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Changes in Red Cross Blood Screening Procedures
A Need for a Greater Blood Supply
Challenges in the blood supply were already present even before the emergence of COVID-19. The pandemic brought about a crisis for blood services as the spread of infection caused cancellations of blood drives. In 2022, the number of weekly cases has continued to decrease, and local governments have started to loosen public health restrictions. The worst part of the pandemic appears to have passed, but crises in the blood supply have not ended.
The concern about blood availability is not due to increased demand for transfusion, but because of the decline in supply due to reduced donations. As a result of the unprecedented blood supply shortage, hospitals are forced to delay or reschedule surgeries. To prevent these problems, the Red Cross continues to encourage the public to donate blood.
COVID-19 Vaccine and Blood Donation
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted an emergency use authorization (EUA) to Pfizer-BioNTech on December 11, 2020. Since then, different varieties of vaccines have been developed against COVID-19 such as messenger RNA (mRNA), vector vaccine, and protein subunit vaccine. As of October 1, 2022, about 68% of the world's population has received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
With the majority of the population receiving jabs, the screening process for blood now includes the donors' vaccination status. As part of the Red Cross screening process, the blood donor is asked a series of personal questions to ensure that it is safe for patients to receive their blood and that it is safe for the donor to give blood on the appointed day.
On March 17, 2020, Gail McGovern, president and chief executive officer of the American Red Cross reassured the public that "blood donation is a safe process, and that we have put additional precautions in place at our drive drives."
Eligibility Guidelines Concerning COVID Shots
Ten organizations, including the World Health Organization (WHO), FDA, and Association for the Advancement of Blood & Biotherapies (AABB), released various recommendations on the deferral periods for blood donors who had received COVID-19 vaccine. The deferral periods range from zero to 28 days, depending on whether the donor received a live or inactivated vaccine.
Among these organizations, the Red Cross follows the eligibility guidelines set by the FDA. Updated information for blood establishments regarding the COVID-19 pandemic and blood donation was released by the FDA on January 11, 2022. It suggests that individuals who received a nonreplicating, inactivated, or mRNA-based vaccine can give blood without a waiting period, and there's a short waiting period (e.g., 14 days) for donors who received a live-attenuated shot. As a response to these requirements, the Red Cross released the COVID-19 Vaccine & Booster Blood Donation Guide for Donors where the donor is expected to report the name of the vaccine manufacturer during the screening process.
Concerns for the Blood Recipients
There are significant differences in the public's acceptance of COVID-19 vaccines, and this has also affected the acceptance of blood transfusions from COVID-19 vaccinated donors. Some patients refuse blood transfusions and demand physicians to disclose details of the donor, including whether the donor received a COVID-19 vaccine.
As reported in TrialSite, there are concerns about why vaccinated individuals are allowed to donate blood within two weeks after receiving the shot if the spike proteins circulate in the body for up to a month after mRNA vaccination. A study by the Stanford University Department of Pathology revealed that the blood of Pfizer vaccine recipients contains at least as much spike protein as unvaccinated individuals who were infected by the virus.
The Australian Red Cross advises donors to wait three days after receiving each jab before donating blood, plasma, or platelets regardless of the type of vaccine received because of the possible side effects such as mild fever.
Antibody Testing for Blood Donors
In the early period of the pandemic, the Red Cross tested all blood, platelet, and plasma donations for COVID-19 antibodies. The result helped inform the donors whether they have been exposed to Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS Cov-2), the virus that carries COVID-19.
The antibody test was authorized by the FDA and helped indicate if the donor's immune system had produced antibodies to the coronavirus, regardless of the development of symptoms. It was implemented for a limited time from June 15 – 30, 2020. They discontinued the program when infection rates decreased and new treatment options became available.
A positive result from the antibody test does not confirm infection or immunity, as it only indicates potential exposure to the virus.
Are We Repeating History?
Blood transfusion is one of the most frequently performed medical procedures, yet this practice has historically been mired in controversy such as when African-Americans were banned from donating blood during World War II. This was followed by a lifetime ban on blood donations on men who had sex with men (MSM) during the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the 1980s. During the mid-twentieth century, the U.S. National Blood Program encouraged blood donation and ensured that gender, race, and sexuality would not influence the transfusion process.
Practices in blood donation have improved, but the societal views of it remain controversial. The issues surrounding COVID-19 vaccines have led some patients to get worried about becoming infected with COVID-19 or developing long-term effects from the vaccine itself.
According to the AABB, there is no evidence that donated blood from COVID-19-vaccinated donors may pose a risk to recipients. It recognizes the importance of protecting blood donors and the blood supply by maintaining donor anonymity. Data privacy is also acknowledged by numerous organizations, as they consider it to be crucial in maintaining the relationship between volunteer blood donors and blood transfusion services.
Via https://www.trialsitenews.com/a/changes-in-red-cross-blood-screening-procedures-469a8014


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You are tired of the political games and the arcane procedural rows.
Tired of MPs talking about nothing else but Brexit when you have real concerns about our children's schools, our National Health Service, and knife crime.
I will continue to work night and day to secure the support of my colleagues, the DUP and others for this deal.
That would mean asking you to vote in European Elections, nearly three years after our country decided to leave.
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Q: Regular expressions are extremly slow Pre: I'm trying to extract different types of parts from a big array using regexp. This operation is performed in AsyncTask. part.plainname is a string, 256 char maximum. item_pattern looks like "^keyword.*?$"
Problem: I found the method, that's slows everything:
public int defineItemAmount(NFItem[] parts, String item_pattern){
    System.out.println("STAMP2");
    int casecount = 0;
    for (NFItem part : parts) {
        if (testItem(part.plainname, item_pattern))
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    }
    System.out.println("STAMP3");
    return casecount;
}

public boolean testItem(String testString, String item_pattern){
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}

There's only 950 parts, but it works horribly slow:
02-25 11:34:51.773    1324-1343/com.nfe.unsert.dns_pc_creator I/System.out﹕ STAMP2

02-25 11:35:18.094    1324-1343/com.nfe.unsert.dns_pc_creator I/System.out﹕ STAMP3

20 seconds just for the counting. testItem is used a lot, around 15*parts. So the whole app is working more than 15 minutes. While almost the same java program (not for android app) finishes in less than 30 seconds.
Question: What am I doing wrong? Why simple regexp operationg taking so long?

A: You can pre-compile the pattern:
public static int defineItemAmount(NFItem[] parts, String item_pattern){
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    Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile(item_pattern);
    int casecount = 0;
    for (NFItem part : parts) {
        if (testItem(part.plainname, pattern))
            ++casecount;
    }
    System.out.println("STAMP3");
    return casecount;
}

public static boolean testItem(String testString, Pattern pattern){
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}

A: If you are looking for a string that begins with a keyword, you don't need to use the matches method with this kind of pattern ^keyword.*?$:

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*first the non-greedy quantifier is useless and may slowdown the regex engine for nothing, a greedy quantifier will give you the same result.

*since the matches method is by default anchored, anchors are not needed, you can remove them.

*you are only interested by the begining of the string, so in this case the lookingAt method is more appropriate since it doesn't care of what happens at the end of the string.

*as other answers notice it, if the same pattern is used several times, try to compile it once and for all outside the testItem function. But if it isn't the case don't compile it at all.

*if keyword is a literal string and not a subpattern, don't use regex at all and use indexOf to check if the keyword is at the index 0.

A: You don't need to compile the pattern each time. Rather, do it once on initialisation.
But, due to their generality, regular expressions are not fast, and they are not designed to be. You might be better off using a specific string splitting technique if the data are sufficiently regular.

A: *

*Regexes are usually slow because they have a lot of things (like synchronization) involved in their construction.

*Don't call a separate method in the loop (which might prevent certain optimizations). Let the VM optimize the for loop.
Use this and check performance :
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Haïti Priorise: Land Records, Joseph
With a density of 393 inhabitants per km2 in Haiti, pressures on land have led to an exponential increase in the value of land and major conflicts that disturb the public peace.
Lack of clarity in the land sector leads to a state of insecurity which weakens investments. Haiti's situation includes:
A tradition of private ownership giving rise to small and generalized property and sharing;
Ill-defined, poorly located state sector representing 10% of the national territory;
Informality of most transactions and land transfers;
Land insecurity resulting from institutional weaknesses;
Irregularity of property titles;
Land disputes that are difficult for the justice system to deal with;
Inefficient management of archives entailing transaction costs of up to 25% of the value of the property.
The entity responsible for rural and urban land registry information is the National Land Registry Office (ONACA), which is part of the Ministry of Public Works, Transport and Communications. A report produced in May 2010 by the Haitian Government and the OAS specified that the ONACA covered only 5% of the country.
The General Directorate of Taxes (DGT) archives, transcribes and formalizes the land title after receiving it from surveyors and notaries who prepare and certify the land title data. It is responsible for the titling of all public lands, but under customary practices, notaries issue titles of private property.
Since 1824, the DGT central office has accumulated a register of 2,500 books, which have not been digitized. This results in high transaction and administrative costs and the weakening of property titles. The DGT has recently digitized part of the archives for the sole purpose of retaining them but not to streamline the process.
Digitize land records
The main components of land title digitization are:
Inventory and restoration of land archives for their digitization
Acquisition of computer equipment
Design for the land software system
Digitization and vectorization of land and topographic documents
Backup of land and topographic information
Implementation of the computerized information system
Training of land services officers
Summary Table of the BCR
Benefits for every gourde spent
21.4 billion gourdes 8.36 billion gourdes 2.6
Costs, Benefits and BCR
Costs of digitization relate to the acquisition of computer equipment, the implementation of the computer system and its maintenance, and the payment of technician salaries. The personnel cost would be 2.7 million gourdes per year. Software and hardware would each cost 15 million gourdes, in one-off costs.
Digitization also involves judicial costs related to provoking "dormant conflicts" given the irregularity of certain extra-legal titles. It is estimated that there would be 500,000 conflicts during the digitization phase, with a cost of 20,000 gourdes for judicial administration of each conflict. In the first five years of the project, the cost would be 1.56 billion gourdes per year.
The benefits of digitization include:
Administration and storage cost savings. A reduction in the costs of managing and preserving the land archives for the State. The State employs a large number of staff to ensure the management, conservation of land titles and the production of necessary information. In addition, it acquires storage equipment. Despite this, the preservation of archives has a high risk of loss. From 8 years into the intervention, these benefits would start being seen, worth 20 million gourdes per year.
Operational cost savings. A reduction in staff costs. From 8 years into the intervention, these benefits would start being seen, worth 2.7 million gourdes per year.
Time gained. For all participants involved in the process. The time to search for existing ownership titles is estimated to be between 3 and 12 months. The waiting time from the moment the notary submits the file to the DGT for registration and payment receipt is estimated between 3 and 18 months. Assuming that the digitization accelerates the dissection of the archives, it is assumed that the time saved will be 5 months. After the first year of the intervention, these benefits would be seen. They would be worth 79.4 million in this year, and would climb over time until they are worth 241 million gourdes.
Reduction of interest payments on loans. This would be worth 917 million gourdes annually after the first year of the intervention, and this benefit would increase each year, to reach 2.7 billion gourdes.
If spin-off economic benefits are counted, the BCR is considerably higher.
Bertrand Joseph
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GERMANY, Undisclosed Location — Based on breaking news and events, it appears that CIA Headquarters located beneath CERN at Lake Geneva in Switzerland is plotting a North Korean Nuclear EMP (electromagnetic pulse) attack on the United States of America on April 10, 2019, likely resulting in a prolonged electrical blackout.
In order to highlight North Korea's missile and nuclear capabilities on a global level just prior to a made-for-TV Nuclear EMP attack over America soil, the CIA staged a summit in Hanoi, Vietnam, between North Korean Dictator King Jong-Un and U.S. President Donald Trump in Vietnam back on February 27-28, 2019.
In order to foreshadow a North Korean Nuclear EMP attack on the United States surrounding the aforementioned summit between Jong-Un and Trump, the official logo for said summit contains the capital letters 'DPRK-USA' which is exactly one letter off from the term 'DRK-USA' as in 'DARK-USA'. A coincidence? Not a chance.
Exactly how the impending Nuclear EMP (electromagnetic pulse) attack on America will transpire is not known, but it appears that the CIA will claim that the nuclear missile responsible was launched by the rouge North Korean submarine which disappeared from U.S. military radar back on March 11, 2016.
In order to sell the fraudulent notion that North Korean Nuclear EMP attack was the result of a North Korean submarine-based launch just prior its fruition in reality, it was reported on February 24, 2019, that Iran successfully launched a cruise missile from its submarine during a drill in the Persian Gulf.
Although the impending nuclear EMP attack on America and subsequent blackout will be blamed on a rogue missile strike, in reality U.S. electricity companies (at the behest of the CIA) will just turn off the power at the same time that the nuclear missile explodes, causing people to believe the two events are connected.
In what appears to be a preview of things to come, Forbes published a report on October 23, 2017, entitled, 'North Korean EMP Attack Would Cause Mass U.S. Starvation, Says Congressional Report' which revealed that a North Korean electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack on America would 'ultimately wipe out 90% of the population'.
Back on September 7, 2017, former United States Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton warned against a potential electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack from North Korea claiming that Jong-Un was an absolute 'threat' and therefore suggested taking military action against the North Korean capital of Pyongyang.
Lastly, the notion that the entire North Korean nuclear attack on America narrative is a colossal hoax specifically designed to trigger World War III was confirmed, albeit in a de facto manner back on March 29, 2014, when a United Nations report revealed that U.K. and U.S. parts were found within North Korean nuclear rockets.
Prior to executing an alleged North Korean nuclear attack on the United States, the CIA must establish a believable narrative through their governments and media platforms that North Korea has an active nuclear weapons program. For example, on April 4, 2014, North Korea told the world "wait and see" about its latest nuclear test. Roughly a month later on May 10, 2014, North Korea threatened to conduct a "counter-measure" nuclear test. A few months later on July 28, 2014, North Korea threatened a nuclear strike on White House, showing that they are planning to attack while Obama is in office. Lastly, on September 23, 2014, it was reported that North Korea is developing new missiles capable of carrying tactical nuclear warheads. Needless to say, these reports, taken collectively, suggest that an unprecedented nuclear attack by North Korea is imminent. As evidenced, North Korea has continued their nuclear tests regardless of the sanctions imposed by the United Nations. With each passing nuclear test, the respective yield of the test jumps considerably higher. Therefore, the 4th nuclear test (or the 1st nuclear attack) by North Korea should yield somewhere in the neighborhood of 25-40 kilotons of TNT, an amount on par with Pakistan's nuclear program. According to physicists who testified before a U.S. Congressional hearing on October 7, 1999, nuclear weapons with yields of 10 kilotons or less can produce a large EMP capable of destroying the electrical grid.
Shortly after the mysterious death of North Korean President Kim Jong-il on August 24, 2012, his son, Kim Jong-un was placed into power. Since then, Jong-un has been routinely portrayed in the media as being mentally unstable, highly insecure, and willing to attack anyone at a moment's notice. Not surprisingly, Kim Jong-un exhibits all the telltale signs of being brainwashed and under state-sponsored mind-control. Jong-un was reportedly spotted with his "handler" on numerous occasions while attending a "private school" in Switzerland, home of the CIA. According to Wikipedia, "mind control" was first developed in Korea during the Korean War and involves a process in which a group or individual "systematically uses unethically manipulative methods to persuade others to conform to the wishes of the manipulator(s), often to the detriment of the person being manipulated". Needless to say, Un is a patsy of the CIA who holds no real power. Like his father, he will be assassinated once he fulfills his respective mission which evidently consists of an unprovoked attack nuclear EMP attack on the United States.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security report from October 9, 2018, entitled, 'Strategy for Protecting and Preparing the Homeland Against Threats of Electromagnetic Pulse and Geomagnetic Disturbances' warns that an Nuclear EMP attack is imminent, stating that, 'An intentional electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack or a naturally occurring geomagnetic disturbance…could damage significant portions of the Nation's critical infrastructure, including the electrical grid, communications equipment, water and wastewater systems, and transportation modes…Extreme electromagnetic incidents caused by an intentional electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack or a naturally occurring geomagnetic disturbance (GMD, also referred to as "space weather") could damage significant portions of the Nation's critical infrastructure, including the electrical grid, communications equipment, water and wastewater systems, and transportation modes. The impacts are likely to cascade, initially compromising one or more critical infrastructure sectors, spilling over into additional sectors, and expanding beyond the initial geographic regions. EMPs are associated with intentional attacks using high-altitude nuclear detonations, specialized conventional munitions, or non-nuclear directed energy devices. Effects vary in scale from highly local to regional to continental, depending upon the specific characteristics of the weapon and the attack profile. High-altitude electromagnetic pulse attacks (HEMP) using nuclear weapons are of most concern because they may permanently damage or disable large sections of the national electric grid and other critical infrastructure control systems'.


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Michael Bacon (born December 22, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter, musician and film score composer. He is the older brother of actor Kevin Bacon. He is a faculty member in music at Lehman College.

Biography

Early life and career
Bacon, one of six children, was born in Philadelphia and raised there in a close-knit family. A former Park Avenue debutante, his mother, Ruth Hilda (née Holmes), taught elementary school and was a liberal activist, while his father, Edmund Bacon, was a well-respected urban planner and author of the canonical urban planning book, Design of Cities. Michael attended and graduated from the prestigious Central High School (Philadelphia), June 1965, 224th class. Much later he entered Lehman College and graduated with very high notes in 1995.

Music

Bacon is an accomplished guitarist, keyboardist and cellist. In the late 1990s and into the 2000s, Bacon performed with his Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award-winning brother, Kevin, in a duo ensemble, called The Bacon Brothers, which he formed. With three albums to their credit by 2001, Bacon's tour schedule included eight concerts for the summer of that year, at venues from New York City, down the East Coast, and into the Midwest to Peru, Illinois and Missouri. The duo have written and performed songs together for several decades, including several commercial numbers and maintain that they will continue to work together and perform. The Bacon Brothers were featured on the July–August 2006 cover of Making Music Magazine.

In 2008, Bacon composed the soundtrack for the PBS mini series The Jewish Americans.

Film and television
Bacon has composed hundreds of songs for television shows and motion pictures.

In January 2006, Bacon appeared on an episode of Queer Eye with his brother Kevin. The episode featured him as the episode's "straight guy" and makeover recipient, and ended with both Bacon Brothers performing.

Personal life
Bacon has been married to Betsy Maguire-Bacon since 1972; they have one child, Neil Bacon (born April 29, 1982).  He earned a degree in music from Lehman College; he studied composition and orchestration with Pulitzer Prize-winning composer John Corigliano.

Discography

Solo
"Good News" Columbia

"Bringin' it Home" Monument/CBS

"Love Song Believer" Monument/

With Kevin Bacon as the Bacon Brothers
1997: Forosoco
1999: Getting There
2001: Can't Complain
2005: White Knuckles
2009: New Years Day
2011: Philadelphia Road – The Best Of
2014: 36¢
2018: The Bacon Brothers
2020: The Way We Love

Film and television scores
Film
The Man Nobody Knew -feature dir. by Carl Colby
Boy Interrupted 2009 Sundance -dir. by Dana Perry
Red Betsy (with Sheldon Mirowitz) -feature dir. Chris Boebel
Loverboy -feature dir. By Kevin Bacon
Brothers in Arms – The Story of the Crew of Patrol Craft 94 feature doc. with John Kerry
Berga: Soldiers of Another War -Guggenheim Prods.
King Gimp −2000 Acad. Award Winner Short Documentary Bill Whiteford and Susan Hadary
D-Day Remembered 1995 Acad. Award Nominee Long Documentary Guggenheim Prods.
A Time for Justice 1995 Acad. Award Winner- Short Documentary- Guggenheim Prods.
Losing Chase starring Helen Mirren (Golden Globe winner) and Kyra Sedgwick dir. Kevin Bacon.
A Place in the Land 1998 Acad. Award Nominee Short Documentary Guggenheim Prods.
The Last Good Time  dir. Bob Balaban
Sleeping Together  dir. Hugh Bush
Shadow of Hate 1996 Acad. Award nominee- Guggenheim Productions
Pen Pals  dir, Mary Kotzke
Who Shot Pat? starring Sandra Bullock dir. Bob Brooks
In a Pig's Eye  starring David Canary dir. John Saffron
The Johnstown Flood 1993 Acad. Award winner Short Documentary- Guggenheim Prods.
Sharks of Treasure Island Cousteau Society
Network
Hiroshima, Rage and Betrayal, Pot of Gold -Peter Jennings ABC
Turning Point – ABC Series (17)
The Century -ABC (26)
Gettin' Over with Tony Danza ABC Series (9)
Tyson: The Fallen Champ 2 hour NBC Movie of the Week dir. Barbara Kopple
Trackdown ABC series (3)
Code One ABC Special
Brides ABC Special
We're Expecting ABC Special
America's Missing Children  CBS Special
Body Watching CBS special
Yearbook Fox series (11)
Urban Anxiety Fox series (9)
Public television
Finding Your Roots (2011–12)
The Buddha (2010)The Trials of J. Robert Oppenheimer (2009)The AdirondacksGeorge H. W. BushBill Moyers Journal (2007)Out of the ShadowsThe Mysterious Human Heart (2007)The Jewish Americans (2007)Oprah's Roots (2007)African American Lives I and II (2006) (2008)Victory in the Pacific (2005)RFK (2005)Marie Antoinette (2006)Religion and Ethics -themeDestination America (2005)Young Dr. Freud Emmy nominee for original scoreThe Windsors 4-hour mini-seriesDegenerate Art PBS (David Grubin)Napoleon 4-hour mini-seriesHOXIE: The First Stand (Peabody Award)Jim CrowAmerican Experience – WGBHSurrender in the Pacific (2005)The Kennedys  Emmy winner for Outstanding Achievement in Music, (News and Documentary)FDR  Peabody Award winnerAmelia EarhartLBJ National Emmy Nominee David Grubin Chicago Film Fest. Gold Plaque Award for MusicEisenhowerMacArthurLincolnAndrew CarnegieGold FeverTeddy Roosevelt (TR)The Last Boss (Daley)Orphan TrainsThe Wright StuffJourney to AmericaThe World That Moses BuiltThe Great Air RaceHurricane of 1938ReaganTruman (Emmy Winner)Alone on the Ice (Admiral Byrd)Dust BowlAmerica 1900 (Emmy winner, Peabody Award winner)Smithsonian WorldThe Wyeths (adaptation of Ann Wyeth McCoy's music) Emmy winner 1988 (David Grubin)Voices of Latin AmericaBill Moyers on PBSHealing and the Mind 1993 National Emmy winner Inf. Series (5)Bill Moyers' JournalIn Search of the ConstitutionA Second LookReport from PhiladelphiaThe Secret GovernmentGod and PoliticsWorld of IdeasPower of the WordNova -WGBHShackletonWorld in the BalanceIn Search of the Super TwisterThe Big DigTrillion Dollar BetElectric HeartRescue Mission in SpaceEclipse of the CenturyIn Search of the Lost LanguageRoller CoasterCondorsBuried in AshSick BuildingsMeteorsWNETTheme for The Musicals 1990 Emmy Best Director (John Merdin)America on WheelsCableThe Man who Loved Sharks (Nigel Noble) 1992 ACE Award Nominee-Best Original ScoreMarilyn: The Last Interview (HBO)LOCOMOTION Engines of Enterprise (BBC)Shoot the Clock LifetimeAddicted LifetimeMultiple Personality Disorder (HBO)Mitchum Ace Award Wombat ProductionsCNN: Special Assignment Theme
Rediscovering America with Roger Kennedy Discovery Series (11)
Sports Illustrated for Kids (HBO)
Drining Passion (TURNER)
Animal ER (TURNER)
The Hidden Zoo (TURNER)

References

External links

1949 births
American rock singers
American country singer-songwriters
American film score composers
American male film score composers
Lehman College alumni
Living people
Musicians from Philadelphia
Emmy Award winners
Columbia Records artists
Monument Records artists
Singer-songwriters from Pennsylvania
The Bacon Brothers members
Country musicians from Pennsylvania
Lehman College faculty
American male singer-songwriters

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ASUCI Judicial Board Fills Vacancy, Legislative Injunction Lifted
February 17, 2015 Parshan Kermani
Students across campus were affected by a sudden shut-down of the lights caused by a malfunctioning transformer last Tuesday. What many students missed, however, was the administrative shutdown that happened during the same night. ASUCI's Legislative Council had called a one-week injunction that night.
The reason for this administrative injunction, which prevented any legislations from being proposed, was because there were not enough members sitting on the ASUCI Judicial Board to meet quorum.
As specified by ASUCI's constitution, the judicial board reviews and confirms the constitutionality of any legislation approved by legislative council. If the judicial board fails to meet quorum, the legislative council can not meet until the judicial board is fully reconstituted.
Specifically Section II, Subsection D, Part 2A of the Judicial Board Policies states that "should Judicial Board fail to reach quorum, the Judicial Board Chair shall issue a temporary injunction on all ASUCI legislation until enough vacancies are filled to reach quorum."
In the past year, ASUCI has been operating with only four out of seven members in the Judicial branch, barely meeting the quorum of at least 50 percent. However, two weeks ago, another member of the judicial board resigned due to personal reasons.
As a result, legislative council was unable to pass any legislations, including one supporting the recent BSU petition.
As specified in Article V, Section B, Part 3 of the ASUCI Constitution, the appointment of the Judicial Board members falls primarily under the duties of the ASUCI Executive Cabinet. As noted in article VI, Section C, however, in "the event that the Executive Cabinet fails to submit a (Judicial Board) nomination(s) to the Legislative Council within two weeks of the occurrence of a vacancy, nominations may be made by any ASUCI elected representative."
While the executive cabinet has opened applications since the beginning of the academic year, they were unable to appoint any nominations.
However, with full knowledge of this issue, and in an attempt to rescue the legislative council from entering into an elongated shutdown, the current speaker pro tempore, Alvin Phan, nominated one of the only applicants, William "Joe" Barton.
In the council's meeting last Tuesday, Joe Barton was approved to be sit on the judicial board for the next two years, in a nine to one vote, with two members of the council abstaining.
This appointment will come into effect starting Feb. 17.
It should be made clear the council has still met and followed its normal duties, aside from voting on legislations.
Two other members of the judicial board are set to complete their terms by the end of this academic year.
Meanwhile, the executive cabinet is still tasked with finding three candidates for the remaining three spots on the judicial board.


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The Spider and the Fly:
photo by Christa Van Gend
the hoax letter as short story
by John Saunders
For Jonty Driver
The essence of the form which I will be exploring is as old as the hills. The questor (A) poses a question (B) to an 'authority' © and receives an answer (D). The outcome (E) may or may not be known. The world watches, and as the form develops more and more 'readers' come to realise that any of A, B, C and D may not be genuine.
The earliest recorded examples relate to the advice given by the oracle at Delphi. Who here was the authority? Was it Apollo, or his priestess Pythia, or the priests who controlled the finances? (The oracle was a big earner). Many of the recorded answers are enigmatic, the questor choosing to interpret them in a way which suited his character. And many of the known endings are tragi-comic little tales which have been passed on down the centuries. Consider the story of the legendary Croesus. Croesus consulted the oracle for advice concerning his planned campaign against the Persian Empire. The oracle prophesied that if Croesus attacked the Persians a great empire would be destroyed. This answer suited Croesus, who took heart and invaded – and his own empire was destroyed. But not just great kings consulted the oracle. 'Ordinary' men (though not women) made visits too, asking the oracle for advice concerning domestic issues. Looking back at the Oracle it is tempting to see the priestess as a giant spider, at the centre of a web of myths and legends, who trapped the unwary into her clutches – often destroying them.
The Delphic Oracle might be seen as the forerunner of the English agony aunt (and uncle), whose birth is now generally traced back to the publication of the Athenian Gazette, soon to be renamed as the Athenian Mercury. The Gazette was the brainchild of a journalist and bookseller, John Dunston, an habitual adulterer who, experiencing the need to discuss his little weakness with an impersonal adviser, realised that an impersonal form of question and answer might prove to be financially lucrative. The Athenian Gazette was first published in 1691. Initially Dunston relied on a small team of relatives and friends who undertook the task of answering questions on a range of topics: divinity, history, philosophy, mathematics, poetry and love. Sometimes – in order to sustain interest – the team also wrote the questions. Soon, personal emotional issues began to dominate and the advisers were increased to include that legendary literary hoaxer Daniel Defoe. Some of the advice offered by the Gazette now seems refreshingly lacking in the primness shown by many later uncles and aunts. When a woman (perhaps) wrote in to ask what to do about her fears concerning the loneliness of old age, she was advised to go down to the docks and find herself a sailor.
On discovering that the Q and A form appealed to women in particular, Dunston then launched the Ladies Mercury – a self-proclaimed women's journal produced by men. Both journals sold well and soon other publications like the The Old Maid and the Female Spectator followed. The latter's first agony aunt, Eliza Haywood, was no paragon of virtue – having had several affairs and several children by a range of admirers. But she took firm positions on public issues such as marriage, education and conduct. Her replies to letters were written under four nom-de-plumes – Mira, Euphrosine, Widow of Quality and – The Female Spectator.
But it was the Victorian era which introduced the great age of the English agony aunt and their
answers tended to deal out the shallow moral certainties which were the public face of the age. Tanith Carey's recent book – Never Kiss a Man in a Canoe: Words of Wisdom from the Golden Age of Agony Aunts (Boxtree, 2009) – consists of a wide range of advice offered from aunts (and uncles) working for a wide range of publications including The Ladies Treasury, Every Girl's Paper, Honey, Forget-Me-Not, Betty's Weekly; The Girls' Best Friend; Chic; Tit-Bits; Ally Sloper's Half Holiday; and Punch. Punch fits uneasily into Tanith Carey's essentially anecdotal tit bits of 'advice' and it almost seems as though she, in researching her book, has been unwittingly hoaxed by its spoof answers to spoof letters. Here is one piece of advice given on a 'Cricketing Venture':
By all means, carry out your plan of bringing over an Eleven of Caggerwee Cannibal Islanders to play a series of Matches with the leading County Clubs next season. Your idea of accustoming them to the game by letting them do their bowling in the first place, with a human head, and their batting with and adult thigh-bone, is excellent. Be careful, when you get them on to the field, that they do not eat the Wicket-keeper's gloves and Long-stop's pads, or want to roast the umpire – as they invariably do in their own national game of Balagoo, after the first innings.
And here is Punch on Chess:
You cannot move your Queen like a Knight unless you get a safe opportunity, when your opponent is not looking.
But most of the examples in Never Kiss a Man in a Canoe reveal the 'aunt' as a pillar of society, briskly dealing out a form of middle-class, middle-aged, respectable advice. Generally the questor is the fly, trapped into sharing an intimate personal problem with an audience of voyeurs. But there are times when the reader might sense that, in her blinkered righteousness, it is the aunt who has been hoaxed. Here are two of many examples:
Schoolboy vice – Have you not a family doctor you can trust? Glad indeed that you have seen the terrible error. Yes, there is an operation for the evil after effects, but I don't think it is necessary in your case. Take a cold bath every morning and plenty of good, non-stimulating food.
Fatima says dancing and dress are her greatest delights, and as she must earn her own livelihood, she wishes to leave off clear starching and become a ballet girl, but that she is, alas!, very stout, and has a large foot and very thick ankles.…We can only say it would be about as easy to make her form slender and her ankles taper, as to make her a sensible and well judging young woman.
Stories of sexual problems sell well, and the agony aunt is still with us. Through much of the Victorian era and its aftermath the aunt was a shadowy figure hiding behind a nom-de-plume. However, the modern era brought to the fore a new kind of agony aunt, who is often a celebrity. Claire Rayner, Vanessa Feltz, Marjorie Proops and Ann Widdicombe are examples. And questors often compete to ensure that their questions are spicy enough to assist in paper sales, so hoaxing remains an on-going motif.
Following the Second World War, a different kind of letter-writing hoaxer emerged to take centre stage. Here, the fly was the recipient trapped into responding. Any roll of honour (or dishonour) of these literary hoaxers must include the fictional names: H Rochester Sneath, Francis Wagstaffe and Henry Root.
The story of the hoaxes under the name of H. Rochester Sneath are available in book form as The Life and Death of Rochester Sneath (Hamish Hamilton, London, 1980). The true author of the letters was Humphrey Berkeley, who at the time of writing (1948) was President of both the Cambridge Union Society and the Cambridge University Conservative Association. Somehow he managed to combine the duties of these two offices with his undergraduate studies while sending out queries to a number of eminent headmasters. His creation, Sneath, purported to be the headmaster of Selhurst, a minor public school near Petworth. Sneath's letters asked for advice on a strange mix of problems, including: whether or not to appoint a junior master who suffered from a club foot and a warty nose; how to provide sex education for the school's maids; how to engineer a Royal visit; and how to hire a private detective. One head master was so drawn to Sneath that he recommended Selhurst to a prospective parent. The blurb on the back of the book which eventually emerged sums up Berkekley's enterprise as follows:
Sneath's letters comprise a gentle and unmalicious, but devastatingly accurate parody of the public school system — a collection so intelligently absurd that it defies adequate description.
When, eventually, the hoax was disclosed Berkeley was sent down from Cambridge for two years.
Francis Wagstaffe was the creation of the writer Toby Forward and the Reverend David Johnson. Wagstaffe, initially posing as a Cumberland sausage seller seeking guidance on the Christian faith and later as the Archbishop of the Old Northern Catholic Church, wrote to Anglican Bishops and others asking for advice. He also elicited responses from a number of celebrities (including Ted Hughes, Cilla Black and Melvyn Bragg) and a number of institutions (including the BBC, British Rail and the Russian Embassy). The two perpetrators of the hoax eventually 'came out' and published the letters as The Spiritual Quest of Francis Wagstaffe (Leominster, Gracewing, 1994). They donated their profits to the St Peter's Young Homeless Centre in Leicester.
Humphry Berkeley (the creator of Sneath) and Forward and Johnson (the creators of Wagstaffe) emerged from cover as pillars of the community (Berkeley was for a while a Conservative MP). They were all three quite unlike William Donaldson, the creator of Henry Root.
Donaldson was a left wing anarchist whose life-long irresponsibility captured the spirit of the mythical sixties. But his Henry Root, a successful wet fish merchant, often writes as the crazy voice of conservatism. Most of the letters are brilliant little satires of extreme right wing political attitudes. Donaldson generally included a pound or a five-pound note in his letters to entrap a response. The letters are written with a jauntiness and confidence which is hilarious to any sane reader. Some of the recipients were either not entirely sane or – in their eagerness to keep the pound or the fiver – failed to consider the actual implications of his words. He wrote to the great and good of the establishment without deference, often taking huge liberties. (In a letter to the Queen, he sympathised with her over her problems with Princess Anne: 'My Doreen, 19, is completely off the rails too, so I know what it's like,' he wrote.)
Each Root exchange is best read as a little short story. Here – abridged – is the story which centred on the private life and attitudes of Nicholas Scott, MP.
First, Root writes asking Scott if he is for or against 'selective hanging' – telling the MP that if he is against he will forfeit the Root vote. Root makes his own extreme position transparently clear: 'Was the Battle of Britain won by shooting down Jerry selectively? I should say not. We pranged the buggers willy nilly.' Scott replies, thanking Root for the pound, which has been contributed to the 'fighting fund', and ends, 'Like you, I do not approve of selective hanging'. Root responds, accusing Scott of evasiveness regarding the hanging issue and deriding him as a typical politician. Surely, he asks, you – as a Tory – cannot be against 'all hanging'? This letter ends in a style typical of Root: 'Here's another pound! Up our Leader! Yours Against Bennery Under the Bed!' And then there is this wicked little post script: 'Talking about beds, may I say – without straying into impertinence, I hope – that I trust all is now well between you and Mrs Scott? The trapped fly, poor, poor Nicholas, is preserved in amber as, with great seriousness, he replies saying that he thought his views on hanging were well known in the constituency. And he provides a short defence for his anti-hanging stance. He ends by assuring Root that all is well concerning the 'personal enquiry'. There is no mention of the pound.
At times, Donaldson abandons Root's right wing persona and a genuine fun-loving anarchist emerges. A letter to Equity announces that 'Root Touring Productions' are holding auditions for a coming work – 'The English Way of Doing Things'. He asks Equity to provide volunteers who: 'will be required to disrobe frontally and show themselves available in all positions to undertake acts of simulated intercourse for the benefit of myself (choreographer) and Mr and Mrs Snipe (investors) who live next-door.'
This time the recipient sees through the ruse, answering: 'It is my understanding that an Official Equity Observer likes to be present at such times, and who shall blame him? Nice work if you can get it!'
The first volume of The Henry Root Letters was published by Weidenfeld and Nicholson in 1980. Others were to follow. Donaldson died in 2005. But today the hoax letter is still very much alive. In The Time Waster Letters (Michael O'Mara Books, 2004) and Return of the Timewaster Letters (Time Warner Books, 2005), Robin Cooper – the creation of Robert Popper, comedian and TV producer – writes playful, zany and at times quite surreal letters to a range of recipients. As questor he takes on a number of different roles and personalities, posing as an architect of dog homes, an inventor, an amateur naturalist, a millinery expert, and an all round ignoramus. Somehow – again and again – his lunatic letters trap the recipient into serious (and therefore hilarious) responses. 'Even funnier than the funniest book I have ever read,' writes Matt Lucas. And other readers recommend that the books should be read only in private to avoid the embarrassment of hysterical, out of control, laughter.
More in the Root tradition, though a good deal more gentle, Geoff Atkinson has been mirroring our times by writing letters of consolation to the architects of the current recession. His persona is the fictional Colin Nugent, a 62-year-old retired schoolteacher from north London whose letters momentarily brightened up the days of 2009's most derided figures and soon after amused readers of The Sunday Telegraph, The Daily Mail, the Independent and the Yorkshire Post. A book Colin Nugent Saves Britain is available from Atkinson's website.
And finally, while still on the arachnid theme , do consult http://www.27bslash6.com/overdue.html for the tale of debt and the spider, one of a number of blogs which is furthering the hoax motif.
John Saunders and his wife, Claire, ask for serious contributions to their web site: www.shakespearesgreatestimages.co.uk. John is currently 'growing' a book called Towards Utopia or Mending Broken Britain. It takes the form of twenty five letters written to eminences of one kind or another and each focussing on an area where the health and happiness of the nation might be radically improved. It is in the Root tradition.
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4 Responses to "The Spider and the Fly:"
Maggie Sawkins 10:19 PM 10/11/2011
Could include in your new book 'Mending Broken Britain' something about the growing phenomena of barbecues on the beach. I can't see why us dogs should be banned from the beaches in the summer when most of what's being cooked on the barbecues looks like dog's muck anyway.
Millie the Miniature Schnauzer
Hugh Dunkerley 03:35 PM 11/11/2011
Do you remember Roger Savagely of Chichester, who used to write letters to the Chi Observer? The best one was published after the headline 'City Centre No Go Area' appeared following a couple of arrests for fighting at the Cross. Roger's letter pointed out how in the C19th there was a spate of hooliganism, as there is today. And in both cases, children had been given milk when young. Was milk therefore to blame for such behaviour he asked? The paper published it under the a headline which ran something like 'Milk causes Hooliganism'.
I'm looking forward to Towards Utopia.
Tony 11:26 AM 13/11/2011
Your piece made me think of our late mother Vida Heard who herself was the pioneering South African agony aunt (she was a Flapper immigrant from UK) when she was Editor of The Homestead, a women's supplement to the Farmers' Weekly in Bloemfontein in the 1920s. She used to tell local gals all about contraception, the wiles of men etc, which info, by God, they needed.
Tony Heard, Cape Town
mayfam 12:55 AM 15/11/2011
I enjoyed your article.
Daryl May, Tampa


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Calories in and out are not the same as the body processes some foods faster, utilizes some foods more efficiently and tends to push foods through faster if large amounts are eaten suddenly.
When dieting, the metabolism tends to slow down causing the body to burn less as you eat less. This is why 5-6 meals a day works better than less, the constant intake of food (even though it is less) prevents the body from thinking it is starving and has to store energy (as fat). Try to fool the body sometimes--miss a few meals, or eat extra for a day. Same with water, vary the intake, don't just guzzle a large glass down each time, it will just pass through without being absorbed. Let yourself get thirsty sometimes so when you do drink, your body will soak it up.
For weight gain, do the opposite of for weight loss--eat large meals, eat before bed, eat carbs, fats, etc. Having a large breakfast makes you hungrier for lunch, stuff yourself at lunch, then again 2 or 3 hours later. Same for supper, eat foods you like and eat lots of it. Even foods with simple sugars but high calories and protein--ice cream, etc. increases the appetite and adds high calories. Don't take ECA while trying to gain weight, it suppresses the appetite.
One thing to remember are that the body is far more complex than most people give it credit for. Most researchers, dieticians etc. try to oversimplify things by assuming that the body will have the same response to the same stimuli every time. They keep saying: "To lose weight, calories going in must be less than the calories going out." While this is true in a very basic sense, there are so many variables with what your body is doing (internally) at any given time that it's virtually useless as a guide to dieting. They used to say (and many still do) that "a calorie is a calorie is a calorie", meaning that all calories are equal and by simply eating less than your estimated expenditure will result in weight loss. It has since been proven that all calories are NOT equal and that different types of foods have dramatically different effects on the body. Different food types trigger powerful hormone releases which profoundly affect how your body deals with the calories, among other things.
It has recently been shown that those on a diet higher in protein have an increased metabolic rate over those on a diet higher in carbs, even though calories were the SAME for both groups. The higher protein group also lost significantly more fat during the test period. I have known this for years myself due to my own experiences but it was very nice to see it proven in a controlled study. It is but one example of calories not being equal. Calories from sugar and carbs have a much different effect on the body than calories from protein and fat, partly due to the blood sugar increase and resulting insulin release to bring the sugar back to normal. When sugar is eaten it gets absorbed very quickly into the bloodstream which usually results in an overcompensation of insulin. This brings the sugar levels down far below normal which slows down the metabolism and will very likely make you tired for a while and then hungrier than ever for more sugar/carbs. With complex carbs this effect is much less because the carb chains have to be broken down into simple sugars so there isn't a large sudden influx of sugar into the blood. Still, when too many complex carbs are eaten the body can't process or use it all at that time so it stores what it doesn't use as fat. Sugar is easily converted to fat and unless it's needed for energy or to replenish glycogen stores in the muscles and liver it will be stored as fat.
Now you ask why, if you eat fewer calories, your body doesn't use the stored fat to make up the difference? The body will generally try to stay in its current state, and the longer it has been in that state the harder it will be to make it change. Even if outside elements are varied, the body will adjust itself to remain basically the same. Now if you continually eat too much and are gaining weight, the body is already in a state of change which is double hard to reverse. If you suddenly cut the calories your body will say "Hey, I used up all the food already, I better slow the metabolism down and trigger the hunger receptors". Suddenly you're tired and hungry, and burning less calories. So when you eat less, the body's first response is to slow down the metabolic rate, cause cravings for food, store as much fat as possible from the next meal to make up for it, and maybe take off a bit of muscle if it feels the muscle is not needed. This is where weight training while dieting is important; it helps preserve muscle. If you continue to eat the lesser amount the weight gain will slow down or stop but it could still be a while before fat loss starts. If you eat sweets and lots of carbs your body might just learn to live with the lower calories simply by slowing down the burning of them.
If you cut fat out of your diet the body is even more likely to store what it can as fat. Despite what you hear, fat is a very necessary component of the body and you would die without it. It's just too much, and the wrong types of fat that are bad. When you have some fat in the diet the body gets used to digesting and burning fat, and if it doesn't feel a need to store it (if it consistently gets adequate food and insulin levels are stable), this fat burning will carry over into burning bodyfat.
Protein is treated differently. For one thing it's harder to break down into sugars and the process of doing so consumes many calories. Protein is also used for tissue building and repair so much of it gets used just to maintain the body's condition. It doesn't cause the large insulin spikes of sugar and doesn't promote the storage of fat. Vegetables don't easily go to fat either due to the fiber content which either doesn't get digested or burns many calories to digest. Fruits contain a lot of sugar but also have fiber which slows down absorption of it. Still, they should be taken in moderation when trying to lose fat.


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No, but I get to vent. Yes, it's changed my mind.
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Tamisan(890)
Does CreateDebate help you make decisions?
Really, how useful is this site to you?
No, but I get to vent.
Yes, it's changed my mind.
ftkewa(1)
I haven't used it long enough to say for certain. However, I doubt it'll be a major part of my decision making, and at best will serve as a "3rd opinion" (I will concede that there's a lot to be said in favor of the collective opinions of people).
13 years ago Side: No, but I get to vent.
Nikobelia(106)
No, and I don't think it ever will. As someone who was on a debating team (albeit a student one), I think most of the more interesting debates are either about things most of us won't ever have the power to change ("This House would abolish the monarchy", for example...) or abstract things, like "This House believes euthanasia is wrong". You can maybe be convinced that, say, Fairtrade food isn't the best way to help the third world, but I don't think you're likely to be helped make decisions. Debating's an intellectual game, not a moral guide.
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its' easy to use, to hear what people say. I have no idea to make it a better website. Congrats to the CreateDebate team!
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xaeon(1093)
Whilst there are some areas where my view could not be changed simply through debate (such as religion, which would require actual evidence), createdebate has made me think about certain issues in a different way.
As I've said before, you often find with the friends you choose that you're cubbyholed into a certain world view. Nearly all of my friends are atheists, for example. I never get to hear the genuine opposition to atheism (just using this as an example) in the real world.
CreateDebate basically allows me to hear both sides of certain arguments which I thought were pretty clear cut. Whilst it doesn't help me make decisions, it definately aids me in looking at certain issues from a different point of view. It's also allowed me to become more competant in arguing the things that I know I am correct in. I've learnt a lot about the things that I hold dear by having to defend those things in logical debate.
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I think its still too early to tell, since we just launched into a public beta three weeks ago. We hope that CreateDebate will help people make better decisions by allowing people to hear the different arguments for each side of a debate and then make better (i.e. informed) decisions based off of the knowledge they have gained from the other people on the site.
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Create Debate will be a great forum to pose questions and peruse what others are thinking about topics. If a topic is presented that one doesn't know a lot about it could change your mind based on the ideas and "facts" presented. At least it will be enlightening to see how others view the world and what is happening in it. That's why I listen to NPR and conservative talk radio, to get different perspectives!
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School Committee member Jennifer Hardy announced Tuesday night that she will not be running for re-election this fall.
Hardy said she is leaving the committee to devote more time to her work and family, but said her departure "comes with great sadness."
Hardy was first appointed to the committee in 2009 to fill a vacancy and was elected to a four-year term later that year. Her first term ends on Dec. 31.
Hardy's seat on the committee is one of three that is up for grabs in the election this fall. Michelle Bodin-Hettinger and Mark Hediger are also up for re-election in November, although so far only Hediger has pulled papers to run again.
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@brief partially changes properties of an ArangoSearch View

@RESTHEADER{PATCH /_api/view/{view-name}/properties#ArangoSearch, Partially changes properties of an ArangoSearch View, modifyView}

@RESTURLPARAMETERS

@RESTURLPARAM{view-name,string,required}
The name of the View.

@RESTBODYPARAM{links,object,optional,}
Expects an object with the attribute keys being names of to be linked collections,
and the link properties as attribute values. See
[ArangoSearch View Link Properties](https://www.arangodb.com/docs/stable/arangosearch-views.html#link-properties)
for details.

@RESTBODYPARAM{cleanupIntervalStep,integer,optional,int64}
Wait at least this many commits between removing unused files in the
ArangoSearch data directory (default: 2, to disable use: 0).
For the case where the consolidation policies merge segments often (i.e. a lot
of commit+consolidate), a lower value will cause a lot of disk space to be
wasted.
For the case where the consolidation policies rarely merge segments (i.e. few
inserts/deletes), a higher value will impact performance without any added
benefits.

_Background:_
  With every "commit" or "consolidate" operation a new state of the View
  internal data-structures is created on disk.
  Old states/snapshots are released once there are no longer any users
  remaining.
  However, the files for the released states/snapshots are left on disk, and
  only removed by "cleanup" operation.

@RESTBODYPARAM{commitIntervalMsec,integer,optional,int64}
Wait at least this many milliseconds between committing View data store
changes and making documents visible to queries (default: 1000, to disable
use: 0).
For the case where there are a lot of inserts/updates, a lower value, until
commit, will cause the index not to account for them and memory usage would
continue to grow.
For the case where there are a few inserts/updates, a higher value will impact
performance and waste disk space for each commit call without any added
benefits.

_Background:_
  For data retrieval ArangoSearch Views follow the concept of
  "eventually-consistent", i.e. eventually all the data in ArangoDB will be
  matched by corresponding query expressions.
  The concept of ArangoSearch View "commit" operation is introduced to
  control the upper-bound on the time until document addition/removals are
  actually reflected by corresponding query expressions.
  Once a "commit" operation is complete all documents added/removed prior to
  the start of the "commit" operation will be reflected by queries invoked in
  subsequent ArangoDB transactions, in-progress ArangoDB transactions will
  still continue to return a repeatable-read state.

@RESTBODYPARAM{consolidationIntervalMsec,integer,optional,int64}
Wait at least this many milliseconds between applying 'consolidationPolicy' to
consolidate View data store and possibly release space on the filesystem
(default: 10000, to disable use: 0).
For the case where there are a lot of data modification operations, a higher
value could potentially have the data store consume more space and file handles.
For the case where there are a few data modification operations, a lower value
will impact performance due to no segment candidates available for
consolidation.

_Background:_
  For data modification ArangoSearch Views follow the concept of a
  "versioned data store". Thus old versions of data may be removed once there
  are no longer any users of the old data. The frequency of the cleanup and
  compaction operations are governed by 'consolidationIntervalMsec' and the
  candidates for compaction are selected via 'consolidationPolicy'.

@RESTBODYPARAM{consolidationPolicy,object,optional,}
The consolidation policy to apply for selecting which segments should be merged
(default: {})

_Background:_
  With each ArangoDB transaction that inserts documents one or more
  ArangoSearch internal segments gets created.
  Similarly for removed documents the segments that contain such documents
  will have these documents marked as 'deleted'.
  Over time this approach causes a lot of small and sparse segments to be
  created.
  A "consolidation" operation selects one or more segments and copies all of
  their valid documents into a single new segment, thereby allowing the
  search algorithm to perform more optimally and for extra file handles to be
  released once old segments are no longer used.

Sub-properties:
  - `type` (string, _optional_):
    The segment candidates for the "consolidation" operation are selected based
    upon several possible configurable formulas as defined by their types.
    The currently supported types are:
    - `"tier"` (default): consolidate based on segment byte size and live
      document count as dictated by the customization attributes. If this type
      is used, then below `segments*` and `minScore` properties are available.
    - `"bytes_accum"`: consolidate if and only if
      `{threshold} > (segment_bytes + sum_of_merge_candidate_segment_bytes) / all_segment_bytes`
      i.e. the sum of all candidate segment byte size is less than the total
      segment byte size multiplied by the `{threshold}`. If this type is used,
      then below `threshold` property is available.
  - `threshold` (number, _optional_): value in the range `[0.0, 1.0]`
  - `segmentsBytesFloor` (number, _optional_): Defines the value (in bytes) to
    treat all smaller segments as equal for consolidation selection
    (default: 2097152)
  - `segmentsBytesMax` (number, _optional_): Maximum allowed size of all
    consolidated segments in bytes (default: 5368709120)
  - `segmentsMax` (number, _optional_): The maximum number of segments that will
    be evaluated as candidates for consolidation (default: 10)
  - `segmentsMin` (number, _optional_): The minimum number of segments that will
    be evaluated as candidates for consolidation (default: 1)
  - `minScore` (number, _optional_): (default: 0)

@RESTDESCRIPTION
Changes the properties of a View by updating the specified attributes.

On success an object with the following attributes is returned:
- *id*: The identifier of the View
- *name*: The name of the View
- *type*: The View type
- all additional ArangoSearch View implementation specific properties

@RESTRETURNCODES

@RESTRETURNCODE{400}
If the *view-name* is missing, then a *HTTP 400* is returned.

@RESTRETURNCODE{404}
If the *view-name* is unknown, then a *HTTP 404* is returned.

@EXAMPLES

@EXAMPLE_ARANGOSH_RUN{RestViewPatchPropertiesArangoSearch}
    var viewName = "products";
    var viewType = "arangosearch";

    var view = db._createView(viewName, viewType);
    var url = "/_api/view/"+ view.name() + "/properties";

    var response = logCurlRequest('PATCH', url, { "locale": "en" });

    assert(response.code === 200);

    logJsonResponse(response);
    db._dropView(viewName);
@END_EXAMPLE_ARANGOSH_RUN
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Gov't criticized for proposed real estate watchdog
Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Hong Nam-ki, third from left, greets participants in a meeting to discuss the real estate market at the Government Complex in Seoul, Wednesday. From left are Korean National Police Agency Commissioner General Kim Chang-yong, Land Minister Kim Hyun-mee, Hong, Financial Supervisory Service Governor Yoon Suk-heun, National Tax Service Commissioner Kim Hyun-jun and Financial Services Commission Chairman Eun Sung-soo. / Yonhap
By Park Jae-hyuk
The government is facing some setbacks over a proposed idea for establishing an agency aimed at overseeing the overall housing market, as its establishment ― if it actually happens ― would increase government intervention.
Unsurprisingly, opposition leaders slammed the tentative idea, while presidential aides and ruling party lawmakers stressed the necessity of the proposed Real Estate Supervisory Service.
Rep. Kim Sang-hoon of the main opposition United Future Party raised questions about the envisioned agency, Wednesday, saying the current "response team against illegal practices in the real estate market," which is likely to be transformed into the new agency, has rarely uncovered such practices since its establishment in February.
According to data the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport gave to the lawmaker, in 110 cases the ministry's taskforce investigated, 55 led to acquittals. Among the remaining half, only three resulted in only lenient punishment.
The land ministry organized the taskforce under the supervision of First Vice Minister Park Sun-ho to investigate the real estate market for any criminal activities and collect information about these. The taskforce included representatives from the prosecution, police, tax agency and financial regulators.
Some opposition lawmakers claimed the government's plan to launch the Real Estate Supervisory Service may possibly cause concerns and alarm among the public.
Citing other government intervention in other countries' housing markets to prevent speculation, the government is planning to set up the new regulatory body.
Lee Ho-seung, senior presidential secretary for economic affairs, supported this plan, saying in a recent radio interview that the real estate watchdog would play an important role for market stabilization, if established. But he denied a rumor its workforce would employ 2,000.
Rep. Jin Sung-joon of the ruling Democratic Party of Korea also called for the establishment of the Real Estate Supervisory Service with powers similar to those of the Financial Supervisory Service (FSS).
"Considering 80 percent of assets owned by Korean households are real estate, it is necessary to establish a real estate supervisory agency larger than the FSS which monitors the stock market and the financial industry," he said in a separate radio interview. "The temporary taskforce under the land ministry cannot cope with the market disruptions properly."
The remarks came as the nation's housing market has not shown any signs of stabilization despite the administration's 22 regulatory measures.
According to data compiled by housing information provider Real Estate 114, the average price of apartments in Seoul at the end of July surpassed 1 billion won ($843,000) for the first time in history. This was nearly double the 517 million won in 2013.
Experts warned that the new agency could exacerbate the current situation.
"Although the FSS has been able to oversee the real estate market and the government introduced a special judicial force to crack down on unlawful practices, there has yet to be any significant achievements," Myongji University real estate professor Kwon Dae-jung said. "This is because the housing price hike resulted from undersupply, not illegal acts."
Amid growing concerns, Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Hong Nam-ki discussed with relevant ministers measures to prevent real estate market disruptions.
The measures included strengthened crackdowns by the police and the tax agency against the overheated real estate market in the Seoul metropolitan area and Sejong, but the establishment of the real estate watchdog was not on the agenda for the meeting.
"As the government has discovered multiple suspicious transactions of high-priced homes, we are investigating whether there were any illegalities," Hong said. "We will announce the results in August and will impose fines on illegal practices."
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