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beware of duplicate content
Simply put, dupli ca te con tent, or'duplicate con tent', is available in more places than one, i.e. the content is published on multiple URLs on the web. In most cases, the hole is identical, without any changes, or well like the hole already in place.
When we talk about duplicated content, there are two ways of doing this:
Content published internally on your own website
content available externally in other domains,
The problem is the same for both of them, duplicated content means that the chances of your website getting as much visibility as possible are diminishing.
Reduced organic visibility
Improved organisational visibility often stresses the importance of having a unique and rele vant high-quality content for the website, in many cases it is precisely this which distinguishes your website from competitors. By answering visitors'questions in the best possible way, with content that can only be obtained from you, you distinguish yourself from men.
Google works consistently to determine the relevance of this additional resource in order to provide the user with the search state that best feeds the search. What happens when there is duplicated content spread over a number of pages is that the search engines of the owners of the URLs show the priority to file the resulting result there. This is because Google does not want to show content again, a content that the users have already seen.
If your website suffers from duplicated content, whether internal or external, the chances of reaching higher positions on the current pages are reduced. However, the effect of the content you have produced may be impaired or completely removed from the search results.
It is not entirely guaranteed that the result that the search engine chooses to display is the URL you would like to see. Or that it is the one best suited to achieve the best possible result.
Another pro blem that may arise is when other websites are healing on your side and so are being distributed over a number of URLs rather than being concentrated on one side.
Different types of duplicated content
Duplicated content is now a difficult pro blem on many websites and something that should be actively addressed.
If it is only known that the website suffers from duplicated content, it is usually relatively easy to remedy it. The fact that the hole is not duplicated is, in fact, an incredibly important way of achieving better positions organically, which will, in turn, benefit your website for a long time.
There are several reasons for the duplication of content, most of which concern technology and are already in the development of the website.
Here I am going through some of the most difficult facilities.
With or without www
Your website is available both with and without www. The best thing to do is to decide on a vari ant and ensure that the calls received have a per cently so-called 301 reconnection to the right URL.
This can be applied to a number of similar problems, such as the use of both large and small books in the URLs, the use of local languages (islands) or with or without the slash.
Reviews are generally carried out at world level. A 301 review implies that it is a per ma nent review which should always be used before a 302-review (if appropriate) of this situation.
Printable pages
Are there print-friendly pages on your website? There is a risk that these pages will duplicate content if they are available on their own URL.
This is best achieved by using the appropriate internal links and referring to the right URL icano-ni cal approach.
An emergency search engine to depart from the duplicated URLs, which are the main ones, will be particularly visible. Here too, absurd URLs should be used.
A complete URL indicates the full URL of the website.
reuse the same content on different pages
Is there a text on your website which can be consulted under different sections? You should always strive to have as much unique content as possible, see for yourself the details of existing content and rewrite the text if necessary.
Cross-publishing: sharing content across multiple sources
It is difficult to publish your contributions on many other channels, such as Linkedin, Facebook or Mynewsdesk, simultaneously as content is published on your own website, but how does it work specifically from a SEO perspective?
Publication of simultaneous submissions in a number of channels may result in particular in the wrong way. However, with the help of a cano ni cal tag, there is nothing to worry about, and I have summarised below a few points which may be useful to consider if you would like to publish a speech for a number of reasons.
Wait before publishing content elsewhere
Before you decide to publish the content on a website other than the original one, it is a good idea to wait a few days/ up to a week to give Google or other search engines the chan ce to index the main reason for the content.
Make sure to use the canonical tag
In those cases where the submissions will be published without modification, whether it is on the website or on other domains, it is important to have an account indicating the main reason.
If you are going to share a content on an external website, it may be worth asking if they can add to the cannibal action for you in order to provide as much duplicated content as possible.
Rewrite all or part of the textile content
It is, of course, better to publish at all times unique content which cannot be enjoyed in other places. If this is not possible, one objective could be to try to write about the Tex to 25-30%. In doing so, you should also ensure that the titles and meta-descriptions are given.
If it is not possible to rewrite the entire submission, an alternative could be to sum up the bud get of the report and then publish it on, for example, LinkedIn. Please also refer to the source for which the full submission is available.
Create unique content for different channels
If there is time, it is possible not to publish a single content in different places, but rather to consider, at the very beginning of the hole, the possibility of having a unique content in all other channels. It also makes it possible to adapt the gap to the chosen channel and target group from the proposal.
Make sure your website does not suffer from duplicated content
Enter your website to make sure that it is unique and rele vant to the target. This will be important for both search engines and users. If there is duplicated content, can it be combined with other pages or perhaps rewritten entirely?
To easily browse your website, you can type in all index-related search results:
site:your website. If you also want to search for a specific search word on your website, it is possible to do so by writing a website: your website.
It is also possible to search for a piece of the text and to see some search results emerging, both internally and externally.


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DDT: The Britney Spears of Chemicals
We loved it. We hated it. Now we kind of maybe like it again.
Episode 207 | February 2, 2016
Distillations Podcast | Episode 207 | February 2, 2016
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Americans have had a long, complicated relationship with the pesticide DDT, or dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane, if you want to get fancy. First we loved it, then we hated it, then we realized it might not be as bad as we thought. But we'll never restore it to its former glory. And couldn't you say the same about America's once-favorite pop star?
We had a hunch that the usual narrative about DDT's rise and fall left a few things out, so we talked to historian and CHF fellow Elena Conis. She has been discovering little-known pieces of this story one dusty letter at a time.
But first our associate producer Rigoberto Hernandez checks out some of CHF's own DDT cans—that's right, we have a DDT collection—and talks to the retired exterminator who donated them.
Hosts: Michal Meyer and Bob Kenworthy
Guest: Elena Conis
Producer: Mariel Carr
Associate Producer: Rigoberto Hernandez
Additional music courtesy of the Audio Network
Leaking Legacy
How did the Hanford nuclear facility become one of America's most vexing environmental challenges?
Underground Faults
One of this year's Oscar-nominated documentaries was the controversial Gasland, in which money, science, and politics play a role in the development of natural-gas reserves in the eastern United States.
An Everyday Poison
Michal Meyer reviews James C. Whorton's The Arsenic Century: How Victorian Britain Was Poisoned at Home, Work, and Play.

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In the Literature
What We Talk about When We Talk about Performance Enhancement
Andrew Courtwright, MD, PhD
Virtual Mentor. 2014;16(7):543-546. doi: 10.1001/virtualmentor.2014.16.7.jdsc1-1407.
Outram SM. Discourses of performance enhancement: can we separate performance enhancement from performance enhancing drug use? Perform Enhance Health. 2013;2(3):94-100.
The usefulness of a review article is a function of its comprehensiveness and the clarity of the framework the author uses to organize an extensive academic literature. Simon Outram's article "Discourses of Performance Enhancement: Can We Separate Performance Enhancement from Performance Enhancing Drug Use?" is valuable in both respects [1]. Outram provides a typology of discourses about performance enhancement as a way of summarizing the key literature in this field. He focuses on four topics: (1) the meaning of the term "performance enhancement"; (2) performance enhancement as it relates to health; (3) the regulation of performance-enhancing drugs and technology; and (4) actual social practices regarding performance enhancement. As an orthogonal distinction to these four domains—that is, a distinction that cuts across all four—he differentiates between performance enhancement in sport and in cognition, using examples from one field to illustrate the other.
First, Outram notes that the term "performance enhancement" is often considered synonymous with the term "performance-enhancing drug" but that treating the two as equivalent ignores important insights from broader discourses about performance enhancement. For example, there is a long history of integrating performance-enhancing technologies into sport, in contrast to the strong regulatory approach to performance-enhancing drugs[2]. These technologies (such as altitude tents or advancements in bicycle alloys or ski design) may carry health risks as significant as those of certain performance-enhancing drugs, but the conversation around their use has centered not on safety but on questions of essentiality and authenticity. Advances in swimsuits—which are not essential to swimming (after all, a person is physically capable of swimming naked)—are seen as taking away the authenticity of a swimmer's performance, whereas advances in ski design are not, given that skis are essential to that sport [3]. Thus, Outram argues, keeping the term "performance enhancement" ecumenical allows us to draw on insights from approaches to performance enhancement beyond performance-enhancing drugs.
Second, Outram focuses on the longstanding discourse about the relationship between performance enhancement and health. He notes the extensive philosophical work that has developed around distinguishing interventions that constitute treatment, which have the goal of making a person well or healthy, from those that constitute enhancement, which have the goal of making a person better than well [4]. Because this conceptual distinction has been so challenging to maintain, however, Outram correctly emphasizes the more recent debate on what constitutes a healthy athlete as opposed to a healthy person. Rather than thinking of health as the absence of disease, several authors have suggested that, in the athletic context, health should be thought of as the ability to achieve one's reasonable goals [5]. On this definition, it could be argued that some performance-enhancing substances such as androgenic steroids actually promote the health of an athlete, especially if used in a controlled manner. Similarly, this conception of health may impact the way the physician-athlete relationship is conceived, particularly if the physician's aim is to make the athlete—in contrast to the typical patient—healthy for competition [6].
Third, Outram reviews arguments about the regulation of performance-enhancing substances in sport. He notes that current regulations often turn on whether a particular drug is an actual or potential health threat or violates the spirit of sport. With regard to the second question, several authors have argued that, rather than violating the spirit of sport, the use of performance-enhancing drugs is faithful to it [7]. For example, drugs like erythropoietin—a red-blood-cell-stimulating compound—may offer athletes the ability to train harder and recover faster, leading to athletic excellence and achievement. This position, unsurprisingly, is associated with arguments to deregulate performance-enhancing substances. Outram also discusses "third-way" or harm-reduction models of regulation, whereby the permissibility of using a particular substance is contingent on the health state of a particular athlete [8]. Finally, he emphasizes the limits of our knowledge about whether certain regulated substances actually improve performance, although the regulatory implications of this epistemic deficiency are not clear.
Fourth, Outram reviews the distinction between social values and actual social practices regarding performance enhancement. He notes that surveys consistently demonstrate strong public opposition to performance-enhancing drugs in sport and cognition. This reflects, he suggests, a broad commitment to the value of unenhanced achievement. At the same time, however, there has been little change in public support for sporting activities such as Major League Baseball or the Tour de France after revelations of widespread use of performance-enhancing drugs. And there is also widespread use of potentially performance-enhancing supplements in the nonprofessional sports context. Noting these trends, some authors argue that the public tacitly accepts the use of performance enhancement despite expressing censure for it [9]. Over time, they suggest, our lived values may replace our more theoretical opposition to performance enhancement in sport and in cognition.
By way of closing comments: first, although Outram's typology provides a helpful way of organizing the literature on performance enhancement, in practice these conversations are deeply interconnected, and his framework can create artificial divisions. For example, the treatment-enhancement distinction is often thought to map directly onto the permissibility of using a drug or technology and its regulation. Treatments are permissible; enhancements impermissible and hence regulatable. Similarly, conversations about authenticity lead directly to conversations about regulation, as with policies banning buoyant swimsuits. In general, the answer an author gives in one discourse about performance enhancement often directly impacts his or her position in another discourse, which can be obscured by treating them as separate conversations.
In addition, Outram follows the common practice of treating performance enhancement in sport and in cognition as separate conversations, related only in the way that they rely on similar distinctions or can inform complex cases in each domain. This approach reinforces the perception that performance enhancement in sport is only about physical accomplishments (e.g., stronger, faster, higher) and cognitive enhancements are only for academic accomplishments. Questions about the moral and regulatory status of cognitive enhancement—for example, the use of amphetamine salts among coaches or among athletes mastering playbooks—are just as relevant in sport and should be directly considered in that context as well.
Ethics/Theory,
Goals of health care/Enhancement
Miah A. Rethinking enhancement in sport. Ann NY Acad Sci. 2006;1093(1):301-320.
Partridge B. Fairness and performance-enhancing swimsuits at the 2009 swimming world championships: the 'asterisk' championships. Sport Ethics Philos. 2011;5(1):63-74.
Daniels N. Normal functioning and the treatment-enhancement distinction. Camb Q Healthc Ethics. 2000;9(3):309-322.
Møller V. The anti-doping campaign—farewell to the ideals of modernity? In: Møller V, Hoberman J, eds. Doping and Public Policy.Odense, Denmark: University of Southern Denmark Press; 2005:149-159.
Miah A. Genetics, bioethics and sport. Sport Ethics Philos. 2007;1(2):146-158.
Savulescu J, Foddy B, Clayton M. Why we should allow performance enhancing drugs in sport. Br J Sports Med. 2004;38(6):666-670.
Waddington I. Sport, Health and Drugs: A Critical Sociological Perspective. London: Routledge Press; 2000.
Morgan WJ. Athletic perfection, performance-enhancing drugs, and the treatment-enhancement distinction. J Philos Sport. 2009;36(2):162-181.
10.1001/virtualmentor.2014.16.7.jdsc1-1407.
Andrew Courtwright, MD, PhD received his MD and PhD in philosophy from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He completed his internal medicine residency at Massachusetts General Hospital, where he serves on the hospital ethics committee.
Reviving Ethics in Sports through Physician Leadership
Andrew Pipe, CM, MD
Performance-Enhancing Drugs in Sports, Commentary 1
Stephen L. Brotherton, MD
Norman C. Fost, MD, MPH
Gary A. Green, MD
Medical Ethics and Performance-Enhancing Drugs
Carlos R. Hamilton, MD
Steroid Hysteria: Unpacking the Claims
Norman Fost, MD, MPH
A Patient's Request for Steroids to Enhance Participation in Wilderness Sport and Adventure
Christopher Madden, MD, Aaron D. Campbell, MD, MHS, and Jessica Pierce, PhD
Evaluating the Risks and Benefits of Participation in High-School Football
Michael J. O'Brien, MD and William P. Meehan III, MD
Addressing Concussion in Youth Sports
Kevin D. Walter, MD
Drug Testing in Sport: hGH (Human Growth Hormone)


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Minister Harris announces €5 million funding in recognition of positive performance by higher education institutions
By Maura O'Shea
Posted: 23 September, 2021
Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Simon Harris, T.D., has today announced five performance funding awards totalling €5 million to higher education institutions in recognition of positive performance in working towards national strategic objectives. Each award is valued at €1 million.
Speaking today, Minister Harris said: "I would like to congratulate the successful institutions on submitting high quality case studies that provide us with a snapshot of some of the exciting and innovative initiatives ongoing in higher education.
The institutions receiving awards today are clearly making a positive and significant impact on Irish society, in areas such as inclusion and gender equality, leadership and sustainability, and are helping create an Ireland that is progressive, and one in which every person has the same opportunities to reach their potential."
The awards were determined on the basis of an evaluation of 21 Impact Case Studies submitted by higher education institutions (HEIs) to the Higher Education Authority (HEA) in March 2021.
The HEIs were invited to submit case studies to showcase innovative initiatives that made a valuable contribution towards national strategic objectives set out in the Higher Education System Performance Framework and evolving national policy priorities. The submissions were assessed by an independent panel of expert advisors based on criteria determined by the HEA.
The awards will be made to AIT/LIT, IT Carlow, MTU, NUIG and UCC in recognition of their positive performance.
Dr Alan Wall, CEO of the HEA, added: "I'm particularly delighted that progressive initiatives aimed at facilitating participation in higher education by some of the more underrepresented and disadvantaged groups in our society have received well deserved recognition through these awards.
One of the primary benefits of this process is the rich learning that has been collated by the HEA, which we will disseminate widely so that it can be embedded across the higher education sector."
Among the successful case studies is one from IT Carlow which details the development and delivery of a Certificate in Family Caring in partnership with Family Carers Ireland (FCI), and one from UCC that details innovative programmes that support inclusive education pathways for students with intellectual disabilities.
NUI Galway has been awarded for a case study detailing recent action to advance gender equality, while Munster Technological University secured an award for their case study outlining an innovative leadership development programme.
One of the awards is granted jointly to Athlone IT and Limerick IT on the basis of two separate case studies on their participation in the Regional University Network European University (RUN-EU) initiative. Athlone IT and Limerick IT will formally merge to form the new Technological University of the Shannon: Midlands Midwest on 1st October 2021.
The funding awards can be used to expand and progress existing initiatives or put towards new initiatives that contribute towards national strategic imperatives. Oversight of the funding awarded will be managed by the HEA.
The successful case studies have been published here on the HEA's website.
HEI Impact Assessment Case Study Title Award
AIT & LIT Regional University Network – European University (RUN-EU) €1m
ITC Supporting Family Carers Across Ireland €1m
MTU Teaching, Learning, Assessment & Student Engagement (TLASE) – Enhancement through Leadership Development and Partnership Approaches €1m
NUIG NUI Galway Delivering on Gender Equality €1m
UCC Inclusive Education Pathways for Students with Intellectual Disabilities at UCC €1m
Total €5m
Table 1: Performance Funding Awards 2021
Background to Performance Funding:
The System Performance Framework 2018-2020 is the key policy framework that guides the strategy and performance dialogue process that the HEA facilitates with higher education institutions. The process, following the key priorities set out in the framework, serves as the foundation for system development and performance management, informs investment decisions and provides the basis on which to build greater transparency and accountability in the future. It also enables the HEA to manage system risks.
Mission-Based Performance Compacts were agreed with individual HEIs in early 2019, aligned with the System Performance Framework 2018-2020 and each institution's strategic plan.
In response to recommendations in reports such as the Review of the Allocation Model for Funding Higher Education Institutions in 2018, a process for recognising the positive performance of institutions was introduced in 2019.
€5million in performance funding has been allocated by government in 2021 to reward higher education institutions (HEIs) for positive performance as part of the Strategy and Performance Dialogue process.
To inform the allocation of performance funding, HEIs were requested to submit impact assessment case studies aligned with national priorities and targets and evolving national policy objectives detailed below:
Key System Objectives for the Higher Education System 2018–2020
Providing a strong talent pipeline combining knowledge, skills & employability which responds effectively to the needs of our enterprise, public service and community sectors, both nationally and regionally, and maintains Irish leadership in Europe for skill availability;
Creating rich opportunities for national and international engagement which enhances the learning environment and delivers a strong bridge to enterprise and the wider community;
Excellent research, development and innovation that has relevance, growing engagement with external partners and impact for the economy and society and strengthens our standing to become an Innovation Leader in Europe;
Significantly improves the equality of opportunity through Education and Training and recruits a student body that reflects the diversity and social mix of Ireland's population;
Demonstrates consistent improvement in the quality of the learning environment with a close eye to international best practice through a strong focus on quality & academic excellence;
Demonstrates consistent improvement in governance, leadership and operational
Evolving National Policy Objectives / Themes
Student progression (HEA 2018, Report on progression of undergraduate students);
Graduate employability (HEA 2018, First Destinations Report);
Addressing Teacher Supply Challenges (DES 2018, Teacher Supply Action Plan);
Sustainable development (National Strategy on Education for Sustainable Development 2014–2020);
Climate Action (Climate Action Plan 2019);
Informed consent (DES 2019, Framework for Consent in Higher Education Institutions);
Enhancement of counselling services in higher education institutions (Main Features of Budget 2019: Education & Skills);
Mental Health (Wellbeing Policy Statement and Framework for Practice 2018 – 2023).
Student Engagement (HEA, 2016, Enhancing student engagement in decision-making; National Student Engagement Programme)
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Hospitals lose out when imaging moves to private offices
Rebekah Moan
Use of noninvasive diagnostic imaging rose 63% at private imaging facilities between 1996 and 2006, suggesting that hospitals lost a business opportunity, according to a study in the Journal of the American College of Radiology.
Dr. David C. Levin, former chair of radiology at Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University, and colleagues examined nationwide Medicare Part B databases from 1996 to 2006 looking for noninvasive diagnostic imaging (NDI) codes compared with place-of-service codes (J Am Coll Radiol 2009;6:96-99).
The researchers found Medicare NDI utilization rates per 1000 patients increased at all four places of service: hospital inpatient, hospital outpatient, private office, and emergency department. The rate grew 15%, from 1056.5 to 1211.8, among hospital inpatients -- the lowest increase, according to the researchers.
Hospital outpatient facilities saw an increase of 25% from 793.4 to 993.2. Rates at private offices or imaging centers jumped 63% from 883.3 to 1442.2. Though utilization rates in emergency departments were considerably lower than in the other places, growth was fastest at 77% (222.1 to 392.2). Total outpatient imaging rates rose 45% from 1676.7 to 2435.4, the researchers said.
Hospitals' share of the imaging market dropped from 47% in 1996 to 41% in 2006 due to rapid growth in private office imaging, as nonradiologist physicians started doing more imaging, according to the study. Utilization rates grew 71% among that group compared with 44% among radiologists.
A shift from the hospital outpatient department to a private office could mean that imaging is going to a radiology office or a radiology-owned imaging center, Levin told Diagnostic Imaging.
The trend is not a loss for radiologists because even though imaging may take place elsewhere, the radiologist still has to interpret the study. Instead, putting imaging equipment in private offices is bad for the healthcare system and for hospitals, he said.
"As you can well imagine, somebody who puts in a $1.5 million or $2 million piece of equipment is going to want to make sure that gets very well utilized. So I think what that leads to is overutilization," he said.
More imaging in private offices also means that hospitals have missed out on a business opportunity, Levin said.
"Hospitals just didn't see the rapid growth in imaging and didn't put in enough equipment to meet the demand. So radiologists put the equipment in themselves in their own private offices, and they benefited from it financially," he said.
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Q: Simplify draw on canvas This is my code.
Forget about some stuff outside the function (is just to make it clear on fiddle, it's a part of a bigger code.
Basically I have this part :
var drawDataSet = function (dataset) {
    context.lineWidth = 1;
    context.save();
    context.beginPath();
    var angle = (Math.PI) / (dataset.data.length / 2);
    for (var i = 0; i < dataset.data.length; i++) {
        var height = ((canvas.height / 2 * dataset.data[i]) / 100);
        context.lineTo(Math.cos(angle * i) * height, -Math.sin(angle * i) * height);
    }
    var height = ((canvas.height / 2 * dataset.data[0]) / 100);
    context.lineTo(height, 0);
    context.closePath();
    context.strokeStyle = dataset.strokeColor;
    context.stroke();
    context.fillStyle = dataset.fillColor;
    context.fill();
    context.fillStyle = dataset.pointfillColor;
    context.fillStyle = dataset.pointStrokeColor;
    for (var i = 0; i < dataset.data.length; i++) {
        var height = ((canvas.height / 2 * dataset.data[i]) / 100);
        drawPoint(Math.cos(angle * i) * height, -Math.sin(angle * i) * height, 3);
    }
    context.restore();
}

drawPoint = function (x,y,w) {
    context.beginPath();
    context.arc(x, y, w, 0, 2 * Math.PI, true);
    context.stroke();
    context.fill();
    context.closePath();
}

I would like to know if there is an easier and better way to draw the same thing.
Actually I do the same exact loop 2 times at different position. This is because if I draw all in the same loop, everything breaks because the closePath closes all the paths. If I remove the closePath, it only breaks the fill and stroke.
Is it possible to put the drawPoint and the drawLine in the same loop?

A: Technically, Yes...
You can combine your draws in a single loop
You could draw your lines and points at the same time with a single loop by saving & restoring the context when you draw your current line and your current point. And some compositing must be done to keep your lines draw behind your points.

var canvas=document.getElementById("canvas");
var context=canvas.getContext("2d");

var points=[ {x:25,y:50},{x:100,y:25},{x:150,y:85},{x:125,y:100},{x:25,y:50}  ];
var lastX,lastY;

lastX=points[0].x;
lastY=points[0].y;

for(var i=1;i<points.length;i++){
  var p=points[i];
  drawLine(lastX,lastY,p.x,p.y,'green');
  drawPoint(p.x,p.y,3,'blue','red');
  lastX=p.x;
  lastY=p.y;
}

function drawLine(x0,y0,x1,y1,stroke){
  context.save();
  context.globalCompositeOperation='destination-over';
  context.lineWidth=2;
  context.beginPath();
  context.moveTo(x0,y0);
  context.lineTo(x1,y1);
  context.strokeStyle=stroke;
  context.stroke();
  context.restore();
}

function drawPoint(x,y,w,fill,stroke) {
  context.save();
  context.lineWidth=2;
  context.beginPath();
  context.arc(x, y, w, 0, 2 * Math.PI, true);
  context.strokeStyle=stroke;
  context.fillStyle=fill;
  context.stroke();
  context.fill();
  context.closePath();
  context.restore();
}
body{ background-color:white; }
#canvas{border:1px solid red;}
<canvas id="canvas" width=300 height=300></canvas>

Alternatively, you could draw your lines & points in a single beginPath if you are willing to have just 1 color for both strokeStyle fillStyle.
But...performance is better if you draw the lines & points in separate loops
Saving & restoring the context is modestly expensive.
Since you are constantly saving & restoring, you get a in loss of performance versus doing 2 loops without save & restore.

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A seasonal beer tasting in our on-site pub and training room, the Unwin Arms. Join beer experts Edmund Jenner and Robin Thorpe for a tasting, some nibbles and a talk on Harvey's award-winning ales, with particular emphasis on Autumn seasonals.
Lewes Labour Party: Food Glorious Food. Why Is What We Eat Political?
We are delighted to welcome Downlands Brewery from Small Dole for our annual Meet the Brewer talk and tasting. There will be cask and keg beers to try and nibbles supplied by Richards Butchers. £10, includes two pints, available from the pub.
What Would a Rural, Land and Food Policy for the Many Taste Like?
An open meeting presented by Lewes Labour Party. Speakers include Action in Rural Sussex and the Ecological Land Cooperative. Refreshments and locally-sourced food from 6.30pm. Free event.


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Nginx is a high-performance web server specifically designed for delivering large amounts of static content. You can install nginx in CentOS 6 with the help of yum command.
Get a server from Bytehouse Cloud Products and configure the server.
Start nginx service by executing the below command.
Get your server IP address by executing the below command.
The default document root of nginx is /usr/share/nginx/html. If you wish to change the default document root of nginx, edit the configuration file in /etc/nginx/conf.d/default.conf.
Change root parameter under location section in configuration file.
You can check the status of nginx process by executing the below command.


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Does the Change in Season Affect Your Mood?
Feeling a little low? Suffering from lethargy, lack of motivation or poor concentration, or maybe you have the urge to hibernate?
You could be suffering from Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) – an increasingly recognised syndrome, thought to be associated with a lack of sunlight and common for this time of year.
It's not known why, but SAD is more prevalent in females than males. It is also generally found in people over the age of 20.
Symptoms include feeling sad, depressed and lacking in concentration, energy or motivation. You might also find you have problems sleeping or you've gained weight.
"SAD occurs because a lack of natural daylight leads to a drop in serotonin and melatonin levels in the brain. It disrupts the body's natural clock," says clinical psychologist Dr Eddie Murphy, who runs corporate wellness programmes.
Although there's little research on the subject in Ireland, a study by the Weather Channel and YouGov in 2014 found that as many as 29 per cent of people in the UK suffer from some level of SAD during the winter.
"There's no doubt that some people who would usually enjoy good mental health, will experience SAD at this time of year and find themselves depressed," says Dr Murphy. "But there are ways of combatting it."
1. Get Moving:
It's cold outside, you feel like staying indoors and watching TV on the couch. It's easy to make excuses not to exercise in the middle of winter. But physical activity impacts on mood as it raises the serotonin levels in the brain and therefore helps in treating SAD. "Any form of exercise – even a brisk 30-minute walk in the open air will help to alleviate your mood," says Dr. Murphy.
2. Eat Well:
It's normal to crave carbs during the winter as the body has a natural urge to put on fat to keep warm. But a balanced nutritious diet with plenty of green leafy vegetables and plant-based foods serves us better. Not only does it balance our sugar levels, it makes us less likely to put on weight.
3. Talk it Out:
A problem shared is a problem halved. Don't be afraid to share your feelings at this time of year with family or friends. Chances are they may be experiencing the same symptoms too and you can support each other.
4. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy:
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, which emphasises both the importance of 'doing' and 'thinking' differently, is a proven way to treat Seasonal Affective Disorder. "It encourages people suffering from the syndrome to replace negative thoughts with positive ones, and therefore better manage stress," says Dr Murphy. "It also emphasises 'doing' things to help the disorder. For example, by going outside you expose yourself to more natural light."
Many approved psychologists and psychotherapists practice CBT. However, some use it more than others. "Check whether they have significant training and how much they use it in their practice," advises Dr Murphy. Prices for therapy sessions vary from €50 to €150.
5. Light Box Therapy:
This is the number one way of treating SAD and involves the use of specially designed light boxes, which mimic daylight and cause a change in the chemistry of the brain. "There is limited research around the use of light boxes in treating SAD," says Dr Murphy. "But they do seem to make a difference to people with the condition."
Light boxes can be bought online and should be medically approved. Prices typically start at €80 per box and go upwards depending on the size.
"SAD is associated with the seasons and will therefore come to an end with the winter," says Dr Murphy. "Hope is the biggest antidote to depression and it's important for people affected by it to remember that it's a temporary state and one which will pass as the winter ends. There is light at the end of the tunnel."


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Q: SPARQL query returning incomplete/inconsistent results I am trying to run the following query to get all the properties of a resource:
select distinct ?property
where {
<http://dbpedia.org/resource/Bildøy> ?property ?value
}

on http://dbpedia.org/snorql/
However, I only get a few results, and not the ones I was expecting. Most of the properties on this page are missing http://dbpedia.org/page/Bild%C3%B8y
Could this be because of the ø-letter in the URI? The query seems to be working fine with other resources, but having the same problem with other resource with the ø-letter (Example: http://dbpedia.org/page/Rad%C3%B8y).
When I run the query in a PHP script I get the following results:
array (
  0 => 'dbpedia-owl:wikiPageInLinkCountCleaned',
  1 => 'dbpedia-owl:wikiPageRank',
  2 => 'dbpedia-owl:wikiHITS',
  3 => 'dbpedia-owl:wikiPageOutLinkCountCleaned',
)
array (
  0 => 'http://www.w3.org/2002/07/owl#sameAs',
)

A: It was the ø-letter causing the problem. By using the PHP urlencode() function on the resource name (turning it into UTF8 hex?) before the query, it will return the  properties. ø is translated to %C3%B8 and is also the value being used in the DBpedia URI http://dbpedia.org/page/Bild%C3%B8y.


Our joints are important; they allow us to move freely and enjoy our greatest adventures. A restriction on these movements can be caused by joint pain, something that affects one third of adults. By making small changes to the food you eat, you can help fight inflammation, strengthen your bones and boost your immune system. The following foods can ease the symptoms of joint pain.
Cold-Water fish such as salmon, tuna, trout and mackerel are rich in omega-3. Fish oil is one of the best sources of this fatty acid as it can decrease the pain in tender or swollen joints. By adding more fish into your diet, it can minimise those aches and pains.
If you're not a fan of fish, soybeans, chia seeds, tofu or edamame have the same inflammation fighting properties. Lower in fat, soybeans are packed with protein and fibre.
Often found in Indian cuisine, turmeric and ginger are recognised for their anti-inflammatory benefits. You can add both of these to smoothies, eggs or sauces to include into a healthy balanced diet- not an excuse for endless Indian takeaways.
Low fat dairy products such as milk, yoghurt and cheese are packed full of calcium and vitamin D. Both increase bone strength but vitamin D is essential for absorbing the calcium and is additionally beneficial to boosting your immune system.
Leafy green vegetables are an alternative if dairy doesn't agree with you.
These include broccoli, cauliflower, brussels sprouts and kale. It is recommended to include these daily into your meals as they are loaded with vitamins, fibre and antioxidants that block the enzymes which cause joint pain and inflammation.
There is a reactive protein in your blood associated with heart disease, diabetes and arthritis. This can be reduced by eating foods such as oatmeal, brown rice and whole-gain cereals.
Anthocyanins have been found in cherries as well as other red and purple fruits such as strawberries, raspberries, blueberries and blackberries. All have a similar anti-inflammatory effect. Adding these to a bowl of whole grain cereal with yoghurt would be a joint healthy breakfast all round.
Garlic, onions and leeks contain a compound which limits cartilage-damaging enzymes. People who regularly eat foods from the allium family show fewer signs of early osteoarthritis.
Full of polyphenols and antioxidants, green tea is believed to reduce inflammation and slow cartilage damage. It contains an antioxidant that blocks the production of molecules causing joint damage in people suffering from forms of arthritis.
Lastly, consider reducing your intake of refined grains, sugars and red meats as these can reverse the effects and increase inflammation. Try to use natural sources when it comes to sugar by using honey, maple syrup and coconut sugar.


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PSJA Education Foundation awards $384,000 in scholarships, grants
Breaking its own record, the PSJA Education Foundation awarded $384,000 in scholarships and grants to Pharr-San Juan-Alamo ISD seniors and staff this 2018-2019 school year.
First founded in 2013, the PSJA Education Foundation, a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization, has helped enhance educational opportunities for the youth and families of PSJA ISD thanks to sponsorships and donations from PSJA Alumni, local businesses and district staff members through payroll deduction.
"I am honored to be a recipient," said Maralba Perez, PSJA North Early College High School Graduate. "Your generosity will help me continue my studies at St. Mary's University where I plan to major in Biochemistry this fall."
A total of 146 scholarships were awarded to PSJA ISD graduating seniors totaling $329,000 and $40,000 were distributed to teachers through 47 mini-grants, with a $15,000 grant awarded to the PSJA Library Services Department for district-level literacy programs.
The foundation's primary fundraiser is an annual concert where local businesses and PSJA Alumni donate to the cause. The upcoming concert fundraiser is set for Thursday,
Sept. 19 at the Pharr Events Center featuring the Liverpool Legends. Potential sponsors may visit the foundation's webpage at www.psjaisd.us/foundation.
Thanks to the help and support from donors through the years, the PSJA Education Foundation has been able to increase the number of scholarships and awards given.
The most coveted award given to the top rated applicant per high school is the Joel "Joey" Gonzalez Presidential Scholarship worth a total of $16,000 for a four year period. This was the second year this commemorative scholarship, named to honor the memory of the Foundation's first President, was given to five PSJA ISD graduates: Kassandra Solis from PSJA ECHS; Richard Hernandez from PSJA North ECHS; Owen Ochoa from PSJA Memorial ECHS; Christian Valdes from PSJA Southwest ECHS and Rodrigo Palacios from PSJA T. Jefferson T-STEM ECHS.
This namesake scholarship is made possible thanks to the contributions of an annual golf tournament put together by Gonzalez' former colleagues from Texas Regional Bank.
Other area families and alumni groups have also joined the efforts of providing their own namesake scholarships such as the Mario Cantu, Jr. Community Scholarship, the Roy Guzman Athletic Scholarship, the Bracamontes 2nd Chance Scholarship, and the Autism Awareness Walk Scholarship.
"Thank you for helping students like me," said Amy Huang, a 4-yr $2,500 ($10,000) recipient from PSJA Memorial ECHS. "Your generosity has inspired me to help others and give back to my community. One day I hope to be able to help students achieve their goals as you have helped me."
Huang graduated with an Associate Degree in Interdisciplinary Studies from South Texas College on May 17 before receiving her high school diploma. The first-generation college student will be attending Cornell University this fall.
Texas Border Business Journal Story


When a person such as me spends time in LA, pretty much any amount of time in LA, I start to feel at home every single time. It's amazing that after years of traveling back and forth from Sacramento to LA that I haven't grown tired of it yet. In fact, with my film career beginning to move forward pretty heavily and my photography starting to make waves it's becoming even more of a draw to me than ever before. And Wednesday October 16 as I was spending the week at the ADOBE MAX conference and I was almost as humanly exhausted as one could get from lack of sleep over three days, I found myself leaving the conference at 4:30pm and walking down the street and beginning to get completely amped for the show ahead of me at the Palladium!
But first, to prepare for such a show where I would finally be able to photograph a legend, nay, one of my top three favorite guitarists of all time, nay, from my second favorite band of all time I would need to have a drink or two to calm the nerves. I found myself inside of a quaint little bar across the street from the Palladium called "The Bowery", who claimed to have the best burger in LA, and well, to my surprise, it wasn't the best burger I've ever had, but it was definitely a solid burger and nice LA priced drinks for happy hour, so you know they weren't cheap drinks. I got the feeling the place was trying to pull off a dive bar attitude and look, but instead it just felt like an overly hyped hipster bar with expensive drinks. Either way, I enjoyed my libations and my good-enough burger and wandered my way across the street.
As I entered the Palladium with it's super-rad retro look, like you're walking straight into 1987 LA I had this wave bolt through me, as if to walk through time, but these venues on the strip will do that to any fan of rock n roll. As the crew decided how to deal with all of the photographers, letting us in, kicking us out, letting us back in, yada yada yada we finally did settle in and at first I had no idea about the opening band "Classless Act", as I had just been asked a few hours prior to cover them and just about the only thing I knew about them was that Slash's son was in the band.
But let me tell you, once I got to shooting some photos, I quickly got into my groove and really started to pay attention to the music and quickly realized that these kids were screaming out some wicked good 80's dirty grimy rock 'n roll. And away we went, I was grooving to the music, jamming along with it and taking some rad shots. Not only was I surprised about the band, but I was also impressed by the fact that they appeared to have been enjoying themselves. You never really know how a band of teens is going to iron out, but they really did a killer job. They went from song to song, quickly through their set with precision, keeping the pace rocking and engaging with the crowd. I won't be surprised if we see these kids quickly clime some charts and land on some bigger and bigger gigs now that we all know just how for real they are!
As they ended their set, we were quickly rushed out of the photo pit area to the outside, and then we couldn't have been waiting for more than just a minute or two until the security came and hurried us back into the venue and down into the photo pit where we all approached our positions, camera'd up and waited. Suddenly, the lights go down and the crowd screams, and in a place like this, those screams are loud! I check my settings on my camera one last time and I can feel myself shaking, shaking? All because I realized that Slash was one of my top two favorite guitarists growing up and Guns 'N Roses was my second all time favorite band. I was nervous, but because I was looking for a specific photo, and I was just going to wait for him to come to me so I could get it!
The band takes their places and Slash walks right by me, camera comes to my face and I distinctly remember smiling boldly and away we went, right along with the band!
Slash and Co. took no prisoners as they ripped right into "The Call of the Wild", "Halo", and "Standing in the Sun" to start it off. And the reason I mention the first three songs is because that's the amount of songs that we get to shoot before being told to leave the photo pit area, which was just fine because I managed to get some beautiful shots and absolutely had the time of my life for this forever massive G'nR fan turned Slash's Snakepit and now with Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators fan. After that I grabbed a beer and came running back in to enjoy the rest of the show which included some nice Slash solo songs such as "Back From Cali," "We're All Gonna Die," "By The Sword," and "Starlight. Not to forget we also got a nice rendition of "Fall To Pieces" from Velvet Revolver (which to be honest, I'm shocked Duff McKagan didn't come out for! Then there's the great "Rocket Queen" by Guns, and ending the first majority of the night with "World On Fire," a real great track with Myles Kennedy.
Now let me tell you, I've see this lineup once before several years ago opening for my favorite band of all time Aerosmith, and I really thought that would be the closest I ever got to G'nR until recently. I say that because the band is just as volatile on stage, just as intense and totally killer from top to bottom, they have the same tenacity and just feel slightly older to be able to deal with everything totally different. But both times now watching this band play live, they have a ton of power, and killer riffs, but let me tell you, and let me make this perfectly clear that Myles Kennedy's voice may just be the best voice in rock 'n roll today. What he is able to do with his talent so easily is amazing and I feel lucky to have been able to see them twice and then even luckier to have gotten to see them just tear through a brutally good set of songs along with the kind of, maybe, not really G'nR piece towards the end, just a killer night, top to bottom, and now I'll never be able to forget the first time I got to photograph Slash!


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The idea for the establishment of an Army School of Music was first mooted in November, 1922. General Richard Mulcahy, the then Chief of Staff, said " ... I want to have bands that will dispense music and musical understanding in the highest terms to the people...". Under the direct supervision of General Mulcahy and Dr. J.F. Larchet, musical adviser to the Army, the project was begun.
The first requirement was for expert military musicians to take on the task of training bands. Approaches to the French Garde Republicaine Band, the leading wind combination in Europe at the time, proved unsuccessful. Enquiries in Germany were more fruitful.
One musician in particular, Col Wilhelm Fritz Brase, was an obvious choice. Brase had one of the most celebrated reputations in German military band circles before the 1914-1918 war. He was a distinguished graduate of the Leipzig Conservatoire and had also studied at the Berlin Academy. By 1907 he had become "Royal Music Director" and in 1911 he was appointed Director of the Band of the First Grenadiers, one of the most coveted positions in German Military Music. He conducted his final massed band concert at Christmas 1917 before the Kaiser, Generals Von Hindenberg and Ludendorf and the German General Staff.
When the proposition to come to Ireland was put to him, he accepted and specifically asked that Christian Sauerzweig, also a German military musician, should be asked to come as his assistant. Sauerzweig, a multi-instrumentalist, had graduated from the Royal Academy in Berlin with the rarely granted note "Excellent''. While in Berlin, he had frequently performed with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, and was in particular demand for the oboe d'amore and oboe da caccia parts in the works of Johann Sebastian Bach.
These two musicians arrived in Ireland on the first of March 1923 and set about the organisation of a music service. A process of recruitment was initiated, and after a month Colonel Brase reported to GHQ that a band was now formed and could play hymns and a few marches. By October 1923 he felt that his band was strong enough to give a public recital at the Theatre Royal, Dublin. This was an unqualified success. In January 1924 the entire operation was transferred from the Curragh, Co. Kildare, to Beggars Bush Barracks, Dublin. Between 1924 and 1936 a school and three further military bands, all under the Corps title of The Army School of Music, were established. General Mulcahy's idea of bringing music and performances of a worthy standard to the civilian population was nurtured, and in time flourished.
In addition to the routine work of military ceremonial, a wide range of recital work was undertaken. Pioneer work was done in initiating schools concerts. Army conductors and instrumentalists played a fundamental role in orchestral concerts and in opera and ballet performances throughout the country. Colonel Brase died in 1940 and was succeeded by Colonel Sauerzweig, who served as Director until 1947. The office of Director then passed to Irish musicians who inherited an established tradition and structure.
The first of these, Colonel James Doyle, joined the Army as a cadet in 1923 and held the appointment between 1947 and 1971. Colonel John Brennock served as Director between 1971 and 1981. The next two Directors, Colonel Fred O'Callaghan (1981—1987) and Colonel Jim McGee (1987—1988) had served as boy musicians before being commissioned, and Colonel Mc Gee had the distinction of having the longest ever service (almost fifty years) of any member of the Defence Forces. He was succeeded by Colonel Neil O'Brien. 1997 saw a reorganisation of the Defence Forces which also included a reduction in overall strength. The bands of the re-titled Defence Forces School of Music did not remain untouched by this process.
The Band of the Curragh Command, (formerly The Army No. 3 Band and latterly The Band of the Curragh Training Camp), a unit with a long history of service, was unfortunately lost. This Band was established in 1925 and until its disbandment was an integral part of the civilian and military communities of the Curragh Camp.
The Army Number 1 Band retained its title and remains co-located with the Directorate and school at Cathal Brugha Barracks, Dublin. The Band of the Southern Command (Collins Barracks, Cork) was renamed The Band of 1 Southern Brigade, and the Band of the Western Command (Custume Barracks, Athlone) was retitled The Band of 4 Western Brigade.
Defence Forces School of Music(current)


It's the dog days of summer here in Michigan and it's my dog's first birthday to boot (Happy First Birthday Kaj!). So in honor of my canine best friend I'm going to feature ten dog-friendly things your dog (and you) will love about St. Joseph, Michigan.
1. First off, I have to say that St. Joseph is the dog-friendliest town I've ever been to. And because dogs are so welcomed and accommodated here, you see them everywhere! Probably the most popular spot for dog walking and dog socializing is Lake Bluff Park. Beautiful view of Lake Michigan too! In various places along the sidewalk of the park there are "Mutt Mittens" so you can clean up after your dog. Very handy to have around because no dog wants to step in some else's poo!
2. St. Joseph has a terrific off-leash dog park! It's located in Kiwanis Park on Pearl St. just off Langley. It has two good sized, fenced in areas, one for big dogs 30 lbs and over and an adjacent area for the little ones under 30 lbs. Both areas are mowed regularly and nicely maintained. No fee for admittance.
5. There are two radio stations broadcasting in the greater St. Joseph area that have "pet shows" with lots of good tips for dog owners. WSJM (94.9 FM) has "Pet Talk" on Saturday nights from 10pm till midnight. And COSY-FM (103.7) has a show on Saturday mornings at 9:30am. Your dog will appreciate all that you'll learn about him from these shows.
6. We have some terrific digs for dogs here in St. Joseph. If you'd like to board your dog while you're in town you'll be pleased to know that a new facility, Mutterly Love, is here for your baby! In addition to boarding, they also offer grooming, training, doggie day care, and lots of love :-) They are open 7 days a week and the daycare rate is only $2/HR. Don't leave your dog in a hot car while you're at the beach (where dogs are NOT allowed), be kind to your canine BFF and leave 'em at doggie daycare. Mutterly Love is located at 200 Kerth St. in St. Joseph ph. (269) 983-MUTT (6888).
7. If you'd prefer to bathe your dog yourself, you're in luck! There's a 24 Hour Do It Yourself Dog Wash at the corner of Cleveland Ave. and Washington Ave. So if your dog gets sprayed by a skunk while you're out for a midnight stroll... no worries mate! Just bring him over to the Sparkle Quik Lube and clean him up!
8. And speaking of "out walking", there is a really neat walking trail in St. Joseph that your dog will love. The John and Dede Howard Family Recreation Trail skirts both Lake Michigan and the St. Joseph River. You can catch it at the pedestrian bridge from Lake Court Street (behind the water treatment plant) and go all the way to the Bicentennial Bridge on the St. Joseph River.
9. Dogs love FuzzyButz Bakery! This is a terrific place to take your canine BFF. They have all kinds of fresh baked dog treats, even for those with sensitive stomachs. It's more than just a bakery though, they have lots of toys and dog apparel too. Your dog will really enjoy this place and you will make him feel special with treats from FuzzyButz! They're located at 613 Broad Street in downtown St. Joseph. ph (269) 983-WOOF (9663).
10. If you're looking for a more full service pet store you can't beat Martin's Paw Mart at 2121 South Cleveland Ave. in St. Joseph They have everything from crates, to chew toys, premium dog food, treats, leashes, collars, apparel, and more. The staff is friendly and they accept pet food donations for the local Humane Society. ph (269) 983-5270.
If those aren't enough good reasons to bring your dog to St. Joseph, I'm sure these parting shots will convince you that this is a dog-friendly town... these dogs are enjoying one of the free concerts in the bandshell along the St. Joseph River.
Aw, jeez, now my dog wants to go on a trip!
Great! Bring him along and come visit, T.K.!
Hey, Jasia, let's get TK and Trainer here to visit with you and Kaj and myself and Zoya!!! Well, Zoya is not too social so she would rather just be held but then I did make her a baby!!
Love the dog bakery. Zoe and Hunter packing.
Must say Kaj is devastatingly handsome!
We have a summer place in St. Joe, and just adopted a rescue dog last year. So we were happy to learn about the Kiwanis off-leash park mentioned here. Sadly, we were astounded to find that you have to watch where you step while visiting this park -- dog poo everywhere! Apparently people in St. Joe don't pick up after their dogs, large or small, even though this park provides dog poo bags! Rude dog owners are to blame for the bad reviews we have for this place. Sad to say.


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'The Big 0' Russell Westbrook's 42 Triple-Doubles Pass Oscar's Gold
The Big 0' Russell Westbrook's 42 Triple-Doubles Pass Oscar's Gold
Why not make history?
It's a number retired by the whole Major League Baseball association across the board in honor of the first African-American to play and dominate the league in the legendary Jackie Robinson. It's the title of a legacy making biopic movie based on his life and career by Marvel's 'Black Panther' and 'Get On Up's' James Brown, Chadwick Boseman. In basketball terms it's the number of the Lakers 'Big Game' James, Showtime legend raised to the rafters with all those banners from the 80's.
And in the NBA last night it made Oklahoma City Thunder dynamite dynamo Russell Westbrook worthy of passing Oscar Robertson with the all-time number of triple-doubles in the regular season with 42.
Speaking of big game James'. The Cavalier King LeBron became the first rookie to record a triple-double on his opening night season debut since Oscar Robertson, way back when for the wine and gold. Before Miami and both decisions. But as the mighty 0 went from zero to hero and passed the Big O he also went one further and stilted the great 100 point numbers man Wilt Chamberlain aswell. Notching his 10th assist and passing the late Laker legend for 4th on the all-time triple-double record list with 79. And we know he can make it to number one before his career comes to a close.
Here's to his where amazing happens nightly 50 points, 16 rebounds and 10 assists. All astonishingly capped off by a buzzer beating three pointer that won the game for OKC 106-105 over Denver.
How do you like them Nuggets?
D'Angelo Russell's epic and emotional clock beater from downtown for his Los Angeles Lakers against the Minnesota Timberwolves on the day of his grandmothers passing was real special and bittersweet too, as he refused to tap the ice in his veins as per and like his teammates as he ran into the stands and fell exhaustedly and emotionally into his brothers arms as he made the shot for his nan. But this was something special too.
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The record was history book making legendary…the win was even better.
Against all the odds Russ did it. In a season that began with former friend and teammate Kevin Durant making throne like decisions to join Steph Curry and his band of Warriors out in Cleveland leaving 'brook with not much else. With all due respect to new big three finishing Victor Oladipo and Steven Adams. But now Russell is the West. And if you don't think the Thunder striking, lightning quick guard has weathered the storm to reign as one of the best players in the league then how do you like him now? He's just gone down as one of the all-time greats in a season where he's been on pace to actually average a triple-double as he looks like he's about to share co-MVP honors with former OK teammate and fellow triple-double Point Guard machine, Houston Rocket James Harden (who in other news notched his 21st trip-dub of the season in a crowning win against the Kings).
But last night he might just have shaved a few of the beards votes.
Fear that!
Like his Jordan Brand Nike says 'Big Games Make Big Names' and last night for one of the G.O.A.T's it didn't get any bigger than busting a record that has stood since the first years of the sixties. Over half a century later and everyone who loves this game left screaming like Elvis fans with a Beatle-mania sense of fainting euphoria. Westbrook played Ed Sullivan. And this was his ticker tape, confetti show. Whilst all the haters acted as upset as children letting go of their amusement park balloons. But like the Celtics upsetting the Lakers on the Forum floor 60 years ago, let 'em fall, let 'em fall. Even the King had to recognise the brodie.
Greatness…strived!
Watching from his Golden State, even Warrior Kevin Durant has got to love it.
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Posted on July 19, 2019 March 27, 2021 by A.I. Adamu
To be or not to be, that is the question." I won´t attempt to answer the greatest opening of any soliloquy, but if Hamlet had asked if he wants to be bee, then certainly the answer would be a resounding Yes! That way he would be making honey instead of contemplating suicide. Bees are one of the most organized animals on the face of the earth and they are our visitors on this blog today.
I hope to share some stuff I find very fascinating about bees and their behaviors. Unlike my article on "Praying Mantis" or "Ben the Dolphin", this will not be an allegory and there will be no cool pictures of insects with glasses. Sorry! However, there will be salsa dance (read: waggle dance).
Bees have a complex social structure and it is no wonder they have become the most researched insect in the world. In order to appreciate the sophistication of their lives, we will try to be(e) in their hives, participate in their election, pay tribute to their queen, go in search for real-estate and finally make some honey! There is also an amazing story at the end of the piece.
First off, let us go through some fundamentals; in a colony of bees, we have a Queen- the one and only, first of her name, etc… Her role is basically to lay eggs. She does not go out to search for flowers, neither does she participate in hive building. She sits all day in the hive. The queen gets fed and taken care of by the worker bees. Workers bees are essentially other female bees, but unlike the queen, they don't mate or lay eggs. They're perhaps the most active because they go in search for pollen and nectar, they build the hive etc. Then we have the male bees, namely the drones. The male bees are neither cool nor sophisticated as their collective name might imply. This is a personal opinion though, but I dare you to disagree. The only duty of the drones is essentially to mate with the queen, they don't go hunting for food and have no stingers (imagine being called a drone and being unable to sting).
The average lifespan of a worker bee born during the summer is about six weeks, and those born in the autumn live for up to six months. The autumn bees are very essential because they hurdle around the queen to make a cluster, thus keep her warm during the cold winter days. The male bees however, live only a couple of weeks (whose drone is this?). They typically die after mating (is this your drone?) or are chased out of the hive when winter approaches (drones are meant to chase other 'animals'damn it!, but I digress…). This act is necessary to manage the limited honey that have been stored for the winter days. The life expectancy of the Queen-Bee is somewhere from three to five years! Amazing! There is a slight difference in the life expectancy of a bumble bee and a honey bee, however, their social interactions are virtually the same. Here are some examples;
The worker bees at work
Swarming
When a bee colony is over-populated, it becomes necessary for the bees to divide such colony, this process is called swarming. But remember, there is only one Queen. So it is imperative to create a new queen from the many eggs the queen has laid. To do this, the worker bees select a couple of fertilized eggs and move them to bigger cells. They then continuously rub the eggs with royal jelly. The royal jelly keeps the eggs well-nourished, allowing faster and bigger growth of the larvae contained within. As soon as a Queen bee reaches maturity and to emerges from an egg, she instinctively goes around the hive to destroy other Queen eggs. She doesn't like the competition, there can be only one queen. And if two eggs hatch at the same time, they would engage in a battle to the death. And the survivor becomes the queen. All hail the queen. Hail!.
Now that a fresh queen has been throned, the old mama-queen will separate with her workers. The queens have strong pheromones they secrete, this is use to separate their workers from the other. With this, a hive will be split into two factions.
This obviously is an issue for bee farmers, because it will result in a reduction of honey production and the size of the colony. To circumvent this, what some farmers do is open the hive before swarming and cutoff bit from one of the queen's wing. This makes unable to fly very far when the colony decides to swarm, and the farmer can find the new location relatively easy. This is rather unfortunate because it take a great deal of work for the bees to find a new home as we will see.
Hunt for Real-Estate
You see, bees are very aggressive in their democracy, they don't take elections lightly. When a colony decides it is time to relocate to a new settlement, they select a few hundred members among them, "the scouts". Every scout will fly around and look for a high quality, top-notch home for the new colony. Every scout will return to the colony and present their result. They will perform the "waggle dance" in front of the colony. I will explain what a waggle dance is shortly, but enough to say- it is similar to salsa dance.
Every bee will then fly to one real-estate, and then return to the colony, enabling it to compare the new home she had seen, with the others' waggle dance. The more vivacious the waggle is, the better the home. After every bee has visited a site, they will return and vote in favor of a certain scout. The one with highest bees win and the colony unanimously fly to the new area to build a hive.
What if there is a stalemate? Recently, researchers at Cornell University and University of Sydney reported that in case of a stalemate, the bees challenge each other to a duel. They all waggle fast and elegantly to draw more support for their scout. But from time to time, some bees with stop dancing and go head-to-head. They hit the head of their opponent and release a high-pitched sound. This is called the inhibitory signaling. What this signaling does is virtually intimidate fellow bees to submission. Once a majority is reached, the colony will collectively move to the winning scout's location, which she had described to them using the waggle dance.
A worker bee waggling to fellow workers. (Image with permission, from University of California, San Diego)
The Waggle Dance
When a bee goes in hunt for nectar, and was lucky to find a sweet flower in a blossoming garden, the selfless worker bee flies back to the colony and explain the potential fortune that awaits them. The bee will describe the location of that flower, with absolute precision, to the colony. The bee does this by catwalking, twerking, shaking behind, dancing. Yes! I found the right word.
The bee dances in front of the colony in a certain fashion to tell the other bees the exact distance, angle, direction and elevation of the flower. The specific movements during the dance are all key. Here are some examples:
By dancing in circular fashion, the bee tells the colony that the location of the flower is very close to the hive. So they don't need to fly very far.
By dancing in an "8" pattern the bee tells the colony that the flower is far and the straight line in the "8" (waggle run) shows how far the flower is. The dance stage is also important, as the orientation of the "8" dance tells the bees what angle from the sun the new garden is positioned. The bee repeats the dance until every worker understands the exact coordinate of this new garden. Talk of Apple Google Maps. If the bee had encountered a danger such as a hornet in the garden, it will warn the other bees about this during the dance, by head-butting one of them.
Two worker bees going head-to-head. I would assume the right bee is about to submit. (Image used with permission from University of California San Diego.)
This is regarded as the most sophisticated form of communication that a non-human a can do. The waggle dance was decoded by the 1973 Nobel Prize winner in physiology/medicine, he said in his Nobel lecture titled Decoding the language of bee "It is conceivable that some people will not believe such a thing. Personally, I also harbored doubts in the beginning," But since then, more research has been carried out, and we have a much better understanding of how bees communicate and interact with their environment. Many universities today have dedicated research groups for the study of bees. Some to understand the behavioural ecology, while others aim to increase the honey production.
This leads me to the last part of this article
An Experiment Gone Wrong
In the late 1950s, a Brazilian geneticist by the name Warwick Estevam Kerr was determined to improve his nations honey production. Brazil at that time had imported some European bees from Portugal, but the bees had difficulty in adapting to the tropical weather of Brazil. Kerr then decided with the permission of the Brazilian government to cross-breed the calm and abundant-honey producing European bees with the aggressive and highly adapting African bees. Another motivation to cross-breed with the African bees is because they love procreating (I want to say the African Bees are horny honey bees, but I won't!)
He imported the African bees in 1956 from South Africa and put them under quarantine along with some European bees where he did the cross-breeding, making a hybrid of these bees. He kept them under surveillance and was expecting to have mutant bees that would be highly adapting to the Brazilian weather, procreative and capable of producing abundant honey. Unfortunately, one day, a technician (some say a lab assistant) forgot to cover the lid of the box housing the bees, allowing twenty-six mutant queen-bees to escape into the wild, accompanied by some of their worker. This was an unmitigated disaster. The mutant bees that escaped have killed over a thousand people and injured a lot more. The problem was that, these hybrid bees happen to be very adapting even to below-freezing temperatures, which wild African bees would not survive. The mutant bees can chase an intruder to almost a kilometre from their hive, and they attack as a single unit until the intruder is dead. By 1990, the mutant bees (now called killer bees) crossed to the United States through the Mexican border (a wall would not have stopped them, just in the case you had that ridiculous thought).
Ever since, the mutant bees have moved through Northern America and have killed people. They are believed to have gotten more aggressive and vicious in their assault.
Entomologists in Texas are working hard to stop the spread of the Africanized bees, by setting traps along the highways, over 1,200 traps have been put as at 2018. Another attempt to mitigate the disaster caused by this sci-fi-like horror story has been to insert the sperm of European honey bee into the queen of an Africanized queen and release her into the wild, the scientists hope this will reduce the aggressiveness of her new offspring.
One last thing before we wrap up, Warwick Kerr died last year in September, just 6 days after celebrating his 96th birthday). He devoted his life with the intent of helping his country but, unfortunately, an experiment went wrong and had his name tainted.
Here I am with my very good friend – Rasmus, last summer, when we visited his father's bee garden and tendered the bees for the winter. His amazing Dad let me play with the bees and one worker-bee was not happy!
Just like we started, I will like to end with something from William Shakespeare, who surprisingly enough, has a lot to say about bees.
This is from Henry V, William Shakespeare, [I, 2, Archbishop of Canterbury]
Therefore doth heaven divide
The state of man in divers functions,
Setting endeavour in continual motion;
To which is fixed, as an aim or butt,
Obedience: for so work the honey-bees,
Creatures that by a rule in nature teach
The act of order to a peopled kingdom.
They have a king and officers of sorts;
Where some, like magistrates, correct at home,
Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad,
Others, like soldiers, armed in their stings,
Make boot upon the summer's velvet buds,
Which pillage they with merry march bring home
To the tent-royal of their emperor;
Who, busied in his majesty, surveys
The singing masons building roofs of gold,
The civil citizens kneading up the honey,
The poor mechanic porters crowding in
Their heavy burdens at his narrow gate,
The sad-eyed justice, with his surly hum,
Delivering o'er to executors pale
The lazy yawning drone.
I would like to thank Prof. Nieh and his lab at University of California San Diego, for the cool pictures.
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14 thoughts on "Bees"
Daksiri says:
Spectacular, have been watching documentary on bees, but never really got the whole picture, but right now, guess I can write a four page article about bees. Yum-yum.
Ajibola says:
I want to say the article was worth the wait but that might be misunderstood as my endorsment of your 2-year break from leisure blogging. So no, I will choose my words my words very carefully here lol.
But that aside, I didn't realise how much I missed these articles until after a couple paragraphs where you, as usual, give a detailed report of your research on these amazing creatures. But as much as I like bees, I am not the sort of guy that would begin his Monday by reading about bees. But I just did and I absolutely have no regrets.
Bees are cool beautiful creatures of course. We find reference to them everywhere from classical literature through Beyoncé (bey hive) to the Quran. And reading about the structure of their communities, particularly their head-butt challenge made if all the more satisfying.
I loved how you were able to give us what we needed to know and how this knowledge was delivered with witticism and simplicity.
And hey, you can choose to be anything but pls don't be a drone. Just look at the shame the poor dude goes through for a chance to secure his genetic line. Tragic.
And overall brilliant piece man. I loved it. Keep it up brother
Abubakar Adamu says:
Thanks so much Jibola, such kind words.
Yumna says:
Very enlightening! I knew bees are organised but I never fully grasped what that meant. Nature is amazing! A well-written and humorous article. Thank you.
Thanks alot Yumna, glad you enjoyed it!
Hassana Babangida says:
Thoroughly thoroughly enjoyed this article. I mean, who would've thought I'd enjoy a "bee article ". First time coming across this blog, and you'll definitely see more of me.
Had a good laugh as well"The bee does this by catwalking, twerking, shaking behind, dancing. Yes! I found the right word."
Thanks Hassana! I'm glad you enjoyed it. And welcome to my blog. Please do check out previous articles as well. I appreciate your nice comment.
Thanks much Hassana. I'm glad you enjoyed it
cuaresma44 says:
Great buzz on the bees! Keep up the fantastic work, Abubakar! Question: Why are african killer bees attracted to black colors? I mean, I've seen it on several documentaries and one back in the 70's on the series "In Search Of..W/Leonard Nimoy" entitled "KILLER BEES". I've seen a swarm of those species clinging onto to a scientist donned in a beekeepers uniform, with a black patch in the middle. Is there a reason for that? Just a question. Keep on buzzing, my friend.
Oma Bell says:
I can't believe I just read an article about bees. Captivating and enlightening. Kudos.
Thanks, I'm glad you enjoyed it.
Bulama Mbaya says:
Wow. I had interest in bees at some point in time, I guess my job won give me the luxury of bee farming yet, your article is very inspiring, enlightening and I particularly love the sense of humor.
You just gained a new fan.
Wow! I have never read an article with such good humour. Now I have more points arguing with my friend on bees. Very enlightening. Do you have published books?
I'm very glad you enjoy it. No, I'm yet to publish a book.


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That followed news of 1,600 layoffs at Morgan Stanley (MS) in January, and some 11,000 cuts at Citibank (C) last December. Earlier this month Barclays (BCS) CEO Antony Jenkins commented that he "saw a future in which the bank employed 100,000 staff," down significantly from its current 140,000-strong workforce. Even Goldman Sachs (GS), which traditionally trims the bottom 5 percent of its workforce each year, went deeper in 2013 with larger layoffs in equity trading and other departments.
For the most part, this kind of turnover is business as usual for the banking sector, which rolls through layoffs on an almost annual basis. But since the 2008 financial crisis the industry has been shrinking overall, with nearly 160,000 job cuts announced worldwide since 2011, according to Reuters. Many expect this to become the new normal in banking.
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Fewer openings, more government oversight, less-interesting work ... as a result, many one-time bankers are now leaving the industry for good. But where are they going?
For years, the traditional banking career change formula has been simple: move to a brokerage house, mutual fund, insurance firm, private equity fund or hedge fund. Same industry, similar skill sets. But in this overcrowded job market, the traditional options are becoming increasingly competitive, and many ex-bankers are now having better luck in an unexpected industry: financial technology startups.
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