Sir Alex Ferguson described Manchester United's 6-1 defeat against Manchester City as an embarrassment and admitted Roberto Mancini's team subjected him to his worst ever day in management.
Ferguson, who celebrates his 25th anniversary as United manager on Nov 6, witnessed his club's biggest derby defeat since another 6-1 loss to City in January 1926 just one short of United's record home defeat, a 7-1 loss to Newcastle in September 1927.
Playing with 10 men following the 47th-minute dismissal of defender Jonny Evans, United on Sunday capitulated in the dying stages as City ran in three late goals. But with City moving five points clear of United with their emphatic victory, Ferguson admitted he had never experienced such a dark day as a manager.
It was our worst ever day, Ferguson said. It's the worst result in my history, ever. Even as a player I don't think I ever lost 6-1. I can't believe the scoreline. The first goal was a blow for sure, but it was retrievable at 1-0.
I'm shattered, I can't believe it. It was an incredible disappointment, but we will react, no question about that. It's a perfect result for us to react to because there is a lot of embarrassment in the dressing room and quite rightly so and that will make an impact. You have to recover. The history of Manchester United is 'another day' and we will recover.
The humiliation of United's defeat resulted in the club's American owners, the Glazer family, being barracked and jostled by home supporters as they travelled from the players' tunnel to an awaiting helicopter.
Sources in the tunnel reported angry chanting outside as the Glazers left the stadium for their transport to Wembley for the NFL fixture between their Tampa Bay Buccaneers team and the Chicago Bears. Rio Ferdinand, the United defender, cancelled his plan to travel to the game for a guest appearance on the pitch.
With three City goals coming in the final minutes, however, Ferguson insisted that United contributed to their downfall.
The sending off was the killer blow, Ferguson said. After that, we kept attacking. I thought with the experience we've got Rio Ferdinand, Patrice Evra they would have [defended more] but we just kept attacking.
It's all right playing the history books [United's reputation for fighting back] but common sense has to come into it. When we went to 3-1, 4-1 we should have settled for that. We kept attacking when we went 4-1 down and we should have just said: 'We've had our day'. They were attacking three versus two. It was crazy football and it was a bad day.
But we'll come back. By January, we'll be OK. We usually get the show on the road in the second half of the season and that will have to be the case. Over the years we have always enjoyed a better goal difference than our rivals but after today, we are 10 goals short.
Despite his team's incredible victory, City manager Mancini played down the significance of the result.
I'm satisfied because we beat United away and I don't think there are a lot of teams that could win here, he said. But I'm not satisfied for the 6-1 it's because this is important for our supporters and maybe for the goals in the table. I am happy with the three points.
Against Tottenham we played very well and against Bolton, but this is different because we played against a strong team like United. In the end there are three points, finished, we don't take six points for this game.
I think the season will be very long and probably four or five teams that can win the title.
This is important for our confidence, it's important because we showed that we are a good team, but we should appreciate the mentality United had because after 1-0 and the sending off, they continued to play to score. I think that's a very important mentality.
Mancini, who shared a post-match drink with the United manager, claimed he took no satisfaction from humiliating the Scot.
No, because I have big respect for him, Mancini said. I have big respect for United because we are talking a top manager and a top squad.
I still think United are one yard above us. I think we can only change this after we win the title in the end. After, maybe it will be different, but now United are better than us.


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Neil Young drops off lineup of Farm Aid 2021, citing COVID fears
Neil Young at Farm Aid 2018; © Scott Streble
Neil Young has announced that he's decided not to perform at the Farm Aid 2021 festival scheduled for September 25 at Xfinity Theatre in Hartford, Connecticut, citing his concerns over the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
In a message posted on NeilYoungArchives.com, the 75-year-old rock legend writes, "Lots is going on in our world right now. I find myself wondering whether [Farm Aid] will be safe for everyone with the Covid pandemic surging…I don't want to let anybody down, but still can't shake the feeling that it might not be safe for everyone. I worry about audiences coming together in these times."
He continues, "All you people who can't go to a concert because you still don't feel safe, I stand with you. I don't want you to see me playing and think it's safe now. I don't want to play until you feel safe, and it is indeed…safe."
Young adds, "My soul tells me it would be wrong to risk having anyone die because they wanted to hear music and be with friends… Since we know vaccinated people can catch and spread Covid, I worry about the children who could become infected after [Farm Aid], just by being with someone, maybe a parent, who caught the virus at [Farm Aid] and didn't know it."
Neil, who traditionally co-headlines the annual event with fellow Farm Aid board members Willie Nelson, John Mellencamp and Dave Matthews, notes, "While I respect Willie, John and Dave's decisions to stick with it and play, I am not of the same mind. It is a tough call."
Other artists on the 2021 Farm Aid bill include Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats, Margo Price, Sturgill Simpson, Bettye LaVette and Jamey Johnson. The concert is sold out.
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Adult Swim has announced that two new shows will be joining their highly-praised lineup. Both shows will be releasing at different points within 2017. First up, we have Apollo Gauntlet. The show, created by Canadian animator Myles Langlois. strives to bring back the old-fashioned 1980's-era Saturday Morning Cartoon aesthetic to the network. The superhero show will focus on protagonist Paul Cassidy, who goes from being an everyday cop to an extraordinary crime fighter with a pair of talking gauntlets. Apollo Gauntlet is set to release this summer with a fifteen-minute run time per episode.
Next up, we have Hot Streets, created by Brian Wysol, whose previous credits include both critically-acclaimed television series Rick and Morty and Robot Chicken. The show will also be produced by Stoopid Buddy Studios, which was formed by members of the Robot Chicken team. The show will focus on FBI Agent Mark Branski and his family, as they investigate a supernatural phenomena. Hot Streets is set to release this upcoming fall, and will also don a fifteen-minute run time per episode.
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Here we address the most commonly asked questions the CLE Board has received about pro bono providers & the availability of NY CLE credit for the performance of legal services under the pro bono rule.
Q: Some of our attorneys volunteer their time answering telephone hotline calls. Are these attorneys eligible for pro bono CLE credit?
A: Under the CLE Board Regulations and Guidelines, a program is eligible for pro bono CLE credit only if the recipients of the legal services provided by the program have been screened for financial eligibility. Therefore, attorneys who participate in a telephone hotline where callers do not have to demonstrate financial need before receiving legal advice are ineligible for pro bono CLE credit.
Q: We are a pro bono provider that provides free legal services primarily through volunteer attorneys to community-based nonprofit organizations serving indigent persons. Are we eligible to become a New York Approved Pro Bono CLE Provider?
A: A pro bono provider that provides legal services to nonprofit organizations serving the indigent and who otherwise meets the eligibility criteria enumerated in section 3(D)(11)(c) of the CLE Board Regulations and Guidelines, is eligible for designation as a New York Approved Pro Bono CLE Provider.
Q: Some of our firm's junior associates take on pro bono matters but require guidance and assistance from our firm's senior associates in their representation of pro bono matters. Can attorneys who provide guidance and support to these junior attorneys receive pro bono CLE credit?
A: An attorney who assists another attorney in representing an indigent client may be eligible for pro bono CLE credit.
Q: We are a pro bono provider that requires our clients to pay court costs, out-of-pocket expenses or a minimal fee to offset our administrative costs of providing legal services to our clients. Does this fee violate the CLE Board's requirement that pro bono legal services be uncompensated?
A: The imposition of minimal administrative and court fees on the client by the pro bono organization does not violate the requirement that pro bono legal services be uncompensated. An attorney who is providing legal services under these circumstances, therefore, is not precluded from receiving pro bono CLE credit. Please note that pro bono CLE credit may not be awarded if any fee is paid by the recipient to the attorney providing the legal services.
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GTA 5 Roleplay takes the game to an entirely new level, though. It's essentially World of Warcraft meets GTA. There's no beloved Goldshire, but there are fancy sports cars, dangerous automatic weapons, helicopters, and improvisational acting. It's mayhem and almost anything goes.
If you have access to the online version of GTA, you'll have the option to install the roleplay mod and join the game as a regular NPC—as opposed to any of the main characters. This puts the spotlight on your character and unlocks new gameplay opportunities, as well as giving you a chance to interact with other creatives in the GTA community.
You could spawn into the server and take a bold path as a criminal mastermind or leader of a notorious gang. But you could just as easily become something as mundane as a chauffeur, singer, cop, restaurant worker, or milkman. The only limit when choosing what path to take your roleplaying in is your imagination.
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Each GTA roleplay server is different, but some are more strict than others. Generally, servers ask that you play by the rules and stick to your assigned role. But some servers are extra strict and ask that you never break character, which means even trying to ask for help from another roleplayer with something like controls has to be integrated into the storyline somehow.
When it comes to the art of roleplaying, there's no time to think up a sentence, like WoW. With GTA roleplay, you have to take advantage of your acting skills, use your microphone, go with the flow, and improvise.
It's an experience that can be enjoyed alone, but it's much more entertaining and engaging with a couple of friends or even some new strangers by your side. It's a blast, and if you happen to own a copy of GTA V, it's well worth playing.
While there are many options for GTA roleplay servers, the NoPixel server is especially popular at the moment because it is a server where massive streaming stars regularly come together for intertwined storylines.
The NoPixel server is difficult to get into because of its massive popularity. But those in the GTA community can still enjoy watching some of the biggest names in streaming interact as unique characters on the server.
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Most of the biggest streamers involved in GTA 5 roleplay do so on the NoPixel server. Some of the best streamers to watch are as follows:
Valkyrae, who plays Ray Mond, but has also played Kyrae Val.
Sykkuno, who mostly plays as Yuno Sykk, but has also played Uno Reverse.
Fuslie, who primarily plays April Fooze, but has also played Connie Clark and Nevah Showers.
xQc, who primarily played Jean Paul, but also played Pierre Paul, Norm Andy, and Jean-Pierre Baptiste. The streamer is likely permanently inactive on the server after a series of complaints and bans, however.
Buddha, who mostly plays as Lang Buddha, but has also played Lebron James, Kevin Kona, Esteban Julio Ricardo Montoya De La Rosa Ramirez, and Hector Rodriguez.
Disguised Toast, who plays Amon Gus, though the streamer hasn't played in quite a while and is likely inactive.
Summit1g, who mostly plays as Charles Johnson, but has also played as John Charleston.
Blaustoise, who mostly plays Mickey S and has also played Klay Kona.
Ray C, who plays Raymond Romanov and Raycardo Flick.
The process for installing and playing GTA 5 roleplay depends entirely on the specific server you are seeking to join. Generally, players will first need to install a modification like FiveM or Rage to play on a roleplay server. To download these mods, head to their websites and follow their instructions.
Each server also has its own set of instructions and guidelines for applying and playing on it. Instructions for how to apply to NoPixel can be found here. A few other popular servers and their instructions include Eclipse RP, GTA World, and Mafia City, though there are also many more out there.
Whether you're looking to refresh your GTA gameplay, seeking a new challenge, or simply want to try something new, consider giving GTA roleplay a try.
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A giant bean bag chair can be a lot of fun. That is one of the reasons why they have been so popular for decades now. Remember when you got your first one as a kid, when they were not nearly as awesome and interesting as they are today. And with the new materials they are making them out of, you can do so many more things and still be safe and not have to worry as much about breaking them. With that said, let us look at some of the best things to do with one of these bean bag chairs.
The easiest and most obvious thing to do with a giant bean bag is to practice your mid-air poses. There is very little that is more fun than jumping into the air, posing, and then landing on a bag full of foam. A good flying leap from a running start makes it feel like you are hanging in mid-air forever before you come back down again and land on your soft bean bag chair. You could even have somebody with a camera sitting off to the side trying to get pictures of you flying before you land, which make awesome Facebook shots (much better than selfies).
Speaking of pictures, another really fun thing to do with a giant bean bag is to take pictures with it in strange places. Bring it to the back yard, and get a picture of you just sitting there casually as if it absolutely belongs there. How about the middle of your school? Outside the mall? You can even post some of them and see if your friends can figure out where you were when you took the picture. This is especially fun when you have different covers for it, so a leopard-print chair cover could be in a heavily wooded area, whereas a crazier one might work for a gaming cafe.
Finally, the best thing about a giant bean bag is that you can share it with your friends. Try and see how many people you can get on there at once. Play games where one of you faces in different directions on it and see which one can figure out what the other is doing. Or maybe just get a bunch of people together to chill on your chair, relaxing and talking and having fun. It is a blast to be all together like that.
There are even more things you can do with a huge bean bag chair, but you need one before you can start doing any of them. That is why you should get an Ultimate Sack, which can hold up to all sorts of moving around and still be comfortable to hang out on. Do not miss out on all the fun you could be having with a giant bean bag.


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An emerging body of evidence indicates that vaccines can damage a child's developing immune system and brain, leading to life-threatening or debilitating disorders like autism, ADHD, asthma, peanut allergy, juvenile diabetes, etc, or to SIDS – death itself.
The first is an excerpt from an 1885 pamphlet distributed in Montreal during a smallpox outbreak. The second comes from the website of the national Canadian not-for-profit organization Vaccine Choice Canada.
It is important to work as historians without occluding our vision of the past with the cultural accretions of our own time—to a point. True objectivity is impossible, but we can signpost our peculiar biases in time and space along the way. Many of the scholars considered here do just that while drawing direct links between their work and contemporary events. Perhaps that isn't surprising. After all, history and journalism share the same core—a quest for truth and great story telling.
1. Honigsbaum, Mark. Living with Enza: the Forgotten Story of Britain and the Great Flu Pandemic of 1918. London: Macmillan, 2009.
Honigsbaum knows exactly how to tell a great story and how to make it relevant. He is particularly deft at translating complex scientific data into the vernacular. Honigsbaum's work is certainly a nod to Alfred Crosby's groundbreaking America's Forgotten Pandemic: the Influenza of 1918 and Carol Byerley's 2005 Fever of War: the Influenza Epidemic in the U.S. Army During World War I. He investigates virologist John Oxford's theory that the deadly 1918 strain developed in France. Etaples was ground zero in this scenario, where the close conditions of the largest BEF hospital housing up to 22,000 troops at a time in close proximity to pigs created the virus-mutating equivalent of a perfect storm. In the last chapters, Honigsbaum marries his account of the 1918 pandemic with chilling contemporary examples of bird flu scares from 2005 and 2012.
Taubenberger, Jeffery et al. "Characterization of the 1918 influenza virus polymerase genes," in Nature: International Weekly Journal of Science (Oct. 6, 2005) 437, 889-893.
2. and 3. Jones, Esyllt. Influenza 1918: Disease, Death and Struggle in Winnipeg. Toronto: UofT Press, 2007. And Magda Fahrni and Esyllt Jones, eds. Epidemic Encounters: Influenza, Society, and Culture in Canada, 1918-20. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2012.
Jones's account of how the pandemic played out in the neighborhoods and homes of Winnipeg considers the effects of gender, race and class on the survivors and victims. She applies the same considerations more nationally in her latest collection on the pandemic. Part one covers the public response and includes an essay on Canadian public health policy by Mark Osborne Humphries (author of The Last Plague: Spanish Influenza and the Politics of Health and War. U of T Press, 2012). In the section analyzing who contracted influenza and why, Mary-Ellen Kelm examines the oral histories of some First Nations survivors in British Columbia. The last chapter concerning flu and public health in a contemporary context includes Heather MacDougall's comparative study of the 1918 epidemic in Toronto with the 2003 SARS crisis in the same city.
4. Gleason, Mona. Small Matters: Canadian Children in Sickness and in Health 1900-1940. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2013.
Inspired by Jones's consideration of gender, class and race in her cultural history of influenza in Winnipeg, Gleason applies another variable to her history of children's health in Canada; age. Between 2004 and 2006 Gleason interviewed 32 survivors of various childhood illnesses, from diverse backgrounds across the country, all of whom recalled being seriously ill at some point during the development of Canada's welfare state. She incorporates those personal narratives with archival records from the Canadian Medical Association and the Hospital for Sick Children patient records to provide a cultural context for perceptions of sickness, disability and childhood among medical professionals at the time, and how those perceptions changed.
5. Lux, Maureen. Medicine that Walks: Disease, Medicine and Canadian Plains Native People 1880-1940.Toronto: U of T Press, 2001.
Lux's study of disease and medicine takes a strong position against the Western biological invasion theory as the only factor in the decimation of the Plains First Nations. She argues it wasn't simply disease introduced by white newcomers that devastated First Nations populations, but rather the attendant overcrowding, starvation and poverty imposed on them by colonial powers. Lux examines how colonial forces used food as a weapon of control, first by destroying the Plains First Nations' traditional food source, the bison, then by introducing substandard, insufficient, and tainted rations as a replacement, and finally, through political control by forcing leaders to sign treaties in exchange for food rations. Lux links the big killers of the Plains people—TB and whooping cough—directly to overcrowding and poor diet, both attributable to colonization. Lux also argues that medicine and treatment were only dispensed to indigenous populations when the health of whites were threatened.
6. Hardy, Anne. The Epidemic Streets: Infectious Disease and the Rise of Preventive Medicine 1856-1900. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993.
Hardy devotes each chapter to eight of the biggest 19th century infectious killers of Britons in this examination of the impact of preventive policy on lowering mortality rates. She challenges Thomas McKeown's theory (The Modern Rise of Population, 1976) that an improvement in food quality and standard of living alone accounts for the eventual defeat of these diseases. She starts with the big childhood killers: whooping cough, measles, scarlet fever and diphtheria, then moves on to smallpox, typhoid, typhus and ends with tuberculosis. Hardy doesn't spare us the gruesome details. Death by diphtheria, for example, came when a membrane grew over the larynx—the child suffocated. Hardy considers the cultural impact of illness. Sufferers of respiratory tuberculosis, for example, were likely to conceal their affliction, fearing social ostracism, job loss and destitution. Hardy concludes that it took much more than improved food alone to stop these Victorian scourges.
7. Arnold, David. Colonizing the Body: State Medicine and Epidemic. Disease in Nineteenth-Century India. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1993.
Arnold's theory of hybridized medical practices operating before the eventual takeover of Western methods is at the core of much of the recent historiography in colonial medicine. Arnold argues that strong local resistance to Western ideas and medicine formed an essential component to the development of medicine in India. Not until the 1890s, when germ theory became well established, did Western medicine come to dominate there. There was, he argues, no medical "manifest destiny." His discussion of the different treatments offered to smallpox victims in the early and mid-nineteenth century best illustrates this theory. In the 1830s, Indian doctors practiced variolation to protect villages from smallpox. They infected the young with the previous year's strain. The skin was repeatedly pricked with an implement smeared in the pus of earlier victims. Though it killed some, the practice made most patients ill, but also immune to smallpox. In a time when importing cowpox vaccine was impractical, variolation was a more useful prophylactic. Eventually, it was outlawed by the British in India, but for almost 50 years, both variolation and Western vaccination were used in tandem.
8. Bliss, Michael. Plague: A Story of Smallpox in Montreal. Toronto: Harper Collins, 1991.
The story of the preventable deaths of some 3,000 Montrealers in the 1885 smallpox epidemic is masterfully told by Bliss in this engaging cultural history. Bliss closely examines the social, economic and political factors at play, including anti-vaccination advocates, widespread vaccine-apathy, French-English tensions, newspaper coverage, and a bungled public health response from the outset of the outbreak. He reveals how well-attended special events, like the winter ice carnival, the public funeral of Bishop Bourget, and the super-spectacle dual punch of P.T. Barnum's Circus and Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show helped spread contagion. Bliss explores the high economic costs of an unnecessary epidemic in the most human of terms.
9. Johnson, Steven. The Ghost Map: the Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and how it Changed Science, Cities and the Modern World. New York: Riverhead Books, 2006.
This popular history is a ripping good yarn about how Dr. John Snow's determined sleuthing in 1854 eventually led him to the infamous Broad Street pump, and to the source of a London cholera outbreak. Johnson makes this history personal, through the narratives of its victims, like the family of sons employed at a brewery devastated and shocked by their mother's quick demise. She drank the tainted water at home, while they safely imbibed beer at work.
10. Talty, Stephan. The Illustrious Dead: the Terrifying Story of How Typhus Killed Napoleon's Greatest Army. New York: Crown Publishers, 2009.
How lice brought down La Grande Armée would also work as a subtitle for this lively popular history. Talty, a journalist, includes graphic detail of the fate of thousands of French troops in 1812 who succumbed to typhus in Russia's frozen interior. He begins with the excavation of a mass grave discovered in Lithuania in 2001. Some 2,000 bodies, three deep in a V-shaped trench confirmed their identity as members of Napoleon's much-feared army, even before forensic test results. Talty goes on to describe the unfortunate end of more of their comrades, who finished their tours of duty stacked like cordwood, to serve as windbreaks for their weakened and shivering fellow soldiers. Talty explains everything anyone would ever want to know about the typhus pathogen, and its most efficient little vector—the body louse.
Kate Barker is a National Magazine Award-winning journalist in year two of the PhD program in History at York University. Her current research concerns the 1918 influenza pandemic.
 Bliss, Michael. Plague: A Story of Smallpox in Montreal, Harper Collins: Toronto, 1991, 104.


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Bevacizumab effective for treatment-na?ve AMD
Liz Meszaros
In patients who have not undergone previous treatment, bevacizumab appears to be a safe and effective treatment for exudative age-related macular degeneration.
Philadelphia-In patients who have not undergone previous treatment, bevacizumab (Avastin, Genentech) appears to be a safe and effective treatment for exudative age-related macular degeneration (AMD), said Justin L. Gottlieb, MD, here at the Macula 2011 and Atlantic Coast Retina Club meeting of the Wills Eye Institute.
Dr. Gottlieb, associate professor, Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences, University of Wisconsin, Madison, related that at the University of Wisconsin Retina Service, bevacizumab is used primarily in about 85% of anti-vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) treatments for patients with exudative AMD.
"We had a gut feeling that it seemed to be working, but we wanted to find out for sure," he said.
Dr. Gottlieb and colleagues conducted this study to determine whether there was visual acuity (VA) improvement, stabilization, or decrease in eyes with exudative AMD that were treated with bevacizumab monotherapy. Secondarily, they sought to determine if there were reductions in maximum retinal thickness (MRT) or in subretinal fluid (SRF) thickness with bevacizumab monotherapy in these patients.
For this retrospective review, Dr. Gottlieb and colleagues reviewed the billing records of all patients who received bevacizumab at the University Station Clinic and Rockford Clinic. In all, 80 eyes of 77 patients were included. Patients must have had no previous interventional therapy with thermal laser, photodynamic therapy, or ranibizumab (Lucentis, Genentech). Patients were followed up for a minimum of 36 weeks, and cross-hair optical coherence tomography (OCT) scans (Stratus OCT, Carl Zeiss Meditec) were obtained during this time.
At 6 weeks, mean logMAR VA was 0.73 (20/107), for a change of 0.15 from a mean baseline VA of 0.88 (20/160) (95% CI; range: 0.07 to 0.22; p = 0.0001). At week 12, mean VA was 0.71, a change of 0.17 from baseline (95% CI; range: 0.09 to 0.24; p < 0.0001). By week 48, in the 48 remaining patients, mean VA was 0.76 (20/115), a change of 0.12 from baseline (95% CI; range: 0.03 to 0.21; p = 0.01).
MRT was also measured at baseline (mean, 376 µm) and at weeks 6 through 48. At week 6, mean MRT was 251 µm, a change of 126 µm from baseline (95% CI; range: 90 to 161; p < 0.0001). By week 48, mean MRT was 285 µm, a change of 91 µm from baseline (95% CI; range: 58 to 124; p < 0.0001).
SRF measurements were also done from baseline through week 48. At week 6, mean SRF was 14 µm, compared with 25 µm at baseline (95% CI; range: –8 to 29; p = 0.24). By week 48, mean SRF was 19 µm (95% CI; range: –11 to 23; p = 0.50).
Neither changes in VA nor reductions in MRT were dependent on age or gender.
"While the improvement of VA was not statistically significant for baseline VA better than 20/200, the reduction of MRT was statistically significant for baseline VA better than 20/200," Dr. Gottlieb explained. "This implies that bevacizumab is effective in this group.
"In conclusion, bevacizumab monotherapy appears to be an effective treatment of exudative AMD, with improvements in visual acuity and statistically significant reductions in retinal thickening," he continued. "There was also a trend to reduce subretinal fluid with treatment."
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Brazil Gateway
India Gateway
Building on Ohio State's international connections
The Ohio State University is committed to becoming a preeminent global university – one that prepares its students and faculty to participate actively in knowledge-based collaborations around the world. As one of the best public universities in the United States, we strive to build a foundation that will integrate international dimensions with every facet of the institution, to pursue international partnerships and to collaborate on the solution of local and global issues based on Ohio State's expertise. To solidify Ohio State's commitment to enhancing its global interactions, the university opened offices – Global Gateways – in key parts of the world.
Ohio State opened Gateway office locations in Shanghai, China (February 2010), Mumbai, India (March 2012) and São Paulo, Brazil (September 2014). The locations for the Gateways capitalize on the strengths of Ohio State's connections across the globe and provide the university with a myriad of opportunities, including operational support for faculty research/teaching and international partnerships, a portal for education abroad, a location for international student recruitment, a center for academic programming as well as executive and corporate training, a location for alumni gatherings and a new way to partner with Ohio-based companies operating in global markets.
Ohio State's involvement in China, India and Brazil is robust with student, faculty and alumni engagement. Global Gateways signify one initiative of several identified by the President's and Provost's Council on Strategic Internationalization in 2009 in which developing an international physical presence was among the priorities.
To further enhance the university's global reach in China, India and Brazil, the Global Gateways work in four strategic areas to engage, facilitate and build relationships, while ensuring the integrity and compliance of our international collaborations.
Prospective and current student support
The Global Gateways support prospective students as they consider The Ohio State University for their studies or research endeavors. Before students decide to attend Ohio State, the Gateway team attends recruitment fairs and events and conducts outreach to admitted students in collaboration with the Office of Student Academic Success (OSAS). As international students from China, India and Brazil prepare to arrive on campus, the Gateways work with campus partners and the Office of International Affairs' International Students and Scholars unit to communicate needs unique to international students and hosting pre-departure orientations. To support international students throughout their time at Ohio State, the Gateways coordinate and participate in programming focusing on China, India and Brazil, as well as share experiential learning options such as global education, internship and career opportunities.
The Gateways support faculty and staff through research connections and industry and university partnerships. The teams in China, India and Brazil provide information on grant funding, professional development around emerging topics and areas of interest, staff exchange programs, and intercultural training for faculty and staff who work with international populations. Global Gateways also collaborate with faculty and staff on events and conferences that are hosted in-region by providing logistical and in-country support.
The Global Gateways connect and engage with international alumni to strengthen their relationship with Ohio State, as well as share networking and career opportunities and can develop and support alumni club activities in the region.
Working with Ohio-based businesses that have international operations and in-region companies, the Gateways develop relationships and engage with the university on executive education programs, experiential opportunities, trainings, educational activities and events.
While the Office of International Affairs helps facilitate the development and growth of the Global Gateways, each of the Gateways are managed by a smaller team located both in Ohio and abroad. These leaders identify the best ways possible to achieve the goals established for the Gateways. They also ensure that the Global Gateways are advancing Ohio State's internationalization strategies.
Padmini Roy-Dixon
Padmini Roy-Dixon serves as the executive director for Global Gateways and International Partnerships. She is responsible for providing organizational leadership and support as well as building and managing alliances between the academic units and the China, India and Brazil Gateways to promote research collaborations and programming efforts. Padmini also develops strategic business plans, performance metrics and oversees the budget. She holds a master's degree from the John Glenn College of Public Affairs at Ohio State, a master's degree in finance from Boston College and a bachelor's degree in commerce from the University of Delhi.
Shammi Liyange
Shammi Liyange serves as an accounting and operations associate for the Global Gateways. She is responsible for providing accounting and fiscal support to the Global Gateways and Ohio State. She is also responsible for budgeting, monitoring and reconciling expenditures, managing accounts receivable and managerial accounting for the Global Gateway programs. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Accounting and Finance in Sri Lanka, holds a Certificate in Accounting from Montgomery College in Rockville, Maryland, and is a member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants.
Kaitlyn Witsaman
Kaitlyn Witsaman plans and oversees Global Gateways events and programs. She also builds on stakeholder relationships, researches information relative to services offered by the Gateways and supports day-to-day operations. She holds a Master of Arts in Leadership in Higher Education from Baldwin Wallace University and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration with a concentration in marketing from Fairmont State University.


The Re:Zero 'Emilia and Rem Sakura' Canvas Art is an exquisite piece of artwork needed for any anime fan. This scene depicts your favorite characters together posing. You see the fine details of outfits and the pure color from the canvas art. They have such a unique expression and feel it makes you feel part of the anime series. See your favorite characters Emilia and Rem posing with the cherry blossoms in the back. Re:Zero is an award winning anime about the main protagonist Subaru who gets mysteriously sucked into another world. Being able to reverse death, he goes on a quest to find a way home.


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The next two weekends will contrast the strong and the weak. The weak will be Labour on July 5-6. The strong will be National this coming weekend.
National's strategy this term was to generate "results". And it has, including roads, welfare, hospital operations and school qualifications. Middle New Zealand may not recite the detail but probably gets some sense of a programme.
Confidence numbers and poll readings that the country is on the right track, while having recently topped out, remain very high, at a re-elect-the-incumbent level. The budget's upward trajectory and careful potholing gave the cabinet an in-charge look. The GDP growth lift has eased middling households' fears.
National has shrugged off the Labour-Greens-New Zealand First attempt to pin a "crony capitalism" label on it and last week turned the attack back on David Cunliffe, who made himself vulnerable to such attacks by stoking a big leadership bid trust last year.
Labour is polling under 30 per cent, which accords with anecdotal evidence. For swathes of the electorate Cunliffe doesn't yet jell and Labour hasn't worked out how to reach the middle from its minorities base.
That leaves voters on Labour's side of the divide adrift and those in the middle with only one major party to go to: National.
Even parties on National's side — ACT, United Future and the Conservatives — are in its shadow. John Key's plausibility endures: he can get away with saying Labour should be "open, honest and transparent" despite see-no-evil-hear-no-evil ducking over John Banks' guilt over mayoral campaign donations.
But strength has a weakness: overconfidence.
Key and president Peter Goodfellow will this weekend temper talking up achievements and prospects with warnings of how a lead can slip away. Helen Clark's Labour dropped 9 percentage points from pre-campaign poll averages to election day in 2002 and Key's in 2011 was 7 percentage points. In 1996 an "unelectable" Clark suddenly became competitive in the first leaders debate.
To reduce the prospect of such a fall in September, it would make sense for Key at this weekend's super-tight-managed showcase to project a strategic direction for a third term, not just self-congratulation and warnings to voters not to punt on the Labour+Greens alternative.
This term's agenda had more GDP growth, with jobs attached and maybe some real wage growth, more deregulation to foster business, more houses (a late addition), sober fiscal management, more hospital operations, more NCEA passes, more progress markers on the other cross-portfolio "results" set in 2013.
But if all Key projects is an extension of 2011-14 through 2014-17, that would be a subliminal message to electors that three terms would be enough. For Key, who by 2017 would match Clark's nine years and beat Sir Robert Muldoon, Sir Sidney Holland and Bolger, it might be enough. But not for most of his MPs. And as the economy comes off its Christchurch and dairy bonanza highs and the social services pips squeak more loudly from too much "more with less", a third term would get to feel like a third term, opening voters to an alternative "progressive" agenda from Labour+Greens.
The job of finessing such third-term-itis falls to Bill English, the cabinet's strategic thinker. This term some initiatives he has quietly backed have been changing some of the language.
One is the investment principle, quietly introduced at the 2011 conference for narrow aspects of welfare. It is poised, if policymakers want, for application more widely: the budget took a small step down the Hutchison report path to investing in very early childhood.
This is a major shift from 1970s rights-based welfare state thinking and the 1990s reactive cuts mentality. It gives government action renewed legitimacy.
The budget also backed an education shift to a focus on teachers' professional capabilities. That is central to National's third-term plans. And, against English's dour Southland scepticism, it took a small step toward getting innovation investment up to the OECD average.
Add in a recalibration of natural resources policy, driven by a major reworking of water policy but also to get mining and oil and clean-green somehow to fit together in practical politics. For this the marginalised BlueGreen National ginger group needs to be in the mix. Then add a new attempt to unpick regulatory complexity to achieve stated objectives.
Then for something different but related, note Key's culture of regeneration of a quarter of his caucus.
New candidates in winnable seats include a number under 45, some under 40 and one, English's replacement in Clutha-Southland, Todd Barclay, is 24. A number of younger candidates, including four under 30, have been selected for other seats and if they are in winnable list positions, by 2017 National may look more like the generational change party than Labour.
That could point to a fourth term. But that takes us far beyond this weekend's line of sight.


Why the fuss about bags?
I'm not one to normally write letters but I really don't understand the opposition to a plastic bag fee in Aspen, Colorado!
I live on the Oregon coast in the summertime, where the average household income is half of what it is here. They have no problem supporting a statewide plastic bag ban, let alone a 3-cent fee!
People of Aspen have the means to be setting precedents for this sort of thing. I actually laugh out loud when I read the letters opposing any sort of initiative. It can't be about money, hello 10-percent sales tax; it seems more like laziness. Thanks for letting me vent!


GDL has been used for over 20 years in the meat industry as an acidulating product for dry and semi-dry sausages. This product replaces "FERMENTO" in solving the problem of premature acidity and stiffening of the meat mixture. It is also the ingredient that gives the distinctive tangy taste that is familiar to dry sausage. This product is "coated" GDL. Suggested usage is 12 oz to 100 lbs of meat.


Come on GREE . This issue has rambled on and on throughout other RB events. Please sort it out, or supply us with some orbs. I can't farm them either; server errors. Please make at least one event fault free!!!
Our team is investigating this atm and we should get to the bottom of the issue shortly.
Our apologies for the late reply, this was fixed over the weekend. If you are still experiencing any issues buying orbs, please send us a support ticket.


"I want to better understand reverse mortgages. Where can I get additional trustworthy information?"
Responsibilities With a Reverse Mortgage is an article published by Fannie Mae with helpful information for seniors (and their loved ones) about reverse mortgages.
Seniors who reside in Florida and are struggling with property-related expenses may receive assistance from Florida's Elderly Mortgage Assistance Program (ELMORE).
AARP® website and be sure to read AARP's guide to reverse mortgages.
Housing and Urban Development (HUD) website.
National Council on Aging (NCOA) website and be sure to read NCOA's Use Your Home to Stay at Home™ guide about reverse mortgages.
Learn about what help is available and who to contact.
Understand your reverse mortgage responsibilities.
Find the answers to common questions concerning your reverse mortgage.
If you're in default on your reverse mortgage, there are options.
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Ghana is implementing strategic programmes to combat climate change – Lands Minister
Samuel Abu Jinapor,
Ghana's Lands and Natural Resources Minister, Samuel Abu Jinapor, has told a summit in Turkey that the government is implementing two major interventions to urgently respond to the effects of climate change.
These are the Ghana Cocoa Forest REDD+ Programme (GCFRP) in cocoa forest landscape, mainly in the southern part of the country, and the Ghana Shea Lands scape Emission Reduction Programme in the Northern Savannah zones of the country.
Hon. Samuel A. Jinapor said this at the opening of the 12th Bosphorus Summit, in Istanbul, Turkey on Monday 6th December, 2021.
The 12th Bosphorus Summit, themed, 'Meeting the challenges for a better world', was opened by the President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.
Speaking on the topic, 'The effect of climate change on the ecosystem and the importance of Forest and Sustainable Livelihoods," Ghana's Lands and Natural Resources Minister said these programmes will enhance the ecosystem whiles improving livelihood opportunities for farmers, women groups and Forest users in general.
The 12th Bosphorus Summit, which among other things seeks to enhance bilateral cooperation between Ghana and Turkey, also created opportunities for sharing best practices in afforestation and reforestation.
"These two (2) programmes seek to enhance the ecosystem functionality to deliver emission reductions in Ghana's major commodity supply chains (Cocoa in the south and Shea in the north), biodiversity protection and conservation, whilst improving livelihood opportunities for farmers, women groups and forest users, in general."
The Minister also spoke about one of the government's flagship programmes initiated in Ghana to address climate change, being the GREEN GHANA PROJECT.
"In accordance with the vision of the President of the Republic of Ghana, the Green Ghana Project was successfully executed on June 11, 2021, during which a total of seven (7) Million seedlings were planted in a day, across the country."
"The Green Ghana Project next year, 2022, will see to the planting of twenty (20) million seedlings in a day. The commitment to plant twenty (20) million trees in the year 2022, was announced by the President of Ghana, at the World Leaders' Summit at COP26 in Glasgow."
He also added that the Government of Ghana intends to roll out a Robust Afforestation and Reforestation Programme, aimed at restoring degraded landscapes by both the private and public sectors.
"The programme is quite ambitious and requires sustainable financing and logistical support. We are, therefore, ready to partner countries, institutions, or private sector actors, who wish to share our rich experiences and best practices in landscape restoration" he noted.
While reiterating Ghana's commitment to contribute to the global efforts at halting climate change and its attendant debilitating consequences, the Minister called for "investment in technology and science that prevent impacts of climate change on the livelihoods of the people we lead. Let us move towards actions to reduce our carbon footprints that exacerbate climate change."
According to him, "Times have changed, we have moved from the position of measuring poverty by food security or the lack of it. Poverty is not only based on food security, but there is also the need to add multidimensional characteristics such as sustainable livelihoods."
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BYPC is enrolling current music students for private lessons for the 2018-2019 school year. Current students have until Monday June 25 to reserve their spot for next year. You may reserve your current lesson time or request a new time. Any lessons not confirmed by June 25, 2018 will be released and made available to other students. Classes/lessons will begin Monday August 27, 2018.
Complete and submit the form below, call BYPC at 472-3894 or drop off a completed Private Music Lesson Reservation Sheet to Nancy, Mel or Pamela at the front desk.
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If you are keeping your child's lesson day and time the same for the upcoming school year then you are all set!
If you have requested a new day or time for your child's music lesson we will do our very best to accommodate that change and will be contacting you in July to confirm the status.
Don't forget, BYPC's summer music program kicks off June 26, contact the office if you would like to schedule private lessons for your child over the summer.


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Filmy roku 2008

České filmy
 Bába (krátkometrážní, režie: Zuzana Špidlová)
 Bathory (režie: Juraj Jakubisko)
 Bobule (režie: Tomáš Bařina)
 BrainStorm (televizní film, režie: Jiří Strach)
 Děti noci (režie: Michaela Pavlátová)
 František je děvkař (režie: Jan Prušinovský)
 Karamazovi (režie: Petr Zelenka)
 Kouzelný most (krátkometrážní film, režie: Jan Chramosta)
 Kuličky (režie: Olga Dabrowská)
 Les mrtvých (televizní film, režie: Jiří Svoboda)
 Máj (režie: F. A. Brabec)
 Na vlastní nebezpečí (režie: Filip Renč)
 Nestyda (režie: Jan Hřebejk)
 O rodičích a dětech (režie: Vladimír Michálek)
 O život (režie: Milan Šteindler)
 Občan Havel (dokumentární film, režie: Pavel Koutecký, Miroslav Janek)
 Pohádkové počasí (televizní pohádka, režie: Tomáš Krejčí)
 Polibek na cestu (povídkový televizní film, režie: Zuzana Zemanová - Hojdová)
 Svatba na bitevním poli (režie: Dušan Klein)
 Taková normální rodinka (režie: Patrik Hartl)
 Tobruk (režie: Václav Marhoul)
 U mě dobrý (režie: Jan Hřebejk)
 Venkovský učitel (režie: Bohdan Sláma)

Zahraniční filmy
 1968 Tunnel Rats (režie: Edward Zwick)
 Asterix a Olympijské hry (režie: Frédéric Forestier)
 Atentát na střední (režie: Brett Simon)
  Barva kouzel (režie: Vadim Jean)
 Bolt - pes pro každý případ (režie: Chris Williams, Byron Howard)
 Bratři Bloomovi (režie: Rian Johnson)
 Camp Rock (režie: Matthew Diamond)
  Cestující (režie: Rodrigo García)
 Čistá práce (režie: Roger Donaldson)
 Čivava z Beverly Hills (režie: Raja Gosnell)
 Disaster Movie (režie: Jason Friedberg, Aaron Seltzer)
 Disco (režie: Fabien Onteniente)
 Dostaňte agenta Smarta (režie: Peter Sagel)
 Futurama: Benderova hra (režie: Peter Avanzino)
 Futurama: Milion a jedno chapadlo (režie: Peter Avanzino)
 Gran Torino (režie: Clint Eastwood)
 Hancock (režie: Peter Berg)
 Hellboy 2: Zlatá armáda (režie: Guillermo del Toro)
 Hranice úsvitu (režie: Philippe Garrel)
 Chlapec v pruhovaném pyžamu (režie: Mark Herman)
 Indiana Jones a království křišťálové lebky (režie: Steven Spielberg)
 Iron Man (režie: Jon Favreau)
 Jak ukrást nevěstu (režie: Paul Weiland)
 Jezero smrti (režie: James Watkins)
 Krvavé pobřeží (režie: John Woo)
 Králova přízeň (režie: Justin Chadwick)
 Kung Fu Panda (režie: Mark Osborne, John Stevenson)
 Lekce neslušného chování (režie: Stephan Elliott)
 Letopisy Narnie: Princ Kaspian (režie: Andrew Adamson)
 Lets dance 2 (režie: John Ju)
 Lovecká sezóna 2 (režie: Matthew O'Callaghan, Todd Wilderman)
 Madagaskar 2: Útěk do Afriky (režie: Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath)
 Mamma Mia! (režie: Phyllida Lloyd)
 Mejdan v Las Vegas (režie: Tom Vaughan)
 Milionář z chatrče (režie: Danny Boyle, Loveleen Tandan)
 Mumie: Hrob Dračího císaře (režie: Rob Cohen)
 Muzikál ze střední 2 (režie: Kenny Ortega)
 Muzikál ze střední 3: Maturitní ročník (režie: Kenny Ortega)
 Muž a jeho pes (režie: Francis Huster)
 Na hraně lásky (režie: John Maybury)
 Nic než pravda (režie: Rod Lurie)
 Odpor (režie: Edward Zwick)
 Oko bere (režie: Robert Luketic)
 Paříž (režie: Cédric Klapisch)
 Po přečtení spalte (režie: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen)
 Pod kontrolou (režie: Jennifer Lynchová)
 Podivuhodný případ Benjamina Buttona (režie: David Fincher)
 Pochyby (režie: John Patrick Shanley)
 Předčítač (režie: Stephen Daldry)
 Quantum of Solace (režie: Marc Forster)
 Quid Pro Quo (režie: Carlos Brooks)
 Rachel se vdává (režie: Jonathan Demme)
 Rambo: Do pekla a zpět (režie: Sylvester Stallone)
 Religulous (režie: Larry Charles)
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One in three consultants and GPs may be hit by tax rules which are fuelling soaring waiting lists
Matt Hancock pledged to listen to doctors Credit: PA
Laura Donnelly, Health Editor
22 July 2019 • 3:45pm
British Medical Association (BMA)
One in three senior medics could be hit by NHS pensions rules which are fuelling soaring waiting lists, health officials have warned.
Today ministers opened a consultation on changes to the operation of the scheme, amid a growing crisis as doctors refuse to work overtime.
Treasury rules means that high earners can end up paying tax rates of more than 90 per cent on earnings over £110,000 a year - which include rises in the value of pensions.
The problem has arisen as a combination of two Government policies.
One is a taper on annual earnings, which means doctors can end up paying more tax than they earn, on income of more than £110,000 a year, including rises in value of their pensions. The other is the reduction in tax relief on pensions, meaning tax is paid on pots worth more than £1.055m - down from a high of £1.8m in 2012.
Boris Johnson has promised to "fix" the latter problem, but many doctors have raised more concern about the way the taper on annual earnings is limiting the hours they can work.
Matt Hancock, the Health Secretary, last night pledge to listen to the concerns of medics, in a bid to find a solution.
But the British Medical Association (BMA) immediately said there were no realistic options which would bring an end to the crisis.
The consultation proposes a 50:50 solution - which means doctors can halve their pension contributions in exchange for halving the rate of pension growth.
It says other proposals will be considered, such as giving doctors the option to choose the size of their pension contribution, in a bid to avoid tax thresholds.
The proposals also set out ways to make it easier for medics to defer tax bills, so they come out of their pension.
The document warns that the current situation is causing "significant financial concern" to a number of doctors, causing many to consider retiring or cutting their hours.
"Around a third of NHS consultants and GP practice partners have earnings from the NHS that could potentially lead to them being affected by the tapering annual allowance," officials warn.
However, making any changes to tax rules would require action from the Treasury, officials warn, with no such changes proposed.
Mr Hancock said: "I love the NHS and the people who dedicate their lives to caring for patients. Each and every one of them is crucial to our Long Term Plan for the NHS, yet too many of our most experienced clinicians are reducing their hours, or leaving the NHS early because of frustration over their pension.
"I want them to know that I am listening and I want to work with them to fix it for the sake of patients."
"We want to make it easier for our hardworking senior doctors to balance their workload, their pension pot and their tax bill - with more flexibility, more choice, and less need to pay upfront," he said.
Dr Rob Harwood, chairman of the BMA consultants committee, said the proposals would not ease the crisis.
He said: "This consultation does little other than add to the intolerable dilemma facing many doctors – a commitment to their patients put in jeopardy by these ridiculous taxes which are forcing doctors to effectively pay to go to work."
"We wanted a consultation that included realistic options to bring an end to this ridiculous, but serious, crisis we are now facing. The BMA believes the only real solution is to scrap the annual or tapering allowances with immediate effect."
Earlier this month, NHS managers warned that waiting lists have soared by 50 per cent in three months in some parts of the country, because so many doctors are refusing to work overtime.
And last week medics warned that NHS cancer scans are being left unread for up to six weeks amid a growing pensions crisis.
On Friday a leading hospital chief executive raised fears that his trust could lose the equivalent of 60 consultants, because of medics' refusal to work overtime.
In a report on the matter by the Hospital Consultants and Specialists Association, one medic warns of "unacceptable" delays of five or six weeks for scans of some cancer patients to be read.
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Q: why `stack` cannot work on the result of `tapply`? Assuming I have a data frame df
> dput(df)
structure(list(x = c("X", "X", "X", "Y", "Y", "Z", "Z", "Z"),
    y = c("A", "B", "C", "B", "C", "A", "C", "D")), class = "data.frame", row.names = c(NA,
-8L))

> df
  x y
1 X A
2 X B
3 X C
4 Y B
5 Y C
6 Z A
7 Z C
8 Z D

and generate a list u1 like below
u1 <- with(
  df,
  tapply(y, x, combn, 2, toString)
)

where
> u1
$X
[1] "A, B" "A, C" "B, C"

$Y
[1] "B, C"

$Z
[1] "A, C" "A, D" "C, D"

> str(u1)
List of 3
 $ X: chr [1:3(1d)] "A, B" "A, C" "B, C"
 $ Y: chr [1(1d)] "B, C"
 $ Z: chr [1:3(1d)] "A, C" "A, D" "C, D"
 - attr(*, "dim")= int 3
 - attr(*, "dimnames")=List of 1
  ..$ : chr [1:3] "X" "Y" "Z"

When I ran stack(u1), I will have the following error
> stack(u1)
Error in stack.default(u1) : at least one vector element is required

It seems that I cannot use stack over the output of tapply directly even if it is a named list.
However, when I use u2 <- Map(c,u1) for postprocessing, then things get working again
> u2 <- Map(c, u1)

> u2
$X
[1] "A, B" "A, C" "B, C"

$Y
[1] "B, C"

$Z
[1] "A, C" "A, D" "C, D"

> str(u2)
List of 3
 $ X: chr [1:3] "A, B" "A, C" "B, C"
 $ Y: chr "B, C"
 $ Z: chr [1:3] "A, C" "A, D" "C, D"

> stack(u2)
  values ind
1   A, B   X
2   A, C   X
3   B, C   X
4   B, C   Y
5   A, C   Z
6   A, D   Z
7   C, D   Z

As we can see, in str(u2), the attributes are filtered out, which seems solving the issue.

My question is:
Why u1 failed but u2 succeeded? Is there any other way I can use tapply over u1 without any postprocessing (like Map(c, u1))?

A: tapply returns an array (or a list if you set simplify = FALSE), and stack doesn't like an array input. The tapply documentation doesn't sound like there are other output options. From ?tapply (emphasis mine):

simplify:
logical; if FALSE, tapply always returns an array of mode "list"; in other words, a list with a dim attribute. If TRUE (the default), then if FUN always returns a scalar, tapply returns an array with the mode of the scalar.

So I'd recommend casting to character:
stack(lapply(u1, as.character))
#   values ind
# 1   A, B   X
# 2   A, C   X
# 3   B, C   X
# 4   B, C   Y
# 5   A, C   Z
# 6   A, D   Z
# 7   C, D   Z

If you're concerned about speed, you could run benchmarks to see, removing the dim attribute might be faster than as.character(),
stack(lapply(u1, "dim<-", NULL))
# same result

A: Or may also use as.vector/c to remove the attributes and convert the 1d vector to a vector with no dim attributes
stack(lapply(u1, c))
  values ind
1   A, B   X
2   A, C   X
3   B, C   X
4   B, C   Y
5   A, C   Z
6   A, D   Z
7   C, D   Z

According to ?stack

Note that stack applies to vectors (as determined by is.vector): non-vector columns (e.g., factors) will be ignored with a warning.

The is.vector returns FALSE for all the member elements of 'u1'
> sapply(u1, is.vector)
    X     Y     Z
FALSE FALSE FALSE

As @GregorThomas mentioned about the simplify argument in tapply, there is also a simplify option in combn which is TRUE by default.  If we specify that FALSE, it returns a list and should work
u1 <- with(
  df,
  tapply(y, x, FUN = function(u) combn(u, 2, FUN = toString, simplify = FALSE))
)
> stack(u1)
  values ind
1   A, B   X
2   A, C   X
3   B, C   X
4   B, C   Y
5   A, C   Z
6   A, D   Z
7   C, D   Z

However, this works with enframe on the 1d vector as well
library(tibble)
library(tidyr)
enframe(u1) %>%
   unnest(value)
# A tibble: 7 × 2
  name  value
  <chr> <chr>
1 X     A, B
2 X     A, C
3 X     B, C
4 Y     B, C
5 Z     A, C
6 Z     A, D
7 Z     C, D

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This makes a fabulously rich centrepiece. If you don't want to decorate the wreath with marzipan apples, reduce the marzipan quantities by half. The stollen is delicious served with an amaretto and apple cocktail – mix together 50ml each of vodka and amaretto with 200ml of apple juice and serve over ice in a glass with a sugar and cinnamon rim.
Step 1 – Make the dough. Place the dates and apple slices in a food processor and finely chop. Sift the flour into the large bowl of a stand mixer fitted with the dough hook. Stir in the salt, yeast, sugar, cinnamon, ground ginger, ginger root and the chopped up dates and apple.
Step 2 – In a small saucepan gently warm the milk with the butter until the butter has melted and the liquid is only hand hot.
Step 3 – Reserve 2 teaspoons of the egg for the glaze, then add the remainder to the dough, followed by the milk and butter mixture. Mix on a low speed for 5 minutes to a smooth, stretchy, slightly sticky dough. Cover the bowl with cling film, then leave the dough to rise in a warm place for about 1 hour or until at least doubled in size.
Step 4 – Meanwhile, make the decoration and fillings. Heat the oven to 160°C/140°C fan/Gas 2–3. Slice the apple into wafer-thin discs using the mandolin and place the discs on a lined baking tray. Put them into the oven to dry out for about 45–50 minutes (you may need a little less time or a little longer). Turn them half way through and remove any that are browned. Set aside until needed.
Step 5 – Make the marzipan. Mix together the sugars and the almonds in a bowl, then add the whole egg and egg yolk, and the almond extract and amaretto. Bring the mixture together with your hands to form a smooth dough. Cut the marzipan in half and wrap each half in cling film. Set aside.
Step 6 – Make the cinnamon sugar. In a large bowl beat the butter, brown sugar, cinnamon and ground ginger with a wooden spoon until creamy. Beat in the pecans and stem ginger.
Step 7 – Shape the dough. Turn out the risen dough onto worktop and fold it over on itself to knock out the air. Cut off 250g of dough and set aside.
Step 8 – Divide the remaining dough into 2 pieces. Roll each piece out to a long rectangle measuring 10 x 50cm. Spread the cinnamon sugar in the middle of one rectangle, then roll it up to encase the filling. Pinch the seam well, so that the sugar can't escape and seal the ends.
Step 9 – Roll one piece of marzipan into a long sausage shape the same length as the dough and place in the centre of the second rectangle, then roll it up in the same way.
Step 10 – Twist the 2 lengths of dough together, keeping the joins at the bottom. Bring them together in a circle and pinch the ends. Place on a lined baking tray.
Step 11 – Divide the 250g piece of dough into 4 equal pieces and roll each to a 30cm-long sausage. Set the 4 strands side by side vertically in front of you and plait them. Shape the plait into a circle and place it on a baking tray.
Step 12 – Cover both doughs with oiled cling film or place them into a large plastic bag and leave them to prove for about 30 minutes or until doubled in size.
Step 13 – Increase the oven temperature to 180°C/160°C fan/Gas 4.
Step 15 – To make the marzipan apples, roll some of the remaining marzipan into 12 balls of various sizes and poke a hole in the top and bottom of each ball, to create apple shapes. Paint the apples with the red and green food colourings. Leave to dry, then use small pieces of marzipan to make little leaf shapes – paint these dark green. Leave to dry.
Step 16 – Thinly slice the date to make small stalks. Add some edible glue to the hole in the top of each apple and add a stalk and a leaf – allow to set and dry.
Step 17 – Once the stolen is cool, dust the icing sugar over the non-glazed strand of the large ring. Place the small ring on top of the larger one, then place marzipan apples along the joins. Arrange the apple slices around the stollen, then serve.


Nowadays it is quite common to hear people talking about how affirmations have changed their lives. So what is an affirmation? An affirmation is a short powerful statement that is aimed at helping you to be in conscious control of your thoughts. When you say or hear such statements they transform into thoughts that shapes your reality. Basically affirmations are your conscious thoughts.
Affirmations simply mean saying something positively. It means that you assertively and firmly declare something to be true. By affirming that the statements you say are true you are declaring that what you want is true.
Ordinarily people continuously engage in affirmation subconsciously with their words and thoughts. Your thoughts and words most flow from beliefs that are learned patterns developed since your childhood. While some of these may work well others work against you. Thought patterns that work against you sabotage you from achieving whatever you want to achieve.
Every affirmation that you say or think is based on reflections of your inner truth or beliefs. It is important to note that most of these inner truths may not be true or may be based on inaccurate information and impression constructed as a child. When such convictions are examined as an adult they get exposed and shown to be completely inappropriate.
Various studies have established that human beings are capable of having about 50,000 thoughts daily. This translates into about 300 thoughts a minute. Research shows that more than 80 percent of these thoughts are not positive.
Most of the more than 50,000 thoughts that race through the human mind daily fly below the conscious awareness level. When you are not aware of your thoughts there is a possibility that most of what you are thinking is negative. People who are not aware of their thoughts usually experience a nasty spiral downwards. If you keep in mind that about 80 percent of what you think is negative it means that the tendency to descend downwards gets even worse.
Basically most people wonder what is an affirmation and how it works to change their lives. Affirmations make your subconscious thoughts to be conscious; this helps you to become acutely aware of negative thoughts that always threaten to take over your life. This simple concept is based on the fact that your life is largely determined by what you think, therefore next time you have negative thoughts take care because they could influence what you get in life.
Out of the 50,000 thoughts that human beings have everyday about 90 percent gets carried over to the next day. If you have negative thoughts they simply gets rolled over to the next day which means that you have more self-defeating thoughts. This downwards trend will get you deeper and deeper into a rut rather than helping you to get out.
The subconscious portion of the human brain uses behavior patterns learned automatically to react and respond to daily events. This is an essential process in life that helps you to survive and respond quickly to events that take place around you. A quick or timely response would be impossible if you had to re-examine every aspect of the events and things that surround you every time something occurs.
The learned response and thought patterns enables you to automatically respond to situations as they arise quickly and efficiently, however problems arise when the foundations of these beliefs are formed from a wrong perspective .This may include a wrong strategy for approaching a difficult circumstance. Such beliefs are completely inept at assisting you succeed especially in the real world as an adult.
By choosing to think and declare positive things as true in your life the subconscious part of your mind is forced into either reappraisal or avoidance. Ordinarily the bigger the issue the larger the inner truth and the more likely that you will experience resistance. Ultimately the subconscious finds it easier to remain with its perceived inner truth and avoid the conflict using all means possible so as to keep away from examining the issue.
people who wonder what is an affirmation and how effective is can be it is important to note that once the resistance is broken the subconscious is free to re-examine the core patterns and beliefs. Since affirmations simply reprogram your thoughts patterns they also change the way you think and feel about things. This will begin showing in your external life and you will experience seismic changes for the better in most areas of life.
Have you ever used affirmations in your life? Let me know.


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Chain Link Pro, Washing Machine Emulator and more! Free iPhone Games for October 11, 2010
Jim Squires on Oct 11, 2010 at 12:46pm
Free games are all around us, but they may not be as easy to find as you'd think. We help you sort through the App Store to find the latest price drops and limited time offers so that you won't have to spend a penny. Today's free games include the complete washing machine experience, some ball-rolling action, a chance to unleash your inner archer, and more!
Free iPhone Games is a new feature on Gamezebo. Be sure to check back every day to discover the latest and greatest games that have just gone free on the App Store!
Chain Link Pro – Drag similar shapes together to form a chain and send them swirling away into the vortex in this deceptively simple game that's a perfect fit for the iPhone.
Washing Machine Emulator – Less a game and more a joke, you'll complete a series of "mini-games" like selecting the washing powder and separating clothes. This one's good for a chuckle, but not much more.
Aero World – Fans of ball-rolling games like Aerox will want to snag this one up while it's free, as Aero World offers the same style of puzzling navigation that you know and love.
Archery Challenge – Take a few minutes to pretend you're Robin Hood this afternoon, as you show off your skills with a virtual bow and arrow in this game of careful aim.
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Chili Mac n cheese is one of the most liked Italy inspired western casserole dishes which is usually served as a side to lunch or dinner. There are many ways to prepare this casserole dish. In this recipe, this dish is prepared with salsa, green peppers, and chili peppers, and is ready in less than an hour.
Preheat the oven to 175 degrees Celsius and lightly grease a baking dish.
Combine boiled macaroni with chili, salsa, green pepper and chili powder in a large mixing bowl. Toss to mix well.
Stir in 1 ½ cups of shredded cheese and toss again to mix well then spoon into prepared baking dish. Top with remaining ½ cup of cheese.
Bake in preheated oven at 175 degrees Celsius for 30 to 35 minutes or until cheese is melted and lightly brown at the surface.
Bring out of the oven and sprinkle with chopped veggies on top for garnish.


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The Nelson Mandela Children's Fund (NMCF) is a charitable organisation founded by Nelson Mandela, based in South Africa. Its mission is to help individuals from birth to age 22.

History
In 1995, Mandela stopped to talk to street children in Cape Town, and was inspired to found organisation. He remarked:
 "We were driving back to the Presidency in Cape Town one cold winter's evening, when I saw a group of street children and stopped to talk to them by the street

"The children asked me why I love them. This astounded me, and I asked them why they asked this, and they said that because every time I get money from overseas, I share it with them."

Upon founding the organisation, he pledged to donate one third of his salary to NMCF, and began fundraising.

The Nelson Mandela Children's Fund strives to change the way society treats its children and youth. This long-term vision captures the central role society plays in shaping children's lives and the mission is to give voice and dignity to the African child by building a rights-based movement.

Programmes

Nelson Mandela Children's Hospital
The Nelson Mandela Children's Hospital is the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund flagship project. The Nelson Mandela Children's Hospital is a state-of-the-art, 200 bed specialist paediatric hospital that provides caring, child- and family-centred environment to treat and support critically ill children.
The Nelson Mandela Children's Hospital Trust was established and tasked with raising R1 billion to bring the specialist paediatric hospital to life.

Child Safety and Protection
The Child Safety and Protection (CSP) intends to create a safer environment for children and youth in schools and communities. The main focus of the programme is reduction of corporal punishment in schools, decrease of sexual and gender based violence amongst women and girls and elimination of bullying within the schools. The programme currently is running in the following provinces Limpopo, Gauteng, Kwa-Zulu Natal, Eastern Cape and Western Cape.

Child Survival, Development & Thriving
With Child mortality being labelled as a critical health issue as a result of malnutrition, lack of immunisation and access of mothers and children to medical services and health care, the first 1000 days of life became an important area for the Fund to focus on. The Fund's response is derived from an analysis of the scope of the problem, existing solutions and outstanding gaps.

The purpose of this intervention is to make certain that the care system respond to the needs of children under the ages of 3 to better ensure their survival, development and thriving.  The Fund's role is to act with extreme vigilance in closing the gaps through Immunisation Coverage, HIV -AIDS Treatment or Prevention and tackling Malnutrition.

The Fund's approach is about developing an activity based implementation plan considering the existing gaps at that level due to resource constraints. The plan is made up of three inter related components to address most of the gaps in the top five worst affected districts of O.R. Tambo, Alfred Nzo and Joe Gqabi in the Eastern Cape, Zululand in Kwazulu Natal and John Taolo in the Northern Cape.

Youth Leadership Programme
The Youth Leadership Programme has been focused on advocacy and lobbying, with an emphasis on mobilising children and youth towards driving positive social change. Under the Youth Leadership Programme there are four projects that run. These projects are Efeng Bacha, Children's Parliament, Legacy Academy and YLP Alumni.

Efeng Bacha
The objectives of the NMCF Efeng Bacha Youth Programme are to provide opportunities, skills and mentoring to youths. The club encourages civic participation and upholds respect for diversity and a faith-based value system. Activities include seminars like the Schools Safety Seminar which formed part of 16 days of activism with focus on violence against women in 2006. In March 2007 Efeng Bacha and the NMCF conducted a Teenage Pregnancy Seminar as the start of a research project with the ultimate aim of resolving the challenge of teenage pregnancy. The Efeng Bacha Youth Club is also involved with a Reading Initiative and with Youth Parliament.

Nelson Mandela Children's Parliament

The Nelson Mandela Children's Parliament (NMCP) programme was established to celebrate the values, principles and commitment of Mr Nelson Mandela to the children of South Africa, by giving children meaningful opportunities to participate, direct and influence decisions made on their behalf or in their best interest. Over the past 10 years, the hosting of the NMCP rotated across all provinces to create an opportunity for the children of South Africa to participate equally.

Sustainable Livelihoods
The Fund's Sustainable Livelihoods Project (SLP) was introduced in 2009 to address poverty experienced by families, especially in areas that have been identified by government as nodal points. These are areas that have a high rate of unemployment, low production because of various reasons and sometimes isolated in terms of securing basic services.  The SLP aim to strengthen families and communities to cope with the situation of vulnerability while creating a better life and brighter future for the children.

SLP is designed to help communities to work out their way out of poverty by encouraging community members to form Self Help Groups (SHG's). The SHG's are engaged in savings mobilisation programmes and income generating activities, they also convene regular meetings to address challenges they face in their homes and communities.

Other fundraising initiatives
Besides the above-mentioned programmes, other charitable events are arranged regularly, both locally and abroad. Gala dinners featuring auctions are used to raise funds in aid of the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund and the Nelson Mandela Foundation. One such event was the Mandela Day Gala Dinner and Auction. It was arranged by former US President Bill Clinton and held on 15 July 2009 at the Vanderbilt Hall in New York. Another successful gala dinner and auction, was the Mandela Legacy Canvas Auction on 16 July 2011 in Cape Town. The canvas was successfully auctioned by South African auctioneer Rael Levitt for R2.5 million.

Project partners and associates

 The Goedgedacht Trust
 Witkoppen Health & Welfare Centre
 Far North Community Care Centre - Mutsindo Bakery
 FASFacts
 Ithuso Community Disability Project
 Khulisani Agriculture Academy
 Centre for Community Justice and Development (CCJD)
 Early Learning Resource Unit (ELRU)
 Ubuntu Pathways
 Kopano Ke Maatla
 The Valley Trust
 Afrika Tikkun Uthando Centre
 Far North Community Care and Development Centre  2
 Give A Child A Family
 Arise and Shine Centre
 Ebenezer Welfare Supporting and Caring Organisation
 KwaNgcolozi Child and Family Care

Fundraisers

Patrons

Contributors who have donated to the fund include:
In 2008, Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg of Norway pledged US$1million.
2010, John Travolta, $10,000
Cathy O'Dowd, mountaineer, helped raise R250,000.
Michael Flatley
Michael Jackson via "Michael Jackson & Friends" benefit concerts]
South African Football Association, R6,000,000 (2016 - 2019)
Europcar: R1 357 417 (2016-2021)

Donations
2009: R91,870,000       (US$12,746,661)
2010: R64,346,000       (US$8,925,923)
2011: R64,184,000 (US$4,057,143)
2012: R30,720,000 (US$1,941,846)
2013: R23,405,000 (US$1,479,456)
2014: R29,580,000 (US$1,869,785)
2015: R37,534,000 (US$2,372,566)
2016: R26,613,000 (US$1,682,238)
2017: R34,715,000 (US$2,194,374)
2018: R15,369,000 (US$971,492)
2019: R22,150,000 (US$1,400,126)
2020: R24,985,000 (US$1,579,330)
2021: R13,868,000 (US$921,529)

Offices

The Nelson Mandela Children's Fund currently has offices in Johannesburg, South Africa (Head Office) and in London, United Kingdom, which focuses on fundraising.

See also
Nonprofit organisation
List of charitable foundations

References

External links
Official website
Newsletter

Children's charities based in South Africa
Organizations for orphaned and abandoned children
Organisations based in Johannesburg
Organizations established in 1995


GEMMA is the first Erasmus +: Erasmus Mundus Master´s Degree in Women's and Gender Studies in Europe. It is a programme of excellence supported by the European Commission, which has selected it as an Erasmus Mundus Master Course three consecutive times (in 2006, 2011 and 2017) and distinguished from an average of 150 project proposals submitted annually as "a (...) project and model in the field of Women´s Studies and Gender Studies in a European and global perspective".
GEMMA is unique in the way it brings together approaches to feminism from all cardinal points in Europe. Created as a result of the concerted efforts of several universities working together within the ATHENA network, the GEMMA Consortium represents the harmonization of eight different institutions from six European countries: University of Granada (coordinator), University of Bologna, Central European University (Budapest), University of Hull, University of York, University of Lódź, University of Oviedo and University of Utrecht. GEMMA is thus the fine tuning of North European, South European and Central European higher education institutions where Women's and Gender studies is one of the main elements of their postgraduate offer.
At the end of their studies, GEMMA students obtain a double degree, issued by the two institutions where they have conducted their studies. The official languages used at the partner universities are Spanish, English and Italian. > See available mobility routes here.
IMPORTANT NOTICE: The second Call for applications for SELF-FINANCED STUDENTS is already available and will remain open until next 15th of May 2019, 5 p.m. (Granada local time).
The GEMMA Consortium energetically condemns the overt attacks against Gender Studies Programs in Hungary. We share CEU's astonishment concerning to discontinue MA degree gender studies education in Hungary, without any justification or antecedent.
Once again, the GEMMA Master is in the first place in the ranking published by the Spanish journal El Mundo, having been considered by the European Commission as the "master of reference in Women and Gender Studies both in Europe and globally".