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Duke vs. Baylor Preview
Brian Evans September 12, 2018
Quentin Harris | Photo: © Quinn Harris-USA TODAY Sports
When: Saturday, September 15, 2018. 3:30 pm
Where: McLane Stadium, Waco, Texas
Television: Fox Sports 1
Line: Duke +6.5
Last Time: Duke 34, Baylor 20. The Duke defense clamped down in the fourth quarter and a Ben Humphreys' pick six gave enough separation on the score board for Duke to pull out the victory in a game that was much closer than expected. Shaun Wilson stole the show on offense, breaking off touchdown runs of 65 and 50 yards, totaling 176 rushing yards and 32 receiving yards on the day. Brittain Brown added a 34 yard touchdown run of his own. Joe Giles-Harris and Jeremy McDuffie also grabbed interceptions in the victory and Drew Jordan recovered a fumble in the fourth quarter to help Duke hold on. Daniel Jones was sacked five times and only managed 184 passing yards on the day, but the strong running game and timely defense moved Duke to 3-0 to begin the 2017 season.
Duke's devastating rash of injuries really makes forecasting this game difficult. The Blue Devils will be without All-ACC corner Mark Gilbert, due to a dislocated hip, and without quarterback Daniel Jones, who suffered a fractured clavicle against Northwestern. Quentin Harris will start under center for Duke and while he has been with the program for several years now, we haven't ever seen him in real game situations that weren't in a blowout game, or the occasional goal line rushing play. While it would be foolish to assume Harris will step in and be Daniel Jones 2.0, the coaches and players seem to have confidence in Harris and his ability to step in and lead the Blue Devils. Duke has gotten improved play from the wide receivers so far this year, and that could go a long way into the offense being able to replicate its production with Jones under center. After a season of fans begging for more touches for Brittain Brown and the rest of the backfield, the Duke offense has shown a willingness to lean on the runningbacks. Both Brown and Deon Jackson have proven capable of shouldering the load and they may be getting even more touches if the coaches want to keep things simple for Harris.
Baylor comes into the contest at 2-0 with victories over Abilene Christian and UTSA. The Blue Devil defense, even without Gilbert and possibly McDuffie, will be a big step up in competition for the Bears offense. The Bears' offense is averaging 357 passing yards per game on a 65% completion percentage and 5.8 yards per rush on the ground. They have been really balanced to this point so it will be interesting to see what Duke makes their primary focus defensively. The Baylor defense has not been as impressive allowing their opponents 6 yards per carry on the ground. Opposing quarterbacks are completing 61% of their passes. Duke should be able to control the line of scrimmage on offense and get Brown and Jackson going to open up things for Harris to ease into the passing attack.
The Bears sacked Daniel Jones five times in last year's matchup. It will be important for the offensive line to protect Harris and give him time to make his reads and not make mistakes. Duke allowed three sacks last week at Northwestern and could be without veteran center Zach Harmon. Harmon went down late in the game due to injury and his status for Saturday is unknown at this time.


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Baltimore needs a comprehensive approach to addiction.
Regarding your headline "Maryland awards $3 million to fight heroin, but not in Baltimore" (Aug. 8), the state of Maryland did not award money to "fight" heroin.
Maryland offered funding limited in time and scope for specific law enforcement projects. Only police departments were invited to apply for it. The money was given with a tight string, and spending it according to the imposed limits might have caused more harm than good.
The Police Department's decision not to apply for that particular funding is reasonable. The city must look to create a comprehensive and rational approach that coordinates treatment, public safety and prevention efforts. Doing a little here and a little there is a proven path to failure.
A well-reasoned plan must be created in partnership between public health and public safety. Start-up funding to cement partnerships and a shared approaches are required. Pilot projects of innovative programs and building foundations to create long-term solutions are necessary.
Gov. Larry Hogan's administration has taken actions over the last two months that severely impeded proven solutions. First, they refused to spend money legislators set aside for an initiative Baltimore City already had in place that was working: Operation Safe Streets. Second, Mr. Hogan's administration is also responsible for severely limiting medications available through Medicaid to treat people with heroin and opiate addiction.
These two actions have seriously diminished the city's efforts to "fight heroin." That is the real issue.
Why isn't the state offering funding for comprehensive programs that address the entirety of the problem? Mr. Hogan should comply with the recommendations of his own task force and allow each jurisdiction to develop effective and comprehensive solutions tied to their needs.
The writer is executive director of the Behavioral Health Leadership Institute.


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Diuretics may also change the way in which calcium is absorbed. This may have a negative effect on your bones, which may lead to the deterioration and weakness of the bones inside your mouth. If your physician determines that your diuretics are causing bone problems, he or she may prescribe a different medication that is less likely to interfere with calcium absorption. In the meantime, your dentist will closely monitor the condition of your implants and surrounding bones to make sure they are healthy.
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Phil Meyer on what to look for in covering pre-election polls
COMMENTARY | January 14, 2008
The renowned journalist-pollster offers a 5-point checklist. He sees primaries as more difficult to poll than general elections and has no problem with focusing on the horse race.
By Philip Meyer
pmeyer@email.unc.edu
Here are five things to think about while covering pre-election polls.
1. Making accurate election predictions in primaries is really hard. It always has been. For most voters, as Paul Lazarsfeld found out way back in 1940, party identification is their main guide to the voting decision. That guide is neutralized in primaries and referendum elections.
When the interviewer asks how a voter is going to decide, the person can't give a good answer if he or she doesn't know. But to admit not knowing makes the respondent feel impolite or even ignorant, and so some kind of answer is usually forthcoming. We should always be skeptical of what respondents tell interviewers in primary and referendum polls. They're not lying, their choices are just mushy.
2. Election outcomes have multiple causes. Journalists like simple explanations, hence the focus on Hillary Clinton's widely replayed episode of tearing up late in the New Hampshire campaign. But there had to be other contributing causes of her first-place finish.
For example, Jon Krosnick, professor of communication, political science and psychology at Stanford, thinks that something as simple as her position on the ballot could have had an effect. New Hampshire listed the candidates in alphabetical order from a random start, which happened to be Z. Thus Clinton was placed near the top and Obama near the bottom of the ballot – worth as much as 3 percentage points to Clinton in Krosnick's estimation. (Questionnaire design is one of his research specialties.)
3. Don't obsess over sampling error. The only reason statisticians give it so much attention is that it is easy to estimate. But those estimates assume that every member of the voter population has an equal chance of being interviewed. That's hardly ever true. The most important source of error these days is probably nonresponse. Telephone polls can't help focusing on the people who are easiest to reach.
How do they get away with it? Well, it causes no problem when the easy-to-find folks hold the same views as those who are hard to find.
But sometimes they don't. Polls chronically fall short on young people, many of whom can't be reached by land line, which is the basis of most random-digit dialing. The bias created by under-representing them can be self-correcting because young people are less likely to vote. That could change in an election where they are worried about finding jobs or getting drafted.
4. It's okay to cover the horse race. It helps build interest. Watching basketball with the score announced only at the end of the game would be pretty boring. But journalists need to drill down into the horse-race data to see where the leaders' support is coming from.
All democracies are run by coalitions of varying interests that figure out how to compromise their differences. More light needs to be shed on the process of creating these coalitions. It's easier to follow in parliamentary democracies because their multi-party systems allow voters to vote directly for their narrow concerns. Once in office, the diverse winners go through a process of give-and-take negotiation until a governing coalition is formed – hence the expression, "Politics makes strange bedfellows."
In our two-party system, the coalitions are formed in the election campaign. The process needs to be reported so that voters can know whose bed they are being invited to share. Current polls are already starting to show signs that the Republican coalition formed by Ronald Reagan is breaking up. That one paired economic conservatives protecting their wealth with social conservatives hoping to promote their religious values. If those groups split, it could be because the social conservatives are noticing that the economic conservatives never gave them much beyond lip service.
5. Don't worry about polls affecting the outcome. It's okay for voters to take information about their peers into account when making their decisions. Polls can be especially helpful when there are more than two candidates because they can enable a citizen to vote strategically. In a five-person field, a poll might show that one's first choice is running dead last while the second choice has a shot at winning. In that situation, it makes sense to avoid wasting a vote and go for the second choice.
Both bandwagon effects – voting for a person because he or she is ahead -- and underdog effects – basing a vote on sympathy for a loser – have been suggested but not confirmed. Even if such effects exist, voters have the right to use whatever information they want in making their decisions.
One positive way to use polls to help voters choose in primary elections is to report on trial heats pitting Democrat against Republican hopefuls. Most primary voters want to pick somebody who can beat the candidate of the other party. Early polls can't predict that with certainty, of course, but they can be a legitimate factor in assessing the probabilities. Pollsters and the journalists who follow them ought to provide the electorate with that information.
Philip Meyer, a 1966-'67 Nieman Fellow, recently retired as the holder of the Knight chair of Journalism at the University of North Carolina. His most recent book is "Paper Route: Finding My Way to Precision Journalism."
E-mail: pmeyer@email.unc.edu


After an amazing halloween, we left for Prague to explore the city as a weekend getaway. As you may have noticed I enjoy traveling a lot, so every opportunity to do so is welcome and phenomenal.
It was my first time in Prague, which meant really exploring the city. Sadly the weather kind of sucked, but the city was stupendous. I got sick after this getaway, yet the memories are highly cherished.
I didn't get to take proper outfit of the day pictures, because of the rain and bad weather, but I will share with you some remarkable sights of the city.


The following is a long article but it gives a good overview of the situation in Sudan at present and includes some news about what led up to the situation.
Protesters want a civilian transition government. That hasn't happened.
On April 11, the Sudanese military carried out a takeover against President Omar al-Bashir, Sudan's dictator for the past 30 years. The military takeover came after months of popular protests, with citizens demanding a democratic transition.
General Awad Ibn Auf, an ally of Bashir's, became president — but just for a day. On April 12, Ibn Auf bowed out as the protests continued. Lt. General Abdel-Fattah Burhan then assumed power.
Despite ousting two autocrats in two days, it's unclear whether Sudan will transition to democracy in the near term.
Last week's sudden shifts came amid widespread popular dissatisfaction with Bashir — some of it long-standing. The International Criminal Court accused Bashir of overseeing a genocide in Darfur, in Western Sudan, beginning in 2003. He oversaw a war against what is now South Sudan; this ultimately led to South Sudan's secession in 2011. More recently, the regime has been fighting conflicts in Blue Nile and South Kordofan states.
These internal wars have had consequences for the country's economy, including for citizens living outside conflict zones. Fighting wars is expensive. And with South Sudan's secession, Sudan lost much of its oil revenue and its steady source of foreign reserves. The regime was endemically corrupt as Bashir tried to co-opt rival elites through state resources.
Sudan's economy seriously worsened over the past year. Without the foreign reserves to pay for food and fuel imports, the regime cut subsidies. On Dec. 19, residents in the provincial town of Atbara protested and burned down the local branch of the ruling party headquarters.
The protests quickly spread to other urban areas, including Khartoum, the capital city. And the protests turned political: Protesters linked the country's poor economic situation with the government's poor governance, corruption and mismanagement of the economy.
The Sudanese Professionals Association (SPA), an umbrella group for numerous professional unions, began organizing protests in December 2018 over social media. By January, civil society, including two large political coalitions of civil society groups and opposition parties — the Sudan Call Forces and the Alliance of the National Consensus Forces — signed the Freedom and Change Charter, which demanded the resignation of the regime and a civilian transition government to usher in a new democratic era.
The protests were consistent, but fairly small in scale, from December through early April. But protests intensified on April 6 — the 34th anniversary of the popular movement that removed Sudan's last autocrat, Jaafar Nimeri. Since then, Khartoum alone has seen hundreds of thousands of protesters each day.
On April 11, the armed forces announced the dissolution of the constitution and Bashir's arrest over state TV. The takeover leaders also arrested the upper echelons of the regime.
Bashir's former defense minister, Ibn Auf, appointed himself as interim leader for a two-year (military) transition period to civilian rule. The SPA and the signatories of the Freedom and Change Charter rejected these terms, instead demanding a civilian transition government as specified in the charter.
One day later, Ibn Auf stepped down and Burhan took power. Burhan was an army officer under Bashir but unlike Ibn Auf, Burhan is purportedly popular among rank-and-file army soldiers.
The reaction from Sudan's neighbors has varied, largely along regional lines. Some Middle Eastern powers — the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Saudi Arabia — cautiously welcomed the initial takeover.
Each of these countries is trying to stem the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood domestically and regionally. They have an interest in the continuation of military rule in Sudan at the expense of Sudan's Islamist movement, which has ties to the Muslim Brotherhood regionally.
Burhan has ties to these countries — he led Sudan's troops in Yemen's ongoing civil war, at the behest of the UAE and Saudi Arabia.
The ascension of Burhan, then, suggests the consolidation of power by the military faction aligned with this Middle Eastern bloc and the further strengthening of Sudan's alliance with them. The takeover is thus a rebuke to Qatar and Turkey, whose governments each have links with the Muslim Brotherhood in the region and who have an interest in the Sudanese Islamist Movement reasserting itself in politics.
The reaction from the African Union (A.U.) could not be more different. The A.U. called Thursday's takeover an "[inappropriate] response to the challenges facing Sudan and the aspirations of its people" and called for dialogue between Sudan's new leader and the opposition.
The condemnation is in line with the A.U.'s anti-takeover norms. Since the 2000 Lome Declaration, the A.U. has rejected extra-constitutional transfers of power on the continent.
That said, the A.U. has recognized takeover plotters after they legalized their rule through a new constitution, as was the case in Zimbabwe in 2018. And with Egypt's President Abdel Fatah al-Sissi as chairman of the A.U., the organization may legitimize Burhan's presidency, too.
The SPA (Sudanese Professionals Association) and signatories of the Freedom and Change Charter have rejected both of Bashir's military replacements, calling these transitions simple "facelifts" of Bashir's regime. They urged civilians to continue protests until there is a real transition to a civilian government.
The demand for a civilian transition, in part, reflects the lessons learned from Egypt's failed popular uprising during the Arab Spring. There, the military's control over the transition hampered the ability of Mohamed Morsi — Egypt's democratically elected president after the Arab Spring — to consolidate democracy and curtail the military's strength, which eventually led to Abdel Fatah al-Sissi's coup in 2013.
On April 13, the SPA and signatories of the Freedom and Change Charter announced their representatives are in dialogue with the current Burhan government about shaping the transition.
[Editor's note: This article was updated to clarify that the initial protests broke out on Dec. 19, 2018, not Dec. 18.
Mai Hassan is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Michigan.
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Protesters in Sudan have overcome army attempts to disperse their sit-in and resumed their calls for civilian rule. German Chancellor Angela Merkel is among those calling for a quick transition to a civilian government.
The organizers of ongoing protests in Sudan demanded the new military council be scrapped and reiterated calls for a civilian government on Monday, as protesters continued a sit-in outside the army headquarters in the country's capital of Khartoum.
Thousands of demonstrators continued to rally in support of demands for civilian rule, despite an apparent attempt to disperse them following the army's removal of President Omar al-Bashir last week.
"We want the military council to be dissolved and be replaced by a civilian council having representatives of the army," said Mohamed Naji, a senior leader of the Sudanese Professionals Association.
The organization also demanded the sacking of the country's judiciary chief and prosecutor general.
The African Union on Monday gave Sudan's military 15 days to hand over power to a civilian government.
Should the army fail to achieve this, Sudan's membership in the bloc would be automatically suspended until a return to constitutional order, the AU's Peace and Security Council said.
The AU said Sudan must hold "free, fair and transparent elections" as soon as possible.
The SPA's latest demands came as the military council faced increasing public and diplomatic pressure to hand over power to a civilian administration.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel called for "a rapid transfer of power to a civilian transitional government," in a phone call with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi.
"This must be followed by a credible, inclusive political process that meets the expectations of the Sudanese people with regard to economic and political reforms," her office said in a statement.
Sissi repeated Egypt's support for "the brotherly Sudanese people's will" and said Cairo would "not interfere in its internal affairs", according to a presidential statement.
Their comments come a day after the Khartoum embassies of Britain, the United States and Norway issued a joint statement calling for "inclusive dialogue to effect a transition to civilian rule".
KHARTOUM – Sudanese protest organisers have presented demands to the country's new military rulers, urging the creation of a civilian government, the group spearheading demonstrations said.
Thousands remained encamped outside Khartoum's army headquarters overnight to keep up the pressure on a military council that took power after ousting veteran leader Omar al-Bashir on Thursday.
A 10-member delegation representing the protesters delivered their demands during talks late Saturday, according to a statement by umbrella group the Alliance for Freedom and Change.
"We will continue… our sit-in until all our demands are met," including the formation of a fully civilian government, one of the alliance's leaders, Omar al-Degier, said in the statement.
The umbrella group insists that civilian representatives should be accepted onto the military council, and that a fully civilian government should be formed to run day-to-day affairs.
"We surely want our demands to be met, but both sides will have to be flexible to reach a deal," said a protester who spent the night at the army complex.
On Saturday, the new chief of the military council General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan vowed to dismantle Bashir's regime and lifted a night time curfew with immediate effect.
Burhan also pledged that individuals implicated in killing protesters would face justice and that protesters detained under a state of emergency imposed by Bashir during his final weeks in power would be freed.
He took the oath of office on Friday after his predecessor General Awad Ibn Ouf stepped down little more than 24 hours after ousting Bashir.
But while celebrating the fall of Bashir and then Ibn Ouf — a defence minister and long-time close aide of the deposed president — protesters remain cautious.
Degier said their demands include restructuring the country's feared National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS), whose chief Salih Ghosh resigned on Saturday.
Rights group Amnesty International on Saturday urged the military council to examine Ghosh's actions during a crackdown against protesters during the final weeks of Bashir's rule.
"It is crucial that Sudan's new authorities investigate Salah Ghosh's role in the killings of scores of Sudanese protesters over the past four months", said Amnesty's regional director Sarah Jackson.
The newly formed 10-member transitional council contains several faces from Bashir's regime.
On Saturday evening, the new military ruler named NISS deputy head Jalaluddin Sheikh to the council.
He also nominated Mohammad Hamdan Daglo — known as Himeidti — a field commander for the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) counter-insurgency unit, which rights groups have accused of abuses in war-torn Darfur.
One of the protesters taking part in the sit-in outside the army headquarters said he was ambivalent about Himeidti's appointment.
"We don't have many options — they (the RSF) have guns, they have money," said Mohamed, who gave only his first name for security reasons.
"Himeidti was part of the crimes that happened previously but at least now he is on the side of the people," he added.
Key regional power-brokers Saudi Arabia and the UAE voiced backing for the transitional council.
Burhan's nomination "reflects the ambitions of the brotherly people of Sudan for security, stability and development", UAE state news agency WAM said.
Saudi Arabia has promised an aid package, the Saudi Press Agency reported Saturday.
That marked a dramatic shift by Khartoum, aligning itself with the Gulf Arab monarchies and dropping close ties with their arch-rival Iran.
The International Criminal Court has longstanding arrest warrants against Bashir for suspected war crimes during the regime's brutal campaign of repression in Darfur, where a decade-and-a-half of conflict has killed 300,000 people.
Amnesty demanded Saturday the deposed president be handed over to the Court.
But the military council has said it would never extradite Bashir or any other Sudanese citizen.
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KHARTOUM – General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, the second officer to be sworn in as Sudan's new military ruler in consecutive days, is a "veteran soldier" largely unknown outside the army.
On Friday, Burhan became chief of a military council that deposed Omar al-Bashir, after the president's immediate successor General Awad Ibn Ouf stepped down following little more than 24 hours in power.
Protesters, determined to see a civilian government after the end of Bashir's iron-fisted three decades in power, saw Ibn Ouf as a regime insider and a close aide of the toppled leader.
Ibn Ouf's exit has catapulted Burhan from the shadows to the de facto head of the country.
"Burhan is a high ranking officer within the armed forces, but basically he's a veteran soldier," said an army officer, who did not want to be named.
"He's never been in the limelight like Ibn Ouf or General Kamal Abdelmarouf," the officer said, referring to the army's former chief of staff.
"Burhan doesn't have any political leanings, he is a professional soldier," an anonymous officer is quoted as saying.
Burhan had a stint as Sudan's defence attache to Beijing.
On Friday, hours before he was named as Sudan's new military ruler, he was seen talking to protesters who have camped outside the army headquarters since 6 April.
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The army ousted president Omar al-Bashir, who is charged with alleged genocide in Darfur, where up to 300,000 people died.
The leader of Sudan's transitional government is stepping down just a day after the country's military seized power.
Defence minister General Awad Ibn Ouf named General Abdel-Fattah Burhan, general inspector of the armed forces, as his successor as head of the transitional council.
Mr Ibn Ouf said: "I, the head of the military council, announce I am giving up the post," explaining he took the decision to preserve the unity of the armed forces.
Earlier, an army spokesman said it will not extradite deposed president Omar al-Bashir to The Hague to face war crimes charges, as it would be "an ugly mark on Sudan".
In a wide-ranging news conference in the capital Khartoum, Colonel General Omar Zein Abedeen defended Thursday's ousting of Mr al-Bashir, who had ruled the north African country for 30 years.
"This was not a coup", but a "tool of change," he said.
Mr al-Bashir, 75, is facing an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court in The Hague over alleged genocide for his campaign against insurgents in Darfur.
Sudan: From the fat into the fire?
It was the man named by President Omar al-Bashir as his deputy just six weeks ago who broke the news to the Sudanese people of the longtime ruler's removal.
Dressed in army fatigues, General Ahmed Awad Ibn Auf declared on Thursday that the 75-year-old had been overthrown and arrested following months of nationwide protests against his three-decade rule.
In his address on state TV, Ibn Auf also said a military council would run the country for two years and announced the suspension of the constitution and the introduction of a month-long overnight curfew.
The statement by Ibn Auf, who is also Sudan's defence minister, was rejected by the demonstrators, who said the military takeover did not represent the democratic outcome they had been seeking.
Protesters vowed to keep taking to the streets, defying a military-imposed curfew just as Ibn Auf was sworn in as chief of Sudan's new ruling council.
A career soldier, Ibn Auf has long been a senior figure in Sudan's military establishment. He has previously served as the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and was head of military intelligence and security during the bloody conflict in the Darfur region, which began in 2003.
The war claimed more than 300,000 lives, according to the United Nations.
In 2009, the International Criminal Court in 2009 indicted al-Bashir for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur, while Ibn Auf himself was sanctioned by the United States for supporting and managing militias accused of carrying out genocide in the conflict.
Following his retirement from the army in 2010, as part of an institutional shake-up, Ibn Auf took a diplomatic role at the ministry of foreign affairs.
He spent time in diplomatic posts in Egypt and Oman, before returning to the heart of the Khartoum political establishment in 2015, when he was appointed by al-Bashir as defence minister.
In early February, following months of massive, nationwide street demonstrations against al-Bashir's government, Ibn Auf adopted a sympathetic tone towards those on the streets, noting the young people involved in the protests had "reasonable ambition".
On February 23, as protests continued across Sudan, al-Bashir declared a state of emergency, dissolving the country's central and state governments and appointing a series of military figures as state governors. As part of the wider measures, Ibn Auf was appointed a first vice president, while also retaining his defence portfolio.
Within hours of Ibn Auf's address to the nation, protesters denounced the military's move as a "regime coup" and repeated their demand for a civilian council to head the transition.
"Change will not happen with Bashir's entire regime hoodwinking Sudanese civilians through a military coup," Alaa Salah, a prominent member of the protest movement, said on Twitter on Tuesday.
Jean-Baptiste Gallopin, a Sudan researcher at Yale University, said that despite al-Bashir's removal, power remained in the hands of his associates.
"The regime is the same as it was yesterday, with the exception of a few figures close to al-Bashir who have been detained," he told Al Jazeera.
For its part, the African Union said the military takeover was "not the appropriate response to the challenges facing Sudan and the aspirations of its people" while Ibn Auf's controversial past also came under scrutiny.
"The general who has taken over in this palace coup, Awad Ibn Auf, has been sanctioned by the United States for orchestrating war crimes in Darfur, just as the just-deposed Omar al-Bashir has been," said Hollywood actor George Clooney, a longtime human rights campaigner in Sudan, calling on the international community to ensure the transitional leadership in Sudan be inclusive and negotiated.
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President Bashir steps down and consultations under way to set up transitional council, government sources tell Reuters.
Army tanks rolled onto the streets of Khartoum and the fate of President Omar al-Bashir was uncertain with military and government sources saying that the embattled leader had been relieved of his duties.
The Sudanese army is expected to make "an important announcement", state media said on Thursday, after months of protests against Bashir.
"The Sudanese army will issue an important statement soon. Wait for it," a television anchor said, without giving further details.
Thousands of people poured onto the streets of the capital as they waited hours for the announcement.
Witnesses reported gunfire near the military headquarters that have been at the centre of six days of a defiant sit-in.
The military's headquarters also houses Bashir's official residence and the defence ministry.
The national intelligence and security service said on Thursday all political prisoners have been released, the country's state news agency reported.
The unrest erupted in December when demonstrations broke out over a rise in bread prices. They have grown to become the biggest challenge yet to Bashir's 30-year rule.
Crowds of demonstrators have spent five nights thronging the sprawling complex, singing and dancing to revolutionary songs.
Al Jazeera's Hiba Morgan, reporting from the Sudanese capital, Khartoum said there was a heavy security presence on the city's main roads.
"There are a lot of military trucks around the capital and around the main streets of the city. Most roads have been blocked especially those leading to the army HQ. There are a few roads opened for the protesters who have been participating in the sit-in," Morgan said.
"People are extremely happy even before the army made any announcement. People are celebrating and pouring into the sit-in area. Protesters are saying they are very confident that Bashir will resign," Morgan added.
The group spearheading the nationwide demonstrations urged residents of the capital to mass outside army headquarters.
"We call on our people from across the Khartoum capital and the region around to immediately go to the sit-in area and not leave from there until our next statement is issued," the Sudanese Professionals Association said.
The group also said they will not accept a military government to succeed President Bashir.
Protesters at the sit-in told Al Jazeera they feel their calls have been heard.
"We finally win this battle, we struggled a lot and we suffered a lot but everything suppose to have an end," 45-year-old tea seller Fathia Imam told Jazeera at the square of the sit-in.
Abdul Galil Ahmed, a 28-year-old activist, said he is worried that some of President Bashir's close allies could remain in office.
"We are worried about the future and the fate of our uprising because we doubt the regime would be toppled as [a] whole," Ahmed told Al Jazeera.
Witnesses said army soldiers arrested two snipers near the military headquarters on Thursday.
Observers say although it remains unclear what the armed forces will announce, it appears as though the army has decided to support the protesters.
Mahjoob Zweiri, professor of Middle East history at Qatar University told Al Jazeera: "During the past 10 days, it was obvious that there was a shift in the movement in Sudan. This shift started with the military changing its own course towards the demands of the people.
Ahmed Soliman, a researcher at the Africa Programme at Chatham House told Al Jazeera that while he expects the army to announce the end of Bashir's 30-year-rule within the next few hours, fears remain that the movement may be coopted by the security forces or internal factions within the armed forces.
The demonstrators have braved repeated volleys of tear gas from members of the powerful National Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) since they began camping outside the complex on April 6, protest organisers say.
But since Tuesday night they have not faced any "threat" from security agents, said a protester who requested anonymity for security reasons.
That came after 11 people, including six members of the security forces, were killed on Tuesday during demonstrations in the capital, government spokesman Hassan Ismail told the official SUNA news agency.
Government officials say 49 people have died in protest-related violence since demonstrations first erupted in December.
"I hope our revolution will achieve its goal," said Alaa Salah, dubbed the protest movement's "Nubian queen", referring to an ancient name for Sudan, after a video clip went viral of her conducting chants with demonstrators outside the army headquarters.
Earlier this week, the United States, Britain and Norway for the first time threw their weight behind the protesters.
"The time has come for the Sudanese authorities to respond to these popular demands in a serious" way, the countries' Khartoum embassies said in a statement.
"The Sudanese army is expected to make "an important announcement", state media said on Thursday, after months of protests against longtime President Omar al-Bashir.
The protests, which erupted in December, have become the biggest challenge yet to Bashir's three decades of rule.
Thursday marked the sixth day of a defiant sit-in outside the military's headquarters, which also houses Bashir's official residence and the defense ministry.
Will Sudan's protesters agree to negotiate with Omar al-Bashir?
Al Jazeera's Hiba Morgan reporting from the Sudanese capital, Khartoum said there was a heavy security presence on the city's main roads.
"People are extremely happy even before the army made any announcement. People are celebrating and pouring in to the sit-in area. Protesters are saying they are very confident that Bashir will resign," Morgan added.
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KHARTOUM (Reuters) – Air fares in Sudan skyrocketed this week after aviation authorities ordered airlines to price tickets in line with a new exchange rate mechanism that sharply devalued the local currency.
Under the exchange regime introduced in October in a bid to tackle an acute shortage of foreign currency, the Sudanese pound was devalued to 47.5 per U.S. dollar from 29 pounds per U.S. dollar previously.
That has led to a surge in the cost of many goods and services, but air ticket prices had been set according to the customs exchange rate — 18 pounds per dollar — until Wednesday when the country's Civil Aviation Authority announced the hike in a memo sent to airlines.
The order caused prices to jump about 66 percent, according to travel agencies' estimates. Prices in dollars were not affected, but only foreigners and Sudanese residents of other countries may buy tickets in dollars.
"This decision has led to a drastic 60 percent drop in travel in the last two days. This situation puts the aviation industry in Sudan and travel agencies at risk of unbearable losses," said Mahjoub Almack, head of the Sudanese Association of Travel and Tourism Agents.
Despite October's devaluation, the pound remains under pressure and the gap between the official and black market rates has continued to widen. A dollar cost 57 pounds on the black market on Saturday.
Chronic cash shortage. Link to web article.
Going by his bank statements, Isam Ali isn't short of money — but in Sudan's cash-strapped capital that's exactly what he is.
Several times a week, the 45-year-old accountant lines up at one of the few ATMs in Khartoum still dispensing banknotes, waiting hours to withdraw the daily maximum of 2,000 Sudanese pounds ($42). That sum's being spread increasingly thinly to feed his family, as inflation in the North African nation hits its highest in two decades, quashing hopes 2017's lifting of U.S. sanctions could spur an economic revival.
The reality: three devaluations for the Sudanese pound this year, the central bank rushing to print more money and a government that can only promise further austerity as President Umar al-Bashir periodically hires and fires his ministers.
"Things are going from bad to worse and the government is changing the cabinet only to buy time," said Ali. A father of two, he's feeling the trickle-down from a dearth of foreign investment in Sudan and a chronic lack of liquidity in its banking system.
In a torrid decade for Sudan's $117.5 billion economy, which included the south seceding in 2011 with three-quarters of the united country's oil reserves, the past year may have been its worst.
Despite lifting most sanctions, the U.S. still lists Sudan as a state sponsor of terrorism, a designation that officials blame for the lack of significant new investment. Inflation is almost 70 percent, and the pound trades at 47.5 per dollar, plunging from 18 in January. The International Monetary Fund says the economy may contract 2.3 percent this year.
While the U.S. sanctions — imposed in 1997 on terrorism allegations — hit Sudanese government agencies that provided essential services, the nation's elites often found ways to circumvent them, setting up companies that benefited from preferential access to hard currency and contracts.
Al-Bashir has repeatedly blamed Sudan's economic troubles on alleged plots by the U.S. and other Western countries. He's said "fat cats" including unidentified bankers, black-market traders and smugglers also bear responsibility.
Prime Minister Mutaz Musa in October announced a 15-month plan to trim inflation, cut spending and tackle corruption while defending those on lower incomes. The government said on Saturday it was raising flour subsidies to protect the price of bread. A January decision to lower subsidies on that commodity and electricity sparked protests and dozens of arrests.
For Abdullah Ismail, 55, his day job isn't enough to make ends meet. The Sudan Railways Corp. workshop employee spends half his 4,000 pounds monthly salary on rent, then has to eke out food, transportation, electricity and school fees with the rest.
He borrowed 10,000 pounds from a local bank to buy a small taxi and make extra money. But the fresh earnings were eaten up by rising expenses; he hasn't been able to make repayments for six months. "I failed and I'm in danger of being imprisoned" for the outstanding debt, Ismail said.
Losing oil plunged Sudan into crisis, but the country's involvement in a new deal to end South Sudan's five-year civil war could bring compensation.
As landlocked South Sudan boosts its crude output, that may mean extra revenue for Sudan, which collects fees for transporting oil by pipeline to a port on the Red Sea. Sudan pumped about 86,000 barrels per day of its own oil last year, according to BP Plc.
Gold has been touted as a replacement to oil, and exports of about 10.7 metric tons brought in $422 million in the first half of 2018, the Minerals Ministry says. But the government complains most exports don't go through official channels and has promised steps against smuggling.
In the meantime, Sudanese like Zahra Ahmed — a 21-year-old arts student at the University of Khartoum — are looking for any work available to cover their expenses and tuition.
"My family can't manage to provide that for me as well as my two sisters," she said.
Sudan & South Sudan News Updates Sudan & South Sudan News Updates shared a link.
Outside defense headquarters, protesters celebrated the ouster of an autocrat. Inside, the generals were still in charge. Distrust abounds between the two groups as they negotiate civilian rule.
Security forces in Sudan reportedly killed at least eight protesters from April 6-8, 2019 and injured dozens during lethal attempts to disperse peaceful protesters.
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The persecution of Christians in #Sudan is systematic. Islam is deeply embedded in society, and Christians face serious restrictions.
In the north, the government has imprisoned Christians, demolished churches and routinely meddled in church administration. In the south, the government's war against rebels fighting for self-determination and religious freedom has essentially been a war against civilians: they indiscriminately bombed homes, farms, churches and hospitals.
This has led to many deaths and displacements of Christians. Many women have been widowed due to the conflict and without a provider, they and their families have regularly been near-starvation Unable to plant and harvest, they have eaten at times nothing but leaves to survive.
Thanks to you, Open Doors can consistently bring relief and encouragement to our brothers and sisters in #Sudan. Please continue to stand with us in prayer and support for God's people in #Sudan.
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GSR Today - There is reason aplenty to be pessimistic about the situation in war-torn South Sudan. But is there any reason to be hopeful?


Throughout the world, people enjoy watching sports because it is entertaining. We are oftentimes fascinated at seeing greatness unfold in front of our eyes. However, we show our love of sports in several ways.
Some people who have favorite athletes start collecting jerseys, shoes, cards, and other memorabilia. Many fans will buy sports memorabilia at unimaginable prices. For example, Jose Bautista's Toronto Blue Jays jersey sold at an auction for $27,606.01. He wore the jersey when he hit a historic three-run homer.
While it helps to be passionate about sports, the fun thing about selling sports memorabilia is that you don't have to be an avid sports fan. If you're looking for an easy way to break into a thriving industry, sporting goods are a great way to start. The most effective platform for selling sporting goods is online auction. Sellers can reach a much wider market and post their items at no cost. This allows sellers to maximize their sale, quicker and easier. With millions of online shoppers looking for baseball gloves, equestrian gear, inline skates, snowboards, or bicycles to name a few, it's easy to turn unused sporting goods into instant cash at auctions.
Do you know what are the hottest trends in Sporting Goods?
Thousands of people participate at auctions to search for equipment, clothing, and accessories for their favorite sports: hockey, basketball, skateboarding, football, or rafting. For example, baseball participants are looking specifically for baseball equipment, uniforms, bats, gloves, hats, jerseys, or training aids.
Basketball buyers need accessories, such as basketball shoes, air pumps, and nylon or metal chain nets.
Camping buyers are looking for all sorts of camping gear online. Popular items include backpacks, tents, and sleeping bags. Other best sellers include camping stoves, water filtration kits, and first aid kits.
Bikes of all sizes, colors, styles, and brands are also in demand. A few popular types include road racing bikes, mountain bikes, hybrid bikes, comfort bikes, BMX bikes, children's bikes, low-rider bikes, tandem bikes, and vintage bicycles.
Fitness amateurs are looking for manual and electric treadmills for home exercises, as are upright, dual-action, and recumbent exercise bikes. Elliptical machines, stair machines or steppers, free weight equipment, such as dumbbells, barbells, benches, and home gym systems are also popular.
You can sell new and used running shoes of all sizes, brands, colors. These include performance training shoes, racing shoes, and off-road running shoes. Also popular is running apparel, such as singlets, tights, jackets, gloves, hats, running socks, and reflective running gear, including headlamps, bands, and vests.
Tennis players of all ages are looking for new or vintage tennis racquets, new tennis balls, and tennis apparel.
There are lots of tricks and techniques to attract buyers when selling online at auctions. Writing a good listing and description is key to help buyers learn about products and be informed about the quality and condition of their purchases.
Selling used sports equipment at auctions is one way to earn extra money. Swap out unused baseball bats or fly-fishing rods sitting in the garage, and post them online. Find buyers nationwide!


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Strong start for Māori Language Strategy submissions
Nanaia, September 3, 2018 September 3, 2018 , Press Release, 0
I am heartened by the level of public response to the Crown's draft Māori language strategy, just one month after its launch. The goal to have one million New Zealanders speaking basic te reo Māori by 2040 has captured the nation's interest. We've had over 300 individual responses already,...
Reappointment of members to Waitangi Tribunal
Nanaia, August 21, 2018 August 21, 2018 , Press Release, 0
Reappointment of members to Waitangi Tribunal I have reappointed four members of the Waitangi Tribunal to maintain the continuity and security of its decision making. Sir Sidney (Hirini) Moko Mead, Professor Rawinia Higgins and Dr Grant Phillipson have all been reappointed along with Chief Judge Isaac (Ngāi Tūhoe, Ngāti...
Tackling barriers to Māori housing
Today I announced a Māori housing finance wānanga to tackle barriers to accessing finance to build housing on Māori land. Iwi, financial and legal experts, banking sector representatives and Māori housing providers will gather today in Auckland, hosted by Te Matapihi, with support from Te Puni Kōkiri. Getting finance...
First wave of marae get funding boost
An investment of $725,000 in the late Koro Wētere's whānau marae near Kawhia. It is a great to see that Waipapa,is one of the first marae investments with Oranga marae. As a tribal and political leader, Koro led the Māori language and Māori development campaigns of his time. It...
Māori Language Strategy – Maihi Karauna released
Nanaia, August 3, 2018 August 4, 2018 , Press Release, 0
Calling for all New Zealanders' views on the Maihi Karauna – the Crown's draft Māori language strategy. The Government recognises the importance of te reo Māori as a taonga and the responsibility we have to protect its status. And when I think of my young children growing up it...
Supreme Matariki Award goes to outstanding Māori artist
Nanaia, July 15, 2018 August 4, 2018 , Press Release, 0
Artist and academic, Professor Ahorangi Derek Lardelli has been awarded the supreme award at the third Matariki Awards. It gives me great pleasure to see Professor Lardelli walk away with the Te Tohu Tikitiki o Matariki, as he has so successfully spanned the worlds of art and academia. He...
Minister applauds infrastructure spend
Government investment going into the North Waikato town of Te Kauwhata will support vital infrastructure and the increasing need to respond to housing demand in the area, says the Minister for Māori Development Hon Nanaia Mahuta. This morning the Coalition Government announced $38 million of 10-year interest-free loans to the...
Minister welcomes app for Ngaruawahia walkway
Having climbed the 1349 steps on the Hākarimata walkway outside Ngaruawahia, the Minister for Māori Development Hon Nanaia Mahuta says she is delighted to welcome a new digital app that promotes the history and the healthy value of the track. "This is an important educational resource that promotes Hauora...
Fact-finding trip over water
Nanaia, July 4, 2018 September 4, 2018 , Press Release, Waters, Three Waters, 0
The 'Three Waters' cover the interconnected drinking water, waste water and storm water systems. The Coalition Government is now engaged in a conversation with New Zealand's local government sector, which owns and manages most of the water assets, after the inquiry into the Havelock North campylobacter outbreak. The outbreak which followed...
Helping communities celebrate Matariki
Nanaia, July 2, 2018 August 1, 2018 , Press Release, 0
The Māori Development Minister Hon Nanaia Mahuta is pleased that Te Puni Kōkiri is supporting New Zealand communities who want to mark the start of Matariki, the Māori New Year. The Māori New Year is marked by the dawn rising of the star cluster Matariki (the Pleiades) or...


Mr. Nirav Patel- A great entrepreneur, a mature businessman from the very age of an engineering student, Nirav Patel is the Chairman and Managing Director of 'Abaj World', one of the best and growing electronics companies in India. Nirav started 'Abaj World' in 2012 when he was just 25. He has a vision of utilizing the human resources of the nation itself. The same formula is applied by the technologically advanced nations. In the world of online marketing and sales, where every offline marketer fears from the losses due to online marketing, he still believes in the offline networks, chains of dealers and distributors and runs his business in a very appreciable way. With a zeal to prove himself, and do something different, he did vast market and business research to take the company to the apex level.
With 'Best Quality at Best Price' as its sole aim, 'Abaj World' is a leading electronics brand in Gujrat and major part of Indian sub-continent. Started in 2012, Abaj now is extended to two sub-units 'Abaj Electronics Pvt. Ltd.' functions with sourcing and marketing and 'Abaj Technologies Pvt. Ltd.' as manufacturing unit.
Abaj provides the consumers with best of LED T.V.s, LCDs, washing machines and sound bars with plans and designs for fully automatic washing machine, refrigerators, and air conditioners under consideration. So, with best of team and techno experts, Abaj World flourishes with the support of happy customers.
Last year about 40,000 units were sold and the revenue generated was 60 Crores, and they are working towards 150 Crores target. There are 1500 retailers and 75 distributors associated with the brand.
One of our crew members got a precious chance to interview the leader of the leading Brand. This is how, it goes, providing a view to its long journey to great heights.
Que- Why didn't you choose your family business and started a new concept? What motivated you?
Nirav- When I was in my college I had the motivation to work in terms of value creation by solving many of the technical issues which our nation and our people are facing. I always felt the lack of technological ecosystems in Gujarat as well as in India. The motivation to start what I have today, came from one argument in my mind- "Why can't we, ourselves start and develop our ecosystem?" We have got significant exposure from the concept of "Make in India" given by our honorable Prime Minister," Narendra Modi". I also had a zeal to create my own identity which I feel I couldn't have got in my family business. The family support was always there for me, but I had chosen a life free from dependency. I had to try business on my own.
Que- Why did you choose the word 'Abaj' as your brand name?
Nirav- In Gujarati 'Abaj' means a hundred crores i.e. a billion. So, the commercial origin of the word 'Abaj' comes from that. It carries a religious meaning too. I am a great believer in Lord Swami Narayana (Akshardham Temple). One of his great followers was saint 'Abaji Baba,' and the name for the Brand comes as a blessing as the beginning word of the saint's name. So the word has Gujarati commercial as well as religious origin.
Que- How did you start your company 'Abaj'?
Nirav- We had registered the company in 2010 when I was in college. At that time, I was also doing some work related to stockbroking. That led to my contacts with customers who were importing electronic goods from Thailand. I went into the depth of the television market and studied the market as well as margins in prices that led to an understanding of value chain. We sold televisions in the market and had done a good study for profit sharing models also. I had technical knowledge of electronics. I visited China and studied product manufacturing chain there.
Then in India, I contacted the dealers and formed the distributors' network. The processes generated questions and led us to explore the answers within. The initial investments were done by us only which included funds from family property. We had to raise funds from banks too. We started with one crore rupee capital investment. It began to grow, and I had added my co-founders from my family. Mr. Manish Patel and Dharmesh Patel. They also invested some amount. And we developed our Brand. We had no visions for trading; had to make "Abaj World" a meaningful brand. We had aimed to place our brand in such a way that it provides luxury products at an affordable price, create value and catch up with the market. As a company, we had also appointed KPMG in our system for management consulting in 2016.
Que- Initially, were all your manufacturing and assembling done abroad? What is special about 'Abaj' products?
Nirav- Yes, we did all of it from abroad itself. We had 'Dixon Technology' as our partners in India which gave us the supply and a company named 'Treeview', was there in Thailand as our partner. The product designing and sourcing part were done by us.
Our sole aim is to provide the product with best of quality and affordable price. With three years warranty, our products have A+ grade panel, and we use box speakers. The components made are technically sound and the failure of the products till now is less than 0.5%.
Que- How do you see Xiaomi as a competitor as they are outcompeting most of the electronic brands in the world?
Nirav- Their all strategies are online based and whatever we do, is mostly offline. Our brand purely functions on distribution. There's a world of differences between a Distributor and an online brand. We are planning a 3.5 mm LED. That's how the competition works. If one has something better, the other one has to put efforts for the best. It makes the market exciting as we work towards the betterment of the product. We have retailers and distributors as our backbone, and so, we are planning to double them up to cope with the competition. We have hired skilled employees so that our brand acceptance is increased by the development of the front network, product positioning etc.
Que- As recent surveys and studies show that electronics market is profoundly affected when it comes to the difference between offline and online modes, don't you think that you might be stricken if you don't focus on the online selling of your products?
Nirav- We are still on our way of strategies when it comes to online mode. We are planning to launch three new products exclusively for online selling. Another alternative can be similar to what T.C.L has done; they have created a separate brand. Similarly, we can launch a brand only for online selling and marketing. These plans are still being worked on. I have to make sure that the dealers and distributors associated with us are not facing financial traps while we switch to online modes. These kinds of tragedies happened with similar working companies, and so, their negotiations were paused and risks resulted in adverse outcomes. So, we need to be alert about them.
Que- Can you tell us about the manufacturing plant which you are going to start within few months?
Nirav- We have taken help from KPMG in deciding the location of our manufacturing plant. They studied our marketing, brand building, and manufacturing strategies to scale our brand for about six months and also observed our Digital strategies for the overall growth of 'Abaj' as a group. They helped in making us digitally enabled for the exponential growth. And we follow their implementations till now. We have requested the state government to provide with necessary benefits. After the execution of GST, there were no excise benefits in any state, so, we finalized our plant in Gujarat itself after comparing all places.
We are on our way to the construction in 50,000 sq. feet area. Machinery is on the way as all the shipments from China are done. We will be starting our production July onwards. 50,000 units per month will be the capacity of manufacturing plant in phase 1 and we are planning to increase the capacity to 1 lakh units per month in phase 2.
We will be manufacturing for other brands too. As we follow Make in India, we are welcoming all those who are deprived of manufacturing plants.
Que- How the project of Make in India has helped you out in your work?
Nirav- Not only under Make in India, but we are also getting benefits from many policies of state and central government. We have a considerable advantage of Make in India as we don't need to pay GST for next ten years. We are getting the capital subsidy and production subsidies from the government. Also, getting full cooperation from government officials. Make in India is helpful in developing technological ecosystems. They have on one hand restricted the imports by imposing heavy duties and on the other hand, are benefiting the local manufacturers. We are happy to utilize this programme.
Que- What was the biggest difficulty that you faced while setting your company? Was there any incident when you felt like giving up?
Nirav- Every business has initial challenges. One faces financial difficulties, the market also takes time to accept the new brand. But, these difficulties are the ones which take us to the desired goals.
None of us felt like giving up in these years. Whenever there were times of difficulties, the voice within said that we can do. And the team had always worked with double of energy. We get enthusiasm from the market, our supports and dealers too. We are heading towards our vision.
People are satisfied with our service, quality of goods, and commitment. Price is uniform and constant for all. We are heading towards our vision.
Que- Are you looking up to the funding from V. C.s as every startup does in India?
Nirav- Currently, we raise funds from our friends, family, and bank. We are looking for V.C.s too. Every door and window are open for fundraising.
Que- What things do you keep in mind, while hiring in your Company?
Nirav- When I hire, I take references from the market and form initial bonding with the employees. I also keep in mind that they are also technically sound. I make sure that they are committed to the company and are loyal.
Que- What one, as an entrepreneur should take care while setting up a manufacturing plant in India?
Nirav- The most critical decision you take while setting up your manufacturing plant is the assessment of the suitable location. One should see the government policies and workforce availability in that location, which might add to the productivity of the plant. One should take help of experienced ones while planning and use local human resources to increases the efficiency. Many other factors such as market share, transportation access, demographics and proximity to dealers come into play. All these make the foundation. The other thing which is very important is funding plans, for that the investors should be chosen such that they stick to the plan.
Along with that, the core values of a business, like integrity, commitment, teamwork, and leadership should be developed among employees. Every member of the team must work towards the same goal and the same mission.


 Van-Dung Hoang, "Multiple classifier-based spatiotemporal features for living activity prediction", Journal of Information and Telecommunication, vol. 1 (1), pp.100-112, 2017.
 Van-Huy Pham, My-Ha Le, Van-Dung Hoang, "Boosting Discriminative Models for Activity Detection Using Local Feature Descriptors", Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems (ACIIDS 2017), LNCS- Springer, Vol. 10191, pp. 609-618 , 2017.
 Van-Dung Hoang and Kang-Hyun Jo, "Joint Components based Pedestrian Detection in Crowded Scenes", Neurocomputing, vol. 188, pp. 139-150, 2016 (ISI, IF 2.392).
 Van-Dung Hoang and Kang-Hyun Jo, "Automatic Calibration of Camera and LRF based on Morphological Pattern and Optimal Angular Back-Projection Error", International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems (IJCAS), Springer, Vol. 13(6), pp. 1436-1445, 2016 (ISI, IF 1.219).
 My-Ha Le, Hoang-Hon Trinh, Van-Dung Hoang and Kang-Hyun Jo, "Automated Architectural Reconstruction Using Reference Planes under Convex Optimization", International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems (IJCAS), Vol 14 (3), pp. 814-826, 2016 (ISI, IF 1.219).
 Van-Dung Hoang and Kang-Hyun Jo," A Simplified Solution to Motion Estimation Using an Omnidirectional Camera and a 2-D LRF Sensor", IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, vol. 12 (3), pp.1064-1073, 2016 (ISI, IF 4.708).
 Van-Dung Hoang and Kang-Hyun Jo, "Accelerative Object Classification using Cascade Structure for Vision based Security Monitoring Systems", Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems (ACIIDS 2016), LNCS- Springer, Vol. 9621, pp. 790-800, 2016.
 My-Ha Le, Van-Dung Hoang and Van-Thuyen Ngo, "Electrical Colored Wires Inspection Algorithm for Automatic Connector Producing Machines", International Conference on System Science and Engineering (ICSSE2016), July, 2016.
 Wahyono, Van-Dung Hoang, and Kang-Hyun Jo, "Multiscale Car Detection Using Oriented Gradient Feature and Boosting Machine", Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems (ACIIDS 2016), LNCS- Springer, Vol. 9621, pp. 731-740, 2016.
 Van-Dung Hoang and Kang-Hyun Jo, "Path Planning for Autonomous Vehicle based on Heuristic Searching using Online", Vietnam journal of computer science, Springer, vol. 2 (2), pp. 109-120, 2015.
 Van-Dung Hoang and Kang-Hyun Jo, "Combined Motion Estimation and Tracking Control for Autonomous Navigation", Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems (ACIIDS 2015), LNCS- Springer, vol. 9012, pp. 349-358, 2015.
 Alexander Filonenko, Danilo Cáceres Hernández, Van-Dung Hoang, and Kang-Hyun Jo, "Smoke Detection for Autonomous Vehicles using Laser Range Finder and Camera." Current Approaches in Applied Artificial Intelligence, LNCS- Springer, vol. 9101, pp. 601-610, 2015.
 Hariyono, Joko, Van-Dung Hoang, and Kang-Hyun Jo, "Tracking Failure Detection using Time Reverse Distance Error for Human Tracking.", Current Approaches in Applied Artificial Intelligence- LNCS- Springer, vol. 9101, pp. 611-620, 2015.
 Truc Thanh Tran, Dac-Binh Ha, Van-Dung Hoang, Gia Nhu Nguyen, "I-Q based cooperative spectrum sharing in system with multiple SU transmitters and common receiver", International Conference on Communications, Management and Telecommunications (ComManTel 2015), IEEE Press, pp. 18 - 23, 2015.
 Joko Hariyono, Van-Dung Hoang, and Kang-Hyun Jo, "Human Detection from Omnidirectional Camera Using Feature Tracking and Motion Segmentation", Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems (ACIIDS2015), LNCS- Springer, vol. 9012, pp. 329-338, 2015.
 Van-Dung Hoang, Le My Ha, and Kang-Hyun Jo, "Hybrid Cascade Boosting Machine using Variant Scale Blocks based HOG Features for Pedestrian Detection", Neurocomputing, Vol. 135, pp. 357-366, Elsevier, , 2014 (ISI, IF 2.005) .
 Joko Hariyono, Van-Dung Hoang, and Kang-Hyun Jo, "Moving Object Localization Using Optical Flow for Pedestrian Detection from a Moving Vehicle", The Scientific World Journal, Vol. 2014, pp.1-8, 2014 (ISI, IF 1.73).
 Laksono Kurnianggoro, Van-Dung Hoang and Kang-Hyun Jo, "Calibration of 2D Laser Scanner System and Rotating Platform using Point-Plane Constraint", The international journal Computer Science and Information Systems, Vol. 12(1), pp.307–322, 2014, (ISI, IF 0.575).
 Le My Ha, Van-Dung Hoang, and Kang-Hyun Jo, "One-Point-plus for 5-DoF Localization of Vehicle-Mounted Omnidirectional Camera in Long-Range Motion", International Journal of Control, Automation and Systems, vol. 11 (5), pp. 1018-1027, 2013 (ISI, IF 1.065).
 Danilo Cáceres Hernández, Van-Dung Hoang, and Kang-Hyun Jo, "Vanishing Point Estimation in Urban Roads for Omnidirectional Image", Human-Computer Systems Interaction: Backgrounds and Applications 3 (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing), Springer International Publishing, vol.300, pp. 313-323, 2014.
 Van-Dung Hoang, Danilo Cáceres Hernández, Alexander Filonenko, and Kang-Hyun Jo, "Path Planning for Unmanned Vehicle Motion based on Road Detection using Online Road Map and Satellite Image", ACCV2014, Springer– LNCS, Vol.9009, pp. 433-447, 2014.
 Van-Dung Hoang, Le My Ha, Danilo Caceres, and Kang-Hyun Jo, "3D Motion Estimation Based on Pitch and Azimuth from Respective Camera and Laser Rangefinder Sensing", IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS2013), IEEE Press, pp. 735-740, 2013.
 Le My Ha, Van-Dung Hoang, Andrey Vavilin, and Kang-Hyun Jo, "Vehicle Localization Using Omnidirectional Camera with GPS Supporting in Wide Urban Area", ACCV2012, LNCS- Springer, vol. 7728, pp. 230-241, 2012.
 Laksono Kurnianggoro, Van-Dung Hoang, and Kang-Hyun Jo, "Calibration of Rotating 2D Laser Range Finder using Circular Path on a Plane Constraints", International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence Technologies and Applications (ICCCI2014), Studies in Computational Intelligence - Springer, vol.572, pp.155-163, 2015.
 Van-Dung Hoang, My-Ha Le, Danilo Cáceres Hernández, and Kang-Hyun Jo, "Omnidirectional Vision based Reducing Error for Large Motion Estimation", Mecatronics2014, IEEE Press, pp.224-227, 2014.
 Wahyono, Laksono Kurnianggoro, Van-Dung Hoang, and Kang-Hyun Jo, "Scalable Histogram of Oriented Gradients for Multi-size Car Detection", 10th France - Japan Congress+ 8th Europe - Asia Congress on Mecatronics, IEEE Press, pp. 228 - 231, 2014.
 Van-Dung Hoang, Dongwook Seo, Laksono Kurnianggoro, and Kang-Hyun Jo, "Path planning and global trajectory tracking control assistance to autonomous vehicle", URAI2014, IEEE Press, pp.646 – 650, 2014.
 Danilo Caceres Hernandez, Van-Dung Hoang, Alexander Filonenko, and Kang-Hyun Jo, "Local Path Planning Strategy: A Practical Implementation for Versatile Distance", The 40th Annual Conference of The IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON2014), IEEE Press, pp. 4028 - 4033, 2014.
 Alexander Filonenko, Van-Dung Hoang, and Kang-Hyun Jo, "Smoke Detection on Roads for Autonomous Vehicles", The 40th Annual Conference of The IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON2014), IEEE Press, pp. 4063 - 4066, 2014.
 Van-Dung Hoang and Kang-Hyun Jo, "Optimal Partial Rotation Error for Vehicle Motion Estimation based on Omnidirectional Camera", International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence Technologies and Applications (ICCCI2014), LNAI- Springer, vol.8733, pp.292-301, 2014.
 Joko Hariyono, Van-Dung Hoang, and Kang-Hyun Jo, "Detecting Moving Object using Optical Flow for Pedestrian Detection from Moving Vehicle", International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence Technologies and Applications (ICCCI2014), LNAI-Springer, vol.8733, pp.204-213, 2014.
 Van-Dung Hoang, Danilo Caceres, Joko Hariyono, and Kang-Hyun Jo, "Global Path Planning for Autonomous Vehicle based on Road Map Images", 7th International Conference on Human System Interaction, IEEE Press, pp. 82-87, 2014.
 Danilo Caceres, Van-Dung Hoang, and Kang-Hyun Jo, "Laser based obstacle avoidance strategy for autonomous robot navigation using DBSCAN for versatile distance", 7th International Conference on Human System Interaction, IEEE Press, pp. 112 – 117, 2014.
 Van-Dung Hoang, Danilo Caceres, Han-Sung Park, Kang-Hyun Jo, "Closed-Form Solution to 3D Points for Estimating Extrinsic Parameters of Camera and Laser Sensor", International Symposium on Industrial Electronics, pp, 1932 - 1937, 2014.
 Danilo Cáceres Hernández, Van-Dung Hoang, Alexander Filonenko, and Kang-Hyun Jo, "Vision-Based Heading Angle Estimation for an Autonomous Mobile Robots Navigation", International Symposium on Industrial Electronics, pp. 1967 - 1972, 2014.
 Van-Dung Hoang, Danilo Caceres, and Kang-Hyun Jo, "Partially Obscured Human Detection based on Component Detectors using Multiple Feature Descriptors", International Conference on Intelligent Computing (ICIC 2014), LNCS-Springer, vol. 8588, pp. 338-344, 2014.
 Danilo Cáceres Hernández, Van-Dung Hoang, Alexander Filonenko, and Kang-Hyun Jo, "Fuzzy logic guidance control systems for autonomous navigation based on omnidirectional sensing", The 27th International Conference on Industrial, Engineering and Other Applications of Applied Intelligent Systems (IEA-AIE 2014) , LNCS-Springer, vol.8481, pp.420-429, 2014.
 Van-Dung Hoang, Danilo Caceres, and Kang-Hyun Jo, "Simple and Efficient Method for Calibration of a Camera and 2D Laser Rangefinder", Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems (ACIIDS 2014), LNCS- Springer, vol.8397, pp.561-570, 2014.
 Danilo Cáceres Hernández, Van-Dung Hoang, Kang-Hyun Jo, "Methods for Vanishing Point Estimation by Intersection of Curves from Omnidirectional Image", Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems (ACIIDS 2014), LNCS- Springer, vol.8397, pp.543-552, 2014.
 Joko Hariyono, Van-Dung Hoang, and Kang-Hyun Jo, "Human Detection from Mobile Omnidirectional Camera Using Ego-motion Compensated", Asian Conference on Intelligent Information and Database Systems (ACIIDS 2014), LNCS- Springer, vol. 8397, pp. 553-560, 2014.
 Joko Hariyono, Van-Dung Hoang, Kang-Hyun Jo, "Location Classification of Detected Pedestrian", 12th International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems (ICCAS2014) , 599-602, 2014.
 Van-Dung Hoang, Danilo Caceres, and Kang-Hyun Jo, "Combining Edge and One-Point RANSAC Algorithm to Estimate Visual Odometry'', International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence Technologies and Applications (ICIC2013), LNCS-Springer, vol.7995, pp. 556-565, 2013.
 Van-Dung Hoang, Le My Ha, Danilo Caceres, and Kang-Hyun Jo, "Localization Estimation based on Extended Kalman Filter using Multiple Sensors" The 39th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society", (IECON 2013), IEEE Press, pp. 5498-5503, 2013.
 Danilo Caceres, Van-Dung Hoang, and Kang-Hyun Jo, "Iterative Vanishing Point Estimation Based on DBSCAN for Omnidirectional Image", The 6th International Conference on Human System Interaction (HSI2013), IEEE Press, pp. 651-655, 2013.
 Van-Dung Hoang, Le My Ha, and Kang-Hyun Jo, "Planar Motion Estimation using Omnidirectional Camera and Laser Rangefinder", The 6th International Conference on Human System Interaction (HSI2013), IEEE Press, pp. 632-636, 2013.
 Van-Dung Hoang, Danilo Caceres, Donguk Seo, and Kang-Hyun Jo, "Calibration of Omnidirectional Camera and 2D Laser Range Finder", (ISEE) International Symposium on Electrical-Electronics Engineering, 2013.
 Van-Dung Hoang, Le My Ha, and Kang-Hyun Jo: "Robust Human Detection using Multiple Scale Cell based Histogram of Oriented Gradients and AdaBoost Learning", International Conference on Computational Collective Intelligence Technologies and Applications (ICCCI2012), LNCS- Springer, vol. 7653, pp. 61-71, 2012.
 Van-Dung Hoang, Andrey Vavilin, and Kang-Hyun Jo: "Pedestrian Detection Approach Based on Modified Haar-Like Features and AdaBoost", International Conference on Control-Automation and Systems (ICCAS2012), IEEE Press, pp. 614-618, 2012.
 Qing Ming, Van-Dung Hoang, and Kang-Hyun Jo: "Localization and Tracking of Same Color Vehicle under Occlusion Problem", Mecatronics (REM2012), IEEE Press, pp. 245-250, 2012.
 Van-Dung Hoang, Andrey Vavilin, Kang-Hyun Jo, "Fast Human Detection based on Parallelogram Haar-Like Features", 38th Annual Conference on IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON 2012), IEEE Press, pp. 614-618, 2012.
 Van-Dung Hoang, Thi-Dung Vo, OOP with ObjectStore database management systems, 2th International Conference on Science, Technology and Innovation for Sustainable Well-Being (STISWB II), pp.1-5, 2010.
 Van-Dung Hoang, "A new approach to searching engine", Journal of Quang Binh University, 2008.
 Van-Dung Hoang, Duc-Thi Vu, "The Application of data clustering technique in the result classification data searching", 7th National Conference on Information Technology and Communication, pp. 1-9, 2007.


Allen Robinson isn't happy with Blake Bortles, and who could blame him?
During a joint practice with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Tuesday, the Jacksonville Jaguars quarterback launched a ball down the sideline intended for Robinson. But, in typical Bortles fashion, he missed his target. Not only that, but the overthrow caused Robinson to run over a spectator.
After the play, Robinson voiced his frustrations with the Jags signal-caller.
It's hard not to feel for Robinson, who sounds pretty despondent here. A Pro-Bowl-selection in 2015, the 23-year-old wideout clearly is being held back by the man in charge of throwing him the ball.
Fortunately for Robinson, there are plenty of players around the NFL who will gladly join him in ripping Bortles.
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The community of Port Townsend is as varied as the geography that surrounds it. From recreation in the Olympic Mountains to drama at the downtown theatre, the reflection of life here is both connected to the land and to the people. Discovery Bay, the Strait of Juan de Fuca and Port Townsend Bay surround the city as it sits at the northeast end of the Quimper Peninsula. It is the seat of Jefferson County.
Port Townsend is "the most sophisticated place west of Seattle" according to one resident in a previous National Geographic Travel article, and it shows.
It is an eclectic community of artists, long-time residents, boat folks and those looking to avoid the standard cookie-cutter places around it. The politics are contentious, because everyone is right, of course. The music and theatre scene are thriving, and there are many hidden gems in the visual arts, writing and poetry of the area. There are numerous Community Organizations.
Coastal Living Magazine has a 2007 article on "Hidden Gems" with PT included >> Read it here! Budget Travel magazine included PT in it's America's Coolest Small Towns contest as well, but we didn't win...
Historically, PT was major seaport in the 1800's, and most of that eras' original architecture has remained. Port Townsend is one of only three Victorian seaports in the U.S. on the National Historic Register.
Visit the Jefferson County Historical Society Museum and the Port Townsend Carnegie Library for more history of the area.
Besides an active historical theme, Port Townsend also combines the best of developing and established artists of all disciplines in presenting workshops, events, Gallery Walks, October's Art in Port Townsend juried art show and festivals year-round. You can never have enough art and PT is considered one of the best small-town art communities in the nation.
Many of today's industries are still based in maritime trades, manufacturing, tourism and timber. Port Townsend Paper still remains the largest employer in the area, though mostly small and mid-size businesses thrive here. There is a strong desire to remain a sustainable community both economically and environmentally.
National Geographic Center for Sustainable Destinations rated Port Townsend 24th out of 109 historic destinations worldwide to visit and live based on authenticity and stewardship. It seems that there's both an aesthetic and social desire to see places like Port Townsend be viable and authentic. It is a major reason people relocate or retire here.
We have a large rural hospital at Jefferson Healthcare providing health services for a wide range of care.
Port Townsend's population is approximately 9,300 from Census Data.
Jefferson County's population is between 26-27,000.
Established in 1851, we're over 165 years old!
Weather is moderate, cooler and windier than the I-5 corridor megalopolis and way more pretty.
Hospital and a fire department provide health, safety and fire assistance. City Police and the Jefferson County Sheriff provide law enforcement.
A variety of Education Opportunities, including vocations such as massage, woodworking and boat-building and the home-schooling option in K through 12 is very popular. Community colleges are here, and we're only missing a four-year accredited college.
Jobs are scarce, so creativity is encouraged and small businesses are the norm.
Median home prices are near $288,000.
Per capita income is about $29,000.
Our sister city is Ichikawa, Japan. They visit us sometimes - we should do that more often...
According to the City of PT we have 9.5 square miles area within the city limits, 88 miles of paved streets, 10 miles of unpaved streets, 30 miles of sidewalks and 33 miles of non-motorized trails.
The combination of art, music, natural beauty, active citizens, varied economy and history make Port Townsend and Jefferson County a unique place to live or visit.
Jefferson County Communities
Port Hadlock, Chimacum, and Irondale comprise the Tri-Area in East Jefferson County. Surrounding communities include:
Port Ludlow - Residential community, marina and resort.
Cape George Colony Club - Residential community west of PT on the Quimper Peninsula.
Marrowstone Island - Home of Fort Flagler and the town of Nordland.
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Ronna McDaniel Blasts Warren: 'Total Fraud'
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William Davis Reporter
December 31, 2018 1:52 PM ET
Republican National Committee Chair Ronna Romney McDaniel wasted no time putting Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren on blast following the senator's big announcement Monday.
Warren officially launched an exploratory committee Monday, normally the first step toward a presidential campaign. Warren has long been seen as a potential challenger to President Donald Trump in 2020. (RELATED: Ronna McDaniel Ridicules Tom Perez For Saying There's An 'Accomplishment Wing Of The Democratic Party')
Senator Warren couldn't be more out of touch. Americans will see her for what she is: another extreme far-left obstructionist and a total fraud.
— Ronna McDaniel (@GOPChairwoman) December 31, 2018
"Senator Warren couldn't be more out of touch," McDaniel said. "Americans will see her for what she is: another extreme far-left obstructionist and total fraud."
A darling of the far-left, Warren has come under fire for embellishing her heritage and was recently embarrassed after DNA testing showed that she was only 1/1024 Native American.
Warren was re-elected for a second term as Massachusetts' senior senator in November, easily defeating Republican challenger Geoff Diehl.
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Q: Select multiple maximum values from the same column I have a user database where users are assigned an ID number in a certain range according to their type. For example, board members get an ID between 1 and 100, children get an ID between 1001 and 3000, parents get an ID between 3001 and 7000 etc.*
I'd like to get a list of the highest number in use for each "segment" of my IDs.
I can of course get the highest number of all by doing
SELECT MAX(Persons.Number) as Maximum FROM Persons

and get the highest number below 3000 like this:
SELECT MAX(Persons.Number) as MaxChild FROM Persons WHERE Persons.Number<=3000

...but how could I get the highest number below 100 AND the highest number below 1000 AND the highest number below 3000 etc. etc. with a single SELECT statement?

*I do have these characteristics stored in the database elsewhere; the "bucketing" of ID numbers is just for making it easier to spot at first glance where a certain user belongs

A: Just use IF():
SELECT
MAX(IF(Persons.Number BETWEEN x AND y, Persons.Number, NULL)) AS max_range_x_y,
MAX(IF(Persons.Number BETWEEN i AND j, Persons.Number, NULL)) AS max_range_i_j, ...
FROM Persons;

Above is MySQL syntax. In SQL Server you might use IIF() instead. What should work in every RDBMS (because it's ANSI-SQL Standard) is
SELECT
MAX(CASE WHEN Persons.Number BETWEEN x AND y THEN Persons.Number ELSE NULL END) AS max_range_x_y,
MAX(CASE WHEN Persons.Number BETWEEN i AND j THEN Persons.Number ELSE NULL END) AS max_range_i_j, ...
FROM Persons;

A: SELECT
MAX(CASE WHEN id BETWEEN 1 and 100 THEN Number ELSE NULL END) as BoardMax,
MAX(CASE WHEN ID BETWEEN 1001 and 3000 THEN Number ELSE null END) as ChildMax,
MAX(CASE WHEN ID BETWEEN 3001 and 7000 THEN Number ELSE null END) as ParentMax
from
Persons

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US Judge In Microsoft Antitrust Case Dies In MD Home At 76
WBAL Radio and The Associated Press
Thomas Penfield Jackson (AP Photo)
Thomas Penfield Jackson, who as a federal judge in Washington presided over a Microsoft antitrust case and declared the software company a monopoly, has died.
The death was confirmed Sunday by Jackson's wife, Patricia.
She says her husband died of cancer at the couple's home in Compton, Md.
Jackson presided over a closely watched antitrust trial that resulted in his 2000 order that Microsoft be broken into two companies.
An appeals court reversed the breakup order and appointed a different judge to determine a new punishment.
Jackson also presided over the drug possession trial of then-District of Columbia Mayor Marion Barry.
Barry unsuccessfully appealed his six-month sentence, arguing that Jackson had shown bias in comments made to a Harvard University audience after his trial.


Choosing to hire professional plumbers will help you save on time and money. This is possible because the plumbers will use a short time to complete their tasks. These are usually tasks that they do every day so they won't take long before they complete the tasks. Similarly, the plumbers will do quality work which will require minimal or no maintenance or repairs. This will surely reduce your costs, and you will also save on time.


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Brian Lohse
Jagtvej 160, 2100 København Ø, 3rd floor, office C. 327
bril@sund.ku.dk
http://drug.ku.dk/research/molecular_and_cellular_pharmacology/epidiscovery-group/
Phone: +45 35 33 66 58Mobile: +45 93 56 54 31
Pitfalls to avoid when using phage display for snake toxins
Laustsen, A. H., Lauridsen, L. P., Lomonte, B., Andersen, M. R. & Lohse, Brian, Feb 2017, In : Toxicon. 126, p. 79-89 11 p.
From Fangs to Pharmacology: The Future of Snakebite Envenoming Therapy
Laustsen, A. H., Engmark, M., Milbo, C., Johannesen, J., Lomonte, B., Gutiérrez, J. M. & Lohse, Brian, 2016, In : Current Pharmaceutical Design. 22, 34, p. 5270-5293 24 p.
Synthesis and characterisation of substrate-based peptides as inhibitors of histone demethylase KDM4C
Nielsen, S. D., Leurs, Ulrike, Bergner, M., Barris, S. A., Devkota, K., Meyer, K., Iaria, D., McCaughan, J., Lohse, Brian, Kristensen, Jesper Langgaard & Clausen, Rasmus Prætorius, 13 Jun 2016, In : Protein and Peptide Letters. 23, 9, p. 772 - 776 5 p.
A fluorescence resonance energy transfer-based method for histone methyltransferases
Devkota, K., Lohse, Brian, Nyby Jakobsen, C., Berthelsen, J. & Clausen, Rasmus Prætorius, 19 Feb 2015, In : Analytical Biochemistry. 476, p. 78-80 3 p.
Danger in the reef: Proteome, toxicity, and neutralization of the venom of the olive sea snake, Aipysurus laevis
Laustsen, A. H., Gutiérrez, J. M., Rasmussen, A. R., Engmark, M., Gravlund, P., Sanders, K. L., Lohse, Brian & Lomonte, B., 1 Dec 2015, In : Toxicon. 107, p. 187-96 10 p.
Selecting key toxins for focused development of elapid snake antivenoms and inhibitors guided by a Toxicity Score
Laustsen, A. H. & Lohse, Brian, 15 Sep 2015, In : Toxicon. 104, p. 43-45 3 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › Research › peer-review
Snake venomics of monocled cobra (Naja kaouthia) and investigation of human IgG response against venom toxins
Laustsen, A. H., Lohse, Brian & Rasmussen, A. R., 2015, In : Toxicon. 99, p. 23-35 13 p.
Unveiling the nature of black mamba (Dendroaspis polylepis) venom through venomics and antivenom immunoprofiling: Identification of key toxin targets for antivenom development
Laustsen, A. H., Lomonte, B., Lohse, Brian, Fernandez, J. & Gutiérrez, J. M., 2015, In : Journal of Proteomics. 119, p. 126–142 17 p.
Analogues of the natural product Sinefungin as inhibitors of EHMT1 and EHMT2
Devkota, K., Lohse, Brian, Liu, Q., Wang, M., Stærk, Dan, Berthelsen, J. & Clausen, Rasmus Prætorius, 2014, In : A C S Medicinal Chemistry Letters. 5, 4, p. 293-297
Dissecting the Binding Mode of Low Affinity Phage Display Peptide Ligands to Protein Targets by Hydrogen/Deuterium Exchange Coupled to Mass Spectrometry
Leurs, Ulrike, Lohse, Brian, Ming, S. A., Cole, P. A., Clausen, Rasmus Prætorius, Kristensen, Jesper Langgaard & Rand, Kasper Dyrberg, 17 Oct 2014, In : Analytical Chemistry. 86, 23, p. 11734-11741 8 p.
Substrate- and Cofactor-independent Inhibition of Histone Demethylase KDM4C


Following David Hill's post about joining Twitter, I've been thinking again about joining Twitter. A few months I posted about Twitter. In that post I spoke about my concerns of constant connection and the work it seemed to require, amongst other things. I'm not so concerned now, but for some reason I'm still resisting joining Twitter. The question this has led me to is about the necessity of joining Twitter. Is it possible to be an academic without being on Twitter? Can an academic manage without Twitter?
In trying to answer this question I've been searching around and looking at the content of academic Twitter profiles (including journals, departments and societies as well as individuals). I've also been chatting with colleagues. What I'm finding is that Twitter seems to have rapidly become the place to find out about what is going on in the academic world. It would seem that there is something about Twitter, more than any other social media, that seems to suit academics. The result seems to be that academic life is being remediate a on a large scale. Not only is information about opportunities (including job, publishing and speaking opportunities) passing around freely, but Twitter seems to be making aspects of academic practice more visible. We can see what is going on where, who has achieved what, where people are moving to, and so on. I'm wondering if this is going to increasingly mean that you need a good reason to avoid Twitter. I'm increasingly getting the sense that I'm likely to miss stuff, or that I'm likely to fall out of the loop. Plus, of course, there is the visibility that comes with an established Twitter profile. Maybe resistance is futile. Maybe this is the new space for academic life to thrive. I'll probably join in soon. But this remediation of academic life, and the underlying politics of data circulation, are going to need some attention soon. The ease with which Twitter has been absorbed into academic practice is interesting in itself. It will probably be worth thinking through the ways in which it is restructuring academic practice and communication – and how it amplifies certain voices amongst the noise of Tweets. I'm hoping to build some of these questions into an article I'm about to start.
This post by Dave Beer was originally posted on Thinking Culture.
Can academics manage without twitter? In my experience, academics on maternity leave can't. It's great for keeping a toe in the water. Brian Kelly makes some great points about Twitter and its strengths as a means of event amplification and as a light-touch network over on his blog. I'd also say, many people overlook the fact that Twitter is far more accessible than other networks/blogs etc due to services like Easy Chirp. For me (as a researcher in Disability Studies) this is essential for research dissemination.