Since we at Paris Veterinary Associates are committed to client education and patient safety, we recommend asking the following questions before allowing anyone to anesthetize your pet.
A. Your veterinarian (Paris Veterinary Associates) will give your pet a thorough physical examination the morning of the procedure to make sure your pet is healthy enough for the surgery and anesthesia. Remember, pets cannot tell us if they do not feel well. A physical examination is our first defense against performing surgery on an animal that could be ill, have an infectious disease, a heart murmur or could be debilitated from parasites.
A. At Paris Veterinary Associates, all patients anesthetized will have the opportunity to have bloodwork performed beforehand. All pets - not just the old or sick - should have a basic pre-anesthetic bloodwork test to reduce risk and increase safety. A healthy-appearing pet may be hiding symptoms of a disease or ailment and bloodwork can detect abnormalities that could affect anesthesia - even in pets younger than one year of age. We check a complete blood count (CBC), electrolytes, blood sugar, and liver and kidney values. If the bloodwork is normal, we can proceed with confidence knowing the anesthetic risk is minimized. These tests also provide a baseline for your pet if it becomes sick in the future.
A. No single anesthetic agent is best for all patients - there is no "one size fits all." Factors such as the patient's age, breed, and health determine which anesthetic protocol is most ideal. At Paris Veterinary Associates, we also use the pre-anesthetic examination, blood work, and the type of procedure to select the best anesthetic for each patient. All patients receiving a general anesthetic will have a breathing (endotracheal) tube placed in order to keep the airway open and allow for supplemental oxygen or gas anesthesia as needed.
A. Believe it or not, there are practices that use the same surgical pack on more than one patient. Some practices soak their instruments in a disinfectant solution rather than sterilize them in an autoclave. At Paris Veterinary Associates, each surgical patient has an autoclave-steam-sterilized surgical pack.
A. Although most assume that all surgeons wear a sterile gown and gloves and wear a cap and mask for surgery, that is not the case. At Paris Veterinary Associates the answer is yes. It does increase our surgical costs to use complete surgical attire, but not doing so increases the risks of infection to the patient.
A. At Paris Veterinary Associates, every patient anesthetized will have an IV (intravenous) catheter in place before, during and until your pet is well awake and recovered from the anesthesia. Intravenous catheters allow us to administer medications to your pet while keeping them more comfortable and give us instant access to a vein should an emergency arise during anesthesia - when every second counts. Fluids are also administered through the catheter to your pet during anesthesia (see below).
A. Every form of anesthesia tends to lower blood pressure and that can be harmful to the body and organ function. IV fluids help to maintain blood pressure. At Paris Veterinary Associates, your pet will receive IV fluids using a specialized fluid pump that allows us to deliver precise amounts and change the rate as needed.
A. At Paris Veterinary Associates, your pet's vital signs will be monitored by a trained veterinary technician and an electronic patient monitor throughout the entire procedure. The patient monitor will be attached to your pet and will continuously measure heart rate, ECG, respiratory rate, body temperature, the amount of oxygen in the blood (pulse oximetry), and blood pressure. The most important monitoring tool we have is a trained veterinary technician dedicated exclusively to your pet while anesthetized. This individual is very "hands on" and will be assessing your pet's heart rate, respiratory rate, gum color, and depth of anesthesia with her hands, ears, and eyes - not just relying on the monitor. Vitals are charted on paper every few minutes.
At Paris Veterinary Associates, in addition to monitoring your pet's body temperature, we use a heated surgical table, a Bair Hugger warming unit (which forces warmed air into a channeled blanket that is placed around the patient), and thick towels in order to keep your pet warm and cozy during the procedure. This keeps the temperature up during and after surgery and provides a smoother, safer and more comfortable recovery.
A. At Paris Veterinary Associates, a trained technician is dedicated exclusively to carefully monitoring your pet from the moment anesthesia is induced until your pet is recovered and awake.
A. There are significant differences in anesthesia and pain control techniques among veterinarians. Studies show that pain control is much more effective if begun ahead of the procedure. At Paris Veterinary Associates, a specific combination of pre-medications selected for your pet will be administered in order to alleviate discomfort or stress and will also reduce the amount of anesthesia necessary for your pet - a huge safety benefit. Since anesthesia doesn't control pain once the pet wakes up, we administer a variety of additional medications to relieve operative pain.
A. At Paris Veterinary Associates, a doctor or technician will go through detailed instructions with you at dismissal. Most surgical patients are seen 10-14 days after their surgery (at no cost to you) to examine the surgical site and to address any concerns you may have.
State of the art 5 parameter vital signs monitor (just like what you see on TV), a dual gas anesthesia machine, ventilator, automatic syringe infusion pumps and a whole lot more is what makes having surgery safer here. The most important resource we have to keep your pet safe is our well trained staff who monitor each patient vigilantly before, during and after the surgery.


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Rollover - No injuries were reported in a single-vehicle rollover on Highway 592 about a kilometre east of Highway 781 Friday afternoon. Police say the driver hit a patch of slush and lost control of the vehicle before it rolled.
Busy Valentine's Day for local RCMP detachment
A 911 call was placed from a residence on Westview Drive in Sylvan Lake as a result of a domestic dispute.
RCMP Notes
Feb. 26, 2015 5:00 a.m.
12:15 a.m. – A 911 call was placed from a residence on Westview Drive in Sylvan Lake as a result of a domestic dispute. A male advised that he was involved in an escalating verbal argument with his ex-common-law spouse which required police attendance. RCMP arrived on scene and questioned both parties. Alcohol was a factor. A 51-year-old female was removed from the residence and lodged in cells until sober.
1:25 a.m. – RCMP received a 911 call from an intoxicated male who was talking incoherently. A second call was placed to police by the same male who advised that he required an ambulance. The calls were traced back to a motel on Lakeshore Drive in Sylvan Lake. A 53-year-old male from Bowden was arrested for public intoxication. He was also found to have outstanding warrants. An ambulance attended the detachment to check on the male, who remained in cells until sober.
4:06 p.m. – A single vehicle rollover resulted in RCMP attendance. A truck rolled in the ditch just south of the intersection of Range Road 13 and Township Road 372. There were two males and one female in the vehicle. Open liquor was found inside the vehicle and the 21-year-old male driver was fined for transporting liquor in an open container.
4:15 p.m. – RCMP are investigating a theft at the Walmart in Sylvan Lake. A female was witnessed stealing a basket full of product and attempting to run out of the store. A female employee ran after the suspect and grabbed the basket at which time the suspect bit the employee and fled the store, leaving in a dark coloured Jeep with another female.
6:39 p.m. – A two-vehicle collision on Highway 20 south of 47th Avenue in Red Deer County resulted in injuries to one of the drivers. A 35-year-old female was southbound in a van on Highway 20 when she stopped to turn left into her driveway, at which time a truck driven by a 44-year-old female rear-ended the van causing extensive damage. RCMP attended the scene and charged the driver of the truck with following too closely. The driver of the van sustained a broken nose as a result of the collision.
11:05 p.m. – RCMP attended the intersection of Highway 11 at Highway 20 after a report of an intoxicated male standing in the middle of the road north of the intersection. When police arrived, two males were standing next to a vehicle on the side of the road and both were found to be intoxicated. A 25-year-old Red Deer male was arrested on outstanding warrants and a 28-year-old Red Deer male was charged with failing to comply with a probation order.
11:41 a.m. – RCMP attended a domestic dispute at a residence in Eckville. Police were called to a residence on 54 Avenue in Eckville where a 17-year-old female advised officers that she and her friend had been physically assaulted by her common-law spouse who had left the residence with their two year old child. The male was arrested without incident and is facing two counts of assault.
6:06 a.m. – A domestic dispute on Old Boomer Road resulted in RCMP attendance. A 911 call was received by a female advising that a female was being assaulted by her boyfriend at the residence. Police questioned both parties and arrested a 29-year-old Sylvan Lake male. He is charged with assault. A three-year-old child in the residence at the time of the incident was not injured.
3:56 p.m. – A 30-year-old Sylvan Lake male is facing a charge of assault in relation to a domestic dispute. RCMP attended a residence on Willow Springs Crescent in Sylvan Lake where a verbal argument became physical. The male admitted to pushing his 32-year-old spouse into a wall. The female was not seriously injured.
9:32 a.m. – The theft of a vehicle is being investigated by RCMP. A white Ford truck was stolen from outside a residence in Benalto. The complainant reported that his company vehicle was parked on Meadow Drive and contained some tools as well as his wallet. The vehicle was later located by Olds RCMP however the tools and his wallet were not recovered.
Good Samaritan has vehicle stolen after trying to help man in ditch
Several collisions for fire department

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Elephants are the pillars of Africa's ecosystems and they need our support
Nathan Gichohi is Manager, Species Protection at African Wildlife Foundation. As a conservation biologist, he works on more than 40 species protection projects, focusing mainly on rhinos, elephants, and large carnivores, in AWF's priority landscapes. Nathan is also Project Manager of the Biosph ... More
As the largest of all land mammals, African elephants play an important role in balancing natural ecosystems. They trample forests and dense grasslands, making room for smaller species to co-exist. Elephants also create water holes used by other wildlife as they dig dry riverbeds when rainfall is low. Herds travel over vast rangelands, and they disperse seeds in their dung, which helps generate new green growth.But threats to this giant of the forest are numerous. African elephants are most threatened by the poaching crisis. An estimated 35,000 are killed every year for their tusks; the natural growth rate in most elephant populations has yet to overtake the rate of killings. Many elephants are also the victims of retaliatory attacks after they venture into human settlement and farm areas.
Meanwhile, climate change and human land use are degrading wild lands, breaking up essential elephant habitats and impeding ancient migratory corridors. With the growth of commercial agriculture and infrastructure development, as well as extractive industry across the continent, the future of this keystone migratory species is at risk — and so are the fragile ecosystems that depend on it.
Improving the status of elephant habitats
To reverse the drastic declines and secure natural habitats, AWF supports 14 elephant populations, which make up 46 percent of the continental total. Our conservation work extends across range states including Benin, Botswana, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. In strategically identified priority landscapes — some spanning thousands of kilometers across countries — AWF provides wildlife rangers and community scouts with the skills and equipment needed to prevent the illegal killing of this keystone species.
At the same time, we work with local communities and landowners to minimize habitat loss caused by unsustainable farming and overgrazing. We train farming communities in conservation-friendly agriculture and create land-use plans with communities that might otherwise encroach on critical wildlife corridors outside protected areas.
In the transboundary Amboseli ecosystem — a vital elephant stronghold and popular tourist destination in East Africa — we helped create community conservancies to secure more space for elephants and other wildlife species. On these communal lands, AWF facilitated local ownership of ecolodges to provide an alternative livelihood for pastoralist groups using wildlife corridors as grazing land.
Enforcing the laws that protect elephants
By building the technical capacity of wildlife protection rangers on the ground, we have strengthened the ecological monitoring systems that track threats across vast landscapes. In the sites where AWF provides ranger training and monitoring equipment, patrol teams have destroyed poaching camps, arrested the poachers and confiscated elephant tusks and firearms. For ecosystems extending across country boundaries, we facilitate intelligence-sharing between national agencies.
However, catching poachers is only half the battle. AWF also trains and deploys sniffer dog units at strategic ports of entry and exit, helping government agencies to deter trafficking and catch smugglers. Without effective prosecution, wildlife offenders can evade punishment — and worse still, continue to engage in crimes against elephants and other endangered species. Through regional judicial workshops and mentorship programs, AWF trains prosecutors and other law enforcers in effective wildlife crime investigation and prosecution.
Of the 14 elephant populations that we protect in nine countries across Africa, 10 are increasing or stable. In the Tsavo-Mkomazi ecosystem, which stretches across Kenya and Tanzania, cross-border coordination between anti-poaching units and wildlife law enforcement continues to deliver much-needed impact. Data from the 2017 aerial wildlife count, supported in part by AWF, shows elephant populations increased by 14.7 percent between 2014 and 2017.
In addition to the growth of elephant populations in this key transboundary ecosystem, the census also found buffalo populations increased by 26 percent and giraffes by 61 percent. However, 1,167 elephant carcasses were also counted. It is a reminder that this keystone species is under constant threat from habitat loss, human-wildlife conflict, and poaching for its ivory.
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Synopses: Information Technology
Better speech-based error correction for dictation tools; how to check errors in a quantum computer; machines learn to analyze brain activity.
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Verbal Compass
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CONTEXT: Extreme multitasking is the modern fad, but no person has enough hands to manage a cell phone, a digital organizer, a steering wheel, and coffee all at the same time. Accordingly, people want a hands-free way to interact with computers. Although speech recognition systems are more accurate than ever, typical users still spend more time correcting errors than dictating text; half of their correction time is spent just moving a cursor to errors identified in, say, a dictated e-mail. "Confidence scores" – the software's estimates of how likely it is to have captured the right word – can be used to identify possible errors. Now Jinjuan Feng and Andrew Sears at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, have shown that confidence scores can also be used to accelerate the correction process.
METHODS AND RESULTS: Twelve participants dictated 400-word documents using a speech recognition system. It interpreted 17 percent of the words incorrectly, a typical rate; it was the correction process that was atypical. The software used confidence scores to tag words throughout the text as "navigation anchors." Users could quickly jump to each anchor with short voice commands and then move a cursor word by word to the error. The researchers measured the number of navigation commands the participants used, the failure rates of the navigation commands, and the time spent dictating and navigating. Average failure rates reported for other techniques are about 5 percent for direction-based navigation ("move right") and 10 to 20 percent for word-based navigation ("select December"). In a test of Feng and Sears's technique, the failure rate was only 3.2 percent. Even better, the time users spent navigating to errors was cut by nearly a fifth. This is significant compared with other error-correction techniques and it is promising, because this work suggests the means for further improvement.
WHY IT MATTERS: The Lilliputian buttons on PDAs and other pocket-sized wonders are quickly shrinking under a constant-sized thumb. Multitasking is on the rise, and more people with physical disabilities are entering the workforce. Both trends will steer users away from computer systems with manual interfaces. Speech recognition, but for its high error rate and long correction times, is an obvious alternative.
This work clearly shows that using confidence scores for navigation can shrink users' correction times. With further improvements, the technique promises to boost the usability of hands-free error correction and so engender a surge of new gadgets and applications.
SOURCE: Feng, J., and A. Sears. 2004. Using confidence scores to improve hands-free speech based navigation in continuous dictation systems. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction 11:329-356.
Quantum Corrections
How to check errors in a quantum computer
CONTEXT: To an outsider, the logic of quantum computing can seem mystical. While a standard bit represents data as one way or another (digital 0 or 1), a quantum bit stores data as one way and another (0 and 1 and all possibilities in between). While a standard computer must crunch through possible solutions one at a time, a quantum computer could, in theory, survey all solutions at once and pick the correct one in a single step. This is ideal for solutions that rely on trial and error, such as breaking encryption codes.
But, like some cursed mythical creature, much of the information contained in a quantum system will vanish if it is observed, because the process of looking at it disturbs the system. That means a user can look at the answer to a question but can't check the calculations behind it. A quantum computer therefore needs to correct errors reliably without anyone actually seeing them. Now, for the first time, John Chiaverini and colleagues from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have done this in a quantum system that could be scaled up.
METHODS AND RESULTS: In the NIST quantum computer, information is encoded in a single atom's quantum state. Using a process called entanglement, the fate of this "parent atom" is linked to that of two companion atoms, so that changes to the parent's condition are reflected in the companions. Using beryllium ions (atoms with electric charge) to carry quantum information, the researchers were able to disentangle, decode, and compare the states of the two companion ions and thus indirectly deduce whether an error had occurred. A laser pulse could then correct the original ion's quantum state without actually observing it.
WHY IT MATTERS: Many encryption techniques depend on the difficulty of factoring very large numbers through trial and error. A quantum computer could, in theory, defeat all such encryption systems and promises to be orders of magnitude more powerful than the most advanced systems today. So anyone interested in keeping digital secrets – from credit card numbers for Web transactions to classified information for governments and corporations – cares about quantum computing. Although a useful quantum computer is still far, far away, the work at NIST has shown how to lift one of the most bedeviling curses of quantum mechanics.
SOURCE: Chiaverini, J., et al. 2004. Realization of quantum error correction. Nature 432:602-605.
Scanning Your Thoughts
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CONTEXT: Can computers learn to read the human mind? Detecting thoughts may be beyond their abilities, but computers can be trained to recognize certain mental tasks from scans that monitor brain activity. One popular scanning technique, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), already aids the study of learning, memory, emotion, neural disorders, and psychiatric drugs. Using statistics and data analysis, researchers can identify patterns of activity as characteristic of certain mental activities and states. Now, Tom Mitchell and his colleagues at Carnegie Mellon University have shown that computers can automate this process, at least for some simple tasks.
METHODS AND RESULTS: Using fMRI data from subjects engaged in various tasks, the CMU team trained computers to recognize which fMRI patterns accompanied cognitive states for different tasks. During this process, the computer developed mathematical models to distinguish between different cognitive states. Then, given new fMRI data, the computers predicted the subjects' mental states from the brain scans. Though imperfect, the automatically trained computers convincingly outperformed chance in discriminating whether a subject was looking at sentences or pictures, reading ambiguous or nonambiguous sentences, and reading words associated with different categories such as people, tools, or fruit.
WHY IT MATTERS: This work shows that a computer can use the results from one set of brain scans to predict what a brain was doing during other scans. This capability could eventually lead to more accurate use of MRI scans in medicine. It might also speed up data analysis, particularly when one individual is being studied over time. And, since the computers learned to recognize brain activity from a single short interval rather than a composite of several scans over a longer time period, it might reduce the time each patient spends in an MRI machine, making expensive equipment more readily available.
More broadly, this work is an important application in the field of machine learning. With relatively few training examples, the computers were able to detect meaningful patterns in data containing thousands of inputs, many of them irrelevant or inaccurate. As scientists collect ever more detailed data sets from the brain and other complex systems, these techniques proffer a way to use the information more effectively.
SOURCE: Mitchell, T. M., et al. 2004. Learning to decode cognitive states from brain images. Machine Learning 57:145-175.
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Right now, a young Swedish girl has taken the world by storm and is spearheading the change we all need in 2019. Greta Thunberg was just 15 years old when her School Strike for Climate Change made the headlines last year. She skipped class, held out a placard and skipped school as a protest, a protest held outside parliament building She was alone, lonely and out of school: three things any 15-year-old should never be or feel.
Greta Thunberg. Image rights: Shutterstock
Kids should be in school, learning and looking forward to their healthy future, but this girl decided to take the power into her own hands. She refuses to be a part of the problem and grabbed it by the scruff of the neck. Fridays became her call to protest and gradually the protest crowd grew in size. People were not skipping school for the sake or fun of it, they did so to grab attention and to give the world leaders a crystal-clear message. When the international media took the story, it literally took off and last month millions of people went on protest every Friday of the month, causing chaos to the infrastructure and really driving home an important message: our politicians must listen before it is too late.
Between her first strike and last, Greta also took on an unlikely challenge. She was invited across the Atlantic to New York to take part in the UN Climate Summit, but in typical Greta fashion she wanted to cross the world on her own terms: using zero carbon emissions. How could she do this you ask? Well, sailing of course. She was built a zero-emissions sailing boat, and never used the engine as she sailed the seas across to her destination. Her aim was to attend the summit, but ensure she is not damaging the environment by traveling. Think about the hundreds of flights our world leaders and politicians take just to attend a two-hour meeting. The environmental damage a private or commercial aircraft makes is huge, so reducing that would be a good start for all leaders.
She had a crew of seasoned sailors to help her and was welcomed by a crowd of enthusiasts as she headed to New York City. The sailing boat, Malizia II was made for speed with no luxury and despite the rough seas it went incredibly well, and she was not seasick. She had to do her business in a bucket in order not to pollute the sea and slept on a bench in the boat.
The zero-carbon yacht used to transport Greta across the Atlantic Ocean. Image rights: Shutterstock.
From meeting President Trump…
Fast forward a few weeks and she attends the UN Climate Summit to meet an open climate change denier in the shape of the leader of the free world: Donald Trump. The two had a frosty initial relationship to say the least, with Greta giving him the now famous stare as he walked past her. Her speech at the event was simply stunning, so if you missed it here are the main bits:
…To a phenomenal speech
"This is all wrong. I shouldn't be standing here. I should be back in school on the other side of the ocean. Yet you all come to me for hope? How dare you!.
"You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words. And yet I'm one of the lucky ones. People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing.
"We are in the beginning of a mass extinction. And all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you!
"For more than 30 years the science has been crystal clear. How dare you continue to look away and come here saying that you are doing enough when the politics and solutions needed are still nowhere in sight.
With today's emissions levels, our remaining CO2 budget will be gone in less than 8.5 years.
"The popular idea of cutting our emissions in half in 10 years only gives us a 50% chance of staying below 1.5C degrees, and the risk of setting off irreversible chain reactions beyond human control.
"Maybe 50% is acceptable to you. But those numbers don't include tipping points, most feedback loops, additional warming hidden by toxic air pollution or the aspects of justice and equity.
To have a 67% chance of staying below a 1.5C global temperature rise – the best odds given by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – the world had 420 gigatons of carbon dioxide left to emit back on January 1, 2018. Today that figure is already down to less than 350 gigatons.
"How dare you pretend that this can be solved with business-as-usual and some technical solutions. With today's emissions levels, that remaining CO2 budget will be entirely gone in less than eight and a half years.
"There will not be any solutions or plans presented in line with these figures today. Because these numbers are too uncomfortable. And you are still not mature enough to tell it like it is.
"You are failing us. But the young people are starting to understand your betrayal. The eyes of all future generations are upon you. And if you choose to fail us I say we will never forgive you. We will not let you get away with this. Right here, right now is where we draw the line. The world is waking up. And change is coming, whether you like it or not."
It is hard to shorten that speech into the main extracts simply because it is too powerful, so in a rare piece of editorial, I will leave it 90% untouched, in raw form, to hammer down her vital point.
Maltese protests
Students of local schools also followed Greta's example and made their stand in front of the Parliament Buildings in Valletta. LovinMalta.com reported that some 50 students skipped their scholastic duties to push their message.
The protest was organised by Extension Rebellion Malta, and branch of the global Extinction Rebellion.
We are skipping our lessons to teach one was the overarching theme, and we can expect to see more strikes in the coming months as the local government declares a climate emergency. This has been described as a "Victory for Malta and MP Jose Herrera added:
By 2040 the average temperature of the Mediterranean will rise by 2.2 degrees celsius which is a cause of concern for everyone living on the islands.
May 2018 in The UK saw the birth of a protest which keeps gaining momentum, and Extinction Rebellion is now at full force across the globe.
652 events are planned worldwide where civilians congregate and cause civil disruption in a non-violent way, to disturb and shake up cities. The organization has three aims detailed on their website
Government must tell the truth by declaring a climate and ecological emergency, working with other institutions to communicate the urgency for change.
Government must act now to halt biodiversity loss and reduce greenhouse gas emissions to net-zero by 2025.[16]
Government must create, and be led by the decisions of, a citizens' assembly on climate and ecological justice.
Respectful disruption is the key, as they plan to show world leaders and governors that the current way of life is totally unsustainable and systems will collapse if things do not change. Targeting cities and major networks not only brings maximized attention but also puts pressure on businesses operating within those parameters.
Rebel for Life. Image credits: Shutterstock
Earlier this month an English Paralympian climbed ontop of an airplane at London City airport as his disruption and told Sky News:
"This is all about the climate and ecological crisis. We're protesting at government inaction on climate and ecological breakdown. They declare a climate emergency and do nothing about it."
Throughout the summer, hundreds of people have tried to shut the airport causing travel chaos as a protest to the environmental impact of air travel. During the first 10 days of October 800 protesters were arrested as the movement gains traction.
We'll keep an eye out on the Extinction Rebellion and the wonders of Greta Thunberg, updating you when we see necessary.
The planned protests
European Week of Waste Reduction
November 16th – 24th is the European Week of Waste Reduction and we have a host of events here at the Malta National Aquarium. This year the focus is "Change your ways, reduce your waste" and the whole European Union will be pulling in the same direction. Check out the map here to see which countries and venues are involved.
Our unique spin on this is a trash hunt, where we will have the task of retrieving trash hidden in different tanks. General conversations will take part around the trash items and what we can do to reduce their usage. Come and join in the fun from November 16th onwards at the Malta National Aquarium.
Beyond Politics: Image credits: Shutterstock


SWL Tischlerplatten Betriebs-GmbH headquartered in Langenberg, /Westphalia will bring the Kollerbeck/Marienmünster wood processing plant, which was shut down in 2014, back into operation in Spring 2016.
The machines were acquired by Scheibner GmbH/Schlitz from Volksbank Paderborn from the insolvency estate and now resold directly to SWL.
At the same time, the 3.7 ha site was purchased including hall space of 4,500m².
The plant originally specialised in the production of impregnated roof battens. These are to be produced in future in a kiln-dried version. Production of approx. 15,000 m³ battens/year as well as other products such as planks and squared timber is planned. The corresponding kilns are to be procured for this purpose.
However, most of the sawn timber produced is to go to the manufacture of core materials for blockboards; thus considerably increasing company production by 15,000 m³ core material/year. Additional drying capacity and a new core material line are to be set up at the Langenberg site.
The sawmill has a total maximum cutting capacity of approx. 250,000 solid cubic metre/year.
The production site facilities include a Springer fully automated log yard, a Linck chipper canter/circular saw line as well as an Esterer high-performance multiple-blade frame saw, both automated.
There is also an EWD edger/resaw unit Combimes BNK and a HANSES batten bundler and stacking unit.
SWL is also planning cutting of 85,000 solid cubic metre in one-shift operation.


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Ron Paul agrees with President Donald Trump's comments about the Federal Reserve.
In a piece on Fox Business, Paul specifically talks about Trump's recent comments about the Fed not knowing "what it is doing" while maintaining that it is "the most difficult problem" that the U.S. is facing today.
The former congressman described Trump's concern about the Fed as "commendable".
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Despite being created to protect the U.S. dollar and prevent economic crises, under its watch, major U.S. recessions have occurred, and Americans' buying power has declined by a full 95 percent.
On top of that, the Fed has a bad track record of stabilizing prices, which Paul also highlights:
According to data from the Heritage Foundation, Consumer Price Index inflation in the pre-Fed years of 1790-1912 was just 0.22 percent, but between 1913-2013, it skyrocketed to 3.35 percent. So much for its goal of stabilizing prices.
Paul cites how Trump is the first president since Reagan to criticize the Federal Reserve. However, Paul believes that "calling out the central bank's failures is one thing; acting on instinct by checking its power is quite another."
But the question remains if Trump is willing to stop the Fed from doing more harm to the American economy. The Federal Reserve is planning to use real-time payments, which according to Paul will ensure "immediate, on-the-spot bank transfers." The Fed claims that the U.S. needs faster payments "for the conveniences they provide, such as the ability to pay another individual on-the-spot using a mobile phone application" in order to provide "consumers, households, and businesses more flexibility in managing their money."
Indeed, domestic banking in America is slower than other countries. However, there are several reasons for the Fed to not get involved with real-time payments. According to the Monetary Control Act, which was signed into law in 1980, the Fed can only create its own payment services if "the service is one that other providers alone cannot be expected to provide with reasonable effectiveness, scope, and equity."
In this regard, the Fed need not step in. Venmo, Mastercard Send, and The Clearing House's RTP system already have this function covered.
Paul insists that Trump hold the Fed's "feet to the fire." He encouraged him to "work with Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., and Rep. Thomas Massie, R-Ky., to expedite passage of their Audit the Fed legislation should the Federal Reserve decide to disobey the will of its creator – Congress – by involving itself in real-time payments."
In Paul's view, it is Trump that can stop the Fed's mischief. After all, the Fed has been responsible for "rampant inflation, economic recessions, and even wealth inequality" during the course of a century.
Paul left the final piece of advice for President Trump:
While he doesn't control monetary policy, the least the president can do is prevent the Fed from running the private marketplace amuck by disobeying orders from Congress, the very body that created it in the first place. Let's hope he's up for the task.
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package com.home.voicelab;

import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

import org.andengine.engine.camera.Camera;
import org.andengine.engine.options.EngineOptions;
import org.andengine.engine.options.ScreenOrientation;
import org.andengine.engine.options.resolutionpolicy.FillResolutionPolicy;
import org.andengine.entity.primitive.Rectangle;
import org.andengine.entity.scene.IOnSceneTouchListener;
import org.andengine.entity.scene.Scene;
import org.andengine.entity.scene.background.Background;
import org.andengine.entity.sprite.Sprite;
import org.andengine.entity.util.FPSLogger;
import org.andengine.input.touch.TouchEvent;
import org.andengine.input.touch.detector.ClickDetector;
import org.andengine.input.touch.detector.ClickDetector.IClickDetectorListener;
import org.andengine.input.touch.detector.ScrollDetector;
import org.andengine.input.touch.detector.ScrollDetector.IScrollDetectorListener;
import org.andengine.input.touch.detector.SurfaceScrollDetector;
import org.andengine.opengl.font.Font;
import org.andengine.opengl.font.FontFactory;
import org.andengine.opengl.texture.TextureOptions;
import org.andengine.opengl.texture.atlas.bitmap.BitmapTextureAtlas;
import org.andengine.opengl.texture.atlas.bitmap.BitmapTextureAtlasTextureRegionFactory;
import org.andengine.opengl.texture.region.ITextureRegion;
import org.andengine.ui.activity.BaseGameActivity;

import android.graphics.Color;
import android.util.DisplayMetrics;

public class GameMenu extends BaseGameActivity implements IScrollDetectorListener, IOnSceneTouchListener, IClickDetectorListener {

    protected static int FONT_SIZE = 24;
    protected static int PADDING = 50;
    protected static int MENUITEMS = 3;

	protected int CAMERA_HEIGHT;
	protected int CAMERA_WIDTH;
	protected Camera mCamera;
	private BitmapTextureAtlas mFontTexture;
	private Font mFont;
    private List<ITextureRegion> columns = new ArrayList<ITextureRegion>();
	private BitmapTextureAtlas mMenuTextureAtlas;
	private ITextureRegion mMenuLeftTextureRegion;
	private ITextureRegion mMenuRightTextureRegion;
	private Scene mScene;
	private SurfaceScrollDetector mScrollDetector;
	private ClickDetector mClickDetector;
    private float mMinX = 0;
    private float mMaxX = 0;
    private float mCurrentX = 0;
    private int iItemClicked = -1;
	private Rectangle scrollBar;
	private Sprite menuleft;
	private Sprite menuright;

	@Override
	public EngineOptions onCreateEngineOptions() {
		DisplayMetrics metrics = new DisplayMetrics();
		getWindowManager().getDefaultDisplay().getMetrics(metrics);
		CAMERA_HEIGHT = metrics.heightPixels;
		CAMERA_WIDTH = metrics.widthPixels;

        this.mCamera = new Camera(0, 0, CAMERA_WIDTH, CAMERA_HEIGHT);
        final EngineOptions engineOptions = new EngineOptions(true, ScreenOrientation.LANDSCAPE_FIXED, new FillResolutionPolicy(), this.mCamera);
        return engineOptions;
	}

	@Override
	public void onCreateResources(
			OnCreateResourcesCallback pOnCreateResourcesCallback)
			throws Exception {
		// Paths
        FontFactory.setAssetBasePath("font/");
        BitmapTextureAtlasTextureRegionFactory.setAssetBasePath("gfx/");

        // Font
        this.mFontTexture = new BitmapTextureAtlas(this.getTextureManager(), 256, 256);
        this.mFont = FontFactory.createFromAsset(this.getFontManager(), mFontTexture, getAssets(), "Plok.TTF", FONT_SIZE, true, Color.BLACK);
        this.mEngine.getTextureManager().loadTexture(this.mFontTexture);
        this.mEngine.getFontManager().loadFont(this.mFont);

        //Images for the menu
        for (int i = 0; i < MENUITEMS; i++) {
        	BitmapTextureAtlas mMenuBitmapTextureAtlas = new BitmapTextureAtlas(this.getTextureManager(), 256,256, TextureOptions.BILINEAR_PREMULTIPLYALPHA);
    		ITextureRegion mMenuTextureRegion = BitmapTextureAtlasTextureRegionFactory.createFromAsset(mMenuBitmapTextureAtlas, this, "menu"+i+".png", 0, 0);

        	this.mEngine.getTextureManager().loadTexture(mMenuBitmapTextureAtlas);
        	columns.add(mMenuTextureRegion);

        }
        //Textures for menu arrows
        this.mMenuTextureAtlas = new BitmapTextureAtlas(this.getTextureManager(), 128,128, TextureOptions.BILINEAR_PREMULTIPLYALPHA);
        this.mMenuLeftTextureRegion = BitmapTextureAtlasTextureRegionFactory.createFromAsset(mMenuTextureAtlas, this, "menu_left.png", 0, 0);
        this.mMenuRightTextureRegion = BitmapTextureAtlasTextureRegionFactory.createFromAsset(mMenuTextureAtlas, this, "menu_right.png",64, 0);
        this.mEngine.getTextureManager().loadTexture(mMenuTextureAtlas);

	}

	@Override
	public void onCreateScene(OnCreateSceneCallback pOnCreateSceneCallback)
			throws Exception {
        this.mEngine.registerUpdateHandler(new FPSLogger());

        this.mScene = new Scene();
        this.mScene.setBackground(new Background(0, 0, 0));

        this.mScrollDetector = new SurfaceScrollDetector(this);
        this.mClickDetector = new ClickDetector(this);

        this.mScene.setOnSceneTouchListener(this);
        //this.mScene.setTouchAreaBindingEnabled(true);
        //this.mScene.setOnSceneTouchListenerBindingEnabled(true);

        CreateMenuBoxes();

        //return this.mScene;

	}

	private void CreateMenuBoxes() {
		int spriteX = PADDING;
		int spriteY = PADDING;

		// current item counter
		int iItem = 1;

		for (int x = 0; x < columns.size(); x++) {

			// On Touch, save the clicked item in case it's a click and not a
			// scroll.
			final int itemToLoad = iItem;

			Sprite sprite = new Sprite(spriteX, spriteY, columns.get(x), this.getVertexBufferObjectManager()) {

				public boolean onAreaTouched(final TouchEvent pSceneTouchEvent,
						final float pTouchAreaLocalX,
						final float pTouchAreaLocalY) {
					iItemClicked = itemToLoad;
					return false;
				}
			};
			iItem++;

			this.mScene.attachChild(sprite);
			this.mScene.registerTouchArea(sprite);

			spriteX += 20 + PADDING + sprite.getWidth();
		}

		mMaxX = spriteX - CAMERA_WIDTH;

		// set the size of the scrollbar
		float scrollbarsize = CAMERA_WIDTH / ((mMaxX + CAMERA_WIDTH) / CAMERA_WIDTH);
		scrollBar = new Rectangle(0, CAMERA_HEIGHT - 20, scrollbarsize, 20, this.getVertexBufferObjectManager());
		scrollBar.setColor(1, 0, 0);
		this.mScene.attachChild(scrollBar);

		menuleft = new Sprite(0, CAMERA_HEIGHT / 2 - mMenuLeftTextureRegion.getHeight() / 2, mMenuLeftTextureRegion, this.getVertexBufferObjectManager());
		menuright = new Sprite(CAMERA_WIDTH - mMenuRightTextureRegion.getWidth(), CAMERA_HEIGHT / 2 - mMenuRightTextureRegion.getHeight() / 2, mMenuRightTextureRegion, this.getVertexBufferObjectManager());
		this.mScene.attachChild(menuright);
		menuleft.setVisible(false);
		this.mScene.attachChild(menuleft);

	}

	@Override
	public void onPopulateScene(Scene pScene,
			OnPopulateSceneCallback pOnPopulateSceneCallback) throws Exception {
		// TODO Auto-generated method stub

	}

	@Override
	public void onClick(ClickDetector pClickDetector, int pPointerID,
			float pSceneX, float pSceneY) {
		// TODO Auto-generated method stub

	}

	@Override
	public boolean onSceneTouchEvent(Scene pScene, TouchEvent pSceneTouchEvent) {
        this.mClickDetector.onTouchEvent(pSceneTouchEvent);
        this.mScrollDetector.onTouchEvent(pSceneTouchEvent);
        return true;
	}

	@Override
	public void onScrollStarted(ScrollDetector pScollDetector, int pPointerID,
			float pDistanceX, float pDistanceY) {
		// TODO Auto-generated method stub

	}

	@Override
	public void onScroll(ScrollDetector pScollDetector, int pPointerID,float pDistanceX, float pDistanceY) {
		//Disable the menu arrows left and right (15px padding)
    	if(mCamera.getXMin()<=15)
         	menuleft.setVisible(false);
         else
         	menuleft.setVisible(true);

    	 if(mCamera.getXMin()>mMaxX-15)
             menuright.setVisible(false);
         else
        	 menuright.setVisible(true);

        //Return if ends are reached
        if ( ((mCurrentX - pDistanceX) < mMinX)  ){
            return;
        }else if((mCurrentX - pDistanceX) > mMaxX){

        	return;
        }

        //Center camera to the current point
        this.mCamera.offsetCenter(-pDistanceX,0 );
        mCurrentX -= pDistanceX;

        //Set the scrollbar with the camera
        float tempX =mCamera.getCenterX()-CAMERA_WIDTH/2;
        // add the % part to the position
        tempX+= (tempX/(mMaxX+CAMERA_WIDTH))*CAMERA_WIDTH;
        //set the position
        scrollBar.setPosition(tempX, scrollBar.getY());

        //set the arrows for left and right
        menuright.setPosition(mCamera.getCenterX()+CAMERA_WIDTH/2-menuright.getWidth(),menuright.getY());
        menuleft.setPosition(mCamera.getCenterX()-CAMERA_WIDTH/2,menuleft.getY());

        //Because Camera can have negative X values, so set to 0
    	if(this.mCamera.getXMin()<0){
    		this.mCamera.offsetCenter(0,0 );
    		mCurrentX=0;
    	}

	}

	@Override
	public void onScrollFinished(ScrollDetector pScollDetector, int pPointerID,
			float pDistanceX, float pDistanceY) {
		// TODO Auto-generated method stub

	}

}

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love Solana Beach regardless of our position on Prop B! Loving Solana Beach is not the issue. The real issue is that, because we all love our city, we all want access to its amenities — including the Fletcher Cove Community Center and the area surrounding it. Who will have access to that scenic area? Who will be allowed to enjoy those spectacular sunsets from the top of the bluffs north of Fletcher Cove? On weekends will those benefits be used only by guests at private parties in roped-off areas or will access be open to all of us as it has been for many years?
Public Access also won't be possible without parking availability. Parking in the Community Center area is already limited when summertime beach-goers or concert-attendees line the neighborhood streets with their cars. Do we really want to add to our beach parking congestion by encouraging an additional 100 guests to compete for those spaces every weekend of the year? A vote for Prop B invites that increased congestion!
Alternatively, the council's community center rental policy allows smaller private parties every other weekend and balances the access and parking needs of the entire community. We do all love Solana Beach and we need a satisfactory guideline for sharing it fairly and equitably. Prop B is not a satisfactory solution---vote "No" on Prop B!


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Q: Thinktecture Identity Server HRD I would like to use Thinktecture identity server V2 "WS-Federation HRD" to let users can login with Facebook account or the identity server I created by Thinktecture identity server.
the following is my use case. I also refer the https://github.com/thinktecture/Thinktecture.IdentityServer.v2/issues/484 to try to config my Thinkecture identity server,
it can show the HRD login page and I can login successful but it always redirect to the Thinktecture identity server Home page not to the client application after I login successful.
Can anyone tell me the how can I configurate it on Thinktecture Identity Server and the ASP.NET MVC Client Application configuration?
use case:
1.(APP Client)abc.cloudapp.net/oauthclient2/
2.=> Thinktecture identity server "hrd" page (https://def.cloudapp.net/identityserver/ )
3.=> login with facebook or IDP(identity server) if successful then
4.=> redirect to (APP Client)abc.cloudapp.net/oauthclient2/

A: The guide that you mentioned is OK. The problem you might have is at the last screen.
Try to set Redirect URL back to your application (abc.cloudapp.net/oauthclient2/) in the relaying party for your application (abc.cloudapp.net/oauthclient2/).

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Balance and the 'good' diabetic in Britain, c.1900–60
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dangerous acid bodies that heralded the onset of coma. 15 Building on these insights, one London specialist declared in 1912 that 'the aim of modern treatment in diabetes' was 'to balance the diet in such a way that nutrition is as perfect as possible without … unnecessary strain on the organs of metabolism in any direction'. 16 During this period, practitioners devised managerial frameworks of ongoing surveillance and therapeutic
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, isolation and physical labour, reflecting, and feeding into, the pervasive endocrinal focus of mid-century stress research. Meanwhile, the British researchers studied metabolism, fat deposition, nutrition, fatigue and desensitisation to cold – all markers of earlier twentieth-century stress research, but also themes that would become absorbed into later studies of stress which figured it as part of a complex of lifestyle disorders that included obesity and heart disease. 6 Such work contributed to the development of
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–87. 81 NRS, HH98/454, 49, letter by C. F. Fleming (Medical Secretary) to Working Group, 'The management of diabetes', 23 December 1986, p. 1. 82 WLA, P9997, Nutritional Subcommittee of the BDA, 'Dietary recommendations for the 1980s – a policy statement by the British Diabetic Association', 1982. For citations: SHHD et al., Report of the Working Group on the Management of Diabetes , pp. 34–5; M. E. J. Lean and W. P. T. James, 'Prescription of diabetic diets in the 1980s', BMJ , 292:6524 (1986), 723–5. 83 Lean and
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(van der Sanden 1996 : 92, 99). The iconic Windeby 'Girl' (the front cover for Aldhouse-Green's 2016 monograph) has recently been reidentified as a 'boy' (Gill-Robinson 2007 ; Fischer 2012 : 137), aged around fourteen at the time of death. He suffered from episodic malnutrition and illness during his life, which left their mark in pronounced Harris lines of nutritional stress on the tibia (van der Sanden 1996 : 112). His hair had been unevenly cut in two different stages, close-cropped. There is no obvious cause of death, but following his demise, he was laid
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notable absences, at least in contemporary ethnographic analyses, are references to aspects of individual psychology, such as, for example, the subconscious, intelligence or personality (though personality theory did have a strong influence on ethnographers in the 1930s through into the 1940s). Generally absent too are references to biogenetic matters, be it the effects of the 'selfish gene', nutritional requirements or circadian rhythms. Indeed, many ethnographers, myself included, consider that ethnography begins where biological determinism peters out: our interest
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'reasty', which also is etymologically linked to 'reasy' and 'rusty'. 28 George Peele, The Old Wives Tale (1595), s.d. E1r. 29 See Helkiah Crooke, Mikrokosmographia (1615), p. 576; Walter Charleton, Natural History of Nutrition, Life, and Voluntary Motion (1659), p. 97. 30 Scipion Dupleix, The Resolver (1635), P2v. Cf. Pierre de La Primaudaye, The French Academie (1618) p. 127. 31 See Crooke, pp. 66–70. 32 Will Fisher, 'Staging the Beard', in Staged Properties in Early Modern English Drama, ed. Jonathan Gil Harris and Natasha Korda (Cambridge: Cambridge University
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anger from camp administrators concerned at the disruption to their systems that eventually it was carried out secretly and at night. The physical condition of the refugees was by contrast a focus of attention, with data being collected on births and deaths, disease and nutritional status. As far as assistance to refugees was concerned, the main objective of the camp officials was 'to get the death rates down'.38 Restoring productivity and economic livelihoods was a secondary concern, relegated to 'phase two' of the relief operation. The Tigrayans themselves did not
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the English version of eighteen years before (1605). Bacon also wrote at length elsewhere on matters of health, sickness and nutrition, mostly in his late natural histories: the Sylva Sylvarum, and the History of Life and Death (Historia vitae et mortis, 1623). These medical issues are a vital – but rather neglected – aspect of Bacon's interest in nature.30 Moreover, his growing preoccupation with medicine emerges strongly in the late New Atlantis. The work as a whole manifests a deep interest in the central questions of Renaissance medicine: how to cure disease
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500 tons of water to make 1 ton of potatoes. A ton of wheat needs 900 tons, maize 1,400 tons, and rice comes in at a mighty 2,200 tons (Mekonnen and Hoekstra 2010). The international trade in food can therefore be understood an international trade in water. In the sciences, a proxy is a measurement of one physical quantity that is used as an indicator for the value of another. Food can be considered to be a proxy for both water and for the chemicals required for human nutrition. Former ages were attuned to this fact: for example, owners of watermills who diverted
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FKA Twigs drops sophomore album "Magdalene"
British singer/songwriter Tahliah Barnett, known professionally as FKA Twigs, has dropped her sophomore album under Young Turks Recordings.
"Magdalene" – featuring singles "Cellophane," "Holy Terrain," "Home With You" and "Sad Day" – is now available via all digital streaming outlets.
The follow-up to 2014's "LP1" was prominently produced by Nicolas Jaar with additional contributions from Benny Blanco, Cashmere Cat, Noah Goldstein, Skrillex, Jason Boyd, Koreless, Jack Antonoff, Kenny Beats, Sounwave, Oneohtrix Point Never, Arca, Jeff Kleinman, and Michael Uzowuru.
Stream "Magdalene" below.
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FKA Twigs drops new single "Sad Day"
British singer/songwriter Tahliah Barnett, professionally known as FKA Twigs, has released her new single online.
"Sad Day" is now available via iTunes, Apple Music, Amazon, Google Play, Tidal and all other digital streaming platforms.
The track was collectively produced by FKA Twigs alongside Nicolas Jaar (Daft Punk, The Weeknd), Benny Blanco (Halsey, Ed Sheeran), Skrillex (Mariah Carey, Justin Bieber) and Noah Goldstein (Teyana Taylor, Kanye West).
Twigs' upcoming sophomore album "Magdalene" – featuring previous singles "Cellophane," "Holy Terrain" and "Home With You" – is scheduled to arrive on November 8th via Young Turks Recordings.
Other contributors on the follow-up to 2014's "LP1" are Cashmere Cat, Arca, Sounwave, Koreless, Jack Antonoff, Poo Bear, Oneohtrix Point Never, Kenny Beats, Ethan P. Flynn, Michael Uzowuru, and Jeff Kleinman.
Stream the audio clip for "Sad Day" below.
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FKA twigs premieres music video for new single "Home With You"
FKA twigs has premiered the music video for her new single online.
The self-directed clip for "Home With You" was posted to the British singer/songwriter's YouTube channel on Monday (October 07, 2019).
The track – which was written and produced by twigs (real name Tahliah Barnett) algonside Ethan P. Flynn – is now available via iTunes, Apple Music, Amazon, Google Play, Tidal and all other digital streaming platforms.
As mentioned in various media outlets, Twigs' upcoming sophomore album "Magdalene" – featuring previous singles "Cellophane" and "Holy Terrain" – is scheduled to arrive on November 8th via Young Turks Recordings.
Other album contributors include Nicholas Jaar, Benny Blanco, Cashmere Cat, Arca, Noah Goldstein, Sounwave, Koreless, Jack Antonoff, Skrillex, Jason Boyd, Oneohtrix Point Never, Kenny Beats, Michael Uzowuru, and Jeff Kleinman.
Watch the music video for "Home With You" below.
Tags: Alejandro "Arca" Ghersi, Alejandro Ghersi, Arca, Benjamin "Benny Blanco" Levin, Benjamin Levin, Benny Blanco, Cashmere Cat, Daniel "Oneohtrix Point Never" Lopatin, Daniel Lopatin, Ethan P. Flynn, FKA Twigs, Jack Antonoff, Jason "Poo Bear" Boyd, Jason Boyd, Jeff Kleinman, Kenneth "Kenny Beats" Blume, Kenneth Blume, Kenny Beats, Koreless, Lewis "Koreless" Roberts, Lewis Roberts, Magnus "Cashmere Cat" Hoiberg, Magnus Hoiberg, Mark Spears, Michael Uzowuru, Nicholas Jaar, Noah Goldstein, Oneohtrix Point Never, Poo Bear, Skrillex, Sonny "Skrillex" More, Sonny Moore, Sounwave, Tahliah "FKA twigs" Barnett, Tahliah Barnett, Young Turks Recordings
FKA twigs confirms details for sophomore album "Magdalene"
FKA twigs has confirmed the details for her upcoming sophomore album.
The British singer/songwriter christened her second studio collection "Magdalene" and will release it on October 25 via Young Turks Recordings.
Current promotional single "Holy Terrain" (featuring Future) – which was collectively produced by Skrillex, Jack Antonoff, Sounwave, Noah Goldstein, and Kenny Beats – is now available via all digital streaming outlets.
Besides confirmed collaborators Nicholas Jaar, Jeff Kleinman, Dave Ozuwuru and Jason Boyd, the follow-up to 2014's "LP1" reportedly boasts further alliances with Rick Nowels, Sia Furler, and Levi Lennox.
See the tracklisting for "Magdalene" below.
(1) Thousand Eyes / (2) Home With You / (3) Sad Day / (4) Holy Terrain / (5) Mary Magdalene / (6) Fallen Alien / (7) Mirrored Heart / (8) Daybed / (9) Cellophane
Tags: Against All Logic, FKA Twigs, Jack Antonoff, Jason "Poo Bear" Boyd, Jason Boyd, Kenneth "Kenny Beats" Blume, Kenneth Blume, Kenny Beats, Levi Lennox, Mark "Sounwave" Spears, Mark Spears, Nicholas "A.A.L." Jaar, Nicholas Jaar, Noah Goldstein, Poo Bear, Rick Nowels, Sia Furler, Skrillex, Sonny "Skrillex" Moore, Sonny Moore, Sounwave, Tahliah "FKA twigs" Barnett, Tahliah Barnett, Young Turks Recordings
Categories Albums, Artworks, Release Dates, Tracklistings
FKA twigs unleashes music video for new single "Cellophane"
FKA twigs has unleashed the music video for her new single online.
The Andrew Thomas Huang-directed clip for "Cellophane" was posted to the British singer/songwriter's YouTube channel on Wednesday (April 24, 2019).
Now available via iTunes and all other digital streaming outlets; "Cellophane" was written by FKA twigs (born Tahliah Barnett) alongside Jeff Kleinman (Arlissa, Kelsey Lu) and Michael Uzowuru (Jorja Smith, Frank Ocean).
As mentioned in earlier posts, FKA twigs upcoming project – featuring further contributions Rick Nowels, Levi Lennox, and Sia Furler – is expected to arrive later this year via Young Turks Recordings.
Watch the music video for "Cellophane" below.
Tags: FKA Twigs, Jeff Kleinman, Levi Lennox, Michael Uzowuru, Rick Nowels, Sia Furler, Young Turks Recordings
FKA twigs taps Benny Blanco, Cashmere Cat for new collaboration
British singer/songwriter Tahliah Barnett, professionally known as FKA twigs, has tapped Benny Blanco and Cashmere Cat for a new collaboration.
The songwriting and production duo are responsible for Avicii's "Lonely Together," Camila Cabello's "Crying in the Club," Jessie Ware's "Selfish Love," Tory Lanez's "Luv," MØ's "Nights with You," and Halsey's "Now or Never."
Benny Blanco and Cashmere Cat have also worked with Ariana Grande ("Be My Baby"), Jhene Aiko ("Never Call Me"), The Weeknd ("True Colors"), Miguel ("Going to Hell"), Ryn Weaver ("OctaHate") and Kanye West ("Ghost Town").
Meanwhile, twigs is expected to release her upcoming sophomore album later this year via Young Turks Recordings.
The follow-up to 2014's "LP1" reportedly yields additional productions and songwriting contributions from Sia, Rick Nowels, Ariel Rechtshaid, Two Inch Punch, Andrew Wyatt, Levi Lennox, and Hit-Boy.
Watch the music video for "Pendulum" below.
Tags: Andrew Wyatt, Ariel Rechtshaid, Benjamin "Benny Blanco" Levin, Benjamin "Two Inch Punch" Ash, Benjamin Ash, Benjamin Levin, Benny Blanco, Cashmere Cat, Chauncey "Hit-Boy" Hollis, Chauncey Hollis, FKA Twigs, Hit-Boy, Levi Lennox, Magnus "Cashmere Cat" Hoiberg, Magnus Hoiberg, Rick Nowels, Sia Furler, Tahliah "FKA twigs" Barnett, Tahliah Barnett, Two Inch Punch, Young Turks Recordings
FKA twigs enlists Hit-Boy for new collaboration
British singer/songwriter Tahliah Barnett, professionally known as FKA twigs, has teamed up with Hit-Boy for a new collaboration.
The American record producer, born Chauncey Hollis, is known for his works with Beyonce ("Bow Down"), Kelly Rowland ("Lay it On Me"), Mary J. Blige ("Stronger"), Rihanna ("Watch n' Learn"), Nicki Minaj ("Feeling Myself"), Mariah Carey ("Thirsty"), Tinashe ("Joyride") and Chloe x Halle ("Red Lights").
Meanwhile, twigs is expected to release her upcoming sophomore album is scheduled to arrive later this year via Young Turks Recordings.
The follow-up to 2014's "LP1" reportedly yields additional ontributions from Rick Nowels (Lana Del Rey, Sabrina Claudio), Benny Blanco (Kacy Hill, The Weeknd), Two Inch Punch (Kali Uchis, Jessie Ware), Andrew Wyatt (Dua Lipa, Bruno Mars) and Levi Lennox (Raye, Zayn Malik).
Stream the following playlist dedicated to Hit-Boy's works!
Tags: Benjamin "Benny Blanco" Levin, Benjamin "Two Inch Punch" Ash, Benjamin Ash, Benjamin Blanco, Benny Blanco, Chauncey "Hit-Boy" Hollis, Chauncey Hollis, FKA Twigs, Hit-Boy, Levi Lennox, Rick Nowels, Tahliah "FKA twigs" Barnett, Tahliah Barnett, Two Inch Punch, Young Turks Recordings


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Q: CaBundle open_basedir restriction We have a project that has been in production for months (all its configs were working fine, no issues - including https and user access).
We rewrote part of code under Symfony 4 (no framework was used before that). Everything works perfectly on local, but, in production we started getting the following error in logs:
vendor/composer/ca-bundle/src/CaBundle.php is_dir(): open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/usr/local/etc/openssl) is not within the allowed path(s)

Any idea what might cause that (well... the error is obvious and one fix would be just to include that in allowed paths, but I don't want to do that until I understand the root cause of the problem)?
Important notes:

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*We did not include that particular bundle, is part of the composer.

*Composer doesn't fail and no errors are received during composer install command.

*The project SEEMS to work as expected despite the log line.

*We have Cloudfare in front and https certificate is correcty handled there.

*The list of used bundles is rather short but if needed I can provide a list.

*We make no specific calls to functions from that bundle (if any are made, are made by something in symfony/3rd party bundles but a quick search in all code (including vendor) revealed nothing).

I'm kind of running out of ideas what might be causing the problem, especially since it doesn't happen on local and even in production the project seems OK.

A: The CA-bundle is trying to read from the usr/local/etc/openssl, and it fails because it's not in one of the allowed directories for the PHP process.
It happens in one machine and not in the other because your local openbase_dir settings do not match those in production (and are likely to be much lax, as it usually happens on development).
Your have two options:

*

*Change your openbase_dir setting on production so it's more permissive, at least for that specific virtual-host.

*Check which package you are installing depends on Ca-Bundle, and remove that package so it's no longer included.
Further reading:

*

*How to set for specific directory open_basedir

*Composer: how to know a package by what other package is required


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Prince Harry and fiancée Meghan Markle greeted Invictus Games athletes Friday during trials for the British team.
With just a few weeks to go before their May 19 wedding, Harry, 33, and Markle, 36, met with athletes for this year's games, which will be held in Sydney beginning on Oct. 18. More than 500 competitors from 18 nations will participate.
The prince served in the British Army and established the Invictus Games in 2014 as a competition for wounded service members.
The royal couple plans to attend the ceremonies.
They made their first public appearance as an item during last year's games in Toronto. Markle was living there at the time while filming the television series "Suits."
A service member at Friday's trial chatted briefly with Markle. "She told me she had never been to Australia but was going to this year's event and really looking forward to being there with Harry," said Michael Mellon.


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Moustapha Saya Kaigama est une personnalité politique du Cameroun. Il est Député, Membre du bureau de l'Assemblée Nationale du Cameroun et militant du Rassemblement Démocratique du Peuple Camerounais (RDPC). Sa circonscription est celle du Mbam et Kim (Région Centre). Moustapha Saya Kaigama est Chef d'entreprise PDG Saya SARL, (International Trading, Information Technology Agrobusiness ) et Chef de la communauté Vútè de Yaoundé.

Biographie
Moustapha Saya Kaigama est né le 04 Août 1981 à Nanga-Eboko. Musulman, ressortissant de l'arrondissement de Yoko, il est Chef de la Communauté Vútè de Yaoundé. Homme politique et Entrepreneur camerounais, il est marié et père de plusieurs enfants.

Fils de Tagnineing Aoudou, homme politique et de Yamenga Georgette, il a très vite compris l'importance de la foi, du pardon et de la solidarité. Fervent musulman, mais aussi proche de plusieurs autres obédiences, il fait son premier jeûne de Ramadan à l'âge de 08 ans.

Formation
Le parcours scolaire et académique de Moustapha Saya Kaigama se déroule sans embûches. En effet, il obtient le CEPE (Certificat d'Étude Primaire et Elémentaire) au cours moyen première année (CMI) en 1991 et le Baccalauréat de l'enseignement secondaire général série A4 Allemand en 1998. Sa formation académique est couronnée par l'obtention de plusieurs diplômes dans les Universités d'État et privées du Cameroun et dans des universités étrangères:

 2001, Licence en Économie Monétaire et Bancaire à l'Université de Ngaoundéré.
 2003, Maîtrise en Économie de Gestion dont le mémoire s'intitule, «Gestion Stratégique de l'information et pérennité d'une Institution de microfinance: cas de la Cameroon Cooperative Credit Union League ( CAMCCUL)» à l'Université Catholique d'Afrique Centrale.
 2007, Hight Troughput Satellite System Certificate de la China Academy of Space Technology, équivalent au Master professionnel en gestion     des programmes spatiaux et des applications technologiques des satellites.

Carrière politique
Moustapha Saya Kaigama s'intéresse très tôt à la gestion de la chose Publique. Cela justifie sa présence et son activisme au sein du Rassemblement Démocratique du Peuple Camerounais (RDPC) parti du Président de la République Paul Biya, où il milite depuis 2003 au comité de base de Yoko village, et devient Trésorier de la section Mbam et Kim Nord en 2005. Sous la casquette d'homme politique, tenu par la main par son père, il réalise un brillant et élogieux parcours. Paré d'expérience et d'engagement il passe très vite de simple militant de base à Élu de la Nation au Parlement Camerounais où il occupe plusieurs fonctions: Député, Secrétaire du Bureau de l'Assemblée Nationale, Président du Groupe d'amitié Inter- parlementaire Argentine-Cameroun et Trésorier du Réseau Parlementaire pour la Diaspora et les Collectivités Décentralisées (REPCOD).

Le déclic politique intervient chez Moustapha Saya Kaigama lors de la rencontre et d'un entretien avec le Président de la République Paul Biya en 2006 au sommet de Beijing. Le Président l'avait motivé à être endurant dans ses activités. Pour matérialiser l'élan de ce vœu, le Chef de l'État accorda plusieurs audiences à quelques-uns de ses partenaires d'affaires lors de ce sommet. " Lorsque vous êtes présent auprès des 19 000 habitants du Département du Mbam et Kim et avez des modèles et parrains comme le Ministre René Emmanuel Sadi, puis encadré par Madame Le Sénateur Nicole Okala, vous ne pouvez être que parmi les meilleurs de votre environnement!" lui avait déclaré le Président Paul Biya...

Moustapha Saya Kaigama a toujours admiré la patience et la sagesse du Président Paul Biya, l'importance qu'il accorde à la paix et la solidarité à son pays le Cameroun.

Très attaché aux valeurs telles que l'empathie, la compassion, le partage et le pardon, Moustapha Saya Kaigama a très tôt compris qu'il n'y a point de bonheur à être heureux seul. Proche de la population et fervent pratiquant de la politique de proximité, ce jeune Leader Kimois a entrepris de nombreuses œuvres sociales dans toutes les associations à but non lucratif où il adhère.

Le décryptage de son nom renvoie à un chef de guerre (Saya), premier dignitaire du palais (Kaïgama) et élu de Dieu (Moustapha). Serait-il prédestiné leader étant donné qu'il est né le même jour que l'ancien Président Américain Barack Obama, mais 20 ans plus tard?

Il espère pouvoir apporter la meilleure contribution au développement de son pays tout en faisant du Mbam et Kim l'une des plus importantes zones agro-industrielles d'Afrique Centrale grâce aux nombreux potentiels dont regorge ce Département et à sa passion pour l'Agriculture.

Carrière professionnelle
La solide formation académique de Moustapha Saya Kaigama lui vaudra de gravir rapidement des échelons sur le plan socio-professionnel dès son retour au Cameroun en 2007. Parti de simple stagiaire à la CAMCCUL, il travaillera pendant sept ans en Chine comme Business Development officer à la Liaoning Jinpeng Export-Import. Il crée en 2008 la société NETCOM.CM SARL, et en 2009 le groupe SAYA AGZ. Il est parallèlement Représentant et Business Development Consultant dans plusieurs entreprises internationales à l'instar de la China Great Wall Industry Corporation, Google, Yahoo, Mark Monitor, Petrochina, Semptian, Sony China, ENOM, il noue plusieurs partenariats à travers le Monde pour plusieurs pays d'Afrique, rencontre de nombreux Chefs d'États par la même occasion.

Passionné d'Agriculture, du Commerce International, du Business Development Consulting et des TIC, il fonde en 2008 la société NETCOM et la SAYA SARL un an plus tard. Il continue sur ce bel élan en apportant sa contribution à la création de pôles d'emplois jeunes et au développement du Cameroun.

Dans sa posture de Chef Traditionnel, Moustapha Saya Kaigama a pris à bras le corps les problèmes de la Communauté Vuté à Yaoundé, ainsi s'est-il constitué en promoteur culturel. Le 03 Février 2018, il organise une soirée culturelle dénommée "Éveil culturel Vuté" à l'esplanade du musée national de Yaoundé.

Distinctions et prix

 Le 11 janvier 2022 Membre du Global Parliamentary Code of Democratic Conduct Moustapha Saya Kaigama reçoit le Prix de l'Intégration Africaine pour la meilleure action en faveur des populations du Mbam et Kim et meilleure révélation parlementaire de la législature 2020 – 2025, décernée par l'Association Camerounaise pour  l'Amitié entre les Peuples d'Afrique (ACAPA).
 Le 25 janvier 2022, l'association «Jeunesse du président Paul Biya» (PRESBY) lui décerne le prix spécial pour la paix au Cameroun.

Notes et références

 «Hon. Saya Kaigama, Presents tear-provoking situation of part time teachers and nurses» dans The Eagle's Eye du 1er Avril 2022 (consulté le 15 Avril 2022) article de journaux papier.
 «Cinq ministres sur le gril» dans Cameroon Tribune du 28 Mars 2022, Page 12 (consulté le 15 Avril 2022) article de journaux papier.
 «Agir Ensemble, Honorable Moustapha Saya : Le point à mi-parcours» dans Le temps du Mbam et kim N° N° 0077 du 25 Oct 2021, Pages 8-9, article de journaux papier (consulté le 15 Avril 2022).
 «Les 150 jours de Moustapha SAYA» dans La Voix-Des Décideurs, Edition n°064 du 04 Août 2020 (consulté le 15 Avril 2022).
 https://www.assnat.cm/index.php/fr/deputes/10eme-legislature/saya-kaigama  sur www.assnat.cm, (consulté le 15 Avril 2022).
 https://www.assnat.cm/index.php/fr/bureau/secretaires-de-bureau, sur www.assnat.cm, (consulté le 15 Avril 2022).
 https://ecomatin.net/assemblee-nationale-le-gouvernement-presente-sa-strategie-de-reduction-du-cout-du-bitumage-des-routes/  sur le site ecomatin.net (consulté le 15 Avril 2022).
 https://www.camerounweb.com/CameroonHomePage/NewsArchive/Qui-est-Moustapha-Saya-le-discret-homme-de-mains-de-Biya-dans-le-Centre-439151  sur le site https://www.camerounweb.com/ du 11mai 2018
 https://www.lavoixdesdecideurs.biz/2019/05/09/moustapha-saya-un-consultant-international-qui-reve-dun-programme-spatial-au-cameroun/ (consulté le 15 Avril 2022) et https://www.lavoixdesdecideurs.biz/2019/05/06/cameroun-moustapha-saya-un-soldat-du-developpement-actif-dans-le-mbam-et-kim/ le 6 mai 2019 sur le site https://www.lavoixdesdecideurs.biz/ .
 https://www.capital-consulting.net/  dans la rubrique «contact»
 Magazine Cameroun Tribune 22 septembre 2014
 http://saya.cm/about-us/  sur www.saya.cm

Naissance en août 1981
Député camerounais

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A few years back (around 2013), when I was still in college I started noticing few people sharing links to very interesting projects in my facebook feed. All the links pointed to this site called github.com. I was thrilled to open and read the README.md files every time I get the link to a project.
During those days, the best place to get software was sourceforge. At first, I didn't quite get what GitHub is. But after I saw a lot of people sharing links to the same website, I dug in deep. It led me to a lot of things like understanding what Open Source Software is, a new way of writing called Markdown etc.
I was very much interested in building real-world software when I was in college and I wanted to somehow learn to use this thing called GitHub and experience "Social Coding". So, I finally signed up and decided to start off something. I was learning Java during that time and thought of uploading the code that I practiced to GitHub and created this repository called javaConcepts. I even had Twitter hook in Github, which tweets every single commit on that repository (haha, fancy me).
I vividly remember using the Github GUI client for Windows and I used it for a long time and never really preferred the command line git until I got into Linux (where I was forced to). I liked the Github for Windows software. It was white and clean.
Even though I didn't know a lot of things (like git, java etc.), I kept on going. I wrote code, committed and pushed day by day, without turning back or thinking if someone was watching. I just did it. I don't know how, but I guess the curiosity and my interest to learn things took me way more forward than any other thing. Coding became one of my passions. I liked it and I still do.


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Q: Analytical formula for distribution of partial sum of standardized random variable I would like to know if there is an analytical formula for the distribution of partial sums of standardized random variables. (Of course, if one standardizes a random variable, the sum of all the individual observations will be zero).
I have written a Python function that estimates quantiles by bootstrapping. Each bootstrap iteration consists of three steps:

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*n samples of a Normal(0, 1) random variable are generated.

*The resulting sample is then standardized.

*The sum of the first k elements of the standardized sample is calculated.

This procedure is followed niter times, generating a sample of size niter. The quantiles of this sample are then calculated.
In case it helps, here is the code:
import numpy as np
import scipy.stats.mstats

def boot_standardized(n, k, niter=1000, prob=None):
    if prob is None:
        prob = [0.05, 0.1, 0.5, 0.9, 0.95]

    x = np.random.randn(n, niter)
    x_std = (x - np.mean(x, axis=0))/np.std(x, axis=0)

    boot_values = np.sum(x_std[:k,:], axis=0)

    return scipy.stats.mstats.mquantiles(boot_values, prob=prob)

A: Yes, there is a formula in the specific situation given.  This situation concerns $n$ independent standard Normal variables $\mathrm{X}= (X_1, \ldots, X_n)$ that model a sample of size $n.$  Standardization converts them to $Z_1, \ldots, Z_n$ where
$$Z_i = \frac{X_i - m}{s}$$
and, as usual,
$$m = \frac{1}{n}\sum X_i$$
is the sample mean and
$$s^2 = \frac{1}{n-1} \sum (X_i - m)^2$$
is the sample variance.  The question concerns the distribution of
$$Y_k = \sum_{i=1}^k Z_i.$$
Algebra permits us to write
$$s Y_k = \frac{n-k}{n}\sum_{i=1}^k X_i - \frac{k}{n}\sum_{j=k+1}^n X_j = \mathrm{X} \cdot \omega$$
where $\omega = (\omega_1, \ldots, \omega_n)$ is a constant vector whose first $k$ entries are $(n-k)/n$ and last $n-k$ entries are $-k/n.$
The analysis at Distribution of scalar products of two random unit vectors in $D$ dimensions shows the distribution of $Y_k$ must be a multiple of $2U-1$ where $U$ is a Beta$((n-2)/2, (n-2)/2)$ variable. To find the value of this multiple, we need only compare variances.
The variance of $Y_k$ is readily computed as
$$\operatorname{Var}(Y_k) = ||\omega||^2 = k\left(\frac{n-k}{n}\right)^2 + (n-k)\left(\frac{-k}{n}\right)^2 = \frac{k(n-k)}{n}$$
whereas the variance of $2U-1$ is $1/(n-1).$  Thus,

$Y_k$ has the distribution of the random variable $$\frac{2U-1}{\sqrt{1/(n-1)}}\sqrt{k(n-k)/n} = (2U-1)\sqrt{\frac{k(n-k)(n-1)}{n}}$$ where $$U \sim \text{Beta}\left(\frac{n}{2}-1, \frac{n}{2}-1\right)$$ for $n \gt 2$ and $0 \le k \le n.$

Equivalently, dividing $Y_k$ by $\sqrt{k(n-k)(n-1)/n}$ produces a variable with the same distribution as $2U-1$ provided $1 \le k \lt n.$

To confirm this conclusion, I simulated this construction, inspected histograms of the scaled versions of $Y_k,$ and compared those histograms to the distribution of $2U-1$ by means of a $\chi^2$ test.  The figure displays the results of one simulation of $10,000$ independent datasets for $n=7.$  The headings give the values of $k$ from $1$ through $n-1.$  The red curves plot the density function of $2U-1.$

The R code that produced this simulation will create many other simulations by varying the values of n, n.sim, and the random seed in the first three lines.
n <- 7
n.sim <- 1e4
set.seed(17)
#
# Simulate samples of size `n` (as columns of `x`) and standardize them.
#
x <- matrix(rnorm(n*n.sim), n)
x <- apply(x, 2, scale)
#
# Compute sums of k=1, 2, ..., n of the standardized samples and normalize
# them to have variance 1/(n-1).
#
k <- 1:n
y <- apply(x, 2, cumsum) / sqrt(k * (n-k) / n) / sqrt(n-1)

apply(y, 1, var) * (n-1) # Check that variance looks like 1/(n-1)
apply(y, 1, max)         # Verify range is within [-1, 1]
#
# Plot histograms of the normalized sums and compare them to the
# Beta(n/2-1, n/2-1) distribution supported on [-1,1].
#
breaks <- seq(-1, 1, 0.1)
d.max <- dbeta(1/2, (n-2)/2, (n-2)/2) / 2
n.rows <- floor(sqrt((n-1)))
n.cols <- ceiling((n-1) / n.rows)
par(mfrow=c(n.rows, n.cols))
invisible(lapply(1:(n-1), function(k) {

  #-- Compute a histogram
  h <- hist(y[k, ], breaks=breaks, plot=FALSE)

  #-- Conduct a chi-squared test
  freq <- diff(pbeta((breaks+1)/2, (n-2)/2, (n-2)/2)) * n.sim
  threshold <- min(freq[freq >= 5])
  groups <- 1:length(freq)
  groups[which(freq <= threshold)] <- 0
  X <- aggregate(data.frame(Count=h$counts, Frequency=freq), list(groups), sum)
  a <- with(X, chisq.test(Count, p=Frequency/n.sim))

  #-- Plot the histogram and the comparison distribution
  plot(h, freq=FALSE, ylim=c(0, max(d.max, max(h$density))),
       xlab="Value", main=k,
       sub=paste0("Chi-squared(", a$parameter["df"], "): p = ",
                   format(a$p.value, digits=2)))
  curve(dbeta((x+1)/2, (n-2)/2, (n-2)/2) / 2, add=TRUE, col="Red", lwd=2)
}))
par(mfrow=c(1,1))


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Filipina live-in caregivers in Canada: migrants' rights and labor issues (a policy analysis)
Joseph Gerard B. Cuenca, Allard School of Law at the University of British Columbia
Asian women make up the fastest growing category of the world's population of migrant workers. The thesis examines labor and immigration policies of Canada as a host country for Filipino women migrant workers. It also determines how Canada's working environment for Filipino women migrant workers is mapped out. The thesis is anchored on three major concerns. The first is an analysis of the Philippines as a leading labor exporting country. The thesis expounds on the state mechanisms promoting labor exportation and the corresponding problems that ensue. It is argued that a majority of the problems of labor migration from the Philippines can be attributed to the inadequate policies and laws of the government in the 1970s when labor export first flourished. The second area of concern is a situation analysis of the Filipina migrant workers who come to Canada to work as live-in caregivers. This discussion is focused on Canada's general framework of immigration laws, foreign worker policies and the pertinent provincial labor laws of British Columbia. It analyzes how these pieces of legislation have been shaped by Canada's national policies. The thesis argues that Canada's regulations restricting the rights of foreign domestic workers and the marginalization of their social mobility and status reflect the unequal relationship between the host and the sending countries. The third and most important concern is a policy analysis of the Live-In Caregiver Program vis-a-vis migrants' rights and labor issues. The thesis argues that Canada, through the continuation of the Live-In Caregiver Program, provides Filipino domestic workers inequitable working conditions. It is argued that since Canada is an international forerunner in championing human rights, it becomes anachronistic that a cluster of the country's immigration policies continue to advocate indentured form of labor. Canada is in a unique position, both as a traditional immigrants' country and as an international player, to blaze the trail for international recognition of migrant workers' rights. Canada must eliminate the double standards in the Live-In Caregiver Program vis-a-vis the general immigration policies. Therefore, it is argued that in order to maintain the high marks it has been receiving at the international level, Canada must eliminate two requirements of the Live-In Caregiver Program: First, the two-year live-in requirement and second, the temporary migrant status of live-in caregivers upon initial entry to Canada. Live-in work must be optional and not subject to the granting of permanent residence status. To preserve it international reputation, Canada must also make reforms on the international level by ratifying and implementing international conventions.
Caregivers, Live-in -- Employment -- Canada.; Alien labor -- Civil rights.


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Quinnipiac women's ice hockey ties Yale
Alec Turner
The Quinnipiac women's ice hockey team tied Yale 3-3 Friday night at TD Bank Sports Center. Kelly Babstock notched the tying goal with 1:08 remaining in regulation to force overtime. With the tie, the Bobcats drop to fifth place in the ECAC standings behind St. Lawrence.
The Bobcats got going late in the first period with Shiann Darkangelo scoring off a deflection with 11 seconds left in the period to take a 1-0 lead. Nicole Connery pushed the lead to 2-0 with a deflection of Meghan Turner's shot following a pass by Amanda Colin.
"I think we started the game off slow, and then picked it up a bit in the second," Quinnipiac coach Rick Seeley said following the game.
Despite the two-goal deficit, the Bulldogs remained relentless, and the Bobcats lost control.
"I saw a lack of commitment from the girls in the third period," Seeley said.
Krista Yip-Chuck started the comeback for Yale late in the second period with a power-play goal following an interference penalty on Kelly Babstock.
The majority of the third period was played in Yale's favor. The Bulldogs outshot the Bobcats 11-7, and were on the attack throughout the period.
Just three minutes into the third Kate Martini blasted a slap shot from the right point through traffic past goaltender Chelsea Laden to tie the game at 2.
Hanna Astrom gave Yale the lead with a top shelf wrist shot that was assisted by Stephanie Mock.
Playing with their backs against the wall for the final three minutes, the Bobcats called a timeout with 1:26 left in regulation.
"I said it was time to start battling for loose pucks," Seeley said during the timeout.
The team listened to its coach, and set up a scoring opportunity for Kelly Babstock, who put it in the back of the net with a wrist shot right in the slot with 1:05 left in regulation.
Quinnipiac struggled on the power play, going 0 for 3.
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