International Primate Day was established by Animal Defenders International in 2005. Since then, it has been observed by more and more primate organisations around the world. As primates and their conservation are the heart of our work here at the Jane Goodall Institute, we also observe International Primate Day and, this year, we hosted a public film screening and talk at the Red Box.
After a great opening speech by our guest of honour, Dr. Shawn Lum, President of the Nature Society of Singapore, the film screening commenced. The film we selected was the 2016 BBC documentary Koko: The Gorilla Who Talks To People.
For those not familiar with this classic case study in primate cognition, Koko (1971-2018) was a female western lowland gorilla known for learning a large number of hand signs and understanding spoken English. Koko is also notable for having adopted a kitten and creating a name for him – one of the few cases ever recorded of animals having their own pets. The film follows the story of Koko and her main caretaker, Dr. Francine Patterson, from the time Patterson was just a graduate student up to 2016.
Despite the fact that the experiment might not be the most scientifically vigorous in the natural sciences (after all, what kind of reliable experiment would have a sample size of one?), Koko has shown the world how emotional and cognitively capable gorillas can be. We have certainly come a long way from the old-fashioned impression that gorillas are just mindless brutes.
Koko, it must be said, lived in a highly unnatural condition compared to her wild counterparts. While the film documents the attempts of Patterson and her team to enable Koko to lead a normal life by finding a mate and satisfying her nurturing instincts, keeping a sentient animal like a great ape might be seen as unethical. Even Patterson admitted that replicating an experiment like Koko's in the future is not feasible, as the standards of experimental ethics have become higher. However, with two-thirds of the global population of gorillas now extinct, can we say that Koko's wild cousins are better off than those in captivity?
Koko has become an ambassador for her species through the publicity generated by her experiments. Her story has made people aware of great apes, and a more aware public is more likely to support conservation efforts. While keeping a single gorilla may be unethical, not raising awareness of gorilla intelligence to combat false stereotypes, of their sensitivity, personality, family structures, and the loss of their homes in the wild is, arguably, even more unethical. Experiments with Koko and other primates have made us think about the nature of humanity and whether great apes should be given rights.
Our newly minted JGIS president, Dr. Andie Ang, gave a talk after the film screening. Andie gave an introduction and overview of JGIS, our projects and operations to the audience, and shared a story from her recent trip to Africa. En route to Nairobi, Kenya for the 27th International Primatological Society Congress, Andie headed to Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda to see the resident population of mountain gorillas. Like Jane Goodall, Louis Leakey sent other young scientific minds to study apes and seek out a better understand human evolution – Dian Fossey was one of these scientists, and she conducted her research and conservation work with the gorillas of Volcanoes National Park for 30 years. It is in her footsteps that Andie tried to follow on this visit.
Before visiting the gorillas, Andie paid US$1500 for a special permit to have access to the area of the park where the gorillas live. This might sound like a steep price to some, but the money is certainly going towards a good cause. Such ecotourism is good for the locals and the gorillas and when the local communities benefit, they are much more likely to support gorilla conservation. While Dian Fossey herself might not approve, this type of win-win solution is indispensable for modern conservation. Today, the gorillas are so much a part of the lives of the local communities that newborn gorillas are even given names in a modified naming ceremony.
After a three hour trek while passing through fields of stinging nettles, Andie and her entourage managed to reach the site where the mountain gorillas are. Being used to humans, they felt comfortable enough with Andie and her merry band of fellow ecotourists to continue with their usual activities undisturbed. For a lucky few in the visitor group, some of the gorillas were even comfortable enough to approach the people at a very close distance. While the whole experience lasted only an hour, it was an incredibly memorable one for Andie.
If you are interested in African primates and conservation, we will be hosting another talk on the chimpanzees of Gombe National Park on the 15 October at the Function Hall of Singapore's Botanic Gardens. Follow us on Facebook or Instagram for more events like this!


The Guild of Master Chimney Sweeps formed over 20 years ago and is a 'not for profit' trade association for professional chimney sweeps.
From the start the Guild set the highest standards for training and assessment of its members. This continues today, with comprehensive training and mentoring programme for new sweeps across the UK and Ireland.
Click here to find out more about the range of course available with The Guild.
A regular magazine, Sweep Stuff is available to members of The Guild. Click here to view recent copies of the magazine.
An annual exhibition is held by The Guild of Master Chimney Sweeps. Visit their website to find out more about the event.


Legal self-help books curated by the UND law library staff and available through Interlibrary loan at your local library.
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Senior Medicare Patrols (SMPs) empower and assist Medicare beneficiaries, their families, and caregivers to prevent, detect, and report health care fraud, errors, and abuse through outreach, counseling, and education.
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Lentiviral vectors are widely used to efficiently transduce both dividing and quiescent cells, which makes them powerful tools for gene delivery. Most commercially available lentiviral packaging systems generate lentivirus that integrates efficiently into the target-cell genome as a provirus. However, nonintegrating lentivirus can be produced through the use of mutations in the integrase protein that minimize proviral integration.
Lentiviral vectors are widely used to efficiently transduce both dividing and quiescent cells, which makes them powerful tools for gene delivery. Most commercially available lentiviral packaging systems generate lentivirus that integrates efficiently into the target-cell genome as a provirus. However, nonintegrating lentivirus can be produced through the use of mutations in the integrase protein that minimize proviral integration. The resulting integrase deficient lentivirus (IDLV) generates circular vector episomes in transduced target cells that are gradually lost by dilution in dividing cells (transient expression), but are stable in quiescent cells. Inherently, IDLVs have a greatly reduced risk of causing insertional mutagenesis compared to integrating lentiviruses.
Lenti-X integrase deficient systems are the only fourth generation lentiviral packaging systems for IDLV generation. The system contains a combination of five plasmids mixed in optimal proportions to provide the highest possible lentiviral titers when transfected into Lenti-X 293T cells.
Lenti-X Packaging Single Shots (Integrase Deficient) provide a one-step production method to generate high-titer lentivirus. Each tube of Lenti-X Packaging Single Shots (Integrase Deficient) contains premeasured, lyophilized Xfect Transfection Reagent and an optimized formulation of Lenti-X lentiviral packaging plasmids. High-titer integrase deficient lentivirus is produced by adding the lentiviral vector of choice in sterile water to the tube, reconstituting, and then using the mixture to transfect 293T cells in a 10-cm dish.
The Lenti-X HTX Packaging System (Integrase Deficient) is a non-integrating version of our high-titer Lenti-X HTX Packaging System. The Lenti-X HTX Packaging Mix (Integrase Deficient) is a proprietary combination of plasmids which collectively express all the viral proteins necessary for high-efficiency packaging of lentiviral vector genomic transcripts into infectious integration-deficient lentivirus particles. To obtain high-titer lentiviral supernatants, the mix and a lentiviral vector plasmid are cotransfected into 293T cells using Xfect Transfection Reagent. The Lenti-X GoStix can be used to determine whether virus production is within a usable range or for selecting the best time to harvest your virus.
The integrase-deficient version of Clontech's fourth-generation Lenti-X HTX packaging system consists of five separate components (Panel C), mixed in proprietary proportions for optimized packaging performance . A mutation within the integrase reduces the integration efficiency of transduced virus resulting in transient expression in dividing cells (compare Panel A to Panel C). The separation of the gag, pol, and env genes effectively reduces the incidence of RCL (Wu et al. 2000; Mol. Ther. 2:47–55). High levels of expression of essential viral components are driven by the Tet-Off and Tat transactivators, a cascade of expression resulting in high titers of lentivirus. The pol gene is fused to vpr to ensure transport of the Pol protein into the recombinant lentiviral particle. Not all vector elements are shown. Third-generation lentiviral packaging systems (Panel B) generate lower titers, do not contain separate gag and pol sequences and do not use a transactivation cascade mechanism.
Integrase-deficient lentiviral vectors form higher levels of episomes capable of expression. Upon entry of the RNA vector genome into the cell, a linear double-stranded DNA with LTRs at either end is created through reverse transcription. The dsDNA is then transported into the nucleus within the preintegration complex. In a normal transduction event, multiple forms of unintegrated DNA exist in both linear and circular forms, all of which express the cloned transgene. Linear forms go on to integrate through the action of integrase to form a stable provirus. Circular forms are created through either the NHEJ pathway or through homologous recombination. In the integrase-deficient vector system which contains a mutated (inactive) integrase, circular episomes are more prevalent and are capable of expressing a protein of interest. These episomes are subsequently lost through cell division in cycling cells or can be maintained in quiescent cells.
Long-term expression in non-dividing, differentiated cells using integrase-deficient lentivirus. Lentivirus was produced using the Lenti-X HTX Packaging System (Integrase Deficient), pLVX-ZsGreen1 and Lenti-X 293T cells. Viral supernatant was collected and titrated by flow cytometry. Normal human neural progenitor cells were differentiated for 6 days and then transduced with integrase-deficient lentivirus at an MOI = 80. ZsGreen1 expression was then monitored for 2 weeks. As expected, expression was maintained in these noncycling cells without a detectable loss during this time span.
Transient expression in dividing cells using integrase-deficient lentivirus. Both integrase-deficient and -proficient ZsGreen1-expressing lentivirus were produced using two alternative Lenti-X HTX packaging systems (Cat. #s 631258 and 631247, respectively). Viral titers between the two systems were comparable as shown by both qRT-PCR and flow cytometry (IFU). Viral dosages were normalized to an MOI = 20 and used to infect HT1080 cells, and the percentage of ZsGreen1 positive cells was determined by flow cytometry on the days indicated. Compared to the integration-proficient lentivirus, which maintained expression over the course of the experiment in these dividing cells, the integrase-deficient lentivirus exhibited an expression pattern typical of a transient episome, with expression decreasing to near background levels after 10 days.
Lenti-X Packaging Single Shots (Integrase Deficient) provide a one-step production method to generate high-titer lentivirus. Each tube of Lenti-X Packaging Single Shots (Integrase Deficient) contains pre-measured, lyophilized Xfect Transfection Reagent and an optimized formulation of Lenti-X lentiviral packaging plasmids. High-titer, integrase-deficient lentivirus is produced by adding the lentiviral vector of choice in sterile water to the tube, reconstituting, and then using the mixture to transfect 293T cells (e.g., Lenti-X 293T Cell Line, Cat. No. 632180) in a 10-cm dish.
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Amequa Alkaline water increases your vitality and helps you fight fatigue.
Alkaline water is rich in ions (similar to the green environment that surrounds you when you go for your walk in the park) and has much greater amounts of oxygen and negative ions. Drinking alkaline water rejuvenates your body, making you more refreshed and energized.


Famed for its soft downy feathers, which find their way into coats, pillows, sleeping bags, and more, the Common Eider is a marine duck through and through. The species usually nests colonially on shorelines and dives in salt water for aquatic invertebrates, especially mussels and other mollusks. With eggs, meat, and feathers in demand, breeding eiders were all but wiped out in Maine and other northern areas for many years. Fortunately, prospects for their recovery are more optimistic today.
Early observers of the eider duck in Massachusetts rated it as abundant in the state, especially in Boston Bay, and off Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket. The widespread depredation of Common Eiders by activities such as shooting, egging, and feather collecting eventually caused a major decline in this species' numbers in Massachusetts. Peabody (1839) suggests that, while eiders once bred from Boston eastward, Massachusetts was probably the very southern edge of the species' breeding range. Ultimately, its status was reduced to that of a scarce winter resident. By the beginning of the twentieth century, eiders were practically a rarity in New England. Maine, once a thriving breeding ground, was down to approximately two nesting pairs in one colony by 1907 (Allen 2000). The species dramatically rebounded in the 1930s, however, following legal protection and the elimination of the ruinous activities that had previously nearly caused the species' extirpation in New England.
Though large rafts of Common Eiders were an annual occurrence in Massachusetts during the winters of the Atlas 1 years, the species was only just beginning to reestablish itself as a breeding species in Massachusetts at that time. Introduced birds and their descendants were Confirmed breeding in 2 blocks on the southernmost parts of the Elizabeth Islands in the Cape and Islands region. Another Possible block in Boston Harbor hints that these northern sea ducks might have already been on their way southward to breed in Massachusetts even without human intervention.
Common Eiders have today become a fairly common breeding species along the coast of Massachusetts, and they even appear to be spreading southward as far as coastal New York. The number of blocks in which they increased gives a false impression of the scale of their growth since there are now hundreds of breeding pairs with young reported all along our rocky coastlines of Massachusetts, though they are less common as breeders on the sandy moraine of Cape Cod.


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Q: variance-covariance matrix in R I have the data frame below and from there I've calculated the matrix b from the betas of coefficients of my linear regression model. How do I create the variance-covariance matrix in R, or s^2_b?
y <- c(42, 33, 75, 28, 91, 55)
int <- c(1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1)
x1 <- c(7, 4, 16, 3, 21, 8)
x2 <- c(33, 41, 7, 49, 5, 31)
df <- data.frame(y, x1, x2)
mod1 <- lm(y ~ x1 + x2, data = df)

# b
iint <- summary(mod1)$coefficients[[1]]
xx1 <- summary(mod1)$coefficients[[2]]
xx2 <- summary(mod1)$coefficients[[3]]
b <- matrix(c(iint, xx1, xx2), nrow=3)

# matrices of x and y
Y <- matrix(df$y)
X <- matrix(c(1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 7, 4, 16, 3, 21, 8, 33, 41, 7, 49, 5, 31), nrow=6)

A: We can use vcov to get the variance-covariance matrix
vcov(mod1)

It can be manually calculated as well
all.equal(vcov(mod1),
   solve(t(X) %*% X) * sum(mod1$residuals^2)/(nrow(df) - ncol(df) + 1 -1),
       check.attributes = FALSE)
# [1] TRUE

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Game Console Usage Helps Close TV-Time Gender Gap
What happens when you put a game console into the hands of a man?
According to a recent study by Nielsen, game consoles drive an increase in overall time spent in front of a TV set, helping to balance a slightly lopsided TV time scale in which women historically spend more time watching TV than their male counterparts.
Consider this: in March 2012, women aged 18-34 watched an average of 4 hours 11 minutes of TV per day, while men in the same demo logged 3 hours 34 minutes of TV time in homes with a 7th generation game console. Factor in daily time spent using a 7th generation game console; however, and the gender delta of more than 30 minutes daily is nearly neutralized as women 18-34 clocked 22 minutes of console time, while men 18-34 spent 48 minutes with their consoles.
Women still spent more time in front of the screen, but 7th generation game consoles bridged the gender gap by over two-thirds. That's screen time with value, giving advertisers increased opportunities to target consumers no matter how they're using the consoles—whether it's playing the latest first-person combat game, binging on an old sitcom, or streaming a movie.
What's more is that 7th generation game consoles, with their ability to provide different entertainment options, could be considered an electronic godsend for advertisers who now have increased advertising opportunities to reach their best consumers—the ones spending more time in front of a screen.
https://www.nielsen.com/us/en/insights/article/2012/game-consoles-help-close-tv-time-gender-gap/
The Future of Video Gaming Is Bright—Even as Real Experiences Return
Branded crossover events, virtual concerts and celebrity influencer participations all fueled a video game groundswell that shows no signs of receding—even as the COVID-19 vaccine promises to allow people to once again be with each other IRL.
Long-Term Mobile Game Success: Beyond Awareness and Adoption
As commendable as it is for a mobile game to break into the top download charts, maintaining a top spot is a far greater achievement that few ever achieve.
Holiday 2017: The Most Anticipated Video Games
Regardless of which holidays gamers observe, this festive season has a way of uniting gamers with one common reason to celebrate—there are many great video games to play. While hit games aren't exclusive to the latter months of the year, it is during this time that consumers are typically...

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Analysis. What can Romanian firms learn from the Polish regional business expansion model
Polish companies have dealt in the past with some of the challenges facing Romania at the moment – the lack of a complex road network and an insufficient number of skilled trades people – but this didn't stop the country from becoming one of the economic tigers of Central and Eastern Europe. Polish firms have now ventured into Romania to fuel their international expansion, seeking higher growth rates, as the market back home has become saturated, said officials during the first Polish Investors Forum organized by Business Review magazine.
"There is already a critical mass of Polish companies on the local market," said Marcin Wilczek, the Polish ambassador to Romania. He added that there are now more than 800 companies with Polish capital on the local market whose combined investment is close to the EUR 500 million mark.
How Polish companies became key players in the region
While Romania's GDP is set to expand by around 5 percent this year, Poland has kept up strong growth in output for a decade, on the back of foreign direct investments and European funds.
"In 2005 it was so hard to convince Polish companies to move into the EU, outside the country's own borders," said the ambassador.
Now, Polish companies are looking at Romania as a core market, said Cristian Cornea, executive general manager of Can Pack Romania, an aluminium packaging company.
"We have a very good IT infrastructure, we have the geographical position, very suitable for various business scenarios," said Cornea, who added that a serious problem for companies in the future will be the lack of qualified workforce.
"Romania is missing 4 million people at peak capacity," said Cornea, referring to the Romanians who have moved abroad. He added that it was crucial for the country to attract foreign investments in the production sector.
The GM said that multinational firms that need skilled employees have developed their own training programs, but smaller-sized firms simply can't afford to do so. The executive explained that, for instance, there is a lack of electrical engineers and qualified operators of robotics equipment.
The Can Pack representative said that from his experience, at least 25-30 percent of blue-collar workers resign after one month.
Aside from the ongoing issue with the workforce, Cornea considers missing logistics and infrastructure a business opportunity, underlining the fact that there could be more companies providing rail cars on the local market.
Sectors that attract Polish capital
Financial services, manufacturing and B2C businesses are of particular interest to private equity investors, explained Jakub Lerner, associated partner at Noerr Warsaw.
"We have three projects for investments in Romania from Poland," said the international lawyer. He also mentioned some of the challenges faced by a foreign legal expert working in Romania, citing the fairly low competition thresholds, the lack of sufficient case law following the roll out of the New Civil Code five years ago and the current legal regime for the acquisition of limited liability companies.
"For political reasons, Poland and Hungary have not had good coverage in the international press in the recent period, compared to Romania," said Lerner.
He noted that Germany is a gateway to Western Europe for Polish companies. Then there is CEE – Romania is the second largest economy in the region after Poland and thus a natural expansion target for Polish businesses, according to the Noerr Warsaw representative.
For Tomasz Ignaczak, general director of KRUK Romania, the debt collection firm, the local market has offered significant opportunities in terms of employees. The company has 600 people in Romania, but he said that a growing number of local managers are getting jobs in Italy, Spain, but also in Poland, countries where KRUK has operations.
One of the main examples of Polish capital being put to work in Romania has been the case of retail chain Profi.
Polish equity fund Enterprise Investor announced this spring that it was considering all options for the retail player, which it acquired in 2009. Back then, the company operated 67 stores, while by the end of September 2015, Profi had reached 448 units.
"Leading international private equity houses are interested in buying Profi," said Lerner of Noerr Warsaw. In April, EI fund took over Noriel Group, the biggest toys and games retailer in Romania, claim-ing that it was looking to replicate the development model seen in the case of Profi.
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I consider the problem of voice on paper quite frequently. You realize, your writing voice, that whiff of brimstone or reverberant cello note or cracked teeth and inflamed tongue that stamps your writing as getting been released of your stuff alone. Many authors, particularly more youthful ones, find it difficult to find their voice: the term choice, the pedal rotation, a dark tone, the punctuation—the items that slyly indicates or that screams that you simply authored it.
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You'd never mistake Jesse Barthelme for Ernest Hemingway the term blossoms collected in Virginia Woolf's garden might have flowers not based in the window-box plants of Joan Didion. So that your writing as well as your writing voice shouldn't be mistaken with Schlomo Bierbaum's—it ought to be yours alone.
One thing that helped me think about an individual's voice would be a literal voice: a couple of years back I saw Ricki Lee Johnson together, and it was so struck by her originality like a artist (and perhaps like a person). She was cuckoo and enchanting in the very best of ways on stage: banging on the top from the piano, exhorting another gamers, speaking for them in asides throughout some tunes. She performed a lunatic form of Don't Fear the Reaper(!), beating out a slapclap on top of her piano. The performance am Rikki Lee Johnson: singular, eccentric, passionate, moody. You thought about being round her simply to see what she might do or say (or sing) next. Her voice was hers and hers alone.
When you are working on your writing voice, you may be so meticulously ended in indicating yourself So that you simply drain the bloodstream from your writing, or close the lid on around the electricity of the ideas. You may have read an essay by Pico Iyer or perhaps a story by Alice Munro or perhaps a novel by Cormac McCarthy and you will be trying so difficult to source and rehearse the tempos, humors and tics of individuals gifted authors that you simply spill to the page a fridge filled with half-opened up condiments that cancel one another's tastes.
Be genuine behind the pen, function as the funnel between what cooks inside your brain and just what courses with the keyboard. Even when that self is a day the beaming jester and the other the sentimental fool, be fully that individual, unmasked, around the page. You may was raised inside a slum in Mumbai and have a pied-à-terre in each and every European capital, maybe your adolescence would be a factor of constant discomfort, you may never designed a wrong move, you may never moved at all—it ought to be inside your writing, whether in the proclamations or its subtext. Your voice is the Crayons inside your box.
The Georgia Voice (styled as GA Voice on the masthead) is a LGBT-oriented bi-weekly newspaper based in Atlanta, Georgia. The paper updates online daily and produces a print edition every two weeks. The newspaper debuted on March 19, 2010.


This weekend saw the return of the Scene and Heard festival of new work, 2018 to Smock Alley Theatre in Dublin. The festival originally began on February 14th and ran until the beginning of March. Unfortunately, the Beast from the East reared it's ugly (or beautiful, whichever way you want to look at it) head and the city of Dublin shut down. Thus, the final days of the festival were cancelled. Luckily for theatre lovers across the city, the shows were rescheduled for the first two weekends in April.
Last Saturday night saw the main space in Smock Alley filled with both music and the powerful, emotionally charged 'From the River of Ghosts', A play written and performed by Roger Gregg and directed by Angel Hannigan. The play brought the audience on a journey back to twentieth-century America in a valley town in Ohio and the historical account of the life of three generations. With themes including discrimination, homosexuality, mental health and "being a left-handed guy in a right-handed world".
The story chronicles the lives of one family from their arrival in America at the beginning of the twentieth century to present day. Original Musical interludes are presented throughout the show with a range of instruments including a tenor saxophone, slide guitar, keyboard and a waterphone. The show begins with a home movie, a theme that continues throughout with pictures and home movies displayed throughout allowing the audience connect to those in the story. The one-man show is an autobiographical tale of his ancestors and their life living in mid-western America through the Ku Klux Klan inequality, homophobia, and abuse at the hands of the school nun, all at the time having to be accepted as "just part of life".
A promotional image for the production featuring the writer and performer of the play, Roger Gregg.
As the lights came up it was evident the powerful depiction of the stories told throughout had a lasting effect on the audience. It is safe to say there wasn't a dry eye in the house. One audience member told the circular "The play was a wonderful insight into the history of 'the real America'. The one-man show was clearly very personal but dealt with the universal issues of family values and discrimination. I thought the journey the audience was brought on was exciting, engaging and heart-warming".
Roger Gregg is an award-winning musician, playwright, actor and composer from Ohio in the United States. He is the founder and artistic director of the Crazy Dog audio theatre and has written plays for a number of companies including Dublin Youth Theatre, The Gaiety School of Acting and Grafitti Theatre Company. In 1998, he founded Crazy Dog Audio Theatre, whose productions have twice won the American Mark Time Award for Best Audio Science Fiction Production, in 1999 and in 2000.
The Scene and Heard Festival began in 2016. In its first year, the festival presented 85 pieces of new work to a collective audience of 4, 800 people over the course of the festival. The new work staged throughout the festival includes music, dance, theatre, comedy and spoken word.
To hear more about Roger Gregg's 'From the River of Ghosts' listen here or for more information on the Scene and Heard festival of new work visit SmockAlley.com.


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Littletown have also been awarded three points after TVR United failed to raise a side for their game earlier in the season and they trail leaders Golcar United by 10 points with two games in hand.
Littletown are due to visit Lepton this Saturday for one of their games in hand, before turning their attentions to the Wheatley Cup semi-final against Hartshead at Liversedge FC next Thursday (April 11, 7.30pm).
Liam Royal bagged a hat-trick as Lower Hopton edged out Steeton Reserves 5-4.
Hopton led 4-1 at half-time and survived a second half fight back by Steeton with Arron Kennedy and James Heeley their other goal scorers.
Hartshead had Joel Farrer on target in a 2-1 defeat at Hall Green United in Division One, while Howden Clough went down 4-3 at Otley Town despite goals from Austin Broadbent and Ryan O'Donnell.
Hartshead Reserves lost 3-2 at Oxenhope Rec Reserves in Alliance Division One despite a Tom Smith brace, while Howden Clough Reserves went down 6-2 to Kirk Deighton in Alliance Division Two.


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Universal Time (UT) is a timescale based on the rotation of the Earth. It is a modern continuation of the Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), i.e., the mean solar time on the meridian of Greenwich, England, which is the conventional 0-meridian for geographic longitude. GMT is sometimes used, incorrectly, as a synonym for UTC. The old GMT has been split, in effect into UTC and UT1.
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Universal Time and standard time
Prior to the introduction of standard time, every municipality set its clock, if it had one, by the local position of the sun. This served well until the introduction of the train, when it became possible to travel fast enough to require almost constant re-setting of clocks. Standard time, where all clocks in a region use the same time, was invented to solve this problem.
Standard time divides the world into a number "time zones", each one covering, in theory at least, 15 degrees. All clocks within each of these zones would be set to the same time as the others, but so as to differ by one hour from those in the neighbouring zones. The local time at the Royal Greenwich Observatory in Greenwich, England was chosen as standard at the 1884 International Meridian Conference, leading to the widespread use of Greenwich Mean Time in order to set local clocks. This location was chosen because by 1884 two-thirds of all charts and maps already used it as their prime meridian.
In the United States and Canada, standard time zones were introduced on November 18, 1883, by American and Canadian railroads. Newspapers referred to that day as "the Day of Two Noons." There was no legislative enactment or ruling: the railroads simply adopted a five zone system and assumed the public would follow. The American Railway Association, an organization of railroad managers, had noticed growing scientific interest in standardizing time. The ARA devised their own system, which had irregular zone boundaries which followed then-existing boundaries of different lines, partly in order to head off government action which might have been incovenient to their operations. Most people simply accepted the new time, but a number of cities and counties refused to accept "railroad time", which, after all, had not been made law. In, for example, the expiration of a contract--what does "midnight" mean? In one Iowa Supreme Court case, the owner of a saloon argued that he operated by local (sun) time, not "railroad time," and so he had not violated laws about closing time. Standard time remained a local matter until 1918, when it was made law as part of the introduction of daylight saving.
On November 2, 1868 New Zealand officially adopted a standard time to be observed nationally, and was perhaps the first country to do so. It was based on the longitude 172° 30' East of Greenwich, that is 11 hours 30 minutes ahead of Greenwich Mean Time. This standard was known as New Zealand Mean Time.
One can measure time based on the rotation of the Earth by observing celestial bodies cross the meridian every day. Astronomers have preferred observing meridian crossings of stars over observations of the Sun, because these are more accurate. Nowadays, UT in relation to International Atomic Time (TAI) is determined by Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) observations of distant quasars, which method has an accuracy of micro-seconds. Most sources of time and celestial coordinate system standards use UT1 as the default meaning of UT, though occasionally UTC may be implied.
The rotation of the Earth and UT are monitored by the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service (IERS). The International Astronomical Union is also involved in setting standards, but the final arbiter of broadcast standards is the International Telecommunication Union or "ITU."
The rotation of the Earth is somewhat irregular; also the length of the day very gradually increases due to tidal acceleration. Furthermore, the length of the second is based on its conventional length as determined from observations of the Moon between 1750 and 1890. This also causes the mean solar day, on the average, to now extend longer than the nominal 86,400 SI seconds. As UT is slightly irregular in its rate, astronomers introduced Ephemeris Time, which has since been replaced by Terrestrial Time (TT). However, because Universal Time is synchronous with night and day, and more precise atomic-frequency standards drift away from this, UT is still used to produce a correction called leap seconds to atomic time to obtain a broadcast form of civil time that carries atomic frequency. Thus, civil broadcast standards for time and frequency are a compromise that usually follows, with an offset found from the total of all leap seconds, International Atomic Time (TAI), but occasionally jumps in order to prevent it from drifting too far from mean solar time. Terrestrial Time is TAI + 32.184 s.
Barycentric Dynamical Time (TDB), a form of atomic time, is now used in the construction of the ephemerides of the planets and other solar system objects, for two main reasons. For one thing, these ephemerides are tied to optical and radar observations of planetary motion, and the TDB time scale is fitted so that Newton's laws of motion, with corrections for general relativity, are followed. For another, the time scales based on Earth's rotation are not uniform, so are not suitable for predicting the motion of solar system objects.
In 1928 the term Universal Time was adopted internationally as a more precise term than Greenwich Mean Time, because the GMT could refer to either an astronomical day starting at noon or a civil day starting at midnight. However, the term Greenwich Mean Time persists in common usage to this day in reference to civil timekeeping.
There are several versions of Universal Time:
UT0 is Universal Time determined at an observatory by observing the diurnal motion of stars or extragalactic radio sources, and also from ranging observations of the Moon and artificial Earth satellites. It is uncorrected for the displacement of Earth's geographic pole from its rotational pole. This displacement, called polar motion, causes the geographic position of any place on Earth to vary by several metres, and different observatories will find a different value for UT0 at the same moment.
UT1 is computed by correcting UT0 for the effect of polar motion on the longitude of the observing site. UT1 is the same everywhere on Earth, and defines the true rotation angle of the Earth with respect to a fixed frame of reference. Since the rotational speed of the earth is not uniform, UT1 has an uncertainty of plus or minus 3 milliseconds per day.
UT1R is a filtered UT1, in which short-term variations with periods up to 35 days are filtered out so UT1R scale runs smoother than UT1.
UT2 is rarely used anymore and is mostly of historic interest. It is a smoothed version of UT1. UT1 has irregular as well as periodic variations. There are seasonal effects, and these can be mostly removed by applying a conventional correction:
<math>UT2 = UT1 + 0.0220\cdot\sin(2\pi t) - 0.0120\cdot\cos(2\pi t) - 0.0060\cdot\sin(4\pi t) + 0.0070\cdot\cos(4\pi t)\;\mbox{seconds}<math>
where t is the time as fraction of the Besselian year.
UTC (Coordinated Universal Time) is the international standard on which civil time is based. It is measured with atomic clocks, and is kept within 0.9 seconds of UT1 by the introduction of occasional one-second steps called "leap seconds" to UTC. To date these steps have always been positive. When an accuracy better than one second is not required, UTC can be used as an approximation of UT1.
Federal Standard 1037C and from the Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms and from time scale
Galison, Peter. Einstein's clocks, Poincaré's maps: Empires of time. New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2003. ISBN 0393020010. Discusses the history of time standardization.
O'Malley, Michael. Keeping watch: A history of American time. Washington: Smithsonian, 1996. ISBN 1560986727
Seidelman, P. Kenneth, ed. Explanatory supplement to the Astronomical Almanac. Mill Valley, California: University Science Books, 1992. ISBN 0935702687.
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Finding Our Way Through the Milky Way
WRITTEN BY DIANA MAZZELLA
PHOTO PROVIDED BY BENJAMIN WINKEL & THE HI4PI COLLABORATION
In southern Australia, west of Sydney, an astronomer was sitting at the controls of a radio telescope, pointing it back and forth over one section of sky.
It was Easter weekend several years ago and no one else was using the Parkes Radio Telescope, so D.J. Pisano, now an associate professor at West Virginia University, went looking for a gas cloud. He knew it existed from old data, but so far he'd only found a very faint trace.
So he changed speeds.
While the telescope's receivers focused on objects moving at a speed of 130 kilometers per second, the cloud looked like a blob, so he set it to look for slower objects, eventually landing at 8 kilometers per second. And there it was (see the red shape in image 1 above). It looks like a backward question mark. It's massive, made of hydrogen gas, narrow and cold. It probably holds its unusual shape through magnetic fields. But what is it?
Pisano pauses.
"I still don't know," he says.
But the nameless cloud has played a part in a wider journey where he has found answers. His curiosity about the cloud helped lead him to create a map of hydrogen in the Milky Way from the southern sky. It's part of his nearly 20-year search for neutral atomic hydrogen. It took Pisano and a colleague 2,000 hours and about four years until 2008 when they had the clearest map of the hydrogen in the Milky Way from the southern sky ever made. Scientists call the gas HI, and it's the primary ingredient in stars, the engines of the universe.
Then last year, German scientists who had mapped the Milky Way from the northern sky at the Effelsberg Radio Telescope asked if they could put their data together. That combined data is now the most detailed map (called HI4PI) of hydrogen in the Milky Way. It has twice the sensitivity and four times better angular resolution than the 2005 Leiden-Argentine-Bonn Survey, a previous map that has been cited by astronomers about 2,000 times.
This new map's purpose is the same as that of Pisano's southern sky map. To help scientists discover.
"It's sort of doing what Google Maps does," Pisano said. "We're making a map of the Milky Way, and it will be a resource for everybody. We will get something out of it ourselves, but its biggest impact will be all the different ways people want to use it."
There are lots of questions scientists can ask. Such as: How do hot and cool gas interact in the galaxy? And what does that mean for star formation?
His own questions were about the galactic halo. Pisano goes to his bookshelf in his office and reaches for a F risbee and a golf ball.
"Sorry. I can't talk about the galaxy without having a prop," he says.
He holds up the Frisbee. That represents the Milky Way's galactic plane. And then he holds the golf ball at the Frisbee's center. That's the galaxy's bulge. They're both densely packed with stars and hydrogen gas. The wispy globe around them would be the galactic halo.
"We started the survey in part because we wanted to know how gas in the halo of our galaxy interacts with the disk, how it goes out of the disk, how it falls onto the disk," Pisano says.
These questions are part of solving a bigger question that scientists who study star formation don't have an answer for: Where is all the hydrogen? We've accounted for about a tenth of the gas that would be needed to create stars at the rate we're observing in the universe. In the Milky Way, the hydrogen catalogued so far in the plane of the galaxy would be enough to produce stars for a couple billion years, Pisano says, but that doesn't match the constant rate of star formation observed in our own and other galaxies.
The assumption is that there is enough hydrogen to constantly form new stars, Pisano said, it's just out in the halo, perhaps flowing in from intergalactic space. Pisano's been using his southern sky map to look at the halo for years now, and has made other related discoveries, such as finding an intergalactic river of hydrogen using the Green Bank Observatory in Green Bank, W.Va.
Even if you're not a scientist and you're not looking for hydrogen, there's an appeal to the colorful swirls in the map that you can only find with a gigantic white dish.
And Pisano gets that. When asked what he sees when he looks at the map, he laughs. Probably what most people think when they see it, he says.
"Wow, that looks cool."


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updated on October 8, 2021 August 18, 2021 Leave a Comment on Canada Should Follow Indigenous Laws on Cannabis
By 2021, the total worth of cannabis in Canada will be $5 billion. It is believed that this amount of money from CBD gummies Canada could provide opportunities for employment and income to Indigenous communities. Hence, Canada and the provinces should not allow selfish behavior displayed by past governments to materialize the success of the cannabis industry.
Nowadays, new economic opportunities in the cannabis industry, such as the production of CBD oil and tincture, are taking place. In this regard, the national and provincial governments should design a legislative atmosphere that promotes economic development on cannabis for Indigenous communities. Moreover, it will be unethical if Indigenous communities are being punished for pursuing cannabis.
The Cannabis Act
On October 17, 2018, the Cannabis Act was established. This act permits the consumption, purchase, and production of cannabis in small amounts. And Canada allows the provinces to create their regulations in the selling, distribution, and production of cannabis. For instance, Saskatchewan has restrictions in age, purchase limits, and house possession regulations according to the Cannabis Act.
However, the provincial rules and Cannabis Act were outlined without adequate evaluation of Indigenous people's needs. The federal government did not consult the Indigenous communities before the implementation of its legislation. Also, the division of taxes among Indigenous people is still unresolved.
The legislation is not a hindrance for Indigenous people to enter the cannabis business. They have devised their regulations and protocols to control the sale of cannabis, and some communities got their licenses from provincial regimes.
Furthermore, acquiring a provincial license may be illogical with the Indigenous peoples' economic, political, and cultural values. Consequently, setting up regulations through Indigenous legal processes may align the peoples' economic objectives with their values. This legislation can benefit the Indigenous people by promoting economic development and extending self-determination among Indigenous people.
Indigenous Peoples' Rights
According to the Constitution, the indigenous people have the right to self-government, even though Canada and its provinces do not support Indigenous legislation.
The Traditional Medicinal Plants Act passed by Pheasant Rump Nakota is an example to support the rights of Indigenous people. This Act brings out the past practice of distribution, trade, and production control of cannabis plants. The enactment of this Act took place after a careful process of community involvement. And they were followed by a meeting where members voted to proceed with the law implementation. Such an approach could be used as a model for other Indigenous communities who want to pass their regulations on cannabis.
Moreover, Indigenous groups are not obliged to comply with Canada's decision to make cannabis legal if they wish to pass laws to forbid cannabis. According to Bill Blair, Minister of Border Security, Canada will not interfere with Indigenous communities if they want to prohibit cannabis from their territory.
The indigenous legislation process must be undisturbed if Canada and the provinces are true to the idea of living in a multi-juridical state. Moreover, Canada and its areas should not allow the unlawfulness that happened in the past governments by oppressing the economic opportunities of Indigenous communities. For government reconciliation, Indigenous group's laws on cannabis should be respected.
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Maternal serum screening for fetal Down syndrome in women less than 35 years of age using alpha-fetoprotein, hCG, and unconjugated estriol: a prospective 2-year study
Obstet Gynecol. 1992 Sep;80(3 Pt 1):353-8.
O P Phillips 1 , S Elias, L P Shulman, R N Andersen, C D Morgan, J L Simpson
1 Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Tennessee, Memphis.
Objective: To evaluate prospectively maternal serum screening with alpha-fetoprotein (AFP), hCG, and unconjugated estriol (uE3) as a screen for fetal Down syndrome.
Methods: Women less than 35 years of age were offered screening between 15-20 weeks' gestation. Screening results calculated by an algorithm to be equal to or greater than 1:274 (the risk of a 35-year-old for fetal Down syndrome at the second trimester) were considered positive. If gestational age was confirmed by ultrasonography, genetic counseling and amniocentesis were offered.
Results: In the first 2 years of our program, 9530 women were screened, of which 686 (7.2%) were found to be screen-positive. Ultrasonographic examination explained the abnormal values in 379 (4.0%). The remaining 307 (3.2%) received genetic counseling and 214 (2.2%) elected amniocentesis or CVS. Four cases of fetal Down syndrome and one de novo chromosomal marker were detected. In three additional cases of fetal Down syndrome, triple-analyte screening failed to identify the pregnancies to be at increased risk. None of the seven cases of fetal Down syndrome would have been detected through screening with maternal serum alpha-fetoprotein (MSAFP) and age alone.
Conclusions: Measurement of MSAFP, hCG, and uE3 in women less than 35 years old is an effective screening test for fetal Down syndrome, with a sensitivity of 57% in our study and an amniocentesis rate (false-positive rate) of 3.2%.
Chorionic Gonadotropin / blood*
Down Syndrome / diagnosis
Down Syndrome / epidemiology
Down Syndrome / prevention & control*
Estriol / blood*
Evaluation Studies as Topic
Mass Screening
Prenatal Diagnosis / methods
alpha-Fetoproteins / analysis*
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Yes, Virginia may be for lovers, but to nineteen authors Virginia is for Mysteries: Volume II. This anthology of nineteen short stories, set in and around the Commonwealth, features Virginia landmarks and locations such as Virginia Wine Country, the Poe Museum, Luray Caverns, Colonial Williamsburg, the Great Dismal Swamp, Nimrod Hall, Barter Theater, and Mill Mountain, to name a few.
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In a bid to drive home the Global Health for All Challenge and combat non-communicable diseases, the Wellbeing Foundation Africa (WBFA) in collaboration with the WHO embarked on a 7.2 km walk in the FCT.
The walk was led by Mrs Toyin Saraki, Founder President of the WBFA and World Health Organization Representative, Head of Mission in Nigeria, Dr Wondi Alemu and in partnership with the ministry of Youths and Sports Development.
The walk was aimed at promoting healthy lifestyle practices towards the Africa Health Transformation Agenda of the World Health Organisation.
Over 2000 people who participated in the walk which started from the Millennium Park in Abuja, went through major streets distributing handbills to people and motorists.
Tagged Abuja Walk the Talk, stakeholders were invited to walk run or dance along a 7.6 kilometer route road walk to promote healthy lifestyles and a healthy populace.
Other participants include: Chief Executive Officer, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu; representative of the Minister of Youths and Sports and other dignitaries.
Speaking at the end of the walk, Mrs Toyin Saraki expressed gratitude to the country office t=for collaborating with the Wellbeing Foundation in driving home the health for all initiative.
"To stay healthy, I believe everyone should have at least 35 minutes of walking three times a week, as this helps the cardiovascular system, especially with blood circulation.
In his remarks, the WHO Country Representative, Dr Wondi Alemu said: "Exercise should continue on a personal basis, at least three times a week with a minimum duration of 30 minutes, all year round.
"This Abuja Walk the Talk road walk is an opportunity to get people to take exercising seriously and practice what we talk about with regards to frequent exercise for healthier life," he said.
According to the WHO, globally 1 in 4 adults are not active enough, and insufficient physical activities is a key risk factor for non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as cardiovascular diseases, cancer and diabetes.


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Suspect charged in South Memphis shooting that injured six adults, one minor
A fight in South Memphis escalated into a shooting Saturday evening, according to police who said seven people were injured, including one minor.
Suspect charged in South Memphis shooting that injured six adults, one minor A fight in South Memphis escalated into a shooting Saturday evening, according to police who said seven people were injured, including one minor. Check out this story on commercialappeal.com: https://www.commercialappeal.com/story/news/2019/04/21/suspect-charged-south-memphis-shooting-injured-seven/3533620002/
Sarah Macaraeg, Memphis Commercial Appeal Published 10:22 a.m. CT April 21, 2019 | Updated 3:50 p.m. CT April 21, 2019
Olivia Johnson (Photo: Shelby County Sheriff's Department)
After seven people were injured in a shooting in South Memphis Saturday evening, 26-year-old Olivia Johnson has been charged with four counts of aggravated assault, according to a Shelby County court record.
Johnson admitted to firing eight shots after being identified in a police lineup by one of the victims, the affidavit says, noting a handgun was later found in Johnson's home. According to the court record, gunfire came from multiple parties.
The condition of six of the victims was described as non-critical in information released by Memphis police on Twitter. They include a 16-year-old who was grazed by gunfire, according to police.
The other victim remains in critical condition, Lt. Karen Rudolph told The Commercial Appeal Sunday morning.
"This reportedly stemmed from a fight involving multiple people," police said in a preliminary statement shared at approximately 6:45 pm Saturday, after officers first arrived to the scene on the 700 block of Chesnut Ave. Through Twitter, police later added, "It appears that the victims and suspect are known to each other."
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All the files I've tested fail the same (with or without "-fflags +genpts"), always near the end of the recorded program. I suspect some data is changed in the stream during the transition from a TV program to another, which causes the conversion to fail.
In my tests, the conversion fails just after Mark Renton emerges from the toilet. You don't get anything from the other trailer in the mkv.
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The development objective of the Irrigation Rehabilitation and Development Project (IRDP) is to increase agriculture productivity and production in the project areas.
The chart above represents total allocations and disbursements during the lifetime of the project. To see the raw data behind this chart, go to the dataset and you will be directed to the World Bank Group Finances website. Once there, you can build your own views, share, embed, and download the data or your work. Read the instructions on how to build this chart from the raw data.
The Project: With only 12 percent of the total land being arable and the country's arid climate, irrigation is essential for reliable agricultural production in most parts of the country. Notwithstanding the achievements of the preceding IDA-financed Emergency Irrigation Rehabilitation (EIRP), there is a huge unmet demand for irrigation rehabilitation. The total irrigated area in the country prior to 1979 (the year of USSR invasion) was about 3.2 million ha, but in 2007 it was only 1.8 million ha. As of April 2011, irrigation systems serving an irrigated area of about 0.9 million ha had been rehabilitated; while irrigation systems covering about one million ha remained to be rehabilitated.
The project provides support for: (a) rehabilitation of irrigation systems covering about 300,000 ha of irrigated areas; (b) the design and construction of a limited number of multi-purpose small dams and appurtenances, and associated irrigation conveyance and distribution systems in closed river basins; (c) establishment of hydro-meteorological facilities and services; and (d) project management and capacity building of MEW and beneficiary communities.
The IRDP is co-financed with IDA (US$97.8 million).
Improved capacity of MEW staff in various fields.


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logging
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[![GoDoc](https://godoc.org/github.com/xuyu/logging?status.png)](https://godoc.org/github.com/xuyu/logging)

logging for golang, support log level and multi handler, colorful stdout

features
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* support logging level and level range

* support handler filter

* support file handler

* support time rotation handler

* support size rotation handler

* support multi handlers

* colorful stdout logging(red errors, yellow warnings, green infos)

example
-------

```go
import "logging"
```

stdout handler:

```go
logging.StdoutHandler.SetLevel(INFO)
logging.Debug("%d, %s", 1, "OK")
logging.Error("%d, %s", 1, "OK")
```

simple file handler:

```go
l, err := logging.NewSingleFileHandler("/tmp/sf.log")
if err != nil {
	panic(err)
}
logging.AddHandler("file", l)
...
```

time rotation handler:

```go
l, err := logging.NewTimeRotationHandler("/tmp/tr.log", "060102-15")
if err != nil {
	panic(err)
}
logging.AddHandler("rotation", l)
...
```

multi handler:

```go
...
logging.StdoutHandler.SetLevel(INFO)
logging.AddHandler("file", file_handler)
logging.AddHandler("rotation", rotation_handler)
...
```

size rotation handler

```go
l, err := logging.NewSizeRotationHandler("/tmp/sr.log", 1024, 5)
if err != nil {
	panic(err)
}
l.SetLevel(INFO)
logging.AddHandler("sr", l)
...
```

stdout colorful output

enable:(default)

```go
logging.EnableColorful()
```

disable:

```go
logging.DisableColorful()
```

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


If it's Thursday, it must be time for Thai….
Today, I act more as personal assistant than chef. I handle a variety of tasks for my clients, do some light housekeeping and laundry, and set out to decide on dinner tonight. Thai food is a favorite of mine and I know both Mr. And Mrs. are fans also. My menu for dinner is a Marinated Cucumber Salad, Coconut Rice, and Green Curry Chicken.
No mandoline in the house so I decide to use a box grater to thinly slice the cucumbers and carrots for the salad. Big mistake! The slicer is not sturdy or sharp enough for the carrots and I get my first badge of "chef-dom"!
Needless to say, I deign to hand slice the rest of my veggies!
Coconut rice is fluffy and deliciously salty-sweet to counter balance the somewhat spicy Green Curry sauce. To the Green Curry I add celery, carrots, green onion, mushrooms, miniature corn, basil and of course chicken. Finish with light coconut milk. Enjoy!
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Here's everything you need to know about iOS 12's Measure app.
In his demo of iOS 12's new augmented reality (AR) features, Apple's Craig Federighi showed off a new app coming with the update later this year, Measure. The app is powered by ARKit and can be used to measure distances and sizes of objects. While it's fairly basic as far as these sorts of apps go, it seems like a handy tool to have with you.
This is what you need to know about Measure.
Measure is a new app from Apple, coming in iOS 12, that lets you measure objects and spaces using your iPhone or iPad. It does this through augmented reality, much like similar apps that are already on the App Store.
At a basic level, when using Measure, you find one end of the object or space you want to measure, and press the big + button, laying down a point. You then move your phone across to the other end of the object and hit the button again. You'll see a solid white line with the length of that line on a label in the middle.
Does it only measure one dimension at a time?
You can actually measure multiple dimensions of an object or space using Measure. Say you had a box that you wanted to measure. You can measure it by length, then create a new line for width, then finally a third line for depth. As of yet, however, the app won't give you a total volume for a three-dimensional object.
Can I change the units that it measures in?
You can. If you head into Settings, scroll down, and tap Measure, you can choose between Imperial and Metric units.
If you need metric (or Imperial, depending on what you have set) units, you can get them. After you measure something, tap the numbered label that appears on the line. The label with pop out and you'll be given the Imperial measurements on the left and the metric measurements on the right in centimeters.
Can I store the measurements I've taken?
Once you've measured something, you can take a picture of the object or space with the measuring line or lines on it so that you can refer to it later. It acts like a screenshot, so the image jumps down to the bottom-left corner of your screen after you take it, letting you mark it up before it heads to your photo library.
Is there anything else the app can do?
There is one other tool that Measure has at its disposal on the iPhone. While the digital level function used to be found in the Compass app, it is now located in Measure. It takes advantage of the accelerometer and gyroscope in your iPhone to let you make sure objects and surfaces are level.
When can I start using Measure?
Measure will be available with iOS 12, which is in beta for developers right now, and will be released to the public this fall. It will be a part of the system, rather than an app that you'll need to download from the App Store.


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Daly rejects racial slur claims
Image by Levitt/LAT
By Mark Glendenning August 23, 2018 1:47 PM
By Mark Glendenning | August 23, 2018 1:47 PM
Derek Daly has rejected claims that he was the source of a racial slur that led to Sunday's sudden retirement of longtime Indianapolis Colts announcer Bob Lamey.
Lamey resigned this week after repeating a story off-air to a colleague from a local radio station that included a racially-sensitive word, and later attributed the original remark, said to have taken place during an interview 35 years earlier, to Daly.
In a statement on Thursday, Daly, who has consequently been cut from his longtime role as WISH-TV racing analyst, said that Lamey had tied the story to him incorrectly, but admitted using the word in question during another interview with a different reporter during the same period. In that case however, Daly said that it was spoken in the context of a once-common phrase that had no derogatory overtones, and that he was unaware at the time of the weight that such language carries in the United States.
"Last night WISH-TV severed ties with me after former sports broadcaster Bob Lamey apparently inaccurately attributed a racial slur to me during an interview in the early '80s," he said in the statement.
"It was reported on their website that I confirmed this. Both of these reports are factually incorrect. On this subject, I was never interviewed by Bob Lamey. The slanderous statements made by Bob, and now being attributed to me, are not only factually incorrect, but offensive.
"The facts are: In the early '80s, after I had recently relocated to the United States, I was interviewed by radio reporter Larry Henry and I was asked about my situation with my new American team. I responded by explaining that I was a foreign driver now in America, driving for an American team, with an American crew, and with an American sponsor – and that if things did not go well, the only "n***** in the wood pile" would be me.
"At the time, I meant that I, as the new foreigner on the team, would shoulder the blame and I would be the scapegoat. This was not in any way shape or form meant to be a racial slur. This phrase was commonly used in Ireland, Britain, and Australia.
"When I used that phrase in the early '80s, I had no idea that in this country that phrase had a horribly different meaning and connotation, as it was commonplace in Ireland. After moving to the United States, I quickly learned what a derogatory term it was. When I was first informed of this, I was mortified at the offense I might have caused people. I have therefore never used the word since. I made this mistake once, but never again.
"As someone lucky enough to travel and work around the world, I have good friends and colleagues from almost every race, nationality, and religion. I have always treated everybody with equal respect and they have done the same with me. Anyone who questions that should talk to them. Similarly, I hope I have demonstrated my character during the past 20 years that I have spent working on television with a range of professionals of all backgrounds.
"Finally, I want everyone to know I deeply regret and sincerely apologize for what I said more than three decades ago.
"Respectfully, Derek Daly."
Longtime friend Willy T. Ribbs, who has spoken frequently and openly of the discrimination he experienced as an African–American Trans Am, CART, IndyCar and NASCAR driver during the 1980s and 1990s, reached out to RACER to speak in Daly's defense when news of the latter's split with WISH broke.
Daly at Ribb's wedding, August 2018. Image supplied by Willy T. Ribbs
"Derek Daly was the first driver to befriend me in an environment I knew little about," Ribbs said, recalling his arrival in England to race in Formula Ford in 1977.
"1984, Derek Daly and I visited our hero Muhammad Ali at his home in Los Angeles, and The Champ loved him. That same night after meeting with The Champ, we were attacked in a parking lot by some thugs that looked like skinheads, and we kicked the &*%$ out of them.
"[In] 1990, Derek Daly helped facilitate my first IndyCar deal with Raynor Racing. August 18th, 2018, one of my closest friends in a sport that has been very hostile to me was at my wedding, 41 years after meeting in the UK. That's Derek Daly."
Mark Glendenning
Mark's career has taken him to paddocks ranging from Formula 3 in Macau to Scandinavian Touring Cars in Gothenburg. After getting his start in his native Australia, he spent several years in the UK working for Autosport, where his focus was primarily on Formula 1 and GP2. A desire to explore American racing prompted a move to the USA in 2012, and after a long stint as a contributor to RACER he joined the publication full-time in 2015. Mark now serves as Editor of RACER.com, and is also involved in the production of the magazine.
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Maximising year-round efficiency — James Porter.
Improving the energy performance of the UK's buildings remains one of the greatest challenges facing the building-services industry. With today's boilers capable of achieving the required increased reliability and high thermal efficiency, the goal now is to engineer for maximum efficiencies, says James Porter of Remeha.
Nobody likes waste, least of all businesses, which is why they've been working to improve energy efficiency for several years. Yet according to the Carbon Trust, many organisations still stand to make year-on-year savings of 20 to 30% simply by implementing measures to improve the energy performance of their buildings. With a 20% cut in energy use representing the same bottom line benefit as a 5% increase in sales in some businesses, it's certainly not a message to be ignored.
This is where the building-services industry can help, providing and implementing vital energy-saving equipment to transform building performance and deliver huge savings.
Of all the services, heating offers the greatest scope for efficiency improvements. It's the largest single end-user of energy in a building — accounting for around half the total energy use — so it's crucial that the system operates as efficiently as possible. The benefits of improved thermal efficiency are immediate and compelling, slashing running costs and strengthening the green credentials of the business. But that's not all. At the same time, the increased reliability creates a more comfortable working environment, improving staff wellbeing and productivity and driving increased profitability.
So where does the humble boiler fit into this? Commercial boiler plant provides the heating for a high proportion of UK commercial buildings. So in buildings that still rely on inefficient boilers for their heating, a simple boiler upgrade is a quick win for greater energy efficiency.
Condensing boilers offer the highest efficiencies of all boiler technologies — up to 99% gross calorific value (GCV) — and therefore the most saving potential.
But as with all heating technology, in order to achieve the maximum efficiencies, it's important to size right.
It's a fact that where heating is concerned, size does matter. Reduced space in plant rooms and awkward access can present challenges on retrofit projects. That's why manufacturers have responded with more compact and lightweight condensing boilers. Quicker and easier to install, they reduce labour costs and minimise any disruption.
But it's not just a question of physical size. Accurate calculation of both the minimum and maximum heat load demand is essential if the maximum overall efficiencies are to be achieved.
Historically, the tendency has been to size the heat output to meet the maximum requirement as this ensures reliable heating provision, even at periods of peak demand.
So what about the summer months, when demand is at its lowest?
These Remeha Quinta Pro boilers replaced existing failing boilers at Sandbach School in Cheshire and contributed to a £3000 reduction in gas consumption in just four months. Installer TBR 24-7 also installed new pumps, new controls and a full BMS control panel.
Even the difference between commercial gas usage in autumn and winter is considerable, according to British Gas. It reveals that gas consumption increases 40% in winter for retailers, 63% for offices and a hefty 70% for manufacturers.
The challenge is therefore to design a system that effectively meets both the minimum and peak demand of the building.
As a first step, it is advisable to choose fully-modulating condensing boilers with internal controls as they offer closer matching of the system demand. From there, possibly the simplest, most effective means of achieving maximum efficiency is to install multiple fully-modulating condensing boilers in cascade operation. Sharing the load between the boilers enables them to match the minimum and peak heat demand more accurately. And as they use the energy input more efficiently, energy usage and costs fall and less carbon dioxide is emitted.
A further advantage of operating boilers in a modular or a cascade arrangement is enabling the boilers to operate at part load. This means they are in condensing mode for longer, again encouraging greater savings.
The heating supply is also more secure; even if a boiler should fail, there is no interruption to service. Maintenance and servicing is also easier.
Just like a car, an energy- or fuel-efficient heating system relies on smart controls to achieve the higher efficiencies. With the appropriate control, the modulating nature of condensing boilers is used to maximum effect, providing more or less output according to the requirement of the system. Using a sequential control ensures more effective and reliable operation — and drastically reduces the number of starts. Adding weather-compensation control allows the boilers to adapt to the varying requirements of the buildings at different times of years and according to the outside temperature. The result? Optimum efficiency and savings.
Forward-thinking manufacturers are constantly looking to improve and facilitate efficient system design.
One option is floor-standing boilers that arrive on-site pre-assembled, with flexible back-to-back or side-to-side installation options for neat, space-saving modular configurations. Alternatively, there is the option for wall-hung boilers delivered in ultra compact, pre-configured cascade units. Or bespoke designed rig systems, specially manufactured for individual projects, for the ultimate in speedy installation.
Providing even greater versatility are the newest arrivals, small and mighty wall-hung boilers — with outputs as high as 160 kW — that offer multiple output cascade options. Where space in plant rooms is restricted, this opportunity to move large outputs away from the floor and onto the wall is a real benefit.
Operating multiple, fully-modulating condensing boilers in modular arrangement is the business-savvy solution to immediate and future savings — at all temperatures and all times of the year. It's the simple, high-performance solution to maximum thermal efficiency. Specifiers, contractors, end users — everyone is a winner.