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Бушевка () — деревня в составе Заходовского сельсовета Речицкого района Гомельской области Белоруссии.

География

Расположение
В 41 км на северо-запад от Речицы и в 11 км от железнодорожной станции Бабичи, в 91 км от Гомеля.

Гидрография
На западе находится мелиоративный канал.

Транспортная система
Транспортная связь по просёлочной, а затем по автодороге Светлогорск — Речица.

В деревне 17 жилых дома (2004 год). Планировка складывается из короткой, с широтной ориентацией. Застройка — деревянными дома усадебного типа.

Улицы
 Колхозная
 Лесная

История
Основана в начале XX века переселенцами с соседних деревень. В 1931 году организован колхоз, работала кузница.

Во время Великой Отечественной войны 18 апреля 1943 года немецкие каратели сожгли живьём в колхозном клубе 80 жителей деревни и 2 жителей деревни Елизаровичи. Жертвы карателей похоронены в могиле жертв фашизма в центре деревни. Деревня была полностью сожжена. На фронтах войны погибли 14 жителей.

В 1959 году деревня находилась в составе колхоза «12 лет Октября» с центром в деревне Васильково.

Население

Численность
2004 год — 17 дворов, 26 жителей.

Динамика
 1940 год — 64 двора, 354 жителя.
 1959 год — 169 жителей (согласно переписи).
 2004 год — 17 дворов, 26 жителей.

См. также
 Городские посёлки Белоруссии
 Города Белоруссии
 Список уничтоженных нацистами населённых пунктов Белоруссии

Примечания

Литература
 Гарады і вёскі Беларусі: Энцыклапедыя. Т.2, кн.2. Гомельская вобласць/С. В. Марцэлеў; Рэдкалегія: Г. П. Пашкоў (галоўны рэдактар) і інш. — Мн.: БелЭн, 2005. 520с.: іл. Тыраж 4000 экз. ISBN 985-11-0330-6 ISBN 985-11-0302-0

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2016 NIH Funding: A Look at Top Recipients and Their Research
By Nina Bai
UC San Francisco received more than $575.6 million in federal funding from the National Institutes of Health in 2016. The highly competitive awards and grants are crucial to advancing the research across our schools of dentistry, medicine, nursing, pharmacy and the Graduate Division.
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The funding supports research and education across multiple health-science arenas at UCSF. It also advances scientific health research that helps us better understand key biological functions and translate findings into treatments and cures for patients.
Below are a few highlights of researchers who received the most NIH funding and how their NIH grants are helping them to change the future of health.
Alexander Marson, MD, PhD
1. Diane Havlir, $12,395,178
2. Dean Sheppard, $6,281,170
3. Alexander Marson, $6,142,102
4. John Fahy, $6,085,587
5. Steven Deeks, $5,656,950
It has long been known that genetics control the immune system, but how remains a question. Alexander Marson, MD, PhD, assistant professor of microbiology and immunology, has spent the last 10 years answering that question by exploring the genetic circuits that control specific aspects of immune cell function to understand how variations in genetics contribute to different diseases.
Marson's goal is to use that understanding to point toward new therapies – both by finding new targets for drugs and by actually changing the genetics of immune cells to give them new functions to treat cancer, autoimmune diseases and infections affecting the immune system, such as HIV.
Marson's studies rely on CRISPR technology, which enables researchers to cut out and replace, or "edit," genetic sequences within living cells to understand and treat disease.
"CRISPR provides the scalpel to go in and cut out some part of the human genome and potentially even replace part of it," Marson said. "That is just an incredible ability, to truly understand how the genome works."
One of Marson's current projects – with collaborators in the UCSF Diabetes Center and Institute for Human Genetics – is focused on the genetics of type 1 diabetes, but is applicable to multiple common autoimmune diseases. Marson's team will use cutting-edge CRISPR genome engineering to understand the precise ways that genetic variation affects the development of type 1 diabetes.
A second study is focused on HIV, but also relies on genome engineering – in this case, to uncover how genetics control the interaction between human T cells and the virus. Marson and colleagues have already developed an unprecedented technique to manipulate genome sequences in human T cells and render them resistant to HIV infection. An NIH grant will allow him to use this technology to search for new drug targets aimed at infected cells where currently available medicines are not effective, an effort that could eventually contribute to a cure.
"I had an HIV clinic for years," he said. "I am strongly motivated by patients to figure out how we can cure the virus."
Kathleen Giacomini, PhD
1. Ruth Greenblatt, $4,115,106
2. Kathleen Giacomini, $2,040,471
3. Esteban Burchard, $2,025,601
4. Shuvo Roy, $1,566,286
5. Michael Fischbach, $1,466,125
Membrane transporters are proteins that determine how many small molecules pass through biological membranes. As the gatekeepers to our cells, they play an important role in how drugs are absorbed, distributed and eliminated by our bodies and whether therapies achieve their intended effect.
Kathleen Giacomini, PhD, professor of bioengineering and therapeutic sciences, studies how genetic differences, in particular those that affect membrane transporters, may explain why a drug works in some people but not in others. Her research is helping to overturn the one-size-fits-all approach to treating common conditions, and it may help physicians predict which patients will need higher doses or alternative drugs.
One recent study looked at the standard first-line treatment for type 2 diabetes, the drug metformin, which works well in about two-thirds of patients but not in the rest. To understand how genetic variations may underlie such variable metformin response, Giacomini co-led a genome-wide association study of more than 10,000 patients of different ethnic backgrounds with her collaborator Ewan Pearson, PhD, professor of diabetic medicine at the University of Dundee in Scotland. The study identified genetic variations in the SLC2A2 gene that encodes for a glucose transporter, which were associated with greater response to metformin.
"Instead of treating everyone with type 2 diabetes the same way, we may be able to use specific genetic markers to provide a more tailored approach to their medications," said Giacomini.
Another study looked at allopurinol, a common treatment for chronic gout, that also has highly variable results in patients for unknown reasons. Similarly, Giacomini's team was able to identify a membrane transporter gene, ABCG2, that was associated with better response to allopurinol.
Such discoveries from Giacomini's lab highlight the importance of having large, diverse study populations and bring us closer to a precision medicine approach to treating diabetes and other conditions.
Shingo Kajimura, PhD
1. Jon Levine, $1,717,805
2. Ophir Klein, $1,436,875
3. Carol Gross, $1,016,139
4. Sarah Knox, $1,030,201
5. Shingo Kajimura, $941,363
Humans have two types of fat cells that function in remarkably opposite ways: white fat stores energy and is linked with diabetes and obesity, while brown fat burns energy and is associated with leanness.
For several years, Shingo Kajimura, PhD, has been studying how white fat can be converted into a temporary form of brown fat, known as beige fat. The identify switch can occur in response to external cues such as chronic cold exposure, exercise, burn injury and bariatric surgery.
"We're trying to understand how energy storing white fat can be converted into heat-generating brown fat," said Kajimura, associate professor of cell and tissue biology. "By engineering fat cell fate we may be able to counteract obesity and diabetes."
If thermogenic beige fat can be created and maintained, researchers hope to recruit its energy-burning capacity to help obese patients lose weight. "In mice, we've learned how to convert white fact into beige fat and now the challenge is understanding how to protect the beige fat from reverting back," said Kajimura.
His lab is also working to understand the developmental biology of brown fat: how it's made, where it comes from and how it's regulated.
More recently, Kajimura's lab has found that brown fat seems to have anti-diabetic effects that are separate from its anti-obesity effects. In animal models, they are investigating the mechanisms by which increased brown fat improves glucose homeostasis, which could provide a foundation for new treatments for type 2 diabetes.
They have found that brown fat communicates with other organs, like the liver, to regulate how much heat is dissipated. "We have data telling us that brown fat secretes molecules that allow it to talk to other organs," said Kajimura.
Sandra Weiss, PhD, RN
1. Sandra Weiss, $1,190,127
2. Christine Miaskowski, $1,117,002
3. Janet Shim, $575,764
4. Xiao Hu, $540,309
5. Julene Johnson, $530,276
Exposure of a fetus to stress-related hormones may affect development of brain areas that shape an infant's response to stress after birth, and an infant's ability to cope with stress can have lasting consequences for later mental and physical health.
Sandra Weiss, PhD, RN, is studying how corticosteroids commonly given to women at risk of preterm delivery and a mother's own stress hormones may program development of the stress-response system in preterm babies.
Corticosteroids help promote fetal lung development and reduce the risk of death. But Weiss's team hypothesizes that fetal exposure to corticosteroids and the mother's heightened stress hormones may modify development of the infant's stress response system, known as the HPA axis.
"Our initial data suggests that babies whose mothers receive corticosteroids have difficulty mounting a normal response to stressors, as shown in suppressed cortisol levels and dampened heart rate variability. This difficulty wasn't found among babies whose mothers didn't receive corticosteroids," said Weiss, interim dean and the Robert and Delphine Eschbach Endowed Chair in Mental Health.
Weiss is following infants through their first year of life to assess how hormonal exposure in the womb will affect a number of their physiologic responses and emotional regulation. Her team is also studying effects on the infant's telomeres, protective caps on the ends of chromosomes, as an indicator of cellular integrity.
Another major focus of Weiss' lab is how maternal depression may compound any adverse effect of corticosteroids. Mothers of preterm babies are more likely to experience postpartum depression, which can influence how they respond to a baby's distress. "It can be very difficult for women who are struggling with their own emotional challenges to help reduce their infant's distress in optimal ways," said Weiss.
"Our results will hopefully help clinicians weigh the risks and benefits of corticosteroids, identifying who may be at greatest risk from any adverse effects. We can then tailor interventions for those who are most vulnerable in light of their stress and depression profiles," said Weiss.
David Wofsy, MD
1. Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute (PI: Jennifer Grandis), $19,828,278
2. Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center (PI: Alan Ashworth), $8,782,539
3. Autoimmunity Center of Excellence (PI: David Wofsy), $6,137,707
4. HARC Center: HIV Accessory and Regulatory Complexes (PI: Alan Frankel), $3,929,597
5. UCSF-GVI Center for AIDS Research (PI: Paul Volberding), $2,952,540
Autoimmune diseases are the result of the immune system mistakenly attacking the healthy tissues of the body. David Wofsy, MD, has spent his whole career exploring how autoimmune diseases occur, and he is using that insight to develop biologic approaches to treat people suffering from these conditions.
Over the course of Wofsy's career, the field has shifted from immunosuppressive therapy that affects the entire immune system to developing much more selective treatments by targeting specific parts of the immune system.
Progress in establishing a sound scientific understanding of the causes of these diseases has resulted in therapies that have had a significant impact on a few autoimmune diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis and irritable bowel disease, he says.
But it leaves very many where the same progress has not yet been made.
Wofsy heads the Autoimmunity Center of Excellence Clinical Research Program at UCSF, which is examining the potential for using the patient's own regulatory T cells to treat systemic lupus erythematosus, a disease in which the immune system attacks a wide range of tissues, including the kidneys, lung and brain. Another project underway will examine the therapy in pemphigus vulgaris, a rare autoimmune disease that causes painful blistering on the mucous membranes, which can include the mouth, eyes, genitals or lungs.
The broad goal of the Russell/Engleman Rheumatology Research Center at UCSF, which Wofsy directs, is to translate advances in immunology and molecular biology into practical, safe and effective therapies for people with autoimmune diseases.
"What excites me the most is that as we understand mechanisms in the body that protect us against immunological diseases, we can harness them to treat or correct immunological abnormalities," he said. The aim is restoring balance to the immune system rather than broadly suppressing it entirely.
"Using existing mechanisms rather than toxic drugs is what I think the future holds," he said. "And it is already beginning to happen."
Weaning Triggers Metabolic Shift That is Reversed in Diabetes

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George Washington Academy (Morocco)
No longer accepting applications
Position Posted Nov 29, 22
Deadline Dec 31, 22
George Washington Academy located in Casablanca, Morocco seeks a
beginning with the 2023-24 School Year
Since 1998, George Washington Academy's caring faculty and staff have provided students and families with an educational atmosphere and culture captured best in our vision statement:
GWA inspires students to become multilingual lifelong leaders who pursue excellence, model integrity, and honor cultural diversity. We educate the whole person by equipping minds and building character, empowering students to serve Morocco and the global community with wisdom and compassion.
George Washington Academy is a Pre-K to Grade 12, non-profit, US State Department affiliated school currently with 823 students representing 38 nationalities and a faculty of 123 teachers. Our approach involves looking at the world and developing a school that is - at its core - a place for thinking, a place for learning, a place where we prepare our students for the future, and a place where all learners can be supported to meet their potential. We focus on intentional design for our thinking with a focus on sustainability.
GWA is committed to a progressive American international educational experience. It is a place where, as John Hattie says, "visible learning and teaching takes place when teachers … help students become their own teachers." GWA is committed to helping students understand deep concepts, apply them with learned skills and then use those skills to make the world a better place.
In September of 2019, GWA became an IB World School offering the International Baccalaureate Diploma Program (DP) for Grades 11 and 12 as well as the Moroccan diploma. A unique Language Acquisition Program beginning in Early Childhood grades values English, French and Arabic as the foundation for their multilingual environment. GWA's whole-child approach to education encourages students to explore multi-disciplinary studies, the arts, athletics, and participate in global academic forums and conferences.
George Washington Academy is a five-hectare, purpose-built facility located on the southern edge of Casablanca's city limits heading toward Dar Bouazza. The Lower School building houses Grades K-5, while the Upper School building houses Grades 6-12, with Discovery programs in early learning spaces of multiple-use buildings. GWA is committed to STEAM education with an array of classes taking advantage of designated MakerSpace, Robotics, Visual Arts, and Performance Arts spaces available on campus. GWA proudly houses the largest children's library in the Kingdom of Morocco. The campus, situated a little over one kilometer from the Atlantic Ocean below, features beautiful views of the ocean and stunning sunsets over the water.
Head of School Position
The 10-person School Board of George Washington Academy seeks a seasoned educator with 7-10 years of experience as a Head or Deputy Head of School. International school leadership and experience with a student population of 800+ students is strongly preferred. A graduate and/or post-graduate degree in Educational Leadership or related educational field is also preferred. The Board is committed to providing a seamless education for their PreK-12 students with an established curricular foundation throughout the school. Curricular expertise enabling faculty to have clearly articulated teaching and learning goals is required.
Additionally, the successful candidate will have operational experience overseeing all aspects of facility management as well as budgetary and legal affairs.
Compensation for this position will be generously based upon regional competitive packages.
At George Washington Academy, the Head of School embodies, manifests, and advocates the mission of the school, articulates the Board's vision for the school, monitors and addresses all matters of school climate and culture, and supervises the academic and administrative leadership with special focus on documented curricular expectations. He or she shall coordinate and be responsible for all programs of the school (academic, athletic, ethical, and extracurricular programs) and is accountable to the Board for the outcomes of GWA – both academic and financial. He or she is the primary representative of the school in its relationships with educational organizations, accrediting agencies, neighborhood, parents, alumni, American consulate, Moroccan authorities, business community, as well as school faculty and staff.
Head of School Responsibilities and Authorities Charter
The role of the George Washington Academy Head of School (HoS) includes responsibilities, delegated authority, and interactions with the School Board as described below:
Academics and Student Management
The HoS has responsibility for:
Monitoring curriculum, grading, testing, and reporting to parents.
Preparing for and conducting periodic program evaluations, including submitting reports to external agencies as required.
Monitoring programs for college guidance, college admissions, and scholarships.
Submitting academic reports on at least a quarterly basis to the Board indicating the health of the students' academic performance.
Approving all disciplinary policies and standards of conduct.
The Hos may delegate the above academic responsibilities.
The HoS oversees all operations including but not limited to school facilities, maintenance, construction, lunch program, transportation, school store, registration, and admissions, and ensures they are adequately carried out in alignment with the vision of the school through optimization of resources.
The HoS may delegate the above operational responsibilities.
The HoS shall be responsible for the financial health of the school through management of the budget. The HoS shall:
Establish the preliminary and final budgets.
Monitor income, expenditures, collections, and cash flow, maintaining appropriate financial records.
Submit financial reports to the Board.
Submit for Board prior review and/or approval the following:
-Preliminary and final budgets and accounting books (the latter upon periodic request of the board)
-HoS expense reports (approval) and where an expense shall exceed a specified amount of dirhams (prior approval)
-HoS annual personal professional development budget
-Revolving, short-term, long-term debt, bank guarantees, encumbrances of any kind (prior approval)
The HoS may be assisted and supported by the Finance Manager for the above-described responsibilities.
Selecting, hiring, and evaluating properly qualified leadership to serve as Academic, Administrative, and/or Operational Directors or Department Heads including but not limited to Upper School, Lower School, Human Resources, Operations, Admissions, Finance, and Development heads.
Supervising and ensuring professional development of Academic, Administrative, and Operational Directors or Department Heads.
Establishing and submitting for Board review/approval organizational charts and succession plans to ensure smooth succession of both the Academic and Administrative leadership.
Submitting for Board prior review and/or approval the following:
-Hiring, discipline, firing/departure of any direct report or key position (prior review/approval)
-Employee compensation plans (review only unless program may impact budget)
The HoS may be assisted and supported by the Human Resources Director for the responsibilities listed above.
Communication and Interaction with the Board
Together, the Head of School and the Board form an equal partnership in running the school, each in their respective spheres of management and governance. The HoS is an ex officio, non-voting member of the Board and Board committees. The HoS:
Implements GWA strategy approved by the Board.
Keeps the Board informed of all strategic matters relating to the Board through reports at Board meetings and immediate communication following major school events or happenings.
Provides data to assist the Board in its work.
Makes recommendations to the Board for the Board's approval of the budgets.
Seeks direction from the Board on new academic and operational initiatives.
Assists the Board President in setting Board and Committee meeting agendas and discussion topics.
Jointly with the Board, sets annual goals for his/her performance; provides input and self-evaluation for the Board to use in his/her evaluation.
Sees that the Board records and minutes are properly filed, and otherwise assists the Board in its work as requested.
In addition to the above-mentioned reporting, the HoS shall communicate regularly with the Board on academic and operational matters likely to impact the financial or legal health or reputation of the school or that may result in an escalation to the Board. Official communication with the Board shall be directly between the HoS and Board President and Vice President. For Committee matters for which the HoS provides input, the HoS may communicate directly with the Committees through the Chairperson to expedite Committee work. Where the HoS is a participant in a Committee, he/she may elect to send a representative having the same knowledge and capabilities for a particular Committee.
The HoS shall keep the Board informed of exceptions to established policy and decisions related to the school's operation.
The HoS may be assigned other matters determined by the Board or may propose additional scopes of responsibility.
George Washington Academy has appointed Search Associates to act as their consultant in the search for the new Head of School, with Barbara Powers and Lana Al-Aghbar serving as their Senior Consultants.
The deadline for applications for the position is December 31, 2022. Candidates are asked to submit a letter of interest and the requested materials listed below as early as possible as the Search Committee reserves the right to accelerate the selection process if the right candidate is identified
Candidates should send the information listed below as a single pdf file attached to an email:
A letter of application, explaining your strengths as a candidate and why you are interested in the Head of School position at George Washington Academy.
A statement describing your educational and leadership philosophy, not to exceed two pages.
A current résumé not to exceed two pages.
A one-page list of references who have served as immediate supervisors with current telephone numbers and email addresses.
A maximum of three letters of reference (scanned at low resolution) that may already be in your possession (optional).
Total document size should be kept to less than four (4) MB if possible. Applications should be sent to bpowers@searchassociates.com and lalaghbar@searchassociates.com .
Consultant interviews with qualified applicants will be held beginning in December, with the Search Committee conducting their remotely offered interviews immediately afterwards for recommended candidates. Please note the Search Committee could make their decision earlier than the application deadline if an exceptional candidate applies. Finalist candidates will be identified by the Search Committee and will be invited to an on-site interview. Finalists will also have the opportunity to meet with faculty, parents, students, and nonteaching staff. The new Head of School will be selected soon after the conclusion of the interviews.
George Washington Academy is committed to providing a safe and happy environment for all employees and in which all students can thrive and learn. They are committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all employees and students. All employees are subject to background checks and appropriate vetting procedures including satisfactory criminal record checks.
Thank you for your interest in this opportunity.
Candidates wishing to learn more about George Washington Academy should visit their very informative website:
https://www.gwa.ac.ma/
Senior Associate Diana Kerry was an international educator and administrator for 25 years in various countries, including Iran, France, Thailand, and Indonesia.


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Kufuor decries rise of disease burden in Africa
Former President John A. Kufuor
Former President John Agyekum Kufuor, has expressed concern about neglected tropical diseases and the rising burden of non-communicable illnesses in Africa and elsewhere around the globe.
He said the phenomena affect especially the "poorest of the poor".
Mr Kufuor was speaking at the ancient University City of Uppsala on his way to high-level meetings in Stockholm, where he addressed the staff of the influential World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre for International Drug Monitoring- the Uppsala Monitoring Centre (UMC).
UMC is dedicated to the global cause of safer medicines and vaccines and improved patient safety.
The former Head of State said although the big three diseases- malaria, TB and HIV and AIDS, attract significant attention and funding, the suffering of about a billion people does not attract significant headlines .
Buruli ulcer, Guinea worm, sleeping sickness, river blindness, yaws, leprosy, trachoma, are amongst the important neglected tropical diseases, while diabetes, cardiovascular and chronic lung diseases, more commonly thought of diseases of Western lifestyles, are becoming a threat to developing communities and economies.
Mr Kufuor who was accompanied by Professor Alexander Nii Oto Dodoo, Chief Executive Officer of John A. Kufuor Foundation, is attending a meeting of the UN Sanitation and Water for All Partnership, of which he is the Chairman.
One of the highest priorities of former President Kufuor is the many tropical diseases that are associated with poor water quality and management and the parallel need for patients everywhere to have access to affordable and safe medicines.
He challenged UMC staff to use their technical and scientific resources to help redress the balance of priorities and to ensure that safety monitoring and safe medicines for neglected tropical diseases are pushed ahead and kept in the public eye.
Mr Kufuor expressed appreciation that the UMC's sole outreach office in Africa is hosted in Accra.
He said he is also happy about the confidence the body is showing in Ghana's leadership in improving patient safety and welfare on the continent.
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Earnhardt wants to win a title then ride into retirement
Sports | February 22, 2017
Jenna Fryer
Dale Earnhardt Jr. answers questions during an interview at NASCAR Daytona 500 media day at Daytona International Speedway, Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2017, in Daytona Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Upon further review, hoisting a championship trophy is exactly how Dale Earnhardt Jr. wants to end his career.
NASCAR's most popular driver caused a stir on "The Dan Patrick Show" when he claimed he would immediately retire if he wins the title this year. The statement followed him to media day for the Daytona 500, and there was no question about it.
"Hell, yeah. I would definitely not want to come back and try to race anymore if I won the championship. I would be outta here," he said. "That's the last box I don't have checked, really. There's a few races I'd like to win. The championship would definitely be the icing on the cake for my career."
Earnhardt is the son of Hall of Famer Dale Earnhardt, who won a record-tying seven championships over his career. As Earnhardt enters the 18th season of his Cup career, he's still seeking his first title.
He's said repeatedly that retirement is not on his radar, and at just 42 years old, he should have many years ahead in his career. But Earnhardt has had concussion issues and missed the second half of last season recovering from one. He is also newly married and says he is looking at life differently.
Knowing how hard he worked to get healthy and back in the race car, he really just wants to dictate his final racing years himself and not have a doctor be the one to end his career.
"To come back this year, win a championship, it would be hard not to hang it up," he said. "This is the last year of my (contract). I would like to race more. But if I win the championship, I'd have to consider going out on top."
Earnhardt qualified second for Sunday's season-opening Daytona 500 — on the front row next to Hendrick Motorsports teammate Chase Elliott — and is the star of Speedweeks. All the drivers had a chance to address a variety of topics Wednesday. The highlights:
The absence of Dale Earnhardt Jr. for 18 races last season raised awareness on concussions in racing, and NASCAR this year has beefed up its concussion policy in an effort to better detect head injuries. Danica Patrick, who raced for years in IndyCar before moving to NASCAR, estimated she's suffered a dozen concussions in her career.
"Every time you crash you have a concussion on a varying degree, I'm sure," she said. "It is a little bit thought-provoking … because while we're not football players, we don't get the repeated hits like in succession over a short amount of time, but it's rough in the car and the hits are probably singularly bigger.
"There's nothing better than having somebody like Dale Jr. going so far as to get out of the car for as long as he did and saying, 'Hey, I have a problem,' because it makes it more available for everyone else. I think we like to sweep it all under the rug as drivers like we feel fine and nothing is wrong, but it's our life."
TURN 4 TROUBLES
Hendrick Motorsports has been admittedly aggressive in preparing for the Daytona 500, and it may be the cause of the problems the team has had in Turn 4 at Daytona International Speedway.
Jimmie Johnson twice spun in that turn Sunday during an exhibition race, and pole-sitter Chase Elliott got loose in the same spot in practice. In last year's Daytona 500, both Elliott and Dale Earnhardt Jr. spun in Turn 4.
"We can't sit still. We need faster cars. Everybody is working on it," Johnson said. "We were very aggressive in the (Clash) trying to create speed for the car, and I'm a guy that likes a loose race car so I was willing to roll dice."
Johnson also noted that Alex Bowman and Kasey Kahne had no problems with Turn 4 in Sunday's race.
"We have great notes to fall back on. We had a very good driving car in last year's 500, and then two teammates that didn't spin out in the Clash, so we have plenty of notes to go to, but we're definitely being aggressive."
TOYOTA TEAMWORK
A solid game plan got Toyota its first Daytona 500 victory last season, and the manufacturer wants to use that same teamwork this year during Speedweeks. It was on display during the Clash on Sunday when the Toyota entries ran 1-2-3-4 for most of the race.
It remains to be seen if the same strategy will work in the Daytona 500. The Toyota fleet now includes a pair of rookies in Erik Jones and Daniel Suarez, and neither has much experience in a Cup car.
"Game plans don't necessarily all work out," said Toyota driver Matt Kenseth. "You've got to have strong cars to do it. The car has to end up there, not be separated by bad pit stops or strategy. I thought we had it lined up really good in the Clash. We had all four of us in a row for a while.
"We just weren't quite fast enough."
RACE FAVORITES?
Brad Keselowski and Joey Logano teamed to win six of the last nine restrictor-plate races, and Logano won the exhibition Clash on Sunday.
It means Team Penske is a heavy favorite for Sunday, and eager for the 500 to arrive.
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Dillon called Logano, Keselowski and defending race winner Denny Hamlin the drivers to beat.
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Domty expands into milk products
EXCLUSIVE- Food manufacturer Domty is launching this week a USD 2 mn milk products production line, marking the company's first investment to add milk products to its portfolio, Vice Chairman and Managing Director for Planning and Supervision Mohamed Damaty told Enterprise.
It's all about finding a way to grow, even with the pandemic: The new production line, which will add to Domty's current portfolio of cheese, juices, and on-the-go bakery products, comes as the company works on expanding its footprint — and found itself needing to adjust its growth plan to fit within covid-19 circumstances.
We had a (virtual) chat with Damaty about the new investments. Edited excerpts from our conversation:
The production line is going to be added to our existing facility where we produce our bakery products. The USD 2 mn investment cost includes the production and processing of the product, and we've been working with Tetra Pak for one year on setting up the production line. This will be our third entry with Tetra Pak, on top of our juice and cheese products.
We're starting a full range of milk products, starting with normal UHT milk. Then, we'll follow that with a new product launch each month, starting with flavored milk, followed by whipping cream and cookies and cream.
The new production line is designed to continue growing the company's portfolio, after starting out as a cheese manufacturer and then having expanded into the juice and bakery segment. We have a vision of making Domty a real food company and we're eager to lock down a bigger portion of households' grocery expenditure. And I think we'll do that.
We've definitely shifted our expansion strategy since covid-19 began. If you had asked me a year or a year and a half ago where we would expand, I would have said our main focus would be on-the-go products, given the success we've had in the bakery segment and with the cheese sandwich product we launched. But the situation now — especially with schools and universities either being closed or operating on a hybrid learning basis throughout the past year — required a change in strategy.
We're shifting back again into products to be consumed at home, and we're in talks with Tetra Pak again to add some other products for at-home consumption to our portfolio. There's been a lot of uncertainty and we believe we're going to have to live with covid-19 impacting our lives in the same way for at least this year and next. Unfortunately, our on-the-go products had brought us great success, but current circumstances mean we have to shift away from them for a bit. Before covid, we had invested a lot in our three bakery lines, two of which we had fully utilized before the pandemic hit.
Of course, when things go back to normal, we intend to bring back our investments in on-the-go products, which I think are much more profitable in Egypt — and the room for innovation is much bigger. The success we had with our cheese sandwich was a testament to the potential that consumer level holds. It's a really, really big market so we'll come back to it when things stabilize and normalize again.
Capex borrowing is attractive now, but the market demand isn't there yet to justify it: Domty is working with Tetra Pak on a facility for the new production line, which includes them giving us the machinery. Overall, the interest rate environment now is very attractive for capex borrowing, but the market is not attractive. The banking sector in Egypt is doing a really great job, and the Central Bank of Egypt has successfully brought down interest rates over the past two years and continues to give support to the industry and the business environment. But unfortunately, the pandemic just means the market is still not great for new investments.
It's a popular myth that being an FMCG player means that a slowdown isn't going to affect your business. It's true that people don't stop eating or drinking in an economic crisis, but we're already playing on very slim margins, so when you have a decline in sales — even if it's something like 5 or 6% — it has an outsized impact on overall profitability. It's still by and large a "safe" sector, but the smallest decline in sales can really be felt.
Export markets have also had their own set of challenges: We export around 6% of our total output — mainly cheese to Arab countries, Africa, and Europe, where Egyptian expats are living. Our main export markets are Libya, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Russia. All of these countries have their own challenges right now.
Part of the problem with exports is also that we as Egyptian companies have a problem with marketing our products abroad. All the food companies in Egypt are focused almost entirely on the local market, but the local market dynamics have changed significantly in the last 10-12 years, between the 2011 revolution to the EGP float and now covid-19. So these changing dynamics mean that export markets are a secondary option, which means that companies aren't really investing in proper marketing or setting up a real sales fleet on the ground like we all do here in Egypt.
Of all the problems that industry faces here in Egypt — some of which have existed for years — I think FMCG's biggest problem is the idea of imitation. There's no proper mapping from the government on where to invest, or how. So new entrants to the market just see what's successful and decide to imitate it, and the end result is that some sectors in FMCG are really crowded, while others are a bit lighter. Four or five years ago, we had two companies that IPOed on the EGX — one of which was Domty — and we had maybe 12 brands of white cheese in the market at the time. After these two successful IPOs, we now have 24 brands of white cheese, just because other companies saw the success of these companies in making it to an IPO.
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Emaar has its eyes on expanding operations in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, India, and Pakistan, CEO Mohammed Alabbar told Al Arabiya. Emaar's sales more than doubled y-o-y in the first three months of the year to USD 1.63 bn from USD 680 mn. "The numbers are promising, despite the difficulties still faced by the hotel and retail industries," Alabbar said. The Emaar boss had previously called Egypt the company's favorite investment destination and announced plans to double its Egypt operations to constitute 30% of the company's business.
French outsourcing and consultancy firm Webhelp will invest EGP 200 mn in Egypt over the next three years, the Communications Ministry said yesterday after the Information Technology Industry Development Agency signed an agreement with the firm. The company will use the investment to expand its business center in the country, which it inaugurated in October.


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Home Theatre Plays Drivers
Drivers is a special play for it belongs to different traditions at the same time. On the one hand, it is based on the comedy genre full of agents, cops, and spies. These drama characters see the world as if they were in the shoes of Alexa Punji, Luka Laban and Sika Akola. On the other hand, Driers come from the Central European tradition of the Theater of the Absurd, painted in the works of Slawomir Mrožek, Vaclav Havel and Istvan Orkeny, but also of one specific and popular form of satire known as the "Budapest Joke". The action of the drama was originally set in 1974, while the play changes that, now distant and forgotten past, with the dystopian world of the very near future.
Laszlo Vegel, a prose writer and playwright, an essayist and critic, was born in Srbobran in 1941. He studied Hungarian language and literature in Novi Sad, and philosophy at the Belgrade University. He writes in Hungarian, his mother tongue. His first novel Memoirs of a Pimp was translated into Serbian by Aleksandar Tišma, who described it as the first urban novel from Vojvodina. Since then, Vegel's work has belonged to both Hungarian and Serbian literature. The theatre play inspired by his latest novel Neoplanta or the Promised Land was voted best play at the previous Sterijino Pozorje Festival. The plays directed by Ljubiša Ristić, Dušan Jovanović, Ljubiša Georgijevski, and Andraš Urban were based on his texts. He was awarded on both sides of the border for his literary work.
Milan Nešković was born in Valjevo in 1985. He is a son, a brother, and uncle. He graduated in Theater Directing from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in the class of Professor Nikola Jevtić and Professor Alisa Stojanović. This is his thirteenth theater play, and the twelfth based on the works of Serbian authors.
About the Dramaturge
Marko Milosavljević is a dramaturge from Belgrade. He is a co-author of the text of the play Natatorium performed at the National Theater in Subotica. He is a permanent collaborator of the Belgrade Children's Radio and Youth Program.
Grežak – Miroslav Jović
Božik – Marjan Todorović
Gavlik – Danilo Petrović
Gubik – Dejan Cicmilović
Kralik – Aleksandar Marinković
Lerik – Miloš Cvetković
Laszlo Vogel
Milan Nešković
Vesna Popović
Dragica Laušević
Stage Speech
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Ozren Mitić
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Leave of Absence Leave of absence was granted to Lord Neuberger of Abbotsbury for the remainder of this Session.
Lord Hughes of Woodside The Lord Speaker (Lord McFall of Alcluith) informed the House that Lord Hughes of Woodside, a member of the House, had died on Friday 7 January. (at 14:35)
Constitution The following Report from the Select Committee was made and ordered to be printed: Health and Care Bill. (9th Report, HL Paper 136)
Care workers: professional register A question was asked by Lord Young of Cookham and answered by Lord Kamall. (at 14:36)
Post Office: Horizon compensation A question was asked by Baroness Bakewell and answered by Lord Callanan. (at 14:45)
Prime Minister: meetings with First Ministers of the devolved governments A question was asked by Lord McConnell of Glenscorrodale and answered by Viscount Younger of Leckie. (at 14:56)
Authors, booksellers and libraries: economic recovery A question was asked by the Earl of Clancarty and answered by Lord Parkinson of Whitley Bay. (at 15:07)
Procedure and Privileges The Senior Deputy Speaker (Lord Gardiner of Kimble) moved that the Report from the Select Committee Debates before second reading in Grand Committee; Update on pass-reader voting; Leave of absence (5th Report, HL Paper 122) be agreed to. After debate, the motion was agreed to. (at 15:18)
Standing Orders (Public Business) The Senior Deputy Speaker (Lord Gardiner of Kimble) moved that the standing orders relating to public business be amended as follows: Standing Order 21 (Leave of Absence) After paragraph (7) insert the following new paragraph: "(7A) The House may refuse or end leave of absence on the application of the Commissioner for Standards or the Cond… Item text truncated - open link to view full item text (at 15:39)
Charities Bill [HL] The bill was read a third time. A privilege amendment was agreed to. Then, after debate, the bill was passed and sent to the Commons, (at 15:40)
National Insurance Contributions Bill The bill was reported from the Grand Committee without amendment.
Advanced Research and Invention Agency Bill The bill was read a third time. Amendment 1 was agreed to. Then, after debate, the bill was returned to the Commons with an amendment. (at 15:49)
Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill The report stage was continued, beginning with amendment 90A. Amendment 90A was agreed to (see division 1). Amendments 91 and 92 to 95 were agreed to. Amendment 95A was agreed to (see division 2). Amendments 95B to 96C were agreed to. Amendment 97 was disagreed to (see division 3). The report stage was adjourned. (at 16:01)
Russia Lord Ahmad of Wimbledon answered questions on a Statement made in the House of Commons on Thursday 6 January. (at 20:42)
Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill The report stage was continued, beginning with amendment 97ZB. Amendments 97ZB and 97ZC were agreed to. Amendment 97CA was disagreed to (see division 4). A motion to adjourn debate on amendment 102 was disagreed to (see division 5). Amendment 102 was disagreed to (see division 6). The report stage was adjourned after amendment 102. (at 21:24)
The House adjourned at 12.31am on Tuesday 11 January until 2.30pm the same day.
National Insurance Contributions Bill The bill was considered in Committee. Amendments were considered. The bill was reported without amendment. (at 15:46)


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Author Event with Pam Houston
Country Bookshelf, 28 W Main, Bozeman
Wednesday, March 6, 2019 at 6:00pm - 8:30pm
Country Bookshelf is thrilled to welcome bestselling author and "Rodeo Queen of American Letters" Pam Houston, who will discuss and sign her first memoir Deep Creek: Finding Hope in the High Country, Wednesday, March 6th at 6pm.
At 31 years old, fresh off a tour promoting her first collection, Cowboys Are My Weakness, Pam Houston had "no job, no place to live except my North Face VE 24 tent." On an impulse and a good instinct, she spent her royalties on a 120-acre ranch near Creede, Colorado. It was more than she could afford, and required more maintenance than she could manage. And yet, twenty-five years later, it's the piece of land that's defined the largest part of her life. DEEP CREEK tells the remarkable story of "that girl who dared herself to buy a ranch, dared herself to dig in and care for it, to work hard enough to pay for it, to figure out what other people meant when they used the world 'home.'"
Already a staff favorite - Bookseller Jessica says "This poignant ode to Place, to nature, to natural beauty, and ultimately optimism - is a pushback against cynicism and meanness. It provides the same inevitable hope that comes with the first shoots of grass in the pasture. It champions the idea that there is safety in saving - in reaching out, in trusting to everyday grace."


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Note of Comment on the 12th ASEM Summit
During the last ASEM Summit, the European Union positioned itself as the greatest defender of multilateralism. Whereas the United States has pulled out of the JCPOA, is sabotaging WTO reform, and blew up TTIP and TPP alike, Asian countries were eager to come to hear a different story in Brussels. However, Europe remained cautious. It seems as though the EU wants to have it both ways: to remain partners with the US while also building good ties with China. With a trade war looming between Europe's biggest partners, both having the cake and eating it is no longer an option. A time for choosing has arrived.
The first Asia-Europe Meeting was established in 1996 in Bangkok, and since then, leaders from the two ends of the Eurasian continent have been meeting biennially . The main aim of ASEM has been to deepen ties between Asian and Europe on the political, economic and socio-cultural level.
The twelfth ASEM Summit took place in October in Brussels. A wide array of issues were discussed, with the three most prominent topics being security, trade, and investments.
As the EU does not have a common defense policy, security issues are always approached with great caution. The most important position the EU took at ASEM with regards to security was that it reaffirmed its commitment to the leadership of the Republic of Korea and positioned itself in a mediating role to ease Southeast Asian conflicts.
Next up was trade. The European Union is still the biggest market of the world, so access to the European market is still the biggest 'carrot' the EU can provide. The EU likes to make good use of Free Trade Agreements. However, an FTA with the city-state of Singapore is only a drop in the ocean. A few months ago an EPA has been signed by the EU and Japan and a FTA with Vietnam is close to ratification. Nonetheless, for the EU to really demonstrate its commitment to free trade, large, multilateral trade agreements would need to be put on the table. At ASEM the EU restated its commitment to multilateralism, however no real framework was provided to offer this.
The only two calls reminiscent of its pledge to uphold multilateralism were a request for WTO reform and a commitment to the Iran Deal. Especially the call for WTO reform was greeted with the applause of China, who has been calling for this for more than a decade. However, the EU was clearly wary of not offending the US too much either, as Chinese requests to mention Trump's sanctions as 'market distorting measures' were ignored.
The European commitment to the JCPOA was reaffirmed as well. In her closing remarks of the Summit, High Representative Mogherini made her intention clear to uphold the Iran Deal. High Representative Mogherini partnered up with Russia and China to construct a special purpose vehicle in order to bypass US sanctions on trading with Iran. However, with the first sanctions coming back in place by November, it is clear that this pledge to construct an SPV cannot be met in time.
The cold feet for Asian cooperation became particularly clear again when it came to the topic of investments. With its recently published EU-Asia Connectivity Strategy, the Commission pledged to focus further on Eurasian interconnectivity. However, as the Commission failed to provide significant sums of investments or even mention the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative, Asian leaders were left in limbo. This ASEM Summit was meant to offer a change to this. It did not.
Of course, internal issues like the Italian budget and Brexit strike a chord in Brussels as they are more tangible to everyday life. However, how the EU will position itself towards the rest of the Eurasian landmass has the potential to be even more defining to the future of the Union than the two issues listed above.
When it comes to giving clear answers to questions raised by Asian players at ASEM, the Union is divided by the individual interests of its member states. Especially Central and Eastern European member states have become increasingly favorable towards Asia, while Western Europe – more dependent on the Atlantic alliance – have become increasingly suspicious of a looming Asia on the world stage. The fear is that through Asian growth, the EU would lose the upper hand in the future.
And rightfully so. Whilst the EU might have the strongest consuming market globally, it is still politically fractured. With Britain leaving, Italy at loggerheads with the Commission, and still no clear message about either a reaffirmation of NATO or a well-defined commitment to Asia, the state of the union is not as strong as it needs to be.
If the EU wants to take up its role in international diplomacy, it has to face the consequences of its actions and make clear-cut commitments. The ASEM summit was expected to bring clarity, however, in hindsight of this meeting, a Eurasian alliance remains a far-fetched illusion.
Author: Victor DE DECKER, Junior Researcher, European Institute for Asian Studies


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Q: Setting CSS class to a specific div with specific style attribute I'm currently redoing a website (http://www.vins-de-fronton.com/) and I have some issues doing what I would like to do.
The guys who made it set the content area in some kind of a container and used 'my custom scrollbar' from malihu (http://manos.malihu.gr/jquery-custom-content-scroller/), I would like to keep them but I think it may cause some issues for what I'm trying to do, let me explain :
I want to add a scrolling parallax effect to my differents div and I was trying to do this with js, but all of the things I've tried need to use the normal scrollbar and its scrolled px, which is replaced by the custom scrollbar.
When you scroll up or down, the actual scrollbar set a specific style to the "#mCSB_1_container" div with 'top' changing depending of where you are in the page.
So I was thinking that maybe I could add a specific css class when the div #mCSB_1_container has top:-480px as style attribute (for exemple)? Using javascript maybe ?
Here is the div:
<div id="mCSB_1_container" class="mCSB_container" style="position: relative; top: -488px; left: 0px;" dir="ltr">

Thanks a lot for reading this, and I hope that I've well explained my issue :)
Cheers

A: Try this: you can read top value for the div and add CSS class as shown below
$(function(){
  var top = $("#mCSB_1_container").css('top');
  if(top=='-480px') {
      $("#mCSB_1_container").addClass("YourClass");
  }
});

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Q: Ruby: puts printing stderr of the result of a command It's not clear to me how "puts" works in Ruby for the output of a command that throws its output to stderr.
Look at this code:
command="/usr/bin/java -version"
result=`#{command}`

puts result
puts "XX#{result}XX"

The result is:
java version "1.8.0_25"
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_25-b17)
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.25-b02, mixed mode)

XXXX

java -version sends its output to stderr (I am aware that in order to prevent this I should have used 2>&1 at the end of the command)
My question: The variable "result" in reality is empty, but the first puts prints the stderr output and the second puts the stdout (which is empty). Why? What's going on?

A: Actually, both puts statements print nothing. If you do this:
puts "YY#{result}YY"
puts "XX#{result}XX"

You'll see that you get YYYY and XXXX.
The reason that you see the output from Java is because Java itself is printing to stderr which isn't being captured by Ruby.

A: The first puts result prints only newline. The output come from the following line (by the command itself, printing to stderr)
result=`#{command}`

You can confirm that by removing all puts ... lines.


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Baghdad ) - A German curator has been kidnapped in Baghdad, the Iraqi Interior Ministry confirmed on Tuesday.
Interior Minister Othman Al-Ghanmi has given directives for security forces to intensify their efforts to find her, ministry spokesman Saad Maan told dpa.
Hella Mewis was kidnapped by armed militants on Abu Nawas Street near the Bait Tarkib art collective at around 8 pm (1700 GMT) on Monday, Ali al-Bayati, a member of the semi-official Iraqi High Commission for Human Rights, wrote on Twitter.
Another activist, who asked to remain anonymous, told dpa that Mewis disappeared after she left her house in the Iraqi capital and that her mobile phone was unreachable.
The German Foreign Office has not yet confirmed the kidnapping.
Mewis was born in Berlin and has lived in Baghdad for several years, where she worked on establishing the Bait Tarkib collective, which aims to promote the work of young Iraqi artists.
Political Islamism experienced a revival in Iraq after Saddam Hussein's dictatorship was toppled in 2003, with non-religious art often criticized as "haram" (forbidden).
Najem Wali, an Iraqi writer novelist who lives in Germany, described Mewis in a 2017 interview with the Spiegel news magazine as a woman who broke Iraqi conventions, for example by visiting cafes, wearing her hair down and only seldom wearing a headscarf.
In 2016, Mewis organized a women's bike demonstration along the river Tigris in Baghdad.
She is said to have political contacts in the country and be well established there.
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Parag Milk to make stock market debut tomorrow
The company's Rs 760-crore IPO, which was extended by three days, was oversubscribed 1.83 times on the final day of the offer which ended on May 11.
Parag Milk had also revised price band to Rs 215-227 per share.
NEW DELHI: Dairy firm Parag Milk Foods, which recently concluded its extended IPO, will list shares on the bourses tomorrow.
The company's Rs 760-crore initial public offering (IPO), which was extended by three days, was oversubscribed 1.83 times on the final day of the offer which ended on May 11.
The issue period was from May 4-11.
The price band was previously fixed at Rs 220-227.
The book running lead managers to the issue were Kotak Mahindra Capital Company, JM Financial Institutional Securities, IDFC Securities and Motilal Oswal Investment Advisors Private.
The equity shares will be listed on BSE and NSE.
Maharashtra-based Parag Milk, which began operations in 1992, is a leading manufacturers and marketers of dairy-based branded foods in the country.
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(1) Med Gas Res. 2012; 2: 12. Effects of drinking hydrogen-rich water on muscle fatigue caused by acute exercise in elite athletes.
(3) J Clin Endocrinol Metabol, 2015; 100: 2724-2733. Hydrogen Activates ATP-Binding Cassette Transporter A1-Dependent Efflux ex Vivo and Improves High- Density Lipoprotein Function in Patients with Hypercholesterolemia: A Double-Blinded, Randomized, and Placebo- Controlled Trial.
(4) Vasc Health Risk Manag. 2014; 10: 591-597. Consumption of water containing over 3.5 mg of dissolved hydrogen could improve vascular endothelial function.
(6) Nutr Res. 2008; 28:137-143. Supplementation of hydrogen-rich water improves lipid and glucose metabolism in patients with type 2 diabetes or impaired glucose tolerance.
(7) Antioxidants. 2015; 4: 513-522. Drinking Hydrogen-Rich Water Has Additive Effects on Non-Surgical Periodontal Treatment of Improving Periodontitis.
While H2 is not very reactive under standard conditions, it does form compounds with most elements. Hydrogen can form compounds with elements that are more electronegative, such as halogens (e.g., F, Cl, Br, I), or oxygen; in these compounds hydrogen takes on a partial positive charge.
1Department of Molecular Pathology, The Institute for Molecular Medicine, Huntington Beach, USA.
2Laboratory of Ion Channels, School of Medicine, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay.
4Tustin Longevity Center, Tustin, USA.
5Saint John's Health Center, Santa Monica, USA.
6Progressive Medical Center, Orange, USA.
7Hope Cancer Institute, Playas de Tijuana, Mexico.
8Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Graduate School of Medicine, Nippon Medical School, Kawasaki, Japan.
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We have reported that hydrogen (H2) acts as an efficient antioxidant by gaseous rapid diffusion. (中略)Neural proliferation in the dentate gyrus of the hippocampus was suppressed by restraint stress, as observed by 5-bromo-2′-deoxyuridine incorporation and Ki-67 immunostaining, proliferation markers. The consumption of hydrogen water ameliorated the reduced proliferation although the mechanistic link between the hydrogen-dependent changes in neurogenesis and cognitive impairments remains unclear.(後略).
Hydrogen acts as a therapeutic antioxidant by selectively reducing cytotoxic oxygen radicals. Ohsawa I, Ishikawa M, Takahashi K, Watanabe M, Nishimaki K, Yamagata K, Katsura K.-I, (…), Ohta S, Nature Medicine. 2007;13 (6):688-694.
A basic study on molecular hydrogen (H2) inhalation in acute cerebral ischemia patients for safety check with physiological parameters and measurement of blood H2 level. Ono H, Nishijima Y, Adachi N, Sakamoto M, Kudo Y, Kaneko K, Nakao A, and Imaoka T, Medical Gas Research 2012, 2:21.
Improved brain MRI indices in the acute brain stem infarct sites treated with hydroxyl radical scavengers, Edaravone and hydrogen, as compared to Edaravone alone. A non-controlled study.Ono H, Nishijima Y, Adachi N, Tachibana S, Chitoku S, Mukaihara S, Sakamoto M, Kudo Y, Nakazawa J, Kaneko K, Nawashiro H, Medical Gas Research 2011, 1:12 (7 June 2011).
Consumption of water containing a high concentration of molecular hydrogen reduces oxidative stress and disease activity in patients with rheumatoid arthritis: an open-label pilot study. Ishibashi T, Sato B, Rikitake M, Seo T, Kurokawa R, Hara Y, Naritomi Y, Hara H, and Nagao T, Medical Gas Research 2012, 2:27.
Hydrogen-rich water attenuates experimental periodontitis in a rat model.
Kasuyama K, Tomofuji T, Ekuni D, Tamaki N, Azuma T, Irie K, Endo Y, Morita M, 2011;Journal of Clinical Periodontology 38 (12):1085-1090.
Molecular hydrogen alleviates nephrotoxicityinduced by an anti-cancer drug cisplatin without compromising anti-tumor activity in mice. Nakashima-Kamimura N, Mori T, Ohsawa I, Asoh S, Ohta S, 2009. Cancer Chemotherapy and Pharmacology 64 (4): 753-761.


Artificial intelligence (AI) that can predict delicious food might sound ripped from the pages of science fiction, but New York startup Analytical Flavor Systems (AFS) claims to have pioneered it more than eight years ago. It takes the form the Gastrograph, a full-stack platform for sensory data collection and machine learning-informed food insights., and according to CEO and founder Jason Cohen, it's attracted the attention of heavy-hitting investors like AB InBev's global innovation fund.
AFS today announced that it has raised $4 million in a Series A funding round led by Leawood Venture Capital and Global Brain, with participation from Hyperplane Venture Capital, Bits X Bites, Cornes Technology, and others. As part of the round, Karl Gemperli, Naoki Kamimaeda, Vivjan Myrto, and Eamonn Cary will join the startup's board.
Cohen said that the capital will be used to "attract new talent and expertise" and further develop its AI system. Already, he said that its recommendations have informed "multiple" successful products.
AFS isn't the only company employing AI to personalize food. Los Angeles-based Halla's I/O platform generates Netflix-like recommendations for grocery, restaurant, and food delivery apps and websites, in part by leveraging a database restaurant dish, recipe, ingredient, and grocery item taste and flavor attributes. Startups like Foodpairing, Plantjammer, and Dishq, meanwhile, have proprietary recommendation systems of their own that take into account personal preferences.
But Cohen contends that the Gastrograph is the first specifically designed for developing new food and beverage products, and he would know. He's no newcomer to the food industry — or data science, for that matter.
Prior to starting AFS, Cohen founded and served as executive director of the Tea Institute at Pennsylvania State University, which oversees more than 20 researchers in five fields of traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Tea. In 2010, as a graduate student at Penn State's College of Information Sciences and Technology, he built an AI tea information that outperformed expert taste testers' ability to pinpoint a tea's place of origin.
Above: Categories of taste in the Gastrograph.
Those experiences informed the development of the Gastrograph's frontend, which has taste testers rank food across discrete categories of sensory experience. Within AFS' smartphone app, they rate the intensity of flavors like "meaty," "sugars," "earthy," "spices," and "marine" — 24 in all — on a scale from one to five and assign an overall product preference score. Additionally, they supply demographic information, socioeconomic status, and data about the ambient environment, such as noise levels, temperature, and ambient light.
The idea is to suss out the true flavor profile of a product while accounting for every conceivable variables, Rob Trice, a parnter at Better Food Ventures, explained.
The core use case is product "optimization" — AFS' clients can plug in a flavor profile and identify ways a given SKU might be improved. But the Gastrograph has yielded surprising macrocosmic insights too, Cohn said, like the U.S.'s growing preference for sour food and drink (for example, IPAs and grapefruit-flavored foodstuff).
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While Macworld saw the announcement of the iPhone with lots of things I need (widescreen video, MP3 player, photo viewer) and don't need (email, web browsing, insufficient storage space, text messaging, Cingular, sure-to-be-spendy monthly fees), there was nothing of significance announced on the Mac PC front. Unless you consider Apple's name change from Apple Computer, Inc. to Apple, Inc. a blotch on their PC record.
So I purchased a MacBook. I'll be getting the white MacBook with 2.0 GHz processor and 2 GB of RAM. I ended up buying from Mac Connection. The Wife gets an educational discount through Apple, but the sales tax killed the deal. My Mac Connection purchase also included both Parallels and a laptop case for free after rebate. There was a printer for free after rebate as well, but my research found that the printer was not even worth free. I have not yet decided on AppleCare. I'll wait until later to make that call.
My original plan was to delay the purchase of the Mac until the first release of Scrawlers. That release point would be a good time to begin using an entirely new development environment. I would take a couple weeks to get reasonably familiar with the basics of OSX and my new development toolset, and then I would be on my way to improved productivity. The MacBook would also be a nice reward for a job well done, though I don't feel the need for any additional motivation.
The upside to buying the MacBook today is that I can start getting familiar with it through my personal use of the application. I can begin browsing the web and other such nonsense to get accustomed to my new world. This introduces some downsides. I'm sure I'll have to spend time learning how to connect the thing to the network, which could lead to lost productivity if OSX is not as easy as I imagine. I also will have a strong urge to start editing our home movies, and if iFilm is as fun to use as I hope it is, well, you can see where I could lose some time. And of course there is the inevitable urge to download a massive quantity of apps that look so cool on the Mac even if they are unnecessary (to me).
Ignoring the downsides, I ordered anyway. My choice was made and there was no better time. Let the conversion begin!


" Welcome Back ": PAUL ATANGA NJI "I AM PRESIDENT PAUL BIYA WARRIOR. WE WILL CONTINUE THIS FIGHT"
PAUL ATANGA NJI "I AM PRESIDENT PAUL BIYA WARRIOR. WE WILL CONTINUE THIS FIGHT"
The Minister of the Territorial Administration was since Monday, February 4, in Ngaoundéré on the scene of the operations of the taking of hostages, on the instructions of the President of the Republic, Paul Biya.
Paul Atanga Nji was sent by the President of the Republic in this region of Cameroon water tower, to provide comfort to the victims of kidnapping for ransom. A dirty job that has been there for several years.
It was also a question for the Minister Paul Antanga Nji to reiterate the determination of the government to wring the neck to this great plague, following the multiple complaints of the populations, in particular the breeders, 130 elements of the polyvalent intervention group had been deployed in this part of the country on 30 January 2019.
Between 2015 and 2018, more than 1.2 billion ransoms paid by the populations, 8000 stolen oxen, about thirty people kidnapped.
The Minister of Territorial Administration Paul Atanga Nji thus closed his visit to this region with a large ceremony organized in the courtyard of the Palace of Lamido Ngaoundere. Mohmadou Issa Hayatou.
He received the encouragement and gifts of Muslim dignitaries. "I take it wholeheartedly saying that I am the warrior of President Paul Biya. I will put myself behind the head of state and we will continue this fight for peace and national unity, for the living together and for the stability of Cameroon. I will make good use of it behind President Paul Biya, "said the minister.


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Luehdorfia , è un genere di Lepidotteri appartenente alla famiglia Papilionidae.

Le quattro specie attualmente incluse nel taxon hanno tra loro rapporti filogenetici non ancora chiariti. Numerosi entomologi (in particolar modo giapponesi, vedi bibliografia) hanno effettuato svariate analisi sulla morfologia, sui genitali e sul DNA mitocondriale delle specie, avanzando negli anni ricostruzioni non sempre concordanti. Il genere si è probabilmente diffuso anche nelle isole del Giappone partendo da un precedente areale continentale.

Alimentazione
Le larve si nutrono su foglie di piante appartenenti al genere Asarum (Aristolochiaceae).

Distribuzione e habitat
Nel loro insieme il genere presenta un areale localizzato in Estremo Oriente e comprendente la Russia orientale, la Corea, la Cina, il Giappone, Taiwan ed altri arcipelaghi minori del Pacifico.

Tassonomia
Il genere comprende quattro specie:
 Luehdorfia chinensis
 Luehdorfia japonica
 Luehdorfia puziloi
 Luehdorfia taibai

Bibliografia

 Aoyama, J., 1994 - Phylogeny of genus Luehdorfia. Konchu to Shizen 29: 8-15.
 Chou Io (Ed.); Monographia Rhopalocerum Sinensium, 1-2
 Crüger, C., 1878 - Ueber Schmetterlinge von Wladiwostok. Verh. Ver. naturw. Unterhalt. Hamburg 3: 128-133.
 Erschoff, 1872 - Diagnoses de quelques espèces nouvelles de Lépidoptères appartenat à la faune de la Russiae Asiatique Horae Soc. Entomol. Ross. 8 (4): 315-318, pl. 8
 Hemming, A.F., 1967 - The generic names of the butterflies and their type-species (Lepidoptera: Rhopalocera). Bull. Br. Mus. Nat. Hist. Ent. Suppl. 9: 509 pp.
 Hiura, I., 1978 - Where From Originate Butterflies. 230 pp., Soju Shobo, Tokyo.
 Igarashi, S., 2003 - Life history of Bhutanitis mansfieldi in comparison with those of related species. Butterflies (Publication of the Butterfly Society of Japan), 35:20-39.
 Ishizuka, Y., 1980 - The study of relationships of the genus Luehdorfia. Konchu to Shizen 15: 13-17.
 Ishizuka, Y., 1991 - The study of relationships of the genus Luehdorfia. Konchu to Shizen 26: 23-29.
 Kato, T., 1998 - A phylogeny for four species of the genus Luehdorfia (Lepidopetra, Papilionidae) based on the morphological characters of the genitalia. Transactions of the Lepidopterists' Society of Japan 49: 93-103.

 Makita, H., Shinkawa, T., Kazumasa, O., Kondo, A., Nakazawa, T., 2000 - Phylogeny of Luehdorfia butterflies inferred from mitochondrial ND5 gene sequences. Entomological Science 3: 321-329.
 Matsumoto, K., 1989 - Effects of aggregation on the survival and development on different host plants in a papilionid butterfly, Luehdorfia japonica Leech. Jpn. J. ent. 57: 853-860.
 Matsumoto, K., Ito, F., Tsubaki, Y., 1993 - Egg cluster size variation in relation to the larval food abundance in Luehdorfia puziloi (Lepidoptera: Papilionidae). Researches on Population Ecology 35: 325-333.
 Matsumura, T., Usami, S.I., Ueda, S., Itino, T., Ito, T., Xing, L.I. 2005 - Phylogenetic positions of Luehdorfia chinensis huashanensis Lee (Lepidoptera, Papilionidae) inferred from mitochondrial gene sequence analyses. Trans. Lipid. Soc. Japan 56: 333-341.
 Nazari, V., Zakharov, E.V., Sperling, F.A.H., 2007 - Phylogeny, historical biogeography, and taxonomic ranking of Parnassiinae (Lepidoptera, Papilionidae) based on morphology and seven genes. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 42: 131-156.
 Saigusa T., 1973 - A phylogeny of the genus Luehdorfia. Konchû-to-Shizen 8: 5-18.

 Shinkawa, T., 1991 - The study of relations between genus Luehdorfia. Konchu to Shizen 16: 11-20.
 Smart, Paul, 1976 - The Illustrated Encyclopedia of the Butterfly World; ISBN 0-600-31381-6

 Takahashi, A., 1973 - The theory of distribution "Luehdorfia japonica". Konchu to Shizen 8: 2-7.
 Tuzov, Bogdanov, Devyatkin, Kaabak, Korolev, Murzin, Samodurov, Tarasov, 1997 - Guide to the Butterflies of Russia and adjacent territories; Hesperiidae, Papilionidae, Pieridae, Satyridae; Volume 1
 Watanabe, Y., 1996 - Phylogenetic classification. In: Watanabe, Y. (ed.), Monograph of Luehdorfia Butterflies: 145-150. Hokkaido University Press, Hokkaido.
 Yashima, J., Ozone, T., Nishida, S., 1999 - A data on relationship of four species in the genus Luehdorfia. Gekken-Mushi 337: 27-34.

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A woman's suffered minor injuries as a result.
A woman's suffered minor injuries after a car ended up on its roof in Brimington earlier this morning.
Police attended the scene at around ten past nine.
Firefighters from Dronfield and South Yorkshire also attended the scene.


These lettuce wraps are a perfect summer dinner, or make ahead on Sunday and enjoy them for lunch throughout the week.
In medium bowl, mix YQ, cumin, coriander and salt. Stir in chicken.
To serve, spoon slightly less than 1/4 cup chicken mixture on each lettuce leaf. Top with carrots, green onions, radishes and cilantro. Serve with lime wedges.
We used rotisserie chicken for this recipe, but any cooked chicken or even turkey will work fine.
Bibb lettuce is also sold under the name Boston or butter lettuce. Its tender leaves work great for lettuce wraps.
If making ahead, make the chicken mixture, and cut the vegetables; refrigerate separately. Assemble just before serving.


Weekend brunch is extra special with these Coffee Muffins with Nutella Ganache. Ready in 30 minutes, chocolate and coffee come together in these dense, but moist mocha muffins, topped with a luscious Nutella ganache!
These Coffee Muffins are so good for weekends when you have a little more time to prep brunch, but you still don't want to dedicate a whole morning to anything complicated. You can make a batch of these muffins in just over 30 minutes.
From the time you measure the first ingredient, to the time you take them out of the oven, warm and fresh, you only need about a half hour. You'll be hard-pressed to find another baked good recipe that you can complete in that timeframe.
These are strong with coffee, and pretty loaded up with mini semi-sweet chocolate chips. The coffee flavor is nicely magnified and accentuated by the chocolate.
I absolutely love mini semi-sweet chocolate chips – they're my favorite baking chip, for sure. I love how they disappear into baked goods, melting and seeping into crevices, and every single bite has melted chocolate throughout. You can cover so much ground with mini chocolate chips.
The crumbs are so soft in these muffins that they basically melt in your mouth. These are dense and hearty muffins, but the crumbs are unbelievably moist.
Better still, these Coffee Muffins are bathed in Nutella ganache. Made in the microwave in seconds, and spooned over the top of the muffins. It was a nice touch because it gave these muffins a hazelnut latte-type vibe, and tied all the flavors together.
I hate to always use the word "rich" to describe food, even when it applies, so I was checking Thesaurus.com, and how about calling these full-bodied?? These are rich and full-bodied muffins! Lol. They really are delightfully rich. One muffin is completely satisfying. Moist, sweet, and full-bodied!
Since I'm off work today for the holiday (yay!), these Coffee Muffins are on the agenda for the morning!
Chocolate and coffee come together in these dense, but moist mocha muffins, with a luscious Nutella ganache glaze!
In a large bowl, combine flour, sugar, baking powder, cinnamon, and salt.
In a medium bowl, whisk together milk, instant coffee, butter, egg, and vanilla.
Line regular-sized muffin cups with paper liners. Fill 2/3-full.
Bake at 375 degrees for 15-20 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted near the center comes out clean.
In a small microwave-safe bowl, pour heavy cream over Nutella.
Heat for 30 seconds, stir, and continue heating at 15-second intervals until mixture is smooth.
Muffins adapted from Taste of Home.
Holy cow…that ganache!!! These look amazing, Sarah!
I love them! Thank you so much, friend!


The Obama administration has failed in gun control because it has failed to enforce existing gun laws.
In 2007, candidate Barack Obama said, "We know what to do. We've got to enforce the gun laws that are on the books." He also alluded to cracking down on straw man purchasers and "unscrupulous gun dealers." He continued to reiterate this view on the campaign trail in 2008, including calls for stronger background checks.
When President Obama addressed the people of Newtown, he asked, "can we honestly say that we're doing enough?" and answered, "If we're honest with ourselves, the answer's no. We're not doing enough," adding, "surely we can do better than this ... if there's even one step we can take to save another [life] … then surely we have an obligation to try."
But President Obama has apparently forgotten the words of candidate Obama. President Obama would have to look no further than a mirror to see who is responsible for not doing "better than this." Strong enforcement of existing gun laws has not been a priority. CNN's John Avlon writes, "before the Newtown shootings, the Obama administration had not made enforcement of existing guns laws a political or policy priority" and cites Arkadi Gerney, an adviser to New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg on illegal guns from 2006-11 who said, "during the Clinton administration there were efforts to fully enforce the gun laws we have."
Ensuring, for example, that NICS has the mental health data that includes documentation of whether an individual has been involuntarily committed, has strong bipartisan support. Yet state reporting of such data has a long way to go; 19 states have provided fewer than 100 records of individuals disqualified on mental health grounds since the implementation of NICS in the early 1990s. This should be a "no-brainer." A poll released in January 2010 showed 90% of gun owners' support addressing such gaps. This is a prime example of not enforcing the existing laws, which candidate Obama said we need to do. This is where the administration is failing to "do enough."
The Obama Administration Justice Department is also not strongly enforcing prosecutions of people who falsify information on their gun background checks. The FBI reported 71,000 instances of people lying on their background checks to buy guns in 2009. But the Justice Department prosecuted a mere 77 cases, or a fraction of 1%.
There's no good reason to not enforce this law and prosecute violators. This also has strong support, with 99% of non-NRA member gun owners and 95% of NRA members expressing support for punishing traffickers to the full extent of the law. This is another area where the Obama Administration can "do better."
The irony is that gun rights advocates have argued for years that it's not that more gun laws are needed, but that the existing laws need to be better enforced. Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) said, "gun-rights activists [have] been saying for years and years [that] the existing laws should be enforced more effectively and proactively." In line with that, the NRA backed the 2007 NICS Improvement Amendments Act that President Bush signed into law.
Another area the Obama administration could enforce existing laws is prosecuting straw man purchases and illegal gun trafficking. The FBI states gangs engage in illegal guns trafficking (as well as narcotics). The ATF defines straw man as using another person to acquire a firearm specifically when the end user is prohibited from acquiring the firearm. "That is to say, the actual purchaser is a felon or is within one of the other prohibited categories of persons who may not lawfully acquire firearms." The straw purchaser violates federal law by making false statements on Form 4473.
Enforcing these existing laws is "common sense" and should be the "common sense" measures pursued, but President Obama has failed to take action. As noted in my previous article, rifles – which include bolt-action, semi-automatic, and so-called "assault rifles" - account for roughly 350 homicides that last few reported years (2.55-2.75% of homicides). Handguns account for nearly half of all homicides, or 6,009 out of 12,996 in 2010 (46%)and 6,501 out of 13,752 in 2009 (47%). Note that when candidate Obama referenced enforcing the current laws, he mentioned both mass shootings like Virginia Tech (in which the shooter was diagnosed with mental illness, but this information was not put into NICS in a timely manner, thereby allowing the shooter to buy guns legally) and less-sensational street crime, citing children "gunned down" in Chicago.
President Obama addressing the people of Newtown said, "are we really prepared to say that we're powerless in the face of such carnage?" President Obama is not in fact powerless to make enforcement a priority. If he is serious about reducing crime, homicides and the mentally ill from obtaining weapons, then enforcement of these laws should be a priority.


When it comes to a unique mix of articles, The Strand has it, from a series that profiles the great detectives of our time (including Campion, Poirot, and the non-fictional Vidocq), to a look at mysteries on trains, to an exploration of Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca.
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Ian Bell explores the long relationship between mysteries and the railway. From Murder on the Orient Express to The Lady Vanishes, crime and intrigue on trains have always been a good mix.
Professor Loring Silet looks at Patricia Highsmith, the author of The Talented Mr. Ripley.
A profile of the thief with white gloves, the creation of E.W. Hornung, who has endeared himself to fans for almost a century.
An in-depth look at perhaps Daphne Du Muarier's finest novel, Rebecca, which was filmed in 1940 by Alfred Hitchcock.
A look at Dorothy Sayers' classic character, one of the archetypal British gentleman detectives.
In this article, Peter Haining examines the legacy of Belgian author Georges Simenon's classic fictional detective Jules Maigret.
Mike Ashley looks at the life of Vidocq, a thief turned turned detective who was to prove the inspiration for many great fictional detectives.
John Peterson profiles G.K. Chestertons cherubic priest-detective Father Brown.
Margery Allingham's detective Albert Campion is profiled by mystery writer Mike Ripley, who looks at Campion, his manservant Lugg, and their creator.
Mike Bowen delves behind the egg-shaped head of our favorite little Belgian detective to find out what makes his little grey cells never tire of solving cases!
I have recently been re-reading the Father Brown stories, which I much enjoyed when young but this time round found didactic and repetitive.


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