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Interview – DHL: Covid-19 vaccine global logistics and visibility
ExploreSCM Insights Staff
Leonora Lim, VP of Life Science and Healthcare at DHL Customer Solutions and Innovation, Asia Pacific.
Here comes vaccine development. Now comes vaccine distribution on a global scale.
Distributing billions of doses of vaccines across the world face complex supply chain challenges. With freezing temperature and traceability requirements during delivery plus the risk throughout the supply chain, logistics players are rethinking and expanding their capabilities like never before.
ExploreSCM recently spoke to Leonora Lim, Vice President of Life Science and Healthcare at DHL Customer Solutions and Innovation – Asia Pacific, to figure out what logistical challenges facing the vaccine distribution, DHL's role in transporting vaccines, and how the company is gearing up for this extraordinary task.
Q. The global distribution of Covid-19 vaccine is expected to start by early next year, what are some of the key challenges the logistics industry are facing? How do logistics players plan to solve those constraints?
A. The challenge for us as an industry is to scale up for the 10 billion vaccine doses that we envisage in our white paper will need to be delivered, including to regions with less developed logistics infrastructure, where approximately 3 billion people live. Other than the tight airfreight capacity situation we face currently, there would need to be sufficient storage and distribution capabilities on the ground and a robust delivery network to cope with the staggering volume of shipments.
Other challenges include the numerous uncertainties such as the temperature ranges (including ultra-low temperatures) that the vaccines will need to be in, shipment volumes and shipping points.
Q. How does technology play its role to create visibility of vaccines throughout the supply chain? How important is the data?
A. Across the Group, we are committed to digitalizing processes as part of our Strategy 2025 to enhance customer and employee experience as well as improve operational excellence.
At DHL, we have systems and tools in place that leverage technology for tracking and visibility purposes. We also deploy data analytics in running lane risk assessments that can optimize the transportation of these sensitive shipments. Our innovation centers continue to be on a lookout for relevant technologies, such as data analytics, sensors and Internet of Things, to support the monitoring of the sensitive shipments.
In general, the analytics and application of data in logistics has helped to increase efficiency and reliability, and create a more sustainable value chain by optimizing routes, speeding up processing capabilities and empowering smarter forecasting to reduce costs and mitigate risks. This will be the same when applied to vaccine logistics – the more data that we collect from earlier shipments of vaccine logistics, the better we are equipped to improve processes for subsequent shipments.
Q. Airlines have reduced their number of flights significantly due to travel restrictions, how does that affect vaccines logistics?
A. To provide global coverage, up to 200,000 movements by pallet shippers and 15 million deliveries in cooling boxes as well as 15,000 flights will be required across the various different supply chain setups.
Given the urgency of getting vaccines to their destinations, air freight is the most viable mode for transporting the precious cargo across long distances. There will certainly be some challenges given the current capacity shortage in the air freight market. However, there are alternatives that vaccine providers could look into.
With adequate packaging solutions, there could be viable multimodal or road options should air freight capacity be lacking or for shorter cross-border shipments and we do have the advantage of being able to tap on all Deutsche Post DHL Group's business divisions (DHL Express, DHL Global Forwarding, DHL Supply Chain and DHL eCommerce Solutions) to get the vaccines out to as many people as possible.
At the height of the pandemic, even when flights were grounded and cities were in lockdown, we mobilized our own network of aircraft, secured every available charter we could find and provided alternative multimodal solutions (for example, by using a combination of road, rail or ocean) to get life-saving shipments across borders. We are fortunate to have our own fleet of over 265 aircraft that we could leverage and maximize to ensure we meet the air freight needs of our customers.
Q. What actions the logistics industry are taking now in preparation for a massive vaccine worldwide distribution?
A. At DHL, while we already have the capabilities in terms of infrastructure and experience in handling vaccine distribution and shipping temperature-sensitive products, we have established an internal global cross-divisional task force to oversee the readiness and upscaling of our current capabilities such as our life sciences & healthcare facilities, temperature control solutions, etc.
Externally, we are in talks with vaccine developers and manufacturers and public institutions on their supply chain needs and are committed to ensuring that the vaccines reach as many people as possible.
Q. How does DHL play its role in ensuring vaccines get distributed as quickly as possible to the world's population while keeping the drug in a frozen environment?
A. DHL has been building its Life Science & Healthcare expertise and capabilities over the past 20 years and have enjoyed long standing and collaborative partnerships with various stakeholders, including governments and our customers. As mentioned, we have established an internal task force earlier this year to look at where we would need to further beef up our capabilities when the actual vaccines are approved for distribution, and are working closely with our customers and suppliers to ensure we can cope with the roll out.
We have also built a solid foundation with a 9000-strong community of LSH specialists, 118 competence centers in airports and ports globally for the specialized handling of LSH products, 160+ Good Distribution Practice (GDP)-qualified warehouses, 15+ Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP)-certified sites and 135+ medical express sites.
We continue to further our efforts to build our capabilities with new and expanded ground facilities, equipment, delivery routes and specialists. For example in Australia, DHL Supply Chain recently launched four state-of-the-art healthcare-grade warehouses to cater to mounting demand for such products.
DHL Global Forwarding and the DHL Medical Express team have transported vaccines at deep frozen states in the past and have the means to do so as needed. Whilst we believe that mass distribution of vaccines will take place only after frontline workers are inoculated, we have been working on various freight and distribution solutions across the world to be ready when the time comes.


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The bacterial peptidoglycan is the major component of the cell wall which integrity is essential to cell survival. In a previous work, we identified, in the positive-Gram pathogen Streptococcus pneumoniae , a unique protein containing a new putative peptidoglycan hydrolytic domain named PECACE (PEptidoglycan CArbohydrate Cleavage Enzyme). In this study, we characterise the physiological function of this protein called Pmp23 (Pneumococcal Membrane Protein of 23 kDa). A cell wall hydrolytic activity is observed with the recombinant protein. Inactivation of the pmp23 gene in the pneumococcus led to a decreased flocculation, an increased sensitivity to β-lactam antibiotics and morphological alterations affecting the formation and localisation of the division septa. Taken together these observations indicate that Pmp23 is a hydrolase whose function is linked to peptidoglycan metabolism at the septum site.


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I sat in silence for about an hour this morning. Ok, not total silence, because I was listening to one of my favorite Christmas albums full of worshipful songs.
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Then I realized that painting my own tree each year might be a lovely tradition. Painting is quite often meditative for me; what better way to spend a few moments of the busy celebration contemplating the tree and the Gift?
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Q: input code needs a slight modification With this code, specified cells are copied into a database worksheet and then clears the data form for the next entry.  How can I modify the code so that one (or perhaps more than one) cell is not cleared?
Option Explicit

Sub UpdateLogWorksheet()

Dim historyWks As Worksheet
Dim inputWks As Worksheet

Dim nextRow As Long
Dim oCol As Long

Dim myRng As Range
Dim myCopy As String
Dim myCell As Range
ActiveSheet.Unprotect "sallygary"
'cells to copy from Input sheet - some contain formulas
myCopy = "g12,g14,g18,g20,g22,g24,i16,i18,i20,i22,i24,k16,k18,k20,k22,k24,m16,m18,m20,m22,m24,o16,o18,o20,o22,o24,q16,q18,q20,q22,q24,s16,s18,s20,s22,s24,u16,u18,u20,u22,u24"

Set inputWks = Worksheets("Input")
Set historyWks = Worksheets("1_Data")

With historyWks
    nextRow = .Cells(.Rows.Count, "A").End(xlUp).Offset(1, 0).Row
End With

With inputWks
    Set myRng = .Range(myCopy)

    'If Application.CountA(myRng) <> myRng.Cells.Count Then
    '    MsgBox "Please fill in all the cells!"
    '   Exit Sub
    'End If
End With

With historyWks
    With .Cells(nextRow, "A")
        .Value = "e4"
        .NumberFormat = "mm/dd/yyyy" 'hh:mm:ss
    End With
    .Cells(nextRow, "B").Value = Application.UserName
    oCol = 3
    For Each myCell In myRng.Cells
        historyWks.Cells(nextRow, oCol).Value = myCell.Value
        oCol = oCol + 1
    Next myCell
End With

'clear input cells that contain constants
With inputWks
  On Error Resume Next
     With .Range(myCopy).Cells.SpecialCells(xlCellTypeConstants)
          .ClearContents
          Application.GoTo .Cells(1) ', Scroll:=True
     End With
  On Error GoTo 0
End With
ActiveSheet.Protect "sallygary"
Range("g12").Select

End Sub

A: Add another string variable similar to the myCopy var.
dim myCopy as string, myClear as string
'cells to copy from Input sheet - some contain formulas
myCopy = "g12,g14,g18,g20,g22,g24,i16,i18,i20,i22,i24,k16,k18,k20,k22,k24,m16,m18,m20,m22,m24,o16,o18,o20,o22,o24,q16,q18,q20,q22,q24,s16,s18,s20,s22,s24,u16,u18,u20,u22,u24"
'cells to CLEAR from Input sheet
myClear = "g12,g18,g22,i16,i20,i24,k18,k22,m16,m20,m24,o18,o22,q16,q20,q24,s18,s22,u16,u20,u24"

Now use that range definition to clear the cell contents.
 With .Range(myClear).Cells.SpecialCells(xlCellTypeConstants)
      .ClearContents
      Application.GoTo .Cells(1) ', Scroll:=True
 End With

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Home / Journal of Scientometric Research, Vol 8, Issue 3, Sep-Dec, 2019 / The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Journals in Immunology: A Hypothesis to Facilitate Decision Making at the Time of Publishing
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Journals in Immunology: A Hypothesis to Facilitate Decision Making at the Time of Publishing
Jefferson Russo Victor
Jefferson Russo Victor1,2
1Laboratory of Medical Investigation LIM 56, Division of Dermatology, Medical School, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, BRAZIL.
2Laureate International Universities, Division of Environmental Health, Faculdades Metropolitanas Unidas (FMU), São Paulo, BRAZIL.
The decision making at the time of manuscript submission typify an important challenge in all scientific fields including immunology. Some discussion about the importance of journals Impact Factors (IFs) has been occurring in the last years and some alternative metrics have been proposed, however, many grants and academic positions still consider IFs as a pivotal criterion. Here we propose an innovative way to analyze journals quality with the aim of generating a simplified and easy-to-interpret approach that can classify journals in three main groups. Our hypotheses were proposed after empirical analyses of the Web of Science InCitesTM Journal Citation Reports (InCites JCR - 2017) considering simultaneously the data related to the IFs and number citable items (CIs) in a 5-year interval. In this process, we could suggest three groups of journals according to its progress in the evaluated parameters, these groups were named as "good" (stable IFs and CIs), "bad" (increasing IFs with stable CIs) and "ugly" (decreasing IFs with or without augmented CIs) journals. We apply this analytic tool in the journals of the Immunology categories and we could observe excellent results. We also compare the grouped journals with the IFs and CIs results published in the following year and observed the full maintenance of those journals in this short-interval. In conclusion, our hypotheses yield an easy-to-interpret tool that can collaborate on journals choice avoiding predatory journals and future unpleasant surprises about journals quality mainly based on IFs.
Keywords:impact factor, InCites JCR, Journals quality, Predatory journals
Main characteristics of the groups of journals.
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Victor JRusso. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Journals in Immunology: A Hypothesis to Facilitate Decision Making at the Time of Publishing. Journal of Scientometric Research. 2019;8(3):131-134. doi:10.5530/jscires.8.3.28.

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Hey I'm only DP ing because no one else replied. I hope to see these sets soon.
DEC 6th is release date for DVD, ironically tuesdays are when Wal Marts receive DVD shipments. Gonna hit WM's late monday and early tues.
I find it odd the ROTS sets leaked early, and no one seems to have found these yet.
If everyone finds them tomorrow, I'll going to be shocked that absolutely no one leaked them before the DVD release.
Just left the Chillicothe, OH Walmart and no three packs available. They didn't even have a display for the DVD. They were setting up the Dukes of Hazard and the Fantastic Four ones. I need the UPC for these once someone finds them so I can go back and give it to the toy department person. I guess they aren't at the Walmart in Escanaba, MI either so this will be interesting.
went last nite after midnite and 0 out of 4 stores had these in my SOCAL stores. I really wanted to get extra sets to put more figs in the kids' socks for Christmas .
They hit PR WM and were found only on the display. I applaud Wal Mart for not breaking them early, but I guess it's possible that they were packed with the display which had DVD release instructions.
Similar situation up here - 1 of the 5 that I checked this morning had the CW display.
Even though they were tough to track down, at least these followed the pattern of the other 3 packs (with ROTS being the exception) and hit on street date and in a the DVD section, where scalpers don't bother to look. The store I found them at had been open for an hour and none had been purchased yet.
I had the same result this morning as when I went to get the Episode 3 DVD packs - 3 different Wal*Marts, 3 of the same blank stares.
Anyone picks up extras, let me know.
I picked up the DVD and these sets this morning too, but they were pretty much hidden from view. I went early in the morning before work, and they only have one entrance "open" then...the one near the grocery side of the store. They had the usual DVD set up on that corner, featuring Fantastic Four, so I walked to the other entrance side (by the toys/home and garden) and just kept my eyes open. They had a half pallet display with the DVDs (both volumes) and figure packs, right next to the eye center/front door. You'd see them if you came in that way, but since that entrance is closed until 8, I would have missed them had I not been looking that way. I think I was the first one to find them (or first one interested), as it didn't look like anything had been bought yet.
Nice to see someone get these sets, as before these will never show up here in Canada.


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I hope that Klushch receives the right justice. The family must have suffered a lot from this incident. I hope that justice will prevail.
I join the family of Gerald Klusch in praying for justice. They may not have received proper nod from the decision's court, but concerned people like us will always follow his case until it receives proper justice.
Every individual deserves a justice even if you're one of the most criminals in this world. I hope that Gerald Klusch will receive justice on what had happened to Him.
I am so sorry for not only the loss of Gerald but the unanswered questions as well. I am concerned about the recent unsolved animal abuse cases in the area, I wonder if the same person isn't involved with this case? I pray the family gets the answers they need and the person responsible are caught.
I pray that justice be served at the soonest possible time for Klusch. Whatever the reason was for doing what they did to him, it is and will never be justified by his death.
Are there any updates regarding the investigation of Klusch's death? I'm hoping that Klusch will soon have justice.
This must be a very difficult time for his family. I am hoping that officials will do their work and bring justice to Klusch and his family.
This is so doleful. I hope justice can be administered to him and his family soon.
I've handled several car accident cases a car accident lawyer in Oorlando but I must admit that handling a homicide case is one of the toughest. It deserves careful investigation and analysis, so that the victim will receive the justice that he deserves. My condolences to Klusch and his family, and may justice be served as soon as possible.
Sometimes I wonder how a personal injury lawyer in Toronto would handle this case? Homicide will always be a hard case to handle since it requires careful investigation because there could be several possibilities that may have lead to the murder.
Just to answer an inquiry above, I think there was a great deal of focus, dedication and commitment for the toronto car accident lawyers who handled the case to completion.
This is a sad story. I hope they can bring peace to the lives of his family.


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The Hyundai Rotem J151 trains are the first generation of rolling stock for the Jurong Region Line.
62 trains of three cars each were purchased and will be delivered into Singapore from mid-2024 onwards.
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Contract J151 for the design and building of 62 new Jurong Region Line trains was awarded to Hyundai Rotem Company (HRC) on 6 February 2020.
The new trains will be wholly designed and manufactured by HRC in South Korea, and the first train is expected to arrive in Singapore around mid-2024.
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I imported a file from Scrivener to finalize it for publication. As imported, sentences with footnotes have a period at the end, followed by a reference symbol [that is, it looks like this: sentence.(#)].My journal requires that I have the period after the reference symbol [that is, it should look like this: sentence (#).].
I cannot figure out how to do a search and replace that will swaps the reference symbol and the period. Is this possible?
I know your problem well from editing a journal, where a certain number of the contributors do not know where to put the footnote references correctly. I have searched high and low, but always end up correcting it by hand. In English and Danish, and surely in a fair number of other languages, footnotes refs come after punctuation, while in French and German they come before punctuation. If your journal demands they be put before punctuation, you must either convince them that this is wrong, find another journal, write in another language, or correct it by hand which can be quite tiresome.
If the search menu in Mellel had an item called footnote reference one might be able to search that followed by a comma or a full stop and then replace it, but reference in the search menu apparently does not mean footnote reference, so there.
Thank you for the answers. The paper was not long, so in the end I simply moved all the periods by hand. It sure would be nice to be able to insert a "footnote reference" into the search box.
Is there now a solution to search in a document all citation numbers?
If not, could this idea be integrated into the search menu?


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The Raelian Cult and cloning
Universe Column
By David Alton
In April 1999 I won a place in a parliamentary ballot. This enabled me to choose the subject for debate. I used it to question the surreptitious manner in which human cloning was becoming a reality without any proper parliamentary or public debate.
In the ensuing House of Lords argument, and during the subsequent battles, the great and the good of the scientific and philosophical fraternities united to pour scorn on the contention that so-called therapeutic cloning was the bridge across which full scale reproductive cloning would march. The claims by the Raelian Cult that they have, indeed, achieved this goal (whether true or not) simply underlines how quickly the unthinkable becomes the norm, the accepted.
The timing of the Raelian announcement, over Christmastide, was illustrative of the darker forces at work within this debate. The parody of the birth of the new Adam in the Bethlehem stable by the creation in the laboratory of the cloned Eve, as the baby is to be called, is obvious.
For the Catholic, hearing this announcement, on the vigil of the slaughter of the holy innocents, it merely underlined the cyclical nature of the battles between good and evil. Once again Rachel will be heard weeping over the loss of innocent life.
Inevitably on hand to assure us that such a development should not be greeted with alarm were the usual suspects: an advisor to the British Government and the former Episcopalian Scottish Primate, Dr. Richard Holloway.
Professor Sheila McLean, a senior ethical adviser to the Blair government, said that cloning could be morally justified and called for a worldwide debate on the issue. Professor McLean, of Glasgow University, said that reaction to the human cloning announcement had been dominated by knee-jerk opposition on religious grounds and that there had been no "convincing argument against reproductive cloning". We should not be surprised by the willingness to accept this latest attack on the sanctity of human life. It is all of a piece.
The first harbinger of the acceptability of reproductive cloning came as usual from Baroness Mary Warnock. Over the past 18 years she has always provided philosophical ballast for those intent on embryo experimentation.
Having previously opposed human cloning she moved the goal posts yet again by pronouncing that there might well be circumstances in which reproductive cloning should be permitted. This was while her many allies in Parliament – including Richard Harries, the Anglican Bishop of Oxford – were continuing to argue that a little bit of cloning – "therapeutic cloning" – was alright, but reproductive cloning was thoroughly reprehensible, and one wouldn't lead to the other. The great and the good would be on hand to prevent it from happening.
In virtually her next breath, Lady Warnock then prepared her friends to abandon the 1990 sophistry about embryos enjoying "special status" and "respect." She said this was not possible if you were going to flush them down the drain.
Endearingly honest though this is, doesn't it graphically illustrate how the previously unthinkable has occurred. Since her 1990 report nearly a million human embryos have been destroyed or experimented upon, with only 4% seeing the light of day. In saying that it is impossible to equate this destruction with high-sounding phrases like "special status" and "respect" we are at least agreed.
And doesn't it also demonstrate conclusively that these anti-life positions follow logically one from another? Abortion has led to embryo experimentation and this has led to cloning. The much-maligned Catholic Church has often been alone in speaking against the systematic destruction and commodification of life.
And as these latest developments have unfolded I for one have thanked God it has done so.


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2017 Fantasy Football Rankings: Top 200 Overall
August 29, 2017	| 2017 Draft Rankings, 2017 Fantasy Football	| 82 Comments
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2017 Fantasy Football Razzball Staff Rankings
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2017 Rankings: Top 200 (Standard, Half-PPR, PPR) | QB | RB (Standard, Half-PPR, PPR) | WR (Standard, Half-PPR, PPR) | TE (Standard, Half-PPR, PPR) | K | DST
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Hello everyone, here are my Top-200 rankings for 2017! It's my first ever attempt at one of these, so please leave any thoughts and comments about any such player or decision below. Hopefully I can follow in the footsteps of the great rankers before me, Jay and Tehol (soon!), and now Matt Bowe! Check out our entire 2017 Draft Kit with so much analysis and rankings that will have you on your way to fantasy dominance in the 2017 season. Enjoy!
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2017 Fantasy Football Rankings: Dynasty Top 200 Overall
August 7, 2017	| 2017 Draft Rankings, 2017 Dynasty Leagues, 2017 Fantasy Football	| 14 Comments
Even though I'm not one to pat myself on the back (actually, I am), Razzball has been on an upward curve, bringing some sort of conglomerate synergistic metamorphosis (as they say in the corporate world), providing you an ever-improving ranking accuracy year after year. How do we do it? No clue. It could be dark wizardry. It could be indigestion. It could even be your mother. But I have to admit, this year is going to be daunting, if only because the expectations we've placed on ourselves here at Razzball Football are at an all time high (just like my college years). Going from 31st overall to 22nd in Weekly Fantasy Football accuracy is one thing. But going from 22nd to the top 10 in the entire nation last season is quite another. And then on top of that, to finish third overall in our Draft Rankings last year… well, it'd be folly to try and say "Yes, we're going to try even more, (more better if you believe in remedial English)", but yeah, I'm going to say it… We're going to do more better. (My English teacher just placed a bounty on me.) With that said, and my parentheses key broken, here are your 2017 Fantasy Football Top-200 Overall Dynasty Rankings…
2017 Fantasy Football Rankings: Dynasty Running Backs
Even though I'm not one to pat myself on the back (actually, I am), Razzball has been on an upward curve, bringing some sort of conglomerate synergistic metamorphosis (as they say in the corporate world), providing you an ever-improving ranking accuracy year after year. How do we do it? No clue. It could be dark wizardry. It could be indigestion. It could even be your mother. But I have to admit, this year is going to be daunting, if only because the expectations we've placed on ourselves here at Razzball Football are at an all time high (just like my college years). Going from 31st overall to 22nd in Weekly Fantasy Football accuracy is one thing. But going from 22nd to the top 10 in the entire nation last season is quite another. And then on top of that, to finish third overall in our Draft Rankings last year… well, it'd be folly to try and say "Yes, we're going to try even more, (more better if you believe in remedial English)", but yeah, I'm going to say it… We're going to do more better. (My English teacher just placed a bounty on me.) With that said, and my parentheses key broken, here are your 2017 Fantasy Football Running Back Dynasty Rankings…
2017 Fantasy Football Rankings: Dynasty Wide Receivers
August 6, 2017	| 2017 Draft Rankings, 2017 Dynasty Leagues, 2017 Fantasy Football	| 2 Comments
Even though I'm not one to pat myself on the back (actually, I am), Razzball has been on an upward curve, bringing some sort of conglomerate synergistic metamorphosis (as they say in the corporate world), providing you an ever-improving ranking accuracy year after year. How do we do it? No clue. It could be dark wizardry. It could be indigestion. It could even be your mother. But I have to admit, this year is going to be daunting, if only because the expectations we've placed on ourselves here at Razzball Football are at an all time high (just like my college years). Going from 31st overall to 22nd in Weekly Fantasy Football accuracy is one thing. But going from 22nd to the top 10 in the entire nation last season is quite another. And then on top of that, to finish third overall in our Draft Rankings last year… well, it'd be folly to try and say "Yes, we're going to try even more, (more better if you believe in remedial English)", but yeah, I'm going to say it… We're going to do more better. (My English teacher just placed a bounty on me.) With that said, and my parentheses key broken, here are your 2017 Fantasy Football Wide Receiver Dynasty Rankings…
2017 Fantasy Football Rankings: Dynasty Quarterbacks
Even though I'm not one to pat myself on the back (actually, I am), Razzball has been on an upward curve, bringing some sort of conglomerate synergistic metamorphosis (as they say in the corporate world), providing you an ever-improving ranking accuracy year after year. How do we do it? No clue. It could be dark wizardry. It could be indigestion. It could even be your mother. But I have to admit, this year is going to be daunting, if only because the expectations we've placed on ourselves here at Razzball Football are at an all time high (just like my college years). Going from 31st overall to 22nd in Weekly Fantasy Football accuracy is one thing. But going from 22nd to the top 10 in the entire nation last season is quite another. And then on top of that, to finish third overall in our Draft Rankings last year… well, it'd be folly to try and say "Yes, we're going to try even more, (more better if you believe in remedial English)", but yeah, I'm going to say it… We're going to do more better. (My English teacher just placed a bounty on me.) With that said, and my parentheses key broken, here are your 2017 Fantasy Football Quarterback Dynasty Rankings…
2017 Fantasy Football Rankings: Dynasty Tight Ends
Even though I'm not one to pat myself on the back (actually, I am), Razzball has been on an upward curve, bringing some sort of conglomerate synergistic metamorphosis (as they say in the corporate world), providing you an ever-improving ranking accuracy year after year. How do we do it? No clue. It could be dark wizardry. It could be indigestion. It could even be your mother. But I have to admit, this year is going to be daunting, if only because the expectations we've placed on ourselves here at Razzball Football are at an all time high (just like my college years). Going from 31st overall to 22nd in Weekly Fantasy Football accuracy is one thing. But going from 22nd to the top 10 in the entire nation last season is quite another. And then on top of that, to finish third overall in our Draft Rankings last year… well, it'd be folly to try and say "Yes, we're going to try even more, (more better if you believe in remedial English)", but yeah, I'm going to say it… We're going to do more better. (My English teacher just placed a bounty on me.) With that said, and my parentheses key broken, here are your 2017 Fantasy Football Tight End Dynasty Rankings…
2017 Fantasy Football Rankings: Top 50 Rookies
Even though I'm not one to pat myself on the back (actually, I am), Razzball has been on an upward curve, bringing some sort of conglomerate synergistic metamorphosis (as they say in the corporate world), providing you an ever-improving ranking accuracy year after year. How do we do it? No clue. It could be dark wizardry. It could be indigestion. It could even be your mother. But I have to admit, this year is going to be daunting, if only because the expectations we've placed on ourselves here at Razzball Football are at an all time high (just like my college years). Going from 31st overall to 22nd in Weekly Fantasy Football accuracy is one thing. But going from 22nd to the top 10 in the entire nation last season is quite another. And then on top of that, to finish third overall in our Draft Rankings last year… well, it'd be folly to try and say "Yes, we're going to try even more, (more better if you believe in remedial English)", but yeah, I'm going to say it… We're going to do more better. (My English teacher just placed a bounty on me.) With that said, and my parentheses key broken, here are your 2017 Fantasy Football Top 50 Rookies Rankings…


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On Island of the Colorblind, Paradise Has a Different Hue
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An island in the Pacific has a unique genetic history that affects how its people understand color.
PINGELAP ATOLL, A Micronesian island in the South Pacific, sometimes goes by its other name, the Island of the Colorblind. That's the moniker Oliver Sacks assigned the island in his 1996 book that explored the human brain. Pingelap piqued the interest of Sacks and many other scientists because of its strange genetic circumstance. According to legend, a devastating typhoon in 1775 caused a population bottleneck. One of the survivors, the ruler, carried a rare gene for an extreme type of color blindness. Eventually, he passed the gene to the island's later generations.
Today roughly 10 percent of the island's people are still believed to have the gene for the condition, known as complete achromatopsia, a rate significantly higher than the one-in-30,000 occurrence elsewhere in the world. But 10 percent is also high enough that the concept of color—and who can see it—has acquired new meaning among people in Pingelap.
Jaynard, who is color-blind, plays outside with the branch of a banana tree. "He's wearing the mask I made for him for Halloween," De Wilde writes. "He loved it, so he kept putting it on days after."
Belgian photographer Sanne De Wilde has used the island and the concept of color blindness to inspire a series of images on genetics. During a visit to Pingelap in 2015, she created photos showing the world as a color-blind person might see it. Some are complete black-and-white images. But several achromatopes claimed they could see slight variations of some colors, like red or blue. So she used infrared photo settings and lenses on her camera to distort and mute certain colors. Then, in a stroke of artistry, she invited some of the sufferers to paint over some of the images with watercolors to reflect how they saw the world.
A waterfall takes on a surreal tone due to infrared filters.
Ruins (at left) provide archaeological evidence of the city of Nan Madol, which was built in a lagoon. It was once the seat of power for a dynasty that ruled here.
The challenge of vision impairment, of course, is that it's hard to understand something the eye has never seen. What is orange to a person who only knows black and white? "Color is just a word to those who cannot see it," De Wilde observed. Once back from the island, she created in her Amsterdam studio an installation as a form of reverse osmosis, to simulate color blindness. Visitors were invited to paint using colors that never seem to appear. And then later, to their surprise and bewilderment, they were confronted with their blindly colorful artwork.
Eric, who is color-blind, reacts to the light while posing for a portrait lit by flashlight. There is only solar electricity on Pingelap, and at night everyone walks with flashlights. "I asked him to hold still and look at the light," De Wilde writes.
De Wilde took a black-and-white photograph of a parrot as a symbol of color. The image was later colored by an achromatope, who was unaware of which colors she was using.
"On the island they burn all the trash," De Wilde writes. "At the same time, holding and moving around a burning branch is good to keep the mosquitoes away." This photograph of a Pingelapese child holding a burning object was taken in black-and-white, then painted in watercolor by someone with achromatopic vision.
Jaynard, who is color-blind, plays with a disco light De Wilde brought from Belgium. "I asked him what he saw," she writes. "He answered, 'Colors,' and kept staring into the light."
"What I'm really trying to do is to invite people to a new way of seeing and interacting with the world," says De Wilde. Her other projects, about albinism and dwarfism, occupy the same overlap of genetics, geography, and social stigma. But there's something primal about vision, the eyes as the body's first ambassadors to the world. A project about color becomes a project about perspective, and how two people's are never quite the same.
Sanne De Wilde's book, The Island of the Colorblind, is available for purchase from joint publishers Uitgeverij Kanibaal and Kehrer Verlag.
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Johann Hari on How the "Junk Values" of Neoliberalism Drive Depression and Anxiety in the U.S.
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author of Lost Connections: Uncovering The Real Causes of Depression—and the Unexpected Solutions. His previous book, on addiction, is titled Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs.
The United States is one of the most depressed countries in the world. Could it be because of the country's adoption of neoliberal economic policies? We speak to Johann Hari, author of a controversial new book, "Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression—and the Unexpected Solutions." He writes, "Junk food has taken over our diets, and it is making millions of people physically sick. A growing body of scientific evidence suggests that something similar is happening with our minds—that they have become dominated by junk values, and this is making us mentally sick, triggering soaring rates of depression and anxiety."
More from this Interview
Part 1: Johann Hari on How the "Junk Values" of Neoliberalism Drive Depression and Anxiety in the U.S.
Part 2: Johann Hari: To Treat Depression, Provide Meaningful Work, Housing & a Basic Income, Not Just Drugs
NERMEEN SHAIKH: We turn now to mental illness and its treatment in the United States. According to the National Institutes of Health, the disease is widely prevalent: Almost 20 percent of adult Americans suffer from mental illness every year. Anxiety disorders are the most common mental illness in the U.S., affecting 40 million adults in the U.S., or 18 percent of the population, every year. About 7 percent of adult Americans suffer from major depression. According to the World Health Organization, the U.S. is one of the most depressed countries in the world, and, globally, depression is the leading cause of ill health and disability. Depression is also the major contributor to suicides worldwide, which number close to 800,000 a year. The National Alliance on Mental Illness finds that more than half of Americans don't receive treatment for mental illness.
AMY GOODMAN: Well, we now turn to a new book that argues that people who do receive treatment for depression and anxiety are not being treated adequately. Author Johann Hari says too much emphasis is placed on brain chemistry, to the exclusion of equally and often more important environmental causes. He points specifically to what he calls, quote, "junk values," writing, quote, "Junk food has taken over our diets, and it is making millions of people physically sick. A growing body of scientific evidence suggests that something similar is happening with our minds—that they have become dominated by junk values, and this is making us mentally sick, triggering soaring rates of depression and anxiety."
Johann Hari has experienced mental illness himself, found he was still depressed after having been on antidepressants for well over a decade, starting when he was a teenager. In his research, Johann Hari found his experience was far from unique and that a staggering 65 to 80 percent of people on antidepressants continue to be depressed.
Well, Johann Hari joins us now from Washington, D.C. He is a writer and a journalist. His book on depression is called Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression—and the Unexpected Solutions. His previous book, Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs.
Johann, welcome back to Democracy Now! Let's start with the title, because I think that very much conveys what your underlying thesis is: Lost Connections.
JOHANN HARI: Yeah. So, everyone watching this knows that they have natural physical needs, right? You need food, you need water, you need clean air, you need warmth. If I took those away from you, things would go real wrong real fast.
One of the things I learned on the big journey I did for this book, over 40,000 miles, interviewing the best experts in the world on what causes depression and anxiety and what solves them, is there's equally strong evidence that we have natural psychological needs. You've got to feel you belong. You've got to feel your life has meaning and purpose. You've got to feel that people see you and value you. You've got to feel you've got a future that makes sense. And our culture is good at lots of things, but we've been getting less and less good at meeting people's deep, underlying psychological needs. And that's one of the key reasons why we have this exploding depression and anxiety crisis.
So, that can sound a bit weird in the abstract, so I'll give you a specific example. I noticed that lots of the people I know who are depressed and anxious, their depression and anxiety focuses around their work. So I started to look at the evidence. How do people feel about their work in our culture? Turns out Gallup did the best research on this. Thirteen percent of us like our work most of the time. Sixty-three percent of us are what they called "sleepworking"—you don't like it, you don't hate it. Twenty-four percent of people hate their work. So you think about that. Eighty-seven percent of people don't like the thing they're doing most of their waking lives. I started to think, "Could that have some relationship to our mental health crisis?"
So, I discovered the incredible Australian social scientist called Professor Michael Marmot, who discovered the core, in the 1970s, of what makes you depressed at work. If you go to work and you feel you have low or no control, you are significantly more likely to become depressed, or even more likely to have a heart attack. That's because human beings have a need to feel their life is meaningful. And if you're controlled, that disrupts your ability to create meaning. And I started to think, chemical—so, I believe strongly that chemical antidepressants have a real role, they give some relief to some people. But I started to think, "What would be the antidepressant for that problem?" Right? Which is so prevalent in our culture. And I learned there is one.
In Baltimore, not far from where I am now, I went and met a woman called Meredith Keogh. Meredith used to go to bed every Sunday night just sick with anxiety about her work. And one day, with her husband Josh, she did this quite bold thing. Josh had worked in bike stores since he was a teenager, which is, you know, insecure, controlled work. And Josh and Meredith decided they were going to set up a bike store with their colleagues that ran on a different principle. It's a democratic cooperative. You might call it democracy now. The way it works is they don't have a boss. They take all the big decisions together. They share the profits, obviously. They share out the good tasks and the less good tasks, so no one gets stuck with the, you know, more depressing tasks. And one of the things that was so fascinating, spending time with them, and in other democratic cooperatives, is how many of them talked about how depressed and anxious they'd been in their previous workplace, but they weren't now, which is completely in line with Professor Marmot's findings.
And as Josh put it to me, there's no reason why any workplace should operate like this. We have a society that is putting in place all sorts of structures that are causing depression and anxiety, yet we tell people this—so, your depression and anxiety, if you're watching this—I learned about these nine causes of depression and anxiety for which there is scientific evidence. Two are biological, and the rest are in the way we live. If you're depressed, if you're anxious, you're not crazy. You're not a machine with broken parts. You're a human being with unmet needs. And there are ways we can change our society so that those needs are met and you won't be in such pain.
NERMEEN SHAIKH: Well, Johann Hari, I want to ask you about some of the criticism your book has received. In a Guardian piece headlined "As a psychiatrist, I know that Johann Hari is wrong to cast doubt on antidepressants," Carmine Pariante writes, quote, "[J]ust as knowing that you have broken your legs in a car crash does not miraculously heal your broken bones, knowing the 'rational reason' for being depressed does not make depression any less real, or the sufferer any less in need of support and treatment." She [sic] disputes the argument in your book that depression and anxiety are treated only as a chemical problem by the psychiatric community.
She goes on to say, quote, that your "suggesting that prescribing antidepressants to a patient who suffers from clinical depression is the equivalent of treating them as a 'machine with malfunctioning parts' is wrong, unhelpful and even dangerous."
JOHANN HARI: Yeah, the—
NERMEEN SHAIKH: "Antidepressants are no cure-all, but demonising them plays into stigma meaning that, tragically, more people will be held back from receiving help for a debilitating condition."
JOHANN HARI: Yeah, the individual you're quoting—yeah.
NERMEEN SHAIKH: So, Johann Hari, can you respond to that, and specifically—
JOHANN HARI: Yeah.
NERMEEN SHAIKH: —the claim that she makes that your book demonizes an illness that's already demonized and stigmatized, and that people already hesitate to go on antidepressants precisely because of this stigma?
JOHANN HARI: Yeah. The individual you mentioned admits they've not read the book. In the book, I'm very clear: I want to expand the menu of options for people with depression and anxious people; I don't want to take anything off the menu. Some of the people I most love, some of my closest relatives take chemical antidepressants. I've never urged them to stop. Chemical antidepressants do give some relief to some people, which is really valuable. They don't solve the problem. This isn't just my position, this is the position of the World Health Organization. World Health Organization explains, mental health is produced socially. It is a social indicator. It needs social as well as individual solutions. So we need to be able to have a serious conversation about these causes that doesn't just descend into kind of ridiculous straw men. Of course I'm not against chemical antidepressants. I took them for 13 years. Some of the people I most love take them. But we have to be able to talk about the wider context that's happening and how we deal with that.
One thing that helped me really change how I think about this is when I went to interview a professor called Derek Summerfield, amazing South African psychiatrist. And he explained to me—he was in Cambodia when they first introduced chemical antidepressants, right? And the doctors there didn't know what they were. So he explained. And they said, "Oh, we don't need them. We've already got antidepressants." And he said, "What do you mean?" They explained. They talked about a farmer in their community who worked in the rice fields, who one day got blown up by a land mine. They gave him an artificial limb. He went back to work in the fields. And he started just to become very depressed. Apparently it's very painful to work underwater with an artificial limb. He—I imagine it's pretty traumatic—starts just crying all day, didn't want to get out of bed. They said, "We gave him an antidepressant." Derek said, "What did you do?" They said, "We went. We sat with him. We listened to his problems. We realized that his pain made sense. We figured if we bought him a cow, he could become a dairy farmer, he wouldn't be so depressed." They bought him a cow. Within a few weeks, his crying stopped. Now, what those Cambodian doctors knew intuitively is what the World Health Organization has been trying to tell us for years, that our depression makes sense. Far from stigmatizing depressed people, I think this destigmatizes them.
There's actually a really interesting experiment I go through in Lost Connections that demonstrates this really powerfully. Because what we've done up to now is we've told people an exclusively biological story about their distress. That's what my doctor told me. Now, there are real biological factors to depression, but most of the causes are in the way we live. And I think that's much more powerfully destigmatizing. It says it's not you. You're actually surrounded by loads of people who feel this way. You feel this way for perfectly understandable reasons. And, of course, Dr. Pariante, who, to be fair to him—it's a man, not woman—said he agrees with me on these social causes and that we need to deal with these deeper social causes. I think part of the problem is we've been in this funk of pessimism where we think we can't change anything. There are loads of experiments that have demonstrated that we can powerfully change them.
I'll give you one example. In Canada, in the 1970s—something that's been covered by Democracy Now! really well—in Canada, in the 1970s, they did an experiment. They chose a town, at random, called Dauphin—it's near Manitoba—and they gave a huge number of people in this town a guaranteed basic income. It was the equivalent of $15,000 a year. They said to them, "We're just going to give you this money in monthly installments. There's nothing you have to do in return for it, and there's nothing you can do that means we'll take it away." And they followed what happened over the next three years. The most powerful thing for me is, there was a massive fall in depression and anxiety. Depression and anxiety that was so severe people had to be hospitalized fell by 9 percent.
Now, that tells us something. It tells us the financial insecurity of neoliberalism, that guys document so brilliantly, is causing a lot of that depression and anxiety. Firstly, it's very empowering to people to tell them, "Your depression is caused by these factors in the way we're living. It's not that just your brain is broken." There are factors in your brain going on, of course. We are biological beings. But that's not the primary driver here. And there are solutions that we can band together and fight for. That's much more destigmatizing and empowering, and it's not a kind of straw man about saying the drugs are bad. Of course they're not.
AMY GOODMAN: Johann, earlier this month, British Prime Minister Theresa May appointed a minister for loneliness, following a year-long investigation which found 14 percent of the population in the U.K. often or always feels lonely. Can you talk about the connection between loneliness and depression? And you have 20 seconds.
JOHANN HARI: Yeah, we are the loneliest society there's ever been. Professor John Cacioppo, with Chicago University, has shown that. There are doctors that have started prescribing lonely people to take part in voluntary gardening groups. That is twice as effective as chemical antidepressants in reducing depression. We've got to look at the wider solutions. The book goes through the nine causes of depression and anxiety for which there is scientific evidence, and seven different kinds of antidepressant that we should be utilizing, alongside chemical antidepressants.
AMY GOODMAN: We're going to do Part 2 of this discussion. We'll post it online at democracynow.org. Johann Hari's new book is out. It is called Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression—and the Unexpected Solutions.
That does it for our broadcast. Democracy Now! is hiring a full-time news fellow. Submit your application by February 5th to democracynow.org.
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They are crucial to survival but how much do you know about your kidneys?
Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust will mark World Kidney Day tomorrow (Thursday, March 8).
Taking place on the same day as International Women's Day, this year's event will focus on the link between kidney disease and women's health.
To mark the global event, we're showing what it's like to live with kidney disease, need-to-knows about your kidneys and how to keep them healthy throughout the week.
Today, here are some facts about the kidneys and the crucial role they play in the body.
Kidney transplants for people living in East Yorkshire are performed at St James's Hospital in Leeds.
About 195 million women around the world suffer from chronic kidney disease.
One in three women will develop a urinary tract infection (UTI), which can spread to their kidneys causing damage, in their lifetime and almost a third of those will have recurrent infections.
The first successful transplant was performed 22 years later by Dr Joseph E Murray at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Massachussetts. Ronald Herrick donated his healthy kidney to save the life of his identical twin brother Richard, who was dying of kidney failure. Richard lived for another eight years after the transplant.


This shop will be the main hub of many activations, such as player appearances, concerts and customization. The shop will feature the largest selection of Super Bowl LIII merchandise including winter hats, limited edition footballs, watches, Build-A-Bear and more! It will also feature Nike and New Era apparel and products for all 32 NFL teams.
The main store will feature most of core Super Bowl product as well as specialty products including, customizable socks and tees. The assortment will also include all 32 NFL teams.
The first 100 people to buy the Super Bowl LIII Concert T-shirt at NFL Shop at Super Bowl in Hall B of the Georgia World Congress Center, will receive VIP tickets for a meet and greet with Jacob Sartorius and Riley Burruss. The t-shirt goes on sale Saturday, January 26 at 10AM in the Youth Clothing Space of NFL Shop at Super Bowl, Hall B (located in the Lobby of Super Bowl Experience Driven by Hyundai at Georgia World Conference Center, next to the ticket booths). This NFL Shop is free and open to the public (no ticket to Super Bowl Experience Driven by Hyundai needed to enter). VIP wristbands are limited to the first 100 people who purchase the shirt.


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Two-year old shot in job dispute in Pakistan
Faisalabad (SE): A Muslim landowner in Nazimabad, Pakistan allegedly shot and killed a two-year-old Christian boy according to a May 11 report the Fides news agency.
A dispute arose when the child's father, Samsoon Masih, refused to do further work at the home of Haji Rasheed, without first getting paid for painting his house.
Fides reported that Rasheed and his son, Bahsrat, then broke into the Masih's house and started shooting indiscriminately, injuring Masih and his father but killing the boy, Ayaan.
"We are saddened by the news," a lawyer, Aneeqa Maria Anthony, said.
"An innocent child was killed because of a petty contract to paint a house. It is inhumane," said the coordinator of The Voice, an organisation that works to protect minority groups in Pakistan.
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Pirelli's made-to-measure technology headlines the 84th Geneva Motor Show, where all the most eagerly anticipated cars make their debut wearing P Zero and Cinturato tires, which have been specifically tailor-made as original equipment for each model.
For the prestige sector, this includes the Ferrari California T, the Lamborghini Huracan and McLaren 650S. Other new models wearing the latest Pirelli tires at the Geneva Motor Show are the Audi TT, S1 and S3 Cabriolet, the latest-generation BMW X5, Mercedes C Class and S600, as well as the Jaguar F Type, XFR and XJR.
Including the new homologations at the Geneva Motor Show, the P Zero tire has now achieved 380 homologations since 2007, meaning that in just seven years Pirelli's engineers have designed and developed 380 different versions of the P Zero: a bespoke tire tailor-made for the requirements of all models in the premium and prestige sector.
Another Pirelli tire with a record number of homologations is the Cinturato P7, which has received 170 homologations in its five-year lifespan.
Each homologation is perfectly adapted to the individual needs of every model, which means that it is no longer correct to talk about a single P Zero or Cinturato as original equipment, but instead a family of tires from which numerous versions are derived, specifically developed for the cars to which they are fitted.
The base characteristics of the P Zero are extraordinary roadholding both on straights and through corners, high standards of safety thanks to reduced wet and dry braking distances, driveability and comfort. The P Zero uses special Nano-composites in the tread pattern and bead, ensuring both a comfortable drive and sporting performance. The tread pattern design guarantees maximum grip on wet surfaces, thanks to three wide longitudinal grooves and also optimizes acoustic comfort, while the asymmetric profile ensures consistent wear.
The P Zero structure contains any deformation of the profile even at very high speeds (up to 370kph). Today P Zero is available in varied sizes from /50 to /25, for rims from 17 to 21 inches.
The Cinturato P7 – Pirelli's first ecological high-performance tire for cars with medium to large engines – has also been destined for continuous evolution in close collaboration with the world's leading car manufacturers. In just a short space of time it has claimed the market leadership in its sector and won several international tire tests. In particular, the Cinturato P7 ensures a low environmental impact because of the Nano fillers and special polymers in the compounds, which lead to reduced weight compared to any reference tire in its category.
The Cinturato P7 also reduces rolling resistance by 20%, leading to a decrease in CO2 emissions, as well as reduced fuel consumption by 4.2%. The asymmetric tread pattern design offers maximum safety even on wet surfaces and through corners, reducing noise by 30% compared to any reference tire. The sophisticated design mean that the Cinturato P7's tread pattern wears evenly, ensuring a consistent performance throughout its life cycle.


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Net Sales at Rs 16.45 crore in December 2018 up 32.02% from Rs. 12.46 crore in December 2017.
Quarterly Net Profit at Rs. 0.01 crore in December 2018 down 94.74% from Rs. 0.19 crore in December 2017.
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Orient Beverage EPS has decreased to Rs. 0.05 in December 2018 from Rs. 0.88 in December 2017.


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TIM Turns 5G Up to 3Gb/s in Turin
Sarah Thomas, Director, Women in Comms, 2/14/2018
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Italian mobile operator TIM has pushed the limits of 5G in its Turin laboratory, achieving speeds of 3Gb/s and latency of 2.6 milliseconds -- ten times lower latency than in the most advanced LTE technology, it says -- on the 3.6-3.8 GHz spectrum frequencies.
Telecom Italia (TIM) reached this milestone in partnership with fixed operator Fastweb SpA (Milan: FWB) and vendor Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd , its partners for the 5G Italian Project Bari Matera, on spectrum provided by the Ministry of Economic Development (MISE). The group says this is the first data connection made using the 3.6-3.8 GHz frequencies, as well as a record in speed and latency.
The tests were run in Turin labs on an end-to-end 5G set up, including a new terminal, Radio access and Core Network. The group says that the net throughput of over 3Gb/s was achieved on only 100 MHz of bandwidth used, results in line with the latest version of the New Radio (5G NR) 3GPP standard that was approved last December. (See Get Ready for 5G 'Phase II'.)
Using spectrum this efficiently -- seven times more efficient than LTE -- means a drastically reduced cost per bit, an important consideration as operators look to recoup the costs of their 5G network buildouts. (See 2018 Transitional for 5G Infra Spending – Report.)
The milestone, an important step for 5G in Europe, comes a few weeks before TIM plans to turn on its first 5G cell sites in Turin. The trio of TIM, Fastweb and Huawei plan to deploy pre-standards 5G in the 3.7GHz band in Bari and Matera in Southern Italy with the goal of covering 75% of the regions by the end of 2019 and 100% by 2020. The announcement also comes shortly before Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, where there are sure to be many more 5G announcements, progress reports and proclamations. (See Turin to Be Italy's First 5G City, Says TIM.)
— Sarah Thomas, Contributing Editor, Telco Transformation
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As 2015 ends I find myself wanting to write about everything which took place over the past 12 months at ICF. It is not possible. So I will hit the high notes. Do not expect a tedious elaboration about the family ski trip to Austria, poor Aunt Sissy's fractured hip, or the barely disguised boast about how thrilled we "all are" about the youngest being accepted at that elite private school populated by fellow one-percenters. This is not one of those loopy familial annual reports that have become so common around the holidays! Although ICF is a wonderful family, and the urge is there.
The public realm in any city abounds with streets, lanes, parks and public squares, but also public facilities such as the public lobbies and spaces that anyone from the public are able to legally access. It can also include areas below ground where the public may access public areas under streets and buildings, spaces below bridges and even the airspace above these public spaces. The public realm arguably also includes public vistas, namely what the public can see from a distance. As we expand our thinking about what should be considered the public realm in our villages, towns and cities, we should also expand it to include what we can't necessarily see, but increasingly experience: the impact of broadband wireless services in public spaces and how it contributes to the sense of place in our communities.
Much of the discussion about economic growth and the availability of broadband assumes there is a vast gulf between rural and urban areas. I've written before about how, in some ways, trends in this century seem to be leading to something of a convergence of rural and urban areas.
So I thought it especially interesting that the NTCA–The Rural Broadband Association yesterday hosted a policy meeting in the US Capitol that was titled: "Beyond Rural Walls: Identifying Impacts and Interdependencies Among Rural and Urban Spaces".
Life in the broadband economy can be a real killer.
No, I am not talking about the horrific ISIL attack on Paris, despite the online propaganda skills of that 12th Century band of cutthroats. Instead, I am referring to an insight brought to us by two Princeton economists, Ann Case and Nobel prizewinner Angus Deaton.
In the lexicon of planners and developers "Smart Parks" are usually reserved for new forms of industrial and business parks that provide high speed broadband to their end-users as the new form of utility. Of course many offer additional benefits to be part of this special tenant mix, from special LED lighting, guaranteed electric power, electric car charging posts, underground utilities, and gated security services. The physical environment might also include high-end data centers, incubators, accelerators and educational institutions in addition to the office environment that they normally offer. Some offer unique environmental applications such as green buildings, wind turbines, solar panels, vacuum-based waste disposal as well as collecting data via sensors to measure for system efficiencies, environmental readings and traffic flow. Some, such as the Eindhoven Tech Center in the Netherlands offer synergy centres where people gather in restaurants, gymnasiums, ad hoc meeting spaces and advanced digital libraries.
Well, here we go: another Smart21 announcement day approaches, and a new group of communities – cities, towns and regions representing millions of people – will prove yet again that the future belongs to places that we may have once thought were extinct or in great danger of perishing.
As we heard at the announcement of the ICF Summit in Toronto on June 11, 2015, "O-H-I-O", representing Columbus, Ohio, was the newest Intelligent Community of the Year. The Mayor, Michael Coleman, pictured right, shot out of his seat as he and the rest of the large Columbus delegation were soon up on stage and basking in the glory of their well-deserved and long sought-after win.
The maker movement is one of the hottest trends in the public library world. Maker spaces in libraries have the latest in 3D printing technology, digital media tools and other tools for the creative person who wants to make things. These are full-fledged STEAM (science, tech, engineering, arts and math) labs.
The Countryside is Doomed to Decline? Eersel Begs to Differ.
The countryside is in trouble. You know it. I know it. The United Nations says so. The share of the world's population living in the countryside is shrinking as megacities grow. Opportunities for education and employment are shrinking with it, forcing bright kids to leave town to pursue their ambitions. The tax base erode, schools consolidate, services falter and stores close.
We launched our New Connected Countryside crowdfunding campaign last week and I am pleased to report that we are already at 33% of our goal with 55 days left to go. We really appreciate the early signs of support – but we need much more.