This week I said goodbye to my father. Too soon.
Diagnosed with ALS just 18 months ago, he lived the end of his life with amazing grace, but the last few months were truly terrible. As he lost his ability to move and ultimately to communicate, each goodbye grew more painful. The man I knew as my dad became lost. He wouldn't – doesn't—want me to wallow in sadness, and yet I need to honor that time in the journey.
I am, in fact, not sure of what I want to say, or how to say what I feel today, the day we laid him to rest. My thoughts are a jumble of euphemisms – he fought the good fight; he showed courage under fire; he was at peace; he's in a better place.
As I've greeted friends, family and strangers offering condolences this week, I've nodded and agreed with heartfelt variations of all of the above. My dad touched so many lives in unique and meaningful ways. I love that people wanted to share their experiences with me. And I love that he was loved by so many people. I will always be grateful for the way that people gave a piece of my dad back to me through their stories, their prayers, their hugs, and just their presence in my life.
This entire experience, diagnosis through death, has left me amazed.
My dad amazed me. For all of his many amazing attributes, my father was never a patient man. But, as ALS stole the abilities to walk, to move, to eat and to drink, he remained calm, unhurried. He found a peace within himself that I had never witnessed. (He would doubtless tell me that it was the spirit of the Lord holding him still, holding him up.) He sincerely found each day a blessing.
His wife Jane amazes me. Married to my dad for 27 years, Jane has been the model of courage and conviction. She honored my father's wishes to the very end, taking on the responsibility for his care so he could stay in his home. She opened her doors to friends and family at any hour and gave everything she had to make his world better. I've come to know her so much better through this experience and am so proud to have her as a stepmother and as my friend.
My brother amazes me. My "little" brother stood taller than his 6'2" in the face of ALS. He never turned his back, or shied away from any need my father had – physical, emotional or otherwise. My dad trusted him more than anyone other than Jane and he more than lived up to that trust. The way he stepped in, and stepped up, constantly inspired me. I've always seen the boy in my brother. I now recognize the man and I could not be more proud to call myself his sister.
My dad's parish family amazes me. At St. Thomas of Villanova, my father found his passion. I told many people this week that he found more joy and fulfillment in his few years of volunteering there than he did in the 30 years of his "career." His parish was a true gift in his final years, a period I will always think of as the happiest time in his life. They surrounded our family with love and prayer and faith. They took care of little details and kept us fed and transported people and pictures and flowers. They are the definition of community. What would this have been had we not been carried along by Father Tom and Connie and Leo and all of the STV family?
We took this journey together and, although I come out on the other side saddened, my life will be better for the people I've come to know and for the true love I witnessed.
I'm a worrier. I've covered this ground on my blog before, but I'm specifically talking about the way I worry over my sons. I worry about their skin and bones. I worry about the way the "world" forces its way into their minds. But, mostly, I worry about their hearts. I want to prevent that little muscle from breaking more than anything.
When my boys were babies and toddlers, I was repeatedly advised to not worry so much.
I heard all of this and more, but still, I worry about their precious little hearts. Last week I tried to prepare by 10 year-old's psyche for the sure-to-be-disappointing baseball tournament – our first ever. I had been warned by other parents that our team couldn't really compete with the other travel teams in the league. Our city had, in fact, lost by a score of 32-3 last year.
But how do you tell a little boy, chosen for this All Star team for the very first time that he wouldn't emerge victorious? Wouldn't it be worse to crush his hope than to deal with disappointment? Every night for three weeks, we dropped him off for two hours of practice in the hot sun. He never complained about the heat, or the commitment. He donned all the catching equipment every day and soaked up his coaches' praise like a sponge. In fact, he blossomed.
We made the 45-minute trip to the tournament site with a supremely confident player. It only took a ½ inning for all that bravado to disintegrate, as his team struggled to keep up. Plays that had come easily during the regular season now appeared impossible. I watched with my heart in my throat as my sweet boy tried to keep tears at bay returning to his dugout. The strong hitting he had shown all summer evaporated in the face of new pitchers.
As I feared, he took responsibility for the loss upon his own slim shoulders, blaming himself for every missed out and missed swing. His coach called it…telling him that he had the biggest heart of any player. That big heart was broken and there was nothing I could do but reinforce his coach's message that they win and lose as a team, always.
Night two was more of the same. I secretly hoped that his coach would pull him out and let someone else catch just to relieve that sense of responsibility. But, he played every inning, just as he had practiced. Less than 2 hours later, the umpire invoked the "mercy" rule. His team was finished. Double elimination. Double heartbreak.
Shoulders sagging, tears brimming, he made his way to the car. I tried to stay positive. My husband and I told him we were proud of his play, his attitude, his poise. He stared out the window for about the half the ride and then, visibly, shed his disappointment.
Worry not, Mom. Resilience comes naturally to little hearts.
I think of this work shift as I attempt to balance a professional life, marriage, friendships and, of course, reading & writing, into my world of motherhood. Yesterday was a lovely day as I felt very keenly the love of my mother, the love of my sons and ultimately the love of my wild, funny, terrific set of extended family and friends.
I am so blessed to be raising sons among people who truly value my role as mother. They love me, cherish me and lift me up on occasion. Even with all those gifts, motherhood is hard work. It never stops. I am "Mom" wherever I am. That title does not disappear when I am at work, out with friends or at book club. The responsibilities of motherhood do not disappear when we change location or have room service.
But when I start to feel overwhelmed by the "never-endingness" of this job I took almost 12 years ago, I remember also that their love is endless. I will forever be adored in a way that has no equal.
My sons may not behave perfectly, but they love me 24/7. That is payment beyond measure.
This week I had the pleasure of reconnecting with some very special people. When I got Suzanne's e-mail suggesting that our old playgroup get together for lunch, it hit me. It's been 10 years since this particular group of women rescued me from the choppy waters of baby life.
Don't get me wrong — I was treading water fine. Two boys under 17 months. Working from home about 10 hours a week. Still tenuously connected to my theatre company. Plenty of support from my husband and our families. But I knew I was being pulled out to sea. I was losing hold on the life I thought I knew. Who was this new person? I couldn't focus on anything but keeping these little boys alive and happy.
I faithfully attended Mommy & Me classes just like I had with my oldest son, but this time with a toddler in tow. It was all more complicated, harder. Those days, I felt like a piranha – the only woman I knew with kids so close together. People either assumed they were twins (proof that people see what they want to see) or stared at me, mouths agape, wondering why I would choose to have sons so close in age.
When the gorgeous and exotic Ana invited us all to her house for lunch after the last class, I was thrilled to be included. We laid our babies in a circle, ate lunch, took pictures, traded stories and asked questions. Most importantly, Suzanne gathered all our e-mails. It was the start of something very special.
Without any formal structure, we launched a playgroup. Suzanne merged the names and e-mails from the moms in a couple of her classes and once a week, we each took a turn hosting the gathering of moms and kids — different times, different places, different formats – but the same core group anchoring me.
I still marvel at this group's random beginning. We are all so different. We lived in four different towns. Some worked outside the home. Some were home for the first time. We are the parents of boys and girls. We live in houses large and small. Our children are biological and adopted, single and multiple. We are black, white, Hispanic and Asian, Christian and Jewish. We spoke to the kids in a variety of languages, accents and dialects.
Motherhood trumps all of these distinctions. Sleeplessness knows no ethnicity. Food allergies have no religion. And first steps are marvelous in any size house. Over time, the moms were the ones in a circle as our babies first crawled, and eventually ran, around us. But we still ate, took pictures, traded stories and asked questions. We buoyed each other in rough times. We celebrated each other's triumphs and we marked milestones together.
And, inevitably, we drifted apart. Kids started preschool. We had more babies. Schedules no longer permitted us to gather during the day. Instead, we transitioned into a monthly "Moms Night Out" group, which was fun in a whole new way. But that too eventually melted away.
I will carry all of these friends in my heart no matter if I see them weekly, monthly, or once every few years. I thank them for the many rescues. I treasure our shared journey.


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Facebook: Accounts from Russia bought ads during US campaign (Update)
by Mary Clare Jalonick And Jake Pearson
In this June 6, 2017, file photo, Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, speaks after a closed meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington. Hundreds of fake Facebook accounts, probably run from Russia, spent about $100,000 on ads aimed at stirring up divisive issues such as gun control and race relations during the 2016 U.S. presidential election, the social network said Sept. 6, 2017. Schiff said Facebook's disclosure confirmed what many lawmakers investigating Russian interference in the U.S. election had long suspected. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
Hundreds of fake Facebook accounts, probably run from Russia, spent about $100,000 on ads aimed at stirring up divisive issues such as gun control and race relations during the 2016 U.S. presidential election, the social network said Wednesday.
Although the number of ads is relatively small, the disclosure provides a more detailed peek into what investigators believe was a targeted effort by Russians to influence U.S. politics during the campaign, this time through social media.
The 470 accounts appeared to come from a notorious "troll farm," a St. Petersburg-based organization known for promoting pro-Russian government positions via fake accounts, according to two people familiar with the investigation. The people were granted anonymity because they weren't authorized to publicly discuss details of the investigation.
In all, the accounts purchased some 3,000 ads between June 2015 and May 2017. While the ads didn't specifically reference the election, a candidate or voting, they nevertheless allowed "divisive messages" to be amplified via the social media platform, the company's chief security officer, Alex Stamos, said in a statement.
Facebook has turned over its findings to federal authorities investigating Russian interference in the U.S. presidential election. Robert Mueller, the special counsel, is charged with overseeing Russian meddling in the U.S. election and any potential coordination with associates of President Donald Trump.
Sen. Mark Warner of Virginia, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, said that Facebook briefed the panel's staff on Wednesday, but he still wants to know more.
"I have a lot more questions for Facebook, and I've got a lot of questions for Twitter," Warner said, noting that "we've got Twitter coming in." He did not say when a meeting with representatives from Twitter might occur other than "soon."
A spokeswoman for Twitter declined comment Wednesday evening.
Warner said he also wants to know more about the content of the ads pushed out by the Russian-based Internet Research Agency and whether they targeted specific voters or locations in the U.S.
He said in many cases the social media messaging "was more about voter depression and suppression without having to necessarily mention an individual candidate's name."
Rep. Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said Facebook's disclosure confirmed what many lawmakers investigating Russian interference in the U.S. election had long suspected.
"One of the things that we're interested obviously in finding out is whether there was any coordination in terms of the use of those paid social media trolls or the Russian use of bots," he said.
The fake accounts were discovered during a company review of ad buys that was spurred by a broader investigation the company initiated into Russian meddling after the election, Stamos said.
In addition to the 470 accounts that appeared to be run from Russia, Stamos said its investigators also discovered an additional $50,000 in spending via 2,200 ads that "might have originated in Russia," even including ads purchased by accounts with IP addresses in the U.S. but set to Russian in the language settings.
The dollar amount of ad spending identified by Facebook is an infinitesimal amount compared to the total amount of advertising spending during the election. According to ad tracker Borrell Associates, more than $1.4 billion was spent during the 2016 election cycle on digital advertising alone. That figure includes spending on national, state and local elections.
Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Calif, who also serves on the House Intelligence Committee, said Facebook's disclosures help to "fill in with more color some of the lines that exist," but he would like to know more about the sophistication of the ads. He also wants to know if the content of the ads smacked of Russian propaganda.
"We know they had a cyber operation, we suspect U.S. persons may have been involved, now we know a U.S. company was used. So now we need to see if there are dots that connect," he said.
The company has come under intense pressure since the election to curb the flow of false information. After the election, it updated its advertising policy to say it wouldn't run spots that are "illegal, misleading or deceptive, which includes fake news."
Facebook removes accounts in fight against fake news
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StudentofSpiritualTeaching
How ridiculous things are getting. How does a USD 100k investment in information of the public in a foreign country compare to the costs for nation-owned TV channels in foreign languages (with the USA no exception) set up for providing propaganda targeting other countries?
RealityCheck
@StudentofSpiritualTeaching.
For starters, the nationally-owned 'propaganda media' broadcasting to countries with inhumane leaderships are NOT 'hidden' as to their identity/intents. Whereas the Troll Factory and other media-manipulation techniques employed by 'hidden identity' players are NOT accountable for the LIES they spread.
Eg, LIES repeated by RIGHT WING media paid for by GOP/Trump/Russian/Fossil etc 'interests' do NOT have the interests of you or your family at heart, only "profits now and the devil take the hindmost!"
That's how it works: the hidden liars are then re-quoted by complicit media as 'opinion sources'....and initial $100K 'investment' multiplies in effect. Sadly.
jloohunret
America's integrity summed up in this: money talks, bullshit walks. Why doesn't phys.org not offer up any solutions to these problems?

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Jade Weber Bio, Height, Age, Parents And Other Interesting Facts
Updated on January 27, 2022 - by Joseph N. Colter
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Jade Weber is a young French model who started as a child model and has risen to have a very massive social media followership. Apart from being a model, she is also famous as an actress who has thus far, proved her worth on a few movies. Here are the things you may want to know about her.
1 Jade Weber Bio
2 Her Parents and Family
3 Jade Weber's Height
4 Other Interesting Facts about the Model
Jade Weber Bio
It was on March 7, 2005, in Hong Kong, China that the model was birthed. Even as it was in Asia that she was born, she is French but lives in the United States of America.
Jade Weber had never thought of becoming a model until a photographer told her to think about it when she went to take a picture with her brothers. In fact, it was the photographer that sent her picture to her sister who worked with a modeling agency.
With much success in her modeling career, Jade Weber soon decided to develop her acting skills; she began acting at The Playground in Los Angeles. This is significant because The Playground is known for training kids, teens, and young adults in the arts. People trained here include , , and . Her first roles as an actress came in 2016 when she acted in Color My Dreams.
Jade Weber made an appearance as Zo on the TV series, Keys and she is working on the 2019 movies, The Game of the Cheetah and La Déesse du Crépuscule.
She has also featured in a number of music videos including MattyBRaps' Moment and Runaway by Spirix and Xuitcasecity. Jade also made an appearance on the cover of 's Can't Feel My Face by Hayden Summerall.
It gets even more interesting to know that the young model and actress has also been in a number of commercials in the past including the one she did for Kohl's in 2015. Apart from this, she has made it to the cover of various magazines such as the Vogue magazine.
For her education, Weber revealed that she attends a public school and has come to get used to mixing school and work even though it may get tricky sometimes. What is more is that she is already heading to middle school, which means that she wants to continue her education.
Her Parents and Family
While there is very little that is known about her parents, there is a little that is known about her family. As earlier indicated, she has elder brothers whose names are Matthieu and Thibault. Her grandparents live in France where she sometimes goes to visit them.
What is known about her parents is that both of them are from France.
Jade Weber's Height
Described as one of the most beautiful kids in the world, she has dreamy sea blue eyes and blonde hair. While still very young, she is already on her way to becoming an exceptional international model thanks to her looks and her body structure.
As regards her height, she now stands at 5 feet 3 inches (160 cm) while her weight is 88 lb. What is important to note is that she is still growing.
Other Interesting Facts about the Model
1. She has a very strong fan base on social media. On Instagram, she has close to 500 thousand followers. On Twitter, on the other hand, she only has less than 5,000 followers and less than 4000 likes on Facebook before mid-2018.
2. Inasmuch as she has made a name for herself in different parts of the world, the young model says working in her home country of France would mean the world to her.
3. Her dream would be to work for Dior and Chanel which are both in Paris.
4. Originally French and raised in the United States, the Chinese born star is bilingual. She speaks both English and French. Although she got the opportunity to attend Mandarin classes when she was much younger, she is not fluent in the language.
5. Even as her career can still be considered young, Jade Weber has worked with many brands such as Ralph Lauren Chaps, Levi's, Justice, Miss Behave Girl, Bloomingdales, H&M, Forever 21, and Hudson among many others.
6. Jade has been represented by various modeling agencies thus far. She has worked with LA Models Youth in that regards as well as Monster Management and Division Model.
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Devolution of the Word "Meme"
By Gene Wilburn
Photo by Peter Lam CH on Unsplash
Sure, you know what a meme is. It's a picture with words, usually humorous, sometimes acerbic. You see dozens of them each day if you're on social media. You probably share really funny ones with friends. And, as you've seen, there are hundreds of cat memes floating around the Internet.
But did you know that the word meme has strayed from its intended meaning?
Meme is not an old word. It is a word coined by Richard Dawkins in 1975 in his landmark book on biology, The Selfish Gene. It is a foreshortening of the Greek word mimēma 'that which is imitated.' It was intended to signify ideas that spread through a population in the manner of a gene, though faster.
Think of ideas that have swept through populations: philosophical or religious beliefs, the idea of a renaissance, the concept of an age of reason, to highlight a few. On the societal side, think of political phrases like "lock her up" and "#metoo" that have spread far and wide.
In an interview with Newsbeat, Dawkins admitted that "I'm not going to use the term internet meme to refer to a picture with writing on it." For Dawkins, memes are "ideas that spread from brain to brain — a bit like genes, they are replicated many times."
And so it is that while gaining a popular new word for pictures with captions (now its primary meaning in dictionaries), we've mostly lost an intellectually useful word to explain how ideas spread.
One thing linguists always tell us: language is in a continual state of change. Words change meaning, and there's nothing we can do to stop it. It's the way language works. We may rue the change in the meaning of meme but it's now a done deal.
As Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. often wrote, "And so it goes."
Gene Wilburn is a Canadian writer, photographer, and retired IT specialist.
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Q: What we have in Play2 to modify request and response like filter in Servlet? With Servlet API we can write filters to modify the request and response.If I use Play2 how can I achieve this.

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This is very similar to Servlet filters. If you take a look at the examples provided in the docs you will get the idea.

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*Using GlobalSettings (http://www.playframework.com/documentation/2.1.x/ScalaGlobal)

This allows you to hook into application start/stop events, specify error page or handle missing actions

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Folks over at Nokia have been on a bit of a roll recently. With announcing 3 new phones, namely the Nokia 2.1, the Nokia 3.1 and the Nokia 5.1 there is word that it is working on another new smartphone. Now there are rumblings beginning to appear about a new device.
Through a post on Twitter, Roland Quandth, claims that Nokia is working on a Qualcomm Snapdragon 710 based smartphone which has been internally codenamed "Phoenix" by it. He also added the device won't be releasing to before Autumn or Winter of 2018 which puts plenty of time for the company to release it. There seems to be no information available about the amount of RAM or any other specifications for the device. The performance of the 710 chip is better than the earlier 6xx series but is touted to be lot more efficient compared to the latter.
Recently, the CEO of HMD Global shared photos of prototype of Nokia phones. Nokia recently also announced that all the phones launched under HMD Global will be receiving the Android P upgrade, which comes as great news for users around the world.


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Carroll, R. and Fernando, M., (2022). Multi-level legislative representation in an inchoate party system: Mass-elite ideological congruence in Brazil. Party Politics, 135406882211304-135406882211304
Carrion, V. and Carroll, R., (2022). The effects of candidate appearance on electoral success: Evidence from Ecuador. Political Research Quarterly, 106591292211191-106591292211191
Carroll, R. and Kubo, H., (2021). Measuring and Explaining the Complexity of `Left-Right' Perceptions of Political Parties. Electoral Studies. 71, 102310-102310
Peresman, A., Carroll, R. and Back, H., (2021). Authoritarianism and immigration attitudes in the UK. Political Studies, 003232172110324-003232172110324
Carroll, R. and Nalepa, M., (2021). When Does the Personal Vote Matter for Party Loyalty? The Conditional Effects of Candidate-Centred Electoral Systems. Parliamentary Affairs. 74 (1), 102-120
Renström, E., Bäck, H. and Carroll, R., (2021). Intergroup Threat and Affective Polarization in a Multi-Party System. Journal of Social and Political Psychology. 9 (2), 553-576
Carroll, R. and Nalepa, M., (2020). The personal vote and party cohesion: Modeling the effects of electoral rules on intraparty politics. Journal of Theoretical Politics. 32 (1), 36-69
Carroll, R. and Kubo, H., (2019). Measuring and Comparing Party Ideology and Heterogeneity. Party Politics. 25 (2), 245-256
Carroll, R. and Kubo, H., (2018). Explaining Citizen Perceptions of Party Ideological Positions: The Mediating Role of Political Contexts. Electoral Studies. 51, 14-23
Carroll, R. and Kubo, H., (2018). Polarization and ideological congruence between parties and supporters in Europe. Public Choice. 176 (1-2), 247-265
Pachón, M., Carroll, R. and Barragán, H., (2017). Ballot design and invalid votes: Evidence from Colombia. Electoral Studies. 48, 98-110
Poole, KT., Lewis, JB., Rosenthal, H., Lo, J. and Carroll, R., (2016). Recovering a Basic Space from Issue Scales in R. JOURNAL OF STATISTICAL SOFTWARE. 69 (7), 1-21
Mattes, M., Leeds, BA. and Carroll, R., (2015). Leadership Turnover and Foreign Policy Change: Societal Interests, Domestic Institutions, and Voting in the United Nations. International Studies Quarterly. 59 (2), 280-290
Hare, C., Armstrong, DA., Bakker, R., Carroll, R. and Poole, KT., (2015). Using Bayesian Aldrich-McKelvey Scaling to Study Citizens' Ideological Preferences and Perceptions. American Journal of Political Science. 59 (3), 759-774
Carroll, R., Lewis, JB., Lo, J., Poole, KT. and Rosenthal, H., (2013). The Structure of Utility in Spatial Models of Voting. American Journal of Political Science. 57 (4), n/a-n/a
Carroll, R. and Eichorst, J., (2013). The Role of Party: The Legislative Consequences of Partisan Electoral Competition. Legislative Studies Quarterly. 38 (1), 83-109
Carroll, R. and Tiede, L., (2012). Ideological Voting on Chile's Constitutional Tribunal: Dissent Coalitions in the Adjudication of Rights. Journal of Human Rights. 11 (1), 85-105
Carroll, R. and Cox, GW., (2012). Shadowing Ministers. Comparative Political Studies. 45 (2), 220-236
Carroll, R. and Tiede, L., (2011). Judicial Behavior on the Chilean Constitutional Tribunal. Journal of Empirical Legal Studies. 8 (4), 856-877
Poole, K., Lewis, J., Lo, J. and Carroll, R., (2011). Scaling Roll Call Votes withwnominateinR. Journal of Statistical Software. 42 (14), 1-21
Carroll, R. and Kim, HA., (2010). Party Government and the "Cohesive Power of Public Plunder". American Journal of Political Science. 54 (1), 34-44
CARROLL, R., LEWIS, JB., LO, J., POOLE, KT. and ROSENTHAL, H., (2009). Comparing NOMINATE and IDEAL: Points of Difference and Monte Carlo Tests. Legislative Studies Quarterly. 34 (4), 555-591
Carroll, R., Lewis, JB., Lo, J., Poole, KT. and Rosenthal, H., (2009). Measuring bias and uncertainty in DW-NOMINATE ideal point estimates via the parametric bootstrap. Political Analysis. 17 (3), 261-275
Carroll, R. and Cox, GW., (2007). The Logic of Gamson's Law: Pre-election Coalitions and Portfolio Allocations. American Journal of Political Science. 51 (2), 300-313
Carroll, R., Cox, GW. and Pachón, M., (2006). How parties create electoral democracy, chapter 2. Legislative Studies Quarterly. 31 (2), 153-174
II, DAA., Bakker, R., Carroll, R., Hare, C., Poole, KT. and Rosenthal, H., (2020). Analyzing Spatial Models of Choice and Judgment, Second Edition. CRC Press. 1138715336. 9781138715332
Armstrong, DA., Bakker, R., Carroll, R., Hare, C., Poole, KT. and Rosenthal, H., (2014). Analyzing spatial models of choice and judgment with R. Chapman and Hall/CRC. 1466517158. 9781466517158
Baumann, M., Bäck, H. and Carroll, R., Debates in the Swedish Riksdag. In: The Politics of Legislative Debate. Oxford University Press
Bäck, H. and Carroll, RA., (2020). The distribution of ministerial posts in parliamentary democracies. In: The Oxford Handbook of Political Executives. Editors: Andeweg, RB., Elgie, R., Helms, L., Kaarbo, J. and Müller-Rommel, F., . Oxford University Press. 314- 335. 9780198809296
Carroll, RA. and Pachon, M., (2016). The Unrealized Potential of Presidential Coalitions in Colombia. In: Legislative Institutions and Lawmaking in Latin America. Editors: Aleman, E. and Tsebelis, G., . Oxford University Press. 122- 147. 0198777868. 9780198777861
Carroll, RA. and Poole, KT., (2014). Roll-Call Analysis and the Study of Legislatures. In: The Oxford Handbook of Legislative Studies. Editors: Strøm, KW., Saalfeld, T. and Martin, S., . Oxford University Press
Carroll, R. and Shugart, M., (2007). Neo-Madisonian Theory and Latin American Institutions. In: Regimes and Democracy in Latin America Theories and Methods. Editors: Munck, G., . Oxford University Press. 9780199219902
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Tamil Nadu: Medical college students replace Hippocratic oath by Charak Shapath, notice issued
Madurai (Tamil Nadu) [India], May 1 (ANI): The Directorate of Medical Education of the Tamil Nadu government issued a notice to the Madurai Medical College and sought an explanation against the first-year students taking the Charak oath instead of the Hippocratic oath in the reception celebration.
Madurai Government Medical College organised a welcome reception for the first-year students on Saturday. It was reported that during the oath-taking ceremony, the students, dressed in their uniforms, replaced the centuries-old tradition of Greek origin, the Hippocratic oath with 'Charak Shapath'.
The Directorate of Medical Education has sought an explaination from the principal of the medical college regarding the incident.
The Hippocratic Oath is an ancient pledge of medical ethical conduct, taken by the medical students as an important step in becoming a doctor.
During the ceremony, Tamil Nadu finance minister, Palanivel Thiagarajan, Minister of Commercial Taxes, P. Moorthy, District Collector Dr S. Aneesh Sekhar, and Medical College Principal, Dr A.Rathinavel were present. (ANI)
Madurai Government Medical College organised a welcome reception for the first-year students on Saturday. It was reported that during the oath-taking ceremony, the students, dressed in their uniforms, replaced the centuries-old tradition of Greek origin, the Hippocratic oath with 'Charak Shapath'.


When I arrived at the tea house, approaching from the West, I saw that Thorberg had just approached the place as well, and in a rather fancy way, using a segueway.
one of those high tech scooter-like self-stabilizing little one-person vehicles.
Pema Pera: fancy way of transportation you got there!
Pema Pera: I'm sure the possibilities here in SL are endless . . . .
Pema Pera: what did you think?
Moon Fargis dropped by in a hard-to-describe infant-toy-like cheerful avatar. Just before he arrived, he had kindly given me an icecream cone hat, of the type that Dakini often wears when she goes into chocolate disco mode.
Pema Pera: and now I really start craving for ice cream!
Pema Pera: Have you met Thorberg?
Pema Pera: how did you stumble on it, Thor?
Pema Pera: haha, what a transformation!
Moon was slowly changing back into his normal form.
Pema Pera: ah, yes, you told us the other day.
Moon Fargis: hoh pema… where did you catched that igle sitting on your head?
I was still wearing my punk hairdoe.
Pema Pera: I asked my neighbor whether she would be willing to sell a small plot of land, just between that of mine and that of Dakini . . . .
Pema Pera: And Thorberg, what did you think of the blog, if I may ask?
Moon Fargis: well might it be allso called ways of remember knowing?
Pema Pera: yes, Moon, we are trying out some tricks to become more aware, you could say .. . .
Pema Pera: but that begs the question who is the you that is becoming more aware . . ..
Pema Pera: Deutsch ist auch okay!
While Storm strolled around the neighborhood, Moon and Thor and I continued our conversation.
Pema Pera: we have to use words . . . ..
Pema Pera: we can also try to point out more directly . . .
Moon Fargis: btw did you got time to read the logs i gave yo pema?
Pema Pera: not yet, Moon, sorry, I have been too busy trying to write my own blogs, three times a day . . . . I barely succeed doing so . . . .
Pema Pera: . . . I hope to simplify my life soon . . ..
Pema Pera: either by putting up less or asking others to help more . . . .
Pema Pera: so you wind up with several times a day . . . . .
We then talked about some of the pros and cons of the way I have been structuring the PaB sessions so far. I was very happy to do so with them, since we hadn't yet looked at the overall setup with a critical eyes, so far.
Thorberg Nordlicht: This is fun, but I find text chat to be a limited medium. Perhaps the blogs and associated comments are the primary medium for this discussion and our meetings in SL are more to socialize and plan direction for the blog.
Thorberg Nordlicht: I was going to say it's hard to express much in text chat, but I agree it encourages distillation to essential points.
Pema Pera: zen tradition is only a few words . . . .
Pema Pera: haiku too . . .
Much as I respected those sayings, I also wanted to stress the need for bringing out fresh responses in terms of the situation at hand, as complementary to ancient quotations.
Moon then started a rather wild dance, leaving Thor and me a bit puzzled. It turned out that the name of the dance started with the letter g, like gassho, which is what he had intended to do.
Pema Pera: it certainly is expressive!
This time Moon properly bowed with hands in gassho. I had taked the opportunity to take off the flat side lobes of my hairdo. After what Storm had said, I couldn't keep my mind off the uni associations ;>).
Pema Pera: Does this look better, Storm, with only the mohawk?
Pema Pera: no side lobes?
Storm Nordwind wonders whether the British habit of friendly mutual insults works cross-culture!
As we frequently do, the next moment we made another switch from playful to serious.
Thorberg Nordlicht: I submit that words always refer to concepts. Words cannot point directly to reality.
Storm Nordwind: How else, Thorberg, do you inspire someone towards reality?
I really enjoyed this exchange. While I agreed with what both Storm and Thor said, I also saw an opportunity to try out different kinds of emphasis, rubbing them off each other, comparing them.
Pema Pera: yes, words here are again tricky. I agree that real leaders and teachers are not consciously leading and teaching, not in any calculating way at least, but more spontaneously . . . but even that is not an accurate way of expressing it . . . .
Thor pointed out a key point in all that we discussed.
Pema Pera: but perhaps the leap takes the student . . . .
I had been looking for a while now at how Thor's typing gestures where far more fancy than that of most of us. Instead of just typing in the air, as the standard avatar gesture, each time he typed a fancy looking laptop appeared in front of him out of thin iar, for him to type on.
Pema Pera: by the way I envy you Thor!
Pema Pera: Where can I find such a nice laptop?
Pema Pera: …and they looked back and could no longer find any edge ….
Storm Nordwind: I'm not sure Christopher Logue put that bit in his original poem - but I like it!
Pema Pera: Storm, do you want to come with me to Paduk?
Thorberg Nordlicht: This has been interesting. I look forward to your blog update.
Storm Nordwind: Hectic this week!
Pema Pera: Thanks for coming here Thorberg!
Thorberg Nordlicht: Thanks, but think I'll go my own way. Other things to attend to today. Hopefully buying land this afternoon.
I then went over to Paduk. Alas, SL was down for buying, and logins were temporarily suspended. It would take an hour or so for things to come back to normal, but of course I had no way of knowing that, so I kept trying for a few minutes. As an example that everything has its good side, waiting there gave me an opportunity to meet my neighbor in Paduk. He had seen me flying over. We chatted for a bit, and then I flew over to nearby Chongno, where I had an appointment with someone else to discuss possibilities of buying some land there as well.
That was a great educational experience. The potential seller showed me the rather complex layout of his various pieces of land using what he called a lazer tag game method. What happened is that we could fly up rather high above everything else, where a kind of sculpted blue-white glacier was suspended in the exact same shape as the piece of land he owned. What is more, we could actually walk over the glacier, which gave me the chance to compare the positions of all the corners and sides with where my avatar would be located on the map at the same time I reached those corners and edges. A very useful tool indeed!
Soon afterwards Dakini came on line, and I showed her some of the land I had bought earlier in the week. Her first reaction after I tp-ed her concerned my new copy of the icecream cone hat that I had seen her wearing often.
Dakini Rhode: haha nice hat!
Pema Pera: yeah, isn't it!
Dakini Rhode: landscaping comes with it?
Pema Pera: wanna see some other piece?
Pema Pera: what do you mean, the objects?
Pema Pera: it is larger, you see?
Dakini Rhode: Yes, I see! wow!
Dakini Rhode: sort of like a missing puzzle piece?
We toke off, flying due west and then a bit further South.
Pema Pera: please come over!
Pema Pera: did you see my Rieul area having grown as well?
Pema Pera: some did so, yes, and others as well.
Pema Pera: see you !
Dakini Rhode: bye - thanks for the tour!


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Netrin binds discrete subdomains of DCC and UNC5 and mediates interactions between DCC and heparin
Brian V. Geisbrecht, Kimberly A. Dowd, Ronald W. Barfield, Patti A. Longo, Daniel J. Leahy
Netrins are secreted proteins that elicit both attractive and repulsive responses in migrating cells in the central and peripheral nervous systems. Netrins interact with members of two distinct families of transmembrane receptors, represented by DCC (deleted in colorectal cancer) and UNC5. A human netrin fragment (soluble netrin; sNetrin) was purified from an engineered Chinese hamster ovary cell line and used in a pull-down assay to map the interactions between netrin and its receptors. We find that sNetrin binds exclusively to the fifth fibronectin type III repeat of DCC and to each immunoglobulin repeat of UNC5. Both DCC and UNC5 bind to sNetrin with 1:1 stoichiometry in solution, and the minimal receptor fragments behave similarly to larger fragments in cross-linking experiments with purified sNetrin. We find no evidence for formation of a ternary complex between sNetrin and soluble forms of DCC and UNC5. We also find no evidence for an interaction between DCC and heparin and instead demonstrate that a loop on the fifth fibronectin type III repeat of DCC previously implicated in mediating interactions with heparin is important for sNetrin binding. Since netrin binds heparin, our results suggest that interactions between DCC and heparin are probably mediated by netrin.
https://doi.org/10.1074/jbc.M302943200
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Geisbrecht, B. V., Dowd, K. A., Barfield, R. W., Longo, P. A., & Leahy, D. J. (2003). Netrin binds discrete subdomains of DCC and UNC5 and mediates interactions between DCC and heparin. Journal of Biological Chemistry, 278(35), 32561-32568. https://doi.org/10.1074/jbc.M302943200
Netrin binds discrete subdomains of DCC and UNC5 and mediates interactions between DCC and heparin. / Geisbrecht, Brian V.; Dowd, Kimberly A.; Barfield, Ronald W.; Longo, Patti A.; Leahy, Daniel J.
Geisbrecht, BV, Dowd, KA, Barfield, RW, Longo, PA & Leahy, DJ 2003, 'Netrin binds discrete subdomains of DCC and UNC5 and mediates interactions between DCC and heparin', Journal of Biological Chemistry, vol. 278, no. 35, pp. 32561-32568. https://doi.org/10.1074/jbc.M302943200
Geisbrecht BV, Dowd KA, Barfield RW, Longo PA, Leahy DJ. Netrin binds discrete subdomains of DCC and UNC5 and mediates interactions between DCC and heparin. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 2003 Aug 29;278(35):32561-32568. https://doi.org/10.1074/jbc.M302943200
Geisbrecht, Brian V. ; Dowd, Kimberly A. ; Barfield, Ronald W. ; Longo, Patti A. ; Leahy, Daniel J. / Netrin binds discrete subdomains of DCC and UNC5 and mediates interactions between DCC and heparin. In: Journal of Biological Chemistry. 2003 ; Vol. 278, No. 35. pp. 32561-32568.
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package edu.cs4730.fbdatabaseauthdemo;

import android.os.Bundle;

import androidx.annotation.NonNull;
import androidx.annotation.Nullable;
import androidx.fragment.app.Fragment;

import android.util.Log;
import android.view.LayoutInflater;
import android.view.View;
import android.view.ViewGroup;
import android.widget.TextView;

import com.google.firebase.database.ChildEventListener;
import com.google.firebase.database.DataSnapshot;
import com.google.firebase.database.DatabaseError;
import com.google.firebase.database.DatabaseReference;
import com.google.firebase.database.FirebaseDatabase;
import com.google.firebase.database.ValueEventListener;

/**
 * A very simple example of how to use the realtime database.
 */
public class DBSimpleFragment extends Fragment {

    FirebaseDatabase database;
    final static String TAG = "SimpleActivity";
    TextView logger;
    DatabaseReference myRef;
    DatabaseReference myChildRef;
    ChildEventListener myChildeventlistener;
    ValueEventListener myValueEventlistener;

    @Override
    public View onCreateView(LayoutInflater inflater, ViewGroup container,
                             Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        // Inflate the layout for this fragment
        View myView =  inflater.inflate(R.layout.fragment_dbsimple, container, false);

        logger = myView.findViewById(R.id.logger);

        database = FirebaseDatabase.getInstance();
        myChildRef = database.getReference().child("messages");

        //use a childevent listener, since with are getting children of messages.
        myChildeventlistener = new ChildEventListener() {
            @Override
            public void onChildAdded(@NonNull DataSnapshot dataSnapshot, @Nullable String s) {
                Note myNote = dataSnapshot.getValue(Note.class);
                logthis("title: " + myNote.getTitle());
                logthis("note: " + myNote.getNote());
                logthis("id? " + s + "\n");
            }

            @Override
            public void onChildChanged(@NonNull DataSnapshot dataSnapshot, @Nullable String s) {
                Note myNote = dataSnapshot.getValue(Note.class);
                logthis("change title: " + myNote.getTitle());
                logthis("change note: " + myNote.getNote());
                logthis("changed id " + s + "\n");
            }

            @Override
            public void onChildRemoved(@NonNull DataSnapshot dataSnapshot) {
                Note myNote = dataSnapshot.getValue(Note.class);
                logthis("removed title: " + myNote.getTitle());
                logthis("removed note: " + myNote.getNote());

            }

            @Override
            public void onChildMoved(@NonNull DataSnapshot dataSnapshot, @Nullable String s) {
                Note myNote = dataSnapshot.getValue(Note.class);
                logthis("moved title: " + myNote.getTitle());
                logthis("moved note: " + myNote.getNote());
                logthis("moved id: " + s + "\n");
            }

            @Override
            public void onCancelled(@NonNull DatabaseError error) {
                // Failed to read value
                Log.w(TAG, "Failed to read message values.", error.toException());
            }
        };

        //simple reference data.
        myRef = database.getReference("simple");
        // Read from the database, uses a valueEventlistener, not child.
        myValueEventlistener = new ValueEventListener() {
            @Override
            public void onDataChange(@NonNull DataSnapshot dataSnapshot) {
                // This method is called once with the initial value and again
                // whenever data at this location is updated.
                String value = dataSnapshot.getValue(String.class);
                logthis("Simple is: " + value);
            }

            @Override
            public void onCancelled(@NonNull DatabaseError error) {
                // Failed to read value
                Log.w(TAG, "Failed to read simple value.", error.toException());
            }
        };

        myView.findViewById(R.id.add_object).setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View v) {
                myChildRef.push().setValue(new Note("Test", "message test"));

            }
        });

        myView.findViewById(R.id.add_simple).setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View v) {

                myRef.setValue("Hello, World!");   //don't use push, app crashes and corrupts the data.
            }
        });
        return myView;
    }

    void logthis(String item) {
        Log.d(TAG, "Value is: " + item);
        logger.append(item + "\n");
    }

    @Override
    public void onPause() {
        myRef.removeEventListener(myValueEventlistener);
        myChildRef.removeEventListener(myChildeventlistener);
        super.onPause();
    }

    @Override
    public void onResume() {
        super.onResume();
        myRef.addValueEventListener(myValueEventlistener);
        myChildRef.addChildEventListener(myChildeventlistener);
    }
}

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We don't need more technology, we need better ways of using it
I'd like to propose a new scientific institution: the IUT, or Institute of Underrated Technology. Rather than trying to invent yet more bloody things, it will instead be devoted to helping us derive greater value from things we can do already using technology which already exists.
Innovation is a two-stage process. First you discover something; then over time people discover how best to use it. Many ideas fall at the second hurdle: the Chinese invented gunpowder but used it only for fireworks; early Mesoamericans invented the wheel, but attached it only to children's toys. In recent times, the internet seems to have delivered a lot more in entertainment value than in productivity. What we need is not more technology, but better uses for it.
Why do so few people buy electric cars, for instance? The IUT will ask whether this is a technological issue or a psychological one.
I suspect the latter. People seem strangely paranoid about the range of electric cars, even though in reality many of us drive more than 200 miles on barely a handful of days each year. On those rare occasions, I suspect I'd quite enjoy the nerdy thrill of planning a mid-journey recharge. (And, be honest, which of us wouldn't secretly relish the mild arseholery of turning up at friends' houses and insisting on threading a power cable through their kitchen windows?) No, all I need before I buy an electric car is a new kind of insurance policy, which lets me periodically swap my electric car with a friend's petrol car. After all, if asked 'Can I borrow your car to go to Manchester and you can have my Tesla while I'm away?', few people are likely to say no.
One other problem: before buying an electric car, you'll want to install a 7kW charging point at home. There is a £500 OLEV grant for this. But to receive the grant, you must prove that you already own an electric car. (Clearly nobody at the Office for Low Emission Vehicles has read Catch-22.)
Another area where existing technology has a great deal more to offer is video-conferencing. If the internet had never been invented, but we had only invented video-conferencing, we would have regarded it as the crowning technological achievement of the age.
Instead it came free with the internet, like a cheap toy stapled to the front of a magazine. We have duly failed to invest time or money in using it properly. But it can be amazing.
Last Friday I worked from home, with a meeting in Sydney at 9 a.m. and one with a New Yorker at 8 p.m. The street sounds outside the American's office sounded peculiarly unlike New York (which sounds exactly like it does in the movies). 'Where are you?' I asked. 'Oh, I'm in Peru.'
Then it occurred to me: the reason home video-conferencing is such a game changer is only partly about the video. Much of the magic is in the quality of the sound.
Bizarrely, despite a 1,000-fold increase in bandwidth, the sound quality of a phone call has not improved in 50 years. Mobile phone and landline networks still compress and frequency–chop the human voice to within an inch of its life — to a point where words are just about intelligible, but where timbre and resonance are completely lost. This is a horrific technological failing.
High quality audio changes everything. Think about it like this: nobody would listen to Radio 4 for ten minutes if all speech was of telephone quality. This is why telephone conference calls are so awful.
But now, with no more than £100 spent on decent equipment, you can talk to — and see — people in Peru in broadcast quality. In my next column, I'll explain how.
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City's sporting director Stuart Webber, who helped appoint Wagner when he was working at Huddersfield, is looking at the German market as he seeks a successor to Alex Neil.
Keller, 46, was previously in charge of Schalke before being sacked to make way for Roberto di Matteo, and has played professionally for VfB Stuttgart, TSV 1860 München, VfL Wolfsburg, 1. FC Köln and Eintracht Frankfurt.
Another leading candidate for the Norwich job is Fleetwood's German manager Uwe Rosler, if he is overlooked at Carrow Road, Rosler could be of interest to former club Wigan following their relegation to League One.


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The rental property you are interested in is completely furnished 3 Standard Bedroom 2.5 full bathroom townhouse, located at 4218 7th Ave NE Seattle, WA 98105 of which the fixed monthly rental fee is $2350. It's sleeps minimum of 1 and maximum of 9 comfortably and perfectly.
To secure the townhouse for your requested period, we requires the first month rental fee down payment, plus $850 security/damage(refundable) and cleaning fee of $150 in order to book you a reservation to hold your date.
However; The security fee is not applied toward rental fee so therefore it is fully refundable on your day of departure provided all the amenities in the unit are met in perfect shape, not stolen or broken.
Amenities/Utilities includes: WiFi internet access, High quality towels, linens and dishes, Air conditioning, Attached garage for two cars, Flat screen TV with cable and DVD player, Fully equipped kitchen with dishwasher, Microwave, Ice Maker Refrigerator and many more.
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The above quotation is what required you to hold the townhouse for your reservation. They are all fixed price and non refundable besides the security/damage fee.
I will like you to take your time to go through the quotation and get back to me as soon as possible so i can make a provision of the Rentals Agreement Form and also provide you with the private owner's banking information for down payment in order to make your reservation because their are other interests in the unit as well. However, i have already attached the Rentals Application form for you to fill and scan back to me. Thanks for your time and your interest.
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