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People tend to always ask me: 'Why Club Brugge?' A pretty obvious question actually for a Club Brugge fan who lives in the province of Antwerpen.
I think it's the same for many fans, you need to go back to your childhood. For me it started when I was 9 years old. At first I did grow an interest for the colors. When I saw the weekly football reports on television, suddenly I saw a team with blue and black stripes, which immediately caught my attention. The vintage Assubel logo on the chest did the rest, what an amazing shirt I was thinking.
After that you start to follow that team with the great shirts a bit more, so I discovered they didn't always play with the black and blue stripes but sometimes also with all blue shirts and black shorts, which was also pretty appealing to me.
You start to learn who the players are and that's the next step in the process. You start identifying yourself with certain players. I always had a weak spot for strikers, so for me the powerfull partnership Frank Farina-Foeke Booy did the trick, supported by local giants like Ceulemans, Borkelmans, Beyens, Van der Elst etc.
But to become a real fan you should taste the atmosphere of the stadium of course, which I hadn't until then. But hey..I was only 9 years old and living more than 100 kms from Brugge. Luckily enough I had some supportive parents, who –unless their busy schedule – allowed me the chance to see my hero's from television live in the Olympia Stadium. I still remember it was a sunny afternoon when we played Lierse at home. We won 2-0 and the atmosphere was just impressive for a little boy like me. As a small kid you tend to support the team who is winning championships and cups, but after that afternoon against Lierse I was sure, Club Brugge it would be.
That feeling only grew stronger after I started learning and reading about the culture and the history of the Club. A history with a lot of glory and passion. Big moments which I have never experienced because I simply wasn't born yet, but even then these moments should be cherished by every Club Brugge fan.
Since then I kept on visiting the Olympia Stadium, now called Jan Breydel Stadium, for already more than twenty years. I celebrated titles and cups, saw big European teams be eliminated in Brugge. Of course there were also moments the results didn't come that easily but such moments only made me enjoy the big triumphs even more.
Like every fan and collector I was buying the new replica every year during my youth. At that time I didn't even realize there was a big market in player shirts. I thought you had to be very lucky to receive some directly form a player. A few years ago however, I was browsing the internet and suddenly my eye fell on a match worn Club Brugge shirt, worn by Norwegian striker Rune Lange. I decided to buy it. A couple of months later I already had a few of these so called match worn shirts. I think that must be the point in time that I decided to try to collect them all.
Now a few years further I decided to share my collection through the internet so I started building this website, which is meant as a tribute to the most beautiful club on earth, it's glorious history and these amazing blue and black stripes.
I want to grab this opportunity to say thanks to all people I have been trading shirts with through the years, especially some big collectors like Geert and Nicholas who helped me a lot with some amazing shirts. A special thanks also to Gijs who has been very helpful with the website. I also want to thank my parents who have always been very supportive regarding my football madness even though it must have turned them crazy more than once in the past.
Last but not least I want to thank my lovely wife, An, who gives me beside all the love and care in the world also the time and space to exploit this fantastic hobby.


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Q: Best data structure to implement a voting system I need to design a voting system on a high level that associates voters with their decision in sorted order by name.
I understand that I should implement a sorted map, and it seems like we need a map that performs best with random insertions. So I was wondering which of the above data structures would work best.

A: If you are sorting the objects based purely by name, I would say that a Binary Search Tree would work well.
If you are particularly worried about search time complexity, you can implement a balanced tree, such as an AVL tree or a splay tree. Doing this would get your search time complexity towards logarithmic, which is what you're after!

A: A heap or a BST. Trie linked list and array would have a higher search complexity.

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My Life in Books: A Meditation on the Writer's Library
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James P. Blaylock
The Literary Life
A writer's library is more than just a collection of books. It is also a piecemeal biography of that writer's life, and measurably so, as most writers have spent countless hours reading the books that they own or have borrowed, hours that add up to years, perhaps decades, given a long-enough life. My library, accumulated over the past sixty years, makes perfect sense to me: It is a living illustration of my life, which may or may not have to do with killing time, literary value, collectability, books as attractive objects, information, and nostalgia. It has served as a barrier against the howling chaos that complicates the world. It has no apparent rhyme or reason: a labyrinth of eccentricities. Its monetary value is literally incalculable, since it's essentially a storehouse of memories that are worth a fortune to me, and yet it's true that the vast majority of the books in my collection were bought cheap from used bookstores. No two writers' libraries are alike, and it's interesting what you can discover about a writer's life simply by looking at the books the writer has elected to keep on hand.
The author's book-filled study. "My favorite books are kept in my study, under the stairs in my house," he writes. (Credit: Danny Blaylock)
Not long ago I was reading a collection of essays by Hilaire Belloc titled One Thing and Another, and, as is sometimes the case when I read other people's essays, I got the idea of writing this one. The "idea," such as it was, had nothing to do with the subject matter of any of the forty essays contained in Belloc's book; what struck me was that the pages smelled as if they had been soaked in gasoline. I remembered abruptly that it had smelled that way when I'd bought it, and although it has sat on the shelf in my study for twenty years, waiting to be read, the odor hasn't diminished. It could be fatal to light a match anywhere near it.
This olfactory discovery sent me off in a nostalgic search for my copy of Philip K. Dick's Dr. Bloodmoney, which Phil gave to me in 1975. My wife, Viki, and I took off on a road trip a few days later in our old Volkswagen Bug, and I brought the book along. It mysteriously disappeared early one rainy morning in central Canada, and I didn't find it again until a year later, after the car's battery died. The VW's battery was under the back seat, and when I pulled out the seat to get at the battery, there was Dr. Bloodmoney, its cover partly eaten by battery acid. I was monumentally happy to find it. The book is inscribed to "Jim Blaylock, a hell of a neat dude," the only existing written evidence of that allegation.
Looking at the book again called to my mind elements of the wild storm that our cotton tent weathered on a hilltop between Winnipeg and Regina on that long-ago road trip and the landscape along Lake Superior and down into Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin. Viki and I took turns reading The Wind in the Willows aloud while the other one drove—the 1960 Scribner edition with maps on the end pages and both color and black-and-white illustrations by Ernest H. Shepard. I've reread it two or three times since. The bookmark advertising the bookstore where we'd bought it still lies safely inside: Austen Books, 1687 Haight Street, San Francisco. It's one of the thousands of quirky bookstores that have vanished over the past decades, leaving no traces aside from dwindling human memories and paper bookmarks.
A canny reader might point out that I'm confusedly considering books as objects while failing to consider the contents, and of course I am, except that there's no actual confusion involved. Unless books are read in various translations, the contents are pretty much the same for every reader, and an e-book will serve the purpose as well as paper and ink. As is true of angels, ten thousand e-books can dance on the head of a pin, which some readers see as an advantage. But that's the only angelic thing about invisible books. Even en masse, e-books cannot add up to a library. An e-copy of a book cannot smell of gasoline or be disfigured by battery acid and so is inarguably imaginary and not a proper book at all. An e-reader crammed with such "books" is merely a bucket of electrons, and it's a little-known fact that if you shake your e-reader too hard, the words will simply collapse into heaps of letters. A cardboard bookmark has more substance.
Back in the 1970s I took to buying two copies of every "important" book that I could get my hands on—literary novels and collections of essays and stories and poems; that is to say, books likely to be recommended by university literature professors notorious for insisting that their students think. I was a political creature in those days and worried that the Forces of Ignorance would someday see fit to burn books in the street. It seemed sensible that I should squirrel away my hardcover books in the crawl space beneath the house. I'd keep my paperback reading copies of the same books in plain view on the shelf. When the dreaded day came, I'd hand over hundreds of visible books, weeping convincingly and promising to propagate stupidity rather than a library. My plan hit the reef, however, when it dawned on me that I'd be able to own only 50 percent as many books as I might own otherwise, and so my political motivation collapsed under the weight of book greed. I sent ten crates of the second copies to the Palisade High School library in Colorado, where my cousin Tom was teaching. That opened up shelf space in my own library, thereby creating a vacuum that immediately began to fill with more books.
I'll admit that I didn't mention this notion of storing books beneath the floorboards to Viki, who might have considered the idea peculiar. Throughout our marriage she has cheerfully abided by a nonaggression pact concerning my books. She's an inveterate reader herself, but she sometimes wonders how many thousands of books a person needs. "O, reason not the need," I tell her, quoting King Lear's plea to his daughter Regan a short while before he goes stark staring mad. It's true that there's a faint line between the bibliophile, who treasures books for rational reasons—for their monetary value or literary value, say—and the bibliomaniac, a bibliophile who, as P. G. Wodehouse put it, has gone off his chump.
A number of people over the years have asked whether I've "read all those books," when they cast their eyes on my library. To my mind that's a little like asking salt-and-pepper shaker collectors whether they've filled their eight hundred shakers with salt and pepper. I answer the question by pointing out that I'm not dead yet, which is factual but not altogether truthful in what it implies. I have no intention of reading all my books, although I might tackle any one of them tomorrow. In fact I tackled one today, Robert Graves's autobiography Goodbye to All That, which I first read in 1976. It turns out that it's even better than I remembered, although it's possible that, as C. S. Lewis wrote, "being now able to put more in, of course I get more out." It's true that rereading further reduces the chance that I'll read the rest of the books in my library. If one is simply trying to get through a shelf of books as if eating one's way through a loaf of bread before it molds, the backward step of rereading brings about a variety of Zeno's paradoxes.
In any event I thought I would read all my books back when I bought them. Some I've insisted I would read, although it turns out that the more insistent I become, the less likely I'll actually do so. Every summer I decide to reread The Pickwick Papers, and I make it about halfway through before the summer ends. I've taken to bookmarking the best chapters and rereading those, which compounds the problem, because I never really get anywhere, and yet I'm satisfied with the result. And every decade or so I decide to tackle the single-volume collection of Thomas Mann's Joseph and His Brothers, a twelve-thousand-page rat whacker. I admit that I've failed. It turns out, alas, that I get lazier with age, and recently I made a firm decision to save the Joseph quartet for deathbed reading, simply for the fun of keeping the grim reaper fidgeting in a bedside chair, picking his teeth with his scythe while the reading drags on. Like Charles II, I'd apologize to him for taking an "unconscionable time a-dying."
In the 1970s and early 1980s I used to make regular runs into Long Beach, California, with Tim Powers, friend and fellow writer, to spend a couple of hours wading through the stacks at Bertrand Smith's Acres of Books, which allegedly held well over a million volumes. It was impossible to find any particular book, but finding a book that you suddenly had to own was inevitable. On one trip I stumbled happily upon a signed copy of the Collected Poems of Alfred Noyes for fifteen dollars. That one emptied my wallet, which was fairly thin back then. Neither of us had much money—ten bucks, say, maybe five—but that would often score us a paper shopping bag full of books. We'd temper our spending to have a few bucks left for a beer and sausage sandwich at Joe Jost's, our favorite bar.
I was a fan of William Gerhardie's novels in those days and still am. Gerhardie was proclaimed a genius by H. G. Wells, Evelyn Waugh, and Vladimir Nabokov, among other luminaries. His star was at its zenith in the 1920s. After World War II, however, his books became "unfashionable" (the bane of writers), and he died in obscurity. At Acres of Books I paid two dollars for a copy of Gerhardie's Pending Heaven, inscribed "To Madeline, New York, 1930." I wonder sometimes what happened to Madeline. Did she value this copy of Pending Heaven as much as I do and keep it on the shelf until she died, or did she sell it when Gerhardie's signature was still worth something? How did the book find its way to Long Beach? Why the cheap two-dollar price for a signed first American edition of the book? Are all books destined to go out of fashion?
If I had to run from a fire carrying only ten books, my signed copy of Pending Heaven would be among them, although I can't begin to justify saying so: mere sentiment, nostalgia, nuttiness. It's entirely likely that whoever has to shovel my books into trash bins after my death will not give the book a second glance, or a first glance for that matter, and it'll go the way of all flesh, taking a remnant of Madeline (and me) along with it.
It was at Acres of Books that I bought my first book published with uncut pages. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when such books were popular, readers needed a knife to cut open the pages as they read, which is an adventurous idea. The trendiest knives were often dull, letter openers or butter knives that would leave a particularly ragged edge as if the book were made of handmade paper. In Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, Jay Gatsby owns a library full of uncut books, very elegant, mint-condition volumes that had obviously not been read. Students of literature have remarked on this tirelessly since the book was published—that Gatsby wanted to appear elegantly bookish although in fact he had no interest in reading. The alternative view is that Gatsby was a canny collector who didn't want to spoil his books by taking a knife to them. That poses an interesting question: If one purchased Gatsby's library, would one prefer the valuable, uncut, mint-condition books or the cut-open, well-read books with Gatsby's greasy fingerprints all over the pages?
If I had the choice of buying an old, cut book as a reading copy or a newer, smooth-edged volume, I'd buy the cut book every time. I like the look of them and the smell of the old, dusty paper, which has a texture to it. Often they're illustrated, which adds to their charm. The translation of Balzac's The Thirteen that I own, published in 1899, has cut pages that are admirably ragged, as if the reader had haggled them apart with a rusty pruning saw. The book reads especially well. It was an Acres of Books bargain at 95 cents. I was a sucker for the central notion of the book: a secret society made up of thirteen rich and powerful men who controlled the workings of France in the early nineteenth century. In the years that followed my first reading of the book, I used The Thirteen as the working title for three different novels. In the back of my mind hovered the notion that if my anticipated plot failed, I could shoehorn a thirteen-member secret society into the book to jazz it up.
In another of my books the pages are cut until page 49, where the reader had apparently run out of patience and made a critical statement about the book simply by putting down the knife. My all-around favorite is a volume given by my great-aunt Esther to my uncle Paul when he was a boy—the 1926 Scribner edition of Kidnapped, illustrated by N. C. Wyeth. The book was passed down to my cousin Tom when he was a boy and then on to me. All the pages are cut except the final two, which are blank, something I could ascertain only by pulling them carefully away from each other and peering into the mysterious, eye-shaped void between. Why hadn't Uncle Paul simply slit them apart, if only to finish the job? Why not make that final cut? I'm tempted to believe it was some variety of superstition, which prevents me from picking up a knife and cutting open the pages myself.
My favorite books are kept in my study, under the stairs in my house. I'm looking at them now. There's a copy of Between Pacific Tides by Ed Ricketts and Jack Calvin, the 1962 edition revised by Joel Hedgpeth, whose last name I gave to two different characters in two different books. In my youth I kept aquariums and badly wanted to be a marine biologist and spend my life poking around in tide pools. Every creature that has ever crawled or walked or swum in a tide pool or lived in near-shore waters along the California coast is pictured in Between Pacific Tides. The foreword was written by John Steinbeck, my first "favorite writer" out of what has become scores of favorites, just as I have scores of favorite books, including Steinbeck's Cannery Row. Ed Ricketts puts in an appearance as Doc, the owner of Western Biological Laboratories, the inspiration for which still stands in Monterey. The original building, where Ricketts worked and later lived, burned in a cannery fire in 1936, only a short time after the manuscript of Between Pacific Tides had fortuitously been sent to Stanford University for publication.
I first read Cannery Row when I was twelve or thirteen years old, and I can still remember how the place looked in the old days, before Monterey was modernized. I came close to buying the mummy of an "Indian princess" in a junk store on Cannery Row in 1972. The colorful, old cannery buildings were being knocked down and hauled away, and I was on a sentimental journey, looking for the ghosts of Doc and Ed Ricketts. They still haunted the place, although what passes for progress has very nearly obliterated them in the years since.
The thing about books, of course, is that the stories they contain are not ghosts but rather living things, which is a comfort for both the reader and the writer in me. There's some small chance that fifty years from now someone will happen across a dusty copy of one of my own long-out-of-print books in their grandfather's library and will read it on a whim. I'll be a mere memory by then, and a fading memory at that, but the characters in my books will still be walking and talking, trying to make their way in the sometimes perilous world of the novel, which, all those years ago, was my world, at least as it existed in my imagination.
Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy rests on a set of shelves built into my study in what was once a window. I read the book for the second time in Ireland, sitting in front of a peat fire while Viki and our two traveling companions, Bill and Beth, were out driving around the Irish countryside. I stayed behind because I had eaten some dubious ground beef the night before, a bad idea from the point of view of my stomach, but what might be called a fortunate mistake. I can still smell the peat fire in my memory, and I fondly recall rereading particularly good paragraphs, with nothing to interrupt the solitude but my own occasional laughter and the bleating of goats cropping grass on the lawn.
There's an old copy of The Return of Sherlock Holmes in that same window bookcase, published in 1905, one of the very first books I borrowed from my mother's library. She was eager to aid and abet my reading habit, and when she saw that I was roaming the house looking for likely books, she decided to take my sister and me to the local library every other Tuesday afternoon. "Perhaps you'd like this book by Jules Verne," she said to me on the first trip, and I came home with Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, which turned out to be a gateway book. It opened my eyes and my mind to what a story could do—what it could teach you, where it could take you—and I was, as they say, hooked.
Later in life I tried to return the favor. When I was in college in the late 1960s, my mother was bedridden for a few weeks, and I supplied her with books out of my own library. She was particularly fond of Lawrence Durrell's The Alexandria Quartet but not at all fond of his novel The Black Box, although she read it anyway. She was reading through Agatha Christie at the time, and so I gave her two or three Raymond Chandler novels, but she preferred the more cheerful streets of golden-age detective mysteries to the mean streets of Chandler's mid-century Los Angeles. I could recall being quite happy when she'd given me Ivanhoe to read all those years earlier but not being half as happy with Mrs. Astor's Horse. I remember all the books she gave me to read, whether I understood them or not, and I remember those sunny spring days years later when I'd get home from school and knock on her door to get a report on the day's reading.
On the east wall of my study there are shelves built between the studs, and there sits the twenty-volume set of Scottish author and anthropologist James George Frazer's The Golden Bough. I inherited the set from my bookseller pal Roy Squires after he died in 1988. Frazer's interpretation of the nature of myth is another thing that has gone out of fashion, but his books contain thousands of strange entries of interest to a certain sort of writer: "The Sky Considered as a Heavenly Cow," for instance, or, more in keeping with my own sensibilities,"The Sanctity of the Threshold."
Squires's friends, including me, divvied up a number of his books one evening, a sort of impromptu wake that included opening a bottle or two of Laphroaig. Roy had stockpiled a half dozen of the old clear-glass bottles of the Scotch preceding the infamous Laphroaig drought in the 1980s. It seems to me that the whiskey was subtly diminished when it reappeared in the world in its now-familiar green-glass bottle, but it's equally likely that the world itself had diminished with Roy's death. I've still got those books, though, and I think of Roy every time I pull one down from the shelf.
And now I'm nearly at the end of this story, this short look at one writer's life in books. The long version, much like my library itself, isn't to be countenanced, to use the old phrase. Opening that Gasoline Edition of the Belloc essays didn't just kindle this meditation of mine but sparked a greater discovery: that virtually every book I've kept close at hand conjures up a story to accompany it.
Here's one more for the road: Two linear feet away from The Golden Bough sits the thirteen-volume Works of John Ruskin, the Sidney Library Edition, illustrated throughout and published in a quarter-leather binding in the late 1800s. Viki gave me the set as a Christmas present sometime in the 1980s, when I was keen on reading all of Ruskin but ultimately failed to do so. I opened him up a month ago, however, and read a lecture in which he lambastes the people of Edinburgh for having too few Gothic windows in their buildings. I'm fond of the man's arcane passions—the world badly needs arcane passions, which in today's digital age some might argue would include a library—and I might tackle Ruskin again when I retire. But perhaps even more than their contents, I'm particularly fond of the books themselves, and the memory of the Christmas morning when I found them wrapped in a bow under the tree.
James P. Blaylock, one of the pioneers of the steampunk genre, is the author of more than twenty-five books, most recently the novel River's Edge and the novella collection The Further Adventures of Langdon St. Ives, both published by Subterranean Press. Blaylock has taught literature and writing since 1976 and was a recent winner of the U.S. Presidential Scholars Program Teacher Recognition Award. He teaches writing at Chapman University in Orange, California.
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Career Interests: Dr. Moore plans for a career that combines policy analysis, health services research, health system innovation, and clinical care. In particular, she hopes to pursue health system redesign, informatics initiatives, and social services/housing partnerships that improve access to mental health care while minimizing provider burnout.
Research Interests: Dr. Moore is interested in studying the impact of primary care interventions and informatics tools on access to mental health care. She is also interested in investigating health care delivery for people who are homeless and who suffer from mental illness and/or substance use disorders.
Dr. Carlos Irwin Oronce is an internal medicine resident at the University of Rochester Medical Center. He completed his undergraduate degree in Biochemistry with a minor in Asian Pacific American Studies at the University of Virginia. Afterwards, Carlos was an AmeriCorps volunteer at a Philadelphia community health center. He went on to receive his MD and MPH at Tulane University where he was a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha and Gold Humanism Honor Societies. During medical school, he was the recipient of the Jules B. Puschett, MD Award for Professionalism and Dedication to Patients and the MD/MPH Award for Student Excellence. As a resident, Carlos helped develop an interdisciplinary health equity and disparities curriculum for trainees. He has previously worked at the Center for Health Systems Research at Denver Health, where he studied primary care redesign and neighborhood variation in depression.
Career Interests: Dr. Oronce is interested in understanding the effects of health reform and payment policy on marginalized communities and safety net health systems. He is specifically interested in alternative payment models in Medicaid, cross-sector partnerships addressing the social determinants of health, and the use of neighborhood-level data for population health improvement.
Research Interests: Dr. Oronce plans to pursue a career at the intersection of academic medicine, health services research, and health policy. His long-term goal is to partner with communities in the design and implementation of health care interventions, payment policy, and quality measurement programs to address health disparities.
Dr. Jacob Quinton is a primary care internist and graduate of the Yale Primary Care (Internal Medicine) program which he graduated with a distinction in Quality Improvement and Physician Leadership and led the Yale New Haven Hospital Resident and Fellow Senate Advocacy Council, serving as it's founding chair and senior chair. He grew up in rural Washington state, playing basketball and learning the nuances of dry land farming before atttending Gonzaga University, graduating with a BA in Chemistry. He staffed a Catholic Charities low-impact drop-in shelter for 1 year after graduation as an Americorps volunteer, then served as a Teach For America Corps member in New Orleans for two years before attending Louisiana State University Health Science Center - New Orleans for medical school, and Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine for a Masters in Public Health. During medical school he was an Albert Schweitzer Fellow and his fellowship project founded the New Orleans Adolescent Reproductive Health Partnership (NOARHP), teaching evidence based reproductive health education to his former students. He also founded the New Orleans Student Hotspotting program and served on Louisiana's American Medical Association (AMA) delegation. In residency, he's participated in the American College of Physicians (ACP) Council of Residents and Fellows (CRFM) and will serve next year as chair-elect, and chair the year following, as well as beginning a 3 year term as part of the ACP AMA delegation.
Career Interests: He plans a career as a primary care internist, policy-maker, and health care administrator looking to bend the health care delivery system towards equity, efficiency, and value.
Research Interests: Dr. Quinton's research interests revolve around exploring the evolving field of high-needs high-cost care and the evaluation of the Medicaid demonstration projects in order to ensure dissemination of effective models of care. He also has interest in the Veteran's Health administration and focuses on the mortality risk indexes in use to optimize the resource allocation they determine.
Dr. Alisha Ranadive is a chief pediatric resident at UCLA Mattel Children's Hospital. She completed a BS in Biology at Brown University and an MD at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine. During medical training, Alisha was selected as a Chicago Area Schweitzer Fellow, leading her to complete a year-long service project at an elementary school in Chicago. In 2014, she was inducted to the Gold Humanism Honor Society as a 4th year medical student based on demonstrated excellence in clinical care, leadership, compassion and dedication to service. In addition, she was one of two graduating medical students in 2015 awarded the Urban Health Strongin Community Service Prize. During residency, Alisha volunteered with Seeds to Plate Nutrition Education Class at Mark Twain Elementary in Los Angeles, where she helped design and teach an original lesson on healthy eating and exercise for middle school students as part of an extracurricular nutrition program. She currently serves as the Chair of the Pediatric Resident Diversity Committee at UCLA. In addition, she was recently elected to to the North Westwood Neighborhood Council, where she serves as Chair of the Elections Committee.
Career Interests: Dr. Ranadive is interested in academic medicine and community pediatrics, with a focus on underserved populations. She hopes to work on projects that can inform policy and legislation to improve the delivery of pediatric care.
Research Interests: Dr. Ranadive is interested in investigating disparities in the identification and management of developmental delays and the ensuing impact on school readiness.
Dr. Hafifa Shabaik is a registered nurse with a background in community health, currently serving as Quality Measures Specialist RN and coordinator for the Medication-Assisted Treatment and Hepatitis C Treatment programs of an outpatient clinic aimed to address health disparities in underserved rural communities of Kumeyaay Indian Nation. Dr. Shabaik received her undergraduate degree in Community Health Education from California State University, Long Beach and entered the field of nursing through the Master of Science in Nursing program at Charles R. Drew University. Dr. Shabaik obtained her doctorate degree at the University of California, Los Angeles where she conducted her dissertation on exploring sociocultural factors to preventive health and cancer screening in resettled refugee women. This research was supported by the UCLA Cota V. Robles Fellowship and the T32 Fellowship in Vulnerable Populations Research.
Career Interests: Independent researcher in addressing the health disparities of minority populations; to increase the diversity of academic nurses from historically underrepresented backgrounds.
Research Interests: The social determinants of migrant and women's health, specifically the social and cultural contexts of vulnerable populations; examining resilience and the long-term health outcomes of resettled refugees; and population health interventions engaging "unseen patients" in accessing preventive health services.
Dr. Rivfka Shenoy is a general surgery resident at UCLA. She obtained her undergraduate degree from Washington University in St. Louis, graduating summa cum laude and as a member of Phi Beta Kappa with a major in Neuroscience (Biology Track). She earned her medical degree from New York University, as a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society. At NYU she helped form and contribute to a large GI Surgical Oncology collaborative, which has yielded progress in both adrenocortical carcinoma and cholangiocarcinoma research. Dr. Shenoy was born and raised in Portland, OR and has an interest in Indian dance forms and hiking.
Career Interests: Dr. Shenoy hopes to establish a career as an academic surgeon with focus on health-outcomes research. Clinically, she plans to pursue an expertise in pediatric surgery.
Research Interests: Her research interests include examining the use of narcotics used in the perioperative settings. Her goals are to understand how to decrease excess prescriptions through prescription standardization and patient and physician education. She hopes to gain a deeper perspective into the decision-making processes used for prescribing habits. She has been awarded the 2018 Gerald S Levey Surgical Award Grant for her proposed study.
Liza Buchbinder
Liza Buchbinder (VA/UCLA Scholar) is an internal medicine physician from Los Angeles, California. She went to Barnard College for undergraduate and majored in biology. After college, she went to Togo, West Africa, and did the Peace Corps for two years prior to starting medical school at UC Berkeley-UCSF Joint Medical Program. During medical training, she completed a PhD in medical anthropology from UC Berkeley and UCSF. Her dissertation focused on the limits of naming violence against adolescent domestic servants through the rights discourse on child trafficking and called for an alternative framework to address child labor exploitation in West Africa. She completed her internal medicine residence at UCLA Oliveview.
Career Interests: She plans a career as an academic internist and anthropologist within the field of social medicine, providing care to vulnerable and underserved populations, including a combination of ethnographic research, medical education, and advocacy.
Research Interests: Dr. Buchbinder's research interests include human trafficking within the United States and the disparate ways in which trafficking victims interface directly and indirectly with local hospitals, clinics, and the correctional health facilities. She is also interested in the greying California prison population and the experiences of released elderly prisoners as they navigate the safety net health system to manage chronic illnesses, as well as the ways in which compassionate release programs reflect on contemporary attitudes towards aging, criminality, and public safety.
Kristen Choi
Dr. Kristen Choi (Kaiser Scholar) is a registered nurse (RN) who obtained her Bachelor of Science and PhD degrees in nursing from the University of Michigan in an accelerated BS-PhD program. Her doctoral education was supported by a National Research Service Award (F31) from the Eunice K. Shriver National Institute for Child Health and Human Development at the National Institutes of Health and the Rita & Alex Hillman Foundation through the Hillman Scholars Program in Nursing Innovation. She studies trauma-informed service delivery, traumatic stress, and dissociative disorders among children who have experienced maltreatment, as well as other types of complex trauma and interpersonal violence. Dr. Choi has conducted quantitative and qualitative research studies in the US, Europe, and Africa on a variety of topics related to traumatic stress and service delivery for trauma survivors, including human trafficking, child abuse and neglect, and trauma-informed nursing care in perinatal settings. Her dissertation research project, "Service usage typologies among trauma-exposed children: The roles of PTSD and dissociation," was conducted at the National Center for Child Traumatic Stress at the Duke University School of Medicine. She used a national clinical dataset from the National Child Traumatic Stress Network to identify patterns of service utilization across healthcare, mental health, school, juvenile justice, and social service sectors and to investigate co-occurring PTSD and dissociation symptoms among trauma-exposed adolescents.
Career Interests: Dr. Choi hopes to improve service delivery systems for survivors of trauma and to reduce interpersonal violence in communities by developing a long-term program of action-oriented research and advocating for policy change.
Research Interests: Dr. Choi is interested in health services research, policy, and system interventions to address interpersonal violence, child maltreatment trauma, and trauma-related mental illness.
Molly Easterlin
Dr. Molly Easterlin (Cedars Sinai Health System Scholar) completed Pediatrics residency at the University of California, Los Angeles. She obtained her undergraduate degree from Cornell University, majoring in Biology and Society, and graduating summa cum laude and as a member of Phi Beta Kappa. While at Cornell she was also a 4-year member of the Cornell Women's Varsity Soccer team. She earned her medical degree from the University of California, San Diego, where she ran a subspecialty free clinic and conducted research examining age differences in surgical outcomes that was supported by the National Institute on Aging.
Career Interests: She plans to pursue a career dedicated to improving the quality of pediatric medical care and the efficiency of the medical system. She hopes to become an agent of change to improve health care for pediatric patients, to encourage change in individual behavior to promote health throughout life, and to improve the practice, provision, and efficiency of care at the system level.
Research Interests: Her research interests include social and behavioral determinants of life-long health, long-term health implications of early exposures to adverse circumstances and risk, as well as large scale clinical-outcomes research, quality of care, and healthcare systems research. As a Scholar, she would like to further understand adverse childhood experiences, how behaviors and activities established at young ages affect long-term health in adulthood, and how adverse social circumstances can be overcome.
Dr. David Johnson (VA/UCLA Scholar) is a urologic oncology fellow at UCLA who completed urology residency at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He received his bachelor's degree in economics at Duke University and his medical degree and master's in public health at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. While pursuing his MPH degree, Dr. Johnson established an ongoing research collaboration in Cuba to study ways to reduce the burden of prostate cancer mortality in a health system with limited resources. He also began work on innovative ways to improve the shared decision-making process for men with localized prostate cancer that he continued into residency. Dr. Johnson focused his research efforts during residency on studying quality and appropriateness of care, overtreatment and overdiagnosis, and surgical outcomes for patients with urologic malignancies. He was honored for his work during residency by receiving the UNC Lineberger Cancer Center's John William Pope Clinical Fellow Award recognizing outstanding work in clinical cancer research, the UNC Lineberger Cancer Outcomes Research Travel Award, and the British Journal of Urology International's Coffey-Krane Prize awarded to the urology trainee who contributed the best paper published in the journal in 2014-2015.
Career Interests: Dr. Johnson is interested in combining clinical care of patients with urologic malignancies with system-level redesign towards the "quadruple aim" of improving population health, controlling costs, enhancing the patient experience, and maximizing provider well-being.
Research Interests: As a Scholar, Dr. Johnson plans to continue working with physicians and public health officials in Cuba to implement and study population-level measures to reduce the mortality from prostate cancer. He is also interested in innovative delivery system redesign to better align patient values with treatment decisions and incentive high value, patient-centered care.
Shaw Natsui
Dr. Shaw Natsui (UCLA CTSI Scholar) is an emergency medicine physician with an interest in urban health. He trained at the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency Program at Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital. Dr. Natsui is a graduate of Harvard College, where he became deeply involved in local youth work and organizing in Boston, first through the Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA), a student-run, community-based, nonprofit public service organization. He served as President of PBHA, which consists of more than 80 programs, involving 1,500 volunteers and serving 10,000 people in Greater Boston. After graduation, he worked briefly for Physicians for Human Rights on a campaign to reform the juvenile justice system on individual state levels. Dr. Natsui then worked at a local Boston community health center to develop and run multiple programs focused on peer leadership, youth development and youth-led organizing, violence prevention, obesity and diabetes prevention, and mental health intervention.
With the support of the Harvard Trustman Fellowship, Dr. Natsui spent the following 1.5 years in Lima, Peru, working on various projects related to community development and HIV/tuberculosis. He earned his medical degree from the University of Michigan, and obtained a Master of Public Administration at the Harvard Kennedy School, where he focused on urban and social policy, as a Fellow at the Taubman Center for State and Local Government. Dr. Natsui has additionally worked as a public health researcher in the Dominican Republic and as a clinician educator in Peru and Haiti.
During residency, his research focused on acute stroke care for non-English-preferring patients, predictive analytics and machine learning approaches to improving diagnosis, and the ED patient experience. He also helped organize a series of collaborative efforts to improve the ED care for vulnerable patients, particularly the homeless.
Career Interests: Dr. Natsui is interested in improving the quality of acute care delivery and access to care for vulnerable populations. He plans to focus on the implementation science of leveraging health services research to inform and lead multidisciplinary interventions and policies on the local, state, and national levels.
Research Interests: Dr. Natsui is interested in urban health, systems of care delivery, data science including predictive analytics and machine learning, and complex policy analysis.
Altaf Saadi
Dr. Altaf Saadi (LAC DHS Scholar) is a neurology Chief Resident at the Partners Neurology Residency Program at Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women's Hospital. She graduated cum laude from Harvard Medical School, where she completed a thesis about preventive health practices among refugee women at a local Boston community health center. Her community involvements included leading a student group providing social services to refugee families and serving as a counselor for the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center. In recognition of her work, she received the Harvard Medical School Dean's Community Service Award.
In residency, her interest in health equity has led her to work in resource-limited settings in Zambia, Tanzania, the Navajo Nation, and locally at the Boston Healthcare for the Homeless. Her passion for enhancing diversity in medicine led to important changes in her residency program, such as the creation of a diversity and inclusion certificate program and increased didactics on neurologic health disparities. Because of her leadership and community involvement, she was selected to participate in the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) Palatucci Advocacy Leadership Forum and the Enhanced Residency Leadership Program at the AAN annual conference.
She received her undergraduate degree from Yale College, where she double majored in psychology and international studies. She received the Nakanishi Prize for enhancing race relations and the David Everett Chantler Award for high moral character and purpose.
Career Interests: Dr. Saadi believes in promoting social justice through equity in health care, and hopes to become a leader-advocate for marginalized communities in the United States and abroad, by combining her interests in health disparities, health services research, and implementation science. She is also interested in promoting diversity in medicine.
Research Interests: Dr. Saadi is interested in health services research that identifies and addresses challenges faced by low-income, minority, immigrant, refugee, and limited English proficient patients in obtaining neurological care. She hopes to translate clinical research into improved public health and healthcare delivery on the local, state, and national levels.
Sae Takada
Dr. Sae Takada (VA/UCLA Scholar) is an aspiring HIV primary care physician and researcher. She graduated from Harvard University with a bachelor's degree in biochemical sciences, where she directed a student-run homeless shelter. Seeing the connection between urban poverty in the US and poverty abroad, she pursued a master's degree in global health policy at the University of Tokyo, where she collaborated with the Laotian Ministry of Health in evaluating the implementation of a child health training program. Inspired to become a provider while pursuing research, she then obtained a combined MD-PhD degree at Harvard University. Her doctoral research focused on social networks and health-related stigma, with projects examining the impact of social ties on HIV stigma in agrarian Ugandan villages. She also served as teaching fellow for undergraduate courses in global health and medical sociology, for which she won teaching awards.
Career Interests: Sae plans to become a primary care physician specializing in the care of HIV-positive patients, while generating knowledge and designing interventions on community factors that influence health beliefs and behaviors.
Research Interests: Sae is interested in examining how health beliefs and behaviors are propagated through interpersonal relationships. She plans to use her interdisciplinary training to integrate quantitative methods with anthropological and historical perspectives to generate a complex understanding of social relationships and health. She ultimately hopes to understand how to leverage these social relationships to make communities healthier.
Tarak Trivedi
Dr. Tarak Trivedi (VA/UCLA Scholar) is an emergency medicine physician and researcher with a background in public health and epidemiology. He graduated summa cum laude from Wayne State University with an undergraduate degree in biology, followed by a medical school degree from the University of Chicago as a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Society. During medical school, Dr. Trivedi was a research fellow in applied epidemiology at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, focusing on the global and domestic burden of viral gastroenteritis. After medical school, he completed his residency training in emergency medicine at Highland Hospital, the safety-net hospital in Oakland, California. As a doctor in a high volume urban emergency department, he witnessed the acute and chronic health consequences of underlying social issues. He believes that by bringing more attention to these issues through research and data analysis, more accountability can be brought to the public and private agents capable of instituting change.
Career Interests: Dr. Trivedi is interested in a career in academic emergency medicine that combines the clinical care of socially disadvantaged patients with research and policy work that will give agency to emergency department providers to improve the lives of their most vulnerable patients.
Research Interests: Dr. Trivedi has a keen interest in better understanding and alleviating pressing problems faced by emergency room patients, such as interpersonal violence, substance abuse and addiction, and the severe societal deficit of acute psychiatric care in the United States. As a scholar, Dr. Trivedi plans to focus his research on these problems by studying the social epidemiology of emergency psychiatric evaluations, more commonly known as "involuntary holds."
Etsemaye Agonafer
Etsemaye Agonafer, (UCLA NRSA/DOM Scholar) is the Chief Resident of Quality Improvement and Patient Safety at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. She obtained her undergraduate degree in biology from the University of Southern California and a Masters of Public Health from the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. She is a graduate of the David Geffen School of Medicine/Charles Drew University PRIME Program, where she was recognized with several awards, including the Dr. Charles R. Drew Award, Edith and Carol Lasky Memorial Award for Outstanding Research, and the Kaiser Permanente Oliver Goldsmith MD Award for the promotion and advancement of culturally responsive care. She received first place for her CDU/UCLA Medical Student Research Thesis, "Case Study: A Qualitative Analysis of the Rise and Fall of Martin Luther King-Drew Medical Center (KDMC)."
Career Interests: Dr. Agonafer is interested in healthcare delivery design and its impact on diverse disadvantaged populations, innovation that incorporates social determinants of health, and quality improvement for underserved populations.
Research Interests: Dr. Agonafer would like to research the impact of health care delivery systems on underserved communities' health outcomes and patients' perception of quality of care, and innovative care models to develop tools to guide the improvement of the delivery of their care.
Ish Bhalla
Ish Bhalla (Cedars Sinai Health System Scholar) is a Forensic Psychiatry Fellow at Yale. He obtained his undergraduate degree in Business Management from Case Western Reserve University and his medical school training at the University of Toledo College of Medicine. Prior to medical school, he worked in the management consulting industry at Accenture. At Yale, he has served on the Yale New Haven Hospital Graduate Medical Education Committee and led the Interprofessional Longitudinal Clinical Experience for first year medical students, for which he received the Yale University Department of Psychiatry Resident Teaching Award.
Career Interests: Dr. Bhalla is interested in psychiatric services, forensic psychiatry, and substance use disorders. He has focused on improving upon the way complex systems work, as well as understanding the framework that guides psychiatric clinical decision-making.
Research Interests: As a scholar, he would like to continue to explore the intricacies of the legal system as they pertain to patients with serious mental illness and to apply his previous experiences in business to healthcare to think broadly about the allocation of resources for patients with psychiatric problems.
Tiffany Kenison
Tiffany Kenison (VA/UCLA Scholar) is an internal medicine resident at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. She received her medical degree from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, an MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health, and a Master of Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School. Dr. Kenison has worked in the Bureau of HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control at the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, and as a leader for HIV/AIDS policy advocacy with the American Medical Student Association. She also previously served as a graduate researcher at the Disparities Solutions Center at Massachusetts General Hospital, as well as an Editorial Assistant with the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African & African American Research and Harvard University.
Career Interests: Dr. Kenison is interested in a career in health policy, where she can conduct research as well as implement systems and policy-based change geared towards decreasing health disparities for diverse populations.
Research Interests: Dr. Kenison is interested in health policy, health disparities, and access to care. Her research has focused on medical education and delivering care to patients with limited English proficiency. As a Scholar, she will pursue research on social determinants of health for individuals with chronic diseases.
Charles Liu
Charles Liu, (VA/UCLA Scholar) is a general surgery resident at Stanford. He obtained his undergraduate degree in molecular and cellular biology from Harvard University and his medical degree from Harvard Medical School. In medical school, he spent a year working for the Harvard Program in Global Surgery and Social Change in Mbarara, Uganda, where he expanded a surgical outcomes database at Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital. He has received several recognitions for his work, including the 2016 Richard C. Cabot Prize for outstanding scholarly research and the 2015 Harvard Surgery Programs American College of Surgeons Medical Student Scholarship.
Career Interests: Dr. Liu hopes to establish a career in policy-relevant research, such as evaluating the impact of health insurance expansion and hospital consolidation on surgical outcomes and disparities. Clinically, his interested are in trauma and emergency general surgery as well as colorectal surgery.
Research Interests: As a Scholar, Dr. Liu he would like to explore the intersection of general surgery and health services research, with a focus on access to and outcomes of surgical care in underserved communities.
Alicia Morehead-Gee
Alicia Morehead-Gee (Charles R. Drew University Scholar) is an internal medicine resident at UCSF. She obtained her undergraduate degree in human biology from Stanford University and her medical degree from the Charles Drew University-UCLA Medical Education Program, where she was a member of the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society. While in medical school, she was awarded the CDU Dean's Award for Excellence and the CDU Medical Student Research Thesis Program Award for Excellence in Research. Dr. Morehead-Gee is currently working on a project to understand factors associated with persistence of pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) use among HIV negative patients in San Francisco Department of Public Health clinics.
Career Interests: Dr. Morehead-Gee is interested in health disparities in PrEP use, health disparities in HIV treatment, and the intersection of incarceration and health.
Research Interests: As a Scholar, Dr. Morehead-Gee is interested in examining the rates of PrEP use among at-risk populations to address issues impacting PrEP initiation and improve future prevention efforts within public health systems.
Antonio Moya (LAC DHS Scholar) is a neurology resident at the New York-Presbyterian Weill Cornell/Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. He obtained his undergraduate degree in neuroscience from UCLA, an MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health, and a medical degree from UCSF in the Program in Medical Education for Urban Underserved (PRIME-US). He was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship in the Philippines to work on a project called, "Fighting the Philippine Stroke Epidemic: Acute Stroke Units and Telemedicine in Manila." During medical school, he served as medical director for the UCSF Student-Run Clinic Mabuhay Center, and director of the UCSF Asian Pacific American Medical Student Association. At the 2016 Weill Cornell Neurology Resident Research Symposium, Dr. Moya won the award for best poster presentation.
Career Interests: Dr. Moya is interested in stroke prevention and treatment among underserved communities; telemedicine to facilitate neurology education, referrals, diagnostics, and treatment; and Asian Pacific Islander immigrant health disparities in neurology.
Research Interests: Dr. Moya is interested in using quantitative and qualitative research methods to understand disparities, in particular advocating for the disaggregation of data amongst Asian subgroups. He would also like to focus on how to leverage telemedicine as a multilingual platform to increase neurology care for immigrant, non-English speaking patients.
David Richards (UCLA CTSI Scholar) is a pediatrics resident at Ronald Reagan Medical Center, UCLA. He completed his undergraduate education at the University of Virginia at Charlottesville, a Masters of Art in Teaching from American University, and his medical degree from the University of Virginia School of Medicine. During his time in medical school, he was the winner of the Department of Pediatrics award for student research. He was also named the 2014 Jefferson Public Citizen Awardee, during which he was funded to mentor a group of undergraduate and nursing students to design, implement, and evaluate a community health worker training program in Limpopo, South Africa.
Career Interests: Dr. Richards is interested in a career in academic medicine, combining clinical practice, research, and teaching. As a pediatrician, he hopes to continue providing comprehensive care to individual children, while implementing projects that improve community health.
Research Interests: Dr. Richards' research interests include school-based health centers, climate change and health, and adverse childhood experiences related to housing, lived environment, and neighborhood characteristics.
Christopher Scannell
Christopher Scannell (VA/UCLA Scholar) is an internal medicine resident at UCLA. He earned a PhD in Integrative Biology of Disease and an MD from the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California. He previously served as Co-Director of the Health Care for All Campaign through the American Medical Student Association (AMSA), and as Director of the California Lobby Day campaign, advocating for the creation of a single-payer system in California. With AMSA, Dr. Scannell published a series of articles studying medical student attitudes towards advocacy-based training experiences, health insurance for the uninsured, and the passage of the Affordable Care Act.
Career Interests: Dr. Scannell is interested in pursuing a career in health care policy, with a focus on expansion of health insurance.
Research Interests: Dr. Scannell's research interests are Medicaid expansion, single payer healthcare systems, and emergency room utilization.
Patricia Soderlund
Patricia Soderlund (LAC DMH Scholar) is a post-doctoral fellow at the UCLA School of Nursing. She is a certified Adult Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner and received her BA in Psychology at the College of St. Benedict, and BS in Nursing at St. Catherine University in Minnesota. Dr. Soderlund expanded her focus in psychology by receiving a Master of Science in mental health nursing from the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), and then continued with her PhD in Nursing from MUSC. As a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner, Dr. Soderlund managed a mental health outreach program for seniors with unidentified mental health disorders, and worked in outpatient psychiatric clinics in both Orange and Los Angeles Counties.
Career Interests: Dr. Soderlund's career goal is to become a tenure-track professor engaged in research with underserved women of color in the U.S. who are at risk for comorbid physical and mental illness.
Research Interests: Dr. Soderlund's training has focused on the use of both quantitative and qualitative methodologies in research. Her interests are focused on the use of healthcare services and interventions for underserved individuals with comorbid health problems and chronic disease. She is particularly interested in implementing culturally appropriate transmedia storytelling interventions.
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With growing agility and flexibility on network access, businesses require open and digitally transformed smart platforms that aid in the rapid adoption of the mobile and smart office. It's about keeping up with the pace of technology or facing the reality of stagnating.
Yet, digitisation of the business makes IT infrastructures more complex and blurs the boundaries of the corporate perimeter. That poses a massive security risk to the business and the sensitive data it holds. And any cyber-cautious decision-maker knows that "open" networks mean business vulnerability, and that technology opens the doors to cyber-criminals.
Why is the business network at risk?
While businesses rush to keep up with rapid digital transformation demands, they often give little consideration to broader corporate security needs and the requirements of endpoint protection. The reality, however, is that endpoints have become the front door to business networks and information, and the business must find a way of securing the data stored on them.
The growing number of devices connected to a network is directly proportional to the growth of cybersecurity risks - due to the increase of uncontrolled endpoints. Business owners need to have sight and control of the potential risks relating to vulnerable endpoints and ensure the necessary is being done to avoid cyber-breaches.
However, endpoint protection is just the start of an effective security journey for endpoints. Given how cyber-criminal antics continuously evolve, aspects like patch management to eliminate security vulnerabilities and encryption – which can be used with all spectrums of endpoint protection tools, in any endpoint, including servers or end-user devices – also need to be considered.
This type of advanced cyber-security requires a company to adopt advanced cyber-security tools that automatically control and manage the security of its entire workplace fleet.
Tools such as robust antivirus solutions, systems management that can patch holes in applications, encryption tools to protect data, and mobile device management, for example, can go a long way in supporting a business's full security strategy for protecting endpoints.
However, they can also create complexity – due to multiple policy sets and systems required to manage each tool. And complexity is security's number-one enemy.
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The main classifications of oysters: Pacific and Atlantic. Each grouping is then further broken down to the very shore from which they are harvested.
Originally from Japan, the Pacific Oyster is the most widely cultured oyster in the world.A Pacific oyster as a creamier, mineral type of ocean taste, versus an Atlantic oyster where you can taste the saltiness of the ocean. Kumamoto is one example. This oyster has a buttery finish, it is one of the best sellers at the restaurant because it is considered a beginner's oyster due its small size and mild taste.
Oysters like Steamboats, Pearl Bay, Malaspina, Royal Myagi, each have a different finish from very creamy to metallic to just a hint of salt or nuts.
Malpeque, Caraquet, Blue Point, Pine Island, Pugwash. Each oyster has its own degree of salt. the Pine Island for example, has a fruity finish, and some prefer a Pemequid because of its almond finish.
Check out our list of oysters for more info!
Folklore says that oysters should be eaten only in months with "r's" in them — September, October, etc. At MaestroSVP we have been trying to educate people that oysters can be eaten 12 months a year. The notion that oysters should not be eaten in "r"-less months — that is, months that occur during warm weather — may have started in the days when oysters where shipped without adequate refrigeration and could spoil. But today all that has changed with modern conservation techniques, and we can enjoy oysters twelve months a year.
Champagne can be the perfect marriage, but a glass of Sancerre, a fantastic sauvignon blanc, is perfect with all shellfish, especially oysters. Also, a good bottle of Muscadet or a Riesling from Alsace which is bone dry and a suitable complement for oysters. You may also want a Chardonnay, whether Californian, French or Australian, but in particular one with the rich wood flavor of Napa or Australian wines. Remember that you are trying to marry the distinctive seaweed, salty and mineral tastes with which the wine will have to compete.
To make things more complicated, everyone experiences oysters differently. It's as if oysters challenge the palate, dancing sweetly at first, before splashing the tongue with a taste of the briny sea. For wine enthusiasts, this poses quite a challenge.
See also our WINE LIST.
Less known than the raw oysters, baked oysters can be prepared in so many variations. Don't be afraid to experiment.
Here's an idea: try a Malpèque oyster, add goat cheese and a port and raspberry sauce. Put under the broiler for 4 minutes. You'll be amazed by the taste. Try different cheeses, wine, vinegars, sauces, green vegetables such as spinach, shallots, and of course spices and herbs.


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Sexhow Park Farm
Sexhow Park Farm is situated close to the village of Hutton Rudby. It is therefore conveniently located in relation to the market towns of Stokesley and Northallerton. Middlesbrough and Darlington are within reasonable commuting distance. It is shown edged red on the attached plan.
The detached farmhouse comprises a substantial brick built property which has been rendered. It does require some refurbishment. The accommodation is spacious and has the benefit of oil fired central heating. It stands well with a rural outlook over open countryside and the Cleveland Hills. The property has a range of traditional features throughout including oak panelling and beams.
The property has the benefit of a substantial set of modern general purpose farm buildings and grassland extending to 17.51 acres (7.08 Ha) approximately.
The Farm Buildings (See Plan)
There is a good range of modern general-purpose farm buildings including former cattle yard, former poultry units, grain store and workshop. The buildings are currently used for storage.
Gardens and Grounds
Sexhow Park Farm has an Orchard established with a variety of fruit trees and a patio to the east side of the property. To the front of the property there is a garden which is mainly laid to lawn with mature trees and borders.
The land lies well in relation to the steading in a compact ring fence extending to 17.51 Acres approximately. It is divided up into paddocks which are laid down to grass. The land is classified as Grade 3 on the Agricultural Land Classification map for England and Wales. There is approximately 2.19 Ha (5.42 Acres) of woodland/rough grazing. This is located in the fields adjacent to Coul Beck.
Sexhow Park Farmhouse is subject to an Agricultural Occupancy Condition and a Section 106 Agreement.
The occupation of the dwelling shall be limited to a person solely or mainly employed, or last employed in the locality in agriculture as defined in Section 290(1) of the Town and Country Planning Act 1971, or in forestry (including any dependants of such a person residing with him), or a widow or widower of such a person.
Sexhow Park Farm is also subject to a Section 106 Agreement. The Section 106 Agreement requires the house to be occupied as a single dwelling house.
Large detached farmhouse
Subject to an agricultural occupancy condition
Range of general purpose farm buildings
Rural outlook
Grassland extending to 17.51 acres
Viewing by appointment


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MIXTURE OF KBR AND n-HEXANE EXTRACTS OF COSTUS SPECTABILIS LEAVES AS CORROSION INHIBITOR FOR ALUMINUM IN 1M HCL SOLUTION USING WEIGHT LOSS METHOD
The corrosion inhibition of n-hexane extracts of Costus spectabilis leaves in 1M hydrochloric acid solution was studied using weight loss method at 303K and 313K. The result obtained showed that Costus spectabilis leaves extract inhibited the corrosion of aluminum in a solution of HCl and KBr with maximum efficiency of 95.06% in 1.0 g/L at 313K. The result also reveals increase in temperature increases the corrosion rate and decreases inhibition efficiency, while increase in concentration of the inhibitor decreases corrosion and increases inhibition efficiency.
Keywords: Costus spectabilis leaves, Corrosion, Efficiency, Inhibition, Aluminum, Temperature.
Title page - - - - - - - - - - i
Cover page - - - - - - - - - - ii
Certification - - - - - - - - - - iii
Dedication - - - - - - - - - - iv
Acknowledgements - - - - - - - - - v
Abstract - - - - - - - - - - vi
Table of Contents - - - - - - - - - vii
List of Tables - - - - - - - - - viii
List of Figures - - - - - - - - - ix
CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION
1.1. Types of corrosion - - - - - - - - 1
1.1.1. Pitting corrosion - - - - - - - - 1
1.1.2. Auto corrosion - - - - - - - - 2
1.1.3. Externally induced corrosion - - - - - - 2
1.1.4. Crevice corrosion - - - - - - - - 2
1.1.5. High temperature corrosion - - - - - - 2
1.2. Causes of corrosion - - - - - - - 3
1.3. Corrosion materials - - - - - - - 3
1.4. Methods of combating corrosion - - - - - 3
1.4.1. Corrosion media - - - - - - - - 3
1.5. Preventive measures - - - - - - - 4
1.6. Corrosion inhibitors - - - - - - - 4
1.7. Costus spectabilis - - - - - - - 5
1.8. Aim and objectives of the project - - - - - - 7
CHAPTER TWO: LITERATURE REVIEW
CHAPTER THREE: MATERIALS AND METHOD
3.1. Collection of materials - - - - - - - - 13
3.1.1. Aluminum sheet - - - - - - - - 13
3.1.2. Reagents - - - - - - - - - 13
3.2. Equipment - - - - - - - - - 13
3.3. Preparation of Costus spectabilis leaves extract. - - - - 14
3.4. Weight loss method - - - - - - - - 14
3.4.1. Corrosion rate - - - - - - - - - 15
3.4.2. Inhibition efficiency - - - - - - - - 15
3.5. Preparation of 1M HCl solution - - - - - - 15
CHAPTER FOUR: RESULTS AND DISCUSSION
4.1. Corrosion of aluminum in 1M HCl solution containing Costus spectabilis
extract and KBr at 303K.-------17
4.2. Corrosion of aluminum in 1M HCl solution containing
Costus spectabilis extract and KBr at 313K-----18
4.3. Weight loss measurement, corrosion rates and inhibition efficiency - 21
CHAPTER FIVE: SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS
5.1. Summary - - - - - - - - - 22
5.2. Conclusion - - - - - - - - - 22
5.3. Recommendation - - - - - - - - 22
REFERENCES - - - - - - - - 23
Corrosion is one of the major problems in several technical installations involving metals and alloys Hence; prevention mechanism for corrosion of metals is of paramount importance to increase their lifespan especially those in aggressive environments. Corrosion of mild steel is a major problem in some industries with its environment (Rani and Basu, 2012).Corrosion is a natural process, which converts a refined metal to a more stable form such as its oxide, hydroxide or sulfide. It is the gradual destruction of materials (usually metals) by chemical and /or electrochemical reactions with their environment ( Breakell et al., 2005). Corrosion is a natural process that reduces the binding energy in metals with the end result involving a metal being oxidized as the bulk metal loses one or more electrons (Chinwko et al., 2014). Throughout the ages, plants have been used by human beings for their basic needs such as shelters, production of food stuffs, fertilizers, flavors and fragrance, clothing, medicines and last but not the least, as corrosion inhibitors ( Benali et al. 2013).
1.1. Types of corrosion
1.1.1. Pitting corrosion
This occurs under certain conditions, and leads to accelerated corrosion in certain areas rather than uniform corrosion throughout the piece such conditions include low concentrations of oxygen or high concentration of chlorides (anions) that interfere with the alloy's ability to reform a passivating film. In the worst cases, most of the surface remains protected, but tiny fluctuations degrade the film in a few critical areas. Corrosion at these points is amplified and cause pits.
1.1.2. Auto corrosion
This is that which occurs when a metal is in contact with an electrolyte but is not at the same time in contact with any other electrical conductors, neither metallic or non-metallic. In the classic case of chemically pure iron, corrosion would proceed simply by the exertion of the solution pressure by hydrogen ions and the oxygen dissolved in the electrolyte, which depolarizes the metal surface oxidizes and precipitates the primary products of solution as ferrichydrate or rust.
1.1.3. Externally induced corrosion
This is the result of the passage of a current generated from some external source through the metal which the latter is in contact with an electrolyte. If the current flows in that direction which necessitate the metal acting as anode, then corrosion results.If the current flows in the opposite direction ie from the electrolyte into the metal, the latter receive protection from corrosion, which may be complete, provided the electromotive force of the current is sufficiently high ( Alan and Ernest, 1923).
1.1.4. Crevice corrosion
This occurs in confined spaces where access of fluid from the environment is limited such as gaps and contact areas between parts, under gaskets or seals, inside cracks and seams and spaces filled with deposits.
1.1.5. High temperature corrosion
This is deterioration of a metal due to heating. This can occur when a metal is subjected to a hot atmosphere in the presence of oxygen, sulfur, or other compound capable of oxidizing the material.
1.2. Causes of corrosion
Any of or all of these can cause corrosion; Reactivity of metal, presence of impurities, presence of air, moisture gases CO, presence of electrolytes.
1.3. Corrosion materials.
They are the materials which are the cause of corrosion, they are toxic in nature, they have very harmful effects as they have a tendency to attack metals and destroy their strength, they also affect the human body, especially tissues, some acids and bases are included in that; example hydrochloric, nitric and sulfuric acid and bases like hydrochloric and ammonia.
1.4. Methods of combating corrosion
There are basically two methods of combating corrosion, this include corrosion media and corrosion protection.
1.4.1. Corrosion media
i. Neutral medium
Metal corrodes when exposed to air, the extent of this corrosion depends on the degree of humidity content in the atmosphere. The product usually is a film which covers the metal surface.
2Fe + 3H2O + O2 2Fe (OH) 3
ii. Acidic medium
Not all metals corrode in acidic medium e.g Gold does not react at all in an acidic medium, but iron and zinc corrodes easily in an acidic medium with evolution of hydrogen gas.
Fe + 2HCI Fecl2 + H2
Zn + 2HCl ZnCl2 + H2
iii. Alkaline medium
Corrosion in an alkaline medium results first in the formation of metal hydroxide which dehydrates (possibly) to give an oxide of aluminum.
1.5. Preventive measures
i. use of the right metal in the right way in the right place.
ii. urotective coatings, paints, enamels, other metals, oils, greases etc.
iii. designs of hydraulic systems to avoid excessive velocities or localized corrosion.
iv. inhibitors that is, compounds added to the environment in small concentration to form protective films, which increase anodic or cathodic polarization or both or neutralize some corrosion constituents.
v. removal of dissolved oxygen or other corrosion gases by "deaerators" or the addition of chemicals to react with oxygen (oxygen scavengers).
vi. neutralizing agents added to adjust acidity or alkalinity to the desired level.
vii. drying of air or other gases to keep humidity below the level where corrosion can occur.
viii. heat- treating metals to leave them in optimum conditions to resist corrosion.
1.6. Corrosion inhibitors.
An inhibitor is a substance which retards or slows down a chemical reaction. Therefore, a corrosion inhibitor may be defined as a substance which when added in a small concentration to an environment effectively reduces the corrosion rate of metal exposed to that environment. ( Rubin, 1989).
Inhibitors can be considered as negative catalyst and their use is a common practice in a number of fields. For an effective inhibition, inhibitors in small amounts can minimize undesirable changes which may become severe if uncontrolled. They fall in two general classes namely;
i. Substances which show a "preferential wetting" effect, that is to say, the inhibitor will wet the surface of the metal easier than the solution therefore, the inhibitor will spread over the surface of the metal effectively to keep the solution from attacking it
ii. Substances which either stabilize the natural protective coatings on the metal or reacts with the metal to form a coating. For example, if the metal has a tendency to form an oxide film, then a solution which has a small amount of oxidizing materials in it such as a dichromate will allow oxide film to persist, thereby protecting it against corrosive action. The corrosion of iron and steel is of fundamental industrial and academic concern that has received a considerable amount of attention. Hence, slowing down or completely inhibiting corrosion has been an intensive field of interest. One of the greatest ways of dealing with this problem is based on the use of chemicals as inhibitors in the media ( Karakus et al., 2005).
The use of chemical inhibitors to decrease the rate of corrosion processes is quite varied in the oil extraction and processing industries inhibitors have always been considered the first line of defense against corrosion (Koan et al., 2006).
1.7. Costus spectabilis
Costus spectabilis, commonly known as the yellow trumpet, is an African gregarious species of herb; low and perennial. It is found from Sierra Leone to Sudan to as far south as Angola and it is found also in Nigeria. Costus spectabilis is a herbaceous perennial plant. It flowers several weeks before the leaves appear.The plant is sometimes harvested from the wild for local use of its edible leaves. It is often grown as an ornamental in gardens
Figure 1.1 Costus spectabilis leaves
Clade: Monocots
Clade: Commelinids
Order: Zingiberales
Family: Costaceae
Genus: Costus
Species: C. spectabilis
It produces four large (12 x 12 cm), fleshy leaves which lie flat on the ground and form a basal rosette. They are glabrous above and pubescent below, especially along the midrib. The leaf margin is entire, often with an edging of purple-pink. The inflorescence is terminal, growing from the center of the rosette. The flowers are showy, yellow, and open singly and die rapidly, but are immediately followed by another. The species becomes dormant during winter, shrinking to a centipede-like rhizome without roots. In spring it produces paddle-shaped leaves that appress to the soil when fully formed, similar to water-lily pads. The abaxial leaf surface has a spongy white texture. Flowers are bright yellow with a crisped margin, and some 9 cm across, with a large staminodial labellum, and resembling those of a pumpkin. The texture of the flower is soft and thin. Costus spectabilis is a rhizomatous geophyte used by traditional medicine to treat internal and external wounds, coughs, inflammation, arthritis, rheumatism, fever, maternal and neonatal infections. It is also recommended for its laxative, purgative, diuretic and ichthyotoxic properties.
1.8. Aims and objectives of the project
1. To study the corrosion inhibitive effect of Costus spectabilis leaves extract and KBr on aluminum in HCl.
2. To contribute to the growing chain of inhibitors and monitoring their inhibitory effects on aluminium in HCl using weight loss method.
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Мережко Анатолий Федорович (14 апреля 1940 — 25 октября 2008) — доктор биологических наук, профессор, главный научный сотрудник отдела генетических ресурсов пшеницы Всероссийского НИИ растениеводства имени Н. И. Вавилова.

Биография
Родился в с. Ржевка Ровеньского района Белгородской области.

В 1962 году окончил агрономический факультет Воронежского сельскохозяйственного института.

Трудовую деятельность начал в 1962 г. в г. Суздале на Владимирской государственной сельскохозяйственной опытной станции (ныне Владимирский НИИ сельского хозяйства), член КПСС.

В 1967 г.   назначен заведующим лабораторией пшеницы на Кубанской опытной станции ВИР и свою работу совмещал с заочным обучением в аспирантуре  Всероссийского НИИ растениеводства имени Н. И. Вавилова.

В   1970 защитил кандидатскую диссертацию во ВНИИ растениеводства имени Н. И. Вавилова (научный руководитель академик РАСХН В. Ф. Дорофеев).

В 1973 году стажировался в CIMMYT (Международный центр по селекции пшеницы и кукурузы, руководитель — лауреат нобелевской премии Н. Е. Борлоуг).

В 1990 году защитил докторскую диссертацию   в СПбГУ, а в 1995 году получил звание профессора по специальности «генетика».

Научная деятельность
Научную работу начал с 1966 года. До 1973 года руководил отделом зерновых культур Кубанской опытной станции ВИР. Затем работал старшим научным сотрудником в отделе пшениц ВИР. В 1976-78 годах проводил исследования на опытном участке в Мексике. С 1980 по 1995 год работал заведующим отделами генетики и затем пшениц, а с 1996 года — главным научным сотрудником института.

С 1980 по 1986 гг. был представителем СССР в Комитете генетических банков Eucarpia, а с 1986 по 1992 гг. – членом Центрального совета этой организации.

Являлся членом учёного совета ВИР и трех диссертационных советов ВАК по специальности «Генетика». Работал в Центральном Совете и Президиуме ВОГиС, руководил секцией «Генетика растений». Был членом международного комитета генбанков и представителем России в центральном совете ЭУКАРПИА. Входил в международный комитет по координации работ в Мировой сети генетических ресурсов пшеницы. Выступал с ключевыми докладами на международных форумах. Неоднократно бывал за рубежом с целью обмена научным опытом и сбора растительных ресурсов. Наиболее плодотворными были экспедиции в Мексике (1977), Перу (1980) и США (1990), когда были собраны ценные формы люпина, картофеля, кукурузы, подсолнечника; тыквенных и зерновых культур; черенки плодовых деревьев.

Достижения
А. Ф. Мережко выполнил работу  по выявлению и созданию доноров селекционно ценных признаков пшеницы.

Осуществил оригинальные исследования по генетике гибридного некроза, высоты растений, скороспелости и фотопериодической чувствительности, устойчивости к бурой ржавчине пшеницы и тритикале.

Теоретически обосновал и внедрил в практику систему поиска, создания и использования в селекции доноров ценных признаков растений.

Предложил новые подходы к генетическому анализу количественной изменчивости и разработал компьютерные программы для их реализации.

Является автором сортов: скороспелой сильной яровой пшеницы Фора, полбы — Руно и ярового тритикале — Золотой гребешок.

Является соавтором сорта  пшеницы мягкой яровой Вировская 1 (PpdS )(Патент РФ № 3601), пшеницы мягкой яровой Вировская 2 (Ppdm ) (Патент РФ № 3602),  пшеницы мягкой яровой Вировская 3 (Ppdw ) (Патент РФ № 3603), пшеницы мягкой яровой Вировская 4 (Ppd0 ) (Патент РФ № 3604).

Уделял большое внимание развитию селекции тритикале и расширению его посевов для диверсификации кормопроизводства в Нечерноземье.

Создал линии полбы с неломким колосом и легким обмолотом, чем создал предпосылки для возвращения данной культуры на поля России.

Подготовил семь кандидатов и двух докторов наук (в их числе - Н. П. Гончаров).

Библиография
Опубликовал более 120 научных работ в отечественных и зарубежных изданиях, является автором двух и соавтором шести книг. В их числе — «Пшеницы мира» (1966, 1987), «Проблема доноров в селекции растений» (1994), «Менделевский подход к описанию наследования количественных различий» (2000), «The world wheat book: a history of wheat breeding» (2001), «Идентифицированный генофонд растений и селекция» (2005).

Примечания

Сотрудники ВИР
Генетики России
Селекционеры России
Выпускники Воронежского аграрного университета
Члены КПСС

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