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3RD LOCKDOWN. Workers paint social distancing signs at Eel Brook Common as Britain began its third COVID-19 lockdown in Fulham, London, Britain, on January 5, 2021.
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As infection rates soar across Europe, other countries are also clamping down on public life
Britain began its third COVID-19 lockdown on Tuesday, January 5, with citizens under orders to stay at home and the government calling for one last major national effort to stem the virus before mass vaccinations turn the tide.
Finance minister Rishi Sunak announced a new package of business grants worth 4.6 billion pounds ($6.2 billion) to help keep people in jobs and firms afloat until measures are relaxed gradually, at the earliest from mid-February but likely later.
Britain has been among the countries worst-hit by COVID-19, with the second highest death toll in Europe and an economy that suffered the sharpest contraction of any in the Group of Seven during the first wave of infections last spring.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson announced the new lockdown late on Monday, January 4, saying the highly contagious new coronavirus variant first identified in Britain was spreading so fast the National Health Service (NHS) risked being overwhelmed within 21 days.
In England alone, some 27,000 people are in hospital with COVID, 40% more than during the first peak in April, with infection numbers still expected to rise further after increased socializing during the Christmas period.
A Savanta-ComRes poll taken just after Johnson's address suggested 4 in 5 adults in England supported the lockdown.
"I definitely think it was the right decision to make. The NHS hospitals are really full so we're in a similar position as we were in lockdown number one," said Londoner Kaitlin Colucci, 28.
"I just hope that everyone doesn't struggle too much with having to be indoors again."
Since the start of the pandemic, more than 75,000 people have died in the United Kingdom within 28 days of testing positive for coronavirus, according to official figures.
Under the new rules in England, schools are closed to most pupils, people should work from home if possible, and all hospitality and non-essential shops are closed.
The semi-autonomous executives in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have imposed similar measures.
As infection rates soar across Europe, other countries are also clamping down on public life. Germany is set to extend its strict lockdown until the end of the month, and Italy decided on Tuesday to keep nationwide restrictions in place this weekend while relaxing curbs on weekdays.
Vaccinations are key
Sunak's latest package of grants adds to the eye-watering 280 billion pounds in government support already announced for this financial year to stave off total economic collapse.
"This will help businesses to get through the months ahead – and crucially it will help sustain jobs, so workers can be ready to return when they are able to reopen," he said in a statement.
The new lockdown is likely to cause the economy to shrink again, though not by as much as the huge shock caused by the first one in spring 2020.
JP Morgan economist Allan Monks said he was now expecting the economy to shrink by 2.5% in the first quarter of 2021 – compared with almost 20% in the April-June period of last year.
More than a million people in Britain have already received their first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.
The government aims to vaccinate all elderly care home residents and their carers, everyone over the age of 70, all frontline health and social care workers, and everyone who is clinically extremely vulnerable, by mid-February.
But senior minister Michael Gove urged caution in terms of when that might translate into an easing of restrictions.
"We'll be able to review the progress that we've made on the 15th of February…and we hope that we'll be able to progressively lift restrictions after that, but what I can't do is predict, nobody can predict with accuracy what we will be able to relax and when," he said on Sky News.
Gove also said the government would soon announce new measures aimed at international travelers. – Rappler.com
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Der JetTrain hätte in verschiedenen Zusammenstellungen eingesetzt werden können, die mit einem oder zwei Triebköpfen ausgerüstet gewesen wären und über Wagen mit aktiver Neigetechnik verfügt hätten. Es waren sowohl Züge mit einem Triebkopf und vier bis sieben Wagen, sowie auch Züge mit zwei Triebköpfen und bis zu elf Zwischenwagen geplant. Die Fahrzeuge basierten auf denjenigen des Acela Express.

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Der Triebkopf mit der Nummer 2002 wurde im Sommer 2000 fertiggestellt und erreichte im Sommer 2001 auf der Versuchsstrecke des Transportation Technology Centers eine Geschwindigkeit von 251 km/h. Am 15. Oktober 2001 wurde der JetTrain in der Union Station von Washington, D.C. der Öffentlichkeit vorgestellt. Nach einer Werbetour durch Kanada im Frühjahr 2003 folgte im Oktober 2003 eine Demonstrationsfahrt nach Florida, wo der Triebkopf in Miami vom finnischen Automobilrennfahrer Mika Salo vorgestellt wurde. Nachdem das Projekt in Florida an einem Referendum scheiterte und das Projekt in Kanada aus finanziellen Gründen ebenfalls nicht vorwärtskam, verschwand der JetTrain in der Versenkung.

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Massive Twitch hack: Source code and payment reports leaked
If you have or have ever had a Twitch account, your information is at risk after a huge breach has exposed all kinds of sensitive data for users of the site and streamers alike.
According to Bleeping Computer:
"The leaker shared a torrent link leading to a 125GB archive containing data allegedly stolen from roughly 6,000 internal Twitch Git repositories. "Their community is also a disgusting toxic cesspool, so to foster more disruption and competition in the online video streaming space, we have completely pwned them, and in part one, are releasing the source code from almost 6,000 internal Git repositories," the post reads. According to the anonymous 4chan user, the leaked Twitch data contains: Various proprietary SDKs and internal AWS services used by Twitch; Every other property that Twitch owns, including IGDB and CurseForge; An unreleased Steam competitor from Amazon Game Studios; Creator payout reports from 2019 until now.
The anonymous poster named his thread "twitch leaks part one," which hints at further stolen Twitch data likely being leaked in the future. BleepingComputer downloaded a portion of the leaked data and can confirm that it looks authentic and matches what was disclosed by the hacker. A Twitch spokesperson was not immediately available for comment when BleepingComputer reached out earlier today."
Learn more about the Twitch leak at Bleeping Computer.
Microsoft shares Windows 11 TPM check bypass for unsupported PCs
After all the hoopla about TPM and Windows 11, Microsoft has decided to just officially tell you how to bypass it anyway.
"This is somewhat surprising considering the tech giant's unwavering stance concerning the minimum requirements for the new Windows version. However, it looks like Microsoft couldn't ignore the fact that bypassing TPM checks is fairly simple, so to avoid having people breaking their systems by using non-standardized third-party scripts, they decided to just give users an official way to do it. Installing Windows 11 on unsupported hardware comes with some pitfalls that users must be aware of, and in some cases, agree to before the operating system will install. "Your device might malfunction due to these compatibility or other issues. Devices that do not meet these system requirement will no longer be guaranteed to receive updates, including but not limited to security updates," Microsoft explains in a new support bulletin.
Microsoft's official bypass is to add a Registry value named "AllowUpgradesWithUnsupportedTPMOrCPU" and then install Windows 11 using bootable media. The Windows 11 setup program will no longer check for a TPM 2.0 security processor or compatible CPUs when added. However, you will still require a TPM 1.2 security processor, which many will not likely have. At this point, we should warn you that even if the above appears to be fairly simple and straightforward, there are risks involved when adding registry keys or modifying existing entries. Doing something wrong in the Registry Editor could result in a corrupted filesystem or unbootable OS, leaving you with the only option to reinstall it. As such, if you want to experiment with Microsoft's guidelines, you are doing so at your own risk. Also, TPM 2.0 remains an important security feature that powers some of Windows 11's security features, so if you're installing Windows 11 on a non-TPM 2.0 chip, you will miss out on all of them."
Learn more about Windows 11 TPM at Bleeping Computer.
Google to auto-enroll 150 million user accounts into 2FA
Google is taking charge of your security if you've been resistent to 2FA with your account. You may just get enrolled in it automatically.
""And because we know the best way to keep our users safe is to turn on our security protections by default, we have started to automatically configure our users' accounts into a more secure state," explained Google in a new blog post. "By the end of 2021, we plan to auto-enroll an additional 150 million Google users in 2SV and require 2 million YouTube creators to turn it on." Google says that these additional accounts will only be enrolled if they have the "proper backup mechanisms" in place to transition to 2SV.
For those unable to enroll in 2SV due to available authentication methods, Google is working on other technologies that these users can use. To check if your account has the correct settings for 2SV, you can perform a Security Checkup on your Google Account, which will explain your available options. As 2-factor authentication is such an important method of securing online accounts and data breaches that frequently expose credentials, it is strongly advised that users enroll now in 2SV rather than waiting."
Learn more about Google 2FA at Bleeping Computer.
But there's more going on in the world than that.
NASA's Lucy Mission To Explore the Jupiter Trojan Asteroids – "It's Almost Like We're Traveling Back in Time"
NASA will launch yet another cool mission this month that will make its way through the solar system before arriving at the Trojan asteroids of Jupiter.
According to SciTechDaily:
"Called "Trojans" after characters from Greek mythology, most of Lucy's target asteroids are left over from the formation of the solar system. These Trojans circle the Sun in two swarms: one that precedes and one that follows Jupiter in its orbit of the Sun. Lucy will be the first spacecraft to visit the Trojans, and the first to examine so many independent solar system targets, each in its own orbit of the Sun. Studying Jupiter's Trojan asteroids up close would help scientists hone their theories on how our solar system's planets formed 4.5 billion years ago and why they ended up in their current configuration. "It's almost like we're traveling back in time," said aerospace engineer Jacob Englander, who helped design Lucy's trajectory while working at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.
Now, Lucy will launch from Earth aboard an Atlas V 401 rocket during a window that opens October 16, 2021. It will first fly by Earth twice to use this planet's gravity to hurl itself toward the Trojans. In 2025, Lucy will fly past Donaldjohanson, which orbits in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. The team will use this flyby to test the spacecraft's instruments. By August 2027, Lucy will reach its first swarm of Trojans that precede Jupiter at a gravitationally stable location known as a Lagrange point, specifically known as L4. There, the spacecraft will first intersect with Eurybates and its satellite Queta. By September 2027, Lucy will fly by Polymele, and then in April 2028 by Leucus, and Orus in November 2028. Lucy will then swing back past Earth for a third gravity assist, which will catapult it toward the swarm on the other side of Jupiter, located at the L5 Lagrange point, where it will meet up with Patroclus and Menoetius in 2033."
Learn more about NASA's Lucy Mission at SciTechDaily.
And you can't not know this.
Tardigrade discovered in 16-million-year-old amber a 'once in a generation' find
Our old friend the tardigrade is back in the news (last seen being shot from a gun). This time, like something out of Jurassic Park, one of the tiny creatures was found (not alive, they're not that hardy) in some very ancient amber.
According to CNET:
"The fossil tardigrade is remarkable for its rarity and for being a new species and a new genus. While the fossil micro-animal looked like a modern tardigrade on the outside, researchers were also able to examine its innards. "Of all the currently known and formally named tardigrade amber fossils (three so far, including this Dominican amber fossil), this is the first fossil wherein we were able to visualize its internal structure (i.e. foregut)," Marc Mapalo, a doctoral candidate at Harvard University, told me. Mapalo is lead author of a paper on the find published this week in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
The tardigrade was so different from known specimens it earned its own genus and the name Paradoryphoribius chronocaribbeus. "The discovery of a fossil tardigrade is truly a once-in-a-generation event," said co-author Phil Barden in a New Jersey Institute of Technology statement on Tuesday. Barden's lab found the fossil. Spotting a teensy tardigrade that's half a millimeter long in ancient amber is no easy feat. "At first I thought it was an artifact in the amber-- a crack or fissure that just happened to look a lot like a tardigrade," Barden said. The tiny claws tipped him off to what it really was."
Learn more about the ancient tardigrade find at CNET.
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Oct 6, 2021 at 15:12 UTC
Tardigrade's are a pretty cool species. I never heard of them before I watched Star Trek Discovery. Now they are all the rave. What would have been more impressive is if they cut the Tardigrade out of its enclosure and it came to life. What they should do is make a Tardigrade Twinkie. The two things that are to survive the apocalypse into one.
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Parker3811
Tardigrades are very fascinating! I wonder what insight this new discovery will bring us from 16 million years ago.
Sean Wolsey
Microsoft is realizing that people are going to install Win11 on "unsupported hardware" whether they like it or not. The updates that will be withheld are likely to just be stuff that requires that TPM hardware.
OK, so what is "Twitch"? I've never heard of them.
For bypassing the TPM in Windows 11 - don't. BitLocker requires TPM and while not perfect, it will protect your data from lost equipment. Having been the victim of financial fraud after TriWest's 2004 break-in and physical server theft, I consider whole disk encryption to be 100% imperative for all systems and devices. If you have systems that don't have a TPM chip, pull their hard drives and destroy them and then recycle the rest of the system. </soapbox>
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"Their community is also a disgusting toxic cesspool"
You got to love it when hackers proclaim themselves as some reputable force protecting the world.
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So... The fall of Twitch started with Hot Tub streams.
Robert5205 Oct 6, 2021 at 15:50 UTC
Google: We're forcing 2FA because that will keep everyone safe!
Twitch: A hacker just took all your data. Sorry.
BiscuitKing
All I could think about when reading the Trojan asteroid article was a certain brand of prophylactic. I don't know why! :)
Twitch is a vial landscape do NOT visit it.
I thought roaches could survive an apocalypse?
CooperJS1 Oct 6, 2021 at 16:02 UTC
If there is one thing you can count on from Microsoft, it is how reliably unreliable they are.
Everything they say is set in stone, until that stone becomes magma and they start back-peddling because they don't understand real people.
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So, what grade did this new tardi get?
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He got an "F" because he couldn't get to class on time....tardi.....tardy...I'm so sorry.
I expected MS to add a bypass for the TPM. Enough people are going to scream about it that it was inevitable. I thought it would be added before the release however. Close enough I suppose. It doesn't matter to me, I'm not moving my personal device to it anytime soon, let others figure out the quirks first. I'm not sure how soon we'll do it at work. To many things to test first, maybe next year we'll start.
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Google: We're going to force everyone to use 2FA
Microsoft: Way ahead of you
Everyone: uses SMS for account verification
Syniverse: um, guys?
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Mike400 wrote:
Twitch is a platform (primarily) for people that are so lazy, they just watch other people play video games because they are to lazy to do it themselves. A new level of lazy. XD
It reminds me of the person I spoke to that said they did not want to play DnD because it was too social.
Lockout Oct 6, 2021 at 16:49 UTC
"Microsoft shares Windows 11 TPM check bypass for unsupported PCs
After all the hoopla about TPM and Windows 11, Microsoft has decided to just officially tell you how to bypass it anyway."
Seriously what was the point in making it a requirement then? Why not just remove it?
ShanePlus Oct 6, 2021 at 16:59 UTC
MS giving the TPM bypaypass, and then threatening to not give security updates is kind of a cop out.
Sorry, it's been said. The more right answer is to not exlude the majority of your user base in the midst of a prolonged chip shortage at launch.
NotoriousGK wrote:
I think that's a little harsh. Doesn't that describe every sports fan everywhere anytime?
CopierGuy310 Oct 6, 2021 at 17:17 UTC
" NASA's Lucy Mission To Explore the Jupiter Trojan Asteroids "
Yep. Large chunks of rock. But we did some really cool math! Money well spent.
Robert_1988
I never heard of "Twitch". Then again, I never noticed Facebook and its affiliate programs were down.
Test4Echo
This just in! TV replacement Twitch showed they were not too twitchy on the IT department, with Justin Intime, their lead cybersecurity expert claiming he should have been hovering over that big "block bad guys" button with more jittery fingers than he did.
Jokes about Twitch.tv's name and its previous name (Justin.tv) aside, that is not good for the millions of people who use it for both entertainment and income. Better hope they're using a password manager!


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Javier complained the other day, that Weston freezes on starting any X11 app via Xwayland. I can't recall the details. The Weston log was very interesting, though: it showed that as soon as XWM initializes, Weston thinks it's leaving the VT.
Looking at the code, I'm surprised it hasn't blown up for anyone else yet.
I guess what happens in Javier's case, is that when Xwayland server starts, it sends SIGUSR1 to Weston, which then runs all SIGUSR1 handlers in some arbitary order: VT switch and XWM init. This leads to Weston thinking it's no longer current, likely refusing all input, and you have a frozen VT.
Seems like something should be moved to another signal number.
> thinks it's leaving the VT.
> Looking at the code, I'm surprised it hasn't blown up for anyone else yet.
> no longer current, likely refusing all input, and you have a frozen VT.
> Seems like something should be moved to another signal number.
Simply switch logind-util.c to use SIGRTMIN+1. Patch is appended.
I guess back in the days I wasn't aware of wl_event_loop_add_signal(). Feel free to change it.
Could you check if those fix this bug for you?
> Could you check if those fix this bug for you?
Confirmed fixed in a release.


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During week 10 (March 4-10, 2018), influenza activity decreased in the United States.
Viral Surveillance: Overall, influenza A(H3) viruses have predominated this season. However, in recent weeks the proportion of influenza A viruses has declined, and during week 10, the numbers of influenza A and influenza B viruses reported were similar. The percentage of respiratory specimens testing positive for influenza in clinical laboratories decreased.
Influenza-associated Pediatric Deaths: Nine influenza-associated pediatric deaths were reported.
Influenza-associated Hospitalizations: A cumulative rate of 89.9 laboratory-confirmed influenza-associated hospitalizations per 100 000 population was reported.
Outpatient Illness Surveillance: The proportion of outpatient visits for influenza-like illness (ILI) was 3,3 %, which is above the national baseline of 2,2 %. All 10 regions reported ILI at or above region-specific baseline levels. Twelve states experienced high ILI activity; 13 states experienced moderate ILI activity; New York City and 14 states experienced low ILI activity; 11 states experienced minimal ILI activity; and Puerto Rico and the District of Columbia had insufficient data.
Geographic Spread of Influenza: The geographic spread of influenza in Puerto Rico and 26 states was reported as widespread; Guam and 18 states reported regional activity; the District of Columbia and five states reported local activity; one state reported sporadic activity; and the U.S. Virgin Islands reported no activity.
Elevated 46 of 54 15 % 4 415 28 950 413 722 6 562 2 748 128
Elevated 5 of 6 25,5 % 249 1 723 4 43 428 38 4
Elevated 3 of 4 22 % 263 1 628 10 15 254 279 8
Elevated 4 of 6 18,8 % 858 3 153 10 159 867 93 12
Elevated 8 of 8 14 % 779 2 705 96 32 562 531 33
Elevated 6 of 6 24,2 % 692 6 349 83 48 1 149 169 24
Elevated 4 of 5 16,3 % 345 1 285 8 2 355 373 22
Elevated 4 of 4 20,2 % 76 1 134 12 3 434 34 2
Elevated 6 of 6 15,6 % 253 2 524 17 96 714 61 2
Elevated 3 of 5 13,4 % 583 7 068 166 313 1 344 769 17
Elevated 3 of 4 17,6 % 317 1 381 7 11 455 401 4
*https://www.hhs.gov/about/agencies/iea/regional-offices/index.html
WHO and NREVSS collaborating laboratories, which include both public health and clinical laboratories located in all 50 states, Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia, report to CDC the total number of respiratory specimens tested for influenza and the number positive for influenza by virus type. In addition, public health laboratories also report the influenza A subtype (H1 or H3) and influenza B lineage information of the viruses they test and the age or age group of the persons from whom the specimens were collected.
Additional virologic data, including national, regional and select state-level data, can be found at: http://gis.cdc.gov/grasp/fluview/fluportaldashboard.html. Age group proportions and totals by influenza subtype reported by public health laboratories can be found at: http://gis.cdc.gov/grasp/fluview/flu_by_age_virus.html.
The results of tests performed by clinical laboratories are summarized below.
4 223 (15 %) 195 266 (20,1 %)
1 963 (46,5 %) 140 352 (71,9 %)
242 (43,1 %) 33 778 (77,1 %)
55 (22,7 %) 4 415 (13,1 %)
Close monitoring of influenza viruses is required to better assess the potential impact on public health. CDC characterizes influenza viruses through one or more tests including genomic sequencing and hemagglutination inhibition (HI) ((i.e., hemagglutination inhibition (HI) and/or neutralization assays). These data are used to monitor for changes in circulating influenza viruses and to compare how similar currently circulating influenza viruses are to the reference viruses used for developing influenza vaccines. Antigenic and genetic characterization of circulating influenza viruses can give an indication of the influenza vaccine's ability to produce an immune response against the wide array of influenza viruses co-circulating, but annual vaccine effectiveness estimates are needed to determine how much protection has been provided to the population by vaccination. On February 15, 2018, interim influenza vaccine effectiveness estimates for the 2017-2018 season were released and are available here.
For nearly all influenza-positive surveillance samples received at CDC, next-generation sequencing is performed to determine the genetic identity of circulating influenza viruses and to monitor viruses for evidence of genetic changes. Viruses are classified into genetic clades/subclades based on analysis of the genetic sequences of the HA gene segments. However, genetic changes do not always result in antigenic change. Extensive genetic variation may exist in circulating viruses, with no evidence of substantial antigenic drift. Antigenic drift is evaluated by comparing cell-propagated circulating viruses with cell-propagated reference viruses representing currently recommended vaccine components.
CDC has antigenically or genetically characterized 2 075 influenza viruses collected during October 1, 2017 – March 10, 2018, and submitted by U.S. laboratories, including 499 influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 viruses, 941 influenza A(H3N2) viruses, and 635 influenza B viruses.
Influenza A Viruses
A (H1N1)pdm09: Phylogenetic analysis of the HA genes from 499 A(H1N1)pdm09 viruses showed that all belonged to clade 6B.1. Three hundred forty three A(H1N1)pdm09 viruses were antigenically characterized, and all were antigenically similar (analyzed using HI with ferret antisera) to the reference 6B.1 virus A/Michigan/45/2015, representing the recommended influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 reference virus for the 2017–18 Northern Hemisphere influenza vaccines.
A (H3N2): Phylogenetic analysis of the HA genes from 941 A(H3N2) viruses revealed extensive genetic diversity with multiple clades/subclades co-circulating. The HA genes of circulating viruses belonged to clade 3C.2a (n=792), subclade 3C.2a1 (n=127) or clade 3C.3a (n=22). Four hundred twenty nine influenza A(H3N2) viruses were antigenically characterized, and 420 (97,9 %) A(H3N2) viruses tested were well-inhibited (reacting at titers that were within fourfold of the homologous virus titer) by ferret antisera raised against A/Michigan/15/2014 (3C.2a), a cell-propagated A/Hong Kong/4801/2014-like reference virus representing the A(H3N2) component of 2017–18 Northern Hemisphere influenza vaccines.
Influenza B Viruses
B/Victoria: Phylogenetic analysis of 112 B/Victoria-lineage viruses indicate that all HA genes belonged to genetic clade V1A, the same genetic clade as the vaccine reference virus, B/Brisbane/60/2008. However, a number of viruses had a 6-nucleotide deletion (encoding amino acids 162 and 163) in the HA (abbreviated as V1A-2Del). Thirty two (43,8 %) B/Victoria lineage viruses were well-inhibited by ferret antisera raised against cell -propagated B/Brisbane/60/2008 reference virus, representing a recommended B virus component of 2017–18 Northern Hemisphere influenza vaccines. Forty one (56,2 %) B/Victoria lineage viruses reacted poorly (at titers that were 8-fold or greater reduced compared with the homologous virus titer) with ferret antisera raised against cell-propagated B/Brisbane/60/2008, and these viruses had the V1A-2Del HA.
B/Yamagata: Phylogenetic analysis of 495 influenza B/Yamagata-lineage viruses indicate that the HA genes belonged to clade Y3. A total of 378 influenza B/Yamagata-lineage viruses were antigenically characterized, and all were antigenically similar to cell-propagated B/Phuket/3073/2013, the reference vaccine virus representing the influenza B/Yamagata-lineage component of the 2017–18 Northern Hemisphere quadrivalent vaccines.
The majority of U.S. viruses submitted for characterization come from state and local public health laboratories. Due to Right Size Roadmap considerations, specimen submission guidance to laboratories is that, if available, 2 influenza A(H1N1)pdm09, 2 influenza A(H3N2), and 2 influenza B viruses be submitted every other week. Therefore, the numbers of each virus type/subtype characterized should be more balanced across subtypes/lineages but will not reflect the actual proportion of circulating viruses. In the figure below, the results of tests performed by public health labs are shown on the left and CDC sequence results (by genetic clade/subclade) are shown on the right.
Testing of influenza A (H1N1)pdm09, influenza A (H3N2), and influenza B virus isolates for resistance to neuraminidase inhibitors (oseltamivir, zanamivir, and peramivir) is performed at CDC using a functional assay. Additional influenza A (H1N1)pdm09 and influenza A (H3N2) viruses from clinical samples are tested for mutations known to confer oseltamivir resistance. The data summarized below combine the results of both testing methods. These samples are routinely obtained for surveillance purposes rather than for diagnostic testing of patients suspected to be infected with antiviral-resistant virus.
On December 27, 2017, a Health Advisory was released by CDC providing: 1) a notice about increased influenza A(H3N2) activity and its clinical implications; 2) a summary of influenza antiviral drug treatment recommendations; 3) an update about approved treatment drugs and supply this season; and 4) background information for patients about influenza treatment. More information is available at https://emergency.cdc.gov/han/han00409.asp.
The majority of recently circulating influenza viruses are susceptible to the neuraminidase inhibitor antiviral medications, oseltamivir, zanamivir, and peramivir; however, rare sporadic instances of oseltamivir-resistant and peramivir-resistant influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 viruses and oseltamivir-resistant influenza A(H3N2) viruses have been detected worldwide. Antiviral treatment as early as possible is recommended for patients with confirmed or suspected influenza who have severe, complicated, or progressive illness; who require hospitalization; or who are at high risk for serious influenza-related complications. Additional information on recommendations for treatment and chemoprophylaxis of influenza virus infection with antiviral agents is available at http://www.cdc.gov/flu/antivirals/index.htm.
Based on National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) mortality surveillance data available on March 15, 2018, 8,5 % of the deaths occurring during the week ending February 24, 2018 (week 8) were due to P&I. This percentage is above the epidemic threshold of 7,4 % for week 8.
Background: Weekly mortality surveillance data include a combination of machine coded and manually coded causes of death collected from death certificates. Percentages of deaths due to P&I are higher among manually coded records than more rapidly available machine coded records. There is currently a delay in manual coding for deaths occurring in 2018. Because of this delay initially reported P&I percentages will be lower than those calculated from the final data.
Nine influenza-associated pediatric deaths were reported to CDC during week 10. Two deaths were associated with an influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 virus and occurred during weeks 1 and 9 (the weeks ending January 6, 2018 and March 3, 2018, respectively). Two deaths were associated with an influenza A(H3) virus and occurred during weeks 6 and 9 (the weeks ending February 10, 2018 and March 3, 2018, respectively). Five deaths were associated with an influenza B virus and occurred during weeks 6 and 9 (the weeks ending February 10, 2018, March 3, 2018, respectively).
A total of 128 influenza-associated pediatric deaths have been reported for the 2017-2018 season.
The FluSurv-NET covers more than 70 counties in the 10 Emerging Infections Program (EIP) states (CA, CO, CT, GA, MD, MN, NM, NY, OR, and TN) and additional Influenza Hospitalization Surveillance Project (IHSP) states. The IHSP began during the 2009-2010 season to enhance surveillance during the 2009 H1N1 pandemic. IHSP sites included IA, ID, MI, OK and SD during the 2009-2010 season; ID, MI, OH, OK, RI, and UT during the 2010-2011 season; MI, OH, RI, and UT during the 2011-2012 season; IA, MI, OH, RI, and UT during the 2012-2013 season; and MI, OH, and UT during the 2013-2014, 2014-15, 2015-16, 2016-17, and 2017-18 seasons.
Data gathered are used to estimate age-specific hospitalization rates on a weekly basis, and describe characteristics of persons hospitalized with influenza illness. The rates provided are likely to be an underestimate as influenza-related hospitalizations can be missed, either because testing is not performed, or because cases may be attributed to other causes of pneumonia or other common influenza-related complications.
A total of 25 676 laboratory-confirmed influenza-associated hospitalizations were reported between October 1, 2017 and March 10, 2018. The overall hospitalization rate was 89.9 per 100 000 population. The highest rate of hospitalization was among adults aged ≥65 years (386.2 per 100 000 population), followed by adults aged 50-64 (97.3 per 100 000 population) and children aged 0-4 years (64.9 per 100 000 population). Among 25 676 hospitalizations, 20 293 (79 %) were associated with influenza A virus, 5 228 (20,4 %) with influenza B virus, 87 (0,3 %) with influenza A virus and influenza B virus co-infection, and 68 (0,3 %) with influenza virus for which the type was not determined. Among those with influenza A subtype information 4 967 (85,2 %) were A(H3N2) and 860 (14.8) were A(H1N1)pdm09 virus.
Among 2 565 hospitalized adults with information on underlying medical conditions, 2 384 (92,9 %) had at least one reported underlying medical condition; the most commonly reported were cardiovascular disease, metabolic disorder, obesity, and chronic lung disease. Among 237 hospitalized children with information on underlying medical conditions, 130 (54,9 %) had at least one underlying medical condition; the most commonly reported were asthma, neurologic disorder, and obesity. Among 200 hospitalized women of childbearing age (15-44 years) with information on pregnancy status, 60 (30 %) were pregnant.
Nationwide during week 10, 3,3 % of patient visits reported through the U.S. Outpatient Influenza-like Illness Surveillance Network (ILINet) were due to influenza-like illness (ILI). This percentage is above the national baseline of 2,2 %. (ILI is defined as fever (temperature of 100°F [37.8°C] or greater) and cough and/or sore throat.)
Additional ILINet data, including national, regional and select state-level data, are available at http://gis.cdc.gov/grasp/fluview/fluportaldashboard.html.
On a regional level, the percentage of outpatient visits for ILI ranged from 1,9 % to 4,9 % during week 10. All 10 regions reported percentages of outpatient visits for ILI at or above their region-specific baselines.
During week 10, the following ILI activity levels were experienced:
Twelve states experienced high activity (Alaska, Arizona, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, New Mexico, South Carolina, Virginia, and Wyoming).
Thirteen states experienced moderate ILI activity (Arkansas, California, Hawaii, Indiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Texas, Vermont, and Wisconsin).
New York City and 14 five states experienced low ILI activity (Alabama, Colorado, Connecticut, Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Oregon, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Utah, and West Virginia).
Eleven states experienced minimal ILI activity (Delaware, Florida, Idaho, Maine, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Ohio, Tennessee, and Washington).
Data were insufficient to calculate an ILI activity level from the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico
Data displayed in this map are based on data collected in ILINet, whereas the State and Territorial flu activity map is based on reports from state and territorial epidemiologists. The data presented in this map are preliminary and may change as more data are received.
Additional data can be found at https://gis.cdc.gov/grasp/fluview/FluView8.html.
During week 10, the following influenza activity was reported:
Widespread influenza activity was reported by Puerto Rico and 26 states (Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Kansas, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Virginia, Washington, Wisconsin, and Wyoming).
Regional influenza activity was reported by Guam and 18 states (Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Utah).
Local influenza activity was reported by the District of Columbia and five states (Hawaii, Nevada, Oregon, Texas, and West Virginia).
Sporadic influenza activity was reported by one state (Vermont).


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Q: why base class method is invoked? In the following code:
b.show("str");
//prints: from base
d.show("");
//prints: from str

Could one please explain why it's behaving differently?
I am wondering why Base b = new Sub(), that b.show() from base class would be invoked.
I am merely using DifferentClass, as an reference showing b.show(String) is called under an non-inheritance occasion.
public class TestClass {

    public static void main(String[] args) {
        Base b = new Sub();
        b.show("str");
        DifferentClass d = new DifferentClass ();
        d.show("");
    }
}

class Base {
    public void show(Object obj) {
        System.out.println("from base");
    }
}

class Sub extends Base {
    public void show(String str) {
        System.out.println("from sub");
    }
}

class DifferentClass {
    public void show(String str) {
        System.out.println("from str");
    }

    public void show(Object obj) {
        System.out.println("from obj");
    }
}

A: Because of the reference type.
    Base b = new Sub();
    b.show("str");
    Sub2 s2 = new Sub2();
    s2.show("");

In that code, though b is an instance of Sub, the reference type of the variable is Base.  Method overloading is evaluated at compile-time, not run-time.  That matters because at compile time, once the new Sub() constructor runs and we assign the variable, the compiler is  no longer aware of the concrete class.  Only that it's a valid Base.
Why does this matter?
Because when the compiler tries to resolve b.show(String), there is no method on Base (the only type it knows of for sure for b) which takes a String, so it passes the string to the show(Object) method.
Sub does not over-ride the show(String) method (though Sub2 does).
By the way, the @Override annotation will help you with this: When do you use Java's @Override annotation and why?

A: You're invoking with a string so the method show() overloaded with string is called.
Maybe you did not realize that sub2 does not inherit??...

A: You declare your variable b to be of type Base, then you invoke show() on it.  Since it has a show method which matches the signature, that is the method invoked.
Then you declare your variable s2 to be of type Sub2, and invoke show(String) on it.  The runtime invokes that method since it matches.

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Expression of interleukin-18 receptor in fibroblast-like synoviocytes
Burkhard Möller, Uta Kessler, Stefan Rehart, Uwe Kalina, Oliver Gerhard Ottmann, Joachim Peter Kaltwasser, Dieter Hoelzer, Natasa Kukoc-Zivojnov
An excess of the proinflammatory substance IL-18 is present in joints of patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), and expression of IL-18 receptor (IL-18R) regulates IL-18 bioactivity in various cell types. We examined the expression of IL-18R alpha-chain and beta-chain and the biologic effects of IL-18 in fibroblast-like synoviocytes (FLS) after long-term culture. The presence of both IL-18R chains was a prerequisite for IL-18 signal transduction in FLS. However, all FLS cultures studied were either resistant or barely responsive to IL-18 stimulation as regards cell proliferation, expression of adhesion molecules ICAM-1 and vascular cell adhesion molecule (VCAM)-1, and the release of interstitial collagenase and stromelysin, IL-6 and IL-8, prostaglandin E2, or nitric oxide. We conclude that the presence of macrophages or IL-18R+ T cells that can respond directly to IL-18 is essential for the proinflammatory effects of IL-18 in synovitis in RA. Open Access: Published: 14 November 2001 © 2002 Möller et al., licensee BioMed Central Ltd (Print ISSN 1465-9905; Online ISSN 1465-9913)
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Burkhard Möller, Uta Kessler, Stefan Rehart, Uwe Kalina, Oliver Gerhard Ottmann, Joachim Peter Kaltwasser, Dieter HoelzerGND, Natasa Kukoc-Zivojnov
https://doi.org/10.1186/ar390
Arthritis Research & Therapy
fibroblast; interleukin-18; receptor; rheumatoid arthritis; synoviocyte
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Q: Is there a way to estimate beta from regression analysis other than the mle estimation? Is there a way to estimate beta from regression analysis other than the mele estimation?
Or is there any other distribution regression where the closed form solution exists other than normal regression?

A: Only under an assumption of a normal error term does ordinary least squares coincide with maximum likelihood estimation, so if you assume a different distribution of the errors (or make no assumption at all) yet run through the usual $\hat\beta_{ols}=(X^TX)^{-1}X^Ty$ calculation, you're not doing maximum likelihood estimation.
Even if you do assume a Gaussian error term, there are alternatives to the ordinary least squares (equivalent to maximum likelihood) estimator. One such option is ridge regression, which does have a closed-form solution. Let $I$ be the identity matrix with the same dimensions as $X^TX$, and let $k>0$ be a number of your choosing (perhaps by some kind of cross validation to find the value that gives the best out-of-sample cross validation performance). Then the ridge regression estimator is:
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(X^TX+kI)^{-1}X^Ty
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Note that the ridge estimator is a biased estimator. While "bias" as a technical term in statistics does not have the negative connotations that the word often has in colloquial English, it is worth being aware of this fact.


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Detecting Fake Followers on Instagram with These Tools
In 2017, businesses acquired an average $7.65 ROI for every dollar spent on influencer marketing. Nowadays, influencer marketing is an indisputably viable marketing method. However, it can be difficult to know who to trust when you're choosing an Instagram influencer for your next marketing campaign. Of course, you don't want to use an influencer who doesn't have real followers or a fully engaged audience. This would be a detriment to your marketing budget, but even worse, it could put your brand's integrity at risk. Fortunately, there are some quick and easy methods to determine whether an account has fake followers on Instagram or not. Once you've collected a list of potential influencers for your next Instagram marketing campaign, take a look at some of our tips and tools for detecting fake followers or bots, so you can ensure you're only working with the best.
Rise of the Instagram Bot
In the last few years, it has become popular practice for some people to buy bots to increase their followers on social media accounts — in January 2018, The New York Times published a post, named "The Follower Factory," to highlight this shady tactic. Essentially, someone will buy a bot, and the bot will like and comment on posts with a specific hashtag, or follow people with the hope that those people will then follow them back.
You don't want to pay an influencer if she uses a bot to collect followers. A bot might increase the number of her followers, but her audience probably isn't truly engaged or authentic. Moreover, using an insincere influencer could throw your business's integrity into question.
To find out if an Instagram account uses a bot or not, consider these five tips:
Take a look at the account's comments on other people's posts. If the comments are repeatedly generic, for example "Pretty pic," its a sign there's a bot behind the profile.
Check if the account has tons of followers, but its content is terrible. Trust your judgment — if your influencer has 10,000 followers but only uploads below-average posts, her followers might not be legitimate.
See if after you follow the account, they unfollow you. If you follow your influencer but then she unfollows you, it could be a bot, cleaning up her follow-to-follower ratio.
Be wary if they follow you again after you don't follow them back. A bot is programmed to repeatedly follow and unfollow you, until you return the favor.
Consider them a bot if they follow thousands of accounts, however they only have a few followers in return. In case the ratio seems way off, its likely a bot.
Ultimately, using your judgment is the best way to determine whether an account uses a bot. If the account takes actions you can't necessarily justify, its likely because it's not a human behind the screen.
The way to Conduct an Instagram Audit to Detect Fake Followers
There are some Instagram auditing tools out there to quickly scan your influencer's account, and provide statistics regarding their authenticity and engagement score (i.e. how often their audience actually comments or likes a post). Let's take a look at three now.
1. IG Audit
IG Audit has a nondescript user interface, but it does the trick — for public accounts, that is. Most influencers already have a public account, so you simply enter their username into IG Audit's search box and they'll provide you with an estimated real to fake follower ratio. This tool is built by a former NASA Scientist, the tool randomly scans 200 followers — based on those followers, it gives the Instagram account a score out of 100. For instance, I scanned Rebecca Kufrin, America's newest Bachelorette, and she got a real follower score of 93%.
2. FakeCheck.co
Price: $1 per credit to unlock information
FakeCheck.co analyzes Instagram accounts by collecting data regarding the account followers' engagement level. As they rationalize, "If the resulting ratio for likes and comments based on the number of follower is outside the industry standard, it is likely that the account has paid Instagram followers". The site is user-friendly, and offers additional information, such as the top ten Instagram social engagement accounts from the past 30 days. However, unlike IG Audit, you'll need to pay money to unlock information. Fortunately, the cost is low, starting at only one dollar. For example, I tried scanning Taylor Swift's Instagram account, but I'm unable to see average likes or comments without paying for it.
3. Social Audit Pro
Price: $5 for 5,000 followers, $20 for 20,000 followers
Social Audit Pro is a paid service, but you get your money's worth. They provide you with useful analytics about other public accounts on Instagram, and also offer a cleanup tool to remove any of your followers that might've been flagged as fake or dormant. The cost is reasonable. You can use the tool to compare your Instagram influencers and fairly figure out the number of people they're truly reaching and engaging.
Keep in mind that fake followers can't become real customers, so it's critical you find influencers who can connect your business with the right people. Spend your time collecting data and thoroughly examine Instagram accounts before choosing an influencer. So you know you're not inadvertently getting involved in disreputable social media tactics.
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Q: Why tf.linspace() will return a long decimal number? Today, I tried to equally split a number range into a number list with TensorFlow's linspace function, I found it return a very annoying result:
import tensorflow as tf
print(tf.linspace(-3.0, 3.0, 11))

The output:
tf.Tensor(
[-3.         -2.4        -1.8        -1.1999999  -0.5999999   0.
  0.60000014  1.2000003   1.8000002   2.4         3.        ], shape=(11,), dtype=float32)

But if I use the same function in Numpy, it will show a more reasonable result:
import numpy as np
print(np.linspace(-3.0, 3.0, 11))

The output:
[-3.  -2.4 -1.8 -1.2 -0.6  0.   0.6  1.2  1.8  2.4  3. ]

Why TensorFlow will return a number that has a long decimal, like -0.5999999 not just -0.6?


Dear Tarryn: Loose stools are common with "thin" PCOS but can happen to anyone. Can you think back to what happened in your life right before the loose stools began?Did you take a trip somewhere? Did something traumatic happen in your life?
It is helpful to figure this out and unravel the mystery so that you know what might be the root cause.
You stated that you also experience hirsutism and depression. Loose stools are definitely a sign that something is not right with your digestion, and will purge your nutrients, making it easy to become nutrient deficient in a very short period of time. This will cause all sorts of health issues, including depression, because we make most of our serotonin in the gut.
Inflamed gut causing conditions like Crohn's, IBS, Ulcerative Colitis, Celiac, etc.
As you can see, the list is long, but it really all starts with healing your digestion and taking a deeper look at the stress in your life.
Begin with liver and gallbladder support, along with digestive enzymes and 1 tbsp of apple cider vinegar in a small amount of water before each meal to stimulate stomach acid and digestion. Digestion is a common problem with PCOS, so that's why the 5-Element nutrients contain liver support and digestive enzymes.
No raw foods right now. They are too hard to digest and take too many resources. Focus on cooked foods as much as possible.
Fiber is so important for healthy digestion so make sure you are getting enough. Whole, real foods contain a lot of fiber: 2 tbsp ground flax or chia seeds every day, 2+ cups veggies at every meal, 1/3 cup brown rice, 2 tbsp. psyllium husk powder and the 5-Element nutrients all have good fiber.
Foods to focus on: ghee (clarified butter), cooked vegetables, bone and mineral broths, soups are fantastic and so easy to make, Chinese cabbage, wild caught fish like salmon, 100% grass fed beef, spirulina, broccoli rabe, because many of these contain higher levels of an amino acid, L-glutamine, that can be so helpful for healing the gut.
Take some time to figure out how you can de-stress your life. Just taking a walk after each meal for 15 minutes can really help as it improves insulin sensitivity by 50%.
Continue to avoid wheat and dairy, and add alcohol, coffee (caffeine) and sugar to this list.


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Cytiva's New Manufacturing Facility, Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, USA
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Rentschler Biopharmaceutical Manufacturing Facility Expansion
Rentschler Biopharma is carrying out an expansion of its recently acquired biopharmaceutical manufacturing facility located in Milford, US. The project is part of the company's plan to expand its business in the US and Europe.
Manufacturing facility expansion
Milford, Massachusetts, US
Expected Completion
Rentschler Biopharma
Rentschler Biopharma is expanding its biopharma manufacturing facility located in Milford, Massachusetts, US, in December 2018. Credit: Rentschler Biopharma.
The expansion project will install a new 500l bioreactor. Credit: Rentschler Biopharma.
The Milford facility expansion is expected to be completed in 2020. Credit: Rentschler Biopharma.
Rentschler purchased the facility from a subsidiary of Shire in December 2018. The expanded facility will manufacture complex proteins including multi-specific antibodies, aside from biopharmaceuticals, for Shire, as part of the acquisition agreement.
Announced in November 2019, the biopharmaceutical manufacturing facility expansion is scheduled for completion in 2020. Rentschler also plans to develop a large-scale facility in the future, which will utilise single-use bioreactor manufacturing technology.
Rentschler biopharmaceutical manufacturing facility location
Rentschler Biopharma's manufacturing facility will be located at Milford, Massachusetts, in the Greater Boston area, US. With a built-up area of 93,000ft², it will be the company's first site outside Europe.
The facility is expected to provide sufficient space and capacity for the upcoming expansion plans.
Rentschler biopharmaceutical manufacturing facility details
The Milford biopharmaceutical manufacturing facility is qualified for large-scale, multi-product manufacturing allowing Rentschler to manufacture different types of products, according to customers' requirements, equipped with adequate lab capacity for new processes and equipment.
The expansion project will include the installation of a new single-use Xcellerex XDR-500 bioreactor, which will have a working volume of up to 500l and a downstream process yielding of up to 8g / l. Each reactor system includes a stainless steel vessel, process instrumentation, advanced control automation and an optimised single-use bioreactor bag assembly.
Xcellerex XDR 500 single-use bioreactor systems provide scalable and vigorous stirred-tank performance in both current good manufacturing practices (cGMP) and non-cGMP conditions, for use in the production of a wide range of cell lines.
The single-use technology of the system saves on time and costly clean-in-place (CIP), steam-in-place (SIP), and cleaning validation procedures. Further, the turnkey design enables quick installation as well as start-up and rapid batch-to-batch turnover, which increases the process flexibility when compared to stainless steel bioreactors.
XDR 500 is equipped with an external temperature control unit, mass flow controllers, peristaltic pumps and probe transmitters.
Manufacturing services offered by Rentschler Biopharma
Rentschler Biopharma's production services include bioprocess development and bio-manufacturing. The bioprocess construction services offered by the company include cell line growth, processing, formulation and analytics. The company offers the establishment of mammalian stable cell lines and cell banks.
"Rentschler also plans to develop a large-scale facility in the future, which will utilise single-use bioreactor manufacturing technology."
Rentschler's bio-manufacturing services include cell culture, purification, aseptic filling, and quality control. For purification of proteins from cell culture, Rentschler uses technologies such as chromatographic separations, filtration, extraction, viral inactivation and protein modification.
The company is also involved in consulting and planning activities, project management, and regulatory support. It provides support for the complete documentation of investigational new drug (IND) application, biologics license application (BLA), new drug application (NDA) and marketing authorisation application (MAA).
Contractors involved
GE Lifesciences supplies the XDR 500 single-use bioreactors for the facility.
Marketing commentary on Rentschler Biopharma
Based in Germany, Rentschler Biopharma is a leading contract development and manufacturing organisation (CDMO engaged in cGMP processing, development, and aseptic filling of biopharmaceuticals. It is a family-owned company founded in 1927 and employs 850 people across its sites in Laupheim, Germany and Milford, US.
Rentschler holds a strategic alliance with Rentschler Fill Solutions and Leukocare for manufacturing biopharmaceutical products. The partnership with Rentschler Fill Solutions is to provide sophisticated fill-and-finish services to provide biopharmaceutical products, while the Leukocare partnership is for contract development and manufacturing.
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In 2012, Eileen's investigative skills and leadership lead to the criminal conviction of the president of Pinehurst Bank of St. Paul, MN. In the arena of public corruption, her investigations resulted in the convictions of seven law enforcement personnel during her career, including two in Minnesota in 2008. In 2013, Eileen focused on the mortgage fraud, which culminated in the convictions of five people and financial recoveries from a court receivership in U.S. vs. James Warren Hoffman, et.al.
Eileen has worked with experienced investigators from other agencies and mentored new investigators in the FBI and other agencies. Eileen comes to Waypoint with a Master's of Business Administration (MBA) from Pepperdine University. She is also a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE).


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In This Article Expand or collapse the "in this article" section Censorship
Theorizing Censorship
Early Cinema and Censorship
The Hays Office and the Production Code
Genre, the Individual Film, and Censorship
The Politics of Censorship
Colonial Censorship
Hollywood's Blacklist
State Censors
War and Censorship
Censorship around the World
Hollywood and the World
Contemporary Censorship Practices
History of Television
Hollywood and Politics
Márta Mészáros
Nagisa Oshima
The Films of Andy Warhol
Lee Grieveson
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All social orders make decisions about what facts, ideas, and representations can safely appear in public. Liberal polities from the 18th century came to value "free speech" and, accordingly, limited prior restraint of materials. However, these freedoms are limited. These limits have been tested particularly by the rise of popular newspapers in the mid-19th century and the mass distribution of moving images from the late 19th century. Obscenity, for example, is not protected speech. Governments at times of "crisis" have extended their regulatory authority to protect official "truths," when governments argue that "national security" mandates stricter control of information. Authoritarian and ideological regimes have historically exerted more direct control over speech and media (broadly, respectively, preventing expressions of discontent and shaping ideology). The place of moving image media in these historical and political contexts has been varied. Liberal polities have frequently innovated a mixture of government censorship and industrial self-regulation. The trend has been toward the latter, and media industries establish their own regulatory boards to ensure their products do not cross lines delineated variously by the state, church, and other influential organizations. Censorship codes thus become known to media-makers, and hence internal to textual construction, and so function as a productive force. Self-regulation aims to ensure greater profitability for the usually heavily capitalized media industries, fending off more stringent state censorship and/or regulation of other economic aspects of media industries. This is a form of market censorship and a privatization of regulation; media industries have often used regulatory authority to help generate monopoly power, to limit access to markets, and to control legal agreements, such as those for patents and intellectual property. Authoritarian and ideological regimes maintain closer control, mostly because they don't trust market censorship. Across all regimes, advocates of censorship usually insist that screen representations affect attitudes and conduct more than other forms of media, influencing viewers to act in socially proscribed ways. The viewer affected badly by screen representation is regarded as peculiarly vulnerable and as potentially dangerous to the social order. Censorship debates often focus on children, although the effects of screen representations on other groups—such as women, immigrants, colonized populations, or working class audiences—have also been a concern. Policing the borders of expression is centrally a question of power: censors try to encourage adherence to various systems of values and marginalize competing voices. Debates about media censorship are frequently highly charged negotiations over discursive practices in a culture, marking boundaries that are always closely tied to the establishment and maintenance of forms of social, moral, and political order.
The study of censorship blossomed in the mid-1960s, amidst broader cultural and political changes. In the United States, this occurred at the same time that the long-running, self-regulatory Production Code was winding down to be replaced by a Ratings Code in 1968 that is still in use. Carmen 1966 surveys legal decisions up to that point in the United States, Randall 1968 looks closely at the functioning of city and state boards in the United States, while Hunnings 1967 offers a more comparative study (one of the few in studies on censorship, and this is something of a lacuna in current scholarship). The study of legal decisions in the United States is pursued in more recent scholarship: Jowett 1990 offers an excellent overview, DeGrazia and Newman 1982 gives details of a number of court cases (the former was a lawyer actively involved in censorship cases), and Wittern-Keller 2008 helpfully examines the long history of the legal record, using the files of state censors. The broader contexts for battles over the cinema and the functioning of self-regulatory bodies are addressed in two excellent collections of essays: Bernstein 1999 focuses on Hollywood before the 1968 Ratings Code went into effect, and Couvares 2006, an essential collection, covers a longer history, beginning with the emergence of cinema and culminating with the so-called culture wars of the 1980s.
Bernstein, Matthew, ed. Controlling Hollywood: Censorship and Regulation in the Studio Era. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1999.
Very useful collection that carefully gathers together a number of previously published essays, combining them with two newly commissioned pieces, to examine movie censorship in the United States from the Supreme Court's important 1915 decision on the legitimacy of state censorship to the emergence of the Ratings Code in 1968.
Carmen, Ira H.. Movies, Censorship and the Law. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1966.
Account of significant court cases in the United States and the impact of these on the existence and functioning of various city and state censor boards operative in the 1960s.
Couvares, Francis G., ed. Movie Censorship and American Culture. 2d ed. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2006.
Couvares insightfully situates movie censorship as a central node within broader "culture wars"—battles about defining cultural value and deciding what is legitimate to see and hear—that are connected to questions of hegemony and power. Essays examine examples from the United States across the 20th century and are the best point of entry for undergraduate and graduate students.
DeGrazia, Edward, and Roger K. Newman. Banned Films: Movies, Censors, and the First Amendment. New York: R. R. Bowker, 1982.
Overview of movie censorship that also includes a useful detailed account of 122 court cases involving the censorship of films in the United States from 1908 to 1981.
Hunnings, Neville March. Film Censors and the Law. London: Allen and Unwin, 1967.
The material here on the emergence and functioning of censorship in Britain is useful, but the book is most valuable for the chapters on the history and (then) contemporary functioning of censorship in other countries, including the United States, India, Canada, Australia, Denmark, France, and Soviet Russia.
Jowett, Garth. "Moral Responsibility and Commercial Entertainment: Social Control in the United States Film Industry, 1907–1968." Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television 10.1 (1990): 3–31.
DOI: 10.1080/01439689000260011E-mail Citation »
Good overview of the censorship situation in the United States until the late 1960s by a significant media historian.
Randall, Richard. The Censorship of the Movies: The Social and Political Control of a Mass Medium. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1968.
Randall's book delineates the legal contexts and the procedures of state and city prior restraint censorship, as well as more informal mechanisms, as they operated in the 1960s. Written amidst the broad social, cultural, and political changes of the 1960s, the book was published the same year the Ratings Code went into effect.
Wittern-Keller, Laura. Freedom of the Screen: Legal Challenges to State Film Censorship, 1915–1981. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2008.
Wittern-Keller outlines the judicial attitudes toward film censorship and the responses by individuals and the film industry as they sought to challenge legal restrictions.


Social capital might be a new term, but what it describes has been a staple of human experience for millennia. In short, social capital refers to the close ties between people who live and work together. As we age, and especially as we retire, we lose much of that social capital we've spent a lifetime cultivating. This may not sound too bad, but multiple studies suggest a strong correlation between social interaction and health among older adults. These studies, as the National Institute on Aging explains, have found social relationships to be consistently associated with good mental and physical health.
"Isolation blues" is really just a form of depression incurred from being isolated from friends, family or the world in general. The best way to combat this type of depression is through socialization. This can be difficult if you're already in the habit of staying home most of the time with little social interaction, but one of the many benefits of moving to a senior living community is that it provides numerous opportunities to socialize and make new friends. This need and desire for socialization is a key factor in all we do at The Avenues Crofton Park, with a robust social calendar and spaces for ongoing socialization and interaction between residents.
To avoid isolation, it is also important to stay connected with friends and family. Technology has made this simple: cell phones, e-mail and social media are just a few ways that technology can help you and your loved ones stay connected at a moment's notice no matter how far you might live from each other.
Social activity also is key for staying healthy and staving off cognitive decline. The University of California, Berkley, notes that people with frequent social contact are affected 70 percent less than those with low social activity when it comes to the rate of cognitive decline. Conversations, activities, and everything that comes with being social helps ward off cognitive decline by forcing you to use your mind in new and novel ways.
The more new and interesting people and activities you interact with, the better your overall health. By design, The Avenues Crofton Park offers a busy monthly calendar of activities, classes and social events so you won't have to look very hard – or go very far – to stay happy and healthy in an engaging community such as ours!