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Category Archive: Cancer
Global, Government, Public Health
Scrutiny of Chinese American scientists in US research institutions reflects lack of judgment
Targeting cancer researchers is wrong For a while, we've been hearing stories about government inquiries into the actions of some scientists, especially Chinese and Chinese American researchers, amidst concerns that they are threats to United States science and society. Bloomberg Businessweek published an in-depth story on the issues, focused on… Read More
Government, Health Care Reform
Cancer drugs: Increasing access and dealing with rising costs
New President's Cancer Panel series The President's Cancer Panel (PCP), which I'm privileged to chair, has begun work on a new series, through which we will develop constructive recommendations to address the rising cost of cancer drugs and the concern that many patients may not be able to afford the… Read More
American Cancer Society dares to change guidelines
New ACS recommendations for mammography Last week, in a Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) article, the American Cancer Society (ACS) broke with its own traditions and changed its recommendations for when average-risk women should start getting mammograms and how often they should get them. This was a very… Read More
Stuart Scott Dies
Stuart Scott died yesterday from cancer at age 49. He was a UNC alumnus and an ESPN reporter who is said to have changed the way people reported about sports. He injected hip-hop and memorable phrases, like 'boo-yah!', into his reports. If ever someone embodied Hemingway's notion of grace under pressure, it was Scott. Joe Giglio, News & Observer writer, wrote that Scott won the Jimmy V Perseverance Award at the ESPYs this past July and made an impassioned speech about his fight with cancer… Read More
How many former students would attend your celebration of life?
Over the weekend, I went to a very inspiring celebration of life for clinical associate professor, Dr. Diane Calleson, who passed away a few weeks ago after an eight-year battle with cancer. The event was at a beautiful, historic church in Hillsborough, N.C., on a gorgeous Carolina-blue day. It was… Read More


In the current headlong rush towards cloud services – outsourcing, in other words – leads to increasingly complex questions about what the service provider is doing with your data. In classical outsourcing, you'd usually be able to drive to the provider's data centre, and touch the disks and tapes holding your precious bytes (if you paid enough, anyway). In a service-oriented world with global IT firms using data centres which follow the cheapest electricity, sometimes maybe themselves buying services from third parties, that becomes a more difficult task.
A while ago, I was at a meeting where someone posed the question "What happens when the EU's Safe Harbour Provisions meet the Patriot Act?". The former is the loophole by which personal data (which normally cannot leave the EU) is allowed to be exported to data processors in third countries, provided they demonstrably meet standards equivalent to those imposed on data processors within the EU. The latter is a far-reaching piece of legislation allowing US law enforcement agencies powers of interception and seizure of data. The consensus at the meeting was that, of course the Patriot Act would win: the conclusion that Safe Harbour is of limited value. Incidentally, this neatly illustrates the way that information assurance is about far more than just some crypto (or even cloud) technology.
Today, ZDNet reports that the data doesn't even have to leave the EU for it to be within the reach of the Patriot Act: Microsoft launched their 'Office 365' product, and admitted in answer to a question that data belonging to (relating to) someone in the EU, residing on Microsoft's servers within the EU, would be surrendered by Microsoft – a US company – to US law enforcement upon a Patriot Act-compliant request. Surely, then, any multinational (at least, those with offices? headquarters? in the US) is in the same position. Where the subject of such a request includes personal information, that faces them with a potential tension: they either break US law or they break EU law. I suppose they just have to ask themselves which carries the stiffer penalties.
Now, is this a real problem or just a theoretical one? Is it a general problem with trusting the cloud, or a special case that need not delay us too long? On one level, it's a fairly unique degree of legal conflict, from two pieces of legislation that were rather deliberately made to be high minded and far reaching in their own domains. But, in general, cloud-type activity is bound to raise jurisdictional conflicts: the data owner, the data processor, and the cloud service provider(s) may all be in different, or multiple, countries, and any particular legal remedy will be pursued in whichever country gives the best chance of success.


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Stella Snead
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Stella Snead Chronology
Early Childhood and Before
I met Stella Snead in London, in 1967. I was staying at the home of Paul Wengraf and his family. Paul was an art dealer with a gallery, The Arcade Gallery, on Old Bond Street, and it was Paul who had given Stella her first show and she and the family had been close friends since then, since that show of Stella's paintings during the war.
Paul had been a friend of my grandmother and grandfather, Rosa Gussman and Erich Schweinburg. My mother had been a close friend of Uti Wengraf, one of Paul's daughters.
There was a lot of buzz as we all prepared for the visit of the mythical character, the much admired Miss Snead. She was coming from Bombay. She lived there for some time. Eleven years, I believe, of which more than half had passed by now.
Over the years Stella had become a photographer, abandoning her surrealist paintings for awhile. (She would pick up painting again in her eighties, as her eyesight made developing prints difficult.)
When Stella arrived I did not experience the sense of anti-climax I'd anticipated-quite the opposite. Stella made an enormous impression on me. She was startlingly full of life. What does this platitude mean? In this case, it meant that Stella conveyed a sense of exuberance, of the use of all available energy, of being a cipher for the color and music of the world. She herself was colorful. Her hair was white and wavy, a clean, bright white, and her toenails a vivid pink. Her shoes were golden Indian sandals. Her clothes were western, but sort of a parody of the conservative model of dress that abounded. The lines were simple but the colors neon.
She was, most importantly, willing and indeed determined to engage each of us in such a direct and challenging way that we felt obliged to open up, to live up to, her demand for fun, for honesty, for thoughtfulness mixed with playfulness, and a love of good food.
The early seventies found both of us living in New York, and Stella took me under her wing, her glittering wing, and we were fast friends until she died. I saw her at the place, the home on 106th Street where she died, about a month before. At that time she wavered between disdainful awareness of her surroundings and a wish to either go to her beloved apartment at Lincoln Towers or to her eternal home, forthwith. She retained her incisive humor, in flashes, till the end.
About a year and a half before she died I was visiting her in her apartment. I had moved to Wisconsin in 1994, something that Stella found profoundly bewildering, and annoying. But she came to see me in the farmhouse I share with Ian Teal, and we visited her in NY quite a few times. By this time she was already being cared for by several people; she'd become very weak and needed the help. Stella and I agreed during this trip that those photos and negatives that weren't going to an institution to be archived would be given to me.
The day after this agreement I arrived to visit and found Stella much, much livelier than she'd been the day before. She couldn't wait to tell me how she wanted things organized, and much more interesting, she wanted to tell me about some of the photos, and indeed, we sat side by side in the darkroom area as she told me who some of the people were. Clearly the opportunity to look at these photos with a sense of purpose brought her back to the day on which she'd taken them, and also to the experience of developing and cropping the prints. She pointed things out to me about the composition of some of the photographs. This was what I'd always most admired. I was less interested in the collages than the photos; I love the proportions and the themes of her photos. So this was a sweet and lovely day for me.
This website will serve as a hub, I hope, for those who either knew and loved Stella, and for those who knew her work, and for those who will come to know about her and her work in the future.
Ian and I bought an old opera house in Weyauwega, Wisconsin, in 2007. We have a theater and film space there, and an art gallery. One of our shows featured a snow and ice series of Stella's. The pictures were taken in New Hampshire and Maine, in the 1970's.
Please, anyone who would like to, send anecdotes. We will post a collection of stories about Stella written by her friends in order to help us all enjoy her memory.
Kathy Fehl

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All the public-sector management news you need to know.
It's difficult for governments to estimate many costs that will take place in the future. In fact, we've gotten kind of tired of coming up with more clever metaphors about inadequate crystal balls, tepid tea leaves, ineffective tarot cards and so on. But here's one case that reaches the range of the unfathomable. According to an Associated Press article, back in May there was a fire in a government office near the capitol building in Madison, Wis. Madison Fire Department investigators reported about $350,000 in damage -- a hefty amount but not devastating. More recently, the Department of Administration issued a news release indicating that the damage is closer to $15 million.
Maybe the Fire Department and Department of Administration were using different definitions, but this kind of publicized difference in estimates would be like telling folks the cost to refill a tank of gas that was going to be $30 dollars and having it turn out to be over $1,200.
In 2012, a class action suit challenged a law in Illinois that was intended to allow the state to charge retired workers health-care insurance premiums. Recently, the Illinois Supreme Court decided that these health-care provisions were enforceable contracts. This will likely have a ripple effect on other states. For years, the common wisdom has been that pensions were extremely difficult to change for current employees (as they were protected by contract law) but that post-retirement health benefits were somewhat more susceptible to dramatic change. We'd think that this decision might give a boost to start funding these largely unfunded health plans.
The National Association of State Budget Officers came out with a report titled "Investing in Results" about the use of performance information in budgeting. It's thoughtful and thorough, and we recommend it to those of you interested in this area. While one purpose of the report is to promote the use of performance measurement, the authors aren't unafraid to spell out the obstacles. For example, the report indicates that officials may fear a loss of control by handing over some element of decision-making and relying on data-based information.
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City and state projects that are delayed or overbudget are more common than one would think. About 68 percent of projects in New York City cost more than their original budget estimates, while 24 percent are over by $20 million or more.
But New York has provided a website that allows citizens and policymakers to see what projects are currently delayed or overbudget. It includes a well-wrought dashboard that permits users to click through a number of elements regarding projects that are delayed or overbudget. Not only does the dashboard aggregate the number of projects in individual departments that aren't moving along as planned, it lists every single project and includes a wide variety of data, including the current amount spent, the forecast total cost, the current phase of the project and the predicted completion date.
You'd think that government workforce planning would be getting a huge amount of attention in a day when the pool of current labor is generally aging and governments will have to fill more openings as baby boomers retire. But you'd be wrong. A survey of local governments published in the American Review of Public Administration said only 11 percent of municipalities have a centralized formal workforce plan.
We talked with Doug Goodman, an associate professor of public affairs at the University of Texas at Dallas and one of the authors of the report. He indicated that some of the specific findings were particularly surprising. For example, the study's authors had speculated that the presence of unions in a city would make it less likely that the municipality would have comprehensive workforce planning. Their research proved just the opposite. "Unions … ended up being a fairly strong indicator of workforce planning," he said.
Another surprise was that affluent cities gave less attention to workforce planning. Researchers theorized that "a lack of fiscal stress may indicate a lackadaisical approach to workforce planning."
"Winning the election is a good-news, bad-news kind of thing. Okay, now you're the mayor. The bad news is, now you're the mayor." -- Clint Eastwood, one-time mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, Calif.
We have many good relationships with people in public-sector press offices. And when they do their job well, they can help get good management information out to the public in an efficient way. We've noticed over time that more and more public servants have to be reached through a press office -- ostensibly to garner that positive effect.
But here, from our experience, is where the reality meets the expectations. Just over the last month or so, we've left messages through press offices, waited days for a return call, and then made at least one more contact to jog the individual involved. If other journalists have the same experience we do these delays can't have a positive effect on the story that appears; the government's own information may never reach the public -- even when it's a good news story.
We can't explain this phenomenon. Maybe press offices are deluged with work and understaffed. Maybe they're told to keep the press at bay because journalists "always get things wrong." We don't know. But we do know that this is not a good trend to the extent that states and localities want more citizens to have faith in their work.
We know we've groused about this before in year's past. But there's a growing tendency for governments to issue online reports without dates. We understand that governments and think tanks want to appear to be current and are loathe to saddle a report with a date that soon reveals it to be old news, but it's really frustrating to see a report, particularly one that refers to "this year" or "last year," and have no idea when it was issued.
More sophisticated use of data has enormous potential for changing the way governments evaluate what they do. But before predictive analytic techniques and "rapid-cycle evaluation" can start to improve government programs, entities need to look at their data capabilities and program needs. Otherwise it's something like flying a jet plane without making sure the wings are attached. This includes needs assessments on the quality of program data, steps to improve data governance and, if needed, investments in improved systems. A very useful report from the Hamilton Project, prepared by Mathematica Policy Research, outlines these and other steps that states and local governments can put into play to improve programs through more skillful use of their own data.


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Q: Polars-python. Is it possible to read multiple files with globbing patterns using as storage_options adlfs? Loading multiple files using glob patterns if we run it in a local filesystem, as it's written in the documentation.
However, if I try to load several files at once from the Azure Data lake Gen2, it only loads into the DataFrame the first file that matches the glob pattern.
from  polars.io import read_parquet

storage_options={'account_name': ACCOUNT_NAME, 'account_key': ACCOUNT_KEY}

parquet = read_parquet(
    "abfs://raw/files/file_202209*.parquet",
    storage_options=storage_options
)

Using the code from above only loads one file from the folder, but it doesn't not return an error or warning.

I am using polars python version 0.14.15. Could it be a bug, or is loading multiple files only valid for local filesystems?

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After bein eliminated in the UEFA Champions League qualifying play-offs in 2017/18, Hoffenheim coach Julian Nagelsmann willget his first taste of the competition proper this season. - © © gettyimages / Jan Kruger
Champions League group stage lowdown: Hoffenheim
The UEFA Champions League group stage draw was an historic one for TSG 1899 Hoffenheim, representing the first time their name has been in the hat for the tournament proper.
And amid the ball rummaging, Hoffenheim were plucked from their pot and dropped into Group F alongside the respective champions of England and Ukraine in Manchester City and Shakhtar Donetsk, as well as last year's bronze medallist in Ligue 1; Lyon.
It will lead to somewhat of a baptism of fire for Hoffenheim as Julian Nagelsmann leads them into their Champions League group stage debut before bowing out at the end of the season himself.
With the first round of group fixtures to be played on 19 September, we at bundesliga.com have put together a bit of essential reading ahead of Hoffenheim's pursuit of Champions League glory with a rundown of their Group F rivals.
Key player – Sergio Aguero
Manchester City's all-time record goalscorer may have left his twenties behind this year but is still one of the most potent strikers on the planet. Also the club's record scorer in both European and Champions League football, Aguero could cause more than a few nightmares for Nagelsman's defenders.
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Key player – Junior Moraes
Unlike Hoffenheim, the Ukrainians have pedigree when it comes to European football, having won the UEFA Europa League in 2009 and reached the semi-final stage just two years ago. Last year, they fell agonisingly short of their best ever performance in the Champions League, losing only on away goals to Roma in the last 16.
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The Miners, as the club are fondly known, also have an admirable record against German clubs. That is as long as they are not facing Borussia Dortmund, who have beaten them on three occasions and drawn the other. Against Schalke, Eintracht Frankfurt, Stuttgart and Werder Bremen, they still boast unbeaten records with only Bayer Leverkusen and Bayern Munich succeeding in beating them once, in addition to Dortmund.
The likes of former Bayern winger Douglas Costa, Willian and Fred have all previously played for Shakhtar, and it looks like Junior Moraes could be the next Brazilian to shine in their colours. A summer recruit from Dynamo Kiev, the travelled forward scored six goals in his first six games this season, benefitting from a great understanding with his compatriots Marlos and Taison, who not only speak the same language, but appear to be on the same wavelength as the 31-year-old forward.
Shakhtar beat Werder Bremen in the 2009 UEFA Cup final, their biggest triumph to date. - © gettyimages / FRANCK FIFE
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An interesting new online journal appeared on 1 April. Called SECOND NATURE, it is for critical thinking about technology and new media in light of the Christian tradition. The first issue contains an interesting article about Marshall McLuhan's thinking on the Trivium (see also an earlier post on this site) and Radical Orthodoxy.


Shortstop and third baseman who was a member of the 2013 World Series Champion Boston Red Sox.
He played baseball at East Lyme High School in Connecticut.
He made his MLB debut in 1999 with the Cleveland Indians.
He was born in New London, Connecticut.
DH David Ortiz was his teammate on the Red Sox in 2013.


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Alleged N1.4bn Fraud: Court Adjourns Arraignment Of NBA President
A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos has adjourned the arraignment of President of the Nigerian Bar Association, (NBA), Mr Paul Usoro.
The NBA boss appeared earlier in court today before Justice Muslim Hassan over N1.4billion fraud allegations filed against him by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commision (EFCC).
The arraignment, however, could not hold as the NBA President, through his defence team, told the court charge sheet had not been served on him.
The NBA President was represented by a team of lawyers led by a former president of the NBA, Wole Olanipekun.
EFCC Counsel, Rotimi Oyedepo, told the court that the NBA President has been evading service of the charge.
Olanipekun said his client came to court on his own despite not being served with the charge sheet, adding that he was ready to accept the service of the charge sheet in the courtroom.
Olanipekun then urged the judge to direct the EFCC to serve his client the charge sheet. But the EFCC counsel resisted the move. He told the judge that he was not in a position to effect service in court especially as the charge sheet was with the Investigative Police Officer who was absent.
Justice Muslim Hassan, therefore, adjourned till December 18, for the arraignment. Justice Hassan said this is to enable the EFCC to serve Usoro with the charge sheet for the alleged offences.
Outside the court premises, operatives of the anti-graft agency moved to arrest Usoro but following the intervention of the EFCC counsel, the NBA President was invited to accompany the EFCC to their Lagos office. He was allowed to ride in his car with some lawyers.
The group then moved to the EFCC office where Usoro is expected to be served with the Charge Sheet.
Last week Wednesday, the EFCC had filed a 10 count of fraudulent conversion of N1.4bn against the President of NBA.
In the first count, the EFCC alleges that Mr Usoro, Governor Emmanuel Udom of Akwa Ibom State (who currently enjoys constitutional immunity against criminal prosecution), the Akwa Ibom State Commissioner for finance, Nsikan Nkan, the Accountant-General, Mfon Udomah, the Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice; Uwemedimo Nwoko and Margaret Ukpe, all of whom were said to be at large, conspired in 2015 to convert the sum of N1.4billion property of the Akwa Ibom State Government which they ought to have known forms part of the proceeds of crime.
The EFCC Counsel who signed the charge sheet, Mr Oyedepo, said the offences are contrary to Section 18 (a) of the Money Laundering (Prohibition) Act, 2011.


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The Addis deal that will "turbo charge development"
July 16, 2015 by Mark Chataway Leave a Comment
UPDATED WITH INTERNATIONAL REACTIONS
The Financing for Development meeting ended last night in Addis Ababa with the UK Secretary of State for Development hailing it as "a historic international deal that takes us beyond aid." Justine Greening went on to say, "It is the first ever agreement that allows us to harness private sector investment and developing countries' domestic resources, including tax revenues, to turbo charge development. The significance of today's unique agreement cannot be underestimated. This deal would have been unthinkable just a few years ago and is a major step towards getting the resource levels we need if we are to fast track economic growth in the developing world and eradicate extreme poverty."
Maybe the lack of sleep and the jet lag had make Ms Greening, an accountant by training, uncharacteristically excitable or maybe it was just that she got the enthusiastic young press officer on the trip with her.
We haven't seen the details yet. The agreement does look interesting. "Historic" and "beyond aid"? Probably not.
The advanced economies agreed to give 0.7 percent of GNI as overseas development assistance. Quite how much that means is covered in one of our posts last week. The short answer is, not the paper it is printed on. The donors also committed to about quarter of this aid going to the least developed countries. This matters because the percentage of aid going to the poorest countries has been declining. In fairness, there are fewer and fewer least developed countries (countries such as Ghana, India and Nigeria are now classified as middle income) and many of the LDCs don't have the infrastructure to spend aid effectively (the Central African Republic, for example). This has led to an unseemly rush to push aid at the remaining stable LDCs such as Bangladesh, Ethiopia and Tanzania
The Gates Foundation committed about $760 million to nutrition and the UK kicked in about $180 million. This is great. It's not clear why they needed to go to Addis to announce it.
As the One Campaign reports, the new Global Financing Facility will, "align funding for maternal and child health from public and private partners behind developing countries' national plans, supported by contributions from US, Canada, Japan, Norway, Canada and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation." Watch out for weasel words: "align funding" usually means not much new money and sure enough the new money seems to be a tiny $200 million.
There seem to have been decisions on limiting the activities of vulture funds and some more transparency in debt arrangements
The Addis Tax Declaration will strengthen the ability of developing countries to tax multinationals and others. The newly-giddy Ms Greening says, "the UK's launch of the ground-breaking Addis Tax Initiative alongside the Netherlands, Germany, Ethiopia, Kenya and others … now put[s] us firmly on the path towards ending aid dependency." This might be more convincing had the UK not used every ounce of political muscle at its disposal to help Vodafone dodge $7 billion in apparently legitimate Indian taxes and were not the Netherlands home to many of Europe's most creative tax avoidance schemes. Australia emerged as the best friend of the tax avoiders at the Addis meeting and was, pointedly, left out of Greening's quote despite being, in its words, "a founding partner of the Addis tax initiative".
There were fine words on the private sector being harnessed to help the poorest and on access to banking. It is all very worthwhile and much of it may really happen. But, a quick look at the World Economic Forum briefing paper might just bring you to the edge of despair. The endless meetings of academics, officials and corporate social responsibility divisions is hinted at in this paragraph, "In September, in the Maputo Affirmation, the Alliance for Financial Inclusion will recognize SME lending as a core pillar of the Maya Declaration, and will provide a toolkit to encourage institutional commitments and goals for SME finance." Surely the point of the private sector is to be nimble, responsive and creative — not to meet for an endless cycle of summits, declarations and accords.
By the end of the week, it was notable that few international news outlets had bothered to report the Addis outcome at all. Even the Guardian sent only a freelancer (albeit a very good one) who contributed a fairly gloomy piece, that reported "Addis was at times as tortured as the winding road that led there." Here's how the ONE campaign put it, "As ONE members around the world well know, we've been building up to this week for a very long time. It might not have pricked the consciousness of the wider public…" While the Guardian puts the negotiations on taxes at the centre of its reporting, ONE says only, "not enough was done on crucial issues like domestic resource mobilisation, infrastructure financing and transparent country by country reporting of business activity and beneficial ownership of companies." This may be because Bono, the founder of ONE, is the focus of continued controversy about his own tax avoidance practices. That may explain the uncharacteristic absence of billionaires at the event too
Probably the definitive evaluation comes from the New York Times. It thought the conference so uninteresting that it didn't send anyone to cover it. It did run a brief report from The Thomson Reuters Foundation which noted that, "there were hardly any new pledges made, except for an additional $214 million in support for the World Bank-managed Global Financial Facility, which aims to strengthen healthcare systems to cut mother and child deaths."
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 Stourton (efternamn) – ett engelskt efternamn
 Stourton, Staffordshire – en ort i Staffordshire, England
 Stourton, Warwickshire – en ort och civil parish i Warwickshire, England
 Stourton, West Yorkshire – en ort i Rothwell, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England
 Stourton, Wiltshire – en ort i Stourton with Gasper, Wiltshire, England

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Given the fact that there are increasing number of vocational schools that are mushrooming in the online world and even in real world, it has therefore become crucial to know how to choose the right one that can offer you the right training and knowledge you need. Actually, this is the same thing that you should apply when you are in search of a truck driving school that can provide the most productive truck lessons that can give your career a boost.
It is necessary for a person to complete training before they can get the proper license for commercial truck driving work. Prior to being hired by any company, an important qualification that they should secure first is the CDL or Commercial Driver's License which can be obtained by enrolling and completing the truck driving school program.
The truth is, there are 3 different types of truck driving schools that do offer the truck lessons needed to be learnt by aspirants and these include motor, public and private carrier. When it comes to private schools, you may expect to pay a big fee because they are certified while the motor carriers offer around 2 or 3 week course coupled with few more weeks of additional practice.
First step that you should take while looking for a school that you can depend on is by listing down the truck driving schools near you. From the list you have, try finding programs that are certified by professional truck driver school (PTDI). Once you are done, contact the school by any means available and inquire them on the type of certifications they have. The reason behind this is that, not all the schools you can find are PTDI certified.
Checking the course syllabus for commercial driver's license course is what you should do next once you're done on this step. By knowing the course syllabus, you will have the chance of learning how your truck lessons will proceed and prepare yourself for the next lessons after the other. Preferably, students who've taken such program must be taught with theories and provide them with practical experience on how to handle trucks, how to check important components that make it run, what potential problems the truck may run on and on how to fix it.
It is smart to visit the driving school personally so you get the chance of consulting the administrators and the teachers and get to know more about their truck lessons and the school itself.
Paying a visit to the school must give you the opportunity to see their facilities and to find out if they have the right equipment, is it modern or old, are their truck lessons up-to-date and so on.


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Arkansas law requires every automobile liability insurance policy to provide minimum medical and hospital benefits, income disability, and accidental death benefits without regard to fault, unless you reject the coverage, in writing. If you have not previously completed and signed the selection/rejection of Personal Injury Protection Coverage or if you want to make changes to your current coverage, please print and complete this form.
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Christmas 2018: When should you put up your Christmas tree?
While it may never reach the level of controversy of how to hang the toilet paper roll or which way to load the dishwasher, the right time to put up the Christmas tree is a heavily-debated household topic.
There are answers to this question that depend on everything from Prince Albert to the opinion of tree growers to something called Adelaide Pageant Day.
The ultimate etiquette authority, Miss Manners, doesn't specify when you should put up the tree, but does note succinctly that it isn't done before Thanksgiving.
In days of yore, the 12 days of Christmas started with Christmas Day and wrapped up on Jan. 6, also known as the Feast of the Epiphany. Apartment Therapy suggests a more modern 12 Days of Christmas tree strategy, putting up the tree for around 12 days beginning in mid-December and taking it down right after Christmas.
This dovetails nicely with advice from the British Christmas Tree Growers Association, which noted in The Telegraph that while it's cool to buy live trees from Dec. 1 onward, the middle of the festive season, around the third week of Advent, is a good compromise between putting the tree up immediately and waiting for Christmas Eve.
Queen Victoria's husband, Prince Albert, is widely heralded as the man who lit up the Victorian Christmas tree tradition in the 1840s, bringing it to Britain from his native Germany. If you want to stick with the original Christmas Tree timeline of Albert and his German forebears, go with Christmas Eve.
According to Monash University religious diversity professor Gary Bouma in The Age, the established guideline in Australia is not to put up the tree before December, but not everyone abides by it.
By "not everyone," he may mean the full 14 percent of Be a Fun Mum blog readers, who said they put up the tree in early November. They did restrain themselves until after something known as Adelaide Pageant Day, the second Saturday of November. And they are in solidarity with the Fun Mum herself, who says she put her tree up in early November because, "My mum always did. I love Christmas and like to string it out."
You may be leaning toward putting the tree up the first week of December anyhow, but this Italian tradition provides a good reason for it. According to Italy Magazine, Italian Christmas traditions begin on Dec. 8 with the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, a date set in the Catholic calendar in 1476 by Pope Sixtus IV.
Since Dec. 8 is a public holiday and most Italians get the day off, it has become the day when many of them put up their Christmas trees and other holiday decor.
Assuming your own family tradition isn't already firmly in place, Southern Living gets the last word on the best time to put up the Christmas tree. That's because the ultimate authorities on Southern taste on all things mayo and wicker are also so darn sensible and inclusive on this topic: "We pass no judgement, but here are the times for when to put up your Christmas decorations. Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, is the earliest that you should set up a Christmas tree or put up Christmas-specific decorations."
The reason you shouldn't do it earlier? "It is inconsiderate for your beautiful tree to steal the thunder from your big turkey dinner."
As for the latest time to put up the tree, that would be Christmas Eve, a nod to bygone, less holiday-crazed times.


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Courttia Newland
Courttia Newland is the author of three critically acclaimed novels, The Scholar (1998),Society Within (1999) and Snakeskin (2002). He has co-edited IC3: The Penguin Book of New Black Writing in Britain and is a co-founder of the Tell Tales collective, a short story initiative. His own short stories been published in many anthologies and several of his plays have been performed in venues all over the Capital. A novella, The Dying Wish (Abacus) was published in 2006 as part of the Quick Reads Series and his first radio play, Hands, was broadcast on BBC radio 4 in April of the same year.


The parade of planets has intrigued star-watchers for thousands of years. Consider a group of what look like bright stars - minus any obvious twinkle - which, unlike the rest of the starry dome, keeps changing position. Referred to as "wandering stars," they were seen to loop around the sun and Earth from our perspective, and it took many centuries to untangle just what they were seeing - what went around what? Debates about a flat Earth were coupled with the heretical notion that the Earth may be one of those "wandering stars."
Planets farther out from the sun make odd "U-turns" on occasion as the Earth passes them by. This is an illusion caused by our changing perspective, known as "retrograde" motion.
As March 2014 opens, you can have a find view of Jupiter, shining brilliantly high in the south in the evening. A small telescope will show its four big moons, looking like tiny stars attending the disc of the King of Planets.
Bright red Mars rises around 10 p.m. in the east, about six degrees from the bight white star Spica.
Saturn appears low in the southeast around midnight and is highest in the south at dawn.
Early risers or really-late-to-bedders can see Venus shining very bright before dawn. Look low in the southeast. Mercury is deep in the sunrise glow to the lower left of Venus.
Did you know there was once another planet listed in the solar system, closer to the sun than Mercury? It was called Vulcan by astronomers in the mid-19th century, who had fleeting glimpses of what they suspected was a planet. Vulcan was never confirmed, except of course by "Star Trek" fans.
Binocular users can track down a few of the brightest asteroids, as well as Uranus and Neptune.
Johannes Kepler (1571-1630), a German astronomer, developed three famous laws of planetary motion that helped to lay the foundation of modern astronomical research and our understanding of the Solar System. He utilized the remarkably accurate data of Danish observer Tycho Brahe, who before the invention of the telescope, charted the positions of the stars against which the planets are seen to move.
Kepler�s work became a template about which Isaac Newton formed his theory of gravitation. His studies helped prove that all the planets, including Earth, revolve around the sun.
The basics of the three laws are, 1. Each planet orbits the sun in an ellipse, of which the sun is at one focus; 2. The line between a planet and the sun sweeps out equal areas at equal times, and thus a planet moves faster when closer to the sun; and 3. The square of the time taken by a planet to orbit the sun is proportional to the cube of its mean distance from the sun.
Since the mid-1990's, discovery of hundreds of confirmed planets orbiting other stars has added greatly to our knowledge and raised more questions about solar system dynamics.
There is a wealth of fascinating information available in your nearest bookcase or library. Even if you cannot easily get out in the cold night to see the stars, reading is a wonderful alternative. Kepler in fact, had poor eyesight and made few actual astronomical observations, but with his mind, pen and paper, he moved worlds.
New moon is on March 1.


Notably, Liz was a 2013 winner of the Midwest Social Media Summit's inaugural SoMe Impact Award (middle category) "recognizing marketing executives who took a leap of faith into the groundbreaking world of social media and in doing so, drove substantial value for their companies." Liz oversees Benesch's use of social media tools including blogs, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, YouTube and others to stay in touch with clients, recruit talent, follow up on leads, get referrals and, above all, build credibility.
The firm's two Twitter feeds have seen a 50% increase in followers in 2013 alone, and the company's LinkedIn page has seen an increase in audience of 20%. Liz also delivers social media and Web training for Benesch attorneys and staff.
Liz was part of the Benesch marketing team that ranked the highest of any non-AMLaw 200 firm in the country by Marketing the Law Firm's 2012 national ranking list, "The Eight Annual MLF 50: The Top 50 Law Firms in Marketing and Business Development." Benesch ranked fourth overall and was the only non-AMLaw 200 firm in the top five. Liz was also part of Benesch's team receiving the 2013 Communicators Award of Excellence for Law and Legal Services for creation of the firm's new website, www.beneschlaw.com.
Benesch social media efforts have garnered media attention in Columbus CEO Magazine (October 2013) and Crain's Cleveland Business (May 27, 2013). Liz has also presented on social media matters at the LMA 2014 Annual Conference ("Going Viral — How to Make an Impact Through Social Media and PR") and at the 2012 Akron University School of Law/LMA Ohio's The Basics and Beyond Workshop Series ("Business Nuts and Bolts and Firm Functions").


With the BVQ Accounting Package, BVQ can work with organizational objects such as cost centers, application groups, applications and volume groups. The SVC/Storwize volumes can be assigned to these organizational units, which then can be used for chargeback and different monitoring purposes.
These new organizational objects are also included in the BVQ Treemap - without restrictions and in the same way as any other SVC storage object - to display capacity and performance information with all analysis features like heatmap or capacity efficiency for all organizational levels.
The BVQ Accounting Package includes a special BVQ Accounting Report, which can be adapted to specific needs on request. With the open and documented ODBC interface, tools like Cognos Reporter or MS Excel can directly access prepared views in the BVQ database to fit individual reporting needs.
SVC and Storwize provide a large number of performance and capacity indicators, which are used by BVQ for monitoring, performance analysis and reporting. These values are also archived in BVQ for long term reporting purposes. The BVQ GUI displays this performance and capacity information in the form of a tree map (Fig. 2), which allows a very quick and significant overview of the current operating conditions. Performance analysis for each object layer can be started directly from this GUI with only one mouse click.
The BVQ Accounting Package introduces a set of new BVQ objects like VDisk Groups, Applications, Application Groups and Cost Centers which are used to setup different layers of an organization and map volumes to these layers. This step attaches capacities with storage class data and live performance information to these organizational layers. This collected information can be used for monitoring, analysis, reporting and chargeback.
All objects can be used for monitoring and analysis purposes in the BVQ Treemap or BVQ Performance View and will represent aggregates like sum of capacity or sum of IOPS or mean values like mean response time for this layer when used for this purposes.
BVQ Object VDisk Group: Collection of several SVC/Storwize volumes which belong together for one server or kind of operation into one group object. Typical VDisk Groups are all data volumes of a database.
BVQ Object Application: Collections of BVQ VDisk Group objects in one Application Object. Typical Application Objects are "Oracle_Venice" or "Exchange_Server_Munich".
BVQ Object Application Group: Collections of BVQ Application objects in one Application Group object like Databases or office applications.
BVQ Cost Center: Collections of BVQ Applications Group objects in BVQ Cost Center objects.
The BVQ Accounting Package includes a special accounting report which can collect cost, capacity and performance information for all levels which have been created with the BVQ Accounting Package objects. This report will create pdf output.
Reporting with other products like Cognos or Excel is supported with the use of the available BVQ database views for Accounting. These products will be connected with standard protocols like ODBC or JDBC.
Fig 2: BVQ Treemap with accounting information's. In this example the Treemap shows Managed Disks Groups with VDisks per application.
The BVQ Accounting Package objects can also be used in the BVQ Treemap. With this it is easy to monitor storage costs, Capacity usage, and performance needs of applications or complete cost centers. This allows quick ad hoc analyses to answer many cost, capacity or performance related questions without effort.
The BVQ Accounting Package Objects can be mixed with all other SVC objects. All analysis tools like Capacity Efficiency analysis or IO Heat Analysis can be used without limitations.
The BVQ Accounting Package is licensed based on the kind of storage system used.


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Geneva Talks Lack Sincerity and Concrete Action, by Tobias Borck – Crisis Watch: Syria
Posted on February 6, 2014 by Katherine Felstead
Wang Yi, the Chinese Minister of Foreign Affairs, is hopeful: "A review of human history teaches that any conflict, however serious, can be resolved, and any hatred, however deep, can be removed. As long as there is sincerity and concrete action."[i]
These words were part of Mr. Wang's statement during the so-called 'high-level segment' of the Geneva II Conference on Syria. Alongside him in the huge conference room in Montreux were the foreign ministers and officials from some 40 countries and international organisations, as well as delegations from the Syrian regime and the Syrian National Coalition – the opposition group with the highest international profile, but doubtful influence over the opposition fighters on the ground in Syria.
It is not clear which historic conflicts Mr. Wang had in mind. Perhaps he was talking about the Lebanese civil war (1975-1990) or the Bosnian war (1992-1995). Both conflicts brought immeasurable human suffering leading to horrendously high death tolls (approximately 150,000 in Lebanon[ii]; more than 97;000 in Bosnia[iii]). And both conflicts were brought to an end through internationally brokered peace processes, resulting in the Taif Agreement[iv] and the Dayton Accords[v] respectively.
In any case, the Syrian war certainly is a 'serious conflict' and the deep hatred between the various waring factions is not least depicted in thousands of terrifying YouTube videos. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights,[vi] more than 136,000 people have been killed since the first wave of protests against the regime of president Bashar al-Assad began in March 2011. More than 2.4 million Syrians have fled to neighbouring countries, over 6.5 million have been internally displaced. USAID estimates that more than 9.3 million Syrians are in need of humanitarian assistance as they are suffering through the cold winter.[vii]
It is becoming increasingly obvious that the Syrian conflict will not be resolved on the battlefield. After almost three years of fighting no side looks poised for a decisive military victory.[viii] A political solution is the only way out of the brutal stalemate, and the mere fact that the Geneva II conference has taken place therefore has to be seen as a positive sign. Yet, after ten days of negotiations there is no credible solution to the conflict in sight.
With the next round of negotiations scheduled to begin on the 10th of February, the Geneva II conference appears to be turning into a more permanent Geneva-process. However, there is little reason for optimism that the talks will be producing any meaningful progress anytime soon. This is not least due to the fact that "sincerity and concrete action", Mr. Wang's conditions for resolving a conflict, have thus far been absent from Geneva.
The fact that the Geneva conference saw the first direct talks between delegations from the Syrian regime and the opposition has to be seen as a positive sign. Nevertheless, it remains unclear whether the two sides are truly willing to engage in sincere and meaningful negotiations.
The regime delegation categorically refused to even discuss the future of president al-Assad. Instead they submitted a document calling for the return to Syrian sovereignty of the Golan Heights, which have been occupied by Israel since 1967.[ix] Information minister Omran al-Zohbi cast further doubts over his delegation's willingness for compromise. Outside the UN's Geneva headquarters he told supporters that "neither in this round, nor in the next will they obtain any concessions from the Syrian delegation."[x]
Meanwhile, doubts persist regarding the willingness of the opposition to participate in negotiations with the regime. The Syrian National Coalition was the only opposition group present in Geneva. The Islamic Front, currently the strongest non-extremist armed opposition group, on the other hand rejects the very concept of talks to resolve the conflict.[xi]
But even the Syrian National Coalition failed to convincingly demonstrate its willingness for compromise. This was not least illustrated by the group's threat to withdraw from the talks entirely when UN General Secretary Ban Ki-Moon invited Iran to Geneva.[xii] Considering Iran's heavy involvement in the war as the regime's closest ally, and the fact that Saudi-Arabia and other overt supporters of the armed opposition were present, this uncompromising stance by the Coalition seems short-sighted. Even though Tehran refuses to endorse the Geneva I communique[xiii] from June 2012 as the basis for the political process, it is clear that an effective resolution of the conflict is only possible with participation of all parties involved – including Iran.
As for "concrete action," the Geneva talks have produced next to nothing. The two sides agreed some limited ceasefires to allow access for humanitarian aid workers, particularly around the besieged city of Homs. But according to Valerie Amos, the UN's Under Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs, these measures have so far been ineffective.[xiv]
Once again, the only truly concrete action the Syrian people are seeing has little to do with peace. During the 10 days of talks in Geneva almost 1,900 people were killed, the following weekend brought an additional 591 deaths.[xv] In Aleppo the regime is bombarding rebel-held areas with crude barrel bombs, causing death and destruction, and hardly a day goes by without the appearance of another amateur video depicting unspeakable acts of brutality committed by government forces, radical islamists or the more 'moderate' rebels.[xvi]
However, "sincerity and concrete action" is also required from the international community. The permanent members of the UN Security Council invested considerable effort in organising the conference, yet they remain unwilling to exert real pressure on the belligerents on the ground to halt the violence. Saudi-Arabia, other Gulf nations, and Iran give verbal support for a political solution, but continue to supply their respective allies with funds and weapons, which contributes to the protraction of the conflict. At the International Humanitarian Pledging Conference for Syria in Kuwait on the 15th of January, the international community committed to a give a total of $2.3 billion to ease the humanitarian crisis.[xvii] However, giving money is not enough to end the conflict.
At the end of the first 10 days of negotiations in Geneva, Lakhdar Brahimi, the UN's Special Envoy to Syria tried his best to emphasise the positive: "Progress is very slow indeed, but the sides have engaged in an acceptable manner. This is a very modest beginning, but it is a beginning on which we can build."[xviii] However, unless the delegations from the regime and the opposition, and the international community are truly sincere in their willingness to find common ground and commit to concrete action, the Syrian war will not come to a peaceful solution. The solution of the conflict needs compromise and sacrifice, not a mere additional, diplomatic battlefront in the UN's conference rooms in Geneva.
[i] Wang Yi, "Wang Yi:Seek Common Ground While Shelving Differences And Meet Each Other Half Way To Find a Political Settlement of the Syrian Issue," Office of the Commissioner of the Ministery of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China, 23 January 2014, accessed 4 February 2014, http://www.fmcoprc.gov.hk/eng/xwdt/wsyw/t1122045.htm
[ii] "Lebanon Profile," BBC News, last modified 31 December 2013, accessed 4 February 2014, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-14649284
[iii] "Bosnia War Dead Figure Announced," BBC News, last modified 21 June 2007, accessed 4 February 2014, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6228152.stm
[iv] "Taef Agreement," Le Monde Diplomatique, undated, accessed 4 February 2014, http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/cahier/proche-orient/region-liban-taef-en
[v] "Dayton Accords," U.S. Department of State, undated, accessed 4 February 2014, http://www.state.gov/p/eur/rls/or/dayton/
[vi] See: Syrian Observatory of Human Rights at: http://syriahr.com/en/
[vii] "Syria," USAID, last modified 4 February 2014, accessed 4 February 2014, http://www.usaid.gov/crisis/syria
[viii] Borzou Daragahi, "Assad Fails to Break Syrian Stalemate Despite Rebel Infighting," Financial Times, 15 January 2014, accessed 4 February 2014, http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/cf51f198-7df6-11e3-b409-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2sNPOITSY
[ix] Anne Barnard, "Syria Talks Appear Deadlocked as Sides Disagree over Goals," International New York Times, 27 January 2014, accessed 4 February 2014, http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/28/world/middleeast/syria.html?_r=0
[x] Ian Black, "Nearly 1,900 Killed in Syria Since Geneva Talks Began," The Guardian, 31 January 2014, accessed 4 February 2014, http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/31/syria-death-toll-geneva-talks
[xi] "Major Syrian Rebel Group Rejects Geneva Peace Talks," Al-Jazeera America, 19 January 2014, accessed 4 February 2014, http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/1/19/major-syrian-rebelgrouprejectsgenevapeacetalks.html
[xii] Louis Charbonneau and Parisa Hafezi, "Iran Invite to Syria Talks Withdrawn After Boycott Threat," Reuters, 20 January 2014, accessed 4 February 2014, http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/01/20/us-syria-un-iran-idUSBREA0J01K20140120
[xiii] "Final communiqué of the Action Group for Syria – Geneva, Saturday 30 June 2012," The United Nations Office at Geneva, 30 June 2012, accessed 4 February 2014, http://www.unog.ch/80256EDD006B9C2E/%28httpNewsByYear_en%29/18F70DBC923963B1C1257A2D0060696B?OpenDocument
[xiv] Alexandra Olson, "UN Official Dismayed at Failure of Syria Aid Deal," ABC News, 31 January 2014, accessed 4 February 2014, http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/official-dismayed-failure-syria-aid-deal-22318905
[xv] See: Syrian Observatory of Human Rights at: http://syriahr.com/en/
[xvi] "Fighting Continues as Syria Talks Wind Up," Al-Jazeera, last modified 2 February 2014, accessed 4 February 2014, http://www.aljazeera.com/video/middleeast/2014/02/fighting-continues-as-syria-talks-wind-up-20142223917200352.html
[xvii] Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, "International Humanitarian Pledging Conference for Syria, Kuwait 15 January 2014," accessed 4 February 2014, https://docs.unocha.org/sites/dms/Documents/K2_PLEDGE_26JAN2014_report+graphic.pdf
[xviii] "Syria Crisis: Geneva Peace Talks End in Recriminations," BBC News, last modified 31 January 2014, accessed 4 February 2014, http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-25983181
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Spelman College Awarded $5.4 Million Grant for AUC Initiative to Increase Diversity in Museum Field
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Spelman College has received a $5.4 million grant from the Walton Family Foundation to establish the Atlanta University Center Collective for the Study of Art History and Curatorial Studies. In conjunction with Walton Family Foundation grants to fund scholarships at Morehouse College and Clark Atlanta University, the new initiative will result in the creation of an Art History major and Curatorial Studies minor at the Atlanta University Center.
The goal of the package of grants is to foster innovation and create an educational pipeline into art museum leadership that is more representative of our nation's increasing diversity. The initiative will position the Atlanta University Center as a leading incubator of African-American museum professionals in the United States.
"The Atlanta University Center has a rich history of excellence in the arts. Atlanta University was the home to the first art department at a historically Black college and university and their Art Annuals event was one of the most prestigious exhibitions for black artists. The Spelman College Museum of Fine Art and Clark Atlanta University Art Museum are national treasures," said Spelman President Mary Schmidt Campbell, Ph.D. "The Walton Family Foundation grant builds on this history. We applaud the foundation's commitment to closing the diversity gap to ensure that leadership at the nation's cultural institutions begins to reflect the shifting demographic profile of the communities they serve."
A 2015 demographic survey of U.S. art museums by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation found that only 16 percent of museum leadership positions are held by minorities, even though 38 percent of Americans identify as Asian, Black, Hispanic or multiracial. Among art museum curators, conservators, educators and leaders, only four percent are African American and three percent are Hispanic, the study reported.
With the five-year Walton Family Foundation grant, Spelman will create an Art History major and elevate its Curatorial Studies program to a minor that will begin enrolling students from Spelman, Morehouse College and Clark Atlanta University in fall 2019.
"When we increase access to art, we plant the seeds of inspiration for the future," said Alice Walton, board member of the Walton Family Foundation. "This grant to Spelman College and the Atlanta University Center will encourage and support greater diversity within the Arts, expand inclusion efforts in the museum community and inspire the next generation of art and museum leadership. I am thrilled to support this collaboration with these historic institutions and look forward to celebrating their success."
The initiative began this fall with planning for enhanced coursework in Art History and Curatorial Studies, guest lectures and other efforts to raise awareness of the new course offerings and attract current and prospective students to the new program.
Over the course of the Walton Family Foundation grant, the funding will support:
Scholarships for AUC students to incentivize their enrollment in the Art History major and Curatorial Studies minor and for Art History majors to minor in fields such as business and technology.
Opportunities for hands-on experiences through paid internships at major museums, archives and other cultural institutions across the country.
Hiring a distinguished visiting professor/director, a visiting associate professor of art history and curator-in-residence.
A 2019 lecture series, featuring at least three guest lecturers who will deliver public lectures in the field of art history and museum professions on all three campuses.
An intensive summer program for high school students, starting in 2019, to cultivate a pipeline of talented, diverse students interested in pursuing museum careers.
Bringing in guest faculty members in art history for each academic year.
Leaders in the fields of art, museum curation, higher education and philanthropy shared their thoughts on the transformative initiative:
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Is It Safe to Have the Oxford-AstraZeneca Coronavirus Vaccine
The Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine has been approved by the FDA for use in the United States, the European Union, and Japan. The FDA received reports of nine deaths, as well as thousands of serious cases of Guillain Barre Syndrome. The FDA has not yet taken a position on whether the vaccine should be used in other countries.
There are three versions of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, one each to treat children aged six months through 12 years, adolescents between the ages of thirteen to twenty-four, and adults up to forty-five years old. All of these have very high success rates.
Children will be receiving the vaccine to protect them against a particular strain of the virus that causes respiratory tract illness. As most of the strains of the virus affect younger people, the CDC recommends that the vaccine be used only in children whose mothers are pregnant or who have recently given birth. Women who have not given birth for at least a year and pregnant women are also not eligible to receive the vaccine. Some studies indicate that people who have had a weakened immune system due to chemotherapy are at greater risk of developing infections, including those caused by the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine. However, a study published in 2020 in the Journal of the American Medical Association did not find this increased risk.
Since the vaccine was developed for adults, it is not known if it would prevent more serious health conditions such as encephalitis and meningitis. However, because the virus causes Guillain Barre Syndrome, it may protect against such illnesses. It is also not known if the vaccine would prevent serious complications and even death.
There have been some cases of Guillain Barre Syndrome with vaccinated individuals, but no serious cases with unvaccinated people have been reported since the FDA approved the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine. One case of Guillain Barre Syndrome was attributed to the vaccine in people who were immunosuppressed. Another case was noted in immunosuppressive children with severe respiratory tract infection, but there was no evidence that the treatment improved the condition.
While many children develop Guillain Barre Syndrome after receiving the vaccine, the majority of these patients develop respiratory tract infection after they get sick. If the infection does not clear up and is left untreated, serious complications can result, including death. The infection may have become resistant to certain antibiotic drugs used to treat pneumonia and other common respiratory illnesses.
In fact, if a child or adult develops an infection, he or she may need a kidney transplant before receiving the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine. The vaccine is not approved for children and has not been proven safe in adults. The virus remains in the body after treatment and may cause long-term side effects, including the possibility of liver damage, liver failure, and autoimmune reactions. Studies have shown that the virus has been linked to a rare type of cancer. If the infection is left untreated, there is a strong possibility that a child or adult might develop pneumonia.
Although the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine can be dangerous if used incorrectly, some children may be more likely to develop the infection if they are immunocompromised. If a child receives the vaccine while pregnant, she or he may be at increased risk for the virus if her or he has a compromised immune system. Other people may be more susceptible, including people who are HIV-positive and those with kidney or liver problems.
If a healthy child has an adverse reaction to the vaccine, there is a high chance that the same reaction will occur in a teenager who is HIV-positive or who has had a kidney or liver transplant. This could lead to long-term complications, such as liver failure or death.
The Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine is also available for people who are planning to have children, although it has not yet been approved for this use. This vaccine is recommended only for use by pregnant women and should be given under medical supervision.
For more information on the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, contact your doctor today. He or she can provide you with more information about this important vaccine and other vaccines that are available to protect your family from this virus. There is no way to know how the virus will react in your body without knowing what you may be exposing yourself to. The earlier you begin vaccination, the better your chances for good health.
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A collage of archeology reports, imagined narrative, and poetic description centered around the excavation of Samothrace's temple complex to the great gods.
Victory and Her Opposites is a collage of archeology reports, imagined narrative, and poetic description centered around the excavation of Samothrace's temple complex to the great gods. Little knowledge survives of the temple's rites for the mystery cult of Demeter and Persephone, and after centuries of earthquakes and looting, little of the structures remain standing. The sections of the book all experiment with enacting that fragmentation and loss. The book is also an example of close collaboration between writing and image; the visual artists' contributions are central to it. In this way, the book extends its exploration of how we interpret what we see, how we feel compelled to fill in what is missing, and how that filling in allows us to renew and reinterpret a burdensome and mysterious past.


While leveling my Barbarian to 70, I thought it'd be fun to take a slight break from the Bounty grind and go on a hunt for the elusive Murlocket. I'm a sucker for Diablo Easter Eggs, and the Murlocket is one item which I'd yet to unearth.
For those of you unaware, the Murlocket is a magical (blue) amulet which has a neat little effect. When equipped, it spawns one of the menacing fish people of Azeroth…a Murloc!
The thrill of hunting down this rare novelty item, along with the cool effect that it has, are the primary reasons for farming it. The amulet itself is actually quite crap, which is no surprise considering it's a blue. At one time the Murlocket was a Legendary amulet, and even then, it was still pretty worthless.
If you're using a build that is configured and itemized for poison damage, the Murlocket could be a fun toy to equip while leveling – if you get one that's well rolled. The problem is, if you take this amulet to the Mystic and try to re-roll any of the properties – trying to get + experience, for example – the item is still treated as if it were a Legendary, and it costs an arm and a leg to enchant.
Even if Blizz had to greatly reduce the drop rate, I think it'd be cool if they actually made the Murlocket into something worth equipping. Not just for the fun little effect, but maybe make it something that certain niche builds would want to farm.
Regardless, it's still a fun item to have, and the process of farming it is actually relatively painless, and quite rewarding.
So…where does one go to find the Murlocket?
First, you need to start a game in Campaign Mode and head to Act II, Quest #5: Unexpected Allies – Find the Wretched Pit. If you don't want to listen to Leah yammer on about her long lost mother, then you can start on Quest #6 or later.
Next, head to the Sewers of Caldeum waypoint and comb the sewers for a rare mob called Moontooth Dreadshark.
The Caldeum Sewers is a really small area, so searching for this mob is a fast process.
Moontooth Dreadshark will be hidden beneath some scattered bits of flotsam, emerging to attack when you get close. This mob usually spawns in a central to NE area of the map, often right after the set of stairs that lead to a little dead end. You'll know Moontooth Dreadshark is in the sewers if you locate some debris that you cannot click on.
Once you get close, the area will rumble, then up will pop Moontooth Dreadshark.
There's really nothing special or difficult about this mob, so just pummel it until it drops the goods.
I don't know what the spawn rate is for Moontooth Dreadshark, but my experience was 25%. I ran the sewers 16 times and saw Moontooth 4 of those times, so do note that this mob is a rare and will not always be present. In addition, there is no guarantee that it will drop the amulet. I killed Moontooth 4 times before the amulet dropped. Each time it dropped a rare item, then on the 4th kill it dropped the additional blue Murlocket.
A shitload of champions, rares and uniques. Despite the micro map, there are always between 3-4 of these per instance, which means a fair amount of rare quality items and Death's Breath.
3 Pools of Reflection, which was nearly 1 out of every 5 runs.
4 Treasure Goblins, so there's about a 1 in 4 chance a TG will spawn in the sewers.
The 2 Legendary drops were a real unexpected bonus, especially since I was only running these on Expert.
If you haven't already collected this little novelty item, I suggest you plan an adventure into the sewers one day. It's not only a fun diversion, but based on my experience, the side benefits of farming for the amulet are quite rewarding. You can down every mob in there and explore the entire map within a few minutes, and given the amount of champions, rares and uniques you'll encounter, the possibilities for sweet loot are pretty decent.
Does this still work, after the patch cause i've heard they took it out thanks.
Oh yea, it still works. I just got this item the other week. It took me 16 tries, but it still drops. Each run is really quick, so it's not much of a grind. Good luck if you try it!
After more than 100 runs and meeting the Moontooth 20 times i still haven't got it…i Always just receive one yellow item.
Just the fact that it's an interesting environment, small and crowded, and it has a fun side quests and a really crazy purple creature that you have to kill 4 times before it really dies, keeps it from getting really frustrating.
Right. Unlike some other items which require incessant farming, the Murlocket runs aren't so bad, plus there are 3 legendary mats which come out of the sewers.
Thanks for the guide, but unfortunately haven't been able to get a single drop whether on expert or T1 difficulties. Should it matter? Been using it for quick xp and gold between sth more serious, but hoping here that having the right settings will make it more efficient!
Increasing the difficulty probably won't help much with the Murlocket, but if you're able to kill pretty fast on T1 or above, you should probably stick with that so as to increase your chances of getting the Legendary mats that drop in there. The map is so small that if you ignore most of the normal mobs and just down the elites, Torment farming should be nearly as quick as normal; however, if you don't really care about farming either of the mats in there, then probably just set it to normal and blow the place up. Should drop within an hour using that method, considering each clear might take 3-4 minutes.
Jeg er nok en god blanding. Jeg er mest til at opleve den lokale kultur og hvad der er særligt for egnen men jeg elsker også bare at slappe af ved en pool go ikke lave andet end at læse bøger og ligge på stranden..
moui ce que vous dites ne rime à rien ,vous faites toujours le procès du site ,mais vous votre critique est toujours subjective et sans aucune crédibilité.
Lol – I was raised in SC and with the two exceptions of Charleston and King's Mountain I hope to never go back – all pinetrees, sand and red clay. Now NC is an entirely different story… Hope you feel better!
Basically, if you go into the Sewers and see an alcove and Moontooth isn't there, you can port out and restart. He is never in maps with two alcoves. Every single time I've killed him it's been in maps with only one alcove. Check out the image above to see what I mean. I'm pretty confident, but I welcome any evidence that proves my theory wrong. This information would have helped me farm faster had I figured this out earlier.
What is the best difficulty you can farm it on???
To the best of my knowledge, the Murlocket has the same drop-rate across all difficulties. Difficulty level only affects the likelihood that a blue or yellow will be an orange instead.
I'd suggest farming for it on normal, unless you can handle Torment 1 or greater, then farm it on T1.
trip on this I was in stage 3 with a demon hunter level 22 an out of no where it dropped. was on hard an just regular game.
Good to know it still drops, I have heard mixed reports that as of Loot 2.0 it was removed from the game. Farming for one currently….


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