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Who gets Covid-19 vaccine next? Older adults and 'frontline essential workers,' CDC advisers recommend
Vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention voted 13-1 on Sunday to recommend that both older adults, ages 75 and older, and "front...
Posted: Dec 21, 2020 5:49 PM
Posted By: CNN
Vaccine advisers to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention voted 13-1 on Sunday to recommend that both older adults, ages 75 and older, and "frontline essential workers" including first responders be next in line to receive Covid-19 vaccines.
That would put those people in "Phase 1b" of allocating the vaccine nationwide.
That committee vote also included prioritizing adults ages 65 to 75, people ages 16 to 64 with high-risk medical conditions and "other essential workers" in "Phase 1c" of allocation.
"They really serve to address the current lack of vaccine supply and address those individuals with the highest risk for disease," Dr. José Romero, chair of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices and secretary of the Arkansas Department of Health, said about the recommendations.
The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices met on Sunday to discuss Phases 1b and 1c of vaccine distribution.
In a previous meeting earlier this month, the group voted on Phase 1a, which advised giving the first round of vaccines to health care workers and residents of long-term care facilities.
There are two Covid-19 vaccines -- Pfizer/BioNTech's and Moderna's -- currently authorized for emergency use in the United States.
A work group within the advisory committee defined frontline essential workers as "workers who are in sectors essential to the functioning of society and are at substantially higher risk of exposure" to the coronavirus that causes Covid-19.
The frontline essential workers in Phase 1b include first responders, people in the education sector, those who work in food and agriculture, those in manufacturing, corrections workers, US postal service workers, public transit workers and grocery store workers.
It is estimated that there are about 30 million frontline essential workers in the United States.
The category of other essential workers in Phase 1c includes people in transportation and logistics, food service, construction and shelter and housing, finance, IT and communication, the energy sector, the media, the legal sector, public safety and water and wastewater industries.
It is estimated that there are about 57 million other essential workers in the United States.
The 'hardest' vote
"This is without doubt the hardest vote that I have taken in my six and a half years on the committee," said Romero.
"I am confident that we have arrived at this by examining the data thoroughly, and that what we are providing -- as has been stated before -- the ultimate decision will be at a local level. But what we are providing governors and health officials with is a framework, which is supported by evidence," Romero said.
He voted "yes" on the proposed Phase 1b and 1c recommendations.
Committee member Dr. Peter Szilagyi, who also voted "yes," agreed that the decision was difficult.
"I truly wish everyone could get the vaccine today, and I know high-risk individuals are not included in Phase 1b," said Szilagyi, who is in the department of pediatrics at the University of California at Los Angeles. "But over several months, as vaccine supply ramps up, every American will have access to these safe and effective vaccines."
The one "no" vote came from Dr. Henry Bernstein, who is a professor of pediatrics with the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra. Bernstein explained that he voted no because he felt that the science about Covid-19 morbidity and mortality is similar between the 65-to-74 group and the 75-and-up group.
"Therefore, inclusion of the 65-to-74-year-old group in Phase 1b made more sense to me," Bernstein said.
The need for funding
In their vote, most of the committee members also asked the government to fully fund state and local health departments vaccination programs.
"The fact that the state and local health departments have not been funded for vaccination program, especially in the context of the billions of dollars that funded the extremely successful program to develop vaccines is really appalling," said Dr. Beth Bell, who voted "yes" on the proposal.
"I'm just one person, but I would just like to say, again, that I hope that the government will address this discrepancy, without which I think it's going to be very difficult for us to be successful," said Bell, a clinical professor in the department of global health at the University of Washington.
The advisory committee's recommendations for Phase 1b and 1c go to the CDC next for final acceptance.
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The Netherlands suffered an early setback in their bid to qualify for Euro 2020 as they went down 3-2 to Germany in Amsterdam.
Oranje looked to have come back from 2-0 down at half-time to salvage a creditable draw, only for winger Nico Schulz to pop up with an 89th-minute winner.
The result leaves the Dutch in third place in Group C behind Germany and Northern Ireland, who have taken maximum points from home games against Estonia and Belarus. The Netherlands beat Belarus 4-0 in Thursday night's opening match in Rotterdam.
Germany dominated the first half and went ahead when Matthijs de Ligt's slip in the penalty area left Leroy Sané clear in the penalty area to score from close range.
It got worse for the Dutch after 34 minutes when Serge Gnabry made it two with a rifling shot into the top corner. Only a point-blank save from Jesper Cillessen from Sané stopped Germany going into the break 3-0 up, while Ryan Babel had the best chance of the half for the home side.
The Dutch showed more purpose from the start of the second half, with Memphis Depay causing problems down the left-hand side, and pulled a goal back within two minutes when De Ligt headed in from a corner.
Depay added the second himself when he fired in to the bottom left hand corner in a crowded penalty area in 64 minutes. Thereafter Oranje looked more likely to score until Schulz's late sucker punch.
De Ligt, who scored his first international goal, admitted that Oranje had been second best in the first half.
Manager Ronald Koeman said that in hindsight he might have been better to settle for the draw rather than press for a late winner.
'I thought we didn't start well, didn't know exactly how Germany would play, and they were very good with three players and lots of movement up front,' he said.
'We weren't good and didn't keep the ball in the first half. But in the second half I was proud of the fact that we didn't let our heads go down, we were 2-0 down and the second half was brilliant. But we should have had a point.
Oranje's next qualifying match is the return fixture in Germany on September 6.


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Brymo Unveils Tracklist For Forthcoming Album "Yellow�
Published By Bekee Wisdom | In Celebrity News |Â Mar 19, 2020
Sensational singer, Brymo has finally unveiled the tracklist of his forthcoming album "Yellow� which is billed to drop next month.
Brymo has shared another piece of the puzzle for his "Yellow� album after releasing the artwork of the project a few days ago.
With the highly anticipated album due out on the 1st of April, the singer revealed its tracklist via Instagram. Brymo shared the tracklist which consists of three parts with a total of 17 tracks.
The first part which is numbered in Greek numerals consists of 6 tracks, the second part numbered in Roman numerals consists of 5 tracks and the third numbered in English numerals consists of 6.
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(1) Why was the first answer revised.
(a) in Australian waters, (b) in Indonesian waters; and (c) in either, but in international waters.
(3) Based on the best possible advice, what is the area outside which the tragedy did not occur and can coordinates be provided.
(1) My first response to question 431 indicating that the boat known as SIEV X sank in international waters was consistent with the Department of Immigration and Multicultural and Indigenous Affairs (DIMIA) records and with our responses to the Senate Select Committee on a Certain Maritime Incident that the boat sank approximately 60 nautical miles south of the Sunda Strait. DIMIA's records at that time were based on an estimate provided by Coastwatch. However, that estimate was not subsequently corroborated by other sources and the Australian Government's position is that the location where the vessel sank is unknown. It was appropriate that the previous responses concerning this matter be amended to reflect the consensus across Government agencies that the position of the sinking is unknown and that the answer to question 431 had been based on an estimate that was not corroborated by other sources.
(2) I do not intend to speculate on where the unknown position of the sinking may or may not be in respect of international waters and the territorial seas of Indonesia and Australia.
(3) As the location of the sinking is unknown, it is not possible to provide the information requested.


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Since its Wednesday, this would usually be my Writers' Uni-Verse-City segement day, but I have been up to something special I want to share with you.
Since I finished the first draft of my novel for the Round of Words in 80 Days writing challenge, I've been working on some diverse projects such as competing to be a Samsung Global Blogger for the 2012 Olympics in London!
Representing Belgium (and Canada too of course), I would be tweeting, blogging and vlogging. That's right, vlogging during the Olympics this summer to bring you the latest scoop and the most entertaining and funny stories I can dig up in London, which is also celebrating the Queen's Diamond Jubilee!
How will you be keeping up with the 2012 London Olympics?
Great idea. Voted and tweeted. Good luck!
Nicole! What a great idea! You'll be a super choice for this. Off to blather about it wherever I can!
Congrats Nicole! You will do great and I look forward to the blogging/vlogging/etc! (And can't believe the Olympics are almost here! yay!!!) Have fun!
I thumbed you up and retweeted to both my profiles. Go, Nicole!
Thanks so much for the support Jacqui!
Fahhhbulousness…I LOVE IT!! I sent the tweet but the videos won't load at the moment. I'll be back until the link works so I can support ya…fabulous idea and here's hoping you are selected!! SQUEEEE!!!
What a wonderful idea, Nicole! You'd be perfect for it! I shared it with all my Tweeps, FB friends, colleagues at the dayjob, personal friends, and my daughter/her college pals. Hope you get the gig!!!!
Nicole – voted, Tweeted, Facebooked, and will work a mention into one of this week's blog posts, and keep some Tweets going out during the week… Best of luck! I'm sure you'll get selected!
I'm sorry I'm sooo late, Nicole! But this is so awesome! you'll do an amazing job and I'd love to support you!. I'll reblog this on Wednesday and tweet my little heart out. The video didn't finish, but what I say was great! You're so beautiful and I love hearing you speak for real! We do it up big for you, Nicole!
Thanks for the nice comment and retweet August!
Nicole Basaraba is a wonderful writing and the founder of the Amazing Writers' Uni-Verse-City (WUVC for short). Her travel blogs and photography is outstanding and I think she'd do a BANG up job at the London Olympics!! She's got my vote for Samsung Global Blogger…how about yours?
Nicole Basaraba would make a fantastic Samsung Global Blogger for the London Olympics 2012. Please read the details below and give her your vote and pass this message along. She's a super young woman, talented blogger and would be perfect for the task! GO NICOLE!
Good luck, Nicole!!! Off to vote!


'Pippalada Katha' is the story of Pippalada (Atharva Veda Guru and Maharashi Dadhichi's son).
Many years ago, there used to be a sage named Dadhici. His wife was Lopamudra. Dadhichi's hermitage was right next to the holy river Ganga. Lopamudra's sister Gabhastini also used to live in the hermitage. Such was the sage Dadhichi's powers that daityas and danavas dared not set foot inside the hermitage.
The gods once fought with the demons and managed to defeat them. After the war was over, they came to pay their respects to Dadhichi. Dadhichi welcomed his guests and wanted to know how they were faring.
Dadhichi consented to this proposal. The gods left their weapons in the hermitage and went back to heaven.
A hundred years passed. The gods did not return to collect their weapons. The weapons began to lose their luster, Dadhichi did not know how the energy of the weapons might be preserved. He washed them with holy water and the energy of the weapons got dissolve in the water. Dadhichi then drank up the water. As for the weapons themselves, they faded away once their energy was gone.
Finally the gods came to claim their weapons. "Can we have our weapons back? They asked.
"That may be," said Dadhichi. "But the weapons are no longer there. I have swallowed up their energy. Let me tell you what can be done. I will use the powers of meditation (yoga) to give up my life. Then excellent weapons can be made out of my bones.
The gods were reluctant, but thee was no other solution. Dadhichi died and the gods requested Vishvakarma to make weapons for them out of Dadhichi's bones. Vishvakarma complied and the weapon name vajra that he made was truly remarkable.
Lopamudra was away when this incident took place. She returned and found that her husband had died. She was afflicted with sorrow and wished to immolate herself in a fire. But she happened to be pregnant at the time, so that this could not immediately be done. Once the baby was born, she killed herself after having handed over the baby to a pippala (fig) tree for rearing.
Since the pippala tree brought up the boy, he came to be known as Pippalada. Chandra was the lord over all trees. The trees asked Chandra for some amrita for Pippalada and Chandra obliged. The amrita gave Pippalada a lot of strength.
When Pippalada grew up, he wanted to know who his parents were and the trees told him the story. Pippalada blamed the gods for his parents death and decided to seek revenge. The trees brought Pippalada to Chandra.
Pippalada pleased Shiva through his prayers.
"What boon do you desire?" asked Shiva.
I want the boon that I may be able to destroy the gods," replied Pippalada.
Try as he might, Pippalada could not see Shiva's third eye. Pippalada therefore performed even more difficult tapasya for even more years. Eventually he managed to see Shiva's third eye. From Shiva's third eye was born a demon that looked like a mare.
"What is your desire?" asked the demon of Pippalada.
"Kill my enemies, the gods," was the reply.
The demon immediately attacked Pippalada.
Pippalada ran to Shiva for deliverance. Shiva earmarked a region inside the forest for Pippalada. There the demon was not permitted to enter. Pippalada lived there, protected from the ravages of the demon. Meanwhile, the gods requested Shiva to save them as well. Shiva persuaded Pippalada to control his anger. He convinced Pippalada that nothing was to be gained by killing the gods. That would not bring his parents back.
Pippalada agreed. But he wished to see his parents once. Accordingly, Vimana descended from heaven on which Dadhichi and Lopamudra were seated. They blessed Pippalada and asked him to marry and have children.
As for the demon, it became a river and merged with the holy Ganga.
I read it like pippalada asked Narada why he was left at peepal tree to which Narada said it's Shani prabhava. When pippalada wanted punish Shani ,,God's pacified pippalada. It is said those who wish get rid of Shani dhosha should pray pippalada on Saturdays. .Om sri pippalada maha munaye namaha..


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Gazprom Neft has begun drilling of three exploratory wells at its Chonsky project in Eastern Siberia — one each at its Ignyalinsky, Vakunaysky and Tympuchikansky fields. Drilling of a further well at the Tympuchikansky block will begin within a month. Data obtained from further well testing will allow the clarification of geological models of the fields, allowing the various blocks to be subsequently prepared for production drilling. Pilot works (in the order of 600 square kilometres) involving the use of high-accuracy UniQ seismic technology were also completed in mid-March: some 450 square kilometres of full-azimuth 3D seismic is also planned for April.
The Gazprom Neft Chonsky project covers three fields: the Ignyalinsky, Vakunaysky and Tympuchikansky fields, located at the border of the Irkutsk Oblast and the Sakha Republic (Yakutia). On the basis of geological prospecting undertaken last year, Gazprom Neft has been able to increase estimated reserves at the Chonsky project by a further 50 percent — total C1 and C2 reserves across all three blocks now exceeding 210 million tonnes of oil and 270 billion cubic metres of gas.
Gazprom Neft is continuing geological prospecting at its Chonsky fields to allow the transfer of further reserves from category C2 (probable reserves) to C1 (commercial reserves). A key objective in 2015 will be the preparation of the most thoroughly researched blocks for production testing, expected to commence next year.
Licenses on the Ignyalinsky, Vakunaysky and Tympuchikansky blocks are held by Gazprom Neft subsidiary Gazpromneft-Angara. Specialists from this organisation completed their interpretation of seismic data, obtained through the use of innovative UniQ technology, in 2014. A total 66 prospecting and exploratory wells have been drilled throughout the three fields of the Chonsky project, and some 2,750 square kilometres of 3D surveys undertaken.
Gazprom Neft fields in Eastern Siberia.
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Letter from Australia
David Chislett on A double act... and the media
Australians traveling overseas are often surprised at both the interest shown in church matters by the British and American media and their high standard of reporting and comment compared with that which generally prevails here. However, over the last few years, the local media have paid an enormous amount of attention to the churches as the shameful story of child sexual abuse and the inadequate response of church leaders has unfolded. Indeed, the media have sometimes become players in the news they report, as we saw in the demise of Governor-General and former Archbishop Peter Hollingworth.
During the same period reporters and commentators have been intrigued by the establishment of George Pell and Peter Jensen respectively as Roman Catholic and Anglican Archbishops of Sydney. Standing with conviction, as Pell once said, for 'the two great Christian traditions' of the west, they have become friends in spite of all their differences, and they don't mind it being known that they pray for each another. In fact, it was Peter Jensen who launched the biography of Pell by Brisbane writer Tess Livingstone just after Pell had been cleared by an independent enquiry of sexual abuse allegations. During his speech, Jensen looked up at Pell, smiled, and, referring to the fact that Pell had voluntarily stood aside while the enquiry was being conducted (as is required of ordinary clergy), remarked with obvious sincerity, 'It's good to have him back'!
Pell, now a Cardinal, is still in the early stages of rebuilding a thoughtful, biblical, spiritual, intellectually credible and evangelistic 'classical Catholicism' (in contrast to the liberal version described so well over a decade ago by Michael Gilchrist in 'Rome or the Bush'). He is an inspirer of young people who flock to hear him preach at St Mary's Cathedral. Referring to the liberals he recently quipped to a reporter, 'These days it's hard to find a "progressive Catholic" under 50!' Pell, once principal of a seminary in Melbourne, is a great inspirer of priestly vocations. Many believe that in the struggle for the soul of Australian Catholicism, he and those around him have begun to turn the tide.
Jensen, who in his sixteen years as principal of Moore Theological College, equipped hundreds of young Evangelical men and women to meet the challenges of ministry in a secularist age, is – incredibly – well on the way to achieving his evangelistic goal of ten percent of Sydney's population being converted and incorporated into 'Bible-believing churches' during his archiepiscopate. Rock-solid in what he believes, and courageous in speaking out – however small the minority he represents on this issue or that – Jensen always manages to relate to his opponents with a genuine graciousness that is seldom noted by the media.
George Pell and Peter Jensen tend to be disliked by the same people – the 'liberal progressives' in their respective churches, and the relativistic secular humanists who resent the idea that any truth can be objectively true. Pell's words to students graduating from Aquinas College in Ballarat go to the nub of the matter: 'The Australian temptation is to tame Christ, not to crucify him; to trivialise his life and mission, not to grant them significance [even] by an act of repudiation … our society is pressuring the Church to abandon her claims to … revealed truth.' Undeterred by trenchant criticism, both Pell and Jensen are bold in asserting the social, bioethical and moral implications of Christian believing, and both get headlines whenever they speak out on these matters in response to parliamentary debates and the pronouncements of secular ethicists. It is clear to ordinary people that they are driven by a genuine compassion for the casualties of our society as well as an infectious devotion to the real Christ – Jesus the Word made Flesh, the crucified Saviour, the Lord of glory.
Not surprisingly in the light of the archbishops' stand for orthodoxy in the debate over women priests, the radical feminists (over-represented in the media!) perpetrate the myth that Pell and Jensen are somehow 'anti-women'. The simple fact is that both men work with and depend on the insights of a matrix of professional women who exercise significant ministries. In particular, it is a striking tribute to Peter Jensen and his predecessors that throughout its parishes the Anglican Diocese of Sydney has more theologically trained full-time women ministers than any Australian diocese that has women priests!
That the media have become intensely interested in Sydney church affairs became obvious a few weeks ago when in its National News section the Sydney Morning Herald trumpeted the headline, 'Father, Son and duelling bishops'. Primate and Anglican Archbishop of Perth, Peter Carnley, following the example of liberal Evangelical theologian Kevin Giles, accused the Anglican Diocese of Sydney Doctrine Commission of – wait for it – Arian Christology in order (in Giles' words) 'to permanently subordinate women to men in the church and at home.' The news article outlines the issues in a few hundred words surprisingly well, quoting people on both sides of the debate. It's not over yet. But who would have thought even a few years ago that this would be newsworthy!
My final example of the new media interest concerns the Australian Broadcasting Commission (the 'ABC'). George Pell chairs the Vox Clara committee, a group of senior bishops from throughout the English-speaking world, which advises the Congregation for Divine Worship on the translation of Latin texts into English. Because Pell is a 'Pope's man', there has been a degree of fear among liberal Roman Catholics that the theological elasticity they perceive in the Missal of Paul VI will disappear, and that the recommendations of Liturgicum authenticam, especially as they touch on the matter of inclusive language, will be implemented. The ABC managed to get hold of the most recent ICEL draft of the Ordo Missae, and in the Religion Report, Stephen Crittendon – seasoned critic of both Archbishops Pell and Jensen, and the original 'conspiracy theorist' – unveiled the 'horrors' of the document '… which will have an impact on millions of English-speaking Catholics, and fellow Christians, around the world.'
Crittendon, in fact, scooped the whole world. The draft document, meant for preliminary discussion among the bishops, was well nigh impossible to obtain. For a short while the leaked copy was available for downloading (as lots of jpg scans!) from the ABC website. It is no longer there, but a transcript of the critical discussion remains posted.
It has been said that because of its origins and history, Sydney out-does the other Australian capital cities in both sin and righteousness! Certainly the media have discovered just how newsworthy Sydney's Roman Catholic and Anglican archbishops are, and that is a good thing, for it means that many ordinary Australians are thinking about the Gospel and the Faith.
David Chislett is Rector of All Saints', Wickham Terrace, Brisbane.


This Young Economist: Mankiw wins!
Who would win in a American Gladiator-style jousting match?
The results are in, and it is Mankiw in a landslide. Mankiw tallied 576 votes; Krugman tallied 143 votes.
Not only did people vote with their clicks, but they also voted with their comments. An astounding 101 comments were made. Some were witty and others were mean, but I was surprised at how much insight there was.
An incredible fact. Out of the people who actually voiced their opinions in the comments, 80.3 percent (61/76) voted for Mankiw. Out of the people who voted silently on the sidebar, 80.1 percent (576/719) voted for Mankiw. I would have expected those numbers to be different from one another on account of adverse selection.
Because the comments were so fun, I decided to give out some unofficial awards.
Best Reason to Support Krugman: "... because he is sporting the Chuck Norris beard."
Best Reason to Support Mankiw: "Cambridge is rough, man. Mankiw'd whoop anyone from Princeton. That place is like Disneyland."
Strangest Reason to Support Krugman: "He's been fighting the good fight for a while now."
Strangest Reason to Support Mankiw: "All logic lies on his shoulders."
Keep in mind that the poll was about who would win in a joust. In that context, having a Chuck Norris beard could be more useful than having logic on your shoulders.
Weirdest Comment: "Krugman is the real-world fighter in public policy. Mankiw merely preaches economics mantras from his Ivory tower, blissfully ignoring non-economic trade-offs that are unfortunately all to [sic] relevant."
This comment is weird because tradeoffs are inherently economic. They represent a reaction to the fundamental scarcity in our world. I think Mankiw gets this, even if it does not relate to money.
Mankiw has a beast of a textbook series that raids students pockets to the tune of $210.95 per pop (and like a good market-driven economist, he isn't afraid to pimp it at every turn). Krugman has a friend named Mr. Nobel.
Krugman's is just the NYTimes. Mankiw's is crap.
Mankiw opts for the subtle but still effective "glasses and tweed coat" combo, clearly defining himself as intellectual but also in a friendly "come to my office hours from 4-5pm" professorial way. Krugman rocks the dork beard.
"The Conscience of a Liberal" versus "Greg Mankiw's Blog."
Overall: I have to say the winner of a KrugMankiw fight would definitely be... their readers!"


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One of our top picks in Fethiye.Just a few steps from the marina, Minu Hotel has a wonderful central location in Fethiye. It offers air-conditioned accommodations and around-the-clock front desk service. Free WiFi is available throughout the premises.
Featuring parquet floors, the guestrooms at Hotel Minu include flat-screen TV with satellite channels and a mini-bar. The private bathrooms come with a shower and a hairdryer. Hot water is provided 24 hours a day. Some units also offer sea or mountain views.
Traditional Turkish breakfast is served daily on site. Breakfast-in-room and room service are also available. Complimentary tea and coffee service is offered throughout the day.
Located in a lively district of Fethiye with cafés, restaurants and bars, you can venture out and sense the local atmosphere. Set in Paspatur - Old Ancient Bazaar, this property is within walking distance to fish market, Telmessos Ancient Theater and Rock Tombs. Oludeniz Beach is 9.3 mi from the property. The staff arranges various excursions and activities upon request. Airport shuttle services to Dalaman Airport, 33 mi away, are offered at an additional fee.
When would you like to stay at Minu Hotel?
This room offers air conditioning, a mini-bar and a flat-screen TV with satellite channels.
This spacious suite offers air conditioning, a mini-bar and a flat-screen TV with satellite channels.
The building was built in 1965 as one of the first hotels in the 'Paspatur' area. Minu Hotel restored the building to its former glory and by doing so have helped the neighbourhood and local businesses offer a nice atmosphosphere for our guests.
House Rules Minu Hotel takes special requests – add in the next step!
Debit card Minu Hotel accepts these cards and reserves the right to temporarily hold an amount prior to arrival.
Minu Hotel accepts these cards and reserves the right to temporarily hold an amount prior to arrival.
Please note that daily breakfast is served at a designated area in the hotel's lounge.
Wifi not stable. Room too bright, needs better curtain/blind.
Wifi, but you can get a good signal from the reception seating area.
A small family-friendly property in the heart of Fethiye town centre. I was searching for numerous hotels which was, clean, tidy, close to restaurants and next to the promenade. The hotel did not dissapoint and we had a lovely time during our stay at Minu Hotel. I hadn't booked a transfer as the public transport is cheaper and accessible outside Dalaman airport. We took the Havas coach from the Airport to Fethiye Bus Station, which cost 17.50tl per person (children under 6 are free) and took around 85 minutes. Then a taxi, which cost 15tl to Minu hotel. The hotel wasn't difficult to find, just off the main road. When we arrived we walked up a flight of stair to the reception area. The hotel isn't catered for people with accessibility needs as they don't have a lift. The hotel is spotless and very clean, from the entrance, reception, rooms and breakfast area. We stayed on the third floor, once checked in, the receptionist helped us with our luggage. When we checked into the room, the it was large enough to cater for 2 adults and 3 children. The bathroom was also clean and tidy. From the pictures and reviews from other guests the hotel is well maintained by its pride owners and a warm welcome to all guests. The breakfast area is cosy and next to the reception. Turkish breakfast is served from 7am-10am and is rotated every day with different selection of hot food. If you want tea or coffee you will need to go near the reception seating area where you will find coffee machine, cakes and cupcakes. Everything is close by, you have the harbour which is a 2 minutes walk. The Tuesday food market is only 15 minutes away and restaurants all in walking distance. I'd recommend visiting Pasa Kebap and Hani Baba for food. I will be booking this hotel again when I visit Fethiye.
The roomsize was bare minimum and the smell of smoke seemed to filter into the bathroom through the extractor fan.
Breakfast was great! Very central.
Its location and surroundings were good.
Really not much to complain about especially given the price.
Everything was very good especially the staff who were friendly and helpful. The hotel itself is very clean, modern and the facilities are more than adequate.
Great people, great breakfast, great hotel.
Good location, friendly staff, clean and comfortable room. Great breakfast! Parking in the area is free from 18:00 till 9:00.
Safe in the room was too small and wasn't fixed in properly therefore it could have been picked up easily and carried away.
The location of this hotel cannot be better, just across the street there is the seaside and it is wonderful to take a walk in the morning to see everything before everyone wakes up. The staff is helpful and nice and their English is the best among the hotels I stayed which made communication came really easy. The breakfast is wonderful and they have a coffee machine you can use anytime and it's free, it really helps when I caught a cold there.


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jml@pitt.edu
Senior Scientist, Professor Emeritus, Learning Research & Development Center
Small group processes -- team performance, newcomer innovation, reaction to deviance
Learning in social contexts
Social support in online groups
Abrams, D., Travaglino, G. A., Marques, J. M., Pinto, I., & Levine, J. M. (2018). Deviance credit: Tolerance of deviant ingroup leaders is mediated by their accrual of prototypicality and conferral of their right to be supported. Journal of Social Issues, 74, 36-55.
Levine, J. M. (2018). Socially-shared cognition and consensus in small groups. Current Opinion in Psychology, 23, 52-56 (Special Issue on Shared Reality, G. Echterhoff & E. T. Higgins, Eds.).
Yang, D., Kraut, R., & Levine, J. M. (2017). Commitment of newcomers and old-timers to online health support communities. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2017). New York: ACM Press.
Levine, J. M. (2017). Factional conflict in groups: How majorities and minorities relate to one another. Group Processes & Intergroup Relation, 20, 644-657.
Levine, J. M. (2016). Member differentiation and group tasks: More than meets the eye. [Commentary on "Are groups more or less than the sum of their members? The moderating role of individual identification," by R. F. Baumeister, S. E. Ainsworth, & K. D.]. Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
Pinto, I. R., Marques, J. M., Levine, J. M., & Abrams, D. (2016). Membership role and subjective group dynamics: Impact on evaluative intragroup differentiation and commitment to prescriptive norms. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations.
Dutcher, J. M., Creswell, J. D., Pacilio, L. E., Harris, P. R., Klein, W. M. P., Levine, J. M., Bower, J. E., Muscatell, K. A., & Eisenberger, N. I. (2016). Self-affirmation activates the ventral striatum: A possible reward-related mechanism for self-affirmation. Psychological Science, 27, 455-466.
Levine, J. M., Alexander, K. M., Wright, A. G. C., & Higgins, E. T. (2016). Group brainstorming: When regulatory nonfit enhances performance. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations, 19, 257-271.
Marques, J. M., & Levine, J. M. (2016). Deviance in groups: New perspectives on enduring questions. Special Issue of Group Processes and Intergroup Relations.
Levine, J. M., & Marques, J. M. (2016). Norm violators as threats and opportunities: The many faces of deviance in groups. Group Processes and Intergroup Relations.
Wang, Y-C, Kraut, R. E., & Levine, J. M. (2015). Eliciting and receiving online support: Using computer-aided content analysis to examine the dynamics of online social support. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 17(4): e99.
Fairbairn, C. E., Sayette, M. A., Wright, A. G. C., Levine, J. M., Cohn, J. F., & Creswell, K. G. (2015) Extraversion and the rewarding effects of alcohol in a social context. Journal of Abnormal Psychology.
Levine, J. M., & Tindale, R. S. (2015). Social influence in groups. In M. Mikulincer & P. R. Shaver (Eds.), APA Handbook of personality and social psychology (Vol. 2: Group processes; J. F. Dovidio & J. A. Simpson, Assoc. Eds.). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.
Vlahovic, T. A., Wang, Y-C, Kraut, R. E., & Levine, J. M. (2014). Support matching and satisfaction in an online breast cancer support community. CHI 2014: Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1625-1634). New York: ACM Press. (Winner of CHI Honorable Mention Award.)
Funder, D. C., Levine, J. M., Mackie, D. M., Morf, C. C., Vazire, S., & West, S. G. (2014). Improving the dependability of research in personality and social psychology: Recommendations for research and educational practice. Personality and Social Psychology Review, 18, 3-12.
Harris, P. R., Brearley, I. Sheeran, P., Barker, M., Klein, W. M. P., Creswell, J. D., Levine, J. M., & Bond, R. (2014). Combining self-affirmation with implementation intentions to promote fruit and vegetable consumption. Health Psychology, 33, 729-736.
Levine, J. M., & Prislin, R. (2013). Majority and minority influence. In J. M. Levine (Ed.), Group processes (pp. 135-163). New York: Psychology Press.
Creswell, J. D., Dutcher, J. M., Klein, W. M. P., Harris, P. R., & Levine, J. M. (2013). Self-Affirmation Improves Problem-Solving Under Stress. PLoS ONE 8(5).
Levine, J. M., & Smith, E. (2013). Group cognition: Collective information search and distribution. In D. Carlston (Ed.), Oxford handbook of social cognition (pp. 616-633). New York: Oxford University Press.
Fairbairn, C. E., Sayette, M. A., Levine, J. M., Cohn, J. F., & Creswell, K. G. (2013). The effects of alcohol on the emotional displays of Whites in interracial groups. Emotion, 13, 468-477.
Levine, J. M., & Moreland, R. L. (2012). A history of small group research. In A. W. Kruglanski & W. Stroebe (Eds.), Handbook of the history of social psychology (pp 383-406). New York: Psychology Press.
Sayette, M. A., Dimoff, J. D., Levine, J. M. Moreland, R. L., & Votruba-Drzal, E. (2012). The effects of alcohol and dosage-set on risk-seeking behavior in groups and individuals. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 26, 194-200.
Abrams, D., & Levine, J. M. (2012). Norm formation: Revisiting Sherif's autokinetic illusion study. In J. R. Smith & S. A. Haslam (Eds.), Social psychology: Revisiting the classic studies, (pp. 57-75). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Sayette, M. A., Creswell, K. G., Dimoff, J. D., Fairbairn, C. E., Cohn, J. F., Heckman, B. W., Kirchner, T. R., Levine, J. M., & Moreland, R. L. (2012). Alcohol and group formation: A multimodal investigation of the effects of alcohol on emotion and social bonding. Psychological Science, 23, 869-878.
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Senior Scientist John Levine, Professor in Psychology and Senior Scientist, has been awarded the Honorary Doctorate from the University of Lausanne.
John Levine named co-recipient of the 2011 Joseph E. McGrath Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Study of Groups
INGRoup (The Interdisciplinary Network for Group Research)
Honorary Professor of Psychology


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This Week in Science 2017–10–16
Astronomers see gravitational waves in visible light for 1st time
A never-before-seen explosion from the merger of two dense astral bodies known as neutron stars has been viewed with telescopes for the first time.
"We did it again," National Science Foundation's director France Cordova said in a press conference on Monday.
The explosion occurred in a galaxy 130 million light years from Earth.
When these two small, but densely packed, stars merged, it triggered a cataclysmic explosion that was first seen by astronomers at the Carnegie Institution for Science's Las Campanas Observatory in northern Chile. It was followed up by 70 observatories — including the Hubble Space Telescope — and thousands of astronomers around the world.
The source brightened and then faded.
A never-before-seen explosion from the merger of two dense astral bodies known as neutron stars has been viewed with…
Trump's UNESCO exit draws critics, but will have little immediate impact
To the dismay of many researchers, the U.S. government announced last week that it would formally withdraw from the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) based in Paris. The decision — which is not expected to cause major disruptions in UNESCO's science programs — comes roughly 6 years after the United States stopped contributing funds to the organization because of its recognition of Palestine, and 4 years after the United States lost its UNESCO voting rights.
In a statement issued on 12 October, the U.S. Department of State cited three reasons for its decision: UNESCO has an "anti-Israel bias," needs "fundamental reform," and the United States has a mounting financial debt to the organization that, under U.S. law, it cannot pay.
UNESCO expressed "profound regret" at the decision, which will take effect on 31 December 2018. The organization's director-general, Irina Bokova, highlighted UNESCO's "interaction with the United States Geological Survey, with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, with United States professional societies, to advance research for the sustainable management of water resources, agriculture," as examples of valuable joint work.
To the dismay of many researchers, the U.S. government announced last week that it would formally withdraw from the…
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Some faiths more likely to turn to religion for answers to science
When it comes to seeking answers to questions about science, evangelical and black Protestants and Mormons are more likely than the general population to turn to religion, according to a new study by researchers from Rice University's Religion and Public Life Program, the University of Nevada-Reno and West Virginia University.
The study, which is slated to appear in an upcoming edition of the journal Public Understanding of Science, is the first to measure whether people would actively consult a religious authority or source of information with a question about science, said lead researcher Elaine Howard Ecklund, the Herbert S. Autrey Chair in Social Sciences, a professor of sociology at Rice and director of Rice's Religion and Public Life Program.
"Our findings suggest that religion does not necessarily push individuals away from science sources, but religion might lead people to turn to religious sources in addition to scientific sources," Ecklund said.
When it comes to seeking answers to questions about science, evangelical and black Protestants and Mormons are more…
5 Questions That Science Can't Answer Yet
Science is one of the greatest tools for expanding understanding that mankind ever devised. While it's reasonable to trust that science will eventually answer our unsolved questions, assuming that it has all of the answers right now is not. Here, we look at five of the biggest unanswered questions in science. There is no reason to think that we won't get the answers to these questions eventually, but right now these are the issues on the cutting edge of science.
What are the boundaries of the Universe?
The universe is expanding, which we've known for a while. But where is, or what is, the boundary? We can only see a part of the universe, the so called "observable universe", which goes on for 46.5 billion light years in all directions. However, we can only interact with things inside of 16 billion light years. But how far does it go past that?
Science is one of the greatest tools for expanding understanding that mankind ever devised. While it's reasonable to…
bigthink.com
Women in science ask fewer questions than men, according to new research
Stereotypes suggest that women love to talk, with some studies even finding that women say three times as much as men. But, new research from a team from the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, shows there is an exception to this rule: professional STEM events, which could be indicative of the wider problem of gender inequality in the field.
In new research published in PLOS ONE, the scientists studied question-asking behaviour at a large international conference. The conference, the 2015 International Congress for Conservation Biology, had a clear code of conduct for its 2000 attendees, which promoted equality and prohibited any form of discrimination.
The team observed 31 sessions across the four day conference, counting how many questions were asked and whether men or women were asking them. Accounting for the number of men and women in the audience, the findings show that male attendees asked 80% more questions than female attendees. The same pattern was also found in younger researchers, suggesting that it is not simply due to senior researchers, a large proportion of whom are men, asking all of the questions.
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Tossing firebombs, protesters advanced upon police lines today in Ukraine's embattled capital, eve as government snipers shot back, killing at least 70 people and wounding hundreds of others, according to a protest doctor.
Video footage on Ukrainian television showed shocking scenes today of protesters being cut down by gunfire, lying on the pavement as comrades rushed to their aid.
Trying to protect themselves with shields, teams of protesters carried bodies away on sheets of plastic or planks of wood.
One of the wounded, volunteer medic Olesya Zhukovskaya, sent out a brief Twitter message, "I'm dying", after being shot in the neck. Dr Oleh Musiy, the medical coordinator for the protesters, said she was in serious condition after being operated on.
Musiy told the AP that at least 70 protesters were killed today and over 500 were wounded in the clashes and that the death toll could well rise further.
In Brussels, the 28-nation European Union decided in an emergency meeting today to impose sanctions against those behind the violence in Ukraine. The US is considering whether to join the EU sanctions.
Protesters were also seen leading policemen with their hands held high around the sprawling protest camp in central Kiev.
Ukraine's Interior ministry says 67 police were captured in all, it was not clear how. An opposition lawmaker said they were being held in Kiev's occupied city hall.
President Viktor Yanukovych and the opposition protesters who are demanding his resignation are locked in an epic battle over the identity of Ukraine, a nation of 46 million that has divided loyalties between Russia and the West.
Parts of the country, mostly in its western cities, are in open revolt against Yanukovych's central government, while many in eastern Ukraine back the president and favour strong ties with Russia, their former Soviet ruler.
Protesters across the country are also upset over corruption in Ukraine, the lack of democratic rights and the country's ailing economy, which just barely avoided bankruptcy with a USD 15 billion loan from Russia.
At least 101 people have died this week in the clashes in Kiev, a sharp reversal in three months of mostly peaceful protests.
Neither side appears willing to compromise or in control of the streets. The opposition is insisting on Yanukovych's resignation and an early election while the embattled president is apparently prepared to fight until the end.
Snipers were seen shooting at protesters there, and video footage showed at least one sniper wearing a Ukraine riot police uniform.
In addition, three policemen were killed today and 28 suffered gunshot wounds, Interior Ministry spokesman Serhiy Burlakov told the AP.
There was no way to immediately verify any of the death tolls. Earlier in the day, an Associated Press reporter saw the bodies of 21 protesters laid out near Kiev's protest camp.
Saying the US was outraged by the violence, President Barack Obama issued a statement urging Yanukovych to withdraw his forces from downtown Kiev immediately. He also said Ukraine should respect the right of protest and that protesters must be peaceful.
A freeze on assets and travel bans could hurt the oligarchs who back Yanukovych.
Although the first weeks of the protests were determinedly peaceful, radical elements have become more influential as impatience with the lack of progress grows.
In their battles today, those hard-hatted protesters with makeshift weapons regained some of the territory on the Maidan's fringes that police had seized earlier in the week.
One camp commander, Oleh Mykhnyuk, told the AP that protesters threw firebombs at riot police on the square overnight.
As the sun rose, police pulled back, protesters followed them and police then began shooting at them, he said. The Interior Ministry warned Kiev residents to stay indoors today because of the "armed and aggressive mood of the people."
Yanukovych claimed today that police were not armed and "all measures to stop bloodshed and confrontation are being taken."
But the Interior Ministry later contradicted that, saying law enforcers were armed as part of an "anti-terrorist" operation.
Some signs emerged that Yanukovych is losing loyalists. The chief of Kiev's city administration, Volodymyr Makeyenko, announced today he was leaving Yanukovych's Party of Regions.


On our way up the coast we dropped by the quaint Jalama Road in Lompoc California where there is a family-run farm stand merchandised on an old piece of farm equipment. The stand is run by a collective of women who strive to build community in the valley by teaching neighbors and passers by about heirloom growing, living off the land, old ways of doing things, and being gentle on the earth.
We visited Jalama Road to pick up some dry beans, beeswax, and honey that are grown and harvested by the Pata family. The Pata's home is the first built on Jalama Road where the family has been harvesting beans and running cattle since 1912. The beans are dried and packaged by Erin Pata in a sweet muslin bag that she hand screen printed with the nostalgic Jalama farm stand logo that she designed out of her graphic design studio: Butterbean Studios. The honey is raw and unfiltered courtesy of the honey bees that visit the wild sage of the Jalama Valley and transport their nectar back to the hive while pollinating crops on their way.
We were supposed to meet Erin at the farm stand but traffic wasn't on our side and we missed each other but she kindly left the Half Hitch Goodies on her screened in porch all beautifully packaged up. Of course we will meet up next time. Thanks Erin!
Find out more about the Jalama Road Farmstand jalamaroadfamilyfarmstand.com and Butterbean Sudios butterbeanstudios.com.
Proprietors of Farmstand, (from left to right) Carla Malloy, Grace Malloy, Erin Pata.


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Home > Leadership & Managment > What if you could replace performance evaluations with four simple questions? – The Washington Post
Everyone loves to hate performance evaluations, and with good reason: Research has shown them to be ineffective, unreliable and unsatisfactory for seemingly everyone involved. They consume way too much time, leave most workers deflated and feel increasingly out of step with reality. A once-a-year, backwards-looking conversation with the boss hardly fits our forward-looking, instantly updated world. Yet despite all that frustration, many companies do little to change them, thinking there are few alternatives.
That hasn't been the case at Deloitte. The new issue of the Harvard Business Review, released Tuesday, unveils a detailed look at the professional services firm's total redesign of its performance management program. It's an overhaul the company first started rolling out nine months ago.
Deloitte's new approach, which it has piloted among roughly 10 percent of employees so far, would do away with "cascading objectives," those nonsensical attempts to create similar goals for everyone in the organization. It would also ditch laborious 360-degree reviews, in which everyone from managers to peers to underlings weigh in on one person's performance. And after realizing the company was spending 2 million collective hours each year assigning numerical ratings to each employee, it looked to get rid of those, too.
Given that Deloitte advises many of the world's biggest companies, one can only hope the internal move will have a domino effect across many more workplaces.
In a lament that will resonate with cubicle dwellers everywhere, the report's authors wrote: "it's not the particular number we assign to a person that's the problem; rather, it's the fact that there is a single number. … we want our organizations to know us, and we want to know ourselves at work, and that can't be compressed into a single number."
The most interesting part of the report, however, may not be that the company has begun to do away with an annual rating or forced rankings — other companies have ditched those — but that Deloitte is replacing an old system with some interesting new questions they're asking managers to consider instead.
The article, written by Ashley Goodall, director of leader development at Deloitte Services, and Marcus Buckingham, an adviser who worked on the redesign, cites research that Deloitte examined as part of its study. The data revealed how ratings tend to say more about the perceptions of the person doing the evaluating than about the actual performance of the person being evaluated.
As a result, Deloitte wanted to do two main things to simplify the process. It sought to stop asking so many people to weigh in on each employee's performance, instead asking only the team leader for input. Then, it rewrote the evaluation questions, nixing the standard assessment of a person's skills (or "competencies," in corporate parlance).
Now, at the end of every project, or once a quarter if employees have long-term assignments, managers would answer four simple questions — and only four. The first two are answered on a five-point scale, from "strongly agree" to "strongly disagree;" the second two have yes or no options:
1. Given what I know of this person's performance, and if it were my money, I would award this person the highest possible compensation increase and bonus.
2. Given what I know of this person's performance, I would always want him or her on my team.
3. This person is at risk for low performance.
4. This person is ready for promotion today.
The HBR report says Deloitte hasn't resolved how it will share the data with employees. It initially kept such information private but is testing and asking itself how much data it can share. Regardless, this is still a big shift away from asking managers to evaluate people on a battery of skills, or grade them on long-forgotten accomplishments from the past year. The new approach focuses, alternatively, on how to develop employees in the future given their current performance.
As the article notes, it's an attempt to switch from "talking about the ratings to talking about our people." And that, of course, is what a performance review should really be about, right?
Jena McGregor writes a daily column analyzing leadership in the news for the Washington Post's On Leadership section.
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It's time to get your votes in for the Readers' Choice Awards for game-year 2016.
The only required items are the overall digital / tabletop games, at the end of each of those categories.
We received no nominations for miniatures rules/expansions, so we're not doing away with them as a category, but we can't give you what you don't nominate!
I love CIV VI and HoI IV!


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Erin B. Logan is a reporter for the Los Angeles Times. Her work has been featured in the Washington Post, National Public Radio and the Baltimore Sun. She previously studied at Vanderbilt University and American University. Though based in Washington, she's a true southerner at heart and is always on the hunt for authentic sweet tea.
Mother sentenced to more than 14 years for toddler's death in a hot car
Lacey Ana Mazzarella passed out in a nearby car from drinking alcohol. Five hours later, she found her daughter dead.
15 Kaiser San Jose patients test positive for coronavirus after Christmas Day outbreak
The news comes after an outbreak on Christmas Day, when an asymptomatic employee came to work in an inflatable holiday tree.
Santa Monica Pier expands MLK holiday closure as COVID surge continues
The Santa Monica Pier will be closed starting Thursday for the Martin Luther King Day holiday weekend, two days earlier than previously planned.
L.A. officials cut utilities to Fairfax home after repeated violations of party ban
Mayor Eric Garcetti's office approved the shut-off in line with a public order aimed at slowing the spread of the coronavirus.
Orange County teacher's assistant who sent child porn videos gets 6 years in prison
The former teacher's assistant sent at least 10 sexually explicit videos over Kik, some showing children as young as 3, prosecutors said.
Santa Monica Pier will be closed for MLK holiday and on weekends this month as COVID spike continues
The city of Santa Monica has announced the pier will be closed weekends in January and on MLK Day.
Rapper DaBaby arrested in Beverly Hills on suspicion of gun possession
The 29-year-old rapper, born Jonathan Kirk, was arrested on suspicion of carrying a concealed weapon and carrying a loaded gun in a vehicle.
Mother charged with child abuse after 2-year-old found with rope marks, healed burns
The Catalina Island woman was jailed after deputies found the 2-year-old girl had been "severely physically abused."
Trump supporters clash with counter-protesters and police in L.A. County as deadly violence erupts in Washington
About 200 gathered near LAPD headquarters, waving U.S. flags and chanting. An unlawful assembly was declared in Beverly Hills.
Counselor beaten to death at South L.A. youth hall; 6 arrested, including 4 juveniles
Authorities say the man was trying to break up a fight when he was attacked by seven teenagers.


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#include "LegacyBiosInterface.h"

/**
  Read CMOS register through index/data port.

  @param[in]  Index   The index of the CMOS register to read.

  @return  The data value from the CMOS register specified by Index.

**/
UINT8
LegacyReadStandardCmos (
  IN UINT8  Index
  )
{
  IoWrite8 (PORT_70, Index);
  return IoRead8 (PORT_71);
}

/**
  Write CMOS register through index/data port.

  @param[in]  Index  The index of the CMOS register to write.
  @param[in]  Value  The value of CMOS register to write.

  @return  The value written to the CMOS register specified by Index.

**/
UINT8
LegacyWriteStandardCmos (
  IN UINT8  Index,
  IN UINT8  Value
  )
{
  IoWrite8 (PORT_70, Index);
  return IoWrite8 (PORT_71, Value);
}

/**
  Calculate the new standard CMOS checksum and write it.

  @param  Private      Legacy BIOS Instance data

  @retval EFI_SUCCESS  Calculate 16-bit checksum successfully

**/
EFI_STATUS
LegacyCalculateWriteStandardCmosChecksum (
  VOID
  )
{
  UINT8   Register;
  UINT16  Checksum;

  for (Checksum = 0, Register = 0x10; Register < 0x2e; Register++) {
    Checksum = (UINT16)(Checksum + LegacyReadStandardCmos (Register));
  }
  LegacyWriteStandardCmos (CMOS_2E, (UINT8)(Checksum >> 8));
  LegacyWriteStandardCmos (CMOS_2F, (UINT8)(Checksum & 0xff));
  return EFI_SUCCESS;
}

/**
  Fill in the standard CMOS stuff before Legacy16 load

  @param  Private      Legacy BIOS Instance data

  @retval EFI_SUCCESS  It should always work.

**/
EFI_STATUS
LegacyBiosInitCmos (
  IN  LEGACY_BIOS_INSTANCE    *Private
  )
{
  UINT32  Size;

  //
  //  Clear all errors except RTC lost power
  //
  LegacyWriteStandardCmos (CMOS_0E, (UINT8)(LegacyReadStandardCmos (CMOS_0E) & BIT7));

  //
  // Update CMOS locations 15,16,17,18,30,31 and 32
  // CMOS 16,15 = 640Kb = 0x280
  // CMOS 18,17 = 31,30 = 15Mb max in 1Kb increments =0x3C00 max
  // CMOS 32 = 0x20
  //
  LegacyWriteStandardCmos (CMOS_15, 0x80);
  LegacyWriteStandardCmos (CMOS_16, 0x02);

  Size = 15 * SIZE_1MB;
  if (Private->IntThunk->EfiToLegacy16InitTable.OsMemoryAbove1Mb < (15 * SIZE_1MB)) {
    Size  = Private->IntThunk->EfiToLegacy16InitTable.OsMemoryAbove1Mb >> 10;
  }

  LegacyWriteStandardCmos (CMOS_17, (UINT8)(Size & 0xFF));
  LegacyWriteStandardCmos (CMOS_30, (UINT8)(Size & 0xFF));
  LegacyWriteStandardCmos (CMOS_18, (UINT8)(Size >> 8));
  LegacyWriteStandardCmos (CMOS_31, (UINT8)(Size >> 8));

  LegacyCalculateWriteStandardCmosChecksum ();

  return EFI_SUCCESS;
}

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Most of us know that Calcium is an essential mineral that helps to protect our bones against osteoporosis. But good Calcium levels also help our bodies to build strong, cavity-free teeth, support bone healing, and maintain healthy blood clotting and blood pressure. And if you're prone to muscle cramps or period pain, Calcium can help to relax them.
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Adults: Take 1 tablet 2-3 times daily with food.
Children 6-12 years: Take 1 tablet daily with food. Or as directed by your healthcare professional.
Calcium is an essential mineral that your body requires (along with Vitamin D) for healthy bones and teeth. It also works with Vitamin D to maintain healthy blood clotting, and heart and muscle action.
On its own, Calcium plays a role in transmitting nerve signals, helping muscles to contract, regulating hormones, and maintaining electrolyte balance.
The Calcium in Healtheries Calcium 1000 Plus is Calcium Carbonate, which comes from natural limestone. For best absorption, always take your Calcium supplement with a meal.
Magnesium can help to relax tense or cramping muscles.
Your body uses Magnesium to help maintain a healthy nervous system and support emotional balance.
Vitamin D helps your body to absorb and use the Calcium and Phosphorus from your diet. If you imagine Calcium as needing to pass through a locked door to enter your bones, Vitamin D would be the key to the door.
Vitamin D may also play a role in healthy immunity.


Richard Lightbound joined ROBO Global in 2014. In addition to managing daily operations in Europe and Asia, he is responsible for executing the firm's global business strategy.
Richard has worked for 15+ years within the financial services sector with Wells Fargo and Standard Chartered Bank in senior management positions with responsibility for Institutional and Corporate clients across Europe, MENA and Asia. He enjoyed a 7-year break from banking to join an early cloud computing company funded by Warburg Pincus (now part of Infor) where he launched and managed operations across Asia and Europe.
A frequent speaker at Robotics & Automation conferences and events, he has lived and worked in Hong Kong, USA, Europe, and Sri Lanka.


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"The new screw-type cable gland allows the proven connection principle of the MFP8 family to be used with a much greater number of industrial data communication cables," Marcel Leonhard, Product Line Manager DataVoice Copper Solutions at Telegärtner Karl Gärtner GmbH points out. With the new MFP8 IE Cat. 6A plug connector, Telegärtner also extends the extremely successful MFP8 family for the connection of special installation or patch cables with multiple shielding and cable diameters up to ten millimetres.
The screw connection with the robust cable clamp ensures reliable strain relief. The new connector can be assembled in the field as usual without special tools. The proven IPC connection technique for AWG22-27 copper conductors enables fast and easy termination of industrial cables on site. Connections between the switch and a control system, an access point or IP video cameras can be installed conveniently and flexibly for example.
Telegärtner presents a new RJ45 connector MFP8 IE for the harsh industrial environment and cable diameters of up to 10 mm.
The screw connection of the MFP8 IE offers maximum strain relief by a robust cable clamp.


Kicking off on Friday 12 October is one of Australia's most prolific entertainers Roger Knox, a Murri Man who was this year inducted into the National Indigenous Music Awards (NIMAs) Hall of Fame. He'll be joined by indie folk troubadour Fraser A Gorman and Melbourne's favourite Americana songstress, Madeline Leman and The Desert Swells.
On October 19, the Victorian Music Department Office and Fed Square presents four acts to get Melburnian's swooning and swaying into the warmer months. Melbourne based female duos The Merindas will get the party stared with their soulful, expressive sounds dedicated to their cultural heritage. This exciting line-up also includes Kuku Yalanji, Jirrbal and Badu Island songbird Kee'han; the powerhouse vocals of Bumpy, and Riverboy, the new project by Narayana from electronic duo Willowbeats.
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As the summer sun hits the city, Aussie indie-folk legends The Killjoys will celebrate their 30th Anniversary on December 7, followed by folk darling Leah Flanagan and the slamming sounds of Australia's favourite sisters Stonefield.
The series concludes with indie-rock sensations Mod Con, Civic and The Living Eyes on December 14; and power pop-house Juliette Seizure & The Tremor Dolls, Loose Tooth and 60's surf rock infused Baby Blue on December 21.


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Gervonta Davis wants to make Rolly Romero "quit on his stool"
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By Brian Webber: Gervonta 'Tank' Davis wants to make Rolando 'Rolly' Romero pay for all his trash-talking he's done about him by making him quit or having his trainer throw in the towel on Saturday night when they battle at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
While Tank (26-0, 24 KOs) still insists it's not personal for him and just business, the anger that he harbors for his trash-talking mandatory challenger Romero (14-0, 12 KOs) is plain to see.
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Rolly isn't the type to quit, though, because he's someone that will be down with the ship, and that's going to require that Tank be willing to get in the trenches with him for as long as it takes to get the job done.
"I'm glad we fought now and not before because I was too mad, a little angry," said Gervonta Davis to ESNEWS about him being happy he didn't fight Rolly Romero on December 5th last year.
"I visualized breaking him down. Even if I don't get the knockout, I want to beat him from the first round to the twelfth and make him quit on his stool," Tank stated.
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It's doubtful that Rolly quits in this fight, and it'll be a mistake for Tank to bank on that. To get Rolly out of there, Tank will need to put his chin on the line, and take the huge shots that he's throwing. That's going to be a grueling affair.
Jackson Marinez took awful punishment from Rolly in coming close to beating him in August 2020, but he came up empty-handed for his trouble.
"I think his coach is going to stop it," said Tank. "He's going to throw in the towel. I think so because he's not going to take too much bad of a punishment.
"I feel like I'm maturing as a person, and as a boxer. I've been doing this for a little while now. I'm still learning, but I feel that my cup will never be full. I feel I'm getting better at it as an athlete.
"He's going to be there for me to break something for sure. It makes me want to beat him up more, but in a good way," said Davis about the trash-talking from Rolly making him want to punish him.
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"I want to show him that this isn't what you really want type stuff. I don't think I'm a veteran just yet, but I'm getting comfortable in there. Against Barrios, that's when I got really comfortable inside the ring in that fight.
"Since the Barrios fight, I can see clear and understand what's going on in the fight and everything," said Davis.
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Manycore architectures, which comprise a lot of cores, are a way to answer the always growing demand for digital data processing, especially in a context of cloud computing infrastructures. These data, which can belong to companies as well as private individuals, are sensitive by nature, and this is why the isolation problematic is primordial. Yet, since the beginning of cloud computing, virtualization techniques are more and more used to allow different users to physically share the same hardware resources. This is all the more true for manycore architectures, and it partially comes down to the architectures to guarantee that data integrity and confidentiality are preserved for the software it executes.
We propose in this thesis a secured virtualization environment for a manycore architecture. Our mechanism relies on hardware components and a hypervisor software to isolate several operating systems running on the same architecture. The hypervisor is in charge of allocating resources for the virtualized operating systems, but does not have the right to access the resources allocated to these systems. Thus, a security flaw in the hypervisor does not imperil data confidentiality and integrity of the virtualized systems.
Our solution is evaluated on a cycle-accurate virtual prototype and has been implemented in a coherent shared memory manycore architecture. Our evaluations target the hardware and performance overheads added by our mechanisms. Finally, we analyze the security provided by our solution.


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The future of Apple TV is exciting, but it's not hardware-related
It's all about original TV series, movies and streaming
By Julia Alexander Sep 13, 2017, 2:28pm EDT
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Apple announced yesterday that it was introducing a 4K HDR version of its set top box, but that's far from the most interesting aspect of Apple TV.
The $179 hardware upgrade wasn't so much an enhancement as it was a necessary action. Roku's $60 set top box offers the same specs as the new Apple TV. A $70 Chromecast will also let users stream in 4K if their TV supports it. Offering a 4K HDR set top box doesn't give Apple an edge; it just keeps them in the game.
The important gesture that Apple roped into its short segment on the Apple TV wasn't technology, it was content. Apple confirmed that some of Hollywood's biggest studios would bring their new 4K films to iTunes — available on the Apple TV — and Apple would offer free 4K HDR upgrades to those who already purchased eligible movies in an HD format.
That shows a couple of things: Apple isn't walking away from the Apple TV just yet and, more importantly, Apple is building relationships with as many studios and networks as possible.
Eddy Cue, Apple's senior vice president of internet software and services, announced yesterday that an Amazon TV app would be available in the coming months, signaling a truce in the age-old war between the two tech giants. The app isn't available just yet, but Apple is excited about bringing Amazon Channels series to the Apple TV. Partner that with Apple's ongoing relationships with Netflix or ESPN and there's one very clear message that can be taken away from yesterday's keynote:
Apple will be chummy with any studio or network before diving into the content game itself.
There's no question Apple wants to enter the content race. With three series already in play — Planet of the Apps, Carpool Karaoke and Vital Signs — and multiple Sony TV and Sony Pictures executives coming aboard, the question is when Apple will make its push into mainstream content, not if.
In February, Apple CEO Tim Cook confirmed that Apple's services division (Apple Music, Games, the App Store, etc) brought in more than $3 billion in revenue. Because of that success, Cook said he wants to double the revenue in that sector by offering more exclusives in streaming.
"Services are becoming a larger part of our business and we expect the revenues to be the size of a Fortune 100 company this year," Cook said.
Cook's statements back up a report from the Wall Street Journal in January that said the company was looking to deliver premium television content through Apple Music. Instead of creating a new app, those who pay $9.99 a month for Apple Music would have access to whatever original series Apple also creates and distributes.
Since Cook's comments and the Wall Street Journal's report, there have been rumors that Apple wanted to create its own version of Breaking Bad and was in a bidding war with Amazon for the distribution rights to future James Bond movies, once Sony's contract ends this year. Imagine waking up one morning and having the new James Bond movie ready for free as part of your Apple Music subscription?
It's not that farfetched; and unlike the U2 fiasco in 2014, waking up to a free James Bond movie in your Apple Music queue might lead to a beautiful day.
This is the other important factor in the equation to keep in mind: Apple can use its content development and exclusive series to help sell Apple TV boxsets. Remember when the first iPod launched? Steve Jobs' goal was to sell iPods by hooking people with iTunes. When iTunes was eventually made available for Windows users — the first Apple app to ever do so — the iPod saw an increase in sales.
Why can't the same thing happen for television? Well, it can.
Let's say Apple wins the distribution rights to James Bond. The company is still going to bring the movie to theaters, but what about the digital rights? Apple could keep it to iTunes and make it an Apple exclusive title. For those who don't want to buy a DVD or Blu-ray copy and don't want to watch the film on their iPad, having a 4K HDR Apple TV set top box isn't just the best way to watch it, it's also the only way.
Apple understands this better than anyone else. They've implemented this with iTunes and the iPod. While Apple may not revolutionize the television industry the same way it did the music industry — the Apple TV is not going to be the iPod — what Apple's devotion to its TV and services means is very exciting.
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Best-fit parameters of the ionised AGN wind and the neutral ISM gas in the host galaxy of the radio-loud AGN in our sample, derived from our modelling of the XMM-Newton observations.
Wind NH
Wind logξ
Wind vout
Neutral NH
C-stat/d.o.f.
1H 0323+342 9 ± 2, 7.2 ± 0.7 2.17 ± 0.02, 0.15 ± 0.12 −830 ± 170, −880 ± 120 < 0.01 2296/1488
3C 59 40 ± 2, 81 ± 8 1.20 ± 0.05, 2.42 ± 0.03 −3530 ± 130, −1000 ± 120 < 2 2036/1477
3C 120 14 ± 3 2.65 ± 0.04 −2160 ± 360 < 0.02 1949/1496
3C 273 0.7 ± 0.2 1.90 ± 0.08 −3670 ± 170 < 0.01 2588/1532
3C 382 7 ± 2 2.44 ± 0.06 −1350 ± 370 < 0.02 1805/1467
3C 390.3 3.7 ± 0.6, 11 ± 5 1.63 ± 0.11, 2.77 ± 0.06 −1550 ± 160, +50 ± 100 < 0.2 1847/1481
4C +31.63 11 ± 3 −0.00 ± 0.20 −960 ± 200 < 0.3 1783/1423
4C +34.47 31 ± 11 2.12 ± 0.05 −1500 ± 210 < 0.3 1546/1398
4C +74.26 36 ± 3, 68 ± 8 1.69 ± 0.04, 2.46 ± 0.04 −1490 ± 90, −3000 ± 500 < 0.09 1986/1511
ESO 075−G041 7 ± 1 −0.03 ± 0.11 −210 ± 180 < 0.05 1832/1415
III Zw 2 7 ± 4 2.07 ± 0.13 −1780 ± 670 < 0.2 1763/1468
Mrk 6 116 ± 8 1.38 ± 0.06 −4000 ± 500 27 ± 4 2287/1449
Mrk 896 73 ± 6 2.23 ± 0.02 −130 ± 150 < 0.2 1679/1429
PKS 0405−12 6 ± 2 1.71 ± 0.17 −130 ± 200 < 0.05 1715/1465
PKS 0921−213 8 ± 3 1.92 ± 0.12 −3540 ± 360 < 0.2 1700/1458
PKS 2135−14 5 ± 3 2.14 ± 0.08 −1240 ± 530 < 0.1 1831/1414
Notes. (1) Name of the AGN. (2) Column density NH of the ionised wind components (xabs) in 1020 cm−2. (3) Logarithm of the ionisation parameter ξ of the ionised wind components (xabs) in erg cm s−1. (4) Velocity of the outflowing ionised wind components (xabs) in km s−1. (5) Column density NH of neutral ISM gas component (hot) in the host galaxy of the AGN in 1020 cm−2. (6) Best-fit C-stat over degrees of freedom for the modelled XMM-Newton observation. As the positive and negative uncertainties on the wind parameters from our fits were comparable, we give their average in the table.
AGN spectral states from simultaneous UV and X-ray observations by XMM-Newton
A&A 603, A127 (2017)
Highly variable AGN from the XMM-Newton slew survey
A&A 592, A74 (2016)
XMM-Newton observations reveal the disappearance of the wind in 4U 1630−47
The mass-energy budget of the ionised outflow in NGC 7469
A&A 466, 107-118 (2007)
Yet another UFO in the X-ray spectrum of a high-z lensed QSO
A&A 610, L13 (2018)


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