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Welcome ›
Staff ›
Mr. Eric Athenot
Vice-President for International Relations (UPEC)
Eric Athenot is a professor of American literature in the Language, Literature, and Humanities Department as well as a member of IMAGER, where he leads the Text, Images and Sounds (TIES) research group. Athenot's work focuses essentially on American poetry, more specifically on Robert Lowell, the topic of his doctoral thesis, and Walt Whitman. He is particularly interested in writing about the self and in the performative strategies adopted by modern poetry.
Ms. Maëlle Flot
Head of office for International Affairs (UPEC)
Maëlle Flot graduated from CELSA (School of Information and communication advanced studies) of Paris 4 Sorbonne and Trinity College (Dublin) in history and international relations. Before joining UPEC, Maëlle Flot was chief editor of EducPros.fr, an information website for higher education professionals that she created in 2008 at l'Etudiant (Express Roularta Group). She has worked with organizations such as AUF (Francophone university association), EUA (European university association) and the European commission in Brussels.
Summer School Team
A young and dynamic staff works during the summer to make the Summer School an experience for a lifetime.
Come back in July to meet UPEC students who will be happy to welcome UPEC Summer School students.
UPEC Summer School team will be happy to answer all your questions !
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Relatives: 4-year-old boy shot himself to death
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Garrion Glover | Image courtesy of the family
EAST CHICAGO, Ind. (AP) - A 4-year-old boy accidentally shot and killed himself early Thursday after finding a gun in his northwestern Indiana home while everyone else was asleep, his grandmother said.
Garrion Glover Jr., who would have turned 5 next week, was pronounced dead at a hospital in East Chicago about 3 a.m., according to the Lake County Coroner's Office.
Police said the boy's mother was asleep in her bedroom with her boyfriend when they heard the gunshot. She found her son lying on the floor in the living room, near a couch where Garrion's uncle had been sleeping. It's unclear who owned the gun. East Chicago police haven't released details of the circumstances of the shooting.
Garrison's grandmother, LaToya Glover, told WLS-TV that her grandson's death could have been prevented.
"They were all asleep and he got hold of a gun and he shot himself, fatally shot himself," she said. "I was angry because first and foremost, if there's a handgun on the premises, it should be put away."
Glover said the child's father, Garrion Glover Sr., was fatally shot at the same apartment complex in 2014, when the boy was almost 2. She noted that many residents of the complex own guns for protection.
Kenny Trout, a cousin of the boy, said the child may have thought the weapon was a toy.
"Garrion, he was a bright kid. He liked to play the video games, he liked to play with toy guns, and he loved his family," Trout told radio station WBBM.
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Q: R Shiny dataTableOutput not displaying Brushed Points I'm developing an R Shiny dashboard using the Iris data in the ggplot2 dataset.
It has three main components, a sidebar panel to select the variables to display in the plot, a ggplot with brushed points and a datatable below which shows the data of the brushed points.
Everything works perfectly except the datatable does not seem to select the data points on the table. From what I can tell it has something to do with the line output$plot_brushed_points in the server.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
library(shiny)
library(ggplot2)

useri <- shinyUI(pageWithSidebar(
headerPanel("Reactive Plot"),
sidebarPanel(
selectInput('x','X-Axis',names(iris)),
selectInput('y','Y-Axis',names(iris)),
selectInput('color','Color',c('None',names(iris[5])))),
mainPanel(uiOutput("plotui"),dataTableOutput("plot_brushed_points"))))

serveri <- shinyServer(function(input,output) {
output$plot <- renderPlot({
p <- ggplot(iris,aes_string(x=input$x, y=input$y))+geom_point()+theme_bw()
if(input$color != 'None')
  p <- p + aes_string(color=input$color)
print(p)
})
output$plotui <- renderUI(plotOutput("plot",brush = brushOpts("plot_brush")))
output$plot_brushed_points <- renderDataTable(brushedPoints(iris,input$plot_brush,input$x,input$y), options=list(searching=FALSE, paging = FALSE))
})

shinyApp(useri, serveri)

I should note that the data table displays and you can see it refresh, it just doesn't fill with any data.
EDIT
The script above has a feature where it displays all the values in the data table if and only if you select the whole area of the plot.

A: I was having the exact same issue, except I couldn't get the output to render even when all points were selected:
output$dt <- renderDT(
  expr = brushedPoints(acled_selected(), input$mapbrush),
  options = list(lengthChange = FALSE, rownames=FALSE)
  )

I found a solution here:
R Shiny does not display the output data table
This seems to work for me:
  brushd <- reactive({
    user_brush <- input$mapbrush
    brushedPoints(acled_selected(), user_brush, xvar = "LONGITUDE", yvar =
"LATITUDE")
    })

  output$dt<-DT::renderDataTable({DT::datatable(brushd())})

A: I had a similar problem. I fixed it eventually (after reading this post: https://github.com/rstudio/shiny/issues/998)  by NOT calling print on the plot, just returning it. So:
output$plot <- renderPlot({
p <- ggplot(iris,aes_string(x=input$x, y=input$y))+geom_point()+theme_bw()
if(input$color != 'None')
p <- p + aes_string(color=input$color)
#print (p)
p
})

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Not Fake News: There Really Are Articles of Impeachment Against Donald Trump
In May Representative Al Greene of Texas appeared on the floor of the House of Representatives to ask his colleagues to begin impeachment proceedings against President Trump for obstruction of justice. Greene suggested that the firing of FBI Director James Comey was enough to begin the process. As Greene said:
"For those who do not know, impeachment does not mean that the President would be found guilty. It simply means that the House of Representatives will bring charges against the President. It's similar to an indictment but not quite the same thing."
Representative Greene received death threats after his speech. Capitol Police are investigating.
Representative Brad Sherman of California has drafted a resolution calling for impeachment.
Representative Greene's speech on the House floor can be found here.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/06/politics/al-green-trump-impeachment-plan/index.html
According to Newsweek, bookmakers placed Trump's odds of completing his first term at 50-50.
The Newsweek article can be seen here.
http://www.newsweek.com/trump-impeachment-articles-impeach-green-614841
An article in Roll Call from June 12 describes Representative Sherman's letter to his colleagues, arguing that Trump obstructed justice by firing Comey to try and hinder the investigation into former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn. That article can be found here.
http://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/democratic-rep-sherman-files-article-of-impeachment-against-trump
Representative Sherman's draft resolution can be seen here.


Breaded chicken breast chunks, fully cooked and glazed with sweet bourbon sauce, packed in a 3.5 pund resealable bag. Frozen.
•et; Bake on middle over rack for 23 to 25 minutes, or until heated through. Internal temperature should reach 150°F to 160°F.
•et; Turn pieces halfway through heating time.
•et; Place frozen pieces in single layer on a microwave-safe plate.
•et; Heat, uncovered on HIGH for 2-1/2 to 3-1/2 minutes turning halfway through heating time.
•et; Let stand 1-2 minutes before serving.


Whitney Allen is one of only three known people living in Los Angeles who was actually BORN here. Whitney knew she wanted to be in radio when she was 5 years old, that dream was almost sidetracked by a longing to pursue veterinary medicine but she discovered that the whole "math, biology thing was not in my genetic make-up–but talking was".
Whitney ended up getting that very air shift at KATA and stayed in Eureka for 2 years, "'til the rain got to me". Then it was off to San Diego California where she worked at Top 40 KS-103, Country's Q105 and held down the nights at the station that went from worst to first in less than three months, KKLQ, Q-106.
"Right after I bought a house in San Diego I got a call from the legendary Scott Shannon who was starting up Pirate Radio in Los Angeles". He wanted Whitney to anchor the midday show. San Diego was a hard place to leave, but "Los Angeles was my hometown and I always wanted to make it there". She did.
Whitney hosted the Nationally syndicated program "After MidNite Weekends with Whitney Allen", which ran overnights on over 200 stations nationwide for 8 years. She was also Blair Garners exclusive fill in host for After MidNite.
Whitney is thrilled to headline her very own show. "but I couldn't do this without a great team behind me, The Big Time Saturday Night is a dream come true".
When not working she loves hiking, talking, napping, Mexico, Survivor and hanging out with her dogs Mattie and Flue, and her too many cats. Oh, and she promises she'll never sound like a girl who wants to steal your boyfriend. She already has one of those. She hangs out with him a lot too.


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A birthday planner sheet will accompany each family to help coordinated decorations, food, & cake. Instructor will help set-up, clean-up & assist in any way.
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Q: input type="number" and IE10+ I'm trying to do Javascript client-side validation of a number field using an HTML5 <input type="number"> element. There is also server-side validation, so let's not start a rant about that...  ;)
I wish to provide three status levels of validation: Green for a valid number within the defined range, Yellow for an out-of-range number or an empty field, and Red for non-numeric input.
My problem is that IE11 (and, I believe, IE10) seem to return a blank .value property for non-numeric input. That is, if I type abc into the box, .value is "". That prevents me distinguishing Yellow (blank) from Red (garbage).
I'm aware of the existence of the new .valueAsNumber property, but that does not completely help me as I cannot distinguish between empty on other browsers and non-numeric on IE10/11 (.value is empty, .valueAsNumber is NaN).
Has anyone solved this problem? I don't want to resort to tracking keypresses, and I want to support older browsers (back to IE8) that revert to type="text" and do not have .valueAsNumber. Thanks in advance...
Edit: just to clarify (hopefully), my issue is that the output of .value and .valueAsNumber in IE10/11 does not allow me to distinguish between no input and  non-numeric input. I would like to be able to distinguish these two cases without browser-sniffing and falling back to type="text".

A: Could you not just assign a sensible default value (zero?) to your input class? Then you wouldn't need to make the distinction in your code in the first place?
Pragmatism always trumps ingenuity in my book ;)

A: Go ahead and use valueAsNumber in browsers that support it.
var
  coerced,
  value,
  input = yourInput;

if(typeof input.valueAsNumber !== "undefined") {
   value = (isNaN(input.valueAsNumber)) ? "dummystring" : input.valueAsNumber;
} else {
   value = input.value;
}

if(typeof input.value === "string") {
 //non-numeric
} else {
 coerced = +input.value;
 //do validation on coerced - it is now a number
}

Browsers that support valueAsNumber, they also support input[type=number], so this will solve your problem.


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Q: How to get the filepath when using DotLiquid Include Method? I was create Include method, like below code.
the products.liquid like below
{% include product-list-item %}

The include method like below:
public class IncludeFileSystem : IFileSystem
{
    public string ReadTemplateFile(Context context, string templateName)
    {
        string themesLocalPath = "";
        var templatePath = LiquidTemplateHelper.ResolveTemplatePath(templateName, themesLocalPath);
        return LiquidTemplateHelper.ReadTemplateByPath(templatePath);
    }
}

but for different users, they load different "product-list-item" from the file.
How to set the get and set the "themesLocalPath" values?

A: There are two ways to use a file system:

*

*If you want to set it globally, set Template.FileSystem

*If you want to set it per-render, set renderParameters.Registers["file_system"] in your Template.Render call. That allows you, for example, to create a difference instance of your custom file system per user.


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Yesterday saw the opening of a major new retrospective exhibition by the much revered YBA, Gillian Wearing. The Turner Prize winner's show at the Whitechapel Gallery features mixed media images and video content of the people of Britain. Drawn from the techniques of reality TV, fly-on-the-wall documentaries and theatre, Wearing's work explores the relationship between our public and private personas.
As always, Wearing presents an intimate view into her own public and private lives. The exhibition opens with her 1994 work 'Dancing in Peckham', a film of the artist dancing in a South London with a combination of Nirvana rocking out to some very interesting disco moves. Each public presentation of the artist reveals herself in a different guise. Her exploration of anonymity in the public eye is interesting. The themes of performance and liberation through disguise continue throughout the exhibition. Wearing encourages her public portraits to dress up or take on a persona in a bid to facilitate freedom in a very public setting.
Highlights include Wearing's 1992 series 'Signs that what you want them to say, and not Signs that say what someone else wants you to say'. The piece features members of the public, holding placards revealing private facts and thoughts about their inner self. The exhibition, although comprised of different themes and techniques, presents a survey of Britain today. Often focused on the dispossessed or traumatised, Wearing presents a political message. Her ability to capture what lurks beneath the public exterior unearths the extraordinary in us all.
Gillian Wearing is at the Whitechapel Gallery now till 15 June.


No one still uses email do they? It's soooo last century. Isn't everyone on Facebook or Twitter or whatever the new new thing is? Well, no. Email is still important. At a global scale its proliferation is astounding.
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Why the US internet is so slow
At&t is finally taking the steps to address the speed issues plaguing some US internet service providers.
The company on Monday announced a new feature that allows customers to connect their home internet service to their smartphones and tablets.
The feature works on AT&t's new wireless broadband service, called Frontier, as well as T-Mobile's T-1.
AT&T also announced that it will launch the free Hotspot box.
The Hotspot Box lets users download content and movies from AT&ts streaming video app and other content on the internet.
The free Hotspots can be used for streaming video from AT+TV or T-Mobiles to a mobile device, as long as it has access to the internet and has at least a 1.5GHz processor.
At&ts new Hotspot feature will also let users access a number of other content from AT's video service including HBO, Showtime, Hulu, Disney, CNN, HBO Go, Netflix, and the ESPN app.
"We're proud to bring this new Hotspots to AT&Ts customers, who can now access more than a dozen different video content and applications, including the HBO Go mobile app, Showtime streaming, Hulu streaming, ESPN streaming, HBO Now mobile and the popular Disney app," AT&tz said in a statement.
AT+T and T-mobile will work together to offer the Hotspot option to Frontier customers.
"This will help AT& T reach more of its customers, including millennials, in a way that helps to make their life easier and provides them with an even better experience," AT+Tech Chief Financial Officer Dave Reisner said in the statement.
"While we understand that many of our customers are already paying a premium for unlimited data, we are proud of AT& ts efforts to bring these Hotspot boxes to the Frontier customers."
AT& ts first Hotspot device is a wireless hotspot box that connects to an AT&gta router that provides the hotspot service.
AT & ts new Hotspokes can be plugged into a TV or projector to stream video.
AT and T& t s newest hotspots have more processing power than previous models, which allows them to handle a wider variety of content.
AT's new hotspots are not available in the US yet, but AT&& t will begin selling them in Europe in the coming months.
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Q: tinyMCE alert what you just wrote In the tinyMCE init editor,
How can i in setup do:
      ed.onKeyDown.add(function (ed, evt) {
         // alert the character you just typed
      });

Say if you type "a" a alert should come up with "a"

A: The evt.keyCode property contains the code of the pressed key, so you can do this:
alert(String.fromCharCode(evt.keyCode));

Note, however, that this will also trigger an alert when a special key is pressed (e.g. shift), so you might want to prevent that by checking other properties of the evt object (which is an instance of DOM Event). See the documentation for keyboard event objects at https://developer.mozilla.org/en/DOM/KeyboardEvent.
Edit: Use onKeyPress instead of onKeyDown, as onKeyDown might return incorrect key codes in some browsers.


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So far I really like the Sugar Lash Pro Lash Lifting products. I purchased the advanced kit. The cleanser and primer caused irritation on my models eyelids, and didn't seem to really help the quality of the lift. Also the nourishing oil packets seem to hold quite a bit more product than is needed for one service. However I don't know how to safely store the rest for future use. So I feel like I am wasting product :( The lashes I have done have curled very nicely, and I really like how there is no glue residue left after the treatment. Just soft, clean, curled lashes!
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package profile

import (
	"io"
	"time"

	"github.com/buptmiao/microservice-app/proto/profile"
	"github.com/buptmiao/microservice-app/util"
	"github.com/go-kit/kit/circuitbreaker"
	"github.com/go-kit/kit/endpoint"
	"github.com/go-kit/kit/log"
	"github.com/go-kit/kit/ratelimit"
	"github.com/go-kit/kit/sd"
	"github.com/go-kit/kit/sd/etcd"
	"github.com/go-kit/kit/sd/lb"
	"github.com/go-kit/kit/tracing/opentracing"
	grpctransport "github.com/go-kit/kit/transport/grpc"
	stdopentracing "github.com/opentracing/opentracing-go"
	"github.com/sony/gobreaker"
	"golang.org/x/net/context"
	"golang.org/x/time/rate"
	"google.golang.org/grpc"
)

var profileCli profile.ProfileClient
var profileInstancer *etcd.Instancer

func Init(conn *grpc.ClientConn, tracer stdopentracing.Tracer, logger log.Logger) {
	profileCli = NewProfileClient(conn, tracer, logger)
}

func InitWithSD(sdClient etcd.Client, tracer stdopentracing.Tracer, logger log.Logger) {
	profileCli = NewProfileClientWithSD(sdClient, tracer, logger)
	profileInstancer, _ = etcd.NewInstancer(sdClient, "prifileSD", logger)
}

func GetClient() profile.ProfileClient {
	if profileCli == nil {
		panic("profile client is not be initialized!")
	}
	return profileCli
}

type ProfileClient struct {
	GetProfileEndpoint endpoint.Endpoint
}

func (p *ProfileClient) GetProfile(ctx context.Context, in *profile.GetProfileRequest, opts ...grpc.CallOption) (*profile.GetProfileResponse, error) {
	resp, err := p.GetProfileEndpoint(ctx, in)
	if err != nil {
		return nil, err
	}
	return resp.(*profile.GetProfileResponse), nil
}

func NewProfileClient(conn *grpc.ClientConn, tracer stdopentracing.Tracer, logger log.Logger) profile.ProfileClient {
	limiter := ratelimit.NewDelayingLimiter(rate.NewLimiter(rate.Every(time.Second), 1000))

	var getProfileEndpoint endpoint.Endpoint
	{
		getProfileEndpoint = grpctransport.NewClient(
			conn,
			"profile.Profile",
			"GetProfile",
			util.DummyEncode,
			util.DummyDecode,
			profile.GetProfileResponse{},
			grpctransport.ClientBefore(opentracing.ContextToGRPC(tracer, logger)),
		).Endpoint()
		getProfileEndpoint = opentracing.TraceClient(tracer, "GetProfile")(getProfileEndpoint)
		getProfileEndpoint = limiter(getProfileEndpoint)
		getProfileEndpoint = circuitbreaker.Gobreaker(gobreaker.NewCircuitBreaker(gobreaker.Settings{
			Name:    "GetProfile",
			Timeout: 5 * time.Second,
		}))(getProfileEndpoint)
	}

	return &ProfileClient{
		GetProfileEndpoint: getProfileEndpoint,
	}
}

func MakeGetProfileEndpoint(f profile.ProfileClient) endpoint.Endpoint {
	return f.(*ProfileClient).GetProfileEndpoint
}

func NewProfileClientWithSD(sdClient etcd.Client, tracer stdopentracing.Tracer, logger log.Logger) profile.ProfileClient {
	res := &ProfileClient{}

	factory := ProfileFactory(MakeGetProfileEndpoint, tracer, logger)
	endpointer := sd.NewEndpointer(profileInstancer, factory, logger)
	balancer := lb.NewRoundRobin(endpointer)
	retry := lb.Retry(3, time.Second, balancer)
	res.GetProfileEndpoint = retry

	return res
}

// Todo: use connect pool, and reference counting to one connection.
func ProfileFactory(makeEndpoint func(f profile.ProfileClient) endpoint.Endpoint, tracer stdopentracing.Tracer, logger log.Logger) sd.Factory {
	return func(instance string) (endpoint.Endpoint, io.Closer, error) {
		conn, err := grpc.Dial(instance, grpc.WithInsecure())
		if err != nil {
			return nil, nil, err
		}
		service := NewProfileClient(conn, tracer, logger)
		endpoint := makeEndpoint(service)

		return endpoint, conn, nil
	}
}

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Hi, I did a 24h urine test and received my results, will you be able to explain them to me?
OK. What is the results writing?
I have protein and creatine in my urine. Protein is 170mg/day.
It is too much. What is your creatinine?
Do you have diabetes, high blood pressure, or other problem? All these factors can induce kidney problem.
I was admitted to hospital 2 weeks ago due to blood pressure of 210/95, but was very sick with flu and then ended up at a cardiologist and they started doing tests of which the 24h urine test was one.
OK, I see. The uncontrolled blood pressure will injure the kidney function, please make it under the normal range as possible as you can. Then are you taking any treatments now?
The cardiologist referred me no to a nephrologist and then I got scared because no one is telling me what is going on.
OK, I see. Please send your medical reports to me and then I will see what is your current physical situations. Based on this, I will give you the some suggestion about the diets and treatments.
I was using steriods for bodybuilding for quite a while and used a lot of protein shakes. From the results I sent you, should I be concerned?
Yes. I suggest you do not take too much protein since protein intakes can add the burden of the kidney and make the kidney being worse. The steriods are used to help you alleviate the symptoms, but they do not work on your kidneys. If you want to improve your kidney function, you can choose Chinese medicines.
Can I know you e-mail address for me to send the details about it?
OK. Please pay attention to checking your email!


Previous studies have examined various factors that influence the implementation of the Last Planner System (LPS) in construction projects. However, there is limited documented evidence on the influence of procurement methods on the implementation of the LPS. The aim of this study, therefore; is to understand the influence of some selected procurement methods on the implementation of the LPS using case study approach. Three in-depth case studies were conducted on building and highways projects in the UK. The projects were managed with the LPS principles with dissimilar procurement methods. In addition to document analysis and physical observation, 28 in-depth-interviews were conducted. The investigation shows that the prevailing traditional mindset exhibited by the designers in the traditional design bid build (DBB) influences the quality of promises and commitments that could be made during the lookahead planning. From the study, it seems no single procurement method is a sure way to the full application of the LPS process on a project. The study observes that irrespective of the procurement route used, a mindset change towards collaboration among the different stakeholders on the project is fundamental to successful LPS implementation. For instance, on projects where DBB was used and the subcontractors were in framework agreement, the LPS implementation worked well among the subcontractors. The study recommends that the procurement approach to be used on LPS projects should not be too firm, but lithe enough to integrate collaborative working among the different stakeholders on the project for a smooth workflow.


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The Paris Agreement Five Years On
12 December 2020 marks the fifth anniversary of the adoption of the Paris Agreement under the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). That also means that signatory states have to submit updated and more ambitious greenhouse gas reduction pledges: the nationally determined contribution (NDC). Where are we at when it comes to fighting the climate crisis in a spirit of climate justice? How can we increase targets to remain below 2 degrees global warming and finds ways to achieve them in a socially just manner?
Five years later - Happy Birthday, Paris Agreement?
12 December 2020 will be the fifth anniversary of the adoption of the Paris Climate Agreement. This analysis provides important materials and pursues the questions: Where do we stand in dealing with the climate crisis? What false solutions must be avoided? And how can we push the urgently needed radical course change in pursuit of climate justice?
By Lili Fuhr, Linda Schneider , Liane Schalatek and Lisa Tostado
"Build Back Greener? "Biden's Plan for America's International Climate Commitment
"Build back better" has been Joe Biden's campaign promise. Climate policy is central to this, both in domestic and foreign policy. Ultimately, it is also a question of whether the Biden government can succeed in regaining lost credibility on the international stage.
By Liane Schalatek
Yes to delaying COP during a pandemic, no to delaying reduction goals
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At the start of winter I found myself sitting on the couch at home on a Friday evening with my plans up in the air after someone had bailed on a weekend adventure. My feet were still itchy for a mission. I wasn't in the mood to go solo but the thought of spending the weekend in town was even less appealing. Within a few minutes I had a ride to Lyell sorted and the keys to a car waiting for me in Golden Bay. I threw some gear together, boiled some eggs, lubed my chain and put some air in my tyres. Two and a half days later I had covered 250km and crawled into bed at home, still covered in mud, feeling satisfied after another great mountain biking adventure in my local national park.
It was after lunchtime when I finally pulled away from Lyell. I had loaded my mountain bike up with food and camping gear. As I pedalled through the beech forest with afternoon light streaming through, I listened to small streams trickling and fallen leaves crunching under my wheels. A fantail flitted around, eating small insects I'd stirred up.
I kept pedalling until I hit snow and the track was lined with icicles. The alpine zone is my favourite part on wilderness bike trips. In nice weather the horizon goes on forever and you get that sense of never-ending freedom. I stayed up there to savour the beginning of golden hour, my favourite time of day.
I sat on the tops and gazed out at the never-ending horizon. I'd been pondering many things on the ride but mostly I just enjoyed the moment, feeling the freedom and flow…the sheer pleasure of riding a bike.
I poked my head into Ghost Lake Hut quickly. The fire was cozy and a bunch of mountain bikers had settled in for the evening. Daylight was slipping away so I continued on, making it down The Staircase just before dark. Pink was starting to fill the sky, with snow-capped peaks in the distance.
I spent the night in Stern Valley. The next morning I slept in and rode out to Mokihinui. I waited two and a half hours on the side of the road trying to hitch a ride. About four cars stopped but none had room for bikes. I should have just ridden but I thought I'd get a lift! The evening ended with me sitting on the side of the road eating hot potato mash out of my Jetboil. I finally admitted defeat (my first ever failed hitch-hiking mission) and continued pedalling up the Panekire Bluff road in the dark. I rolled into Little Wanganui with a thin layer of ice on the road and the cold stinging my cheeks.
As I passed the pub in Little Wanganui I spontaneously decided to get a cozy cabin with a heater and settled in for a short sleep. The next day I continued riding to Karamea in time for second breakfast with a friend – two pieces of chocolate cake with cream and a cup of tea. It was around 11am by the time I finally hit the Heaphy Track.
The first section of the track is just a few metres back from the beach, winding its way between luscious Nikau Palms. The contrast from snow and icicles the day before was super cool. I felt right at home. I'd lived on the West Coast for a large chunk of my childhood and the wild beaches always meant freedom to me. The sound of the crashing waves and the salty sea breeze on my cheeks energised me as I pedalled.
I'd biked the Heaphy many times before. It never gets old. This time, once I left the beach behind at Heaphy Hut, I didn't stop at all. I was racing daylight.
I saw my first kiwi in the wild, darting down the track near Perry Saddle Hut just before nightfall. I made it out to Brown Hut (the road) a bit after dark and returned home to Nelson feeling tired but satisfied. Too sleepy to have a shower, I slipped into a sleeping bag liner under my duvet, still covered in mud.
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Q: Is this USB circuit with ESD done correctly? I am trying to make a breakout board with the ESP32-S3-WROOM-1 and wish to try out some of the USB-OTG examples. In the schematic of the chip I am using there only seems to be 2 capacitors tied to D+ and D- but I am not sure what the values need to be. I then turned to the schematic of my S3-WROOM-1 Devkit module and it only has these diodes tied to D+ and D-. I decided to try and implement it similarly for D+ and D- only as I don't intend powering OTG devices as mine are self-powered. I just wish to know if I did it correctly along with the layout of the pcb. If it will work with the capacitors only as well that would be fine as well and would just require the values as Im unsure.
ESD Diode
From S3 Datasheet:

From: S3 Devkit datasheet:

My versions:

A: Yes, it is correct. I built a similar one and it works very well

Link to the entire project, schematics, layout, etc:
https://github.com/crgarcia12/electronics-homeassistant-lightscontroll

Something you might consider

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*Using a usblc6 instead of individual diodes:
https://www.st.com/resource/en/datasheet/usblc6-2.pdf

*Double check if connecting the Shield to GND is what you want to do, specially considering you have an external source (is it floating GND?)
I usually do it using a very large resistor instead. This will allow voltage to match, but protect in case there is a spike or any differential. I believe the general recommendation is to not connect them at all, but since you have ESD to GND, it might be better to connect them using a resistor instead.

*Since you have space, you can add a resistor in series or a probe-point, to connect a logic analyser or an oscilloscope in case there are problems. This have been very useful to me.

*Make sure you read the ESP placement guidelines. For example, make a cut-out under the antenna if you can. If you cannot, do not place any copper under it in any layer (I can't see properly your picture, but I think you are even sending 3V under it)

*The capacitors have to be very small value. In all my tests it works fine without them
This is my ESP-32 S3 version (link):

And this my ESP-32 version, with individual diodes instead:

A: Regarding the USB shield, it is the first point of contact with the cable connector and serves as both a general cable shield and low-impedance path to ground for preliminary ESD discharge on connect.
Avoiding ground loops through the USB shroud (e.g. if bolted to a metal chassis, etc) is accomplished by connecting the low-impedance USB shield to board ground via parallel capacitor (commonly 4.7nF to 10nF) and resistor (100k-1M), which affords capacitor-coupled shielding and ESD spike discharge path, with the resistor affording a 'leaky' DC discharge path and avoiding low-impedance ground loop issues.
For small isolated boards with little fear of ground loops, it is advisable to connect the shield directly to board ground - ensuring that ESD has a preliminary path (i.e. "equipotential") to board ground before USB D+/D- connection is made, relieving stress on USB ESD protection diodes alone.


Back in NOLA (we used to live here) for the SEA meetings. My cab from the airport was old, blasted soul music, and going over a bump was like jumping onto an under-filled waterbed. Plus the cabbie seemed to have no idea that traffic on I-10 ALWAYS comes to a stop near the causeway and had to slam on the breaks leaving skid marks on the pavement. I felt like I'd never left.
Today, after a morning session, I walked down to Jackson Square with a friend, got a snack and sat beside the river and talked a while on a beautiful sunny day. I felt like I'd never left.
In many ways, New Orleans is a wonderful city.
I am a forward guidance skeptic. At heart, I'm an "expectations channel" skeptic. But, if the Fed is going to give forward guidance, having it be based on benchmarks rather than the calendar seems clearly better to me.
The idea is rather than saying, "rates at zero til 2015", to say "rates at zero til unemployment falls to X% or inflation rises to Y%".
Of course, picking X and Y is not an easy task. Bernanke might think X=7 and Y=2.5, while Krugman might be more of an X=4 and Y=10 kind of guy.
Charles Evans is given credit for pushing this path, and Janet Yellen, the Fed vice chair seems to be a recent convert.
Obama's re-election gives the Fed a lot more breathing room to experiment with these non-traditional policies, so I give Yellen political astuteness points for holding her fire until after the election.
I still don't see benchmark forward guidance as anything remotely resembling an effective medicine to cure the economy, but it is a better form of guidance than calendar guidance, even though all the caveats about time consistency, binding future Feds, and political pressure still apply equally.
Showing all the skillz that made his debt crisis resolution plan such a rousing success in the 1980s, James A. Baker the III graces us with an editorial on reaching a fiscal grand bargain.
In the piece he points out that, "it is very difficult to create effective mechanisms for spending constraint. That is because one Congress cannot bind the actions of future Congresses."
So far so good JBIII! Looks like you've been reading your KPC. So we've got to do it simultaneous and up front, right? All a Congress can get done is what they themselves can do.
Well his next paragraph starts, "I propose an enforcement mechanism linking the revenue increases and spending cuts that make up the grand bargain"
Are there somehow multiple competing ghost writers on this piece?
Does JBIII think he has the super-power of binding future Congresses?
Will the WSJ really publish anything by anyone who knew Ronald Reagan?
Great column by John Kay at the FT.
Physical labour incorporated in manufactured goods is a cheap commodity in a globalised world. But the skills and capabilities that turn that labour into products of extraordinary complexity and sophistication are not. The iPhone is a manufactured product, but its value to the user is as a crystallisation of services.
I continue to be impressed by the crosswalk situation on University Avenue by A_____ Hall. Top down planning dictated that a crosswalk be emphasized with a prominent sign that cars yield for pedestrians. It is like California in the extreme. A pedestrian steps off the curb and cars screech to a halt as far as the eye can see. It is often difficult for cars to move down University Avenue without many starts and stops. Sometimes a single pedestrian holds up 20 to 50 cars or more.
Prior to the prominent sign and crosswalk we had a bottom-up system of pedestrian crossing and car movement along University. This was the case for decades. Pedestrians moved in and out among the cars and the cars moved in and out among the pedestrians. It was seamless as each pedestrian and each driver looked out for the other. Pedestrians did not want to be hit by the cars and the drivers did not want to hit the pedestrians. As far as I know there were almost no accidents, certainly less than what we must have today with all the starting and stopping of automobiles. Not to mention the environmental costs and car wear and tear. It was a perfect example of how an emergent system ordered human activity far better than the top-down planner.
Q: but doesn't someone have to be in CHARGE?
Too many deer! NC allows hunters to take SIX deer, and four have to be non-antlered. We are trying to hold down the population, here.
Article on the dangers of too little hunting. If I don't harvest the deer, and respectfully put the results into my freezer, Bambi's momma is going to be coming through your windshield at 45 mph.
I'll be taking the Mauser K-98 out to the property this weekend. Because I am such a public-spirited fellow. Gamebill went out last weekend, and saw some deer, but couldn't take a clean shot. I imagine Joel will be out there with me this weekend.
Well, I think even Angus will have to admit that voting is rational, under THESE circumstances, from my hometown of Orlando, FL.
If the alternative is that your wife will chase you in the car, and run you over for his "lack of voter participation." She gave it to him right in the ol' "C" term, good and hard.
Check out her mug shot. I would have done WHATEVER that wife told me. But then, now that I think of it, I already do whatever my wife tells me.
Uptalk: I mean, do you KNOW?
Abstract: Uptalk is the use of a rising, questioning intonation when making a statement, which has become quite prevalent in contemporary American speech. Women tend to use uptalk more frequently than men do, though the reasons behind this difference are contested. I use the popular game show Jeopardy! to study variation in the use of uptalk among the contestants' responses, and argue that uptalk is a key way in which gender is constructed through interaction. While overall, Jeopardy! contestants use uptalk 37 percent of the time, there is much variation in the use of uptalk. The typical purveyor of uptalk is white, young, and female. Men use uptalk more when surrounded by women contestants, and when correcting a woman contestant after she makes an incorrect response. Success on the show produces different results for men and women. The more successful a man is, the less likely he is to use uptalk; the more successful a woman is, the more likely she is to use uptalk.
Really nothing complicated here, folks. Just have at it.
I do have one question, I guess. How many pigs would there be in the world if we stopped eating them? Answer: very few. They don't give milk, their skins aren't really useful, and they don't lay eggs. Is it really obvious that it is better for pigs never even to be born, than to be raised for food?
It is possible to answer "yes," if the quality of life in industrial farming is self-evidently so bad that a reasoning pig would want to commit suicide. (I should note that, for this reason, Angus generally selects free range meats. I do sometimes, but Angus is pretty consistent.) But since the pig would not exist if there were no demand for pork, it can't always be true that the pig would have been better off never being born at all.
The decision to be a vegan really comes down to (1) a choice about the environment, because raising meat uses too many resources, (2) a choice about health, because the person believes animal products are unhealthy, or (3) a choice about the morality of killing animals. Choices (1) and (2) are at least logically coherent, and though I don't agree I honor people who make that choice. To choose #3, you have to be profoundly solipsistic. Your moral vegan smugness is more important than the existence of pigs. There is no way that it would be better to kill all the pigs forever, and to never allow pigs to live, than to raise them under humane circumstances and then eat them. Domesticated pigs exist only because humans have been eating them, for five thousand years.
And the oxen in the example above? How could they have been more free range? That was humane, friends. Goodness, people are amazing. The moral smugness of PETA-philes is more important than the actual lives of animals.
This bridge is right next to campus here at Duke. I have seen these incidents twice, with my own eyes. And heard them with my ears. Very, very, very loud, and violent. Cool.
I'm with Fundman. The problem is NOT that this is fraud.
The problem is that it's probably an accurate reflection of how people voted.
Thanks to the vets who provided service--in all of messed up places we have sent people brave enough to try to serve the rest of us--thanks so much!
A special Vet's Day puzzle: Who is this?
And, an old joke, and my own tribute to my father, who managed to live through November of 1945.
1. Secure passwords. Something like "NudPicsofHilClint69" should be safe!
2. Punchinello. It is an evil video. You will not be able to get the song out of your head. And the cookie jar with moving lips in the background? The stuff of nightmares. The LMM sent me this, as a memory from her childhood. It explains a lot, actually.
3. The Dem votes => seats shortfall is not just gerrymandering. It is gerrymandering, but it is not JUST gerrymandering. The real problem is an unhealthy, almost religious, concentration of Democratic co-cultists.
4. No one was sentenced to death in NC this year. Good for us.
I did NOT know this. And now you know it!
There's a big blob of counties where Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa and Illinois come together, which are solid blue [on the Electoral College map]. Why is that? These are counties with farms and small towns, there are basically no cities of any size. The biggest city is Madison, population 200,000, which is the big blue county in south central Wisconsin, on the eastern edge of the blob. I grew up in Madison, but I don't have a clue as to why those counties further west are blue. I always assumed western Wisconsin was exactly like north-central and eastern Wisconsin—full of corn and dairy farms, and small towns with one church and 4 bars. Counties full of people with northern European backgrounds. Everywhere else in the Midwest the farm areas went for the GOP, except that strange blob that overlays parts of 4 states. A few of those counties may have small cities with a few manufacturing firms, but look how uniform that blue area is. There is obviously some difference that explains this, and now I feel like we should have been taught in school that southwestern Wisconsin is really weird.
Or perhaps we were taught in school, and I wasn't paying enough attention. There is in fact something weird about southwestern Wisconsin. The glacier that covered North America during the Ice Age missed this area; indeed it went completely around it, leaving it hillier than normal for the Midwest. It's called the "Driftless Area." If you grew up on the coasts you've never heard of this area, because nobody on either coast finds the American Midwest to be at all interesting. They rather go visit Paris or Bali.
A child care book I read as a new mother encouraged parents not to dread nighttime feedings, but to embrace them as another chance to nurture their babies. We should view the fiscal cliff the same way — not as a disaster to be avoided, but an opportunity to be embraced.
A quarter of those who voted in El Monte and a third of those who voted in Richmond would voluntarily impose new taxes on themselves to protect their children and themselves from sugar-sweetened beverages. I find that downright encouraging.
I vote Romer as most tone deaf, Bitman as most delusional, and Battista as most unintentionally hilarious.
"Trolling the backside of Chicago's defense"?
"Hey Erlacher, my grandma has better glutes than that!"
God I hope this paper never folds, what else would I do on a Sunday morning?
Labels: another one bites the dust, babies and bathwater, buying elections, can't anybody here play this game?


"The US needs that broader strategy now," McCain added, noting that allowing the war to continue down this path will "erode" US credibility with its security partners in the Middle East and provide ISIS "fertile ground to radicalize Muslims."
"While the U.S.-led coalition is making progress in the fight against Islamic State, we cannot forget this terrorist organization is a symptom of the Syrian civil war," McCain wrote. "The future of that conflict will have significant strategic impact on US national security."
Many analysts agree that the fate of Syria's extremist groups is closely tied to that of Assad. As Assad and Russia bomb with impunity, hardline Islamist groups such as former Al Qaeda affiliate Jabhat Fateh al-Sham and Ahrar al-Sham could win over more moderate rebels who feel abandoned by the West. And terror groups like the Islamic State could win over those who want revenge.
He said he didn't know, however, whether the officials discussing airstrikes against Assad are just engaging in "mere disembodied analysis" — or if they were actually preparing to advise Obama to "exact a price of mass murderers and give opposition forces what they need to mount a defense."
Meanwhile, it remains unclear whether Assad, having conquered Aleppo and solidly in control over "useful Syria" — namely, western Syria from Damascus, the capital, up through the city of Homs and over to Tartus on the Mediterranean coast — would even be a reliable partner in the fight against ISIS, which is mostly present in the country's east and has been largely spared by Russian and Syrian airstrikes.
In any case, calls for a dramatic shift in US strategy are becoming more urgent as a win for the regime and its allies in Aleppo becomes more likely every day. But any concerted effort by the administration to end the bombardments remains elusive.
Obama barely mentioned the war in his final address to the UN General Assembly late last month, reiterating his long-held belief that "there is no ultimate military victory to be won." And he has resisted calls from both sides of the aisle to levy sanctions on the Assad regime and its supporters.
Most agree that the US' decision to suspend negotiations with Russia over Syria on Monday did not go far enough, especially given Moscow's determination to finish the siege of Aleppo and consolidate Assad's power before the next American president takes office.


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Q: Parameters needed to connect to a MySql Database using C# When I want to connect to Database using C# visual studio 2013, I provide the following parameters to the "connectionString" using "MySqlConnection":
string server="localhost";
string database="database123";
string uid = "*****";
string password = "******";
string port = "3306";

but I noticed that if I don't provide "database" or "port" it works fine too.
My question is what should one provide to establish a proper connection?
or What is considered sufficient info to establish a connection?

A: I would use this.
SqlConnection connection = new SqlConnection("server=somthing; database=something; User ID=******; Password=******");


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Gov. DeSantis promises big cuts to Florida's state budget
Posted By Jim Turner, the News Service of Florida on Wed, Jun 17, 2020 at 6:56 AM
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Gov. Ron DeSantis said Tuesday he will soon slash enough spending from the state's proposed $93.2 billion budget to keep lawmakers from having to address a coronavirus-fueled loss in tax revenues before the November elections.
"There's going to be a lot more vetoes, there'll be a lot of red," DeSantis told reporters during a late afternoon news conference.
Lawmakers passed a record spending plan in March for the fiscal year that starts July 1. But the proposed budget has not been formally delivered to DeSantis, who has line-item veto power.
With two weeks until the fiscal year begins, DeSantis said his office has already been targeting cuts, identifying areas in agency budgets that can be held back on a quarterly basis and allocating federal stimulus dollars to cover pandemic-related costs.
"I have no worry about us getting to the elections (after the cuts and other adjustments)," DeSantis said.
DeSantis has made a priority of teacher pay hikes and spending on environmental issues.
"Teacher raises are important," DeSantis said. "I said I'm going to veto some things in my budget, I'm not going to veto everything in my budget. We want to obviously try to deliver as many of the priorities as we can."
"We're living in a different reality. We've got to take that into account," said DeSantis. tweet this
As he looks to hold onto cash, DeSantis said, for example, he will move millions of unspent dollars in an economic-development program known as the Job Growth Grant Fund from the current year to the upcoming year's general revenue.
"It's not necessarily going to be anything with employee pay, but there's different things that agencies spend on, and as you get to the end of the fiscal year, sometimes they just start spending on different things," DeSantis said. "And so, if you're prudent about it, I think that there's ways that you can do that (hold onto money)."
The Job Growth Grant Fund, created in 2017, provides money for job training and public infrastructure projects rather than the state directly offering money or tax breaks to relocating or expanding companies.
The state has already lost hundreds of millions of dollars in expected tax revenues after the coronavirus forced businesses to shut down or dramatically scale back. The Legislature had largely finalized the budget when the devastating effects of the pandemic began to become more apparent, with theme parks ultimately closing, the tourism industry cratering and unemployment soaring into double digits.
A late May report from the Legislature's Office of Economic & Demographic Research said revenue collections in April were more than $878 million below estimates, with a large chunk of the drop due to the decline in tourism. Figures for May have not been released.
"I don't think the Legislature should have foreseen, because I think was a very abrupt thing that happened," DeSantis said. "I think that they did a good job. And there's a lot of things in there (the budget) that I think are meritorious. But at the same time, you know, we're living in a different reality. We've got to take that into account. And so, we will exercise that authority accordingly."
Last week, Florida TaxWatch called for cutting more than $136 million in projects from the proposed budget, while acknowledging that might be far less than what is needed.
TaxWatch President Dominic Calabro suggested that rather than additional cuts, lawmakers could require the collection of sales taxes on all goods purchased online by Floridians.
The state Revenue Estimating Conference projected in January that such legislation would generate $479 million a year in currently uncollected revenue for the state and another $132.9 million a year for local governments.
Calabro also said the state should reach a new gambling deal with the Seminole Tribe of Florida. Last year, the tribe quit a longstanding revenue-sharing agreement with the state – nearly $330 million in 2018 – after negotiations on a new gambling deal went nowhere.
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Nice Writing A Business Plan, A Bar Solutions - Subsequently, write up your competitive evaluation to other bars in the area. Are you offering the identical beer choice as each person else in your block? Are you the simplest one serving craft cocktails? Retaining tune of your competition lets in you to diversify and use your menu as a aggressive advantage. This declaration will trickle thru every thing of your commercial enterprise and might have an effect on who decides to do commercial enterprise with you. Your mission also can assist you surely discover what you need to recognition on to draw in customers and beat out the competition.
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UCB signs MoU with Vanguard
A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) has been executed between United Commercial Bank Limited (UCB) and Vanguard Asset Management Ltd (VAML) on Sunday at the Corporate Head Office of UCB to make strategic partnership to generate future business opportunities between UCB VAML.
At the presence of Muhammed Ali, Managing Director of UCB; Mohammed Shawkat Jamil, Deputy Managing Director of UCB and Waqar Ahmed Chowdhury, Managing Director and CEO of Vanguard Asset Management Ltd signed the MOU on behalf of their respective organizations.
M. Shahidul Islam, Additional Managing Director of UCB; Mirza Mahmud Rafiqur Rahman, Additional Managing Director of UCB; A. E. Abdul Muhaimen, Additional Managing Director of UCB; Md. Tariqul Azam, Deputy Managing Director of UCB; A.S.M Arif, SVP & Head of Structured Finance Division; Md Rifatur Rahman Joarder, Deputy Chief Executive Officer Vanguard Asset Management Ltd along with other senior officials of both the companies were also present in the program.


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BIORCHESTRA Announces 45 Million USD Series C Fundraising
BIORCHESTRA is a leading RNA therapeutics company whose lead programs focus on neurodegenerative diseases using its proprietary RNA-based drug and drug delivery platforms. Today, BIORCHESTRA announced the completion of its 45 million USD (54 billion KRW) Series C Fundraising as of 22nd February 2022.
Participants in the Series C were Daily Partners, IMM Investment, SBI Investment, LSK Investment, E&Venture Partners, Smilegate Investment, Quantum Ventures Korea, Stick Investment, Widwin investment, and NH Securities as FI (financial investors). GS holdings, Chong Kun Dang Holdings, and Chong Kun Dang Pharmaceutical participated in the series C as SI (strategic investor). It is unusual for all existing shareholders who have participated in the series A, series B, and series B bridges to participate in series C fundraising as well. The financing was significantly oversubscribed with high demand from both existing and new investors. It is interpreted that not only the existing shareholders participated in the follow-up investment, but also the new participating institutional shareholders showed confidence as investors in the scientific foundation, business development, potentials of BIORCHESTRA growth and the social value of the BIORCHESTRA technology.
Branden (Jinhyeob) Ryu, CEO of BIORCHESTRA, said, "We are delighted with the support we received in this Series C financing from both existing and new investors. We have successfully completed the series C capital increase, thanks to investors who showed confidence in BIORCHESTRA technology. BIORCHESTRA will develop the world's first RNA-based treatment for neurodegenerative disease (Alzheimer's disease, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis disease). This funding will allow us to both continue and expand our development activities through internal programs and strategic partnerships. In addition, we will verify our drug delivery system, BDDS™ through open innovation with global big pharmaceutical companies by establishing a stable production system in the pilot plant, which will be operating from this year, and continue to develop next-generation delivery systems such as mRNA delivery systems."
Dr. Louis O'Dea, BIORCHESTRA's CMO and US President, said, "BIORCHESTRA has developed a novel, breakthrough technology to deliver targeted therapies through the blood-brain barrier to address the unmet needs of patients with progressive, fatal, neurodegenerative diseases. The growing interest of established pharma and biotech companies and the confidence of our investors validate the scientific platforms and progress of BIORCHESTRA. We look forward to using this funding to accelerate the filing of our first IND and our entry into therapeutic clinical trials."
Young-Gil Kim, CFO of BIORCHESTRA, said, "Proceeds from this financing will support the expansion of our research and development activities and product pipeline, completion of our GMP facility, and initiation of our nonclinical toxicology programs leading to IND filing in 2023 for BMD-001, our leading clinical program in neurodegenerative disease. In preparation for IPO, we will adopt and stabilize internal control over financial reporting system and IFRS."
In 2021, BIORCHESTRA was selected as the awardee in the NYC Innovation QuickFire Challenge on Neuroscience. In January 2022, BIORCHESTRA signed a collaboration research agreement with SK Biopharm to develop a new drug for Epilepsy.
Branden (Jinhyeob) Ryu, CEO of BIORCHESTRA, and Dr. Louis O'Dea (a founding member of Moderna) has attended the Clinical Trial on Alzheimer's Disease (CTAD) 2021 in Boston and presented the therapeutic effect through microRNA regulation in neurodegenerative disease, received a lot of response from experts. In 2022, Branden (Jinhyeob) Ryu, plans to present the therapeutic effect of BMD-001 as a speaker at renowned international conferences such as RNA Leaders World Congress, DIA/FDA Oligonucleotide-Based Therapeutics Conference, RNA Therapeutics & Delivery US Congress, Formulation & Delivery UK Congress, and RNA Therapeutics Modalities Summit in 2022.
About BIORCHESTRA
BIORCHESTRA, with offices in Daejeon, South Korea, and Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, is an innovative biotech developing ribonucleic acid (RNA) based therapeutics. Our goal is to change the therapeutic paradigm from symptoms treatment to diseases modifying therapeutics in neurodegenerative and other diseases.
The BMD is a therapeutic agent development platform that can control microRNAs that regulate multiple messenger RNAs (mRNAs) involved in pathological factors related to diseases. We believe that exclusively targeting single pathological protein, such as Aβ or tau, like most candidate AD therapies of other pharmaceutical companies is too late in the disease course to halt the progression of AD. This upstream regulation with anti-sense oligonucleotide aims to reverse the epigenetic changes in the AD brain induced by the overexpression of target microRNA-485-3p, which we have proven to induce Aβ/tau production, cognitive impairment and a reduction in synaptic plasticity. We have developed proprietary drug delivery system (BDDS™) for commercial drug development. Delivering the ASO via intravenous injection route, we observed target microRNA knock-down efficacy not only in cortex but also deep brain such as hippocampus even striatum and spinal cord as well.
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Sackcloth and Scarlet is a lost 1925 American silent drama film directed by Henry King and written by Jules Furthman, Thomas J. Geraghty, George Fort Gibbs and Julie Herne. The film stars Alice Terry, Orville Caldwell, Dorothy Sebastian, Otto Matieson, Kathleen Kirkham, and John Miljan. The film was released on March 22, 1925, by Paramount Pictures.

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Meet Our New Editorial Intern: Jenna Geisinger
Reading has always been an escape for me. I felt like books were places of comfort, that tucked you in and welcomed you back just where you left off. Most summers I begged my mom to drive me to our library, and I'd take out the five book maximum, then return the next week for five more books. I spent hours reading without realizing how much time had passed. I was the kid that came to school zombie-fied by a book I couldn't put down. To me, the lives of the characters in the books were more interesting, or fulfilling, than my life.
In elementary school I started writing. Sort of. It started with my own version of A Series of Unfortunate Events. I spent three long sentences describing every aspect of Mr. Poe—the olive green of his jacket, the bristle of his mustache, the scuffed shoes, his nervous hands—I wanted to make Mr. Poe standing at the door so real. I wanted to make it as real as the book was to me. Thankfully, I learned to pare down my sentences, but the first drafts are still gunked with too many adjectives.
However, writing will never provide the same escape for me that reading has. Writing is gruesome. It's tiring—it's writing five drafts simultaneously of the same story because you can't make up your mind about the narrator. It's rereading and rearranging the same paragraph, reading it aloud to yourself and hearing where the flow hiccups, but having no clue how to smoothen it out. I love writing, but it is work, and it is too vulnerable to my doubt and criticism, as well as that of others. Reading is intimate, accepting you in whatever mental or emotional state you're in, and lets you step into someone else's life for a little while. It wows you with shiny sentences, and tricks you with plot structure, but it's free of the worry and overthinking that writing welcomes. I want to give that to someone else. I want to welcome them into a story and tell them everything will be fine, everything else can wait.
In the last year or so, the pressure has been mounting about what to do after college. Senior year ticked on, the deadline inching closer, waiting for my decision. I spoke extensively with my mentor about whether I should apply to graduate school. Was it worth it? In her small office, closed in with wall-to-wall bookshelves, she asked me what I pictured myself doing. I told her that I would love to write novels, but that is impractical. That is a side project. Then I looked at her—this polished writer with an award-winning chapbook under her belt—and said that I thought I could be happy being a part of the process to create published work. My favorite part of workshop classes was editing. I loved polishing my peers' stories, showing them what they couldn't see. I am really excited to intern at Sundress Publications and be so close to stories.
Jenna Geisinger is a fiction and creative non-fiction writer from New Jersey. She attends the MFA Professional and Creative Writing Program at William Paterson University, while working as an associate managing editor for the Schuylkill Valley Journal and a reader for Philadelphia Stories, where she has been published.
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Bureaucracy and Distrust: Germaneness and the Paradoxes of Academic Freedom Doctrine
University of Colorado Law Review, Vol. 77, p. 955, 2006
University Denver Legal Studies Research Paper No. 07-15
31 Pages Posted: 6 Feb 2007 Last revised: 22 Mar 2012
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This article proposes a new approach to examining individuals' claims to academic freedom under the First Amendment. It begins with the premise that a major source of confusion under current legal doctrine emerges from two paradoxes. The "positional paradox" exists because various constituents within the public university community may, at times, be state actors, free speech claimants, or sometimes simultaneously both. The resolution of many academic freedom disputes may depend on the relative positions of the free speech claimant and the alleged intruder on that freedom. The "First Amendment paradox" arises because, while a robust version of constitutional academic freedom would suggest that protection of individual academics' speech is consistent with the values most fundamental to the First Amendment, the traditional doctrinal tools that courts ordinarily use to protect those values have limited, and sometimes no, applicability to most academic freedom disputes. The article argues that courts should develop doctrinal tests that require examination of both the academic speech and the government's interest in regulating that speech in relation to their germaneness to the university's central academic mission. Academic freedom claims may better be addressed by inquiring how close the nexus is between the speech (and the countervailing government interests) and the social values that justify the constitutional protection of academic discourse in the first place. Serious consideration of germaneness as an operative concept in the analysis of individual academic speech claims could advance a greater understanding of the First Amendment theory underlying academic freedom and also help courts to implement the Constitution meaningfully in academic freedom disputes.
Keywords: First Amendment, free speech, academic freedom, higher education
Chen, Alan K., Bureaucracy and Distrust: Germaneness and the Paradoxes of Academic Freedom Doctrine. University of Colorado Law Review, Vol. 77, p. 955, 2006; University Denver Legal Studies Research Paper No. 07-15. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=961010
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Jeff Van Gundy Hates Darren Collison's Punshiment
October 5, 2016 October 5, 2016 Valerie Morales
The ever opinionated Jeff Gundy left no room for interpretation regarding how he feels about the 8 game suspension levied against Darren Collison by the NBA. Earlier this month, Collison pled guilty to misdemeanor domestic violence and was punished by the league, an 8 game suspension that begins when the regular season starts late October. (Collison avoided jail time by agreeing to court mandated counseling and community service).
8 games is not enough for Jeff Van Gundy, who was the color commentator of the Rockets-Knicks telecast last night. Van Gundy admits he was educated in the pernicious trauma of domestic violence when he attended a conference earlier in the day. He was amazed at the statistic that a woman is a domestic violence victim every 9 seconds. The conference, sponsored by the NFL, was right next door to where the Rockets were playing. Van Gundy talked about hearing a six-year old on a 911 tape after his mom had been beaten up. This was the impetus for his Darren Collison got over on the NBA reaction.
"Because the one thing I learned today. It is not a mistake. It's a choice. It's a choice to commit a violent act and I just think….it's eight games. He comes back. I just think we have to do more." (Jeff Van Gundy)
More punishment? A lot of domestic violence experts agree with him. Whereas the victims carry the trauma for the rest of their lives, the abusers are handed a get out of jail free card. Their life does not change, a fact not lost on Van Gundy who was emotional and at the same time very harsh and he should be. It makes sense. His reaction should be the reaction of every coach, player, team owner and front office personnel; sadly it is not. In a league that is based on a talent delivery system because that is how franchises earn maximum profit, teams want their talent to be available, no exceptions.
Van Gundy's solution, what he wanted for Darren Collison, is a mandatory one year suspension. It sounds very Trumpish law and order but when you peel the layers back, that kind of suspension can be a significant motivator for further abuse. Who does it really punish?
There are a lot of complications and nuances; it is not as simple as you did this, now go away because women and children were involved. Despite what Van Gundy heard at the conference, all violence is not predmeditated. Violence is learned behavior. A lot of violence is emotional reactivity by a person unable to manage conflict without physical confrontation. Domestic violence traffics in stress, power, control, fragility and vulnerability. It is not the same as drug abuse. A drug abuser hurts himself. A domestic abuser hurts someone he loves. He changes them.
There is a school of thought that says too much air time is spent on the abuser. This is a victim crime and all resources should be on her. But abusers have to live in the world. They have to live with other people. In order for the cycle of violence not to perpetuate itself generationally, these difficult problems behind closed doors have to be addressed with all parties involved as stakeholders.
If you take away a man's job for a year, if you take away an income, a livelihood, the stress only increases, and the repetition of said violence because of more family stress may increase as well. Furthermore, the victim will be blamed for the change in circumstance, creating even more hostility.
I understand the emotions and that sports leagues pay more attention to a player kicking a competitor in the groin than if he beats his wife with an extension cord. It shows the lack of empathy for female victims and how this very subject is buried on the last line of some book no one wants to read. But to suspend a player for a year when the court doesn't jail him at all hurts the very victims it is supposed to help. The abuser is angrier. The victim has more fear. It is counterintuitive. Helping can mean hurting.
To assist victims, counseling and safe spaces are necessary. Accusers need to be punished. The most violent of them need to go to jail. Victims need to not be in court to testify. Women and children need help in erasing the burden of fear every time a door slams shut. Some need help in leaving the abuser. Women who love their violent partners and want to stay with them need family therapy with everyone on the same page: this needs to be fixed right now.
To help accusers, there should be an extensive punishment that is worse than testing positive for banned substances. There should be mandatory weekly counseling sessions, no fewer than 52 in a calendar year. The abusers should be forced to talk about what they did, in public. They should have to meet with victims groups so they can understand the impact of partner violence and how it changes you.
A one year suspension is the easy thing to do. It is easy. The hard thing to do is to help abusers change. At the very least, every NBA player should have to sign a morality clause with domestic violence as one of the non-negotiable crimes. Break the clause and your NBA job is in jeopardy, on hold. The abusive player, the team, the NBA and the Players Association will then develop a treatment plan for a cure. Then you get your job back. Depending on the person, his background, his crime, his sentence, his conviction, it can be three months, six months or a year. The NBA needs tough love. But they need to care about families too.
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