prominent feature of his treatment of...
How to Know the Good: The Moral Epistemology of Plato's Republic
Jyl Gentzler
... 50 : 464 -73. Ross, W. D. 1951 Plato's Theory of Ideas. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Clarendon Press. Santas, Gerasimos. 2001 . Goodness and Justice. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers. Sayre-McCord, Geoffrey. 1996 . Coherentist Epistemology and Moral Theory. In Moral Knowledge? ed...
The Invention of Autonomy: A History of Modern Moral Philosophy
... h- aention of Autonomy expands the horizons of Anglophone philosophical his- tory. In its focus on the domain of moral theory it provides a welcome leavening of analyhc philosophy's continuing preoccupation with logic and epistemology And in the lucid and comprehensive way it traverses its...
Noble in Reason, Infinite in Faculty: Themes and Variations in Kant's Moral and Religious Philosophy
Andrew Chignell
... act-consequentialism — the theory still ends up giving the wrong result: the acts are wrong, even if we have (nonepistemic) reason to label and perhaps judge them right. (This, it seems, leaves agents in an odd position visvis their moral judgments, since it's morally better — because character...


In our gourmet hotel in South Tyrol we pamper you with exquisite dishes from the Alpine-Mediterranean cuisine. South Tyrol is not only known for its uniquely beautiful landscape, but also for its culinary diversity. Hearty alpine dishes such as dumplings and pastries from the old Austrian tradition are just as much a part of the repertoire in our gourmet hotel in South Tyrol. As are the light Mediterranean delicacies, fish and pasta dishes, and tempting desserts.
From all of these influences, South Tyrolean cuisine has emerged as an independent culinary specialty, which we maintain to the highest degree in our gourmet hotel in South Tyrol. In addition, we prepare high-quality dishes without gluten or lactose for our guests with food intolerances. Please just let us know which foods you need to avoid. The kitchen team of our gourmet hotel in South Tyrol will create tasty alternatives for you - evening after evening!
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Have you pet proofed your festive season?
The festive season is full of an array of sparkly items and delicious food – a real temptation for your pet! Make sure your festive season is pet-proofed to avoid any accidents or more serious incidents.
Remember to check your surgery opening hours and where you can see a vet in an emergency outside of these times.
Although loud noises can alarm cats they are not thought to suffer from sound sensitivities as dogs do. The bigger problem for cats is the changes to their environment or routine when they are outside less than normal.
Sound sensitivities, including fireworks, are very common in dogs and reactions range from mild to extreme. While a certain degree of fear is normal to keep dogs from danger, it becomes distressing for both you and your dog if this fear is extreme.
Antifreeze, grit and snow are just some of the things we need to be careful of during the chilly months.
Despite their fur, cats, dogs and small furries can feel the cold just the same as humans do, and freezing temperatures can create problems if you're not prepared for winter.
Chocolate, macadamia nuts, raisins, onions, grapes, sultanas and raisins and alcohol are all poisonous to animals (so keep that Christmas pudding out of reach!).
Remember small bones can splinter off and get stuck in your pet's intestines so never allow your pet to chew on them.
Of course we all want to treat our pets at this time of year but remember to be a little careful as general over-indulgence in unfamiliar foods or fatty gravies can cause gastroenteritis.
Keep baubles, tinsel and gift wrap out of reach as if they are ingested they can result in intestinal issues.
Make sure your pet can escape the excitement of a festive event and retreat to their bed in a quiet area.
Ensure there is a fire guard in front of the fire.
Clean up fallen Christmas tree needles so that they don't get stuck in paws. Although most species of Christmas tree are low in toxicity, they could cause a stomach upset if chewed.
Any Christmas presents for your pet should be bought from a reputable source.
Be sure to keep fairy lights away from all pets, especially small furries who like to chew. Chewing through cables can end up in a nasty electric shock!
Do you know some festive plants are poisonous to animals? Popular Christmas plants holly and mistletoe, along with their berries, are toxic to pets if ingested.
Cats are most at risk to lilies causing kidney failure, and mistletoe can affect both dogs and cats. Small amounts cause stomach upsets and breathing problems whereas large amounts can cause seizures and even be fatal.
Always display these safely out of reach of any pets. Signs of poisoning include excessive drooling, vomiting and diarrhoea. If your pet has any of these signs, visit a vet straightaway.
Christmas is a great time to catch up with all the family, but your pet might not be as keen to see lots of new faces in their home.
Some pets will jump right into the Christmas commotion, others will prefer to keep away from the activity.
To us, it is hard to tell what's inside a wrapped gift, but a box of chocolates is no secret to your dog as they can sniff out food regardless of the wrapping paper. Remember chocolate is toxic to your dog so always put edible presents safely out the way to avoid emergency vet visits over Christmas.
Dispose of any leftover string or ribbon after present wrapping, your pet might eat it before you've had a chance to clear it away, which can lead to serious complications.
Rabbits are notorious chewers, biting through anything from cables to carpet. If you're gift wrapping and have string, ribbon or bows on the floor be aware these can be tempting to your rabbits and if they do eat them it can cause internal blockages, choking or become wrapped around their neck.


We're now in the middle of winter in the Northern Hemisphere, which means the Southern Hemisphere is having summer. So, I thought some of us needed warmth while maybe the others would enjoy their summer holiday with a "Beachy" Twist.
Please stop by the Hen House and check out the rest of the team's projects. Then, whether you're dreaming of warm weather or knee deep into it, come play along with us this week. You can play in our Beachy Twist challenge or in our always 'anything goes'.
Stamps: Guiding Light (WPlus9); Sentiment - Ocean Wisdom (Stampendous).
Paper: White cardstock - Neenah 110 lb; Watercolor paper (Strathmore).
Ink: Sand Castle, Limoncello, Coral Cabana, Fiesta Blue, Suede Shoes, It's a Boy, Sweet Sixteen.
Extras: Streaming heart die (Simon Says); Stitched flag banner (Simon Says); Sea gull dies (Gina Marie Designs), Satin Pearl embossing powder (Hero Arts).
It will be beach weather soon enough! This reminds us of what we have to look forward to. Love the bright, streaming heart! It makes me feel warmer!
A beautiful card, and fun challenge, thanks friend. Awesome!!
Warmth indeed!! Great challenge Nance, and perfect break from all of those winter & Christmas cards lately. Love this card, great idea with the "sun" and perfect design with that sketch! Happy Friday, have a great week friend!


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Women's Health: Why Pap & HPV Cotesting Should Be Standard
Jul 12, 2021 | Cervical (HPV) |
With the implementation of Pap tests and testing for the human papillomavirus (HPV), cervical cancer rates have significantly declined. However, in recent years, a debate has emerged about the benefit of cotesting, that is Pap plus HPV together, versus HPV primary alone, leaving patients and many clinicians confused about what is the best path to monitor their cervical health.
By Damian P. Alagia, III, MD
According to the American Cancer Society (ACS), more than 14,000 women are diagnosed with cervical cancer annually, and more than 4,000 will die of the disease. In a report published in January 2020, the ACS noted that cervical cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death nationally in women 20-39 years of age, causing 10 premature deaths per week in this age group.1
While cervical cancer continues to be a significant health threat to women, the widespread use of the Pap test in the late 20th century is responsible for a significant reduction in cervical cancer. In fact, in the United States alone, the independent use of the Pap test is thought to be responsible for an 80% reduction in the incidence of cervical cancer.2 Additionally, the human papillomavirus test (HPV) has been used to check cells for infection with high-risk HPV types, some of which cause nearly all cases of cervical cancer.3 Used together, cotesting, which involves analysis of results of both Pap and HPV tests, should become the standard in women's healthcare.
To understand cotesting, a simple explanation of the screening process is helpful. For Pap tests, a clinician collects cells from the cervix and sends those cells to the laboratory for processing and inspection of cells to determine if abnormal cells are present. In addition, from that same specimen, a molecular test for HPV is performed on automated equipment to identify if the virus is present. As certain types of HPV (high-risk types) are known to be associated with cancers and high-grade precancers, physicians can use cotesting to acquire information out of one Pap vial on both the health of the cells collected for the Pap test and the presence of high-risk types of HPV.
This is why the combination of the information from these two tests is so important in understanding a woman's risks of developing cervical cancer or of having advanced cervical disease.
Despite the large number of data validating the benefits of cotesting, in recent years, a debate has emerged in the medical community about the benefits of cotesting versus HPV testing alone (also referred to as HPV primary testing), leaving patients and many clinicians confused about the best path to follow to identify cervical disease and to monitor cervical health.
Cotesting as the Most Effective Cervical Cancer Screening Tool
Two Health Trends studies conducted by researchers at Quest beginning in 2015, and then again in 2020, highlighted the importance of combining both the Pap and HPV tests to screen for cervical cancer. These studies reveal that cotesting with cytology and virology (Pap and HPV) were more likely to detect cervical pre-cancer and cancer than testing with HPV alone in women 30-65 years of age.
The first of Quest's two studies4, published in Cancer Cytopathology, a peer reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, is believed to be one of the largest to examine the effectiveness of cotesting versus HPV testing alone for cervical pre-cancer and existing cervical cancer. This study published in 2015 was based on de-identified data of test results of approximately 8.6 million women 30-65 years of age who received concurrent Pap and HPV tests from Quest Diagnostics laboratories in the United States.
According to the analysis, 18.6% of patients with a biopsy-confirmed cervical cancer received a negative test for HPV within the prior year, compared to 12.2% that had a negative Pap test and 5.5% that had a negative co-test result (defined as both tests being negative). Put simply, HPV testing alone did not identify cervical cancer in nearly 20 in 100 of these patients. Cotesting did not do so in less than 6 in 100, a striking finding demonstrating the value of cotesting. Of 169 women with a biopsy-confirmed cervical adenocarcinoma, 26.6% received a negative HPV test within the prior year, compared to 20.7% that had a negative Pap test and 8.3% that had a negative co-test result. Additionally, cotesting identified more cases of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia grade 3 (CIN3) and more abnormal results than either Pap alone or HPV alone.
A second Health Trends study conducted in 2020 based on an even larger population of 13.6 million women in the U.S. confirmed the 2015 results, providing additional compelling evidence that HPV screening alone is less likely to detect cervical cancer and precancer than cotesting. The second study by researchers from the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) and Quest Diagnostics was published in 2020 in the American Journal of Clinical Pathology.5
Key findings showed, first, that the independent use of HPV or Pap testing alone failed to detect twice as many women who developed biopsy-confirmed cervical cancer within a year when compared to cotesting. The study also demonstrated that, relative to HPV or Pap testing alone, cotesting detected significantly more women who developed biopsy-confirmed adenocarcinomas, a typically aggressive form of cervical cancer, within a year.
These Quest Diagnostics Health Trends studies are significant for several reasons. Other research evaluating the performance of HPV primary has generally focused on populations with either a few thousand patients or larger patient populations that are under care in a single region or closed health system. As a result, these studies may not have the depth of data to render accurate conclusions representative of the real-world care experiences seen in the larger and significantly more heterogenous population of the United States. By comparison, the Quest/UPMC research is based on datasets that span the breadth of the country's geographies, populations and provider types. As such, this research necessarily yields far richer insights for understanding the performance of cervical cancer screening technologies in detecting this disease in women.
More Clinical Challenges with HPV Primary
Another concern about HPV primary testing pertains to follow-on procedures — specifically, the potential for greater use of an office-based procedure known as a colposcopy, which employs a visual inspection of the cervix and is often associated with biopsy. Colposcopy is the typical follow-up diagnostic evaluation for an HPV positive test. A recent survey conducted by the National Association of Nurse Practitioners in Women's Health (NPWH) and HealthyWomen explored opinions from healthcare professionals (OB/GYNs, nurse practitioners, primary care physicians) and patients about testing for cervical cancer.
The survey, published in Women's Healthcare: A Clinical Journal for Nurse Practitioners, found that, healthcare providers considering the use of primary HPV testing for screening patients for cervical cancer fear the possibility of more missed diagnoses (62%), more recommendations for colposcopies (61%), and more positive diagnoses with no treatment options offered to patients (58%).6
A Need for Clear Guidelines
To serve the goal of promoting cervical health, it is essential first to improve HPV vaccination rates, as well as increase women's access to screening. Finally, when those women do receive screening, it is vital to ensure they are provided with the best screening approach, which is cotesting using both Pap and HPV testing.
While it is clear cotesting provides benefit to patients, the guidelines surrounding it can be confusing and murky. Implementing more effective cervical cancer screening protocols must start with clear and consistent guidelines. Current guidelines from the American Society of Clinical Pathology (ASCP), American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), and the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) are aligned on the continued role of Pap testing alone or in combination with HPV testing depending on a woman's age. However, there have been recent challenges to these guidelines that question the effectiveness of co-testing versus HPV primary.
For women who may otherwise not be screened at all, there is no question that Pap testing alone or HPV primary are useful screening technologies. In resource-constrained areas, HPV primary testing can help save many lives. But it is baffling that some would expect women in the United States, one of the world's most developed countries, to acquiesce to a cervical cancer screening approach that is limited to Pap or HPV alone when a superior screening method, cotesting, is widely available.
The science is clear: cotesting is fundamentally the better screening option for women in identifying cervical precancer and cancer than Pap or HPV alone.
Damian P. Alagia, MD, MS, MBA, FACS, FACOG is the senior medical director for Advanced Diagnostics and Women's Health as well as the chief clinical officer for Health Systems at Quest Diagnostics. He is an experienced healthcare executive as well as an expert clinician, surgeon, and academician. A board-certified obstetrician and gynecologist, Alagia is also a fellow of both the American College of Surgeons and the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology. He is a graduate of Georgetown University and Georgetown University School of Medicine and holds a master's degree in business and finance from The Johns Hopkins University.
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India: Thousands protest against prophet's insult in France, booked by police
By Muslim Mirror Staff
Scores of people staged a protest in Bhopal against Prophet Muhammad's insults in France on Thursday. They raised concerns against French president Emmanuel Macron's decision to support the prophet's controversial cartoons published by Charlie Hebdo, a weekly magazine.
The city police on Friday said that as many as 2,000 have been booked for violation of –Covid-19 restrictions. Congress MLA Arif Masood is also among people booked by the police.
#फ्रांस के राष्ट्रपति द्वारा पैगंबर सल्लल्लाहु अलैहि वसल्लम के बारे में अपशब्द कहे जाने को लेकर मेरे द्वारा इक़बाल मैदान में कार्यक्रम किया गया जिसमें हज़ारों की संख्या में मुस्लिम समुदाय के लोगों ने अपना विरोध दर्ज कराया!#WeLoveMuhammadﷺ@ShayarImran #OurProphetOurPride pic.twitter.com/IPq8wnRCmg
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As many as 2,000 people, including Masood and some clerics, were charged under section 188 (disobedience of an order promulgated by a public servant) of the IPC on Thursday evening, Talaiya police station officer DP Singh said.
The protesters have violated the district administration order banning assembly of people in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, he added.
Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan tried to paint the protest as unpeaceful despite the fact that no violence or disruption of law and order was reported from the protest site.
The Chief Minister, who belongs to Hindu right-right wing Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) said that Madhya Pradesh is a land of peace. "We will deal with those who disturb its peace with strictness. In this case, action is being taken by registering a case under section 188 of the IPC. No culprit will be spared, whoever it is."
It is pertinent to note that the Chief Minister and his political associates had come under criticism in March when they purportedly violated Covid-19 norms by organising an oath-taking ceremony in Bhopal. The ceremony was organised in the wake of their decision to form their government in the state days after Congress party-led government collapsed as a result of its MLAs switching to the BJP.
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GD October 31, 2020 At 9:35 am
France is our friend. Such protests are treason. These criminals must be severely punished by law. NSA looks apt in this case.
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Usually no such kinds of agreements are done for normal job profiles. But I wanted to clear that are there any regulations in HR concept which says it's a compulsion to fill job agreement before joining any company to have a legal record?
Is tenth qualification sufficient to apply for any decent kind of jobs?
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As you might be knowing that the rules are framed in order to smooth running of society.When there is no rule,there won't be a civilized society.When there is no civilized society,there is no proper life.Like wise,terms & conditions are framed by the company/govt.in order to smooth running of the company/office.The terms & conditions are to be followed by both the employers & employees.
In fact there are every where terms & conditions both for employees & employers.It is governed as to termination,resignation & others factors.Also it is connected as to benefits & perks for employees.
to the concerned authority along with three month salary in advance and quit the organization.
Without this agreement no employer will give you employment, before employment you are to sign offer letter then lots of official documents.This agreement system is good not bad for all.To the employee as well to the employer.Without reason and permission you can not submit resignation and can not join in a good company without notice.


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Nicole Blake Johnson
Nicole is a social media journalist for the CDW family of technology magazines.
Insufficient funding is often cited as a primary barrier to robust information security. But that isn't the case for New York state's banking institutions.
The majority of the banks — 77 percent — have seen their information security budgets increase in the past three years, according to a recent survey of 154 institutions by the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS). Another 18 percent of the banks reported that their budgets have remained the same, and "[a]lmost no institutions reported a decrease in spending in the past three years."
Nearly 80 percent of New York's banks reported that spending is expected to increase at least through 2017. Compliance and regulatory requirements, business continuity and disaster recovery as well as reputational risk are the key drivers that are expected to boost funding. Increased security funding for the state's banks could mean good news for budding professionals.
"The vast majority of banks — large and small — are planning to ramp up their cyber security spending in the coming years, which could represent a key opportunity for job growth and economic development in New York," according to a press release on the report.
Organizations such as the National Association of State Chief Information Officers have urged states not to overlook their cybersecurity risks and to allocate adequate security funding, especially as new administrations come on board. Compared to the private sector, state governments spend less on information security.
The increasing sophistication of security threats and emerging technologies were cited as primary barriers to information security, the survey noted. Fewer than 10 percent of the state's banks cited insufficient funding as a major challenge. Most of the surveyed institutions have experienced actual or attempted intrusions into their IT systems over the past three years.
In early May, Cuomo announced DFS will regularly conduct new, targeted cybersecurity preparedness assessments of all banks that it regulates. The revised assessments will provide greater details about banks' IT management and governance, incident response measures and disaster recovery capabilities.
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Whether in middle school or a laboratory at NASA, the scientific method is the accepted approach for conducting an experiment. The five components of the scientific method are: observations, questions, hypothesis, methods and results. Following the scientific method procedure not only ensures that the experiment can be repeated by other researchers, but also that the results garnered can be accepted.
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Observations allow an experimenter to gather and use background information concerning the principles being tested to better predict and understand the forthcoming outcome. A researcher or student may choose to perform independent research or look at similar experiments before making observations. The question is the aspect being tested, what is the experiment is trying to answer. For example, the question that an experiment may ask is: "Does the temperature of ice increase as it undergoes a phase change?"
The hypothesis is a prediction of the outcome, which is generally stated in a complete sentence; it uses the observations made before the experiment to make an educated assertion. At the end of the experiment, the researcher will have to use the results to decide if he can accept the hypothesis or reject it. The hypothesis must stand up to questioning during the experiment.
The method section of the scientific method lists all of the materials used in the experiment in specific detail along with the exact procedures that were taken. It is important that the methods are detailed and accurate so another researcher can repeat the experiment and expect to get similar results. It is also necessary to list the methods used because it may be useful to go back to them after the experiment to explain some of the results that occurred.
You must record the results of the experiment. Researchers must interpret the results they receive, giving explanations for the data gathered. Most importantly, they must also draw a conclusion from the results. The conclusion must decide whether to accept or reject the hypothesis made at the beginning of the experiment. It is often useful to display results with visual aids, such as graphs or charts, to help identify trends and relationships.
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If you're reading this in church, congratulations. You just might be prolonging your life. According to the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine, attending church every week can add two to three years to your life.
Regular exercise—which does not include all the standing, sitting and kneeling we do during Mass, sorry—can add up to five years. Using cholesterol-lowering drugs can add two and a half to three and a half years.
All things considered, church is cheaper, and—though others may disagree—a lot easier to handle.
No one is quite sure why weekly churchgoing seems to help you live longer. It may be that church attendance makes you happier and more at peace. (And that's in spite of all those cell phones ringing during the homily and the gentle but insistent nudging of the usher waving the collection basket under your nose.) It may be that church gives the faithful a sense of community and belonging; people who have a support network tend to fare better than those who try to muddle through life on their own.
And then again, it may just be good for you.
By attending church every week, the parishioner lets the heart and the head spend at least one hour a week in quiet conversation with God. The worries of the world are lifted up. Petitions are offered. Old truths are retaught. Prayer and meditation help center the soul. The spirit is, at least for a brief moment, refreshed and renewed. Sometimes, that makes all the difference.
Cynics, of course, are already sneering. They argue that other factors are really at play here. Religious people are less likely to smoke, divorce and contract sexually transmitted diseases. They're more likely to see a doctor regularly, and more apt to follow his advice. (What are the Ten Commandments, after all, if not the Ultimate Doctor's Orders? Following those is probably good training for other things in life, too.)
The author of this study, Daniel Hall, is an Episcopal priest, so he may be just a wee bit biased. He admits as much—but still contends that there is something to his study, and something that merits more attention.
I think he's right. And I speak not only as someone who attends church every week, but also as someone who has an aversion to taking any kind of drugs, and who is not wild about exercise, either. (Me, I need to sit down and rest after brushing my teeth.) I'd like to prolong my life—who wouldn't?—and if being in church regularly will help, I'm all for it.
Who knows? Maybe the best prescription for longer life is much simpler than we realize.
Just take two Masses and call me in the morning.
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Oiltanking announces sale of four European terminals to Evos
Oiltanking is pleased to announce that it has entered into an agreement to sell its 55% stake in four European liquid storage terminals to Evos through its entity Evos Finance B.V. Evos will also acquire the 45% stake in the terminals held by co-shareholder 3i Infrastructure plc.
The four terminals are Oiltanking Amsterdam B.V., Oiltanking Ghent N.V., Oiltanking Malta Limited and Oiltanking Terneuzen B.V., which collectively provide 3.8 million cbm of liquid storage capacity and associated services to a diverse range of customers. The divestment of the four terminals is a result of Oiltanking's strategic review to continuously optimize its asset portfolio. Oiltanking and 3i Infrastructure will continue as co-shareholders of Oiltanking Singapore Limited.
Matti Lievonen, CEO of Oiltanking, said: "The divestment of our four European terminals is in line with Oiltanking's strategy 2025 as we shift our portfolio and focus on gas, chemicals and new energy. Together with our partner 3i Infrastructure we have invested into the expansion and upgrading of our terminals and improved their environmental and safety performance. Driven by our commitment to apply a best-owner mindset we are confident the terminals are well placed to provide a perfect match with Evos' asset portfolio."
Douglas van der Wiel, Senior Vice President EMEA at Oiltanking, added: "We are proud of the skilled and committed teams at the terminals and the achievements we have made together with our partner 3i Infrastructure over the years. We are confident that Evos will continue to advance the terminals and we wish them every success in the future. We would like to thank our customers for their trust over the past years as well as thank our teams for their excellent performance in delivering safe and reliable services."
The sale is subject to customary approvals by third parties. Completion of the transaction is expected to occur in Q4 2021. Financial details of the transaction will not be disclosed.
Oiltanking GmbH is a subsidiary of Marquard & Bahls, an agile, independent holding company in the energy & chemical sector. Oiltanking is one of the largest independent tank storage providers for gas, chemicals and petroleum products worldwide. The company owns and operates 45 terminals in 20 countries in the Americas, Europe, Middle East, Africa, and Asia Pacific including China and India. Oiltanking has an overall storage capacity of more than 18.5 million cbm.
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