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Animal Bites: Key Facts You Should Know
Animal bites pose a major public health problem in children and adults worldwide. The health impacts of animal bites are dependent on the type and health of the animal species, the size and health of the bitten person, and accessibility to appropriate health care.
Numerous animal species have the potential to bite humans; however the most important are those arising from snakes, dogs, cats and monkeys.
Scope of the problem
Worldwide, up to five million people are bitten by snakes every year. Of these, poisonous (envenoming) snakes cause considerable morbidity and mortality. There are an estimated 2.4 million envenomations (poisonings from snake bites) and 94 000–125 000 deaths annually, with an additional 400 000 amputations and other severe health consequences, such as infection, tetanus, scarring, contractures, and psychological sequelae. Poor access to health care and scarcity of antivenom increases the severity of the injuries and their outcomes.
The majority of snake bites occur in Africa and South-East Asia. Snake bites are most common among people living in rural, resource-poor settings, who subsist on low-cost, non-mechanical farming and other field occupations. Agricultural workers, women and children are the groups most frequently bitten by snakes. Adding to the burden of these injuries is their socioeconomic impact on families and communities. Adult victims are often the wage earners or care providers of the family unit; and child victims can suffer lifelong disability intensifying demands on families and communities.
Approximately 600 species of snake are venomous and approximately 50-70% of bites by these cause envenomation. At the time of a bite, the cornerstone of care is complete immobilization of the affected body part and prompt transfer to a medical facility. Tourniquets and cutting wounds can worsen the effects of the venom and should not be used as first aid.
Frequently, victims of snake bites will require treatment with antivenom. It is important that the antivenom is appropriate for snakes endemic to the region. Additional measures include wound cleansing to decrease infection risk, supportive therapy such as airway support, and administration of tetanus vaccine upon discharge if the person has been inadequately vaccinated against tetanus.
Prevention of snake bites and their serious health consequences
Prevention of snake bites involves informing communities about snake bite risks and prevention techniques, such as to:
avoid tall grassy areas;
wear protective shoes/boots;
keep storage areas clear of rodents;
remove rubbish, woodpiles and low brush from around the home;
store food in rodent-proof containers, raise beds above floor level and tuck mosquito nets securely under sleeping mats within the home.
To prevent or limit the serious health consequences of snake bites, health-care providers should be educated on snake-bite management, including the proper use and administration of antivenom. Public health authorities and policy-makers should ensure appropriate supplies of safe and effective antivenoms to communities, countries and regions where they are most needed, and prioritize research initiatives that will further determine the burden of these injuries.
There are no global estimates of dog bite incidence, however studies suggest that dog bites account for tens of millions of injuries annually. In the United States of America for example, approximately 4.5 million people are bitten by dogs every year. Of these, nearly 885 000 seek medical care; 30 000 have reconstructive procedures; 3–18% develop infections and between 10 and 20 fatalities occur. Other high-income countries such as Australia, Canada and France have comparable incidence and fatality rates.
Low- and middle-income country data are more fragmented, however some studies reveal that dogs account for 76–94% of animal bite injuries. Dog bite fatality rates are higher in low- and middle-income countries than in high-income countries as rabies is a problem in many of these countries, and there may be a lack of post-exposure treatment and appropriate access to health care. An estimated 55 000 people die annually from rabies, and bites from rabid dogs account for the vast majority of these deaths.
Children make up the largest percentage of people bitten by dogs, with the highest incidence in mid-to-late childhood. The risk of injury to the head and neck is greater in children than in adults, adding to increased severity, necessity for medical treatment and death rates.
In some countries, males have a higher frequency of dog bites than females. Dog bites account for over 50% of animal-related injuries in people who are travelling.
Treatment depends on the location of the bite, the overall health condition of the bitten person and whether or not the dog is vaccinated against rabies. The main principles of care include:
early medical management;
irrigation and cleansing of the wound;
primary closure if the wound is low-risk for developing infection;
prophylactic antibiotics for high-risk wounds or people with immune deficiency;
rabies post-exposure treatment depending on the dog vaccination status;
administration of tetanus vaccine if the person has not been adequately vaccinated.
Prevention of dog bites and their serious health consequences
Communities – especially children – should be informed about the risks of dog bites and prevention techniques such as avoiding stray dogs and never leaving a child unattended around any dog.
Health-care providers should be educated on the appropriate management of dog bites. Health authorities and policy-makers should ensure rabies control within dog populations, ensure appropriate supplies of rabies vaccines for potential rabies exposure in people, and develop data collection systems to further document the burden of this problem.
Worldwide, cat bites account for 2–50% of injuries related to animal-bites. They are commonly second to dog bites in terms of incidence. In Italy for example, the incidence of cat-related injuries is 18 per 100 000 population, while in the United States of America, there are an estimated 400 000 cat bites and 66 000 visits to hospital emergency departments every year.
Female adults have the highest rate of cat bites.
Treatment depends on the location of the bite and the rabies vaccination status of animal species inflicting the bite. The main principles of care include:
early medical management including wound cleansing;
prophylactic antibiotics to decrease infection risk;
rabies post-exposure treatment depending on the animal vaccination status;
Prevention of cat bites and their serious health consequences
Communities should be informed about the risks of cat bites and prevention techniques for cat bites including vaccinating cats against rabies.
Health-care providers should be educated on the appropriate management of these injuries. Health authorities and policy-makers should ensure rabies control within animal populations, and appropriate supplies of post-exposure rabies treatment and antibiotic prophylaxis for bitten people. They should also support research initiatives directed at providing more information on the burden of cat bites.
Monkey bites
Monkey bites account for 2–21% of animal bite injuries. In India for example, two studies found monkeys to be second to dogs as the most common source of animal bite injuries.
Monkey bites are an important risk among travellers, being the second most common animal bite risk to travellers after dog bites.
Treatment depends on the health status of the patient, the location of the bite and whether or not there is a suspicion of rabies in the monkey. The main principles of care include:
Prevention of monkey bites and their serious health consequences
Communities and travellers should be informed about risks of monkey bites and prevention techniques.
Health-care providers should be educated on the appropriate management of these injuries. Health authorities and policy-makers should ensure rabies control within monkey populations, and appropriate supplies of post-exposure rabies treatment and antibiotic prophylaxis for bitten people. They should also support research initiatives directed at providing more information on the burden of monkey bites.
Animal bites are a significant cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide.
Worldwide, up to five million people are bitten by snakes every year; the majority in Africa and South-East Asia.
Prompt medical treatment with appropriate antivenom is required for poisonous snake bites.
Dog bites account for tens of millions of injuries annually; the highest risk is among children.
Rabies is a significant health concern following dog bites, cat bites and monkey bites.
WHO response
WHO is working to address the public health problem of animal bite injuries.
For snake bites, WHO has launched several tools to help guide the appropriate development, distribution and administration of antivenom.
For rabies, WHO advocates greater access to post-exposure treatment through promoting increased production of rabies biologicals, continuing education in rabies prevention and control, and widespread immunization of dog populations.
For all animal-bite injuries, WHO:
prioritizes data collection initiatives to help determine the burden and risk factors of these injuries;
advocates the strengthening of emergency response services for people that are injured;
promotes research initiatives that focus on effective prevention interventions and populations most affected.
1). World Health Organization. Animal bites - WHO Fact Sheets. Accessed 20.11.17. Available here: http://who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs373/en/
2). Centers for Disease Control. Domestic animals. Accessed 20.11.17. Available here: https://www.cdc.gov/rabies/exposure/animals/domestic.html
3). NHS Choices. Animal and human bites. Accessed 20.11.17. Available here: https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/animal-and-human-bites/
4). Mayo Clinic. Animal bites: First aid. Accessed 20.11.17. Available here: https://www.mayoclinic.org/first-aid/first-aid-animal-bites/basics/ART-20056591
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What Kind of Lean Transformation Do You Want?
January 04 2019 | Tom Richert | Notes from Tom Richert | 0 Comments
There's more than one? A 2014 paper published in the Journal of Transpersonal Research authored by Steve Taylor introduces the idea of a 'primary shift' and a 'secondary shift' in a person's personal growth. A secondary shift results in a transformation of a person's values and perspective. A primary shift results in the transformation of a person's identity, with consequent changes in values and perspective. Taylor argues that whereas a secondary shift is temporary, a primary shift is permanent.
Something similar is happening with lean transformations, both at the project level and at the enterprise level. As an industry we are fairly good at making secondary shifts. We implement the Last Planner® at some level, organize offices and job sites, and agree upon processes for collaborating to improve workflow. We generate results like those cited in the Lean Construction Institute's 2016 Business Case – lean projects are three times as likely to complete ahead of schedule and two times as likely to complete under budget than non-lean projects.
And then it all goes away. The lean champion is transferred to another project; or new members to the team resist the lean way of working; or management introduces demands inconsistent with lean work and people give up in frustration. There are likely several dozen other events that conspire to degrade a lean implementation. Haruo Shimada and John Paul MacDuffie had good reason to propose in the summer of 1987 that the International Motor Vehicle Program team use the word 'fragile' instead of 'lean' to describe the approach to work they were observing at Toyota. Without continued attention to lean processes, they easily break apart.
What most projects and enterprises are experiencing when they implement lean practices is a secondary shift. They have transformed a team's values and perspective, and this has resulted in the adoption of new behaviors focused on collaboration and process improvement. Yet for the people on the team and in the enterprise the old personal identities remain. And for many, if not most, people those identities are at odds with the lean approach. Even those who continue to embrace lean management misunderstand what allows it to be a success at Toyota.
The pre-Toyota Production System history is vitally important. The Toyota family, beginning with Sakichi, had a strong sense of an identity and purpose as contributors to the welfare of the Japanese people through invention, industry, and character. This identity, now directed at all of humanity and not just Japan, is expressed by a set of statements known as the Five Precepts, documented by Sakichi's son and son-in-law in 1935, five years after his death.
Be contributive to the development and welfare of the country by working together, regardless of position, in faithfully fulfilling your duties.
Always be studious and creative, striving to stay ahead of the times.
Always be practical and avoid frivolousness.
Always strive to build a homelike atmosphere at work that is warm and friendly.
Always have respect for God and remember to be grateful at all times.
There is evidence suggesting that Sakichi may have experienced something akin to Taylor's primary shift while still a young man. Sakichi was reportedly heavily influenced by Samuel Smiles' book, Self Help. His reading of the book coincides with his determination to go against his father's wishes to continue the family's farming and carpentry interests – no small matter in post-feudal, 19th century, rural Japan. His willingness to align his identity and work with a common good stems from this determination.
Psychological research supports the importance of understanding what is alternatively described as one's core identity or authentic self, and the importance of aligning that identity with what one does. A challenge is that for many that core identity is hidden behind a mask of fake identities, labels, and other coping mechanisms developed to deal with insults, expectations, and directives intentionally and unintentionally imposed on us, beginning in childhood and continuing to this day.
The good news is that it is possible to strip away that mask of coping mechanisms and rediscover core identity. The continued good news is that a person's core identity supports values and a service perspective that facilitates collaboration on objectives benefiting a broader community. This discovery begins the process of a primary shift. The reason this is important for a lean transformation is that a primary shift in our understanding of the work leads to a permanent commitment to using lean principles in our work.
Undertaking a primary shift is no small task. It requires tackling the so-called 'soft' skills that as Tom Peters points out in The Excellence Dividend is the hardest work of any organization. In his words, "the misnamed 'soft stuff' comes first." While necessary if we are some point to realize our potential, removing our masks can be painfully uncomfortable work.
So in your lean transformation, will you settle for a secondary shift, or seek a primary shift?
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March is National Nutrition Month! In addition to brushing and flossing daily, preventative care and treating dental issues as they arise, eating healthy foods is another very important way to keep the teeth and gums healthy.
Carrots: Carrots contain vitamins A and C. They also scrub the teeth and tongue, but only when raw and not dipped in sugary substances. Roasting vegetables has been found to increase their acidity, which can eat away at tooth enamel.
Salmon: Studies show that the fatty acids (Omega 3s) found in salmon can help the treatment of Periodontal disease. Periodontal disease also known as gum disease, causes inflammation of the gums, causing them to separate from the tooth.
Spinach: Spinach and other leafy greens contain vitamins A and C, beta carotene, phosphorus, calcium and magnesium, every one of which supports healthy teeth and gums. Leafy green vegetables are high in calcium, which helps build tooth enamel!
Yogurt: Yogurt commonly contains lactobacillus or bifidus, good bacteria, which are believed to reduce the numbers of bad bacteria in saliva, as well as support digestion. When choosing a yogurt, be sure that it is plain with no added sugars!
Cheese: Dentistry researchers found that after consuming cheddar cheese the pH level increased inside the mouth, creating a hostile environment for cavity-causing bacteria.


Patriarch of Antioch and all East John and Serbian Patriarch Irinej payed a visit to the Pec Patriarchate Monastery and the Visoki Decani monastery on October 17, 2018.
His Holiness Serbian Patriarch Irinej and His Beatitude John X, Patriarch of Antioch and All East, visited the ancient See of the Serbian Orthodox Church, the monastery of Pec Patriarchate. In a warm address to the High Guest, His Holiness irinej exposed briefly history of the Patriarchate of Pec and explained in more details the events from Serbian history that had caused exodus of the Serbian people from the southern Serbian province.
Speaking about the present-day life of the Serbs in the province, Patriarch Irinej pointed out that "everything happening nowadays seems to be an intention that the Serbs should not return to their native land". "The monasteries that have not been demolished so-far, present a hope for our people that they will return to these places once, said Patriarch Irinej.
His Beatitude Patriarch John X expressed his deepest feelings at being at the centennial See of the Serbian Church. "You are the Church of Saints, the Church that loves the Lord to the very end, said the Primate of the Antiochian Church, and pointed out " that he felt as if he was in the Cathedral church in the city of Antioch", because the throne of Serbian Patriarchs in Pec reminded him precisely of that sacred place. Our Churches are Churches of Martyrs, and we need to protect our holy lands, our monasteries and churches, which have taught us about our fathers and ancestors," said Patriarch Jovan.
"This visit is a voice of truth and faith and an indication of love between our Churches", Patriarch of Antioch Jovan underlined.
Primates of the Antiochian Patriarchate and the Serbian Orthodox Church were greeted ceremoniously in the Visoki Decani Monastery by His Grace Bishop Teodosije of Raska Prizren, abbot Archimandrite Sava and by many priests and monastics of the Diocese of Raska-Prizren. The Patriarchs venerated the relics of the Holy King Stefan of Decani, the patron saint and heavenly protector of the monastery.
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[13] In 1960 he married Alberta Constance (Dee) Wells, with whom he had one son. Disagreements in bliks can't be settled by appealing to evidence and so are technically unfalsifiable. Presiding over Oxford high-tables, he is often described as charming, but at times he could also be intimidating. Hide Show resource information. Sir Alfred Jules "Freddie" Ayer FBA, usually cited as A. J. Ayer, was an English philosopher known for his promotion of logical positivism, particularly in his books Language, Truth, and Logic and The Problem of Knowledge. In the context of religious language, a non-cognitivist might say religious statements like those above express someone's attitude to the world. "[17] However, a few days later he revised this, saying "what I should have said is that my experiences have weakened, not my belief that there is no life after death, but my inflexible attitude towards that belief". [23] In later years Ayer reiterated that he did not believe in God[24] and began to refer to himself as an atheist. When Ayer demanded that Tyson stop, the boxer reportedly asked, "Do you know who the fuck I am? Language, Truth and Logic 1946/1952, New York/Dover, "I do not believe in God. In other words, "Abortion is wrong" is the same as saying "I don't like abortion". [18][19], Ayer died on 27 June 1989. 1 and 2, Ayer A. J. Ayer wrote two books on the philosopher Bertrand Russell, Russell and Moore: The Analytic Heritage (1971) and Russell (1972). [36] He still believed in the viewpoint he shared with the logical positivists: that large parts of what was traditionally called "philosophy"– including the whole of metaphysics, theology and aesthetics– were not matters that could be judged as being true or false and that it was thus meaningless to discuss them. Ayer's version of emotivism divides "the ordinary system of ethics" into four classes: He focuses on propositions of the first class—moral judgments—saying that those of the second class belong to science, those of the third are mere commands, and those of the fourth (which are considered in normative ethics as opposed to meta-ethics) are too concrete for ethical philosophy. Sir Alfred Jules "Freddie" Ayer FBA (/ɛər/;[3] 29 October 1910 – 27 June 1989),[4] usually cited as A. J. Ayer, was an English philosopher known for his promotion of logical positivism, particularly in his books Language, Truth, and Logic (1936) and The Problem of Knowledge (1956). In his most famous work, Language, Truth and Logic, A.J. Sir A.J. About our blogging competition; Grow your Grades forum; Applying to uni. He considered Heidegger to be the worst example of such philosophy, which Ayer believed to be entirely useless. Ayer and Tyson then began to talk, allowing Campbell to slip out. Religious language in particular was unverifiable and as such literally nonsense. the existence of evil) doesn't mean you have to withdraw belief in him. Therefore, "water boils at 100°c" is a falsifiable and meaningful statement. It is as if I had said, "You stole that money," in a peculiar tone of horror, or written it with the addition of some special exclamation marks. Ayer was commissioned second lieutenant into the Welsh Guards from Officer Cadet Training Unit on 21 September 1940. Ayer died 30 years ago this month, before I had graduated. This is a similar claim to Hume's Fork from epistemology. She died in 1985 and in 1989 he remarried Dee Wells, who survived him. Language, Truth and Logic brought some of … However. But he differs from intuitionists by discarding appeals to intuition of non-empirical moral truths as "worthless" [27] since the intuition of one person often contradicts that of another. Cognitivism is perhaps the 'common-sense' view of religious language. 'God exists', and so all other talk of God, is such a statement, claims Ayer. 'Argument is possible on moral questions only if some system of values is presupposed'. Of the experience, Ayer first said that it "slightly weakened my conviction that my genuine death ... will be the end of me, though I continue to hope that it will be. 5.0 / 5. You are in a war, your country has been occupied by an enemy, You meet someone who claims to be leader of the resistance, But he sometimes acts ambiguously, doing things that appear to support the enemy, Yet you continue to believe in him despite this evidence, because you trust him, A paranoid person who thinks university lecturers are trying to kill him. Ayer, A.J. In adding that this action is wrong I am not making any further statement about it. II, nos. Posts about A J Ayer written by Matthew Livermore OCR Religious Studies A Level "Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious." Both weeds and flowers grow here. [22] The stance that a belief in "God" denotes no verifiable hypothesis is sometimes referred to as igtheism (for example, by Paul Kurtz). … If now I generalise my previous statement and say, "Stealing money is wrong," I produce a sentence that has no factual meaning—that is, expresses no proposition that can be either true or false. We are both pre-eminent in our field. Home > A Level and IB study tools > Religious Studies > AJ Ayer. ", which can be found in his Metaphysics and Common Sense (1969). 1 of 21. what is logical positivism? "God answers my prayers" 3. The first exposition in English of Logical Positivism as newly developed by the Vienna Circle, this made Ayer at age 26 the 'enfant terrible' of British philosophy. In it, Ayer also proposed that the distinction between a conscious man and an unconscious machine resolves itself into a distinction between 'different types of perceptible behaviour',[35] an argument which anticipates the Turing test published in 1950 to test a machine's capability to demonstrate intelligence.
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Holiday.gr - Kallithea, a trip to a myth!
Kallithea is 11km from the town of Rhodes. Registered trademarks of the region are the therapeutic sources, while the beautiful cove with palm trees gives it an exotic feature.
Worth visiting are the famous Thermes of Kallithea, the infrastructures of therapeutic baths built during the period of Italian possession. Although they don't operate today, they are always one of the places every visitor of Rhodes should see.
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For all the bagpipe and drumming aficionados in the Lower Mainland, we have an opportunity to see something we rarely see on the big screen; a documentary about bagpipes, and in particular, a film about the global assembly of all-star pipers and drummers who form the band "Spirit of Scotland". The band is composed of top solo competitors including 11 Gold Medal winners, who came together prior to the World's to compete in Grade 1, facing off against the world's top bands who have been practicing together all year.
Produced and directed by John McDonald, who calls himself a better filmmaker than piper, the documentary called On the Day: the Story of the Spirit of Scotland Pipe Band`focuses on a number of band members as they prepare for the one-day competition.
"Something like this has never occurred before and it may never happen again. Will these outstanding individual players succeed in creating a winning ensemble musical performance in just one week?
As with any competition, the tension builds as the band gets closer to the Worlds. Sharing a passion for piping, but used to being center stage, alone, these great soloists must put the band first and function as a unit working toward perfect harmony. We see intense rehearsals in the days leading up the Worlds and the nail-biting qualifying rounds that determine the fourteen finalists.
I`m certainly looking forward to this film. I hope you get an opportunity to see it. If so, I may see you there.
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With new cooking terms and techniques constantly popping up, this is an exciting time to be a cook. But sometimes they can seem so challenging or mysterious, one can't help wondering if some of them are things home cooks shouldn't attempt. Sous vide is one such example. It's actually not a new technique at all - it was first seen in France around the 1970s. These days more and more restaurants from fast-food to fine dining are turning to sous vide to ensure that food is perfectly cooked every time- Shake Shack is the lastest chain to announce it is actually cooking its chicken nuggets sous vide (not from frozen) in an effort to ensure their nuggets are consistently delicous!
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Much like roasting or braising, sous vide is just another slow-cooking method. To sous vide successfully, one puts an ingredient (commonly meat) into a vacuum-sealed bag with some herbs and spices. Then, this little package is submerged into water at a low and precisely controlled temperature. Here, it will cook for hours or days until it has reached the perfect doneness.So why go through all the trouble of cooking meat in its own hot tub? Well, the results are worth it. After 36 hours of cooking, the flavor is more intense, since it's been cooked with its own juices; the texture is silky and delicate, and because it's been cooking in a moist environment, the meat itself hasn't shrunk and is still the same size. Once it's cooked to perfection, you can remove it from the bag and sear either side to create crispness for the final result. With the slow and low, controlled temperatures of sous vide, the final product is cooked consistently every time, tender and delicious and with no overcooked spots.
One would think that a "set it and forget it" method like sous vide would take off among home cooks worldwide. But the fact is that it's commonly thought to be expensive to obtain the equipment needed (which has caused some to even try cooking meals sous vide in their washing machiens). Though unbelievablly expensive sous vide equipment certainly was the case one upon a time, these days there are more options that ever for the home cook to consider. These days the top sous vide machines, like the Anova Sous Vide Precision Cooker will set you back $199 though there are many other more affordably priced options, like the Wancle Thermal immersion Circulator to be found for less than $100.But if you're not the do-it-yourself type, and you don't want to waste money by purchasing equipment just to make meat more tender, it may be best to leave this method to the professionals. There are many other ways to quell tender meat cravings that aren't as expensive or complicated but are just as satisfying. After all, there's nothing wrong with dusting off the ol' Crock-Pot for any of these 50 essential slow cooker recipes.
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Michel Audiard, född 15 maj 1920 i Paris, död 27 juli 1985 i Dourdan, var en fransk manusförfattare och filmregissör.

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Michel Audiard växte upp i Paris 14:e arrondissement, vilket förblev en central plats för honom genom hela livet. Som ung läste han ivrigt klassiker och var intresserad av cykelsport. Efter andra världskriget började han att skriva filmkritik för L'étoile du soir. Han skrev sitt första filmmanus 1949 på uppdrag av André Hunebelle och fick snabbt nya tillfrågningar. Han blev särskilt känd för sina dialoger, som är fulla av parisslang, humor och tecken på litterär bevandring. Han nådde sina största framgångar med komedier och kriminalfilmer som Falskmyntarna (1961), Alla är vi vinterapor (1962), Tuffa killar med revolver (1963) och 5 skäggiga agenter (1964). På 1960- och 1970-talet hände det att hans namn stod med större bokstäver än regissörens på filmaffischerna, och han upptogs ibland som huvudsaklig manusförfattare när han egentligen bara hade anlitats för dialogerna. Han regisserade själv åtta filmer mellan 1968 och 1974. Efter detta blev han mer tillbakadragen, ett resultat av att en av hans söner avlidit. Han fortsatte dock att skriva dialog och tilldelades 1982 Césarpriset för bästa manus för Garde à vue. Han var far till filmskaparen Jacques Audiard och de två skrev flera filmmanus tillsammans. Han skrev även detektivromaner.

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A Bolivian duo who know all about big challenges
Bolivia will take part in the Youth Olympic Futsal Tournament
Maria Galvez and Mechelle Pacheco are the stars of the team
They share their thoughts before tough opener against Spain
Maria Galvez's standout qualities as a futsal player are her eye-catching skills, which she honed as a child by dribbling between items of furniture, taking great pleasure in nutmegging the legs of dining room chairs.
On the other hand, Mechelle Pacheco's main asset is her versatility, even filling in as a sweeper keeper if required. As a child she was heavily influenced by her father, a physical education teacher who is currently her national team coach.
Both girls, who will represent Bolivia in the Youth Olympic Futsal Tournament 2018 in Buenos Aires starting on 7 October, had to win over their families in order to play football.
"I used to play indoors at home because at first my parents didn't want me being involved in football," Maria told FIFA.com before checking into the National Centre for Sporting High Performance (CeNARD).
"In time they got used to it, and during school holidays I'd spend hours of my free time playing on the futsal court opposite our house," she recalled. "I'd come home to eat but then I'd head straight back out to play. I'd do this every day".
In Mechelle's case, it was in fact her father who tried to steer her away from becoming a footballer. "He wanted me to be a singer, but that didn't work out for him!" she said with a laugh.
Coach and father Ronald offered a justification for his stance, saying: "Becoming a footballer involves so much sacrifice that I thought it would best for her to focus on something else. But she always used to come along with me to work and on one occasion - she would've been five at the time - she came down from the stands to explain to some boys the training exercise that I'd asked them to do. That very day she started playing, and the rest is history."
The pair also had challenges to overcome outside the home. "I have four brothers, so playing with boys was never a problem for me. I'd be singled out for my height though, and I was even left out of a team because of this," explained the diminutive but gifted Maria, who stands at 1.50m tall.
Mechelle was 11 when she came across "guys overly critical of your game, and whose pride would take a hit if they were outplayed by a girl. Yet this has changed, and nowadays almost no boy would criticise women playing futsal," she said.
Both Mechelle and Maria have already played in South American tournaments but acknowledge that taking part in a Youth Olympic Tournament is a step up in prestige.
"It makes me really proud to be involved with the Bolivian futsal team," said Maria. "As does representing my country at the Olympic Games: it's not like any other tournament. I look around the facilities here and I can't believe my eyes!"
Mechelle isn't fazed at all with the prospect of facing Spain in what promises to be a tough start for the Bolivians: "We're not here to make up the numbers, we're here to compete. We know what it means for us to be here."
By representing Bolivia in the tournament, these players are in a position where they can set an example to follow for girls back in their home country. "I'd say to them keep training and never give up, because with hard work and a positive attitude they could get to where we've got to as well," concluded Mechelle.
Maria – a brief factfile
18 years old (13/08/2000)
In the words of coach Pacheco: "She's gifted, fearless and scores goals".
Michelle – a brief factfile
Position: Winger
In the words of coach Pacheco: "She's capable of playing across the back line and her tactical organisation is spot-on".
Bolivia's fixtures
07.10 vs Spain
08.10 vs Tonga
10.10 vs Thailand
12.10 vs Trinidad and Tobago


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Guillermo Kuitca was born in Buenos Aires in 1961. At the age of nine, he entered the studio of Ahuva Szliowicz. At thirteen he had his first show in the Galería Lirolay of Buenos Aires. During the '80s, the gallery Julia Lublin in Buenos Aires organized individual shows. At the beginning of the 80s, he went to Europe with the German choreographer Pina Baush. It was this encounter that began his entrance into the world of theater and music, beginning to direct El Mar Dulce (1894). In 1990 he completed his first show in New York in the gallery Aninna Nosei; a show that was repeated every year until 1995. He represented Argentina for the Biennials in San Pablo in 1985 and in 1989. He showed in the Museum of Modern Art in New York (1991) He also participated in the IX Documenta Kassel in 1992. Since 2003 he has been an honorary professor at the University of Buenos Aires and in 2007 he was an argentine representative to the Venice Biennial. He lives and works in Buenos Aires.
1974: Galería Lirolay, Buenos Aires.
1984: Galería del Retiro-Julia Lublin. Buenos Aires.
1990: Annina Nosei Gallery Nueva York.
1992: Musee des Beaux Arts de Nantes, Nantes.
1993: Musee d'Art Contemporain de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec.
1995: Galerie Barbara Forber Amsterdam.
1999: L.A. Louver Gallery, Los Angeles.
2000: Fondation Cartier pour l´art contemporain, París.
2002: Galeria Cardi & Co, Milan.
2003: Museo National Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid.
2005: Hauser & Wirth, London.
2006: Museum of Fine Arts, Santiago, Santiago.
2007: 52 Biennale di Venezia, Venecia.


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Jonathan Landreth
Jonathan Landreth is a freelance reporter, writer, editor, and media strategist. He served as ChinaFile Managing Editor from its launch in Spring 2013 until Spring 2018. He previously reported from Beijing from 2004 to 2012, with a focus on the media and entertainment industries and their effect on the world's perception of China. He was the founding Asia Editor of The Hollywood Reporter, in Beijing in 2005, and his subsequent freelance work from China appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, The Christian Science Monitor, The China Economic Quarterly, Foreign Policy, Forbes, Wallpaper, Marie Claire, The Times of London, and Travel+Leisure. Since 2012, he has had a hand in organizing the annual Asia Society U.S.-China Film Summit in Los Angeles. In 2015, he launched China Film Insider, a website devoted to covering the growing ties between China and Hollywood. In 2018, he helped the San Francisco Green Film Festival select a series of documentaries about China's environmental challenges.
From 2002 to 2004, Landreth was with Reuters in Singapore, where he covered the global oil trade. From 2000 to 2002, he reported for Reuters in New York, covering the health and energy industries, and the attacks of September 11, 2001 and their aftermath. Before Reuters, he was a Founding Editor at the New York- and Beijing-based website VirtualChina (1999-2000). Prior to his work as a reporter, Landreth edited non-fiction books at Henry Holt & Company in New York (1993-1998). He holds a B.A. in English Literature from the University of California, Berkeley ('92), and an M.S. from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism ('99). He is the proud father of a daughter whose passport is impressively packed for a 14-year-old.
Chinese Hits Miss Out on the Global Box Office
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Kramnik: 'Fritz punishes you immediately'
11/23/2006 – The Stern, which means "star" in German, is one of the biggest news magazines in Europe, reaching almost eight million readers. In this week's edition there is an interesting interview with world champions Vladimir Kramnik, who speaks about his training for the match against Deep Fritz, his experience with computers, but also about the scandal in Elista. We bring you excerpts in English.
The chess duel Man vs Machine, Vladimir Kramnik vs Deep Fritz will be staged from November 25 until December 5th. It is sponsored by the RAG AG, one of Europe's largest energy companies. The venue is the National Art Gallery in Bonn, Germany. Schedule:
Game 1: Saturday 25.11.2006 15:00 h
Game 2: Monday 27.11.2006 15:00 h
Game 3: Wednesday 29.11.2006 15:00 h
Game 4: Friday 01.12.2006 15:00 h
Game 5: Sunday 03.12.2006 15:00 h
Game 6: Tuesday 05.12.2006 15:00 h
There will be full live coverage on the Playchess server, as well as on the official site and a number of partner sites.
The Stern was founded in 1948 and has become, together with Der Spiegel, one of Europe's biggest weekly news magazines. It is printed in over a million copies and reaches 7.84 million readers. The magazine appears on Thursdays, and this week had a big story on the Man vs Machine match in Bonn.
Vladimir Kramnik:
"Fritz punishes you immediately"
Just yesterday, Stern says, he defended his world championship title, now he is playing in Bonn against the best chess computer. Vladimir Kramnik spoke about the unequal battle between man and machine. Here are some highlights from the interview, which was published in German:
About "Toiletgate": The scandal in Elista was initiated by his opponent to throw him off track, when he was leading 3:1. Naturally he did not use any kind of computer assistance during his games. It was absurd. In Elista the controls were much sharper than at any airport. Whenever he entered the hall he was meticulously searched, including the heels of his shoes. The toilets and resting areas were examined before each game, the audience were hidden behind glass plates, and there was even an interference signal to prevent the use of mobile phones.
About the aborted game five after Topalov had his toilet locked: "I was lying on my couch next to my toilet and was furious. I did not think about the world championship or the score. And then there was a new problem: I had to go to the bathroom, urgently. I asked the arbiter to open my toilet. He just shrugged and offered me an empty coffee cup."
On his next opponent, Deep Fritz: "I have discovered a few tiny weaknesses, and I will try to play on them. Fritz is much stronger than its predecessor in Bahrain." Fritz is now looking at eight to ten million positions per second, Kramnik at just one. But human beings know how to distinguish between good and bad moves. When he sees a position Kramnik is able to rule out 99.9 percent of all possible continuations, because they are incongruous. He can concentrate on the three of four best moves. "I have to strive for positions in which I can make use my advantages. However, in our training games, which were played at faster time controls, Fritz usually won."
Did he learn anything from computers: "A great deal. Fritz gives you new insights into certain positions. In some of my training games I was absolutely thrilled. The machine developed astonishing visions. Fritz plays more extravagently than any human being could ever do."
On the difference between playing against machines: Kramnik says he plays differently against Fritz, and will try to play more "anarchic" moves than usual. He will not use the same strategy for all six games. But of course he cannot play illogically, because "Fritz punishes you immediately for that." Kramnik did not reveal his game plan in this interview because the programmers of Deep Fritz could read about it and draw their conclusions.
On his health: Kramnik still needs to take medication for rheumatic artritis, but is feeling better. "At least I can walk", he says, but he has to pass on some of his favourite sports: tennis, football and table tennis. His doctor wants him to swim a lot. "So I plough through the water every day, for two kilometers. But honestly I hate it. Swimming is so boring!"
On his chances in this match: "The day will come when we will no longer have a chance against computers. If I indeed manage to beat Fritz in this match it will probably be the last time that a human being wins against a computer."
The interview was conducted by Stéphanie Souron and Harmut Metz
Original interview in the Magazine Stern (German)
Man vs Machine series in Stern (German)
Fritz & co. for your home (German)


Mountain Knows No Expert by Mike Nash has been named a finalist for the 2009 Banff Mountain Book Festival Awards in the Mountain Literature category. The festival winners will be announced in advance of the festival on Thursday, October 29, 2009. The awards will be presented on stage at the book festival during the evening presentation on Thursday, November 5, 2009. The 2009 Banff Mountain Film & Book Festivals run from October 31-November 8, 2009. For more info, check out their website: http://www.banffcentre.ca/MountainCulture/festivals/2009/ Congratulations and good luck to Mike Nash!
Mike Nash is the author of Exploring Prince George Outdoors and Outdoor Safety and Survival in British Columbia's Backcountry. He has also published more than 450 works, including newspaper columns and magazine feature articles. He lives in Prince George, British Columbia.


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Specific Type: Wooden
Length: 2,840 feet
Manufacturer: William Cobb
Iowa is one of the last places you'd think of when thinking about roller coasters, but currently six exist in the state, two at Arnolds Park and four at Adventureland in Altoona. Tornado is the tallest of these six, making it the tallest coaster in the state. The ride opened on July 4th, 1978 with the park saying, "Another Tornado has hit Adventureland!" Tornado was designed by William Cobb, who also designed other coasters mainly at Six Flags parks, including Six Flags Over Georgia's Great American Scream Machine, the now defunct Rolling Thunder at Six Flags Great Adventure and Texas Cyclone at the defunct Six Flags AstroWorld.
Adventureland is home to three other coasters including Outlaw, a CCI wooden coaster, Dragon, a Hopkins looping steel coaster, and Underground, an indoor CCI wooden coaster that is more similar to a dark ride. Outlaw is known for its 1999 fiasco when a disgruntled employee wanting to be fired decided to let the coaster run through its course twice, the first time without brakes, per cycle. This was not only cause for his termination, but also for 5 years wear and tear on the ride.
Tornado has had one incident in its 36 year life, in which three people were injured when a stray wooden board resting on the tracks was run over by the train in July 2006. One eleven-year-old girl was hit in the head and was knocked unconscious. She underwent surgery and survived the incident. Investigators found that the stray board was left by an employee and the ride was reopened.
A ride on Tornado begins with a wide left turn into the lift after passing the transfer to the storage track. The ride's lift is situated at the very edge of the park, with a traditional Iowa farm to the right and the double looping Dragon to the left. At the top of the 93 foot lift, the ride seems to pause before plummeting down the drop and reaching a speed of 58 MPH. Riders rise into the second hill and crest it with barely enough speed to move forward it seeems. The track dips down half the distance before rising up and completing the drop. After a slight left turn, riders soar once more in another airtime hill before rising up to the turnaround. After dropping out of the turnaround, riders go over three airtime hills following the same path as the "out" part of the coaster. Riders then come into the final brake run and gradually slow down into the station.


Lucy Hale has announced she will be heading out on her first headlining tour early next year.
The actress/singer has seven dates on the calendar so far for her "Road Between Tour" but hints that she may add more later if she can work around her TV filming schedule.
"We're keeping it short and sweet," Hale explains to Rolling Stone Country. "We're going to where my music was played on radio and when we stopped for a radio tour, people came to the shows.


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The search to incentivise the establishment and retention of trees on private land continues
The nine-month 'Global review of incentive schemes for the retention and successful establishment of trees on private urban land'(NY18002) project is approaching its conclusion, with the final report set to be delivered in December this year.
This levy funded project aims to clarify which mechanisms may be suitable, and effective, for Australian local councils to consider in terms of establishing and retaining more trees on private land.
Commencing in May 2019, the project team from the University of Melbourne and RMIT University has completed an intensive literature review and led two international roundtable discussions at the 'Nature of Climate Summit' conference in Paris, France and the 'European Forum on Urban Forests' held in Cologne, Germany.
Attendees at these roundtables shared their experiences and key initiatives from cities across the globe, presenting strong case studies for evaluating incentives.
Over the past few months, the project team has continued purposefully collecting data on these various case studies, as well as interviewing dozens of individuals with experience on these types of mechanisms. The objective was to critically investigate what progressive things cities are doing to better retain and establish trees.
The project team has analysed 81 case studies across the world, finding that cities remain focused on the management of trees on public land rather than on private land. Most cities also use mechanisms that have been traditionally used since the 1970s to protect trees, such as planting new trees in private areas with public money through seed giveaways, or protecting trees through local tree protection laws (also called ordinances or bylaws, depending on context) and establishing significant tree registries, usually via the nomination of a private resident.
Many cities around the world have initiatives in place aimed at retaining trees on private land. A vast majority of these, however, use legal ramifications as a key motivator, instead of incentives for establishment and retention.
Some of the more proactive cities, particularly in the United States are encouraging greater green developments through incentives. Though these initiatives are focussed on establishing trees on private land, the experiences and key motivators of city councils and departments to implement these initiatives could have transferrable insights to promoting the establishment and retention of trees on private land.
Key examples of these types of programs in the U.S are: Urban Greening Factor Formula, Seattle; TreeBate in Portland; and Green Area Ratio in Washington DC.
They've found that building support and empowering residents, businesses and communities, has been central to the success of many of these initiatives.
For the remainder of the project, the project team will focus on uncovering unique initiatives that concentrate on tree retention, and those that encourage establishment and retention on private land.
In the final phase of this project, the team will circulate a draft of the final report to a key reference group for insights and feedback. Through this, they hope to further cement findings and gain more information that isn't in the public sphere.
Keep an eye out for more project updates, key insights, and how Australian local councils can use this information to encourage increased establishment and retention of trees on private land. To increase urban greening projects, it's imperative that local communities and its members are empowered and incentivised to protect and be proactive when it comes to green space.
To learn more on the first phase of the project, click here.
The 'Global review of incentive schemes for the retention and successful establishment of trees on private urban land' (NY18002) project is funded by Hort Innovation using nursery industry levy and funds from the Australian Government.
For more information, please contact Stephen Livesley, University of Melbourne at sjlive@unimelb.edu.au or 0439 615 772 OR Camilo Ordonez, 0437 639 749, camilo.ordonez@unimelb.edu.au
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In the late 1970s, experimental composer Bruce Haack released "Electric Lucifer," two strange and fantastical electronic psychedelic music albums that embody the high weirdness of the era. The two albums employ Moogs, guitar, voice, and a DIY vocoder to tell an epic story of the battle between heaven and hell. Now, theater director Jim Findlay is transforming Electric Lucifer into a rock opera for the stage. It will premiere at The Kitchen in New York City on January 9, 2018. Support its production via Kickstarter. The campaign has just a few days left!
In the album liner notes, Bruce Haack writes that The Electric Lucifer is a redemption story about a power so strong it can redeem even Lucifer. I took that as gospel and this piece is about redemption right now-2017. How can we redeem even the worst of 'us'? When I look around the question is harder than it seems. Who is us? Whose suffering needs redeeming? And how do we find the power to rise above our "hate and pain and fear" and move toward a real redemption. Not just for others but for ourselves.


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Revered President Maharaj Passes Away
By Peter Kowalke on June 19, 2017
With great sorrow we have learned that our revered President of the Ramakrishna Math and Mission, Revered Swami Atmasthanandaji Maharaj, passed away on 18 June 2017. He was 98 years old. He had been hospitalized since February, 2015.
Revered President Maharaj was born in what was then East Bengal, now Bangladesh, in 1919. A disciple of Swami Vijnanananda, he received his brahmacharya and sannyasa vows from Swami Virajananda. He joined the Order at the age of 22, and had a long career in hospital administration and development, both at Ranchi and Rangoon (Yangon), before being named head of the Rajkot ashrama in 1966. In 1973 he was named a Trustee of the Ramakrishna Math and Member of the Governing Body of the Ramakrishna Mission. Subsequently he became General Secretary, then a Vice President, before being elected President on 3 December 2007. Among his other accomplishments as President, he traveled widely, both in India and abroad, gave mantra diksha to many devotees, and was instrumental in developing the Pallimangal (rural development) project, as well as youth training and many other social service projects.
We pray that Sri Ramakrishna will welcome him into the Ramakrishna Loka and bless him forever.
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Graffiti artist Cyril Kongo designs whisky bottle celebrating Brora and Singapore's bicentennial
By Chee Boon Tan
Scottish distillery Brora Single Malt Scotch Whisky celebrates its 200th anniversary this year and Diageo, the global leader in beverage alcohol, has commissioned French graffiti artist Cyril Kongo to leave his mark on the 1080th bottle of Brora whisky, out of the 1,819 produced.
The 40-year old limited-edition Single Malt was drawn from one dozen casks of vintage stocks from 1978, and each of the 1,819 bottles (the number reflects the year the distillery opened) has immense complexity that perfectly represents that glorious moment in Brora's history.
Cyril Kongo (Photo: Diageo)
Incidentally, this year also marks the 200th year since Singapore was founded by Sir Stamford Raffles.
"It is an honour to collaborate with Diageo for this limited edition bottle of a truly iconic brand and to come together to celebrate Singapore," Kongo says in an official release. "It is not often that we get to commemorate 200 years of excellence for a nation and a distillery and I am privileged to be part of this celebration. My artwork on the Brora bottle draws inspiration from the 200th anniversary of Singapore, as well as the values of togetherness, harmony, excellence and the development of something rare and extraordinary, which I believe encapsulates the essence of Brora and Singapore's bicentennial celebrations."
Wong Mei Ling, general manager for Private Client – Rare & Exceptional at Diageo South East Asia added: "Our brands are central to our culture of celebrating life every day, everywhere and we are delighted to work with Kongo to commemorate this milestone in Singapore's history. We are delighted to be able to collaborate with a talented artist such as Kongo and witness his exceptional work first- hand on a bottle of Brora right here in Singapore."
Kongo has plans to donate this rare bottle of whisky to a Singaporean charity and it is set to be auctioned off at a later date.
For further queries, the Private Client team can be contacted via email.
Diageo Rare and Exceptional Singapore. Email: PrestigeClientSG@Diageo.com
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First Photos of Marvel Movie's Doctor Strange
Posted by Patrick Sauriol on Monday, December 28, 2015
The first official photos showing Benedict Cumberbatch as Marvel's movie version of Doctor Strange have been released. The good doctor has the cover of this week's issue of Entertainment Weekly, as well as several interior shots showing Strange wearing his magical costume and the mystical Eye of Agamotto, the pendant that lies on his chest and gives him considerable magical power.
In EW's piece there's an interview with Cumberbatch where he reveals that he's well aware of the level of detail that fans of Doctor Strange will be applying to his performance. "I'm still in the infancy of learning all that. It was like, okay, I've got to keep throwing these poses, these spells, these rune-casting things, everything he does physically," Cumberbatch remarked. "I'm thinking, there's going to be a huge amount of speculation and intrigue over the positioning of that finger as opposed to it being there, or there. And I'm still working on that. We haven't played any of those scenes yet. I felt really self-conscious. But, then, by the end, it was great. It's like anything, you just have to experiment."
The photo below is practically a live-action remake of the Doctor Strange comic art that we've seen before:
And there was this shot, which looks more conceptual than any true digital special effects shot, of what appears to be Doctor Strange in an astral plane setting:
It also appears that Strange's home on Bleeker Street will have displays of his arcane artifacts and magician's robe. Perhaps a nod to Tony Stark/Iron Man's armor room?
The second movie in Marvel's Phase Three plans, the Doctor Strange movie arrives in theaters on November 4, 2016.
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Friday, March 26 • 2:00pm - 3:00pm
EAC Community Hour: Looking Back and Looking Forward
Over the past year, many inequities have risen to the surface for GLAM and visual resources professionals. The EAC continues to hold monthly Community Hours to address and navigate these issues and roadblocks (see http://vraweb.org/about/committees/equitableaction/). Our aim for this Hour is to both provide a narrative overview of the events and concerns of the past year, as well as an open space for members to communicate their current situations and suggestions for future solutions. We would like to capture the ways in which members are feeling unsupported and the ways in which we can actively contribute as a committee, an organization, and as a field.
We encourage attendees to bring answers to the following questions or send an email to ea@vraweb.org for anonymous questions (you may also use this form to tell the EAC your concerns related to diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility: https://bit.ly/38Y8nGZ):
What inequities have you faced or witnessed at your institution?
What are you most concerned about for yourself, your job, and for the field? Do you feel safe and supported in your current work environment?
How can we support each other locally, nationally, and as an organization? What do we need from each other to support each other in our roles and as a community/organization?
What can the EAC do for you? What can VRA? What changes does the field at large need to see?
View the presentation here.
This Session will not be recorded.
Lael J Ensor-Bennett
Assistant Curator, Johns Hopkins University
Kendra Werst
Assistant Visual Resources Curator, Williams College
EAC Community Hour Looking Back and Looking Forward pdf
Friday March 26, 2021 2:00pm - 3:00pm CDT
Critical Issues LABOR, EQUITY, ADVOCACY


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TechBlog: Interactive figures address data reproducibility
20 Oct 2017 | 12:00 GMT | Posted by Jeffrey Perkel | Category: Blog, Technology
Juicebox.js
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Data reproducibility and transparency mean different things to different people, but one aspect involves allowing scientists to view and manipulate the data or code underlying published figures, both to double-check others' work and to repeat those analyses using custom data. Over the past year, for instance, the open-access journal F1000Research has implemented integrations with Code Ocean and Plotly for viewing and manipulating programming code and figures, respectively. Now, a new publication showcases interactive figures for 3D genome analysis, too.
In a paper published in the 5 October issue of Cell, graduate student Suhas Rao, and colleagues in the laboratory of Erez Lieberman Aiden at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, report the high-resolution, time-resolved analysis of genome structure following the loss of a protein complex implicated in genome folding, called cohesin.
The team used a modified version of the protein RAD21, which is part of the cohesin complex, to degrade and then replenish cohesin activity in cultured human cells. By taking snapshots of the chromatin structure over time as cohesin was removed and restored, the team demonstrated that cohesin is required for the formation and maintenance of loop domains in eukaryotic chromosomes — data that are consistent with the 'loop extrusion' hypothesis of chromatin structure.
The technique at the study's heart is Hi-C, a method that I wrote about in a recent Toolbox article for mapping chromatin contacts in 3D space across the entire genome. As I explained then,
The technology identifies sequences that are far apart in the linear DNA sequence but close neighbours in 3D space. "You look at a pair of positions in the genome, and it tells you often they bump into one another," Aiden explains. Typically, those data are rendered as heat maps, with colour intensity reflecting the interaction frequency between two points.
To explore those maps, Neva Durand in Aiden's lab, working with Jim Robinson of the Integrative Genomics Viewer (IGV) project, developed a desktop application called Juicebox; more recently, they worked with IGV team member Douglass Turner to create a browser-based version, Juicebox.js (see also the bioRxiv preprint, posted 19 October). In the recent Cell paper, the lab used that web-based version to create and share interactive versions of its otherwise static, published figures. (see: Fig. 2, Fig. 3, Fig. 4, Fig. 5, Fig. 6, Fig. 7)
As Rao explains, Hi-C datasets are so data-rich — involving potentially billions of contacts — that it's impossible to convey every nuance in a single snapshot. So, the team worked with Cell to provide interactive versions that readers could explore on their own.
"[That] no reader will take our word for anything but rather will be able to make sure that we didn't cut any corners and look at our figures and look at other regions in the genome beyond what we show in our figures, I think was a big hope for us," Rao says. "That this would push the field forward in the sense of data transparency and data reproducibility."
In fact, Rao notes, that strategy proved its worth during the peer-review process, when a reviewer expressed concerns that the 2D maps were so clean they may have been manipulated. "That question is just a moot point when you have an interactive figure, because if you think we're manipulating the color scale, well, go to the interactive figure, change the color scale to whatever you want and see what happens."
Juicebox is just one of a collection of tools for exploring 2D chromatin contact matrices. But there's more than one way to fold a genome, to mangle the old saw. Though Hi-C typically identifies interactions between two chromosomal regions, it also can pick up contacts between three, four, or even more loci, representing higher-order chromatin structures.
"This is actually an interesting data-visualization problem," Rao says, "because now we're not dealing with a 2D matrix anymore. Now we're looking at, in the case of three pieces of DNA ligated together, a cube. We have a 3D tensor."
To visualize one such complex, team member Ziyi Ye developed a new interactive tool, in which each voxel in a manipulable 3D cube represents the averaged contacts between three distinct loci. (You can view the figure here.)
"You have the ability to take this cube that we've shown and rotate it around, look at it from all different angles, and zoom in, zoom out, [and] change the color scale," Rao says. And, he adds, although that visualization was made specially for this paper, the team is working to integrate it into Juicebox moving forward. "When you start to get into these higher-dimensional views, it becomes crucial to have these more-interactive ways of visualizing [them], because it's just not possible to properly visualize it in a static, 2D way."
In the meantime, the chromatin visualization toolbox grows ever richer. On 8 October, Zhihua Zhang at the Beijing Institute of Genomics, and colleagues reported on bioRxiv a new tool called Delta. "Delta takes Hi-C or ChIA-PET contact matrix as input and predicts the topology associated domains and chromatin loops in the genome, and generates a physical 3D model which represents the plausible consensus 3D structure of the genome," the team writes. Their tool is available here.
Jeffrey Perkel is Technology Editor, Nature
24 Oct 2017: Post updated to include link to bioRxiv preprint.
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Історія
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