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Coronavirus: How Artificial Intelligence, Data Science And Technology Is Used To Fight The Pandemic – Forbes
Since the first report of coronavirus (COVID-19) in Wuhan, China, it has spread to at least 100 other countries. As China initiated its response to the virus, it leaned on its strong technology sector and specifically artificial intelligence (AI), data science, and technology to track and fight the pandemic while tech leaders, including Alibaba, Baidu, Huawei and more accelerated their company's healthcare initiatives. As a result, tech startups are integrally involved with clinicians, academics, and government entities around the world to activate technology as the virus continues to spread to many other countries. Here are 10 ways artificial intelligence, data science, and technology are being used to manage and fight COVID-19.
Coronavirus: How Artificial Intelligence, Data Science And Technology Is Used To Fight The Pandemic
1. AI to identify, track and forecast outbreaks
The better we can track the virus, the better we can fight it. By analyzing news reports, social media platforms, and government documents, AI can learn to detect an outbreak. Tracking infectious disease risks by using AI is exactly the service Canadian startup BlueDot provides. In fact, the BlueDot's AI warned of the threat several days before the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention or the World Health Organization issued their public warnings.
2. AI to help diagnose the virus
Artificial intelligence company Infervision launched a coronavirus AI solution that helps front-line healthcare workers detect and monitor the disease efficiently. Imaging departments in healthcare facilities are being taxed with the increased workload created by the virus. This solution improves CT diagnosis speed. Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba also built an AI-powered diagnosis system they claim is 96% accurate at diagnosing the virus in seconds.
3. Process healthcare claims
It's not only the clinical operations of healthcare systems that are being taxed but also the business and administrative divisions as they deal with the surge of patients. A blockchain platform offered by Ant Financial helps speed up claims processing and reduces the amount of face-to-face interaction between patients and hospital staff.
4. Drones deliver medical supplies
One of the safest and fastest ways to get medical supplies where they need to go during a disease outbreak is with drone delivery. SkyCell is a company that creates smart containers that keep medication safe during delivery with sensors, hardware, and software no matter how the medication gets delivered. Drones also are used to patrol public spaces, track non-compliance to quarantine mandates, and for thermal imaging.
5. Robots sterilize, deliver food and supplies and perform other tasks
Robots aren't susceptible to the virus, so they are being deployed to complete many tasks such as cleaning and sterilizing and delivering food and medicine to reduce the amount of human-to-human contact. UVD robots from Blue Ocean Robotics use ultraviolet light to autonomously kill bacteria and viruses. In China, Pudu Technology deployed its robots that are typically used in the catering industry to more than 40 hospitals around the country.
6. Develop drugs
Google's DeepMind division used its latest AI algorithms and its computing power to understand the proteins that might make up the virus, and published the findings to help others develop treatments. BenevolentAI uses AI systems to build drugs that can fight the world's toughest diseases and is now helping support the efforts to treat coronavirus, the first time the company focused its product on infectious diseases. Within weeks of the outbreak, it used its predictive capabilities to propose existing drugs that might be useful.
7. Advanced fabrics offer protection
Companies such as Israeli startup Sonovia hope to arm healthcare systems and others with face masks made from their anti-pathogen, anti-bacterial fabric that relies on metal-oxide nanoparticles.
8. AI to identify non-compliance or infected individuals
While certainly a controversial use of technology and AI, China's sophisticated surveillance system used facial recognition technology and temperature detection software from SenseTime to identify people who might have a fever and be more likely to have the virus. Similar technology powers "smart helmets" used by officials in Sichuan province to identify people with fevers. The Chinese government has also developed a monitoring system called Health Code that uses big data to identify and assesses the risk of each individual based on their travel history, how much time they have spent in virus hotspots, and potential exposure to people carrying the virus. Citizens are assigned a color code (red, yellow, or green), which they can access via the popular apps WeChat or Alipay to indicate if they should be quarantined or allowed in public.
9. Chatbots to share information
Tencent operates WeChat, and people can access free online health consultation services through it. Chatbots have also been essential communication tools for service providers in the travel and tourism industry to keep travelers updated on the latest travel procedures and disruptions.
10. Supercomputers working on a coronavirus vaccine
The cloud computing resources and supercomputers of several major tech companies such as Tencent, DiDi, and Huawei are being used by researchers to fast-track the development of a cure or vaccine for the virus. The speed these systems can run calculations and model solutions is much faster than standard computer processing.
In a global pandemic such as COVID-19, technology, artificial intelligence, and data science have become critical to helping societies effectively deal with the outbreak.
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Economic activity contracted by 2.2% in February, says INDEC
National statistics bureau reveals economy contracted by 2% in first two months of 2020, prior to the coronavirus-induced shutdown in economic activity.
A employee of Trenes Argentinos disinfects the ticket gate at Constitución train station, in Buenos Aires, on April 24, 2020 amid the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic. | AFP/RONALDO SCHEMIDT
Argentina's economy contracted by 2.2 percent in February 2020 compared to the same month the previous year, the INDEC national statistics bureau revealed Tuesday.
Data from the bureau shows that economic activity declined by two percent overall in the first two months of the year, prior to the coronavirus-induced nationwide shutdown put in place by President Alberto Fernández in mid-March.
INDEC said that the economic results from the first two months were a hangover from almost two years of recession in Argentina. Gross domestic product fell by 2.6 percent in 2018 and 2.2 percent in 2019.
The bureau said that economic activity had fallen by 1.1 percent in February from the previous month.
Citing the semi-paralysis in economic activity, due to the coronavirus pandemic, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) predicted this month that Argentina's GDP will slump by 5.7 percent this year.
Construction was the worst-hit sector in February, according to INDEC, slumping 20.4 percent year-on-year. In contrast, mining and quarrying posted a 3.5 percent rise from February 2019.
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Q: #CSS Wrapper does not recognise content Since last week I am again trying to make a website after an absence of about 2 years. It went pretty well until I noticed that when I minimize the browser, the content does not stay in the wrapper.
I have been looking for solutions on this website and on google but I cant seem to find the right one. Most solutions mention problems with #float and overflow but I do not use float (hope that this is not the problem) and I have been playing with the overflow but I cant get it to work.
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I know you said you don't use floats, but here is a solution using them.  One of the biggest problems you had was you were setting the two footer banners to absolute positions, which throws off the 100% height on the parent div.  With floats and overflow:hidden you are able to  bring those divs back into the 100% calculation.
I had to make many changes to your css, so take what I have in the jsfiddle as your starting point.

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Happy Halloween! This year, your extra-special treat from me is the reposting of these no-knead, no-fry doughnuts. That's right. Doughnuts that you can mix up in your mixer and bake in your oven. And they aren't dense and cakey either. These are incredibly light and soft, and while they don't taste exactly like a fried doughnut, they are about as close as you can get. So enjoy, and have a great Halloween!
A few years ago, a friend of mine bought a doughnut machine and would hand out freshly-made cake doughnuts (not yeast, as the machine had a hopper that held cake-doughnut batter and dispensed that through a ring-shaped opening into hot fat). As the doughnuts were fresh and the machine was in view, most trick-or-treaters (generally accompanied by parents) had no problems eating them. I suspect that most homemade treats will still be rejected nowadays; otherwise these would be great to give out.
We made these a few months ago and they are totally delicious. A nice change from the greasy feeling fried doughnuts can give.
I remember my mother speaking fondly about a home ec recipe for no-fry donuts that sounded almost exactly like this one. I'll have to try this out!
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What kind of thermometer would I use to test the temperature in the water with the yeast in it?
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As the band's name suggests, Mick was an important part of the band. Moreover, he was the liaison that held all its members together. The band, which was primarily comprised of four friends, has gone through a lot of uproar, constantly changing its line-up. The only member that has overcome all the problems and remained a part of Fleetwood Mac is Mick Fleetwood.
Apart from a different team, as time passed, the group has also changed its style. Starting with blues in 1967 and finishing with rock nowadays, Fleetwood Mac has been rocking the US and Europe for almost four decades. However, the unchanged element that remained was, again, Mick Fleetwood and his style. He obviously had to make some changes. Though, being a self-taught drummer, he developed his own, distinguishable way of playing and even setting the drums. Mick Fleetwood has drummed for his bandmates' solos and several of his own projects. Mick now has five albums separate from Fleetwood Mac albums, soaked in his unique drumming style.
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This year I'm publishing all my IDP projections here at Rotoviz. In this edition I'm highlighting some of the scheme, personnel and coaching adjustments or other useful information I used when projecting the AFC South. I'll share any actionable information, such as buy-low players, fades, targets and generally anything which could create informational advantages for our subscribers during drafts in dynasty and redraft leagues.
At Rotoviz we proudly host the one and only Projection Machine, and it's one of my favorite tools on the site. For the past two seasons I've been actively projecting all 32 teams offenses, and during the season I project two NFL divisions for all 16 games. Through that work I've developed a process that I use to evaluate players and project their statistics. I thought I would take that work to IDP last season and projected each team. This season I'm going to share some of my thoughts that can help IDP players in their off-season preparations for redraft, or can help them in dynasty drafts and orphan team overhauls. Maybe some readers will use these projections as a baseline to form their own. My first step was to review some publicly accessible defensive position depth charts and compare to my own. I like using Ourlads and Rotoworld. In addition, it's important to review the coaching and defensive scheme changes. I used a balanced scoring system that awards 1.5 points per solo tackle, 0.75 for each assist, 1 point for passes defended, 3 points per sack, 3 points for forced fumbles, 4 points for an interception. I've included the pressure rate metric from Football Outsiders, as it helps to track defensive pass rush progress and incorporates hurries in addition to sacks. Also included is QB sacks allowed, which was helpful for projecting sacks and I thought these would be useful to include for IDP and non-IDP folks for tracking defensive progress. A couple of things stand out from this division for IDP purposes. Most notably Cleveland shifts to a 4-3 defense under Gregg Williams.


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New Survey of College Professors Reveals Mixed Feelings on Affirmative Action in Admissions
A major study of faculty attitudes released last month has been billed in an article by David Glenn of The Chronicle of Higher Education as "arguably the best-designed survey of American faculty beliefs since the early 1970s." It's doubtful that the study's findings will offer much comfort to advocates of affirmative action in academe.
Of those college instructors who expressed an opinion of affirmative action in college admissions, only a very slim majority--50.7 percent--support it. Moreover, that 50.7 percent figure was arrived at by adding to the 11 percent who strongly favor it another 39.7 percent who only favor it somewhat.
On the other side, 17.4 percent of the college instructors expressing a view on the matter said they strongly oppose affirmative action in admissions, while 31.9 percent said they oppose it somewhat.
Considering that only 9.2 percent of college instructors in the survey were classified by the researchers as conservative, and just 20.4 percent voted for George W. Bush in 2004, it appears that opposition to affirmative action in the professoriate transcends political party and stretches well into the ideological middle ground.
On other questions related to race, most faculty members leaned further left. Among some key findings of the study conducted by the sociologists Neil Gross of Harvard University and Solon Simmons of George Mason University :
84.6 percent agreed with the assertion that a lack of educational opportunities is a cause of racial inequality between blacks and whites.
53.6 percent cited ongoing racial discrimination as a cause of racial inequality
18 percent agreed with the assertion that "most African Americans just don't have the motivation or will power to pull themselves out of poverty."
Excluding respondents who expressed no opinion on the matter, 28.2 percent strongly agreed that the racial and ethnic diversity of the nation should be more strongly represented in the undergraduate curriculum, while 43.5 percent agreed somewhat, 21.3 percent disagreed somewhat, and 7.1 percent strong disagreed.
One of the study's other findings is of interest in light of the furor that former Harvard president Lawrence Summers aroused by speculating that differences in ability might explain the paucity of female math, science, and engineering professors. When asked their own take on why there are so few women teaching college students in those fields, 24.5 percent who answered the question blamed discrimination, 1 percent blamed differences in ability, and 74.5 percent expressed the belief that it is because men and women have different interests.
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Can You Get Sued for Fighting Those Who Fight for "the Fighting Sioux"?
The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that the University of North Dakota has found a new category of people deemed in need of protection from discrimination: students who want to keep the university's Fighting Sioux nickname.
In a September 24 memorandum to five top administrators of the university, Sally J. Page, UND's affirmative action officer, warned that academic departments and programs that publicly oppose the nickname may be creating an unwelcome environment for those students who like it, and may be setting the university up for federal civil-rights lawsuits from fans of the nickname who feel discriminated against for their support of it.
What prompted the memo was a Sept. 22 ad in the Grand Forks Herald, signed by four university departments and about 20 university programs, urging that the controversial nickname be dropped. The Chronicle story on the controversy (available to regular subscribers and temporary pass buyers here) quotes several faculty members who oppose the nickname as offensive to American Indians as shocked they would be the ones being accused of possible discrimination.
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The Airbus A350-900 has successfully completed a series of Route Proving trials following a tour of 14 global cities.
The A350 XWB completed its Route Proving after landing in Toulouse, France, last week, thereby demonstrating its readiness for airline operations on a global scale.
The exercise took the flight test aircraft, MSN 005, across the globe on a 20-day trip flying over the North Pole, each ocean and stopping at 14 major international airports world-wide. During its World Tour, the aircraft flew approximately 151,300km in some 180 flight hours, with all flights performing on schedule, and at each destination checks were made on standard maintenance as well as typical airport operations and compatibility.
The aircraft was operated by Airbus flight crews as well as Qatar flight crews on the route from Doha to Perth, Moscow and Helsinki. The Airworthiness Authority pilots from the European Aviation Safety Agency also participated and flew the aircraft on two legs.
The flights from Johannesburg to Sydney and Auckland to Santiago de Chile demonstrated the aircraft's capability to operate at high altitude airports, such as OR Tambo, and fly ultra-long-haul routes or Extended range Twin Operations (ETOPS).
"The aircraft has performed remarkably well confirming the high level of maturity that it has been demonstrating all the way during our development and certification tests. We are set for the Type Certification in the coming weeks, as planned", said Fernando Alonso, senior vice president flight & integration tests.
This last series of trials is required for Type Certification, which is expected in Q3 this year.
The A350 XWB is the latest addition to the Airbus Widebody line, offering customers a 25% reduction in fuel-burn. The all-new mid-size long-range A350 XWB Family comprises three versions with seat capacity ranging from 276 to 369. At the end of June 2014, the A350 XWB had won 742 orders from 38 customers worldwide.
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We catch up with Kedan Griffin, who is the Bike Bag Dude, the man behind some of the world's most coveted bikepacking gear.
AMB: It is probably easy to see bicycle luggage like frame bags only for the bearded types going on multi-day transcontinental trips. But then we see people using them for commuting, family rides and more. Do you think we are still seeing bikes coming back into regular Australian active lifestyles? How far is there to go?
BBD: General outings by bike are becoming more popular in Australia, and as people realise the benefits of loading up the bike rather than the person, it brings a whole new level of enjoyment. You don't feel like a packhorse. Even now I am looking at a new trail bike for myself and I want it to have a space I can add a frame bag to so when I am having simple outings with my kids I can load up the bag with necessities rather than take a backpack.
Commuting is an area that I feel will grow when I can figure out a way for a bag to be easily attached and re attached to the frame - I have been experimenting with magnets lately and that may be the new way to do something like that.
Bikes have been helping people explore personal and physical horizons for a lot longer than AMB has been around. But in the past few years it is hard to ignore the imagery that floods social media as people use their bikes to explore far and wide. Whether that is because our bikes are more capable, there is equipment to support it like bags from Bike Bag Dude and other companies, or maybe it is because we are all so highly connected that sharing emotive images has become a default action. Regardless of the why, the need to escape the daily grind isn't a new concept, and we're stoked to see that a small Australian company is helping people get out on their bike for an everyday adventure or beyond. Maybe it is time to think about where has your bike can take you to escape?


Bike MS 2013: Historic New Bern Ride is a ride that will take you farther than you've ever gone before. What makes this ride so special? There are multiple route options, all of which are well supported with fully-stocked rest stops every 10-15 miles, a great lunch stop each day and safety provided by medical personnel, HAM radio operators, law enforcement and motorcycle escorts. Once you've gotten your miles in, you can celebrate with your teammates, friends and family in our vibrant and scenic waterfront Team Village and Start/Finish Festival area!


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Q: Fazer Multiplicação de 2 campos no JTable Estou tentando fazer conseguir uma multiplicação de 2 campos no JTable mas não estou conseguindo fazer

Especificamente o Campo Quantidade e Valor Unitário para multiplicar e dar o Valor Total
Tela do JTable
package Telas;

import Classes.Cliente;
import Classes.Material;
import Classes.Orcamento;
import Classes.Pedido;
import Hibernate.HibernateUtil;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.List;
import javax.swing.table.DefaultTableModel;
import org.hibernate.Session;
import org.hibernate.SessionFactory;

public class Tela_IncluirOrcamento extends javax.swing.JInternalFrame {

    public Tela_IncluirOrcamento() {
        initComponents();

          Btn_Pagamento.setEnabled(false);
          Btn_Total.setEnabled(false);

      SessionFactory sessionFactory = HibernateUtil.getSessionFactory();

      Session session = sessionFactory.openSession();

     List<Pedido> pedidos = session.createQuery("SELECT p FROM Pedido p JOIN FETCH p.clienteID_Cliente").list();
      for (Pedido pedido : pedidos) {
    Cliente cliente = pedido.getClienteID_Cliente();
     DefaultTableModel model = (DefaultTableModel) TBL_Orcamento.getModel();
       model.addRow(new Object[]{

        cliente.getNome(),
        pedido.getTipo_Servico()

         });

        }

    }

    /**
     * This method is called from within the constructor to initialize the form.
     * WARNING: Do NOT modify this code. The content of this method is always
     * regenerated by the Form Editor.
     */
    @SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
    // <editor-fold defaultstate="collapsed" desc="Generated Code">
    private void initComponents() {

        Btn_Pagamento = new javax.swing.JButton();
        Btn_Valor = new javax.swing.JButton();
        jScrollPane1 = new javax.swing.JScrollPane();
        TBL_Orcamento = new javax.swing.JTable();
        Btn_Total = new javax.swing.JButton();

        setClosable(true);

        Btn_Pagamento.setText("LiberarPagamento");
        Btn_Pagamento.addActionListener(new java.awt.event.ActionListener() {
            public void actionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt) {
                Btn_PagamentoActionPerformed(evt);
            }
        });

        Btn_Valor.setText("CalcularValorTotal");
        Btn_Valor.addActionListener(new java.awt.event.ActionListener() {
            public void actionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt) {
                Btn_ValorActionPerformed(evt);
            }
        });

        TBL_Orcamento.setModel(new javax.swing.table.DefaultTableModel(
            new Object [][] {

            },
            new String [] {
                "Nome do Cliente", "Tipo de Serviço", "Descricao do produto", "Quantidade", "Valor unitario", "Valor total", "Valor Total do Orcamento"
            }
        ) {
            boolean[] canEdit = new boolean [] {
                false, false, true, true, true, false, false
            };

            public boolean isCellEditable(int rowIndex, int columnIndex) {
                return canEdit [columnIndex];
            }
        });
        jScrollPane1.setViewportView(TBL_Orcamento);

        Btn_Total.setText("CalcularTotalOrcamento");

        javax.swing.GroupLayout layout = new javax.swing.GroupLayout(getContentPane());
        getContentPane().setLayout(layout);
        layout.setHorizontalGroup(
            layout.createParallelGroup(javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.LEADING)
            .addComponent(jScrollPane1)
            .addGroup(layout.createSequentialGroup()
                .addGap(627, 627, 627)
                .addGroup(layout.createParallelGroup(javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.LEADING, false)
                    .addComponent(Btn_Pagamento, javax.swing.GroupLayout.DEFAULT_SIZE, javax.swing.GroupLayout.DEFAULT_SIZE, Short.MAX_VALUE)
                    .addComponent(Btn_Valor, javax.swing.GroupLayout.DEFAULT_SIZE, javax.swing.GroupLayout.DEFAULT_SIZE, Short.MAX_VALUE))
                .addGap(18, 18, 18)
                .addComponent(Btn_Total)
                .addContainerGap(115, Short.MAX_VALUE))
        );
        layout.setVerticalGroup(
            layout.createParallelGroup(javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.LEADING)
            .addGroup(layout.createSequentialGroup()
                .addContainerGap(javax.swing.GroupLayout.DEFAULT_SIZE, Short.MAX_VALUE)
                .addGroup(layout.createParallelGroup(javax.swing.GroupLayout.Alignment.BASELINE)
                    .addComponent(Btn_Pagamento)
                    .addComponent(Btn_Total))
                .addGap(18, 18, 18)
                .addComponent(Btn_Valor)
                .addPreferredGap(javax.swing.LayoutStyle.ComponentPlacement.UNRELATED)
                .addComponent(jScrollPane1, javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE, javax.swing.GroupLayout.DEFAULT_SIZE, javax.swing.GroupLayout.PREFERRED_SIZE))
        );

        pack();
    }// </editor-fold>

    private void Btn_PagamentoActionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt) {
        // TODO add your handling code here:

    }

    private void Btn_ValorActionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt) {
        // TODO add your handling code here:

 //Codigo Aqui

    }

    // Variables declaration - do not modify
    private javax.swing.JButton Btn_Pagamento;
    private javax.swing.JButton Btn_Total;
    private javax.swing.JButton Btn_Valor;
    private javax.swing.JTable TBL_Orcamento;
    private javax.swing.JScrollPane jScrollPane1;
    // End of variables declaration
}

A: Tente o seguinte:
private void Btn_ValorActionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent evt) {
    double valorUnitario_col;
    int quantidade_col;

        for (int i = 0; i < TBL_Orcamento.getRowCount(); i++) {
            quantidade_col = Integer.parseInt((String)TBL_Orcamento.getValueAt(i, 3));
            valorUnitario_col =  Double.parseDouble((String)TBL_Orcamento.getValueAt(i, 4));
            TBL_Orcamento.setValueAt((quantidade_col * valorUnitario_col), i, 5);
        }

}

Neste código, ao acionar o botão, será feito um laço que irá multiplicar as colunas de quantidade e valor unitario e colocar o resultado na coluna valor total em todas as linhas que a tabela tiver.


I have always enjoyed art and painting but have increased my involvement substantially since I retired for a career in medical research. I paint mainly in watercolour and am largely self-taught. I prefer watercolour because of its directness – the need to involve body movement and to get the paint onto the paper only once in order to retain the necessary freshness.
Watercolour is also technically challenging since it requires an understanding of paper, brushes, and the different chemical pigments that make up the various colours. I was also able to bring an understanding of how vision works, based on my knowledge of biology, to developing my approach to painting. My choice of subject matter is largely realistic – town and country landscape, still-life, flowers and so on.
Click here to see samples of Ros' work.
Or visit her Flickr page to see more from Ros.


I'm glad you asked. Yes! HobNob Wines has released a Limited Edition Wicked Chardonnay ($11.99). There's also a Limited Edition Wicked Red Blend (also $11.99).
In truth the Chardonnay does seem somewhat less ominous than those deep Goth reds we were drinking last week. It's hard to be sinister when you're bursting with sunny tropical fruit flavors. We have it on good authority that Wicked Chardonnay pairs well with candy corn, so your Halloween dinner is now complete.
There are those who claim Chardonnay is always a horror story, of course, but as usual we will ignore them and quietly plot our revenge.
Have you ever tried Lambrusco?
I have not tried Lambrusco, possibly because I'm not entirely sure what it is. I do know it's Italian and that in ancient times (the 1970s) my mother used to drink it with her friends in the form of something called "Riunite." It is pronounced "Ree-you-nee-tee" and translates to "my mom is drinking this so it can't possibly be something I want to try." But I don't drink many Italian wines, so perhaps we will revisit this issue in a further column.
Is it weird to drink rosé this late in the year?
Not if the temperature is 80 degrees or higher or you have some already chilling in the fridge.
Should I invest in a wine refrigerator?
Yes, absolutely. Also please pick one up for me, because I'm running out of room for milk.
How can I help the Napa and Sonoma wine industry after the northern California wildfires?
Buy and drink the wine. Visiting is good, too, if you can swing it. Many wineries and restaurants are reopening, and tourist cancellations hurt especially at the moment.
But if you can't afford a trip, keep buying.
There's also a GoFundMe page for fire relief.


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My recent JFK-themed album American University ends with a song called "Gratitude." The concept of "gratitude" as it relates to the story of President Kennedy came to me via a YouTube video of peace activist and author James Douglass reading from his bestselling book, JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters, to the Coalition on Political Assassinations, recorded on 11/20/2009.
I couldn't help but think of the video this year because Thanksgiving happens to fall on the 55th anniversary of JFK's assassination in Dallas, on November 22, 1963.
Douglass's book is the one piece of JFK literature that the entire JFK research community seems to agree on. I have yet to read a bad review.
Oliver Stone, who famously gave Bill Maher a copy of the book on his show, wrote that Douglass "offers the best account I have read of this tragedy and its significance… It is a book that deserves the attention of all Americans; it is one of those rare books that, by helping us understand our history, has the power to change it."
Yoko Ono has also endorsed the book: "Right now, I ask all of you—please, please, read JFK and the Unspeakable! I cried all night reading it, and didn't sleep a wink. It is a book that could make us stand up and change the world, right now. Maybe we can save the world before it blows up. Really."
Douglass opens his talk with some background: "The doctrine of 'plausible deniability,' in an old government document, provides us with a source of the assassination of President Kennedy. The document was issued in 1948, one year after the CIA was established, 15 years before JFK's murder. That document, National Security Council Directive 10/2, gave the highest sanction of US Government to a broad range of covert operations: propaganda, sabotage, economic warfare, subversion of all kinds that were seen as necessary to win the Cold War against the communists. The government's condition for those covert activities by US agencies, coordinated by the CIA, was that they be, as the document says, 'so planned and executed, that if uncovered, the US Government can plausibly disclaim any responsibility for them.'"
The story goes, that when "Cold Warrior" president John F. Kennedy began to learn how close we were coming to Mutual Assured Destruction with the Soviet Union, he "stood up to the Pentagon, the CIA, and the Military Industrial Complex" who were all pushing us toward nuclear war, and was "treated as a traitor." "The doctrine of 'plausible deniability' allowed for the assassination of a president seen as a national security risk himself."
"The CIA's 'plausible deniability' for crimes of State as exemplified by JFK's murder corresponds in our politics to what the Trappist monk and spiritual writer Thomas Merton called 'the unspeakable.'"
After the Warren Commission Report was released, Merton wrote that "'the unspeakable' is the void that contradicts everything that is spoken, even before the words are said: The void that gets into the language of public and official declarations at the very moment when they are pronounced, and makes them ring dead with the hollowness of the abyss."
Douglass says that "the void of 'the unspeakable' is the dark abyss. It's the midnight reality of 'plausible deniability' that we face when we peer into our national security state's murder of President Kennedy. And that, I believe, is precisely where hope begins."
He continues: "I believe it's a providential fact that the anniversary of President Kennedy's assassination always falls around Thanksgiving, and periodically on that very day… Thanksgiving's a beautiful time of year, with autumn leaves falling to create new life. Creation is alive as the season turns. The Earth is alive. It is not a radioactive wasteland. We can give special thanks for that. The fact that we are still living, that the human family is still alive with the fighting chance for survival, and for much more than that is reason for gratitude for a peacemaking president, and to the unlikely alliance he forged with his enemy."
"So let us give thanks this Thanksgiving for John F. Kennedy, and for his partner in peacemaking, Nikita Khrushchev. Their story is our story. A story of having the courage to turn toward the truth. Remember what Gandhi said that turned theology on its head: He said 'Truth is God.' We can discover the truth and live it out. There is nothing, nothing more powerful than the truth. The truth will set us free."
It may seem a bit extreme for you to hear that JFK saved the world from nuclear holocaust. But to find out how close we actually came, the risks he took to save us, and the price he paid for doing so, one must dig for that truth. Douglass spent years doing just that, and he reveals his findings in his incredible book.
I cannot recommend this video strongly enough. It's 92 minutes long; roughly the length of a movie. Instead of watching a film this holiday weekend, why not watch this instead? Or if you are traveling, make good use of that public WiFi and put it on while on your plane, train or shuttle trip. You will be stunned by the truths that have been covered up by 55 years of propaganda designed to keep this story from you. As Douglass says toward the end of his talk, this is a story "whose telling can transform a nation."
"On October 11, 1963 President Kennedy issued a top secret order to begin withdrawing the US military from Vietnam. In National Security Memorandum 263 he ordered that 1,000 US military personnel be withdrawn from Vietnam by 1963, the bulk of US personnel be taken out by the end of 1965."
"After JFK's assassination, his withdrawal policy was quietly voided. In light of the future consequences of Dallas, it was not only John Kennedy who was murdered on November 22, 1963, but 58,000 other Americans and 3 million Vietnamese, Laotians and Cambodians."
Some say that dropping acid changes one's sense of perception forever. I have never tried it, but for those of you who don't know this story, I think it will too change your sense of perception forever — and it will be for the better, for all of us.
John Dissed's new album American University tells the story of President Kennedy's presidency and tragic death in music. To find out more, go to www.johndissed.com.
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Israel has expanded the permitted fishing zone, in the besieged Gaza Strip, as part of a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas, who currently governs the enclave.
The Egyptian-brokered deal includes expanding the fishing limit along the Mediterranean coast from six to 15 nautical miles, for the first time in years, with the purpose of boosting a Gazan economy that is heavily reliant on the fishing sector.
Since Israel imposed a land, aerial and naval blockade on Gaza, in 2007, following Hamas' election victory, Gaza's fishing sector has declined and its fishing exports have dwindled.
The widest range Israel has allowed, in the past 10 years, is 12 nautical miles, and, at times, the limit was reduced to one nautical mile, Nizar Ayash, the head of Gaza's fishermen union, previously told Al Jazeera.
Under the Oslo Accords, signed in 1993, Israel is obligated to permit fishing up to 20 nautical miles, but this has never been implemented. Overfishing in a small area over the years has decreased the fish population and depleted fish breeding grounds.
Al Jazeera's Mohammed Jamjoom, reporting from Gaza, said that despite the ease on restrictions, Monday's weather forecast forced many fishermen to quickly sail back to shore.
"It's cloudy and it's been raining heavily here in Gaza … The people who assembled here say they need to go back into the water," Jamjoom said.
"This is one of the few viable industries here. This is one of the few ways which people in Gaza are able to make money," he added.
The profession has been deemed dangerous by rights organisations due to Israel's harassment of fishermen at sea.
Those who attempted to sail out into the water, on Monday morning, say they are hopeful that this means they will be able to continue to do so, Jamjoom said. But, at the same time, they say they still need "more equipment" for their boats.
On Sunday, Israeli authorities also reopened two border crossings, a day after tens of thousands of Palestinians demonstrated along the fortified fence with Israel to mark the first anniversary of the Great March of Return protests.
Four Palestinians were killed by Israeli gunfire and at least 207 Palestinians were wounded on Saturday, during the protests, Gaza's health ministry said.
The Karam Abu Salem commercial crossing and the Erez crossing with Gaza were reopened six days after they were shut down amid an exchange of heavy fire between Israel and Hamas.
Israel regularly seals off the two crossings which facilitate the movement of Palestinians with hard-to-obtain Israeli permits, as well as goods and services to Gaza's nearly two million residents.
Since March 30th of last year, Palestinians in the Hamas-run Strip have been demanding the right to return to lands from which their families were violently expelled during the founding of Israel, in 1948. Protesters in the weekly rallies are also calling for an end to the blockade.


A unique Business Model overcomes Electronics Supply Chain challenges.
The electronics supply chain offers some unique challenges for medium and low volume production.
The two biggest problems are the delivery delays for components (lead times) and the use of counterfeit components when trying to overcome lead time problems.
Lead times for electronic components are typically 2 to 12 months. It is of course the single longest lead time part that will affect delivery.
When manufacturers can not get the part on time through official distribution they turn to the spot market which is a mix of excess from other manufacturers, stock from unofficial distributors and outright criminal counterfeiters. On the reports we receive, about 10% of this stock is counterfeit with items of such poor quality that the product is substantially impacted and the customer's reputation is put on the line.
Every electronics manufacturer will offer to do better to overcome lead time and prevent counterfeit components but when reviewed in detail they are just offering to try harder and work better with their suppliers. This is not very effective.
Don Alan Pty Ltd has a game changing solution to the problem that allows us to operate at a higher level of performance when it comes to on time delivery and accommodating variations in demand.
Don Alan's game changing solution is based on a unique business model that provides a 'turnkey' solution but still leaves customers in control of their product. To understand the Don Alan business model we will first look at two conventional modules for the supply of electronic products into businesses that use electronics but are not 'electronics companies' themselves.
Product manufacturers design products that they believe the market will want and possibly adapt them to individual customer's requirement. Smarter product manufacturers have the advantage that because they control the design they can re-use the same parts across designs. This means that they have some ability to overcome component lead times as demands fluctuates because they can hold inventory and then at the last moment turn it into a specific product as the customer requires.
This all sounds really good – and it is – for the Product Manufacturer. But things are not so good for the customer.
Product Manufacturers almost without exception own the IP or design even though customers often pay for the design work or customisations. The result is that the Product Manufacturer has a captive customer. If the customer wants to change supplier they need to redesign their product around an alternate Product Manufacturers part. Product Manufacturers with captive customers almost always provide poor support and seldom remain competitive – Product Manufacturers are often difficult to manage commercially because in the short and medium term they have so much power in the relationship.
Further more, because the product is adapted to each customer's requirement the customer's requirements are not always well met. They are often compromised by the demands of other customers who want some thing different or do not value a particular feature that is important to the customer. The Product manufacturer may decide to discontinue the product or go out of business leaving the customer in crisis with no quick way out.
The other less common solution is to engage a design house to design the product. The customer then takes the design to a contract manufacturer that will make the product for the customer. The customer gets the design they want and the manufacturing price can be very competitive because the work is portable – it can be taken from one contract manufacturer to another without redesigning it. If one contract manufacturer performs poorly or goes out of business there are many more to choose from.
This sound like win – win. In practice this system is manageable but there are two problems that will almost certainly arise.
The first is that major issue we first spoke about – lead time of components. The contract manufacturers are very lean organisations. They can not take risk in your inventory. Because they make products for many different design houses your product is likely to use many parts that are not used by any of their other customers. There may be a 100 different microcontrollers that are suitable for a particular design but once a design is complete only the 1 chosen is suitable. The chances that another customer of the contract manufacturer has chosen the same part are low. As a result the contract manufacturer only orders the parts once they have a firm order from their customer – and that is when the lead times start.
What makes this situation even worse is that the manufacturers of the components know that the contract manufacturer can not change the design to use other parts so they are now under no price pressure.
Contract manufacturers can at best negotiate a few percent on price by getting a distributor to reduce their margin.
The second issue is that there is always feedback from the field (faults and performance issues etc) or components that are no longer available. Is this a problem for the Contract Manufacturer or for the Design House? If the customer is not an expert in electronics how can they hope to adjudicate these issues? The usual result is that both of these matters are handled poorly or if they are handled well it is expensive.
The Don Alan model integrates the best of the two models above.
At Don Alan we can design a product exclusively for the customer and the customer can use the design.
The customer can take the design to other contract manufacturers to quote and manufacture the product. The customer is not locked in. Don Alan must compete for ongoing manufacturing and design support work.
Mostly though, Don Alan will also manufacture the product. We have some advantages in manufacturing a product we have designed – and we only manufacture products we have designed.
The first advantage is that most of the parts will be the same as those used in other designs we make – and hence they will be ex stock from our inventory.
Not only ex-stock from our inventory but at a price negotiated based on our total usage. A price negotiated before they were designed in which is when we are in the best negotiating position.
The second advantage is that when it comes to feedback from the field or component supply issues we can handle these with minimal involvement of the customer.
We also have a competitive advantage in handling these issues as the issues are likely to be similar across multiple products the cost of addressing these is lower (on a per product basis).
When an initial supply order is placed at the same time as the design order we can order any unique parts at the design stage so they will be available for the initial supply.
Our components take as long as anyone else's to arrive. The difference is that we have ordered them before the customer has even approached us for the design.
He has a great track record at coming up with robust designs that simply work. He is also very skilful at making these solutions cost effective.


Moores Contract Cleaners can provide a solution to any commercial or industrial cleaning requirement. Our specialised team are all IPAF certified, and are fully trained in the current practices of health and safety.
We cover a wide range of different cleaning requirements and environments including windows, cladding, carpets, hard floors, masonry, building elevations, car parks, graffiti, heavy plant and machiney to name but a few. Our team is also skilled in the most modern practices available including; reach and wash systems, controlled rope access, and mobile elevated work platforms.


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Published — March 19, 2012 Updated — October 27, 2015 at 12:35 pm ET
About the State Integrity Investigation
By The Center for Public Integrity
The State Integrity Investigation mobilized a network of state reporters to generate quantitative data and qualitative reporting on the health of the anti-corruption framework at the state level. Reporters scored 330 questions about their state's accountability and transparency framework — what we call Corruption Risk Indicators — by combining extensive desk research with thousands of original interviews of state government experts. Among those interviewed were current and former officials with experience inside the bureaucracy, as well as private sector researchers, journalists and executives from civil society and 'good government' organizations.
To identify the project's Corruption Risk Indicators, staff from Global Integrity and the Center for Public Integrity contacted nearly 100 state-level organizations working in the areas of good government and public sector reform nationwide. We asked them a simple question: what issue areas mattered most in their state when it came to the risk of significant corruption occurring in the public sector? The outcome was a list of questions, rooted in the day-to-day realities of state government operations. In addition, Global Integrity and the Center for Public Integrity included additional indicators that the two organizations had previously fielded in similar projects. Specifically, these indicators were drawn from the Center's States of Disclosure project and Global Integrity's Global Integrity Report and Local Integrity Initiative efforts.
The project's final 330 "Corruption Risk Indicators" assess the existence, effectiveness, and citizen access to key governance and anti-corruption mechanisms in the fifty states. They seek to diagnose the strengths and weaknesses of the medicine applied against corruption in each state — openness, transparency, and accountability — rather than the disease of corruption itself. They examine issues such as information transparency; political financing at the state level; conflicts of interest issues in the executive, state legislatures and judiciary; fiscal and budgetary management; the state civil service and its management; state pension fund transparency; ethics commissions; and redistricting. The final state report cards, which are simply an aggregated snapshot of all of the individual indicator scores, take into account both existing legal measures on the books as well as de facto realities of implementation and enforcement in each state.
All indicators were scored by the lead state reporters based on original interviews and desk research. The data were then blindly reviewed by a peer reviewer for each state who was asked to flag indicators that appeared inaccurate, inconsistent, biased, or otherwise deserving of correction. Project managers at Global Integrity and the Center for Public Integrity worked for more than half a year with the lead reporters and peer reviewers to resolve questions and debates around each and every one of the 16,500 indicators compiled during the course of the reporting.
The reporting and research to score the indicators was conducted during the summer of 2011, with a formal cut-off date of September 15, 2011, for all scores. More recent developments and reforms (after September 15, 2011) will not be reflected in the final score choices. However, some report cards may mention more recent developments in some states as captured in the reporters' and peer reviewers' comments.


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Parts of the Upper Limb
Anatomy ▶ Upper Limb ▶ Parts of the Upper Limb
Descriptively, following are the four parts of the upper limb:
Shoulder.
Arm or brachium.
Forearm or antebrachium.
The shoulder region includes:
Axilla or armpit
Scapular region or parts around the scapula (shoulder blade)
Pectoral or breast region on the front of the chest
The clavicle (collar bone) and the scapula (shoulder blade) are the bones of the shoulder region. At the acromioclavicular joint they articulate with each other forming the shoulder girdle. The shoulder girdle and the remaining parts of the body skeleton articulates with each other at the small sternoclavicular joint only.
The arm is the part of the upper limb between the shoulder and elbow (or cubitus). The bone of the arm is humerus, which articulates with the scapula at the shoulder joint and upper ends of radius and ulna at the elbow joint.
The forearm is the part of the upper limb between the elbow and the wrist. The bones of the forearm are radius and ulna. These bones articulate with humerus at the elbow joint and with each other forming radio-ulnar joints.
The hand (or manus) consists of the following parts:
Wrist or carpus
Hand proper (or metacarpus)
Digits (thumb and fingers)
The wrist consists of eight carpal bones arranged in two rows, each consisting of four bones. The carpal bones articulate (a) with each other at intercarpal joints, (b) proximally with radius forming radio-carpal wrist joint, and (c) distally with metacarpal bones at carpometacarpal joints.
Part Subdivisions Bones Joints
Shoulder region
Pectoral region
Sternoclavicular
Axilla
Scapular region
Acromioclavicular
Arm Humerus Shoulder
Ulna
Radio-ulnar
Wrist (carpus)
Carpal bones
Wrist/radio-carpal
Intercarpal
Hand proper (metacarpus)
Metacarpal bones
Carpometacarpal
Intermetacarpal
Metacarpophalangeal
Proximal and distal interphalangeal
The hand proper consists of five metacarpal bones numbered one to five from lateral to medial side in anatomical position. They articulate (a) proximally with distal row of carpal bones forming carpometacarpal joints, (b) with each other forming intermetacarpal joints, and (c) distally with proximal phalanges forming metacarpophalangeal joints.
The digits are five and numbered 1 to 5 from lateral to medial side. The first digit is called thumb and remaining four digits are fingers. Each digit is supported by three short long bones—the phalanges except thumb, which is supported by only two phalanges. The phalanges form metacarpophalangeal joints with metacarpals and interphalangeal joints with one another. The first carpometacarpal joint has a separate joint cavity hence movements of thumb are much more free than that of any digit/finger.
The functional value of thumb is immense. For example, in grasping, the functional value of thumb is equal to other four digits/fingers. Therefore, loss of thumb alone is as disabling as the loss of all four fingers.


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[Photos] Ayushmann Khurrana-starrer Article 15's screening witnessed SRK, Swara and other celebs in attendance
Updated Jun 27, 2019 | 13:18 IST | Debasish Chakraborty
The special screening of Anubhav Sinha-directed Ayushmann Khurrana-starrer Article 15 was held in Mumbai on June 26 before it hit the theatres on June 28. Check out the celebs who attended the screening.
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Ayushmann Khurrana is among the handful actors in Bollywood who has been on a roll in delivering hits after hits. After delivering quality movies like Dum Laga Ke Haisha, Bareilly Ki Barfi, Shubh Mangal Saavdhan, Andhadhun and Badhaai Ho, he shook hands with Anubhav Sinha for his next release Article 15 which is all set to hit the theatres on June 28. On Wednesday, June 27, a special screening of the movie was organised and was attended by the glitterati of Bollywood. In this picture, the lead actor of Article 15, Ayushmann Khurrana posed for the lens at the special screening.
Ayushmann Khurrana with his wife Tahira Kashyap smiled for the camera at the special screening of Article 15 on June 26. The movie is directed and produced by Anubhav Sinha.
Ayushmann Khurrana with his father P Khurrana, mother Anita and wife Tahira Kashyap clicked at the special screening of Article 15 in Mumbai on June 26.
Actor Shah Rukh Khan also attended the special screening of Article 15 and posed with the movie's director Anubhav Sinha and lead actor Ayushmann Khurrana.
Actress Taapsee Pannu posed for the lens while attending the special screening of Article 15 in Mumbai on June 26.
Actress Tabu posed for the lens at the special screening of Article 15 in Mumbai on June 26.
Actor Vicky Kaushal who will next be seen in Sardar Udham Singh was clicked attending the special screening of Article 15 in Mumbai on June 26.
Actress Swara Bhasker sizzled in a peach dress at the special screening of Article 15 in Mumbai on June 26.
Actress Kriti Kharbanda who will next be seen in Housefull 4 was clicked attending the special screening of Article 15 in Mumbai on June 26.
Luka Chuppi actor Aparshakti Khurana with his wife Akriti Ahuja was clicked attending the special screening of his brother Ayushmann Khurrana's next movie Article 15 in Mumbai on June 26.
Actress Divya Dutta at thespecial screening of Article 15 in Mumbai on June 26.
Article 15 actress Sayani Gupta was clicked attending the special screening of the movie in Mumbai on June 26.
Article 15 actress Isha Talwar was clicked attending the special screening of the movie in Mumbai on June 26.
TV presenter and actor Manish Paul at the special screening of Article 15 in Mumbai on June 26.
Gully Boy actor Vijay Verma clicked attending the special screening of Article 15 in Mumbai on June 26.
Television actress Krystle D'Souza clicked attending the special screening of Article 15 in Mumbai on June 26.
TV actor Karan Patel with his actress-wife Ankita Bhargava Patel posed for the cameras while attending the special screening of Article 15 in Mumbai on June 26.
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Khamoshiyan actor Gurmeet Choudhary posed for the shutterbugs at the special screening of Article 15 in Mumbai on June 26.
Indian film producer Siddharth Roy Kapur posed for the lens while attending the special screening of Article 15 in Mumbai on June 26.
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News Scan for Apr 06, 2022
Study: Dogs, cats share resistant bacteria, resistance genes with owners
Observational research set to be presented later this month at the European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID) suggests close contact with pets could result in sharing of multidrug-resistant bacteria and resistance genes.
For the study, researchers from the University of Lisbon in Portugal and the Royal Veterinary College collected fecal samples from healthy companion animals (CAs, specifically dogs and cats) and their owners from 41 households in Portugal and 42 households in the United Kingdom at monthly intervals for 4 months.
They screened fecal samples for carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales or Acinetobacter spp. and for extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL) or plasmid-mediated AMPc (pAMPc) genes.
No carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales or Acinetobacter were found, but 15 of 103 CAs (14.6%) and 15 of 112 humans (13.2%) harbored ESBL/pAMPc-producing Enterobacterales (ESBL-E). Of these, 7 CAs (6 in Portugal and one in the United Kingdom) and 5 household members (4 in Portugal and 1 in the United Kingdom) carried at least one multidrug-resistant strain.
In four Portuguese households, the ESBL/pAMPc resistance genes found in pets matched those in their owner's stool samples. In three of these households, matched resistance genes were only recovered at one time point, but in one household, sharing of strains was noted at two consecutive timepoints, suggesting a persistent colonization of shared bacteria within the household.
In addition, in two of the households, the microbes in pets matched Escherichia coli strains in their owner's stool sample, but in the other two, there was no evidence of bacteria sharing.
"Although the level of sharing from the households we have studied is low, healthy carriers can shed bacteria into their environment for months, and they can be a source of infection for other more vulnerable people and animals such as the elderly and pregnant women," study coauthor Juliana Menezes, PhD, of the University of Lisbon, said in an ECCMID press release.
"Our findings reinforce the need for people to practice good hygiene around their pets and to reduce the use of unnecessary antibiotics in companion animals and people."
Apr 5 ECCMID abstract
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H5N6 avian flu hospitalizes man in China
China has reported another H5N6 avian flu infection, with an illness reported in a 28-year-old man from Henan province in the central part of the country.
In a statement, Hong Kong's Centre for Health Protection (CHP) said investigators found the man had contact with poultry before he got sick. His symptoms began on Mar 18, and he was hospitalized the next day, where he is listed in critical condition.
The man's illness marks China's 11th H5N6 case of the year. So far, it has reported 75 cases since the virus was first detected in humans in 2014.
H5N6 circulates in poultry in a few Asian countries, but only China and Laos have reported human cases. The infections are most common in adults who have contact with poultry and are often severe or fatal.
Apr 6 CHP statement
COVID-19 Scan for Apr 06, 2022
Fourth COVID vaccine dose boosts protection against infection, severity
A study in Israel during the Omicron variant surge finds that rates of COVID-19 infection and severe illness were lower after a fourth dose of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine than after three doses, and while protection against infection waned quickly after 4 weeks, protection against severe disease was still strong at 6 weeks.
The study, published yesterday in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), involved data from 1,252,331 people aged 60 years and older, who became eligible for a fourth COVID-19 shot in Israel on Jan 2, 2022. The study period ran from Jan 10 to Feb 18 for severe illness and to Mar 2 for infection.
The unadjusted rate of COVID-19 infections per 100,000 person-days among people who had received a fourth vaccine dose 8 days before was 1.5, compared with 3.9 in those who had received three doses and 4.2 in controls who had received a fourth dose 3 to 7 days before.
After adjustment, the rate of severe COVID-19 in the fourth week after receipt of the fourth vaccine dose was lower than that of the three-dose group by a factor of 3.5 (95% confidence interval [CI], 2.7 to 4.6) and lower than that in controls by a factor of 2.3 (95% CI, 1.7 to 3.3).
Vaccine protection against severe infection was stable for 6 weeks after the fourth dose. The unadjusted rate of severe COVID-19 infection per 100,000 person-days was 177 in fourth-dose recipients, 361 in the three-dose group, and 388 in controls.
The adjusted rate of infection among those who had received a fourth dose 4 weeks earlier was lower than that in the three-dose group by a factor of 2.0 (95% CI, 1.9 to 2.1) and lower than that of controls by a factor of 1.8 (95% CI, 1.7 to 1.9).
"These analyses provided evidence for the effectiveness of a fourth vaccine dose against severe illness caused by the omicron variant, as compared with a third dose administered more than 4 months earlier," the researchers wrote. "For confirmed infection, a fourth dose appeared to provide only short-term protection and a modest absolute benefit."
Apr 5 NEJM study
C-sections, inductions dropped during first months of COVID-19
Fewer in-person prenatal visits during the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in a 6.5% drop in premature caesarian sections (C-sections) and inductions, according to a new study in Pediatrics. The research was conducted by a team at Georgia Tech's School of Economics.
This is the first major study to examine pandemic-era birth data at scale, the authors say, and it raises questions about how and if some medical interventions may unnecessarily result in preterm deliveries.
The study was based on 39 million US births from 2010 through 2020. Using data from the National Center for Health Statistics, researchers forecasted expected premature births—babies born before 37 weeks of pregnancy—from March to December of 2020, and compared these to actual outcomes seen during those months.
From March 2020 to December 2020, the number of preterm births from C-sections or induced deliveries remained 0.35 percentage points below the predicted values, which meant 350 fewer preterm C-sections and induced deliveries per 100,000 live births, or 10,000 fewer overall during the study period, the authors said.
"While much more research needs to be done, including understanding how these changes affected fetal deaths and how doctors triaged patient care by risk category during the pandemic, these are significant findings that should spark discussion in the medical community," Daniel Dench, PhD, lead of author of the study, said in a Georgia Tech press release.
Apr 6 Pediatrics study
Apr 6 Georgia Tech press release


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Pope Francis Lied to Protect Priest Who Allegedly Covered Up Child Sex Abuse February 7, 2018 David Gee
Pope Francis Lied to Protect Priest Who Allegedly Covered Up Child Sex Abuse
By David Gee
Pope Francis was once thought to be the savior of the Vatican — the man with the potential to change course on harmful policies of the Catholic Church's past. If you look beyond the public relations work, though, he has provided nothing but more of the same.
The most recent (and most damning) evidence of this are the pope's comments defending Juan Barros, a priest who was made bishop in 2015. Two weeks before Barros was installed as bishop, a victim of another priest sent a letter to Francis testifying in detail to the priest's atrocities, saying Barros not only covered up sex abuse against young boys but actually witnessed it as it was happening.
Francis ignored the letter, which included several important allegations and details that should be checked against other accounts, and claimed he had seen no evidence against Barros. He even had the nerve to say no one had come forward, which is clearly false.
Among the Pope's remarks that caused such offence were: "The day they bring me proof against Bishop Barros, then I will speak. There is not a single piece of proof against him. Everything is slander. Is this clear?"
He also said: "No one has come forward, they haven't provided any evidence for a judgment. This is all a bit vague, it's something that can't be accepted."
The Pope later apologised for hurting victims' feelings "without meaning to" but continued to insist there was "no evidence" against the bishop.
"In Barros's case, it was studied," he said. "It was restudied. And there is no evidence… I don't have evidence to convict."
The victim, Juan Carlos Cruz, wrote about abuses by cleric Fernando Karadima, who escaped punishment because too much time had passed by the time prosecutors became involved. The Catholic Church "convicted" him and sentenced him to a lifetime of "penance and prayer"… which is their way of saying he got away with it scot-free.
Cruz wrote to the pope in a letter that definitely reached the hands of his top aide on sexual abuse. That aide confirmed it reached the pope himself, despite his claims to never have seen any evidence or testimonies. The letter is quite graphic.
"When we were in a room with Karadima and Juan Barros, if he [Barros] wasn't kissing Karadima, he watched as one of us, one of the younger ones, was touched by Karadima and forced to give him kisses," he writes.
"Karadima would say to me: 'Put your mouth next to mine and stick out your tongue.' He'd stick out his and kiss us with his tongue. Juan Barros witnessed all of this on countless occasions, not just in my case but in the case of others as well."
Addressing himself to Pope Francis, Mr Cruz says: "Holy Father, Juan Barros says he saw nothing and yet, there are dozens of us who can testify to the fact that not only was he present when Karadima abused us, but that he, too, kissed Karadima and they touched each other."
He concludes the letter with this appeal: "Please Holy Father, don't be like the others. There are so many of us who despite everything think that you can do something. I treasure my faith, it's what sustains me, but it is slipping away from me."
The desperate plea by a victim, a Christian who "treasures" his faith, was summarily dismissed by Pope P.R. Even if he does eventually acknowledge these testimonies, though, what can we expect to happen? Will he, like Karadima, be sentenced to "penance and prayer"? That's not justice, and it's not fair to these people who have had to suffer for decades because of Barros' silence along with the complicity of the Catholic hierarchy.
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Q: Howto Access WiFi Settings programmatically in iOS 5.1 I'm looking for a smart way letting the user of my app connect to a WiFi Network. I know how to detect if the device is connected or not. I tried to use URL's to direct the User to the correct prefs Page. Unfortunately this doesn't work anymore. Any suggestions on howto require users to connect to WiFi???
thanks for helping!!!

A: Try using it to access the WiFi settings in iOS 5.1
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"prefs:root=WIFI"]];

Try using it to access the WiFi settings in iOS 9
if (&UIApplicationOpenSettingsURLString != NULL) {
[[UIApplication sharedApplication] openURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"prefs:root=WIFI"]];
}

Try to add prefs tu URL schemes like stackoverflow.com/a/31253743/3668465 did.

You can use this option for identify a SSID:
iOS >= 4.1 it's possible to obtain SSID of wireless network that device is currenctly connected to.
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Details on implemenation: iPhone get SSID without private library

question example -> how to programmatically open the WIFI settings in objective c in iOS9


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Dr Nazand Begikhani is an exiled contemporary writer, poet and academic researcher based at the University of Bristol. She is born in Kurdistan and an active advocate of human rights.
Begikhani has been living in Europe (Denmark, France and United Kingdom) since 1987. She received her M.A and Ph.D in comparative literature from the university of the Sorbonne, Paris, and published nine books, including six poetry collections, in English, Kurdish and French.
Nazand Begikhani is a leading researcher on gender-based violence and has conducted research on many aspects of violence and gender relations, including honour-based violence (HBV), rape and sexual violence in Iraq and Syria, domestic violence, and family policy and practice in Kurdistan.
Nazand has been awarded several international awards, including the UK Emma Humphreys Memorial Prize for her work on HBV (2000), Kurdistan Region's Sayd Ibrahim's Memorial Prize for her creativity (2009) and the French Simone Landrey's Feminine Poetry Prize for her poetry work (2012). Her poetry was also nominated for the Forward Book of Poetry Prize; one of her poems, An Ordinary Day was elected by Forward Poetry Prizes as one of the best 40 poems of the year in the UK (2007).
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Shelton, Conn. – Freedom Disability, a national Social Security Disability Advocacy group, is proud to extend its disability advocacy representation services to more than 2 million civilian disabled veterans. In response to feedback from our claimants, we are now providing expert help in applying for compensation benefits from the Veterans Administration (VA). Allen Gumpenberger, formerly of the Disabled American Veterans (DAV), joins Freedom Disability as its Director of Veterans' Disability Advocacy.
Gumpenberger worked for the DAV in veterans' disability advocacy for nearly 13 years. He is an experienced and accredited veterans advocate, having completed over 2,300 hours of training from the DAV Structured and Continuing Training Program for National Service Officers, and is highly respected within the disabled veterans' community.
Gumpenberger is also a disabled veteran, having served in the Navy as a paralegal from 1994 to 1996. During that time, Gumpenberger received a Certificate of Commendation from the Regional Physical Evaluation Board for his legal service to disabled sailors, marines and their families, and for his compassion and dedication in obtaining the best possible result on their behalf.
"We are proud to extend our advocacy capabilities to disabled veterans," said Jon Mayhew, president of Freedom Disability. "We believe that our country's disabled veterans and their families have sacrificed enough. They deserve the very best representation to get the disability benefits they need as soon as possible from the Veterans Administration. We are very fortunate to have Allen head up our veterans' advocacy initiative."
To further our mission of serving people with disabilities, Freedom Disability will hire and train disabled veterans to become independently accredited disability advocates.
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Hi, I'm Keri Morgan and I'm from Winston-Salem North Carolina and I'm here in Merida with PICY and it was a really big deal to be in a totally different country, speaking a totally different language, taking busses. I had never taken busses at home, and, you know, I've never walked to school or anything and so I think that was something that I was worried about, but when I realized that I can, I can speak the language well enough and feel comfortable enough to where I can get on a bus and go somewhere is amazing to know. And it's really empowering because before I got here, I had no confidence in myself that I could just up and go.
There's just like a huge family aspect whereas in the United States it's more of a get out on your own kind of thing. And it really, now that I've seen it, it can…in the US, families can be kind of torn apart with independence, and, here there's independence but it's more, like, independence is family oriented.
I think people are a lot happier here, and I was not expecting that. I was expecting, you know, when you're in the US and you hear about Mexico you think about crazy poverty, you think about…you know. Nothing like, nothing like I've experienced is what I thought it would be. I've experienced only good things and… even being lost was fun, because, you know, you get to experience…people are way more helpful than you would have thought that they would be.
At first when I came I shut down, the first night we got here, like, I heard Spanish right away and I just shut down, and then the next day I woke up and I was like, you know what, I gotta do it, I'm here, might as well just dive in. And so, that's the best advice I can give is just to dive in because it's an amazing opportunity to gain self-confidence and to gain education and more experiences and to be more grateful for what you already have.