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Preparing for a Migration to Drupal for Drupal 8, Drupal 9
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Planning for a migration is essential. In our collective experience we've never once seen someone sit down and execute a migration flawlessly on their first attempt. Migrations involve preparing and analyzing your source data, building a new website that data can be migrated into, and lots of testing, rolling back, and testing again, in order to get everything right. By the end of this tutorial you should be ready to start planning for your own Drupal migration project, and have a better understanding of the challenges of migrating from one system to another.
Begin preparing a migration plan.
Introduction to Migrations with Drupal
If you are upgrading from Drupal 8 to Drupal 9, see Upgrade to Drupal 9.
This tutorial differs from most tutorials on our site where we give you a specific set of steps to follow to accomplish the desired outcome. We're going to pose a bunch of questions, and give you some things to consider when planning your migration, but for the most part we can't actually tell you the answer to the questions. That's your job.
What's more, no two migrations will ever be the same. There are simply too many possible variations, and a human factor, that makes the likelihood of ever having a single solution for all possible cases unrealistic. However, that means you're going to learn a ton about Drupal along the way!
A successful migration starts with a lot of careful planning and consideration of all the little details.
Why are you doing this?
Taking on a data migration is a big deal. Even for relatively small sites, it can be a time-consuming and challenging project. The benefit is that you've now got a shiny new Drupal-powered website. But it's important to take the time to understand your motivations, and the benefits that you hope to gain by moving your site to a new home. Even if you already know that the shiny new Drupal features are super cool, you might have some convincing to do when it's time to sell the project to others.
Your existing site already works. And it's not like it's just going to suddenly stop working. So what benefits do you hope to gain by investing time and resources into migrating to a new platform?
Consider your content
Prior to performing a migration you might want to consider doing a content audit. There's no sense spending a bunch of development cycles planning, crafting, testing, and debugging a migration path for content that you don't actually plan to make use of.
In our experience, the two most common things that come up when doing this are:
Identifying content that is no longer relevant and doesn't need to be migrated
Refactoring existing information architecture and chunking large fields of text into more semantic data suitable for use as an API or in other non-HTML contexts
For more information about content considerations when migrating from one Drupal site to another, see the "Consider your content and content types" section of the Preparing for a Drupal-to-Drupal Migration tutorial.
Do you really need that feature?
Before migrating any data, consider the platform. Unlike an OS upgrade where you hit "upgrade", come back in a few hours, and everything just works, a move to the latest version of Drupal is likely to be as much a rebuild as it is a migration. Without creating the application in the target version of Drupal first you'll have nowhere to migrate your content to.
What functionality is required, what can be removed, and what new features are you looking to add? A lot of times when you set out to perform a migration, you're moving from one application to another and need to account for the functionality in the previous application that your clients, and stakeholders, have come to expect. But at the same time, if no one is using the "gift certificates" feature of your site, for example, is it really worth the effort to rebuild it and migrate all the data?
Ask yourself, and your stakeholders:
What features of my site are people really using?
What features are not being used and can be left behind?
What critical new features will I be able to add as a result of migrating to a new platform?
Is it time for a facelift?
This is a great opportunity to give your website a facelift. That might mean simply tweaking a few design elements that you've been meaning to address for a while, finally implementing a responsive layout system, or a complete refresh of the design. When you migrate from any system (including prior versions of Drupal) to the latest version of Drupal you're going to end up needing to create a new theme for your site. This is true even if you're building a site without a migration component. Themes are the one thing that is custom for almost every Drupal project.
Creating a new theme by adapting existing design components will almost always be more efficient, simply due to the fact that you've already got some of the CSS and JavaScript written, and you've already done the hard work to figure out where and when to implement certain styles. That said, if you're pondering a design refresh shortly, you might want to consider doing it now since you'll already be spending considerable resources creating your custom theme.
Want to learn more about creating a custom theme in Drupal? Check out our amazing Drupal theming guide.
What's this all going to cost me?
Whether you're moving from a previous version of Drupal, or another data source entirely, it's important to frame this migration as a rebuild and not simply an upgrade. Doing so paints a more accurate picture of the amount of time and money this is going to take.
A migration is much more than just moving data from one place to another. The source data needs to be cleaned and prepared, the new website where data will end up needs to be created, designs updated, the new site needs to have a theme developed, infrastructure will need updating, tests will need to be written, and more. When assessing the cost of a migration we like to treat it as two projects: (1) Create the new site, and (2) Automate the transfer of content from the old site into the new one.
A successful migration will require at least a subset of the following roles among you and/or your team:
Someone who can do a content audit. A domain specialist who understands the idiosyncrasies of both your site's functionality and your content
A strong understanding of Drupal site-building and best practices
Drupal back-end developer
Drupal front-end developer
Systems Administrator / DevOps
Other things to remember:
Drupal 8 (and continuing in Drupal 9) introduced major API changes to Drupal's system. Your site building, front- and back-end developers will need to be comfortable working with Drupal's current APIs (many of which were introduced in Drupal 8).
Your infrastructure needs will likely change with Drupal 9 (and 10)
Staff may need to be retrained how to use the site
Any new Drupal site, even if you're "just upgrading", is first and foremost a new website and should be handled as such
Upgrading from Drupal 8+ will be a much less arduous undertaking than Drupal 6 or 7 to the latest version of Drupal. See Upgrade to Drupal 9.
One thing to consider might be whether or not it's worth it to develop a custom migration path. If you've got a limited amount of data, the cost to develop a migration path may be higher than the cost to pay someone to copy/paste content between the old site and the new Drupal 9 one.
For Drupal-to-Drupal migrations I believe that this will be less of an issue as a large part of the work in developing migrations and field mappings is handled automatically. But, it's still worth considering.
Acceptance testing
What does a successful migration look like, and how are you going to assure yourself and your team that things are complete and ready to be shared with the public? If you've got more then a few hundred pages or so on your site it's unrealistic to expect someone to go through every single page and confirm that it migrated correctly. But you should test a large enough subset of them that you're confident things are working.
We recommend creating a list of key features of your site -- maybe pulling a list of your top pages from Google Analytics, and generating a baseline list of functionality that you'll want to test. This can also serve as a benchmark during the development process. How many of these requirements have you met currently?
In this tutorial we covered topics that you should be thinking about prior to starting any actual migration. Making sure that you consider these things ahead of time will help to ensure a successful project.
Further your understanding
Before you can ask stakeholders about migration planning and site features, you need to know who your stakeholders are. Make a list of the project stakeholders, thinking carefully about who any "hidden stakeholders" might be.
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Tips To Remember While Working With Civil Concrete
Concrete is a very sturdy material and highly popular among people for its different advantages. It is highly durable and easy to maintain because it can take heavy weight on its surface. But you need to know that working with concrete has to be done cautiously to avoid two major problems: untimely damage and costly repairs. Installing concrete pours involves a lot of concerns that a contractor has to go through such as nonconformity, accumulation of concrete rubbles due to improper methods, scaling, decaying and so and so. Knowing the right method certainly doesn't mean imposition of extra charges. All that is required is the prevention of unprecedented destruction of the civil concrete.
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Temperature: The differences in temperatures between the center and the area of placement of the concrete should be at a maximum of 35°F. This would prevent cracking and unsightly deterioration due to expansion internally and the occurrence of moisture externally.
Concrete mixture: To prepare the concrete mix, one would require sand, gravel and Portland cement. It has to be mixed in the ratio of 1:2:4. A specified amount of water is needed for proper binding of the constituents, but an excess of water would lead to the weakening of the consistency till the end. A dry mix prevents cracking. Pouring the mix in the machine to grind would make it slimy and consistent.
Making a form: Construction of a proper form into a wooden rectangular or square perimeter, cut at right angles would provide perfect finishing to the concrete layout. Use a measuring tape to check if the sides of the square or the rectangular correspond to each other and record on the drawing board. The slight slope has to be added to the form to eliminate the chances of building up of water in the concrete layout. For every foot, 1" slope is fair.
Rebar the form: To add support to the form, rebar grid is essential as it provides strength and reinforcement to the setup. In this case, a rebar chair might be set up as it provides a proper height.
Dampening the foundation: To prevent the loss of water from the concrete, the base should be dampened with a water spray for a stronger slab.
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Using hand signals: Squandering time away to explain the driver about pouring the mix in the proper way amidst the whole process is not a good idea, as the maximum attention has to be at the manner in which the concrete is settling. So use hand signals and communication gestures to ask the driver when to stop, pour, start or back up the truck. Also, it has to be made sure that the driver's face is in the side view mirror otherwise both will not be able to see each other.
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Will NY Gov. Cuomo Face Criminal Charges?
Gregg Jarrett joined host Sean Hannity to discuss the New York Attorney General's report concluding state and federal laws were broken by Governor Andrew Cuomo. Cuomo was accused of harassing at least eleven women, all of whom were individually discussed in the report. AG Letitia James said in a press conference earlier this week that Cuomo will not face criminal charges. Now, many are calling for his resignation, including President Joe Biden.
Hannity asks Jarrett now that there are three prosecutors investigating him, what happens from here for Cuomo? "He's in serious legal jeopardy." Jarrett responds. In the last 24 hours, four different District Attorneys announced investigations into whether Cuomo committed crimes.
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The four District Attorneys have made a formal request to gather all the evidence by the Attorney General. Jarrett explains one of the most highly asked questions which is why would AG James not bring criminal charges against Cuomo despite the information gathered for the report?
The answer is that she has a conflict of interest because a "division in her department is required to defend the Governor in various actions." Therefore, "you can't prosecute and defend simultaneously."
In addition to the sexual harassment allegations, Cuomo also faces a federal investigation into whether Cuomo "cooked the books and lied about the number of nursing home deaths in order to avoid a Department of Justice investigation." The law, Jarrett explains, "says trying to prevent a government investigation constitutes obstruction of justice."
And "finally, there's another investigation" into his $5 million book deal and "whether he used government workers to write and edit the book." The law says it is a crime to convert government resources for personal financial gain; it's called corruption, Jarrett notes.
Jarrett says on the civil side, all eleven harassment accusers can use the evidence gathered "to bring lawsuits for money damages against Cuomo and the state of New York for three things: sexual harassment, retaliation and a hostile work environment. Those are the laws that AG Letitia James concluded that Andrew Cuomo egregiously violated."
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Home Projects Biochemistry INVESTIGATION INTO ETHNO MEDICINAL CLAIMS ON THE AERIAL PARTS OF ALCHORNEA CORDIFOLIA
INVESTIGATION INTO ETHNO MEDICINAL CLAIMS ON THE AERIAL PARTS OF ALCHORNEA CORDIFOLIA
1.1 BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Medicinal Plants have recently become of great interest owing to their versatile applications. These plants are considered as rich resources of ingredients which can be used in drug development and synthesis. In many part of the world medicinal plant have been used for antibacterial, antifungal and antiviral activities for hundreds of years (Ali et al., 1998; Barhour et al., 2004; Yasunaka et al., 2005). More than 30% of the pharmaceutical preparations are based on plants (Shinwari and Khan, 1998). An increasing reliance on the use of these medicinal plants in the industrialized societies has been traced to the extraction and development of several drugs and chemotherapeutics from medicinal plants.
Recent research has begun to reveal impressive fact about the scale of the developed world dependence upon medicinal plant and the monetary and social value that these usages represent (Farnsworth et al., 1991). Researchers are increasingly turning attention to medicinal plant and looking for new leads to develop better drugs against diseases (Ibrahim 1997; Tower et al., 2001; Koshy et al., 2009). They have identified number of compounds used in mainstream medicine which were derived from ethnomedical plant source (Fabricant and Farnsworth 2001).
According to World Health Organization (WHO), medicinal plants would be the best source to obtain variety of drugs. An estimate of 80% individuals from developed countries uses traditional medicines, which has compounds derived from medicinal plant. Most populations still rely on traditional medicines for their psychological and physical health requirements (Rabe and VanStoden, 2000), since they cannot afford the products of Western pharmaceutical industries (Salie et al., 1996). These medicinal plant possess therapeutically properties which are useful in healing various diseases and the advantage of these medicinal plant are natural (Kalemba et al., 2003). These plants contain chemicals which are classified into primary and secondary metabolites. The primary metabolites are widely distributed in nature and are obtained from higher plants.
Plants generally produce many secondary metabolites which provide definite physiological action on the human body and these bioactive substances include alkaloids, steroids, tannins, glycosides, volatile oils, fixed oils, resins, phenols and flavonoids which are deposited in their specific parts such as leaves, flowers, bark, seeds, fruits, root and are biosynthetically derived from primary metabolite and constitute an important source of microbicide, pesticide and many pharmaceutical drugs. These secondary metabolites have been directly or indirectly playing an important role in the human society to combat disease (Wink et al., 2005). Secondary metabolites are frequently accumulated by plant in small quantities than the primary metabolites (Karuppusamy, 2009). The most important of these bioactive compounds of plants are alkaloids, flavonoids, tannins and phenolic compounds (Edoga et al., 2005). Screening of these medicinal plants for antimicrobial and elementological activities are important for finding potential new compounds for therapeutic use.
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Establish the ethno medicinal claims on the aerial parts of ALCHORNEA CORDIFOLIA
Characterize some compound(s) that may be responsible for the claimed ethno medicinal values.
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i. Determine the phytochemical ingredient contained in the plant
ii. Investigate the antimicrobial activity of the plant extracts.
This research is designed to screen alchornea cordifolia medicinal plant obtained from Awo-omamma community, Imo state, Nigeria, verifying the extent to which the medicinal plant can contribute to the treatment of various diseases.
In this study, there will be an investigation on the usage of this medicinal plant, through phytochemical screening, antimicrobial studies . It will also be evaluating the systematical screening of plant species with the purpose of discovering new bioactive compounds which will be of great important to chemistry and to pharmaceutical industry.
This study justifies the fact that medicinal plants have a promising future because there are about half a million plants around the world that are yet to be investigated. The choice of Alchornea cordifolia is based on its vast medicinal importance in Awo-omamma community of Imo State and other parts of the South-East region of Nigeria..
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Twitter IPO: Tough Road Ahead?
"We've confidentially submitted an S-1 to the SEC for a planned IPO. This Tweet does not constitute an offer of any securities for sale." With these words, on September 12th Twitter not so confidentially announced its decision to initiate the transition to becoming a public company. And ever since then, Twitter has appeared in financial news every day regarding its prospects about the IPO process. From talking about the slightest amendments made in the latest version of the S-1 sent to the SEC, or to the growing worry that Twitter is slowly losing user base, few news stories seem more prevalent than Twitter's IPO.
However, in the midst of the Twitter fervor stands one man who is not necessarily all too hyped about the social media startup. Shai Bernstein, assistant professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, in his 2012 research paper Does Going Public Affect Innovation? notes that recent startup businesses entering public equity markets become, overall, less innovative as a firm. Specifically, he notes that post-IPO tend to pursue less-novel projects while experiencing high employee turnover (Bernstein).
According to Bernstein, measuring a firm's level of innovation is a great proxy for measuring its success as well. Especially within industries where firms heavily rely on product differentiation and out-of-the-box creativity to ensure an edge over competitors, innovation plays an important role directing a company's future prospects.
In his study, Bernstein compared two types of tech companies: 1) those that went public, and 2) those that were about to go public but had withdrawn IPO plans. What he found was that amongst firms of similar size, R&D spending, and in the same sector, the ones that went public significantly dropped in number of quality and original patents. For instance, he found that the average quality of those patents, as measured by how often they were cited, declined by about 40% in the 5 years after going public. By contrast, companies that remained private stayed on the same track as before (Bernstein).
In addition to patents analysis, Bernstein found that post-IPO firms experienced higher rates of management turnovers. He notes that many executives leave the firm after cashing out on their equity in the company because, and even worse, the ones that stay after the IPO become less productive (Bernstein). This caused a serious brain drain for many of the companies that went through with the IPO, and also led to the overall decrease in the firm's internal innovation level.
Bernstein notes that there exists a complex trade-off between public and private ownership forms. While private firms are far more ambitious in its projects and innovative in its ideas, public firms have easier access to capital that enables firms to bring other innovative thinkers or are able to acquire small innovative companies (even though the public company itself might not be as innovative) (Bernstein). Certainly, the pressures from outside investors coupled with equity market conditions have a great impact on how companies behave after their IPO, which significantly affect its course of direction moving forward (Bernstein).
So what does all of this have to do with Twitter? Is Twitter going to become less innovative and experience significant decreases in human capital after the IPO? Probably, the answer is a no. Although I am not psychic, I think there are some points of considerations that allow Twitter margins of insulation from the potential harms of an IPO that Bernstein discusses.
The biggest difference is the fact that Twitter is a social media company that relies less on developing new innovative products. It is more focused on generating public recognition and usage. What sets Twitter apart fundamentally from the tech companies in Bernstein's study is that Twitter is a benefactor of public attention, while for the latter it is a hit or miss. Whether Twitter receives good press or bad press from the media, the very act of public discussion about Twitter keeps its name relevant in the public domain. Twitter users don't factor in the financial competency of the company to decide whether to use its products. Twitter does not require continuous patent developments to keep thriving; as long as it can provide the same level user experience for people then, for the most part, people do not complain. And as long as people are using Twitter as a medium of social media, then its business will stay afloat. Unless a major breakthrough in social media or changes in social norms of online communication strikes Twitter out of left field, the need for constant innovation is not a requirement for Twitter.
With this said, as Twitter prepares its IPO, scheduled for mid-November, Bernstein's finding is nonetheless an important warning that Twitter should take heed. Especially in today's day and age where new Apps pop up in iOS and Android on a daily basis, it is ever important to maintain knowledge of the changing industry and the key players involved.
To taper or not to taper: that is the question that has defined the Federal Reserve, market participants, and the public debates over monetary policy throughout the last twelve months. Following the start of the third round of Quantitative Easing on September 13, 2012, the Fed is currently represented by the uncertainty around the tapering of QE3.
Over the past two decades, the Federal Reserve has made an effort to increase the transparency of its monetary policy. Since 1994, the Fed has announced its target for the federal funds rate, published Federal Open Market Committee statements, released FOMC minutes three weeks after meetings, and, in 2012, even attached explicit threshold indicators that would alter the Fed's view of longer run monetary policy goals . This idea of "forward guidance" serves as a way for the central bank to communicate with households, businesses, and market participants about the FOMC's stance on monetary policy and its future actions. Through forward guidance, the Committee expects that more certainty in the Fed's monetary policy can push down long- term interest rates, increase capital investment, and improve financial conditions.
While the Fed has acknowledged the benefits of forward guidance, the Federal Open Market Committee is trying to determine how and when to begin tapering its asset purchases. Following the September FOMC meeting, the FOMC press release statement indicated that the "the Committee decided to await more evidence that progress will be sustained before adjusting the pace of its purchases. Accordingly, the Committee decided to continue purchasing additional agency mortgage-backed securities at a pace of $40 billion per month and longer-term Treasury securities at a pace of $45 billion per month." However, despite the fact that the Fed has forward guidance for the federal funds rate, the tapering of QE3 remains up in the air. There was much anticipation that tapering would begin in September, but in a 9-1 vote, the FOMC voted to keep long scale asset purchases at $85 billion per month.
The recent government shutdown has made it harder to forecast and understand the economy. The dismissal of 800,000 "non-essential" government workers includes employees of the Census Bureau, Department of Commerce, and the Department of Labor who attain and analyze economic indicators. Without these economic indicators, there has been more uncertainty in the economy, and it may be more difficult for the Fed to understand current economic conditions. Economists predict that the 16-day government shutdown will shave 0.3% off the 4th quarter of GDP growth in 2013. The government shutdown has also created a gap in the data stream of indicators the Fed needs in order to understand current economic conditions. Due to this hole in the data stream of economic information, the FOMC will be unable to fully assess the economy during its December meeting.
A taper in January is also questionable. Following the January meeting, Bernanke will step down and four new Federal Reserve Bank presidents will fill rotating seats in the committee. It seems plausible that tapering will most likely happen in March, but waiting till then would add another $255 billion to the Fed's swelling $3.81 trillion balance sheet.
Because the Fed defines "solid economic growth," the Fed's tapering is not bound to any concrete threshold. In a June speech, Bernanke predicted that asset purchases would come to an end when the unemployment rate was in the "vicinity" of 7%. Despite a 7.2% unemployment rate, Bernanke has still asserted that a reduction in asset purchases would not begin until there is "solid economic growth supporting further job gains." Although unemployment has been dropping steadily since April 2010, a lower unemployment rate does not always indicate more jobs. As economist Paul Krugman points out, the declining unemployment rate is mostly due to the paralleled decreasing percentage of Americans participating in the labor force.
As The Economist understands, "The Fed needs to spell out its priorities and plans much more fully." In our current uncertain and tepid economic recovery, the Fed must consider the positive attributes of more transparency. John Williams, president of the San Francisco Fed, recognizes that "every step we've taken toward greater openness and clearer communication has made our policies more effective and has served to enhance the Fed's accountability and transparency." It is time for the FOMC to give the market a better understanding of the impending unwinding of the Fed's balance sheet.
Out of the frying pan and into the fire. Last month Russell Wasendorf, Sr. attempted to commit suicide via asphyxiation by using a hose to funnel the exhaust from his Chevy into the car. A Good Samaritan thwarted his attempt and saved his life. He is currently in jail awaiting trail where he will be charged with stealing around $200 million dollars from his own clients for the past twenty years.
Within the financial world $200 million is not a particularly large amount of money. A scandal of this magnitude, although terrible, would not normally ring many alarms, but following the Madoff Ponzi scheme and the collapse of MF Global, it has done so, and with good reason. This outright theft, along with the more recent LIBOR fixing scandal, has, to a certain extent, confirmed the public fear that the financial industry cannot always be trusted to keep investors' money safe. This fear is helping to fuel the current economic downturn as investors continue to lose faith and withdraw money from financial markets. Although this doubt in the system is certainly justified and is clearly an important issue, these recent scandals also beg a more fundamental question: Can regulators be trusted to regulate?
It is almost laughable how simply Wasendorf was able to fool U.S. regulators as he stole hundreds of millions of dollars through his futures firm Peregrine Financial Group. The ultimate authority for regulating firms such as Peregrine resides with the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), which, because of its limited resources, delegates most of the oversight, such as regular auditing, to the National Futures Association (NFA). The NFA, an internal self-regulatory organization, had audited Peregrine three times since 2010 and failed to pick up on the fraud. Even more shocking is the fact that Wasendorf was able to frustrate the NFA's attempts to verify Peregrine's bank statements simply by sending them forgeries. Instead of picking up the phone or contacting the bank electronically, the NFA relied on written mail to reach Peregrine's bank. The only problem was that Wasendorf had provided his own P.O. box as the bank's address. Receiving these letters himself, Wasendorf was easily able to falsify records. He wrote, "Using a combination of Photoshop, Excel, scanners, and both laser and ink jet printers I was able to make very convincing forgeries of nearly every document that came from the Bank." When the NFA finally gained enough sense to contact the bank for electronic records, they stumbled upon nearly twenty years of fraud.
Although it is clear that regulators at the CFTC and NFA cannot be blamed for this scandal, it is rather astounding just how incompetent they were at detecting it. When this failure is seen in aggregate with the several other scandals around the financial world, doubts quickly begin to arise about nearly all regulators' abilities to provide oversight. They are clearly struggling to do their jobs effectively. Blame, however, should not fall solely on their shoulders, for they are playing at a natural disadvantage, which can be seen if we consider the massive disparity in resources between the financial services industry and those organizations that regulate them. The CFTC for example, which is one of the largest regulatory agencies in the United States, employs roughly 700 people and has a budget of about $200 million. Goldman Sachs, on the other hand—a single bank that participates in the futures trading regulated by the CFTC—employs about 47 times as many people and has about 22 times as much spending money, with 33,000 workers and $ 4.4 billion in net income for 2011. With this absurd discrepancy of resources in mind, it should come as no shock that regulators struggle to keep up with financial firms' attempts to skirt regulations (both legally and illegally).
It seems obvious that regulators are struggling to do their job and provide the policing that the financial industry needs, even if it is not entirely their fault. Although this may not be the main problem behind financial scandals, it is certainly present and fueling the flames of fraud. If we wish to change the industry that has caused so much grief though its greed, changing the organizations that are meant to prevent this fraud may be a good place to start.
On March 23, the Better Alternative Trading System (BATS) exchange saw a crash due to technical issues on the same day its own company made its initial public offering. The crash precipitated inquiries into high-frequency trading and the automation of financial markets.
BATS Global Markets planned to offer over seven million shares, at $16 apiece, on its own exchange, a high-frequency trading venue. After the shares opened at $15.25 under the ticker "BATS," within nine seconds they fell to four cents per share, at one point spiking below one penny per share, forcing a halt and the subsequent withdrawal of the company's IPOs from its own listings.
"Although our affected market has reopened, in the wake of today's technical issues, which affected the trading of certain stocks, including that of BATS, we believe withdrawing the IPO is the appropriate action to take for our Company and our shareholders," wrote Joe Ratterman, BATS chairman, in a statement that afternoon.
It turns out that the crash at the third-biggest U.S. stock-exchange venue was due to a coding error that disrupted trading in firms with ticker symbols from A to BFZZZ. Along with BATS itself, Apple was also affected, with a slump of 9.4% within about five minutes before trading was suspended by circuit-breaker rules.
The BATS exchange's largest investors include trading firm Getco and investment banks such as Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse, and Bank of America. These banks, in addition to Deutsche Bank, Sandler O'Neill, Wedbush Securities, Raymond James, Rosenblatt Securities and Nomura were to be lead and co-managers of the exchange's IPO. The underwriting agreement, however, was canceled on March 23 according to BATS.
BATS appeared to be quite undamaged by the crash as a venue for trading. By March 27 the exchange's market share has recovered to 11%, about two-thirds of NASDAQ, and close to the New York Stock Exchange – the only two exchange venues surpassing BATS in volume. However, BATS's credibility as a venue for IPOs was hurt. It is rare for a company to withdraw its IPO after the IPO has been priced, as BATS did.
More importantly, the crash renewed alarmed inquiries into the use of high-speed trading and the automation of financial markets, and recalled attention to the May 6, 2010 flash crash, where the Dow Jones Industrial Average crashed around 700 points before recovering the losses within minutes. During the 2010 flash crash, bursts of giant stock orders had flooded the high-speed equity trading markets. It was after the flash crash that the Securities and Exchange Commission and Commodity Futures Trading Commission launched circuit breakers for single stock and index product trading, which was triggered in halting Apple's trades on March 23.
The SEC has announced a new probe into high frequency trading. In particular, the SEC plans to probe into whether high frequency traders used their relationships with automated stock exchanges like BATS to conduct "quote stuffing" and other practices, potentially leading to market drop, according to the Wall Street Journal. The inquiry may extend to the May 23 glitches at BATS.
Georgetown University financial markets professor James Angel, who had testified before Congress on the risks of high frequency trading, noted that the stoppage in the trading of Apple shares on March 23 indicated the problem with circuit breakers, according to the International Financial Law Review.
"If there was a systemic thing hitting Apple you want the circuit breakers to kick in, but there was no change in supply and demand [of Apple stock]," Angel told the IFLR. Angel supports use of limit up – limit down bands, proposed last April by a group of national securities exchanges that included BATS, NASDAQ, NYSE and the Chicago Stock Exchange. According to Angel, such bands would have prevented the halting of the market by introducing a band outside of which trade cannot happen for individual securities.
However, the calculations involved to determine the price bands would be very complex, as Angel acknowledged. He advocates a simpler limit up – limit down plan that has a less complicated algorithm, so that the risk of a bandwidth overload computing error could be lower, while trading stoppages of equities, such as happened with Apple on March 23, could be prevented. As BATS recovered from the crash, there does seem to be a need to probe further into the infrastructures of high-frequency trading.
With the world's second largest economy after the United States, China has definite potential to exert strong influence on the global economy. However, largely due to the government's reluctance to laissez faire, it hasn't yet fully capitalized on its clout, especially in the global financial sector. But all that may soon change, as China's central bank chief said in early April that China may loosen overseas investment regulations for private investors.
Historically, China first voluntarily opened up to foreign trade and investment under Deng Xiaoping in 1978 with his new capitalist-inclined system that promoted market forces. Since then, China's financial sector has undergone significant reforms but it still exhibits the legacy of a centrally- planned economy in which the government, to this day, plays an instrumental role in credit allocations and pricing of capital. In addition, the government instituted a myriad of regulations that control both foreign investment into China and Chinese investment in foreign investments. Hindered by a maze of administrative procedures, foreign investors in China have complained that the Chinese government does not allow them to compete fairly with native businesses. Chinese investors that want to invest overseas, too, are heavily limited by esoteric guidelines.
However, beginning in October of 2011, the Chinese government took a significant step toward freeing up its hold of the financial sector. The deregulations include allowing foreign companies with RBM deposits outside of China to use their offshore account to directly invest in China, and allowing direct investment overseas for private Chinese investors in Wenzhou, also known as a "general financial reform zone" experiment. The government, afraid of the volatile international financial sector, decided to allow Wenzhou–a city in China recognized as the "birthplace of China's private economy" due to its role as leader in developing a commodity economy, household industries, and specialized markets in the early days of economic reforms–to experiment with direct investment overseas. Concerns over inflation and property risks have held back the Chinese government from allowing a larger-scale deregulation, but nonetheless the Wenzhou experiment is widely acknowledged by the international community as a significant step forward.
Besides de jure governmental regulations, there are many de facto barriers to Chinese involvement in foreign trade. The most prohibiting factor to foreign trade is not what the laws say, but rather the existence of confusing, and often conflicting, laws at all levels of government. A unitary state with 23 provinces, 5 special autonomous regions, 4 self-governing municipalities, 2 special administrative regions, and a hierarchy of departments at all levels, China has innumerable bodies with legislative and enforcement powers that can influence foreign firms' operations. Many foreign, and even native, companies have vocalized the impossibility of navigating the Chinese bureaucracy. A common phrase in Chinese business circles is, "It's okay since no firm is 100% in compliance with regulations." This trend poses significant legal risk for potential foreign investors.
Another substantial barrier to investment in Chinese markets is the inability of foreign private equity firms to freely convert RBM into other currencies. In terms of entry into Chinese market, foreign entrants must obtain special permission from the Ministry of Commerce to make investment in China using foreign currency-denominated funding pools. The Ministry of Commerce, then, picks certain transactions that it considers beneficial for the country and its policies. Later, the lack of RMB convertibility means that it's difficult for a company to get its profits out of China. Again, companies require Ministry of Commerce permission, and are subject to different regulations depending on which individual in the Ministry handled the case, and his or her interpretation of the laws. Currently, successful foreign companies in China exploit the murky financial environment by taking advantage of unpredictable legal enforcement and shady accounting through local knowledge and networks.
However gloomy and risky foreign investors view the opportunities in China, one thing is for certain: they all want a slice of the large economic pie. "The more open China is to the world, the more benefits China will get and the more competitive local industry will be," said Li Xiaogang, director of the Foreign Investment Research Center at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences. Following a similar philosophy, the Chinese government has begun responding to international pressure and removing itself as the referee in the financial markets. Ironically, Chinese deregulation may eventually level out the playing field in China's financial sector, and with foreign companies as players, all the participants may reap benefits.
It has been almost a year since the act's passage and American consumers have yet to see substantial benefits from the reform. On the flip side, however, the banking and financial industry have been hit hard by Dodd-Frank, with the numerous regulations increasing costs and cutting into profits. Clearly, there is value to transparency on Wall Street, but the cost of reform begs the question of whether Dodd-Frank is truly a worthwhile endeavor.
Greenspan's theoretical objections to Dodd-Frank have already begun to materialize as the legislation has had unintended consequences. For instance, regulations preventing banks from placing certain charges on consumers—such as capping interchange fees at 7 cents a transaction—have caused banks to search for alternative means to charge clients. These alternate methods have included charging annual fees on debit cards and increasing ATM fees. Thus, just as Greenspan warned, regulations that distort the market can yield unpredictable consequences. In this particular example, consumers may actually be worse off, as banks are now levying more fees on consumers to account for their losses due to Dodd- Frank.
In addition to creating market distortions, Dodd-Frank fails to achieve its main purpose. Created in reaction to the 2008 Financial Crisis, the reform's primary purpose is to prevent another potential meltdown. Yet Dodd-Frank's insistence on consumer protection may actually be fueling another credit bubble—the underlying cause of the 2008 disaster. Regulation over the past decade has consistently resulted in the expansion of mortgage credit, which in turn created the housing bubble. While Wall Street was indeed partly at fault for the crisis, due to its proliferation of collateralized debt obligations and faulty credit ratings, government sponsored mortgage lending was the leading driver of the collapse. Supporting the subprime market through Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government enabled the accumulation of high-risk loans that ultimately precipitated the meltdown. But instead of changing the government's approach to mortgages, Dodd-Frank still maintains "government-imposed lending quotas" on banks, leading America down the same path that led to the financial crisis.
Rather than focusing on complex regulations, a simpler approach would be to address the dangers of easy credit. As demonstrated by Greenspan, the more complex economic regulations become, the more unpredictable the market becomes. While Dodd-Frank clearly attempts to aid the average American consumer, it may be doing more harm than good, while simultaneously ignoring the larger issue of credit.
The House has already voted to repeal Dodd-Frank, and GOP leaders in the Senate have introduced a repeal bill as well. However, this repeal bill has almost no chance of getting past a Democrat controlled Senate.
Regardless of what happens to the status of Dodd-Frank, it is important that policymakers know that regulation is not always the answer. In continuing to stress lending-quotas, Dodd-Frank is perpetuating a dangerous precedent that will ultimately need to be addressed.


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INTERVIEW: Mark Robins reflects on City's 4-0 win over Grimsby Town
Marc McNulty's hat-trick fires City up to sixth...
Tom Leach
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Mark Robins says that he has noticed the mentality of his side change in recent weeks as the Sky Blues extended their unbeaten run with a 4-0 win at the Ricoh Arena.
City's biggest win so far this season sees them climb up to sixth in SkyBet League Two, part thanks to a hat-trick by top-scorer Marc McNulty - City's second hat-trick hero of the season.
"I think everybody enjoyed that today," said Robins.
"It was a good professional performance.
"We were clinical in front of goal - even if it did take us a while to get going. All over the pitch we were good.
"Grimsby have had a big change around. They have tried to add pace to the side. Gary McSheffrey came in and, I would imagine, he would have been desperate to score against us today.
"They only threatened us one but that is me nitpicking. We were able to clear that chance and keep them a bay all game.
"The finish was magnificent from us. The set-pieces were good, and we haven't been good enough at that this season.
"Then to top it off: McNulty's strike for the fourth was fantastic. It was a brilliant strike.
Goals did not come fast for McNulty at first, but Robins was always adamant that the striker would come good. Today's hat-trick took the 25-year-old into the twenties for the season.
"I need to be careful because people will start to think I know what I am talking about," he said with a laugh.
"The most pleasing goal for me was the second. Clarke-Harris did all the work and then gave it to him on a plate. That put the game to bed."
He added: "I am really pleased for the players today. There has been a shift in mentality and you can see that. The belief is there. We have a tough game coming up on Friday so we will not get carried away, but we will enjoy this tonight.
"The suporters have enjoyed that and they have got right behind us today. We want to keep this going."
Coventry City vs Grimsby Town on 24 Mar 18


Are you an empathetic, helpful and caring person? A career in community services is all about making a living through helping others – and it's a field that's vital to maintaining the wellbeing of the community at large.
Community services workers are in high demand. The industry is in constant need of qualified, trained professionals to help those who need it the most. You could find yourself working with the elderly or disabled, with disadvantaged youth, with refugees, those struggling with addictions, or disadvantaged community groups.


It helps us to memorise certain prayers, so that we can use them at different times of the day and of the week, and so that our own personal prayer does not become too narrow. These prayers are especially useful and powerful when we do not know how to pray; or when we are worried or afraid; or when we are facing special trials or temptations. There are many prayers worth memorising – the more the better! Here are five essential prayers to memorise and use.
The Sign of the Cross: In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. [Cross yourself by using your right hand to touch your forehead, then your chest, then your left shoulder, and then your right shoulder].
The Our Father: Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen.
The Hail Mary: Hail Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women, and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Amen.
The Glory Be: Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit. As it was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be, world without end. Amen.
Here are five other extremely useful prayers, which you can gradually memorise.
Come Holy Spirit: Come, O Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful, and enkindle in them the fire of your love. [Verse] Send forth your Spirit, and they shall be created. [Response] And you shall renew the face of the earth. Let us pray: O God, who has taught the hearts of the faithful by the light of the Holy Spirit, grant that by the gift of the same Spirit we may be always truly wise and ever rejoice in his consolation. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.
Hail, Holy Queen: Hail, Holy Queen, Mother of Mercy; hail our life, our sweetness, and our hope! To thee do we cry, poor banished children of Eve. To thee do we send up our sighs, mourning and weeping in this vale of tears. Turn then, most gracious advocate, thine eyes of mercy towards us, and after this, our exile, show unto us the blessed fruit of thy womb, Jesus. O clement, O loving, O sweet Virgin Mary. [Verse] Pray for us, O holy Mother of God. [Response] That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ.
The Memorare: Remember, O most loving Virgin Mary, that it is a thing unheard of, that anyone ever had recourse to your protection, implored your help, or sought your intercession, was left forsaken. Filled therefore with confidence in your goodness I fly to you, O Mother, Virgin of virgins. To you I come, before you I stand, a sorrowful sinner. Despise not my poor words, O Mother of the Word Incarnate, but graciously hear and answer my prayer. Amen.
Prayer for the dead: Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. May they rest in peace. Amen. [And make the sign of the cross at the same time].
Prayer to your Guardian Angel: Angel of God, my guardian dear, to whom God's love commits me here; ever this day be at my side, to light and guard, to rule and guide. Amen.
Here are five other prayers to say during the day.
A morning offering: O Jesus, through the Immaculate Heart of Mary, I offer you my prayers, works, joys, and sufferings of this day, in union with the holy sacrifice of the Mass throughout the world. I offer them for all the intentions of your Sacred Heart, and for the intentions of the Holy Father. Help me not to sin today. Help me to love you, and to love my neighbour, and to do your holy will in all things. [There are many versions of this prayer, but the main idea is simply to start each day by offering everything that will happen during the day to God].
The Angelus: The Angel of the Lord declared to Mary: And she conceived of the Holy Spirit. HAIL MARY, etc… Behold the handmaid of the Lord: Be it done to me according to your word. HAIL MARY, etc… And the Word was made Flesh: And dwelt among us: HAIL MARY, etc… Pray for us, O holy Mother of God: That we may be made worthy of the promises of Christ. Let us pray: Pour forth, we beseech you, O Lord, your grace into our hearts, that we, to whom the Incarnation of Christ, your Son, was made known by the message of an angel, may be brought by his passion and cross to the glory of his resurrection, through the same Christ our Lord. Amen. May the divine assistance remain always with us, and may the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen. [To remind us that God the Son became man for our salvation. Traditionally said in the morning, at midday, and in the early evening. It is customary to genuflect at the phrase 'And the Word was made Flesh'].
Grace before meals: Bless us, O Lord, and these thy gifts, which we are about to receive from thy bounty, through Christ our Lord. Amen.
Thanksgiving after meals: We give you thanks, almighty God, for these and all your benefits, who live and reign, world without end. Amen. [It is customary then to pray for the dead] May the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. Amen.
Commendation: [Just before going to sleep] Jesus, Mary and Joseph, I give you my heart and my soul. Jesus, Mary and Joseph, assist me in my final agony. Jesus, Mary and Joseph, may I breathe forth my soul in peace with you.
In the tradition of Catholic prayers an 'act' is a prayer in which we express our conviction about something. When we make an 'act' we strengthen this conviction and it becomes more a part of us. It's like telling someone that we love them: This is not just passing on information, it actually makes the love more real and powerful. We can make these 'acts' at any time. We should especially make them when our conviction is weak or even disappearing, because that is just when we need to renew them. For example, if you feel your faith is weak or even non-existent, that is the very time to make an act of faith – even though we don't feel like it. This is not hypocrisy. Praying an 'act' allows us to touch something deeper than our feelings, and strengthens and renews that hidden conviction.
An act of charity: My God, because you are so good, I love you with all my heart, and for your sake, I love my neighbour as myself.
An act of contrition: O my God, because you are so good, I am very sorry that I have sinned against you; and I promise that with the help of your grace, I will not sin again. Amen.
An act of entrustment to the Sacred Heart: Sacred Heart of Jesus, I put my trust in thee. Sacred Heart of Jesus, have mercy on me.


I can't believe it's been over 2 weeks since I sat down and wrote something here. We have had a chance to settle into our new lot here in Blythe and are getting the daily schedules down.
Every Monday morning there is a coffee session by the pool with treats - Yum! We even had a board meeting last week so we are still trying to figure who's who in the zoo (so to speak). Allan has signed up to help with the website so he will keep busy working on that. He also indicated he might help out with sorting out the accounting system, now that we have to do it ourselves. The only thing is he has to figure out how they do things in California/USA rather than Alberta/Canada. There are differences, but I understand that 2+2 still equals 4 and that should help.
Every morning I head to the pool and take part in some water exercises. We have a lot of fun and then relax in the hot tub afterward in order to keep the muscles from seizing up. Tomorrow is the American Thanksgiving and the park is having a big Thanksgiving feast. The social committee is providing the turkey, stuffing, gravy and potatoes. We have to bring our utensils, beverage of choice and something for the potluck. I think I will be making a carrot salad.
We went to Yuma last week for the day to do some visiting and some shopping. Allan took a wrong turn at one point and we drove past some other friends from Calgary. For those of you who know Donna and Marv, they are doing fine and enjoying themselves here. Spent a little time with them before heading over to Dianne and Stan for a quick visit. After that we headed to the flea market, the bank and of course WalMart. We headed out of Yuma rather late and it's a 1.5 hour drive back. Allan decided that since it was so late we would go to the Sizzler for dinner - Yum! They actually have a pretty good salad bar.
Monday we had to sort of pack up the trailer and move over on our lot as the construction crew is supposed to be here on Tuesday morning to get the lot ready to pour the concrete pad. Well we got up early and they were supposed to be here "first thing in the morning" and guess what they never showed. Well it's Wednesday morning and still no show. I doubt they will work Thursday or Friday seeing at it's Thanksgiving here. So I guess maybe next week they will show up. It's a good thing we have understanding neighbours as we are just about in their lot.
Oh well, time to have some breakfast and then head over to the pool.


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Childhood trauma and risk for chronic fatigue syndrome Association with Neuroendocrine Dysfunction
Christine Heim, Urs M. Nater, Elizabeth Maloney, Roumiana Boneva, James F. Jones, William C. Reeves
Social Science Research Institute (SSRI)
Child Maltreatment Solutions Network
Context: Childhood trauma appears to be a potent risk factor for chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). Evidence from developmental neuroscience suggests that early experience programs the development of regulatory systems that are implicated in the pathophysiology of CFS, including the hypothalamic-pituitary- adrenal axis. However, the contribution of childhood trauma to neuroendocrine dysfunction in CFS remains obscure. Objectives: To replicate findings on the relationship between childhood trauma and risk for CFS and to evaluate the association between childhood trauma and neuroendocrine dysfunction in CFS. Design, Setting, and Participants: A case-control study of 113 persons with CFS and 124 well control subjects identified from a general population sample of 19 381 adult residents of Georgia. Main Outcome Measures: Self-reported childhood trauma (sexual, physical, and emotional abuse; emotional and physical neglect), psychopathology (depression, anxiety, and posttraumatic stress disorder), and salivary cortisol response to awakening. Results: Individuals with CFS reported significantly higher levels of childhood trauma and psychopathological symptoms than control subjects. Exposure to childhood trauma was associated with a 6-fold increased risk of CFS. Sexual abuse, emotional abuse, and emotional neglect were most effective in discriminating CFS cases from controls. There was a graded relationship between exposure level and CFS risk. The risk of CFS conveyed by childhood trauma further increased with the presence of posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms. Only individuals with CFS and with childhood trauma exposure, but not individuals with CFS without exposure, exhibited decreased salivary cortisol concentrations after awakening compared with control subjects. Conclusions: Our results confirm childhood trauma as an important risk factor of CFS. In addition, neuroendocrine dysfunction, a hallmark feature of CFS, appears to be associated with childhood trauma. This possibly reflects a biological correlate of vulnerability due to early developmental insults. Our findings are critical to inform pathophysiological research and to devise targets for the prevention of CFS.
Archives of General Psychiatry
https://doi.org/10.1001/archgenpsychiatry.2008.508
10.1001/archgenpsychiatry.2008.508
Dive into the research topics of 'Childhood trauma and risk for chronic fatigue syndrome Association with Neuroendocrine Dysfunction'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Medicine & Life Sciences 100%
Childhood Arts & Humanities 93%
Fatigue Arts & Humanities 91%
Syndrome Arts & Humanities 68%
Trauma Arts & Humanities 64%
Sexual Abuse Arts & Humanities 18%
Cortisol Arts & Humanities 15%
Heim, C., Nater, U. M., Maloney, E., Boneva, R., Jones, J. F., & Reeves, W. C. (2009). Childhood trauma and risk for chronic fatigue syndrome Association with Neuroendocrine Dysfunction. Archives of General Psychiatry, 66(1), 72-80. https://doi.org/10.1001/archgenpsychiatry.2008.508
Heim, Christine ; Nater, Urs M. ; Maloney, Elizabeth et al. / Childhood trauma and risk for chronic fatigue syndrome Association with Neuroendocrine Dysfunction. In: Archives of General Psychiatry. 2009 ; Vol. 66, No. 1. pp. 72-80.
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Jacobsen syndrome: Report of a patient with severe eye anomalies, growth hormone deficiency, and hypothyroidism associated with deletion 11(q23q25) and review of 52 cases
E. K. Pivnick, G. V.N. Velagaleti, R. S. Wilroy, M. E. Smith, S. R. Rose, R. E. Tipton, A. T. Tharapel
We have evaluated a patient with Jacobsen syndrome. The patient presented with growth retardation, hypotonia, trigonocephaly, telecanthus, downward slanting palpebral fissures, bilateral inferior colobomas (of the iris, choroid, and retina), hydrocephalus, central nervous system (CNS) abnormalities, and an endocardial cushion defect, features commonly seen in Jacobsen syndrome. Endocrine evaluation showed growth hormone deficiency and central hypothyroidism, Chromosome analysis showed a 46,XX,del(11) (q23q25) de novo karyotype. Cytogenetically, the deletion appeared to include most of bands 11q23 and q24 and a portion of q25. Using chromosome specific paint probe, a combination of chromosome 11 centromere, telomere, and region specific cosmid probes from 11q14.1-14.3, 11q23.3, and 11q24.1, we have localised the deletion breakpoint to q24.1. Phenotype-karyotype correlation of patients with Jacobsen syndrome and specific deletions of chromosome 11q was enabled us to suggest that the critical region for this syndrome lies in close proximity to cytogenetic band 11q24. Although growth retardation is a consistent finding in 11q deletion syndrome, the presence of hypothalamic-pituitary hormone deficiency has not been reported previously.
Journal of medical genetics
https://doi.org/10.1136/jmg.33.9.772
Deletion 11(q23q25)
Jacobsen syndrome
Genetics(clinical)
10.1136/jmg.33.9.772
Fingerprint Dive into the research topics of 'Jacobsen syndrome: Report of a patient with severe eye anomalies, growth hormone deficiency, and hypothyroidism associated with deletion 11(q23q25) and review of 52 cases'. Together they form a unique fingerprint.
Jacobsen Distal 11q Deletion Syndrome Medicine & Life Sciences
Hypothyroidism Medicine & Life Sciences
Karyotype Medicine & Life Sciences
Telecanthus Medicine & Life Sciences
Endocardial Cushion Defects Medicine & Life Sciences
Chromosomes Medicine & Life Sciences
Pivnick, E. K., Velagaleti, G. V. N., Wilroy, R. S., Smith, M. E., Rose, S. R., Tipton, R. E., & Tharapel, A. T. (1996). Jacobsen syndrome: Report of a patient with severe eye anomalies, growth hormone deficiency, and hypothyroidism associated with deletion 11(q23q25) and review of 52 cases. Journal of medical genetics, 33(9), 772-778. https://doi.org/10.1136/jmg.33.9.772
Jacobsen syndrome : Report of a patient with severe eye anomalies, growth hormone deficiency, and hypothyroidism associated with deletion 11(q23q25) and review of 52 cases. / Pivnick, E. K.; Velagaleti, G. V.N.; Wilroy, R. S.; Smith, M. E.; Rose, S. R.; Tipton, R. E.; Tharapel, A. T.
In: Journal of medical genetics, Vol. 33, No. 9, 1996, p. 772-778.
Pivnick, EK, Velagaleti, GVN, Wilroy, RS, Smith, ME, Rose, SR, Tipton, RE & Tharapel, AT 1996, 'Jacobsen syndrome: Report of a patient with severe eye anomalies, growth hormone deficiency, and hypothyroidism associated with deletion 11(q23q25) and review of 52 cases', Journal of medical genetics, vol. 33, no. 9, pp. 772-778. https://doi.org/10.1136/jmg.33.9.772
Pivnick EK, Velagaleti GVN, Wilroy RS, Smith ME, Rose SR, Tipton RE et al. Jacobsen syndrome: Report of a patient with severe eye anomalies, growth hormone deficiency, and hypothyroidism associated with deletion 11(q23q25) and review of 52 cases. Journal of medical genetics. 1996;33(9):772-778. https://doi.org/10.1136/jmg.33.9.772
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One issue with the joystick is that you need to rotate it clockwise 90° so that connector will fit with plastic parts inside the casing. In this case your UP will become RIGHT, DOWN will be LEFT, so basically your axis will be switched.
You can map your keys easily in Retropie and the mapping will be reflected to all RetroArch emulators, but this will not reflect to runcommand.sh menu or emulators that have hard-coded joystick configuration.
In order to have identical working configuration in all emulators you could configure your usb encoder board to work with xboxdrv which will give it consistent behavior in all emulators and you can even map certain buttons per emulator.
First you need to exit your EmulationStation GUI via menu or by pressing F4.
When you install xboxdrv end enable it, you will see a line added in your /etc/rc.local config file containing ""/opt/retropie/supplementary/xboxdrv/bin/xboxdrv" with a lot of switch options that you will need to modify later.
Trying to configure this to work as I expected is more work than I could ever imagine.
There is a wiki page dedicated to this topic, but I think I found an easier way to do it.
And follow the on-screen instructions as a result you will be presented with xboxdrv command line that you should put in your /etc/rc.local file.
Blue colored text is the part of the command added from resulting identify_evdev.py and also I have removed few conflicting switches from original command added when xboxdrv was installed from retropie-setup script.
After you reboot or manually start the long command you have created you can start your EmulationStation agan and map the keys now using the newly recognized "Xbox Gamepad (userspace driver)" device.
input_device = "Xbox Gamepad (userspace driver)"
Since now I have my "Bus 001 Device 004: ID 0079:0006 DragonRise Inc. Generic USB Joystick" mapped as generic "Xbox Gamepad (userspace driver)" you can have a look at tweaking your configuration in various ways, for example different key-mapping per emulator. You can read about this more at the wiki page.