An intensely versatile artist whose works employ a wide range of media, including painting, sculpture, installation and performance, Gao Weigang evades categorisation of his artworks into a particular genre. His language makes each piece both the apparatus and the product of experiment, transforming objects so they break through the audience's natural and ideological perceptions of the material world. Gao Weigang's creations are also personal: they are milestones in the artist's quest of self-reflection and a constant re-examination of himself. Despite the many artistic forms and materials Gao Weigang adopts and the great aesthetic variations throughout his works, they all reflect his intention to challenge the viewer's accustomed visual culture with a sense of humour and an overriding hint of scepticism. Whether it is painting, sculpture or installation, the artist manages to retain a strong sense of medium-specificity.


No, bullet journaling does not involve shooting a journal. No guns are used in the making of this organizational tool. This trend is so calming because it literally throws your entire life into one journal for you, and setting it up is like the coloring-therapy trend that was so last year. So basically, it's personalized perfection.
What is it you may ask? It is literally a customizable organization tool to help you do more with less, according to Bullet Journal. It can be anything you want: a to-do list, a journal, a memory-book, a random idea book, and more. Actually, it can be all of those in one. The best part? There is no set pattern or way to do it. Just look up some examples online and you are on your way. Also, fun fact to make you want to go to their website, they have a lightning bolt in their title…#harrypotter?
Anyway, I had no idea what it was until I read a blog post about it from The Lady Project, and suddenly I was hooked! Thanks, ladies for this new addiction. Finally I can blame somone for something.
Share your Bullet Journal ideas with me by commenting below!
Driving can be fun, but more than likely, it will be stressful and make you a mentally aggressive person. There will be many eye rolls, many fingers in the air, and many heart attacks. It's just a fact of life when it comes to having your driver's license. What kind of driver are you?
This driver is sporadic. Out of nowhere they change lanes, or take a right-hand turn from the left lane. They may even disregard the light and go on red when the turn light is green. And "oops" may not even be said. Also, if you are in the car with this type of driver, you will probably hear the GPS saying "Make A U-Turn" over and over.
This driver changes lanes to pass every car in front of him or her. All it does is make more work for the driver and he/she only really gets a few paces in front of you. Not even an ambulance, which has the absolute right to, drives this rudely. This driver's car is either an expensive sports car or a 1990s model with no hubcaps.
This person drives at the speed of those bullets in The Matrix, literally a snail can pass you up. You can actually get a ticket for going slow, you know that right? Also, the speed limit is sort of a guideline of the proper speed on that road. Going ten under will get you in an accident (probably caused by The Taxi Cab driver).
This driver is used to a horse-and-buggy, not a car. You must be patient…but also loud. It is totally okay to lay on your horn for this person, mostly because they won't even know you are there otherwise. The grandparent stops a mile behind the car in front of them at a red light, leans so far over the steering wheel to see that they move the car with their collarbone, and drives a boat, essentially.
This person literally does ONE thing that every one and their mother hates: parks over the line. I COULD HAVE FIT.
This driver brakes wayyyyyyy far back from the red light and then slowly comes to a stop that has taken them five minutes. When cars in the lane next to them look suspicious, they tap that brake faster than Taylor Swift tapped Tom Hiddleston after Calvin Harris.
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Used car prices are down 3.3% from a year ago, per inflation data
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In the latest inflation reading, used cars are one of the few categories with prices that are lower than they were a year ago.
While the consumer price index — which measures price changes for a variety of consumer goods and services — was up 7.1% in November from a year earlier, used cars and truck prices posted an annual 3.3% decline. That compares to some categories that have kept climbing far above year-ago prices, such as eggs (49.1%) and airfare (36%). New car prices are 7.2% higher.
Despite sliding prices for used vehicles, they remain 33% higher than where they'd be if normal depreciation were occurring, said Pat Ryan, founder and CEO of CoPilot, a car-shopping app.
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"It's important to remember that prices are still grossly inflated compared to all normal market conditions," Ryan said.
"In the new year, we can expect more substantial and accelerated price drops across the board, as vehicle inventory continues to replenish," said Ryan, adding that dealers also are responding to consumers' growing resistance to paying record-high car prices.
Demand in the used car market skyrocketed during the pandemic as supply-chain issues hampered automakers' ability to produce new vehicles. However, the situation is easing slowly with modest improvements in inventory on dealer lots as rising interest rates put pressure on affordability.
Price drops vary among car types and age
While used-car prices are easing from their highs, the decreases depend at least partly on their age and the type of vehicle.
Used electric vehicles have seen the largest drop: The average price of $54,314 in early December is down 20% from a record high of $75,324 in July, according to CoPilot data.
For used hybrids, the average price of $43,574 is a 12% drop from the peak of $49,809 in July. For both segments, whose demand rose earlier in the year when gas prices were headed higher, an easing in gas prices also coincided with a decrease in demand for EVs and hybrids.
Among body types, SUVs and minivans have seen the largest drop this year. List prices for used SUVs average $41,468, down 7% from a peak of $44,824 in March. Used minivans are averaging $24,992, down 8% from $27,257 in March.
By age, 1- to 3-year-old cars come with an average price of $38,987, down 8% from a peak of $42,375 in July.
Among those 4 to 7 years old, the average price is $27,137, a 13% drop from the peak of $31,265 in January. And in the 8-to-13-year-old bracket, the average price of $16,601 is also down 13% from a high of $19,215 in April.
While prices are expected to continue sliding next year, some buyers may not want to wait.
"If you can pay cash now and avoid skyrocketing interest rates [on loans], this month is the best time to buy in over a year," Ryan said. "With prices finally down year-over-year … and dealers eager to hit year-end sales targets, it could be a good time to negotiate."
For most buyers, however, "our advice is to wait for the used-car market to finally return closer to normal levels in 2023," Ryan said.
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1794: Jean-Pierre du Teil, Napoleon mentor 1771: Edmund James and Joseph Jordan, runaway slave aides
1616: Vincenz Fettmilch
February 28th, 2019 Headsman
Among the ancient remains, that which, from my childhood, had been remarkable to me, was the skull of a State criminal, fastened up on the tower of the bridge, who, out of three or four, as the naked iron spikes showed, bad, since 1616, been preserved in spite of the encroachments of time and weather. Whenever one returned from Sachsenhansen to Frankfort, one had this tower before one; and the skull was directly in view. As a boy, 1 liked to hear related the history of these rebels, — Fettmilch and his confederates, — how they had become dissatisfied with the government of the city, had risen up against it, plotted a mutiny, plundered the Jews' quarter, and excited a fearful riot, but were at last captured, and condemned to death by a deputy of the emperor. Afterwards I fc!t anxious to know the most minute circumstance, and to hear what sort of people they were. When from an old contemporary book, ornamented with wood-cuts, I learned, that, while these men had indeed been condemned to death, many councillors had at the same time been deposed, becanse various kinds of disorder and very much that was unwarrantable was then going on; when I heard the nearer particulars how all took place, — I pitied the unfortunate persons who might be regarded as sacrifices made for a future better constitution. For from that time was dated the regulation which allows the noble old house of Limpurg, the Fiauenstein-honsc. sprung from a club, besides lawyers, tradespeople, and artisans, to take part in a goverument, which, completed by a system of ballot, complicated in the Venetian fashion, and restricted by the civil colleges, was called to do right, without acquiring any special privilege to do wrong.
On this date* in 1616 the muffin man Vincenz Fettmilch was executed for a Frankfurt guild revolt that became a notorious anti-Jewish pogrom.
One of the crown jewels of the Holy Roman Empire, Frankfurt am Main was at this time a predominantly Lutheran city of some 20,000 souls, governed by a council comprising the city's wealthy patricians to the exclusion of her merchants and artisans. The city also boasted one of Germany's largest Jewish communities, consisting of well over 1,000 people concentrated in a quarter known as the Judengasse ("Jew Lane"); living in Frankfurt under imperial protection, Jews of course were subject at any given time to varying degrees of community anti-Semitism.
The small and almost accidental spark to light the Fettmilch conflagration began in 1612 when the accession of Emperor Matthias led to citizen petitions for an enumeration of civic rights and the patricianate suspiciously refused to supply the charters. The ensuing conflict brought a growing popular movement that "commanded support from a large cross-section of the city's inhabitants," writes Christopher Friedrichs.** "But from the outset a dominant role was assumed by one man: Vincenz Fettmilch, a citizen who had experimented with a number of occupations before becoming a pastry-baker. There is no question that Fettmilch was a dynamic and articulate leader — and a passionate foe of patricians and Jews alike."
For many months did Fettmilch (the cursory English Wikipedia entry | the much better German) and the patricianate maneuver but the long and short of it was that the latter's credibility to rule deteriorated fatally with damaging revelations of financial malfeasance. By 1614 the popular movement achieved the outright conquest of municipal power, forcing Frankfurt's much-resented oligarchs to yield their governing posts to guildsmen.
Which also positioned Vincenz Fettmilch to effect his demand for rousting that huge Jewish population.
On August 22, 1614, a popular riot invaded and ransacked the Judengasse. Fettmilch himself issued the expulsion order the very next day. This event is one of the best known and most studied anti-Jewish pogroms in German history; it's also recalled as one of the last such incidents before the Third Reich — for Fettmilchs did not commonly get the run of a city, and our Fettmilch did not enjoy his run for very long.
As imperial soldiers gathered for an order-restoring incursion that rebellious Frankfurt would be powerless to resist, Vincenz Fettmilch was summarily arrested later in 1614 by other Frankfurters, sparing the city a good deal of destruction and speedily collapsing the new order he had created. Fettmilch had over a year as a ward of the empire's torturers before he with three associates was beheaded and quartered on February 28, 1616 — the same day that Frankfurt's Jewish refugees were officially re-admitted back to the Judengasse.
Broadside of the punishment of Fettmilch and associates by Johann Ludwig Schimmel.†
From the time of Fettmilch to this day inconclusive debate has raged among historians and other Germans about how to weigh, interpret, and reconcile those two thrusts of the rebellion — the resistance to Frankfurt's optimates, and the chauvinism against her Jewry.
* You'll also find the date of March 10 in various sources; this 10-day discrepancy is that commonplace calendar complication, the Julian-Gregorian split. Frankfurt am Main was a free imperial city within the Holy Roman Empire, and while the empire had gone Gregorian from its introduction in 1582, the mostly Protestant Frankfurt (along with many other German states) stayed away from this papist device until 1700. Our dating here defers to the local Julian sentiment.
** Friedrichs, "The Fettmilch Uprising in German and Jewish History," Central European History, June 1986.
† Image from Karl Harter in From Mutual Observation to Propaganda War: Premodern Revolts in Their Transnational Representations; that author contextualizes the scene as follows:
In the middle of the picture we see the scaffold set up at the market place of Frankfurt cordoned by heavily armed soldiers and railings with posts showing the imperial eagle: The punishment of the rebels is taking place within the separated legal space of the empire, where only the delinquent, the executioner, the judge and several officials (representative of the imperial commission) and the soldiers appear. The city council and the representatives of the guilds on the two platforms in the centre of the background as well as the burghers of Frankfurt surround that space, watching from the outside. The executioner decapitates one of the delinquents, the recently severed finger of whom can be seen in front of him. The dismembering of the finger – the Schwurfinger – clearly points at the illegal conjuration or conspiracy in terms of penal law. Two more decapitated corpses of ringleaders are positioned on the scaffold. In the background on the left, outside the city three gallows are set up; one with a corpse hanged at the feet and another exposing part of quartered corpse. Both death penalties — reverse hanging and quartering — are typical of the aggravated and infamous punishment of treason. In the case of the Fettmilch-revolt, the four main ringleaders were dismembered, decapitated, quartered and parts of their corpses were exposed at the gallows outside of town. Furthermore, their heads were impaled and exposed on the gate tower on the Rhine side, which was the main entrance to the city, depicted with the four decapitated heads and a super-sized imperial eagle in the left background of the broadsheet. The symbolic implication, communicated and enhanced by the broadsheet, is quite obvious: The ringleaders and the revolt are to be commemorated as a serious political crime. This was emphasized by the total demolition of Fettmilch's house shown in the foreground of the illustration on the right and the infamous shaving, flogging and banning of his family depicted in the background on the right: the total social disintegration and exclusion of the main ringleader — comprising his family, his name, his house — for eternal memory ("zum ewigen Gedächtnuß"). Apart from the ringleaders and their families, the punishment of other rebels (17 associates and followers) by flogging and banning, shown in the background on the left, seems almost lenient. In addition to the punishment of the rebels, the restitution of the legal and imperial order is represented by the re-entry of the Jewish community in form of a procession, just passing the scaffold.
All other broadsides dealing with the punishment of the rebels depict the same scene and make use of similar iconic elements: scaffold, armed soldiers, imperial posts and eagle, the dismembering of the Schwurfinger and decapitation, the tower with the heads, the gallows with the quartered corpses, whipping and expulsion, the demolition of the house, the re-entry of the Jews etc.
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Discussion in '3D TVs' started by rickyveryfast, Jan 12, 2012.
I am new member to this forum. I recently purchased LG 32LW4500 3D TV. So I do not know much more about 3D TV. When I saw it in show room 3D was working, now I have this TV at my home 3D does not work. That's why I am writing all of you please help me, what else do I need to watch 3D movies. I have 3D TV, normal CD player and CD of avatar movie; I don't know whether that is pirated to original.
I suspect that avatar on CD is pirated (guessing it has never been released on that format) and probably not great quality, also not surprised it's not working through a normal CD player.
If so, is it the 3D BluRay?


The Illawarra Prayer Network has been encouraging Christians to pray for the last 15 years. Here you can encourage others to pray by recounting a story of answered prayer. Remember that this is a public post and other people's privacy should be respected.
This category of posts is added in anticipation of revival. It is also a place to report what God is doing to win the hearts of his people who live in the Illawarra area. Feel free to add a comment reporting good news stories from your corner fo the Illawarra here.


CLEVELAND, OH (WOIO) - Snow is covering the roads after a storm overnight in Northeast Ohio.
The morning commute will be a rough one for many drivers in Northeast Ohio.
It is advised for drivers to give themselves extra time when they head to work or school this morning.
Around 5 a.m. an accident caused the eastbound lanes of Interstate 90 between Route 70 and Detroit Road to be closed.


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Top 10 Secret Celebrity Marriages
In the life of a major Hollywood star of today it is becoming increasingly hard to keep anything in one's personal life private. From the constant hassle of dealing with the paparazzi to the invention of the camera phone and social media, stars are having to go to new lengths to keep details about their lives and careers under wraps. So when our favorite celebrities are able to fool fans and the media alike it deserves a bit of recognition.
The following 10 secret celebrity marriages were such a big surprises that you may not even know about half of them and already forgot about the others.
1) Kerry Washington and Nnamdi Asomugha
The up and coming actress shocked the world this past fall when she revealed that she was pregnant and married to the NFL star. Word had barley leaked that the Scandal star had a serious beau when she decided to drop the big bombshell on her fans and the media.
The gorgeous and talented actress had previously been engaged to fellow actor David Moscow from 2004 until 2007 but other than that she had been only speaking about her current and upcoming projects to members of the media. Fans were delighted to hear of her sneaky marriage to Nnamdi in June of 2013 and even more excited to find out that they are expecting their first child.
At several of her recent award show appearances the former Emmy and Golden Globe award winning actress showed off her growing baby bump underneath her designer gowns. From the look of the actress in her beautiful Oscars red carpet look Kerry and new hubby Nnamdi should be expecting to meet their little bundle of joy anytime in the next few weeks.


Any dedicated consumer of historical fiction (think Bernard Cornwell's saga of Richard Sharpe in the Napoleonic Wars) or costume-epic movies (Gladiator), knows that maggots applied to festering wounds by a salt-of-the-earth folk healer will save the protagonist's life and limbs when all seems lost. We hear about leeches coming back into medical fashion; I keep wondering why we don't use maggots again in Western medicine.
Well, I missed something. It turns out that we do use maggots in Western medicine: larval debridement therapy is increasingly common in Europe, and the US Food and Drug Administration approved fly larvae for sale as a medical device in 2004. Monarch Labs (monarchlabs.com, Irvine, CA) produces the sole approved larval debridement product, "Medical Maggots," the disinfected larvae of the green bottle fly Phaenicia sericata (also known as Lucilia sericata, if I'm reading the taxonomy notes correctly).
In a short phone interview today, Monarch's director of business development, James Kuo, MD, said that maggot therapy gets more common every year, slowly overcoming medical inertia and the "ick" factor — which is more prevalent among physicians than among patients, who welcome anything that promises to alleviate the discomfort, odor, and other burdens of a necrotic wound. Today, about a thousand US practitioners — podiatrists, wound-care technicians, and veterinarians in addition to MDs and DOs — have used the technique.
Literature note: PubMed lists 215 papers on maggot debridement and "maggot therapy," 14 of them published so far in 2009. Unsurprisingly, most of the papers are European. Four of these appeared in the British Medical Journal (if one counts the one-paragraph letter, "Larval therapy for leg ulcers. Wrong treatment," which didn't dispute the approach's effectiveness for debridement, but objected to considering larvae as an alternative to compression to reverse the underlying ulcer itself).


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Q: Batch script to show multiple filenames in one call Im trying to create a batch script to call a .exe to carry out analysis on multiple data files in a same folder. The syntax should be like:
"D:\Softwares\Analyzer.exe" [DataFile1].dat [DataFile2].dat ... [DataFileN].dat AnalysisFile.pdo"
Currently I have tried to use a FOR loop to scan each *.dat file in a specified folder. (I don't know how many data files in that folder, so I cannot type the filenames directly in the command line)
For example:
@ECHO OFF
FOR /r %%i in (*.dat) DO (
"D:\Softwares\Analyzer.exe" %%~ni.dat TestAnalysis.pdo
)
PAUSE
However, the analysis is carried out on seperate datafiles, and the .exe file will pop-up and open every time when a new .dat file is detected. Is there any way I could use *.dat or any other methods to represent  [DataFile1].dat [DataFile2].dat ... [DataFileN].dat in one line seperated by a space (not a new line)?
I have also tried to use @tilte, which does not work as well. Since the .exe window keep pop-up whenever a new .dat file is detected and I have to close each of them in order to continue to next .dat file.
   In general, I would like to do an automatic scan in a folder, get the names of the datafiles, and write a command line to call these .dat files in one line.
Any ideas/helps appreciated!!!

A: try this, remove the word echo if the output is OK:
@echo off &setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
set "line="
for %%i in (*.dat) do set "line=!line! "%%i""
echo "D:\Softwares\Analyzer.exe" %line% TestAnalysis.pdo

The code doesn't work with *dat files with exclams ! in the file name. This may be fixed if needed.

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Live Review: A-Lin "Sonar World Tour"– Plenary, Melbourne Convention And Exhibition Centre (12.08.16)
Published on : August 15, 2016 August 15, 2016 Published by : Wendy Truong
Aboriginal Taiwanese singer A-Lin was in Melbourne for her SONAR World Tour on Friday night. This is A-Lin's second time in Melbourne after her concert with Shin in 2011 and the filming of her music video for "A Big Big Hug"
Prior to seeing her perform, my impression of A-Lin was a friendly pop diva with the ability to warm hearts through her music. But to my surprise, her voice was more than a warm ray of sunshine and there was more on offer than her classic healing love songs.
The singer took the stage in a dazzling white dress with some of her signature love songs such as "A Best Friend's Blessings" and "PS I Love You". The atmosphere transitioned from loud cheers upon her appearance to almost silence with the crowd drawn into her voice echoing the Plenary, Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre. The lighting of the venue complimented her beautiful voice which captured not only your ears but also your eyes. A-Lin then quickly changed the scene from her lovely ballads to her sexy dance part, ripping off the tail of her dress to become a short fringe skirt that flowed through the air while she wiped out her dance moves. Heating up with excitement, the audience clapped to the beat in a sea of blue and red light sticks.
A short interlude provided A-Lin a chance to change into a stunning red dress, before belting out her classic track "Give Me A Reason To Forget" that was also the first song she sang competing in Chinese reality show "I Am Singer". The singer who shot to fame due to the show has dedicated a segment performing the covers she previously sang in the competition. A-Lin talked about her journey on the show linking the story telling of her experience with her song medley. It started with her breaking down in tears after her second performance because she couldn't cope juggling the pressure of the competition and promotions for her new album at the time. But luckily, she was inspired by fellow competitor, Jane Zhang's performance of "Born To Be Wild" and eventually became to feel more comfortable with the show and the other contestants. She expressed when she was struggling to pick what to sing next, she thought of her father and was overwhelmed with gratitude when he agreed with no second thought. She further explained that her father was against her becoming a singer and singing A-mei's "When I Think of You" together on stage was not only a first, but also an opportunity to share her Aboriginal roots. When she reached the part about how she needed to invite a friend to sing with on the show, she pulled an enthusiastic fan to the front of the stage to sing in place of her good friend Shin's "Embrace in Strong Wind". Despite being constantly told she was "not choosing the right songs to compete", A-Lin stood by what she believed and chose songs she believes is close to the heart. She tells her fans that she is very thankful to have had the chance to be on "I Am Singer" and let more people know her passion for music.
The soothing atmosphere continued as A-Lin asks fans to turn the torches on the phones on to make an ocean of stars alongside "You Are Not Missing Me Tonight". No concert is complete without relaying parts of the songs to fans! It was very impressive to hear fans sing in unison to A-Lin's hit song "Happiness, Then What"! And of course to make her world tour more memorable, she prepared an English song, Tamia's classic hit "Officially Missing You" for her Melbourne fans.
To hype the crowd up even more, A-Lin brought out gifts to present her fans! You know, the 'we will go where the cheers are' while she threw caps into the crowd. She then followed by saying "I have another gift for you guys, well, his voice is a gift" and welcomed her surprise guest Xiaoyu (Song Nian Yu). The two performed Xiaoyu's hit track "Finally Said It" as well as their 2012 duet "920". She left her guest to perform "Transition Period" from his last album while she changed for her next segment. What a treat to hear two amazing vocals in one night!
The diva came back with a series of fast-paced songs like "I'm Worth It", "A Big Big Hug" and even jumped off stage to get up close to fans during "Lin Limit". Talk about fan service! When A-Lin announced that the concert was coming to an end, one of her fans jokingly threw her light sticks onto the ground in protest. The cheeky singer decides to pull the fan up and completes "Forget Love" with her fan becoming a backup dancer. Definitely a way to make a heart-wrenching song a lot more lighthearted.
Perhaps one of my favourite parts of the night was the ending song "Give Me A Reason To Forget". Her classic hit became a big singalong with a packed venue of MCEC singing with her. Unlike most artists who prepare an encore segment. A-Lin stepped up and ask took requests instead. She performed "Lovelorn, Not Guilty", "What Have You Taken Away", "I'm Very Busy" and "I Am Very Happy Now" unaccompanied by her band which truly showed the powerhouse's immaculate pitch and versatile range.
A-Lin definitely lives up to her powerhouse diva name and has definitely touched me with her warm but powerful vocals. She is able to convey so much emotion purely based on her voice and will certainly reach out to hearts through her healing love songs or motivational pieces. The singer's friendly yet cheeky personality also brought a lot of laughs, with one of my favourite quotes of the night being: "Do you mind if I drink some water? Melbourne's water tastes so good" followed by a giggle.
I am happy to say that A-Lin's Melbourne show was definitely a huge success and many lucky fans went home with some great memories due to A-Lin's big doses of fan service. This was a great opportunity for me to enjoy some world class vocals and A-Lin and Xiaoyu will both be singers I will look forward to in the future.
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Use of sentinel pigs to monitor environmental Taenia solium contamination
A. E. Gonzalez, R. Gilman, H. H. Garcia, J. McDonald, K. Kacena, V. C.W. Tsang, J. B. Pilcher, F. Suarez, C. Gavidia, E. Miranda, J. Naranjo, M. Verastegui, C. Carcamo, T. Montenegro, C. Evans, R. Mantle, A. Guerron, A. M. Castro, L. Trelles
Departamento Académico de Salud Animal Y Salud Pública
Ateneo abocado a responder amenazas y oportunidades del sector pecuario
Mejora del sistema productivo de alpacas
Zoonosis parasitarias y salud publica
Biotecnología aplicada a la conservación, sanidad y producción animal
We tested a novel approach to assay Taenia solium prevalence using the enzyme-linked immunoelectrotransfer blot assay in sentinel piglets to determine environmental contamination with T. solium eggs in a disease- endemic zone in Peru. Twelve sentinel piglets from an area where the disease is not present were tested at two months of age, moved to an area where the disease is endemic, and retested at the of age nine months. Sentinel piglets native from this T. solium endemic area were also tested concurrently at two and nine months of age. Of the non-native pigs, 33% (4 of 12) acquired new infection. Of the 28 native pigs tested, 64% (18 of 28) acquired the infection. In a subset of the native piglets from seronegative sows, 44% (4 of 9) were infected at five months of age. Serodiagnosis of sentinel piglets is a practical method to detect T. solium eggs in the environment. Furthermore, it permits indirect assessment of human risk, which may be useful for monitoring the efficacy of intervention programs.
American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.1994.51.847
10.4269/ajtmh.1994.51.847
Enlace a la publicación en Scopus
Profundice en los temas de investigación de 'Use of sentinel pigs to monitor environmental Taenia solium contamination'. En conjunto forman una huella única.
Taenia solium Medicina y ciencias biológicas 100%
piglets Agricultura y biología 63%
Swine Medicina y ciencias biológicas 53%
Endemic Diseases Medicina y ciencias biológicas 44%
swine Agricultura y biología 43%
monitoring Agricultura y biología 43%
Eggs Medicina y ciencias biológicas 37%
Peru Medicina y ciencias biológicas 21%
Gonzalez, A. E., Gilman, R., Garcia, H. H., McDonald, J., Kacena, K., Tsang, V. C. W., Pilcher, J. B., Suarez, F., Gavidia, C., Miranda, E., Naranjo, J., Verastegui, M., Carcamo, C., Montenegro, T., Evans, C., Mantle, R., Guerron, A., Castro, A. M., & Trelles, L. (1994). Use of sentinel pigs to monitor environmental Taenia solium contamination. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, 51(6), 847-850. https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.1994.51.847
Gonzalez, A. E. ; Gilman, R. ; Garcia, H. H. et al. / Use of sentinel pigs to monitor environmental Taenia solium contamination. En: American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 1994 ; Vol. 51, N.º 6. pp. 847-850.
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The National Technician Development Centre is your centre: a one-stop shop, providing organisations and their technical communities with access to information, expertise and a range of research and tools (including the nationally recognised TDM Toolkit). These are specifically designed to support the delivery of high-quality technical services across all areas, including Creative Industries, Science, Engineering and Medicine. The National Technician Development Centre (NTDC) is self-sustaining and not-for-profit. The NTDC is run, for the benefit of, and with input from, individual institutions, the technical community and the wider sector as a whole.
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The NTDC team has decades of both management and technical experience between them, giving the NTDC a unique understanding of the role of the technician and the problems facing technical services moving forward. The team consists of experts from HEFCE's Technical Development and Modernisation project, specialists from various universities including the University of Sheffield, Manchester Metropolitan University and Newcastle University, as well as other experienced independent advisors. Find out more about our team here.
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The TDM Toolkit was developed as part of the Technical Development and Modernisation project – a three year research project which ran between 2014 – 2017 at the University of Sheffield. The project, funded by HEFCE, aimed to produce some solutions to the issues affecting the technical workforce and service within the HE sector. The project worked with 18 HEIs to create the tools that make up the toolkit. The NTDC team use the TDM Toolkit and their expert knowledge to deliver a bespoke service to meet your needs.
You can find our more about the tools that make up the Toolkit here.
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The NTDC supports universities, research institutions and related bodies and industries across the UK to create a sustainable future for their technical staff and services. We also support the sector through attendance at sector-wide events and conferences, delivering presentations and workshops. The NTDC is evolving as the needs of the sector and the issues affecting technical staff evolve.
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The NTDC can help your organisation in a variety of ways, including, but not limited to:
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As a not-for-profit centre, any charges we make for our services are solely to cover the additional costs of NTDC staff and their expertise. However, currently some services are on a cost-free basis. As our work with each institution is bespoke, these charges are worked out on a case by case basis. All our Partner Affiliates of the Centre receive a discount on our services. All initial consultations to discuss your needs and what we can offer are free of charge, so please do not hesitate to get in touch.
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While you don't need to be a Partner Affiliate to access our services, by joining our ever-increasing portfolio of Partner Affiliates you will receive a discount on all NTDC services, a complimentary initial meeting and follow up, exclusive NTDC updates, input on the development of future resources, as well as a welcome pack including a Certificate of Partnership and other marketing materials. Partner Affiliates will be helping to ensure the future of the Centre as we look to become self-sustaining at the end of our funding (see below for more information on how we are funded) and will influence the direction of the NTDC, which can provide evidence for your Technician Commitment. Find out more about becoming a Partner Affiliate here.
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ICHARM Brochure & Poster have been updated.
Repoort of "ADB Project: TA-8456, Transformation of Urban Management ? Part II Flood Management" have been opened on "local practices" web page.
ICHARM published "ICHARM 10th Anniversary"
ICHARM Brochure has been updated.
ICHARM and GRIPS are now accepting applications for Ph. D. Disaster Management Program 2017.
Technical Note of PWRI No. 4322 "Lessons learned from the 2011 flood disaster in industrial estates/parks/zones in Thailand"
ICHARM is now accepting applications for Ph. D. Disaster Management Program 2016.
"Organization & Staff" has been updated.
Season's Greetings from Toshio KOIKE, Director of ICHARM.
Report on 2013 - 2014 M.Sc. Program, "Water-related Disaster Management Course of Disaster Management Policy Program" has been updated.
Newsletter Volume 9 No.3 (No.34) released.
ICHARM is now accepting applications for Ph. D. Disaster Management Program 2015.
Newsletter Volume 9 No.2 (No.33) released.
Newsletter Volume 9 No.1 (No.32) released.
February 26 The First ICHARM Governing Board held on 25 February in Tokyo.
January 31 Newsletter Volume 8 No.4 (No.31) released.
1 Message from Director updated.
ICHARM is now accepting applications for Ph. D. Disaster Management Program 2014.
October 31 Newsletter Volume 8 No.3 (No.30) released.
1 Newsletter Volume 8 No.2 (No.29) released.
April 30 Newsletter Volume 8 No.1 (No.28) released.
18 ICHARM Researcher Sayama Wins the 2013 Young Scientists' Prize by MEXT Minister.
The International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) has published a new Red Book with the title of "Floods ? From Risk to Opportunity" in March 2013.
February 4 Newsletter Volume 7 No.4 (No.27) released.
January 1 Message from Director updated.
2012 December 14 IFAS updated.
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6 The ICHARM brochure is updated.
15 ICHARM Director, Dr. Takeuchi was awarded "International Hydrology Prize"
ICHARM is now accepting applications for Ph. D. Disaster Management Program 2013.
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September 11 JICA Training Program: Capacity Development for Flood Risk Management with IFAS page updated.
July 31 Newsletter Volume 7 No.2 (No.25) released.
April 27 Newsletter Volume 7 No.1 (No.24) released.
January 30 Newsletter Volume 6 No.4 (No.23) released.
December 7 Kenzo Hiroki, Principal of ICHARM, appointed as Vice Chair of Steering Committee, GWP.
November 15 Publication List updated.
10 Flood in the Chaophraya River, Thailand updated.
8 Newsletter Volume 6 No.3 (No.22) released.
2 Flood in the Chaophraya River, Thailand updated.
October 27 Flood in the Chaophraya River, Thailand updated.
24 Flood in the Chaophraya River, Thailand.
21 ICFM5 held at UNU and Akihabara UDX.
19 Accepting applications for Ph. D. Disaster Management Program 2012.
Ph.D. Disaster Management Program page launched.
14 M.Sc. Program "2011-2012 Water-related Disaster Management Course of Disaster Management Policy Program" starts its fifth year and "Ph. D. Disaster Management Program 2011" starts its second year.
Completion of 2010-2011 Water-related Disaster Management Course of Disaster Management Policy Program.
September 20 Report of the Damage to Tsunami-Prevention and Other Structures by the 2011 off-the-Pacific-Coast-of-Tohoku Earthquake Tsunami.
5 JICA training program "Local Emergency Operation Plan with Flood Hazard Map" page updated.
July 29 IFAS ver. 1.3β released.
Newsletter Volume 6 No.2 (No.21) released.
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12 JICA training Course "Capacity Development for Adaptation to Climate Change ?Climate Modeling and Analysis" page updated.
The latest version of the ICHARM brochure is available.
1 Introduction of new ICHARM.
4 JICA training program "Local Emergency Operation Plan with Flood Hazard Map" page updated.
1 ICHARM Action Plan 2010-2012 released.
February 18 Accepting Applications for Ph. D. Disaster Management Program 2011.
January 31 Newsletter Volume 5 No.4 (No.19) released.
2010 November 4 Newsletter Volume 5 No.3 (No.18) released.?
October 4 "Ph.D. Disaster Management Program 2010" is launched and M.Sc. Program "2010-2011 Water-related Disaster Management Course of Disaster Management Policy Program" starts its fourth year.
September 28 Aout the ICHARM-UNU Joint International Symposium "Floods ? A global problem that needs local solutions".
16 Report on the 2009-2010 Water-related Disaster Management Course of Disaster Management Policy Program.
July 30 Accepting Applications for Ph. D. Disaster Management Program 2011.
Newsletter Volume 5 No.2 (No.17) released.?
June 21 ICHARM Signed the MoU with TDMRC.
May 7 Team Leader Katsuhito Miyake Awarded the 2009 JSCE Continuing International Contribution Award.
Newsletter Volume 5 No.1 (No.16) released.?
1 International Workshop on Sustainable Tsunami Disaster Management.
March 19 "Overview of key messages" (PDF 1,046KB) and "Facts and Figure" (PDF 2,024KB) Issued.
January 29 Newsletter Volume 4 No.4 (No.15) released.?
25 ICHARM Signed the MOU with DPRI.
2009 December 10 ICHARM Quick Reports on Floods 2009.
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November 13 ICHARM Signed Partnership Agreement with ADB.
October 30 Newsletter Volume 4 No.3 (No.14) released.?
August 31 Prof. Takeuchi Participates in WCC-3.
A video of the discussion is available at WCC-3's website.
July 31 Newsletter Volume 4 No.2 (No.13) released.
June 9 Special Lectures by the award-winning hydrologists on the occasion of the 2008 JSCE International Contribution Award.
April 30 Newsletter Volume 4 No.1 (No.12) released.
2 Prof. Reiko Kuroda, Vice-President of the ICSU (International Council for Science) visited ICHARM/PWRI.
1 Follow-up Saminar 2009"The 3rd East & Southeast Asia Regional Seminar on Flood Hazard Mapping 2009" was held from 17th to 19th February 2009 in Manila, Philippines.
March "Global Trends in Water-Related Disasters: an insight to policymakers" issued.
January 30 Newsletter Volume 3 No.4 (No.11) released?
"Debris-flow dewatering brakes -a promising tool for disaster management in developing countries-"
A special Lecture by Prof. Egashira on Sediment Hazard Management "Importance of introducing sediment transport process in river planning"
"The 5th Flood Hazard Mapping in East/East-Asian Region, 2008".
Report on "UN/ISDR Comprehensive Tsunami Disaster Prevention Training Course" issued! (English and Japanese)?
Newsletter Volume 3 No.3 (No.10) released?
8 ICHARMInternationl Syposium"Local Practices of Integrated Flood Risk Management under Changing Natural and Social Conditions" was held on 30th September in Tokyo.
2nd ICHARM Advisory Board Meeting and 3rd IFI Meeting held at ICHARM inTsukuba.
3 Master's Program "Water-related Risk Management Course of Disaster Management Policy Program" completed its successful first year!
August 8 ICHARM Newsletter No.9 Uploaded!
7 "UN/ISDR Comperehensive Tsunami Disaster Prevention Training Course(2 June-11 July, 2008)" Website launched!?
17 The official website of the International Flood Initiative (IFI) has launched!
7 Former PWRI Researcher Awarded Korean Presidential Civil Merit Medal.
June 9 ICHARM Publication list updated!
was held on 5th May.
April 16 Newsletter No.8 was uploaded.
February 7 "East & Southeast Asia Regional Seminar on Flood Hazard Mapping, 2008" was held in Guangdong, China.?
February 5 ICHARM gave lectures on water-related hazard initiatives and tsunami hazard mapping to JICA trainees.
January 23 Newsletter No.7 was uploaded.
10 The 2007 Flood Hazard Mapping Training Course was held from October 30 through November 29.
November 17 ICHARM Quick Report on Floods 2007 Celebrates Completion of ICHARM Auditorium.
1 ICHARM has kicked off the region-focused training course on flood hazard mapping (FHM) on 30 October.
ICHARM will hold "ICHARM Quick Report on Floods 2007" at ICHARM on 6th November, 2007.?
October 30 Newsletter No.6 is uproaded at "Documents" chapter.
5 A Master's Degree Program on WATER-RELATED RISK MANAGEMENT.
1 closed: recruit 4 specialty researchers?
July 30 Typhoon No.4 and Seasonal Rain Front?
11 ICHARM Newsletter No.5 was released.
March 30 ICHARM Newsletter No.4 was released.
2006 December ICHARM newsletter No.3 was released.
14 ICHARM Inuaugural Ceremony and Commemorative Symposium >>Details?(source; Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, MLIT)?
August ICHARM newsletter No.2 was released.
March ICHARM newsletter No.1 was released.
4th World Water Forum >>Details?
January Newsletter No.8 was released.?
July Newsletter No.6 was released.
May 25 Newsletter No.5 was released.
April 1 Hydrologic Engineering Research Teamwas transferred from Hydraulic Engineering Research Groupto Secretariat for Preparatory Activities of UNESCO-PWRI Centre.
March 22 Newsletter No.4 was released.
15 Mr.Arlen Feldman, retired Chief of Hydrologic Engineering Center, gave the lecture on 'HEC Background & Software Development Activities/Prospects ' at PWRI..
February 24 The Secretariat co-organized "2005 Symposium on Water Management Policy in Chao Phraya River Basin, Thailand and Yangtze River Basin, China". Prof. Wang Yicheng, China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research), a co-investigator of a joint research project secretariat gave a lecture on 'Flood Control Master Plan for the Changjiang River'?
January 25 "JICA region-focused Training Course "Flood Hazard Mapping" In order to mitigate flood disasters in the developing countries, the PWRI starts a new training course "Flood Hazard Mapping" in cooperation withJapan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) aiming at technology transfer on flood hazard mapping."
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18-22 The United Nations World Conference on Disaster Reduction (WCDR) was held at the International Conference Center Kobe and its adjoining hotel, Kobe Portopia Hotel. We have made contributions to the two theme specific sessions, "Research on Floods and Landslides and A New International Initiative for Risk Reduction" and "Knowledge Sharing and Comprehensive Flood Risk Management through Educational Training."
14 Newsletter No.3 was released.?
2004 November 25-27 PWRI organized the "International Conference on Advances in Integrated Mekong River Management" from November 24 to 27, 2004 at Lao Plaza Hotel, Vientiane, the Lao People's Democratic Republic as a member of the Japanese Research Revolution 2002 project (RR2002) team. Mr. Yoshitani served on the Scientific Committee of this conference.
22-26 The 12th Meeting of the UNESCO IHP Regional Steering Committee and its associated conference was held in Adelaide, Australia. Mr. Yoshitani expressed PWRI's appreciation for RSC Committee's support to the plan of an international centre for water-related hazard and its risk management in the previous RSC meeting and reported preparatory activities in the past one year since the previous meeting.
18 Newsletter No.2 was released.
October 19-29 Participated in the 12th Session of the Commission for Hydrology (CHy) organized by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) to discuss future activities of the Commission and to introduce Japan's efforts to reduce flood damage from the global point of view.
12 The first workshop with China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower.
11-15 Lecturing by Mr. IKEDA at the 14th UNESCO-IHP Training Course, and visiting the Humid Tropic Center (UNESCO Category 2 Center) in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
September 30 Visited the UNESCO-IHE to have a meeting with the Director, Prof. Meganck.
27-29 International Conference on "Climate Change: a challenge or a threat for water management" was held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Mr. IKEDA gave a presentation on "Flood management under the climatic variability and its future perspective in Japan" Click here for more detail.
20-24 The 16th Session of the IHP Intergovernmental Council was held at the UNESCO H.Q. The resolution which supports establishing UNESCO Centre was adopted Click here for more detail.
17-21 Meeting of ISO/TC 113 "Hydrometry" in Tsukuba was held in Tsukuba.
March The 1st Preparatory Committee for the UNESCO Centre Click here for more detail.
February Professors at the Sichuan University of China visited PWRI?
23 International Symposium on Approaches for Global Water Hazard and Risk Management was held. Click here for more detail.
20-22 The International Workshop at the Public Works Research Institute. Click here for more detail.
July The Seventh Meeting of the NILIM/PWRI-USGS Committee on Hydrology and Water Resources, Sapporo?


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Melanie Mazur
In a public hearing Monday on the 2018-2019 annual academic report, Assistant Superintendent Joe Nicks said Kaufman schools are performing well, and the goal is to get to Grade A.
District-wide, schools scored a B, with the exception of Gary Campbell Alternative School, which scored the coveted A grade from the Texas Education Agency.
Nicks discussed the report with school board members at their meeting on Monday night.
The district's graduation rate is high, with 96.5% of Kaufman students finishing high school in four years, compared to 92.5% statewide.
Overall, district students are testing at the same levels as most students in the state, with higher grades than their peers in science and social studies, Nicks said. Kaufman graduates more students with an achievement diploma than the state average, with 91.2% earning the distinction, compared to 81.5% statewide. Achievement diplomas are awarded to graduates who earn an academic endorsement and passed algebra II.
Kaufman has 4,037 students in the district, and 71.3% are economically disadvantaged, with 18% of students classified as English learners.
Among KISD teachers, 55% have 11 more years of experience in the classroom, compared to 45% statewide.
Under the safety statistics, the district reported one aggravated assault on school grounds last year.
"We have very safe schools," Nicks said, noting that a district Threat Assessment Team is meeting to work on school safety.
In other action, school board trustees received a thumbs up from auditor Dan Tonn for the budget year ending Aug. 30. There were no major issues that auditors saw in the budget to address, Tonn said.
The board also approved $325,000 to purchase new stadium lights and poles at Kaufman High School. The current lights were purchased in 1981 and need to be replaced with LED lights, said assistant superintendent Kell Clopton.
Kaufman High School
Joe Nicks
Dan Tonn


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Australian Press Council welcomes two small publisher members and a new Council member
The Australian Press Council is pleased to welcome two new small online publisher members along with a new Council member, Hartley Higgins. The new small publisher members are Pro Bono News and The Urban Developer.
The publications join hundreds of other print and online media outlets that have committed themselves to the Press Council's high standards of practice and its mission to advocate for press freedom and freedom of speech.
Press Council Chair Neville Stevens, AO said these new members demonstrate the Australian Press Council's ongoing commitment to support smaller, specialist online publications.
"Their membership is an expression of confidence in the Council and signals the growing importance of digital publications in a rapidly changing media landscape," he said.
The Urban Developer's Editorial Director Ana Narvaez said Press Council membership would support the organisation's goal to create strong and independent coverage of Australia's property markets and built environment. "With its long history of upholding high editorial standards and advocating for press freedom, membership will help us play a more meaningful part in Australia's publishing industry," she said.
Pro Bono News Editor Wendy Williams also welcomed today's announcement: "Pro Bono News is delighted to be admitted to the Australian Press Council. Membership gives our readers the reassurance of a strong complaints-handling process and provides us with a solid foundation to maintain high standards of practice," she said.
The Urban Developer was founded by Adam Di Marco in 2014.
Pro Bono News was founded by Karen Mahlab, AM in 2000.
Hartley Higgins has joined as a Council member, nominated by Country Press Australia. Mr Higgins is Chairman and Managing Director of Provincial Press Group, a fourth generation regional and special interest publisher. His nomination was ratified at the most recent Press Council meeting in December 2020.
The Australian Press Council was established in 1976 and is responsible for promoting high standards of media practice, community access to information of public interest and freedom of expression through the media. Press Council members include many of Australia's major newspaper, magazine and online publishers.
For more information or to arrange interviews, please contact the Australian Press Council's media advisor, Dorothy Kennedy, at dorothy.kennedy@presscouncil.org.au or call the Press Council on (02) 9261 1930.
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TIO: Consumer resilience in solving telco complaints
Once complaints were lodged with TIO, 90 per cent were easily resolved when directed to the right contact
Hafizah Osman (ARN) 19 August, 2011 15:29
Consumers who complain to the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman (TIO) report recurring and time-consuming contacts with telecommunication service providers in trying to solve their problem.
The claim was a key finding from a research paper, Resilient Consumers, TIO recently produced.
The survey of more than 500 consumers who lodged complaints with the TIO between July and August last year, found five key statistics arising from the claim:
55 per cent of consumers surveyed reported contact with service providers five or more times before ringing the TIO.
54 per cent of them informed their service providers of their issues a month before raising the matter with the TIO, with 31 per cent claiming they made a complaint more than three months beforehand.
60 per cent of consumers spent three or more hours ineffectively trying to solve their complaint before approaching the TIO, with one in five spending more than nine hours resolving their complaint.
Half of them had contact with more than three different departments.
The most common reasons for complaining to the TIO were: no solution presented by the service provider (39 per cent) and not keeping their word of resolving the complaint (39 per cent).
According to TIO ombudsman, Simon Cohen, consumers who approach the TIO have spent an extensive amount of time and effort in solving their complaints.
"They report being transferred from department to department, not being transferred to supervisors and perhaps, most frustratingly, getting no solution or a broken promise for their efforts. They are – by any measure – resilient consumers," he said.
The report also showed that once these complaints were lodged with the TIO, about 90 per cent were easily resolved when they were directed to the right contact within the service providers.
"Most of these cases should not have come to us in the first place. The fact that they are most often resolved by referral by the TIO to the right department is strong evidence that these consumers can be treated better," Cohen added.
The Ombudsman has suggested service providers introduce clearer avenues for consumers to make complaints and clearly defining ways for all employees to recognise when a complaint is being made and who is best able in dealing with it.
Tags retailTelecommunicationsTelecommunications Industry Ombudsman (TIO)ISPscomplaintsResilient Consumers


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