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Goa assembly polls: Congress will perform well, TMC may flop, say observers
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"The Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party (MGP) is likely to win 3 to 4 seats, and the Aam admi Party (AAP) will bag a seat or two," the analyst said.
With just over a month to go for Assembly elections in Goa, political observers feel the Congress may upset BJP's plans for retaining power in the coastal state, but appear less enthused about Trinamool Congress, whose entry has added colour to the poll campaign."Congress will win around 20 of the 40 Assembly seats, while the BJP will garner around 15 seats," a veteran political analyst based in the Goa capital told PTI."The Maharashtrawadi Gomantak Party (MGP) is likely to win 3 to 4 seats, and the Aam admi Party (AAP) will bag a seat or two," the analyst said.
He attributed the poll prospects of MGP, which came into prominence under the leadership of Goa's first chief minister Dayanand Bandodkar, to its alliance with the Mamata Banerjee-led TMC. "On its own, MGP may have fared very badly. But TMC's monetary clout will help it," he added.Former State Election Commissioner Prabhakar Timblo said Congress will form the next government in the coastal state. "Anti-incumbency is very high in the state, and that will work against the BJP," he added.
The grand old party will win around 20-22 seats, Timblo said. "Congress will do well as long as it does not project those who have crossed their expiry date in politics in these elections," he added.Timblo was emphatic that neither TMC nor AAP will have much of an impact in the February 14 elections.
Giriraj Pai Vernekar, a political analyst and a BJP sympathizer, said the ruling party presented a report card of its regime's performance in the last 10 years, while seeking votes."BJP is not afraid of anti-incumbency as people know that a double-engine government is necessary to continue the state's development. Otherwise, there is confrontation between the Centre and the state, as in case of West Bengal," he said.
Durgadas Kamat, General Secretary of Goa Forward Party (GFP), which has a pre-poll alliance with Congress, said that the alliance will be victorious."There is a groundswell against the BJP and in favour of Congress and GFP as people know we can give a good and honest government," he said.
AAP Goa unit convener Rahul Mhambrey said the Arvind Kejriwal-led party is projecting "fresh and clean faces" in the next month's Assembly elections. "People have seen the Delhi model of development. We will emulate it here," he added.There is also a talk of a grand alliance of all opposition parties that could effectively avoid the split of the traditional Congress votes in many constituencies and cause concern for the ruling BJP. However, nothing concrete has emerged on that front so far.
Prominent leaders like PM Narendra Modi, West Bengal CM Mamata Banerjee, Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal, and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi were in Goa ahead of the elections. BJP chief J P Nadda, Union minister Nitin Gadkari and former Union minister P Chidambaram were other prominent leaders to visit the coastal state.
Two major pre-poll alliances took shape in Goa. Congress has tied up with GFP, a regional outfit that was a part of the Manohar Parrikar government in 2017, while TMC has found a regional partner in the form of MGP, which fought the 2017 polls in alliance with the Shiv Sena but later joined the Parrikar-led government.
In the last few months, many posters featuring Mamata Banerjee's photo and the slogan 'Goenchi Navi Sakal' (Goa's new dawn) have been put across the state.TMC MPs Mahua Moitra and Derek O'Brien are leading the party's campaign in Goa.AAP entered Goa's political scene during the 2017 Assembly elections and tried to build a base in the coastal state.
In the 2017 Goa Assembly polls, BJP won only 13 seats while Congress won in 17 constituencies. However, BJP staked claim to form the government with the support of 3 MGP MLAs, 3 GFP MLAs, two Independents and an NCP MLA under the leadership of Parrikar who resigned as defence minister to return to the coastal state.
After Parrikar's death in March 2019, then Assembly Speaker Pramod Sawant became the CM. Sawant's administration has come in for praise from PM Modi for his handling of the coronavirus pandemic and vaccination drive.
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'Whiter Shade of Pink' is a Giclée Print by contemporary artist Alexandra Gallagherin collaboration with wallpaper retailer Graham & Brown. Printed onto 310gsm Cotton Rag Paper, the print is from a limited edition of 10 and is signed and numbered by the artist.
'Whiter Shade of Pink' is a Giclée Print by contemporary artist Alexandra Gallagher in collaboration with wallpaper retailer Graham & Brown. Printed onto 310gsm Cotton Rag Paper, the print is from a limited edition of 10 and is signed and numbered by the artist.


President Donald Trump's pick to lead the Food and Drug Administration has deep ties to the pharmaceutical industry as a consultant, investor and board member. Scott Gottlieb, 44, also has worn many hats in a career that included two previous stints at the FDA, practicing as a physician, and writer/editor roles at prestigious medical journals.
"It seems like the main question is, 'Which Gottlieb are we going to get?'" said Dr. Robert Califf, who stepped down from his position as the commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration in January.
New Enterprise Associates, the venture capital firm where Gottlieb is a partner, is currently or has been invested in 188 health care companies.
Gottlieb serves or served on eight boards of directors, according to his LinkedIn profile. The firms include pharmaceutical companies Gradalis and Tolero Pharmaceuticals, which are developing cancer treatments, among other things; and Glytec, which offers glycemic management tools for patients with diabetes.
Eight pharmaceutical companies disclosed payments to Gottlieb in 2015, according to the open payments database: Vertex Pharmaceuticals, GlaxoSmithKline, Daiichi, Valeant, Pfizer, Millennium, SI-BONE and E.R. Squibb & Sons. Payments included travel to Philadelphia, San Francisco and London.
In a memo, Gottlieb wrote that he had a consulting relationship with nine health care companies before his stint as the FDA's deputy commissioner for medical and scientific affairs during the George W. Bush administration. Those ties disqualified him from dealing with matters concerning those companies for at least a year. The firms included Eli Lilly, Roche and Sanofi-Aventis.
The recusals generated some headlines during the avian flu scare because Gottlieb had to recuse himself from some of the planning efforts around vaccines.
Starting in 1997, Gottlieb spent seven years as a staff writer for BMJ, the British Medical Journal. BMJ is one of the top medical journals in the world. And he was an editor at the Pulse section of JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association, from 1996 to 2001.
Gottlieb also spent the past seven years as an adviser to drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline's product investment board, according to his LinkedIn page.
Gottlieb was 33 when he got the No. 2 job at the FDA in 2005. He had done a short stint at the agency a few years earlier, but was considered a controversial pick because of his ties to Wall Street. He stayed until 2007.
Gottlieb testified before Congress as an expert witness 18 times. He has spoken about drug prices, revamping the FDA approval process and the vaccine supply.
More than 36,000 people follow Gottlieb on Twitter, though he follows only 845 people, as of Tuesday. He has tweeted at least 10,400 times, lately about different strains of the flu.
Almost three-fourths of the 53 drug companies surveyed by Mizuho said they'd prefer Gottlieb to head the FDA.
Pharmaceutical companies paid Gottlieb nearly $414,000 from 2013 through 2015, according to federal open payments data, for speeches, consulting, travel and meals.
That included $65,780 from a pharmaceutical company to promote a controversial cystic fibrosis drug called Kalydeco. Only one other doctor received more money toward promoting the drug.
The drug's price tag was controversial because the nonprofit Cystic Fibrosis Foundation kicked in $150 million toward finding a cure for the fatal disease and got a rich $3.3 billion payday for selling its rights to royalties for the drug. Vertex Pharmaceuticals priced Kalydeco at more than $300,000 a year.
Gottlieb has contributed nearly $30,000 toward Republican political campaigns and joint fundraising committees from 2005 to 2014. He has donated toward the presidential runs of Mitt Romney and Sen. John McCain. He also donated more than once to Speaker Paul Ryan.
Gottlieb contributed the most money toward Republican Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska, spending $2,600 in the primary and $2,600 again in the general election in 2013. Sasse was a vocal anti-Trump supporter, penning an open letter in February 2016 about how he could not support Trump, who was "dividing" the nation, in his view.
"But have you noticed how Mr. Trump uses the word 'Reign' — like he thinks he's running for King?" Sasse asked in the post.


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Are we alone? This course introduces core concepts in astronomy, biology, and planetary science that enable the student to speculate scientifically about this profound question and invent their own solar systems. All the features of this course are available for free. It does not offer a certificate upon completion.
Really enjoyed the course. It gave a very comprehensive introduction to Astrobiology and I enjoyed being pushed to write a science fictional short story at the end.
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There have been at least 5 mass extinctions in the Earth's history. These extinctions were events that wiped out most of life on the planet and drove a large fraction of all life forms into extinction in a very short period of time. The most famous of these extinctions "killed'" the dinosaurs when an asteroid hit the Yucatan. We are in the midst of the sixth extinction due to human induced changes in the environment.
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Welcome back today we're going to talk about mass extinctions. These episodic events that wipe out much of life on the planet and play an important role, in life's evolution. We're going to begin by talking about the notion of extinction itself, and of course the most famous extinction, the loss of the dinosaurs. Then talk about the Big Five Extinctions. The great modern extinctions. Modern, in the last 500 million years. That shaped the evolution of life on the planet. Then talk about the ongoing process of extinctions that are happening right now. And finally, turn to the question of the fate of humanity. And speculate about when we, will become extinct. The notion of extinction itself is in some ways a radical notion. Today, the typical two or three year-old seems to know about dinosaurs, be fascinated by them. A fascination that for many continue, throughout the rest of their lives. And the idea that there were, was ancient life and this ancient life is now here no more. It seems to be just common knowledge. Yet, when the idea was proposed, 200 years ago, it was a radical notion. Early biologists like Linnaeus, classifying life on the planet, didn't think about extinct lifeforms. Scientists and everyday people, assumed that the life that was on the planet today. Represented the diversity of life through all time. It was work by Georges Cuvier, a French scientist working at the time of the French Revolution, that presented and developed this radical idea. This idea of catastrophism, the idea that the Earth episodically underwent radical change. What Cuvier was doing, he began by studying elephant skulls. He looked at skulls of the Asian elephant, and the skull of an African elephant. And he noticed, that the different elephant types, had distinct teeth. And that he could classify the elephants, by their teeth. And he was able to show that you had, two distinct species. He then went on, to study other elephant skulls. Skulls that were in the collection in Paris, and skulls that were described to him, by his correspondents. And Cuvier recognized, that some of the skulls were from animals that were no longer alive. He identified mastodons, giant elephant-like creatures, that roamed both Europe and North American but are now extinct. And it was Cuvier's work, that opened people's mind to the idea that there are life forms that existed in the past that are no longer here today. So let's go back and talk about some of these life forms and begin by thinking about what life was like, during the age of the dinosaurs, the Cretaceous Age. Life back then was warmer, fern like plants covered much of the Earth's surface, it was time not just of ferns but also of the first flowering plants. There was a rapid co-evolution taking place of both flowering plants and bees. As bees were able to fertilize the plants, the plants were able to spread by fertilization. The plants fed the bees, and these two grew together. And are actually a wonderful example of co-evolution. We like to think of ourselves as central to life on the planet. Yet not, there weren't humans then. Not only that, while there were mammals, they were relatively unimportant. This world of the Cretaceous however, changed very dramatically one day 65 million years ago. When all, it seemed to be all life was wiped out. Now the Cretaceous is just one of many different geological ages. Geologists, like to classify time, in terms of different periods, or ages. Epochs. The Cretaceous Period, was the last period of what's called the Mesozoic Era. It was preceded by the Jurassic and the Triassic Periods. Each one of these, periods had distinct lifeforms that dominated the Triassic world, the Jurassic world, the Cretaceous world. Today we live, in the Cenozoic Era. And our modern time, is called the Holocene. I like this illustration to show us the notion of geological time. First to remind us, how old the Earth is. The Earth is about 4.6 billion years old, it's first half billion years was a period of heavy bombardment. Life emerges here, the atmosphere becomes dominated by oceans, by oxygen. About at halfway through the Earth's life to date. Multicellular life only starts to emerge here, in relatively recent times. And complex life form, have only existed, for about the final 10% of the history of the earth. With the first land animals appearing here and our dinosaurs, dominating for about 230 million years ago to about 65 million years ago. One of the nice things about this figure, is it reminds us, that the zetazoic. Represents only about 1% of the history of the Earth, and the age of the dinosaurs, was not so long ago. Why did the dinosaurs go extinct? Well, we know that there's, we look at the geological record. There was this very distinct transition, about 65 million years ago, at a boundary in the Earth's geological record, called often the Cretaceous/Tertiary or the K-T boundary. K being the letter used to symbolize Cretaceous because sea was already taken by an earlier age. This is also often called in the literature, The Cretaceous Paleogene boundary or the K-T boundary. The Paleogene is really a more modern name to refer to the this transition, or the time just after this transition. When we look at the geological record we see a very dramatic change. Before the K-T boundary, we see, not just dinosaurs, but life forms like, these Terrasaurs, these pretty frightening looking flying reptiles. All these things go extinct, about half the species that are found in the geological record, below the boundary disappear at the boundary. And while the most dramatic changes of course and the loss of the dinosaurs, we also see the loss of lots of marine life forms. There are many forms of, say, plankton, that you find below the boundary, and they disappear completely, when you cross the boundary. Something dramatic happened 65 million years ago. A key piece in understanding that transition, was work done by Walter and Luis Alvarez, a father-son team. Walter Alvarez had won the Nobel Prize for earlier work in physics, working together with two Chemists, Frank Asaro and Helen Michel. And they were looking at the geological record looking at this boundary layer, between the part of the geological record that had dinosaurs, the Cretaceous period. And the more modern period, that didn't have dinosaurs, or any of the other life forms we talked about. They found a thin transition boundary layer, made of clay. When they took this clay back to their lab, they found a very surprising result. This clay layer, was rich in Iridium. Why Iridium? Well, Iridium is a rare earth, it's not very common on the Earth's surface. Iridium is a very heavy element and as the Earth formed and cooled. Most of the Iridium on the planet, sank to the Earth's interior, and the Earth's core is rich in Iridium, but we very rarely find Iridium at the Earth's surface. However when we look at meteors, of course we think they're, we were sampling lots of asteroids we see the same thing. They are rich in Iridium. They would when the meteors formed think the Iridium had not fractionated out. And when a meteor comes in, it deposits a lot of Iridium. What Alvarez and his collaborators concluded, was a giant meteor struck the Earth, about 65 million years ago. And when it struck the Earth, it scattered Iridium and other materials, all over the Earth. And that this destructive explosion, is what killed the dinosaurs. This idea received greater confirmation, when geologists discovered the Chicxulub asteroid. And where this Chicxulub asteroid hit as a meteor, here, in Yucatan. The Yucatan peninsula, is this thumb that sticks up from Mexico. Into the Gulf of Mexico, located right here, and what the geologist found, was an impact ring. And they found all around here sinotes and sinkholes that marked out a trough. They then found, when they looked in the ocean basin here, they also found signs of this crater hit. And I think there's now a consensus that a meteor struck the Earth here 65 million years ago. And when this happened, it not only kicked up lots of dust and water, but it created devastating effects through out the Earth. It's immediate effect, was to generate an enormous title wave a mega tsunami over 100 meters high. That swept through the Gulf of Mexico into the southern portions of the United States and into Mexico. This explosion generated tremendous amount of heat, probably stimulated volcanic activity throughout the planet. Certainly lit lots of wildfires as the explosion propagated through the Earth and the Earth's atmosphere. These wildfires, generated lots and lots of dust, kicked up this dust into the atmosphere. These enormous explosions throughout the planet. Filled the upper atmosphere with dust. This dust layer blocks sunlight and after this explosion, the earth was probably in darkness for several years. This killed much of the plant life and when the plant life died, the animals that relied on that plant life that ate those plants. Were wiped out this phenomenon was similar to what people talked about when they thought about the possibility of nuclear winter. During the Cold War, one of the many fears of what would happen associated with a nuclear war. Is that that nuclear war would not only kill much billions of people, when the nuclear weapons hit major cities in North America and Europe. But that the dust kicked up by those nuclear weapons would block the sun. And the survivors of the initial nuclear attack. Would eventually all die, because there'd be no sunlight, no plants, no food. We think that's what life was like for the dinosaurs, probably any life form, or land life form that lived right around here, was destroyed by the tsunami or killed by the initial explosion. But the rest of the planet was probably devastated, not by the direct effects of the explosion, but by the side effects. The wildfires, the volcanic, potentially the volcanic activity. And the additional the dust that was kicked up, and its effects, on the plant cycle. The evidence for this, these effects have grown, over the past decades there's very clear geological evidence for the tsunami. Here's a figure showing where we think the tsunami, the extent of the tsunami, and studies of the geological record at various sites along this boundary, find clear evidence for the tsunami bed. We find microtektites and shocked quartz evidence for a powerful explosion that kicked material up when the meteor struck near Yucatan. We see through out the planet a coal layer, showing signatures of a mass fire. We find this thick clay through out the planet, but thickest in the south-east portions of the United States, where the material from this explosion landed. Because it was so close to the Yucatan. In retrospect the idea that we had a violent event, that devastated the Earth shouldn't be surprising. When we look around the solar system, we see violent events happening all the time. Where they were looking at ice at the poles at Mercury past violent events like that lead to Venus' slow retrograde motion, the Earth's massive moon, or Uranus' tilted spin. The craters on moons like Phobos or some of the moons we explored on the outer solar systems, all show evidence that meteor impacts are common. And I think for many of us the most dramatic case that convinced us that this is happening all the time is looking at what happened to Jupiter. When the Shoemaker-Levy comet, plowed into its atmosphere, creating enormous explosions. Now Jupiter, we think, is not a planet that holds life. But the fact that we see these dramatic collisions, are a reminder that these are ongoing events. And we should not be surprised that 65 million years ago. A meteor hit the Earth and was able to do such devastation. So, I want you to think about the rates of these events, and think about how often they might occur, on other systems. And think about what that might mean for evolution. And then we'll come back and we'll talk more about these extinction events.


Norman Doray will be returning to Size Records to release his latest work, straight off the bat of their 10 year anniversary celebrations.
The first preview was premiered on Steve Angello's BBC 'Essential mix,' giving fans a taste of what to expect from this House music legend.
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The ever-animated master of ceremonies John Gardiner presides over the poet contest presentations.
The Laguna Beach Library will host a public recognition of winning poets and a public reading of winning poems from the 20thannual community poetry contest at noon Saturday, June 2.
The contest will be renamed the John Gardiner Community Poetry Contest in memory of John Abbot Gardiner, a local poet and poetry contest master of ceremonies.
Michael Sprake from the Laguna Poetry Workshop hosts this year's event. Each year, the contest is funded by the Friends of Laguna Beach Library, who provide prizes for the winning poets and who cover the printing costs of a locally produced booklet of winning poems.
The friends also purchased a commemorative paving stone inscribed with Gardiner's name, which will be placed in the library's butterfly garden prior to the event.
An appreciative audience listens to a poet contest winner in 2016.
Preschool- 1st grade: Grayson Grzeskowiak, Kellan Gruba, Alexander Entress, Violet Shurla.
Second grade: Klara Tilda Hamersley, Veronica Cai, Sophia Schaefer.
Third Grade: Isabella Norelli, Theron Greengard, Caroline Talarico, Hayden Crane-Henning.
Fourth-fifth grade: Jaden Chen, Zen Mir-Scaer, Keanu Mir-Scaer .
Teen: Penelope Duran, Clara Becker, Logan Leeds.
Adult: Daniel McGinn, Jane Gragg Lewis, MJ West, Phoenix Rose, Raundi K Moore Kondo.


Government has reviewed the policy on Forest and Wildlife to ensure conservation and sustainable development of resources in the sector.
The policy is to promote the rehabilitation and restoration of degraded landscapes through forest plantation development and enrichment planting.
Mr Musah Abu-Juam, Technical Director in charge of Forestry at the Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources, said this at the National Colloquium on Forest and Wildlife resource management in Accra.
He said the review was triggered by a number of challenges in the forest and wildlife sectors, including high-level deforestation and forest degradation.
He said the policy was also to promote the development of viable forest and wildlife-based industries and livelihood, particularly in the value-added processing sectors.
�To promote and develop mechanisms for transparent governance, equity sharing and citizen�s participation in the forest and wildlife management,� he added.
He said the Forestry Commission was shifting its focus from timberlization to biodiversity conservation and eco-tourism.
The Technical Director said there was also an emphasis on savannah eco-system management and small medium forest enterprise promotion.
Mr Samuel Afari Dartey, Chief Executive of the Forestry Commission, speaking on the role of the Commission in National Development said, forest and logging contributed 2.2 per cent to the Gross Domestic Product of the country in 2013.
He said the main drivers of deforestation could be attributed to agriculture expansion, wood harvesting, urbanisation and mining activities.
He said the Commission had trained public prosecutors to handle illegal offences of all kinds with intensified public awareness.
He called on government to make available resources on time to facilitate the activities of the Commission.


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According to a new report from Experian Cyber phishing emails and other forms of cyber-attack are becoming more prevalent as people rely more on the latest smartphones.
The real worry is that many consumers are vulnerable to internet criminals with 60% of smartphone users and almost half of tablet users admit to not having any malware protection installed on their devices.
This is much less of a problem on home PC's with nine out of ten people using security or anti-virus software installed on their computer.
When asked why they haven't installed protection software on their phone or tablet, 12% said it was because they thought they were automatically provided with protection, 8% said they thought fraud protection is too expensive, while a third said they weren't aware that they needed it.
A spokesman for Experian, said: "This year has proved a tipping point for smartphones and tablets. The rapid rise in demand for online banking and retail combined with very little security on devices has created a massive opportunity for cyber criminals leaving many people and businesses extremely vulnerable.


Already a huge bestseller in Europe, this is essential reading for anyone with important decisions to make, in the vein of THINKING, FAST AND SLOW and THE DECISION BOOK. Rolf Dobelli, born 1966, is a Swiss writer, novelist and entrepreneur. He has an MBA and a PhD in economic philosophy from the... Booktopia has The Art of Thinking Clearly, Better Thinking, Better Decisions by Rolf Dobelli. Buy a discounted Hardcover of The Art of Thinking Clearly online from Australia's leading online bookstore.
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The Art of Thinking Clearly is a book by Rolf Dobelli that aims to help us make better decisions in life. However, rather than trying to introduce new behaviours, it wants us to recognise and then cut out some common errors of judgement we fall prey to on a regular basis.


As stipulated in Section 4 of the NCHE Act, of 2011 The COUNCIL consists of six persons appointed by the Minister on account of high professional standing, special knowledge, skills and expertise in matters related to higher education in order to provide policy oversight.
One Vice Chancellor to represent public universities.
The Secretariat headed by the Chief Executive Officer, supports Council in the execution of its mandate. The Secretariat is organized into two main departments, namely Accreditation and Quality Assurance, and Corporate Services.


Thank you to all of the writers who entered the WeScreenplay Feature Competition this year! Everyone who entered, especially the finalists, were incredible storytellers. Thank you for sharing your work.
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Karen Kirkland is a literary agent at the prestigious Abrams Artists Agency. Formerly, she worked as Nickelodeon's VP of Talent Development and numerous writers she has worked with have gone on to work at major outlets such as HBO, Comedy Central, Adult Swim, Fox, Amazon, Hulu, and NBCUniversal.
Michael Doven is a producer of such celebrated films as MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE, VANILLA SKY, MINORITY REPORT, A FEW GOOD MEN and THE LAST SAMURAI.
After a fatal car accident, a Police Chief's attempt to help a grieving mother backfire when she signs on with an ambitious reporter who creates a narrative more harmful than the truth.
A dogged reporter and friend pieces together the final moments of the last soldier killed on the battlefield in WW1, only 60 seconds before the Armistice, and uncovers an ugly truth — the conflicted German-American didn't have to die. Based on a true story.
Molly, mother to a ten-year-old boy, works as a receptionist for an auto mechanic while pursuing her demolition derby dreams on the weekends. She works her way up to Metal Mayhem, the largest demolition derby in the world, driving for pride, a better future for her family and for the dreams of the women watching, who hope to one day follow in her tire tracks.
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Горњи Храстовац је насеље у општини Мајур, у Банији, Република Хрватска.

Историја
Насеље је до 1995. било у саставу некадашње општине Костајница. Горњи Храстовац се од 1991. до августа 1995. године налазио у Републици Српској Крајини.

Становништво
На попису становништва 2011. године, Горњи Храстовац је имао 209 становника.

Попис 1991.
На попису становништва 1991. године, насељено место Горњи Храстовац је имало 427 становника, следећег националног састава:

Извори

Спољашње везе

Општина Мајур
Банија
Насељена места у Хрватској
Насељена места у Сисачко-мославачкој жупанији
Википројект географија/Насеља у Хрватској
Бивша српска насеља

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Would Breast Cancer Awareness prompt you to get Botox? One doctor seems to think so. So, he is having a "donate your wrinkles for charity" day.
California reconstructive and plastic surgeon, Dr. Jaime Schwartz created the "Rejuvenate for the Cure" event that is being held tomorrow at the Bright Health Physicians of PIH Plastic Surgery & Aesthetic Medicine Center in Whittier, CA. It is the first event of it's kind that we have heard of that donates proceeds from cosmetic procedures such as Botox or Juvederm injections to a mammogram fund that benefits women who would not be able to afford the important screening.
"Rejuvenate For The Cure" is a collaboration of many ideas," Dr. Schwartz told The New York Daily News.
Dr. Schwartz ironically specializes in breast reconstruction for women with cancer. So, the goal in helping women – no matter what economic class – take preventative measures was always important to him.
Women can come into his clinic tomorrow and pay for injectables such as Dysport which were donated by various pharmaceutical companies to help with the Breast Cancer Awareness cause.
"Our hope is to take "Rejuvenate for the Cure" nationally," Dr. Schwartz concluded.
Well, this is one way of definitely "giving back" – and you'll get a younger looking face in return.
So, what do you think, readers. Is "donating your wrinkles" done as a worthwhile cause, or do you think this is just gimmicky ploy to attract new patients?


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Q: Firebase ANR - Not even using firebase With recent updates to GMS, a new ANR has been introduced. If you exit the app, and then return, that's when the ANR is initialized. The thread trace seems to point to Firebase, but I never even started using Firebase. I guess it must be part of the new GMS package?

06-11 00:34:00.143: E/ActivityManager(1487): ANR in com.myapp
06-11 00:34:00.143: E/ActivityManager(1487): PID: 19700
06-11 00:34:00.143: E/ActivityManager(1487): Reason: Broadcast of Intent { act=com.google.firebase.INSTANCE_ID_EVENT flg=0x14 cmp=com.myapp/com.google.firebase.iid.FirebaseInstanceIdInternalReceiver (has extras) }

Here are my dependencies:
dependencies {
    compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
    testCompile 'junit:junit:4.12'

    compile 'com.android.support:design:23.4.0'
    compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:23.4.0'
    compile 'com.android.support:recyclerview-v7:23.4.0'
    compile 'com.google.code.gson:gson:2.4'
    compile 'com.mindscapehq.android:raygun4android:2.1.0'
    compile 'com.squareup.okhttp:okhttp:2.5.0'
    compile 'com.android.support:support-v4:23.4.0'
    compile 'com.squareup.picasso:picasso:2.5.2'
    compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-gcm:9.0.2'
    compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services:9.0.2'
    compile 'com.github.chrisbanes:PhotoView:1.2.6'
    compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-ads:9.0.2'
    compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-auth:9.0.2'
}

And my emulator has Play Services 9.+

A: To wrap this up, there was a problem in Google Play services 9.6.80.  It was fixed in 9.6.83.  Likely no one is seeing this problem any more as Play has gone through the 9.8.x release cycle successfully and pretty much all devices should be updated.

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앵무조개목(Nautilida)은 일반적으로 나선 모양으로 감긴 앵무조개 두족류 목의 하나로 크고 다양한 종으로 이루어져 있다. 고생대 중기에 처음 나타났으며 현재는 앵무조개과만이 유일하게 남아 있으며, 2개 속 앵무조개속과 알로나우틸루스속에 6종을 포함하고 있다. 22~34개 과에 165~184개 속이 기재되어 있으며, 앵무조개아강 중에서 가장 큰 목이다.
Fenton and Fenton (1958), The Fossil Book (Doubleday & Co., Garden City, New York).
Kümmel, B. (1964) "Nautilida" in Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part K. Mollusca 3. (Geological Society of America, and University of Kansas Press).
Moore, Lalicker and Fischer, (1952) Invertebrate Fossils, McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., New York, Toronto, London.
Teichert, T. (1988) "Main Features of Cephalopod Evolution", in The Mollusca vol. 12, Paleontology and Neontology of Cephalopods, ed. by M.R. Clarke & E.R. Trueman, Academic Press, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
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Amfistylia – najbardziej pierwotny ewolucyjnie typ połączenia łuku żuchwowego z mózgoczaszką, polegający na bezpośrednim umocowaniu chrząstki podniebienno-kwadratowej () do mózgoczaszki za pomocą dwóch przyrastających do niej wyrostków. Przedni (oczodołowy) wyrostek węchowy łączy się z węchową okolicą mózgoczaszki, a tylny (skroniowy) wyrostek uszny z jej zaoczodołową okolicą. Obydwa wyrostki wchodzą w zagłębienia mózgoczaszki i umocowane są do niej więzadłami ścięgnistymi. Łuk gnykowy nie łączy się bezpośrednio z łukiem żuchwowym i dlatego nie stanowi dla niego podpory.

Prawdopodobnie czaszka amfistyliczna była powszechna u wczesnych spodoustych. Współcześnie występuje tylko u niektórych sześcioszparokształtnych.

Niektórzy badacze wskazują na istnienie dwóch typów amfistylii: właściwa amfistylia typowa tylko dla niektórych linii bazalnych Neoselachii oraz tzw. archeostylia, charakteryzująca najpierwotniejsze chrzęstnoszkieletowe.

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Андре́й И́штванович Микита́ (род. 28 января 1959, Ленинград) – советский и российский композитор и пианист, музыкально-общественный деятель, член Правления Союза московских композиторов.

Биография

Андрей Иштванович Микита родился в Ленинграде. Отец, Иштван Иштванович Микита – хоровой дирижер, венгр по национальности. Мать, Инга Петровна Бояринова – журналист .

Учился в Ленинградской консерватории, а затем в Московской консерватории. Его преподавателями по фортепиано были Татьяна Румшевич, Натан Перельман, Станислав Нейгауз, Евгений Малинин, по композиции – Юрий Симакин, Борис Тищенко, Татьяна Чудова, Александр Чайковский, Тихон Хренников .

Профессор Московской Государственной консерватории имени П.И.Чайковского, Профессор Российской академии музыки имени Гнесиных, профессор  (Япония). Член Правления Союза московских композиторов , член Союза композиторов России.

Председатель и член жюри композиторских и музыкально-просветительских конкурсов, в частности:

 Член жюри Международного конкурса православных композиторов «Роман Сладкопевец» .

 Член жюри, а также председатель жюри региональных отборочных этапов Патриаршего международного фестиваля-конкурса «Песнопения христианского мира» .

 Председатель жюри конкурса композиторов «WinterReise» .

 Член жюри Всероссийского конкурса композиции имени С.С.Прокофьева .

Творческая деятельность

Андрей Микита наиболее известен как автор кантат, ораторий, инструментальных и хоровых концертов.  Много пишет для фортепиано, а также для русских народных инструментов, в частности гуслей . Большое внимание уделяет в своём творчестве духовной музыке. Музыкальное направление, в котором работает Андрей Микита, он сам называет «сакральный романтизм» .

Наиболее значимые сочинения

 В начале 1980-х годов Андрей Микита в соавторстве с Ольгой Петровой и Ириной Цеслюкевич написали балет «Гадкий утёнок», который много лет шёл на сцене Михайловского театра , был поставлен в театрах Киева и Омска. Сюита из балета исполнялась в рамках концертных программ в Санкт-Петербургской филармонии .

 Духовный концерт «Богородичные песнопения» написан в конце 1990-х годов на богослужебные тексты, посвященные главным богородичным праздникам: Рождество Пресвятой Богородицы, Благовещение, Успение и Покров.

 Песнопение, посвящённое мученице Татиане, исполняется регулярно каждое воскресенье в Храме Мученицы Татианы при МГУ с 2000 года.

 Концертная фантазия для виолончели и оркестра «Ромео и Джульетта» основана на музыке одноимённой увертюры Петра Ильича Чайковского. В 2010 году в исполнении победителя Международного конкурса имени П. И. Чайковского виолончелиста Сергея Антонова это произведение прозвучало в Москве, Санкт-Петербурге, Петрозаводске и других городах .

 Оратория «Семь песен о Боге» написана по мотивам песен религиозной направленности Бориса Гребенщикова. Премьера состоялась в Большом зале Московской консерватории в 2012 году, затем сочинение неоднократно исполнялось в Санкт-Петербурге, Ярославле и других городах России.

 «Гимн Рождеству Христову» впервые прозвучал в Храме Христа Спасителя в 2014 году .

 В 2015 году в рамках I Международного Свято-Владимирского фестиваля православного пения «Просветитель» на Валааме  состоялась премьера кантаты «Князь Владимир», посвященной тысячелетию преставления святого Владимира Крестителя. В качестве текстовой основы для музыкального сочинения был взят литературный памятник середины XI века «Слово о законе и благодати», который представляет собой запись торжественной речи Илариона Киевского .

 В 2018 году в Кемеровской государственной филармонии имени Бориса Штоколова состоялась премьера оратории «Земля Сибирь», написанной в честь празднования 75-летия Кемеровской области, 100-летия города Кемерово и 400-летия города Новокузнецк .

 Гимн «Утверди, Боже» для трёх хоров, квинтета солистов, диаконской монодии и колокольного звона был написан к 10-летию интронизации патриарха Кирилла, которое праздновалось в январе 2019 года.

 «Рождественская кантата» прозвучала впервые в 2020 году на Международном фестивале имени Леонида Ройзмана в Ярославле .

 В 2020 году за произведение для смешанного хора и органа «Jesum autem flagellatum» Андрей Микита получил премию в номинации «Сочинения с голосом (хором)» на Третьем Всероссийском конкурсе AVANTI, который проводит Союз композиторов России.

Андрей Микита неоднократно сотрудничал с джазовыми музыкантами Андреем Ивановым и Михаилом Ивановым. Совместно они написали симфоджазовую фантазию «Тюильри в блюзовых тонах» на темы «Картинок с выставки» М. П. Мусоргского , а также «Половецкую рапсодию» на темы А. П. Бородина, Д. Брубека и П. Дезмонда . Кроме того, Андрей Иванов исполнил в качестве солиста произведение Андрея Микиты «Будущей весной» для солирующего контрабаса и симфонического оркестра.

Музыкально-общественная деятельность

В 2007 году по инициативе Андрея Микиты было создано композиторское объединение «МОСТ» (Музыкальное Объединение «Современная Традиция»), в которое вошли такие композиторы, как Роман Леденёв, Владимир Рубин, Кирилл Волков, Алексей Ларин и др. Сейчас Андрей Микита является председателем объединения. В манифесте творческой группы выбор названия обосновывается так: Мы пытаемся построить мост через пропасть, которая образовалась за минувшее столетие между людьми, создающими музыку, называемую академической, и людьми, эту музыку исполняющими и слушающими, мост между русскими классиками и современными композиторами.
Также в манифесте обозначены цели объединения: на творческих встречах в общении разных поколений выявлять лучшие музыкальные произведения гуманистической направленности в контексте мировой культуры (независимо от жанра), созданные нашими соотечественниками – современниками и предшественниками, и всеми доступными средствами способствовать их исполнению, распространению, публикации

Для достижения заявленных целей композиторское объединение, в частности, проводит концерты в Московской филармонии, на которых звучит музыка как классиков, так и ныне живущих композиторов. Андрей Микита является автором программ и постоянным ведущим этого абонемента.

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Литература
Андрей Микита: жизнь, воплощенная в звуке / Любовь Черенкова   Новокузнецк : Союз писателей, 2017 - 34, [1] с.  ISBN 978-5-00073-599-2

Ссылки
 Микита Андрей Иштванович. Сайт Российской академии музыки имени Гнесиных.
 Андрей Микита. Сайт Московской государственной академической филармонии.
 Светлый вечер с Андреем Микитой. Интервью от 23 марта 2015 года на «Радио Вера».
 Андрей Микита о современных технологиях и храмовой музыке. Интервью от 28 сентября 2011 года на портале «Православие и мир».

Родившиеся 28 января
Родившиеся в 1959 году
Родившиеся в Санкт-Петербурге
Персоналии по алфавиту
Музыканты по алфавиту
Композиторы по алфавиту
Композиторы СССР
Композиторы России
Композиторы XX века
Композиторы XXI века
Выпускники Санкт-Петербургской консерватории
Выпускники Московской консерватории
Преподаватели Российской академии музыки имени Гнесиных


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Q: Burninate [moving]? moving seems to have tons of completely different questions tagged with it. No tag wiki. There are so many uses of the word moving that I can't even count:

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*moving a file

*moving some text

*moving in an animation

*moving the mouse

*moving a window around

*moving certain blocks of code

*moving a scroll bar

*etc.

Way too general, vague, and all that burninate-y stuff.

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A: Yeah, for many of those questions the poster just didn't understand how the tag system works.  On one question I removed four tags:  lag smooth moving and  ball.
Awk... 21 questions tagged ball.  86 questions tagged smooth... >_<


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In life, we often label people based on their behaviors, fashion tastes, and quirks. When I was growing up, we had stay-at-home moms (the vast majority) and working moms (whose kids were often pitied by other mothers but envied by kids of stay-at-home moms — especially as we got older). We had one older mom and one super-glam mom. I ran into her daughter many years later and she had followed in her footsteps — she had an all-white apartment and a cute little white yappy dog.
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We can talk about mom personas, but we are all an amalgam…depending on what's going on at work, what our kids needs are at any given moment, or how we're dealing with stress and the people around us.
Motherhood is ultimately about how much you love your kids and what they will say about you when you're 90 (like my own mother is). I'll have to print this post out and send it to her (because she refuses to learn how to use technology). She encouraged me to write, took me to the library often and bought me books, and told me that girls could do anything when they grow up.
No matter what we do, or how we do it, let's just set good role models, try to be kind and loving (no matter how stressed we are), and take a few hours off this week — in honor of Mother's Day — to treat ourselves to something WE want and need! Every type of mom needs that sometimes.
The average age of first-time mothers in America is climbing. The average is now 26.3.
A whopping 83% of the babies in the U.S. are born to millennials, who spend an average of $13,000 per year on their kids.
When they aren't shopping, they are blogging — 4 million of them in fact!


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Director: Volker Schlöndorff
Stars: David Bennent, Mario Adorf, Angela Winkler, Katharina Thalbach, Daniel Olbrychski, Charles Aznavour, Andrea Ferreol, Heinz Bennent, Marek Walczewski
Genre: Drama, War, Fantasy
Review: Oskar (David Bennent) has a strange family history. His grandmother met his grandfather when he was fleeing from the police across a field where she was picking potatoes, and she hid him under her skirts. Oskar's mother Agnes was in love with two men, German Alfred and her cousin, the Polish Jan, and when Oskar was born it was thought that Alfred was the father. The only reason Oskar decided not to return to the womb was the promise of a tin drum on his third birthday, and when he reached that age, he made up his mind to stop growing and be three years old for the rest of his life...
Adapted by Jean-Claude Carriere, Frank Seitz and director Volker Schlöndorff from the novel by Gunter Grass, The Tin Drum impressed many people on its release, even winning the Academy Award for best foreign language film. It's easy to see why: despite its length, the drama is never less than involving, thanks to the eccentric way it spins the tale of a family in Danzig as the Nazis rise to power, then inevitably decline. The precocious Bennent holds it all together; the reason Oskar stops growing is that he doesn't like what he sees of the world, and the adults who inhabit it, yet while you may think this laudable as the Nazis take hold during the late twenties and thirties, Oskar's motivation is not entirely noble.
Not long after getting his toy drum, Oskar discovers he has a special talent in that he can cause glass to smash simply by screaming. He first smashes the face of a grandfather clock at home, then graduates to street lamps and the spectacles of his teacher. It's a skill that will come in handy later on. As his mother falls out of love with her husband Alfred and carries on a passionate, illicit relationship with Jan, she is consumed with religious guilt, but all Oskar cares about is getting replacement drums for the ones he breaks.
The Nazis take hold of the culture insidiously, at first ridiculed, then as they capture the dispossessed mood of the Germans, they gather a larger following. When Beethoven's portrait is replaced by Hitler's in the family living room, we know that the Third Reich is infecting every home in the nation, whether welcome or not. Oskar's fellow children are no better, and he becomes more isolated through his mischief and physical state as he gets older. That mischief turns to subversion, as seen in the great sequence where he compels a rally to dance a waltz to the strains of The Blue Danube simply by distracting the band with his drumming.
Although we applaud Oskar for not wanting to be part of the Nazis at first, it's clear that he is not the lone voice railing against them that we would like to believe. By remaining a child, he not only avoids responsibilities for his life, but ensures that his self-centred nature is given free reign. When the Jewish toy shop owner who he befriends (a performance of quiet dignity by Charles Aznavour) is victimised into tragedy, we expect the reality of the political situation to hit home to Oskar, but in the next sequence, the siege, all he cares about is getting his grubby mitts on another drum.
Earlier in the film, Oskar says he prefers to be part of the audience when asked to join the circus by a dwarf performer, but later, we see that's not true. He falls in love for the first time, but remains true to his selfish character (and also gets involved in a couple of censor-baiting love scenes). Eventually, he joins travelling players entertaining the Nazi troops - it's developments like these that make The Tin Drum a curious experience, leaving you with mixed feelings about the people portrayed, encouraging you to make your own mind up about why they did what they did. The way the story jumps forward in time leads to an episodic film, but it always holds your attention, frequently through its grotesque surprises. Music by Maurice Jarre.
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These minimal, elegant, leaf-shaped earrings are made from 18 gauge sterling silver wire, shaped, hammered, and soldered by hand. A line of shaded green chrysoprase faceted rondelles hangs in the center, finished with a graceful marquise cut moss aquamarine briolette. The handmade ear hooks are also leaf-shaped.
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The number of people without health insurance coverage declined from 47 million (15.8 percent) in 2006 to 45.7 million (15.3 percent) in 2007.
The number of uninsured children declined from 8.7 million (11.7 percent) in 2006 to 8.1 million (11.0 percent) in 2007.
Both the number and percentage of uninsured for non-Hispanic whites decreased in 2007, to 10.4 percent and 20.5 million, respectively. For blacks, the number of uninsured remained statistically unchanged from 2006, at 7.4 million, while the percentage declined from 20.5 percent in 2006 to 19.5 percent in 2007. The uninsured rate for Asians rose from 15.5 percent in 2006 to 16.8 percent in 2007.
Rates for 2005-2007 using a three-year average show that Texas (24.4 percent) had the highest percentage of uninsured. No one state had the "lowest" uninsured rate.
For the first time, CMS' Hospital Compare Web site is reporting on the quality of children's care in hospitals, including pediatric hospitals, by adding two care measures for inpatient treatment of children with asthma. Get more details in this week's Healthcare Business Weekly Update.
This is good news for parents of children with asthma — 335,000 U.S. children were hospitalized for asthma in 2006, according to an AHRQ analysis, a number that's about 1.5 percent higher than adult hospitalizations for asthma as a principal condition. Excluding newborns, asthma-related hospital stays accounted for 13.5 percent of all pediatric hospitalizations.
This is the right direction for Hospital Compare, given the prevalence of the condition and the popularity of the Web site among consumers and caregivers. Page views for the site for this year to date have totaled 20 million. Next, we'd like to see CMS add care measures for inpatient treatment of diabetes in children, which has increased exponentially over the last decade.
Children with obesity are two to three times more likely than all children to have a hospital stay during the year. To find out what more than 150 of your colleagues are doing to address the obesity epidemic in adult and pediatric populations, take our e-survey of the month. Complete the survey by August 31 and you'll receive a complimentary e-summary of the results, including emerging trends in obesity management, incentives and reimbursement.
A new analysis from the Kaiser Family Foundation quantifies, for the first time, the number of Medicare Part D plan enrollees in 2007 who reached a gap in their prescription drug coverage known as the "doughnut hole," as well as the changes in beneficiaries' use of medications and out-of-pocket spending after they reached that gap. The analysis excludes beneficiaries who receive low-income subsidies because they do not face a gap in coverage under their Medicare drug plan.
One in four (26 percent) Part D enrollees who filled any prescriptions in 2007 reached the coverage gap. This includes 22 percent who remained in the gap for the remainder of the year, and 4 percent who ultimately received catastrophic coverage. Applying this estimate to the entire population of Part D enrollees, the analysis suggests that about 3.4 million beneficiaries (14 percent of all Part D enrollees) reached the coverage gap and faced the full cost of their prescriptions in 2007.
Beneficiaries taking drugs for serious chronic conditions had a substantially higher risk of a gap in coverage under their Medicare drug plan. For example, 64 percent of enrollees taking medications for Alzheimer's disease reached the coverage gap in 2007, as did 51 percent of those taking oral anti-diabetic medications and 45 percent of patients on antidepressants. As noted above, these percentages are among Part D plan enrollees who did not receive low-income subsidies.
It is a well-known fact that obesity can lead to other health problems — diabetes, CVD, hypertension and stroke, to name a few. But a link between obesity and ear infections? New research suggests children who are chronic earache sufferers could face a greater risk of obesity as they age. And another study says that sleep apnea — often triggered by obesity — is not always cured after surgical weight loss.
A recent study by PatientsLikeMe, the leading health data sharing community for patients with life-changing conditions, reveals Young-Onset Parkinson's Disease (YOPD) patients (individuals with symptom onset at 40 years or younger) experience more non-motor symptoms than those with "classic" Parkinson's disease (PD). The study, based on a survey of more than 300 patients, questioned PD and YOPD patients about 30 "non-motor symptoms" including thinking, digestion and mood. Survey results indicate YOPD patients had an average of three more non-motor symptoms than their older counterparts.
The average age of symptom onset for respondents with classic Parkinson's is 54, and the average age at onset for YOPD respondents is 33 years old.
YOPD patients report suffering from a number of symptoms, which could interfere with work or driving such as daytime sleepiness (33 percent) or dizziness (52 percent).
Teenagers who don't sleep well or long enough may have a higher risk of elevated blood pressure that could lead to cardiovascular disease later in life, researchers report in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association. The study of 238 (123 boys and 115 girls) 13- to 16-year-olds is the first to examine insufficient sleep and blood pressure in healthy adolescents. Researchers measured participants' wrist movements at home for five to seven days and participants completed a daily sleep log to provide estimates of sleep patterns. Researchers also measured sleep quality in a sleep laboratory and took nine blood pressure readings in a two-day period.
The odds of elevated blood pressure increased 3.5 times for those with low sleep efficiency and 2.5 times for those with sleeping periods of less than 6.5 hours, even after adjusting for gender, body mass index and socioeconomic status.
Adolescents with low sleep efficiency — those who have trouble falling to sleep at night or who wake up too early — had an average 4 millimeters of mercury (mm Hg) higher systolic blood pressure compared to children with higher sleep efficiency.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, by 2030 the number of Americans aged 65 and older will more than double to 71 million, comprising approximately 20 percent of the U.S. population. With an aging population boom, Prudential Financial, Inc.'s newly issued 2008 Long-Term Care Cost of Care research report found an increase in the average cost of long-term care ranging from 5 percent to 13 percent, varying by type of service, in the past two years alone.
The average assisted living costs and average nursing home costs in Alaska are the most expensive in the country at $82,956 per year and $183,595 per year respectively. Detroit ranked the highest for home healthcare hourly rate at $38.
Average costs for long-term care services increased over the past two years and are expected to continue to rise. The average daily cost for an assisted-living facility is now more than $100, or $3,241 per month. What's more, the average daily cost of a private room in a nursing home is now $217, or $79,205 annually.
This week brings more evaluations of the healthcare industry in general and primary care in particular. A new study from The Commonwealth Fund finds that most Americans are dissatisfied with the U.S. healthcare system — 82 percent think it should be fundamentally changed or completely rebuilt. A common complaint is access to healthcare — nearly three out of four of the 1,000 consumers surveyed (73 percent) said they had a difficult time getting timely doctors' appointments, phone advice or after-hours care without having to go to the ER.
This echoes a recent assessment of primary care by healthcare organizations — who reported to us that reimbursement, access and health IT are the greatest challenges facing PCPs. You can download a complimentary summary of responses from the more than 130 hospitals, health systems, physician practices, health plans and others who took our recent e-survey on the state of primary care. The summary offers 10 ideas to rouse your organization from primary care inertia.
Duke Ellington said, "A problem is a chance to do your best." A starting point might be The Commonwealth Fund report that grew out of their study, which outlines a seven-point plan for creating a better healthcare system with higher quality and better efficiency. Areas of focus are payment reform, patient incentives, regulatory changes, accreditation, provider training, government infrastructure support and health IT.
Exercise and fitness are integral components in the health of any patient. While it might seem obvious that people who exercise are generally healthier than those who do not, two recent studies examine how exercise is improving the health and quality of life of its participants and the role PCPs play in getting their patients to exercise.
Problem parents — those who fail to monitor their children's school night activities, safeguard their prescription drugs, address the problem of drugs in their children's schools and set good examples — increase the risk that their 12- to 17-year old children will smoke, drink and use illegal and prescription drugs, according to the National Survey of American Attitudes on Substance Abuse XIII: Teens and Parents, the 13th annual back-to-school survey conducted by The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) at Columbia University. Almost half (46 percent) of 12- to 17-year olds report leaving their house to hang out with friends on school nights. Among these teens, 50 percent who come home after 10:00 p.m. say that drinking alcohol, smoking marijuana or other drug use occurs. Twenty-nine percent who come home after 8:00 p.m. and before 10:00 p.m. say that drinking alcohol, smoking marijuana or other drug use occurs. But only 14 percent of parents say their teens usually leave the house to hang out with friends on school nights.
More teens said prescription drugs were easier to buy than beer (19 vs. 15 percent). The proportion of teens who say prescription drugs are easiest to buy jumped 46 percent since 2007 (13 vs. 19 percent). Almost half (46 percent) of teens say painkillers are the most commonly abused prescription drug among teens. When teens who know prescription drug abusers were asked where those kids get their drugs, 31 percent said from friends or classmates, 34 percent said from home, parents or the medicine cabinet, 16 percent said other and 9 percent said from a drug dealer.
Ninety-seven percent of all parents surveyed and 96 percent of parents who believe their teens' schools are not drug-free say it is important that their teen's school be drug-free. Yet 42 percent of parents think their teens' school is not drug-free, and only 39 percent of those parents believe making the school drug-free is a realistic goal. One-third of parents believe that the presence of illegal drugs in their teen's school does not make it more likely that their teen will try them.


During President Obama's recent trip spanning China, Myanmar and Australia, he along with Chinese President Xi Jingping announced what amounts to a historic agreement between the nations to reduce greenhouse emissions (amongst agreements to extend visas and trade deals to eliminate tariffs on IT products).
In a unique collaboration, 40 world-class chefs have come together in support of the U.S. Fund for UNICEF and created what is essentially an international culinary travelogue, offering recipes that detail tastes and key culinary choices from different parts of the world.
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Apple Seeds Fifth Beta of tvOS 9.2.2 to Developers
Wednesday July 6, 2016 11:13 AM PDT by Juli Clover
Apple today provided developers with the fifth beta of an upcoming 9.2.2 update to tvOS, the operating system that runs on the fourth-generation Apple TV. The fifth tvOS 9.2.2 beta comes one week after the release of the fourth beta and more than a month after the tvOS 9.2.1 update. tvOS 9.2.2 has been in testing since May 23.
tvOS betas are initially more difficult to install than beta updates for iOS and OS X. Installing the tvOS beta requires the Apple TV to be connected to a computer with a USB-C to USB-A cable, with the software downloaded and installed via iTunes or Apple Configurator. Once a beta profile has been installed on the device through iTunes, new beta releases will be available over the air.
tvOS 9.2.2, like tvOS 9.2.1, is a minor 9.x.x update, focusing mainly on bug fixes and performance improvements that aren't immediately apparent. Apple's release notes have suggested the update includes bug fixes and security improvements. No outward-facing changes were spotted in the first four betas, but this post will be updated if we discover any new features or fixes in the fifth beta of tvOS 9.2.2.
Apple is also working on the next-generation version of tvOS, tvOS 10, which includes new Siri features, single sign-on cable authentication, and more. tvOS 10, currently available to developers, will be released to the public in the fall.
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Taylor Medalist Neal McMillin of Madison spent the summer in Scotland pursuing his dream. He used a $5,000 Barksdale Award from the UM Sally McDonnell Barksdale Honors College in pursuit of creative, courageous projects and ambitious, independent programs of study and research.
McMillin, a Newman and Barnard Scholar with a double major in Southern Studies and economics, investigated Scotland's pioneering use of the ocean for renewable energy.
Meetings with public officials, leaders in university environmental centers and renewable energy businesspersons and visits to key development sites were planned to inform McMillin's thesis about hydroelectric innovation in Scotland and the American South.
"My project juxtaposes the cultural significance of Scotland's contemporary wave and tidal technology with the Depression-era South's hydroelectric dams," he said. "I will analyze the circumstances that contributed to the peculiar state of affairs in which these historically underdeveloped regions emerged as the vanguard of innovation in hydroelectricity.


LAGOS, Nigeria, November 23, 2017 — Facebook has announced a new nationwide initiative in Nigeria to further cement its commitment and investment in the country, and across the continent.
This set of initiatives is aimed at helping to develop and nurture communities, including small businesses, the tech and start-up ecosystem, youths and creatives., the release said.
"In Nigeria, more than 22 million people use Facebook every month and 87% of SMEs say that when they hire, digital skills are more important than where an applicant went to school. This demonstrates that the power of digital skills to aid economic growth and development has never been more important", commented Ebele Okobi, Facebook Public Policy Director, Africa.
In partnership with CC Hub, Facebook will be opening the doors to its first community Hub space in the heart of Lagos, scheduled to open early next year. 'NG_HUB from Facebook' will be a multi-faceted creative space, which will connect and bring together developers, start-ups and the wider community to collaborate, learn and exchange ideas. The NG_HUB will also host a start-up incubator programme, as well as bespoke trainings, guest speakers and a dedicated event space, all aimed at attracting the best talent and driving innovation in Nigeria's tech ecosystem.
Ahead of the programme launch, Facebook undertook a detailed 'Economic Impact Study' to further understand how communities like small businesses and consumers in Nigeria use the platform, and the effectiveness of social media as a growth tool. Nearly 1 in 2 small businesses on Facebook say they built their business on the platform, and 62% stated they have been able to use Facebook to help find employees for their business, whilst over half (58%) of small businesses on the platform say they have been able to hire more employees' due to growth since joining Facebook.


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Q: Generic text resource inside jar query? I know this question is common, so I have been frantically looking across the web for solutions, but to no avail. I simply want to load a file containing some text from inside the program JAR.
Here is what I am trying to read it with:
            String text = "";
            int read, N = 1024 * 1024;
            char[] buffer = new char[N];
            try {

                InputStream is = this.getClass().getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("/help.txt");
                BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is));
                while(true) {
                    read = br.read(buffer, 0, N);
                    text += new String(buffer, 0, read);
                    if(read < N) {
                        break;
                    }
                }
            } catch(Exception ex) {
                ex.printStackTrace();
            }

I do not really understand java/eclipse build path stuff. But I have put help.txt in the root of the project folder. I currently get this error when the code above is executed.
java.lang.NullPointerException
    at java.io.Reader.<init>(Reader.java:78)
    at java.io.InputStreamReader.<init>(InputStreamReader.java:72)
    at ajax.Gui.printHelp(Gui.java:330)
    at ajax.Gui.onCommand(Gui.java:151)
    at ajax.Gui$1.actionPerformed(Gui.java:130)
    at javax.swing.JTextField.fireActionPerformed(JTextField.java:508)
    at javax.swing.JTextField.postActionEvent(JTextField.java:721)
    at javax.swing.JTextField$NotifyAction.actionPerformed(JTextField.java:836)
    at javax.swing.SwingUtilities.notifyAction(SwingUtilities.java:1661)
    at javax.swing.JComponent.processKeyBinding(JComponent.java:2870)
    at javax.swing.JComponent.processKeyBindings(JComponent.java:2917)
    at javax.swing.JComponent.processKeyEvent(JComponent.java:2833)
    at java.awt.Component.processEvent(Component.java:6282)
    at java.awt.Container.processEvent(Container.java:2229)
    at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Component.java:4861)
    at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2287)
    at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:4687)
    at java.awt.KeyboardFocusManager.redispatchEvent(KeyboardFocusManager.java:1895)
    at java.awt.DefaultKeyboardFocusManager.dispatchKeyEvent(DefaultKeyboardFocusManager.java:762)
    at java.awt.DefaultKeyboardFocusManager.preDispatchKeyEvent(DefaultKeyboardFocusManager.java:1027)
    at java.awt.DefaultKeyboardFocusManager.typeAheadAssertions(DefaultKeyboardFocusManager.java:899)
    at java.awt.DefaultKeyboardFocusManager.dispatchEvent(DefaultKeyboardFocusManager.java:727)
    at java.awt.Component.dispatchEventImpl(Component.java:4731)
    at java.awt.Container.dispatchEventImpl(Container.java:2287)
    at java.awt.Window.dispatchEventImpl(Window.java:2719)
    at java.awt.Component.dispatchEvent(Component.java:4687)
    at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEventImpl(EventQueue.java:729)
    at java.awt.EventQueue.access$200(EventQueue.java:103)
    at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(EventQueue.java:688)
    at java.awt.EventQueue$3.run(EventQueue.java:686)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at java.security.ProtectionDomain$1.doIntersectionPrivilege(ProtectionDomain.java:76)
    at java.security.ProtectionDomain$1.doIntersectionPrivilege(ProtectionDomain.java:87)
    at java.awt.EventQueue$4.run(EventQueue.java:702)
    at java.awt.EventQueue$4.run(EventQueue.java:700)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at java.security.ProtectionDomain$1.doIntersectionPrivilege(ProtectionDomain.java:76)
    at java.awt.EventQueue.dispatchEvent(EventQueue.java:699)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpOneEventForFilters(EventDispatchThread.java:242)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForFilter(EventDispatchThread.java:161)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEventsForHierarchy(EventDispatchThread.java:150)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:146)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.pumpEvents(EventDispatchThread.java:138)
    at java.awt.EventDispatchThread.run(EventDispatchThread.java:91)

What do?
Some extra info: OS = Linux Mint 14 KDE, JDK = JavaSE1.7, IDE = Eclipse

A: You can try without the '/'
InputStream is = this.getClass().getClassLoader().getResourceAsStream("help.txt");
If you gave added the file in the root, this should work.
or you can create URL with the abosolute file path and then use
InputStream is = url.openStream();

A: The method getResourceAsStream is returning null because it cannot find the file.
You can do one of the following:

*

*Make sure that the file is in the classpath; that's where getResourceAsStream searches.

*Place the file in a resources directory as in this example.

*Or you can place it in the source directory structure as in this stackoverflow question.

Additionally, you may want to use a StringBuilder to build your string instead of concatenating String after String.


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Bringing Swiss CBD products to the UK Industry
Posted on November 23, 2020 | by
CBD products have exploded in popularity over the past few years, and consumers have begun to value quality and transparency when choosing their products.
We spoke to the CEO and Founder of a Swiss-based CBD company to find out about their journey of establishing a CBD business in Switzerland and then moving into the booming UK market.
What can CBD help with?
According to Jan Bo Timming, who is the CEO and Founder of Swiss Original Cannabis, CBD is a natural gift for all kinds of people, especially those who suffer from pain or who lead active lifestyles.
"CBD helps with chronic pain in muscles and joints – it counteracts stiffness in the body and, most importantly, it shortens the recovery time so that you can train and exercise longer".
Why is Switzerland a hub for CBD business?
Jan decided to move to Switzerland because of the great potential it showed for the CBD industry, but that was only after he first discovered CBD himself.
It was a car accident in 2016 that really sparked his interest in CBD and this became the starting point for Swiss Original Cannabis.
"I got a heavy whiplash and could not tolerate the doctor's morphine prescription. Therefore, I started looking for another natural solution with fewer side effects. This is when I discovered CBD", explains Jan, who found in CBD oil the natural alternative to painkillers that he was missing.
"From there, my interest began to develop. I bought books on CBD and medical cannabis and spent numerous days and nights studying videos on Youtube and other platforms", says Jan.
He continues: "From my research, it dawned on me that Switzerland is Europe's new Silicon Valley for CBD which is why I decided to move to Switzerland to set up a company which creates unique and transparent CBD products of high quality".
What do customers value in the UK market?
Swiss Original Cannabis is one of the leading manufacturers in the UK market that develops and sells dietary supplements and skincare products with CBD.
It made sense for Swiss Original Cannabis to expand into the UK market after establishing a base in Switzerland – according to the Cannabis Trade Association, Europe's CBD market is currently worth around £480 million, with the UK taking the biggest share at £110 million.
Jan believes that, with a growing market, UK consumers have become more selective: "From what I've seen, UK consumers are very similar to the rest of Europe: they value quality, transparency and information. There is also a big focus on health and wellbeing, which fits in well with our motto: get well, not high."
He continues, "As a business who is now operating as a leading CBD brand in the UK, the fact that we produce, test and package all of our products at our headquarters in Basel, Switzerland is appealing to consumers, as it shows we have full control over what goes into our products".
How do you use CBD?
"It is always a good rule of thumb to start with as low a dose as possible and gradually increase this on an ongoing basis as how much you need depends on the individual. That is why it is important to find the right amount that suits your body and particular needs", says Jan.
What is the motivation for running a CBD business?
"It drives me to see and hear all the stories from people who get the joy of life back through a drug-free life with the help of a natural dietary supplement!".
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Back in 2010, Representative Louie Gohmert spoke out on the House floor about an overlooked threat to American national security: "terror babies." Muslim infants born in the United States to immigrant parents, he believed, would be taken overseas and radicalized. "And then one day, twenty, thirty years down the road," he said, "they can be sent in to… Read More ›
BNP Candidate Faces Possible Teaching Ban For Anti-Muslim Remarks In The Classroom
BBC News returns to the inquiry by the National College of Teaching and Learning into the alleged remarks of a BNP affiliated teacher who is alleged to have made anti-Muslim remarks in the classroom. Reverend Robert West, who is also standing for the BNP in the parliamentary seat of Boston and Skegness, was found guilty… Read More ›
Britain First (BF) Leader Threatens To "Bury A Pig" On Dudley Mosque Site
ITV News, the Daily Mirror and Birmingham Mail all report on the weekend's protest in Dudley by far right group, Britain First. Just last week, the Chief Constable of West Midlands police, Chris Sims, briefed council staff of the costs to the force of policing repeat protest by far right groups against plans to construct… Read More ›
Right-Wing Supremacist (Aryan) Planned Terror Attack Against Ethnic Minorities And Prince Charles
DTT: There is a terrorist attack committed every week/Month or so and the vast majority of these terrorist attacks executed in the west (Europe and America) are done so by non-Muslims. Yet, any violence done so by a Muslim is sensationalized, highlighted in such way that the viewers will remember the latter above all else…. Read More ›
Far-Right Extremist Jailed For Threatening To Blow Up Newspaper Offices
DTT: Here we go again, another a white-supremacist threatening to blow up others. If this had been a Muslim threatening to blow up the offices of a newspaper or hoping ISIS murdered the police, this would have been front-page headline news all around the world. Since he is white and non-Muslim, shhhhhh lets put this… Read More ›
Man Sentenced For Stabbing Muslim Shopkeeper
The Islington Gazette reports on the sentencing of Michael O'Leary, who was on trial for an attack on a Muslim shopkeeper in north London last year. O'Leary, who attacked Samsul Islam at his convenience store on Holloway Road, was cleared of attempted murder at Blackfriars Crown Court last week. Samsul Islam told the court… Read More ›
MEND Statement On Sunday Telegraph Article By Andrew Gilligan
Peter Oborne, former chief political commentator at the Daily Telegraph, in a sequence of articles for Open Democracy has shed significant light on the demise of standards at the Telegraph titles drawing attention to the paper's refusal to publish his investigative pieces on the behaviour of the Charity Commission towards British Muslim charities and the paper's… Read More ›
BNP Protests Against Mosque In Bromley
The local paper News Shopper and This is Local London draws attention to a BNP protest against the conversion of a former Methodist church in Keston, Bromley into a mosque. The former reports that the British National Party (BNP) staged a demonstration against the plans outside the mosque last weekend handing out leaflets. Signs… Read More ›
Jewish Defence League UK Extremists Sentenced For Assault On Palestine Activists
By Asa Winstanley / Electronic Intifada Two thugs affiliated with the Jewish Defence League UK were sentenced Monday to 150 hours of community service each and £1,140 ($1,700) in fines between them. Roberta Moore and Robert De Jonge assaulted two people at a Palestine literary festival in London in September. Last month a judge found… Read More ›
Nottingham Citizens Report On Rise In Racial & Religious Hate Crime
Local paper, the Eastwood Advertiser, reports on hate crime statistics in the Nottingham region as analysed by the local chapter of Citizens UK, Nottingham Citizens. According to a report by Nottingham Citizens, the vast majority of hate crimes are motivated by race and religion indicators with 80 per cent of attacks meeting this profile;… Read More ›
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Castle Peak Hospital (CPH) is the oldest and largest psychiatric hospital within the Hospital Authority. In addition to the provision of comprehensive psychiatric treatment and rehabilitation services, it has a long history and remarkable contributions in professional training, public education and research in mental health.
As it has become increasingly apparent that primary prevention strategies to increase positive mental health are an important integral part of a comprehensive mental health service, with the leadership of the Hospital Governing Committee (HGC) of CPH, the Institute of Mental Health (IMH) was set up in February 2002.
The Institute of Mental Health is a centre of excellence for promotion and advocacy of better community mental health, through advancing science and disseminating knowledge in mental illness and mental health by intensive education, quality training, and rigorous research.
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The IMH comprises different community members in governing the work of the Institute. The Executive Committee and her five subcommittees are responsible for the operation of the IMH. The five subcommittees are:
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The D2C Equation: Brand+Performance+Attribution
by Nina Lentini , Staff Writer @Nina_Lentini, December 13, 2019
When it comes to brand vs. performance, one marketer says any time his company invests in branding, it asks how it can make the branding as impactful as possible.
Rob Towne, director of performance marketing, Purple Innovation, told our Search & Performance Insider Summit on Friday how he tested a hunch he had about Google by modifying the script and bidding down to see how revenue would be impacted if Purple came in No. 2 on Google search. With hardly any impact, the brand is saving thousands and thousands daily by not paying for the top spot.
With TV, Towne said they like to have a spot run in a locality, then track the data for the next three to five minutes after that to see if there is a lift in branded search.
Most recently, Purple is using influencers to digitally make more connections. "Their audience becomes part of ours. We want to build awareness without impacting the influencer's authenticity."
The category presents a low barrier to entry so the challenge, he said, is how to help consumers understand that Purple is "truly different." To do so, the brand uses long-form video on YouTube and Facebook. "We've chosen to express the brand as being fun and creative." After billions of views, Towne said he has found that consumers are staying, not skipping.
"It takes a lot to make somebody problem-aware, solution-aware," he said, as mattress producers face a five to ten-year cycle. With 100 touch points on the consumer journey, Towne keeps building brand awareness top of mind.
Purple has grown into a lot of other channels, taking a larger slice of the pie. "Attribution is one of the problems that everyone in this room would say is challenging," he said. "We try to solve it different ways. There is no right multitouch attribution model, only useful ones -- but they're all wrong in some way."
Nina Lentini is editor of events and research at MediaPost. You can reach her at nina@mediapost.com.


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Senior Devin Diggs Serves as President of The Shirt Committee
Author: McKenna Pencak
On the walls of Lafortune Student Center, twenty-six evenly spaced frames hang, with imagery of helmets, jerseys, gridirons, and the Golden Dome. Each frame, beginning in 1990, showcases a Notre Dame football t-shirt design. While Notre Dame football is known for its merchandise – our bookstore is the largest in the country – these shirts push fandom to a whole new level. In a year where outside fans were not even allowed into the stadium, The Shirt 2020 made $400,000.
Junior Hesburgh-Yusko scholar Devin Diggs is the president of Notre Dame's The Shirt Committee, which began over three decades ago as a fundraiser for a student with medical expenses. At any given Irish football game, the student section can easily be identified as a singularly colored block in the stadium, as The Shirt is the de facto football game uniform. As the president, Diggs oversees the nearly year-long process of forming the annual committee, interacting with bookstore customers, choosing a vendor from multiple proposals, deciding on a color, fabric, and design for the shirt, and finally, unveiling the final product. The 2021 shirt will be released on April 23.
"I'm really excited about this year's shirt," Diggs says. "During the design process, we brainstormed themes, images, and phrases we want to capture. Our designers took those abstract ideas and generated sketches, and then we picked one we liked. I'm drawn to the ones that feel like Notre Dame – phrases and images that bring home that feeling of being a student or fan."
Diggs first joined The Shirt Committee his freshman year of college – a friend of a friend had told him to apply. He remembers seeing everyone walking around campus wearing the shirt, and ended up falling in love with the process. There are several teams within the committee — design, videography, and marketing to name a few — but Diggs originally applied for the general first-year apprentice position not knowing what he wanted to do. He ended up on the marketing team for his first few years before becoming president.
"I think the reason it sticks is the charitable cause," Diggs says. "Seeing everyone wearing them is a really cool feeling of unity, and it all goes back to help students. There have been attempts to make the process more corporate, but we want to keep it within student control."
The profits from The Shirt – which in a normal year can be as much as $800,000 – are split between student activities, student government and union, a fund for low-income students who have unanticipated expenses, and the "student experience fund" for students who have demonstrated financial need.
Diggs says his time as a member of the Notre Dame Scholars' Program has prepared him for his role as president of the Shirt Committee tremendously well.
"I've had to adapt quickly and learn on the fly as well as conduct myself to represent Notre Dame, which all translated to being on the committee, specifically when working with vendors, licensing, and the bookstore," he says. "I'm science pre-med, so sitting in a presentation with CEOs was nerve-wracking, but I was prepared."
Diggs also tries to emulate Kristin Andrejko (HY'19) in his presidency. Andrejko was the president of The Shirt Committee during Diggs' freshman year, and he said that the way she managed and mentored people helped him understand leadership.
The Shirt 2021 is available at the ND Bookstore and at ndbookstore.com.